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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1963)
Photo Taken 5,000 Times Some Days KEYSTONE, S.D. (UPH - Ben Black Elk, full-blooded Oglala Sioux Indian, probably is as fa miliar lo American tourists as the Indian-bead nickel, and beyond a doubt the most photo graphed Indian in the nation. With special permission from the National Park Service, Black Elk poses for pictures at the base 01 mount Kushmore in Western South Dakota. During peak sum mer months, he is photographed as u.ii-n as a.ouo times a day. His photograph has been taken with everything from a box cam era lo expensive imports, from amateur movie cameras to the gi ant television cameras used in the first U.S. Telstar broadcast. Black Elk's regular dress at Mount Kushmore is that of a brave he wears the chief head dress only when posing for spe cial pictures, or at the request of a tourist. Born in 18S9 at .Manderson. a small community on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, he is Hie sixth in line to carry the name Black Elk. His father and the famous chief Crazy Horse were first cousins. Both partici pated in the Battle of the Little Big Horn acainst Gener.il rw- Prior to his work in tourist business Black Elk was a suc cessful rancher in western South Dakota and won several awards for his crops and livestock. During the initial Telstar broad castsent from the United States to 19 European countries Black Elk's picture was beamed across the continent, then throughout the United States in a later broad cast. He was the first human to appear on Telsar. Shortest River Claimed By County I Monday. June 24, 1963 PACE RKHM.D AND NEWS, Kimalh Falli, Oreoa DELAKE. Ore. (UP1 .-Where elficiaMv HftfrminpH Ion nth nf Jin flows the world's shortest rivor ... . M . . icei ai tow uae. in? river runs oittia uuukj even ciaini , .,. irom ucvu s LaKe to uic racmc. "b massive od or rounding up ! horses begins after tire de. STrnuprt A rtArtn clakla Llllln- II L.... ll .. I....1-. i i t r .1 - ,,UV,W n, y l4 Nul me, voiunreers Try to Tree one or rnree ani mals stuck in a nearby oil sump. uPl Telephoto VOLUNTEERS Beer - Two Wobats Or Dingos? SYDNEY. Australia (L'PI) I VeiWal Irrasni-or ll.nnM Hull Australians are squabbling over says he favors the name "Aus- ncinerineysnouiapaylwowom-!trar so the currency will have bats or two dingos for a dozen U" Australian flavor. . beers. Others insist that their roos. I Tnis nas been ridiculed by the emus and opals are "real" money. opposition and front-page editorial Some cry for support to harden j"1 lnc Sydney Daily Mirror said: the melba and still others plump "Stop this damn nonsense." It (or a pound or a dollar. 'added that to call any piece ol The controversy is over I he currency an name Australia should give it new currency when it abandons ixiumls, shillings and pence in l5 for decimal coinage. The present Australian pound will be solit into two units leach worth 10 shillings or $1.75. But just what the name of the new unit will be is still not decided. 'Austra " was "ri diculously parochial." "Anv effort to find a nama typically Australian would make the nation look foolish in the eyes of the world." it said. Tile Mirror said lliprp u-as nn. thing wrong with either the dol lar or the pound since both were accepted at the world's financial centers. But there is strong criticism against any Australian dollar be ing introduced on grounds that too many countries use the name and that it would mean Australia was taking another step towards 'Americanization." So the tussle pops nn with An. tralian animals such as wombat and kangaroos whi-h have two abbreviations. Kanga and roo the emu. onals and even the na tion's famous opera star, Nellie .Meioa. Being mentioned as pos sible contenders f o r monetary fame. Meanwhile. the Australian makes do with his customary quids or sheets ipounds), deencrs or bobs (shilling! and coppers or blownics (pennies). such a stream, but Oregon doesl it twice, and not without some dispute. The two groups whu occasion ally rise to wage hotly the old conflict are residents of the 201 Miracle Miles, a beautifully rug ged coastal strip, and natives of Klamath County in southeast Ore-; gon. A sign on the coast highway here says: "D River, World's Shortest. A Wading Brook In Klamath County, lliev re-' gard the D River as a toddlers', wading brook, and claim the Link River as the shortest river in the world. George T. Callisou. president of the Klamath County Chamber o( Commerce, says not only is the unK Hivcr the world s shortest. but it probably is the only river in the world that flows completely within tiie conlines of an incor porated city Klamath Falls. He adds that in any event, the de- bato over the claim is "probably the world's longest." In 1940 the Geodetic-Georgraph- ic Board in Washington, D.C., au thenticated the D River as the world's shortest, based on its of- An Oregon newspaper recently chided tlie river with (lie sugges tion that the D River is a creek and further suggested lliere isl some question as to where it begins. Installs Sign The Oregon Highway Commis sion once refused to place a sign on the bridge stating the river FAMOUS LOCOMOT1VK Most famous locomotive of the Civil War was the "General." Captured by Yankee raiders in 18(12, it was pursued and recap tured by the Confederates after a thrilling chase of nearly 100 miles on the line between Atlanta and Chattanooga. was the world's shortest, but lat er had a change of heart and installed tlie sign. But it carries no figures to back up the claim Callison says the Link River which connects Klamath Lake with Lake Ewauna, is 8,000 feet long. And there's no doubt that it is a river. 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