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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Tuesday, March 21, 1961
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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.
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men if it weren't for all the junk in the
pockets.
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gain weight and get on a penny scale.
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jockeys get the needle.
It's funny how things we never get
worry us more than things we lose.
A man told a judge he went on a
drunken spree because his wife talked
too much. Bored stiff!
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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."