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1 PAGE EIGHT Herald anfr!eUr FRANK JENKINS ' BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered t second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls, Or., on August 20, 1906, under act of Congress, March 8, 1870 MEMBER Of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for publication of all local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION KATES . MAIL BY CARRIER 1 Month .. 11.35 1 Month 1.35 1 6 Month $ 6.60 6 Months $8.10 1 Year $11.00 1 Year $16.20 BILLBOARD By BILL JENKINS With Tall approaching we find ourselves in a welter of politics and face an Indian Summer filled with the same dreary old plati tudes, busted promises and waver ing pledges that we have seen and heard come and go in the years past. Perhaps it is inept of us to speak In this lighthearted manner of any Institution so sacred to every American, or perhaps the impulse springs from our wide-eyed Inno cense In matters political. However It may be I think the time has come when I can and should, with all due deference to the hallowed traditions surround the panapoly of politics, speak out and propose a voter's plaliorm. A sort of bulwark against the ever Increasing pressure of political as pirants from Oregon's extensive congressional districts and the thirty six counties. ' Speaking as one voter I must admit that It would be refreshing were some candidate for office to base his platform for state office on timbers less rotted by time and usage than the big four of more Industries, more Jobs, more high ways and more tourists. I must also admit that when faced with the Jaded and dogeared tenets of better laws, less feather bedding, more old age assistance and better labor relations (I never know here whether the candidate Is speaking of better relations with state or county employes, the la borers In the present industries within the state or with the mil lions who will, presumably, pour Into the state when he has attract ed large Industry to our fair shores from the gritty confines of the East Coast.) I tend to start shred ding bread at the banquet rather than listening to the speaker. Or switch off the radio If listening to a political address. Perhaps what we need is a com plete revision of political thought and public feeling. After all, most of us are mature enough to rea lize that a political promise made prior to the election Is no more binding than a casual Invitation to dinner made while aboard a sum mer cruise boat. Even those with JAMES MARLOW WASHINOTON 11 The Senate fight, made by Democrats and a couple of others on the Elsenhower atomlo energy law, centered mainly on tho question of public Versus private power. The Democrats' fight took two directions; one involved the Ten nessee Valley Authority (TVAI and the other the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The TVA sup plies electric power to a wide area of the Middle South and to an AEC plant at Paducah, Ky. If It had not been pumping some of its Juice into Paducah, TVA would have some of It in reserve for the growing power needs of Its area. To meet those needs. It asked the administration that It be sl owed to build another plant. The administration didn't let it. And on June 17 President Eisenhower told the AEC not TVA to nego tiate a contract with a private utility group to build a 107-mllllon-dollar steam plant at West Mem phis, Ark., to supply TVA with about 600,000 kilowatts of power. This power would not be for AEC use AEC would only be ac ting as a government broker in tho deal but for TVA. Tile admin istration, dedicated to more free enterprise, has spoken in favor of more private development of pow er. Hie private utility group In this case Middle South Utilities, Inc., and the Southern Company is known as (ho Dixon-Yates group after E. H. Dixon, president of the former, and E. A. Yates, chair man of the latter. Democrats accu.sed the adminis tration of trying to block lurlher TVA development and of using the AEC as an instrument for doing it. Tliey argued it would cost the government, over 20 years, 90 mil lion dollars more for the privale power than If TVA hud built Its own plant. And the Eisenhower iidminisl ra tion "contemplated" paying all the federal, state and lucul t;'X.s Inl ine LHxon-xaics group on any profits lrom supply tug power lo the TVA. This was mentioned bv Rowland Hughes, director of the budget, who told AEC the Presi dent wanted the negotiation car ried out. The Democrats weren't able to block the administration from go ing ahead with this deal but they did get enough voles on an amendment proposed by Sen. ciorc (D-Tcnn) to keep tho federal gov ernment from paying the prlvnie utility group's federal taxes, If Ihe deal goes through. But the House passed a similar bill without this provi.-lon. Now the House and Senate must com promise their differences on the JQP TO IT fff . . AND SAVE MONEY DURING Klamath Furniture Co.'s Annual AUGUST SALE See tomorrow night's paper because 'When Klamath Furniture has a SALE . . . an iron conscience and an unbend ing sense of moral obligation will admit readily that to expect a can didate to keep all his promises is as futile as asking him to stack water. I submit that since both parties are sending their candidates into tho fray armed with the same wea pons, I.e. the same promises, aims, ideals, etc. they (the candidates) forget the major Issues presently confronting the state after the first week of campaigning and from there on out concentrate on sell ing themselves to the people via new ideas. It would be much more diverting to listen to an aspirant outline plans for Increasing the number of trout in Klamath Lake, or for the suppression of beanies as head, gear among the small fry. In case anyone would be Inter estcd we have prepared a small list of Items which we consider to be potent and vital Issues which should receive their due share of attention. I suggest: 1. Legalizing small firecrackers for the Fourth of July. 2. The establishment of a state wide weather forecasting 'service for the benefit of farmers, flyers, vacationers and Monday-morning- washwomen. 3. Requiring both the senate and the house to put a baseball team on the road prior to each session, to play not less than 18 games, receipts from the gate to be used in the establishment of dog water ing troughs on the streets of our principal cities. 4. Placing all airports at least 10 miles from the city limits. 5. A 30 day deer season. 6. A state sponsored circus to entertain at public events. 7. Fewer tourists. 8. The abolition of roadside ad vertising signs along our scenic highways. 0. Warming the waters of the Pacific Ocean off all Oregon beaches. 10. A sales tax. And as I see It they wouldn't have a bit more trouble making these 10 suggestions into law than they will In putting over the pres. cnt platform as represented by the two mnjor parties. I slightly different Bills. So the ft. nal law may not contain the Oorc amendment. Both houses will have to approve the compromise, what ever It is, before it can become law. If tho Gore amendment Is dropped from the final draft, the Democrats may start fighling all over again. The basic law on atomic energy was passed In 1946. But there have been changes since then in foreign relations, technological developments, and progress In re alizing development of atomlo en ergy for peaceful purposes is closer than it seemed eight years ago. So the bill which the adminis tration supported to revise the 1046 act would, among other things, let this country share some of lis atomic Information with its allies. It can't do so now. And It would let the President arrange with other nations, even Russia, for pooling atomic materials for peaceful uses. Those parts of the bill, In spile of 5ome objections by the Demo crats that they don't go far enough, went through the Senate un touched. The Democrats concen trated most of their fire on anoth er section which would open atom ic development, until now a gov enunent monopoly, to private in dustry. Democrats argued that a few big companies, which have been working lor the government In tile atomic field, would have a head shirt on any competition and could in short order grab a monopoly. The AEC would, of course, contin ue its atomic work, particularly in weniion oeveiepineni. The Democrats did get enough Republicans to ro along with them to put into the Senate authority lor the AEC and other govern ment agencies 10 operate atomic power plants. This Is specifically forbidden in the bill passed by the House. Since there must be n com promise, the light may not be They'll Do It Every Time - DoWM ON THE FARM TWE OLD BARM DOOR ALWAYS STANDS OPEN AMD WILL tVEKMOKC CAUGHT IN By DEB ADDISON THERE HAVE been a couple of Red Letter Days in the past week's time, and they should be so marked on the calendar . for posterity. , No one knows better than a newspaperman how often it is that the headlines blare the story of disaster, of bad news, of something that makes you cringe or curse. There have been a couple on this sheet in the last few days that went the other way played up the constructive, and told ,of us dealing out a little misery for a change instead of being on the re ceiving end. It made you feel proud to live in Klamath and In being an American. Reference, of course, is to last Friday's banner line which pro claimed the "Weyerhaeuser Pact Signed , and to Monday's which said, "U. S. Planes Shoot Down Reds." After the long, sad story told by the "strike" headlines recent ly, it warms the cockles of your heart to find that our Klamath guys are men enough and smart enough to keep the wheels turn ing, and the payrolls going, and the products rolling to market. There are few Klamath people who won't say "amen" to that one. In the fracas with the Reds, it certainly quickens the pulse to learn that our boys kept their powder dry, lhat they weren't the ic with dummy guns and weren't asleep on the Job. When x wj&&n, mm GUEST EDITORIAL By WALT ICR CHAMBLIN JR. Best private guesses at the Cap ital are that Congress will be in session until August 15. The House program would permit adjourn ment on July 31, as planned , . . but the Senate Is bogged down . . . not because of Knowland's leader- hip . . . but the irrepressible de sire of Senators to talk. There's even a possibility of a special Sen ate session (after the House has gone homei to thresh out the pend ing Flanders move to censure Mc Carthy. No one will be quoted, but number ot senators imnk mis would provide entertainment far exceeding the late P. T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth . Politics: Republicans are much more hopeful over retoinlng con trol of Congress than they were six months ago. Reasons cited by Republicans are ... (1) Business Is better ... (2) The Public seems pleased with Elsenhower's legisla tive program . . . (3) Farmers are not protesting as much as ex pected over the Benson Flexible Support Program . , . and (41 Candldites have back of them (for (he first time since 1932) the sup port of a President and his cabi net. The Atom Its control is in doubt: The struggle over atomic energy legislation constitutes one of the most important battles tor the principles of private enter prise lhat has been waged in Con gress for many years. The issue is this: Shall the competitive enter prise system be given lull play in developing Ihe industrial use of atomic energy ... or shall the government - control advocate." have their way and Impose rigid regulation New legislation is re quired as the nation and the world speeds farther into the Atomic Age. The legisltalon now In effect, known as the McMahon Act, was . . . It's a SALE! o oo(B HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON J fa Tmatis-tillthe FARMER. M WITH COW BAILS AO JUS dYZl m is about to eo in" . -t&m m M Ti-IEN IT SLAMS IN jSffl" f? jm.mv m h pussy m j i THE ROUNDS the Commies made a pass at them, they let them have it. Amen! SOMETHING ELSE a little dif ferent, also, in the news for a change was a statement the other day from the Interior Department. The department, it said, is looking into the recommendations of the 5-man team appointed by Secretary McKay to study the workings of the Fish and Wildlife Service. The story said that the depart ment is "giving consideration to opening suitable strips within cer tain refuge boundaries to con trolled public shooting provided that this will not materially re duce the effectiveness as a water fowl refuge." If the refuge In the marsh north of Pelican Bay is one of those "certain" refuges, and if the con sideration Is followed by action, we'll give three rousing cheers. As we've said before here, there's Just one reason for spend ing all the millions of dollars and tleing up all the acres of land for the birds. That's to provide the recreation of duck and goose hunting for people. And by "people" let's think first of the duck hunters right here at home. The days of open hunting marshes are gone; the amount of public land open to such hunting on the Oregon side of the line is practically nil. It's high time to be realistic and open some of this refuge area to the hunters as well as the birds. passed In 1946. If made atomic energy a government monopoly. Industry, at that lime, urged that more freedom to obtain pat ents be given inventors. Many be lieve that the over-cautious atti tude Incorporated In the McMahon Act has retarded peacetime use of atomic energy. " This battle is still one of the main Issues before Congress. The Joint Committee on Atomic Ener gy has recommended that the Atomic Energy Commission be given the power to require compul sory licensing of patents for five years. Under this procedure, atomic energy patents would be subject to use by any person, re gardless of the wishes of the pat ent holder, upon payment of roy alty prescribed by the Commission. Opponents contend thai compul sory licensing constitutes seizure of property and is contrary to the fundamental basis of the Patent System. Contending that compulsory li censing is "Un-American and dan gerous,',' Rep. Cole (R.-N.Y.), Chairman of the Joint Committee. argued this way: "If It is logical for 5 years, then why not 10 years or 20 years, or even indefinitely? If It is logical In the atomic ener gy field, then why not in other fields of economic endeavor such as electronics, radio, automobile, aircraft, or any other, if not all, segments of our economy?" Chairman Cole plans to try to get the House to eliminate com pulsory licensing. He Is supported in his views by another committee BABY'S CLOTHES, BIBS DIAPERS Need sanitizing and deodorizing with safe and gentle Pi' rex. . .here's approved method used by thousands: To bt sure your baby's things are sparkling white and. mwrp tiuilly clean . . tree from danger of diaper rash . . .care for baby's cottons this easy Pi.rex way: I O Keep diitpers separate in covered pail, adding ' j tsp. I'l RFXtoa gallon ot cold water -this helps deodonte them. (2) I ben u ash like your other cottons-usmg 1 s cup ot gen tle Pl'REX Liquid Bleach per gallon of hot water-along Omi. 'UMi cntr 110. tom By Jimmy Hatloj Sam Dawson NEW YORK 11 Bakers are eye ing their cost sheets and shrinking profits statements today and talk ing of raising the price of bread a cent a' loaf. They made a similar hike just a year ago, citing the same rea sons: rising material costs, higher wage scales, costlier distribution. If they raise the price again they will be doing so in the face of a declining sale of bread per per son in the country, and the compe tition of the ready mix In the cake and pastry fields. But they claim that their costs have risen again this year, more than offsetting the price hike of a year ago. Housewives, recalling stories about piles of surplus wheat, may wonder why bakers say the price of flour has gone up 10 per cent over last year. Bakers claim that the wheat in government storage is not of the quality they use In making bread and cake. They soy that better quality baking wheats are selling far above the government's price support levels. They say the cost of the lard they use is 60 per cent higher this year than last, despite some price slipping recently. And wage and fringe benefit hikes have increased payroll costs about 5 per cent, they say. One leading company totals up the cost Increases in these three items flour, shortening and labor and says Its cost sheet now Is $5,300,000 higher than a year ago. The price Increase last year in the price of bread brought in $2, 600,000 more to Its tills, the com pany says. It cites the difference as the reason it plans to raise its bread price again before the sum mer is over. Statements on the general in crease in costs and the drop in profits this year have come In re cent days from executives of Gen eral Baking, Ward's. Continental Baking and United Biscuit. - General Baking's president, Oeorge L. Morrison, says a price hike in bread seems the only way member. Rep. Va Zandt (R.-Pa.). Industry also objected to Anti- Trust Law provisions recommend ed by the Joint Committee. This resulted In a modification ap proved by the Senate which elimi nated much of the basis for com plaint. As modified by the Senate, the Attorney-General shall notify Ihe Atomic Energy Commission within 90 days if he thinks that a proposed license might conflict with Anti-Trust Laws. This would be done only in significant cases. The bill recommended by the Joint Committee also provides that a patent can be anticipated by prior secret knowledge or use. This is contrary to the established pat ent laws of the United States. If this provision remains in the bill, no Inventor can know whether his invention Is patentable or. in case he does obtain a patent, whether such patent is valid. WATCH FOR PARTS LIQUIDATION Dugan & Mest P1h with your soap or detergent. (M Rinst thoroughly. The usual i-rinse cycle is surlicient. Suins come out like magic with Pi RFX-your best bet tot all-around cleanups, too. he sure you get J$) the one and only. . . jink purex. m LIQUID LAUNDRY BLEACH ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McLEOD The symposium on "Population Growth and the Demand for Food" appearing in the current issue of the "California Monthly" contains an article by Chester O. McCorkle Jr. (Assistant Professor, Agricul tural Economics, Davis), which contains much food for thought for the people of the Klamath Basin since McCorkle takes a look at the prospects of "Field Crops in 1975." McCorkle starts his article on a group of predictions: "A rise In U.S. population to above 200 millions. "A California population above 20 millions. "A 58 per cent Increase in con sumption of fresh vegetables. "A 74 per cent 'Increase in con sumption of processed vegetables. "A 104 per cent Increase in con sumption of citrus fruits. "A 47 per cent increase in con sumption of other fruits. "A 60 per cent increase In meat consumption." McCorkle then goes on to point out that theses changes will affect field crops and this In turn brings up a host of questions as to what crops will be the most affected, surpluses, acreage production and so on. Analyzing how population growth will affect the future of field crops is essentially evaluating the competition for land use by various interests (both within agri culture and without), is the basis of McCorkle's point of view. He states: "The bargaining position of each field crop will be determined largely by future relative consum er demands, but will also be af fected by the Intricate relation ships between Individual field crops to other agricultural , pro ducts, and the possible effects of future technological changes in production, processing, and conver sion to new products." McCorkle then goes on to point out if the predictions he started with were true then the consump tion of fruits and vegetables will become strong contenders for Irri gated California valley lands where the soils and climate is favorable. The competition from fruits and vegetables would displace field out. Millers, on the other hand, re port that bakers have been hold ing up their buying of bakery flours for some time, apparently waiting for the spring wheat har vest in hopes of further weakening ot grain prices. v Giant ticking purchase S&AS$ mattress costs! , Thank Sealy foreight and Sealy planning for this sensational savings event! Months ago, at onrofAmrrira's most famouHcxIilc mills, S-lv placed the largest order ever made by a mat Ireas manufacturer for a aingle spiling event! Naturally, this giant purchase reduced manu facturing conta ... and Sealy passes the savings on to YOU JThey're J9.93-iualily Seals inner- spring mattresses at this onre-a-year J.W.W! Stake YOUR claim to lhat 120-Saving NOVt'! These '5925 features are yours for $20LESS! SAME HIGH COIl COUNT I SAME FIRM BALANCE INNERSPRINO CONSTRUCTION! SAME SAG-PROOF PRE-BUILT BORDERS FOR YEARS OF EXTRA WEAR! SAME DELUXE DECORATOR-DESIGNED GOLDEN-GLOW COVERS! SAME MATCHING GOLDEN SLEEP BOX SPRING, just $39.95! 2200 So. 6th crops in the area of competition. He places such acreage shilts as being dependent upon two factors, the first is possible technological yield increases for various crops: the second, depends on the loss of vegetable acreage to highways and housing. One significant point is largely a matter of technology be cause if the rate of yield Increase established over the past 25 years should continue to 1975 there may be no need lor additional acreage to meet the demonds of the in creased population. Technology has been such an indefinite sub ject that its future capabilities are difficult to predict and the econ omist appears inclined to the belief that technology cannot maintain the Same strides In production it has made in the past. McCorkle believes that the ma jor impact on field crops acreage and production in California will come from the competition of veg etables and fruits for high grade agricultural lands where water Is available. He points out there are enough acres of good soils under irrigation already to meet such an encroachment; one million acres now producing alfalfa, and a half a million planted to other irrigated field crops. These lands are point ed to as being available to furnish what additional acreage is needed for producing vegetables and fruits for fresh use and processing. Such predictions, however, deal only with the local needs of Cal ifornia but since the state pro vides a substantial proportion of the fruits and vegetables consumed in other states the economists be lieve that the demand will continue in equal proportion. If this occurs then a quarter of a million acres will be diverted from alfalfa and irrigated grains to vegetables and fruits. Then there Is the problem of California increasing Its propor tion of supplying the national de mands for fruits and vegetables which would require additional shifts In the use of crop lands. This competition for crop land between field crops and fruits and vegetables becomes an important factor in the supply of meat and Repair That Flower Garden New Crop PETUNIAS Doublet and Singles in bloom . . ,25c Suburban Flower Shop F8h,87 n iff; f StaJy order -J LARGEST ever madefor I . single selling event! J Corrmom stiy, Furniture WEDNESDAY, JULY' 28, 1954 i dairy products. Increased demands for meat and dairy products Indi cate Increased demands for feed grains, alfalfa, and Improved pas tures. The experts do not believe that these agricultural . products will be in a position to hold their own in the face of the rising de mand for fruits and begetables, therefore, they expect increases in shipment of meat and manufac tured dairy products and the di version of California milk from manufacturing to market mil channels. . Another point of Importance I the factor of source and cost of needed feed grains since over half of California's present supplies is being consumed by poultry. At tho present level of technology an in crease in 60 per cent of meat con sumption will require an increase in feed grains of more than 40 per cent. There Is little doubt but that ' future population growth will make decided changes in the crop land pattern of agriculture even so the future of agriculture ap pears brighter. 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