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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1946)
an rXANK JENKINS Editor MALCOLM KPLKY Manasing Editor A eontoHdalion of 1ha Evening Herald and lh Klamath Mcwa. Published avary afternoon except Sunday at Ei pla na de and Plna ftreeU, Klamath Falli, Oregon, by tha Herald . Publishing Co, and tha Newt Publishing Company. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: nonth tl.00 - By mall M i fi.uw ay man . monthi H M year 8.0Q Membar, . Aatociatad Praia Member Audit Bureau Circulation Today's Round -Up By MALCOLM EPLEY , r A SAD story of delapidation, properly illus ' J tratcd, was told in the Orceonitm maga zine Sunday by Ben Buisman, editor of tho Oregon State Grange, in a re port on conditions of rural school plants in the state. His account says that rural schools ; are badly run down, they need paint, windows are broken, sanitary facilities are deplorable. It cannot be denied, said Mr. Buisman, that rural educational plants in most areas are far from what they should be. Tha. nrtiplp went on to sav that rural school educational EPLEY quality is none too high, with teachers in one room schools trying to handle anything up to ' eight grades, and with good teachers inclined to move to larger schools as rapidly as pos sible. All of which is true, but it seemed to us that Mr. Buisman, possibly for his own good rea sons, failed to go into the fundamental cause of the low state of rural school buildings and educational quality. Consolidate FOR a contrast with the unpleasant story told by Mr. Buisman, we invite attention to . the situation in Klamath county. Certainly, the pictures and word account given in the Ore gonian article do not describe conditions typical of this county's rural schools. Klamath county has operated under a county unit system for more than 20 years. Under this system, school consolidations have steadily progressed to the point where there is now ONLY ONE one-room school left in the county where the teacher has responsibility for all of the grades. There are only three other one . room schools, and in these only the lower .grades are taught. Larger-schools, with better equipment, better' - buildings, better-qualified teachers, have been established for the benefit of rural school chil- - dren in Klamath county.:' The county unit plan, " with all of the county operating as a single district, with blanket taxes making possible the best use of tax money in the places where it is needed, and with county wide administration,', has facilitated school consolidations and a sound building program that are the answer to the problems pointed up by Mr. Buisman in his Oregonian article. The day of the impoverished little school " district has long since passed in Klamath coun ty. It still exists in many other places, as the Oregonian article plainly implies, and it is in teresting to note that the Oregon State grange (not Klamath grangers, however) has stubbornly refused to support the county unit idea, despite the . obvious advantages it carries for rural children as illustrated in. the experience of Klamath county and the contrasting story told by the Oregon State Grange editor. With or without the county unit, consolida tions can be effected that will make possible Improved school plants and better education for Oregon's farm boys and girls. These are the things that weren't mentioned in the article, but they are the real solution to the problems it presents. . News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 Only by three per . cent has the cost of living risen in nearly three years, said Mr. Truman to congress, in reaching the remarkable conclusion that "the fight against Inflation has been waged suc cessfully." The figure seemed to be a misprint. ' Most people thought ho meant 30 per cent. But no, Careful rereading of his message will show he said the cost of living "index" of tho govern mentthe statistics had crept up but three per cent. In this, of course, ho was correct The government has waged a much more magnificent fight against letting price statistics rise than against prices. They do this by weighting their index heavily with noncxistant and hard to get commodities. For instance, they may consider nylon hose prices, but few can get them. The price is purely figurative, The government may brag about holding tender loin steak prices down, and give this great con- sideration in making up their index, but steaks have long since ceased to be an item in the cost of living of most people. The other com' niodities beyond price control are available and represent the real cost of living today. Any shopper or housewife can testify these have gone up much more than 3 per cent, especially when you consider quality depreciation and quantity chiseling. Only a man living beyond personal contact with the workaday world in the White House, where everything is bought for him, could possibly believe the actual cost of living has been held to a three per cent increase since May, 1943. Government Self-Deception , BUT the government's self-deception on this base figure, from which its economic policies are deduced, runs far beyond unrealistic statis tics. Mr. Truman, himself, disclosed what the public seldom has noticed, namely that the treasury is paying out cash to producers to hold many a pricelist where it is. He asked congress for appropriations to continue sub sidies already running over a billion (yes bil lion) dollars a years. These subsidies he men tioned on sugar, butter, bread, meat, milk and cheese, are actually price increases which do not show m the figures. Take sugar, The price "line" has been held at the expense of no one being able to get enough sugar. There is plenty of sugar avail able in the off-shore storages. The govern ment haggled against paying an increase of cent a pound and therefore was not able to get the sugar. Now some compromise is being negotiated to pay a fraction of a cent increase, and we may get some sugar, but Mr. Truman wants to continue the government subsidy, beyond next July 1 or, he says, sugar will rise one cent a pound, which he con siders alarming. Butter? The butter "line" has been held by creating a condition where people cannot get butter. The price of cream was allowed to rise;-to -the point where producers could make more money selling the cream instead oi making it into butter on which the price was limited. . That is why we have had a butter shortage. Meat? Flour? Cash from the treasury is being paid producers for not increasing prices, and now Mr. Truman says these subsidies must be continued or increased else meats will go up three to five cents and bread one cent a loaf next July 1st when the subsidies expire. Truman Denounced FOR his proposal to ' continue the subsidies, Mr. Truman was denounced by one farm organization as advocating "the worst double cross of the farmers in history." The unanimity of the farm bureau, grange and farmers union against the subsidies practically assures their discontinuance by the congress, despite Mr. Truman's recommendation. Thus the food price increases forecast by the president are apt to be realized. '.; So what? Well, the effect will be disastrous on the government price statistics. But as far as the people axe concerned, they will merely be paying the price increase when they buy the sugar or butter, instead of paying it in taxes through the treasury to the producers on the side. People now have money, and the wage increases Mr. Truman is promoting, should enable the public to face the increases forecast one cent a loaf.on bread, one to two cents on milk, one cent on sugar and so on. The people are paying it now anyway and paying more, because the administrative cost of handl ing the subsidies in many cases runs higher than the subsidy itself and this cost will be wiped out if subsidies are stopped. The "hold the price line" policy which Mr. Truman thinks has been so- successful is then, in reality, not a line but a sieve. On food, it is a fiction maintained by statistics, which are absurdly obsolete, and by more than a billion dollars a year of treasury cash subsidies. SIDE GLANCES COML fMi BY MM SfWKt. INC. f. ML HfC V. MT. OFt. But, mother, 1 simply must huvc another pair of sports shoes vou don't want me to go nrouiul looking like u backwoodsman, do you?"- KFLW Campaigns To Make Nation 'Klamath Conscious' Some 75 of the na'tion's ton advertising executives this week were getting quite a sur prise as they opened small wooden boxes which bore a label reading, "Handle With Care. - Gem Inside. Shipped Irom Klamath Falls, Oregon.' Part of KFLW's campaign to make national advertisers con scious of the wealth and re sources of the Klamath basin, the boxes, made from Klamath pine, contained a huge Klam ath Netted Gem potato packed in green cellophane strips, and a message from KFLW pointing out facts about the area. The spuds, boxes and pack ing were donated by Klamath people. State Rep. Henry Se mon set aside the largest and choicest potatoes from a day's grading; Curt Strong, manager of Weyerhaeuser mill box fac tory, designed . and presented the boxes which were custom built with sliding lids. The -people of Malin community gave the cellophane. Meanwhile, KFLW's opening CHILDRENS COLDS' MUSCLE ACHES-COUQHINO, LOCAL CONGESTION I EASED QUICKLY Fenetro rubbed on chut, throat and back works fait to (1) help break up local congra- uvu t iuhvb pain ai nerve ends In skin (3) loosens phlegm, couch uix leueni ai vapors help your child breathe easier quickly. Makes your child reit better feel better. For Pen tro ii Grandma' fn. mom mutton auet idea made better by modem clenoe. All of your family will enjoy Pen etro. Good for grown ups as well aa child ren. 25c, double supply only 39c, Always set is drawing nearer and six weeks more should see- the lo cal ABC outlet in operation, Bud Chandler, manager, said today. As construction work is in the final stages, Gib Walters, chief engineer, has already be gun the highly complicated technical installation of trans mitter and studio controls. KFLW's modern 18-room studios are located in the north wing of The Herald and News building on Esplanade. MISSES MINE ' TACOMA, Jan. 28 (IP) The u. s. 6. General Eltinee narrow ly missed running into a float ing mine off the Washington coast Thursday. Pacific veterans who debarked from the vessel here Saturday told newsmen. A gun crew aboard destroyed the mine. Tobacco users pay into state coffers about S150.000.000 an nually in taxes. r ntl PENETRO laill T)aV!Q d-Vf.OETABUj rVYVSoV' IAXATIVI Thomas Blasts Policy Lack PORTLAND, Jan. 28 (Pi Lack of a policy is driving the United States toward another war, Norman Thomas, five-time socialist candidate for president, declared here in an interview yesterday. He said, "President Truman wants the UNO to succeed, then he wants us to grab off bases all over the world. He wants atomic bombs, then he wants our youth trained in old-fashioned army methods. He is inconsistent and doesn't even know it." 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F r a n c o re plied that this a matter which will bo dealt with 'when this is suitable to the interest of the nation" and that "it will have to be the Spaniards t h e m s e 1 ves who pronounce t b e m s e 1 ves in its favor." In short. I take it Spain isn't paging foreign na tions for advice. I broached the matter by call ing Franco's attention to the fact that his ambassador to Washington, Juan Francisco de Cardenas, recently was o::oted as saying that "Spain is steadily and progressively restoring a po litical situation with a more rep resentative system." 1 asked if this had any rela tion to the current talk about a possible restoration of the monarchy. Open Constitution "Spain is a country of an ooen and not closed constitution" was francos reply. ror bpain. the protections of its institutions is constant and progressive and every staee is! effected at the moment when the Dest service of the nation re quires it, without there being opened tncreoy constitutional periods, much less revolutionary periods. "What really interests Spain is the content of its political re gime, not its external expres sion, which is considered second ary. For this reason tho prob lem or tile monarch is not a thing which troubles lis, and it will be approached when this is suitable to the interests of tho nation. When this time conies it will have to be the Spaniards themselves who pronounce them selves in its favor. Important Things "The important thiniu toclav for nations arc freedom of con science and the free exercise of human rights within a climate of peace, order, justice and so cial rights, which the Suanish bill of rights effectively guaran tees. The possession by the na tion of its traditional institutions and the fact that progress in the spiritual, scientific, economic, and social orders reaches the greater part of the nation are the important thing. "The rest Is necessarily ac cessory and need not disturb the enjoyment of the principal part. "With this order you may be insured that the perfections and evolutions which the regime of the nation requires, will be re quired by the internal necessi ties and will of Spaniards and never by judgments from abroad nor the interference of foreign ers. We respect and do not in terfere with the private con cerns of other peoples, and we believe we have the right to be respected and left in peace." Big Three Query I also asked Franco a Question rcluting to the big three declara tion at Potsdam excluding Spain from membership in the United Nations organization. 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"These forest areas offered recreation lo mure than 700,01)0 people in 1041, the last pic-war year, mid it is my guess that there will bo almost a million persons using thesu ulcus in 1040. "We also have 2:1 ski ureas, including Tiiuberlliio Lodge, which was used by more than 100,000 people and these too lira going to bo crowded next winter." No Fundi The representative told the committee that all developments in the national forests had to be left without maintenance during the war when no funds could be appropriated for them and that the forest service now has no funds with which to put them into condition to be used. He said it wus essential that the funds be provided now so as much of the work as possible could be done beforo warm weather arrives. "Now that people have an op portunity for automobile trips and recreational outings," Stock man said, "I feel that proper lacuuius .snoiiui pc made avail able so that they cun- obtain full benefit of the pinks In our na tional forests." i Foil From Father's Arms Fatal To Baby PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 28 (I') A fall from the arms uf u parent was fatal late Saturday night to thrcc-month-old Mary Ann Ivy, the coroner's office reported to day. The coroner said Meldon Ivy was holding his daughter when a Ihrcc-ycur-old son climbed onto a chair nearby and toppled to ward a hot stove. The father reached for the son, but lost his grip on the infant in his arms. Monday, Jan. 28, 1948 HERALD AND NEWS FOUH Construction Men Get Raise I'OHTLAND, Ore., Jan. 28 (I1) Wuuit ilrl hiMtmmil hmn-il n mn-iti.ji I of wago Increases for iiliuul iu.uuu I'oriiaiiti area conylruc- liiitl wni-kpr-t wnv i-i,i,i-lr1 l,v Fred Manlsh, secretary of the building and construction trades r.n,,,w.ll Manlsh said the approval Is retroactive lo January 7. I'liy scales were negotiated between the AHsoditled Cienoriil Con tractors and the union council. Carnrntei-ji' tuiv will liiir,iiKn from $1,371 an hour lo $ 1 ,3n; building workers, OS cents to $1.1.1; structural steel workers, $1.(18 to $1.75; concrete rodmon, $1,374 to $1.05. EDITOR'S DREAM BREWSTKK, Minn., Jan. 211 M' Clinton Wilcox, publisher of tho weekly HreWster Tri bune, was 111 fur several days. When he read the latest issua of tho Tribune, ho found a full page ad, paid (or by Brew ster residents, with Ihis mes sage: "Get well quick, Mr. Edltorl" Radio Programs IfC II Mutual-Don La ell I 1240 kc. Monday Eve., January 28 B: la WUrflmlr NrlllHay Ori-heilra 0:30 Spolllhl Hand 1:09 Your Land and Mlna 1J Under. IHa'M 1;3S Lena Kauitr S:M nllrhaal Hhayne S:tS Waadr llrmn Orvlitttra Nil! Huns Tlmr. .at flleim llarity, Ntwi H Miller :10 Muilo That Snarklaa -M Uanee ts-aa nulldnr llruntmond leise Mo.io a you i.iae II ll-ee l.ffl'a llanra II-4S Orsan Kavarlre and Nawa Raundap at PotsdaM," the generalissimo said, "and at the proper time rejected that part of it which re ferred to Spain. Tho war is still recent and the passions and rash ness which it provoked ore not yet calm and the world is not agreeable to look at. "Let us leave to those who arc faced with rcsnonsibilltv of the hour tho solution of the difficult political problems which nre pending. Spain need not be pres ent In order to give within its sphere and means Its collabora tion to pence among peoples." 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