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PAJJE 8 A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON THURSDAY. JANUARY 15. 1059 FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Pb. TU 4-4752 Entered ax second class matter at the post office at Klamatb Falls, Ore., on August 20. 1906. under act of Congress, March I. 1879. SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS lervlaf Southern Oregoa Aad Northers California Subscription Rates CARRIER 1 MONTH S MONTHS 1 YEAR ...... I SO $ 900 $18 00 MAIL 1 MONTH f 1.50 MONTHS 18.50 I YEAR J15 00 lilt It Down By FLOYD L. WYNNE The economy shoe is going to pinch mighty tight all down the line during this coming year. Business appears headed for sol id high ground, but it' appears certain that government spending, no matter what level, is going to come in for some mighty close scrutiny. The average taxpayer has just about reached the limits of his en durance of ever-Increasing taxes As a matter of fact, it has reached the point, where it seems almost like rank heresy to even suggest that somewhere, somehow, someone try a little economy. It may be a carry-over from the installment buying plan, but it appears that the old system of "pay as you go" is about as outmoded as the Wright brothers flying machine. However, it may be the "drop" of Scotch blood that I have in my veins, or my blood pressure when I look at my property tax statement, or my withholding state ment, but whatever it is, I re fuse to knuckle under to the idea that government spending must continue to rise, and the govern ment must continue to do more and more for the citizen. Let's get back to a little basic honesty wilh ourselves. After all, these governments are ours, re mote as they may seem at times. Let's demand of them that they e run In a businesslike manner, observing the same rules of econo my and efficiency as a well run business must observe in order to avoid bankruptcy. It's nice to have everything, and nice to be able to afford every thing, but let's turn the barrel upside down and put it this way what is absolutely essential in line with what we can afford . . . then, tf we still have some potential funds left, let's add some of the things that are important but not essential. Instead of the frills, let's trim things to the point where they are as good as they can be or the money we pay. That's a good motto to follow whether it be in the schools, cily or county govern ment, or the stale or federal level Let's remember, also, that in this economy wave, when we cut things down as we must, there will be something eliminated, and others pared down. Don't start pointing the finger at other serv ices or courses and yelling, "why don't you cut that, first." A good example ol saving on the state level was turned up the other day. It may teem insignifi cant, but to me, it's a beautiful beginning. Gov. Mark Hatfield told the State Highway Commission to quit using its Cadillac limousine so that the commission members "might get the feel of the roads a little more like most Oregonians." Also, Hatfield turned one of the executive department's two Cadil lacs over to the Highway Com mission and instructed them to sell it. The remaining limousine will be used for ceremonial purposes, only Hatfield said he and his staff would use a smaller car for other travel. That's a good beginning. Let's take our cue from this, and do some careful 'analyzing and cost- figuring right here on the local front. the year. The previous six cents per $100 of par or lace value has changed to four cents per $100 of actual value, with an eight cents a share maximum. Sales of odd lots or less than 100 shares of stock, by an odd lot dealer, will be tax-free. The stock issuance tax of 11 cents per $100 of par or face value has changed to 10 cents per $100 of actual value and there is change in the manner in which it is imposed. Theater-goers noted that the first dollar of admission charge now tax free. Previously, tickets costing 90 cents or less were tax' free and above 90 cents were tax able on the entire amount. In the retail field, there are al most innumerable changes and there are switches, too, in the fields of transportation and com munication tax, to mention just a few. And so continues the spiral. It isn't so much the cost of living that gets us, it's the over powering tax burden we have per mitted our own government to im pose upon us. When are we going to do some thing about it? Sol u lion By LAMAR HOOVER The full implications of the has sle in Salem over who is now Ore gon's secretary of stale were be ginning to dawn on Klamath Coun ty residents Wednesday morning. The implications add up to the fact that anyone who depends on state funds for his living is going to have a rough go of it until that particular hassle is settled. This became crystal clear when Guy Barker, manager of the locil state employment service office, opened the telegram that was wait ing for him Wednesday. Signed by R. F. Baxter, Salem, supervisor of unemployment benefits, the wire directed that no checks dated Jan uary 13, 1959, or later should be delivered to claimants until further notice. State Treasurer Sig Unandcr's announcement that no state war rants would be drawn until the controversy was settled, published luesday, had already made it clear that the state's creditors would have an opportunity to prac tice the virtue of patience. Now. in case there were any doubts. state officials are spelling o u t the fact that state employes, and the unemployed, will also have to wait for their money. The crisis seems to. stem from the fact that the secretary of state must sign all warrants for with drawal of funds deposited with the state treasurer, and Unandcr wants to take no risks on who's signing his checks. It is not clear how long it will be until the case is heard and decided by the Oregon Supreme Court. A possible way out of the con troversy, which no one in Salem seems to have thought of yet, would be to have both candidates for the secretary of state's job, the Holmes - appointed David O'llara and the llatfield-appointed Howell Appling, sign the warrants Anyone who is anxious to serve the state should be willing to join in this small effort which would help so many. Tux 4 'limit's By FLORENCE JENKINS Most of us who wo.k for wages noted the healthy tax increase in the first paycheck alter January 1 when the boost in federal social security tax rates went into ef fect. Last year, workers and employ ers each paid a tax of 2'4 per cent on the first W.200 of the work er's annual earnings, a maximum tax of $M 50. This year, the tax is Increased to 2'j per cent on the first $4,800 of annual earnings, a maximum tax of $120. This amounts to a maximum tax in crease of $25.50 per worker. Self-employed persons also re ceived a January 1 tax boost and will now pay i-U per cent on the ' first $4,800 of annual earnings, an increase in the maximum tax from $141.75 to $180 annually. On January 1, I'M), there will be another tax Increase, with work ers and employers then each pay Ing 3 per cent on the first $4,800 and self-employed persons paying 4V4 per cent. Further in- creases are slated lor 1963, 1966 and 1969. The government explains that the increase are necessary to sup port the social security program which currently covers some 75 million persons In the nation. Investors in the stock market were informed of a change in the stock transfer tax at the first of scribed by law would be admit ted. As I recall it, the time given was two years. Most certainly we will never have a private hospital in Yrcka as long as the present procedure is guaranteed. Doctors have no in vestment. Their workshop is built and furnished free of charge. No insurance, no pay, no repairs and replacements or such to worry about, such as the doctors have in their own workshops. When towns like Mount Shasta, Corning Willows, Williams and Arbuckle can afford a private hospital, most certainly,'- a town like Yreka could do so if they were not al lowed to take a free ride at coun ty expense. At no time was it ever sug gested the county hospital close its doors to pay patients before hospitalization was made avail able. In 1955, I canvassed 19 counties and found one county, Napa, had no county hospital. I received fig ures from the Madera hospital that did not correspond with their budg et and threw that out. I canvassed small, large and medium counties in population, so that I might have an approximate per capita cost of operations of their hospitals, The results show 10 counties that do not run dual purpose hospitals iney paid a little over $6 per annum, per capita, to operate their hospitals. In seven counties that do take pay patients, the average per capita cost per annum was a lit tle over $12. At that time, we were rated 30,000 population, with a hos pital budget of $559,249, with antic ipated collections of $200,000, which left us subsidizing the hos pital to the tune of $359,249, or just a fraction under $1 per cap ita after collections anticipated. I furnished each member of the board of supervisors and the press, with a detailed statement, county by county, but got no results ex cept to see them build an annex which would not have been need ed as a county hospital. Around $200,000 was poured into that. There would, of course, be a dif ference if a survey were made to day. Costs have gone up, our hos pital budget is $179,822 larger than at that time. There is no reason, however, to think the spread would not be about the same. Copies of the original report will be fur nished on application. Yours for taking Siskiyou Coun ty out of the revenue hospital business, and all other endeavors in competition wilh private indus try. . W. A. Barr Supervisor, 2nd District the right direction to cut taxes Going back to speech writing. I think with your great ability to sugarcoat certain bits of news that meet your fancy, you should be on the speech writing staff for out great yes-man. Maybe you could write something for him to say that he could remember five minutes after he gets up before the people of the United States and reads his speech. 1 think Mr. Eisenhower's trou ble is that he doesn't know enough to know which toes he isn't sup posed to step on so he can have the old-dyed-in-the-wool fogies tell him what to say. I'm not old enough to remember George Washington, but I can remember some a lot more recent than he that could throw a speech together and deliver it with enough sincer ity that you at least thought they believed it themselves. I just want you to know that there is at least one reader of your little newspaper that doesn't need you to analyze every bit of news he reads. Remember that a truly great editor is one that can print an unbiased newspaper. Can you? Richard C. McCollam They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy. Hatlo "V NOT Bid ENOCISH?diO HE TELL 'EM 180irr MOOCH is jyVM WW, rr WOULD BE 4 M THE SWIMMING POOL IN) DESPERATE- V EVER SEE ?yf CINCH TO BUILD 4J W THE CELLSB ZCTER 'WE WAS TPyiN1 THE CAVE ,53; EXTRA BOOM IN THE I EVERY RAINSTORM ?A TO SELL IT TO MOOCH LIVES BACKAND THAT EXTRA P-. . rT 4N OLD MAID IN?WE0U6HTA gj BATHROOM yU WANT- -j X-U i STERDAy- BUILD A I KNOW 4 BUILDER BUILDER IS "1 HE SAID SHE HOUSE IN WHO'D DO THE JOB HIS BROTHER-IN- I COULD TAKE A IT"-X WtlMiffl'n Listening to the M0J fffl rVM ill I J rZ-fik SUNNV SALESMAN t-cS V y I yn I - paintins very low- I I ' JBPZ priced word pictures- utE.sIjtf!a)' i 0HI mmi l'i-ivii.c lloNiilnl Yrcka (To The Editor) To all taxpayers of Siskiyou County. The recently discharged grand jury recommended that the county go out of the revenue hospital business. I believe this to be a very good and sensible recommen dation, and that it should be car ried out. On two occasions I have gone on record before the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors, as desiring to put out the inlormation that after a certain date, none but such pay patients as are pre- Covering Up MERRILL (To the Editor)-As theiyear 1939 gets under way and 1958 slips into the past, I would like to cast my vote for you as the greatest cover-up writer of all time. After reading your little move to cover up for our yes-man, Mr Eisenhower, being unable to write his own speech, you said, I be lieve, that George Washington could have done it back in his day, but that Mr. Eisenhower couldn't because our government was just too big. t Yes, our government is too big all right for Mr. Eisenhower. He should have been back on the farm looking after his chickens or some thing for a long time. I quote Look magazine on a few facts concerning the assistants our president has. Mr. Eisenhower has 412 people with a $2,8AOO0 payroll on the White House staff, and Mr Truman had 293 people with a $1,712,000 payroll. I find the facts rather interesting Maybe if we had somebody in the President's oftice a bit more capable in handling his own office, we could cut the payroll again and maybe make a start toward SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal (HUACfc! ) Mergers By SAM DAWSON 1 AP Business News Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - The urge to merge has continued strong enough during the recession and the recovery. Rumors of still more corporate mergers are prime factors in motivating trad ers in the stock market. Sometimes the government has frowned upon such plans. A fed eral judge has halted for the pres ent at least the nuptials desired by Bethlehem Steel and Youngs town Sheet & Tube. Sometimes the ardor of one or more companies who have been going together has cooled. The New York Central has stopped its merger talks with the Pennsyl vania Railroad. But the Central's president says his railway still has its eye out for any other heiress who might be ready to fall into its lap. A striking number of mergers have taken place in recent months. The Federal Trade Com mission says it noted more than 900 industrial mergers or acquisi tions of other types in 1958. Only a few mergers get the frown of the federal government The government acts when, as in the steel merger proposal, it be lieves, there will be a harmful lessening' of competition within the industry. This decade has seen about 2,000 corporate unions so far. During the recession there was some merging of companies seek ing to survive. Some had run up enough of a loss to make them attractive to more prosperous companies who could use these losses to offset their own profits in figuring income taxes. Both the recession and the re covery have increased the com petition factor in many industries Some mergers have grown out of a desire' to get the excellent man agement or skilled engineers of another company. A leading cause for mergers is to increase total capacity, in the belief that production can be made more efficient and competi tive that way. Ike's New Housing Boss To Vade Into Big Row Qnofes United Press International NEW YORK - Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan after a tour of New York City: 'Yours is a very good country I especially like the people of this country. 1 have had many inter esting and useful talks." HOLLYWOOD Actor Ward Bond on learning that the Acade my of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had repealed an amend ment banning Communists from receiving Oscar awards: AH these Fifth Amendment Communists are working now. We've lost the fight and that's all there is to it." WASHINGTON President Eis enhower during his visit to the National Press Club when asked it he preferred having press con ferences on a regularly sched uled basis: I never like to conform too much. And just to say that one particular day each week I am going to be in the same exact spot, the same exact time, sort of gets me down." NEW YORK - TV columnist Marie Torre after serving a 10-diy jail term for contempt of court (or refusing to reveal the source of a news story: If I had to reveal any source I'd feel that I had betrayed my profession, myself, my church, my paper and everything 1 stand for." WASHINGTON (API-President Eisenhower's new housing boss. Norman P. Mason, will step squarely into the middle of a lirst-class row shaping un between Congress and the administration He says he doesn t mind at all. Mason told a reporter todav that "anyone with a little fighting spirit and red blood m his veins should welcome the give and take mat goes with presenting a con troversial program to a critical Congress. That's the way democ racy wonts, ne said. The controvery in this case the extent of government housing programs under Eisenhower s ef forts to hold down spending. Dem ocratic critics have proposed more spending lor Housing. Mason, now head of the Federal Housing Administration, was nom inated by Eisenhower to head the parent Housing and Home Fi nance Agency. The 62-year-old .uassacnuselts Kepublican will change offices as soon as the Senate confirms his nomination The top HHFA nost is beine vacated by Albert M. Cole, who made it plain to newsmen he won't be at all sad to miss this years give and take on Capitol niu. Cole will become an aluminum company executive. Stepping into a hot spot is repetition of history in Mason's Jury Disbelieves Claims Deputy SEATTLE (AP)-C. W. Liston stuck his neck out Wednesday ana nem it there while a city bus closed its doors on his neck three times. It was all in the line of duty. An assistant in the City Claims Department, Liston was trying to prove to an awestruck jury that lined the sidewalk that having a bus door shut on one's neck didn't really hurt at all. The jury didn't believe him and awarded Mrs. Mirdza Toland. who had testified it hurt her plenty. $9,500. Medics Diagnose Ailment As Flue LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Mrs Emma Little's winter-long ail ment has been diagnosed as the Hue with an E. Doctors had examined her but failed to turn up the cause of her headaches, nausea, loss of weight and weakness. ' Then they found that people who visited her got sick, too. A check of the furnace showed the flue leaking carbon monoxide into the house. Now the flue is all right and Mrs. Little is getting better. STRONG THIEVES. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) It took some heaving and tugging but James M. Larson managed to move a heavy sofa and chair to the sidewalk in front of a small downtown hotel early Wednesday Then he went back inside to clear the lobby. When he returned to get the furniture, it was gone. The Welcome Wagon Hostess Will Knock on Your Doot with Gifts 4 Greetings from Friendly Business, Neighbors and Your Civic and Social Welfare Leaders On the occasion ot: The Birth ot a Baby Engagement Announcements Arrival ot Newcomers to Klamath Falls No east or oblioationl Phone TU 2-0834 case. He left his lumber business in North Chelmsford, Mass., in 1954 and took over at FHA after his predecessor was bounced. Mason's assignment was to pick up the pieces after Congress turned up evidence that FHA did little to stop chiseling by some home improvement firms or to re cover excess profits from builders of apartment projects who ob tained loans for more than the projects cost. The pieces were picked up. Small, stout and now gray. Mason was born in Willsboro, N.Y., Dec. 24. 1896. The family moved to Plattsburgh," N.Y., 14 years later, when his father set up a lumber and hardware busi ness there. Mason worked in the hardware store, signed on with the Navy in World War I, and married Helen Proctor, daughter of a North Chelmsford lumber dealer. When his father died in 1923, Mason liquidated the Plattsburgh business and joined the William P. Proctor Lumber Co. in North Chelmsford. He was executive of ficer and treasurer of the Proctor firm for many years and was twice elected president of the Na ers Assn. The Masons' have a son and a daughter, both married, and four grandsons. The son, David, now owns the Proctor firm. Hospital X-Rays Equine Patient ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP)-The pa tient walked rather awkwardly through a corridor of Kerbs Me morial Hospital Wednesday, start ling patients and employes. In this case the patient was a 5-year-old trotting horse named H Bomb, a $10,000 winner at harness meets last year. The hospital agreed to X-ray the horse because no veterinarians in the area had X-ray equipment. Trainers had been treating the horse for a calcium deposit built up on the front leg but Ihey could not determine the effectiveness of the treatment without X-rays. CONVINCED NEWCASTLE, England (UPD Socoer referee Arthur Ellis want ed to be absolutely sure the field was unfit before postponing an as sociation championship game. Looking it over didn't help, so Ellis put on a pair of football boots, got a ball and discovered the answer the hard way. He fell three times. The game was postponed until Monday. OSBORN HOTEL EUGENE, ORE. lira. I. . rlr Jo. Carl? Jr. rraarUtor Thoroughly Modern Today's Movie Lovers Vulgar, Ex-Star Says t By JAMES BACON AP Motion Picture Writer HOLLYWOOD (AP) - The man who made one of the screen's all time great love slories calls mod. ern movie lovemaking vulgar. "It's embarrassing to watch." ays Director Frank Borzage. who made "Seventh Heaven" with Charles Farrell and Janet Gay- nor in v.rn, a picture that won the first Oscars ever awarded an actress and a director. 'Lovemaking on the screen used to be tender and sweet," says Borzage. "It was left to the audi ence's imagination what was tak ing place. 'Now nothing is left to the imagination. Kissing Is more cum chewing now than lovemaking." Borzage says lovemaking hasn't changed much through (he cen turies except on the screen. "Most boys and girls are still shy and sweet about it like thev always were. It should never be coarse nor sordid. Borzage didn't bring it up but a remake of one of his old pic tures serves as a perfect example. Frank made the first "Farewell to Arms" with Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. It was an artistic and commercial success. The recent one with Rock Hud son and Jennifer Jones was not. 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