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fAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON MONDAY. OCTOBER 27, lasa ALARMS AND DIVERSION'S PARIS lUPI) - Paris fir... They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo said that of 30,000 alarms tj which they responded in ih i.. ou i"ucnrMO, mi nui irs dfsterton RsTERTON HAS BEEN LIVING AT THE CLU8 FOR MONTHS SINCE 84TTLIN6 WITH HIS FR4U--IN FACT, HE'S PRACTICALLV UNDERPOOT THERc vmi ueAa -rue l "atks.t anr.P MS OLD LAW THREW WM THIN& My WIPE DID TO OUT HE'S BEEN CRVIN& OH EVERJ year, 89 were lo get cats out nf rT-ANK JKNKINS ME r IVE WDITTEN SHOULDER IN THE CLUB-Mto Subscription Rates 4 SONG 4BOUT IT.' CV H4RDEB TO DUCK THAU iicca uiiu uu luui-iups; h!l Weil to get people out of stalled eleva tors, and 5 required rescues ol persons from sewers. Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph. TV 4-4752 Er.itred as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls, Ort., on August 20. 190S. under act of Congress, March 8. 1879. SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California CARRIER 1 MONTH ....... MONTHS I YEAR MAIL 1 MONTH MONTHS I SO t 9.00 18.90 $ 1.50 . $ 8.50 .. $15.00 I YEAR 1 m a - r THE DRAFT.' fT- I 0b e.rm Hallo! MiwiKurpK By FLOYD L. WYNNE Let's take a look at measures No. 3 and 4 that will be facing voters on November 4. Both are very important meas ures. f No. 3 would amend the consti tution to increase the salaries of state legislators from $600 to $1,200 per year. However, the measure does one olher thing also, it eliminates the phrase "and no other personal expenses" from the constitution so that the Legislature could concciv ably provide personal expenses without limit to its members. The increase from $600 to $1,200 a year would increase the cost of the Legislature about $54,800 per year, and could be considerably more if the personal expenses al lowances are expanded as they could be under this measure if passed. Those who argue lor it point out thai Oregon legislators are paid less than I he majority of the slates in the nation. Washington pays its legislators $1,200 per year plus $15 per day expenses. Cali fornia pays $6,000 per year plus $14 a day allowance. It is true that those who serve in the Legislature do so at a financial loss to themselves. Ses sions that last 100 days or more would cat up the b i g g e s t share of the $1,200, and in some cases exceed it, leaving the legislator not only not compensated, but not even repaid for the time he has lost away from his profession or business. Increasing the pay, while it will up the cost of the legislative ses sions, will make (he field more attractive to other well qualified people who cannot or will not now make the sacrifice. While it is true that deletion of a phrase makes it possible under this measure for the Legislature to compensate its members for per sonal expenses, that too docs not seem unreasonable, if it is held carefully in check. The increase does seem war ranted, the only question against it is whether or not the slate as such can afford another increase In Its budget. This one measure alone would cost a minimum of $109,000 for each bi-annual scs sinn. The law has worked well since its re-enactment in 1920, 38 years ago. There are those who argue against the death penally on both religious as well as moral grounds. They point out that abolishing the death penalty docs not in crease murders. Also, that there is the possibility of an innocent person being executed. One other important point is brought out by those who favor abolishing the death penalty. They say that those who are executed are in most instances persons who are poor or friendless. This point becomes particularly acute when one views the case of Caryl Chessman in Calilornia who has financed his many appeals with proceeds of a best selling novel. Both sides have good points Measure No. 4 proposes to elim inate from the constitution the present provision for death penal ty for first degree murder. It would allow the Legislature to fix (he penally. Under the present consitulion. th4 penally for murder in the first degree shall be death, except when the trial jury shall in its verdict recommend life imprisonment. Passage of this measure would not abolish (he death penalty, it would leave it up to the Legis lature to decide in first degree murder cases. ' The Legislature has already passed a law which will go into effect if this measure is approved which provides the penalty for first degree murder will be life im prisonment with no possibility of parole lor 15 years. These laws impose the death penalty for the crime of treason against the slate and for murder committed by persons serving life terms in the Oregon Slate Penitentiary. Under present laws, the penalty (or second degree murder is lilc imprisonment, hut also at present In Oregon, either lirst or second degree murder convicts serving life sentences are eligible for pa role in seven and one-half years. In reviewing Ihc capital punish ment measure. Oregon voters in 1H12 rejected abolishing the death penalty. In 11115. voters narrowly abolished the death penalty In 1920, Oregon voters reinstated the death penalty, and It has remained to date. Forty two stales in the nation have the death penalty. This measure leaves one big loophole, and il is a loophole that has confronted Klamath County in Ihc Billy Junior Nunn case where he killed a 12-year-old boy. Nunn was a sex pervert with i record of perversion, a record that had already landed him in the penitentiary. Yet. even with this record of sex deviation, he whs released and the nrutal mur der of a young bey occurred. Under Ihis provision. Nunn would be eligible for parole. Ad mitledly it would be 15 years but what assurance would people have that his sex deviations had been cured. This Is just one ex ample. The present law expressly says that the death penally lor fust degree murder shall be used only when the trial jury does not rec ommend life Imprisonment. The end result of the law is twofold, to exact punishment (or ihc crime committed, and to pro tect society liom the repetition llusiiitAs.s Scone By SAM DAWSON AP Business News Analyst NEW YORK (AP)-The highest grade corporate bonds are yield ing Ihclr owners more income if bought at today's prices than most of the prominent common stocks. But the bonds, especially governments, arc finding few takers even at the present greatly reduced prices. And the latest action of the Fed cral Reserve banks that raised their interest changes when lend ing to member banks isn't aimed at disturbing Ihis arrangement. The Federal Reserve says it's merely acting to bring Its discount rale closer in line to the interest rates commanded by other forms of short term lending. But the general rise in interest charges was set off by the Fed eral Reserve in the first place when it raised its rate last sum mer and when it took other meas ures to show it thought tighter money was needed to hold off an other turn of the inflation screw. Bonds are considered a salcr form of investment, but investors seem lo prefer the more risky common slocks even when yield ing less. The accent isn't on income just now. It's on the expectation oi capital gains If stock prices rise further. A similar situation arose in 1928 and 1929. Speculators preferred Ihc chance o( increases in prices of common stocks to the safety of bonds. The yield on top bonds went lo around 5 per cent and the average return on leading stocks dropped to 3 per cent. Now the best bonds yield a liltle belter than 4 per cent and stocks average out at around 3'i per cent. This sort of psychology thrives when Ihe economy is expanding, or when people think it is going lo, or believe jmat continuing in flation will raise Ihe prices of stocks along with everything else, It is into this sort of atmosphere that Ihe U.S. Treasury is stepping out again next month to raise an other 3'i billion dollars of new or Borrowed money. Because of Ihe temper of the bond market, most Wall Street ob servers expect the treasury to slay close lo the pattern of its last borrowing a few weeks back, when it tapped only Ihe short term market, which lo a large extent meant the banks. The Federal Reserve is tidying up its house to be set lo help the banks find the money the treas ury needs. All hands seem to have their fingers crossed, hoping that the new borrowing won't fan any inflationary fires. The treasury is coming back in to the market sooner than it had expected to, berause in this pe riod of slow tax collections it's running oul ol cash again as gov ernmcnt spending goes on and on. The U.S. Treasury isn't the only one to be asking investors to lend a hand. Six states and 400 local subdivisions have bond issues to talling more than two billion dol lars to be voted on at the Nov 4 election. This is more than twice the amount voted at last year's general elections, but about a quarter of a billion less than the record set in 1956. Voting on such issues isn't con fined to general elections by any means. The Investment Bankers Assn. says that so far this year about six billion dollars of such issue have been sold. Corporations are going to float some big debt issues, too. Even at the new high rates many pre fer bonds to stock issues. This is because the interest paid out on bonds is charged off before taxes, while common stock raises the hope at least of dividend pay ments, which must be made alter taxes. Alcohol Klamath Falls: (To Ihe Editor) Since you gave prominent space to a recent church report on "Ai coholism and Social Drinking." I am sure you will be glad to share with your reading public an oppo site view as expressed by a regu lar Herald and News reader. In the current issue of' "U.S. News and World Report" there is a more complete summary of this report which was issued at Miami, October 14. The authors give a very good analysis of the problem ol social drinking of alcoholic bev erages, but come to an unfortunate, and, as I sec il, illogical, con clusion, namely that "A Christian who drinks moderately with due re gard for the feelings and needs of his brothers and with a conscien tious care for the claims of God can drink with thanksgiving to Him for these blessings," and, "we would submit that our grace and thanks at meals should always in clude those beverages which may precede or accompany Ihe meals." Since, as 1 take it, the authors arc not writing as Bible exposi tors, I offer objection to the re port only from their area of cov erage. It seems to assume that if social drinking is done with thanks giving to God, and under regula lions, that the problem of alcohol will be solved most effectively. But where is the limit of its in fluence? Dr. Robert S. Carroll. M.D., (What Price Alcohol?, New York: Macmillan, 1941 , says, "a single cocktail effectively does something to self-determination. to discretion, to the finer restraints of judgment." And Dr. William Mc- Dougal, 'Outline of Abnormal Psy chology, New York, Scribners, 1926), writes, "that self-knowledge which is essential to the supreme activity we call volition or de liberate will. It is the blunting o( this critical side of self-awareness by alcohol, and the consequent setting free of the emotions and their instinctive impulses from its habitual control, that give to Ihe convivial (social) drinker the as pect and the reality of a general excitement. The argument of ihe doctors whom I quote is that al cohol, even in small amounts, will influence the entire person, and in every realm of activity with which he is concerned, and in the man ner lhat is most far reaching, namely, his "self-determination " his "emotions," his "supreme ac livity." Does the influence of alco hol let a man go to his work next day completely normal? Will he be normal with his family, when his emotions and judgment are disturbed? And what of the broken homes, the children, ille gitimate and other, and Ihe lormer mates who are ultimate victims ol social drinking? The report seems to assume that people can relax, and make their play times more pleasant by using alcoholic drinks. But Dr. Milton J Roscnau, (Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, New York, Appleton-Cen tury-Croft, 1935) writes, "alcohol does not relieve fatigue, but makes one unconscious of fatigue." Did you ever hear the quotation from the revered Abraham Lincoln when he got seasick on a boat and a staff officer offered to send for a bottle of champagne to relax him from his difficulty? He replied, "No, no, young friend, I've seen many a man in my time seasick ashore from drinking lhat very ar ticle. Since the Christian ideal sets forth that a person is to be at his best, emotionally, mentally, physi cally and morally all the time and in every area of life, and since the use of alcohol in any amount militates against this, and since, furthermore, the use of alcohol in social drinking does not truly relax the user of it, I am in dis agreement with the report. The leaders and the great mass of Christian people with whom I am affiliated likewise hold to this view E. M. Causey I'M Mitt TO ivnreuew Tug A PINCH. T A INK&APlNCl Pogo T tMOtfr TW NATIONAL THAT SuTA USti THIM. r I NCUOUT i TO 66T WNPKVtflf, MARBOyr CCKCA1- T Suit. y Tm a at 00MI 1 Cm. MX MUX OSO'CUTI TulM. hiss Ki coiat k" ' nut ma pooo a MWv Hives By EDWIN P. JORDAN. M.D. Among the allergic diseases hives, or urt caria, occupies an important place. Unlike seasonal hay fever (whether the result of pollens from ragweed, trees, grasses or some thing else) hives may appear at odd times of the year. Consequent ly, the cause of this condition is usually more difficult to identify than ordinary hay fever. An outbreak of hives usually comes suddenly and expcctedly. It shows on the skin as reddish swollen spots of various sizes with intense itching. The itching gener ally involves not only the raised spots but the entire skin. These signs often disappear as fast as they come and sometimes last only a few hours. One of my children had an attack of this sort and I never did know what caused it. Too often, however, hives goes on for days or weeks and even sometimes turns into a chronic condition which docs not disappear for months or years. Chronic hives is, of course, the most troublesome variety. Hives may follow the eating of some food to which a person is senstive. It can also develop after a drug or serum has been given, after infection, exposure to heat, furs, insect bites and many other things. It is not a single disease, tnerefore. Urticaria differs from many olher kinds of allergy in that a sen sitive person does not always show a skin reaction when the offending substance is placed in contact with the skin by scratching or patch lesls la type of testing used many allergies). Often this failure of the skin to respond makes diagnosis of the cause of hives particularly diffi cult. Furthermore, no one knows why red spots should appear on the skin as a sign of sensitiveness. They do not seem to serve any useful purpose. In spite of the common difficulty in picking out the cause, treat- menus most satisfactory when an accurate identification of the of fending substance can be made. If strawberries, shrimps, or some particular drug are found lo Dring on an attack of hives it is usually easy to avoid the offending substance and so avoid future dif ficulty. In chronic urticaria, when the cause cannot be discovered, the situation is particularly unpleas ant. The skin is unsightly, and itch ing Is often intolerable. In many instances, however. drugs which are known as anti histamines and these shoulu not be taken unless advised by a phy sician bring great relief. These drugs do not cure the underlying cause, but may relieve the itching and cause the disappearance of the skin lesions (or fairly long periods. Many features of lirllcaria ire are still unsolved. The completely unexpected appearance of hives in a person who has never had the condition before is one of the many problems which has yet to !be explained. United Press International MINNEAPOLIS-Vicc President Nixon, on Democrats who point to polls showing a decisive Demo cratic lead in the congressional election: "I only nope they make the same mistake we (Republicans) made in 1948 of believing that polls settle the result of an election." fH4NX MO A TIP OF THE H4TLO HAT TO Sjm ao Jessie PITTS8UB3W." HEMN4. Jf oJSS, ttAJ E UTTLE II HOME RIGHT infiy, ri.M Giving UP IN A now-SO LONG, vou IA, Cheddar really needs him tonight so will he be GROUND AS USUAL ? WELL NOT SO'S YOU'LL NOTICE HIM .... Colombo Nations Probinq Lagging Economy Problem SEATTLE (API Tho sofnnrf phase of the Colombo Plan Eco nomic uonierence opens today With Officials of 18 nations anri three colonial governments searching for means to expand the rate of economic growth in Communist-threatened South and Southeast Asia. Preliminary shiHinc hv trv-hniai experts indicated greater assist ance will be needed from the United Stales. Rrilain Tanarfa and Japan. Charles VV. Adair .Tr head nl the ll-man U.S. delegation and host to the officials was expected to be named conference chairman at an opening plenarV session. Gov. Albert D. - Rosellini of Washinalon and Mavnr finrdnn s Clinton of Seattle arranged to wel come ine delegates at a midday uag-raising ceremony. In the first round of talks last week, technical exnerts frnm all of the Colombo countries pre pared working papers on lagging economics in an area subject to mounting Communist pressures. Political riiffprpnres am narb-orl ouisiae me conicrence room. There is Inn prpat a enlit hnluman , such neutral nations as India, In- i donesia, Ceylon and Burma on one! hand and the Philippines, Thai land, Pakistan and South Viet-! nam on the olher for any discus-! sion of a political nature. j Instead, the rinlonatpc pnnppn. Irate on common economic prob lems and how they best can be met. The Cnlomhn Plan wac nraan. ized in Cevlon in 19.V) as sultative group in which Ihe ad vanced industrial nations cooper ate in assistance In I hp Ipqc developed nations. Outside he d to thp nppHv npw countries of free Asia has taken a variety of forms. Australia has trained more than i.wo Colombo Plan students in en gineering, nursine. sciencp prfn. cation, teacher training and agri culture. Tpphniral Irainino will ha xivwKu up uy japan, me unnea Stales, Britain and Canada. Canada has given more than 200 million dollars in assistance and exnpcts In pxnanri Ihic with Ini-ani- supplies of wheat to India and t-aKisian. Cary Grant, the film star, once operated men's haberdashery shops in New York and Hollywood Canada provided India with an atomic rpaptnr anH a hvrli-nplo,. tric generating station, aided Pak- isian wun a power project and supplied equipment for a techni cal high school in Burma. JaDan nrnvidpH mpdii nn Iprm loans to exporters of capital equip ment and sent 76 experts to other Asian countries. India has pro vided technical experts for Cey lon. Indonesia and Singapore and beloed Nenal with m3h K,iiiri:nrt irrigation and water supply. cruain is planning to step up its supply of credit and private in vestments aftpr malrino airollokla more than 300 million dollars in grants and loans. The United States has provided more than 2'i billion dollars in economic and technical assistance inrougn grants and loans. O People Read SPOT ADS - you are The Welcome Wagon Hostess Will Knock on Your Door with Gifts & Greetings from lyriendly Business, Neighbors and Your Civic and Social Welfare Leaders On the occasion of: The Birth of a Baby Engagement i Announcements Arrival of Newcomers to Klamath Falls Ne cost or obliaatienl Phone TU 2-0834 LUNAR TRICKS NEW YORK (UP1) A New York taxi driver had his own explanation today for an exces sively rainy weekend: ou throw, things at the moon, you gotta' expect they'll throw something back." ROCK 'I! ROLL SHOW & DANCE KLAMATH FALLS AUDITORIUM (Hit Armory's ntw nam) TUES. NOV. 4 featuring IN PERSON Ihe winner of Dick Clark's Amtrican Bandifand award, THE "YAKITY YAK" COASTERS and their ORCHESTRA PLUS SUGAR PIE & PEE WEE 'On I wo Ltd Reck" and their ORCHESTRA ALSO JOHNNY FULLER Toy Gat Mt WhiiMIni" DANCING 9 to 1 $2.00 PER PERSON Inc. 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