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Zoning Hassle Needs Clarification -IV
: While there is strong evidence of opposi
tion to the proposed county zoning ordinance,
we shall persist in our conclusion that the cir
cumstances call for the matter to be sub
mitted to an election so that all property
owners affected can have their say. This need
riot be a special election, as there is no obvious
need for haste. The issue can be settled at any
one of the forthcoming general elections in
the county.
The evidence apparent from the two hear
ings held by the Planning Commission indi
cates that dissenters, for the most part, are
opposed to the entire principle of zoning. Most
statements carried this overtone even when
the speaker pointed out specific reasons for
opposing one or more elements of the pro
posed ordinance. We would have no wish to
qjiarrel with this position.
However, in this article of comment on the
zoning hassle, we are hopeful of clearing up a
few remaining areas of murky issues.
1. It is alleged that zoning would result in
annexation to the city. Not at all. Zoning and
annexation proceedings are two entirely sep
arate things. Zoning would have no effect on
an annexation process. As far as we can deter
mine, there is little sentiment existing on the
part of city residents or suburban residents
for annexation.
2. It has been inferred that industrial zon
ing will create hardships. As a matter of fact,
light now, industry may locale anywhere in
the suburban area (including the lot across
' the street or next door to most residents).
Zoning would restrict industry to a given area.
Through zoning it is possible to eliminate
odors and smoke that go along with some in
dustry. Without zoning it is difficult to acquire
any control over adverse effects created by
industry.
; 3. It has been inferred that zoning is tin
cbnstitutional. As a matter of principle, to
some persons, zoning might appear to be an
invasion of their individual rights. However,
it is not unconstitutional. Zoning was first
upheld by the Supreme Court in 1922 and has
been upheld numerous times since this first
case. The Planning Commission has no author
ity to enact zoning in the suburban area. This
responsibility lies entirely with the County
Court. The Commission is obligated to hold
hearings (and has been doing so) on the zoning
proposal to give property owners a chance to
be heard on the proposal. It is regrettable
that the members of the Commission have had
THESE DAYS..
Capital Fluidity Restored
By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
The 7.500 employes o the Kais
er Sleel CorporaUon, a big West
Const producer, arc scheduled lo
vote today, Jan. II, on a union
contract that is built around prof-It-sharing
features. Since Uie pro
posed agreement has the support
of the United Steclworkers ot
America, it will presumably be
accepted. If the contract does go
through, labor relations in this
country are bound to take a new
turn, and in my opinion it will be
considerably for the better.
The provisions of the Kaiser
contract are complex. But the
heart of the program consists of
certain easily understood vari
ables. Instead of gelling (ied
raises in hourly pay. lite Kaiser
workers w ill receive approximate
ly thirty-three per cent of a sav
ings fund that is to be built up
out of the monetary gains that
arc likely to come as a reflex
of improved melliods of steel
making. The Kaiser company will
fix a standard base rate for the
cost of producing an ingot ton of
sleel. Anything that can be shaved
fiom that cost, eilher by the in
stallation of new equipment or by
increased individual labor-hour ef
ficiency, will be shared with the
workers. Olher provisions in the
Kaiser contract are designed to
reassure the United Steclworkers
of America that "automation'"
won't be introduced at a rale that
will lead to layoffs and firings. If
a worker does lose his job to an
Improved machine, he will he as
signed a priority number in an
employment pool, anyone cooling
his heels for protracted periods in
the pool will be guaranteed a
year's full pay.
Inasmuch as Kaiser Steel, along
with Inland Steel of Chicago,
"broke the line" lasl year by re
fusing to accept the leadership of
United Slates Steel in the mailer
of a price rise, Die older sleel
companies are Inclined to look
askance on anything that Kaiser
proposes. The older companies
have a long tradition of loyalty
to the steel makers' "club," which
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
to undergo considerable abuse and even ridi
cule in these sessions, and we are hopeful that
those who attend future hearings will find it
possible to extend the common courtesies that
should be a part of the proceedings.
4. It has been staled that zoning will be
put into effect for a three-year trial period.
Actually, only the County Court has the auth
ority to impose zoning on a trial basis. The
Court has made no commitment on this issue
at this time.
5. One writer stated that zoning will pre
vent her from having a horse or garden, and
that she would be required to keep weeds
down on her property. It has been repeatedly
stated that zoning will not remove farm ani
mals, and zoning does not in any way affect
planting of gardens. While we would think
that pride of ownership and good citizenship
would prompt most people to keep their prop
erty trim and neat, we can find no provision
in the ordinance that pertains to weeds and
their cutting or removal.
6. There are no restrictions in the ordin
ance pertaining to trees, and fence restric
tions apply only on the front yard and side
yard abutting the streets. There are no fence
restrictions in the S-A or S-R zones. Guest
houses are permitted under provisions of the
ordinance.
7. There are no zoning restrictions on
household or domestic pets.
Some have wondered just why the Plan
ning Commission ever got started on this
study, and the inference is that they are a
bunch of busy-bodies who have little else to
do. This is decidedly unfair to a group of hard
working, conscientious citizens. They were
asked by the County Court to make the study,
using whatever professional and technical as
sistance could be provided with the limited
funds available. The funds, incidentally, are
provided on a participating basis, with the
federal government providing half of the total
cost. The remainder was split on a 50-50 basis
between the city of Klamath Falls and Klam
ath County. It should be noted that the por
tion provided by the city was for planning in
the city, only. The city did not participate in
the portion of the study confined to the sub
urban and rural areas.
Initial action taken by the County Court ,
came about by submission of petitions and
other types of requests from the suburban
area asking for the protection of zoning.
is one reason why the anti trust
division of tlie department of Jus
tice is inclined to question their
habit of trying to concert their
moves. But the "club." in this
case, will have to reckon with
Kaiser's move toward profit-sharing
simply because it is more sen
sible economically to accept vari
able costs than it is to tie one
self up w ith fixed costs.
In the automobile country, the
older concerns regard the Ameri
can Motors Corporation, producer
of the Rambler car. much as
the old-line sleel companies re
gard Kaiser. They dislike the
Humbler men because the recent
ly resigned president of American
Molnrs, George Homney, "knocked
the product" ol the industry in
general by talking about "gas
giivling dinosaurs. " As a rellcx
uf this dislike, the older motor
men hao had little good to say
of the American Motors profit
sharing union contract, which has
boon running (or a year. Yet it
cannot he argued that a manda
tory hourly pay increase in auto
mobile w ages U better (or a com
pany's health than a contingent
pay increase. Should times turn
had and there arc no profits to
share. American Motors will be
in a belter position than those
companies which allowed Walter
Heulher's automobile workers to
Impose fixed pay increases on
thorn.
Two hundred years ago the first
liberal economist. Adam Smith,
warned business men lhat llicy
could absorb only a certain
amount of rigidity. In Hie easy
days after World War II, when
the rest of the world was strug
gling to get hack into production,
wage rises could be financed out
of inflationary price increases
Hut now lhat foreign steel-and
foreign cars are moving into the
US. in increased quantities at
relatively low prices, the United
Males can no longer keep its busi
ness system fluid by inflation
Whole industries have their
backs lo the wall. The New ork
licws',iici sec no way to absorb
Friday, January 11, 1K3
the demands of the printers. Tlie
railroads, fighting off receiver
ships, arc appalled at the idea of
negotiating contracts designed lo
preserve fcallicrbedding condi
tions. And tlie new middle class of
consumers is tired to death of
the annual increase in the cosl
of living that has been generated
by the familiar wage-price spiral
of the forties and the fifties.
Thus a new way of finding flu
idity will inevitably he imposed oil
management and labor alike. The
profit sharing or "progress"
sharing union contract is the only
possible way of satisfying labor
and llie consumer without saddling
industry with fixed costs that
in depression periods can kill off
marginal companies like flies.
Al
manac
By United Press International
Today is Friday, Jan 11. the
lllh day of I9tU with 3it to follow.
The moon is approaching its
last quarter
The morning stars are Mars
and Venus.
The evening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
Those Nu n on this day include
American statesman Alexander
Hamilton, in 17,"i7.
l)n this day in history:
In 1783, the Continental Con
gress convened in New York City.
In IIK.I, Alabama seceded from
the Union.
In W.ij. Ihcr Amelia Farhart
I'litnam look olf from Wheeler
Field, Honolulu, bound for the
United States, in an attempt to
become tlie lust woman to make
a solo (light across the Pacilic
Ocean
In I9t. Great Britain and the
United Mates signed treaties with
China relinquishing extraterritor
ial and other special rights in that
country
A Ih'Higlit for tlie day Vice
President of the United Stales
Thomas Riley Marshall said:
"What this country needs is a
jowi flic-cent ci jar."
IN WASHINGTON .
fexFuture Conflict
r y j
By RALPH dc TOLEDANO .
A story, imported from Com
munist Warsaw, is making the
rounds of Washington.
Comrade Khrushchev is walking
down the street leading a goat. He
meets Mao Tsc-tung.
"What are you doing with that
pig?" Mao asks.
"You dumb Chinaman." Nikita
screams. "Can't you see that this
is a goat?"
i "Who was talking to you?"
Mao answers.
This sour little joke expresses
far more clearly than the recent
multi-thousand - word editorial in
the Rod China "People's Daily"
the nature of the rift between
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Speaking ot words and names,
as I was the other day, reminded
me that a few months ago tlie
Harris menage was looking
through Roger Price's amusing
book, "What Not To Name the
Baby."
Price made the observation,
which has often occurred to me
but which 1 have never seen in
print before, that different forms
of the same name apply to very
different sorts of persons.
We have, for instance, a num
ber of friends named Arthur. One
of them is called Art by his
friends, another is called Artie,
and still another is called only
Arthur. Nobody who knows them
would dream of calling Art Artie
or Artie Arthur.
The same is true of Edwards.
Some arc always Kd, others arc
invariably Kddie, and yet others
arc nothing but Edward. There
arc Slans and Stanleys. Wallers
and Wallies, Jims and Jimmies,
Richards, Richics and Dicks.
II is more than halut or custom
that decrees such different forms
o( the same name: it is. in fact,
a sense ol the personality one is
addressing oneself to Artie and
Arthur, for example, are quite op
posed personalities, and people
recognize this in retelling to
them.
i Parenthetically, only casual ac
quaintances call me Syd: all my
close friends have always called
me Sydney, or worse thmcs. hut
nocr Syd: yet another Sydney
1 happen to know is always called
Syd by Ins family and friends.
Girls' names, it seems are not
quite so flexible, but much the
same psy etiological rules apply lo
them. I know lour women named
Patricia, tine is called pat, llie
second P.illic. the third Palsy,
and the last only Patricia.
And who would deny that Flor
ence is a very ditterent woman
from Ho' Or that llie doen ver
sions of Elizabeth Liz. Beth. Bel
:y, Betsy. I.ibhy. Bully, and so
on do not in soon- real way de
note a distinction ot personality?
How we treat a person's name
tells a gixd deal atxHit that per
son ami our reaction to the ambi
ence he moves in
One of the funniest segments in
an F.laine May and Mike Niclwls
recording is the pait in which a
Tim-Bur-rr!"
Peiping and Moscow. The Sino
Soviet crossfire is dressed up in
the fancy language of Marxist
Leninist rhetoric. The entire vo
cabulary of Communist polemics
is invoked but like the flowers
that bloom in the spring, tra la,
it has nothing to do with the
case.
As tlie senior partner in the
Communist alliance. Comrade
Khrushchev can talk about the
"nuclear teeth" of the American
"paper tiger" and call for "sound
political compromises," "real
ism." and "sober" thought.
The Chinese Reds can warn
that the Kremlin line will make
Soviet Communism "tlie servant
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
brash and ignorant radio inter
viewer keeps referring to "Al"
Schweitzer. I am sure lhat no one
in his adult lifetime has referred
to Dr. Albert Schweitzer as "Al."
any more than I can conceive of
Dr. Freud being addressed as
"Siggie." even by his intimates.
And, reversely, Ike seems impec
cably right for the homespun prai
rie personality of Dwight Eisen
hower. POTOMAC
FEVER
Top news stories of 12 No. 1:
The bed-lime prayer of the little
girl in Pittsburgh, "Dear Lord,
I'll need Your best support to
slip this past the Supreme
Court."
No. 2: The anonymous guest
who fell into Bob Kennedy's
swimming pool In a swimming
suit.
No. 3: Harold Stassen's heart
warming decision not lo run (or
any public office during the cal
endar year.
No. 4: Tlie Harvard sophomore
who had to transfer to Ohio Slate
because lie flunked picketing.
No. S: The outraged home
owner who called the zoning
board and demanded that the
' new freeway be taken rut of
his neighbor's front yard and
put through his.
No. 6: The stcci-nuiker who
drew a White House rebuke for
trying to reduce prices witlioul a
government permit.
FLETCHER KNEBEL
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
e-ho was the first U.S. nil
rrn to be canonized?
A Mother Francis Xaicr Ca
brini m l'.ki
Q How far hack dors writ
ten history of China date?
A-To about 1300 B.C.
A Dream?
of tlie bourgeoisie" which can only
be "cast aside by the proletar
iat" for its "revisionism."
But this is an old, old war
among tlie Reds. Tlie same terms
can be speared out of the lengthy
arguments between Joseph Stalin
and Leon Trotsky when they were
engaged in their own family fight.
The disagreement between Nikita
Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung is
one of means, not ends. Both are
determined to bury us under tons
of propaganda and the rubble of
nuclear explosions. And each dic
tator would like to be the one who
writes the terms of what they
consider an "inevitable" Ameri
can surrender.
Some pundits, however, see in
every exchange of verbal cream
puffs between Red China and the
Soviet Union the signs of a life
and death struggle between two
brands of Communism. This is a
comforting thought. It relieves
American policy makers from
coming to hard conclusions. It
says, in effect: "Relax, boys. We
don't have to worry about Com
munism. Let's just wait for the
Russians and tlie Chinese to de
stroy each other."
This was precisely the attitude
of some law enforcement officers
when rival gangs across the na
tion were shooting each oilier up
for control of the rackets. When
the mobsters had finished "nego
tiating" with Tommy guns, they
had laid the groundwork for a na
tional crime syndicate which is
still plaguing American cities and
destroying respect for law.
Stalin won his battle with Trot
sky. But if it had been the other
way around, the end result for the
non-Communist world would have
boon precisely tire same. Those
who think otherwise arc bemused
by the fancy language of Com
munist ideologues. They forget
that Marxism is not really a sys
tem hut a will to power. The
rest is ideological window dress
ing. At the present time. State De
partment "exports" are studying
every outburst from Moscow or
Peiping as if it were Revelation.
Rut the fact remains that when
the chips arc down the Chinese
and the Russians will join togeth
er in common defense or com
mon onslaught on the West. Com
rade Khrusncnev may get his Chi
nese colleagues to trim their sails
to bis propaganda line. Or the
misnamed "anti-party" group in
the Kremlin may force Khrush
chev to adopt Pciping's wilder slo
gans. In cold war terms, however,
this means nothing to the West.
The two parties to tlie dispute
want the same thing: Time
lo gather their forces together (or
the big push which they believe
will destroy freedom and deliver
humanity into their hands.
Victory for civilization will not
come because of the sticks and
stones the leaders of the Com
munist world throw at each oth
er. Only hy pushing the Reds to
the wall, economically, politically,
and psychologically will the West
ruimplv Both Nikita Khrushchev
and Mao Tsc-tung would like us
lo believe that the contradictions
and the bad tempers of Commu
nism will force it to its knees.
But they know lhat wars, whether
hot or cold, are won by an cifcc
live oflense No nation or group
of nations has ever triumphed
with a strong defense or be
iau.se the enemy got into a crap
table argument.
EDSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON t NEA I "Ev
ery time I feel depressed," says
Dr. John P. Roche, new national
chairman of Americans for Demo
cratic Action, "I go out and read
National Review to find out how
, important we in ADA really arc."
National Review is William F.
Buckley Jr.'s weekly guide for
right-wingers. It looks upon ADA
as a kind of Communist cell that
runs the government. ADA thinks
it's not that important. ADA has
written letters to President Ken
nedy telling him what he ought to
do. But he hasn't taken their free
advice and hasn't even answered
their letters. Fewer than 50
ADAers have been identified in
the Kennedy administration, al
though they are well dispersed in
key jobs.
"We have about 50.000 mem
berswe're very selective," says
Roche, with tongue in cheek.
"Liberals are rambunctious types.
They're not good organization
men. That's what makes them
so enjoyable."
The question of how much in
fluence ADA really has is made
timely once more by the organi
zation's annual message to the
President telling Mm what he
should be for.
Roche, who delivered this mes
sage to a small press conference,
was elected ADA national chair
man last year. He is a Brook
lyn boy, a Hofstra A. B. and Cor
nell Ph.D., Fulbright Fellow and
tramp professor at l.alf-dozen in
stitutions of higher learning. This
year he is visiting professor of po
litical science at University of Chi
cago. Roche says he has no idea how
many members of ADA arc also
members of the next Congress,
although his letterhead lists five
senators and one representative
who are members of his national
board and executive committee.
The senators are Clark of Pennsyl
vania, Humphrey and McCarthy
of Minnesota, Morse and Neuberg
er of Oregon. The congressman is
Jimmy Roosevelt of California.
Roche thinks there were sev
eral more ADAers elected to the
new Congress and he believes
WASHINGTON
Slave Labor Camps,
Abound In Russia
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
It was eight years ago that
Nikita Khrushchev announced,
with considerable fanfare, that
Soviet slave labor camps would
be abolished.
Within the next several years,
self-styled expert alter self-styled
expert visited the Soviet Union,
and came back to dutifully report
that Premier Khrushchev was in
deed a man of his woid.
W. Averill Harriman. unem
ployed after losing the New York
governorship, made a quickie
jaunt across the Soviet Union,
and wrote in the New York Times
that slave labor was no more.
Samuel Leibowitz, a New York
judge, made the same observa
tion after visiting a model prison
near Moscow.
What is the situation today? Dr.
Bela Fabian, a former member
of the Hungarian Parliament, a
one-time inmate of Communist
and Nazi prisons, says:
"Not only have the promises of
Nikita Khrushchev failed to ma
terialize, as so many other Sovi
et promises, but, since Khrush.
chev came to power, the number
of concentration camps and poli
tical prisoners has increased."
A decade ago there were 32
million residents of Kazakh Sovi
et Republic in Central Russia.
Today there are 30 million, draft
ed by the Soviet Government to
farm the so-called virgin lands.
When tens of thousands rioted
last year against low pay. long
hours and poor food. Soviet troops
were called in to mow down hun
dreds of draftees.
More than 60.000 Hungarians,
captured during the Revolution of
1936, have been shipped in box
cars to Siberia. Citizens of Bye
lorussia, of the Ukraine, of Mos
lem "republics" on the Iranian
border, are among those who too
have been drafted to work on the
virgin lands.
A Soviet diplomat, who defected
in 1939. confirms Dr. Fabian's
analysis, Alexander Kaznacheev
says that "millions of people are
in Communist eonccnti ation
camps."
Even Soviet officials admit lhat
workers are often dralted for cer
tain lasks. Or A. E..rdadn. first
Deputy Minister of Labor Re
serve, put it this wty.
"One of our difficulties is not
in finding jobs for the men but
m?n for the jobs. We are con
stantly 0ienmg new fields of in
dustry in remote areas, particular
ly new diamond fields recently
discovered in one of the coldest
parts of the USSR. We are over
ADA Seeks Liberal
Laws From Congress
there is a net addition of about
five liberals to tlie House. "Also,"
says Dr. Roche, "there are a lot of
people in Congress who are not
members of ADA. And if the Re
publicans want to knock off ultra
conservative Democrats in the
South, that's all right with us."
All things considered, Roche
thinks tlie new Congress will do
right by the ADA program if the
President will just cooperate and
exercise the right kind of leader
ship. That's the No. 1 problem from
the ADA point of view. President
Kennedy was never an ADAcr.
He knocked off ADA'S favorite,
Hubert Humphrey, in tlie West
Virginia primary and boasted
after he was elected that he was
a conservative.
"Conservatism comes two
ways," says Roche. "You can
have a conservative program or
you can have a conservative per
sonality. Kennedy has a program
that is 180 degrees to the left of
Barry Goldwatcr and John Tow
er. But Kennedy hoards his per
sonality like a French peasant
hoards his gold. He doesn't
fight for all the thir-gs he believes
in the way he fought for his new
trade program. In that battle he
used his prestige and he won a
tremendous victory."
The things that ADA thinks the
President ought to fight for this
year include, as a minimum:
"Specific civil rights legislation,
tax reductions and reform, es
tablishment of a department of
urban affairs, medical care for
the aged under Social Security,
federal aid to school construction
and teachers' salaries, a sweep
ing attack on the corrosive blight
of unemployment, open and ener
getic support for changes in the
rules of the House and Senate."
"I am not disappointed in Presi
dent Kennedy's performance on
these issues in the last Congress,"
Roche explains, "because I didn't
expect too much. I have known
Kennedy politically for a number
of years. There was an argument
over a choice between Kennedy
and Nixon In 1960.
"But you take your breaks in
politics where you find them, and
I don't suffer from tlie paralysis
of perfectionism."
REPORT
coming this particular problem of
recruitment by drafting men to
these areas."
Note: A Congressional report in
1946 said of Red slave labor
camps: "The Government makes
every efrort to conceal the exis
tence of these camps. No foreign
er or correspondent is ever per
mitted to see them."
The situation has not changed.
Four years ago, my assistant, Bill
Schulz. wTole the Soviet Am
bassador, Mikhail Menshikov:
"As a professional newsman I
note with interest the statement
of one who is not a newsman,
Averill Harriman, that an investi
gation of his discloses no slave
labor camps in your country. In
view of conflicting opinion on this
subject I would like to ask per
mission to make a personal
investigation of 'corrective la
bor' in the Soviet Union.
"To guarantee freedom of in
vestigation, I would like assur
ances that I might travel freely,
without the 'aid' of any Intourist
guides. I would like also to know
if I might bring my own inter
preter and one recognized expert,
perhaps John Noble, an American
citizen. Mr. Noble was imprisoned
in the Vorkuta camp for 10 yean
after World War II. He would be
glad, I am sure, lo discover that
there are no such camps today."
"Smiling Mike" Menshikov did
not think the letter funny. He in
formed Mr. Schulz that no visas
could be issued to those charac
terized as "politically undesira
ble." Two weeks ago. Mr. Schulz dis
patched a similar letter to the
new Ambassador. Anatoly Dobry
nin. He has not yet received an
answer.
THEY
SAY...
If parents took care of chil
dren when they weic in the high
chair, the children would never
get to the electric chair.
Acting Justice Benjamin Gass-
man. New York state Supreme
court,
Tlie press goes first-and what
comes next? Well, the legitimate
courts arc superseded in every
autocracy hy puppet judges and
tribunals Thus freedom passes.
Don Shoemaker, editor, .Miami
Herald, to Nat l Assn. of Mu
nicipal Judges.