Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, April 11, 1946, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextA FRANK JENKINS Editor MALCOLM EPLSV Managing tanur manager Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY THE city manager movement is spreading in Oreeon. Salem is to have a vote on a proposal, and it is also com ing up at Grants Pass. Eu gene's new city manager gov ernment is now well launched, and Indications are that it is producing constructive results. Th" manager at Eugene re cently proposed a proposed ot civic development covering a period of several years, with the financing plans included. Several Oregon cities have operated under the manage ment plan for years. i 1 EPLEY It is noteworthy that in most cases, where cities have adopted a city manager form of government, it succeeds so well it is retained. The best plan, as we sec it, is a council manager form. Thus an elective council forms policies and adopts legislation, and the trained, experienced manager does the administrating. This is very much like the school district plan that has prevailed throughout the state. Elective school boards control policy and trans act the fundamental business of the district, and the trained superintendent carries out policies and generally administers district af fairs. Management Merged SEVERAL years ago, the local school boards KUHS and elementary got together on a management program. Jointly they employed Arnold Gralapp as superintendent, and he has done an excellent job handling the affairs of both districts. Prior to this merger of manage ment, affairs of the separate districts were handled by. an elementary superintendent for many years J. Percy Wells did the job well and a high school principal. Klamath county school district conducts its business with an employed superintendent Fred Peterson has done the job for years and an elective school board. The council-manager plan is, generally speak ing, the school district plan applied to city government. Planning Pays EARLY in the war, Klamath Union high school district adopted a pre-financing plan for post-war developments. Voters authorized the raising of $60,000 a year for five years. Two years' funds have now been levied, and a third is coming up. This means that the new vocational education wing to be added to the high school building can now be provided without further financing. , Long-term planning and good management brought about this favorable state of affairs. Briefs From The Pocket File CAMP WHITE naval hospital is to be closed May 1 . . . Camp Adair, the big former army camp in the Willamette valley, is to be sold . . . Mitchell Paige, Congressional Medal of Honor winner and one-time provost marshal for the Marine Barracks, is in town . . . The Marine Barracks educational center proposal can't move further until there are developments in Washington, where the navy apparently has not yet transferred the property to the war assets corporation . . . R. C. Groesbeck, local attorney and member of the state board of higher education, may move to California in the next year or so . . . Citizens have only a few days left in which to register to vote in the primary. News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, April 11 The mine strike is easily explained. The miners' houses had to be painted, their gardens dug and morning glories planted around the sheds in the back yard. Many are farmers on the side and had to do extensive plowing and seeding. They have long been accustomed to a vacation strike every April to get these things done. For the past five years, due to the war, they have lost this traditional spring leave-taking. To make sure they get it this year, the union Boss John L. Lewis neglected to tell the operators exactly what he wanted in the new contract. He presented r.o specific list of de mands, but left his wants rather vaguely or indirectly stated. He took no chance that the operators would accept. This week Lewis began to get down to busi ness, which fact has inspired all on the inside to expect a settlement is near surely by next week, they say, possibly before this gets into print. No grave or impossible differences exist. The coal bins are beginning to run low. Some steel mills have shut down. So if the operators are in the mood, the nation's biennial fuel production comedy will end shortly and pleasantly. Own Social Security System LEWIS is serious about one thing. He wants to establish his own union social security system to Dromote medical aid, safety and health. If it works out right, this would put the union in charge of handling vast funds and establish a sort' of super government within it, or at least make it a competitor with the federal government in its health, safety and social security notions and the vast accumulated federal SS funds. The only other current strike of importance is one little noticed, at the Westinghouse Elec trical Appliance Works in Pittsburgh. Its issues are of greater public significance than the publicized coal strike. This company has had no labor troubles in the past. Its record is superior. Yet 18,000 or more workers plus 55,000 in other Westinghouse plants, have been out for weeks in a fully bitter struggle in an industry which is vitally needed for peace time production as the dearth of household electrical appliances has hit the public hard. The real trouble is the company granted secret wage increases during the war in the way of incentive pay and such devices, at the private direction of the government, which was then winking at its own ' little steel formula in order to raise wages without announcing it. Now the electrical union has come along with a demand for the 18 cents an hour increase which other industries are getting without wiping out the incentive pay and other wage-hiking devices of wartime. The company has fairly well proved it can not stand the proposed increase and do business against its big competitor General Electric, where the wartime incentive devices did not go as high as at Westinghouse, and therefore the general operating pay would be lower. Trustworthy figures on production of electric lamps particularly show this. I understand Westinghouse has gone as high as Phil Murray, head of the entire CIO, in its plea for fair moderation of the union demands to meet com petitive production. Murray sympathized, but said he could do nothing. The company says the strike will continue until the union reaches a decision for moderation. Strike Probe Rushed P' ENNSYLVANIA'S political-boss type (boss of what)? Senator Joe Guffey has tried ineffectively to get the senate labor committee, which is controlled by CIO, to conduct an in vestigation of the strike, which would be favorable to the union. He has been pushing the Kilgore resolution for a senatorial investi gation of strikes, with the Westinghouse case in mind. But the idea of a political inquiry into strikes has been a little too much for even that strongest CIO committee in congress and the Kilgore resolution is languishing. Yet in general, the national strike situation is clearing up. Greatest steal of the campaign was one by the CIO political action Boss Sidney Hillman without a strike in the Amalga mated Clothing industry which he dominates. Only a paragraph or so in the press recently heralded the hold-up effected by CIO's smoothie, who wrangled $60,000,000 more a year out of the clothing makers (meaning the public) with wage increases ranging from 18 cents to 30 cents an hour. I have heard the best objective authority on labor say privately and I think it is true:. "It will take the unions until 1958 to win back the solid ground they have lost in their recent strikes campaign." SIDE GLANCES I, ?T ' ff f ' rV. ma Sill !. 1W BV NCA SEWVtCt, IMC. T. M WtG. U Off "Remember how lie used to gripe about ollieers" (luurleri being better than G l.s'?" C Of C Improvements Discussed At Meet Improvements at the Klamath County chamber of commerce were discussed Wednesday at the board of directors meeting. It was suggested to purchase a new awning for the front of the building or to eliminate the awning entirely and purchase Venetian blinds. The matter of a new sign was also studied by the group. The state department, with Thomas Jefferson as its head, started with five employes. A cow must eat 100 or more pounds of grass to produce 20 to 25 pounds of milk. Housewives Pick Up Phone; Town's Fire Siren Shrieks SUQUAMISH (Kitsap Coun ty), Wash., April 11 (P) House wives who heard the town's new fire siren blow when they picked up their telephones the other day can relax now. The volunteer fire department has found the trouble. "What a dav," muttered red- Centennial Group Formed At Meeting A Centennial association was formed at a meeting held last night, to have charge of the cele bration to take place this fall commemorating the opening of the south road into Oregon 100 years ago. Constitution and by-laws were adopted and it was agreed to in corporate as a non-profit organi zation. A nominating commit tee was appointed to name per sons to serve on the executive committee. The next meeting will be held April 17, when the nominating committee's report will be heard and election of the executive committee held. There were over 40 persons present with representatives of 23 different organizations and interested individuals attending. faced Fire Commissioner Wal ter Denton. "Everytime somebody picked up his telephone bang! Off went the fire siren. And 12 of us roared off in our fire truck down the Pulsbo road." Fire Chief William Berbaur ordered one of the volunteer members, Fred King, to search for the trouble. He found the signal system wire and a tele phone wire crossed up. "It made us look foolish," the chief growled. "They might have lost respect for our de partment." Red Cross Drive At $19,755.64 Latest figure released on the Red Cross drive to date brings the county total to $19,755.64, still less than half of the $43,100 quota. New members in the $100 club are G. A. Krause, $100; North west Theatres, donating $50 per theatre, $250; Henry Semon, $100, and the Tulana Farms, $200. Classified Ads Bring Results. THURSDAY P. KFLW 1450 kc. 0:00 Kalun I'om'ert :!. 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