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nil Deferae (Editor's .'ote: As the United States moves to provide greater protection for its citizens against nuclear warfare, UPI Correspond ent Michael Howard has taken a long look at Swedish Civil De fense, which may be the best or ganized in the world. His timely dispatch follows.) By MICHAEL HOWARD STOCKHOLM (UPII Sweden. which hasn't been to war for 150 years, has been preparing since the beginning of the nuclear age! to protect itself against other peo ple's atomic folly. It has been an expensive bur den and officials acknowledge that it Fometimes has the unreal air of science fiction. But shelters have been built, for both people and industry, and evacuation plans are clearly drawn. And the thrifty Swedes have even made plans to get some of their money back, in the hoped-for event that no one pollutes their neutral skies with nuclear death. - Swedish experience in Civil De fense goes back to World War II when thousands of refugees found shelter in this country. In 1944, the Riksdag (parUament) passed a law that made all persons be tween 16 and 65 liable for service in Civil Defense. Conscription has not let up and today there are about 325,000 men and women serving in the organization. That 3.5 million Swedish people are faced with the grim prospect ol moving under wartime circum stances from major cities and in dustrial areas to rural areas seems hardly to disturb them. Tell them that the decentralization of their population will be perma nent and their response is a re served, "It must be so." When it is a matter of self-prcs ervation, no price is too high. The Swedes believe "total war calls for total defense." Swedish CD authorities have tried to envision all the hypothet ical wartime situations and have made their plans accordingly. The result has been the breaking down of their CD operations into three components: .evacuation, shelter construction and the service branches. Of primary importance is evac uation. The Swedes are working out plans to relocate half their population. Fortunately, they have1 the space. Sweden is a country with an area of 158.000 square miles and a population of seven million people, about 48 persons per square mile. Plans for evacuation are explic it. In Stockholm, for instance. every residence has a map on the ground floor which shows the evac uation route to be followed. At the first threat of danger, about 350,000 persons, women, chil dren, the aged and infirm, would leave the city. At the second stage, 200.000 workers will be withdrawn. With 150.000 persons away already on military duty, only 50.000 es sential workers will remain. They will stay in mass shelters. Fourteen massive shelters, built out of granite and gneiss have been constructed in Sweden's nine biggest cities, including four in Stockholm. Their purpose is to provide protection for persons un able to leave at the first warn ing or for those left behind. The shelters ultimately will be used . by the CD workers and skeleton crews who remain in the cities Since 1945 the Swedes have built about 30.000 "standard" shelters Constructed from reinforced con crete, these shelters shall, accord ing to law, be large enough to irovide room for the inhabitants of the house and strong enough to stand the pressure of debris. Ev ery year an additional 2,000 of them are built, giving shelter space to about 120,000 persons. It is asked that even if a sue cessful, full-scale evacuation took place, would not the industrial life of the country falter? Not neces sarily so. Production of war materials would undoubtedly slacken with so many industrial centers turned into ghost towns. But production! will not come to a complete halt .Many plants, including some which produce arms and other warfare necessities, already have been built under tons of rock. They would be able to keep up produc tion at practically full strength. The state of the Swedish eton-l omy during war is secondary CD authorities feel the course of the war will be determined in the opening stages. If the population is safe dufing this "survival peri od, that is what matters, not whether industrial life ceases to function. Of course, the cost of such an e:ensive CD network is a draw back. SiSfce World War le every Swe has paid about $1.12 eabi year ior vmi ui-iciim: uhuui state allowances and not includy; INC cullllilujmjr miu pn.avc vu.tw. The price for the 14 mass shel ters has come to about 19.6 mil lion dollars, the government de fraying about two-thirds of the cost But it is hoped they even tually will pay for themselves. Sfcttpe In By SYD KROMSH AP N'ewsfeatures "Hansel and Gretel," the be loved children's story by Grimm, has been translated into nearly every known language in the world. Now scenes trom the class ic work appear on the latest set of four semi-postal stamps issued by West' Germany. Each of the four depicts a different scene f ro m nanset ana ureiei, reports uie World Wide Philatelic Agency. The 7 pfennig plus 3 shows lit tie Hansel and Gretel strolling through the woods after they have! been sent on a ruse by their wicked stepmother. Hansel is seen dropping crumbs of bread to help find his way back while a little bird hovers in the background ready to eat the crumbs. The 10 pfennig plus 5 depict: Hansel and Gretel being invited into the gingerbread house by the evil witch. The 20 pfennig plus 10 pictures Hansel in a cage where he is being fattened. The witch gleefully watches while sad little Gretel looks on helplessly. The 40 pfennig plus 10 illus trates the happy ending after the witch has been despatched by the clever children. The relieved fath- Site TO ni.-awh." By EARL ARONSON AP N'ewsfeatures Planning to buy a leaf mulching attachment for your power mowr as autumn approaches? Well, just a minute. Here's something to think about and it s all my fault Last fall I sang the praises of such a gadget and along came a very sensible and quite irkeH lawn-tender who very politely b'lt firmly told me to lower the beat a couple of octaves, or maybe get muffler. This fellow said he had pur chased a rotary type lawn mower with mulcher attachment for the sole purpose of grinding his leaves into mulch. Fine," he added. "This I can do if the leaves are not moist. If the leaves are 100 per cent dried out and crisp; if the grass is no longer growing. 'These conditions seldom exist, he moaned, "unless you let the leaves lay on the lawn for many weeks to dry out and become crisp and. of course, knee deep by then. When my leaves fall in the autumn they are still a little green and if I try to dispose of them with the mower-mulcher, all I get is a lawn of shredded leaves (and clogged mulcher screen I. if the grass is still growing and not cut first, I get a mush of leaves and grass." He tried revving up the engine, sharpening the blade, enlarging the holes in the screen, with the same result clogged screen and mush. So what to do? He didn't say what Brand ot mower or. mulcher he had but we figured Boating By JACK WOLISTON United Press International A man was found dead recent ly aboard a small cruiser on an inland lake. An autopsy reported that death resulted from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. It was one of those boating cas ualties that occur rarely, but a number of them have been re corded in boating statistics and others probably will be. A good number , of these have resulted from improper repair of leaking exhaust lines, although in some instances other factors were involved. The U.S. Coast Guard, in its pamphlet "Pleasure Boat Safety, describes one of these incidents in which one man died and six other persons were made violently ill. The operator of a 26-foot cabin cruiser, his wife, four adult friends a 9-year-old girl and a pet fox terrier had set out on a fishing trip. It was a clear, calm fall day About one hour after departure, running at half speed and with no apparent wind circulation, the ter her became sink. Soon the young girl became ill and grad ually all of the boat s occupants became sick, two going into coma. Carbon monoxide poisoning numbs the mind and none of the party was able Is think clearly or understand the difficulty, except one of the men who remained con scious sufficiently to shut off the; motor and 8i(m,Ja passing craft! for help. Transferred to a nearby hospital. 1 recovered witlt permanent injury, except one man. 56, who was dead before he reached the hospital. 9 The News er is shown hugging Gretel as Hansel smiles approvingly. The additional values on this! set will go to general charities of West Germany. The first 1962 edition of the H. E. Harris "U.S. and British North America catalog is on the market. It has 160 pages and near ly 2.000 illustrations. Featured is a special "Americana" section. United Nations issues complete and the valuable U.S. Stamp Identifier. The new edition has hundreds of up-to-tlie-mihute price changes and its editors claim it is an ac curate barometer of the current stamp market. The catalog costs only 35 cents and can be obtained by writing to! H. E. Harris k Co., Boston 17, Mass. Canada will issue on Oct. 12 a new stamp illustrating the mul tiple use of Canada's renewable natural resources, reports the Canada Post Office Department in' Ottawa. The new stamp will sym bolize agriculture, forestry, wa-l tcr power, fisheries and ildlife, linking them all with the wheel of industry. Liberia has issued two new stamps and a souvenir sheet to commemorate the 15th anniver sary of UNESCO. The 25 cents for regular mail is labeled Education-Science-Culture" and depicts a discussion group. The 25 cents air mail shows a vignette scene of a science class at the University of Liberia. The souve nir sheet, bearing a 50 cents air mail stamp, pictures Liberian stu dents being instructed in physics at the University of Liberia by an instructor from UNESCO. other folk might have a similar problem. So. we, who had cheered a mulcher that mulched nobly through dry leaves, wrote to the engine and equipment division of i a company that makes a popular mower and mulcher. And the honest sales manager replied that there was no answer for wet or green leaves. "Thev just don't chop up well. Grass and leaves clog up in your leaf mul cher if they are wet and green." His company, he said, had pjt much effort into models that would give maximum efficiency. He said his mulcher attachment suspends the leaves momentarily and gives the blade an opportunity to hit them several hundred times before shooting them out ot the exhaust chute. "If the blade has enough lift action, the leaves will be thrown and forced through the screen and out the exhaust chute," he related Our consultant suggested wind- rowing leaves or grass instead of spreading them over the lawn This would give you a clean lawn and the opportunity to pick up the leaves left in rows by the wind rower. . Another solution would be to have a grass catcher model that would pick up all the grass, leaves and debris and dump them wher ever you want to deposit them. The moral of all this is that the next time someone interes's you in a leaf mulcher and you can't wait or don't want to wait until the leaves are dry, ask about the wet-leaf problem and invite the dealer to give you a lawn test, when the leaves are damp What had happened? This is the Coast Guard's report: Approximately one week prior to this casualty, a patch consist ing of half round of rubber hose had been clamped over a leak in the exhaust pipeline under the seat in the after end of the cock pit. This exhaust pipe passed through the transom, near the wa terline, permitting water to run back into the line, and it became the dispenser of death. Although this is a common type of installa tion, the presence of water in the end of the exhaust line hinders the free exodus of exhaust gases and abets the leakage of exhaust gas es if there is a leak in the line." Koamer Steel Boats, a division !of the Chris-Craft Corp., has just changed its name to Roamer placed on the market a new alumi num express cruiser. The new craft, according to the Holland, Mich., firm, is "designed to meet the growing demands for a modestly-priced, all-purpose family boat." . Called the "Silver Comet," the 27-foot cruiser sleeps four in a cabin with headroom of 6 feet, 3 inches. The hull is constructed of anti corrosive, high tensile aluminum alloy. Aluminum plate, oiK-sixth of an inch thick, is used for the bottom sections of the bo; Hull sides, deck, coveriqc boards and transom are of one-eighth inch plate. Electronic action, a cause of corrosion on metal hulls, is elim inated through use of an automat ic, transistorized device which Is a permanent installation on the boat. . The "Silver Comet" has a beam of 10 feet. Its freeboard forward is 50 inches: after, 36 inches. Draft HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath ARCHITECT'S S Make Your TODAY'S PROJECT; An farly American drysink. DESIGNER XriLU.iM MEY ERRIECKS of Huntington, N 1', explains: Early American furniture has an ftppeal ill year round, but there's something about the fall ot the year that evokes a special maic from the homespun appearance and warm pine wood tones of a piece of authentic Colonial. It bespeaks gracious hospitality like a crackling hre on a cold autumn night. And one of the best features of this style is that its handcrafted history makes it especially adapta ble to manufacture in your own basement. A mirror finish is neither expected nor desired. Early Ameri can should look as though it was nude by hand with loving care, not factory perfection. The drysink shown in the illus tration is 46" high, 34 Vi "wide and ll i" deep. It can be used as a sideboard in a dining room or as an attractive and useful addition to a living or recreation room. The Sketchbook plan provides one-quarter scale patterns for the curved parts and precise dimen sions of all other pieces. Assembly procedure is shown in five easy-to-follow steps. OTHER PROJECTS Other 50-tetit plans, which may he ordered in the same manner as this one, include: Modern Hanging tamps: S-15 Bunk Bids: S-10 Outdoor Play Caboose: S-14 Modern Secretary: S-19 Moving Van Toy Chest: S18 Modern Bedroom Headboard: S-S Colonial Sightstand: S-17 Colonial Corner Cabinet: S-13 Living Room Divider: S- Attic Room Desk and Vanity:, SI The War Horror Takes Slap The End Of It by Mitchell Good man. Horizon Press. S4.50. Goodman has written a novel about a young artillery lieuten ant's initiation into the grinding horrors of war during the Italian campaign of the Second World War, his mental disintegration and shock and his final gropings to ward reality again. The protagonist, Gilbert Free man, finds at first that the Amer ican forces are like a giant corpor ation operating a machine of de struction. The author describes with harsh, lashing words the change from winter war in the mountains below Rome to the wild chase of the Germans into north ern Italy. Freeman, unlike other Ameri can soldiers, comes to understand the "duty wops" they find, and to love the beauty of the Italian countryside. He also' learns why the soldiers of a French battalion1 and the Italian partisans have a deeper grasp of war's meaning and why the Americans never seem to feel the war as anything but a beastly job to get done. Finally, falling in with some partisans who have located a Ger man encamment, Freeman directs the artillery fire that wipes out a regiment, only to find too late that his victims were a group of Ital ian laborers under German con trol. He becomes a very sick war hero. Goodman starts slowly in this book, but he works toward a vivid climax that will shake the read er. His story of war's ghastly ter rors carries with it an illumina tion of the spirit. Miles A. Smith Writing Yen Hits Frbsh The Age of Reason Begins by Will and Ariel Durant. Simon & Schuster. $10.00. Will Durant has succeeded again in doing the seemingly impossible recounting tersely, entertainin and instructively an extraordinar history. This is the seventh in the series "The Story of Civilization." that started with "Our Oriental Heri tage" in 1935. Fo the present vSlume and two more still to come. Durant's wife Ariel is coauthor The seeming impossibility it that one could hope to tell the sl7 of European civilisation, plus the challenge of Islam, from Eliz abeth to the ejrench Revolution, all pivoting on the flowering ol reason from medieval credulity. True, the Durants have found thai this last installment will require three volumes instead of one The present work HAIBXUTS Adulti $150 Child. $1.2 J 4 ksrktri nr Suburban Barber Shop Twa s Cointrr I Citr FaUs, Oregon Sunday, PLANS AND IDEA! Own AuthenticColonial READY FOR COMPANY: Gracious hospitality and Early American design go together tike turkey and Thanksgiving. This Colonial drysink will help you set a festive, homey atmos phere on every occasion. To order Colonial Drysink Plan S-25 showing how you con build it yourself, fill in the blanks below, cut out the coupon, and mail with 50 cents to "SKETCHBOOK, in core of this newspaper. NAME ADDRESS. CITY AND STATE. OTHER INEXPENSIVE Modern Knin( limp! mid ot untile hanfini sootts, liMrf ciotk nd nnry Reader's Corner through Galileo and Descartes, the French father of modern philoso phy. But the information included is stupendous. There is the drama! of Elizabeth and Mary Queen ol Scots, the duel between Huguen ots and Catholics for France, Gus- tavus Adolphus and the religious' wars in Germany. And the chap ter on Shakespeare is worth vol umes. The whole is a synthesis of po litical, literary, scientific, philoso. phical and artistic story. The Durants' skll in using secondary as well as prmary sources af fords judgments by others. Ronald C. Hood President's Man Talks My 21 Years In The White House, By Alonzo Fields. Coward McCann. $4. The White House's former chief butler reveals nothing very pro found in this volume, as it Is writ ten mainly from the cup and saucer viewpoint among the pag eantry of historical figures. But it is interesting to learn that he found the Hoovers very stiff and formal, and that the maids would hide in a broom closet to escape being seen; that the Rooscvelts were informal and unpredictable, but magnetic; and that the Trumans were Fields fa vorite family. He felt that Tru man was more basically demo cratic and more genuinely human than any of the others. Of the many distinguished guests Rain Dampens Forest Land SALEM (AP) The Oregon Slate Forestry Department an nounced Thursday that rain had dampened some, of Oregon's forest land well enough to lift re strictions on entry into some areas wilnoul a special permit. The department said the follow ing areas could be entered with out a permit effective at mid night Thursday: Areas H P and 23-P in Ihe Clackamas-Marion district: 25-P in the Siletz River area in Lin coln County; areas 6-P, 7-P, 8-P and 9-P in Eastern Lane County and area 24-P in the Polk-Benton district. MORE PROTEIN PER PENN With MEDO-LAND COTTAGE CHEESE It's Fresh! October 1, 1961 0r.E ) JS-25) SKETCHBOOK PROJECTS S-10 Boflk Bth detins tof wt 'm tindeft ii rtnwn nr icrileiv as twin H. Fields saw from 1931 to 1953, by far the most colorful was Win ston Churchill, and there is an amusing chapter on a secret visit Churchill made here early in the war. Fields' book provides a back stage footnote to some action packed years at the center of many historical events. Miles A. Smith Citizen's Job Told The Predicament of Democratic Man. By Edmond Cahn. Mac Millan. $3.95. The author defines the "new predicament of democratic man" his moral involvement in the misdeeds of government." It is the familiar question of one citi zen and the colossus of govern ment. Fortunately he finds the citi zen s responsibilities are quite definable and tolerable," so t h a t duty-shirkers have no excuse for shunning them. This is a book with an intellec tual sound track, and in one sense this is unfortunate, for it is more than intellectual, it is basic. Cahn gives some very specific, down-to-earth arguments and ex amples for an optimistic approach to the complexities and pitfalls of' a representative form of govern ment. It is a pleasure to find him considering a man of quality as well as a man of equality. He pro vides all of us with a "Self Search" formula for gauging our relationships with government and he examines government adminis tration in the light of consumer perspective. He finds our nation's supreme need is for citizens who display quality in three respects. First in what he calls "associability," the ability to get along in mass-demo cratic society (this is where equal ity comes in). Second, in judg- ment (a monarchic factor) and third, in honor or courage (an aristocratic factor). Cahn is a brainy member of the legal profession who is described as a "philospher of justice." We can forgive him for slipping into legal jargon, for that is his field, and he writes lucidly of basic ten ets. Perhaps what this country needs is a good rousing pamphlet in one syllabic words, based on Cahn's scholarly essays. Miles A. Smith mm APyour itore er from your Routt Men . Imlil en MEDO-LAND! Sound Adds By IRVING DESFOK AP Newsfeaturei The experience of adding a new dimension direct sound to 8mm home movies is one that 1 tried recently and the results are quite credible. The actual voices of my family and my mother, in addition to their like-! nesses, can only prove more valuable as time goes by and changes take place. Although it is more than year since its introduction, the Fairchild Cinephonic Eight is still Uic only 8mm movie camera con taining a built-in sound system' enabling it to record both sight and sound simultaneously. It makes possible an exciting new home movie library of children's birthday parties, baby's first words, family gatherings, wed dings, confirmations, graduations and Christmas celebrations in which the participants are heard as well as seen. I found that the addition of sound requires a bit more plan ning and work than shooting mov ies alone. It also helps If an as sistant is available to take care of the microphone and to relay signals from the photographer or w to ii ii GIVING VOICE A new photo-columnist tryinq out daughter, Phyllis, are the L imnra niMim'i T "T r rn irTf -mt tIW TrTVifrifl Berlin Phone Boohs Give Lie To Communist Boasts Of Trade By KARL H. MACK FRANKFURT (UPI)-A good in dication of how far off base the East German communists are In their oft-proclaimed boast of over taking the West in prosperity Is given by the most recent issue of the East Berlin telephone book of commercial business branches. Current Best Sellers (Compiled by Publishers Week ly! 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The photographer monitors alii sound by wearing earphones which also plug into the camera through a two-foot, easily-detachable cord. I discovered Uie reason for the slip-in, slip-out cord very quickly. During rehearsals, forgetting that earphones were clamped on my head, I d dart over to adjust the mike or position a subject If the w ire weren't made to come apart easily, I'd have pulled the camera over! By pressing a button on the camera, the photographer hears the sound and regulates the vol ume with a thumb-control ltnob until the level is just right. Then he presses the shooting button for the sound film take. I found it takes quite a few re hearsals for people to get over mike fright and to talk without! a dimension It added to photo memories sound. Hera's our the Fairchild 8mm sound system, Wife, Gertrude, and audible as wall as visual subjects, This is a sort of German equiv alent of the Yellow Pages in the American telephone books. Even taking into consideration that the population of West Ber lin is double that of the Commu nist sector, a comparison of the number of services and goods list ed in their respective telephone books points up again the glaring difference in the ways of life of both parts of the divided city. The East Berlin commercial branch telephone book, printed in people s own printing shop shows clearly what the daily fare of Communist propaganda tries to conceal: how much the Commu nists have failed. Just on the basis of population, the three drivers' schools listed in (he East Berlin directory should be matched by six in West Ber lin. Actually, there are 168 such schools in West Berlin. The 305 West Berlin gas stations will find but 58 East Berlin counterparts. Of these 58 stations, 43 are installed by the Communist state-run "Minor gas company, which some wags say should be called Minor because of its in ferior quality of gas. While a total of 64 hotels in East Berlin offer the questionable1 hospitality of Communist satellites, II Free Delivery t In Klamath Drugs, Prose riptions, Cotmetici Wt Giv Gold test ; t uI al I d 1 1 1 I tjJJLBsj4ltaWteeWBlfMBfcai' giggles or sudden lapses of mem ory. By assuring them it was only . dry run, they were apt to relax . ' and be more natural. Often, I ac- . tually shot during a rehearsal, for I found that subjects tightened up . wlien I announced: "This is the ' take." To make editing easier later, It ' is helpful to shoot a couple of feet ' - of film both before and after the sound begins and ends. That's be cause the sound is recorded about ' 52 frames away from the picture' itself. The camera's nickel cadmium battery should be charged the night before a shooting session is scheduled. This is merely a matter of plugging the charger, which comes with the camera outfit, into an electric outlet. The camera should be checked, with the cover off, to make sure the rewind mech anism is operating and that the proper turret lens is in position over the shutter. The 50-foot roll of soundstripped '. color film must be carefully load ed, in subnued light, according to directions to provide good sound ' and to prevent jam-ups. when it Is ' turned over and run through again, It gives 100 feet of audible as well as visual memories. with inadequate service and tin- '. trained personnel, West Berlin has 1 the game number of hotels just -around the Zoo railway station and the Kurfuerstendam, the Broad way like glittering main boulevard of West Berlin. Several times more are spread all over the city. A dozen travel agencies, includ ing the Russian Intourist and a Swedish travel bureau, take care of the East Berliners' wanderlust. The number of similar travel of fices in West Berlin Is 226. A mere 83 shops offering dairy Products is listed in the East Ber lin directory. And that doesn't ' mean these shops have milk, but-' ' tcr and cheese every day. More than 900 similar shops are listed in ' West Berlin and offer dairy prod ucts every day, including Sundays. So It goes, all down the line: Three libraries in East Berlin, 95 in West Berlin; about 500 barber shops in East Berlin and more than 1,500 in West Berlin: 178 laun- drk" and dry cleaners on the Com munist side of Berlin, while Vi comparable shops offer their serv ices in West Berlin. - And some listings In the West Berlin commercial telephone book don't even show up in its East Berlin counterpart. For Instance, ' eel-smokeries. 3. Whan or Pharmacist compounds a proscription, ha Is practicing a science, and hit methods ar those of ovary careful scientist. Each Ingredient i weighed and measured with utmost precision using the finest, most modern equipment. Depend en our Phar macist to meet the exacting standards of hit profession. J BRUGS WITH A REPUTATION - -, ,2j J, Bond Stamps o a
