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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fall. Ore.
Thursday, March T, 161
NOTHING
SPECIAL
"What's New, Chief?'7
mmmmm
IW. B. S.I
The battle of the Ways and Means Com
mittee in Salem to introduce some control in
state spending requires a great deal of cour
age fl.nd tenacity.
No matter whose budget they look into,
and no matter how slight the cuts they pro
pose to make in some of those budgets (of
state agencies and executive departments)
howls go up in a resounding din.
From what we've seen and heard of ths
work of the committee, we are able to lend
our support to their efforts. At the same
time, we know that political and related pres
sures probably will dilute those efforts.
Two points we have in mind are the ef
fort to cut back the Civil Defense Agency
.and to increase the ratio of pupils to teach
ers In the higher education system. Both can
be accomplished without harm to the state.
' We can't get concerned at all over the
threat of the Civil Defense official who says
that Oregon will lose her federal matching
funds if the state defense organization is cut
Schools Don't Get All Of Support
' , (Gaiette Timet, Corvallis)
; One of the big problems with which the
J Budget Review committee of the Corvallis
school district has to wrestle is how much
J money will come to the system from the
State Basic School Support Fund.
; The budget committee has to prepare
the budget for next year prior to knowing
what the Legislature will ultimately decide
on this matter. This makes the job a difficult
one because even if they have a good idea
what the figure will be (say $130 per census
' child) actually not that much money will arrive
i in Corvallis.
i , In 1961-62, for instance, it was adver
tised, and most of us assumed, the schools
linj the state would receive $115 per census
child and they received only $92.77. How
:come?
Well, they don't tell you about the ex
penses for Slate operations that come off
the top of the fund before it Is distributed to
the local systems. In 1961-62 this amounted
to $3,507,014. Here is where that money
went:
; 1. Administration Account 470,000.00
: 2. Emergency Account 320,000.00
; 3. Handicapped Children's Ac-
I count 25,000.00
J 4. Exceptionally Advanced Chil- '
! dren's Account 1,087,800.00
5. Mentally Retarded Children's
: Account 952,000.00
IN WASHINGTON .
Ifcfr' Nuclear Test Ban Fallacy
- By RALPH de TOl.EDANO
The Joint Congressional Com
mittee on Atomic Energy began
hearings March 8 on Administra
tion proposals lor banning of nu
clear tests. Seismic experts,
whose mouths have been
shut by the Administration, will
testify though how much frank
ness they will be permitted hy
their "news managing" masters
is still not known.
Ono prediction can, however,
be mudo. Opponents of further
testing will again cry out against
the terrible effects on the world's
population of nuclear fallout. It
can be added that few if any of
these doom-criers will inform the
world that continued testing is
about as sure a guarantee of less
fallout as you can find.
It is a little known fact that
much of the experimental work
being done today in nuclear wea
pons is directed toward one end.
At present, our great fusion
bombs must be triggered by fis
sion. (The A-bomb dropped on
Hiroshima was a fission device.
The H-bomb is a fusion device.)
The best scientific thinking holds
tli&t the U.S. is on the verge of do
eloping a "pure" fusion bomb.
A fusion bomb not triggered by
fission would lie "clean" of fall
out. It would Just be a very power
ful bomb and its radiation ef
fects would be negligible anil
dimited to the impact area,
j There are, moreover, other nil
clear devices still In tho cxrl
mental stage which, though of tre
mendous military effectiveness,
Iwould eliminate much of war's
Idciiructivenesa. Those who call
;for a ban on tesling are, in effect,
condemning the human race to
the effects ot global fallout slwuld
Hard-Working Committee
to three men. Let's cut the program back to
realistic levels. The geographic location of
Oregon and other advantages leave us less
likely Ui 'ic- diwm of jr'tack and to radio
active fallout than exists in other locations in
the nation.
While we're at it, we might as well take
a good look at what goes on in Klamath Coun
ty civil defense programs. Probably there's
plenty of question of how much worth we're
getting out of our dollars there.
We see nothing sacred in the ratio of
students to teachers in the higher education
system. Naturally, we wouldn't want an in
structor burdened beyond the point of good
teaching practice, but a ratio of 17 to 1
doesn't appear to be too much of a hard
ship. We are hopeful that the Ways and Means
Committee continues to take a hard look at
every item in the respective department budg
ets in our state government.
6. Curriculum Improvement
Fund
7. Educationally Able and
Gifted Account
8. School District Reorganiza
tion .
9. Reserve for Study of the
Basic
10. Migrant Children's Account
11. State Institutions Apportionment
$3,507,014.00
Certainly one way of increasing the
money schools in the state receive
would be to reduce the overhead listed above.
We can't sit here and say any one or all these
items are too high because we just don't
know for what and for whom this money is
expended. But certainly a $3.5 million deduc
tion from the Basic Support fund is worthy
of Legislative attention.
When you hear the Basic School Support
fund is to be increased to $130, $140 or what
ever, you will know that this is not the whole
story. Regardless of the increase, you can be
assured that all the money won't trickle down
to our level to offset property taxes.
It would be much more honest to set up
the budget for Special Accounts and Appor
tionments. The Superintendent's budget
would then receive a much closer look than
it does now and the Basic Support money
would all go where it is supposed to.
there be a general war. The Com
mittee on Sane Nuclear Policy,
which is the most vocal oppon
ent of further nuclear testing, is
therefore the inhumane group
not the scientists who (car that
U.S. defenses will be hurt by a
nuclear ban not based on ade
quate safeguards.
This is one of the considerations
motivating Representative Craig
Hosmer, a California Republican
and ranking House member of
the Joint Atomic Energy Com
mittee. As chairman of a special
committee set up by the Repub
lican Conference of the House.
Mr. Hosmer has been seeking out
the opinions t those who take
contrary positions on a test ban.
He has sent to the press and lo
his colleag to;, a series of papers
prepared by authorities in the
field-and it Is something of a
crime that these papers and Mr
llosmer's comments have failed
tn receive the kind of attention
Uiey deserve.
The most recent effort to put
the debate on sound grounds is a
paper issued by Mr. llosmer's of
fice which attends to list Uie pros
and cons of the controversy. It
docs a fair Job ot summarizing the
opK)sing positions, but the only
iwssihic conclusion alter read
ing the par is that even an adequately-policed
ban would work
against tlie free nations and the
peace of the world.
Those in favor of a ban note
that at present eleven nations
have the economic base and the
industrial capacity to produce
bombs of their own. It it argued
that though a ban agreement
signed by the U.S., Britain, and
lite Soviet Union would pre
vent Uiosc nations from moving
80,000.00
250,000.00
70,000.00
50,000.00
46,000.00
157,014.00
ahead, it would be possible tn
"exert pressure" on them to ccasa
and desist.
The contrary view; France and
lied China olfer perfect examples
of the fallacy of this argument.
The U.S. docs not want Krancc to
have independent nuclear deter
rents. Ditto the Soviet Union's
sentiments on lted China. Both
countries, France and Red China,
are moving ahead as rapidly ns
they can. Where these countries
fall down is in their delivery sys
temsand it is in Uiis area that
we should lie doing our think
ing. U.S. chief test ban negotiator
W illiam C. Foster has argued that
a test ban will slow down the
development of nuclear weapons,
particularly in the tactical field
where the I S. leads. Those op
posed to Mr. Foster's professional
optimism point out that there is
no evidence that wc are ahead
in tactical weapons, that the So
viets claim lo have solved the
anti missile - missile program
whereas ue have not, and that the
only deterrent lo war is U.S. pre
doiulerant superiority maintained
by a refinement of present weap
ons. Point hy xint. the Hosmer pa
per summai i-s the pros nnd cons
in greater detail than is here
possible. Hul il is ot paramount
importance for the citizens of this
country to study all sides of a
question which can mean the
dilfcrence between survival and
extinction. The Hosmer commit
tee papers should be published in
paperback lorm ami if enough
people were to write lo Repre
sentative Craig Hosmer in Wash
ington. I'm sure such a publica
tion would be forthcomitu;.
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Purely Personal Prejudices:
With most people, their religion
is a subsUtute for religion, just
as their sexuality is a substitute
for sexuality; on both the spirit
ual and the physical planes, au
thenticity of feeling and expres
sion is much rarer than we think
otherwise, how explain the per
versions committed in the name
of religion, and the dissatisfac
tions recurring in the pursuit of
sex?
There Is only one thing In
evitable In history: that men
and nations will persist In fol
lowing their short-term interest
to the profound detriment of
their long-term welfare.
The unexpressed syllogism of
all political extremists, from the
John Birchers on the one side to
the orthodox Marxists on the oth
er, was freely and frankly pet
into words toy King George III of
England, when he said: "I desire
what is good; therefore, every one
who does not agree with me is a
traitor."
It is not necessity, but leisure,
that is the true mother of inven
tion; the most necessitous socie
ties do not have the time or en
ergy for basic inventions; it is
only when socioly has developed
that surplus known as a leisure
class that experiment, discovery
and invention come to the fore
front. The life of a lie resembles in
Bible Talk
ACROSS
1 Father or Selh
5 Old Tc M me n I
patriarch
8 He lived 90S
Years
12 tVsert monster
13 Native metal
14 Sou of Jai-ob
1ft Kalian city
Itt Ni'sattva prefix
17 State
18 Comma
molding
20 Penetrates
2-' College cheer
female deer
2- 1 Communion
plate
27 Madagascar
arrow root
Cftr loth measure
31 Brews
3-' Apiece
S3 Kxpire
u Boy's nickname
V Apeiture
37 Unbalanced
S8 Kvenmc ipoet.)
'A9 "Law oT Moses"
40 Bulgarian coin
41 Re sick
42 Italian
amdiment
45 Kdit
49 Fish sauce
60 Mariner
52 Nested boxes
53 Manufactured
54 Ass uo nib,
for nit
55 Siiort jacket
Sri Observes
57 Uncooked
58 Knocks
tiOWN
1 Turkish
officers
2 Circular plate
3 Sinemg voice
4 Masters iFr.)
5 Hebrew prophet
6 Polynesian god
7 Married man
hrvs of mil
8 nilX up
1 2 13 4 I 5 6 17 I 18 19 110 111
12 13 H
IS 16 17
18 rl021
U 125 26 TS" H28 29 30
51 J31"
3; Er "Z
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42 43 j44 VJio 6 47 4d"
41 35 51 " 52"
53 Si
55 ST 58
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47 VVf-" i
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
fant mortality: it either dies in
the first year, or continues to
grow to a lusty old age, some
times for centuries; there Is no
such thing as a middle-aged lie.
The first murder was an act
of impulse, not of premeditation,
and impulse is what mankind
must perpetually guard against;
after all, as Buber has pointed
out, Cain knew nothing of mur
der or death, or even that if one
hits a man hard enough and often
enough he will die. Thus, the
moral of the Cain and Abel story
is plain enough man under
stands good and evil, but he does
not understand the consequences
of his impulses.
Speaking of Uiis primal act, it
is worth keeping in mind William
James's observation that: "Man,
biologically considered, (and what
ever else he may be into the bar
gain), is the most formidable of
all beasts of prey, and, indeed,
Uie only one that preys systemati.
cally on his own species."
It Is an Irony of our nature
that wc cannot punish a bad
man, we can only hurt him; In
order tn be punished, a man
must have enough sense of vir
tue in himself to appreciate the t
justice of the penalty.
In the middle ages it might tru
ly be said, with Bacon, that
"knowledge is power;" in modern
times, however, it is truer to say
that power buys knowledge, and
uses it for its own ends.
Answer to Prevtom Pimle
xr
9 Kirn
10 Above
11 KniRhts
IS John (Gaelic)
21 Ark builder
24 Hand part
J3 Athena
26 Cultivate, as
a plant
27 Ache
S!i Soothsayer
3i Militarist
.19 Cravat
40 Openwork
faWics
41 Bow's adjunct
42 RereU
43 Wlnm
44 iUt ot
Media
4tl Rranuan tapir
47 Craw
48 I nits el weight
51 Collection of
savings
28 Kuropean river
29 Hurdy-Hurdy
301-aban was her
father
S2 1 ill
5; j-Vr- L-
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Monopoly
I would like to know why the
local television station should have
a monopoly on television in this
area. Do they have a court or
der giving them exclusive control,
have they been granted exclusive
possession of all television in
Klamath Falls and surrounding
area? If so I would like to know
why?
Why should there be so much
war and crime on the local sta
tion? They have three war shows
in one week. Combat, Valiant
Years, and Gallant Men. One a
week will do. We are sick of war,
war, and more war. On Monday
nights there are three cowboy
shows in 2Vi hours.
The Sunday night movies are a
laugh, you never get to see them
all the way through. They showed
Moby Dick three different times
so we could piece it together
in our minds.
Whenever they lose the picture
or sound they say the trouble
is on the network. If you are
able to receive another station,
and switch over to it the same
program is coming in good. Where
is the trouble?
If we want more variety we have
to pay to get on the -cable. May
be this is why we get such bad
television from the local station.
This is tlie television monopoly
that the local television station
has.
There is a television transla
tor that will soon be put on tlie
air so we can have good tele
vision in Klamath Falls. And boy!
Is the local TV station fighting
this!
They must think if good tele
vision comes in to Klamath they
will have to improve their pro
grams, they cannot stand com
petition. I hope that the trans
lator does get on tlie air soon.
Maybe it will make the local
station get on the ball and stop
goofing off.
How about it KOTI? Why not
just try to improve your station.
When the translator is put on
Hie air I will do everything to
keep it mi the air for good tele
vision, and I hope that every one
who is tired of poor television
will help to keep the translator
on the air and good television in
Klamath Falls.
Yours Fur Beller Television.
Richard D. Groves.
14:4 Lakeview St.
Hats Off
Here's hats off .to Irene Tice,
and anyone else who stands up
for his or her rights, in this town
of Klamath Falls, Ore.
F.laine S. Duihin,
12lifi MonClane Street.
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q Who were the Lake Poets of
Inqland"
A William Wordsworth. S.imu
el Coleridge and Hubert Southey
w ere so named because they
lived as neighbors in the lake
,-ounlry of northern England
lr What building Is reRnrdrd
as the oldest stone structure tn
th world?
A The Step Pyramid of S.ik
kata. tomb of King Zoscr, built
bout 2800 B C.
In the mail:
"In the February 24th Sunday
paper you had an item in your
editorial regarding the hoodlums
of KUHS.
"In my opinion, only about one
per cent of the students are
hoodlums. The other 99 per cent
at KUHS are clean decent kids.
"You always find fault with the
KU students. Unless we're fight
ing or drunk, you never seem to
see us. Yes, whetht i&ik so
or not, some of us are trying to
help the community by being de
cent. It would be a lot easier to
see the good kids instead of hunt
ing for tlie bad ones.
"KU isn't the only school with
hoodlums, but it is the only one
ever mentioned in your column."
Karen Edgar
A Proud KUHS Student
Miss Edgar has some good
points, but lets her loyalty for
KU override her good judgment.
I agree (and have pointed it out.
generally, several times) that
probably even less than one per
cent of our youngsters today are
involved in scrapes, although na
tional delinquency figures disagree
with this opinion. I must disagree
with the writer on one important
element. The news columns, and
sometimes this corner, carry the
stories of tlie achievements and
accomplishments of KUHS and
other students every day. If there
is no mention, it is not because
we have tried to overlook the
good our youngsters do it merely
means that whatever we have
missed was not brought to our at
lion. And, regardless of the total
amount of good the good kids do,
that one per cent represents the
kids that get most of the at
tention. As I pointed out here
, Feb. 24, a series of fist fights
in the proximity of the school
does nothing to enhance the
reputation of the school.
Well, I see where this eflort
to do away with the Parent-Teacher
Association has hit tlie West.
In Spokane, there's a terrific bat
tle going on between the newly
formed Parent-Teacher Group. Ac
cording to a spokesman of P-TG,
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
Camera Incident
Will Bother Ted
By FULTON LEWIS JR
Teddy Kennedy, the skiing Sen
ator, will soon find himself on the
receiving end of a lawsuit that
can do him no political good.
It will be brought by Philip N.
Lawson, a 21-year-old photogra
pher for the Vermont Sunday
News of Burlington. Vt.
Ten days ago, Lawson was on
assignment at tlie Smugglers
Notch Lodge at Stowe, Vt. He
had been dispatched by News
editor Robert Brusso to obtain
pictures of Bobby and Teddy Ken
nedy on a weekend skiing trip.
As Lawson tells the story:
"As Ted Kennedy turned
around 1 snapped a picture of
him. Immediately alter the flash
Kennedy grabbed my camera from
my hands, damaging the flash
attachment. He then asked me
why 1 took tlie picture and I told
him, 'My editor told me to get
a picture.'
"He walked inlo the lodge and
I followed, asking if I could have
the camera back. At tlie time he
was removing the camera from
its case to get tlie dim. While
he was removing tlie camera from
tlie case the stitching burst open
on one side.
"Alter reaching tlie lobby he
removed the film from the cam
era and exposed il by unrolling
tlie film. Then he attempted lo
close the camera but was having
some dilficulty so lie passed the
camera itself to me and left the
case and flah attachment lying
on tlie desk. Then he left.
"I was so dumbfounded by Ihe
whole incident that I said or did
nothing."
The story made national liead
lines but soon died down. The
anger of Lawson. however, did
nut. He was backed up by his
editor, Brusso. and by William
Loeb, publisher of the Vermont
paper.
Word was passed to Kennedy
in Washington that tlie incident
would be forgotten if he apolo
gized to Lawson. But this Ken
nedy has refused to do.
He maintained that jtwsn
voluntarily gave him the camera
and allowed him to expose the
film. He told newspaper friends
tlie whole incident was a "po
litical" red-herring and blamed
publisher Loeb. who had opposed
brother John for the Presidency
in 10
When it became apparent that
Kennedy would not apologue.
Lawson, and Loeb conferred with
the group has a philosophy of lo
cal autonomy, as contrasted to
that of P-TA which is controlled
rigidly at state and national lev
els. P-TG seeks to keep all dues
money at the local school. P-TA
calls for as much as 45 cents of
every half-dollar for city, stale,
and national organization. P-TG
seeks to stay clear of the super
structure of organizational activi
ty that characterizes most P-TAs.
The Spokane spokesman for
the insurgent Parent - Teacher
Group says: ". . . Wc were sick
of financing the good-time Char
lies at the 1P-TA) state conven
tions, the lobbyists' expense ac
counts, and the salaries of P-TA
officials. Now we feel that our
money is doing something for
our children, rather than being
spent on organizational work.
We have returned the parent
teacher unit at our school to the
parents and taken it away from
the organizers."
Well, it sounds like they're go
ing to have some fun.
At hand are three letters, all
reflecting the honest opinions of
their writers. However, all are un
signed and will have to be chucked
into the wastebaskct, as I have no
way of recognizing who might
have written them. Sending an un
signed letter to the Herald and
News is a waste of time for all
concerned.
I'm not entranced with the
City Council's new policy on
street improvements. It seems to
me that property owners should
retain the privilege of improve
ment programs that assess costs
against the property, and that
it should not be their responsi
bility lo fight off the Council or
city officials who want to in
stitute an improvement pro
gram. Yes. I know Klamath Falls can
stand plenty of street and other
civic improvement. The point is,
they should come as a result of
citizen action and request. There's
plenty of government by govern
ment at all levels now.
Attorney F. Ray Keyser Jr., a
former Vermont governor, and
asked him to prepare for a suit
against Kennedy.
Lawson and Loeb have a string
of witnesses ready to testify that
Senator Kennedy did not in fact
ask Lawson (or the camera. They
ate prepared to swear under oalli
that Lawson's not Kennedy's
story is correct.
Congressman Tom Abernathy
iD-Miss.l on a recent news
worthy event:
"Not so lung ago, Robert Ken
nedy, the nation's top lawyer,
argued his first case in court
and dtessed-up folks came to
see him perform for the first
lime. When I argued my first
case it was in an empty waiting
room at Tomnolen before a great
and good man. the late and la
mented squire N. G. (Nat) Mc
Garrh. Justice of the Peace, Beat
,1. Webster County. Mississippi.
Me and Bobby both started at
the top."
Al
manac
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, March 7,
the 66Lh day of 13 with 299 to
follow.
The moon is approaching full
phase.
The morning stars are Venus
and Mars.
The evening star is Mars.
Those born today include the
American horticulturist Luther
Bin'bank, in 1849.
On this day in history:
In 1876. Alexander Graham Bell
received a patent lor his inven
tion of the telephone.
In I:i6. Adolf Hitler ordered his
troops to march inlo tlie Rhine
land, breaking the Treaty of Ver
sailles. In 1943. Ihe V. S. First Army
crossed Ihe Rhine at Rcmagcn,
south of Cologne. Germany.
In 19t2. U s. Sleel companies
agreed to resume talks with the
union ullnwing an appeal by
President Kennedy.
A thought for the day Ameri
can Sen. Daniel Webster said:
'Liberty exists in pioportion to
wholesome restraint."