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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.
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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.