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PAGE 6-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Friday, February 10, ISfil 'I Know It's Cold But You GOlTA Keep Up With Kennedy" NOTHING SPECIAL IW. B. S.) Most truck drivers seem to be technically competent vehicle operators and conscientious observers of safety rules. Obviously, too, the truck owners have a big stake in keeping their trucks in safe condition and their drivers on . , work schedules that permit them to slay fit and alert. - Still there are exceptions on both sides. , : Neither all owners nor all drivers adhere to : ; truck traffic safety rules as rigidly as good ; . sense would appear to dictate. They quarrel over whose fault it is that lapses occasionally occur. The truckers blame the union. They say that even if a particular driver accumulates a record of accidents and convictions, union pro tests make disciplinary action difficult or im possible. There was an instance recently in which a truck slashed across a center highway line and struck a private car, seriously injuring its driver. The truck driver in question had been Beina ieing (The Christian Science Monitor) For years it has been evident to those who would read the statistics that much the greater number of serious automobile acci dents are caused by a small minority of driv ers. Each year in most states the liability in surance rates creep higher and higher reflecting largely the damage done by a' rela tively few reckless, incompetent, or imma ture drivers. For a long time it was considered hopeless Honesty Does Pay , (Commercial Appeal) While It is well enough to keep assur ing all and sundry that crime does not pay, it may. also serve a useful purpose to take the more positive approach and point out that honesty does pay on occasion. The week be fore Christmas a San Francisco college stu dent found a billfold with $25 in it. She re turned it to the owner and on Christmas Eve she received a card with a money order for $50 attached. There is no guarantee in such matters and considerations of reward should not be dominant, but it is nice to know that virtue is recompensed now and then at least. Tl,A..a worn Iimii- nenn A In MP. ', coach that night. . . . '-; It was 8:05 when Mrs. Lincoln, ' short and plump, stood, in the of- fice doorway pulling on gloves, '.nnd said: "Would you have us be late?" She looked pretty in a bon ' net with pink flowers and a low ". necked white dress. Mr. Lincoln ; fumbled for his watch. Ho was talking to Congressman Aslimun .' and he looked at his wife and thou ' at the Congressman and ho asked if Ashmun vould mind coming ' back in Hie morning. . He got up, picked up his silk hat, and ran his bony hand through the matted mass of dark hair. He looked in the mirror . framed on the lavatory door, and .; sow sagging molasses skin, thick brown lips, and tired eyes. He was 58, and he followed his wife down - the broad staircase carefully, hold ' ing onto the bannister. She was still a pace ahead in : the lower hall, chattering about ' Laura Keene and reminding the ; President that this was the last ; night positively the last night of "Our American Cousin." She : was sure thai Mr. Lincoln would - be amused. His big feet barely lifted off the rug us he walked. The President was old beyond time, and tired. '. Out front, he stood and pulled .' on his white cotjon gloves as ; Burns helped Mrs. Lincoln into ; Ihe closed carriage. It had been warm and sunny: now a cool mist ; had come up and it swirled like little gay ghosts among the bare oaks on the lawn. The servants stood watching and he waved absent-mindedly as he stepped Into the carriage. Two plush double seats faced each oth er. The President and Mrs. Lin coln sat facing front. The door ' was clicked shut, the coach lamps Caution Sign Fair To The Safe Driver JIM BISHOP: REPORTER ... Death Was The The President's looked like fireflies as they danced out the curving driveway. Two cavalrymen follimcd. It was too bad, the President thought, that General and Mrs. Grant could not have joined them. The war was over: (limit was the hero: the people in Washington were entitled to a look at Iho man of the hour. . limit had declined. Willi thanks. He wanted to oblige, hut Mrs. lirant still remembered Mrs. Lin coln's obsessive hysteria. Once, when Ihe While House grocer com plained about Mrs. Lincoln'-: shrieking, the President had lu.it a hand on his shoulder and mur mured: "Can you not stand for 15 minutes what 1 have stood for 15 years?" Tho carriage bounced along the cobbles to fifteenth Street, turned north, then east on 11 Street. It stopped at the home of Son. Ir;i Harris. The footman got down off the box and rang the bell. Miss Clara Harris, the Senators dauehlcr, answered the bell. She was buxom and pale, of skin. She and her fiance. Major Henry It Halhbone. had been told at p.m. that they were to he the guests of Ihe President and Mrs. Lincoln at the (healer. They got in the carriage care fully, saying "Cood evening." Miss Harris sat facing Mrs. Lin coln, who chattered alwut how pretty Ihe young lady looked. The major, who u as tall as Mr. Lincoln, sat facing the President. Ho managed to alternate his knees between Ihe President's. The major wore muttonchop whiskers nnd a walrus mustache He fell tense in the presence of (lie President, and he stammered when he u anted lo sound carnal. The dark horses pulled (he car riage down Fourteenth Street and discharged by his firm after an earlier acci dent, but had been reinstated when the union protested the firing. This time he was given a jail sentence. The union argues in rebuttal that if truck driver violations were truly serious they would inevitably lose their licenses and that would rule them out. It is contended further that some employers exaggerate the offenses as an excuse to censure or discharge drivers they dislike for other reasons. The outside onlooker plainly cannot judge fully the merit of these clashing contentions. He can assert his one overriding concern: that both the truck owners and the union lean over backward in the direction of safety. No doubts about the fitness either of equipment or drivers should be resolved on the side of risk-taking. If this kind of public responsibility is not shown by all truck owners, union leaders and rank-and-file drivers, then the matter will one .. day be taken out Of their hands and a far stiff er control imposed on them all. to try to identify these motorists and weed them out or make them pay insurance rates comparable to the losses they cause. But in surance companies are showing that some dis cernment in this aspect of rate-making is en tirely possible. On the West Coast, an experimental "merit plan" put into effect by 200 companies with official approval last year has been re vised to make it even easier on drivers with good two-year records and to penalize more stiffly the driver prone to serious traffic vio lations such as drunken or hit-and-run driv ing. Now companies belonging to the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters are intro ducing in New York Stale a rate structure also using demerits for law violations or re sponsibility for accidents. Under it t,hey esti fmate that 67 of an average 100 drivers will gel a 10 per cent discount from the basic premium, 21 drivers will pay 10 percent more, and 10 of the hundred will pay a penalty o( 50 per cent or higher. The justice of such a plan depends in part on the fairness of law enforcement. If that is lax, it must be improved. But merit ratings should be installed as fast and as broadly as a sound base is laid for them; for they are clearly in the interest of the prepon derant decent majority of drivers. Driver In Coach over F, into Tenth Street. If the President noticed that' the major was out of uniform, nnd unarmed, he said nothing. The coachman got down off the box, and walked the horses up lo the wooden planking in front of Ford's Theater. He did not want the bouffant skirts of the ladies (o bo muddied. Outside, a small group of soldiers on leave stood watching. They wanted to see Mr. Lincoln. Inside, Act One was on. Laura Koine, fluttering a paper fan, was engaged in a duel of puns with Lord Dundreary about drafts. On the street, Negro coachmen in cocked hats sat dozing on the boxes of carriages. The night mist haloed the lights around tho the ater The major stepped down. He heljiod Miss Harris to alight. Then Mr. Lincoln emerged, hold ing his head low to got out of the carriage. He assisted Mrs Lincoln. The President said some thing softly, and the (our broke into laughter. Two cavalrymen, who had been riding guard behind the Presi dent's carriage, swung their horses away. A mile nway, a man on a skittish mare swung away from a group of horsemen. He had given instructions to each tf the others. He held his young handsome face up to the mist and spurred the marc toward (ho theater. Tlicre were four ople iirtlv? roach that night. They rode with destiny. In two hours, Ihe Presi dent would be shot. In two years. Mrs. Lincoln would be declared Insane. In a few more years, Ma jor Rathhone would murder his w ife, Clara Harris, and spend the rest of his day in an asylum Four people in a coach. Death did (he driving. iPlP fit ' ' WASHINGTON WINDOW Organized Labor Seeks Ways To Plug 'Loopholes' In Tax. By LVLE C. WILSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD - Putting two and two (ogether you get some idea of what President Ken nedy has in mind regarding tax ation. For example, the Democratic platform said: "We shall close the loopholes in the tax laws by which certain privileged groups legally escape Iheir fair share of taxation." In his second news conference, Kennedy said: "We will suggest (lo Congress, a source of revenue with every program (for now spending!." The AFL-CIO research depnrt- ment Is out nuw with its own es timate of how much new revenue the Treasury would obtain by means of tax reform to eliminate loopholes. Big Labor estimates the additional revenue at $18 bil lion. These loopholes, Big Labor contends, are, in fact, special privileges. Oil Allowance Rapped Organized labor wants tax rc lorm in the rate areas where business, industry and capital arc most acutely interested. Big La bor takes dead aim on the oil in dustry's 27'a per cent tax deple tion allowance, and lower allow ances enjoyed by other extractive industries. The AFL-CIO News tags execs sivc depletion allowances to the oil and mining industries the most flagrant among all revenue law special privileges. It is sig nificant, however, that Big Labor does not propose outright repeal of the entire depletion allowance hut only (hat portion of the al lowance dee" d to be excessive. "The effect of those (special: exclusions and deductions," snvs (be current AFL-CIO News, "both as to individual and corporate taxes is to treat income different ly according to its source. That is, income from wages is taxed at one rate, income from divi dends at another and income from oil wells at still another "The special treatment for cap Hal gains, (he sjiecial (ax credit for dividend income, the contin At the Table ACROSS 1 Meat dish 5 What'i to eat 9 Kind of Ash 12 Operatic solo IS Prayers 14 Pronoun 15 To the point 17 Actress, Lupino IB Horse 19 Of the atari 21 Remainder 6 Parsee sacred writings 7 Lease 8 Natural (at 9 Youth 10 Opera by Verdi 1 1 Russian ruler lfl Standards 20 Endures 22 Frozen rain 24 Nomad 25 Biblical name 26 Spartan kins 23 Radical (ab 26 Lorelei 24 Pit 27 Sad cry mode 30 Nested boxes 43 Marine 3 1 Man s nickname 45 Cut zv Boat 32 Offer a (east 34 Chant M Opposed 37 Vacation spot 3fl North wind Jtf Provider of pecans or apple 41 Female rabbil 42 John Gaelic) 44 What dessert does for a meal 46 Throb 33 Regions 35 Required 49 Runawaytowed 53 Constellation M Makes operate 56 Greek letter 57 Prayer ending M Female saints (ah 59 High transportation M Mother of Helen of Troy 91 Faith and Charity's sister DOWN 1 Enervate t Waste allowance 3 Ireland 4 Table beverage 6 Cooling device uing existence of tax-exempt in terest are but a few examples," the department of research said in citing tax situations Big Labor desires changed. Platform Promises These tax objectives of organ ized labor fall generally within the pattern of the Democratic platform to which the Kennedy administration is committed with out any qualifications whatever. The language may vary but the meaning and intent are the same. Where labor demands repeal of excessive depletion allowances, tlie platform promises repeal of allowances which are inequitable. Neither is a proposal for outright repeal. In short, labor and the Kennedy administration definitely seek or are committed to reduce deple Kennedy Portrayed As Active President, Boss By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) How does President Kennedy look af ter less than three weeks in of fice? If he follows the course of his first 20 days, you can expect this: 1. His is going to be a middle-of-the-road administration. It will be more liberal than conservative but it w ill shun extremes. 2. He will be on extremely ac tive president. He already has poured out proposals to get the economy moving. 3. In foreign affairs he will be firm, non-belligerent, imaginative and human. He will try to do busi ness quietly, without playing to the grandstand. 4. He will be very political minded in dealing with Congress, unlike President Eisenhower who showed distaste for politics and kept hands off Congress. 5. He'll be the boss in his ad ministration. Answer to Previous Puiile &A I jej 6UB ItglAtFlT I PEA .J A T J T 6. P U ?Ta y ggi "eTTa Te l. & ' ' fec olgTrl m c BtIo p Fie r a e. 5. i L X tcf b ft. m(n a. X . 1l -L P. e. g pA iJgjH i m je R A TXjAfgTT El I D " I pa1j&Jt6 rmymm e r 1 1 p el e Ufe t fc'lA'it I l.et 5" 40 Stapred 48 Domesticated 50 German king 61 Chicken talk 52 Kuential being 55 Feminine name 46 Meat paste 47 Soviet river 12 p (4 I I' ff t I Id lid hi i ra r? srs is r? -j 21 u ps w r a laV. a son s- & rfr 5! 37 nj a jsi p 53 g r 51 57 3 3 B 51 ' 1 ' ' ' I I I tion allowances but not necessar ily to repeal them. This some what fine distinction was not much emphasized when the par ty platform was presented to the Democratic National Convention last July. Some left wing ele ments of the Democratic Party may be expected to resist any in terpretation of the platform to limit the pledge to mere reduc tion short of depletion allowance repeal. This may lead to a consider able hassle within the Democrat ic Party when the time comes if it ever does to make good on that part of the Democratic plat form. Americans for Democratic Action, for example, would be expected to protest. Either way. business, industry and capital stand to pay the tab. Perhaps the best example of his middle-road attitude is in his proposal to raise the minimum wage from $1 an hour to $1.25. He could have suggested boost ing it to SI 25 in one crack. That would have meant trouble with Congress, maybe no raise at all. So he asked only for $1.15 this year which is far as the Eisen hower administration would go and $1.25 two years from now. President Franklin D. Roose velt's activity was limited to a wheel-chair. President Harry S. Truman got around in the usual, predictable way without mingling w ith people much. Dwiglit D. Ei senhower, except for golf, stayed rather alone in the White House. Kennedy has hopped all over Washington: to a late movie; to friends' homes for dinner or a party; to the State Department to sit in on conferences. He has been firm with the Rus sians in foreign affairs too firm, they think but has said nothing deliberately to irritate them. He has made it clear he wants to deal with them quietly, has of fered to cooperate with them on earth and in space. But he isn't rushing toward them. He and his aides are studying the problems particularly dis armament and nuclear testing in the hope of finding answers, perhaps new ones, as he said. Self-interest will be involved in American foreign policy, but Ken nedy hasn't used it as a flag. Indications are that Kennedy w ill be the boss in his administra tion, even if he has to slap down some of his own people to prove it. When his ambassador to the I'nited Nations. Adlai E. Steven son, guessed out loud Kennedy would be glad to meet with Pre mier Khrushchev if he conies here, the White House quickly, crisply said Stevenson talked for himself. Kennedy is not delegating authority as Eisenlwwer did with his chief assistant. Sherman Adams. There is no White House Job similar to Adams'. QUESTIONS. AND ANSWERS Q What contribution was made to mrdirinr by George Washing ton Crllc of Ohio? A Kirst direct blood transfu sion. ' Got your tickets to the benefit dinner for the KUHS choir and orchestra units yet? If not, a reminder that the parents of those kids are whomping up a dinner in the KUHS cafeteria for Mon day night. Proceeds of the dinner will go to providing funds to send the choir, string orchestra, and madrigal singers to Spokane to a national conference. Again, I say, it is unfortunate that we do not have a source of school funds for such activity, but that's the way it is. We should be as interested in development of our school mu sic and choral groups as we are in the athletic teams but we aren't. Oh, no-Dep't.: One of our doughty legislators has come UP with a plan to permit each county to decide for itself wheth er it wants daylight saving. Now, if that wouldn't create a mess, ! don't know what else would. I am often amazed at the awe and downright fear that some people have for men of profes sional standing. That seems par ticularly true when we consider the medical and legal professions. 1 can see no good reason for it, except that doctors and lawyers throughout the centuries have helped create the atmosphere of unapproachability. (That is prob ably a word that will make the lawyers shudder.) Happened to read an article in a national magazine that pointed out some salient factors to con sider in picking a doctor. Part of the article dealt with the patient's responsibility to his (or her) doc tor, and outlined a sort of guide to medical etiquette. Here is part of those suggestions. Medical ethics and etiquette, shrouded in mystery for the av erage patient, may seem con trived to make the profession a closed corporation. Actually, how ever, rules among doctors often work to the patient's advantage if he lor shel knows what his rights are. In the first place, the patient should remember that he is boss as far as choosing a doctor is concerned. Every physician rec ognizes the complete freedom of a patient to change doctors, call in specialists and ask for consulting physicians. You need never feel bad about doing any of those tilings if you do them with cour tesy and frankness. I have observed, in our own case, that no doctor expects that he and he alone should be the "family" doctor. In our family, we have a policy where I will go to one doctor, and the rest of ' the family to one or more other doctors. (P.S.: We've a big enough family to supply a whole clinic of doctors, in case anyone is interested.) You have the right to leave one doctor for another, but it is not good sense to do so without tell ing both doctors what your plans are if you have been under treat- THE DOCTOR Here's HowTo Judge If You Need Vitamins By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. What's tlie truth about vitamins anyway? I was shocked the other day to read in an official government publication that the Department of Justice was forced to seize 50, 600 bottles of mislabelled vita min preparations, manufactured and sold by one of the most re spected drug companies. Since most of us are bombard ed with misinformation about vita mins, here is a brief review of the role these important food ele ments play in the lives of normal individuals, catins average meals served in tlie average civilized community- Tlie avcr.ige American diet pro vides more than the daily re ruirement of all vitamins. The laliel on tlie seized bottles that suggested the impossibility of maintaining adequate nutrition on a diet of ordinary foods because of "depleted soils, premature har vesting, faulty storage, processing, over-cooking and chemical de-' sfruction" is. as charced. false. Equally false is the statement that "practically everyone is. or is m danger of suffering from in adequate vitamin and mineral nu trition unless a vitamin or min eral supplement is added to the diet." For example. I have never in my professional life seen a vit amin deficiency in an otherwise" healthy American wiio ate the average fcrtis served Irom the average American kitchen, by tli aver.T'e American houstwile. ment with one of them for any lonaih n( limp. If vou fail to in form both doctors, the interchange of information about your case be tween them will be blocked off. The result will be greater ex pense and a delay in your cure. If you are shy about telling a doctor you are dropping him, , write him a letter. You need not hesitate about telling your doctor that you want the services of a pediatri cian, obstetrician, or any other specialist. Don't be shy about saying so when you want con sulting doctors called In on your case The good doctor won't take this as a slur on his com petence. It's perfectly all right, too, to get a second opinion on your doc tor's diagnosis. But tell him in advance and tell the second doc tor' why you want him to see you. That way, you avoid embarrass ment all around, and possibly, prevent fumbling of your case. And, then, on the matter of charges. I don't expect that a doc tor has time to sit down and haggle about the prices of his professional service in the same manner that you would expect when you are dealing for prod ucts. Anyway, most of the time, the cost is a secondary consider ation when we are seeking medi cal aid. But you have a perfect right to discuss the matter of charge for medical services. I have seen a small placard in the offices of some doctors that in vites all patients to discuss open ly any question they might have relative to his fees. I guess that most of us don't ask as many questions about the cost as we do the method we CAN pay. Along the same line, it would appear that many doctors spend a great deal of their time making out claims for insurance payment. But, then, I suppose that is no more difficult than it was in the old day when Doc might have to go out to the old homestead and pick up a crate of eggs or a ham hock or other "trade" for services performed. When I think of the times our gang trots off to Doc's of fice nowadays, and contrast that to the time of my own youth, I shudder and wonder how we ever lived. There wasn't a doc tor within 40 miles of my home town, and the closest thing we had to a medical man was a self-appointed horse doctor. The nearest dentist was similarly far removed. And that reminds me of the old mountaineer who lead a gangling youth in the presence of the vil lage medico. "Doc," he said, "I want you should fix up my son-in-law. I shot him in the leg yes terday and lamed him up a mite." "Shame on you, shooting your son-in-law!" scolded the good doc tor. "Wal, doc," rejoined the moun taineer, "he warn't my son-in-law when I shot him!" Aw, now. You wouldn't dare. SAYS . There is no virtue in taking vi tamin excesses. There is no such thing as an anti-infective vita min. Tlie claims that C vitamins i ascorbic or cevitamin acid) pre vent or modify the common cold or rheumatic fever have been ex ploded. The claim that A vita min exerts a favorable influence on acne is nonsense. And t h e claims for E vitamin, relative to fertility and heart disease have been dLsprovcn. In these difficult times, with liv ing costs steadily rising, there's no need for the housewife to pur chase sunplcmentary vitamins, minerals or sjiecial .foods so long as she serves ,i breakfast of or ange or tomato juice: a hot cereal villi sugar, hutier and milk: bread or toast with butter or oleomar garine: and whole milk that's been enriched with vitamin D: a lunch eon of a meal or cheese sand wich or hamburger or hot dngs. milk or cocoa and an apple or a banana- and a dinner that in cludes meat, fish or poultry; po t.ilo: a green and a vellow vege lihle: bread and butter: and a dessert of canmd fruit, fruit pie or an occasional treat of ice cream. These recommendations houlI not be interpreted as a blanket condemnation of vitamin therapy, when needed. But. unless you hue a trie vitamin deficiency, diagnosed by your doctor, and you have been ordered to take a speci fic vitamin, prescribed by vour dixtor. better spend the hard earned household dollar on what lolks used to call "vittles." Q
