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PACE SEC HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON MONDAY. AUGUST 29. '1955 I ' FRANK JENKINS , ' BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered at second class matter at the post office at KlamatB Palls. Or., on August 30, 1906, under act of congress, March I, 1878 MEMBER OF THU ASSOCIATED PRESS . The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for publication ef all local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL . ' CARRIER 1 Month t 1.50 1 Month I 1.5 Months .. I 1.50 s Months I . 1 ear J12.00 . 1 Year IH.H , BILLBOARD ' Things are pretty lonely around our house these days. Our cat, the one I wss talking about in raster day's paper, has- disappeared. We don't know whether she has been stolen or has just wandered off Maybe she met with n pack of dogs that were too much lor ner, We don't know. But her being gone has left a blank space In our lives. You get in the habit of watching as you drive up the gravel driveway to see that she isn't lurking in the shrubs or grass alongside where you might hit her. You find your self looking extra hard at the cor ner of the stone wall to see 11 may be she Isn't back home again, sit ting there In the shade of the elderberry waiting for you. We miss her constant complain ing around the house. There's no one now to retrieve a little ball of cellophane tossed across Ihe room. Her food dishes sit emply on her basement bedroom floor. The blue blanket she loved so because it was soft and downv Is still there, a corner of It hanging out of her box, Just like It was when she used- to lie there and bat It baok and forth wilh her paw. It's hard, too, to have to watch he dog search the house high and low a dozen times a day for his playmale. When he looks up at us and asks so clearly with his eyes "what's become of her?" It's tough not to be able to answer him. Even the jays seem to miss her. They sit on the feeding stand and wait for her to show up, and when 5he doesn't they fly over and peeic In the basement windows to see if she's hiding In the basement, pecking out at them from behind the panes of glass like she used to do in the winter months. I know that cats can't read, but I wish there was some woy ol letting her know how much we miss her, how big the hole is she's left in the house Just by being gone. I'd even be glad to hear her scratching up the expensive wallpaper agoln If only she'd come home. I think she's alright. She's a touch little animal and there hasn't been anv evidence that she might have been hurt or killed by a car or truck on the road. Maybe she's been picked up by someone. Per haps someone saw her wandering in ner dninly way arouna in one of the fields out Lakeshoie Drive way and thought she was lost, don't know. But if anvonc knows of a little Siamese that seems to be lacking a home let us know. It's tough to go around with a big hollow place in your life. And when South disappeared she left an awful big hole in our lives. TheyU Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo j Pop can neteh TTwcr M GET AM WITH GET TIME OFF LIKE OTHER J My JOB IS.' NO LET-OP! GOT TWF FAMILv" V MEM-IT'S NO VACATION J I TO KEEP FOUNDING AWAV tSgf- "C nn JxT FOR ME TO 60 AwAy f ) THAT SIMON LESREE BOS r 50-O-O BUSy- A WITH THE CHILDREN! OF MINE ALWAys r-CT ; HAVEN'T HAD j feel LIKE A V CRACKIN' THE J'yfT. ' EES A VACATION NWIDOW JT V"P 'SA j I But he's able to I 'M shoving off. ill be back I TAK-F T1MF OFF tna I IN "WO WEEKS OR SO. BEFORE James Marlow In discussing the "Walton Soli Plan" before .the Izaak Walton League's national convention in Chicago, W. E. Hamilton, director of research of the American Farm Bureau Federation, told some of the thinking of the Farm Bureau upon this same subject and com pared the Farm Bureau's approach to that of the izaak Walton League. "I think probably I should say a little about just where we are In the Farm Bureau in our own think ing," stated Hamilton. "We have been struggling lor a numoer oi years to get some kind of a pro gram which would relieve the nroblcm of allotments, tight con trols over production, and the problem of diverted acres. The closest ws have been able to come to that is what we call our Soil Bank Proposal. Frankly, at the present stage our Soil Bank Pro posal is not much more than an idea, we nave been so ousy trying to prevent the recnactment of rig id 80 per cent price supports which are one of the causes ol our preS' ent troubles that we haven't had the opportunity really to do the work we ougnl to oo on our sou Bank Flan. "There are really about two parts to this Soil Bank Plan. One Is a limitation on the use of di verted acres. We merely say there that If the land Is taken out ol crops receiving price supports un der production control thcro ought to be some restriction on the use of those diverted acres. Wo sug gest that the Secretary of Agricul ture establish lists of commodities that may not be produced tor di rect or Indirect sale on an area basis on these diverted acres, That of course. Is an interim progrnm because we hope to , move in the direction of avoiding these individ ual crop allotments. "About as far as we have gone on that Is to say that proper au- thorlty should be provided to make producers devote a percentage of their crop land to soil uuildlng crops or practices as a condition of eligibility for conservation pay mcnts or price supports on any crops. "Now this, somewhat like the 'Walton Plan' would require classtlicatlon of the land. I should probably sav that that is a detail that we have not fully worked out as far as our board of directors are concerned. But the only way I can see ot applying this soil Bank Plan Is to clnssily the land nnd to establish as a condition for Ihe ACP payments or as a condi tion for price support. "You see what we are driving at there. Acreage allotments In which you give a man au allotment lo grow wheal, for example, on Ihe b.tsis of the amount of wheat he has grown in the pa.tt rewards thr follow who lias mined Ihe soil and penalizes the fellow who lias fol lowed good crop rotation practice, because the fellow who has mined the soil has a Inch historic base for wheat or cotton, or whatever the crop may be that is under allotment. need to produce current supplies. "This plan the Izaak Walton League proposes would currently reduce the agricultural plant be cause you are going to lease some land. You are going to take It completely out of current produc tion. But you are going to build it up so from a long-run standpoint your plan Is bringing capital into agriculture and will eventually in crease production. As population grows we will need more produc tion. Tne question there Is whether this kind of a plan will get more production soy ten years Irom now. 1 don't know the answer to that question. "One ot the things that vou will run Into as you try to get public acceptance of this Walton Soli Plan is the fact that about the first con gressman you talk lo who is in terested in this plan and airrees io inirooiice it if not the first one, at least the second or third one will soy: 'Now this Is a kind of good idea but It is going to cost quite a bit or money even if we are spending that much now.' One or the most difficult things about programs involving the government Is to get rid of one nrogrom when you adopt another. What you are likely to do is to get this in addi tion to all the things we already have.. It is very difficult to shift money that Is being spent from one program to another. I am not defending that situation; I am just punning it, out. Hugh Pruett Astronomer, Extension Division Oregon Higher Induration System Two readers In widely separated Paclflo Coast localities have re cently asked me to repeat my discussion of the "green flash," published a few years ago. This refers to the verdant blaie of light right on the horizon Just as the upper rim of the sun sinks from view In the west. For this green flash to be visible, the skv must be unusually clear and free from haze, and the observer must be very patient and not look too di rectly at the sun until It Is nrac- tlcally gone. Avoid a bright sun ; through field glasses. Eye injury could result. i This phenomenon finds lis ex- j plunallon In the greater bending, absorption and scattering of the i rays of light of short wave length than that of those of the longer. : The explanation Is not difficult, ' but we are more concerned here 1 with the appearance than with the , theory. j It is sufficient to slate that sun-' light Is a blend of all colors of the rainbow, and Uie order of wave lrnglh goes from red. the longest, through orange, yellow, green and blue to violet, the shortest. A distant horizon gives the best opportunity for seeing the green j flash. Watch the selling sun ralher 1 indirectly so that your eyes will not be blinded by Its glare. Then Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON Ifl Today the United Slates and Russia faced the first test on whether the pleasan tries they exchanged at Geneva five weeks ago mean anything. They are meeting officially, for the first time since Geneva, in a United Nations subcommittee to d I s c u s 8 disarmament, Britain, France and Canada are sitting in with them. If only a little is accomplished, in Ihe way of concessions or agree ments, it will look like much be cause nothing much is expected. A much more Important mect Ing, and a bigger test of both. sides' good Intentions, comes Oct. 27 at Geneva when the Big Four foreign ministers get together to go over more problems than Just disarma ment. The United States and Russia have discussed disarmament many times before but never In the strangely pleasant atmosphere that prevails now and both sides have made some concessions. Russia made its biggest conces sion last May when it agreed to the idea of letting loreign inspectors stay In Russia and check on Rus sian disarmament if a disarma ment agreement is ever reached. This was an extremely limited kind of inspection the Russians agreed to. The Inspectors could not roam Russio. They d be restricted to major rail centers, harbors and airfields. The United Slates had In sisted on a much wider kind of inspection. At Geneva President "Eisenhower went the Soviets one better by proposing that each side let the other keep a check by aerial in spection, Elsenhower got a lot of mileage out of his proposal, propaganda-wise. The Russians were caught flat footed and lo this day have neither accepted .Elsenhower's plan, re jected it. nor come up with some other plan of their own. It is possible the Russians will provide a sensation in the U.N. offer that would match or outdo El senhower's. If they have such an Intention, they've kept it quiet. If they accept Eisenhower's aerial inspection plan, it is the President who may wind up em barrassed for the U.S. Senate would have to approve both a dis armament and Inspection plan. The Senate might not go for the aerial check Idea. The Russians, since they don't hRVe to answer to their people, are in a better position to offer a plan which they can make stick. Nothing done at the subcommit tee meeting Is final anyway. That meeting, while It can be useful, Is like a scouting expedition into the thinking of the Big Four. All the representatives at the subcommittee meeting con do Is report bock to their governments for any approval to be given or what the other side has offered. HAL BOYLE NEW YORK IjPI It ' is hard to get some employers to hire handicapped people. Often when they do, they have a feeling they are doing the handicapped a favor. Joe Heller is a different ktnd of employer. He prefers to hire blind people because he has found they do a better job than workers who can see. "And I mean they do a better Job In every way," said Heller, who operates a 2,000,000-a-year wholesale toy manufacturing firm :n Chicago. Only two per cent of his employes have normal vision. Ninety-six per cent are totally blind the other two percent par tially blind. Heller's original Interest in the blind was sentimental. "When I was a boy of seven," he recalled, "my best friend fell Into a trough of lime while play ing on Ihe site of a construction project. His eyes were burned out. "I was very close to him. In those days there wasn't so much known about how to help the blind adjust themselves to their condi tion. My friend grew up and died, but he never . learned to adjust himself. He was never able to work. He was afraid to try to get around by himself. It hurt me over the years to see him so helpless." In 1949 Heller, who had been active in the toy field, decided to go into business for himself. With two partners he founded the Skil Croft Corp., which markets "Handy Andy" Juvenile tool sets. The idea cme to him that per haps some of the routine factory tasks could be performed by the blind, that in this way he could cave some of them from the dreary loneliness of his dead child hood friend. He went to the Chi coito Lighthouse for the Blind for help in setting up a training pro gram. The program worked out better than anyone's expectations. The blind proved amazingly able to perform any task assigned to them. Today Heller has a reservoir of S00 skilled blind workers to draw on. employs from 100 to 160, de fending on seasonal fluctuations in the toy industry. He avoids any sentiment in discussing them. He is a hard-headed realist, credits Iheir efficiency largely for the foct his business has grown from $300,000 to $2,000,000 annually in six years, now is the top producer in the field. Some of the blind do office work. Pome operate drill presses and riveting machines. Some assemble and pack the tool kits. When the firm added a line of chemistry sets, microscopes and Juvenile mechonical drawing kits, the blind learned the necessary new skills quickly and easily. "In all sincerity," said Heller, "I would stack them up against the best group of sighted people. Our people would do their jobs better and get them done fast er. They develop a marvelous sense of touch that compensates for their loss of sight." Do they have any other advan tages? "Many," said Heller crisply. "They don't argue or quibble or loaf on the job. If they get paid on a Friday, they don't go on a spree till the next Wednesday. There is little absenteeism. A blind man has to be really sick before he'll miss work. Once we've trained a blind worker we've nev er had to let one go not a single one because he let down on the job. "They are happier working than many people who can see. We have music for them, and often they break out singing. "They are also more careful. Our safety record is perfect. We've never had an accident." The blind are paid during a four-week training period. They then receive the same wage scale up to $3 an hour as, workers in other Chicago toy factories, plus extra money if tnetr output is above the average. "About 35 per cent of our blind are women. They do as well as the men and some things bet ter. But they're all good." All his blind employes come to work and go ho.ne by themselves. A few have guide dogs. But most pride themselves ' on the fact they can get along with nothing but a white cane. An example of their ability to grow on a job: A group of six workers who packed 800 sets of toys in a given period when they first started on the job three years ago can now pack 4,000 sets In the same time a production in crease of 500 per cent. "More employers ought to go to the nearest agency for the blind." said Heller, "and really find out for themselves what the blind can do. They'll find them to be, man for man, a greater asset than many of the people they have on their payroll now." FRANK TRIPP HP. uy KtANATM ,Llt. WH CLOSED MONDAYS Ben B. Lee, Mgr. U'hnil nlllv Ihn final Hl nt tha 'Now we have viewed this from yellow disk remains, lurn your at ihe standpoint of gelling the soil tendon more fully to II. If con ertility bank as a substitute lorlditions are then right, Ihe green these individual cron ullmmrn i ,n hi.. f-.h ,. because with the crop allotments, denness - and be gone In a sec as I have mentioned before, you In.1 ond or .two. ,, IIIG nuuiiy oi larmers to adjust their production to what the market needs. You may wind Up getting too much poor ouahiv cotton, for example, and the snine thing applies to wheal. You folks iThe Izaok Walton League) have approached this from ihe stand point of substituting it for a puce support program. Thot Is not s different as it sounds. There arc basic reasons why Ihe farmers are interested In price supports. One is the instability of agricultural puces which Is related to a lot of things. For Instance, war and Inflation and the fact that production fluctuates and the demand la Inelastic. Add to that fact that we have now, aft er all this war and foreign aid pe riod when there was a larne de liniiid tor agricultural pio-lurts. a biiiger agncultuial plant than we, In very dry climates the green flash Is qulle often seen. The Egyptologist, Dr. W. Groof, sow It niouy times when In the Nile coumry. and reported evidence that long ago the people of that land were familiar with It. With optical aid this phenomenon may be seen much longer than a second or two. Prof. Don Hunter ol the University ol Orrgon has made a special study of It for many years. During EMIL'S TUESDAY SURPRISE Cantaloupes ,b. Full of Flavor C. Nubora JVIdp Giant Size Wilh White Lustre Dishes Mary's Strawberry JAM Full Pint Heinx Tomato Soup Ground Beef A" at No Cereal 5 for 3 lbs. Gravenstein APPLES Allswect . Margarine s&w Coffee,,,.. Puritan Drip Syrup 24.0, Lean, Meaty Short Ribs 2 lbs. 2 lbs. bottle lb. r Prices Effective Tuesday Only MIL'S SUPER MARKET 9th .and PINE No phone calls, PLEASE One of the glories of the rural retreat to which we hie tor nail of the year is toe swap of noxious motor fumes for the bracing odor of somebody's wood on the hearth. The smell, through the open windows in the morning, gives the day a start that beats any thing master perfumers could con trive. I used to think it was a nos talgic smell: something one must have lived with when a child, to make of the sweet aroma, in the cool morning airy an elixir which balms the soul. . But that's not true. After sever al guests, who never lived in the country, remarked pleasantly about it, I came to know that iresniy burning hardwood gives off a per fume which is attractive to most people, no matter what teir back ground. The smell Is not thot of smoke. It is the heated sap gases of sound and sturdy wood, released by perfect combustion. The odor lingers in the air unseen, still will travel quite distances and be noticeable. One of our guests said she never had awakened wilh the odor be fore and that it made her feel calmly refreshed and more aware that she had enjoyed a restful night's sleep; that a new, clean day was dawning.1' She said it made the world seem bright and pure and fair. She re vealed these sensations after be ing told that what she smelled was not an exotic incense, as part of our hospitality. What she exper ienced is what many know; you who spent childhood or any part of your years close to nature. The Indian laid down his arms and met friend and adversary by the council fire. Soldiers pause for rest, sing bal lads of home and dream of their loved ones by the campfire. Children romp, laugh, and see eerie forms and romantic im ages of. their little world is the bonfire. Hunters spin their yarns and sleep on boughs by night in the comfortable and protecting glow of burning wood. There's something about the sight and smell ot a wood fire which is associated with firmness and security; that gives a feeling of strength and confidence. Modern man has recognized these truths in spite of his con traptions to give himself comfort and ease. He surrounds himself with everything magic and auto matic. Yet in the very room which is electrically and mechanically equipped, air conditioned and ther mostatically controlled, he will build a big and cheerful wood burning fireplace. If he can't do that he creates a substitute: builds a dummy one as a symbol of repose and puts a gas or an electric log in it. We see them high in the sky, along the canyoned streets of great cities, In apartments and hotel suites. Man tears himself away from all that is primitive and inconven ient. He strives to improve upon1 nature in everything he does. He, builds himself lazy leisure and earns fortunes through Inventions which sgek to make nature obso lete. - Then every time he gets a chance he pays big money and travels long distances to get back to nature again. When he gets there he reaches toward the sky, tnkes deep breaths of pure, fresh air. He admits to himself "what a fool I am"; then shouts audibly, "ain't nature grand!" We call It progress. But who ever gets back where dawn thun ders in a new day. sweet with the smell of wood on the hearth, that he doesn't feel a better, freer, happier man just a little bit closer to God? SF Water Main Floods Street SAN FRANCISCO (UP) A 16 Inch water main erupted with a loud roar in a residential section of San Francisco yesterday, goug ing a 10-foot deep trench down the center of a street, flooding basements and stalling streetcar service. The main broke on 14th Ave. north of Taraval St., shooting a three-foot column of water 20 feet into the air and spraying nearby houses with a torrent of water, sand and mud. Within minutes the water had gougecrout a 10 foot trench, 30 feet wide and 360-fee long. A sea of water flowed down hill, blocking traffic at two inter sections and depositing a pool of mud on the tracks of a streetcar line. Water Department repair crews shut off the water an hour- after the break and service was restored later in the day. EVEREST & JENNINGS WHEEL CHAIRS and 1 WALKERS finest AtU for fhe Handicapped Sturdily constructed I and easily controlled. Kverest A Jennings Folding Wheel Chairs and Walkers inspire complete confidence m the user. Two of many fine Everest & Jen- nines aids for the I handicapped. Auriiarfctad Deafer CURRIN'S-for drugs 9th ond Moin Ph. 2-3475 Rentals and Sales 1-1 MtmMaf- I LAST BIG WEEK! 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