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.
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