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i WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, lflsj PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON HUGH PRUETT HAL BOYLE 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, 1879 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled 01 all local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION KATES MAIL 1 Month 6 Months 1 Year .. 1.35 ..$ 6.50 .111.00 BILLBOARD By BILL JKNK1NS It sort of looks like Oregon is facing a crackdown on the traffic situation. Earl Newbry has launched a slate wide campaign based on his slogan "If you don't drive safely, you can't drive in Oregon." And irom the advance notices put out on the plan it looks like It has soma teeth in it. Under existing state lawn a drlv- mediatrly without waiting for court action If he is guilty of causing a serious accident, incompetent op erntion, habitual incompetence, recklessness or negligence. All too ollen In the past offenses of this nature have been slossed over, the drivers whitewashed and turned loose to cause another nasty situation on the highways. We sincerely hope that the new plan will be expedited and that it will have an effect on the ever increasing death and injury toll on your highways. ' A letter comes in to us this time ! addressed to the paper at ''Kco-i moth Falls, Oregon." Mttlled from way down In New' Orleans and cme up here In Just four days. Mrs. J. A. Eprotit called in (he other day to report that people were tossing garbage all over her lront lawn out along Old Fort Road. This complaint has been coming In pretty regularly but we don't Know of anything we can do about It except sympathize with her. If it makes you feel any better to know that you have company In your troubles, Mrs. Sprout, rest assured that we are in the same boat. People seem to think that Lakeshorc Drive is nothing but a public dump ground. Our mailbox area Is usually piled high with a collection of old cans, bottles, mag azines and other household trash JAMES MARLOW ' WASHINGTON (yH At this mo ment It's the uncertainty which Is the most distinguished feature of Uie maneuvers to produce, or not to produce, a law banning the Com munist party. Congress hasn't passed such an act yet. The uncertainty extends in three directions: (11 Whether Congress, anxious to get home this week, will ac tually approve such a measure: (2) wnether President Elsenhower would let It become law; and (31 what effect It would have if It be came law. Tile congressional uncertainly Last Thursday the Senate passed a bill making It a crime to be Communist par'y member. The Elsenhower administration had op posed such a step for these rea sons: It might wreck some laws, al ready on the books, which the gov ernment Is using to combat com munism and, in the end, the Su preme Court might declare it un constitutional. So on Monday, under adminis tration prodding, the House tiled to get around the problem by pass ing a bill which was a watered down version of the one the Senate approved. The House measure wouldn't make It a crime to bo a Commu nist party member. It would sim ply deprive the party of legal standing. If the Senate okayed this, such an act might not Inlerlerc with other antl-Communlst laws. But yesterday the Senate re jected the House version In lavor of Its own. How could these dif ferences bu reconciled? Both houses set up a Joint committee to agree on a single bill both houses could approve. If the conferees can't agree, that ends any chance for banning ilie party this year. II they agree on a single bill, both houses must approve. There s not much time left. The presidential uncertainty Eisenhower's attorney general. Herbert Brownell. led the fight agaimt the original Senale bill. II Congress, nevertheless, voles tor It, the President Is In a dilemma: It he signed the measure Imo law. It would be contrary to what his administration had argued, n he vetoed it. he would be going contrary lo the will of Congress particularly in an clwlion year when a Ilrm stand aa;mist com munlMii cannot be considered po litically unpopular. The uncertainty of us eliroi The Subversive Activities Con trol Board, operating under au LIKE "DANDEE" exclusively to the use for publication BY CARRIER I Month $ 1.35 $ 8.10 816.20 8 Months 1 Year . that some thoughtless car window person Instead pushed out of putting in the ash can at home. Charlie Read, who has just got ten over a bee sting in the eye, is now suffering from sore feet. Seems that he went out and walked all over the end of Stukel moun tain a few days aso to work out a trail for the Lakeview riders to take "?xt month h;il ey Uke " on their annual trek. But, according to Charlie, they can now make practically the cn . tire trip without having to ride on the pavement. Only a few miles ct the tari of the trip. And the view, says Charlie, from the top : of the rldgc out there is really : something. The whole Ba.sin spread j out at your feet. Wish we were going abng. Had planned to but business takes us to the metropolis instead. Dog-, gone. j If you are Interested In making the trip contact Charlie at ms Klamath Avenue saddle shop. Ralph Dunlavy will do the cook' inS nd Clctus McMnhon has sign on as flunky and truck driver Having made the trip I can guar antee that anyone going will have the time of his life, Fred Hellbronner and Coleman O'Laughlin went way out in the wilds the other day on a fishing trip and came bnck comnlaining about catching loo many fish. Seems the only hitch was Uiat most of 'em were too small to keep. Oh well, that's the way it goes. Speaking of hunting, wouldn't It be a wonderful thing if Oregon could have a 30 day either sex deer season? With game laws with teeth in 'em to keep the game hoes down? . thority of Uie 1050 McCarran In ternal Security Act, ruled Commu nist party members and leaders must be registered with the govern ment on the grounds that their party Is a Moscow agent. The Com munists appealed to the Supreme Court. u me couri, pcliinps by next spring, upholds the board the Com munists will be required to regis ter. But the McCarran Act savs tne fact that a Communist had to be registered would not incrimi nate him In any way. But If a new law goes on the books now, making It a crime to be a Communist, the government could not force a Communist to incriminate himself by registering as a Communist because the Con stltullon bnrs forced self-incrimination. So the administration fears passage ot a law making It a crime lo be a Communist would wrork the McChrran Act and mnke futile years of government efforts to force Communists to reclsier. That's the administration reason ing. But is it sound? It may not be. There's uncertainty to whether the McCarran Act can be made to work whether or not there's a new law making it a crime to be a Communist. Suppose the Supreme Court ruled Communists would have to be reg istered as members of a Dartv which Is a Moscow agent, and the party then announced It was dis solving and therefore had no more members. Could the government then iall those people, who were known as Communists even though their par ty had said It was ceasing to exist. because tney did not register? That "N,y Can with c-H fetA-LORV - AT YOUR FAVORITE GROCER They 11 Do It Every Time ..i- -" , By Jimmy Hatlo 7 DELIST 5 ABOLrrJOE AND ,H T Y ALTITUDE BETTER j QUESTS PWNNEOV BW6unl AND U UULEM WE WK5U I WAN C-J V FDR THE B4RTV--TME EtEUWIEVS? WS ALTITUDE MAKES rA,0. ?"lA" I I DE TOURSTHE VElOURS J FTOEMDS TOVOtJR 11 WMSSMJ I THE FOXGLOVESTHE CROOD PARTIES.' rS3TI JJ ' c- VAN TWIDDLES , MR. vouVE GOHE SOCIETV 1 1 liv f t PaTt" l'-rJ j?Ki ftMs? THERE WONY' lMn ici I .WvS ' trip VSTHirl oSvruf7 JflMfvti ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McLEOD After the Spanish explorers dis covered that there was no strait through the vast extent of the southern reaches of the new land discovered for their world by Co lumbus, they turned their attention northward. The fabulous straight ot Aiuan must be north of the area their explorers had examined and as they extended their search north along the coast of North America the further north they went the more desperate became their de sire to discover this famous pas sage. The further northward Spain searched the greater became the realization that the strait would have no value to Spain in provid ing a shorter route to the Spice Islands, however. It was urgent that Spain discover the strait first otherwise it could become a men ace to Spanish possessions. The strait In the possession of Spain could be closed to the navigators of other nations. Other foreign nionarchs were diligently seeking it and there were even current re ports that they had found it, con cealing the fact; and the ravages of freebooters in South Sea waters caused no little anxiety on the sub ject. Theorizing went on. supplement ed by exaggeration and falsehood. Each navigator to the north, on either ocean brought back informa tion true or false whichever served his purpose best. The fabled strait undoubtedly existed, each indrtita tion on either shore of this great stretch of land must be regarded as Its entrance until exploration showed to the contrary; and that being determined .the next indenta tion to the north might prove to b the right one. "It were a pity," thought the navigator when In sight of a gull or bay or river, lie was prevented by storms, scurvey or some other calamily from sailing through to the Atlantic or the Pacific, "It were a pity that another should immortalize himself by the redis covery of what I have found," and forthwith he proceeded to protect his glory by an explicit descrip tion of what he had been on the point of seeing. Others required no actual voyage as a foundation for their falsehoods but boldly claimed to have navigated the strait from ocean to ocean; and few interest ed in the subject but could find a sailor who had accomplished one oi these lnteroccanic expeditions. or at least knew another who had done so. The current fables did not stop wun tne relation of voyaging through the strait but embellished the tale with wonders bordering not certain. The government might try but that no doubt would mean another court fight. BREAD Ml UKIUM THIS IN YOUR FIGHT WEIGHT DIET each side of the passage. The im aginative travelers by sea and land brought back tales of great cities and rich provinces, always farther north than the region they had visited. The natives caught the spir it of the times and became expert in inventing northern marvels for the entertainment of these white strangers. The enterprising charlatans of the period did not fail to use Uie story of this Northern Mystery for the advancement of their own in terests and schemes. Conquista- dores were not wanting who stood prepared to duplicate in the far north the achievements of Hernan Cortez; friars doubted not that there awaited the reaping a great harvest of northern souls: and ex plorers were ready to make new expeditions All this, of course, at the expense of the royal purse.. There was a constant ntream of memorials of the importance of the dominance of this area by Uie might of Spain and the writers of these memorials never failed to make the most of the current ru mors. Yet for all this pressure be ing brought to bear on the throne of , Spain, the rulers paid little at tention and only a few weak ef forts were made, so for two cen turies little or nothing was accom plished. Late In the eighteenth century there was a revival of the enerev for Spanish exploration In the time ot Carlos III. A new cause of alarm had entered the picture - and this was the fear of Russian encroach ment irom the northwesr. A series ot voyages were undertaken and carried out by Spain; English and American explorers made their ap pearance on the West Coast; the Russians were there already; and soon but little of the mystery was left. No straight of Anian was found. There were none of the mar velous things that had been so freely described as to be found between latitudes 40 degrees and 60 degrees; but there was a wealth of furs for those inclined to be ad venturers In the field of commerce. There was territory of sufficient value to Inspire petty quarrels be about the same date in the north tween the nations of the period. These discoveries, and others of em Atlantic, practically put an end to tne Northern Mystery so far as it related to a navigable channel i though many years hed to pass be in moderately temperate latitudes. fore belief In the old stories van- as located by the navigators who IK raw! GET A HUDSON DEAL Here's hundreds over market for your car. You enjoy new instant-action power, amazing geared-to-the-road ride in a . . . HORNET ' WASP JET products of American Motors Biq Trade-In Jamboree at JUCKELAND TRUCK Sales & Service, Inc. 11th and Klamath Srs. READIN6 betweeh THE LINES OF THE SUEST LISTTWEN THE FUN BEGAN mc HJmP MAT QUICKIES By Ken Reynolds your Herald and News Want Ad says chicken feed how come you let them talk you into taking; money for your gun?" Chinese Yangtze River Rampages TOKYO ifi The rampaging Yangtze River swelled to another hew recorri htcrh t. S n m vaolai.. "day. Pelping radio reported today. i ne i iver, wnicn apparently has run wild through central China, hit 29.7 meters (97.4 feet) yester day at Wuhan, a trlclty industrial complex at the Junction of the Yangtze and Han rivers. Poinino- said. POET'S CORNER PKRTINENT POMES By Pelican Petunia BRRRRR! All summer the place has slept quue uaie: But after last night's rain, I swear. I looked below, and the town, in stead. Had pulled the blanket clear over its head. K' HILL SCORCHED AGAIN Little laddies, one, two, three; Rendezvous Juniper tree; To see if Dad's tobacco will Provide for them a grown-up thrill. The trouble Is that they aspire To prove that where there's smoke, there's fire. And if you think that I am Joking. Just look! The whole darn hill is smoking I claimed they had sailed through the continent from ocean to ocpnn: i'hed in the face of knowledge. Klamath Falls, Ore. 4 ,M VALLEJO, Calif. UP J" ever hear of a community 1200,000 to throw a birthday party for a naval shipyard? It is a bit unusual. But-the citi zens hero have chipped in that amount to celebrate next month the 100th anniversary of the foun'd- ini of the Mare Island Navai Base by brusque David O. Farragut, later to become America a msi admiral. The lone, low island at the north ern end of San Francisco Bay had been bought by the Navy lor jiu,. 491, and was the first link in its chain of defenses of the Pacific Coast. Farragut, who had Joined the Navy at tile age of 10. was 50 years old then. He had no way of knowing that within another dec ade he would become the hero of the Battle of Mobile Bay, eternally famous for his command, "Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead." But Mare Island named after a lady horse that fell off a flatboat and swam asnore has produced many another hero since Farragut in the last 100 years. Through five wars it has built 40 naval vessels, repaired thousands of others. served for a century as a major base of America's sea might. Today it serves the same dur able purpose. It is the home of a great portion of our "mothball fleet," carefully cocooned against rust and ready on short notice to prowl the sea lanes again. The entire community is proud of Mare Island's long, proud rec ord. It launched the dreadnaught battleship California and also El sa Maxwell. Elsa came here as a refugee from the 1906 San Fran cisco fire and earthquake, and, ac cording to local legend, immedi ately organized a party. Other Mare Island "firsts": The first aircraft landing deck in the Navy was built here on the U. S. Pennsylvania in 1911. So was the first Navy oil tanker, the Navy's first oil-burning vessel, its first all-welded hull, its first electrically propelled ship (later it became the Langley, our first aircraft carrier) and the largest submarine ever built, the old Nau tilus. The destroyer Ward, built here in 17 recdrd-breaking days in 1918, sank a Japanese subma rine at Pearl Harbor. The Mare Island yard didn't ex actly launch bandmaster Paul Whlteman, but he once served as a Navy musician here. During the last world war the shipyard Its shops are among the largest on earth employed 40,000 workers, Including 9,000 Rosie the Riveters, and sub-contracted as sembly Jobs through 50 communi ties as far east as Denver. Since Farragut founded it, the yard has grown from 1.000 acres to 2,446, and today is perhaps the largest naval installation in the world. Its equipment has risen to a book value of 180 million dollars. Its 13,000 employes have an an nual payroll of 55 million dollars. Each year its schools graduate 600 trained technicians with the skill to keep on turning out the long line of ships that have kept America's shores inviolate for nearly a century and a half. But to me one of the most human factors about this sprawling yard is that it not only built the ships that carried men into battle for their country it also in post-war years made a great record as a naval rehabilitation center for .m. putees. It taught them to walk on new nopes and new legs. The war-scarred men who were helped here to rebuild iheir hni.. lives are certainly among the brightest testimonials to Mare Is land's first century. To repair a ship is an achievement certainly, but to repair a man is a glory. it You'll like Lucky -the aged beer " j hp) tr,m i ita.t,. ..' y... J Taste what a difference Lucky thorough ageing makes You'U notice the difference-the smoother, mellower flavor-the premium pleasure that thorough ageing put into Lucky Lager beer. Youll enjoy these same exceptional qualities in every bottle or can of age-dated Lucky Lger. Truly, Lucky Lager is one of the worlds finest beers. LUCKY LAGER THE AGED BEER Astronomer, Extension Division Ortron Hlrher Education System In the starry skies we find de picted many mythological stories of the ancient peoples, annougn oi- ten In a more or less confused manner. A few nights from now when the bright moon is absent from the early evening heavens, let us pick out among the south ern stars the constellation Sagit tarius, the Archer. Sometimes it is difflc 1 1 to point out the approximate location of a rather inconspicuous group to those not familiar with the stars. But at present there is a blazing marker available for the Identifi cation of Sagittarius. About two hours after sunset the red and bril liant planet Mars can be seen low in the sky almost due south. The stars ot Sagittarius are im mediately to the left of Mars. None of them are very bright, but they form a well-defined group, the right half of which is Immersed In the Milky Way. Many say these stars outline a teapot. To the writer, they have always looked like two dipptis joined at the handles with the bowls each composed of four stars hanging down and swinging apart at a considerable angle. The open parts of the bowls face each other. The one to the left forms a better dipper than the other. But the ancients saw nothing so prosaic as dippers and teapots in this celestial assemblage. To them it was a queer creature, part man SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (Pi American housewives who took a dim view of coffee price boosting are looking forward today to their reward coffee price cuts. The brazillan government hiked the export price of coffee in June. It was one hike too much for many Americans. And 'buying of Braz ilian coffee by Americans dropped sharply. Now the Brazilian government is reshuffling its complicated for eign exchange setup and announ ces that Brazilian coffee farmers will get Just as much in Brazilian money for their crop, but Ameri cans, will pay less in dollars. The American housewife got an other break on the government price support a while back when the American government which props the price of many food items just as Brazil supports the price of coffee lowered the support price lor butter. And with lower prices, the American housewife has Increased her buying of butter by about 8 per cent. But on another front she is about to lose a skirmish. The price of bread has headed up by 1 cent in several cities. Bakers blame many things. One is government price supports lor wheat. Bakers say farmers are planting less of the high-grade wheat which bakers prefer for bread. Instead, farmers are planting the lower grades which have the advantage of higher yields per acre. This gives farmers more bushels to put DANCE-AR SATURDAY NITE Bobby Champion and hit Melody Wranglers and part horse. The bodv, ws ln; tail of the horse were complete un to where the neck should start From there on up was the bodr arms and head of a man Thii strange combination depicted th famous centaur Chiron. He is usu oily shown as drawing a bow woi the arrow about to fly. Chiron was at first an ordinary man Tip wni mnvl clrilir.., , ..' ........ -- "- UB1,U Jn (Jj. use of the bow and taught the Ore cian youths the principles of arch! cry. But his wife Rhea was very Jealous and -was constantly spying on him. At last, thoroughly wear, led of this, he changed himself into a centaur in order that Rhea might not recognize him and know his whereabouts. At present Sagittarius is the most southern group among which the sun seems to move. It Is one of the zodiacal constellations. The sun will be among these stars next December, but iis brilliance wi then blind us to their light. There are many interesting tele scopic objects within the bounda ries of Sagittarius. The branch of the Milky Way running through this eroim becomes resolved imn almost countless pinpoints of light I - tiny stars so distant that the un aided vision cannot detect them in dividually. Even field glass?s will help and Willi show the globular cluster M22 as a distinct, nebulous patch. The center of our 'galaxy is. in the direction of the star cloud of Sagittarius and Scorpius. under government price support loans. Bakers say there is a shortage cf the high-grade wheat this summer, so bread prices are ging up. The housewife is getting a break at the meat counter, however, al though this is due to high produc tion rather than government con trols. The American Meat Institue says that retail meat prices now are at the lowest level of the year, and down considerably from the first of Uie year. Brazil's jugsling of coffee export prices was forecast last Friday when coffee futures broke sharply on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange under selling by houses with Brazilian connections. 1 The following day Brazil an nounced it would let coffee ex porters retain some American dollars when they sold to the Uni ted States. Previously they had to turn all dollars over to the Bra zilian government and get cruz eiros for them. Since Brazilians can get more cruzeiros for dollars on the free market than they can from their otra government, it means thoy can sell coffee for less here and still come out nhead at home. LAWNS Da you want a fond litra or Jpi low price? You can't always barr both. We do quality work and fur nish everything. We jruaranlfle a (nod itand of cra.M! Phone 4-HU. LAKESHORE GARDENS NURSERY " - AUGUST 21st DANCING 9 till 1 1.C0 Person - Tax In el. m'titeKiYtfarftit'ihifi-ittitifTii I
