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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."
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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
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' 8 Musical symbol
12 Milt beverage
, 13 Lamb's pen
name
' H Possess
' 15 Knight's title
18 Sweethearts
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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
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1 Gone
2 Med lev
3 Was relevant
4 Musical
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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
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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
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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,"