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PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON ' FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls, Ore., on August 20, 1806, under act of Congress. March 8, 1(79 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 RATES MAIL BY CARRIER 1 Month ; 11.35 1 Month $1.35 Months 6.60 6 Months $8.10 ' l year . $1100 1 year $16.20 BILLBOARD By BILL JENKINS Just in case we gel too carried away with our sparkling new world of today it might be a good idea to go back and take an oc casional peek into the past. We reprint here the lead story in the January 10 edition of the Klamath Falls Express from 1895. And well worth while It is, too. RAISING OK CATTLE The principal industry in this country at present TEN THOUSAND HEAD A YEAR , Louis Oerber gives some timely advice to those engaged in the business Much has been said and a good deal of complaint made during the , year Just passed aoout beef cattle being low in price. But if our stock raisers will just stop and consider that with wheat selling at 86 cents a hundred, wool from tj to 8 cents, hops down to 6 cents, aranes from 7 to dollars a ton and horses nearly worthless, they will discover that every article mentioned was raised at a loss to the oroducer. The geography and topogniphy of Klamath county Is most admit' ably adapted for the raising of the finest quality of beef In the world; all the essential qualities are to be found here the nu tritious bunch grass, the fine mountain water and an abundance of shade and pure air. Yet much can be done to Improve the bus iness. I am atrongly of the opinion that there is much Inbreeding In this country. Cattle raisers should change their males every two years. For quality and size and sym metry, there Is nothing which sur passes the cross of the Durhnm and the Devon. The Hcrcfords are a most excellent beef family, pro vided they are not Inbred too much. Cattle raisers should weed out at least thirty percent of their yearling heifers, picking out the ones which will be most likely to make good matrons and spay the balance: by so doing you will sell one-tlilrd more beef cattle every year. Small growers in particular, should winter their stock well; by so doing they will be marketable by July; and when in condition sell them. The large cattle raisers cannot do this and generally we see a glut In the market during the fall months. The number of beef cattle 'bought In Klamath county during the year 1894 by the California buyers. J. C. Mitchell, J. D. Carr &; Son. C. Swanson. and Ine writer, and a few small lots driven by different parties will reach the respectable number of 8.500 head. These consisted principally ol two and three year old steers. spaved hellers, and dry cows. The average price paid was about $17 per head. "Will cattle advance? has been the question put to the writer daily during this season My opinion Is that they will not, and if the cattle raisers will take Into consideration the prices paid to our laboring men In the large cities who consume this most use. ful Item of food, he will see that if beef went up to prices realized veers ago the consumption would fall olf, and but a precious few of the rich could afford to have meat on their tables. My advice Is to our stock rais ers Improve your herds with new blood; winter them well and when in condition sell them at a fair figure. I think it Is a fair estimate to say that the cattle industry is as good as any at the present time and with judicious manage ment will pay reasonable Interest on the Investment. It certainly brings In about 85 or 90 percent of all the revenue brought into this country. L, Gerber Horse Fly Valley Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo f IQUITy W""W HI.WILTOtf.oJW WILTON IS 4 W yE4MWWEK THBY WERE I JOB AT BLSE- 1 B4L-WVBKTT J I SOFTTOJCti) RlDlNS WISH TUEy WXILDNT y WATER , WILT-)mm SEEN HXJ IN lITuy? EVCNJ BLCWTMCJR LOyfSLUNS K 1 TO SEE IF -Zr-T' ?!LJZz3Jru&(M THERE'S AWy- f X fflUVS WOPUT.r,, UJL I IN THE STRAW TMiMGDOINO 6EEU'RE V THE BITE ON L., ip ijaTN. KACydUSTWWTS HERE-MAYBE I I ABOUT THE J NjW"VStriiJV A I 1 BORROVVTWO 'MStrD PUT IN FIFTH 5Uy VSyl . -n-ffY ofTS w tic ) ) C'S To BV HIS A GOOD WORD ) I DROPPED IN 0 W& P I vYTua7XA.eoi-pCUJ8rxJES ' BMWSMBBik'. UAVTilV AITfiTTST 9. 1 0S J ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McLEOD "Water," Is the one word and a resource that will be the most hotly contested of all resources under the pressure of expanding popula tion. The people of the Klamath Basin are well aware of Uie grow Ing pressures developing in cen tral, southern and northern por tions or California. They were greatly excited over "The Ladder to the North" description of the ambitions of the Bureau of Reclam ation to serve those alleged re quirements. Out of this concern de veloped an Oregon Commission to study the water requirements of the Klamath Basin In Oregon, that has been quite taciturn when it comes to keeping the Oregon pub lie Informed over the fast devel oping crisis. California, however, has not been so shy and a large amount of Information comes from the typewriters of the publicists of the State-Wide Water Resources In vestigation. U Is very evident from the pub lished reports emlnating from this source that in the ultimate end California must depend upon waters from the Klamath River, if the goal of 17,000.000 acres of Irri gated land is to be reached, along with an astounding demand for wa ter coming from the tremendous population the State will possess by the time this goal of Irrigation development has been reached. So far, I have not seen any "timetable" that would envision the thinking of economists upon this subject though they are quite ready to admit a population ol 20 to 36 million by 1975. The coming two decades are going to be very dynamic ones and It will. In all probability, depend upon Just how last population builds up that the pressure of population will speed the course ol action in Uie field of aater development. As this column has pointed out, riot all the pressure for water de velopment has been due to Uie hon est demands of population expan sion. The lush profits that could be made Irom the development of ctmon ana otner crops have been i of tremendous Importance In de- ; veloplng political pressures to ; speed development. A second great I pressure stems from the fact that with water, Jand can be sold lor much more than it is worth at j present without water; the people i riding In this "band-waRon" have no Intention to earn a living as i farmers or even "agriculturalists." They are merely dealers m real ! estate posing In a rural garb. The I third group which is most ocal j im iuciuiuc laea mat the land should be broken up into small farms so that the rural population can be Increased and more fami lies become self sustaining bv liie upon the land. This group has no sonslderatlon for economics we hare land, we have people, let s rive the land to Uie people It s lust as simple as that. Back In the horse and biigitv tays, or at least when Main Street m a Saturday afternoon had more lorse drawn rigs tied up than toneless carriages, the prevailing bought in the sunny southland ras: "What this country needs is o be broken up Into 40 acre farms nth a happy contented family on eh farm." The gasoline tractor as a luxury, you spent most of 'our time putting In new bearings, xlng broken gears, fish-plating he frame, or Just plain everyday lown to the earth russln', ending ip by finishing the job with a earn of mules, forty acres was a lot of land those days, yet even then, when a dollar was worth 100 honest cents, the Ideal was recog nized as false as it would be today If we said: "What the Klamath Basin needs, is to broken up into farms not over 40 acres in size with a happy, contented family on each fafm." It may be true that there arc many successful small farms but their success depends upon their ability to be a specialist but because few may be able to succeed It does not follow that this could be the pattern for everyone yet this Is what the idealist proposes In many a starry-eyed settlement pro posal. All there factors, however, work together for the rapid expansion of land for agricultural crops and water development. The engineers of the California State Water Re sources Board have done much work In planning for the future for water is the biggest business of the State. In 1950 the 7,000.000 acres of crop land under irrigation in the state required 22,160.000 acre feet of water. Consumptive uses in tile same year for all purposes were estimated to be 24.900.000 acre-feel. When California gels her 17.000,000 acres under Irrigation FRANK TRIPP Well, I asked for it and I got it. The works from folks who think I'm nuts about the Fourth of July; oldsters who don't think it important to restore Young Amer ica's day, like The Fourth used to be. Some letters read like my Fourth of July column advocated wholesale slaughter of children via every known means from ar senic to atom bomb. Between the lines, most of the diS3euters Just seek their own comfort Icar the return of that 4 a.m. cannon crack er under their bedroom window. None of them appeared to catch the idea that we have robbed our children of an impres sive means by which to instill in them an undying love and under standing of their country, and why they are free. That Is the trouble with re formers. They destroy something because of Its faults, then fall to replace the virtues which it possessed. Exactly that happened to the kids when fireworks were taken away from the Fourth of July. For a century or better nobody got hot and bothered about the din or dangers of the ancient and accepted celebration of Indepen dence Day, The hurrah survived the days of cautious and exacting people, of generations which didn't take to the roads and murder five or six hundred on the highweys of a holiday. All went well and The Fourlh stayed glorious until the develop ment of explosives advanced from gunpowder to dynamite and TNT; until a tiny flrecrucker, the size of a thumb, became as pow erful as a rock - blaster's charge. So, the Jittery launched a final ly successful crusade to ban the whole works because a part of it was, admittedly, dangerous. We successfully control a lot of things at their source of manufac ture and distribution without elimi nating them entirely. We save the parts that serve a purpose and are safe. As long as I can buy a lead pencil, I'll make it write that kids didn't have to be deprived the land will require 45,500,000 acre-feet of water and for all pur poses it is estimated the State's water demand will be 56,230,000 acre-feet. The estimated mean sea sonal runoff (including Uie Klam ath) is about 70.800.000 acre-feet. This of course varies with the sea son from a high of 135.347.000 acre feet in 1937-38 to a low Of 16.347,000 acre-feet in the dry 1933-34 sea son. In addition to these amounts should be added the State's rights to 5.362,000 acre-feet per year from the Colorado. Reg. $1 size now The fabulous roper-mnoiA-ing lipttirk that ! on... wen't linear... won't dry lirI Jun imnolh Permattirk on... let it aet. ..then prex a tissue to year lipi until ne eoler rome oil. Then kiss year bea or drink yonr coffee or eat an 8-conrne dinner... PermsMirk will keep on look ins lately for hoor.! Vie Glammraaa Tbmt col or.: Mirfnitbt, Midnight Pink, t nlr.h.nd, Aprient Brandy. VonnttinM Pink. Thin (!er UNITED TIME OSLY1 CURRIN'S-forrclrugs 9th ond Main of their greatest enthusiasm, next to Christmas, because a nan of their noisemakers became le thal. The good old gunpowder fire cracker, that we used to tie by the bunch to dogs' tails, even ex ploded - in our hands, never brought' more than a thrashing as penance. The harmless pin wheels, roman candles, little rock ets and flower pots, that so often dudded, posed no more burn haz ard than Uie kitchen stove or a tea kettle. That an occasional kid tried to make a cannon out of a length of gas pipe and got into trouble didn't put the kibosh on our greatest day of summer and leave us flat. The import of the day, its source and glory became a part of us be cause we participated. When I saw our kids, trying to celebrate The Fourth with flags and sparklers, I felt so so'.-'-y for them that I was tempted to loan them my shotgun. Huskies who scale the cliffs like squirrels, spend hours on the lake bottom as frog men, compete on:' rough seas in sailboat races, swish powerful out boards around the lake like toys and earn five bucks a day pick ing berries, still couldn't buy a gadget to celebrate that made more noise than the spank of their bellies under their spring board. Give ' 'em back something to rescue the Fourth of July from the state of boredom something that'll make noise, and lots of it. And let the old codgers who can't take it hie themselves to their storm cellars; there to cele brate in gloom and solitude the .day that they once made equally "miserable" for the elders of their time. Somehow, let's give The Fourth back to Uie kids and reap a har vest of patriots. God knows, we'll need 'em. Telling the Editor Sam Dawson MORE MORSE By EULALIE WOODWARD Dear Mr. Reed. I have just see'd , Your poem In the paper; Can't Imagine why you've not known That he always cuts those capers. Windy Wayne Is just the same As In Uie days of yore In those days, I heard him praised, In fact I heard it more. I used (o read it every day, In Jenkins' dally news. No matter what he said or did You never got the dues. He used to ride an elephant And grazed him in tall grass It seems absurd, now you're dis turbed That now he rides an ass. He Uien wore a big brass hat Sat on the "upper" side. His voice was loud, while In that crowd, ' As he traveled far and wide. 0 yes he roars, same as before 1 surely agree with that, He hasn't changed, just rear ranged The hat band on his hat. POET'S CORNER NEW YORK l-You know about the farmer's daughter. But how about Uie salesman's wife? The way she reacts to her hus band's irregular hours to those sud den calls out of town, can lead to tiffs at home. Unhappy home life can put a salesman in a most tinselling frame of mind. In this competitive era, perhaps companies are underestimating Uie power of the salesman's wife. They may train the salesman carefully, yet undo it by failing to brief the wife on the nature of his work, the reason for Irregu lar hours, Uie value of sales con ferences ("they're more than just cocktail parties"). A poll of 13,513 salesmen s wives across Uie land, made over a two year period by the Research In stitute of America, shows them picking the salesman's job as the most frustrating. Only a per cent of them would advise their sons to follow in their dad's footsteps. Many wives complain about long separations and say: "Have him near home at least one week a month." One adds; "We can't afford two cars and when he is on the road, I'm stranded." Of life with the salesman at home, the wives offer this com mon complaint: "The crush of pa per work at night takes time. that should be spent with his family.' A third of the wives ask for better cooperation and understand ing of their husband's work by his employers. Some wives want to go along on the selling trips. Many ask to be included in the serious sessions of a sales conference. One notes that at the home office, "secre taries are Included in social func tions but never the wives." The -wives, rate their husbands' job in comparison with other kinds of work this way: The greatest number choose engineering work as providing the most security and newspaper reporting as the most interesting (but they gave It a se curity rating of exactly zero). They credit salesmanship with paying the most money and giv ing the highest rewards in accord ance with ability and efforts. More than half of the wives think salesmen encounter discour aging experiences more often than other employes. Less than half would like to see their husbands spend Uie rest of their lives selling. HUSH PRUETT .Although our early Autuat day seem long, they are definitely shorter than' tilt ef June 11 ky about $0 minutes at latitude .11 4-. iress, and shorter yet f a r t a t north. But It 1 still summer and officially will be until September 23. . Venus, gorgeous In the western twilight sky, is now setting almost due west two heurs after sunset. This splendid )latiet will be our "evening star" for about three months yet and will eontlnuoualy grow brighter until mld-Oviber. Keen eye can now epot it as a white dot high In the west before sundown. On Sunday . evening Ve nus and the crescent moon will ap pear quite near each ether. Yellow Saturn 1 the non-twinkling object now in the southwest one hour after sunset. Its faithful companion of all year, the distant star Spice, If twinkling net fr west of Saturn. Saturn It a little the brighter of the two. Red Mars it still brilliant low in the south as soon as the eky It well darkened, but Is new only M as bright as a menth ago due to increasing distance from ui, It will remain a nice object ill this month. Jupiter and Mercury are very close together in the dawn sky. They rise In the east-northeast to minutes before sunrise. Jupiter It Uie brighter ef the two. Tor the identification of the brighter stars let us observe the Newspaper Guild Holds Mtttlngs LOS ANGELES l Two hun dred delegates representing 27,000 members In the .United States and Canada convene Monday for the formal opening of the CIO-Amer-lean Newspaper Guild 31st annual convenUon. Mayor Norrls Poulson welcomes the delegates after the-invocation by James Frsnels Cardinal Me Intyre, archbishop of Los Angeles. George Meenes, president ef the Los . Angeles Guild, presides. The opening address scheduled was by Uie ANO president, Joseph F. Collis, assistant managing edi tor of the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Ree-ord. heavens about one and one hut heurs after sunset. The red star Antares, the heart of the celestuj Scorpion, Is conspicuous somewhat to the east of Mars. (The nam, "Antares" means "the rival Z Man.") Very high in the erangt Arcturua shines at the low tr end of the atar arrangement known at the Kite. ... eM Almost in the tenlth, white Vea Is splendid as Uie ornament of ui Harp of Orpheus. Lower and to. Wtrd the ' northeast, Deneb, of somewhat lesser brightness, holds ftrth at the head of the Northern vross, very jiign in uie southeast Altalr. with a dimmer star on each aiae ox u, wnuvs in uie constellt Hon the Eagle. Note the Big Dipper sliding bowl Iirsit uwwn uis not uiwesiero sky Later in the night it will be low In the north and moving eastward Clearing the horizon in the east is the large Square of Pegasus mads up ef four moderately bright stars and blancing on one corner. High in me nonneasi ine rather awk ward W of Cassiopeia, consisting of zive stars, is easily spotted. Readers sometimes ask if the planets are in trie same positions in the heavens on Uie same dates from year to year. By no means. Even Saturn, Uie most distant nt-ked-eye planet, is shifted a little after a year. Mercury, Venus, and Mars seem to run wild among thi fixed stars. QUICKIES By Ken Reynolds I 7rr- flit "I wish yeo'd get me that tripod I saw la the Herald News. Want At, deer I ean't hold my cent er still!" THREE CORNERED POETRY The very happiest marriages T s'pose you've heard of them, maybe, Are those without any triangles Except those that are worn by Uie baby. Insure with Norland and save, 627 Pine St. 1 A" Tiissy j If I I PERMASTICK 1 1 1 If ' fi 1 l! Get your Locker or Deepfreeze F WHOLESALE Broken quarters, quarters or halves select feed lot beef. BEEF SQUARE CHUCKS LOINS Prime Ribs All Per Roasts Trimmed, T-Bonet Sirloin Steaks lb. 3i 29iL 49c Rib Steaks Front Quarters Hind Quarters lb. 27c lb. 39c Get your locker now before deer season DEAN HALL LOCKERS O. R. Heavilin, Mgr. 4707 So. 6th Phone 4758 AFEWAY MONDAY, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY ONLY p cants! 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