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PAGE fi A HERALD ANH NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON FRIDAY. AUGUST 29, 19B FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph. TU 4-4752 Vrvtty Trip By BILL JENKINS Had occasion to go to Roscburg yesterday and decided to vary the usual routine by taking a slight ly different route. So we shoved Off, early, for the valley via Cra ter Lake, Prospect, Trail, Tiller and Canyonville. ; The road is as crooked as a snake going uphill, but is much prettier than the Grcensprings and in considerably better shape. Driv ing time was less than the long route by better than an hour. No construction except for a couple of hundred yards at the Annie Springs station in Crater Lake Park. Despite the logging ban which has held in Western Oregon for quite a spell there was a lot of movement on the roads of log trucks, some of them hauling old stuff, some new. By leaving early we missed most of Ihe traffic. Just the other side of Trail we ran into clouds. Just like driving through a door. One minute it was bright sunlight and the next we were in heavy overcast and oc- casional patches of fog. Like that all the way to Roseburg, where we found it cool and overcast. Being In a mood (always) to see new country we decided to try the North Umpqua on the return trip. Left Roscburg in mid-afternoon and headed cast for Glide and Steamboat. The trip up the river, the North Umpqua, is a lovely one. The water there has a clear green that is all its own. Pretty little fishing holes, most of them in heavy use by summer anglers, little falls and great, si lent pools. It is a sight for sore eyes on a hot day. Pavement ends at the Steamboat junction, but the road from there on is good if somewhat dusty. One traffic delay up around Lookout somewhere where crews are tearing at the highway job. A pleasant enough stop this time since there is a lit tle store there run by a genial chap who, when the time is ripe, goes down and takes down the traffic barricade lo let you through on schedule. No complaints about lhe road from us, although we did run into one strained and tense pilgrim, tow Ing a boat behind his car, who lagged us down just below Tok etee and inquired, in a near-des-perate voice, how far it was to pavement again. A little dust, but not enough to worry anyone. The big Copco development there with Its miles of ditches and pen stocks and the silent, lonely pow er stations proves interesting to those who haven't seen it before. Got to Diamond Lake before dark to find it already crowded to the overflowing point with hol iday travelers. No room anywhere along the shore for another car, it looked like, although 1 suppose the population will treble over the weekend. The wind was keening down from the peaks and had a slight edge of fall in it. A wel come touch after all our hot weather. Highway 97 from the junction on into town was bumper to bumper with traffic. Lots of trucks but the majority of the travelers obvious ly early-starters on the Labor Day holiday. Lots of boats being towed. lots of car-top carriers flapping their loose tarps in the slipstream and hordes of kids and dogs hang ing out the windows. All in all, a pretty good trip I don't recommend it as a one day drive, but if you are going over that way in the fall of the year it has Ihe Greenspriiies beat a mile. Shorter, faster and pret tier. Kml Of ivn By FLOYD L. WYNNE I nolc with contused feelings Ihe other day that we have arrived at the end ol another era in our stage of growing up. speaking as a city. The difference between a cily and a town or village is often times the dilference between toler ance of the smaller things in lile. eni the win-tolerance of them. I nnticcd. that the city police i'mfisciitc4 a b-b gun from a yiingttrr alter he reportedly ac cidentally sM Mother boy n the ritrtl, rvikint; well. It K Uh cmliued enlM Ik.rf I art "r ib kly initial re- rvori ttal fuvaiitrt a I bv Vrna bb jwa unxca tin o as tel. & A3 oxj tr (Qio Bf mem mt. a rvncinin to a oat Wa I rv lid it to ric ht tisxvn bft W taiKSt't .air 40 oomtem b-. to mJV AsO Qtn trnfiOur onci Vn da a AjO i torn eatm lc bar 4 U Q) tifla iai Bxd them ata ts I mvuat with "Ot v eg on a ' i.W t 5 Cf l it ear-old y?AW O 9-P ' my Entered as second class matter at the post offlca at Klamath Falls. Ore. on August 20. 1906, under act of Congress. March S. 1819 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California good trusty slingshot. Guess those things are outlawed, too, these days. It does seem a little drastic to have confiscated the weapon, how ever, and I do hope that it found its way back to the 10-year-old owner. But, then, the law's the law, and it must be observed. It is with some nostalgic regret that I note the passing of this lime-honored weapon. The lovers of birds, cats, dogs as well as the parents of little children probably welcome the news that b-b guns are barred in Klamath Falls. Another childhood pastime bites the dust on Ihe pathways of prog ress. Labor Day By FLORENCE JENKINS Ten fewer persons have been killed thus far in 1958 Klamath County traffic accidents than had lost their lives at this time last year. Can we keep up our good record over the long Labor Day week end? The Travelers Insurance Com pany put Ihe microscope on the experience of its million and a half insured cars over this year's July 4 weekend and came up with some surprising facts. You don't have to be involved a spectacular accident many miles from home to be numbered among the expected 20,000 Amer icans who will be killed or injured by automobiles over this Labor Day weekend. Seven out of eight of the acci dents over our last long holiday were not very far from home. While excessive speed was evident and accounted for many of the big news accidents, the great bulk of the casualties resulted from rear-end collisions, traffic signal violations, failure to yield right- of-way and similarly prosaic ac tions of drivers on roads and streets in their own areas. The totals were as great for Sat urday and Sunday, the so-called middle period of the holiday as for Friday and Monday, indicating a possibility that the greatest haz ards are not necessarily involved in a frenzied effort to get to or from the vacation spot. Only one out of five of Ihe acci dents occurred on super highways or divided highways. In only one out of 20 cases was drinking blamed for the accident. In only three out of 100 cases were any mechanical defects reported. Also, nearly half of those injured or killed were under 30 years of age. Seven out of eight accidents oc curred in clear weather and on dry roads and only about five per cent of the victims were pedestrians. Emphasis is usually placed on fatalities. Yet serious injuries are nlways devastating lo a family and. in the long run, more costly to the insuring public than out right deaths. Most of us aren't actually afraid of being killed. But consider the other fellow when you realize your own deep-seated dread of being hurt. Itnsiiiss Ilcvicw By ROBERT G. SHORTAL United Press International The nation received a warning this week to drive slowly and care fully down the credit road. The Federal Reserve Board reversed its easier money policy in an ap parent move to check inflation before it gets rolling. Inflation is the acknowledged economic enemy No. 1. Even dur ing the recession, which now ap pears lo be a thing of the past. prices kept inching higher. The cost of living is at an all-time high, although there is some hope Pogo t cu tve amwals c rut woblo aor rooirusa at TkS ACROPOLIS ass oa4?JD w t COULD OflWW l ItmAMBJP' -. SjA LA ... 9iitM JT urTi -v jBi""MMa v Tft ?V rur cTv Q that it may level off and even decline later this year. The Federal Reserve this week approved an increase in the dis count rate at its San Francisco bank. The rate, ranging from one and three-quarters to two per cent, is what commercial banks must pay to borrow from the Federal Reserve. When banks have to pay more to borrow, they must charge their customers more. By making money more expen sive to borrow, economists note, some of the unnecessary spending is cut down. This eases the infla tionary pressures that are inher ent in periods of business expan sion. The Federal Reserve's about face on credit also indicates that the board is convinced the reces sion is over and that the immed iate course of the economy will build up. Belief that the economy has come out of the doldrums got sup- fort from businessmen this week A survey by Dun and Bradstrcet showed that the majority of busi ncssmcn are convinced that the fourth quarter of the year will be the best three months of the year. Manufacturers of durable goods such as appliances and au tomobiles are the most optimistic. However, they have been hardest hit by the recession. The electrical industry has been enjoying a boom of sorts. Output of electric power rose to a new all time high this week. Construction activity continues to roll along at an impressive speed Steel production rose for the sixth straight week. The railroad industry got a lift last week when President Eisen hower signed into law legislation aimed at helping the financially depressed railroad industry. And U.S. confidence in general got a lift when the government an nounced that two atomic-powered submarines opened a new under sea route at the North Pole. Optimism is the fuel needed to launch a new economic boom. Right now most Americans are confident about the future, al though a wee hit cautious. But op timism is creeping back into the picture and more and more people are beginning to plan for a pros perous fourth quarter. By Christmas, economisls say, the economy should be well on its way. By EDWARD VOWAN United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI)-Buy now the experts say, if you're thinking about getting a house. To a man, banking and housing minorities here agree that interest rates and new home prices have touched bottom for lhe foresee able future. Mortgage money, meanwhile, continues in abundant upply. How long before borrowing costs start turning up is one on which the experts hesitate to speculate. They agree, however, that with mortgage interest rates tradition ally more sluggish than others! no noticeable upturn is likely before autumn. Bui they also agree that lhe re cent easing of rates and the avail ability of loon money has ended. "Families today are getting a hotter buy in the housing market than they were just a year ago," W. Franklin Morrison, president of the National League of Insured Savings associations, told United Press International. "But how long this will continue is a matter of serious question." Morrison noted thai half of this year's output of new houses is selling for $14,300, compared to a median price of $15,000 in 1957. V MAfM rtLff AMIMAL I I fktf A aC O f O O iJI Subscription Rates CARRIER t MONTH , $ I SO t MONTHS S 9.00 I YEAR (18.00 MAIL t MONTH f 1.50 6 MONTHS S 8 50 1 YEAR 115.00 "The builders have been hung ry. They've been going all out' was the way one authoritative building industry source explained it. "But with materials, prices and wages rising they're going to change their tune." Most opinion that the 1D53 drop in interest rates has ended was based on the recent dive in prices in the government securities mar ket. Another indication comes from the Federal Housing Admin istration (FHA) which reported an increase of one-tenth of a point from July 1 to Aug. 1 in prices paid for FHA-insured mortgages traded in the secondary market. That gain compared with an av erage rise of three-tenths of a point per month in the first six months of the year. The experts agree that mort gage money is still plentiful for qualified borrowers. The National Association of Real Estate Boards found an "ample" supply of funds for conventional financing in per cent of the nation. Slriki' Throat By SAM DAWSON AP Business News Analyst NEW YORK (AP) The first task facing the new and younger team heading General Motors will be to handle the threat of an auto strike. To the public this is far more important than any internal cor porate 'changes that may follow lhe retirement of President Har low H. Curtice and Chairman Al ber Bradley. That's because the effects of an auto strike would spread far be yond the auto industry, itself so vital to the American economy. A shutdown could, at least tempo rarily, knock the pins from under Ihe general, industrial recovery be fore it really gets started. How incoming Chairman Fred eric G. Donner and incoming President John F. Gordon deal with the United Auto Workers president, Walter Reuther, will be of prime importance to the indus try of which GM is roughly half. An auto strike is what business in general fears more than any thing just now. .example: iwucn ot the now optimism in Ihe steel industry is traced to expectations that the auto industry, its biggest cus tomer, .will be ordering heavily from now on. Steel counts on auto makers to be pushing output of the new models on which Detroit pins its hopes of recovering lost sales ground. Many other industries rubber. copper, glass, lead, zinc, radio set makers and a host of auto indus try suppliers would be hit badly by an auto strike. A lengthy shutdown could quick ly clear out the showrooms of the car dealers. It might for a time (ace motorists with a shortage of new cars instead of a surplus. All hands have cause to hope there'll be no strike. -ViifkVar Tosis Klamath Falls (To The Edilorl In a recent editorial Floyd Wynne questioned the qualifications of the American Friends Service Com mittee to make judgments on the issue of nuclear weapons testing. He implied confidence in the find ings of scientists, such as the re cent report of the United Nations Scientific Committee. The language of the U.N. report is ambiguous. Some of its state ments are so tentative and quali fied as to leave an immense amount of doubt regarding pres ent and future effects of radia tion. Yet Mr. Wynne concludes, be cause "nuclear weapons constitute our primary line of defense," we must keep on improving them. The American Friends Service Com mittee, on the other hand, con cludes that since we know so lit tle about radiation effects we dare not take the ri-k of contaminating ihe earth's atmosphere with pos sible dancer lo millions of people Scienlilic lad and opinion are not conclude proof of one position the other. What is needed is moral judgment bolstered by whatever scienlilic e ulence is available. The American Friends Service Committee and Ri Orescw minis ters, who siciied an appeal to President Eisenhower, be'.ieve the nuclear powers cannot be morally permuted to continue their nuclear tesls behind the excuse that no one really knows h.V Ihe effects ill he. .Such excuses makf a trav esty of the God o aervt and of . craiio. Ken- K. I awh " .limit Ave-. I'niled fiats International SANTA MONICA. Calif.-Aetrms Margarel O Bri. on the death ol her mother: "Mother arid I ere very close It w. r- aenth tianc in Ihe !': . I i )r -'v mi They'll Do It Every So YOU DROP yOUR LINE- 4ND OUT OF NOWHERE"' THEN THE . FUN BEGINS mt AW A TIP OF THE H4TLO HAT TO DICK. C4RROLL, fc7W. 44 ST., N.y. Delegates Ban Measure DELAWARE. Ohio (AP) Dele gates attending the National Stu dent Congress last night defeated a resolution calling for segrega tion of schools. The measure, originally planned to be a desegregation resolution, was renamed. It was presented by the five-member delegation from the University of South Car olina. In the vote by about 600 dele gates, the resolution received less than 10 favorable votes. The five-page resolution said that where Ihe Supreme Court's decision to integrate schools has been enforced, the result has been the disruption of educational proc esses. It further staled that the deci sion has created disunity in the United States, at a time when unity is critically needed, and has destroyed racial friendship in the South. Other Southern delegations, however, did not go along with the resolution. In a debate before the vote, Dan Ellis of Tennessee asked if the racial amity (friendship) meant that one race was too good to as sociate with another. Don Furtado of the University of North Carolina said Ihe con gress was not held to argue con stitutional points. He said that in 1902 a North Carolina governor called for integration and lhat the actual achievement of that desire is coming 5B years later. The leader of the South Carolina group, Fred LeClerq, however, termed his delegation's resolution "a realistic document." He said, "Only when the South submits will you integrate." Canada Woman Dies In Mishap JORDAN VALLEY, Ore. (AP) A one-car accident on U.S. Highway 95 killed a Canadian wo man and critically injured anoth er Thursday night, state police reported. ' The victim was identified as Maria Eleanor White, 21. of Ed monton. Alberla. Maxine Medwid. 21, also of Edmonton, was taken to a hospital in Caldwell, Idaho, in critical condition. The accident occurred about five miles north of here and just west of the Oregon-Idaho border. EXERCISES CANCELED ATHENS (AP) The Athens Daily Post reported today a NATO exercise scheduled to take place along the Greek-Aturkish border in mid-September has been canceled. The reason reportedly was the continuing dispute over Cyprus. We'll be OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT! LUCAS FURNITURE 195 E. Main Ph. TU 4-3134 TV Welcome Wagon Hostess Will Knock on Your Door with Gifts & Greetings from Friendly Business, Neighbors and Your Civic and Social Welfare Leaders On the occasion of: The Birth of a Baby Engagement Announcements Arrival of Newcomers to Klamath Fall Na cost or obligatienl Prion TU 4-6185 C fOM, BOy All to myself.' this i w Gi- .i i V IS LIKE BEING THE ONLy M4M l llf jm the world .y iJjy' Ife'ciTl g y Time -- 1 8-Z9 LLciWiSfe AID OFFERED PHNOM PENH. Cambodia (AP) Cambodia's Premier Norodom Sihanouk, just back from a trip to Communist China, says the FOR SALE Beautiful Variety of CUT FLOWERS Reasonably Priced 207 E. Main No Obligation Nothing to Buy - No Need to be Present to Win! This is strictly LOCAL Contest! YOU can be the winner! Start Mving ytw Sinal Hausetrailer Tickets NOW! C A. Klaa 71 Mala -fr bkewsy Service Orc, mm i it 15. f. 2300 S. 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He will be succeeded by Fred Von Hofen, manager of radio station KENO in Las Vegas, Nev. Eichhorn formerly was com mercial manager and station manager of KING radio, and later was assistant to the vice presi dent of KING-TV and KING radio. NOW OPEN! JACK'S COLOR CHIP Klamath's oeweit paint itora featuring a compltta Una ot Glidden Paints and accenoriei. H.'fC Green Stamps on all P" choset. TOWN & COUNTRY SHOPPING CENTER Phone TU 2-4200 m following m tflUjliiijiMiifflii
