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PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON in THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1958 RANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Manning Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor Kntere u aecond dtaa nutter at lb post office at Kluaattt Fall. Ort , oo August JO, 4MK, under act at Coocreta, March t. II7 SEX VICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRJtas AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Scrying Southern Oregon And Northern California, SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER I MONTR . t I JO MONTHS . t I YEAR . til JO MAO. . I MONTR t l.U MONTHS ., ,. 1.10 1 YEAR ., ,. , U.W Sonic Ilooms By FLOYD L. WYNNE The Air Force, and jet planes particularly, have been receiving the blunt end of numeroui conv plaints over the past several years on damage caused by "breaking the sound barrier. The Air Force decided sometime ago that it would experiment and find out just how much of these complaints were fact and how much fancy. Their results are of high inter est to us here since the local base will be activated in the near fu ture with jet interceptors. A small village, christened Boom- town, USA, was built in the Mo- Java Desert in California. Supersonic jets from the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps pro ceeded to try to create "sonic" booms over the village. News me dia representatives watched the demonstration along with civilian and service observers. An Air Force Convair F-102 Del ta Dagger, a North American F 100F Supersabre, a Navy Chance- Vought F8U Crusader and a Ma rine Douglas F4D Skyray broke (he sound barrier over the village at altitudes of 40, 30, 20 and 10.000 feet. The Jets later demonstrated the difference between a sonic boom and the "cut-in" of an afterburner. ' Observers were free to examine the village in its entirety at the completion of the tests. They dis covered that neither the structures nor the household objects had suf ' fered any form of damage. The village included two small buildings having plaster walls and glass windows, a concrete patio and a cinder block wall. Inside the buildings were a television set, (wo radios, all operating during the tests, dishes, figurines, glass and crystal pieces and lighting fixtures. Nothing suffered damage despite the repeated dives and creation of "sonic booms" when breaking the found barrier. Col. Dean Hess, director of the Air Force'! Los Angeles Office of Information services, said follow ing the teste that the public should not be apprehensive of sonic booms. He pointed out, however, that In ' spite of Department of Defense efforts to control them, an occa sional boom will still occur. .. The Air Force is just as Inter ested in good public relations with people as we are. Sonic booms may occur, certainly, but it ap pears that the Air Force by this recent experiment has proven that we need pay little if any attention to reports that when the jets ar rive in Klamath Falls they will break windows, dishes, walls etc. by creating devastating sonic booms. It just Isn't so. Shouldn t a millionaire have a place in Palm Beach, a penthouse on Park Avenue, and a summer home at Newport or Bar Harbor? Shouldn't a millionaire have yacht and a Rolls Royce? Shouldn't a millionaire have a chauffeur, a butler, a gardener, a cook, a maid, a housekeeper and at least one secretary? Shouldn't a millionaire be able to travel abroad every year? Shouldn't a millionaire be able to play the playboy, and toss oc casional gifts of diamond brace lets and mink coats to chorus girls? He should, indeed, be able to do all these things if he could afford to live up to the public's idea of a millionaire. But if he did his million bucks wouldn't last him long not at to day's prices. Four chorus girls and five years later our millionaire would be bankrupt, standing at the corner holding out his last sterling silver cup for a pittance from passersby. He would be too poor even to hire a servant to beg for him. No, a millionaire no longer can afford to live like a millionaire. It takes a multimillionaire to do that, and the way things are going it soon will take a multi-multimillionaire. The millionaire today is merely the symbol of a faded glamor. He is a creature of a sorrow - known only to himself a guy too poor to be rich and too rich to be poor. And I, for one, wouldn't trade places with him except for a million dollars. Scrawls By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK Wl - Sidewalk crawls of a pavement Plato: Victorian England saw the rise of societies for the alleviation of the poor. What is needed in 20th century America today is a so ciety for the amelioration of the millionaire. For the millionaire, once the symbol of wealth, might and the wastrel life, has fallen upon sad times. Now he is more to be pitied than censured. The reason is simple: Money being what it Is today, a simple millionaire no longer can afford to make much of a splash. He is no longer really rich, merely well- to-do, living on the plush side of poverty, so to speak. Many a prisoner of the paycheck ighs. "I don't want to be a mil lionaire I just want to live like one. Well, a millionaire feels exactly the same way. He'd like to live like a millionaire is supposed to himself, but he knows he hasn't enough money. Many people who envy a mil lionaire do not realize his true plight. He is like a man who stands on the doorstop of Valhalla hearing the music and singing, but who can't quite get inside. He is like a colonel in the Pentagon. He has considerable rank, but not enough, for there are many col onels in the Pentagon. A man with only one million collars is really a pitiable fisurt. when you get right down to It. He has the reputation of beins rich. but none of the pleasure that goes wnn really being rich. Just how rich is this gilded pau pera guy with only -one million bucks to his name? Well, let's sec Suppose he wants to conserve his capital and live off his income What can he do? To begin with he invests it in government bonds (to avoid income taxes) at 3 per cant. That means his income will be a mere im.ooo a year. That sounds like a lot of money to the ordinary breadwinner, and K I to him. Hut if you wunt to live like a millionaire it is pretty mall potatoes. When the newsmen caught up to him, they wanted to know where he had been. FDR reeled off three islands with foreign-sounding names. All three islands were dutifully recorded. Not for sometime did the news men discover that one island was off the coast of Britain, the sec ond somewhere in the Indian Ocean and the third only 200 miles from the North Pole. VUlX's Humor ( By UNITED PRESS He would nave been 76 years old today . . . and our person ality of the week concerns a man whose political legacy still remains to be judged by history, whoso career as President still is marked by controversy. But there was at least one thing about Franklin Delano Roosevelt which wasn't controversial, his sense of humor, his ability to laugh at himself, and his unbound ed cheerfulness and confidence when things seemed darkest. FDR was a President who laughed frequently, a surprising accomplishment during an admin istration that included a major de pression and a global war. He wasn't a great humorist himself. He liked to play practical jokes, but some of his humor was heavy minded, unsubtle, occasionally un funny and even corny. He had. no real gift of repartee but he im mensely appreciated the art in others. And he wasn't afraid to laugh at himself. lie once gave wife Eleanor the code name "Rover." And there was the occasion of a wartime din ner when Bob Hope was master of ceremonies. Hope announced he was glad to see the President en joying a few free moments from war strategy. "You know what war strategy Is," Hone added. ''That's figuring out when to take the offensive and how to keep Eleanor out of the crossfire." A lot of people in the audience turned to see how the President took that crack, before laughing themselves. FDR's massive head was back and he was roaring. Not everyone appreciated Roose velt's own sense of humor. There was a decided chill in the air the day he greeted the annual DAR convention with the words "fel low Immigrants." On another occasion, he took an ocean trip and managed to get; port may be completely invest! away for a few days from the gated by internal revenue, destroyer escort carrying news- In picking unions to be invests papermen. gated, the new law would hone to ' IVcw Labor" By GEORGE J. MARDER (United Press) President Eisenhower's new la bor program wouldn't stop racket eering union officials from buying yachts and swanky homes with union money. But it would make them tell Uncle Sam all about it. Just as the federal tax laws now require certain disreputable citizens to be more frank in their tax reports than they'd like to be, One sockeroo provision in t h e President's labor proposals would use the federal income tax as a model and as a weapon as well. So far as taxes are concerned, the federal government has no in terest in how a taxpayer gets his money, whether he steals it, wins it by gambling, finds it or inherits it. But Uncle Sam wants honest tax reporting, even if it comes from dishonest men, It would be somewhat the same for unions under the President's proposed labor laws. They'd be required to file de tailed financial statements with the Department of Labor. All salaries above a certain amount, say $10, 000 a year, would have to be listed by name, all transfers of proper ty would have to be reported whether automobiles, yachts, air planes or real estate deals. The government would have no interest in how the unions spent the money, just so long as they reported It truthfully. And if they didn't, the govern ment would be able to get at the unions in two ways: As to the union officer who files a misleading report, the filing of fulse information would be made a specific crime and if the union official tried to cover it up by doctoring the union books, that would become a felony. The second weapon would be against the union itself. For fail ure to file true and proper re ports, the union not only could lose the services of the National Labor Relations Act and all bene fits it could get under the labor laws, but it would lose its federal income tax exemption. That would hit racketeering un ions where it hurts, in their treas uries. It would be an added inducement on members to see to it that their union officers filed accurate re ports. For if the reports were false, the whole union could be pun ished, while the officers went to jail. It's planned that the new labor laws would also copy another tech nique of the internal revenue bu reau, the spot checking system. It would be hopeless to try to investigate every union's financial statement just ns it's impossible to check every tax report. But a new Bureau of Labor re ports would be created, staffed by expert accountants, to make spot checks, a union would never know when it would come up for a thorough audit; just as a taxpay er never knows when his tax re- get leads from union members themselves. For one provision would go far beyond the tax laws which keep confidential all infor mation from taxpayers, even the disreputable ones. The union re ports would have to-be made pub lic, especially to union members And if, as just recently was dis closed, a union official bought yacht for $20,000 and , tells hi members if only cost $10,000, he be on the spot: he'd have to lie to the federal government, too, leaving himself open to criminal prosecution; or confess, in the fi nancial statement, that he hood winked his own members. Pogo PtCSKf DON'T , ANIMAL RldWT. J-r $V ' ( TWUPtl- (j If NICI HO TALK TDA3 "T I 19 1V8DWN INTO THa? rjr AT OW PiOPlt TWAT J I PuTOUT IN Tug- YAPP IN ar W NTffSF TiMg AJ , . X?u iS Out OP v3a. flJTJ huua Hcbiiftal Klamath Falls (To The Editor) The effort to whitewash the Re publican failure to endorse federal purchase of the Klamath Indian Reservation fell flat on its face. The three ''reasons lisUd by the Republican county chairman f 0 the refusal of the local Republican group to act are not acceptable to those who see the need for im mediate action to impress upon the Congress and the Administra tion the urgency of the situation, The number one excuse that the Indian problem does not belong in the realm of politics is true only to a degree. Granted we do not desire political bickering over peo ple or resources of the reserva tion. But a joint declaration by the two political parties signify ing unanimity of opinion regard ing this important matter is not of that nature. How else could we hope to influence a government where one branch controls the exec utive branch and another the leg islative? Any time that Oregon Democrats and Republicans can unite on any issue affecting our people and economy the greater the possibility that our efforts may bear fruit. Item number two is the feeling that they are not properly quali fied to pass on one proposal over anoUier. But surely the Republi can Central Committee has taken a position on matters far more re mole from our area than the In dian reservation and were quite indignant when questioned on their capability of making a major de cision on issues of national import ance. If nothing else the testimony presented before the Senate sub committee during the October hear ing in Klamath Falls demonstrated the solidarity of Klamath thinking when one group after another took the chair to support the Idea of federal purchase. The Manage ment Specialists, the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce and numerous other bodies presented arguments in favor of U.S. acquisi tion. If the minutes of that hear ing could contribute to the abili ty of the local Republican Central Committee to make a decision one way or the other those minutes are available upon request. Excuse number three was that Senator Neuberger has played pol itics with the Indian issue. Such an accusation is poppy cock! In fact Senator Neu berger has shown himself a true statesman on tins issue. He has consistently defended the Manage ment Specialists, who being Re publicans, have no visible record of pro-Democratic or pro-Neuberg- er activity, lie has stood by these very capable individuals whenever he thought they were being sub jected to unfair attack. He has also introduced "by re quest" the Administration Bill on the reservation problem. This is not a history of anyone who has been extremely partisan. One ad ditional clarification is nocessarv on Public Law 587. The Termina tion Act was not passed by Democratic Congress but by the Republican 83rd Congress. The Legislative Interim Commit tee on Indian Affairs of which I am a member has unanimously en dorsed the principle of federal purchase. We are, 1 believe, a truly nonpartisan committee. I nominat ed and supported the election of a Republican state senator as chairman and he enjoys the sup port 01 an members. During February the committee plans to send a delegation to the nation s capital to expound on what we in Oregon believe the best pol icy for our Indian people and the resources of the reservation. 1 re gret that we cannot go armed with bipartisan support for the most practical and beneficial solution to our Indian question. John Kerbow )llOIN B I MTKI) PRESS nol'HLAS. Wyo. f - car,i ru gate. H. sweetheart of "mad killer'- Charles Starkweather, 19. alter both were captured on how it felt to be in his company dur ing his murder rampage through the Midwest: "I was afraid he was going (0 lake nie to Washington lj;e and kill inc. 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The drive exceeded its lo cal $3,000 goal by $1,500 but the group still is plugging for $50,000 in nationwide donations. Drive chairman Orrin Crandall decided to release the sheriff. Aft er all, he said, if they waited until they got $50,000, the sheriff might have to stay in jail until .he cot a pardon from the governor. On The Record KLAMATH COUNTY DIVORCES Curtis M. Anderson from Rurth An derson, divorce granted. Bertha L. Latde vi. John Lalde, leek divorce. KLAMATH COUNTT MARRIAGES William Lee MeGlll. 10. anil Jtirilth B. Hall. 17, both of Klamath Falls. Albert S. Glassley. 24. and Lola E. Lennlnger. 27. both of Klamath rails. LeRoy R. Schoenthaler, 19. and Hat tie L. Alcorn, 17, both of Klamath Falls. Theyll Do It Every Time - By Jimmy Hatlo 1 THEPE Rf-HUV ISrTr ENOJSH WOQK FOR TWO SECRETARIES, MISTER BGDOME-VnND I'VE SEEM DOING AU.OF ROSOLAS WORK SINCE ; COT Me THE JOB HERE-IT SEEMS SUCH A WASTE A SHE V IS i 1 1 mm H4.RRUMPH (JI&HT VES, INDEED.' 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