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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX FRANK JENKINC Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor More Waler By BILL JENKINS Since the emphasis hat, been placed on water these Inst few years we've all become acutely conscious of the problems. What with whole cities verging on ruin unless tney can up their supplies of the life giving siun, ana wiui many agricultural areas lying oar ren and unproductive because of a lack of water it has become the most Important Item on earth. Ex cept maybe the various compo ; nents of the H-bomb. I suppose de ttruction Is always more import ant than production. Anyway, with all the water that the Klamath Basin has had this year (we ore two and a half ' inches over normal for the stream year figures now! I can't help thinking what a wonderful thing It would be If we already had a series of dams, small ones, in the foothills and up alcng the gullies in the mountains to hold the run off that comes with every thaw and that will cascade out of the hills with a roar come next spring. It's always so easy to think about how wings nouia dc. With all the dam talk nowadays hanging on the subject of huge. - multi-billion dollar projects that . tower far up into the aklcs and stretch from one huge canyon wall , to another it sounds almost child ish to talk about little dams. But the big ones won't hold the wrfler that will be running off our hills down here. And. every private op- ' eralor that has tried the system of small dams and holding reser voirs has had success far beyond . the average. I hope that in the near future we can see such a chain of earth dams In our country up here to store the water of good winters for the lean ones that are bound to follow. Which reminds us that If you are anxious for the onslought of Spring you have a little over three months to wait. The vernal cqul ' nox Is slated for March 20, when he sun enters Aries. It fails on a Tuesday and Abe Wealherwisc In ; the Old Farmer's Almanac pre dict tornadoes. j The Christina), spirit is begin " ning to show in the town these days; Windows In the stoics all decked out with gay colors and gift suggestions, the shoppers with laden arms as thoy carry home . gills .0 go under the tree and the harried , look on so many men's faces as they face the annual problem of what to get for the ismiiy. Every time we go past tile ice rink out at Moore Park we won. der when the time will come for solid Ice and the skaters waltt? To date this year we've seen only one group skating. On the Upper Lake In one ol the little coves where the ice was solid enough to hold up the youngsters. 1 llpeflil Memo By DEB ADDISON ; Most consumers believe that the " nation's economic outlook will re main favorable during the next ' IS months, according to a survey by the Univ. of Michigan's Sur vey Research Center. Results of the study e tabula tion of 2000 families throughout the country Indicate that 11 per cent of all people expect good , times to continue at least through next October. The figure rises to 8 percent among consumers with incomes of $5000 and over. Only 8 percent queried feel Uiat bad times will develop within Uie next 13 months. Business must sell 10 percent more to consumers in 1956 over this year to keep the nation's economy strong and advancing, snys Arno H. Johnson, vice presi dent and director o( research, J. Waller Thompson Co., N Y. He adds, In "Advertising Age," "Actually, we should have now a business level 5 percent higher than the present peak Just to keep In line with the growth in con sumer purchases that will be nec essary to use our productive ca pacity and to avoid serious un employment." Prime market lor business ex pansion will be the estimated 35, 800.000 families In 1958 wiui dis posable Incomes over $4000. "An added source ol purchas ing power." Johnson said, "is the fact that consumer short-t e r in credit Is low 111 relation lo dis cretionary spending power." Women buy more than 70 per cent ol all men's luinishings and assist In more than 60 percent ol all suit and topcoat purchases, ac cording to a survey by Thomp son Co., N. Y. public relations and promotions consiliums. JTta-VeVT, ""J! h ' ,t . b.l r",cl"'? mo,T ! easily thin men they read more sections of newspapers and more publications i.-u,., . , ,, . 1. , C"F' P"" "' wold "'8 iier gory Is getting $160 of every MOO. from the Klamath to replace that of consumers' disposable Income. I which WHS ios, ' TiTT"'," n'"1 "V0 '" 1948 11 ls lor ,h" " hat the '? '.",' P,,k . PPle of Ihe Klamalh Ittver are 1846. It w-as $10 in pre-war 1939. interested In what goes on I,, the Somebody is reaching" the i battle for the waters of the Colo women besides the clothing and ; rdo. To Insure lhat California and shoe people. int other i0er basin slates jnd . . , Mexico have their share of tie Cost of living memo: Colorado the answer must be solved The- Dun 81 Bradstreet Dally by the storage 01 water There Wholesale Commodity Price Inooxjcan be no long-range development of 30 basic commodities was 215.40 i progi am in Colorado and the Up. on Dec. 1, aialnst.214 89 a week per Colorado Basin without 1011 c before. 1 holdover sloiaiir ulrn in ... Hie Weekly Wholesale Food Price Index, representing the total of the price per pound of 31 foods Jn general . use. fell three cents last week to 16.99. That was 12 6 percent below Ihe corresponding level of last year. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls, Ore., on August 30, 190, under act of Congress, March (, lilt 8ERVICE8: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS 1 Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California I Air liiiiM'M By MAX WAUCHOPE Although the citizens of the Unit- d Stales should never become complacent about the status of our air defenses, the establishment of the all-weather Jet Interceptor base at Klamath Falls emphasizes a fact of great Importance to all of us the healthier state of our con tinental air defenses over what it was for several years after World War II. As late as 1048, when the honey moon period with the Communists all over the world had been over for several years, the U.S. Air Force had only two wings of fight er-type aircraft west of the M's- sisslppl River with which to ae. fend the Western U.S. These two wings one at Moses Lake, Wash ington and the other at Hamilton Air f orce Base, oaniornia were not equipped with what was then considered the latest type all weather fighter aircraft. In a move to coordinate the air defenses of the U.S. under one centrol command, the Continental Air Defense Command was acti vated by act of Congress on Sep tember 1, 1854. This Joint command, now led by USAF General Earl C. Partridge, comprises elements of the USAF, Navy, Marine Corps and Army lor the defense of the U.S. against air attack. Its headquarters Is at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs. Colorado. The Air Defense Command Is the USAF part of this defense team. The ADC is divided into three commands, Western Air Defense Force. Central ADF and Eastern ADF. The headquarters of WADF, commanded by Major General Roy H. Lynn, is at Hamilton Afu, California, The Western Air Defense Force consists of the 28th Air Division, Hamilton AFB; 25th AD, McChord AFB, Tacoma. Washington: 9th AD, Gclgcr AFB, Spokane, Wash ington; 21th AD, San Bernardino, California, and the 8th AD. Mc- Clellan AFB, Sacramento, Califor nia. All the air divisions except the 8lh are equipped with, all weather Jet Interceptor type air craft. The 8th is designated as an Aerial Early Warning Division and Is equipped with "Flying Radar Stations" the four-cngined RC-121 super constellations. Hie increased strength of Wes tern ADF since its inception in 1049 as a part of the old Con. tlnental Air Command (not to be confused with the Continental Air Defense Command) illustrates the growth of our air delenscs. Although when the Western ADF was formed It was made respon- slblc for the air defense of the entire western portion of the U.S.. It was given no weapons of Its own. The only weapons it did con trol operationally woro the limit ed, obsolete aircraft and radar of the Fourth Air Force. In August, 1050 the Western ADF was given full Jurisdiction over several air buses and nil units having an air defense mission that had previously been assigned to the Fourth Air Force. On Jan uary 1, 1051 the Western ADF was assigned to the Air Defense Com mand. The Fourth Air Force, also headquartered at Hamilton AFB, Is now primarily an area com mand having Jurisdiction over re serve activities, etc. In addition to the Improvement ol the chain ol command. West ern ADF also received Increasing numbers of Improved Klrcraft. both Jet fighters and f.dar warn ing types, from 1951 to'lhe present day. The RC-121 Super-Constellations extended the radar coverage and added protection ol the seaward approaches to the coastal cities far beyond the range of ground radar stations. The conversion from day Interceptors to night-all-weather tvpe Jets such as the F 86d. F-94C and the F-89D has beeled up the striking force of the command. So long as the threat . of an atomic air attack on our nation threatens, the dnngerous. unre warding task of air defense will be carried out by the pilots and ground crews ol the Western ADF. I'm sure if any of the old pilots or air-crew members of World War II or Korea thought about taking off in a storm such as hit the Klamath Basin Monday lo in tercept an agrcssor plane they would realize the tough Job fac ing the crews ol the Western Air Dclense Force. I.Ivor Coiiiuk Bv KKN M. LKOv. The working out ol the basic problems ol Ihe Colorado River Compact will do much to solve similar problems that mav arise in dealing with compacts lor the Columbia and the Klamath. The Compact Is import To " P"P" f '" Klamath River Basin because If the neoulc of California should loose their right to the established figure now in ftutvi - 111 uir li'iinhuu niver uilll sure that compart requirements re met and its on share made available for use in the upprr ba sin. Oregon. In entering am- t-oninnrt with Callfntnln over the waters of Ihe Klamaih. should be iu- tlous of getting in the same posi tion that the upper basin of the Colorado River now finds itself laced with obligated to deliver 75 million acre feet of water In a 10 year period. If Mother Nature fails to provide 16 million acre feci In the 10 year period it will bu the Upper Colorado Basin that must do without, for those In the lower basin can easily Impose their legal demand which would leave tne upper basin destitute. The Bureau of Reclamation has estimated that it will be necessary to store 23 million acre ted of water in the Upper Colo.nclo Ba sin, Just to meet the require ments of the lower basin states. This figure has nothing to O) with storage for irrigation or other wa ter uses In the upper basin. Stor age for water uses in the upper basin will be in addition to this figure and must be provided in connection with actual water use projects as they are plannel and constructed. The upper basin of the Colorado is a rich area with many unde veloped resources, take agriculture for example There are be'.ween three to four million acres of ar able land within the upper basin that must be eventually brought Into production by irrigation meth ods, some one and a half million acres are now being irrigated. For ests likewise are a great resource for the upper basin of the Colorado has 13.5 million acres, substantial ly occupied by growing forests. The forest lands comprise the bulk 01 the watersheds which supply water to the Colorado, The mineral wealth of the upper basin of the Colorado Is tremen dous, here is to be found the chief source of fissionable materials if the nation. One third the coal de posits of the nation. Four hundred million barrels of oil In reserves with more being found eacn year, estimated to be able to produce 500 billion gallons of oil If devel oped. Gold, silver, lead, copper, molybdenum, manganese, potash, bituminous sandstone. The Bureau of Mines states: "This array of mineral fuels and carbonaceous materials is not approached by any region in any other part of the world." Wildlife as a resource Is to be found In the abundance of deer, elk. antelope, bighorns, bear, up land game, waterfowl and trout. Nothing has been said of recre ation, national monuments, nation al state parks as a great resource producer of the upper basin. These resources, the industries and populations needed to develop them will require abundant and assured water supplies. Water In the upper basin will be more es sentially required for such develop ment than for Irrigation which cur rently is being presented as being the chief factor of primary con sideration. The fight waged over Dinosaur National Monument has brought all this material into public gaze and has pointed out the absolute need of comprehensive planning: for all resources rather than Just for Irrigation and power. Just iiow this problem can be resolved lor the people locally and for the Unit ed States In general is pointed out in a program proposed by the Izaak Walton League of America which has emphasized these ob jectives: Guarantee protection of na tional parks and monuments: 2. Provide sufficient holdover storage to guarantee that both up per and lower basins and Mexico shall have the opportunity to de velop their lull apportioned share of Colorado River water: 3. Oeneration of hydro-electric power where economic; 4. Distribute power profits for use on sound water development in tne upper basin on a fair and equitable basis. "These objectives," states the Izaak Walton League, "can be ac complished with a new Upper Col orado River Bill." Such a bill would authorize Glen Canyon Dam only and distribute power earn ings upon a formula consistent with the apportionment of water among the upper basin states as stipulat ed In the Upper Basin Compact. (rnvily By HAY BOYLE I NEW YORK 1 Curbstone! comments on a pavement Plato: Can you recall, as a child, how you liked tq stretch out on a small grassy hill, and then roll down It? Can you remember how, when you reached the bottom, mind reel ing, you had a strange foehng of tenor that you were about to fly of Into space and how you dm small hands Into Hie sweet-smelling earth and hugged It hard to keep this from happening? I have this same feeling on read lug that the U.S. government is sponsoring research to find a way 1 to counteract gravity. In this battle ol science versus 1 gravity I am pretty much on the side of gravity. - Gravity is one of man's oldest I ond best friends. It may set him down hard occasionally, but at least he knows where it will set i him rinu',1 n,,( vclftM,-,) t nt.'t : t t .' 1. . miuw. 11 ovii-nir u'vr Kinii- ty, It Is hard to figure where we'll 1 all be set down eventually. I Over the centuries gravity has j shown a steady and dependable ! sense of responsibility. You know what It will do. But who ran tell what science will do next? It Is as unpredictable as a lira at a dog show. Gravity was a fact of life long brtpre. as legend has It. an apple I dropped on Sir lsaao Newton's nog- i gin. All Newton did was lo get up and single-handed pass Ihe law ol uiavltv. This law has been more influ ential than any statute ever passed by Congress, II causes Ihe acmn If) drop and be covered by fallmi trees and HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER 1 MONTH I 150 MONTHS 00 I YEAR 118.00 MAIL 1 MONTH 1.60 6 MONTHS 7-W 1 YEAR 12.00 thus start a fresh forest. It holds Clark Gable's ears m place, and is a big factor in kcepipg Marlljn Monroe in her present pleasant shape. It pulls down the rain and snow to water the world. It turns mountain rivulets Into rivers that swell the mighty sea. The big virtue of gravity is that you can count on It. The repeal of gravity promises certain advantages to commercial aviation and space explorers. But if science docs come up with a new antigravity force or sub stance I hope they keep it under laboratory control and don't sell It like cotton candy at a circus. If they do, I predict chaos. The skies above our streets will be full of lunatic Jaywn'kors dropping chewed-up apple cores on the needs of us old-fashioned innocent pedestrians. Dastardly Peeping Toms will be leering in the 12th story windows of apartment build ings. Frantic mothers will be bawl ing up into the air. "Junior, you come down off that cloud right now, and fly to the grocery store for me. I'm sorry I ever bought you those antigravity shoes." Frankly speaking, do you feel the human race is ready to do away with gravity? The thing we need to do most In our troubled era is to keep both feet solidly on the ground. In this gravity Is big help. I'ooIi-I'ooIm'cI Idea Bv JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON i Leaders of the newly merged AFL-CIO pooh pooh the Idea they will try to form labor party or capture one of the existing political parties. Nevertheless, that time may come. Whether it happens since the AFL and CIO, although now com bined into the biggest labor organ ization In history, are Just starting life under,, one tent depends on future factors now unpredictable. Among the factors arc: (1) whether they can stick together; (21 what changing times bring, 13) how influential they are in the political field as it. now stands; (4) how well they increase their membership and can influence its political thinking: and i5 the pos sible personal ambitions of some of the leaders who now may have none. Starting rreht away the com bined AFL-CIO, claiming 16 to 16 million members, will be a far more powerful force In American politics than either separately. Their new strength will get its first big test in the 1056 elections when and If they back one of the two candidates for president. But they will work in state and local politics too, and speak to Congress with one voice. 1 Some Republican politicians particularly Sen. Goldwater ol Arizona seem to have misgivings about labor's support next year. The AFL and CIO backed AdUi Stevenson in 1952. Goldwater said Sunday the AFL-CIO "had no right" to endorse a presidential candidate in 1050. President Elsenhower, who boat Stevenson in 1952. said in saluting the AFL-CIO yesterday that labor organizations have a legitimate in terest In politics. But he cautioned they should be sure they "ac curately reflected" the thinking ol -minorities noimng aittering so cial, economic and political views." The weakest spot In labor's polit ical front from the standpoint ol its ability to use it utmost strength is that the union leaders cannot order their membrrs how lo vote. But the AFL-CIO isn I going to spend all Its energies directly In politics In the years Immediately aneaa. It will try to organize millions of workers not now In unions. The bigger the AFL-CIO. the more potent its political weight. Until they get a lot bigger than they are now and test their power with the two present political powers the leaders of the AFL- CIO are not likely to try for a labor party. (11 By UNITED PRESS WOODWARD. England - For. mer Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the lour of Soviet leaders in India and Burma: "It certainly has been a surpris ing spectacle, and one which her majesty's government will no doubt study carefully belore '.hey allow it, with suitable valiants, to be repeated here." BATON ROUGE, L.. Uov. Robert F. Kenuon ol Louisiana rn the Sugar Bowl controversy involv. intl segregation or white and Negroes at the Jan. 3 tootball ctaasic. . "There is no action to be taken on the part ol the governor in this aegregatton issue. That will be up to Su:;ar Bowl and New Orleans oldclals." PITTSBURGH Fred tCapi Clarke, former manager of the Louisville and Pittsburgh baseball teams, on how the late John Peter iHonus Wagner got stalled on his illustrious baseball career: "We bought him lor SJ.oeo and a sack of bananas. He was worih every cent of It." WASHINGTON Sen Ksies Kelauver ID-Tenni on the Dixoic Yates power controversy: "I believe Uiat before we a.e through we may find a case of criminal conspiracy Involving a number of high ranking persons ." WASHINGTON Cailnlne Ue Sapio. New York state Demoda.ic leader, on Gov. Averell lm nian's health: " "He Is as active and as Juwnile as any 30-year-old man that I havr seen around " FALLS. OREGON I They'll Do It Every Time EM ARSOH MO V4MILL4 S4IDI DOT TUEV GOT FOUR CCOUrJT'EM, FOUR) BEAUTIFUL SILVER COFFEE POTS AMOHQ THE GIFT LOOT SF Undergoes SAN FRANCISCO (UPl It took a rare type of person to keep his temper in downtown San Francis co last night. A combination' of circumstances caused a monumental traffic Jam at the height of the rush hour. And things were even worse for 12.000 Peninsula commuters. Here's what happened: It was raining hard. Tne streets were jammed with homebound of fice workers and Christmas shop pers. Private" cars and buses clogged the streets. Then a power failure at the Cen tral Fire Alarm Station caused most of the "birdcage ' type ol signals to stop working downtown Deiween a:35 p.m. and 6:27 3. in. That is. the "stop" ind "o" parts of the signals stopped work ing, but the lights keept flashing. Sometimes, the signals said "stop" with a green light and "Go" with a red light. Traffic officers finally turned most of them off and tried to di rect traffic by hand. DRIVE A The 1956 De Soto is the easiest handling car you will ever drive. You select the correct driving range with the effortless touch of a button. Simple? You bet! With De Soto's fully automatic push-button transmission you just touch the D" button, nudge the accelerator and . . . Go! De Soto's new push-button driving is safer, too. The convenient controls are located on the left "Full Tlm" owtr Stsarlng Chnnm Rrc you'll never put your DeSolo thmuch punishment like this. Hut the"iip-the-su'ps" test Rives dramatic proof of Hie tremendous hydraulic muscles ' in lie Soto's "Full Time" l'ower Steering. No ' 011-again-ofT-again" aulion. Power works "Full Time" all the time for complete control at all speeds. 522 So. 6th St. YOUH Dt tCVTO DIALIR MrMT BHOUCHO M1C tN "VPU MT VOirH I JUST LOOK TOUR A j BEEN HITCHED NOW-, fcf $ I SILVER COFFEE TOTS M ONLY COFFEE lLwSs' 1 I fiOlN?G TOEK WITH 4LL Iff rW EWWSEB6 ZflSo i . OP TEM'WLOVELy-. M IS TH4T OLD, BE4T-UP I 3RUA13LlN3 TO J i kSw--WEO)J USE 1 FIVE-4ND-TEN S4RG4UJ- YOURSELF AT J Traffic Pains Commuters who managed to get to the Southern Pacific Station found all the trains delayed. Tne rain had halted work on a treallc fill at Islais Creek Channel. All the earth that was brought to the scene in dump trucks turned to mud and wouldn't pour. MRS.DONALD CROW, Houtlon, Texas, eajrs: "My sons disliked ordi nary aspirin. Wow I give St. Joseph Aspirin For Children. Tacr tike its pure orince flsvor." ST. JOSEPH ASPIRIN FOR CHILDREN PHONE 5541 DESOTO EEPOg T4'U 1 , -. . m & ; jrv 1 r. f ' , 5 IT ' lit" - i JIM OLSO! By Jimmy Hatlo -nmM:i,W'W'!q SI'KCl'LATIO.N LONDON i.rl Labor members of Parliament said privately Tues day they expected former Prime Minister Attlee to retire soon as their leader. There was specula tion in the lobbies of the House of Commons that the 72-year-old Attlee may announce his decision at a meeting of the Labor Party's parliamentary delegation Thursday night. IT'S POOLE'S FOR TOYS The year 'round Toy Store 222 So. 7th FOR DRIVEWAY CINDERS side of the instrument panel where no one but ' the driver can operate them. And De Soto's new push-biltton Powerflite transmission is fool-proof ... no electronic circuits to foil ... a simple, direct acting, positive control. Come in today. Try the new De Soto with push button driving the only really modern way to drive. '54 BE SOTO ... for the tuper-highway oge. '' !,"',-'' l vt x ! 1 U A . Blazing New 2SS Horsepower New power for siw.liiiR "high torque t;ikc-ofis". Never lias any automobile delivered such terrific got -out-front performance. Hero is super-liiglnvny power . . . instantaneous response . . . for maneuver ing in tight city trnllic or that safety burst of "lep down" reserve for passing at modern highway speeds. lir" WVtnr WtXK ON ROTH RADIO ANO TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 19,,S RECALL BONN, Germany ii Chancel, lor Adenauer has recalled, West German ambassadors from major posts abroad for a cold war strat. cgy conference, government spokesmen disclosed Tuesday. fj. ticials said all envoys in European countries were recalled as well as some from other points, including the ambassadors to Egypt and In. dia. ' GODFREY ' TELLS WHY HE RELEASED LaROSA, MARLOWE, AND OTHERS "I am sick and tired of the fantastic talcs that have been concocted for gullible news papermen by the prrs agenu of my former associates. I think it is about lime that folks heard the true siorv," says Godfrey, Now, for the first time, Godfrey answers his criiks. Ke tells exactly how and why he decided to release La Rosa, Marion Marlowe, the Mari ners, Halcloke, and others. ' Also don't miss Arthur'i personal view of the Tctcrboro Airport incident. Join the mil lions of Americans who will be reading "This is My Story" by Arthur Godfrey. Be sure to get your copy of the Post today ! Extra copies of this week's issue have been placed on sale at newsstands to meet the tremen dous demand to read Arthur Godfrey's own story. ' ' Out today on all newsstands A CUITO MAOAZUO -.1 1 j 1 ''.. ? 'r-ti,w, f i ' - u f - 2uJ w? Phone 5126 Ttl.rvi!