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PAGE-I HERALD Protecting The Future The move to change the zone around the budding OTI campus from (R7.5) single family -residential to (R5) multiple dwelling is meet ing with mounting opposition. It first came before the city council when Fred Benioff officially requested a change in ?lhe zone to permit construction of multiple family dwellings in the area which lies astride the entrance road to the OTI campus. Several hearings have been held on the is sue by the council, and most of the facts have been well studied by them. It boils down to one most important point, it appears. That point is whether such a move would jeapardize the future develop ; ment of the OTI campus. :: On this score, we have heard from our legislators in Salem who are attempting to insecure additional funds to further develop -.the campus here. : Speaking for all three of them, Senator Harry Boivin said in his letter to Mayor Rob ert Veatch, "It is very important that nothing be done to complicate or jeapardize the secur ing of these funds." He added, "Where we have a project such as the development of a new campus for OTI, we must first consider the benefit to the en tire city and county, and be very reluctant to "do anything that would present additional problems to our most important economical iand cultural asset." ; We have had expressions from Dr. Win An Expensive Dock Settlement (The Christian Science Monitor) The 31-day longshoremen's strike which tied up 600 ships and idled 100,000 men at .ports up and down the United States At lantic and Gulf coasts is estimated to have cost more than $700,000,000 in lost wages and business. How much indirect loss was caused in shutdowns and layoffs in industries produc ing goods for overseas shipment will never be known. But now that a settlement has been forced by a kind of "compulsory mediation" on the part of the government, (he cost of the ;imposed terms to the shipping industry and to .'users of shipping will be far from insignifi cant even compared with the costs of the :strike. The spokesman for the New York Ship ping Association calls it a "very, very ex pensive" settlement. And a look at the terms bears him out. ' In the first place, the most emotional .issue in the dispute reduction of work gangs 'in northern ports from 20 men to 17 had earlier been referred to the Department of I-abor for a two-year study. This is probably the best way to handle the matter. But it means that savings by mechanization with which the shipping companies could meet the cost of wage increases are denied them for at least two years. Meanwhile, President Kennedy has re LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ; Death Penalty , This k'ttcr I hope may help overcome a prcat problem lli.it I;icps our country today. (lonrpn Yerkovich writes of Hie do.it h of hi brother. Whenever something of this nature happens, we always freem to look for re venue ( legal murdcr. I remenilxT a day in April 10.17 in Klamath Kalis when three yountf children were asleepnot know ing Uutt their lather had hern o4lon out of lied and was !oaten and siMt to death by three iUkt people. One was found gu il ly, and was Mitt to pri.son lor a Jew years. " I'm glad that no one clc died -.ocause of this deed. I sleep pxi at nights, Although I doubt tli.il the murderer does. You mv. I was one of tJioe children of Ujo dead man my father. I-cl's not commit murder, too. IH) away with the death penalty, .Ies K, Kmert, vi;t Harlan Found I I do licit know which mt of the i dnps 1 chnsod out ol mv Jonrcd in liaok yard last rrk lost lillle hrown Irathrr har ness, but his owner may have it j he will call for It, at I don't have any use for It. and I know they are quite CNpcisivi?. Mrs. Elsie Barker, iau Orchard Ave. AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. ston Purvine, president of OTI, speaking also on behalf of the State Board of Higher Educa tion, opposing the move and indicating that it was considered a big threat to the future of OTI! We agree with those who want to en courage private development and industrial growth in our community, but we must also agree that we cannot sacrifice tomorrow's hopes for something less today. There is every indication that OTI will grow and expand into a much larger educa tional institution than is currently planned. This is the pattern of today's education. In this pattern lies an expanding future for this area. The day may come when OTI officials will request that such a building project be undertaken to fill housing needs that develop, but presently they rigidly oppose this move, and we agree with them. Mr. Benioff has indicated he did not wish to do anything to jeapordize Oil. We must commend him in this, and suggest that he withdraw his re-zone request in the light of developments which have shown it repre sents a clear threat to the future of OTI. Only by rigidly upholding the present zone around the OTI campus can we provide for orderly growth toward a beautiful and fully expanded OTI campus. To do otherwise would be to sacrifice the future on the altar of today's expediency. ferred wage issues in the dispute to a spec ial board headed by Senator Wayne Morse, an experienced labor arbitrator but also a pronounced political liberal. The terms recom mended by this board, backed by the prospect of a report to Congress if the shutdown con tinued, involve increased labor costs of 37 cents an hour by the end of a two-year period. This is, if anything, a shade nearer the 51 ccnt serious demand of the International Long shoremen's Association than to the 22-cent offer of the employers. It is enough to raise serious question whether the increase is "in the national interest" to which President Kennedy appealed when he appointed the special board. One of the national interests, as the President and others repeatedly emphasize, is to compete effectively in international trade, .so that earnings from exports may reduce the deficit in balance of payments which results from defense and aid costs. This is not served by permitting unchecked continuance of a wage spiral enforced by labor monopoly. Further, will the example of what the dockworkers have gained by subjecting the na tion to their economic power encourage the New York Typographical Union to continue its strike against New York newspapers until one or more of those publications goes out of business'.' Or encourage the I'nited Steelwork ers to reopen their contract with demands that, would have far-reaching and depressive effects? 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In not a lew years it will pay lot two-thirds, if present trends continue. The ligures are those of Basil O'Connor, a lormer associate of Franklin Roosevelt and now presi dent ol the March n, Dimes Na tional Foundation. In a brilliant address recently, Mr. O'Connor warned against the "perilous part nership ol science and govern ment." He seconded the words of Alvin Weinberg, director of the Atomic Fjiergy Commission's Oak Ridge National Laboratory: "I believe scientists can be overfed and the consequence is that tliey don't think enough." Overfed scientists, with mil lions of tax dollars at their dis posal, are a Hisitivc threat to ex cellence, says O'Connor: "Of course, no one is advocat ing that scientists shoutd be made to build their linear accelerators out of matehsticks. or reinvent the electron microscope. Rut the opposite extreme breeds its own dangers. An oversupply of mon ey not only tempts scientists to spend rather than think, it also requires them to administer rath er til. in experiment " The National Institutes of Health Mil', a federal agency founded a decade ago. annually is forced by Congress to lake more money than it needs. Since l!i.,.i, Congressional appropriations lor Mil h.ie averaged atxnit 'J.) per cent above the budget re quest and :.! per cent atune the previous year. In lisi.tl V2. for example. President Kennedy asked for 8t million tor Mil, up $,U million ti out li.-cal 1!I. Too House lu cre, ised this to $1.-11 million and the Sen. He to $ii.ia mill, on, "com pioniie" ol s?n million 5t'.'i mil lion more than the Administra tion w.inled-u.is lina'.iy aurecd liistll l.,i.-l c.n. N1H i. line out h.id'.v Congress g.ne it oniv $ot mil lion more than the dmuiitr.it:-.,n asked 'I ho President tlu ear has re uucstod million Confess is thought certain to psish this oer the billion maik, despite the tact that Mil Director James Shelte.il has called lor a moiatormm on For the Glory of France Americanism Mounts patient work, is being rapidly un dermined. In very simple terms, the United States is painting itself into a corner. A quick look at the map of the world proves this contention. President de Gaulle has been openly slapped in thj ace hy Undersecretary of State George Ball. He is being referred to by our officials in Hie same kind of sarcastic and ill-tempered terms which, in the early postwar pe riod, led him to seek the hand of Moscow. The State Department may deplore French desire to have an independent nucelar det errent. But by attacking Presi dent dc Gaulle in a manner once unknown to diplomacy it is fore Federal Government Takes Over Science increased appropriations. The rea son: The N I II has not had lime to evaluate its own program. Wisconsin Senator Bill Prox mire last year led a fight lo pare N'llI appropriations back to what the Administration asked. He w;is beaten soundly, but knows why. He savs: "It is a touch decision for any Senator to make, tine can some, times be put in the position of voting. I suppose, 'in lavor of cancer' or in 'favor of heart di ease,' No politician wishes to be put in that position. "But if we arc going lo mean it when we say that we believe in eliminating unnecessary ex iense. certainly when experts like Basil O'Connor on the one hand and others who are actually in charge of the spending programs themselves urge us to limit our sH'nding, we should follow their advice," Note: One week alter O'Con nor's indictment of federal science policy. Aaron Rosenthal, comp troller of the government's Na tional Siccnce Foundation, admit ted that $300,000 in grants had been "misused" hy one organiza tion receiving government lar gesse. The group was the American Institute of Biological Sciences iAIBSi which receives upward ol $2.3 million a year in grants and contracts to snrsor scientif ic conferences and seminars: to develop curricular for teaching biology in hich schools; and to translate foreign science pentHh cats. Rosenthal claims tiie AIRS should repay the government the tollowmg monies, loiahni: J.UI.0OO: 1. A total of SW.'i.OOO "wlui h they received in income from the sale of publications produced un der N.sF' grants." J A total of CUVi.ooO m over head charges. :! A total of SJ8.i which the AMIS group earned hi investii; tcxlcial binds in seciuities and bank. 4 total of Ko.noo for inilaled travel and entertainment expens es In addilion, savs liVscUha', there is evidence the AIRS divert ed at least K.'iO 000 in grants lo pi-oHYts not approved by the gnv. eminent. ing his hand and encouraging anti-Americanism. Chancellor Adenauer is experi enced enough not to let communi cations from the State Depart ment, which Embassy Row has characterized as "insulting," lo drive him out of the Western al liance. But "dor Alte" is an old man and his successors are not prepared to be told off whenever (he Administration gets annoyed. There are now strong forces in West Germany which seek a bill of divorcement from domineering American politicians. In their quiet way, the British are up in arms over the arbi trary ultimatum which cut off the Skybolt program. This has leen smoothed over by Prime Minister Maemillan, but there is serious trouble behind the scenes at No. 10 Downing Street. The British were offered the Polaris missile on a lake it - or-leave-it basis. Now they discover that the offer had strings at tached. They believed that they would be expected lo pay for the missiles. Now Ihey learn that they must also share the development costs. This may be lair, but it should have been explained. (It may be fortunate for us that the French kept Great Britain out of the Common Market. F'or once in the luiropean system, the British might well have refused to walk down the one way street which American diplomacy in creasingly demands.) It will lie a long lime before the Netherlands forgels the U.S. role in negotiations over Dutch withdrawal from their half of New Guinea. Every eoneeiv,-.ble form oi pressure was brougnt to bear to force them to relinquish Ihc territory on President Sukarno's terms, even though Indonesia has neither a moral nor an ethnic claim on the area. Portugal is a small country. But it is strategically located and in cludes the A.ores where the U.S. has an iirqiortant base. When In dia, in violation of international law and simple decency, invaded the Portuguese enclave of Goa, the United States delegation at Ihe U N rclused lo take, any action on behalf of its ally. Nor has the Administration shown any concern over the open conspiracy by Ihe African nations and the Communists to throw the Portu guese out of Angola. Result: The loss of another friend. The Nationalist Chinese, a? I reported some time back, have been mounting a series of com mando and infiltration raids against southern Chr..;, These raids have been successful enough to cause consternation in Chinese t iMiimunist ranks and to torce the Reds to deploy some i'iO.000 troops along the coast which they need elsewhere to maintain or. tier. The State Department, however, seems to be deeply dw t.irlied hv these Nationalist activ ities and it has made its feeling known to the Nationalists in no uncertain terms. These moves by our jvolicy mak eis have sli.ikcn free world faith in the I S T::ey have given the .uiti-Anii rican torccs good ai gu mcnt to use ncuinsl those who h.ive lioen our ti lends over the year-. And they have von us no supi'ortoi's among the "uncom mitted." oi- sottened up our ene mies. In slant, the U.S. has pur sued t':e kind (if intervontiomsm which adds up to seli'dctcating lie-v isolutieni-in. Letters To Reply 1 wish to comment on the ar ticle that appealed in your pa per on Page 1, Jan. 25, 1963, in regard to Government Planned Zoning. As to the effects of planning. I believe these plans were put forth by man: so I say, any man can be wrong in his belief some of the time. Don Johnson, as an assistant director of planning at the University of Oregon, can even be wrong some ol the time: and Mr. Johnson would have us to believe that we, as private citizens, regardless of our own ability to think for ourselves, are not able to function without someone to guide our every step. As to our background in his tory, I have a fair knowledge, as I majored in same. Yes, our forefathers banded together and built compounds. Not to control someone's activities, but to ob tain safety. Yes, Mr.' Johnson, Rome did the very same; but what has Rome to do with Klam ath County? It is too bad that Government Planning didn't stay in Rome. You speak of 1.500 cit ies that have zoning by 1IW2. Yes, Mr. Johnson, if Klamath County was all in the city lim its, I might agree, but not unless the majority wanted it. You say that zoning the suburban areas is somewhat newer. What you didn't say, Mr. Johnson, was that the suburban areas couldn't be de clared slum property and sold for slum prices until the area is zoned. Yes, I can also see why the realtors would be in favor of zoning. It would be a great favor for me if I were in the real estate business. Mr. Johnson says the planning here is solid and reasonable. It so happens, I do not agree with Mr. Johnson. I own property here in Klamath County. Docs Mr. Johnson? I would rather do what I want to with my property than to have Mr. Johnson run it for me. In fact, Mr. Johnson thinks we can't survive unless we have our future guided and con trolled economically and be guid ed for government activities. Mr. Johnson's citing advantages of Government Planning. 1. If a man builds a wood yard next to my new place. I would buy wood from him. But this is a poor example and so was Mr. Johnson's. 2. If it means selling my friends and neighbors down the river to I please the government, then I think il time to m,:ke some changes in government. 3. Mr. Johnson names several counties that have zoning. Bid somehow, he forget to mention how they like being zoned. I won der why? 4. Mr. Johnson says planning can't correct mistakes of Ihe past. My answer to Mr. Johnson is that if the past has been a mis take, thank God for our heaven sent mistakes, for I consider my most cherished gift is my Constitutional Rights, and I don't consider that a mistake. So much for Mr. Johnson. In the same article Mr. Ken Blackmail also had several com ments. To begin with, if I am not mistaken. Mr. Rlackman's salary is being paid by the government and unless I have been misled, the people are Ihe government and government is for the people and hy the people. 1 believe that means the major ity of the people, not a special few. If that is true, then Mr. Blackman's expression of being accused of everything from rape 10 riot, then I think we, the peo ple, owe him an apology. In fact, 11 I were him. I would resign. There are a great many, includ ing myself, thai think the money that is being spent for his salary could be put to a better use. Mr. Biackman, as ihe old saying goes, il the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it: but if it docs, you can't blame anyone but yourself. You asked (or Ihe job. I didn't. Mr. Biackman said there are pros and cons in the zoning laws. I can't or Ihe life of me find a definition for pro and con in Web ster's. Can you Mr. Biackman? I didn't see it as pros and cons in the zoning booklet. Mr Black man, 1 agree with one statement you make in this article and that is that some sacrifices would have to be made. The form of sacrifices that would take place would all be from the little man. that already has given too much. What are you saenlicing. Mr. Biackman? Mr. Blackmail says government uiimg is good for the commu nity more so than the individual. Mr. Biackman, does it nol take individuals to make a community? Or docs it have to be a group banned together to watch what one another docs, or lo have someone sit in an oftice and dic tate' Not tor me. thank jou. Now Hut we have had the four hearings and it is so sv-! evidciu by tiie majority, why should il he nooossary to vote al all. In f.ut. it seems that it would be giving someone the right to vote aw ay our indeie!ident rights. I am sine il Mr. Biackman is eli gible lo vote, he would lie one of liie lust lo vote my rights away. If it is not dropjied, I can't keep from wondering who the next brain waMtcr will be. Ail von people that are concerned with government planning, don't swallow a lot ol soil soap Be w.uc. it is coming 1 wonder how The Editor many before the governor arrives. Mr. Editor, 1 feet it my duty to write this letter to you as I was the first person to speak against this planned government zoning at the first meeting at the courthouse, of the four meetings just concluded. I like to think it was my duly lo say what I really believe in. 1 aim lo give my all to remain free from uncon stitutional government controls of any and all kinds. If Mr. Johnson or Mr. Biackman or anyone else thinks they can confuse me and a great many others about this gov ernment zoning, think twice, gentlemen. In closing, I am thankful I am able to write this letter without fear of punishment. Thank God. Let's keep it that way. Freedom of Speech for all. Marvin Furlow, Route 3, Box 444. Decline Our planners are right on schedule with the second phase of their scheduled determination to zone and control Klamath Coun ty. The present phase being used is brain washing. The Shove It Down Our Throat plan has met with hearty opposition. Now comes the Carrot To Lead The Jackass Into The Fold routine. We are thought to be jackasses you know. What may we expect next? Shall we be subjected to a long line of experts at brain washing? Or shall we skip the long list and have the top man in next and get it over with? They are scheduled to appear here to give us the full treatment. Not you and I, the little men, but the organized groups such as Ihe Kiwanians who have so recently been treat ed to Mr. Johnson. To my knowl edge Mr. Johnson owns no prop erty here in Klamath County, contributes nothing to the economy here. However he feels duty bound to prescribe for us and our future. We may need to build some block-houses such as those built by the early settlers. These may be needed to ward off this new onslaught on our freedoms, our constitutional rights. Planning way back in history was mentioned by Mr. John son. The streets in the old city of Boston were laid out by fol lowing the trails made by cows traveling to good grazing day af ter day. The early method of travel was by horse back. These riders followed the cow trails. As wagons came inlo use Ihey loo used the old cow trails and wid ened them hy use. Even today motor vehicles use many of the old cow trails in Boston, Dor chester and Cambridge. Yes! Mr. Johnson there were planners in Ihe early history of America. The early settlers in this country found it necessary to plan and build defensive block-houses to protect the people from Ihe In dians they had betrayed. From the English King that tried to rule the every movement of the sub jects of his kingdom, even to their religion. The planners were Ihe people who lived here then. All the planning we need here now can best be done by each individual living here i,ow. Plan ning as he has the means and in itiative to improve our commu nity by improving his property. The early settlers planned for a new Free Country. The plans materialized inlo this Great Free Country of ours. Zoning was not one of the parts of that planning. Now enemies of freedom. Pro jectors of Ideology, appear among us and attempt to take our freedoms from us. We should give a long thought lo the peril we are faced with. We really should not be subjected lo a vole on this planning ques tion. The Constitution on the Unit ed Slates of America, among other things, guarantees there shall lie no forceful seizure of private property or rights con cerning our private property. Have you read Ihe Rise and Fall of tiie Roman Empire? That extremely regulated country fell inlo oblivion, strangled by its own governmental regulations. Frank Brarfian, 5055 Harlan Drive. Enough Agreed! We needed a stop light on nth and Pine; but eighu lights? Wouldn't four have done just as well. 11 seems like they could have found someplace, like Shasta Way and South Sixth, to put Ihe other four. Mrs. Reno DrBortolt, IR-Vi Oregon Avenue. POTOMAC FEVER Tiie new Kennedy lax program Likes all the fun out of hie. What greater joy hath man tlian th blight blooms of mid-April coupled with a lasl - minute dis covery of a new tax deduction? At long lasl, Ihe New Frontier has got the country moving gain jieshng and ntnmping on the street corners to keep warm. Rumor: V fellow is dedicating Ins new hnok to tive Supreme Court Title. ' Why .lohnnv Can't Pray." FLETCHER KNEBEL,
