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PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON esaBaptBasssa THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 195T t JHeralh nnh Refits ' FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS ' Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor Catered u second cl matter at the post tfftee at Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 30, 4906, under act of Congress. March . in SE VICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER I MONTH MONTHS I YEAR MAIL , 1 MONTH t I SO MONTHS 1M I YEAR $12M ! 50 . $ t oo . J1I.0O Hern And There By BILL JENKINS Back in Fort Sheridan the com manding officer has put out a call for volunteers. His plea was posted on the bulletin board at the post and read "We are. asking that somewhere between starting and quitting time, and without infring ing too much on the time usually devoted to lunch period, coffee breaks, rest periods, story telling, ticket selling, vacation planning, cigaret smoking, the rehashing of yesterday's TV programs, and clean up time, that each employe, military and civilian, endeavor to ,find some time that can be set aside and known as the 'work break.' " I wonder if the appeal did him any good? Whether you know it or not we are in another of the 500 or so annual "weeks." This one, run ning from Nov. 18 through the 25th, is National Long Underwear Week. Whether you sympathize with this particular piece of wearing apparel or not the industry comes stoutly to its defense with the statement that more longies are being made now than ever before. Where granpappy used to sew himself in 'em for the winter they are now worn primarily for such avocations as hunting, fishing, watching football games (for those rugged souls who desert the TV set for the real thing), ice fish ing, ice skating, skiing and other cold weather occupations. All we need around here to tpark the sales a bit is tome cold weather. Seems to me like we don't get winters like we used to any more. The weather ain't as cold, the snow ain't as deep, and by golly it isn't even as white as it used to be. But, maybe we'll have need for (he old long Johns someday. Over in Roseburg a fellow by the name of C. H. Doty owns a white porcupine. A true albino and thought to be the only one m cap tivity. Unlike other albinos, Blondie can see and hear. Most of them are born deaf and blind. Doty is dickering around trying to set his unusual pet on televi- sion and is also planning a tour of colleges. A post card in the mail from 'William Sullivan of Los Anseles with the suggestion that instead of Handing out fines for serious traf fic offenses the offender's car be impounded for a short period. I can't think of anything that would cause a greater wail of mis ery to go up than this. Unless, of course, it would be taking the tele vison set away from the average viewer. It would be a courageous judge, indeed, who would dara impose such a sentence. court to be processed like any oth er adult case. This is the system that the Ju venile Department utilizes in han dling the cases of juveniles in volved in traffic offenses. It would appear that the burden of investigation and recommenda tion for juvenile traffic offenses lies heavily upon both the juvenile office and the judge. Lilting traf fic offenses from the juvenile offi cer's realm would leave him much freer to concentrate on the more serious juvenile offenders, and would also serve to lighten the al ready heavy work load of the cir cuit judge who is the juvenile judge, too. It is clear, however, that neither the juvenile officer nor the judge can do other than they are doing now if they are to stay within the confines of the law. The law appears to be quite spe cific as regards juveniles, and does not make exception for traf fic offenses. Judge Holman freely admitted that the practice in his county of sending juvenile traffic offenders through regular chan nels is illegal under present law. However, I for one, feel that the time may now be here when the law in regard to juveniles should be corrected or amended as re gards the handling of traffic of fenses. In regard to other juvenile prob lems, the procedure should remain as it is. This is in the best inter ests of both the community and the youngster concerned. Punishment By FLOYD L. WYNNE How Is a juvenile traffic offend er punished? . Last week, I discussed the ques tion of whether or not juvenile traffic offenders should come with in the jurisdiction of the regular traffic courts. In the juvenile hearing, held by a Legislative Interim Committee, it was pointed out that many areas of the state, including Clack amas County where Circuit Judge Ralph Holman presides, handles juvenile trallic cases through reg ular court. It is only fair since I criticized the handling of juvenile traffic of fenders that I clarify what proce dure is used in handling these cases. ' Juvenile Officer Francis Math ews explained the other day that sentences of license suspension as well as time in the local juvenile home are types of assessments that the juvenile judge can administer. He also showed me a point sys tem by which the offense of a youngster is evaluated. The point system automatically requires a suspension of driving license for 0 days .whenever that youngster is penalized seven points. The points are assessed in this manner: Seven poliits for any one of the following olfenst's: gross reckless ness or negligence, driving under the Influence of intoxicants or hit and run driving. Basic rule violation (speeding) two points plus one point addition al for every 10 miles per, hour over uie limn. Three points are levied for such violations as failure to stop at sign or light, failure to signal, im proper turn, failure to yield right of way, failure to dim lights, and following too closely. Any moving traffic violation other than these will still be fined three points. All mechanical violations will be assessed two points. These include defective lights, horn, brakes, muf flers and others. One point penalties are levied for such violations as excessive horn blowing, double parking, fail ure to display registration or no vehicle license. Money fines or jail sentences are not levied although in exceptional cases the offender might be con fined to the local juvenile home for a period. In extreme case where there may have been serious results such as hitting a pedestrian or others, the youth may be sent by the juvenile judg into district! Good Humor By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK () "Nobody is safe," said Victor Borge. "But there is no life except happiness Understanding of life can be achieved only by being happy. It is a pleasure to meet off-stage this pleasant Dane, who milks money, music and laughter from the piano, because in his home he retains his professional atmos phere of good humor. But on the other hand when he barks with a smile the girls in his joint in the Plaza Hotel (his wife and his . secretary) bounce, too. Pronto and smiling. This is the possible dream of every American man to be the boss, have the girls realize it, and enjoy it. They have to have fun out of it, too. Borge is an unusual man with great talent. He is a highly con scious craftsman. His use of piano humor is mannered, adroit, warm, often repetitive, but highly effective. He is in some ways the most successful humorist alive. One of his basic arts is to resist the im pulse to bore an audience. He changes his act little, but he spaces his audience. It is said that he received $100.- 000 for his first television show. It is also said that he will receive $200,000 or more for a show next Feb. 19 on CBS. It may be that he is worth more. Borge came to this country as a poor immigrant with three things between him and starvation his inability to speak English, his ability to disturb a piano, and his sense of humor. Today he faces the world with the same charming defects, plus a wife and five children. He now runs a 450-acre farm in Connecti cut and has become one of the nation's largest distributors of Rock Cornish hens. This is now a nullion-dollar- a-year business with him, and the yearend season is presently at its height, but he says: "I started with the Cadillac of the fowl business and now it is as common as the bicycle. "I love my farm. But the cost of living is such that you have to make it worthwhile. You cannot just have land. You must do some thing with the land." Although the margin of success ful operation is notoriously short in the poultry field, Borge, who has earnings from the show world to plow into it, is optimistic that his efforts to popularize the Rock Cornish hen will yield him more than a mound of feathers. This is a plump-breasted bird designed to sell at 89 to 99 cents a pound, His attitude toward lite is as dry and wry in person as it is on the platform before the piano and the public. The way he talks about it, however, allows the possibility that it is more personal and per haps less professional. He has the gift of making you feel you are adventuring mm. - He says about this world: "It is so small. . .so big. . .you cannot live long enough in it to do the things you want to. (He was sneaking about Invitations to per form in South Africa, Australia.) "It's so nice to be independent . . .to come and go as you please. . .to an extent that is. "I don't believe in fatalism. But I do believe in cause and effect. "You have the universe of you. Rut inside you are five million dif ferent dynamos, each of whom can limit your life or extend it. "A walk across the street can change your life. Every .second can change vour life. "But I do believe In goals. I don't believe anything is just blind accident. "People's lives would be more interesting if they would just real ize how they can change from moment to moment. "There is no such thing as an uninteresting life. . .unless you get overwhelmed by problems and feel neglected by a higher power. "There is no such thing as bad weather or a bad thing. What I don t like, my neighbor may. "There are people I see in the street I make big rings around, but. Happiness comes, as the weather does, in waves not in streams. "I am a very happy man." Production II ace By GEORGE J. MARDER (United Press) Can Russia equal or out-produce the United States in the near future? Not in Sputnicks alone , , but in everything that, counts In a national economy? That's a pretty important ques tion. And Communist boss Khru schev raised it in his red revo lution anniversary speech in Moscow. Khruschev said the big goal of the Soviet now was to do just that . . . match and then top United States production. He boasted that within 15 years, Russia would top the present volume of production in the Unit ed States. Such an accomplishment, while sensational, would be more meaningful for Russians, who have little, than to Americans who could do without a lot they now have. - For it s obvious that in those 15 years, the United States would not be standing still. And at the end of the decade and a half, it still would be ahead. Khruschev conceded that in his major policy talk. . But how far ahead? That's the more important question. For Khru schev based Soviet expectations on catching up and passing the United States solely on the prem ise that Russia is now growing faster than the United Mates. And that this greater rate of growth ultimately would build Russia up to American size and then dwarf us. Is that true? Is Russia grow ing faster than the United States? Unquestionably, the answer is yes. But there are a number of explanations which can be offered. One . . . Russia had more room to grow; only a generation or two ago she practically was a feudal state; the United States also had some sensational spurts which compare favorably with So viet strides; two . . . much of Russia's growth was to recoup from war devastation and great leaps in production were to be expected. There arc many other explana tions. But the fact does remain that Russia is growing faster than the United States, overall, although the gap between the two nations is still widening. Those are the conclusions of a study made for Congress by the Pogo Library of Congress ... a study of Soviet economic growth and comparing it with the United Mates. The study, based on the only reliable figures available to it . . and admittedly they were not the best . . , found that in 1955, Soviet industry produced about one-third of the quantity of goods turned out in the United States. Both industrial efforts were growing. The Soviet industrial growth in the short-range present was figured at about double the rate in the United States. . The study found no grounds for complacency . . . either in the level of the industrial output or the rate of growth. For example, it found that the figure showing Russia's industrial output only one-third of the Unit ed States was very misleading if used as a comparison, industrial strength. For a much greater part of American industry was producing goods for consumers . . . radios, shoes, clothes, furs and washing machines ... for you and me. While Russia was devoting a greater part of her effort to heavy or producer goods industry . . . those are the big machines which can support a military effort and also which can build new indus tries which later can turn out consumer goods. Not only was Russia doing with out consumer goods to build up heavy industry, but she was do ing without many of the industrial services built into our economy. The study found that the Soviet higher 'rate of growth ultimately could begin to close the gap be tween the two countries but that this was hardly to be expected "in the near future" unless the American economy suffered either "stagnation or collapse." Students Hold Demonstration Against Campus Dancing Ban WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. WV-i Students at Wake Forest College jitterbugged on the campus plaza and burned in effigy the retiring president of the Baptist State Con vention after the convention ruled out campus dancing. About 500 or 600 students, most ly male, participated in the dem onstration last night at the Bap tist-supported school. Hi-fi re:ord players blasted at full volume as the laughing and cheering crowd of students danced and shouted such slogans as Down with the Baptists, Student leaders said about 25 per cent of the student body joined in the protest against the Baptist state Convention action in Raleigh The convention overwhelmingly vetoed campus dancing and ap parently ended a lengthy contro versy on the topic. School trustees previously had voted to allow dancing. The students, most of whom wore dark glasses or obscured their faces with handkerchiefs, climaxed the hour long demonstra lion by burning an effigy labeled "Dr. J. C. Canipe." Canipe re tired as president of the Baptist State Convention after speaking against lifting the ban imposed by tne convention in 1937. College policemen took two stu dents, unidentified, in custody for lighting firecrackers. The convention's action affect ed seven Baptist colleges in the state. The vote followed a request by trustees of Wake Forest Col lege and Meredith College ifor women) at Raleigh that they al lowed to regulate all forms of rec reation on their campuses. Dr. Canipe told the convention yesterday: "We must decide who has the authority to decide major policies in our Baptist lite, our in stitutions or our convention." He also said: "Shall the children rule the parents, the parents the trustees, the trustees the admin istration, and the administration the convention? Or shall the con vention be the final authority in all matters as most Baptists be lieve it is?" W. II. Wetherspoon, a member of the Meredith board, said 93 per cent of his school's student body had obtained written permission from their parents to attend dances off the campus. "That's just where the rub Credit Plan By SAM DAWSON ' NEW YORK UV-Changing home budget habits are pushing charge account and installment buying into old strongholds of cash and carry. Early next year J. C. Penney will test credit sales' in a few of its 1.700 stores which have been strictly cash and carry since its founding in 1902. W. T. Grant is putting an in stallment credit plan into 86 new stores this year, bringing its en tire chain of 699 into the plan. It tested the idea on a pilot basis in Atlanta, Ga., in 1946, and grad ually extended it to other stores and regions. Versions of installment paying for. merchandise also have been spreading among many depart ment stores. Credit buying has increased ev erywhere since the war. Young persons in particular budget their income to lit installment pay ments. Rising prices and mer chandise upgrading have put many purcnases out of the reach of the old cash and carry custom er. The trend to larger families also spurs use of credit for mass outfitting and for buying big ticket items. So the cash and carry chains appealing to lower budget groups have found the department store cnarge account systems an in creasing competition. Officials of Grant's say their credit plan has been used by more than a million customers. Last year 33'i million dollars worth of merchandise, or 8.8 per cent of total sales, were charged. Penney s hasn t decided . yet which type of credit plan to use or where Uie tests will be made. Quote By UNITED PRESS PLAINFIELD, Wis. Adeline Watkins, on her 20-year romance with horror murderer Ed Gein. confessed "butcher" of two worn- 'T B"UP u-p riinispH Atari- murder w hnrt aver hart ahiMi Eddie told me about how the mur derer did wrong, what mistakes he had made. I thought it was interesting." WASHTVfiTnV A Ft -Tin Pr.- ident Gem-re Mpanv in railing upon the administration to act now to prevent "widespread trouble for the American economy: "We can't wait for an economic bust. The basic unresolved ques tion of matching America's con suming ability with her productive ability must be met." T.ns Avr.n v An-.,.., t Wirin, who was issued a passport by the State Department to enter Red China and North Korea to in terview witnesses in the Powell se dition case: ' "As fur a T Lhav I'm th r,.i living American to be granted a passport to Red China." WOODBURY. Ky. Mrs. Franlt Neighbors, resident of this south western Kentucky town cut off by flood waters: 'Luckily this Is the first dav of the hunting season, and as long as tne raooits noia out we ll be in line shape. CHICAGO Secretary of Stat Dulles, on the nossibilitv of an ai. tack on NATO forces in Europe: ui course certain kinds of at tack call for counter-attack. If American troops were In the area the field commander would re. Ispond immediately." comes," he said. This means that "in a majority of instances" the girls are attending dances in ho tels "without guidance or super vision," he added. Five ministers argued against dancing, saying a moral issue was involved. The convention then reaffirmed action taken in 1937 which con demned dancing as demoralizing and tending toward immorality. Trustees of Wake Forest and Meredith had held the dancing matter under abeyance pending action by the convention. They'll Do It Every Time - By Jimmy Hatlo MoHiy, WHEN HE'S COLLECTING FOR THE V4RIOUS OFFICE POOLS, IS AS WELCOME AS BERI-BERI - The winder W4s just picked A MINUTE AGO NOW WHO IS SEEKING OUT WHOM? YOU GUESSED IT I HERE WHAT7A W CONTCH4 OPEN" , H- WHERE'S MY COUGH, I V4 COLLECTING FOR 1 A BINGO H4LL VisJH 7 I PAL? AHO GIMME I NOW? OH-FOOT61LL AAUD BE DONE TnXjiCL A TICKET FOR AD FOR SPUTNIK MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UP)-Some-one here apparently expects the Soviet earth satellite to land in his back yard. The following no tice, complete with a box number, appeared in the classified section of the Memphis Commercial Ap peal: "Available soon. One slight ly used Sputnik. Fully equipped with radio, temperature control and all extras. Weighs only 184 pounds. 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