PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing. Editor Entered u aecond class matter at tne post office at Klamath Falls, Ore., on August 30, IMS, under act of Congress, March 1, 1879 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER 1 MONTH I 160 MONTHS 0O 1 YEAR IH.OO MAIL 1 MONTH $ I M 6 MONTHS f 7.60 1 YEAR 112.00 Diet SviiNon I By BILL JENKINS Now that the frantic whirl ol Jackson County showed an In crease of 28.1 percent. Douglas showed a whopping increase o! ou.J percent. Lake County was. up 30.8 Klamath social season is upon us percent. Klamath County was up 1 find it appropriate to olier an avenue of escitpe to fellow mem- bers of the fat mens' club during their hour of trial Any of us who span over thirty eight inches at the bell line are considered lair game for the holi day season game of baiting the overweight. The hunting preserve .is that region around the canape tray or the table loaded with good- , ies in the lorm ol sunowicnes, cheese straws, nuts, spice cake, all varieties of sugar cookies and other fattening foods. All those thinas. in fact, which bring loy to the mun who loves to cat and which turn the diet conscious into hunting animals, blinded by the pain of their own abstinence into a homicidal rage tnai leads io me vicious attack, Just as hunger sometimes drives the lowly cou gar to prey upon mankind and bis sheltered stock. I bring you words of cheer and encouragement, men, from the of fice of the president of the club; me. There Is no way to do away with the chronic dieter. He, or she, is a blot upon the earth, led Into the darkest pits of depression and despair over the matter of a few Inches in girth or a few pounds in weight. Their agony Is Intensi fied at the Yuleiide season be cause the Xmas season is tradi tionally one of enjoyment of the good things of life, Oood spirit towards our icllow man, enjoy ment of our families, our children and our possessions, and, perhaps most of all, enjoyment of the good food that nuture has provided. It Is at this season that we enjoy to the full the bounties of the field. Locked In by snow and ice, we sit by warn) liearthsldes breathing in the aroma of succulent Items baking, broiling, roasting and fry ing over, the various stoves and ovens' It l the time of the year when that extra helping of gravy . isn't only a pleasure, it's a must. ' To refuse would bo to appear im polite. And not to offer would brand one as a surly, Inhospitable brute 3 fit only for second table. This, also, la the season of tears and travail for the dieter who has come so successfully through the summer season of pristine lettuce salads', indigestible raw vegetables and Sugarless tea. They have emerged . from the comparative safety of their mounds of cold meats, saltless egRS and rivers of non-fattening, beverages into the dangerous jungles of baked nam, roast i turkey, mashed potatoes, roast of beef with thick, rich gravy and the'Crenmy mounds of baked desserts. Their only defense Is to fight pack. Before you get down in the mouth, let's point out that this Is total sales, which points up the overall growth of economy of the counties but does not reflect the well being of the Individual. Klamath sllll leads both In per capita effective buying income and in per capita sales per family. Here are the estimates of "Sales Management" magazine, which pre accepted as the most authen tic until the census of business Is complete. Per capita effective buying In come: Jackson. $1484: Douglas J1471; Lane, Jlfl.ll; and Klamath $1717. Per capita sales per family: Jackson, S376a: Douglas, sjj.is Lane, $3476; and Klamath $4669 Individual economic well being still is high in Klamath County. though overall economic expansion has been far greater across the mountains during the past seven years. 1'carl Harbor By MAX WAUCHOPE On this 14th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941 3Ureiy one of the blackest days in American his. tory it would be well to remem ber that at least once In every generation America has been faced with the desperate business of lighting a war. The present generation has had to face two of these major jia tlonal crises. The stunning magni tude of World War n and the fierce, desperate fighting that characterized our nearly lost ven ture in Korea should awaken all thinking Americans to the fact that peace is not the normal state of world affairs. In our 175 years of history we have fought eight major wars, not including the more Ulan 1000 sep arate engagements of the Indian Frontier and in the pacification of the Philippines. After winning our freedom from the British in 1778 we entrusted the safe keeping of the nation to a force of 80 men. By the time the Civil War en gulfed the states the regular army had grown to 16,000. Alter four years of war two million from the North faced more than one mil lion from the South. Two years after the peace was won 35.000 men faced the huge task of pact lying uie Indian Frontier. Th nuM.A Alrl clm-.r iin n -.iu.nl. SO I say to fellow fat men and ed ,t (he beglnnlns Word War to members, don't let this spoil your fun. Bo tolerant of the fall ings of others and look upon them' with a Christian spirit, not so much as sinners beyond re demption but as frailer vessels who .have fallen from the path. Don't let the Christmas spirit sour In your soul because of the half starved comments of those who have . been weighed and found wanting. Isn't Christmas and the start of the New Year a time for feasting and celebration? The traditional cards' of the season speak elo quently of the foods and better things In life, few of which arc free but all of which are enjoy able. .Our forefathers for genera tions back have told of the cheer ful preparations for the holidays. Of the food put down In preserva tives' for use during the season, of the steaming, fragrant wonders of the kitchen for days before Christmas and of the pleasures of the table during the celebration. In fact,, show me a thin 8anta Clausl i From here on ouc I give fair warning. One more remark about how many calories the particulnr goodie I happen to be tucking into contains and I'll let go with a lec ture myselt. People who work at diets should gather in thin little groups of Ihelr own during Ihc holiday season. I'm willing to let 'em be the king of the hill all summer If they want 1o. but leave us fat boys alone at Christmas and New Years. 4 V II Mil By DEB' ADDISON We can look back at the past seven years without alluding to Biblical locust plagues but hind sight does show us clearly that It has been a period of readjustment, with little overall economic growth In the Klnmath Iiitsm. The demise of Kwiiuna Box Co. In 1848 Is the event we look back to as token of (he chauges that have followed that top business year. The agreements on the Orciton Callfornta Klamath Klver Conuwcl and the Rcclnmntioti.Copco Con tract, mc installation ol the Klam ath Air Force Base, Bud the pros pects for huge developments Irom Jackplne-for-pulp are the things that Indicate an end of an ara and the start of a new period of Krowin. A preliminary report of the 1051 census of business spells out what has happened since 1948 in dol lars and cents. The census of business is made only when .lutliorirrd by Congress and the 1948 census was the last prior to Uie 1954 census which now Is being put together by Uie Department of Commerce. This preliminary report on re tail saies snows a national In crease of 31 percent In the period and an increase of about 31 per cent lor Uie slate of Oregon. Oelting down lo counties, here's a comparison with our neighbors on annual retail sales of MM as rompaicd to li)48. j I. The armed services were ex panded from 200,000 to 4 million before Uie crisis was resolved With only 1SO.0OO men In the regular army In 1939 we expanded to 10.400,000 in (he U.S. Army exclusive of the Navy before vic tory was- obtained in World War II. Over 600,000 veterans of World War II were called On for a second helping in the Korean conflict However, more Uian a million ana a half non-veterans who had come of age since World War II were never called to duty because they could not be made ready in time In every one of our major wars we nave lought with might and ferocity once we were committed lo uie battle. We know now how foolishly and sometimes purpose. lessly we have acted In ignoring the clear and sinister facts that have foreshadowed each conflict The warnings raised over the world today are even more slnis ler. The godless tyranny of Conv munlsm has openly boasted that Its main aim Is the destruction of everything that we as Americans cherish The one thing the Communists respect Is force force so strong they will forever be deterred from launching World War HI which might mean the end of civiliza tion regardless of who wins. The prevention of war Is the primary duty of all our armed services. It Is also the vital con cern and responsibility of every man. woman and child In the U.S. Although we spend huge amounts on our defense establishment a tentative 34', billion dollar budget for Ilscal year 1958-57 was ap proved by President Eisenhower Tuesday the regular forces of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force must be backed up by Ihelr various reserve components. Realising the need for an Im proved reserve program Ihe Pres ident signed the Armed Forces Re serve Act of 1955 In August. Al though the law has many ramlll cations. It is prlmrilv designed to give us Ihe strength in reserve needed to assure victory in any luture Pearl Harbor or Korea's. ' So far the military leaders of the nation have been somewhat disappointed in the reception of draft-age youths to the possibili ties ol service ottered bv the Inw The bill was designed to equaliiel end of the street mi- snvicr oougauons of every able-bodied young American. ' I U'nu l,l II,... ,.,, Examined in the light of mesent! 1 VH ',,U ,M,W UH world conditions It's sale to as. sumc Uiat every able-bodied young American wilt sooner or later be required to perform nuliiaiy serv ice under the provisions of the law It offers several wavs to lullill the oollgatlon of service it's up to Uie young mn, and his family to decide which type tils his par ticular personality or needs. see only the dollars they can de rive from exploiting wilderness areas. The purpose that motivates the lover of the wlldwood Is diffi cult for the "practical" group to understand "there's dollars there for the taking." yet these long haired dreamers have no Interest In the "almighty" they want It preserved as when Mother Nature left it to the Indian and the buf falo. The exploiter seeks to under mine the stand of the wilderness lover by dubbing him with all sorts of names In an effort to the lover of the aesthetic Is dreamer who has no place In the modern world. There have been many people who hove tempted to define this urge of wilderuess, this love of outdoor areas uncluttered with the thincs of modern civilization. The man who lives in he country has difficulty in understanding this urge for wilderness that is rising among the people in the city. The Inte Bernard De Voto writing in Harpers Magazine for September 1955 had this lo say about his feeling for the wlldwood: "I have got to have the sight of clean water and the sound of run ning water. 1 have got to get to places where the ky-shine of cit ies does not dim the stars, where you can smell land and foliage, grasses and marsAes, forest duff and aromatic plants, and hot un derbrush turning cool. Most of all, I have to learn again what quiet is. I believe that our culture is more likely to perish from noise than radioactive fall-out: noise Is Uie worst torture we Inflict on one another. "Nothing In Uils is sentimental or poetic. It is a necessity. And to get my point, it is a necessity to a hundred million other Amer icans. "And the population keeps on growing, the suburbs extend farth er and farther Into the fields, a high school boy has to be driven a hundred miles to find some trout and the ordinary citizen must go always farther to find clean water and natural silence. If we do not soon acquire a little business sense and some social intelligence, our nation will collapse from spir itual hemorrhage." The great power of the lovers of the wilderness centers in the great cities, the greater the city the stronger the urge and It becomes more than Just a movement, a passing fad. to the individual of smog ridden city who learns that the sky Is something more llinn what he sees at the end of the street it becomes a religion to the pent up city dweller. Those of the country have a sim ilar feeling for the wlldwood, the urgo there is latent for they are still fairly close to Nature and many a dweller in Uie country has picked up his things and moved when pressed by the spread of civilization. Perhaps he did not define Uie urge, nor could define It, nevertheless It was the call of the wilderness to which his soul responded. The great battle that was fought over wilderness in regard to the Quetice - Superior International Peace Memorial Forest on the Minnesota-Canadian border has definitely focused attention on the wilderness problem and Is work ing out human relationship prob lems to the wlldwood. Don Hough, writing in "Lincoln Mercury TUnes" for July-A u g u s t 1955, slates: "Ely, Minnesota Is one of those towns you never see unless you're going in there. That Is, you don't pass tnrough 11 on your way to someplace else, because there Isn't any place else, not In that neck of the woods and Ely lies literally In a neck of the woods, right up at the end of It. When you get to tiy, you nave arrived. End of the line. If you want to go on. you go by canoe in summer or dog team in winter; If you want to go back you turn around. "For here Is Ihc Jumping off place for the great lake and for est wilderness that lies along the Minnesota-Canadian border, from Ralney Lake on the west to Grand Portage on the north shore of Lake Superior, some 200 miles eastward as the loon flies. On the American side is the Superior Na tional Forest, on the Canadian side. Ihe Quoltce Provincial Park. It Is all a natural entity, thousands of square miles of Labyrinthian green and blue lying there In the heart of the continent. You come out of that country tanned and clear-eyed, with re furbished lungs and a new brain, better equipped to tackle the prob lems of our time." Here in the west we too have our wilderness areas tucked away in the Sierras and Uie Cascades, areas (hat too few of us have yet discovered .and areas over which battles have been (ought bitterly In the past and even more bit terly in the future as those who seek to Impose the bonds of in dustrial civilization upon every square foot of American soli. I am sure that we actually do nol want this to happen, we too want a place to escape where the sky s not something one sees at Ihe So he withdrew into a castle on a hilltop where he could enjoy his money trees undisturbed. But he had a daughter, the beauteous princess, Alva. She became lonely and wept, and the echo of her weeping floated down and in time disturbed the common people, so that they cried sternly: "Our princess must have a hus band." The horribly rich old prince, re membering the gallows fate of his father, figured it was time to throw a fig to popular demand. He surrounded his mountain cit adel with mirror glass, then an nounced that any man who climbed it would have his daughter's hand. Well, knights and princes from far lands came and tried to sur mount the hill of glass. But one after the other they only climbed until they were tired, paused to admire their reflection in the mir rored glass, then lost their strength and slid down hill to defeat. They strove and departed, year after year. And year after year Otis, the lo cal milkman, came to the bottom of the hill and sent his wares to the top of the hill In a lowered silver bucket, and never tried to climb the hill at all. And after many years, when all the princes had failed, he looked up and saw the fair face of Alva, the golden princess, smiling down at him. She was a princess, but she was lonely, and the milkman was there to see One day Otis slipped a late among his milk bottles in the silv er bucket, and the note said: "I love you, dear princess. Slide down the hill to me tomorrow nigth and we will elope." The message went up the hill In the silver bucket. There is some doubt about what happened after ward. Some say the princess slid voluntarily down the hill of glass to her waiting lover. Others say her father pushed her. But they all lived happily ever after. Otis put Alva to work and quickly built the country's largest dairy with his slogan "nrlncess. delivered milk." And the horribly rich old prince stayed solitary on the top of the hill, content to tend nis money trees alone. Moral: Hannlness has lis tins nnH downs. IVildcriiPK By KEN McLEOD There have been many bailies between the lovers of wilderness and those "prscllral" people who By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK 1.41 A table: Once upon a time there was s horribly rich old man. He stacked money In towers and spread It around in trees. When the leaves had fallrn, he replaced Uiem with 1.000 bills. This horribly rich old man was an hereditary prince, whose fath er had been a king who had had his head lopped oil by the com mon people. Well, naturally, as the horribly rich prince survived and grew old er and older he distrusted the com mon people more and more. Why The C.OC? Klamath Falls, Ore. (To the Edi tor) This Is a question that 1- most everyone has asked at one time or anotner. The answer very likely Is that our country has to have protec tion of the skies and that radar couldn't do the job alone. This Is our real reason for our organiza tion but I would like to go into a more detailed explanation and give you a better understanding of this reason. The only function of the highly complicated elec tronic device called radar is to send out a sound wave that will be reflected back, received and transmitted to the radar screen as - a blurred spot called a blio. The size and distance of the ob ject the sound wave strlls de termines the size of the bliD on me raaar screen, mese blips can men De read as clouds, mountains, objects flying, etc. . . In the in stance of aircraft, a blip will not tell you the number of aircraft. the size, or whether the aircraft is friendly or otherwise. We have other major limita tions of radar, such as-earth cur vature, ground reflection, temper ature inversion, and mechanical or personnel breakdown. The sound wave goes out and returns In a straight Una. the earth's curve falls away from this line In ratio to the distance the sound wave Is traveling. This means that the far ther out the sound wave travels from the radar site, the greater the clearance Is for aircraft to come In under this beam. This clearance is again created when the radar antenna has to be ele vated to clear hills, mountains, etc . ; . Even on level ground the antenna has to have a certain elevation or the beam will strike the ground directly and cause a complete blackout of uie screen. The screen Is again blacked out by heavy cloud formations, be cause Uie heavy moisture of the clouds causes a reflection of the sound wave and leaves any object on the other side of the clouds undetected. Once more the screen csn be completely blacked out on the prettiest, sunny day you ever .saw bv a peculiar circumstance of the temperature in Uie air that causes the sound wave to be reflected back to the ground. We also face mechanical break downs at the site, and sickness or sudden absence of some of the men. Our scientists say that they can develop a fully automatic, near perfect radar set If they were lo be given $3,000,000 for research and sole concentration on the pro ject. Each of our present radar siles costs approximately this much and the ones tor a more complicated radar set would cost several times this amount. Also there would have to be a great number of them to cover the bor der of our country. In looking over the above facts we can see that our present radar Is not giving us sufficient pro tection. We can also see that to develop the proper radar and build enough sues to protect us would cost many millions of dollars thai would have to be raised by high er taxes. It Is therefore easy to understand why the government chose to have the Air Force ask our citizens v to volunteer for the Oround Observer Corps and give our country Uie protection we have to maintain tf we desire lo keep the freedoms we now enjoy. T-Sll. James B. Stirum Klamath Falls C.OC Seetor fi. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1955 They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo ELL.WfaLWpyl4S,Ct.,P4L.VtoOW'miSIS4RNE A CRIFTER ALWAYS T SLyP4NTS- I V LCOKe(?E4T,BWW4VE WPUCE FORSLYBlMTS FIGURES TH4T ,4 WBODy I HE4R VOURE KM" THlrJSS BEEN! TERRIBLE TO PUT ON THE Jl WHO'S DUMB ENOUGH TO 1 SWELL NOW-SO "rTHME-I-moUSMTll POORWCXJSE 71 LEND HIM DOUGH DON T I I KNOW yoU WONT L4TCHED ON 10 A GOOD ) V ROUTINE - AVDESERVE TO SET MID .J VfcU BORROWED ft THINGS WERE NEVER I WfTM JUST ONE NlGHTisjoJE G4VE HIS MOTHER TWO YE4RS AGO-M WORSE-I CONY KNOW AVjlPS HE THROWS A LIFT TO THE WELR4RE ) V WHERE TO TURN GROUND THIS J ' V DEP4RTMENT ON HIS , ::! SmasuwslIc" Sibelius To See 90th Birthday HELSINKI. Finland IM Jean Sibelius, famed Finnish composer, observes his 90th birthday tomor row In the seclusion of his forest home and wants no solemn festival concert for the occasion. Nevertheless, the Helsinki Or chestra will honor him with a program of his works. There will be other Sibelius concerts at music centers around the world, many of them conducted by Finns. bioellus has lived for more than 50 years 'at his country house Ainola, deep in the woods only 40 miles from Helsinki. Yet he has not been to the capital for over 10 years Tomorrow he will have his birth day dinner with his wife, Aino Jarnefelt, member of an old noble and artistic family, and other rel- MUSICIANS! We beve had minr callt for muii riant for New Vcari Eve. If you are not working, and want lo work, Call Fred Dallas, 2-1574 Sect'y Local 495 AF of M atives. Only one of his five daughters, Mrs. Eva Paloheimo, will be present. The other four will attend evening concerts and other celebrations in the com poser's honor. Alturas Road Work Revealed ALTURAS The California D. vision of Highways has released a summary of the progress of high, way construction in this district during the past season. In Modoc County, the Marion J Allen Construction Company of Redding completed a contract of $42,481.03 for placing curbs and gutters on both sides of Route 13 which is the principal street of Alturas, from the Pit River Bridge to Route 28. H. B. Folsom of Westwood per. formed a sealing job between Adin and Rush Creek which is 11.3 miles In length. Contract price was 121. 083. , . ' The 7.3 mile section just south of Ravendale on the Susanville. Alluras highway was completed by Harms Brothers of Sacramento for $556,629.70. A contract for improving a 3.5 mile section between Sagehen Sum mit and Dry Creek on this same route was awarded to Harms Brothers In October .on their bid of S301, 898.30. Construction on this project is now going ahead. WELCOME GUEST EUREKA, Calif. Wi A. Welcome Ouest of Eureka filed suit for divorce yesterday from his wife, Nora on grounds of extreme cruelty. . Worry of FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating? 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