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FklDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 19.r-b PAGE BSC HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. UP) They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Frank Cly can take a joke as well The horse pl AyieJO bovs Irt THE OFFICE NEVER 4GI2EE OM THE RIGHT WAY TO BE4T THE PONIES". as the next guy, but some pranK- ster's gone too far. Civ Thursday found four and a SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER 1 MONTH 1.50 MONTHS . f .00 I YEAR IU.00 MAIL. , I MONTH I l.M MONTHS 4 I SO I YEAR 112.M half tons of sand, 200 concrete MnMrc ttf hnnc nf rement. a box FRANK JENKINS ( Editor ' BILL JOWNS . Managing Rfltor FLOYD WVNNE City Edftor Entered M second cltsa mailer at the post office at Klamath Fall. Ore., on August 30, 1906, under act of Congress, March a. WW f SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Set-ring Southern Oregon And Northern California with k dozen roses and a note trom a television repairman out side his house. flXE UOCKEV-U HAW.' I PL4V Y THE LONGSHOTSA 1 THIS (JEREy B7 THE F4VOWTES- I BUT HALF THE 2t STlBBUPS I BUT TO SHOW-" BET WHEM I WIN, Tf-4 1 BEEN HOT V: Z 4MD DOUBLE L ilTTTl Mood Music By BILL JENKINS , "Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast." So goes a line in act one of The Mourning; Bride. (I always thought the thing read ". . . soothe the savage beast" but I guess I was wrong. Anyway Bartlett's Quotations has it breast.) Down in California the State De partment of Mental Hygiene has discovered that mood music is helpful in calming patients who are about to receive shock treat ments. What they mean by mood music I do not know because the department experts claim that classical I don't know what clas sical music is either, but I sup pose it is anything that you have to pay over six bits to hear) mu sic is no good. The classics, bo what they may, say the double-domes, tend to con fuse and excite the patients and arouse a hostile attitude. - I fail to sec where a tranquil mind is of much importance if .the poor fellow is going to be ex posed to a shock treatment, but then I don't know what shock treatment is. I suppose, really, that this piece is beginning to sound as if I didn't know much of anything, but I can assure you that this is wrong. 1 know for a fact that if I don't get this space filled up, and pretty darn quick, I shall get a nasty shock treatment come next payday. Anyway, Lie department has tent a report of their findings to . Governor Knight. The title of the report; ' Music to Take Electric Shock With. Governor Knight, Incidentally, has his worries, too, and not all of them concerned with mood mu aic. California's great white father Is beset with a growing concern over loss of agricultural land in his state. Seems that since 1942 Cali fornia has lost over 820,000 acres of productive farm land to resi dential and commercial develop ment. By commercial develop ment I assume that they (whoever "they" are) are talking about lupermarkets. The1 idea of a super market is to get everything under one roof at somewhat lower prices than downtown so you can spend eight dollars worth of gas driving out to take advantage of the savings. Anyway, the governor has fi nally put his foot down. Last week ho told the Slate Association of Soil Conservation Districts that -they (the state, this time) couldn't afford to lose another single acre to urbanization. Urbanization is that movement wherein everything from swamps to eight-crop farmlands are "de veloped" as urban areas where everyone who has a surplus of cash in his pockets can buy a half acre of land, put up a ranch style home, buy a station wagon and paint on the door "Strcamedgc Hunch," or "Pino Butte Ranch." I once had a friend who bought one of these places and named it "Seven Sycamores and a P I n e Stump." At any rule, legislation to pre vent any more encroachment by civilization on farmlands that could otherwise be taken out of production under the federal soil bank plan is beginning to be called greenbclt legislation." This is typical of California whose slogan, 1 understand, is "Keep California Green Bring Money." Final note: Scientists working under filtered conditions at UCLA have conic up with a method of placing insecticides in asphalt to kill termites. A t U i n layer of asphalt is laid on the ground and mixed with insect poison. Then the foundation of the house is laid over this. When the termites cat the asphalt olf they come to the poison and drop dead, thus protecting the house. I wish the research boys would now conic up with a system of underlying our highways with magnets that would automatically tuck nails, taeks, phonograph needles and other sharp objects out of sight before they rammed a hole in your lire. That would be something practical. trying to understand and prophesy what your opinions and ideas will be from day to day. The fisher man wants to know what kind and size of shrimp you like best, the manufacturer wants to find out how you like the pockets on your work shirts made, the educator is interested in your ideas on John nie and Mary's progress in school and do you think the quality of education is poor or do you think we need more teachers and better school buildings? The politician is forever probing to see how you react to the catch phrases like little man" or "just a worker" or the oldie of "big business vs the farmer and working man." The relationship of Oregon citi zens to the world around them is the most complex one possible. There is no decision made in Cuba when a dictator is overthrown; or when Russia launches a Sputnik or Egypt and Syria become one nation; or when the Gravel Junc tion folks decide not to reach for another can of coffee or an extra dozen eggs off the shelf of the food market; or the price of beef goes up and the price of chicken comes down; that doesn't affect you vitally. Probably you can't spend time enough, and in fact don't want to be bothered with reading about and listening to reports on all these things. The purpose of this column is to capsule some of the thinking that is floating around, and to hand some of the ideas that are proposed on various matters, back to you for your evaluation and decision. It really doesn't matter whether or not you agree with me. It is far more important if you decide for yourself what the answer is, on the basis of the facts and their relationship to your life in Oregon and the rest of the world. No one can ever be in complete agreement with anyone else on every topic under discussion. The reason is quite obvious and simple. We are all completely different one from the other, even though we are subjected to almost the same experiences and educational backgrounds. Even the same par ents is not a factor in producing mass thinking or Indoctrination of ideas. This is one of the most po tent arguments for democracy that exists. As long as we are. a nation of nonconformists, except in matters that we weigh carefully and arc decided upon as being for the good of the most of the people, our un regimented thinking will continue to produce the leadership and courage to cope with the part of the world that is being taught in regimented classes and placed in groups of leaders and workers. There is no black and while answer to anything. The federal government in the mass is only you. Your state, county, and city government is also John Q. Tax payer and his wife. So, don't try to push your responsibilities off on anyone else . . . look them in the eye . . . squarely I i from nearly all the Western states participated in instructing and training the snow surveyors and interested people from the United States, Alaska, Canada and Aus tralia at the Jackson Snow Survey Training Conference. The Forest Service, Red Cross, Extension Service and other pub lic and private agencies assisted the training program and absorbed as much of the interesting ma terial as possible. The training conference covered snow measurement, soil and mois ture measurement, snow machine operating, .skiing, snow shoeing first aid, avalanche hazards, sur vival, search and rescue and the use of snow survey in farm and ranch planning. Survival was stressed above all subjects in that the trainees were divided into four groups each of which was subdi vided into two man teams. Each team constructed its own shelter, prepared a bed and spent the night in subzero temperatures and snow storms common to the Jackson area. The cooperative snow surveys has one of the finest safety rec ords in the nation's history. This has been recognized by the Na tional Safety Council in a letter to D. A. Williams, SCS adminis trator, slating: "I know this work involves serious problems of cop ing with such hazards as over mountain travel in remote areas and in extremely cold tempera tures with constant danger of ava lanche conditions, blizzards, and other hazards involved in travel at high altitudes and under moun tainous conditions. So I am sure it must indeed be gratifying to you that this work has been carried out so effectively for the past 17 years with 800 to 1,000 employes in the mountainous Western states and thai not a single life has been lost. This Is indeed an outstanding record and one of which you and all cooperating agencies engaged in this great work should be very proud. I might also add that SCS and cooperative snow surveyors in the last 17 years have traveled over 400,000 miles in establishing this record. After completing training Maur ice Benson, SCS, Redmond, and the writer will continue our snow measurements high in the Cas cades to gather data which will be used to forecast the water supply for the coming year. 'Oregon . . . IS A" By JOSEPHINE K1TTHEDGE You, as an Oregoninn, are one of the most important people in the world! Too often lor comfort 1 hear some of yon solemnly tell jng a neighbor that. "I am just a little guy, there is no use my trying to consider or change any of the conditions that exist in m town or ' state or in the world. No one pays any attention to us jittle fellows." Vou are wrong, brother. . The wholt world is scared to Water W'Milili By JACK L. GILLETTE Editor's Note: Gillette is field engineer for the Soil Conservation Service at Silver Lake. The ar ticle covers a West Wide Snow Survey Training Conference held January 20-24 at Jackson, Wyoming. Water is the key to .the eco nomic stability of the West. Snow surveys determine the water sup ply for irrigation, power, cities, recreation and many other fields. It also indicates the intensity of runoff. SCS water forecast supervisors IVl'WS llOIi By JAMES O. OLSON There is little likelihood that any additional candidate will appear lor cither the Republican or Demo cratic nominations for governor, even though there are still 30 days until the closing date for filing, March 7. From present appearances it is extremely likely that neither Sec retary of Slate Mark Hatfield and State Treasurer Sig Unandcr will take pot shots at one another dur ing their campaign for the Repub lican gubernatorial nomination. Instead they will probably fol low the sage advice once given" by James Farley, who masterminded Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first campaign and several (hereafter, when speaking lo a group of Dem ocratic party workers on the eve of a primary campaign said. "Re member boys, don't place rocks in your snowballs in a primary election." But there is little question thai both I'nnndcr and Hatfield wel come the entry of Lew Wallace, former state senator and long a Democratic wheelhorse nnd Wiley W. Smith, Multnomah County as sessor in the race against Governor Holmes. Wallace, it will be recalled, came within an eyelash of defeating Gov ernor Holmes in the 1956 primary election, this despite the fact that he had withdrawn from the race due to temporary illness. Smith won the Democratic nom ination for state treasurer in 1956 but was defeated by State Treasur er Unander in the general elec tion November 6, 1956 by a vote of 416,410 to 295,419. However, the picture has changed since that time so far as Gov. Holmes is concerned. He now has the prestige of the chief ex ecutive's office, has the power to make appointments throughout the state and as governor is in the constant glare of publicity through all news mcdias, newspapers, radio and television. And yet candidates on the out side of state government can pose a real threat, and naturally the two Republican candidates are hopeful that Wallace and Assessor Smith will keep the governor so busy answering their charges, par ticularly relating to Oregon's- tax structure, that he will have little time to devote to them. Smith has Ijad a running feud with the State Tax Commission, maintaining the property reapprais al program being carried out is wrong in principle and Minlawful Wallace is making an effort to place an initiative measure on the ballot giving property tax payers a 25 per cent homestead credit on their local taxes. And an effort to lower taxes is always popular. Aside from the congressional rac es, the governor's race looms as the most important to be decided in the 1958 elections. Even though a man occupying the governor's chair has many ad vantages, he also faces some dis advantages. For instance, when he makes an important appointment to a board or commission or to the judiciary generally a half dozen persons who successfully sought the position are cither disappointed or downright sore. Then the day to day decisions a governor is called upon to make. bring mixed emotions. Such dcci sions please some and irritate oth ers. Of 12 governors of Oregon scrv ing prior to the election of Gov Holmes, only three were continued in office for a second term. All others were either defeated or died in office. Two justices of the State Su prcme Court, George Rossman and Randall B. Kester seek reelection and Rex Putnam, superintendent of public instruction and Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nilsen also will be up for re-election. Leg islative races in llie various dis tricts of the stale will arouse some interest, and of course there will be considerable campaigning for the four congressional seats in the state. However, Oregon members of Congress will be in session. Out side of some quick trips home, they will have to depend on their friends and long-dislance c a m paigning from Washington, D.C., until alter Congress adjourns. Pogo Wl6 65TA9LI6H60 THAT lf :AK5lJPWlTMycUtf NAN C IN A'Y MOUTH. T'tl A 6 SN OP BAP Hit. 0Uf WHAT SOT -rare, & HNP A PREVENTATIVE; F?KTHg0Ap,u WHICH (Ml J THS saw. I " N I I THINK T 301 A -PSA ) PUT THg$g Cf -l-rJOtP TILL A AMNUTS. 71 THEN vU CAN'T r C T 6' iP NO' f' l . uu.-o. I H'5H LACED INf J SI :j 5T A Ml CC99 PI JV7 )TI 1 7-pr. r.- i ii i c f.-rc r "kv.. ni i i ,0. By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON - Mikhail A Menshikov, the new Soviet am bassador, arriving in the capital to lake up his duties, on what he plans to do in the post: "I'll try to do my best lo do ev erything to establish and strength en the atmosphere and under standing and trust between our countries." NEW YORK -Sarah Churchill actress and daughter of Sir Win ston Churchill, on being informed by airport employes tl at she had just missed a trans-Atlantic flight that was to carry her to a reun ion with her father: "If you can't do me the cour tesy of boarding me, then do the obvious. Tell me 1 can't go." WASHINGTON' -Rep. Leon H Gavin iR-Pa.i, on reports that Harold Stassen is on the way out as presidential disarmament ad viser and will seek the GOP gu bernatorial nomination in Penn sylvania: "I can sec no reason why he should adopt Pennsylvania to fur ther his political ambitions." HOLLYWOOD -Carol) n Jones the actress who will appear oppo site Elvis Presley, in the singer's last movie before he enters the Army, on the New York actors who raised their eyebrows be cause she took the role: "Most of llie time you'll hnd the loudest critics are out of work. It's so un ihic lo earn a living." "li0 TILL MEXT Ay7!'!! W. L l-SsS WYMV(STONEy47 s ""time-. I'LL lJ15.! BREAK THE BOOK J.& STOMEY- &UT OME SYSTEM THEY DO HAVE IM COMMON IS HITTINI6 THE 6-FOR--S GUY EVERY WEEK!-' Searchers Hunt Crash Victims SALT LAKE CITY. Utah Iff) - Officers launched a search today for two men still missing after the crash of 'a light plane in Great Salt Lake. The bodies of two men were re covered yesterday, shortly after the wreckage was discovered. Two others were reported to have been aboard. Missing were Dwayne Daniels of Salt Lake City and Glenn 11. llyalt of Sandy, Utah. The dead were Ross Boyd Miller of Bountiful, Ulah, the pilot, and Garr Bennett, 38, Murray, Utah. 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