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PAGE SIX MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1957 nwnAT.n Awn news TCT.AMATH FALLS. OREGON 1 1 By Timmy ratio FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor entered u second class matter t the post office at Klamatb Palls. Ore., on August JO. MM, under act ot Coagress, March 8, 1S70 8EBVICE8: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Serring Southern Oregon And Northern California SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER 1 MONTH 5 MONTHS 1 YEAR MAIL 1 MONTH 6 MONTHS 1 YEAR $ I SO . $ 9.00 , $18.00 t 1.60 7.50 12.00 Confused By BILL. JENKINS Well. I've gone and done it at last. Joined the ranks of the Boone Club last week while on a deer hunting junket in the jackpine jungles of Bear Flat. Not that 1 was tost, mind you just a mite confused, even as our first ranking hero ot pioneer his tory. I knew exactly where I was I just didn't know how to get swav from there and arrive at the soot where I wanted to be. It all happened when I started back for the trucks via a small ravine that was, I thought, going In lead me r ttht out where I want ed to be. But it didn't. It wandered off in all directions. And so did I Then the snow cumc. nice thick, heavy, flaky stuff that cut vision down to about ten feet and blotted out every trace of a landmark, Oddly enough the only thing I could think of at the time was how good a bowl of hot buttered Doncorn would taste, un wen, may' be next time I'll have the flashes that lost people are supposed to have and see visions of all my misdeeds flashing in front of my eves. As It turned out I owe a debt of izratitude to Albert Young, the sLraw boss of Bear Flat for KFPA, who saved me a long walk by knowing just exactly where I'd hit the road. I hadn l covered mucn ground after walking out to the road 1 wasn t mat lost uiei i didn't know where the road was anyway before good old Albert was there with the pickup and a lift back to camn. I also owe an equal debt of gratitude to his wife, Freda, who took most of the aches and pains out of a bunch of tired, wet hunters with her wonderful cooking. There is a gal who can really do wonders with the groceries. Did we get any deer? No. This being an official trip and not wanting to break any of the rules we changed over the second day of the hunt and left Bear Flat to go to Kings Cftbin where we had been led to believe the bucks were of monstrous size and so numerous as to cause a menace to hunters in the woods. Where this story got started I wouldn't know. The biggest thing I saw was a forked horn and after all the fatheaded boasts I've made prior to the season I didn't have courage enough to shoot him. Or at him, as would more than likely have been the case. Oh well, such Is life. There's nothing like wandering around in (he woods with the wet anow drip ping down the back of your neck and wondering how long K will be before your feet fail oft. We at least had the advantage of more wonderful cooking dished ' up by Flossie Tromblee, who, with husband Ross, keeps the Kings Cabin station going. And, of course, the genial hospitality of John Vo- ncl. matordomo. Guess I'll go back and try once more before the season is over, As soon as those blisters go down, that is. I enjoyed it and the people up there haven't had so much fun since Elmer got confuted down on Callahan Creek. History By KEN McLEOD This column hai been rummag Ing around in the history of the fur trade of North America not only because It forms an interest ing topic of human activity but likewise because no one can under stand American history if he ne glects the explorers and the fur traders one and the aame group in the earliest years. From the moment white men arrived on the Atlantic shore until a period with- in the memory of men still living, furs have lured them on and on. The invasion ot the continent up the St. Lawrence to the Great Lakes and beyond, over the moun tains and down the rivers to the Ohio and the Gulf, up and down the Mississippi and Its branches. up the Saskatchewan and down the Mackenzie, up the Peace and the Missouri and over the mountains to the Eraser and the Columbia Rivers and lakes were the easy highways to the fur harvest, but land routes were by no means re jected, especially In western Cana da and in the southeastern and southwestern parts of the conti nent. In this manner the names of the famous explorers first ap peared on the pages of history Some of Uicm might have explored even without the mercenary stim ulus, but probably their discoveries would have come less rapidly, t on sider the fact that is often di; regarded, namely, that Frenchmen were, in all probability, at the tipper end of Lake Superior before the Pilgrims landed on me Alassa- cliusetts coast. We even know the names of two of these supposili lions traders: Eticnnc Brule and a man called Grenoble. By 1660 Radisson and Dcs Groseillers were Denetrallng beyond the great lake and in their wake followed many others. By 1700 explorers were reporting their travels on the Mis souri and on the plains. Before 1760 the La Vercndryes and the Martins were as much at home on the Mississippi, the Missouri, and the prairies of western North America as Daniel Boone was in Kentucky a decade later. Then followed the penetration of tli Far West, the Southwest, and the Far North. Robert Rogers knew of the Columbia River through the reports of traders, when in 1766 he sent Jonathan Car ver and others to try to find the Northwest Passage. Peter Pond was trading with the Indians in the Athabaska country at about the same time that Captain James Cook visited our Northwest Coast by sea. A few more years and Pond's erstwhile trading clerk, Al exander Mackenzie, was having his name attached to one of the great rivers of the continent, which he explored. Another short space of time and Mackenzie was carving his name and date in 1703 on a cliff on the Pacific Coast. All this before Lewis and Clark visited the mouth of the Columbia, before 1800, even before the Mas sachusetts mariners made the Northwest Coast a suburb of Salem and Boston. Exploitation followed explora tion. Great companies followed cut throat competition of Individual traders. In connection with the fur trade one thinks of the cen tury between 1760 and 1860 as the era of the great companies the North West Company, the Missouri Fur Company, the American Fur Company, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, their subsidiaries' and affiliated companies, and, of course, always the first great com pany of all, the Hudson Bay Com pany, which has outlived all the others. Also one thinks of the trans continental trails, partlculary the ones to Santa Fe and our Oregon country, which carried furs as at least part of their traftic. From tne point oi view oi me business historian, therefore the fur trade has a dual distinction. Not only did it vie with fisheries for primacy among businesses first to operate on a large scale in North America, but also it was unquestionably the first to intro duce concentrations of capital and manpower. Lessons of importance for future businessmen were learned from the operations of the huge companies, which had to seek hundreds of employes, train them, send them Into far corners of the world, and depend on their integ rity, courage, and resourcefulness to bring wealth to investors. No one who has not followed tne routes and operations of employes of the great fur companies for a few years, at least, can compre hend tne daring and trustlulness of business men at headquarters in London, Montreal, New York, In London it was necessary for scores of years after 1670, for example, for Hudson Bay Company governors, councils, and officials to plan for sailing vessels that could stand the arctic weather and get men through hazardous seas to their destinations on the inhos pitable shore of Hudson Bay. The records of this activity are every whit as exciting as the annals of tha mountain men generations lat er. And competition had to be met on arctic seas and tundras no less than In holes and rendez vous in the Rockies, for the Eng lishmen had to meet in northern regions the competition of indi vidual French traders. Indi vidual, because the French gov ernment never learned the lesson that Englishmen comprehended so early ' that concentrations of men and capital would turn the trick for the success In trade. Oddly enough, too, the French government never learned another basic principle that government Interference In the fur trade ot individuals, and government deei sion of policy for those Individuals, was fatal to success. The question then arises natu rally, are we today slipping over to the French philosophy of 200 years ago in our attitude to mod ern day business and trade? a proper gentleman always washed his hands after handling money. That the world's largest Infant, according to the Fisherman Maga zine, is the baby blue wnaie . . . it measures upward of 25 feet at birth. That in some South Pacific is lands natives literally "tie t h e knot" when they get married . . . friends of the newlyweds join them together with a grass rope. mat wnaiever our neignuurs across the seas tninx oi uncie Sam, he's no tightwad . . . fed eral spending from 1789 through June 30, 1957 totaled $1,151,000,-000,000. That each hospital bed in the United States serves an average of 13 patients a year. That someone has suggested this as the best epitaph for the Iron Curtain: "Rust in Peace." That the male lion, one of the most handsome of all aniVals, is also one of the least fickle . he often spends his entire life with the same mate. That inflation has hit Africa . the price of a wife in one tribe has gone up to nine goats and six jars of beer. That Grace Downs, who trains airline hostesses, gives this dif ference between the sexes: "A man worries about ' what the fu ture will have in store, but a wo man worries about what the store ill have in the future." That in a five-mile race a buf falo could probably outrun t h e fastest thoroughbred that ever lived. That the guacharo, a South American bird, is so fat the na tives melt it for use as butter. That beehives are the oldest air- conditioned dwellings . . . bees inside the hive keep the tempera ture 10 degrees cooler than out side by fanning their wings. That it was MarK Twain wno made this immortal distinction: Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do.. . . play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. Surp Wav By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK I Things columnist might never know if he didn t open his mail: That the surest way to get an ulcer is to waste your tinuS moun tain climbing up molehills. That In 18th Century England restricted to Mormon youngsters. For instance, in Japan last year the average attendance at weekly MIA meetings was 760 church members and 1,500 non-members. A recitation of the Mutual Im provement Association's activities shows why -juvenile delinquency among its members is almost nonexistent. For one thing, the MIA has the world's largest tournaments for basketball, Softball and volley ball. Each year more than 2.600 bas ketball teams, 1.200 softball teams, and 700 volley ball teams compete in the tournaments. MIA members also participate in more than 18,000 dances year , . . sing In somo 2.000 chor uses . . . and act in some 3.000 play performances not to mention more than 7,000 skits. More than 50,000 youngsters par ticipated in various music festivals during the year. But the MIA is by no means complacent about its accomplish ments. A recent statement issued by the general boards of the Young Men's and Young Women's Mutual Improvement Associations says: Although our incidence of de linquency is less than that of the country as a whole, we still have a tremendous job of inspiring our youth to be good citizens. "The fight against delinquency is never won. Each new genera tion must be t a u g h t all over again." ftlormon methods By RICHARD LANEY United Press Juvenile delinquency was a problem even for the frontier set tlers of nearly a century ago. And the Mormon pioneers ot Utah come up with a unique method for handling youngsters with time on their hunds that has persisted to this day. That method: Keeping teenugers so busy they don't have any time to get into trouble. it was bb years ago mat ting- ham Young, president of the Lat ter Day Saints Church (Mormon), announced The time nas come when the women of Utah must agree to give up their follies of dress and to cultivate a modest apparel, a meek deportment, and to set an example before the world worthy of imitation." Young called on the younger women to form "A Retrenchment Association." 'I want you, he said, to re trench in your dress, in your ta bles, in your speech, wherein you have been guilty of silly, extrava gant speeches and lightmindcdness of thought." A similar organization lor tne church s young men was soon formed. They eventually evolved inlo the Young Men's and Young Women's Mutual Improvement Associations, which now have a combined membership of 335,000 around the globe. At first the two organizations met separately because Of Brig ham Young's fears that "If the as sociations are mixed, they will become mere courting meetings." It wasn't until the beginning of the 20th Century that church authorities approved joint meetings. MIA meetings always open with a prayer and a church song. Then, various age groups go to their separate classes where they re ceive religious Instruction, re hearse a play, or prepare for a dance or a concert. Membership in the MIA is not Theyll Do It Every Time Crudney in his bis cabin cruiser has mo regard for little craft... he'd just 4s soon SWAMP EM AS SNEER! j i s -x . 1 PIPSQUEAK ! OUSHTN'r J v India recently returned to tha United States 50 million fine ounces of silver as partial payment for lend-lease aid given during the last war. Pogo IS ' w" ' rw 1 i armors r yu- y r ACfiy. qfNTI6T$ A-tZ P6OPL6 L 6 Mi ' "Wt6 SCK'S f-sune out rCW Bid i$ TMB ttVRLP, "SAW Berres THAT WHAT'S W6 vg HVBvB TAPtT M6A$U(?f ? Climbing By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK un Bank profits are still climbing at a good clip but two factors could slow this down to a walk in the months ahead. Net operating earnings of lead ing banks in the three months just ended are from 10 to 15 per cent higher than in the summer of 1956. This is due to the steady rise in interest rates on loans and to the sturdy demand of business men for funds for expansion and operation. But some now sight signs of change in these two factors. De mand for business loans seems to be tapering off in various parts of the nation. The volume of bank loans to business hasn't taken the usual fall spurt. Predictions that busi ness won't need as much financ ing of expansion as in the past two years are popping up every where. The brake of tight money applied to the business boom seems to be working some even fear it may work too well. At the same time government reports show that the total of sav ings is rising, meaning more funds available for lending. Together these strengthen the belief of a growing number of bankers that interest rates may have reached a peak. They could level oil now alter their long climb. Or they could even slip back a bit. Bolstering this view is the recent firming up of bond prices after a long slide. If these two factors less de mand and lower rates develop as some expect, it would mean a decline in the total of loans and no greater return, perhaps even less of a return, upon them. The banks' gravy train ride could be ending, or at best coasting. Bank statements being pub lished these days mirror very clearly the state of the economy, as well as showing how the banks have prospered. In most cases deposits are up and loans are up. Many show an increase in assets over a year ago. Some of the largest are ask ing tneir shareholders to sub scribe to new issues of common slock, with the greatly Increase net operating income as a talk ing point. But many banks also report they have been taking a loss u the sale of securities. Past weak ness in the government bond mar ket explains much of this. Banks have been selling government se curities at considerably less than they paid for them. They wanted the money to lend to clamoring businessmen. The higher interest banks get from loans makes up for the loss taken on sales of bonds that pay very little in com parison. While tight money may have cut down the volume of loans the banks could have made, it un doubtedly has increased their eurnings. And the loan volume is almost universally higher than a year ago. Bankers say it isn't out of line with good banking practice ana mat collections, u a bit slower are still good. Bankers defend tight money moreover, on the ground that without it speculative borrowing could have got out of hand, made inflation more dangerous and led to a runaway boom, followed by a bust. . They also argue that tight mon ey is ar. outgrowth of unprece dented demand for loans exceed- ing the supply of savings. They also contend that increased bank profits are a sideline of tight mon ey and not the ami of it. 4 1 ii o Ok By UNITED PRESS .MILWAUKEE. Wis.- Lew Bur- dette, who has been named to pitch the fifth game of the World Series for the Milwaukee Braves I m not going out there to iluse." DTWHO DOES HE BEG FOR A TOW WHEN MVS TUB, 60ES BLOOEy? 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