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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 18. IflSff
FRANK JENKINS
Editor
BILL JENKINS
Maaaglnf Editor
FLOYD WYNNE
City Editor
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. Modern?
By BILL JENKINS
It is a peculiar fact that most
of us are inclined to look at
the modern automobile as being
.the last word in everything.
A real modern device for sudden
death. We have refined the horse
leu buggy to the stage of having
tilt -out seats, electronic mirrors,
automatic shifts, electric seat and
window controls and probably all
manner of other gimcricks to
bring them up to date.
But we are still lacking on one
field of automobile travel.
Tire chains haven't changed a
bit in the last two or three dec
ades as far as basic principles
are concerned. Nor has the lan
guage invoked by the unfortunate
drivers who are forced to put them
on.
Having just come up from Cali
fornia and being informed by the
highway patrol that I had a choice
of staying where I was or putting
en chains the whole subject is
pretty fresh in my mind.
Snow tires are not, in California
at least, any answer. In Oregon
they are a partial answer.
But it does teem that someone
would come up with a solution to
the whole thing. At least devise a
chain that could be put on with
a minimum of trouble. I have tried
them all, including one that was
advertised as slipping on at easily
as a cap on a buttle. None of
them were any improvement. In
every case you get out and get
all muddy and dirty putting 'em
on in the first place and taking 'em
off in the second. Due, I must
admit, mostly to ttie design of the
car, not necessarily the chain,
These low rear fenders .make put
ting thfjji on a practical impossibility.
But it does seem that with all
the know-how we have in this
country a man on the moon in
ten years? we should be able to
take a few swipes at this business
of chains.
The only solution that comes to
mind presently would-be a flnan
cial switch in the great American
highway swindle now masquerad
ing under the federal highway proj
ect cognomm. Perhaps if we got
along with the highways we have
now and spent the extra money
to heat them so we wouldn't have
a snow or ice problem it would
solve the problem.
Or perhaps it would be simpler
to Just wait until the inevitable
day when the highways are
jammed beyond recall and then
leave all the cars where they are.
In this case the heaters could all
be hooked up to a central unit
and serve the same purpose on a
new road overhead.
Or maybe some scientist who
can knock out a few minules Mm
figuring out a quicker way to the
moon could turn out a chain that
was easy or a tire that would be
acceptable to the authorities for
driving.
it wouidn l be much of an
achievement, perhaps, viewed at
the Nobel level, but it would net
th fellow several million dollars
a year in spending money.
While we are on the subject of
travel why Is it that so many peo
ple art prone to say that a man
"knows a road like he knows the
palm of his hand?"
I aon t know tne palm of my
hand very well. I know that some
timet it itches which means either
that I am going to get a Idler
or kiss t fool, according to which
witch book you subscribe to.
I knew that there are usually
five fingers attached to it. Or four
fingen tnd a thumb.
This it only partly true at on
some days I know thera are more
'Specially thumbs. '
On the palm of that hand are a
lot of little squiggly lines that peo
ple who profess to know inform
me will tell me my hie 'I have
not had my palm read for sev
eral years at which time a gypsy
type old woman with wise eyes
told me I Was going to be wealthy
I am ttUl waiting and am not Just
about to take any chances on a
possible twitch with another palm
ist I.
I know that on tome occasions
that same palm Is dirty and on
others clean. Usually at the wrong
timet.
Other than that I know almost
nothing about it.
If I had to travel a road I knew
at well as the palm of my hand
I'd still be there.
cr than the peak number reached
about 25 yean ago..
The story of the pioneers coming
to Oregon by covered wagon and
carving out homesitet in a virgin
land is full of romance and a
story of hard work and long hours
of toil. Most of the early day
(arms started as 320-acre or 640-
acre donation land claims, but to
day there are nearly 46.000 farms
in the state containing less than 320
acres of land.
At the population of the ttate
grew, the number of (arms in
creased until 1935 which was the
high point. In that year, the aver
age iize farm contained 268 acres
of land of which 76 acres were in
crops. By 1954, the average was up
to 387 acres including 96 acres of
cropland.
The trend is definitely toward
fewer farms and larger ones. Im
proved technology, including mech
animation, fertilization and a mul
titude of developments, has made
it possible for each farm operator
to produce more with less manual
labor.
In 1958. on the average, four
American farmers supplied 100 per
sons with food and fiber. Twenty
years before, it took 10 farmers
to do the same Job and a cen
tury ago, more than double that
number was required.
'In the Klamath Basin, according
to 19j7 figures, the agricultural in
come for the year was $32.9 mil
lion. Much of this is what may
be called new wealth in that
actual products are brought out of
the ground and sold for money as
opposed to money exchanged for
services.
There is a new agricultural cen
sus in progress now and the Klam
ath County Agent's office has rea
son to believe it will reflest the
national and state tretd ttwart'
fewer tnd larger farats.
At the time of the last agricul
tural census tore in lW-there
were nearlr 1,600 farivs in Klam
ath County and tke average size
was 1212.3 acres. Elevei kunared
and eighty-eight farm operators
lived on their own farms. More
than a hundred operated farms on
which they did not reside and 542
reporting working mora than mo
days a year off the farm. Other
property was worked on a rental
or lease basis.
Of the total number of farms in
Klamath County, 1.100 are under
2HO acres in size, but 251 are be
tween 220 and 259 acrVs. There
are 144 farms between 260 and 499
acres; 96 between 500 tnd 999
acres and 157 over 1.00 acres in
size.
It is still pretty safe to say that
farm crops, livestock and manu
facturing from agriculture accounts
for nearly half of the eceasmy af
the Klamath Basin.
ty court had been trying to buy
a lot in the' Homedale Addition
for a bridge site to link Wiard
and Hope ttreett across an irri
gation canal. .
The owners finally agreed and
made a special trip from Cali
fornia to tign the deed. The cost
was $8,000, but the court expects
to sell unneeded portions of the
lot and regain about $5,000 of the
cost.
Significantly, completion of that
long-standing project was the last
official act by County Judge Char
ley Mack before he took olfice as
a state tax commissioner in Salem.
A motorist summoned into dis
trict court to answer a charge
of driving while his license was
suspended must have anticipated
his sentence.
He showed up with an overnight
case in hand and was sentenced
to five months in the county jail.
The Post Olfice Department con
tinued to perform the miracles
expected of it. Properly delivered
to our office was a package ad
dressed to: Harold News, Klamath
Falls, Oregon.
By TOM STIMMEL
Mrs. Roy Nichols of 444 River
side Street sells "Night Crawlers"
to fishermen, and she advertises
the fact on a sign on her lawn
facing the highway.
Very late one night a weary
motorist aroused Mrs. Nichols and
asked for a room. Mrs. Nichols
said she had no rooms for rent:
what made him think she did?
"1 taw your sign," he said. "I
thought that was for people driv
ing around late at night."
ine chamber of commerce
cooked up an attractive lit tie bro
chure to explain its current "Keep
Pace With Tomorrow" program
and decided to order l.ino from
a local printer.
When the order was ready, girls
in the chamber office thought de
liveries never would stop. The
printer shipped ll.ono copies in
stead of 1.100.
Alas, he had to take all the
extras back.
For almost six years, the coun-
Farm IMHurrt
By LXLE C. WILSON
WASHlNGTONiiUPl) - Today
it will be C. F. Knickrehm versus
the Wall Street Journal, a kind
of David and Goliath contest ioJ
wnicn Knickrehm, like David, is
loaded.
Knickrehm is a farmer and a
manager of farm properties in
St. James, Minn., a small town
in the southern tier of counties.
His county it Watonwan, an area
of lakes and rich farmland, fit
for corn, wheat, sugar beets, flax,
airy aad beef cattle.
Abe 2(0 Vateawaa Ctunty
acres are twe utter Kraal.
rchm't nttaguocal. He is a seed
miaugor. A ckesk far $1001 flat
tered eut of tke etvekawe whisk
reacted me Thursday witk Kajak-
rekm't rciert ot tow lham were
n the (arras in tke vrajor Missis
sippi Valley.
Kaickrchn's roaart seetwd lit
to jibe precisely witk a sarvey
which appeaved this week ia tke
Wall Street Jouraaj. Tkis was a
survey of the farm machinery bus
iness at the manufacture at re
tail levels which the Jtarnat re
ported were booming (it to bunt.
Manufacturers and retailers
alike were happy. Resale prices
for used farm equipment were
substantially kigher. F a r at e r s
were making larger dotvn pay
ments and evei paying aft tktar
equipment notes well alicaji ef due
date to save interest. This was a
happy-days- are- here- anait sur
vey. It unqaestigiahly was accu
rate because tke Wall Street Jour
nal is well editctt aad its report
ers are experienced newsrryi.
The survey,- however, tellected
Ihe seller's point of view. The
point of view of the buyer the
farmer is something else again.
Hear this from my friend, Knick
rehm who. in typical farm fash
ion, begins with the weather re
port: "We have had some real winter
here the past four weeks. The
thermometer has been below the
zero line quite regularly. And the
past week we have been getting
some snow. We have had about
five inches of new snow since
Monday, Feb. 2.
"Our markets on the farm pro
duce have been somewhat uneasy
Ihe past weeks. It seems since
the livestock prices are slipping,
especially the hog market s,
everything else is uneasy
"Farmers are all hoping it
won't get going much worse than
It is. The price of farm produce
alone would not be so much hurt
ing If the cost of farm equipment
would not be climbing up higher
and higher Many of the smaller
farmers do no have enough in
come to keep on (arming, after
paying all the expenses such at
taxes and cost of repairs or Ma
chine hire where it it not advisa
ble to have all the necessary ma
chines tuch at combines and corn
pickers and hay balert ana other
arge equipment.
"The small farmer either needs
to get more acreage to farm, if
there it land available, or else
rent his land to someone else, and
find work elsewhere.
"I guess the farmers are not
Ihe onet that have problems, to
I think we will all jutt have to
try and work thingt out, best we
can for all. We people In our
American country have much to
be thankful for. We have freedom
of speech and religion and. many
other conveniences.
"Hoping that you and all of
yours are enjoying good health
as I can say for myself and
(amily.
Sincerely
(Signed) C. F. Knickrehm
'agent)"
Klamath Falls 'To the Editor)
Read something the other day on
the fact that clothes do make the
person. For example, if everyone
were suddenly rendered nude, one
could not tell the policeman from
the thief, the nurse from the doc
tor, Mrs. Elite from the barmaid,
and so on along the line.
This brings one to the unwitting
solution of how to end all wars
As many of us live in a country
where exposure of one's anatomy
to the winter winds would not be
desirable, it could be accomplished
by passing a law that all the
peoples of the world must dress in
all ways alike. How could ope fight
a war if one couldn't tell the ene
my from the ally or the alien
frtai the native? Besides there
wtuM be mj side benefits, tuch
friend husband aever being
asked far aiuaey to g a new
dress hectare Mrs. Dt xt door
gat a ittw (.
Emma Burk
SHORT RIBS
By Frank O'Neal
Ajgrlculurp
y FLORENCE JENKINS
As Oregon becomes 100 years of
age. It ia noted by the Oregon
Stat College extension agricultur
al economist that thera ait now
$5,000 farmt within the state. This
It nearly SO.OOO more than a cen
tury ago when Oregon became the
thirty-third ttata in the Union.
It ia, however, nearly 10.000 few-
ill
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W40&Ea(toa) eSQCfljrjID
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YOk' (API f'lirhclnno
comments of a Pavemeift Plato:
America seems ta have Inst one
of its safety valves the old-
famtcd Sueoaiy aftertooa nap.
It is hard to sav last waen civil.
izalin ' went astray in tur coun
try. Seme say it happened right
alter the (irst World War when
the Russians embraced coeimu-
nism and the Aaaaricas sS'sOVa'
prilaaetie.
Some date It (rom the (imp
when U. S. women were given the
ballot and also ttarted smoking
cigarettes in public. Still others
claim civilization died with the
five-cent glass ot beer.
But a good case could be made
for the contention that civilized
living began to decline when the
average man gave up his Sunday
afternoon nan and took un Sunriav
driving. Life has been ore mad
whirl ever since.
The old-fashioned Sundav after-
noon nap in most homes was a
ceremony as full of ritual as a
lodge meeting.
It started with a massive Sun
day dinner, a loving work of art
that took mother all morning to
prepare. This was served prompt
ly at two o'clock.
After a meal that would fell
three of today't modest trenrh.
ermen. the head of, the house
would push back his chair, yawn
and say, "Well, guess it's time
(or the nap."
He would go into his bedroom
and when he took off his shoes
you could near his sich r riir
all through the house. In taking
off his shoes father symbolically
also shed the woes, gnelt and
annonyances of his whole work
week.
He'd then stretch out an th
bed. cover his face with the Sun
day newspaper and in fn. .....
onds be sound asleep.
'If any of you children Hr
wake him up. I ll-" said mother,
leaving her threat unfinished
she waved a warning finger. Then
she would retire to a comfortable
chair in the living room, and doze
herself over the pile of undarned
socks in her lap.
Three hours alter he hit th. n;i.
low. father let out a series of ea.
cophonous grunts, wheezes and
groans, like an old steam .n,n.
on a hard uphill grade. Then he
woke up.
Where is the family near ir
those vanished Sundays? Today
people work so hard on ?n
trying to find Joy somewhere out.
side the hone they are si. 11 ..nr..
out on Monday morning
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a mother and rescued her five
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Timber Sale Results Told
SALEM A total of 172,984,000 1 Tillamook fires.
board feet of timber was sold byj Phipps stated that .these two
the state forestry department dur
ing 1958 at bid prices which to
taled $2,305,698 according to a
statement issued today by State
Forester Dwight L. Phipps. This
included 65 separate blocks of tim
ber he added.
The main activity centered in
Forest Grove where the manage
ment section sold 28 separate
tracts of timber for a total of
S681.379.05. A large part of the
timber consisted of snags that
were the result of the disastrous
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sales marked the beginning of the
ena ot tne Dig time logging in tne
burn. The only remaining block of
merchantable fire killed timber of
any extent is in this' watershed
and the final sale will be made
within a year or so. When all the
timber is harvested it is expected
that the total recovery from the
burn will be about I billion board
feet. An estimate of the total kill
resulting from the three Tillamook
burn fires places it at 13.5 billion
board feet.
Pupils Attend
Science Fair
LAKEVIEW Ten students'from
Lakeview High School science
classes were selected on the basis
of scholarship to attend the Ninth
Annual Science Fair at Linfield
College in McMinnville on Satur
day. February 7. Ratings in biol
ogy and chemistry earned the trip
for the students. A few of the stu
dents selected were unable to make
the trip.
This was the first time that the
local high school has been repre
sented at the meeting and was
the only school group east of the
Cascades registered. Payment of
two-thirds of the transportation ex
pense from school district funds
was approved.
R. C. Rowe. instructor in biol
ogy and chemistry, accompanied
the group and furnished one of
the cars. The other was furnished
by Mrs. John Scoville. The stu
dents attending included Gayla
Teet, Sandra Watts. Margery
Blair, Sherry Jarman, Mary Sco
ville, Melvin Adams, Walter Wil
liams, Arpad Kovacsy, Michael
Counts and Jim Clinton.
Phipps stated that the Income'
included the sale of timber from
the state owned lands and from
the forested state school lands
which have been under manage
ment by the department. The ma
jor portion of the income has been
(rom the departmental lands oi
which approximately 75 per cent
of the total income has gone to
the respective counties with 25 per
cent to the department for ad
ministration. The balance has gone
into the irreducible school fund af
ter administrative costs.
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