FRANK JENKINS
Editor
' BILL JENKINS
Managing Editor
FLOYD WYNNE
City Editor
MAURICE MILLER
Circulation Mgr
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Leaving
By BILL JENKINS
Vic Douglas is quitting Ihe
Klamath Basin for a new job down
in the simmering heat of Arizona.
And the Basin is going to miss
him, too.
Vic has done an outstanding job
in directing searches for lost hunt
ers and others. Not that he hasn't
done a good job of everything
else, too, but it is in the field of
searches that he will be mosl
missed.
A charier member of KASRU,
Vic has been Johnny-on-the-spot
for a long time whenever his serv
ices were needed. He had t h e
know-how: the sense of organiza
tion, the ability to handle crews
and an intimate working knowl
edge of the country hereabouts.
It all mounted up to making
him a king-sized asset. We'll miss
him. But we'll alsp wish him all
the luck in the world in his' new
job. He's going to work for Water
Engineering Company, a firm cov
ering Arizona, New Mexico, Texas
and Nevada. They specialize in
sprinkler trucks on highway and
construction jobs.
Vic's job will be that of superin
tendent, I am told that his new
boss said he was hiring a thinking
man . and didn't want to catch
Vic in working clothes.
If I know Vic that will be a dilfi
cult assignment to follow. He'll
have to be right there on the job
Anyway,, good luck Vic, and
drop us a line from time to lime
Congratulations also to John
"Meatballs" Blair ol Lakeview on
his election as Chief Whitetail of
the Order of the Antelope at their
last-week meeting.
John has been doing workhorse
duty for a long span of years as
Grand Jackass Buckaroo. And if
you think that remembering and
administering the solemn oath of
membership to the jackasses each
year isn't a chore 1 suggest that
you try it.
John has a wide acquaintance.
hip over the state and I'm sure
all his friends will rejoice with
him in his new and exalted posi
tion. Flags
By FLORENCE JENKINS .
In 11 months, when Hawaii be
comes a state .in-star Hags will
be flown across the nation.
Currently, there Is some confu
sion as to what is proper so far
as flags are concernod.
Klamath's Junior Chamber of
Commerce adopted a flag display
program which is in its second
year. Some 50 firms are partici
pating and the Jaycecs bring
around the flags and display them
on the proper flag-flying days of
the year. So far, none of their
flags has worn out, so they plan
to continue to fly the 48-star flags
they have, we are told, until July
4, 1960, when the 50-star flag is
proper.
New participants In Ihe program
will be provided with 49-star flags
in the interim.
Weyerhaeuser Timber Company,
which flies two American flags at
its Klamath Falls operation, ran
up two 49-star flags on July 4
this year. A flag lasts about three
months in daily use at the plant.
When these two 49-star lags are
worn out, the two 48-star flags on
hand will be used until they are
gone.-Then, additional 49-star flags
will be purchased In see them
through until next July 4.
American Hags, with 49 stars are
expected to become colleclors'
Items. It has been a long time
since the last change.
Forty-eight stars became the to
tal after the admission of New
Mexico and Arizona in 1912. Since
July 4, 1818. the flag has had 13
stripes, symbolizing the 13 original
states. '
No law designates the permanent
arrangement of the stars. When
a new state is admitted lo the
union, a new pattern Is authorized
by executive order. No star in
the Hag is specifically identified
with any stale. By law, a new
star is added on the July 4 follow
ing the admission of a new stale
Adding two stars in two years
will probably have a tendency to
make Americans more conscious of
their flag and their country.
Carry (rant
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK (API-Cary Grant
has become a symbol nt suave
certainty and self-assurance In
millions of movie-goers.
.They might be surprised to
learn what his biggest interest is
when he isn't facing the cameras
It's self-improvement! .
"I'm interested in any kind of
fit improvement," said Grant
who rose from a slllt-walker and
Coney Island barker lo become
Entered as second class matter at the post oflice at Klamath Falls.
Ore., on August 20. 1906, under ad of Congress. March I. 1879
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a constant search for himself, j
'You go from one plateau to
another," he said, "if a man ev
ery five years faithfully put down
hir views of life, love and the
world, at the end ol 20 years he
would find a frightful mass of in
consistencies.
"People cannot stay the same.
They change every second. They
can't even stay the same in out
ward appearance."'
The tall, handsome actor, visit
ing here, has learned one thing
for sure about himself. Some 57
films in 33 years have given him
no appetite for tragic parts. He'll
leave Hamlet to others.
'You can make people cry very
e,sily," he remarked. "But it is
much harder to make them laugh.
"Yet that is always what I
wanted to do. I still do. 1 love
my business, and I shall keep on
doing it.
"If I can make people laugh.
that s enough. It docs some
good."
Grant is convinced that what
delcats most people is "their own
egoes which too often imprison
them from new steps lo knowl
edge. The biggest problem in the
way of selfiimprovement is the
ego one's unwillingness to admit.
even to one's self, one's own ig
norance.
You can never accomplish any-
Ihing if you worry too much
about staying in the same place.
'Like a ship, you can't stay at
Ihe same rotting pier. You have
to go out into the harbor."
What is the basic rule for self.
improvement? Cary gave this an
swer:
"First, you have In learn how
to learn. You have to learn how
to concentrate without distraction
and how lo apply the results of
your concentration in any field of
endeavor you choose."
Asked what had been the big
gest handicap in his own self-im
provemcnt campaign, Grant sud
denly dropped his serious look,
and replied smiling:
"Running off at the mouth. If
I had any true wisdom, 1 wouldn't
have need to talk about it to con
vlnce you or myself."
While IIoiim Nolcs
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI While House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI I Back
stairs al the While House:
The people around President
Eisenhower speak admiringly of
ihe detachment wilh which he can
view a crisis and a new one
seems to come over his desk with
increasing frequency these days.
On the other hand, this same
detachment can produce appre
hension in others ' who come
steaming to the White House with
a burning problem and find him
somewhat unimpressed. . : -
The study of his reaction to
crisis becomes further compli
catcd when he seems lo blow up
over something inconsequential
a bad golf shot, a minor malper
foimance by some subordinate,
scalding coffee or the weather.
Actually, the detachment to
ward major matters, according to
those with an opportunity for first
hand knowledge, stems from his
days as a military, commander,
He could not afford In those days
lo be whirled into excitement
when he was moving tens of
thousands of men into battle.
Thus, when the world seems to
come tumbling down in these
days of the cold war, the Presi
dent tries to play It cool.
If (here Is a White House staff
member mentally packing his
bags in the hope of a nice late
summer vacation on the seashore
with the President, here's a piece
of kind advice unpack. .
The President really meant II
Ihe other day when he wrote the
mayor of Newport, R.I.j lhat he
didn t dare think of vacation
plans. If and when Congress ad-
joiirns. and If and when there Is
SHORT RIBS
lilllii Bii
a summit meeting, it probably
will leave Eisenhower no time at
all for anything but some week
ends on the farm at Gettysburg.
Eisenhower believes that if he
went to Dennison, Tex., his birth
place and sat around in a social
bull session with such ardent
Democrats and fellow Texans as
Speaker Sam Rayburn and Sen
ate Majority Leader Lyndon B.
Johnson, the three of them would
not be far apart on most issues.
Before this great meeting of
minds could take place, however,
Ihe President concedes that Ray
burn and Johnson would have to
be retired from public life, too.
And he doesn't expect that will
happen by the time he's ready
to step out of office in January,
1961.
Had Spot
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON (API - The
United States is in a terribly bad
spot on Berlin. That is the essence
of a gruesome picture painted this
week by President Eisenhower.
At a dinner with White House
correspondents he frankly talked
of this country's huge difficulties
in trying lo help the 2'i million
West Berliners if the Communists
decide to try to shut them off
from the West.
He didn't say anything the Rus
sians don't know already. Yet, to
understand what he said is to un
derstand the American dilemma
dealing with the Russians at
Geneva. The foreign ministers'
meeting there began May 11.
The solemn Eisenhower state-
ments on Berlin and their im
plications explain why the Rus
sians started this trouble in the
first place and why they are be
ing so tough about it.
That trouble can be stated
simply: West Berlin, whose alleg
iance is to West Germany, is 100
miles inside Communist East Ger
many. This Western outpost, deep
in Red territory,-has been a pain
to the Soviet Union since World
War II, :
Soviet Premier .Joseph Stalin
tried to grab the city in 1948 by
blockading all ' Western supplies
lhat moved to Berlin by train or
truck. This was easy, since they
had to move through Communist
run country.
President Truman could have
tried a shoot-through. It mieht
have meant war. Instead, he
smashed the blockade by supply
ing Berlin through a giant airlift.
The Russians refrained from shoot
ing down American planes. That
would have been war.
Stalin dropped the land block
ade. It apparently had been a
testing maneuver to see if the
West would give up the city with
out a struggle. He himself then
was in a poor position to go all
the way including war.
The United States then had an
atomic-bomb monopoly. For in
years the Russians dropped their
attempt but not their desire to
gobble the city. They used that
lime to build up strength: atomic
and hydrogen bombs and missiles.
Now they're probably equal in
atomic strength, apparently ahead
in missiles, and far ahead in
ground-force strength. So Stalin's
successor, Premier Nikita Khrush
chev, picked up where the old man
left off. .
Last Nov. 27 Khrushchev order
ed' Ihe Western Allies to get their
troops out of Berlin, and implied
the city might be cut off from ac
cess to the West If they remained.
But the presence of the troops
is important as visible evidence
(o the West Berliners that they
have Allien protection and sup
port. The West refused to remove
the troops.
Why is Ihe West so concerned
about anything Khrushchev says
lan i a new airuit smash a new
blockade, just as in Truman's
time?
The answer lies in Eisenhower's
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statements this week, since the So
viet Union today is in far better
position to risk a showdown with
the West than in Stalin's time just
11 years ago. This is the picture
ar hisenhuwer painted it:
He said if there is a new Ber
lin blockade he believes the
tactical military position of the
Western Allies would be just about
as poor as possible.
He feels that even passive resis
tance on Ihe part of the Com
munists would jeopardize the Al
lies' land routes Jnto Berlin and
lhat Red jamming of Western ra
dar would make a mass airlift
very difficult.
The President said a new block
ade would be much tougher to
crack than the one 11 years ago.
He feels, he said, the Allies could
not supply West Berlin with
enough of the raw materials its
economy needs.
Yet what he didn't say al
though it is clear enough is this:
The United Slates can't stand
idly by and see Berlin lost with
out jeopardizing the entire West
ern alliance whose members' con
fidence in their combined will to
resist the Soviet Union would he
sadly damaged if not destroyed.
The Almanac
United Press International
Today is Thursday, July 23 the
204th day of the year, with 161
more days to follow in 1959.
The moon is approaching its
last quarter.
The evening stars are Jupiter,
Saturn, Venus and Mars.
On this date in history:
In 1829, William Burt re'eeived
a patent for his "typographer,"
claimed to be the first typewriter
in history.
In 1886, New York saloon keep
er Steve Brodie said he jumped
off the Brooklyn Bridge; thus giv.
ing birth to the slang expres
sion, "pulling a Brodie."
In 1904, the ice - cream cone
was born.
In 1914, Austria followed up the
assassination of the Archduke
Francis Ferdinand with a series
of harsh demands on Serbia.
In 1942, Private Marion Har
grove published Ihe immediate
best seller, "See Here, Private
Hargrove."
In 1947, President Harry Tru
man took the Senate by surprise
by taking the scat he held as
senator from Missouri. Mr. Tru
man said, "I sometimes get home
sick for this seat."
Thought for loday: Congress
man Willard Duncan Vandiver
id, "I am from Missouri. You
have got to show me."
Quotes
United Press International
MOSCOW Vice President Rich.
ard M. Nixon, arriving at Mos
cow wilh his wife to open the
American Exhibition and start an
11-day tour of Russia:
"Every day we spend in this
country we shall work wholehearl
edly to help creale a climate of
better understanding in which the
policy diflerences of governments
will not separate or bring into
conflict our two peoples.
DENVER Gov. Earl Long of
Louisiana, after being told the
Air Force is investigating the pos
sibility he is misusing an Air Na
tional Guard plane on his trav
els through the Southwest and
West:
"I was never in lhat plane
borne senators and representa
lives and police captains have used
it. That damn thing was i
wreck."
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Eighteen.
year-old Harold Aldridge, who
never went past the ltth grade,
explaining why he posed as an in
tern in Memphis hospitals for the
past year:
"I always wanted to be a doc.
or."
WEST COVINA, Calif. - Police
Chief Allen Sill, who arrested Dr,
Bernard Finch in Las Vegas Sun
day for the slaying of Finch's
wue. speamng oi tne missing
murder gun: '
"I wouldn't be surprised if we
flew over.it when we went to Las
Vegas Sunday."
WASHINGTON - Former Army
Sergeant Joseph C. Bagwell,
charging lhat he did more serv
ant duty for a general's wife than
for the general while assigned as
an orderly:
"I think I contributed very Ut
ile lo the military effort."
TAOS. N.M. Louisiana Gov
Earl K. Long, to a doctor whose"
wile recently 'died:
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Schedule Revise Planned
For On-To-Oregon Wagpn
SALEM (AP) A revised
chedule for the On-To-Oregon
wagon train was announced Wed
nesday by Dick Smith, Rosehurg.
chairman of the corporation spon
soring the trip from Independence
Mo., to Independence, Ore.
Smith said the train, which en
tered Oregon Tuesday, would
wind up its trip at Independence
Aug. 14, a day earlier than orig
inally scheduled.
Smith said the route would
make -some deviations from the
original Oregon Trail.
Here is the schedule: '
July 23: Jamieson
July 24:, Huntington
July 25: Durkee
July 26: Durkee (A Sunday day
of rest).-
July 27: Baker
July 28: North Powder
July 29: La Grande
July 30: Fletcher's Meadow (19
miles northwest of La Grande on
New Highway 30 1.
July 31: Holpuck Farm '19
miles .northwest of Fletcher's
Meadow, on Highway 30'.
Aug. 1: Pendleton
Aug. 2: Pendleton (Sunday day
of rest I.
Aug. 3: Umatilla Ranch (on M
M Cattle Ranch, 22 miles west
of Pendleton on Highway 30).
Aug. 4: Boardman,
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Aug. 5: Heppner Junction
. Aug. fi: Blalock
Aug. 7: Biggs
Aug. 8: The Dalles
Aug. 9: The Dalles (Sunday day
of rest).
Aug. 10: Leave the Dalles by
Inland Navagalion Co. barge lor
11-12 hour trip to Willamette Park
near Sellwod Bridge in Portland.
Train will camp that night in
Willamette Park.
Aug. 11: Hillshoro
Aug. 12: Amity (Probably via
Dundee).
Aug. 13: Rickreall
Aug. 14: Independence
Smith said that cities planning
welcoming ceremonies should re-
member that the schedule might
be changed.
"This is not a scheduled air
line or train. It is a wagon train
subject to accident or breakdown
at any time," he said.
GERMAN ENVOYS MEET
BEIRUT (UPD-West: German
ambassadors to the Middle East
gathered here today to discuss
Communist East Germany's eco
nomic penetration of the Arab
world. The meeting was being
presided over by West German
Foreign Office. Secretary Herbert
Dittman who came here from an
official visit to Iraq.
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ROSEBURG (AP) Persons
entitled to veterans preference
may lease land in 29 tracts of
Orecon and California Railroad
lands 25 miles east of Rosemirg
the Bureau of Land Management
announced today.
The tracts along the Susan
Creek near the North Umpqua
River are from a quarter to half
an acre in size, and may be used
for homesites.
The BLM said plats showing Ihe
location of Ihe tracts are avail
able at the Roseburg district
manager's office.
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NEW YORK (API - A le.
age boy fired a shotggn into i
Bronx crowd Wednesday night,
wounding five children and a man.
He was shot to death minutes later
by an off-duty policeman.
Police said the boy, Carlos" (to.
sario, 18. had fought the night he. .
fore in Crolona Park with Tommy '
Lee Allen, 23, a Negro. The pair
met again Wednesday night. Ro.
sario produced a shotgun, and Al.
len ran.
Rnsario chased Allen and fired
at him in a crowd. The pellets
struck Allen in the left leg and :
sprayed five boys ' whose ages ' '
range from 7 to 11.
In his apartment nearby. Pa."
Irnlman Walter W: Dnwnt 30 . u
Negro, heard the blast. He jumped '
iid from the dinner table and rush. .
ed to the street.
Downs told authorities he order.
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shotgun. He said the boy lifted the '-
gun aiiu uiiiicu, anu uuwus snoi
him down before he could fire.''
Allen and the five boys were
taken lo a hospital. They wer
not in serious condition.
The five boys are Nelson Pagan,
7: Raymond Burgus, 8; Robert .
bell, 10; and Jose Cordona, 11, ,.
City Reservoir
Still Brim Full
PORTLAND ,AP) The city's .
Bull Run Reservoir, despite tha -
nrain ni nni wecunei . sun it. near
ly brim lull. -
Water enaineers said Tuesday '
areas are tne resuu oi inaaequate .
local facilities, and not the supply, v
cull nun nesei vun is uuwn uniy .
1.8 feet from the lop level of 10
billion gallons oespite araws av. ;
eraging up to 187 million gallons -a
day. Still untapped is an added
four billion gallons in Bull Run v
Lake.
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