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Newspaper Page Text--PAGK t HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Tuesday, March 21, 1961 NOTHING SPECIAL (W. B. S.I r ongrafulations, State Champions It is not often that we feel constrained to comment on sports or athletics endeavor or accomplishments in our editorial columns. However, this is one of those infrequent in stances. First, we wish to editorially congratulate KUHS basketball coach and his staff and the Pelican cage squad for their fine record, cul minating in a state high school championship. What more could be asked, or expected? The achievement brought fame and recognition not only to the individuals and the -team con cerned, but to the entire community. But more than this, we think, is other significance. It lies in the fact that this tri umphant team and its mentors were able to retain their perspective; sportsmanship and balance throughout a season that was not without its ups and downs. There was not despair in defeat, nor exultation in victory. As state tourney favorites, the Pelicans went into the fray at a disadvantage. They were the team to beat and every other team was gunning for them. Added to this intangi ble pressure was the fact that the Pelicans battled with four of the toughest teams in the event to win a much-deserved title. Their actions, their demeanor and their persistence during the season and during the tourney prove that the Pelicans were taught more than the mere fundamentals of basket ball mechanics. Collectively and individually, they demonstrated the other qualities that made them champions. Hoped-For Moment A more stable Congo would be the result of the new plan advanced by Congolese lead ers for a confederation of semi-independent states. But even this beginning step is beset by serious obstacles. ' For one thing, the confederation doesn't Include Antoine Gizenga, Leftist rebel lead er of big Oriental province, who refuses to par ticipate. For another, the drafters of the plan still must settle on the exact number of states and their boundaries. Sharp differences seem sure to arise in this critical field. Thirdly, other African states like Ghana and Nigeria view the plan with misgivings. They fear a federation founded roughly on tribal groupings might encourage similar di visions within their own borders. A feeling exists in and out of Africa any way that the continent is already carved into too many Balkanized fragments. Yet, despite these considerable difficul ties, the judgment of U.S. officials, expressed Informally, is for cautious approval of con federation. Realistically they believe a strong central , government impossible to achieve today. The new plan is seen as perhaps the least of the evils, when coupled with hope that there may be a gradual move toward a stronger central authority once the confederation is set up and some stability returns to the Congo. As for Gizenga, the best hope appears to be that somehow he might be isolated and in a sense confined if the confederation is well established and manages to build its own mili tary strength to adequate levels. U.S. officials note that Gizenga is no long er "pressing outward" beyond state borders. They do not rule out the prospect that this change could pave the way to an accommoda tion by him to the developing federation. But the more skeptical prefer to stress the Krem lin's heavy attack on the federation proposals. The Congolese leaders think their new plan obviates the need for the U.N. resolution authorizing the use of force as a last resort to prevent civil war. But it could be a long, rocky road be- ' tween the plan and its carrying out. When the confederation is a working success, that will be time enough to review the necessity for the U.N. to have that authority. This is the mo ment to wait and watch. South America Eyes U.S. Seen from this country's viewpoint, Prcsi: dent Kennedy's Latin American program would seem to be distinguished by the fact that it is not just another .money proposal but calls on Latin nations for self-help and major social change. From the Latin American side of the lens, the program has evidently won approval on several counts. Our Latin neighbors indicate they are at tracted by the breadth of the program, its long term aspect, the recognition it affords that we may have something to learn from them. Some are intensely interested, too, in the President's lack of sympathy for the hem isphere's remaining dictators and his stress on home-generated, rather than imported, social revolution. j But in all these matters, they are wait ing to be shown. And it just so happens they afe watching keenly a measure now pending in Congress. If there is favorable action, they will take it as an earnest of good intent on this country's part, and look forward with en larged hope to the administration's broad program. The pending proposal is designed to pre vent Dictator Trujillo's Dominican Republic from reaping a huge windfall in expanded sugar exports to this country. When Congress gave former President Eisenhower authority to clut Cuba's sugar quota in reprisal against Fidel Castro, it pro vided that whatever was stripped from Cuba should be distributed among other sugar pro ducers according to a set formula. The net effect of this is to boost the Do minican quota several hundred thousand tons a year above the existing 111,000 tons. If this arrangement were to stand, sev eral Latin countries would conclude that the United States is not willing to penalize equally dictatorships of the left (Castro) and right (Trujillo.) Enactment of the present bill would bar Trujillo from these tremendous benefits, and serve as a clear sign that we mean what we say about dictatorships in the Western hemis phere. This is the beginning action the Latin lands wish for as an underscoring of a presi dential message they would like to believe in. BARBS Actress Answer to Previous Punle It's as hard to quit talking about quitting smoking as it is to quit. Toot your own horn if you want your friends to keep out of your way. Some of th6 best stepping stones to success are stumbling blocks. j What this country needs is a nick el that is good for five cents worth. ACROSS 3 Bird's home ' 1 Screen actress, German itreara Allyaon JAlnotlme 5,6 She wu bom In Assam Lucerne, silkworm 7 Tiny 12 Mimicked shou, IS Before Vernal 14 Indian 10 Ceremony 15 Medicinal 11 Sharp portion 19 Self-esteem M Contend 20 Conner 17 Tardy 22 Anointed 18 Dinner course 23 Sup 20 Feminine name 24 Footless 21 Rales 2 Narrow way 24 Shrine In Tens 2 Solar disk 28 Nothing : 27Sea(Fr.) 29 appears in 29 Gael motion pictures 30 At this place) and television 31 Ages 53 Top of the head p ojp ic.iX Blatle t a op Iii2' Ili.it ei?NEIB?."! iliiii' - j. i. ? n UK N a p. D a. j a A R MA PIAfl 3 B A 7 E L. p. O Si RjU X B 1 ANNjUyi eHLM" "I ljt avsC pif ilIIa!iS K O X ? 1 A IJ . 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Bored stiff! 33 Indite 34 Maple gnus 33 Heavy blow Wl Malt beverage 37 Girl's name 38 Low haunt 39 Native metal 40 Poker stakes 41 Absolve Iron pjnlshment 43 Fine line in typography 48 Looks flsedly 51 Prayer ending 32 Biblical prophet 34 Woman's name 00 She has had a long ol successful port ravels 88 Sheltered side 37 Plsleau 38 God of lovs S Ventilate 0 Winter vehlel DOWN 1 Gem stone 2 Preposition . 15 II li I i 6 i I 18 it 110 III rj i U jj ft IT 1 irlJ ' a pTpj u ia u a rp rp-p-nr 35 1 b 1 J7 bcF:init 1 ' 41 W X 14 ii f"r 48 4 M 51 bTp B 3 B 57 a 9 ar Back to the Wall t BUM j CAPITOL MEMO . , . Legislature Studying Teen-Agers By DOUGLAS GRIPP United Press International SALEM (UPI) Teen-agers, wake up! You're being legislated! Unless it's a project in a class room, or your parents are in poli tics, you the average teen-ager apparently don't give a hang about what goes on at the Stale Legislature. This is a mistake. It is a really a mistake this year, because the 1961 session has an unusually high number of bills affecting your age group. Only a handful of teen-agers have testified before legislative committees. If the claim is valid that you are more grownup these days, then you should be more grownup and responsive to activi ties of the legislature. The argument can be made that mosl committee hearings are held during weekdays, and teen-agers are in school. But it is doubtful if any school would refuse to ex cuse a student for something as important as legitimate testimony on a bill. The value of a leen-ager's tes timony? Committees are eager to hear all sides to an issue, in cluding yours. That is the pur pose of a hearing, and all who ap pear can speak. A refreshing as pect of testimony from young people is its candor and honesty. Here is a partial rundown on bills now in the mill in Salem. They would: Allow 18-year-olds to vote. Raise the age requirement for a driver's license from 16 to 18. A modified version would permit issuance of a license at 16 only if the applicant passed an ap proved driver training course. Forbid youngsters in their ear ly teens from getting a hunting license, unless certain conditions were met. Allow youngsters to buy c i g arettcs with a note from their parents. This is primary designed to allow inmates of the boys' and girls' state training schools to smoke, but would apply to all Oregon youngsters unless amend ed. Set up a system of stale sum mer camps for boys, allowing them to work in woods; not a correctional program, but educa tional. Allow those under 16 to work beyond 6 p.m. Part-lime grocery boys and others would be affect ed. The legislature has already killed a bill that would have re quired lowered cars to be no lower than the wheel rims. This would have affected a number of hotrods. This is not to say whether it ?s good or bad. but it could have passed. Apparently the av-. erngc teen-ager was asleep or lazy. He didn't testify. Thoughts And Mary said. My soul magai ties the Lord. Luke 1:46 The strongest love which the hu man heart has ever felt has been that for its Heavenly Parent. Was it not then constituted for this love? VY. E. Channing. THE GLOBAL VIEW ... German Politicians Seek Out President It may be they will listen, and every one tun from his evil way, that I may repeat ol the evil By LEON DENNEN Newspaper Enterprise Analyst NEW YORK (NEA)-President Kennedy has been placed in a ' peculiar spot. Germany's political pilgrims are seeking his blessing. The slightest nod from Mr. Ken nedy would be worth thousands of votes to Willy Brandt or Konrad Adenauer. Brandt, 47, mayor of West Ber lin, is the Social Democratic party candidate for Chancellor of West Germany. He has just seen President Kennedy in Washington. Chancellor Adenauer, who was 85 last January, is the Christian Democratic standard-bearer whom Brandt hopes to defeat next Sep tember. Adenauer will come call ing on President Kennedy ' in April. Support from the United States would impress the voters of Wejt Germany, since this is one part of the globe where U.S. prestige is high. Mr. Kennedy has taken great pains, of course, to avoid any appearance of partiality. In Brandt, the aged Chancellor at last has found a serious rival. Less than five years ago, Brandt, a political unknown, succeeded the great Ernst Reuter as mayor 1 of West Berlin. He has already made an impression on Germans and non-Germans alike with his honest leadership and courageous determination to preserve the in dependence of the strategic en clave inside the Red empire. : ' The young mayor, to be sure, faces an uphill struggle in his con test with Adenauer. The Chancel lor is, for the ordinary voter, the symbol of a resurrected and sov ereign West Germany. He is the man who gave prosperity to the Bonn republic and made it the richest country in Europe. Adenauer won the previous elec tions by simply warning the vot ers to shun "socialist experi ments." Today, of course, this warning has largely lost its sting and meaning. Little that is socialistic remains in the revised platform of the Social Democrats. They have be come, in fact, a "me loo" party. In the September elections, they w ill even appeal lo the void's as ' a party that favors NATO and is against neutrality or the with drawal of U.S. troops from Ger many. The election campaign is thus bcMng fought on such issues as youth versus age and "genuine Germans" versus Johnny-come-latclys. It is indeed typical of the moral conflicts raging in Germany 16 years after Hitler that the quali ties that made Mayor Brandt a hero abroad his humble origin and anti-Nazi record may well be political dynamite at home. Adenauer lived in Germany dur ing the Hitler regime and pre sumably shared the postwar suf fering of his people. Brandt chose exile in Norway. He became a Norwegian citizen and was active in the anti-Nazi underground. He reacquired German citizenship only three years after the war. This, say Brandt's Christian Democratic opponents, makes him less of a "genuine German" which I .Intend to do to them berause at their evil doings. Jere miah !6:J. True repentance hates the sin. and not merely the penalty: and it hates the sin most of all be cause it has discovered and felt God's love. W. M, Taylor. patriot than Adenauer. Brandt counters with the charge, that some of the men who forced him into exile and deprived him of his German citizenship while they served Hitler are today in fluential members of the Christian Democratic party. As the election campaign un folds, it becomes increasingly clear that, no matter who wins the contest in September, Bonn's efforts to create a new democrat ically respectable image of Ger many have already been seriously damaged. Professor Carlo Schmid, one of Germany's wisest statesmen, told me: "The campaign of defama tion against Brandt is damning the name of Germany abroad when the forthcoming trial of Eichmann in Israel is bound to revive gruesome memories." The election of a young Ameri can president has no doubt in creased Brandt's chances of vic tory. Though Adenauer's remark able vigor appears undiminished at 85, there is much speculation about his ability to stay at the helm much longer. The Christian Democratic party also has able and genuinely dem ocratic younger, leaders like Kai Uwe von Hassel and Bundestag President Gcrstcnmeicr, but they lack Adenauer's popular appeal. Mayor Brandt's greatest asset, in addition to his youth, is the fact that he always opposed the neutralist policies of. his party and that he is known as a fear less fighter against communism. You women who are homemak ers will be happy to know that somebody at last has tried 10 put a price tag on your home services. Nobody could figure how to value them accurately un til a home economist at Arizona State decided they could be reas onably equated with what would be paid to a substitute doing the same work. On this basis, the average homemaker is thought to be worth at least $3,000 a year in income, none of it taxable. The foimula for the figure comes from estimation of the average work load, and matching that against the going rates for house keepers, cooks, baby sitters and so on. Still, the formula may have its flaws. Few mothers care to be bracketed as baby sitters. They see their job as a blend ol nurse, teacher, counselor and live-in psychologist. And what value could one put on that mixture? Which reminds me of the story of one homemaker who was en tertaining her bridge club. There came the sound of the pattering of tiny feet at the head of the stairs. "Hush," she told her friends. "The children are going to deliver their goodnight mes sage. It always gives me such a feeling of reverence to listen to them." There was a moment of silence, then, shyly from the head of the stairs: "Mother, Willie found a bedbug." If the population statisticians know their stuff, then somewhere around August in 1963 the state of California will pass New York as the most populous in the U.S. As of the 1960 census, New York had 16.8 million, California 15.7 million, but projections have it that California already has gained another 400.000 people, and is moving up fast. The Californians, of rjurse, have been planning for (his a long time. They'll take it in good stride, but one has to wonder' about the poor New Yorkers. For endless decades the people of New York state, and especially those of New York City, have been accustomed to thinking of themselves as superior is just about every category of life. It's really going to be a shocker when Ihey wake up one day to find themselves second and likely lo stay second. That sign post on the Island adjacent to the SP underpass on Main St. gets knocked down more times than Ingemar. A reader wants to know if we can find from some source, the date and place of the airplane crash that took the life of Carole Lombard. We're sending the re quest on up the line, but I THE DOCTOR SAYS Doctor's Decision Needed On Question By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Q "A nurse friend who has in formation from a technician says that the hemoglobin and red cell count of the blood should be a . certain figure while one physician gives another. Will you please give a statement of exact figures, as it . affects a decision I may have to make?" A Dear lady, you are tread ing very dangerous ground if you are considering an important plan of action based on laboratory fig ures or information obtained second-hand from a technician. In the first place, laboratory fig ures are not constant like the .''ays ol the week. They are variables like temperature readings. In the second place, they are not to be regarded as absolute guides like road directions to and from fixed points. They have to be interpret ed like the possible meaning of the various figures you see on the daily weather map. Let me be more specific. The normal adult possesses some, 26. 000.000.000 red cells. When your Wood is taken, the merest por tion ol a drop is drawn into a pipette and diluted 200 limes. Then a count is made of the cells within a few small squares se:n under the microscope. This total count is then multiplied by 10.000 to provide the figure that appears on the report. Now, in addition to technical er rors that multiply by 10,000, there are variations due to sex and age. A figure of 42 million may be within normal limits for an adult woman. A figure of 6.2 million may be normal for an adult man. When you come to hemoglobin values, the variation is even greater. Normal for an adult woman may be as low as 12 grams per 100 cubic centimeters 13 ounces! of blood; for an adult male, as high as 18 grams. And. to make matters even more con fusing, if tlie hemoglobin is re ported in per cent, a blotter test . in common use bases its value on a "normal" of 17.3 grams. That would give a normal adult wom an with what might be her nor mal count a report of 70 per cent. Or. a sufficiently low reading to ' suggest the diagnosis of "anemia" and to indicate the need for tak ing a tonic for "tired blood." I hope I haven't confused you. dear lady. But perhaps I've indi cated enough about blood counts to prevent you from making an important decision based on cold figures and information obtained from any one other than your doctor. Dear Reader: Dr. Hyman ap preciates your comments and questions but regrets that t h c heavy volume of his mail doesn't permit him to' answer each indi vidual letter or post card. How. ever, he will comment in columns like the above upon matters of general or unusual interest. For 1 copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "How to Choose Your Family Dcotor," send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman, care ol Herald and News. Box 4R9, Dept. B. Radio City Station. New York 19. N Y. thought some reader might know, and if so, let me know so I can . pass the information on. Every time I drive along the canal that runs through town, I think it is surprising that there is not more agitation than there is for a fence, or some kind of barrier to keep little kids away from the area. Deb Addison told me there have been a few drown ings in the canal, but there duesn't seem lo be much con corn over the problem. Last week's Easter vacation was a happy occasion for most youngsters, I'm told. (Although more than one mother was happy to see it end.) But a city lady told me the sad tale of one little gill she ran into on the street. She was sobbing lustily. "What's wrong?" the lady asked. "M-my brother's got holidays for Eas ter," sobbed the little Miss, "but I don't get any." "That's strange," observed the lady. "Why don't you?" "B-Because I don't go to school yet," our heroine sobbed. Some people have tact, others just tell the truth. - and I noticed last week .where George Callison issued a warn ing against the itinerant peddlers who will be flooding the country side with the advent of warm weather. While I agree 100 per cent with George that it is foolish to do any business with them, I know, too. that there are people who will do just that despite any and repeated warnings. Don't let an itinerant salesman get your name on the dotted line or a check until you've had a chance to investigate his claims, and the opportunity to make com parisons regarding quality and price with the merchandise or services offered by people you know. I'll bet that in most in stances, you'll find that you can gel the same item or items from your hometown merchant "at prices comparable to the ped dler's. None of us is a match lor a specialist and the door-to-door salesman Is a specialist. He knows all the answers, and has them on the tip of his tongue even before you frame the questions. Nine times out of 10 his wares are no bargain, een though he paints a glow ing picture of the product or service. They rarely equal, and never excel the values to be found on the shelves of mer chants In your home town or shopping area. Tell the salesman you'll sleep over his proposition, and you'll find he will start getting tough, and start, applying pressure to close the deal. He doesn't want you to have time to think over his offer. He wants your signature, your check or your cash NOW. And as soon as he gets the check, he'll rush right to the bank lo have it cashed before you can change your mind and stop pay ment. Most folks take a rather unre alistic viewpoint toward the laws which we, the people, through our elected representatives, make a part of the fabric of govern ment. Most of us want them en forced to the hilt whenever the . other fellow is involved. Howev er, most of us take a dim view of enforcement of the law that af fects us. Al manac By I'nitcd Press International Today is Tuesday, March 21st, the 80th day of the year with 285 more to follow in 1961. The moon is approaching ils first quarter. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Venus and Mars. On this day in history: In 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer, was born. In 1790, Thomas Jefferson be came the first American secretary of state. In 1946, the United Nations moved into temporary headquar ters at Hunter College in New York Cify.. In 1958. at least 40 persons were dead in the w ake of a storm that hit the east coast of the United States. In 1960, 67 were killed and 237 wounded in Johannesburg. South Africa, as police opeed fire on rioting Africans. A thought for today: James McNeill Whistler said: "Two and two continue to make four, in -pile of the whine of the ama teur for three, or the cry ol the critic for five."