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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1961)
I PAOB KERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregoi Monday, January 16, 161 EDSON IN WASHINGTON ' United Nations Is Problem For, Kennedy I I President Charles de Gaulle unquestion ably is now embarking upon what must in evitably be the most critical days of his entire career as leader of France. Algeria, everyone understands, is France's toughest problem. The referendum De Gaulle has won on the issue does not solve it in any degree. It is simply a mandate to him to continue trying to solve it. De Gaulle won the mandate partly be cause he made it a clear test of his leader ship. Most Frenchmen grasped the fact that they have no really effective alternative to the austere general. They were not prepared to rebuff him. ! They appreciate, too, that they cannot stand still on the Algerian issue. They may not like the direction in which De Gaulle pro poses to move toward a strong measure of Algerian self-determination but they know they cannot live forever with the terrible ec onomic and military drain Algeria now repre sents. How it will be ended is still the great puzzle. The Algerian rebels, despite De The windstorm of late . wreaked havoc with the business area of the city. Shoppers were beset by an onslaught of sawdust that made the air in the downtown frea almost unbearable. ; In addition to the normal amount of dirt ind paper that assaulted the area, everyone had to contend with flying particles of saw dust which attacked the face and the eyes. ; When the wind subsided, sawdust was piled up in almost every corner of Main Street. Curbs were lined with it and every one wondered what could be done about such are-occurrence. Unquestionably, the major source of the sawdust was the huge pile at Consumer's Heat ing Company. It falls proy to any busy wind and creates an uncomfortable situation. ' In former years, it was a "black" snow" situation from the company's huge smoke stacks that created difficulties. However, it must be pointed out in all fairness that the company spent quite a few thousand dollars Just to correct this situation. They cut their stacks down and Installed g?j Men Some psychiatrist are worried because the new American male tacks aggression. He is becoming too polite, too sweet, too easily turned away from his goals. Our omenGod help us! now have more aggression than the men. They are bolder, brassier, and more ready to fight for the things they want Once, they wore a mantle of lovely ignorance, i There is a joke about a fat man sitting in his socks in front of a television set. His wife walked across the room and Slapped him. He looked up and growled: "What's that for?" She trembled with rage. "That," she said, "is because, you kiss lousy." He sat back and watched the how awhile. 'Then he stood, walked across (he room to where she sat, and iauled off and belted her. fWhat's that for?" she said. . I "That," he said, "is for know ing the diflerence." ; Man has always kept his wom an Ignorant, because what she didn't know couldn't hurt him. The ladies used to brag that they fcnew nothing oxcept what their mothers and husbands taught them. The men of those times were more aggressive and it was not unusual for a boy with only four years of schooling to rise to the top of the heap and become millionaire. The women could afford to be passive. They could ixprcss their own secret aggres sions by forcing their husbands to do their bidding, j It was a nice sort of life that .way. The men were men; t h omen were ladies. Aggression Is not belligerence, nor bad man ners, nor pugnactousncss. It is a manly desire to cherish and pro tect and dominate a family and lo , go out in the world and fight for the good things for them. - Is Dr. William Glasscr'i new Chance At A Miracle Sawdust Storm JIM BISHOP: REPORTER . . Abdicate Leaaersnip i o book. Mental Health or Mental Illness? (Harper), he says it suc cinctly: "All civilized societies are continually caught in a basic dilemma: the need to curb ag gressiveness to the point where it docs not harm others yet not curb It to the point where it ceas es to function for the good of the individual." Nations that become soft and eflcte almost always fall under the heels of more aggres sive countries. In America, it is considered smart to avoid military service. A young man who says: "I'm patri otic. I want to serve my coun try" could be put away. The clever boy tries to figure a way of being turned down for military service. He is also less prone to fight for his girl, a new job, a raise in salary, knowledge, competitive sports. Some of the blame, I think, is on the mothers. Many of them try to create sissies in their own Image rather than in (he image of the fathers. The moro religious the mother is Uie more inclined she is to emasculate her sons. My mother used to watch me preen for a date. When I got the coat and the hat on. and the tie was properly disposed, I would kiss her goodnight. "Be a gentle man." she would say. "Treat the girl as though she was your sis ter." I used to get so irritated that I'd say: "If she was my sis ter, I wouldn't go out with her." Dr. Glassot points out that the women now outnumber tlic men, and lltcy have learned to be ag gressive for themselves. Most mo tion pictures and television shows that depict family life show the mother as the dominating influ- ence and the man as a bumbling, good-natured idiot. It wasn't that way in our house. My fallier ruled the roost and the issue was never in doubt Gaulle's many sincere overtures, have not yet come to the bargaining table. The blood shed goes on. Tens of thousands of less violent Mos lems in Algeria declined to take part in the big referendum. No one knows to what ex tent, if any, they will now participate in the various Algerian assemblies which must be formed if self-determination is to become the reality De Gaulle seeks. On the other side, it is thoroughly plain that the Europeans in Algeria, not to mention strong elements in the French army, are still substantially opposed to any solution which gives the Algerian Moslems the inevitable as cendancy their numbers warrant. In virtually every approach he has made to the Algerian problem, De Gaulle has proved himself pre-eminently the statesman. But to crack this major dilemma seems to require nothing less than the powers of a miracle maker. A large share of the population in France and Algeria have given De Gaulle the addi tional opportunity he demanded to attempt the miracle. filter chambers to absorb the "black snow." This helped a great deal and they are to be commended for their actions. However, it would seem that this pile of sawdust could be kept wet on top, holding down the pile. We realize that the company is not in the weather forecasting business and can't predict when winds are going to blow up, but a certain amount of wind is con stant in this country and precautions should always be taken to keep the pile from blowing down on unsuspecting citizens. We do not want to harass the company unduly because we're glad they are operating here, but it would seem something should be done about this problem which caused con siderable cost to the city and businessmen in cleaning the sawdust from the streets. Even the grimmest situation, however, has a humorous side, A visitor to the city inquired, "Do you always put sawdust on your streets and sidewalks when it, becomes slippery?" Being imbued with a certain onse of civic pride, what could we answer? Role Of Women The most Important element In making a man is not victory, - but defeat. II I had a son who played football, I would hope that. In the first season at least, he would get his brains knocked out. No man learns from triumph. If , he can como back after a beat-, ing, spitting mud from between his .teeth, he has learned lesson number one. Some psychiatrists have a ten dency to write off male aggres sion as a lost cause. They feel that if wo are going to have a race of hypersensitive men with their own special hair-do's, why fight it? Some of our boys are so pretty (hat it makes one think that mother got her wish when she prayed for a girl. This, as a national calamity, is no worse than the psychiatrists who have written off God as wish ful thinking. One psychiatrist was in Haiti, where voodoo rites are practiced. He met a witch doctor and studied the array of gods worshipped by the natives. "How cap you obey so many idols?" the psychiatrist asked. The witch doctor grinned. "We aren't half as obedient to these gods," he said, "as you Ameri cans are to the one you have strapped on your wrist." THEY SAY... The political tensions between ' our countries exist at a very high level .... so we did not expect it down among the physi cists. Russian physicist S. Y. Nlkl tin. visiting Stanford I., on the absence of cold war la the sci entific ""rid. Creeping Capitalism" ' j THE SOMETIMES it takes a new ap proach to make an idea work. This was particularly true of the Klamath Auditorium. FOR THE LAST few years, the Old Armory, as many still call it, has been a while elephant. It was built initially in a joint ef fort by Die city of Klamath Falls and the county. In the ensuing years since its construction in Uie 30s. it has been used, primarily for such things as dancing and boxing and wrestling, and occasionally for large convention gatherings. But its use in recent years was Al manac By United Press International Today is Monday, Jan. 16, the 16lh day of the year with 349 . more in 1961. The inoori is new. The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Mars and Venus. On this day in history: In 1770. the organist in New York City's Trinity Church played part of Handel's Messiah, the first such performance in Amer ica. In 1SR3, the rcndlcton Act pro vided for (ho U.S. Civil Service Commission. In 1020, the Volstead Act to en force the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting manufac ture, sale or transportation of in toxicating liquors, went into ef fect. In 1!M2, actress Carole Lom bard and her mother and 20 other passengers were killed ' when a commercial airliner crashed, near Las Vcgr.s, Nov. Thought for today: English au thor Francis Bacon said: "Re venge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to. the more ought law to weed it out." Getting Around ACROSS 1 Thoroughfare for celling around S Vehicles for Colling around . 9 Public transportation moans 12 Sea eagle 13 In a line 14 Monkev 15 Act without speech - 4 Restrain 5 Machine part 6 Ascends 7 Italian city 8 Sugarv 9 Cellars 10 Toisonous plant 11 Stitches 16 Drug 20 Heavy cords 22 Csed for gelling around on snow 24 Rranlian city 25 State 26 I nearths 17 1 arpenler i tool js shecnliko lo nrpuse 19 Fortune teller 51 Oct up 23 Male cat 24 Cushion 27 And 29 Nuisance 3.' C.ct around by air 34 Austrian eity 36 Slopped hile gelling around 37 Slud 3fi Seed vessel 39 Moral wrongs 41 Health resort 42 Pile N 44 Seines 46 Condiments 49 Weird 63 Malt beverage M la again visible SSGood hrle getting around the golf course. 5? Serf M Kxpletive 59 Abstract being 60 Routes iab I 61 Oriental coins DOWN 1 Corded titirici J Spoken 1 Briuaa princes 30 Crack 31 Legendary Irish castie hook or maps VIEW FROM HERE ...by Fiw. Use Of Auditorium Proves Paying Plan dwindling, and yet the cost of maintenance and upkeep was quite a figure. Each year, the city and the county each put up $1,500 for operation of the building. THEN, George Price, recrea tion director, came up with the suggestion that it should be turned into a civic activity center. He told both the council and t h e county court that he felt it could be made to pay its own way. Despite doubts of this optimis tic an estimate, . both bodies agreed to add $1,000 to their an nual allowance for the building to give Price a chance to work out his idea. The understanding w-as that he would try it for a year' and Uien the results would be re-assessed. THE OTHER DAY, Price is sued a six-month report on the progress of his use of the Klam ath Auditorium. It was a success ful report, with income (or the period from July 1 to Dec. 31 totalling $1,928.46 and expenses of $1,725.57. This meant that the auditorium had not only paid its own way, but had shown a net profit of about $200 in that period of time. HOWEVER, this docs not mean that the operation can continue to maintain such an excellent show inc. There are heat problems in con nection with the building which will be heavy between now and spring, and other maintenance items that could force the de partment to dip into the funds added by the city and the county before the year is up. NEVERTHELESS, if one sur veys the activities that the depart ment has interested in using the facilities, it also becomes appar ent that the venture is extremely successful, not just from the fi nancial viewpoint, but also from the viewpoint of providing addi- Answer to Previous Pmzto 35 Foot part 40 Demented 47 Wolf hound 46 Nuisance 50 I'nusual 51 Persia 52 Superlative suffixes S5 Footlike part 43 Moro unadulterated 45 Plants 46 Sleeveless garment (HAIUl IFIAIXI w i klel&l agI I It A Ttgf O R A L E vmi a xde u s o m x hi Hela w nBt f m a nti a una r o & e i lCA P. I. 5 JJ"IJ A eTE ImTT sf aaJ ibT a" y IoTd aV t e C Jer e ipia r xL sl anMp' e 2.2.. f . v Be wIa gll it R JS " C AKN ELATE U T g Ec H T eii-lMielRl iRlglUEtAte ft 12 J 14 I Is S ) S llO 111 12" il it is J" r? il Wr? M 2i 22 na 1 iTST "SD25"- s hi a ns-ir pi 15r WJJ 44 1 1 ' TJJ 4 Pli 50 '(I S2 53 54 56 g a a as si l 1 .1 ' ' ' i i i i tional impetus to community rec reational activities. ACTIVITIES in the building run the whole scale from kindergarten activity to meetings of the Golden Age Club. Twenty seven children attend the pre-schoo! play school. Over 130 teenage boys participate in the play of the Victory League basketball group, and 120 men of the City League practice there. Hi-nite is another popular fea ture with as many as 200 high school students attending this function. The baton and marching class es draw 50 young ladies, and 35 persons take part in the work of the Pelican Players, a theatri cal group. The list goes on and on. FIGURES kept by the depart ment record the tremendous in crease in use that the building has had since this venture was launched. In July 800 attended activities there. This figure had risen to 1.000 by October and it reached the tremendous figure of 5.000 dur ing the month of December. These figures will, of necessity, decline during the summer months when the accent is on out-of-doors play, but they tell a graphic figure. OUR CONGRATULATIONS to Price and his staff for doing an excellent job of turning this white elephant ititn an active, going facility that is providing new push for our community activities. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Interpretation An incident which occurred re cently I believe deserves to be brought to the attention of a civic body, such as yours. Although trivial in itself, it could have considerable bearing, if repeated, on the good feeling prevailing be tween the residents of the Cali fornia portion of this Basin and your merchants. On Dec. 13 my farm truck, while on the way to Klamath Falls, was stopped and the driver given a ticket because of the stoplight not working. Although it was merely a matter of a damp or poor connection caused by tho recent storm and easily remedied. I appeared in the district court and readily paid a $7.50 fine. Three days later my same truck in nearly the same locale was asain stopped. This time the crime was no PUC. whatever that may be. The facts were that I was merely hauling a small load of government potato crates to the Martin Green ranch to be filled with their potatoes for ship, ment to the Quartermaster's De partment of the Army. This load originated in California and I did not charge .Martin Green & Sons one cent for the use of the truck. Again I was cited to appear Into your district and cgain lined. During the argument I posed the question that should I enter Ore gon, buy a load of material and exceed the gross weight of 6.0TO pounds, would I be required to have a TL'C permit? Both the By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON NEA-As the Kennedy administration prepares to take over, it begins to appear that new policies must be adopt ed for dealing with if not solv ingsome of Its more pressing problems in the United Nations. The idea is growing that the United States can't do everything alone. It must rely increasingly on the world organization. The General Assembly is in re cess until March. ThU gives ad . ministration time to get its house in order. But problems in Cuba, Laos, the Congo and elsewhere will come before the Security Council, demanding immediate at tention. This prospect comes at a time when the very existence of the U.N. itself seems threatened. Tho General Assembly record from last September through Decem ber was not too reassuring. The Security Council was fre quently immobilized. The secre tary general was under attack. The Soviet Union in effect ex tended its veto power into the General Assembly. Costs of maintaining peace forc es in the Congo which the Rus sians refuse to share are great er than the rest of the U.N. budg et. So the organization faces bankruptcy. The first 15 years of United States participation in the U.N. may be considered something of a honeymoon. In this period the United States never cast a veto and never lost a vote. But the West is losing its ma jority in the U.N. to the new countries in Asia and Africa. The showdown may come soon, if the United States turns up on the losing side of a vote. There may be some public cla mor then for us to pull out of the U.N. But that is irrational if the U.N. is considered essential to established world order. Since it has been found impos sible to amend the U.N. charter, the hope for the United States lies in being able to influence THE DOCTOR SAYS . . . Operation Often Not Satisfactory By HAROLD T. HVMAN, M.D. Written for NEA From a desperately unhappy housewife of West Palm Beach, Fla., comes the following: "My husband and I have not been able to get along together for the pas! five years. Because we have three lovely children we have tried to keep together until they are old enough to go off to school or college. But it's just no use and I'm convinced it would be better all around if my hus band and i got a divorce since the atmosphere in our home is terrible. "The children don't know which way to turn. They go out as much as they can. And when they're home, they're afraid to say a word for fear of hurting the feelings of their mother or their father. "But here's the difficulty. My' husband has a duodenal ulcer. And every time I mention separa tion or divorce to him. his ulcer kicks up and I have lo put him back on hio diet and his pow dors. Don't you think it would be better for him to have the operation and get it over once and for all rather than keep on like this?" Whoa, dear "housewife." Bet ter hold everything until you've thought your problem through. First of ail. do you think there's a possibility that there may be some causa! relationship between your marital difficulties and your district attorney and the judge admitted that the issue was not clear and even the state police officer present stated that in that case maybe it might be only a technical violation and could be overlooked. The only clear part of the en tire matter, as I see it. is that I was out several hours of time and a srt.all sum of money. The injustice of the matter seemed perfectly apparent. The prospect of future harass ment by your law enforcing and judicial asencies will certainly de ter me from any immediate pur chases of heavy materials from the Oreron side of the line. I had in mind the purchase of lum ber and sheet metal for a small structure to be built on Shasta Lake 1 am quite convinced that I will not be bothered if I go to Redding. I am sincerely sorry to have to bring this matter to your at tention. I am quite sure it is not the intent of your many fins business people that California residents should be subjected to "such an unfair interpretation of the law. - George G. Yost Tulelake, Calif. the attitudes of the uncommitted and neutral nations. This may call for new strategy and tactics. The idea of carrying on the cold war in the U.N. may have to be suspended. The new na tions want no part of it. What they are interested in is improv ing their own internal conditions. The U.N. offers opportunities for the approach of helping its member states. The problem of President Ken nedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador to the U.N. - Adlai Stevenson is to restore the image of the United States as a tower of strength and the hope of the future for those countries which may feel that our leader ship is not what it used to be. The problem is no longer to win them as allies in the cold war but lo protect them from the Communist East. Underdevel oped countries in particular need this U.N. shield. This may lead to greater dis tribution of aid through the U.N. than from the United States alone. The objection to this is that Amer ican dollars should not be spent without American control. The so lution may be to avoid giving the U.N. responsibilities it cannot properly administer. It can operate successfully through the World Bank and soma of its other specialized agencies. But resolutions which ask the General Assembly to decide is sues on which it lacks compe tence or which ask the sec retary general to carry out tasks he can't perform are useless. . All this must be worked out in a vacuum until the new ad ministration can decide for itself what the Russians really want. It must be determined to what extent Russia wishes to extend or contract the cold war and to what extent it really wants dis armament. If the Kremlin policy Is ana lyzed as a continuation of tho usual Communist tactics of par ticipating in an organization mere ly to destroy before taking it over, then new policies must be devised to save the United Nations. husband's ulcer flare-ups? This consideration is not intended to place blame or lake sides. It does raise the important question as to a possible relationship between an organic disease (soma) and an emotional trigger (psychosomatic illness). For, if this possibility exists, removing the ulcer is tackling the prob lem at Ihe wrong end. It's al most like amputating the foot to get relief from (he pain of a bunion. Secondly, you are misinformed if you think the operation is cura tive in all instances. Here are some facts about surgery for the patient with duodenal ulcer: The immediate postoperative mortalily is 3.8 per cent under best auspices And probably high er nationwide. In a ten-year follow-up study. Dr. Kiefer of Boston's Lahcy Clinic reported 13.4 per cent ul cer recurrences, a weight reduc tion of more than 10 pounds in 34 per cenl, unpleasant postopera tive distress in 14 per cent, and inability lo resume the usual oc cupation in 10 per cent. And in confirmation of the Kiefer findings. Dr. Harold Har vey of New York's Presbyterian Hospital reports an "incidence of 15 to 20 per cent unsatisfactory results" following the classic op eration for duodenal ulcer. Now in view of these less op timistic facts about a surgical . ulcer cure, don't you think you and your husband would be wiser to see what can be done to patch up your marital difficulties? You may not know it but you have at your disposal, at little or no cost, the facilities of the Family Serv ice Association of America, a non profit organization sponsored by great industrialists and labor leaders. To avail yourselves of their wonderful services, write their main office al 215 Park Avenue South, New York City 3, N.Y., and you'll be directed to which ever of their 290 member agen cies is nearest to your home. Dear Reader: Dr. Hyman ap preciates your comments and questions but regrets that t h e heavy volume of his mail doesn't permit htm to answer each in dividual letter or post card. How ever, he will comment in col umns like the above upon mat ters of general or unusual in terest. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "Understanding Mental Ill ness," send 10 cents to Dr. Hy man, care of the Herald and News, Box m. Dept. B. Radio City Station. New York 19, N.Y.
