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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1961)
sn HERALD AND NEWS, Kamata Fall. Orroa Wednesday, January II, 1WI 1DSON IN WASHINGTON Tonight's Telecast . v ' j .' Ma( Ponrirf Inn far "Yea, Team!" 72r : f f! is : The cruel words "unnecessary tragedy" have to be applied to the shocking collapse of an Air Force radar tower in the Atlantic 70 miles south of Long Island. Both the Air Defense Command and the United States Senate should promptly convene .their announced inquiries and seek to fasten : responsibility for this disaster where it be ; longs. : We do not need an investigation, how ever, to tell us that this was an accident that need not have happened. The individual or individuals who made the decision to keep this tower manned while It was in an unsafe condition were guilty of a careless risking of other men's lives. That the number of tower personnel had been re duced from a normal 75 does not lessen the offense, nor can it be comfort to the families, of the 28 who died. .' : , , '-- , i i The elemental facts are plain. This tower I ' off the New Jersey coast had been seriously r 1 Hi) weakened by the hurricane of mid-Septenv ; ; ,! iter, 'I960. Its' underpinnings, founded on the fii bedrock of the continental shelf, were so un- ? -i certain as to have earned the tower the rue- ful nickname of "Old Shaky." : : Our views toward federal aid to education are pretty well set we do not like it in any form, and we have said so. At the same time,' it would be foolhardy to deny that our rather arbitrary stand is the final word in this vast field of discussion. i Our position is that education is better left in the hands of the various states. That is, controls and regulations should not.be im posed at a level above that of the state. r, A visitor who has been in education all of her life, and who knows whereof she speaks dropped in for a chat on our attitude, and raised some interesting points which we had considered previously, but did not outline in our editorial last week. i One point mentioned was that the land grant colleges have been operating under fed eral government jurisdiction since they were organized. ,'.'. ; , : . Another element for consideration by our friend was that without federal programs, of tome sort we will .never achieve uniformity, of education opportunity; the so-called "equal ization" of opportunity throughout the various states and districts. Therefore, we hive a sit-v uation where a poorer district cannot provide the type of education their more wealthy neighbor districts give their school children. Another point was that, with federal con Ambrose Bierce was t his best fa the years 1887 to 1896, when : '. ha wrote for the San Francisco 1 - : Examiner. He was bitter and ; 1 ;: amusing, but never great sue- ' ;: cess. His older son was killed in ' i X shooting .over a girl;, his wifa J s left him after S3 years of mar- riage; his younger son died of al- coholism. He wrote a lot mora 3 than The Devil's Dictionary, ! but his acidulous definitions are among my favorites: ' 'I FRIENDLESS: Having no fa von to bestow. FRIENDSHIP: A ' ; ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, only one in foul. . GALLOWS: A stage for the per ; formanse of miracle plays. GEN- EALOGY: An account of one's . .' descent from an ancestor who did not care to trace his own. 1- HABEAS CORPUS: A writ by !: which a man may be taken out of Jail when confined for the J,' wrong crime. HAG: An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like. HANDKERCHIEF: A small , ::- square of silk or linen used at funerals to conceal a lack of : tears. HISTORIAN: A broad I gauge gossip. HONEST: Afflicted ' with an impediment in one's reach. ! HUSBAND: One who. having ,' J - dined, is charged with the care of the plate. HYPOCRITE: One t; professing virtues that he does , ' not respect, secures the advan i tag of seeming to be what ha ' J despises. IGNORAMUS: A person -i- unacquainted with certain kinds " of knowtodge familiar to yourself, ' and having . certain other kinds " that you know nothing about. ; ! IMMIGRANT: An unenlightened '' person who thinks one country : better than another. 1MPEN1- TENT.' A state of mind Interme- diate between tin and punishment V lNOOMPATJBJLTJYi In natrtae. No E xcuse Equalizing Opportunity JIM BlShlOP: REPORTER ... Devils Dictionary Was Bierce's Best Writing ny. a similarity of tastes, parti cularly the taste for domination. INFIDEL: In America, one who does not believe in Christianity: in Egypt, one who docs. IN GRATE: One who receives a fa vor from another. INSURANCE: A modern game of chance in which the player is , permitted to believe that he is beating the man who runs the ta ble. INTIMACY: A relationship into which fools are drawn toward ' their mutual destruction. JEAL OUSY: A concern about the pres ervation of that which can be lost only if it is not worth keeping. . LAWYER: One skilled in ilrcum mention of the law. LITIGANT: A person ready to give up his skin in the hope of retaining his bones. LOVE: A tem porary insanity curable by mar riage. MAD: Affected wilh a high degree of intellect independence. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials des titute of evidence that they are sane. MAGDALENE: A woman found out. MARRIAGE: A mas ter, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two MAUSOLE UM: The funniest folly of tht rich. MERCY: An attribute beloved of offenders. MIRACLE: An act unaccountable, as beating a nor mal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king MISFORTUNE: The kind of for- 1 tune that never misses. MISS: A female wlo is in the market. MOUTH: In man. the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart! NEPOTISM: Appointing ' your grandmother to office for the good -of the party. NOISE: A stench in the ear. NOSE: The outpost of the .free.. '' . NOVEL: A short story padded. ... The presence of 14 repairmen among the 28 on the tower is clear evidence that the structure's weaknesses had not yet been rem edied. So are the letters crewmen had written' to their wives on shore, complaining of the peril. . Obviously there is not the shadow of an excuse for this calamity. Whatever radar vig ilance was provided by the continued opera tion of the tower, it should not have been bought at so high a price. , , Certainly there were other means of keeping a proper alert to the possible ap proach of enemy rockets or aircraft. After all, our extensive eastern, southern and western coasts are not'ringed by a chain of such tow ers. We have only two besides that which now lies at the bottom of the Atlantic. Neither regular crewmen nor repairmen ' should have been asked to live on Tower No. 4 until it was entirely "seaworthy," fit to with stand the rigors of such a storm as brought it down on Jan. 15. : Many mistakes have in the past been charged to military inflexibility and thought lessness. This could rank as one of the worst. trol, we still maintain some control at the local level, because we can "throw the ras cals out" in the next election if federal offi cials (elective and appointive) do not do our . bidding. . - These are all valid arguments, and many ' people think they override by a wide margin any other consideration in this federal aid (to education controversy, i ' ' : ' ' But, we're still not convinced that this is so. We believe that history and experience show that once the federal government gets its hands on a program, there is certain de-. - terioration. There is ponderous muddling; , there is tremendous waste; there is subjuga tion of the individual; rights of any group be low the federal level are subordinated and gradually eliminated; standardization, uni-, formity and conformity are the rule of the day; there exists a tendency for the "profes-' sionals" to take over, and other objectionable considerations. ' These evils, we think, exceed any ad vantages that might accrue from federal aid to education. The states cannot surrender their responsibilities in this field. Federal aid is a myth in any field and the advocates of 1 better education should confine' their efforts to the local and state level to find the answer to equalizing educational opportunity. OPPOSITION: In politics, the par ty that prevents the government from running amuck bv ham stringing it. PAINTING: 'The art of protecting a flat surface from the weather by exposing it, to the critic. PARDON. To restore to a life of crime. PATIENCE: A form of despair disguised as a virtue. , PICTURE: A representation in two dimensions of something wea risome in three. PLATITUDE: -A moral without the fable. PLATON IC: A fool's name for the affec tion between a disability and a frost. POLITENESS: Acceptable hypocrisy. POSITIVE: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. PRAY: . To ask that the laws of the uni- , verse he annulled in behalf of an unworthy petitioner. PREJUDICE: A vagrant opinion without visible means of support. PROOF READER: A malefactor who atones for making your writ ing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligi ble. PUSH: One of two things conducive to success. The other is Pull. QUILL: An implement of torture yielded by a goose and wielded by an ass. . RIOT: Popular entertainment given . to the police by innocent ' bystanders. ROAD: A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is tiresome to be to where it is futile to go. SAINT: A dead sinner revised and edited. SIREN: Any lady of splendid promise and disappointing perfor mance. SUCCESS: The one unpardon able sin. TOMB: The House of In difference. TRICHINOSIS: The pig's reply to pork chops. Bierce's body has never been found. Wherever he is, you may be sure, he's still south of the . border. ... Treasures (FROM THE PENDLETON ' EAST OREGONIAN) With the largest stand of mer chantable timber in any of the ' states, Oregon's economy will de-' pend heavily upon the utilization -of that wood. How, then, is an Industry that has not been noted for its vision doing with this re source? Much better than many probably realize. There is growing realization that timber must be treated as a crop and that it is a tremendously val uable resource because it is a re newable resource. More import ant, large sums of money are be . ing spent in this state to get new products from wood. Numerous companies and research groups . are active in "silvichemicals" re search, concerned with chemical wood products. An example of the wide variety of uses into which new chemical products of the tree are finding ) their way is furnished by Crown ' Zellerbach Corp.,' which says its , silvichemicals are going into as phalt emulsions, briquets, ceram ics, cleaning compounds, gypsum board, softboard, insecticides, li , noleum paste, road binders, con crete admixtures, oil-well drilling compounds, paint, paint solvents and strippers, agricultural chemi cals, synthetic fibers, rubber, cam- . phor, wetting agents, resins, solv ents, plasticizers and a host of other products. Weyerhaeuser Company is shoot- ing for a full line of silvichemi cals and is presently marketing quercetin, a .brilliant yellow chem-'. ical derived from Douglas fir bark which protects certain prod ucts such as rubber, plastics, vege- ' table and animal oils, feeds and other commodities from spoiling or deteriorating. Company scien tists are continuing their extcn- sive research on bark components and whole-wood fiber products. In Portland. Georgia-Pacific Cor poration will soon start produc tion of 200.000 to 300,000 pounds a month of cyanide chemicals in a major new chemical pilot plant which will use bark and sawdust. " ' The new plant will turn out gly- ' cerin, copper cyanide, ferric fer rocyanide. copper sulphate and . nickel sulphate worth an estimat ed $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 a year. A new research and develop ment center of Evans Products Full Dinner Pail ACROSS Youth 1 Vegetablrs 10 Assistant S Fleshy fruit 11 Honey makers Vehicle 16 Redacted 12 Opera by Verdi 20 Prescribed 13 Monkeys amounts 14 Hasten 15 Tourists 17 Suffix 18 Dried 19 Sewing tools 21 Eat 23 Slight bo 24 Cushion 27 Pastry 29 Fake 32 More level 34 Interstice 3AF.bb 37 Vended second-hand 38 Snare 39 Lateral part 41 Color 4 infold 44 New star 4fi Food servers 49 Cat awav S3 1'ncloM tpoet ) S4 There and bark 56 Household god 57 Greater Si Sailor's patron ' saint 59 Worm 50 Merganser 1 Dregs DOWN 1 Butter squares 2 Ireland 3 Hebrew month 4 Rescued 5 Close (nend Kitchen tool T Simple I German city 22 Nostrils 24 Impudent 25 Slate 26 Wine vessels 28 Musical direction 30 Comnanioa 31 created In Our Forests Co. at Corvallis is pushing re search on chemical utilization of wood residues. The center is pres ently turning wood fiber into plas- . tic-impregnated battery separa tors. ' Western Pine Association's lab oratory in Portland has developed methods for extracting arabogalac- . tin, a sugar from larch which is useful as a pill binder and an ingredient for such products as -ink and glue. The pine industry re searchers have also improved ex tractive techniques for resin, a source of turpentine and rosin. Resin, which makes up some 5 per cent of pine trees, can be ob tained from slumps, or lumbec. At Corvallis, the Oregon For est Research Center, an indus- ' try-supported state -organization, has isolated major chemical con stituents from Westerp trees and has developed uses for extractives ..from Douglas fir bark such a tannins, waxes and dihydroquerce ' tin. Scientists there are also study ing lignin structure and are work ing with wood residues. , All this should be most encour THE DOCTOR Water Causes By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. v ; ( Written for NEA ' "I am 38 years old." writes Faithful Reader,, "and, although my periods are regular, I sense a soreness in my breasts and a pain in my lower right side about two weeks before they begin. "I have had several physical , examinations but the doctors tell me they don't find anything ' wrong. Recently the discomfort seems to be worse. Could this mean that I'm developing cancer of the breasts or womb?" I think I . can assure you, sight unseen,' that what you de scribe, bears no relationship to cancer anywhere in the body. Indeed since you say elsewhere in your letter that you have had this complaint for several years, you may be sure you haven't cancer for, if you did, you'd prob- V Antwar to Previous Putile c 7ToT7 I mTcTbI wToT o l t .S.. S a Ik I .a-inn m pk T E N O. . Tl" R N E ItI ' Hi CSmUm Etio ?Dc A?" I ClEl t a p e DooSBc AP I E "" B 5 n: e fj e e imioi n STo il?B?e tI S m a t a t r" S iv 5 ylif7' n J o n & O Ultt " I IP N K I O T a ule C O g e S ? NE gjAjgej ST7T5J ojeje p 40 Make certain 4S Space 43 Microbes 50 Heraldic band 3.1 Country In Asia 45 Trade unioa4 51 Silver coin 35 Used nautical 46 Tree trunk 52 Heroic poetry rope 47 Poisonous plant 55 Recent 1 I! II U I It U I; la I U lio III it ry n in 1 1 ;r y L- a ir its' a ir ar- n s-" rn L-L-u In-ju 1 1 1 JTBT 4 3 to ti p 3 ST a s a t aging to the citizens of a state that depends to the extent that Oregon does upon wood products manufacturing. But ' maybe wt "ain't seen nothin' "' yet. . Approximately 30 per cent of ev ery tree in the forest consists of lignin the glue which nature, uses to hold the fibers of the tree to-' gether. Researchers have not yet fathomed its exact structure, de spite their progress in obtaining a growing range of chemicals from it. Most of them believe that once they achieve the break through in pinning down lignin's structure completely they will then have the framework with which to create a silvichemical industry comparable to the diverse petro-chemical field. When the mysteries of lignin are no longer mysterious the door will be opened to industrial ex pansion in this state of a magni tude that few can measure to day. And it may not be far off. Save that tree. In a few years mills will not only want it, but any bark, limbs, knots and pitch pockets you have. SAYS , Retention Discomfort ably not be here to ask the ques- tion. - Your difficulties are almost surely due to a common disturb ance that occurs midway between periods. When, as in your case, ' the pain is located in the lower right side of the abdomen, it re sembles an acute attack of ap pendicitis so closely that an op eration may be required before a definite diagnosis can be estab lished. , You can help your doctor re lieve you of this recurrent dis comfort by observing your weight, each morning, before you take breakfast. Since the condi tion is due to retention of water in your body tissues, you will probably note a sudden gain of two to five pounds before you feel any distress. Now if you will make a Mtlie chart of your daily weight for a week or two and bing it to your doctor, he will be able to give you any one of several pills, now on the market, that will help to flush this water through your kid neys. By taking these pills, called diuretics, just before your ex pected weight gain, and for three or four days thereafter, you should almost surely obtain re lief. Al manac By I'nlted Press International Today, is Wednesday. Jan. "S3,, the 25th day of the year with 340 more in 1961. The moon is approaching its full phase. The evening stars are Mars and Venus. On this day in history: In 1759, Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland, w as born. In 1858, Mendelssohn's Wedding March was plavcd for the first time as Queen Victoria's daughter married the Crown Prince of Prussia. In 1913. transcontinental tele phone service was inaugurated. . In 1890, the United Mine Work ers of America, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, was organized in Columbus, Ohio. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) - The first live, nighttime telecast of a President Kennedy news, confer ence, scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 25, is hailed by the radio and TV industry as the next logical step in electronic reporting. The rules haven't all been set. And such conditions as have been agreed on will be subject to change for later shows. There has been no decision whether correspondents asking the questions will have to identify themselves. It's an advantage to the President to know who's ask ing the question. But that encour ages the show-offs and the pests to pose smart-alecky or loaded queries. Nothing will kill this con ference faster than a lot of . hams.' f There will be no limitation as . to subject matter. The President may or may not make some opening statement on a new de velopment or on an idea he wants to put across. First questions would presum ably be on this topic to amplify or clarify it. Questions could then turn to any subject on a catch-as-catch-can basis, no holds barred. For subsequent night confer ences, the networks can file res ." quests or the President can say when he would like to go on the air. Networks will be free to take it or leave it. But a presidential request will be hard to turn down i at first. , . Scheduling will be up to the networks and the time that can . be made available before the real ' night entertainment programs and the . movie reruns ' begin. The ' ' three networks will handle the - show on a .pool basis; in rotation. If the conferences are' held be tween 6 and 8 p.m., E.S.T., that will he 3 to 5 p.m.. Pacific time. Video tapes will be cut for west ern stations to play back later as . their schedules permit. The ad ' vantage is that stations can use as much or as little of, thfjape ' as they please, j j, One of the significant tacts about the Eisenhower news conference, recordings Is that very little of them ever got on the air. One or Other Editors' Opinions Good Appointments (THE BEND BULLETIN) We note that a political report er in Salem has indicated that Eastern '.Oregon . is "lucky" to have some strategically - placed men on the; committees which will handle legislative ' reapportion ment. .. This looks more like planning than luck. -,. Under Oregon law. there must be a legislative reapportionment after each federal census.' The legislature is supposed to do it. If the legislature fails to do it; then the secretary of state is em powered to reapportion the state. If he fails, the Supreme Court then acts. Since Vestem Oregon areas, "especially Portland and Eugene, gained the most popula tion, they'll probably gain added representation. " Central and Eastern Oregon, nowwith six senators and 11 rep--, rcsentatives, could drop to four senators and eight representatives. The basis for dividing' the area as to representation . becomes more important as we lose sena tors and representatives. This is where the planning comes in. - And Sen. Harry BoivhV presi-' dent of the Senate, is obviously ' ' ' the chief planner. Boivin appointed Sen. Boyd : Overhulse of Madras as chairman of Senate Elections Committee. Sen. Ben Musa of The Dalles is vice-chairman. Both men are from i east of the mountains. This com- mittee decides upon reapportion- ' ment. In the House, Rep. George An-' alia, Hood River Democrat, heads the elections committee. He too. ; is from Eastern Oregon. v ' Boivin has ooviously appointed ' ' Overhulse and Musa to insure, that Central and Eastern Oregon . get a fair shake in reapportion- -ment. It's a bold political move. In so doing, he must have made - himself unpopular with senators from west of the mountains. But Boivin obviously isn't over-: ry concerned with senators from west of the mountains. This was evidenced in his fight with Alfred Corbctt and Robert Straub for the Senate presidency. Boivin has given Eastern Ore- . gon a chance to take care of it self, if this is at all possible, in the new reapportionment program., , It wasn't "luck," but planning. .And It took a lot of nerve on his part. Now it is up to Overhulse and Musa to follow through. Senate Keeps Filibuster 1 . (THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) Conservatives are saying that the Kennedy administration al ready has sttfiered its first set back in Congress. The Senate' two questions and answers were usually picked up for the newg bulletins. The support ime pundits with II minutes to fill have used a few more. But the full half-hour con ferences rarely got heard except by the technicians. That may be the way the Ken nedy 'night'conferencesill work out. If he has something to say and if the questions are good, the sets will stay turned on. Sut' lf ,the President runs out of stuff or if the questions are as bad as they were in the Ken- nedy-Nixon great debates the , last previous great 'development . in electronic reporting . these .. live news conferences may turn out to be the worst and the dead est turkeys ever produced by any one. They will have to be tried out to see if they work. The new idea, which originated in the Kennedy camp, is already being viewed with considerable skepticism by other news media. Comments are varied. A few press correspondents have talked facetiously about boy cotting. "Why should we become unpaid extras for nighttime TV . shows?" they ask. . A reporter won't have to attend personally. He can sit in his office or at home, . watch the show, make his notes and write his . story from what he sees or hears. On these bases, only radio and ' TV correspondents would attend and it would be their exclusive beat. , . . Morning newspapers will prob ably report the conferences fully as part of their business in cov ering the night's news. But for afternoon papers next day they will be stale news. They will, however, still have the. advantage of giving first printed coverage of the President's morning news ; conferences. ; Perhaps the sourest comment is that introduction of live telecasts t marks the beginning of the end ,'1 ot White House news conferences Controlled by the reporters; From hete on they will be nothing but propaganda for presidential pro grams, is one view. If that develops, the Republi cans can ask for equal time. postponement of a rules changt is the basis for this estimate. But the tale isn't ended. "T h Senate has lost a good chance to let three-fifths of those present and voting to cut off debate on any subject after 15 days. Vica President Nixon had aided the re visionist movement by ruling that a simple majority could make a change in the rules- This ruling could have been decisive because it would hold if supported by a simple majority. However, the Senate voted 50-1 o " 46 to send the question of rules ' changes back to committee. The Nixon ruling will not be available beyond January 20. After that Lyndon Johnson will be presid ing. Presumably he would not so flatly reverse his former position as to accept the Nixon view. For as majority leader he put throut!ll an amendment to Rule XXII (con cerning cloture' which specifical . ly blocked the closing of debate even on a rules change by less than a two-thirds vote. On its face the failure to obtain ; a rules change now appears to make a later change more diffi cult. And, other things being equal, this would give conservatives- more leverage against ma- jor items in the Kennedy legisla tive program.- But it should be recognized that the defenders of : present rules that facilitate fili- blistering are primarily interested in racial issues. They are not equally opposed to all social-wel- fare measures. Some of them might refrain from using the filibuster against minimum wage or , medical-care bills especially if assured it would be available against new deseg regation' proposals. It would be I difficult to prove that any such assurances were asked or given. But Arthur Krock has reported in the New York Times that during : the campaign the Democratia , nominees gave assurances to Sen- ' ator Harry Byrd that the platform pledge to curb right-lo-woVk lawj would .not be pressed. Moreover, the Senate vote indicated a de clining tolerance for filibustering abuses. . ' " . So conservatives may be prema ture in assuming that Senate fail ure to change rules spells a Ken nedy setback. Votes on specifiu measures will be a more certain gauge. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS t For how long did Knuta Rorkne coach the Notre Dam football tram? A Thirteen years 1B18-193L Q Hnw many languages and major dialects are spoken around the world? A At least 3.000. not including several hundred "splinter Ian- guages." iata.
