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PAG t HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Tall: Oregoa Sunday, October I, 1961 NOTHING V SPECIAL I Was Hit by a Mirage' IW. I. S.) Q Big Under the heading "Big Potato Gamble" an editorial in the Herald and News October 2 came up with some hali-baked conclusions. In summing up the information contained in the editorial the writer concluded: "Many states, including Oregon, do not have market ing agreements to try to bring orderly mar keting of good quality potatoes." Well, that statement is wrong. Oregon has participated actively in a potato order since 1948. Every county in the state is in cluded in the order except for Malheur, which is included in the Idaho district. - The news item from which we took the ma terial for the other portions of the editorial was essentially correct. Unfortunately, it did list Oregon with some other states as being without marketing agreements. Let's End The Guesswork The Civil Defense picture is a most con fused one, and the recent action of the City Council did little to clarify the situation. CD Director Joe Searles appeared before the council, in company with County Commis sioner Frank Ganong and requested the coun cil to approve a public subscription drive to raise funds for an adequqate civil defense warning system. The council approved such a fund drive, with Mayor Robert Veatch summing it up by saying, 'This will show how concerned the people are about civil defense." It is interesting and constructive to re trace the thinking on the question of civil defense. . . Initiallyl officials found themselves with little sympathy for the civil defense program when it was advocating evacuation, lne gen- . oral fppllntr was that, in the first nlace. there was a question as to whether sufficient warn ing would be received from such a program, and secondly, It seemed somewhat foolhardy to get all the population out on the highways where they would be certain victims of any radioactive fallout. '.': Thinking on the civil defense question has been extremely fuzzy for a long time. It has only been In recent weeks, spurred no doubt Viv Ikti tniieriv International situation, that opinions appear to have firmed on the value of fall-out shelters. i No Point To Argue . Even the toughest adversaries of federal spending gerierally keep their hands off the ;Agrlculture Department's school lunch pro ' gram. No politician cares to be charged with taking food out of American youngsters' mouths. . The net result, therefore, Is that more and more of them are benefiting from the program. This current school year, it is ex pected that 14 million out of an anticipated record 46 million pupil enrollment will be served school lunches. Federal contributions to the program In 1961-62 should come to $268 million. Those outside Congress, like those inside, must agree it Is money eminently well spent. BARBS : You're not too smart If you think a nest egg Is only for the birds. : Most troublo is just a stretch jthe imagination that snaps back ou. It's nice to get all the enjoyment out of your home that you can .and "in It, too. Charity often begins at home just because you answered the doorbell. It's smarter sometimes to say you think only to yourself. Two ears and one mouth rosy mean that you should listen twice as much bs you talk. It's often the usual thing for a hus band to grow old alone, when the wife hasn't had a birthday in ten years. It's easy to get Into debt when lry to keep up with neighbors already are. Potato Goof Our writer should have been more careful in treating a subject of such importance to the Klamath Basin economy. Comments from those who know better have ranged from scathing to pitying. Our friend, Jim Ottoman, at Malin tried his best to get him (the writer) off the hook, with the kind suggestion, in a letter, asking: "Please tell us old potato growers you meant 'excluding.' (Where we referred to "many states, Including Oregon"). Well, we can't. We have to lake our lumps. We drew an erroneous conclusion from some erroneous information that we could have easily checked. If the editorial caused embarrassment or inconvenience to our friends, we are sorry. From an attitude of "little or no sur vivors," the official thinking now promulgates the theory that fallout shelters will result in the saving of many millions of lives. It has only been in recent weeks, also, that the public has roused itself from Its fatalistic lethargy long enough to indicate mounting interest in the construction of such shelters. It is no wonder that neither the County Court nor the City Council are able to assess the wishes and the thinking of the public on this score. While we can't criticize their actions too harshly, it does seem that a public subscrip tion drive for funds for a civil defense warn ing system is out-of-order. In the first place, it is not the proper approach to the problem. Members of both the County Court and the City Council were elect ed to express the wishes of the public in both the city of Klamath Falls and the county regions. ' It would appear that the time is now here when these two bodies should sit down In a joint session and calmly and rationally decide the merits of the civil defense program. It is not a time to blindly plunge money and effort into an all-out civil defense program that may be subject to many changes. It docs appear to be the time to decide on the merits of both a warning system and fallout shelters. 11 is also a time, perhaps, for the civil defense director, aided by such officials as the city building Inspector, to examine all con crete structures in the business area to de termine those that could be used for emerg ency shelters. This is a phase that would cost little beyond effort, and yet would be a step toward some protection. While we could make suggestions, it is for the elected officials to carefully assess the program and take steps to assure adequate fi nancing of any phases of the program that they approve. The public fund drive has all the appear ance of a "buck-passing" move by both bodies to avoid having to make the decisions on the overall value of the civil defense program. 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WASHINGTON (NEA) Wheth er the rift between the Kennedy administration and big business can be patched up a little may be decided at the select Business Council meeting in Hot Springs, Va., Oct. 20-22. Formerly known as the Business Advisory Council BAC the group of 60 blue-chip executives lost their 27-year-old happy homestead in Department of Commerce early this year. .Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges invited them out un less they would agree to end their secret meetings, admit the press to their briefings by government officials, take in more small busi nessmen, let him be chairman and 1 pick the members. Hodges actually picked the members in the past. But he picked them from nominees se lected by BAC. What it tried to do was submit slates of top men from 25 major industries, ge ographically distributed. They were selected for knowl cdgeability, national interests, wil lingness to work and lack of po litical connections. Each member served five years, then became inactive. THE DOCTOR SAYS . . . Bone Trouble Clue To Serious Illness By HAROLD T. HYMAN M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Q Would you write about os teoporosis? What is it? Is it serious? Can anything be done to cure If? I have just gotten an X-ray report that says I have osteoporosis of my bones. I am 52 years old and had the "change" four years ago. A Osteoporosis is a disturbance in which the bono structure ap pears faintly outlined due to loss of calcium (lime). Under ordinary circumstances it is the calcium salt that holds up passage of the X-ray and thus produces the shad ow that is seen on the film. The condition is not serious in itself although it may be an indication of the presence of a serious under lying disease. 11 is not related to the menopause although it is most often observed in middle or later life. Treatment of osteoporosis de pends on its basic cause. If it is due wholly to an Insufficient die tary Intake of calcium, it is easily corrected by concentrating on milk, cream, butter and cheese, U it is due to excess loss of calcium through the intestines as in diarrheal diseases, dietary treatment must be supplemented by measures directed toward con. trol of the bowels. Q I understand that there are special Cancer Detection Clinics in New York and other large ci lies. How do you arrange to be examined at these clinics? And bow often should a middle-aged couple visit these clinics? A The Strang Cancer Preven tion Clinic Is connected with the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and EDSON IN WASHINGTON ... Business Council Works, But Not With 'Advisory' There are 175 active and in active members living today. The combined worth of their compan ies has been estimated at well over $100 billion. Their general function has been to advise the government on how big business views the economy and what ought to be done about it. U.S. Steel's Roger Blough be came chairman this year. He succeeded General Electric's Ralph Cordiner, who resigned be cause of press of other duties after the government's charges against his industry for collusive bid ding. t)ther members include Hen ry Ford II, Frederick R. Kappel of AT&T, and so on. Rather than surrender their long-held privileges, the council moved its small headquarters of fice under executive secretary John Burke Jr., into a new office building a half-dozen blocks from the White House. There it reopened its stand un der the name of "Business Coun cil." without the "advisory." But the members still say they want to be of service to their coun try. Hundred-thousand-dollar - a-year-men and up, as it were, moonlighting without pay. In 1950 the council consid ered enlarging its field so (hat it didn't work for just one depart- Allied Diseases at 419 East 67 Street in New York City, to which requests for appointments may be addressed. While I strongly advocate exam inations forancer detection at least twice each year, I person ally prefer to have these surveys made by the family physician. In my minority opinion, there is no part of the cancer detection sur vey that cannot be carried out successfully and competently dur ing the course of a careful physi cal examination by any well trained and conscientious practi tioner. However, since the survey is time-consuming, it is wise to state the purpose of the examination when the appointment is made so that sufficient time is set aside for a complete and thoughtful in vestigation. Included in this investigation are exploration of all body cavities, a chest X-ray, a blood count, urinalysis, stool tests and the painless collection of material for the all-important tests known as Papanicolaou spreads. Dear Reader: Dr. Hyman ap preciates your comments and questions but regrets that the heavy volume of his mail doesn t permit him to answer each indi vidual letter of post card. How ever, he will comment in columns like the above upon matters of general or unusual interest. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaf let "What About Cancer?" send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman, care of Herald and News. Box 489, Dept. B. Radio City Station, New York 19 N Y. ment of government. Nothing was done about that then, but that's what it may do now. Currently, the council has only one govern ment job. It is a seven-man eval- -uation of U.S. Maritime Com mission, under Donald David. That Kennedy wants top busi ness brains in his administration ' is shown by his naming of John A. McCone to run Central Intel ligence Agency and William C. Foster to head the new Disarm ament and Arms Control Agency. The President called in a group of 17 executives early this sum mer to ask help in recruiting man power for top jobs in government. All but one were council mem bers. The council held its fifth meeting of the year recently, without ad ministration sponsorship. But the president invited the members to the White House for cocktails. And the next evening, at their usual black-tie dinner, they were briefed by three top-drawer gov ernment officials. They were: U.N. ambassador and nuclear lest ban negotiator Arthur H. Dean, Undersecretary of Labor Willard Wirts, and White House National Security advis er McGeorge Bundy. Speech texts of the last two were made public, as Hodges wished. How Hodges broke with the council in the first place makes an interesting story now going the rounds. When Hodges appeared before p. congressional committee on depressed area redevelopment leg islation, Sen. Paul Douglas, D-Ill., objected to the program be ing run from Department of Com merce because, he said, the de partment was dominated by the Business Advisory Council. Hodges denied the charge. But he moved to downgrade the coun cil. One of his criticisms was that it had become too much of a high society club. If it was going to be of service to government it would have to reorganize. That's what it's doing. But it is writing its own prescription. THEY SAY... I know not when 1 come or whither I shall go. I'm content with the knowledge that I have lived and that all living things must die ... Let ... all who come to my funeral come with smiling faces and joy in their hearts. Prom the will of late actor Charles Coburn. We never have been paid for the tea that was dumped into Bos ton Harbor 188 years ago. And jolly good tea it was. Leslie Simons, director of ftavidson and Newman. Ltd., which has supplied tea to Bos- .Ion for 300 years. The gladiator games also were a gruesome and risky affair, but mankind decided to stop them. Milan newspaper II Glorno, de manding ban on ante racing af ter accident in the Italian Grand Prix which killed It persons. It should be of particular inter est to Klamath Basin people to note the figures of the state high way department relating to the state's third largest industry tourism. Only agriculture and tim ber exceed the tourist trade in bringing dollars to Oregon. The travel information division of the highway department esti mates that income from tourist travel this year exceeded by some $16,000,000 that of 1960, and it is reasonable to assume that the Klamath area got a share of that money. I don't know if we got our full share or not, but we prob ably got some of it. The depart ment estimates that this year's income statewide from tourist travel was $186,000,000. In this report was included an estimat ed 7,076,000 visitors, arid an esti mated 930.000,000 miles driven by the 2,208,250 tourist cars reported. We frequently get cards and tel ephone calls from irritated read ers who ask about the times in dicated in our television sched ules. The listings are published as a public service, and we have absolutely no control over the pro gram listings or the times indi cated for them. Frequently a pro gram or a time will be changed and we are not notified. The re sponsibility for correct listings lies solely with the stations indicated. If you have any question about any of the programs, the best thing to do is call the station, as we generally have no informa tion other than that contained in the listings. When it comes right down to It, those of us who have sound limbs, normal mental faculties, and average day-to-day good health, have nothing to holler about. All of these new nations being organized is confusing, I suppose, to those who do not make a spe cial effort to keep track of their existence and development. I try to keep track of those actually organized by referring constantly to maps and globe of new vintage. I wonder if the school kids can keep up? Or, if they're required to? This gets me to wondering if you readers can recall to mind (without assistance of maps) the geographic position of the various states in the United States? And, if you can do that, can you also recall the geographic relationship, or position, of the various coun tries of the world? Of the con tinents? I don't suppose an historian . could live long enough to complete the job, but it would make an in teresting study to find out just why the various states are di vided up the way they are. Obvi ously, geographic, social and eco nomic elements were of primary consideration. But it is just as obvious that compromise and sel fish interests interfered with prac tical boundary establishment in some instances. I don't want to be a billionaire. But I'd settle for the millions that are wasted on postage every day. We hear so much about the efficiency of big business as con trasted to the inefficiency and wastefulness of big government. Business firms must be wasting literally millions of dollars every day on trash they put in the mail and the postage it takes to mail the stuff. I know of more than YOUR POCKETBOOK Aids Help Women Re-Enter Business By FAYE HENLE If you're a woman and the last of your brood has finally gone off to school, you probably are giving some thought to going back to work. It's expected that, by 1970, 30 million women many of them married will be at work. If you've been out of the job market for years, or if you'd nev er worked, where should you start looking? Guin Hall, deputy commissioner of the N Y. Slate Department of Commerce, is an authority on thus score and her department is a model for helping women get into the world of business. Her advice, pertinent in 50 states, is: Give some thought first to what you might most enjoy doing, for it is certain that you'll do well at something that especially interests you. Determine how well skilled or qualified you are in that particu lar field. It might pay you in the long run to either develop the skill you'll need or brush up on a skill you once had. Where might you get the train ing you need? The New York State Employment Service guides one firm that will send from three to five pieces of the same mate rial addressed to me whenever they have something going out.. This, despite the fact that I've written to every one of them at least once to point out the wasted effort and money. I wouldn't care, too much except for my own wast ed effort in throwing the stuff away without bothering to opes the envelope or container. ' M A woman who was known to her husband's office staff as a real life battle axe, phoned one' day while he was out. "I'm sorry but your husband Isn't at . his desk right now," said the. switchboard girl. "Is there any' ultimatum?" The word "liberal" as applied to individuals or groups within our political spectrum, is so mis. used and camouflaged nowadays that it is quite impossible to de fineeven for those who use the word liberally. For instance, in a conversation the other day, ref erence was made to a young man with definite socialistic ideas. Rather than use the word "so cialist" the speaker called the guy a "liberal." This touched off a discussion as to just when one stops being a "liberal" and takes on a more sinister title. "Liber al" Is tragically distorted, we agreed. Henry Hazlitt once described what has happened in the intro duction to his book "The Free Man's Library." He wrote: "One of the crowning ironies of the present era ... is that it is precisely, especially in America, the people who flatteringly refer to themselves as 'liberals' who have forgotten or repudiated the essence of the true liberal tradi tion. Historically, the liberals ' fought against government tyran ny; against government abridg ment of freedom of speech and action; against government re strictions in agriculture, manufac hire, and trade; against constant detailed governmental regulation, interference and harassment at a hundred points; against fto use the phrase of the Declaration of In dependence) a multitude of new offices and 'swarms of officers'; against concentration of govern-' mental power, particularly in the person of one name; against gov ernment by whim and favoritism. "Historic liberalism called, on the other hand, for the Rule of Law, and for equality before the law." Our litUe group in its discussion, determined that "liberals" stand enthusiastically for everything the historic liberals opposed. Their goal is to concentrate more and more power in the hands of gov ernment. They are contemptuous of state's rights and rights of in dividuals. They want to see all manner of social reform initiated and carried through the federal government. Real liberalism, we conclud ed, stands for maximum free dom for all. It Is predicated on ' the principle that government is . the servant, not the master, of the people. Today's "liberals'' miss that important concept en tirely. Pardon the preaching, but the trend is so dangerous that it scares the pants off anyone who wants to sit down and think for a while. women to local sources and so, probably, can the employment service in your state. Check with your local school board. Colleges, business schools and YWCAs also offer instruction. Investment in time or money for training or retraining could pay off but don't overlook the fart that, once you start earning mon ey, your expenses increase. Figure w hat you might expect tv earn and then list what it will cost you. When you job hunt, Miss Hall says, your appearance is most im portant. Nothing reveals that you are out of touch with business world as much as being over dressed when you look for work, or the neglect of good grooming. Have at hand the names and addresses of those you'll give us references. Be accurate. One occupation pointed up for the unskilled woman, aged 17 through 50, is practical nursing. The need for teachers continue, as do opportunities in all the serv ice industries. Not to be overlooked is the pos sibility of starting a business of your on. o
