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HEHALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON MONDAY. OCTOBER 17. WSS FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered m second class mutter at the post office at Klamath Falls, Ore., on AURUst 20. 1D0S, under act of Congress, March t, 1878 Mt.MUKR OF THE ASSOCIATED PKESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the uae for publication of all local hews printed In thin newspaper as well as all AP news. SIBStKIPTlON KATES MAIL CARRIER 1 Month I I SO 1 Month I 1.50 .Months 7.50 Months t M 1 Year 112.00 1 Year $18.00 PAGE SET--- I They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo" ' T 1 W I KNEW IT--HE '''"WPAKOOH MK-Z'm 6019 IN Vft - - -a 1 il 2X A'd ' SSSt V Fsrr.tsTtiONi jL.jfM A witness whem we subs JJa .,. "'V t 'Ji-4&&-'!&' ' The nationalization of natural re. sources has been u panacea politl clans around the world have been beatlnir the drum loudly for. Their argument for assuming control Is based upon the fear ot lamlne :t the government dors not step in the people will suiter a lamlne m the enjoyment of the resource. We have no better example than thi recent debate between two of our legislators over the desirability ot the federal government going Into the business ot supplying electric power lo the people. The propo nent of the blessings of bureaucra cy used the famine argument with all the acumen of the preachers of fear, his theme naturally extolled the blessings political control can bring to an Industry. Without the bencflcient action of the federal government the people suffer from a famine in kilowatts, and. Industry Is a Blackboard, a Shylock that grinds the poor oppressed public ' to the very marrow of Its bones. Industry Is black at heart, only the politically chosen few are pure at nenrt It's a great old gag that has been with us for lo these many thousands of years stretch ine backward Into the dim anti quity of time. Much Is made of the benefits of bureaucracy and little Is said of the cost tor the politician who seeks the power of control represents lo the public that these things are "for free" but are they? Somewhere and somehow the books are balanced the benefits of bureaucracy do not come cheaply even though they may be represented as such at least not for Oregon whose tax burden In 1053 was 35.37 per cent of its income. For every $100 of income made in the stale of Oregon our bcnelicient bureaucra cy took $35.75 to maintain itself, yes the benefits of bureaucracy Is free! No doubt industry has many faults and perhaps the greatest Is Ihe one of humun blindness thnt has stressed immediate gain over the long range pull. We see this example most clearly in the case ot our forest problem. Foresters lor the past half century have preached a (amine in wood but v.-tih little success for the clfccts ot a storage of wood do not develop with the suddenness of famine In lood. Nevertheless the problem Is xhrre and the politically shrewd sought to grasp the opportunity for complete control and scared the lumber Industry so badly that It rtarlcd lo cure some ot the scars left by improvident operators ot the past. The politicians have preached that a controlled economy they could impose upon the lumber in- (liislry would bring prices to a point thnt would justlly me more com plete utilization of the forest. This control would be placed upon the logging end of the Industry and It was sugges'ed only that amount of lnncing would b permitted which woiiia Kncp me price men enougnunrcatenpa lamine. JAMES MARLOW By DON W ill i IJll.AI) WASHINGTON i.41 The Elsen hower adtuinislialion is bumping into embarrassing complications these days In its ellorts lo shut the empnasis ot uovernmiMH Inter-e-t from public lo private power development. The complication arc two-fold: the law and the Ucniomiis. For 2U years oi Demon nlic New Drul-Fair Deal administration, Ihe tmpha.'ls was on development and expansion ot public power re source. The giant Tennessee Val In.. Ai.ll.n...... l.i ' lie Z ,, , '""";. tun- lie power pro eels were ciu-our- a-Cd KlA m.lni- .-...inn electric cooueiat:vrs spread thru own nrtwnik of pub licly owurd transmission liner, across the coun;rv. In rapsule lo.ni. Republicans Bil'ued this pro-public power pohev pin sued under Franklin D. Hoosc iei iiikI Harry K. Truman was socialistic and danijerous (or the Ainriican luc cntcipnii- svsli-m. Democrats contended 'he govrin- nii-iii inciciy was ai-linu to PIVC tne people clu-an rjmvr niibllcv.-.si,....,v1 1.1 : - ij.., iiutn. Now inr. i'ti.i,--, , V.!!!n,s, Ami. where ihe ti-rie,,,i -V,-,, .' . is involved iv ni"4 uinirti in unv nf mleicsls and m co,.,n-ri,ve Brrnnronrms wuh lrvid nitblu- t:rncics in tiyint: lo find solutions lo nower problems But to Mud the dtiei iion of pow er k1jc v is no Minplp mutter 'I hei e is the icoroui oppo-- a um j i om nip iJctnoci ills and nnhlir no.ve, mi.rr.i. men nas Olllll the i.nut-i ih-tii Into a first-class pre.lil.nli.il lam-! palKii issue. And then there ar- ' r-iiain complications wimh have arisen Irani tne law. ' Tne lirsi cla.-h came when the administration, thiouch the An t nerev t nninilssiun. (nli acted ' Willi the DiMir.-Ynte group to leed nnwer Inin thp 'rv a .,.,H . i an anticipated shortage. This con tract was abandoned when the env oi M.-n-nhls relused to accepi Dixon-Yates power and said u would build Its own plant. Deii-ncinnc leaders insisted the contract was not alid. and theie- Upper Floor for Rent lll'i Main. Suitable lor ofllce, busmen, apartment or pentheuit. DREWS Monsfore to prevent export. If the price be came so high that Imports of lum ber were unduly encouraged more acreage would be released by the bencficient bureaucrats migm De permitted to be logged, provided that lowering the price which would come from this action did not result in the waste of Ihe low er grade products. In other words, It was seriously proposed to con trol all forest products much as agricultural products are con trolled today the lumbermen wanted none of the benefit so bureaucracy peddled Its wares to agriculture. The proposed program, no mat ter how economically desirable It may be. has demonstrated lis political weakness. In Ihe case of the forest there would nave oeen a great deal of contention among localities over the decisions ot du reaucracy. The politically ambi tlous contended that a governmen tal board possessed economic fore- tight and would withstand political pressure from local communities, and. as a consequence would ad' minister Its trust for the best in terest of all Ihe people. Of course It was freely admitted that there would be a great deal ot contro- vcrsy. Todav we find industry Itself be ginning lo work out a suitable sol ution lo the basic problem, this has developed only In the past few years and since World War II. Some 30 years ago I listened to a serious economist speak to a group of foresters, the elderly student of world affairs, was not a forester. By what process legislative or otherwise," he asked "can the supply cf lumber be con trolled so that prices would Justi fy a more complete utilization of the existing product and also en courage substitutions of products of which ihe supply Is unlimited such as cement and Dricn.7 He then went on to sketch an answer In three steps, f irst, oy legislation by which permission to log is determined by some con trolling agency not necessarily governmental, but probably so. Second, the appointment of a suit able commission to determine when and where logging Is to be per mitted. Third, the determination of allowable cut from year lo year. He then continued: "I have brought this problem before you because I wish your opinion on two questions: "First; Do you believe lhat log ging should be controlled by the government or some other agency having sufficient power? 'Second; Do you believe that tile amount of logging should be so re- striated as to make it prolltablc to log the lower grades of usable timber which now go to waste?" These were serious questions raised 30 years ago by a student of world affairs who was seeking the answer to the problem oi fore Ihe government should not pay a cancellation fee which might amount to several million dollars. The AFC insisted tor months the contract became legally effective last winter. But AEC Chairman Lewis L. Straus now concedes, after an exchange of correspondence with Ihe comptroller general, that "there may be a question as to Ihe validity" of the Dixon-Yates con tract. One Issue Is whether there was a "contlirt of Interest" when I Vlilphc H. Wenzeil acted 1"H; II. Budeet Bureau consultant on TV A L,. .i. . lllimi-ia It-llll-lip W Hie LJ1SUIV Vales deal while still on the oav roll of Ihe First Boston Corp.. an investment banking tirm. First Boston became the financial agent .without fee) for the Dixon-Yates Rloup. Tralay another political clash Is taking place over an administra tion proposal later abandoned to sell ledrral power to the Oeor- Kla Power Co tor resale In rm I-: rniiiiiii,illiiiK u-hi-Vi l.-. Au l'r- Biownrll said in an nninmn iht th. u, e,.-. .... 'KoviMimiciit muM 8iv? preference 1 rlvB,p '"""V 'PS- ven though '"ops have no "nreser.Mv nvallnhlr'' mritn : nf to'.-inn iu- .,,,. -. , .. rnnn . ' to ihe pnvale firm would "tloul the ri-ni;icssinnal purpose" of pub lic power laws. Thus the pi ivale-vei sus-publle pnwrr battle continues, and lla -e,te,:.,K. a Jolting chsice of no- ;.i..ii ruciR v M1V1HT TOl'R "FPKK1.EY, Cahl. ,.4i The ",'"1'u'- Soviet housing delegation n',v " "hl dav-limg tour Monday 5rvrn "''' Arr" home dexelop- mrnts. Sunuay most of them respite irom their fast l,n,cl1 national tour. Thcv arrived Saturday ninht and ..... ... mi Uos Angeirs lues day. MONKV-MAKt KM REIT on Classified ads lor help! To sell, rent, trailf. buy or hue -call 8111. Getting Up Nights If ti TtlPft bv H.ifMtr Wftknm ' Ottlin i'P NIiimi 'tft frtqutni. burnii.f r lm 'inrmiinni ir fttronf;, CIolAt Unnl Cnmrv.on K!m? tutf BitrtrlHf IrM- Uttnnv tn CYarex tot wt art fls. rofPlortini hip a M:iitrt CYRrlX Utltti ut tn ru rrrt prat tl I rlmillU tr rYUnCX tindrt ft f ! - ; V u-lS'CrZ 'rtT . 7Jl 1MB TOMATO PROVE . IsMMMMMHMMSMMiBMJli r SAM DAWSON NEW YORK ! In the three weeks since President Eisenhower became ill the stock market has had some spectacular spills. But perhaps the actual money losses in stocks sad as ihey are haven't been as spectacular as some folk may assume. Take the 60 widely representa tive stocks that make up the Asso ciated Press stock averages. They include many blue chips, but also some low priced stocks, and they cover many industries as well as railroads and utilities. If at the close of business Sept. 23 the day before the President's illness began you had bought one share of each of the 60 issues it would have taken $4,240.25. The average would be $70.77 per share. If at the close of. the market Friday, Oct. 14 three weeks later you had sold these same 60 shares, you would have received $3,845.25. The average per share comes to $64.09. Your loss on the entire 60 stocks would be $401, or $6.68 a share. This Is a sad thing. And persons who bought at the top and sold last Friday have plenty to grumble about. But the thing to remember Is: Those who bought at the top of the market and sold on the recent tumble are probably a very small minority of the stockholders of the country. I Many, probably most, of the stocks in the strong boxes of this nation were bougnt some time ago many of them for Quite a bit less than today's prices. Only a minori ty of these stocks have been sole! in the last three weeks, in all probability. A large proportion of the stocks stayed right In the strong boxes. Their paper profits have been shaved, but their owners haven't been out any actual cash. Much of HAL NEW YORK Ifl Curbstone comments by a pavement Plato This has been called the century of the common man, but it Is more truly the "century of the fringe people." Are you one?" The fringe folk are the product of a civilization that tends' to puv everything in containers. It lookJ for health tn a vitamin capsule and entertainment in canned laughter. A fringe man is one who awells on the edges of real knowledge. He knows a little bit about every thing, and not very much about anything. He skims the surface of lite. He wears the kind of sun he has been told makes him look "sincere." He belongs to the political party which is most popular among his neigh bors. If he visits New York, he only wants to see the hit Broaaway shows. If he reads a book 11 has to be op the best seller list, and it has to be in digest form. He only watches television shows that have a high rating, and he attends only those movies he has been told are good. He won't attend a conceit by a young unknown artist. The artist must already be famous. The fringe man's biggest goal In life Is to be popular, but he wants lo be popular with everybody. So he tries to placate and please everybody: lo do this he naturally has to reduce his own personality lo Ihe status of an ever-smilinj zero. is w nv so many Americans so much At cocktail parties, The yearning ol the (rinse people tlon to such banal platitudes they flnrl II imtsnihl m-in tn listen In each other's erbal soothing syrup , except under t h e influence ol something stronger. "What do you know?" Tins Is the popular greeting. It should be. "What do you really know?" The number of people who have . " "-meinmg. or reao some- j'ning. increases an me iiiim-. aim tney cnaiter on enoiessiy. ine le gion ot half-taught cultural nonen tities engulls nui social world. But the number of people who have a solid knowledge of any subject, no who ran talk about It well, seems to dwindle. ''Be oursell' is an old and HAVING TV TROUBLES? Call 2-0242 STONER ELECTRONIC SERYICE the recent selling and buying was oi snares in tne nanas oi brokers or traders r.ot the strongbox investments of the majority of stockholders. A detailed look at the 60 stocks in the AP averages shows that at least one Is higher now than it was three weeks ago. A handful are lower by only fractions to one dollar or so. Only a dozen mostly very high priced have slipped oy sio or more. The 30 industrial stocks in the AP averages had an average mar ket value of $80.32 the day before tne president Decame in. individ ually their prices range from a high of J 164 to a low of $23. Their average market price last Friday was $74.56, the highest one having Slipped to 5H6 and the low est one to $20. On average they bad lost $5.79. The 15 railroad stocks in the AP list had an average market value of $68.10 before the President be came ill and $62.02 three weeks later, an average loss of $6.08 The 15 utilities had an average price of $47.58 three weeks ago. and $45.32 last Friday, a loss of $2.36. This is the sad side of the story what has happened if you bought high and must sell now. But there is another side a Pollyanna, one, perhaps. If you warn to buy one share of each of these stocks it will cost you $401 less now than three weeks ago. And the yield on stocks bought now should be higher. Most of the 60 are reporting ex cellent profits this year and give every indication of being liberal Willi dividends, whether you are buying now, or merely holding onto stocks you Drougnt some time ago (and pernaps at. a lower price than todny's) you'll still get ihose dividends! BOYLE comfortable saying. It is sound advice, too, mentally and physically. But the current runs the other way today. We seem caught in a pattern of social con formity, and fearful of breaking out ol it. "Be like the other fellow" more nearly describes our aim or per haps, "Be like you think the other fellow exoects you to be." Such an aim is self-defeating, because it cannot be self-satisty-ing, and can only turn a man Into an uneasy smirking clod. The fringe people seek always to be in the swim and they end up drowning in their own pitiful igno rance. They pretend to culture, and they have no culture. It is better to write one poor poem than to memorise Shake speare. It is better to play a musi cal saw yourself than merely be able to identity every melody in Beethoven. To own the smallest talent is greater than to be a cultural hanger-on. Amenta Is producing too many half-enlightened innocent bystand ers in etery field, and too few doers. What the century of the common man needs is more men who dare to be uncommon. Jet Stratoliner Makes US Flight SEATTLE li Boeing s 707 strat oliner flew round-trip across the country yesterday in less time than It takes conventional airliners to cross the nation one way. The 707 took 3 hours and 68 min utes to tly from Seattle to Wash ington, DC, at an average speed 'm miles per hour, Alter a brief stopover In the national capital, the first Ameri can commercial Jet air transport Hew bick to Seattle In 4 hours and 8 m.nntes at an average speed ol M0 miles an hour. This means that it took hours and 6 minutes of elapsed flying: lime at an average ot $81 mil? per hour lor the transcontinental roundtrip, i The Boeing lest pilot. A M ' iTcxi Johnston. 43. of Emporia, Kan., called It an "uneventful" ; Might In the four-let job. He pre dicted it will be common In three years. I FIRST PUBLIC OFFERING SILMU IIST UllAXIUJI OltlMHlATIOX A Mtvade Coraarariaa VOOO.OOO Shares 10 Mr vtlirt non-atMiiablt common Meet OFFERING PRICE 10c PER SHARE Properl.t. are lacoitc! in tht Colorado Pl.t.ou, near Meat, Uloh. far Inform. H.ri or coo.ti ol th Offtrini Circular, call r rilt CA 131 )CB ki DIJ Portion 4 CA 7-U3I --.w.j... -.-a. Pennsylvania Eased; Death PHILADELPHIA (P) The threat of serious floods over already scarred eastern Pennsylvania ap peared to be over today. Torrential rains that sent rivers and streams over their banks caused seven deaths, all from mo tor vehicle accidents. The danger of dams washing out at Camptown, near the New York border at Towanda, and near Al lentown, was eased, and officials of those areas reported little. likeli hood of either giving way. Only minor flooding was report ed from throughout the vast area where Hurricane Diana's floodwa ters took 100 lives in mid-August. All major rivers, the Delaware,, Lackawanna, Schuylkill and Sus quehanna, were running high and overflowing in some places but along their banks officials calmly predicted there would be no dis aster. Atom Workers Study Pact DENVER UPI The CIO Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers In ternational Union with three ma jor contracts signed, continued ne gotiations Monday at three other atomic installations. The union said Sunday that signing of the three contracts "guarantees three years of indus trial peace in a major segment of the atomic industry." An estimated 6,000 workers in in stallations at Oak Ridge, Tenn., Paducah. Ky., and Jamestown, N.Y., are affected by the new con tracts. Negotiations are continuing for plants at Arco, Idaho, and Ports mouth and Miamlsburg, Ohio, the union said. Elwood D. Sisher of Denver, administrative vice president and coordinator of the union's afomic affairs, said the three new con tracts are with: 1. Union Carbide Nuclear Co.. operator of the K-25 unit at Oak Ridge. The contract calls for 24 cents In wage increases 10 cents hourly applied now. 7 cents more In October, 1956. and an additional 7 cents In October. 1957. with the contracting continuing to October, 1958. J. Union Carbide Nuclear Co., providing the same provisions for workers at the Paducah, Ky., atomic installation. 3. Carborundum Metals Co., for workers at its Jamestown, N.Y.. atomic plant. It provides general wage increases of 6 per cent now, 2'i per cent more next October and 2' i per cent more in October. 19ol. with the contract expiring in October. 1958. OCAW said the average hourly pay in those plants before the new pay increase was $2.36 an hour. Ex-Convict Held In Woman's Death RENO IP "I hated ber guts." That, said police, was about all Ralph H. Rene, 35-year-old ex- convict, -would say after admitting he strangled his young step-mother. Mrs. Stella Reno, in Los An geles. Reno Police Chief Ted Berrum and Los Angeles Pollci Sgts. Ed ward Kruger and C C. Ford said Sunday Reno refused to give a reason for hating the 36-ycar-old reddish-blonde woman but he as serted "trouble at home has been going on since I was 17." Reno led officers Friday night to the body, stuffed In a concrete culvert along the Donner Summit road In the high Sierra just west ot the CaliforniarNevada line. PHOTOSTATS W rfiv anvtlilnr- fhUi, Mtrrlttt I.K-an, Birth t trttttrUi, tr. LEO'S CAMERA SHOP 13 Mala Phone 2-1331 EAMS went up lest week In the construction of a new all-purpose room addition to the Weed Elementary School building. Silva Construction Company of Klamath Falls, was low bidder for the new eddition. Leno Lemi, principal of the school, it shown facing the camera. Photo by Gaynor Flood Threat Toll Counted Intermittent light rain fell throughout the area today. The Weather Bureau here said it saw little chance of- enough precipita tion to aggravate the present con ditions. The twin communities of strouds burg and East Stroudsburg had es caped another rampage by the Brodhead Creek which alone took 70 lives Just two months ago. And Scranton, another of the hardest bit communities in August, report ed only minor flooding from the Lackawanna River Easton police noted ironically that the damage done by Hurri cane Diane had minimized any new threat to that community from the Lehigh and Delaware rivers. They said that all areas likely to be af fected by high waters had already been wiped out. Residents of Camptown, a com munity of 300 persons, returned to their homes after hurried evacua tions Saturday night when several cracks appeared in their dam un der pressure from 100 acres of wa ter, In a dam area normally cover ing only 30 acres. Emergency shoring with sand bags and receding waters as the storm let up caused Police Chief Dean Merldlth of Towanda to say the situation "is under control." Emergency work and receding waters also minimized the danger from a break at big Treichler Dam, ending the threat to the cities of Easton, Allentown and Bethlehem. Almost all major roads were open but some secondary routes were either washed out or closed as a precautionary measure. Washouts on the previously hit Delaware and Lackawanna Rail road lines at Cresco and Broad- headsvule forced a halt to service between Scranton and Hoboken, N.J. There was no indication when service would be resumed. AMXOVID ; "WDSaa)M ASPIRim . laa BY MORE ; ton CHIlPmH, ;- DOCTORS -MI 7 ' , Tr RwVf3Sr r jse ic--4JiiT.'j.i..---' Tit; y ill y t r'vy5 MADDOX BROTHERS and Rose, fop western music exponents, have been booked for a one night stand at the Red Barn, Dick Fenwick, operator of the popular Dorris dancing center, an nounced. The quintet will appear there Wednesday, October 26. Maddox Brothers and Rose have entertained many times in Klamath Falls. OP CONVENTION PORTLAND I The Young; Republican state convention will be ! held here Ncv. 11-13. with Gov. Paul Patterson as th? principal speaker. Other speakers will Include Tom McCall, Portland, and State Treas urer Sig Unander. Complete Chiropractic Care DR. J. W. LOWE Ph. Off. 2-1131 Rei. 2-0182 111 So. 4th, Stevens Hotel Bldg. Heading Time Is Your Time The newspaper is the basic advertis ing medium because it does not have to compete with other interests and activities for your attention. It al ways is waiting to be read at your convenience - as you are doing now. COME IN-SELECT YOUR TREES While In Leaf . . . We'll Make Delivery When Plantinq Tim 1$ Suitable. Suburban Flower 3414 So. 6th Phone 8188 Oref oa
