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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1961)
HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore. Wednesday. March 22, 1961 PACE 7-A Apathy, ignorance, fax Resistance Menace School Dssy Kditor's Note Financing Amer ica's public school system has be come an increasingly costly and complex task. How is the man in the middle the local" taxpayer , bearing up? This is the first of three articles on some major fac tors in school financing as Con gress considers federal aid. By G. K. IIODENFIELD AP Education Writer There are three main threats to every school bond issue, every school tax levy placed on the bal lot in this country: apathy, igno rance, and resistance to taxes. Of course there are many other reasons why school bonds and taxes are voted down. School administrators may get grabby with public money. They may ask for facilities that aren't really needed. They may go over board on luxurious frills. . But time after time, where the need seems urgent and the cause legitimate, it is apathy, igno rance, and resistance to taxes that defeat school bond issues at the polls, frighten some school boards into postponing requests for needed funds, or asking for much less than they really need. The extent to which these fac tors operate was shown in a news man's survey in St. Louis, Mo., and Parma, Ohio one a city where a bond issue was defeated recently, the other where it passed on a second try. The problems these communi ties face are typical of the prob lems confronting school boards, administrators and taxpayers al most everywhere. Most large cities have, like St. Louis, school buildings erected many years ago and sadly anti quated. Most also have their slums, where the tax return is JFK Consults Executives On Problems WASHINGTON I API Presi dent Kennedy plans to put top representatives of American man agement and labor to work today helping him solve one of the na tion's most pressing problems. Kennedy called members of his 2!-man advisory committee on labor-management policy to the White House for briefings from him and a half dozen mainstays in his administration. The President has made it clear he wants members of the advisory group to put aside partisan views and approach a wide array of na tional problems from the stand point of what's best for the coun try as a whole. On that, basis, the President has said he will ask the group to consider means for licking many problems other than traditional labor-management differences. Topics which the White House said would be considered in the closed-door talks today include in dustrial relations problems in de fense industries, the international balance of payments situation, America's competitive position abroad, the administration pro gram for economic growth, along with wage-price and employment problems. The committee, created by Ken nedy's executive order Feb. 16, consists of seven representatives each of management and or ganized labor, five public mem bers and Secretary of Labor Ar thur J. Goldberg and Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges. Goldberg, designated chairman for this year, has said that on one problem maintaining Amer ica's competitive position abroad and increasing exports labor and management both have a heavy slake and can find a common ground. Due lo address the advisory group beside the President, are Goldberg and Hodges. Secretary of SI ale Dean Rusk. Secretary of Treasury Douglas Dillon. Secre tary of Defense Robert S. Mo Namara. and Walter W. Heller, chairman of the President's Coun cil of Economic Advisers. Kennedy was reminded at his news conference last week that prior attempts at petting labor and management together on mu tual problems generally had been colossal flops. He said he hoed this one would prove more suc cessful and enduring. "I am hopeful thnl we can en courage a public interest philoso phy among all the groups which will provide progress," he said. i lowest but the educational needs led "no" on two school bond issues greatest. totaling $29.5 million. Suburbs like Parma face simi-i The "no" turnout was one reg lar problems across the nation ;istered voter out of IS, but it was young families with lots of chil-lenough to defeat the bond issues; dren, but little if any industry to because 82.2 per cent of the regis-1 ease the tax burden on the home- tered voters didn't bother to vote Resistance to taxes: A man liv-jpiled by the I'.S. Office of Edu- ing on a pension in Parma, Ohio, said, "1 know we need new schools. But I can't afford lo pay cation As of last fall, public school en rollment was at a record high of owner. Details differ from city to city, but the basic question remains the same where are they to get mon ey lor their schools? that day. Ignorance: a housewife in St. Louis was outraged. "It's crim inal the way they have raised our property taxes," she said. "You Let's look at the three faclorsljust wouldn't believe how much in some specific cases. Apathy: Last May, 6.7 per cent oi tne registered voters in St. Lou is. Mo., went to the polls and vot-;?1.000. they're soaking us." But she couldn't say whether her proper ty taxes were closer to $100 or higher taxes. I'm being taxed 1036.3 million pupils . . . there was death. If my income went up. l'd,a shortage of 142,100 classrooms be w illing to have my taxes . . , thcre were about fiM.000 pu raised for the schools. But I can't Lys 0n curtailed or half-day ses- pay any more out of what rmisjons , . . altogether there were getting now." ;!,8S8,000 pupils in excess of nor- It is against this backgroundimal classroom capacity. Ithat the question of federal aid to Others quote the U.S. Chamber education is now being fought outlot Commerce: The classroom again in Congress. (shortage is largely a paper cmer- Is aid necessary? Each side isigcncy. States and communities for marshaling facts and figures, line most part have been and are Proponents cite statistics eom-building an adequate number of classrooms lo accommodate the Ration's school-age population." The National Education Associ ation (NEA, representing 700.000 professional educators, says thcre is a shortage of 135.000 teachers. The chamber of commerce says, for some time it has been clear that the teacher shortage is di minishing except in particular subject matter areas in secondary education." The chamber says the teacher shortage is easing because of higher teachers' salaries, and that in recent years teachers' salaries have risen more, proportionately, Drove Him In! PHILADELPHIA AP - When police arrested Albert Torres. 20. Sunday on charges of possessing burglary tools, he said he tipped officers off on himself because he wanted to spend the night in jail to escape what he called a "nag ging wife." Torres got his wish. Police quoted him as saying he lold his w ife that if she didn', cut nut the naeging he'd get himsell arrested. She didn't believe him. he Mid. than the wages of all employed people. But the one man most con cernedthe homeowner on a fixed salary or pension, worried about the education of his children or grandchildren, fighting the battle of inflation, scratching to pay his taxes what does he think. To learn that this reporter went to Parma, Ohio, and St. Louis, Mo. I asked people whether they had voted in the recent school bond elections, how they had vot ed, and why. This was no attempt at a scientific survey. I just asked people to talk, and the things they said were much the same in both; Parma and St. Louis, although these cities are about as unlike as they could be. Parma had voted down a $3- million bond issue and a school tax levy last May, although it ap proved both of them the second Plan Yo.ir Estate Through the Equitable JOHN H. HOUSTON Service Since 1921 time around in November. The people of St. Louis; three times in a period of nine months, voted down a badly needed $29.5 million school bond issue. Don't Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Do fain teath drop, slip or wobble when you talk, cat, laugh or sneeze? Don't be annoyed and embarrassed by such handicap. KASTEETH. an lkallne(non-acid powder tosprin kle on your plati's. keeps false teeth more firmly aet. dives, confident feel ing of security and added comfort. 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