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Newspaper Page TextI PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, KUnulb Falls. Ore. Tuesday. March It. IK) dvbiitzL (paqjL Housing Utopia Not Realistic We need the stout "advocates of prin ciple" at both ends of the political spectrum. They sharpen public debate on the great is sues and serve as a useful check on too pre cipitate government action. But it does not follow from this that those who stand for principle are of necessity brav er and more useful than those who occupy the compromising political center. It is not precisely difficult to argue, con servatively, that little or nothing be done. Nor is it really too hard to urge, liberally, that everything be done. The National Housing Conference, a 32-year-old organization devoted to eliminating slums and blight, perhaps illustrated in its newest Washington meeting how easy it is to talk on the side of the angels. The NHC notes some largely unassailable facts: Our total annual output of new housing is insufficient to meet the needs of a grow ing population, especially those in lower and middle income groups. We are not getting enough urban renewal and we are gelling too much urban and suburban sprawl. To get more and belter housing, to ar rest deterioration, wipe out slums and check sprawl, the NHC proposes that the federal government quickly approve vast new sums. Toting up the rough amounts involved in its proposals for expanded urban renewal, low-rent housing, housing for the elderly, im (Casper, Wyo. Tribune) Lower Valley Power and Light of Afton is seeking a $100,000 loan from the Rural Electrification Administration, not for its own use in expansion or improvement of plant and equipment, but to help finance a potential in dustrial user of its power. The loan would be for 10 years at 2 per cent interest. (Incidentally, the federal Treas ury pays about 4 per cent on money it borrows to loan to power co-ops at the statutory 2 per cent.) Lower Valley intends, in turn, to extend the $100,000 loan to an Afton lumber com pany for purchase and installation of electri cal equipment in a proposed lumber mill, and on the same terms. Which suggests that it is time to take an- -oilier look at liliA. The agency was created in 1030 for the purpose of making loans to provide electric power to the nation's farms. But as far back as 1955, the Hoover commission reported that 92 per cent of farms had been electrified. UEA's prime function has vanished. Now five out of six of new co-op custo mers arc industrial and commercial, and the co-ops arc making aggressive bids for this business. Moreover, as cities and industries IN WASHINGTON . . . hv HAI.I'H df TOI.KPANO Latin Amcricun Intelligence agencies believe that the Com munists will strike in Riazil dur ing the first week nf April. Care ful plana ftir a coup d'etat have been intercepted. The unc possible hitch is a vetd (rum the Krem lin. At present, tup Brazilian Com munist leaders are in Moscow being hrictcd. At the same time, oilier Communists, led by Fran cisco .luliao. who runs the las troite Peasants League but takes his orders from the Chinese Reds, is prepared to move ahead no matter what the Kremlin says. In this temporary division o power. Rrazils future may lie. Anns for tlie Communist revo lution have been arriving from Cuba by Hie boatload (or many months, according to Brazilian police. Some shipments have Iwen intercepted, but counter-in-tclligence exierls say that for ev ery rifle seized, four get through. And die shipments arc not limit ed to rifles and hand guns. Gre nades. mortars, and machine guns arc also being sent in a steady stream from Communist Cuba to the nortJieastorn section of Bra zil. With these weapons, the Com munist training camps of Cuba commanded by General Alberto Bayo. a Moscow-trained guerrilla specialist have also been export ing fighters and technicians who know how to turn a "revolution ary incident" Into a full-scale up rising. These guomlla troops have already begun to assemble proved rural and farm housing, we attain a figure upwards of $4 billion. A portion would be in loans. A nonspecialist in housing problems is hardly equipped to question the wisdom of NHC's figures as an ideal proposition. What the outsider can question, however, is how NHC President Nathaniel Keith and NHC's resolutions committee can discuss these proposals for 21 pages as if not one single other claim on the federal budget existed. It is recognized that better housing is just part of a broad attack on poverty. But nowhere are housing's demands on the budget put in a scale of priorities with such other needs as job retraining, improved general education, health, welfare, highways. Nothing is said of the fact that we must spend some $55 billion for defense and other sums to aid our friends abroad. Indeed, NHC says plainly that its pro posed bigger bousing effort has a "first claim on the resources of our economy." Many Americans had thought that defense re quirements enjoy that pre-eminence. NHC's goals are fine. But in slating them flat out in a kind of political and economic vacuum, the group has done just the easiest part of the job. Left to the political engineers who must deal in realities is the task of scaling such propositions to make them fit somewhere in today's baffling array of competing demands. Seeking New Fields sprawl out over the adjacent countryside, co ops are battling relinquishment of these once rural areas to the utilities serving the cities. So the situation has become one in which the power co-ops are competing with the pri vate power industry for business, and the competition is on unequal terms. The financing the co-ops get from the fed eral government at 2 per cent costs the pri vate utilities from 4 to 5 per cent. The private companies pay federal, state and local taxes, which cat up about one-fourth of their income. The co-ops pay no federal taxes and re ceived preferred lax treatment at lower lev els. So it is pretty evident that as co-op pow er operations expand, the private power in dustry is doomed, barring corrective action, which Congress can take since it created the co-op power system. The logical action would be to do away with the Rural Electrification Administration, since it has fulfilled the purpose for which it was created, and is now reaching out into new fields. Lacking this, Congress should at least in sure that competition is put on an equal basis by withdrawing subsidies and preferred treat ment extended the co-ops. Communists After Brazi in the Brazilian countryside. However, the main body will ar rive in Bin de Janeiro just before March 28 hs "delegates" to the Continental Congress ol Solidarity with Cuba, an organization set up by the Soviet and Chinese Beds several years ago. The Congress held its first meeting in Mexico City in 1I and was used as the plotting center for violence in Venezuela ami Peru. Kremlin-oriented anil Peking directed Beds share in the direc tion of the Congress and it is today the most important revo lutionary weapon in the Commu nist arsenal. Iiillerences between lied China nod the Soviet t'n ion may immobilize the planned April uprising, hut this will mean only a change in the timetable. The tip tiff on w nether or not an uprising will take place will be in the leadership ol the Bio con gress. II Julian, a force and vio lence man. emerges as the real leader n( the Congress, then Bra zil is in lor a bloodbath. If Luis Carlos I'restcs. veteran Moscow sloogc. lakes the helm, then there may be temporary peace. Whcllicr an uprising can suc ceed depends on a variety of fac tors A steady stream of rein forcements and continuous logis tical support will lie needed. This must come from Cuba II the Unit ed Slates shows its determination to block this aid by interposing naval forces, the revolt will be dealt a serious blow. On the other hand, there is a possibility that President Joao tioulart, a left winger, may immediately of lor n deal to the Castroitc Commu nist revolutionaries a post in his Cabinet or some kind of coalition. In that case, only open mili tary intervention by the U.S. on Brazilian soil will prevent seizure of the country by the Commu nists. And it is highly doubtliil that the Kennedy Administration, which has tolerated a Commu nist base !H miles oft the Amer ican coast, will have the stom ach for a real fight in the Bra zilian hcarlland. A Communist Brazil will, ol course, lie lite tirst and probably decisive step toward Bed control ol all Uitin America. The im portance of the attempt is such that the Communists i whether in Moscow or Peking1 will reject it unless they feel that they have a moderately good chance of suc cess. But the very fact that they are seriously contemplating an assault on the largest and poten tially richest country south of the bonier is cause lor very deep concern. ltcHirls of Castiot'ommunisl activity m Brazil may be exag gerated The planned uprising may only lie a dream. But it is mlain that whatever happens or docs not happen in April, Bra zil is next on the Communist agenda. The debaters' rilt lie Iweeii Moscow and Peking may delay the attempt, but Latin merican eierts here are sure that it is in the works. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS At dinner the other night, some one was telling about a famous artist who. when poor and strug gling, had borrowed money from a rich friend. Many years later, he told his friend: "I have repaid the debt not by returning the money to you. but by passing it on to a young artist who is now where I was then." This anecdote reminded me of a true and touching observation on that much-abused word "grat itude" made a long time ago' by the French writer, Frederic Paul han. He said: "The obligations of gratitude, like all approved obligations, are a low form of morality. Real gratitude does not consist in lov ing a person who docs us a serv ice and in doing him a service in return. "Gratitude consists in profiting by the service that has been done so that we can act as well as possible toward the whole of hu mankind, and not only toward the individual to whom we are grate ful." Parents often made the calami tous mistake of expecting their children to be "grateful" for sacri fices or advantages; but a child's gratitude docs not have to go back to his parents it should be passed down to his own children. If wc do things for the child in the hope of w inning his gratitude, we arc really engaging in what Paulhan properly calls "a 1 o w form of morality." The higher form consists in wanting the child to behave as decently, as fairly, as kindly, to all people as we do to him. Actress ACROSS 1 Actress, Peering 6 She appears on It Retreat 13 Acting is her 11 Spat 15 Standards of perfecUon Id Kstst 17 offspring 19 Lion 'iO Names (ab.) 1 Kmale "J2 Sea bird 23 Kind of party 26 Sinstng voices 29 llance step 31 Baton for instance .12 Altitude lib ) 33 Manner s direction 34 Peelers 37 Stras 401'nalrv ijM 4t nine 43 Ooddess of the dawn 4S Native metal 48 Hutch uncle 47 Make lace edging 48 Dispatched anew 51 Covet 54 Penetrates 55 Fixed looker 56 She is one of the o television 57 Mimickers DOWN 1 Mutiral instrument 2 Acquires knowledge 3 Most frigid 4 Animal medic icoll l 5 City in the Netherlands 6 Krilish air croup -ab.) I 2 3 J 5 I 6 7 i i 75 n i2 FT" U re ; 16 T7 IF T9 20 2i O 22 V"rj 23 24 2? 2b 27 28 il 30 pi li 32 33 134 35T 'b I J3l 38 39 0 I 1 J4l 42 ' 43 IT" 45 I 140 47 48 4S SO b2 33 54 ijl 56 1 57 I I I . I I 1 I I 1 'Don't Just Stand There!" STRICTLY PERSONAL Artists, after they become af fluent and famous, may be grate ful to their patrons for having given them the initial push; but how many of them express Iheir gratitude by offering the same help to struggling novices? This kind of gratitude is much rarer, and much more valuable. Sadly enough., only a handful of com posers, authors and painters have been noted for their willingness to give a hand to the newcomer, whom they commonly regard as a threat. H is easy to feel grateful toward someone who has done us a con siderable service, but the debt is not discharged when we pay him nif. It is not discharged at all unless his kindness has started a chain-reaction, and we do for someone else what he has done for us. Illness is catching, but health is not. In the same way, ill feel ings seem to travel from person to person, like a contagion, but good feelings usually remain stat ic; they do not radiate outward as they would if wc really under stood the nature of gratitude and love and the other positive emo tions. For most of us, like King Lear, want to get back what we have given, want to balance our emotional books, and cannot stand to he in the red. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS J Who was the first printer of thr Knglish colonies? A Stephen Dave, printer of the Bav Psalm Book. Answer to Previous Puzilt 7 Aneer fi Tradesman 9 for.scr fishermen 10 Mr. Welles 12 (iaclic 13 Scoria 18 Canadian province lab 1 24 Three-handed armadillo 25 Outburst (coll.) 27 Proboscis 28 Crech river 3d Thorous;ht.res 34 Father or mother 35 Zoroasirian sacred book 3ft Lad's nickname 38 Withdraw 39 Flier of a sort 40 Apple centers 42 Scatters, as hay 44 Those who (suffix) 49 Alwavs (poet.) 50 Nears lab I 52(lreek letter s l p-e turn! PjAiT B,EE,F ICIAiKIE SD- SUxMPltira AiTig s i J 1 piMF- A TTsr EisTsfp ERil i Cie'g ' 'nJA'BfoMAi iir ' 1332 CTpstUNiClESag gPNi teJmTde.rP eTa.r , ucHngE,RE sm LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Campaign I would like to take this oppor tunity to thank everyone for all of their wonderful help during the Christmas Seal Campaign con ducted by the Klamath County Tu berculosis and Health Association. Special thanks go to the Herald and News for their excellent cov erage, to the postmaster and his personnel, to the banks, the cham ber of commerce, to members of the VFW and the 40 et 8 auxil iaries for the many hours spent stuffing envelopes, and to all of the friends who gave so much of their time to typing. It was all deeply appreciated. Last, but by no means least. I want to thank the many con tributors. Your Christmas Seal dimes and dollars make it pos sible to continue our fight to eradi cate tuberculosis and control oth er respiratory diseases, also to offer an educational program to the public. From May 1 to June 15, the tuberculosis associations across the nation are conducting the 1963 RD Campaign, an educational campaign to alert the public to the two symptoms of respiratory disease (sickness of breathing!, and to encourage all persons who have the symptoms to see their doctors. "Cough too much? Short of breath? You may have a respira tory disease. Don't take chances. See your doctor." A healthful 1963 to all! Mrs. George Meade. Executive Secretary. Klamath County Tuberculosis and Health Association. Follow Up Last summer, a large group of citizens held a convention. Their purpose was to make a study of crime in Klamath County. In the fall, a complete report of this study was published. It is not enough, however, to merely study crime. A study should only be the beginning, and so it is witn this. The newly organized Klamath County Council On Crime Pre vention was instituted to do some thing about this crime. However, if an organization is to function properly it must have active members. This council offers citizens the opportunity to learn about their community and to" aid it. The next meeting will be held in the grand jury room of the county courthouse at 7:30 p.m. on May 2. Tcen-agcis as well as adults who are really interested in the community are welcome to at tend. A study which is not followed by some action becomes worth less. Carmelle H.irtin Closing I am writing concerning Bill No liVi. Our family has always used Sun day as a day of worship of Our lxird. A dav of family fun and a day to relax from the week of work. My husband and I both work (or employment where we can have our day of family worship. Inn and reL If we are not con cerned about this bill passing we can lose this freedom Please help us to bring this to liw minds of Klamath County voters. Mrs Virgil Koehn. Rle 1. Box 938 By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON 'NEA i Princi pal difficulty confronting Presi dent Kennedy's new tax program seems to be that it's so complex few people can understand it. To offset tliis. Treasury Depart ment is issuing a series of "fact sheets" to explain the details. Each of these fact sheets, how ever, runs a half-dozen type-written pages or more and overs a number of points. It still comes out complicated, no matter how simple they slice it- So even if it is old news, here are some simplifications of the Treasury's simplifications. They are presented because so many people are writing Congress and the Treasury, asking for clarifi cation of points they don't get: The President s plan calls for individual income tax rate reduc tions to go into effect in three stages over a three-year period. The purpose of gradual change is to cause minimum dislocation to government financing and the whole economy. If one mcal-ax cut were to be made, as many people propose, it is claimed the effects might be harmful. Individual income tax rales now range from 20 per cent on low incomes to 91 per cent on top bracket incomes. Under the President's plan the first-year cut, no matter when the bill is passed, would reduce income tax rales to between 18.5 and 84.5 per cent. This would cul revenues $2.8 billion. The second cut in 1964 would bring tax rates down to between 15.5 and 71.5 per cent. The two cuts would cut revenues a total of $3.3 billion. The third cut in 1965 would bring lax rates down to between 14 and 65 per cent. The three cuts would cut revenues a total of $11.5 billion. In addition to these three cuts, two groups of seven reforms each are proposed. The first group is intended to relieve hardship on some taxpayers and encourage economic growth. Five of these reforms would reduce tax receipts by $740 million. The other two would have little effect. The sev en reforms in the first group are: 1. Allow a minimum standard deduction of $300 for an individ ual, $400 for a couple and $100 for each dependent. The present standard deduction of 10 per cent ol adjusted gross income up to a WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Contracts Become Political Weapons By FULTON LEWIS Jit. When Ted Kennedy told voters last fall that he could "do more for Massachusetts." he wasn't kidding. A U.S. Senator for only three months, the President's youngest brother has more than lived up to the now-famous campaign slogan that helped bring him victory by 2fi.i.000 votes. He has done so much, in (act, that Congressional col leagues are boiling mad. Soon alter his election, Ted paid a visit to the Grumman Aircraft and Engineering plant at Beth page. Long Island, in an attempt to secure sub-contract work for Massachusetts. Sen. Ken Keating. New York Republican, said the purpose of Kennedy's trip was nothing less than piracy. New York congressmen. Republicans and Democrats alike, agreed. Last month. Kennedy flew ' lo Bethlehem. Pa., in an effort to persuade Navy officials to trans fer work to Bay State shipyards. Reaction on the part of Pennsyl vania lawmakers has been vio lent. On March 3. the Commissioner i of Internal Revenue, Mortimer Caplm. announced that the IRS regional office in New York would be closed and its functions transferred to Boston. Rep. .John Lindsay, in whose district the old IRS office was lo cated, is bitter: "I am all for streamlining the federal bureauc racy, but why Boston over New York? II there is to be one re gional office it should lie in New York City. The tax collections in New York are two to three times those in all New England. "it becomes increasingly clear that an offensive political slo gan, 'I can do more for Massachu setts,' is being translated into United States government pol icy." Weeks belore Ted Kennedy was to take his oath of oflicc. Sen Ben Smith whose term would not expire until Jan. 9 had lett Washington. Into his ollice moved Kcnnedv, lock, slock and barrel. On Jan. 3. Kenned) s olfice an nounced that two contracts worth EDSON IN WASHINGTON . . . t Kennedy Tax Program In 'Simple' Rundown maximum of $1,000 would remain intact. 2. The present deduction for child care would be increased from a maximum of $600 to a maximum of $1,000. 3. Taxpayers older than 65 would be given a $300 credit. This would replace the present complicated retirement credit. 4. Moving costs could be made deductible when taxpayers change residences for purposes of em ployment. 5. Taxpayers whose income fluctuates widely, such as farm ers or authors, would be allowed to average their income over sev eral years to escape high taxes in big income years. 6. All medical care and drug costs over 4 per cent of adjust ed gross income would be made deductible and the ceiling on medical expense deductions would be wiped out. 7. Donations to public-supported charities would be made deducti ble up to 30 per cent of income. The second group of seven tax reforms are intended to broaden the lax base and increase re ceipts by $3 billion. They are: 1. A new floor of 5 per cent of adjusted gross income would be imposed on taxpayers who item ize their deductions. Only ex penses above this floor would be come deductible. In spite of this floor, increasing tax receipts by $2.3 billion, itemizcrs would still receive an average tax cut of 14 per cent. 2. A 4 per cent floor would be imposed on casualty expenses, such as auto damage, fire or storm losses. 3. Present law, which allows wealthy individuals to escape all taxation when their . charita ble contributions and income taxes exceed 90 per cent of taxable income for eight out of 10 years, would be repealed. 5. Companies that buy group term life insurance for employes would be required lo pay taxes on premiums for coverage in excess of $5,000 on. each employe. 6. The present law which allows the first $50 of dividend receipts to be tax free and gives a further 4 per cent credit on all dividends received would be repealed. 7. In computing depletion al lowances on mineral resources, taxation of income received by individuals from natural resource industries would be changed. . Taxpayers would be required to take into account prior explora tion and development costs pre viously deducted as expenses. $55 million had been awarded to a Massachusetts firm, the Ray theon Company. They covered work on the Sparrow III guided missile. One week after Kennedy of ficially became a U.S. Senator, it was announced that location of a $2 million water research laboratory had been given to Massachusetts. New Hampshire Sen. Norris Cotton, a Republican, lashed out at the contract, main taining that communities in his state deserved it. He charged the administration was "making a mockery of its own announced policies to locate federal facili ties in areas of economic dis tress." Kennedy's office cranks out regular press releases that list the goodies he has garnered (or Massachusetts. The releases, however, are sent only lo B a y State papers. Following are a few contracts, in addition lo those mentioned above, announced by Senator Kennedy's office: The Western Electric Com pany, $19 million for "additional research and development work on the Nike Zeus radar." part of the work to be performed at Wal tham. Mass. General Elecliic Company, $42 million for gear assemblies (or late-model helicopters and T-58 and J-85 engines, work to be per formed at West Lynn. Mass. Raytheon Company. $34 mil lion lor the Hawk missile guid ance and control system, part of the work to be performed al An dovcr. Mas. General Electric Company. $5.4 million for "Polaris fire control systems." work to be performed al Pittsfield, Mass. Raytheon Company. $112 mil lion lor "Hawk missile system ra dar." work to be performed al Andover. Mass. Perhaps llie alxive contracts would have gone to Massachu setts if Senator Ted were not in Washington. There is the linger ing feeling, expressed by Sen. Clif ford Case, however, that defense contracts have become political weapons in the administration arsenal.