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SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 1955 PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo BtJT WHAT COMES OH CLEARER THAN THE AURORA &ORBAUS ? yOU 5J55I? ST, ftMPNEft "VThEM POES THE AtMO AHP W&oeOOFF? WH, JUST AT THE CRUCIAL MOMENT, OF COURSE- FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered as second class matter at the post office ac Klamath Palls, Ore., on August 20, 190b, under act of Congress, Marcb 8, 1819 MEMBER OF THU ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press la entitled exclusively to the use for publication f all local newa printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 d&uiyy 66 MAIL 1 Month I Months 1 Vear CARRIER I 1 50 1 Month f 1.58 I 7.50 ( Months t (.OH 112.00 1 Year fli.M I IB ILL BOA win v v v . run i S Captain Dinger dropped in Fri day while on a routine tour of the area and gave out with a good deal of Information on the Jet base op eration picture that will be coming into focus here after the first of the year. Dinger, public Information offi cer with Uie 28111 air division sta tioned at Hamilton Field, came Into Klamath Fails to see what the situation was going to be, what the attitude might or might not be toward both the planes and the personnel and to pass along the in formation that the officers and men will be as crrct to make a place for themselves here as we are to accept them into the com munlty. He also gave out with some in formation that will serve to allay a good many feais roused by false rumors. Probably the most frequently asked question In the minds of Klamathites is "how much noise are we going to have to put up with?" The answer, according to Dinger, is "very little." The rea son for tills comparative lack of noise from anything as noisy as a . Jet plane is that (1) weather per mitting, all takeoffs will be made to the South which will carry the planes away from the center of town and will also miss all but the outlying fringes of the residential areas, (2) It is seldom that Uie planes stationed here will crack the sonic barrier. It is this exces sive speed which leads to the rend ing, crashing, ear-splitting roar that most of us have heard at one lime or another. The outfit is strictly a combat unit, not a train ing base or an experimental out fit so there Is little reason for at taining supersonic speeds. (3) Al though there will be constant train ing flights, scrambles, check flights and routine missions most of the activity, other than scram bles (which is a quick call Into action and planes away on an alert) will be carried out during daylight hours. Nor will there be any flat-hattlng around the area. This Is frowned on by the author ities and these are peacetime fliers not throttle-happy wartime youngsters. 80. while there Is going to be some noise and inconvenience. It appears that those in command are anxious to make It not only easy for themselves but easy for the community as well. The promise of cooperation was given in all sincerity. He also came up with a few other comments that might prove interesting to the home town folks. For instance, that the average tour of duty for the officers at the base will probably be around two years. As the base gains stature and age this tour will In all probability be extended to four or five years. Airmen (enlisted men) will be coming and going on a fairly busy routine although the average man will put in a good many months at the Klamath Falls base. Most of those coming in who will live off the base will want rental units, not sale property. A few of the officers will probably buy their own homes, but on the whole they will rent. And will be in a position uhere they are going to want apartments of a fairly high order, not crummy hideouts on a tem porary basis. There will be a lot of new and technical stuff going on out there and it is the desire of the PIO men to acquaint us home towners with as much of it as possible. That should prove Interesting. And, finally, he pointed out that the 28th Air Division Is doing quite a Job in policing the skies all the way from a point 100 miles North or Klamath Falls to Bakcrsfield in Calilornla. West as far as their ra dar scopes will penetrate and East as far as Salt Lake City. Quite a lot of territory to try and cover. They are on the alert for all strange and unreported aircraft or sky objects over this vast area. Which gives one certain feeling of security, after all. A thought crosses our mind ripht now that Uie next time a flying saucer is reported in our area we'll have swift Jet planes to track it down. Maybe it will prove once and for all whether there is any thing to the stories or not. Walt and see, I guess. I see by the papers that the leather lunged political fraternity intends to make an Issue of the agricultural situation in the com ing political campaign. The news items that have appeared so far go to indicate the theme ,of the political office aspirant will' be to appeal to farmers on the ground that If supported by Uie farm peo ple the aspirant politico will In turn see that more tax dollars will be spent for Uie farmer's benefit. Of course, those In office will re ply in kind by claiming all the so called benefits the farmer has received from the tax dollars al ready spent. In other words, Uie old hassel between rlRld and flexi ble price supports will be battled to the hopeless confusion of the public who foots the bill, and while politicians battle with each other to the death a candid and im partial discussion of the agricul tural problem will gain no admit tance to this battle R round reserved by and for politicians onlv. In the face of these Drosuects of tempest it Is doubtful If such a program as the Walton Soil Plan which la strictly non-partisan and proposed by Uie Iiaak Walton League will be able to gain public discussion. The discussion of Uie Walton Plan that has been carried In this column appears to indicate both conservative and liberal farm apokesmen are In agreement that one of the basic problems in the agricultural situation which has led to production being In excess ol demand Is the problem of marginal lands and lands that should not continue to be cropped In the face of the present economic crisis of agriculture. The Walton Boll Plan suggests a market lor these marginal lands by placing them in a conservation reserve un der contract with the federal gov ernment. While both liberal and conservative farm spokesmen ap pear to react favorably to the Walton Plan insofar as It removes the marginal lands from competi tion with the class one agricultural lands, they are exceedingly timid about following the trunk Walton Idea of moving directly away from the price supports which appear to be the fire that will stoke the embers of the coming political campaign. Agricultural leaders are unani mous in their opinion In regard to Uie problem of marginal land and diverted acres. Gus lielssler of the National Farmers Union. In criticising the Walton Flan before the Izaak Walton League had this comment on marginal lands: "I noticed that the Izaak Walton Land Use Committee said that In aome cases entire farms should be taken out of production. At the moment I am not going to com ment on that, but we do have land in cultivated production In this country which never should have been plowed and which never again should be plowed. I am not quite sure, at least let me say, that the Walton Plan will solve all the problems of this kind of land. During the early '30s the area that is today a dust bowl was Uien a dust bowl, and the De partment of Agriculture went out there with a land restoration pro gram In which they made those people a small payment to take that land out of cultivated pro duction and seed it down to grass cover. The first Job, of course, was to get It to hold still, and so Uie first Uilng they did was to plant some sorghum or almost anything that would hold the land down and Uien after that they were able to seed It down to grass. I saw that country In 1934. I saw that country a'jout every year, but making a comparison between 1034 and 1941 you would not have recognized the country. It was beautiful in 1941. It looked like Uie Sahara desert in 1934. But what hnppencd? "Not through price support but through war the price ol wheat went up. The land was only rented. There was no control over it, and not so much the farmers in Uie area, but people from elsewhere all kinds of people saw an op portunity for a quick dollar. They bought a string of farm machin ery and plowed that land up by the thousands of acres. "That is why I question here whether for that kind of land a buyer approach to it might be a better approach than rental. "Then I raise Uie question of whether any farmer should be per mitted all of his land as suggested under the Walton program. You are going to run into Uiese other tilings Uiat have been touched on which are well, you might coll Uiem political strategy If you want to. I appeared before appropria tion committees for over IS years and I know something about how those boys react too. The comment that was made here about a fellow living In Florida and getting a check for $10,000 out in Colorado Is Important. There may be onlv Hi ol those but I am telling voii Fulton Lewis Jr. can resllv make something out of them. That kuid ui ming nuns, 1 in., mmxm No By I, VLB DOWNING There is a strong belief In some circles that money Is the root of all evil. But that well-known man-about-town, Sammy Gordun, takes Issue with this contention. "It's dames, not money, that's causing the trouble," the former featherweight boxing star de clared. "Dames are dynamite. I was belted around plenty In the prize ring but I wouldn't take a chance on the wedding ring." Sammy looks with Jaundiced eye upon the ancient and honorable Institution of matrimony. "What does a guy get when he's hitched?" he asked. "There's old shoes and rice and 'O Promise Me.' The next you hear of the guy, he's in the alimony ward of some county Jail screaming his head off and wishing he could stick a knife in Cupid." i.i.igiuu: B,(iii:i.0R Although he might well be num bered among Klamath Falls' most eligible bachelors, Bommy says "no dice" on any entanglements with the opposite sex. , "This love game is Just like shooting craps," he continued. "Take these high-rolling Ruys like Tommy Manville and Artie Shaw. Each of Uiem has held the matri monial dice eight or nine times and neither one of them has ever made his point if you get what I mean. Sammy, who was born In Balti more, Maryland, June 21, 1899, has been a resident of Klamath Falls since 1923. He came here at the end of a spectacular career in pugil ism. He considers the highlight of his boxing career a decisive win over Miko Ballcrino, who copped the Junior lightweight champion ship of the world In 1925. Sammy beat Ballerino while he was a featherweight. Siimmv shared ring honors In Uie early 1920s with his brother, Abe Gordon. Abe fought three world champions Pancho Villa, Fidel LaBaiba and Jimmy Mc Laren. Sammy carries a gold watch which was presented to his broUier by Uie American Athletic Association. HAD KOlKill GO "When Abe and I first got started In the fight racket." Sammy ex plained. "It was a pretty rough go. If I do say It myself, Abe and me were both crowd-pleasers. At Uiul time we decided to keep our money in the family. We started traveling around the coun try fighting under phony names. My other brother, Hymie. traveled with us. He acted as reierce. No body knew we were all brothers. We gave the fight fans their mon ey's worth, though." Sammy now lists himself as an advertising man. He distributes window cards for the Klamath Theaters and other organizations. He makes his headquarters at the Klamath Billiards and the Wal dorf. His favorite spot in Klamath Falls is the corner of Main and Seventh streets. 'You stand ou that corner long Then .... enough," he declared, "and you'll see anybody In town you are look ing for. That's a great little corner. It's a favorite corner with the cops, too." As he stands at his favorite in tersection. Sammy's stock greeting to his friends Is, "Someday I'm going to smack you!" But he does n't mean a word of it. (Listen to Family Album. Sun day 9 p.m., Radio Station KFLW.) HUGH PRUETT By J. HUGH PRUETT I in the sky we see it through haze Astronomer Extension Division and a much thicker layer of air Oregon Higher Education System than when high, and lis light is Most of the naked-eye planetb I greatly disturbed as it bores have to cut and fit, you have to compromise a little because you have to deul with realities and one of the realities is Congress and Uie oilier one is public opinion. "One thniR bothers me a little about this Walton Program and I am sure It is not intentional, and that is we spruit constantly of Uie landowner. Ii is true that in this country a very high percentage ol our farm operators are tenants. A tenant is a pretty good citizen. In fact, the only reason he Is a tenant sometimes is because the owner does not want to farm and an the land would not be a Rood farm if it were not tor this tenant out there. I don't thmk we have given are now too near the sun for easy observation. This applies to Mer cury, Venus and Mars. On Sep tember 1, Venus was almost be hind the sun and at its greatest distance from us. Thus it passed from a position west of the nun to east of it and can now be said to be In the evening sky. But sev eral weeks must pass before Venus will be separated far enough from old Sol to be observed easily in the western twilight. Jupiter is now a splendid object as it rises in the east-northeast about two hours before the sun. Saturn is the yellow, non-twinkling object seen low in the southwest as so'jn as uie sky is sufficiently darkened. For identification of the brighter stars planets are not stars let us observe the sky about 8:30 p.m. standard time, or one hour Inter DST. Low in the southwest the red star Antnres in the celestiui Scor pion is flashing1 energetically. The classical name for Mars, the red planet, was Ares.. Since the star under discussion seemed to rival Mars in redness, it was named Anti-Ares, or "opposed to Mars." Tbir. was shortened slightly to An tares (accent second syllable!. Fainy high in Uie west we find orange Arcturus at the foot of a kite-like figure of stars. This was the star that turned on the lights of the Chicago Century of Progress exposition in 1933. While exploring the western half of the sky, note the Big Dipper sliding "bowl first" down the northwest. Just about overhead the splendid star Vega shines as the ornament of the Harp of Orpheus. Somewhat east of this. Deneb. of lesser bril liance, Is prominent at the head of the Northern Cross. Some dis tance south of the zenith. Altair holds forth between two dimmer stars. If hills or buildings do not inter fere, we can see bright Capella almost on the horizon in the north northeast. At about this time al most every year someone gets excited by the flashings and rapid color-changings of Capella. I often get telephone calls regarding it from those who think It is a flying saucer or a hostile aircrait ot some undetermined type. Later in the evening when Ca pella is high in the northeast this ghostly behavior ceases. When low through the atmosphere to our eyes. Rising at about this time in the southeast is Fomalhaut. the prin cipal star of the Southern Fish. High in the northeast notice the W-shaped figure formed by live stars of only moderate brightness. This outlines the famous chair ol Cassiopeia. They'll Do It Every Time ir By Jimmy Hatlo IF AW CLIErJT HIT YOU ON THE LEFT SID5, HOW COME VOU RE pumMe in FOR NEW TIRES AND FENDERS ON THE RISHT ' FISMINT THINKS HE'S 60NM4 WE CARE OF HIS SIX YEARS' WEARAHD TEAR FROM ONE LITTLE BUMP IN THE PENDER- if ; UNDER I HIS WIFE JUST R4N m IN TO 6ET HER SPLINTS ALL FISMINT VS W4NTS IS A NEW C4R4N C V ltd Vj FLORIDA 2rf i V .M I 4' W HE SHOVED MXm Y7 OVER AGAINST A 1 If STEAM ROLLER ON U A THAT SIDE AND ONTO V) A LOT OF BROKEN ( -v HI cpamp ic tfwrv-L'pri I -O OUM WHACMND IT ) ( ) R. SIDE TOO? S DID SOMETHING TO V lnt- ST"T otV r "V tiC VEEXH4UST 1 FICTION"-- ' CftPlt. I HI, K1WC HATHIEK STKHICATT. Iw. WAHID ttCHT MBEKVEP CMEERlMS Oti THE PAL WHO'S COINS FOR THE JACK POT WITH THE INSURANCE INVESTIGATOR"' Copco Pact Delay Asked ter and that assignments of pre. fercntial water rights should await the compact and further study of the effects thflt. the lnnir.tprm rnn- a similar request , tract may have on the future use The California Water Resources! Last week Board has asked the U.S. BureauUi,ac m.H. h th raurnnia vi.m'nr th uiai.c invniuoH - rnnn mi .-.a. Vt. .. I ath River Commission. Individual with the California-Oregon Power Jctl"s '"B'e delay were writ- len nv Plnir Hill fhali'man nf th company. Vet's Mailbag t The contrnrt rails fnr th nnpra. lion of Link River Dam at the end of Upper Klamath Lake. The water board staff pointed out that there are about 100.000 acres of irrigable land in California and about twice that many in Oregon that could be affected by the contract. Builders, real estate dealers and other persons selling homes to vet erans with the aid of CI loan financing are reminded by the Veterans Administration of a law which allows a veteran-purchaser to sue for treble damages when he has been forced to pay more for a property than the official appraisal price set by ,the VA. The VA explained that under the loan provisions of the CI Bill, any payment for a home over and above the VA's appraisal of "rea sonable value" Is prohibited, and criminal statutes provide fines up to Si. 000 and prison terms up to one year for willful violation of the law. VA said the law makes the risk of overcharging a veteran even greater by allowing the federal court to assess the seller three times the amount of the over charge, plus costs and attorney's fees. The damages are payable to the veteran. VA explained that overcharges in GI housing purchases usually are provided for through "side deals" or under-the-table payments which are not shown in the papers submitted to VA. Any subterfuge which Is used. VA warned, is a violation of Fed eral statute. VA said that Investt gatlon of reports of various side deals are being made, particularly with regnrd to closing costs and newly required down payments. Question of the week: Q. I am a World War II veteran, and I have been thinking of going to Canada and buying a farm. Could I use a Ol farm loan to purchase a farm In Canada? A. No. Under the law, a GI loan cannot be placed on property out side the United States or Its ter ritories or possessions. ten by Clair Hill, chairman of the water board and A. D. Edmon slon, California state engineer. Edmonston says that the two states are attempting to work out a compact for long-range distri oution of the Klamath Basin wa- Upper Floor For Rent 619'i Main Suitable for office business. Apt. or both DREWS Manstore Child Molester Given Sentence YREKA Cleo McClees. 26, ar rested in Yreka last Saturday for molesting children, pleaded guilty i to the charge before Judicial Judge E. M. Axl'ell, and was sentenced to six months in the county jail. I He was arrested by Yreka city police in the Broadway Theater' Saturday afternoon during a chll-, dren's matinee performance. Klamath Business College Phone 4760 Is Organizing A Night Class In SPEED WRITING . . . Commencinq September, 13th, and end ing December, 7th, each Tues. and Wed. night from 7 PM till 9:30 PM. No other sub jects on the nights mentioned. A limited num ber of students for enrollment. Ph. 4760 for more details. So thai l.t whv T ii... i . . . think I,, .hi i j . . 1 K'"H 1U irnn uie lenani imo ims think In this kind of thin you1 kind of program." O People Read SPOT ADS -yoii ore. EIITA 'S 4811 So. 6th Op.n 1 t.m, is 8 30 p.m. Sundays 12 to 8:30 P.M. 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