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PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Monday, February 13, 1961 Atlas Had It Easy EDSON IN WASHINGTON Reorganization Of Agencies Demanded ... i . We have commented to some length on the reorganization plan which Gov. Hatfield has proposed, in which we opined that he is asking too much too fast. We are certain, too, that the governor realizes this, and is trying to get as much done as possible, with little thought that he can accomplish the whole project in this session of the legislature. Activity in the legislature of recent weeks substantiates this supposition, and it would appear that even less (if any) of the reorgani zation project will be realized at this time. Then the governor's hassle with the state wel fare commission comes along and makes it look even tougher. We're afraid that the gov ernor's actions will serve to solidify the sus picions of those who are wary of too much executive control. We're still hopeful, however, that there will be some action in those areas where re organization is desirable. And most legislators admit there are such areas. A puzzler is the stiff opposition by the labor unions and others to the proposed "three-way bill" on workmen's compensation: As we understand the bill, it would pro vide three ways for employers to provide workmen's comp. He could purchase protec tion from the stale, as presently; he could in sure with a private insurance company; he could underwrite the program by self-insuring. In each instance, levels of benefits to injured workmen would be dictated by state law, and the employer would be forced to pro vide adequate coverage. Such a program works effectively in oth er states, and there is no reason that we can see why it won't work in Oregon. There are a couple of unemployment bills in the Senate hopper which bear some study. One calls for elimination of the $20 in 20 weeks and the $700 base year require ments in determining unemployment bene fits. Instead, the bill would call for 18 weeks of work with an average of 16 hours per week. Maximum weekly benefit would be changed, too. It would be set at 50 per cent of the state average weekly wage. We say this bill deserves study because It is alleged it would add more than $4 mil lion or an increase of 13.6 per cent to em ployers subject to unemployment payments. It won't be too long, at that rate, before it is more profitable for a worker to be per manently unemployed. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. This was rare. Ruth Williams couldn't cat. She Is a stout blonde with a beau tiful face like a pale moon, and she likes food, She sat in the big rabbit warren called a cafeteria and she had a tray of food, but she looked at It and shook her head. "It won't go down," she said sadly. Miss Williams is 36, looks 28. and works as a stenographer for a Miami Beach branch office of a New York newspaper. All day, every day, she punches keys. To night she would sing opera. To night, in a performance of "An dre Chenier" at the auditorium, she would sing with Tebaldi and Borso. Tonight, for exacUy throe end a half minutes, she would he an important person. She would bow to the applause of thousands. The opera concerns itself with the French Revolution. In the third act, an old blind woman hob bles on stage ottering her little grandson as tho last of her men to die for the cause. She sings her nrla in mezzo soprano melan choly. Her range Is from low C to high B flat. Ruth Williams had the part. She pushed the tray away and Walked two blocks to the audi torium. It was early. Blue slate clouds hung like silent streamers In a burnt oranr.e sunset. She thought of how long ago It was to go back to Lakewood, Ohio, where she was raised, and where a neighborhood woman heard her childish trilling and said: "Ruth has a voice. She must get to a teacher." The child studied. But the breaks were small. Warren Whit ney guided her for awhile. She grew up pretty, but club dates are little ruts. A four-year schol- Editorial Potpourri JIM BISHOP: REPORTER ... From Stenographer To Opera Singer Overnight arship at the Academy of Vocal Arts hehied. So did Sidney Dietsch. But, until she got to Mi ami, and the Opera Guild, and tho patient coaching of Dr. Arturo Dl Filippi, her career stood still. Tonight, It would take a giant step. Tomorrow who knows? She walked backstage at trie Mi ami Beach Auditorium, saying hel lo to the men and women who would sing in the chorus tonight, men and women who, by day, are lawyers, physicians, policemen, a psychiatrist, a cantor, a minister, mechanics, salesmen, students, housewives. Backstage a boy sat on a lad der as his mother sat on a box and asked him his homework questions. Through I lie dressing room doors, a bedlam of notes, high and low, on key and off, sec)od into the concrete corridors. The stage hands shifted sets, moved rugs and vases and flowers, and ordered everyone else offstage. Arturo Di Filippi studied the costumes and makeup of dozens of singers and marie suggestions. In the pit, three musicians talked about an outsider who walked away with the 7th at Hialeah. Out front, the big dark Cadil lacs sneaked noiselessly to the door, and chauffeurs hurried out and around the car to assist Jin. ooo in sables lo get out of the back seat. The soft sweet si rings of the overture came through the heavy wine curtain as all the singers backstage said "Shhh!" "Andre Chenier" was on. It is a slow, undistinguished opera with unin spired music, and Henata Tebal di, a blonde handsome giant of a woman, hrouglit a spark to it. By the lime of the second act. We ordered and received from Sen. Boi vin a "do-it-yourself" reapportionment kit, as prepared by legislative counsel committee. Our ovn plan would be to send the legislators home, and leave things as they are but that won't be the case, we're sure. It is inevitable that eastern Oregon will lose some senators and representatives when reapportionment is effected. All we can hope for is a constitu tional amendment in 1962 that will apportion the legislature on the basis of both population and geography. Stacked Deck? (Corvallis Gazette-Times) There has been introduced into the Legis lature, a bill which, in most instances, would guarantee unions would automatically win all their strikes regardless of how outlandish their demands might be or how detrimental a strike settlement on union terms might be to the general public. In essence, the bill would prohibit re cruiting or supplying "any individual for em ployment in place of an employe involved in a labor dispute in which such person is not directly interested." If this is not unfair will someone please explain just how a struck employer is to get a new working force if he doesn't recruit them or someone doesn't send them to him? In plain black and white the bill means that union . labor does not intend that anyone is to take the place of a union worker while he is on strike. The bill is, of course, a result of The Ore gonian and Oregon Journal beating the strike against them. Union leaders were horrified when the two papers continued to publish without union labor. They didn't think it could be done. They don't intend that any oth er industry in similar circumstances will be able to produce. Had this proposed bill been a law before the newspaper strike it is possible that there would be no newspaper published in Portland today, even though every court and board be fore whom the merits of the strike have been argued have declared it to be illegal. Legal or not, the bill would, in many cases, prohibit an owner from operating his business after .a strike even though he couldn't afford to meet the union's demands and to do so would put him out of business. ' This is a bad bill and should be defeated. It strikes at the very heart of our free enter prise system. Rulh Williams was to a loose black skirt, a shawl, and wore split band aids over her eyes to give the illusion of blindness. She watched from the wings. She hid her nervousness by going from group to group, wishing them well. Three hours ago. she could not eat. Now she could barely breathe. The little boy who played Ruth's grandson came close, and she squeezed his hand hard enough to bruise the fingers. In the Ihird act. the stage man ager studied the stage, then point ed to Ruth Williams. She sighed a deep bojomed sigh, and the lit tle boy led her onstage for her one aria. Through the talcum of light, she could see the dinner jackets, the soft bare shoulders, the arena of culture. She died a little. The pit orchestra played the in troduction and softly, liltingly, Ruth Williams began to sing. For a moment, it seemed like a timid voice and then, as it walked the octaves sure-looledly, it swelled with sorrow as it told the story of the death of her husband, her son. Now the old blind woman was ready to give the last man in her family a boy. When it was done, a member of the chorus led the old lady up stage center. There was silence for a moment. Then the opera goers came to life. Applause rang out. The thunder of approval was hit by cries of "Bravo!" The old lady never paused in her exit. She never turned. A local newspaper reviewed Ihe opera the next day and spent its superlatives on Miss Tebaldi. In the second column, the review, er wrote: "The biggest, longest hand of the evening went to Ruth Williams." r 7y$ THE sb Some Of Them Correct! ACCURACY, or the constant search for it, is one of the plagu ing problems of the newspaper profession. We constantly rely on a num ber of standbys for verification of information. We use, for in stance, the Postal Guide to check selling of the names of places, and when it comes to local names, we have to rely on such things as the telephone book and the city directory. However, I'm afraid we have lost one of our more reliable sources. THE NEW city directory for 10 arrived the other day, and 1 promptly placed it in a promi nent place for all the staff to consult as needed. Immediately groans of anguish began to rise in the newsroom. First of all, the directory listed Ruth King, the dean of our re porting staff, as a waitress at a iocal restaurant. I double-checked to make sure she wasn't doing a little moon lighting on the side as a waitress, and then was prepared to write it off as simply a single mistake, a distinct possibility in such a situation. MY CURIOSITY AROUSED, I thumbed through the book lo check my own circumstances, and found myself listed only as a "City Councilman." I appreciat ed the honor, but my term ex pired January 1, and besides the job only paid $24 a month which was hardly enough to live on. Closer examination revealed that it gave the name of my wife as Barbara I. Actually, it's Barbara J. It listed Wayne Scott as "Kdi tor" which is only half correct since he is "Sports Kditor," and it failed to list Mrs. Helen Bechen, our society editor, at all. AT THIS POINT, with four er rors in about as many tries, I checked out. and have filed the Musical Varieties ACROSS I 1 Kind of concert j 4 Singing voice ' 8 Musical symbol 12 Milt beverage , 13 Lamb's pen name ' H Possess ' 15 Knight's title 18 Sweethearts , If) Summed up 20 Mimic ken 21 Donkey . 22 Vases ! 24 Unded ; 26 ry 27 Scottish nam prefix 30 Outer hw I S2 Wish M Turns outward ! M Revised WFre 37 Jumps on one foot 99 Ascend 40 Walking stick 41 One of the ' Little Women" 42 European count rv 4S Port end 4ft Vied 61 Small ehiM t2 Poker stake t3 Ocean movement M First woman M Mrs Tmmaa M Hh cards ft? Uir 1 Gone 2 Med lev 3 Was relevant 4 Musical tatniDMoti iVmaj 6 Jewish prayer book 7 Sneak 8 Meat cuU 9 Wash 10 Always 11 Heraldic bant) 17 Tame ashore 19 Fall flower 23 Is borne 24 State 25 Son of Jacob iBib 26 Malicious burning 27 Moderated 25 War god of Greece 29 Grant t4 VIEW FROM HERE . . . by Fiw. Well, Maybe They Got , directory away. We'll struggle through the year on some other sources. WHILE DISCUSSING some backstage problems, it's an in teresting story that's developing over our offer on "Better Grades" booklet. In the first place, I must ad mit that we considerably m i s judged the tremendous interest this feature has created. We waited until the orders started to flow in, and then de cided to order 75 booklets. . i An hour after we ordered the ' 75 booklets, about mid week", a check of the orders revealed wa already had received nearly 75. So, we sent a second order for another 50, thinking this would take care of it, and perhaps we were being overly optimistic. Two days later, the list of or ders had climbed past the inn mark, and we were anxiously counting up each day's orders. Today, we ordered another 50, but already the Orders on hand number almost 150 and still grow ing. IT'S AN EXCELLENT BOOK LET, and certainly important reading. To complicate matters, a wire on Wednesday staled that because of the snow storms in the New York area, the delivery was beins delayed, and the first 120.000 printings had been ex hausted. Wo were about lo give up when the mailman staggered in with the first 75 booklet order. Thoso have been dispatched to the first 75 applicants, and the others will be on their way shortly, also. Meantime, we're keeping an eye on the orders and wondering whether 175 will (ill the bill. We know how a merchant feels when he has a perishable item and wonders how many buyers he's going to have. INCIDENTALLY, we almost in advertently created a civil war Answer to Previous Puzzle lAll 3! Kind of gas 43 Cornhread 33 Fathers 44 Insects SB Kind o( ulcer 48 Counsel 40 Quotes 47 Donated 41 Ancient Asians 48 Paradise 42 W ound SO Musical covering direction u V E Aj O R A T O H I Ol pf A Ml R A T H A P E g R Rt. X N P U TTgfel It e nit r$3 a il e I g i O A R 1 B E e fr I T .f 1 5. X -J jId a1 j a ' mmm ' O N 6HU A i- T A C 1 IlT E P EflT I N T fg B N O T R O V I N C P ORT? &transIeIr1 g& "el I E U 14 15 6 p 18 19 110 ill u ii ! is n n it ns H5T23 11 J r, . m a b K I m kl 55 Ji jj a 55 3 n37 ns I K PI 41 I I ii JU 42 li Pl6 47 IT 5 so -si 55 3 sj 3 3 31 1 I I I I I I I I u between Siskiyou and Klamath County last week. In a story on the fire that de stroyed tho famous landmark at Laird's Landing, we took the his toric old landmark into Klamath County. A call from Flora Lee Reeves, our Dorris correspondent, in formed me the county was up in aims about our stealing their landmark. Let me Ijasten to give it back, and put it back in Siskiyou Coun ty where it belongs. Incidentally, Ken McLeod was the one to report the fire. He and some other persons traveled to the spot Saturday, February 4. on an historical trip. He was planning to take some pictures of the place, including the big 60 team barn that was put together with wooden nails, when he found it had burned to the ground. It just about wiped out the landmarks remaining of the era when boats played a vital part in the transportation picture of this area. OUR PROGRESS EDITION it progressing rapidly. It has been a highly interesting and informative project for all of us at the newspaper. We ate finding out a lot about this area that we didn't know, and I'm sure you will also when you get your copy of the Progress Edition on Sunday, February 26. A copy which will number well more than 100 pages w ill be de livered to each of our regular subscribers. However, to enable readers to srnd this big edition to friends in other states and countries, we are printing an ad ditional 5,000 and making these available for sale. As a convenience, you can get your order in now for any ad ditional copies you might want, or can place your order for mail ing with the circulation depart ment. Again, after the presses roll, it's a case of first-come first-served. Don't miss this chance to tell your friends elsewhere about this wonderful Klamath Bain. JIST TO PROVE the quality of the people we rear here in the Klamath Basin, I'd like to point out that recently when I was in Lakeview to attend the Lake County Chamber's Annual Awards Banquet, I spent part of an earlier noon luncheon talking to Ray E. Harlan. I found out that he was bom and reared in the Klamath Fa'ls area, and remembeied many things about the early days in Klamath Falls. He also recalled that his father Used to log with oxen and was one of the early loggers to uti lize steam. I enjoved my talk with him. He left Klamath Falls in the late lir-'O's to go to Lakeview. It turned out that night at the Awards Banquet that he was hon ored as the Senior Citizen of the Year at Lakeview. Small world. Thoughts He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty. Martin Tup per. O By PETKR EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NE - James M. Landis, special assistant to President Kennedy on govern ment regulatory agencies, has hit 'em again, from another angle. He now accuses these commis sions of partial responsibility for the failure of the industries they regulate to contribute their share of the nation's growth. At the end of December, Lan dis gave Kennedy a report recom mending sweeping changes in the organization and procedure of agencies like Federal Communi cations, Power, Trade, Interstate Commerce. Securities and Ex change Commissions, Civil Aero nautics Board and Food and Ding Administration. Harvard law professor Landis has served as a member of FTC and SEC and been chairman of CAB, so he knows his way around their legal mazes. Hut his rec ommendations stirred up the ani mals in all these cages. In a talk before the Federal Bar Assn. in Washington to an swer some of his critics. Landis denies that he wants to become czar over these agencies. But he gives them another round of criticism for inadequate personnel, lack of courage and imagination, delays in handling cases brought before them and failure in cases involving over lapping jurisdiction of two agen cies working in the same field.. This latter criticism has drawn strenuous objection from Federal Trade Commissioner William C. Kern, a Democrat. He opposes the Landis recommendation that FTC antitrust law enforcement powers be turned over to the De partment of Justice. Landis notes some improve ments already. ICC has upgrad ed its hearing examiners. SEC commissioners have begun to write some of their own opinions instead of letting the professional staff do them all. But the White House adviser maintains that a complete reor ganization of government machin ery in this field should be made by presidential and congressional action. Landis expresses some surprise that his criticisms meant to THE DOCTOR SAYS . . . Infectious Jaundice Difficult To Stop By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D, Written for NEA By now, you've probably read of the dozen or more tragic deaths that occurred in New Jersey as the result of some sort of injec tion treatment given for nervous and mental disorders. In each in stance, death was due to an at tack of infectious jaundice, caused by a virus introduced during the injection. The unfortunate practitioner v ho gave these injections has had his license suspended. And at least one of the victims, before her death, transmitted the dis ease to one of her children. Now in case you think this dreadful catastrophe was an iso lated incident let me tell you something about "syringe jaun dice" and what you can do to help wipe it out. The virus that causes syringe or serum jaundice is a close rel ative of the microbe responsible for what is known as "simpie catarrhal jaundice" (virus hepa titis!. But there is this difference. This pesky villain is highly re sistant to ordinary methods of sterilization. And he's as persis tent as a bill collector. During World War II. he got into a batch of yellow fever vac cine. And, before he got through his dirty work, there were some 29,000 infections resulting in 62 deaths. What made detection so diffi cult was the fact that the ill ness did not become apparent lor from 40 lo 180 days after the injection when victims were scattered far and beyond the staging area. And what makes the threat still so menacing is the fact that it continues lo circulate in the victim's blood for montlis and years after convalescence. Thus the convalescent becomes a carrier. If he donates blood tor transfusion he may be a source of danger to the very person he seeks to help. That's why your doctor and jour Red Cross question you so closely when you volunteer to do nate blood. That's why you mav be infected Willi his virus ,f ihe needle andor syrince. used for him. is next used on you before it has ben completely sterilized. That may he why Public Health reports for the first 11 months of 1!W0 list twice as many cases of all types of infectious hepa titis as of the combined total of polk), meningitis, diphtheria and whooping couch And thai mav he why the number of cases of all types ol infectious jaundict be constructive raised so much clamor. He explains it as a pub lic realization of the power thesfl agencies hold over business and recognition of the fact that great er development of industries under regulation is necessary to pro mote a more rapid growth rata in the national economy. Though an increase in grosi national product should be accom panied by increased demand for transportation, Landis points out that railroad ton-mileage has de clined. In the passenger field condition! are even worse, with commuter services crippled. Landis says the explanation is not to be found in the develop ment of a competitive highway system. Many trucking concerns have gone bankrupt, auto trans portation is congested, parking space at a premium and parking rales sky high. Air transportation has likewise been hit. One airline is bankrupt, others show losses, air cargo car riers have been forced to sus pend operations and the federal government must subsidize air lines to the tune of 80 million dollars a year. In the energy field, the price of natural gas has doubled. Hydro electric power has not been ade quately developed. Hydrogenation of coal is undeveloped, though this process for exploding coal at the mine instead of transporting it long distances and burningr it inefficiently was discovered 30 years ago. Use of atomic energy for power is still decades away. "Were our traditional regula tory methods capable of sur mounting these problems." sayj Landis, "my report would have been meaningless." This introduces an entirely new element into the philosophy of the regulatory agencies. The original concept when they were created was that they should control th industries they were regulating, to keep them honest and to keep them from becoming powerful monopolies. What Landis now seems to he emphasizing is that the rcgula tory agencies should also be re sponsible for promoting t h growth of Ihe industries they reg ulate, while still protecting t h public interest of the consumers. rose, in I960, to over 33,000 as compared with less than 20,000 in 1959. ' Here's what you can do: If ever you've had infec tious jaundice or any unexplained fever of long duration, especially while you were in the service, lell your doctor, dentist and any laboratory technician who may have occasion lo give you an injection or draw blood from your vein or from your finger. As lit tle as 1-4000 of a teaspoonlul may be sufficient to transmit the in fection. Forewarned, the person who uses Ihe needle or syringe will then boil the apparatus for at least 30 minutes. This will sure ly kill the virus. If you require drug treat ments, request medication in pill or tablet form unless injection therapy is imperative. With few exceptions, oral forms are avail able for important products, in cluding antibiotics like penicillin and gland extracts like sex hor mones and cortical steroids. And finally and perhaps most important, if ever you've had in fectious jaundice or a long unex plained fever, especially in t h e service, scrub your hands after stool and again before you han dle food or drink, especially il you are serving others. Remember, the person whosa health you preserve or whose lif you may save may be a loved one. For a copy of Dr. Hyman'S leaflet "What About Hardening of the Arteries?" send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman. care of tha Herald and News, Box 489, Dept. B, Radio City Station, New York 19. N.Y. Al manac By United ij, International Todav is Monday, Feb. 13th, Ihe 44lh day ol the year witli 321 more to follow in 1961. The moon is approaching if new phase. The evening stars are Venul and Mars. On this day in history: In 1635. the Boston Latin School, Ihe oldest public school in tha U.S. was established in Boston. A thought for todav: Wendell fhillins said. "The best use of laws is to teach men to tramp!' bad la under their feet,"
