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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1959)
SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1959 taEKAtb AND NKWS. KLAMATH FALLS OREGON PAOE FIVE Ink Factory Out Of Red By HENRY MINARD LIMA, Peru UPI) Reginald . "Pinky" Santos, 27, twisted the cap on the" 259.200th bottle of ink sighed and said: "We're not able to keep up with the demand." A few months ago, the Peru vian government hiked import du ties 200 per cent on many items including writing ink. Local firms representing foreign companies faced the prospect of sharply re duced incomes. Some would prob ably have to pull out altogether. An old story in several Latin American countries. Pinky's dad, Richard, had come to Lima -from the United States 29 years' ago to represent U.S. firms. selling perfume, milk, tissue, ink, pens and a variety of other prod ucts. He read the news of the high er tariffs- sadly and huddled with his sons, Pinky and Cornelius, 28, both graduates of the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Military Academy. Dad Santos picked Pinky to find out how the U.S. ink they'd been selling was brewed and then to import the basic ingredients. Cor nelius was assigned to go out and solicit business. The father retired to the sidelines. Today, in the rear of the Santos' downtown office, building, there's the craziest maze of vats, rubber tubes, boxes and bottles and la bels. ink in five colors fills big kegs on a makeshift mezzanine. Each has been blessed by a priest and the kegs are named "Delilah "Neptune," "Sputnik," Atlantis," 4Tarzan." Hoses snake down to girls who pinch and release, pinch and release the flow as bottles are ha.nd-pushed beneath. Anothoe girl slaps on labels, still - another .screws on caps, another boxes, a boy loads, and another truckload is on its way to (he ' provinces. ; Overseer of the opera tion is Pinky, a bearded giant more colorful than his name ; stained from head to foot. "We're selling this ink for less than before the new duties," he said, and he and Cornelius want their father to open a modern plant to handle the growing tide of orders, totalling 750.000 two-ounce bottles in one recent week alone. Quart and pint orders run into hundreds of eases. "Pinky can't keep up with the orders I bring in," complains Cor nelius good-naturedly. Says Richard: "A millionaire American perfume exporter looked in the back office at the ink opera tion. 'How primitive,' he said. 'You're ages behind the times.' True. But it's better than quit ting. "Before the increases, I got 10 oer cent commission for the ink I sold. Now we pay the United Statss company 10 per cent of the wholesale price for use of t h e name. Eeveryone's benefitted. "Fewer United States dollars leave Peru but the ink company continues to profit and we have improved the local economy and safeguarded . the Santos income." " IT ISN'T THE' WHEAT EAST LANSING, Mich. (UPI Homemakers' quiz: What is the cost of wheat in a loaf of bread? Slightly under three cents, or 2.5 cents to be exact, says John Moore, extension specialist at Michigan . State University. " Big gest expenses In getting bread to market are costs of baking, whole saling and" -retailing. In spite of recent increases in the price, ot things consumers buy will average from one to two per cent higher in. 1?5 titan they did in 1958, ac- cording to agricultural economists at Michigan State University. Seeing Niagara NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (UPI) The deep chasm- that forms mighty Niagara Falls and the Whirlpool Rapids has been a chal lenge to man since the Indians first laid eyes on its majestic beau ty. Through the years, hundreds of daredevils hoping to conquer this natural phenomenon one way or another have been lured to this border city nestled in the north west corner of New York Slate facing Canada. Some died for their efforts; otli ers achieved undying fame. But the greatest Niagara Falls performer of them all was Jean Francoi Gravelet, who, under the name of Emile Blondin, was once tne world's greatest tightrope ar tist. Just 100 years ago, this slim son of Napoleon's military heroes defied death many times high above the turbulent Niagara and lived to tell every thrilling mo ment of it. In fact, when he did die, it was quietly, in bed. Even before coming to Niagara Falls in the spring of 1859, Blon din had long thrilled European crowds with his tricks on the ropes. Feeling keenly - Niagara's challenge, he brought along his family and his able manager, Har ry Colcord of Chicago, and set tied down as a resident of what was then a mere village. Blondin made his preparations carefully. He even purchased and helped put up the tightrope on which he would perform. Then on June 30, 1859, he ventured out for the first time on the swaying line, stretched between the Ameri can .and Canadian banks some 180 feet above the Niagara River. . Blondin was the first of many tightrope walkers to try the feat but for sheer courage, he was never duplicated. Performing twice a week before crowds of 25, 000 and 30,000 extremely large for those days he left his audi ences limp with the audacity of his tricks. The rope, with many guys and a special winch to keep it taut, was installed almost midway be tween the present Rainbow Bridge and the lower bridges, perhaps a mile below the cataract itseif. Husband-Wife Talk Studied ITHACA, N.Y. (UPD-When a man and his wife hold a conver sation, what do they usually talk about? According to a recent study, it all depends on how old they are and how long they have been married.' A doctoral dissertation by a Cor nell University graduate student, Samuel Deitchcr, furnished these results: Couples in the first stage of mar ried life before there are any children spend more time talk ing with each other 'than those married longer. They discuss "subjective subjects" such as per sonal feelings, sex, religion and their plans, Deitchcr said. Couples in the middle stages those with at least two children- are not quite so happy about com munications between them. Their talks tend to center on family tasks when the children are in fants and pre-schoolers. Once the kids grow up, the talk shifts to social and community topics. The veterans of marriage those who have been married 25 years or more find their conversations more satisfying than those m the middle groups but they are not quite as content with their talks as are newlywcds. The older couples talked least with one another, not quite an hour a day, and usually discussed friends and community activities By Tightrope Blondin walked, pranced, ran.i turned somersaults, walked back- wards, sat down, lay down and ne- gottaiea tne nign wire witn Das-i kets on his feet. He even walked across the chasm on stilts. Blondin, well liked by his neigh bors, spent the winter in Niagara falls and was back at his old tricks the next summer. The Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and former president Millard Fillmore were among those who lined the banks on either side of the river to watch him. His tricks included holding a hat out at arm's length while John Travis, a local sharpshooter on the "Maid of the Mist" boat be- iuw, iui a uuuet uiiuugu iv. nil-. I.., lint thiwiinh it An. utnei leui was iu luwct a iiihk on a string to the boat and then, after pulling the mug back up, drink the water out of it. He also walked across with a wheelbarrow and ate his lunch at midstream, . cooking himself an omelet on a small griddle he car ried. Only once did death come close. Blondin offered to carry someone across the chasm on his back. Nobody volunteered and finally his manager, Colcord, agreed. Gamblers on both sides of the border were wagering the pair never would make it across, and they, almost collected. Too much slack in the rope exhausted Blon din. He stopped and asked Col cord to get down. Colcord had no experience on the high-wire but he obeyed. Slip ping down Blondin's back, he grasped the letter's hips and wait ed. Once Blondin's strength re turned, the little manager scram bled back up to his perch on his shoulders and the pair made it to safety. Colcord often said later that he trembled and broke out in a cold sweat whenever he thought of that harrowing experience. Many wire walkers followed Blondin but they were rank ama teurs by comparison. Harry Les lie was the first in 1865. Then Signor Ballini arrived, adding zest to his act by jumping into the water from the cable, using a rub ber gadget to make sure he land ed feet first and remained up right. On the third jump Ballini took a little loo long to bob up to the surface again. That was that. A woman. Maria Spellerini, per formed on the high rope in 187U but hers was a very proper and ladylike act. She made one of her trips with baskets on her feet, one of Blondin's old tricks. Samuel J. Dixon, who later called himself "Daring Dixon, was an impetuous daredevil. ' En route from Toronto to a photo graphers' convention on Septem ber 6. 1890, he noticed a rope stretched across the chasm. In a few hours, Dixon was out on the rope putting on a performance right good for an amateur. . Steve Peere was pretty good too but no Blondin. On a six-inch rope between the lower bridges, Peere performed creditably for several weeks. Then, one morning, search ers found his crushed body on the rocks at the base of the Canadian precipice. The general theory was that Peere, spurred on by several beverages too many, had attempted a crossing in the dead of night and had lost his footing. Then, there were the daredevils who tried to go over the Canadi an, or Horseshoe, cataract in a barrel. Six persons, including one woman, attempted the ' death-defying plunge and three lived to tell about it. 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