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HERALD AND NEWS, Klajnati Fall, Ore.
Friday, Jaaoary , 1M1
"Nikita Said if You Need Anything
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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
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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
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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.