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PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath FalU, Ore. Friday, Marrh I, 13 EDSON IN WASHINGTON . . . fcdikftiaL (paqsL Retain Present Board Setup The explanation by Klamath County Rep. Cprroll Howe as to why )t is not feasible to combine the State Board of Education and the Board of Higher Education is convincing enough. While it might seem desirable to com bine as many board", and commissions as pos sible at the state level, this does not seem to be the case in the education instance. Howe points out the incompatibility of the two education agencies. The Board of Higher Education is charged with the respon sibility of actual physical and administrative control of the nine colleges and universities in the state. Somewhat different (in fact, quite) is the responsibility of the State Board of Educa tion. They certify teachers, choose courses of study, adopt textbooks (on a state-wide level), and provide other services. Actual Unemployment Compensation (Gazette Times, Corvallis) : Just as consistently as fans boo the ref eree" at basketball games, so does organized labor come up with recommendations at each session of the Legislature to change Oregon's Unemployment Compensation laws. The rec ommendations, oddly, are always in one di rectionliberalization and broadening. Rep. Ed Whelan (Dem. Mult.) is the ex ecutive secretary of the Multnomah County Labor Council. He has introduced bills by which organized labor hopes to increase maxi mum weekly benefits from the present $40 per week to 50 per cent of Oregon average weekly wage. This, according to the Oregon Labor Press, amounts to "about $49" a week. Another liberalization effort would make persons eligible for unemployment compensa tion benefits after working 18 weeks instead of the presently required 20 and still another bill would reduce eligibility on weekly mini mum hours and eliminate the $700 base year earnings qualification. Passage of these bills would, of course mean additional expense for every employer and thus for every consumer. This is because, contrary to the present theory of running the the Federal government, the businessman has found he cannot long stay in business if he Increases his expenses without compensating increases in his income. It must be realized, and many people do not, that the employer pays ALL the unemployment compensation Letters To The Editor jNo Bargain ;TIls Is a work record of a rail road: fireman, dating from Feb. I' through Feb. IS of 1963. the hours involved and the wages paid, lie was credited with 1(14 hours and 15 minutes, for which he received $4B9.35, or approxi mately $2.99 per hour. The follow ing explanation will try to show what the railroad companies con tend is one form of (eallicrbcd ding.. The. actual hoiu-s litis railman worked was 146 hours and 45 min utes due (o four road trips that did not consume Uio full eight hours each. The coniwny's bone of contention is that it paid this fireman for 17 hours aiui .10 min utes for which ho performed no service. In other words lie was paid W9.3S (or 146 hours and 15 minutes of actual work or ap proximately $3.34 per hour. Remember, however, if his work bad consumed (he full tirr.e ol 164 hours and 15 minutes, his gross pay still would have been lie samo and would have averaged the lower rate of $2 99 per hour. This is one form of featherbed ding so bitterly condemned by management. They demand that when these trips (all short of a full eight hours, the men shall be paid accordingly. In tliis in stance the fireman would have ' collected about $436.54 for the 146 hours and 45 minutes of work or would have been transferred to some otlier job to work out the 17 hours and 30 minutes mentioned above. .Compare this with the working l6ur and wages of other trades, a carpenter, for instance. A car penter would have 11 eight-hour shifts between Fob. 1 Uirough Feb. is, or total of 88 hours at $3 93 per hour and a gross of $343.84. lie would Uieu have 58 hours and 45 minutes to account for at time and one-half, or a gross of $319 80 and a total check of $665.64. The difference between the fire man's wages and the carpenter's wages for this period would be $176 29. If the rail companies did away with the above mentioned lealherhedding and reduced chock control of the schools in the various districts in the state rests with the local boards of ed ucation. There is merit to the argument that a single board would be able to consider, in one picture, the educational requirements of the state from grade one through the senior year in college, and apply the courses of action and remedies that would lead to the most compre hensive education for the individuals. However, the magnitude of this job is almost overwhelming. It probably would re quire so much time it would not be possible to find citizens who would devote the proper amount of time necessary to do the job com pletely. Under the circumstances, and unless a complete overhaul of our education system is indicated (and we don't think it is) it is best, we think, to leave the two boards as they are. taxes no employee contributes any money to this fund. Most employers go along with the idea of unemployment compensation. They rea lize it is a steady influence on our economy and they realize the value of tiding unfortu nate people over periods when they have no jobs through no fault of their own. What most employers do object to, how ever, is the terrible abuses to be found in handing out their money to those who should not be receiving it. Stricter eligibility requirements should be written into the unemployment compen sation laws of Oregon. We find many cases where those receiving the money are actual ly earning more than those who are required to pay it. There should be a limit of annual earnings for those eligible to receive the bene fits. Also taken into consideration should be the entire family income. Often the wife is still working and drawing fairly good pay but the husband qualifies because the woods are shut down (and he may already have earned $6 or $7 thousand in that calendar year). There is also far too much money being paid out to workers who quit their jobs voluntarily or have been discharged for cause. Oregon already is among the five-highest states in the nation in unemployment taxes. We should talk more about curbing the abuses before we talk about liberalizing the benefits. is used to compute this compari son the difference would ti $229.10 in favor of the carpenter. Do these hours and wages apply to tlio fcalherbedding practices of the railroad employes or the rail road companies in your eyes? hi addition to this consider the responsibilities cf the train crews the millions of dollars of proper ly entrusted to them, llic constant alerUiess demanded of them to protect life and limb of the pub lic and fellow workers. The never ending pressures of being on call 24 hours a day, the irregular hours and improper sleeping pe riods. No wage guarantee, no sick leave with pay, no extra pay for holidays and no specified days off. There is no night differential and practically no time and one half pay in road service. 1 could go on and on about the inequities of their contracts. You may ask why the railmen have not been able to negotiate better contracts; the answer is very simple: They have no bar gaining power as strikes are com pletely talxio, except for a few small units striking here and there to force tlic companies to adhere to rules and agreements supposed to be now in force. And even then it sometimes lakes years to put one into effect be cause of cooling off periods, in junctions and other court proce dures. Tlx rail conianies know the government will forestall all strikes of any size, so they just sit tight and win their point. During Uicse eriods tlicre are no pay raises or negotiations or rule changes, so train crows go on working 0 or 75 hours week wlien called upon to do so and arc lucky if Uiey average $3 per hour. F.ach lime llie tlireat of a strike present itself Uie cry goes up. "Tliere must be no strike; tlie public must be protected," and so they must. But who is to protect the interests of Uie rail work ers, or slwuld Uiey sit back year after year and submit to tiiese un fair settlements without a word of protest? Surely, no one after reading tiiese facta can still sup port llie railroads attitude. In addition to all of this the Proposals rail companies have asked t h e state of Oregon to allow them to eliminate one brakeman from the present standard crew, under the pretense of passing the savings on to the consumer. In previous cases similar to this. Uie promise to the consumer has not been realized. This reduc tion of a man in a crew will in crease the hazards and danger in volved in the movement of trains. This demand is not due to auto matic; trains are twice the length and travel at greater speed than ever before. Nothing has been added to simplify the move ment of 150 cars over those moun tain roads. This request is their disrespect of public safely and that of the employes. Surely the first responsibility of our state is to protect public prop erly and keep sale human life. Oregon cannot afford to disregard this responsibility. Kconomy at the price of safety is a poor bar gain for all involved. Mrs. Tat Short, 234 North First. Al manac By Vnllrd Tress International Today is Friday, March 8, the 6Vth day of 1963 with 298 to fol low. The moon is approaching full phase. The morning stars are Venus and Mars. The evening star is Mars. Those born on this day include Supreme Court .lusticc Oliver Wendell Holmes, in 1811. On this day in history: In 1864. I' lyases S. Grant, about to be put in command ol all Union armies, arrived in Washington lor the first time in his hie. In 1917. the Russian revolution began with strikes and riois in St. Petersburg. In 1944. French authorities in Algiers adopted an ordinance giv ing French Moslems in Algeria the same rights as French rum Moslems. In 1962. Uie U S. House defeat ed a bill which woukl lunc in-ci-eased its permanent member ship from AXi to 4.t8. By PKTER EDSOV Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) - Spear heading the Republican drive to cut between $10 billion and $15 billion from President Kennedy's $108 billion budget for next year are Rep. Frank T. Bow of Can ton, Ohio, and other GOP mem bers of the House Appropriations Committee. Bow and his group will operate under Republican congressional leaders, but they will seek support for their budget-cutting from ec onomy - minded Democrats. Republicans realize they can't succeed in this operation without Democratic votes, but they played this coalition crisscross game in cutting Truman administration budgets in the 80(h Congress and they think they can do it again. If the Republicans and their Democratic kindred spirits can make major cuts in next year's budget, they believe it will help justify the tax cut both parties want. The President's tax reform program is left out of the opera tion. Maurice Stans, President Eisen hower's last Budget Bureau di rector, has done the research job and compiled the figures which will be used as basic for the Republican-planned cuts. Stans will not take an active part in the operation; he'll stay in the back ground as an adviser. During the past month or so he By SYDNEY J. HARRIS "I don't understand Uie great differences in musical perform ance," said the woman across the dinner table. "After all, the notes arc plainly written out why doesn't every capable per former play them the same way?" Many people misunderstand, in just the same way, the nature of the performing art. The music is a great deal more than the notes; and even the composer's precise instructions leave a wide area for interpretation. Schnahel used to say that it wasn't the notes that were most important it was the silences be tween the notes that set off the great pianists from the merely able ones. He himself was more faulty in technique than many second-rate pianists; but he un derstood the heart of the music better than all. When Eugene Ysaye first played the Caesar Franck sonata which was written for and dedicated to him, the composer was in t h c audience. A friend turned to Franck, saying, "This is magni ficent, but he doesn't respect the tempo markings which you have indicated." Franck nodded. "I know," he said, "but it's he who is right." This is the chief difference, of course, between a science and an art. If musical notation were a science, it would be played the Colors ACROSS 1,5.8 Shades of froon nth an powder l. Ttpo 14 Mine entrance 16 Theme (music) 16 Among (prefix) 17 Yellow metal II Eat out (obi.) 20 Chemical abbreviation 21 Ixve Rod 22 Educational decree 24 Eternity Uft Shade of blue 30 Br ft in M Bcv cratfe 35 Tract 37 God of lov : Broadway hero 40 Bell A'!. Full of (mi (Tit) 43 green 45 Scores In bowling 47 Hew 40 Indian 50 Against M Out of (prefix) 55 KernicnUng anent 59 Chair 60 Indeed lAtiRlo-Ir) 62 Minute object 3 Every 64 Eccentric wheel 65 Zoological genus 6fl Crude boats 67 Make melancholy 68 (iaaenua element now 1 Masculine nickname 2 Coat 3 Liiiht green 4 Scrapes oft 5 One (Scot.) 6 See 7 "olortes Si 1 12 3 7 5 6 17 I 3 19 110 111 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "20 21 a knTyrs J iJ TTzTTT 29pT35 3l"32 133 38 39 '"140 41j""l42 43 Ll,S 47 49 1 J J so" bTbT "IPs?!"" 35 56 67 158 5l 60 61 "62 06 37 68 I I p Republicans Take Knife To THE COSTS GO Comparison of Budget With Th Judiciary Executive Office (President) Funds appropriated to President Other Department of Agriculture....;. Department of Commerce t Department of Defense Military Civil Department of Health, Education Department of Past Office... Department of State Department of Treasury Atomic Energy Commission ... District of Columbia. Allowances Pay 13 STRICTLY PERSONAL same by everybody, just as a thousand mathematicians working on the same equation would come out with exactly the same an swer. Even medicine, which we like to think of as a science today, is as much an art, if not more so. Two doctors with the same train ing, the same technical skill, and having read the same textbooks, will treat a patient with different degrees of success (or it is the art they individually possess, not the science they share in com mon, that is the decisive fac tor in rare, elusive, or complex ailments. A musical composition that is just put down on paper, and is as yet unplaycd, has only a po tential existence. As Paul Valcry said, "It is a check drawn on the talent of its ultimate perform er." Scores are simply conven tional signs, abstractions that do not exist until they are vivified by the player who may see fur ther than the composer. Sometimes the composition must wait for its "ultimate performer." Two of today's most popular con certo favorites Tschaikovsky's first piano concerto and his violin concerto were declared "unplay able" by their original dedicatees, who refused to premiere them. They saw only the notes; it was not until years later that per formers came along who saw the music, silences and all. 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'. . v :: v.-, Li.; -..'-;- ' . .'-j-ii-.-: . By Fl'LTON LEWIS JR. Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes. steel hard anti-Communist President of Guatemala, is in serious trou ble. An old left-wing foe, Juan Jose Arcvalo. who served as Pres ident from 1945 to 1951, has an nounced in Mexico that he is ending his self-imposed exile to return to Guatemala and challenge Ydigoras for the Presidency. One reason for Arevalo's Mexican holiday has been a fear that Ydi goras might prosecute him for his alleged part in the T.H4 slaying of Kraneisco Arana. a popular moderate leader. Arcvalo is the author of a vic ious anti-American tract. "T h e Shark and the Sardines." that is peddled by the Communists across Latin America. A self-styled "spiritual Social ist." Arevalo was reponsible for the buildup of Communist forces that led to the Red administra tion of Jacobo Arbcnz Guzman. Arbent. fo" . would not shed tears if Arevalo replaced Ydigor as. Kor more than a year, in lad, he has helped to direct a cam paign designed to topple the Guatemalan leader. Krom Cuban headquarters. Arbent regularly speaks to the people of Guate mala, his words carried arro-j the Caribbean by the powerful Crcch built lran.-.mitters of Radio Hava na. In a typical broadcast, Ar beiu said' "The Ydigoras Kuentes govern ment is well known throushmit Uie world. It is knoun as one of Kennedy has been commuting from his Los Angeles home to Washington while making an item-by-item and line-by-line analysis of the Kennedy budget. Cutting the President's request for $108 billion in new obliga tional authority by $10 billion or $15 billion would mean $98 bil lion to $93 billion figure. The re sulting cut in spending for the vear beginning next July 1 would be from $4 billion to $6 billion. This would make an administra tive expenditure budget of from $93 to $95 billion in place of the President's $99 billion. Possible economies suggested by Stans do not represent an across-tlie-board percentage cut. Reduc tions are considered possible for every major item in the budget, however, including even national defense and exploration of outer space. While no figures are being giv en out now, it is believed that de fense cuts will be sought at a little lower percentage figure than for most of the civilian agencies. For smaller agencies, where cuts of less than $500,000 are considered possible, they are indicated as nominal and no great effort will be made to pare them down. The space program definitely would be cut back to slow down the program and bring it under tighter, more efficient control. The expressed idea is to take the frenzy out of the present crash program. The $40 billion estimated total "FILL 'ER UP!" - x a'tf fly , WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Kennedy Sabotages Guatemala Leader the most abject, most criminal and lackey governments at the service of North American Imperi alism. "The prospects for our father land are bright, and victory is now in sight. The bloodshed by our martyrs and our national he roes will stimulate the con science of all, and together, we will forge, with indestructible uni ty, a fatherland for all. It is now for us lo close the ranks of the revolutionary patriotic front and continue toward the goal of free dom for Guatemala." An eyewitness to the 1950 Com munist takeover recently testified that history is beginning to repeat itself. He was Col. Jose Luis Cruz Salazar. a member of the three man junta that misted Arbenz in 1954. ' Colonel Cniz told a subcommit tee of tlie House Foreign Affairs Committee that many Communist fronts which were disbanded alt er Arbenz' ouster are now be ginning to reappear actively on the political scene. While Arbenz and Castro trained guerrillas work for the overthrow of Ydigoras. some ofli cials of the Kennedy Administra tion have done their best to sab otage him as well In February of last year, Washington learned that Ydigor as was due m this country to address the Organization of Amer ican States and confer with Sen ale leaders State Department ad visers implored President Kenne Budget cost of putting men on Uie moon would remain. Whether the mis sion would be accomplished by 19t8 or maybe 197 isn't con sidered important. One of the points Republicans are emphasizing in planning these cuts is that they will not result in an austere budget. Their idea is to stop budget growth for a few years and stabil ize expenditures so the economy can catch up. If this isn't done. Republicans say the budget won't be balanced for years. They point out that Eisenhower submitted an $81 billion new b ligational authority budget for fis cal 1962. Kennedy's $108 billion budget for 1964 is a 34 per cent increase in two years. "What we need," says one Re publican, "is an adding machine on the President's desk so he can keep track of the cost of all the new programs lie is asking for." The Republicans want to stop "nonemergency public works and put a moratorium on new projects not essential to security. Gov ernment construction $7 bil lion in 1962 is estimated at $9 billion for 1964 under the Kenne dy budget. Government civilian employ ment would be cut back by the GOP economy drive, but it is said this will not endanger nation al security or public welfare. The idea is to cut the planned 500,000 increase of government personnel by June 30, 1964. SI dy not to meet Ydigoras because certain left-wing groups might be offended. So the President snubbed Ydigoras soon after Bra zilian President Joao Goulart, left-wing neutralist, got the White House red carpet treatment. Ydi goras' prestige plummeted at home. Note: Despite the snub. Ydi goras demonstrated his loyalty when at the height of tlie Cuban crisis, he offered to put his army at the services of Washington in any move agaiast Castro. The Cuban threat has not ebbed, according to intelligence reports recently made available to Sen. J. Glenn Beall IR., Md.. Naval intelligence, based on close sur veillance of Cuba from air, sea and Guan'anomo Naval Base, con cludes: "Retention of Soviet military units in Cuba after the withdrawal of medium-range ballistic missiles would indicate that Moscow has not abandoned the concept of de veloping Cuba as a strategic So viet military base. . . . Soviet units are all in areas containing sensi tive military installations of prime interest to the Soviets . . . run ways over 10.000 feet long and underground hangars and stor age facilities are being built, sug gesting the Soviets planned to base long-range aviation bombers and store nuclear wea(ons there " QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What is embraced In i h t term Amerind? A An American Indian or Es kimo. Q What is the Innrat denom Inallon for which I S. postage tamps have been issued? A One-half cent. ,
