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VMS HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, . "Me? I'm a Hungry Statistic EDSON IN WASHINGTON Fun On The Bus Over FDR Memorial A 6 Bad ; Many think it would be a good idea if lAmericans, who are not generally notable for ; their physical fitness, did more participating iin sports and less watchinp. Maybe so, but abandonment of spectator sports surely is : not the answer. j ? Almost all nations, including those with good records of fitness, have their spectator isports. It is natural to want to watch the most Skilled athletes perform. It is a proper cxprcs sion of the national life, and lends an inevi i table zest and excitement on the lighter side. I If anything should ever kill such sports as a major activity, it won't be television. There's : plenty of evidence that good shows still bring out the big crowds, TV or no. What is threatening public sports exhibi tions, however, is the unruly behavior of a crude minority of the fans. This is becoming an increasing problem. Rowdy elements have disturbed many a big league baseball game by tossing danger ous objects, bursting out and engulfing play ers, and so on. Recently a professional basketball game In St. Louis was interrupted by egg-throwing. A visiting coach was struck in the forehead. In the coming year one of the hot topics In Congress will be medical care for the aged. But there are some fresh and important signs ' that we ought also to be concerned about medical care in general. A new government report presents strik ing evidence of the decline in the proportion of doctors in this country relative to the size of the population. The trend is. not new but has been in motion for at least the last 20 years. The two most alarming aspects about it are the sharp drops in the proportion of doctors in private practice and in the category of general prac titioners. Last year about two of every three physi cians were in private practice. But back in 1931 the ratio was 86 per cent. This does not mean, of course, that there are actually fewer doctors in private practice. Their numbers have gone up some 20 per cent in recent decades. But the total of persons to be cared for medically has shot up by more than twice that rate. , To add to the problem of the ordinary citizen seeking private medical care, today the physicians who are in private practice are almost equally divided between general prac The only thing that remains the same for Jake Gottlieb is the bicycle shop. It is still in South Philadelphia and, even though Jake is aging and ill, the same coaster brakes need adjust- ment, the chains, come off the sprockets, and the people of the neighborhood are still fairly poor in worldly goods and filthy rich tn neighborhood spirit. Mr. Gottlieb had five children. He was tough. Mrs. Gottlieb used to say to the children: "Don't talk to poppa before he eats." The family was so poor that, If one of the youngsters showed up after school with a dime, fatlier removed his belt and whacked the kid because he assumed that no child could come by ten cents honestly. - His youngest was Joey. Joey tried all the amateur nights. A Negro boy named Glen Bishop used to drive Joey and his trio around to the local movie houses to do their satires on radio pro - grams, and Joey said that if Glen would let them use his car, they'd change their names to Bishop. So Joey Gottlieb became Joey Bish op. This started the name chang ing. No one in the Gottlieb house to the same. Jake switched to Jack but stuck to Gottlieb. Har ry became Freddie. Clara is now Claire; Becky is Betty and now poppa doesn't know whom to whack even when they identify themselves. Joey says that he was belted so much that, until he was 13, he thought he was on a dog team. He still calls one of his brothers Mush Joey went to Benjamin Rush lehoetad won e;)jpelllng con For Good Sports Where's The Doctor? JIM BISHOP: REPORTER '.. . A Few Belt Whacldngs Taught Him How To Lie test. The teacher gave him fifty cents. He came home with it and one brother beat him up from . 3:30 to 4 p.m. for lying. "Who told you you can spell?" the brother said. Momma shook her head. "You want us to believe teachers give money for spell ing?" Another brother cuffed Joey around from 4 p.m. on for stealing fifty cents and lying about It. Poppa, arrived with the belt at 6 p.m. It was a busy day. This explains why Mr. Bishop talks fast and punchy today. He is 42, married to a lovely lady who used to be Sylvia Ruzga. and lives in Englewood, N. J., with a talented son Larry. The boy is 13 and has his own theater in the cellar of the house. Nobody beats him up. so he will probably grow up talking like Frank Sina tra. Joey made a movie with Mr. Sinatra Called "Ocean's Eleven." , It was about eleven war buddies who plot to rob the big gambling casinos tn Las Vegas. Joey says that Sinatra read the script and became so fascinated that he said: "The hell with the picture. Let's heist those joints." It saddens Joey to know that his old alma mater, Benjamin Rush School, is now devoted to teaching retarded children. It doesn't lift his morale to remem ber that, in the Army, he was assigned to entertain psycho pa tients only. Some of the doctors who saw Bishop's act began to sell their war bonds. He has had three big breaks in his life. One was his first solo act at Vine Gardens in Aiicago Perhaps the worst showing on the 1960 rec ord was in Philadelphia, home of the Eagles, national professional football champions. All season long, ruffians endangered fans by their misbehavior. ' Their standard practice was to throw beer bottles, cans, and parts of ripped up wooden stands down upon, the spectators in the lower stands a height roughly equivalent to four stories. When such hooligans were apprehend ed and escorted away, loud boos indicated sup port for the transgressors. Fans below suffered many injuries. They were further endangered by the postgame crush of people eager to uproot the goal posts after a victory. Some callous individuals made a habit of jumping from an eight-foot parapet into the crowd to join the goal post uprooting. More than a dozen cases of broken bones were reported during the season.' Individuals who deliberately act to injure others or who are indifferent to their physical safety are not sports fans. They are merely spoilsports. If they keep on in this vein, the real fan may indeed refuse to watch a sport any place but in the safety of his living room. titioners and specialists. Thirty years ago spe cialists accounted for only one out of every six. ' ' The people who need to consult specialists can be grateful for the trend. But the millions whose prime need is a good family physician have a right to be worried. As a matter of fact, the difficulty of find ing a family doctor who is not already over loaded with work can be testified to by count less families in most parts of the country. The search often is long and hard, and is not al ways successful. .,, Unless the doctor-to-population ratio is soon reversed, the quest for a good general physician is likely to become steadily more difficult for the growing numbers of Ameri-. cans. ' Quite obviously, the whole subject of the adequacy of our medical care, both now and in the future, needs exhaustive re-examination. ' ; We need far more doctors, especially general practitioners, and we need to find the means of first stirring interest among quali fied individuals and then providing full train ing with the prospect of a rewarding private practice. at $450 a week. There, he talked to a whole wall full of mirrors for 49 weeks. The next big break came when he played Bill Miller's Riviera in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The star was Frank Sinatra and people came to see Frank and remained to accept Joey. The third big break came when Jack Paar invited Joey to appear on his big network program. This worked out particularly well be cause (1) Bishop has no writers and no written material and he can be funny at will; (2) the Paar program gave 33,000.000 people a chance to sample Joey Bishop's nervous brand of con versation. Now he is known everywhere and he earns $200,000 a year and Jake I mean Jack doesn't even ask Master Gottlieb I mean Bish opwhere he gets the 400,000 half dollars. In fact, the father can't even understand what the people are laughing at. Joey is a home body and likes to sit in a deep chair with his shoes off watching cowboy tele vision. He plays golf in the high TO's and nobody whacks him for lying about bogies. This winter, he spent time star ring at the Fontainebleau in Miami and his jokes were typical and topical. "Look," he said startled, "a woman in ' a cloth coat!" "Last night I was out selling hot pictures of the sun." "While you're in here watching me, my gang is outside stealing your hub caps." "Look at that guy Jim Bishop sitting over there laughing. We've got the same name but we're not in the same parish." IT. APPEARS that classroom space is becoming critical at KUHS. Recent reports indicate that school officials are eying pos sible emergency moves in the event a large freshman class en-, iolls at the school next fall. ' They point to present indica tors to show that such a class is in the offing, and will tax the KUHS facilities beyond their capacity. 1 J THE BOARD also has appar- ' ently examined W number of al-T , tentative proposals in the event ' . this happens. They have discussed the possi- ,' bility of using Pondcrosa School, converting the stage portion of , the KUHS wing which is now a huge gym into additional class ' rooms, building a separate struc ture to house freshmen, or build ing another high school. THESE APPEAR to be the var- J ious propositions being examined by the board at the present time. We can't quarrel with the fact that ah expanded freshman crap looms up for next year. Their figures undoubtedly prove this. ; It appears that, if we are to believe our census figures, most of that additional crop of fresh men will come from the suburban regions. As the situation now exists, grade schools in the city handle grades one through seven, eighth graders go to Fremont and KUHS handles ninth through 12th. IN THE COUNTY, the elemen tary schools handle the first six grades and the next six are housed in -the high school struc ture. At AKamont Junior High, the one exception, the seventh and eighth grades are housed togeth er, the ninth graders moving to KUHS. 1 WE HAVE NO WISH to try to , tell the school administrators how ,' Funtime ACROSS 1 Needle part 1 Golf dub holder 8 Natives o 4 His tun was Lttvi "Fiddler 9 Seed vessel Three'' 10 Talking bird a Lighting devtca 11 Fastens 12 Soma 17 Swimming 13 Off : 14 Great Lake ! 15 Male cat 1 16 Tallinn umbrage IS Groupa of ntnt 30 Book o maps 21 Appropriate 22 Newt 24 Container 19 Fencing awards 23 Eating fun 24 For bridge players' fun 25 Century plant 26 Donkevs 27 Tuneful 28 Toward the sheltered side 29 For throwing M Bewildered fun 27 Alice's "Hatter" 51 lltty 90 Foreigners 32 Girls name 34 Waken SS Truer 38 Political party (ab.l 37 Heroic feat 35 Keats, for Inttane 40 Rapid 41 Couch 43 Coat with oxide 49 Took exception Si Baseball term 83 Eve susseattveljr S3 Rent 84 Last month (ab 83 Golf mounds 88 Love god 87 Prosecute DOWN 1 Stop 3 Soon ' 1 Place for athletic fun 4 Gem weight 5 Was obligated acotu&o : THE VIEW FROM HERE ...by F.L.W. KUHS Space Shortage Dictates New Moves to handle their problems. These are situations in which they are well trained and well versed. ' IT DOES SEEM, though, that the present time is a good time to search for a permanent solu tion to some of these problems, not just a temporary one to get us over the next year or two: The problem of reorganization is one that has stymied the city system from adopting a 6-3-3 ap proach to education as is the case in most other communities. Yet, logic would argue that if the freshmen were taken out of KUHS and teamed with the sev enth and eighth grades in a three grade junior high system, it would relieve the pressure on both the elementary schools and the high school. IT IS ARGUED that since the KUHS district overlaps the coun ty elementary district, problems would be encountered in trying to realign the educational structure. This may be true, but it would seem that some compromise plan could be worked out. RATHER THAN THE COST of building a new high school, it would seem that Pondcrosa could be completed into a junior high school to house three grades, and, if necessary, another junior high school be built to house addi tional students. Such a move would swing the system into a 6-3-3 system and prepare it for future expansion, both in the grade schools and in the high school. IT COMES as a disappointment , to the public to be told that the space situation at KUHS is criti cal. The public was led to under stand that when the new wing of the high school was built it would . take care of the future needs of the school for some time. Now, just a few short years Answer to Previous Puizle 33 Yawned 38 Motor part 40 Destinies 41 Portends 42 Kind of check 43 Incite 44 Play part 48 Fiddling Roman emperor 47 Bantu 48 DirmnuUv suffix 30 Female saint lab.) sol.o xj-n jl akba m ..r land iESi.'rio !!llDLN TDIl k a m a n let i-ariliSLeN or t a fo A T Its sTl TS m a" aj T w. int i o t t o i reir i BtrjMef rj It a BT P dcltaQai IAIv it"!'"0' gig P a 5 1 late j-rln.lw.le I Jajjt SJpFn rrr 1-5 it r 1 11 is nj ni n n n n n r n IT r- a 11 i JTS" ' ' str -1 rprp- n if - a sH 5T- s : R J7 if-" 55 ' 1 If 1" If -J ' iriu iu -it If irpr a : io -sr- 55 53 S SS 3 57 later, we are faced with a space shortage again. , WE WOULD ONLY CAUTION against the adoption of any tem porary measures. We would also urge the school boards, county, high school and city, to take the bull by the proverbial horns and get our school situation straight ened out so that we have an or derly, organized plan for future growth. ; LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Box Canyon The Department of Natural Re sources and Beaches and Parks are awaiting word from Siskiyou County on the subject of suitable locations for state parks. There are several of these favorable lo cations within the county. There seems to be some confu sion as to what the status of the Box Canyon Project will be, if and when it is built. I do not believe that any of us visualized this project as a state park. There are many reasons why this project should be carried out by the state on the basis of j its worth as a recreation poten tial, flood control, and storage of water, which would be 1,040-acre surface, and would impound 85, 000 acre feet. The tipper Feather River has five upstream projects, three of which were dedicated primarily to recreation. The upper Sacra mento River has none above Shasta Dam. It is true a feasi bility survey is being conducted on the Box Canyon Project. This could have, and probably would have, been completed had our senatorj given the matter the at tention he did the defunct Copco Dam Project or had he given it anywhere near the support that has been given by Assemblywom an Pauline Davis. Here are a few of the many reasons I believe Box Canyon should not be a state park. On account of the easy accessibility, and the short distance from ma jor transportation this lake which would be filled with clear moun tain spring water would have a shore line of approximately 15 miles, practically every foot of it is good building terrain, water can be brought frAm Castle and Scotts Creek on the west, and there are two possible potable water supplies on the east. The shore linos would for the most part be high, dry and firm. Many summer homes would spring up around the lake, and thus in crease our income from property taxes. Instead of helping a state park would take the load off the tax roll. The major portion of the shore line could, if a road were built across the dam, be reached in 10 to 13 minutes by car. 9 The road to Castle Lake about I By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA)-An ex elusive transcription from an imaginary recording of a conver sation that never took place be tween two bus riders, on the day sketches of the proposed Frank lin D. Roosevelt memorial were printed in the papers: First bus rider, unfolding his paper: "Good gosh." ' Second bus rider: "What's the matter, now?" "Look at this." "What is it?" ','It's a memorial to F.D.R. they're going to build -in Wash ington at a cost of 2Vi million dollars." "Did he design it? With a ouija board?" "No. It looks like the Republi cans did. For revenge." "Looks like the end of civiliza tion after being struck by a hydro gen bomb." "That's too colossal for even F.D.R. to think of." "Well then maybe it's just a pictorial progress report on Wash ington's slum clearance plan. A bulldozer or one of those street ' ripper-uppers has just passed by and they left the slabs of con crete paving standing on end just the way they happened to light. ' Are you sure you read it right?" "Yes, it says here that some of F.D.R.'s famous quotations are going to be carved on the slabs." "You mean the revised version of the ten commandments, like, 'Thou shalt tax and tax! Spend and spend'?" "Roosevelt didn't say that. It was Harry Hopkins. Besides, there are only eight stones, not 10." "Just goes to show what infla tion has done to the Four Free doms." "It looks a little like a modern istic cemetery design." "Oh, I get it now. This is the New Deal graveyard. There's one THE DOCTOR Protect Against By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. - 1 Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Some time between now and next summer, you're going to take quite a beating from an as sailant that has to be magnified more than 40,000 diameters before he can be seen. He may concentrate on your nose and make you a present of the common cold. Or he may call in one of his big brolhers who'll leave you ieeling as if somehow you had gotten into a professional football game and landed on the bottom of every scrimmage,. Each of these ultramicroscopic organisms is a member of the family of fdterable viruses. They've gotten that name because their minute size enables them to pass through the porcelain fillers that are used in bacteriology lab oratories to clear a solution of or dinary microbes like staphylococ ci, streptococci and the various bacilli. And, what's more important, to ' you and me, their minute size enables them to float through the air, make a landing on our nasal passages and wiggle through lin- ing membranes to enter deeper tissues. When they move in on us, they Immediately establish themselves as the greatest "free-loaders" of all time. They're unable to breathe, feed, excrete or even re produce themselves until they hook into one of our cells. Then, without so much as a "by-your-leave," they take everything in six miles west will be improved, and the matter of extending the Castle Crag Park to embrace Cas tle Lake should be explored. This would give vacationists a wonder ful drive from the Mount Shas ta entrance through the mountains to Castclla. and northbound trav elers could leave Highway 99 at Castella, come through the moun tains and strike it again just be low the town of Mount Shasta. Talk about your scenic drives, we would have it. and in connection with the Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl we would really have something to offer the year around. Department of Natural Resources write me they are awaiting recommenda tions from our people for an al ternate state park, since Copco was turned down. Our planning commission, board of supervis ors, and city councils, as well as chambers of commerce should ex tend themselves to see the infor mation is furnished at an early date. This should in my mind include potential park sites, and urge the completion of Box Can yon as described above. W. A. Barr Supervisor, District 2 Mount Shasta, Calif. gravestone for every one of Its late lamented reforms Triple A, the Supreme Court packing plan, the Senate purge, the NRA Blue Eagle recovery plan, WPA, PWA, OPA and that biggest ons over there, that will be for all the little pigs that got plowed un der during the depression." "That's negative. Can't you get a more positive approach? This will memorialize the ones he guessed right on, or that didn't turn out so bad after all." "You mean like the one about, 'I promise every American moth, er that her boys will not be " sent to fight in foreign wars'?" . "You're too cynical. Stomach upset or something? This is sup posed to be inspirational uplift ing." "Inspirational for whom? Ken nedy?" "No. Nixon and the GOP. Get into the spirit of it." "How about calling it, 'Spirit of the New Frontiers'?" "That's better. It looks a littl like 'A Planned Economy.' " "Too subtle. Call it 'Washington Chaos and Confusion.' " "We have enough of that now ' without building a monument lo it, 165 feet high and covering 27 acres." "Why are the stones broken off at the top, dog-eared like?" "That's modern art. Don't you appreciate it?" "That art ain't modern. It's archaeology right out of the dark ages. Easter Island. The Sphinx, Nobody ever figured out what they stood for either." "It says here this was the prize winning design in a nationwide competition." "Oh, brother. I'd hale to sc the ones that didn't win. Who picked this one?" "It was a commission headed by F.D.R.'s old attorney general, Francis Biddle." "That could explain everything. This is where I get off." SAYS . Yourself Viruses sight and contribute nothing w can use. ' I "" Now we could stand their "free loading" and their ingratitude if only they didn't insist on biting the hand that feeds them. And we might even be willing to set tle for the common cold if other wise they would leave us alone. But when they paralyze our young sters with the poliomyelitis virus or go off on a world-wide ram page, as they did in the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic and kill some 20 million persons, that's going much too far. as any reasonable individual will admit. Partly because we can't k'll them without killing our own cells they have hooked into, we haven't worked out an effective offensive against them. With a few minor exceptions, we have no drug, antibiotic or se rum that can mow down an in vading army of influenza or po liomyelitis viruses, or, for that matter, the virus of the common cold. That's why it's so important for you to take protective immuniza tions with flu and polio vaccines, and to see that your children get every bit of protection that's avail able against these "free-loaders." For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "How to Choose Your Fanv ily Doctor," 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 Intrrnatinn.il . Today is Friday. Jan. 13, th 13th, day of the "year with 352 more in 1961. The moon is approaching it new phase. The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Venus and Mars. -On this day in history: In 1733. some 150 English colo nists arrived at Charleston. S C., . with a charter to establish a set tlement in what is now Georgia. In 1834, Horatio Alger, author of "rags-to-riches" stories, was born. In 1864. American composer Stephen Fosler died in Ne York's Bellevue Hospital, with 33 cents in his pocket all the money he had. In 18fi8. the Senate refused to accept President Johnson's ouster of Secretary of War Edwin Stan ton. In 1906. a scientific magazine Scientific American' carried an ad for a radio set for the first time. Thovght for today: Harvard President Charles Eliot said: "In the modern world the intclligencs of public opinion is the one in dispensable condition of o c i a 1 progress." r
