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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1960)
' PAGE 4 A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. 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 al 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 Subscription Rates CARRIER I MONTH $ 1.50 6 MONTHS $ 9.00 I YEAR $18.00 MAIL 1 MONTH $ 1.50 t MONTHS 8.50 I YEAR $15.00 Propaganda By BILL JENKINS I realize that it is not consid ered cricket to criticize your own tide nor is it generally viewed as an ethical practice to praise tht opposition. Bui I'm being forced reluctantly into a position where I've got to have my little say and get it out of my system I'm getting ruddy well fed up with the part the American press, radio and television is playing hi furthering Russia's claims to world domination, ' And I'm fed to the teeth with the idea of finding myself in what amounts to a position of unpaid propaganda agent to the Kremlin. Just to add salt to the wounds I can't help the guilty feeling that I'm committing at least a part of the outrage about which I'm sneaking. To wit, the enormous outpouring of sheer propaganda in the press, radio and on TV about Russia's new and terrible weapons, the infallibility of the Russian mil ilarv and the hopelessness of America doing about it. Great Scott I If we were to be lieve only a fraction of what we rrad In the papers, see and hear over the air waves we would go out and commit national suicide In an earlier day people rushed out with the fateful cry "the dam has broke!" Now the boys who would cry wolf, and there are too many of them for the national weal, raise their clamor that "the Russians are coming!" 3 Scarcely a day goes by that the nation's press doesn't carry a grisly page one story to the ef- feet that the Reds have perfected1 a new and more horrible weapon than mankind has ever achieved before. Those modern day village criers who list their listeners in the millions, are wont to speak sepulchrally, treat only of gloom and despair and the hopelessness of it all. Our very government heads in charge of defense wring their hands in public demonstra- I'VE ALWAYS DREAMED ol the time I could get away from all the shouting and screaming of humanity and take off on an "1 want to be alone" kick. Somehow the thought of time on mv hands with no telephone, no gyrating horsepowers, no radio or television . . . nothing but peace and quiet ... has always entranced me. I've never beep able to find such a place or moment that promises just the . exact amount of peace and serenity that I've wanted, and I've somehow suspected that there is no such place. Now. after reading this Utile nole in the "Insider's Newsletter, I've had my hopes and illusions shattered. IT WAS ENTITLED "Silent Note," and said, "For those who crave country living over urban, researchers in the new field of space medicine have reached some disturbing conclusions. "Life can get too quiet. People must have a continuous back ground noise of at least five deci bels (about equal to the rus tling of dry leaves). Otherwise, a man hears only the thumping of his own heart and various hisses and creaks from his body. "Too much silence can keep you awake. In the long run, it can pro duce psychological shock that can drive a person crazy. able in 1943. PGE officials urge anyone who has shares of the stocks to take immediate steps to arrange for their transfer into Portland General Electric com mon stock. The Bank of California, Portland branch, can provide further infor mation regarding the exchange. The trust department of Port land's United States National Bank can provide advice on what docu ments are required to replace lost stock certificates or to transfer the PEPCo stock to legal heirs. The right to exchange such stock will expire on June 3, 1961, and the securities and dividends to which the PEPCo stockholders would otherwise be entitled will necessarily be transferred to Port- land General Electric Company at that time. It would be a pleasant shock to find a million dollars in the attic, wouldn't It? Maiming I'VE SUSPECTED that research can be carried too far, and I think this is one of those times. They're probably right, and it isn't that I question their find ings, but somehow, this seems like the last straw. To warn a badgered, harried city dweller that he can't go into the country in search of peace and quiet else he might go mad is to do a great disservice to man. Maybe he'll never find that idyl lic moment of peace and content ment which comforts him in his lions ana Keen lor more ana ever mosl hccUCi noise-filled moments, mure money 10 siem wis une oi but at lcast he can dream about Kicvuame invasion. - ut t 1 AU right, you guys, step It up Why do we do ItT why does! around here the press feature these doomsday crazy? creations of tho Red regime? I wouldn't know. Maybe all editors, (iardcii Sacramento (To the Editor) In yesteryear's vaudeville, Kolb dis cussed with Dill the strategy of 'Killing two birds mit vun rock. Cannot this desirable end also be accomplished in garden planning? In striving for color with flow ers or berries in winter, is it not possible to gain same, yet simul taneously help birds? In writer's garden several items seem attrac tive to our feathered guests. Tubular flowers, even certain type of fuchsias, furnish humming bird food. Certain other flowers through the year give us who plant massed color, yet are as welcome to birds as ice cream cones to frecklefaced Junior. The "French" marigolds (really Mexi can natives and ranging across the border into Big Bend National Park) give food to goldfinches, also whitecrowned sparrows. Another welcoming signal toward birds becoming guests is planting shrubs with berries. Our experi ence with cedar waxwings and robins is that they exhaust first the native toyon or Christmas ber ries. .Then they eat the red, next the yellow pyracantha, (Himalay an natives). Lastly the blue-black fine stallion go virtually unused on his own farm where he raises or keeps only American quarter horses. The next time the President is in Gettysburg and there is a fairly well-packed snowfall on the ground, he may take a ride in a horse-drawn sleigh through the countryside near his farm. A Gettysburg friend has the horses and sleigh ready if the weather man and the President's schedule can be brought together. The three older Eisenhower grandchildren who attend public school in Gettysburg, are becom ing ardent riders. Sometimes tney use horses on the farm, and sometimes, mounts from a near by riding stable. When they ride, they are ac companied by secret service agents who try to stick close to the trail in an automobile. On a recent ride, the grand children picked a trail far off the nearest road and an agent had to go along on horseback. Well, nt least he tried tp go along. This particular agent was thrown twice, much to the merriment of (he kids, before another more equestrian agent was pressed into cavalry service. Sunday, January 17. I960 They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Dander had his old garage bu'lt OUT SO IT WOULD BE Bl& ENOUGH FOR HIS EIGHTEEN -FOOT jueeER- NAUGHT you want me to gol myrtle herrie Birds also utilize bo they press, radio or television, are gloomy prophets of ill will at heart. Maybe they think that is what Ihe public wants to hear. Nothing but stories of our weak ness and the strength of our ene mies. Maybe there is a fatal fas cination in gloating over our own impending doom that cannot be denied. But whatever It is I'm sick and tired of it. I don't say that this sudden steel in my soul will result in any different page one treat ment of llio situation. But at lcast it clears up my own conscience to a point where I can live with It. And maybe I'm in the minority. I remember a few years back when I got the idea of giving the readers a present in the form of a page one free of any but good and cheerful news during the Christmas Week. The only result of this was to get myself darn near laughed out of the Northwest Where are you going to find good news? they asked, who are you to say what we'll read? others cried. The pretty general result seemed to be a feeling that if the readers couldn't have their daily diet of doom they would look else where. So we never tried that again. But I still have a lot of faith in America. I think we can stand up against the threat of any na tion including Russia. I think we have a future as bright as man kind has ever had. And I'll be darned if I'm going to go off in a corner and sob bitter tears over my early demise before an cnomy has showed himself on the horizon, I don't speak even for the other editors of this newspaper. But if you ask me I'll tell you that think our chances are just as good as Russia's in the world today. If the big boom comes I'm pretty sure that we can wreak as much havoc in Russia as they can to us It may be a fruitless revenge, but at least wc won't just lie down and die because Mr. K asked us ta. I'm ashamed to see a popula tion of so little faith. Too iiWt By FLOYD L. WYNNE A little folio arrives regularly on my desk which contains some intriguing information. It's called "The Insider's News letter" and is designed to give its reader an insight into what's happening and what may happen. I've found it very interesting reading, but one little Item tucked on the back pace blew most of my theories on living completely part. By FLORENCE JENKINS A call has gone out for resi dents of Oregon to look in their attics for old stock certificates which have been forgotten by the owners. Portland General Electric Com pany officials say that there are unexchanged preferred stock cer tificates of the former parent companies of PGE which are worth, in the aggregate, approxi mately one million dollars. Old Portland Electric Power Company stock certificates can be exchanged for Portland General Electric Company common stock at market price which has been ranging between $25 and $30. Evi dently, according to PGE, there arc still a number of PEPCo stock holders who are unaware of this situation. PGE officials point out that present market value of PGE com mon slock, plus the back divi dends, gives a present-day value of over a million dollars to these preferred stock certificates. Slock involved besides PEPCo in clude Pacific Northwest Public Service Company and Portland Railway, Light & Power Com-! pany. There is presently outstanding r.nd unexchanged Ihe following stocks of these companies: 7 per cent cumulative prior preference. 6 per cent cumulative first pre ferred stock, 7.2 per cent cumula tive first preferred stock and 6 per cent cumulative first preferred slock. The exchange first became avail- both shrubs und trees as shelter (white crowned, also goldcncrowncd, fox sparrows). Likewise shrubs and trees arc nesting sites. The list of 78 species in our garden is evidence as to how birds can be attracted. C. M. Goethe . Those who must drive in pro cession behind the President from Gettysburg- to Washington on a Sunday afternoon call part of the trip "the Connecticut Avenue cha-cha." '"'. This is because the line of White House cars and accom panying press ' vehicles., moving without any sort of police escort, must weave in and out, and stop and start suddenly, in the heavy traffic on Washington's famed Connecticut Avenue. This partic ular street carries a heavy load of vehicular traffic on late Sun day afternoons and negotiating the long avenue is a stomach- clutching chore for the men who have to do the driving. Eisenhower simply will not have a police escort going to and from Gettysburg. He thinks this is too noisy, too ostentatious. The men who do the driving would rather hear the noise of sirens than the sound of scream ing brakes and crunching fenders. While House By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter WASHINGTON (UPI) - Backstairs at the White House: David Eisenhower, 11-year-old ranclson of the President, was having his hair cut in Gettysburg recently when the barber con gratulated him. David, you have a fine head of hair," said the barber, running his hand through Ihe boy's heavy winter crop. "I guess I'm lucky," David re plied quite seriously, "because you know baldness runs m my family. The rear bumper of the Presi dent's limousine is painted a dull black. Tliis is to prevent glaring reflections into the eyes of the secret service driver of the fol low-up car at night when the big security vehicle moves at a con stant distance of only three or four feet from the chief exec utive's car. That beautiful Arabian stallion given the President in Tunisia last month won't go to the Gettys burg farm, but a breeding farm in Minnesota whero Arabian horses are a specialty. Eisen hower doesn't want to see the So NOW THAT HE'S GOT THE NICE LONG KIND OF A CAR DID HE GET THIS YEAR? vup.'.' vdu GPESSED IT m i i 1 'iT i I - - o "f State Dairymen Elect New Chief ONTARIO, Ore. (AP) Lou Wettstein of Ontario was elected president of Ihe Oregon Dairy men's Assn. Wednesday at the concluding session of its 66th an nual convention. . Others named were Ray Mea sor. Beaver, first vice president; Frank Rood, North Bend, second vice president: Harold Ewalt, Corvallis, secretary; and Fred Roberts, Corvallis, treasurer. Don Anderson, Oregon State College extension dairy specialist, reviewed herd improvement tech nique changes over the past 20 years. Timber Firms Slate Affair An industry sponsored cocktail and dinner meeting is slated for Wednesday evening, January 20, in the Winema Hotel, according to word from Joseph McCracken of .Western Forest Industries Association. Representatives of the various public timber managing agencies have been invited to attend the no-host affair and present their timber sales programs for the coming six months. Sales programs in detail up to July 1 of this year will be an nounced and more generalized sales plans for the balance of the year will be discussed later. All interested representatives of the timber industry are invited to attend. Reservations should be made not later than Monday, January 18, by calling either George Knowles at TU 4-4106 or Al Maloney at TU 4-3177. The cocktail party , will be held at 6:30 with dinner following at 7:15. JANUARY SALE Storm Windows $12.00 and Up Combination Doors $39.50 & $59.50 No Payment Till March F.H.A. Terms WE TAKE TRADES Furniture Tools 0 Appliances McGaughey's TRADING HOUSE 2508 Altomonr Dr. 2-4893 GEORGE" CLARK 2021 Lavey St. Ph. 4-3241 Almanac United Press International Today is Sunday, Jan. 17, the th day of . the year, with 349 more days in IJ60. The moon is in its full phase. The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter and Venus. On this day in history: In 1706, Benjamin Franklin was born. In 1800, the daughter of Presi dent Thomas Jefferson gave birth to a boy in the White House, the first birth to take place in the executive mansion. In 1917, the United States bought ihe Virgin Islands from Denmark for 25-million dollars. In 1944, General Dwight D. Ei senhower went to London to as sume command of the Allied lib eration forces. In 1946, delegates to the United Nations Security Council held their first session in London. In 1950, nine robbers, wearing hallowccn masks, held up a Bos ton armored car service and es caped with one-million dollars in cash and 500-thousand dollars in checks, the largest robbery in American history. A thought for today. Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal LCJ ( most hats r WvJ WENT CUT Of I r&wl 1ARS Mm 4!L Quotes By United Press International CHICAGO Joseph Matesi, 48, sentenced to five years in prison tor counterfeiting 50-cent pieces, explaining why he produced phony coins instead of bils: "My needs are modest and I don't need a lot of money." SAN JOSE, Calif. Dick Day well, vice president of the San Jose College senior class, an nouncing that a dachshund is the new class secretary because it was the only "person" to attend three class business meetings: 'Anyone who opposes this dog at this belated hour is barking up the wrong tree." BRUNNENBURG CASTLE. 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