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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath FalU. Oregoa Sunday, October L 1M1 "I'm Paying VERY Close Attention, Mr. Gromyko" NOTHING SPECIAL o IW. I. S.) Jaycees The Herald and News is happy to en dorseenthusiasticallythe project of the Klamath Falls Jaycees to install seat belts in ; automobiles. ' ' . The project gets underway today and con tinues over a two week period. Belts will be available from Jaycees at two outlets Dick's Richfield Service Station (right next to the .Herald and News Building) and the M.J.R. Muffler Shop on South Sixth, We are hope- ' ful that every automobile owner in the com munity will take advantage of this excep tional opportunity to have the belts installed. Information at hand indicates that seat belts ' would save thousands of lives if all vehicles were equipped with them and if the drivers Patience Is The Keystone , Since Congress this year pumped $2 bil lion of new long term life into the urban re- - a TT n 11! :- newai program, u.o. comraumuea bib in bids for twice the previous record of projects. ' n?l a. J L. 4.. ...Ill ine new graui. auuiuiuy wtu celed out at the rate of $500 million a 4Via tiovf frin voare That rnmnarps with years just past The larger sums, plus the as- surance of continuity in the program, account for the sharp step-up. , , I Hardly a city-based politician exists who does not shout the need for urban renewal. But few bother to explain what it involves, ex cept In the most general way. ' Most of the money granted is Intended to help finance the steep cost of acquiring and : 'clearing blighted land to set the stage for ' ' . ' ' ' " Quite an argument rages these days on the question whether everybody who gets wel fare benefits from the government deserves them. Now Washington Is hearing again from some people who don't want them. The people involved are the Amish farm ers of the Pennsylvania Dutch country. Thnir oit Ostti1 Catiirlf v naumnnts ran sap the Initiative of Amish youths who are taught to prepare for old age through sheer hard work and thrift. And they argue that paying Social Se curity taxes infringes constitutional guaran tees of their religious freedom. The Internal Revenue Service seemed to think it scored something of a triumph when it persuaded a group of Amish bishops that present law gives it no discretion. What this means is that a government geared to dispense welfare on a big scale can't withhold it from individuals who don't want it. . BARBS Why do they always take all prize produce to the county fairs never to the grocery store? the and Too many people think that a lot of noise is all it takes for a sound argument. What good is the thought that you're only as old as you feel when you really feel old? ' 1 Getting upstage with friends will eventually get you out of the spotlight. Police say pocket-picking is he coming a lost art. Give the credit cards credit. The barber meets a lot of self made men who forgot to put hair on their heads. Folks save money by not taking a .vacation, maybe figuring that a big roll is better than a loaf. In Vital Project and passengers used them. The Oregon Traf fic Safety Division 'estimates that in the first Q'& months of this year, nearly 26 per cent of the victims of auto accidents would have been saved had they been using seat belts at the time of the fatal mishaps. When that esti mate was made, Oregon had 340 traffic acci dent victims which means that something more than 85 people might have had their lives spared had they been wearing seat belts. The cost of the belts is slight, as con trasted to other automobile accessories. In the case of the Jaycee project, the cost will be even lower than it is under commercial pur chase and installation. Certainly, no car owner can use the old excuse that installation is too costly. major redevelopment. Considerably smaller amounts are designed to aid communities In conserving or rehabilitating already existing . housing, where such action seems warranted. Since the birth of the program in 1949, some 900 projects have been approved in 500 communities, with grants totaling $2 billion. Of the project total, roughly 180 represent ef , forts at conservation and rehabilitation, the rest clearance and redevelopment. The program is being deliberately en larged to take in more interested cities and towns. Furthermore, it was hamstrung in early years by lack of state enabling laws, court battles, community disinterest and inexper ience. ' V A community seeking help must come up with a workable plan for the drrest of blight, the wiping out of slums, and general rede velopment. In shaping a specific project, it must es timate all costs of acquiring and clearing a particular land area, as well as estimate the price it may get from resale of the land to project developers. The difference, usually a big loss to the city, is borne by government from two-thirds to three-fourths federal, the rest local and occasionally state. - Despite this federal preponderance, it is figured that the $2 billion in U.S. grants so far have stimulated $10 billion in private con struction work, besides adding substantially to city tax yields in many urban sectors. In the old days, slum clearance was tied tight to public housing on the theory that every dwelling unit torn down should be re placed. From 1949 on, Congress has allowed increasing amounts of clearance money tqo for nonresidential projects up to 30 per cent today. But with all the broadening and all the outlays, progress in remaking the urban face of America is still slow. Only some 60 projects in several hundred have reached the actual rebuilding stage. Renewal takes big money, but also Infinite patience. pimuig . number Iia nnH uc yai- year for Burma ACROSS , 1 Capital at Burma S Horn of Burma 'a principal producta IS Work , 14 Penetrate 15 Church beach 16 Route (abj IT Ron 18 Bitter retch 19 Editors lab ) 31 Horre'a gait 31 Character of a novel 25 Nairn of Borne M Artificial ' language M Mount PallnrHt i32 Turns Inaid out 84 Ewraget M Covet 37 Pleaant tooka J Abatract being ,3t Babylonian deity "40 Expert 41 Cotton fabric 44 Touch 47 Eaet Irdnn timber tree 48 Her 61 Garden apotra adeeert MHiwk care W Cover S Property Hem !7 Sit aa chairman M Maum looka W Loftier DOWN 1 Stout cord 2 Mimlcker a Tidings 4 Greek (abj 6 Rowing Implement 6 Musteline mammal 7 Requlrementa 8 Encountered V Kemtntna appellation 10 Paasage In the brain 11 Cipher 12 Formerly 20 Painful ipote 32 Raw silk weight 2.1 Dinner courao 24 Regular 2n Interpret 2 Baking chamber 41 Trader 27 Disorder 42 Encampments 29 Small island 43 Vigilant 30 Profound 44 Colt 31 Asalatant (ab.) 43 Comfort 33 Gun lock catena 43 Eaaential betnf Arawer to Previous Punle PAS I li A. VNl v ;r o AVON IE R A JOOL $ B N T Q tT TL T M at Tittle 6 sM i gN X t!b! Plftie t e e mt T mTjT U. i B ul A M EjH N l N A - J. E I Rjfc N B W Tlelelw & t Tfet a d e 5 p, i t I n i p C CAP I ta t- BT? PAKE O M A IT E- at T H mi ce Ik e v 1 alt ololelj llulel 1 i 1 1 InIc S3 Military 40 Slide assistant 411 Conceal RO German rlvor S2 Thorough aroa lib I M Small H Symbol for Mlenium I" p'B U K (4 B I II flt "I M i3 n rj p rj n rj 1 1 iff, 5J- a.;, 1 1 1 hr r L-L-J a p p rrm- ljh F P1 5T" "p" 5" "- J3 a m ai -rn u ui t& 51 F 5T T 5? 5J t 9 nr I I I I I I I 1 1 I y EDSON IN WM Silence Greets Laos By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) -Nine Americans are now believed to be held prisoner by the Com munist Pathet Lao forces in Laos. Five are Army and Air Force personnel, four are civilians. - State Department spokesmen in sist that the nine are not hos tages of the Communists. It is ' pointed out that the royal Lao tian government forces with whom the Americans are co-operating hold many more Pathet Lao prisoners But the status of the nine' Americans being held by the Laos Communists is the same as that of the four Americans THE DOCTOR SAYS . . . Cut Sugar Content To Reduce Cavities By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written (or Newspaper Enterprise Assn. I have summarized some re cent observations on the causes for dental decay. Here are some suggestions, based on these obser vations, that may save you many a toothache and a goodly propor tion of your dental expenses. To prevent the colonization of the many varieties of decay-producing bacteria, you must cut them off from their food supplies of available sugars (carbohy drates). This docs not mean that you need feed yourself a carbohydrate-poor diet. It means that you must reduce the sugar content of your mouth by avoiding sticky, gooey carbo hydrates (caramels, taffy, fudge, cookies, etc.) especially between meals. And, if eaten with meals, you must immediately remove food particles of all sorts from between your teeth and-or from pits and cracks on the surface of your teeth. To do this effectively, place greatest reliance on dental floss for bctween-thc-teeth impactions and on tooth brushing to pits and cracks. To facilitate tooth brush ing, you need only a lather of hand soap. You have no need for dentrifiecs that contain abrasives that will scrape your tooth enamel, pep tic digestants, antiseptics and ba tericirlcs that will rid your mouth of few bacteria for even a few moments, wetting agents, chloro phyllin for breath "sweetening" or any combination of these "mir acle" ingredients. In the words of the American Dental Association "the (unction of a dentrifice is to aid the brush in cleaning the teeth." And, as for the "magic" ingredients, the same authority concludes that "none has survived the test of time and use." Mouth washes will not help you. They will kill no significant num ber of bacteria. They will not Ret rid of bad tasle or offensive breath (halitosis). Temporarily, they may mask offensive taste or odor with an overlap of an aro matic much as perfume might be used to substitute (or a bath. If you have inherited large teeth with an abundance of pits and fis WASHINGTON Prisoner Situation still being held prisoner by the Chinese Communists. All efforts to obtain their release have proved futile. State Department requests for information about the Americans held by the Laos Communists began after the first one was reported missing early this year. Every channel of communication was explored. None yielded re plies. First contacts were attempted through the British and French governments which maintain dip lomatic relations with the Com munist government of North Viet Nam. The British and French were then asked to approach the so-called neutralist leader and former premier, Souvanna sures, if your teeth are so jammed together you can't remove impact ed food particles without injuring your gums, and-or if your bite is so imperfect you impose all the wear on one or another surface, see your dentist and let him get you lined up properly. If you truly want to "strengthen your tooth defenses against den tal caries," you may urge your local community to sanction fluori dation of your water supply. If that's not possible, you may add a single tablet of 1 mg. of fluoride to each pint of your drink, ing water. If that's not possible, get your dentist to treat your enamel with fluoride or use a dentrifice that contains fluoride. Of these four possibilities, the first is regarded as the cheapest and most effective, the last, the least effective and the most ex pensive. The surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service recently has labeled the failure of communities to adopt fluoridation of their water supplies as "nothing short of tra gedy." He goes on to say that "fluori dation is beyond question the most effective and the most economical means available for the preven tion of dental caries." Its accept ance, he asserts, has been pre vented solely by opponents who "befog the issue." Al manac By United Press International Today is Sunday, Oct. 1, the 274th day of the year with 91 to follow in 1961. The moon is in its last quarter. The morning star is Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1903. the first baseball World Series got under way at Boston between the Boston Americans and the Pittsburgh Nationals. In 1936. Gen. Francisco Franco was proclaimed head of Spain's nationalist government. In 19rA Nigeria, the former British Colony, became independent. Probers n Phouma. The results were no bet ter. The U.S. then made a direct request to the Russian govern ment to obtain information. There were no answers, An appeal was then made through the U.N. International Control Commission In Southeast Asia, which is in direct contact with all governments and polit ical factions. Its requests were met with the same stony silence. American Red Cross was asked if it could make contact. It worked through international Red Cross in Geneva, which main tains a Swiss national as dele gate in Laos. He ran into dif ficulties because there is no Red Cross society in northern Laos. He got no co-operation. In one instance he was stoned. He has not been permitted to see any of the Americans, nor has he been able to communi cate with them directly. But he has been given indirect assur ances that some are still alive. When the Geneva conference on Laos opened in mid-May, U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman made direct requests' to Laotian and Pathet Lao leaders for re lease of the Americans. The only concession he has been able to obtain is tentative agreement on one provision for release of all prisoners held by bolh sides. This exchange is to be effected on a still unspecified number of days after a treaty creating a unified, neutral government for Laos is signed. Harriman repeatedly asked for information during his recent trip to Southeast Asia, but obtained none. The first American reported missing was Charles James Duf fy, 43, Watkins Glen, N.Y. He is an American businessman, Laos resident manager of Pio neer Construction Co. of Hong Kong. He went on a hunting trip into Communist territory Jan. 1.1. On March 23, Army Major Lawrence R. Bailey, Waycross, Ga., and seven Air Force offi cers and noncoms were reported missing when their C-47, assigned to the U.S. air attache in Vien tiane, failed to arrive at Saigon, South Vict Nam. There is some indication that i the plane crashed over Red-held territory and that Bailey was the only survivor. But the others are still carried officially as missing, in absence of proof. On April 22, Capt. Walter H. Moon of the U.S. military assis tance group and three noncom missioned officers were reported taken prisoner when their plane crashed in Red territory. With him were Sergeants John Bis choff, Mountain Rest, N.C.: Or ville Ballinger, Spring Lake. N.C: and Gerald Fiber, Grand Junction, Colo. All are officially listed "missing." On May 15, Grant Wolfkill of Shelton, Wash., NBC cameraman, and two civilian pilots were re ported captured by the Com munists when their helicopter was spotted undamaged ii: a rice field after a forced landing in northeast Laos. The two pi lots, flying on a guerilla supply drop for Air America, Inc., were Edward R. Shore, Galloway, Tcnn., and John B. McMorrow. Brook lyn. N.Y. While I'm not much given to plugging any products in this cor ner, I'm certain that almost every family in our circulation group will be interested in a book that has just been released. It is writ ten by Ann Landers, whose col umn appears daily in the Herald and News and about 450 other newspapers throughout the nation. Ann Landers, whose real name is Esther Pauline Leder er, wife of Jules Lederer, a Chicago business executive. She has a daughter, Margo, and is otherwise trained by experience ' and background to comment on serious personal problems most of us have at one time or an other. A marriage going sour, conflict between children and parents, sex or liquor trouble, and a host of related items of less serious nature give cause for individuals to seek help from Ann landers. This is because many people find they can't talk to their own wives or husbands, their parents, or their best friends about such things. They hesitate to go to their clergyman or family doctor (al though, this is, in many instances, exactly the advice that Ann Lan ders finally gives as a solution to their problem). So they turn to a newspaper columnist. Sometimes they're not actually looking for ad vicejust a chance to get some thing off their minds. But often they need and get advice that helps. . Ann Landers has ' answered about a half million letters in the past six years covering most of the human problems. From them, she's learned a lot about people and the problems that beset them, either imaginary or real. She has summed up this experience in a book, "Since You Ask Me," just published by Prentice-Hall. Almost any family can benefit by reading it, if only to discover that what ever problems it might have are not unique. - Among chapters in the book are "How important is sex in mar riage?" "Must we outlaw the In law?", "Do you know your teen ager?", and "The battle of the bottle." Ladies (and you men candy making hobbyists) you'll be en tertained and educated at the first Herald and News candy mak ing school we're sponsoring Tues day, Oct. 3. A world-renowned candy maker. Earl Davenport, of Portland, will be conducting the school at Mills Auditorium in two classes at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. (the instruction is the same in both classes). He'll demonstrate how to make top-flight fudge, pea 'nut brittle and mints in many different ways, as well as telling about other basic ways to improve your home candy making. This is another public service of the Her ald and News, and there will be no charge for admission to the classes. Well, I guess that ends the plugs for today. Pi liana YOUR POCKETBOOK Insurance Policy Loan For College By FAYE HENLE Q If I assign my life insurance policy for an educational loan, do I have to notify the insurance company? D.B.K. Dear D.B.K.: Yes, in case of death the insurance company has to make payment of proceeds as stipulated in the contract. Unless the change of beneficiary is des ignated, the company would not be able to make payment tinder the new plan to the institution or person lending the money. Incidentally, you might consider using a policy loan for this pur pose. Many parents do. This would give you a relatively low interest loan with no fixed repayment plan required, or a plan suited to your own wishes. Q Please let me know where I can get more information on the Wage Earner's Plan. E.H. Dear E.H.: The Wage Earner's Plan is a provision of the Na tional Bankruptcy Act of 1938 which enables insolvent families to pay off their debts, keep their scif-respect and avoid bankruptcy. To take advantage of the law you must hire a lawyer and ask him lo file in your behalf in the U.S. court in your district. Q I am a widow. My husband passed away at 65. He was draw ing K9 in social security a month. I am able to work only part time. His illness and death and my own medical expenses have When that editorial urging U.S. withdrawal from the UN came out, one lady expressed a belief that I am nothing short of an Isolationist, I'd rather de scribe my position as being for Neanderadicalism modified by .dynamo - eonserva-make-it-np-as-you-go alonglsm; and for abolishment of being In favor of anti-negative attitudes on oppos ing needed legislation described as unnecessary by negative thinkers of the positive school. I know a fellow who suggests three sites for immediate resump tion of nuclear tests Russia, Red China and Cuba. "I'm glad," said Mama, "to see you sitting so quiet while your father naps." Answered Junior: "I'm wash ing his cigarette burn down to his fingers." t One of the best moves I've seen in years is the formation of the Klamath County Parks and Recre ation Committee. Under able Ted Hyde, this committee is real ly getting something done to wards a comprehensive analysis of the potential and requirements for park facilities in the county. As I understand, some 18 agen cies of government and private interest are working together de ' veloping a master plan for more park facilities on government and private lands in the area. The activity of the committee is chan neled to a great extent towards orderly planning so that not too many agencies or people are working on projects concerning the same areas in the parks plan ning. For over a year a man had eaten in a small restaurant whose sign read: "Mary's Home Cook ing," but never once had he seen ' Mary. Finally his curiosity got the better of him and he said to the waitress: "I've been having lunch in here for a long time, and Mary is never around. Where Is she?" "She's just where the sign says she is," the waitress replied, "home cooking." I'm a great supporter of the jury system in our trial Drocedure. but some days, my enthusiasm"' wanes. This is one of those days. I just read in a Montana news paper where a jury in Helena let off absolutely scot-free an 18-year-old lad who had shot and killed his father, mother and 13-year-old sister. There wasn't any doubt at the lengthy trial that the youth had committed the murders. Testimony brought out, however, that his father had been a little rough on him at times, and he simply decided to do away with the father. In the process, he got more than a little hysterical and proceeded to wipe out the entire family. I'm derned if I can see how a jury could possibly decide that he should be declared wholly innocent. I saw some good advice the oth er day: Drive as if you're early for an appointment with the Inter nal Revenue Service. taken our savings. I am 59 years old. Can I draw on his so cial security account? S.M.A. Dear S.M.A.: Sorry. Widows ben efits under social security begin at age 62. If you wait until you are 65 you will receive more un less you have dependent children under 18. Q Is a widow entitled to such property as tools, trucks, furniture, or does it all go into the estate? E.M.A. Dear E.M.A.: This depends upon the law of the state in which your husband lived. The best person to answer the question would be a lawyer. However, the estate plan ning department of a large com mercial bank or the officer to your local probate court could help you. Q I retired and started getting $80 a month social security. Now I've gone back to work. I under stand that my earnings will cause me to lose some of my social security payments. Just how does this work? T H. Dear T.H.: The tow works like this: First $1,200 you earn, you lose nothing. From $1,201 to $1,700 you lose $1 in benefits for each $2 earned up to $250 in benefits. Above $1,701 you lose $1 in benefits for each i earned. Since you are due a benefit of $80 a month, you can earn $2,410 before all benefits must be withheld.
