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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1959)
f FRIDAY. KEBrW HERALD AND NEW KLAA14 Tl-L F A I.LS. OREGON f u t" erfc & FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE . City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr. Ph. TU 4-47M Entered as second clau matter at the post office at Klamath Fall. Ore., on August 20. 1908 under act of Congress. March I. 179 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL AUDIT B'.'RFAH OF CIRCULATIONS sVrrlsf SMlbera Orrgoa Aad Northern California Subscription Rate CARRIER I MONTH 1.50 MONTHS t 00 I YEAR . $18 90 MAIL I MONTH I 1.40 MONTHS t 50 I YEAR 1S 00 School ItiMigcl By FLORENCE JENKINS A public meeting to diu.'Us the proposed budget for the l'Joy-wi school year for Klamath Falls ele mentary schools 'District One' mil be held at 8 p.m. on March 10 in Klamath Union High School building. The budget committee deserves high praise for its work in cut. ting the tolal amount for Die first ; time in seven years. Everyone agrees it costs money to have good schools. Everyone wants good schools. However, the taxpayer, who must foot the bill, is becoming increasingly interest ed in just what the money buys. . Salaries lor the teaching staff is usually the most controversial Hem in the budget. Under the in crement system in eltect in Klam alh Falls schools, an increase in salary is given for experience and further academic work up to a maximum ol Sfi.M a year. Klamath Falls is fortunate in having line teachers. A great num ber are well up the salary scale and nine arc at the maximum. Since certification is not given without a degree, the W.8U0 start ing salary has been eliminated and $4.2(10 a year is the lowest start ing salary for Klamath Falls teach ers. The lump sum for teachers' sal aries 'exclusive ol principals, su pervisors and substitutes! is $H85, VM for the current fiscal year. The budget committee has in creased this by $7.o;4 to Jtwu.o.ll fur the proposed budget for the l!tr9-H0 fiscal year This takes care of increment and the pos sibility of another teacher on the staff. A list of the names of teachers In the city's eight elementary schools and one junior high school, provided by the clerk ol the school district, discloses a total of 127 teachers, including part time teachers. Dividing this year's $K85.799 hy 127 gives $9,401.39 as the average yearly salary lor Klamath Kails elementary teachers. Under Ore gon law, there must he a minimum of 175 days of school, but assum ing each teacher spends DA weeks instructing classes, t h e average salary is $130 per week for the time worked. Fifty days sick leave with pay arc included in local teachers' contracts and there is a $ll).oiio item in the budget to lake care of substitute teachers' sal aries. The economic and social posi tion of those engaged in the teach ing prolession has steadily im proved over the years. Long gone is the day of the personal inter view to determine for sure that the applicant for a teaching job did not like to dance and did not use lip stick. The majority of elementary teachers are women, as has been traditional. There are less than two dnzen men on the elementary schtol slaff, exclusive of princi pals. There arc few jobs open to girls fresh out of college excepting the teaching profession which pay as high as $4,200 a year to start F igured on the basis of nine months' teaching this is more than $115 a week. Granted that many teachers spend from six weeks to a month attending summer school. Additional education increases their yearly income nnd they are still lett with a month of vacation which is double the tune earned In private industry alter a year or longer employment. During Business Education Week each year, groups of teachers vis it pin ale industry. It is important that teachers know and understand working conditions, salary scales and other aitpecta ot independent enterprise in order that they may advise students who seek their counsel a.i to Inline employment It has been staled repeatedly recently by rcnrromic writers that the period of critical shortage of teachers has passed. Doubtless the nationwide trend toward higher sal aries for teachers has been large ly responsible. On the Fast Coast, at least, the current real shoilugc in Hie lalt'r pool is said to be in the steno graphic Held Herald And News Juvenile Policy In the future, the Herald and News will follow the policy listed below in regard to the use of names of juveniles involved in criminal activity: 14 years of age and under: Herald and News will publish names only when the crime is of such serious nature as to warrant it. 15 and over: Herald and News will publish names of any juveniles involved in incidents of a serious nature, or incidents which result in severe property damage or bodily injury. Also, in this age group, the names of juveniles considered repeater offenders in other crimes of a lesser nature will also be published It is important that our readers understand that the actions and record of the juvenile officer and the juvenile court are closed to the press and the public by law and must remain secret. We have no access to such records If the juvenile court elects to send the ollender into district court, then actions taken become a matter of record and are open to press and public. Inlormatinn on cases handled by city and state police are available to the press. For a number of years, this newspaper has operated under a policy of not using the names of any juveniles involved in criminal activity. Alter a considerable study, it has been decided that such a policy has not noticeably contributed to a decrease in juvenile crime. The rising incidence of juvenile crime has made it imperative that this policy be changed lor Ihe good of the community. It is hoped that such a change in policy w ith Ihe atlendant pub licity will assist in the control and curbing of juvenile crime. Ti'ti'l 'ols By NELSON REED SAN JUAN. Puerto lino - The other day we drove to the olher side of the Island to Ponce, through endless small Milages, up and down endless steep little mountains around Ihe thousand bhnd curves. Though it is sup posed to be dry on that side oi the island and the fields and moun tain sides looked arid, it rained all day long Wherever there was little al ley or some flat land (here .is sugar cane. It grows the year round. Many of the fields weu being cut by crews of sweat"!, little men swinging machetes th.it :Omed far loo heavy lor them to handle. All day long they swing tliem for $."1 a day, we were told. In some of the fields they cut the cane alter the foliage has been burned olf and the cutting crews are covered with black soot so that you cannot tell the Negroes from the Puerto Ricans. We no ticed that in the mountain villages there were very few Negroes, but in the Hat lands near the coast there were a great many, a mat ter of employment in the cane we presume. In addition to cane, bananas. pineapples, and oranges are raised and coconuts. Outside San Juan we saw some very line herds of Holstein Dairy cattle. Nowhere did we sec any beef cattle. Too hot and too much rain to grow good beef. The other day we visited a rug factory in a village about 211 miles from San Juan Owned and operated hy a Mr. V'Soske. a very clever Polish gentleman, it em ploys many people here and has sales olfiees in a number of cities in the U.S. and some in Europe. The rugs are all handmade. To us it seemed that they "stitched" Hie wool yarn with tricky large needles on sheets of ra'nva s stretched from racks. All rugs are made to order: nothing is ready made. Decorators or pros pective buyers send in their de signs and color schemes, a sample is made up and sent to them lor approval, and only then is the rug manufactured. Ever stop nnd think thai the word manulactiired is really good Latin for handmade, though we have come to believe otherwise'' V'Soske gets all his yarn Irom Pakistan, which makes the best, he says. His dyes conse from Philadelphia, from which he blends his own colors. We were told that they could oiler twenty thousand dillerent colors of yarn. No place for a color blind guy to work 1'hat department of our family knew just about what she wauled and we are going to have a new rug one of these days, without even needing to see a sample made up. This time of the year a slifl trade wind blows night and day. It keeps the climate from getting too hot but makes the ocean quite rough. Only a few of us reckless nuts light the breakers, which really give you a battle, and are wondeilul if you like them. Most "Tounstes " just grease them selves and lie hy the hotel pools displaying their olten far from lovely "tiggers " Big rero or 8 would describe many of them. Mr! Senator By CII.VHUS V STANTON Kditor Itoselnug News-lteview One hundred years ago a m.in from Douglas County held up his right hand in Washington. DC. and swore to uphold the Constitu tion of the United States. Thus General Joseph Lane became the first senator to serve in Congress Irom the then newest state. Ore gon. Today appropriate ceremonies are being held at General Lane's tomb. It is a tribute well deserved, lor perhaps no man contributed more to Oregon's early success. At the same time perhaps no man in I the state's history was more cruel ly treated when he remained firm ito his convictions. I General Lane was hrave and vig orous. He was a serious worker on behalf ol Oregon Territory and later the state of Oregon. B u t General Lane was a firm believer in slate's rights. When he threw in with the Confederacy on the question of state's rights, he was immediately assailed by emotional abolitionists. Although the War between the States was ought on a question of state's rights and southern re bellion against domination by northern states, history books have all too olten made slavery a primary cause of the war. Ac tually, slavery was a secondary issue. The Emancipation Procla mation was a document to destroy southern economy rather than set tlement of moral issue. But it was a decided victory lor the abolition ists of the day. General Joseph Lane was born in North Carolina and. as a youth, moved with his parents to Ken lucky. Thus he was steeped in southern beliefs. Interested in politics, he was an active party worker in Indiana, where he moved as a young man. He served in the Indiana Legis lature when hardy past 21 years of age. gaining election to the House and later to the Senate. He (ought with Indiana volun teer troops during the War with Mexico, where he was advanced through successive ranks from ma jor to general. He was wounded twice. His prominence and bravery in the war caused President Polk to name him governor ol Oregon Ter ritory. Aug 18. 1848 He set out overland, arriving in March. 1849. to take up his new duties. He served in IB.il as a delegate to Congress Irom the Oregon Ter ritory, then was again made gov ernor in 18.'i3. hut served only briefly betore being again elected to Congress. His congressional work was in terrupted when he resumed his military career to conduct the suc cessful Indian war in Southern Oregon. Again he was wounded, but loughl through the 18.vV.iS campaigns. Returning from the Indian lights, he was once more elected to Con gress and, when Oregon became a state, he was named as the firs) senator Irom the slate. He took otfice Feb 14. 1S.V). the day Oregon was admitted He was an unsuccessful candi dote for vice president of the Unit ed States with John C. Brecken ridge. One of his first acts in coming to Oregon was to find a suitable place for a home. He decided to locate in the Umpqua Valley. In 1851. two years alter his arrival, he took up a do nation land claim in Douglas County. His property was on Deer Creek, cast of Dixonville. on what is now known as the Buckhorn Road. Because of his sympathies for the South, he lost much of his political intluence in Oregon which had joined the North in the struggle between the states. Emo Hon was permitted to turn thought away from much of the good Gen eral Lane had accomplished for the state. Today, however, Oregon is proud of this man who was so active ir. the politics of its early day and who did so much for the territory and the state. As we begin the celebration of our birthday as a state, it is most fitting. I believe, that one of the first to be honored is Genera! Joseph Lane, who was Oregon's first United States senator. "v HMrv' Sacramento 'To the Hdilor' "Blazing Star Reserve" is the name of a new ecological reserve The data about it came to writer as one of the Board of Governors of Nature Conservancy. It is a bit of Pennsylvania prairie which an nually is a blaze of color with bloom of blazing star. The eastern plant with this name is of the sunflower family. Cali fornia also has a blazing star. It is botanically very ditferent. It belongs to the true Blaing Star lamily. The Mexican-Californian called it "buena mujer," I "good woman who sticks to her hus band'." This, because its seeds have stickers to steal rides to bet ter feeding by hooks which ad here to fur of rabbit or coyote. Its blazing color and numerous stamens gives one the impression of a speed meteor. Writer yester jyear had to use camels for Afri- auto roads. His camel boys, in those wonderful desert nights, used to say when a meteor flashed: "Watch angels pelt dev ils!" A boy's home museum may pos ess a bit of meteorite etched to how the W'idmannstaetten figures Then he has something about hich to boast! C. M. Goethe Thank Klamath Falls 'To the Editor' A great big "thanks" to Ron Phair and the Big Y Market lor giving a large gilt to our Pomona Grange at every meeting for our attendance prize. This is a much appreciated gesture Irom him and all the grangers are deeply gratetul to him and the store. Midland Grange. Shasta View Grange. Henley Grange. Fort Klamath Grange. Upper Klam ath Lake Grange. M.1I11 Grange, Merrill Grange. Blv Grange. Poe Valley Grange Lost River Grange and Klam ath County Pomona Grange Mayme Cammock. Publicity Chairman. Pomona Grange. 4 no I '.i SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal gRANDPAA J x riNAiiK -ro x&- found aVL2 Flfr) 7 ("t ' tilt UtT liMPLl TUiLJUC l JT " ' " I L cuctm euirt mfm! J ( ru bet ) United Press International ROCKLAND. Mass. The sister of Capt. Samuel B. Nikerson. skipper of the tug that rescued eight survivors ot a plane crash in New York City's East River, telling of a nervous collapse he sutiered five d.ivs after the crash : "He kept worrying afterward that he might have saved more had there been more time and more rescue boats " NEWTON, Mass -Karl Attire former British prime minister warning that the world has a choice of world government 01 world chaos "We are living in the most dangerous period of the world s history. We must surrender to world authority." NEW YORK - Luhen Vichey whose l.es Ballets Atncans troupe has bowed to an order to cover bare bosoms or c'use. calling the order incomprehensible: "At no time do you get as much nudity on the stage as you do in a 52nd Street strip joint.' TACOMA Former Teamslei Union President D.ive Beck or how he felt alter being convicter on income tax evasions I I feel fine 1 couldn't feel better If I felt any belter 1 ceuldn t stand it." They llDo It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo TIME COt? VOU TO DO MV INCOME TAX POQ ME AllM.MONESToOl-IM- BUT DOMT PAiSS YOUH PRICE ON ME AidIM, WILLV4-OR I LL DO IT MVSELC-EVBM IP I AHT 6OO0 AT PGURSS MEPE WE OOAOAlU-TS 4QOUNO THE TIME HONEST JOUH CALLS UP 7VI4T HE CAhtT COME IIM-HrS IN BED WITH LA GPIPPE- ue rvin mine OsJCE- TUE 60VEQNMSNTS BEEN INVEST164TIN ME EVETV V&flW SINCE- OKAV. PlNGOTHEM dLLYOUP STATEMENTS AND EXPENSES? PUT 'EM IN MERE-I'LL TAKE 'EM HOME wrru ME X CO ALL MY ETS4 AT MOMEvV'KNOvV- HE'S GOT HIMSELC4 NICE LITTLE BACKET- M4KIN6 MISTAKES ON EVEUvBOOr ELSE 5 INCOME 1 T4X AHO GETTING WID COO IT" r JOUNNO W4S OVEO- HONEST WITH MINE-BUT HIS OWN HE TJkbb EVEUVTHING BUT E FttPEB CLIPS OH ,OPP I . TUB ' I r? 1 M a inT fjNlNG IN ON THE OFFICE CIGUPO iVHOS WOPKING UP HIS OWN LITTLE SIDELINE , M fuiMX inOi WIT TIP Vi-sitlvS BEOkgy, 0 ;Ct3ts.tl?l:u6EUK WMT7S AjwS, K.V. SALEM 'AP Atty. Gen. Rob rrt Y. Thornton said Thursday lhat a bill to restrict billboards on interstate highways is uncon stitutional. The hill, by Sen. Alfred H. Cor belt iD Portland'. would let the slate acquire exclusive advertis ing rights within Stit) feet ol the Pai-ilic Highway, and on U.S. ,10 between Portland and the Idaho Coibett said his bill conforms with a federal law giving states extra grants if they provide such controls. Lane County Grand Jury To Probe Gas Price War EUGKN'K 'API - The Lane County grand jury, in session for its third day today, is preparing to look into KuKcne-Springtield area gasoline prices. Dist. Atty. William Frye said a recent gasoline price war re sulted in the decision to investi gate. The state unfair gasoline sales law forbids a seller Irom discrim ination in fixing gasoline prices between communities or in more than one location in the same community , The law also prohibits price rigging to interfere with compe tition. Penalty for violation of the law is a misdemeanor with penalty not less than a $Mi0 fine or more than $.1,000, or a one-year jail sentence or both, according to Frye. "At this point.' said Frye. "I'm not prepared to say there has been a violation of the law covering the; pricings of gasoline. This will bei up to Ihe grand jury to deler-1 mine." Frye said that allhouch thei statute is more than 20 years old. it never hns been used. He ex plained. "This may be due to its inadequacy or to the reluctance ot district attorneys to take ac fon " Subpoenaed to go before the grand jury are a dozen witnesses, including state and county presi dents of gasoline dealers' groups, two managers of district distrib utorships and service station op erators. Frye aid that during the recent once war it was noted that ' for many weeks gasoline was sold in this area for as low as 24 cents a gallon." "Now the price is upward of ', cents a gallon." he continued "Apparently no stations went out of business during the price war. 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