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PACT' SIX' HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 25. 1956 FRANK JENKINS Editor ' BILL JENKINS Managing. Editor Entered u second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 30, 1906, under act of Congress, March 8, 1879 8 ER VICES: ' ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Senring Southern Oregon And Northern California SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER I MONTH I 1.80 MONTHS 8 00 1 YEAR 818.00 MAIL 1 MONTH 8 1.60 6 MONTHS 8 7.60 1 YEAR 811-00 Jtoiiib Hlnst By BILL JENKINS Last Sunday a weather balloon released In Japan by the US Navy passed over the Pacific Coast at a point about where the Oregon California borders meet. Eleven years ago next May a bomb-bearing balloon released by the Japanese blew over the same area, came to rest near Bly and, on May 5th, blew up while being examined by a group of children on a Sunday school picnic. Six people died. It Is comforting to know today that when wo see a balloon going over that It is merely another In the series of experiments being carried on In man's determined ef fort to forecast the weather. Most of us can watch one drift over without wondering in the back of our minds if this Is the one that might blow up: If this one Is the first sign that a new war has been launched. But It still gives me, at least, a creepy feeling to stand there in the woods where a memorial marker has been placed to mark the spot of the World War Two blast and think that it was here, amidst the tall trees and hidden away from the roads and cities, that the only war time casualties to occur In the continental United Slates took place. , , . I can't help thinking that there Is something more terrible and frightening about an aimless mis sile such as this was than there Is about a heavily armed plane guided by the hand of man. I'd hate to live in a world and I sincerely hope we never do where you never knew when you might be blown to bits by a bomb released thousands of miles away and turned loose lo wander where the winds took it. Perhaps It Is a foolish fear, but if I've got to go I'd rather It be In the face of some thing with some sort of system to It. Not by a brainless wlll-of-tne-wisp turned loose in senseless hate and desire for destruction. Let's hope we never see the time again when he have to be con stantly on the alert to avoid man's missiles of death. for at least a minimum of two years in the armed services to day under Ihe draft law, they are not in quite the same position as men serving in time of a shooting war. If a young man desires to go to college today instead of enter ing the service, he has several avenues whereby he can finish his education before serving, or can take Reserve Officer Training In college and then serve his active duty tour, if called. I agree with Senator Neuberger that a highly educated population Is one of our primary needs in the modern world. But I still can't see why a man has to be bribed to serve his country in time of need, either war or peace. From peacetime educational aid to servicemen to federal aid and I control of education Is but a short step. Freedom from governmental and church control of our educa tional system has been one of the mainstays of our way of life since the country was founded. Looking at this educational Idea of the senator's from the stand point of the professional military, It Is probably one of the big night mares of the military personnel of ficers. The CI Bill has always put a premium on getting out of the service, not on making the mili tary a career. It has probably been the deciding factor for many young men leaving the service in the last 10 years. And a strong, vital pro fessional group of armed services Is es vital to the life of our coun try at this time as is free educa tion. Speaking of Ihe military and Its problems, a "long-short" showlnvf at one of the Klamnth Falls the aters this week typifies the com pletely wrong U.8. Air Force-com munity relationship which some times arises near jet Interceptor bases such as the Klamath Falls air base will soon be. This film, titled "24 Hour Alert," shows the problems an air base commander encounters when the community's leaders refuse to con sider the vital role the air base Is playing In the defense of the U.S. We're sure this will never occur In Klamath Falls as Ihe relation ship between the air personnel now stntloned at the base and the community has gotten off to a good start. However, this particular product of Hollywood does a fine Job of explaining the role of the Air Force In today's troubled world. perces" had been in search of them. One wonders If that is where the horse came from, flitch ing horses from other tribes was one of the favorite games of the American Indian. Ogden has left us a note as to the food of the people: "In winter, ihev llv on roots, in summer, antelope and fish." It Is Indeed interesting that he makes no ref erence to deer, in fact, his record goes to Indicate that deer were extremely scarce in me region, Miscellany The February Issue of the Cath olic Digest carries a condensed story by Osry Webster that ex plains the reason for Leap Year. Since I'm never on time, anyway. It doesn't 'make much difference to me one way or the other. But It was "Interesting to read 1hnl lhi hnRift rpauin fnr A. I.eBD Year every lourth yeV is because We recommend it , a day is not twenty-lour hours Jong. It Is a fraction off. Thus a year Is not 365 days, It Is 305 days, live hours. 45.7 seconds. "If we didn't drop a couple of days every once In a while eventually we would find our winter holidays fall ing in summer. And where would Christmas be without the snow and Ice? Or what would happen to the Fourth of July if it was too snowy to go out and shoot off Roman candles and touch off plnwheela? (The state of Oregon has already seen to it that July Is legally too cold for the firing of firecrackers and other explosives). I suppose this business of Leap Year Is alright, although I really don't know that I'll live long enough to worry about June In January. The only thing I shudder to think about Is trying to under stand the calendar relorm people who want to adopt a new system that would result in every year being the same. The proposal leaves me Just as bewildered as daylight saving time. And the time Is drawing nigh when we'll have to worry about that again. Not only Is this Leap Year, It's an election year, which Is even worse and much more confusing. I would surkcsI as a theme this yeor that we all keep firmly in mind the fncl Ihnt as a nation we are lost forever when we give the politicians legal authority to think for us. They're doing It for too many people, already. Let's hope we can rclaln at least the right to think for ourselves. Klniiiafli liidlnii By KEN McLEOD In our last column we gave the first written account of contact between the white man and the Klamath Indian as recorded by Peter Skene Ogden, Wednesdnv, November 30, 1827. As one consid ers time, this was not so long aco. Just a couple months over 128 years yet what tremendous chang es have occurred In this brief in terval! There had been previous meetings between the People of the Lakes and the white man. Fintan McDonald had been in their region tho year belorc to trade with them, perhaps other traders had passed through their country even before this, men ol action, not men of letters and so their movement in the vanguard of the spread ol Caucasian culture remains unrecorded. Ogden's Journal holds the typi cal brevity of the Scot but in the lew lines he penned that dav we learn considerable about the In dian of the lime. First he describes the villoRe of twenty houses. tents" he cnlls them, perhaps vc get a smile out of the phrase but it was no doubt the expression of the day the Indian lived In a "lent It was only the white man who occupied a ' house." mis vlllarje was a -.trance Dim because from Ocden's description ii aoes noi in witn Ihe tvulcal de scription of other villages of the Klamath and Modoc. The village Is presumed to be loraled upon the Upper Klamath Marsh, yet I know of no claim thai has been made of anyone finding its loca tion. Tho only known site that fits somewhat this description Is the village Mu'tculaksl that was lo cated on the west side of the marsh near the Old Military Crossing Tills vtllsce apparently was in the marsh while all the other villages oi uie region were upon the east ern snore. It would indeed be in- 4.1 Hill Asked By MAX WAUCHOPE Junior Oregon U.S. Senator Richard L. Nrubprger raised an Interesting Issue several days ago in Congress when he Introduced a bill for a revival of the O.I. Bill Rights which expired on Jan iiftf,, 31 loss Ti,. ..,.... i. ,v. .i. .... i terestlng lo discover it Mu'u-mn n t.ruwu i.n.!i.i i .., iksi whs indeed the villnve visiieri d because the United Slates vital-1 y 'ien " I""- This writer has lv needs skilled and educated nen.i'" '" "ra mis particular rile. By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK iff! Some things a columnist might never know if he didn't read his mall That there are more than 1,500, 000 people named Smith In the United States, and the number in creases by about 110 every day., i This doesn't Include the Smyths. Smythes, Schmitts, Schmidts or Psmlths.) That If you pick up a handful of good soil you hold more living organisms In your fist than there are human beings in the entire world. Thot American Industry in the next ten years will spend 56.5 bil lion dollars on research and devel opment, more than 1 i times the total expended since the birth of the nation. That in l!)4j only about a million American families owned two or more cars, but now 4.5 million do. (But do they fit in a 1941 garage? I That in autopsies performed on 193 cats killed In highway acci dents not one was found, to have consumed a wild bird. The stom ach contents consisted mostly of mice, young rabbits and rats. That perhaps Uie most crime- free community in the world ,1s Karakellc. a Turkish village with a population of 450. In the last 09 years not one of its inhabitants has been arrested. That you may not be able to leach an old dog new tricks, but Joseph W. Lipplncott, a Philadel phia bird authority, found old crows learned to speak more read ily than younger ones. That the coflee percolator was Invented by James. H. Nason of Franklin, Mass., in 1865. That 50 per cent of the nation's mnual 1.200 to 1.400 poison deaths In the home (aside from fatal gnes) occur among children 4 years of age or less. That 60 per cent of the successful parlor games now popular In America were invented bv ama teurs (but please don't send your ideas for new games to me; all I, play Is .."postofficc"). That physicians for Cesare Bor gia, Italian reimnissance prince. ircRtea mm tor mainrin bv sewing him up for two days Inside the carcass ol a (llsembowled mule He survived, too, and emerged leeling Delter. or so the doctors claimed. That a "whmnvburucr" Is a hamburger made from horscmeat. That a survey made during a 18 months to pay. A 15 per cent down payment was required on most household goods, with 18 months to pay. And through an other regulation, called X. the gov ernment exercised controls on new home buying. In contrast to the Korean War days, some auto dealers now let a customer have 36 montns to pay with small down payments. The following figures are taken from a table in the economic re port: 1952 Consumer credit, $35,837, 000.000. Of that total, installment buying amounted to $18,684,000,000 of which auto buying accounted for $8,099,000.00(1.1 1954 Consumer credit, $30,126, 000,000 with Installment buying S22,4fi7,000,000, auto buying $10,- 396,000.000. 1955 Consumer credit, $36,200.- 000,000, with installment buying $27,800,000,000, auto buying $14,-300,000.000. So. while consumer credit went ud over four billion dollars be tween the end of 1952 and the end of 1954. it shot up over six billion In 1955. Installment buying rose over 3' j billion in 1952-54, five bll-i lion in 1955. Credit buying of autosl went up over two billion in 1952-54 almost four billion in 1955. Miss Jean Applegate, member of a family prominent In Oregon his tory, Is suffering from critical burns In a Santa Barbara hospital. According to a letter sent from cousin, Mrs. Alice Peale, Ash land, to Mrs. Robert O. Odell, Klamath Falls. Miss Applegate. a teacher for many years in the Santa Barbara high school, had gone to the kitchen during the nignt to make a hot drink. Her (prn.ss I 'we Lakeview. Ore. (To the Editor) We are having a great deal of difficulty in educating the Navy In western livestock methods. I would appreciate It If you will publish this letter because some Navy personnel may read It and thus obtain additional information regarding the annual harvesting and processing of the Number One crop of the western states, name ly, grass. Tnylor Grazing permittees either! ride the range or hire others to do so In order that close watch can be kept on the water and feed supply nnd in order to fee to it! thtit the stock stay upon their ranxc and of course a look-out is kept for predators, insects and dis ease as well as thieves. For ex ample, last summer the grass hoppers visited the north end of W.ishoe County. The animals would have starved If the riders had been barred from riding the range Generally speaking, the national forest permittees do not have large enough permits to warrant sending out a rider with each band so the permittees pool their money and jointly employ a man to ride the rantie. Uncle Sam, as the landlord would not stand for any other method of operntlon upon his fed oral pastures and I doubt If any banker would back a stockman who attempted to operate as the Nnvy hos suggested in Northwest Nevada in the course of its efforts to eflcct a compromise. Turning to Northwest Nevada we find 52 Taylor Grazing permittees who run 30.000 head of cattle. The Navy has suggested that they be turned on the range in the spring -,nH Ihn riri.r i-slni-n te ninlr hent wave in Chicago showed them up In the fall. Bv the time stenographic errors increased , (all enme around the cattle would uuu per cent wnen tne ollice tem-.bo scattered from Cednrvllle tn pernture rose from 78 to 96 de-l winnemncca and from Hart Moun- grees. That a well-dressed man per mits his shirt cuff to extend exact ly one-half inch beyond his coat -sleeve. (Our motto: "Every dav another lifelong problem solved.") That four of 10 American men now smoke cigars, either regularly or occasionally. That the half billion common colds caught In America each yea.' cost five billion dollars an aver age of $10 a cold in lost wages, lost production and medical ex penses. That some scientists believe the world's climate getting warmer because of a gradual Increase of carbon dioxide In the atmosphere. iNow. If everybody will Just start breathing faster, maybe we cap get rid of this cold wave.) living On Time toin to Las Vegas. Six of the per mittees run 30,000 head of sheep If you were a sheep man would you want to take your band out to such an Isolated area in the spring and turn the animals loose with the expectation of them keeping an appointment to meet you at the same spot in the fall? I dare sav when you returned severs! months hence you would not collect enough pelts to ilag a .handcar. So endcth the first lesson in trv ing to tell the Naw something about the ABCs of our western range livestock industry You will notice that I have made no reference to the preda tory animals mat roam the range The lost Navy man who asked me to explain what a nredatorv am nuil is consumed too much of my valuable time. The Navy desires to condemn the base properly (home ranches) where much-of the winter feed Is rinsed with which to carry these By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON iA" Buying on j 60.000 head of stock through the iiire is more tnsn an American winter. The taking- of this acreage custom. 11 s one oi uie props ot out of production for such a our the economy. II can be dangerous ! nose automaticallr destroys t h e it It's overdone. Tie Eisenhower I livestock economy of most of the administration seems concernea i entire aiea that could happen. Credit buying zoomed in 1955. It shot up rnore last year than in the previous two years of President Elsenhower's term. Auto buying was a big part of It. Elsenhower didn't come right out and ask Congress lo pass a law Sincerely yours. Forrest E. Cooper. pie todov In our battle for world peace with the Soviet Union. I'm sure every thinking American will agree with the senator that the U.S. must strive to stay ahead of the Soviets in science and research. However, the OI Bill was never intended as a blanket educational aid to any man who ever serves In any of the peacetime services of America. The bill was originally, passed early In World War II. It was de signed to partially make up for the viliil years missed by Ihe millions of men needed to protect our conn We learn from Oeden (hat these 20 Indian tents were "built ot los stuped like block houses" thev weie set on "piles sunk six feet deep." Probably a ring of poles driven into the marsh and tne Intervening space apparently filled with gravel thus forming a man made Island among Uie tules. At this period of history ol the Klam ath Bssln the country was exper leucine a series of seasons ot abundant rainfall, so the counts on tree imps tell us, and for this reason ihe Upper Marsh had abundant water supply which would give this village Us unique By UNITED PRESS RICHMOND. Va. Gov. Mar vine. n.. .., ,.m.,t "uihnriiv vin Gnflin of Georgia on "inter to slap curbs on credit whenever1 Position." declaring null and void necessary. Instead, he suggested supreme Court ruling ending Congress consider doing It. ! J-cgirgaiion. But credit curbs are unpopular1 "Interpostion will become with businessmen nnd with Con-, nousenoia worn in Dixie. Bless loo In peacetime. So. unless iry irom us enemies, ,inr law was i location "surrounded by water an exlended when the Korean conflict Iproachable only by canoes."' broke out to include men who fought in that war against commu nist aggression. As a veteran of both these con flicts It Is my personal opinion that the lawmakers hoped to com- pensnte for the lost years that so many of the young servicemen, and the older reservists called back to active duty, suffered dur ing these two conflicts. It was not meant as a blanket educational aid bill for servicemen from now to eternity. Although thousands of young Or.den makes Ihe observation that "thev have only one horse. Snow Is so keep, horses perish for want of food." This Is the onlv mention of the Indian horse in the Klamath Basin in 1R21 had pgden encountered others It would have been n suuiccl of interest for his Journal and he or his men saw all the Indian villages In the re gion. The line of communication with other Indians unpen r to be lied with northeastern Otepon because Ihe peoplf of Ihe vtllsee speak ol Eisenhower Is willing to fight tor standby controls, he is unlikely to get Uiem. He didn't seem ready to fight hard when he brought up Uie prob lem m his economic report to Con gress yesterday. He handled the subject gingerly. This is the way his suggestion was made: "It would be desiroble to In crease Ihe Influence the federal Bovfmmrnl run everrisp on con sumer credit . . . Consideration ' Ketauver on the trm problem shnnlH h. eivrn in rrstorine the i n ' 'he Key election Issues government's power to regulate "While Secretary Dulles brsgs ihe terms of consumer Installment I 001,1 leading tne nation to the credit." , 'brink' of war then miraculously The government did have such j pumtig it oacK, secretary Benson STRASBOURG, France Jean Kaufmann, leader of Uie Poujadist movement in Lower Rhine Depart ment, in announcmg his resigns' lion irom uie Pouiadists; "The Poujadists ore moving to wards an atmosptiere ot hatred provocation and racialism which could lead to pogroms and lynch nigs. LA CROSSE. Wis. Sen. Estes controls during the Korean War but suspended them in 1952. Now it has no direct controls on credit buying, except for stocks. Mostly It can only put a brake on It through Interest rates on government-backed home buying Bud pushhig banks Into lightening up on Uielr lending. Thrnurh a control called Regius SOUTHAMPTON. England Pi une Minister Anthouv Eden a his departure for Uie United States for conferences with President Eisenhower: "I om looking forward to the tiilks which I hope will not onlv Hon w the government, durmt the bonelit the happiness and welfare Koiean War reouned a one-thud ot this country, but make tor uce Americans are called on to serve i the fact that "Cayouse and Mej,down payment on automobiles and1 in the world." leads the American farmer to the brink of bankruptcy. TheyH Do It Every Timet .m. By Jimmy Hatlo T&E ONE TJMe HttiRY RONS INTO BOSS-O IN THE SUDS- 4ND-Sira-OIN PARLOR HCS PRACTICALLY KIDKUPPED fHEHWf AM I GUD TO SEE VDU.' iolMt rv-i win ME.diJ.M3lJ HAVE TO GET 64CK TO THE OFFICE?.' Ity (.ORDERING YOU TO 5W' ihi grf . IS OUR bear CLitN i'"Vgr R-BUT- Ihek por the rest op his career r 8IGDOME HOLDS IT NEVER WIND THE EXCUSES IF yOU D SPEND uUST him- imc imc ON THE JOB YOU SPEND IN IMUS)B BOOB TR4PS,yOU WI&HT uwie i NE4R M4KINQ YOUK iLfcSi QU0T4. '! TM4NX AHO CMC T1PPO CE THE HnTiy HAT TO BOB T4YLOR, IDfSON BUIkOINC TOLEDO, OHO. Local VFW Joins In Observance Klamath Falls Pelican Post, No 1383 Veterans of Foreign Wars, u observing National VFW Week January 2?-28. The 67th annlver sary of the organization Is beini commemorated by 1,300,000 veter aus of overseas wartime servlci in this country. The VFW has a long and cred itable record of service to di abled veterans, the widows ant orphans of deceased veterans ai well as to all citizens. In observance of the week here there will be a broadcast, "His tory of Uie VFW in Peace ant War," over station KBBS-TV, Med ford, starting at 4:30 p.m. Janu ary 28. Woman Burned In Kitchen Don't Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Do fall taetb drop, illp or wobbla when you talk, eat. laugb or meeze? Don't be annoyed and embarraaMd by auch handicaps. FASTEETH, an alkaline (non-acid) powder to sprln kla on your plates, keeps false teeth more firmly set. Gives confident feel ing of security and added comfort. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feel ing. Oet FASTEETH today at any drug countar. clothing caught fire from the stove burner and she was a flaming torch before residents of of the apartment house where she lived reached her. A nephew. Dr. Daniel Halferty, Newport, Oregon, and the wile of a brother, Mrs. Oliver Applegate. San Francisco, went to her bed side. Cousins of the injured teacher known here are Mrs. W. O. (Lena) Smith, Mrs. Alice Applegate Peale, Ashland; Evelyn and Elsie Apple gate, living at Williams, California. For, '56 . The Puih-button DODGE In the price of the LOW PRICED THREE Cunningham & Rickey 7th & Commercial Ph. 8104 Hammond Organ Chord Organ Largest stock lead in make pianos tn this part of the west. Hent a Spinet plana Rental pur chase plan. LOUIS R. MANN PIANO CO. 120 No. 7tb Fraternal Order of Eagles TRUSTEES BUILDING FUND DANCE Saturday, January 28 Floor Show Donation 50c Dancing 10 P.M. 'Til 2 A.M. 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