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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1956)
PAGE FOURTEEN HE? ALT) AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 195g YOUR MARCH OF DIMES WONEY HOW 11 WAS USED1IN 1955.. . PATIENT AID POLIO , 53 (PREVENTION JL mi nr ra.w v .... amm- Dorman Set To Leave Post After Abuse-Ridden Years RESEARCH AND EDUCATION 14 SERVICE TO CHAPTERS 4'2 MEDICAL DEPT. SERVICE tM. 0 12 ADMIN STRATION 3 PUBLIC INFORMATION JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES That big Hc el tho dim. raprntl tho propor tion of March of Olmil fundi spent in 195S on Id lo polio patients. An oltlmatad $26,500,000 Will bo raquirod in 1956 to ensure that 66,000 patlontt noeding atllitaneo at th turn of tho Yoor aro not lot down and that thouiandi moro doitinod to got polio will bo aiturod help toward rocovory. By PAUL W, HARVEY JR. SALEM Iff) Harry 8. Dorman, state director of finance and ad ministration, leaves his office March 1, convinced his job "has been the most interesting, and the roughest, that anybody could pos sibly Imagine." Since he started the new depart ment on Aug. 2, 1951, Dorman has had power that probably Is second only to that of the governor. He suffered attacks that were among the most bitter in Oregon's history. But he weathered the storm, and now, complaints are few. Oorman'a new department, created by the 1951 Legislature, was given control over tile state budget, and with It, power over the purse strings of state depart ments. He also took over the purchas ing division, which buys 155,000 items worlh 18 million dollars a year. The law also gave him the State Printing Division, a state car pool, operation of the State house telephone system,- and con trol of management practices of state departments. State departments, smarting un der the new controls, let out a big bowl. They didn't want to change their fiscal ways. These departments objected strenuously to the new purchasing system, under which state supplies were bought by competitive bid ding. This meant that the depart- Van Zandt Claims Coastline 'Wide Open' To Red Attack WASHINGTON (UP) Rep. James E. Van Zandt said today U.S. coasts are "wide open" for a sneak, attack by Russian sub marines armed with guided mis siles carrying atomic or hydrogen bomb warheads. The Pennsylvania Republican proposed thnl the United Smlcs serve notice that any potential .en emy submarines found within 500 miles of its coasts will be sunk. Van Zandt made the proposal In A United Press interview, and pre pared to take it up with Nnvy Sec retary Charles S. Thomas at a House Armed Services Committee hearing today. Adm. Arlelgh A. Burke told the committee Wednesday that bv July 1957 the United Stales will have less than half the submarines which Russia already hns. Burke, chief of naval operations, said Rus sia Is second only to the United States In nnval power. Burke and Thomas appeared to support the Nnvy's proposed 1,4 billion dollar shipbuilding program for the fiscal year starling July 1. It includes a new 60,000 ton super carrier, the world's first atomic powered surface vessel a guided missile cruiser six more atomic powered submarines, guided mis sile frigates and destroyers and a start on an atomic-powered super carrier. Van Zandt said, "We must as sume that Russia has submarines which can carry end launch guided missiles with atomic or hydrogen warheads." He said it also must be assumed that .each submarine could carry two guided missiles with a range of between 200 and 300 miles, that Russia in two years will have at least 50 long-range submarines and 100 atomic or hydrogen warheads for guided missiles. He said 35 submarines, sneaking in to range under the cover of darkness, "could destroy almost every one of our overseas air bases and a big proportion of our conti nental strnlcgic air bases, not to forget other military installations." "Our coasts are wide open," he said. He said creation of a 500-mile-wide "stay out" sone along U.S. shores would help protect against sneak submarine attack. Long Bags Election Win NEW ORLEANS W Earl Long made plans today to go hog hunt ing after bagging the Louisiana governorship for an unprecedented third time. The 60-year-old younger brother of the late Huey P. Long swept to a rare first primary victory Tuesday, bowling over the admin istration of Gov. Robert Kennon and the mansion dreams of New Orleans Mayor deLesseps Morri son of New Orleans. Long was governor twice before, from 1948-52. and from 1939 - 40 when he stepped up from lieutenant-governor. High on his list of plans for the new term beginning May 15 Is to rewrite the state's 42-year-old con stitution, longest in the land. With only 148 of the state's 2,039 precincts still unheard from, Long had 387.807 votes; Morrison. 176.- 453; Pred Preaus, 90,379; Francis Orevemberg, 57.851; and James McLemore 44,521. The defeat was particularly harsh for Kennon, who was bank ing on the tradition that the gov ernor, unable by law to succeed himself, always has the power to get his man in a runoff. Preaus, the administration choice, ran third. Long attributed part of his suc cess to the campaign he conducted in the back woods and rural com munities. Still hoarse from the 600 speech stump tour, he proclaimed: "Like Sophie Tucker, I'm the last of the red hot mamas." Bull Sale Sets NWS Record DENVER Ml Bids Jumped $1, 000 at a time before a Texas-bred Hereford bull sold Tuesday for $30, 000 nearly twice the highest price paid last year at the National Western Stock Show. The top-selling animal, one of 157 hereford to go through Jhe auc tion rings, Is THR Zato Heir 22nd. He was purchased by Northern Pump Farms of McHenry, 111., from the Boerne. Tex., farms of Jack Turner and William M. Thornton. Highest price paid for a bull at the 1955 National Western was $16 200. merits and Institutions couldn't place contracts with favored mei'' chants. Some suppliers, who had been in on the ground "oor in selling to the Btate, were angry. They didn't like competitive bidding. One Institution refused to use the kind of soap that Dorman's ouyers bought. It said tne soap was Inferior. Dorman outfoxed the Institution, though, by putting the new kind of soap In a barrel labeled with the former brand. The institution thanked him, not knowing that Dorman had pulled a trick. v He says his purchasing methods are saving the state more than two million dollars a year. That is double what it costs to run the whole department, which has 191 employes. "They threw a lot of curves at me when I first took over', and they threw a lot more when Gov. Patterson became governor," Dor man says. "A lot more will be thrown at my successor, so he'll have a rough time of it for a while. "But the biggest satisfaction I have Is that the office now is run ning smoothly, so that I can turn It over in good condition." Dorman's Job was made much easier by the Legislature, which gave him complete power to carry out his Job. In preparing the budget for the 1955 Legislature, Dorman did such a good job that the lawmakers weren't able to change It very much. That made a big Impression on the Legisla ture. "It gives me a deep satisfac tion," Dorman said, "to see the same departments coming to my office for help that bitterly fought me three or four years ago." While Dorman was under attack often, he seldom answered back. He made only three speeches dur ing his almost four years in office. He doesn't know what he'll do after March 1, except to take a short rest, "I know I'll do something," he says, "because I can't be idle." Before World War II, he owned a factory that made catsup, to mato sauce and pickles. During the war, he was a lieutenant colonel at Supreme Headquarters in Eu rope, in charge of the Inland ports of Belgium and Southern Holland. He has steered clear of politics in his state Job. But he gets mixed up In them sometimes, through no fault of his own. During the last campaign, he says, a Portland clothing dealer served notice he wouldn't contrib ute to Gov. Patterson's reelection campaign unless the governor fired Dorman. Dorman checked his purchasing records, and found that the dealer was one who had supplied the state with shirts inferior to those upon which he bid, and Dorman had sent them back. The notice to the governor followed. rij r LZt. BLUE CRUTCH DAY FUNDS for the March of Dimes drive were turned over to T-Sgt. J. B. Shrum, center, one of the special events chairmen of the anti-polio drive, by the Pep Peppers end Future Nurses of Klamath Union High School. The two organiiations collected about $300 , during their Blue Crutch drive last Saturday in downtown Klamath Falls. Mary Lou Craig, left, and Sharon Thompson of the Pep Peppers turned over the funds to Sgt. Shrum Monday. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON by Rep. Harris Ellsworth 4th District The second full week of this new gress on the farm problem stepped session will see floor action on sev eral bills including long needed legislation for the care of mental ly ill people in Alaska; a bill to increase compensation for veter ans who have lost aims, legs or eves- and an irrigation project in Oklahoma. The bill to increase funds' available to the Small Busi ness Administration for disaster loans, which I mentioned last week, was also sent to the floor by the rules committee. It will prob ably be the first bill acted upon by the House in this session. A bill to provide flood insurance Is also under consideration by the House Banking and Currency Com mittee. It may come up for final passage soon. Meanwhile the President has au thorized the first allocation of dis aster relief funds to Oregon. I as sume more will follow as needed. Meanwhile, also, both the Small Business Administration and the which are authorized to make emergency loans in flood disaster areas, have established branch loaning offices in our Fourth Con gressional District most of which is classified as disaster area. The President's message to Coo- up an already vigorous discussion of that subject here. I am sure the various comments t mostly political) have appeared in print so I will not take space for more of the same here. However, I can not resist passing along the state ment of one farm state congress man, Scrivner of Kansas: "Some farm facts have been forgotten. In less than 2"2 vears (March 1937 to August 1939), under F.D.R., farm prices dropped 35 per cent. How many blamed him? World War II put a stop to that drop. Under Mr. Truman, farm prices dropped 22 per cent In two years (January 1918 to January 1950). Who blamed him? The Korean War stopped that drop. Again under Mr. Tru man, they dropped 16 per cent from March 1951 to December 1951 (21 months). The drop which started under Truman has been about 13 per cent in three years under Mr. Eisenhower. The de cline started and was heavier urf der the Democrats than under the Republicans. The big drop oc curred under rigid parity, and not under flexible supports, which have not had time to be effec tive." Shades of the days of the so- economy will be long delayed. called "McCarthy Inquisition" I I The present activities of the Neu-berger-Chudoff sub-committees, in attempting to make their term "give away" stick against the De partment of Interior and Doug Mc Kay, make what was called "Mc Carthyism" seem tame and list less by comparison. The present hearings are supposed to be inves tigating the Issuance of some min ing claim patents to the owners of the old Al Sarena mine In Jack son County. I attended parts of the first two days of hearings. It looked to me like a sort of filibustering op eration with blistering political statements to open and close each session. Republican senators and congressmen were gavelled down when they sought permission to make answering statements. Meanwhile the perpetrators of tills Inquisition are careful to avoid saying that there was fraud or anything illegal or wrong in the Al Sarena case. I believe the clos est they get to that Is lo say it was unusual. In a later weekly letter, assuming that this committee ever does allow the factual story to be told. I will relate it here. The mountains of Oregon con tain great mineral wealth. Mining and smelting should be our sec ond greatest natural-resource in dustry lumbering, of course, be ing first. If bona fide miners are to be persecuted in this way for political purposes the development of this important part of Oregon s 8&Wvegetables are Simply i y 0 mm Wife It wTff?i hfrxr.il SEED 7fy b ri WrU' r--&rL? v... ; C ,! ' so eaie&lly "brought up so perfectly put up... so enjoyably 'et up
