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; 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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."
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