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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
THURSDAY, OCTORER 30, 1953
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By FLOYD L. WYNNE
Measures numher ciht and
nine are important measures, but
are more "housekeeping" meas
ures than anything else.
Numher eight would authorize
the Legislature to alter, reduce,
enlarge or terminate the use or
purpose of any state institution lo
cated outside Marion County any
time alter 10 years from date of
election which located the institu
tion. At present the Constitution pro
vides that all public institutions of
this state shall be located in Mari
on County; except that the Legis
lature may order the local of a
public institution outside Mari
on County if such act is ratified
by a majority of the voters at a
general election.
It is pointed out that at present
it is necessary to get a vrite of
'the people to build a public instilu
tion outside Marion County any
way, and this portion would not be
materially changed.
The net effect of the measure, if
approved, would bo to give the
Legislature the power to deter
mine future status of all public in
stitutions outside Marion County,
and to terminate or alter them as
they chose.
The only argument against this
is that a capricious Legislature
would have the latitude lo do
some damage. Also, the net re
sult, if strictly interpreted would
be to eventually have all public
institutions located inside Marion
County. Thai's an issue that has
also been hotly debated across
the state.
Measure numher nine is to au
thorize the Supreme Court to ap
point temporary judges lo the Su
preme Court and the lower courts
and to assign lower court judges
to temporary duty outside their
districts. Purpose of this measure
would be lo speed up the handling
of court cases.
A tremendous backlog faces not
only the Supreme Court but al
most every other court, and the
authority lo appoint temporary
judges as needed would material
ly assist courl case handling.
This procedure is already being
used in Ihc cases of temporary
duty outside Ihcir district for cer
tain judges, hut it recently was
challenged and some question cast
on the constitutionality of such
procedures.
The measure is designed lo
change the Constitution and re
move all douht of the constitu
tionality of such moves, and as
such is merely a "housekeeping"
measure.
shaft, hoping against hope tnat
"their man" had escaped the ex
plosion and the "black damp."
Like hurricanes and tornadoes
the equinoctial weather, both
spring and fall, seemed to bring
on mine disasters. Something in the
changing temperatures caused the
air in the mines to become more
subject to explosions. Of course,
with modern safety devices and
better operating conditions, largely
developed by the Bureau of Mines,
disasters are far less frequent. The
old miner's lamp became electri
fied and ver.iilation in the under
ground workings was much im
proved.
Once when 1 took some samples
of diatomaceous earth from here
hack to the Pittsburgh Testing Lab
oratories in hopes that it might
contain aluminum it did. but it
also contained silica, which was
too expensive to get out of it I
learned an unusual use that was
being made of diatomaceous earth.
The Bureau of Mines ground it up
into a very fine powder. Then they
put it up in thin tissue paper sacks
and placed the sacks over the en
trances of all the underground
workings in the coal mines. If an
explosion occurred, the concussion
would rupture the sacks, releasing
a fine dust into the air. This dust
upset combustion and prevented
the spread of fire through the mine.
When I was in the Army at Camp
Lee in the "old man's war.
learned some more about mines
and miners. We had a number of
Polish miners in our outfit. When
the rest of us organized drives to
kill off the rats that swarmed
around camp, the Poles would
have no part of it. Seems rals in a
mine can smell coal gas long be
fore a man can. They squeal and
run around in a panic, warning the
miners to get out quick.
Coal mining has always been a
back - breaking, dirty, dangerous
job, bill no honest to goodness
miner will ever work at anything
else. It is their whole life as it
was that of their fathers and their
grandfathers before them in many
cases.
watched a iu.sian soprano and aithe loss of other income during
Hungarian guitarist. that period, this sum is of course
Thi.iBs picked tin at the second ony a token payment. Actually
top, a night club called La Nou-i'W means that we expect honest
voile Eve, where we saw some
strippers. The last stop was Mou
lin Rouge, full of acrobats
dancers, and pantomime comics
No sex.
Helurning to my hotel I was
given the big sell by two ladies of
the Protect Paris' Reputation for
Sin Society. They were waiting on
the curb.
Curiously they did not whisper
like Ihc postcard salesmen. They
shouted, or I felt as if they were
shouting, their promise of an in
(cresting nightcap, complete with
prices in francs and dollars. I said
no thanks I have witnesses and
kept on going.
The girls laughed, and I thought
I heard a few slanders about my
manhood
nside (he holel clerk seemed
amazed I was still alone. Then his
expression changed to sadness and
finally, to hope.
"Bon nuit, monsieur," he said,
handing me my key. "But tomor
row is another day, n'est-ce pas?"
They II never believe me back
on the 8:05.
Numher 10, the stale power
measure, is a highly important
measure and one deserving of very
careful study.
Purpose of Ihc measure is to
empower the stale to acquire and
develop water, Ihermal and nucle
ar power gcnrialing facilities. The
state may develop energy for
transmission and sale on whole
sale basis or directly to industries
using lo.mil) kilowatts or more.
The measure would amend the
constitution in three ways: (U It
would enlarge I he authority of the
stale in Ibis aclivily by permilting
Hie development of thermal and
nuclear power, as well as water
power. 121 Increase the amount of
debt which could be incurred from
the six per cent of assessed valu
ation limit In 10 per cent of as
sessed valuation or approximately
383 million dollars. i3 It would
limit the sale by the state lo a
wholesale basis and allow direct
contracts with industries using 10,
000 kilowatts or more.
The measure is highly contro
versial and would result in the
state going heavily in debt.
H has also some hidi ramifica
tions locally that should be brought
out. Suppose, tor instance, I h e
state decided to purchase Copco
here in the Klamath area. They
could under the proposed measure.
Then, suppose Ihey develop and
sell Ihc energy. What would hap
pen In the properly taxes paid
by such concerns'.' How about Un
franchise tax it currently pays the
city of Klamath Falls lor instance,
a tax that gives the city a con
siderable sum"
And there is always the ques
tion that it will open the door
for another Tennessee alley Au
Ihority in the stale of Oregon
There appear to he a great num
ber nl problems in the measure
that have not been thoroughly con
sidered or thought out.
Suhhiiig For Movie
By SAUL PETT
PARIS (API The last lime 1
saw Port Washington, N.Y., the
houlevardiers on the 8:05 were
leering.
"Going lo Paris, I hear," said
a fellow commuter on the Long Is
land Railroad, with a knowing
elbow in my ribs.
.Man! Paris! Man, oh man, oh
man! another man groaned.
Thus, long before I took my
first walk in the narrow streets of
Montmartre, I felt a heavy sense
of national obligation, as though it
were part of the franchise of
American manhood, to be thor
oughly wicked in Paris.
Now 1 know where this national
eer comes from. It comes from
'aris.
"Are you alone, monsieur?"
asked the hotel clerk when I reg
istered .
"I am alone."
"Ah, yes, monsieur, you will en
joy Paris.'
On the R le rie la Paix, the lady
in the perfume shop refused to be
lieve I wnrted perfume for my
wile.
"Mais oui monsieur," she said
snickering
And sure enough, going into the
Louvre, I was stopped by a man
in a hoi el who laughed like a
muffled hyena. He flashed some
postcards; and when I shrugged
him off, he laughed again. By the
time I got ii'side the museum even
the Mona Lisa's smile seemed un
duly familiar.
Coming out of Notre Dame I
noticed a funeral on a side street,
tho mourners walking solemnly
behind the hearse. In front of the
cathedral another man in a beret
tried lo sell me postcards.
That night 1 joined a group of
eight American men on an Ameri
can express bus investigating
Paris by night." We made three
slops and at each were served a
single glass of champagne, no
more, no less
A Siuvh Pig
Klamath Falls (To The Editor)
Two hundred thousand or so
hunters who bought hunting li
censes, deer tags and duck stamps
would like to have a few more
men in this Basin just like Nelson
Reed lo tell 'em. Let's sec, I
think it was Harry Truman, who
said "a stuck pig will squeal."
J. B. Pennington
I'Ihmmv
Klamalh Falls (To The Editor)
Re: The Nelson Reed - Ken Mc
Leod Jr. expressions on your page.
As a native Klamath bird shoot
er, bird feeder and bird watch
er, who has come home cold, wet.
exhausted and skunked as well as
one who is on record as having
exceeded the bag limit, I'd like
to say a word on behalf of the
guy who owns a shotgun as an
excuse lo get out alone in ' Ihc
raw lo brush the cobwebs of mod
ern civilization from his brain.
McLcod missed Reed's point en
tirely or ignored it for his own
purposes. The point is that Ihc
garden variety hunter is geiting
sick and tired of being forced to
financially maintain the empire of
the Fish and Wildlife boys for thelgovernmcntal affairs of that mag
members of the State Senate and
Assembly to represent us at
substantial financial sacrifice out
of their own pockets. Is this either
democratic or consistent with good
government?
The pittance Oregon now pay
those we elect to govern us
among the lowest in the nation
It is less than that paid in any of
our neighboring states. California
legislators, for instance, can he
expected to devote year-round at
tention to their public duties
they receive $B,000 annually plus
per diem, while in session. Even
Idaho far less populous and less
wealthy than Oregon provides bet
ler for its legislators. A "Yes" vol
on Ballot Measure No. 3 this fall
A-ould only permit bringing Ore
gon's scale up to that of Washing
ton state, at $1,200 a year with the
possibility of expenses during the
Salem session,
Undoubtedly, opponents of th
measure will include some of the
same people who, inconsistently,
are cynical about "politicians" and
lowngrade them for being acces.
sible to lobbyists and special in
crests,
The argument is thoughtlessly
made lhat legislators "know the
salary when they run" and thus
should be satisfied with it. Yet
what of the potential candidates
who cannot afford the financial
sacrifice at all? There was a time
in the history of parliamentary
government, when legislators were
not paid at all and that means,
at least not by the public. Cer
tainly, candidates could neverthe
less be found, as could private in
lercsts, only too glad to support
legislators while in office and to
make legislative service worth
their while. But who today would
suggest returning to such a sys
tem
With the widespread concern in
these times about lobbying and
conflicts of interest, do we not
want to bolster the independence of
legislators at least to the point
where they can break even on the
actual costs of their public serv
ice?
It would cost about $54,000 more
a year to pay a decent salary
to our Legislature, who control a
liennial stale budget approaching
300 million dollars. Could there be
a sounder investment in compe
ent handling of our taxes and
purpose of having five to seven
million birds here (F&W figures)
for the sole benefit of a few screw
ball professional birdwatchers like
Ihe "Look" photographer and Writ
er McLcod and the big California
rice growers
Fish and Wildlife has become so
efficient in ils stated purpose of
keeping ducks and geese within
Ihe reserve sanctuaries until after
Ihe rice harvest that, without their
word of it, we wouldn't know
there's a bird in the Basin.
Within the past week I have
made the loop up to Crater Lake
and back the west side of Klamalh
Lake, and through Yonna, Poe and
Laugell valleys without seeing so
much as one tiny flock of ducks
If Ihe reader feels thai main
taining the millions of migratory
waterlowl should he for the pur
pose of hunter recreation rather
than the way it is, I suggest that
he so write his congressman.
There's no hope from the dedi
cated, closed-minded F&W people
or from the professional "bird
watchers."
A. D. I)eb Addison
1887 Lakeshore Drive
Lcgi.sliif or Salary
Portland (To The Editor) As
lormer members of the Oregon
Legislature, we would like to urce
al1 of your readers to vote "Yes"
on Ballot Measure No. 3. to per
mit a modest and long-overdue in
crease in the salaries of Oregon's
legislators.
This is a completely non-partisan
measure. No vote on an issue on
the ballot can make a more es-
nitude?
That is why we urge our fellow
voters, of both parties, to vote
es on Ballot Measure 3 on
Section day.
Richard L. Ncubcrger,
Maurine B. Neuberger
liidppeiideni
Vol or
Salem (To The Editor) As
native Oregonian of not too ven
erable years, and as a now reg
islercd Independent voter; having
in Ihe past been registered as a
voter of both parlies; I would like
lo suggest lo the voters of Ore
gon, hat when casting their vote
for governor of Oregon on No
vember 4 next, that perhaps now
is the time for all good voters to
come to their own aid and do
some independent thinking before
casting ihcir vote for the future
governor of Oregon.
I would say lhat Mark Hatfield
meets the requirements to be gov
ernor of Oregon in the years ahead
when greatly increased population
will call for fair and unbiased
leadership of all segments of our
population.
Oeorge W. Croisan Sr,
Box 627
sential contribution to cood covern-
the first slop, the guide said iniment in our state than No. 3. Yes.
Brooklyn-accented English, was! Oregon legislative pav is now
"to get us in the mood." This wasjStioo a year. When considered in
a liny Russian restaurant where conncclion with Ihe expenses of at-
we eight hell-raisers gnmly;tending a legislative session
O mi Irs
United Press International
WASHINGTON - AFL - CIO
resident George Meany charg
ng lhat political campaign ora
tors (his year arc using the "big
ie'.' technique to pin a pro-Communist
label on organized labor:
"This is an unforgivable and
completely unjustifiable -trick."
3lin' IHjinr
By NELSON REED
Mine disasters in Ihe papers of
lale bring back memories of my
youth when 1 lived In Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania, the heart of the sod
coal country. Each spring and full
the papers would have the same
heart-rending pictures and stories!
of mothers, wives and sweethearts
waiting patiently at the lop of the!
OPEN SEASON
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oi iiqsrror ....
"What happened to my spaghetti?"
SPR1XG1IILL. N. S. - Harold
Brine, one of 12 Irapped miners
in a collapsed coal mine, after
rescue workers contacted the
an()imen by means of a pipe:
Mere all right. The air has
been pretty good. Some of us arc
hurt bul not badly. We're awful
damn thirsty."
WEST LAFAYETTE. Ind. -Purdue
"golden girl" Adelaide
Darling on criticism of her "wic-
gling" while doing a hula hula as
a drum majorette:
"It seems to be what they want
around here. After all. my busi
ness is lo be a showman."
MINNEAPOLIS - Secretary of
Labor James Mitchell . in con
demning "right-to-work" laws:
"This phony argument that
laws which prohibit union shops
ARE 'right-to-work' laws leaves
me cold."
They'll Do It Every Time
By Jimmy Hatlo
AICA AKD CHEDDAR'S LOVE WAS
CEMENTED BY THEIR MUTUAL INTEREST
IM THE KEGLIrJG B4STIME
Wellthey've been hitched for
some time what about together
ness on the alley's now ?
1 KNEW VOU WOULDT ' MY MOTHER IS CdN'T I H4VE j
L I'M QEAL&Y-d BBV-ITtX BE SWELL ft COMING OVER TO YfANY INTERESTS OP V.
' GETTING TO M TO ROLL DOWN LIFE'S- MIND TOE CHILDREN -MY OWN? A WOMAN'S f
LIKE BOWLIN6, Vj BOWLING 4LLEY S4 I'D LIKE TO GO , PL4CE IS IN THE I
CHEDDdR-IT'S H TOGETHER--ON V. BOWLING WITH HOME D'YA AlWAVS I
A WONDERFUL A OUR HONEYMOON! I , VOU"" .S ; H4FT4 BE TAGGING L
k SPORT Ay WE'LL GO TO THE fcFrrT '. V 4FTER ME ?.' J-l
V ' NdTiONdL v4'A " r rTrig
Ike's Tactics
Termed Cruel
TL'LSA. Okla. (AP)-U.S. Ren
Carl Albert (D-Okla) told a Tulsa
Democratic party rallv Wednes
day night that political campaign
ing by President Eisenhower may
have caused irreparable harm to
America s foreign policy.
Albert, Democratic whin in the
House, spoke at a $10-a-olate nartv
dinner attended by 1,100 persons.
Ainert accused Eisenhower or
cruel and unfair tactics" aeainst
Ihe Democrats, adding lhat "in
Ihe cold war against communism,
it is important that America re
main united."
Presidential utterances. de
signed to cast aspersions upon a
arge segment ot our population,
;aid Albert, "are calculated to
divide and not unite our people."
lie said Democratic leadership
n congress cooperated with Ei
senhower, who is the only person
who can speak for America in for
eign policy.
We believe politics should stop
it the shore line."
Nixon In Corn Country
On Final Campaign Leg
Custer Prize;
Eleventh Girl
PORTLAND (AP) The world
oi l. in. Ulster o( forlland is a
woman's world even more so
now.
Cusler joyfully accented word
Tuesday night that he was the
father of another girl, his 11th
daughter. He has no sons.
The boys at tho office say I'm
doing a swell job of what I'm
doing and that there is no reason
o change," he said.
I made a wagon once when the
first one was coming along. Of
course that's a toy the girls can
use too and they did."
The mother and 9-pound 4-
ounce Margaret Eileen were
doing fine.
The Custers live in a larce
three-slory frame house with four
big bedrooms and a third-floor
dormitory. Mrs. Custer details the
ork, which the girls do.
Custer said his wife sometimes
lets them draw for jobs. . . .
Wo try to keep the jobs moving
so that one girl won't have the
same job all the time."
Mrs. Custer, speaking from a
hospital bed, said. "You take the
first two or three and really work
them over until they are five
years old and then turn Ihe rest
the children over lo them.
Ry THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vice President Nixon returned
to the corn belt today as he head
ed west on his final bid for elec
tion of a Republican Congress in
next Tuesday's voting.
Nixon, en route to a weekend of
campaigning in Alaska, stopped
overnight in Chicago before trav
eling to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and
Wichita, Kan., today.
His Friday schedule takes him
to Billings, Mont., and Everett,
Wash., before he heads for Alas
ka. Voters of the prospective 4h
state will name two U.S. senators
and a representative in a special
election Nov. 25.
Campaigning in California
Wednesday night, Democratic Na
tional Chairman Paul M. Butler
renewed his suggestion that
Democrats who won't support
civil rights plank in 1960 get out
of the party.
Butler told a news conference
at West Covina that Democrats
who couldn't go along with such a
plank should either stay in the
party and try to put over their
own viewpoint or support a Re
publican ticket or a third-party
movement or stay home and not
vote.
At Greenwich. Conn., GOP Na
tional Chairman Meade Alcorn
ripped anew into what he called
Democratic radicals.
Playwright
Dead At 72
LOS ANGELES (AP) Zoc
Akins. a playwright and poet who
won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
in 1935, died Wednesday night aft
er a three-week illness. She was
2. -
Among Miss Akins' successful
plays were "The Greeks Had a
Word for It," "The Furies" and
Mrs. January and Mr. Ex.
Her poems included "The Hills
Grow Smaller." She also wrote
novels, one of which was For
ever Y'oung."
Miss Akins won the Pulitzer
Prize for her dramatization of
"The Old Maid," a story by Edith
Wharton.
"Would you rather have govern
ment in the hands of the left-wing
cang or see it in the hands of the
Republican party?" he asked a
GOP rally.
President George Meany of the
AFL-CIO appeared to hit mostly
at Republican campaigners in tell
ing a nationwide radio audience
he wanted to "puncture the big
labor political scare balloon of
1958."
But he mentioned neither par
ties nor candidates by name in
assailing what he called campaign
talk that organized labor is trying
10 iane me nation down the road
lo socialism. Speaking from Wash-
inKion. meany said:
"The hidden purpose behind this
cry of socialism, and such phrases
as leaning America down the left
lane' Is to plant in the minds of
the American Dconle the idea (hat
labor is pro-Communist.
this is an unforcivahle and
completely unjustified trick."
With the campaign going into
5 final days. President Eisen
hower prepared to wind un his
speechmaking with a nationwide
radio-television talk in Baltimore
Friday night.
The White House announced
that the President and Mrs. Ei
senhower will vote Tuesday at
Gettysburg. Pa., and then return
to Washington to receive the elec
tion returns.
Nixon voted Wednesday before
flying to Chicago. Aides said he
voted the straight Republican tick
et on his California absentee hal
lot. But they declined to say how
he voted on a right-to-work refer
endum which has divided major
laiuornia uur candidates.
Mrs. Nixon and the two Nixon
daughters Patricia. 12, and Julie.
10 fly to Seattle Friday to ioin
the vice president for his flight
to Juneau, Alaska. Saturday. It
will be the first campaign trip for
the Nixon girls. .
The- Nixons man to fly to Fair
banks for a Monday appearance
before returning to Washington.
Convention
May Hear Ike
SEATTLE ( API-Colombo Plan
delegates meeting here looked for
ward today to a vigorous state
ment of future U.S. economic pol.
icy toward underdeveloped South
and Southeast Asia, possibly from
President Eisenhower himself.
A White House announcement
that the President hopes to ad.
dress the opening ministerial
meeting of the loth Colombo Plan
session here Nov. 10 aroused both
hopes and fears among represen
tatives of 18 nations and three col
onial governments gathered here.
There were fears from nm
delegates lhat any hard-hitting
discussion of the cold war in
Southeast Asia would embarrass
neutral nations attendinir tha
meeting.
At tha same time, there worn
high hopes lhat the Uniled Slatp
would announce magnified efforts
to save this densely populated re
gion or bort million people from
economic stagnation.
U.S. officials attending Ihe Co
lombo Plan meeting expressed
certainty that either Eisenhower
or Secretary of State Dulles, who
also is due to come to preside at
Ihe five-day ministerial meeting,
would state positive U.S. aim
without becoming involved in con
troversial cold war issues.
ELUSIVE MONKEYS
MILWAUKEE (UPI) Sum
mer may be over as far as peo
ple are concerned, but 47 mon
keys on Ihe Washington Park Zoo
summer island won't accept its
demise. Trainers were able to
catch only half of Ihe 97 monkeys
that inhabit the island, for trans
fer to winter quarters.
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