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MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 19S4 PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Herald anfrlettrs FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls, Ore., on August 20, 1906, under act of Congress, March 8, 1879 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for publication of all local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL BY CARRIER 1 Month 1.35 1 Month 1.35 6 Months $ 6.50 6 Months I 8.10 1 Year $11.00 1 Year 816.20 ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McCLEOD The claim that Fcrrele in 1543 was the discoverer of the Klam ath Coast appears to be doubtful but the claims of Sir Francis Drake begin to take on actual significance since the verification of his anchorage at Drake's Bay has been made In recent years. There Is a much more factual record for Drake than Ferrclo. The first printed account of Drake's voyage was published In "Hakluyt's Voyages," in London In 1589, and In this edition it is stated that the northern limit of Drakes voyage was latitude 42 degrees, which was reached by Drake on June 5, 1579. The English annalist Stew In 1592 wrote of Drake's discovery "He passed forth northward, till he came to the latitude 47, ilium lng to come that way home, but being constrained by fogs and cold winds to forsake his purpose, came backward to the line to wards the tenth of June 1579, and stayed in the latitude of 38, to grave and trim his ship, until the five and twenty of July." In 1595 John Davis the naviga tot wrote: "After Sir Francis Drake was entered Into the South Seas, he coasted all the western shores of America until he camo to the sep tcntrional latitude of 48 degrees, being on the back side of New-foundland." Low In 1598 gave the limit as 42 degrees, as well as Camden In 1616. In an - anonymous discourse of the century, written perhaps by one of Drake's associates, we read: "Here Drake watered his ship and departed, sayling northwards till he came to 48. gi of the scp tentrlonall latltud, still finding, a very large sea trending toward the north, but bolng afraid to spend long time in seeking for the atralte, hee turned backe agalne, still keplng along the cost as nere land as hee might, vntlll hee came to 44. gr." Hakluyt In 160 In a new cdl. tion of his work made a change in the latitude and wrote: "Hee beganne to thinke of his best way to the Malucos, and finding hlmscife where hee now was becalmed, hee saw the neces sity hee must bee enforced to take a Spanish course, naimly to aulle somewhat Northerly to get a Wlnde. wee therefore set saile; and sayled 600. leagues at the least for a good wlnde, and thus much we sayled from the 16, of April, till the 3. of June. The 6. towards the pole Arctlcke, wee found the ayre so colde, that our men being grleuously pinched with the same, complained of the ex tremllle thereof, and the further wee went, the more the colde In creased upon us. Whereupon wee thought it best for that time to seeke the land, and did so, find ing it not mountainous, but low plaine land, till wco came within 38 degrees towards the line." A new account was compiled and published In 1628 by Drake's nephew from Uie notes of Francis Fletcher who accompanied the corsair as chaplain, and of others "From Guatulco wee departed the day following, viz., Aprill 16, setting our course directly Into the sea, whereon wee sayled 500 leagues in longitude, to set a winde: and betwecne that and June 3. 140 leagues in all, till we came into 42 degrees of North latitude, where in the nlsht fol lowing we found such alteration of heate, into extreame and nip ping cold, that our men in gen erall did grieuously complaine thereof the very roapes of our ship were stifle, and the raine which fell was an vnnatural congealed and frozen substance. . "It came to that extremity in sayling but 2 deg. further to the Northward in our corse, that though sea-men lack not good stomaches, yet It seemed a ques tion to many amongst vs, whether their hands should feed th e I r mouthes, or rather keep them- sclues within their couerts. . Our meate, as soone as it was remooued from the fire, would presently in a manner be frozen vp. . . .The lnnd in that part of Amcricu, bearing further out into tnc West tlian wee before imag ined, wee were neercr on It than wee were aware; and yet the nerer still wee came vnto it, the more extremitie of cold did cease vpon vs. "The 5 day of Iune, we were forced by contrary windes to runne in with the shoare, which vce then first descried, and to cast anchor in a bad bay, the best roade wee could for the pres ent nicete with, where wee were not without some danger by rea son of the many extreme gusts and flawes that bcato vpon vs. which It they ceased and were still at any time, immediately vpon their intermission there fol lowed most uil I. thickc, and stink ing fogRcs, against which -the sea preuailcd nothing, till the gusts of winde agalne r c m o u e d them, which brought with them such cx- tremtlle and violence when they came, that there was no dealing or resisting against them. 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The aid was sent by the Turkish Red Crescent (Red Cross) society. You ran get high quality Insur ance for less from Hans Norland, 637 Pine St. VALLEJO, Calif. 11 Leaves from a touring notebook: Just as a mature woman wisely overhauls her charms from time to time, the U.S. Navy Is en gaged In the continuous task of facelifting its ammunition, too. This is one of Its Jobs the public rarely hears about. But ammuni tion, like most things in this world, often becomes out-of-date or shows the wear-and-tear of age. Here in the Mare Island Ship yard, which next month celebrates the 100th anniversary of its found ing by Adm. David G. Farragut, a great depot overhauls the am munition of the long line of ships Hint come here to drydock. It is a strange kind of beauty parlor. The depot, two-thirds of a square mile In area, has 187 buildings, 20 miles of railroad tracks and 25 miles of paved roads. The work Is highly skilled and potentially dangerous. A single sta tic spark from a human body could cause a disastrous explosion. Some 8,000 tons of ammunition are stored In underground bunkers enough to make a baby A-bomb blast. To prevent the buildup of static electricity the technicians wear "leg Irons" that ground them at every step. Visitors check their matches and cigarette lighters at the gate. "In tlie last fiscal year the de pot produced 5,130 tons of new ammunition nnd overhauled 22,622 tons of unserviceable ammuni tion." said Lt. Cmdr. William F. Gadberry. When ammunition deteriorates so far that lt is too dangerous to be broken down and put to new uses. it Is taken to sea and dumped. Nice Job if you can got it, and enjoy ocean cruising. Bound to give a man something to worry about besides seasickness. Few things give a man more of a feeling of the erosion of money than a change In the prices of hair cuts and hotel rooms. Somewhere in my youth I got the idea that a quarter was the proper price for a haircut, and that an eternal law of nature ho tel rooms would rent for $2 a night forever. But today in some big Ameri can cities it costs $2-a-day-up to park your pet pooch in a dogetel. Tills week I got a haircut In San Francisco. The price was $1.50, and I don't have enough hair left to cause the barber to work up a sweat while mowing lt. Actually, he could have done the Job with a pair of fingernail clippers, ex cept barbers like to put drama in their work. ' - "Down in Los Angeles they are talking of putting the price up to $2," he said. Somehow that made me feel older than the loss of my first wldom tooth the thought that a 1954 haircut might rise to the price of a 1930 hotel room. Frank Tripp Whatever happened to the value of a quarter anyway? Will lt soon merely be a collector's item like the Buffalo nickel? You can still impress ,a bellhop with a two bit tip, but the Impression he gets is that you are a two-bit cheap skate. . , A panhandler stopped me here the other day and asked, "Brother can you spare quarter for a bowl of soup." I gave him the quarter. He took lt, fidgeted a moment, and said: "You know there's a penny tax too?" Two Killed By Manila Guard, MANILA, 11 Gun shots echoed through Malacanan government palace yesterday as a presidential guard ran amok, killing two fellow guards and wounding three others. Pfc. Bartoloine Estipular, 25, a former mental patient, shot his comrades with a Garand rifle in the presidential guard battalion barracks on the palace grounds. He then turned the weapon on him self, and was reported in critical condition at a hospital. President Ramon Magsaysay was not at the palace at the time of the shooting. There are people who leave their keys In their cars, who drape their minks on a park bench, who gam ble their lives on the highways, but there's no more negligent gam bler with fate than the housholder who doesn't own a fire extinguish er because he'3 insured. For sure, the proper Insurance will replace stolen property, a wrecked car or a burned home, but the only thing It can do for a maimed or charred lifeless body is bury it, "Oh, I'm insured" chuckle the confident who utterly disregard their own responsibility, even some times contrive to collect on losses. "Let it burn, let it crash, go ahead and steal It I'm insured" is stupid invitation to disaster, pos sible death. It is basically crim inal sophistry: a costly factor In determining the Insurance premi ums that everybody must pay. A recent experience with a little $15 fire extinguisher roused these thoughts. It confined a menacing blaze to a minor basement loss, just as it was eating through the floor right under a partition that would have sucked the fury to the attic and destroyed our lakeside home. In ten more minutes it would have been beyond saving. , Tossed water would not reach to where it had spread; it could not be smothered. The nearest firemen were five miles away. A quart of liquid in a little brass cylinder saved the place we love, perhaps a life we love. As I snatched the extinguisher from its bracket I suffered as near panic as I can remember. It had hung there for years, never used never Inspected, never refilled. I knew what its warning tag said about that. Was It empty, had It deteriorat ed, had it corroded, would it work? In those few seconds on the cel lar stairs I confessed my neglect, the anguish I would suffer when I viewed the smouldering ruins of our haven and retreat, and a neigh bor's too no doubt. There was more self-accusation when I had to guess at the instruc tions on the precious little gadget in my hand. I had never operated this fire extinguisher. It Is amaz ing how many things can flash WASHINGTON ( If a political campaign can be said to have an official opening. It will come to night when President Eisenhower talks to th nation on the Repub licans two years in power. All 435 House seats and 37 of the 96 Senate seats are at staka in November's congressional election. Control of Congress was at issue two years ago too when Elsenhow er swept into th White House while Republicans as a party bare ly edged through to a paper-thin majority in Senate and House. The campaign picture is differ' ent today. In 1952 Eisenhower was a war hero, untested in the presidency. His Republicans, asking control of Congress, could point more to promises than performance. They had run Congress only two out of the past 20 years. Now the Republicans have had two years to perform. Eisenhower can claim to have been a pretty good prophet on at least two counts, unless campaign talk takes an unexpected shift: 1. He predicted late In 1953, when he had been in office less than a year, that Communists in government would be a memory, and not an Issue, in the 1954 cam paign. Republicans had made it a main issue agaln.it the Democrats in 1952. 2. He predicted the big issue this year would be the program of his administration which he called "progressive" and "d y n a m 1 e." There will be other issues but this seems sure now to be No. 1. Eisenhowers optimism that Reds in government would not be a major campaign talking point this year was based on the argu ment that by then his administra tion would have pretty well cleaned them out. Whether the administration has or not, there has been very little talk about this subject In recent months, except by Sen. McCarthy. The Wisconsin Republican for months had banged away at the Army for not getting rid of sus pects faster. And he had talked of Investigating, but never did, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It was plain Eisenhower wouldn't let him investigate the CIA, the American superspy and counterspy outfit. As the elections through one's mine when only a moment stands, between him and; a crisis. Probably there are people, in fact I know there are, who would have welcomed this opportunity to leisurely phone the Dundee volun teer firemen, who, by the time they left their jobs and drove over the hills to reach us, were at best hall an hour away. But we didn't Insure our home to collect insurance on it, any inort than we did our children. Never theless I had time to accuse my self of negligence comparable to possessing no first aid kit to func tion until a doctor could come. All of these things passed through my mind before I pushed the plunger. The liquid spurted; the flames resisted, but the efficient little ex tinguisher won, with a mit of eon tent to spare. Fate had given me one more chance and here's what we are going to do about lt. We are going to have a fire extinguisher on every floor. They are going to have per iodic inspections and tests. There will always be refills in the house. Every adult in the household is going to learn to use the device without going through the mental hell that tortured me those taw minutes. No, brother, I do not sell fir extinguishers on the side. it i . J mm Prices reduced on aM sizes Top-value Atlas Tires are your best deal in miles and miles of economy and peace of mind'. Safe, long-lasting and dependable they are guaranteed in writing against all road hazards! See these first-quality Atlas Grip-Safe Tire values su trsdt-ia m uK price T0U t.00-16 S2O.C0 $15.45 $5.15 C70-1S 22.60 1C.K S.C5 7.10-15 25.05 18.10 (.25 7.C0-1S 27.40 20.55 (.S3 1.00-1$ 30.10 22.80 7.50 AS LOW AS with rt-toopohU tradin, tax not included Mm Rerister SU S.M-ll. (pfuj au ti frwfe-i'n) Budget terms as little at $1.16 per week you can buy sale-price Atlae I ires on your Chevron JNational Credit Card. See us today! We take better care of your car near, McCarthy has been talking of subversives in defense plants, not in government. As for the Republican program, Democratic leaders already have said they would make lt at least the farm-labor-tax-power-bus-lness policy part of It a No. 1 target in the campaign. ' Eisenhower himself, when he took over the presidency, some times gave the impression of a man who thought all he had to do, or perhaps should do, was suggest a program to Congress. After that it was up to Congress. But he learned that part of the presidency is fighting for a pro gram, either in public statements or in behind-the-scenes wire pull ig and head - to -head con versations. After two years in office he ap parently remains an immensely popular President. The voters in November will show how popular a Republican Congress is. In its first session the 83rd Con gress was no ball of fire. But Ei senhower had presented it with a very modest program. Being new in the job, he used that first year :n getting ready for the second one. This year he hit Congress with a truly extensive program, machine-gunning his proposals up to the Capitol in the early months of 1954. For a while it seemed this might be a truly do-nothing Con gress. It loped along. Its activity was eclipsed, and probably de layed, by the 36 days of Army McCarthy hearings. Once the hearings were out of the way Congress got down to law making and hit a fiery pace in Its last weeks. On Friday, a few hours before , Congress folded. White House . aides proclaimed proudly what had been done. Sixty-five bills, they said, had been requested by the President and only 11 had failed to. pass. That, of course, was speaking of lawmaking in quantity. Climber Dies In Washington PORT ANGELES, Wash. If, mountain climber trapped In a cre vasse by his own heroism was found dead late last night on tow ering Mt. .Olympus. -Doctors said Dr. Anthony Lew 30, a University of California rel search biochemist from Berkeley had been dead about nine hours before his body was reached. He had been trapped deep in a crevasse at the top of the 7,954-foot peak which stands - In the center of Olympic National Park. Twenty-three National Park Ser. vice employes fought their way up the mountain in an attempt to res cue him. Levy, . with four others, were climbing the mountain Saturday when one of the party, Dick Neal of Seattle, slipped into the crevasse breaking a leg in the fall. Levy volunteered to go down and help get Neal out. The efforts to rescue Neal were successful, but Levy, exhausted by his efforts, could not get out himself and at tempts by the other three to bring him to the surface failed. 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