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MONDAY. AUGUST 30, 1954 PAGET JDC ITKRALn AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Herald anfr FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered as second class matter at the post ollice at Klamath FallJ, Ore., on August 20, 1906, under act ot Congress, March 8, 1879 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press 1 entitled I all local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL BS CARRIER ' 1 Month 135 1 Month 1.35 6 Month ......-. 6.50 e Months -....... 8.10 1 year 111.00 1 Year 16.20 ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McCLEOD Historians give Juan Perez the honor of discovering the Northwest Coast even though he failed to reach latitude 80 degrees as he had been instructed by the vice roy nor did he land anywhere to take possession of the country for Spain. Perez discovered that white men had been there before him but found no foreign establish ments or proof of their non - ex istence. It is obvious that while men had been In the area before 1774 but, so far, their Identity has not been discovered, their national ity may have been Russian. To a great many historians Pe Tez's cruise Into the northern lat itudes was no more than a pleas ure trip such as would be Indulged In by some modern day yachts man. Francisco Antonio Maurclle, one of the famous Spanish histor ians, In 1701, writing In his "Com pendlo de Notlclas, Viage de 1773," criticizes most severely a com mander who was driven back by thirst when he might have easily carried water for six months; who complained of scurvy when only one man was lost; who could una no anchorage on a coast where many good ports existed; and who with his associates could write so many diaries with so little infor mation. The American historian, Robert Greenhow, writing in 1845 on "The Geography of Oregon and Califor nia," states: "The government of Spain, perhaps acted wisely in concealing the accounts of the ex pedition, which reflected little hon or on the courage or the science of It navigators." Oreenhow's re marks applied to the fact that the world first learned of Perez in 1802, (72 years after the voyage was made), when the trip was given a brief outline In Navar rete's "resume." The Spanish again In 1775 dis patched another exploring expedi tion to the north which added more Information to their knowl edge of the Klamath Coast. Bruno Heceta, lieutenant and acting cap tain, was the commander of this expedition and he chose the "San tiago" which had made the voyage In 1774 as his flag - ship. Juan Perez went as her "piloto." or sailing master, and second in command; Cristobal Revilla was hi3 mate; and the chaplains were the Franciscan padres Campa and Sierra, who became missionaries In California. The "Santiago" also carried a quantity of supplies for Monterey. The schooner "Sonora." also called the "Fellcldad," was selec ted as the consort, was under the command of lieutenant Juan Fran SAM DAWSON NEW YORK tm Debt, rather than savings, could call the turn on trade this fall. The swelling total of personal savings may be left untapped. But watch the curve of installment debt. When It takes a decided turn upward, credit men are say ing today, you'll know the con sumer Is back in the market even if only with a down payment after taking it slow and easy earlier this year. Right now most consumers seem to be maintaining fairly comfortable standards ot living, but with little plurglng. For most of the year they've been paying off old in stallment debt faster than they've been taking on new. Credit men figure many con sumers have caught up on pay ments now and aro ready to take on some more things they crave. Buying on time Is largely an American institution, Americans have no monopoly on running Into debt. But the willingness to pay Poet's Corner fun von kids vodtry By Orphs C ollins Some beat with thoughtless tat too. Some vhii,tlo, or act the "fool," The tops in their Idle employ ment Is spinning a lunch counter tool. ru.r.s BERLIN W A 22-ycar-old member of the West Berlin police riot squad drove into East Berlin Sunday with a police radio car and has not been heard from since. A headquarters spokesman said Monday the officer, Hermann Flex, apparently was deeply in debt, and there was no known po litical motive for his action. NOW AVAILABLE ... OFFICE SPACE In New East Main 14 Unit Medical-Dental Bldq. Com plete facilities, L a ej paved off-street parking. Contact W. E. BROOKS 415 0okSt. Mtdford, Ort. Ph. 2-9146 exclusively to the use for publication cisco de Bodega y Cuadra with Alferez Antonio Maurclle as "pi loto." Supplies for a year's cruise were taken, and the force of both vessels numbered one hundred and six men. The normal crew of the ship "Santiago" was eighty-eight which would leave eighteen for the schooner "Sonora." It is of interest to note the size of the schooner which was thirty-six feet loi.g, twelve feet wide, and eight feet deep. Heceta's instructions were the same as those for Perez the year before except that latitude 65 de grees was to be the goal instead of 60. The ships set sail from San Bias on March 16, 1774. The schooner being towed by the ship, unfavorable winds kept them from reaching the latitude of Monterey until the end of April and when they did far out to sea it was de cided by council not to land. They flnnlly drew near land on the Klamath Coast at 42 degrees on June 7th, and followed the coast southward until they discovered the port of Trinidad. The "Santiago" and "Sonora," left Trinidad on June 19 keeping together until the end of July. They found their northward course difficult because of unfavorable winds which carried them over a hundred leagues from the coast. Bodega and Maurelle on the "So nora" were In favor of sailing fur ther out so that they would be able to run far to the north when favorable winds came; but Heceta chose to follow the advice of Pe. rez. who stated the winds would come from the south and be fa vorable for progress along the coast. When the winds came, how ever, they were from the west and northwest, which drove them land ward sooner than they desired and coast and on the 11th sighted land In latitude 48 degrees 26 minutes. They supposed their position was near the northern point of Fuca strait which appears on the French map of the period drawn to the imaginative discoveries of Fuca who claimed to have sailed through the strait ot Annian In 1502. Heceta searched for the Imagi nary strait between 47 and 48 de grees and found it did not exist. their landfall was a few miles south of the strait that now bears Fuca's name. On July 14th, the ex. ploring party set foot upon land, erected a cross and took formal possession of the soil In the name of Spain. The place where the Spaniards anchored Is supposed to be at Point Grenville, Washington, on our modern maps in latitude 47 degrees 20 minutes. a little more tor the privilege of enjoying the use of something while you pay Is typically Ameri can. Why do people borrow to spend? Paul L. Selby, executive vice pres ident of the National Consumer. Finance Assn., says: "Most of us spend our money for such desir able things as speed, convenience and 'what we like.' ' We could do without some of these things and save the money, but we don't like waiting even if that means get ting it cheaper In the long run by paying cash." Members of the association, mostly engaged In the small per sonal loan business, lend about three billion dollars a year to some 10 million American families. The common belief is that they must make a great deal of money out ot other peoples' needs and de bircs, since their Interest charges set by law in 37 states vary from 2 to 3!i per cent per month. Selby will present a report next week at the association's annual convention in Snn Francisco on a survey of profits of the finance companies. It will hold that last yenr the median return on assets used hi the licensed consumer fi nance business was around 6 per cent. In 1939 the median return was s per cent, dropping below 5 per cent in 1943 coming above 7 per cent in 1947, only to slide again. The report gives a breakdown on the repayment dollar that is, the dollar a borrower pavs on his account. It reveals that' 85 cents of the borrower's dollar goes for repayment of principal. The other 15 cents go for interest, taxes, general operating expense and net profit. The three-bllllon-dollar business of small loan companies is only one seventh of the total of Install ment credit, now topping 21 billion. Auto buying makes up the lion s share. WI GIVE STAMPS ! AND MOVIE MONEY ! Take Your Choice! LEE HENDRICKS YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD DRUGGIST 2312 SOUTH TH ST. They'll Do It Every TwE MATRIMOWy MAHOR BROCHURE SOLD DESPf?A AhtD WAHHA OH SPENDING THEIR VACATION THERE" So TUEY SENT TMEIR DEPOSITS AND FINALLY a ... iw r . rn y THOSE TWO. -SEEN ANVBOCy GLOKIUUa I UNDER SIXTy- WEEKS" HVE MERE YET' V7 HAL NEW YORK UH Could there really be anything wrong with American girls? Whenever such doubts assailed me In the past, I have firmly re pressed them, feeling they must reflect a personal defect in my character that makes me unable to appreciate feminine perfection. After all, if a girl weren't perfect, wouldn't she be the first to ad mit it? Well, today I am full of new doubts. I just ran into a young bachelor who owns a yacht and still can't find the right . girl to make first mate. Sure, I'd like to get married," said David Haft. "Every bache lor says he is happy, but every bachelor knows it isn't true. I Just haven't been able to find a girl who would make the kind of wife J want." Of course, Dave isn't without faults. He Is an amateur sculp tor, he likes to quote poetry, and his yacht, after all, is only 40 feet long. And the girl of his choice might have to learn to enjoy wat er skiing. But these minor flaws are bal anced by certain .homely virtues. Dave, who spent 500 combat hours flying bombers in the Pacific the ater In World War H and Is not un handsome in an Air Force sort of way, now pilots bis own convert ible Cadillac. He has a luxurious East Side apartment staffed with a maid and butler, and ihe bui'.er can cook. He also is president of the House of Swansdown, a major cloak and suit firm, and in four years has built up its business from 4 mil lion to 12 million dollars a year. You'd think a guy like that would be the target of a new fem inine gold rush. Well, he is. That's the trouble. "Too many girls today simply want to use a man bs a stepping stone for a career they aren't in terested in a man for himself alone," said Dave. Glamor girls hold no particular appeal for him. as ne is surrounded in his work every day by from 16 to 30 bcauti lul clothes models. Full of the wisdom and cynicism of his 31 years, Haft has divided American girls into four classes. First, there Is the professional career type." he said. "They are usually actresses or models, and they have a tremendous ego prob lem. They are so dependent upon their physical charms they have to be constantly reassured they are as beautiful as em. And the praise of their husband Isn't enough. They have to get outside opinions irom other men. lrvpn though she Insists this is only a name, a is more man a man wants to put up with. men there are the business career girls. Thev use their home only to supplement their career. Tlicy may love a husband dearly, urn uiey are loo involved in their own problems to show the right kind of interest in him. me third tvDe i th iri do nothing. You find lots of them In all classes, single or married. ynvr cm During EMIL'S Bartlctt TUESDAY Pears 20-lb. lu'g : KP 12-ox. tin Lunch Meat Strictly Freth Ranch Eggs AA Large f doi. 0 m. BLUE BONNET 1 Margarine 3.ib,. shouidcro.,, Roof rom Young, Baby Beef DtCl graded beef Liver ; Roasts . ,t. irnnnn'C? super LCAVttlllL Time , NOWNE- VAND SOCIAL DIRECTORS- ' GET TWEVJ-2i-a. -fZ0 1He DECKER fiSHa nur vym i tK-e ai i - i ji Uia BOYLE They are lady leeches, trading on the art of being feminine. But thev tend to destroy any male who gets involved with them, because they oiler nothing in return not even stimulating conversation." And the fourth type? "She Is the real homemaker," said Dave. "She is basically In terested in getting a husband rath er than a glamor career. She is emotionally and physically adjust ed to being what she wants to be a real housewife. "But most girls like that can be found now only in the country or the small towns. Life in a big city is the iinhapplest preparation in the world for anybody who wants a peaceful marriage." I asked Dave why he didn't jump In his Cadillac and start touring the small towns looking for Cin derella. "It would take luck, too, to find her." he said. "So far, I guess. I've been pretty selfish myself putting my career first. That doesn't work eitner. A man, like a woman, has to put his home ahead ot his ca reer, if it comes to a final choice." Meanwhile. Dave is not without consolation while he waits for the right girl. He has a parrot. Odell Suicide Found In Car A woman identified as Madelin Brookfield. 40. of Eugene, was found dead from carbon monoxide gas in a parked automobile near Odell Lake Sunday. According to Sheriff Murray Britton and state police officers who investigated the case, the woman was a suicide victim. Two unidentified fisherman dis covered the body in the rear seat of the automobile parked on a side road. A piece of rubber hose had been extended from the exhaust pipe into the car. The body was taken to Eugene. I am not "foolln1 " when I say I can save "good risks" money on Fire and Auto Insurance, Hans Norland, 627 fine St. QUICKIES By Ken Reynolds "Onoop! It's a good thing that watch I got In the Herald St News Want Ads Is waterproof It Just went down the drain!" SURPRISE Golden Ripe Bananas Coffee GIANT Package TIDE C&H Pure Cane ClIAf-M JUUQI 10.b. baa 2) MARKET ,u' By Jimmy Hatlo The Doctor Says By EDWIN P .JORDAN, M.D. High blood pressure, sometimes called hypertension, may be con sidered as a symptom of any one of several different conditions. It is said to exist when the pressure of the blood against the arteries remains persistently higher than "normal." . . "Normal" Is not always easy to define because it is usual for the biood pressure to go up slightly as a person gets older. Recently, in fact, it has been suggested that in older persons the pressure is often higher than was previously be lieved to be normal and that many such people remain in good health and do not need special treatment. High blood pressure remains a real problem. In some cases the cause can be traced to the kidneys or some other organ and steps can be taken to attack the difficulty at its source. But in a large group of people the cause cannot be found and the condition is labeled as essen tial hypertension or high blood pressure of unknown cause. For this variety a vast number of treatments have been suggested including such scientifically dubi ous remedies as garlic, hawthorn berries, and plant extracts. In spite of the current lack of knowledge of the causes and treat ment of essential hypertension, progress is being made and some victims of the disorder are being successfully treated. And just as Important in the long run is the encouraging fact that more brains and more funds are .being devoted to research on high blopd pressure. This indeed Is the ' only meth od which will lead to better under standing of its causes and to the development of treatments which will benefit all of those who now have or may expect to develop hypertension. But even today there are several methods of attacking essential hy pertension. Some people have been benefited by diet. Of these the so called rice diets, mostly of the low salt content variety, have also proved valuable. The use of tissue extracts has proved useful for some: the pro duction of artificial fever for oth ers. Not to be ignored is surgery. The operation consists in culling some of the nerves lying near the spine. Certainly many have bene fited by this but it is an ordeal and less punishing methods must still be sought. With the conquest of so many of the Infectious diseases more people are living longer and hy nertension is one of the troubles faced in middle and did age rather than in youth. It is pernaps partly for this reason that one hears so much about high blood pressure now and that it has become so important to do more about it. VACATION ENDS SALEM. Ore. W) Secretary of Interior McKay, who for the past three weeks has been vacationing at Neskowln on the Oregon coast, left by plane yesterday for Wash ington. Prices Effective Tuesday Only 9th and PINE No phone calls. PLEASE lb. ViQyr I ? ' Wft 7 u7 Frank Tripp We first heard of Willie around Christmas. He was home for the holidays and would graduate in June. His father could park him In his own business, but Willie wanted to be a newspaperman. No wish had ever been denied Willie. His papa had an in with our publisher, who gave a hasty mid-winter promise that dumped Willie into Sime's lap come July. "Sime" was our nffecilonate name for our "beloved" city editor being short lor "Si.non Legree." Now, city editors are notoriously hard-boiled and 111 equipped to hu mor the likes of Willie. One of their headaches those days, and I guess yet, was getting assign ments covered during vacation time, which created summer jobs for promising cubs and some weird ones. Strangely, this newsroom hiatus early became known to fond par ents whose hopefuls write home from college "such perfectly mar velous letters thatt we just know that our boy is a born writer and destined to become an eminent Journalist." To this day any other approach would be a novelty. That was the extent of Willie's qualifi cations. When Willie came along it al ready had been discovered that newsroom help doesn't relhh "em inent journalists" as stablemates, also that "born writers' are likely to make lousy reporters. Regardless, Willie had enough backing so that after he had shot off his firecrackers he showed up after the Fourth to ease our sum mer worries. He brought a note to Sime which stated: "This is William Spelvin. of whom I spoke to you. His father is an old friend and big advertiser. William just finished college and excelled in English composition. I am sure you can make good use ot his ability and hope that he will stay with us permanently." Permanently Is a long time, Sime lamented, but so wrote the boss. Willie was in. At the moment Sime had noth ing against William Spelvin B.A. except his red and white striped blazer, hi3 tweed bicycle bloomers and the note. If William had arrived empty-handed Sime might have forgiven that he looked more like a barber pole than a reporter. As it was, Willie went to bat with two strikes on him. Sime sat him down in front of Ben Barker's battered old double key board Smith-Premier. He viewed the venerable typewriter with dis may and said he couldn't run it. Okay, he could use Tom Burns' Oliver; Tom was away loo. Where upon our genius revealed that he couldn't run any kind of type writer. But he did have a fountain pen, a sheepskin and a note from the boss. Willie hit a hectic first day, which turned out to be his onliest. Being shorthanded it seemed pro vidential that Willie was with us that Monday morning when the el evator dropped in his father's store. Diabolically, Sime made that his first assignment. He was gone long enough to cover the Johnstown flood and re turned with word that his papa forbade anything to be printed about the mishap, or he'd cancel his advertising so "where do I go next?" asked Willie. Willie was told where to go in Sime's best city desk cuss words. But he didn't go there; Instead he went back and told his pa that he was fired. In a few minutes the boss tailed. "Spelvin says that you fired his kid," he said. Ye frothing city edi tor explained, "I had to fire him to get his old man out of my hair." and told why. The boss blew his top. "You put a good man on that story and give it the works," he bellowed. "Spelvin can't run this newspaper." "But he's an old friend and a big advertiser," Sime twitted. "Don't be funny," roared the top brass. "Spelvin and his ad vertising can go plumb to ." mentioning the place that Sime had just recommended to Willie. Somehow we worried through the summer without the eminent journalist. 3 L M --- A JAMBOREE OF COMEDY DANCEABLE MUSIC SPECIAL and ORIGINAL NOVELTY NUMBERS r 1 1 a jk J I - I 1 r'-V CO ONE WEEK JAMES WASHINGTON MV-Many more thousands of housewives and their part-time domestic employes - !like maids, cooks, gardeners must start paying a social security tax on their employe's earnings in 1955. That's because Congress recent ly changed the social security law covering domestic employes to bung more of them under the pro tection of the social security sys tem. The change goes Into effect next Jan.l. This is what it means, keeping in mind that the first cal endar quarter Is January through March. If after Jan. 1 a domestic em ploye earns as much as 50 from one employer in a three-month quarter, fhen both the employer and the employe must each pay a tax of 2 per cent total of 4 per cent on the employe's earnings. In one quarter a domestic em ploye may not earn as much as $50 from one employer; in another quarter she may earn that much or more. The tax has to be paid lor each quarter but only that quarter in which 50 or more is earned. And if a domestic employe say a one-day-a-week maid works for several different house wives and earns as much as $50 from each of thein in a quarter, then in each case where that much money was earned the Individual housewife and the maid must pay the tax on what the maid earned from that housewife. Under the present law changed, beginning Jan. 1 neither a housewite nor her maid had to pay a social security tax unless the maid worked for her at least 24 days in a quarter and earned at least $50 in that period. Under the new law the number of days worked by any domestic employe for any housewife will make no difference. The only test on whether tax has to be paid is wnether the domestic earned $50 or more from the housewife. For ex ample; Mary Jones, who works as a maid one day a week for several housewives for $7 a day, misses some days because they don't need her or because she's ill. But say she worked for Mrs, Smith, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Adams in 1955's first quarter. She earned more than $50 from each of them in that three-month period except Mrs. Adams, who didn't need her often. Mrs. Adams paid her $49. Then Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Kelly must all pay a 2 per cent tax on Mary's earnings from them. And In each case Mary must match that, by paying a 2 per cent tax also. On the $49 earned from Mrs. Adams neither Mrs. Adams nor Mary has to pay a tax. In every case it is the housewife, not the maid, who must actually send in the tax money. The maid can give the housewife her share or the housewife can deduct the maid's share out of the maid's pay. The housewife can pay the maid's share as well as her own, if she wants to. The payment must be given the government before the end of the month following the calendar quar ter in which $50 or more was earned. For Instance, the tax on the earnings of a domestic em ploye In the first quarter of 1955 must be paid before the end of April 1955. The domestic employe the maid in this case must have a social security account number under the program. If she doesn't have it, .she must get it. She can go about getting it this way: Ask the local post office for Ap plication Form SS-5. This is filled out and sent to the nearest social security field office. There are S12 of these offices. In making the tax payment, the housewife will need Form 942. She can get this by writing to the dis trict collector of internal revenue, with the explanation that she now has a domestic employe wrho qual ifies for social security coverage. For the guidance of housewives and domestic employes the govern ment Is preparing booklets of infor mation . and Instruction. They WALLY MILFORD TRIO (Jm Harvey Culbertson Jr. Peggy Spencer J Wally Milford J LAFFS-BEAUTY-THRILLS-GLAMOUR What the Critics say RADIO LIFE: "SENSATIONAL TALENT UNLIMITED." VARIETY: "A Smash Hit With Any Type of Audience!" SOCK! HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: ' "Something New Under The Sun!" TELE-VIEWS MAGAZINE: "GREAT FOR T-V"! - - STARTING CALL 4161 FOR RESERVATIONS MARLOW should be ready before the first of the year. ,, Domestic employes who now go under social security coverage will, ,t .h.... u-m-v ions- enough in se- curityovered jobs, be entitled to old age insurance after age 65. rm.dfa im fll.cn other benefits In case a covered domestic employe dies before reacning to. ror ex ample, a lump sum death payment th., cnmiKe nf the deceased dom estic employe, ranging from a min imum of $90 to J2do. Ana mere are payments to a deceased dom estic employe's children under 18. Benefits In each case will de fend nn time worked under social security coverage and money earned. Vet's Mailbag On the second anniversary of en actment of the Korea GI Bill, a law which provided education and training for more than two-thirds of a million post-Korea veterans, the President sirned into law an extension to deadline provisions of the law. Veterans now have three years from the date of their discharge to start training. Particularly ben efitted are a majority of veterans discharged before August 20, 1952. who faced loss of entitlement if they hadn't started training before August 20, 1954. This new law gives them another year from the date of their separation to start training. The new law also adds another year to the wind-up of the Korean GI Bill training program. Train ing must now come to an end within eight years from the date of the veteran's separation or4 eight years from the end of the present emergency period, which ever comes first. It previously was seven years. Another section of the law bene fits some disabled veterans who have not been able to begin or complete training under public law 16. It provides a special voca tional training program for dis abled by giving a four-year ex tension on the deadline for com pleting training. The nation's population of post Korea veterans now numbers close to 3.000.000. One out of every five has had Korea GI Bill training at some time or other during the two years the law has been in effect. In contrast, half of all the vet erans of World War II trained under the original GI Bill. VA said that in the long run it expects the newer Korea GI training program to match this proportion. The two-year-old Korea GI BUI thus far Teached its peak In April, 1954. when veterans' enrollments totaled 355,000, but this record may be exceeded by forthcoming fall enrollments, VA said. QUESTION OF THE WEEK Q. I am enrolled in ft two-year business course under the Korean GI Bill. I understand I am en titled to 30 days' absences a year. If I don't use up all my absrmces the first year, can I carry over the rest to use in the second year? A. No. Unused absences may not be carried over from one year to the next. During your second year you still will be allowed no more than 30 days' absences regardless of how many days you used up your first year. U.S. Air Force Plans Show DAYTON, Ohio. The Air Force is promising the "largest and most complete" display of Air Force equipment ever presented when the National Aircraft Show opens here Sept. 4. On view will be "the latest" ex perimental craft as well as guided missiles and jet fighters, the Air Force said. HOT LUNCHES 65c Bunny's FOUNTAIN LUNCH 530 Main AT THE HOTEL MONDAY
