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PAGE ( HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Oregon Wednesday, February 5J, 1961 How Fortunate We Were The Man : George Washington could have had any thing he wanted at the end of the Revolution ary War, up to and including the title of king. Such was the esteem and veneration in which he was held by Americans. Even as duly elected president, Washing ton could easily have usurped great powers and set the United States on a course directly opposite from that which it has taken. He might well have continued in office until his death and set a pattern of self-perpetuation for his successors. With a bad first president as a model, it is conceivable that future administration change-overs might have become the palace revolution type so familiar in many countries. We now have a Constitutional amendment lim iting presidents to two terms. Many feel it is unnecessary and even unwise. But had Wash ington not established this tradition, as well as the tradition of devotion to self-government .under law, there may have been no Constitu tion left at all. Washington set a standard of leadership, not only for presidents but for all public of ficials, that has played no small part in mak ing this country what it is today. That the ideal of democracy on which the nation was found ed has survived and grown, however haltingly, for 172 years is testimony to the impetus and direction given to it by Washington. True Tragedy Of Lumumba ; The new chaos in the Congo, following upon the death of Patrice Lumumba, gives the world's responsible leaders one of the worst dilemmas they have faced in this century. It is enough of a problem simply to try to set any struggling young nation on a sound course. The difficulty is multiplied incredibly when the new country is so torn apart and so ill prepared for self-government as is the Con go. : As if that were not sufficient, the Russian Communists have seen in this situation a gold en chance to build a broad beachhead in Afri ca. So they have converted the Congo's stcam jng jungles into a cold war arena. Lumumba's death at the hands of Katanga tribesmen compounds the confusion. Civil war Would be a danger even if all outsiders were in complete accord in efforts to induce peace. With Soviet agitation, done in the name of ."justice,; the peril is far greater. Undoubtedly Lumumba will now be made a martyr by his followers. It goes without say ing that it would have been much better for him to have had a fair trial in a reasonably calm atmosphere. '. But his passing is no loss to the cause of good government as such. As his country's ; MIAMI He's sunshine. He radiates warmth. This is a big sappy man with a smile like a Cow of refrigerators. He's Jack pregson; he's 45, and bccuu.se he had an accident a few yours ugo. (he world of television has closed its doore. Nobody will see him. ; He isn't broke. He won't whine. Cab drivers listen to him and jay: "I remember you. You're (lie guy used to announced the Wednesday night fights for Pabst." The cab driver is right. So are the women who remem ber him on the "Jack Gregson Show" and "Just Easy." The world of television gets along nicely without him. His grinning courage is what makes him unique. ' Grcgson's father was an auc tioneer. He sold used cars, but he called them "experienced'' cars. The family lived in Spo kane. Washington. The kid was ambitious. Al 14. he was doing a radio show at KGA for high school talent. He went on to KDYL In Salt Luke Cily and once did a dizzy show called Jitter bug Jamboree with Jivin" Jack. i He flew his own plane as soon as he was old enough, and has piled up 8.000 hours. He did a man-in-the-street show for KFSO in San Francisco and his part ner was a skinny kid named Art Linklelter. Once lie was fired for permitting a recording of a min ister's sermon to get stuck in a groove. The divine kept repeal ing "For the love of Jesus . . ." . In the war. Jack Gregson fer ried C-47's to Australia, which is akin to delivering canoe with an outboard. When he shed the uniform, he did a radio show on Who Cast JIM BISHOP: REPORTER . . . Strange Industry That Kills Its Own Young the West Coast, and flew once a ' week to New York to do a tele vision show for ARC. He was earning $K0 a week. Ho, too, had a secret ambi tion. It was to own a home and a farm. In lost, he was so big, that he bought both. He hud JIB, 000 in the bank Gregson is no playboy and he bought a big farm in Connecticut and a neat little house in West Red ding. He spent winter vacations at Key Biscuyne. He even played a part in a movie with William Holden and William Bendix. It was called "Submarine." In 1953. he an nounced the Saturday Night Fights. He also did an ABC morn ing swt called Tho Jack Greg son Show. Now lie was taking home $1.5011 a week and still mov ing up. On Dec. 2ti. 1958. he went In bed happy. Christmas was over and Santa had been good. At 2;io a.m. he awakened his wife, Jer ry. He was weeping. "I cn move," he said. "A pain in my back Is killing mo." He was more ashamed of the tears than alarmed at tiie pain. The new year was only five days away, but it was a bad one. In the first week of 1959. Jack Gregson was in traction. He bounced from Doctors Hospital to Lenox Hill Hospital. He couldn't lift his head; he couldn't move. Doctors injected fluid in hii spine: they took X-rays by the score, they consulted gravely. Two gclalinous disks In the lower region had ruptured. Three vertebrae were rubbing against each other and were shredding a sciatic nerve caught between them. He begged Uie doctors to The Mold Why did Washington shy away from pow er and self-aggrandizement? Other leaders in history, men more brilliant than he, have started with idealism and ended in despotism. Some have begun in devotion to their people and ended with the conviction that they alone were qualified to rule. Washington himself would have answered that he did not desire to rule over men. He was a country gentleman, an agricultural ist, a student of gracious living in the fullest sense of the word. But that much is self-evident. The real an swer could not be given without a complete study of the individual, his environment and the influences that shaped his life. Suffice it to say that Washington was aware of the dangers mentioned above. Like the other great men who were his contempo raries, he knew the world's sad history of in justice and oppression. They wrote into the Constitution as much of the wisdom that could be distilled from their knowledge. More important, however, Washington brought to his office a deep sense of responsi bility toward the new nation in particular and the human race in general. He possessed the kind of humility only truly great men pos sess. He was, indeed, the Father of His Country. first leader he was a total failure. He spawned chaos. And when he could not cope with his problems he invited Soviet technicians to help him, which is like asking the devil to help put out a fire. Whether the U.N. can find a solution, whether it will be permitted by the obstructing Soviet Union to try to effect one, these are now the grave questions before the world. With native hatreds unleashed anew by this tragic death, the situation may already he unmanageable. If, however, genuine order can still be es tablished then responsible leaders should move with all speed to achieve it. And they should let the world understand, in ringing terms, that the Kremlin will bear the blame for any major outside interference with that ob jective. When Lumumba was killed, Moscow lost its servant in the Congo. Should it now, in re venge, help to foment civil war, no decent man anywhere on earth should be unaware. In its agony of overpopulation, poverty and widespread disorder the world has desper ate need for constructive progress. It cannot afford illusions about men, like those in Mos cow or Pciping, who traffic in these ills to ad vance the spread of their stifling tyranny. hurry. He had shows to do. They said they oould not hurry. They were right. More pain was ahead. Also an operation. The doctors filed the vertebrae smooth. His shows can celed his contracts. Gregson had no job. He swam slowly in a twi light of agony. He lost the farm, lie lost the house. He waited for the big executives of television to visit him. No one did. His wife remained at his side. Robert Neslc of Miami phoned the hospital every day. These were the only friends he had. Kven the youngsters he had helped to better positions in ra dio and television had no time for him. When he got out of the hospital, in June 1959, Gregson had a permanent limp. He sent out word that he want ed a television job in New York. l.cl them penalize him by start ing him low: he didn't care. Ted Baker of Channel Ten in Miami gave him a job, but he quit (or a promise from Mutual in New York. When he arrived, the head man said: "Sorry. Jack. That job just Isn't here." He tried the sales department, but couldn't abide sit ting alone at a desk. A month ago. Jack Gregson went back to New York. The snows wcie deep. So was the limp. He went to the men whom he had once helped. They sent out word that they were out. He's a big man. He has a big smile. Kveryone wlio sees him says: "How are things. Jack?" He grins and says: "Great. Couldn't be belter." He rents a little place at Key Biscayne and plays golf. It's a strange industry that kills its own young . , . mmmm iptpp mm mm-- By FAYE HENLK There is a formula that should take a good part of the guess-, work out of how much medical care should cost you. The Health Insurance Institute agrees that health costs vary in such a way as to be unpredict able, beyond a certain level. But the institute stales such costs are , comparatively predictable for groups of families. Their studies indicate: One family in 6 will spend more than $500 for medical care this year. One family in 5 will spend less than $50. Some families will spend thousands of dollars; most will spend between $100 and $500. Specifically, how should you budget your family's needs? First, analyze what you have spent for medical care in recent years and what this care has in cluded. You should then he able to: Budget for such foreseeable costs as regular medical and den ial checkups, eye tests and glass es, nonprescribed drugs and premiums on any health Insur ance policies of your own. Concentrate on insurance for the big bills such as maternity care, operations, prolonged illness of any variety, as well as against the hazard of loss of income due to disability. Set aside an emergency fund to help cover extra expenses not included in this budget and that Thoughts And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half nf my goods 1 give to the poor; and If I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore It fourfold. Luke 19:8. He that turncth from the road to rescue another, turncth toward his goal; he shall arrive hy the footpath of mercy: God will be his guide. Henry Van Dyke. Sightseeing ACROSS 1 Mahal a Give 7 Swim canton 4 South American 8 Roman roads country 9 Transmit 8 Capri or Man, tor instance. 12 Hall! IS Above 14 Wood 15 French et IS Remorse. 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Instead, the experts advise that you review what health coverage you might already have both as an individual family and-or under group care plans offered by your employer. You may discover that you are as well cared for as you can af ford or consider necessary and that you'll need do nothing fur ther. Or. you may find your cov erage inadequate. Before you dismiss this impor tant topic, you should check the usual medical and hospital charges in your community and compare these with the benefits available under your coverage. You should also have a clear understanding of what aid, addi tional to your individual or group insurance, might be available in meeting medical bills under spe cial circumstances. Those would include accident and dread dis- ' ease insurance, group accidental death and dismemberment insur ance, life insurance disability in come and disability waiver of premium. (The latter phrase means under what circumstances and for how long an insurance company will let you skip paying premiums without canceling your policy.) Check what employer provid ed benefits are yours such as workmen's compensation, extend ed sick-leave, state sponsored disability benefits or medical ben efits provided via membership in fraternal organizations, cash dis ability benefits under federal so cial security, state and local pro vided benefits. It is a rare family today that has neither too little nor too much health insurance. Check your status. war to Previous Puzlle 33 Vegetable 38 Washington city 40Ureed(vu.) 41 Lavations 42 Soil lood 43 Preposition 44 Roman date 45 Grev 47 Otherwise 4A F.spired 50 Weary IeIpIsIaIpI IglAIVlE N e?t t M IT o e als 'lele O i. gj&p jjy q E 5 arJUasf' e -t-t sit PAP P L. E MyjajlJ e TAI 1 I P.L A T 1 Q N ride prate Ia N B!d A N A Tllf i O R B. R. o T A B 1P OJANG t oIuInIpI 14h IfcleT i a h I u 15 14 II I s 15 H6 hi rj rj ii re re IT re rr "C 55 sra mT g 27 2 p 3 Zrl33"- zz " GZzlfc-ZZIZ ii p iu hs rpr 15 io 5T S g 3 5s n I i r LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . Reunion Set The 96th Infantry Division As sociation is planning to hold Its fourth reunion. We are anxious to locate former members of this division who served during World War II. To those who have not received the official notice of this reunion, it is requested that they contact the writer. Jacob Fisher, 3306 N. Hilton St. Baltimore 16, Md. Exploitation? I am firmly convinced that if the United States follows the Kennedy program, a large part of which really amounts to "spending our selves into prosperity," it will cause the final collapse of our free enterprise system within a short time. Our taxes have already reached such a high level to pay for the fantastic schemes which our fed eral bureaucrats are already op erating that they are causing the very situation which this new plan seeks to cure. Many small businesses simply cannot afford the extra expenses on top of wages which they have to pay when they hire help, so instead of growing and creating more jobs they stay small enough to operate without hired help; also there is not much incentive to pro gress beyond the point of making a bare living; for if you do take a chance and expand, should you be successful most of your profit will be taiten from you in the form of taxes. For a long time I have tried to understand the motives of the "liberals" 'w ho to a large part have been in control of govern ment, schools, and labor unions for many years, and the only way they make any sense is to consider them as an extremely well planned attempt to destroy from within the American free en terprise system, despite the fact that this system has made our high standard of living possible. If we were exploited by the capitalists in the past, as most liberals claim, I found it far less painful than being exploited, as we arc at present, by the ever growing bureaucratic system of' the federal government. Lyle Hartzell Sr. Box 35 Florence. Oregon Sociolist State In the last few months a great many of our people, for the first time in their lives, have taken a long, hard look at our govern ment , our schools, and our poli ticians, and they are shocked and angry al what tney have seen. The vast majority of our citi zens do not want our republic tinned into a socialist state, but. without ot:r realizing what was happening, a comparatively small group, usually calling themselves lilierals. h ive already puslicd our country a long way toward this evil and unwanted system. If we would save our republic, we must slop, and then rover.1 this trend at once, as wp are al ivady very clue to the point of no return. Fi-ed Buv.. ttestlake, Ore. EDSON IN WASHINGTON Issues Confused By Red Leader By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent - Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) - The Kennedy administration apparent ly hopes that most progress can be made in negotiations with Rus sia's Khrushchev on the subjects of disarmament nnd peaceful co existence to avoid World War III. Khrushchev has done a lot of talking on these subjects as sell styled champion of the peace-loving states. But when his words are exam ined closely, what comes out is mostly double-talk. This was particularly true when he report ed on the recent Moscow confer ence of Communist party repre sentatives from 81 countries. Here are significant excerpts from his long Jan. 6 speech to illustrate this point: "Comrades, if the problem of all problems of our times is that of averting a new war, the most radical way of solving it is dis armament. . . . Our struggle for disarmament is not a tactical move. We sincerely want disarm ament. . . . "The struggle for disarmament is the most important factor for averting war. It is an effective struggle against imperialism. In such a struggle the socialist camp has the majority of mankind on its side. "The struggle for disarmament is an active struggle against im perialism, for restricting its mili tary potentialities. . . . "The primary condition of prog ress in disarmament is the mobil ization of the broadest masses of people and their increasing pres sure on imperialist governments. "In the capitalist camp, policy regarding socialist countries fol THE DOCTOR SAYS . . . Provide Air For Space Heating By HAROLD T. HVMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Scarcely a day passes with out a report of one or more deaths from asphyxiation as the result of a malfunctioning space heater. Since these accidents ate preventable, I'd like to tell you what can be done to avert any such tragedy in your home, es pecially if your living or sleeping quarters are confined in small rooms of an apartment, flat, house or trailer. Whether you heat by oil, gas coal, wood or any other fuel, you must provide for an adequate air supply or draft. If you fail to do this, you face at least two haz ards. ' The first and less dangerous is OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS Badge Of Failure (BOSTON HERALD) Many will welcome President Kennedy's social security health program as a mark of govern mental progress. They w ill see an expression of this nation's con cern for the well being of its peo ple. They will expect this to make America a better place to live. But if we are quite realistic, we shall regard this measure as a badge of failure. What it means is that the American government has been unable to provide the kind of social and economic cli mate in w hich young people them selves have the means and the will to provide, by insurance or otherwise, for the medical care they will need in their old age. Mr. Kennedy has offered a mod est program. '. . . But no one ought to be happy about it. . , . The President's health plan will take $1.1 billion every year out of . the income of workers and em ployers. This will be invested not in replacement of our aging in dustrial plants and machinery, but in government securities held by the Social Security Fund. So far as free services are con ferred on men and women able to pay for their own health care, many poor wage earners w ill have a little less and a few well-to-do old people will have more. Psychologically t h e program will encourage many Americans to lean more heavily on the gov ernment. They will evert irresis tible politiial pressure for extend ing the free health care program to physicians' and sureenns' fees, to laboratory fees, to all the costs of indefinitely extended illnesses. An eennrmy founded on self-reliance is moving toward an econ omy based on governmental be nevolence. There w ill be more and more to ask what their country will do for them fewer and fewer to ak what they can do for their country. lows two trends: A militant ag gressive trend and a moderate sober trend. "Lenin pointed out the neccs sity for establishing contacts with those circles of the bourgeois which gravitate toward pacifism, even if they should be of the poorest quality. . . . The correct ness of these words is confirmed by the events of our times, too. "Among the ruling classes of the imperialist camp, a fear for the future of capitalism prevails. . . . Hence there are two tenden cies: One is aiming at war, the second accepting the idea of peaceful coexistence of states with diverse social systems, con sistently pursued by the Soviet Union and other socialist coun tries. ... "Peaceful coexistence with cap italist countries . . . facilitates the activities of Communist par ties and other progressive organ izations of the working class. It facilitates the struggle the people wage against aggressive military blocs, against foreign military bases. "Thus, the policy of peaceful coexistence, as regards its social content, is a form of intense eco nomic, political and ideological struggle of the proletariat against the aggressive forces of imperial ism in the international arena. "There is only one way of bringing imperialism to heel . . . an all-out unification and consoli dation of the world revolutionary movement ... to prevent the danger of war. "The Communist party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet gov ernment will continue with de termination to do everything to enhance the military might of our country." an accumulation of relatively harmless carbon dioxide and an accompanying deficiency of oxy gen. This combination is apt to make you breathless if you're awake. And to waken you if you've fallen asleep. For preven tion and relief, all you need to do is open a window. The more dangerous is serious and even fatal poisoning with car bon monoxide. This gas is colorless and odor less. It can accumulate slowly and sneak up on you while you doze or sleep. It forms when the flame from any kind of fuel is starved for air. What happens Ihen is an incomplete burning of the fuel with the production nf poisonous carbon monoxide in stead of less offensive carbon diox ide. A typical instance of carbon monoxide poisoning from a space heater is related in the very ex cellent bulletin of the North Car olina Board of Health. On three occasions, the owner of a small grocery store was found unconscious by a customer. Each time he was rushed to a hospital where he was assume.! to have had some sort of heart attack. But then his wife had a similar attack. This led health officers to inspect the store where they found that a ceiling-hung gas heater had a flue that was inef fective when the store doors were closed for any considerable length of time. If you rely on a space healer to warm a small shop that does not have a steady flow of custo mers or to warm your living or sleeping area, you must provide a steady supply of air to replace that used up in the burning of fuel. In other words, you must have a clean flue and chimney of ample size as determined by the firm which sold you the space heater, or by your healt!. inspec tor whose services are free. You must be especially carefi l if you reduce the amount of space you heat during the night. For example, if you use the heater to warm several rooms throughout the day and then re strict the heating area to the bed room at night, you may increase the possibility of asphyxiation. Whereas doors are frequently opened and shut throughout pe riods of activity and air makes its way through walls, windows and chinks in ti e several rooms, there is a great reduction of air intake in a sleeping chamber ictically sealed off for the night. Since carbon monoxide is an odorless gas that may accum ulate in falal concentrations with out producing warning symptoms, it is a hazard that's greatly to hs feared. Ml you have to do to ave1 this dancer is to provide a ftW inlake of air when your space heater is in use. For copy of Dr. Hvman's leaflet "Understanding Mental Illness." send to cents to Dr. H man. care Herald and News. Box 4K. Dept. B. Radio City Sta tion. New York 19, N Y. o O o'
