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PAGE SIX FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor Entered w lecoiui clus matter at the post office at Klamath Palls. Ore., oo August 30, 4906, under act at Congress, March t, in SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' CARRIER 1 MONTH 8 MONTHS , 1 YEAR MAO. I MONTH 8 MONTHS ,. , 1 YEAR , , , 1.60 . $ t oo . 116.00 t l.M 7.&0 12.00 Trigger Happy By BILL JENKINS The swans are just starting to arrive in this country in largo numbers and it is high time that hunters took a moment to consider their actions while in the field Already this year there have been reports of two of the big white birds being downed by hunt ers. Unless precautions are taken a lot more will be either killed or crippled by careless gunners be fore the season is over. There are people who say that it is easy to mistake a swan for a snow goose under certain con ditions and that mistakes are nat ural. I cannot agree with this the ory. There is a marked difference between a snow goose and a swan both in size and wing markings and I can't for the life of me see how anyone could mistake them. Not only are there marked dif ferences in their physical appear ance but their voices are different and both of them have a tendency to sound off while flying. Even in a heavy fog the voices will give you a solid clue as to their iden tity. As far as I can sec the only reason lor hunters snooting swans is sheer cussedness. Either that or the fact that they are so keyed up emotionally at the prospect of being in the field that they lose control of their trigger fingers. I know that is a contributing factor in deer hunting accidents and see no reason why it probably doesn't apply in the field of bird shooting es well. A man waits all year for the hunting season to roll around. He checks over his gun, lays in a stock of shells, reads stones about hunting, perhaps gets out pictures he took last year while in the field. The end result is that he is set at such a fine edge emotionally that his judgment melts away and ho shools more on reflex than 4ie does by reason. This is the type of hunter who kills swans and who is respon sible for the all-too-frcqucnt deaths in the field during the deer sea son. Now Is the time to take stock and make sure that we aren't let ting ourselves get so wound up that we make a costly mistake. And if you think shooting a swan Isn't costly just try It and see. Most judges, and rightly so, take a very dim view of this sort of thing. Caution pays off. with his opinion that an outside authority should handle the inves tigation. There is one phase of the mat ter, though, that does leave the city police open to sharp criticism, and that. is the practice of taking persons to the "edge" of town and turning them loose either late at night, or in a somewhat besod den condition. Any person who is apprehended by the police for drunkenness or vagrancy should not be "run" out of town in the middle of the night, or in a questionable condi tion. They should be jailed, pro cessed in police court in the regu lar manner, and then, after they are in a sober condition, or it is daylight, then permitted to leave town, if it is deemed the most advisable course of action. This is oftentimes quite prefer able to putting out board and room for some individuals for 30 days, and is often more preferred by the individual also. Chief Hamilton has assured the mayor and council that any such practice will be discontinued. As for the charges of brutality. as the public, you can weigh one story against another. I, for one, am content to let the district at torney assess the charges, investi gate them, and report on them. It is vital that the public have complete confidence in the ability of their police force to protect them as well as protect their right, and it is equally vital that this affair be cleared up and the charges either labeled true or false. Won. her Affect By HAL BOYLE NEW YOIIK Wl-A change of weather aitects mankind. It al ways does. One who loves neoole can de velop a feeling toward the impact oi weatner on persons. sometimes it is good, sometimes bad. Sometimes it is hidden. On me the effect of weather is obvious. The weather is a thing mat gives me Doth an Insniration and a sense of duty. It does to most people. On a visit to the -far Northwest I saw a couple of Douglas fir trees cut down. . .it was a memorable scone. They made an echo as they as tney letl down the hill fell. Police UrutnlUy By FLOYD L. WYNNE People are sometimes willing to oeneva me worst or a person with out consideration of all the facts. It is a natural inclination of peo ple to be willing to accept charges of brutality against members of the police force without any ap parent reservation. This may not be true of all per sons, certainly. But, following the story of Monday regarding the man who was found injured on KFJI hill, and who claims that he was beaten by two city police men, I have had a number of persons take mo to task, as a city councilman, for permitting police brutality to happen. Now, mark it, they did not ask me if it happened, they had al ready made up their minds that it had happened, and that the story of the man was correct. In other words, they had already tried and convicted the two policemen in question. I, for one, am glad that I can't accept that position. In the first place, there are many factors to be considered in the problem. Whether or not the man was actually beaten by po lice, whether his story is correct, or whether he is guilty of a false hood. Certainly, if the charges of bru tality against the policemen are substantiated after an impartial investigation by the district attor ney, men they should be summari ly dismissed. There Is no room, in my book, for brutality on the part of our police force. But, on the other hand, should the charges be found false, then the person who made them should be prosecuted. Mayor Lawrence Slater made the first move in the cose by asking the district attorney to launch an investigation of the charges. His reasoning is correct. He stated that should the mayor and the council investigate the charges and find they were false. it would still look like an attempt 10 wnuewasn the department. It was his feeling that the Hi trict attorney could conduct an impartial and fair Investigation The public would then be more wining to accept whatever his re port might be. Personally, I'm in no position to Know whether the charges are true or false. The person who made the charges has a record of some eight arrests for drunkenness or vagrancy dating buck to Mav 29 ot this year, while the two police men In question both have good records. One h.is been with the force for some lime, and another joined the force about a week ago. My natural inclination would be to believe their story over that of the man who made the charges in view of their background, but again. I believe firmly in the ba sic principle that any man is in nocent until proven guilty. However, Mayor Muter is to be commended for turning the nuttrr over to the rii-triet attorney. I ! find mysill in cuinplclc juivniuiiij they fell across my heart. All those years of living, even in a tree, must stir an echo. But the individual death of a tree is not a personal thing, something not missed Become you presumed its presence. . .and there came a day when you looked toward it for routine comfort . . , and it had gone. . .the shelter of the com monplace was no longer there, and the meadow held a mystery. You look back. . .and the tree cut down holds the memory of something against the sky. Your eye remembers. One tree against the forest?. . . It is so. . .how in autumn can a man know his way through the forest except by the trees? In the colorful wilderness of their falling leaves he feels a kin- form's three major planks oppose the stands of the majority of Con gressional itepubucans as well as Northern Democrats, Southern Democrats, of course, dissent on the emotion-laden issue of civil rights. Their votes also have made plain their opposition to foreign aid and other key ele ments of the bipartisan foreign policy. And, fn conjunction with the Republicans but in opposition to the Northern Democrats, they have opposed increased federal spend ing tor domestic welfare projects. In the course of writing this rec ord, Southern Democrats have put forward a number of strong lead ers and established a solid core of support in the delegations of at least three states. Southern Democrats accom plished this by disagreeing with Northern Democrats on al most one-third of all roll calls in the 1957 session of Congress. most voting Democrats from 13 Southern states opposed the stand taken by the majority of ajl voting Democrats on 64, or 31 per cent, of the year's 207 roll call issues in both the House and Senate, ac cording to Congressional Quarter ly's statistics. A measure of the significance of the split within the Democratic Party can be gained from this: Northern and Southern Democrats differed with each other about two- thirds as often as either of them differed with the Republicans in Congress. The North - South Democratic split extends to a wide range of issues, me most publicized area of disagreement, civil rights, was involved in only 13 of the 64 roll calls. Foreign aid, opposed outright by most Southern Democrats, was the subject of 14 party-splitting votes. Government spending was another frequent source of contention. On one day, for instance, Southern Democrats backed, and Northern Democrats opposed, 10 House amendments to cut funds for pro grams run by the departments of labor and health, education and welfare. Some other key issues on which the North and South split: .Mideast Doctrine The major ity of Southern Democrats in the Senate tried unsuccessfully to amend it, then voted against its passage. Immigration The maiorilv of Southern Democrats in the House opposed a measure to relieve hardship immigration cases. Small Business The niniorltv of Southern Democrats in the Sen ate opposed a move to lower taxes on small corporations while in creasing them on medium-sjze and large firms. Public Housing The mnioritv of Southern Democrats in the Sen ale opposed a move to construct 200.000 additional low-cost housing uims a year. School Construction The ma. jonty ot Southern Democrats Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas who has made it his task to keep Northerners and Southerners gether in the Democratic Partv voted 42 per cent of the time with the South and 52 per cent of the time with the North. Congressional delegations from Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia have identified them selves clearly with the Southern viewpoint, backing it 86-88 per cent oi the lime on the party splitting issues. Alabama, Ken tucky, Oklahoma and Tennessee are the least solid of the South ern states, judged by their votes Congress. fn 1948, the States Rights party carried Alabama, Louisiana. Mis sissippi and South Carolina. Lead ership and popular support for anotner third party in 1960 may or may not exist. But if one formed, its. platform will be found ready. (Copyright 1957, Congressional quarterly inc.) the House voted to kill a bill for federal aid for school construction. The CQ survey showed the Sputnik Effect By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK WV-It isn't the So viet flying dog that's worrying the stock market. It's what the effect will be on business and consumer thinkina 1. Of the Russian boast of new sources of power for space rock ets: 2. Its simultaneous withdraw al from the United Nation's dis armament talks; and 3. The dumping of Marshal Zhukov with its implication of one-man rule of Russia by a person whose emo tional stability, judgment and sense of responsibility' is questioned. While it fervently hopes that peaceiui counsel will prevail American industry is alwavs sen sitive to talk of war, threats of war, or worse the chance of war.. The widespread belief that business as a whole fattens on war docsn t hold water. True, industries closely tied to oeiense production get govern ment orders. To fill them the com panies often must drop civilian production on which they say they nave a chance oi Belter profits. For business as a whole, inter national disturbances even short of war threaten the cutting off of sources of materials, the loss of skilled workmen to defense plant; or the armed forces, and usually sharply curtailed consumer spend ing, wnen me government moves to halt any war scare buying of the first days. The goods the defense plants turn out don't raise the nation's total wealth. They are made to bo destroyed, not to raise stand ards of living. The great prosperity of the last two years has been a prosperity oi peace. I he Defense Department is spending about 38 billion dol lars this year. To be sure, this Has helped boost total production. But the nation's total output of goods and services is expected hin Irnil h (hoi- cliuj;nn 1 1 llc hi. i i southern Democrats Dosition is far from being just Republican ism with a drawl. More than half the time the Southern Democrats opposed their Northern colleagues, they were also opposing the Re publican majority. They joined the Republicans in opposing "big gov ernment," but walked their own way on civil rights and foreign policy. his eternal human renewal. There is a feeling ot time and timing in this world. . .on the bough. . .in the man. And in the time of fulling leaves a man can walk in the wood. . , admire the scarlet splendor of na turo in its final flourish. .. see the fall of leaves that happy children will rake up with a shout in the age-old game beyond decay A man can endure the torment wh.,n . " ,,i,,, .11 . ... Southern Democratic posit frigid repetitiveness of winter aft-!""' ?JantZ !''e creA"on of,a er winter. . .in the hope that he p?3'' , .S,llt. h,er.n Democratic . . until iiiu.ll 11-tfUl'IS Will Ue- can enjoy again the fresh agony oi spring, year. . .alter year. . . after year. Inrv Split liy Congressional Quarterly WASIIIXGTON-Soiithern Demo crats weighing the possibility of n inira parly movement in I960 can be certain of one thing. There is no luck of issues on which they can campaign. lermine what course is taken. Principal of these leaders is Sen. Richard B. Russell ID-Ga. Rus sell voted the Southern position on 97 per cent of the party-splitting this year to hit 430 to 435 billion dollars. Even if defense spending were doubled next year most unlikely short of all out war it would still be but one sixth of the civilian segment of the gross national product. What worries businessmen now is what could happen to this ci vilian segment if business and con sumer nerves ore overly jangled by all the missile rattling by the Jvirmtin. lhe stock market s reaction to the iirst Sputnik illustrates this. uiMinci Th. ,;n- i.. , -. . ,,11.111; mum-ia alums Weill up in price, but the great major ity of stocks went down. Increased world tension doesn't heln busi ness, stock traders hold. When un rest in the Mideast grows, for ex ample, oil stock prices tend to dive. Direct United States Investments issues and furnished most of thei." lup """on e intelleotu.il tearWhin ir . h . " ll'n!"on ln world the belter Southern ramn Hi. I,.M. lneV lhnv- men! ,,rf,-ic. .0ii- .. . Commodity traders take a dif- party movement? '"""-ferent slant. When world supplies At the other extreme of the and dlslrlbut'" of commodities Sou hem J,,, .?, ,,. k "'rcatened. the commodi- Southern votes in Congress have Estra Kefmivw ,n.T,ni II. .,: "c? readllv available look more written a distinctly Southern poli- posed the Southern stand 76 perl)'.,,,1 V ,y flar?p in 'hc F.aT """ '"" "' "'p ' me time. Majority Leader , rhi nnH i ' S ll flow of oil through the Suez Canal sent up the price of oil here as well as in Europe. What the lnilcd Si.iin rf. about its defense program as a result of the Soviet ;idv.mres in rockets and missiles and its new tough talk will he decided in Washington between the adminis tration and the Congress. That will unquestionably affect the indus trial picture. But while the uncertainty con tinues. Wall Street will swing back and forth trying to tuess what's in the cards for specific indus tries. lorporate executives will debate how their firm stands to come out m regard to supplies, to pro duction schedules, to consumer demand. Merchants will watch to see whether the public is worried or indifferent or perhaps resigned. i nai s now manv business ob- servers decode the beep-beeps I from outer space. Pogo - i'4kw...po&ow S lCOtWTOTtl,YO SS1 I 6oiMt A JO0 AY& wg CANT V IN A ClRtfU fV7 t, k,,1 f m ) OlIOfCK By I'M TED TRESS CHICAGO-Prof. Ivan H. Kidin. head of the Moscow Institute of Steel, hinting the Soviets will even tually share their satellite secrets: "Even if there were not volun tary information forthcoming, sci ence secrets, as- you know, do not stand alone for long." V SmCE THIS IS A HOUSE COMMITTCfc MStTINO,! THINK IT WILL BE IN ORDEI? TO CH4RSE THE CLUB FOf? A LITTLt KcrRcSHMENT' They'll Do It Every Time ZDITZZ" By Jimmy Hatlo j . OH,NO,YOU DOWT.' SOI7RY- DliT cvcWrbODy PAYS H? THEIR OWN THE TREASURY ISN'T TrMT SOLVENT .' Honest john was the watch- dog of the , club treasury,! 4ND, OH, HOW HE COULD VV4TCH Vell,this yE4R HES PRESIDENT AHO, My HOW HIS OUTLOOK , H4S CHANGED. "TtuMX Ac no Of It H4TU3 H4r TO eWS.HElMSTE7TER. Jj 384 RICHMOMO1VE., AS VOOR NEW TREASURER I REPORT THAT WE HAVE A BALANCE OF $ 4-37-v, 7 ANOTHER ROUND, RPMSIO... KEEP 'EM 'coming-then well have. rvlNNER TH S WILL BE LOMS MEETING AND-UH- THIS IS ON THE CUJB-I'U. OKAY THE GHECK-AND- BRIN& A BOX Or CIGARS Troopers Stage Manhunt For Cop-Killing Motorist Stamp Honors Moon Launching LONDON Wi Moscow radio said today that the Soviet Ministry of Communications has marked the launching of Sputnik I with a spe cial 40-kopeek 10-cent Post, age stamp. The stamp pictures the earth with a satellite circling it and bears the inscription in Russian: "World's First Soviet Artificial Earth Satellite. Oct. 4. 1957." 45 miles north of the Ellerbe checkpoint, told police the driver said he was from Brooklyn, N.Y. ELLERBE. N.C. UWAbout 30(1 state highway patrol cars prowled the roads of central North Caro lina today seeking a driver who shot and killed two statetroopers at separate locations. "Barricades blocked major high way intersections. The manhunt beean about R o'clock last night when the driver of a 1957 automobile bearing Pennsylvania 1 i e n s e plates walked from his car to a patrol man who stopped him for speed ing, whipped out a pistol and shot the officer dead. The victim was Pfc. Wister Lee i ; Reece, 39. of Ramseur. N.C. a M 10-year veteran trooper. The shoot- m ing took place at a speed check- a si a assist Brown. Gates said he saw the car pass him as he drove to ward Brown. Gates found Brown lying partial ly in his patrol car. 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