SUNDAY, AUGUST 14. 1955
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PAGE NINE
Mosquitoes In Klamath
Area Pesky But Not The
Disease Carrying Types
By JOE RltiKKT
Of all tiie millions oi .bugs and
insects inhabiting the earth, the
common, everyday mosquito is
probably the moat reviled, detest
ed, hated, etc. ...
Klamath Falls residents have
been attesting to this fact oil sum
mer Ions.
Little opposition could be found
to a statement by the Encyclopedia
Americana. It says:
". . . they are intolerable pests."
The encyclopedia also says that
Uiey are cosmopolitan.
Local citizens have ether names
for them.
No one has ever been able to
determine how much blood is lost
to the insects over a summer's
period, but it probably would solve
the problems of the Red Cross for
many summers.
And yet the book of knowledge
reveals that:
'. . . the taste for blood is
certainly an acquired one and a
relatively unimportant factor in
the lives of the majority of mos
quitoes.' In other words, they don't even
need it.
The mosquito menace has not
been ignored. The city council
members were bitten like everyone
else, so they decided a survey was
in order.
This was accomplished last week
by a man from the state board
of health, with the assistance of
two U.S. Public Health officials.
They gave a report on what they
found to Bob Bonney, head of the
city recreation department. He has
been one of the more harried men
in town. Trying to keep the bug
population down around the city's
recreation areas has not been a
picnic.
Chiloquin To
Remodel Hall
CHIXOQUIN The city hall,
which houses the police department,
Jail, fire station, library and city
council quarters is being remodeled.
The major change is the enlarg
ing of the Jail facilities. The extra
apace is being made available by
moving the fire fighting equipment
and fire truck to the city ware
house, purchased last year from
Copeland Yards and which adjoins
the city hall.
A flag pole has been Installed,
new walks and steps being made,
and the outside of the south end
of the building covered with con
crete. The windows on the north
ode are being redesigned for se
curity purposes.
George Hobbs, manual arts In
structor at the high school, Is do
ing the jail remodeling, with the
.-ssiolance of Chief of Police Lewis
Jones. The Gun-Crete Cement Com
nny of Salem and Portland has
the contract for all cement work.
Reds Willing To"
Swap Atom Secrets
GENEVA IB Russian and
American atomic scientists say
they have exchanged informal in
vitations to visit each other's coun
tries. They said Friday night the invi
tations were extended at social
gatherings during the current Ge
neva conference on peaceful uses
of the atom, but that no definite
visits were set.
Prof. A. P. Vinogradov, a mem
ber of Soviet Russia's Academy of
Sciences and a delegate to the con
ference here, told reporters:
"I have personally received a
number of Invitations to visit other
countries, including one from Dr.
Lawrence of California and from
a number of others. On our part
we have made similar lnvita
tlons."
FORMAL
PORTLAND W Municipal and
district Judges here soon will be
wearing formal black robes for
their court appearances.
Municipal Judge J. J. Qulllln
said each jurist will buy his own
at a cost of about $55 each. Mult
nomah County circuit Judges start
ed wearing robes earlier in the
year.
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Said Bonney of the repcit:
"We knew we hail mnni,itn
They told us where they were. '
The experts found ntno species
this area, bus onlv tun in
abundance. These arc the Aeries.
dorsalis and the Culevtarsalls.
Max Braden. couniv sa.-iiarinn
who accompanied the hsMth nfn.
cials on their tour of Ine area.
said these two species are the
most troublesome.
They are the kind that swarm
up and try to eat you up, and then
carry you off," he quipped.
The experts found five m.,nr
breeding areas tor these iwo tvnes
Tney were the log ponds near Pel
ican city, irrigated pastures near
Moore Park, marsh areas around
Lake Ewauna. sluggish drainage
ditches in the South Suburbs, and
seepage along the main canal.
Braden pointed out that a control
program would not necessarily
have to be expensive, but would
take a lot of time.
It can't be nr,Dharri It has
to be scientific, and you first must
know what you have to fight," he
said.
It was suggested that the most
desirable method of solving the
problem would be to get rid of
the breeding areas by draining the
wltr or by filling in the trouble
spots. A less satisfactory wv
would be to celan out the vegetation.
Another method of control is to
spray the breeding location with
Insecticide to kill the mosquitoes
in the larva stage.
"Fighting the adult mosouito Is
only a stop-gap procedure." said
Braden. "By that time they are
widly scattered and hard to deal
with."
Spraying for the babv buss ef
fectively would mean covering an
area from three to five miles from
the city. That is how far the mos
oultocs travel ucder normal conditions.
The health officials did not find
cause for concern ovur the disease
carrying potentialities of the iccal
mosquitoes. Tne Cules-type insect
carries encephalitis or sleeping
sickness. This disease is catried
from horses by the mosouito to
humans.
However only two cases were
reported of horses in this area
last year, and none so far this
year. This is due in part to the
fact that most local people vac
cinate their animal? to prevent it.
ine Klamath rails citizenry can
be thankful for that, because the
disease is almost incurable in hu
mans.
Malaria Is another of the di
seases carried by mosquito;s. Here
It must be transferred from one
person to another, w'th the insect
acting as the go between, cany
Ing the live virus. There have
been no known cases in this area.
but some have been reported in
Medford and Roseburg.
But even if danger of disease
from the pests here is at a mini
mum, they still can be decidedly
unpleasant.
Ouchl Get away from me you
dratted ....
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AN OLD TIME THRESHING machine made modern by the Incorporation of the threshing ma
chine's power plant with the machine, thus doing away with the long and dangerous power
belt. The power plant can be seen sitting on to p of the threshing machine. This outfit is thresh
ing Marion bluegrass seed on the Ed Geary ranch.
United Fund
Drive Set
LAKEVIEW Dates for the 1955
United Fund drive for Lake County
will be September 10 to 24, an
nounces John E. McDonald, county
chairman.
McDonald, who has volunteered
to be drive chairman with the 15
members of the board of directors
acting as supervisors of the cam
paign, has called budget meetings
for Monday. August 15 and Wednes
day, August 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the
circuit court library in the court
house. At these two meetings agen
cies which will participate in the
UF receipts will present their
needs for next year. Agencies will
be notified which night to attend.
Staiger Named
To City Post
CHILOQUIN Guy Staiger has
been appointed by the city council
to replace James Huff as city re
corder. Huff, who was elected to
his post a year ago, is leaving
tills month for Guam, where he
will teach in the high school.
Staiger has been a Chiloquin
resident for over twenty-five years,
and with his wife ran a drug store
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