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HERALD AND NEWS, KUnulb Falls. Ore.
Tuesday. March It. IK)
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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
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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
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instrument
2 Acquires
knowledge
3 Most frigid
4 Animal medic
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Netherlands
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'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
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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
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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.