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PAGE A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON THURSDAY. JANUARY 1. 1359 FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph. TU 44752 Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamalh Falls. Ore., on August 20. IMA. under act of Congress. March t. 1879. SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS grrvlaf 8ilhra Orrgoa And Nwihera Callforl Subscription Rales , CARRIER I MONTH . ... 1.50 MONTHS $ 9 00 I YEAR 118 60 MAIL 1 MONTH I SO t MONTHS 8.50 1 YEAR 115 00 Moon Sliol By BILL JENKINS There have been some usly ru mors flying around that Jenkins is against progress. It has heen whispered in certain circles that this Jenkins has advocated a policy of planned retrogression, a return to the good old days. He has hecn quoted as saying that mankind should have stopped with the invention of the frying pan and the double barreled shot gun. A quote, incidentally, which he stole intact from Joe Mitchell). I (I might as well admit right now that it is me I'm talking about) have even been quoted as saying that there are too many people already and what is the use of planning for an all-plastic, three- day week future. when there prob ably won't be loom to stand any how. It is a mailer of record that 1 have refused in advance any and all invitations to visit the moon, Mars, Venus or any other foreign planet and that I have slated that progress as such is for the birds. However I do. not wish to be thought of as living in the pr.st or advocating a life of wilderness ail slerily. Just lo prove that I am keeping an open mind where this business of the coming space age Is concerned I wish to introduce this year's1 series of columns wilh a few constructive (one at least) suggestions as lo how many can speed up the space age specifical ly the moon shot. It is my humble opinion lhat we are wasting our time fooling around with a lot of rockets and guided missiles and sending -mice on a free space ride. Not solid enough. , What I would suggest would be a ten year program of building a solid roadbed from earth to the moon out of surplus products. Sort of an interstellar escalator. The plan Is simplicity itself. All we (we standing for the United Stales) do is collect all our sur plus grain, corn, cotton, old dollar bills and what have you which the taxpayers are already storing and meld them Into a good nnlid piece ol machinery. At the rate wo are piling up surpluses il shouldn't take long In attain an escalator of the necessary length 2.18,857 miles) tn reach the moon. Not wilh good old American know-how you know. ; ' We can make it out of pressed wheat and corn, bind it logelher wilh cotton and put pigskin steps on it. Then we can keep the thing greased wilh nice yellow butter. This would give us a) nice slcady platform, do away with motion sickness which is almost a certain ,ty in rockets, and allow a little sightseeing on the way. Of course I suppose the thing will have to be shielded and air conditioned, but thnse are minor items. It might be faster than waiting for a rocket to make the trip. It'll be a fast escalator, granted, but anybody who wants lo go to the moon is a fast traveler any way. , So there you have it. A nice, neat plan lor gelling to the moon not only within the lilctime ol man but within the lifetime of the con tract on the average television set. And let no man say that' 1 am agin progress again. For the rest of the year you can find mc out behind the barn pon dering on a better frying pan. Or cleaning a shotgun. I'm all burned out on this space Business. points along my 20 miracle miles was terrilic. Te pronoun is justi fied because this was where I was raised! From Newport to Ocean- lake all during the tender years, and I know it for my own. You left out a few things. The liny sandpipers that chase the ebb ing waves on the loothpick legs moving nearly too fast for eye to see. The spouting horns of DePoe Bay that put on a breathless show as water is pushed upward by an aroused ocean through small aper tures in the rocks. This is a foam flecked scene of winter's high tides, and it takes lusty robust water to make it. Driftwood and agalcs revealed by the cleansing winter tide as the sand is washed out to sea, cleansed and purilied, and brought back again. The song of the buoys, and the lighthouse beam, combining to warn and protect. The smells, salty and pungent. The seagulls, protected and need ed. The fish, glistening and de feated. The sand, wet and yielding. The waterfronts with their build ings precariously perched on pil ings encrusted wilh barnacles and salt. The coastguard ' boat patrolling with a deep, strong motor hum and a fine young American in a saucy sailor .cap at the wheel. The Devil's Punch Bowl at Ot ter Crest which is oow a fenced in state park. This is spectacular in winter wiih about a nine-fool lidc swishing and swirling inside it. The bobbing, . round kelp-hcads like so many marbles in an active boy's pocket that ride atop the swells. The good bridges. Ihe fast high way, salt water taffy and Karmel korn, old "salts" wearing copper hracelels, women in hip boots alongside Iheir men washing the catch, children safe inside yellow rubber slickers and hats, the eter nal sound of the sea, neon signs in the log, seaside chapels, jelly lish nnd petrified wood all these are some of the reasons why I, loo, go hack to quote: "no matter how much I have grown lo love our high desert and clear, clean air." It's lime I was going, if I can get my Klamalh County pioneer to go with me! Thanks for (he reminder. Florence Wilson ItCMlllllioM.S By NELSON HEED While it is just barely possible that as far hark as Adam man had a secret desire every so ollen. along wilh the day alter head ache, to turn over a new leal. But as a mailer of historical fact New Year resolutions are a mod ern idea. Before the printed word, and the yapping radio and thought destroy ing television, man was generally permitted lo wander his a mless way through Ihis Vale of Tears in pleasant ignorance of his own shnrlcomings. Few priests or prophets had the temerity to re form him. H he didn't like what he heard around Ihe house he could say so husbands weren't so easy to come by in thnse days. Unlike the worriers ol this gener al ion, who get advice from every side lo help them go mils, it is a historical fact that the -Ancients did not die n( angina, thrombosis and sclerosis. Man took lime to enjoy the world he lived in instead of rushing through it hell bent for a herealler about which he just might he oei optimistic. Too bad we can't all lesohe this year to take it a little easy and think more l'olog.v From The Eugene Register-Guard The porcupine problem contin ues to bother our neighbors east of the Cascades. They deplore the way the spiny critters eat the shoots off pine trees, causing the trees lo die. Thus does the Bend Bulletin, puhlished in a pine and porky empire, wonder editorially about importing fighters, which illers believe that Ihe only good porcupine is a dead porcupine. Fishers kill porkies just for the fun of it. Along Ihe way, the Bend editor tweaks one of Ihe editors of this newspaper for his defense (some three years ago) of Ihe porcupine. It was our position that the porcu pine is a normal creature who lives in the woods and that man is unnecessarily predatory when he moves in relentlessly on in ani mal lhat just wants lo eat. Philo sophically at least, we hold lo Ihis position, largely because we ques tion the wisdom ol disturbing the ecology ol Ihe planet for the short- lerin benefit of man. The Bend editor comes lo our delense, in a sense, by recalling the time Ihe people of Hawaii im ported the mongoose lo kill rals Mongooses i geese?) killed off the rats and then went to work on the songbirds and chickens. The ecol ogy went In pol. If the ecology must he disturbed, how about disturbing it with a oiulin Malm (Tn Ihe Editor) The nostalgia lhat hit m on viewing tht pictures of Boiler Bay and creature more benign than the murderous fisher? We've wondered for some time about importing mountain goals or mountain sheep (either or both) into the Three Sisters region. They do not feed upon other creatures. hut only on moss and such, high on the rocks. Could they live in Ihe Sisters region? Is the food there right for them? Are the win ters sufficiently warm? Sufficient ly. cold? We hope some day to find a naturalist who can answer these questions, as e understand in the Glacier Park area tnere is now actually a surplus of sheep and goats. The surplus was caused partly by the elimination of t h e cougar, which creature eats moun tain goats and mountain sheep, thus maintaining the ecology. By the way, just in case Bend does prevail, what eats fishers? I'avciiM'Mi IMnfo By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK W Sidewalk scrawls of a Pavement Plato: As a new year dawns in the world after a record American food crop, more and more thought ful minds turn toward the prob lem of overpopulation. From a domestic angle the sit uation seems to be that we don't have the appetite to eat what we produce. From an international angle the problem seems partly to be that the food we volunteer doesn't please the people's appetite and they express their discontent by having more and more children. Both. Ihe rich and the poor coun tries are having the same prob lem: No mailer what they eal. or don't eat, they produce more chil dren. The globe is being inundated by a lidal wave of posterity. It is as if people, everywhere, confused by the responsibility of the moment, pass on through their genes the payment of tomorrow. It is, economically speaking, as it a generation that created infla tion in its time also inflated its posterity to water 'down the indi vidual bill. Who can win in the race to see who has the weakest money and the most poor mouths? Scientists, like a pack of hounds bell-tongue in cry after the elusive fox, truth. They will catch him, too. But not today tomorrow. Meanwhile, ordinary people pay Ihe price of ordinary living, chase smaller fox, stun one another with personal wonder, and live by a personal star they discovered to gether, the one big star in the sky no lovers ever shared before. The atomic cloud darkens. The statesmen and diplomats and poli ticians argue. They frighten each other. They spend more money to build more bombs. The value of the currency is inflated. People brood over Iheir bills and brooding leads to well, doesn't it? , Nobody is afraid of yesterday. Nobody is afraid of tomorrow. Who will shoulder today? (ooii Squads By LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON (UP1) - Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell has another convert to his belief that it would be wrong lo let the FBI loose on labor snons and racketeers who ad vance the cause ot the working man with bombs and other vio lence. The convert is Sen. Patrick V. McNamara (D-Mieh.). McNamara spoke last week belore the crim inology symposium of the Ameri can Association for the Advance ment of Science. Mitchell got on record last au- Inmn at Ihe Atlantic City conven tion of the steelworkers. The sleelworkers greeted Mitchell with some booing but warmed up considerably alter he had outlined his policies. One of his policies SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal was that there should be no. fed eral legislation to deal with labor mugging, goon squads and crim inal tactics. "What we do need," Mitchell said, "is a recognition at the community level that these (lo cal) laws (against such violence) should be enforced. No one has to wait for Washington to pass a law to check these evils." The record of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee presided over by Sen. John L. McClellan 'D Ark.) is sufficient proof that local laws against labor violence are not properly enforced. Neither Mitchell nor McNamara is likely to argue that enforcement in local areas is adequate. What McNam ara said was this: "Theft,, violence and extortion are already crimes in every state. Should Congress single them out for special federal pen alties just because the culprit may be found to have a connec tion with a labor union?" President George Meany of AFL-C10 gave Mitchell's policy a fast okay shortly after the Atlan tic City convention. Meany, as much as McNamara, dislikes the idea of federal cops, probably the FBI, digging into the facts of labor violence. McNamara, like Meany, might be considered to be something less than an impartial witness in the matter. McNamara is a lower echelon leader of organized labor. At the time of his election to the Senate, 1954, McNamara was president of the Detroit, Mich., Pipefitters lo cal No. 616, AFL. -The argument that local law should prevail in local matters is a good one but as a precedent it has been shot down and riddled by legislative action which has put federal agents on jobs long reserved for local enforcement officers. Moreover, if FBI direc tor J. Edgar Hoover were invited to testify regarding legislation which would put the FBI actively on the trail of . labor bombers, Hoover probably would oppose it. There is another factor, how ever. Building up now ' among members of Congress is a lot of enthusiasm for a federal law to punish persons "who bomb schools or churches. Hoover probably would be against that, too, if the FBI were involved. But many a member of Congress with large racial or religious minorities back home would not dare to vole "No." Oe is WM Oo- Ml ; Iv Heights By SAM DAWSON AP Business News Analyst NEW YORK (API-The chem ical industry believes today that itsown research activity coupled with the general economic recov ery will carry it to new heights in 1959. The Manufacturing Chemists' Assn. says the industry is the largest private investor in basic research, which helps it bring out an average of 400 new products each year. The association estimates this year's research spending at 560 million dollars, and says even more is planned in' 1959. A tvpical chemical company allocates 3 to 4 per cent of sales to this. The chemical industry slumped in the first part of 1958 along with many others. But in the first 10 months its production was off only two points on the Federal Re serve Board's industrial output in dex, while all manufacturing pro duction was off 12 points. Chem ical sales were down 2.5 per cent from the like 1957 period, but for all manufacturing sales dropped 9.7 per cent. By October chemical production had climbed above the figure for all of 1957 and October sales topped the previous monthly high of July 1957. One chemical company says that for every $1 spent in re search, development and other ex perimental costs, it reaps at least $5.60 in new sales after five years. To keep up with their research discoveries, chemical companies are spending v billion dollars this year for physical plant ex pansion and replacement. With construction expected to rise in 1959. the chemical indus try has high hopes for increased sales. The association notes that plas tics are being consumed in the housing market in growing pro portions. It expects use ol vinyl floor tile to increase about 17 per cent each year for a while It pre dicts use of plystyrene molding resins to rise by 8 per cent a year. And.it looks for big things from plastic piping in construction and plastic insulation for home and of fice electrical wiring Some 390 million units ot aero sols were made last year, a gain of 22 per cent increase over 1956. This year s output is believed to be even higher. The product was virtually unknown 10 years ago. hum?YJ 1 WRdTUd I They'll Do It E"ery Time By Jimmy Hatlo THAT POLkA- tieuh-unh; DOfTCM4 KNOW VOU SHOULDN'T WEdR A PIGURED TIE WITH A STRIPED SUIT? AUO YOUR HAND KERCHIEF AlH'T FOLDED PIGHT- TSK' 'LISTEN TO WHO V THE FIPST TIME MV WIFE SOW &VES WITH THE CRUD SHE SAID HE LOOKED LIKE rWH4T THE WELL- W HE JUST GOT RUN OVER- rr 1 DRESSED MdM WILL sS- 1 '' WPlO'rOUDNEV. THE SLOPPIEST GUV f YEAU-CRUdS V HE'S ALSO L IN THREE COUNTIES.' DONT EVEN W AUTHORITY MATCHHIS IDEA On EVERYBODY FII Ik' f M .Z-- II I OF DOLLING UP IS YELLOW BULLDOG SHOES .AND AH ELECTRIC-BLUE, surr- IELSES fcORKWERE EVEN THOU6H HE DOESNT DO ANY, HIMSELF r i-a -j i v. a Hula Hoop Helps Solve Problem GREAT BEND. Kan. (API About 15 youngsters who live along the .Missouri Pacific in Great Bend ficured mil a u-au t return the good deeds of Ed Krug, a ireigni train conductor from Hoisingtnn, Kan. Almost riailv Ihp vniinpttnra gather to watch the freight train go oy. Arug tosses canoy ana bubble gum to them. U'ith tha hffln nf Mr anrl Ura Boh Oliver, the children fastened a box ot candy to a hula hoop and handed the hoop to Krug'ai he rolled by on his caboose. LlSTEMlMG TO THE OFPICE EXPERT Ofi EVEf?yn-llMS 6IVINS A PAL THE HOW TO" 74K iXO A TIP OP THE Is U4TLO MdT TO Journey Andrews nbcnewvopk.n.v. , Sheriff Wins Arrest Suit The $75,000 false arrest suit against Lake Cnunlv Sheriff Thomas Elliott ended at noon Wednesday with a directed verdict IcIVUIing .111011. With the verdict, the court granted a motion for judgment which, in effect, prevents a mone tary claim from bein? against the sheriff. Bolh defense motions were grant ed by Circuit Juuge David R. Van denberg of Klamath Falls after a lengthy conference Wednesday morning in the absence of the jury. Lake County District Attorney Julian Herndon and Attorney Rob ert Welch, representing Elliott in the suit brought by Frank Grimes of Corvallis, presented the motions for a directed verdict and judg ment on the verdict. Judge Vandenberg, after review ing the six allegations in the com plaint, told the jury, "There is not one paragraph in the complaint that would stand bringing in a verdict by the jury. Grimes brought the suit' against Ihe sheriff after he was arrested September 20, 1957. At that lime Elliott had sent a deputy to Cres cent City, California, to return Grimes to Lakeview. , He had been in Lakeview a few hours when Klamath County Pro bation Officer Otto Paulsen re ported he had arrested a Frank Grimes in Klamath Falls. Both men had the same name. The man Paulsen arrested proved to be the Grimes wanted for pro bation violation and on bad check charges. The other Grimes was returned to Crescent City with apologies. He subsequently filed the false ar rest suit. USAF Repaid War II Debt , DENVER (AP)-Two bills, one for $500 and the other for $100, fluttered from an envelope opened at the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center Wednesday. With the money was a note signed "sorry" that read: "En closed find $S00 to repay the Air Force for quarters and dependents allowances received during World war it to which I was not entitled.". The letter was postmarked at San Francisco. An official said the sfiuo will go into the government's conscience fund. Flames On Ship, Barges Brought Under Control NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Fire-, fighting tugs swiftly controlled roaring flames on a Japanese freighter and two barges, touched off Wednesday night when the freighter Asia Maru collided with a string of oil barges in the Mis sissippi River. Explosions rocked the area south of downtown New Orleans about 8:50 p.m. Two men were injured, both on the Asia Maru. One was identified only as Singahara. No identifica tion was available immediately on tne second injured man. Bolh were taken to the U.S. Pub lic Health Service Hospital here for treatment. The extent of their injuries was not known immed iately. The Asia Maru, a Liberty ship, owned by First Shipping Co. Lim ited of Japan, was headed down stream from Baton Rouge, load ed with lO.fiOO tons of soybeans. It was bound for Yokahoma, Japan. The ship collided with three oil barges pushed by the tug E. B. Ingram. The Coast Guard said two of the barges caught fire, the third drifted harmlessly until taken in low. Harbor patrol reported the en lire forward section of the Asia Maru was ablaze. The tugs reached the two burn ing oil barges and the Harbor Pa trol said the fire quickly was brought under control. "The firefighting Tug Deluge is alongside Ihe Asia Maru now," the Harbor Patrol spokesman said. "She should have it under control EVEREST & JENNINGS WHEEL CHAIRS and WALKERS flnmtt Aldt for f ho Handicapped Sturdily constructed nd easily controlled, Everest at Jenningt Folding Wheel Chain and Walkers inspire complete confidence in the user. Two of many fine Everest Jen nings aids for the handicapped. 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