HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1957
FRANK JENKINS
Editor
BILL JENKINS
Managing Editor
FLOYD WYNNE
City Editor
Hfodern World
By BILL JENKINS
This is a great world we live
in today. If you don't believe it
lake a look at some of the things
that have been happening in the
oast few months.
Down in Fresno the veterinari
ans are blaming the public for
the loss of a good many animals
in the park zoo. For instance,
an ostrich died after swallowing
22 sticks from ice cream bars
which he had been fed. A lion
died as the result of a ruptured
ulcer, a victim of the furious
pace of modern day lining. Sev
eral polar bears went West as a
result of infections.
Still In California, a man and
his wife were stranded 25 feet in
the air overnight last month when
a ski lift they were riding shut
down for the right while they
were only halfwa down the hill.
The fellow busted a few ribs try
irg to climb down to earth on a
rope made of c'othing tied into a
ladder. Turned out that the oper
ator thought his lift was empty and
went to bed.
. Jumping across the ocean we
find that television played a ma
jor role in trapping a gang of
counterfeiters. A gang of queer
money artists had set up in busi
ness and run off better than half
a million dollars in oogus Dins.
But their presses set up inter
ference in neighboring TV sets.
Technicians looking for the trou
ble uncovered the hideout and
tipped off Scotland Yard.
Back in. Omaha, Nebraska
school principal is in' the soup
again for sending a student home
because he chose to wear his hair
in long, curly locks. Seems that
haircuts are becoming quite an
issue, not only with the Army
but with schools as well. What
kind of a world are we living in
if we can t look like we want to?
The passing of a law requiring
haircuts is as foolish as saying
it is illegal to shoot yourself to
death if you feel like it. Ain't
tnere any personal freedom left
anymore?
If you think tratf.e is bad
around here consider last August
23rd in San Francisco. On that
day a new record for the Oakland
Bay Bridge was set when 110,
Ml cars used the span. That, my
friend, is quite a little flow of
traffic. During the month of Au
eust 3,074,144 cars crossed the
bridge going one way or another.
The average dally count on the
bridge is just over 911,000 cars.
What load.
Which reminds me that they are
really fussy on the bridge. Was
heading for home not long ago and
came over the span headed north.
When we hit the check station I
handed the fellow there a quarter
and pulled on. You'd think I'd
just crashed the First National
Bank for a million. Whistles blew,
sirens screamed and so did the
checker. I stopped, fearing a fus
illade of bullets if I didn't, to find
that I had endangered the whole
structure of California finance by
giving them a Canadian quarter. I
was coldly informed that "foreign"
money was not legal tender as
far as the toll authority was con
cerned. All this at a lime when
a Canadian quarter was worth
more than any old American two
bit piece.
Oh well, such Is life.
WIS
lily Vusts
By FLOYD L. WYNNE
How does the city of Kl.imnth
Fulls spend the portion of the
property tuxes that llicy collect
from you?
Let's put the spending of the
rily of Klamath Kalis under the
microscope and give you an ap
proximate breakdown of just how
the city spends the properly taxes
it receives.
Of the $4,500,000 assessed in
property taxes this year over the
S JM ra
county, slightly over one-tenth, or
about $458,000 was levied for ex
penditure by the city of Klamath
Falls.
Of each property tux dollar, the
city of Klamath Falls receives tl
and one-half cents. Here's the
"t, manner in which that 11.5 cents
s , is disbursed :
2.0 cents tor sewer and swim
brins pool bonds.
18 police
1.5 fire department
1.4 city aclminiflralur
13 lights and water
.7 parks
.7 recreation
.7 city library
.5 street department
Ji municipal airport
.2 Linkville Cemetery
J employe retirement fund
,1 community lounge
.1 dog pound and meal inspec
tor program.
The municipal swimming poo!
operation, and Klamath Memorial
Park are both self 'Sustaining pro
grams which provide their own
financing.
Braakjnf dew om ft (was a
Entered m second clua nutter at the post office at Klamath Falls,
Ore., od August 90, 490S, under act ot Congress. March I. 181E
SERVICES!
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Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California
little more, we find that the total
police department budget is $153,
000, but revenues from such source
as parking meters take care of
a portion of the budget, leaving
about $85,000 to come from prop
erty taxes.
Total fire department budget. In
cluding its special two mill levy
amounts to $108,000.
City administrative budget in
cludes office expense at city hall,
plus such items as $3,500 for plan
ning commission, $1,500 for the
armory board, $660 for civil de
fense and publishing costs among
others.
Lights and water fund includes
hydrant service costs, as well as
other water uses, and street lights.
The municipal airport's total
budget is approximately $48,000,
but revenues from other sources
amount to $35,000, leaving one
mill, or about $13,000 to be raised
from property taxes.
Let me repeat, the 11 and one
half cents of every property
tax dollar the city receives does
not constitute the entire budget of
the city. Total city budget for
1957-58 amounts to $1,108,974. This
ngure does not include the $700,
000 expended of the sewer con
struction levy.
As 1 stated before, while the
city jots 11.5 cents of each prop
erty tax dollar, tne county receives
17.12 cents, me schools 68.85 cents,
park and recreation districts .7
cents, cemetery districts .18 cents
and the fire districts 1.35 cents.
Next, we'll turn the tax spot-
ngm on tne county budget.
Three Flags
By KEN McLEOD
The greatest event in the his
tory of St. Louis aside from its
founding, was its transfer along
with Upper Louisiana to the
United States. Starting under
French influence and then com
ing under the control of Spain the
tenor of colonial life in this inte
rior city had rarely been dis
turbed by events of the outer
world and it is doubtful if these
were followed very closely or with
much interest by the contented in
habitants. The affairs of the vil
lage moved smoothly with little
menace from the Indians so Indian
warefare is not an important in
cident in tne lile of this frontier
community.
lhere was but one Indian inci
dent that has been used by his
torians in attempt to show that
at. Louis was menaced by In
dians. It is known as the "affair
of 1780 and undoubtedly grew
out of the struggle then going on
oeiwecn ureal Britain and her
American colonies. The country to
me eastward oi tne Mississinn
had been wrested from the Kno-
lish through the valor of Gen.
Kogcrs Clark, and there were
some attempts to retake it. One
of these was the incursion of the
Indians in 1780 in an abortive at
tempt to capture Kaskaskia on the
cast bank of the Mississippi. Fail
ing in mis some oi tne Indians
crossed to the west bank on
May 26. 1780 and murdered six
people on the Grand Prairie some
four or five miles northwest of
St. Louis. This occurrance became
magnified in the course of time
into a terrible attack imon the vil
lage in which some 60 inhabitants
losl their lives, many more were
wounded, and others carried into
captivity.
This Indian incident, however,
i slight as it actually was did
produce a deep impression upon
the community. The reople had
grown to Relieve that their vil
lage was privileged with immu
nity from Indian attacks, for noth
ing of the kind had ever occurred.
No fortifications had heen erected.
and so great was the feeling of
security that certain rumors of at
tack, which were said to have
been afloat for several days prior
lo the massacre on the Grand
Prairie, were cast aside as un
worthy of attention. But after this
affair no time was lost in placing
the village in a slate of defense.
A line of fortifications were built
around it. and the citizens for
some time faithfully guarded it.
But this was the last, as it had
been the first, incident of Indian
warfare to threaten the citv
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though in the war of 1812 there
were many outrages committed
upon the settlers by the Osage,
and the Sacs and Foxes.
Into the comparative quiet frontier-
village the thrilling news that
came was the glad tidings that
they were about to be restored to
the sovereignty of France; and
then upon the heels of this news
came the word of a less welcome
announcement that their city and
country had been sold to the
Americans.
An unusual spectacle took place
in' St. Louis on March 9 and 10,
1804, and one filled with sadness
to the old inhabitants, who were
mostly of French descent. The for
mal transfer of Upper Louisiana
from Spain to France had not
been made when the time arrived
for its transfer to the United
States. In order that this transfer
might be made from France to the
United States, according to the
terms of the treaty with Napoleon.
Capt." Amos Stoddard, United
States Army, who had been dele
gated to receive the country from
France, was empowered by the
French government to act as its
agent in the transfer, which must
first take place from Spain to
France.
The ceremony of the first trans
fer occurred between the hours
of 11 a.m. and 12 midnight, March
9, 1804. The Spanish flag was low
ered and the standard of France
was run up in its place. The peo
ple, although conscious that the
sovereignty of France was being
resumed but for a moment, and
simply as a necessary formality
in the final transfer, nevertheless
could not restrain their joy at see
ing afloat over them once mora
the standard which even 40 years
of the mild sway of Spain had not
estranged from their memory. So
aeep was tne leeling that, when
the hour came for lowering the
flag, the people besought Captain
Stoddard that it might remain up
an nigni. i ne request was granted.
and the flag of France floated
for 24 hours over the city from
which it was about to be with
drawn forever. At the appointed
time on the following day March
10, 1804, the ceremony of transfer
from France to the United States
was enacted. The Hag of the
French Republic was withdrawn,
and the stars and stripes waved
ir the first time in this future
metropolis of the valley of the
Mississippi. Thus St. Louis became
perhaps the only city m historv
which has seen the flags of three
nations float over It in token of
sovereignty within the space of 24
noitrs.
DoineNlie Duck
By GEORGE J. MARDER
United Press
These past few days, Americans
almost forgot how to smile under
the sobering news from Little
Rock, Arkansas.
And so, it may be a welcome
relief to hear today of another
feud between Uncle Sam and a
sovereign state . . . North Da
kota. The issue . . . duck migra
tion instead of school segregation.
But don t start belittling the is
sue. It s a hot one between the
state and the federal government.
The issue is state's rights.
North Dakota, in effect, said It
can regulate as it pleases the hunt
ing season on ducks which stay
within its borders. And so. it set
a September 27 opening date for
hunting non-migratory ducks with
in the stale.
That was three and a half days
before the federal season opened.
giving North Dakota duck hunters
an extra weekend.
The federal government, indig
nantly and officially, says North
Dakota can't do that. It says there
is no such thing legally as a non
migratory duck, but if anyone is
caught shooting one, he'll be ar
rested. And Uncle Sam has followed
through on the threat by arrest
ing some 15 persons for pre-fed-eral
season fowl hunting in North
Dakota.
North Dakota doesn't like that.
The North Dakota law exempts
from the state hunting season
ducks which fly into the slate.
It gives the hunters the right lo
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stay within the North Dakota bor
ders. And how is a nunter, levelling
his gun. to make the distinction?
The North Dakota law has this
to say about that problem:
"Each individual bird of any
waterfowl species shall be pre
sumed to be non-migratory unless
it is shown by specific and compe
tent evidence to be otherwise."
That tells Uncle Sam to go out
and prove that the ducks brought
down weren't born and bred right
where they were hunted ... in
the state of North Dakota.
Uncle Sam has no intention of
doing any such thing. It comes
back with this argument. . . . That
all ducks, whether they migrate
or not, are migratory when cov
ered by migratory bird treaties
with Canada and Mexico. Legal
ly, says the federal government,
even birds which stay wholly with
in a state and never cross a
state or national line are migra
tory, if covered by a treaty.
Uncle Sam says he has some
federal court rulings to support
that argument.
This all goes back to a feud the
federal government had some
years ago with still another state
. . . Missouri. Congress passed
law to protect migratory birds
which flew from Canada across
the United States. Missouri said
you can't tell us what to do within
our own state . . . there's nothing
in the constitution about birds.
The federal courts supported
Missouri. Uncle Sam then went
right ahead and negotiated a
treaty with Canada. Congress
passed the same laws. And the
courts upheld them as legal under
the treaty.
Inasmuch as it was not possible
to say which birds might get the
wanderlust and which birds might
stay at home, the law labels all
birds covered by the treaties as
migratory fowl.
And so the North Dakota stav-
at-home ducks ... if there are
any such ... are foreigners so
far as the United States game
laws are concerned.
llonting Fans
By SAM DAWSON
NEW YORK W-Hibernation is
leSS fa.Shionahle tnHav nmnna
boating fans.
Many boats go south instead of
inio storage on ice-choked shores.
Increasing snips nf h,,:itc uri
motors in the South have brought
me mmiui-r mere lo almost a
third the nation's total. Even in
the Nnrlhrrn st.-ifre tha hniin
season is being extended well be
yond me traditional Labor Day
close.
There are in the nation now six
million boats and some 30 million
boaters.
Ponillation Prmvttl in lh nnon
weather stairs nf lh Snntli onrt
Pacific Coast and the increased
number of persons in the middle
income brackets havn nnm-pri a
wide market.
Increased leisure time is a big
factor. And sn ic tin. trnnri ImuarH
making the outhoard motor boat
lamny conveyance.
Motor sales, nnrp ctrirllv na
sonal and ending around the
Fourth nf .Tnlv nrn nnui fairlv
well distributed through all the
monins oi me year.
With the Whole fnmilv nilincf in
both the hnnts and llm tnntnrc ar
becoming bigger all the time.
.innnsnn ninrnrs is hrinmnd nnf
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new 50-horsepower motor, as is
p.vinriirlp Mntnrc In 1(U1 Mia ao
age Horsepower rating of all out
board motors was 3.6. The aver-
ace has r imhpri In IS
William -Tnnns Hirnnlnr nf ciln
and flriVprtisinc fni .Tnhncnn M
tors, predicts sales will be up 10
io id per cent in dollar volume in
Hie sales vpar insl stnrtino-
lloward F. Larson, director of
sales for Evinrudc expects an 18
per cent gain in unit sales and 28
ijvi vein i a t i e a s e in uouar
volume.
Industry spokesmen say that
sales and output of outboards dou
bled helwepn m.V and lQyi Thpv
expect that next year boaters will
.-imu ciuuui i- union dollars lor
boats, motors, and supplies.
Klamath Kails (To the Kditori
I wish lo inform you that you
have published a gross untruth
in your column. "In the Daily
News."
In your article you supposedly
explained the word "thrust'' when
used in relation to rocket propul
sion. If this was true, it would
be impossible to leave the atmos
phere ot this planet by rocket pro
pulsion. A complete explanation in lay
mens terms can be found starling
on page 2 of the article. The
Dawn of the Space Age. in the
Encyclopedia Britannica Book ol
the Year for 1356.
1 would crv much like to srr
this falsehood corrected as many
people will be misled and confined
by your statements.
Glen Abbott
1917 l aurel Street
i Editor's Note: Apologies.
That's what one gets when
tries to OVER-simphfy so
everybody will understand !
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VniSO Wis - IVmnntw
Sen. William Proxmire of Wiscon
sin, on the Eisenhower adminis
trations satellite program:
"You can't match the sputnik
with putnik."
They'll Do It Every
Lock the barn after hoss scrams dept:
merri whelp, the miqu scuool
footb4ll hero, got 4 busted btak
in the. third game. of the season...
Girl Scouts Win Awards
A Court of Awards was held
at Bly Grange Hall for the inter
mediate Girl Scouts of Bly.
Lorna Rcntle, Vickie Zittel and
.Molly Chandler were given camp
craft and outdoor cook badges.
Lorna Rentle received a music
ian's badge. Vickie Zittel was
awarded her second class badge.
One year attendance pins were re
ceived by Nancy Thomson, Vickie
Zittel, Susan Killeen, Lorna Rentle
and Patricia Killeen.
Valerie Little, Judy Hague,
Glenda Ashford, Gilda Ditto, Susan
Hyde, Kathy Brady and Janet Har
der graduated from Brownies into
intermediate Girl Scouts.
Women Plan
Confab Trip
Klamath Falls Soroptimists
meeting for luncheon in the Wi
nema Hotel Empire Room, Octo
ber 10, heard plans for member
attendance at the district Sorop
timist conference in Vancouver,
Washington, October 11-12. At
tending were Naomi French, pres
ident of the local club: Mary Both
well, second vice president: Mar
garet Larkin, past president. Dor
othy Rogers and Josephine Robin
son. Headquarters for the district
session was at the Evergreen Ho
tel. Reports of committee heads
were heard during the business
meeting, which included plans for
a cooKca tood sale on October 31,
Norma Miller and Melvene Nit-
schelm were initiated into mem
bership.
A film, "Our Chamber of Com
merce," is scheduled for the Oc
tober 17 meeting with Catherine
Brumbaugh as program chairman.
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Those assisting in the ceremony
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gJO FROM THEN ON ... HE WEARS IJ6,
A NOSE GUARD... ( THERE MUST -BE
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at a place he called Wineland for
the grapes he found there.
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Court Records
KI.AMATH FA? I
MliSICIPAX COURT
Harmin Ijiiwrt. drunk. i25 or 121!
William w. Brannon, iaiiur to tiop
for sign. 5 forfeited.
John C. Criamon, disorderly conduct,
$2& or 12'a days.
Pnhri T Fieber. iirmrODer muffler.
55 forfeited.
Carl li. Mauser, running rea ugni,
$5 forfeited.
Waldo W. Mielke. no muffler, S3
forfeited.
KLAMATH COUNTT
SUITS
Heton Steel and Supply vi. Charlel
Leib. ieeks collection of SI.OIW plu
intereit as the amount due for ma.
terials and supplies previously deliv
ered by the plaintiff to the defendant.
Phoenix Assurance Company of New
York vs. Joseph M. Chavez and Jo
seph A. Gallegos. seeks collection of
S1.070 resulting from surety bond ac
tion. East Side Electric Company VI. tha
Metropolitan Development Company,
plaintiff granted attachment to defen
dant holdings in Klamath County with
action nuvinn arisen from purported
unpaid sum for services ana supplies
furnished the defendant by the plain
tiff. NOTE TO PARENTS .
CHICAGO (UP) Two pediatri
cians who have spent 15 years
studying 2.630 children Friday
told parents to stop worrying
about thumb-sucking. Drs. Alfred
and Howard Traisman, a father
son team, said at the American
Academy of Pediatrics meeting
that "parents have been unduly
alarmed . . . (and) should be re
assured about the harmlessness of
the habit." About 75 per cent of
all babies suck their thumbs sim
ply because they get pleasure out
of it, the doctors said. It does not
cause "overbite" or other dental
disorders, they said.
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