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PAGE t-AA HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Sunday, February !6, 1961 "Gee, I Don't See How . . ." NOTHING SPECIAL (W. B. S.) We are hopeful that our readers today ; will exact the utmost in information and en joyment from this special edition of the Her . aid and News the 1961 Progress Edition. In too many instances, we are prone to discount what we have, and to emphasize the negative. We must have progress, of course, and we need to find new ways to achieve ' that progress. But we must not disregard the .-".progress we have made. ; It is with this 'thought in mind that the : staff of the Herald and News approached the ' problem of bringing to the attention of our : readers, the public, some of the positive side of this question. An exposure, at least, in a : concentrated product, to the facilities, the : services, the installations and the plans of ; those who are primarily engaged in business, In While we can be concerned about the possibility of a lack of water reserves In this area, we certainly, can't complain about the weather this winter up to this point. At the same time, other areas in the state and the na tion have undergone some frightful weather, experiences. With one of the country's toughest win ters two thirds gone and a mild trend said to be setting in, maybe it's time to venture a little reflection about the great ordeal. In the first place, there have been tough er ones. The northeast was pretty upset by a 16-day cold spell featuring two big snows. But back in the mid-30s Chicago had a 32-day span in which the mean temperature was only five degrees above zero. The thermometer plummeted to worse than 15 below four times;" and 10 below was commonplace. But of course you can't warm yourself with old weather statistics. Nobody could find much comfort, either, in the way the snow and cold disrupted family and community life, added to the already substantial woes of the pusiness folk, generally put a pall on things. ' Many family budgets must have been knocked in the head by extra outlays for ga loshes, greatcoats, chains and snow tires, fuel pil, hired snow shovelers and the like. The crowded condition of our colleges ' has alarmed some students who are pressing for admission. One harmful result.seems to be an overemphasis in secondary schools on tests . for college entry. Here and there, authorities in education , are beginning to worry that teachers in many places are ' thinking less about awakening ' young people to the wonders of knowledge than they are about preparing them for some test or other. A recent study of testing programs, spon sored by several different groups of school officials, disclosed that there are more than 20 of the national variety. ' Certain colleges of high reputation have, of course, always demanded good test scores for admission. Now, however, others which , never before insisted on tests are doing so, hopeful that this is the path to greater pres : tige. The whole thing is piling up new costs In education. A student may consume two doz en hours and $20 in fees in the testing process. Student counselors often spend so much time BARBS Nine out of 10 mailmen in an Okla homa town have been nipped by dogs. 'J The dogs must know about bills, too. Burning candles at both ends never seems to make the outlook brighter. '.i Any mother with a few young sons ; has darn hard work and hard darn ; work. Most wives will listen to reason, j; but they don't like hearing the same one too often. J: Wives are one thing some don't understand about marriage. men One of the best alarm clocks is ba ; con and eggs cooking on the kitchen stove. ; A New York orchestra man was ; restea iornaving iwi wives, mim uuus. . J - 1 - , 1 . i ...l 1 1 ' U I ,1 The average man has no head ? figureS Oh, but his eyes! J ... . . . 1961 Progress Edition industry, and the professions. And, along with this, some of the objectives and accomplish ments on the social and cultural side. We believe that we have accomplished this to a limited degree. It would be impos sible to cover the field as comprehensively and objectively as we would like, and as we know our readers would like. At the same 1 time, we do not think that we have hit only the "highlights." We have devoted time and effort to covering each bit of subject matter as thoroughly as we felt the situation de manded at this time. We are grateful to those who have con tributed to the success of this project. And we are hopeful that readers will let us know where improvements can be made for future editions of this kind. "Chi I i Retrospect Towns and cities quickly exhausted snow removal funds. Many, spoiled by a succession of mild winters, had no reserve from past years., Even if the big snows are over, these communities now face fresh expenditures for road repairs, unless they have a big pothole fund. We learned from the icy days of I960 61 that not too many people really know how to deal with such rigors. Motorists were too cautious at least as often as they were reck less on treacherous roads. Communities in some areas showed little capacity for handling the burdensome snow. On the other hand, there were countless unsung heroes who plowed city streets, state highways and local byways all day long and far into the night. Frequently they worked until they were ready to drop. If the long range weathermen are right, the worst may now have been suffered. But perhaps our joy should not be unrestrained. Certain knowledgeable people say the warm ing trend that has affected the earth for sev eral decades is now reversed and we can ex pect 40 years of wintertime rough stuff. Won't be long before Irving Berlin will have to start us dreaming of a green Christ mas, just like the ones we used to know. Are We. Test Happy? administering tests they lack sufficient time for counseling. Numerous educators see in all this an un happy trend, an unwise stress on "externals" at the expense of education's heart and sub stance the arousing of student interest in the solid content of their studies. They fear something else, too. The ham mering on tests tends to sap the value of other factors to be weighed in judging a student's potential for college. Things, that need always to be considered, in educators' judgment, are a student's full record of scholastic performance, his charac ter and temperament, his energy and industry, his will to achieve and to excel. To hang everything on a test score, to orient the student, the teacher and perhaps even' the school curriculum toward test prep aration, is to take an extremely narrow view of the student's needs and of the meaning of ed ucation. We should heed the warning of those who point out this danger. The schooling of our young is too important for us to take the surface signs for the substance. I Answer to Previous1 Punl. Canadian Province ha&IhI IbIeUInI IpUIp I A L. T O L AS T I ii.k.?L ACROSS ?"?Mup t e n F JWape t u B5- 1 Canadian 4AndiKr.) ! 50? Mb" T a! " province , JOperated p o p B M TTF nH N T tIs It raises larn Bound oSej. 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WASHINGTON WINDOW Board Lists Policy Shift In Purchases By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPl) - This essay will award to President Kennedy highest honors . for prophecy in a hazardous field. Late in the presidential election campaign, candidate Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon were asked a tough question by the Scripps Howard Newspapers. II was: "Would you attempt to influ ence the policies of the Federal Reserve Board in any -effort to reduce interest rates? Or for any other purpose." Tlie candidates each required a great many words to answer that one, both avoiding either a simple yes or no. Nixon did, how ever, say the FRB should be free of political pressures: Kennedy said the FRB must bear in mind the economic objectives of the administration. He said he was confident the board would re spond to administration leader ship. ' ' So what? So the FRB revealed last week that it would do just that. The FRB has abandoned a long-time limitation on its involve ment in the market for U.S. bonds. The new policy is to buy in the open market long term bonds of the U.S. government. This is an "easy money" policy. The immediate effect is to be an increase in prices of long term bonds and cheaper interest rates on long term borrowing. Immediately beneath the sur face of these dull facts is a bread and butler political issue, a so-called pocketbook issue. Thu issue is imjiortant to every Amer ican whether he lives shabbily on a too-small wage or whoops it up on inherited millions. The U.S. dollar of today com pared with the 1939 buck is worth a few cents less than 50 cents, half of its purchasing pow er destroyed in 22 years. Any past or future cheapening of the dollar must be at the expense of each citizen who has one. An "easy money" policy is a dollar cheapener. In the first hours afler an nouncement of the new FRB bond policy aflcr one month of the Kennedy administration, the busi ness and financial community had not exploded in protest. Far from it. There were, however, some cautious expressions of anxiety as to where the new policy may lead. There seemed to be some hoiw and confidence that the adminis tration and the FRB would pro ceed with great care and aware ness of the currency intuition dangers ahead. If not, the federal reserve sys tem will become just what Mar riner Ecclcs warned against it becoming, "simply an engine of inflation." Thoughts There U an evil which I have seen under the sun, and It lies heavy upon men. Eccl. Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older it be- comes stronger. Cicero. So you see that It Is men of fnilh who are the sons of Abra ham. Gnliilians J:7. In actual life every great en terprise begins with and takes its first forward step in Faith. Aug ust W. Schlegel. EDSON IN WASHINGTON By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NE A) Anyone - who still believes it will be pos sible to work out a peaceful co existence with Soviet Russia may today be regarded as just plain naive, or a dope. What has happened in the prim itive Congo and at the other end of the line in the sophisticated United Nations Security Council offers irrefutable evidence on how the Communists twist events to meet their nefarious ends. Russia's efforts 'to blame the m,urder of Congo's ex-premier, Pa trice Lumumba, on the U.N. in 'general and on U.N.; Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in particular are complete distortions to fit Red propaganda. Experts on the Congo have said in the past that even if Lumum ba had been restored Jo the pre miership of the Congo govern ment, he would not have lasted long. He was unscrupulous, amor al, unstable and awfully cunning. The Russians would have had to get rid of him because he was not a Communist. His real ambi tion was to become king of the Congo and preside over a black Africa. Communists have their own ways to get rid of people in their road. But the fact that Lumum ba was murdered by Congolese natives who collected a reward for it' from the Katanga govern ment of President Moise Tshombe merely makes the dead man a martyr for the Communists to demonstrate about. It gives them the chance they have been wait ing for to move back into the Congo and take over. The complete record of Commu nist infiltration in the Congo goes bnck to the early 1950s. Hand picked Congolese were sent quiet ly to out-of-the-way places like Indonesia for tough guerrilla fight ing and to Czechoslovakia for training in Communist revolution ary tactics. It was ir. Prague that Lumum ba's lieutenant and successor, An toinc Gizenga, got Communist schooling after the Brussels con ference which granted indepen dence to the Congo. The Belgian Communist party, which had been moribund since the war, was pepped up during the Brussels conference to give the Congolese advice on how to handle the Belgian government Lumumba spent much time with the Reds and they didn't miss a trick. After the Brussels conference, 150 Congolese leaders went be hind the Iron curtain for more revolutionary training. Back in (lie new, now indepen dent Congo, they sold Communist party memberships for 100 francs, guaranteeing freedom from taxa tion for life. They infiltrated eight of the 13 Congo political parties. They preached the doctrine that the Belgian businessmen and mis sionaries were bad while men who were taking their country away from them, so kick Ihem out. In contrast,' the Russians were pointed out as good while men who would help the Congolese win independence, but w ho didn't want the Congo because it was too hot (or them. So don't throw stones at the Russians. Lumumba bought the premier ship by bribery. He failed to take over the country because he could not get control of the Congolese WtTv WjKVtti - Congo Crisis Good Example Of Red Work army, the old Belgian - trained Force Publique. Sergeant, now Maj. Gen. Joseph Mobutu, did that. He closed the Russian embassy and jailed Lu mumba. But the Czech embassy remained as a pipeline for under- ' . ground Communist activity that led to establishment of ther Stan leyville regional regime under Gizenga. Russia, the L'nitcd Arab Repub lic and others now recognize this as the government of the Congo, though it has no legal standing. And the stage is set for a civil war. This is exactly the pattern for Russian support of revolutionary wars, as spelled out by the Mos cow manifesto drawn up by Com munists from'81 countries last No vember. "The Communists fully support such just wars." said Russia's Chairman Nikila Khrushchev in I he now famous Jan. 6 speech, "and march in the front rank with peoples waging liberation struggles." This explains exactly why the Russians are intervening directly in the Congo with aid to the Gizenga faction. And it explains why U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson charges that the Russian resolution against Sec retary General Dag Hammars kjold is "a declaration of war on the United Nations." THE DOCTOR SAYS, Explains Meanings Of Common Terms By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. A high school senior, preparing a term paper, finds herself puz zled by the words antiseptic, dis infectant, germicide and antibi otic. "Do these all mean the same thing?" she asks. "And if they arc different, how do they differ?" Let's take the first trio, to be gin with. And we'll add bacteri cide for gnod measure. Each of these words refers to a chemical substance that kills germs or bacteria (germicide, bactericide. When the germi cide or bactericide is used to pre vent bacteria from entering body tissues, it is an antiseptic. When it is used to kill bacteria that have already entered the tissues, it is a disinfectant. For example, when your doctor paints your skin with iodine be fore he- gives an injection or makes an incision, he is using the germicide or bactericide as an antiseptic. And when he applies the tincture to an infected wound he is using it as a disinfectant. In ever' one of these instances, he is using a clicmical to kill germs. Thai's where the "cide" ending comes in. Just as in homi cide or sui-cide. And, as you can easily imagine, a chemical that kills living organisms in a wound or elsewhere in tlie body must also threat the existence of liv ing cells. Therein lies tlio weakness of chemical antisepsis and disinfec tion. Q For, if the germicide or bacter icide is not applied in sufficient strength, and (or a sufficient Publication today of our first Progress Edition is the culmina tion of eight weeks of intense ef fort on the part of sales, editorial and production departments of the Herald and News. Rightfully so, every person in volved in the project feels a sense of pride in the product. This is particularly true of the heads of the various departments who had the final responsibility for seeing to the success of the project. When one stops to con sider the hours of effort that have gone into this edition, one is not surprised that it is an excellent job. Initial planning and develop ment of the idea came from conferences of Deb Addison in advertising; Floyd Wynne, in editorial; Dale Gallagher, in composing and production; Bus ter Bramlett in the press room, and Gene Carpenter in circula tion (distribution). While I had . previous experience in such pro ductions, this marked the first time the Herald and News staff has undertaken such a project. While it may not appear to be terribly difficult there is a great deal more than meets the eye in planning and executing an edition as big as this one today. It takes considerable planning and contin ued attention to details to get all of the phases of the work sched uled properly, and know-how, practical knowledge and persist ence to get the job done. For our purposes, we planned our production schedules in 32 page elements. The Agriculture section was planned for first pro duction. Then came Business and Industry, Community Life and Recreation. For the most part, the stories and pictures dealing with each of these subjects went into the proper section. Due to deadlines omissions and other pressures, we were not able to effect 100 per cent perfection in this respect. However, I'm sure that you won't find very many stories or pictures out of their proper section. Then, in the middle of Febru ary, we knew that we could not get all of our material advertis ing and stories and pictures in the 128 pages originally planned. So a decision was made to publish another 16 pages. For . tunatcly, the work had progressed so smoothly that we were able to undertake the additional produc tion without bursting the shop at the seams. Throughout this endeavor we have been blessed with good wea ther which meant that Wes Gu dcrian and Don Kettlcr were able to work quite uninterrupted in getting the hundreds of photo graphs that were required. We were further blessed with the ut most of cooperation from adver tisers who gave us the go-ahead on ad copy and preparation as length of time, to kill every bug on the skin or in a wound, it won't do much good since the remaining bacteria reproduce at a rate of about a generation every 20 minutes. Thus, by the end of an hour, a single surviving organism has grown to a population of eight. By the second hour, the census rises to 64. By the third hour to 512. At the end of a day, there are countless millions. And you're not much better off than when you started treatment. Suppose then you increased the strength of the germicide and somehow managed to apply it un til every last bug was bumped off. You would then have accom plished a complete dis-infection. But also you'd have probably killed off so many body cells that, by balance, you might be worse off than when you started. Now when we come to antibiot ics, it's a different story. For the antibiotic (bios means lifei actually dots what its name implies. It doesn't kill bacteria. Hence it is no threat to bodv cells. It simply prevenls the bugs from continuing their existence. It accomplishes this purpose in at least two ways: It somehow cuts them off from their food supplies thus starving most of lite existing population. And it imposes a sort of birth control on survivors, thus elimin ating any threat from future gen erations. Now, young lady, I hope you understand the meaning of the words that puzzled you. And rea lize why antibiotics are rightiy called miracle drugs. much as six weeks in advance of publication. Also, individuals and concerns that furnished copy and picture ideas for stories helped us much in maintaining a steady flow of copy to the composing room. In addition to all of the work done by individuals of our own staff on this project, one must consider too, that they had to carry on with their routine func tions and responsibilities connect ed with the daily paper. When you consider that these are full ' time jobs, you get some picture of the tremendous amount of work department heads and their staffs did. - For instance, 144 pages represents about 10 days of normal production in our plant. This is the 11th time I've been through the ordeal of get ting together and producing a Progress Edition, and I can honestly say that today's is the best of any I have had the pleasure of working with. Ev ery person on the Herald and News staff has performed well beyond the call of duty in this effort, and I'm grateful for their attitude and feeling of rcspon , sibility. I believe, too, that the community can take pride in their work. One of the most amusing as pects of the work has been the agonizing of the ad writers who sought hew and refreshing ways to work the word "progress" into their copy in the several hun dred forms in which they keyed their subject matter. Considerable research and in vestigation has gone into many of the advertisements you'll read in today's paper. Most of the ads contain pretty complete data on the firm itself, or the industry or business in which it is engaged. And they're interesting stories. You'll find that there are thriving business firms in the community that you did not know existed, or that you had no idea of the scope of their activities. I'm willing to bet, too, that you had little or no idea of the amount of building up, tearing down and shifting around that goes on in a year's time in the Klamath area. We probably didn't get everything covered, but there's a lot of activity in' this field that goes unnoticed when one hears or reads about the in dividual projects that go on dur ing the year. But, when they're put together in one publication such as this, you get a bigger idea of just how much is in volved. Don't get the idea, either, that you can go through this edition in one sitting. It Is equivalent roughly, to the size of a book, of about 1,100 pages of normal book size (6 inches by nine inches). Hardly any of us would attempt to read a book of 1,000 or more pages at one time. Of course, there Is a little differ ence here, in that we have so many hundreds of pictures. But, there's still a great deal more of reading than you can digest in several sittings. If you enjoy the material gath ered here, we'd appreciate hear ing about it. Also, if there are areas you think we have neglect ed or overlooked entirely, wed like to hear about that, too. We'll be constantly seeking ways to im prove the Progress Edition, and you can help. THEY SAY... Every day I am becoming more and more convinced that the decisive and final struggle for domination of the world will be fought in this continent (South America). Outgoing President Juscellno Kubltschek of Brazil. Everything is harmonious and I love harmony. Everything is sweetness and light. There was a beautiful and healing agreement. Sen. Everett M. Dirksen. (R III.), as conservative and liberal Republicans closed ranks in Con gress. There's a little murder and a little suicide in every man's heart. Give him such a powerful weapon as a car, inflame his inhibitions, irritations or frustra tions, then add alcohol or fatigue and the murder or suicide may get committed. Psychiatrist Karl Menningcr. All breaking of relations among American countries casts a shad ow over continental unity. . . . We have no reason to break re lations with Cuba. Manuel Telle, Mexican foreign minister.
