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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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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
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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."
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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.
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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
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brought under control.
"The firefighting Tug Deluge is
alongside Ihe Asia Maru now,"
the Harbor Patrol spokesman said.
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"I don't know his name," he
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