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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1959)
AGE 6 A HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. PLACES FIRST Army Pfc. Delmar D. Rodier. 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry 0 Rodgers. Route 2. Tulelake. placed first in the quarter-ton vehicle cat. cgory in the recent 35th Artillerv driver proficiency contest in Ger many. Itodgers is assigned to the 35th's Battery C in Wertheim. Hi FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLEII Circulation Mgr Ph. TU 4-4752 Subscription Rates Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 20. 1806, under act of Congress. March 8. 1879 services: Associated press united press audit bureau of circulations Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California CARRIER I MONTH f 1.50 6 MONTHS $ 9.00 I YEAR $18.00 MAIL I MONTH $ 1.50 6 MONTHS $ 8.50 I YEAR $1500 entered the Army in January, 1957 and arrived in Europe the folio ing August. He attended Tulelaki High School. Wednesday, juiy i, iwd i ' " n.j. I They'll Do It Every Time By jimmy xuu I I ' ... ; c -..we uiim THE X. S-l 77 TWIMdIS -S5 BMDotn THE FlBST UrA I I . TO GET SOU rVELL.WENCy ' -a li ict l DLiCE NOW ITS DOUBLE I JUST TAKE A COMPLETE PEST.-WpgsT.gjT do A YT on NOTHING. I But as lon6 As I was coming 7 W6EK& woon Kj-- . "S OVER TO SEE VOU, I TMOJ&WT I BETWEEW v B'&D?Vf , a YOU COULD LOOK OVER THESE A PENICILLIN M0 WHEN 2 L" LETTERS AND DICTATE ANSWERS SWOTS- TOEMBLECHlM T WISE SOME TO UAZEL HERE, SINCE VOU'RE ( ABLE JO USE A WO TREMBLE FAMILIAR vITM THESE ACCOUNTS- ELW 1 CHlh) soccer- AND THEN IF YOU'LL BRIN& I C?AsJ?T iTf OUOKINS UP TO DATE Afi WCHMAN ArZiT Look ItiM'k By BILL JENKINS I guess It is about time we got out the old black book and took a peek into last year's weather dur ing the summer month of July. According to the record it rained off and on the first day of July, 1958. Hard at times, I said then, and at others just plain mis- trable. Rotten, is the comment By the next day it was clearing alter a cloudy morning, the third was a fair day and on the Fourth of July I note a hot day. The fifth and sixth were hot but it rained again on the seventh along in the evening. The next day was clear and hot. On the ninth it was clear and hot. Note that wc drove to Red Bluff and spent the night there. Had dinner with Curly and Helen Walker at the Chryslal and found the food excellent and the weather foul beyond belief. Still in the eighties when we went in to a U.te, late steak. Went on to Sonoma the next day and spent that afternoon and two more days touring such wineries as Fountain Grove, now extinct, Schramsbcrg, Beaulieu and oth ers. The weather, at home during this tour w a s a more moderate affair. I noted on return that it was 85 degrees here on July 10 with a low of 61. On July 12th we hit Red Bluff again for dinner and the night. It was 106 degrees in the shade when we checked In at six o'clock our tinie. Here in Klamath Falls it reached a high of 85 and a low of 53 that, same day. July 13 and 14 were nice, wAim summer days. On July 15 I went With Tom Garralt and Jim Mohr on a duck brood count on the Up per Lake. A tour of some 40 or 45 miles by water around the area from Modoc Point to Agency to the Westslde, Shoalwater and back. Ai 4:30 in the afternoon we had what I describe in the hook as "a bard thunder and lightning storm followed by a heavy rain which lasted for about an hour." A gen' tie rain followed that lasted off and on all night. . The next day was muggy and hot with rain in the evening. Same thing on the 17th. The next day was hot and depressing and muggy. July 20 was hot and clear and dry. Same thing on the 21st. July 22 was hot. I took the dogs up Into the hills for a run and count ed many mountain quail. July 23 was hot. Stayed hot, too. On July 27 we went to Portland Ran into heat at Oakridgc and it got progressively hotter until we reached Portland where it was 102 downtown. Here It was 90 and low of 61. Stayed in Portland the next day and It stayed hot again. Here the temperature hit a high of 95 and a low of 62. The last three davs of the month were hot but Ihe nights and morn ings were fairly cool. Temps in the mid 80s with a drop to 57 or 58, usually, at night. And that's Ihe way the book ays the weather went last ' July. gols, the defenders cooked up a hatch nf sail peter, sulfur and charcoal and frightened their al lackers with "arrows of flying fire." Arahs copied the weapon, the Crusaders brought it back to Eur ope, where Italians discovered their exhibition quality. In 1520, when Henry VIII met Francis I on the Field of the Cloth of Gold in Northern France, the historic moment was celebrated by the appearance of a huge drag on thundering across the sky breathing fire. By the HiOO's an argument over the methods of display developed. One side built elaborate struc tures from which I hey exploded fireworks, and shrouded the meth od of firing them in secrecy. The ether school exhibited their fireworks before the show, for all to admire. While the two schools fumed over their firecrackers, lircworks crossed the Atlantic and became an American institution. At least that's the historical background supplied by Field En terprises Educational Corporation. Fire Chief Roy Rowe indicated that the area around "K" Hill will be burned off later this week so that chances of fireworks touch ing off a fire are .remote. From- "K" Hill Ihe fireworks can be easily seen by almost ev ery section of town except down on California. The spot was select ed, however, because it oflcrcd the best viewing site. Rowe and a crew of city firemen take on the chore of lighting the fireworks. Of course, it really isn't much of a chore, at least, it's a chore that every boy in town would volunteer for In their stead. But they do a fine job,' and mer it your thanks for their efforts. Fireworks By floyd l. wynne' Everything is in readiness for the Fourth of July, It will be third conserutive year . that free fireworks have been furnished to the people of Klam ath Falls and vicinity. , It began three years ago when en effort to put on fireworks by the Jaycecs failed, and it looked as though fireworks would vanish ' from the traditional July 4 scene. It was then that Mayor Law rence Slater evolved the idea of Using $500 from the license fee paid by the West Coast Carnival shows la produce the fireworks Prior to this, the money from the license fees had been rebated to the Roundup Association and other groups putting on the July . 4 Roundup. So. again this year, when the fireworks are presented at 9 p.m. on July 4, you can give thanks to (he city of Klamath Falls, and 'even more directly to West Coast . Carnival for them. ; Incidentally, a late news release gives President John Adams cred it for putting the fireworks in the Fourth of July. . It was Adams who declared that .'Independence Day "Ought to be 'solemnized with pomp and parade, ;with shows, games, sports, guns, ; bells, bonfires, and illuminations. from one end of this continent to the other, from Ihu time forward ! for evermore." ! So, from that time forward, the ! birthday of these United Slates ihas been marked by brilliant ex ' plosions of color and noise. However, the basic idra of lire 1 WOiks c we from Europeans, who sot the Idea from the Arabs who, In turn, copi "r H was In. 1232 A.D.. when a Chines city was besieged by Mon- Living Vnst By FLORENCE JENKINS Why most of us spend more money each year than we did the year before continues to be a fascinating study. Inflation and higher prices ac tually can't be blamed for at of it. The experts seem to agree that the cost of goods and products will rise during the last half of 1959 all right, but the manufacturers continue to tempt the American public with more varied and at tractive goods. Newest prognosticators to make headlines are the nation's pur chasing agents. Thirty-two per cent interviewed in a nationwide sur vey expect prices lo go up from one to two per cent; 48 per cent expect - prices to rise up to four per cent; nine per cent expect the Increase to be even greater. Higher labor costs were cited by more than 75 per cent of Ihe buyers as major reason for ris ing prices. Sure, individunl items probably will cost liiore this year, but the big jump in the over-all total ex nendilures of the year are usual ly caused by the fact that more things are bought. Convenience foods arc only one example. It costs more to pre cook and package foods than to sell them in their natural state Everyone knows that, but coin en ience foods are so easy to use. An eight-ounce box of instant mashed potatoes is much mora convenient to use than going into the basement to get a panful of potatoes out of the old-fashioned 100-pound gunny sack, then wash ing, peeling and cooking the pota toes. The toy makers are making It tough to hew to the budget line, too. Of course, there are more children, and with the Fourth of July coming up, something must be found as- a substitute for the old-fashioned fireworks. A new gadget is a toy gun which shoots soil polyethylene projectiles which won't hurt even the baby if he gets bopped on the head. The tough. lightweight , hollow spheres are about the size of ping-pong balls and are popped out of a plastic gun called the Ack-Ack. There are more gift-giving days in the year nowadays, too. And more convenient ways of giving presents. Flowers by wire and singing telegrams have long been with us. More recent are gifts-by-wire which arc available from coast to coast. ' Newest is the CandyGram. Through this service, a box of chocolates can be ordered by tele phone from Western Union and delivered any place in the United States for the cost of the candy plus telegram tolls. Even if our way of life does cost more these days, it is easier to be thoughtful and shopping is more fun, Fishy l)i.scoiirs( By NELSON REED When Isaac Walton wrote his book. Bout all you needed was a hook. A piece of string, a willow pole, And close to home, a fishing hole. In Isaac's day the silly fish Considered worms a tasty dish Or if some trout was more alert, A nice fat grub for his dessert. Alas such simple gear as that Would make no tackle makers fat. They hired an Icthyologist And then, of course, a. .publicist. They told us what the fishes thought And how they really should be caught With slick glass rods and spinning reels, And nylon lines and rubber eels. They hired some crazy artist guys To tie up gaudy looking flies And paint some iridescent plugs And dream up goofy looking bugs. They said a fish turned up his nose Unless you wore the proper clothes; At dirty shirt and ragged pants. A ( knowing fish would look askance. And how would any nice fish feel If resting in a beat up creel? To any fish that you may see, You must look like an Xmas tree. The only thing Ihey -did not tell. And that's the truth as sure 'as well, A fish's brains are very small Most fishermen have none at all. W'm JIMS GETTlMCi BEAUCOUP I SLlA r R MSI sympathy from twi Warning Corvallis (To the Editor) I wonder if other Oregonians might benefit from our experience in Mo doc County over the stale line two weeks ago. . . We were slopped by a Calilornia Highway Patrol out in the open country for speeding (62 m.p.h.) with a small open (and empty) trailer. Unknown to us the Cali lornia law, on the books, is 45 m.p.h. foe any trailer. There is no sign or indication at the border ol this situation; so, of course, it is a push-over to haul in Web foots who don't have this restric tion. No warning just pay $16 at Tulclake Justice Court (and no personal checks). , I don't quite understand this business, as fie local California drivers were continually passing us up with house trailers, boats, etc. On the return trip the same of ficer was only a few hundred yards from the Oregon line. He previously told me he preferred trading in Klamath Falls. Are wc getting a fair deal? Bruce Sawin l'.ri.i Brooklane pen to paper in a day or so and, presto: The buck in your pocket or the dollar in your bank will be in the process of shrink ing some more. This scratch of pen on paper will signify a hike in the top limit of the national debt, in this in stance a temporary bounce to 295 billions. Neither the weight nor the di mensions of your dollar or your folding money will shrink. But tneir purchasing power will shrink in terms, of beans, biscuits butler and baby shoes or in terms of anything you may buy. This is larceny on a scale greater than grand. All of the footpads and burglars of all lime plus.-; the embezzlers could not have made away with as much of Ihe citizens' money as the process of currency inflation is accomplishing. There have been ;ig and little years of currency inflation in the past 30 years or so during which the U.S. dollar has been taking a beating. The year 1II42. for example was a big one in the cycle oi cur rency inflation. The finance com mittee of the U.S. Senate calcu lates that in 1042 the dollar shrank in purchasing power by 9.1 cents. The year 1947 showed a nine-cent shrinkage. Only 4.4 rccnls were melted away from the value of the dollar in 1048 and only half a cent or less in each of the following years, according to the committee's calculations. In very recent years the inflation trend has been substantially checked but not stopped. The big, bad fact, however, is that the committee's figures show thut from an arbitrary valuation of 100 cents in the year 1039, the dollar has shrunk to 48 cents or thereabouts. In just 20 years, 1:139-59, the purchasing power of the proud U.S. dollar has gone off by upward of 52 cents. A $10 bill now in your pocket or bank is worth slightly less than $5 in terms of 1939. Where all of this will end, none can say. Especially none of the politicians in Washington who borrow . and spend the money which puts the government more in debt and requires the constant raising of the national debt cell ing. Where another 20 years like the past 20 would end, of course, can be calculated simply enough. They would end with something less than a 25-ccnt or two-bit dol lar. What that would do to per sons on a fixed income of dollars would be very rough, indeed. Based on the situation of a married couple with two children, and what this couple must earn merely to break even in 1959 is shown in the following chart in relations to their 1942 income. 1942 1959 $2,000 $.1,743 $3,000 $5,613 $5,000 . $9,233 $10,000 $18,100 The increase required lo break even ranges from 82 to 87 per cent. This is a fair measure of what high taxes and rubbery money do lo the working man, his wile, and his kids. , N.Y. Shrinking Hollar By LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON (UP!) President Eisenhower will scratch SHORT RIBS By ((nolos Uniled Press International NEW YORK - Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, welcoming members of the Lions International in con vention here: "The appeal and strength of your organization lies in your great objective of service serv ice to the communities and the world in which we live." (MEMPHlS, Tcnn.-Police Chief James C. MacDonald, explaining why police have less trouble with drunks during hot spells: "Who needs whisky? This weather would knock anybody out." unVTr.mtvnv ai9 Frank O'Neal -'ohn ratterson, on the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People: "There is no room in Alabama for such an organization. They should slay in New York where hey came from and stop kindling the Iiits of racial hatred in the South. They should do their agi tating somewhere else." 1 said. Gnr 1 r CAIRO President Carnal Ab del Nasser, reaffirming Egypt's ban on Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal: , . "We shall continue lo proceed on our course whatever the con sequences may be." DKRRY. Kni-land IfPtl Th local carnival committee, reach ing for a "new look" in beauty contests, came up with a 2-vear-old Queen. The committee said it picked Mrs. Martha Sta- ley Because 11 was lea up witn ilamor sirls interested only in I mink and money." Final Rites Set Thursday For Demo Boss, Dave Epps By THE" ASSOCIATED PRESS Funeral services will be held in Portland Thursday morning for David C. Epps, 51, chairman of the Oregon state Democratic Cen tral Committee. His physician said death result ed from arterial hemmorrhage caused by a stomach ulcer. He entered a Salem hospital Sunday alter being ill about two days. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger D Ore) Tuesday sent a telegram paying' tribute to Epps. It said, "Epps will have an enduring place in the chronicles of our state because of his un selfish and devoted service as a member of the legislative Interim Committee on Indian Affairs. which did so much to help solve the Klamath Indian Reservation question with such success. "Both in our state and in his travels to Washington, D.C., Da vid Epps made a lasting impres sion in his advocacy of a solu tion which would be fair to the Indians involved and which also would safeguard Oregon's great stake in an enduring and continu ing lumber industry. "In public life as in private life. David Epps was a sportsman who played fair and square a tribute to his greatness on the basketball court and baseball diamond, when he was one of the outstanding athletes' ever produced by the University of Oregon." In Portland, C. Girard David son, Democratic national commit teeman for Oregon, said, "Every one who knew Dave Epps will be shocked and greatly saddened by the news. Democrats in Oregon, for whom he worked with enor mous dedication all his adult life, have lost one of their strongest leaders." Epps was described by Stale Sen. Monroe Sweelland (D-Mil-waukie) as an unselfish liberal. "To Dave Epps," Sweetland said, "liberalism was a dedica tion. Only rarely in politics do men come along who seek nothing lor themselves of position, or power, or even recognition." VISIT SLATED Dr. Hcrwig Effenberg, commer cial vice consul representing West Germany, will visit Klamath Falls Friday "to learn something about your area and look over its com mercial interests." The chamber nf commerce said Dr. Effenberg, who is stationed in Seattle, will speak briefly before the Rotary Club. The Welcome Wagon Hostess Will Knock on .Your Door with Gifts & Greetings from Friendly Business, Neighbors and Your . 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