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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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appointed former Foreign Minis-
j ter George Yeh ambassador to the
United States.
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