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FRIDAY, AUGUST 1. 1953 PAGE ft A HERALD AN'D NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREfiON FRANK JENKINS Subscription Rates Editor Entered as second class matter at the post oflice at Klamath Falls. CARRIER BILL JENKINS Ore., on August 20. 1006, under act of Congress, March 8. 1879 t MONTH . $ 1.50 Managing Editor irPC 6 MONTHS $900 FLOYD WYNNE SERWCES: I YEAR S18.00 City Editor , ASSOCIATED TliESS UNITED PRESS mUj MAURICE MILLER ' AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS , MONTH $ 1.50 Circulation Mgr Serving Southern Oregon And Northern Caliornia 6 MONTHS $ 8.50 Ph. TU 4-4752 I YEAR . $15.00 Too Biol By BILL JENKINS I suppose that a certain amount of grousing about the weather is always in order, but I take a sol emn pledge right now that I will not complain one bit about our weather here until it reaches the heights of horror it has in other places recently. Last weekend we were in Port land on business. Drove up on Sunday and found the thermometer at a quivering 102 when we ar rived in that city. Drove out into the suburbs to visit a friend and found it just as hot there. Went hack to a downtown hotel after dinner and put in about as miserable a night as it has ever been my misfortune to encounter. Nothing you could do because it didn t cool off. Unless you consid er dropping Irom 102 to 97 cooling off. Not over Ihree weeks ago we were heading north Irom a visit to the wine country of the Napa and Sonoma Valleys in California when we came to 'roost for the night at Red Bluff. Hod Bluff is a lovely town and we have a number of lovely friends there. The summer climate stinks It was 106 when we rolled in late In the afternoon. But the night was more bearable than the subsequent Portland one due to an air condi tioncr in the room which kept things at least bearable. You could grab a little sleep from time to time. But not in Portland. So, as I said before, I'll quit grousing about our wonderful wca thcr down here. Funny thing about travel is that one of the things you miss the most when away from home is the water. No other water tastes as good or gets you as clean when you shower. Much of it is no good at all for shaving as it sticks like melted margarine. And as far as drinking goes one might as well slick to soda pop. The taste is'so different as to be almost nausea! lug. We may have hard water down here but some of the stuff you run into up north chips basins when you run the water. Every year the travel picture is differenl. This year you notice three things: More boats, more house trailers and more carlop packs. Seems that people aren't getting away from it all when they travel anymore. They just take it with them. Those people up in Portland, in cidentally, are getting a long way ahead of us appleknockers down hero in the Southeast. At least ahead of those of us who don't get a I o u n d much. While shopping around with my host in a super market I came across a machine that looked like a pinball machine but couldn't have been because the sign said it was free. Upon closer Inspection I found that it was a do lt yourself tester for television lubes. A whole line of people wailing, too. Next to it was a display full of a 12-volume do-it-yourself encyclo pedia. Looks like they do lor themselves In the cities, loo. virtually all gave Vergeer a com phmentary word. Several went so far as to ex press concern that the city would now "slip back." Too ollen, however, the advent of a city manager is taken by residents as the arrival of a pan acea for all the city's ills. Vergeer will be the hired man of the mayor and the city council As elected officials this group will continue to run and be respon sible for the affairs of the city The city manager will coordinate the activities of all the depart irenls. He will be in direct charge of all departments, but will be answerable to the mayor and council. However, it will be October 1 before Vergeer assumes the post It will also probably lake another two or three months after that before he will be in a position to take over control of the cilys departments. Vergeer Indicated that he had no intentions of making any de partmental changes, and would un doubtedly have no changes to make until and unless the noccs sity to do so arises. What then is the purpose of hir ing Vergeer? Well, in the first place, you could compare it this way with a IB million dollar corporation which the city of Klamath Falls is. 1 lie corporation must have a general manager . . . that's where the new city manager will fit However, in a corporation, that general manager is responsible to t lie board of directors and the president of the corporation. In a comparable way, the council is the board of directors, and the mayor is president of the hoard. There will be countless ways in which a city manager can give the people more efficient, lighter and belter city government at less cost. There are many ways in which personnel can be niore efficiently utilized, equipment used more ex tensively, purchases made more cheaply . . . and other ways to save the taxpayer money. Now that the city manager has been hired, and the city enters into a new type of administration, we can all give it a hand, by lol ling the city manager get well etlled into his job without any undue publicity. Above all, let's not expect the impossible out of him. He'll do n good job, and I feel will provide a very important coordination for our over-all city government. From all indications, we are fortunate to get a man of Ver- gecr's qualifications for the $10,000 annual price tag. city t'ily .l.-iii.i(r liy FLOYD L WYNNE Klamath Falls now has manager. What will it mean to the resi dents of the city? Well, in the first place, it will not mean that we have a man who can solve all of our city problems. II does not mean thai he will move in. run the town like a ruling despot and install a city government dictatorship. In the first place, G. S. Vergeer Sr., who will become known to the people of the area as "Cony" is a well qualified, thoroughly capable city manager. He has 1.1 years nl cily manager backgrounding, including twice having gone through the switch- i it ii ran mo mayor-council to the council-manager plan. He has done an excellent job ol administering the port Angeles government. During his six lears administration there the city com pleted more than three million dol lars in capital improvements, most nl this street, sanitary and storm sewer improvements. He resigned Irom the Port An geles post in early July. ' Before hiring Vergeer the coun cil wanted to assure ilsell Hut he was the man needed tor the post here, and two coiinnlnien went to Tort Angeles and spent two day there. Coiincilmen Walter Fleet and Oli ver Spiker report that ihcy in terrogated private citizens, bun nessmen, people of every walk of life, including city officials ami By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (API Girls, do you know what is the worst ene my of feminine beauty? Here's what Constance Benncll. one of filmdnm's all-lime glamor dolls, has to say: It is a resentful personality. Any woman who habitually har bors meanness and envv will find n lime they will show in her (ace and make her unattractive." Miss Uennetl, one of the spright- iest daughters of Die day. ran away from school to go to Holly wood, where she starred in 47 ilms and a number of marriages. Mic was also perhaps the first movie star to earn a $:i.i,ooo week- salary and one of the first ladv ilm producers. Following the tra dition of her gilted father, Rich ard Benncll, early matinee idol. he turned later to the stage. She also has done a lew stints as a supper club chanteuse. Currently she is starring on the road in the hit comedy. "Auntie Maine." a vivacious role that fits her like a girdle. Connie, who still tilts her famed long cigarette holder at the same rakish angle, gets an eternal kick out of living and has some strong opinions on why people get old. "Youth consists merely in be ing enthusiastic with lile in not being bored with life," she said. "I think people who do nothing but think about how they look arc bored. You can get very old wor rying about how to stay young." The heroine of "Common Clay" and the famed Topper series thinks present-day movies are better than those of yesteryear, hut that actresses are less glamorous. "Films now are more realistic and true to life," she said. "They don't grind them out like sausage as they used to. "But those old tinsel lilms did make actresses seem glamorous, remote and unattainable. "There aren't any Nita Naldis, Theda Baras and Pola Negris around any more. That style of glamor isn't exciting anymore. "Styles change in glamor, just as in everything else. "What is glamorous today? I think it is a combination of fresh natural beauty and sophistication rather than the exotic. Ingrid Bergman and Grace Kelly come first to mi.nd. "But anything really obvious isn't glamorous and lhat in cludes, in my opinion, actresses who look so sexy they seem to be bursting." Thousands of times women have asked her for beauty secrets, but she said the only one she knew that makes real sense is this: Be beautifully natural and naturally beautiful." I'rofifs Down By SAM DAWSON AP Business News Analyst NEW YORK (API-Profits of nearly four out of five corpora tions look it on the chin in the first half of Hie vfear for a knock down of 32 per cent. The U. S. Treasury will suffer a tax loss of roughly similar per centage in collecting from corpo rate incomes- Bill business entered the second half of the year on the upbeat. Hopes are high that earnings will rise now and erase part of li)58's decline. The Treasury shares this hope. lis new estimates of total collec tions show it expects its share of gross corporate earnings to top the first six months. So far 576 corporations have re ported six-month earnings. Of these 417 show declines from the first half of 1057, some sharp ones. And 39 of them operated at a net loss, compared with 16 in that fix a year ago. The Treasury not only will lose on collections from Ihe 39, but these companies will havo lax losses to offset future earnings when making up income returns. But a sizable number of the 576 show that profits turned upward significantly in the April-May-.lune quarter. Many others feel lhat Ihe low point has been reached. In the January-February March quarter earnings of 5R0 corporations were off 33 per cent from the previous year. The first-half decline of 32.1 per cent this year compares with a 4.5 per cent gain of Ihe 1957 first half over Pl.ili, a 5.5 per cent rise of the 1956 first half over 1955, and 1955 s jump of 34.7 per cent over 1954. Most of the companies report ing declines in profits this year also show drops in production and sales as the recession trimmed demand for their products. But some show sales gains and profit llllMMVMIMMllS Klamath Falls (To the Editor) -There has been a very noticeable change in the appearance of our treets and alleys during recent years and I am s'lire we should all commend all of those persons who have given freely of their time and efforts, through the lit tcrbug and other campaigns, to ob tain the cooperation of the gener al public in helping to make Klam ath Falls a cleaner, more beautiful city, than ever before. The extra work of our cily ad ministrators and street depart ment are also highly commend able and with the cooperation of all of us, there is no reason why tourists and other visitors who come here will not tell others that Klamath Falls is a good place to stop. Harold A. Thompson 1120 pine Street Pogo so.' ocao vvevr 1-2 CU-VWS l-S'S ASA VCT MV i- HOW PCsS t-S scw w-ATS , Si scvc in sqye pp--', :tCCu3 Bg ANYTHING THING.' 6-1 !. w-0 V.OUIO oiO'SC StVP SLEEPIM' l AW ywff doesnt waut HIS 0VH (jCOUNTRY AWAKE. iy Ts,a.3vvi ii ifl fOiO C--O S3. 1 V in P8SC eug. J losses. Almost all the companies complain of rising operating costs squeezing their profit margins. A handful of industries have higher profits this year than last. Tobaccos, drugs, foods, airlines and utilities are in this lucky class. Hardest hit in the profit slide are the railroads. Only one of the 38 lo report so far shows a gain and 10 of them are using red ink. For the group as a whole the de cline is 71 per cent. The auio industry and its sup liers suffer the second greatest drop, off 57 per cent as a group, with six reporting net losses. But this industry pins its hopes on Ihe forthcoming new models which it thinks will help it regain much of the lost ground. Almost tied with the car mak ers are the companies in the en tertainment field. Makers of rail equipment are fourth with a group decline of 54 per cent. The steel and iron industry, which dropped off 58 per cent in the first quarter, recovered some ground in the second. The decline (or the first half is 52 per cent. Its second-half results will be col ored both by the wage scale boost July 1 and the price rise now un der way. Mining and mclalvvorking also have firming prices and in some cases rising labor costs on tljeir second-half horoscope. In the first half their 44 per cent drop was Ihe sixth largest. The 576 corporations as a whole reported 1958 earnings as $3,751,- 701.000. compared with $5,529,359, lino for the same companies in the first half of 1957 when many of them were setting records. llOl.S By United Press International LONDON Prime Minister Macmillan, proposing in a note to Soviet Premier Khrushchev a spe cial U.N. Security Council meet ing to be attended by the heads of government in New York: "If this meeting is agreed, 1 shall be there on Aug. 12; 1 hope you will be there, too." LONDON - Abdul Monem Rifai, Jordan ambassador lo Britain, on the consequences of any prema ture withdrawal of American troops from Lebanon: When the second round in this Middle East struggle comes, there will not be any Arab countries left for the West to land troops in to resist aggression. II will be the other side that gets Ihe troops there first." MOSCOW - Adlai Stevenson, commenting thai his Soviet tour uncovered a "depressing lack ol knowledge" about and a keen sense of competition with the United States: . . .1 wonder if it is understood lhat the basis for peacelul exist ence is mutual trust." GUATEMALA CITY - Milton Eisenhower, on the results of his 1-day lour of Central America: "I am now bellrr acquainted with Ihe problems aitecling the 12 million people living in this impor tant pan oi tnc hemisphere." SAN FRANCISCO Tram... president James Holla, advising Ul.-UO president Genrco Mnnnv lo consider "his own past associ ations and his own nasi inm" before making charges ajainst Holla: "I think George will nnitmi mil what 1 mean." WASHINGTON Rm-rr nkh Washington counsel for Rntinn textile tycoon Bernard Goldlinc, on whether he also represented Goldline's friend. Presidential Aide Sherman Adams: "Absolutely not: I never met Mr. Adams but once and lhat w.n before this stalled. The White House is not calling the shots. No body calls Ihe shots for me." They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo WELUEVERVBOCVS Xf NO-NO.' NUT , vy --rrT 3 iTY HERE NOV, LENZO--WHV Y( NOW BOOK WHYIZZTTr VWi. A OOMT VOU TAKE A NICE H S-SYS NEVER JAKE I : NOBODy EVER J kMk PICTURE OF THE l A PICTURE IN J1 T4KES A PIC Y&b t'uLyi Utt M?, rrs y everybody ;,n,- r'MTrtimiW- 'M In itgTri , M'iIIII'iiM MOLD IT.' EVERYBODY V ''i l0SMUl!gX Looks A mess- Ofw. aimn THEN THE SM4PS GOP Gathering In Capital For Weekend Convention land too, may be a candidate if and it's a big if he defeats front - running Democratic Attv. Gen. Edmund G. Brown for lovernor in November. SACRAMENTO (API Republi cans begin gathering here today for a weekend stale convention which will provide a critical lest of attempts to establish a har mony front among followers of California's GOP big 3. Outward sijjns support the opti miststhose who think the party can get by without a serious open clash. The entire buildup for the two day meeting has been generously adorned with olive branches con tributed, in one form or another, by members partial to Gov. Knight, Sen. William F. Know land or Vice President Nixon. All three segments appear to favor George W. Milias, Jr. of Gilroy as state chairman and V. John Krehbiel of Los Angeles as vice chairman. And there is a strong move ment to avoid a bitter fight over the open shop issue with an agreement to take no position on Ihe so-called "righl-to-work" in itiative in the GOP slate plat form. That belief was bolstered Thurs day when Assemblyman Harold K. Levering of Los Angeles, plat form committee chairman, said flie would introduce a resolution calling for convention neutrality on the controversial labor meas ure. Knowland is flying in to attend the meeting, and plans to present his view's lo the platform com mittee. He alone of the major Republican candidates has en dorsed the initiative to outlaw the union shop. The backstage efforts to quar antine "right-to-work" fit in with attempts to bring at least a semblance of peace to the torn party. ACTRESS TO MARRY NEW YORK (UPI) Actress Kim Stanley, 33, will he married Wednesday to actor Alfred Ryder. It will be Miss Stanley's third marriage and Ryder's first. lllllj. Dexall GLAZING COMPOUND Use Dexall Glazing Com pound for setting window glass in wood or metal sash. Superior to putty. It stays elastic, will not crack or dry. Assures a perfect weather tight bond. Paint over it in 24 hours. $1.20 4 lb. can A & B PAINT STORE 1229 E. Main Ph. 4-3324 The Republicans will be meet ing as the underdogs for the first lime in many years. The primary election results clearly raised a Democratic challenge to the tra-' ditional Republican control of the state government. Four years ago, Knowland and Knight became political buddies to help turn away a pro-Nixon move to take over the parly leadership. Now they are es tranged by Knnwland's candidacy for Knight's job a decision that prompted the outgoing governor to run for the Senate instead with Nixon's hearty support. ' In the background is the quiet battle for control of the -California delegation to the 19K0 Repub lican national convention. Every one considers Nixon to be a cer tain presidential contender. Know- RACING! Klamath Speedway Saturday - Aug. 2 Saturday Night Red Barn Dorrii, California Special Guests! Sally Wells and k Bob Abney Sinqinq and Playing for your entertainment! Stars of Radio, Television and Western Bands. Music By PEE WEE STIDHAM and the Butte Valley Ranger No incrtaw In admiiilon prices Dancing 9 till 1 90c Person Finest Major O'V-QCVa-' Use Any Major Gasoline -o rlZr' Oil Credit Card 3 Across From "Lees" South 6th & E. 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