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PAGE 6 A HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON FRIDAY, MAY 3D. 1953 FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor Entered u aecond clau mstur l Uw pou offic M Klamath PaUa, Or., on August 90. Itot. under act of Congress. March I. lilt 8ERVICE81 ASSOCIATED PRESS U KITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER I MONTH 1.80 MONTHS ( t.OO I YEAR SU 00 MAIL 1 MONTH I 1.50 MONTHS 1 60 1 YEAR 113.00 '"Keep Living' By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (API On Memori al Day you might as well put the moral at the start: "Keep Living!" The purpose of the dead is for us to be. They ran out of breath for us. On this day of national recog nition of mortality, time gives us a pause. This pause gives us time to reflect. We jubilee the past and hold a heart-coming for the dear dead. ' Memorial Day is an opportunity. It is an opportunity to admire your ancestors , , . there under known stars they glimmer un known forever. They put us here. It is a day to honor a husband, brother, son, or a friend, dead or away and absence is a form of death. The whole problem of Memorial Day is one of transportation. You are transported by your loyalties . . , and remembrance. Life hesitates ... the eternal growl of ambition is reduced to a grumble. Yet a son as he sheds a tear on the grave of his father wants to step farther and be bur ied near. There on the hill of a moment, a humanity afraid of itself flics the flag all people salute the one that waves for the ones who went before. it would he nice on Memorial Day if neither the dead nor the living were altogether alone. ViviK'ions Colonel By LOWRY BOWMAN United Press International loi. II. u. Bradley is a reg ular Army officer who has a yen to leave the routine of third Army headquarters in Atlanta , , , and get back into act'on. , Usually, a desire for action is not surprising. But in the case of Colonel Bradley almost everything is surprising. The "ft" stands for Ruby ... and Col. Ruby Bradley is ono of only three permanent full colonels in the Army Nurse Corps. She holds the highest rank available to women. A small, dark-haired woman, the vivacious colonel loolis some thing like the traditional school teacher. She certainly doesn't look much like what she is . . . -tlio Army's most decorated nurse. Colonel Bradley has seen action in two wars and she spent three years as a prisoner in a Japanese prison camp. Now, Ruby Bradley is head of the Army Nurse Corps in the South . . , hut she suys she's not the type for desk work. Colonel Bradley says: "I'd like to go back to Asia, or to Europe, and return to the ground floor of nursing." When World War II broke out, the sparkle-eyed brunette was in the Philippines. She was captured on Luzon shortly alter outbreak of the war, and was taken to San to Tomas Prison at Manila. The Army nurse tipped the scales at a trim 111) pounds when she was captured. Three years o( a starvation rice diet, however, pared her down to Rfi pounds by the time she was released. Whili in the prison camp. Huhy Brad ley delivered 13 babies and helped in more than 200 operations using only primitive instruments and few medical supplies. Colonel Bradley was named chief of Army combat nurses at tnc beginning of the Korean ac tion. Throughout the fighting she stayed near the front lines. The diminutive nurse set up casuallv hospitals throughout South Korea and stayed near the wounded night and day even sleeping with ord Inary field equipment in a tent near the wounded. Her work, and her devotion to duly, has been noticed. Colonel Bradley was the first women to be given an international honor guard . . . holds the Hrono Star with Oak Leaf Cluster and was presented the Florence Niglitin gale Medal by the International Red Cross. And the president of Korea's Association of Nurses, thanked the American Army nurse fur her efforts and prophesied: Your un dying glory will be recorded in our history, and in the history of the world. The government of Premier Fe lix Gaillard was in distress when Defense Minister Jacques Chaban Delmas made a brief tour of Al giers. With him went his assist ant Leon Delbeque. That was be fore Gaillard was defeated and was succeeded by Pierre Pflim lin. , These stories are hard to estab lish blow by blow but the reports reaching Paris are that, at each stop, Delbeque got in touch with local groups, evidently independ ently of Chaban-Delmas. He told them to be ready for a rush toward De Gaulle as a quick aftermath of the fall of the Gail lard government. How much of this was told to General De Gaulle is unknown. Clearly he never had any hand in the sort of uprising that developed in Algeria for his character and reputation seem much against this. But then it came, it was threatening, and De Gaulle acted with his famed pro nouncement. But these things now seem so far in the past, so much has hap pened and so much is happening almost hourly. As for De Gaulle's background When he was campaigning in 1950 he attacked the then much discussed European army plan under which German, French and other Western European armies would be put in a single uniform These were days when France was still finding it hard to forget German concentration camps. I he idea that French troops might find themselves under com mand of German officers was ab horrent to De Gaulle. He did not mince words about it. Will he now approve in its pros ent form an. alliance which al ready has French troops under command of German Gen. Hans Speidel? It seems highly unlikely. Just how that will change French relationship with Germany in the North Atlantic Treaty Al liance is one of the big questions. Will he attempt to break up the common market plan by which France seeks to eliminate tariff and quota barriers across fron tiers of Western Europe? On the economic and industrial level, he once talked of seeing in dustry run, on a private level, through committees representing both workers and management. He never spelled it out, just what that involved. He has rarely gone beyond say ing that with a government in power respected by the people, many problems now great would become small. Beyond that, this great mystery man remains a mystery, but France clearly expects within the next few days or weeks to know much of what he thinks. What many now in the government wor ry about most, is what those who come into government with De Gaulle may plan for the country On that, there Is no answer. lie (Hiiile's .pproncli By P11KSTOX G ROVER AP Paris Bureau Chief PARIS I API - Gen. Charles do Gaulle's approach to the doorstep of power in France seems to have happened fast. But there is a w ide belief that it was planned in ad vance. Correspondents returning iioin Algiers have seen ollicers there who talk freely of the preparations for It. Preparations ran hack at least six weeks betore Do Gaulle's declaration last week that he Mas ready to assume the powers of the republic, the ofliccrs say. Triliiiio By JAMES MA It LOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (API -Tribute can he paid this Memorial Day when the French arc in crisis to the American Founding Fathers lor their wisdom in establishing this kind of government. Here is a brief rundown -there's no room for a lot of detail on why there's stability in ihe American and British gnvoriimon (al systems hut so little in France. which has had 23 governments since World War II. The big curse of the French sys tem is the number of political parties. In the t'nited States and Britain there are only two major political parlies: here the Demo crats and Republicans: in Britain the Conservatives and Laborites In the French Assembly the 596 seats are divided among at least 12 major political groups rang ing from far left to far right and a number of splinter factions. The French have wanted this broad representation for varied viewpoints to prevent one man, or one party, from dominating. This stems from their historical, recol lection of, and their distaste for, dictatorships. The Communists have the great est number of Assembly seats: 142 out of the 506 total. Next most powerful are the Socialists, with 17, and so on down to nine mem bers not connected with any party. When there is a major issue the Premier or for that matter anyone in the Assembly can call for a vote of confidence in the Premier and the group around him running the country at the moment. If a premier fails in the vote ol confidence, The President (merely a figurehead in France) must find someone else who can get enough support form the various factions to form a new government, That support, as the history of these past 13 years shows, has never lasted long. The result has been instability that has brought the republic tottering to the edge of chaos. The British don't have that kind of trouble. In the House of Com mons the two big parties Con servatives and Laborites dom inate the House of Commons They hold almost all the seats be tween them, with the Conserva tives in a majority. There a party is chosen to run the government for five years. The leader of the party become prime minister. If he faces a major issue where he loses a vote of confidence, or thinks there's doubt he has such confidence, he can ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament and order new elections. In this country, because of the provisions written into the Con stitution, there is more stability than under the British system al though it may be argued the American system may not be so responsive to public feeling as the British. Here a president and vice pres ident aro elected for four-year terms, to run the government. They can't ho ousted in that peri od except for gross misconduct, no matter what members of Con gress feel about them. To allow the people to express their views during that four-year period, the Constitution calls for election every two years of the entire membership of the House and a third of the Senate. This illustrates how completely Ihe two big American parties dom inate the American governmental system: in the 1956 presidential election, over 62 million votes were cast. Although a number of other parlies ran candidates, al together they got less than 1 per cent of the vote. And there are only Democrats and Republicans, in Congress now, with the Democrats in charge be cause they outnumber the Repub licans. armed forces, but to reservists only if they were retired for phys ical disability. The new law now gives .equal waiver privileges to all veterans receiving retired pay for either regular or reserve military service. VA emphasized, however, that reservists must be otherwise eli gible for compensation or pension to take advantage of the waiver Full information on the law can be obtained at any VA office. QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Q My wife and I are both vet erans. The house we live in was bought with the aid of my GI loan, and we need a bigger one now, because our family has grown. Can my wife use her GI loan benefit for another house? A Yes. Your wife may still use her loan benefit even though you have used yours. Vels Mull Hiig Veterans Administration has ex plained Ihe provisions of a new law permitting a reservist draw ing nondisabilily retired pay lor military service, to receive Veter ans Administration compensation equal amount of his retired pay. The law, which is widely misun derstood by retired reservists and ether interested persons, is Pub lic Law H.V375. and it became elfective May 1, I'm. Voder previous laws, the waiver privilege was open to all re tired members of the regular Pogo WMV,AMSim.UAHPtN NANNV. t 1 WHEN I F0U.CSr CTg TUgg II ftUU CN, wgH Mgrf, YOU -l"J Am I --3Q Y- f SOU PO IT cv puapoit. SOU PUPPY- CHICKEN eCG, i9 HJW.NCU AITPiXT va plavjsj- aim. cp thp 1 av V ' I Ou, I LOVBS THf AOAOIO- RANCtA DANCSr Opinion H. pressed Klamath Agency 'To the Ed itor) I have read the views land opinions of many wise and I learned men on what is good and bad for the Klamath Indians. Now with your kind indulgence I would like to express my opinion, that of a lower grade Indian Service employe. I have worked with the Klam ath people for the past three years. Among them I have seen good ranchers, businessmen, art ists, and athletes. I have seen pride, initiative, and tolerance. I have also seen rascals. These peo ple seem to me a typical Amer ican cross section. As to termination, I have a pet theory that I probably share with no one else. Also one that will no doubt provide grounds for a good many arguments. No doubt it was necessary to create reservations at the time of settlement, but I believe the term ination should have been started a long time ago, and should have been a long gradual process. The argument put forth by most people is that the Indian is irre sponsible and lacks incentive. Now let's take a look back through the years. The Indian was a proud independent man who fought for what he believed was right. Out numbered and overpowered by the white man, he was relegated to an area called a reservation, and an invisible barrier built around it. He was told to forget his Indian ways, even his language, and learn the way of the white mar. Schools were built and teachers were brought in to educate the Indian, and instruct him in farming and trades. Unfortunately, the govern ment did not always screen these instructors thoroughly, and in competence and tactlessness brought disrespect not only for them but the government as a whole. Then as the Indian did learn Ihe white man's ways, the gov ernment continued to hover over him like a dotingmother over an incompetent child," rather than giv ing him his independence and mak ing him feel an equal. There is little wonder that after nearly a hundred years of such protection, the Indian may have lost some of his incentive, as would any group under similar circumstances. Segregation is usually considered a nasty word, and generally as sociated w ith the southland and the Negro peoples. Although few of us would admit it, segregation has existed here. It has never exist ed to the extent of Jim Crow law. but deep down inside many white men (eel that tho Indian is not quite his equal. Fortunately, I be lieve this way of thinking is on the way out. But the Indian is a proud, sensitive person and it will take many years, perhaps gener ations, (or the ill feelings to be erased. The present termination bill was initiated by a man who sincerely believed it was for the good ot the people. What the outcome will be is anybody's guess. There will be a good deal of cash involved, and there will be people waiting lo relieve the Indian ot it. Frank, sincere, honest counsel by business men and investors could not only affect the basic economy of the county, but could also help to ce ment relations between the white man and Indian. Sincerely. Nelson Sharp i CHOW J i -J- X V 1 tjuoles By United Press International PARIS Gen. Charles de Gaul le, in appealing for his nation's cooperation: Events which are driving us may become tragic from one day to another." SAN FRANCISCO - United Airlines Pilot W. K. Wolfe, in charging that an Air Force B4T bomber buzzed his plane near Sa linn, Kans: "It was too close lor comfort." They'll Do It Every Time . . By Jimmy Hatlo Clil7 1 saw him BQeAK theW i hope i cam elmo--4?s you sure voui? '5? WINDOW AMD "THE 1 PROVE I COULDN'T Vl 8SOTHEI? IS STILL IN VOO Ji Tl tV4TCHES-HE WAS A BI6 I l-EdVE THE HOUSE-XJKIOW WHERE ? ' . I T4LL CUV IM A DECBY A "THEVU. IDENTIFY '-S::ZTrr7 ST H4T-HE H4D A GREEN ME NEXT-IF n wul A T THEY DIDN'T SUIT4ND4 RED u -f DdME THEV WUZ M EVEN SEE IT 5yVRw TIE"- I DESCaaNO THEY'D I THEV WECE AT JgJP5 t0Ts 4 rUVE HES COLD DOwH U THE DELC4TESSE gZS4tf HiMTWO,UJCRE-n4" TO THE GUSSETS 1 GETTING SUPPER CLE4R4S4uy- M THERE WERE IN HER S4CK-"P09 THE OLD M4N sHij y I nfMS WV f?E4L COPS yOB! RSTAS THOSE TVS 'feyVlaS' fjllfliftfl llAW TWI0 iVHATU H4T TIP gfOY V dryr&m$k$P tolieut.clemburick. i COMMUNITY HOSPITAL Construction Men Walk Off Editor's Note This is the second in a series of articles discussing the need for a community hospital. ' By BILL DECKER The early steps in planning for a new hospital in Klamath County may not be as involved as the later,- more technical problems, but they are the most important. First the need must be deter mined. How big a hospital Graham Prays For France SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-Evan-gelist Billy Graham led 16.000 persons in the San Francisco Cow Palace in a prayer for the people of France Thursday night. Graham began his evening meeting with a request that his audience rise and join him in praying for France in the "dark est hour" that country has faced in many years. "France has paid a greater price for freedom than any coun try in the world." Graham said. "Her leadership for today lies on the banks of the Marne among the dead of World War I, and along the German border among the dead of World War II.." He prayed that the French peo ple might avert civil war and that they emerge "stronger and more united than ever before." . On his topic for the evening. "Christ As a Teen-Ager," Graham pointed out that Jesus spent no time "lying around watching tel evision or listening to Elvis Presley." 28 MILLION TO ONE CINCINNATI (AP) Somebody in the U.S. Bureau of Statistics figured out that the odds against three members of a family being born on the same date were 28 million to one. Meet the Cincinnati boys who met those odds Bruce Bardes, It), and his brothers. Dale 17, and Todd, 11, who celebrated their birthdays yesterday. should be planned? With our pop ulation growing at the rate it is, how many beds should be pro vided? The Chamber of Com merce reveals that the county has seen an increase in population of over 1,000 a year for the past several years. If we continue to grow at that rate we would be wasting our time and money to plan too small a hospital which would be inadequate by the time it was completed. Harry E. Palmer, who is di rector of hospital planning and construction for the Oregon State Board of Health, has assured this writer of that agency's complete cooperation in determining the needs of Klamath County for hos pital facilities. He has pointed out the importance of a very careful study of the situation and the fu ture when approaching a project of such magnitude. Oliver Larson, who is at pres ent industrial manager for the Ta coma Chamber of Commerce, took an active part in helping both Leb anon . and Springfield complete their hospital projects. He is of the opinion that professional ad vice and guidance are essential to the success of any hospital cam paign, particularly in the prelimi nary survey stage. We must not only determine the number of beds to be provided but we must consider the services a new hospital should offer. When these two elements are decided a program can be drawn up which will show with reasonable com pleteness what each department of the hospital will require in terms of area, major equipment and person nel. Too much emphasis can not be placed on the importance of this preparatory work. If the pro gram is clearly thought out at this stage a great deal of time and money will be saved and a better hospital will result. IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) Some 270 construction workers have walked off tho job of building a flight engine test facility for America s aircraft nuclear engine. No reason could be learned to day. The men walked off late Wednesday. About 30 laborers and iron workers were all who showed up yesterday morning. The facility, scheduled for com pletion next year, is designed to test an aircraft nuclear engine in conjunction with the frame of an airplane, a typical crew compart ment and aircraft control systems. Robert Good, a spokesman lor Wright,- Cheney and Burch, Inc a combine of three construction firms from the state of Washing ton, said he had heard only ru mors on the cause of the walkout and was not at liberty to say what the cause was at this time. The facility is located on the National Reactor Testing Station west oi here in eastern Idaho. It is part of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion project operated for tne Atomic Energy Commission by the General Electric Co. STRICT JUDGE ALBUQUERQUE (AP)-A van dal altered the letters on a sign pointing to Dist. Judge Carl A. Hatch's office so that it read, "U.S. Strict Judge." Moments be- lore the judge had meted out sen fences totaling 13 years to three men. 2, JENHMflt' rATHW OH HtS DAY JUKE !S JUST IN TIME FOR FATHER'S DAY! SPECIAL On Famous Brand White Shirts Rcq. $4 & $5 Dress Shirts Reduced to AXy T1WaM t J S 325 Wl-lv- s'F lb Father's Doy V aV II ITS wMaUM I One Rack of Liqht Weight JACKETS Vi Price Loads of Gifts for Dad PLUS 6th and Main Don Anderson Gene Favell Ex-Con Faces Prison Term rmr4GO (AP) Paul (The W'aiter) Ricca, who took over as one of the leaders ot tne old la- pone crime syndicate wnen !car (sna Al u-ont in r.rknn was con Ivicted yesterday of evading near ly $100,000 in income taxes. The 60-year-old ex-convict, who i farini oossible deDortation. may be sent to prison as long as la years ana nnea wu.uuu 011 me inpMna lav nvacinn verdict. A jury in U. S. District Court delib erated more than 16 hours before returning its verdict. Ricca served four years in fed eral prison when he and other luarfincr fhirann hoodlums werfl convicted in the million-dollar la bor extortion of the Hollywood movie industry. He was paroled in 1947. The government accused him of holding back some $99,000 in taxes in 1948, 1949 and 1930. The govern- mont eniH thp mnnpv ramp from syndicate operations Ricca then controlled. Ricca's attorneys said Ricca's lavish spending in 1948-1950 came from $300,000 he had hidden in the attic of his suburban River For est home. . Ricca, tight lipped at the jury's verdict, was released on $10,000 Bond pending arguments June n on a motion for a new trial. The jury acquitted Ricca and his tax attorney Joseph P. Bulger, of conspiracy. This verdict exon erated Bulger completely. Sailor's Graves Now Shipshape QUINCY. Mass. (AP) The graves of 150 long-forgotten sailor- men were shipshape this Memo rial Day because of Siegfried von Hartenstein, 87, retired gun ner's mate. Six years ago he came across a desolate, weed-grown cemetery with rotting wooden crosses. He embarked on a one-man rehabili tation project, with watering pot, gardening tools and tulip bulbs. His ellorts through the years at tracted the attention and cooper ation of the American Legion and the Quincy Veterans Bureau. Pilots Told To Report LOS ANGELES (AP Western Air Lines pilots are under com pany orders today to report for duty Sunday. But the line strikebound by the Air Line Pilots Assn. for 97 days has not set a date for resump tion of service, and an ALPA spokesman termed the announce ment "just a pressure move." The union said pilots won't show up unless arbitration and back - to - work agreements are signed in the meantime. Western and the ALPA agreed Saturday that after five further days of arbitration they would submit unresolved issues to bind ing arbitration. But a union spokesman said this agreement was contingent on the signing of the two agreements and that neither has been signed. Western ceased operation when the strike began. Yesterday the line said it had sent special de livery letters to pilots to report at 8 a. m. 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