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PAGE 8 A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamatli Falls, Ore Sunday, Feb. 7, 10R0 rRANK 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 oil ice at Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 20. 191)6, under ad of Congress. March 8. 1879 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Srrvuig Souther Oregon And Northern California Subscription Rates CARRIER I MONTH $ 1.50 6 MONTHS 9.00 I YEAR $18.00 MAIL 1 MONTH $ 1.50 8 MONTHS - 8.50 I YEAR $15.00 INIIA By BILL JENKINS While I am not ordinarily pronr to come right out and say that such-and-such an organization is a good one I Iccl right now like saying a few kind words about the National Rifle Association of America. It is one of the sportsmen's or ganizations in which we all have a big stake whether a person nunis or not. Because it is primarily concerned with protecting the right of Ihe American citizen to own and possess firearms without uiv due or unreasonable restrictions. And the tide is mounting al most daily against such freedoms. There arc hosts of well meaning, perhaps, but badly misinformed citizens who want to take that right away from the American people. Opposition must be mounted to Abraham Lincoln was elected pros ident. It's a part that has been forgot ten by many students of the Or gon scene, and overlooked by many others. It's a story about a young man who was born in North Carolin came to Oregon following t h Mexican War and served as gover nor of the Oregon territory. It's the story of Major General Joseph Lane. this drive if we are to keep our heritage. And that opposition must be supported by everyone, not just the gun nuts. If we can lose our right through legislation to bear firearms then we can lose every other civil right we possess. If guns can be legislated out of the hands of the American people then so can the right of free speech, the right of assembly and, finally, the right to vote, If you think that this is an idle threat then I invite you to check up on ihe enormous backlog of anti-firearms legislation that has piled up in our national capitol and in the many state legislatures Some of it squeaks by and the citizens of that stale give up a little more of their freedom. Oth-i ers are nipped in the bud by alert action on. the part of interested Citizens Why is there this urge to take guns away? Well, some people say that if we take the guns away from everyone then no criminal can have' a gun. This is obviously and on the face of it mere idiot reasoning. There are millions of unregistered guns in this country alroady and more available. Crim inals think qiothing of breaking into nalional guard armories if. they need weapons, anyway. Others cry that our national safe ty is threatened because a few hunters die in gun accidents ev ery year. Hogwash. I never hear these same demented crackpots (ay that we should take the auto mobile away from the public be-! cause last year we killed nearly 40,000 persons In auto accidents. Sure there is a risk in hunting. But more men die of heart at tacks on hunting trips than arc accidentally shot. Others say that guns are a temptation to youth to go out and stick up the nearest cigar store. Balderdash! I doubt If any num ber of firearms made available to the average youngster is going to start him breathing through his nose and planning a life of crime. Then there are Ihe pussyfool rs. They want interim measures. Like the imbecile proposal in one of our belter known "together ness" publications that the Amer ican sportsmen take all their guns down to the police station, regis ter them and then leave Ihcin there under lock and key. When you want to go hunting, suggests the author of this inane drivel you go down and get an okay from the chief, who will decide It you are competent. If you pass then he will issue you a riflo or a shotgun and so many shells for so many days. When you come back you turn in your gun again .Man, wouldn't that be wonder ful. Particularly in case we come to another war. I can't think of anything an aggressor nation would enjoy more than the knowl edge that our populace had been disarmed and all the firearms were neatly led for them at Ihe police station Any way you look at it the anti- firearms legislation is had, is threat to our independence and freedom and is a slap at the Amer ican sportsman. The authors of such bills are saying to the hunter and plinkcr that he is a potential criminal and should be kept under surveillance If you haven't already done so I suggest that you (1) write your congressman and tell him (o kill promptly any such bills, (2) join the NRA, and (3) keep alert to prevent this rape of American rights, this proposed flouting of the Constitution of the United States. ' LANE HEADED for Oregon in August of 1848, in company with Joe Meek who had been appointed U.S. marshal for the territory. They traveled by way of the Santa Fe Trail and California From San Francisco they took t boat to the Columbia River and ar rived at Oregon City on March 2, 1849. The next day the new .territorial overnmcnt was begun, with Lane at the helm. He was then 48 years of age. After serving as governor of the territory for two years, the people elected him territorial delegate to Congress. He filled that office until 1859 when he was elected United States senator from Oregon. He thus became one of the stale of Oregon's first senators. KIW I ion Of 18110 By FLOYD L. WYNNE OREGON had a prominent pari in the I860 campaign In which HE LEFT HOME at the age of 15 to seek his fortune. He later set tied in Warwick County, Indiana where he first clerked in a store Six years later, at the age of 21 he served in the Indiana Slate Legislature, first as a represen tative and later as a senator. He resigned from the Indiana Senate in 1846 and enlisted as a private in the Second Indiana Vol unteers. He was soon com missioned colonel of (he regiment and in the same year was promot cd to brigadier general on July 1, 1846, and brcvetted major gen oral in October of the same year for "gallant and meritorious con duct in the battle of Huamantla. Mexico." Discharged in 1848, he was ap pointed governor of the Territory of Oregon that same year by Pres ident James K. Polk. HE APPEARED headed for1 the second highest office in the land when in 1860, at the age of 58, he was named to Ihe Democratic ticket as vice president, on the ticket wilh John Breckinridge. Breckinridge had been the vice president at 35 under James Bu chanan, and was being highly re garded as the next president. However, a tall gaunt man, gift ed wilh a tremendous talent for reasoning, able to sway audiences with his humble manner, appeared on Ihe scene to snatch the Repub lican nomination from the o u t slrelchcd hands of William Sew ard, and wilh slavery actions threatening ,lo split Ihe country asunder, was chosen president. The election of Abraham Lin coln alienated Breckinridge from the nation, and alter serving as a U.S. senator until December of 1861, this former vice president entered the Confederate Army, where he was appointed a major general in 1862. He served as secretary of war in the Confederate cabinet in the late stages of the war, escaped to Europe, and returned to this country in 1868 and resumed prac ticing law. For Lane it was also a biltct defeat. He retired from public lite to his ranch in Oregon where he spent Ihe rest of his life. On April 19, 1881, at the age of "9 he died in Rosehurg, and is buried there in Ihe Masonic Cemetery. THUS CLOSED an illustrious chapter in Oregon history. The chapter filled so valiantly and glo riously by General Joseph Lane, store clerk, legislator, soldier, gov crnor, senator and candidate for vice president. If it had not been for Abraham Lincoln . . , who knows? Vou III power By FLORENCE JENKINS A conference is being held at the Palmer House in Chicago from February 11 to 13 to emphasize the importance of adequate nu trition to our teenage population. Food Comes First For Youth- power is the theme of this con ferencc which will bring together more than 200 delegates represent ing teenagers from all over the country. A nationwide educational pro gram is in progress in schools and youth groups, stressing good eat ns habits and nutrition. Charles B. Shuman. president of the Amer ican l-arrrt Bureau federation, is general chairman and Homer R Davidson, president of the Amer ican Meat Institute, is chairman of the planning committee.. The program is sponsored by 47 groups and firms in the food industry. In grandfather's time, it was plain to any youngster that the cows were milked to provide out er and cream for the breakfast table. The hogs were fed so there would be nourishing bacon and ham to go along with fresh eggs from the hen house. In these days, eggs come in cartons and bacon is in a pack- Re. Town and city youngsters seldom if ever hear a hen cackle to brag about the egg she just laid. Milk comes out of the re frigerator and ham out of the butcher shop. Lucky are those youngsters aisod on or near a farm who know first-hand where our food comes from. Nutritionists are becoming aware that teenagers aren't getting nough of the proper food to eat. The grocery stores and supermar kcts have the food for sale, but the problem is to overcome teen age indifference to nourishing food. Fashion experts could do a lot for this problem. When the Venus de Milo build comes back into fashion, mothers and daughters may slop counting calories and watching the scales. Perhaps the various segments of the food industry should invite styl ists and designers to attend the Youthpower Congress at Chicago, loo. Favorite Sou Klamath Falls (To the Editor) wish to congratulate Wynne for the article about our senators. Morse a favorite son , . . bah Favorite of whom? One sure thing, if he campaigns against Neubergcr it will assure Neubergcr's election. Every knock of Morse s make voles for Neuberger. Oscar W. Haynes, 2720 Summers Lane will No rlli lTiiiiiuii By CHARLES V. STANTON Editor Roseburg News-Review Completion of the North Umpqua Road, coupled with a route to the ocean at Recdsport, long has been a dream in Douglas County. The present county court is working to rush the project to completion Under the existing schedule it will be finished long before the date planned. Construction of the route will be a tremendous forward step, both commercially and from the stand point of recreation. It is my ex peclation that little time will be lost by the Oregon Highway Com mission in tying this import ant cast-west road with Bend and Klamath Falls, thereby opening up travel to the eastern part of the SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal THAT CF CUR A&UT IT! W V VOWS, IT'S WONDERFUL! . 1 UWfcVD NtflCED WW VvirW VI0RRV T Uwctt ME UWES WAIKNS? stale as well as to points farther cast. , With the completion of an east west highway across the Coast Range and the Cascade Mountains, both Reedsport and Coos Bay will be in a highly favored spot for development of ocean cargoes Of immediate importance to Douglas County is the fact that the North Umpqua Highway will open up a tremendous body of timber. At present timber from the Dia mond Lake working circle is going to Klamath Falls. Logs are taken out in one of the state's most efficient highball operations to a siding with the Southern Pacific railroad, then loaded on cars to be laken on into Klamath Falls If and when we get a good road into the Diamond Lake working circle, our Douglas County mills will be able to compete for that timber. Transportation to the cen tral Douglas County valley will be far cheaper than into Klamath Falls. Logging trucks will be com ing downhill all the way with their loads, and will use comparatively little fuel, and there will be no cost of off-loading and on-loading at the railroad junction. It is quite probable that bidding on Diamond Lake timber will be ery heated in coming years as ihe area becomes accessible to Doug'.as County operations but, at leas:, the mills in this area will have a better opportunity to com pete than at present. At the same time, completion of the North Umpqua Highway will be followed by the construction of an access road up Boulder Creek, thereby giving access into' one of the finest bodies of timber in all Oregon. Opening the Boulder Creek working circle will take some of the pressure off Little River and Steamboat where allowable cut has been exceeded. The over cut on Little River and Steamboat hasn't been critical be cause much of the surplus has been confined to overripe. How ever, the allowable cut can't be exceeded forever. Cutting the North Umpqua Highway through to Dia mond Lake will give the Umpqua National Forest administration a far better arrangement for timber management. While the county court has worked to speed development of the North Umpqua route, it also is endeavoring to secure early com pletion of Highway 225 between Sutherlin and Elkton, and Highway .18 between Drain, Elkton and Reedsport. A fine highway already exists between Reedsport and Coos Bay. When the connection between the inner valley and coast ports is finished, water transportation will be available to our mills. Water transportation currently is approximately equivalent in cost with rail traffic, but such may not always be the case. Water transportation at one time was less expensive. Newer systems of water shipping may bring about that sit uation again. Then lower rates for coastwise and ocean shipments will be available to the mills of our area. Coos Bay and Reedsport doubt less will be doing everything pos sible to improve their harbor facil ities in preparation for the time when they will have cargoes avail able from the hinterland. Thus the county court's program of speeding construction between Diamond Lake and Ihe Pacific Ocean is one that will be of vast economic benefit to the whole area. At the same lime, Ihe road will open up a tremendous playground area and may be expected to at tract vast numbers of pleasure seekers. They'll Do It Every Time a,iin.,.in By Jimmy Hatlo ICCORDIM& TO THE SALESMAN! AND THE SIGM OM THE BOX, THIS GAME WAS DESIGNED FOR LITTLE KIDS' NOW I7EAD THE OIKCTIONS--08 RATHER Tf?y TO-EINSTEIN HIM SELF WOULD SIT THIS GAME OUT TjW .ppdf-X J okav! 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This would prohibit nuclear weapons testing under an inspec tion system to guard against vio lations. In this interval also full-scale isarmament negotiations arc scheduled for Geneva beginning March 15 and ,an East-West sum mit conference is set for Paris in late May. These negotiations should dem TIip Aliiiiiiuu' By United Press International Today is Sunday, Feb. 7th. the 38th day of (he year, with. 328 more days to follow in I960. The moon is approaching its full phase. The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. On this day in history: In 1812, English novelist and journalist Charles Dickens was born. In 1827, the United States' first ballet group performed in New York City. In 1885, American author and Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Center, Minne sota. In 18!M, baseball's greatest hit ter, Babe (George Herman) Ruth was born. In 1948, General Dwight Eisen hower resigned as Army Chief of Staff. Here's a thought for today: English novelist Charles Dickens wrote: Throughout life. . . our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. Pact Powers Line Up Behind Nikifa MOSCOW (AP) The Warsaw Pact powers have lined up behind Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev for a showdown on the Ger man problem at the East -West summit talks in May. The eight-nation Communist al liance wound up a one-day confer ence Thursday night by threaten ing again to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany "and to solve on this basis the question of West Berlin as well." The Soviet-led bloc backed the policies already laid down by Khrushchev including the offer of a nonaggression pact with the North Atlantic alliance, universal disarmament, a ban on nuclear weapons and conversion of West Berlin into a "free city." But the Red alliance seemed to show impatience on the German issue. "Under present conditions a peace treaty can be signed only by both German states," said a communique. "We cannot agree that the solution to this question be delayed endlessly. "This can only encourage the militarist and revenge seeking forces of West Germany. If efforts directed at signing a peace treaty with both German slates will not meet support, and the solution to this problem still faces delay, then (he states represented at this con ference will have no way out but lo sign, together with other states which will be ready for that, a peace treaty with the (East) Ger man Democratic Republic, and on this basis to solve the problem of West Berlin as well." Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's West German government was ac cused of stalling in the hope "that an opportune moment may arise for altering the frontiers estab lished in Europe as a result of the rout of Nazi Germany." 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