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PACK HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath FiUj. Oregni Wednesday, February I, 1961 NOTHING SPECIAL IW. B. S.) Q Sniff." Sniff Piggybacking Deserves Chance A report in The Wall Street Journal indi cates that piggybacking on railroads is hurt ing the trucking industry and the Interna tional Brotherhood of Teamsters. And the Teamsters, through that great racketeer Jim my Hoffa, are making loud squawks heard throughout the industry. We wouldn't be concerned, except that Hoffa's squawks and activity threaten to im pose new taxes and restrictions on the piggy backing that could make it non-competitive and kill what promises to become a thriving industry itself. And if piggybacking is killed, we can expect to continue with higher freight prices. Piggybacking the practice of many rail roads of loading movable vans on railroad freight cars has been adopted by most of the nation's big railroads. Southern Pacific and Great Northern are moving much heavy freight this way, at prices considerably under -those which are charged by trucks on certain freight classes. If Hoffa has his way all this will be changed. He already has negotiated contracts in the midwest which call for a $5 flat fee to be paid to the Teamsters welfare fund on any truck loaded for piggybacking. Now Very often when political leaders de cide the opposition party has "pre empted" a certain part of the political spectrum they conclude that they must move somewhere; else if they are to win the next election. Years back this was the problem the Democrats faced in California and Oregon, where Republicans wore winning top offices with moderate to progressive candidates. 'The Democrats felt compelled to inch toward the left to establish a distinct position. Yet the effort was never really produc tive. When the Democrats finally regained some of the top spots, they managed It for the most part by putting up candidates who simply reestablished themselves in those areas pre viously pre-empted by the Republicans. The GOP on a national level now appears to believe that it is in somewhat the same dl lemma. National chairman Thruston Morton is alleged to have said that because President Kennedy has taken over the center, the Re" publicans must be on the move. Most observ. ers read into this a belief that the move, if It comes, will be toward the conservative side. There always has been, of course, a con siderable body of Republican professionals jfe v- i uiv iviulci ii : MIAMI, Fla.-When h a motel a hotel? The answer is when a guest has to walk through a lob by to get to his room, At most motels, the guests park their car outside the rooms. There are 2. 081 motels in the United Slates. About 5.500 are in the elate of Florida. The word moans motor hotel. It started out as a sort of drive in bed. I can recall motels which looked like litUe otithoutei on the back lawn of farmhouses. They have grown and grown, big gpr and more elaborate, until they outshine everything except the most gaudy hotels. For awhile, they were refuges for nervous lovers who checked In and out before the engine cooled. Some still cater to the Mr. and Mrs. John Smiths. The molel owners have been trying to rise alwve IL They have or ganizations that set high stan dards of Inspection and aupervi sion for motels. Last year, one ef these organizations dropped 84 motels because of infractions. The first motel wasn't called by that name. It was a collec tion of one-room buildings on the Santa Fe Trail. It was owned by Jack Morrow and hit wife and it was situated outside of Council Grove. In two years, Morrow was surprised to find that he had sold $l2.ono in whiskey and 111 .50 In Bibles. The first one to ua the name motel was the Milestone Mo-Tel, opened in San Luis Obispo. Calif., In 1925. In .15 years, motels have built tip to a two million-room business. Scores of millions of Americans barrel up and down the highways, pausing at motels and eating in coffee shops when darkness overtakes the family. ' The biggest one 1 have ever Beware The Shoals JIM BISHOP: REPORTER . . . Bible Sales Small Part seen le The Castawavs at Miami Beach. K was built by Joe Hart and Leon Garfield and, at a glance, it looks like a gigantia mandarin's eastlo in Peking. The roof has gables which tilt up on the ends. The dining room is called Shinto Temple and is hung with colored lanterns. Guests wear coolie hats and the music is Ply nesian. The waitresses wear red silt skirts with light Chinese pants underneath. The place is so big that part of R occupies Fairyland Island in Biscayne Pay. There are two big buildings there, with a mnal In connect them with Miami Beach. Four hundred feel away are three other buildings on the sea To get across Collins Avenue. Ihe motel hs little red Fiats for pa trons with tender tootsies. Joe Hart says the molif is .Jai. anese. It looks like an admixture of Chinese and Japanese, with 100 white Peking ducks swimming around the moal. Mavbe it's Ma layan, or early Charley Chan. The whole place has 301 rooms which, in season, rent for fc-'O a day and up. This is a long way from the old "Gimme three . dollars and show me your license" business. A fountain cascades over b!a k rocks in front A group of tourist fishing boats anchor around the moat. There are three swimming pools, two wading pools and one ocean available to gnosis. In the Cardinal Room, everything is red; Ihe nig. the walls, the ceiling, the lights, the guests' eyeballs. There is a Fumptis Room for Tots, a supervised playground, a Teen Ate Room On the heaui side, The Casta ways shoulders a hundred oilier big motels liU Tluindcrbiid. Ar tec, Surfsidf Six, Carib, Driftwood and The Dimes. All are big and he's hollering to congress and the ICC about the variation in rates that the piggybacked are using. If he is successful in his attempts, piggy backers will be saddled with so many extra charges that they will have to abandon the practice, particularly where short hauls are concerned. Oregon is not left out of this picture. House Bill No. 1009 would place a tax on con tainers (piggyback) moving into and through the state of Oregon. As far as is known, Ore gon is the only state in which the Teamsters are trying to get such a bill passed at the pres ent time. We are in agreement with those who op pose this bill. Piggybacking is an "infant" business and deserves a chance to see if it offers substantial hope of fulfilling its' objec tives: faster handling, less damage, and cheap er rates. What it has done in the automobile shipping phase is early proof that piggyback ing can do just that. We are hopeful that the Oregon legi.v lature will resist the pressure to pass what is obviously a discriminatory bill. We need every incentive to bring new industry into the stale, and attractive freight-handling facilities and rates is a primary concern when Industries are studying possible sites for location. who felt that steady success lay in this di rection anyway. Still, in presidential years they have generally been overruled in favor of middle of the road nominees. The California-Oregon experience, which could be underscored by further examples in other places, perhaps contains a lesson for the Republicans at this juncture. It would seem to be that most of the time most of the voters are in the broad-ranged political center. At any given momenj they may wish to veer slightly to the left or right, but only In times of dire distress or war are they likely to roam far from the middle. Substantial elements in the Republican party are constantly aware of this. It is hardly accident that, despite the strong push in the party toward greater conservatism, these ele ments have usually prevailed in presidential election time. Possibly the time will come when the par ty will take the plunge and risk all on a more conservative tack. But GOP leaders can find plenty of history on both sides of the party line to suggest that this is a course fraught ' with political peril. iuuoli y costly; all glitter with colored lights and all have the same ocean behind them. Most of them, with roomj scaled nearly alike and food uni formly excellent. My to appeal to the repeat trade with personali ties. A bartender, for example, who can not only mix a drink, but Is also handsome and a minor league Bob Hope, will attract his own followers to the motel. The same applies to a good pianist or a good social director. At The Castaways, Stanley Klim Is the personality. He has Jet wavy hair, a mustache like a baby's eyebrow, and blue eyes. He presides over the TahHian Bar and he greets gue.;ts by shaking hands with a buzzer in the palm. He has a range of jokes starting with Ihe cute clean ones for elderly maiden ladies and working down into the cuspi dor for the fat. steamy trade who like their laughs in ihe raw. Klim likes to introduce lonesome ladies to lonesome gentlemen. When he sees two girls moping over a drink, and two men walk in. he shouts: "Hoy, here are two fellows from your home town!" The girls look up and say: "What part of Philadelphia are you from?" The fellows look at each other and burst into laughter. "We're from I Angeles." they ay. This breaks the conversa tional ice. Stanley Klim feels that he Is responsible for at least six mar riages. He also likes to introduce honrymooners to other honey mooncrs. As a married man. he feels that these foursomes have a lot to talk about. This year, motels will take In over a billion dollars on rooms alone. Thvv still average about $12 50 In Bibles. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The House Un-American Activ ities Committee has produced a film entitled "Operation Aboli tion." It is reported that the cir culation of that film now exceeds 2,000 copies and I understand it has been shown in Klamath Falls. This brings to mind the month ly publication of the Illinois divi sion of the American Civil Lib erties Union called "The Brief." . In Its January issue "The Brief" reports an interesting conversation between Burton White of the Uni versity of California faculty and William Wheeler, an investigator for the House Un-American Ac tivities Committee. In a TV de bate White tried to point out some of the distortions in the film "Op eration Abolition." Whcclor said, "What are you trying to prove by this?" White replied, "That the film has inaccuracies and dis tortions." Wheeler then said, "I've admitted that." That conversation raises some questions. For what purpose does H.U.A.C. circulate a film which one of its own investigators admits has been doctored? To ward what end is it sacrificing truth for propaganda? The film's thesis is that all efforts to abolish H.U.A.C. are Communist-inspired. This, then, must be the end for which the committee is willing to distort the facts and misrepresent as Communist-influenced the stu dents who last May in San Fran cisco disapproved of the commit tee ami its works. American citi zens have the right to criticize their government and to protest any of its actions; no officer, branch or committee of govern ment from the President and the Supreme Court on down is sacro sanct. Before this deceptive film was produced, the methods used by the H.U.A.C. lo perpetuate its existence had convinced the Wash ington Post, the New York Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the American Civil Liberties Union and me that the committee should he abolished. The circula tion of "Operation Abolition" confirms my opinion. Kenneth E. Lambie Royal Blood ACROSS 1 Fngland'i George or Edward 6 Mother Goo ruler C Knight's Utie 12 Region IS Operatic nolo 14 Individual 15 Insipid 17 Edward's nickname Id Come In 19 Makes melodious SI Chalcedony 23 Com oa m point 24 Enervate 27 Soap-nuKinf (ram 30 Volcano in Snlr M Raaeili 34 Profession to Place within 37 State M Allot 39 Sum 41 Cowboy Hoffen 2 Persia 3 Pint's home 4 Fence openings 5 Mr. Coobdge. fl Mountain nymphs 7 Roster a Bridge, hinds Poet 10 Arrow poison 11 Communists 16 Expunge r 20 Emnlovers m mote sera 44 Has exist: 4A Pirate 49 Weeping mother S3 Mr EddM Cantor M Dampener M Small child 57 What rrneb king sakI was "mor M Slice ( Beor 0 Hamlet u I melancholy one 61 Essential being DOWN 1 Heroins "Tarn ins oi tbt YOUR POCKETBOOK By FAVE HENLE Good housekeeping should mean more to you than tidy cupboards. It should mean a knowledge of what to keep, what to throw away, so far as the records of your finances are concerned. Here is a run-down intended to salvage what is vital, and to dispense with the clutter: Save all canceled checks and bank statements for at least two years. After that you can safely dispose with the checks you have written to cash, to pay local utili ties and tradespeople. If they had not gotten their money, they would have told ou so. Save indefinitely checks you may need as proof of payment and purchase price. These would include checks for real estate and home improvements, rent and property taxes, income taxes, medical expenses and other items deductible from your income tax. It would also include checks to pay insurance premiums to buy securities or expensive items like a car. piano, jewelry, furs, cam eras, paintings and such. If you suiter a fire or theft, you will find these mighty handy to prove the amount of your loss, either for insurance or income tax pur poses. Bank statements provide you with a record of major financial transactions they tell where the money went month by month. Keepin? them over any extended period is optional. Duplicate deposit slips can be thrown away once you've checked your monthly hank statement, provided the amount agrees with the credit printed on your ac count statement. Sales receipts should be kept long enough to insure that you won't wish to return or exchange the items. If you use charge ac counts, keep sales tickets until afler you have checked them against your hill and paid it. However, keep those sales slips that show payment of sales tax es that you can deduct from your Answer to Previous Puzif Iw A.p. elo NIP H I IS-I alba A c ela o n el t t J rIa. 9 e o gel P O L. J A HK T A R poM E C e Ua A TR N I gH H TONE A k. i D JB B 30 e . 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Keep installment loan contracts until all payments have been made. If you are deducting the interest paid on your loan from your income tax, these records should be put with a copy of your income tax return. The safest place for such records Is in a safety deposit box al the bank. What is my. source for these suggestions? Where can you go to find out how to budget ex penses according lo income? Where can you get printed forms to chart assets and liabilities over the years? Where can you go lo find out what records to keep to help plan your estate? Such infoimation is yours free along with printed forms so nec essary for good financial house keeping. Coast-to-coast, most banks can hand you such infor mation free. The material on what records to keep comes from a booklet prepared by Business News Asso ciates. Inc. called "Family Mon ey Management." It is distributed free by many banks. The most detailed budget guide I've ever seen is another bank give-away called "Spending Guide for Budg- i et-Minded Families." It also is available across the land. THE DOCTOR Vermin In New HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Ectoparasite is the fancy name we pive a crawling insect that takes up residence in our hair or on our skin. The pediculus capitis is tha head louse who has a prefer ence for a roof dwcllinR where there are air-cooled hairs on which lo deposit crrs (nits'. The pediculus corporis is the hody louse or "crab" who pre fers the privacy and warmth of nonexposcd hairy areas. The itch mite of scabies likes tn burrow into the webbing be tween the fingers and hatch its basket of eggs at the bottom of the tunnel. Contrary to the views of many correspondents whose inquires about cctoparasitism are either anonymous or signed with initials, an attack of pediculosis or scabies is not necessarily a social error of great magnitude. A visit from an ectoparasite can happen lo the best of us. And occasionally does. So don t be afraid lo tell your doctor or your local pharmacist about it, especially if he happens to have a war record. I think it's this reluctance to seek professional advice in the neighborhood that causes so many correspondents to complain that "they ve tried everything" with out success. For it's an unfor tunate truth that none of the old- By t j'i immi; if vou remember or not that Oregon is one of 10 states that have ratified the 23rd amendment. The 23rd amend ment? That's the one that would give residents of the District of Columbia the right to vote in presidential elections. There are a great many people who don't re alize that DC is one of the few places in the world where citizens have no right to vote. The amendment would not give Washingtonians the right to vole in local elections, and it would not let the city govern itself. Congress does that and would continue to do so. Congress finds the job of run ning the city a bit irksome at times. In a recent Congress 250 bills dealing with the District were introduced. Four committees sift Washington ordinances. At o n e time a subcommittee spent 2'j hours arguing whether dog li censes should be f3 or $5. If you don't receive 2.9 val 'entines this year, you may have grounds for feeling slight ed. That's the number that comes by dividing the 180 mil lion Americans Into the 525 million valentines expected to Re sold this year. If you're a moth er, you're special. According to one card manufacturer mothers get three times as many valen tine cards as do sweethearts. With so many standard types of cards on the market, there just doesn't seem the same atmosphere in valentine giving that existed when I was a kid (I was, too!) Most of ours in fact all were made from colored construction paper, or from wallpaper books, and they were real works of art. At least, that is the impression given by mothers. Now, of course, the way the manufacturers punch those cards out by the millions, it probably is cheaper to buy ' them. Most of the cards I've seen, unless you want to pay 50 cents on up. are pretty crummy. That is, they don't have one iota of personality in them. All this means nothing, of course, except that the valen tine, like everything else, has sub mitted to automation. A British doctor claims that people get shorter as they grow older about half an inch every 20 years. He didn't say anything about the gains one makes around the middle. Stories about government red tape come a dime a dozen. Rut one story telling of the proce dure for handling a government hill of lading during World War II is effective. There were to be 13 copies of each bill made. Nn. 1 mailed to the recipient, No. 2 and 3 put In the file. No. 4. 5 and 6 to go In the package, Nn. 7 to Air Express, Nn. 8 to the nearest Bureau office, and so on. What was particularly im pressive, however, was that, while there were detailed in structions for disposing of Nn. SAYS Are Ousted Treatment fashioned remedies is much good. Some, like kerosene and ben zene, are dangerous because of their flammahility. It's doubtful that much is accomplished by larkspur idelphiniumi or Balsam of Peru or ointments containing mercury and sulfur. And some of the newer insecticides are apt to be toxic when used in the large quantities necessary for effective action. There is. fortunately, at least one safe and effective chemical that's death to both lice and mites when used according tn direc tions. It's official name is 1, 2, 3, 4. 5. B. hexachlorocyclohexane and it's best known under the regis tered trade mark name of Kwell. Before applying Kwell lotion, it's necessary to lake a long hot bath during which involved skin areas must be briskly scrubbed with soap on a tough brush. Alter drying, the lotion is applied wherever it's needed, and permit ted to remain on for 24 hours. At the end of this time, it's re moved during the course of anoth er tubbing and scrubbing. And treatment is completed by a com plete change of bed and 'personal linens and clothes, and a remov al of nits wilh a fine - toothed comb , The big problem that remains is that of preventing reinfection For. unless the toilet seat is scrubbed and oilier members of Ihe household subjected to I h e same treatment, if needed, the 13, No. 12 was merely to be destroyed. For a nation which lays sa much stress on family life and so properly glorifies Ihe home ai the matrix of our culture, our unwillingness to devote an ade quate proportion of our wealth lo ensuring decent homes for all our families is little short of amaz. ing. In 1956 the Bureau of Cen sus found that there were 13 1 million dwellings 24 per cent of all dwellings which were serious ly substandard. Of this total, 42 million were "run down or neglect ed, or of inadequate shelter or protection against the elements, or endangering the safety of ths occupants." I am just as bad as the next piy when it comes to driving a car at a rather high speed on the highways. Nothing is more ir ritating than time wasted in trav el on business trips. So thousand of us whoop up the old jalopy to top speed with the idea in mind of lopping hours off our travel time. Actually, time saved on the high way can be highly fallacious. Two cars were driven on the same 300 miles of highway in a special test. One car, driven at a lop speed of 65 mph. averaged 4S mph and passed 126 other cars. The other traveling at 50 mph top speed, averaged 43 mph, and passed only 62 cars.' The speed ster made the trip in 6 hours and 25 minutes; the easy-going one made it in 6 hours and 50 min utes. So 11 per cent more gas, 50 per cent more oil, and who knows how much more risk all for 25 measly minutes. One of the most irritating things to a newspaperman is circulation of rumors relative to "big busi ness deals" in his bailiwick. Buy ers and sellers are normally cagey enough, but let them think that there's a reporter hot on their trail, and they start hunting cover toot sweet. But. then, there are. those w ho will claim that I h principal function of a newspaper is lo confirm rtimors that every body has known about for monthj anyway. LOOSE ENDS: Any parent of six children gets to know ths meaning of "oppressed minority" . . . Jlen. has taking off your hat in an elevator gone the way of other pleasantries? ... It was some bright young thing who observed: If we skip the pay ments on Ihe refrigerator and the television this month, we'll have enough to make the down pay ment on a new stove, . , . Oh, for the good old days of low prices like last year's . . . Every time I worry about getting out of debt, I am encouraged with the) thought that there are others mora worried because they can't get in . . . There is always something re grettable and sad in the transi tion of a baby to whatever stage you want to call it; Having watched for and over 14 babies at home, and now our own littls brood, and noting Ihe rapid, rapid way they grow up, makes ona want to reach out and stop the process some place. Parenthood carries with it some awful re sponsibilities; plenty of irritations; considerable inconvenience, and tremendous joy. AI manac By I'nited Press International Today is Wednesday, Feb. , the 39lh day of the year with 32 more in 1961. The moon is in its last quarter. The evening stars are Venus, Mars and Mercury. On this day in history; In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded. In 1910. Ihe Boy Scouts of America was incorporated in the District of Columbia. In 1935. delegates to a constitu tional convention in the Philippine Islands adopted the constitution of the Commonwealth of the Phil ippines. In 1940. every tenth person wal shot in two villages near Warsaw, Poland, in reprisals for the deaths' of two German soldiers. In 1955. Soviet Premier Malen kov resigned as chief of slate. Thought for today: American statesman Henry Adams said: "Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betraved man.-' "boarders" will return little tha worse for their temporary evic tion. For a copy of Dr. Hvman's leaf let "tindersianding Mental Ill ness." send 10 cents to Dr. Hy man. care Herald and News. Bo W. Dcpt B. Radio City Station, New York 19. N Y.
