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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 1955
FRANK JENKINS
Editor
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Plane Mast
By BILL JENKINS
I doubt If anyone read the grue
some tale of a son's confession
to blowing up the airliner carry
ing his mother and 43 others with
out at least an Inward shudder.
Outright murder is bad enough,
but matricide Is a step so far
Into the twisted world of Insane
crime as to leave the average
person horror struck.
If modern medical miracles
mean anything, and if psychiatry
and the study of human behavior
can ever In our time reach the
point where such warped personali
ties can be detected and treated,
possibly cured, then we will say
that all the millions of dollars In
research and years of effort and
sacrifice by our researchers has
Indeed paid off.
History tells us that crimes such
as this are fairly commonplace,
but it doesn't make them any the
more understandable. Until such
time as we can reasonably treat
mental cases In this category there
is nothing left but the legal pro
cesses. We sincerely hope that
they will be both swift and sure
In this case..
Senator Magnuson, up In Wash
ington, came out yesterday with
the proposal that a world bank for
food would be a mighty fine idea.
I seem to recollect that the
same proposal has been made be
fore. Made so many times, In
fact, that the Congressional Rec
ord's files bulge with now dusty
plans.
Senator Mngnuson goes further
to say that the bank should, prop
erly, be created by the United Na
tions and that the United states
could start the ball rolling with
a "deposit" of maybe a hundred
million bushels of wheat.
I am perhaps unduly cynical,
but I wonder If the good Senator
Isn't maybe looking to the UN to
pull a few chestnuts out of the fire
for the party?
Pood surpluses In this country
are already a major headache and
are likely to get worse If somt
sort of solution Isn't found.
To date the UN has failed to
ettect a sure cure lor a war
troubled world and I doubt If they
would do any better Job of re
lieving the present surplus pains
in this country.
Yesterday down in Redding the
first in a series of hearings was
kicked off on the general subject
of timber management policies of
the forest service and others. The
same hearing moved to Klamath
Falls today and will take off for
other areas from here.
One statement made at the Red
ding hearing was of interest to
me. Daniel Johnston, who repre
sents the California Council of the
Lumber and Sawmill Workers,
AFL, said that his organization
was Interested in "maintaining
small lumber operators and avoid
ing consolidation of lumber pro
duction Into a relatively few com
panies." He further suggests that some
timber should be set aside ex
clusively for small operators "in
accordance with the present gov
ernment policy on assistance and
protection ol small businesses."
In such pleas as this one I
aeem to come across the same
old stumbling block every time.
What would be called a "small"
lumDer Dusmcss? Ana wno is go-1
say to one mill that Uiey are
small enough to get in on the
special timber and to another that
they are too big? '
It's a Job that I, personally,
wouldn't want to be saddled with.
I am also willing to persist In
my belief that the years to como
are going to see such vast strides
in timber utilization and use that
there won't be any such thing as
an outfit "too small" to get all
the timber they want for at least
one or more speclfio markets.
Time alone will tell, bui I'll
make that prediction rlRht now. If
we arc to have special arens set
up for Uie "little guy" In industry,
whether it be for timber or for
any other resource, I see us as
Just one stop closer to big gov
ernement monopoly.
I've still got Inllli that Individual
enterprise and Initiative will make
any business Just as big or Just
as small as the operator wants to
make it.
The breaks art seldom against
the man who is willing to get In
there and really work at a Job.
Ing U S. Senatorial primary cam
paign of senator Wayne Morse.
Despite the wldespresd Idea that
state labor organizations are back
ing Senator Morse all-out, the Port
land Central Labor Council has
not, to date, come out as a con
tributor to his campaign fund. This
was revealed at a recent meeting
of Republican labor leaders in
Portland.
It was brought out that labor
organizations are receiving . re
quests for additional subscriptions
to the Morse campaign funds, re
ported as varying from 40 to $150
a week. Registered Republican la
bor leaders who were present at
the meeting, stated that the Cen
tral Labor Council, as an organ
ization, was- not contributing to
th Morse fund, although It was
admitted some specific unions
were.
Although some labor leaders are
committing their members to sup
port of Morse the Michigan Unl'
verslty survey, reported In the
Oregon Voter, September 10, 1969,
showed 41 per cent of Oregon un
ion members were nof Democrats.
Another interesting facet of elec
tions and voting is the reminder
of the poor record Oregon voters
made in the 1064 election.
According to a survey based on
the 1955 Census Bureau reports,
less than 66 per cent of the po
tential Oregon vote was cast in
the last general election. This is
the lowest of any state excent for
the one-party stales of the South,
where poll taxes and intimidations
restrict the suffrage.
The Farm Bureau monthly stat
ed: "In prior years Oregon's rec
ord has been low by comparison
but in 1954 It was left for Oregon
to be lowest I"
Every registered voter should
certainly make every effort to vote
In the coming primary and gen
eral elections next year.
You can't criticize the actions
of the officeholders if you don't
vote. Whether you vote for or
against them, the Important thing
Is to vote.
Plans for the new Rogue Valley
Memorial Hospital (Episcopal) in
Medford were given a boost re
cently by the Advisory Council on
Hospital and Construction of the
Oregon State Board of Health.
The board recommended a grant
of federal funds under the Hill'
Burton Act for a third of the cost
of the projected 11.159.600 hospital.
The U.S. Publlo Health Serviced been translated as meaning "re-
ceding ana returning water ana
under such an Interpretation the
word makes note of the ability
of the southern winds to blow the
river dry.
survey showed a need for 300 beds
in the county of which 104 are now
available and acceptable The new
structure would provide an .add!
tional 80 beds.
Plans for using radio-active Iso
topes In the new hospital are un
der consideration, with a program
for nurses training.
Housing 'immI
By MAX WAUCHOPE
The coming Influx of U.S. Air
Force personnel into Klamath
Falls to man the Jet Interceptor
base has brotiRlit to the fore
pressing need for adequate nous
Ing, both civilian and military, in
the community.
Ed Bell, sub-fhairman of the
housing-commercial division of the
Klamath County chamber ot Com
merce's Military Affairs Commit
tee, highlighted tins problem at a
meeting ol his group, the city
planning commission and USAP
officers last week.
Severnl avenues of approach to
the problem were explored at this
Introductory housing meeting. Bell
announced that his committee will
hold regular meetings with civic.
building, financial and military
leaders to 'seek Hie answer to the
problem.
This committee faces a big. Job
and will need the aid of many
segments of Klamath Falls civic
and business life to complete their
task.
On Uie political front the Ore
gon Voter brought out an Interest
ing fact concerning tht lorthcotn-
Llnkvllle
In our Sunday column we made
a note that this country within
the next couple of decades will
have an opportunity to celebrate
a number of centennials In our
coming of the age of 100 years.
I spoke of the centennial of Fort
Klamath coming In .1963 and the
centennial of Llnkvllle In 1967 Just
tour years later. I note that after
speaking of the centennial year of
1967 the gremlins put the date or
the founding of Llnkvllle back four
years and came up with 1663 In
stead of 1867.
Llnkvllle, however, was not the
first village upon the banks of Link
River but when these other vil
lages were started there Is no
recorded history. At Fremont
bridge, Uie DAR has placed a
bronze marker upon the site of
another settlement of pre-ploneer
days, known to the Indian as Eua
lona. Yulalona or Iulanoe depend
ing upon Just how the Indian name
sounds to the Individual attempt
ing to put the word Into written
English,
At the other end of Luik River
and where the location of Llnk
vllle was mad there was another
Indian village called I-uauna and
the Indians called the settlement
of Llnkvllle by the same name.
The white man kept Uie name ot
tins villsge and applied It to Uie
lake at Uie mouth of Link River
calling the lake that graced the
edge of the village Ewauna. While
the name Is now fastened to the
area there Is no marker present
Uiat tells Uie visitor to our com
munity Uie story ot Llnkvllle and
I-uauna.
Much has been written about
Link River. Uie "link" that con
nects Upper Klamath Lake with
Lake Ewauna. Uie headwaters of
Uie Klamath River. It Is a short
river, 8.000 feet in length and lo
cated within the city limits of
Klamath Kalis and Uie community
bosits of it as being "the shortest
river in Uie world within one
municipality." The boast, however.
ends at that point for the com
munity apparently has little pride
In the fact other than that tht
Link is a curiosity to boast about
Down south In the land ot superla
tives whose northern border Is a
few miles to Uie south, anv com
munity in the llatland would do
more than boast about "the short
est river" but would have It In a
park that would be known Uie
world over.
The fabled river that regularly
oiew nry and from which Klam
ath Falls drew Its name because
of the low falls In the river is
someuilng more than casual inter.
est to any newcomer and visitor
to tn area but there is no sign
to tell the story. When people
come 10 Klamath Falls the first
question they ak is "where are
the falls?" Ol course thev visual
ire something llkt Uie (alls ol Uie
Yellowstone perhaps but no such
fall was possible here and to some
there Is amusement that the low
falls ol Link River should be des
ignated as falls at all. Before the
construction of the diversion dam
on Link River at Uie head of the
cataract that formed the falls,
Luik River was noted for being
the stream that heavy winds from
the south could practically blow
dry, leaving only a trickle of
water flowing over the falls. While
the falls are now dry Uiey still can
take on their natural condition dur
ing times when a large flow of
water Is being released from Link
River dam.
The Indian name for the falls
was "tlwi-shkeni" which translate
ed means "rush of falling waters
place." Around this location enor
mous Quantities of salmon, steel.
head and mullet were taken each
year by the Indians who dried them
for their winter food supply. The
construction of Uie Copco Dams
upon the Klamath in California
stopped Uie annual migration of
Uie sslmon and steelhesd, and Uie
drying up of Lower Klamath Lake
destroyed the enormous runs ef
mullet. The. Indians made good
use of the opportunities afforded
them when the river would occas
ionally blow dry and this is a story
that some scientists apparently
take to be a myth. Thus we find
a note in Spier's "Klamath Ethno
graphy" "Oatschet's reference to
the Indians scooping up fish from
the dry bed of the stream when a
strong south wind drives back the
waters in the lake, seems like a
purely mythical reference, but is
confirmed by Clark." Had he tak
en the time to ask any old settler
of pioneer days in Llnkvllle and
of Klamath Falls before Uie build
ing of the dam he could have con
firmed the story on the ground
and even had evidence of the fact
from existing photographs.
At some early date, the Indians
constructed a series of rock pens
In Uie bed of the river below Uie
falls. These structures can be seen
today at periods when the water
level of the river is lowered. The
may have served as the base of
fish traps when water was low
or as good fishing holes when Uie
water was high. When water was
low In the river the rock pens
could serve as an easy place to
net and spear fish.
Early settlers in Klamath Falls
remember the time when the In
dians still fished in these an
cient waterholes; had their lish
drying racks and fishing camp
on the west bank of the river
near the present Fremont bridge at
Uie head of Link River at Uie vil
lage Yulalona, a word that has
palms with silver now Just to get
Into his hotel room the hotel
doorman, who unloads the bag
from a cab, the bellhop who car
ries it to the registration desk, and
the bellhop who ferries It from
there to the room.
Orove thinks moving belts will
ferry baggage upstairs automatic
ally and before very long.
"There were fewer than 100 ho
tels built In America or the
whole world, for that matter
between the depression and the
end of the Second World War,"
he said. "That doesn't include mo
tels, of course.
"But a hotel building boom is
on the way now. Many of-the push
button improvements already de
veloped will be found in new ho
tels now on the drawing boards,
and a lot more are coming."
All a veteran traveler1 hopes is
they'll Improve everything but the
Oldeon Bible. It's fine as it stands.
Word Ealing
Pushbutton Era
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK (yfl The pushbut
ton era Is Just dawning In the
hotel Industry but what a glori
ous dawn I
It promises a. golden time a-
coming when the weary wayworn
traveler will be less dependent on
uie sometimes irigm nospitauty oi
an officious desk clerk, or the
tired courtesy of .an overworked
bellhop.
In the electronio aga now com
ing to flower, a hotel guest will
be able to lie In bed and by push
ing a series of buttons in a panel
accomplish the following things:
Summon a valet without having
to go through the switchboard
downstairs-
Order fresh Ice and glasses or
the morning newspaper, which will
pop Into Uie room via a pneu
matic tube.
Lock or unlock tht door.
Dictate business letters at night
and find them typed and ready
for signature at his bedside in the
morning.
Control the temperature and hu
midity In the room and deter
mine what tht weather Is like out
side.
Open or close the window
shades.
Get the latest radio news or
watch a television program In the
panel of one of the walls.
Set a clock that will waken him
with soft chimes at any hour he
chooses. An automatic alarm will
detect and signal the location ol
fire anywhere In the hotel.
These pushbutton servants on a
bedside console are Just a few ol
the revolutionary gimmicks de
signed by the Minneapolis Honey
well Regulator Co. and shown here
at the recent convention of the
American Hotel Assn.
Another time-saving Idea was an
electronic brain device called "the
computer center-registration
desk."
some ol Us possible functions:
Tlie automatic registration of
guests, the assignment of rooms,
and the transmission of mall and
messages to guests, and the com
puting ol bills.
The derned machine can even
make change. It probably could
be taught to say "thank you." too
except who even dreams any
more today ol being thanked when
he pays a bill? Most people today
are grateful It they get all their
lingers back.
But desk rlerka and bellhops
need have no lear that the spread
ol automation to the hotel Held
will wipe out their Jobs. The com
pletely automatic hotel might be
a technical possibility, but it Isn't
In the cards now,
"Hotel men tell us the personal
touch Is a big factor In their busi
ness, and thev don't want to lose
It." said W T. Orove. an official
ol the regulator tlrm who helped
pioneer many ol the new gadgets.
"The guest's like the personal
touch, too."
But there may bt fewer oppor
tunities lor bellhops to make so
many personal touches In the ho
tel ol the luture.
A (ueat often baa to cross thiet
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON Wl Chief Justice
Earl Warren can hardly escape
some political indigestion if he
ever tries to eat the words he used
in saying he is not a presidential
candidate. They were pretty em
phatic. He said his decision was "irre
vocable" under any "circum
stances or conditions." President
Eisenhower sounded pretty em
phatic too back In early 1948. four
years before he ran. in saying he
wouldn't run. He said he was "pos.
Hive."
In 1952, before he accepted the
Democratic nomination, Adlai Ste
venson said he didn't want it. But
his statements, looking back on
them now, didn't sound as convinc
ing as Warren's or Eisenhower's.
He never quite closed the dojr.
Whether Warren likes it or not
and he Is reported to have toid
friends privately he doesn't like It
a mt and won t change his mind
he is constantly being mentioned
as the man the Republicans may
have to call on In 1956.
Warren made his renunciation of
political ambitions back in April
1955 when there was still resscn
to believe Eisenhower would seek
a second term. It was before
the President's heart attack maJc
it unlikely he would, or could, run
again.
II Eisenhower doesn't run. ana
II the Republicans think their only
chance Is with Warren, he wi'.l
be under heavy pressure to change
his mind. He hasn't been asked
publicly what he would do If Bis
party drafted him in 1956.
The 64-year-old Warren, In poli
tics since 1923 and three times gov
ernor of California, was made
chief Justice of the United States
by Eisenhower in 1953.
He issued the following state
ment last April after a nationwide
poll reported he was the top choice
of Republican and Independent vot
ers if Elsenhower decided not to
run:
My name has been used as a
possible candidate for the presi
dency. This has been a matter of
embarrassment to me because it
reflects upon the performance of
my duties as chief Justice of the
United States. '
"When I accepted that position.
It was with the fixed purpose of
leaving politics permanently for
service on the court. That Is still
my purpose. It Is irrevocable. I
will not change it under any cir
cumstances or conditions.
"Be they few or many, the re
maining useful years of my life
are dedicated to the service of the
Supreme C o u r t - of the United
States, in which work I am in
creasingly happy."
When a "d r a f t-Eisenhowcr"
move got under way in 1947, the
general sold, "I don't want any
thing to do with politics." He went
even further than Uiat with a
lengthy statement on Jan. 23,
1948 part of which said:
"Mv decision to remove myself
completely from the political scene
Is definite and positive ... I could
not accept nomination even under
the remote circumstances that It
was tendered me ... I am not
available for and could not accept
nomination to high political office."
But after the 1948 elections,
when he was again being mn
tloned as a candidate in 1952. he
sounded a little less "positive"
than In 1948 and finally ran.
Stevenson was governor ot Illi
nois In April 1952 when he wis
being looked at as a likely Demo
cratic nominee. He ssid then "I
could not accept the nomination"
because he w-anted to run for an
other term as governor.
He kept saying that practically
up to the moment he was nomi
nated, and accepted, in the sum
mer of 1952. But he is expected
to announce in Chicago today he
will try as hard as he can to be
nominated by the Democrats again
tn 1956.
CHICAGO Norman Cousins
magazine editor, on 25 bomb
scarred (Iris ot Hiroshima. Ja
pan, whom he brought to tht Unit-
ed 8tates lor surgery:
"They love American food espe-
daily not aogs.
WASHINGTON Buxom 31-year-old
government girl Ricky f.
Gottlieb on why she accepted
movie actor Marlon Brando's Invi
tation to a Treasury Department
lunch:
"I like nice looking men."
PROVIDENCE. R.I. Tom Tan
nas. manager ol tormer hea.-y-welght
champion Ezrard Charles,
after the veteran of 107 bouts was
beaten by Toxle Hall Monday
night:
"Charles came out without a
scratch. All he needs aie a couple
mart Hants."
Senators
Suffering
Hear Farmers Are
From 'Benson Blues'
BV OVID A. MARTIN
Associated Press Farm Reporter
WASHINOTON W "I VC got a
bad case of the Benson blues."
These were the words tarmer
Robert Lee of Larimore, N. D
used to put across at a recent Sen
ate Agriculture Committee hearing
bow he felt about Secretary ol Ag
riculture Benson and the Elsen
hower administration farm, pro
gram. '
A lot of farmers ana Kepuon-
can DOlitlclans a well have the
same kind of blues If what they
told the senators at more than -a
dozen hearings in major farming
areas and newsmen in inter
views Is an accurate gaue.
The most outspoken criticism 01
Benson was voiced at hearings In
Minnesota, the Dakota!, Oregon
and Texas. It was generally
sharpest and most frequent in
areas where the National Farmers'
Union, Is strongest.
This farm organization has long
been critical of Republican larm
Dolicles. It has been closely as
sociated with Democratic policies
and leaders Charles F. Brsnnan.
secretary of agriculture under
Presiaent rrumsn. is a lop 0111-
cial.
But In slates like -Iowa. Calllor-
uia. Indiana and Ohio, where the
rival Farm Bureau Federation is
trong, Benson seldom wos men
tioned by farmer witnesses. Ques
tioned on the side, most farmers
would say the OOP farm chief was
not very popular "out my way."
Manv farmers wouia say tney
admired Benson for his "sincerity.
honesty and courage In standing
up lor wnat ne oeuevea to oe
right." But they would add they
did not believe his policies offered
much hope for fanners in a farm
SaSk Vaccine Flow
Said To Even Out
situation dominated. Uiey said, by
surpluses and overproduction.
Local and state Republican lead
ers would not allow themselves to
be quoted by name. But most ol
those Interviewed expressed a be
lief that Uie party would lose heav
ily In farm states if Benson con
tinued as secretary.
On the other hand, strong sup
porl for the secretary was found
among business and professional
men and white collar workers in
urban areas.
Benson was given little moral
support by members' of his own
party among the committeemen at
Uie hearings. His only outright de
fense came from Sen. Holland, a
Florida Democrat.
Republican S e 11 i t 0 r s Thye
(Minn), Young (ND and Mundi
(SDi were more aggressive than
most Democratic senators in at
tempting during cross-examination
of farmer witnesses to point
out what they considered to be
weaknesses in present programs
and policies.
All three of these 'senators are
opposed to flexible price supports,
a basic feature of the administra
tion farm program. -
There was a strong tendency
among iarmers to associate the
fexible .support program which
most often was referred to as the j
"sliding scale" with Benson rath
er than with President Eisenhower, j
Much of the farmer criticism of
Benson even In more conserva
tive farming areas reflects a '
feeling that flexible supports will 1
not do the job which the secretary
claims thev will do. I
Farmer-critics contend that in j
times of surpluses of most prod-1
ucts, such as now, farmers actual-1
ly lend to produce more rather j
than less when price supports are ;
lowered. They say the farmer's re-1
action is to. grow more to offse: ;
the effects of lower prices.
Many find fault with Benson be- i
cause he set up and then withdrew
measures designed to prevent the
diversion of surplus wheat, corn,
cotton, rice and peanut land into ,
Ihe production of other crops this 1
for farmers to become more ef
ficient. Some farmers have inter
preted this as Indicating that the
secretary believes that all small
ond less-efficient farmers should
be squeezed out of farming.
Many blame him for this year's
sharp drop in hog prices. They say
he encouraged an "overproduc
tion" of livestock feed grains last
year that was followed by a fur
ther drop In grain prices.
Because hog prices were rela
tively high at the time, many farm
ers produced more hogo to leed
the irmin to rather than sell It.
The result was an overproduction
nf hoos and the big decline in
prices when the hogs reached mar
get size this year.
Knrlier in Uie present admlnlS'
tration, Benson policies had strong
backing from the American Farm
Rureau Federation. The Senate
Committee hearings showed that
many Farm Bureau members do
not now oeneve nis pontics ic
adequate.
While willing to stick with ilex
lble supports, these farmers and
leaders ,say new measures are
needed.
Many of them are advocating a
"soil bank" plan under which
farmers would be required to takt
a uniform percentage of their land
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WASHINGTON (IP) Production
of Salk anlipolio vaccine is ex
pected to reach "a fairly smooth
flow" in January or February
Welfare Department officials yeai.
made the prediction Monday In Benson nas empnasizea a neea
announcing that a "substantial" lMaa
amount ol the scrum may be
cleared for use this month and
next.
Manufacturing and testing of the
vaccine, because of new proced
ures, requires from four to sis
months.
A spokesman said the depart
ment knew of no case of polio
attributable to use of the vaccine
since last May.
The latest supply of the vaccine
was released by the U.S. Public
Health Service on Oct. 14. A total
of 1.113.930 cubic centimeters
equal to that many "shots" of the
serum was made availaole at
Uiat time. I
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everything from cosmetics and candy to tools
and tractors.
To be of service to so many people in the com
munities in which we ourselves work and live, il
one of the big reasons why we like our jobs.
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