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FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1953 PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Men Draw Fine FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor entered u second cUu matter at the poet office at Klamatb Fall Ore., on August 20. 1S06. under act of Congress, March . IMS SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California BUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER I MONTH . 1 SO MONTHS . , , t t.00 I YEAR iU.OO MAO, , I MONTH 6 MONTHS I YEAR . t 160 1 60 U.M Wet Count rv By BILL JENKINS ' Had occasion to drop down to Alturas last Wednesday for a meet ing of the Modoc Council of Natur al Resources held at the Pioneer Inn. Drove across the 6tate line road on the way down, taking advan tage of the brief spell of sunshine, and spotted literally thousands of big white swans. Well, not all white, for most of them had acquired a faintly sooty look from the muddy fields and the grue some looking water.' Mixed in with the swans were quite a number of bonkers and a spattering of ducks of assorted sizes and shapes. Ran into rain at about Dry Lake and drove the rest of the way in a damp fashion. Quite a few deer along the way in the Hackamore area. Interesting program by Dr. Wal I ter Howard of the University of California, accompanied by hun dreds of color slides he had taken while on a recent extended tour of New Zealand. Many pictures of that country's vast recreational districts and wild game and fish. If we think we have had trouble with the mice up here we can forget it. They are practically a blessing compared to the rabbit . problem In New Zealand. There, as Howard showed us, the animals have taken over thousands of square miles of country, denuding it entirely and leaving nothing but the stumps of a few trees and the rocks. It was interesting to see the scenes of both North and South Island that I had visited some fif teen years ago. Things haven't changed much. A On the way back we found that Me weather had cleared and the mercury had dropped about a foot. The highway was icy and literally loaded with deer. They seemed determined to stick to the road and would hardly move as you moved in on them. What with the icy conditions it made a real game of driving. Saw between seventy five and a hundred animals on the way back, all of them appar ently in fine shape due to the mild winter and good browse conditions, All along the way we ran into water. The flats were covered with it, transformed into miniature lakes. The borrow pits were full, ell the gullies and small ravines were running bank full and in Al turas they were all keeping a wary eye on the river. But I would imagine the cold weather helped and any flooding was averted. Ileal h Penalty By FLOYD .L. WYNNE Should the death sentence of Billy Junior Nunn be changed to life imprisonmenl? "Harm was convicted for the strangulation slaying of 14-year-old Alvln Eacret of Klamath Falls near Tub Springs in April of 1956. The Oregon Supreme Court af firmed the conviction yesterday and Justice Randall B. Kcster said the evidence amply supported the state's theory of the murder. However, attorneys for Nunn are expected to ask Gov. Robert D. Holmes to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. The governor has in the past put himself definitely on record as op- posing capital punishment and has commuted some death sentences to life imprisonment already. Admittedly, the taking of a life es punishment seems barbaric, and yet, let's face the other alternative. If his sentence is commuted to life imprisonment he stands an ex cellent chance ot being out of jail wtuiui seven to eight years. This. despite a record that reportedly includes at least one previous mor als offense. Conceivably, then, within seven years or less, he could be hack in our community, and aain in a position to commit another crime such as the one for which he is sentenced to die. Neither passion nor pity could move me to agree that this man's sentence should bo other than the death penalty. Elimination of the death penalty has virtually erased the last big deterrent to murder. Now, all it requires is good conduct for sov en to eight year period and one may be released on parole, retard less of the enormity of the crime. The public needs protection. It feels it gets protection when crimes such as this are punished by death When life imprisonment is substi tuted and the man released in a comparatively short time, the wish es of the public for protection arc completely thwarted. Governor, let's be realistic. This is one of those cases where the "death penalty is tor not onlv the good, but the protection ot Die community. School Survey I Editor's Note This is the first in a series of three articles cov ering studies and statistics assem bled by Dave DeVoe, community planner for Klamath Falls and Klamath County, and Lloyd An derson of the Bureau of Munici pal Research. Also contributing in formation were County Superinten dent of Schools Carrol Howe, City Superintendent Arnold Gralapp and KUHS Principal Charles Carlson. By JOHN GUERNSEY A brief perusal of the figures and statistics now being assem bled by workers with the Joint City-Count Planning Commission of Klamath County clearly estab lishes what the local school boards and directors do with their spare time. They figure out where new schools are going to be located to accommodate expanding enroll ment and they peer into the long range binoculars in an at tempt to determine if the project ed school buildings will be ade quate to house the potential en rollment in Klamath Falls at some date in the future, For example, the approximate enrollment at KUHS is now 1,60 and the capacity of the school is between 1,900 and 2,000. The plan ning commission figures indicate that if available land in tho city and fringe areas became occupied by housing, the number of high school age students resulting from the growth would be 2,701. By. the same token, the number of elementary and junior high stu dents now in metropolitan Klam ath Falls is about 5,503. If the available home sites In and around the city were fully utilized the num ber of elementary and junior high students would be 10,313. Collectively, there arc now ap proximately 5.303 students of all ages in and around Klamath Falls. If the town boomed suddenly there would be as many as 13,074. That would be an Increase of approxi mately 45 per cent in the Basin student number, and it would mean a lot of classrooms when realizing that the State Department of Ed ucation recommends between 25 and 30 students per class More significance is added to the picture when realizing that the above figures arc exclusive of the students now attending the Sa cred Heart Academy and Oregon Technical Institute. In way of explanation, Planners Dave DeVoe and Lloyd Anderson have concluded the potential stu dent enrollment of the city and its fringe areas by surveying the town as it now is, determining the num. ber of students per home, evaluat ing the available home building land, and then applying the exist ing ratio to approximate the po tential number of students. For example, the researchers i by conducting house to house sur veys) learned that there are now approximately 9,7fi6 homes in Klamath Falls and its fringe areas, including the south suburban ad dition as far south as (lie Lake view Junction, pf that number of homes, 6,088 are in the city area and 3,678 arc in the fringe regions. When considering the remaining available land for home building within ihe same boundaries, the planners conclude that the same area will accommodate 18,107 homes, or the addition of more than 8,000 homes. The number of homes in the area is actually great er, and would be proportionately larger with town expansion, inas much as the- Algoma and Lake- shore areas have not as yet been plotted into the survey. children in the fringe areas is con- siderably larger than the number per area within the city limits. It is indicated that the number of students per 10 homes in the fringe area is 7.8, while the number per 10 city homes is 5.25. The most marked difference is with relation to the elementary students. In the fringe areas there are about 4.5 elementary students per 10 homes. In the city area the number is slightly in excess of three. The difference is much less marked with relation to the jun ior high and the high school stu dents. In the city area there are 1.3 junior high students per 10 homes. In the fringe regions, in cluding the South Suburban and the Stewart Lenox additions, the number is 1.5. In the city area there is an average of one high school student for each 10 homes. In the fringe areas the number is 1.2. When the city area and the fringe areas are considered col lectively, it Is found that there are about 6.0 students (elementary through high school) for each 10 homes. Tomorrow: Potential danger areas. fudge they won't. They'll be too sick at the stomach to think at all. Change the world. Winter is the best time to write long indignant letters to your congressman about the global mess he is creating at the taxpayer's expense. This will transfer your boredom to him, but that's all right. He'll find a way to pass it on to someone else. If, after conscientiously trying all these treatments, you are still swept by winter ennui and lassi tude, there is only one thing left to do catch a cold and then at tempt to borrow money from your friends. It is impossible to be bored if you are trying to sneeze and at the same time listen to a pal ex plain why he can't lend you $500. Winter Willies By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK tft - Have you come down with the "winter wil lies?" This is a seasonal complaint that right now numbers millions more victims than Asian flu, the rheumaliz, and middle-aged aflv Icle's foot. It is an ailment caused by too much indoor living, too many cloudy days and too few sunny ones, too many frigid winds and loo few warm ones, too many ic- ycles on the trees and two few buds. .Man is homesick for summer and aches for the sight of a rain bow. He is weary of snow. His spirit is as desolate as his gar- den. Everything is dull . . . duller . . , dullest one's job, one's mate, one's duly and, most of all, one's self. Do you, loo, suffer from cold weather boredom? Why? it is so needless. Anybody with a little gumption can make winter into one of the more rewarding peri ods of the year. All it takes is a little ingenuity, and bit of old hip-hip-hurrah! Here are a few lips on how to whip your "winter willies": Learn to hibernate. If a bear and a woodchuck can chuckle away a winter in happy sleep, you can too. Practice at the office as well as at home to the envy of your fellow workers. Don't worry about the boss. No boss has the heart to fire a man who's asleep. And when you wake up, come spring, you'll have plenty ot strength to look for a new job. Since you can't grow anything in your garden, why not grow something else? A beard, for ex ample. No man who has both a beard and a mirror is ever bored. Figure out new ways to save money. Instead of bawling out your wife for her inability to stay within a budget, ask her, "Frank ly, honey, don't you think I'd have gone further in life if I'd remained single?" Then you can turn off the furnace and cut down the heating bill. Her answer will warm up the house until the next October. Throw a different kind of party. Why not invite all the neighbors in for an old-fashioned popcorn Callings; Driver By UNITED PRESS Despite all evidence to the con trary, some critics are still in sisting that auto seat belts are dangerous. This argument seems to boil down to three thjngs: First, that belts will cause in ternal injuries. Second, that belts can trap you inside a car in case of fire or sub mersion underwater. And third, that belts keep you inside a car when it might be safer to be thrown out. John Moore, director of Cornell University's Auto Crash Injury Re search Program, has taken a look at all three criticisms and sums them up in one unscientific but descriptive word: Baloney! Let's hear how Moore and his fellow researchers answer the seat belts-are-dangcrous claims. Do they cause internal injuries? The Cornell group has studied some 10,000 accident cases. Its ver dict: very, very seldom will a belt cause abdominal injuries. On the contrary, the evidence shows that belts will result in fewer and less serious lower torso injuries. Can a belt trap you in case of fire or submersion? Sure, says Cornell researcher Moore, But he also points out that of the 10.000 accidents his group studied, fire and submersion were almost nonexistent. Fire was in- volved In only two tenths of one per cent of accidents that produced injuries. Submersion only three - tenths of one per cent. Moore asks this question: Would you refuse to wear bells that pro tect you in the vast majority of accidents, just on the off-chance you might get trapped inside a car in a highly unlikely type of accident? Finally, do belts keep you in side a car when it might be safer to be (brown out? That's probably the unfairest charge of all leveled at safety belts. If there's one thing the Cor nell research has emphasized, it's the underrated danger of ejection from a car. All the evidence points to this seldom-realized fact "It's safer to be inside a car than be hurled out of one." Infrequently, there will be cases of people wearing belts in con vcrtibles that turned over and get ting killed. Moore says it's pos sible they might have been saved if they had been thrown free, pro vided they hit soft ground. But he also points out that convertible roll-overs are comparatively infre quent, and that in most cases, belts are a good idea even for the soft-tops. ball and kitchen fudge fest? The The survey further establishes neighbors may think you're crazy. that the number of school age I But after they eat your popcorn Pogo -v U f W A A MATTfi? XvCSi m M A FtgA, you'll. fS S oe fCT I was H6AS' NTes&TWiNMATI W I PSCWS'N'MAN best best AMOCIATg ThS OTHSSl I AH!? HOW US 60 MV CAY- " CSUBI TB6AT62, PV&SKM I - rr TveAMC6cFi0e(?iA SATELLITES As' TvgyWg jvANM'N THfjtt WITH AlCU P7! '(WW aw) TU?NA0CiT PA PLAY THEY been avcin' tockets with wee PC?yA(te...L.axiN' into cus !toacs fueu lime moc9 Vyji. wiCT THE PbTTcK rXM7 TO IN THAT ((utiles By UNITED PRESS LINCOLN. Neb. Guy Stark weather, father of mass murderer Charles Starkweather, on whether he would disown his son: "I guess I've got every reason to. But I just can't." DOUGLAS, WyeWilliam Dix on. Converse County, Neb. attor ney, after Wyoming Gov. Milward Simpson said he would never per mit execution of the death sen tence on Charles Starkweather, on his division to release the mass murderer to Nebraska officials: in view ot ,111 the circum stances we are going to waive jurisdiction and allow Nebraska authorities to lake over." GRETNA. La. -William Lee Macintosh. 14. of Cape Giradeau Mo., on why he told Louisiana of ficials he was 17 when he was sentenced to 18 months for at tempted robbery : "1 didn't want mv mother to know I was in trouble." WICHITA FALLS, fox. Treas ury Secretary Robert B. Ander son, in a speech at the annual banquet of the Northwest Texas Field and Stream Assn.. on how the national economy will fare in 1958: "There Is every reason to be confident that our economic ac tivity will resume Us upward Kiuwlh during tho ear." LllSHWEU. MSkTES UKE DIAMOND JIM IM THE TIPDEPTWHEM HES ON THE LOOSE AROUMD TOWN - But whew he comes to, he doesn't call it tipping he calls it getting rolled "7 "S;'SssS . , f MELLO" IS THIS I83" rfj vJoURSELF A r F"5' M JOINT YOU jfT WHAT THE TERMITES J 1 K ROILED.' VE4H-THAT V M THE GELL4I2. ItMXHACHoMl Oliy BWJNO-X l?EMM- ) WILL HAVE y 6ER HE DIDN'T ClVfi Ik Kellys Take Over I GOOD RECOVERY EDMONTON, Alia. OP Car 11 A . thieves should ponder these fig MT Mrmy WamD ures before "trying their luck in SCIIOFIELD BARRACKS. Ha waii Wi The Kelly clan is taking over tne top jobs with the 27th Infantry Regiment, the Wolfhounds. Col. John Kelly steps in to com mand the regiment Feb. 8. Stand-1 ing beside him will be the adjutant Maj. James Kelly. And Woodrow Wilson Kelly is the outfit's ser geant major. Ihe Army said none of the Kellys is related. Edmonton: of 645 vehicles stolen in the Edmonton area last year, police recovered all but five, and there were 203 convictions. For Log Race FORTUNA. Calif. I .Two young men who rode big redwood logs down me tei mver were fim?d $100 each yesterday for dis turbing the peace. Justice of the Peace William Guthrie also gave Eugene Smith, 18, and Clifford Bates, 26, suspend ed 10-day jail sentences and placed them on probation for, a year. Guthrie said motorists who stopped to watch the wild ride down the river, nearly at flood stage, jammed traffic on U.S. 101 Wednesday ana one man almost lost his life when he tried to throw them a rope and nearly fell off a bridge." o t o o o Hurry! Our January Furniture Sale Ends 5:30 p.m. SATURDAY LUCAS FURNITURE o o o Americans spend a billion dol lars a year for flowers, says the Society of American Florists. p LErssici i: ' This Weekend! 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