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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
Tt'ESDAY. JUNE 24. 19n
FRANK JENKINS
Editor
BILL JENKINS
ManajCg Editor
FLOYD WYNXE
City Editor
iity Tax
By FLOYD L. WYNNE
There is a nasty tax move that
appears to be gaining momentum
across the country, one thai I
hope never comes to Klamath
Falls, and that is the city income
tax.
I notice in a recent release that
37 communities in the state ol
Ohio will be assessing the city in
come tax this coming year.
In Toledo, where the tax was
first adopted in 1945, residents have
had to pay over $84 million in city
income taxes.
Toledo was the first city to adopt
it, and then two years later
Youngstown, Springfield and Co
lumbus followed suit. Dayton fol
lowed in 1949. Of Ohio's 10 cities
with populations over 100,000 eight
now have city income taxes. Clove
land and Akron are two Ohio cities
that do not.
In California, where they have a
lour per cent sales tax. one per
cent of that money is returned to
the cities. This acts, in effect
like a one per cent city sales tax
In either event, I'm probably a
backward looking person, but I find,
myself in sympathy with the city
father's of Hermiston. Recently,
their request to exceed the six per
cmt limitation was turned down by
the voters.
The city budget committee elect
ed to cut down on the services that
were offered to the city residents
They pared some of the programs
very sharply, and at last reports
there was no indication whether or
not they would resubmit the
question to the voters.
Certainly, government cannot do
vvcrything for the people, although
people have come to demand al
most everything of It in recent
years.
I'm still a subscriber to the the
ory of Thomas Jefferson that the
less government the better. The
cost of government at all levels
would stop rising if people would
stop demanding services of It.
The larger a government be
comes the more opportunity there
is for it to engineer its own con
tinued growth. This has been par
ticularly true of the federal gov
ernment. I notice that in Jackson County
lor the third straight year, there
vill he no properly lax levy for
the county budget. The county gov
ernment will hold its expenditures
to the amount of money it re
ceives from federal and state
sources rather than property tax.
To me, this is another move in
the right direction.
No city income tax lor me, thank
you.
oliiimiiNl's Mali
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK (API - Things a
columnist might never know if he
didn't open his mail:
That waffles were first intro
duced into this country by Thom
as Jefferson, who bought a waf
fle iron in Holland. . . . Jefferson
also helped popularize the toma
to, which had been thought of as
poisonous and was known as "the
love apple."
That if all the oceans were to
dry up. enough salt would he left
to bury an area the sue of Eng
land 35 miles deep.
That Johnny Desmond, now
starring on Broadway in "S a y,
Darling." ohserves, "when a man
avoids making his father's mis
takes he usually winds up mak
ing his grandfather's."
That the main reason bread he
comes stale is that the starch in
it crystallizes. (Yeah, but now
that we know why. what can we
do about it
That, despite the bad reputa
tion of Sunday drivers. Saturday
is the deadliest day ol the week
in terms of traffic fatalities.
That in 1W4 there were Too
trucks in the United Stales ..To
day there are more than ten mil
lion. That the menu at the Cile St
Denis llerre hears this hon mot:
"The man who gives way when
he knows he is wrong is wise
The man who gives way when he
knows he is in the right is mere
ly married."
That when our poM.tl sstem
started letters were sent without
envelopes 'Privacy took a Ink-
That members of a tribe in New
(Ainca are so proud of their teeth
they caajy walking sticks with
one end split into many small
spiked bristles ..so they can pick
their teelh while out lor a stroll.
That here's a new lip lor do it
yourself lans: Drop a piece ol
charcoal in your too! box ..it wil!
absorb moisture and help keep
your tools from rusting
That sea lions give olf a sweet
scent lo let their cows know
where they are. iWhat will sci
ence discover nexfi
That isn't H odd how any num
ber of people c.in epl.nr nuclear
fission but nobody can tell you
just how a zipper woiks
That comedian Uenrge De Witt
Enured u second cli mailer i ihe pou xflc ml Klamato rails.
O . . on August 30. 1M6. under ut of Concrtu. Una I. ir
SEBVICEg:
AfiaOCIATPJ) PRESS UKTTED PRESS
AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS
Serring Southern Oregon And Northern California.
points out, ,"A worm has one big
advantage over people. He can't
fall down on the job."
That if your wife has been
cleaning her wool rug with soap,
tell her this: The soap leaves a
lilm that attracts fresh dirt.
That someone has figured out
it takes only 13 facial muscles to
smile but 47 to frown.. .So why
isn t everyone laughing?
That it was Benjamin Franklin
who said, "If a man could have
half his wishes, he would double
his troubles."
Two Mysteries
By SAM DAWSON
NEW YORK (AP'-The two big
mysteries in industry today ones
that could affect your pocketbook
both directly and indirectly are:
1. What, if anything, are the
steel companies going to do about
prices a week from today when
a higher wage scale goes into ef
fect? Such a cost boost in the
past usually has meant higher
prices for steel and later (or a
host of products made of steel.
2. What will happen in Detroit
if a new labor contract isn't
signed before the auto companies
are ready to start turning out the
1959 models? If there's a strike
it could be a nasty one, delaying
general business recovery. If
there's a wage-price hike as set
tlement it could make many fam
ilies take another look at their
budgets and at their present ag
ing cars.
The belting is about even that
a steel price hike will come fair
ly early in the summer. Some
companies, particularly the sma
firms, feci they can't absorb the
new labor costs for any length of
time.
The large companies with their
greater financial resources and
reserves could put off price hikes
for some time. If they do. it will
be rough on the smaller ones.
Steel management figures that
the boost in wages and fringe
benefits totals about 20 cents an
hour. .Management says that Is
equal to $11 a ton more for steel.
But many feel that In view of
he uncertain demand for steel
after the present rush to heat a
price hike subsides, it will he hard
for the mills to make more than
a $4 or $5 price advance stick.
The uncertain demand for many-
consumer durable goods using
leel also raises the question ol
how much of the Highest cost of
the metal could be passed along
in the retail price. If it can't he,
many manufacturers face anoth
er cost squeeze on their profit
margins. If most of the higher
costs can be passed along in
higher retail prices, the squeeze
ill he on the consumer.
It liikes some time (or a price
boost at the steel mill to reach
the end product in the stores so
that no big jump this summer is
expected.
But what worries government
and other observers is whether a
steel puce hike on the heels o(
the wage increase will be a sig
nal for a general wage-price spir
al again throughout industry and
trade. In time such a fillip to in
flation would hit even-one's pock
etbook.
The steel industry decision will
hae its effect on Detroit think
ing. Car makers are a prime cus
tomer of steel mills. Part of the
rise this year in new car prices
was charged to last year's in
crease in steel prices.
But the auto industry's more
pressing problem is what to do
about wages. Other managements
are watching this closely for any
trend in labor costs. And so are
the consumers.
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By JAMES MARLOW Ionization plan until he gets as-
Aialert Pre ew Anak-.l hUrance tr0m Mctlroy they WOO t
VtAMilNOTUN tAPI This IS a
tale of how two men got into trou
hie by saying what they thought
Everybody agrees that in a
democracy military commanders
must be controlled by civilians
But it raises a nice question:
What civilians?
For instance: the military com
manders -are subordinate to their
civilian superior, Secretary of De
fense .Mctlroy
But Congress is jealous of its
right to question military com
manders, even if it means they
publicly disagree with McElroy
and try to defeat his ideas
When President Eisenhower
asked Congress to permit him to
reorganize the Defense Depart
ment, the House passed a bill giv
ing him pretty much what he
asked.
But it made a couple of excep
tions. This was one:
If McElroy wanted to abolish
some functions of one branch of
the service or transfer them lo
another branch, then the chief of
staff of the Army, Navy or Air
Force all under McElroy
could protest to Congress
And. under the House-passed
hill. Congress could repeal Mc
Elroy s order. Neither McElroy
nor the Eisenhower administra
tion liked this arrangement.
So. when the bill moved over to
the Senate, McElroy asked the
Armed Services Committee to
knock out this section of the
House bill
But then the committee called
on Adm. Arleigh Burke, chief of
naval operations, for his views.
They were contrary to McElroy s
He said, in effect, that if Mc
Elroy wanted to take away some
(unction of the Navv, and Burke
thought it bad for the country, he
wanted to be free to tell Congress
i.
This opposition from Burke
caused McElroy to tell reporters:
I am. disappointed in him
Burke i, regard it as regretta
ble."
Would this end Burke's career?
McElroy said "I have no plans
lo have his position changed" bill
"I am not the only one respon
sible for his future."
This could be interpreted as
meaning Eisenhower, the only one
above McElroy responsible for
Burke s future, might punish the
admiral.
McElroy hurried to deny the
next day that he had any intention
of rebuking Burke.
The secretary can be disap
pointed, and he can regret parts
of an officer's testimony without
it being anything more than that,"
he said.
From far out in the Pacific.
Vice Adm. Austin K. Doyle, com
mander at Formosa, backed up
Hurke. said he thought he was
sticking his neck out for saying
so. and announced he was shocked
at McElroy s criticism of Burke.
Then McElroy got hit by Sen.
Richard B. Russell. Georgia Dem
ocrat, chairman of the Armed
Services Committee, and one of
the most powerful men in Con
gress. He said a couple of things:
1. That McElroy s criticism of
Burke for telling Congress what
he thought was proof Congress
must preserve the right to "re
ceive the unbiased professional
judgment" ni this country's mili
tary leaders.
2. That "the clear implication
in the secretary's statement that
the Joint Chiefs must conform or
he purged is more in keeping with
the totalitarian concept of govern
ment than wilh our free govern
ment of divided powers."
That wasn't all. Russell called i
off any more testimony bv mili-l
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think
The Housewife
By GEORGE CASTILLO
In Roseburg News-Review
Housewives, be proud of your
position.
Somehow it always nettles me
when I hear a woman say "Oh!
I'm just a housewife."
With a statement like this, one
might think the housewife ranks
on the socio-economic scale just
below the ditch digger. One im
mediately pictures a doughty
frump, one cotton stocking hang
ing in a loose roll over her calf,
devoid of personality, will or de
sirein a word, a dull, ineffec
tive nothing.
What could be farther from the
truth. Her power is awesome.
One needs only see her in her
true setting, the home. Her chil
dren look up expectantly when she
speaks. They know she furnishes
the law of the household.
And her authority isn't limited
to the younger and more tractable
generation. The male of the house,
be he a muscled weightlifter or
industrial giant, may become a
mewling apologist after a night
out with the boys as her angry-
tongue lashes away his last ves
lige of masculine pride. Or, a!
ternately, he becomes an obedient
servant at her whim or command
Mr. America patterns his future
around her desires. A new car, a
new home, clothes are all products
of her subtle insistence.
This is evidence enough of the
power of the woman in the home
But this is only one facet.
She has the business and indus
trial world in the palm of her
hand. After all, it is she who
spends 85 per cent of the na
tion's paycheck.
Great firms build factories to
manufacture what she wants. Mer
chants fawn to fulfill her desires
Advertisers design their cam
paigns to appeal to her. And all
succeed or fail on the sometimes
capricious decision she make:
about the products oflered.
And she's the stern policeman
of manners, morals and public af-
lairs. Men wear ties to please her
The butcher cuts the price of meat
rather than invite a boycott. The
public official finds he had better
investigate a proposed highway
improvement or face a storm ol
protest from the housewife.
Men of industry, merchant
princes and government officials
as well as husbands crumble un
der her withering fire.
She has the World in her hand
and her position is assured for the
future. For, is it not she who is
training the future generation?
The training of the girls starts
young, so they will be well-nrc-
paroa to take over her ruling po
sition wnen tney reach womanhood
The young boy, receiving guid
ance, direction and orders from
his mother most of his wakinc
hours, soon becomes used to the
idea that it's a woman's world
His future action to the point of
helping shape the destiny ot the
world is molded hy the woman's
hand.
It's the housewife who is can
lain of the home. It's the house
wife who determines the slate of
the nation's economy. And there's
a housewife behind every male
success story.
She's the stern authority, the
understanding counselor, the shap
er of lives and destinies, t h e
mother, the architect ol the home
almost all things to all males
And this is "just" a housewife?
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CLIFTON. N ,1 -Two 22-ycar-old
girl gym teachers take ef!
Saturday on a 4.fm.rmle round
tup to Portland, Ore., by bicvele
One said:
'It s one of the cheapest avf
of getting there "
KEARNY. N.J - Helen .tones
If. daughter of a scoutmastet
i wiin a l.-r-o!r.
former member of her father's
Hoop, on her' n liis.il to see het
lny friend-
"I thought I lined him. Now 1
don't know what to think "
LOS Ai;EI.ES-. harbor work
or telling of the sudden sailing
:iiom its berth near a fish carmen
of Con R.nael Trujillo s 3"H !,v
v.uhl
j "Someone said they're le.m-t
heuiise Zsa Zsa Gafior rf-x-
like the smell of fish "
I LOUISVILLE. Kv.lee Tics
ley, M. grandfather of Eh is Pre
ley on his contract to record ,ir
album of songi he learned a s
; Mississippi cntlon picker in his
ouih Q
' I don't want to ride in on El
ms 1 want to make it on pn
owu."
They'll Do Ic Every Time By Jimmy Hdtlo
Shipping Magnate Didn't
Break Bank, He Bought ft
WASHINGTON 'AP Aristotle
Socrates Onassis didn't break the
bank at Monte Carlo he simplv
bought Monte Carlo.
Reputedly one of the richest
men in the world, (his Greek-born
shipping magnate attended his
Med Program
Under Attack
LOS ANGELES 'API George
iv. wyman. state director of social
welfare, spoke out today against
repeal, of California's new medical
care program lor welfare recipi
ents.
The California Medical Assn
recently adopted a resolution call
ing for repeal of the law, but
advised its members to participate
as long as the program remains
in effect.
Wyman. in a statement to the
Senate Interim Committee on So
cial Welfare, said he is certain
the Legislature will want to con
sider alternative measures as con
trasted to outright repeal.
The state director said that
while many doctors may not like
it, the new program has proved
successful. He said that after nine
months of operation, it is provid
ing needed medical service to the
needy aged, blind and children.
Wyman denied the "socialized
medicine" charge raised by some
doctors and a few county medical
societies. He emphasized that the
law provides for a free choice of
doctor and a free choice of partic
ipation by the doctor.
Rocket Flunks
Another Test
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, (AP
The Navy's temperamental
Vanguard rocket America's No.
I satellite launching vehicle
flunked another test today.
After hours of hard work, the
Vanguard crew gave up at 1:34
a. m. on another heart-breaking
effort to get Ihe slender rocket
with its "basketball moon'' olf the
ground.
No reason for the failure was
given except the usual "technical
difficulties."
It was the second time in four
days that the crew had been sty
mied in its effort ro get this par
ticular Vanguard olf its launching
pad. It was scrubbed last Thurs
day night after a long countdown.
There was no official announce
ment on when the next attempt
would he made.
The Vanguard has flubbed its
job four out of the five times its
crew has managed to get it into
the air.
The first exploded after rising
only four feet oft its launchinc
pad. The second blew up at 20.
000 feet. The third put the 3 5
pound satellite Vanguard 1 into
orbit.
Vanguards No. 4 and 5 were
sent up with 21.5-pound satellites
but both failed in their missions
and the basketball moons plunged
back to fiery oblivion in the
firth's atmosphere.
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first U.S. congressional hearing
last week wearing the same rum
pled navy blue pin stripe suit for
three days.
Today he returns to the House
Merchant Marine subcommittee
to try to explain in his fluent but
often fractured English his in
voh'ed tanker operations.
Now 52, with streaks of white
in his wavy black hair, Onassis
is a veteran commuter between
continents. He was born in Greece
and reared in Smyrna, went to
Argentina almost penniless when
he was 16 and was a millionaire
tobacco importer when he was 25.
It was in early 1953 when Onas
sis, looking for office space on the
Mediterranean where many of his
ships were repaired, bought a con
trolling block ot stock in Monte
Carlo. He paid a million dollars
in the transaction to get that of
fice space.
He doesn't gamble at the tables.
Those who know him say he's a
dogged worker.
In 19-46. after oil shipping had
brought him millions, Onassis met
and married Athina Livanos, the
daughter of another Greek ship
ping executive. They have two
children, Alexander and Chris
tina. Christina is the name of Onas
sis' yacht, a 303-foot floating pal
ace with a marble swimming pool
and a mosaic floor that can be
raised for dancing.
Onassis maintains honies in
New York. Paris. Antibes, Athens
and Montevideo. His ships fly the
flags of Panama, Honduras. Costa
Rica, Liberia and Saudi Arabia.
He told the confused congress
men to whom he was trying to
explain his operations "I am be
ing more natural about this thing.
Maybe I'll cut my throat hy being
so natural but that is life. You
take a chance."
The Justice Department filed
AT OWN RISK
ATLANTA (API-If you go on a
golf course in Georgia you must
assume the risk of being hit by a
ball, the Georgia Court of Appeals
has ruled in refusing to order a
J10.000 damage suit tried. Judge
H. c. Gardner ruled that "people
who are on a golf course must
assume the risk of being injured'
irom a delected or hooked
sliced ball."
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Onassis wants to cut the com
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COLUMBIA. SC. (API A run
off Democratic primary that vir.
tually means election to office de
cides today on the party nominee
for governor.
The race In this overwhelming
ly Democratic state is between
Lt. Gov. Ernest F. Hollings. 3:
and Donald Russell. 52, fnrmec
president of the University of
South Carolina.
Hollings. a Charleston lawyer.
drew 15H.159 votes in the three-
cornered first primary two weeks
ago. Russell, a Spartanburg at
torney and onetime associate of
former Gov. James F. Byrnes,
polled about 2fi.ooo fewer votes,
while Mayor William C. Johnston
of Anderson ran third and retired
from the race.
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