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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Tuesday. Nov. 1, 1960
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Wrong Emphasis
Overemphasis on the wrong issues seems
to have messed up the political campaign
pretty badly thus far.
If ever there was a side issue which
should not have been allowed to become a
major talking point in an American presiden
tial election, the Quemoy-Matsu business is it.
Getting involved in it at the height of the
campaign weakened the United States by dis
closing to the Red Chinese that there is a di
vision of opinion on the matter in this country.
, More attention has been paid in this cam
paign to the question of religious liberty,
which everyone should now take for granted,
than to civil liberties which are still denied.
The issue of civil rights has deteriorated
into a minor brawl over whether there should
be a Negro in the cabinet. This is strictly po
litical window dressing which has nothing to
do with basic rights in voting, education, em
ployment and living.
There have been speeches on farm poli
cygenerally rated the most important is
sue in the middle west. The two candidates
have made long and involved statements on
the programs they would advocate if elected
president.
There is a catch In this in that it is Congress
that writes the farm laws! But the main ob
jection to the candidates' farm plans is that
they seek to absorb or distribute the huge
surpluses which they would encourage, in
stead of preventing them in such ways that
the problem would be solved permanently.
Such debate as there has been on policy
toward Russia has been reduced to a squabble
over whether Kennedy would have advocated
sending an apology or regrets to Khrushchev
over the U-2 spy plane incident.
All this is nit-picking. It selects one minor
point of a major issue and magnifies that min
or point to such proportions that it obscures
the major issue.
This is the result, perhaps, of the TV debate
format. It is based on the assumption that the
viewing and listening public's mentality is so
low it can't concentrate on any one subject
for longer than three minutes.
This isn't debate in which a subject is
dealt with exhaustively in opening argument
and rebuttals.
It is more like political batting practice.
A lot of irrelevancies are tossed up in what
the pitchers (questioners) hope are fast
curves. The batters (candidates) swing at them
and connect for grounders or high flies with
out ever trying to run around the bases and
score.
Forgotten Elections
One of the oddities of the 1960 election
is that so little national attention is being paid
to the races for the U.S. Senate.
Ordinarily there are at least eight or ten
such races to command the spotlight. Either
colorful figures or close conflict, or both, have
. lent an air of excitement to this phase of the
campaign. 1
This time it is missing. There are 33 Sen
ate seats at stake. Yet even among profession
al politicians few can recite the names and
Btates involved.
Perhaps a key reason for this lack of in
terest is that control of the Senate cannot be
changed this year. With Democrats now hold
ing two-thirds of the Senate's 100 seats, the
Republicans could not take the reins even if
they won every contested berth outside safely
Democratic South and border and other states.
The Town We Live In
Our true place as individuals In this big
Vorld is sometimes hard to realize, especially
when we are told that its population is soaring
toward the three-billion mark. An analogy,
suggested by Dr. Henry S. Lieper of the World
Council of Churches, may help to put things '
in perspective:
Imagine the world reduced to a village of
1,000 persons. In it there would be 60 Ameri
cans, who would receive half the town's in
come. The 940 other persons would share the
other half. About 330 of the townsfolk would
be classified as Christians. Eighty people
would be Communists and 370 others would
be under Communist domination. There would
be 300 white people; 700 nonwhites. The 60
Americans would have a life expectancy of 70
years; the other 940 less than 40 years.
On top of that, however, there seems to
be a singular absence of color and zest in this
year's competition. About the only race that
offers much of that is the unique affair in
Maine between incumbent Republican Sen.
Margaret Chase Smith and Democratic Lucia
Cormier. It is the first between two women.
Well-known men are in the lists. They in
clude Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois, Sen. John
Sherman Cooper of Kentucky, Sen. Leverett
Saltonstall of Massachusetts, Sen. Hubert Hum'
phrey of Minnesota (last spring a presiden
tial aspirant), Sen. Clinton Anderson of New
Mexico, Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma, Sen.
Karl Mundt of South Dakota.
Yet somehow they seem to have faded.
Almost without exception, they are not the fig
ures they were a few years ago. They do not
have sharp national identity.
A good part of this seems due to the fact
that their Senate activities of recent vintage
have not kept them operating on center stage.
And this campaign itself has tended to
stress their secondary place in the election
picture. The TV debates at the presidential
level have put everything else into the shade.
The matter is not helped by the evident
failure with a few exceptions of both par
ties to offer the voters new, exciting "name"
personalities. Finding candidates who are
both solid and interesting seems to be tougher
than ever.
In the light of all the circumstances, the
diminished interest in the 1960 Senate com
petition may be understood easily enough.
We can hardly expect the voters to get ex
cited about the unexciting.
Nevertheless, it is sad that things are
this way. Attention and interest ought to be
at high pitch when we are, choosing a third
of the membership of the nation's most im
portant legislative chamber,
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q What was the Printers' Bible?
A A Bible issued prior to 1702, in
which "printers" appeared for the
word "princes" in the 161st verse of
Psalm 119.
Video Comedian
Answer to Previous Puzzle
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Q When did King Leopold IT of
Belgium acquire sovereignty over the
now-independent Congo?
A In 1885.
Q How do Auks, birds of sub
arctic or arctic zones, get their food?
A They seize fish and crustaceans
by diving and "flying" under water.
Q How old is the nursery rhyme
about Old Mother Hubbard?
A Mrs. Sarah Martin of Plymp
ton, England, wrote it in 1804.
Q Can the president order Na
tional Guard officers to active duty?
A Yes, during any period of na
. tional emergency.
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12 Fancy '
13 Sphere of
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14 Rent lilts
16 Heaped
17 Rot by
exposure
18 1091 (Roman)
19 Hail!
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22 Noun iulx
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24 Dawn foddeis
25 Flnlihei
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29 Employ
30 Region (comb,
form)
51 Search for
34 Important
metal
35 Mimic
38 Light brawn
39 God of love
40 Sea Inlet
41 Agent (ab.)
42 Follower
4.1 Angry
43 He played
second banana
with Jackie
47 Ballots
43 Wandering
49 Level
50 African fly
61 Bitter vetch
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legacy
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sprite
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constellation
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13 Three-banded
armadillo
15 Knights
21 He to
fame on his
own talents
25 Greek letter
25 Sea bird
27 Exchange
premium
23 Meditative
31 Male red deer
33 Young bird of
prey
33 Penetrates
34 30 (Ft.)
35 Legal plea
33 Communion
plates
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sight
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By PETER EDSO.V
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEAI -.With
most political statisticians the
polite name for dopesters still
figuring that the election will be
awfully close, Ihcy are keeping
watch on every faclor that might
hold a balance of power and
swing the result one way or the
other.
Depending on whether you are
talking to a Republican or a
Democrat, there is a hope or a
fear that one candidate might
win the popular vote and still
lose the electoral college vote.
This has happened only twice '
before in U.S. history.
In 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes
gpt 4.033.955 popular votes to
4.284,757 for Samuel .1. Tildcn.
But Hayes won the presidency
with 185 electoral voles to 184 for
Tilden.
In 1888 Benjamin Harrison got
only 5,444,337 popular votes to
5.540.050 for Grover Cleveland.
But Harrison won the presidency
. w ith 233 electoral votes to 168
for Cleveland.
Though this hasn't happened for
72 years, there is a long chance
it might happen again if, say,
Kennedy piled up a much bigger
popular vote than he needed in a
few big slates like Pennsylvania
and Ohio but lost by narrow mar
gins in enough smaller slates to
give Nixon a larger electoral
vole.
This possibility brings the figure
hoys to studying the size of the
vole and various elements that
make its total.
U.S. Census Bureau estimates
lhat just under 107 million Ameri
cans will be of voling age this
November. Deducting three mil-
HAPPY TIMES
New Social Security
Rules May Benefit
By MARIE DAERB
The new Social Security amend
ments, recently passed by Con
gress and signed by Ihe President,
won't bring about any general in
crease in benefit?.
But they will help many ieople.
Here is a brief summary of what
the new legislation does. If you
think you will be affcclcd by it,
get In touch with your Social Se
curity office. Otherwise, you may
he losing out on money to which
you are entitled.
The new amendments:
Cancel the age 50 requirement
on disability benefits. If you are
a disabled worker under age 50.
and if you never asked to have
your Social Security record froz
en, ask your Social Security of
fice if you can receive benefits.
Disability payment checks for
workers under age 50 will be pay
able for the month of November,
1060. They will lie mailed out in
December.
' Cut Ihe loss on benefits fnr
workers under 72. Starting in 1961,
a beneficiary who earns more
than $1,200 a year will have $1
of his bencfils withheld for every
$2 lhat he earns horn $1,200 up
to $1,500. For every $1 that his
earnings go above 51.500, $1 of
benefits will be withheld. Also,
many people who have not ap
plied for bencfils because they
are earning amounts over $2,080
year now may find it advantag
eous to apply.
Raise benefits for some childien.
The monthly bcnefil of each child
of a worker who has died will
be three-fourths of the amount
the worker would have received
if he had lived and drawn retire
ment benefits. However, a maxi
mum family-amount still holds.
Admits survivors not previously
eligible to Ihe beneficiary lists. If
you are Ihe survivor of a person
who died before 19.11,. and were
told Ihere was insufficient cover
age, you are advised to gel in
touch with your Social Security
office. Also, aged dependent wid
owers of women workers who died
before Sepi ember. 1950, now can
get benefits if the woman work
er had worked at least 18 months
under Social Security.
Survivors of any worker who
died between March 31, 1938, and
June 1. 1940, and who had worked
under Social Security for at least
18 months also may get benefits
now.
Cut the amount of work re
quired for bencfils. For instance,
if you reach 65 (for a man or 62
1 for a woman 1 in I960, you now
need three, not 4'a years of work.
However, you can't gel bencfils
if you have less than 18 months'
work under Social Security.
Put work which a parent does
for a son or daughter in the
course of a trade or business un
der Social Security coverage. How
ever, work done in Ihe household
of a son or daughter will not be
covered. This is effective next
January. First wage report is due
on or before next April .10.
Slill other changes affect em
ployes of a nonprofit organization,
slate or local government work
ers, ministers, U.S. citizens work
ing within the I'niled Slates for
foreign governments, and a few
olher special groups.
The new amendments are de
scribed more fully in a new So
cial Security booklet. I suggest
you ask your local Social Security
office if you may have a copy.
lion aliens, prisoners and olher
ineligibles cuts it to 104 million.
If the usual 60 per cent of them
are registered to go to the polls,
the total vote will be around 62.4
million. This is only a little above
the 62 million who voted in 1956.
But registrations already indi
cate Ihe vote may go well beyond
that figure. The five most popu
lous states New York, Pennsyl-'
vania, Ohio. Illinois and Califor
niahave already accounted for
an increased registration of 3.S
million.
Democrats claim that the larg
er Ihe registration and vote, the
belter their chance of winning.
Using Ihe Gallup estimates of
56.8 million Americans preferring
Ihe Democrats, 40.4 million the
Republicans and 6 2 million inde
pendent or undecided, for a total
of 103.4 million close to the 104
million vote estimate above the
Democrats do have this advan
tage. It holds good, though, only
if voters follow party lines which
they did not do in 1952 and 1956.
Trying to break down the total
to see how the minority groups
may line up presents many im
ponderables. Of the estimated 25 million
Catholics of voting age, more
than 60 per cent average or over
15 million are expected to vote.
If two-thirds of them follow the
expected pattern and vote for
Kennedy it will give the Demo
crats a five-million vole advan
tage. If a similar percentage of the
estimated 37 million Protestants
of voting age vole for Nixon
which is by no means as good
an assumption it would give the
Republicans a seven-million vole
advantage.
Of the approximately 10 mil
lion Negroes of voling age, far
less than the average 60 per cent
are expected lo vote because of
poll taxes and other restrictions
on registering. And there is no
known basis fnr determining how
Ihe three-to-five million who do
vole will divide.
Organized labor's 18 million
members cannot be counted on
In vote as a bloc, even though
their leaders may lean heavily
Democratic. And Ihe unions rep
resent only about a fourth of the
total labor force. '
A farm voting age population
of 12 to 15 million is even less
predictable because there is no
sharp farm issue.
There are. of course, overlaps
In these various segments of the
total vole which politicians try
to analyze.
From Merrill, a subscriber
writes: "I notice in your column
that Louie Kandra had been
leading the Potato Festival parade
24 years. I know that John Col
well led the parade every year
until his death August 23, 1957.
He rode a white horse. Mr. Col
well was a pioneer, and the first
while child born in Klamath Coun
ty Oct. 1J, 1873, in a log house
southeast of Merrill."
Well, that gets that point
straightened out. And it would
appear that it offers ouf histor
ical student, Floyd Wynne, an op
portunity to develop a story.
A couple of chilly days there
last week brought a new topic
of interest to our house. All sum
mer long, in the very early hours
of Ihe morning 15 o'clock or so)
I noticed a covey (right term,
Bill?! of quail on Ihe street above
the house. Apparently the mother
and her brood would wander off
the hill for gravel, etc. Anyway,
the quail are now full-grown,
fat and sleekly beautiful. And they
are bold enough to walk right
into our yard and Shaw's to eat
flower seeds and whatever else
is handy.
We'll be eternally grateful to
the many readers who took time
out to drop a line in our "What
Do You Like Best in the Her
ald and News" contest. We re
gret that we could not offer a
prize for every person who en
tered. Someone has suggested
that we have a contest for what
readers "don't like" and some
of these days we might just do
that.
Ev Ball, the Coke man, saved
the day at the Ron Phair dinner
at Ihe auditorium Friday night.
Seems lhat somebody had cranked
up the old wood stove, and start
ed the gol' durndest smoke pot
you ever saw. Smoke poured from
every crack in Ihe stove and soon
- filled the kitchen, and part of
the auditorium. Efforts to start
a draft were unsuccessful, so the
fire department was called. They
were preparing to douse Ihe smok
ing embers in the stove with wa
ter when Ev noticed the situa
tion. He guessed what was wrong,
grabbed a rolled up newspaper
and jammed it to the far end of
the burning chamber. The fire
caught and created enough draft
to send the smoke where it he
longed out the chimney. But for
a while, it looked like the dinner
was going to be short a few ingredients.
I'd say that Klamath Falls gets
its money's worth from its fire
department. With just one central
station serving this big area, and
, only the suburban department
serving that large area, we're
. surely not "long" on fire protec
tion. As the city limits extend,
the boys at Ihe station tell me,
they're going to be really hard
put lo maintain proper fire safe
guards and protection. They'd like
to see a small station some
where in the Shasla Way area.
There are so dad-gummed
many "weeks" that I wish
somebody would Invent a "Mind
Your Own Business Week."
All of those Monday night Hal
loween costumes remind me of
the guy who took to coming home
several nights a week about six
sheets lo the wind. So his wife
decided to teach him a lesson.
She rented a costume, put it on,
and stopped him at the door as
he came staggering in one night.
"Wash thish?" he mumbled
softly.
"This is the devil," came the
answer.
"Shake, old horsh," our here
countered, "I married your sis
ter." Aw now, girls.
Chet Langslet pointed out some
thing the olher day when he men
tioned that most of us are in
clined to think of post office build
ings as great, huge things. Ac
tually, they are not. For instance,
of all of the post offices in the
United States, the Klamath Falls
building ranks 368th in size. Inci
dentally, one does not realize the
tremendous job the PO depart
ment faces in getting the billions
of pieces of mail properly sorted
and distributed each year. For
service clubs, etc., Chet has an
excellent film depicting some of
the problems and solutions to the
problems Ihe PO department has
come up with in recent years.
I know a restaurant owner whs
hired a new waitress, a well-built
and very attractive blonde. A
male patron walked in at noon
and got his first glimpse of this
new dish, whereupon he gol down
on his hands and knees and be
gan pawing the carpet. The own
er rushed up to him with, "What's
the matter?" Explained our hero,
"My contact lenses popped out."
Which just goes to prove thai
every new invention doesn't nec
essarily bring progress.
THE DOCTOR SAYS ...
Medical Study Raps
Needless Operation
Al
manac
By I'niled Press International
Today is Tuesday. Nov. 1, Ihe
306th day of Ihe year with 60 more
in i960.
The moon is approaching its
full phase.
The morning star is Mars.
The evening stars are Venus,
Jupiter and Saturn.
On this day in history:
In 176,1. Ihe Stamp Act, levied
by ihe British crown lo raise rev
enue m Ihe American colonics,
went into effect.
In 1788. the final" session of Ihe
Continental Congress adjourned.
In I8M. the Post Otfic Depart
ment introduced the money-order
system as a means of providing
convenience and safety for people
who wanted to make payments
through Ihe mails.
In 1871. American author Ste
phen Crane was born.
In 1918. the Hungarian Republic
was proclaimed in Budapest and
a Republic of Austria was set up
in Vienna ending the Hapsbtirg
monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
In 1959, 2fi were found dead in
Ihe crash of a DC3 in Virginia.
Thought for loday: American
author Stephen Crane wrote: "A
man said lo Ihe universe: 'Sir, I
exist!' 'However.' replied the uni
verse. 'Ihe fart has not created
in me 1 sens of obligation.' M
By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D.
Written for
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
Once again, an honest and
courageous surgeon has taken
what Ihe diplomats call a "long,
hard look" at the problem of ap
pendicitis. And once again, Ihe
warning has been sounded lhat
altogether loo many operations
are being performed for needless
removal of lhat wholly useless
structure, Ihe appendix.
In a recent number of Ihe Wis
consin Medical Journal, Dr. Har
vey R. Sharpe Jr. reports on Ihe
findings of a committee set up to
look into Ihe appendectomies per
formed at a general hospital in
his native Fond du Lac. Here is a
brief summary of some of the
findings, many of which you might
bear in mind before submitting lo
operation on the basis of a sin
gle opinion:
In Ihe year before formation of
the investigating committee, a to
tal Of 178 patients were operated
on. Three years after formation
of Ihe commitlee. Ihe number fell
to 79 a drop of 56 per cent.
Of 127 appendices removed
from Ihe first group of 178 pa
tients, al least 46 showed no
signs of inflammation. Thus, in
more than one-third, the appendix
was not Ihe cause of whatever
distress led to Ihe recommenda
tion of surgery. By contrast. Ihe
62 appendices removed after the
formation of the committee. Ihe
diagnosis of no inflammation fell
lo less than one in six. Thus. Ihe
per cent of needless removals
was about halved (from 33 to 16
per cent'.
With reference lo so-called
chronic appendicitis, Ihe first se
ries included 51 specimens of
which 4.1 (84 per cent' were clas
sified as non inflammatory. Fol
lowing formation of the commit
tee, the number of patients oper
ated on for chronic appendicitis
fell lo 15 and of these 14 '93
per cent 1 were reported nonin
flammatory. In other w 0 t1 1,
while the number of patients op-
erated on for chronic appendicitis
fell more than two-thirds. Ihe per
cent of needlessly removed pr
gans remained unconscionably
high.
Referring to these lasl experi
ences, Dr. Sharpe concluded lhat
"chronic appendicitis is not a
surgical disease."
Finally, in anticipation of cries
of anguish from colleagues less
self - critical than himself. Dr.
Sharpe points out that increasing
caution on the part of surgeons
and referring physicians, due to
Ihe known interest of Ihe commit
tee in needless operations, pro
duced no increase in complica
tions or deaths due to perfora
tion of an inflamed appendix.
In exposing himself lo the criti
cism of colleagues. Dr. Sharpe has
again given substance to Luke s
opinion lhat "The most high Com
eth healing." And. if ou are
wise, you'll take to heart Ihe les
sons he has taught all of us.
For a copy of Dr. Hyman'i
leaflet "How to Choose Your
Family Doctor," send 10 centi
to Dr. Hyman. care Herald arH
News. Box 489. Dept. B. Radt
City Station. New York 19, N Y.
THEY
SAY...
I wwild have been dead years
aco if I had taken my friends'
advice and retired for good
when I was 65.
David C. Austin, still srix-k-
Ing in I nion, N. J., super
market at 99.
How do they want the mow
rash or check'
Cincinnati Reds' second hater,
man Rillv Martin, m helt
sued for $1,040,000 for his
ark m Chicago Cub plM
Jim Brewer,