r BERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls.- Ore.
Friday, January 20, 1MI
1
EDSON IN WASHINGTON
Ike's Budget Glues
Kennedy On Problem
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; 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
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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.
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