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Newspaper Page Textturn VBItAtD AND NEWS, Klamath Fall, Oregoa Monday, January f, MM The Jungle Takes Over EDSON IN WASHINGTON Pressure Groups Hit inistration 6 i ! ! The Russians are admittedly clever in building up pressures for a summit meeting. lEarly in 1961 we should learn whether they intend to attempt such a build-up against the Kennedy administration. J There are no positive signs yet, only some hints: Soviet leaders have frequently said they might like to negotiate with the I new regime, even, as they were assailing President Eisenhower. Since Kennedy's dec ition, they have pointedly refrained from se vere criticism of him. ; j How Kennedy as president reacts to any .'Soviet summit pressures will provide a key jtest of his whole approach to international di plomacy. ' j Though he Is on record as favoring one imore big effort to negotiate with the Kremlin, 'there is nothing to suggest that he intends to .be railroaded into a summit session on Soviet terms. Plenty of things point the other way. ) The President-elect often declared that he would consider going to the summit only ;if there were adequate preparation and rea jsonable evidence that genuine progress could Ibe made. ) His choice of Dean Rusk as secretary of ; state seems to underscore a cautious attitude toward the summit. Rusk favors more tradi jtional diplomacy at the ambassadorial level, Our Role In The UN I : The crisis in the affairs of the United ! Nations could not possibly be exaggerated. 'The organization is in the greatest peril of its 'life. ' . - , It Is also a fact of major consequence that the position and influence of the United States in the U.N. has sharply declined. To some extent, this latter development was clearly foreseen. The easy Western ma jorities of the U.N.'s early years disappear as the many new nations of the world joined up. Today more than half the 99 member nations belong to the still growing Afro-Asian 'bloc which seems to have a definite disposi tion not to vote with the West on a whole host of matters. . .. Vl.n . , r . , What was not fully anticipated, however, was the tendency of many in this group to !take positions which have the effect intend jed or otherwise of supporting the Soviet ! Union in its nefarious U.N. doings.. . ' During' the Truman regime, Western .'diplomats troubled over persistent" Soviet j vetoes in the Security Council of the U.N. de- visea a pian tor getting arouna i Basically it called for going to the sembly for action, since the West it on winning there. That is no longer true. MIAMI, Fla. - In the pent ; house at the Fontalnebleau is a '. fast talker and poo' listener 5 named Ben Novack. He Is 51 and i be owns the place. He has thin curly hair, eloquent fingers, and hearing aid. He's the Brook J lyn kid who ran $1,800 up to ! million dollars in 20 years. He mispronounces words, but his arithmetic is Ideal. Ben at i rived in Miami Beach in 1940 nd leased the Monroe Towers I tor $10,000. He didn't have that I much, so he took two partners in, and later bought one out. Then I ha purchased the hotel for $168. ', 000 just before the U.S. Army 'asked for it ! Never fight the Army. Novack was kicked out, at a profit, and ; leased the Cornell Hotel. He sold .'the leas at a profit, what ! lteT and bought the Atlantis I for $500,000. It was a good place, ' " I bat Ben Novack wanted a big ; ger, better place than the coun . J try dub his parents owned in toe CaUkUl Mountains. , In 1M7, he had enough cash I and enough credit to build a ! place. Ben Novack built the Sans J Soucl. He found out It means j "Without Care." The Atlantis was JmM for $1,500,000 And the Sans ! loud cost $3,000,000. Ben was ; always in bock, but, happily, in ,' fcgr bock all the time. He sold tte Smm Soud for $4,650,000 and j kept title) to tha land under It, I Novack didn't have to ham to ; baooma shrewd. When be was ; bora, be refuted to cry until the I doctor aave ban an extra whack, ' At 44th Strtt and Miami Beach, ba sauntered around tbe old Har wj rtrattoM Eat and tbe At lii Crar teat, fiat dajr ba Pressure Test and asserts that constant looking to the sum mit can be' like a habit-forming drug. Furthermore, both men are well aware that Eisenhower long shared their reserved approach but allowed himself to be talked out . of it last spring, with somewhat disastrous consequences at Paris. The new government will be eager to avoid another such trap. If the Soviet summit pressure comes and Kennedy resists it, then he will have to deal wtth the reactions of those both here and abroad to whom the idea of the summit is already like a drug. " . ; : ' These are people who, wishing earnest ly for peace as we all do, yet imagine that it can be accomplished by some swift, dramatic stroke at the bargaining table. Their hope really represents a yearning for the simpler days that are past, and an unwillingness to face the stubborn complexities of the 60s. Should that situation develop, it would provide Kennedy with still another test of his mettle. It is one thing to say "no" to a sum mit! It is another to demonstrate persuasive ly that such a refusal is completely consistent with total dedication to the goals of peace and justice. What Khrushchev does about the summit may help Kennedy to see more quickly the size and shape of his burdens in 1961. . alignments, when a sizable number of the Afro-Asian countries band with the Commu nist nations and a handful of neutralists, the net result is to give Russia a veto in the as sembly as well. This circumstance has tremendously aid ed the Kremlin in its subversive, disruptive U.N. tactics of the past year. 1 If the United States and the West were the only sufferers, that would' be a serious but siot necessarily calamitous situation for free men. The tragic thing is that the new na tions which unwittingly or deliberately, assist the Soviet wrecking operation could be the real victims if the Kremlin succeeds. . -, One cannot blame these peoples for ..wanting to exercise their independence from Western colonial authority. But while they are about it they need to make sure they do not . submit to the great Eastern colonial authori ty in Moscow. . . .,, .,.... . . We in America cannot be happy at the de- , terioration of our U.N. position. But, in the interest of a world to be made safe and fruit-, ful for all free men, we must be even sadder at the danger confronting the young nations. We can have no more important task in .. the time just ahead than to help them find a ' surer course to security and well-being through a newly fortified United Nations. were bound to mis roaaoiocK, General As- could always Under present JIM BISHOP; REPORTER..'. it Takes 12 Million For This Hotel To Break Even bought the land 950 feet along ' the beach and 350 feet deep for $2,500,000. The next day, Ben was offered $3,500,000 for It and turned it down. He wanted to build a classy hotel, a hotel to end all hotels. He had married Bern ice Stem pel, a red-headed model, and he told her that he was going to spend 12 million dollars on the building alone. There was an old . friend up north named Morris La pidis. Mr. Lapidis was an archi tect, but his main work was de signing store fronts for shopping centers. Ben sent Morris a draw ing of the land and said: "Come . on down, but, before you get here, draw some hotels to fit this land." 1 r Lapidis arrived with 27 draw ings, Ben said:: "Who owns these?" Morris said "You "do." So Novack tore them up. "I want a hotel." he said sarcastically, "with 500 rooms, one on each floor." Ben went out and got some books on architecture. He was reading one in the bathroom when he emerged in triumph. Ha i had a drawing from a Brazilian building. "Bernice," he said, "how would you like to see a big beautiful ho- , tel in a curve facing southeast with big beautiful sunken gar dens like we saw in Fontaine bleau, France?" Mrs. Novack Is bright. She said yes. Lapidis and Novack worked over the plans. Bernice went out and bought big statues for the lobby. Ben and Morris did the decor of the entire establishment. Since the place has been open, Novack has built a new tower to . the awta. and a ballroom that Crisis seats 5.000 between the original - building and the new one. The cost of the Fontaincblcau ran to $13,500,000. The land cost $2,500,000. Improvements ran to 4 million dollars. Lapidis was paid $65,000. "He was worth twice as much." Ben said. . The Fontalnebleau has 1,038 rooms, all king-siied. In the sum mer, the rates run from $16 to $30 a day. Ir. the winter, it costs $37 to $65 a day, without food or a nod from a bellboy. Suites cost $105 to $200 a day. Thcra are 300 cabanas, tennis courts, sunken gardens, beautiful public rooms: the coffee shop is bigger than Billy Rose's Gay Nineties Club. Novack must take in 12 million dollars a year to make this place pay. He can do this with 60 per cent room occupancy, and th Fontaincblcau has' averaged 7$ ' per cent. So he's solvent In fact, out of 20 million dollars in costs, Mr. Novack owes the banks only $7,500,000. He owns 72 per cent of his hotel, and has two mysteri ous partners who own the rest. . Jack Benny was a flop at the ' Fontalnebleau at $35,000 a week. But Ben doesn't mind. His kitch en cost one million dollars and has stainless steel boxes that will keep a good steak hot for hours, or a daiquiri cold all night Dishes run on conveyor belts Into huge washers. One of the coffee urns makes 250 gallons of coffee at a time. So what's $35,000? The oldest joke at the Fontalnebleau is about the man who dropped a quarter and, when a bellhop picked it up, denied it was his because he didn't want to give the kid a dollar lip in return. ... t CAPITOL MEMO . I960 Politics Made Big News By DOUGLAS GRIPP United Press International SALEM Oregon political news . In 1960 was big sprinkled with two elections, a slight Republi can resurge, and death. - It was the year that Sen. Rich ard L. Neubergcr, D-Ore., died of a cerebral hemorrhage as be pre-' , pared for a reelection campaign. ' It was the year Supreme Court Justice Hall S. Lusk went to Washington to finish Neubcrger's term and the year that Neubcr ger's widow, Maurine, became only the third woman in history to be elected to a full U.S. Sen ale term.. , It was the year that Sen. Wayne , Morse, D-Ore., ran for nomina tion for president on the Demo cratic ticket against John F. Ken nedy and the year that Republican Gov. Mark Hatfield nominated , Richard M. Nixon for president in Chicago. Oregon got a new treasurer, Howard C. Belton; a new agri- culture director, James F. Short; -and a hew supreme court jus tice, Alfred T. Goodwin. A new congressman was elected , in the Fourth District, Republican Edwin Durno of Medford. Democrats held onto their olh . er spots in 'Oregon's congression al delegation but Durno's victory coupled : with . reelection of first district Rep. Walter Norblad, R Ore., made it 4-2, a toehold for the GOP. ' -- Despite a record 75,000 Demo cratic voter registration advant- . age, the Democrats lost two seats In the Oregon House and picked , up only one in the State Senate. Prospect of the 1961 legislature with a skimpy 31-29 Democratic House majority was that it might be tough for the Democrats to put desired legislation through since a few Democrats often vote with Republicans on issues split ting the two. U was a year when much of, the political news focused on the Hatfield administration. There were plans for gigantic indus trial development, government re organization, a "miracle" state budget, and a real hot one move of state public welfare headquar Answer to Previous Puzilt Flying High iai0ig lNlelwl lylfelAK a J OIL? 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IS Carry S Goes astray S7 Obtain DOWN lis itck 2 Notion I Airborne 24 Engrave. 23 Woman's name 26 Handle 27 Giving an tir mission 28 Dregs 29 Inferior V ters from Portland to Salem. .Hatfield made appointments at , a rapid pace Belton, Lusk, Good win. Short and dozens of others. . It was a year of attack and counterattack between Hatfield and Democratic Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton, who loomed at year's end a; a possible conten der for governor in 1962. Another fierce political feud in 1960 was belween Republican Sec retary of State Howell Appling L Jr.. and State Sen. Monroe Sweet land, D-Milwaukie. It climaxed with Sweetland's defeat for sec retary in November and Appling's emergence as a major political voice in Oregon, and also a con tender for governor in two years. Democrats grabbed plenty of headlines including the Senate president fight between Sens. Har ry Boivin, D-Klamath Falls, and t Alfred Corbett, D-Portland. i YOUR POCKETBOOK tW4 '.WM By FAYE HENLE Newspaper Enterprise Assn. In exurbia lives a family who recently built a spacious home. Last March they put their house on the market. Why? They had spotted several old er but equally suitable homes in the area. These were priced con siderably below what the rela tively new house cost. They figured it would be smart to get their money out of the new home. They could live as comfortably in one of the older , houses and have a couple of thousand dollars extra to invest in their children's education. 'In Manhattan dwells a family In ' a ' rent-controlled apartment. Several months ago a tenants', committee in the building sug- gested that a group be formed to buy the building from the present owners who were "milking" the property, extracting a handsome 31 Horse groom 33 South Pacific islands 43 Sound 44 Square column 46 Sky ornament 47 Dreary (Scot) 48 Part of an airplane M Exist 38 Water heater 40 Chance 41 Lumps of earth 42 Wound cover I B B U K II IT I II U IIS III rr is n re rc r ii n sr- 1 ' n a- 3" ' ' 1 24 p ' " b CI p sr if -5- t H 35 n - s ' 1 ' T r- if ' ti ui iu -iirif irar n r1 n jj SJ g S 3 57 Senate President Walter J. Pear son, D-Portland, touched off a controversy when as acting gov--ernor he released convicted wife . slayer Chester Fitzwater from prison, accompanying the action with a blast at the Oregon Pa role Board It was a year of controversy over the demise of Oregon's coun- -ty coroner system and the issue raged up to the November elec ' tion. . - It was the year for discussion of looking for oil on Oregon's sub merged lands off the coast and a decision to ask the legislature for new laws enabling Oregon to do SO. ; :'. - It was also the year the vot ers decided pay of legislators should not be increased, that the 1959 income tax hike was unnec essary, and that Oregon was not ready for daylight saving time i and billboard control. "' ' High Costs Curtail New Home Building V management ce made possible because they neglected mainte nance and reduced service. , The apartment dweller was not owner-oriented. He balked at the idea of co-operative ownership. Today, he is begging for the privilege of buying the apartment. Why? He has looked around. If he moves into a newer building he will gain service and maintenance, but he will lose space and comfort, and he will be paying twice as much rent. . John Carter, editor of The American Home Magazine, chal lenged Hubbard Cobb, his build ing editor: ' , "Let's design a house readers can build for $10,000. It should have three bedrooms, a minimum of .one-and-a-half baths and a de cent amount of living area. Any- thing under 1,200 square feet would be too small." ' Cobb knows design and build- -ers and materials as no layman ' ever could. Could he deliver what his boss wanted? No! The best he could come up with was a house that would cost between $15,000 and $25,000. Exactly as this house never was built, so perhaps a great many -dream homes were not built this year and won't be built in 1961. Don't believe those economists who rational ite that "America is becoming overbuilt," who offer this as the reason for the slow down in construction. The truth is that we could use better, more spacious, more ef ficient housing but for what we . can pay, nothing approaches what we already have. Thoughts And you will have confidence because there Is hope; yon will be protected and take your rest la safety .-Job 11:1$. When life has been well spent; when there is a conscience with out reproach; when there is faith in the Saviour; when there is a well-founded hope of heaven, there can be nothing that should dis quiet us. Albert Barnes. By PETE ft EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Attn. '' ' WASHINGTON (NEA)-Special Interest group lobbying on the new Kennedy administration is already assuming the proportions of a tre mendous pressure drive on every front. Backers of projects ballyhooed as sure cures for what ails the na tional economy and the interna tional situation are descending on the capital in droves. They have been thwarted by eight years of cold-shouldering from the Eisenhower adminis- -tration, motivated by its num ber one objective of balancing the budget, aided and abetted by Democratic economizers in Con gress. r , The hope is - now that with a new man in the White House dedicated to "progress," the fed eral purse strings will loosen. This poses for the Kennedy ad ministration its first great chal lenge: ... . Will it be able to say. "No!" to advocates ol ' programs which, however well motivated and in tentioned, simply cannot be afford ed if taxes are to be held at present levels? Favorite device of the pressure groups in putting over propagan da for their causes is to call a Washington conference and adopt a string of stirring resolutions.'' . Just before Christmas, there was a whole series of these con ferences. Each wrote its own let . ter to Uncle Santa Claus. Leaders of AFL-CIO organiza ' tions huddled for two days to shape their legislative ' demands on the new administration. On the other side of the fence, National Assn. of Manufacturers in its annual New York confer ' ence had made its bid for in dustrial tax incentives meaning cuts and further curbs on union activities, of course. AFL-CIO also wants tax incen tivesfor workers meaning for giveness of a couple months' with-" holding taxes. The thought is that this will make more consumer spending power to head off a pre dicted 1961 recession. The question to be resolved is: How can the Kennedy admin istration have it both ways, cut ting taxes at the same time it . calls on the country for greater THE DOCTOR Shotgun Not Anemia Remedy By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. In j accepting the Goldbergcr award, offered by the American Medical Association and the Nu trition Foundation, ' Dr. Richard W, Viiter of the University of Cincinnati emphasized the follow, ing aspects of the anemia prob lem that had previously been called to the attention of regu lar readers of these columns: While dietary deficiency is a common cause for anemia in un derdeveloped areas of the world, it is of relative unimportance in the United States, thanks to the general excellence of the Ameri-; can diet. Daily servings of lean meat, dairy products, cereals, green and yellow vegetables and citrus fruits satisfactorily guard against defi ciency anemias. Uncontrolled treatment of anemia with complicated vitamin mineral mixtures is rarely use ful. It may be dangerous if it' delays diagnostic investigation into the more frequent causes for anemia, such as chronic bleeding from a non-malignant condition like hemorrhoids or from a ma lignancy still accessible to cura tive treatment. Even in the 4 per cent of anemias due to vitamin deficiency in the United States, "shotgun mixtures" may be harmful if they temporarily correct the ane mia without delaying the progress of the. accompanying involvement of the nervous system that is re sponsible for such manifestations as burning tongue, numbness of hands and feet, diarrhea, skin discoloration and difficulties in maintaining balance and in walk ing. Because vitamin C is so plen tifully provided by citrus fruits, tomatoes and a wide variety of fresh, frozen and canned vegeta bles, it is rarely a factor in the production of anemia in the Amer ican patient. Except in the cases of those who are suffering from some profound disease, vitamin1 C deficiency or scurvy is virtually unknown in all civilized commu nities. Except for vitamin B12. other components of the B complex are not involved in human ane mias although they may canst lacrifices? ' What this means Is maybe tas increases to finance its own plat form promises to reduce unem ployment and bring relief to de pressed areas. A . Congressional economic committee under Sen, Paul Douglas (D-Ill.) has already started hearings on these pro grams. Other congressional committees with special interests will swing into action as soon as the Con gress is organized. This will give other lobbyists a chance to testify and sound off. Public power and rural elec trification lobbyists had their ses sion with Kennedy first week in December and didn't come away mad. National Education Assn. held its conference of school adminis trators about the same time and came up with a goal of getting a federal aid bill signed by Ken nedy before June. - A national conference on water pollution came up with a 10-point program that could cost billions but may be necessary to insure adequate watet for a growing pop ulation. A White House conference on aging , scheduled for January is ' sure to revive many social se curity and medical care programs . that suffered a relapse during the last Congress. . , Lobbyists from half a dozen farm organizations, united only on a broad principle of "what's good for the farmer is good. for tha country," are preparing to push their panacea programs no two of which agree. Election returns show Kennedy didn't do too well in the farm belt last November. If he wins over the farmers now, his admin- . istration must solve some of their problems. But that goes for every other special interest group in the coun try. They're . all clamoring for more federa: aid. That is the pattern in most of the underdeveloped countries of the world, too What they couldn't get from the Eisenhower adminis tration, they now hope to get from Kennedy. . With the U.S. already desper ately trying to cut down its for eign expenditures, it's getting a bit difficult to see how there will be enough to go round. SAYS . . Mixtures' blood deficiencies under artificial conditions in laboratory animals. But when B12 is the cause for a human anemia, the deficiency may be corrected by a single monthly injection of the missing ingredient. ' Doctor Viiter concluded his ac ceptance speech with the state ment that "oft repeated and deft ly worded advertising notwith standing," most of the anemia suf fered in the United States is not caused by vitamin deficiency and therefore will not respond to "shotgun" treatment with vitamin-mineral mixtures. . Admittedly, an intensive investi gation into the cause for an , anemia may be time-consuming and expensive, but it may pur chase months and even years of comfortable living. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaf let ''How to Combat the Common Cold," send 10 cents to Dr. Hy man, care Herald and News, Box 489. Dept. B, Radio City Station, New York 19, N.Y. Al manac By United Press International Today is Monday, Jan. 2, the second day of the year with 363 more to follow in 1961. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning star is Mars. The evming stars are Venu$ and Mars. On this day m history: In 1776, Continental soldiers raised the iirst flag of George Washington's army at Cambridge, Mass. In 173). Georgia was admitted to the Union. In 1900, U.S. Secretary of Stato John Hay described his success ful nopotintions with other govern ments for a so-called "open doot" policy in China. In 1905, Russian forces at Port Arthur, Manchuria, surrendered to the Ja)ianese in the last big military engagement of the Russo Japanese war. Thought for today: English statesman Viscount John Morley said: "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."