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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.
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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
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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
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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. The implication
seemed to be: patience, you
Chinese, father knows best. Ynu'II
see the great advantage of Soviet
policy in the long run.
Oregon Girl
Wins $100 Bond
CHICAGO (AP) A Banks.
Ore., lass proved she can bake a
cherry pie. ,
Janet Schlegel, 17, won a re
serve regional championship
Thursday in the 28th annual
national cherry pie baking con
lest.
The National Red Cherry Insti
tute sponsored the contest held
here.
Miss Schlegel was awarded a
$100 government savings bond
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official notice was posted that
Queen Elizabeth had given birth
to a son
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PANAMA CITY' - Adlai Steven
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