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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1961)
ERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fall, Oro, OAiadarJajMMrjr If, MM Picture Window NOTHING SPECIAL r IW. . s.) Jots, Notes, Scuttlebutt There is every Indication that House Leader R. B; Duncan is going to have more than his share of grief in pushing legislation through the 51st assembly this year. Duncan is enjoying the honor of an tin jprecedented second term as leader of the .House, but it might be a rather empty honor. There are plenty of other Democrats who jvould have taken on the job without any prompting. In addition, despite the close mar gin between House Democrats and Republi cans, Duncan named only one Republican to a committee chairmanship. That probably will not endear him too much to those Republicans who supported his bid for re-election to the top House spot. : . In addition, some Republicans, including Klamath County's Flitcraft and Howe, are .going to give Duncan fits over the proposed : increase in expense allowances for legislators. The people are more than a little concerned 'about the proposal, too. All of those we talked - to at the session opening were dubious about the merits of the expense item. Most common reaction was that the legislators are going : about the thing in a kind of sly way, and that , they would be better off by coming up with an outright raise in pay. .. j; ' Despite the lip service . being paid by fsome, there is not a great deal of enthusiasm for the reorganization changes proposed by ;Gov. Hatfield. In this regard, one hears more ."yes, but . . '," than outright endorsement. Hatfield's advisers, too, aire urging him to go slow. - One of the most disappointed men in Sa lem is Klamath Falls' Carrol Howe, who had hoped to be appointed to the important House Education Committee. He wasn't. With all of his experience in education, it seems ridicu- lous that he was named to other committees on affairs in which he is not so obviously qualified. Observers believe that Howe's out spoken attitude on education matters aroused the concern and ire of "liberal" educators who used their influence to kill possible ap pointment of Howe to the Education Committee. On the other side of the coin is George Flitcraft, who was pleased with at least one committee appointment. He was named to the powerful Taxation Committee, one of several that he requested. . Despite what might be said to the con trary, look for Sen. Harry Boivin to accom plish some legislation on re-apportionment. Sen. Boivin realizes that Eastern Oregon is going to lose some representation in the leg islature, regardless of how re-apportionment is accomplished. He seeks to keep the Eastern Oregon loss to the lowest possible figure. i Labor-management relations, is a topic that will generate much interest and activity in the 51st assembly. Sen. Boivin was chairman of a legislative interim committee which has suggested a state labor law patterned after the provisions of the Landrum-Griffin Act. Changes in the eligibility requirements for workmen's compensation insurance writing are another field in which there will be much controversy. W X Most people who have observed the po litical' scene in Oregon for some years are convinced that this could be one of the most conservative legislatures convened in several years. This, despite the Democratic majority,, which is indeed limited, and what they term the "liberal" attitude of Gov. Hatfield. . Well, we shall see, as the seer said. Who Pays For The Schools? I' There Is need for more Information on ; the subject, but it would appear at first, that residents of Klamath County will want their .'voices heard in the proposal to change the , method of determining basic school support . : funds. . r- i ' There is some difficulty in analyzing con- ' tents of a report of the legislative interim' , committee which advocates the change. Even i school officials, long concerned with such for mulas and proposals, confess some difficulty ' in asspuslno th rhnncM '.'.! ' ; .' : However, it is generally conceded that i Klamath County schools would lose about $200,000 annually under the new formula. I Distribution of basic school support funds .'would be made on an assessment value of 'property throughout the state. Those counties 1 -and districts which' have been taking care of rtheir school problems realistically would lose junder the new plan. Those counties and dis- ' :trlcts which have let their systems go to pot :would benefit. This is because the so-called "wealthier" counties of the state .would be carrying part of the burden of school support for the so-called "poorer" counties. This is the way the program works in stages that have .' school "equalization" in effect. Montana is such a state. It may well be that ,a large majority of the people of Oregon and Klamath County are willing to taxlhemselves more to pay the cost of providing education to children in districts and counties which are not able to provide minimum education. Certainly, it cannot be denied that we are being brain-washed at all I levels of government that we are our broth er's keeper. But, before we in Klamath County are convinced that the proposed equalization Dia gram is good for the state (and, therefore, good for Klamath County) we'd like to see proof that the areas that would get our $200, ' 000 are deserving or in need of it. Until that time, we'd like to keep our money at home, thank you. , llisJ. Commissions Issue Reports; Help Kennedy Get Started By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP)-lt's rain ing recommendations. President-elect John F. Kenne dy, during the campaign and after his election, wanted ideas on how to do better for the government and the people. He wanted them before he was sworn in Jan. 20. So he appointed study groups . which went under various names task force, committee, study panel to look into the problems ' assigned them and come up with proposals. . They're coming in now: recom- ' mendations which range from re organizing the Defense Depart ment to sending I peace corps of ' young Americans to newly, inde pendent Asian and Africa 'coun tries as technicians. ! This is a big ' advantage for Kennedy. It gives him a head tart in putting together programs. .he .can submit to Congress in a hurry..,'' ' ' y President Eisenhower was pro digious in creating commissions but he waited until he moved into - the White House.- The long delay in making some of the studies simply delayed action on the prob lems. The last Eisenhower com mission on national goals re ported Dec. 1. . Right now in Washington 2.500 people from all over the country are taking part in a conference on the problems of aging. Con gress wanted this one and Eisen hower had to call it. When there's a conference this size on any problem there should be no surprise if the result is hash. ' The unknown quantity about the recommendations being given Kennedy is what he will do with them when he gets into the White House. , ' For instance:-- A committee headed by Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., was the first group to re port and called for a reorganiza tion of the Defense Department. Symipgton, under President Truman, had been secretary of the Air Force and knows1 the in ner workings of the Pentagon. But Kennedy was careful not to give the Symington report a hearty endorsement. He hadn't yet selected his sec retary of defense, so he didn't know how he'd feel about it. He finally made Robert S. McNamara secretary, and McNamara to far has exhibited no enthusiasm for Symington's ideas. On the other hand Kennedy ap pointed a one-man committee, James M. Landis, a former Har vard Law School dean, to look . into the government's regulatory agencies and make suggestions on improving them. THE DOCTOR SAYS ... 'Cloud Surgeons', May Carry Germs , Those agencies such as the In terstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Power Commission, the Federal Communications Com missionhave controls 'in most1 areas of American life. Landis. who had once worked among them himself he is a for- ' mer chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission turned in a bristling criticism on the operations of these govern ment agencies with proposal for improving them. Kennedy promptly assigned . Landis the job of overhauling them. This won't be easy since Congress will have a strong say . in any change. The latest study group's report1 on welfare came Tuesday with i recommendations which suggested a broad expansion of Social Se curity, publx assistance, unem ployment pay, medical education, and immediate passage by Con gress of a program Kennedy him self unsuccessfully backed last year in the Senate a medical care program for the aged tied . to Social Security. This very subject is under dis cussion now at Eisenhower's con ference on .the aging. Other Kennedy groups have giv en him recommendations on dis tressed areas, the nation's econ omy, education, housing and the peace corps. But the quick work of these study groups will let Kennedy lay down programs to Congress faster than Eisenhower did when he took over. Eisenhower, starting out, had his hands full with Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the Korean War.. The recent accident involving the school bus near Gilchrist ' poults up a situation I read about recently. School bus transporta tion is by no means as safe as parents have been led to believe. In 1959, with 45 states reporting on U millioc riders, there were 29 deaths on buses, 35 fatalities approaching or - leaving buses, ' 1,580 cases of injury on buses, and a startling total of 7,186 ac cidents. The 1959-60 school year promises 'to be a . shocker, But statistics won't be available for' some time, and it is not likely that they will be complete. We know more about whisky con-' sumption than we do about school bus accidents. We don't claim to know everything that goes on all of the time. Ic (act, if it were not for interested readers, of ficials and informants, we'd ' have a real hard time getting any local . news la the paper, even though an energetic staff ' works hard 24 hours a day, try ing to keep abreast. One thing we will not do, under any cir cumstances, - it "fabricate" a "story" that simply isn't there. We wait until a story has de-, veloped belnre we print it. That way. our readers know that we aren't speculating ' and hoping that a rumor is made fact be fore the story hits the streets and hornet. There are news- papers, I know, that can turn the barest rumor Into a dra matic "newt story" with little effort and no conscience. Something to think about is the find of archaeologists digging in the layers of ancient civiliza tions in the Euphrates Valley. Un covered in succession: A layer of agrarian culture 8,000 years old, a layer of herdsman culture 12,000 years old, and a layer of cavemen culture many years old er. Beneatli this, they uncovered another layer sand fuses into a peculiar type and shade of green glass which they had seen for the first time in the desert sand of New Mexico where the first atom bomb had been exploded. I'm not too bright, and not hep at . all, so I often wonder just . what fun some of these young guys get . out of zooming their specially-equipped autos up and down Main Street, screeching through intersections, and occupy ing valuable parking and driving, spaces on the thoroughfare. I'm not talking about the "right" to do so just asking what sense it makes. I'd like to get more items on "good" things that local people . do in this column. Little things that do not make news stories, but which point up the basic good ness and friendliness of people. We gel enough of the bad every day. Also overlooked, generally, is the generous public-spirited at titude of many persons who do not make the news columns. You probably know of some right now. Let me know. I am mindful of the miter who moved to New England. All BARBS Canadian Province Answer to ProvMut runio : A bargain sale is when a woman .can have one coat torn off her in order to get into the rush and buy another., You figure this one; a girl steps into society by coming out. Vitamin A postpones the process of aging. How do you apply it to the kids' shoes? ' : Real wealth is a state of mind, says a professor. Just mind your dol lars and cents. If some folks didn't have troubles they'd have an awful time carrying on :a conversation. Find fault with others and your, 'friends know that you have at least one of your own. ; How about passing a labor law that prohibits kids from working their par ents to death? '' American children are the health iest In the .world, says a doctor.' 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HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. r Regular readers of these col umns may recall the report of "cloutl babies" who bring home hospital acquired staphylococci and (hen proceed to produce in fections in various members of the household .4 As the result of an investiga tion conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Public Health Service and the staff of the St. Joseph's Infirmary of Atlanta, Ga., "cloud babies" now are joined by "cloud surgeons" as innocent carriers of infection. ' Briefly stated, the attention of the Atlanta investigators was called to an increasing number of "staph" infections in surgical wounds. The group suspected a human source. By a combination of Sherlock Holmes-like deduc tions and laboratory tests, the fin go of suspicion pointed to a stall member, designated Surgeon C in the report. It was found that cultures of his. nose. face and hands wcr( laden with the particular strain of staphylococci responsible for all wound infectious. . When this information bee a m e available. Surgeon C was sent on a three week vacalion. During this period he was vigorously treated with antibiotics. And, while he was absent from the infirmary, post operative uxKind infections ceased to appear. On his return. Surgeon C was subjected to an intensive re-c.v animation. Wlien the infecting ' strain of staphylococci could no longer be. demonstrated, Surgeon C was permitted to return to his duties For several months there after, there, were no further in fections. , After six months of uninter rupted wo ind healing, a pair of postoperative infections was ob served. Cultural studies were re sumed. And, once again, Surgeon C was found to be the healthy ' and innocent carrier of the par ticular staphylococcal strain pres ent in the Infected wounds. Again the - "cloud surgeon" ab-, scnted himself. And, with his de parture, the 'problem of wound infections ceased to exist. Apart from the practical value of these studies in the prevention of postoperative complications, publication of this report in the journal of the American Medi cal Association is an achievement to which every physician may point with great pride. A little more than 100 years ago. Dr. Ignaz Philipp Semmel weis w as driven from his post in ' Vienna for daring to snggest that puerperal or childbirth lever was caused by mysterious agents (now identified as streptococci), carried to the delivery room by physi cians who had recently attended autopsies. And. in Americana group of prominent physicians demanded that Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes resign his professorship at the Harvard Medical School when he spoke and wrote in defense of his European colleague. Now, a century later, acting on behalf of patients throughout the world, (he Georgia investigat ors and the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Associ ation unhesitatingly publish Infor mation that their colleagues of a 100 years ago would have fought to suppress, in n mistaken belief tltat they were acting in the "best interests" of their profession. a ) YOUR POCKETBOOK How Mrs. Typical' Manages Finances, By FAYE HEM.E How does Mrs. "Typical Amer ican Homemaker" handle her pocketbook problems? This being the age of comput ers, Mrs. "Typical" popped out of a survey done for Sales Manage ment Magazine by National Opin ion Survey, Inc. She is Mrs. John Dudra, moth er of three and. a resident of Pana, III. (pop. 6.178). Mr. Dudra is an ex-professional ball player, now an oil refinery mechanic. Mrs. Dudra doesn't budget. She admits she is having a tough time saving. When she manages to salt a few dollars away, they go into the company credit union to earn 34 per cent. The Dudra family has a check ing account too and she is the bookkeeper. Wrhat other kind of records does she keep? "I keep receipts just to be able to remember what we paid for things or in case anything goes wrong with a purchase. We have few deductions that we can take on our income tax. ' "We pay bills before we put money into savings. We decide how much we want to spend for what. After that there are not too 'many dollars left to worry about." ' Does she use credit? "Without it we couldn't have bought our . new refrigerator." Credit for teen-agers? "Gra cious, not" she exclaimed. Her 14-year-old gets a $1.25 weekly allowance to do - with as she chooses. Insurance? With confidence Mrs. ' "Typical" reported that her hus- -band is paying on a 20 payment life policy. The family's health insurance comes from his em ployer who also will pay him a pension when he retires. . "No, I don't know the details of the pension plan although I read it once," Mrs. Dudra con fessed, "but we don't worry too much about the future. We haven't given any real thought to college for the children so, of course, we haven't started saving for it." Mrs. "Typical" has no plans for going back to work when her children are older. Before she married she w as a legal sten ographer. She is dead set against "baby sitters rearing my chU dren" and believes that a wom an's place is in the home. (Mr. Dudra was baby-sitting while she was feted In Manhattan.) Are the Dudra's share owners? "I've read about owning stocks." she said, "but I've read that you should not buy stocks unless you are prepared to do without the money you invest. We can't af ford anything like that." Has she any hobbies? With a house, a garden and three chil dren to watch she finds time only , for the local PTA. for recruiting blood bank donors and for solicit ing for the Red Cross and Com munity Chest. he wanted to d wan u mru. but the neighbors thought (he land ought to be utrd. whai you going t raise?" asked a farm neighbor. The writer kaeir that the ilmple truth, "I want to write," would not do. H remembered that hit wife had taid something about the city lng no place to bring children. " "I'm goln? to raise children, he answered. 7 The farmer tpat. He was un- -impressed. "Around here," he tald, "we look on thai aa m sideline." , Along the same lines is Ih story about the recruit who had finished his physical and was be ing question! by a sergeant, who asked: "Did you go. to grammar school?" "Yes sir. I also went through high school, graduated cum laude from college, completed three years of graduate studies, and t then received two years at Pur due, two at Vanderbilt, and two more at Wabash." , The sergeant nodded, reached for a rubber stamp, and slapped it on the questionnaire. It con sisted of one word, "Literate.": f. This must be a confusing situa tion to our youngsters. On the on hand we have many national leaders, including President-elect Kennedy, saving that our young people are flabby-physically and morally: Then, we have many of those same leaders, as well as many others, who insist that' we do everything for them. That w must provide and maintain "tha good life." We have reached tha almost ridiculous stage where it is improper for a teen - ager to learn to work with his hands. Too many of our young men will go into life without tha slightest knowledge or skill to earn a living. One of the interesting things I have noticed in my visits to various slate legislatures is that the trading stamp companies hava their lobbyists at every session, and those who are opposed hava) their lobbyists, too. Of special in terest is that these lobbyists, though supposedly bitter oppon ents, are more than casual ac quaintances when it comes right down to cases. One thing I'll bet: that the trading stamp issua will never be settled by any legis lature. I don't give a hoot how the argument comes out, but I often wonder just what good tha trading stamps are. And I'll bet that If you asked any merchant who hat them, ! he'll come right out and tell you he'd like to get rid of tha things. A recent study by medical doS1 tors ot automobile drivers comes up with a conclusion lhat, "Tha great flaw in present laws . . . is the strange assumption that a person, once licensed to drive, continues to be an able driver for the remainder of his life . . ." In the study, 27,411 drivers an swered the questions, which showed that of 16.903 persons in volved in an accident, 1,591 were "repeaters," their second accident I within a six-momh period. An other 1.230 drivers said it was their second accident within a year. Of the 16,903 drivers involved ' in accidents, 7,934 were in tha ' 25-44 age group, 3,480 were ill the 45-64 age group, and one out of every 24 accidents involved a ' person over 65. Thoughts And the king said to him, Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziha shall divide the land. n Samuel 19:29. Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.-Andrev Jackson. ' And when he drew near and taw the city he wept over It Luke 19:41. ' There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of wet ness but of power. They spfllc more eloquently than ten thou sand tongues. They are the mes sengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, of unspeakabla love. Washington Irving. You shall eat the fruit of th labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall be be well with you. Psalmt 128:2. ' Blessed is the man who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessedness. Know thy work, and do it: and work at K hka Hercules. One monster there is in the world-the idle man. Thomas Carlyle. -
