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West Side Story Recalls Tears, Joys Of Pioneers (Continued tram Page 1) David. It months old. Sue and Jim Blair had no children. Enough that those eager pio neers piled belongings, including a . coop of hens for the Totten homestead, on board the Winema and headed up the lake (or the bg adventure and future land ownership. : They beached near Odessa where Dick Breitenstcin, a log ger. had a truck loaded with lum her waiting to be used for cabins. The Blairs and the Tot tens had mattresses too, laid on the bottom of a wagon bed for tlie ride to the homestead line. Someone, they say it may have been Jim Blair, fired a gun into the air at 12 o clock. Men car ried boards and women, children in arms, surged over the pine neeaies under toot. There could have been a moon. No one re members. Small camp fires dotted the darkness. The sound of axes on tree trunks echoed, challenged by laughter and shouts. There was no shelter in the forest until walls could be raised and (lie lirst effort was to clear the land lor the new homes. Children whimpered and tired women "shushed" them. Carrie Totten, exhausted, crept with young David into a depression in me ground, left by an over turned tree and slept. Rain fell and someone threw a blanket over them. As they rested, John Ttotten and Jim Blair continued to' work until the dawn. The families, as pioneers did, "made the best of everything" with little complaining. Men rode horseback or walked the nearly :so miles to town over Long Lake Hill tor supplies. The women "mostly" stayed home The second Totten son. Hubert was bom in Klamath Falls and back at the cabin Carrie Cotten used the old home remedies tor croup and other infant ills, euca lyptis and skunk oil, plenty of warm flannel, and mustard plas ters They sold their timber, white fir for $15 per thousand. Red fir and cedar brought more than other species after the pine was cut and sold. There were lighter moments when they danced all night at Harriman Lodge lumber camp and traveled the crusted snow in red sled made by Jim Blair They ate fish from cold streams ana uie lake. Killed venison in the forest and ducks and geese when falls came. The two families stayed eight years on the homesteads, proved up and built new homes. A new crop of young trees grew, the roads changed, (lie stone wall built 'by Sue and Jim Blair almost disappeared HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore Sunday, April 7, 193 PAGE 2-D mmj (? M AUniJfl TUC CIDCT LJ J I L . . .i mnwiiw mi niwi i luiinpowir wa luccseasa oy gasoline ana tnese two biq su gar pine logs from Blair homestead were moved to the lake en route to a lumber mill by truck. Radiator marking says "Sterling, U.S.A." News From The World Of Books personal belongings left in the Ily Lulled Press International The Great Hunger, by Cecil Woodham-Smith, (Harper & Row $6,951: Potato famines are a re urrcnt problem in Ireland (t h Some most recent occurred in ltiai, but buildings when the families moved to town were carted awav bv others, and eventually the homes were taken away, piece by piece, ihe homesteads were sold, the Totten land to Klamath Lumber, the Blair land to Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, about the end of World War I. Homesteading can be traced back to the Rivers Volga and Ural. The giving of land to an individual by the covernment of the United States of America In to most Irishmen there was only one real one the disaster of the 18-tOs, when upward of a million and a half persons died and an other million emigrated. This is an account of the dreadful years lie developed as a farm, caused bloodshed in Oklahoma Territory . ine plan opened the Central Plains to the sodbusters. Always uie opening of new homesteads has been followed bvi growth and development. It wa: so in the Wamath Basin. Family Homes roughly from 1846 to 1851, which set the final seal on centuries of Irish hatred of the English. Many angry Irishmen still argue that the famine was a deliberate Eng lish attempt to exterminate their people, but Mrs. Woodham-Smith believes this indictment is too harsh. Her argument, supported by considerable evidence, is that tragedy befell the Irish largely because they were born about 80 years too early to benefit from the organized welfare effort which presumably would be mustered in their behalf today. DESIGN 47 Ml Sq. PI. 17,57 Cu. ft. Home Holds Ideal Room For Parties A refreshing design with a lot oi eye appeal, this home has much to recommend it! Planned for comfortable living, each room is generously proportioned. Living-dining "L" has a book case built-in near front door, a natural fireplace and planter 3C inches high which serves as par tial dividing wall between living and dining areas ... a nice decorator touch. Built-in book case near front door also prevents direct entry Into living room-a dual purpose feature you'U like. Kitchen contains another cus tojn type built-in near eating area, wnicn manes it handy for sliver, dishes, etc., a step-saver Indeed for the busy housewife. Lavatory located off kitchen landing near basement stairs also has a direct entrance from rear bedroom. Here Is evidence enough of the kind of planning that home owners appreciate and welcome. You will be especially pleased with the inconspicuous approach to full bath which makes it con venient to other two bedrooms and yet is located for maximum privacy. Consider also the abun dant closet space In this plan Laundry, heating, storage and recreation facilities are located in tuJl basement. This plan conforms to general FIU, VA and Building Code re quirements. You can obtain build ing plans with specifications and material list see order coupon. Flag Raising Costs 5 Bucks ' PETERSHAM, Mass. (LTD -Every time this town raises the flag on its Common, it costs 15. Here's why: The flagpole consists of two 30 toot sections. To fly Uie flag, somebody must climb up steel spokes to a platform atop the lower section. From there he must raise the second section by pulleys and lash it to the bottom part. Then by means of another pulley he raises Uie flag to the top of the staff. Nobody wanlcd the job. So Po lice Chief William W. Ellsworth agreed to do it-at $5 per flag fusing, which occurs on every le J holiday. r -El ' jIJj'i t u .y yl ft 7 . eiii BEDROOM -- mil B'-io ia'-o I"" Tet '.TUT a -H , BEDROOM ' I R I . BEDROOM I Bl'ILDING PLANS PLAN BOOKS ORDER FORM Herald and News Plan Dept. FAMILY HOMES MOO Alpha St.. Lausing, Mich. 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Some of the language and incidents in his "diary" would be more ap propriate to another long-gone era, hen publication of scurrilous ma terial was condoned even rel ished. To sum up: misfired satire, Herbert H. Lehman and his Era. by Allan Nevins (Scribner's $7,501: A full-length biography of famous American who started his long political career in the 1920s and climaxed it with the gov norslnp of New York and in the U.S. Senate. Lehman has lone been identified with movements (or bettering the lot of the poor ana uie oppressed and dedicated to the idea that public officials should bring honor to their offices Nevins, famous as a historian and biographer of noted Americans .has wide scope for his talents in telling Lehman's story. $3.95): Eight entertaining English short stories, etched in acid, and mostly about unpleasant people. They include a married man whose mistress, also married, ap parently dies of a heart attack as they make love; a nympho maniac actress who arrives with her troupe at a remote airfield in Burma; a schoolboy having an affair with a school-mistress nnquist wnose desire lor a par ticular university post outweigh; whatever humane instincts he may have. Men in the Struggle for Peace by Charles Malik (Harper & Row $5': A timely commentary on the cold war by a former Lebanese diplomat and c.x-prcsident of the United Nations General Assembly (1958-59), now a professor at American University in Beirut Malik, a friend of the United States, pulls'no punches. He says the Communists are winning the cold war and that only a revolu tion in Western thought and living can stop them. The West is urged to outrcvolutionize and to "out subvert" the Communists in "titer words, to bent them at their own game. Habeas Corpus and Other Stories, by Peter Green (World Current Best Sellers (Compiled by Publishers' Weekly) Fiction Raise High The Rolf Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour J. D Salinger. The Sand Pebbles Richard McKcnna. Seven Days in May Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II. Fail-Safe Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The .Moon - Spinners .Mary Stewart. The MoonfViwer Vine Jetta Carleton. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovlch Alexander Solzhen- itsyn. The Centaur John Updike. Grandmother and the Priests Taylor Caldwell. One Hundred Dollar Misunder standing Robert Gover. Triumph Philip Wylie. 1934 Scientists Demonstrate To Classes NEW YORK H'Pl i-Standins in Iront of a high school science classroom, a guest lecturer dem onstrated how sensitive solar cells sought out light from a lamp he held overhead. The experiment, he said. snowea now solar cells in space satellites seek the sun's light and convert its energy into electricitv to cperate the satellite's many systems. The speaker was William J Helwig, a Radio Corp. of America KCAi electronics engineer. His audience was a group of science students at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn Helwig is one of 14 RCA scien tists who are lecturing and con ducting seminars in New York public schools this year in a pilot program to enrich science instruc tion and stimulate interest in the sciences. ror nis part, Helwig, a senior engineer in IiCA's electron tube division, Harrison, N.J., conduct ed lectures on energy conversion. The other RCA scientists talked about the areas in which they are highly trained and skilled space technology, electron tubes, radar and microwaves, communications systems, nuclear physics, comput ers, solid state physics and others. A Joint Preject The pilot program, worked out by RCA and the New York City Board of Education, is confined to four schools two high schools! and two junior highs in Brook lyn. It involves 51 classroom pres entations and seminars, some during school hours and some aft er scnooi. The project has the special blessing of RCA Chairman David Sarnoff, who believes the nation's need for more and better scien tists may be fulfilled if young sters are more fully exposed to scientific adventure in their for-! mative years Sarnoff said he hopes the scien tist-in-thc-classroom project will be taken up by other industries and expanded into classrooms across the nation 'I am sure that thousands of other equally devoted men and women of science would eagerly volunteer for similar work, sup ported by their industrial employ ers, ll the opportunity were avail able to them, the RCA chairman said in announcing the establish ment of the program. Student Interest High Any doubt that presentations by Helwig and the other scientist- lecturers sparks the interest of Farmers..".. cardeoers.... n thumbs go info Ml! April 7, through 14 is Want Ad FARM and GARDEN Week! Nonfiction "" imricy jonn meir siuaeni listeners is aispeiiedi. YOU GET FOR THE PRICE OF on all Want Ads offering to buy, sell or trade farm & gar den machinery, tools and equipment. (No feed or live stock, etc.) Sorry, no commercial advertisers - please. SEE WHAT YOU SAVE! (q) Steinbeck Happiness Is a Warm Puppy- Charles M. Schulz. The Fire Next Time James Baldwin. The Whole Truth, and Nothing But Hedda Hopper and James Brough. Final Verdict Adela Rogers St. Johns. The Points of My Compass E. B. White. The Fall of the Dynasties Edmond Taylor. A Lion in Court Vincent Hallinan. Letters from the Earth Mark Twain. Ed. by Bernard de Voto. O Ye Jigs and Juleps! Virginia Cary Hudsom Silent Spring Rachel Carson. My Life In Court Louis Nizer. TODAY'S HOME CHICAGO (UPH - By the time winter ends, germs in the home will be responsible for most of the 63 million illnesses among children in the 5-14 age group. The current issue of a magazine American Ilome reports that you will never sec a germ in our home, yet you carry more nn your own body than the world's total population. Although Americans have the most modern cleaning devices, man families spread germs by ignorance or carelessness in hygiene. Take washing machines. Usual ome water temperatures fail to ill all the disease-causing bac teria. And hard water promotes oap curd, which transmits and rotects bacteria. The usually recommended tem peratures for ridding germs from soiled clothes is 140 degrees, yet surveys show that the water in home washers is olten no hotter than 120-130 degrees. Doctors believe that nearly 90 per cent of the disease germs that cause common infections set into our bodies via the hands. In sec ond place are germ-contaminated hand towels, dish towels, bath towels and face cloths. These soiled clothes should not be in close proximity to food and food handlers. That is why wash ing machines should be installed in a laundry or utility area away from the kitchen. Most organisms that make us ill breed in dirt, dust, soiled cloth ing, on food, on damp towels and soap and in dark corners. They multiply rapidly on damn mons and sponges which then distribute them throughout a household. quickly when the buzzer signals the end of the class session. A group of students rushes forward to ask questions and study the! demonstration devices morel closely. y New York school administrators plan to evaluate the effect of the pilot project at the end of the school year. They are interested: in learning whether a larger per-1 ccntage of the pilot group sign I up for additional science courses and in the outcome of informal testing to follow the lecture- seminar series. RCA scientists are interested too, in evaluating some of the special demonstration equipment devised by participating lecturers. Some of it, they believe, will be useful for continued and more general use in science teaching. Mudents taking part m the pro gram, known formally as the! Uavid Sarnoff Industry - science teaching program, will be invited to spend a day in June at the RCA research center in Prince ton, N.J., to view laboratories and test facilities. Number Reg. Price This Week YOU Of Lines 6 Days For 6 Days SAVE 2 Joii 53 wo 3 SM 125 , U5 4 5!5o 2J00 5 7!()(i 4J5 Z25 HEAT BEATS MACHINES NEW YORK (UPH - The rec ord 80-degree temperature Tues day was too much for the ice- making machinery at a city park ring in Brooklyn. Henceforth, the Parks Depart ment said, when the thermome-: ter reaches 70 degrees it w ill can cel afternoon skating sessions to I keep the ice machines from wear ing themselves out. 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