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7 PAGE 6 A HERALD AN'D NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1P53 FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph TU4-47p2 Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 20. 1906. under act of Congress. March 8. 187a SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California Subscription Rates CARRIER I MONTH - $ 1.50 6 MONTHS $ 9 00 I YEAR $18.00 MAIL 1 MONTH' ... MONTHS 1 YEAR $ 1.50 $ 8.50 $15.00 ToruiH' By BILL JENKINS Torque is a familiar word to everyone in the mechanical world As car buyers we are all familial with the word. (I'm not really. I'm iuit saving so to make it iound as though I was one of the gang). It is the rotary force in a mech anism and marks the degree of smoothness in the conversion of reciprocating into rotary motion This has to do with the engine I think. Anyway, I have been finding out over the years that cars have torque in other places besides the engine. At least if that is the term 1 am looking for they do. I am reminded of it right now because the truck I am currently driving has a high degree of left handed torque. By this I mean that if you put anything on the seat it is only a matter of mm utcs before you have it in jour lap. I can lay a shotgun in the car, the butt up against the gear lev ers and the muzzle pointing out the window, the whole thing in a leath er case with a rough outside, and within a quarter of a mile the darn thing is nestling against the steering wheel. Cameras and binoculars tend to snugle up against you to the point of distraction. Unless thry fall off the seat altogether. In this case there is a noise like shattering glass (probably produced by the shattering glass in the various len ses i and you stop and reach for the whisk broom. Remember the old days of milk bottles and how they kept falling off seats? I don't suppose there was a harder chore than to carry home two milk bottles on the scat of a car. Even if you put them in a sack t hoy worked out and fell on the floor. Or just lay there on the seat and clinked together until they both shattered. In any case it was pretty tough to get any milk home in the bottle. It was usually all over the floor or soaked into the upholstery Well, anyway, I seem to have a cor with leit hand torque inside it. I don't know why. On think ing back over it I realize that 1 have had a car or two with right hand torque. Right now 1 can't remember whether this was worse than the left handed variety or not. Someday I would like to own one with no torque at all. Inside, that is. I guess some in the motor will be all right. If it isn't I'm not going to say anything about it. I'm in enough trouble with the car makers as it is. 1 don't suppose this torque busi ness has anything to do with Tom as de Torquemada. the first in quisitor general of Spain, but the spelling is very similar. And I'm sure it couldn't have An insulator costs Copco only about five dollars, but the cost of .eplacing it under emergency circumstances may run into the hundreds of dollars in addition to the disruption caused by the power outage. An insulator is "about as big as a man's hat," Ritchey comment ed. He added: "Actually, an insulator is too big a target to test the skill of a good hunter." "Series Holiday" By TO.M ST1M.MEL The editorial guns of this manu script shall be leveled on target and fired immediately. What we have to say is this: The World Scries should be come a national holiday. Should this objective be dis missed as wishful thinking, con sider this: Everybody wants to watch the World Series. While the Braves and the Yankees are locked in mortal combat, nobody wants to work It may be that baseball no long er is a national disease, but cer tainly the World Series still qua! dies as a national affliction. Peo ple who don't follow baseball all season suddenly find peace only when glued to the Series television screen: people who aren't com pletely aware that the St. Louis Browns have been in Baltimore lor five years suddenly find it necessary to call the pilches for Whitey Ford and move Johnny Logan into scoring position This being the case, we should recognize the annual autumn mad ness for what it is and just give up and go home as far as labor is concerned. The Series could, and should. be handled like any other holi day. Only essential services should be in action, and so far as we can sec, the only truly essential services would be three: (1 radio stations, (2) television stations, and i3 power companies to keep them going. What could be nicer? Signifi cantly, what could be more real istic? Why should we insult our employers hy going through stereo typed motions when they know perfectly well our minds are with theirs in stadia at New York or Milwaukee The only sensible solution is to recognize the need and declare a holiday to serve it. What if the Series should last only four days instead of seven? In that case, it would seem pru dent to go back to work alter the fourth day, grateful for the holiday we have had. After all, the economy must he nourished, and we must remain practical about the matter. Frankly. I have not yet ap proached my boss on this sub ject. It seems a bit delicate to with string behind for nurse to tie Leaves everything uncovered thai usually ain't. Boost you on bet by means of elevated ramp. Onl hook and ladder can get you off Makes lile simple for nurses Always know where you are. Wish you could say the same about them. Can't expect beautiful gals to spend all their lime soothing brows of old fools or something just because they get paid for it. Hospital routine wonderful. Give you a pill to make you sleep so they can wake you up at 5:30 a.m. so they can dry clean you with alki so they can stick you with dope needle to put you to sleep again. Vary routine occasionally with liquid diet. Not the kind I'm accustomed to. Only thing saved me, hospital looked up credit rating after a week and discharged me quick. much to do with Torquay, which handl(' alonc- That's why a legal is a seashore resort in Devon shire, England. But whatever it is I have a lot of It inside my truck. All of it left handed. I guess ttic only thing to do is learn to live with it. Or slay home Trigger lliitv By ILORKNl'K JUNK INS Autumn's glorious golden days In our high desert country air anticipated with a ceitain amount of apprehension by California Ore gon Power Company people every year. Too many hunteis Like down their trusty rifles and head for the hills. The roads aie good and there is a compulsion tn try that gun just once or twice dining the last few days before the deer hunting season opens. ("opco is pi. lined with the re sults of that n'le lire in the fwt hills around Klamath Falls. Sam Ritthev. Klamath district manager lor Copco. savs h:s company has toved with the idea ol making up paper targets to he given away with every hunt ing license or box of shells so the marksmen can post them on nags or dead stumps and bang away. High vol:j;e wires outlined atauist the sky are a dangerous target, he points out. II the sniper successfully severs the wire, the whipping line m.,y take his life if he is near enough. The charge, of electricity is almost crrtain to set fire to any dry (rass on the ground and a serious forest f're can result Coupled with the danger tn hie and property is the Inconvenience of the power inter ruption to industry ar.d the ac tivities of the loir.ir.unitv . Wheels ship turning Ti; light over the su:geims cpci.'isj i.v ble is out and ihe d.-n'v 'J stilled. Your d.ulv r.,w-.iii wf ( be late and the i.ikc in ;: wife's oven talis t'at. j Those are jn.-: :s.i!a-d r ..! of a power '.r:e : ! ;n t.o or ar 1 Insulator s-atiiuJ I; i-tJ0i I holiday, in the strictest would he desirable. Failing that, I have lined up live beloved grandmothers who sudden ly are surprisingly near death. I'm counting on them, so that I may join the millions who will follow the manom emits of Mess ers Stengel and Haney vvilh ex traordinary interest. Opcrnf ions Hy NELSON liKKll Once had one of those operations vou don't talk about. Leastways vou never oiler to show anybody the scar. Fust signed papers say ing I was in my right mind. Next day when the "dope" wore off had serious doubts. Karlv Christian Marts only got hot lead in their llrifl Tops By PATRICIA McCORMACK United Press International NEW YORK (UP1) Canasta alter being the undisputed favor ite card game of Americans for five years, is yielding its place to the old champ, contract bridge. This is the word from John B Powers, executive secretary of the Association of American Playing Card Manufacturers. He said that among the estimat ed 120 million card-playing Amer icans, canasta and contract bridge now are running neck and neck in popularity. Pinochle Is in third place; poker, fourth; solitaire. Iifth. Most in the species known as "genus card player Amcricanus" do their dealing at home or in the home of a friend. Only 10.2 per cenl, said Powers, operate else where on trains, in bars or at public parties. A recent survey documented a seemingly strange fact: there is more card playing in homes with television sets than in homes with out them. The same survey, by the con sumer panel of the J. Walter Thompson Co., New York, also found more card playing is done the east-north-central states than in any other region. The least is in Ihe South. The sex line in cards runs Ihi way: men poker, pinochle, ca nasla and contract bridge; women canasta, contract bridge, soli taire and rummy. For most company, either ca nasia or contract bridge appears to be Ihe current formula for a most popular enjoyable evening. Dr. living Lrespi, in a recent issue of the Sociological Review, cites this inducement to card play- ng: The individual can hope to achieve acceptance into groups which will enhance his or her so cial position. "Eager lor friendliness and easy congeniality, many Americans ap pear to be incapable of generating such relationships without the arti ficial stimulation of impersonal, competitive group games." $5 icv. Previous maximum was -er month. Payments under the clause be gin after the total disability has existed for six consecutive months, and continue for the duration of the disability, regardless of its length, VA said. No payment may be made for disabilities incurred after age 60, and no premium charge is made for this benefit after that date. If the veteran is in good health and under 60, the rider may be added to any National Service Life Insurance i.NSLI) policy, except service - disabled veterans since April, 1053, VA said. Of the 5,650,000 holders of eligible NSLI policies, the agency estimat ed that at least 5,000,000 could qualify for the rider. There are currently 85.500 veter ans who have the old $5 rider attached to their policies. Those who meet the requirements may increase their coverage to the new S10 limit, for a very small boost over what they are now paying in added premiums. Premium cost of the $10 total disability provision varies accord ing to the policyholder's age, type of policy, and its face amount. Payments to the veteran under the rider do not reduce the face amount of the policy. Premium payments, both on the basic NSLI policy and the income provision, may be waived by VA for any period of total disability longer than six months. QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Q My C.I schooling was inter rupted more than a year ago when my father was sick and I had to take a job. I understand I may now continue my schooling under a liberalization of VA's regu lations. What do I have to do? A. You should receive soon an application form from the VA. Fill this out completely and return it. VA will send you a certification authorizing you to return to school. Vols Mail Itag Over 5 000,000 World War II and Korean Conflict veterans who hold GI life insurance may now at tach a new type of total disability income provision to their policies in return for a small additional premium cost, Veterans Adminis tration announced. The new type of Ol policy rider was authorized by Public Law 83 678. effective November 1, 1958. Under the new law. VA ex plained. polu holders who become totally disabled from any cause before age 60 and while the new rider is in effect . will receive an veins. ut. worse places Took aw ay my clothes and hunt j Income of $10 per month for each "short shrift" around my nocklM.nno face amount of the GI pol- Pogo AS' NC J VV J PCCQALLld&TCQg? WHAT JCS AJ. SxrCZS, w-sj T 5AT.-T"rnes J N T CVV -J WC1S V W.f ALLIiATORS. l iLVMlit' ' ' js, HAW.' PC6S- vffj vaa TOM Vi 6OfTM-1HtHtK0 A LI l' C9 AHTT 60MNA STAHD I YOUR -tmt.n Iftf 11 Mlf fc fc - - j ' (Mil Drum By MARGARET RICHARDS United Press International They've dedicated a statue at Warrensburg. Missouri, to the most famous resident in the history of the little town. His name Old Drum. Old Drum was a dog. and he has been dead nearly 89 years now. But the attributes that made him famous are remembered stil! in nearly every civilized country in the world. They've been told in print about 40 million times, and in almost every language. Old Drum's slaying was the sub ject of five separate trials and by the time they were over he was on the way to becoming the personifi cation of all dogs everywhere, the beloved pets and companions, the hard-working farm dogs, the sen tries, the hunters. As for Drum, he was a hunter. A deer hunter dog to be specif ic. He was the beloved companion of Charles Burden. The black and tan hound was found dead one Oc tober day in 186ti his body pep pered with buckshot. Burden grieved mightily over the dog he said was "just a mon- rcl hound, maybe, but a mighty tine hunter and a right good friend." Soon Burden began put ting pieces of rumor together and his grief changed to anger. Bur den suspected that his neighbor. Leonidas llornsby. had instructed a hired hand to shoot Old Drum. Burden took his suspicion to court and sued Hornsby for $100. llornsby won the case. But Bur den wasn't through. He appealed and the next time around he won. Next Hornsby appealed to the court of common pleas, and won that round Burden obtained anoth er trial in the same court. For this trial he hired as a lawyer Sen George Graham Vrst. who soon was to write his famed eulogy to a dog. It was Vest, standing in a hare little courtroom in Warrensburc in 1870 who first described a deg is "man's best friend." Ho won the case with the now amiliar tribute. Now Hornsby appealed again This time to Missouri's highest court. But the Missouri Supreme Court agreed with Vest and Old Drum was avnged. In a way. of course, the monu ment to Old Drum is a monument i all beloved dogs everywhere. Spccilically, the monument to be erected on the Johnson County oiirt house lawn is a life-size stat- f..f HlH llr,.m. Kl ...1. -A Sound cast in bronc and standing in a pink granite base A bronze plaq.ie will bear the .vords that immor:.il:zed Old Drum, and Cieorge Graham et. Fur the Gioige Graham Vest ho served ir the I'n.ivd States vn.re is long lorgotten except by wo k:ri- iM prop e- v'n";,p- and log hue: ww f,.nu: icc.ill the --ulogy oi o;d Drum. THIS WEEK OHVIJ WE HAVE WITH US 61SR1I5D, WOPLD- RENOWNED H4I? STV1.IST mere w--. - ""-I- wri-M I L. rl FOR VOU 4 LONE A I I-L4TTERIN& PERSON- I They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo I TVIIWlf I'LL TREJT MVSELP TOzW 4LIZED COIFFURE-- ) ''S1- I il.-UV - mm .71 Ihe LOCAL BJUTY S4L0N STRESSED TridT THEIR VISITING PRETTIF1ER WAS A SPECI4LIST-4M INNOVATOR &UT- VOU MIGHT JUST AS WELL DO THE JOB YOURSELF FOR ALL THE PERSONALIZED SERVICE HE GIVES VOU- f4 DOES MOOOM PREFER A SHORT 1 CUT OR A LONG CUT? DOES MODOM HJVE 2E THINNED OUTrV M4VBE BJMGS MODOM IS LIKING ?? DOES MODOM P4RT ZE HillP ON ZE 'SIDE-IN ZE MIDDLE ?? of J:.7vM 4sr-We.1-fes3 -i m No Red Demands For Talks Feature Of Current Crisis meeting last week in New York between British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Grnmyko. Kick By Horse Kills Performer NEW YORK (API Rodeo per. former William Boag of Weiser, Idaho, died here Tuesday of in juries suffered when he was kicked by a horse. Boag, 26, was kicked in the head and chest when a horse he was riding fell during competition at the .Madison Square Garden Rodeo. Survivors include the widow, Clara, and his father, Charles Boag of Portland, Ore. Boag, who operated a farm near Weiser, was starling to get off a horse called "Sunflower" when the accident occurred. STEAMSHIP LOST VALPARAISO, Chile (AP)-The newest and largest steamship in the Chilean merchant navy was believed lost today after fire forced passengers and crew to abandon ship. The 8,679-tnn Lebu was sailing off Caldera. Chile, 450 miles north of Valparaiso. Fuller Products Phone 2-3666 Arnold Migliaccio ntilrlbutar By K. C. THALER United Press International LONDON (LTD One of the startling features in the current Far East crisis has been the total absence of Soviet suggestions for a high-level conference. It has been the Kremlin's strate gy since 1954 to call for a confer ence, preferably a foreign minis ters' meeting, at the slightest provocation. Since the advent to power of Ni- kita Khrushchev it was the de mand for a "summit" conference which had been raised at almost any opportunity. The last time it happened was a little over six weeks ago when the Soviet premier and party boss demanded a summit parley to de bate the Middle East crisis. Nothing has been heard since. The Soviet has recoiled and does not even react to any Western prodding for a high - level, East West meeting. Diplomats with a long record of East - West negotiations recall it was Russia which prompted the conference in Geneva in 1954 at the height of the Indochina crisis. Then the Soviets urged a summit conference which finally came to pass in Geneva in 1955. Since then the summit theme was almost constantly on Khrush-i chev's lips, until they were sealed after his secret meeting with Red Chinese leader Mao Tse - tung at Peiping last month. The U. S. and Britain, revers ing the roles, recently have prod ded Russia formally for a resump tion of pre-summit negotiations in Moscow which were adjourned in July, but no reply has been re ceived. Khrushchev promised one. but has remained silent. The "normal" practice would have been lor Khrushchev to ask lor a high-level or preferably a summit meeting on the current Far East crisis. However, the in dications from the Soviets were they are anything but keen on such a course now. This emerged clearly during a REGULAR Klamath Falls Shrine Club DINNER MEETING Tonight -Oct. 1 Symposium 6:30 p.m. Dinner 7:30 p.m. -k Fried Chicken with all the trimmings. ic Nominating Committee Report BRICK LEACH, Pres. our best selling most popular girls' i car coofs Jk-i.. it' regularly Ml 98 I j i ' -r- j -yK.v 'Ty 'lr' ' M Kerryteen H ll I sizes 10-14 v v s IUa V-N.' 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