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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamatk Falls, On. ' Weatoeiay. Jaaaary M. 1M1 tDSON IN WASHINGTON Rules Committee ; Battle Background fAGBI Future historians will look back on the po litical scene of this nation, and as the years vanish, elevate President Dwight Eisenhower into the elite ranks of our great chief executives. His name will rank with other immortals such as Washington and Lincoln who have di rected the destinies of this nation through perilous times. i And, as the years lengthen, he will more and more be likened to our first president, George Washington. Leader of their countries In time of conflict, both men directed victor ious military efforts that threatened the very lives of their people. : Both men took the helm of their nation at momentous times in history, both deter mined to lead their people to a new plateau of peace and harmony, and both stepped from this office, head bowed in a sense of frus tration as they saw many of their fondest hopes shattered on the altars of human frail ty. ' Washington was called from retirement, which he had justly earned, to become the nation's first president. About him, he found the chaos of an infant government, beset by , petty sectional rivalries, struggling to survive in a world of giant powers waiting to destroy it.: : From this chaos he fashioned order and proceeded to set the nation on a course of unity and non-intervention in foreign affairs. ' How well did he succeed? : Seven years later, conditions had so de teriorated that the House of Representatives declined to even send the President congratu lations on his birthday, something they had always done. , : Washington was being vilified by the press of the day, termed an Anglomaniac, a monocrat, a tyrant with his very life in danger. ; Against this backdrop he wrote his fare well address outlining the course that he, as; an interested American, wanted his na tion to follow, ; Had his words been heeded, we would not today find ourselves in the harassed military , and political situation that confronts as. . ' A thankless people hurried Washington out of office and into his grave three years later. '" . . ' ''' In this same vein of concern for the coun try he loved, President Eisenhower entered into service as Its president. He had earned ; his-nation's highest laurels on the field of - battle and directed its military effort to a vital, essentlalyictory over the forces of tyr anny. Yet, even as he accepted the offer to run " for election bis country "was involved in a shameful conflict for which it had. not been properly prepared., "x. - JIM BISHOP:' REPORTER Less Left ) Part Two The Crash ' The most dangerous part of fly ing is the first 180 seconds on takeoff, and the final 190 seconds on landing. It the machine Is go ing to fail, it will usually do it on' takeoff; if man is going to fail, it customarily happens as he comes in for a landing. The Jet and the Constellation that col lided at Staten Island were with in -19 miles of their respective airports; a few minutes away. Both had been In holding pat terns. A holding pattern is an Imaginary race track near an air port. It is about six miles long ' and, at the turns, two miles wide. It can be high in the sky, or low. The weather can be foul, so bad that the pilot cannot see beyond his windshield, but he will re main in the holding pattern with the aid of radio bearings coming up to him from radio beacons below. 'pnei are ordered into hold ing patterns when traffic is too heavy for an airport In the New York area, there are five big air ports within 30 miles of Bowery Bay; La Guardia. Idlewild, New ark, Floyd Bennett and Teterboro. Each of these needs lots of sky : spec for holding patterns when , that weather is bad. On the day of the big accident, thfj sky was leaden and snow flurries were carried on a wind approaching 60 miles per hour not of the southwest. All the big (airports bad planes in holding patterns. From my home at Sea . Bright, N.J., I have seen planes stacked over Ambrose Lightship, very few thousand feet They fly slowly to conserve ; fuel, and they move up and down their race tracks, watting for the word U come in. Ground control asuaQy Hi the lowest plans Ja ' Giant Among Men Called back from the shadows of retire ment, he accepted the challenge and entered into the office imbued with ideals of obtain ing a lasting peace for this nation and for the world. Unschooled in the vicissitudes of poli tics, he was unprepared to compromise his ideals for political position, and found him self embroiled in a constant cross- fire strug gle in the political realm. Determined to sever the Gordian knot that tied government in red tape and bureauc racy, he found himself thwarted by the sel fish desires of groups and individuals, many of whom placed self above nation. History will remember him as a great man with a background of war and a fervent love for peace. ' The outpourings of hate alone from the Communist portions of the world, and the vili fication that he encountered at the hands of .' these enemies of freedom should be enough to make us realize that they recognized in him one of their greatest enemies. This can be con-' sidered a tribute to his firm stand on the side of right and freedom. He accepted the reins at a time when this nation was already embroiled in a blood letting war in Korea, when Soviet Russia was threatening to engulf all of Europe, when cries of compromise at any price were swirling around him, and became the battle flag around which the beleaguered nation rallied. , He lifted the nation from the blood soaked useless struggle in Korea, shored up the defenses of a-shattered free world and marched forth to stem the tide of socialism at home and communism abroad. It was here he met his greatest defeat. The forces of socialism and dependency upon the federal government here at home had become so well emolanted over a 20-year period from 1932 to 1952 that it was impos sible to recapture the free strength gener ated by private enterprise and individual initiative. Just when the victory seemed within grasp, , he found the people unwilling to continue the struggle. He found his forces retreating from the difficulties such a conflict entails, and he could not rally them in time. Instead, they succumbed to the lure of more federal government, more socialistic schemes and promises and gave up the fight, bowing to personal dictates to avoid person- V al sacrifice. Historians will capture this view correctly as they recount the chapters of this nation, during these days. Unless history is rewritten to suit a socialistic future, it will cite Dwight , David Eisenhower as a giant among men, a true crusader for right and freedom, and per haps a disillusioned American. Than Four Minutes For Final Prayers . first It's like pulling the bottom dish out o! a stack of dinner plates. Sam Stola drew two pencilled race track; on the New York chart as he and George Tamalis and Lewis Dymond and I dis cussed the crash. One was be tween Arthur Kill, Linden, N.J., and Railway Here, the big Con stellation held at 5,000 feet. It , was seven miles south of New ark Airport, although its terminal was La Guardia. It was 096 de grees from a radio called Sol berg, and 066 from another one called Yardlcy. The pilot appeared to hold his pattern well. From time to time, he heard La Guardia and they would be ready to take him in within a few nfinutes. Unknown to him, a DC -8 Jet was in a hold ing pattern 14 miles southeast, al most ready to run an imaginary .race track called Preston. The jet had beer asked by Ground Control to drop from 14.000 feet to 5,000 en route Between Robbins ville, N.J., and Preston. The pilot agreed. Preston lies between Cliffwood Beach and Englishtown. The pilot set a course ol 050 out of Robbins ville. As he ran northeast. Ground Control turned him over to Idle wild Approach So far as Is known, Idlewild and the jet did not con 1 tact each other. The jet moved slowly, about 180 ' knots with tome flaps. The pilot wasn't worried. All he had to do . was to stay on Robbinsville's 050 until he intercepted Colt's Neck Radio on a bearing of 346 de grees. When he had them lined up, he would begin his race course. Even if he was slightly off his pattern, he knew there . was a buffer area of safety ' around it roughly 19 miles by 8 miles. He moved straight on past the Colt's Neck beam, still on 050, asv. the Constellation received orders from La Guardia to come out of the Linden pattern and head southeast until it interceptcdi Rob binsville radio. Then it was to turn on 050 and head into La Guardia. The jet was also on 050, but it was supposed to be making ovals over New Jersey. The jet and the Connie were both at 5,000 feet. The jet pilot had one radio out of business, but this would not hurt him. He had more than enough other sets to handle any situation. . Also, If Idlewild wanted to iden tify him, all they had to do was ask the jet tn turn on its trans ponder, which will give any plane a double blip on a ground radar set momentarily. No one at Idle wild asked. The DC-8 went on past the Colt's Neck bearing as though It had not received the proper head ing signal, and moved across Raritan Bay to a point between Great Kills and Miller Field, Stat en Island. There, out of the snow came the broadside vision of a Constellation making a left turn onto the same heading at the same altitude. The four of us at lunch agreed that the DC-8 pilot tried to turn o u I of the way at the last sec- ond, lost one engine in the belly of the Connie, which fell in two big parts, and then the jet. as though all on the flight deck were dead, continued straight on. 050 for eleven more miles, past Fort Wadsworth, across the Narrows, and deep into Flatbush, in Brook lyn, before it crashed. That gave everyono aboard ex actly three and a half minutes to say a final prayer . l THE THE RECENT DECISION of the City Library Board to close Uie city library on Sundays has brought me several recent calls from people who want to know whyathe city cannot afford to keep the library open on this impor tant day. The callers stated they used the library on Sunday and felt that many other persons did also, and inquired as to what could be done. I CHECKED this decision out with Georgt Mclntyre, chairman of the board for the past several years, and he confirmed that the -closure was necessary to enable the board to remain within its budget. The city library is financed by a two-mill levy. This levy was vot ed by the people of Klamath Falls in 1926. In its early years, the levy raised less than $14,000 for operation of the library, but in those days it apparently covered more ground. Today, that same two-mill levy raises a little more than $25,000. Income from fines, rentals and other sources raises this income to around $30,000 annually. The budget for the city library during the 1960-61 fiscal year was $30,443. Expenditures for the year this far have amounted to just under $3,000 per month. As of December 1, $18,000 remained of the $30,000 budget and it had to last for another seven months. It demanded some action. THE BOARD checked Its libra ry operaUon and found that Sun day was a slow day, occupied mostly by persons who read mag azines or newspapers with little book checkout activity. It was felt -that Sunday was the day the library should be closed, as long as one day closure had been decided upon, IT IS MANDATORY that the li- t I Answer to Previous PullH Animal Kingdom 1 ll"F1 ih-iikI"T1 I l I K A D M J Kiel across jcuug.in KdcarJ aSciDSU 1 Hybrid animal 9 Likenesses ' 1 1 I rii I llrl 6 Mimlcker lOlroquoian Ulu C Tg rTT m A,llil .Household Lndl,B XHTno l a IT 5t5l animal J Rip 5 nTT p - at at Algj 12 Indigo 15 J STt Jk B k. m m JTI 13 Have existed ?9?PH ' ' ' p o & t o a V I 1 111 14 Miners reck n?'1,!?00' is EI 1 . 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Budget for this county-supported institution during 1960-61 amounts to slightly more than $66,000 or almost twice that available for operation of the city unit. In addition, the county provides -another $6,800 for operation of the museum. NOW LET'S COMPARE the hours of both places. The county library is open Mon - day, Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The county library is not open on Sun days. The city library is open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day Monday through Saturday.' GEORGE McINTYRE has been a member of the City Library Board since he was first appoint ed by Mayor, Tom Walters in 1930. When-' asked about the closure, he said, "The general cost of al most everything continues to rise, and in order to carry on as close to normal operations as possible, it was, necessary to curtail serv ices somewhere." The logical step, he indicated, was the Sunday clo sure. SURVEYING THE FACTS, we must agree that the board had no other choice but to curtail services somewhere if they were to stay within their budget. Perhaps a partial solution could be worked out on this closure, if the two libraries were to get together, and agree on different closing days so that one library (Roman myth.) 60 Inflammation 43 Organ parts (suffix) 45 sample 46 Paw put 47 PR 51 Outlet 52 Rim 55 Faucet i li is u I ii it r ii r iTTirrr rj rj fl rc is 17 fl HI- !S" 1 ' ji a i a u it is 36 JT STpT a "11 io 151 &2 55 5 65 3 5? 3 : ST" 81 Si n would be open every day. The other suggested solution and one that people must face in other quarters as well is that ad ditional revenues will have to be voted if these facilities are to continue to serve the public at full capacity. The dollar simply does not stretch as far as it used to, and this ' constriction of operating funds is hitting not only the li brary operation, but such other operations of the city as the street department, the park and recrea tion department and other areas. . ' , .... MAINTENANCE at parks and playgrounds is already at a mini mum, and some of the recreation al activities' have had to be sharp ly curtailed so that this depart ment, too, can stay within its budget. The same is true of the street department where a tight mini mum of money is available for operating activities. The public recently turned down a two-mill levy for the street de partment, even though it was pointed out by the administration that the levy was necessary for the bare .minimum of street main tenance work. Gradually, the tightening finan cial situation is hurting the city of Klamath Falls, and in turn, will force curtailment of services which citizens now enjoy, unless' something Is done. - IT ALL BOILS DOWN to the one inescapable fact ... you can not get something for nothing. If the public is going to con tinue to demand services from the' various tax-supported agen cies, then it is going to have to be prepared to pay more for them. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Your edition of Wednesday, Jan. 4, 1961, carried the headline "U.S. Breaks with Cubans." So we finally got fed up with Castro. I have only one question and that is, what took us so long? M. A. Carter Leader Shortage Dear Editor: 1 just returned from a chil dren's agency board meeting of Klamath County. I have for a long time been interested in our children and youth and the provi sions we as adults make and work at for them. We discussed leadership and money that is in volved to carry each child in the scouting movement. I for a long lime have been aware of the lack of concerned parents, to take re sponsibilities for their own. I only wanted to throw out this thought to all. If every parent, whether they have one or 10 children, would take a turn In leading some good 'worthwhile children's group, for only one year out of their busy lives, there would never be a shortage of leaders. Likewise if By PETER EDSON I Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) - Con gressional defenders of the House Rules Committee maintain there's an awful lot of misinformation and malarkey in the criticisms of what it does and does not do. Even Prof. Samuel H. Beer of Harvard, president of Americans for Democratic Action which wants the rules committee re formedsays he would have no objections to it if it is used as a responsible arm of the congres sional leaders and the White House. Under its present chairman, Judge Howard W. Smith jD-Va.), the committee is the 'favorite whipping boy in Congress. Con gressional leaders and chairmen of committees who don't want to report out new bills for which there is some public demand blame their own shortcomings on it. And individual congressmen who haven't a chance to get some constituent's or pressure group's pet project through Congress like to say it's the rules committee's fault. The 12-member committee eight Democrats and four Repub licans in the last Congress is ad mittedly dominated by conserva tives. One plan to liberalize it in the Kennedy administration is to enlarge it and appoint enough , "New Frontiersmen" so that its majority will clear more pioneer ing legislation. Americans for Democratic Ac tion held a one-day meeting in Washington at year's end to cry for reform of the rules commit tee, along with repeal of Senate Rule 22, under which filibusters are conducted against civil rights and similar legislation. Examples most frequently men tioned of the committee's side tracking of progressive legislation in the last Congress include mini mum wage raise, federal aid to school construction, aid to de pressed areas, medical care for the aged, and housing. - Those are the five measures which Kennedy wants the new Congress to act on first. A look at the records, however, shows the committee not solely respon sible for the sorry record of the last Congress in these fields. ' The committee held hearings and granted two rules on mini mum wage bills. This legislation died in conference because the Senate would not accept, the House version, and vice versa. But THE DOCTOR Infants Subject To Many Diseases By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. The eyes and ears of infants are delicate structures. Each may be threatened and their functional capacities impaired or even de stroyed by acts of carelessness that many of us commit without, realizing the possible consequences of what we are doing. Transmission of the herpes vi rus to young babies through kiss ing has v recently been held re sponsible for an eye infection (vi ral conjunctivitis) that occasional ly results in blindness. According to Sir Stewart Duke Elder, a leading English ophthal mologist, newly introduced anti biotics have eliminated most of the bacteria that used to cause infantile conjunctivitis. As a re sult, the herpes virus, which1 is resistant to all "miracle drugs," has become increasingly danger ous to the new born who have few protective antibodies with which to fight off a lowly or ganism that usually can do no more than produce a "cold sore" on the lip of the kisser. Since baby kissing is an act of affection only to the kisser, it would not seem too unreasonable to request well-wishers to bestow their herpes organisms on the sole of the infant's foot. Particularly if they are suffering from an up per respiratory infection of any kind. Bottle-feeding infants, while they are lying flat or propped up in sufficiently, has been held respon sible for ear infections by a group of New Zealand pediatricians. Over a seven-year period, a group of reliable observers has collect ed a series of 242 babies whose middle ear infections are attribut ed to the position of the child all parents realized that it takes $10 to keep their child supplied in materials, leadership and pro fessional guidance for one year, and they each supplied a part through free gifts to the organi zations of his choice or to (our Klamath County United Fundi, we would never have a shortage of either funds or good help. . Violet Koehn R R. 1 Box 938 Klamath Falls, Ore. the committee-had nothing to do with that. There were three school con stuction bills before the last Con gress. The Senate wouldn't ac cept the House bill and the com mittee, knowing that the Senate bill faced a veto from Eiscnhow er, refused to give it a rule for House consideration. What really killed the measure, however, was a House amendment which would have denied fundi to school districts not in compli ance with federal court desegre gation orders. On social security amendments - including medical care for the aged, rules committee approved . the bill which was referred to it for clearance. But this bill was watered down in the House and further amended in the Senate. The final bill satisfied Tew people and isn't working well so far. A revised bill will have to be offered in the new Congress. But responsibility for this can't be placed on the rules committee. The House Rules Committee must bear responsibility for send ing an omnibus housing bill back to committee for revision. The reason given was that there were already 100.000 authorized public housing units for which there was three billion dollars in slum clear ance funds still unused. This action was in line with one of the rules committee's du ties to prevent passage of faulty legislation. When a revised, scaled down, stopgap housing bill was reported back to the committee at the end of the session, it was cleared for action. Depressed area redevelopment legislation, cleared by the rules committee and subsequently passed, was vetoed by Eisenhow er. When the Senate failed to over ride the veto the measure died. But this was no fault of the rules committee. Statistically, the rules commit tee in the 86th Congress held hearings on 124 bills and granted rules on 119. -The five it denied rules on were school construction, omnibus housing, educational TV, . and amendments to the foreign and library service acts. The last two were subsequently passed. On ' Senate ' bills, House Rules Committee had requests for hear ings on 19, of which four were passed on the consent calendar before the rules committee could act. On the other 15, rules were granted on 14 and a rule was denied on the first depressed are as bill, though a later measure was approved. SAYS during feeding (positional otitis media). And, according to this study, both prematurity, and nasal obstruction from whatever cause add materially to the risk. As a natural conclusion to their study, the New Zealand group ad vises mothers to feed their infants in the upright position until they are at least three months old. Anil for a longer time if the baby was premature or if it suffers from nasal obstruction. Since neither of these recom mendations requires any great sacrifice on the part of any of us, there seems no valid excuse not to heed them. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "How to Combat the Com mon Cold," send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman, care Herald and News, Box 489, Dept. B, Radio City Sta tion. New York 19, N.Y. Al manac By United Press International Today is Wednesday, Jan. It, the 11th day of the year with 3J4 more in I9fii. The moon is approaching its new phase. The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Venus and Mars. On this day in history: In 1757, American statesman, financier and first treasury sec retary Alexander Hamilton was born. In 1785, the Continental Con gress convened in New York. In 1842. American philosopher William James was born. In 1851, Alabama seceded from the Union.' In 1878, a Brooklyn. N.Y., milk man delivered milk in glass bot tles for the first time. In 1899, access and director Eva Le Gallienne was born in London. j In 1952, Captain Henrik Kurt Carlsen, heroic captain of the Flying Enterprise, landed at Fal mouth, England. Thought for today: American statesman Alexander Hamilton said: "A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us national blessing." 1
