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FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS
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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.
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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
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TO THE
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tomorrow
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AMD VOUD THINK liK YEAR OH THE DOU6H HE i
HE GAVE HER l-7 STILL OWES ME "zL
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AROUND-
THAT HORSESHOE
OF FLOWERS IN THE
NEW BARBERSHOP
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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 !
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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
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ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL
by KEN McLEOD
Yesterday I told the story of
the fate of Klamath County in Cali
fornia. Back in the 1850 decade
the changing of county lines .was
one of the recreational pursuits of
the legislators. Every new mining
town was a rip-snorter and had am
bitions to be a metropolis to be
a county seat was the apex of
arrbition. Naturally, many found
the ''diggin's" far from being pro
ductive of material wealth and
turned to the path of seeking po
litical occupations, while many
sought the prestige of being a
county official "Hi! Judge."
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."
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cut through at this point for a short
distance would turn the whole vol
umn of the Klamath inio this
branch which leads directly down
to the Pit River.
"If the enterprise succeeds It
will prove . one of vast import
ance and utility to Northern Cali
fornia. Making the upper Sacramen
to navigable the year around and
the bed of, the Klamath, known to
be rich in gold in many, many
places, will be almost drained for
the thousands of miners who would
flock thither. 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
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the most interesting historical reo
ords of all our western streams,
yet the river has hardly been dis
covered by modern day civiliza
tion. The Klamath was one of the
great gold bearing streams "of the
wet and every bar along Its tor
turous course through the Klamath
Mountains to the seas was worked
by the ambitious miners of the
age of gold.
' The Klamath River has been
through the centuries the chief
highway cutting through the rug
ged mountain and vast timberland
region and over this highway both
the aborigional man of the pre
historic past and man of the his
toric present have made their way,
using the stream for a highway
or the trails that followed the
banks of the river. The Klamath
River is just beginning to be dis
covered by the people who love
to follow the white trail of rush
ing water. 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.
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