HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
SUNDAY. DECEMBER 28. 1958 '
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FRANK JENKINS
Editor
BILL JENKINS
Managing Editor
FLOYD WYNNE
City Editor
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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
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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.
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palace pob a slight checkup -during
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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."
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