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TUESDAY, AUGUST 24. 1954 PAGB EIGHT HERALD AND NEWS.- KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Husband, Wife Die In Crash CHARLESTON.. W. Va. Wl A husband and his young wife, oir their way to a hospital where she was to give birth to a child, were trapped in the wreckage of their pickup truck yesterday and burned to death. State Trooper R. L. Casey said the truck collided with another pickup, turned over and caught fire. The dead were Harold Legg. 35. and his 23-year-old wife, of Zela. Casey said the driver of the. other pickup, George Keeney of Witcher, had been charged with negligent homicide. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo a FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Catered as aecond .class matter at the post office at Klamath Kalis, Ore., cn 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 t (11 local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION KATES MAIL BY CARRIER 1 Month ..I 1.35 -S 6.50 .411.00 1 Month 1.35 Months 8.10 1 Year 816.J0 ( Mentha 1 Tear BILLBOARD RcTTS j STOP pLC TWEMTy I G-23-.W I LIGHTS SHE A,( eectaE BINGO CARDS V 1 CAM'T SEE f to watch tme AT ONCE y" IFTHEy, U road AND look r ' ' i i ' I 1 I Ci I" J m mm m By BILL JENKINS Just back from the Modoc Tribe Ride, full of health, dirt, bruises and high spirits. In fact, If there wasn't such a thing as earning a living I'd like to take off again and do It all over again As It is, 11 I can do is leel thankful that Oop Schloss and the gang down there were nice enough to invite me along. That Is country, man, real coun try. And lots of it. Any way you look. Some of 24 men took advan tage of the four day trip this year, leaving the Peppcrdine ranch on Thursday, riding up through the mountains, down through the Owl Creek canyon, up and over the rim above Pine Creek Bnsin and down into Mill Creek to the per manent camp. Wild and rugged country, the kind an outdoorsman really looks forward to getting into. The kind that takes a good horse to cover. a good man to keep up with and furnishes the finest deer cover In the world. On this particular trip we saw more deer than I would even at tempt to count. Even If I had you wouldn't believe me when I told you. I'll only say this much: where you ordinarlily see a deer or may be two or three, over In that country they run in bands of from 10 or 12 on up. And some of those old bucks, particularly the ones over In the game reserve side, are packing a rack that makes them tilt their heads when they run be tween a couple of trees. I know it is bad taste to tell other people about the good times you have had when they had to stay home and work in a stuffy office, but this one was of such caliber that I'll probably be talk ing about It for weeks to come. Briefly, the history of the thing roes back to a time some 12 years ago when a bunch of men got to gether and thought It would be fun to get oft In the hills for a while. CAUGHT IN By DEB ADDISON RETAIL MEMO: "The months ahead promise a great deal to retailers. From all evidence available to us now, there Is every reason to expect the rest of the year to be good. It Is also clear that it will take merchan dising enterprise and promotional Imagination to get sales. More than that, we will have to operate with (11 our skills as storekeepers to realize adequate earnings from the aales we do get." That was H. M. McBain, chair man of the board of Marshall Field and Co., as quoted In "Wom en's Wear Dally." Freedom, Freshness, Good Style Sense. These are the keys to the why and how of promoting home furnishings for the fall season. In a comprehensive analysis of the trade, "Retailing Daily'" suggests these are the trends to watch. Furniture: Freedom, a word lit tle associated with homefumlsh lngs. Is today one of the greatest assets of furniture design. An In. dication of the freedom offered the homemaker Is evident in the ver satility of case designs and uphol stered pieces to meet the needs of different kinds and sizes of homes. Operating profits of new car and truck dealers showed a substantial gain In the quarter ended June 30. But the National Automobile Deal ers Association warned that prolit margins remained well below the levels of 1953. and were still at dangerously low levels, according to the "Journal of Commerce." The headway dealers have made In recent months In reducing in ventories, coupled with Improve ment In consumer demand lor cars, was responsible for the up turn in dealer prolit margins dur ing the second quarter. NADA an nounced Hint during the llrst six months of 1054 dealers throughout the country re alized an average operating prof it of l.B percent of sales bclore tax es, compared with 4.4 percent rea lised in the first six months of lsisj. Afunny recession, this, Taking . A "Maaai ia111 llmilnf Alturas and the country around It being natural horse country, they naturally decided to make it a horseback trip. Since then the trip has grown into a well organised trek, fun for all, and through some of the grandest country this side of heaven. One point that came up around the camp lire on Mill Creek, where you can catch fish prac tl c a 1 1 y In camp and the deer browse on the hillside right above you every morning, was that of keeping a lot more area in its na tural state. While it Is a Utopian dream it was pretty generally agreed that It would be a wonderful thing if most of the national forests were turned into primitive areas. A primitive area, in case you are not aware of it, is an area set aside by the federal government. for the exclusive use of those who love the outdoors. No motor vehicles are nllowed. nor can you fly Into tlie lakes and fish them. You either ride a horse or you ride shank's mare. Of course there are a lot of drawbacks to applying this sort of a rule to all national forests. You must have a certain number of fire toads for the protection of the area, and some roads are neces sary to the stock Industry. Even though it is a primitive area it should be left open to at least, lim ited stock grazing. U helps the area, tends to keep the brush down and thus lessen the fire hazard and, where there Is ample grass and cattle are not browsing, it doesn't hurt the deer feed or other wild life It is a thought at least, and one that we would do well to keep In mind. As time is growing short and the shop wants this I'll shut down for the day. More tomorrow. If the pictures turn out we'll have a few of those, too. THE ROUNDS a look at the state "Sales Management' of business. has put to- gether a series of observations and finds the following: Consumer spending for goods alone Is olf about 2 per cent, says Prentice Hall. Inc. Hard goods are off 7 to 8 per cent but these declines have been more than off set by a six per cent rise in spend ing ior services. The F. W. Ddoge Corp. an nounced its first half total of con tract awards (construction) was 17 per cent ahead of '53 an all time high for a first half. Sales of home laundry appliances will be up around 25 per cent. Delinquencies on Installment debt are declining; mortgage fore closures continue far below the pre war norm. For Uie first time in any "re- cession" period total national ad vertising volume increased. A widely predicted recession fiz zled out, "In my own home more than 40 years of experience in the retail Jewelry business, I have used all lorms of advertising. I have checked my experience with all of them and out of thnt check - up I have arrived at a policy that calls for the expenditure of 95 per cent of my advertising appropriation in newspaper space. Newspaper space has brought me more results than those ob tained from all other media com bined. Knowing this and know ing the competition we retail ipw. elers are going to face this venr for the Christinas gift business from other promotional minded industries. I am definitely Planning to double my 1D53 Christmas adver tising appropriation in ncwsDarjer space in 1954." mat was I. M. Chaykvn. presl dent of Armstrong Jewlers. Inc.. of Hammond. Indiana, as reported in "tailor & Publisher." COST OP LIVINO MEMO: The Dun i Bradstreet Daily 'Wholesale Commodity Price Index of 30 basic commodities was 274.34 . Vine. Canned Shrimp f Already cooked W Ready Is Eat W Na Heads . No Tailt V 100 Shrimp Mtot ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McCLEOD Some students of history have criticized the Francis Fletcher narrative regarding the discovery of the Klamath Coast In 1579, their chief point for casting suspicion upon the narrative is Fletcher's story of extreme cold for he can not say enough about "the extrenv Ity of the coald." To one extent there is exaggeration, but it is only a natural one that you can listen to today in the contemporary ac counts of outlanders who visit our California coast. Particularly Is this notloed on any trip to San Francisco, the native San Francis can going about In shlrt-sleeyes while his cousin from the hot In terior valley shivers in his best winter top-coat. Historians have failed to consid er the human reactions involved In Fletcher's narrative in their in- slstance of "fact" as regard to June temperatures at latitude 42. While the temperature may not have been excessively low for June on our coast In 1579 it must be remembered that the people of "The Golden Hind" had spent long months In the warm waters of the- tropics; and then to suddenly pass the "cold wall," to cross from the warm current from the Japan Sea Into the cold current flowing along the California coast, was, to these men accustomed to the warmth of the tropics, like opening the door of a rclrlgerator. The fog. and fear of being driven aground by the storm in an unknown land likewise, did not add much to their conrort. One can readily under stand how the cold felt to the people of "The Golden Hind'" and how they bitterly complained at the sudden change. It's an old. old story to the people who live upon our coast. Fletcher, like many another writer was not adverse to mak ing life appear a little more rua- gea wan it actually was. The point brought up by Fletcher narrative is the question whether Drake made two landings, the first near 42 degrees, the second at Drakes Bay at 38. Fletcher's account of the anchorage from the storm reads much like the bay at Cres cent City, obviously it was not Drake's Bay as Fletcher wrltes:v "In this place was no abiding for. vs; and to go further North, the extremity of ine coald . . . would not permit 'V3, hauing once gotten vs under sayle agalne. commanded vs to the South-ward whether wee would or no. From the height of 48 degrees in which wee were, to 38 degrees, we found the land, by coasting alongst It, to bee but low and reasonable plaliic: euery hill (whereof we saw many, but none verle high), though It were June and the sunne in his necrest approach vnto them, being cotiered with snow Wee conjecture, that either there is no passage at all through these Northerne coasts, (which is most likely) or If there be. that yet it is vnnaulgable. Adde. hereunto, that though wee searcher! the coast diligently, euen vnto the 48 degree, yet found wee not the land to trend so much as one point on August 19 against 274.94 a week earlier. The Weekly Wholesale Food Price Index, representing the total of the price per pound of 31 foods in general use, fell 3 cents last week to $7.07. That was 8.0 per cent above the corresponding level of last year. RECIPE - Just chill a can of these plump, tender and ready-to-eat canned shrimp place portions on crisp lettuce and serve with cock tail sauce. Shrimp appetizers are -fast and easy to serve, refreshing j economical too! f Te gal thai frh-from-lhe-a flavor intra! ea these lop quality BLUE PLATE In any place towards the East, but rather running on continually North-west, as if it went directly to meet with Asia." England took no steps to profit by Drake's discovery, had such a move been taken It would have re sulted in an answer to the ques tion what territorial rights, if any, do the discoveries of a pri vateer, or corsair, confer upon his nation? Since England failed to push any claim then did Ferrelo's claim to have extended the limits of Spanish exploration to 43 or 44 degrees, give Spain for the next two centuries or more the same territorial rights as if he had act ually set foot upon the land if so, then the Klamath Country would nave been claimed by Spain two hundred and fifty years before the coming of the Russians. Brit ish and Americans. A third voyage that has been at tributed to have brought Francis co de Gall was returning to Mex ico from the Philippine Islands and was supposed to have ven tured far to the north and had reached the latitude 57 degrees, 30 minutes. This claim of having been so far to the north appears to have no other foundation than a blunder on the part of a trans lator, Oali crossed the Pacific In 1584 and sighted the California coast in latitude 37 degrees, 30 minutes. Gali's narrative exists only In a Dutch translation made by Linschoten In 1596, since this narrative appeared it has often been reprinted and retranslated. In one of these many repeated ac counts a French translator changed the locality to 57 degrees and 30 minutes and the course of sailing to correspond. The early historian Navarrete. a Spaniard who did considerable writing around 1800. copied this error from the French translation which has caused others to do so who have relied upon Navarrete's authority. une wonoers now history might have been changed had Drake sailed but thirty miles farther south for then he would have found the bay of San Francisco. Poet's Corner ONE MORE WEEK POETRY By Orpha Collins There's "apple" week and "sew. Ing" week And several more we could be speak. Perhaps, one more that we should add. Is Just a "week-kneed week,' my lad. Indonesia Signs Red Trade Pact JAKARTA. Indonesia t.ti The Indonesian government announced today that it is about to sign a S16.800.000 trade pact with the Chinese Communists. The announcement said Indo nesia would supply China with $8,400,000 worth of copra, sugar. coffee and spices in return lor farm tools, textiles, chemicals, fruit and vegetable oil. Datcwocd is fresh, because it's made on order and rushed to vour store. Dalewood is foil-wrapped to preserve oil its delicate flavor. and yet this fine margarine costs less at SAFEWAY Telling The Editor THANKS Tlie members of the 20-30 Club of Klamath Falls wish to take this opportunity in thanking the Herald and News and its staff for the excellent work which was done for us in putting over the 2nd annual Western States Square Dance Jamboree which was held on the 7th of August. The cooperation and assistance which you gave us is to be com mended. I personally want to thank the staff of the round table who gave us many exceptional and added write-ups and pictures which, I assure you, was needed by us. The efforts put forth by you was really appreciated and we give you, one and all, our heartiest thanks. Sincerely, Graydon. Gwyn ROAD WORK Enclosed is a copy of a letter ws have mailed to the County Court, we will appreciate it very much if you will print the letter in your Letters-to-the-Edltor col umn: Gentlemen of the court: Some time ago the members of the Midland Grange circulated pe titions in this area, to be pre sented to the court, asking for Ihe surfacing of Midland and Old Midland Roads. While the oil is still fresh, we would like to thank you for granting this work. The improvement Is greatly ap predated bv those living out here and by those others who have cause to use these roads. All of Klamath County may well be proud of the exceptional roads constructed here. We Just wish to add our thanks to the many others you must have received. Verland Huff, Master, . Midland Grange No. 781 IGNORANT J I see by Tuesday's paper that J. P., Unman is one of the many who find it hard to understand some of your editorial comments. May I give you the statement of a man who is In a position to know and understand newspaper men and which may be of help to us in understanding our local situation? Robert L. Riggs, chief of the Washington Bureau of the Louis ville, Kentucky Courier-Journal said in an address at the Missouri University School of Journalism, "After a quarter century as a working newspaperman,. I don't have too many illusions about our oiaft. We have in our ranks more stupidity, more hypocrisy, more downright venality and ignorance than can be found in any other calling." Melvin Ostrom 1924 Laurel St. Dalewood is easy to spread, (even at "icebox temperatures"!) I JACK M. CHESEBRO, Portland, executive secretary of the Oregon Chapter of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, hera for a meeting Friday night, August 20, with the local committee, was met at the train by' Martha McCollum, com mittee chairman. The arthritis foundation benefits through the United Fund. The meeting was held at the Backes and Daggett Insurance Agency office. Present were Chesebro, Mrs. Mc Collum, Dr. William G, Holford Jr., member of the board of governors of the Oregon chapter and regional vice president, Mrs. Lois Serruys, Mrs. A. Ivan. Thompson, Mrs. Dena Backet, Gertrude Tolle, Arthur M. Millard, Ed Bell, A. M. Hattan, Klamath Falls, and Don Potter, Tulelalce. . - Council Hears Complaints Of Klamath Avenue Group A delegation from Klamath Ave nue, whose demands followed a1 series of complaint hearings, ran city council Into overtime Mon day night. The Klamath Avenue crowd, headed by A. H. (Red) Bussman, its main speaker, asked council consideration of the in creasing truck traffic on Klamath Avenue. Bussman told council the group was willing to accept 60 per cent of the rapidly increasing truck travel through the city, but ob jected to the present 100 per cent. He urged the city to sign the orig inal agreement with the state high way commission which called for one - way traffic on Sixth and Seventh Streets, Main and Klam ath Avenue. At present, council is awaiting a new contract from the state which is expected to call only for one - way traffic on Sixth and Seventh Streets. The change was made in a verbal agreement with the state at a dinner meeting here August u. Mayor Paul Landry oifered hope that, through a plan under study by the city now, a truck route might be provided piecemeal using gas tax money. He urged the Klamath Avenue delegation, which also included F. O. (Bed) Rey nolds, Hans Juckeland and Christ Blanas, to work with the city on a project at a time, starting with one way traffic only on Sixth and Seventh. Landry inferred that the bottleneck which will probably be caused by one - way traffic only on the two streets could be elim inated by establishing the same sort of traffic control on Main and Klamath. Another complaint was regis tered by the master plumbers and journeymen through a letter read at council. The letter, signed by Herb Waits Jr., business manager of the Plumbers and Steamfitters local union No. 191. and G. C. Motley, president of the Master Plumbers Association, asked mat a sanita tion committee be appointed to ex amine the cltv plumbing code and suggest revisions: investigate and aibltrate disputes between tne plumbing inspector, the plumbing Industry and the public. Waits, spokesman for the group.' objected, to city's demand that journeymen be licensed, "which," he contended, "we have been ad vised is illegal." Waits listed other criticisms, ONLY 25 PER POUND TO 1 "SI which Councilman Frank . T a r r moved be included In a written re port of plumbers' objections and reasons to be directed to council for future study. Another complaint, again on the truck line, came from Charles Heaton, Heaton Steel and Supply Co., who asked that steps be ta ken to prohibit overnight truck parking near his property on Spring Street which obstructs egress and ingress to his ware house. Council turned -the matter over to Its police committee for study and a report. Council also voted to accept the park and recreation boards' rec ommendation that final payment to Paddock Engineering Company for the swimming pool be withheld until all the deficiencies have been remedied. In a lighter vein, members con curred in the mayor's appoint ments of John Howard and Don Sloan to the planning commission. Howard, an architect, replaces Dr. J. C, Cox whose term expired' Sloan, local realtor, fills the va cancy caused by the resignation of R. E. Hooker. ' EVEREST & JENNINGS WHUL CHAIRS fid WALKERS for fh Handicapped Sturdily constructed and easily controlled. Everest & Jennings Folding Wheel Chairs and Walkers inspire complete confidence in the user. Two of many fine Everett It Jen nings aids for the hsndicapped. AuMwrlaed Deafer CURRIN'S-for drugs 9th ond Main Ph. 2-3475 , Rentals and Sales HEADQUARTERS FOR STEEL Bars, Sheets, Plates, Structural WIRE and WIRE PRODUCTS Woven wire fence, ornamental lawn fence, barbed wire, chain link fence, tuples, fence posts, (angles, tees, and L'-posts), aluminum stock gates and cattle guards.. STEEL PIPE and CULVERT All sizes of: Standard black pipe, galvanized pipe, welded steel pipe, well casing, galvanized corrugated metal cul vert, and all types of Arznco Irrigation gates. CONTRACTOR'S SUPPLIES - Snap tics, strap form lies, wedges, expansion Joint mater ial, tie wire, nails, reinforcing mesh, reinforcing steel ol Ml sizes. , . RENTAL EQUIPMENT Mobile crane, air compressors, jack hammers, pavement breakers, air tampers, dewatering pumps, generators. BUTLER STEEL BUILDINGS Of all types, and Butler steel grain bins 1000-bushcl, 1300-bushrl. 2200-bushel. and MOO-bushel bins in stock for immediate delivery. HEATON STEEL AND SUPPLY 428 Sprinq phone 2-3427 AL ULLMAII tells y$tt why yb art getting USS 494 USSl Th Eisenhower farm program i definitely calculated to bring lest and less income to farmers through lower parity price sup ports. But at the same time, prices of commodities to the con sumer are not going down. What this program is doing Is increasing the spread between what the farmer gets and the consumer pays. The speculators, the big processors and profiteers are getting the pay-off. One example of this is the ex perience of a friend of mine in the early spud market. Here in Eastern Oregon they were oiV fered $1.80 and less for their early spuds, while at the same time the Chicago wholesale mar ket was over $5. There is no ex cuse for this kind of spread in the market. Another example is the recent Increase in the price of bread while the farmer is receiving less for his wheat A farmer has less in the bread, the consumer pays more for it. The present program lets big processors and food speculators line their pockets, while the farmers have theirs turned in side out. Many of the special interests were looking forward to another heyday like they had in the 1 920'. Those people are not without influence in the present administration. . Turning farmers into peasants doesn't make prosperity. Let's save Eastern, Oregon's future vote Democratic in No vember. - -V . X It ten lai . lleir t A i$ KFJI lis
