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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fills, Ore.
Thursday, March 14, 1961
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SPECIAL
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Hospital Needs Continued Support
The enthusiasm and determination of
Klamath area citizens as they set out to pro
vide themselves with new and adequate hos
pital facilities is something to behold.
Professional fund raisers with long ex
perience and amateurs in civic organizations
with an equal amount of experience are
amazed even awed by the response of area
citizens to "get in there and pitch" for the
proposed hospital. Last night's kick off dinner
was but one manifestation of this desirable
situation.
We need every bit of this drive and de
termination. Raising more than $725,000 in
a community of our size and resources is no
easy task. But, we feel that we are equal to the
challenge. While the suggested goal has been
established at $725,000, it is no secret that we
will need more to finance this project. In any
event, the more money we can raise on the
local level, the less will be our debt burden on
mortgages required to complete the financial
structure of the project.
In our experience with public fund
Where
Nobody really questions that a loss of
freedom anywhere, however small, diminish
es freedom everywhere.
Yet not much is said about the idea that .
the same thought should apply in the realm
of individual, national and world morality.
At none of these levels is observance of
the moral code ever even remotely close to
perfect, and no practical person expects that.
But it is always fair to demand that the
tenets of the code at whatever level be
constantly reasserted, and that departures
from such principles be noted and protested.
Where, then, are the indignant ones to
day? When New York's Rep. Adam Clayton
Powell sought recently to answer charges that
he had abused congressional privilege in a va
riety of ways, his defense was simply that he
was only one of many who do the same things.
Undoubtedly there are more than a few
who think such an answer is both clever and
sensible. What he said is true, isn't it?
Very likely it is. But is that the kind of
reply which ought to satisfy a nation con
cerned for its moral character? If not, where
Is the Indignation?
The logic of Powell's argument is that one
transgression justifies another. Carried to its
limits, that suggests that anything goes so long
as somebody else is doing it.
The end product of such thinking is the
destruction of the moral code. An individual
or a society which seeks to rationalize im
morality has no morality.
IN WASHINGTON
By RALPH dc TOI.F.DANO
The Presidential press confer
ence, broadcast free to the nation,
is Uic biggest weapon in Uie While
House propaganda arsenal. For
the President can, unchallenged,
make statements with very little
fear of contradiction which further
his political position and slam
his opponents. Theoretically, a
correspondent can press a point.
In fact, this is impossible. Ho
never gets a chance to ask a sec
ond question and II he says any
thing which might put the Presi
dent in a bad light ho is consid
ered something of an outcast by
the White llouso and by his own
associates.
"Ask your question and shut up"
no matter how evasive or incor
rect the answer that's the rule
Correspondents who violato it find
themselves under a subtle kind of
' ostracism which can wreck their
careers.
But the fiscal soundness of this
country is too Important a matter
to consign to Presidential kitlcn
Ishncss. If our economy col
lapses, Mr. Kennedy's ability to
field a question cleverly will hard
ly compensate us. The national
defense, moreover, is nothing
which should be used as a politi-
cal gambit. Therefore, Uie Pirsi
; dent's performance at last week's
; press conference requiies some
J analysis. I have waited for the
; Republicans to offer it, hut the
COP is so overcome by its bold
j ness when it makes one good cf-
fort that It generally retires to the
sidelines for Uie rest of the con
test. The President, in discussing his
budget, attacked "this idea that
there are three services and there
fore you can save $3 billion by cut
ting l billion out of each" as
drives, we never have seen such purposeful
ness of citizens as we see in the campaign
underway now. Prominent, busy citizens are
devoting an almost unbelievable amount of
time and energy to the project. The rest of us
can do no less. Or, at least, we tan and must
do our share to assure the success of this drive
the biggest undertaking of its kind ever in
Klamath Basin.
II is especially encouraging to see that
this project is not branded as a "Klamath
Falls" responsibility. Every community in the
area has organized and will play a prominent
part in bringing the financial campaign to a
successful conclusion, as well as participating
in future activity to assure the long-term suc
cess of the hospital operation.
We feel that it would not be presuming
upon the prerogatives of those most closely
responsible for the successful campaign if we
extend their appreciation and gratitude for
the work already accomplished, as well as an
earnest plea for continued interest and sup
port by all Klamath area citizens.
Is Our Moral
A people silently watching transgression
pile upon transgression may well lose all ca
pacity for protest. The young who note this
silence are quick to perceive its meaning.
"Everybody's doing it" is a powerful teen-age
weapon against parents who never wax indig
nant over the adult world's lapses.
And where is the lesson against stealing
for children in homes cluttered with ash trays,
lamps and other objects lifted "sportingly"
from hotels?
You can't sell morality to children if you
do not practice it and preach it widely. You
can't teach self-control in a home or a society
that exalts self-indulgence.
The same goes for countries and their
leaders.
In his troubles with Red China, we offer
India's Nehru help now not because he is a
moral man who has been morally wronged by
an aggressor, but because it is in the practical
interest of world freedom to do so.
If Nehru had any pretensions as a moral
leader, he subverted them when he could find
no words of protest in 1956 against Russia's
repression of Hungary.
Where was the wrath of the pious, self
serving Africans when Khrushchev resumed
nuclear testing on his own? Their indignation
appears curiously selective. They reserve it
for old enemies.
Morality is a whole cloth. "Practical" men
inevitably labor to cut it up. But if we are to
have human dignity, we must at the mini
mum have other men who try to stay the
cutter's hand.
Kennedy Muddies Record
serting, as other Democrats have,
that this w as a part of the Republi
can tax-cutting program. In point
of fact, no Republican has called
for a $1 billion - per - service cut.
Representative Melvin Laird, a
ranking Republican, pointed out
that by proper procurement prac
tices (that is, competitive bid
ding on contracts rather than pass
ing them out to political friends1
some 1 billion could be saved
without in any way affecting the
defense program. Tins is a long
way from what the President said.
The President, moreover, added:
"Now, in addition to that, it has
been suggested that we cut school
lunches, we cut aid to dependent
children." At the OOP press con
ference In which the Republicans
proposed cutting tho budget, not
a single mention of eliminating
the school lunch program or aid
Independent children was made.
There has always been bipartisan
support for these programs and
the sums involved are not great.
Rut it makes tlie budget-cutters
look like a combination of Kbone
zer Scrooge and Sinwn Legree to
raise this issue and it contrib
utes less than nothing to the vital
debate on the budget.
On tlie life and death question
of a nuclear test ban treaty with
the Soviet I'nlon, the President
said. "We would not accept a test
ban which did not give us every as
surance that we could detect a se
ries of tests underground." This
Is a comforting thought. Hut Wil
liam C. Foster, heading the U.S.
test ban negotiating team, has
said that the American proposals
would "probably" be able to de
tect all tests which is something
else again. The U S. has also been
ready to settle (or seven on-sito
Inspections following suspicion of
Code?
seismic disturbances within the
Soviet Union. And the Administra
tion has repeatedly said th.it sci
entific "breakthroughs" in detec
tion techniques give us tlie nec
essary protection from Soviet
cheating.
While the President was talking
to the press, an Administration ex
pert on seismic disturbances was
testifying before the Joint House
Senate Committee on Atomic En
ergy. He stated that of the 170
seismic disturbances which take
place within the Soviet Union ev
ery year, there arc 75 for which
tile U.S. has no adequate detection
devices or techniques. This expert,
Carl Romney, further stated that
at present an atomic cheater could
test one-klloton devices In granite,
2-lo-ti kiloton devices in volcanic
ash, and 10-to 20 kiloton devices in
dry adluvium without any means
available to us or detection. This
is a tar cry from White House "as
surances" that Mr. Foster's pro
posals will salcguaid the nation.
It will bo recalled that recently
the Wlue House informed tlie press
that "several thousand" Soviet
troops were being removed from
Cuba by mid . March. Later,
there was a quiet collection by
CIA that only "several hundreds"
would go. At his press conference,
however, Mr. Kennedy stated that
he had no knowledge o( how many
troops were going to be removed
or when. But he did lash out at
critics of his Cuba policy for at
tacking CIA and the Pentagon for
our intelligence failures. Mr.
Kennedy has forgotten. Criticism
of the CIA and the Joint Chiefs
came from While House sources.
It was the Presuk'nl s critics who
delended them but the press con
ference audience w ill never know.
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By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Purely Personal Prejudices:
Not only beauty, but sexual de
sirability as well, is in the eyes
of the beholder in the Orient,
women conceal their bosoms and
necks, but reveal their thighs in
slit skirls; and the Occidental
man visiting there keeps the an
gle of his vision directed toward
the legs, while the Oriental man
looks only at the Western women
with their necks and shoulders
exposed.
Biographies of geniuses are al
ways at bottom unsatisfactory,
because truly great men cannot
be understood; they can only be
admired. This is why it is easier
to write a convincing biographv
of a rascal than of a genius
we share the limitation of the for
mer, but lack the "x factor" of
the latter.
A woman gets mighty rest
less unless, from lime to time,
she can find something to "for
give" a man for.
The phrase "United Nations'"
Is as big a contradiction as
"civilized warfare"; for as long
as the concept of nation remains
pre-eminent, the unity will last
only when it serves the self-interest
of each.
Few of us are as candid as
Mark Twain when he wrote on
the envelope of a letter addressed
to his wife: "Opened by mistake
to see what was inside."
Speaking of wives, it seems to
me that when a woman nags
her hushand it is not because
Travel Time
ACROSS
1 Harbor,
Maine
4 Lake City,
Utah
8 Seen on a
western trip
12 Peer Gym's
mother
13 Mimicker
14 Asseverate
15 Yugoslav city
ISPanelwork
18 Marinera
20 Alleviates
21 Courlesy title
22 Minced oath
24 KntanRles
26 Egyptian
Rod (less
27 Taxi
.10 liisnitlej
32 Feminine
appellation
34 Used to go
abroad
35 Aphrodite's
beloved
3ft Hops' kiln
37 Baseball lerm
39 Musical
directions
40 Fencint; weapon
41 voyage
42 Cognizant
45 Dried grapes
49 Calamities
51 Negative word
52 European
mountains
53 Volcano in
Sicily
54 Ciirl'a name
55 Miridle note.
(Gr. music)
5S Stacger
57 Flatl ish
DOWN
1 Prohibits
2 Continent
.lltematinii
4 Flavor
5 Three-handed
armadillo
f! F.yes o( cameras
7 (.'Ornish town
1 12 13 14 16 16 17 I 13 19 10 ill
fZ 13 14
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is 19 ir
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3C 31 32 33
3? ' 35
37 W p 35
41 T -si
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STRICTLY
PERSONAL
she wants to dominate him, but
because he has been unable to
dominate her nagging is usually
an expression of the woman's un
satisfied need to be dependent.
The surest sign of a writer
with a tin car is that he re
cords "very" as "veddy" when
spoken by aan upper-class Eng
lishman; most attempts to
transcribe Briticisms in Amer
ican writing are as ludicrously
false and outdated as the Brit
ish attempts to record Amer
ican speech.
If punishment were the answer
to delinquency, as Federal Judge
Luther Youngdahl has ironically
noted, "We would have had a
perfect society centuries ago.
with pillories, stocks and the
whipping post."
Sincerity is a virtue only when
it is accompanied by a strong
sense of self-criticism; otherwise
it can become the most deadly
of vices, self-righteousilcss, which
is Uie root of most persecution.
Why is it that, contrary to
Marx's expectations and pre
dictions, it has been only the
poor and under-developed na
tions that have turned to com
munism, not the prosperous and
industrial ones? Is it not be
cause W share poverty is easy;
to share wealth, difficult?
Air crashes seem so much
more shocking Ulan auto crashes
because taking a plane is a de
liberate act of choice, whereas
driving a car seems more natural
and inevitable than walking.
Amwtr to Previous Poult
(prffix)
31 Figures ot
speech
Dinner course
Feminine name
33 (tyni ot scent
3ft Rounded
40 Kxpunge
41 Kind ot hemp
42 First msn
4;. Stratagem
44 Vipers
4ti Finnish name
47 Fossa - -
48 Pierce with
knife
50 Thrice (comb,
form
Heredity unit
rnerjjv units
Kriited
Kind of lace
Stout lUinls
Simic (comb,
form
Asiatic der
I'pshot
Held
Operatic solo
M) Myerson
LETTERS
Not Needed
I am answering Mr. H. O. Mc
Cann's letter of last Sunday.
I don't agree with Mr. McCann
that we need zoning like we need
traffic laws.
After all, ears are man made.
But God made the land for us to
be free and to toil tlie land as
we see fit, and not for just several
men to tell us what to do and when
to do it. If He had wanted . only
several men to run His promised ,
land He would have given us a
king to do so. He gave us the gov
ernment to do it for us, but not
for them to take over all the land
as they want to.
And I think that all the laws
we need about our land and
homes are tlie Ten Command
ments. Observance of them would
make this groat America the
most beautiful country in the
world.
1 think. Mr. McCann, there are a
great many people who will agree
with me that God gave us this
land of ours, so we do not need
zoning.
Eva Thompson,
4612 Balsam Drive.
Some Good!
At last I have found time to
write to you and I do think it
is about time that once in
awhile readers should write in
and say some good about the
Herald and News.
Without it where would we poor
Basiners be without all tlie up-to-date
news as prices in o u r
shops. We can see and write
down where they are giving good
bargains and we know exactly
where to go instead of running
around in circles. It saves a lot
of time and mothers do not have
much of that.
And another thing do people
think of what goes into our local
paper, (lie time and energy of
all the staff at the Herald and
News, even risking death to get
us good pictures and reading and
taking time to go back genera
tions for good reading. I do enjoy
such reading and our family loves
reading tlie history of the dear
Klamath Basin too.
I hear people grumbling about
paying $1.75 for the paper. It
makes me feel sick at times. If ,
(hey would only stop and realize
it. perhaps they too would think
like our family does. A good
many Americans take too much
for granted, but if they would only
realize how well off they arc. Our
family knows how well off it
is today, after coming to a won
derful country like America.
We all wish we had come over
on the Mayflower but 1 would
not have been alive today to tell
you all this about your wonderful
country, and believe me I mean
it from the bottom of my heart.
Our family thinks you are all
doing a very good job. I know
a pat on tile back means a great
deal or even a good handshake. I
do hope I am not taking your
good time but for a long time
now this has been on my chest
and if people will read this per
haps they will all come to love the
Herald and News, our great pa
per. And once again, thank you
lor all the great work you all are
doing.
One of your readers for 12 years
since we first landed in Klamath
Kails
Fiances Ixiuisa Croxford and
all my tamily.
Husband. Edward,
Daughter. Mrs. Stan Hendricks.
Son Ronnie and family.
Son Derek and lamily.
NOTE: Mrs. Croxlord and her
family came to this country
from England 12 years ago.
I'd like to lend my support
however feeble to tlie endorse
ment of Kingsley Field personnel
and their high sense of commu
nity obligation highlighted on this
page in the letter of Mayor
Veatch. I only hope the citizens
of Klamath Falls and its environs
are appreciative of the tremendous
activities of Kingsley Field people
in promoting the welfare anfl
growth of the community. This,
despite tlie fact that most of
them are here for only a short
time. On the other side of the
coin, we, as citizens, and our of
ficials at every level should go out
of our way to show our apprecia
tion, and make every airman
and his family, if he has one.
feel welcome and a part of the
community.
Maybe someone has the an
swer: At what point does a par
ent change from a "firm" ad
viser to become an irrational
despot?
Unless I miss my guess, more
people are concerned about the
national defense and military pos
ture of the United States than has
been the case for many years. It
is difiicult to understand just
where we are going in our defense
planning. 1 suspect that not all
U.S. citizens are impressed with
the "whiz kids" that are running
the Defense Department. Certain
ly, from what one reads, our mil
itary service leaders aren't ex
actly entranced.
Of-alMhings-Dep't. It seems
to me that the Taxpayers
League could find something
more substantial to look Into
than the matter of how com
mencement exercises are con
ducted in KUI1S. And, I fail
to sec just how the League is
affected by the distribution of
scholarships In the school sys
tem. If I were a member of the
KUIIS board, I'd tell the League
people involved in this silly bit
of semantics to go climb a tree
and look for something construc
tive to tie into.
Not infrequently, Uie matter ot
credit charges by retail firms,
banks and loan companies is the
topic of conversation, a n d a
subject for newspaper and maga
zine articles. There are several
pieces of legislation in the hop
per at Salem touching on the mat-
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
It's hardly carthshaking, but
poor old Uncle Sap has, once
again, been taken. He now helps
foot the bill for training pilots
of Fidel Castro's Air Force.
So Congressman Durwood Hall
(R., Mo) has discovered alter a
thorough investigation of the Unit
ed Nations so-called Special Fund.
Congressman Hall unearthed the
fact that $17,280 ( 40 per cent of
it courtesy of U.S. taxpayers I has
boon authorized for the training
of Cuban pilots at Mexico City.
Tlie airmen will attend a so
cial school sot up by (he Interna
tional Civil Aviation Organization
HCAOi. The school, financed by
the Special Fund, offers training
in meteorology, air traffic con
trol, and maintenance of radios,
aircraft and engines. Aircraft
used in training include the Piper
Apache, the Cessna 172, the DC-3,
and the Hiller helicopter.
Congressman Hall, a member
of the House Armed Services
Committee, says:
"I am well aware of the uses of
these aircraft in military opera
tions, and it matters not to their
military effectiveness whether the
pilots and mechanics and air con
trollers were trained on planes
configured for civilian opera
tions. "The Piper. Cessna and Hiller
models are light aircraft that
can be used for field observation
and for artillery fire direction,
as our advisers in South Viet
nam have so well proved. The
old-faithful DC-3, of course, can
and has done dozens of military
jobs in past years including
cargo and transport operations and
tlie dropping ot parachutists."
It is not only Comrade Castro,
howeer, who receives U.N, aid.
Josef Broz Tilo. Communist boss
of Yugoslavia, is another on the
leccivmg end. Under the 11
12 ICAO program. Tito was pro
vided with three aircraft main
tenance instructors and one pilot
instructor. What these I'.N. in
structors did in Yugoslavia is de
scribed in an olficial I'.N. report:
"They spcat two months m Yu
goslavia early in the year to as
sist in selling up maintenance
procedures (or the aircraft of So
net manufacture operated by the
national airline and in tho selec
tion of personnel to undergo fur
ther training in the L.N."
ter of credit and interest and re
lated things. It seems the most
confusing thing for the potential
buyer or borrower to figure out is
the rate of interest he pays. 1 ran
across an article that explains, I
think, quite clearly what one can
expect in a credit transaction that
involves payment of interest. Tho
situation went something like this:
Suppose you borrow or 12
months at 8 per cent interest.
There are three ways you ordi
narily would be charged. ;
1. You get $1,000 immediately
from the lender and you repay it
at the end of 12 months, plus $80
interest. This is called simple in
terest and you have paid 8 per
cent.
2. You borrow $1,000 at 8 per
cent, but the Interest is deduct
ed in advance, so you get only
$920. Actually you're paying $80
on $920, which amounts to about
9 per cent. This is called a dis
count loan, meaning simple in
terest is deducted from the prin
cipal. ' 3. You borrow $1,000 at 8 per
cent and agree to pay it back in
12 monthly payments at $83.33.
Because you start paying the loan
back immediately, you don't have
the use of $1,000 for 12 months; in
fact, you have the use, on the av
erage, of only about $541 for the
year. So you're paying $80 on
tlie use of $341 which amounts to
about 15 per cent. This is called
flat rate interest. If the interest
was deducted first, so that you
would receive $920, and you paid
$83.33 monthly, your rate of inter
est would be about 17 per cent.
And, I guess, that is the area
where we get involved in "high
finance."
I'm darned if I can see why a
team like Henley's Hornets has
10 go through the motions of a
tournament to establish itself as
the state's top A-2 high school
basketball team. They won 20
straight games in an undefeated
season. Yet, they have to take
valuable time away from books
and education to "prove" what?
I'll go further and state flatly
that all high school tournaments
ought to be halted. They're a
waste of time and taxpayers'
money. And the results don't
mean a thing.
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
American Funds Used
To Train Castro Men
Yugoslavia, Rep. Hall revealed,
also came in for additional aid in
tlie form of fellowships that en
able students to train in civil' air
law, meteorology, airport engi
neering, radar, airport design, air
line accounting, civil aviation ad
ministration, radio engineering and
telecommunications. Some ot tha
U.N. instructors are Soviet na
tionals. Republicans are up in arms
over a White House plan that will,
they claim, create an addition
al io.000 patronage jobs. The jobs
are those available to college stu
dents who wish to come to Wash
ington and work summers for
the government.
Applicants in the past have had
to pass Civil Service tests before
they could get the jobs. At a
recent White House meeting, aides
of the President decided upon a
clearance system whereby the
names of all students who desire
summer jobs will be sent to the
White House.
According to Joseph Young
of the Washington Post:
"Civil Service Commission of
ficials have privately expressed
dismay at the latest turn of
events. The White House job
clearance system may be an ef
fort to channel these jobs in a
more political patronage area,
whereby more sons and daugh
ters of Democratic members of
Congress and key Democratic
supporters and contributors may
gel summer jobs in government."
Al
manac
Bv United Press International
Today is Thursday, March 14,
the 73rd day ot with 292 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
last quarter.
The morning star is Venus.
The evening star is Mars.
Those born on this day include
wnild-lamous physicist Albert
Einstein in 187!).
On this day in history:
in 17M, Eli Whitney received a
patent on the cotton gin.
In lira. President Hardin? be
came the first Chief Executive to
hie an income tax.
In 19.13. Congress approved a
measure authorizing tlie sale of
3 2 beer.