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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1954)
PAGE EIGHT FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered as second class matter at the post oflice at Klamath Falls, Ore., on August 20, 1906, under act ol Congress, March 8, 1879 MKMHEK OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for publication o all local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL 1 Month .. 1.35 8 Months 6.50 1 Year S11.00 BILLBOARD By KILL JENKINS We are happy to report that the happy fishermen, Hank S e m o n and lied Bussmun, ure back sate from their excursion over to Win chester Buy. According to Red they covered tcveral Important items In Coos Bay -at the Tioga' hotel, now oper ated by one-time Klamathito Lee SOarlett, caught enough fish to fuel happy about it all, and, had a good tunc , Red was Buffering from what he described as a salmon - chewed thumb and both had mugmlicent Eunburns, but outside tnat tney looked almost normal. Glad to see em home again, tin In Seattle yesterday a famed meteorologist told a bunch of fel low weather prophets that the day was coming when mankind would be able to move dangerous thun derstorms around, prevent other storms and In general pretty much control the weather. When that day comes we will be tempted to take up a perma nent residence on the bottom of the ocean, living1 on air from a Fnorkcl nnd learning to eat raw fish and drink salt water. ' I can see nothing good about this business of moving storms around the country. After all, when you have such a great diversity of weather ns compared to the even greater diversity of crops you're heading for nothing but trouble. Suppose, for instance, that what the pear farmers over in Easy Valley needed was a nice hot, dry spell and the only way they could get It would be by moving In a hail storm and a subsequent frost on the Klamath Basin? Do you suppose that they would hesitate a bit to move a storm out of their way, thus saving their crops, and dumping all the bad weather on our barley and grain and spuds over here? Not on your tintype they Wouldn't. And where would be the fun of CAUGHT IN By DKH ADDISON RETAIL MEMO: The consumer has just signaled that he is in a mood to increase hip, buying of automobiles and oth er duvablo goodH. This powerful prop to the crowing optimism of the past few months is found in the latest survey of consumer be havior, attitudes, and intentions by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan, and re ported by "Business Week." Earlier surveys had shown that the consumer's optimism reached post-war peuk during the latter part of 1952 as a result of the Kor- ean war Doom, ii s not mat man now. What is important, however, about the latest sounding is In at the downward trend of six and nine months ago has now halted. fiomo general findings: People Well - off financially, nils improve ment is confined to the group with higher incomes, the $5,000 - year or - over families. The significance to the economy lies In the fact that it is this ftroup which buys the bulk of the houses, curs, major appliances, homefurnishniRs, Just us Inst fall, more than half of those with definite opinions be lieve that prices will remain un changed. Only about, one in every three expects a slight decline in the price level. Consumers feci confident about the future. That's talking about the country as a whole, similar indications are found in the Klamath Basin. In recent weeks there have been more reports from Herald and THE DOCTOR SAYS lly IIIWIN V. JOllllAN, M.i). It Is proper to consider aslhma as among tile allergic diseases In spue of the tact Hut some times it is not. Certainly the most important cause ol asthma Is sen sitivity in dut including pollens, moles, household dust and an. jnal danders, with lends and drugs sometimes responsible. The principal feature of aslh ma is b shortness of breath Willi a wheezing lype ol breathing. Frequently asllnnn comes in at tacks with freedom irom difficulty in between: soineiinicK it is con tinuous. Always it Is most uncom fortable for the victim and dis tressing for others lo watch. Even when asthma results from lons-tiuu' buy lever or some other exposure lo furciirn substances much can Usually be done. The lust and most important step is lo identity the cause, fre quently this can be dona by stuilv ing the history ol the attacks ol asthma. J'or example, a youngster who gets attacks as soon us he starts playing with a clog is in all prob ability sensitive to the doi; dander. Other methods of identifying the ' cause include: (.kin, tests (which are riot always eompleiclv reliable and trial and error exposures ol the asthmatic individual lo suspec ted substances. Treatment includes those meth ods which are used lor the individ ual attack and those which are used to try lo prevent or lessen luture bouts of lite condition. The treatment of an acute phase of asthma, certainly requires pro fessional advice. The basic treat BV CAKKIEIt 1 Month $ 1.35 6 Months ... 8.10 1 Year $16.20 getting out ol here for a change in the weather. If all vou had to do was pick up a telephone and order the kind of weather you wanted, the phone company would make a fortune and the vacation business would go Into a terrible Jump. Eventually, since even our modern scientists can't diversify the weather over a single acre ol ground, there would be bitter war fare and blood would run in rivers down the gutters of our towns as embattled elements cool; crisp as opposed to hut and sultry ought it out to see which would get their wish. The thing might even lead to international strife. (Not that we don't have enough already.) And it would certainly turn into a po litical issue. Wouldn't it be the devil itself to be a Republican farmer when the Democrats were in power? Or vice versa? Think of the perils In planning a cam' paign picnic. Why, you'd hardly get started on the oratory and hot dogs before a downpour would come along and ruin the whole thing. No, on the whole, I think this scheme, like the H-bomb, is best forgotten. It would be too destruc- live. I'm all In favor of doing away with snow on the flntlands around our city and Basin, while keeping an adequate supply In the hills for Irrigation supply, but I'd rather put up with a little snow shovel ing than I would argue the kind of weather that can be handled wlllv-nilly. As long as these scientific blokes can't even make a dash board clock for a car that will work I doubt If their field lies In weather control. When Iht-y cutch the fellow that poisoned the seeniR eye dog tniin- cea I am convinced that he should, in turn he fed his own atrychnlne iilled hot dogs and left to suffer (he consequences. It is the lightest punishment an inhuman monster of that type deserves. THE ROUNDS News advertisers of h 1 r h 1 y sue cessful business promotions than in a long time. borne timorous businesses, of course, wait for the miracle to happen. When it docs happen the generally find that it is happeninn 10 someone else who has been hard at work to make It happen. Actual Klamath business figures inr ine urst six months were re cently published by the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce. Bank debits werr $120 million for the first half of 1954 compared to $134 million in 53, Postal receipts went Up to 1134 thousand in '54 from $131 thousand in '53. Parking meter take was down slightly to $25 thousand in 54 from $2( thousand in '53. Building permits were way up to $728 thousand in '54 from $45 thousand in '53. Water users were up to an aver age of 8,174 in '54 from 7.463 in '53. Cost or living figures may or may not bear out tho beliefs of I I10.se consumers reporting to the fcurvey Research Center. The Dun & Bradstrcet Daily Wholesale Commodily Price Index of 30 basic commodities was 271.89 on August 6, against 272.25 a week belore. The Weekly Wholesale Food Price Index, representing tho total of the price per pound of 31 foods In general use, dropped lour cents lust week to $7.10. That was 6.4 per cent nbove the corresponding level of last year. ment of Hie disorder depends on the cause. If the victim can be re moved Irom the cause or the cause irom the victim much improve ment will result although one nl ways fears the development ol new sensitivities. Occasionally someone with asth ma can be desensitized by being given small and increasing quan tities of the ottendmg substance, Also, since asthma is often compll cated by Infections, an e 1 f o r t should be made to correct any thing of this sort. Frequently, too, the general health affects the severity of asth ma and attention consequently should be paid to this. There are, of course, many medi cal measures used in asthma In cluding various types of Injections, the use of iodides and more re cently the sometimes highly effec tive results of the use ol cortisone or ACTII. Asthma is a fairly common con dlllon and no respectvr of age. sex or anything else. It constitutes a problem both to patient and phv. slcian. Much inpeiiully in mu inurement and cooiH'ialion between patient and physician are necessary in or der to bring about the best results. !ti:covi:itiNi; I.OS ANGELES Uv-Tlieda Bara. the vamp of the silent screen, is reported In satisfactory condition following a second operation, per formrd yesterday us an aftermath of an appendectomy she under went last June 28 in California Lutheran Hospital. They'll Do It Every Time WELL - 7 COME IS THAT ' BraceE VWDRILENE IF X CAN 6ET THE HOUSEWORK DONE OH TODAy'S OUR ANNIVERSARy-AND YOU SHOULD SEE yoU'RS T4LKM' TO? TELL HER WHAT I sot you the Gorgeous FOR OUR fcSOUQUET OF WEDDING yANNlVER- BEAUTIES SARy-' 5QUATWELL BROUGHT Ma tfft TELLING THE EDITOR FREEDOM A year ago you published a let ter of mine In which I urged that the United States once again em brace the cause of freedom. This plea was based largely on two considerations: the moral obliga tion freedom for the sake of freedom; and the conviction that the only road to lasting peace lay in the establishment of a prepond erance of free nations over slave nations. It is becoming Increasingly evl dent that we no longer have the courage to defend freedom and If we are still Interested In peace we have learned nothing irom the great wars of our time, I would like, therefore, to suggest a third and equally cogent reason lor defending freedom: survival. in0 united states will never again be able to defend itself at lis own shoreline, If It comes to that we are lost. If we are not prepared to defend freedom at the outposts we will never have the op portunity to successfully defend It at home. The Communists have been tell ing us lor over 30 years that their goal Is world domination, that they Intend to destroy us by any means, fair or foul. They have been res olutely carrying out this aim with our help. How long should one let a for est fire burn before attempting to put it out? In last Tuesday's paper you pub lished these words by Vice-President Nixon: "The free world can not stop communism unless the people threatened by communism have the will to resist commu nism." This Is a truly remarkable state ment. Does Mr. Nixon believe that a handful of Vietnamese and French, outnumbered 10 and 20 to one in manpower and equipment, could stop 400 million Chinese with Rus sia behind them, without outside help? (This Is tantamount to hav ing a 10-year-old boy challenged by a 20-year-old bully while his big brother stands by saying. "Fiaht him yourself, son 11 vou've cot the will"). Aro we, by any chance, part of the people in the free world wno are threatened by communism When, pray tell, have we dls played any will to resist commu nism? Was it when we gave China to the Communists? Was it when we invited the Com munists to attack Korea (when Dean Acheson announced that we did not Include Korea in our peri meter of defense I? Was It when we had the Com munists on tho run In Korea and then sat down and gave them the victory anyway? ' Was It our dismal, floundering failure at Geneva? Was it when we handed over 12 million helpless Vietamcse to the Communists? Perhaps Mr. Nixon feels that President Eisenhower was display ing our will when he said, on June 30th, "I will not be a party to any agreement that makes anybody a slave." Three weeks later the free world made slaves of 12 million Vietnamese and anyone who thinks we were not a party to It had bet ter get his head out of the sand. It would have been far more hon est to maintain a shamed silence than to make a mockery of such line words with such perfidious conduct. There are those who say we have no business defending free dom In some far-off forelRii coun try. "Let 'em fight their own bat There are no longer any far-off countries. In the shrunken world ot todav any country Is only a mat ter of hours from its neighbor on the other side of the globe and If we consider any nation actively en gaged In the fight for freedom as foreign to us then It's time we opened our eyes. II a pack of wolves attacked the Jones family on the outskirts of a village, is it wisdom lor those In the heart of town to say. "It Is no concern of ours let the Jones's light the wolves themselves?" If bandits rob tjio Smiths down the street, does a community. In lis right senses, leave the Smiths lo their fate? II you catch a robber In your icebox, do you drive lum out through the living room onto the porch and there hBiid him back his gun saying, "Here, now, mind you behave yourself?" This Is exact ly what we did In Korea. There are those who say we had no business defending French co lonialism In Viet Nam. I have no use for colonialism but if I had to choose between the two in a strug gle for survival I would far rather condone French colonialism than Russian colonialism in Viet Nam or any other country. With colonial Ism steadily dying out the Vietna HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON XW SIX SHORT- "( 1 CAH TO THE oTcAVAEC KObcS VA tomorrow HE BRIN6S HER- 7 MATCH HE TOOK SIS TO LAST AMD VOUD THINK liK YEAR OH THE DOU6H HE i HE GAVE HER l-7 STILL OWES ME "zL AN ACRE OF V - amnios, the -I WAy HES ' STRUTTIN' PICKED AROUND- THAT HORSESHOE OF FLOWERS IN THE NEW BARBERSHOP DOWN WHEN WASN'T mese had a hope and expectation of eventual freedom and indepen dence. Have they now? When World War U ended we had the means to stop Commu nism exclusive possession of the atom bomb. Had we chosen to do so we could have saved Czech oslovakia, China, Korea, Indochina not by bloodshed, not by lorce, but merely by declaring our firm intention of aefending freedom, by force if necessary, hlven had this intention been challenged and had n become necessary to use force. it would have cost lar less In lives and bloodshed to put out a small lire than to wait lor half the for est to become Inflamed. The wurs of our time should have taught us mis it nothing else. In a world peopled by interna tional bandits, force or the threat of force is the only control the bandit understands. It is no more possible to run a world without a police force than it is u nation, state, or town or any gathering of human beings where the element of evil must be restrained. Since World War II we have sold some 600 million people into sla very. We have not only not defend ed freedom we have given our mortal enemy, who nus sworn to destroy us, litis much advantage in our last struggle lor survival. The odds in this struggle, once considerably in our lavor, are de creasing sharply now for two rea sons: 1) Russia is stockpiling hydrogen bombs and growing stronger uaily while we are paring uuwn our strength. 2) in the world's masses, millions of helpless "neutrals," in sheer desperation ana for survival, are readying themselves to jump to the side of the winner. Each new defeat lor freedom conditions that many millions more lor son con quest. Kach new betrayal of free dom saps the will of the small, hard core of determined freedom- lovers in countries that want to be on our side. How profligate can we be with our allies? Trie tune is not too far distant when we will need every lriend we can muster? Is p e a c e 1 u 1 coexistence pos sible? Sure. All Russia s satellites are now peacefully coexisting with her. If you call living witn a hob nailed boot planted on your neck existence, you can have all the peaceful coexistence you want. Tne idea that somehow right will prevail over wrong, that we can turn our back on Cuniniunism and the big, bud ogre will ono day dis appear, that we have won freedom once so it is ours forever all this is pure illusion. Kvil has prevailed over goodness and wrong has pre vailed over right for long periods of past history. Freedom cannot be won or maintained by default and It cannot be bought with dollars. When it is in jeopardy through force it must be defended by force. Wars have been fought; for a num ber of senseless reasons down through the ages but if ever there was a goal worth fighting lor, It Is freedom. If we are ever to end war It will be through the estab lishment ot universal freedom. Op pression Is anathema to the freedom-lover. How long can we let the fire burn? How many families can we sacrillce to the wolves? How strong can we let the bandits be come? How soon will it be too late? These are moot questions. One fact is crystal clear-. By our present conduct of hesi tation. Indecision, tear and cow ardice we are betrnying freedom: we are slaughtering our allies; at a biuret pace By Jimmy Hatlo HE HASN'T STOPPED TALKlNO ! AOUUI IHfcWKtSTLINO - il - T- THINK H! HE DOESN'T PUT 'EM OFF the bite on yoo FOR THOSE PUSH CART PETUNIAS HE didnt invite , VbU FOR NOTHING! THE STREET THE GUY - LOOKIN'" Watching the ohcb-a- YEAR MODEL WUSS4MD v PLWIT BIG AND A TlP OP rl TUB HATtP MAT (To MRS. ETTA R.PCK, Of O ZD&AK MVC,., A1 A I TOOH i ILL. HAL BOYLE NEW YORK W) "It takes a damn good man to owe a million dollars," said Eugene T. Barwlck. It takes a pretty good fellow to go on from there and earn, a mil lion dollars, too. On both counts Gene Barwick is quite a guy. Now only 40, Barwick in five years has parlayed $4,500 cash in a 30-million-dollar yearly business in tufted carpets. This has given blm a reputation of being one of the top boy wonders of industry. While some rug manufacturers were using their product to deaden the sound of their own falling tears, Gene has built his carpeting firm to a point where It is now the fifth largest in the world. ' But we believe there is room for a 100-million-dollar-a-year busi ness in tufted rugs and carpet ing." he said, "and we are willing to be the first." Barwick figures he can do this if he can make wall-to-wall car peting customary in the American home, and if he can mass produce carpets cheaply enough so that a housewife will feel she can afford to change them every time she changes her draperies. Small tufted cotton rugs boomed during the war period, but many manufacturers thought housewives no longer would buy them when wool was more plentiful. "They liquidated," said Bar wick, "and they were wrong." In 1048 Gene, who had served as a naval lieutenant in the Aleutians during the war, quit his job with a Chicago mall order firm. He had been buying its carpeting for years and felt he knew the kind women wanted Inexpensive but durable. "I met a bedspread manufactur er who had gone broke for $70, 000." he said. "And I taught him how to make tufted cotton carpets: "I had only $4,500. I invested $2,500 in a latex-coating machine that would keep the carpets from skidding. Then I took to the road and the other $2,000 went into sell ing expenses. Did it work? It had to work." It worked so well that In mid 1950 the firm was doing a three-million-dollar business. The part ner, deciding no good thing lasts forever, sold out to Barwick. Geue kept right on expanding, went into debt developing new and more efficient machinery. Now he has five plants in Georgia, ma chines that can turn out a 9-by-10-foot tufted cotton, nylon or rayon carpet every 29 seconds. Weavers from Scotland and England come to study his new techniques. "The worst thing a fellow can do Is to worry about being exposed," said Barwick. "Why watch a pa rade if you can be In it? And If and we are committing suicide ourselves. If these United States do not soon awaken to the fact that we are losing a very real war for sur vival; if we do not, somewhere, somehow, out of the depths of a noble history, dredge up enough courage to take a determined stand alongside our allies, one of these bright mornings the free way of life, as we have known it, will disappear from the face of this earth. Sincerely yours, John Edge Rt. No. 3, liox 1091 TO LINOLEUM ANTISEPT1CALLV CLEAN! To make linoleum floors sani lary ... a safer place for small fry to play. ..try aiWinjj 's cup of Purhx Liquid Bleach to jour pail of sudsy water every time you wash them. Pl'RKX not only sanitizes your linoleum floors... it re moves stains, footmarks and soil. ..brings back bright, fresh colors. 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Thus by a strange turn of fate ot shifting county seats Klamath County in California became lost to the state and strange as it might be this was the only county that ceased to exist after It once be came a political unit of the State. The old timers who settled the State of California were also giv en to ambitions of doing great en oineerinir feats and the inception of diverting the Klamath River did not have its birth in tne mmas oi me planners of the Bureau of Rec lamation or the Army Engineers but with people of the Sacramento Valley way back in the fifties. In January of 1858, a movement un launched by interests in the Sacramento Valley to divert the wa ters of the Klamath River mio me Sacramento. The editor of the "Yreka Chronicle" in the Issue of January 28, 1858, wrote as follows: "A company has been formed and a petition forwarded to the Kioto Legislature for a charter to turn the waters of the Klamath River into the head-streams of the Sacramento. About two or three miles west of the great Klamath Lake in Oregon and at a point where the Klamath contains as large a volume of water as It does at Cottonwood Creek north of Yreka the country is low and level and when the water rises, the water nearly overflows its banks. A canal Ring Lost While Signaling Turn TMr.r.i?umnn rrnlif. 1ST Mrs. Peggy Huston complied with traf- r, 1 a n.c vpstprrinv but she told police it cost her a $2,500 diamond ring. The woman reported that as she gave the arm signal for a left turn the ring apparently fell off her finger. She discovered her loss moments later, returned to the in tersection but couldn't find the ring. you get in It, you might as well try to lead it. But you nave to re member it takes a damn good man to owe a million dollars." Gene has an honest enjoyment in his success, his fine home in Atlanta, his three children. He likes golf, too, but last year he traveled 140,000 miles himself sell ing his carpeting although he has 30 salesmen on the job. "I believe I talked to four times as many rug buyers and dealers as any other mill executive in the country," he said. "Any man ought to work hard If he owns his1 own business. That's what is wrong with too many busi nesses today they are run by pro fessional managers who don t even own stock in their own concerns." Barwick, who once played end at the University of North Carolina and still looks like he could get down the field under a long pass, flies about In his own plane. "Riding in a plushed-up airplane gjVes me the same kick some men used to get out of having a pl'ivate railroad car," he said, smiling. T call my plane "The Rem nant" because any good carpet man knows his profits are tied up in remnants." QUICKIES By Ken Reynolds You'd like the Chief's Herald and News Want Ads better he doesn't use such big- words!" GET YOUR to a quart of cold water. 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The little water re maining In tile river could be eas ily flumed or turned, aside by winged dams and one of the rich est gold fields in the state opened, which is now inaccessible on ac count of the volume of water be ing so large that miners cannot manage It." So it was back in 1858, fourteen years before the famous battle of the Modoc Lava Beds and five years before the establishment of Fort Klamath, at a time when only an occasional stockman would pasture cattle on the open -plains of the Klamath Basin, that people in California were setting plans to capture the waters of the -Klamath River. Today we know that the plan is not as simple as was thought by the ambitious Californ ians .of 1858 yet the plan never ceases to be abandoned as one scheme after another is devised by engineers who feel that the task is a challenge to, their in genuity. The Klamath River has one of SPECIAL PUR 60 GAUGE HOSIERY 1.50 jj ;'j 1.50 I h ' . ; pair V JUST RECEIVED! 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Each year now the peo ple of the lower river area hold a race down the river starting from near Yreka and ending at the sea. This annual race is called the "Klamath River Daredevil Boat Race" and is held in July. The winning team this year, Wes Hook and Alvin Larsen, covered the course in 7 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds. This annual event is attracting attention from all over the nation and the Klamath is again being discovered by people seeking the treasure of health and happiness that can only be found in outdoor recreation. - : The Klamath River bas one strange characteristic, for in its v rugged canyon, it is said that thera is not a single ford. The river is either too deep or too swift to permit man or horse to cross it by wading or fording. Only a few bridges span the turbulent stream. SALE 5 DENIER 1 1 4 l V
