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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
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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
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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
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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.
Answer to Previous Pul
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8 Reddith-b'ue
0 Scent
10 Farm b'lildlnp
1 1 Standards ub )
19 Icelandic work
23 Ice mass
lin Bone
2tiOath
27 Shade of red
"8 Kastrrn liUe
"9 .lomers
31 Wild
3:1 Pink shade
ftUiltra tvt-i
3 pismires
39 Crude tools
41 Subdued color
44 Behold!
46 "The
comet h"
48 Ptnk shade
SO Afloat
61 Cloe
52 Small nail
54 Radiations
56 Winced
67 French town
58 A certain age
61 Plav caller
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UP
Original 1962
1964 Budget
1962 1964 Increase
(in millions)
. 124 149 J 25
. 56 69 13
. 1)6 33 -83
. 1,800 1,480 -320
. 2,200 3,465 1,265
13 244 231
. 5,509 8,144 2,635
. 612 981 369
. 41,840 52,181 10,341
. 972 1,146 174
. 4,026 7,158 3,132
. 888 1,279 391
. 297 355 58
. 264 527 263
63 565 502
. 351. 374 23
. 9,719 11,297 1,578
. 2,598 2,893 295
. 686 810 124
. 556 659 103
. 948 829 -119
'. 1,110 5,712 4,602
. 5,101 5,580 479
. 756 1,481 725
63 67 4
.V.'.. 200 200
.' 200 250 50
$80,867 $107,927 $27,060
V.. Vi" . l- '.'.-."--- .. '. . 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. ,