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PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 5. la Herald anfr!eUr FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered M second clasi matter t the post office at Klamath Fa 111. Ore., on August 30, 1906, under act of Congress. March 8, 1S79 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 wen as ail AP news. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By CARRIER . 1.3S 1 Month 1.35 . 6.60 6 Months $8.10 11.00 1 Year 116.20 They'll Do It Every Time 1 Month S Months 1 Year MAIL BILLBOARD Br BILL JENKINS The cowboy capital of the world Is all set for another go-round on their annual rodeo. In case you aren't familiar with civic boasting over the Northwest the cowboy capital is Frlnevllle, our neighbor to the north. Pretty much a local show, the boys up there are putting up ssew in prize money lor the lads from the rancnes ana uom in Dig cir cuit to shoot for. On top of that they'll have a col orful Indian pageant with the tribe coming down from Warm Springs to stage a show and participate In the special Indian races. FFA and 4-H livestock will be shown In the barns adjacent to the fairgrounds arena, along with a lot of other fair exhibits. It sounds like a big show and one that would be well worth at tending. Speaking of rodeos reminds us that rodeo showman Charlie Read, of saddle shop fame on Klamath Avenue, is laid up at home as the result of a riding accident. But not the kind you might think. Monday night he went for a jog around the countryside ahorse back and collected a bug of some sort in the eye. At this writing the orb is Inflamed, swollen all out of shape and no end painful. Our sympathies are extended to Charlie, although our aches and pains have generally been on the other end. If any of you sportsmen are go ing antelope hunting you had best get your application in the mails pretty pronto. The deadline for ap plications In the Portland office of the game commission Is 10 o'clock In the morning on the morning of the 10th. Advance reports point to a fav erable season. Unless, of course, something happens. The 30-30 club and the Do-Si-Do slub are getting together to put on a Western States Square Dance Uambores here this weekend. If you are a fan of this type of vio lent physical exercise you will have unlimited opportunities to dance to the best callers and the best music that can be rounded up in the Northwest. There'll be a big barbecue and dance, open to the public, Satur day night at Modoc Field. And best of all, the funds, which we hope will be ample, collected by the 20-30lans will go toward buying more equipment for Conger, Field. You can have a good time and help out with our city recreation program all at the same time. Was glad to note that even so dignified an establishment as the local chamber of commerce has to sloop to commonplace procedures from time to time. Happened by the back door of that establishment the other day and spotted George Bartch rummaging through a waste can. Apparently In search of the missing papers. Down here we seem to spend half our time delving Into file 13 to fish out a letter that no one wanted until we had thrown it away. The Klamath Furniture Company hud lust finished a small remodel ing Job which Included tearing off the long marquee across uie irum of the building, thus giving ii a more modern look. We're sorry, however, to see it go. I know they are antiquated, frowned on by the modern archi tects and, according to young Bob Sproat, a headache, but they nev ertheless gave shelter from the rain, the snow and the sun. Any comments we might make regarding the store will only be In replies to the elder Mr. Sproat's remarks about our office. Seems that at one time our office (which Is now seedy enough to sat isfy the most rabid antiquarian) was at one time his bedroom. Way back when. But we still think It would be a good Idea to go back to the cov ered sidewalk. Think of all the snow shoveling It would save, MOANED WD GROANED SINCE THE FIRST DAY OF TUB YEAR ABOUT THEIR l-IOT APARTMENT"" By Jimmy Hatlo wO SELTZER SPENT a week's salary pops said Air conditioner"" NOW IS PRALINE SATISFIED ? YOU DONT KNOW PRALINE "THAHXANCMTlP uy HAT TO UPtlCAm. AMD NkMkJItlMMt f -SrSSP '"-"('I OKAy.UON-SURE THINS6UESsVa I TWIS HEATWE 1 I I DON'T FEEL THE HEAT Llk"f & m S "01 1 yl FOR US AT THE WeJ i iJj-JWHAT ARES " ' SUORE-VOU CAM i 1 USjHjl VOU DOING ? COME DOWM . aMsaaaasaBHHiHiiHSiisiHiiiHssssssssHssssHssssssssssasaa ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McLEOD SAM DAWSON HAL BOYLE PINE RIDGE, 8.D. Ifl The old Sioux, In the days when they mica uie great plains, nad a festi val that combined in theme sev eral of the white man's holidays, It was called the Sun Dance nd to the Indians It was Christ mas. Easter, Thanksgiving, and a family reunion all wrapped in one. In those times the wandering Sioux bossed the land and chased the buffalo from Kansas to Can ada, from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. But once a year the roving tribesmen came together and were knit Into a nation by Uie Sun Dance, a ceremonial that symbo lised their unity and common faith In the great spirit. The government, in an effort to destroy a tradition which It feared always held the danger of stirring Up the fierce Sioux in fresh out breaks, banned the Sun Dance in 1688. But it was revived more than 30 years ago, and last week Indians came hundreds of miles to the sprawling Pine Ridge Res ervation here for a renewal of the symbolic centuries-old festival. In earlier times no formal date for the ceremony was set. The Indians simply drifted together as It pulled by a magnet by nature's signals the time when the buffalo Were fat, when the choke-berries Opened, when new sage sprouts sprang foot-high, when moccasins made a crisp echo in the dry grass of summer. This year Frank Fools Crow, chairman of the festival, sent out the call. Thousands of Indians came by horse and wagon, on foot or In beaten up automobiles. They pitched their modern tents and faded tepees around a great en closure of willow poles hung with green pine boughs. In the center of the enclosure stood a slender young Cottonwood tree. The tree, selected In advance by a medicine man, had been car ried to the site and erected by strong bravea who took care to see that none of Its leaves touched the ground. To the Sioux the leaves of this sacred tree stood tor hu man hearts, and must not be bruised. Sheafs of sweet-smelling sage standing for purity were placed In the crotch. From them dangled a piece of buffalo robe and a man shaped figure cut from a piece of ouuaio sum, symooinzlng the Sioux dependence on the buffalo. The Sun Dance itself Is designed to demonstrate the four great virtues bravery, generosity, forti tude and Integrity, This year three young braves volunteered for the ordeal. Two were veterans who had pledged themselves to perform a sun dance in gratitude for their safe return from Korea. To purify and prepare them selves, the three first took a sweat bath In an "lni," or sweat house, made of willow bows covered with buffalo skins. Steam was provided by pouring water over hot rocks In a pit within the sweat-house. The dancers were then painted red for the sun, blue for the sky, yellow for the rocks, green for the earth. Without food or water the three men then danced around the Cot tonwood tree to the muslo of beat ing tom-toms and the eerie, high pitched chants of singers. They danced In turn in the direction of the four winds, pausing only when Uie tom-tom beaters had to rest. I watched the dance for part of each day, but to meet the dance, monotonous in Itself, was less In teresting than the faces of the old Indians and their squaws on the sidelines. They wore a look of mingled pride, mystic exaltation and sad ness. To Uiem this was no dance of celebration It was the pageant of mankind's terrible struggle to survive, a victory of man's spirit over all the enemies he meets in his brief life under a blazing sun. The look on the faces of the NEW YORK OH Makers of those truck trailers that drone down the highways In front of your car are out today to play both sides of the street. ' Not a swaying from side to side but a play to double the numbers of the cargo carriers by selling to both of those bitter rivals, the railroads and the trucking indus try. Competition is so keen that one of the top companies is redesign ing Its line of freight vans at a considerable drain on present earn ings. Another Is launching a sys tem of Interchange of parts which allows its customers to design their own trailers to meet individual needs. The federal proposal to build a net of cross country highways and to widen existing ones brings loud cheers from the trailer makers, wno nave sutiereq tnis year from a letdown in sales, due to the gen eral drop in the shipment of In. dustrlal goods. Some half million trailers car ry freight over the nation's high ways today. Figured on the num ber of tons carried per mile, their business is ten times what it was in 1936, the bureau of public roads reports. Industry leaders predict that new designs and the expansion of Uie highway system will bring the number, of trailers to one million within the next five or six years. Trailer makers are also welcom ing the yen of some railroads to carry trailers on flatcars to the city of their destination, there to slide them down to the streets to seek out the factory or store wait- young braves in the audience was nuierent. Few seemed stirred by the symbolism of the dance. They were more Interested In making eyes at the young Indian maidens. For them the Sun Dance was Just uuouier opportunity lor courtship. Frank Fools Crow, who wears long Drams as his forefathers did, said sadly: "The young Indians no longer care much for our old customs. Tills may be our last Sun Dance." The young braves and their maidens prefer to Jitterbug. Slow ly but Inevitably the once mighty Sioux are taking the white man's roads, roads that will scatter Uiem to the four winds. 1 ing for the goods they carry. Frue hauf Trailer Co. says it already has orders for 400 trailers from sev en railroads for piggy-back opera tions. Trailmobile, Inc., which makes trailers as a subsidiary of that old-time railroad car supplier, Pull man Inc. will go after sales hence forth with a new plan for customer individualized design. President William A. Burns says this gives each trailer buyer Uie chance to design his own units to meet his in dividual needs and to pay for only such materials and features as he wants and needs. The company is starting this month to apply the principles of standardization and parts inter- changeabllity to Uie truck-trailer industry. Customers pick out, and combine, their own choice of va rious trailer sides, fronts, nose caps, floors, undernames, linings. k i n g - p 1 n location, suspensions, landing gears, and front and roof radio. It will put Trailmobile into the custom tailor" business. A breakfast cereal maker, for example, to whom trailer weight.) is oi sman moment, can save mon ey by ordering the cheaper and neavier materials. A maker of heavy metal products, to whom trailer weight Is of first import ance, might save money by or dering the more expensive but lighter trailers of aluminum. Roy Fruehauf. Dresldent of Fni. hauf Trailer Co., says the number of trailers on the roads will dou ble by 1960. He adds, reassuringly. mat oy men tnere should be more and wider roads to help them stav out of the car drivers way, Uius casing puunc tension. Cleaners Find Discarded Objects PHILADELPHIA m Workmen cleaning behind a brace of 30-year- old telephone booths in City Hall yesterday found some articles ap parently discarded by telephone callers over the years. They Included: A dozen newspapers dating back to 1935, three bottles of what ap peared to be Prohibition-type rum and a flag of the Philadelphia Scs qulcentennlal Exposition held in 1926. (W . I NEW MARINE RECRUITER M-Sgt. Charles A West joins the present staff of the local Marine recruiting office lo cated in the basement of the Klamath County Courthouse. Sgt. West comes to Klamath Falls from Camp Pendleton, California where his last as signment was as coach of the camp baseball team. West is a veteran of I8V2 years 0f Marine service and is holder of the Navy Cross, Silver Star and the Purple Heart. The State-Wide Water Resources Investigation now being conducted by the State of California has de veloped the fact that, In the ulti mate development of the water re. sources of the State, water must be transferred from areas cf surplus water supply to areas of deficiency. In Uils study, as I indicated in yes terday's column, the State will ul timately be looking to the Klamath River Watershed to supply no small quantity of the water required by the densely populated sections of the Stale. From a table which has been re leased by the State Investigation I note that their study would in dicate that the amount of usable water in the "North Coastal Area. which Includes the KlnniRth River Wntershcd, is somewhc:e around 15.150,000 acre feet. Of this supply of usable water the estimated ulti mate consumptive use for the area is estimated to be around 540,000 acre feet. The implication therefore is perfectly clear that there is a potential of some 15.00U.00O acre feel of water in this North Coastal Area that could be diverted for use further south. I realize that the estimates which have been published by the State Water Resources Board are rather tenative and that future study will in all probablity change the figures of their preliminary table to some extent. Nevertheless, I believe that it Is well for the residents of the Klnmalh River Watershed to bear this essential fact well in mind. The Klamath River is nut one of the rivers in the North Coastal Aiea. there are other important streams in the region like the Rus- sian, the Eel, the Mad and Uie Smith. The Bureau of Reclamaton is al-, ready proposing to divert a million ! cere feet from the Klamath River j watershed by tapping the headwa ters of the Klamath River's chief tributary, the Trinity River, In one of the Bureau's usual fantastic en gineering schemes. The California State Water Resources Board has taken a dim view of the Bureau's proposal but such resistance on the part of the State Is of little conse quence to the Bureau strategists in their carefully laid plans to raid the pork barrel. The Bureau has been gradually nurturing a select political claque of land boomers In the hope that they will be able to break down the present California lesistance to their ambition. Those who have resisted the Bu reau's program have held that the water resources of the Central Val ley Area should be completely de veloped before any starry-eyed en gineering dream for tho diversion of water from the Klamath River Watershed be indulged in. The Wa ter resources of the Central Valley, as yet, have not been fully utilized in the development of the region, and Uiese waters should be (level, oped first. , The major features of the State Water Plan in the Central Valley Basin, now calls for the construc tion of 24 reservoirs with an aggre gate capacity of 11,800,000 acre feet of water. These reservoirs are In Ha Inxitorl nn tho mftlor stre&mS of the Central Valley Watershed, and all tne reservoir sue aiu hcui and, above the valley .floor. As of (Via nrpsont. limp nnlv eicht Of tile 24 reservoirs have been constructed 01 are now in the process of con struction, two tniros 01 tne pinu remain to be completed. These reservoirs supply 13 power pianu with an aggregate capacity 0j 1.380,000 kilowatts and the water 1. delivered to seven major convev ence units that distribute the vid. supply from the Sacramento Vall to the San Joaquin Valley and ill San Francisco Bay Basin. There are considerably more ervolr sites available in the p.. tral Valley than the 24 spoken 2r in the previous paragraph Th. Sacramento River Basin, alone ha. more than 40 potential reservoir sites with an aggregate capacitv of 16.000,000 acre-feet of water some of these are included In th. 24 already spoken of as havint been marked as being essential! "key" structures of the Central Valley program. I have mentioned the fact, of other potemial slt " being present, to emphasize the fact that the program for te de. veloprnent of the Central Valley program is a long way fiom belne complete and to Indicate how fool, ish Is the plan to divert the Trinity River before the necessity has ar. rived. The $200,000,000 estimate cost of the project would go a long way toward developing the " water resources of the Central Val ley and make available .1 lar great er amount of water than Just the one million acre feet Uie Trinity River would afford. One portion of the SUte Water Program is the contemplated uti lization of 20,000.000 acre-feet of ground water storage space for wa ter conservation. There has not been a great deal of study made on ground water resources until recently though the knowledge al ground water resources and their utilization have gradually grows ( into Uie "big business'' class, they have been exploited unmercifully so that their problem Is low acute. Pure Bred HOTELS BOXER PUPPIES OSBURN HOLLAND ' For Sale EUGENE, ORE. MEDFOHD t ki. (id. a.k.c. blue ribbon dam. Thoroughly Modern shrine circui tire. Beautiful black Mrs. J. . Farley Joe Earley Jr. musalea. Phene 9584 by appointment, j Proprietors QUICKIES 'By Ken Reynolds 14-oi. JP bottle I J Libby's Catsup Flour - Occident 25 ,b saek $215 Canned Pop : -' .64? 181 Pork V Beans Banquet Dills NALLEY'S, new and delicious for No. 2Vi cans 5- $1 New, Crisp Pickles AA . 24-o. 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