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PACE SIX HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON TUESDAY. JTTNE 17. 195B They'll Do It Every Time FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor Entered a aeeond claw nutter at Uie poet offlea at Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 30. ISO, under act ot Congreaa. March I. "laifl SMVlCESi ASSOCIATED PRKSS U KITED PRE8 AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California 8L'B3CRnT10N RATES CARRIER I MONTH I I 60 MONTHS I t.OO I YEAR 118.00 MAIL I MONTH I I 50 MONTHS I 7.50 1 YEAR 113 00 Ititf Division By FLOYD L. WYNNE The world is full of decisions, and occasionally one of them comes home to roost on my stooped shoulders. Against the best advice of those of my friends I would class as ne'er do wells, I went ahead and had my back yard planted in grass. It's slightly smaller than Yankee stadium, but not much. Gleefully, I anticipated the day when I would have a large vcr- dant sward that would do credit to any park. I didn't realize that 1 was creating a Frankenstein. But, I do now. It's like a baby at feeding time , . . it has to be given attention. First, I began with a hand mow er. But, in time, even my weak mind began mentally to total the staggering distance that mind and body was forced to cover in the mowing process. In all, I figured that while mow ing my back yard I would physi cally walk almost seven miles This is quite a hike in itself, but combined with a lawn mower, it makes quite a trip. So, purely as a self preserva tion measure, I decided to buy a power mower. That's where the big decision came in. The power lawn mower world is just about equally divided between rotary or reel-type mowers. One fellow says, "I'd trade my rotary if anybody would trade." Another is willing to trade his reel-type. Being new to the field I ven tured to ask "What's Ihe differ ence? Certainly a power mower is a power mower, and either you sit on them or you walk behind them. But, I found it isn't that sim ple. Some of the rotaries are self propelled, some are not. Some pitch it out the side, some the back. Some can be fitted for grass catchers, some cannot. Some ro taries chew up the grass and leave it in big clods, some don't. And reel-type are not as simple, either. Some are self-propelled, some are not. Some have the type that the reel slops when the clutch is out, some don't. By now I'm so confused,, I'm almost ready to go back to my hand mower , . . almost, but not quite. I keep remembering that seven miles of roadwork. But through it all that big de cision kept staring me in the lace. To add io the problem. Almost every salesman told me that if you had a rough or hilly ground the rotary was better, and if it was level and smooth, the reel type was belter. That's fine except that the back of my yard is level and smooth, and the front is rough. Well, I couldn't put if off for ery time I mow Ihe back yard, sometime, so I did. I selected the reel-type mower. How did I arrive at Ihis de cision. Well, my brother-in-law lives across the street. He has a rotary, and my sole reasoning was that if he wasn't satisfied with his rotary, he could borrow my reel-type, and Cigaret companies are probably the most prolific in presenting new brands, sizes, filters and formulas. Cigarets come in king size, modern and standard sizes, with the al leged amount of nicotine decreased until they can vie for top spot in a national rating for unharm- ful smokes. And they didn't ask you and me if we wanted a harmless smoke. If a person doesn't want the taste and effect of nicotine let him stop smoking or buy de- nicotine cigarets. This week, a good many of you will find your favorite type of a certain brand of cigarets is no longer on the stores' shelves. It is to be replaced with a "better" formula, the man behind the coun ter will tell you. It isn't the merchant's fault. It was news to him, too, that one of his best sellers is being changed again. Personally, I'd like to have a little talk with Ihis "consumer who keeps demanding changes that upset my buying habits. if I wasn't satisfied with it, I could borrow his rotary. So far I'm happy. I still walk the seven miles cv ery time I mow the backyard but I'm so busy throwing the clutch in and out, turning corners, and trying to keep that mower going that the fust thing I know I've walked the seven miles and the lawn is mowed. But no nwe big decisions this week please. ('oMMiimi'r Suffers By FLORENCE JENKINS It can't help appearing to the long-suflering ultimate consumer that the law of supply and demand has slipped a cog somewhere along the line. When a now product or a new formula for an old one is intro duced, newspapers usually get a publicity story through which the manufacturer hopes to impress the buying public with the idea that his product is the ultimate in that line. The publicity release alrmst invariably says that the new prod uct has hern brought out at great expenses, alter loni; research, sole ly because of demand on the part of Hie consumer. Like the cdilori.il "we," there is something pretty nebulous about the identity of the consumer who is continually "demanding" changes. Nobody asked me, for example. If I wanted a change in the form ula ol a certain brand of quickly prepared while rice. I'll bet you weren't asked, either. Yet Ihe new. improtrd version is with us and you can't buy the old lamiltar kind you could whip up without looking at the recipe on the back Wild rice is even worse. It's Improved to the (J ace you have o lie mighty lucky In come up with something that etiQ tastes like viM rice. Different By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK AP) - Lite may not have been better in the good old days but it sure was dif ferent: Remember when Ihe best kind of unemployment insurance was an interest in your work? When it was felt no baby had been properly welcomed inlo the world until it had been photo graphed naked while lying flat on its stomach on a fur rug? When saloons competed to see which could serve the best free lunch in town? When more popcorn was eaten in the American home than in movies? When you could always earn a little ice cream cone money by picking potato bugs in a neighbor's garden at a penny a hundred? When, long before Paris dis covered the gunny sack look dresses made from used lour sacks were part of every country girl s basic wardrobe? When mother always kept a can of million tallow on the back of the kitchen stove to grease our wet shoes? (No one could even spell lanolin then.) When dogs were allowed lo run free in the streets but children weren't? When Ihe biggest possible blow lo your financial standing was to lose your credit rating at the public library? When you were sure that you weren't really the child of your parents but had been sold to them by some traveling gypsies, who had stolen you from a rich home? i Psychiatrists now say practically every child gets this romantic idea in some form or another.) When people look more pride in their flower beds than their mar tini'? When Ihe only thing more cer tain than death and taxes was that, if you picked up a hopload, you'd develop warts? When, walking down a sidewalk, you were always careful not lo step on every crack 'or else you'll break your grandma's back?" When every girls dream was lo grow long curls, just like Marv Pickford's? When it was easy lo tell you'd entered the home of a man of distinction because the brass cuspidor in his parlor always hadJ a dazzling polish? When salt mackerel was a major breakfast delicacy. . and a child cot one orance a year in his Christmas stocking? When more families played "old maid" than hingo? When every medicine chest con tained a bottle of castor oil national tranquilizer? When the only member of the household who worried about his diet was the family pooch and his problem was whether they'd leave him enough table scraps? Snakes By .LOUIS CASSELS United Press International WASHINGTON (UPIi-Man has hated and feared snakes since the time of Adam. And this is the season when both people and snakes get out of their homes to explore the woods, fields and streams. The U.S. Public Health Service docs not know exactly how many people are bitten by snakes each year. It quotes one estimate of 3,000, and says this may be "far too low." Public Health records do show the number of deaths from poi sonous snake-bites. It averages about 14 per year in the United States. There are two reasons why the death rate is so low: Most snakes and hence most snake-bites are non-poisonous. Prompt treatment of a poison ous snake bite is usually effec tive. The fatality rate for untreat ed poisonous snake bites is 10 to 15 per cent. Dr. Henry M. Parrish of the University of Pittsburgh School ol Public Health recently made a de tailed analysis of snake bite deaths in all parts of the coun try. He found: August and September are the peak months for snake bites. June and July are close behind. Three times as many men as women are bitten. Nearly 40 per cent of the vic tims are children under 15. More than half of the victims are bitten on the foot or lower leg. About 37 per cent are bitten on the hand or lower arm. Reptile experts at the Washing ton Zoo said there are 135 known species of snakes in the United Slates, of which 20 are poisonous. Maine is the only state that is "relatively free" of poisonous snakes, and it has a few timbor rattlers. Vermont and New Hamp shire have the sparsest snake population after Maine. The southeastern states, from North Carolina to Texas, have the most kinds of snakes (60) as well as Ihe most snakes. Without getting into scientific nomenclature, there are four gen cral types of poisonous snakes in this country. They are: Rattlesnakes Every state has one or more varieties. More than three-fourths of all snake-bite deaths are caused by rattlers. The South has the huge and dead ly diamondback. which reaches a length of eight feet; the East has the timber rattler: the Great Plains have the prairie rattler; the tar West has at least 12 nasty specimens. coral snakes unc species is found in the Southeast, another in Arizona and New Mexico. Water moccasins sometimes called coltonmouth moccasins. Found in Ihe Southeast from Vir ginia to Florida, and westward to southern Illinois and Texas. Tht so-called mocassin of the North east is a different, non-poisonous species. Copperheads Widely distrib uted east of Ihe Rockies. Unlike other species which move out when man moves in. copperheads like to remain around habitated areas to hunt rats and mice. They inllict more bites than any other poisonous variety but fortunatelv their venom is comparatively weak and they cause few fatali ties. Here are a few tips from Dr. the .Doris Cochran, curator of reptiles at the Smithsonian institution, on how to avoid being bitten by snake this summer: "Most people get bitten because they don't look where they are going. Snakes hide under logs, in thick underbrush, and in rocky crevices. If you are climbing, ex amine a ledge belore you thrust your hand into it. If you are walk ing through the woods, step up on a fallen tree and look before you step over it. Never step or reach into undergrowth without probing first to see if there is a snake there. "Boots or leggings offer good protection, since snakes rarely strike high. "Carry a good light at night and be doubly careful. That's when snakes go prowling in search ol food." Remember, also, that a snake does not have to be coiled in or der to strike. That's an old wives tale. If, in spite ot everything, you are bitten by a poisonous snake the American Red Cross recom mends the following first aid steps: Stop all muscular activity at once. Apply a tourniquet above the bite. Make it tight enough so that blood barely oozes from the wound, but not so tight as to cut off the flow of deep interior ves scls. Sterilize a knife blade with match and make cross-cut inci sions at each fang mark. Try to get one incision into the actual venom deposit, which probably will be below the fang marks (a snake usually strikes downward. Suck the wound (never mind about cuts in your mouth) for an hour or more. Get the victim to a doctor or hospital fast for an anti-venom injection. ' Industry I teller By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (AP) The con struction industry is feeling better Pogo NOW WHIM rui MA - ts MOON Hi SLu.4 uP Tk u? 1V OOPf. TUev A18BUT Bm. But I A'VTfiOHMA l Twg TMJI7MO peril- ,?Tf v co rr. i Y-Vfl. aJ ) UN WltHt- I ST T J A aju.Y)N PSQs V t 0UNNO 9XMP i AMIHA P0APAV , WUH,.AIBST M J A today after some, earlier hard knocks; Business it's losing in one di rection is being made up in an other. And right now the gain ir construction payrolls is playing a major part in bringing the na lion's total of wages and salaries up smartly after months of de cline, the Commerce Department reports Part of the current upturn is aue to netter building weather credit also is given to easier money, especially in the housing Held. But much of the present and most ot the potential boost is com ing from government spending federal, state and local. The good news is: 1. Housing starts have climbed above Ihe annual rate of a million units after touching a low rate of hho.ouo in march, the Labor De partment reports. Ihe year-ago ngure was 1104.000. The future looks hright because applications for FHA and Veterans Adminis tration guarantees of mortgages nave ocen cumrjing steadily. 2. Public projects, which now account for more than 30 per cent of all building spending, are 4 per cent above a year ago, with the road building segment up 6 per cent, according to the economists of the Northern Trust Co. of Chi cago. The Federal Reserve Bank ot New ork says that hicher de mand from Ihe construction indus try accounted for much of the re cent rise in steel output. Looking ahead in this Held: The Bureau of Public Roads is ex pected to award two billion dot lars in additional contracts in the next few weeks. Spending for post offices and other federal buildings is being stepped up. Stale' and local governments arc marketing a record volume of security issues this year, 24 per cent more than a year ago, and most of this money will find its way into construction of such things as schools, water and sewage systems. The bad news is: 1. The big smut in industrial building is over for a time. Up now 105,1 spendinc tor new plants is trailing the like period of last year by 21 per cent. Business men are still cutting hark on earlier estimates of what they'll spend this year and next. Many industries find they alrcadv have built more lacilttics than iiresent demand justified. 2. Commercial buildinc has slowed some too. Yet there is still much activity in erecting offices major cities, and tirovidinc stores and other facilities lo serve the new hnusins developments that went with Ihe big surge ol city folk to the suburbs and the growth of new industrial commu nities in various sections ot the nation. Some builders are count mo on help in the final months of the year from two sources One is r.rr money that could reacti vate some building schemes put on the shelf lor awhile. The other is thai if Ihe slump is leveling out. a tooling of confidence could sup plant the caution that has ruled much business and consumer ihinkuQin recajJJ months. By Jimmy Hatlo RE&OAM IS EDITOC? OF THE EMPLOYEES' M4G42irs)EHE NEVER HAS ENOU&H MATERIAL WHEN HE'S 30lM& TO PRESS 'LO, JOE HHV. VA fisrr AW ITEMS POOM YOUR UCHaiTTMENTf WE'RE SHORT S-S-5f?7 NOTHIMG FPOM J W. KHNT V THE OFFICE SSS JV 4THING,JEI?I the M4IL EOOM-WE'LL I 1 I vJV-Ti , H4VE TO CLIP STUFF Jl V I I . HSOM OTHER f l I IM THE M4IL MJG42INES I 'M rT'y ' V 'yZy&IWE"" E1tMY M4' "Sy WdNTSVOUTD6ET 6, 1- I vSkl THE PHONE OPERATOR, SSj ,M 4 PIECE ABOUT UT THE MINUTE g. H40 TRIPLETS' NEW MERGER I THE ISSUE GOES 1 mp TOcyy.V ""TV TTWAHrtEO SOME WITH FUTELESS- TO PRESSWOVVr zA XSs. . HOTES,JR"WELL,Y' X.'"y. Ati 4V4L4NCHE 1 JTfJ 5& 14 OU(? 6LEE CLUB Jrp p THAHX 4NO A H4HO hjt! tip Dick U1KVCNICK, if, S?5 RK RO., (MOJ JENKIN7UWN, JEMN Convict Serving 100-Year Term Is Successful In Toy Manufacturing Line SPLIT HOLLYWOOD (AP) Nineteen year-old actress Diane Varsi is go ing to divorce James Dickson but keep him as her manager. She filed a complaint alleging extreme cruelly. CHESTER. III. (AP)-A convict serving a 100-year term in Menard State Penitentiary stands to make a fortune from "Kongo Safari,' child's toy. The toy was designed by Clyde Wagner, 42-year-old murderer. Wagner has submitted 70 toy ideas to manufacturers. He holds 70 patents and since 1941 has in vented more than 750 items, rang ing trom a new type cotter pin to jet aircraft. Five loys are production. His "Kongo Safari," a push-pull elephant train, was accepted bv a manufacturer who reported that he displayed Ihe toy at an indus try show in New York this spring and received 700.000 orders. Wagner's royalty is 3 cents on each toy. He could get $21,000 from Ihis toy alone if 7O0.TJ0O are sold. He was convicted in 1037 for Ihe fatal shooting of an Alton. III., po liceman. He won't be eligible to Juvenile Home Inmates Riot SAN JOSE, (UPD-Fifly in mates at San Jose Juvenile Hall rioted Monday when five youths were captured in an escape at tempt. Five officers of the San Jose Police Department were called in to help juvenile authorities re store order as the rioters smashed windows, ripped bedding and shouted threats. Authorities said three rinelead- ers broke a transom window and were attempting to free two oth er youths when a general distur bance began. The three 17-year-old ringleaders were lodged in se curity quarters at Santa Clara County Jail. seek parole until he's served a third of his 100-year term. What would Wagner do with such a bundle of money? He said he'd spend it to keep working on still other ideas. "Getting patents, hiring people outside to build models, and all other things involved have eaten up everything I've made on the inventions I've sold," Wagner said. He didn't say how much money he's made thus far. He works as a vocational in structor in prison. Friendly Helpfulness . T Ivtrv Cried and Pun Ward's Klamath Funeral Home Morquerite M. Ward and Sons 923 Hiqb TU 2-4404 Costello Free ( On Huge Bond NEW YORK (AP) - Gambler Frank Costello remains free ia $25,000 bail pending review of his income tax evasion case by the U. S. Supreme Court. This was the ruling yesterday by the U. S. Court of Appeals. Costello. bo, was convicted of evading $28,532 in taxes for 1048 and 1040. He was released in $25,. 000 bail March 1956 after serving 11 months on a live-year sentence, pending various court artions. Last May 20 the U. S. Court of Appeals upheld a decision of Fed eral Judge John F. X. McGohey denying Costello's motion for a new trial. 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