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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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"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
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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.
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