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PAGE SIX n.vrv i-rcrrwa niANK JENKINS MU0r BILL JENKINS Managing. Editor Managing. . Link Dam By BILL JENKINS Just a very short wold about the recent signing ol the Link River dam contract by Copco and the unm '. r .1 i ih. Bureau 01 benefit of the newcomers. While the dam on Link river in a relatively Insignificant little blob of concrete and sleel as dams go, It is the key to the entire Klam ath River. Therefore any contract covering dams or otner river uijci- Diver site .Hons below the Link rUve ' site hvc to depend on It. wnoever control, that point in et c. vrois inc "" "" " lh ,, throunh the canyon, and where the power potential lies. This Link River dam is largely a regulatory dam and not a great power producer. The proposed dams In the canyon below Kcno will be power dams to add to the present source of power for this country. That's whv the term "Link River dam" is so important. As a term covering the river u can oe iaio largely to the door of the govern ment. Since Upper Klamath Lake la federal property all ncgollat.ons for use of the waters of the lake atem from the Link River dam be cause you have to have some place to start. It's that simple. I think the river development Is a good thing. There Isn't much pos sibility of the development bring ing about substantially lower pow er rates, but it may keep them from going up. And It opens up a new field of Industry here which we would never have tapped it sufficient power couldn't have been llrmly pledged. From the recreational angle It should help rather than hinder. Various sportsmens" organizations and conservationist groups will be keeping vigil to see that their rights are taken care of. Plus the fact that It will keep a thousand men In the canyon busy lor ten years or more all ot 'em drawing pay checks which they will spend In the area. Horrid com mercial thought, no doubt, but bo nanza news to many. Now that the new year Is here I am getting set for the first calls about the first robin of spring. Wai reminded of It the other morn ing, In lact, when I was watching a goodly Ilock of robins try to steal a little grain from the Jays out In tront of the house. 1 ve oeen lean ing that ssme bunch of robin all year 'round for several years now and have yet to see even one of em go south for the winter. Rut vnu can't ston a firm belief. And there will be many reports of the first robin. By DEB ADDISON The turn of a year is a time to clean off your desk, brush away the cobwebs, take a quick look back and then a long look ahead. The quick look back Is with real satisfaction In realizing that, aft er about 60 years, the Basin's wa ter problems are resolved. Our greatest asset, water, has been pegged down in fact for com plete beneficial use with the sign ing of the 60-year contract be tween Reclamation and Copco. It will be spelled out In govern mental terms with ratification of the Interstate compact by the Ore gon and California -Matures and the Congress. The look ahead shows two major problems that have not been re solved. Tor the Basin the big problem Is the future of the Klamath In dian Reservation. That Is import ant to everyone. It is hoped that the work of the Management Spe cialists will point the way in 1056. Tor the town, both for the corp orate city and the unincorporated area, many problems revolve around sanitation. There is no day light showing on this but the Ro dolph Zamskl k Co. certified pub lic accountant firm is at work on facts and figures bearing on this problem. It Is due lor serious con sideration In 1056. Klamath Is unique and fortunate in having Its extra governmental agencies the Klamath River Commissions and the Management Specialists. Full credit for the bright future through full use of our great wa ter resource must be given to the river commissions. Their long, care ful and hard headed work has reached fruition in making possible the Reclamatlon-Copco contrail. The Management Specialists are applying the same kind of study and effort to the reservation prob lems but that work still is far Horn completion. The results of it will be of great importance to Indians and all others alike. One other extra-governmental project that should be mentioned is the algae study which was put to gether by the Chamber ol Com merce and which now Is tinder way. This Is a study to find out what ran be done, if anything, to im prove our water for other uses. By "other uses is mcam omrr 1 fur Irrigation. Algae in Klamath Lake water has no drawbacks for Irrigation, perhaps It Is beneficial, but it does have drawbacks both for recreation and Industry. Whatever ta brought to light here lies In the hands of the scientists. The study Is being conducted un der the direction of "algaeologist" Harry Phinney of Oregon State College, In giving credit It would be a matter of over modesty not to point out that the recent course of vents which pegged down our wa ter for full beneficial use In the .. Intered M tecond class matter t the post rfflc t KJmU Flls. Ore.on August 20, 1904, under act ot Congress. March 1, 1879 ' KPHViriTB. atKVii.ro. , ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS ...,,,.,. Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California Upper Klamath River Basin all started with the Chamber's state ment of water policy. The study that brought this state ment of water policy led to 'he creation of the two Klamath Rlv- 1 er Commissions , ., .ho, ,.icuitur. shall have prior use of all waters origination in the Upper Klamath Basin; that all remaining waters. Including return How, shall be al lowed to return to their historical channels: that private enterprise be encouraged ' develop all the i be encouragea aevewM " "' ' , , nvdroc,ectrlc power on , f i''mlhe Copco contract I and In the Interstate compact. The Kh'iiM'iiiM - By KEN McLEOD The nlav of the elements In na ture arc usually considered as catastrophe yet there are a few hardy souls who can revel in the play of giant forces about them Few. however, can place their emotions and feeling into print or do so. In any interpretation of na ture, however, we need the per spective toward the elemental forc es that these individuals can give to us. Take the elemental force of wind and we find John Mulr writing about it, he says: "One of the most beautiful and exhilarating storms I ever enjoyed In the Sierra occurred In Decem ber, 1874, when I happened to be exploring one of the tributary val leys of the Yuba River, The sky and ground and the trees had been thoroughly rain-washed and were dry again. "The day was intensely pure, one of those Incomparable bits of Cali fornia winter, warm and balmy and full of white sparkling sun shine, redolent of all the purest In fluences of the spring, and at the same time enlivened with one of the most bracing windstorms con ceivable. Instead of camping out, as I usually do, I then chanced to be stopping at the house of a friend. But when the storm began to sound, I lost no time in pushing out Into the woods to enjoy it. "For on such occasions nature has always something rare to show us, and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching depre ciatingly beneath a roof. "It was still early morning when I found myself fairly adrift. De licious sunshine came pouring over the hills, lighting the tops of the pines, and setting free a stream of summery fragrance mat comrasieo strangely with the wild tones of the storm. "The air was mottled with pine tassels and bright green plumes, that went flashing past in the sun light like birds pursued. But there was not the slightest dustiness, nothing less pure thsn leaves, and ripe pollen, and flecks of withered bracken and moss. "I heard trees falling for hours at the rate of one every two or three minutes; some uprooted, partly on nccount of the loose, water-sonked condition of the ground: others broken straight across, where some weakness caused by fire had de termined the spot. The gestures of the various trees made a delight ful study. 'Young sugar pines, light and feathery as squlrrcl-talls, were bowing almost to the ground; while old patriarchs, whose massive boles had been tried In a hundred storms waved solemnly above them, their long, arching branches streaming fluently on the gale, and every needle thrilling and ringing and shedding oil keen lances of light like a diamond. "The Douglas spruces, with long sprays drawn out In level tresses, and needles massed in a gray shimmering glow, presented a most striking appearance as they stood In bold relief along the hilltops. The madronas In the dells with their red bark and large glossy lenves tilted every wny. reflected the sunshine in throbbing spangles like those one so often sees on the rippled surface of a glacier lake. But the silver pines were now most impressively beautiful ot all. Co lossal spires 200 feet in height waved like supple goldenrods chant- Ina and bowlnff low as If worship, while the whole mass of their lonR, tremulous foliaKe was kindled Into one continuous blaze of white sun-lire. The force of the gale was such that the most stead fast monarch of them all rocked down to its roots with a motion plainly perceptable when one leaned against It. Nature was hold ing a high festival, and every liber ol the most rlcld giant thrilled with glad excitement. "I drifted on through the midst of this passionate music and mo tion, across many a glen, from ridge to ridge: olten halting on the lee of a rock for shelter, or to gaze and listen. Even when the grand anthem had swelled to its highest pitch, I could distinctly hoar the varying tones of the In dividual trees spruce, and fir. and pine, and leafless oak and even the inlmltely gentle rustle of withered grasses at my feet. Each was expressing Itself in its own way singing its own song, and making Its own peculiar gestures manifesting a richness of var iety to be found In no other forest I have yet seen . . ." John Muir's "Windstorm in the Forest" which is lo be found In his book "The Mountains of Cali fornia" is ranked as one of the most descriptive essays written upon the sub)ect ot nature. To John's eye everything in nature had meaning and even the most commonplace walk into the wild wood was filled with many won derful observations and he had the gift of passing these observations and emotions on lo others, that thev likewise might enjoy the great, nes's of nature. Thus even a wind storm was an exciting experience to him when most 01 us wouia oe content to sit at home and ex claim; "what a blow I" liood Vow By HAL BOYLE new vork If the world shculd end thli very day It couldn't find America better pre pared. If the Universe suddenly exploded practically every one In the land would be blown straight up into heaven. The rush of rarefied souls would wear out the turnstiles at St. Peter's pearly gates. For America today Is an eartn- ly paradise Inhabited not by ordin ary people but by 160-odd million pure-purposea angeis. An lura 'of unaccustomed saint- llncss rises over the nation like clean fog above a dismal swamp. Look around you. Isn't everybody wearlne a shiny new halo? There is a reason, of course. It is the season of the New Year's resolution, when all look within themselves and take an Interior vow to iead a finer, nobler lire. The bad resolve to be good, the iiood resolve to be better. The old reckless, sinful past seems unut terably repugnant. One looks back at the mire-speckled creature he was only a week ago and mumbles whole-heartedly. "How could I ever have been like that? Never again I" Sweetness and light urignten tne very air. Everyone has decided to be more trustworthy, loyal, helpful, thrifty, courteous, kind, brave, clean and reverent plus a lot of other things. Nowhere Is a frown in sight. Wherever you glance, all you see are rows of teeth determindedly fixed in a smile, smile, smile. There lb a determined fix to the haloes, too as If this time the wearers really meant to keep them clamped on their noggins forever. The wife has vowed to spend less time playing bridge and spend more time playing with her chil dren. , The husband has vowed to spend more time at home, too, and also take his wife out oftener. The stenographer has vowed to quit primping at her office desk. The bus driver nas vowea mat, even If the paying customers don't move to the back of the bus in 1956, he won't let it ruin his temper. The truck driver has vowed to quit letting out loud vows when ever he gets caught in a traffic Jam. ' -'. The factory hand has vowed to do less shliking on the job. The boss has vowed not to bust a vocal chord every time he sees a minor company rule flouted. The bunk robber has vowed to give up his uncertain craft and go into some more honest form of labor, such as maybe press agent-iy- . The professional boxer has vowed that the next time out he will really put up a good stiff fight if he can find an opponent in the same mood. Yes. whoever has a bad habit of any kind, has silently vowed to rid himself of it whether It's beat ing his wife In private or using a toothpick in public. An atmosphere of personal sanctity wraps the country from coast to coast. Ah, perhaps It would be better if the world did end this very day, and wafted all us suddenly pom pous Puritans to the heaven we now aspire to create on earth. For New Year's resolutions have a tra ditional brief life. Certainly if a cataclysm de stroyed the universe even as late as next week, half of us, our vows already forsaken, would find our selves blown not toward heaven but in exactly the opposite direc tion. 1 lTiiiiiip llcpublir B CHARLES M. McCANN United Press staff Correspondent A unique republic, which the United States Navy helped to es tablish. Inaugurated Its president for a new term vesterday.. It Is the Republic of Liberia, founded by American Negroes who had been freed from slavery. Until the Egyptians overthrew King Farouk, it was the onlv re public on the vast continent of Africa. The republics of North and South America were founded by colonizers who emigrated west ward across the Atlantic Ocean. Liberia Is unique in that Its found ers turned the course of emigra tion eastward from the new world to the old one. It lies on the West African coast Just above the equator. lUs area ol 43.000 square miles is Inhabited by about 3,500.000 people. Includ ing native tribes as well as de scendants ol American Negro col onists. Only Negroes are eligible for citizenship. The president is William V. S. Tubman, 60. He is descended on his father's side from some of Li beria's earliest American settlers Ihey went there from Augusta. Ga.. In 1834. Tubman's mother emigrated from Atlanta. Qa., In 1872. Tubman's eldest son. William Jr.. was graduated from Gover nor Dummer Academy m Massa chusetts and Is now a student at Harvard. Tubman himself has been a school tescher. lawyer, senator and supreme court Justice. He has served also in the Army, and rose from private to colonel. Tubman was elected Liberia's 18th president in 1943. He w as re elected for four year terms in 1951 and 1965 A devout Methodist, he made his first visit to the United States In 1928 as a delegate 10 a general conference of the Methodist Epis copal Church tn Kansas Cltv. Mo. HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SUBSCRIPTION RATES . CARRIER , MONTH f 1.50 MONTHS t .0O i YEAR $18.00 ' .,UL' . , , MONTH I 1.60 MONTHS t 7.60 l year 112.00 Tubman visited President Franklin D. Roosevelt In 1043 Just after his election for his first presidential term, and he visited President Elsenhower in 1954. Llbeaia was settled by Its first American Negroes In 1822. The colonists, freed slaves, were sent under the auspices of the Ameri can Colonization Society. The United States government, under President James Monroe, provid ed monev and a naval escort. The United States Navy nego tiated the acquisition of the terrl tory which Is now Liberia from the native tribal chiefs along the coast, and thus played its part in the founding. Monrovia, the capital, Is named in honor of President Monroe. The several settlements which first made up Liberia united as a commonwealth in 1839. Then, in 1947, the Republic of Liberia was proclaimed. It was modelled closely after the United States. It is this country's closest ally In Africa. Great Britain was first to rec ounlzc the new republic, in 1848 Strangely, because of the influ ence of slave-holding states, the United States did not recognize it until 1862, the year in which Abraham Lincoln framed his Emancipation Proclamation de claring the freedom of American slaves. Wrong Thing By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON IPi The Russians, are doing the wrong things it theyj want the American government tcj reduce its spending, particularly military spending, in the belief this. will bimg on a depression nere. They're reported to be thinking that way but They won t agree on disarma ment and they talk of developing nn intercontinental guided missile. So the United States will step up. defenses. The- Russians promise economic aid to Asia. The United States will boost its foreign aid: This isn't the first time the Rus sians got the opposite of what they may nave hoped for. The classic example was in 1950 when Stalin let the North Koreans attack sown Korea. Early that year the Truman ad ministration, bent on economy. wanted to cut military spending. The then secretary of defense. Congress for only 13', billion dol-l lars. The Korean War began, the United States Jumped In. Ameri can military spending shot up, de fense plants have done a land-office business, and American pros perity has reached a peak. This is tne total 01 American military spending since and Includ ing 1950: $224,197,000,000. The Ei senhower administration gradually has been cutting down on It, The Defense Department esti mates that In the present fiscal year, ending next June 30, It will spend about 34 '1 billion dollars. But now Secretary of Defense Wil son figures spending will hit 35V billion next year, in part be cause of higher costs. The United States can't afforo to lag behind the Russians, who talk disarmament but are armed to the teeth. And probably this government heard the Soviets arc working hard on guided missiles Premier Bulganln said as much last week. Wilson said one billion dollars would go next year into developing missiles. The United States is spending 750 million on them now. After Bulgamn and Communist party chief Khrushchev made their trlp to Asia with promises of eco nomic help. Secretary of State Dulles said foreign aid spending bv this country would go up from $4,200,000,000 this year to (4,400, 000.000 next year. This news broke at a time when many members of Congress want ed spending reduced. This Is an election year and If they could economize they might be able to. put through a tax cut. But they have read about the Russians' plans. They come back to work today, no doubt, with some change ol mind. Sen. Wiley of Wisconsin, No 1 Republican on the Senate For eign Relations Committee, said over the weekend: The Bulganln Khrushchev per formance will spur a strengthen ing of "our over-all military-diplo matic position ... 1 do believe there Is no reason whatsoever Joi diminishing our vigilance or pre paredness." llOjS By VNITKD TRFSS PARIS A spokesman at parly headquarters for Pierre Poujade on the show of strength in the French national elections of Poujade's can didates: "We will reluse to participate In any government, either right or left." JERUSALEM (Israeli Sector) Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Ourion appealing to the West to bolster his nation's defenses: "We demand and have a right to obtain defensive arms not in ferior In quality to the aggressive arms streaming into Egypt. . ." LANCASTER. Pa Norman C Honenwarter. 26. to the doctor who told him his wife had given birth to quadruplets: "I'm going to sit down and then you tell me again." CHICAGO Safety Council Pres ident Ned H. Dearborn on the lower-than-predicted New Year's traffic deaths: "Every driver Is invited to Join In an effort to make our pre-holi- dv estimate look so high that it . silly and the sillier the better." I They'll Do It Every Time ? - WaokaV 6US...VOO W -VW4T IS THIS? HURRIC4ME V" 7 ITU- TAKEI HIM TWBNTX MODDfNMV.FM4l4J4M?lVW4TK-WeA4 .MINUTES TO SET TH4T I U6-Yc5 1 GOT PIPB i GUVS WASH ON 60OD D4V5? I I PIPE 60llJ6M CHECKlMfi J?kBARSBR5MP MIRRORS? TO 1MB fZr (jCXNS MEEmi&Sy - -r fMrW TzJi A THEY ONW WORK WWEN fj' TT FJSSSor 43t K -Jt I GOT EIGHTY-FIVE X-M I REME6ER I rt-jZzd ' ; - C3r?f ,; A BONANZA REUNION wai ... , , Germany, by Mr. and Mm. Kicnara noenier wno were on a European trip in August. From left, Erwin Ritter, Mrs. Homer Dixon (the former Donna Phillips of Klamath Falls) and her hus band, Sgt. Homer Dixon. The Dixont arrived home in Bonania December 26 following his discharge from military service. Ritter is also out of uniform and home. Both of the boys were stationed for more than a year in Germany. Israelis Set 1 War Policy JERUSALEM i 'Israel's two top leaders have placed the Arab states on notice that the Jewish nation will beat off any attacks from her neighbors. But they told parliament, yester day Israel does not want to start another Holy Land war. They cau tioned against the belief that war is unavoidable. Ti,o cioi-n Ktntfmpnts came from Premier David Ben-Gurion, advo cate of Israel's "activist" policy, and Foreign Minister Moshe Shar ett, who has urged a course of restraint. Declaring that all the Middle East countries but Israel ana Turkey are a "whirlpool of dis turbances,' Ben-uurion urgea Is raelis lo be ready for the danger of Imminent war." 'We shall be grievously at faun, he said, "If we do not see wun open eyes the Imminent danger of attack by Egypt and perhaps not only by tnai country ... "In this confused, crazy, electri fied atmosphere," he continued, "any spark In any quarter may ignite a conflagration of an unfor sceablc extent and results. We shall be grievously at fault if we are not ready and prepared for any eventuality. "It Is the .duty ana rignv m state of Israel to defend the lives of Its citizens and its territorial integrity like every other free and sovereign state, and it will do so with all the means at Its disposal as long as It is necessary. Sharctt, who reporieaiy iu r,Rhi within Bcn-Gurion's own Mapai party against the Premier'e more extremist views, sijuhit vu. in much the same vein yesterday. ti -j.,nn,. hnth ihr Czecho slovak-Egyptian arms deal and the flow to Egypt ot Bruisn roiniaij squipment." i.rnoi rlnes not intend to pro voke anv Arab state to war," he ...I, t.cia lL.ill stnnri readv to beat off an attack and fight back any aggressive war. dui sne wm initiate aggression against any one." Hubert Ney Takes Saar Leadership SAARBRUECKEN, Saar I Hubert Ney, leader of the Saar offshoot of Chancellor Konrad Ad enauer's Christian Democrat ic Union, Is the new premier of the long-disputed border territory. Ex-Nazi Heinrich Schneider is the new president of its Parliament. The three pro-German parties which swept the Dec. 18 parlia mentary elections picked them yes terday. Parliament followed up by electing Schneider and will meet Jan. 10 to approve Ney. The new Premier, a 63-year-old Roman Catholic lawyer, heads a three - partv coalition Cabinet pledged to unite the Saar with West Germany. Schneider, a fiery 8-year-old lawyer, led the 19JS plebiscite cam paign which returned the Saar to Germany. O People Read SPOT ADS you are. recorded at Aschaffenburger, 1 ii, m 1 ... La Pointe's YOUNG SHOP YOUNG FASHION DRESSES Party and school dosses sizes 3 to 6X in corduroy, velvet and chromespun taffeta. Cotton and nylon blends. Broken sizes, values 4.98 to 8.99. 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