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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.
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By HAL BOYLE
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olved
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Society is reported to have ob
served fewer than 100 albino crows
In the last hall century
books which contain trr,n.
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been given a permanent wave and
a plate of them looks pretty much
as your wile does when ihe shows
up at breakfast v.'.iit her hair In
cullers. The advantage: The spa
xiietti can easily be entwined
uiMiimt a lork.
Prlleciino got Ihe Idea from It-
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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
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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
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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."
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Billy Graham In
Hong Kong Today
HONG KONG if) Billy Graham
stepped out of a plane from Ma
nila Monday, waved to 400 greeters
and told newsmen he had come
here to teach the Bible, not dis
cuss International politics.
Th Am.rirnn .vanpelist. will
I stage a mass rally Wednesday ana
leave the next day for Formosa,
Japan and South Korea.
Graham preachei Sunday night
to an overflow audience of more
than 25.000 persons at Manila. Ro
man Catholic Archbishop Rufino
J. Santos had discouraged attend
ance by Catholics, but there were
many in the audience.
POSTPONED
BONN. Germany, Wl The
clemency bid of former SS Col.
Joachim Peiper, serving life for
the Malmedy massacre of Ameri
can soldiers has been postponed.
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Royal Psir
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IBADAN. Nigeria, Wi Queen
Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edin
burgh received a screaming wel.
come from 17.000 African school
children here Monday.
The Queen and Duke, in the (,'nal
phase of Uieir Nigerian tour, oc
casionally held their hands to
their ears as they rode up and
down belore half a dozen rows of
children standing with toes on
chalk lines. Ohe Queen. In a beige
dress with a wide while collar,
waved until her arm was tired.
Some children from distant com
munities had been here a week,
quartered at schools with their
teachers.
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