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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
TVESnAY. JULY 1. 19SB
Champ Of French Homeless In HospHal For Overwork
By ROSETTE HARGROVE
NEA Staff Correspondent
PARIS . (NEA) This man, the
doctor said gravely, has reached
the end of his tether: and even an
Abbe needs proper meals and
enough sleep. We may have to
operate again.
By the doctor s words, it was
beginning to look as though Abbe
Pierre would have to abandon his
crusade just to stay alive.
But the project he started four
years ago, which galvanized ran-
sians into one of the greatest mass
movements of modern times, is
now so well organized that the old
man can be spared all the time
he needs to recuperate.
Four years ago, the Abbe Pierre
was an obscure priest with a muv
won: the crusade of the home'
less. At 58, he left his seat in the
Assembly to "hound those whose
comfortable and happy lives
make them oblivious to fellowmen
weighed down by distress.
It had been a severe winter and
the Abbe had decided that autho
rities could no longer shrug off
the problem of the homeless. SeV'
enteen were dead in the icy Par
is streets and a baby had died of
cold in an old railroad car in the
outskirts of town.
Within 48 hours the Abbe's in
surrection of charity brought an
army of volunteers on this cru
sade of the homeless. Led by tneir
apostle of the down-and-outs, they
helped to feed and shelter the
homeless, collect clothes ana
emergency goods.
They cut through red tape as a
horde of homeless started ireK
king to Paris and the Abhe Pi
School Budget
Information
Editor's Note: This is the first
in a series of informative articles
dealing with the Klamath Union
High School and the forthcoming
proposed budget which Will be vot
ed on July 7. The material is
presented as a public service by
members of the KUHS School
Board and budget committee.
What does the six per cent lim
itation mean as related to the
high school?
it does not mean six per cent
over last year s budget!
The Klamath Union High School
District does not have a lax base.
The budget for the high school has
always been submitted to the vot
ers for approval at a special elec
tion. Until, if the voters so desire,
a reasonable tax base is estab
lished at a special election, the
high school has no tax base and
cannot operate as a practical mat
ter either outside of or within the
1 tax base plus six per cent with
out a special election.
That is, the proposed budget for
the 1958-39 operation of trie KUHS
District is $778,060. or that amount,
$539,818 is raised by local levy
and is, in effect, the amount in
excess of the six per cent lim
Itation due to the fact that the
district has never had a tax base.
Therefore, it is important to the
voters to know that the budget can
not be effected without passage
of the amount beyond the six per
cent limitation, or vice versa. If
the budget were passed and the
tax levy were disapproved, it
would be defeating the budget he-
cause the tax levy represents the
greater portion of the budget.
By the same token, if the budg
et were turned down, but the tax
levy approved, the approved tax
levy monies could not be spent be
cause there would he no approved
budget for expenditures.
Because of this joint tax and
budget structure, both the tax levy
and the budget have to be ap
proved if the budget is to be put
into effect.
Although the proposed high school
budget lor the forthcoming year
reflects a $50,168 increase when
compared with the budget for the
just ended school year, the actual
levy required will he less. The
proposed levy of (538,818 is S722
less than the levy for the now
ending year.
crre. Many worked around the
clock, giving up their winter va
cation. The Abbe needed 4,000
blankets. In two days he got 20,-000.
When the crisis was over, his
cause had received $1,500,000 in
cash. Women sent pieces of jew
elry from diamond necklaces to
treasured gold lockets. One hun
dred tons of foodstuffs, and furni
ture and gifts poured in. The city
fathers had to hand over a dere
lict railway terminus (or storing
The following winter, thanks to
Abbe Pierre's initiative, the au
thorities had everything in readi
ness (or a cold spell. Three heat
ed subway stations were opened to
those who had no roof. They were
given blankets and pallets. And in
the morning each received a bowl
of soup and a cup of coffee.
Now there are about 10 shel
ters, each providing accommoda
tion for 200 people around Paris.
There are another two run by the
Salvation Army, one by the Red
Cross and another at the Abbe's
headquarters in the vicinities of
the Central Markets.
The Abbe's "Companions of Em-
maus, a ragpickers community.
has now grown too until now
there are an even dozen.
The ragpickers devote their re
ceipts to housing projects, keeping
less than a dollar each week for
spending money. In every town
city or village where there are
homeless people, this foreign le
gion of charity is there to help.
it groups over 800 members:
men who are beyond the margin
of society, hoboes, convicts, mat
adjusted citizens and saints. In ad
dition, there is a women's "Com
panions of Emmaus" who have
founded a workshop for turning out
mattresses and wickerwork. "Em
maus" has found homes for 10,000
families some of whom will even
tually be able to own them.
Now, however, the Abbe is sick
the reward of overwork and
there are rumors that he may
Scouts, Dads
Hold Camp-Out
MALIN - The Malin Cub
Scouts held their annual father
son tampnut at Lake of the Woods
the weekend of June 21. Scout
master for Ihe group is Bob Vic
lonn with Sherman Kalina as den
chief.
The Cub Scouts altrnding were
Dale Prtrasek, llrucc Bauer.
Douglas Holnian. Jerry George.
I.eroy George, Terry Parker, Bruce
Outright, Bruce Victorin, Leonard
Hampton, Neil Kni.vkern, David
Lindsay, Jim Fallihee, Tom Kalli-
hce, Richie Takais. Sloven Paver
Paul Rogers. Phil Pclrasok, Boh
Bauer and John Gentry.
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leave his crusade.
"Nothing could he further from
the Abbe's mind," according to
Roger Dauphin, one of the priest's
close associates.
Dauphin is the editor of "Hun
ger and Thirst," the crusade's bi
monthly magazine with a circu
lation of more than 250.000.
Meanwhile, Abbe Pierre is in a
luxury clinic, his expenses paid
by a group of Swiss admirers,
where he cannot shake the image
of the millions of homeless and
starving around the world.
"Only death." he said, "can sep
arate me from my comrades of
misfortune."
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