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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
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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-
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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 ....
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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. Warden Harley ieets sill
i they matched those found on
I knue uranaisnca at nam ov a mm
wearing a pillowsliD over his held.
I The suspect, Robert G. Glover, 31,
is in prison for robbery.
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