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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1958 PAGE 8 A FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph. TU 4-4752 Entered ax second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 20. 1906. under act of Congress, March . 1879. SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California Subscription Rates CARRIER 1 MONTH MONTHS 1 YEAR 1.50 t 9.00 $18.60 MAIL I MONTH f 1.50 6 MONTHS 8.50 1 YEAR . :. J15.00 Last Yi'Jir By BILL JENKINS About this time of year people always start worrying about whether or not we are going to have a white Christmas. And along with it they usually try to remcm ber whether it was white last year or not. Last vear we had a tattletale Erey Christmas. There was some snow on the eround but it was pretty well hid den under a coating of slush brought on by rain. Here's about the way last Do cember shaped up weatherwise: On the first it was a nice morn lng. So nice that, according to the weather book, I took off for Aspen Lake with Hubie Totton. Three hours later we finally got the truck dug out of the mudhole and reached solid fooling again. A lit tie rain in the afternoon, clearing in the evening. It stayed fairly nice until the sixth, on which dale we caught a rainstorm, had a trickle of snow and then more drizzle. The next day was nice. I spent it shoveling mud out of the dog run. Sunday, December 8, was foggy all day. A lot of fellows were called out on a s e a r c h for a lost man and visibility was zero. Followed three days of clear, cold weather The lake started to freeze over around the edges. Lovely sunshiny afternoons. Then came the fog and the clouds again. On December 16 it really did a hangup job of rain ing and topped it off by dropping an inch of snow that night. It stayed slushy and miserable for the next five days. I noted in tho book that the most plentiful thing was slush and that most ev eryone had a head cold. , We all got up to find il snowing on the morning of December 24. Dropped a total of about three Inches, then turned to rain that evening. Christmas Day was noted, weath erwise, as being a real stinker. The notes in the diary read "mis- erable, terrible, cold, wet, foggy, dank, rainy, gloomy." Otherwise It was a splendid Christmas Day. It rained all day the day after Christmas and then snowed on the 27th, about another three inches by noon, ten inches by night. The heaviest snowfall of the year. Then it started to rain again. The last day of the month was cold and clear wilh a high of 25 and a low of 21 degrees. And that's how it went last year. San I a WjiiiiViI By FLORENCE JENKINS Seven thousand dollars is a nice round sum. That's approximately what it would cost to buy a new X-ray machine (or the Klamath County Tuberculosis and Health Associa tion. The old X-ray machine which the association now has is practi cally on its last legs and a new one is desperately needed. Nine persons from Klamath County have been admitted in less than six months time to the Ore gon tuberculosis hospitals. It is not only the tuberculosis patient who is the concern of the association and the Klamath Coun ty Public Health Department. It is necessary, also, to skin-test and X-ray all known contacts because the patient may not be the source case. The source case must bo found as well as preventing pos sible spread of t he disease. Contagion is not determined by the prognosis of the disease. In other words, any person who is diagnosed as having tuberculosis may spread the disease as readily as one in the far advanced stage where hospitalization has become necessary. Tuberculosis is still the Number One killer among contagious dis eases in tho nation. For more than 20 years I h c Klamath County T13 and Health Association, through an office now located at 20!) East Main Street, has served Klamath County. It is through cooperation with the coun ty health ollice, headed by Dr. S. M. Kerron, that the comprehen sive program can be earned on. From the local ollice, aid is giv en to families when necessary and educational material of variou types is available. Christmas seals arc the only di reel appeal and that is made en tirely by mail. The amount ol money received is barely enough to cover the year's expenses and it has not been possible to estab lish a fund to buy a new X-ray. machine. This is true in spile of the lact that the county organiza tion keeps 74 per cent of the mon ey received. It is again because of the coun ty health department's cooperation that the X-ray machine is used at the health ollice. The TB asso ciation hasn't enough money to hire a technician to run one, but its funds must pay for the film and the machine's operation. Sure, everybody has his hand jut for money, but we still must lake care of our own. What Klamath County really needs is a generous Santa Claus 'or a group of Santa Clauses! who would like to write off a nice round figure like $7,000 from their income tax returns. In the meantime, the dimes can be made to grow into dollars if we'll take the trouble to mail a check regardless of how modest to the Klamath County Tubercu losos and Health Association, 20!) East Main, and mark it for the new X-ray Machine Fund. Millions Of Eggs By NELSON REED The last PG&E magazine has a most interesting article on eggs. Down in San Leandro there is a $2,800,000 egg processing plant where two million eggs a day are removed from refrigerator trucks, lifted from their farm cases, can dled, weighed and cartoned, Imost completely automatically. The whole operation is carried on under refrigeration. Members of the Poultry Produc ers of Central California send in eggs all the way from Eureka and Red Bluff on the north to Merced and Salinas in the south. Thanks to high speed equipment an entire vanload of eggs, 13,500 dozen, can be unloaded in four and one-half minutes and moved along t h c plant's 15 miles of conveyors. Last year the association mark eted 1,868.318 cases of eggs. Ill addition to the egg processing plant, the association operates five feed mills in the area served. The association has an annual sales vol ume of nearly 50 million dollars. All of which reminds me of a rather amusing experience 1 had as a boy, in the matter of eggs. It was so different. With my fam ily I was visiting an uncle, a big city lawyer, who prided him self on his model farm where we were staying. He particularly bragged about his model hen house and his truly fresh farm eggs. One of my younger brothers, per mitted to go and gather the eggs one morning, discovered a nest hidden out in a lence corner. Be ing a city kid and none the wiser, he stole the eggs from under a nesting hen and took them to the kitchen along wilh the ones he got in tho hen house. Next morning several of us, including my moth er and our host, got eggs f o r breakfast that were "about to peep." My kid brother never did confide, except to his brothers, what addled up the system in the super duper henhouse. t'-oMral ion By PEGGY WALSH When an unhealthy situation is brought to light, it is always a spe cial pleasure to be able to say. "That isn't the way it is in my town." With Mount Shasta and Red Blufl in the spotlight fpr resentment by elected officials over news cover age, the harmonious relationship of the press and governing bodies in Dunsmuir seems worthy of comment. At the city council meetings in Dunsmuir, there is a special table for the press. Councilman come di rectly to the council meetings wilh no prc-council huddles in another office and if they do not speak loud enough or if an action is not clear, they aro willing to pause for a question from any reporter present. Mayor J. Morgan Jones, who iias a business of his own and nu merous demands on his time, has never expressed impatience at being asked for comment by phone on civic concerns. Errol Beaughan, city clerk, produces any minutes files or reports requested and lakes time to sec the contents are fully understood. Do these men always expect to be portrayed in a favorable light? 1 That has not been my experience There are times when the counci. meetings take on all the propor tions of comic opera. There are times when tempers are lost and accusations hurled. Decisions are open to question and at times, progress may seem clumsy and accomplishments few. When feelings are high, reporting becomes a very touchy business. Proper slant and proper interpre tation are difficult. A correspondent must take notes on a meeting and phone the story to a staff reporter the next morn ing. Occasionally emphasis gets a bit misplaced but the Dunsmuir City Council seems mature enough to take this in stride also. This attitude carries over to other governing bodies. The elementary and high school boards meet regu larly at specified places and times. The clerk of the elementary school board even phones the press when she reminds board members of the meetings. Superintendents of both schools are willing to go over minutes of meetings not personally covered and explain school busi ness. All of these people seem to re gard the reporter as a public ser vant like themselves. They are ap preciative of having a means of informing the public even if the spotlight night occasionally be un favorable or unflattering. A true a count, briefly and simply stated, can shatter gossip and rumor. It can keep the air clear of specu lation and be of valuable assistance to a public official. Dunsmuir is a little town, suf fering from nearly all the problems little towns have. There was a time in Dunsmuir when a reporter was regarded at best, a nuisance, and at worst, a menace, but it is wonderful to be able to say, "In this respect, my town has grown up." unspeakable, and with your riends here, certainly you'll want o take some strokes off your score. The lonely duffer thanked the pro rather diffidently, advising him to save his feelings of con cern for others. "You see," explained the golf er, there are several reasons why your advice will do little good. 'In the first place, I'm new here. Not a soul will even speak to me, much less play with me. And besides, I lie four strokes right now." The kind people who recently sent the President a bountiful sup ply of western pheasant would shudder to see a copy of a pri vate medical report recently cir culated by a large pharmaceuti cal firm. The report says that the heav iest incidence of gout in this country occurs in areas where pheasant' are more plentiful and where the local hunters eat pheasant in volume during the season. The same company, by happen stance, produces a medicine to relieve gout. (olC Slorii'a By MERR1MAN SMITH United Press International AUGUSTA, Ga. lUPD-Back stairs at the White House: From the hallowed locker room of the Augusta National ;Golf Club where President Eisenhower has been playing of late, a secret pipeline relayed two stories the members arc telling. One concerns a duffer who somehow achieved membership in the President's club. The tyro of the tec smacked a long wood shot that hooked terribly over the club fence into a residential driveway. The ball struck a man squarely on the forehead and he dropped stone dead. The dutfer saw what he'd done. grabbed up his clubs and fled back to the members' quarters where he cowered in his bedroom. A few hours later, there was a knock on the door. A man in a tweed suit pro duced a badge. 'Murphy of homicide. We've determined that you're the golfer who hit that awful hook. It hit a man in the head and killed him. What do you have to say for your self?" The duffer thought for a mo ment, then extended his clasped hands, waving them back- and forth. "I believe," he said, "if 1 change my grip just a little bit like this, by golly, I'll cure that hook." Second story concerns another new member of the National. He was on the first tee alone and took a vicious cut at the ball completely missing it. An assis tant pro spotted him and walked out. "May I interrupt?" the pro in quired politely. "I may be able to help you. Your swing simply must be corrected because as it is now, the swing is. If you'll pardon me, SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal l TWRT1F0DR!! OVN Uets ax CF HERE ! J H AN STOW N POPULATION TH I RTSf CO R-7 MS II 1 V IF THEM'S W THIK6 J I CANT STAMP. ITS A CITY J ('raleful Chiloquin (To the Editor) The undersigned victims of the Thanks giving Day fire at Chiloquin wish to thank the many persons who contributed in some measure to the firefighting operation. Special mention should go to members of the Oretech, Klamath Agency, Klamath County and Chil oquin volunteer fire departments. The ladies auxiliary of the Chilo quin department the Chiloquin Firebelles, and the Pine Cone Cafe, who both provided coffee and re freshments to the firefighters, also deserve particular thanks. Our appreciation also to the Cal ifornia Oregon Power Company and its firefighting crew, which played an important part in the operation. finally, mention should be made of the cooperation, friendliness and practical help of the people of Chil oquin and of the surrounding area. which have been and will be of the greatest practical value to us, both spiritually and materially. Dwight and Glen Kircher LeRoy and Elvine Gienger Clyde Leake Ethel Mathis and Frances McDonald Neil Neilson and family. Slower I'avc By SAM DAWSON L AP Business News Analyst NEW YORK (AP) The slower pace of recovery from the business recession worries some folk not- ibly some stock traders. But there's a large rooting sec tion for long term business pros perity that believes the current slower pace is good. These more cautious souls believe the best motto now should be: Easy does it. And they were more pleased than dismayed when a sharp break in stock prices sounded a warning in Wall Street. Taking into account the increase in prices over the last 15 months, the economy has come back about one-third of the way from the re cession dip that carried it to a low last April. Most of the re bound was in the summer months. October showed only a slight gain over September and the climb in November wasn't much more than that. The big fear in the first months of unexpectedly rapid recovery was that speculation fever might take hold and head toward fast in flation that is, the further de cline in the purchasing power of your dollar. The slower and steadier pace of the autumn has allayed much of this fear, despite the still disquiet ing effects of a federal deficit and rising wages. Another healthy note sounded to day is that the return of confi dence seems at last to have halted the more than a year of rapidly falling inventories. This drop and the decline in business spending for new plant and equipment are given most of the blame for the rapid descent of industrial activity well under way just a year ago. The same levelling off seems to have continued during November. Meantime, with inventories for many companies cut back to where they want them, they are expected to start ordering mater ials now to keep production in line with current sales and new orders. There are other good signs. Auto production in November was about double that of October, thanks to the end of strikes, and dealers are now getting cars and report they are selling them. Steel output which had fallen below 50 per cent of capacity, is now back to 75 per cent. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo VlMTERESTED JEVtCYTHING HE VERy EXCLUSIVE-N f IN CLOCKS? 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