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HERALD ANT) NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1953 The U.S. Coast Guard function! under the Navy in time of war nd under the Treasury in time of peace. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Katlo MW-t. mm Ma PAGE 8 A FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr. Ph. TU 4-4752 Entered as second class matter at the post oflice at Klamaih Falls, Ore., on August 20, l!WS. under act of Congress. March 8, 1879. SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS fw-rvlng Southern Oregon And Northern California Subscription Rates CARRIER 1 MONTH 6 MONTHS 1 YEAR 1.50 $ 9.00 118.00 MAIL I MONTH $ 1.50 6 MONTHS - $8.50 1 YEAR J15.00 rin Springs By FLOYD L. WYNNE Traveled the Green Sprinss twice over the weekend. Two trips to Medford, and enjoyed every mo ment of the drive. Couldn't help thinking on the way over each time what a beau tiful country we live in. For some reason the leaves seemed a deep er hue and the rich riot of fall colors wove a magic spell. Maybe it was the fnct thut at the beginning of my Sunday trip over "the hump" I ran into some snow here and there. .Maybe I just appreciated the swan song of la more than usual. Admittedly, when you're rolling along with only a few feet separat ing you from a mile drop into the canyon, you can t he day-dream Ing. but the beauty of the trip wasn't lost on me, either. Saw a flock of hunters at ev ery turn, many of them camping out, some of them right alongside the highway. Also spotled three does and several fawns, and some how they had my deep sympathy. 1 know it's heresy in deer coun try to say it, but somehow I'm too soft to go dceri hunting, and must admit it. Also noticed just above Kcno a furry brown hear chained to a post at a service station. Quite . character with plenty of ' bounce to the ounce." I don't know whether you've tak en the Green Springs route late ly, but there's plenty to see. The road is now open and you can de tour down to look at the new Cop co Big Bend dam and on down into the canyon to the Big 'Bend powerhouse. Visitors are welcome but there are some stretches that have to be negotiated carefully. Notice, also, that after you leave Lincoln the old Green Springs is getting a face lifting. The Green Springs tunnel project is in full swing and they're grading up can yons, drilling a tunnel for the Tal ent project on the other side. As you come down the other side, there is evidence of construc tion activity everywhere, New roads arc being limit, power lines, phone lines const rnctrd and the bcauly of the landscape has suffered some deep scars. ' But it takes far more than that to efface the majesty and the bcauly of the area. Old Mother Nature rests supreme in her un ruffled majesty, looking with some humor on the puny clforls of man to undo the work she has done. Noticed, also, that Ashland has taken another big step into the modern era. They have widened the street on both sides of the long lane entering Ashland from the south, and have installed a complete, line of modern street lamps all along the route. It's a wonderful improvement lor Ashland. A Green Springs trip at this time of the year will certainly give you a new glimpse of the bcauly and (he promise that is Southern Oregon. 11 is interesting to note here mat when there was a general reduc tion in residential fire insurance rates a couple of years ago, most companies found individual house holders increasing their fire cov erage to the point they were pay ing as much premium as be.'ore the reduction. There are numerous items which make up the total of 5t)()(l deficiency points. They include structural con dilion of buildings in the city, po- ice department, water supply, fire prevention, fire department, fire alarm, etc. In the list of recommendations covering lire alarm division i in which Klamath Falls has too many points to make 4lh class), one of the important items is fire box dis tribution. There are fewer than 30 fire alarm boxes in Klamath Falls and the rating bureau recommends the installation of 137 additional lire alarm boxes. These boxes are paid for by city money and cost about $150 each. Where lines are in, installation is not excessive in cost and a serious study is being made of this subject. So far as the fire department ilself is concerned, the greatest debit item lies in manning. There arc 24 paid city liremen, includ ing the chief and his assistant. The rating bureau recommends tripling this number, so that there can be a staff of seven men for each of three companies on duty it all time, in addition to stand by crew. The new pumper, due to be de livered in Klamath Falls about January 1, will scratch off 35 points or better and will permit running two pumpers to every building fire instead of one. A few more fire alarm boxes, ad ditional space for fireman training program and a few more uniformed firemen and Klamath Falls can be rated in 4lh class by the Oregon Insurance Rating Bureau. nwn Killers By NELSON HEED lire Nil nation By FLORENCE JENKINS It is easy to accuse the mayor and the city council of extrava gance when announcement is made of the purchase of new oiuinirnt. but it is well to remember th.it the business of the city is con ducted witti due deliberation. Recently the city council ap proved the purchase of a new HioO-ti.illnn pumper truck lor the city fire department at a cost of a little less than Jl.i.ooil. This brings to lour the total of pump ers available to light fires report ed to the city fire department and to assist, through the mutual aid program, when needed elsewhere in the area. : Fire protection is a basic need of any community. As Klamath Falls grows in population, expan sion ot its fire protection services becomes necessary. ; The Oregon Insurance Haling has delivered to City Eire Chief Hoy Howe a detailed report so it can bo seen just where Klam ath Kails si. in. Is today. Klamath Falls is in the 51 h class. according to the rating bureau standards. And it is pretty tar down in the 5th class. The loss of 14. points would drop it into the Mil class and automatically increase insurance rates within the city from eight to 12 per cent, depending on the type of properly. The class into which a town falls il based on the points scratched off the arbitrary SiidO points de ficiency set up by II' rating bu reau. Mamath !ls has a total of 2487 deficicaj ia vcording to Ihe recent uv. ,' the i'tici ency points iaifntf to :'(il, tit city is rate' it kO A cii ll. however, cn-tn IsniDil if k' moved to ft;J !6 ci: 0 I ; or lower, it o il m AS which would mean Q cat)! insurs e raiig) liom about ciglu Years ago deer hunters by and large were considered sportsmen. You enjoyed and felt safe being in the woods with them. No more, thanks to the weird thinking of some of our Slate Game Commission advisers. Last year during the doe season I was down at the creamery to buy my weekly quota of ice cream, and Percy Murray asked me to look "the back room." It was enough to make you sick. Stacks of little (awns no larger than a dog piled up. Percy said that most of the "sportsmen" who brought them in were hangdog about it. Said their kids shot them. All the worse. I'd be ashamed to let any kid of mine grow up think ing it was sport to shoot a fawn that only a short while ago lost its spots. It it was meat they were after. I hey didn't get much. Twenty five pounds, perhaps, and not very good meat either. Perhaps we have loo many deer (or the feed some winters, but why can't we limit the cold-blooded slaughter lo grown does. No honest to God deer hunter would want lo be caught in the same woods with a miserable lawn killer. That is lor coyotes and such varmints, not lor true sportsmen. Why not have a one deer either sex law all season as many states do'.' In time the docs would gel smart loo and it might be a little more sporting to shoot one. !..., M-llll-l- I'OIIIIS Ry HAL ItliYLK NEW YORK (AP - .Snapshot memories Horn a South American visit; In Argentina nobody seems to care so much what a tourist tninks ot the couiitry s politics The big question is, "How do you like our beef? Most Americans, accustomed to meat aged longer, find the steaks juicy but a bit on the .tough side. But Buenos Aires is paradise to a real meat eater with good molars. ' The steers are more outgiving than those in the United States. The steak' portions come in big chunks. And the price is about a third of what it would be back home. For S2 you can get a complete dinner consisting of a huge steak, potato, salad, wine, dessert and coffee. The South American population is growing at a tremendous rale, and the continent also is spurting industrially. In both Brazil and Argentina one is impressed by the inescap able evidence. of boom, inflation, and great nationalistic pride. A foreigner, living in Rio de Janeiro, observed: "Brazil is go ing to end up one of the biggest political busts in history or one of the greatest countries in the world. The possibilities here are infinite, but Ihe people here want Brazil for Ihe Brazilians. They want to end up owning their own country." Another observer, in Argentina, said: "I don't know any country where a young man could come with $100,000 and become a mil lionaire faster." Getting that first $100,000, how ever, seems to be a pretty hard problem in South America as it is on every other continent. The ordinary tourist to South America says: "Everybody down here seems to be either very rich or very poor. The middle class doesn't seem lo be very strong. Look at all the slums." The slums are only too evident. The slums in the United Stales are now largely big blocks of tene ments. In countries such as Bra .il, the slums aro still individual huts. But In Kno Paulo, one of the world's faslest growing cities and often described as the Chicago of South America, a guide claimed proudly: "We aro building a new home hero every 12 minutes." tnc oltice building skyline in the heart of the city seems to be growing as rapidly as resurgent Manhattan. A strolling American in Brazil or Argentina runs into little ob vious "Yankcc-go-homc" kind of antagonism. The people are cour teous and polite to the stranger and helpful in small emergencies. "Tlie kind of foreigners they tend to dislike are those who come here, live entirely in their own groups, and alter 20 years in the country still haven't taken the trouble to learn the language.' one U.S. citizen stationed in South America said. ol Henry Semen, lulu politics and lawmaking, he brought a philos ophy based on his own experiences one to whom thrift and hard work had brought success. In the Oregon Legislature, he wielded ex ceptional influence because of the integrity of his opinions and the quiet forces of his character. It is to be hoped that such acco lades as that by Mr. Wynne will demonstrate to others that there is lasting honor for those whose course is determined by what one knows in his heart to be right, not merely by what appears for the moment to be expedient. Malcolm Epley Ilrnry St'iiion Long Beach ri'o the Editor) May 1 express my personal appre ciation of the line appraisal ol the life and public career of llen- Seiron which appeared under Ihe byline of Floyd Wynne in your October 13 edition? Having known Henry Semon in timately for 25 years and having toltovved his career as a citizen and public servant as closely. 11512 Vclvran Klamath Falls 'To the Editor) Some 50 persons braved a cold wind to gather on a hill in Langell Valley Saturday afternoon. Tin event was the placing of a marker to honor Ichabud Hall, a man whose name, the Department of the Army says, is on the roll of the War of 1812. Kin from the Rogue River Val ley, as well as Klamath County, were led by great-granddaughter, Mary Wilson Foster and great- grandson Holly Swingle. Kenneth McLeod, president of the Klamath County Historical Society, placed the marker. Mrs. Fred Fletcher represented the Daughters of 1812. Mrs. Arch Proctor, president of the Daughters of the American Col onies, also represented the Daugh ters of the American Revolution in the absence of the regent, Mrs. Albert Roenicke. Nine members of the Junior Historical Society were there on historical pilgrimage, and friends in the valley came lo share in the ceremony, led by William Campbell, whose help has been invaluable. Strong hands lifted aside the high, old, well-built picket fence which surrounds the grave under a large juniper. This enabled those present to get a close look at the old gravestone, which before could . be seen only by peering through the pickets. Then, chalk ing over the crude letters, it was found that what had appeared to be 1791 was instead 1794. This was followed by the 88 years, and the months and days which were clear before. Then we watched in inter est as the part we had not been able to decipher on a previous visit revealed the death date as 1882. Is the gravestone the final word? Probably, and the mark er dates must be made to con form to it. But for both Mrs. Fos ter and me there is that nagging question of Ichabud Hall's age. For her, life recurring family tra dition that he lived to more than 100 years; for me, Ihe fact that newspaper account, published while he was alive, said he was over 100 years old. Is the 100 years only one of those legends which travel faster than fact and super- ede it: Has he just stooped and feeble, so that someone said he looked 100. and thus started the tradition? We hope lo learn more, but until we do, (he Ichabud Hall story remains unfinished business. Mrs. Buena Stone 1 believe, as any person. 1 can at test to the accuracy of Mr. Wynne's well-worded observations In 3n years of lollowing the po litical reporting trail in Oregon and California. 1 have known no one in public life whose, motiva tions were more worthy than those lees's a sees s-z'c pooo 11 NCwl'i? 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Included are centers op erated by state or local govern ments or by private agencies. These enrollments were not orie- inally prov ided lor under the program. War Orphans Education is for ihe sons and daughters of World War 1. World War II or Korea veterans who died in military serv ice or from service-connected con ditions alter their discharge. Usually, the schooling is tor youm n-t r(t 4i,ii fnmi i, t0 ,tsi: rtttiva aj a.( 0f P Id U9 KCKlS, I WlWES4P : m AiMDnc; uic LAWH LIKE HOR4TIO AT THE 8RID6E- 2 THE ST4DIUM, -MiM5W Cop's Death Ends Tragedy NEW Y'ORK (UPI) The mystery of why four men were kUled in a Broadway bar early Sunday deepened today because ol the death of the man who pulled the trigger Patrolman James B. MeDermott. The 34-year-old officer, lather of four children, was gunned down by fellow policemen after his unexplained shooting spree. wnn live nutlets in his body, Me Dermott clung to life until late Tuesday. Ho died in Roosevelt Hospital without revealing any motive, po nce saia. Deputies Probe Death Of Infant SHERWOOD. Ore. (API-Sheriff's deputies are investigating 'the death of a prematurely born child whose body was found Monday in the Sherwood sewage disposal unit. An autopsy has been scheduled. Educators Slate Demo Speakers EUGENE (AP)-Sen. Richard Neuberger (D-Ore) will be one of the principal speakers at the an nual fall conference of the Oregon Education Assn. Department of Class Room Teachers here Fri day and Saturday. Gov. Robert D. Holmes also will address the session. new hearing miracle . . . ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S CHOICE yet priced to fit any budget . . . I Mru Roosvef wearing anon Her what Mrs. Roosevelt savs. "If oeonla ank knew what a joy The listener is, they would not hesitate to wear one. This is the first hearing aid that exactly fits my needs. I didn't realize a hearing id could be as good as this." 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