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PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1954 FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered as second elm matter at the post office at Klamath FallJ, Ore., on August 30, 1004, under act of Congress, March I, 1179 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Aaaoclated Press la entitled exclusively to the use lor publication Of all local news printed In this newspaper aa well as all AP newt, SUBSCRIPTION HATES MAIL BY CARRIER 1 Month 13S 1 Month 11.31 Mentha , .M Months 1 8.10 ' , X Tear "" 1 Tear MM CAUGHT IN THE ROUNDS By DEB ADDISON (TMs all happened about a year ago, but It could be rehashed head of time so Addison could celebrate National Newspaper wrek on the far away rim rocks.) What happens when there are no newspapers? This la National Newspaper Week and a good time to think about just that. To really find out you'd have to visit a country where newspapers are either non-existent or cen sored. But most of these nation? by a noUso-strange coincidence, are also run by dictators who would probably refuse to let you in. There's an easier way. Talk to someone from New York City, - which was "blacked out" by newspaper strike about a year ago. Television's Dorothy Kllgallen summed It up pretty well: "Nothing could quite take the place of the newspaper, nothing could do all the thlnga the rou tine things, the odd things, the amusing things that the news paper does in Ita many different ways for Its readers. While one woman said, 'Even If the news Is bad, I guess I want to know it, another a girl at a clgare'.l counter aald, 'Wouldn't you hate to get married now? you can't even get your name in the paper, and I don't know how else I'll ever do it. I' " The strike lasted only 11 days, not long enough for unscrupulous politicians to take advantage ol public Ignorance; Since it was peacetime there was no enemy to stir up panic through uncontrol lable rumor and falsehood; there was no forthcoming election to per haps go the wrong way because there were no newspapers to cov er the political activity. But Just the same, 11 days was long enough to make everyone . mighty uncomfortable. Unhappieat of all, perhaps, were trie merchants caugni wun no newspsper ads to bring cus tomers to their stores. One mer Christmas sales "ready to go" and chant pdl it quit neatly: "II can't advertise, I'm dead." Men without work learned bow much the "help wanted" ads could mean. Bevo Francis, the sensational basketball player. found himself playing before i surprisingly small crowd In Madl. son Square Garden in his New York debut no newspaper stor. les ahead of time. Radio and TV, without newspaper "logs," depend' ed on hunt-and-fish audiences. One newspaper reported many husbands and wives, with no pa pers to read, getting Into fights out of sheer boredom. And so on down the line. Nearly everyone In the vast metropolis discovered things he had forgotten about how much the newspaper meant to him. The entire city be gan to feel as If the carrier boy had thrown the paper on top the roof and at the neighbor's too, so there was none to borrow. Radio and television did their best to "fill in" for the absent newspapers. But news-hungry lis. teners found themselves, getting just the highlights of a few big stories over and over, when they wanted all the details Time was the big bugaboo. Radio and TV couldn't reach all listeners at once, and had to keep repeating themselves for those who Just tuned in. ' Too, a 15-mlnute nowscast was woefully short. One analysis showed It would take an announ cer nearly five hours to rekd all the news from one dully newspa per. Only In the newspaper can the reader do his own selecting of what interests him and what doesn't. TELLING THE EDITOR WHY IS A COLUMNIST? My attention has been called to the Jenkins column In your Sunday edition for October 3., In which the writer tells of the parakeet - spar row incident at Mt. Cloud, Minn atils la to report that you have a ' similar Incident much nearer home. Por two-three weeks during September, an escaped white par akeet (perhaps an albino?) asso. elated with a flock of sparrows In the backyard of Mrs. Freda Piatt's home at 472 Morgan St. In Ash land, Oregon, coming In several times dally to feed on chick scratch. Sparrows are noted for this friendly acceptance of other species. The parakeet was right at home with them and adopted the ways and habits of his wild friends. (Details on request.) Aa for the Jenkins comparison of this Incident with the robins -cherries, wild canaries grapes t-plsode in his neighborhood, one cannot help comment that it re V e a 1 a the amazing stupidity of most writers (and most other peo ple aa well) when It comes to in terpreting natural phenomena. Someone should tell Mr. J. the el ementary facta of life. Even a schoolboy should know that were It not for robins and wild canaries (he probably means gold finches?) and all the other birds, which main tain a year-round attack on insect life, he and his neighbors might be . unable to raise any kind of crop; that In this constant search for In sects, the birds do far more good to plant life than all your sprays and such; and that the birds more than earn their way In life, and such ml n o r rewards as a few grapes and cherries. Birds take their food where they find it, so When you spread It out for them why condemn them for accepting the Invitation? If Mr. J will aend his address, I shall be glad to apprise him how people who know about these thing welcome birds to their premises: people who are Intelligent enough also wangle protective devices lor their fruits and whatnot. And the poor dumb guy doesn't even realise that such crap as he writes is a direct Invitation to fur ther persecution and wanton de struction of wlldllle. Are we not affiliated with enough adolescent air . rlfflng, .22 rilling, shotgun nlng, target shooting nitwits and morons around this district with out such careless encouragement? As an ecologlst, I might suggest to Mr. J that he make a study of Die inter-relations between plants and animals and their environ. ments, except that it might be above his mental copsclty7 Alter all, why Is a columnist? A useless species Interested only in fill ing a certain amount of space, let the chips fall where they may. But when It comes to the ques tion of which are of more value to the world and to society the columnist and his kind or the birds which he condemns the answer is quite simple. I'll taxe the birds Jim I-uller, Ashland, Oregon THANKS KLAMATH FALLS We would like to publicly thank the people who helped so faithfully the night our house burned. If we hadn't had that help, we would not have saved as much as we did. Would also like to thank Car- Ad-Co Company personnel and employes for helping move and store the furniture, also the Trini ty Baptist Mission for the kitchen shower and Adair's Furniture and ihe Big Y Market and the Red Cross, also the many Individuals who have helped In so many ways to start us over again. Again a million thanks. Mr, and Mrs. J. J. Blanton and boys 2820 Berkeley Street REFUGE I have to report that I have seen doer tracks between my house and Bill's Tavern here in the north western part of town. Deer are coming in to town for self-protection, I guess. Frank Force .. . 3110 Ohio Street They'll Do It Every Time -- By Jimmy Hatlo QpjMQVJMA SHUDDERS AT AND Abhors the euMo-fcUNa movies . CNlTELEVlSIOM"" So WAAT DOES SUE BLOW MER LID FOR? TWO RASSLERS MAIMING BACH OTHER, No LESS fWtSTW!BAH'J Ww'S-TUEvI fJKLVM.4reAUN GIVE HIM T OUNSAD&WnMfil!. M'iJrfmR J TWE GUILLOTINE HOLD.' WATCH WCMLIZEOllWCLU J &J f BjCK-SUAPPER I! COSE:tJr , iVTUfrMiT J lillDT HIM IH THOJJ WOW 1 HAL BOYLE NEW YORK 1 Is Manhattan the dirtiest and noisiest metropol itan area In the world? If It Is, you can't blame the natives. It's the outsiders who are giving us a bad name. Let's look at the record: Last year author Edna Ferber and Mrs. Wendell Wllkle agreed New York City was tha dirtiest city in the world, and Miss Fer ber even described it as "a scab on the face of our country." This week Herbert Morrison, former British foreign secretary, told our mayor that New York City was "probably the noisiest city In the world." He complained particularly about the horn-tooting outside his hotel on Fifth Avenue, and remarked that Paris had curbed Its taxi horns, so had Lon don, and implied we might do well to ioiiow suit, -All these critics, while directing their barbs at New York City, actually were commenting on the situation on the island of Man hattan, which la the smallest of New York's five boroughs. Admittedly, Manhattan Is Often noisy and sometimes gets pretty dirty. But why? My: theory Is that It is largely the work of visitors who come here and fall to treat Manhattan with the same consideration they show their own communities. Isn't It human for a guy to blow off more steam away from his own home than in it? Manhattan has about two mil lion residents. But each work day some three to four million other people come here to earn a liv ing, attend a convention, or go on a spree. It Is a known fact that the two million residential Manhattanltes arc peaceful, culture-loving, law abiding citizens who spend most of their spare lime going to art galleries or tramping on bird watching Jaunts through Central Park. But how can they keep their 300-year-old community neat and cleun when three or four million savage suburbanites and hinter land barbarians swarm into town every day, littering the streets But we make a game try. Some 4,500.000 tons of refuse are picked up each year (in the entire city) by the department of sanitation's H,000 eager beaver collectors at" a cost of 68 million dollars. Or white wings are convinced some people drive Into the city Just to throw their garbage on the streets. Now about all that noise. What causes it? It stands to reason that when it comes to daytime noise our subdued, orderly two million residents can t equal in volume the sounds created by thoc three or four million outlundcr.i. As a matter of fact mpst of our local people just like to tbnd around and listen to the odd sounds the visitors make in their quest of fun. . We do plead guiliy to quite a bit of industrial cacophonoy. Man hattan is a city that has never quit growing. It can't spread out, so it climbs toward the :sun. You have to make .a lot of noise when you tear down the buildings of the past and erect steel and stone business temples of the fu ture. But this is again done to please the outlanders. Most of the towering new office buildings and air-conditioned apartment houses will be Inhabited by folks who never drew their first breath in Manhattan. Many say they don't like to live here but where else can they earn so much lovely money? Most of the night clamor of Manhattan Is caused by our vis itors, too, particularly: 1, The well-lit out-ol-towncr who dtops into a quiet bor and niv nounces, "I can whip everybody In the place." 2. The anguished roars from the butter-and-egg man from Mary land who picks up a night club check and finds he can't paint the town red with a $5 bill. For 10 years I lived In Green wich Village, which tourists still think of as a wild Bohemian area. and found it one of the quietest and most restful places on earth. Manhattan is full of these oases of quiet, and you can find them anywhere except amid the glitter zones where the out-of-towners and pavements with chewing gum wome to try to revive the smoke- cigar butts, cigarette stubs and torn bus transfers? anri-gin din of the 1920's. Maybe what Manhattan needs Vet's Mailbag Builders who desire to sell a house on a CI loan now art re quired to give veteran - purchasers a one-year warranty that their homes have been constructed In "substantial conformity" with Vet e r a n s Administration approved plans and specifications. The one-year warranty is re quired on all houses on which VA issued a certificate of reasonable value on or after October 1, 1934, and Is made mandatory under the Housing Act of 1954, adopted by the 33rd Congress. This law stip ulates that an new housing pur chased with the aid of VA or Fed eral Housing Administration guar anteed or insured loans must car ry the warranty. The warranty does not apply to existing homes which have been occupied for more than a year. Builders or sellers of new hous ing will be required to give each veteran-purchaser a warranty, and a copy of the warranty on which the veteran has acknowledged re ceipt, must be forwarded to VA by the lender before VA will guar antee or Insure the loan. Notice of any "substantial non conformance with plans and spe cifications" must be given by the purchaser of the house to the war rantor within one year from the date the veteran takes title, or the house is Initially occupied, whichever is earlier. VA Said tlie terms of the war ranty will run to successors or transferees In event the property changes hends prior to the expir ation of the warranty. VA emphasized that the one yenr warranty Is in addition to any other rights and privileges a purchaser or owner may have un der any other law or instrument. It ' will be up to the purchaser, VA said, to enforce bit rights un der the warranty. QUESTION OF THE WEEK Is to post signs at all entrances saying: "Sh-h-hl Quiet. City at work." THE DOCTOR SAYS Br F.DWTN P. JOBDAN. M.D. ' The taking of reasonable pre- 'XSXZ K." Piles' of" can be wants to know something about skin cancer because n nas a rath with terrible Itch on her body and la grea'tv worried that this may be ear -r. By way of i reassurance It can be said that, this la almost certainly not can cer though that Is no reason why the trouble should b neglected. Cancer of (he skin, however, and some of the signs which precede it should be generally known, since early identification and ap propriate treatment can certainly save a great deal of trouble. Any sore on the skin or around the mucous membranes of the lips, near the eyes, er anywhere else which does not heal as quickly as one thinks it should, ought to be watched with ausplcion. If the skin has a lump or ulcer by all means let the doctor look at It. Some such sores or lumps will be cancer; they are so easy to treat while they are small and may be so hard after they have grown a while that there is no sense In de lay. , There are also some skin condi tions which may lead eventually to cancer and therefore should be watched even if not treated so that they can be attacked at the first sign of cancerous change. The most Important of these are the scaly, brown or black patch. es which are quite common In el derly people and art 'usually lo cated on the parts of the skin most exposed to the sun ana air. xnese patchea are called keratoses. Keratoses art not cancerous when thev start though they ao often develop la that direction that It Is sometimes nut noi al ways a good idea to remove them. There are two things which al ways seem wise, however. One is to watch them because If they grow It may be a danger signal; the other Is that persons who show a tendency to develop these patches should try to protect their skin as much as possible from ex posure to the sun. Indeed they are more likely to develop In the llrst place in peo ple like sailors and farmers who spend lot of time In bright sun shine. ' cut out or treated by X-rays or the electric needle, if- necessary, the choice of method depending on sire, location, and most of all on the Judgment of the physician. The actual skin cancers, too, can be treated by surgery. X-ray, or radium or combinations of these. If the patient has not been care less about letting some warning sign run on too long the results from skin cancer are not to be greatly feared. Service Station Gives Full Service ALBANY. Ore. 'Mi .Persistent reports that the Bureau of Mines regional office and laboratories would be moved from here were denied here by Interior Secretary Douglas McKay Wednesday night He said that actually, his depart ment is widening the Albany of. fice's Jurisdiction to include Alaska. He explained the move Is being made to save money and to strengthen Alaska's ties with Ore gon, Washington, Idaho and Men tana, which now are eovered by the office. - Stephen M. Shelton will continue as regional director here, McKay said FIRE EL DORADO, Ark. i.f) A roar- i fug fire destroyed (2,000 gallons of i gasoline, kerosene, dlesel fuel and tractor distillate at a Lion Oil Co. 1 bulk station here yesterday. Five' storage tanks and two buildings I were also wiped out. 1 Event: Queen's Boll Place: Merrill Community Hall Date: Sat., Oct. 9 G mm HE Q ' Is it possible to get S loan on a QI term Insurance policy? A- No. A OI term Insurance pol icy has ne loan value. A OI perro- . . . - th oth.r hand. anvub iia, -- does have loan value atttr it has been' la eneci lor ' WW FrrWtferyeurfwrw.. eur tender Furnace Oil with Taateiiwl tltaaa . ytur fcureei ayitaei, keeps it -tratisa er seek cleacy. CALL 5149 Peyton & Co. 835 Market Thi In Ihe most dangerous tea aon for molorlnf. Insure with Hani Norland, 67 Tine St. II In buildinq o new home (or mod- ernixinq on old one) qivt th wir- inq system an important part in 1 your plant. Without cost, we'll II WI Submit a wirinq plan expressly J Ml designed to meet your lamily'i A II needs. vl '( EAST SIDE ELECTRIC Jf i 625 Klamath Avt. ) TW1 .9 SHARRON SCHWARZMILLER SCHOOL of BATON SHARRON SCHWARZMILLER, DRUM MAJORETTE with the Klsmalh Falls Slate Drum & Bugle Corpt will open a School of Baton at the Vettrsni Memorial Buildinq in Klam ath Fslli. Shsrron hat many honort to her credit, and ii the present American Legion State Champion Twirler, She it a member of the All American Drum Major Atiocistion, end hat been featured in the National publication of Who's Who in Baton Twirling. She hs been teaching the past several years in Everett, Washington, where she was affiliated with a prominent dance studio. Both group end private instruc tion will be offered. Those interested may contact Miss Schwtrimiller at the Veterans Memorial Building SATUR DAY, OCTOBER from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. or PHONE 1804. 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