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PACK SIX HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Monday, Feb. 8, lflfiO FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph. TU 4-4752 Entered as second dabs matter at the post oflice at Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 20. 1006, 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 t 9.00 I YEAR $18.00 MAIL I MONTH $ 1.50 i MONTHS 8.50 I YEAR . $15.00 l!cr And Thre By BILL JENKINS It seems like a good many years since the first promise was made that soon we would have a grass that would only grow so high and would then quit. Despite the hoary aje of that promise it is still going stron The latest word comes from Dr Neil Stuart, one of the wheel with the US Department of Agri culture Research Station back in Beltsville, Maryland. During a recent address up at OSC he predicted as how the age of chemicals was just around the corner and all we'll have to do in the future is spray a lawn when it reaches the desired height and the grass will stop growing. And we can stop mowing. Nor does this apply only to grass. These same chemicals can retard the growth of trees and shrubs so that if you are a land scape gardener you can achieve a nice neat effect. The only thing the good doctor fails to mention is a date when all this is going to come about. Let's hope that this doesn't turn out to be like prosperity which is always just around the corner Well, il has finally happened. The California Highway Patrol has lowered the boom on slow drivers. That word comes direct from Commissioner Bradford Crittenden. He says that from here on out those who dawdle along in the fast lanes of traffic will have their choice of either, moving over or being cited. Such arrests can be made under the provisions of a law against im peding or blocking the normal flow of traffic. Biggest danger of all, he says. Is the fact that a normally good driver may become exasperated by the slow driver ahead and lose his good judgment. The military is not using all its time in shooting off fancy Roman candles at the moon. Currently the Quartermaster Corps is working on the develop ment of paper clothes for service men. First target is a set of mechan ics overalls that can be worn until dirty and then burned. I wonder if they will also come In handy for writing notes to oneself? I means of the United States mails I Any person finding or receiving questionable mailings is urged to turn in the offending literature or pictures to the postmaster or send them to Mr. Thornton, Post Office Dox 709, Portland. Local stores handling magazines and paperbacked books are doing a good job of censoring out the more salacious numbers. That's one of the really good things about not living in a big city. In smaller centers we are all neighbors with much the same standards and goals. OltM'iMiily By FLORENCE JENKINS Joseph E. Thornton, special agent In charge of the Portland office of the United States Dc parlmciit of Justice's Federal Bu rcau of Investigation, has appealed to all Oregon newspapers to give publicity to a statement by J. Ed gar Hoover regarding the subject of pornography. In the January, 1M0, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Mr. Hoover stated: "The morals of America are be sieged today by an unprincipled force which will spare no home or community in its quest for illicit profits. "1 am speaking of the unques 1 1 o n a b 1 y base individuals who spread obscene literature across our land through the means of fiims, decks of playing cards, pho tographs, 'comic' books, salacious magazines, paperbacked books and other pornographic products These forms of obscenity indeed threaten the morality of our nation and its richest treasure our young people." He deplored the fact that "our youth is subjected to lurid cxhibi lions of obscenity in many of the places where they seek clean en tertainment" such as the corner drugstore or sweetshop with its rack of trashy magazines. "The time lor half . hearted oblique action against dealers in depravity is past." Mr. Hoover continued. "Although their despic able trade reaps $300 million a year, tins diabolical business is costing the nation much more than money. It is robbing our country and particularly our younger gen eral ion of decency it is a seed bed for delinquency among juve niles and depravity among all ages. "Have local governing authori ties investigated to ensure that laws against smut salesmen in their communities are strong enough? "Is the public outcry of suffi cient strength to impress local judges with the need of defending morality by sentencing filth pur veyors to maximum terms? "Are community and civic groups cooperating with law en. forccment authorities in fighting this debasing blight?" Mr. Hoover asked. A check with local post office ruthorities shows that very little pornographic literature is finding Its way into Klamath Falls by Iwirly Oregon OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY 'If it was worthwhile to fight In dians and ford flooded streams to get to Oregon 50 years ago, it is certainly worth your while now to get on a train and move to the tatc." a 50-year-old railroad book 1st reasoned with its readers The booklet is one of some 5,000 pamphlets and folders distributed some 50 years ago by railroad commercial clubs and business inns, urging the nation to come to Oregon, "where there's plenty ol elbow room." The collection of the state's ear ly promotion material has been given to the Oregon Historical So- icty by William Bittle Wells, Port land. The colorful booklets arc a aluable addition to the society's collection of folders telling the story of how the pioneers were old on the idea of moving to the state. Early Oregonians were great promoters of Oregon's mild cli nate and found it easy to forget Ihr. rainfall figures in some cases. Rainfall in early Oregon, if men tioned, was described as "Oregon mist." One booklet found Oregon's tainfall is so gentle it docs not even wash the ground." Rain was sometimes simply dismissed as moisture, or as in one pam- hlet dismissed with "The climate healthful." It was also noted that Oregon rain "soaks in the ground and is not wasted." Eugene, then as now an enter prising city, got out a pamphlet emblazoned across the front in col orlul letters, "Moot Me in Sunny Eugene. Astoria in those days had no qualms about casting the climate ol California :n an underdog role A pamphlet declared, "Our climate is delightful, it easily surpasses the California climate. We have no blizzards, no cyclones, no tor padocs or no thunder storms." Lat er the Astoria promotion piece sly ly mentioned that the annual rain (all is 75.3 inches, but added, "the drainage is good." Many of the early pamphlets were how lo get to it publica lions. There arc booklets on "How to Get to Falls City, Oregon, Queen City of Polk County," "How lo Out lo Attalia, Washington," or "How to Get to Albany, Hub of the Willamette Valley." Albany of- lered proof of its hub claim with a report that at passenger trains departed each day "in five differ ent directions." Early promotion material is im portant for it often provides help to research on some places that no longer exist. The only folder that came close to modern techniques was a docu ment urging vacations at "North Bench. Washington, the Longest Beach in America." The booklet noted that the beach offered "surf bathing in waters tempered by the sun, but all it pictured was heav ily clothed swimmers. Not a bare ankle was in sight. Slock Iriosis By SAM DAWSON AP Business News Analyst NEW YORK .r How you look at the stock market can set vour idea of what's happening to it. That is, it can be what's hap pening to I lie stock or stocks you own. Or you can be loftier about it and discuss what's happening lo your favorite stock price index Each of these has tumbled since the first of the year. But each. of necessity has had to be weighed ocr the years by the stock splits and stock dividends and by the emissions and additions that- a changing economy has dictated So their current stocks are quite different from the ones that were in the original index when it start ed years ago. And the indcc figure definitely i:n't the average price of the stocks as now listpd on the exchange. So (or the fun of it, let's look at what has happened lo present day stock prices since Lhc first of the year. And let's take the Associated Press price index of 60 stocks not the index figure itself, which lias had to be adjusted from time to time, but the actual 60 stocks that are in it. They are pretly representative of the stock market as a whole, although mostly they are blue chips with a few glamorous new comers to popularity. Studying the blue chips could be more significant than wondering about the ups and downs of the mercurial glamor ones. The blue chips tend to be put away in strong l.oxes and taken out only for a good, nonspcciilative, reason. If you had had $3,599 on New Year's Eve, you could have nought one each of the 60 stocks included in the AP index. If you had sold all 60 of them last week, you would have got $3,337 f o r them. Here, too, stock splits being what they are, an adjustment should be made. One of the stocks, A'cstinghouse, was split two for one since the first of the year. Technically, you would have 61 locks worth about $3,357. Most of the drop in prices came in the 30 stocks that make up the industrial component of the index. Their combined market value dropped from $2,308 to $2,063 in the first five weeks of 10. Tlie 15 rails put up a better showing. They would have cost you $517 at the start of the year and would have brought you $50: last week. As usual, the 15 utilities followed a fairly steady course. These gov ernment-regulated companies in crease their earnings as the terri tory they serve grows. Their rates are closely watched. The market price of their stocks takes few big swings up or down. You could have bought Hie 15. utilities at $774 and sold them five weeks later at $768. Brokers attribute this slight sag to trad ers' views of just how prosperous the economy is going to be or. doubtless more accurately, as to how prosperous the territory each utility serves is likely to be. The AP index accurately told from day lo day what was hap pening to the 60 stocks, in the iineral market climate. This is only what actually happened to them in terms of dollars and cents. bal's Howdah tidy while the ele phants were crossing the Alps? A dog robber. And who applied that polish that iias under the dust that was on the boots that Gen. Custer died in? A dog robber. In fact, I suppose that a dog robber has figured in every major military engagement since the walls fell at Jericho. Even in that one, a dog robber may have shincd the trumpet, or held the music, or something. Gunga Din, of whom Kipling ang, was a dog robber. Webster lias honored the dog robber with a place in his dictionary. You can lind the entry on page 765 of the new international edition between 'dog ribs" and "dog rose." A dog robber is defined as "an oflicer's servant or personal at tendant. (A dog ribs, incidental ly, is a weed and a dog rose is flower. But that is another story). The use of enlisted men as dog robbers came under congressional scrutiny last year because of com plaints that some of our warriors were being assigned as baby sit ters and housekeepers. Last week, a House subcommit tee renewed the inquiry by mak- ng public an Air Force manual vhich set forth detailed instruc tion on the proper use of lace table-cloths, wine glasses and other accouterments of the spartan mili tary life. To live up to this manual, a dog obbcr would have to be a chem ist, an engineer and a disciple of Oscar of the Waldorf. I was amazed to learn it had become such a fine art. I knew several dog robbers dur ing my Army days and, frankly, they seemed like pretty ordinary foes. They also were, by and large, a contented and even en vied lot. Being assigned lo the general's Quarters excused .them from such soldierly assignments as kitchen police, latrine duty and ridding the company street of cigaret hulls. This always looked to me like a rather good way to fight a war. And I suspect, our congressmen notwithstanding, that every dog robber still has his day. They'll Do It Every Time . By Jimmy Hatlo h 7 PMYFFE AND YnEXTTHEVU. BE TEU.IN' HOW THE1 v DI3UMM ARE SORE 1 "WEV LIVED IN A LCXi CABIN'" f CLOSED TME Y I USED THAT THEV HADD4 DID THEIR HOMEWORK ON y-' SCHOOLS TODAy TO WALK COME TOWOPK - A SHOVEL - ON ACCOUNT 1 EIGHT MILES 1 AND THEIR KIDS- 2 OP THE STORM ..' EACH WAV UP K QOT A DAy "V U Z,L , C'M VA IMAGINE W TO MV NECK V OPF- P AND O V f rJt 7 Z?b V THAT ? 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Who. for instance, kept Hanni SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal o o JJ Flie Almaiine By United Press International Today is Monday, Feb. 8, the 3:lth day of the year, with 327 more days to follow in 1960. The moon is approaching its full phase. The morning stars are Mars', Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. On this day in history: In 1587, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was beheaded on charges of plotting the murder of Britain's Queen Elizabeth the First. In 1819. English author, art critic and social reformer John Ruskin was born. In 1820. Civil War Union Gener al William Tecumseh Sherman was born. In 1010, the Boy Scouts of Amer ica were chartered in Washington. In 10-tn, an Air Force jet bomb er flew across the United States in three hours and 46 minutes. . . the fastest transcontinental flight at that time. , In 1955, Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov resigned as chief of state. He was succeeded by Mar shal Nikolai Bulgamn. A thought for today Mary Stu art, Queen of Scots said: "In my end is my beginning." (guoteK By United Press International CAIRO Mrs. Gcnevieva Dru- ry tnristte, or Cannot, Indiana, one of 76 elderly Americans who made a four month, 14.000-mile salari across Alrica, discussing the rigorous trip: I wouldn't have missed a min ute of it even though at times I cried and pleaded with my hus band to fly me home." NEW YORK Heart specialist Dr. Paul Dudley White, who treat ed President Eisenhower for his heart attack, stating on (he NBC- TV program "Meet the Press" that activity is good for the President: '(His 11-nation tour) is work that he is fit, especially adapted to, he likes it, it's an important function, and he's followed the rules otherwise so far as his health is concerned." SAN RAFAEL. Calif. Miss Louise A. Boyd, describing 'as a great honor her being named the first woman councilor in the 108- year history of the American Geo graphical Society: "They have never had woman on the council before and 1 did not expect I would be the first one." . Pray Dog's Bark Will Awaken Boy LUNUUN tupti tsicven weeks ago 15-year-old Ronald Anthony was knocked off his bicycle by a car and has been in a coma ever since. Ronald utters not a sound, rec ognizes no one. not even his griev ing parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ken neth Anthony. The best doctors they could get have been unable to jolt the boy out of his hazy world. The Anthonys spend hours at Ronald's bedside, hoping to say or do something that would make him respond. "We have tried whispering to him in the hope that something might strike a chord, but it never has," his father said. Ronald's doctors said they will not be able lo do anything more for him unless he can be snapped out of his coma. They believe he suffered severe brain damage in the bicycle accident. Recently the Anthonys noticed that Ronald's dog, Rover, which he raised from a pup, has been whin ing and refusing to eat since his master's accident. That gave them an idea. , The parents plan to put Rover in front of a microphone and tape record his bark, then play the tape over and over at Ronald's bedside. "We pray the sound of Rover's barking will penetrate Ronald's unconsciousness where nothing else has and jog his memory," Anthony said. "It's worth a try," said Surgeon Registrar S. T. Whitehead of Croydon General Hospital. "In cases like this a slight jog of the memory is sometimes all that is necessary to rouse the patient." TASTES THE SAME BRIGHTON. England (UPI) Members of the English Speaking Union protested bitterly when they found the menu of their an nual banquet was printed in French. After a hurried translation the members found they were dining on turtle soup, scampi, lamb, pud ding and mixed fruit. "It tastes the same either way," the chairman told the miffed audience. Labor Chiefs Mull Problems MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP)-The intramural wars that have plagued organized labor for a half century still are a long way from being solved. That appeared clear today as AFL-CIO chiefs gathered for a winter meeting. Labor's role ir this year's national political cam paign and the perennial problem of interunion rivalry topped the agenda. AI J. Hayes, president of th- uacninisis union, woniea out a plan that would require affiliated AFL-CIO unions to submit any squabble with fellow unions to binding arbitration or decisions of neutrals. Influential AFL-CIO colleagues, however, have ticketed the Hayes plan for a side track. They main tain it is premature and needs more study. So far as presidential politics are concerned the AFL-CIO chiefs seem divided in support amon three senators whose names have figured in speculation for the Democratic nomination. The three are Sens. John F Kennedy of Massachusetts, Hu bert H. Humphrey of Minnesota and Stuart Symington of Missouri. However, no decision on AFL-CIO support is expected this early. Lack of enthusiasm for the Hayes plan as a formula for settling job rights and jurisdic tional disputes did not indicate lack of progress in this field. In the four years since the AFL-CIO merger considerable action has been taken. The federation has established an umpire system for deciding in terunion controversies. The trou ble is that these decisions in sev eral cases have been snubbed by the losers. The AFL-CIO has had no im portant weapon other than expul- About one wild turkey a season is killed by bow and arrow in West Virginia. FILM Developing 8-Picture Roll Jumbo Prints 39 Western Thrift 7th & Main sion of recalcitrant unions a drastic step that has been avoided. Under the Hayes plan, such dis putes would be decided in a man ner designed to be enforced by the courts so the courts could impose penalties that would not in volve AFL-CIO expulsion. WORST STORM ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) Is tanbul dug out today from its worst snowstorm in three years. Blowing down from the Black Sea, the storm put a blanket of white on the city's famed skyline and slowed land, sea and air traffic. Survey Reports On Water Supply PORTLAND (AP) Oregon'! water supply outlook for spring and summer varies from fair to very poor, the snow survey si pervisor for state and federal agencies in Oregon said Saturday, W. T. Frost said sorinn and summer streamflows probably 11 contain only 40 to 86 per cent of normal runoff. Total stored water supplies lit Oregon, he said, are far below normal, and watershed soils under ihe mountain snowpack are much, drier than normal. He said the snow contains less water than usu al, averaging 50 per cent of the Feb. 1 normal. About two thirds of the total winter snowpack usually is on the ground by Feb. 1. Only 32 per cent of the normal winter total was on the ground a week ago, he said. Soils in northern mountain area arc well primed by fall rains, but soils elsewhere are drier and will soak up much valuable water from melting snow, he said. Some 25 major irrigation reser voirs in the state hold only 68 per cent of what is normal for Feb. 1. Some smaller reservoirs are at low levels from a dry sea son last year and there is little carryover water. Cleveland, Ohio, was originally named Cleaveland. The "a" was later dropped from the spelling. N. J. Rosenbaum INCOME TAX CONSULTANT Commerce Bldg. 11)1 Walnut Ave. Ph. TU 4-5903 or TU 4-5863 In Klamath Falls Since '46 Mondiyt In Milln thro Feb. 15 IfFOR FUN AND W GOOD HEALTH Bowling is a great sport for keeping in good health and trim! After an evening of bowling you'll feel "in the pink." Try it . . . come in for a game! OPEN 9:30 A.M. 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