HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1953
PAGE SIX
FRANK JENKINS
Editor
BILL JENKINS
Managing Editor
FLOYD WYNNE
City Editor
Mow And Arrows
By BILL JENKINS
Moving with all the darting speed
of a herd of turtles on an uphill
run the Defense Department has
released to the public the detaili of
its highly secret World War Two
bow and arrow project.
If that sounds strange let me
UU you a couple of the facts.
During the war, the last one,
that is, the cloak and dagger boys
began casting about for some sort
of a silent weapon to aid in their
nefarious work among the enemy.
What they particularly wanted was
a noiseless, flashless weapon with
which to pick off enemy sentries
so they could penetrate the lines
and gain the necessary informa
tion.
What they finally came up with,
but never used intensively, went
right back to the days of yore
the bow and arrow. Or, more prt-
cisely, the crossbow. These were
powered by rubber bands and
packed quite a wallop. At least on
paper they developed a weapon
which was capable of killing a man
at fifty yards and doing it in a
nice, neat, quiet manner.
The crossbow is far from a new
weapon. Records of their use date
back to the Fourth Century and
they were widely used up until the
b-ttle of Crecy in the Fourteenth
Century. The first crossbows were
made of wood, later models of
laminated whalebone and the final
style of wood again with a steel
bow and an elaborate cranking sys
tem to draw the bow to tremen
dous tensions. The arrows were
called quarrels or bolts, were feath
ered and some of them were so
built as to spin, thus enhancing
their accuracy and range.
The crossbow died a natural
death, along with several thousand
arbalists (cross bowmen) at Crecy
when the English showed up with
their longbows and the clothyard
shaft which had a longer range
and greater penetrating power.
When the defense people were
trying out their miniature weapons
at the testing ground they fired
them into great chunks of horse-
; meat to determine their penetrat
ing powers.
When the arbalists of an earlier
age tried out a new weapon they
found a neighboring tribe and tried
them out by shooting them into
great chunks of other crossbow
men. This made it much easier to
tell how hard they hit without a
lot of tiresome research.
If the target got up and fired
back then your weapon needed a
little tuning up.
If he stayed down you named
your crossbow "Old Sureshot" and
went back to the village tavern to
brag about your prowess.
The theory advanced by several
Fifth Century monks and a couple
of battalion commanders that the
crossbow was such a horrid weap
on that it's invention would outlaw
war was proved wrong.
Courtesy
By FLOYD L. WYNNE
There is still no adequate sub
stitute today for plain old-fash-ioned
courtesy.
The Klamath Falls Police De
partment has added an additional
courtesy to us service to mer
chants in the business area of the
city.
The new service is in the form
of a postcard which will be mailed
to the merchants anytime a pa
trolman finds something amiss
with his premises.
For instance, looking over the
postcard, which will be checked
with the appropriate instance, it
lists such things as front door un
locked, rear door unlocked, side
door unlocked, rear window open
side window open, defective lock,
safe lipjit out, alley light out,
store litf it out, skylight open, tran
som open, and keys left in door.
The name and number of the
officer who noticed the condition
is also included on the postcard.
Certainly, the police department
has not been guilty of discourtesy
In the past, we don t mean to
imply that in any way; howev
er, it is just such little things as
the postcard reminder thai go s
long way toward letting the peo
ple of a community know that the
policemen are providing not only
them, but their business establish
ments as well, with adequate pro
tection.
Another added feature is a
monthly mimeographed report
which will be kept by banks of
the community. They will keep a
list of the time and day of each
week that the bank is visited by
the patrolmen of the beat. They
will submit this at the end of
each month to the Patrol Division
of the Klamath Falls Police De
partment. These are Just two of the neu
changes being wrought in the lily
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ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRBS6
AUDIT BURJUU OP CIRCULATIONS
Serring Southern Oregon And Northern California
police department at the instiga
tion of Inspector Richard Young
of the Berkeley force who is con
tinuing his evaluation of the city
police department, Us procedures
and policies.
Congratulations on both moves,
they're in the right direction.
Success Slory
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK A former boy
evangelist has conquered Broad
way in his first role.
Lonnie Sattin, son of an itinerant
Negro minister, is being hailed by
critics as the "discovery-of-the-
year for his surprise success in
the musical, "Body Beautiful" in
which he plays a professional
boxer.
His dramatic concert trained
voice steals the show.
"I came up singing," said Lou
nie. I can t remember a time
when I didn't sing. You know how
it is with a minister's boy. You
get put in a choir as soon as you
can toddle."
A bright future as an entertain
ment star of the first magnitude
now appears certain for Lonnie.
But he worked hard to get where
he is, and the prospect of quick
fame now doesn't overwhelm him.
Before undertaking any new
venture, he prays lon and earn
estly, and this is what he prays
for:
"I pray for happiness not merely
success. I ask God whether, if I
am successful, I can handle it
humbly and graciously. If not, I
don't want it."
Sattin, one of nine children, was
born in Jacksonville, Fla., but
moved as a child to Philadelphia.
He earned his way through Tem
ple University by working as a
barber, house painter, and door-to-door
salesman.
His childhood Interests were
theology and law but for a brief
time he thought of becoming a
prizefighter. Then he worked out
with Honeychile Johnson.
"He clipped me a good one on
the chin," said Lonnie, "and 1 de
cided right then in favor of the
ology."
Following the example of his
father, a Church of God pastor,
Lonnie toured the Eastern sea
board from New York to North
Carolina as an evangelist.
"In the ministry I always sang,"
he recalled. "I found that music
would often reach people's spirit
in a way that words couldn't,"
After winning a singing concert
sponsored by the National Free
dom Day Assn., Sattin gave a
series of concerts that won atten
tion. Soon he had to face a choice
to stay In the ministry or to
seek a musical career. It took him
four months to make up his mind.
I hated to turn my back on my
father, who had wanted me to fol
low in his footsteps," said Lonnie.
"My father knew the spiritual tor
ment I was going through. I final
ly decided to make song my min
istry when he told me, 'You have
to live with yourself, son. You
can't preach with a divided
mind'."
Lonnie, a star for Capitol Rec
ords, seasoned himself for several
years as a band singer and supper
club entertainer before making
his Broadway debut. He always
included at least one religious
song in his performances.
"I still want to help people spir
itually," he said earnestly. "1
want to inspire as well as enter
tain. Even singing in night clubs
you can have some religious effect
on people people who may never
go to church."
Lonnie and his wife, Tina, a for
mer law student, have two chil
dren. She acts as his personal
business manager.
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Still in his mid-twenties, Lonnie
neither smokes nor drinks. Every
now and then accepts an invitation
to preach or give Sunday school
talks to boys' clubs.
'Sometimes," said his wife, "I
wonder whether Lonnie is as far
away from the ministry as he
thinks he is."
Cloud Seeding
By ERIC ALLEN
In Medford Mail-Tribune
We have a letter from a reader
in Williams, Oregon, asking about
a recent story concerning "weath
er control" to prevent hail.
His letter suggests the story
may not have been comprehen
sive enough particularly to rela
tively recent newcomers to this
area. For "weather control," or at
least cloud-seeding, is sort of an
old story here.
First of all to answer his ques
tions: The State Department of Agri
culture, under a law passed by
the Legislature several years ago,
was made the licensing agency
for all attempts to regulate the
weather. The law was passed as
a regulatory measure, to prohibit
anyone attempting to seed clouds,
any time, and without notice. The
law also requires the licensee to
advertise his intentions with re
gard to weather control activities
The law was not referred to
vote of the people, for there
seemed to be no need nor de
mand for such a procedure, par
ticularly for a regulatory law.
For our correspondent's infor
mation, the Medford Pear Ship
pers Association (then the Rogue
Valley Traffic Association) first
retained the services of the Wa
ter Resources Development Corpo
ration of Denver, Colorado, for
ground-generator seeding of clouds,
for hail prevention, in 1954. This
year marks the fifth year of its
operation.
But that is not the whole story.
In 1951, the California Oregon
Power Company retained the North
American Weather Consultants firm
of Pasadena, California, to seed
large sections of the Cascade Moun
tains in the Copco watershed areas
to increase snowfall. This winter
is their seventh season in operation.
Mr. Alden's letter is reminiscent
of many received by this paper in
the years these operations were
getting started, and earlier, when
cloud-seeding projects were con
ducted with the use of airplanes.
As a matter of fact, complaints of
the "dry land" farmers were fac
tors in the passage of the state
licensing law.
But his letter is the first such
we have seen m a long, long
time, for by now most people
are convinced, on the basis ot
their own observations and on the
basis of rainfall records, that this
type of seeding does not prevent
rain.
There is evidence, in fact, to
the contrary that rainfall is in
creased, rather than decreased, by
the activities in hail-prevention
seeding, for the method used is
the same one used elsewhere to
increase precipitation.
So we now have, and have had,
virtually year-around cloud-seed
ing in the spring and summer
months by one organization to
prevent hail, and in the fall, win
ter and spring months by another
firm to increase precipitation.
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Evaluation of the economic suc
cess ol tnese programs is an
"Iffy" proposition, for only long
accumulation of weather data, and
comparisons to those of earlier
years, can provide evidence. And
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And Mr. Alden's letter almost
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long time since we've heard sim
ilar complaints about lack of
rain.
Agreement
Klamath Falls (To The Editor)
Your last Friday's paper had an
article written by Floyd Wynne
titled "Death Penalty," concerning
Billy Nunn.
I, too, believe as Mr. Wynne,
that the death penalty, as our
law, is our only protection from
such abnormal persons. Surely it
is a horrifying thought to those
who have lost loved ones at the
hands of such people, to think of
them ever being again turned loose
on the public.
Let us, as a Christian nation,
turn to the Bible, the Word of
God, and see if it doesn't give us
some light on such people and their
sins and the answers to what they
are worthy of.
First turn to Romans, first chap
ter, beginning at verse 21. Read
ing through to the end of the chap
ter, the last verse says, "They are
worthy of death, that commit such
things." Now note this scripture
is from the New Testament, or
under the Age of Grace,
It is also more than interesting
to take your reference Bible and
run down these scriptures. You
will find yourself back in the Old
Testament and how these same
sins were dealt with under the
law.
Turn to Leviticus, Chapter 18,
and read to the end of the chapter,
then go to Genesis, Chapter 9, fifth
to seventh verses. Also Exodus,
Chapter 21, twelfth verse. After,
reading these scriptures, read He
brews, Chapter 13, eighth verse,
seeing then that the God of the
old Bible is the same God of the
new.
Do you not believe he looks on
these same sins today in the same
light? And it was the sentence 'of
death in those days.
To the people of Oregon, let's do
our best to protect our homes and
loved ones from such persons.
These scriptures are from
the
King James version.
Mrs. M. B. Foster
5624 Altamont Driv e
((notes
By UNITED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA Maj. Gen,
John B. Medaris, chief of the
Army ballistic missile agency in
Huntsvule, Ala., on the urgent ne
cessity for the llhited States to
achieve manned control of space:
The blunt truth is that we are
In a race against time with an
adversary of no mean capabili
ties, who has committed to his
effort a far greater percentage of
his total resources than we have
so far mustered."
NEW YORK - White House As
slstant Sherman Adams, on why
the nation should support Presi
dent Eisenhower's call for a non
governmental East-West cultural
conference:
"While the missile, propulsion
anti-missile, detector and early
warning race is of critical impor
tance, it probably Is no more so
than the race to win the trust
respect, confidence and regard of
the people of the rest of the
world, no matter where they
live.
WASHINGTON - President Ei
senhower, on why his chief White
House aide, Sherman Adams, has
every right to make public ad
dresses:
"He knows exactly what I be
lieve, what are my convictions,
my policies, and he attempts to
make his speeches exactly in that
line."
WASHINGTON - Theodore
Ynlema, Ford vice president, on
why he wouldn t spell out the con
ditions for putting into effect his
proposal that the government stop
collecting taxes if the current bus
iness slump gets any worse:
"It's the idea that's important.
JOLIET, 111. - Nathan Leopold,
5, appealing for parole after
serving M years for the thrill-
killing of 14-year-old B o b b
Franks, on how he has changed
im the IM4 Chicago murder
that shocked the nation:
i was an intelligent savage
who knew no law except his own
desires. I am no longer the con
ceited smart aiecx Kid. but an
older man who humbly pleads for
iour compassion.
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Solon's Program Would Give
More Unemployment Aid
WASHINGTON Wl - Sen. Ken
nedy (D-Mass) planned today to
introduce legislation to increase
unemployment compensation pay
ments and extend coverage of the
program.
Kennedy said the bill was de
signed to bring improvements
which President Eisenhower has
urged trie states to make. He said
not one state has done so.
Legislation is needed now, he
said, because "unemployment has
passed the four million mark and
may well reach five million in the
near future."
Sen. Gore (D-Tenn) has an
nounced he is drafting a bill to set
up a public works administration
similar to that of the 1930s. It's
needed to avert "a catastrophe to
our economy," he said.
Under Gore s proposals, the fed
eral government would provide
half a billion dollars for state,
county and local public works pro
jects which would use workers on
the jobless rolls. Federal funds
would pay 90 per cent of the pro
ject's cost.
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Kennedy's bill would set up fed
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pects of the unemployment com
pensation program now left to
state determination. It would:
1. Provide for a benefit period
of 39 weeks instead of the 26
weeks suggested to the states by
Eisenhower. The period now var
ies greatly from state to state.
2. Fix maximum weekly bene
fit payments at two thirds of a
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and contingency administration
expense fund to help the states
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PATERSON. N.J. (-A 16-year
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16, were arrested here yesterday.
Police said they admitted steal
ing $36 in cash, a revolver, an
electric razor and some foreign
coins worth 64 cents from the
Prospect Park National Bank
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The father of one of the youths
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