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PAGE EIGHT HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH TALLS, OREGON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 19S8 TheyH Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Fri. 8 Sat. Only! H'S SHOES 150 PAIR ONLY SIZES 7 to 13 Values 9.95 to 17.95 OF THOSE PAIS WHO JUST DROP IN FOR 4 AAlrJUTE ITS ALWAYS WHEW VOU'RE BUSIEST" TWO HOURS L4TER-"HES JUST eSTTlMS INTO HIGH G-4R", 8UB3CniPTION RATES CAE2UXR Entered u eco class Butter at tilt post t KLiauba riTi, Ore., en Au;ust a, KX, under let of Cocjrsij, Marca f. ll'.l SSKVICtti ASSOCIATE PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUItZAU OF CIRCULATIONS Senrinr Southern Orefon And Northern California, FUNGUS, OL' BOY Editor t UOHTH UONTU3 1 YEAR UAH, I MONTH MONTHS 1 YEAR t IM . I soo 111 00 now eousv i know VBLfRS BUSY, BUT Z WAS IM TUB BUILDtrO ' BILL JTOJKINS iUnulnt. Editor SO I JUST DROPPED 1 l. I 7.60 13.W IN TO SAY HELI0" HoiveoESP iKHav f , Jg domt letaie l VWJR2 BUSY. BUT I ( --Zl 9 BOTHER VOU-GO i 1 I WAS IH TUB 8U1LDIN& l' Y RIStfT Oti WTH VtJUR L-SS' E-q SO I JUST DROPPED yr5--, rVORIHyDV4 THIrJK Yr 1 IN TO SAY HELLO'" J 1 T BIKE R4CES j I V . , , i dtn Iftil WILL EVER COME BACK? j S4T j ' education Future By MAX WAUCHOPE The future of American public education hu been of mounting concern In the last decade to both school and publio officials on local, state and national levels. The Klamath-Lake County follow- lip meeting on the White House Conference on Education will bring tnese problems to the local level. This meeting, scheduled for Fri- day, ( p.m.. In Mills School audlt torlum Is of vital Interest to all parents, taxpayera and educators. These follow-up meetings are the culmination of state, regional and national conferences on education first urged by President Elsen- bower in his 6tate of The Union message in January, 1994. Parents with children in school will hear the various recommen dations for Improving and aug mentlnr the educational system which the conferees at the meet ings have studied and are backing. The taxpayer will be Interested to hear the ways recommended for raising funds for needed build' tag and other expenses facing ed ucators today. With the tremen dous population increase in Ore gon, and over tne nation, during the last If years, more schools must be built. How can the legis lators raise these monies? In 1M0 Oregon spent 1.4 million on public education; in 1620 . million. This had raised to 190.6 million by 1964. It Is expected to increase to 1116,758,000 by 1960. The legislators, and school board members, have had to face the tough problem of where to raise this huge sum. The problem is not lessening It can be expected to loom even larger In the years to come. Where have these funds come from? In ISM 49.3 per cent came from local effort' (real and person al property tax), 28 per cent from state funds (basic school support) and 2.1 per cent from federal funds Hunch, special education, etc.). State aid to schools has lowered from 40 per eent In 1147 to the 21 per cent of 1954. During this same period the school tax load carried by local property taxes has tripled up 900 per cent. Fed eral assistance has remained about the same, The main source of the state aid Is' the state income tax. Nearly all the state district conferences have advocated a state sales tax earmarked for education. The sales tax has been voted down In Oregon several times. The district conferences have also suggested a re-assessment of real property values over the state with a view to a more equitable tax load and consequent lower mlllage. Increased Federal aid to educa lion brought a practically unani mous verdict of no government aid if accompanied by control and restrictions. The alms of education will be one of the Important phases of the follow-up conference. How best to fit the student for future life in modern American society has been on the agenda at many district meetings. The treatment of gifted and re larded children In the educational system and other Important factors also has been discussed. The pay and prestige of teachers Is another facet of the conference that will be on the forum.' Delegates to the White House Conference will be In attendance at the Friday night meeting as will a legislative representee and educators from Klamath and Lake counties. The level of education of any country has alwaya been one of the gauges of Its true worth ii.ver more so than in the highly ajieclallsed and scientific world of today. The education of the youth of America Is as Important to the maintenance of our nation'a free dom as is a strong armed force. Every cltlsen should lake a vital Interest In the solution of the ed ucational problems of America. means, suppose that every town along any one of our major high ways had a different language What a troublesome world that would bel But worse than that. each town would have some cus toms of Its own, to violate which wss dangerous; to be the friend of one would automatically make one an enemy of another, etc Such a confusion of tongues seems at first unexplalnable, but when scholars begin to study the dif ferent jsngusge forms, some or der begins to displace that which seems to be chaos. Speech Is a practical matter and to be serviceable, words snd their meanings must be highly stand ardised; but when a people live In small, self contained groups such uniformity need not go be yond the sounds oi tne group. Again, a vocabulary la never fixed in Its details, even when support ed by written standards, but when carried on merely by word of mouth can change rapidly. On the other band, the form of grammar or a language la ultraconservatlve, so much so that a scholar can soon convince himself that Eng lish, French, Dutch, Spanish, Ital ian, etc., must have been derived from a common parent tongue By tne same way students of Indian speech soon discerned that In spite of all the apparent con fusion of Indian tongues the tribes could be arranged in families, ac cording to the parentage of their speech, we know, loo, that this means descent from an ancestral tribe In which the elements of the language was crystslllted. But we must turn back from these techni cal matters; what we need to bear In mind is that the specialists ia this field of research have identi fied the leading families of Indian languages and have assigned the tribes belonging to them. Such lists really give us tribal genealogies instead of those for Individuals, a number of tribal family trees upon the branches of which every known tribe may find a perch. In North America there are many such Indian language fami nes, some large ana powenui. some eommonplsce, some poor snd weak In number, some on the verge of extinction, To form a comprehensive notion of the In dian In the united states we must lix In our minds the names snd characteristic, of the greatest fam ilies and familiarise ourselves with their outstanding tribal members. to my knees, and as. I finished my first 'hall Mary,' Leroy reached Into the anow and said, 'Here It is. Dad'." The father, stirred emotionally by his memories, looked affection ately at bis son. "Whenever he drives by the Seven Sisters now," he said quiet ly, ' he says silent prayer. Some one saw him up there on the moun tain that night and helped him." S.alia'N Heirs Indian Speech By KEN McLEOD The American Indian of 149J had long been In the making before the landing of Columbus, but we know little of the stlrrlno- .vni. and bloodshed that brought all this making about. As we now know, there was more than 20.000 years of history In this making to com msnd our respect even if most of the details are Inst. But 149) opens a different outlook, for since then we are confronted by a mass of historical Information about the modern Indian. There are minv great books from which we can learn a great deal about them the deeds of their great men, the mine sacruices iruae to main tain their freedom, the tragedies mev iscea even to the bitter end. The English and the French. chief colonisers of the United Btsies ana Canada, found the country occupied by many Inde pendent tribes, for the most part at war with each other. The elders of neighboring tribes talked peace and at times sincerely sought It, but the marauding traditions were so carefully fostered that raiding for blood, captives snd plunder wss on the level of second nature The Indian who had not taken part in a raid was a curiosity. The honors of social esteem of the tribe went to him who hsd killed his man. The tribes were rsrely large, operating in Independent units of a few hundred persons, old and young. This often perplexed the European, accustomed to well disciplined nations, and opened the way to constant friction. Yet what pussled the European even more was the fact that there were almost as many forms of speech as there were tribes. To get some notion of what this Survivor By HAL BOYLE OEOROETOWN, Colo. I On a wintry night two years ago one of "the Seven sisters" ltrucjc ieroy Buckley with a mighty white fist of death but he escaped anve. By doing so the 28 -year -old Korean veteran has become some thing of a living legend in .this old mining town near famous Love- land Psss, high In the towering Rocky Mountains. The "Seven Sisters" are seven perilous snowslide areas along the winding road through the pass. Few persons caught In a major avalanche survive. Leroy Is the second member of his family to accomplish the feat. He Is the grandson of famed Alice "Maw" Buckley, a real 'first lady" of Colorado's fabuloua past. This doughty Irish pioneer mother raised 13 children of her own, be friended hundreds of miners. She died In 1945 at 15. In 1915 Raymond Buckley, Le roy 's uncle, snd two other men were caught In an avalanche while Inspecting a mine site. The uncle saved himself by clinging to the limb of a tree withstood the flooding snow, His companions perished. - Leroy and his father. John, own a garage here. Over the years they have rescued hundreds of motor ists stranded on the wintry heights. At dusk on Nov. 24, 1693. Leroy wss returning after towing a stranded car over the pass. The deadly Seven Sisters seemed se rene In a luminous peace. Then Sister No. reached for him with-, out warning. I saw a sudden white fluffy cloud before me." Leroy recalled. "And then I couldn't see anvthlng. The glass crsshed around me, the front of the cab crumpled. snow fined the cab, choking me. How did I feel? There wasn't time to be sfrald. I Just gripped me wneel ana held on. I wasn t even sure whst was happening." In the vast Maelstrom of snow, rocks, and splintered trees the light I Vi-ton tow truck wss as helpless aa a peanut In a hurri cane. It sailed through the air. turning end over end, and landed upright 200 feet below the road way, then skidded another 100 feet before coming to a halt. Buckley blindly pawed clear of the Imprisoning snow that hsd kept him from being thrown out of the cab or banged to death Inside the cab. The truck was nothlni but wreckage. The radiator had been smashed In, the wheels snd fend ers ripped away. Blood streamed from a deeD and terrible gash reaching from young oucaiey s cnees sround to the bark of his neck. He never even noticed It until he climbed back to the highway. A aeeond torrent of snow loosed by another of the Seven Sisters had blorked the road farther down. Leroy had to clam ber over It belore tlndlne heln. A doctor that night took 56 stitches to clos2 the wound. A medal of St. Chrlatooher. the patron ssint of travelers, hsd been tom loose from Leroy's throat. reeling that St. Chrlstooher had Intervened to ssve his son. Leroy's father decided some months later the medal should be retrieved. They searched snd sesrehed hut could not find It. I thought Derhsos If I nraved it would help," said the elder Buckley, who is devout. "So I got By JAMES MAR LOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON IsV-Stalln's heirs now denounce him like men anx ious to get rid of a stench. Becom ing so extreme about it so sudden ly, they raise an Immediate ques tion aooui tnemseives. These new Kremlin leaders. tumbling over one another to con demn Stalin at this late date, were his right-hand men either all or part of the 29 years he ran the show In Russia. Ha died in 1993. If he was as bad as they now say he was, why did they wait till now to say so? why did they not only let him get away with It out cooperate witn mm ana glori fy him In his lifetime? They can't claim Ignorance of what -was happening. They were part of It, This makes them hypo crites who cither agreed with him In his lifetime or lacked the guts to throw him out, and now put on mis aet Because it serve tneir purpose. At tne Russian communist party's 20th Congress lsst week Stalin was attacked by name or in directly by party boss Khrushchev, Premier Bulganln, Deputy Pre miers Malenkov, Suslov, Mikoyan and Kaganovlch, and Foreign Min ister Molotov, Summed up, this m effect wss the catalogue of sins -they blamed on their old boss. He betrayed the spirit of the Revolution with one-man rule; he twisted history In his writings; he set back the Revolution with his domestic and foreign policies; and some or all of his Old Bolshevik comrsdes, whom he hsd shot In the purges of the 1930s, were framed. Why this awltch by Stalin's heirs? They hsd to make It, They had to give communism a fresh and attraetlve look, which meant wiping out the Stalin look. He had left them and communism hang ing on a hook. By the time of Stalin's death communism, except for what the Red Chinese could do, .was stand ing still. Tne West wss surround ing Russia with allies, or trying to. And Stalin had made commu nism repulsive, even to an Ignor ant native of Malaya. Communism the world over had become associated In people's minds with violence, aggression. murder, purges, liquidation of even the party faithful, subversion, sub servience (to Russia), and mea ger rewards. Stalin, In becoming the symbol of communism, hsd become the symbol of all the tyrants in history. And for years he had had no new Ideas. He had bocome inca pable of taking advantage of new and favorable situations bv chang ing bis tactics. He wasn't letting communism expand. He was freez ing It solid 'behind the Iron Curtain. The new leaders must, If they are to win against the West. change this world view of Russian communism, scoop up In any way they can the natlona not attached to the West and even soften and break the Western partnerships. l hey couldn't do it by force with out catastrophe for themselves. But, as they now make plain In throwing Stalin's bulldoser out the window, there are other ways to try. The talk now of economic help to their neighbors, of letting com munism develop along different lines In other countries, of Russia ss a friend and not a menace, of taking over where they can be peaceful and legal means. They reserve the Idea of forceful over throw for only the biggest and most antl-Communlst countries. under way, the Copper ti Brass Kesearcn Assn. notes today in survey of world production. Ex isting mines sre tspplng additional ore bodies, snd new properties will come Into production during the next three years. The association estimates mine production outside the Iron Cur tain as-1,776,000 tons In 1959. It estimates that strikes prevented to mining of another 150,000 tons, giving a capacity total of 3,928,- ooo tons. It ssys 239,500 additional tons will be added to capacity this year, another 105.500 in 1957 and 123,600 more In 1958. This would bring total capacity In 1958 993,386,600 tons. But demand could keep on rising too. The , Buresu of Mines reports that in the United States per capita consumption Jumped from f pounds in 1900 to 17 pounds by 1954. Yet, outside the United States, world consumption was less than 2 pounds per capita by 1904, Copper Today By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK, Copper today is at the highest price level since the time some 80 years ago when it was considered a scarce metal. At 46 cents a pound copper brings boom times In the mining states, but producers aren't as gleeful as you might think. They (ear high-priced copper will lose some permanent markets to sub stitutes chiefly aluminum and plastics. The United States uses so much copper now more than hslf of of that mined each year this side of the Iron Curtain that It can no longer control the world market. Chile can, and Just has, forced the price up here. Europe can. and does, snsg copper supplies that American users would like to have. The Copper k Brass Research Assn. holds out hope of a 16 per cent Increase In copper-producing capacity In the non-Communist world In the next three years. Copper users heie clamor for relief now eyeing the govern ment's strategic stockpile of the metal and urging tough curba on the export of copper scrap. If you're In a hurry for copper It seems as scarce a metal now as 10 years ago. belore the big mines were opened. If you go to a custom smeller for copper today you may pay more than 53 cents a pound. A year ago II cost 30 cents. Early In 195b the price was as low as 16 cents. Oovemment controls in World Wsr II pegged It at 13 cents. Copper expansion programs are Vets Mall nag Two Important warnings to vet erans buying or selling GI homes were sounded by the Veterans Ad ministration. They are; First, veterans will run afoul of the Federal law If they purchase a home with a OI loan Intending to turn a quick ssle at a profit rather than to occupy It as. the law requires. Second, veterans who sell their homes and let the purchasers as sume the favorab'e, low Interest GI loans, run the risk of later having to pay all or part of the debt resulting from a default by the new owner. VA has found that some veter ans buy GI homes without Intend ing to occupy them, and receive a small sum of money for allow ing non-veterans to take advantage of th liberal financing provisions of the OI loan entitlement. OI home loans msy not be used for speculative profit, VA empha sized. Each veteran who applies for a OI home loan Is required to certify that he intends to occupy the property as his home. The veteran who gets Involved in such a deal subjects himself to severe penalties Including possible permanent forfeiture of all Veter ans Administration benefits. A builder, .lender or seller who has knowledge prior to the closing of the loan that a veteran does not Intend to occupy the home and leu the deal go throuoh anyhow. may face suspension from the GI losn program, loss of guaranty and insurance, or even criminal prose cution. VA said. Veterans who sell their GI homes snd let the purchasers assume the VA-guaranteed mortgage, remain responsible for the payment of the loan. Veterans should not sell their property without making certain that their Interests are protected. One way to do that, VA ssld, is to have the purchaser pay cash or arrange a loan In his own name which relieves the veteran of all liability. Unless this is done, VA pointed out, and the new owner falls to keep up payments, the holder of the GI mortgage can foreclose. Where the proceeds of the sale resulting from the foreclosure do not cover the amount of OI loan outstanding, the difference may remain a. debt against the veteran. If the VA has to nay the holder of the mortgage for the guaran teed portion of the debt, the vet eran then will owe the Govern ment the net amount of that pay ment, plus interest. Any veteran in doubt about his rights, VA emphasized, need only to consult the nearest Veterans Administration Regional Office for Information on OI loan regulations. QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Q. I have Just been discharged from service, and I want to ap ply for a GI term Insurance policy within my 120-day deadline. Will I have to take a physical examina tion to get this Insurance? A. No. A physical examination is not required. However, you must appiv ana pay your first nrem um within the 120-day period. Tot's Name Still Unknown Quotes By UNITED PRESS THOMASVTTXE, Ga. Presiden tial Press Secretary James C. Hag erty on whether Mr. Eisenhower has reached his decision: "I wouldn't knowand if I do know. I'm not going to tell you. When he Is going to make the an nouncement, he will tell ma snd I will tell you." ' WASHINGTON An atomic ob server on President Elsenhower's announcement that the United States will make available one bil lion dollars worth of ursnium for peaceful use: "This will give the boys In the Kremlin something to think about. The Russians can't possibly hope to match this." FORT WORTH. Tex. Publisher William Prescott Allen on the sym pathy he received from 12 other prisoners alter he was thrown Into Jail for refusing to tell a grand jury where he got his Information tor an anti-vice crusade: "They told me they thought It was terrible the way I was thrown In here. They all felt sorrv for me and sympathized with me." WASHINGTON Rep. T. James Tumulty on ousted Argentine dicta tor Juan Peron staying In a Pan ama. C.Z., hotel owned by the U.S. government: "Peron la not like the ordinary Latin American dictator; he's something special. Compared to him. the Frankenstein monster and Drscula were Rover Boys." TUCUMCARI, N.M. OB The identity of a savagely beaten little boy found abandoned here re mained a mystery today after ap parent collapse of a theory that he might be a 3-year-old boy kid naped from a New York City suburb. The father of Steve Damman. kidnaped four months ago, said last night the boy found here Is not bis missing son. Inspector Stuyvesant Pinnell. head of Nassau County, N. Y detectives, said today he is "In a great deal of doubt" that the boy found whimpering outside a serv ice station here before dawn Mon day Is the Damman child. Pinnell told a newsman that on the basis of present information from here and from the Dam man child's father he has no in tention of sending any detective here for a further check. After examining a police photo of the boy. A.l.C. Jerrv Damman at his home In East Meadow, N.Y. said, "It is not our child." He said the unknown child had certain similarities to Steven, who vanished from in front of a super market in East Meadow Oct. 31, 1066, but that the child did not appear to be his. He said the bov found hod only three teeth, while his son had 22. There were other discrepancies, he said. The child found here was taken to Tucumcarl General Hospital. There, officers said, they found his nose recently had been broken ano oaaiy set, he was covered with bruises from a severe beat ing around th head and bore a stlll-unhealed burn on his right palm. Asked where he got a scar on his arm, he told nurses, "Daddy hit me." But he was still incoher ent and didn't know his name. He Is to be placed in a foster home In Tucumcarl sometime today Hospital authorities said he is from 3 to g years old. ARIUCKLE'S MODEL 717 Main SHOE STORE Ph. 7343 A30 mM-m old The extra years enrich its great Bourbon flavor r - iHt SIX TEAKS Oil 86 PROOF OLD HICKORY DISTILLING CORPORATION PHILADELPHIA, PA. 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