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FAQI HERALD AND NEWS, Klajnati Fall, Ore. Friday, Jaaoary , 1M1 "Nikita Said if You Need Anything . . Else, Just Yell" IDSON IN WASHINGTON Labor Political Effort Fizzled Tourists Would Help Gold Balance Representative O'Brien of New York has come up with a suggestion that deserves study by Oregon and other states who place a great deal of dependence on attracting tourist busi ness. He is sponsoring a plan whereby the United States would maintain tourist agencies abroad. He points out that even very small foreign nations maintain tourist information . and promotion facilities in the United States, some with spectacular results. ' While we generally deplore organization and maintenance of governmental agencies anyplace, there is some merit In this proposal. The cost of an American service of this na ture would be small a few millions a year, and the possible returns could be enormous. What is known as the "balance of pay ments" deficits which has resulted in a sub- stantial decline in U.S.. .gold reserves will ' Inevitably become a first order of business item for the new Administration. This deficit, it should be emphasized, is not a trade deficit our commercial ex With railroading and railroads so impor tant to the economy of Klamath County, we are pleased to see that "piggybacking" has shown promise to help the railroads in their struggle for economic survival. ' Piggyback operations have enabled the freight forwarder to become a potent third force in freight. Now, there are. several va rieties of it, and it represents a promising ef fort of American railroads to win back some of the tonnage they have lost to the highways. Also, it will provide a flexible service that will build new business. Piggybacking goes back to Civil War transport, but as a commercial service it was first introduced in 1884 when the Long Island Railroad moved farmers' produce-laden wa gons into New York City from eastern Long Island. There was a flat rate of $4 for the wagon, two horses, and the driver. Demand for this service died, however, and it wasn't until 1953 that the railroads brought it back. Now 55 railroads offer it. There U an orderly bedlam In the Frechette home. It is a ranch bouse in Uncroft. New Jersey and, when I was there last week, there was a hard pie crust of snow in the street Santa, atar.il - big in cardboard beside the chim ney, shivered In the cold wind. The Christmas lights had been on all night Inside, there was a tree close to the picture window. Jim, age one, was trying to eat a red Christmas ball. He Is big and chubby and has yellow hair and a bashful grin. He couldn't bite 'the ornament to he ate a hard cookie off a low branch and ate the red string too. Usually, lie likes to eat pennies and, when Ite is shaken like a piggy bank, there is a muted rattle. Kevin, four months of age, sat propped on a settee in flaming red pajamas. He kept regarding ' his hands and turning them over. He is a fat bullet-head who will not cry, even when he's hungry. He likes to focus his blue eyes on the mouths of adults when they are talking. His father, Charlie, was in the kitchen, mix ing a bottle of glop for the infant Before I began to feel ill, I noted that it consisted of milk, peas, something that looked like mashed sweet potatoes, and a a few other revolting items. The twins Robin and Pamela are S yean and S months n( age. They play together, fight to gether, and love their baby brothers together. They have champagne colored hair, cut short, and they wore red velvet jumper suits with white blouses. There is also a mother, Virginia, who is my daughter, prettier than ports still exceed our commercial imports. It is the result, instead, of other spending abroad, private and governmental, which is not balanced by foreign spending here. One aspect of this, ironically, lies in the vast increase of foreign travel by Americans, largely as a result of the emergence of the dramatic jet age of air transport. Everyone agrees this is all to the good the more we, as individuals, know about the peoples of other lands the less likely we are to develop prejudices and misconceptions. People-to-people, in whatever manifestation, offers a unique opportunity to further world under standing, world friendship, world peace. Yet the dollars that are left abroad in the form of francs, lira,' pounds and the rest con tribute to the deficit. But they would not if the citizens of Europe, whose incomes and economic standards are higher for the most part than they have ever been, visited us in sufficient numbers to bridge the currenty gap. 'Piggybacking! Moves In Piggybacking increases in popularity every year. In the first 36 weeks of 1960 more than 379,000 flatcars were loaded with one or more piggyback vans, an increase of 34.6 per cent over the comparable 1959 period, and 111 per cent above 1958. Now the R.E.A. Express, formerly the Railway Express Agency, plans to establish a nationwide piggyback trailer interchange pool from which railroads, large shippers, freight forwarders and others can rent vans and other equipment for rail-highway use. A benefit, other than economic, and of special interest to us, is that the new system might relieve our highways of some of the burden of the huge vans and trailers whose numbers threaten to choke us off the high ways. (Lest there be an immediate reply from the truckers, let us add: We know truck drivers are tops; that the trucking industry pays taxes; that they perform a vital service, . etc., etc.) JIM BISHOP: REPORTER . . . Nothing Sweeter Than Christmas & Children a painting inside and out. My police dog, Rockle, is there. So is Glnny's police dog, Tam my. Add to this the assortment of Christmas toys busted and unbusted all over the floor, some egg nog, Christmas cards pasted around the arches of the room, and a hi-fi speaker play ing Harry Belafonte, and you have a notion of what the holi days are like at the Frechettes. The dogs weigh 80 pounds apiece, and the twins try to' ride them. The girls talk like Lumum ba. Ginny looked at the roast in the oven and plopped into a chair. Robin glanced at her and said: . "You pooped, Mommy?" No one knows where she got that expression. Pamela kept telling her new doll "Don't cited," which means "Don't get excited.". Robin did something she was told not to do, so her mother patted , her on Iho panUes. Without a word, she walked over to little Jim, who was swallowing the last of the red string, and hauled off and belted him on the head. Pam dropped her doll and slapped Jim too, just so that he would know which side she was on. Jim is husky. He just looked up, grinned, and looked pained when his father reached down his throat and pulled the string out, managing to leave the cookie be low. Pam picked up Robin's doll and Robbie said: "No fooling around." This was the longest speech I heard. On Saturdays and Sundays, Charlie gets up, awakens the 'four babies, lakes their night ies off, bathes them, drcssis them, makes their breakfast, and permits his wife to sleep, Some times, he pretends not to know' one twin from the other and ha looks at Pam and says: "Hello, Robin." Pam jerks a thumb over : her shoulder and says: "Over dare." She picks up a doll. ."This is me's," she snys firmly. Their mother says: "Whose birthday is this?" The girls grin. "Baby Jesus." They point to the mantleplece because that's where He reposes in a manger. "Who Is His mommy?" Together they ray: "Little Mary." "Who are the wise men?" They ' do not answer. They look mutely at their daddy. The girls know all the Mother Goose rhymes but they utter only the last word of each line. Jimmy picked up an ashtray and bit it, but it didn't taste right. He put it back, caught me looking at him, and turned on the bashful smile and swung his head away. Ginny and Charlie have been trying to teach the twins to, say their night prayers. She sits with them before her, and she says: "Now say your prayers. Goodnight" They look at each other and laugh. "Jibby funny." Mother becomes Irri tated. "Never mind how funny Jimmy is. I want you to say your prayers. "Goodnight" Together, they chorus: "Sweet Jesus." She smiles approval and says:. "Good night" and tlicy say "Mary." She says "GoodniRht" a third time and, in a wild rush, they say: "Joseph. No go to bed Mom my." At that moment, tiny Kevin dis covered a pair of feet and, by wiggling them, found out they were his. . . OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS Judges' Salaries . Not Realistic (CORVALLIS GAZETTE-TIMES) We don't like to be among those people who demand more and more governmental expenditures and then complain about high taxes. But there are areas where penny-pinching is not only short sighted but downright foolish. One ot the most obvious exam ples of this policy in Oregon is the relatively paltry salaries we pay to our judges. As Woodrow Wilson said, ". . . 5,0 far as the individual is con cerned, a constitutional govern ment is as good as its courts; no better, no worse. Its laws are only its professions. It keeps its promises, or does not keep them, in its courts . . . Indeed there is a sense in which it may be said that the whole efficacy and reality of consitutional government re sides in its courts." Our, judges, of course, sit not only on criminal cases but every day are called upon to decide matters which affect our lives just as much as if we our selves were called before the bench. They decide on Constitu tional questions, matters where the State is the litigant, problems of liability in hundreds of differ ent situations, commercial law cases and many others. Oregon judges every day are making decisions which may make or break you financially or may send you to jail or set you free some time. In Uie Circuit Courts of Oregon alone over 26,000 cases were pre sented last year. In actual dol lars and cents, it costs almost as much to handle the more or less routine cases which come before the State Industrial Accident Com mission as it does to pay the judges who make many extremely difficult decisions on a large va riety of matters which affect you personally. Oregon pays its Supreme Court Justices $16,000 a year; Califor nia pays $25,000 to $30,000; Wash ington pays $20,000 to $25,000, as Dinner Bell ACROSS 1 Green vegetable! ; 5 Kind ot rubber ! t Food container 1 12 Vegetable I IS Mineral rocks : 14 Diminutive suffix 6 Fighting forces 7 Organ part 8 Donkeys 9 Satisfied 10 Century plant 11 Seine It IrUh county 20 Make amends 22 Natural fat IS Breakfast, hutch 24 Unclose and dinner ipoeu ; 17 Negative word 28 Have ! 18 Try 26 Position USFsnde 28 Wing-shaped 21 Dreary (Scot) J?W 23Sainteab.) 21 K?2Jnwun 24 Mouths 33 Mlltke : 27 Greek mountain 35 Comt forU 29 One Urn 32 Obvious 34 Abstemious M Dinner course 37 Oriental prince SB Mis 39 Network 41 Scottish river '42 Pedal digit ' I 12 13 (4 I IS 16 D IS 19 p0 tl n rs n ii "Tra ST ' ' 21 a -12 J 24 us ps - J? zn-jjr srpr a b -si a 37 1 1 JT M I" 4 rp jrja so isi 162 55 54 66 ' ss 57 S s a si I I I i i i i i 44 Roman emperor 43 urtever 4S Fruit 53 Augment ' 54 Of patois 64 Civil War general 87 Therefor St Inflammation (suffix) MWorm 60 Profound 61 Bare DOWN 1 Pulpy fruit 1 Pieces out Bratillan macaws 4 Dinner court ttavnutafeod THE DOCTOR SAYS . . . Doctor's Mailbag Brings Challenges By HAROLD T. HYMAN. M.D. Written For NEA A correspondent from Inde pendence, Missouri, sent me the perfect Christmas present. And I want to share with you. "Some time ago," she writes, "you spoke of Gene Fowler's sugges tion of adding 'Thou shalt not quit' as the eleventh command ment. "Well, there already is an elev enth commandment in the 34th verse of the 13th chapter of St. John. 'A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; As I have loved you, That ye also love one another.' "So Mr. Fowler's command ment would be the twelfth com mandment," she concludes, "and a very good commandment, too." Many thanks, dear lady. And maybe you'll do me another fa vor and tell me the source of the quotation "He who giveth, giveth three," We've been unable to find it in our reference books and none of the clergymen we've in- do Alaska and Hawaii. Only Idaho of the Pacific Coast states pays less than we do and they are among the five states which pay the lowest salaries in the entire country. We pay $13,000 to our Circuit Court judges In California, Alas ka and Hawaii the pay is from $18,000 to $20,000. Washington pays $15,000. Again, Idaho ranks with the bottom states at less than $13,000. It isn't necessary to point out further the obvious foolishness of penny-pinching in our Judicial system. Each year it is becom ing more and more difficult to find qualified men who will even con sent to run for the various judge ships. Almost every attorney to day is making more' money than the Judge before whom he pleads his cases. The Legislature has the power to act in this matter and certain ly should do so at this next ses sion. n,,.nr to Previous Puxil x SfToTsTl TpP?Jn1 I3TuTnTT d N A JU e U H. All iIi!!tIS n e M !lTA5i0Hi! tisT , 1st i a Q b m EitkoDtiSET u nTe JntrFJooat DS'sE RicQia g? P p sTti M R C J VB TAB! OTt a jr m Hp a m i MA.xiNPti 1 n cd e R & X. . 5. J i g2jN NAT A L. C M 40 Madden 43 Finished 48 Ireland SO Aleutian bland nxredi 46 Masculine 47 Poems 52 Otherwise SS Cut off quired of has been able to locate it. A Ixigan, Utah, correspondent brings up an important point with reference to the treatment of the true migraine headache. "My headaches are becoming increasingly severe and more frequent," she writes. "I am 46, happily married for 25 years, have three wonderful children, a good husband and I love my career as a homemakcr. "As much as one fourth of the time I am ill with these dreadful headaches. During the first stag es of the attack I go on about my duties until nausea sets in and then I am laid low for two or three days at a time. "How I begrudge these pre cious days I lose with my familyl I've tried all the common drugs; and they either help very little or have had bad side effects. I will be eternally grateful for any ad vice or help you can give me." I don't guarantee that I'll earn your eternal gratitude, dear lady, but here are at least two sug gestions. The first is to direct your at tention to the important fact that you should take your medication before the attack starts rather than to wait as has been your custom. If you have true migraine, as your description suggests, you probably get forewarnings such as flashes before your eyes, a change in disposition or a man ifestation visible to others such as drooping of an eyelid on the side on which the headache will later develop. This is the time to take the medication your doctor will pre scribe for you. If you wait as you have been doing you are postponing use of the fire extinguisher until the whole house is up in flames. My second suggestion may not be relevant. But you live in a fringe TV area. Are you inviting the attack by waiting up to see the late-late movies? If so, try relaxing at night by reading so you can turn your light out whenever you be gin to feel sleepy. Dear Reader: Dr. Hyman ap preciates your comments and questions but regrets that the heavy volume of his mail doesn't permit him to answer each in dividual letter or post card. However, he will comment in matters of general or unusual in-' teresl. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "What About Hardening of the Arteries?" send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman, cave of Herald and News, Box 489, Dept. B, Radio City Station. New York 19. N.Y. THEY SAY... We (the United States) have reached the point where we cer tainly can't afford foreign aid any more. Clareace E. Mannien, former dean of Notre Dame Law School. First lime I realized anybody could be so safe up above all those dangerous automobiles. Thomas Rrasoa, of Dallas, Tex., taking his first airplane ride at 111. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) - Sori ous questions on the effectiveness of organized labor's political ac tion efforts in the last election campaign are being raised by more careful analysis of results In the congressional races. First conclusions are that where unions endorse a candi date, it may help in 60 per cent of the cases. Where unions op pose a candidate, the opposition is 2 per cent effective. There were two attempted la bor "purges" of "antilabor" con gressmen in the 1960 elections. Both flopped dismally, according to tabulations made by Civic Af fairs Associates of Washington. After House passage of the Lan-drum-Griffin labor reform bill in 1959, President James B. Carey of International Union of Elec trical Workers sent a hot letter to the 229 congressmen who had voted to substitute this measure for the much milder bill . ap proved by the House Labor Com mittee. "We wish to assure you," wrote Carey, "that we shall do all in our power to prove to the work ing men and women in your dis trict that you have cast your lot against them and that they should therefore take appropriate action at the ballot box." t Of these 229, only six were de feated. Eighteen of the 229 retired or died before the election and 205 were reelected. James R. Hoffa of the Team sters' union attempted a more narrow purge, but was no more successful. He picked out 56 of the 229 to work against. They were the. 56 who had, won elec tion in 1958 by 55 per cent of the vote or less in their districts. Only one of the 56 was de feated. Six retired or died before election and 49 were reelected in spite of Hoffa opposition. Biehl P. Clarke, of Civic Af fairs Associates, who compiled these results, points out that the Teamsters' political organization, still "primitive on political know how," did not realize that the YOUR POCKETBOOK Qualified Lawyer Can Offer Advice By FAYE HENLE Two recent letters from read ers have surprised and worried me. One came from a recent widow whose husband left her life! in surance, real estate, a joint sav ings account with substantial bal ance and a ne'er-do-well son. She wanted to know whether those financial assets constituted an "estate" and whether she needed a lawyer. The other came from a doc tor with apparently a successful big city practice. He wanted ad vice on what his first wife might try to get from his estate, and whether his Mexican divorce and remarriage were legal. Obviously both these people should have been seeing lawyers, not writing to me. But their ac tions are typical of the many who penny pinch when it comes to seeking legal' aid. ' Finding a good lawyer is not difficult. The trouble is that most of us underestimate the need and overestimate the cost of legal ad vice. If you live in a large city, the local bar association will be able to refer you to a good lawyer. If you live in a small town, the county courthouse is your source. Remember, this is the age of specialization. Be sure you ask for a lawyer specializing in your problem. The cost varies. For settling large, large estates 2 to 3 per cent of gross assets might clear the case, providing there are no complications. For smaller es tates (actually the same amount of basic paper work is needed) 4 to 5 per cent of gross assets may be charged. Some states exercise strict con trol over legal fees. Other states don't. Ask your bar association or county court clerk about le gal fees. You are entitled to ask any attorney what he might charge for a consultation. You can even shop lawyers but I'm certain that you will discover that the good ones have roughly sim ilar fees. Most especially when it comes to estate matters, get a lawyer. In most instances this will ac tually save you money. Today's estate tax laws are so complicat ed that no layman could possibly know the moneysaving steps. This latter fact is a prime reason apart from making certain your worldly possessions are distribut ed according to your wishes that you should write a will. Write your will under the guid ance of a qualified expert. I've known instances where the cost of 55 per cent category based M 1958 election returns was not a reliable basis on which to figure. The reason given is that 1958 was so disastrous for Republicans that 1960 could hardly fail to show a substantial improvement. Both "COPE" and "DRIVE," the two principal labor union po litical operators in the last elec tion, claim about 60 per cent suc cess in electing congressional candidates they backed. AFL-CIO's Committee on Polit ical Education backed 24 candi dates for the U.S. Senate. Fif teen won for a .625 batting aver age. The Teamsters' Democratic, Republican and Independent Vot e r s' Education organization backed 19 candidates for the Sen ate and elected 12 for a batting average of .632. COPE backed 256 candidates for the House and 157 of them were elected for a batting aver age of .C09. DRIVE backed 233 candidates for the House and 137 of them were elected for a batting aver-' age of 1588. While these percentages look good, "they are actually mean ingless," according to the Civie Affairs Associates analysis. There were 437 congressmen to bo elected. AFL-CIO unions chose to endorse candidates in only 59 per cent of the dis tricts, Teamster locals in only 53 per cent. "Anyone with a little political know-how could pick 100 con gressmen to support who wera sure of reelection and be abls to bat 1.000, barring death or acts of God," the Civic Affairs analysis points out. But such win ners would have been elected without support, so it would have been of no account. What stands out is that COPB backed 99 congressional candi dates who lost and DRIVE backed 96. So labor union sup port is not an infallible assur ance of victory. And in many races labor po litical organization support had to be concealed for fear the pub lic knowledge of it would back fire and help defeat the endorsed candidate. legal advice has been compensated many times over by the lawyer' advice. Fascinating is the University of Michigan law school's publica tion, "Fraud on the Widow's ' Share." It reports: '. "The trend toward 'disinherit ing' widows is a permanent and increasingly serious legal prob lem." The author, William D. Mac donald of the University of Flori da, finds this situation the re sult of: 1. Long standing state laws which provide widows a fixed minimum share of their hus band's wealth. 2. Higher divorce and remar riage rates. 3. The tax advantage of gifts made to children during a man's lifetime. He suggests several remedies including granting the courts more discretion to return to wid ows "unreasonably large trans fers of wealth." Al manac By Unitrd Press International Today is Friday, Jan. 6, Uie) sixth day of the year with 359 more to fellow in 1961. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Venus and Mars. On this day in history: In 1759, Martha Dandridge Cus lis, widow of Daniel Parke Cus tis. was married to George Wash ington. In 1873, American poet and writer Carl Sandburg was born. In 1912, New Mexico became the 47th state in the Union. In 1919. former President Theo dore Roosevelt died at his home in Oyster Bay, N.Y. In 1925, Paavo Nurmi smashed two world's records in the Finnish-American track matches at Madison Square Garden in New York. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What editor was known as "the Sage of Emporia"? A William Allen White. Q Is Confederate President Jef. ferson Davis a member of New York I'nlveisity's Hall of Fame tor Great Americans? A Ho was proposed for selec tion in I960, but faded to get enough votes.
