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PAGE SIX FHAOTC JENKINS jam,, BILL JENKINS , Ij.Y Managlm . Editor I'rsiiM Klnmalli By KEN McLEOD Most everyone will recognize the name "Ursus" an being the Latin name of bear. Ursa Major the Great Bear in the heavens Is the most conspicuous of the constella tions with Its 53 visible stars sev en of which form the Big- Dipper. Ursus klamathensis, however, is no great bear of mythology but from Its name one can see that It was the great bear of the Klam ath, the extinct Klamath Orazzly. When my teacher in the ways of wildlife, the late Dr. Joseph Grin nell, bade me farewell as I took off from home camp at Berkeley to explore Nature's Trail alone, he handed me a charge, a trail task to follow "Ken." said the good doctor, "when you are in the Klamath country find out what you can about the Klamath Grizz ly." Whut he meant actually was, "when you come home bring us some bones of that mysterious creature." The search of Nature's Trail through the broad expanse of the Klamath country ao far has brought no bones to light only anecdote Why this interest on the part of a great scientist? Ursus klamathensis was named by C. H. Merrlam in 1914 after aludy of an old skull presented to the U.S. Biological Survey (now Fish and Wlllllfe Service) by Charles P. Edson In 1912. Edson secured the skull from the eastern end of the Siskiyou Mountains, near Bcswick on the Klamath Riv er. This old skull waa an Import ant event in the scientific field because it showed that the race of grizzlies which ranged the Klam ath country and possibly the whole region of the Cascade Range in Oregon was distinct from the Cali fornia grizzly (Ursus callfornlcus. i Unfortunately there Is not known tn be even a skull of this huge bear from Oregon, consequently Its range is problematical. Merrlam gives the species as ranging In the Siskiyou Mountains of north ern California and southern Ore gon, north In recent times to Fort Klamath section and Rogue River VHlley; In earlier days to lower Willamette Valley (presumably the same species); south in the Sierra Nevada an unknown dis tance. In 1018 another skull was discovered in the lower McCloud River country and Merrlam pro nounced It to belong to the same aperies. There are many old records ot grizzly bears from the Klamath Country, the Rogue River, tha Un.pqua, and Willamette Valleys mil no recent authenticated rec ords. Yesterday I quoted an article from the Toledo, Ohio "Blade" as giving the last grizzly In Oregon as 1931 but whether that was ac tually verified as a grizzly I do not know, I do remember that there was much newspaper publi city regarding the Incident. A tax idermist In the Medford region nas supposed to have Identified the animal and preserved the hide but our search for tha taxidermist and hide has proven as fruitless as has been our search for the Lava Bear. The general characteristics of the Klamath grizzly were given by Mnrrlain as being of larger size than the Idaho grizzly but not as . large as the California grizzly. Its skull was high with a broad front al shield, a long rostrum, heavy canine teeth and short wide upper molars. The bsck upper molar was narrowed to a point In the buck. Merrlam stated that the Klamath grizzly was nearer in skull characteristics to the Ida ho grizzly of the Rocky Mountain region and was not closely related to other California forms. The skin characteristics remain un known except In anecdote in 9!T, W. J. Perry of the i U.S. Forest Service at Bend, madeithe many separate state and local a collection of bones in the South I committees. Ice Cave, some 40 miles south of Bend, and sent them to the BIoIob leal Survey lor identification. Among these bones was found one tooth, next to Ihe back lower mol- ar, of a grizzly bear agreeing most perfectly with the correspond lug position In the type skull of klamathensis. Science linds many uses lor "old bones" to Irace the history of past events. Tnlll( By HAL BOYLE Nb:w YORK Typewriter! tattle: .s c ,do!s.r Zt ms. ,i i mi, aboil ?lv . h. Mm. about so e.il in the mom- Well, theie is way to hnd out- it vou fo lor s.iprr: miens llieie ini-nun,,, iv . that ,.,,,. -i,n ... .h . X ' It, IrS', 'anvl'ae o l al bird. 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H7 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California lallan. fishermen, who en oy a I curled form of spaghetti, he firat (merchandised his product under me name oi "iusiiii. What's In a name? As soon as he changed the name to "non-skid spaghetti," sales Jumped 100 per cent. The present residential building boom, big as it is, isn't a rocor.-i-breaker In terms of the population Involved. The Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. points out that the 1 ,100,000 non-farm dwelling unita built in 1955 came to an average of 30 for each 1.000 families. But back in 1P25 the rate was 47 new units for each 1.000 families. There were 20 million non-farm families In America In 1925. In Ipss there were about St 'i million How vou gonna keep 'em down on the farm? The evidence seems to be that In America at least you can't even though the towns, cities and suburbs become more and more crowded. The late Oen. George S. Pallon, prophet and hero of American armored might, often got himself In hot water with his blunt opinions. After Ihe Second World War he was among the first to declare there was no essential difference between fascism, nizltm and com munism. He thought them all bad. He said so. While Patton will hardly go down in history as a milltsry diplomat, he will be long renowned for the battlefield boldness, that won him brilliant success. He waa a great showman, a great actor, but above all a gres: soldier. To Wendell Phllllppl. Indiana news txecutlve and National Guard leader, I am indebted for the following summary of Patten's chief precepts as given by his ad mirer and comrade, oen. jacoo Devers: ' In yourself demsnd the Im possible. 2. Always risk. Nomina worth while can be achieved without risking something. 3. Never listen to tne aavice of fear." Patton practiced what he preached. He was human and him self knew fear, felt he also knew the terrible corrosion of purpose that fear can bring. Bravery came as hard to him as it did to any other man. By demanding the im possible of his troops as he did of himself he gained whatever Immortal glory there can come from combat. But no one knew the terrible price of it all more than he EIMiionI,mji' By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON 11 You can drive a truck through some of the holes in the laws coveftng con tributions and spending for elec tions to federal government office. They are outdated, full of loop holes, and. as Sen. Hennint tD Moi says, are so "unrealistic" they not only "invite" but "de mand evasion." He has a bill on tap to ttghten and modify them. But the chances that Congress will pass the bill In this election year are slim. The man responsible for prose cuting violations of these election laws Warren Olney. assistant at torney general in charge of the laws in me 1952 campaign, and found 1311 worthy of investigation. The result: 2 prosecutions. These are two of the biggest loopholes In the present law. 1. Political committees can't spend more than three million dol lars apiece. But the law is so phrased that this means only na tional committees like the Dem ocratic and Republo'an national committees and does not touch 2. The present law gives the gov ernnient control, such as it is. only over spend'ng In general elections for members of Congress. It ex cludes primary elections. The Su al-ipreme Court ruled 15 years ago Congress could, it It wishes, con trol primaries, but Congress hasn't moved to do so. Yet some pri maries are far hotter and more expensive than general elections llenninga' bill, approved by a majority of the Senate Committee on Rules, would make these changes among many tn pres ent law i J..' .... . ,, ' , , . I :vsss :zn"" ' p-"' ions. i 3 Pl" ,h' -"P'nllng ot all com- An attack Is Indeed , frighten-1 ,,, and loJ,i wr .Ing thing for someone to witness I "l - "d'r MfJ "". " .;n0". " h" ; "Ir nrs inr a canoioaie ior iro- eral office. 3 Ihe limit on spending """ ""'" "m "n(l l0f,ll committees to a total of .0,n"'h"r and .aii,ijvu in senate races ana si..-iur 500 and W 000 for a representative. I,lc national committees now ttf fnulred to file reporta on the money Ihev spend. HennlnRS' bill I would etend this to state and local ! I committees. i The way the bill Is drawn this I 1 1 "us un .yrruiiK woum i e- " "" 1"1 0 PP" wo, k. pr,n,p, too mch onP , of the consistent criticisms of Hen- nint' Proposal this measure and If Contrevs wants llopomlisi I'p By SAM DAWSON NEW YOKK -The nation has one less bank In the billion dollar class today than a year ago. 01ut the total of deposits entrusted to the stiiviving n ate almost three billion dollars greater than thai held by the II in that class at the start of 1955. Part of the atory is in the gen eral good times that have raised bank deposits almost everywhere. But part of the story lies ia the very reason that today there is one less bank with deposits of a billion dollars or more. And that is the banking tendency that Con gress has been talking about in recent days: Bank mergers. There were around 250 bank mergera In 1955. Both large and small ones were Involved. In the previous four veers, congressmen reported, 594 commercial banks "disappeared" by merger or con solidation. Expressing concern at this pro nounced trend, the House of Rep resentativea has passed a bill pro hibiting bank mergers through ac quisition of assets if that creates a banking monopoly or tends to lessen competition substantially. Previously the law forbid mergers through stock acquisition under similar conditions. Banks have their reasons for merging. One Is that the laws limit tho percentage of capital and sur plus that can be lent to one in dividual. Mergera mean larger capital and surplus, and hence the chance to make larger loans to giant corporations. Mergers can bring an Increase in branches, if consumer business ia the bank's aim. Or mergers c. d secure top personnel. Before the merger trend got go ing hot In 1955 the 11 banks in the billion dollar class had com bined deposits totalling (48.445, 000,000. By the start of 1956 there were only 17. But the combined deposits of the 17 totalled (51,371, 000,000. This gain of '.2,928,000,000 Is a a per cent Increase. Some of the Individual banks In the list report a 8 per cent gain in their own deposits - last year without benefit of mergers. But two of the biggest achieved their larger status psrtly by the merger route. The third largest, Chase Nation al of New York, and the 15th larg est, the Bank of the Manhattan Co., merged. The resulting Chase Manhattan Bank became the sec ond largest in the nation. It edged out the National City Bank of New York, despite the Utters own merger with the First National of New York a member of the ex clusive billion dollar group. The wedded pair, now the First Nntlona! City, is In No. 3 place- trie spot formerly held by the unase. Of the billion dollars banks New York has eight. San Francisco and Chicago two each, while Los An gelcs. Detroit, Pittsburgh, Boston and Cleveland boast one each. San Francisco's Bank of Amer ica is still the leader with deposits of 18.802.506.138. Chsse Manhattan, second, has 16.789.358.288. First Na tional City, third, has 16,308,783.- 237. Epilep.vv By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D. The distress on the part of the parents of a child who develops epilepsy is .certainly understand able, but one can be sympathetic while at the same time pointing out mat one must not by any means despair of the situation. Epilepsy Is primarily a disorder of the brain. It is commonly divid ed into two main varieties. The less Important kind Is called petit mal, In which there are episodes of brief loss of consciousness with out convulsions. The severe type Is called grand mal: In an atl'at-le of grand mal there Is loss of con sciousness with typical convulsions. Before an attack of arand mal there Is ususlly a peculiar sensa-1 Hon in some part of the body. Tins i Is known as an aura. The exact sensation Oarles, but an "uneasy feeling" in the stomach area Is I one of the most common. Those who have epileptic attacks learn i to recognize this aura and to know ! that an attack Is on the way. At the beginning of a major at- i tack the patient may give a loud scream or yell, which Is callrd an epileptic cry. When an attack first begins the head is usually drnwn back or to one side, the Jaws are tixed. the hands clenched and the legs extended straight out. This is quickly followed by muscular contractions, noisy breathing and a brick - red colored face. During all this DeriOd from the enilertlir rrv I .-sun mr miai. uucn. the patient recovers consciousness without recollection of what has I h""1 Sometimes .Hack, come I nly at night so thai it is possible! lor a person to have been epileptic i jrarn wiinom anyone snowing it. We have today methods for test, ing the electrical waves in the brain. Known as electroencephnl ogrnphy. these tests have shown that the brain waves of someone with epilepsy are different from tho. e ot a noimal person Tins mem oi icsiing nas aireany i proved lo be of meat help m find- lnf ou, wn pfolp ,rf llke. lv to develop epilepsy, deteimin-j ing the seventy of the disease. menl Is best for the oartlrul.r na-, ,'" Ih it. had thought that even one knew that epilepsy was not a catching disease but a reader recently asked whether It was contagious. This Is one question that can be answered definitely and with much cifidence: No. Much has been learned about epilepsy in the last lew years. Tne! dints and management available today have helped many. i HERALD AND NEWS, SLTBflCRrPTORATM j MONXH , , M MONTHS .00 1 VEAR " 00 , MONTH .. $ l so 1 year ...JZZ Jiloo I Bit Jf I.HCOY'TIMl B CHARLES MERCER NEW YORK If someone has gone along for much of his life building so to speak a pretty good mousetrap, It s alwavs pleas ant to note the moment when the world begins beating a path to nis door. Take the case of Lawrence Welk. a calm and thoughtful 52-year-old accordion-playlng bandleader who has been "discovered" the past lew rr.ontns by several million tel evision viewers. The popularity rise of his Saturday evening hour of "Champagne Music" on ABC TV is sensational If not phenom enal. Actually, as long as his bosses would leave him alone. Welk ha; been playing the same kind oi music lor years in ballrooms theaters and one-night stands the length and breadth of the country How many million viewers con stltute a TV "discovery"? What ever the number, Welk happily now nas them. "Champagne Music" is smooth and has the flavor of a little age as befitting a vintage wine. Welk whose favorite beverage is milk can't give you a specific formula lor It any more than a French vintner can explain the specific chemical of the specific grape. "I think." he said slowly the other morning "that mothers are the strongest audience in televi sion. If Mom puts her okay on a program it has a better chance of being accepted by the rest of the family." Well. Mom certainly has put her okay on the music of Welk and his band. But why? "I think Uie human ear is un trained to take music as loud and modern and full as many bands have been playing it," says Welk. The easiest thing for people to un derstand is the melody. Perhnps many of us have made a mistake in the band business by ignoring peoples' wants and needs." Vela Mnil Itag Veterans' enrollments under the Korean CI Bill passed the 700.000 mark at the end of 1955, Veterans Administration 'announced today. The 707.000 veteran-trainees on December 31, 1955, represented a 30 per cent Increase over the 538,000 total of a year ago and almost triple the number of vet erans In training two years ago. There were 9.922 enrolled In Washington State institutions: 5.8117 In Oregon; 2,551 in Montana: 2, 63-1 in Idaho and 160 in Alaska, Ihe study shows. At last year's end, of every 100 Korea veterans in training 59 were in colleges and universities; 27 were hi such as trade and vo cational schools; five were takiiic farm training, and nine were en rolled in on-the-job training cours es. Recent months have broupht an upsurge in the proportion of vet erans going to college under the Korean GI Bill, VA reported. Almost from the beginning oi the GI program, the proportion of college-bound veterans has been slightly more than half of Ihe total number In training. During No vember and December, 1955, how ever the peak of this past fall's enrollment the proportion of veterans In college rose to 59 per cent. Question of the Week: Q. I am going to college under the Korean OI Bill. I waul tr change a couple of my courses without changing my goal. Would these changes be considered as my one-and-only change of pro gram? A. They would noi be considered a change of program, so long as they do not involve tli material loss of credits or i2 an extension of the time originauv planned tor completing your program. By UNITED PRESS TEHRAN Radio Tehran In answer to Radio Moscow when Ihe Red radio voice complained about the city cleaning up a Communist spy ring: "How would your chief of police In Moscow. General Popov, deal with common crooks and criminals like these? "The whole world knows how you treat such people." SANTA MONICA. Calif. Sen Barry uoldwater 'R-Anr' in a pol iticking speech saying ex-Presirirnt Truman should run (or president this year: "They should nominate him let's not hide the Socialist pio gram fathered by Tinman under a Stevenson wisecrack, a Ham man homburg or a coouskin cap." NEW YORK Governor Averrll Harrlman of New York In criticis ing the Elsenhower administration for not acting to ent.irce the Su pieme Court desegregation rulins tn the University of Alabama case "I was unhappy that the Pre-t-dent seemed lo take it so lightly ir. his last press conieience. "Tho.e people ought lo be biought to Justice and the attoin. , general should be active In the case. And I haven't -ecu activitv which I think the situation de mands." PORTLAND Adlal E. Steven son on his belief thai the school desegregation Issue in the Souili be kept out of the cm rent political campaign: "I still con-idrr tins not on! possible, but es.entiai." KLAMATH FAt.LS. OREGON They'll Do It Every Time SeDIMEMT DROOLBEWJy S HIS NAME BUT you wouldn't kmow it, the StOPPV WAY HE SIGNS HIS CHECKS Research, Knowledge Of Growth Needed If US To Solve Wheat Surplus Deal By GORMAN HOGAN countries. Seed was planted from PORTLAND ifi "In the future, j the 13,500 wheats In the USDA we must learn not so much how to grow wheat but how wheat grows." This, in a little more than a dozen, words, is tho way K. S. Quisen-fed(.ri.S(gte research network and bcrrv. crops research expert fortne experiment stations of Canada nc u.a. ueparimeni 01 Agncui - ture. sums up the nation's wheat growcrs p.uo.cms .'one in the north and the other in The goal ahead, he said here; (ne soulhthe four resistant reccmij. produce a wheat variety that will fit a known market need and will not have to find Its place bj- chance. Continuine progress has been made in such fields as wheat dis eases and inject control, he told the National Assn. of Wneat Grow ers, yet much work remains to be done in these and other fields, in cluding soil and water conserva tion and quality. Quisenbcrry said tho present wheat surplus docs not reduce the need for research. ' "Indeed," he said, "it points up the need lor more research n we nre to meet our stated goals oi : stabilized production, dependabil- ly of varieties and superior qual ity." Discussing the continuing fight against wheal disease. Quisenberry reported the development m six years of four durum wheat vari eties resistant to stem rust. This he called "a truly remark- nble accomplishment, probably un matched m plant breeding. This particular type of stem rust, desli;natcd as 15-B, struck in 1950. Agricultural researchers rushed into the litiht against It. Cooperative nurseries were set up in several Latin American Your f0R LESS THAN world collection. Seed came, too, I from promising varieties and hreedine stock in this country's 1 Mexico. By growing two crops annually- I varieties were developed. By 1954 234 pounds of seed was planted on 742 acres of irrigated Arizona farmlands. Today. 120.000 bushels are ready for release to growers under the names of Langdon, Ramsey. Town er and Yuma. These varieties, Quisenberry said, "are not the final answer to the 15-B problem and they're far from ideal. . . . But they should provide a stop-gap while breeders continue their efforts to develop varieties that will be better all- I around." FOR SAYING PLANS IT'S The Eauitable AND John Houston Perfect Servant, j . your family wash . . . anytime! Sounds ridiculous -but it's true! ELECTRIC CLOTHES DRYER are less than the v. of . ONE FOOT of old-fashioned clothes line! I .s-rk any time ... THI CALIFORNIA ORIOON POWIR A H'eiftra Company otraerf oao1 eperalea ty Wnitm By Jimmy Hatlo But when he puts some dough in- OH.BOy. DOES HE M4KE SURE fT'U. 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