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PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON TUESDAY. JANUARY 17. 1956 rRANK JENKINS Editor ' BILL JENKINS Manntn. Editor Entered u second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls Ore., on Aupiat 30, 1906, under act of Congress, March S, 1879 SERVICES: ' ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER 1 MONTH t 1.60 MONTHS t 8 00 1 YEAR IU.00 MAIL 1 MONTH t 1.60 6 MONTHS 7 60 1 YEAR 12.00 It Says Here: By BILL JENKINS About everv so often thero comes a point In an editor's life when he has to resort to Items from the news if he is to garner enough material to fill his alloted space. Either that or cot write anything at all and consequently not eat anything that day. Today's mv dav to so back In the stack of clippings on my desk and see what the wire services tossed out for inspection last week. The ton Item on the pile is little note from the Associated Press telling us that large herds of migrating caribou are on the march In Alaska In regions where none have been aeen for years, Is this a sign of a hard winter? Fxperts up there say they don't know. Aren't certain wnetner me herds have Increased or are merely moving back into their old stamp ing grounds because of hunting pressure or because predstors have stampeded them in new di rections. Oh well, always nice to know that the valleys or the Koatrak and Kabuk rivers are once again rumbling to the thunder of the moving herds. Also the Kotzebue area. Item number two, also an AP dispatch, Is not of such cheerful nature. It Is an announcement that Motorola will soon place on the market a pocket radio pager Is this the end of the coffee break? This gadget, which weighs In for the tattle at 10 ouncca, fits into the wearer's pocket and Is actu ated from a central switchboard When the person Is wantpd the operator plugs in, the buzzer on the gadget buzzes, the wearer presses a button on It and hears a voice message from the opera tor telling him that J.B. wants to ace him In H.R.'s office pronto. With this new device Uie proba ble end of the smoker's loafing periods Is in sight. Gone, too, arc the davs of the Quick snack snenk. the illicit call to the bookie, the water cooler conference and the flve-mlnutes-to-five break for the front door. I suppose It was inevitable that Industry should sooner or later turn toward aevlces adding to work in stead of leading away from it. The United Press came through with an Item telling us that actor Eirol Flynn was back In. Hollywood after a long stay abroad, and that he was promptly served a war rant demanding an answer as to why he hadn't paid his back ali mony to some former wile. Does this mean that we are go ing to go on having to read about the marital mixups of the glamour set? I hope not. It Is a simple mat ter not to read anything one doesn't want to, but I can still complain because of the expense Involved in paying reporters to galher such Hems and forward them to the press. With so many things of more interest In the world I am at a loss to understand why there should be any special Interest in whether an actor and his playmate stay married or not. 1 loll to see why Just because a man (or woman! can afford chain marriages tt should make the annual changing of the mate ceremony newsworthy. If this country needs a good five cent nickel It also needs more mnn-bltcs-dog stories. Hie final notice Is snolher AP offering tnfnrmincc us that Douglas fir bark beetles, which once threat ened to destroy Orcpon's (western) forests, are now so scarce that the lads are having to prow their own for experimental purposes. Does this mean the end of the battle? No. It only means that they are dormant for the winter. Next sum mer they will bo out In force aeatn. Unfortunately. Tnxm,vtrj Howls By MAX WAUCHOPE With Income tnx payment time drawing near (both federal and stole perhaps It Is timely to ex plain what the anguished howls and tearing of hair will be all about. When the man of the house sits down to figure his Oitkou slate Income tax. due In April, It will dawn on him what all the shout ing was about In 48th Legislature. If you remember, the legislators were hard pressed to find ways lo raise enough money to run the state. To dig up the necessary funds the solons tacked an added 45 per cent surtax onto the regular state Income tax. already the highest of any state in the union To further gouRe the poor lax payer, Uiey lowered the exemp tion allowed for each dependent from i00 each to JSOO. Here's a breakdown In how Ihe tax hns been boosted using the 'rate a taxpayer with a wile and two children will have to pay. gone on record unofficially as fav oring a state sales tax. However, this tax has traditionally been in bad odor with the average voter so the legislator must sidestep this political Issue if he is to re main in favor with the bulk of his constituents. Economists have repeatedly shown with facts and figures that a sales tax on everything except food, medicine and some farm needs Is the most equitable and fair tax to all income brackets. But the income tax has always been easier to pass as It has al ways been considered a "soak the rich" scheme. How this can be true I've never been able to figure out. Income taxes are relative to a working man $50 is as hard to pay as $5,000 to a man in a high bracket. Maybe the howls from the aver age taxpayer this year will prompt the legislators to find a more equitable way to keep the state financially sound at the 49th Leg islature next year. On the federal tax scene, the Oregon Business and Tax Research group, a state taxpayer a .associa tion, reports that Oregon's share of the federal tax load for fiscal year 1957 will be $671,800,000. This amounts to $405 per capita and compares with a per capita Income of $1,754 for 1054, the tax group says. These figures were based on President Eisenhower's budget re quest for 65 billion dollars for fis cal year 1957. Although Ike has Indicated a balanced budget for the coming fiscal year the research group points out that this balancing of the budget should not obscure the necessity for reductions In federal expenditures If future deficits are to be avoided and the public debt of $273.8 billion is to be reduced. This reduction in expenditure is necessary if there Is to be any relief from an oppressive burden of federal taxation. Klnrinnnru I complain they spend more time niUKUIMirv acting as chauffeurs for their hus- (Eds Note: The following article i band and children man iney ao at was sent in by Kathleen Ward of Klamath Falls who la currently on a tour of the Far East. While on her tour Mrs. Ward Is acting as official correspondent for the Herald and News.) Tribe By KEN McLEOD Annual 1954 1955 Income Tax Tax $2,000 $ 0 $ 0 3.000 8 M 4.000 3 6.000 48 9.1 ,000 78 1 37 7,000 1U 1 This added surtax Is tied to the Increased withholding tax. The employer Is now required to with hold 2 per cent wnere ne lormeriy only withheld 1 per cent. Even with the added withholding the taxpayer will still owe the stale a balance at the end of 1956. Of course Ihe legislators had to find some method to find funds to run the state. Mnv nf thetri hve' Hie definition of a word Is some thing that is always interesting to check back upon. Since we have used the word "tribe" on numer ous occasions In reference to In dian peonle we chanced to look up Its definition. Our dictionary states: "One of the three groups originally divided." Thus we hav a Latin word which has been greatly expanded In use In our language to apply to all groups of people, families or clans who have descended from a common ances tor and form, together with their slaves, adopted strangers and so a community. Hie dictionary goes on to give a number of appli cations of the word giving appli cations to Rome, oreece and Is rael but not one mention of the American Indian. Well, since a 1951 edition of Web ster turns out to be of little help on the Indian application we have to turn then to an authority upon the subject. J. N. B. Hewitt of the Bureau of American Ethnology makes this statement about the word "tribe." "Among the American Indians of North America a tribe is a body of persons who are bound together with ties of consanguinity and af finity and by certain esoteric Ideas or concepts derived from Uielr phi losophy concerning the genesis and preservation of the environing cosmos, and who by means of these kinship ties are thus socially, po litically and religiously organized through a variety of ritualistic, governmental, and oilier Institu tions, and who dwell together oc cupying a definite territorial area and who speak a common lang uage or dialect." Hewitt encompasses a number of Ideas within his one sentence de fining a tribe, not only does it depend upon blood relationship "consanguinity" as Webster points out but Hewitt adds "esoteric ideas or concepts" as also a very Im portant part of the definition. This subject of "esoteric Ideas or con cept'' Is not so easy a thing to dellne. When we use the word "eso teric" Its common meaning is something intended for or under stood by only a chosen lew; ol or Mr only an Inner group of dis ciples or Initiates. The word Is ap plied to Ideas, doctrines, literature and so on, to which, Hewitt as signs the Indian philosophy of life. Hewitt continues: "From a great variety of circumstances climatic. topoBraphic, and allluental the so cial, political and religious institu tions ol the tribes of Nonh Amer ican Indians differed in both kind and degree, and were not charac terized by a like complexity ol slruciure: but thev did agree in the one tundaiuental principle that the organic units ol the social tab ric were based upon kinship and its Interrelations, and not on ter ritorial districts or geographical areas." For a simple word like "tube." we can see that lo obtain a det inue answer requires a lot ol words to make the picture complete, and. in order to do so other words are used that mint be m themselves defined; so. live letters placed to seiiiti In simple fashion do not turn out to be so Mm.ilc when one attempts 10 tell what the word ac tually means. Hewitt points out: "In order to constitute a more or less perina-::-nt body politic, or. tube, a uco- ple must be in more or less con tinuous and close contact, and pos sess a moie or less common men ial content a dctimte sum ol knowledge, brliei which largely lives for then By KATHLEEN WARD Two days north of Singapore, we all suddenly blossomed out in our cottons and the ships officers put on their whites. Reason! It was definitely becoming quite hot as we steamed toward the equa tor. So while we all complained about the heat of Singapore, Christmas "came and went." However, on Christmas morning, two other passengers (an English lady and a Swiss girn ana i donned our sheerest dresses and attended church services at the very old St. Andrews Cathedral. The congregation was certainly study In mixed races. There were Malayans. Indians, cmnese. Eng lish and Americans sharing equally In the choir and other duties of this Church of England, v After church, we strolled to the famous Raffles Hotel and had cool limeade. We asked to be shown some of the rooms and were shown several Including the suite which Ava Gardner occupied while she was In Singapore, re cently. In the evening, we had a lovery party on board ship and the Cap tain acted as host, having some former passengers, who are now living in Singapore, on board as an added attraction for the regu lar passengers. It was fun toast ing "Queen Elizabeth" with cham pagne and enjoying all the tradi tion of an English version of Christmas. Again, I was lucky in having someone to show me around. A Chinese lady, who had been a fellow passenger from Hong Kong, acted as hostess and guide while was In port for three days. It was an especial treat to be In cluded In a homecoming party for her and sharing all the excite ment of this large Chinese family. The older daughter, Angela, spoke excellent English and acted as In terpreter between me and others of the family. She Is hoping to come to the United states for her college training. The young Aslan'a seem very enthusiastic about anything American. Under her capable guidance. I saw many of the Interesting sights of Singa pore, Including Chinese Temples, the Botanical Gardens, where there is at least one plant of every variety of flora native to Malaya. and dozens of monkeys roam at will throughout the grounds. We also saw the reservoirs of Singa pore, which are so renowned. And of course, we had typical Chinese food, which I enjoy so verv much. One of the most Interesting side trips, was to the state of Johore. The Sultan Is in residence at the present time, so no one was al lowed Inside the palace. But we gaped to our heart's content and photographed the outside of the palace of one of the richest rulers of Malaya. Rubber! You Knowl The next port was Penong. This city and Island Is rightfully called the "Pearl of the Orient." It re minded me a great deal of Hawnli. with Its swaying palms, blue lagoons and tropical and lush flora.- It is used as a vacation spot for most of this part of the world and Is reputed to be an excellent place for shopping. Five of us hired two taxis and made a six hour tour of the city and island. What fun It was to visit the Snake Temple, the rubber tree plantation, Aycr Itam village, where the magnificent Kek Lok SI Temple. Monastery and the Pagoda of ten thousand Buddhas, Is lo cated. There is also the familiar tram to the top of a nearby mountain. These rides are always thrilling and reward one with a perfectly breathtaking view of the sur rounding country. We timed our arrival for tea, so as to have time to relax and enjoy it all. Mind you. all of this was done for ten Straits dollars or about three dol lars (American i each. We re turned to the ship a tired but happy crowd and related our day to the other passengers. More later from Rangoon! ' tanriinir In Iholi hniicnlrMAnlncr .V..U...Q W ....... chores. I asked one returnee to the city why he had come back, and he said "I moved out to the suburbs be cause I thought they would be more quiet and restful and the people would be more friendly. "Believe me, I gave It the old college try, but it didn't work out. "What went wrong? Everything. "Living in the suburbs isn't rest ful. It's hard work. I'm not pne of those do-it-yourself fellows, but I found I had to become my own carpenter, plumber, electrician and landscape gardener. "Just to get to my Job I had to use three forms of transporta tion car, train and subway. Most of the time I had to stand up on the 45-minute train ride, and I was worn out by the time I reached my office. "Friendliness? The neighbor on my left was a 'Don Juan who tried to make passes at my wife every time we had a party, and in the suburbs you have to have parties all the time to keep from going crazy from boredom. The neigh bor on my right was such a crack pot that after three weeks we only talked to each other through our lawyers. "And the conversation! All the people In the suburbs talk about is lawnmowers, the price of new furniture, the latest bright sayings of their kids, and whether the new family that moved In across the street is living above Its Income. Gossip, gossip, gossip! They all patronize the same diaper service. so nobody has a secret. Culture? How can you have cul ture when everybody belongs to the same book club? The reason I came back to the city was to get a rest cure, and I could pick my own friends again and lead my own life. Boy, am I glad I'm back! When I die I don't even want to be buried in the suburbs. I was buried there long enough. Let 'em scatter my ashes in the city streets." Many other returned migrants share his views. They feei that. while there are a lot of things wrong with city life, there's noth ing wrong with It that a five-year exile to the suburbs .won't make look better. Expeetaiions By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK tyfl Both President, Eisenhower in his budget and in dustry units expansion plans are betting on continuing Rood times This stands out against a back ground of increasing nervousness In financial quarters where a number of observers today sigh' what they believe to be the crest lng of the prosperity wave. The President's belief that the economy is headed still higher this year is shown In his estimate ot government receipts. He expects government revenues to rise by I'm billion dollors In the fiscal year starting next July The only way this could happen would be for good times to con tinue and to blossom even moro. That would assure Increased col lections from corporation in comes. It would provide higher totals of salaries and wages from which the government could collect an increased total of individual income taxes. The higher corporate and individual incomes would be made in 1956 because collections on Income in booming 1955 will be for the most part complete in this fiscal year ending .June 30. To collect Wt billion dollars more next yesr means, therefore, that this year will have to be even better than last. Manv industrial leaders are bet ting the same way. Businessmen are planning to spend more at least in the first part of this year for new plants and better equip ment than they did a year ago Latest example is General Motors. President Harlow H. Cur tice has assured his fellow business leaders that backing his confidence in continued national prosperity OM will spend a record one billion dollars this year for plant and machinery. Curtice also says business in aeneral will see "another record year" in 1956 and a new high In the gross national product the dollar value of total output of In dustry ond services. For his own uidustry ne pre- By HAL BOYLE diets "the second best year in NEW YORK Hi The greatest i production ond sales" second only ,n. ..nlnmn f , tl.nn aren't to recOld-bUStiUg 1955. ii,. ..,,. n-hn vo,, n m o lo ti.n But In moiiy quarters enthusiasm moon. They are the families who,1"" been changing to caution, and have moved out to the suburbs. " "u" lm." " Much has been made of the great migration aw-ay from the ct- Siiburlinii Trend from caution to nervousness lire steel industry notes that lif- Nnl rnmifrh ttentmn has heen """" . " li" paid to the great trend back to J.. "Pve "f- '" f''"f Ihe cities by disappointed pioneers who have found suburban living not all H was cracked up to be. Harsh reality hns blasted their dream of u peaceful vine-covered cottage with a rose bush at Us door, far from the hurly-burly of the city. They silently and grate lully creep back to the comfort of an apartment in town like Cms i trated pilpiims who started out for Mecca but found the journey too nrmious. As a confirmed city lover my- back on steel orders more than had been expected. Retailers who were here for their convention Inst week say they'd like lo raise prices on many goods, nut many say they fear customer resistance if they do. By UNITED PRESS DKTROIT Tlif Detroit News in a front pace story on the end of the strike which forced the city's three self. I welcome them back home dailies to halt publication: to retime "In a sense, the metropolis ha Don't think that the trend back(bcen reborn and has regained its to the cities is just a mirase on cohesion as a community." my part. It is real. Thousands who (led the city to get away from it all are now returning to get b:ck to U all. The suburbs, of course, are a fine place to raise women and children. Hut manv parents are , and sentiments makum ijie riiscovrrv thai schools supplies the niit- j m Ihe suburbs are no better thanibeyun 'o ornate an undeistanUm! rues and for the those in the citv. and are often that win lead to real peace NEW YORK Vice President Richard Nixon on the Boy Scout movement: "When we eventually have scouts in Russia and m the captive coun tries of Hungary, Remain.1.. Czech oslovakia and China, we wilt have establishment of tr inMnMnn t Mt powri.H. ihirhn wive earth.' on TheyH Do It Every Tjme Struxmore B4WLS OUT THE SERVICE SttffOtf MAH IP ONE DROP OF 64S IS SPILLED Otf HIS CfctTE- : ! ..a-. By Jimmy Hatlo HEY W4TCH rr Vlgyvjoy siR.Vss-rL H WH4SS4 IPE4? r rULCLWel jST"" " la. IS Thev it's rju how rV4 X' f .1 .7 CAPT. WALTER RISSE of Bonanza, commanding officer of Army Reserve Company C, 31 Ith Military Police Battal ion, will attend a two-week course next month at the Mil itary Police School at Camp Gordon, Georgia. The organ izer of Company C, Risse has been active in Army Reserve work ever since his release from active duty in 1946. While at Camp Gordon, he will attend the Officers Baiic Refresher Course, and also will attempt to obtain infor mation concerning training aids and improvements for his unit. The company meets every Monday evening at the Army Reserve Center in the Willits Building, 432 Main Street. RKI'TIIKR INVITED NEW DELHI. India (P) Labor sources said Tuesday the Indinn National Trade Union Congress has invited Walter Reuther, a vice president of the AFL-CIO, to at tend its April convention in Cal cutta and then tour India. Investmeni Firm Places $64.50 Tag On Ford Stock kj?.w VORK (UP) A huge In vestment banking ayndicate today placed a $64.60. a ahare price tag on Ford Motor Co. stock. The long awaited announcement on how much the public must pay to buy an interest in the nation's biggest privately owned company came shortly before 722 brokerage firms prepared to sign final con tracts, for the sale of 10,200,000 shares ol 1- ora sioct. Brokers expect the Ford shares to sell at a fast clip. At $64.50 a share, the offering of 10.200.000 shares will total $657,900,000, making It the biggest offering in history. The stock Is being sold by the Ford Foundation. It will go on sale to the public tomorrow through brokers on an "over the counter" basis. Demand for shares la ex pected to boost the price consid erately above the original offer ing price. A orosocctus filed with the Se curities and Exchange Commission in Washington showed that trie 7Z2 brokerage houses which will sell the stock to the public will re ceive $1.50 a share In underwriting discounts and commissions, total ing $15,300,000. The Foundation will actually re ceive, after discounts and com missions are paid, $642,600,000. The SEC Is expected to "clear" the statement sometime today, paving the way for actual sale of the shares tomorrow. Brokers at once began accept ing definite orders from their cus tomers for the first time. The stock will be parceled out In small lots because of the tremendous demand for it. The sale marks the end of Ford's history as a privately owned firm. 100I lounoi''"" i I Hotel BUY II -iki.u.u. I I A handy guide to help you 1 find the Services & Products I V you need! J ma. biua itv i-uei uns G.E. Furnoctl Duo-Therm Htattrt WESTERN OIL & BURNER CO. 1845 So 6th W Give G&W Brawn Stampa Mien 3S73 Ever since the Ford Founda tion announced plans to sell 22 per cent of its holdings of Ford Motor Co. stock, speculation has been high over the price tag on the stock. The price was set yesterday in secret meetings between members of the underwriting syndicate and directors of the foundation, the world's largest philanthropic trust. Although the Ford family Is re linquishing its exclusive hold over the world's second biggest auto maker. It will still have 40 per cent of the voting power after the sale. Experts say this Is more than enough to control the com pany. Ford is the biggest and richest privately owned firm In the world. After the stock sale, it will be one of the nation's five leading pub licly owned Industrial corporations. Ford ranks fifth in assets with $2,483,010,550. topped only by Standard Oil New Jersey. Gen eral Motors, U. S. Steel and Du Pont. Its sales and earnings for 1955 are estimated at $5,600,000,000 and 430 millions respectively, totals that place Ford third nationally. In line with the wishes of the Ford family, the bankers will dis tribute the stock as thinly as pos sible across the country. It is es timated Ford will have between 200,000 and 500.000 stockholders when the offering Is completed, probably Friday. Church Group Plans Election The Klamath Falls Council ot Church Women will meet at the First Christian Church on Monday, January 23 at 2 p.m. to hear Glenn E. Smiley speak on "Citizenship with a Southern Exposure." This is the annual meeting for the coun cil and officers will be elected and installed. Mrs. Lawrence Blrk will give the devotionals. Glenn Smiley of Boston, Is na tional field secretary for the Fel lowship of Reconciliation. He Is an ordained Methodist minister and was active In that capacity in Southern California for a number of years prior to the time he came on to the staff of the FOR. In 1952 Mr. Smiley traveled abroad speak ing and studying in 12 countries. He has a long and active interest In race relations and has worked especially with Negroes and In dians. Recently he has been work ing in the Deep South. The Women's Association of the First Christian Church will serve a silver tea at the close of the meeting. The program Is open, to the public and everyone Is welcome to attend. MEETING POSTPONED TULELAKE The meeting of the Tulelake Garden Club to have been held January 17 has been post poned until January 24. The meet ing on that date will be at the home of Mrs. Chester Stonecypher Sr. Time will be 2 p.m. Mrs. T. B. Watters, Klamath Falls will talk on "Making a Color Plan In Your Garden." 1 IInad! 1 MKICAS Tf" 8TR,M? BtHRB0" SUPERB WHISKEY WORTHY OF A GREAT NAME! TAKE A BOTTLE HOME TODAY I Amtrka's finit ' -Kthtucky Straight Bourbon Whiikiy 6Ytar Otd-66 Proof Distributed by. 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