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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1958)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1958 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE SEVEN I . I I . "1 , , I i , I I ... M Mi ----- - 2 . r " V. Is if c V J! 1 tk v. t f ? jA C-i4 " TWO LOGS MAKE NO LOAD at all for this former Navy landing barge which can drag about 10 on each side when it's really loaded. Normally, the 55 - foot barge makes two trips to shore a day, bringing in a total of 30 to 35 logs, which are beached with the help of a tractor. The barge is powered by two Chrysler marine engines. Homemaker Courses To Be Expanded OREGON STATE COLLEGE A plan to broaden and strengthen adult homemaking education in Orecon by addition of such courses as home management, child de velopment, and family finance has been announced by tne state di vision of vocational education and the Oregon State College home economics education department Adult education courses in home making are currently offered through public schools in more than 80 Oregon communities with more than 13,500 men and women enrolled last year. Most of the classes arc given at night for pe riotls of two or three hours. Major emphasis in the past has been on skill courses clothing, up holstery, and some foods but the new program is aimed at broadening course offerings to in elude other basic areas of home- making. Addition of such courses will strengthen the educational pro gram and better serve homemak- crs of the state, n was explained. Bertha Kohlhugen. state super visor of home economics educa tion, are leaders in program de velopment. As the first stcn in the program two one-dav conferences were held last week at Oregon State College for adult homemaking teachers. Nearly 40 teachers and local vo cational directors participated in discussions on how to make home making classes more effective and which additional courses are need ed. O. 1. Paulson, state director of vocational education, met with the group. Recommendations will be re ferred to adult education leaders in the various communities for their use in planning local course offerings. Home management courses de signed to help the homemaker bet ter organize her time and work have been especially requested, it was reported. Colorado has an ef fective home management project built around a "wife saver" theme lhal was used as a sample proj ect. Other courses suggested in cluded family finance, family re lations, teen-age guides, and child development. U.S. Dogs Take Big Bite Out Qf Owners' Budgets Leptospirosis Plan Asked Farmers could save themselves and (he nation over 112 million dollars a year if they would in augurate a vaccination program against a cattle and swine disease known ns leptospirosis, the Ameri can Foundation for Animal Health suggested today. The disease causes premature births of calves and pigs. In re cent years, however, vaccines have been developed which will prevent it, and a vaccination campaign is now being urged on a nation-wide scale. In calves, leptospirosis usually causes fever, prostration, labored breathing and jaundice, with death losses reaching considerable pro portions. It also can cause a sharp drop in milk production among dairy cattle. The disease is especially serious as a breeding hazard for swine, and infected animals may be ipreaders or carriers for many months. 'We are foolish to confront one hundred million dollars in losses from a cause like this, when we now have a tool which will save us that huge toll," the Foundation said. "Systematic vaccination will pay great dividends to tiie farmer, and to the nation's economy as well. Job - Rated DODGE Power House Farm TRUCKS Cunningham & Rickey Motors So. 7th & Commcrciol By ANTHONY ZfiCCA PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Amer ica is going to the dogs to the tune of a half-billion dollars a year. That s how much it s costing us to let dogs lead a dog's life, said Harry Miller, one of the nation s leading canine connoisseurs and director of the Gaines Dog He search Center. Miller pegs the nation's pooch population at 2d million, which in cludes 113 recognized breeds, one third of all there are. "There's no recession in the dog industry," said Miller. "It's thriv ing, with 40 per cent of the na tion's homes having one or more dogs. We figure the total gross last year, including sale of pup pies, food, shows medical expens es and otherwise, was well over 500 million dollars." Biggest item, he explained, was 325 million dollars for dog food, the likes of which Mother Hub bard's Cupboard never imagined. There are canned foods, meal types, baked goods, frozen foods. Then there are diets aimed at re ducing obese dogs, those to aid the kidneys of aging dogs, other high protein diets for dogs who are un der stress, and menus for just about every condition imaginable. Nervous dogs get trancuiilizing drugs; listless ones get energy foods. "For the most part," said Mil ler, "dogs are treated as mem bers of the family. They get sick and old like humans, and they get medicine and hospitalization in the same manner." Miller's book "Puppy and Dog Care" is a best-seller among dog onwers, and its proceeds go to the Cornell Hesearch Laboratory for Diseases of Dogs. Hut there are as many varied publications un dogs as cross-breeds. You can, for example, get a na tional listing of hotels and motels which do not discriminate against dogs if you're traveling. There's a pamphlet on dog names; there's one that tells you how to enjoy a dog show, another on how to groom your dog and one en titled, "Our Dog's Health Record," in which you record all his shots, treatments and visits to the veter inarian, a counterpart to the "Our Baby" book. It even has a space' for the pooch s picture. Dogclom, in brief, is enjoying a boom, said Miller. "We know that tvo out of every five homos being set up will have a dog," he stated. "In a great many cases, the dog comes before the child. If the couple raises the dog right, chances are they'll do a pretty good job with the child. HITCH IN HIS PLANS TAIPEI (I'PI) The crew aboard the U.S. Navy Destroyer McDermut on patrol in the For mosa Straits has the usual collec tion of tattoos of mottos, women, anchors, etc., but Seaman D. K. McCullough of Birmingham. Ala is tattooed with a difference. On his shouldef McCullough wears the words, "This sailor should go to Heaven. He spent his hitch in hell." McCullough ap parently doesn't mean it. He re enlisted recently for six years. STAItl.ICHT VISION AID WASHINGTON (UPI) Lighl from the stars is being put to work by the Army to help soldiers sec at night. A new device will enable troops to see military objectives after dark by gathering reflected starlight or diffused light from skyglow and intensifying the im age electronically. Called the "Cas caded Photosensitive Image In tensifier," the device was devel oped by the Army Engineer Re search and Development Laborato ries, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and the Radio Corporation of America, Livestock Packers See Decline Soon By United Press lnfernation.il Livestock packers and feeders in California arc predicting a de creased payroll in their industries unless the Interstate Commerce Commission changes its ruling on lower truck rates for dressed meat and packing house products coming to the West Coast. The commission allowed rates of approximately 35 cents per hun dredweight below present rail rates to go into effect on July 6. This was done after cattlemen s asso chitinns. independent meat pack ers and other West Coast organi zations had secured a suspension of the effective dates and had been granted a hearing date by the commission's suspension board, which was overruled by the com mission's Division 1 1. California industries, according to Floyd Forbes, manager of the Western States Meat Packers As sociation, are objecting to the com mission's action which did not al low a hearing. Forbes says it will only be a lucslion of time until slaughter houses will be operating only on local livestock production. He says we ordinarily bring about a mil lion and a half feeder cattle into the slate each year. Those entile will not be able to compete with inlermounlain and niidwostern feeders who can pay as much as I ''4 cents more because of reduced shipping costs of dressed meat. Forbes soys California does not produce enough hogs, cattle or sheep to keep ils slaughter houses going . . . and at certain times of the year it must depend on the Midwest (0 keep ils plants going to capacity. Consequently, it will affect the whole agricultural economy of Ihe slate. Packers will have to lay off some of their help, feeders will not be able to buy as much feed stuffs or to employ as much help. 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