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HERALD AM) NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore.
Thursday, November 1, 1963
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Elect Bob Chandlei
One of the strange situations of the pres
ent campaign is the absence of incumbent
Congressman Al Ullman from activity in the
Klamath and Lake County areas. It is possible
that he considers that he has a safe lead in the
southern part of his district and there is no
necessity for working in this area.
If so, Mr. Ullman is due for a surprise.
Bob Chandler, his Republican opponent,
is a serious, hard-working candidate who is
pulling out all the stops to make himself
known to the voters in the district. Chandler
is determined to win the election, and if effort
has anything to do with results, his determina
tion should pay off.
Bob Chandler has other qualities than
determination and a zest for work. He is in
telligent, aggressive, open-minded and devot
ed to the philosophy that a man should, in ,
some degree, at least, be able'to chart his own
course in life, without paternalistic govern
ment interference at whatever level.
At the same time, Chandler is not one of
those who feels that there is no need for
consideration of the less fortunate, and he
shows a considerate, human approach to so
cial problems that is above reproach.
Some idea of his attitudes can be attained
through some of the statements he has made
in his far-ranging, hard - hitting campaign.
Some samples:
FARM POLICY: "I would favor return
ing agriculture to what is basically a free
economy, subject to only farmer-operated and
farmer-imposed controls to maintain quality
and avoid excessive swings in the market."
CUBA: "I favor stronger action in the
Cuba situation. I do not think the American
people want Khrushchev to control Russian
missile bases located within a few seconds of
flight of our own coastline."
GOVERNMENT: "I do not believe the
government owes me a living. I do think it
owes me a chance to make a living."
LUMBER: "I advocate at least five means
of effecting a cure in the ills of the lumber
industry fl) immediate action under Buy
American provisions; (2) imposition of a sur
tax, tariff or import quota; (3) changes in
marketing policies by federal agencies; (4)
consultation with community groups in arriv
ing at solutions to timber problems; (5) con
tinuation of a promotion program to restore
some of lumber's lost share of the building
materials."
FISCAL POLICY: "The only excuse for
a national deficit budget, is some kind of
grave emergency, such as war. In other times
. . . there is no excuse for continual deficit
spending and for adding large sums to the
national debt."
These viewpoints are quite in contrast
to those of the incumbent Congressman. Mr.
Ullman is considered the darling of the Ameri
cans for Democratic Action and other left
wing national groups. He has a perfect, 100
per cent voting record by ADA standards, as
he also has with the Industrial Union Depart
ment of the AFL-CIO. He has backed the New
Frontier of the Kennedy administration free
spenders with unqualified support, and there
is no evidence at hand which indicates that
he ever voted against a bill that called for
federal spending, for whatever cause. His
record proves, too, that he is an aggressive ad
vocate of federal government interference at
every imaginable level. He should not be re
turned to Washington in 1963.
We are hopeful and urge that the
voters of the Second District will give Bob
Chandler a chance to show how it is possible
for a Congressman to effectively represent
the interests of his constituents in Washington.
Fair Apportionment
(Medford Mail Tribune)
Measure No. 0 on the Nov. 6 election
ballot is worded as follows:
"LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Purpose:
Changes legislative apportionment formula.
Creates 30 permanent representative districts.
Permits enlargement of Senate to 35. En
larges House to 65 or more. Provides for en
forcement." This proposal has been discussed several
times in these columns before. We support
its adoption because we believe it to be a fair
compromise between the "federal plan,"
whereby areas have representation without
regard lo population, and the "pure popula
tion" plan, whereby population has represen
tation without regard to area.
What this proposal would do would be
to insure that no major area of the state
would he wholly deprived of representation,
which could conceivably happen under the
"pure population" plan.
It resembles the federal plan only insofar
as each state of the union is entitled to a
minimum of one Representative, no matter
how small its population. The proposal would
set up 30 legislative districts, and guarantee
them a minimum of one representative. All
other legislative seats, both House and Senate,
would be apportioned on a population basis.
Arc not the people of tfeei vast reaches
of eastern Oregon, scattered) iajl feji as they
may he, entitled' jtjttoe'prMgfet'ivicriey can
have some hope cPKBowIng' .fndSltiiig to?
We thinki'.so. Thai, is wh.1, tM's 'plan would
accomplish'.' tffejjjijisc, tA'vvery h like
the presents laiFwjr'' apcrvtifenrogiill;.
We'stipport, aii'd'ai'v.-Kys Ijiiili supported,
the ideal situation 4Tii,crJiiPB, one vote,"
when it is po's'siWie to at'Iiefe it Practically,
however, it is not, a ! as there are coun
ties and districts used in apportioning repre
sentation. The only way that "one man, one vote"
could be achieved in Oregon would be for the
entire legislature to be elected from the state
at large and what a mess that would be!
Measure No. 9, in our view, is the fairest
that can bo devised fairest to all parts of the
state. We recommend a "ves" vote on No. 9.
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THESE DAYS .
WhatlsABIockade?
By GKOHliK E. SOKOI.SKV
In international relations, their
Is no Mich formality ns a quar
antine except for hoof and month
lisV.se, $n':injo nd 'imilwr
abominations. What President
Ket nedy did wis to Institute a
blockade o( C'uh.i and let ns call
a spade a ;:.!,.
A blockade is an act of war,
but there have been different
methods and different attitudes
almut it. For instance in 1!1I4, the
State Department held:
". . . The existence o! war
between foreign governments does
not suspend trade or commerce
between this country and those at
war. This right to continue to
trade with belligerents is upheld
by the well-recognized principles
of international law. . . ."
One of the most important
amenities of a blockade is Uiat
there must he notice. This un
doubtedly explains the pains that
President Kennedy took to make
the blockade of Cuba known lo
the world. The rule on the sub
ject is:
"1 a neutral vessel attempting
to enter a blockaded port has
had notice of the blockade in any
way, she shall he captured and
.sent in for adjudication; b u t
should formal notice not have
been given, the rule of construc
tive knowledge arising Ii-om no
toriety should be construed in n
mvner Mhe-s! to the neutral."
A blockade must be limited lo
the ports of the enemy. In the
case of Cuba, there was no war.
but a threat of war; no enemy,
but the assumption that a foreign
power had taken control ol Cuba
for inimical purposes. Yet that
foreign power, Soviet Russia, had
not been declared to be an ene
my. At most, Uie President had
pronounced its officials to lie li
ars, but a liar is not necessarily
an enemy. This explains the use
of the term quarantine for this
particular blockade.
In May 1015 ". . . The Depart
ment (,( State instructed the Am
bassador in Home te inform the
Italian Foreign Ollice that it ap
peared that i!; coasts of a non
combatant had been declared
blockaded and that the Adriatic
had virtually been declared n
closed sea; that in the opinion of
the t'niled States there was no
authority in international law or
usage for tins action. . . ."
The United Slates has, in ellect.
tn the present blockade, shut the
Caribbean off from the rest ol
the world. But at this time, such
weapons exist as the world has
not known Ix-forc and it Is essen
tial thnt this country defend itself
from the use of tilese weapons
against her.
Heretofore, it had been as
sumed tlv.t the Russians pos
sessed weapons which they could
employ from their own soil to
damage th? t inted States. How
ever, it appears that the Russians
need to depend uxn weapons out
side of Russia to bury us. They
have therefore established a base
90 miles from our coast with tlitf
object of tiring weajHms at us to
destroy our principal cities.
This being so, the I'nited Slates
would indeed be governed by
morons net to take strong meas
ures to deleml this country from
such losses. The only pos
sible criticism of the President's
action is that he waited overly
long, hut no man wants to bring
on a nuclear war it there aie
other ways. Neither the Presi
dent nor anyone cNe could trll
in advance what the effect of a
blockade would be.
It is interesting to note that
when during World War 1. the
Allied governments proposed to
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Letters To The Editor
Benefits
Many persons have asked us
for an example showing the need
for the degree of local repre
sentation which will be assured
by the passage of ballot Measure
Number 9 for legislative appor
tionment. Through your newspa
per I'd like to give such an ex
ample. First, do officers of labor or
ganizations, headquartered as
they are in Portland, truly repre
sent their members in upstate
communities? Their recommen
dations are often contrary to the
best interest of their members in
small communities.
But does this mean that all
union members will be best
served?
As one of 350 growers operating
a cannery in Hood River that
processes 25 per cent of Oregon's
Bartlett pears each year, I am
interested in marketing our fruit
profitably and in doing so pro
viding hundreds of jobs for local
people. But here's what is hap
pening. Returns from Bartletts
for four consecutive years have
been less than that paid by Cali
fornia based canners.
We cannot meet their kind of
competition because we don't
have the diversity of pack.
When they lose on Bartletts, and
they do, they are able to absorb
that loss by making it up on
some other line outside of pears.
We only pack a few apples and
by-products, so our loss is direct.
Impatient with a continuing
loss operation, can we continue
indefinitely? The answer is ob
vious. Should we cease operating,
a local payroll of $600,000 an
nually will be lost!
Will the "labor bosses" think
of a situation like this when ask
ing the Legislature to increase
unemployment compensation ben
efits? They've never done so and
it is highly unlikely in the fu
ture. That's why working men
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Purely Personal Prejudices:
The people who know what they
want are able to travel in a
straight line and either achieve
or miss their goal; the people
who don't know what they want
are able to drift aimlessly
through their lives; but it is the
people who want opposite and ir
reconcilable things at the same
time who can never be satisfied
with fate. (This, by the way.
is why most public performers
are perpetually discontented: they
want both notoriety and privacy
in equal measure.)
1 think H Is not wiUiout some
deep significance that man
stands halfway In size between
the atom and the universe
that, In physical terms, each
atom within us bears the same
ratio in size to our body ns our
body bears lo the total uni
verse; thus, man Is truly "In
(he middle,"
of creation.
the very fulcrum
blockade Communist Russia, the
Stale Department held:
". . . A blockade before a
stale of war exists is out of he
question. It couid not Vie rec
ognized by this Government."
In l2 it is recognized that a
peculiar stale of war does exist
between Soviet Russia and the
I'nited States, the "Cold War."
It is a war for position which
does not include belligerency. As
such a war is unknown in tech
nical international relations, it
has to be conducted w ithout rules.
There is a war, but no enemy in
a technical sense. Perhaps .lolm
Koster Dulles best described it
as on the brink of war and a
new word, brinkmanship, came
into the language. The fact is
that it has been constant Irom
about I'.MT-ltHa. It has been nerve
racking, costly, and has imped
ed the liquidation of World War
II. It has been a horrible experi
ence in history.
Thus, il the Cold War can ex
ist, a blockade can be employed
without a declared enemy. But
if, to be punctiliously right, we
need an enemy, we cin call lum
Soviet Russia.
If you don't return home from
a foreign trip with the feeling that
your own country has some odd
habits and peculiar customs, then
the trip has not "broadened" you
it has merely flattened you.
Whenever we have an argu
ment with ourselves, the side that
usually loses is the one that,
shouts, "You shouldn't!" and the
side that usually wins is the one
that whispers. "You deserve it."
Not to suggest that soft
voiced people cannot he stu
pid, but it Is generally true
that the louder the voice the
lower the level of Intellect.
Husbands who tend lo be ex
tremely critical of their wives in
public are often quite dependent
upon them in private; and the
public treatment is simply a way
of expressing resentment of the
private dependence.
No pacifist or idealist has been
ab!e to say, more tersely or con
vincingly, what Napoleon said in
summing up his career of con
quest and collapse: "The more I
study the world, the more I am
convinced of the inability of brute
force to create anvthing dur
able." The oj,dinary people are
duped by their simplicity, and
the extraordinary people are
duped hy their sophistication;
raeh type falls in the direction
of Its own special weakness,
which It thinks tn be a strength.
Women are unjustly aciv.ywVwK
babbling a great deal, (.!' tEWs
how the feminine proBSs of "Stiic
works; unlike a man, a woman,
cannot tell what she thinks.
she hears what she says Che
male muid is an exquisitely tfigi
nccied "feedback" sslcm.
Krnm birth until 25 or so. we
shae our lives: from 25 to 50 or
so, our lives shape us. and we
spend the years (rem 50 until
death wondering how this curious
reversal came lo be.
and women in Hood River need
a local representative in the Leg
islature. Our people are no different
. than people anywhere else. They
are interested in employment,
not unemployment compensation.
A further increase might well
be the straw that breaks this
camel's back.
This example undoubtedly ex
ists in many communities
throughout the state.
Ballot Measure No. 9 will es
tablish a degree of local repre
sentation that will consider all
factors, including the diverse in
terests that exist between "big
labor" and local labor.
Working men and women, un
ion or non-union, will best be
served by voting "Y'es" for
Measure No. 9.
George Annala,
0 Secretary,
Citizens Committee For
Representative Government.
Choice
More Morse?
Do the voters of Oregon plan
ning to cast their vote for Morse
realize these truths:
J. F. Kennedy tolerates him but
does not want him.
He gluts the pages of the Con
gressional record with his speech
es delivered to nearly empty
chambers.
He was personally responsible
for the loss to Oregon of 'the Re
gional Postoffice at Portland.
The things he has done for
Oregon have been by and large
in the form of Federal Projects,
which can only raise the taxpay
ers burden.
His clever tongue, his double
talk, which is amusing to the vot
ers of Oregon, has done untold
harm in the shaping of foreign
policy.
The books published to bring
people the truth about his rec
ord in contrast to what he. him
self, tells them, and which it has
been said he'd give a lot to he
able lo suppress, he has found
words to twist to what he hopes
will be lor his own behalf. He
has said of them: "If 1 was as
bad as the opposition paints me
I'd be behind bars." This is a
strange statement coming from
an ex-law prolessor. There is noth
ing in these books to convict him
of criminal acts, but plenty to
prove his bungling ineffectiveness.
He is even using bis title as a
"Tiger" to his own advantage, he
surmises.
The vast amount of publicity he
sees to it tli.it he sets is piooi
positive of his hollowness as a
senator. Ex-President Truman has
stated in his memoirs that the
really good congressmen are the
ones whose names you seldom see
in the newspapers, who are in
their oflices hard at work on the
business they were elected to do.
The people of Oregon deserve
better than "1-Mc-My Morse."
I'nandcr is mv choice.
F.leanor Thomson,
lilv, Ore..
Assurance
9llo1 Measure No. !) has been
; TjV'eo! on the presumption that
'tff'A'-iies the principle: one per
w'VC. or vote
I call to your attention the (act
a .slate Representative is elected
for a two-year term. This will in
clude one session of the legis
lature of approximately four
months. The balance of a legis
lator's term is spent in his home
district.
Serving the people of my dis
trict in matters pertaining to
slate government will require
Mrs. Frank Krok was inducted
as a Den Mother last Friday. It
was an occasion, I'm sure, that
will not be forgotten by the youths
and the adults who were accord
ed the privilege of being pres
ent Mrs. Krok had written a let
ter to the editor before the meet
ing, asking that it be published.
I got mixed up in the dates, and
held it for Sunday publication,
thinking the meeting was to be
held Oct. 29. Un fact, it could
be said that I wasn't "thinking"
at all. There's nothing in her let
ter that would lead one to make
such a silly mistake). Well. I
know I can't make up what was
done. So I'll just do the best I
can. Here is what Mrs. Krok
wrote to me, hoping that it would
appear before the meeting, so her
feelings would be adequately ex
pressed. I'm sorry I've done Mrs.
Krok such a disservice, and hope
that she will forgive and give us
another chance.
"On October 2fl, 1938, at the
age of 22, I arrived for the
first time on the shores of this
great American country. Being
shy, and not wanting to get in
the road of anyone, I remained
in my cabin until my name was
called lo depart. Then leaving
the ship, I tried Ifi step on
American soil very softly, feel
ing unwerthy of it so very un
worthy! "Then, proceeding on my trip
on a train from New York lo
Chicago, I found everyone so gen
tle, so concerned over the wel
fare of a person entirely unknown
to them. I was struck with the
generosity and thoughtfulness of
those around me.
"Looking out the train window,
I thought to myself: 'How could
anyone ask for more than to live
in a country like this?'
"From my childhood I was
taught to work hard and love God
and to love my neighbor which
means everyone. This knowledge
and training, it seems to me. to
fit in with the pattern of require
ments and urgings of the Amer
ican Constitution.
"Hard work brought security
for the future. Love of God
hrought peace of mind, purpose
for living, and reason for suf
fering. Love of my neighbor
made me free from any social,
racial or religious prejudice. I
have learned that a small hu-
man heart li capable fit lor
liiK love for the whole world.
"This knowledge and this phil
osophy I want to share with the
youngsters of America, so they
will carry on when I am gone.
This is why I have chosen to be
a Den Mother!"
Well, with such a philosophy,
I'm certain that the youths in
Mrs. Krok's group will be unusu
ally prepared 10 make a contri
bution lo the country when they
reach adulthood. As for Uie rest
of us: We might reflect on the
sentiments of Mrs. Krok for a
few minutes and determine il we
have the same purposefulness, the
same loyalty, the same humility,
and same love for country and
people that can prompt us to
lead more useful lives and stand
ready to defend the principles
and greatness, of America.
This guy should have lived in
Klamath County for a while:
The Southern preacher was try
ing to get the petty racke
teer to do some soul-searching.
He asked, "In time of trial,
what do you think can give
you the mpst comfort?" The
racketeer proudly answered,
"That's easy, Suh. Ah'd say a
hung jury!"
The Eugene Register - Guard
carried some comment the other
day regarding one Elder Ray
mond Cronk, the Eugene man
who went to jail in Portland be
cause he got confused on Har
bor Drive. He refused to pay a
fine, contending that he should
have received only a warning
ticket and that his stint in jail
might serve to publicize a great
civil wrong Harbor Drive.
Well, I don't know what the
circumstances were involving Mr.
Cronk. I remember vividly,
though, one day when Ellen and
I were headed out of Portland on
Harbor Drive and I got tangled
some way. To make a long story
short, I really goobered things
up, and we were involved in about
three traffic transgnpssions before
we got straightened out by a very
helpful and courteous Portland
policeman. Some days it pays lo
he ralher stupid-looking, I guess,
hecause he figured I was just a
poor old country boy, and after
citing a couple of freeway laws,
he guided us lo the proper street
and lane, and we were on o u r
merry way without ticket, or oth
er unpleasant memento.
WASHINGTON REPORT ,
lerican Prisoners
Held In Cuban Jails
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
The die was cast in October.
1939. A revolution of Cuban patri
ots was now betrayed. The gov
ernment of Fidel Castro was
without a doubt, a Communist
regime.
Maj. Pedro Diaz Lanz, chief of
the Cuban Air Force, had fled,
charging ,a Communist take-over.
The man who made the revo
lution. Maj. Hubert Matos, had
been arrested for "conspiracy"
when he protested the Castro sell
out. President Manuel I'rrutia Llco
had been fired for activities that,
said Castro, "bordered on trea
son." The Ministry of National De
fense was no more, replaced
by the Revolutionary Armed
Forces, headed by Raul Castro.
Haiti had been invaded.
But the men who made Ameri
can policy, here in Washington,
could not see. They insisted that
Fidel Castro could be won to
the side of the West. They in
eluded William Wieland. w h n
told friends privately, m 195S.
that Castro was a Communist.
It is pertinent to review the
story of John V. Martino, an
American businessman recently
released from a Castro prison.
The story apparently did not
make the major newspapers of
New Y'ork or Washington or Chi
cago or St. Louis or Louisville or
San Francisco.
U appeared to my knowledge,
only in the Fort Lauderdale
from three to eight days a month
II will require hundreds of miles
of travel and numerous long dis
tance telephone calls. The same
is true for citizens in my dis
trict enacting me on problems
dealing, 8h state government.
Ballot Measure No. 9 will as
sure citizens in less populated
aieas the service of an elected
otficial in dealing with the com
plex problems of government.
Don McKinnis.
State Representative,
24th District,
I'mon and Wallowa Counties.
iFla.i News, in an exclusive ac
count by William A. Mullen. He
tells the story' of Martino, ar
rested in October, 1959, by tha
militiamen of Fidel Castro.
Martino first went to Cuba in V
July, 1958, on business. An elec
tronics specialist, he journeyed
south from Atlantic City, N.J., to
install an electronics security sys
tem in the gambling casino at the
Deauville Hotel in Havana. He
returned the next year, after the
fall ol Fulgencio Batista, to see
t he director of Havana's Oriental
Park Race Track to install new
totalizator equipment for parimu
tuel betting.
Martino, who had spoken out
against Communism in the U.S.,
was arrested in a Communist
trap on July 23, 1959. Machine
gun toting militiamen seized him
and he was charged with plot
ting to burn sugar cane and run
ning guns to anti-Castro parti
sans. The charges were ludicrous.
On Oct. 5, 1959, Martino was
convicted by a military tribunal
and sentenced to prison A prison
jailer, an anli-Uatmumst, spir
ited him to me American Km
' " v, rather than to Principe
in.
re an official, who is al-
cd to have refused to intercede
in his behalf, reportedly told
him that he should go lo prison
for the sake of American-Cuban
relations. According to Martino.
he was told that if he went to
prison he would he free the next
morning. He continues:
"I went personally to Principe
Prison ami stayed there until my
release on Oct. 7, 19ii2 "
He was released then because
of badly failing health.
Martino says that 20 Americans
are among 100,000 prisoners now
in Cuban jails. He says he knows
the names of each Yankee but
will not talk of them "because
they would be placed in jeop
ardy." "They are all in jail for the
same reason." he says. "They
are Americans. Any American in
Cuba is in bad shape, not with
the Cuban people but with Uie
present regime."