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PAGE 6 A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Sunday, Feb. 21. 1960 I About 77 per cent of American They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo men and 47 per cent of women art licensed automobile drivers. ' FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph. TU 4-4752 Subscription Rates Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls. Ore. on August 20. 1006, under act of Congress. March 8. 1879 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS St-rving Southern Oregon And Northern California CARRIER I MONTH $ 1.50 6 MONTHS 9.00 I YEAR $18.00 MAIL 1 MONTH $ 1.50 fi MONTHS 8.50 I YEAR . $15.00 i .1 BSFS-SStffisa..- I l M4MSELLE-VDU .) Wj? f I SOTTA 6BAB ME SOME J ( WILL REMEMBAf? ) fTTPWS. Cr ( SHUTEVEWEU., PRETTY TO BENDING ZE S CEE 1',cu SOON,KIODO, I'LL BESOIN 7 (KNEES.N'ESTCERAS?) JlJ FLATBii?4" BACK TO GOOD OL' MAlSOUlPWEASEy HOW rnnuC?) VJ3ROOKl-VM" fl$ TTCVIN& HIM ONCE f DEBONAIR.' CONDITIONSry r1T7VS I A6AlNSO,M4lS Msi HOW CON- ) TlVX-T ri n a ' fv-X VT NOM? y iiMTINENTAL.' M'U SV iV"f V $fV "M" 'ND VVHO'S THIS flf Lff Vffl rffefV- kA RELAXING IN K$fll M-vW4vW WHy, the same Jlir PIS llenver Dam By BILL JENKINS The last issue of the game com mission's bulletin carries a story on Oregon's beaver, the animal that was largely responsible f o r the early exploration of much of the American West. There seems to be at least a growing belief that perhaps the beaver hasn't outlived his useful ness yet, despite the several thou sand complaints that come in annu ally as a result of his dam build- in it. The beaver may have his bad points but he certainly has his good ones as well. Not the least of which is his good sense in build ing small dams up on tributary waters and holding water for fu ture use. ' This is an elemental procedure that seems completely beyond the scope of today's planners and en gineers. Even If we admit mat some of our bigger dam projects have been -strictly make-work un dertakings for the glorification of aome politician it still seems as if the thing in general has settled down to a man vs. beaver bat tle. Okay, say the engineers to the beaver, you can build a dam but I can -build a bigger one. And so It goes. Bigger, wider, higher, more expensive. Well, anyway, according to the story beavers that get in trouble down in the valleys are being live trapped and transported to t h c mountains where they can build all the dams they want to. Until they interfere with some two-bit enterprise of mankind, that is. What with water being the most valuable and sought after natural resource in the West today that sounds . like good thinking. The beaver are bappy. They work with out pay, there are no days off well, maybe an occasional Sun day for water polo and in their labor they help everything. Ponds are created that hold runoff in the spring. Fish can find homes there. Passing waterfowl find rest lng grounds, nest, too, in the sta ble ponds. Wildlife finds water as we were pleased last week to con tribute our own little brightener one day. A select cross section of friends received the news with mixed emo tions that a would-be political can didate had come in to the clas sified counter of the Herald and News and asked if that was the place to file as a candidate for the May 20 primary elections. Honest, though, we don't know the would-be candidate's name. an annual rate. But here comes the joker. Igroup in the party designate the In nominee. ISixii I isli I v Sacramento tTo the Editor) Every day nowadays there something doing somewhere in the national parks. On this desk an invitation from Everglades Natur al History Association. It is mod cled after the first society in Yo scmitc in the early 1020s. The invitation is a typical Dixie fish fry" served by the Girl Scouts Ranger Aid Group. There will be hush puppies and often that delicious Conch chowder. The big pink shells that were orna inputs on grandmother's parlor mantel yield chowder material equal to the best Nantucket qua- hogs. The Invitation announces three more trails added to Anhinga. (Water Turkey), Gumbo Limbo January the social security tax rate rose to 3 per cent from per cent. The government took in some 90 million dollars more from employes and a similar amount from employers. Contributions are now running at an annual rate of 9': billion dollars, up more than a billion dollars from the December rate The social security tax rate will continue to rise to provide for in creased payments. Part of these payments will be in larger bene tits to those eligible. Not all over tiS are now eligible, by any means. .Most of the increase in funds will be needed simply because there will be many more persons 65 or over in the years ahead, and an increasing percentage of them will be eligible for benefits. There are now some lS'.i million Americans in this age group. It is estimated that by 1U70 there will be 19 million and by 1975 near ly 21 million. World Toriav By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON (AP) If you are convinced that history repeats itself, put a bet down that a Dem- wriif uill ho Ihn nnvt nrncirlnnl nt ' a',T,' ,,. the United States. Ihusiasts kodak alligators and oc- Thp ,,,, ,..vm vnl, (h.Vl casionally the very rare American crocodile. Everglades National Park offers winter nature study. There are, however, other national park serv ice areas along the south border. Big Bend has certain native gar den wildflowcrs like zinnias, also the two miscalled "African" also French" marigolds. Carlsbad Na tional Park can hardly handlo the crowds that come to watch the bat swarm. Chiricahua National Monument has telescoped life zones from the tip of the tropical to the Arctic Alpine. When planning this month next summer s outing, why not con sidcr motoring across to Great Smokies National Park for water wheel-ground corn bread with sorg hum, then return via Yellowstone, jGJacicr, Rainier and tho Olympic! no ranging cauie rainforest national parks? i uifim it a siiiiuiu plan, i n-oiii that more people could think like! beavers do. Then maybe we could V C. M. Goethe have more small dams and fewer big ones. The expensive ones that arc built under the guise of "free" public (power) gifts to the people. After all, if we are to believe all that we arc told by the people who should know atomic power is only just around tho corner. Once the atomic plant comes into general use wc will have no further use for our massive hydroelectric projects and the billions of dol lars that have been poured into them will be as gone as granny's goose But the small dams at the heads of the streams will still be there to furnish ponds for fishing and pleasure, the rivers will still flow and I suppose that even in the atomic age people arc going to go on drinking water. Nasty thought though it may be tp many I hope the beaver arc allowed to go on with their high country building. And allowed to gain in numbers. We gotta remember that now that we have perfected the hydro gen bomb these same beavers may be the only engineers left pretty quick. Town Hull By FLORENCE JENKINS The one place in a community of this size where gossip is ex changed, political confabs arc held under the guise of casual time passing and momentous decisions are reached is the post office. Women are inclined to rely on brief visits with other women at their favorite grocery store, but the post office is the one spot that is coeducational in nature. There one hears the greeting, "Hi. Governor," and looks around lo sec a man who is not a candi date in this election year) smile and return Die salute. After Post master Chct Langslet's crew gels the morning mail distributed among the boxes, one can count almost a chamber of commerce quorum around the post office lob by. Polities is of prime importance as a subject of post office corner sa'ion this year, of course. "I'm going to support so-and-so," one hears on the one hand. "Did you hear that so-and-so was talked into running because the committee thought he would change his registration?" is a juicy bit of scuttlebutt relayed into another group. Crop prospects and the weather come in for their share and here and there a stamp collector is seen reaping a bonanza when a friend opens a letter from someone visit ing outside the country. Being a participant by nature, Taxes By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (AP)-If you are wondering why your pay check doesn't seem t stretch as far to day 'as it did a little while back, Uncle Sam has one answer for you. More of it is being withheld at the source. That is, the government is get- ling an increased amount of it in higher social security taxes. And some of you may be finding more withheld because of rising charges for hospital and medical insur ance. Some may find more with held under company pension plans. Those lucky enough to have re ceived a pay raise recently will also note (hat a sizable chunk of the increase is withheld at the source lo take care of federal in come taxes and, in some cases, stale income taxes. Even if your take-home pay hasn't dwindled because of all this, there has been a steady if! low rise in the last year In the prices of many tilings you buy ex cept that big item, food. In most cases there has been in even larger rise in tho cost ot! the various services you need or demand, nil the way from trans portation fares to tecs for person al core. The Department of Commerce notes that in January the total of wages and salaries advanced to in annual rale of 27li',i billion dollars. The gain over December was more than two billion dollars. And January was ahead of a year ago by some 28 billion dollars at In such cases the "in party' has won 16 of 23 elections, or 70 per cent of the time. could be and have been upset. You don't know, of course, which Democrat you're gambling on. All you know is that he appar ently will emerge from a rough-and-tumble convention scramble for the nomination. And that his presumed opponent, Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon, won't run nlo any contest for the Repub lican nomination. Going on those facts alone, history suggests, the GOP will be thrown out of the White House. In the 11 elections since 1832! when the oulof-power party had conflict in choosing its nominee, that candidate has won the elec tion eight times. The modern con vention system began in 1832 And the seven cases in which there was conflict among the "outs" and harmony among the 'ins," the "outs" have been vic torious five times. This bit of statistical lore can be lound deep in the close-packed pages of a new book, "The Politics of National Party Conventions, written for the Brookings Institu tion by three political scientists Paul T. David, Ralph M. Gold man and Richard C. Bain. The authors themselves draw no conclusions about lfMO. In fact their book, a gold mine of re search on how the nation ha. found its presidents and its also rans, supplies ample evidence that not one but many factors deter mine the outcome of elections. Just the same, they consider (hat the pattern cited here has held true so consistently that "it would seem to have some predic tive value" when the party system is working normally. The record tells a totally differ ent story when there is no con- lost among the "outs." When an out party has picked its candidate harmoniously as by nominating a titular leader such as a pre viously defeated candidate, or by letting an inner group choose the nominee the "outs have lost, 13 times out of 15. Which suggests it might be pos itively unhealthy for tho Demo crats in November, and a boon for Nixon, if by some miracle the half dozen Democratic factions of today should unite suddenly be hind a single aspirant. This is the more true because the "ins" usually do best when they nominate without conflict 1 by renominating an incumbent president, or selecting his under study, or by letting a controlling SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal HEE TT&0ESS 1 JGiT MT OtOKRSTAMP 1HKE ) V Orf-WAT -WiMt-?. V II "WEYR& lAUrtlNi - ( AT CUE Cf TUE ) - SICK 11 T I I I Smooches By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) Kissing has become a lost art in America It began to decline the year we turned 40 and has plunged down hill rapidly ever since. Every man's kissing history is roughly the same. It begins as an ordeal, gradually becomes a pleasure and a joy, and winds up ds a form of feminine insult. The ordeal time is when you are n infant. Then you are at the mercy of every loving, moist mouthed aunt. Kissing isn't much better when you first start school. Big girls in kindergarten develop a mania for chasing smaller boys, throwing lliem on the ground and kissing them. The whole business seems pretty silly to the boy. But by the time a fellow gets into high school he develops a sudden interest in the matter. He discovers kissing is not only bear able, it can become a form of mutual fun. Through college and up to his 40th birthday a fellow enjoys kiss- as a manly art particularly when strange girls at cocktail parties come up and buss him un expectedly because this makes his wife so jealous. But by the time he is 45 the situation has changed dramatically. He overhears his wife whisper ing to some sweet young thing at a party: "Why don't you go up and surprise my husband with a kiss? The poor thing. He doesn't have much fun anymore. Even worse are the wives of friends who in the old days used to like to lure you into the pantry at neighborhood parties for a bit of innocent necking. After 45 they become lips that pass in the night. As you step up to kiss them fondly remembering the days ot yore, they turn at the last mo ment and give you a quick absent minded peck on the Cheek. That is the worst insult of all to a middle-aged man to be kissed on the cheek by another man's middle-aged wife. Here you are certainly entitled to revenge. If she is smaller than you, stand on tiptoe so that she kisses you on your Adam s apple instead of your cheek. But no matter what you do, you might as well face up to it: Kiss ing has become a lost art in America at least as far as you can determine. Ah, well, why mourn? After all, ns every man over 45 knows only too well, the world is being taken over by the amateurs, in every Meld. til!1. K.rKi-MtlffW.Slt-':.,. Inc.. WuM rTM I L Who's this? whv,gasp4i?d,-tvje romantic ski instructor-foreiem accent and all-- Hi " accent slip- p" :"",cm fQj& TUAHXAHO ATI? HAT TO PRANCES WHITAKEIi, Boxzzy4, (.MKMCt-i J? XV'CAl-IF. Despite Friendly Overtures All Not OK Between Reds By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press News Analyst Behind clouds of words about undying friendship and solidarity indication can be detected of a spirited debate between the lead ers of the Soviet and Chinese Com munist parties. The Kremlin chose no less a personage than Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko to sign a long article in Pravda, the Soviet Com munist newspaper, presenting Moscow s case. Despite the usual wordage about great friendship, the article at times appeared to have a petulant tone. One gets the impression the Chinese Communists have been fouling up Nikita Khrushchev's plans for finding a way of living with the Western Democracies Alimiiii4 By United Press International Today is Sunday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of the year, with 314 more days in 1060. The moon is approaching its new quarter. The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. The evening star is Mercury. On this day in history: In 1871, the District of Colum bia was given territorial govern ment In 1878, the New Haven Connec ticut Telephone Co. issued a tele phone directory, the first of its kind in the world. In 1009. the Great White Fleet 16 U.S. Navy battleships, steamed into Hampton Roads, ending the first worldwide journey ever un dertaken by vessels of the U.S Navy. In 1925. the first issue of the New Yorker Magazine hit the newsstands. A thought for today: Thomas Paine said: "Character is much easier kept than recovered." Commies Rig Rocket Bases TAIPEI,- Formosa (AP) Na tionalist China's defense ministry reported today that the Chinese Communists have constructed string of rocket bases along the China mainland coast. Rear Adm. Liu Hoh-tu, the'min istry's spokesman, made the re port to a news conference. He gave no details. Liu also said Red China's air force still has a total of about 3,000 operational planes, BO per cent of them jets. He estimated the Chinese Com munists have 20 to 30 submarines but discounted a suggestion that one of Poiping's subs might be the mystery submarine which the Argentine navy claims it is chas ing in a gulf on the south Argen tine coast. Liu said as far as he knows, the Chinese Communists have no long-range submarines First Robin 'Flies' North TUXEDO, N.Y. (UPI) The first robin traditionally means spring is here and Gerden Di rector Fred Johnson has decided to speed things up. Johnson, noting that his cro cuses will be ready to bloom next week in the 125-acre Sterling For est Gardens here, decided that a few orange-breasted robins were needed to complete the picture. Robins generally have more sense than lo fly to cold New Y'ork in February. So. Johnson made arrangements to airlift 300 of them here in a warm plane. He says the robins and if tradition holds, spring will be here next week. while communism waits confident ly, though a 'bit imnalientlv. for capitalism to collapse under the pressure of Moscow's sustained political and economic offensives. The Red Chinese leaders, much more in need of external tensions now than their Soviet brethren, appear far less than enthusiastic about Khrusnehev s now vpniiirac into India and Southeast Asia. Gromyko's Pravda article osten. sibly was a salute to the 10th an niversary of the Chinese-Soviet mutual assistance pact of 1950. But he reminded the Chinese at the outset about all the Soviets had done for them in the establish ment of new industries in China, in the work of Soviet soeeialists there, in a steady stream of Soviet equipment to China and "all fnrms of friendly collaboration." Gromyko then reminded the Chinese that in the 19V airrpp. ment, both big Communist states expressed readiness to cooperate r,;ncereiy in an international activ ities aimed "at , establishment of peace and security in the whnlo world." Gromyko also reminded Peinine that the Soviet Union is pniHpH by the "five principles" first pro claimed by the Chinese them selves: mutual respect of sov ereignty, territorial integrity, non- aggression, noninterference in in ternal affairs of other states, equality and mutual advantage, and peaceful coexistence. The Red Chinese art fhA nnoc who have kicked the five prin ciples overboard. Thev invarfpH territory occupied for vears hv in. dia and blatantly interfered in the Indonesian government's eamnaiBn against Chinese traders in rural areas of the Indonesian islanrf nf Java. Both nations are stops on luirushchevs latest tour whiVh heightens Soviet unhappiness with meir Dig Asian ally. Gromvko reminded tho rh!nOI Communists that Moscow is play ing the "outstanding" role in elab brating Lenin's policy of peaceful coexistence of states with different I systems. He also tartly told the cninese that Khrushchev's trip to ne united Mates was "a miehtv investment in the cause of lessen ing international tensions and de fense of peace in the whole world, ino It will show Dositive. far. reaching influence in the further development of the international situation." The article sounded like a Inn? not-too-patient lecture to a way ward child. 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