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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 13,1955 PAGE TEN HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH KALLS. OREGON .They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy HatloJ Poet's Corner atom, """"W ivm iirx CLij . i lACTiit 13 ' FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered as aecond claw matter at the post office at Klamath Falls, Ore on August SO, 1906, under act of Congress, March (, 187 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press la entitled exclusively to the use for publication of all local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL CARRIER 1 Month i I SO 1 Month S LSI I Months Monlha t.e 1 year .. I12M I far ...... tll.M IBILLBOARDfl Seems like the deer hunters who don't cut down a black bear or two this year are sort of out ol style. Reports coming In Irom all over the place concerning the In nocent nlmrods who have gone tut with the Eole purpose In mind .if laving In a store of venison did have come back, with a glossy bear pelt instead. Trie only one I know anything shout personally is C. M. "Davy Crockett ' Gilmore, who snagged a two hundred and '.en pounder that weighed a ton bef-jre he got il loaded in the trunk ol nis car. .. The critter measured an even five feet from tip to tip. In the future he'll do that measuring along the floor of the Cllmore's Lake of the Woods cabin. Anyhow, It seems thai Oilly had gone out to snare a buck and chose the Buck Lake area. He was pussyfooting along the trail when he saw this bear cross ahead of him. The animal disappeared into the brush, but Gllly could hear him rooting around In there like an old hog Pretty soon he stopped rooting and stepped back in the trail, glanced down a ways and there was Gllly. On the basis that the bear was acting a little skittish and might have come the wrong direction Gilly raised up his old meat hook and squeezed off the single shot that done the bear in. Claims thAt puts him In a class with Davy because Davy wrassled his first bear at the age of three and Gilly shot his first one before he was fifty three. To quote the old woodsman ex actly he said: "Never was so ex cited in my life. Forgot all about getting a deer. Then I got klnda scared. All those stories you hear about bears. I kept waiting for a pal of his to show up, but when nothing happened I walked over to HAL LANCASTER, PA. ' -- If the eagle would only get bald sooner, he'd have a tetter chance of survival. Herbert H. Beck, an expert who helleves this feathered emblem of American might Is facing possible extinction witnin the next 70 years, explained: "The eagles don't develop theli distinctive white head plumage un til the fourth year. Before that can happen tanners and hunters often mistake theni for large brown hawks and shoot them down." Beck, a retired chemlstrv pro- irssor, noias me meiancnoiy dis tinction of being custodian of an eagle sanctuary that no longer has an eagle In It. The sanctuary, believed the only eagle refuge In the world, was es tablished on Mt. Johnson Island In the Susquehanna River near here in 1936 by the Audubon Assn. Nev er more than one family of eagles nested on the 21-acre Island at a time, for the bald eagle sets up his own kind of feathered economic cartel. "Bald eagles are highly Individ ualistic." said Beck. "They never travel in flocks. Thcv set up their encroachment by other eagles." The big unlidy. 6-foot-wlde nest atop an 85-foot tall red oak tree on the Island has been only In termittently occupied since 19-18 "If the male Is killed there will he a replacement." Afrir i "But If the female is Wiled, there won't be." Beck feels that many farmers, dcsplle a MOO fine tor destroying " un.u nKir, oiirn r.nooi down the herce-looking birds in the false be- era thPy re ma)r b,rn'llr'1 r'l "The fact Is that examination of their stomachs shows that js per cent ol thrlr fond Is fish." he said. The bald eagle ranges along large lakes, riers. and bays in Alaska, Canada, and the eastern lull o( ;he United States south into Florida. How rierply has civilization cut down the engle. a bird which has no real natural rnentv? a,"1?. "r "m Pl'nllful In Alaska." said Beck, "but I doubt there are more than B.ooo Irlt in the United Statps east of the Mis sissippi River. There used to be hundreds of thousands. "In One are ir. ti-MnU T - 150 occupied nests 3.1 years ago tucio rid miw only jo to 30 Telling The Editor Ql KSTION Some of your readers out this way would like you to gia us some more luhl on Ihe so callrd death canal Issue. Will you please publish the correct answers in the following questions and oblige 1. When was the A canal cre ated? 2 How many humans have drowned In it? 8. Were all of the people so young that they would not get be yond a good fence? How many were thai young? Thank you lor Ihe truth Werner O. dunre : ) Malln. Oregon. Editor's Note: Dr. George H. Adler, Klamath County coroner, says his records show u children and 16 adults have drowned In the A canal sir.ee 1S:'2. The drownings were not confined to the city. Dr. Adler also said that the majorilv of the children were old enough to climb a fence unless It was lopped wllh barbed wire. The ranal ! wis placed in operation June 37, , 1907. 1 where he was lying and he was dead alright and no more bears showed up." "Did you ever try to carry a bear? Like trying to pack fifty gallons ol water in a hundred pound sack. I got him off the ground and started for the car. Then one big paw flopped over on me. I let loose of that bear and I bet I jumped fifteen feet. Long est broad Jump ever made in Klamath County, that I know." Anyway, Gilly got that . there bear home and now Cummlngs has a ob doing him up into a nig. Bob Thompson has already sug gested, according to Gilly, that a secret compartment be built into the head to serve as a hidey-hole lor choice Items, Sucn as you knew-what. The only bear I ever saw shot was done for as he roared through the door of the bar at the club. Shot to death several times, in fact, by a number of people and :hr.t bear got bigger and meaner and tougher with every shooting. If this country Is going to be overrun with bear, maybe we'd all better oil up the old shootln' iron, get a little coaching from Davy Crockett who can be reached at the Gilmore Sign Company and be or. the ready to protect our homes. There will be, incidentally, plen ty of shootln' Irons broken out over the weekend because this Is ihe week that California's goose reason opens. Daylight on Satur day is the hour and the shooting's up to you, mister. I hope we have at least a little luck. Haven't fired shot In anger since the last futile blast at a fast-winging pin tall last year. Guess I should have kept the old eye In condition but just didn't get around to It. BOYLE Beck, nearly 80, has been a lite long naturalist as his father was before him. Having seen the pass ing of the passenger pigeon, once probably the most plentiful bird in America, he fears that even strict conservation measures will come too late to save the bald eagle from the same fate. When ( spec ies In nature begins to decline. It sometimes uies out despite anv ef fort to save it. 'fn 1Mb"," he recalled, "my fath er saw a flight or passenger pigeons that took four hours to pass. He estimated the flock eon lalned two billion birds and cov ered 340 square miles of sky. "On Sept. 1, 1888, just 43 vears later, I saw a flock of 150 to 175 passenger pigeons and tried un- successfully to stalk them. I am ine only living member of the American Ornithologists' Union who ever saw a flock even that large. 'The last passfr.scr pigeon. Martha, died in 'he Cincinnati Zoo on Sept. 8. 1914. These birds which, pioneers reported, once darkened ine skies, were gone from the sight of man forever." It distresses Beck to think that some child born today may, be fore his life is through, have to luin to the back of a dollar bill It he wants to see the rugged winged symbol of American power. "LEFTY" SILLY illy Ofay's ra. oedt far Dacca. It It cemeaied ,f featured mmicisiii lob K.tt,,, ,i u. tar, ai trith W Kil r 1 T,.n. .,,r Crtiihto, faimttr lak W.lli ... Ma.lt Thtmnan. Catiaa, (armady with Haak Thtmaiaa . ytit C-.-s -vi evu lurse. ' 4up vims. ST4LL AMD i SHOW ABOUT 4S MUCH ) ACTION! AS A R4IR OP BOOK ENDS'" V JAMES MARLOW Br DON WHITEHEAD WASHINOTON (Pi In all the discussions about Adlaj Stevenson and Averell Harriman as the top challengers for the Democratic presidential nomination where does Tennessee's lanky Sen. Estes Kefauver fit Into the picture? Three years ago, Kefauver was riding a wave of popularity which had its beginning In the spectacu lar television Senate crime-busting Investigations which he conducted across the country. It was the first time that politicians realized the Bayes Relates Red Doubts SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Cpl. Thomas Bayes Jr., 32, told his court martial yesterday that he was called on the carpet before the commander of his Korean pris on camp for disagreeing with Red views in so-called camp discussion groups. The Flat Lick, Ky soldier is charged with collaborating with the enemy while a prisoner during the Koresn War. "Once a week we'd have lec tures and then discussion." Bayes said. "There were monitors on us all the time and anyone who dis agreed with the instructors were called 'backward' and taken to camp headquarters." Bayes, testifying on his own be half for the third day, said he ran Into similar trouble in another camp when he disagreed with a ilea instructor concerning Ameri can germ warfare charges. "He showed us pictures of the U.S. pilots' signed confessions, but I told him 'You must have given them something to make them sign'." Bayes said he was given the same treatment as other POWs un til he formed a "capitalist army," a group whose purpose it was to warn prisoners not to accept fav ors from the Reds. He testified the organisation set fire to an arch way dedicated to the Communists' peace motives. Because of his leadcrshin In the "army," Bayes said he was sen tenced to one year at hard labor by a mock Communist prison court. The armistice and repatria tion took place before this sentence could be completed, he said. CHURCHES ABILENE, Tex. IJP) The Texas Synod of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., nas voted to operate as an Integrated synod allowing Ne gro churches to membership. The synod Includes Louisiana and Tex as. "BALDY" EVANS PROUDLY PRESENTS 'AMERICA'S GREATEST SONG STYLIST" HUFFY AND BILLY GRAY "HANK" THOMPSONS BAND LEADER FOR OVER 23 YEARS AND HIS WESTERN OKIES AMERICA'S FINEST NEW WESTERN BAND . PLUS - VOCALIST TIBBY EDWARDS MERCURY RECORDING STAR FROM LOUISIANA HAYRIDE DANCE & SHOW AW&ORY SAT. MIGHT DANCING -l BROADCAST OVER KFLW $150 Ptr Pirton (to. Inc.) i AFTER OTI GAME TOR THE LAST TteNWHEN ITS OVER AHD TOSYRE WAITING FOR THE DECISION'" THEy SHOW TIMB.BRMK IT , 0R I Ll tmroiv mvNt rcP voj both OUT ' WZEN WHIRLING DERVISHES' impact television could have on voters. And .kciauver was a tele vision hero. On the first ballot at the nation al convention, Kefauver was out in front with 340 votes. Stevenson was second with 273 and Georgia's Sen. Richard Russell was third with 268. Kefauver still was the leader on the second ballot with 362 3 votes to Stevenson's 324 ',4 and Russell's 294. On the third and final ballot Kefauver's support began to crum ble. Stevenson zoomed to 617 i voles. Kefauver slipped to 275' i and Russell had 261. Stevenson was tlie winner. Despite this strong showing in 1952, Kefauver today remains a secondary figure in speculation over the probable winner of the Democratic nomination next year. The spotlight is on Stevenson and Harriman with Harriman now getting strong promotion. The recent trend of events sug gests that Democratic strategists are building toward a situation which could have this result: if Stevenson is unable to swing the convention to his side then Harri man would be ready to move Jo the center of the stage. Kefauver may have his own ideas about these proceedings. For sev eral weeks he has been overseas visiting foreign lands. Thus he has been in no position to project him self Into the presidential picture even if he so desired. If the Tennessean does make an other bid for his party's nomina tion, he will add considerable inter est to the campaign. But despite his personal popularity with the voters, he laces a tremendous han dicap in this well-known fact: he isn't popular with most of the Dem ocratic party bigwigs. Including the powerful bloc of Southerners whose wishes must be taken into account In convention maneuvers. In the 10 years he was in Ihe House and during his seven venrs in the Senate, he never Identified himself with the Southern law makers. Frequently he found him self lined up against his more con servative colleagues In legislative debates. He didn't sit In the inner councils of the Southerners even though he was from a Southern state. And thus he was more or less Isolated from many of the men w ho could help him most In a convention. If l,e could count on the support of his Southern colleagues and add this to his strength In other parts of the country, he could become a formidable factor in the Demo cratic convention. But he doesn't have that support and that's one big reason he isn't named along with Stevenson and Harriman at the top of the list of Democratic strong men at this point. TUAH 4 m Sam Dawson NEW YORK li Perfect weather is bringing an embarrassment ot riches. I The nation's second largest I harvest is good news for the eat ing public but a worry to the I politicians. ' And today the economists are jbeginning to wonder out loud how ihigh the surpluses can be piled I before they get so top-heavy as 'to threaten a toppling of good times in general. The Agriculture Department re ports that ideal weather in Septem ber Increased the prospects of the cotton crop by 8 per cent. The farmers are now expected to pick a crop 2 per cent higher than in 19S4 in spile of government con trols that cut cotton acreage by 14 per cent. September's perfect days sent the prospects of coin higher and the crop will be well above last year's. Farmers can translate that into more meat tor American ta bles. But livestock production is already high, and meat prices are weak in the wholesale markets. Other crops that September smiled upon are rice, peanuts, to bacco and grain sorghums. Although the wheat harvest is smaller man last year s. it s high er than the goal set by the gov ernment. Total farm income this year is running behind las', year and is about one-sixth below the record set in 1951. Farmcis have been pulling new machines nnd methods into use They gei more production out of an acre of land. And they get more output out of. a farm worker. So there are fewer employed on farms now. and more rural workers seeking lactory jobs. There are "five mil lion fewer workers on farms now than ir. 1920. although the harvests are much larger. The Federal Reserve Board re ports that "Ihe general financial position of farmers remains rela tively strong." II notes a rise in farm debts to linancc production and to buy more land, but it fays this debt Is "still fairly low in relation to current levels of farm income, the large volume of liquid assets held by farmers, and the value of farm real estate." But with the weather boosting surplus crops and an election coming up the political question of what to do about over-production and weakening prices seems bound to hit n?w heights of sound and fury in the months ahead. i.' 'HI TV 1 LA if "If-. YEARS OLD fei STRAIGHT BOURBON iL4 WHISKEY VVMJ os I ml jLi " ywotBogq I llnrknl bv 122 rnr$ 1 nev- yi The world's food problem wheth. er local, national, or earth wide In the last analysis , centers upon the problem of the production of calories and while the world may be a closed vessel as the Mai thusians so excitedly claim the world has paid very little atten tion to the production of calories as a basic problem of food pro duction. Thus we have enormous areas of arable lands devoted to low efficiency crops. The three grest steps in human progress have been the cultivation of the soil, the domestication of animals, and the art of cooking. The discovery of fire made fish an article of human food, thus enabling man to widen his habi tat. The conservation of heat, wheth er directly by lire, or indirectly by buildings, has been an import ant factor in the progress of man kind. Life centers around food and warmth more largely than most of us are willing to admit. The difficulty 01 determining which is of the greatest import ance to the candle, which we Americans are said to be burning at both ends, obviously must lie between Ihe wick and the tallow. When there Is an abundance of tallow but a scarcity of material with which to make wicks, then we are perhaps Justified in say- uig wicks are more important even though wicks play a minor part in the actual production 01 the light produced. .With this thought of relativity of the proper perspective In mind we might re view some of the data already presented by this column. There are in the world accord ing to one of the late studies of human populations, approxi mately 18 acres of land for each man, woman, or child, one 01 these 18 acres is plowed each year to produce food, drink and raim ent. The remaining 17 acres grow grass, trees, or are either too dry or too wet or too stony to be pro ductive. In that portion of the world about which there is official knowledge and which is something less than pne-half the area, there are about IS acres per capita, of which 3.4 acres ae permanently in grass and six acres are in wood land and forests. Now out of this situation the most important problem that has faced every nation in history over the past 2.000 years has not been the problem of food which is pro duced upon such a small percent nae of the land but the conserva tion of forests which occupy the greater portion of the productive land area. The 3.4 acres of grass per cap ita is indeed an important asset to the liic of man. though man has not been as much concerned with its protection as he has been in the case 01 tils woodland ana forest problem. The grass land area in addition to furnishing wool and hides, fur nishes a not inconsiderable amount of food. However the products of the one cultivated acre are by no means all used for the produc tion of human food. . Some of the area is used to pro duce fibers for clothing and cord age: some of it grows oil plants, the product of which is used for paint and soap. A large propor tion of the product of the acre per capita is fed to domestic animals. A considerable part of the food so consumed is converted into ani mal power. However, when the animals that once produced power for the culti vation of the soil are replaced by mechanical machines the whole completion of agricultural econo my is changed and instead of an orderly growth of production keep ing pace with the increase of pop ulation taking place we are sud denly faced with problems of sur pluses of far greater production of food than man alone can con sume. The world's principle plant foods are: Wheat, rye: barley: oats; mazie: rice: potatoes, carie.su gar; and beet sugar. Not only do these plant foodstuffs constitute much the larger part of the diet of the people of the world from the standpoint of calories or en ergy but a surprisingly small amount of these products are thus consumed. Large quantities of maize,' oats and barley indeed, much the lar ger part is fed to domestic ani mals. In their commercial form, only about three-fourths of the wheat, rye and rice enter Into hu man consumption. The remainder i. offal. To a lesser degree, rye, barley, maize and potatoes are employed to produce alcohol for the indus tries and beverages for the Indi vidual. Finally, it may be noted that these nine cultivated plants are grown annually on less than three per cent of the land surface of the globe. This hasty analysis shows how lit tle of the surface of the earth has ever been cultivated and how small a portion of the product of the cultivated area is used direct ly or indirectly as human food. The food problem, Important though It be, will take care of it self for many years to come. The earth may be a closed ves sel, but so far as the food supply Is concerned it has barely cov ered the bottom of it and nothing has been spoken of as to the pro duction of the sea. Unfortunately, many Americans some of them in high places fail to realize that the United States is not the whole world. This fact in many cases accounts for an enormous amount of sloppy thinking. The facts are that under exist ing conditions with or without iron or bamboo curtains the world can not suffer a permanent shortage of food, because a shortage, is felt immediately. This shortage is cor rected within a year by increased production, or in extreme cases through the death of a portion of the inhabitants. Lake Area Open To Hunters PORTLAND I Hunters ai able now lo enter ' the Summer Lake Rim area of the Fremont National Forest. It was the last forest a tea in the state still closed because of lire danger. The area was opened Wed nesday by proclamation ol the gov ernor, the Forest Service here re ported. Don Stickney. Forest Service in formation officer here, said hunt ers are giving "excellent coopera tion" this year in preventing fires. Hp said only four hunter-caused fires had been reported in the Fre mont forest. Only one of these cov ered as much as an acre. Black Sited Black Calf Avocado Calf Royal Rod Calf Coffeo Mitt Calf OUR REGULAR 499 Friday. Saturday, Monday 3 LOGIC'S mai'n VISITING DAY . By Lorn Groves A little old lady- And. an old, old man , , , Sat In the sun one day, As I tarried there, (They were unaware) ... I heard her softly say . , , - "Dad, I'm sure that they . . Don't mean, to be . , Thoughtless or unkind . . . ' ' Jts Just that they in their Busy lives We don't oftet come lo their mindl The old, old man, Nodded his head, And turned to her and said; "Now you take your girl Ill take my boy (She's got a big family!) (your pride and Joyl) My son. He works, both long and late! We can't blame them For forgetting this date I In this busy world So swift so fast! We sit aside and wait, For our ship to sail To the promised land Where no one is old Nor sick! Nor cold! And everyone is rich and hale! And I tip-toed quietly away -To write this little story , . . Today .... Of two old folks Sittln in the sun, Waiting for their time To come . Now gently the evening , ' Shadows fall, And blatantly the wild birds call, Their song While city lights Come winking, twinking onl Like dancing fireflies! The fouch of frost, drifted through Autumn sir And touched the vines with red, The golden leaves, That clothe the trees. The dewey spiders web. This Is Gods daily gift to man, This Autumn beauty In our land, So beautiful! So grand! If you've the eyes to see with And the heart to understand! Hammond Organ Chord Organ largest itork lead ins make pianoa In this part of the west. Rent a Spinet piano. Rental pur chase plan. 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