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PAGE SIX 1 FRANK JENKINS Editor ' BILL JENKINS Manning. Editor Danger Sign By BILL JENKINS A letter from Joseph Pelzel, lo cal CAA man, In the mail today remarking on the proposed legis lation aimed at decreasing acci dents at railroad crossings. The bill he mentions was intro duced by Rep. Ford of Michigan and would require railroads to equip thrlr rolling stock with ade quate reflector devices on the sides to prevent motorists from ramming Into trains at unguarded crossings. There can be no doubt that con siderable danger exists in these conditions. Once or twice while driving In a heavy fog I've come close to ramming a long IreigM on the crossing myself. Nor can 11 be denied thai some sort of warn ing device would be a help in some cases. But It occurs to me that if there Is to be any national legislation passed on this matter we'd better give It some pretty prolouna measures. In other words, why not do a whole hog job while we're si It rather riian only going halfway? I have a hunch that reflectors would work okay on clear nights but fall miserably on iojfgy ones. The aame nights that pose the biggest danger. I can heartily agree with Mr. Pelzel that drivers out along sum mers Lane and those streets had better beware. A long string of Hats going across In the dark are pretty hard to see If one Isn't alert. But let's not forget that driver education will piny a larger part In preventing accidents than all the warning devices In thi world pinned to the sides of a mov ing train. It will be Interesting to see what comes of the legislation and, also, what the railroads will come up with In the way of warnings. I'm sure thst the railroads are eager to do all In their power to prevent accidents even at considerable in itial cost If necessary. Whllo asking questions this morning another one occurs to me: why aren't there any pre pared noodle mixes on the mar ket? There Is everything else from cakes and pies to a full five course meal, all done up neatly and ready to go. But no noodle mix. As I recall it the recipe f o r oodles Is fairly simple. You brenk an egg in the bowl, fill half the -remaining shell with water and dump that in, add a pinch of salt and the necessary flour and you're ready to start work. Not that I'm crying and in tears for a mix. I'm agnlnst oil of 'em Just on principle. But It Is a cu. rious fact which has occurred to ma many times. Indian Life By KEN McLEOD Since It was the Algonkin our forefathers knew best this column has spent some time describing the people. It Is Interesting td see how the Impact of the Algonkin upon the pioneer American left a deep Imprint by which, right or wrong, every Indian family In the nation has since been measured. Algonkln terminology being im planted upon all other Indian tribes lor example, the word "totem." Most every person associates the word "totem" with tho North west coast and Its highly developed set of totem polea but the word is pure Algonkin. How tills came about: Every Algonkin man of conse quence was expected to have a supernatural guardian spirit. Ev ery success In life depended upon the good will of this gunrdinn, not necessarily unseen, because at times the spirit might reveal Itself to Its ward. This primitive belief Is no different than we can find today amongst many our own peo ple, we may laugh at the thought of guardian spirits but the rabbit foot Industry earns several mil lions of dollors a year. When you think about It, this Indian belief was a fine thing in the wildwood life of a people, mice the Indian could go upon long Joorneys, know ing he was not alone In the world for his invisible guardinn was al ways present. The Algonkin "to tem" is the name given to such a spirit and today the idea Is firm ly Implanted in the white man s social philosophy. You don't need a carved pole, a robbit foot will do These guardian snlrlls n( Ih. reel I m.n -,- ......ii .... i i ki.j god,, or ben,,,' standing behind! that lit... ih-,- ... lures and nccoununn lor their cx- 1,1 history, that In votmn (or ihe Istence. Thus, in rciici-aI, AlKonktn I Rrpublu -an vice presidenunl can thouftht was binxrci in favor 0I I d"1"1 lhpy ,ny b choosing a kind of brotherhood of men, 1 animals and birds, nil unaided bv ! For ,ne S1U11P rnson Ktsenhow the aame supernatural power. Per- cr know that it he pirlu for hit haps no white man has ever quite rurmin mate a man unacceptable understood the totemic philosophy0 1,11 voters, he himself mny of these people, but with them Hjlo?,f tne election, was a fundamental part of hie. 1 He "s declined to say he wan's As with most peoples, mflRic and I Vu'p President Nixon to run with meaicine were interwoven, but rather more use was made of vene- table medicines by the Alitonkm Their doctors were as keen to find new mruiL iiira us in inuuri n uhv medical research, and so the med-! iclne man of yore continually (die alter the Republican conven acoured the forest lor straiwe I i'on nominates him and a vice plants. The whites held these Al-1 gonkin medicine men in great es-1 teem, often calling upon them for: aid, so that todsv our folk niedl- miltcc, il there's no time lor an cine Is rich In Indian recipes. other convention, can bv Itsel! Ceremonies and ritualism amoiiR inline another presidential randi the Algonkin was not carried to dale or push the vice presidential the same extreme as amonir other candidate up Into the No. 1 spot Indian families, but we do take i and name another man for vice ci... . i.H r h ;.;i...; der found amonir many Aluonkln trlbes.The society possessed a few ranks or degrees throne h which an Initiate passes. The public was per muted lo see a spectacular per- formanc In which it was made i to appear that a white ;hell was shot Into a member, who thereupon passed into a trance. Tie Mide Society was partially secret and Entered u aecond class matter si the post office at Klamath Falls, Ore., on August SO, 1906, under act of Congress, March t. U7 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California often intrigued the Europeans into imagining its origin to have some thing in common with the Masonic order. The songs and evolutions In this ceremony were recorded in a kind of picture writing on birch bark, which reminds us that the Algonkin were unique among In dians Of Uie United States and Canada in the use of this kind of picture writing. While It is true that they made only limited use of It, yet this way of writing seems to have originated with them and Is frequently cited as one of the simplest forms of all writing. This much, at least, must be credited the Algonkin. Whenever a community of In dians was confronted with a prob lem thev lathered around a large fire'prepared some food and delib erated. Yet they went somewnai further than a white community would, since they called upon the medicine men and women to do what they could to solve their dif ficulties. Some of the tribes called such a (lathering a "powwow" a word now well established in the English language. Tut lit' Bv HAL BOYLE NEW YORK Wl Typewriter tattle: A minor leop year victory for the Indies this season has been the opening of what Is claimed to be the first beauty parlor at an Amer ican racetrack. It's at Hlnleah, outside Miami. Men have been clipped and spent a lot of money on close shaves at racetracks for cen turies. But the thought of a woman Journeying to a bangtail circuit to get her bangs trimmed Is, well, a bit on the odd side. I asked a Florida informant to check up on the progress of the experiment. His report has Just arrived, scribbled on the margins of several old racing forms. It seems the Idea for the beauty parlor originated with Vincent Pel- legl, of the Phllndclphia firm of Vincent and Joseph. He figured that such a shop might provide a refuge for wives bored with watch ing their husbands bet the family budget on the ponies. The beauty parlor caught on at once. Vincent has a staff of four now. But he quickly learned one thing. The little woman who accompanies hubby to the racetrack isn't both ered by boredom. She wnnts some action, too. Vincent is kept busy running up stairs placing bets on the next race by the ladles sitting under the dryers. He has thrown away his stock of women's magazines. The girls prefer to study the Racing Form, the Green Sheet the Horsemen's Journal. They don t gossip about clothes, men or babies. They swnp tips on horses. The beouty parlor staff Is fasci nated by the betting hnblts of the women. Some are inveterate stu dents who wouldn't think of laying their money on a horse unless they know Ms ancestry for three gen erations and what he ate for breakfast. Others depend on femi nine Intuition, dreams, or merely close their eyes and stick a hairnln through the racing program. The system works out nbout the same. The ladles, especially the hunch players, are addicted to dally dou bles. Vincent recalls one who won a $1,069 double after finding a 1956 penny on the way into the track. She bet on the No. 6 horses in the first two races. The "dream" players don't de pend merely on their own dreams. They'll bet on anybody's dreams, including those of their chamber maid at the hotel. Vincent's unusunl salon has suc ceeded so well he now plans to open another beauty parlor soon at one of the northern trncks. It seems he's been getting a lot of good tips himself. tlH'SlioilS By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Aunlv.st WASHINGTON ll'l President Elsenhower's decision to run again has because ot his health raised questions which will persist up lo election day and. If he wins, be yond n. The questions all revolve around the vice presidency and the possi bility that Elsenhower, having had one heart attack, may suiter an other which disables or kills him " his nomination or, If he wins alter his election. The voter, this year will be j nu-nrp. mnrp innn in nnv crtlnn ' "fMcient. him Hijiun. a I thou ch he asaiti praised Nixon yesterday. Here are Questions raised bv Eisenhower's decision to seek re- .vh...i. "hat happens if he should; Presidential candidale-but beloie i election day- The Republican Nattcnal Coin- ! what t. ,. i,...',"' " neutrals and po- , 11 ' Nov 't M necessary. It will be u? to the IT'? m .o . , ''Co,"rB0,m,,s State Department. will, what E nam,.? h, ' 1" If" """"'I''" "W let. 10 deC.de which .n tiiigi J h0 bids for .id are justified, will take olllce as president? i There'i no certain answer Tins situation has never arisen before, Tins is Ih problem: On election dav you do not vote directly tor a president and vice president. You vote for a slate of party electors In each state. They then meet and elect a president. This has become a formality. The electors always vote for the two men who headed their party's ticket In the election. But, under the Constitution, they don't have to. They are legally free to vote for anyone. What then would happen if Ei senhower died between Nov. 6 and Dec. 17? Probably the Republican National Committee would ask the Republican electors who won through Eisenhower to elect the successful vice presidential can didate president. Then the comit- tee could name someone else lor vice president and ask the electors to approve nun too. It would be up to the electors to do that or do as they pleased. 3. What happens if Elsenhower having won the election and the Electoral College vote on Dec. 17, dies between that date and Jan 20. inauguration day for the new President? The Constitution's 20th Amend ment provides that the vice presi dent approved by the Electroal College would automatically take of lice as president, just as he would If the new president died after Jan. 20. 4. What happens If Eisenhower, having been elected, took office Jan. 20 and -after that date be came so disabled that he could not carry out his presidential du ties? That's a real puzzler, or could be. The Constitution says that when a president is too disabled to fulfill his duties, the vice presi dent shall run the country, but as vice president, not as president. But the Constitution Isn't clear on who decides when the President Is so disabled the vice president must take over. lxiMi.siv Year By. CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Staff Correspondent This is likely to be an unusually expensive year for the United States in the cold war. Pressure Is building up all over the world, directly and indirectly, for American financial and econo mic help. The reason usually cited Is the threat of Communist aggression or the threat of Russia's world wide campaign of penetration. On the indirect side, the at traction of "neutralism" as between East and West is pointed ou:. There seems to be good reason for suspicion that some foreign governments are using the Com munist menace and the desirability of neutralism as a means of get ting money . for purely national Interests, In other words, that some gov ernments are crying "wolf, wolf" to get American aid and others are crying that thoy want -to be lambs, grazing in neutralist pas tures while the big powers fight the cold war. President Eisenhower has asked for $48ti0 billion for the foreign aid program In the fiscal year which ataris July 1. It Is expected that in a message to Congress next Monday the President also will ask for author ity to spend $100 million a year for the next 10 years for long range foreign aid project:. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said in a speech Saturday that the government should be empowered to commit $100 million a year for several years to aid under-developed cuuutries. Unless that power Is given, he sold, "we take a risk which Is quite unjustified, having regard to the small cost of avoiding it." Washington dispatches say that congressional leaders are either lukewnrm or hostile toward this program. It Is an election year. Hut the pressure on the United States government from abroad, great as it is now, is likely to increase. President Oiovanni Oronchl of Italy offers the suggestion that the United States ought to pay more attention to economic cooperation among the North Atlantic Treaty Countries. That could cost a lot or money. The threat of Chinese Commun ist aggression against Its neighbors is a reason for substantial aid to the countries concerned. Prince Norodom Sihanouk ot Cambodia, who was long firmly on the Allied side, has declared himself a neutralist. Thailand Is SSJSSSTSSLi mu mmm Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bui- Rnmn and Communist party chief tain Nikita S. Krushchev offered aid to India. Burma and Afghan- Istan during their visit to South Asia. Thai Is likely to entail corres ponding offers by the United States. Partly because of the Communist sale of arms to Egypt, American nld to that country for building its giRantic Aswan dam has be come urgently necessary, lireece is anarv over Britain's refusal to give up Its colony of -,.... . .. . i t " , , . V, ' . ,ul , i advantage of that. It may mean more American money. " Vi i hl ahV in L.i West Germany, some suspect, I Iratlon to cut down or cut off contributions to the American. British and French armies on Its soli. These are only some of the situations the United Stales faces. Obviously. American aid to many Wnii-li March By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK I Business should have Ihe answer to a number of HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER 1 MONTH t 150 6 MONTHS t .0O 1 YEAR $18.00 MAIL 1 MONTH t 1.60 6 MONTHS 7.W 1 YEAR $1J.OO Its uncertainties before Easter. Consumer may well pick March to show their hands in several ways: 1. With an early Easter, the blustery mouth of March will span the entire pre-Easter salet drive by the merchants. 2. If the month goes out like a lamb, the auto industry may ge: its first test of how healthy the hoped-for spring pickup in car buying will be. 3. The home building industry, also counting on spring to awaken tne urge to owe your own home may find who is ri?ht: the one who says a revival in building i.s due. or the one who says mort gage money will btay tight and buyers chary. What business will be watchinp is how strong a tonic March will supply. A seasonal pickup is ex pected the usual quickening of the economy through gains in con structiun, farming and seasonal industries. The question is: wu: the pickup be as strong as las' year, or will it lack its usual punch? The consumer isn t the only one wno win oe snowing nis nana Congress has some decisions tol make this month. Businessmen are resigned lo Its continuing ior another year the 52 per cent in come tax rate on coi potations and for most of the excise taxes some consumer goods like autos. Business will look to Congress this month for at least a hint on what it will do about such im portant spending items as high ways, schools, farm price sup ports, and foreign aid. There might even be a clearer notion oi what's in store for individuals on their income tax rates. This month sees about two mil lion workers getting a pay raise. The federal minimum wage vises to $1 an hour. wlobor demands may take form this month. Some key industries. notpbly steel, will negotiate new contracts in the next lew months. Manufacturers ara watching for the first signs that the trend in recent months to build up inven tories may be due for a reversal. The strength of spring trade may determine whether merchants and producers want to go on expand ing stocks, or Etnrt living off them. The size of the spring pickup may also foreshadow the future of corporate earnings whether the business boom is going to keep on barreling down the highway. or whether li s starting to coast. ItrspoiiMiliilily By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D. One of the crying needs of our time is to develop better methods of caring lor the older nsople among us. Never before in our history have we looked forward to having such a large proportion of our fellow citizens over the age of 65. This does not mean that alter that age we are "through," but it does mean a change in the kind of problem faced by the older per son as well as for his or her fam-1 ily. I Women in general have a consid-1 erably greater hold on life thanj men do. There are a lot more liv- ing old ladies than there are old men. In other respects, however, wom en in their older years are not so fortunate. A high proportion of women 85 years old or over suf fer from the effects of a decline of function in the inner ear and the connections of' this organ with the brain. Nearly three out of four women of this age or over suffer from dizziness, a liability to tum ble, and even more from difficulty in getting around In the dark. A high porportion nearly 70 out of a hundred are hard of hearing. These are not happy qualities and the combination of dizziness and difficulty in getting about in the dark enormously Increase the danger of broken bones to elderly women. Men who live to this age suffer in a similar way hut there is some question as to whether the men who survive so lone are as liable to serious ear difficulties as the women. Understanding and sympathy for elderly people should be a reflec tion of our civilization. Neverthe less it must be recognized that growing old with all of the physi cal disabilities which may develop produces a strain on the younger memners ot society who are re sponsible for care of the elderlv. One report tells of daughters who have taken care of their parents for months without een being able to get to the movies or for years without being able to shed the care for even a day. Certainly younger people who bear such burdens de serve a better life. More and more vigorous adults i are becoming responsible for ag- lne parents. More homes and In stitutions capable of carina com furtablv and happily for the In creasing number of us who are liv Ing Into old age are a must. The responsibility for facing these prob lems rests on those of us who have not yet reached the age when we must depend on others. lllOl4V By UNITED PRESS BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Negro student Autherlne Lucy on the ac tion of a federal court In ordering her reinstatement at the Univer sity of Alabama. "It means only one thing. I will be back In school Monday morn inff " WASHINGTON A close friend of Mamie Eisenhower on the first ladv objecting to the President running again: She lust wouldn't do that They're a team and she goes along nn wnairver ne aeclfles. i They'll Do It Every tb THE IMSIDE PITCH MAH TELL IT, THE SUPPLY WAS VERY DUZtzH CREAM SKm S0FT-ELIMIM4TES LOBE S4G-THE UST LIMITED INDEED- TWA Asks Polar Route OK Linking Europe, V. Coast Trans World Airlines is seeking approval of the Civil AeronaiU.es Board for a polar air route con necting the West Coast with Eur ope, announced A. M. "Dick" Mc Millan, TWA representative, to the directors of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce at their regular meeting Wednesday noon in the Wlnema Hotel. The proposed polar route would serve co-terminals on the West Coast at Los Angeles, Ean Fran cisco, Portland and Seattle, Mc Millan raid. A flight would origi nate at Portland with only one stop on the flight tp London and Fans, mat stop would be ai muie West Eight, Greenland. At present. TWA originates flights to Europe from the co- terminals of Chicago, Detroit, Phil adelphia, New York and Boston with stops in Ireland, Europe and Mediterranean points with termi nation in Ceylon, India. TWO ROUTKS From these same co-terminals TWA also has an overseas route via Newfoundland, the Azores. Spain. North Africa, Italy and Egypt. The TWA application. CBA dock et number 7204, would add the West Coast co-terminals to tne air line's eastern U.S. co-terminals with seivice from the West Coast to Europe, With the addition of the North west co-terminals of Portland and Seattle TWA would add r direct polar route connection from Ore ?on to Europe. The one stop in Greenland would mean a taster route for Oregoninns to Europe tlian witn present connections, Mc Millan stated. Super a Constellation type air craft, made by Lockheed, would ! be used on the route with the ad-! dition of the new 1649 Constella-! tion powered by four turbo-com pound engines expected soon, Mc Millan announced. I NKW JET TKANSPORTS The airline also has on order eight of the new Boeing 707 four- jet transports with delivery ex- nected in 1959. McMillan said TWA will increase this order for the Boeing let transports to 30 in the near future. The Jets will cut the time to Europe by one-half. The only two air carriers con necting the West Coast with Eu rope via the polar route now are Scandinavian Airlines, which termi nates at Los Angeles, and Canadi an Pacific Airlines with terminal at Vancouver, British Columbia. TWA and Pan American Airlines i are both asking for use of the polar air route from the West! Coast co-terminals, McMillan said, j He stressed that his company s executives feel that one of the American companies should be Rranted the right to serve the ; West Coast over this polar route to Kurope. v i The chamber directors approved a motion by chamber vice presi-, dent Robert E. Veatch for the chamber to vrlte a letter backing the requests of TWA and Pan American before the CAB. The aeronautics board will consider the Sunspot Value Brings Debate ST. LOUIS I The value ot sunspols as a weather vane touched off a mild storm today between two veteran weather prophets one a government me teorologist and the other a uni versity professor of geophysics. It started when Prof. Edward M. Brooks of St. Louis University predicted an unusually windy March with the likelihood ot more tornadoes, all on the basis of in creased sunspot activity. "I think the sun Just got In his eyes." said government forecaster Harry F. Wahlgren, who termed it "poppycock." As recently as Feb. U. Brooks forecast rougher than usual wea ther for this area, including the possibility of tornadoes and floods during the next three or torn years. He said then It could start within the next few weeks. Brooks contends that extreme weather coincides with spots on the sun and that the period of maximum sunspot activity I njv proarhlng. In his March forecast. Brooks pointed to the early ap pearance ot this year's first tor nado which killed six and injured a doren in nearby Illinois towns Saturday. But Wahlgren doesn't go along with the sunspot theory. He said Brooks "knows no more as to whether or not there will be any tornadoes In March than I do, and thai Is practically nothing." Time But-''" BUTTl.eS PTEI? THE CUSTOMERS BUY EVE!?y BOTTLE OM THE OP4LIVOE4GL06E - MAKES TUB OF OUR STOCK. COUHTEt5"J ' WlNt, cases on May 15. either in San Francisco or Portland, McMillan indicated. NO SUBSIDIES If TWA is granted the right to operate from the West Coant co terminals over the polar route, it will not seek subsidies from the U.S. Government, McMillan said. He pointed out that TWA has oper ated since 1952 without subsidies ! on anv of. its routes. Same domes- tic and overseas American airlines -receive substantial operating sub-: sidies in addition to the money I they are paid for hauling air mail. I "TWA has confidence in the fu ture growth of the Northwest," 1 stated the airline representative. "New industry in Oregon and the Klamath Falls area will be served by this additional connection with Europe at Portland," he said. In further business, the chamber directors heard Director Karl Deh linper report that Klamath Basin potatoes had been advertised by him on the recent chamber spon sored air trip to Hawaii. MEAT PLANT Dehlinger also reported that his agriculture committee was work ing with the Cattlemen's Associa ion on the possible location of a meat processing plant in Klamath Falls. Walt Mclntyre, director in charge of inter-city relations, said his committee Is planning a visit to the Tulelake Rotary Club some time in March. In April, cr early May, Mclntyre said the Klambas sadors are planning a trip to the Alturas and Cedarville area. This group fs also planning an excur sion in June to the Dunsmuir area, PAY ONLY 50 A MONTH Ph. 8821 FOLKS.' GOING. ' 1 1 - n M i fT- .mi 1 1 .. --tj -m I By Jimmy Harlg TM4T-0H, STOCK- f BQV 60 UP TO THE yA I STOHEttOM ydsT BITING Pf MB ANOTHER TWO h HUMORED BOTTLES fr NO CONTEST SANTA MONICA. Calif. WV Ac tor Edmund Purdom, 29, says he Isn't going to contest his wife's divorce suit when the case is called Monday. A property settle ment last week gives Mrs. Tita Dnrrlnm 97 alimnliU nf tTSfl a month and $600 monthly support lor men two cnnaren. NET ESTATE NEW YORK '-Novelist Fan nie Hurst was left a net estate of $423,580 by her late husband, an official appraisal disclosed yester day. The husband, pianist Jacques Danielson, died In 1952. CONTRACTORS! CARPENTERS! Hepuhiic STEEL KITCHENS IN COLORS WHOLESALE Distributor free estimates Tele Pliance Center 11th & Walnut BIG 10-DAY HOME TRIAL! The Sensational New SEE IT! HEAR IT! To Believe In Such High I Quality Al So Low A Pric Available In Cardinal Red, Green, Bronze or in Ivory Only 701 Main St., Klamath Falls THURSDAY. MARCH 1, MSB Vaterfowl , Bill Protested ' SACRAMENTO UP Tt Cal iforni - Oregon Klamath River Commission Wednesday sent a tele gram to Washington protesting a bill which the commission said would give ducks and geese first call on Tuelake Basin land. The commission asked Sen. War ren Magnuson iR-Wasl.i that ac tion on two bills be held up until il could get a nmn to Washington to testify. James Stearnc, Modoc County representative on the two state commission, said the bills ap parently give "permanent assign ment" of reluge land use to wild life purposes. He said in the case of Tulelake, the refuge had been built on 55.000 acres of Uie Kla math Reclamation Project. Per manent assignment as a reluge would prohibit ihe possibility of homesteadtng and farming opera tions. Stearns said. Spring Touches Most Of Nation Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS There was a 'ouch of spring in the a-r over most of the nation Thursday as March came In like a lamb with mild temperatures and mostly clear skies. Fair weather prevailed from the central and Southern Rockies east ward to 'he At'antic Coast, In the Ohio Valley, the Eastern Great Lakes region and much of New England. Precipitation was confined most ly to the extreme Northwest, where a storm off the coast brought rain to Western Washington and Oregon and a few showers extending south into California. Falls were light. Only other wet spots were in the Northern Rockies and near the lower great lakes section where snow flurries vcrp reported. Ph. 7709 EBONY CASE 14.95 )95
