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Newspaper Page TextAN INDEPENMT NEWSPAPER ALTON T. BAKER, Publisher, 1927-1961 ALTON F. BAKER JR. Editor and Publisher EDWIN M. BAKER General Manager RICHARD A. BAKER Managing Editor ROBERT B. FRAZIER Associate Editor A. H. CURREY Associate Editor The Register-Guard' policy is the complete and impartial publication in its news pages of all news and statements on news. On this page, the editors of the Register-Guard offer their opinions on events of the day and matters of importance to the community, endeavoring to be candid but fair and helpful in the development of construc tive community policy. A newspaper is a CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY. Published every evening nd Sunday morning by the Guard Publishing Co. 8A EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1963 Good Answer for an Easy Question Ben Musa, president of the State Sen ate, asks a good question, one that has occurred to many as the Legislature be gins looking at budgets. Why, he asks, in a state which has increased in population 5 per cent, must the higher education budget go up 20 per cent? Like most good questions, this one has a good answer. The higher educa tion establishment serves directly not the whole state but the people of the state who are, roughly, in the 17 to 22 year old age bracket. In the next bien nium these will be the people who were born between about 1941 and 1948. Next year's college freshman, at 17, was born in 1946, the year daddy got home from the war; or if daddy got home early, he was born in 1945 and will be 18 when school opens next fall. His lit tle brother or sister was born in 1947 or 1948 and will be showing up on the cam pus before the 1963-1965 budget period has expired. There were a lot of those "war babies." They are the ones for whom we built grade schools, junior highs and high schools in 'the '50s and early '60s.' Now they are planning on college, and in increasing percentages as they seek to acquire the skills they will need for tomorrow. In 1957, public higher education in Oregon was serving 19,494 students. By 1962, the campuses were getting the baby crop of the early war years, and were educating 29,993. In the next bi ennium, the one for which this Legisla ture is budgeting, enrollments will go up to 34,671. It is likely that there will be more students attending summer school next summer than there were at tending regular sessions on the cam puses in 1954. That accounts for part of the 20 per cent that Senator Musa wonders about. Also, the taxpayer and legislator are in vited to recall the events of the past two years. The 1961 Legislature adopted a bare-bones higher education budget. Im plicit in that budget was a certain level of service that the Legislature intended the institutions to maintain. It was esti mated that enrollments in 1961 would be 24,196, or an increase of 11.5 per cent. The estimates were, as usual, con servative. When 26,835 students showed up, there just wasn't enough money to provide education at the level the Legis lature had directed. The service level was reduced, as it had to be. Part of the request that Senator Musa finds so baf fling is accounted for by the fact that this level of service, as fixed by the Leg islature, ought to be restored. Unfortunately, the Senate president is given to the inept analogy. He told a reporter, "I don't accuse them (the edu cational establishment) of padding the budget, but you can take a skinny man when he dies and fry him and still get fat out." True, true. But the man is dead. fr -fr -fr & l- Parking Profits Safety Measures Now Eugene's mayor has emphasized the timely importance of solving our downtown parking problem before it be comes virtually insoluble. And certainly the gravity of his suggestion is under scored by the announcement that down town Portland may have to spend $4.4 million to increase its parking facilities just 16 per cent. The Portland proposal would involve the construction of two six-story garages where 1,200 parking places would be available at the rate of 20 cents an hour. Quite possibly Portland can do no better than this not now that it has waited so long to attack a problem which has had serious adverse effects on the city's core area, and, not incidentally, upon the city's tax revenues. But Portland's experience need not be repeated here. There are other mu nicipal experiences which would be bet ter examined and capitalized upon. For example: Riverside, Calif., a city of about 90,000 residents, formed a downtown parking district in 1960 and at the same time initiated a scries of core-area traffic improvements. Since then, more new construction has been accomplished or begun in Riverside's central business district than in all of the previous 30 years. Western City magazine reported last fall that Riverside's plan was actively backed by the owners of more than 80 per cent of its downtown property valua tionand actively opposed by none. The parking district formed to encompass 35 business blocks has utilized city-opcr-atcd parking lots in the rear and in the center of the blocks, and multi-deck parking structures are now being planned to increase the effectiveness of some of these facilities. Two special parking garages were built in 1961 and were leased to a private operator. Park ing charges are 15 cents for the first hour, 10 cents per hour thereafter, on the open lots or in the garages. And all downtown stores offer validation of one hour parking tabs to their patrons. It cost $1,650,000 raised through the sale of parking district bonds to put the Riverside plan in operation. Now, every day, in every way, the plan is paying handsome dividends. Riverside has already gained about 500 additional downtown parking places, the parking district still has funds available to fi nance additional facilities, and regular profits are adding to these funds. The State Tra'ffic Safety Commission has come up with a pair of recommenda tions for highway lifesaving! One should bring forth relatively little complaint. The other may be tougher. The commission thinks all new cars sold in Oregon should be equipped with seat belts. Fine enough. Factory in stalled, they add no more to the cost of a car than a small piece of chrome. And they're much more useful. A number of other states have cither enacted such laws, or plan to. More objection may be heard to the recommendation that cars be safety checked every six months. A witness compared Oregon with Pennsylvania, a state with eight times as many cars and 6 times as many people as Oregon. Yet, it has only three times as many traffic deaths. That state has compulsory in spection; this one doesn't. However, opponents will be heard from, too. They will point to the high cost of such programs. And they will argue, quite correctly, that what we really need to check semiannually is the mental and emotional condition of the drivers. The angry or aggressive driver is more responsible for accidents than is the absence of a horn or bright lights. (Not that the latter two should be en couraged.) The commission is a good one. It is trying to cut Oregon's traffic toll. The burden of proof at this point seems to be with those who disagree with its recommendations. It may be true that personal factors are as important as me chanical ones. But we can do something about the mechanical factors. Unless we have good reason not to, let's do it. Honorary Citizen Congress has been asked to confer "honorary citizenship," whatever that is, upon Winston Churchill. The only other person to have been so honored was Lafayette. In practical terms the award wouldn't mean a thing. But it would mean a lot to Churchill, who has always been a friend of this country, and who, indeed, is "half American" himself. Also, it would make a lot of Americans feel good to so recognize this man. Probably no other foreigner, and this includes Lafayette, has been so widely admired in this country. Peter Edson Joblessness To Remain Key Issue WASHINGTON (NEA) While President Kennedy in his State of the Union message puts tax reduction and reform as the most important issue, unemploy ment is still one of the most serious problems for the Ken nedy administration, the new Congress, management, labor and the national economy. Preliminary figures of 1962 show that unemployment drop ped only 274.000 to an esti mated 3.8 million as of Dec. 31. Employment increased by 1.1 million jobs during the year while the civilian labor force increased by 800.000. Actually, non-farm employment increased by 1.4 million jobs to a 67.5 million total. But farm employ ment dropped by 300,000 to four million total at year end. Solv ing the slowly but steadily de creasing agricultural employ ment problem is one of the hardcr-to-cure aspects of the sit uation. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz admits it is really surprising there are not more protests from four million and more Americans who have been un employed in the past two years. One reason given is that un employment is not general but concentrated in depressed in dustry and area pockets. An other reason there is not more protest is that unemployment insurance cushions the impact. Also, most of the unemployed are unskilled workers, the un educated and young workers without job training or experi ence. Unemployment rates in these groups are twice as high as among skilled workers. Government programs to re duce unemployment so far have been unable to do the whole job alone. Area redevelopment and manpower training pro grams are just getting started. Not enough contracts have been let and construction started on the accelerated public works program to create many new jobs. Congress took no action on the Kennedy administration youth employment opportunities proposal last year. It will be presented again to the new ses sion. It is aimed at creating more jobs and reducing high unemployment for workers un der 20. Business leaders talk in opti mistic tones about the possibil ity that a tax cut will stimulate industry to create new jobs. The same claim was made for the tax credit on new investments and the new depreciation allow ance schedules put into ctCcct Carmichael David Lawrence il vP I FlriAlLY REPLACED TrlAf LEAK PIPP irj THE PARENT K Makes a Reassuring Admission The big- that the Soviets, if they ever nowadays in trying to I set agree in a long built up their strength to equal ment on a NATO formula lor WASHINGTON eSt DieCS Of nPW in a lnntf Hitilt tin thai tlrannth I time and by far the most reas- ours, wouldn't start bulling and handling nunrP". suring to the American people threatening again. It does mean It is worth whi e, tnereiore. nas come in me Jorm ol a that America must maintain her 10 examine , ."". :' ;v.i, , n.i.. har it wording oi tne MnuuB costs. It also means that serious consideration should be given to a revival of the so-called "Sky bolt" program as a matter of the greatest precaution involv ing the nation's safety. speech by Pre m i e r Khrush chev to the con vention of the Communist Par ty in East Germany. For if there were any doubt that the Cuban maneuver was a hoax and that a major war, with nuclear bombs or missiles, has been and is farthest from the in tentions of the Soviet Union, this now can be removed by ex- am.n.ng the words of the Soviet The quesUon arjses whether u is safe for the United States to A7 Question of Safety For President Kennedy is put ting his reliance on missiles fired from this country and on Lawrence speech, an excerpt from which follows: In a Red Nutshell "I will tell you a secret: Our scientists have worked out a 100-megaton bomb. But accord ing to our scientists' calcula tion, a 100-megaton bomb must not be used in Europe. 'Should our prooaDie enemy premier. In that speech, Khrush chev acknowledged for the first time that the United States has at least 40,000 nuclear bombs and warheads, and that the So viet Union would not risk the unleashing of such power. bombers that will be based on i.sh war. then where should Western Europe. In addition, we drop jtover West Germany he is counting on the Polaris or France? But the explosion of missiles, which would be direct- suen a bomD over this territory ed toward the Soviet Union would you anri several from submarines under the seas. -- ni,iri Therefore, we can use such a weapon only outside the confines of Europe. I am saying this in order that there should be a more realistic appreciation of what horrifying means of destruction there exist. .. . "Comrades, to put it in a nuU' shell, as I have already said dur ing the session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, it is not advisable to be in a hurry for the other world. Nobody ever discard her intercontinental bombers which can fire such mis siles as the "Skybolt" from the air at points 1,000 miles away from the Soviet territory. In deed, the overseas bases might The American government be destroyed by Soviet missiles has never revealed the figures or bombers, or might someday officially, but the fact that be withdrawn from our use in Khrushchev knows them is in Europe, where communism itself significant of the way the could conceivably frustrate na- world is veering toward an era tional policy, mis possibility is returned from there to report of peace. Thi.i doesn't mean illustrated by the difficulties S In the Editor's Mailbag Prayer Issue If be a stick of timber cut served to destroy public conn- EUGENE (To the Editor) The Register-Guard is to be commended for its editorial comment on Governor Hat field's nonsensical remarks con cerning the United States Su preme Court prayer ruling. Surely the governor has had the time to read excerpts from Su preme Court Justice Hugo Black's concurring majority opinion. As your editorial ob served, nowhere docs the ruling state that prayers are to be dis allowed in schools. Only prayers that are prescribed by the state or by the state's institutions are prohibited, as they right fully should be. Freedom of re ligion has taken a step for ward, not backward as the gov ernor contends above the 4,000-foot elevation and in many cases, much lower, depending on location, precipi tation and related factors. We are destroying our heritage and creating more unsolved prob lems with every day that goes by. The small voices crying aloud for the preservation of our wilderness go unheeded. They warn of disaster to come, not realizing they are being more realistic than prophetic. The wheels of progress turn only one way so long as natu- dence in the military in gen eral and the reserves in par ticular and is degrading to the men in uniform. First of all I would like to challenge the author of that editorial to produce any, but exceptional cases, of individuals who have retired under circum stances as indicated in that editorial and confront the edi tor with the present require ments for promotion, prefer- that one lives better there than here. . . "At present, according to th estimates by foreign scientists and military experts, the United States has roughly 40,000 nu clear bombs and warheads. Ev eryone knows that the Soviet Union, too, has more than enough of this stuff. 'Simply Quoting Data "What would happen if all that nuclear armament were dropped on human heads? As the result of the first blow alone, 700800 million people would have perished. All the big cities would be wiped out or. destroyed, not only in the two leading nuclear states the United States and the Soviet Union but also in France, Britain, Germany, Italy, China, ral resources supply the energy. Eventually they must slow down and come to a stop. Then they begin to turn the other way. This signals the downfall and destruction of a nation, no matter what kind of a political government controls the people. 1 do not doubt that Governor Medical science is just begin- ment and retirement which ex. ist, and do not produce the 50- Japan and many other countries year-oia colonels ana 3u-year-oia of the world. , . retired armed forces personnel ."i am not saying these things he implies. t0 frighten anyone. I am simply Secondly, I challenge him to quoting data at the disposal of maxc tne pumic aware ot tne science Hatfield has received vast amounts of mail abhoring the "abolishment of religion in our schools." But these are the let ters of either the malinformed or the demagogic partisans who have contented themselves with downgrading the Supreme Court. As a leader, it should to capitalize on them. STUART C. SMITH 925 Horn Ln. last year, but there hasn't been effects on employment and un employment, if any. The other side of this coin is that new investments may be channeled into labor saving ma chinery that will cut employ- Aarrcr-irU ment instead of reducing un- Y aiciaweua employment. Wirtz is of the opinion that something will have to be done soon to offset unemployment caused by auto mation. Organization labor leaders are counting on a tax cut for low income workers to stimuluatc consumer spending enough to ning to recognize the fact that depletion of the organic or liv ing content of our soil is as vital to national health as all their research, that pure uncon taminated water which comes directly from a high altitude, unspoiled and untouched forest is more important than its so called recreational value. Is it any wonder that people are confused, disillusioned, sus picious, and look with a jaun diced eye at any political re former who shouts his own brand of cure to all who will hundreds of thousands of re serves who serve without pay, in fact at considerable expense to themselves and their families and with very little advance ment either in pay or rank. Third, I would like to have him compare PX prices at the Fort Lewis Exchange with prices prevailing at civilian es tablishments adjoining the post area. He is uninformed that the post exchange has in most in stances become more ot a con venience rather than an economy. Fourth, cradle to grave se curity doesn't exist in the armed forces of today, nor is it a refuge for incompetence as im- Thc Soviet Union . . . knows well the potentialities of these arms. We have created them for the defense of our country and of other Socialist countries. For that reason we have a re sponsible attitude in the matter of war and peace. We do not want war. But we do not fear it. If war is forced upon us, we shall be able to give a resoluta rebuff to the aggressors, and the aggressors know it." ' So it's Khrushchev now who relies on the deterrent power of "massive retaliation." The world at last has convincing testimony, that a nuclear stalemate has been achieved. This has come about largely through the listen. Our mountains are etcr- pijc(j positive policy of elim- growth of American military nal. Their snowy peaks above jnation and selection operates Power. Certainly this hasn't all timber line were not meant to be conquered. It's the lower elevations we had better start worrying about. Time is run- OAKRIDGE (To the Editor) The controversy over how the untouched areas nf our mntin. tain forests shall be managed ? JOHN L. LUNDBERG docs nothing to solve the ulti- p. o. Box 75 mate problem. There are certain basic- facts to be considered. juimius cuuugu to - -- ---7 -- . . Iff. 1 create more jobs. The other big J"cy are not wnemcr umocr is Iesentea HClltOriai nitch in thn union's nrncram over-ripe, not whether areas is to reduce the work week to should be used for recreation, 35 hours so as to spread avail- not whether it is necessary to able jobs among more workers, matintain a certain cut of lum- Industry leaders oppose this bcr each year, as an effort to put over a dis- The one problem that over guiscd pay raise less work shadows all others is the de for the same money. Wirtz also struction of our watersheds, says, "I do not think this is the They are vital to the .maintain right answer." n6 of a pure and abundant A factor that concerns him water supply which is not only more is that about 7 per cent necessary to human life but to of today s industrial production industry as well, mis ties in EUGENE (To the Editor) Such uninformed, vituperative attacks on the armed forces, re serves, and veteran organiza tions as have appeared in edi torials and other articles in the Eugene Register-Guard indicate a complex usually associated with a frustrated private first class or low-ranking officer who has an overriding conviction that the military goofed by not before and after enlistment, and on up through the ranks becom ing more severe as the indi vidual progresses. Fifth, I challenge him to pub lish these facts with the equal prominence that he has given the editorial and perform the public service of accurately in forming them of true conditions as they exist and not brow beating them with the past. AL PARKER 1515 Sylvan Drive (Editor's note: Even a casual reading of the editorial in ques tion will prove that there was no mention, expressed or im plied, of the reserves. We erred in saying families of military neoole net free dental care. comes from overtime work. This directly with flood control and recognizing his general officer Beyond that, the advantages of is slightly above unemployment soil depletion. Any so-called ex- qualifications. military service that were men- ..I.. f ....J a nM nnnt Hup. nnt-t Whn hoe m,Ha ctlirline that 111 emi.A incf.nnn. II.;. tlnnnrl In ,Ua .Wninl ...nn'tl.a JUlua ui HIUIIIIU U v:in. umi- ...iw .-. ...uu u.uu..... .un. ... ..unit. iiiatiiii.t.a 1111a urn- nuuvi 111 im; cuuvitai vttiu .liv ing the last two years. take all facets of a fast-growing cism reached the proportions If the unemployed could be national problem into consider- where it served a useful pur given this work, e v e ry t h i n g ation and who is not influenced pose in exposing weaknesses. might be dandy. But it isn t that by politics or other factors, will however such articles as the easy. Much of the overtime pro- tell you that there should nev- editorial of Jan. 8, 1963, only duction is temporary like the current drive on manufacture ' of new models in the auto in dustry. Most of the unemployed in chronically depressed areas aren't located where the over time work is available and, be sides, don't have the skills to do it. Also, from the employer's point of view, it has been esti mated that it costs up to $1,500 the first year to add a new worker to the payroll. , If a new worker has to be laid off after a temporary work rush is over, he gets unem ployment insurance, lowering the employer's rating. In some industries the worker would have to be paid supplementary benefits. These arc just a few of the many practical problems that have to be solved before unem ployment can be reduced to the manageable proportions of a 4 per cent rate or less. MKMBKK (X TUB AiiUClAlLU I'KLSS Th Asoclatcd PrcM li entitled txi-luklvelj' to the ue (or republi cation of all the local neue printed in this newspaper. MEMBER OF THE AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Services United Press International WILLIAM WASMANN. Neva Editor DONN L. BONHAM, city Editor ROSS O. JOHNSON. Advortlstnf Director JARL FUGLE ClrculaUon Manaser ROBERT K. BERTSCH PromoUon W. B. JOHNSTON JR. Auditor ARM STROMMER Production same advantages so prominently mentioned in magazine ads, tce vec commercials and billboards produced by the various re cruiting services.) happened during the two years of the present administration; but is the result of the build-up of nuclear weapons in general and of missiles in particular dur: ing the Eisenhower administra-. tion. "J Copyright. 1063. New York Herald Tribune ln. . .. So They Say- Exploring space is in some ways like walking down, a strange street we know 4h street is there, and that it must lead somewhere, but we never know what.is around the corner. Jamea t. Webb, head of National .Aeronautics and Space Admin- istration. . ' A director couldn't hope tc direct a (Charles) Laughton pic ture. The best he could hope for was to referee. Director Lewis MUcstone, on the late actor. Sylvia Porter State Taxes Soaring Again to New Record Porter This year state taxes across the land are heading up S1.5 billion, will take an all-time high $22 billion from our pock ets. This year, social security taxes are head ing up $2 bil lion plus, will take a record $14.6 billion from our in comes. This year, local taxes in tens of thou sands of com m u n i t i e s arc heading up by hundreds of mil lions, also will hit unparalleled peaks. This year, unless Congress gives us the substantial across-the-board reduction in our fed eral income taxes which Presi dent Kennedy is urging so strongly, we'll be carrying an even more crushing tax burden than last year or the year before that. This year, unless Congress acts, our tax load which just about everybody now admits is obsolete and in Kennedy's word, "too heavy a drag on private purchasing power, profits and employment" will be even more obsolete, an even heavier drag on your economy. Congress simply must not overlook what is joing on in other areas of taxation in our country as it debates the size, form and timing ot federal in come tax reduction. Estimated 90,000 Bills There is no hope for revers ing the social security tax hike; it went into effect Jan. 1. There is no hope for avoiding in creases in state and local taxes. The states and cities are under constant spending pressures and they cave in constantly to the pressures. Just since the start of the 1950s, state tax collec tions have more than doubled gone from $8.9 billion in 1951 to $20 6 billion in 1962. As for 1963. an estimated 90,000 bills will be introduced in the state legislative sessions being held in 47 states, accord ing to the Commerce Clearing House of Chicago. More than 25 per cent will involve taxes; of these 2.500 will become law and you can bet your bottom dollar the overwhelming per centage will involve tax hikes, not cuts. Monday, the Tax Foundation of New York released the grim results of a nationwide survey of tax proposals in the states. Over the years a pattern of major tax legislation in every fourth odd-numbered year has developed. Previous years of significant tax increases were 1951, 1955, 1959 meaning 1963 is "it" again. Last year being an election year, the legislators and governors laid low. Now they're set to vote the tax hikes to offset their skyrocketing spending and mounting budget deficits. The most fashionable tax slat ed for passage this year will be the broad-based retail sales tax. Proposals for adopting it as a new tax or for increasing rates or for broadening its base ac count for $1.3 billion of the S1.5billion tax increase the Tax Foundation foresees. Next Most Popular In prospect in Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada and Wyoming is a sales tax hiked to 3 per cent. Moves to 4 per cent are to be considered by Connecticut, Georgia. Maine, Ohio, Illinois. A breakthrough to a 4'i per cent rate is believed likely in Pennsylvania. New broad-based sales taxes are scheduled for vote in eight slates. There also will be extensive action on se lective sales taxes with increas es due on taxes imposed on Ras oline, cigarettes, alcoholic bev erages. The next most popular device for raking in more state reve nue is via personal and corpora-, tion income taxes. Nebraska: faces a possible new individual income tax at 2i per cent. Ala bama faces the likelihood of a corporation income tax boost to 5 per cent and so docs New Jersey. Ohio may enact a new income tax. So this one goes. No Relief at This Stage The parade fans out far be yond ihis. In the sphere of lev ies on users of highways, in creased truck license fees may be imposed in Arkansas and Ohio. Measures to change or hike passenger car registration fees arc in the offing in Ala bama, California, Kansas, New York, Ohio. Yes, there are a few states where there will be proposals to lighten the load but these will be rare. Any hope for relief? Not at this stage. Where do we get re lief then? Only from Congress at this point. And now surely the time has come for a most critical examination of spend ing at every government level. Just as even the strongest in dividual can crumble under in tolerable pressures, so can even the strongest community, state or nation. '.