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PAGE 8 A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 19gg FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph TU 4-4752 Tough .lob By BILL JENKINS Tuesday night's thunder and lightning storm chose as its main playground the area immediately around our home in the pines. 1 can testify to this. So can the next door neighbors. It was all very well while all the fireworks were going off over the hills to the east of town. Pret ty sight from our home as the lightning flared out in long strips from cloud to cloud and forked down in occasional cloud to ground displays of uncontrolled electricity. But then the center of the storm shifted and we found ourselves in the center of it. The bolts were bright and too close and the thun der claps were more the sound of gunshots than the rolling, booming, muttering of the far off stuff. When the big one hit I was in the basement cleaning guns and com forting the dogs (this is really a lie since they are both gunshy). My wife was in the kitchen and swears the flash came right in and said hello. At any rate, it, the bolt of light ning that is, took out its spite on the neighbor's house. It hit transformer on the power line, traveled down the wire, melted the nails in the wall and set fire to - a bedspread or something. They caught it in time and no real damage done. But they had no lights. By this time it was raining. Shortly a Copco truck pulled up, checked in at our house and we went up to see the transformer on the pole behind the house. I .wouldn't have Shorty Poole's job for all the money there is. He got a light on the transformer, which looks like a lard can to me, put von. his climbing spurs and went up that pole like a monkey up a string. Just as he reached the top of the pole the rain started coming straight down in drops about the size of pigeon eggs. Shorty just hung up there in his safely belt and went to work replacing what ever it is you replace to make it work. AH this time, mind you, it was raining hard, the lightning was still smashing and roaring around all over the place and the scene was lit up like something out of a horror movie. No sir! I wouldn't have Shorty's job for anything. I suppose the big public utilities arc fair game for public wrath and criticism, but you sure have to hand it to the men who go out In any kind of weather and keep the juice running so we can all sit inside in warm comfort and marvel at the storm. They have earned a vote of gratitude. You've got more nerve than I have, Shorty, you and all the rest of your buddies. Itcligioiis Ilolrcal By FLORENCE JENKINS One is too apt to think of a re ligious retreat as a withdrawing from socicly for the purpose of meditation and contemplation of one's faith and concept of Chris tianity. Two often we forget that a re treat may be made to. rather than from life and its problems. We have an example in the Klamath Basin this month of a re ligious retreat which is a retreat to a Christian goal. It is a retreat to service of the highest order. During the first week in Au gust a group of 20 persons arrived from Stockton. California, to build a Christian Center to serve the migrant worker families at Malin That structure is nearing comple tion and will be dedicated shortly before sundown next Sunday. The offer to build the center came from the Rev. Elmer Frimoth who wrote to Ross Hagland, president of Klamath Council of Churches, saying he had worked as a mi grant in the Tulelakc urea in 1950. From his personal experience, he knew of the needs of the men and women who come to the Klamalh Basin each autumn for the harvest season. He knew of the lack of recreational facilities and the ab sence or nurseries (or their small children. The Rev. Frimoth is in charge ol the Westminster Fellowship group of the First Presbyterian Church of Stockton. His interest in the Klamath Basin's problem of adequately caring for this neces sary group of harvesters inspired his young people to action. Eight een youths, boys and girls young men and young women from 14 to 20. volunteered a month's hard work so that a Christian Center could be huilt fur the migrant workers at Malin. They provided their own transportation and have taken care of their own living ex penses while they hae been with us. This month is that group's re ligious retreat. Gifts from individuals, business es and organizations provided the materials for constructing the Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls. Ore. on August 20. 1906, under act of Congress, March I. 1879 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California building. Some furnishings and fit tings arc still needed. Around their evening camplire these young people talked freely of their faith and belief in a Christian world. That faith has erected a nomument which stands as a shining symbol of Christianity at work. Lack of Women By ANDREW BOROWIEC HASSI MESSAOUD. Algeria (API Some 3.000 men. live and work in the heart of the Sahara without suffering many of the haz ards and discomforts of desert life. Their major problem is lack of women. The men are employes of French oil companies building what they hope is a future French oil empire amid sun - baked sand dunes. They live in air-conditioned huts with running water, showers, and plugs for electric razors. They are served five-course meals in air- conditioned dining rooms. Their bars offer a variety of French and foreign drinks at a fraction of the normal price. Every day planes land on air- strips in the middle of the desert with mail and newspapers. The wages of the men of Hassi Messaoud oil site are on the aver age twice as high as those of com parable workers in France. Their lodging costs nothing and their food cosls about $15 a month. One of the oil companies esti mated that in addition to salary and initial investment in living quarters, each man costs it 814 a day. The workers also receive spe cial bonuses. In summer, when the outside temperature reaches 125 degrees Fahrenheit; the bon uses are the highest. Every three weeks, the men of the Hassi Messaoud site are trans ported by plane free for a week's rest in Algiers, 500 miles away. Those who want to go to France must pay their own way. Ninety per cent of the workers are French citizens of whom two - thirds are Moslems. About 7 per cent are ex-Foreign Legion members and about 3 per cent are skilled foreign technicians. , The site is linked with the oasis of Ouargla some 60' miles north- Heavy trucks roll over the road while camels plod through the sands nearby. Most of the old-timers are proud of making it into an oil town. None of the oil companies, how ever, has managed to solve the most acute problem lack of women. The site is still not ready to install fanijly dwellings, and anyway the added cost frightens the firms. Said an ex-Foreign Legionnaire: "It is the third week here that always seems the longest. And Ihen your week in Algiers seems like a day and you're back here for another three weeks, thinking of your next leave. Thats our life." Tom-isi Ariiiv By ROBERT SIIOKTAL United Press International A record 10 million or more Americans are seeing the sights in the old country this summer. This American army of tour ists, armed with credit cards, cam eras and a bit of wanderlust, is conducting a welcome invasion of foreign lands. Welcome to the mer chants and hotclmen . . . because the Americans are shelling out more than 2 billion dollars in Eu rope and Asia. Some of the vacationers will make the entire trip without spend ing more than a few dollars, at least not as "cash on the barrel head." They are the new "go now pay later" tourists. Pooo OWl-06isj$OUBCA6TICV ( POST CARP J a.t M' wicfA "MS'S GOB V FCZCu. P N0T36CWAKT3f Tv 5 V7i if Mg TO , OSl uxx lSS mm nMssMstti i iMsslMiBtisj F what it y f X MY.' "V H aimt T lOrfTHftess, rr I I WHAT IT SAy f , 1TAVT ci ) A N T POUTS-" They use credit cards for trans portation, hotels, meals and rent ing cars , . . and worry about the bills when they catch up with them back home. This tourist expenditure will be a bonanza for dollar-hungry coun tries and for an industry that has been growing rapidly on the Amer ican scene ... the fanny food and confection industry. As more and more travelers come into contact with the food of other countries, they forego pop corn for pate de foie gras, hotdogs for caviar and beer for wine. "Some of them like the change and will want to enjoy these foods after they return home," accord ing to Harold Roth, president of the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade. Other factors behind the growth of this industry . . . sales have al most doubled since rJas . . . are the rise in home entertainment, a wider variety of specialty foods, and better distribution, packaging and promotion. Roth, whose organization is spon soring the fourth annual fancy foods and confection show in New York later this month, says Amer icans now are spending 50 per cent more for foods and confec tions than before World War II. Roth says 6,000 product lines will be on display at the show, which will run August 24 through 27, Some 14,000 buyers for leading re tail and wholesale establishments are expected to attend. Roth notes that about two-thirds of these specialty foods will be imported, including some 50 mil lion pounds of cheese and tons of caviar, truffles, fillets of wild boar and prepared pigeons. The food showman says the growing use of gourmet products in the American' home gets its ma jor stimulation from tourists who aro introduced to these products while traveling abroad. AiiiIhiIiiimm' Chiloquin (To the Editor) I would like this letter printed in the paper so Mr. Peace and all concerned can read it. I suppose nothing ever goes wrong with the Peace ambulance. Ha! That's a laugh. ... There wouldn't he any contro versy over the accident cases that Mr. Peace goes on if he were called on all of them. Also, I have a very good idea, Mr. Wynne, if you knew all the sides to the whole story of the situation, your story would be different. You, Mr. Wynne, are not taking sides, that's another laugh. If you had talked to the firemen of Chilo quin, you would never have writ ten the editorial you wrote. The Chiloquin disaster car is as fully equipped as any of Mr. Peace's are. They have oxygen, latest type resuscitator and inhala tor plus the fact that of the men that man the ambulance there have 12 advance first aid cards plus eight standard cards which are Red Cross. If you could want for anything more, I would like to know about it. 1 also understand that there have been written two or three letters to Mr. Peace to come up to Chilo quin and meet with the advisory board (which is made up of citi zens of the communities in the northern part of the county', which he has never done, but did send an attorney to try to work out a plan. The atlornev. however, found out there were two sides to every story. A plan was worked out w here there w ould be no dry runs if he would call before leaving Klam alh Falls. The Chiloquin disaster car so licits no runs, but won't say no when they are called, and won't wait to see if the people have the money to pay (or the service Subscription Rates CARRIER I MONTH . $ 1.50 6 MONTHS $ 9 00 I YEAR 118.00 MAIL I MONTH' $ 1.50 6 MONTHS S 8.50 1 YEAR 815.00 as was the case many times be fore the disaster car was started. Hoping, Mr. Wynne, you will acquaint yourself more thoroughly with this matter before making public editorials stating one side only, although heading your article 'I'm not going to take any sides in the issue." " . Mrs. Mary Wright P.O. Box 26A l iiiisiial People Klamath Agency iTo the Editor) This summer I have the pleasure of knowing a couple of very unusu al people. In this era of greed, cynicism cold wars, and termina tion, Art and Helen Currier were a very stabilizing influence. The Curriers were delegates ol the American Friends Service Com mittee. The Curriers are school teachers in California, but they elected to spend their summer months here on the reservation set ting up a recreation program for the children. In the six weeks they spent here, the Curriers did a phe nomenal job. They not only taught a number of youngsters to swim, which in itself no small accom plishment they taught the kids how to play. They took the young sters on field trips, and taught them to see and enjoy the things around us. And not only did the Curriers work with the children, but they were able to get parents together for such things as the wonderful, but almost forgotten pastime of community singing. . Frankly, I had never heard of the American Friends Service Com mittee before the Curriers, but now I would like to know a great deal more about it. They are initially a Quaker organization, but the peo ple who work with them may be of any, or no denomination. They send delegates to any part of the coun try wherever there is a need. They are ambassadors of good will who help people to help themselves. The Curriers came here as total strangers, but when they left six weeks later they had dozens of friends, and hearts full of self contentment knowing they had helped people to help themselves. The heartfelt thanks o( everyone who - knew them goes out to the Curriers, and we sincerely hope they will come back again. Nelson Sharp Inflation Victims By SAM DAWSON AP Business News Analyst NEW YORK (AP) Some 12 million of inflation's worst vic tims are in line today for a little relief. If President Eisenhower signs the Social Security bill into law, Uncle Sam will hand out about a billion dollars more next year to 2 million beneficiaries. He will collect a little more than a billion dollars additional through higher taxes. Half of the increase will be paid by the 75 million whose pay checks are docked for Social Security taxes, and the other half by their employers. The increased benefits are de signed to make up for some of the ravages of past inflation on the fixed incomes of the retired. If new - inflation pops up, as many in Washington . fear, . the battle will start all over again. The big rise in the cost of living since the war has cramped, often cruelly, persons beyond their earning years. The worker has at least a fight ing chance to increase his income in the hope of meeting the addi tional costs. The retired person has little chance to do anything but tighten his belt. The new benefits and the new taxes will still leave the Social Security system running in the red. ai it started to do for the first time in the past year. This year it is paying out nearly 8'i billion dollars in benefits and it is taking in 7'4 billion dollars in taxes on the employed and their employers. Next year under 'the new bill payments would rise to ii'i billion and collections to a bit more than 8 billion. The system has a large reserve fund on which to draw. But taxes will have to go up steadily from year to year if the higher pay ments are to be made and the re serve saved from too much drain age. Sponsors of the new bill say it should bring the Social Security fund into balance within a few more years as tho tax rates rise Many elderly persons have other forms of income. There has been a rapid growth in corporate pension funds in re cent years. Union pension funds are also a growing part of the economic scene. The Institute of Life Insurance reports that the reserves of pen sion funds handled by the nation's insurance companies has reached a record 14 billion dollars. To this the Securities and Exchange Com mission adds a record 194 billion dollars in pension funds not han dled by insurance firms. They'll Do It Every Time at Not like you aho me, quimcy Remembers every Anniversary aho then some NO IT ISM"T VOUR Rl(?THD4V AHO IT ISNT OUR 4NMlVERS4Ry. BUT DONT YOU REMEMBER"" AU6UST 21, 1943? THE FIRST TIME W5 WENT OUT IN A CANOE AT LAKE LUMB460? Moose Women Hold Meeting 1 MERRILL A regular business lections were played by Alice session of Women of the Moose j Driscoll. The officers served re Merrill Chapter No. 18 was held ; freshments following the meeting, recently at the Merrill Moose I It was announced that there will Hall. Betty Jo Brightman presided: as senior regent. Peggy Giacomelli of Tulelake was initiated as a new member. A program was presented by the alumni committee headed by Retha Krizo. Several accordion se- AWWin m Z?ZX l" 5 i 4 'Alw tii ii in- r iiini f -wr".- Not a lock in sight ... new SILHOUETTE by Samsonite Even lighter than it looks! Men's See it Today at ... Headquarters for Levi's and Levi Ivy-Leagues 826 MAIN STREET DID yOU P4Y ELECTRIC be a Moose dance on Saturday evening, August 23, at the Merrill Moose Hall. The publicity committee will pre sent a program during the first scheduled meeting in September. Melba Walker is chairman. 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Wrinkle-causing humidity is completely sealed out. The Lightness! Pick it up and you'll know inslantly that this is the lightness of magnesium, the lightness you've hoped for in luggage, but never thought possible, until now. Yet for all its lightness and slim good looks, Samsonite Silhouette's reinforced shell provides more clothing space, greater protection. Biscayne Blue, Dover White, Desert Tan, Platinum Grey, Oxford Grey. Klan Leader Goes To Jail LUMBERTON, N. C. (AP) North Carolina Klan leader James W. Cole, who planned a series of "evangelistic" meetings in the center of Lwiibee Indian country near here, .was jailed yesterday for failure to pay a bond fee. Bondsman W. G. Smith turned the itinerant preacher over' to Sheriff Malcolm McLeod for fail ure to pay a t00 fee on a $3,000 bond. Cole had been free under th bond pending an appeal to tha State Supreme Court from a two- year prison sentence for inciting Indians to not. ; . The charge stemmed from a Jan. 18 KKK rally at Maxton which was broken up by a party of the Lumbees. Cole had announced from his home in Marion, S. C, Tuesday that he planned to return to tha county to hold a series of evan gelistic meetings at Pembroke, seat of the Lumbee tribe. APPOINTED TAIPEI (AP) The Chinese Na tionalist Cabinet today formally appointed former Foreign Minis- j ter George Yeh ambassador to the United States. AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCH Sundoy Services 11 a.m. Motto Boom AlloraoBl Jr. Hlfh S9M soot eih Vi AT- Case $25.00; Ladies' Waidreoe $40.00 1
