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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1960)
EAGE 6 A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Thursday, January 21, 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. 1306, under act of Congress. March 8. 1879 SERVICES: 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California Subscription Rates CARRIER I MONTH 1.50 6 MONTHS S 9.00 I YEAR $18.00 MAIL 1 MONTH 1.50 6 MONTHS 8.50 I YEAR $15.00 Wildlife By BILL JENKINS It seems as if it must have been a long time ago but I think it' was only last week that I found a sunny afternoon and drove across the slate line road lor a periodic checkup. .Saw very few ducks or geese only a few bands in the air, but the nheasants were having a fine time of it alongside the road From the turnoif on Highway 97 to the Merrill turnoff 1 counted . 21 roosters and I don't know how many hens. Big, bright birds slwv inc in the sun. r All the roadside ponds frozen over solid, of course. At least half a dozen bald eagles sitting around on the ice waiting for a duck to give up the ghost so they could have dinner. Then just a couple of days ago during a wet snow storm I hap pened to drive past a stubble field near Wocus that was burning along the edge of the highway, Right in the smoke and creeping flame was another big rooster pheasant calmly picking up the kernels of grain and warming his feet at the same time. Looked like he was well content with his lot in life. Reports growing In number of Itarlrng invasions in various parts of the community. Have seen a few of the loathsome little bird? here and there myself. : Let us hope that they don't get a toehold in our community. I've eeen a few places that had 'cm and know that we don't want any part of them. Went out cast of here a few miles the other Sunday for a crack at the rabbits. I guess we weren't the first in the area. The rabbits, both jacks and occasional cottontails were wild and spooky. Jacks in particular were flushing fitly yards and more ahead of us and then, keeping going at high speed until they crossed the near est ridge. ', Usually they will run la ways and then squat and take la look see. Which is (lie deadly time to get your bead and let 'cm have it. But not these long cared fellows. They Just laid those old ears back and left tracks, about twelve feet apart as they raced out of sight. ' A real sporting target as they flashed through the sagebrush. My personal score on rabbits was low but I sure blew some pretty holes In the atmosphere. The whole Lost River area was full of feeding ducks. Mostly widg eon. Fields were covered with them and big flocks kept wheel ing around in' the air. 1 wonder if the theory that a duck's feet get cold in the snow and that he gels up to fly around and warm them up isn't true? It sure looks like it when you watch them feed across a snow filled field. ; Saw one big jack sitting under I juniper up on the brow of a long hill. As we watched a big hawk made a violent pass at him but niiFsed. The rabbit moved a lew feet, sat up and the hawk made another pass and missed again Or quit. Then the rabbit gave up and roared off the hill in a cloud of snow. Such are the rewards of a win ter hunting trip. JURISDICTION of the board stems from both the city council and the county court. This is be cause the building was constructed jointly by both bodies. At present, both governing bod ics appropriate $1,500 each year toward operation of the facility. In recent years, the appropriation has exceeded that amount on sev eral occasions to take care of needed repairs. However, operation of the Klam ath Auditorium rests solely in the hands of this board. They have neither the funds nor the authori ty to launch a wide campaign for more use of the facility, but do process all requests for the build ing that come before , them. DURING THE FISCAL YEAR of July, 1958, through June, 1959, the Armory Board took in $3,815.40 in fees from operation of this building. They have indicated that they are willing to take part in an cf fort to generate more use of the building, particularly for recrea tional purposes. A plan is under way to convert the auditorium into a veritable community recreation center. This will require the extreme cooperation of all concerned. The Armory Board's guidance of such a program is essential, and extremely necessary since t h c facility is jointly owned by city and county. However, with cooperation the projected recreation program can progress and become a reality, something badly needed in the community. Armory Hoard By FLOYD L. WYNNE Some clarification seems in or der as to the position of the Ar mory Board in reference to the operation of the Klamath Auditori um. In a recent statement, George Price, Park and Recreation Di rector, said the auditorium was used only on 30 or 35 nights of the year. In some quarters this was taken as a reflection on the Armory Board. , First of all. the auditorium was used more than 30 to 35 nights, and secondly the Armory Board has nothing to do with how many nights the facility is employed. THE ARMORY BOARD consists of five members. Two of the mem bers are appointed by the city council, two by the county court and those four in turn appoint a fifth member. , At present, the board is com posed of city Councilman Oliver Spiker, and Fred lleilbronner, appointed by the city; Hal Ogle and Fred Hoagland, appointed by the county. i J. C. Rcnie. a filth member of the board resigned recently, and a successor has not yet been ap pointed by the lour board mem bers. , ; Ted Case is secretary for the board. Income Tax By FLORENCE JENKINS It's that time again. A. G. Erickson, director of the Oregon District of the Internal Revenue Service, at Portland, is reminding employers and employes of the importance of attaching the W-2 withholding certificates to the 1959 federal income tax returns. The law states that employers are to furnish all employes with these certificates by January 31 The W-2 withholding certificates are to be. attached to Form 1040 (the short one), or 1040W when filing. Most householders have received the 16-page instruction pamphlet from the U.S. , Treasury Depart ment's district office of the In ternal Revenue Service. The pam phlet includes Tax Return Form 1!I40, Capital Gains Schedules and Estimated Tax Form for 1960, plus detailed instructions for the pro per preparation and filing of the eturn. The April 15 deadlino still is in effect, but Mr. Erickson states that early filing will prove advan tageous both to the taxpayers and his department. He urges employes to prepare their returns as soon as they re ceive their withholding certificates and to file them as soon as pos sible thereafter. He also reminds employes who have worked for more than one employer during 1959 that all of the W-2 forms they received dur ing the year must be included with the 1959 income tax return. Every self-employed individual must file an annual return of his self-employment income on Form 1U40 if lie has at least $400 of net earnings from self-employment in his taxable year. This is true, even If he did not make sufficient income to require the filing of an income tax return or is already receiving social security benefits. We note that more and more companies which pay dividends on comuion stock arc mailing re ports on dividends paid during 1959 with the notation that these dividends are taxable income for the year. Lotteries may be against the law, but winnings are subject to income tax. The year 1959 went down in his tory as one more year in which we didn t win even a single foot ball pool. If the law of averages ever catches up with that situa tion, which the old saw insists it will, then so will the Internal Revenue Service. IKiifOrmilk By MERI1IMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter WASHINGTON (UPI) Backstairs at the White House: This, inspector, is the case of the "hot" buttermilk, or as we say. downtown, the classy clabber. It reached all the way inside the White House before the neigh borhood pusher ran out of sup plies. We've had these cases before, inspector. You know how it is a man gets to be 60 or so and be. gins to think of his youth and someone comes along with a gim mick to make him feel young again monkey glands, vitamin pjils, all that jazz. In this case, the magic stuff was buttermilk, pure and simple buttermilk. With hormones, Male hormones. As near as our agents can de termine, this business started at a cabinet meeting with President Eisenhower sitting up there just is big as you please. One of the cabinet members got to whispering with another fellow one end of the room. The ulher fellow was one of the Pres ident's chief assistants. The as sistant, it seems, said how well the cabinet member looked. 'Buttermilk," said the cabinet mtmber. "That's what did it." Something was said about hor mones; that this particular milk was simply loaded with the stuff to make a man feel like himself again. Our case switches now to the supplier, a pleasant little man who was minding his own busi ness selling over-priced groceries to bigshots in a little rare foods emporium not far from the White House. Among his choice items was buttermilk from a small dairy. The next thing the storekeeper knew, there was a long line of black limousines purring up to the curb, uniformed men sliding in side to ask for a couple of quarts of "that" buttermilk. Without a limousine to serve as credentials, it was possible to get the magic elixir simply by mentioning the name of the cabinet member in a properly hushed, speakeasy type voice. Inspector, the thing turned into boom. This supplier got to where he was selling more butter milk than cheese tidbits. One high government official raced into his store and demanded, as it were t.i be saved. There was even a system of deliveries started at some of the highest government offices in town. The word of buttermilk with hormones spread like fire in dry leaves. Then the case came to the attention of this department. Let tile neighborhood clabber pusher te.ll his own story: "I don't know what got into those men. Hormones? Nuts. That wtuld be against the law, putting anything in milk that wasn't put there naturally. "There's absolutely nothing in this buttermilk. Absolutely noth ing: It was just plain old churned buttermilk and somebody got to ta'kuig about it. "Those fellows bought me out high and dry. I haven't been able to get hold of a quart for days Boy, while I had it, I sure sold it. I have a waiting list now if I ever get a supply again. You want me to telephone the White House if any comes in?" SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal Q-I -ftCSt evruwsN I'LL ARE. SEVERAL CATc'H s WCi'K AHEAD 'fM bJ I 0i CFrClUKE VNErfj5t- A Asues are . ViyTtf aha; 1 j ouch:: AETHER ) I'M NOT sjs. I Money Itcport By SAM DAWSON AP Business News Analyst NEW YORK (API-Tighter or easier money ahead? Better chance of financing a new home or other purchase or of borrowing for your business deals? 1 President Eisenhower in his an nual economic report to Congress says more money should be avail able for investment this year. But many bankers are saying that the demand for loans is grow ing and money is so tight that an increase in their interest charges is overdue. They want the Federal Reserve System, to take the first step by hiking its discount rate, or what it charges them when they borrow from it. The federal reserve is holding its own counsel about that. The U.S. Treasury has some big refinancing to pull off next month and so will be dealing with lenders again. It isn't anxious to see interest rates rise. But, like the President, the Treasury sees some easing ahead in the money market. This is be cause last year it had to raise eight billisn dollars of new money. To do so it competed actively with everyone else who wanted to bor row. This helped send interest rates higher. This year the Treasury hopes to reverse that. Not only will it be seeking no new money, except for short periods, but even hopes to be returning some two billion dollars to the money market, cut ting the federal debt by that much. If President Eisenhower's hopes of a budget surplus in the next fiscal year are fulfilled, the Treas ury will be cutting the debt further and returning more money to the market. Bankers and financers of mort gages say that will be all to the good. But the immediate prospect, they still contend, is for an in creasing credit pinch as business activity steps up, and perhaps higher interest rates certainly no declining ones. The President's hopes for more available investment money seem based in great part on his belief that incomes will soar this year, making more savings possible. He also wants Congress to help by doing the three things he stress es again in his economic message: 1. Keep spending down so there will be a budget surplus. 2. Hold tax rates where they are so that the surplus can be used for cutting the debt. 3. Take the shackles off the Treasury so it can borrow in whatever market seems best and not, as now, be forced to hit only the short-term market where great demand has sent borrowing costs soaring. The Almanac By United Press International Today is Thursday Jan. 21, the 1st day of the year, with 345 more days to follow in 1960. The moon is in its last quarter. The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter and Venus. On this day in history: In 1793, King Louis XVI of France was beheaded. In 1861, Sen. Jefferson Davis re signed from the U. S. Senate. In 1924, Nikolai Lenin died near Moscow at the age of 54. In 1930, the planet Pluto was dis covered. In 1954, the atomic submarine 'Nautilus" was launched at Gro- ton, Conn. A thought for today: In his soeech of resignation from the U.S. Senate, Jefferson Davis said: "I am sure I feel no hostility to you Senators from the North. I am sure there is not one of you whatever sharp discussions there may have been between us to whom I can not now say in the presence of my God, I wish you well MISADDRESSED TRENTON, N.J. (UPI) - New Jersey Gov. Robert B. Meyner, a They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo lfoB'lp Democrat, Thursday received a letter from Spencer T. Olin, chair man of the national Republican fund-raising campaign, inviting him to take part in a series of nationwide dinners commemorat ing "seven wonderful years under Ike." Cactus Jack : Backs Lyndon UVALDE, Tex. AP) Former" Vice President John Nance Gar ner, who has had little to say publicly about politics since he left Washington in 1940, Monday, joined the Lyndon Johnson for President drive. Garner, 91, who in recent years has given his endorsement to only a few candidates, accepted ap pointment as honorary chairman of the Uvalde County Johnson-for- President club. Sen. 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