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Newspaper Page TextPACE I HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fall. On. Thimlay, January II, 1M NOTHING SPECIAL (W. I. S.) Q ' interregnum Important differences exist between the United States and its British-French allies as to how to deal with the rising Communist threat to the independence of Laos in south east Asia. These concern the kind of government that should be supported' in Laos, and the extent of outside participation in the current civil strife. On this latter point, Britain and France have tended to dismiss as the propaganda of the present shaky pro-Western government the charges of direct intervention by Red North Vietnamese and other Communists. Until recently, the American rebuttal was confined to generalized charges. Now, however, we are offering hard evidence down to aircraft serial numbers of a Soviet airlift of war materiel and some personnel to assist Red elements within Laos. Our inquiry and reconnaissance indicate this airlift has been substantial and continu ous. And while we do not spell out the num bers involved, we make the flat statement that a good many North Vietnamese have been brought in. ,s This, of course, is the critical part of the Charge. For what has been most feared all jlong was another invasion, North Korea style., Proof of it is much harder to come by in Laos, a jungle country with few roads. Vietnamese How Will T I- ..14A ,Ma1 nrtvAaA that I II. IS IJIMkV TVlUCiJf gtv.u W.HIt Kennedy's election as president was the big gest news story of 1960. What might also be added as a footnote is that he was consistently the most underrated man of the year. . At the outset, many politicians saw his : early lead for the Democratic nomination as a kind of flash in the pan. They felt sure either Adlai Stevenson or Stuart Symington would In the end outdistance him. He stunned them first by wrapping up Ohio's big vote. Next they misjudged his Wis consin primary victory, marking it a failure because he did not match printed expectations of a sweep. The triumph actually was sub stantial. . : West Virginia, heavily non-Catholic, was supposed to do Kennedy in. He won it with 60 per cent of the vote. From then on he was winging, but the doubters were numerous. The summit collapse was judged as hurtful to Kennedy, helpful to Stevenson. It hardly caused a ripple. Among the big doubters was another candi date, Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas. He just did not believe that a seasoned politician like himself could be bested by the young man from Massachusetts. But he was outdone by a margin of 2-1. ' " Once Kennedy was nominated, his chanc es of victory in November were written down. Vice President Nixon was said to have out shone him as a convention performer, and the August session of Congress, which ended in :.j THEY SAY... ; With our uranium, the U.S. built the first atom bomb. They said to themselves: "Lumumba would sell the uranium to the Soviet Union and other , countries. We must overthrow him." Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba. I intend to sue. I'm being treated the same as Khrushchev and Castro. Mobster Mickey Cohen, picked up by New York police for "consort . ;lng with known criminals" on the sidewalk. BARBS '., It's remarkable how much game gets away from hunters. Quick, like a bunny.. . f :: It seems like we clean our walks for the sake of the neighbors who don't clean theirs. . ; - Definition of a diplomat: any hus band who can convince his wife she looks fat in a fur coat. Regardless of results, you can't Name a man for doing his best Dilemma Of Laps or Red Chinese, wearing no military attire, presumably can slip easily back and forth across the Laotian frontier to the east. The chances are that there have been plenty of invaders. But we can only talk about those we can identify. Nevertheless, when we succeed in doing that, the British and French ought to be willing to accept the evidence. Their preference for a neutralist govern ment in Laos instead of a clearly pro-Western one is based on fear that a really sharp divi sion will produce a wearing, costly civil war that will cpmpare in length with the postwar fighting in Indochina, Malaya and Algeria. We fear that their caution, both as to the make-up of the Laotian government and as to the intervention of Reds from the outside, may only play into, the hands of Peiping and Mos cow and in the end cost the West high stra ' tegic stakes in crucial Laos. But in the field of bolder action, there certainly is no easy course. Military interven tion on our part would be extremely difficult, with no guarantee of success. Support for any particular Laotian government can go only so far. This much we do know: We must act with firmness and speed when effective action is possible. Timidity and hesitancy are the beck oning fingers that will surely embolden the Communists in this newest adventure in conquest. The Sequel TnVin V failure, was set down as an added handicap. . . Nixon had peace and generally good times going for him. And as a practiced de bater he was expected to chew up his less ex perienced opponent in their four television encounters. But Kennedy got the advantage out of the debates, holding his own and making himself far better known. Through the crucial weeks, he campaigned with tireless aggressiveness. The South, repelled by Kennedy's Catholicism and the liberal Democratic platform, was for the most part lured back by Johnson, Kenne dy's shrewd choice for vice presidential nomi nee. , When the votes were counted, he had leaped all the barriers his youth, his religion, his wealth, the lack of issues with great imme-' diate impact. His margin was.incredibly slim. But the real wonder was that he had done it at all. ' Men of seasoned outlook will be less like ly hereafter to underrate Kennedy. Certainly his choice of a cabinet and his general conduct since election have tended to reinforce the earlier 1960 evidences of high capacity. Vet we must not forget that 1961 will be a totally new story. As has often been said, no man truly prepares himself for the presidency. We can only wait to see whether the abili ties and resourcefulness which stood Kennedy in good stead in 1960 will permit him to serve the country and the world in 1961 and thereafter. 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Answer to Previous Puxile 25 Inflate 27 Merit 28 Stud 33 Drivel 34 Screed 36 Outlined 37 Oleic acid a 38 Beginning 40 City In Germany 43 Comfort 44 Prevaricator 45 Baseball's Speaker 4S Southern general 50 Native metal a n i lTLJw e r el IS , n oPtr iUTTa h u a bTbJD E 2. SUl I i iaTc h wiai r" H A M Q M aT Q N AM LJ JU I Ni StMlt k C tlT nil w" TlJa sT a TTfc" Si t Q " u. i M Q e.'g 1 m t H a. i. j t CHARCOT QnA TTv M taa ili Tie 51 ALL D N A " T Tin 51 wJSJSJ 6 5 A e Sir SI OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS Campaign Waste (BALTIMORE SUN) If the old cliches are fun to review, other aspects of the cam paign are quite the reverse. This campaign must have broken all records for sheer physical activ ity and output of words. Press coverage was more lavish than ever before. Jet planes were avail able for personal appearances as far apart as Alaska, Chicago and Los Angeles all in the same day. Television moved in to play an entirely new role. Yet most vot ers who followed all this must have had a feeling that some thing important was missing. There was the daily grind: ar- , rival at an airport, motorcade, cheering crowds, the locally tail ored version of the candidate's standard speech, back - slapping and handshaking, and the return to the airport again. Everybody saw the candidates if not In per son, then on the air. What we failed to get on these occasions was a clear notion of what the ' candidates really stood for, what they really thought. The great de bates were on the whole a disap pointment What each candidate said fell pretty consistently short of its target. Ideas were never really developed. The great de bates were tantalizing rather than helpful. Nor, except in a few instances, were ideas and policies and pro grams given (tiller development -by other means. Was ever a pres idential campaign spread so wide lyand spread so thin? Our campaigns are too long, and modern devices available for bringing candidates to the people seem to have made campaigning harder rather than easier. . Thoughts Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are yon disquieted within met Hone In God; for I hall again praise him, my help . and my God. Psalms 41:5. Hope springs eternal in the hu man breast; v Man never is, but always to be blest; The soul, uneased and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in the life to come. Alexander Pope. If H It to be life in the flesh, that means Irultful laber for me. Yet which I shall choose I can not tell.-Phlllppins 1:22. The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William' James. And take (he helmet of salva tion, and the sword of the Spirit, which Is the word of God. Ephe siansS:l7. The Bible Is God's chart for you to steer by. to keep you from the bottom of the sea. and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars. H. W. Beechcr. A fool ftves full vent to his anger, but a wise man quietly holds It back. Proverbs 29:11. He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is mora than a king John Milton. EDSON IN WASHINGTON State Of Union Talk To Be Ike's Farewell By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent. Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) - Presi dent Eisenhower's last State of the Union message to Congress on January 12 could mean dif ferent things to different people. If it is in the tradition or spirit of Washington's farewell address it can be taken as a lasting docu ment setting domestic and foreign policy objectives for years to come. If the message is taken as a political document an appeal to Republicans and those "Eisen hower Democrats" who supported his every word and deed almost unquestioningly for the last eight years it will be a statement of conservative principles that will provide guidelines for 1964 and 1968. But if the President's message is considered a mere review of his two administrations and a defense of his policies as was LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Mass Burial , . Dear Sir: Please explain this one to visitor in your town. , Several times we have driven into K.F. from out near the gap. The trip has been pleasant each time. But then on January 5, 61 the viaduct and vicinity say 4 blocks from the RR what in tar nation has Klamath Falls got dy ing or dead in that region, near the RR and also a SW wind? It would be a fair idea for some city father to get this one covered before warm weather. It sure is rank. I am not dreaming for there) were four in the car and all re ported the same. Let's have some comment from someone else on this. Maybe a mass burial. Ham Hussock, Visitor from Omaha Al manac By I'nilod Press International Today is Thursday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of the year with 353 more in 1961. The moon is approaching ,11s new phase. The morning star is Mars. The evening slars are Venus and Mars. On this day in history: In 1856, John Singer Sargent, American painter, was bora. In 1876, American writer Jack London was born. In 19J2. Mrs. Hattie Caraway became the first woman lo be elected president of the U.S. Sen ate. In 1943, because of the meat shortage, the Office of Price Ad ministration ruled that standard frankfurters would be replaced by "victory sausages" consisting of some meat and an unspecified amount of soybean meal or some other substitute. ' Thought for today: British au thor Rohcrt Burton said: "No rule Is so general, which admits not some exception." indicated beforehand it will be something for the incoming Kennedy administration to chal lenge. There was no criticism of Ei senhower personally during the last election campaign. But there is no gainsaying now that neither the foreign nor domestic affairs of the country are being turned over in perfect condition. ' President Eisenhower and a Re publican Congress were elected in -1952 on campaign slogans of "Clean up the Mess in Washing ton," "Peace and Prosperity" and "Ending the Korean -War." The last promise was kept promptly. But the peace that has ' been maintained in the last eight years has been an uneasy, cold, war peace at best. The cease-fire in Korea is continued by an armed truce not a secure peace. The fighting that was ended by the partition of Viet Nam is now breaking out again in neighboring Laos. Sporadic shelling continues on Quemoy and Matsu, following the unleashing of Chiang Kai-shek in Formosa Strait, and that has become a domestic American po litical issue. In the Near East, war in the Suez was averted by the skin of our teeth. Lebanon and Jordan were saved from being gobbled up by Nasser's United Arab Re public. But the friendly govern ment of Iraq was overthrown. Relations with Russia got no better in spite of extended cul tural exchanges and crashed in a tailspin caused by the U-2 incident. The United States was second in launching missiles into orbit and in reaching for' the moon. U.S. leadership in the U.N. was seriously challenged. Exploding demands for freedom and inde pendence in Africa caught the United States unprepared to deal with Ihem effectively. And so a new cold war front was launched. The administration that took over with a pledge to stop neglect ing Latin America leaves office with conditions no better. Dic tators like Peron in Argentina and Perez-Jimenez in Venezuela have been replaced by their own people. A Communist government in Guatemala has been replaced by a more democratic government. But liberal President Lemus in El Salvador has been replaced by a military junta. Pro-U.S. dic tator Batista in Cuba hits been replaced by pro-Communist dic tator Castro, with whose regime diplomatic relations have been broken a break for the new ad ministration to mend. The old "mess" in Washington was cleaned up. only to be suc ceeded by other scandals. Prosperity has been maintained to the extent that the federal budget this year should be bal anced again and that the threat . of ruinous inflation has been averted, though the cost of liv ing is no lower. The dollar gap is troublesome, but the dollar it self is sound. What the Kennedy administra tion makes of all this will be revealed when the president-elect delivers his own inaugural mes sage after he is sworn in. But there is every prospect that the two messages will be so dif . fcrent there will be some diffi culty In recognizing that they speak of the same country. A most spectacular light for motorists, I believe, was the re sult of a terrific windstorm in the Willamette Forest, along Highway SB last week. Some of 'those trees appeared to be at least 4 feet in diameter. Many of ' them reached across the entire width of the highway, and it's a wonder there weren't many se rious accidents as a result of the -blowdown. Highway crews and salvage, loggers were still busy on the job of cleaning up Mon day. While we didn't have all the time we would have liked for the job, getting that full page of pic tures of the opening of the legislature in the Herald and News. Tuesday was quite a task for our photo and engraving de partments. Don Kettler got the prints ready about 8 a.m. Tues day, and Ernie Hedlund had them out of the engraving shop at 10:30, on the nose. Then, the compos ing boys had to put the page to-, gether in time for the 12 m. dead line. Sounds easy, but it isn't even for the craftsmen we have with the H&N. Incidentally, while we have am ple coverage of the ' legislature from our Associated Press news wire, we .plan to spend quite a few days in Salem this session getting stories and pictures that we wouldn't normally get from AP. When opportunity permits, we'll go up and spend a couple of days visiting with our Klam ath County and Lake County delegations. A tired-looking woman on New York's lower East Side kept ap pearing at the courthouse to ap ply for a marriage license, ac companied by her inebriated boy friend. Each time she was re fused because of the man's con dition.. When the lady came in for the 16th time, holding up her giggling lover, the license clerk turned to her irritably. "Why do you insist on bringing this man here to get a marriage license when he's dead drunk?" he demanded. "Well," answered the woman, "I sure can't get him here when he's sober." ' Note to all interested young men (and women, for that mat- ter): "According to the reports, there is a discouraging lack of enrollees in the medical profes sion. I suppose part of the rea son is that it takes hard work and considerable money to pre pare oneself for the profession, and its danged hard work (some might not think so, but it is) in practice, compared to some other professions or crafts. It costs money. Slate legisla tures worked full blast last year passing laws that brought in an additional two billion dollars in tax revenues over 1959. According to Commerce Clearing House, col lections of the 50 states reached an all-time high of 18 billion dol-, lars $101.72 for every man. worn- THE DOCTOR SAYS ... Light Exercise Can Help 'Loafers Heart' By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. - The "loafer's heart" and the "detrained .heart" have recently engaged the attention of Dr. Wil helm Raab of the University of Vermont. In Dr. Raab's opinion, with which I am in complete accord, each of these penalties of "soft living" contributes significantly to circulation strains. In the disturbed and restless world in which we all live not even the most coddled of us can wholly escape the physical, men tal and emotional stresses to which we are exposed, whether directly or indirectly. , With each of .these stresses, an additional load is imposed on our circulatory systems. The pulse rate speeds. The blood pressure rises. The heart muscle is called on to pump an extra amount of blood. And the coronary vessels are required to transport addition al supplies of oxygen to meet the needs of the overworked pump. Now the well conditioned heart responds in stride lo these emergencies. Much like a trained athlete, it speeds and slows, tens es and relaxes, and adjusts and re-adjusts with the ease of "the daring young man on the flying trapeze." But the "loafer's heart" or the "detrained heart" gets a lale start, bumps and bucks like a cold motor in subzero weather and then is unable to throttle down until long ifter the chal lenging situation has come and gone. In my experience the "de trained heart" of one who wat an and child In the country. In come taxes in the states that have them yielded 3.4 billion dol lars. Sales taxes brought in 41 billion. Gasoline taxes rose to 3.S billion. Well, I suppose the apologists, do-gooders and mercy bringers will find tome way to mitigate the crime of him (or those) whs mercilessly killed the young col lege student whose body was fi nally found. Something to think about: He pushes back his sleeves, holds his wrist close to the lighted dial at the speedometer, squints to read the time. After 9. Ought to be home soon. Speedometer says 60. If he knew he had only 10 sec onds to live, things might be dif ferent. ' TEN SECONDS TO LIVE. He massages his eye with thumb and middle finger, trying to rub out some of the sand. NINE SECONDS TO LIVE. He's driven almost eight hours since lunch, and is beginning to feel it, EIGHT SECONDS TO LIVE. Lousy driving in the rain. Light from his headlamps just seems to soak in, along with the water. SEVEN SECONDS TO LIVE. Probably needs a new windshield wiper blade. Old one just spreadB the water around instead of wip ing it clean. Get one tomorrow or next time it rains. SIX SECONDS TO LIVE. Some body throws a cigarette out of an oncoming car. The red glow dissolves almost before it hits the pavement. FIVE SECONDS TO LIVE. He plants his heels on the floorboard, squirming back in the seat, try r ing for comfort. FOUR SECONDS TO LIVE. At 60 miles an hour, a car covers 88 feet of pavement every sec ond. Four seconds, 352 feet. THREE SECONDS TO LIVE. Something looks wrong, through the blurry windshield. A tentative dab at the brakes stiffens into desperate pressure as he makes out an old, unlighted, slow mov ing truck ahead. Twn sirrnvnc to irar d. 1c moves in. Turns to the left no a car's coming, headlights too close. Can't make it. Turns to the right. ONE SECOND TO LIVE. Hor ror numbs everything into slow motion. He floats right into the rear corner of the truck bed. He opens his mouth to scream. It's happened to a lot of people. Driving too long, eyes get tired, reactions slow down. Rain, dark ness, a windshield that's hard to) see through. Driving too fast A car or a truck ahead that he can't see. It's happened to a lot f of people. Will it happen to youf formerly accustomed to regular exercise is in grealer.danger than the heart of the loafer whose daily exertions rarely exceeded the bare minimums required for strolls tb and from the dining room. The young mother, who en gaged in competitive sport at high school or college, can't quite realize that she hasn't the strength and endurance she once had before the baby was born. And the high school or college let ter man, who now spends hit time behind a desk or the wheel of his car. can't resist a chal lenge to his prowess. Neither hesitates to perform a heavy household chore, some times with disastrous results. And on a holiday, the ex-athlete, still wearing a sweater adorned with the school or college letter, gets) his "come-uppance" from an at tempted swim across the lake, a five set tennis match with some lanky fledgling, or a 'rastling bout with a chunky youngster who turns out to have been the inter collegiate champion in his class. Of course, the answer to the "loafer's heart' or the "de trained heart" is recular exer. cise of a rot-too-slrenuously com petitive nature. Walking, garden ing, dancing, calisthenics, family tennis, a relaxed round of golf or romps with younger children lend to keep the muscles fit and the figure trim. Contrariwise, the lures of rock ing chairs and of sofas that give a view of TV screens are open invitations to flabby muscles. sloppy heart beat and the de velopment of "bay window."