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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1955)
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23. la., nirfl cr liPDim a xtt-v iwtciitp rr AiiiTn vat re norrAM r FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Zntered as second class matter at tha post oltice at Klamath Falls, Ore., on August 20, 1908, under act of Congre.u, Marco t, 1879 MKMBtB OF THS ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated press Is entitled exclusively to the use lor publication of all local news printed In this newspaper as well aa all AP new. SUBSCRIPTION RATES' MAIL CARRIER 1 Month t 1.50 1 Month - t 1.50 ( Months 1 Year -.. 7.50 J12.00 t Montha 1 Vi-ar s s.oo I1S.M IIBILLBOARl51 Just back from the annual Mo doc Tribe Ride and riding kind of easy around the old desk. When you only clamber 'up on a horse about once a year and or. that occasion lake oft for the High War ners and borne straight up ar.d down riding you soon find that there's a big difference between a soft chair in the office and the seat of a saddle. Uow a buncn oi cily fellers like y were In the main ever get trmwi over that trip and live through It Is beyond nie. I sup pose most of the credit should go to (base experienced riders and cowmon who go along and nurse the dunes. The Tribe Mlde. an aflair that started about fourteen years ago I think, lr. one of the last of the really rugged rides, is sponsored by a bunch of fellows down in Al- turas and Modoc County In general. Is a strictly invitational atlair and is more fun than anything this writer has tried In many a long and weary year. Briefly, the ride Is about this. A bunch of fellows. 47 this year, get together for a three day stint out lr. the woods. They arrange lor horses and saddles for their guests, have trucks on hand to haul the heavy kitchen gear, sleep ing bags, dulfcl bags and the rest of it. Camp is set up each night by the truck crew while the riders re coming along from the pre vious night's camp. You ride any where from ten to twenty miles In a day through some of the most spectacular scenery left in the West. At night you con sit around the camp lire after dinner and talk or you can play a little poker or go to bod or -do anything you want to. You can full in the streams and lakes, ride up on the peaks and look out around you and most Important of all you can get away from all the cares and worries of everyday life and relax out In tho open with men who are always congenial, full of fun and doing Just the same thing you're doing having a good time. Thla year we got away lrom Al turas around ten or eleven In the morning and trucked the horses out to a ranch In Jess Valley. The Plournoy ranch, I believe. Sleep ing bags and dulfcl had already been plied up at the Forest Serv .sa warehouse In Alturaa to be brought on to the camp that night. Lelt the ranch around one o'clock and headed up Into the timber bound lor the first night's camp at Patterson Mill. ' . The trail Jeads up and up and nn. through timber, across ridges where you csn look down below you to the tiny little creeks wind ing along their rocky course. All around you Is the sound of the woods ; the sough of the wind through the trees, the clatter ot horses' hooves on the stones and logs In the trail, the creak of saddle leather, the occasional voice of a rider. On this first day out a few deer- are spotted lying in the high meadows or bounding away through the parkllke woods. Jays and flickers dnrt through the pines, a buzzard soars high overhead. And you climb. And climb and climb until you wonder If there will ever be an end to it. But, al lust, ynu break out on the road and there Is Patterson Mill, the camp site for the night. The truck is in and dinner on the way. Cold drinks lor those who feel the dust aro promptly poured, the saddle stock Is turned loose In the big lenccd meadow to roll in the dust, drink deep al the Utile stream and graze on the knee high grass. The water hero Is about as cold as water can get and still stay liquid. A lacs wash and a scrub behind tho ears leave you tingling and wide awake. And hun gry. And It's not long unit) dinner. Then, the first night out, early to bed for almost all but the hardened card players. Up early lloo early for a late riser like met and breaklasl. then a short stop at the ranger station and off over more hills, more high places, more rims and canyons nnd mountain meadows until we reach Mill Creek Meadows where the second night's camp Is set up. Or will be as soon as the trucks arrive. A breakdown on the woy out oi Jess Valley has delayed their ar But It's the third day's ride, from Mill Creek Meadows to Pep perdine's deer camp, 13 miles out of Allures, that you really see the scenery. You ride out along Mill Creek for a ways, passing cattle standing in the meadows and among Ihe skunk cabbage. An oc casional deer is seen above the cattle, aurveying the passing rid ers lrom hu mountain clearing. The parly splits up Into two or three groups, each choosing a dif ferent course as they head up toward tha Pine Creek Basin. And here we see the deer by the score. A bunch of deer appear under a lulling rlmrock and head down over the sage covered slope. Anoth er band, startled by yet another bunch of riders, bound Into view from the shelter of a clump of firs at the foot of another out crop and race along tho skyline to merge with the first group. Over JO deer are In one group, milling, splitting off in two's and three's and small bunches to skim the brush in a frantic rush to reach the cresl and drop down into the basin below, wo sit on our horses and watch spellbound. Of the 30 at least half or more arc bucks. Some of them packing a rack of horns thit look like an elk's. We turn the horses upward and climo to the top where you can look down into Pine Creek Basin and on across the sloping Bnsln down Into the "alley and the town of Likely. Horses and men wind around the edge of the rim, drop down a few feet and you are look ing the other way on the divide. Surprise Valley and the Wlnncmuc-ca-to-the-Sea highway are there be low you. You can see Cednrvllle and make out about where Eagle ville lies. Off In the smoky dis tance are the mountains of Oregon. Hart Mountain looms up like a badly dented hat. Three states He at your feet: Oregon. California and Nevada. Peaks stick up through the haze and smoke. You are so high, you look down on soaring hawks and buzzards. More deer are spotted here and there. Huge old buck tracks can be seen in the dust of the trail. It's a long ride but an enjoyable one before you start down the hill and then plunge through a belt of timber to come out at the site of Peppcrdine's camp, nestled among the trees, cold water spout. log from pipes, the roots of the various cabins well covered with needles, the horse corral and pas' lure Ivlng down below you. A per fect place to stop. Makes one wish It were the opening of deer sea son and you were here for the month. The last night out Is a merry one. Everyone having the time of his life. Always a horseshoe pitch ing game going on as long as there Is light to see (I learned that I can't pitch horseshoes). plenty of talk and horseplay. Steaks appenr on the table and the ma- logany lire is lust right for broil- lng. Everyone pitches in and does his own this night. No complaint as to the conking of a steak. You did It, o It has to be right. Long discussions that last far Into the night and cover everything from the duck Reason to politics and deer hunting to travel. The last morning Is sort of a sad one. Everyone hates to give up and go home. We've had a wonderful time. So you ride slowly on the way down. Frequent stops for looking at the scenery and to tell each other what a grand trip tl's been. But eventually the ranch shows up. the trucks are there to pick up the horses and take them back to town. And the trip Is over. Now we're all back In our of llces, ranches or wherever we came from. But In everyone's mind Is printed a picture of the high places, the soaring rlmrocks, the great basins sloping away beneath ynu. There are the remembered sounds of the open places and the outline of the far hills as they tilt up against the skv. It was a great ride and next year can't come soon enough. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo AH INVEnTOk m0 muowrwi-r nwr COMPOS MENTIS BEFORE HE ARRIVED - WE'VE IHvTTEO THEA(5IMMICK6- OO YDU KNOW KIM? HE'S M INVENTOR OP m SOME SORT- TUSY SHOULD BE UERBW AtlMUTE . fdE POOBABLV SOT "WE MTE wrousMllthem GUYS4Re WACKY7 "TUBht TUEV A4EHT LlIU Ann Bocrrmo UlM WrrW THE NUTTIEST NOTIONS SINCE THE SELF-TIPFIMS VER3Y U4T-- HE'SCOWlM' ik 4 new SPACE 1 MA-HA- MESPR0B.8LV SLEEPING OUT- 6lcetHERlTEfr OFFICE-WH-HJtf. 'say-ive GOT A TEBWFIC IDEA FOB ONE OF THEM PERPETUAL MOTION UArunlr-e IVS GOtW" DOUBLE-ACTION A COUSIN" MOUSETRAP J WHO'S ALuave. VTiADE MAKlHa TUiNfiS-1 1 1 f AtAVBE you J) m MTHen COULD HELP I f wVEWTTO A .DOWNHILL BOWLING! ALLEY FOR OLD PEOPLE- . (started J nature's - . ACCIDENTAL DEATH WATER MILL, NY. LP Ed mund RrtiMiii 43 V.av.1 Vlnmntnn rival ior a wrme. o weary ruirrs'N.Y., collided yesterday with a ca H around In the shado and talk, splash In tho crock, which if-n't 1 too cold to ike the dust oi the lourney off mid In rciui;iI relax i as much as a man can on the 1 hard ground. driven by Dr. David Edwards. It wasn't serious. But shortly altcr wards, the doctor was summoned to the scenr ol another accident, a head-on collision. One man was dead. IL wna Sngun. The farm problem in our political picture loucnes every taxpayer In thp nation and has a direct In lluence upon our national economy, it Is lor this reason thai this col umn has tievoted some time to the "Walton Soil Plan" as it is one proposal that Keeks to find a solution to a serious problem. Since the "Walton Plan" comes from the Iaak Walton League, a conservation organization that Is not tied to the agricultural problem by virtue ol the fact Us member ship is lor the most pait urban and not rural, the program de serves thought and discussion. The Iaak Walton League pro poses that Congress should direct the Secretly of Agriculture to lease for cash and place in a con servation reserve sufficient culti vated acreugu to bring agricultural production Into line with current demand. The Secretary of Agri culture has estimated that our ex cess productive capacity represents the output of about 40 million acres. This estimate that we arc culti vating 40 million acres too much assumes the productive Bbility oi average crop land, The Izaak Wal ton League, however, points out that the problem does not rest with land of average fertility but in the fact that millions of acres of marginal land is being forced to produce because of economic nec essity. The League feels that If this marginal land was leased by the government and held in a con servation reserve, the old order ot supply and demand would function adequately lo eliminate the neces sity of crop subsidies. In the United States, with a land area of one billion 905 million acres, we cultivate from 340 to. 360 million acres. The Secretary! of Agriculture estimates that 40 ! million acres of average lcrlihty, represents the excess balance tha; ) creates the agricultural problem. ' This indeed sets up an amusing situation for the Secretary of Agri culture would like to see crop land curtailed while the Secretary oi the Interior is beating all drunu; to get the federal government to' develop at public expense many more millions or acres of crop land. The taxpayer should be exceeding ly interested In this problem since he is the individual who eventually loots the bill. The Izaak Walton League points out through George L. Hockenyos, Chairman of its Land Use Commit tee; ' If we are goinr to take out the land that is less productive and most crodible. it would prob ably take about 70 million acres of marginal lands to make the program effective." Mr, Hockenyos has given an esti mate of cost of the program at possibly an average of $10 an acre, he states; "Now 70 million times )10 is $700 million and that is a lot of money even in these days ol astronomical federal budgets, but let us compare it for a moment with what we are spending under the price support program. I hesi tate to give these figures for it is difficult to get nice round figures tha. really mean something on these programs because these funds are so interlocked and tied in with each other. There are so many things to take into consideration that these are only generalizations that will give you some relative idea. "Our program (the Walton Plani will probably cost $700 million hi cash outlay and very probably the present governmental agencies could adipinister the program. But m comparison, the Budget for the fiscal year 1955, that is, this year, had in it for prire supports an estimated 11,934,000.000. This does not make our $700 million look so bad now, does it? "The price support program, since the drop In foreign markets, has resulted in a surplus in storage (and again this figure is hard to pin dewn and I don't know exactly what it means) of $6,91)0,000,000. ;I don't know whether that means the things the government has money loaned on like the wheal out in my barn or Just what it does mean. It probably means that there is a total investment there in loans as well as the stuff the fcuvern ment has taken over. But it is government wheat, in storage some place. "The cost of keeping this S6 bil ;fon 900 million of surplus in stor age, including interest, storage cnarges which are getting close to tl million a day, and deterioration, total cloje to what the League estimates this program would cost per year. "In other words, we believe that our program could be put through at a cost about equal to what ii is costing to keep the suiplus in storage now, "Direct price supports inevitably lend to result in production beyond deman 1 under normal conditions; to kee. land in use that is not needed at present; . to aggravate the overall problem rather than to alleviate H;. stimulate excessive soil usage. 'Direct price supports inevitably lend to acreage control on each farm as a part oi such price supports. In other words, if you are going to have to control the acres on each larm. "Efficiency on farm production requires maximum use ol labor and equipment available on each oper ating farm unit Acreage con trols and limitations on individual farms reduce the opportunities to use available labor and equipment i on each arm and reduce efficiency ! of prod'Jetion. ' "In almost every farming com j munity in the United States most of the farmers are looking for more land to farm. If you have a farm with fields to rent out, it is embarrassing how many neigh bors would like to farm those fields for you. So thai is the parado:: of our farm problem, and to at tempt to reduce the acreage on each farm and leave each farm (Uill an operating unit reduces the efficiency, because most of them already have as individuals, the manpower and equipment to farm more acreage than they have.' , Sam Dawson JAMES MARLOW SLICK RUNWAY GREAT FALLS. Mont. !,B Ground crews sprayed a runway with slick llre-exttngulshlnc: loam: and a crippled Air Force jet train er skidded to a sale landing yes terday. Lt. Andrew B. Gass.l Pittsburgh, and Capl. Robert L. Pae, Mason City, Iowa, circled nraat Volte Ait Vacua Dal-a ahn.i. 40 minutes trjin? to free a locked wheel before making the landing. Both escaped injury. NEW YORK I The big city's traffic Jams and fast spreading suburbia today have claimed an other victim. . The last of 1U electrically driven pickup and delivery trucks has been retired bv the Railway Ex press Agency. Figuratively, it Joins the last of the company's horses, put out to pasture in 1S33. From now on the gasoline motor reigns alone in the company's service until and unless the atom pushes 11 out in turn. The electric had a 46 year span with the express company. Thou sands of them, with their solid rubber tires, once moved through the streets of 30 or more cities from Boston to San Francisco, from Miami, Fla., to Portland. Ore. In their heydey 16 operated in Chicago. 174 in Philadelphia. Finally onlv Nrw Yorkers saw ihem and mercilully didn't hear Jiem. In World War II the eleclrics relumed for a last fllus of glory. Thcv glided along thumbing then noses at the gasoline shortuDe and unadorned with ration stickers on their windshields. For a while in the postwar era the company still found them economical. A company spokesman says: "They are practical now only ln; certain conditions, like New York s concentrated garment district. where they can do a whole day's work in a small area, with slops mainly for loading, with the bat teries turned off. "But for long hauls around to day's sprawling cities they're uneconomical. They can't make fast getaways from traffic Jams. The constant slarlins nnd ialing runs their batteries down too fast. Batteries aren't cheap. They cost around $2,000 per vehicle, require elaborate equipment lor recharg ing, and have to be recharged almost nightly. "Our modern spreud-out cities with more business in the suburbs calls for our vehicles to cover 20 or more miles a trip. The electrics just are too slow, get stuck in more jams, and ruo down their juice too fast." The last one. just retired here, entered express service in 1831 at Boston. It made its last runs in New York during a record heat wave. II was an earlier torrid spell that saw the arrival here of elec trics in force and they were hailed as nn agent of mercy in an era of horse-drawn trucks. In 1911's torrid July, runs an account of the era, "1,200 horses dropped dead in the streets of New York, and in addition, thousands were broken." And now the last electric to bp used, by the express agency al least, has disappeared as the atomic age arrives. This lime elec tricity is bowing to gasoline. Over in Geneva the talk was all of fission and fusion. ....cmunTnu 'Pi The willing- ness of Russia's new leaders to let an American farm delegation tour tne country may not be proof of peaceful intentions. But in per mitting it they show more self confidence than Stalin. The exchange visitors Russian farmer in this country and Amcr 'icans in Russia - have just fin ished trips which probably wou.d have been impossible so long aj Stalin lived. The Iron Curtain he pulled down against foreign trael in Russia hact its basis in his character and his ideology, including perhaps a pathological self-consciousness and inferiority. A fear that the progress made by communism under him would appear shabby and retarded to Westerners who examined it first hand mitiht well explain some of the isolation he forced on Russia. The worse it looked, the worse he lookrd. When his extroverted successors witched U a more peaceful line than S'.illn's, some wishful think ers in this country put the usual extremist interpretation on their movej. t.b ijncciqiK Imri In have Dcace. they slid, because their agricul ture was near collapse. 11 would have been less wish ful, nnd less dramatic, lo quess that the switch was only a chanae in tactics or that perhaps Russians decided peace was xttiH hAttnr than the annlhllati-.- .r faced if war broke out, ' As It in proof that they dij... have to conceal their farm oni ductinn, the Russians let VV American farm delegation visit th. country and see the sltuatloa fin, hand. w Nothing that delegation has uu so far indicates an lnipenai Russian larm disaster. Rusju? farm techniques and products per acre lag behind America's. But Lauren K. soth, the editorUi page editor of the Des Moiau inrriiairi 'u jnuuue wno Sugg, en nnn loinea in inft mrm ai- , r . . . ' : ",c ena el C'BC OI cot- lapse." uuiei uieiiiucin UI me neiegstion ftitm uicj aaw nu niKHS OI Deopl. u.,jr ui 10 1Q Uj, nenr tttiure. ucavy 111 uieuo. imu poiatoes, ther mutiiuiiy "hi liie luuns. and the. their larm program. 111P miSMttU uuirgHiion to th. llmtcn Rfotpc: h.ri IHMa ,a .... " " J, u oe answemuie iviien mey return mi.iia iui nj oiaii-iucms mid. ncre. TELLING THE EDITOR GARDEN SHOW I would like very mueh to thank the Malin Garden Club members for their wonderful co operation in staging the third an nual Garden Show. I want mem to know that their unfailing help and generous offerings of personal props helped to make it a good show. I would especially like to thank the following committee members and others who put In so many hours of work in trying to make it n success: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Holl: Mr. and Mrs. Ben Johnson and sons. Jim and Don; Mr. and Mrs. Loyal Loveness, son Loren and daushter Jean: Mrs. Cecil Jackson: Wayne Rick: Pearl Otto man; Mr. and Mrs Wayne Fi.sk: Mrs. Jerry Rajnus; Mrs. Joe Hal ousek. sons Neal and Gary: Mr. and Mrs. Phil Blohm: Mrs. Frank Pavpr, son Steve: Mr. and Mrs Edwin Petrasek, son Philip: Mrs. Alden Loveness; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pernell: Wllmer Allers, and Inst, but not least, my hus band Karl; and my son and daugh ter. Neil and Suzanne, without whose help I could not have ac complished it. I would also like to thank Joe Illian. custodian of the school building, who was so helpful in so many ways; ine Loveness Lumber I company ior meir generous doni i on 01 irees: Airs i,. nunnm- nam ior tier lovely seed pictun ottoman nna uiga- ttranshaw lor the use ot tneir costumes. rwant to thank Mr. O Donahue 100. wno wL-ui, iu isrcat lengtns to gainer tne material ior our ed'j. ,. 1 Ki.. ..1-.. ...,.1-1. - uniiuii.il wuu luwiay wincn WI so ioveiy, ar-u io me louowing com mercial nouses wno spent much thoiiRht and time m giving us those tasclnatin" e x n 1 o 1 1 s: Bill ind Rita s: Suhurb.m. Flower Shop Smnv Center, and the Klamith Flower Shop. Ag?.in i win 10 inanK everyone for their nara work and chesrlul assistance. Ruhye Kulac Staginr tlialrmin. IVtATKS CAUGHT SAn cvirvrr:, c-'".,iT-it easy ct.c ' -i 13 p x:i; ce proof agal'.'.-f; : m - v; :a held va kmri , H. A. Bum and took SI 1)3 Inside 'San Quenlin Sunday. His linger ! prints were on file right down Ihe i hall. 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