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PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 7. 195J FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr. Ph. TU 4-4752 Stiffly Patrols By FLOYD L. WYNNE This may seem somewhat like a broken record that keeps turn Ing out the same old refrain, but In view of the report issued yes terday by the American Automo bile Association on a pedestrian safety evaluation of the city of Klamath Falls, it seems pertinent. That same old refrain is safety patrols at schools. Under the school safely section, they downgraded the city of Klain alh Falls sharply and labeled the school safety program as weak They deplored the fact there were none or at best minimum safety patrols, little or no traffic safety instruction in the schools, and little or no traffic safety as sembly addresses by tralfic in structors. On the question of patrols they recommended "that attention be given to the possible need for school safety patrols in schools which are not employing this valu able safety activity. Last year more than 650,000 school safety patrol members afforded protective guidance to an estimated 13 mil lion elementary school children crossing streets on their way to and from school." When the suggestion of student safety patrols was discussed with school officials, they ducked action by referring to a recommendation by their legal advice stating that the schools could be deemed li able in the event of an accident while student patrols wre in oper ation. As far as I know this is where they let the matter drop. To my knowledge, nothing is boing done by the schools to have the law clarified or to get a ruling on the matter. 'Councilman Walter Fleet has asked the League of Oregon cities to press for new legislation in the next session of the Legislature. clarifying the responsibility portion oi me scnool safely patrols. I shudder to think that It may take the death or crippling of some young child at a school crossing before the school boards can be compelled to move off their sancti monious position. 1 have a young child attending grade school. We have instructed him to the best of our ability in crossing streets, but no amount of Instruction will penetrate the minds of youngsters engaged in play or whoso minds are busy with other things when they come to street crossings. I have purposely spent some time watching youngsters going to and coming from school. Going to school most of them are pretty careful except when in bunches. Coming from school they are not so careful and have many things on their busy minds. Would it bo asking loo much for sixth or seventh graders to be assigned the task of patrolling the street crossings from the school during the first 10 or 15 minutes that a school lets out, and the 10 or 15 minutes prior to school be ginning. This duty could be rotated and certainly not prove a burden to any student. They could leave their last class a few minutes aiicad of the students and take up their positions on the coiner. Or If this student arrangement could not be worked out, how about the mothers of children who attend elementary schools. Couldn't they rotate the duty at key crossings on a weekly sched ule? It seems a small price to pay for such an important thing as a little additional safety for the grade school youngsters. It puzzles me why the PTA's have not fully investigated this program of school patrols. I realire that they have been in culcated with the same idea that apparently has infected the school boards, but certainly it is their children who arc involved. If they wanted the program to be put into effect, it would be. How about It parents? Do we wait until a child Is killed or crippled at a crossing before we do something? It may be your child. Crater Lake By FLORENCE JENKINS The urge to put words on paper on the part of some Easterners and Mid-westerners leads to some geographical mix-uns when ihevl start talking about Western United states. An article in the Oiruon Busi ness Review for Drcemiier. ouh- lished by the University of Ore- son Bureau in Business Research. lummarizes a thesis prepared as partial fullillmcnt of the renuiiv. ments for a master's degree by a man in tne geography department of the Louisiana State University ii case in pom'.. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 20. 1906. under act of Congress, March I. 1879. SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Senrlag Stuthera Oregoa And Nortbera Calloral The thesis deals with tourist business in the Rogue River Valley of Oregon and the footnote states it was written in June, 158. Maybe Oregon's tourist figures are a little slow in getting back to Louisiana, but we're pretty sure that our friends connected with the department of travel and recrea tion with the Oregon State Highway Department would be glad to put the college on the mailing list. Travel figures and a good esti mate of the amount of money the visitors bring into Oregon are re leased yearly by that department, yet the article quotes figures for the year 1953. The article is' pleasantly compli mentary in speaking of the beauty of the scenery of the Itogue River Valley, its coniferous forests and mountain streams. "For full utilization of the rec reational endowments of nature," the article sets forth, "there is need for development ol parks and picnic areas, roads and trails, campsites and public conve niences." That statement would scarcely provoke argument, but we do take exception to the implication con tained later in the same para graph. After commenting that fed eral, slate and county agencies are active in the development of such facilities, the article says: "Crater Lake National Park Is one of the most famous beauty spots in North America." It is, indeed. However, for the information of Robert Dolan, writer of the thesis Crater Lake National Park lies wholly within Klamath County and Klamath County is 'way over the hill from the Rogue River Valley. Juveniles Klamath Falls (To The Editor) Not long ago there was an ar ticle in the Herald and News "Rus sia Paints A Mural of Juvenile Delinquency In The United States," dated December 28. When I read the article It star tied me to know that Russia could think such things, and yet to know that it is all true. The question arises all the time What can we do about juvenile delinquency? This, a major prob lem in the United States, is hard, but I know that it can be solved. As it is, there are over three- fourths of the juveniles delinquent out of all Ihe children in the U.S. It is my opinion, and I base this on facts, that almost all de lmquency comes from broken homes, and homes that might as well be broken. Parents hear about other people's children get ting Into trouble, and say, "It is the parents fault." Then someone calls and says their child is in trouble and may I quote, "Oh! That isn't my child. You must be mistaken because he or sho is homo, I think. My children are angels. If their children were perfect angels we wouldn t have this prob lem. If people gel out and get the Kids off the streets and get them in clubs, make them feel wanted Ihey wouldn't have enough time to get into trouble. I am almost sure that then the church attendance would go up in every chinch in the United States, once they knew about Ihe Lord. I think that a good way to start the New Year out would be to clear this problem up, don't you? Charlotte Schorr 16 years old) 3704 Cannon Avenue Congress ltii-kiis By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD The most charitable words which can be used to describe the leader ship ruckus among Senate Repub licans in the new Congress be- SHORT RIBS 'NiO Witt A BUTTON TO NJ OXIK DINNER N00 PL'SK A BuTTOn to clean WHAT COOLO W30 RKSlfiW 1 . -. I HAVE TO C0MPIAIN ABXT? J ISE f3?T A p j, SORE FIN6EK1; ginning today is that it is a sham battle, bogus and phony. The contest has been adver tised to newspaper readers and to radio listeners as being be tween the present so-called con servative Republican leadership and certain rebellious mtn of good deeds variously described as modern, liberal or Eisenhower Republicans. Some whimsically sentimental commentators almost would make of it another David-and- Goliath contest or something on the order of a TV soap opera bat tle between the good guys and the bad guys. The good guys in this version of the current row among Senate Republicans arc, naturally, the modern, liberal or tisenhower men. The bad guys are the conservatives, personified by Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, III., Sen. Styles Bridges, N. H and Sen. Leverclt Saltonstall, Mass. This contest for leadership of Ihe Republican minority comes about because William F. Know- land abandoned the Senate and the Republican leadership to run for governor of California. Knowland got the leadership job when the late Sen. Robert A. Taft stepped down, near death, early in the first hisenhower term. Dirksen was No. 2 in the eche lon of Senate Republican leader ship under' Knowland. His des ignation was assistant leader or Republican whip; his job, to see that the party was at full strength on the Senate floor when the voles were needed. Bridges is chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee. Saltonstall is chair man of the Republican Conference which means that he presides over party meetings of all GOP senators. The program had been to pro mote Dirksen to the leadership in the new Congress. Sen. George D. Aiken (Vt.) bucked that program on Nov. 11 with loud cries of foul and beware. This was only a few days after the congressional elections in which the Republican party had taken a massive beat ing. V Aiken warned that the Republi cans would lose a lot more Senate seats in 1960 unless GOP liberals modern or Eisenhower Republi cans were given a greater voice in the Senate leadership of their parly. He quickly was backed in this by Sen. Clifford P. Case (N.J.). The liberal, modern or Ei senhower Republicans finally fixed upon Sen. John Sherman Cooper iKy.) as their leadership candi date. The odd part about all of it is this: Of the 10 liberal or whatever Republican senators who met soon after Nov. 11 to plan strategy against Dirksen, only one had a better record of support for the Eisenhower program in the last session than did Dirksen. That one was freshman Sen. Kenneth B. Keating (N.Y.) who made his record as a member of the House The record comparisons, of course are unofficial. Dirkscn's 1958 record was 86 per cent in support of Eisenhower's various programs and 7 per cent against. Bridges was 68 per cent for: 17 against. Saltonstall was 70 for; 13 against. Cooper, the leadership candidate of the liberal, modern or Eisen hower Republicans had a record of 70 per cent for; 27 against. Aiken, who started it all was 72 per cent for; 28 against. Keating in the House, had an 86 per cent lor; 12 per cent against tally. Small wonder the President is keeping hands off this one. Kyvs On l!MSO By RAYMOND LA1IR WASIfvNGTON (UPP-The new Congress which convenes this week will provide a daily forum and testing ground for at least four potential candidates for the By Frank O'Neal I ViXJ PUSH A BUTTON N I KTO DRN WR CAR- v Subscription Rates CARRIER I MONTH 1.50 6 MONTHS $9.00 I YEAR 118.60 MAIL I MONTH f 1.50 MONTHS $ 8.50 1 YEAR 15.00 Democratic presidential nomina tion in I960. It will also be the base of oper ations for Vice President Richard M. Nixon, now the strongest con tender for the Republican nomina tion, although he plays no direct, public role in dealing with the legislative program. Nixon presides over the Senate, votes only in case of ties and works offstage as an agent of the Eisenhower administration. He also appears likely to inherit from President Eisenhower the active leadership of the Republican Par ty organization. Here are the potential Demo cratic candidates in Congress: Sen. John F. Kennedy (Mass.), 41, now viewed as the pace-setter. He will play a key part, just as he did in 1958, in whatever the Democratic - controlled Congress does to combat corruption in la bor unions. Membership on the Foreign Relations Committee also olfcrs him a vehicle to gain na tional attention. He has substan tial support in the south. Sen. Hubert II. Humphrey i Minn.), 47, a likely rally point for the more aggressive liberals in the Democratic Party. How ever, he is weak in the South. He will be in the forefront of the struggle to change the Sen ate's anti-filibuster rule next week. He is a member of the Foreign Relations and Agriculture Committees and chairman of the subcommittee and disarmament but readily and deeply involves himself in issues in other fields, too. Sen. Stuart Symington (Mo.), 57, who is often described as "everybody's second choice" for 1960. As a former secretary of the Air Force, he gets most attention for his frequent attacks on the Eisenhower administration's de fense program. Like Kennedy, he is regarded by southern Demo crats as much more acceptable than Humphrey. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.), 50, dominant figure 'n writing the Democratic Party record during the past four years while major ity leader of the Senate. Although he insists he is not a candidate. many Democrats consider him a potential contender, at least in case of a convention deadlock. A A o t h e r possible Democratic contender is Sen. Estes Kefauver (Tenn.), who tried twice and failed to win the Presidential nomination. However, he may be kept busy protecting his Senate seat in 1960. While these and possibly other Democratic senators will figure in the pre-convention maneuvering for the 1960 nomination, all of them know that U. S. political parties seldom choose presidential candidates from the Senate. Other possible candidates Govs. Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey and G. Mennen Williams of Michigan, Gov.-elect Edmund G. Brown of California and Adlai E. Stevenson can stay aloof from the daily, battle. There is a widespread belief among Democrats that state pres idential primaries will not weigh heavily in the selection of the 1960 nominee. Unless one candidate builds a commanding lead, most states are expected to support fa vorite son candidates or send un committed delegations to the 1960 convention. (Kites United Press International WASHINGTON Reo. Joseoh W. .Martin (R-Mass.) after being de feated by Rep. Charles A. Hal Icck (R-Ind.) for the GOP House leadership: "I Ihoucht I had commitments but they didn't all materialize. A lew friends let me down." FLAT ROCK, N.C. Poet-phil osopher Carl Sandburg on deposed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. an admirer of Abraham Lincoln- He read all about Lincoln 1 could tell him and !t didn't seem to do him much good." MIAMI BEACH. Fla, - Navy surgeon general Rear Adm. Bar tholomew W. Hogan on the treat ment of victims of an atomic at tack: "Those who have hopeless in juries should not consume the lime of any surgeon who might be able to spend his time in actu al life-saving procedures." GOLDSBORO, N.C. - Marion Wilson, who was standing near where two fuel tanks dropped from an FIDO jet fiuhter olane plummeted into the ground: "They went olf real sharp, like dynamite. I didn't sec any fire but lliere was some smoke com ing out of the ho'cs." They'll Do It Every Time . By Jimmy Hatlo ilL22jH IS LOSTED-WZ4 PIP STREET I'M Y'ijaPESRED, SOMNV-K S HEM-HEM SIT LOOKING POR-I GOT WFU. 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Martin went on to say that some White House aides had met a month ago with Halleck and im plied they were against his re election because "I was a little more independent than I should be of them." Halleck denied any White House intervention. There was no com ment from Nixon. Senate Republican liberals, re belling against installing Sen. Ev erett Dirksen of Illinois as party floor leader, have denied Nixon has aided them in any way. But before they launched their drive, they informed the vice president in some detail of their plans. It has been Nixons contention that the GOP has failed to sell itself to the average voter and that the Democrats won their vic tories last November because they had projected the idea they were tor the little man. ESTATE APPRAISED PORTLAND (AP) The estate of Thomas J. Autzen, chairman of the board of Portland Manu facturing Co., was appraised at $2,845,655 Tuesday in Multnomah County Probate Court. Autzen died Sept. 9 at the age of 70. In Havana a daily newspaper recently was printed on paper made entirely from bagasse, a by' product of sugar cane. '4 ifcS 1 tt, m k ,S,,,M l,wljfcBM TOO COLD TO DIE MELUN. France (UPD-French soldier Georges Pillot had an un derstandable change of mind when he jumped into a canal with the 7 N FUTURE FORECAST for our Over If "41 M 270,000 IN EARNINGS paid December 31st When savings -accounts reap big earnings like these, you can imagine how plans for the future take on the glow of exciting nearness. Our savers are finding that futures do come true I FIRST A . rr Current Rate intention of committing suicide Monday. "I did jump in," he told po lice, "but the water was so cold that I swam back out." Suddenly, it's yours.. V; Something- you've always wanted! yours with your GOLD BOND FEDERAL SAVING H.0AN ASSOCIATION , , ,S40 MAIM SHUT n O Algiers Alarmed! By Terror Wave 1 ALGIERS (UPD Th. wave of Nationalist terror sweep ing Algeria claimed nve more civ ilian victim TtipsHav French Af finals announced Tuesday night. They said a Moslem victim was fcund with his throat cut near Sctif, a city 70 miles west of Con- clantinp. while a Frprtrh farman' was killed by rebel agents in a barn on his farm near Villebourg, 70 miles west of here. SERVICES SET PORTLAND (AP)-The funeral was scheduled today for John Read Gilbert, 80, who died Mon day. He was president of West ern Logging Co., Ltd.. of Van couver, B.C., and bunset Logging Co., of Portland. t3 of Distinction Dr. Harry R. Scribner OpiojnsiiUt i 822 Main Ph. TU 4-7203 Per Annum
