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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamtth Fall, Oregon
Monday, December 21, 1961
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
LAST BLAST
Unemployment Is A Challenge
According to Secretary of Labor W. Wil
lard Wirtz, more productive man-hours were
lost in the first 11 months of 1962 through un
employment than in all the strikes of the past
35 years.
The secretary does not discount the se
riousness of strikes nor the need to settle
them as quickly as possible. Like his predeces
sor, Arthur Goldberg, he has personally inter
vened in labor disputes.
Yet Wirtz believes that the question of
unemployment is a fundamentally more im
portant matter than strikes, spectacular as
some of them may be.
A sluggish economy and the growing use
of automation have kept unemployment hov
ering around 5.5 per cent of the total work
force for several years. The November figure
was unexpectedly swollen by 150,000 teen
agers looking for jobs.
Some of this persistent unemployment is
"hard core," made up of workers who are not
so much unemployed as unemployable. They
would be out of work no matter what the state
of the economy was.
The balance includes, among others, peo
ple whose jobs have disappeared from under
them, whether because of recession or be
cause of technological change. It is these the
nation cannot afford to let become unem
ployable. For their part, some labor leaders have
come up with nothing better than urging a
35-liour work week. While this may be a stop
gap measure during a recession, it would, in
(The New York Times)
At the Paris NATO meeting, Secretary
of Defense Robert S. McNamara again pre
sented to our allies the American objectives:
A' larger number of divisions between the
Alps and the Baltic, and a closely integrated
nuclear deterrent. These objectives are sound,
but the Kennedy administration's achieving
them leaves almost as much to be desired as
did the methods of its predecessors.
The NATO meeting was preceded by an
abrupt notification to Britain our most im
portant ally that Washington was seriously
considering the cancellation of the Skybolt,
the air-launched ballistic missile on which the
Conservative Government had built most of
its military policy and much of its political,
fortune. The meeting itself, therefore, was
overshadowed by this development, a devel
opment that could influence the future his
tory of NATO, and particularly the Anglo
American and Anglo-French relationships.
Moreover, Washington's continued insis
tence that Europe is not doing enough in or
ganizing, training and equipping conventional
forces fell on rather deaf ears, since the basic
case for 30 divisions as "adequate," as com
EDSON
New
By PETER EPSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper EnVrpiUe Attn.
WASHINGTON I MCA I There
will b a siecial session o( the
United Nations General Assem
bly next spring to consider new
ways to finance the world organ
ization's peacekeeping operations.
This has been one o the ma
jor objectives o( American Inr
eign policy at the D.N. It has
been one o the most troublesome
Issues (or the U.S. at the U.N..
particularly as it relates to financ
ing peace-keeping in the Congo
and the Near East.
A 21-natinn committee will try
to work mil new formulas Inr
financing such operation in ad
vance o' the special assembly.
This will be in compliance with
resolution adopted by a "S to 17
vote, with 10 ahstotHions, at the
close of the 12 session.
It endorsed the World Court
opinion that all UN. memleri
must pay their assessments lor
peacekeeping operolions. This is
the key not only to preventing
UN, bankruptcy but also to mak
ing the world organization an ef
. (eclive peace enforcement agency.
The nations which did not vote
for Die General Assembly resolu
tion on financing were in Com
munist countries and Cuba.
France, .loidan, Portugal, Saudi
Arabia, Syria and South Africa.
As of Jan. 1. Ia, 10 countries
will he in arrears on their pay
ment for l!it and 1M2. This
could cause them to lose their
voles In the coming secial ses
sion of the General Assembly,
If they do not pay mmething
on account before it convenes.
Seven are Latin-American coun
the long run, spur the pace of automation all
the more. Manufacturers would naturally seek
ways to overcome the loss of productivity
which would result from having more men
do less work. If they did not, they would have
to raise prices.
Prosperity cannot be built with a plan
that would only spread around available work;
it is achieved by increasing the amount of
work to be done by opening up new indus
tries and new areas of employment.
This is what has happened since the in
dustrial revolution began in America. It is
'happening now. Millions of people are em
ployed making products or performing serv
ices that were unknown 20 years ago.
For many older, workers displaced by
machines or stranded with skills no longer
needed, the government's retraining and re
location programs around the country are
helping make their period of unemployment
one of preparation, not desperation. Industries
and unions also conduct similar retraining
schools.
For teen-agers who find a blank wall fac
ing them after 'they leave school, the need is
not for retraining but for the right training in
the first place. Knowledge and skills, not
muscles and availability, are the basic re
quirements for fruitful employment today.
Unemployment is a challenge to every
one, from grade school teachers to senior
senators. The challenge is being met. The
question is whether it is being met fast
enough.
NATO Turning Point
pared to the present 25, is still not clear to
many Europeans. The willingness of the
United States to "aid" though how much
was never specified the development of a
European nuclear deterrent represented some
advance over the more or less stand-pat nega
tivism of the past. But NATO noted that Mr.
McNamara still in disagreement with the
highly respected Supreme Allied Commander,
Europe, General Lauris Norstad, who is soon
to retire stressed the importance of a sea
borne rather than a Jond-basr-d nuclear de
terrent. The Paris meeting, therefore, really
posed more problems than it solved. NATO
members collectively and individually must
now face realistically in private discussions
what is clearly a turning point in the history
of NATO. A rcstudy of present objectives, a
determination of new ones, and above all a
codification satisfactory to all NATO's 15
members of the basic strategic concept of the
Alliance is essential. Such a study requires
time and contemplation; Washington's past
tactics of polite coercion, illustrated by the
Skybolt episode, will win no friends and in
fluence no people.
IN WASHINGTON
UN Finance
tries Argentina. Bolivia. Cuba.
Guatemala, Haiti. Honduras and
Paraguay. The others are Hun
gary, United Arab Republic and
Nationalist China.
U.N. accounting is so complicat
ed that the tmsition of Russia
is unclear. The Soviet has re
lused to pay assessments for the
Congo, Near East and other spe
cial funds.
Russia was $.12 million in ar
rears for l'.niO and 11. Its as
sessments for 1W2 an about U
per cent of the total U N. budget.
They include, in round numbers,
a regular assessment of $11 mil
lion, a Congo assessment of $l
million and an emergency fund
assessment of $3 million on a full
year basis. The total is around
$tn million, but the record ol
payments or Is not jet
complete.
The Russians would have to be
come more than fun million in ar
rears for Mil and 1W3 to lose
heir vote in I'M. It is not con
sidered likely they will allow this
to happen. They are expected to
pay up enough to prevent being
counted out, even though they do
not cooperate on U N. peace keep
uig operations.
There has boon an increase of
such operations in the past year.
Nrw U.N. "presences" were es
tablished in Western New Guin
ea. Oman. Yemen and on t h e
Thai Cambodian border. The Pal
estine refugee relief opor.itiM,
which was to have ended in l"-3.
was extended tor two more years
with better Arablsraeli cooper.
Uon.
The American idea lor sending
one-man observation missions to
Formula
report on conditions in Portuguese
Angola anil Mozambique was op
posed by both Portugal and the
Afro-Asians. But at the General
Assembly session just ended, the
U S delegation was able to walk
a diplomatic lightwire without an
gering1 either side or falling into
cither camp.
The American delegation's rec
ord on colonialism still one of
the most controversial Issues be
lore the U N was mixed. Many
of the Atro-Asi.'in nations went
along with the U.S. proposal to
get target dates out of a general
resolution supporting freedom
and independence tor all former
colonies. The assembly acted re
sponsibly on Southwest Africa,
not so well on Rhodesia
On an assembly resolution sup
porting the right of any country
to nationalize foreign-owned prop
ernes in its territory, the Ameri
can proposal that there must be
just and prompt compensation
was sotlencd to a provision that
the seizure must he In accord
with international law,
Bui it Is the Congo situation nd
the financing of the U N. peace
keeping operation that presents
the biggest cloud on the U V
horizon. If the U N. pl.in for uni
fication of the Congo succeeds, it
will lie offered as evidence th.u
no single nation and no other
irganization could hae brought
it off.
If th U.S. plan (ails, one al
ternate is that the United Stairs
will have to throw its resources
into the Congo on a preventive
basis to prevent the Russians
dom trying to take it oer as
Uiey did in 10.
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Letters To The
Too Lote?
For the past several weeks I
have watched with mounting
amazement the furor over the
question of "to zone or not
to zone." That there should be
a controversy only indicates a
lamentable lack of knowledge on
the part of the dissenters, aug
mented by their insistent refusal
to concede that one iota of good
ever can come from the com
bined efforts of a great many,
dedicated and fairly intelligent
people. They also are residents
of this same suburban area and
have given unselfishly of their
time without one cent of pay over
the past Uiree years to see if
something can't be done to im
prove the living conditions in our
Miburbs.
Here perhaps is the very basic
root of our troubles; that the
opposition has so very little con
ception of what a beautiful sub
urban area we eould have had by
now had we only started our
planning and had the proier zon
ing forty, or even fifty, years
ago.
II is particularly lamentable
that the opposition's chief objec
tion seems to be to Uie fact that
the members of the Planning Com
mission have had the foresight
to ask help from other communi
ties who have met and solved
Uns problem. And that they have
asked that a paltry few of our
own tax dollars be returned to
us by the federal government to
enable them to hire an all too
slender staff of trained help to
assist in digesting the mountain
of data that has been gathered
in order that we may apply it to,
our own needs. And. in addition,
they object to the fact Uiat it is
proposed that we outlaw our slip
shod methods ol the past which
they so fondly call "private plan
ning," and replace it with a care
fully worked not plan for the fu
lurc, for a controlled growth for
our city of tomorrow.
Even as 1 write these words
1 can hear this vocal minority
.indignantly shouting. "What's the
matter with our .suburbs? They
are just fine the way they are!
We don't want them changed!"
Which, of course, is all right
lor this small minority. Rut I
doubt if most people who live in
the suburbs are too happy with
the wav things are.
Take, lor inslance, Shasta Way,
a thoroughfare to one of our
fa-lest growing heller suburban
Almanac
By I nilrd Press International
Todav is Monday. Pec. 31, the
last day of 12. This is Ne
Year's Ee
The moon is approaching its
first quarter.
The morning stars are Venus
and Mars
The eening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn
Thoe horn on this dsy include
French painter llenty' Mattise, in
1SW.
On this day in history
In 1870. a crowd gathered at
Men'o Park. N .1 . to watch Thorn
as Edison s first public demon
stration of his electric incandes
cent lamp.
In liwi. EIl.s Island in V-v
York Harbor became the receiv
ing station for all immigrants to
the United States entering en the
Atlantic Coast.
A thought lor the d.t Char
Lamb wrote: "Of all sound of all
bells . .most solemn and touch. rg
is tin peal which mis out the
old car,"
areas, where some of the most
vocal of ihe opposition now live.
"What's wrong with it?" they
ak. Plenty. The first full mile
of Shasta Way after crossing the
canal is one long built-in traflic
hazard. It is too narrow to carry
half its present traffic, let alone
the increasing load in years to
come. It is lined with deep ditch
es; pedestrians have to walk in
the street; it is bordered by al
ternate good homes, shacks, bar
ber shops, country grocery stores,
more homes, service stations,
weed covered lots, trailer houses,
good home and more shacks.
Had there been proper planning
forty years ago Shasta Way to
day could be a thing of pride
and joy to both the city and
the people who live there. It would
be at least 100 feet wide with
provisions for four lanes of traf
fic, sidewalks, side access streets
for Uie better shops and Mores
that would be glad to be there
in socially zoned areas, and
far better homes in each of the
separate zones which would have
been set aside for the low, me
dium and high cost areas. And
when various pieces of property
on the street came up for sale,
as all property does sooner or
later. Uie owners would be safe in
the knowledge that they would
get one hundred cents on the
dollar of fair market value instead
of the haggled prices which now
so manv of them have to settle
for.
And if these lovers of "private
planning" care to see another
choice example of what lack of
controlled growth can blossom
into, I suggest Uiey take a leisure
ly drive out Altamont Drive.
Here's one of Uie more choice ex
amples of Private Planning in
these United States, an area where
the owners of Uie tew remaining
pood medium priced houses are
lortunato if tlicy get seventy-live
cents on the dollar for what the
same house would get them in
most other places. The rest are
lucky if they get half that. Note
particularly any one of Uie several
auto wrecking yards and junk
sluips which have been started up
in some vacant lot, in the midst of
what once' were some very de
sirable homes. Then see how as
the years sped on and these
blights continued to spread Uieir
cancerous growth until the whole
neighborhood became, to put it
politely, "eligible for clearance
and suburban renewal." Tins, an
area which I recall, not so many
years ago, as being bright, neat,
clean and attractive, one which
we were proud to show visitors
from out of town
And as you drie on around,
swing down Summers 1-ine and
see Ihe blight which already has
started to creep in there under
Ihe banner of Private Planning
Take a good look. too. at the area
in the icinity ot the rinve-in
theaUe. These people had every
right in the world to build their
theatre Uiere when they did.
Rut now Hut the town has grown
out around them the theatre with
its noise, traffic and contusion has
become a source of continual n
ulalion to everyone who lives
within sight of it and an admit
ted nuisance to anvone who owns
a home on any of the access roads
leading into it And even the the
atre people, now. are at a dis
advantage. Had there been zon
ing and an area set aside lor de
velopments of that kind they still
would have room to expand today,
to add the additional recreational
facilities such as bowling alleys,
amusement devices and Uie family
recreational areas which are prov
ing so prolitahle sideline for
drive-in theatre in cities where
this need tor f iture expansion
Editor
had been seen and provided for.
Then, go a little further out
Summers Lane and turn down
towards Peterson School. You w ill
find that you have driven past
hundreds of fine new homes, with
more new homes still building.
But stop just short of the new
'Catholic church and take a look
to the south. There, only a couple
of hundred yards off this rapidly
growing street, is a large collec
tion of old weather-beaten pens
and buildings. That, my friends, is
a slaughterhouse. Fortunately,
for the owners of these new homes
it has been out of operation these
last couple or three years. But
only recently it was advertised for
sale on bids by the bankruptcy
referee. And unless Ihe zoning or
dinance goes into effect before
someone buys it and starts oper
ation, there is not a thing in
God's green world to keep it from
operating forevermore. with its
fragrant odor of manure spread
ing throughout the neighborhood,
and the peace and quiet being
disrupted by the noise and con
fusion of stock Uucks and freight
trucks coming and going, and the
cries of cattle and pigs being
brought in for slaughter, filling
the neighborhood with their pleas
ant sounds once more.
Then swing on around and come
back down Homedale. This is
another very fine residential
neighborhood. Except, that is. for
one of the largest logging equip
ment repair yards in the state be
ing nestled right in amongst a
group of $20,000 and $30,000 homes.
Fortunately, the present owner
has done everything he can to
keep it as neat as possible. But.
let's face it: it's still a major
repair yard w ith all the noise and
confusion and unsightlines that
must be a part of even the best
run yards. And wnat happens next
if the present owner should
sell out to someone who doesn't
care? And most repair yard
owners don't.
I wonder if the most militant
of the objectors to the proposed
new zoning knows that within the
last month a local entrepreneur
has made inquires into the pos
sibility of buying a 20 acre tract
of land only a very short dis
lance from her own very f i n'e
home up in the vicinity of Moyina
Heights? For what purpose? The
operation of a public trap shoot,
a very fine example of free think
ing private planning at its best.
It is a good site, well laid out
for the purpose. And the stray
buckshot wouid not quite reach
the cows ami chickens and sheep
POTOMAC
FEVER
Tokyo chokes on smog for a
week. In Japan, they call Uie
stuff Los Angeles incense.
Defense Bos McNamara sends
military inspectors to the Congo.
Oh well, they gotta go sonicwheie
and he couldn't gel them into
Cuba.
Real reason next year's federal
budset will jump several billions:
JFK figures that when the direct
phone line to Ihe Kremlin is in
stalled, ol' buddy Khrushchev
will start reversing th charics.
Economy deal: One mother sa J
she has to pay the kids to be
good, but their father is good for
nothing
JFK has but two choices in 14.
He can either run on his record
s'r Vaughn Meader's.
FLETCHER KNEBEL
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Not long ago. I look out nine
7-year-old boys for a birthday
parly given by my son. All the
boys behaved well but the din
of their voices was deafening.
Why do young children, on Ihe
whole, talk so loudly, and seem
incapable of communicating be
low the level of a shout? Part
of il, of course, is due to the exu
berance of youth, the superflu
ous energy that must be d i s
charged in physical motions and
exercise of the vocal cards.
But there is another, and per
haps larger, part. Young children
are not used to being listened
1,0 hy adults. They have to repeat
and repeat, until finally they
adopt the habit of shouting to
be heard at all. Few adults really
"listen" to what a child is try
ing to. say.
I came home from work Uie oth
er day, tired and a little cross,
'and my boy accosted me enthu
siastically with a report of some
chemical experiment he had been
making. I nodded absent-mindedly
as he told me about the chemi
cals he had used, and the results
he had achieved. But I wasn't
really listening until he repeated
it the third time, in shout-language.
Then 1 told him not to
be so' loud.
Very little children, of 2 or 3.
are just learning to communicate.
Their words are garbled and im
precisebut Uiey know what they
mean. If adults make little ef
fort to understand this embryonic
language, then the children sense
a kind of "psychic deafness" in
us and-raise their voices to com
pensate. We can see this mechanism
working more clearly when we
are addressing a foreigner in our
language. If he doesn't grasp
what we are saying, we speak
more loudly as if the physical
volume alone will get the message
through. Most of us address for
eigners as if they were deaf and
dumb, as if sheer force of tone
will pierce their minds.
To children, all adults are for
eigners of a sort, in Uiat we do
not readily grasp what they are
which she keeps in her back yard,
bul the shoot would be within
the easy earshot of not only her
place, but of all the many other
$20,000 to $50,000 homes which
rapidly are covering that particu
lar section of foothills.
And if anyone thinks this is a
trivial or laughing matter, please
drive out to Wocus on any sunny
Sunday afternoon for morning or
evening, tool when they are hold
ing a shoot out Uiere and listen
to the racket. Or even on days
that are not so sunny. They were
at it again last -weekend, as they
are almost every week of the year
which thdy have a perfect right
to do. as there was no zoning
when they first built there either.
But the inevitable tragic result
has been Uiat what otherwise well
could have developed into one ot
the nicest medium priced residen
tial areas around Klamath Falls
has been condemned forevermore
to a third rate existence where it
is difficult even to give a house
away, much less sell it for a de
cent cash price. Just one more ex
ample of "private planning."
which is actually another name
for "get in there and do whatever
you want first; to hell with
the other people."
I could cite still more examples,
until Uie newspaper ran out of
space, but these few should be
enough to bring people's attention
back to the fact that this matter
of zoning is not a fight against
some "foreign ideology" to pro
tect our "constitutional rights."
It is an attempt of private citi
zens to band together and stop
the more reckless of our neigh
bors from doing unnecessary and
harmful things which tear down
our neighborhood, destroy our
property rights and our rights
as citizens to live peacefully in
our own community.
And last, but not least, if the
oppuiicr,, chief battle - cry is
that wc must crusade jgainsl zon
ing because it is a foreign ideol
ogy. I wonder if they hae ccr
stopped to think that George Wash
ington 'or was it Thom.is Jot
fcrson' sent to Paris (or a French
man. LEnlant, In lay out Wash
ington, DC, with the result
that it is the most beautiful capi
to city m the world today, spoiled
only by the tlwusands of acres of
slums on the outskirts where Pri
'vate Planning took over And if
it is foreign ideologies they are
against w hy don t tney take up a
crusade against those several and
very basic fundamentals in our
constitution that were borrowed
directly from that English docu
ment known as the Magna Char
la? And why don't 'hey campamn
against the Ten Commandments
that were handed down to us by
a tribe of wandering Jews1 And
somehow, too. 1 seem to le under
the impression that Christmas,
and even Christianity itself, came
to us from some small country
over on the eastern end of the
Mediterranean Which easily qual
ities it for the distinction of
being a foreign ideology
I wonder. Are they a -a in-; that,
tea?
Don Sloan
trying to say, because we are
tired or inattentive or worried
or preoccupied with our own
problems. And since they cannot
speak our "language," they quick
ly learn to raise their voices to
command attention, to repeat, and
sometimes to whine.
Of the four essential human arts
reading, writing, speaking and
listening the art of listening is
surely the most rare and diffi
cult. Even in business and the
professions, 'the great majority oi
executives and doctors and law
yers do not know how to listen
i with the "third car" I to their
employes and patients and clients.
Shouting is the way in which chil
dren criticize their parents for
lazy listening.
LETTERS
TO THE
. EDITOR
Temperance
All of us in Klamath County
should be grateful that people
are showing an interest in public
affairs such as zoning, the dis
trict attorney, deerslaying and
the schools. Many have been
apathetic too long about these
and many more important com
munity affairs. Controversy is
good for a community. No prog
ress is ever made without dis
agreement. Democracy is built
upon differences of opinion.
There are three attitudes, how
ever, that can destroy the bene
fits of controversy. The first is
cowardice, the unwillingness to
stand up and be counted. Our na
tion contains such a variety of
people, that we tend to avoid
arguments at all costs. When we
do so. the costs are too great
because we lose our freedom by
knuckling under to an organized
minority or to the loudest vocal
chords. Silence can be yellow, not
golden.
The second destructive attitude
is to seek, consciously or uncon
sciously, for private advantage or
privilege against the common
good.
The third is. Uiat when we dis
agree we become hostile toward
the person with whom we dis
agree, and attempt to knock
down his argument by attacks on
his integrity, his person, or his
motives. Could we dare to hope
that aroused citizens could learn
to respect each other's intentions
and motives even when disagree
ing thoroughly with ideas?
Just for the record. I am
strongly in favor of the zoning
principle, even though as a home
owner I personally could stand to
lose property value from zoning.
There is nothing unconstitutional
or un-American about govern
mental control to preserve my
neighbors' freedom. The Ameri
can way says that my freedom
ends where my neighbor's free
dom (and his noseli begins. Our
argument really should be with
specific features of the zoning or
dinance, not with whether or not
to have zoning.
I am in favor of the present
district attorney. Having worked
closely with him, I have personal
knowledge of his integrity and his
intelligence and his concern for
improved law enforcement. He
cannot be bought. What more do
we want? Experience? We don't
pay enough for that. Experience
comes with years. Most D.A.s be
gin with no experience.
The Oregon Game Commission
is human. It makes mistakes in
judgment. So do hunters. Biologi
cal control is a highly specialized
science, developed by men all
over the United States who have
had years of interest and experi
ence in forest and lield. Natural
control disease and predators
lokes does and bucks equally.
Why go against nature and take
only bucks?
Our school problems will be
solved more easily when all of us
quit thinking about how much
this is going to cost us personally
and begin to think about what is
the best education for our chil
dren. A reorganization for a county-wide
school district, grades
1-12, is certainly a step in the
right direction, and I believe that
he 6-3-3 system has proved it
self nation-wide a valuable.
Let's keep on disagreeing, but
let's also get more facts and less
emotion. Above all, let s begin to
trust each other as normal, hard
working, thoughtful fellow citi
zens, each atic-mp'.ing to develop
the best future possibilities of
Klarrith County.
Lamg W. Sibbet.
Oligarchy?
I have been reading all the let
ters you have printed regarding
zoning with amusement. Both p;o
and con opinions seem quite
prejudiced, and my personal ob
servation is: zoning dors not seem
to be the issue.
1 have concluded that Uie basic
question appears to be Are the
majority going to elect' to have
zoning, or are we becoming an
o'.;garchic s'ale and county''
Herbert Hanelme
?HT Lcshore Drive!
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