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HKRALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
SUNDAY. JANUARY 8, 1956
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PRANK JENKINS
Editor
BILL JENKINS
Managing. Editor
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Duck Count
By BILL JENKINS
The annual wilder Inventory of
migratory waterfowl will end a
week from Monday, having got
ten under way last Tuesday. '
This count, the eifthth In a series
of "comparable" surveys aimed at
gaining Information as to flight
habits, numbers, wintering grounds
and all the other Incidentals that
total up to the mass of present
- day lnlormation about our ducks
and geese.
These counts are undertaken on
a wide scale with better than two
thousand state and ledcral water- v. Ith the guard batteries In corn-
fowl specialists taking part over Iparatlvcly lowly ranks have
a region that extends from South-1 stayed In the various services and
ern Canada to Yucatan In Mexi-inow ale leaduig army battalions
co. Most of the work and ex-1 una air force groups. Although
learn before becoming competent
soldiers. However, with a small
reRtilar army the National Guard
fulfilled a vital role In providing
lor the early defense of our coun
try during the hectic days prior
to. and at the beginning of World
War II
Of the over 300 officers and men
of the old 249'J batteries that left
here in 1940, many failed to re
turn from the war. Of the other, a
large number transferred to othei
branches of the service when the
Coast Artillery was deemed an
obsolete blanch of the Army.
Many of the men who started out
pense however will be borne by
the American side of things.
Planes are used as well as ground
operations and every effort Is
made to avoid counting the same
ducks twice. Considering the
amount of territory covered the
counts have proven surprisingly
accurate over the past few years.
Early reports from the local
counters tell us that the total num
ber of waterfowl tabulated in the
Klamath Basin Is only a bare frac
tion of last year's count. Due to
much worse weather conditions
this year than last.
A good many people, mostly
bird watchers and non-hunters,
are apt to gel pretty not .uuer
the collar about the expense in
volved In such a project. They are
pretty certain to object on the
grounds of what economic gain can
possibly be realized from such a
survey? Who cares, they say,
whether we know all about what
the birds do in the winter? How
do we make any money out of it,
or pay back the taxpayer?
Ordinarily I tend to fall Into
their way of thinking when It
comes to the way In which the
federal government throws money
around like It was nothing but
money Instead of the taxpayers'
blood, sweat and tears.
But In this case I'm quite will
ing to see a chunk of my tax
dollar going toward supporting the
count. It may not prove anything
but It does offer a basis for future
planning as to shooting seasons,
bag limits, migratory waterfowl
protection regulations and the rest
of it.
I am not always content to
agree with the results of the count.
X still can't find the logic or rea
son for those years when we have
a huge count In the winter which
Is followed by a good nesting sea
son and then a short gunning sea
son and a reduced bag limit. But
those are matters, like world poll
tics, which are beyond the ken of
man anyway.
So 1 11 go ahead and agree that
lhc?e two batteries never saw ac
tion as unit.", Klamath Falls can
he proud of the record of the In
dividual, who made up the rank
ana me.
Today the Naiional Guard Is
equipped with the latest guns and
equipment that the regular army
has to olfer. It Is a far cry from
the pre-World War II days when
Ine guard received the cast-offs of
the regulars and the regulars
were far from lavishly equipped
themselves. With their equipment
stationed right here all year long
the guardsmen are able to mam-
tain a much higher level of effi
ciency than the pre-World war II
guard was able to maintain. Much
more skill Is needed to operate the
complicated devices of a modern
army.
The recruit, or ex-serviceman,
Joining the ranks of the guard to
day can learn to operate the lat
est electronic, and other equip
ment, that the service lias to oi
ler. He can go to service schools
and he receives pay commensur
ate with his rank for his drill pe
riods and for the annual two-weeks
training camp. This camp Is usual
ly taken by the Klamath Falls unit
at Camp Clatsop, on the Oieeon
Coast between Seaside and Astor
ia.
Young men between the ages of
1V4 and 18 can fulfill their mili
tary obligations by Joining the
guard, guard officers have stated.
Men past 18 'i who face the draft
can Join the guard and work for
promotions; If they are drafted
they can retain their guard rank
by applying for a lour of extended
active duty.
The guard, of course. Is not the
only organization of a reserve na
ture In the armed services today
The U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force
and the U.S Marine and Naval re
serves all offer young men and
veterans opportunities to serve
their country. There are several
of these units In the Klamath area.
However you feel about the serv
ices, either reserve or regular, you
a count is a good Idea that some- """" deny that National Guard
rt.i rr,u .nri nn with ih. Hi.n. ""d reserve components of the
ery of belter ways and means to I ''"nd cr1Yilccf ,havB contributed
.fit the migratory waterfowl Into
our frantic, money-man, grasping,
greedy, money-and-land-are-overy-thlng
world of today so that future
generations of acattcrgunncrs can
know, too, the pleasures of the
hunt.
And when next year rolls around
and we get another season loaded
for the benefit of the Central Val
ley boys and the protection of
their crops and swimming pools,
then I'll cry and sob and bile
holes In the pillow at night again.
And hope that I live long enough
to see Just one more early season
In Southeastern Oregon,
For the past Reveral years the
pintail and the widgeon have been
put on the blacklist, labeled as
depredator ducks and oflered to
the gunner as a bonus on his bag
limit. Because they arc addicted
to a diet of grain and like to eat
well and heartily. No one cares,
so far, about the food the divers
iane on me lanti so there are
millions ol spoonios flying around
with little chunro of anvone shoot
ing 'em unless they can t find any-
mum ucucr.
Since agriculture plays such
laige part in our economy and
since I've got a lot of friends who
raise grain I can see the damage
nunc mm me reasons behind con
troi measures. But I still hate to
see a splendid duck like the pin
tail labeled as a criminal.
And I still maintain lhat If we
had a decently early seoson It
um tui iin maii'riallv on crop
..... uuin' uy oiu-ks and neese
There's nothing to keep buds oli
the grain and moving around like
a bunch of wmgslwts who are out
to get their limit, not jst shoot
in the air to scare the ducks.
Citizen Soldier
By MAX WADCHOI'K
The role ol the cituen soldier In
oi'iciu. una always been an im.
-"-i- one in the delcnse of our
country never more so than In
today s troubled world.
With the two National Guard
batteries In Klamath Falls stag
lng a recruiting drive fur i nwe
enlisted men this week this fact is
brought to the fore.
The National Guardsmen, and
the reservists of i th(, branclu-,
of the U 8. Armed Services, spend
many hours of their ott-work tunc
keeping up thou military skills
They have been cr.lled to active
duty twice In the last 15 years
to defend our country against ag
gressors. Klamath Falls contributed two
batteries of Coast Artllleiy to
swell the ranks ol the old l!49ili
Coast Artillery Regiment which
was called lo active duty on Sep
tember 18, 1D40.
Note that date over a year
before Pearl Harbor and only a
month after the first draft bill was
signed by Congress by a vote ol!
vcriy narrow margin
Who left here
greatly to the defense of the coun
try.
ItWoro Mnn
By KEN McLEOD
The great Klamath Basin has
always been the cross-road of hum
an migration upon the Pacific
Coast as well as for the migra
tions of animal life. This fact was
determined by Mother Nature
when she erected the great bar
riers of the Cascade and Sierra
Nevada mountain ranges with the
Klamath plateau serving as the
key stone of this great geological
structure. One of the theories con
cerning human migration upon the
west coast Is that the main body
of people to enter the Central Val
ley of California made their way
southward along the eastern slope
of the Cascades to the Klamath
country and then poured like a
mighty torrent, over the rim of
this highland plateau that forms
the break between thp two moun
tain ranges, Into the fertile valley
of the land Uiat was destined to
be enlled California. Tho belief
which appears to be gaining
ground in scientific circles is that
even the Indian tribes of Oregon
to the west of the Cascades like
wise llnd their routs in this great
stream of migration flowing
through eastern Oregon rather
than from a human migration
movement pushing southward
along the shore of the Pacific
Ocean.
Few people have given this fas
cinating subject much studv vet
there was a time when no human
foot trod the American continents.
However, the land was not an
empty world for It teemed with
a rich (aium of life from the
smallest ol animals lo the mam
moth and mastodon, great ele
phants of the past, the largest and
strongest ol American animals
which roamed the Klamath coun
try with little to fear. There were
gieat cats, the saber-toothed tig
ers, who sneaked through the
bushes and crouched In the tall
grasses of the open plain The
Pasture lands u,.i i.ii.j ..,,.
herds of bison, elk and many ox-
unci ruminants. Even wiih
and camels were numerous. Among
the curious beasts was the great
muuiia sioin. Digger than a cow
and others like the oreodon. the
bones of which are found scattered
throughout the land.
Whatever else mav be said of
his grand country, tree Horn the
intrusion of man. It was blessed
with an abundant wiliiliie from
the highest mountains 10 th in.
est plains because wildlife like the
""'" swann to follow had to
move across this tit-nut iit.,,
Plain thai breaks the nnm.i.
ranges to the north and south n
was Indeed a different world from
that upon whlc.h Columbus gazed
one October morning, several
thousand years laier for great
Al. the members of the guard mr, .oThrr.h0..'
Jlftt I I1,A ll-ill .... vn.,
h 11,-. , fc.j " . """'V'ung inicmy lo the moun-
melting along the edges of tile
Ice fields sent floodwaters on their
way to the sea and created great
inland lakes, and supplied mois
ture for a great forest that cov
ered the now barren hills of the
desert lands. Such a picture of a
more remote America, which no
man saw, was in the period of time
we speak now of as the Pleisto
cene. What Columbus and his followers
found was to them a new land
but It was entirely different from
the world we Just sketched. Colum
bus found a man's world, populated
from the arctic, on the north, to
cape Horn on the south. There
were no great sheets of ice, the
glaciers had dwindled mightily and
where the glaciers once had been
(here were now great forests and
rolling plains. The animal life had
changed, too. for neither Spaniard,
Frenchman nor Englishman saw
the original wild horse, the sloth,
the camel, the elephant or the
many other creatures familiar to
our present day fossil hunters. Nor
did the living aboriginal Indian
seem to know about them either.
His astonishment over the Euro
pean horse was great, and pic
tures of the elephant moved him
in silent awe. He was woefully
ignorant concerning his own past.
Thus it Is left to the white man
to recover this lost Indian history,
the very people who did their best
to wipe out all traces of Indian
culture. Yet while the pressure of
European culture was sweeping
away the Indian we find a few
Individuals who were moved by
the mystery of the Indian ocoble.
The first white scholars In Eurone
and America assumed that the In
dian came from the Old World.
Alter Russian explorers In the
north Pacific Ocean made It clear
that Alaska almost touched the
malnlond of Asia, wise men sold
the Indian came from that conti
nent. You will find such statements
in the oldest books upon the sub
ject.
In 1739 a great portrait painter
named Smlbert came to Boston
to paint the colonial governors. He
had painted at the Russian Court
and so was familiar with the Si
berians who annealed there from
time to time. When Smlbert saw
Indians h pronounced them Mon
golians. From that day to this
notwithstanding Ihe Intensive re
search of specialists, everything
points to a Mongoloid ancestry for
the Indian. Even the oldest hum:
an bones found In America have
been pronounced Mongoloid. So one
question Is answered: the first mnn
in discover America came from Si
beria. Tills may not be the final
answer, but since nothing to con
tradict It has been discovered
since 1492 we must accept It as
the best answer.
Wllh a flood of people pushing
out of Siberia Into Alaska and
then spilling south through the
great plains between the Coast
Ranges and the Rockies we can
see how It comes that the first
men would appear upon the eost
ern slopes of the Cascades In the
great migration lhat brought the
people Into the great central val
ley of California and during all
this time the Klamath Country has
been the gateway for this flood of
human migration. Somewhere In
ine dim past of this great migra
tion a group of people tarried upon
the shores of Upper Klamath Loke
whose descendents .became the
Klamath and Modoc people, the
people of the lakes.
until she broke down.
The saying about dogs also one
lor children. That, to teach them
one must know more than they
do more about that strange little
worm in wmcn childhood dwells
and when It comes to dogs, boyi
are specialists. There is an under
standing between them that elders
never tainom. '
A boy s first dog is the one he
win always remember. It may
be a mutt and mongrel, a tramp.
a scamp, a scoundrel. It may be
despised by neighbors, the bane
of parents, still it will pick one
person upon wnom to bestow af
fection. If there is a bov In the
family, he will be the one. If no
ooy, next comes the cook.
Tho day finally came when Unk
had to move on. There was no
mock ceremony this time. There
was lamily admission of regret
inai uiik just couldn't be a gentle
man, wen meaning as he was.
When he went to the Shelter It
was explained to Kenny that Unk
was getting too big. too roueh to
may wim oiner cnildren. Unk had
taken to attacking them if thev
iam a liny nana on Kenny.
It seemed a happy explanation
which Kenny accepted that Unk
was being taken away "to grow
nine.
Though Kenny thoimht it a ennd
idea, he Impatiently awaits the day
v.iieii unit win come back a sleek.
clean little fellow that he can hold
m his arms and cuddle.
It has never comforted him tha
kennels are full of the kind of pet
iic piuiun-a. no, it must oe unK,
grown IHtle.
i-ong montns nave passed, vel
Kenny, four now, still asks, with
chin aqulver:
"Mommy, Unk be little nrettv
soon now?" ,
Fine llnml
MILL VALLEY. Calif. (To Ihe
Editor) Loud Cheers for thr
Klamath Falls Union High School
marching band! In 1954, we saw
them at the East-West Football
geme and were not surprised
when again In 1955 they were in
vited to participate In that grea'
event. Tho KUHS band showed
their ability and excellent training
in the entry parade, with their
unique marching and playing; and
during the second and fourth
quarters with their rousing and
well timed numbersl Thev added
much to the enjoyment of that
vast audience.
We saw the band at close range
in the dining room .of the hotel
whore the band staved. Our wall.
ress there, was eager to tell us
xnin a line group the band Is and
what a pleasure it was to serve
mem. we, as outsiders, just want
to pass this good word along.
Again, loud cheers and best wishes
10 ine Klamath Union High School
band and to all those connected
with it. And honor tn ih eiiv
imcj irpieseilb.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Darblay
iviiu vaney, uainornia
They'll Do It Every Time
By Jimmy Hatlo
At the alvmhi
MEETWe.lrlS COACH
SORT OF TOOK THE
BOWS FOR THE
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rpoTTs- ( ARE 7JE cLAv-rm auswtv happy M
L-) P-no-Sr WE WAY THEY TOOK TOV TYPE VAC
TO -dflOF CQ4CHW6rVHILE 2 DEM4NDED VA,
t-Q fT:. A lot, t think yoifu. agree
fsT! VtSfi I GOT RESULTj-HWR
ffi$$fn?T fSrTH aOUR WPS ARE nrSi
i mi 111 ih GF7EEN THEY GOT TOO BIS V,,,.
, ?-JI FOR 7HEIR BRITCHES-THEY 8E4T yf,..
THE TEAM LOST 1 1 r-O) njW( THBMSELVES-THEV wereht puvwg I
THE BIS ONE LAST W,C?V V A,M, 6AMB-THEV FORGOT EVERY-
to roS'iS ps
First looli
By FRANK TRIPP
Little Kenny's dog Unk grew so
oig and oiiicious that he became
a neighborhood nuisance, still he
was devoted to Kenny and was an
efficient policeman; a bit too ef
ficient with others' children.
Unk, for Uncle, was a strange
cross of German shephera and
French poodle, a disheveled, limi-
oermg. untidy fellow, who would
knock children senseless In his
rough play and leave a house
dirty and bedraggled by one romp
through It.
Then undo his mischief bv grab
bing a child by the arm and drag
ging him out of a car's path,
leaving Ihe child white with fear
of him.
At heart. Unk was a good dog.
but belonged In the great open
spaces.
It had long been evident that
Unk was misplaced m the cul
tured environs of Westport, So. one
day our Polly, Kenny's mother,
thinking to pave the way for Unk's
exodus, sold to her thrce-vear-old;
"You would miss Unk if "he went
away, wouldn't you?"
Smprisinely Kenny said. "No."
Try as she might to make Ken
ny confess any concern for Unk's
future, the tot would not desert
Ihe negative. That, then, was the
lime lor Unk to change abode.
"You wouldn't care if Daddy
took I'nk to the Shelter?" brought
ihe same Insistent "No." So Dick
put Unk In the car and drove
away.' He took one look at Unk's
mischievous face, drove twice
around the block and back to the
house.
He shut Unk In the garage; and
found Polly and little Kenny up
stairs crying. The child had re
canted. It was Polly and Dick who were
most solt on Unk. though prob
lem he was. Thev had Just been
trying lo establtsn a more sen
sible place to bestow their grief
at his going. To leel sorry for
Kenny would sound so much bet
ter to the neighbors who would
cneer. "Uood riddance."
Well, unk stayed a long time
thereafter, unaware of the little
lamily drama and his star role
m It. He grew even blsger, dirtier
and more officious.
Kenny never meant that he
didn't love Unk. He enloved the
your
Congratulations
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (To the
tuiiori in a recent issue oi
cjuiaepost magazine I noticed thai
you had heralded Christmas week
by printing bright, cheerful Items
on your iront page.
eor years 1 have tried to Interest
Various npwennnore ' In ll.M I.J
- .. L.Kut.k, ,,, iuua
only to be squelched.
We have so many special weeks
in this country it seems to me we
couia nave one called "Good News"
week at Christmas time, and I
am happy to learn of a newspaper
,.! wining 10 give It a try
uuici papers IOUOW
example.
Congratulations.
Mrs. C. W. Uessie) Shephard
Sovou-Yonr Itch
By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M D
"Please discuss the seven-year
itch. This Is indeed well-named "
writes E. L. "For two years now
I have battled It with every known
cure, but to no avail. I still
scratch."
This must be a most annoying
experience. I don't know what Is
meant by "every known cure "
since there are several good treat
ments available. If the writer has
really tried "all" of them It is
possible she has a secondary In
fection from the constant scratch
ing, which explains why her trou
ble has lasted so long.
The right name for the seven
year itch Is scabies, which is de
nved from the tiny Insect which
causes It-sarcoptes scabiel. How
he name "seven-year itch," came
lt is roKn'i,Unltn0Wn 40 me' ut
It is probably because the condition
goes on for so long if It is't ,reat.
Anyway, this linu i, .
into the skin andausTermicN
ih. .7 k ! "fiing. furthermore,
the itch brings vini.m ...
This combined wlih unwise treat!
...... .ul runner skin trrita-
The cause of ir.ku. .,
insect, the condition Is spread from
one person to another. Thus It 1"
?.'su'l,rls; 't flourishes best
when people are crowded together
,7,. 1, ' aor,itories or lodg
ing hmis.c .
It Is also more common In the
winter. qUe l.kely because bath!
tfYT in cooler leather.
The fact that scabies is spread
vr.0HPCrsc,n 10 p",on kes pre
yentlon particularly Important.
m h"C'. ' 0T"w!lin la one
method; frequent bathing Is also
?fJ,Pt.U'T'al care has to be used
about clothing, bedding and towels
in any household or group where
scabies breaks out.
Now as to treatment. First It
should be said that someone with
an itch must not Jump to the con
clusion that It Is scabies. There are
Safety Group
Urges Caution
Fewer daylight hours and fog
gy nights have Increased the need
lor reflective material on equip
ment moved on highways, cau
tions a member of the governor's
safety committee. Burton Hutton,
4-H Club leader at Oregon State
College.
During the past two years, 4-H
club members and Future Farm
ers of America chapters dis
puted enough tape to "light up"
mobile equipment on 700 farms m
Oregon as part of the "Reflector
ize to Stay Alive" safety cam
paign. It is being continued this
year.
Use of reflective tape on farm
equipment, cattle passes, railroad
crossings and on sides of trucks is
being promoted. Club members
re also checking danger spots In
barns and homes In cooperation
with five mutual Insurance com
panies In the Willamette Valley.
"We want people ti be aware
of all hazards." says Hutton.
Mable Mack, assistant director
of the OSC extension service and '
safety committee secretary, re-:
minds parents that children may
be In danger walking to and from
schools In foggy weather. "Twen
ty five cents worth of tape applied
to raincoats and overshoes may
save a child's life." she says. Last !
year in Coos County, 500 children
were given reflective - covered j
uuuous to wear on outer gar
ments.
Although Oregon has been one
of the nation's 13 worst states as
rar as farm and home accidents
are concerned. Mrs. Mack report
ed the state's record Improved last
year, it is still the blackest state
record In the Pacific Northwest,
however. California and Washing
ton have a lower percentage of ac-
ciaents, according to Mrs. Mack
Senate Group Plans Probe
Of Reds In Press, Radio
WASHINGTON lid Sen. East-.of the witnesses would be employes
land (D-Missi said today evidence
is being developed for a new round
of hearings on alleged Communist
1niiltralic.11 of the press, radio and
television.
He said the Inquiry by the Sen
ate Internal Security subcommittee
he heads already has shown "a
significant efiort on the part of
Communists to penetrate loading
American newspapers."
The subcommittee concluded
Ihree days of hearings late yester
day in which 18 witnesses were
questioned. Of these, 14 were pres
ent or former employes of the New
York Times.
Eastland told reporters he was
unable 10 say how soon the next
sdt of hearings would be held but,
in answer to a question, he said
that so far as he knew now none
Youth Picked
For East Tour
A Klamath Falls youth will be
among the four Oregon young peo
ple who will get a taste of in
ternational living In different
areas of the world next year under
a six-month work program with
foreign farm families.
He Is Tom Zinn. son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. , O. Zlnn of Weyerhaeuser.
According to Winnlfred Gillen.
state extension agent at Oregon
State College. Zinn will visit in the
Midle East, but the country has not
yet been selected.
He will be traveling as one of
Oregon's delegates in the Inter
national Farm Youth Exchange
program. He will leave in June.
Other delegates are Marilyn
Bradshaw of Albany, who will go
to Scotland: Ward Armstrong of
Ncwberg. who will visit India, and
Carolyn Varits of Estacada. who
will visit Finland. All except Arm
strong will leave in June. Arm
strong is to leave In October.
The IFYE program is supported
with funds raised by 4-H clubs.
private contributions and service
organizations. Gayle Cilmour of
Jefferson, a delegate last year, is
still visiting in Brazil.
it X . MmA v 1
HIGHLIGHT of the circuit
assembly of Jehovah's Wit
nesses program which ends
here today will be an address
"Overcoming the Fears of
This Generation" by N. Kov
alalc Jr., representative of
Watchtower Society. The ad
dress, which is- open to the
public, will be given at three
o'clock in the Klamath County
Fairgrounds Auditorium. Over
800 delegates attended the
three-day session.
of the Times.
In an editoiial, the Times con
tended it had been "singled out"
for 'attack because it championed
desegregation of Southern schools
and other causes It said Eastland
and some of his associates op
posed. Eastland denied this, saying
the investigation was not alined at
the Times or any other paper.
In a Joint statement with Sen.
Jenner (R-Indl, the senior GOP
member of the subcommittee,
Eastland said as the hearings end
ed last night that "to the extent
that our hearuigs uncover a prob
lem of attempted Communist infil
tration of the press, we feel confi
dent lhat the American press will
prove; fully competent to deal with
the problem In its own, American
way."
The final witness yesterday was
Dr. Benjamin Fine, education edi
tor of the Times and the holder
of many honorary university de
grees for his contributions to edu
cation. Dr. Fine, testified that In 1935.
while a graduate student at Colum
bia University, he made "the trag
ic mistake" ol Joining the Commu
nist party for about a year.
He said that he always had been
an "Inactive" member "in the
sense lhat my heart wasn't In It'
and he concluded his testimony by
advising today's students to "keep
away from anyone who talks the
Communist line.
Both Eastland and Jenner
praised Dr. Fine as "a fine citi
zen" and "a credit to the busl
ness."
Six other witnesses were ques
tioned by the subcommittee yester
day and all of them also were
present or recent employes of the
New York Times. Two saia iney
had been fired or forced to resign
by the Times after they had lndl
caled to the paper that they in
tended to invoke their Fifth
Amendment protection against pos
sible sclfincrimlnatlon.
The two were Nathan Aleskov-
sky, until recently assistant book
review editor of the Sunday New
York Times, and Jack Shafer, a
copyreader.
WEED FOUNTAIN
WEED The former Weed
Theater Fountain is now being
operated by Mr. and Mrs. William
Morris of Weed, assisted by their
son and daughter, Jim and Jean
nette. Morris, a Long-Bell employe,
will continue with the lumber
company. The name has been
changed to Bill's Fountain and
hours will be 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.
daily. The family has lived in
Weed five years.
THEFT
MIAMI BEACH. Fla. UP1
Mrs. Gertrude Casson reported to
police that some thrifty person
stole $330 from her purse during
a birthday party of a federal sav
ings & loan association.
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Feather Job
Fight Set
By P; Byrne
California Slate Senator Paul
Byrne (D-Chicoi said Friday that
he will try again during the March
budget session of the Legislature
to get 16 million dollars appropri
ated for starting the slate s pro
posed Feather River Project.
Similar legislation bv Bvrne
bogged down in the 1955 session
but Byrne says that "the grim
lesson of Yuba City" adds new
weight to his argument for a start.
It was a break through on the
Feather River levee lhat caused
me nooa tragedy at Yuba City.
Byrne say that the 16 million
dollars wouldl pay for a site for the
project's main dam at Orovili.
and would provide for relocation
of roads and rail facilities.
Byrne notes that a difference of
opinion stalled the appropriation
measure last year but adds:
we are living on borrowed time
. We are running into a ri
cycle and that makes it Impera
tive that we undertake the Initial
steps. Let's start on the dam and
settle the arguments afterward."
The one and one-half billion dol
lar Feather River Project contem
plates storing water behind Orn.
vllle Dam for controlled release in
ory periods as lor south as San
Diego via aqueducts. It would also
provide flood control on the leath
er. The new state senator from Las
sen, Plumas and Modoc counties
sjiys that "California cannot af
foid to waste time talking on th
subject of water . . I just a few
critical dams ... in the recent
disastrous floods . . . would have
saved scores of lives and untold
millions oi dollars in damage."
Stanley Arnold, a Susanville at
torney, was sworn into olfice at
Sacramento Thursday. He won the
special election December 6 to be
come the 18th Democrat in the
40-man Senate, cutting the Repub
lican majority to Its smallest in
years. The new senator takes the
place of the late Dale Williams,
an Alturas Democrat. Speaking
further on water. Arnold specific
ally urged construction of Feather
River dams, both at Oroville and
in the upper Feather River Basin.
SCOTT DENIED BOND
YREKA Harold Ernest Scott,
convicted of grand theft by em
bezzlement and sentenced to San
Ouentin. has been denied -bond by
the dish let court of appeals of
California. Scott, who has been
neld in the county jail, will now
be delivered to San Quentin lo
start serving his sentence. Scott
had been held in the county jail
pending a ruling by the court of
appeals.
OPERATION
Red exploitation hit
behind Iron Curtain
MUNICH In the one-party,
one-press police states of Soviet
Satellite Europe much of the
impetus of opposi tion mustcome
from the free world.
Early in 1954 Radio Free
Europe and Free Europe Press
launched the powerful Opera
tion "Veto" by saturation radio
broadcasts and balloon drops.
It concentrates on 10 specific
ally attainable, limited demands
for the Czechoslovakia!)
"People's Opposition."
Messages of gratitude from
the people and agitated protests
from the Communists testify to
the tremendous effectiveness of
the campaign from the start.
You can help keep it up.
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ated and supported. For maxi
mum effectiveness they must
remain that way Bpeaking the
truth freely and unofficially.
Your dollars spread the truth
to 70 million captive people who
knew and loved their freedom.
Truth builds hope and contin
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