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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1958
RANK JENKINS
Editor
BILL JENKINS
Manning Editor
FLOYD WYNNE
City Editor
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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.
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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
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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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Sheriff Jailed
To Aid Campaign
BISBEE, Ariz. ( The sheriff
of Cochise, sprung from his own
pokey, was a free man today.
Menu JacK Howard consented
Monday to stay in the countv iail
as a publicity stunt for the local
March of Dimes. The stunt suc
ceeded. 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
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EUREKA, Calif. Ifi-Two daring
young men on big logs staged a
10-mile race on the rain-swollen
south fork of the Eel River yes
terday while hundreds of curious
motorists watched from Highway
1U1.
The race had no winner.
Unsmiling deputy sheriffs or
dered Eugene C. Smith, 18, and
Clifford J. Bates. 26. ashore and
charged them with disturbing the
peace.
They said the river was not even
safe for a good-sized boat.
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