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1 j . ; li RERA1D AND NEW, Klamath Talk, Or. unlay, January t, lMt t NOTHING SPECIAL (W. B. S. Q r This is the era of the merger in business and industry. Giant companies have become giant-giant combines. Some of the mergers have been for the good of the people served by the companies involved. Some have been not so good. Definitely on the "good" side of the pic ture is the recently proposed merger of California-Oregon Power Company and Pacific Power & Light Company. The Klamath Basin and the area served by the new company stands to benefit in many ways from the merg er. We are not suggesting that COPCO failed In any degree to discharge their responsibili ties to the people and the communities they serve. To the contrary. COPCO has shown a high degree of interest and a desire to serve to the utmost the wishes and needs of those they served to a point well above the norm. The merger offers an opportunity for in creased service by the electric utility to the area. - " ' ' : Pacific Power & Light brings to us a wealth of experience in development of nat ural resources leading to industrial and eco nomic growth. Energetic, forceful leadership Could Cost Nation Plenty The five-point, top priority legislative pro gram called for by President-elect Kennedy and his congressional leaders could cost the country several bUUons of dollars. This won't be included in the 1961 budget President Eisenhower sends to the Capitol before he leaves the White House. I.:, There is no assurance this program will Bail through Congress In the first 90 days of the new administration, as Kennedy promised in an early campaign speech. These measures ran into plenty of trouble in the last Congress. The program Includes more medical care for the aged within the social security system and increase of minimum wages. These two . Items won't raise federal taxes, but they will be paid for .directly by employers and fem ployes in higher payrolls and payroll dehucy tions. ' , . 1 , , . r ' " The other three items could cosy the government plenty. They are federal did to education, housing, and depressed areas. . -The Senate in 1959 passed a 390million dollar bill for aid to areas with chronic high unemployment. In 1960 the House cut this to 200 million in low interest loans and SO mil lion dollars in grants to help build plants and attract new industries to the depressed areas.' Senate accepted House cuts. ' President Eisenhower had proposed a 60-million-dollar program for the same pur - poses. In vetoing the congressional bills, he poses it would squander taxpayers' money. The Senate failed to override the veto and so the measure died. Now it's revived. On housing, the Senate passed a IVi-bil- lion-dollar omnibus bill last June. The House ' refused to accept it, but in the final days of ' the special session a stopgap bill was agreed : to, and the President signed it. : The Democratic platform now sets a goal I of two million new housing units constructed ; every year. In recent years the average has I been a little over the million mark. Doubling : the construction late might run up federal ; housing appropriations from BOO million to 1 one billion dollars a year. I On aid to education, the Senate passed fa 1.8 billion dollar school construction bill BARBS Go ahead, men, wear a high col lar if you want to we'll sip ours. To live to be a hundred, just drink a glass of milk every day for 1,200 months. Visiting cards originated in China and judging from some we've seen, signatures originated there, too. ' whan a sneaker starts off bv sav - i mm -g ; ing he's not much of a speaker, what t mora proof do you, want? Inventing excuses has yet to bring anybody any royalty. Roosters in the country and alarm 'ilocks in the city can be depended Set to make people want to get up in e morning. Soma women would buy a hippo taua tf they could charge it , A Beneficial Merger of PP&L's industrial people has brought many industries to communities in the states served by the company. Some of these developments have been little short of pure genuis. Another reassuring factor is the fact that PP&L officers and personnel are of the high est type of citizens. The company has a high regard for community relations and exerts maximum effort toward promotion and de velopment in cultural as well as economic fields. The company has an excellent record in the field of labor relations. Aside from all this, the merger has other positive benefits. These include a larger pow er potential; more watershed potential de velopment; economies in operation that will help hold down possible rate increases; more flexibility in meeting power requirements; less danger of outages; a greater pool of man power in event of emergency; and other lesser benefits. Again, we emphasize that COPCO in no way failed to measure up to the demands imposed in furnishing service. But, for the reasons outlined above, we cannot help but feel that the merger will promote the best interests of both companies and the people they serve. . early in 1960. The House cut this to 1.3 bil lion 325 million a year for four years to be matched by state and local funds. Final passage was doomed, however, by an amend ment which would have barred funds to school districts not in compliance with federal court orders to desegregate. President Eisenhower's own program for . aid to education was 70 million dollars a year for 30 years in grants to states to help pay . off local school bond issues. By contrast with, this, the Democratic platform calls for "generous federal financial support" in the form of grants to the states for school construction, ftachers' salaries and col lege facilities. More! vocational and adult edu cation aids are also promised and a Youth Conservation Corp is also called for. No price tag hs been put on such a pro-f gram, but it has been estimated as at least a billion dollars a year. On medical care for the aged, both Sen ate and House in -the last Congress rejected the Kennedy program for a health insurance plan under the social security system. In its place Congress provided for limited ' medical care to the needy aged through feder al subsidies estimated at 325 million dollars a year. This would be paid as grants to the states, who would then pay the "vendors" of medical assistance. On raising the minimum wage, the last Senate passed a Kennedy-sponsored bill in creasing it from $1 to $1.25 an hour. It would have applied to four million more workers, but : exempted 900,000 hotel and restaurant em ployes. The House cut this to $1.15 an hour, in creasing the minimum for 1.4 million work; ers, but exempting 14 million of the 24 million workers now covered. Conferees couldn't agree, so the measure died at the end of the session, s The Democratic platform now promises . to raise the minimum to $1.25 an hour, mak- ' ing it cover all workers in interstate commerce and industry as well as two million wage earn ers who work on farms. Additional wage and social security benefits also are promised for migrant workers, lowest paid in America. Greetings! 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' 1 1 1 44 Us 46 U J4 HM 1' la a - sTTm a sj a &r m ir" a i i i i i i i i i at WASHINGTON WINDOW Bobby Kennedy Said Candidate For 1962 By LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON (UPD-The po litical word today is that brother Bobby Kennedy will have an es cape hatch from the Justice Department if he wants it. - It would be a chance to go to ' the U.S. Senate in 1962. There Will be a special 1962 Senate election in Massachusetts for the final two years of the 'term of President-elect John F. Kennedy. Social Security Aid Bill Seen As Test For Kennedy By EDMOND LEBRETOlf ' WASHINGTON (AP) - John F. Kennedy's Texas team should have an early chance to show whether it can line up Southern lawmakers for the president elect's program as effectively as it kept Southern political leaders behind his candidacy. When Kennedy talked about his legislative program, with the vice president-elect. Sen. Lyndon John son, D-Tcx., and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, D-Tex at his side, he mentioned first a Social Security-based health care program for the aged. This is the legislation killed this year in the House i Ways and Means Committee headed by Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark., and the Senate Finance Commiltee head ed by Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D-Va. Southern votes figured heavily in the committee decisions. Backers of the kind of bill Ken nedy faxors contended and many sideliners agreed with them that if such legislation had ever reached the tloor of the Houso and Senate with committee ap proval both chambers would hava passed it. To redeem its campaign pledg es, the incoming administration must lead another try. The com ing struggle affords a second test of Kennedy's major strategic de cisionto offer the vice presiden tial nomination to Johnson, his great convention rival for the presidency, and not to write the South out of his calculations. In terms of the election, the de cision has been proven inspired. Johnson, and Johnson's redoubt able manager, Speaker Rayburn. certainly helped keep Texas and the majority of the South in the regular Democratic fold., The voto turned out so close, even electoi ally, that if Kennedy had lost just two states rated in advance as most doubtful, Texas and North Carolina, he would have lacked an clecloial majority. But the chances are that Ken nedy, a long-range planner, was looking beyond the election when he made his dramatic bid to the Senate majority leader. Suppose he had offered Johnson no balm utter beat ing him for llie presidential nomination, but had been elected anyhow. He would then have had to deal with a Congress whose two top Demo crats, loyal party men to be sure, might still be nursing private wounds. Instead, he has given Johnson, and. through Johnson, Rayburn, a substantial personal stake in the new administration's success or failure in Congress. The stnggle will open soon, presumably in the Ways and Means committee, which this year met for months behind closed door before Irrevocably turning down the Social Security approach The president-elect resigned his Senate seat last week. Gov. Foster Furculo of Massa chusetts named to the vacancy 43-year-old Benjamin A. Smith II, of Gloucester. Mass. Smith was John F. .Kennedy's Harvard roommate1. Furculo acknowledged in announcing Smith's appoint ment that the pick had been by the president-elect. Kennedy is known to have toid Furculo bluntly that the Kenne- to health care tor the aged. No variation of the Social Security plan ever mustered more than 9 votes in the 25-man committee. The 10 Republicans voted solidly against it. Chairman Mills auth ored the quite different and sharp ly restricted grant-in-aid plan for needy aged which finally emerged. So Rayburn's work, if he in tends to back Kennedy all tha way on this issue, is cut out fur him. It begins when the House Democrats caucus Monday, since there are two Democratic vacan cies to fill on Ways and Means. The two who left the committee are the author of the Social Secur ity health plan, Rep. Aime J. Forand of Rhode Island, and one of its strongest supporters, Rep. Lee Mctcalf of Montana. Forand did not seek re-election. Metcalf was elected to the Senate. There is a Republican vacancy on the committee, too, but it is hardly likely the opposition parly will name to this blue ribbon tax writing committee anyone who might waver in opposition to the Democratic program. Backers of the Kennedy plan, however, think that if they can get their measure to the floor they will have support from some GOP colleagues, since there will no longer be in the White House a Republican president publicly and strongly opposing any link of So- i cial Security to old age health care. Al manac By United Press International.. Today is Sunday, Jan. 1, the first day W the year with 364 more in 19ol. The moon is in its full phase. The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Mars, Saturn and Venus. On this day in history: In 1735. Paul Revere, American patriot, goldsmith and engraver was born. In 1752, Betsy Ross, who gained fame as the woman who sewed the first American flas, was born. In 1863, President Abraham Lin coln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves. Also in 186C, the Homestead Act of the United Slates went into ef fect. In 1902. the first Rose Rowl foot ball game took place in Pasadena, Calif. The University of Michigan brat Stanford. 49 to 0. In 1942, the United States and 25 allied nations signed a decla ration forming "the nucleus of a United Nations organiration." Thought for today: Abraham Lincoln said: "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themtelves, and. under a Just God, cannot long retain it." ' Likely Senate dys did not want a person named now to the Senate vacancy who would desire to continue in the Senate beyond 1962. Furculo May Run This was stipulated to protect Bobby from having to run in 1962 if he wants to run against an incumbent. Furculo's announcement said Smith had agreed to be a two-year senator, no more. Furculo also has said that he might, himself, be a can didate for the Democratic sena torial nomination in 1962, regard less of the Kennedys. The idea of an escape hatch from the Justice Department for Bobby does not connote, that he might run for the Senate 4iLJ962 if he goofed in the cab&M as attorney general. A ,'cabtraerottUj. eer who flubs his job jy noiftlfely to hazard f u r t ber'sanjforrass- ment by seeking TOjaplective office. A, It' is likely, hoiajeer, that the Senate is now ad Mil be in 1962 more attractlva tobrother Bobby than a caUinat .pbst, He was al ways reluctan accept the at torney generalship. . Those law. yers who sotveias counsel in big time senatorial investigations more oftaty thorl not develop a great desire to be senators. , farther Ted, Too Tba Boston Globe said last' weak, .tha brother Edward (Ted) KennW' would be named an as sistiitJU,fS. attorney in Boston after,.,.WB,- first of the year. The Globe aid brother Ted wanted tf rgl fpr the U.S. House of Rep resaitaUves in 1962. -Ssf have been rumors that Ted had his eye on that Senate seat in 1962. If so, he would just squeak by on age, if he actually would be eligible. Ted is 28 and senators' must be 30. The House eligibility minimum is 25 years. . The New York Times reported from Boston that some Massa-. chusetts Democrats were sullen about the Smith appointment. Some of them promised Bobby or Ted a real fight in 1962 if either sought the Senate seat. That could be quite a shindy, what with Irishmen involved, and all. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What tour countries are rep resented on the coat of arms, of Canada? A England, Scotland, Ireland, and France. Q What is the world's largest water reservoir? A-The Sallo de Aldeadavilla reservoir, in Spain. Q What date will mark the beginning ot the Civil War cen tennial commemoration? A Jan. 8, 1961. ' Q By what name h Ehrieh Weiss familiarly known? A Harry Houdini, famous ma gician. Q What bird lives on oysters and clams? A The oyster catcher, a wad ing bird of the plover family, Q What is the theme of Ver di's opera "Nabucco"? A Biblical story of Nebuchad nezzar, and is set in Jerusalem and Babylon. Going the rounds is a note that . 1961 will be an "upside down year" that is, the figures read . the 'same whether inverted or in normal position. Such years are' rare as a day in June, or some thing. Last time we had a year In which the numerals offered the same opportunity was in 1881, Next one comes in 6009. But, as the fella says, why worry? The magnitude of the airplane tragedy in New York is some thing beyond mere words. But some idea of the hell that fell from the sky may be. gained from the following: The DC-8 jet air liner which crashed in Brooklyn , carries a load which could hard- ly be imagined even as late as during World War II. In the "C" version, its fuel alone outweighs the total weight of one of the larg est piston-engined commercial air liners now in service. It holds 23,059 gallons, weighing 154,996 pounds. A fully-loaded 79-passen-ger piston-engine DC-7C weighs 143,000 pounds. Here's a late-late Christmas story that bears telling: The scene is a crowded elevator in a large-city department store. The cast includes a woman of mature years, a woman on the sunny side of 30, a small boy, a total stran ger, and a crowd of holiday shop pers. The total stranger says to the small boy, "Well, sonny, I suppose you're going up to see Santa Claus." "No," says the kid, "We're going to take grandma to the bafroom." If you can tell a more diffi cult period than that between Christmas and New Years to get any real work accomplished, I'd like to hear of it. Better yet, if you know a way to get any work done during that ne ' riod, I'd like to hear of that, too. The most difficult and most ex acting job in the world is that of being a good parent. It is easy to be a sloppy or indifferent, but where one stops off -being a bad parent or a good one is a hard line to define. Probably worse is the parent who cannot realize whether he is good, bad, or indifferent. If he Is jwod. it is great. If he is bad, isJcmWren can recognize it, and I jo Jhajlri way accordingly. It's the parent who is dancer- ous U ,imjelf and his children. ' It seajaS to Trie that I'm one of thoiw parents who is confused at least halt of the time. (And ob sei vittaa, leads me to believe that I have plenty of company). We) like to see happy, frisky youngsters, rollicking around the lioite-a I Yet, after about an hour oi. so of fiat, down goes the iron hand I e .like to see our older boys and girls take part in all normal, Vhealthy activities with others f'Sjli" age group yet we criticlzeVYiera for their little fail ures Jncarrying out assigned home tastuV i'hen they lack the time. We want them to be as neat and Icaretul . as possible in their personal' habits and fail to display the example that would THE -DOCTOR SAYS ... VsipCbse Veins Can Be Prevented By HAROLD T. HYiyMoL W.D. Newspaper Enterprise- Ass'n. At. the beginning af.Iiril preg nancy, the prospectiWa mother often is too preoccupied H'ith ma jor considerations' 8 iiva serious thought to the problfrnf.of vari cose veins. Yet tbs.CfIativcly minor complication miry provoke prolonged distress . its unsight liness and by aip,vtaridency to produce lcg- jhaariiiess and cramps, inilamrjiatjoQ' of the vein wall (phlebitis) .;and ulceration of overlying skjn .laricose ulcer). Perhaps the IklljaWing summary of our knowledge m the varicose veins of pregnancy will stimulate young women -to undertake the preventive program, later described in detail: The varicosities of pregnancy usually appear as multiple "blow outs," some time during the first three months of the pregnancy. They may produce a painless discoloration of the skin. But if they enlarge and there is com plicating phlebitis or ulceration, they may then give rise to leg weariness, localized pain and cramps. Pregnancy varicosities tend to become smaller and may even dis appear after the baby is born. But, with each subsequent preg nancy, they are apt to appear earlier, enlarge more considerably and produce increasing discom fort, i If treated by Injection or opera tion during the pregnancy, the results are not apt to be satis factory. Furthermore, the occa- impress them more than anv mm, ishment for their failure to do so, We act scornful when they hesitate about making their own decisions and criticize them for not asking for advice when they they do act on their own and make a mistake. Humiliating punishments are imposed whea a good man-to-man type of dis cussion would accomplish much more in the way of correction. We ask them to do impossible tasks and jeer when the mis sion is not accomplished. These arid similar and related activities are the mark of the con fused parent whose "corrective'' , measures lead to misunderstand ing, bewilderment and continued rebellion in children. The awful tragedy of this situation is tha " stupidity of the parent who cannot see through his own mistakes, and correct himself before ha wrecks his entire home and tha lives of the children he is blessed with. ' This is not meant to be a blan ket indictment of parents. Most parents are sincere people who work hard at being a good par ent, and seek to constantly im pose and maintain a common bridge of understanding between themselves and their children. The trouble with some of us is that we refuse to devote tha amount of time necessary to bs a good parent while pursuing oth er and less important enterprises be they business or pleasure. Unfortunately, we cannot sit down with a slide rule and rula book and analyze a child's beha vior and his personality. We hava to lend heart, mind, and wits to the solution and it must be a constant application. Bitterness, frustration and confusion are sura to follow if we fail. The respon sibility cannot be thrust upon tha child for failure to follow through on parental obligations. -, From sometime, I recall tha words of Pope, who advised: -" 'Tis education forms the com mon mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's Inclined." . v This reminds me of the " 10-year-old son of a friend. He had been duly impressed in school that he must study alone. Ha owns a sign hanging from a hook on his door which says, "Do Not Enter Without Knocking." Ona evening, when his father had rep rimanded him severely about something, he retired to his room after he had added the following to his sign: "Do Not Even Knock." ; This is the age of noise, say medical men. They point to tha roar of jets, the din of automo bile traffic, the bombardment of radio and television. But what is the most annoying noise of all? It is the scraping of a sauce pan with a knife, according to tests conducted in Britain's Na tional Physical Laboratory. HAPPY NEW YEAR. sional reaction that follows injea lion treatment may have an un favorable effect on mother or child. Here are some of the relatively simple measures that may be un dertaken to prevent the troubla and expense incidental to the vari cosities of pregnancy: Wear supportive elastic stock ings as soon as the presence, ot the pregnancy is made known. Put on the stockings while lying flat in bed with legs elevated. Keep them on w hen you go to tha delivery room. And continue ta wear them for at least a few weeks after childbirth. As soon as your lummy begins to protrude, wear a snug suppor tive corset. ; If it is necessary to remain seated for any considerable length of time, do not cross your legs but try to keep them elevated on a chair or a cushion. If this is impractical, get up frequently and walk up and down for a few mo ments. If this too is impractical, exercise the calf muscle while, in the sitting position by alternately raising heel and toe from tha floor. Finally, seme months after childbirth and before the begin ning of the next pregnancy, con sider active treaaeit hy injec tion or opcratiai, aortirakarly if there are persistant awatpjvaw tor if you suffered a lacaiizad pMo$i , tis or varicose ulcertdiee. Tttji, immediately at the oassjt si t next pregnancy, resume weariaaj the supportive elastic stockings.
