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r BERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls.- Ore. Friday, January 20, 1MI 1 EDSON IN WASHINGTON Ike's Budget Glues Kennedy On Problem rim (pom ; It is amazing and discouraging to ob serve that the National Education Association and its affiliates persist in their attempts to : obtain additional federal aid to education pro grams. This persistence despite the fact that there is no necessity for an enlarged federal program. Education is primarily a state pro-, ject, and if the states surrender their school responsibility to the federal government, we will surrender the privilege of determining what our children shall be taught, and how they shall be taught. , No educator can convince us that the federal government can: participate in educa tion without running the show. One way or another, with or without legislation, once the federal bureaus get their hands 'on a pro gram they tell the states what to do. There is ample evidence of this fact, and no evidence to refute it. J.. Additionally, we do not think that the ed ucators who are so enthusiastic for federal aid have shown an existing need. Of course, there are some states who do not maintain a level of education at desirable minimums. But, is that any reason for all of the states to be shackled with federal controls? We think not. Let the educators and do-gooders concentrate , their efforts on those states with less than desirable minimums. Let the rest of the . The social scientists have been telling us . for a long time that purs is an aging popula tion, that even as our total numbers boom upward he proportion of elderly people among them is rising more sharply: As has been well and often noted, this trend has many important effects on current and future American life, not the least being its impact on the make-up of the country's workforce. . -With the gradual coming of age of the , persons born in the great baby boom of World War II and its aftermath, the expectation is there will be a veritable flood of job demands. Young people entering the tabor market' . want not only jobs, but opportunities for-ad- ., vancement. For the most talented, the pros pect of going all the way to the top must be held out. Without that, .many companies and jpther enterprises could not hope to attract, the needed jwople of ability. - " V ' V ; To hold out that prospect, however, busiw , nesses often are compelled to institute auto-;: matic retirement plans for older workers,' otherwise there would be no room for the ris ing new generation of employes. Yet, while this has obvious fairness from the viewpoint of the younger people, it fre-' ; quently works hardship on the older workers.; . To the extent that they must thereafter be King ' The evening was cool for Florl- da and the women got out of the cars with fur wraps and brushed lamb sweaters over their finery. The men, tn the dark dacron suits of the rich vacationers, waited for . parking tags and the white-halted ' attendants ran the automobiles ' out in the big lot and came run ning back for more. 1 ... ; The people, like jaded nolhs. ' moved in slowly under the lights at Dania Palace and bought their tickets for the jai-alai games. A special police officer saw the beg gar sitting on a small chair near the exit and he moved quick. A tnll man with thinning gray hair ' and the grin of the Irish was faster. "No," he said to the cop. Leava him alone. He's all right." '- The officer moved away. The tall man walked over to the beg ' far. "How are things, Carl?" Tin blind man nodded. He said noth- ' mg. He hod his cigar box and ; the pencils which no one ever 'took and he had a little pride. t too. The .tall1 man looked down ; at Carl and shook his head. "If anyone trie to get you out of here," he said, "tell them to see me." Carl said thanks. He didn't ask WTO WO VUITO priuiifccu w. knew, ll was nay icnnre5. . owner of the Dania Palace. -Tho little politicians of Dania. Fla., it i . .L . Ll: I ........... mougra uiai a mum ueggoj a blot on their town and they tried to get him off the premises. McAndrews had fought the edict and now a new administration . was in, and Carl was okay. It it possible that Carl makes a better living begging than the aaquat ,aad Mexicans and Cu- Federal Aid Myth slates alone. The claim that there is a classroom short age has no validity on a nationwide basis, as NEA and others claim. There are some classroom shortages in some areas, not in all. The charge that there is a shortage of '132,000 classrooms nationwide just is not so. For example, a recent survey showed quite some variation in the methods of count ing classrooms and pupils and determining proper ratios. One state aims at a goal of 15 pupils per secondary school classroom, and claims a schoolroom shortage, even though the national average is 28 pupils per class room. Other states arrive at their shortage figures by adding up the additional rooms that their district superintendents say they need. In some states local authorities counted children twice, once as "excess enrollment" and again as housed in "unsatisfactory facili-' ties." The report showed also that some state figures were projections of figures made seven I or eight years ago. These might be isolated instances. We have little doubt that the majority of educa tion ' leaders are dedicated, honest people. They shudder at the thought of federal inter vention and controls and the handicaps that . ' go with them. If they have a fault, it is that ; they are not as vocal against the pipe dreams U of their colleagues as they should be. ' .. A Resource To Treasure supported by private or public pension, they are also an increasing burden on the econo my and the national treasury. , ; , In many instances there is no escape from this, nor perhaps should there be. But it is tragic that in all too many cases the great est cost is not in money but in the loss of a man's talent and experience. All kinds of enterprises and the coun try taken as a whole build vast investments, in the broad sense of that term, in the individ uals who comprise the work force. As they advance through life, many become virtual storehouses of skill and knowledge. li-; To cast, them aside, to end their work . tng days automatically . and arbitrarily, Is to !i Create. rgroat: waste both economically' and ."'spirifuaUy.? ' For all its growing numbers, this nation is not so heavily endowed for the colossal struggle with communism that it can afford to toss, away its investment in trained, able . people.-'"! r" ':" ; ....' We should be trying to do everything im aginable to enlarge, not diminish our reser voir of skills and knowledge. We may need every drop in the great pool. ' - 1 In 1961 we need business and government policies which conserve and enrich the na tional stockpile of talent. To waste.it, could be fatal to freedom. JIM BISHOP: REPORTER ... - Sized Conscien c e H u manizes Palace Owner ban Inside who strap straw ccs las to their wrists and hit little white balls called pelotas against handball -walls. It's possible. Among lha bettors, the winners' throw him a quarter. The losers drop a dime in hopes of chang ing their luck. McAndrews is a religious Chris tian with a king-sized conscience. He spends almost as much limo trying to get jobs for people as he -'does running his fronton. There arc 330 men and women Inside . who tend the bars, cook the food for the restaurant, man the parl-mutucl windows, carry trays of drinks, take tickets and clean the place. Of these, 26. ar old boyhood friends of McAndrews who are down in health and need , sunshine and a job. ... His parents were Irish. One came from Mayo: one from Cork. His father was a steel puddlcr in Pillston. Pa., and raised 13 chil dren. Roy was the youngest. They were given lots of spiritual food and a little material food. Hoy tried the steel mills for three years and gave it up. "Not for me," he said tn his father, who gave him a Gaelic grunt. Roy got a job selling Holland fur-' race - equiument and. in seven , years, went from the bottom rung to the op. He built the business from 13 million dollars a year to 58 million dollars. When the depression was on. McAndrews was earning jao.ooo a year and saving lots of it. He retired in 1933 with tmooo. Long since, he had married Clare Has tings of Marysviile, . Calif., and, with all the children in their families,-they had none. They came . to Florida and bought property . and built apartment houses. For a while, he owned a part of Cole Brothers circus. Someone said he could buy a franchise in a jai-alai game (pronounced hi lit and McAndrews said he had . never heard of the sport. It's a form of Spanish handball done with straw breadbaskets strapped to the wrist.-. -and it is probably the fastest game in the world. Roy McAndrews got into it. He and some friends built the Dania Palace. In its 100-day season each 1 year, 370.000 people will go to Ihe games and bet nine million dol lars on Ihe players. Roy gets ti cents out of every dollar bet, Iho state ",cts five. The patrons will ; pay $630,000 for entrance tickets and some will sit in the plush royal box. to get their champagne poured by Mr. Thomas Cronyn. one-lime butler to the Princess Margaret. The 38 jai-alai plavers average $1,500 a month in salary, plus a bonus for w inning. After everyone is paid off. there is a $250,000 profit, whkh is not unpalatable to a man who went to Florida to re . tiro. The McAndrews have a home at Golden Beach in the winter, and at River Forest outside Chi cago in tlw summer. He is tall and straight, an im peccable dresser, and he called his manager as the crowds moved through the big glass doors. "See . that Carl is allowed to stay where " he Is," he said. "Pass the word to our people. You may not know this, but he's really blind." If you and ! can't taste suc cess, let it happen to a man like that T 'Chicken!"1 " - - .L.I ..,! I . ,,f i i, .,,-. if .1 S.. ; mSfato. p . i. 1 1 THE WHEN f FIRST came (a the Klamath country back in 1948. one of the most common expressions that I heard and have heard many times since is "Once you've, : lived here, you'll never forget this .' . country." v .- ..'' The aaying is true. '"'. I RECEIVED one classic ex ample of this, truism the other - ' day when Andy Collier dropped in to show me a letter from a former editor of a newspaper in this city. It was Phil Sinnotl, a name still familiar to a number of per- , ions in the community because he . not only spent a few years here as city editor of Ihe then Her ald, but also was a frequent visi tor to the aiea in later years when he was Pacific Coast mana ger of the NEA, Newspaper En-' terprise Association. SINNOTT'S LETTER ills in much of the background of the town of Klamath Falls of his day. Let's quote portions of it. "I may have been the first person to receive an out-of-stale shipment of Klamath's Gems," Sinnott relates. "That was while we had the Klamath booth at the 1915 World s Fair. Fred Fleet, Cap Siemens or one of the Sam Jones, Jr. . But He Didn't " By LVLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON IPI-This is the story of Sam Jones.. Ameri can. Sam's father was a small busi ness man, Sam, Sr. He became over-extended in the year daring which the United States was in volved in World War I. ...When . Sam, Sr.. died in 1019 he left Sam. Jr., a legacy of debt, $25, 485. Sam, Jr, knew Ihe copy hook maxims about thrift and indus try. The son worked hard, used his head, saved his money and made son.e progress in paying off Ihe old man's creditors. Ten years after Sam, Sr., died, the ' ton struck a balance. The debt , was down to $16.M1. One year later the debt had been reduced to $16,185. Sam, Jr., figured he was doing all right. But the great depression came along just then, and the debt of Sam, Jr., began to grow instead of to diminish. The younger man's credit was good. He had a . good business. Sam, Jr.. had no -difficulty in raising money. By 1940. Sam was in hock (or $42,908. Tilings were not going right lor him. By 1945, SamV. debt was $258,682 and the bankers were bcgiiaiing to wonder wheth er Sam, Jr., was good lor it. Sam's friends, but more epcial ly the bankers, were becoming seriously agitated by now. Sam. Jr.'s business had grown along w ith his debt and his gross lake was many limes larger than it had been when Sam, Sr., died. What troubled the bankers was . the fact that from 1930 Ihrouch 1946. Sam, Jr., had been unable to curtail his debt by so much as a dime. Sam's friends and the bankers began to doubt that Sam was any good as a businessman; to VIEW FROM HERE . ;..-by,F.LW. Pione e r Newspap ermari Recalls Early Klamath ;.-; -; Evans brothers got a bushel from "Potato" HiM out on the Merrill Road, and shipped them down as a display. Although there were russets or Gems from Colorado, Idaho, ' Yakima and elsewhere, our bushel was sent to the judges, and Klamath took the Gold Medal against all competition! And boy-o-boy what an industry it has become since that time." Incidentally, Sinnotl took a leave of- absence from his job as city editor of the Herald to take care of the Klamath County exhibit at the big Panama-Pacific Exposi tion in San Francisco in 1915. "IS mi," .he continued, i'l - watched 'Potato' Hill's son Ralph, . an Oregon two-miler, win through NCAA. AAU and other competi tions to qualify for the Olympic Games. In the finals, in the homestretch. Hill was running neck-and-neck with a Finnish champ, far ahead of the pack, when the Finn hit him-with his elbow and threw him off .stride, so he finished second. There was a big holler and lots of booing for several days, but Hill, in the best Oregon tradition, said, 'Af ter you've run that far, . who knows who hit who? -I claim no foul. I lost by a whisker.' " Knew Why; Know How wonder whether they should fore close on Sam, put .in new man agement and, maybe, get some profit and debt curtailment out of Ihe big annual gross proceeds of Sam's business. Some of Sam's friends didn't like the idea and neither did Sam. Many of Sam's friends, however, - had invested in Sam's business. They agreed with the bankers that what the business needed was new and more efficient man agement, less spending and more profit. These friends of Sam's put a new manager in charge, a mid-westerner named Eisenhow cr. He was pledged to reduce ex penses wilhout damaging the business or the product, to cur tail the debt and show a profit. He was to have eight years to get the job done. This new manager look over in . 1953 with the company in debt $266.071. ! For three years there after, the debt increased annual ly. Finally, in 1957 the debt fig ure was reduced somewhat but it remained about $4,000 greater than when the new manager took over. There was no doubt in any one's mind that the new man had tried. Despite his commitment to economy, spending increased un der manager Eisenhower, far ex ceeding 'he level of spending which, lie had agreed on taking office, should be the limit. The new manager's eight years will end (his week on Jan. 20. The debt of $-266,071 that he assumed on taking over has grown to more than RO.0OO IV. AnotlK-r new manager will take over on Jan. 20. His views on lending are not very well de - fined. 1 ii-Read all figures a billion--instead of thousands, tot t' S que lle Wtt. " . . DIPPING BACK into his mem ories of the area, Sinnott writes, "This letter if you're still with me, should reach you January 11, : 50 years alter the day I landed in Klamath Falls from' Oregon City to work on the Herald. One of those sub-zeio cold snaps was on, and I slept in all of my clothes at the unhealed old Lakeside Ho tel. We piled into a horsedrawn ' bus at the SP station and made the hotel after getting stuck a couple of times in the mud of Main Street and having to get out until the bus could be pulled from the mudholcs. Soenjs the contractors had plowed the street in the belief that they could go J. on paving right through the win -' ter. v . ' "The town was around 4,000 and I found there were three daily newspapers there: The Ex press which never, was anything, . and the Clu-onicle,. cooperatively ; ; financed to fight the. Herald in the old courthouse war. ' " ' . "E. J. Murray sold out to W. O. Smith just before I hit there, but there was a boycott against the Herald, and there were only about two regular advertisers. ... so . paydays .were a rare occasion. V But I lived to see the day when the Herald, with just one man as editor-reportcr-proofreader fi: rally outlived the others to become the town's one newspaper." . TODAY, Sinnott is engrossed in . turning out a publication and mas terminding fund raising for 'the Catholic Church among many oth er activities. His home address is at Mill Valley, California. THE HISTORY of newspapers in Klamath County makes ex tremely interesting reading, not only for a newspaperman, but for anyone Interested in the fasci nating historical background of this great area in which we live. In 1937, Ihe News. And Herald published an entire section dedi cated to Newspaper Yesterdays and carrying a detailed account of the establishment and the prog ress of Ihe press in Klamath County. It makes entrancing reading and sparkling history which we will write moifl about at a future date. THE NEWSPAPER in Klam ath Falls, hrwevcr, has had some illustrious graduates. In addition to Sinnott. Edison Marshall, writ er, who recently wrote the novel "The Vikincs" which later be came a mowe. was also city edi tor on the newspaper here. As a matter of fact, he turned out his first formal writing effort while employed heie. It was called "The Silver Fox." dick McDonald, popular sport columnist in San Francisco was also a former city editor of the newspaper here when it was lo catcd beneath the building now occupied by Dick Reedcr's Cloth ing Store. McDonald and 1 served together in the Nay aboard a destroyer escorti' and when he dropped by some time ago to swap yarns, e talked about the early days in Klamath Kails. He had some hair-raisers to tell also of those early days. These a: only few. iv mow: rkient years. Malcolm "Viae" Cpley, former By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent -' Newspaper Enterprise Asia. " , WASHINGTON (NEA)-Immen-sity and complex detail of new 80.9 billion dollar budget which , President Eisenhower has just '. sent to . Congress preclude ' any 7 possibility that the Kennedy . ad-. ", ministration can throw it in theA trash can, write a new one and get Congress to enact it in the next six months. - ' '; There is, 'moreover, a tremen-' dous amount of good sense in the last Eisenhower budget message which the "New Frontier" brain trusters cannot ignore. This is not exclusively the product of Repub-. lican thinking. It is the work of; career civil servants and planners who will continue to run the gov ernment under Kennedy and want ' it ran right. ' ..' The President's budget message makes 85 recommendations for-, new legislation. It is' easy to iden-. tify the dozer, or so strictly Re..-. publican or "Eisenhower", policies , which the Kennedy administration " w ill probably ignore. They are the ones Ike has made before ard Congress has done nothing about. They include such things as his repeated requests for authority to veto individual items , in appro priation bills, a recommendation that state and local governments be forced to pay a larger share of disaster relief and flood pre- . vention costs, his plan to cstab- .; lish borrower-owned institutions to ' finance rural electrification or . telephone loans and to increase the taxation on cooperatives. Eisenhower legislative recom- ", mendations which the Kennedy administration and the new Con- -gress must consider seriously in clude such tilings as raising the national debt limit, ending the present interest rate ceilings on long term government bonds, ex tending corporate and excise tax rates. The President asks for continu ation of the government reorgani zation act and authority to reor- , ganize the executive offices, which Kennedy w ill also want. Eisenhower proposes coordina tion of Army Engineers, Bureau THE DOCTOR SAYS . ". . Medicine Tests Will Vary With .Conditions i'.';vf-. By HAROLD T. HYMANMJC:... Written for - ; Newspaper Enterprise Assn. I have before me two reports that deal with the activities, of -closely relate,! germ killers. They are contradictory. Y'et each is cor rect. It may be important foryou to understand how this is possible. The first is a laboratory report that describes the germ-killing properties of a popular soap. It . includes a most impressive chart '. ; that shows how the contained . . germicide prevents the growth of ." a lar ge number of bacterial spe-. cies, including the golden staphylo coccus that's been responsible for so many hospital infections. ". The second is a clinical report from Walter Reed Army Hospi tal. Its chart lists 11 post-operative infections, all resulting in the death of a patient, due to bacte rial contamination of a solution . of a related germicide. How is it possible for both re ports lo bj correct? The explanation is quite sim ple. The first report was based on experiments performed under ideal laboratory conditions. Bac teria and germicide were put into previously sterilized glassware and .. allowed to fight their battle like' ' pugilists in a ring. When t h e soap manulscturers declared that their fighter was the "champ" by a knockout, they reported with complete accuracy. The second report refers to a hospital experience in which an additional factor was innocently introduced. Quite correctly, steri lized gauze sponges were stored in the germicidal solution in order to assure their continued sterility until the time came to use them to clean wounds or to prepare the unbroken skin for operation. How then could previously steri lized gauze sponges, kept in a managing editor of this paper, moved along to the point where today he is executive editor of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and is rcgaided as one of the finest newspapermen on the West Coast. Mac, too. cannot forget .the Klamath country. Whenever he talks abou' ii. that faraway look of a hunter measuring a flight of geese or checking the wind hclore stalking down his buck creeps into his eyes, and he slow ly succumbs to the irresistible lure of reminiscing about "the Klamath country." YOU CAN'T PIN IT DOWN, specifically, hut there is some thing about this fascinating hi(l country that brings them Kaci, either in body or in spir. of Reclamation and Federal Pow. : er commission authority for river basin survey and development. Ha . asks for creation of a new Cabin . et .Department of Transportation. ; These 'make just as much sense . as President Kennedy's own pro f posal lo create a Department of Urban Affairs. V'Tha Eisenhower recommend- (ions for longer term financing of .' foreign aid programs and auLhori- zation of U.S. participation in the new Atlantic Community Organi zation for Economic Cooperation ' and Development are considered "musts" for the new administra tion...; ' ;' Likewise, Eisenhower proposals . Tor reorganization of the space . programs, establishment of per : manent authority for major hous ing programs, improvement of 1 antitrust legislation and other . commerce and industry regulation - legislation will have to be faced by the Kennedy administration. -On these and farm legislation recommendations like extension of the sugar act, adoption of a w heat - program and modification of price suDports, the new administration is bound to come up with solu tions differing from those pro posed. On Eisenhower proposals for amending present laws on mini mum wage rates, unemployment insurance, health care for the aged and aid to depressed areas, . the new administration Will come up with its own' conditions and probably larger amounts. ., ' But Ike's budget for next year ' is by no means an economy budg et. It calls for expenditures of two ' billion dollars more than for thin . year. It is not pared to the bona to make the incoming administra tion look bad if it appropriate larger government expenses. And if the new Congress turm t down Eisenhower's repeated pro posal for increased postage rates and higher gasoline taxes, ne sources of revenue must be found. What the Eisenhower list of leg islative recommendations empha sizes is the large areas of un finished government . business which the departing administra tion leaves behind. 'germicidal solution, actually b responsible for a ward infection? Here is the explanation as deter mined by Army investigators. Quite unexpectedly it w a t found that gauze sponges absorb the germicide from solution just as a blotter will soak up water. No longer protected by the germ killing protector, the solution be came contaminated from some hu man source in the course of rou tine handling. - . The now contaminated solution, whose appearance differed in no way from its appearance when the germ killer was active, con tinued lo be used by the hospital personnel in the course of their routine duties which included pre operative skin preparation and ; postoperative wound care. Perhaps you will understand now how careful one must be in the interpretation of representa tions that deal with the properties of medicines of all sorts. What hapnens under ideal lab oratory conditions when an expert imcnt is conducted in glassware may accurately give a picture of what will happen in the human body. But since every practical experience introduces variables, you are very apt to get .home re sults that differ from those report ed by the bacteriologist, just as the winner of a prize fight might find himself at the bottom of the heap if he happened to get mixed up in a street riot. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaf let "How to Choose Your Family 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 International Today is Friday, Jan. 20. tha 20th day of Ihe y e a r with 345 more in 1961. The moon is approaching its first quarter The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Venus and Mars. On this day in history: . In 1801, President John Adams appointed John Marshall to be chief j,ii5tice of the Suprema Court. In 1887, the Senate approved th leasing of Pearl Harbor as a base for the U.S. Navy. In 1891. Mischa Elman. concert violinist. a born. In 1936. King George X of Great Britain died. In 1W7. Pruitkrt rranJilin Do Uao Roosetclt sem uiia f be for bi second term. (
