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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 6 A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. 'Sunday, January 10, 1960 FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph. TU 4-4752 Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 20. 1906, under act of Congress. March 8. 1879 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California Subscription Rates CARRIER I MONTH $ 1.50 6 MONTHS $ 9.00 I YEAR J18.00 MAIL, I MONTH S 1.50 6 MONTHS $ 8.50 I YEAR ..- S15.00 P's ami F" By FLOYD L. WYNNE When someone tells you to mind your p's and q's, you know ex octly what they mean. At least, in my mind it always has meant watch what you're do ing, pay attention, and other ad monitions along this line. But, my inquiring mind took (his Old trite bromide one step further the other day. What does the p and the q stand for in p's and q's? IT WOULD SEEM to be a sim ple thing, easy to look up. But it wasn't. First I checked to see if I was the only one dwelling in ignorance On the subject. I asked a dozen people, and hile everyone knew what the phrase meant, they would only speculate as to what the p and q actually stood for. I soon had everyone wondering the same thing, and a search be gan of almanacs, encyclopedias, books on famous quotations and stcrs were skating nightly at the Moore Park rink. Ice skating is equally popular with adults, he added. When the dogs' drinking water freezes solid at our house, we have always maintained that water would freeze at the city rink. It is extremely gratifying to drive past the rink and see that Al Knowles and George Price agree. They are to be complimented on providing the first good skating here in three years. Of course, the weatherman has been on their side, too. American slang and others. I phoned the city library, also. One particular book gave me host of information, but nothing about this phrase. It is called "Information Roundup" written by George Simpson. It told me how "stuffed shirt" originated, which came first the hen or the egg, why rice is thrown at newly married couples and where the habit of chewing 'gum Originated. 1 also found out why the wed ding ring is worn on the third fin gor, how the holes are put in macaroni, why cows are milked from the right side, why Irish men are called trucks, why a watch Is called a turnip, and a hundred other things. But I could not (ind out what the p and the q meant, ' FINALLY, a call from the city library gave me the answer. The answer proved to be two fold. A dictionary ot slang sur mised that the p's and q's collo quialism, first originated in the schoolroom when children had trouble distinguishing between "p and "" since they bolh have tails, and are sometimes written iden tically, but reversed. The saying was attributed to a llrs. II. Cowley as early as 1779, She said, "You must mind your p's and q's." Going back over the many sug gestions I had had during the day, I had to commend Virginia Fuller, our correspondent editor, because she had guessed earlier that this is what it meant. However, the same dictionary also surmised that p's and q's could have originated another way. It speculated that P meant pint and Q meant quart, and that the phrase might have meant one must exercise care to avoid over charge or undercharge in the pur tuit of business. NOW, IF SOMEONE will tell me what the "Sam Hill" means in the old phrase "What the Sam Hill?" I'll be obliged. I '!-k. ' Addicts By SAM DAWSON AP Business News Analyst NEW YORK (AP)-Americansl are becoming package addicts at a snowballing rate. And the var ious segments of the container in dustry expect to get consumers even more attached to packaging this year and decade. The use of containers, the De partment of Commerce records show, is growing 16 per cent faster than the nation s total dollar vol ume of goods and services. And packaging consumption is growing lasier man tne population, which takes some doing. The growing demand of con sumers for convenience packaging of an increasing number of prod ucts sparks the manufacturers to try new materials and new proc esses. New packages reached store shelves last year in greater volume than any previous year. The packaging industry is now estimated to be doing a 10-billion-dollar annual sales business. Carl R. McGowen, president of Owens - Illinois Glass, thinks a record 23 billion glass bottles and jars will be produced this year, a six per cent gain over last. Some eight billion of the bottles and jars will hold baby foods, salad dressing, preserves, jellies, catsup, chili sauce, pickles, olives, honey and instant coffee. R. K. Turner, president of Union Carbide's plastics division, says that industry should turn out 6'4 billion pounds in 1960, com pared with i'h billion last year 1 and 1V4 billion In 1950. A sizable proportion will be used for pack aging industrial and consumer products. Just making machinery for packaging has become a 200-miI- lion-dollar annual business, ac cording to Modern Packaging magazine. It sees a demand for a machine to turn out 300 or more packages a minute. Among the container rivalries that will grow hotter this year, it says, are the battles between glass, tin and aluminum cans, aerosols, high-density polyethy lenc bottles, squeeze tubes, folding cartons, bollable paper pouches, transparent films, metalized paper and stretchable paper. The last already is a factor in the multiple bag field. Recent developments cited in clude additional materials for thermo-forming; automatic form ing, tilling and sealing machines; stretched vinyl film card packag ing; and a new cold forming method for making transparent toldmg cartons or trays. Ice Skills By FLORENCE JENKINS A survey of retail outlets in Klamath Falls shows that approx imately 1,185 pairs of skates have been sold here sinco the middle of December. Except for a few scattered in atanccs of small sizes, that is all Oie skates there were in town, too One store reported its entire Stock of 275 pairs was sold out in three days after the cold spell hit. The slock had been held over because there wasn't a day of skat tng last winter. The same store reports three peirs of water skis were sold that same week, to three individual purchasers: Shows the versatility of our people, certainly. One store manager bought up seine used skates and sold out all HO pairs pronto. He sold all the new ones in stock, too. One enterprising store manager got on the telephono and ordered skates from Chicago and hopes the shipment of 66 pairs in a vari ety of sizes will arrive in town today for sale this week. The mail order and catalogue departments report a terrific business" because they were able to take care of a lot of orders when the town ran out of skates. "Another thousand pairs o( skates could have been sold in town in the last month," one store i manager lamented. "When we had Uiem, there wasn't any skating and now we can't get any more in time for this season." George Price, park and recrea tion director, said that as many as 800 youngsters were skating one weekend afternoon on the la goon at the lake where he had nrovided supervision for their safe ty. Three and four hundred young- I'arlous Tiuips By SAUL PETT NEW YORK (AP) - These are nileed parlous times. A whole way of life may be in jeopardy. A culture, an economy, a philosophy, an entire set of cus- oms, habits and values may shortly be shattered. Why? the Internal Revenue Bureau says that this year it will exam- ne more closely than ever before deductions for business entertain ment, trnvel and other expenses. J his may be the beginning of the end of the age of the expense iiccouni. consider what micht happen if the government sudden ly began to disallow many of the ncome tax deductions it now ac cepts. The liquor industry would re ceive its worst jolt since Carry Nation picked up her hatchet and went parly-pooping. Credit cards, now such handy proof for the tax collector, might easily disappear and be replaced by that ancient gauche, germ-ridden thing called cash. Remember cash? At least a hundred famous res taurants around the country where people come to be seen de spite or because of the outrageous prices, nightmarish decor and mediocre food, might have to shut down and be replaced by super markets or pizza parlors. In the big cities, the big black limousines rented by visiting busi ness men would revert to their or iginal function funerals. Many private and corporate yachts, only yesterday the scene of lavish and deductible business entertainment, would begin rusting at their moor ings, Private and corporate air planes, whose fuel was the ex-. pense account, would be grounded. Country club memberships would go begging for people will ing to pay for their own. Head waiters would find smaller tips in their palms and the age of the deductible grand gesture would end; Americans once more would return to the ways of their fore- thors and start outfumbling each other for the check. It might even make waiters civil. Once more Americas would ac quire an old-fashioned respect for money because the money they will be spending will be their own, not Uncle Sam's. There will be more wives cook ing their own dinners and more men going on the wagon rather than break the habit of a lifetime and start buying their own. The theater would suffer, night clubs would be staggered and baseball fans would suddenly replace out of town buyers in the corporate boxes at the World Scries. And on Madison Avenue, desola tion. The four-martini, three-hour lunch would disappear. Young men in gray flannels would dme out on park benches salami sandwiches out of handtooled Mor occan leather attache cases. at a rate of more than one billion dollars a month. From June 30, last when the I960 fiscal year began, until year-end, the national debt in creased by more than eight billion dollars, that represents the mar gin to scratch up enough to pay his government's bills. This mar gin probably will shrink during the final six months of the fiscal year. The trend is obvious, how ever, despite the taxpayer's heroic efforts. The Treasury has been in the red in 24 of the past 30 years. The national debt in 1J29 was just short of 17 billion. It is more than 290 billion dollars today. The annual interest charge on this debt is more than it used to cost before World War II to run the entire government for a year. This does not reflect any lack of effort by the taxpayers. They put up ' in the first six months of the fiscal year nearly 40 bil lion dollars, a record contribution. Higher taxes seem to be the only rational way to meet the problem. It would not be rational to suggest that government costs might be reduced by eliminating waste, extravagant projects and such. The politicians will not do that because the taxpayer-voter does not demand that the politician do so or lose his job. looMfing Taxes By LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON (UPI) The year-end Treasury figures further establish a fact to which govern ment must face up soon or gov ernment may go broke. The fact is this: The U.S. lax- payer cannot support the govern ment in the style to which it is accustomed unless tax rates are increased. The mere thought of increasing taxes in an election year is enough to panic the politicians. An election year, however, is the only occasion on which the tax payer-voter has a real chance to inlluence the politicians who seek his vote. So this presidential year offers the taxpayer-voter his chance to demand from the poli ticians an accounting and an ex planation. Either taxes must go up to meet the costs of government or government costs must come down inside the limits of revenue aised by the present tax rates. hose are the alternatives to an other generation or so of budget deficits, ever higher living costs, debasement and devaluation of the dollar. On the long haul, these un questionably are the alternatives to national bankruptcy or, at best, a currency inflation which would so rot the dollar that a single cigarette would be a more wel come tip than paper money in a first class hotel. The year-end Treasury figures reflect revenue and spending dur ing the 'first six months of the current fiscal year. The bad, sad news is this: In those six months the government went 'nto the hole The ' Almanac By United Press International Today is Sunday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of the year, with 356 more days hi I960. The moon is approaching its full phase. The morning stars are Mars, Venus and Jupiter. On this day in history: In 1737, Ethan Allen, revolution ary hero and leader of the "Green Mountain Boys" was born. In 1861, Florida seceded from the Union. In 1901, the striking of oil in Beaumont, Texas, marked the start of the great Texas oil boom. In 1917, William (Buffalo Bill) Cody, frontier scout and show man, died. In 1920, the 'league of Nations came into bei'ig as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect. In 1928, Leon Trotsky, one of the chief architects of the Soviet Union was ordered into exile by the Communist Politburo. In 1946, the V. N. General As sembly held its first meeting in London. A thought for today Part of the charter of the United Nation reads "We, the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourage of war affirm faith in fundamental human rights. . ." irl Found In Alley VENICE, Calif. (AP) - Terry Cromer, 10, was upset because her mother spanked her for neglecting homework. So she skipped school Wednes day and stayed overnight at a girl friend's house. Mrs. Johnnie Cro mer, 28, her mother, called police An all-night search began. Thursday Terry was found lying in an alley, apparently uncon scious. Mrs. Cromer, a divorcee, took Terry to the hospital. A doctor suspected a hoax. He mentioned something about giving her shot." Terry came to quicker than you could say imposter. First she said she had been kidnapped. Then she admitted she skipped school. Terry and her mother hugged and departed. SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal 7WAT$FCR ( ( TAKE. A PEEK. ) 1 i i j . v:" v i BEANS! AGAIN! V MAKE UP VOIR ( MIND! USTVKEH oOWfD WtiSU Quo! cs By United Press International WASHINGTON - A key U.S. space authority commenting on the announced new Soviet rocket tests: "I would be extremely alert, starting right now, for news that the Russians had put a man in a rocket. LOS ANGELES Dr. Gerald Ridge in reply to a question on the so-called do-it-yourself mur der kit in the Finch murder trial: 'One could speculate on a thou sand ways a person could kill an other with the items in this bag." WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Agency in limiting but not prohibiting alcoholic drinks to be served on planes: "No facts support the conten tion that serving alcoholic bever ages to passengers constituted a safety hazard." CHICAGO - Mrs. Ethel Krue ger, manager of the Chicago Anti Cruelty Society oltice, expressing regret that a doe that wander ed into the city died from exhaus tion after fleeing police. "It was scared to death of the people. They didn't understand and were scared of it. Why when things are frightened of one an other do they always not understand?" WASHINGTON - Rep. John S. Monagan ID-Conn.) stating he will introduce a bill requiring party conventions to be held no more than 60 days before the election in order to shorten the campaigning: 'It seems to me the people get tired of it. They can take so much and that's about, all." Dems Square Off In Montana Race HELENA, Mont. (AP) Rep. Leroy H. Anderson, 53, serving his second term in the U.S. House, will oppose Sen. James H. Mur ray, 83, for the Democratic nom ination for U.S. senator from Montana. Murray, who has served in the Senate 25 years, announced last week he would seek renomination in the 1960 primary. Anderson an nounced Thursday that he would be a candidate. Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo When pop put up the basketball lavout for little igloo.he didn't want it near the garage SO WHERE DO POP, MOM AND AW ASSORTED VISITORS PARK THEIR HEAPS? YOU GUESSED IT itwoulda NO-rr ss-i SxtSF aw,gosm7 fc ' BEEN BETTER f WOULD BE U1 EVERyBOD Tl TO NAIL THE 1 1 IN THE WAy I SL I PARKS Pl&HT I BACKBOARD J) WHEN WE 1 UNDER THE 1 TO THE (I WANTED TO I MU DlS f 1J I tMtkt " I I 'U II !.KiritlMS7r.dieM1lL&,Vle,Mi,iAU!wAX &M ' ACTRESS RELEASED HOLLYWOOD (AP) Actress Betty Hutton was released Thurs day from a hospital where she was treated four days for influenza. DIES AT 126 BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) Rosa Bjclic, known as the oldest woman in Yugoslavia, died Tuesday at her home in Komo ran village, according to reports received here. Mrs. Bjehc was believed to be 126 years old. She was the mother of 11 children, in cluding a son 86 years of age. Labor Leader Explains System PRINCETON, N.J. 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