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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SUNDAY. DECEMBER 28. 1958 ' PAGE 4 A FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph. TU 4-4752 Entered a second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 20. 1906. under act of Congress. March I. 1879. SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS grnrlag Saalbera Orrgaa Aad ortkerv California Subscription Rates CARRIER 1 MONTH 150 MONTHS 00 I YEAR $18 00 MAIL 1 MONTH 150 t MONTHS $ 8.S0 1 YEAR 115 00 IIoiiik Again By BILL JENKINS Home again after a real quick trio to California lo spend the Christmas holiday with tamily. And the old home grounds look good despite the blanket of white that is slowly covering it as this is written. We were spending our time in a small community on the out skirts of San Rafael. I had never before realized the semi-tropical aspect of this country. Flowers of various kinds were in bloom on all sides, the people were busy cleaning up lawns and going out side occasionally to pick an orange or a lime and George was clean lng out his swimming pool so it would be ready for the festivities oh New Year's Eve. This district is called Kent Woodlands and is really quite an amazing thing. It is just off a roaring six lane freeway, is within spitting distance of the awful hubbub of San Francisco and its crowds and yet the people have managed to retain a goodly ves tige of peace and quiet. The area lies in a wooded sec tion of rather sleep hills which are covered with fir, cedar, red wood and dying madrone trees, the madroncs going under be cause of the too-inlensive garden ing and watering. The houses, al most all of them with at least one glass wall, are tucked away in the folds of the hills and about all you see of the neighbor's house, even though it be only a few yards away, is a roof or a jutting television antenna. A good many of the houses are equipped with swimming pools cut into the steep mountainside, all of them seem to bristle with color ful hedges and the area resounds to the sound of children. Sort of a West Coast version of the exurbanile communities of New York and Pennsylvania. It is a pleasant way of life for those who are psychologically fit ted to stand the pressures that go with crowded areas. The cli mate is mild, tho roads are of the all-weather type and anywhere you can get a house to cling to the side of a hill you can build there secure In the knowledge that you will be able to reach it at any time of the year. jury consisted of six members and two alternates. It has always been my feeling that if a young man or woman is old enough to hold a driver's li cense, then that .individual should be fully accountable and responsi ble for such operation. Shunting juvenile traffic offenders into ju venile court does not seem to pro vide an effective answer. There is no particular ignominy to going into traflic court unless you happen to be a consistent of fender. I dare say that every adult who ever has driven any length of time will wind up in traffic court at one time or another. That doesn't make them a criminal. Let juveniles stand on their own feet. That teaches them the facts of life regarding responsibilities for their own actions. Why not give the juvenile traf fic court idea some consideration locally? Itoom' iiur.crs By FLORENCE JENKINS Crystal-gazing becomes almost an occupational hazard at this time of year. In the deluge of releases about this and that kind of business near the close of the year it is difficult, if not impossible to find anything but optimism. The words "boom" and "definite upsurge spice up dry statistics. Everybody is predicting in creased sales and higher profits. The predictions are based on almost as many individual factors as there are industries. Changes in skirt lengths zoomed clothing sales and a new look always extends into the beauty field. American women spent more than one billion dollars in beauty salons during 1958, a whop ping sixty-five million more than the previous year. Building activity in the West has showed a big increase every month for the last seven months over the corresponding period in 1057 and the year will wind up with, Oregon having better than sixty million dollars more worth of building this year than last. New building materials keep popping up. One of the most re cent techniques Is combining light weight cells made from alumi num, stainless steel, fibrous glass. cotton or even paper into a honey Because of the mild climate; comb formation to build a web- you can dispense with a good deal of the bulky and restrictive insula tion with which builders in colder Climes are saddled. Houses can sprawl comfortably without hav ing to worry about how heat will be piped to the outlying tooms, Build a trellis over your patio. plant a passion flower vine on it rid in two years you will have a solid cover of lovely foliage and blhoms. Everything seems lo do wfll except grass. It does not heve the fine and healthy appear ance of some of the lawns further north. ' But, it is a nice place lo live If you like that sort of life. Plenty of huge supermarkets and shops nearby, plenty of entertainment lots of specialty shops, millions ot hi-fi aficionados in every neigh borhood and a sort of Christmas cheer the year 'round. I'm still glad to be back in the High Country, though. I- sort of lite it up here like material stronger than steel As the space age idvances, new houses can be prefabricated, as sembled and hauled in a truck to where they are to be placed, hardly jarring the television an tenna. . . Tinkering loo much' with house building styles can have dire re sults, however. Documented studies of present-day living have been made showing that one rea son why Americans don't eat a good breakfast is simply because there isn't any place to sit down and eat II Living rooms in new homes are built for stand-up instead of sit down parlies and it is hard lo find a motel Ihese days with a sufficient amount of convenient light lo read by and one notes that the old theory of juxtaposition of chair and lamp has been rele gated to the discard. Our personal proposal ior the World of Tomorrow is a place to sit down. tfOOll llll'JI ' By FLOYD L. WYNNE f ;Young traffic offenders have pre sented a problem to juvenile au thorities as well as others. A number of ideas for handling Juvenile traflic offenders have been advanced and tried in other areas. Some of them have been pretty good. I noticed the other day of an Idea that is being tried tip in The Dalles that strikes me as an ex cellent idea, and one that the ju venile department might try here. rrhey have set up a juvenile traf fic court that will convene each Saturday morning in city hall chambers for the purpose of trying the cases of all juvenile traflic oHenders. The jury will he composed of teen-agers, who will hear the cases and pass sentence on them. The idea is now in elfcct at Pocatello, Idaho, and was recom mended by the Wasco Cuunty Ju venile Advisory Board, and submit teft to The Dalles City Council for consideration. The Idea has merit from many viewpoints. in the nrsi place, it takes a large share of the work load from lh juvenile officer who has much more serious problems to cope wtth. 1 ;It also gives students serving nn f jury sobering reflection on Ira!- Moslems, and puts the mvenile Hen,, uner tne Karp ot (heir "liMmsi,,. .-l." hi Brtlcular rase the hich rata JtmiA 'elected the stu ' - U,.l0."v. the jury. The 37 years ago, the son of an Austri an immigrant who made a hard living in the handbag business. At 18 he quit college because he found it too hard both to eat and study on an $8-a-week delivery boy's wage. "I also felt dad couldn't go on working forever the way he had been," Harry recalled. "So we borrowed $300 in 1!)39 and starlfd our own nannnag lactory. It prospered Irnm the start, and the firm was doing a million-dol-lar-a-year business when Singer wearied of the big city rat race, sold out, and went to Florida. "I just got tired of New York Cily and everything about it," he said. "I got tired of working 12 hours a day. I got tired of spend ing two hours a day on commuter trains. I got tired of the climate." Harry settled in the Miami area and went into the real estate field at the beginning of Florida's tre mendous postwar building surge. Since then he has handled the brokerage on real estate deals to taling in the neighborhood of 100 million dollars. He also invested his own funds cannily. Today he owns the land under four hotels and molels. He is building in Miami the new Cen tral Shopping Plaza, a 40-acre, 10- million-dollar project. Next month he opens the seven- million-dollar Montmartre, new est hotel along glittering Miami Beach. It is situated on the old Firestone estate just north of the swank Eden Roc and Fontaine hlcau. It took Singer six 'years of legal battling to break zoning re strictions barring hotels from that part of the beach. Harry doesn't like to be classi fied as "a booster," but he does feel the growth future of Florida and other areas outside New York Cily are unlimited. He has a modest success for mula. "All it takes lo get ahead," he said, "is a lot of imagination, a willingness to gamble, and 95 per cent luck. "I've met a lot of smarter peo ple than I who didn't make the grade simply for one reason they man t get tho breaks. "But I do think one Ihing more is Important. You have to have a willingness to fight for what is worthwhile." Being a millionaire at 37 isn't even Singer's idea of success. "The successful man really Is the one who is satisfied," he said. "I don't think I've found that kind of success at, all. Peace of mind is very important, and I still pace back and forth in my head too much. Asked what he misses most from his old life' in -.New , York Cily, Harry, shivering In his Ian polo coat, looked down at Ihe icy pavement, up at the gaunt, wintry metropolitan skyline. "Nothing," he said firmly. "It's a great place to visit, but I'd rath er make my life somewhere else, "Hero nohody really cares what you do. But in other places if you no something big or worthwhile, the community is proud of you for it. will he owned by exactly the same investors who owned them at the beginning of the year. In addition to the change in at titude on accumulating wealth, this phenomenon is accounted for by the end of manipulation, the capital gains tax, and the spread of institutional ownership of equities. While sales this year are ex pected to amount to 720 million shares, making 1958 the fourth largest year in stock exchange his tory, the actual turnover of the live billion listed shares is small percentagewise. Hooper estimated that turnover this year will be 14.7 per cent of the listings, against 12 per cent in 1!57, 19 per cent in 1955 and 1956, 23 per cent in 1950, 109 per cent in 1425-29, and 210 per cent in 19O0-1904. "The rate of turnover In indi vidual stocks varies widely," he said. "This year, on the basis of figures for the first 11 months, the turnover ratio in American Telephone will be about 5.3 per cent, .General Electric 3.5 per cent, Standard Oil (N.J.), 3.1 per cent, Du Pont l.C per cent, Eastman Kodak 3.3 per cent, International Business Machines 8.1 per cent. "On the other hand, American Motors will have a turnover of around 190 per cent and Lorillard about 223 per cent., "Procter & Gamble in late years has been traded at the rate of 2 per cent to 3 per cent , yearly, which means it would take 40 to 50 years to trade in all of the company s outstanding shares only once." With investors holding their slocks, those who want lo acquire slock find Ihe demand greater than Ihe supply, this analyst con tends. "That," he says, "causes prices to advance, a fine thing for the investor who already owns stocks, but hardly a blessing for the per son who wants to make f re s h purchases. More permanent ownership Is a prime factor in lower yields, in higher price-earnings ratios, and in the long-term trend toward higher quotations." Hooper holds tat this slow own ership turnover also is a polential source of violent price move ments. He finds It makes the market extremely thin both ways, creating a situation where a little concen trated buying or a small amount of concentrated and determined Selling causes sudden price changes often totally unconnected with changes in Ihe fundamental investment value of the shares themselves. Just by way of adding a little arithmetic to the Hooper thesis, if this market were to be turned over 100 per cent the annual sales would amount to five billion shares in stead of 720 million. And the daily average would have to be 20 million shares which would be nearly five times the re cent average. Present day tickers would he swamped and so would the brokerage houses. Small Town iiux By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Ever get tired of hearing about the guy who left a small town to make good in Ihe big city? Well, here's the story of a guy who got tired of the big city and left it lo do better elsewhere. Harry Singer, a self-made mil lionaire, is a stocky, dark person able man who probably could sell a wrist watch lo a century plant. He was born in New York only .lust Stay Vui Ry ELMER C. WALZER NEW YORK UPD Individual investors have learned through experience that they can accumu late wealth faster with the seat of their pants than the soles of their feet, a market expert ob serves. And that is one reason, says L. O. Hooper, analyst for W. K. Hulton & Co , accounting for Ihe trend toward more permanent ownership of equities, a little realized characteristic of this much-lalked-about slock market Hooper estimates that, allowing for Ihe same stock being traded more than once, as often happens more than 90 per cent of all the slocks listed on Ihe New York Slock Exchange at the end of 1958 SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal KEY -W IpT) gcin& smetwce?) s- 1 Vw&-m . . r C YlONDttFUL ) v MEAN WAR? ) NcrsA SI. Villi llniK'e By EDWIN P. JORDAN. M.D. Written for NEA Service St. Vitus dance, or chorea, is a curious disorder about which much still has to be learned. A family tendency to the disease is fairly common. Unusually bright children and those with a "highly strung" nervous system appear to be particularly susceptible. It is probably related in some way to rheumatic fever, though how has not yet been explained. The disease is somewhat more frequent in girls than in boys and affects principally those between 5 and 15 years of age. Some children with early signs of chorea do not appear lo be ill but merely more awkward than usual. They are of ten scolded by their parents or teachers (or dropping things and showing other signs of poor muscu lar control without realizing that it is illness and not intention which is responsible. In mild cases, the general health is good, the muscles twitch only slightly and the speech and mental functions are not. disturbed. Chil dren with mild chorea frequently complain of fatigue. Emotional disturbances, such as easy crying and nightmares, are of ten present. When the hands are held straight out in 'front with the fingers spread, the jerky irregular movements of the muscles are characteristic and can be easily recognized by the experienced phy sician. In the severe form of the disease, the movements involve a lot of muscles and the youngster may not even he able to eat or undress without help. Sometimes the speech is affected and a child may not be able to talk at all for several days The worst type of chorea is the maniacal form, which is. fortunate ly, very rare. Here, in addition to the muscular movements, there are severe mental symptoms which last for weeks. Diagnosis is not loo difficult if the possibility of chorea is ennsid ered. It is important to try to tell whether Ihe chorea is ot the kind associated with rheumatic fever or not, because this may have a bear ing on treatment. TheyH Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Drop im at the local petrol palace pob a slight checkup -during the day jndthey'u. say- So VOL) DROP' ! POUND WMErJ THE SH4DES OP EVEMIMS H4VE BJLLEN AHD VDU GET THIS TUNE ON THE K4ZOO- m& Z-Hp3 Z LOOK I'M6N .,.. Sr2Zr LOTS OP CAQSO I i HERE ALL 3 LOME.' JUST zM3AaimarA tonight when the J6otpinsII SKSJti f-7 NMC4TERrl OOINTINVOUMPIN'? I IN MV-- JB5 - -jt r ' fj; '- FIELD RADIO repair was the Army course Pfc, Wayne R. Anderson, 23, ion of Mrs. Frances Anderson, 2033 Main Street, completed at Ft. Gordon, Georgia, Ander son, whose wife Yuvonda lives at 5370 Harlan Drive, attended KUHS and was employed by D a n t and Warrenock before entering service last . February. Home. Institutions Share Duties In Preventing Crime 'But It's All In The Game' LAWRENCE Mc Atlrii,, trict Court Judge William E. Daly neara testimony anout a poker Came and then nrnnnpri a riiartra against James Hester of assault ana oauery on nis wile. Hester testifier! Fririav ha u,c holding thrpa arae an1 hie u,;rn would not lend him a dollar to bet tne nana. "What did the other follow have?" asked the iudee. 'Only two pairs." renlied Hps- tor. Mrs. Hester tnslifiorf band knocked her against a chair when she refused to give him the uuuar. WASHINGTON UPI Ameri- ca is neither bright nor quite civ ilized about crime and punish ment, according to scientific views aired Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science. One crime scientist took the whole system apart beginning with "crime prevention" and end ing with the handling of paroled convicts. Another criminologist said civilized nations do not im pose the death penalty but 40 of 49 United States do impose it. Howard B. Gill, of the Ameri can University, Washington, D.C., thought the public was ridiculous in expecting police to prevent crime. Police forces should be "the terror" of criminals and should be wholly concentrated up on detecting them, he said. The first responsibility for crime prevention is in the home, the school, the church, "and other character-building agencies," he declared. But Ihe attitudes of most of us promote a "big, gen tle cow - like concept of police work." i After the crime is commuted, there come the criminal courts and criminal law. The public thinks criminal law "a dirty sordid business" and so do law schools. Specialists - are not trained and judges as well as the public think punishment deters crime and criminals can be con trolled by force if they refuse to control themselves by "will pow er." Gill asked, In effect, how silly can you get? After the courts, the prison re ceives the criminal and in the prison one finds "monkey-cage penology. The convict is degrad ed and deprived and, cut off from society. Instead of hard work he often is condemned to idleness and is subjected to petty and de basing rules. Yet America thinks criminals are "rehabilitated" in prison. On that assumption, they are Pine Orders Rise Again PORTLAND (API The West ern Pine Assn. said Friday west ern pine orders, shipments and production jumped during the week ending Dec. 20 over those of the week before. It reported production climbed to fc.801.000 feet from 84.84O.flO0 feet the week before and 70.020. 000 feet for the corresponding week of 1957. Shipments reached 85.780,000 feet, compared to 79.522.nno feet the week before and 72.678.000 feet during the same week a year ago. Figures for orders durini the same three periods, all in feet, were 99,658,000, 91,956,000 and 76,014,000. released on parole and returned to society where it is thought thr.v'11 rpase their criminal wavs. But some 60 per cent do no such! thing, and the reason is that a prison does not rehabilitate and should not. What is needed is lo take criminals from prison and rehabilitate them in an organized and purposeful way before return ing them to society. The anti - capital punishment views were those of Sara R. Ehr mann of Brookline, Mass. She told the scientific symposium on crim inology it was a pure and simple fact that neither capital punish ment nor the lack of it has any influence on the homicide rate. There hardly is a scientific auth ority which does not oppose cap ital punishment. Yet in the last 43 years only Delaware and Alaska have abolished the death penalty. What's wrong is massive inertia, and she urged scientists to rouse public opinion. She is director of the American League to Abolish Capital Punishment. Vandals Attempt To Wreck Cross RIVERSIDE, Calif. (UPH-An attempt on Christmas Eve to de stroy the Mt. Rubidoux Cross, the center of Easter sunrise services which attract thousands of per sons each year, was revealed by police Friday. Police Lt. G. T. Yancey said Roy Weinberg, 18, and Robert Mullane, 19, both of Riverside, re ported they were beaten and kicked when they tried to prevent a group of vandals from igniting the 20-foot cross with petroleum waste. Fire charred part of the lower section of the cross, dedicated in 1907 to Father Serra, founder of the California missions. Wholesale Price For Coffee Down PORTLAND (AP)-One coffee wholesaler announced a two - cent reduction in the price of coffee to retailers effective Monday, which other wholesalers are ex pected to duplicate. And there is a possibility that this reduction may be passed on to the consumer. A spokesman said the wholesale coffee price generally is 79 cents a pound. He said Portland con sumers enjoy the lowest coffee price in. the nation, which he said resulted from a heavy supply U.S. Supplies Hit $48 Million TAIPEI, Formosa (AP) The United States has supplied 48 mil lion dollars toward retirement pro grams for 70,000 Chinese National ist soldiers. President Chiang Kai-shek's eld er son, Lt. Gen. Chiang Ching kuo, reported this Saturday in describ ing the three-year program which he heads.- Veterans have bn set up on eight cooperative farmc, four of which are now self-supporting, young Chiang said. Other retire ment projects include two profit able factories for furniture, handi crafts and other products; con struction of an east-west highway now 80 per cent completed; and-a 20-year logging project to begin next June. Fox Outwits Hotel Policy MINEHEAD, England (AP) With a yoiks and a tally-ho, the Minehead hunt followed a fox across the Somerset countryside to the door of the Beaconwood Hotel Friday. The hounds killed it there. That 'enraged guests at the quiet, respectable Beaconwood. Complained the owner, the Rev. Harold Tyrwhitt; "This is a vege tarian hotel." OSBORN HOTEL EUGENE, ORE. Hn. J. a. Irlr J. " : Thoroughly Modera Yern Owens' INVENTORY STARTS FRIDAY! F R ! G I "D A I -R E ! 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