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.
I want items checked: telRB No.
aets of Building Plans & Specifications, with
material List
1 ' f Building Plus t Specifications
Material List
Family Homes Plan Book, postpaid ......
Enclosed find S for items checked.
NAME
ADDRESS
CITY
with
$29.75
17.95
.75
STATE
African elephants feed 16 hours
out oi ;t on a menu of foliage,
grass canes, fruits and bark.
NOW IS THE TIME
TO CONVERT
Your Old Worn Our
Wooden Windows
with
ALUMINUM
WINDOWS
NOTHING DOWN
Up to iO Manthi la Py
aralum rot;,
1317 I. Main TU 4-8196
i'Lii V d "1 M
Elr
You just set
ONE dial with
the new
DIAICET
N. R. KIMES
PLUMBING 1 HEATING
2720 So. 6th Ph. 4-8620
Quail in Aspic, by Cecil Beaton
(Bobbs Merrill $41: Elsa Maxwell
posed for the photographs of
'Count Charles Korsetz" whose
ife story this tedious book pur-1
ports to be. Korsetz is a pam
pered, mother's boy, heir to a tiny
mythical European country in pre-
worlrl war I and II days. 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.
I ne regular discount ot 50e per advertisement will apply if paid
wirnin 3 days or tirst oub ication.
It's easy ro write and place a Want Ad. And the amazing thing about
wants ads is that the results are excellent and the cost is so low. This
week, while the Herald and News observes Want Ad Farm and Garden
Week, you pay for only three days of advertising and then get THREE
EXTRA DAYS FREE! This is the deal time to learn the advantages of
a Herald and News Want Ad.
WRITE YOUR OWN WANT AD!
Count 5 words per line. Be sure to count the address andor the telephone
number if you include them.
OPEN A
CHARGE
ACCOUNT
Up to 5 Months to Pay.
No Carrying Charges!
Sherwin
Williams I2J I. Mom TU 4-7704
a-
HINT th HOST
Electric Brush
HO IT-Clf ANf t), talti
Uitvrt. fW
rk. 4-S1M .t 2-33 Jl Ur
C.m,l. lL,..t,..
CASCADE
LAUNDRY I CLEANERS
Om. P.O. Mil. t KI...H,
AND
RUGS
HOST PROCESS
New Method
CLEANERS
14J1 t,ptn.4, Fh. 4-4471
RUG CLIANINS
WALL-TO-WALL
CARPET CLIANINS
FURNITURE CLEANING
I TINTING
Gold Bond Stamps, Too!
NAME
ADDRESS PHONE.
CITY
Mail your Wont Ad with payment to the Classified Advertising Deportment,
The Herald and News, Klamath Falls, Oregon. Figure the cost from the
Form and Garden Want Ad Week special rates listed in this advertisement.
3 WAYS TO PLACE A WANT AD:
1. MAIL: Write your ad and mail to Herald and News, P.O. Box 941
Klamath Falls, Ore.
2. IN PERSON: Bring your ad to the Herald ond News office at 1301 Esplanade.
3. PHONE: Dial TU 4-8111 and a courteous Want Ad writ., .ill k. -uj
to help you word your ad.
1