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TUESDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1954 PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing editor Enured u second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falli, Ore., on August 30, 1906, under act of Congress. Marco I, HI! MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Auoeltted Press is entitled exclusively to tlx use for publication of all local news printed In this newspaper as veil at all AP newa. SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL BT CARRIER 1 Month t 1.J6 1 Month I 134 Months a a.JO Months , $ 1.10 1 Tear anon ' l year IH-M , CAUGHT IN By DEB ADDISON RETAIL MEMO: Time was when the corner drug atore handled everything, from kerosene to canary seed, and all other lines of business damned them for their omnibus nature. Their answer was that If drug stores didn't introduco new Items they'd never see the llfht of day. Now it's the druggists who are acratchlng their heads. Food mar kets handle and sell J large vol ume of their "store" Hems. Medi cal servlcts are In the prescription business. Variety stores handled everything else. That's not the latest In the shift ing tide of retail business however. Restaurants are entering the "con , venience foods' business that largely has been in the hands of super markets. Cashing In on the swing to pre cooked, and completely - prepared for - cooking foods, tho restaurants are opening more and' more take home departments. ' Already one chain. Horn and Hardart's In the East, has begun advertising their retail outlets In newspapers and other media with the theme, "less work for mother. ' Other restaurants are expected to follow suit as soon as they have enough take-home sections. Meanwhile, national manufactur ers of convenience food:; are push ing their products with record ad vertising budgets to educate the consumer to the advantages of pre pared foods, and quite a few ol them are teaming up with the chain food stores In i dated ad vertising Christmas business In the na tion's department and specialty storea Is expected to top 1963's Volume by five per cent and equal the record performance ol 1953, SAM DAWSON ' NEW YORK Wl The British pound sterling is at Its lowest level In relation to the American dot - lar In two years a more than ceasonal weakness that has the experts scurrying around for ex planations. And the talk about making the pound freely exchangeable with the dollar Is being shunted aside once more. - The . British claim they have liberallted trade ana currency ex change progressively tills year so that soon it will look a little like convertibility. American bankers point out that what Britain seems to be aiming at lor the moment is a hard-top convertible to use an automobile Industry term. It may look like a convertible. But Just try to roll the top back. Convertibility Is that state of comparative International finan cial Innocence that prevailed way back when ... In those pre-World War I days you could take some dollars and buy some British pounds, or French francs or Ar gentine pesos without hindrance. It you liked the rale the seller offered. For the American businessman that meant It he aold (10 worth of h:s goods abroad he could bring lot) dollars back to this country If he liked. It meant that the Amer ican farmer could do the aamo, U he sold grain or cotton abroad. Now the farmer often must ao cept the money of the country in which he sells and It he has no use for the foreign money, chance:, are he can't make the aale, and the grain or cotton goes into a U.S. government price support ware house. Americans go on selling abroad v.hen they can, or bartering when they can't get dollars, or playing three-way bookkeeping deals with otlier countries, Somo big corpora tions have set up special depart ments to handle the new look in World trade. Government agencies try three way barter deals, also. The For lgn Operations Administration is working out a deal with Denmark whereby we send her four million dollars worth at our surplus farm commodities, she In turn Is to send an equal amount of her prod ucts to one or more nations to whom we already have promised foreign aid. The whole thing will be done without the exchange ot dollars in ACCIDENT SHOKBUnYNESS, England M'l John Waller, 39, was Hying to fix a gun used to drive nails into hatd wood when It went olf and shot a nail through his stomach and out his back. He was in lair con dition at a hospital. toitoCWMiMa oaW lifetime.,, j World Book' THE ROUNDS according to a survey by the Na tlonal Retail Dry Goods Assoc. Department stores .will empha size practical gifts and those in tended for the home, r.itn particu lar stress on lower price lines. In specialty stores, however, luxury type gifts will receive thereatesl auenuon. Meanwhile, early reports from cities throughout the country indl cate that the sales for the first week of the Christmas season are running two to 12 per cent ahead of last year. We haven't had enough reports in Klamath Falls to thow a pat tern, but there are more state ments of belief that business this Christmas will equal or top last year's than otherwise. Consumers are looking to the fu ture with optimism and think that this is a good time to buy. ac cording to a study by the Survey Research Center of the University or Michigan, reported in Business Week. Although the Inclination to buy has not yet reached '.he peak lev els of late 1953. it is still measur ably greater than it was In either this year's June or October sur veys. The outlook for aale.i of automo biles and large household goods for the next six or nine months 1b better than it was at the end ol 1653. The Klamath Keynotes of the Klamath County Chamber of Com merce asks the question. "How s the construction business?" It ans wers it by giving these Klamath Falls building permit figures: November 1954, 1126,45a; Novem ber 1953, 164,000; November 1953, $44,000; November 1951, $15,350. No comment Is made or needed. a world where exchange of curren cies is now so difficult. If you count out the American taxpayers, that Is. They put up the four mil lion dollars In the first place to acquire the surplus farm prod, ucts. But progress l being made to ward freeing trade and currencies, For example, Franco has just moved to lift Import quotas on a long list of items Jan. 1. France's healthier finances helped speed the day. West Germany' Is raring to go on all out convertibility and so are neigium and the Netherlands. The Economist, British weekly, notes that these three countries have "continually urged Britain to take tne nnai and dramatic plunge Into convertibility." Most Americans, however, see little chance that England will do so until after the general elections next year. The Laborltes are against it and the Conservatives fear to risk It In an election year. Current weakness In the British pound Isn't helping any. But most observers think that seasonal fac tors may be largely to blame for that. Other things enter in, however. London's dock strike held up ex ports so that Britain didn't get the dollars she might have, she Is making larger than usual pur chases of tobacco and coal from us Just now. Britain Is paying in dollars for a large quantity of wheat bought for the account of continental Europe. And some In the sterling area aren't getting as many dollars this year for their products Australia, lor example, Isn't selling us as much wool this year. And this month Britain is to make Its an nual 180 million dollar repayment on loans by the United States and Canada. s Uii-h Iteedvr fx To t'anh Your You Are Invited Reeder'i Customer Parking They'll Do It Every Dilemma needed a so sme subtracted a few yearsbtom her A5EOHTWE APPLICATION FORM- HAL BOYLE NEW YORK UP) It has always been my contention that children are more intelligent than grown' upc. One sign of intelligence is the ability to get what you really need or want out of life. And the Christmas season Is the time when the kids best show their mental superiority over adults in this respect. A child knows exactly the present he wants, and he knows the right technique for getting them. . The little boys and girls get out their school pads and pencils and write letters such as the follow ing: "Dear Santa Claus, "I am a little gtrl just ale yars old. Boy, have I been a good girl. I ben so good my mommy says if sne nad another llttul girl Just like me she wouldn't know whut to do. I wanna bike and pigtails and a net dress and police don't bring me no more dolls on accounts I awready got more dolls than o store. your littul fren, Rosebud O'Hare." On Christmas day Rosebud and her pal next door, Butch Rosen cranz, compare the loot. "Sure, I got 'zactly what I want ed," brags Rosebud. "Don't ynu think my daddy can read plain writing?" "I thought you ast for pigtails you ain't got no pigtails," ob jects Butch. 'Silly, I knew there wasn't time to grow pigtails 'fore Chris' muss," says Rosebud. "I Jus' put In about the pigtails so they'd oe sure to get me the bike. That's what I really wanted." It Is this striking Innocence about children that pays off. They have faith. Grownups are only old er children with ulcers, and they get the ulcers because they are irustrated, and It is their own fault usually that they are frus trated. They have lost faith. They ure- tend they aren't mad when they don't get what they want for Christmas, but they really are hurt, and they sulk Inside. The real reason they often don't get what they want Is because they are so dumb. Any child re alizes Santa Claus has to be told what to bring. But silly grownups make their secret Christmas wishes and keen them to them selves. Then they get angry be oause Santa Claus hasn't been able to read their mind. Here is what an adult should do. He should sit down and write a letter as follows: "Dear Santa Claus: "I am just a poor tired grownup. But I've been a good boy all year. I never have got what I wanted for Christmas. Tills year I'd like to. I want some gloves, site . 10, and some shirts with regular collars, (neck 15 !i, sleeves 33;, and a pair of black shoes (size 10-Ci. and a blue camel's hair coat (size 43 regu- Chill-Chaser TRAD-O-FLAM Heavier-Than-Average FLANNEL SPORT SHIRT for Outdoor Sports Don't let cold weather keep you Indoori. Wear Strod-O-flon iport shirt by Stradivari to those lole ttaion football games, for hunting, skating, and all winter sports. It's a hecrvitr-than-average, washable, viscose ond acetate flannel . . . soft as moss, comfort able os your slippers. Tailored to perfection by Stradivari ... the master shirtmaker. Aln-ayn Mad Pay i'heck to Use Dick Lot 5th and Klamath Time l ,lar). a sailboat with an outboard fitiotor, an aqualung, a one-man submarine, a new car (any size'. and any spare cash you got lying around. Your big friend, Itoscoe MeFuddle." Don't address this letter to the North Pole. Make 100 copies. Send ono copy to, your wile, 49 to your favorite friends and enemies, and the other 50 to people picked at random who have a high rating in uun ai Braasireet. How do you know it won't work? A friend of mine tried it. He wrote a Santa Claus. letter and sent it to 100 ladies - listed in a social directory saying. "I am just a poor lonely balding bachelor with high principles who, once in ills life, would like to have a beautiful girl take him out to din ner on Christmas." Well, it didn't turn out quite as he expected. He had hoped for a beautiful young blonde. "Nobody showed up but a wealthy widow," he confessed. "But I certainly don't feel I wast ed my stamp money." The main thing for grownups to remember Is this: If you really have faith hi Santa Claus, and go to the trouble of letting him know what you want well, he'll do the best he can. Altar Society Holds Meeting MERRlLIi St. Augustine's Altar Society met at the parish hall re cently for the regular monthly meeting. , . Members will distribute sacks of candy to Confraternity of Christian Doctrine students on Sunday, De cember 19, Committee appointments were made as follows: Mrs. John O'Neil and Mrs. Peter Calise. purchase: and a'rrange flowers for Christ inas; Mrs. Maurice O'Keefe and Mrs. John O'Neil, purchase new linen, pots and pans for the parish house: Mrs. John O'Neil, Mrs. John Degnan and Mrs. John Mad den, nominating committee. A party for all who helped at the recent bazaar Is planned for sometime In January. Details will be announced. The next regular meeting wilf be January 13, with a 1 p.m. potluck luncheon preceding the business meeting. The Rev. Father John Phelan and 10 -members were present at the November meeting. Aihley Automatic WOOD STOVES Peyton & Co. 835 Market Ph. 5149 MMe'Mliiie' in I gr TCk 1 1 1 All Gifts Beautifully w I $1 Wrapped Free ' " ' ' MAGNIFICENT ' .T"'''' t-yj -' y- i t . v it By Jimmy Hatlo TlME--BETTER LUCK NEXT Pt-ACE.DK.EAWW Hugh Pruett Astronomer, Extensiun Division Oregon Higher Education System 1. "During the time the moon was full in November, it came up so far north that I was surprised I had never seen it in that loca tion before. What was wrong?" This query came from three dif Jerent sources. There was nothing wrong with our lunar neighbor. During every month the moon rises and sets far north for a few nights, but most of the time this occurs at an hour when it is not noticed. But when this takes place at full moon and with a clear sky it is widely observed. Let us state a simple rule for the location of the full moon. Prac tically everyone knows from ob servation that in our latitudes dur ing the longest, days of the year the sun rises far over toward the northeast, slants toward the south of the zenith. Then It slides down northward, finally sets well to ward the northwest, and is above the horizon about 2-3 of a 24-hour period. During the: shortest days old Sol rises toward the southeast, crosses the heaven slow in the south and sets in a general south west direction. Thus it Is above the horizon about bait as long as in the summer. The full moon, at any time of the year, rises at about sunset and is in the opposite part of the sky from the sun. This means that in June the full moon Is far to the south and crosses the sky In about the way the sun does in Dc cember. The December full moon still opposite the sun, very near ly repeats the sun's antics for June. In other words, the full moon rises and crosses the sky In practically the same location that the sun did six months earlier, A 'simple rule can also be given for the location of the crescent moon. It appears in the same gen eral region of the sky as does the sun at that time not six months earlier. In June this location is far north; In December, far south. One inquirer stated that the No vember moon about the time of full phase rose farther north eatii successive evening. This is cor rect. If the sky Is cleor during this coming week, anyone who cares to observe can prove this for himself. Full phase is reached on Thursday, December 9. Belore that time moonrise will occur be lore sunset, but the moon can be seen. December 4 the rising point win be a little north ot due east Sunday, still farther north. By Thursday evening Luna will "pop above" the sky line almost over the northeast but not quiie. The December full moon this year will be unusually fine and bright since It will be nearer the earth than usual. Dr. R. T. Lindley OPTOMETRIST 510 Med.-Dent. Bldg. Ph. 4215 Eye Examination Visual Training Frank Tripp Those mysterious telephone calls? letters and packages are beginning to arrive, and wnisperr-gs oenuin doors. U s the sure-fire forerunner of Christmas In households where children are Involved. I like our seven grandchildren and two great-grands a lot, but they sure can get under foot on occasion; seems that sometimes we are knee deep in them. I guess though that if they lived far off, as only two of them do, I'd be wishing they were aiound more. They drop in like they live here, strangely at meal time, like those friends who Just happcu to be pass ing at the cocktail houi. A couple of them frequently make it for breakfast en route to school. They've had breakfast ai home but you wouldn't think it by tile time they down a sec ond farmhand meal. Where do they put It? We have them in til sizes, ages and temperaments, from nine months to 33 years. They have kept Fanny and Anna and me young at heart regardless of creep ing years and creaking joints; and. though I too often don't seem to reflect it. I'd be a lonesome old crab without them. As it is I'm just a complaining old crab, they think. Well, somebody has to set 'em back in meetin' or Fanny and Anna would give them the front door and they'd take it. But it's Christmas time that makes them most dear to all of us. How I pity people who must i pass Christmas with no children about them. And how I marvel that the such don't biighten their day by searching out unfortunate kids in their midst; and feel the joy that Christmas brings with the knowledge that their thoughtfulness brought happiness to lenely little hearts. No man lives who can't do him self this great service and feel a' better man for having done it. In out town we have the Arctic League borned by, a group of baseball fans 42 years ago, now grown to making Christmas happy for more than 3.000 children every year. That no other place on earth has anything exactly like it doesn t stop the individual anywhere from bringing himself equal blessing vhen.he awakens Christmas morn ing, i , Try it this year, and you'll never stop. Search out a couple of kids rho are looking longingly into tin selled windows of trinkets, with noses pressed against the glass, unmittened hands hopelesly reach ing toward a toy or a doll; until moved along by mink'-clad dames in search for a truckload of ex pensive gifts to confuse their pam pered small fry. Don't know any? Just ask a so cial agency, a policeman, or a school teacher. And don't make the mistake of inquiring about "worthi ness." Every neglected child is worthy. He Is not to blame for the wastefulness, selfishness or drunk enness of his parents. He sees and hears Christinas all about him. The store windows are jammed with things his little heart craves that are not for him. A Santa stands on every corner. The air Is full of "Silent Night" and "Little Star of Bethlehem." What, in the name of heaven, does he think, to awaken Christ mas morning the same bewildered forgotten little tyke? Learn the story back of cdUnt less delinquents, criminals, social enemies and you'll know what he thinks. You can do something about It. Today is the time to start doing. Doing more for yourself than for the unfortunate you befriend on this most blessed ot all The Day for Children. Friendly Helpfulness To Every , Creed and Purse Ward's Klamath Funeral Home Marguerite M. Ward and Sons 925 High Phone 3334 ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McLEOD ' -him ,a Now that we are approaching a the Christmas season, the Biru Watchers of the Klamath BiiM" are again starting to lay plans to take their annual Christmas Biiu count. The Nature Society of :iie Klamath Region which makes this annual check of species present In cur area will hold its regular meet- tag in the conlercnce room oi u.c ;oU?erv(.rs m the lield the better Chamber of Commerce. 8 o clock cnance o( recording the total Thursday evening, December 9m lbcr oI 5pecies actually pres. at which time the day on ucli m area But even tho Christmas Bird count will lose counlers miss quite number place will be selected. Sunday De- e3 ,nat are known ,o cember 28, appears to be the aa xM in Ule Basln yet wnen ym thai may be chosen. specifically go out to find them The Christmas Bird Count to be (ney are not t hoine l0 callers taken this year will be the sixth e dav 0f the Christmas Count, such count to be made in the !noWcver, the following day they Klamath Basin. The fii-ot count lniny De bBci in thelrusual haunts, taking place in 1948 when live T)!e amount of travel, however, groups of counters went Into th;actually does cover a very good field and during a six hour period L,nl. . lhP Klamath Basin ar made a tally of some 4.826 biros rcacing fr0m Crater Lake on the covering 60 difierent species. In ,h l0 lne Modoc Lavsbeds on 1949. four groups of counters lal- !Ule soutn From Ken0 on the west lied 12.587 birds in 69 species. Since (0 Bly m ,ne easL jt ls ln that time the number of species Na.i0nai widllite Refuges, however, seen and the number ol birds jwnere the D1nls are in their great counted continue to mount in nuni- !c3t conccntration and from which bers, until last years count, brought in a total of 143,624 birds of 109 species and subspecies. Each year the task grows in ex tent as more people join in this enterprise, back in 1948 there were 21 party hours spent in the field durmg which 87 miles were cov ered by car and ten miles by loot. The 1953 count had a record of 74 hours in the field with travel by car amounting to 510 miles by car ana is nines oy loot, rasing ine Christmas Count of Birds is quite a game it emphasizes the remark- able number of birds present with ;Chr!stmas Counts have been con us during the Christmas Season :auclcd annually since 1900 when it both in actual number of Individ- was startcd by a small group of 27 uals and In the number of species :observers. This year the number of to be seen. nhservers who will take tn th fiIH As you will note, much of the bird counting is done by travel by auto but ln addition there is quite QUICKIES d v n I I By Ken Keynolds "Smart chickens the club got with a Herald and News Want Ad always on the ball!" 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The local bird count is an outgrowth of a national undertaking sponsored by jths National Audubon Society and jthe Fish and Wildlife Service. It jS the greatest cooperative yearly inrnitholoaical Droiect in the world no count birds on one day during (Christmas week across the nation will run into the thousands. Here in Oregon, the other areas wnicn iaKC reHuiar counts Ol uifl BlrA ,lfe dul.ing the Christmas pet4 which lake regular counts of thn iod arc North Bend, Eugene and Portland. Elsewhere across the na tion the communities making re ports are now numbered in the hundreds and those communities located ln the southern portion of tho nation where a vast number of the birds actually winter are the communlies which turn in the largest lists. Santa Monica, Cali fornia, heads all the communities in number of species seen during any ono Christmas Count by set- I ting a record ln 1934 of 166 spe jiics. Many communities in the I northern portion of the nation do Svcll to come up with twenty spe cies. The remarkable position that the Klamath Basin has In the life of birds is emphasized by the fact hat with a sufficient number of ooservers the members of the Na ture Society hope the day mcj . come hen they may have tlx opportunity of checking at least 121 species on, , single winter, day. The society invites the whole Klamath Basin to enter Into this annual winter activity. get . 1 : y m f w e,ilrflf, . 750 Pouring Wool INSUlATtON Court right from bag bt- 149 '" Itudi. lo 4 I inch.. d,p. Vtry tHy ' ., Wh.ndl.. 20-lb. Bog 1 7 Fa A nto. wt 0 i m. t pr ENCYCLOPEDIA 19 volumes '10 down, '6 month JOSEPH HUNTER 26S9 Rodclilf Phot 3-2791 fat BifMmi fine, 'Main and Spring Phone 3144 Corner Sth and Main e V AMERICA'S MOST ItKAUTIFUL SPORT SHIRT
