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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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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. Ita
ly Poet Ezra Pound, stating
that young people today need
more courage than any genera
tion in the past but can find their
moral values in the beauty of na
ture:
"You cannot live in a Sputnik
and you cannot find your food in
a Sputnik."
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