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PACK 2 A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Sunday. Dec. 20. 1959 Tulelake Growers Speak Out On Wafer Level Issue By CLIFF JENKINS Manager, Tulelake Grower! Association Statements appearing in some nf the news regarding the Tulelake water situation and its application to the hunting of waterfowl in the Basin have depicted the Tulelake farmer as the big man with the stick who. wants to destroy Ihe Pacific Flyway. In the lines which follow, we hope to prove that these state merits are distorted and that there is a real problem which must he worked out between all parties concerned without hysteria or pres sure and in line with sound water fowl and land use practices. We do not believe that this is primarily a problem between the sportsman and the farmer. Many times each year our farmers, many of them, assume the role ol sportsman or hunter just as the city resident who once or twice a year assembles his hunting equip mcnt and comes to Tulelake to test his skill. Many of the farmers living In Tulelake will tell you that there has been very little money made in farming lately but that the op portunity to hunt birds in their back yard each fall is one of the big Inducements which keeps them here. So the farmer is just as much interested in maintaining this valuable sport at its highest level. He looks forward to the hunting season as the time when his friends will come up and share in this sport with him. At this point the farmer-hunter becomes a guide as well as a host to the city hunter, and very often the tanner furnishes room and board, fields to hunt in, including blinds, decoys, etc. His pay, the pleasure and satisfaction of the mutual Iriendship. Both the city dweller who comes to Tulelake to hunt and the farm er who lives here among the ducks and geese and who provides con siderable amount of feed pay the same license fee for the privilege to hunt migratory birds. Both are subject to the same bag limits as prescribed by the Fish and Wildlife Service. Perhaps at times both wonder what the USFWS does with their license fees, and what the USFWS gives them in return for this license fee. Both expect the hunting to be good, and ex pect the agency taking their li cense tee money will provide the facilities for good hunting. From here on the similarity be tween these two hunters becomes somewhat different. The farmer knows that before he can get any irrigation water for next year's crop he will be required to pay a water charge of six dollars per acre, and he knows that a part of this is spent by his district in controlling the water levels in the Tulelake Sump, pumping, dike building, drainage, etc. If he is go ing to be expected to pay the cost of operating and maintaining these facilities, and some of these costs are accrued in order to provide water habitat for migratory fowl he would like to have his district considered as a full partner with the privilege to negotiate policies which maintain and operate these facilities in line with good land use and water management. The farmer and his district be- lieve that these policies should be flexible in order to meet condi tions as they develop from year to year. Operation of the sump at the present high levels prescribed by the Fish and Wildlife Service will double the farmers flood hazard and increase the operating costs to his district. For many years the elevation of the lake bottom has been building up and on several occasions the USFWS has raised the prescribed water levels in the sump as means of compensating for the gradual buildup without first con suiting with the district board and arranging to share the additional cost of operation or without con corn for the additional flood haz ards that are created. The farmer wonders how long he will be sad died with continually higher water levels to compensate for this grad ual buildup so that the hunters who use the sump as their hunting grounds may reach their favorite spot with little or no effort. The farmer believes that through bet ter management, filling in of the lake bottom could have been held to a minimum. Perhaps it is right for the Fish and Wildlife Service to take most of the credit for the good hunting ft ' ?l:k: '4 u 1 ; i y i'- Jnt-mm St " . . ; '-Ma&wtiitiini 1 ,' "r iHwtti , ' i- --mJ THE BOARD of directors of the Tulelake Growers Association at a recent meeting worked out plans for an all-out drive to recruit new members. This will be the first effort to build up membership in the association since the end of the five-year membership plan started in 1953. Since the close of that period membership has dropped 50 per cent. An increase in members is neodnd to keep the association functioning for the benefit of all Tulelake farmers. Seated is Sam Wynn, new president. Other officers and new directors are, standing, left to right, Herbert Kirby, new director from the west side; Burr is Short, George Fabianok, secretary-treasurer; Wilbur Edwards, vice president. Elner E. Olson, not present for the picture is the new director from the Coppock Bay district. Photo by Jerry Ternui U.S. Scribe To Be Tried By Tribunal HAVANA (UPD-Premier Fidel Castro announced early today that Miami Herald reporter James Buchanan will be tried by a "rev olutionary tribunal" which could sentence him. to death. In a four-hour television speech. Caslro rejected appeals from the Inter-American Press Association for the release of Buchanan, who was arrested in the hotel room of prison fugitive Austin Young. Authorities in Pinar del Rio province had asked the Supreme Court to decide whether Buchan- Flulty-Wooly Gay Colored POWDER PUFFS $1.00 - $2.00 CURRIN'S DRUGS In The Viltoge Court 840 Main an should be tried by a court martial or a civil court which could not impose the death sen tence. Castro said Buchanan will be tried on charges of complicity in Young's escape from Pinar del Rio prison a week ago Tuesday night, 3B hours before he was re captured in the hotel room where Buchanan was arrested about two hours later. The premier rejected an appeal from William Cowles, editor of the Spokane Spokesman Review and president of the IAPA, who had argued that Buchanan should be (reed because he had commit ted no crime. "How can the IAPA say from abroad that its information shows the newsman Is blameless?..." Castro demanded. "We have I J II II I.I UlUlllllllll OLDS DELIVERIES This Month! Your Choice of Model, Body Style. Color, and Accessories! Don't Settle for Less than en Oldsmobile! DICK B. MILLER CO. OLDS-CADI LLAC-Hillman 7th & Klamath Ph. 4-4154 proof of his complicity, so least they "(IAPA officials) expect is that he will be tried tins newspaper man will go before the revolutionary tribunals . . .The courts will decide accord ing to the proofs before them, and then will take corresponding ac tion. Meanwhile, they will have to wait. The premier charged that Bu chanan paid Young's hotel bill and furnished other aid to the fugitive, who had been sentenced to serve 30 years in prison for "organizing an armed anti-government conspiracy." Buchanan told army intelligence agents when he was arrested that he paid the hotel bill with money given him by Y'oung. He said the only other aid he gave the fugi tive was to buy an clastic band age for his ankle, injured in the prison break. The Miami reporter came to Havana the day after Young es caped to check a telephoned tip on his whereabouts. He inter viewed Young in the hotel room, rnd filed the story before he was arrested. Florence N'ighlingale became fa mous in the Crimean War of 18'4. Herald anb$eUr;$ Klamalll falls. Ortfon 8rvin Southfrn Oregon and Northern California PublUhrd Hall? txeept Saturday by Southarn Orpton Puhluhlna Company Main at Riplanarta Phona TUarcto 4-Atll FltANK JENKINS, Editor BIIX JENKINS. Munamnl Editor FLOYD WYNNE. CIW Editor Entarrd ai aprond data mattar at tha post offlca at KlamaUl Falls, Oralon. on August an. IttOfl, undar act of Coniraaa. Marrh 3. IS79. socond-clasa postaga paid at Klamath Falls. Oregon, and at additional mailing offlcaa. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Camar 1 Montn I SO 6 Months .. P 00 1 Yaar tltM Mall - In Advanea 1 Month I I SO Montha ... SO I Yaar . $15 00 Carrier and Dealer Week days copy ao. Sundavs. cop . loo UNITED PRrSS INTERNATIONAL, ASSOCIATED PRESS AI'DIl RI'REAtl OF CIRl TLA I ION Subscribers not rerelving delivery ol their Herald and News, plesi phone TUedo 4 Sill betor 1 PM After T P M., phone Meurtre Millar Clr eulatloa Manage at TUxedo 4-4T91 conditions 'at Tulelake. However, in the California portion, there arc 9.000 acres of public land set aside for hunting, whereas privately owned land provides some 45,000 acres of hunting area. We believe that the farmer and the private landowner is providing some of the finest and most used hunting grounds. The primary object of the Fish and Wildlife Service appears to be that of bird protection, as they plant some 2,500 acres to grain which is not open to hunting. This grain is not harvested but is left for bird feed and holds the birds in areas that are closed to hunting. The farmer further believes that the Fish and Wildlife Service could do a lot to improve hunting con ditions at Tulelake by opening up more of its land to hunting and that other portions of the refuge might be more effective for hunt ing than some of those now open. The sportsmen and farmers also question why the U.S. bag limits are continually restricted, whereas in Mexico, which is also encom passed in the Pacific Flyway, there are fewer regulations on bag limit and the commercial hunting of the birds is still practiced. The farmer-hunter would like to see the USFWS take some of his hunting license fees and use it to provide more and better hunting areas. If hunting on the Tulelake sump must be maintained, tne USFWS might also open up chan nels through the tulcs to these choice hunting areas. The farmer's costs are contmu ally rising, whereas the prices he receives for his commodities are increasing very slowly if at all. Therefore his net income has been decreasing for several years. He is therefore very much interested in having his water district and the Fish and Wildlife Service work out a division of these costs which accrue primarily for providing bet ter hunting facilities. He too wants to see good hunt ing at Tulel.'. -s and believes that his hunting license fee might be put with that of the city dweller to provide some of these things which makes for better waterfowl habitat and good hunting. A person who loves migratory waterfowl will enjoy a trip through Ihe refuge during the hunting sea son, wnen he drives mrougn tne refuge and sees the millions of birds feeding there, the farmer and hunter wonder if the water levels in the sump have really had much effect, from a disastrous stand point, on the Pacific Flyway which normally has a population of from eight to 10 million migratory birds. We are told that there was a eduction of hatch of some 13,000 birds this year on the refuge and that botulism caused another loss of 2,900 birds. These figures per haps seem quite startling at first glance but after you have figured this out mathematically, we find that it is a very small fraction of one per cent of the birds in the Pacific Flyway, actually .002 per cent of one percent. The farmer being familiar with breeding problems and fluctuations in normal losses in nature wonders if perhaps this isn't a normal situation among waterfowl just as it is in all other forms of animal lile. Then, when he is told there was a reduction in the bird hatch over the entire Pacific Flyway hatching areas, the farmer won ders if normal weather and climat ic conditions are not largely re sponsible for the smaller hatch at Tulelake also. At the time the Tulelake Irriga tion District was organized the farmer was told that his district contract specifically provides that problems pertaining to migratory waterfowl management will be worked out through negotiation and in consultation with his district It these consultations were held and the bird losses were still too great, isn't it possible that some one other than his water district made some mistakes? The farmer also wonders why Ihe USFWS insisted on raising the water level so rapidly during the nesting season, and if all of the directives issued to his district arc in accordance with the district contract? The farmer is apt to be the first one to agree that there is room for good hunting and good farming in Tulelake and that the medium through which this may be achieved is through sincere ne gotiations and bargaining between his district and the various agen cies involved. He expects his elected district officials to operate the facilities of the district in an efficient man ner in line with good water man agement which will result in the greatest agricultural economy for the Basin consistent with the terms of his contract. He also expects the representa tives of the Fish and Wildlife Service to counsel and negotiate with his district officials on mat ters pertaining to waterfowl habi tat and management. He knows that the problems per tinent to the development of the Basin which will provide for the host land use and the best mi gratory waterfowl habitat and management are very complex. that these problems can and will be worked out to the best advan tage of all, through conscientious planning and negotiation. Such ne gotiations arc best carried out in the absence of pressure groups and high emotions, and by group consideration of all tha facts. "DENNIS THE MENACE" 'UKE MB TO SHOW YA HOW TO BREAK TV? BASIN BRIEFS Burncy Guests at the home of Charles Demick last Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Salve Bue, brother- in-law and sister of Dr. Gregg Hawkins and Mrs. Demick of AI turas. Weekend Guests of the Arnold Criss family of Macdoel were Mr. and Mrs. Courtney Gordon, Duns muir. Dinner Guests Mr. and Mrs. Delmcr Criss and family of Mac doel were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Criss and fam ily, also of Macdoel. From Adin Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Archibald of Macdoel were Mr. and Mrs. Loren Van Allen, Adin. Spend Weekend Mr. and Mrs. Lee Funderburg and family of Weaverville, California, spent last weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cacka Sr., Macdoel. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Don Dysert, Macdoel, were Mr. and Mrs. Russell McFall of Tulelake, last Monday and Tuesday. Trip Mr. and Mrs. Ken Wilson, Macdoel, spent last Wednesday in Reno and Thursday at Lake Ta hoe. Hiro Moto N'amba prepared sukiyaki for Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Ross and family last Sunday. The group ate the meal Japanese style, on the floor. Additional dinner guests were Mr. and Mrs. Lester Clark. Namba is in this country on a three-year work basis from Japan. Smorgasbord Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Duncan held a pre Christmas smorgasbord last Sun day at their home in Mount He bron in honor of the Mt. Hebron Ranger Station's staff. Those pres ent were Mr. and Mrs. Lester Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoc Reames, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Arra sim, and Mr. and Mrs. Grant Longmore. All the guests were from the Macdoel and Mt. Hebron area. NEARLY UNMASKED COLUMBIA, S. C. (UPI) A little girl whose family moved here recently from the New York area had this question after pay ing a visit to a local department store Santa Claus: "If he comes from so far north, how come he's got such a southern accent?" Hollywood Men Reluctant To Play Opposite Marilyn By VERNON SCOTT L'PI Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UPD-Marilyn Monroe proved today she still has tne capacity for setting Movie land on its ear. This time it is an uproar over a leading man for her new movie. The blonde glamour girl ar rived here more than a month ago to co-star with Gregory Peck in a film modestly titled The Billionaire," since changed to "Let's Make Love." She was accompanied by hus band Arthur Miller and drama coach Paula Strasberg. Miller came along to rewrite his wife's role. Paula made the trip to keep sharp eye on Marilyn's cam era angles on the set. Peck, who had future commit ments, didn t like the idea of a rewritten script. It figured Peck couldn't help but come off second best with Marilyn's role being fattened by her own husband. Then, too, la Monroe special izes in being late. Both she and Peck began dance rehearsals, but time dragged by without a cam era cranking. Peck gave up in disgust and begged off after learning a few simple dance routines. Undaunted, Marilyn continued o rehearse her musical numbers without a leading man. Charlton Heston's name came up as a suitable co-star for the curvesome sex goddess. On sec end thought the powers that be decided a man who had played Moses in '"The Ten Command" mtnts" and the title role in "Ben Hur" shouldn't be playing lover boy to Marilyn. In a flash of boxoftice brilll. ance the brass chose Rock Hud son, beefcake king of the movies, to star with Marilyn. . But Hudson is under contract to Universal-International, and that studio bombed the project from the beginning, refusing Marilyn'i offer to star in a future picture for U-I. Those close to the scene know that Marilyn is difficult to work with. She demands and gets- retakes whenever she feels a scene isn't right. She has a tough ime remembering lines. She is chronically late. She plays the role of "movie star" to the hilt. Stars Tony Curtis and. Jack Lemmon, who worked with her in "Some Like It Hot," swear they will never appear with her iin. Director Billy Wilder, a good-natured little man, was dis traught throughout Ihe picture. They all had one compensation. The picture was a hit. ' Producer Jerry Wald, who ad mits Marilyn's new film will be at least a month late in starting, says, she is not temperamental. She's the most cooperative girl I ever worked with." Now rumor has it Marilyn may back out of the project altogeth er unless a co-star is found soon. 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