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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.
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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
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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." "
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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."
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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
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Stay alert Time is money. Keep tha
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opportunities.
Act today. Keep up your home
join your neighbors in community
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