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Br MALCOLM EPLEY
THE cMy airport commission has recommend
ed acceptance of the navy's interim permit
for civilian use of the municipal airport. If
this recommendation Is ac
cepted by the council, as will
undoubtedly be the case, the
next step in ironing out the
airport problem will be the
adoption of a management
program.
On this matter, the airport
commission and city council
will have to decide whether
the city will undertake man
ngement responsibilities or
will delegate them to some
one else. EPLEY
Five aircraft service operators have offered
to assume those responsibilities until the city
finds Itself in a position to take over operation
of the big field. It is a fair proposition, un
doubtedly made in good faith. It offers one
way out of the problem.
However, before this proposal is accepted,
we feel the city should thoroughly canvass
the possibility of establishing municipal man
agement. The airport Is municipally owned, it repre
sents In addition to the navy's federal invest
ments large sums of money provided by the
taxpayers of Klamath Falls, it is a public field
to be used for public purposes. All of these
are factors pointing to the desirability of muni
cipal management.
Aircraft operators who offered to handle the
management on a temporary basis will probably
agree that municipal management would be
better. One of them, Phil Hitchcock, has said
so publicly.
The city has no budgeted funds for use in
managing the field, and that is one of the
serious obstacles that has slowed development
of post-war airport policy.
The aircraft service operators, who are will
ing to finance their proposed cooperative man
agement program, presumably could as easily
finance municipal management if the proper
procedure could be worked out.
Even if the thing were carried only as far as
the appointment of a manager responsible to
the city with the operators providing funds
for his salary and assuming the other necessary
responsibilities, it might be found a sounder
program than to have the city delegate all of
the authority to some one else.
There are so many things involved right
now in the city's aviation policies that there
is real need for a competent administrator, tie
voting his full time to the airport and all
related matters. It is an alternative that should
be carefully studied.
Complex
BEFORE any of us go extensively into a
line of criticism of the mayor and airport
commission, it is well to recognize the com
plexities of the airport situation.
This field was developed to its present pro
portions in wartime and by federal agencies
with the resources of the United States behind
them. It was operated in the war by a federal
governmental agency with almost unlimited
funds at its command.
The war is over, and the local community
finds itself with this highly developed establish
ment on its hands. The community has an
infinitesimal $9,500,000 in assessable tax re
sources. It feels the responsibility for main
taining the installation, and there is public
pressure that this be done.
The problem thus presented is no minor
matter.
Federal Aid
IN this connection, Mr. C. A. Dunn, the chair
man of the airport commission and a sound
business man, has commented upon the need
for a national system of federal aid airports,
something like federal aid highways.
He points out that the Klamath field was
needed and used by the military in the war,
Indicating that it would be again needed in
case of military emergency. To keep it at a
stage of maintenance and development where
it would be immediately available and useful
for such purposes is more than a small local
community can be expected to do. As a po
tential part of the national defense, federal
aid is in order, he believes.
Cliff Dunn, incidentally, is not the kind of a
fellow who wants to run to uncle every time
there is a local financial problem. What he
has to say about a federal aid airport system
has much significance.
News Behind The News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, April 24 The overlooked
fact in most accounts of the house OPA
continuance was that the legislation proposed
extcntion until next March 31, nine months
more. The way some of the stories read you
might think discontinuance was- immediate.
The opposition statements of Messrs. Bowles
and Porter absorbed attention of the reporters
entirely. When the extension date was men
tioned, it frequently was presented as I have
done above, in a confusing way. Actually, the
extension works out to be more than eleven
months from now, and nine months beyond
the expiration date of OPA powers on June 30.
A lot of water may go over many dams in
the next eleven months and the continuance
of the government's powers to act against
prices for that long a time could hardly be
called destruction of OPA.
Unusual Bitterness
WHAT angered the administration to un
usual bitterness against the bill were
the amendments. One amendment proposed
what was generally described as "cost plus
reasonable profits to producers and handlers."
OPA contended this would upset their ceilings
on many of the major items of production,
autos, rubber and such. This would depend
upon whether their ceilings now deny "cost plus
profit" on these items and it would require a
skilled mathematician a week to figure out the
involved formula for one item. Frankly I
would not attempt to referee this argument.
Not Unreasonable
CERTAINLY, however, the general notion
of "cost plus a reasonable profit" does
not sound like an unreasonable invasion of the
consumers rights, or what OPA is supposed
to have been doing.
There was one amendment which seemed to
me logically what might possibly be called
"murderous" of OPA, as one irate democratic
congressman termed the bill, which was ap
proved on a final passage by 205 democrats,
including himself, and 148 republicans. This
"was the one to drop control over certain
articles when their production reaches the level
of production of the year July 1, 1940 to June
30, 1941 which was far from the "peak year"
it was described to be in one of the accounts.
Production did not reach a peak until the
last year of the war.
Now it would be entirely logical and sensible
for price controls to be removed the moment
production reaches current demand. Of course
current consumer demand is greater than July
1940-June 1941. It is very much greater, due
to the accumulation of demand for consumer
goods during the war. It might be "murder
ous" to OPA to impose that new formula on
cessation of regulations, but it would be what
fairness demands. Relief of regulations should
be timed to the period when production can
care for the present demand, when the pressure
of shortages for higher prices has been relieved.
End Of Subsidies
THE other Important amendment called for
gradual elimination of subsidies. Frankly,
I have never liked subsidies. The theory is
wrong to pay from the treasury, which is the
money of all the people (and their debt now
is heavy,) a certain portion of the price which
should be paid by the man who buys the article.
Not even Mr. Truman has defended subsidies
as a permanent proposition. Whether the time
limit fixed by the house would work ef
ficiently, again calls for intricate technical
knowledge of the effect of the removal on
each article at each time.
A revision of the bill by the senate is being
prophesied by most authorities, but it is not
likely to be a fullpower lease of existing au
thority as the administration has been demanding.
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"Why do you have a drug store sifin if vou do not carry
sandwiches and suiads?
Change In Mail
Time Announced
A new chuiigo in nt h i I lima
hus been announced by Klum
nlli Fulls post office authorities
to correspond w I t h the new
train schedule, effective today.
Train 10 now leaves earlier
liulng south and innil must be
in the post office for dispatch
by 5:15 p. in., 15 miiititi'S
earlier than the previous time.
Main street iiiitll box pickup
has boon put ahead to 4:50 p,
in. Instead of 0 p. m, under the
new schedule.
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STATIC
After a series of postpone
ments the Humberto Zavala vs.
Charlie Fusari fight will be
brought to sports fans on Fri
day's Gillette Fights. Later
schedules include a 15-round
championship scrap for light
weights, Bob Montgomery of
Philadelphia and Lightweight
Champ Allie Stoltz of New Jer
sey, coming on May 17. May 31
will see a welterweight match
between Beau Jack of Georgia
and Johnny Greco of Canada.
Both these fights will originate
in Madison Square Garden.
A most humble apology from
this writer for giving a bum
steer on last night's version of
"Dark Venture." The forecast of
the plot was written in all sin
cerity, and no one was more
surprised than I when I heard
the presentation. The plot, or
at least the one that appeared in
this column yesterday, was taken
from the TWX out of Holly
wood. Some one must have got
ten his scripts mixed up. There
was certainly no besiutuul
blonde in "The Window" that
I could hear. Next week we'll
get together on what's going to
happen.
"America's Town Meeting of
the Air," over KFLW Thursday
will feature Dr. Robert Hutch
ins, chancellor of Chicago uni
versity and the Honorable
George H. Earle, former gover
nor of Pennsylvania and former
minister to Bulgaria, speaking
on the subject "What Should Be
Our Policy Toward Russia.'
When somebody stole a lot of
lumber from a vet's homesite,
it looked like that was about as
mean as a man could be. But
now that summer is coming it
seems as though a meaner one
is on the way, one that we have
every year. A man who will
poison a dog is the lowest form
of humanity. And worse than
that, a man who will scatter
poisoned meat through a neigh
borhood ought to be shot. He
doesn't know and doesn't care
whose dog he poisons, nor does
he care, apparently, if some
small child picks up that meat
and gets a lethal dose of strych
nine or ground glass. Humanity,
it would seem, doen't improve
much over the years.
BOYLE'S
NOTEBOOK
By HAL BOYLE
ROME, April 24 (PI Italy is
one of the most hopeless count
ries in the western world today
because its people feel it is im
possible for them to make both
ends meet, the problem of the
masses in all countries and all
ages.
Their morale has been beaten
to pieces on the anvil of short
ages and low wages by the ham
mer of high prices. This feeling
that there is little use in work
ing because their labor brings
them no adequate return has
spread like a wave of disaster
through the nation, paralyzing
efforts at personal and civic re
covery from the ruin of war.
Cynical Indifference
And the reflex defensive re
sult of this feeling of hopeless
ness in the individual is a "don't
care" attitude about his Job, a
lowering of all moral standards
and a cynical indifference to
everything except his own belly
and his own amusement.
Authorities estimate that It
takes a salary of 20.000 lire a
month about $89 for a family
of five to buy the food needed
to keep them in good health.
Yet the average Italian office
or technical worker, including
the college graduate, docs not
average better than half that
amount. The father mast spend
virtually his entire wages on
food for his wife and children.
That doesn't give them the
food they need. It merely keeps
them alive.
Shelter is one of the most
reasonable items in the budget
because the fascists froze rent
levels and they have been kept
low since. Clothing is so high
that most families simply have
to do with what they have, and
patching has become so common
place it constitutes a new style
of Italian mosaics al fresco, done
in fabric instead of stones.
A poor suit costs $70, and af
ter the first rain the wearer
looks like a laundry bag wrapped
in a gunny sack. A good suit
costs $150 to $200.
In Rome there are scores of
stores stocked with high-priced '
luxury goods. There are win
dows loaded with fine and fancy
foods. But theso displays are for 1
the rich of all Italy who have i
thronged to Rome, where they
live off their financial fat. Muny
arc absentee landlords.
They live here partly through
fear. They don't like to live too i
close to the people from whom
they draw the Income that per-;
in its them to live better than
their neighbors. Things might
happen to them if they stayed
at home in the provinces. In
these times of uncertain tempers
the landlord would Just as soon
spend his money at a distance. '
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Dr. Kenneth S. Garvin
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MCATEE CLINIC
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Dr. Lowell Coggeshall, former !
medical head of the Marine Bar
racks, will be the guest of Mac
Epley tomorrow on his broad
cast, ''The Managing Editor's Re
port." Dr. Coggeshall, one of
Klamath's best known and best
liked citizens, is planning to
leave for Michigan in the near
future.
SERVICE
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PORTLAND, April 24 (VP)
Dr. Amos E. Taylor, director of
foreign and domestic commerce
for the U. S. department of com
merce, will speak before Van
couver and Portland chambers
of commerce May 20 as part of
xvationai j-oreign Trade week.
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