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Newspaper Page TextPAGE S-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Wednesday, November I, 1961 CROMLEY IN WASHINGTON 'What Are Your Views on a Defense Pact?" Laos Shut-Off Could Cut Red Access Point fcjcUi&rial (pom If you're operating a club of 100-odd Members and some of them won't, for one reason or another, pay their bills, you first write a couple of dunning letters. If nothing happens, you give the bills to a collection agency. If nothing happens then, you keep on trying to collect but meanwhile terminate the nonpayers' memberships. In the United Nations, bill-collecting isn't that simple. There, some $118 million in un paid bills for 1960 and 1961 are floating around. For domestic economic reasons some members say they are unable to pay up what they owe. That's understandable; occasionally we all have domestic crises that compel us to put off creditors for a I'.ttlo while. 1; The U.N. bill problem, however, is com plicated by political considerations. What does pne do when, for example, a country like the Soviet Union just doesn't pay the more than $20 million it owes as its share of the The Dangerous Education Gap One of those happy generalizations we hear constantly is that the process' of getting an education is never done. There is too much to learn to get it all in school and college and new knowledge keeps piling up at an as tonishing rate. ' These facts alone should assure a bus tling, growing adult education program in the United States. The need exists, and the en largement of our leisure provides the time. I Actually, however, adult education has an even more vital role to fill. For the truth is that vast numbers of Americans emerge from their school years badly undercducated. Educational authorities say there are two million citizens who never went to school at all. Some 67 million have not completed high school, and 44 million who are 14 years or older could not pass tests intended to measure ninth grade performance. , . . These tens of millions represent the fail ures, the dropouts, the misdirected, the un derprivileged. , They have entered the adult world handi- capped both for work and for the 'duties of citizenship. Our democratic society presumes a citizenry sufficiently informed to judge the men and Issues on which they must vote. Our complicated economy puts an increasing ly heavy premium on workers with skill and training. ; Public school adult education programs E 1 Has '. The big business slory of the jlear is Fugazy. The small travel bureau has, almost overnight, Crept up behind American Ex press and Thomas Cook. Five years ago, Fugazy had one of fice. Last year, there were 11). This year 50. In 1952, Fugazy did one million dollars in business. This year, 25 million dollars. All of this is attributable lo Itunning Willie Fugazy. a young man who maintains his office is a telephone. Bill, who is 37, pro moted the Patterson Johansson tight in Miami; he signed a con tract to have Montgomery Ward book travel reservations in its 1,100 stores; he sold Fugazy Trav el to Tower Acceptance Corpora tion, and became Tower's biggest stockholder. He did these things this year, at times when he wasn't riding horseback over Westchester hills with a few of his five children. He has brown slick tvir and the grin of an altar boy whoso Latin is strained through Brooklyn. The boyishness fools everybody, once. Mr. Fugazy has already laughed the world out of $1,500,000. His grandfather came here and started an Italo-Amcrlcan Bank in New York. As a sideline, the old man put in a travel service for those of his countrymen who had money enough to want lo go back home for a visit. When grandpa died, his son, Italo, as sumed direction of the bank and found that the sideline was more prosperdUs than the bonk. Five years ago, Italo died, leav ing a lovely widow and three children; Bill; an older son, Lou is; and a daughter, a nun who teaches French at Cathedral High School. Louis said he'd assume office management and finance; Bill said he'd be front man and ft The Debtors are tailored to a large extent to the needs of the educationally handicapped. Half the programs offered are in the nature of re medial efforts. Of all the people enrolled in such classes, some 17 per cent are taking vocational stud ies, 14 per cent are completing high school, 9 per cent are involved in elementary or Americanization studies. Another 10 per cent are rural enrollees taking practical courses in agriculture. It is sad that so much of the adult educa tion effort has to be given over to "catch-up" studies. Individually and as a nation we would benefit far more if we all undertook post school training with an already solid educa tional base established. But that condition is a luxury of which we can only dream. Thq immediate problem is to provide more adult courses for all purposes than we presently have. Surveys show that more than a third of U.S. cities have no public school adult pro grams at all, and this deficiency strikes half the cities in the 2,500-5,000 population range. Put this major shortcoming together with a sorious lack of library facilities in many parts of the country and you have an ex tremely costly and dangerous education gap. Unless we narrow it, millions of U.S. adults will never catch up and millions more never keep up with the turbulent world about them. JIM BISHOP: REPORTER ... Young Man Running Fast Reason To bring in the business. The daugh ter concentrated on irregular verbs in class. Bill looked around lo find what was new in travel. Like all young men, he had a desire to do hot ter and go further lhati father, but there was nothing new in travel. The same accounts kept coming back Mary Picklord. Ed die Cantor, the Franklin Roose velt family and Samuel Goklwyn. Young Bill went out to dig up new business and ho dug up in dustrial accounts: Schenlcy, Rev lon, Westinghousc, General Elec Uic, and UCA. When any of their employes had to go somewhere, it was done through Fugazy Trav el Bureau. With this business assured, he opened offices in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Miami, San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Dallas and Washington. He met Boy Colin, a young lawyer with more opinions than ihe Supreme Court, and the two became partners in Jhe Lionel Train Corporation, and the promotion of fights. They also bought gas and oil wells. They left a bad taste in Miami after the last Patterson fight, because their organization. Fea ture Sports, left town owing mon ey. Bill Fugazy says that this is a mistake: lngo Johansson owes it. In any case, the Sea Breeze Motel would like to get $4,000 lor logo's training expenses; Hank Meyer Associates is owed a cou ple of thousand for fight pub licity. Young Fugazy returned to New York well - heeled In several ways. He sold Montgomery Ward Ihe idea of advertising travel on 100 per cent credit in their cata logue, which goes to eight mil lion homes. They also hook Fu gazy travelers in over 1,000 stores. costs of U.N. operations in the Congo be cause it doesn't approve of the U.N.'s inter vention there? Well, here comes the good old United States paying, in an effort to shore things up, hot only its $32 million-plus share of the Congo expenses but also tossing in voluntarily an additional $15.3 million. If the US. con tinues this sort of amiable generosity it may find itself one of these days picking up the bill for some U.N. project it strongly opposes but on which it has been outvoted by the neu tralist and Communist countries, among whom by and large are the chief U.N. debt ors. It may just be, of course, that some of the nonpaying U.N. members in no real danger of being expelled for overdue bills believe that the United Nations can operate indefinitely with mounting unpaid debts. After all, hasn't the United States itself been doing just that for vears? Get Tired A couple of months ago, he heard of Tower Acceptance Corp., which used lo be a string of loon offices in the south. Clint Mur chison sold his airport Insurance vending machines to Tower. In September, Fugazy with the ap proval of his mother and broth ersold (ho travel agency to Tow er in exchange for a big block of stock and a seat on the board of directors. The kid is still In motion. His organization will promote two big fights in December, from which he cannot escape becoming rich er. He is still president of Fu gazy and lakes $50,000 a year from i'., which is now paid by Tower. He lakes about $50,000 more from Tower, as a director; he holds his earnings from Fea ture Sports and Lionel down to another $50,000. I stepped into his small office on Madison Avenue and he was working with a 29-cent ballpoint en. I asked what he was do ing. He looked up and laughed. "I'm figuring the earnings on a bowling alley syndicate I'm in. Also, we just sold a hospital in Las Vegas." Itunning Willie leaves his 25 room home in Harrison, N.Y., at 7 15 a m. The chaulteur hardly gels out of the driveway before Fugazy is on Ihe lelepliune. He is on it all day, making more money than Alexander Graham Hell could count. At 5:30 p.m. he is in a steam room at the New York Athletic Club, talking through the clouds, never on them. He put the pen down, leaned back in the office chair, and ran his hands through his hair, "I'm so tired," he said. "1 don't know whv." ,AI manac By United Press International Today is Wednesday, Nov. 8, the 312th day of the year with 53 more to follow in 1961. The moon is new. The morning stars are Mercury and Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1703, the famed art museum in Paris, the Louvre, was opened to the public for the first time. In 1889, Montana was admitted into Uie Union as the 41st state. In 1942, some 400,000 Allied troops invaded North Africa. In 1959 the U.S. Supreme Court ordered steelworkers back to work under the Tali-Hartley law. A thought for the day: Ameri can physician and writer Silas Mitchell said: "The first thing to be done by a biographer in esti mating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's check books." THEY SAY The really important lests are not those in the atmosphere or underground, but rather the ones being held in our nation's class rooms. New Y'ork Stale Comptroller Arthur Levitt. If a peace treaty is signed by the Russians with East Germany. I hope tlie people w ill realize there is nothing that can be done. Sen. Mike Mansfield, D-Mont. Unless we somehow make prog ress on this problem, we may have no oilier problems lo worry about a few years from now. . . Unless we can somehow turn down the armaments curve . . . we are going to reach the point where the situation is uncontrollable. William F. Foster, head of the new U.S. Arms Control anil Dis armament Agency. One can erect a wall around cemeteries but not around IB million people. . . . The wall is a complete travesty against human nature. It cannot last. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. Names of Note ACROSS 1 U.S. president, - Artimi STexis Houston 8 British pnncea 12 Tropic! plant 13 Cravat 14 Heavv metal IMmtile lft Mr Unkletter 17 Crippled 1 W-u 30 Communion plat 31 Roy 32 Depoiit 23 Hoarder 2(1 Luella 30 Fruit drinks 51 TV'i i.arruway 32 Beverage 33 Enclosure 34 Speed conlwt M Malt 3 Clov 3d Birdf 38 Ktpire 40 Actor Mineo 41 Covkn. 44 Deciphers 4 Painter Bonheur 49 Deacomiant 50 Neck hairs 31 Wicked 52 Also M .soen t 54 llardv heroin ilAGoastrav M rctal fealura DOWN Welts 2 Medlev 3 Retain 4 Sew-mK tenia 6 Kndure ft Ventilates 7 Encountered 8 Relieves PTidv tOTilie 11 British statesman Id Organ o( hearing 20 Peel 22 W aah 2.1 Charts 24 Notion 25 Dispatched 2rt Step 27 German king 2A Caneous element W Knervtteii 31 Appointment 34 Incursion THE DOCTOR By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. 1 Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. To assist the discharged mental patient and his family, the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health recommends' half way houses, day or night hospitals and foster-home care. The last of these is particularly adapted for the needs of the mentally ill child who appears ready for a gradual re turn to Uie world that exists out side institution environs. Here's what the half-way house provides: A stopover residence for the patient who no longer needs hospitalization but who is not yet , ready to stand on his own two feet, opportunities for social and vocational rehabilitation, a semi protective environment within the community and encouragement to train for and actually obtain an outside job. Some such houses like the Gould Farm in Groat Barrington. Mass., are in rural areas where former patients occupy Uiemselves with farm chores and odd jobs about Uie house. Others, such as ' the home established by the Mental After-Carc Association of England, are staffed by elderly women with clironic illness who help with household duties and by young male patients who tend the gardens and engage in com munity activities! , Then there are the day and night hospitals. Illustrative of the latter is St. Peter Hospital in rural Minnesota. Here the pa tients sleep in and in the morn ing are called for by neighboring (aimers who employ them at the regular going wage. At night, they are returned to the hospital. Ex emplifying the urban night hos pital is that of Saint Elizabeth in Washington. Here patients get part-time jobs in the nation's cap ital until they appear ready to as sume full-time responsibilities. In day hospitals, situations are reversed. The patient sleeps at home wiUi his family or alone in the community and reports in the Answer to Prevtoui Puzzle .IS RiMical king 37 Standard! 38 Varnifh innr1ient 40 Spanish title 4 1 Wurrv 41 Winder 43 Kgvptian goddeai 44 Portal 45 Pedfital part 4A Seth l aon iBib ) 4? Withered 49 Sainte lib.) llolAlfelfr pIbiuh-ia.t .a;& m !e t i 1,L-Jg vlAPle l ? A T I If IE' SWO TtlS i i i K is 16 7 I la jl ho Jit 11 iTT tl re ITT r? X U IS Prf j p. jii 3- gpj war J J; ITP W' 1 ' ' J i i 4 rf? "14 UV ii "" !r "5S El 52 S 55 55 B 'III I I I I I I I i SAYS Many Ways To Help Discharged Patient morning for treatment, vocational guidance, recreation, occupational training or for odd jobs within the institution. Finally, for present purposes, there are the foster homes where great difficulties arise in placing the suitable patient with suitable foster parents. For the most part, foster homes are best adapted for rural areas where middle-aged and elderly couples have both the room and the economic need for participation in this work after their children have matured and left home. For more information you may send for Public Affairs Pamphlet 318. Enclose 25 cents and address your request to the Public Affairs Committee, a nonprofit organiza tion located at 22 East 38th Street, New York, 10, N.Y. Q-Both my mother and I suf fer from rheumatoid arthritis. Would it be wise for me to move from Maine to a warm climate to prevent my children from develop ing what seems to be a family disease? And would it help my mother and me to make the move? A Unhappily, I must answer "no" to both questions. A recent survey made by the U.S. Public Health Service showed that the incidence of all forms of arthritis was about the same throughout the country. Specifically, Uie fig ures per 1,000 population were 58.8 in the northeast, 65 in north central states, 66.5 in Die south and 64.7 in Uie west. Commenting on Uie survey, the director of the Arthritis and Rheu matism Foundation was quoted as follows: "There is no consistent effect of climate on vicUms of rheumatic disease. Contrary to the widely held belief Uiat arthritis sufferers get better in. a warm dry climate, most experience no noticeable change in their condi tion. Of course, like anyone else they find living easier in such a climate. Some do get a little bet ter but a few get a little worse. Uie same as everywhere else." Q A neighbor claims instant coffee is highly injurious to health because more grounds are con sumed. Is the larger amount of coffee bean in instant coffee a health hazard'.' A First off, there's not a larg er amount of coffee bean in in stant coffee. Secondly, instant cof fee is no more and no less a health hazard than coffee made in the regular way. Q In Uie plant where I work. I've heard three different stories about people swallowing snakes that then lived and grew in Uieir stomachs. One story said a girl swallowed a snake egg that hatched and grew in her stom ach. Could Uh'sc stories be true? A 1 donl know whether some one's pulling your leg. Or whether you're pulling mine. Anyhow these stories belong among the fairy laics. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Do any species of birds hi bernate? A The Poorwill, which dwells in western North America, some times spends Uie winter in hibernation. By BAY CROMLEY Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAl There is a way even yet to save South Viet Nam from the Communists. Laos is the key. Unless the United States takes some extreme ly daring steps in Laos, South Viet Nam will fall to the Reds and Cambodia with it. Now that Gen. Maxwell Taylor and his group have completed their study in South Viet Nam, one thing is clear. If the border be tween Laos and South Viet Nam could be closed, the loyal South Vietnamese, with continued U.S. support, could hold their own against the infiltrating Red invad ers from the north. Sealing that border would cut the life line between the Red guerrilla armies and their North Viet Nam base. If that border remains open, it is clear what South Viet Nam faces. Reds by the thousands are coming down by trail from North Viet Nam through Laos and on into South Viet Nam. That move ment is being stepped up daily. Once Ihe Reds improve the Lao tian trails into roads and start bringing in Uieir men and sup plies by truck along these Laotian trail-roads, then South Viet Nam is doomed. The problem: that border can not be closed from the South Viet' Nam side. It is too long, for one thing. If South Viet Nam or the U.S. tried to string troops along that 300-mile mountainous, inac cessible border, it would take staggering numbers of men and present impossible supply prob lems. For the Red supply route through Laos called the Ho Chi minh trail is actually hundreds of trails. They cross the border into South Viet Nam at hundreds of points. In this mountainous, forested in accessible interior, South Vietnam ese or Western armies strung along that border could be caught C CHINA S (V north V y 2 V2i N VIETNAM yC-fj . THROTTLE TOR REDFLOV JrJ-'--fl TROOP-MANNED BARRIER OR NEUTRAL flflX: - - ZONE ACROSS WAIST OF LAOS MIGHT I Sb SV.'.r -SSSS BE SOLUTION TO RED INFILTRATION BcaSMW UE: FROM NORTH VIET NAM THROUGH VCS. rt.i3S25SS LAOS AND INTO SOUTH VIET NAM. .'S nV BORDER THROUGH WHICH INFILTRA- Al gUlul TORS (BROKEN ARROWS) PASS IS K Ju 1 VES MOUNTAINOUS, INDEFENSIBLE FOR ","'f l5; j PRACTICAL PURPOSES OF DEFENSE, S0UTHll Other Editors' Opinions Congo Story (Portland Oregonian) The position of the United Nations in the Congo, a month after the death of Dag Ham marskjold, is no recommendation for turning the administration of Berlin over to the world organi zation, as has been suggested. The U.N. Congo Advisory Com mittee this week approved the shaky cease-fire in Katanga, thereby giving at least tacit rec ognition to breakaway Katanga President Moise Tshombe. Mean while, Tshombe holds prisoner 191 U.N. soldiers, whose fate is by no means certain. Congo Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko has threatened to seek unilateral aid from Soviet Russia in order to force Congo unity on Katanga. This raises the un pleasant prospect of Communist penetration in the Conso in sup port of U.X. policy, performance of which has been beyond, the United Nations. Moreover, the U.S. authoriza tion of its faltering mission in the Congo runs out in less Ulan two weeks. Its Congo project treas ury is virtually bankrupt. The situation today in the Con go should be proof enoaph for all observers that the United Na tions, so long as it is denied its own permanent armed forces to enforce its own peace-holding op erations, is not capable of patrol ling the world's trouble spots es pecially such a sensitive spot as Berlin. Timetable (Eugene Rrgister-Guardl Now Oregon gets another boost with the announcement that its per capita taxes are far lower than those of cither California or Washington. in a series of disastrous Dien Bien Phus. The only feasible way to close the major supply routes between north and south Viet Nam is by controlling a narrow East-West corridor across the waist of Laos roughly at the 17th parallel. A careful patrol of some 35-45 miles of this Laotian waist and a spot patrol of another 20 to 30 miles would effectively seal off the underground invasion routes. Once this Laotian waist is sealed to Uie Communist invaders, U.S. officials believe the loyal South Vietnamese could hold their own without involving U.S. troops in the fighting. There are four ways to c 1 o s e that waist: ' U.S. troops could occupy and guarantee a neutral zone in Laos through which no "foreign" troops could pass meaning North Viet namese. U.S. troops could be log islically supplied from Thailand. South East Treaty Organization or U.N troops could occupy and guarantee such a neutral zone. They also could be supplied through Thailand. An inspection commission could regularly inspect and guarantee such a neutral zone. Thus far, such neutral inspection teams have been ineffective. The United States could insist that the new Laotian government guarantee a neutral zone by occu pying that waist with Laotian troops the U.S. could depend upon to see that no Red troops got by. How the U.S. could be certain of this, even with solemn guarantees, is not clear. Since the last two methods seem impractical, this leaves troops U.N., SEATO or U.S. as a pos sible solution to the problem. The troop solution would take some doing and some daring. But note that sealing this Lao tian waist would also protect Cam bodia and the most vulnerable points of Red entry into Thailand. There may be no other way out. Added to other recent glowing revelations about our slate's tax advantages, creditable support of public schools, rapid progress with new highway projects and im proved industrial accident records, this should help improve Oregon's image abroad. In time, the truth will out. It could do so in many places, in many minds, all at once. And if it did, there would be a popula tion influx in some degree com parable to that Southern California has attracted with little more than sunshine. Our problem in Oregon could then quickly become one of avoid ing the adverse consequences of too rapid growth. In Lane County, recent census eslimates indicate that we may, even now, be ap proaching the point where stitches must be hurried if we are to weave patterns of community de velopment which cannot be easily snagged and unraveled. Specifically, we must press pro grams of highwa. and Mreet de velopment to match the needs we already have and allow for needs we are sure to have. We must "nail down" all the park areas, school sites and other com munally needed lands we can re serve in the spirit of prudence. We mast move rapidly to solve our drainage and sewage problems, in ways which will facilitate in these critically expensive and critically important public interest fields. In short, as a leading American planner said almost 50 years ago, we must remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that stagger us. And. we must realize the definite possibil ity that we, ourselves, are going to have to do stagserinq thinss simply to keep pace with our own times.