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UF.BALD A.VD NEWS, Klamath Fth, Ore.
Friday, Frbruarr 2?, 1WSJ
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
Mental Diseases Are"
Tremendous Burden .
Next July 9, with a bit more than half
the year gone, the corporations of this coun
trythe myriad enterprises which provide
us with the great bulk of our goods and serv
ices, as well as most or our employment of
people will start working for their owners.
What, one may ask, will they be doing
for the six-months-plus preceding that date?
The answer is provided by a cursory
glance at a federal income tax form. The
profits tax on any corporation of any size is
a neat 52 per cent. And this does not include
Ihe swarm of other taxes a corporation is bur
dened with state income taxes, property
taxes, excise and sales taxes, license taxes,
transaction taxes and even, in some instances,
municipal income taxes.
. .. Columnist Henry J. Taylor writes: "Mus
Koltii's corporate state took 40 per cent of
riny profits. Hitler took 44 per cent. Both
The President's Case Against The UN
(The Wall Street Journal)
Urging Congress to approve the purchase
of $100 million of United Nations bonds,
President Kennedy says that decision "poses a
lest of this nation's good faith in supporting
the peace-keeping efforts" of the World or
ganization. : "Good faith" indeed. The U.S. has long
Since shown good faith and then some. It is
other nations that are delinquent in their
UN financial assessments, not the U.S., which
has in fact been paying more than its share
of the costs.
As for the UN's "peace-keeping efforts,"
we wish the President would take a closer look
at what is going on. If he did, he might not be
so quick to applaud such notable examples of
those efforts as the Congo and Indonesia,
while dismissing criticism of the UN from
highly responsible sources. '
. The recent Dutch-Indonesian agreement
nn West New Guinea, Mr. Kennedy noted ap
provingly at his news conference, was carried
mil under the auspices of UN Acting Secre
tary General Thant. It is hard to believe that
anyone could seriously cite this settlement as
a reason for further U.S. support of the UN.
Tor it was simply a surrender to Indonesian
aggression.
' Indonesia's President Sukarno has no
;inorc claim to West New Guinea than Miller
"did to Czechoslovakia, hut he has been pre
paring an invasion with heavy Soviet military
raid. The Dutch, for their part, were not trying
to hold on to the primitive colony; they waul
ed a plebiscite in which the natives could de
cide their own future.
Hut Ihe U.S. and the UN did everylhing
' I hey could to force the Netherlands to turn the
area over to Indonesia next May, with a "ple
biscite" to be held after some years of Indo
nesian rule. As the Dutch premier bitterly ob
.served, "The Netherlands could not count on
:lhc support of its allies, and for that reason we
had to sign " The bitterness is especially un
derstandable since it was also the U.S. that
pressured Holland in the first place to de
'Dropouts
On Ihr ChriMian ft'lmre
; Mnilnr
; By JOMJMMNK RIPl.KY
.1 Thcie is in Galveston, Tex , n
!rohHt known as "PinjHmU Arrnn-
mitus."
It works on the pnnriplr of Al
coholics Annn) moiih, only in this
.ie it is school dropouts helping
nthrr dropouts, thiit is, "kids help
ing other kuls," its Henth ik
I, null, it oi ionizer, put il.
The plan was hroughl lo nlh
i.tl nUciiUon heir when Mr.
I, unit, a reseat i n instructor -l
ihr Inivcrsity nf Texas metlu ;il
In .tra il in li.iUrstnn. drsei ihed tins
unique club at a recent omlrr
nee in Washington,
v lie later talked In authorities .it
liip Department of Health. Kihi
' cation, and Welfare. So impressed
vrie they with ihr success of
(ins pioject that Mr Limit was
tiriied to apply for a research
pdtil lo conlinue and expand tins
w oi k .
Since the domestic jvacr corps,
if approved, would work along
these lines, it was felt that "Drop
out Anonymous" could become
a aluablo pilot project for the
honir front corpsmen.
Thr Prrsidont. so far as is
known, has not been informed of
,liie experiment, but he has re
'lratrdly expressed concern oer
the serious prohlem of delinquen
cy and nfhool dropouts.
Mr. Limit is cnthusiastir at the
nice es of this (ii st D A club
which was launched Irss than a
year aco. with the approval of
IikhI m 'hoof authorities, and the
(manual MipjHii t of two intcrrsled
titiens.
The gioup is a small one, iw hid
ing No unwed mothers, three for
mer dope lakers, two boys with
We've Crossed The Line
liver Indonesia to the tender mercies of its
Communist-loving dictator.
An equally unfortunate reason for bail
ing out the UN is its "peace-keeping" in the
Congo. It's not only that the UN waged a
vicious war against the secessionist province
of Katanga; right now it is trying to put eco
nomic pressure on Katanga's Tshombe to join
the central government on its terms. If that
doesn't work, the UN authorities do not ex
clude further resort to armed force.
Yet Tshombe has repeatedly indicated
his willingness to become a part of a Congo
federation on what sound like reasonable
terms, including sharing some of his revenues
with the practically insolvent central govern
ment. Quite plainly the UN doesn't like this
a bit; apparently it would prefer to break
Tshombe once and for all. And President Ken
nedy significantly failed to answer a report
er's direct question whether he would guar
antee that any bond purchases would not be
used for military action against Katanga.
At the same time Mr. Kennedy implied
that he takes a dim view of Herbert Hoover's
proposal to create a Council of Kree Nations
in view of the chaotic conditions in the UN.
Mr. Hoover's idea is not to destroy Ihe UN
hut to weld a greater unity of the nations
genuinely interested in opposing the Commu
nists, whose presence in the UN helps to
render it either ineffective or dangerous. In
short, what is more important for the U.S.:
Supporting UN mythology or strengthening
freedom?
The point here is not whether Mr. Hoover
is right in his specific recommendations. It is
that there is a disquieting unwillingness in
nur Government even to attempt to view the
UN realistically.
And the President, with the very ex
amples he cites in praise of the UN. has un
wittingly presented an excellent case for Con
gress to refrain from this additional bond sup
port at least until U.S. officials change their
attitudes or the UN changes its reprehensible
wavs.
Anonymous' Working
jail terms, and other delinquents.
Aes range from IB lo 24
Members who have been heled
either In return to school or lo
find a job develop a kind of mi-
sionary zeal, Mr. Limit told the
Monitor, in I heir eflort to help
the ot Iters hnd an equally satisfac
tory solution to their problems.
There is no attempt to force
"st raved sheep" back into school.
It is appal cut that for some a
oh rather than more schooling
is the best anvrr.
Mr. Limit relates these success
stones: A former dropout, nmv
win kmc in an X ray lahoratnn,
with Ihe title oi X-ray technician
and a while uniform. His friends,
liieatly impressed, ealt him "Dr.
Kildaie." and he loves Ihe kid
dim:.
Now another club member hat
lieen encouraged lo train for Ibis
I e of w oi k . still anot her is
It.tinmi; to become a hailci; two
aie trying to finish high school
by going lo night classes; a young
unwed nmlhcr has gone back lo
school alter having been helped
l'i make ai langemcnts for Ihe
care of her child.
1 Helm n to st html is gcnei allv
atlvocatetf m Ihe case of voting
unmarried mothers as p.nt ot
thr rehabilitation pnne-o. In Ihe
DiMric I of I'olumbia ial i!.is
have leen sel up tor thee
delinquent in an elloil to help
I hem baik lo normal, law-almling
lives i
Of his fnvl ilass. Mr. I. null
sas only truer fa. led to benefit
from tile fieneiicc While lie l
present at all nieeiings, which
occiu nine a week, he des not
participate in Hie dmtissionv Hut
(oining with the group, am! en
couraging frank Hi Million of
piohlems. are other teen-agers
these exploiters were pikers compared to
Washington's 52 per cent bite.
"Surely one definition of socialism is the
line beyond which a government gets more
than the owners. We've crossed that line,
even excluding state, county and community
taxes on corporations. In this sense, we're
not going socialist. We've gone. Thus taxpay
ers are people who don't need a Civil Service
examination to work for the Government."
This is the price we pay for two enor
mously different things. One is war, hot and
cold past, present, and to come. The other
is a Welfare Stale. The enormous tax for war,
it seems, must continue to be paid we have
no choice in this. But the Welfare State
coddling us, attempting to shield us against
our own follies and wastes, substituting polit
ical decision for individual responsibility and
pride is something we simply cannot afford.
from the school who want to help.
Some of ihese air school ath
letes to whom the dropouts look
with res ted. or school mem
lcis who have had problems of
their own which give litem an un
derstanding of their less fortunate
colleagues.
Discussions aie no! alwavs har
monious, says Mr, lanilt. Mem
bers sometimes walk mil in a
huff, but they usually return lor
the next meeting Mr. I.tndt him
self slays in the background, does
Ihe chores, dresses in slacks rath
er than a still because he has
found (hat delinquents resent
"men in suits."
Hy calling the group a club,
Mr. l.uuft gets away from any
suggestion of a clinic. It makes
members feel more at ease, less
wary of attending, of speaking
out The club loom is a private
building away from school prem
ises It is futnishetl with a tool ta
ble and a recoid plaver. Soil
drinks are provided and some
times enrtare Total amount spent
so 1,0 is $170. provided by a lo
cal lawyer and a memlwr of thr
Olv Count il wlm hav e taken an
interest in the evpennienl,
Mr l.uiilt I eels Ins own eeti
etn e as a ' dtoout " has gien
him a special undeistanilmg of
I heir piohlems. As- a .low. he was
f-irced lo drop out ot the I nivei si
tv o liei hn dm mg Ihe Hitler re
gime He ital! that "useless
levimg" of staving at home wtuV
other bo s went to schtm or to
Walk
His exivncme with a duplet
o Vcnimhcs n;i mous gave
him Ihe idea of applying the same
svMem of people helping other
people Oi in this cae. ' kiHs
hclptn,; other k'ds, ' as he sas.
Cold War Credo
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Other
Editors Say . . .
JUSTIFIED OR
UNJUSTIFIED
(Sacramento Bee)
It was a revelation, welcome
in one respect, In hear loading
American scientists tell the gov
ernment that in at least one area
of tile national life bigger appro
priations are not the answer. In
another respect, the reason was
most disturbing.
This was the situation:
The Kennedy administration had
urged, at the suggestion of I h e
president's science advisory com
mittee, that increased federal ap
propriations be granted to finance
bchnlarships for science and en
gineering majors, both in critical
ly short supply.
Up steps Dr. W. Albert Nnyes
Jr., a chemist and professor at
the University of Rochester in
New York. He headed a group of
advisers to the house of repre
sentatives rommittee on science
and astronautics and he told the
committee there are more schol
arships available in these fields
than there are competent stu
dents to use them.
Then Noycs observed that no
direct government action if con
fined merely to financing schol
arships, would produce the army
of scientists and engineers so bad
ly needed in this increasingly
technical age. Almost laconically
he said we may have lo wait for
a bigger supply of good students,
or, better put, students good
enough to use the scholarships to
national advantage.
Kither Noycs and the scientists
who serve with him on the ad
visory board justifiably have a
low opinion nf the qualifications nf
today's graduates or the opinion
is iinjustihed.
It prompts one to cogitate.
State Capitals
ACROSS
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Iumana
11 City in Illinois
12 Forcible,
encroachment
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15 Cut meat
17 Abounding in
(Stiff II )
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during Civil
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L'I Copper
2.1 Pronoun
2A Supporter
2S Kippur
?7 Durable ood
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K tied or Black
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M MiH-ril
abbreviation
M Biblical man
40 Governmental
corporation of
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42 Animal shelter
45 Metal rod
46 In flames
48 Discharge debt
49 Compass point
50 Capital o(
Delaware
51 Piece out
62 Capital of
Colorado
S4 Stoppered
W Remain erect
57 Kind of flu
DOWN
1 Capital of Idaho
2 Capital of New
York
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ft Coi lee
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SI
By SYI1NEY .1. HARRIS
It is a truism by now that what
we call "time" is relative lo
the position and sed of the ob
server. In handling children, we
have lo recognize also that "time"
is relative lo the age and expe
rience of the observer. There is
an important psychological dimen
sion to time.
When a child promises to come
in the house at Ihe end of ten
minutes, and is still out alter
an hour, this is usually not willful
disobedience. Children cannot be
judged on the same time-scale as
adults, lor their reveries and
dawdling are geared to a different
clock lhan ours. Twenty minutes
spent in tying a shoelace may
pass like a second when the fan
tasy of tiie spaceship is more
compelling than Ihe reality of Ihe
school bus.
At the age of five, my boy
wanted to know if 1 had lived in
tlte era of the cavemen, and
seemed disappointed that I had
never met any personally. At the
age of six. he knew that a great
lime gulf existed between the
cavemen and me. but he still
wanted lo know if I had ever met
Abraham Lincoln.
Td a child, a father in his 40s
might as well he 150 years old.
The difference between a father
and a grandfather, which seems
so pronounced In us, is nothing at
all to a child.
Years, decades and centuries
are all blurred in Ihe short locus
of the child's mind. What hap
pened two years ago might have
liocn yesterday, and next Friday
is a million vears awav.
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t Home nf
Abraham
9 Of fine
appearance
10 Artist s stand
11 2200 (Roman)
1.1 Contradict
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r resident
vmphotd
tissue
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2A Dutch painter
7ft Above
31 Capital of
34 Common
contraction
IIS Tel
37 Capital of
Kanas
,1ft Retired
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4t Tropical palm
4.1 Conumed
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4ft Arabian gulf
47 Cupid
53 Richmond"!
state i ah i
55 Smallest tat"
ab
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F TKi Tl F A B.rf ll SJ A
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STRICTLY
PERSONAL
Understanding the relativity nf
time, in this psychological dimen
sion, is absolutely essential if we
are to cope with the world of chil
dren. It is a long and laborious
process for them lo acquire the
time-sense of adulthood and some
people, it is true, never seem to
acquire it.
The habitually unprompt. the
inept planners, and last-minuters.
are really clinging to emotional
vestiges of their childhood, and
are unconsciously reliving the
past, reluctant to break with their
fantasies.
On the other hand, those per
sons with an over-acute sense of
time (and I happen lo be one
of litem i have perhaps relin
quished too much of their child
hood capacity for taking the
present as it comes and enjoying
il. They are forever planning
ahead, living in the next hour,
Ihe next day. the next month,
and Ihe present is swallowed up
by Ihe future.
If the habitually unprompt are
self-indulgcnl. the compulsively
prompt arc self-punishing; and it
certainly seems to he true that
Ihe person who is late for an
engagement is generally more
charming than Ihe one who gels
there early. This is what makes
Ihe punctual person so angry: he
tools that people who are late have
no right to he so pleasant. Maybe
lliis is what we resent in our
dawdling children.
AI
manac
TIIK ALMANAC
By I nilrd Press International
Today is Friday. Feb. 22, the
Slid day of IWsl with .112 In fol
low. This is Washington's birth
day. The moon is approaching its
new phase
The morning star is Venus.
The evening stars are Mars and
.lupiter.
Those born on this day include
George Washington, first President
of the I'niled Slates, in IT:H; Fdna
St Vincent Millarv. poetess, in
IK'r'.
On this day in history:
In Itvtn. colonists of tile Massa
chusetts Bay colony lasted their
fust "popped corn'' as friendly
Indians shared Iheir first Thanks
giving dinner.
In tftio, Florida was ceded to
tiie U.S. in a treaty with Spain.
In lull, annul 100 women of
Miami. Fla . ot ganged a "Carrie
Yilion Brigade" to dent against
boollrggcrs. sieakrasirs, and gam
blers. A thought lor the day French
philosopher and author Voltaue
said "l is hotter to risk saving
a guilty person than to condemn
an innocent one "
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q What I S. policy art
tiirth In the Monroe lnrlrlnr?
It guai antced ai! the inde
pendent nations oi the Western
Hemisphere a,un.-t F.uiope.in in
tcrlerence for the purpose of op
pressing Ihrm. or controlling in
anv other manner their riestinv.
.Vso the American continents ueic
hcpictorth n"t to he cnnsideird
as siibioct.s tor Inline coioniation
by Kurosran jewels.
By PETER EDSON'
Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON iNEA' - Presi
dent Kennedy's new program to
attack the problems of mental
health and mental retardation
probably will he severely criti
cized by the thoughtless.
Simple: The New Frontier is
driving everybody crazy and now
Ihe administration wants millions
of dollars to care for them. The
states arc handling this now. Keep
big government out.
But Ihe economic cost and
waste of mental illness and the
humanitarian aspect of the Presi
dent's special message to Con
gress requesting that something
more be done about them are so
great they deserve the fullest sym
pathetic attention.
What's more. Congress in the
past has been so lavish in its
support of medical research that
this new one is apt to pass, for
this is a No. 1 neglected health
problem, right along with heart
disease, arthritis and cancer.
Behind the President's message
are two years of research.
In 11 a joint commission on
mental illness and health reported
on Ihe inadequacy of existing in
stitutions to handle the problem.
It found that a fifth of the 279
state inslitulians are ire hazards.
Three - fourths of them were
opened over 40 years ago.
The 10-year goal of the Presi
dent's program is to cut in half
the number of mental patients
now nearly 600.000 occupying a
half nf all available hospital beds.
Since 11 states now are reported
lo he releasing two out of three
schizophrenics the largest class
ilication of the mentally ill
within six to nine months treat
ment, this goal would seem to he
attainable. Average confinement
is now 11 years.
Last October the President's
panel on mental retardation re
ported some five million mildly
menially retarded children and
adults in America. Another 400.000
are so retarded they require con
stant care. Half are kept in pub
lic institutions.
Over 12B.00O menially retarded
children will be born this year.
At least half of these cases would
be prevented by improved prena
THE GLOBAL VIEW
Showdown Nears For
Communist Leaders
(fr ;" M
By LF.OV DKNNEV
UNITED NATIONS (NEA
President lie tiaullc's rejection of
Britain's entry into the European
Common Market is overshadow ing
a more important development
an approaching showdown in the
Red bloc.
United Nations sjiecialisls are
studying the latest exchanges
between Nikila Khrushchev and
Mao Tse-tung which indicate that
Bed China's invasion of India
brought relations between Moscow
and Peking In the breaking point.
Premier Khrushchev's com
plaints against Mao were aired
recently in a confidential docu
ment addressed to the Bed gov
ernments of Fast F.uroe, North
Viol Nam and North Korea.
Moscow's document, according
to L.N. sources, challenged pnint-hy-point
accusations against Khru
shchev marie in a circular let
ter which Mao sent tn Ihe same
governments last December.
Tile Chinese, in their letter, chal
lenged the Soviet premier's Mew
that India's Prime Minister Neh
ru is a "neutral." The Indian
government, they claimed, "takes
orders from Ihe I'nited States."
Khrushchev replied in his docu
ment that it look years of nego
tiations and much patience lo es
tablish close relations between
Kussia and India China's "un
provoked aggression" against In
dia thus "put Ihe I' SS.B. in a
ery difficult situation."
It was a situation, the Smiet
premier complained, in which Rus.
sia's ally. China, "invaded a coun
try with which Ihe L'SSR. was
linked by firm bonds nf friend
ship and economic collaboration "
Khrushchev is also reported to
have staled
Russia "wanted to prevent In
dia Irom being forced to turn for
military aid to the I'nited States
which was waiting for just such
an opportunity. The Chinese, who
call themselves Communists, pro
idcd this npiorlunity when they
attacked India."
In an obvious reference to
Krishna Menon, India's former
defense minister fired by Prime
Minister Nehru alter Ihe Chinese
invasion. Khrushchev said
In addition, "e lost one nf our
trustworthy friends among India's
leaders and all because he relied
on our help "
Khrushchev a.un urged Mao
Tsr-tun; to rcsoie Ins dttlerences
with Nehru through peaceful talks.
' Why don't the Chinese comrades
understand that in r.isf of another
attai k India Mill he suampefl
with Anicriian and British mill
laiv aid"" he akrd
Howner. instead of adopting
Moscow's time piopnsal Man Tse.
tunc is reported to be mirnsihinj
tal and post partum hygiene and
educatinn lor mothers.
The cost of mental illness and
retardation In the nation is now
put at $1.8 billion. It is both too
much and not enough.
Tile cost of the president's new
five-year program to treat and
cure mental illnesses is almost
impossible to estimate from his
message or from supplementary
data furnished by Department of
Health. Kducalion and Welfare.
It is conceded, however, that lh
cost could run to hundreds of
millions of dollars more each year
until the number of mental pa
tients can be reduced.
Figures may be clarified when
the administration sends tn Con
gress draft legislation on four
new bills to carry out the Presi
dent's program. About $!I8 mil
lion is included in Ihe President's
budget message for the fiscal year
beginning next July 1 on mental
health programs already author
ized. For lirst-year operations of the
new programs, 11.3 million will
he requested. Of this, $6 million
would be for incentive grants to
the states to construct three
later to be increased to 10 men
tal retardation centers. The ap
propriation request wnuld he in
creased to $:10 million for the
third year.
For planning comprehensive ac
tion to combat mental retardation,
grants of $10.5 million will he
asked the first year. This would
include a $10 million increase as
first step to doubling within sev
en years the $50 million now au
thorized for child health and crip
pled children's services.
For expansion of vocational re
habilitation services for Ihe men
tally ill and retarded, $.i.l) mil
lion would be asked on top of
existing grants of Slut million lo
the states for all vocational train
ing. These three programs are only
starlet's. For the next fiscal year,
beginning July I, WM, requests
wnuld he made for Ihe construc
tion of several hundred community
health centers lo treat mental ill
nesses. Some would be additional
wings on existing institutions, oth
ers would cost up to $.1 million
apiece
21.
his eflnrls In form his own Red
bloc.
governments and Red parties nf
Asia, Alrica and Latin America
are subjected lo increased pres
sure from the Chinese lo follow
Peking's "revolutionary brink
manship" and not Moscow's cur
rent soil policy.
China's People's Daily printed
an account of the recent Red con
clave in East Berlin in which
Khrushchev was denounced hy
name for his "open and crude
attacks on the Chinese Communist
Party and other fraternal parties
which adhere to Marxism-Leninism."
This was the first time in
Ihe Russian-Chinese quarrel that
the Soviet premier was subject
ed by name tn puhlic condemna
tion as a "revisionist."
Moscow's Pravda retaliated hy
printing nn its front page Khrush
chev's "warm greetings" to Prime
Minister Nehru in which Ihe Sovi
et premier said among other
things: "The relations of close
friendship and collaboration that
exist between our countries cor
rosjmnd to the best interests ot
the Soviet and Indian people."
This was another first in tin
struggle between the Bed giants.
In Ihe view nf U.N. specialists, it
is unprecedented in the history of
commuinsm that Marzisl-Leninist
Russia should openly encourage a
"capitalist" nation engaged in a
military conllict with a "frater
nal" Hod country.
How much further. Iboy ask.
ran Khrushchev and Mao go in
denouncing each other without
touching nlf a major break'
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Purchase
I protested at the Feh. 4 city
council Ihe lack of protection
at school events and puhlic meet
ings. I protested the destruction tn
private properly.
Did the council say they would
investigate and increase the po
lice force if necessary? No!
Instead they are spending Wt.OOO
nf the taxpayers' money (or land
acquisition.
Fery citizen who heard Ihe
Crime Prevention Committee's re
port should get behind it and
demand this M.nnn be spent on pn.
lice pronation, not land
I-r! 5 support our police, get
more of (hem. pay Ihrm better,
and get a Isrtter name for Klam
ath Falls.
H r. Head,