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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Oregon
Tuesday, January I. 1913
EDSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
Cuba Ransom Reveals
Problems Of Castro
Zoning Hassle Prompts Clarification
It would appear from our letters to the
editor, and from comment from citizens
that' there are several principles at stake In
the present hassle about zoning in county
areas.
While it might be possible to discuss the
areas of principle involved, it is doubtful that
anyone can present logical argument against
the results that can be and generally are
attained when zoning is effected.
The Herald and News is firmly committed
to the principle that zoning is good. We would
qualify this only to comment that it must be
properly effected.
While numerous letters to the editor have
been published without comment, we feel con
strained at this time to set straight some of the
obvious distortions and erroneous conclusions -that
have crept into the discussion both in
the letters and in other public forums. We
have no desire to become argumentative in
this presentation. We are certain that well
meaning citizens will welcome presentation of
the facts regardless of their viewpoint in any
area of discussion., It is in this light that we
take up point-by-point discussion in these col
ums some of the issues involved and some of
the questions raised in the controversy up to
this point. Not all of this material can be con
tained in this one article, so other points will
be taken up as we go along. Probably this
can be done best in a sort of informal question
and answer style of format.
To start with, we'll take up the recent ,
letter pointing up the difficulties encountered
in Springfield, Ore., which actually was not
a zoning situation, but concerned urban re-'
newal two entirely different things.
1. The claim is made that zoning and
urban renewal are the same thing. Not so.
Zoning and urban renewal are two entirely
different things. They are authorized under
separate laws, rim by separate boards, ini
THESE DAYS
Auto Production Hiked
By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
In 1055 Detroit sold more than
7.1 million cars. The following
year the automobile market '
dropped way off and the motor
manufacturer! have been shell
shocked ever since.
" So battle-weary and cautious
have they been that, when the car
sales figures for 1062 promised to
J-each seven million for the first
time in seven years, the immedi
ate response to such unaccus
tomed Rood fortune was to predict
a drop-back for 11H13. Just re- ,
cently. however, some of the more
adventurous Detroit bigwigs have
rliircd to veer to the side of op
timism, American Motors Presi
dent Roy Ahernethy litis predict
ed tnat seven million cars will
be sold in 13 making the first
two hack-tn-wnrk soven-million-car
years in history. And Chairman
Frederick Ronner ol General Mo
tors has also put on some rose
colored spectacles when looking
at Uie sales prospects for Uic
new year.
This column has no business
trying to function as a market
tip sheet, but it would like to go
on record right now In saying
that, barring a drastic political-cum-military
disaster, Detroit will
never sell fewer than seven mil
lion cars In any year of the fu
ture. The seven-million floor is
implicit In the statistics. It is also
implicit In the new way of life
of the American people, who are
THEY
SAY...
We have words th.it mislead,
such as "free enterprise" or
"capitalism" or "socialism " The
sslcm . , . which we call capi
talism is very close In what oth
ers call socialism. Holh woids
should be thrown out .
Dr. Charles Frankel, Colum
bia 1'nlvrrslty pmlrssor of
philosophy.
When lli federal government
gets behind it and everybody
knows It is absolutely fair, it
isn't gambling.
Harry 8. Truman, advocating
a national lottery to help pay
off the public debt.
It false heroics to put your
foot down aid your siren on, lump
ing everyone will stand back and
admire you. .
iJ W. Stevens of the Inter
national Assn. of Fire Chiefs,
slating that more firemen die
In trallle accidents on the way
to lire than In fighting fires.
tiated by separate agencies, and are created
for different purposes. Zoning has for its goal
the preservation of property values and the
direction of orderly community growth. The
purpose of urban renewal is to eliminate
blighted areas.
2. Springfield did not vote out its zoning
ordinance. The city of Springfield was zoned
Sept. 15, 1947, and is zoned today. There
has been no attempt as far as we'know to do
away with zoning. The writer has consider
able acquaintance with former Mayor Ed
Harms, and it is our impression that Spring
field has attempted for the past couple of
years to establish a planning office; they
presently receive planning services from the
Lane County planning agency.
3. It is claimed that zoning requirements
are such that they state the kind of material
an owner would have to use in constructing a
building. Not so. The zoning ordinance con
tains no provisions as to the type of materials
to be used in construction. Zoning applies
only to the use of the land.
4. It is alleged that zoning will squeeze
animals out of the suburban area. This is an
incorrect assumption in that the ordinance
only provides that adequate space shall be
provided for farm animals. As a matter of
fact, only a very small area would have any
animal restrictions. In those areas with animal
restrictions, the owners would be able to
keep all existing animals and replace all exist
ing animals In perpetuity.
Other points will be discussed in future
comment herein. An important factor to bear
in mind in this controversy is that affected
property owners will have the right to vote if
the proceedings carry that far (and we are
hopeful that they do). A certain amount of
hysteria has been introduced into this situa
tion. Responsible citizens should consider the
objectives and seek ways to bring the matter
back into proper perspective.
spread out In a suburban patlcrn
of living that makes two cars to
the middle-income family a virtu
al necessity.
First, let us look at the stalls
tics. With more than 70 million
cars on the roads, Detroit has
only to tap the replacement mar
ket lo sell seven million in a year.
Some automobiles may last long
er than a decade, but when they
do they usually gravitate into the
hands of teen-age Unkercrs who,
with a genius for cannibalizatinn,
keep old jalopies going by flesh,
ing them out with stuff from the
junkyard. The 10-year-old car
may not he a candidate for a
scrappage statistic in every ease,
hut in being passed on to junior it
is virtually certain to be re
placed by mom and dad for adult
use, so it need not figure in a
discussion of new car sales pros
pects. Thus the auto replacement floor
would seem lo be guaranteed at
seven million, which is snme
Uung that sltould normally be
reached without aggressive sales
manship. Even beyond the seven
million figure the dealers should
not have very much trouble in
the near future. For the big war
and post-war baby boom seems
about to pay off. with an ex
panded rush of young couples in
their earliest 20s coming Into Uic
market for cars. The population
statistics won't permit a drop
back for the Detroit of the mid
dle and late 1960s.
Admittedly. It is no longer a
matter of keeping up with I he
Joneses in automobiles: people
are willing to drive anything that
will time, which means that old
cars are kept going (or a long
time. Any look at a commuter
slop on any railroad that feeds
working males into a metropolis
will show a most ramshackle col
lection of automotive junk whose
sole virtue is that it still moves.
Rut you may be sure that lor ev
ery jalopy that is parked all day
while the male member of the
family is busy working in Ihe
city, another and newer car is
taking the housewife to the shop
ping center or Die children to mu
sic lessons or rehearsals (or Ihe
school play. Nor is the second car
Ihe properly of the affluent (ew.
The (act Is that at least half of
all the non-farm families in Amer.
ica have "disposable" or alter
ta. income of $.vnno in $llmi
a year. Since people will notori
ously g0 without other things lo
achieve the utmost in personal
mobility, this means that about
20 million lamilies can take two
cars in their stride with help from
a little judicious linancing. The
opportunity to upgrade the $.".0(Xi
$10 000 family's second car into
something newer and belter beck
ons the aggressive dealer, and if
the promised federal tax cut ma
terializes Detroit might find it
self wilh a record eight-million-car
year to Its credit. This could
happen in 1963 if Congress would
only hurry up its schedule on tax
reform.
At the tag end of Die 1920s, the
car market fell off suddenly be
cause everyone in the middle
income group had finally gotten
,a car. and no car. outside of a .
few of Mr. Ford's Model T's.
was very old. There was no re
placement market in the early
IMOs, which was one reason for
Ihe virulence of Ihe depression.
But the replacement market to
day otters a broad and well
defined cushion. And since slecl,
aluminum, rubber, glass and syn
thetics all rest lo some extent
on the automobile replacement
cushion, this is a good augury
for Ihe economy. Any year in
which Detroit sells seven mil
lion cars is bound to be relatively
prosperous. And the seven-million-car
year is almost certainly with
us to stav.
POTOMAC
FEVER
Reading the "highest authority"
stories from Palm Beach, one
New Frontiersman boasts mat he
crews on Uie only' ship of state
that leaks at the top.
Fidel Castro blasts the U.S.
again. Ilememher Ihe good old
days when a Cuban heel was a
part of a shoe?
Governor Rockefeller's second
inaugural address strikes a middle-of-the-road
note. You're not
quite sure whether he wants to
run against JFK in '64 or against
Lyndon Johnson for the privilege
of getting on a ticket with Kenne
dy. There's some talk of collecting
binds lor ransoming Cuban pris
oners again. After three times,
we gel permanent possession of
Uiem.
No wonder the ladies look so
happy. With the end of Ihe ma
jor bowl games, they're glvro
television back to Ihe women.
Bulletin, Palm Beach: It can
be reported en Die highest an
tlxrity. as IW opens, thai Presi
dent Kennedy thinks. This is not
necessarily true of all members
ol his administration.
FLETCHER KNt'BLX
mm
Letters To The
Took The Tour.
Before I go into this "tour."
I wish to state that I have only
the greatest, love for Klamath
Falls now and have had for a good
number of years, also, I do not
want to step on anyone's feet or
insult them in any way.
The "tour" 1 speak of is the
one Don Sloan mentioned in let
ters to the editor. Herald and
News dated Monday, Dec. 31,
12. 1 went down Altamont Drive.
Summers Lane, Homcdale Road
and Shasta Way, and I did find
the realities that Mr. Sloan's let
ter stated were present, howev
er, I went a little farUier. I went
lo Ihe zoned area in town to see
what it was like.
At the foot of our new viaduct I
saw a junk yard; from our court
house I saw a huge pile o( saw
dust across the street; 1 went
down Commercial. Broad, Sec
ond, Third, Oak, Walnut streets
and saw the same things that I
see in our suburban area.
I went down Main Street and
was hit up several times for mon
ey. On Main Street at night cars
race with no regard for life or
limb. I drove a good many streets
that have paved "bumps."
No, Mr. Sloan, do not kick the
suburban area, please find out a
little more about it first. Shasta
Way 100 (eet wide, 40 years ago!
Boy, you just don't know it
was paved in tlie late 30s. (South
Sixth Street .wasn't (our lanes
until 1947.) IX you had gone out '
in the suburban area 40 years
ago and said we must zone you
would have been laughed out of
Uie state for no one dreamed that
Klamath Falls would expand as
far as it has.
Just for the record in 1939
when my folks built a tar paper
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
A 7-ycar-old boy I know know
very well left a note on his fath
er's dresser just before Christ
mas, asking (or an Eastern
Ring-Necked Snake lor a pet.
At Ihe end of Ihe exhaustive re
cital about Ihe snake's virtues,
its amiability, its well-bred feed
ing ll.ihils, and ils all-round suit
ability as a member of the house
hold, the boy appended a P S. to
the note
"1 speld some words rong." he
wrote, "becase I did not stop to
think "t
The boy didn't get the snake.
I am sorry to report, owing lo
Uie horrified objections of his
mother, a woman oi overwhelm
ing sensibility. But his falher
would have brought him a whole
nest of idcfanged pythons as a
reward for that wonderful Post
Script.
"1 did not slop to think." How
many of us would ecr say that"
How many of us would exhibit
the candor, the modesty, the
blithe confession of thoughtless
ness When I spell a word wrong in
Ihe column, and it happens In
get into print, I b'ame the type
setter, or the prool -reader, or
rcn-i( possible the dictionary
lor betraying my literacy.
More importantly, when 1 make
a mistake in judgment or taste
or naliMtion. it would not occur
to me to say. "I did not stop to
shack on Miller Avenue we were
the fourth ones on that street
some even lived in tents! Soon
thereafter others came out and
built. Now there is not a shack
where the folks live but a nice
house that would be acceptable in
any district, also, tents are no
longer in existence.
This is ihe way the suburban"
area waj built, like our great
country a little at a time, a few
boards and nails and you have a
home (shack lo you, home to me
and others!.
After World War II this area
began to really grow until we
were in a spot and had to get
proper sewer facilities. More and
more people came' with fine
homes, some built then looked,
and saw a shack and yelled,
"Why doesn't someone do some
thing about the shacks?" (Joe
Blow lived Uicre; he was there
first. ) Yes, there is an old slaugh
terhouse south of Uie new Cath
olic Church and in the area of
fine new homes, as it has been
for 40 years or longer.
I do not care if the suburban
area is zoned or not, but I do
care if I have a right to vote or
object in any way except as I
am told by Mr. Blackman's state
ment in Uie Herald and New s dat
ed Dec. 31, 1962, quote "The,
purpose of these public meetings
will be to hear testimony from
all interested residents living w ith
in hearing areas, not to answer
questions." unquote. This in my
thinking is not just nor proper in
the freedom we are supposed lo
be living in.
I have no doult that some day
our suburban area will be zoned
as it is laid out. However, we
shall never be kicked into it; we
shall only be zoned with grace
and the liberty of doing so. There
are a good many people still liv-
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
think." Instead. I will usually
find some defense, or explana
tion, or rationalization, that glibly
shifts the blame from me lo
something outside me I was giv
en the wrong information, or I was
misinterpreted, or I really meant
it in another context.
What we lose as we grow older
is the marvelous freshness and
honesty of youth that is not afraid
or ashamed to say. "I did not
stop to think." I have no doubt
at all that this is w hat Jesus
meant when he said that "a lit
tle child shall lead us " Because
only this spirit, which dulls as we
grow older, can show us the right
road to our true selfhood.
Millions of words have been
written on how and what children
can learn from us; but little has
been said about what we can
learn from children. Yet the edu
cation that a p.iren: with open
eyes, ears and mind can get from
a growing child is incompar-,
ably more Important than the edu
cation a child can get from all
its formal training.
What we get ut Uie child has
nol been damaged in early years'
is a portrait of our lost Eden,
of a land in which shame and
vanity and self-decei' have barely
begun to erect their bristling bar
ricades. In a (ew yers. of course,
the child will become more like
us; thai is lo say. he will be
"educated" and skilled in ortho
dox hypocrisy.
Editor
ing in Uie suburban area who will
yell like stuck hogs if it is done
otherwise,
I wish to say ig closing that
Washington,' D.C., as Mr. Sloan
stated, is zoned. However, within
walking distance of the Capitol
are shmis, "Our National Dis
grace," quoted from David Brink
ley's Journal on television.
J. R. Gustafson,
1724 Dayton.
Endorsement
It is with increasing concern
and astonishment that I have read
in the past few weeks various let
ters to the editor, expressing un
qualified, severe opposithn to the
proposed Klamath County Zon
ing. The fact that Uie newspaper has
been flooded with letters taking
this stand, and the fact that the
newspaper account of last Wed
nesday night's planning commis
sion meeting reported only one
individual expressing himself in
favor of zoning, has moved me to
write this letter placing myself on
record as being in favor of wcll
planned county zoning.
A wxrd to those vast numbers
of you that are in favor of zoning:
Let's not keep those thoughts to
ourselves; I propose Uiat we in
dividually and strongly express
ourselves in favor of the proposed
planning at the respective meet
ing allocated to our particular
real property area.
The opponents of Klamath Coun
ty zoning have attacked the prin
ciple of zoning or planning by
our county continuously since this
proposal, has been brought he
lore the public. Little or no rec
ognition or expressions of appre
ciation have been given to the
members of the County Planning
Commission. Mr. Blackman and
other county officials who have
worked months and long hours
trying to make this "planning for
the future" a reality.
Again, to the proponents of well
planned county zoning, we must
act; the time is now. We can't
wait for Uie "the other fellow"
to do this for us. Let's state our
opinions pubUcly here and now.
William E. Chilcotc,
1504 Patterson Street.
Sabin
Fortunately Sabin Pofio Vaccine
has been developed and has been'
approved by the United States
Health Service. It is easily ad
ministered in a sugar cube.
Sabin Polio Vaccine has been
made available to children and
adults in community wide drives
in nearby Jackson and Siskiyou
counties, as well as many other
places throughout Uie United
States.
The Klamath County Health De
partment advises that there were
no polio cases in Klamath Coun
ty in 1982 Will il take a tragedy
lo wake us up?
How can we make Sahin Polio
Vaccine available 't all in a com
munity wide drive this year"
Britla Franz
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q What acid is present la sour
milk?
A Lactic.
Q I'ow many people were lost
In Ihe Titanic disaster? '
A-ln all. 1.517.
Q What basic American prin
ciple was established through the
trial of Teter Zenger?
A The right of freedom of the
press.
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEAl-It will
take six months to complete deliv
ery of the second half of $33 mil
lion worth of food, drugs, medi
cal, dental and surgical equip
ment lo Fidel Caslro as ransom
for the 1.113 Bay of Pigs inva
sion captives already released and
returned to the United States.
What the Cuban Communist pup
pet gets out of it is a two-year
supply which Russia and the Red
bloc countries were not able to
give him in return for sugar. It
makes up a 230-page list of over
10.000 items.
Scarce foods, particularly baby
foods, make up $30 million of the
ransom. They were supplied by 22
United States food processors
whose participation in this mercy
operation has not been fully ap
preciated nor given the credit de
served. They were contacted through the
Grocery Manufacturers of Ameri
ca, Inc., by their president, Paul
S. Willis, of New York. Their con
tributions, because of their bulk,
will make up most of the ship
ments in coming months.
The list of foods to be supplied
is a sorry confession of the run
down condition of Castro's Com
munist economy.
A partial list of what it has not
been able to supply the Cuban peo
ple includes: shortening and cook
ing oils, diet foods, onion, tomato
and chicken soups, canned meats,
vegetables and fruits, white flour,
baking soda, breakfast cereals,
juices, cake mix, puddings, gela
tin, cocoa, dehydrated potatoes,
soda crackers, macaroni and noo
dles, canned corn with peppers,
evaporated milk.
The other $23 million ransom
is payable in medical supplies.
Greatest demand was for anti
biotics, blood plasma, steroid hor
mones, insulin, tranquilizers, tet
anus toxoids and antitoxins. Brand
names were specified for most
items. They were taken from
two-year-old catalogs. Some items
requested are no longer in pro
duction. Modern substitutes were
provided.
Principal suppliers were 66
members of the Pharmaceutical
Manufacturers Association, whose
president is Eugene Bcesley of In
dianapolis. Not all the 140 mem
bers of the trade association make
items on the Cuban list. But
through their Washington office
under Dr. AusUn Smith, phone
calls went out that rounded up
WASHINGTON
Udall Tactics Rouse
Congressional Ire
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
To Secretary of Uie Interior
Stewart Udall, as subUe a lob
byist as Sonny Liston, falls the
task once again of lining up votes
to pack the House Rules Commit
tee. Two years ago the House
voted 217-212 to increase that
committee by three votes and give
control to Administration lack
ics. It was Udall. wheeling and
dealing in the early days of that
session, who picked up enough
votes to give President Kennedy
victor;'.
Republicans and Democrats
alike received the Udall calls. The
Interior Secretary was blunt. In
a call to Colorado's Rep. J. Ed
gar Chenoweth, Udall brought up
Uie frying pan Arkansas recla
mation project, one of great im
portance to Chcnoweth's constitu
ency. Word was passed to the
Congressman that, unless he vot
ed right, the project would be
against packing anyway.
Rep. Alton Lennon. a North
Carolina Democrat, accused Udall
of blackmail. One of the Interior
Secretary's top aides. Orren Bea
ty Jr., told a newspaper, "The
rightsville Beach plant i in Len
non's district' is one of the llth
hour decisions subject to review."
That plant, a multi-million dollar
federal project, was then under
Administration consideration.
The story added that the deci
sion was lied up with the fight
over liberalizing the Rules Com
mittee. Lennon, in a telegram to
l'dall. wrole: "This suggested
threat of blackmail of a member
of Congress is inconceivable and
I behove it will be rightfully re
sented by the lair-thinking people
of North Carolina and America."
Republican Hep. William Hen
ry Harrison of Wyoming c"t a
call (rom l'dall that he said le!t
him flabbergasted
Rep. Charles Teague. a Cali
fornia Republican, ca'led L'dail's
lobbvmg campaign the gvralcst
and most successful lie had seen
in Ins six-year House career He
told of a Republican colleague,
lacing possible extinction at tlie
hands of a IVmocralic reappor
tioning committee, who was in
formed that his district would re
main sate if he voted right He
toid the message bearer to jump
in tlie lake
Other members of the Admin-f:
the initial $11 million shipment in
short order.
Thirty five manufacturers of
medical, surgical, dental and vet
erinary equipment and seven sup
pliers of miscellaneous X-ray ma
chines and laboratory equipment
also contributed.
A list of the 130 donor com
panies and Uie amounts of their
products contributed for the ran
som will be announced by the
American Red Cross as soon as
clearances are obtained.
Departments of State, Justice
and the Internal Revenue Service
have given assurances Uiat the
130 firms will not be prosecuted
for their cooperation under trad
ing with the enemy, anU-trust
and income tax laws. AU dona
tions will be considered tax-deductible
contributions to the Amer
ican Red Cross at wholesale val
ue. Back of Uiis tremendous opera
tion, executed in a few days, was
a complicated financial transac
tion for completion of the ran
som payment.
A $33 million letter of credit
had to be obtained to assure Cas
tro that the balance of the ran
som beyond the down payment
would be forthcoming. This was
arranged through Royal Bank of
Canada, in Montreal, as banker
for Cuba. It was guaranteed b'y
two $26.5 million letters of credit
from Bank of America in San
Francisco and Morgan Guaranty
Trust of New York. Finally, the
American Red Cross and Ameri
can individual supply firms were
bonded by Continental Insurance
Co., of New York.
Castro's insistence on all this
financing explains in part his de
mand for an additional $2.9 million
cash ransom just before the final
400 prisoners were released.
When Castro released the first
60 ill and wounded prisoners last
April, he was promised a $2.5
million ransom payment by Uie
Cuban Families Association,
through Royal Bank of Canada.
When the Cuban Families could
not raise this amount, Castro
slammed shut his prison doors on
further releases.
He got his blood money, plus,
interest, in Uie final holdup after
New York Attorney James Dono
van thought he had completed ar
rangements for the release of all
prisoners.
The list of donors of this $2.9
million ransom, raised by Ally.
Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and Gen.
Lucius Clay, still has to be smoked
out.
REPORT
istralion learned quickly from
Udall. On June 12, 1962, as tin
House considered an Administra
tion proposal lo hike the national
debt limit to 303 billion, Roy Lin
Ion, a Defense Department bu
reaucrat, telephoned Wally Ed
wards, Washington representative
o( the Chrysler Corporation. He
asked Edwards to find out how
Michigan Republicans were go-'
' ing to vole on the debt ceiling
and added:
"If they do not vote for the
308 billion, defense contracts in
Michigan may be curtailed. The
Missile B program in which your
corporation. Chrysler, is interest
ed, could be in jeopardy."
When Edwards approached
Rep. Gerry Ford. Michigan Re
publican, he was told: "I hope this
won't embarrass you. I hope and
trust it will not embarrass your
corporation in its bona fide ef
fort to compete in bidding for de
fense contracts, but I want you
to know that House Republicans in
Michigan are not going to be
blackmailed by this kind of ap-,
proach (rom the Department of
Defense."
Al
manac
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, Jan 8, Ihe
Slh day of 19M with 337 to fol
low. The moon is approaching its
full phase.
" The morning stars are Mars
and Venus.
The evening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
(in this day in history:
In 1815. General Andrew Jack
son won the battle of New Orleans
killing some 700 British troops
and wounding 1.400 more
In lStvT, Congress enacted legis
lation providing suffrage for Ne
groes in the District of Columbia
In 1917. tiie United States Su
preme Court upheld , tlie Webb
Kenyon Act which prohibited the
shipment of alcoholic beverages
from "wet" to "dry" states.
A thought (or the day Ameri
can President Abraham Lincoln
said: "Truth is ihe best vuidic-
lion against slander."