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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
MONDAY. AUGUST 29. '1955
I ' FRANK JENKINS , ' BILL JENKINS
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' 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
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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.
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