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PAGE SIX . . .. , HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON TUESDAY, J ANUAR' III I Ml 28, 1958 I i FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor Exchange By BILL JENKINS Progress is being made! After years and years of work the United States and Russia have agreed, in principle, to speed up the exchange of persons, movies and radio and television programs. After using up the better part of 4,500 words in a brief explaining the situation the government goes ahead to do a little cautious back watering with the statement that those broadcasts dealing with "in ternational political problems" had been agreed on "in principle only and final agreement shall be made at the working level." This, when interpreted, means that if the boss thinks he can re lease a program without endanger ing his job he will do so. Other wise the whole shebongus will end up on the scrap heap along with Wilson's peace plan, the UN and the peace pact between Sitting Bull and Custer. In a "letter of understanding" from the VIP on our side it was pointed out that either side could veto a program, which would be viewed in advance, if such broad cast "did not contribute to theta luxuries. ! r betterment of relations." f'V With that final little eight word statement the planners pretty well nullified any progress that might have been made in the prcceed ing 4,492 words. From what I have seen of tele vision in this country it is in possible to get two people to agree' that a program was any good. ' much less bettering relationships, not to mention two nations as fan apart in viewpoints as the U.S.' and Russia. In fact, after some of the pro grams that have been inflicted on the audience such an exchange might be a greater threat to global war than the guided missile. I suppose that there isn't really much we can do about it since the captive audience to which TV caters is captive through choice and once a sheep always a sheep. But it does seem that we could find some other and more reason able approach to the situation. Like a big slick. Even if wo are to assume that such exchange programs would be limited to the higher level of pol itics and such I can't see Uiat we are going to win scores of friends on the Steppes and in Outer Si beria by giving them a blow by blow description of the time of the big wind, such as the political conventions in 1956. It takes a pret- ly strong American to sit through i such an inane display of mass idiocy as a Republican or Demo cratic convention. Think what it might do to the untrained Russian mind. The outlook is glum indeed. Over In Yamhill County the offi cials are considering legislation which would make it illegal for dogs to run loose. As it stands now a state law requires that a dog wear a collar and license at all times. This is about as ridicu- lous as saying that humans had to! wear their neckties all the time, but then no one ever accused law makers of using good sense. It seems to me that in this free and enlightened country we might at least bend a little in our hostil ity toward everything and give man's best friend a break. Storms tear up more lawns and gardens than dogs do and yet we don't pass a law against frost. I think tho dogs are taking the short end of the deal. In closing, since we are on the general subjects of gripes anyway, let us mention the out raged squeal of fighting rage that came from Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine the other day. Senator Smith wants to know, in her unreasonable feminine wav. why Idaho potatoes arc being served at Air Force bases situated in the heart of Maine's potato In dustry? In the face of such a protest 1 guess all others just fade away into nothing. The Air Force, alter trying hi tilely to by the blame, on ihe Quartermaster Corps, .'Vhrujfged and said, probably in a helpless manner, that they didn't ktiovr Why it was so hut they woulcj. certainly look into it. Whichever way they jump they are going to find themselves knee deep in fat if not fire. , t ' IhmI Trill" ' By FLOYD L. WYNNE Running a goernment. a busi ness or a household are much the! urn in ome respects. If you spend more than you lake In, you run yourself in debt, and when you have spent more than you can afford and have yourself in deb!, you find yourself Muring bankruptcy m the eye. When that lime comes you find that you have to do without some- Entered u second class mailer at Ibe post office at Klamath Palls. Oie., on August 20, 4808. under act of Congress, March 8. 1879 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California thing. You htivo to start cutting the budget somewhere, and the knife almost always falls on the items classified as luxuries rather than necessities. We cut out the items that are nice to have, but are not neces- sary to our continued existence. ncic u.ui h'"". in almost all phases of our govern- ment. federally, we have a national debt that is on the threshold of 21)0 billion dollars, and the total value of all (he things we possess in the United States is just over that figure. We must begin to slice the lux ury out of all our tux budgets. When you begin to do that, you begin lo touch home for many people. When you cut staffs and commissions, it leaves people out of work. When you eliminate some of the services that governments do, you eliminate some of the services you yourself may be en joying. The only alternative when that cut-down comes, as it must now. is to decide what departments and services are really necessary and dispense with those you can class .That reasoning can apply to; federal, statf,'- county and city gov- eroments, but mal, in itself, is not ninnh V W . enough. w'. A large share' of the tax dollars g' to schools and education. On tfte state level,.' (hat figure is close 70 per cent-tend on the county Bevel it is inmost 07 ner cent ItHere, too,;tjSere must be a re- eyeiuation ol Tliat is necessary, 4d what if luxury. " A-'" sothnd 'basic "education in the subjects that a student can uti lize to make his way in life when he leaves school, this is what I would classify as necessity. Many other phases of our pres ent educational structure are de signed altogether for social exis tence. Certainly such things as mu sic, athletics, driver training, shop work, dramatics and the like are important, but I question in my mind whether they can be labeled necessities. It is not necessary, 1 eel, lo put children In monumental struc tures rather than functional build ings. The emphasis must go back to, first, the basic educational ne cessities, and then the frill, or the luxuries later, if we can afford them. A person expressed it this wav the other day, and 1 agreed, "We are paying too much attention to what we're puttins the students into, rather than to what we're putting into the students." Again, these things touch close to home, but so do the tax dol lars already being expended on them. It's lime to look up the long road. It's time lo squeeze the wa ter out of all tax-supported budg ets and get them down to neces sities as needed. That appears to be the only an-1 swer to this threat of continuous-1 ly increasing governmental and school budgets. It's cither that or eventual bankruptcy. You must make Hie choice. Young Pilgrim By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK itf-A little Pilgrim on the royal road to learning lives in our house. Nothing makes you more aware of the passage of time than having a child in your home. On one day you have to do everything for it. and it seems almost the very next day it won't let you do anything for it at all. ;, Our daughter, Tracy Ann. now 4' years old, has reached this Pogo t com psivf kjuu J kee Tieeu of yisr mi 0P iN PLAN TO ftWOOT M &Pg8iVi6NTp ) I TWIN Of -.-OHU. 66 PCPUIA8.) TOt MARKS, fi V I At AMIS THAT f ' WWAT$ fl OZOMMMOVit 30T joyooit 'C7wA?2 Ts y if use 9CT A JOB IN A GOOO ff-iV hi , at T9 To 56e AT TtE 6 PCS6 cj wavt c.j2 abv m (90 TO COUuSie-TO ESCAPg rVSlTlCR in ft ft 7 do-it-all-by-herself stage. Ten times a day she utters her clamor ous declaration of independence: "I don't need any help. I can do it myself." i Jler statement aon its to every- thins from ooine to the h.nhrnom h0 buttoning her snowsuit, fromiis embarking on the largest pro- nowine ner nose to stand me on'1"" ""'"'J' is f tiotoo to nush the elevator button , . . . i t - n, . I lh lh. ,i. , ,, room the other day, I remarked: "If you can do so much, why can't you , manage to pick up your keep your room clothes ind neat?" "Well, after all, I'm just a little girl," she said calmly "I can't learn everything at once Her sturdy self-confidence reached a peak when, after weeks of terrible struggle, she finally learned to fumble a ribbon into a bowknot, all alone. Now Tracy spends about an hour daily prac - ticing this womanly art. Each success she brings to me for approval. The other night she suddenly pressed her cheek against mine and exclaimed in a kind of ecstasy: "Oh, Daddy, isn't it fun to lie bows?" .My wile, francos, thinks Tracy is remarkkably advanced because she has also learned to tie a bow- "not behind her back. "U'lml'c M,i r. ii What's the point in that?" I asked. "Why not teach her to lie a bow standing on her head?" "Listen Rover." said Frances, "don't you realize lhat from the time a girl puts on her first kitchen apron she has to tie a bow behind her back every day of her life?" Well, isn't that just like a Wom anask her a silly question and she gives you a serious answer? Tracy's other passion at the mo ment is learning to write her AUC's. for she can't stand the thought she is unable to read. As matter of fact the little hypocrite she won't even admit she can't. And she is gaining: When she pretends to be reading, she now holds the book right side up. Although she still has trouble with tho letters "U," "G," "V" and x, Tracy isn't satisfied with the hundreds of thousands of words already available in Eng lish. She bends the alphabet to her own small needs to make new words. "What is this word. Daddy?" she asked, pointing at a notebook page in which she had scrawled in big rambling letters: "P-B-F- F-L-T-R." "That Isn't a word. It doesn't mean anything." les, it does, loo, she said i positively. 'What'.'" j ncu-ii, she hesitated, studv-; ing the letters, then announced i uiumpnniuiy, it means an nlh- gator as tall as the empire stale buildin, II new-grow n independence has also shown itself in a change of marital plans. I'nlil recently I she had always planned on marry-1 '"S lu"r fattier, hut the other dav sle boldly asked Mark Slump!, a 0-year-old -playmate down the hall, "would you like lo nuurv me Mark showed little enthusiasm for Hie project, and when I asked, Tracy what about her earlier pro- gram lo wed me, she replied (.ravei). I Why, Daddy, you know 1 enn I. " "ol - ' louse Im growing up, but you re growing flown. And when I'm big enough to get married. you 11 just bo a tiny baby bov and I can't marry a baby." Well, as they say, out of the mouths of babes I There is Pins.' esntAwAv US MA TO &2 IM 2 StSO UP V.-TM f5T ORMSTQGS- f , AOT K5My I ' : I Bl.v T5 a iQUMAPUj. (SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER 1 MONTH . t 1.50 MONTHS $ .) I YEAR .- - 111.00 mail. . I MONTH MONTHS . 1 YEAR t 1.50 112.00 nothing like an independent child to make a grownup feel helpless. Capital llcport By JAMES D. OLSON The State Highway Department mated expenditures totaling t h . huge sum of $87 million during I lt58, according to W. C. Williams, State Highway Commission In this program the State High way Commission has approved an anticipated expenditure of $25 mil lion on interstate projects which in Oregon includes Interstate High ways 99 and 30 and for which the I federal government pays 92 per j cent of construction and right of way acquisition costs. A total of $15 million will be expended on non-interstate proj eels, in which the federal govern ;ment pays a portion of the cost, mostly on repair of bridges and other similar jobs This compares with construction contracts awarded in 1957 amount ing lo $39,900,000. In connection with the present year's program, (he State Highway Commission has decided to build two stretches of concrete roadway marking the first major concrete constructed roads laid in Oregon since 1956. The entire North Jefferson junc lion-Albany road on U.S. 99 in Marion and Linn counties will be of concrete and the entire extcn sion of the Baldock Freeway from its present northern terminus inlo the city of Portland will be built of concrete. Bids on both these jobs have been called for the February meeting of the com mission. While the initial cost of construe lion of concrete roads is higher than that of blacktop pavement Slate Highway Engineer Williams explained that under the federal highway program the government will pay i)2 per cent of the cost of construction. Where the highway department expects to gain is in maintenance costs which must be borne entirely by by the state, Such costs on concrete highways arc lower, Williams said, and there fore the slate will be ahead of the game. During 19.58 work will begin on the completion of the four-lane di vided highway between Salem and Albany and the program Will see work initiated on extending this section to Eugene. Two projects arc included in the program, one calling for expenditure of $1.7-50.000 for grade-crossing structures and xading in Linn County and anoth ier $2 million project, also calling for erection of overhead crade crossing the grading from the I.inn County line to Judkins Point in Lane Counlv The Salem By-Pass route is be- ing converted into a four lane di .vided highway with the grading virtually completed and the van ous structures well under wav. The 'present vear's nrnpram e.nil f- expendittie of $1 million for the paving of the two additional lanes on the by pass which is expected to be ready for use in the late fall. Additional work on U.S. - High way 99 includes oaving of the Mvr. tie Creek-Fords Bridge section in Douglas County at an estimated cost of $1,037,000 and grading and paving: building overhead struc tut es on the Shady-Roberts Creek section, also in Douglas County at a cost of around S-t-10,000, and grading and paving and structures , on the North Grants Pass inter 'change section at a cost of $330. two. Considerable work is planned on L S. 30 with scheduled grading and paving of the Herman Creek sec tion in Hood River at an estimated cost of $1,815,000: construction of ! grade crossing structures and grad ! mg of V S. 30 from Ontario to the Idaho stale line at an estimated cost of $2,875,000: the Union Ave-nue-42nd Avenue section of U.S. 30 In Portland estimated at $520, 000: the construction of grade I crossing structures and paving of j the Sundial Ranch - Rooster Rook ; section estimated to cost $1,607. ;(XH). grading and paving and struc I lures on the Shogren-Kowena sec tion in Wasco County, $1,400,000 'and the grading and structure on I The kalles by - pass $2,500,000: grading and paving and structures on the Perry-Oro Dell section In I nion County, $3,400,000 and grad ing and structures on the Glover Perry section in the same county estimated to cost S.200.000 Contracts for grading sod con struct ion of grade crossing on the KI, im. nil halls by pass section o: H' S. Highway 97 will be coulr.ict iod early this ear. This initial proj ect is estimated to cost $1,200,000. In addition lo the two interstate routes there will he projects rang ing in oost from $200,000 to more llun a million dollai s on secondary si. He liighwavs. Oregon citizens will mc pler.ij oi mad building as soon ,is grod weather sets in. They'll Do It Every Time fii . r'.A"i4, Weather Table By UNITED PRESS Temperatures and rainfall for 24 hours ending at 4 a.m. High Low Rain Albuquerque 42 31 Atlanta 47 32 Bakersfield oo 47 Boise 38 36 T. Boston 43 33 .51 Brownsville . 74 62 .07 Chicago 35 28 .06 Denver 38 17 .07 Detroit 34 32 El Cenlro 74 50 Fairbanks 2 -15 Fort Worth 60 42 Helena ,43 21 Kansas City 27 Los Angeles 68 52 Miami 68 50 Minneapolis 26 19 .01 New Orleans 58 41 New York, 42 37 T. Oakland 57 51 Oklahoma City 48 33 T. Phoenix 67 Pittsburgh, 35 26 .12 Red Bluff 51 48 Reno w 44 30 Salt Lake Cily 37 30 .14 Sacramento, 55 48 San Diego ' 67 52 San Francisco 58 47 Seatle 49 44 .35 Spokane 37 34 .23 Stockton 57 46 Tucson 62 38 Washington 51 37 T. OBJECT: MATRIMONY OSAKA, Japan (UP) The, Osaka Housing Corp. shows fore- sight in its planning. Concerned over the large number of single women in this industrial citv. it opened today a new housing unit lor bachelor girls right next to four apartment houses built ex clusively lor unmarried men. Next on the program: Another apartment house nearby for mar ried couples. e M mm It's something to save Mother a lot of steps, Nancy Vh.n the tclophonc man installs a new color extension est appliances you can put in a modern kitchen. Just call phone in your kitchen, you'll begin to enjoy a new kind your telephone business office and ask about color tele- of telephone convenience. No more running for the phone, phones. Choose from the new exciting shades. They cost You can make or take calls right where you're working, so little. Only $1.25 a month after installation Color ex- And a color telephone is so attractive ... one of the smart- tensions are such a nice way to save time and steps. Jj-Jrtall phonts come io these 7 colors :tti matcrnfg spnnjcords- Ivory, Moss Green, Cherry Red, Pjstel Yellow. While, light Beige jnd Light Grey. Thr J " m'n and 'women of 1J orking together to sene you better .... PaClflC TelepllOIIB in Klamath Falls llfe 1 - lif? 1 Young Couple HAVANA, Cuba im Tessa Kennedy and Dominic Elwes, the young British couple who were foiled by her father In efforts to marry in Britain, finally were wed here last night, a Cuban notary public said. Notary Oscar Rangel said he secretly married the 19-year-old runaway heiress and the 26-year-old son of a society painter at his downtown office. He refused to give any details. Other source said the young lovers planned to remain in Cuba for some lime. They flew from Curacao Sunday night and re mained in seclusion. How the two got around a re quired two-week marriage waiting period was not immediately ex plained, Some persons speculated they had posted official notice of intention in advance of their arri val here. Tessa's father, a sugar mag-; nate, obtained court writs two months ago preventing their mar riage in England or Scotland with out his consent. After hiding in Scotland, they flew to the Carib-1 Exclusively Tower Theater Bldg. P.O. Ban 596 Ph. TU 4-4021 rgAgFINANCING ys-N5 iv-ci i Am -mi O 1 -. . : rrft By Jimmy Hatlo Finally Wed bean last week. Elwes' father Simon Elwes is now in New York. It's BEAUTIFUL! It's NEW! It's at the lowest possible FACTORY LIST PRICE . It's OLDSMOBIUTr"! OLDSMOBILE for '58 ;! Dynamic "88" Series OAAA35 ' j HOLIDAY COUPE oDoD ; Hydramaric $231.34 Radio $101.65 Heater and Defroster $96.52 j' DICK B. MILLER CO. OLDS - 7th and Klamath " ' V"flI . ('it , I. ' I Queen Moher Leaves On Trip LONDON - Qien Mother Elizabeth, blowing kfces to her beaming family, flewjff to Mon treal today on the fiit leg of a trip to Australia and New Zea land. I She will return fc London March 10, the first mnber of ths royal family to have bwn around the world. I At the airport to ee her off were her daughters tjeca Eliza beth II and Princes) Margaret and her son-in-law Pjice Philip, OCCUPATIONAL VIZARD EVAXSVILLE, Indj (UPl - Newspaper deliverynjn Rainey Lemmons, 24, complied to po lice Monday he sifited what looked like a wildcat the street and had to fire a pisI at it be fore it would get out if his wav. Friendlr Helpfulntss To leryj Creed and Pre Ward's Klanarh Funeral Hme Marguerite M. Ward and Sens 925 High Tl 2-4404 CADILLAC Ph. 4-4154
