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Newspaper Page Text-W-V, PAGE 8 A HKRALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON THURSDAY. JUKE 11. FRANK JENKINS Editor RILL JENKINS' Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph. TU 4-4752 Entered at second class matter at the pott oil ice at Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 20. 1996, under act of Congress. March 1 1879 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PR ESS I'NITEO PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Serving Souther Orrfon And Northern California Subscription Rates CARRIER I MONTH I SO I MONTHS t .0O I YEAR 111.00 MAIL 1 MONTH $ I SO ft MONTHS - f 50 I YEAR $15.00 4'cnifiinial By FLORENCE JENKINS The 65-acre Oregon Centennial Exposition grounds were the site of a press preview on Tuesday afternoon in Portland. Three hundred (at least) work men were expecting to labor through the night to have the big show ready for its first pay ing guests on Wednesday. All fin gers were crossed in an effort to chase away the rain clouds which had lightly dampened the thousands who lined the streets to watch the ftlerrykhana parade on Tuebday evening. The Rose Festival is going on a: it has every June for 51 years. Stewart' Holbrook spent Tuesday forenoon judging the board contest In the Park blocks and six Cana dian destroyer escorts were being tied up at the SW Harbor Drive seawall, quite reminiscent of Port land's annual Fleet Week of the mid-1930s. . We were royally entertained and, when 'copious notes have been as sembled, more words about the Exposition will be written. The most important piece of ad vice, based on the sound expert ence gained in a four-hour con ducted tour, is to wear low heeled comfortable shoes. Even the men were complaining that their feet hurt up to their knees Ran into Mrs. Kent Magruder of ti e Oregon Cow Belles as she and Herman Oliver of John Day were seeing to the final appointments of the big Beef, Inc. display. We'd guess that will be one of the popu lar spots, because there is a little opera house where four different films on the beef industry will be shown. Sit-down space is going to be greatly sought after. We had a chair for a few min tiles during a shoot-em-up show in the Frontier Village and some of the gals made the tour through the House of Tomorrow In stock inged feet. The General Motors show is carpeted, too, which makes the new Firebird more pleasant to inspect. A brace of chiropodists should be able to do a land office busi ness during the 100 days of the Centennial Exposition. , J4rt Visit By TOM ST1MMEL Most road maps dismiss the northwestern corner of Nevada as a vast blank space; They show no roads or towns: and this is quite proper because there are no sur faced roads and no official towns In that remote region of the United States. But the expansive deserts of northern Nevada offer delights that are unexpected and pleasures that sre unseen. The country is Ideal for any person who prefers an occasional visit to broad, un spoiled country. Paradoxically, it Is the place, too, for any person who likes to get closely acquaint ed with people. Don Kettler knows this country reasonably well. A weekend or so aco I accompanied Kettler and his camera across the alkali lake near Cedarville and into the mys terious, unmarked land that is Ne vada. We ran out of trees not long alter we crossed the border; but In fact there were trees in many places we did not see and that is Nevada. We were beyond ' the range of houses, too: but again we found ranch houses and cow boys' shacks where we did not expect them and that is Nevada We headed east, following un marked' roads and getting through all right, thanks moitly to Kei llor's Kombie ( a vehicle of little grace but infinite capacity) and thanks partly to guessing (some of it second guessing). We passed through Summit Lake Indian Res ervation and there were greeted by three Indians half the reser vation's population. We drove through country that was beauti ful for its grn meadows and darkened mountains, and back into desert flats and slopes o( solid sagebrush. Our camping site was Verriulle. a little known and totally unpub liclzed remnant of a mining com munity established in 1876 when gold was discovered in Badger Mountain across Bartlett Creek. We parked the Kombie In an or chard Old Man Verri planted years ago, and set up camp in undosert like darp, green grass. Across the road was Verri's cabin, a two room hut of stone and mud with a sodroof. A prospector had used it not Ion" ago. Our headquarters were at the foot of the Pine Forest Mountains and on the edge of the expansive, flat Black Rock Desert. Across the desert flats rose the Jackson Mountains, dominated by King Lear, a peak of I.MO feet capped with snow running deep into crev of sagebrush and alkali flats broken in a few places by square, green alfalfa fields eight or ten miles apart on the western side. At one edge of each field are in evitable stands of poplars in straight, precise rows. These are desert ranches. Here springs from the mountains are diverted into irrigation channels to grow enough cattle feed to last out mild winters when sagebrush won't do. Where there is enough spring water, there is a ranch. From a hillcrest 30 miles away, we could spot each ranch, marked by greenery in contrast to brown desert meeting brown mountains. At the head of the Black Rock is the best known of the ranches. The Leonard Creek was established in -1918 by two young Basques who came up Iron! Win- nemucca. The Montaros and the Bidarts still operate the ranch. and their sons have stayed home Leonard Creek is a small commu ruty of its own, and in the last general election 37 of the 44 reg istered voters were members of the two founders' families. Thirty-five miles south is the Paiute Ranch, an immaculately maintained ranch that looks like a Kentucky horse farm. Society in the unknown desert appeared to belong to two groups ranchers and miners. The min ers prospectors, really were less formal in their way of life There was old Bill Cope, 75, and a man who knows more about min eral deposits in the country than any other man alive. Bill says, so there must be, almost every known mineral in Verri's Badger Mountain but it icosts too much these days to get it out. Josie Perl has mining claims to sell. She is an energetic 86, lives amidst the greatest assortment of household junk I've ever encount ered, and is the only woman in the mining community. Kettler knows both the miners and the ranchers. He proved adept at attracting offers of coffee from people who like him, and like company. And in those eolfee breaks we learned that everybody knows everybody else In a sparse desert community 30 miles long and less than 100 people large. You can see a car approaching from miles away. Josie had recog nized Bill Cope's pickup raising dust one morning, and she kept asking us, "I wonder what they was doin' down to the Paiute Ranch?" Wei don't know, and don't care. But it's a safe bet Josie knows all about it by now. darn sight cheaper. Of course if the news were bad, maybe he'd rather send it. Looks to us as if we were get ting in such a doggone rush with everything we do in this world we are liable to pop right out of it before we know it someday. It's hard to say where most of us might land but the way things are going some days it might be an improvement. the glory. She's the center of at traction. The groom is just simply another man who was there. The couple was a reception. Rice is tossed after them, because that's the way evil spirits were placated centuries ago. She leads the young man into captivity, in stead of him dragging her off to a cave. Thus times have changed. Missile Mail By NELSON REED Big publicity the other day about a guidia) missile that delivered a batch of mail 100 miles away in a matter of minutes. What's all the rush? Today be ing the 101 h of the month it seems to us that the bills are coming in too darn fast already. And we'd bet you a missile tracking gadget against a red, while and blue P.O. box that the missile that contained your dividends or customer's checks would be the one that got lost but the one with the bills would be right on the nose. Then too we seem to recall read ing that the P.O. Dept. was oper ating deep in the red, thanks to all the trilling, useless, wastebas ket cluttering, no account ads the postman dumps in our door every day. Now shooting otf one of these letter carrying missiles costs a bit more than those four bit rock ets kids used to be allowed to play with on the Fourth: quite a few Cs from what we've read Somehow we just ran t imagine any mail being worth that much Any news as good as all that the sender could buy a ticket on one of these new tuperjets and bring the good word himself a Wedding CiisIohim By CHARLES V. STANTON Editor Roseburg News-Review June being the month of wed dings, the modern American bride must feel very happy that she isn't forced to judge her worth by the animals olfered for her. If the bride, in many areas, is worth a water buffalq, she must be quite convinced she has "it." On the other hand, the dame that can't raise an offer of more than a couple of skinny lambs must feel she's a sharp-angled, knock-kneed hag. Some of our wedding customs are backed by tradition extending into long-gone centuries, according to a compilation by The World Book Encyclopedia. Today's bride sweeps down the aisle in a gorgeous gown, drag ging a reluctant father, meeting a swain about ready to swoon. But it wasn't always thus. In the "good oP days" the young man watched until the gal friend was a few steps away from home Then he knocked her over the bean, tossed her across his shoul dcrs, and took off. In those days the "best man' had to prove he was "best." He had his work cut out for him. Usually the gal managed to get off a scream before her lover's club rapped her on the noggin. Her relatives poured out of their cave. The best man had to stand off the multitude. He took it upon himself to give battle and hold the irate kinsmen until the bride and groom had made their escape, The happy couple, of course, had to hide out until the search died down, which gave rise to our modern honeymoon. Maybe, too, that's the reason for the continuing stories of lasting hostility between the husband and his mother-in-law. But, as time went on, some mer cenary father must have decided his daughters could be used for trading slot. Instead of waiting for them to be rapped with a freshly-cut club. he offered a trade. As a result. a lot of time and trouble was saved by swapping an ox, a few sheep, or something else of more or less value, for the dame., Thai gal probably had fewer bruises, and wasn't treated so roughly, but her pride must have been hurt when the bridegroom haggled out a particularly good bargain. Many fathers today, I imagine. look upon the old practice with jealous eyes. Sitting in a church pew.- trying to calculate by the process of mental arithmetic the cost of the wedding, gifts, recep tion, etc., father probably wishes he had something coming in. even an ox, rather than so much going out. But, because the ancient father. as still is true in some parts of the world, haggled with the pros pective son-in-law, taking advan tage of the young man's infatua tion had to "give the bride away." so today papa must walk down the aisle, stumbling over his tcet in an exaggerated dance step to mumble a few words at the preacher's direction and then get out of sight as quickly as possible until the bills come in. But now. instead of the father getting paid off, presents go to the bride end groom. Dad must pay the bills. He'd rather they'd elope and save him all the cost, "fuss and feathers." But instead the bride gets all (rand Old lluilding Klamath Falls (To the EditorV A great landmark of our com munity lies idle and gradually de teriorates. I reler to the Pelican Theater, a historic landmark which in its era brought us mag nificent entertainment, stage shows, personalities, orchestras, and other outstanding attractions. Why is this beautiful building al lowed to become useless when it still offers the greatest asset to our community? The Pelican The ater is still a beautiful, solid struc ture in spite of neglect and abandon. It offers the greatest possibility to our city for future theatrical productions and conven tions many of which by-pass Klamath Falls because of the present disgraceful condition of the grand old theater. Isn't it time that we do something for a build ing that has done so much for us? Isn't there any pride left to pre serve and revitalize the grand old Pelican for community service? So far, nothipg has been done. and future plans for the structure are uncertain. We need this build ing for the greater Klamath Basin that is now in the making. Within a few years this town will grow as large or even larger than Eu gene. We need the Pelican The ater to keep pace with that growth for the cultural and civic activities which will Inevitably increase as time goes on. A building like the Pelican will be a must in a few years, and a new structure could not begin to match it for many, many times its price. How much would it cost to acquire the Pell can? How much to restore its hidden beauty and grandeur? How much to maintain it? These are questions that should be an swered before the grand old build ing falls under the wrecker's blun dering blows. Let's organize to save the Pelican. Mrs. George Clark 2021 Lavey Street SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal The Almanac Today Is Thursday, June 11, the 162nd c . of the year, with 203 more days in 1959. The moon is approaching Us first quarter. The morning star is Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. On this date in history: In 1880. Jeanette Rankin, the first -woman elected to Congress, was born near Missoula, Mon tana. - In 1027 Charles A. Lindbergh received the Distinguished Flying Cross from President Coolidge in welcoming home ceremonies after the aviator's historic flight across the Atlantic. In 1939, the king and queen of Great Britain tasted their first "hot dogs" at a picnic given by President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1930, Ren Hogan won the United States Open Golf champi onship in a miraculous comeback after suffering near-fatal injuries in a car accident. Thought for today: from the book of Psalms: "The Lord is my light' and my salvation: whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" T? V SHERIFF! TV tfJ SHERIFF! So . A SHERIFF, iCHl tMXHOuS BAMWTS JUST IMBED TW IAKK! I . Jf.v J1 Hi SCJ ( II Of ON United Press International NEWARK. N.J. Teamsters President James R. 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The plan, demanded by an an noyed Congress, also may raise doubts about the future of the Air Force's cherished 2.000-mile-an- hour F-108 jet interceptor plane now being developed. It also was reported to give en couragement to Army proponents ot the Mke-Zeus missile being de veloped for defense against inter continental ballistic missiles. The Defense Department de layed presenting the plan to con gressional leaders today, as it had informed them it would, in order to put finishing touches on the blueprint. President Eisenhower and his top civilian and military leaders conferred for one hour and 20 minutes late Tuesday in an effort to iron out final details. interceptors. Army Nike-Hercules missiles which have SO to 100-mile range, and Air Force Bomarc missiles which have 150 to 400- mile range. NAMES ARE APPROPRIATE SAN DIEGO, Calif. vM-A venire issued in municipal court sum moned one juror named Justica and another named Innocence. 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