Shadow Of Silence Falls On New York City
i
Ms Newspaper Strike Enters Second Month
i By WARD CANNEL
Kcwspaptr Enterprise Assn.
NEW YORK (NEA) - The
breakfast conversation, still tent
ative after a month of practice,
suddenly exploded:
I'Oh, be still," the wife snapped.
"It's unnatural to talk at this
hoiir. I want my newspaper. Why
don't they give us back our news
papers. ..."
And so it was that the black
shadow of New York's newspaper
strike invaded this reporter's
home, much the way it has palled
on; almost every aspect of this le
viathan city.
But just why they don't give us
back our newspapers and just
who "they" are is no clear
matter, either for some of those
who called the strike or for those
who supported it.
Even now, with the strike well
InU) its second month, it is only a
modest jest that a member of Lo
cal-6 of the International Typog
rahers' Union comes off picket
ditty at a major daily paper now
strucK aumrj ana says:
;!1 really don't know all the is
sues. But it must have been the
only thinK we could do."
But a printer fin a non-struck
shop) who earns less than $9,000
yearly and pays more than S500
of it to ITU in dues and assess
ments says .he knows the reasons:
'Only way you get advances Is
with the threat, tacit or open, of
a strike. We haven't had a strike
in this union in 65 years. After a
stretch like that, the threat be
gins to wear thin."
But it is the cream of the jest
that many of the 18,000 other
newspaper people pressmen,
drivers, engravers, reporters, etc
out of work In sympathy sup
ported a move they did not un
derstand.
Two weeks after the ITU
walked out, for example, 1,500
New York Newspaper Guild re
porters and desk men jammed
into a meeting of their union
(which had expected 3001 to ask
what it was all about and when
it would be over.
It is the last grim laugh that
both Local 6 headquarters and its
adversary, the. Publishers Associ
ation. are seemingly serene and
poised both left to their own
devices, unchallenged and unham
pered by the traditional growling
of the press.
That watchdog has been muz
zled and chained. Or, more ac
curately, strapped. Of the Guild's
6.000 working press members
only a small cadre has found a
job: delivering telegrams, writ
ing publicity releases, working in
the post office, putting out hasti
ly hatched mosquito newspapers!
from printing shops.
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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Ore.
Thursday, January IT, 1961
THE DOCTOR SAYS
Big Name Disease
Produces Problems
BRADFORD AND POWERS Yale vs. Boston Common.
Willi nobody to force the Issues,
Icmand press conferences, aski
embarrassing questions and dog
the footsteps of the principals, the
drama continues to wear its way
through the winter will', neither
side giving any quarter.
For its side, the Publishers As
sociation will not bargain on any
Mill
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THE PICKET LINE Striking printers walking the picket line outside
York's dailies think "It must have been the only thinq we could do."
9f Ne
California Scientist Plans
To Study Beginning Of Life
BERKELEY. Calif. UTI'- A
University of California scientist
said today he and a colleague
a:e trying with elemental gases
to duplicate the conditions under
which life began.
A possible, but still highly re
mote result of such experiments,
lire scientist said, would be crea
tion of life in a test tulip.
Commjjjnxhj. Qalsndah
; TIU'RSOAY
PROSPERITY REBKK.MI
I.OIXiK, No. 104. 8 p.m. meeting.
IU0F Hull.
i
BV.THKL NO. 6. Job's Daugh
ters, 7:30 p.m.. Masonic Temple.
ROYAL NEIGHBORS OK
AMERICA, 8 pm, installation,
new KC Hall, Tenth and Main.
Public invited.
KLAMATH ART ASSOCIATION.
7.45 pm., movie. "Mexican Pot
tery and Archaeology." Mcmiiers
and guests.
Y-NE-MA TWRI.F.RS, 8 pm
s-iuare dance, YMC.V Bring sand
w idles.
LAKESHOItE IMPLICATE
IlitlDGK CU B, 7 30 p.m., dupli
cate bridge, City Library.
TWYLA r ERG! SON PAR
ENTS AM) PATRONS, 7:30 p m..
meeting, school gm.
KLAMATH COUNTY POMONA
. RAMIE, officers and subordi
nate grange masters. 6 30 pm..
ptJuck, meeting. Lost Hiver
rtngc Hall.
FRIDAY
J HOOL MATES. 1 p.m., des
scij. Mrs. R. H. Anderson, 345
N.MOth St.
Ragles auxiliary, 7 .10
p si., officers and drill team
practice, Eagles Hall.
SHASTA VIEW GRANGE), 8
p.m., meeting, Grange Hal'..
V.MCA FAMILY NIGHT. 6 30
p m., potluck, speaker, recrea
tion, Y.MCA. Bring hot dish, sal-
ad or dessert, table service.
SHASTA . IIOMEDAI.E EXT.
UNIT. 10 a m., meeting. Credit
Buying No. 2, Joan's Kitchen.
(all-grounds.
SATURDAY
R U M MAGE SALE, Midland
Home Ext. Unit. 8 30 a.m. In 4
pm, Clyde's Towing.
SATURDAY
SHASTA VIEW COMMUNITY
BLIKi. ASSOC., 8 pm., card
party. Community Hall, Shasta
Way and Madison.
KLAMATH LANK LOlXiE. No
4l. V.O.A., 8 p.m.. meeting.
IOOF Hall. Nonay slides. Hans
Norland. Public invited.
A.UW, 12 30
Wmema Hotel.
p.m., luncheon
KLAMATH . LAKE TEACH
ERS Federal Credit Union. 6 30
pm.. annual meeting. Pine Grove
Room, Willard Hotel.
Dr. C. Arthur Knight, professor
of virology and a research bio-
cliemist in the university s vims
laboratory, said he and Pr. Karl
Grossenbachor. a plant nutrition
expert, are among many scient
ists throuslioiit the world pursuing
the secrets of lite.
Among the pioneers in the field
he said, are Dr. Mclvin Calvin,
a Nobel Pruc winning chemist at
the University o( California, and
Dr. Harold Urcy and Dr. Stanley
Miller of the university's San Di
oco campus. Urey also is a No
bel Pn;e winner.
"We are trying to make some
progress in tracing chemical ev
olution." Knicht said of his and
Grossptibucher's experiments.
suppose wo could come up with
something in a montli but more
likely it will be years, or mabe
never."
An East Coast newspaper 'the
Boston Traveler I reported in
copyright story today that Knight
and Gmssenbai licr "arc on t h e
voice of creating lite in a test
tuhe "
"The implications of tins r
port arc greatly exaggerated.
Knight said. "Wc have a tre-
menckwsly long way to go."
Knight said he and Grosscn
ktclicr began their experiments
aixmt three years a-o and have
pursued tliem "as a peripheral interest-almost
a li- bhy."
MIDLAND
GRANGE. 2
p m. degree
Grange Hall.
J U V E N 1 1. y
p m., meeting. I
pracl:re. Midland
issue until the typographers' mon-cy-and-hours
demands arc . set
tled another $18 and 90 min
utes less work a week plus more!
vacation and sick leave. Thi
would bring printers scale up
to $159.
For its side, the ITU local wants
those issues left until last. More
immediate, they say, are the Pub
lishcrs' demand to use more au
tomation in the production of the
daily paper such as type set by
punched tape. - - -
At issue, on the surface any
way, are the two major proo-
lems of management and labor
today: Rising costs in a profit
shrinking industry vs. money-saving,
people-replacing machines.
With computer capabilities har
nessed to the composing room,
this story could be ready for
printing in less time than it takes
you to read it. For a printer
and for every other American in
skilled labor it is the machine
writing on the wall. .
Beneath these issues lies an
other level of complication, the
personalities of the key figures.
Leading the ITU s Local 6 is
Bertram Powers who, in the
words of one of his fellow-union
leaders, "doesn't have a very
good sense of public relations."
What he docs have, however, is
a solid gold strike fund that pays
out-of-work tyiwgraphers over $90
weekly if they are married (as
opposed to about $40 for striking
Guild men).
"It wouldn't surprise me." a
typographer in a working job
shop said, "if Powers wanted to
be president of the whole ITU.
"Well, there's a lot of us who
go along with the strike without
going along with Mr. Powers. As
far as we're concerned, Elmer
Brow n is still the president of this
union."
Curiously. Brown's only voice in
the strike has been a delegated
nod. sanctioning the walk-out in
early December.
On tlie other side ol the table.
on the rare occasions wnen it is
used, sits Amory Bradford
pleasant, legal, poised. Yale
with the combined armada ot
trike insurance and tlie winter,
when advertising revenue is way
off anyway.
It's quite a match, quipped
an out-of-wxrk editor. "Yale vs.
Boston Common."
But beneath the wise remarks
and the seeming solidarity of live
newspaper unions, me grinning
strike is slowlv but surely driv
ing a deep wedge into the ranks
of organized labor in what is
probably the most sensitive tndus
trv in the nation.
The tip-off can be seen in many
wavs.
It can be seen in the face of
the tvpocrapher who lives across
tlie street who collects his strike
pay. puts in his two hours daily
on the picket line, and tlwn works
the rest of tlie day in a non-union
shop. The ITU strictly forbids
this.
It can be heard in the words ol
a photoengravcr who say- "You
wouldn't say tlv.it publishers have
a history of being tlie friend ol the
working man. But I couldn't say
who's right in tins strike "
And in tlie words of an edit ir.
long active in the Guild and sym
pathetic to the long, hard strug
gle upward in the newspaper un
ions:
'.'The whole problem is automa
tion, moving forward and taking
jobs away. But you can t stop it
with a strike, because you re try
ing to fight a battle of the 1960s
with a weapon left over from the
1930s."
And it can be found at its clear
est from an ardent Guild member
who has taken a job on one of the
little papers operating in the
news vacuum of the strike:
You know what they call girls
who do what I'm doing? I'd use
the word myself. But I figure I m
justified."
For the rest ol tlie city, grow-
ina more irritable daily on a fare
of TV s half-covered news, oui-oi-
town papers and a half-dozen
jury-rigged, garage-built tabloids,
the strike has simulated all the
climate of mental illness.
It is not uncommon 'to hear
regular readers hurl harsh words
at their new $ vendors, nor see
commuters to tlie suburbs break
out in niggling squabbles by be
ing forced to talk instead of read
their way home.
The subways at rush hour, once
a symphony of turning newspaper
naccs. now nave me aunospuei c
of an asylum tor mai pauem
marked by vacant eye ana siac
iaw.
More serious. However, is me
strike's effect on the city
and the newspapers' machin
ery.
An unpopular expressway pidn.
defeated bv Dtiblic indignation re
nnrtori hv the press, nas sua-
denly been revived by city plan
ncrs.
Jobs and applicants are begin
ning to pass each other w nn uie
ahsem e of tlie classified ad pages.
Publicly supported arts, cratts
and sales are in daily jeopardy
uiihnni the announcements which
hrini oeoDle and revenue.
At least two ol me cny s aany
naners arc reported to be un
ante to withstand a strike that
lasts much longer. II they go
hundreds of jebs go w ith them.
A suburban furniture store own
er finds that his sales have not
uffered with his inability to ad-
vcrtise in tlie city, iiegaraicss
how tlie strike ends, he may re
vise his advertising program, di
verting the money that once paid
paper bills.
In the civilized world's most
complex pueblo, awake now to
how much it depends on the dai
ly, passing, printed word, not the
least voice is that of tlie pet shop
ow ncr:
"Going williout today's paper is
bad enough. But if you've got
puppies, y ou can't stay in business
without yesterday's papers, loo."
By W. G. BRANDSTADT,
Written (or
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
A disease with a big name can
produce some big problems for its
victims. This is lumpus erythema
tosus LE, for short and should
not be confused with lumpus vul
garis, which is a form of skin
tuberculosis.
LE, too, affects the skin but it
also may affect ' the joints and
internal organs, notably the heart
and kidneys. The cause is un
known. Its red, scaly patches oc
cur most frequently around the
ace and neck. They must be dif
fcrcntiated from the patches
of some other skin diseases by a
qualified specialist.
The patches are made much
worse by exposure to sunlight,
and must be protected from the
direct rays of the sun and even
from ultraviolet lamps. X-rays
also aggravate the condition.
As is the case with many other
diseases, the victim may have
spontaneous periods of improve
ment. This makes it hard to judge
the value of any new form of treat
ment. Because involvement of the
internal organs is likely to be se
rious, it is nut wise to treat the
skin eruptions intensively. All-out
efforts at treatment should be re
served for the more threatening
developments.
In general, three types of drug
are used: salicylates, including
aspirin: cortisone and related ste
roid hormones, and antimalarial
drugs. Once a person starts treat
ment with any of these drugs it is
usually necessary to keep it up
tor a long time. Tins exposes the
victim to the dangers of unde
sirable side effects.
If the joints are affected, as
pirin often gives great relief, but
if the drug is discontinued the
joint pains return. Similarly w hen
tiiere is marked inflammation of
tlie skin, joints or the internal
organs, treatment with hormones
may cause marked improvement.
In some persons the drug can be
discontinued and the improve
ment maintained, in others the
disease returns even though the
patient is still taking treatment.
The use of the newer antimalari
al drugs in the treatment of LE
has been hailed as a real ad
vance. One advantage: very few
side effects even with prolonged
use. Oood results are reported
in about 80 per cent of tlie per
sons on whom this treatment has
been used.
Relapses do occur, however, if!
the treatment is stopped. In the
successful.
Since lumpus Is a disease that
may be present for many years
before a diagnosis is made and
since a person who has it in a
mild form may, after many years,
find that it is progressing to a
serious stage, it is essential mat
such a person have expert medi
cal guidance.
The treatment of this disease
with its variable manifestations
and variable final outlook cannot
be expressed in an easy formula.
It often taxes the ingenuity of
the most skillful clinician.
M.D..20 per cent who are not benefited
by antimalarial drugs alone a
combination of one of these drugs
with a steroid hormone is often
Italy Visit
Scheduled
By Kennedy
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi
dent Kennedy plans to visit Italy
later this year, the White House
announced today.
This was revealed in a joint
Italian-American statement result
ing from a meeting and lunch
Kennedy had today with Italian
Premier Amintore Fanfani.
Tlie statement said that Fanfani.
on behalf of the Italian President
Antonio Segni, had conveyed an
invitation to Kennedy to visit their
country.
"The President has accepted
this invitation and will go to Italy
sometime during the year 1963,"
the statement added.
The statement was read to news
men by White House Press Secre
tary Pierre Salinger and Fan
(ani's press secretary.
Asked whether Mrs. Jacqueline
Kennedy would accompany her
husband on the trip, Salinger said
that "everything is so new about
the announcement that he could
provide no further details.
Jump Asked
In Pensions
An effort to increase and expand
the pension program for veterans
of the First World War is the ma
jor objective of the Veterans of
World War I, Inc., when the new
congress convenes, i
Edward J. Neron of San Diego.
national commander of the Vet
erans of World War I, urges all
eligible veterans to contact the Na
tional Headquarters of tlie VWW I
at 40 G Street, N. E., Washington
D.C., in order to be informed
on just what plans are being made
for the proposals which will be
presented to the new Congress.
Neron asks that all men who
served in 1917 and 1918 forward
their names, addresses and serial
numbers to the headquarters and
in return they will be supplied
with complete and specific infor
mation concerning the legislative
program of the Veterans of World
War I.
The latter organization is a com
On The Record
KlAMiTM FALLS
BIRTHS
SOYS
SCHMOC Born to Wr. ond Mr. Rn
en schmot in Kiamih vaiity Houitai paratively new veterans group but
Jan. 15 a bov woiofiina I lbs, j', on. 1. . . ... r
saylcs Bom 10 Mr. and Mrl G.r.in Dec. 6i naa enrolled over 25.-
a'O sayiai n Klamath Vallav Hosoilal
Jan.- 15 bov weiQhmo I lbs.
GIRLS
HOTCHKISS Born lo Mr. and Mr,
Harold Hofchklss In Klamath Vllv Hn.
oilal Jan. u girt weighing 5 lbs..
OIS.
SIMMONS Born to Mr. anrf Mn
Charles Simmons in Klamath Valttv Hos
pital Jan. 15 a girl weiohmo 7 bt., 9 ois.
mi SUMMARY
Boys: 11 Girls: 17
000 members. It was given a Con
gressional charter by the Congress
in 1938 and now ranks as the third
largest veteran organization in the
country.
Court Records
KLAMATH FALL?
Municipal count
January I. If
Euwt A. Jonri, drunk. 2S or flvt or
10 davs.
Donald Mtrvln Long, drunk. US or flvt
or 10 days.
Vlchatl W. Murray, rhi driving,
minor in dot! i non. fi?5 forfrif.
Roland FIsMr, vagrancy. I1M and 30
dRVl.
World production of diamonds
uould fill about 75 bushel baskets
a year, with 73 of them comi.ig
from Africa.
MOOSE
CRAB FEED
SAT., JAN. 19th
Strving Starts ot 7 P.M.
$1.50 Per Perton
DANCE TO FOLLOW
(w-wmooeRYWAfto
Stephen Austin
"rounder ot Tca
is called the
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brary. RKTIRKD TKAt llKlt.S. t 311
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Comt (n ond it ui
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