HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
FRIDAY. AUGUST 8, 1959
PAGE 8 A
FRANK JENKINS
Editor
BILL JENKINS
Managing Editor
FLOYD WYNNE
City Editor
MAURICE MILLER
Circulation Mgr
Ph. TU 4-4752
Apathy
By BILL JENKINS
Apparently the fact that the
world is heading for the third and
final world conflict is nothing to
set the American public to thrash
ing about in its stall.
It is a curious commentary on
our times that the average man,
if there be such a critter, is quite
willing to admit that the war is
only a short lime off and yet stub
bornly refuse to lift so much as
an admonitory finger to stop it.
Most people are quick to admit
that war is hell, at the same time
shrugging their shoulders in the
American version of Kismet. Sort
of like a gardener who doesn't
plant anything because the cut
worms and aphids would get it
anyway, so why bother?
Even the sacrosanct group
housed within the United Nations
framework has lost its appeal as
a universal peacemaker and
much of its worth as a psychologi
cal escape hatch for the fellow who
would really rather think about
building a new swimming pool in
his backyard than he would pro
tecting the world from the holo
caust.
As someone (me) was saying the
other day, the world is suffering
from an attack of littleness and
the average (there's that word
again) man feels that individual
effort Is worthless.
In a way it is pitiful to think of
all the swimming pools that are
going to be cracked when the
bomb hits, all the golf clubs that
will be bent and the rosy plans for
the future that will add their wisp
of smoke over the glowing heap
of embers that was once the hu
man race.
But I suppose it Is pretty futile
to hope that as a nation we will re
gain our sanity in time to stop
trying to buy friends and do a
little something about plugging the
holes in our national defense.
Suppose we dip back into his
tory a hundred or so years. Pic
ture a hardy band of American
pioneers on their way West. They
are in the heart of Indian coun
try. On all sides are Indian sign.
War parties on the lookout for
scalps and plunder. Smoke signals
trembling in the air. Flashing mir
rors from the higher hills. The
whispered word of an all-out offen
sive against the white intruders.
In the midst of this do you sup
pose our doughty pioneers spent all
their time square dancing, pulling
tally around the fires and plan
ning what they were going to do
next weekend?
They sure didn't. They keep a
tight walch, guarded every move,
watched the enemy like a hawk
and kept their powder dry.
Exactly the sort of thing we
should be doing right now. The
conditions are no different.
Just deadlier.
It does seem a pity that in these
days of great wonderings and the
relentless search for answers the
most frequently asked question
should still be:
"Which way is the men's wash
room'.'" i'lVniiing Tli Slafc
By FLOYD L. WYNNE
1 hate to leave unfinished busi
ness lying around where I'm li
able to trip over it. so let's clean
the slate on one mailer.
Some time ago I expressed some
viewpoints on the petition being cir
culated to put a measure on the
November ballot which would per
mit school teachers lo hold a leg
islative position without having to
resign from their school post.
While 1 was galloping north into
the lush country of Northern Wash
ington, C. W. l'osey, executive sec
retary of the Oregon Education As
sociation answered some of my
questions in a letter to the editor
on June 29.
I also noticed that recent tabu
lation shows that tUUWl certified
signatures have been filed lo put
the measure on the ballot. This
is over 12.0(H) more than needed to
qualify for a place before the peo
ple In November.
In checking the number by coun
ties, they report that Klamath
County contributed some 1.131 sig
natures lo the petition, while Lake
nad 338. Multnomah had the most
signatories, of course, with 18,127.
So the measure will he before
you. the people, in November.
The question appears to be a
clarification more than anything
else, although it does open the
door to some other questionable
features.
Mr. Posey pointed out that school
teachers serving in the Legislature
would be given leave of absence
from their teaching posts, and
would not be reimbursed tor lime
lost.
This answered one o( my ques
tions. This would seem like a (air move,
since certainly we do not require
that the remainder o the legis
lators resign their jobs or positions
while serving in the Legislature
Sijfondly, Posey assures us that
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our fears of any legislative pres
sure on such legislators would not
be exerted. He says, "Regarding
pressure by local school district
or by the State Board of Educa
tion. I am quite sure that the
teaching profession would ade
quately handle this problem."
That would seem to answer my
questions, and in light of this, I
would find no objections to the
measure.
In the final analysis, it is the
people who are the judge since
they are the ones who cast ' the
ballots.
But in my book, a good teacher
should certainly make a good leg
islator. How and Arrow
By FLORENCE JENKINS
Use of the bow and arrow, an
cient weapons which gave primi
tive man his first dominance over
savage beasts, today are the im
plements of recreation over most
of the civilized world.
Archery is so old that no one
knows where or when it began.
William Tell's iron-nerved feat of
shooting an apple from the top of
his son's head has bten retold in
the folklore of nearly every land
through the centuries.
The harp of David, referred to
in the Bible, is said to have come
about because the twang of the
bow string was music to David's
ears and he found that bows of
different lengths produced differ
ent tones. By adding strings to his
bow, he produced the first harp.
Legend and history abound with
talcs of the prowess of huntsmen
and woodsmen who were recruited
as yeoman archers to win wars
for their countries. British young
sters for generations have reveled
in the tales of Robin Hood, the
legendary hero of England's golden
age of archery.
National archery tournaments
have been held in the United States
since 1879. The oldest national tour
nament which has been held con
sistently, since its inauguration in
1932, is the Pope Young tourna
ment which was held in Klamath
Falls last year with the local club,
Klamath Archers, as host and Dale
Baxter as president.
Klamath Archers as a club was
organized less than 10 years ago
Next Sunday at the Moore Park
archery range the group will hold
its annual shoot for club trophies
wilh registration starting at 9 a.m.
There are half a hundred adult
members in t lie club and about 20
juniors, ranging from eight years
old to 16 years. The club awards
a trophy for the best junior boy's
score and one to the lop junior
girl in addition to men's and wom
en's freestyle and instinctive tro
phies. Spectators are welcome to at
tend meetings and any of the club
shools.
Maybe some of the members
would even let you try to pull a
65-pound bow to start you on the
way to a new hobby.
1' or gel I ho Vast
By HAL DOYLE
NEW YORK (AP) Thornton
Wilder, who has spent much of
his life studying past cultures,
doesn t believe a man should
spend much time in his own per
sonal past.
"I erase as I go along." he said
checrlully. "I look forward so
much I have only an imperfect
memory for the past.
"When your eyes are directed
lo the future, you have no hurt
feelings over the praise or criti
cism of the moment because,
moment by moment, the present
becomes the past.
"You have the sense of forever
beginning your career, of trying
to offer something new to inter
est the community.
At 61 the writer, a three-time
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Pulitzer Prize winner, still has all
the eagerness of a stagestruck
boy. One of his latest major
plays, "The Matchmaker," has
just been made into a film by
Paramount, and he is currently
working on seven one-act experi
mental plays.
They are designed to be acted
a circular stage," he said.
"The box-shaped theater of the
last century was a terrible mis
take. All over the world now the
theater is flowing back to a freer
stage one projecting out into the
audience and giving more inti
macy." Wilder, a white-mustached man
with a booming laugh, regards his
single act plays as "Five-finger
exercises" for his major dramas,
two of which "Our Town" and
"The Skin of Our Teeth" won
Pulitzer Prizes. Earlier he won
his first Pulitzer with "The
Bridge of San Luis Rey," a novel.
"But a good one act play will
pay you $5,000 a year in royal
ties," he remarked, and added as
a comfortable afterthought:
"I have three."
One of the most conscientious
craftsmen of his generation, Wil
dor spent many years teaching
literature by day and trying to
create it at night.
"I had to write in stolen mo
menls at midnight," he recalled
"But the older I grow the more
Im an early riser.
"I now try lo get in two or
three hours of writing before any
body else is stirring."
Unlike many modern authors,
he doesn't believe that inspiration
is mostly perspiration.
"As Gertrude Stein once said,
'it takes a lot of loafing to write
a book .
A hopeless optimist himself
(and determined to go on believ
ing in the human race), he pre
fers comedy to tragedy.
"The gift lo Ihe public of laugh
ter without malice is one of the
most useful things a man can
do. he said.
"Anybody can make a comedy
which is cruel. It is very hard lo
make a comedy which is kind. To
give a fellow feeling between the
young and the old that is art
.Slim in I Hopes
By GEORGE J. MARDER
United Press International
Soviet Premier Khrushchev has
turned back the summit clock three
weeks, and has stopped it there.
It's doubtful now whether it will
ever start again, certainly not for
months.
The situation now reverts to Sat
urday, July 19, when the United
Nations Security Council ran into
a total stalemate on the Middle
East crisis.
However, there is this difference:
On that day, the United States
proposed to lake the Middle East
problem out of the U.N. council,
where the Soviet had blocked ac
tion by use of the veto, and move
it over to Ihe General Assembly,
where there is no velo.
Now, it is Russia which is pro
posing that the General Assembly
deal with the middle-eastern situa
tion at the same time that Khrush
chev turns down a meeting of the
heads of state under the U.N. coun
cil.
r It is doubtful that the United
States will allow Ihe Soviet to get
credit for convening the assem
bly to deal with the Middle East.
Or for the assembly to meet on
Russia s proposed terms.
For that would be a double prop
aganda victory for the Reds.
Russia could boast that it was
on her initiative that the interna
tional agency finally got going on
the Middle East crisis. In addition
her terms for the assembly meet
ing would put Ihe West in an em
barrassing spot. It would merely
propose that the assembly order
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British and American troops out of
Jordan and Lebanon, no mention of
indirect aggression by the Krem
lin or by Egypt's Nasser.
The United States resolution was
first before the U.N. Council call
ing for the assembly to meet on
the Middle East crisis. It is still
pending. It would call for an emer
gency meeting on Lebanon's
charges of outside interference to
overthrow her government. That
resolution could be revived.
Khrushchev's refusal to go along
with a U.N. Council meeting ol
the heads of state came as a sur
prise to Western diplomats. They
had felt events had carried the
world leaders too far along the
path to the summit to have any
fresh backing down.
And it is a fact that Khrushchev
has now rejected terms which he
had accepted two weeks ago when
first made by British Prime Min
ister Macmillan.
Macmitlan's first proposal, was
for the summit meeting to be held
under the U.N. Council auspices
lit was that British invitation which
at lirst got a lukewarm reaction
Dy tnis administration. The 1'resi
dents reply lo Khrushchev was
more in the form of a challenge
than an invitation. But Khrushchev
enthusiastically accepted the Mac
millan idea.
However, as the United States
warmed up lo a U.N. Council
meeting of the heads of state,
Khrushchev cooled off.
The freeze came after he re
turned from a Peiping summit con
ference with Red China.
It is believed Red China's re
sentment over being left out of a
big summit conference was the
clincher which made Khrushchev
reverse himself and turn down a
proposal he once had accepted.
The tip-off could be in the latest
Khrushchev letter to Ihe Western
heads of state. It contains a har
angue on the membership of the
U.N. Council and contains these
words: "The policy of ignoring pco
pie's China makes no sense."
Trouble Shooter
By United Press International
. The tall, spare American diplo
mat who has been bringing calm
out of crisis in Ihe Middle East
is known as one of the real pro
fessionals.
His name is Robert Murphy . . .
and he looks more like a business
man than a diplomat. He was sent
lo Lebanon by President Eisen
hower to smooth the troubled wa
ters after the Marines landed . , .
and he has been having great suc
cess, in the view of the state de
partment. Trouble shooter Robert Murphy
is 63 years old. He has been a
member of the American Foreign
Service for 40 years. Most of his
assignments have been in hot spots
at various places around the world.
He is an affable man with none
of the stiff mannerisms usually as
sociated with diplomats.
Murphy was awarded the dis
tinguished service medal for one
of his most dramatic roles. That
was back in 1942 when, as per
sonal representative of President
Roosevelt in North Africa, he paved
the way for the landing there of
American troops.
Murphy was credited by Presi
dent Roosevelt with having saved
the lives of thousands of Ameri
can soldiers by a political deal
arranged with Admiral Darlan of
the French forces, which were un
der German control. Murphy
slipped ashore in North Africa
from a submarine in the dark of
night.
This was possibly the most dra
matic, but not necessarily the most
difficult, of the many tasks he has
undertaken and which have won
him the reputation of an ace trou
ble shooter. He worked for solu
tion of the French-Tunisian crisis
earlier this year, shuttling be
tween Paris, London and Tunis
4 II of I'M
United Press International
LAS VEGAS, Nov. - The Most
Rev. Bishop Robert J. Dwyer.
warning Roman Catholics against
the trend toward nudity and in
decent entertainment along the
famed Las Vegas ' Strip ":
Iherc is no vacation from the
Ten Commandments."
NEWPORT. R. I. Cant. Karl
Anderson, skipper of the tanker
Graham which collided with an
other tanker and exploded,
causing the death of 15 crewmen
and injuring 36 others:
' It s an awful thine to think
about. All those men dead and all
that damage."
HOLLYWOOD - Actress Marl-
lyn Monroe, expressing happiness
at the dismissal of a contemn! of
Congress conviction against her
Playwright husband. Arthur
Miller:
"I'm very lunuv for mv ho.
band, but I am ccn happier for
tne trutn and justice that do
exist in our country."
Theyll Do It Every Time
IT The motel
office, shoehorn
told the man
just what kind of
accommodations
he wanted
LA Freeway
Holds Answer
LOS ANGELES (AP) Most of
the worldly possessions of the Roy
Wheelers of St. Louis are appar
ently in ornit on the Los Angeles
freeway system.
When the Wheelers ventured in
to the jelstream of traffic on one
of the major freeways last Wed
nesday, William Flowers and their
furniture were right behind in
Flowers' truck, just as they had
Deen all the way trom St. Louis,
Moments later, Flowers, furni
ture and truck had disappeared in
the swirling eddies of the multi
level interchange joining four free
ways.
The Wheelers have been wait
ing ever since for some word from
their friend. They went to police
and were assured that if Flowers
truck is spotted it will be directed
to their motel.
RR Operating
Costs Noted
ST. LOUIS (AP)-The Missouri
Pacific Railroad operated in the
red during the first half of the
year and plans to lay off many
of its workers, Mopac President
Russell L. Dearmont says.
"We are trying in every possi
ble way to reduce the cost of our
operation," Dearmont said.
The railroad has laid off 36
workers in car repair shops at
St. Louis and nearby Dupo, 111.
As an economy move some car
repair work has been transferred
from St. Louis lo North Little
Rock, Ark., but 14 workers there
have been furloughed, two others
have been dismissed and no new
workers will be added.
Mopac had a deficit of $89,000
for the first half of 1958, Dearmont
said.
MEETING HELD
CRESCENT The regular meet
ing of the Women's Society of
Christian Service was held recent
ly at the church with 11 members
and two guests, Mrs. Bill Avoline
and Mrs. W. Stears present. The
new minister's wife, Mrs. Dale
Harris, was welcomed by the
ladies and elected treasurer to re
place Mrs. Hiram Jordon, who re
cently moved from Gilchrist. Host
esses for the gathering were Mrs.
W. Smallwood Jr. and Mrs. J. P.
Gibbons. The next meeting will be
in Redmond, August 22. This will
be a picnic for members and their
guests.
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Ellington Holds Uneasy
Lead; Gore Renominated
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)-Ten-nessee
Democrats renominated
Sen. Albert Gore in yesterday's
primary, while Buford Ellington
held an uneasy lead in the gov
ernor's race against three oppo
nents.
Memphis Mayor Edmund Orgill
and Jackson Circuit Judge An
drew T. Taylor perched within
striking distance as tabulators
awaited trickling returns from the
state's final 250 precincts. State
Sen. Clifford Allen of Nashville
tailed far behind.
Gore's victory was more deci
sive than expected over former
Gov. Prentice Cooper of Shel-
byville. An ardent segregation
ist, Cooper campaigned against
Gore's moderate civil rights posi
tion and what he termed espousal
of foreign "giveaways."
Tabulations from 2,335 of the
state's 2,570 precincts gave Gore
332,797 votes to 223,386 for Cooper.
The same precincts gave Elling
ton 194.239, Orgill 184,123 and Tay
lor 181,666. Allen received 52,779.
Among the missing precincts were
10 big boxes from Taylor s home
county of Madison, where he ran
far ahead of his combined oppo
sition.
Tennessee has no primary run
off and the high man gets the
nomination in a state which has
not elected a Republican governor
since 1922. Two Republicans, State
sen. Robert L, Peters of Kings
port and Hansel Proffit of Sevier-
ville, received scattered votes for
governorship, but Peters said he
was not a candidate.
Both Ellington and Taylor cam
paigned on a strong segregation
plank, even to the point of closing
public schools if necessarv to
avoid violence. Orgill told his
campaign audiences he personally
lavored segregation but believed
court orders should be obeyed. Al
len said he thought segregation
naa no place as a campaign issue
The other three candidates
sniped at the administration of
Gov. Frank Clement. Clement
supported Ellington when he re
signed as state commissioner of
agriculture to enter the campaign
Ellington replied that he was
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glad to be a part of the adminis
tration. He had been campaign
manager in Clement s two suc
cessful races.
All nine of the incumbent con
gressmen, seven Democrats and
two Republicans, were renomin
ated. Six had no opposition.
Three Republicans, for the first
time since 1870, sought seats on
the State Supreme Court but
failed to dislodge the Democrats
With returns still incomplete,
voters showed a slight preference
for a proposed constitutional con
vention lo lower the voting age to
18 and increase the terms of coun
ty sheriff and trustee from two to
four years.
WHEN HARE BITES DOG -
P1XLEY, Calif. (AP)-A jack
rabbit chased and bit a dog owned
by farmer James Shott. The rab
bit collapsed and died. The dog
is recovering . . . trom shock.
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in person, will
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tomorrow. .
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'Chute Jumping ,
Interest Told
Interest in parachute jumping
was evident at the August 6 meet
ing of the Klamath Air Search and
Rescue Unit, held at the Pilot's
Lounge at Kingsley Field.
Present to discuss ways and
means of making money to pur
chase chutes and other jumping
equipment were Dick Davidson,
Klamath Falls, and Jerry Lrutch
field, Dorris. Both have made
jumps over Ihe local flying field
and last night were admitted to
KASRU as honorary members.
Several others in the-community
are interested in jumping, it de
veloped at the meeting, and it was
proposed that those with experi
ence make jumps for a fee at fairs,
rodeos and other public gatherings
to raise money to buy equipment.
Interested also in the purchase of
equipment are members of the
Sportsmen Pilots.
About 30 members attended the
meeting presided over by Les Lis
ton, president.
ALL THIS AND TRADITION TOO
OAK RIDGE, Tcnn. (AP) It
must have looked like paradise to
the stray cat which wandered into
an Oak Ridee laboratory contain
ing more than 150.000 mice. He
ate eieht mice before employes
caught him.
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