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,' PAGE ft A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SUNDAY. JUNE 22. 1953 They'll Do It Every Time - By Jimmy Hatlo Mirhipan wax th firct clal 1h the Union to abolish capital punishment. FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor Enured a eacona claae mailer at the poet offiee at Klamath Palle. Ora.. on Aucuat 30. 1806. under act at Oonrreaa. March I. ir9 UIVlCEBi ASSOCIATED PRESS UNTTEO PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California subscription rates CARRIER I MONTH .. I 50 MONTHS ( 00 I YEAR MAIL 1 MONTH MONTHS I YEAR , 118 00 I 1 60 t 7.60 12.00 SfllMtl IIlltlgHs By FLOYD L. WYNNK The elementary school budse't will be voted on Friday, June 27, and the high school budget on Monday, July 7. I am going to vole for the budg et, but for only one reason that reason is that if it is not passed this time standardized school will not start as scheduled in Scptem bcr. Certainly, this is a weak argu ment for voting for the budgets, but the budget boards have given the voters very little choice. Both budget boards appear de termined to pass virtually the same budgets, not by cutting the ones that were turned down by the vot ers, but by appealing to parents and otheu to pass the budget or face the prospect of a delay in starting school in the fall. But, while recommending approv al of the budgets, let me also pass on some observations for the fu ture. In the lirst place, the budget boards are open to sharp criticism. When they declined to even con sider the possibility of eliminating the pay raises for teachers, they automatically put 66 per cent of their budgets beyond reach of any cut. The cuts that they did make were strictly inconsequential. Be yond the two and one-half per cent cutback on the pay raises for jan itnrs and bus drivers about all they did was delay some projects until another year. For instance, thoy still left two (14.000 items in the budgets for the purchase of two new school buses, despite the fact that some of the budget members openly ex pressed the opinion that a single bus would be sufficient. Comment since the election has led me to believe that I he ncg .ative vole on the budget was a protest vole against the elaborate educational structure which we now have in Klamath Falls. Certainly It Is an excellent struc ture. As a matter of fact thai, I think, is what the people were proicsung. u is loo eianorale. II '8 much like a man with a $3,000 yearly income who still wants to drive a high priced car and live in a $50,000 home. It's wonderful if he can do it, but it's a miracle if he can. The negative voters were pro testing against a heavy outlay of their lax monies for items they considered extracurricular, such as music, athletics, driver training and the like. They also were pro testing the structure of supervis ors, and wanted them either elim inated or at least sharply cur tailed, certainly not sharply in creased. the negative vote was nlso a protest against the construction of elaborate school buildings. Again, the public has become fed Up with fancy structures. They want functional buildings. If class room space is needed, fine, the people will put up the money for It. But when the money in turn is used to provide music rooms, and auditoriums they rebel. Nothing has been done by either budget hoard to change the char acter of their budgets. If they were bad budgets before the election, they remain bad budgets today. II thry were good hudgels before, they remain good budgels today. I have not heard Ihc argument that this is a heller budget than the one the voters turned down I note Willi regret that budget board meetings were packed over whelmingly hy teachers and their supporters. Their comments were well presented, representative ol the teachers viewpoint. Certainly they are In be commended for wanting to keep tho standards of our schools as high as possible. However, they are not only doing the schools but themselves a dis service when they insist on trying In run not only the curriculum but the budget hoards as well. It is up to the lax paying pub lic, as a whole, to decide how much money thry want to invest In their schools. People don't mind paying what taxes are necessary In provide adequate schools and adequate gov ernment, hut they are not in a financial mood to support a struc ture or a government that has become loo elaborate and loo cost ly. A tax rrbollion Is ionr in the country today. For instance during May in Ore gon alone, in Mition to the turn down of the Klamath Falls school budgels, voters in llillshoro tml down the school budgets. Bend ers defeated not only a special levy for the Central Orci col lege, but also a levy In excess ol the six per cent limitation hy the city. HermiMnn vnQ turned down the school budget, and a rOil School diitrict UQ at OakrO." was defeated, as was the opera tional budget. Washington County voters turned hack for a second time a request to increase the county tax base by S400.0O0. A proposal for a $600,000 lax base for school dis trict 12 at The Dalles was also defeated. An clfort to establish a tax base was beaten at Albany as well as in Jackson County. All these turndowns came dur ing the month of May alone. In Klamath County, the average worker finds 20 to 25 per cent of his salary is taken by the federal and stale governments even be fore he gets his pay check. This is in addition to the amounts levied in property taxes for sup port of the county, city and the schools which he also pays, either directly as a home owner, or in directly as a renter. I point this out for the benefit of not only the current school budget boards, but also future ones as well. The lime of indiscriminate spending is past. The lime for cut ting the frills from education as well as from city and county gov ernments is now. By voting for the budgets as thev are now does not mean that 1 necessarily approve them. Person ally, I will vole for them to en sure the beginning of school this fall. Neither does approval of the budgels mean that the boards should spend all the money bude- eieo. ine taxpayers will be look ing over their shoulders so to sneak during the next year, and they in turn, should carefully scrutinize every expenditure. II they fail to do so. and if Ihey fail to trim sonic of the ex cessive cosls of education, next year will probably find not only (he first budgels turned down, but successive ones as well until they do the paring job that the public wants, regardless of how much de lay it may cause. That may sound like a warn ing, and that's exactly what it is. conduct a standard school pro gram, it is necessary that a school budget be presented to the voters and that said budget be passed by a simple majority. There is no oth er method. There are a number of poten tial investors outside our area who are extremely interested in the manner which we discharge our responsibilities. It is not possible to keep local problems local. In addition to the school children who live here or those who will come to seek access to an Ameri can heritage, we owe a moral and legal obligation that our schools operate. In an area that has a vibrant and dynamic economy, we can ill afford to have a chaotic condi tion exist wherein public educa tion would not be available. The revised school budgets will be submitted to the voters on the last of June and the first of July. We strongly urge their adop tion. By GKORGK CASTILLO In Boseburg News-Review The Interstate Commerce Com mission is probably in quite a tizzy now as the result of the current controversy over a proposed freight rate cut by the Southern Pacific. The rale slash was designed by SP for Soulhcrn Oregon shippers to put them in a more competitive position to reach the big Southern Calitorma and Arizona markets. This was a strange, but happy, turn of events for lumber shippers in these times when rates, like other cosls, keep spiraling up. After the initial shock, the ship pers grccled the announcement ol the pending rate decrease with hap py grins. But this was only Ihe beginning of some more strange twists. SP went ahead with its rale re construction which would have put Southern Oregon in a position where it could carry on strong competition with Northern Califor nia coastal mills and coast barge traffic. I'llVor Illlllgli. ' Tho Oregonians continued lo i . , mvuui cio I'icuiie cvjui-ih lilt: fcdllors NOte: The following is ralp rhanan nm.trl tm ffl I,,.. j j I ,. ,", y "ceniiy before the heavy building and construction season got under way. idopled by Ihe Klamath Cotinlv unaniDer Ol Lommerco. The object of the Klamalh Coun ty inamnor of. Commerce is to promote the economic interests of Klamalh County, which includes agricultural, commercial, industri al, and -civic developments. In connection with the past, present, and future economic de velopment programs in this area, it is mandatory that we provide a school program commensurate with Ihe rapid expansion with which we arc faced. It, is the responsibility of the Klamath County Chamber of Com merce to seek out and encourage new investment to Klamath Coun ly. Not only is it necessary to have an inventory of raw materi als, resources, manpower, distri bution facilities, and the many other items to create a product or service, but it is equally im portant lo be able to stale that our school facilities arc available and of high quality. With the in creased activity in our immedi ate area, the demands for school lacilities will be ever increasinc over the-years to come. This is hut one of the conditions we must tacc when new investment, new- employment opportunities are placed in our midst. Without an approved school budget, our schools cannot oper ate. School law is highly complex. hut an attempt In simplify one has also started circulating peti tions in favor of the rale decrease. These have been supported by chambers of commerce and lum bermen. The case is a strange one, but more importantly, it involves a disappointing turn of events. The ICC said it would take at least 80 days lo complete the investi gation. It can take, if it wishes, until December 20. So, even though the report is favorable, the econ omy is set back just as it is climbing from a recession. The rail rate cut has been many times described as "a shot in the arm" for the Oregon economy. II stands to reason that the ICC will make a decision in favor of the decrease in rates if the greatest public good is used as a major criterion; but meanwhile, the pain fully slow process of government bureaucracy goes on. Since the protests from truckers, barge lines, Oregon coast shippers and Northern California coastal in teresls came in so heavily, it is probably only right that investiga tion and hearings be conducted But people of inland Oregon can do something to hurry these up They can write the ICC in Wash ington and to their congressmen Senator Morse has indicated this is already being done in his case He has gone on record calling for immediate hearings. Morse said he had received scores of letters on the matter. Similar letters, petitions and lei egrams should be deluging Senator Neuberger, Reps. Porter and Ull man and the ICC. Action is need ed now! Ills! l'Mpl Ry GAY PAULEY UPI Women's Edilor The ICC added lo their hopes when its suspension board gave its stamp of approval lo the rate decrease. But it was shortly aft er that that the shiny prospects began crumbling. The opposition had mobilized A higher division of the ICC overruled its subordinate body, the suspension board. Northern Cal ifornia coastal mill operators and barge and coast shipping lines had banded together to storm the ICC with demands that the rate cut be suspended. This it was on May 20, just one day before the rales were to have gone into ef fect. The suspension was made to allow time for an ICC inves- igalion. This was another bizarre aspect of the case. The suspension board is not often overruled. This was just one of the oddities. Southern Pacific, which in recent years has grown callouses over its oft-rapped knuckles, sudden ly found itself in the role of hero. Its severest critics, the shippers, who had lashed SP for everything from dirty boxcars to prohibitive rail rates, were now on the SP's side.. The SP has sent a petition to the ICC in Washington. D.C.. ask ing an immediate vacation of the suspension order. Inland lumber men from Oregon have rallied to the SP cause and have been joined by chambers of commerce. phase is lo merely stale that to I The Oregon Railway Association Pogo POSO I CO WHAT? I 1 BOUKJ Ov 88 OJ 'A nPlwlK Yu HrCl rr was bout r M W W, tmmjnoi.au. , (a lCt 7 Ik60 I TWINfl WHAT 0IVf JrT utt IHIO$ "r-T "woo uH t NEW YORK, (UPD-New York City's first woman treasurer is (he last to praise her sex for pio neering in the job world of men "Women are people," said Judge Hilda G. Schwartz. "I see no reason for its being considered unusual for us to be in some ol Ihe jobs we held. I suppose I should say I'm scared in this posilion, but I'm not. And I don't think a woman is better equipped for it than a man. Men are pretty good al handling purse strings too, I've found. Mrs. Schwartz, an atlractivc woman with blue eyes and au hum hair, is one of three women holding top jobs in government in the nation's largest city. The nth ers are Leona , Baumgartner, health commissioner, and Anna Kross, corrections commissioner As treasurer, she signs her name annually to some $3 billion in checks an amount which she said tops that spent by any other city, any stale including New- York, and trailing only the fed eral government's disbursements But our budget is balanced," she laughed. A native New Yorker and one of five children, Hilda Schwartz was educated in the city's public schools, graduated from Washing- Ion College of New York Univer sity in 1929. and was admitted to the bar in 1930 alter studying al NYU's law school. "I was in high school when I decided 1 d be a lawyer," she said in an interview. "One of my economics teachers, also a law yer, got me interested. And I learned from knowing her that going into what was then consid ered a man's profession didn't mean losing womanliness. "Maybe some of our early ca reer women thought a brusque manner and tailored ffiothes were necessary...a defense mechanism. Today's career woman doesn't need lo wear a badge. I'm reluctant to make any generalization about cither sex. Hut I do believe that women are especially well-filled lor jobs of dealing with the public. .they have a collective similarity ol howing concern for others. Mav- be it is because biologically wo men are filled with a special reverence for life..." Mrs. Schwartz was a partner with her husband. Herman, in a law firm until 19-tfi, when she was appointed secretary of Ihe New York Board of Estimate. In May 1951, she was named to the city magistrate's court, where she re mained until this spring when Mayor Robert Wagner named her lo the $20,000 a year treasurer's job. The couple has one son, John a student at Princeton, who also plans lo study law. Mrs. Schwartz is a slvlishlv dressed woman, who prefers has ic black dress or suit livened with bold colored hat or scarf. She (inds time, even alter a long d.iv of worrying ocr Ihc city's fi nances, to cook for her family. I'm expert at everything Irom Swedish meat balls to Italian spa shetti," she said. "Mv son sav. Mom coo in all languages." " Cl4MCE,THE TELLS HIS FIELDERS WHERE TO PLAV EVERY HITTER"' B4CK-.4MD Y V fc OVEP-TH4TS ) rP5lf fkt '"'A WHERE HE r J'SiCi-rrT When he ff'SL JZZmk JA HEN HE 6ETS 'EM JUST WHERE HE W4MTS 'EM WHERE DOES THE 84TTER BELT IT ? you GUESSED IT, PAL"" lUihK 4HD 4 TIP OF Syb LOVELL, !' SS74BOQDEMOK M0NTOE4L., - Freedom Of Information Fight Like Stepping On A Balloon' Says Solon PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) Fighting for freedom of informa tion was described today as being "like stepping on a balloon." "You slamn mil pvpocVb n crecy in one place, and it pops up Mwiewnere eise. saicl Hep. John E. Moss (D-Calif), head of the hcuse government irrnrmalUn subcommittee. A federal attitude of excessive secrecy is most apparent in the Defense and Stale- departments. Moss "said in a speech prepared fcr. a meelinp nf iha riifn:n Newspaper Publishers Assn. meeting at Stanford University. MOSS Said his SIlhrnmmi'llnA ; going further into a recent Slate Department order on its officials' contacts with reporters. In n recent reply to subcom mittee letters, he said, the State Department disclosed that its of ficials must write memos of any talks wi'h newsmen "even if they meet them at a cocktail party." "Restrictions on information from the Defense Department have gene even further," Moss said. "The President has ordered a reorganization of the depart ment's information activities so lhat all information from the t!iree ri'ilitary services will fun nel through the politically-appoint ed assistant secretary of defense for public affairs a job now held by Mr. Murray Snyder, who learned his public relations trade as assistant nress secretarv at the While House." JUNE IS BONUS MONTH at OLDSMOBILE! 30 CARS to Be Sold durinq June & July Large Selection - Larger DEALS! DICK B. MILLER CO. Lost time is lost money! A leaking roof. Clogged glitters. Worn wiring. A warped wmdo or door. Many people think house hold repairs are minor matter. They keep patting them off. But blight doeaTt wait, k feeds on small flaws, spreads stealthily ' through neglect and carelessness. Delay causes greater decay, more costly damage. A noose can grow shabby moch quicker than yon think. A minor repair bill can mushroom into a major expensa before you know k. Stay alert Time is money. 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