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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT rRAKK. JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Uanaglna. Editor .Timber Use By BILL JENKINS In these days when new dls coverles are treading on the heels of past developments I think pen hops too many of us have our sights set so far In the future that we tend to overlook some of the here-rlght-now things that are changing our lives and our econ omy. With atomic power, electron' ic cooking and solar heating loom Ing bright on -the horizon we cast our eyes a trine too nigh. At least one item that keeps occurring to me Is that we prob ably need to add another chapter right now to our already expand- ed book of conservation. That chapter to deal with the develop ment of new uses for present as sets. It's always easy to start over with all new materials, but It's not so easy to fully utilize what we have. If you doubt this then try and remodel an old house. About the easiest place to start with this Idea of development as a phase of conservation la In the tim ber Industry, always the giant of the Northwest despite the rise of additional industrial empires and the rapid gain of agriculture. Con servation has all too often meant preservation, Even In Its enlight ened phsses It has meant greater growth of timber to provide more trees to make more boards. Con servationists, from professional foresters down to the crackpot piam-a-tree-ror-posterity oultlsts, have covered the field of sus tained yield, bug control, selective cutting, tree farming and all the rest of It. , But some of the leading conser vationists in the timber Industry aren't the boys with the green coats and the high boots but the white collar chaps In the various laboratories who dream up new Uses for the timber that we have. Starting with the timber indus try In Maine and New England and followlnir .lt West aa the tree fullers hacked their way to the Pacific "Northwest the idea has been to grow something to run through the saws. Something that could b plied up In the yard, sold by the foot and eventually used to build houses with. The people have been fed a atrong diet oi propaganda to the ettect that vligie stands ot timber were sno red objects that must be carefully, handled. Utile cut and never re moved from their so called nrl. meyal origins. The country has lost a lot ot timber to bugs, fires and other natural and man-caused epidemics of destruction, mostly oecaua or this belief. It is only in recent years that ine forest products people, the manuiaciurers wno use wood and wood products, have looked beyond uie saw log. There isn't as much bark burned to provide power for the saws as there used to be. Because the bark la utilised In oiner produots. all the wav from Prca-to logs to various pulp pro ducts, and bacause outside sources of power have proved cheaper In the long run. This march of pro gress has seen new machines de veloped that utilise formerly wast ed scraps, seen a vast Increase in the amount of lumber salvaged for pulp uses paper, cardboard, wall board, hnrdboard, softboard and a host of others. But actually we've only tapped the surface of the forest picture. In the years to come the for esters who spend their time In the labs are going to provide an increasing list of uses for the wood that grows In our forests. And as these new products are developed It Is going to mean new milling methods, new cutting methods and more Jobs for more people In the timber industry as a whole. I think It's high time that we added development of new pro cesses to the nomenclature of con servation. I also think that it is hiuh time that Uie lorcst products in-upic imensiuea tneir program of informing the public as to what they are working on that will someday burgeon Into a new busi ness. I also think that If the timber operators, Uie people who actually go out In the woods and cut down the trees, don't go all-out In pre senting thrlr case to the public they are making the hlgge.it mis take ot their lives. The average logging outfit will come high on the list of conservationists. But in the average man on the street wno goes out and takes a look at a recently logged area they are nothing but a bunch of butchers who have not only cut down the trees but have trampled all tht brush doH'n, torn huge furrows In Uie earth and left a lot of rubble behind them. I wish that we could have a better publlo understanding of the background and Uia present devel opmcnt in Uie Umber Industry from lop to bottom. But It's going to be a long hard struggle to over come the senseless propngnnda that Uie Arbor Day enthusiasts hive spent so long In building up. The Idea of planting a tree tor every one cut, despite Uie fact that this falls far abort of not only present practice but future planning, has been so firmly Im planted that It'll take a major pro gram to overcome It. But If we can Uiere will be few er misunderstandings, less hard feeling and more opportunities for an, big and little alike. Health Urgency By DEB ADDISON If Us 70 listeners and question ers at the chamber of commerce heallh-aanltaUon forum Wednesday dldnt get anything else out of Uie discussions they at least not a feeling of Uie great urgency ol these publlo problems. In answer to a dnecl question from Bud Franklin, speaking s ) fntcred a second clas matter at the poet office t Klsmath rails. Ore., on August 30, IMS, under act of Congress, March S, 187 services: 'associated press united press audit bureau op circulations Senring Southern Oregon And Northern California a South Suburban home owner, Dr. Seth Kerron, County Health Officer, said: "We know that there Is sewage In the ditches. You can't correct the condition in any particular spot because the sewage will flow In from surrounding areas. During times of high water table as exists much of the year In much of the South Suburban areas, septic tanks can t function." Dr. Kerron reported that there have been about 60 cases of Infec tious hepatitis this year. Infectious hepatitis- spreads like- typhoid fever. Mayor Paul Landry stated brief ly that the municipal sewage sys tem is working at capacity: that there are times when It has been necessary to pump raw sewage into Klamath River. He said that studies of a few years ago for taking care of ad ditional sewage needs in areas south and east of the railroad and river In the municipality pointed to new trunk lines and a disposal plant at costs of' approximately $160,000 and $600,000. Incidentally, the Interstate com pact arrived at by the Oregon and Klamath River commissions covers river sanitation. Once ratified, it could be the Instrument for bring ing constant full treatment of sewage material and also for the elimination of bark and other tim ber waste in the Klamath River. Ted Oerow. State Sanitary Authority engineer for this dis trict, outlined some of the high points of the IS laws passed by the suite legislature as reiaung to sanitation and sanitary dis tricts. He pointed out that there are Just two waya of solving sanitation problems in metropolitan areas: One la to form or Join a munic ipality; Uia Other Is to form a sanitary district. It was newa to many of those gathered at the forum that Uie new laws make it easier to form sanitary districts not easier nec essarily from a financial stand point but easier from a standpoint of red tape. Actually It now is In the power of county courts to arbitrarily form sanitary districts under certain conditions, It waa Qerow's prediction that by the time another legislative I Pony Express went through in 10 session has run tta course In 8alem 1 days across the continent. In win tt will be within the power of 1 I" time when heavy snows and municipalities to arbitrarily annex adjacent areas under certain den sity of population conditions. Those are highlights of con d I lions now. Klamath Is not static. The metropolitan area of Klamath Falls will experience remarkable growth within Uie next few years. That'a Uie urgency ' of the sit uation. Does anyone rare enatigh to do anything about It? Ionty K. press By ken Mcleod The history of Uie Ponv Express was told upon Uie program of the Fourth Annual Symposium of His torical Societies of Northern Cali fornia and Southern Oregon at Wcavervllle. California, dn Novem her S by Mr. Waddell F. Smith Mr. Smith, Is Uie creator of the "Pony Express Retreat" in San Rafael County, a museum of the Pony Express. He is a grandson of Waddell one of Uie founders of Uie Pony Express. Smith told Uie story of the origin of tht Idea that probably has caught the greatest fancy of all story tellers of western tales. As boy. In Missouri at Uie point where the trail turned west, a nun generation Of Waddells, Smith was brought un on the trriiiinr, nr the Pony Express and now that he has become a cltlaen of Cali fornia he la doing much to pre serve Uie story of that dramatic episode of western history. .no j-uny impress was a pro ject of three men. Riimii m.. Jor.s and Waddell, lovers cf ad venture and freight contractors to the United States Army. To under stand Uie sloty of the Pony Ex press one must understand the polltlcal-gcogr.iphlcal background of the period before its true sig nificance can be appreciated. In the eastern part of the na tion Ihc greater movement of iK-.niii was oy water along the major streams of ihc Mississippi basin, people moved weiiu.iri generally by water as far as It possioie to to and as a con sequence "where ihe aiit.mi.-i turns to the north" people had to lorsakc the river and take the overland trail to the West. This is the reason why Kansas City becsme one of the eastern starting point for many emigrant trains Jl " "etl WMtwfd migrstion. The Army -noied westward with Uils migration anil tin. quired a vast amount of material to supply Its varloua western posta and iorts. This material was moved under contract bv the com pany Russell-Msjors and Waddell and wherever th Army went so did the teamsters of the contract uig (inn. Consequently between w. misnouri aim California Uie firm of RuaaeU.Mfttnr mnA w.j- dell established a iirm f tlons along the routes that their freight teams must travel. The oi uns orranttatlun can be visualised In prt bv the tact that It employed $.000 men, had 75.000 oxen, $.000 Conestoga wagons and 900 coaches. In parspecUv the Pony Exprta was a normal operation outgiowUi of the operation 0f this contract ing firm. There were by the time ol Uie conception ol the Pony Ex press Idea some 400.000 neoni. m the West who wanted last mall service with their families In the East. California was a vount slate ol 10 years and Uiet was a strong feeling present that If civil war should break between the North and the Soutn the state ot Cali fornia should wash Its hands of the whole affair and withdraw from the Union. Russell-Majors-Waddell offered the only direct connection with the West over the northern route to California while the other connection over Uie San ta Fe trail must pass through the country controlled by the Southern states. The birth of the Pony Express Idea Smith stated was to be cred ited to a phenomenal demonstra tion by Francis X. Aubery who drove the Santa Pe trail and need ing to make a fast trip to the East rode from Santa Fe to Independ ence Missouri lr. a period of 10 days. Later he made a wager that he could make Uie trip in five days using the system of changing horses but not changing men. In 1854, Senator Owin.Irom Califor nia desired to make a fast over land trio to Washington and he did so using Uie stations of Russell- Majors and Waddell across the northern route In company of Ben Pickering of the contracting firm. Senator Owin was able to make the trip In three months. Owln, hearing of Aubery's as tounding feat and having likewise had Uie experience of riding from station to station with fresh horses across the country realised that here would be an opportunity for establishing a fast communication system between the East and the West, a most important necessity as the Civil War was drawing near. Owln approached Russell upon Uie subject and Russell being a reckless plunger made the prom ise without consulting his partners that the Pony Express would be created. Since Russell committed the company to the task, neither Ma jors, the frontiersman, nor Wad dell, Uie banker, offered a word of criticism, though the effort even tually brought about Uie failure of the company. So .in April 3, 1860, with a force of 80 men, "the cream of Uie youth of the West," the Pony Express waa started from the head of rail transportation then St, Jo seph, Missouri and in 240 hours reached .California 1,966. miles away. As regular as clockwork the mud harassed the route the time was 19 days, The fast lime was msde In car rying Lincoln's Inaugural Address which was telegraphed to St. Jo seph, Missouri and Uie Pony Ex press carried It to Sacramento California In aeven days and 17 Hours There was no fanfare with the creation of the organization and it received no subsidy from the federal government, when the Ponv Express was organized tne threat of the railroad was over the hori zon but Uie telegraph was Its doom only one rider was killed by In dians, one mall pouch was lost. Curb Columellas . By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK W, Curbstone comments by a pavement Plato woum obedience schools for wives make for happier marriages in America? The question has been raised bv a reader who wisely chooses to remain unonymous. "Obedience schools for pets have worked out very well," he wrote'. "So why, not an obedience school tor pet wives? "Such schools could teach most wives some things they badly need to learn, such aa self-dlsclpllne and tne willingness to carry out a man's orders without barking back. "What do you think of this Idea? Wouldn't It restore to the average husband Uie prestige he once held as head of Uie family? It vou hear of such a school, please telegraph me at once. I want to enroll my own wile as the number one trainee." Frankly, the proposal at first glance sounds line. The ordinary husband can think at once ol many ways in which his wife might benc llt Irom attendance at an obed ience school. She could, lor example, be taught to get up off Uie sofa and say "hello" whenever he returned home from work. She could be taught to take oil his shoes and letch his slippers. She could be taught not to inter rupt hint when he Is telling his favorite Joke at a party. She could be taught not to show up at break last with her hair In wire curlers, looking like a fugitive Irom the electric chair. It might even be possible to teach her when It was all right to talk to her husband, and when she should bring him his newspaper and let him read it In silence. There Is even a bare likelihood that she might be coerced Into letting him handle the spending of his own paycheck, although this could well force 7 out ol 10 Amer ican families Into bankruptcy in six months. Tlie list of things a well-run obedience school could teach a doubtful wife to help make her husband's lot more cheerful Is well nigh endless However, the Idea of obedience schools for wives, while it soumu highly logirsl. is basically Imprac tical. The big flaw In the proposal Is this: Where would you get the teachers? You couldn't us women as teachers. No wile with any spirit would let another woman teach her how she should behave to ward her own husband. No. the teachers would have to b men. .Bui consider what kind HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER 1 MONTH 1.50 MONTHS ... t 1 YEAR , 1.00 MAIL 1 MONTH t 1 MONTHS f 7.W I YEAR ..... 112.00 of a man It would take. Women know they are smarter than the average man, and they would merely sit In class and throw splt balls at a male Instructor of only average brains or charm. The teacher would have to be really extraordinary. To duty break a stubborn, willful wife he would have to have Uie physical appeal of Clark Oable, the mag netism of a hypnotist, the wisdom of Socrates, the oratorical skill of Demosthenes, Uie daring of a wild animal trainer. Let us suppose such a teacher could be found. What then? Well, no wife would want to return to a dull husband after studying un der a professur like that. They'd all fall in love with teacher and want to spend the rest of their lives in obedience school. That seems to rule out the pos sibility of obedience schools for wives. The question naturally arises then: "How about a few obedience schools for husbands wouldn't they improve matrimony? - The answer to this Is there slm- plv isn't any demand for them Every marriage is an obedience school for husbands. That's the way It is and that's the way It's llkeiy to stay. Ifcst Climate By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D. Mr. Y has been advised that his eth-year-old son must have a change ol climate because the youngster sutlers Irom "bronchial trouble and has seven scars from pneumonia on his lungs." Appar ently the father has been told to seek a climate which is dry and equable. It certainly sounds as though a youngster who had suffered sev eral attacks of pneumonia and presumably had a chronio cough might benefit from just the right cumaile change. How to find it is the problem It is possible that some ot the southern sections of Arizona . or New Mexico might do, since these are likely to be dry enough, but they are not "equable" since there is a great variation between day and night temperatures. Perhaps in this Instance one would have better luck In some part of Southern California away irom the seacoast. There is no easy way to solve this problem: the safest is for the youngster to try some area which seems promising and If he does well that la fine but If he does not another attempt will have to be made. Another parent (ays that her 8-year-old boy walks In his sleep He seems to be wide awake, his mother says, and when she telli him to go back to bed he obeys, falls sound asleep and knows noth ing of it in the morning. This Is apparently a fairly simple problem. The child does not seemJ w ire quiici uig. any in ciiecis irom 111s sleepwalking. Except for get ting the mother up at night, the situation seems rather harmless As a form of sleeping difficulty. however, the parents should keep uie youngster from too much ex citing play or entertainment in the late afternoon or evening, avoid up setting the child by any appear ance of family squabbling, and in sist mat the youngster go to bed regularly and stay there each night at the same time. These steps are gooo lor any cnuui - uie motner of a 14-year-old aaugnter is concerned because the girl's periods are still Irregular. Assuming that the girl's health la otherwise good, It Is almost cer tainly best not to make a fuss over the situation since in all probability nature will tak care 01 it 111 due course. Such experi ences are ao common that they must oe considered aa normal in many girls of that ate. Mrs. ., also wrluntr about a 14-year-old daughter, savs Uiat the girl is small and undeveloped phys ically, are says ner aaugnter has plnyed with and held babies for seversl yesrs and many people say that this is the reason for her slow development: the moth er wants to know If this Is true. To this it can ba said quite defi nitely, mai it is not true and that in all probability nature will take care of Uie problem about which the mother is so concerned. Seeks Friend Sacramento. Calif. ITo th Edi tor 1 Many Interesting and varied problems are debated In this pop ular column. Some letters are con structive, educational or uplifting. Likewise a few are argumentative. Indifferent and commonplace. Being a little different I would like to contrast som of these communications with an experi ence of my own. As a younger man I was con stantly seeking something, not knowing what but striving toward a rule ol lite which I btlitved would fit all siluauons. One day I met a man who seemed to hav the answers. His spirituality amased me. It smed as If he had enjoyed a life full of meaning and purpose. During our short acoualntance I learned many secrets that made for a happier life for ma. Btlng an admirer or inis person It Is my earnest desire to locate him. He la J. F. O. Con (Francis Cone) who was at on tlm a lookout on Ml. McLaughlin In Southern Oregon. He has lived in Klamath Falls. Redding and Wea vervllle and is also known on the Black Rock desert of Nvda sine 1(28. Anyone knowing of his where abouts and communicating with me will make someone very happy. J. D. DeMuth 404 Jih Street Sacrament Putnam's Turbulent Life Sketched In Turnbull Book By PAIL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM W George Putnam's philosophy got him into a lot ol battles and boycotts. Still going strong as editor emer itus of Uie Salem Capital Journal. Putnam has spent 62 years In Journalism. Including t years as a publisher. Three of the greatest battles are recounted this week In a book, "An Oregon Crusader," by George Tuinbull, former dean of tne School of Journalism at the Uni versity of Oregon. It tells the stirring story about how h won an important libel suit which protected the right to criti cize publlo officials. , Then comes Uie story of his war against the Ku Klox Klan, an or ganization which the book aays came within an eyelash of winning control of the state government in the early 1920's. The last tale Is about Putnam's war on labor terrorism in the late 1930's. when there was such vio lence aa burning down a sawmill, putting emery dust In tractors, and breaking up a- barber shop. Putnam was publisher of the Medford Tribune from 1907 to 1910. and owned the Capital Journal from 1919 to 1953 for which he now writes a column and editor ials. A bachelor, his. chief Interests have been newspapering, fishing. reading, and raising flowers. , The libel Incident occurred in 1907. The owner of a little railroad, running between Medford and Jacksonville, was being pressed by Medford interests to build a depot. While Putnam watched, the owner tossed an ax at the mayor, nar rowly missing his head. After the grand Jury refused to Indict the railroad owner, Putnam attacked the grand Jury as being "blind folded representatives of Justice." -! - The grand jury retaliated by in dicting Putnam for libel. The au thorities wstted to arrest him un til he was in his berth on a north bound train. Putnam was taken off the train and spent a night in Jail he said it was verminous at Roseburg. The circuit court convicted him, fining him (150. Gov. George Chamberlain oflered to pardon him, but Putnam chose to fight his battle out 111 the state supreme Court. The Supreme Court reversed the conviction, holding that truth is a defense in a libel case, -and up holding the right of the press to comment on act of public offi cials. TORRENTIAL RAINS CAIRO, Egypt Wl Torrential rains disrupted railway lines and telephone communications between Alexandria and the western desert Thursday. Report reaching here said more than 4,000 people are homeless Ind 800 marooned in scattered villages and oases. Test the ,'mFhntiac 4i Introducing a Big ancl Vital General Motors Automotive Rrstt' rr If Toti've rome to think of driving as junl routine, it's high time vou tried the tremendous "go" of this masterful new monarch of the highway. Here' a ear with such exhilarating drive eager oil-smooth response and safe,. secure hanilling-that even monotonous home-to-work driving becomes your finest hour! And out on the open highway, the fabulous '.If) Pontiac rome alive with all the eager, heads-tip alrrt nes of a thoroughbred. , Its biasing 227-h.p. Strato-Streak V-8, coupled with ilken smooth Strain-Flight Hydra-Malic, thrive on challenge. Th hill you tee looming up virtually disappears before your yea. 606 So. 6th In 1922. Turnbull recounts, Put nam declared war on the Ku Klux Klan, which then was organizing to take over Uie state and county governments. He was Uie first Oregon editor to tight the Klan. Oov. Ben Olcott Issued a statement condemning it. A Republican, he had the staunch support of George Putnam, a life long Democrat. Olcott won Repub lican renomination over State Sen. Charles Hall, Marshfleld, who had the support of Uie Klan. But Ol cott'a winning margin was only 521 votes. In Uie November election, the Klan supported Walter Pierce, who defeated Olcott. The big Issue In that November election was the Klan measure to force all cnlldren to go to public schools. It would have closed every Catholic and other parochial school In the state:1 The people passed It. But the school measure was thrown out by the United States Supreme Court which ruled,- as 707 MAIN WILL BE OPEN FRIDAY NIGHTS TILL 9 P.M. 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But, Turnbull summarizes, he be lieves that when the public under stands un Issue, it will support an THIS VALUE $1099 1 a GO of the fabulous A new Strato-Flight Hydra-Maticlupled" with Pontiacs 227-H.P. Strato-Streak V-S-results in performance' so new and dramatic" It mast be experienced to be believed! And at any legal speed, there's such reserve of power that your, engine literallv loafs-ready at a loe touch to spring into the most thrilling, satisfying clion that ever shortened a country mile- Of course, this is only a hint oY what's awaiting you. I he difference in performance - in lim ine, iiioollineM, rido and conlrol-is so terrific that it ' can only be appreciated at the wheel. : N. conic in and take charge of one of lliese clamorou new beauties yourself. Choose your own test route I ami sample the- greatest V-onr ri;ov llw irratvtt xlvlv ever built into a car.Thcn you'll know whv the word . sprradinj.-'-TI.ey'lI bo a long ,inie catching , up to this one!" V . " Klamath THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 155 editor when it Is convinced he wants better government. THE KLAMATH FALLS LIONS CLUB SAYS FOR THE LOYE OF MIKE DON'T MISS SPIKE SPIKE JONES and his MUSICAL INSANITIES OF 1956 STARRING , HELEN GRAYCO ' and THE. CITY SLICKERS s and including GEORGE ROCK FREDDY MORGAN BILLY BARTY GIL BERNAL PETER JAMES "Mousie" GARNER BILL KING RUTH FOSTER PELICAN THEATRE FRI. NOV. 18 2-PERFORMANCES-2 5:45 and 8:30 Tickets Now On Soli At Derby's Music Co. MAIL ORDERS ACCEPTED N 5:45 PERFORMANCE NO SEATS RESERVED Students Includes OTI 1.00 Adults 51.50 Prices Includ Tax . 8:30 PERFORMANCE Main Floor Reserved $2.00 Loges Reserved $3.00 Balcony-Not Reicrved $1.50 All Prices Includ Tax Falls, Ore.