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PAGE FOUR FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph. TU 4-4752 llri And Thore By BILL JENKINS It would seem that not every thing is up to date in this modern world of ours. Had occasion to use the word genocide the oilier day but wasn't exactly sure of the connotation. So tried to look it up. It wasn't contained in any of the dictionaries in the office, in cluding the 2000-plus page 1!I55 edition of Webster's word book. We tried all the encyclopedias we could find and still couldn't unearth the term. I know that it means an effort In wipe out a race and was prob ably coined during World War II when Hitler was doing his best to wipe the Jewish race from the (ace of the carlh. But you still can't find it in any Of the books. Paul Winter, New York Life Insurance Company representative in Klamath Falls has turned out a very attractive 1WM calendar with a big reproduction of an oil painting of three Atlantic Scoters on it. A real duck hunters think niece painted by Andrew Winter. Andrew Winter is no relation to Paul. Just thought you might like to know. Speaking of birds, out along Lakeshorc Drive one home owner lias a couple of pink flamingo sil houettes parked in his lawn. Right pretty birds they arc, too, ond giving a positive note of cheer in these winter days. The birds don't even look cold perched as they are against a snowbank. A note in the mail from Walt Thillips, written from New Haven, Connecticut, and enclosing a sportsman's notes clipping warn ing people who own pickup coach rigs to be sure they are properly vented. Walt is right. There are a lot of iiiose rigs in use in our country particularly during the fishing and hunting seasons. After our own recent tragedy of not too long ago it would certainly be well to check and make sure. Walt says he still hopes to be back in Klamath by February. Another note in the mail, this one from R. F. Rittenhousc, who is director of the State Marine Board. In answer to a query from me he tells me that one need not car ry the title to a boat since it is in the same category as a car title. But the annual license must be carried and displayed. The licenses, when issued, will lie on water repellent paper. In future years the hoard hopes to is sue licenses in the form of de cals. A recent poll taken In West Germany revealed that advertise' ments showing pictures of dogs were preferred to those using pin up girls. A dog's world? And in Britain they are feed lug baby chicks on a tasty diet ol Scotch Whisky. But it isn't as good as it sounds. The Scotch is alcohol-free. The stuff comes from the fer mented wort or "beer" which is a lirst result in the long process of distilling. Said to be good (or chicks, how ever. They can have it. Wool I'ool By FLORENCE JENKINS The Klamath Basin Wool Pool has seen its membership triple in less than five years. Starting with fewer than 50 men who raised farm flocks, the group now num bers nearly 150 members. By pooling the fleeces raised in the Klamath Basin, it has been possible to realize a belter price for the wool. Selling through a group is especially important to the small operator who may not know where to look (or a buyer Buyers, too, like the set-up be cause it provides a central source with a known quantity for sale, The Klamath Basin has a num ber of prize-winning 4-11 Club and Future ' Farmers of America groups who arc interested in rais ing sheep. These youngsters can sell their fleeces through the pool and gain a lot of practical busi ness experience in so doing. Last year, the wool pool sold lft.000 fleeces lor US members This is a substantial increase over any previous year. In cooperation with the Farm Bureau and (he Farm Bureau Women, as well as the county agent's office, the wool pool rfieo pie are becoming more interested jn promoting wool. Plans for several special events during I960 are In the making. Mrs. Earl G. Kerns, chairman of Entered as second class matter at the post oftice at Klamath Falls Ore., on August 20. 1006, under act of Congress. March 8. 1879 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Srrving Southern Oregon And Northern California the commodities committee of Farm Bureau Women for the state, is planning a cooperative wool style show for later in the year, to mention just one event. There is also going on a search for ideas for a possible booth in the Klamath Home Show which is only five or six weeks away. Millions of dollars are spent an nually on promotion of man-made fibers. Special emphasis seems to be on the drip-dry quality of gar ments made from these synthetics and the fact that they require lit tle or no ironing. Wool, a natural fiber, can point to comfort, soft ness, durability and many other advantages not achieved by the test-tube materials. At the same time, the people who are raising larger farm flocks in the Klamath Basin every year are interested in the increased sale of lamb and mutton. The growers are becoming interested in breeding for meat type sheep of higher quality. There's a lot to be said for eat ing what we grow here. Maybe the climate won't produce papayas in abundance, but we grow the finest meat and potatoes in the country and there is no better food. Flu Ughicr Side By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPII - If you took a guided tour of the U. S. Capitol last week, you may have seen a seedy character with the furtive air of a pickpocket sidle up to your group. Since 1 was the party acting so suspiciously, I want to explain that I was not bent on any light- fingered exercise designed to sep arate some tourist from his wallet. 1 was merely eavesdropping on :he guide to sec if 1 could catch him making any partisan com ments. This detective work was brought en by a bill introduced by Rep. Charles IS. Chamberlain IR-Mich.) tc create a Irec capitol guide service. It now costs 25 cents for a guided tour. Chamberlain's bill also would provide for the immediate dismis al of any guide who spoke in praise or censure of any person during one of the tours. This seemed to imply that the guides may have been making slurring remarks about members of Congress or about the historic personages whose statues stand in the halls. It caused some mis understandings. Chamberlain said his main ob jective was to eliminate the tour fee. If the government can af ford to issue "free bulletins about the love life of bullfrogs," he rea soned, it should he to treat everyone to a guided tour. But, he said, lie wu., -dug pic tured as "an autocrat who would place a censorship on what is said about Will Rogers and Frank lin Delano Roosevelt, Davey Croc kett and those three marble ladies who sit in a tublike arrangement in one of the lower corridors of the Capitol." . Denying that he was any "witch renter of Capitol guides," the Congressman said he only sought "to protect both political parties from prejudicial opinions." Determined to see for myself what was going on, I plunked down a quarter for a ticket and went along on one of the tours. Our group drewguide No. 26, a greying lady with a schoolteacher ish manner. We - started out in one of the lrwer corridors in front of the three marble ladies mentioned by Chamberlain. Our guide identified them as suffragettes Susan B Anthony, I.ucretia Molt and Eliza beth Cady Stanton. They were in a tublikc arrangement because the sculptor died before finishing the statue, leaving just their heads slicking out of the marble block. This guide was the epitome of SHORT RIBS Ht SOMETIMES . I 1 THINK 1 HERALD AND impartiality. Checking further, I trailed around after some of the oilier guides, surreptitiously listen ing to their spiels. The upshot was the same ex cept that 1 made a discovery which could render Chamberlain's Dili unnecessary. I found that if you work it right, you can make the tour without paying anyway. All you have to do is stand aside and pretend to be inspect ing the ceiling when the guide collects tickets at the House and Senate chambers. You won't miss anything. You can get a pass from your Congressman to go inside later. By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP - Mister you'd better buy a couple of new white shirts and tell your missus to get herself a new gown. Whether 19K0 is a record boom year or not moneywise, it is bound to be the celcbratingest year, culturally speaking, there ever was. America has a tradition of pro claiming and observing special oc casions. It is a custom that goes back to the Pilgrims and their first Thanksgiving Day. Now every year we find more and more things to celebrate. This year, according to Chases' Calendar of Annual Events, there arc sonic 650 holidays and special occasions of all kinds to observe, or nearly twice as many as in 1959. The tradition is getting a bit out of hand. For example, if you and your wife conscientiously and consecutively celebrated all the special days, . weeks and months now on the 1960 promotion cal endar, you'd be making nonstop whoopee for 13 years, 6 months and 5 days. Among the newcomers this year are National Barefoot Freedom Week, International Carillon Day, and National Mayonnaise and Sal ad Week. Here arc a few choice items: It is too late to blow whistles and ring bells for Save-lhe-Pun week, Big Brother Week and Large I Economy) Size Week They are already over. But you are now in National Guitar Week; National .Winter Golf Week won der if President Ike has been told; and next Tuesday your wife might want to give a cheer for the start of National Fur Care Week. February is full of goodies, in cluding National Sickroom Needs Month, Good Breakfasts Month, National Children's Dental Health Week, and National Pimento Week. And don't overlook Weight Watchers Week, National Pencil Week and Bachelor's Day on Feb. 29. March is Buttermilk Bread Month. It also has Return-Bor- rowed-Books Week, National Pea nut Week, Irish Linen Week, and National Smile Week. Don't forget on March 21 to say a kind word to any teen-agers you meet, for that is National Tcen-Agers' Day. April is National Ladder .Month. National Rug Cleaning Month, and National Wallpaper Month and contains Lct's-All-Play-Ball Week Here, picked at random, are a few other events you and your wife surely won't want to miss: May National Ornamental Iron Month and National Raisin Week plus National Domestic Rabbit Week. June Baking Soda Bath Season begins. Old Maids' Day is on June 4. July National Hot Dog Month and the Republican National Con venlion. August National Make-It-Yourself-With-Wool Week. September too Per Cent-Pure-Maple-Syrup Week. October National Father-in-Law Pay and National Cleaner Air Week. By Frank O'Neal iff NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Subscription Rate CARRIER 1 MONTH $ 1.50 6 MONTHS $ 9.00 I YEAR $18.00 MAIL I MONTH $ 1.50 6 MONTHS 8.50 I YEAR . $15.00 November National Cage Bird Week and National Indigestion Week. December This is National Give and Serve Meat for Christ mas Month, as if anyone could ever forget that! Don't tell me you don't know what to do for fun in 1960. If you don't have a good time, it's your own fault. While House IVoies By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter WASHINGTON (UPIi - Back stairs at the White House: Give or take a few hours, President Eisenhower has precise ly one year left in the White House, and during that year he can be relied upon to make many more trips of the type he made last week to Albany, Ga. Eisenhower now accepts the jet age and intends to live in it. He sped from Washington to south west Georgia in less time than it takes him to motor from the White House to his farm in Gettysburg. His government 707 jet transport puts good weather within close reach of Washington when meas ured in flying time, and the President is not expected to spend too many weekends cooped up by bad weather. The clue to Eisenhower's hunt ing trip to the Georgia estate of W. Alton Jones was available well in advance, but few people recognized it as such. The week end before he flew south, the President was out on his skeet range in Gettysburg, sharpening up his shooting eye. He rarely uses the skect range unless he plans to do some hunt ing or wants to try out a new gun. In this case, it was both because he brought back several inviting gift guns from Europe. Could it be a sign of world conditions? Frequently, at weekly intervals, an official of the Central Intelligence Agency comes to the White House for a highly secret briefing on hot spots around the globe for the benefit of ranking members of the President's staff. This is in addition to the daily situation report for the President from CIA and the CIA reviews before the National Security Coun cil. The President very much dis likes the pigeons that on occasion dirty up his glistening clean barn roof in Gettysburg. He's been known to take out after them with his shotgun. Now, he's after birds of another. feather starlings at the White House. The parks service has been try ing out a new anti-starling spray. It worked with some success on the South Grounds of the White House where the trees were drenched with the new potion. Recently the North Grounds were sprayed and what hap pencdj The starlings moved across the street to the old State Department building. So. the spray program had to be widened to include the trees around Old State and therein lies a new problem: The spray appar ently has run most of the pesky birds away from the White House, but to where? Next door. The park people, to be fair about the whole thing, may hav to end up spraying an awful lot of downtown real estate. By the time they reach the suburbs, the spray at the White House will be worn off the trees, the starlings will be back and the process will have to start all over again. Seems sort of hopeless. The Almanac United Press International Today is Tuesday, Jan. l;l, the 19th day of the year, with 347 more days to follow in I960. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter and Venus. On this day in history: In 1807, Gen. Robert E. Lee was born. In 1809, the poet and short story writer, Edgar Allen Poe, was born. . In 1881, financiers Jay Gould and William Vandcrbilt organized the Western Union Telegraph Co. In 1931, the National Commis sion on Law Observance reported to President Hoover that Prohi bition was not working. In 1955. President Eisenhower held the first televised news con ference. In 19.18, Argentine President Prondizi arrived in Charleston to begin a 12-day visit to the United States. A thought for today: Edgar Al len Poe said, "the question is not yet settled whether madness is or if not the loftiest intelligence." Tut'sriav, January 19. 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The federal income tax w encourages charitable giving by allowing you to deduct 20 per cent and in some cases 30 per cent of your income for this purpose. To gain the maximum tax bone- it, you should plan your contribu tions carefully. The effect of a charitable de duction is that each dollar you give actually only costs you from 9 cents to 80 cents depending on your income tax bracket. The rea son for this is that if you didn't give the dollar to a charity it would be taxable at a rate of lorn 20 per cent to 91 per cent The higher your tax bracket, the cheaper it is for you to give. Most of your charitable contribu tions are deductible within cer tain limitations. Generally, you can deduct contributions up to 20 per cent of your adjusted gross income for gifts to any non-profit groups organized in the United States and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, literary or educational purposes. However, an extra 10 per cent is permitted for gifts to churches, non-profit schools or hospitals and certain medical research organizations. Any amounts of such gifts which are over the 10 per cent limit can be counted as part of the 20 per cent limitation. Although contributions to the po litical "party of your choice" are necessary and laudable, they can not be deducted on your income tax return. Those "loans" you are always giving your brother-in-law may seem like charity, but as your wile pointed out, "He's too proud to accept charity." The Internal Revenue Service will go along with your wife. You can't deduct contri butions to relatives or even friends. However, you can contribute to an organization through a friend. In this situation, the friend is acting as your agent. 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You give the piece ot land to a church, but, at the time -of giving, the land was appraised at $2,000. You get a deduction of the full" $2.000-and you do not nave to pay any tax on the in crease in the value of the property Of course, this also works in re verse. For example, you have some furniture that you donate to a charity. The furniture is no long er worth what you paid for it ten years ago. You can only deduct the fair market value of the furni ture at the time it was given. That is, the amount of money you could have received for the furni ture had you been selling it rath er than giving it. Each year, many health tele thons are conducted around the country. People "pledge" donations over the telephone or by tele gram, and then mail in their checks. In this way, the chari ties conducting the telethons can get an estimate of the amount be ing contributed while they are still on the air. Some of these prom ises-to-pay never materialize into cash, or are pledged in one year and not paid until the following year. You can claim a contribu tion in only the year it is actual ly given. You can only take advantage of itemizing your charitable contribu- lions if you file on Form 1040 or the new Form 1040W. You cannot itemize any deductions on the card Form 1040A. The instruction booklet you re ceive from the Internal Revenue Service together with your income tax forms has additional informa tion on charitable deductions, and lists the types of organizations that y'ou can give to, to gain a deduc tion. Eight signers of the Declaration of Independence were born in Great Britain. FREE VACATION TRIPS To Hollywood, Rose Bowl game, Disneyland, Palm Springs and Los Vegas. 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Before he could get back upstairs, he said, the second story exploded into flames. The Vanllorns moved here Ihree months ago from Alsea. He is an employe of the state Highway Department. Officials Launch Diphtheria Drive POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -Health officials launched mass in oculations for an estimated 19,000 students and adults today after confirmation of Pocatello's first case of diphtheria the 10th in east ern Idaho in less than three weeks. The outbreak brought a week end warning that diphtheria germs may have been carried into six other states by people who at tended a funeral in Soda Springs, Idaho, last week. . i 606 So. 6th St., Klamath Foils Freight Kills Seven Pupils FACKLEfi, Ala. (AP) freight train crashed into a school bus near this northeast Alabama town today, killing at least seven children and leaving three critical. ly injured. Highway Patrolman T. W. Free. man said the train, a local freight out of Chattanooga, had sliced through the bus just behind the middle and dragged part of the wreckage three quarters of a mile betore it stopped. "It's obvious the driver just didn't see the train," said Free man. The driver, Charlie Beavers. was in critical condition. Freeman said the train was traveling about 55. miles an hour on a straight track in clear wcath. er when it smashed into the bui at the dirt road crossing. Freeman said he understood there were about 10 children on the bus. The dead and injured were tak en to hospitals and funeral homej at the nearby towns of Stevenson and Scottsboro. At Scottsboro, hospital officials said there were four dead and two injured critically. At Stevenson, hospital officials said they had received three dead and one critically injured. Fackler is about 35 miles south west of Chattanooga, Tenn. Morocco is about the size of Cal ifornia. Why Pay More? 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