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4 PACE -A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falll, Ore. Wednesday, March 20. 19M EDSON INI WASHINGTON "More News From Congress, Chief!" Old-Age Legislation Has High Objectives , ft . r 1 - i V I1 i' The average American finds the gather ing of foreign intelligence a pretty remote and mystifying business. This makes it glam orous but difficult for him, or his representa tives, to appraise. Some harsh things have been said about our intelligence gatherers' efforts with re spect to the Soviet build-up in Cuba. Many citizens may be sufficiently charged up emotionally to agree with the general judgment that there was a failure somewhere. Vet the heavy bombardment of comment does not help them decide exactly where. Maybe the issue, as it relates to Cuba, can be narrowed down. One problem that has arisen in the Cuban affair Is how exhaustively we can rely upon aerial reconnaissance. Despite amateur skepticism, the evidence appears strong that such aerial spying is amazingly effective under suitable conditions. The aerial camera records great detail, even from high altitude. Photo interpreters have developed superb techniques for analyzing the pictures. But reporters looking back on the Cuban crisis of 1962 note that while the camera counted 42 offensive missiles outbound from Cuba, it never saw more than 30 on the ground at the sites earlier. Notwithstanding assurances from de fense officials that there was no "photo gap" in the weeks just before the big reconnais sance find of Oct. 14, it "is also a fact that very little has been shown to indicate how the big missiles and supporting systems got across Cuba to the developing sites. To the extent they were not found until at the site, to the extent that some were never Traditions (Coot Bay World) Every now and then the rapidly chang ing pattern of the era in which we live is il luminated and emphasized by some minor event. The thought occurred to us the other day when International Paper Company's public relations man and IP Log editor, Curt Copenhagen, mentioned that he was doing a story on one of the vanishing traditions of the logging industry: the rafting and river transporting of logs. The trundling of log trucks over the high ways spell out the change, but in parts of Southwestern Oregon the colorful log rafts continue to move against the magnificent back ground of scenery. We are thinking especial ly of the Smith River timber access roads to the log dumps, such as the mammoth concrete dump provided by the Bureau of Land Man agement just below the North Fork. There Letters Suggestions We who are opposed to Hie split schedule are still not satis fied that a solution to the pri mary problem in the extended schedule, the lunch period dis turbance, cannot bo found. Wo still feel stongly that though from an administrative point of view the split schedule may provide lower headaches, it will present even more serious problems for the students, the home and the community. Tlie administrators are parents with high school chil dren and they are, in my opin ion outstanding, sincere and dedi cated men, but I feel they have not looked at this problem hard enough yet from the point of view of a parent or of the community or they would have been more rccopuvc to Die suggestions of fered by (lie parents Thursday night. Tlie primary problem Uiat we seemed unable to help them with was tlint of the general confu sion inherent in having the entire student body in tlie school dur ing the three lunch periods. 1 still think that this is solvable. The problem, as I sec it. Is to find some place for those who arc at lunch to go so tliat they may be required to stay out of the halls. By breaking each lunch group into two. as we suggested Thurs day night, so that room other titan tlie cafeteria be found for approximately .150 at a time in stead of 7O0, I now think it could be done. There is already the Klamath Auditorium (tor active play and dancing), and the chorus and band rooms arc admittedly avail able (for talking and visiting, since they are sound proof and away from otlier classrooms i, and tlien what about moving down those portable OTI class rooms (for studying!, Mr. Hunsaker? A student Mould not have to le required to be in any particular place but could be required not Out Of Camera Range seen by our flying cameras, aerial reconnais sance may be judged to have fallen short of total reliability. The Russians may have moved the wea pons largely at night, using ground cover to hide them by day. From time to time they may also have been helped by cloud cover. Beyond this we need to know whether there was any lack of persistence on our part, whether we failed to send out missions on some "good picture" days. However all this adds up, enough is al ready known to suggest that aerial spying cannot do the whole job. The use of intelligence agents as a prime source of information is as old as history. But Cuba presents special difficulties in this field. The inflow of Cuban refugees, many bearing tales quickly proved to be wildly in accurate, has tended to cast an aura of un reliability over all "ground" intelligence even some of that from established agents. Latins can be excitable. Many would like to convince us that invasion of their homeland is an early necessity. Yet for centuries before the aerial cam era, agents were the chief reliance. Obvious ly we need them still. Their evidence is harder to sell to skep tical neutrals, and allies, than are good pic tures. But in our quest for clinching proof, it is possible our experts have themselves re solved too many doubts on the side of filial skepticism. ' If we do not have agents we can trust to be accurate, we should get some. For weather and darkness alone assure that there will al ways be some gaps in the story our cameras can tell. Of Logging the truck cargo is hoisted into the river, and the logs herded by agile little log boats. One can almost hear an echo of the cattle drive call "Herd 'em up . . . head 'cm out!" as the logs are wrangled into rafts. It is a picture we hope doesn't vanish too soon. Nothing can compensate for the picture of the jaunty, impudent and spunky tug boat, battered and uncouth, chugging along towing a long raft or series of rafts with a Popeye-the-sailor don't-give-a-damn air. The method will no doubt continue up Smith River for some time, unless transportation is improved. But the timber harvesting industry will lose in color what it gains in efficiency as log trucks replace the tug boat moving with that impudence and nmjesty, and seeming disdain for all that is trivial in human affairs against the background of the river, the hills and the forests, hauling its cargo to the mills. To The Edit to be In the halls as long as there was anotlicr place avail able for him to be. Since some students already go elsewhere during lunch hour, I feci sure tlicre would be enough sace tor those who need It. In bad weath er 1 would favor running a bus to and from the auditorium if necessary. 1 think tlie bulk of the student body would be very cooperative as they arc no happi er about tlie idea of split sched ule than their parent'. Among tlie objections raised to the split schedule were, first and foremost, that only five subjects would be offered (and night class es would be a poor solution to that; juvenile delinquency would jump: home discipline, even in the most careful home, would .sill ier, to say nothing ol general to sometimes serious disruption of home life: it would put many students on the streets in the dark, morning or night, whether bus or non bus students; the ad ministration admits there will lie morale and school spirit prob lems: clubs athletics, music and ait are sure to suiter: Main Street will become a drag strip all day as well as night: to name the more obvious and serious ones. Is it worth trnduig administrative headaclies lor these community wide ones? We. tlie parents, are satisfied with 111 education our children have been revolving this year un der the extended schedule, though rcaliiing it is dilficult ami only a stop gap. We must continue to work diligently lor a permanent solution to the overall problem of an overcrowded high school Mrs. Ted Hylc. 1320 I'acilic Terrace. KU Schedule 1 (eel compelled to write this let ter in protest of tlie recent de cision of the scliool board to adopt a split schedule for Klamath I'll ion High School next year. My Duikouul ubjtisUuo to (his Vanishing or plan is based primarily on the fact that it would limit each stu dent, regardless of ability or de sire, to five subjects and these five subjects include physical ed ucation at the freshman, sopho more levels. This is not, there fore, a desirable solution to the problem we face. I strongly oppose any loss of curriculum, and would like to emphasize my dissatisfaction with a plan which would lower to a min imum the educational standards and advantages at K U. With in creasingly higher and more com petitive college entrance require ments, our high school graduates need every advantage of broader and better preparations, in order to compete successfully at the college level a minimal edu cationnl plan is just not good enough. I am in full sympathy with the obstacles and disadvantages fac ing students, teachers, and ad ministrators in a teaching situa tion where noise and truancy have become major problems. However, cannot these very prob lems be the issue" And cannot more help, euopcrnlioii. and al trillion be directed toward solv ing these problems unlil a work able, permanent solution is com posed lor K U. students which will lesult in the expanded facilities they obviously noixl and must have? It is wrong in principle to sac rifice the scholastic advantages in our high school situation to the very lesser advantage of organ ized discipline desirable ns less noise may lie Tlie fact tli.it a building plan was voted on and dcleated does not mean that one cannot be voted on and passed but until tins is a reality, we can not withhold from these young sters one single academic adv an tage now available at K.f. by hastily or thoughtlessly limiting their curriculum on a split sched ule plan. Mrs George K Nicholson By SVDNKY J. HARRIS Driving down one of the main streets in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last month, I spied the large sign of a store front: "Anti-Communist Bookshop." H was Sunday and the store was closed, or f would have stopped in to browse. Communism is a way of life we dislike; but anti-communism as a way of life can be just as repulsive. Nobody can built a life on negatives, on being against something for when that some thing collapses, then there is nothing left to hold us together. An anti-Communist book store strikes me as a foolish venture, if nothing worse. Certainly the American public needs educating about world affairs, about the vir tues and defects of competing sys tems; what it does not need is more anti - Communist propa ganda. The best way to fight commu nism and I am talking here about the ideological threat, not the military one is to compre hend our own system, and to live up to it. If we genuinely under stand the open, dynamic, egali tarian basis of our American com-' mnnwealth, we will be immune to the ideological virus of com munism. The worst way to fight it and the only way that the super-patriots seem to know is to per secute it as a religious heresy, with anathemas and witch-hunts and loyalty oaths and all the dubi ous techniques that arc more ap propriate to a fascist system than to our own. II we really understand what Military Talk ACROSS Triming Soldier a meal i MiliUry ueaon llelirrw month Knthususlic ardor Cortdcs of lllfdliuhon 39 Dining hall iSp 1 41 Suffix 4L laal point 44 Clan 45 Alarm 4!l Appreciation S;l Slittht flap 54 l-ird metiers SH Knlire 57 Preposition 58 Platform 59 Driving command 60 llrophuc plant (II (ireek portico PAWN 1 Relief croiiD Nonconductor lender liennan ntv Of created denih Strone ho onspnnK Wuked Balons I'ttrM-i! moMinC Kitchen gadget C'oloinoian volcano Sold lent in axon IVacohil He.l.d 2 Fruil drinks 3 Church service 4 Ixwks inquiMtivch- 5 Kncounlercd S Nullified 7 Rescue R Mirks i2 T3 i 18 njl9 20 51 2i Jl 33 13b 31 , 17 35 n55"0 n1 45 UjT 44 4s Jo 7T 48 "I4J 50 aT" 53 "" "" 54 ba 5S 57 35 STRICTLY PERSONAL the founding fathers were trying to create, what they believed in, and how they expressed it, we will not be seduced either by the Communist corruptions of the left or the perverse birchings of the right. To be "anti-'" anything as a basic creed is insufficient and self-stultifying. The worst kind of Protestant, for instance, is the "anti-Catholic" one, who is so busy being against he docs not know what he is fur. In fact, the way in which many people avoid practicing their own religion is by castigating other religions; it makes them feel zealous, and doesn't impose upon them any obligation to act like a Christian in their daily lives. It is just loo easy to be "anti Communist" in America today; too easy lo use this slogan as a jus tification for ignorance and big otry and bullying and hatred of all dissenters and non-conformists. And this is precisely what the zealots have in mind to crush anyone who disagrees w ith them by branding them as "Com munists" or sympathizers of one sort or another. The cure they ofler is just as bad as the disease they want to eradicate. What the country needs arc more bookshops of all sorts, so that people will be induced to read and judge and evaluate for themselves not an "anti-Communist" bookshop. Kor it is edu cation rather than propaganda that is the most effective prophy laxis against diseases in the body politic. Answer to Previous Home W, i w cr 'i 1 D.E. R E CEO E CiA RiElTE i nr. Au 3.A I T r R AIREfflSO Nl N.fcflF.N 3 1 iitjaM KOR.S Afcr Op F'R'R S TAiT 9 Internal combustion device 10 Shoshnnean Indians 11 N rarest I Traps '20 Knelish sraport 22 Military rn closures 24 hk '2S Mimicked "(4 Bonelifial "J8 Kmc hleps 31 Apiece ciuMincal substance 3i Citrus fruit 40 Kmisi-aries 4:t Strainer 4." Mutes 4ti Male deer 47 story 4fl Cotton fabric .so Chair ft I Smiiinc group b2 t-anssjin mountain m Kxtulf Tit power property AtTUS RIP1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Scholarships As I read the Herald and News, and see the protests voiced by the Klamath County Taxpayers LeaRue, I am led to wonder if perhaps they have the solution for the correction of all of the things they profess to be opposed to. The latest outburst is, seeming ly, in opposition to scholarships being presented to deserving stu dents at graduation exercises. From the last letler that I read, I would conclude that they are opposed to any student, of insuf ficient means to continue their education, having an opportunity, through scholastic effort, of win ning any scholarship, small or large. They also seem to be opposed to the recognition of out standing record of achievemen1 of students of less than ample means. If, as it appears, they arc opposed to these things, what can they support? I think that the knowledge that a scholarship may be earned is a great incentive for a student to make a greater effort to learn, and by learning, in all probability, become a belter and more valu able citizen. Now, as to the awarding of scholarships at graduation exer cises, why is . the Taxpayers League so critical of this prac tice? What better time to point out the reward for individual effort, and thereby give incentive to under graduates to increase their efforts? Success is a public recog nition of work well done, and certainly a student who has exert ed himself to attain higher schol astic standing should not be de nied this recognition, regardless of his financial position. For the groups, companies, and individuals who supply the finan cial means lo assist deserving students to further their educa tions, should they be denied the pleasure and gratification of awarding these scholarships? This is the one way that compa nies, whose money is earned by local acceptance of their prod uct, can si.y "thank you" to the community for their support, so, in effect, each company and in dividual is a participant in the scholarship award to the deserv ing graduate. Allien M. Lynch. M12 Cannon Avenue Non-Support In tlie interest of public serv ice I am writing this open letter to bring to tho.-c interested in formation obtained recently dur ing a phone conversation with Robert Y Thornton, attorney gen eral of Oregon, concerning child support non payment. Mr. Thornton stated he believed Mr. Crabtrec's olfice here was endeavoring to handle the Rrowing problem as efficiently as possible but admitted he was quite sur prised at the way this writer's rase, stretching over some four years, was being handled It could he that we parents af fected by this problem should gel together and toss a lew ideas around. Vt might even be able to offer some better workable ideas lo the appropriately named "non support" division of our dis trict attorneys office. Gene Boleyn. "17 Summers Lane By PETKR EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON ( NEA ' - Tlie Kennedy administration wants people to quit calling it "medical care for the aged." or medi care." Congress defeated that last year, so please forget it. The new name, presented in tlie President's whopping big spe cial message to Congress on "aid ing our senior citizens," is "hos pital insurance." What they should call it is "back to Methuselah." Requested therein are 36 differ ent programs, some being re peats from earlier messages on health, taxation and aid to edu cation. Taken together, these programs to aid the aged would cost an esti mated $9.8 billion over the next five years. All are designed to make old age not only less painful but also more comfortable, enjoyable, wel come, well-fed, well-housed and even profitable. The President points out there are now more than 10.000 living Americans over 100 years old. But if Congress buys all the plain and fancy packages in this mes sage the number of centenarians should zoom into the millions. Tlicre will be no reason to die. Old age will be too pleasant. With only minor modifications, the President asks for the same compulsory health insurance un der Social Security that he has wanted all along. Its cost to the individual would be one-quarter of 1 per cent on the first $5,200 of income to be raised from $4,800, beginning Jan. 1, liltia $13 a year for both employer and employe. It's cheap insurance for the working years. The health bene fits after retirement would be many times its cost. The new gimmick is that it will give the individual freedom of choice on three health care plans: All costs for 45 days, all costs for 90 days after the first $!)0 of expenses, or all costs for 180 days after the first 2'i days' ex penses. Thereafter the patient could get 180 days in a nursing home and 240 house calls by a visiting nurse for any one illness. This would not immediately re place present medical care bene lits to the indigent under the Kerr- By FL'LTON LEWIS JR. Andrew Biemiller. onetime Con gressman turned Big Labor lob byist, will direct a major drive to repeal right-to-work laws in 20 slates. The campaign will be waged not in Tallahassee, or Indianapolis, or Austin, or any other stale cap ital where right-to-work legisla tion is on the books. II will be waged, instead, in Washington, D.C. Biemiller, leg islative director for the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Educa cation, will try to round up enough votes to repeal Section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits the passage of state right-to-work laws. AFL-CIO President George Mcany has declared repeal to he among the major goals of Rig Labor at this Congress. Reason: "The endless proliferation of struggles over so-called right-to-work laws waste money and man power that could be put to better use." Four bills that would repeal Section 14-B have been intro duced by Reps. Roosevelt, Hol land. Dent and Shelley, all Dem ocrats. One Republican. Sen. Tom Ku chel. is known to be active in the repeal movement. He has abso lutely no support from GOP lead ers on this score, however. President Kennedy pledged in 10 that he would' fight to re peal 14-B. His running mate. Lyn don Johnson, however, assured Southerners that right-to-work legislation would not be changed under a Kennedy Administration. The President is not thought rea dy to battle for repeal. One published report stated flatly that "repeal will have support from the Chief Executive." Wyoming recently became the 20th state to pass right-to-work legislation. Oklahoma may be the next, although union officials are now trying to knock a right-to-work amendment off the I3C-4 bal lot. As a 29-year-old assistant dis trict attorney. Ted Kennedy was rarely seen in court, deciding, ob viously, that political points could best be scored elsewhere. As a 31-year-old senator. Ken nedy has wisely embarked upon the same course. S allowing pride, the President's youngest brother last week manaced to avoid an embarrassing lawsuit Mills bill now. adopted in 25 states. That law would not only be kept, but would be expanded to provide benefits equal to those obtainable under Social Secur ity. In addition to hospitalization costs of over $5 billion paid from trust funds, the complete plan would give the aged many other benefits, tlie new programs cost ing an estimated $fi26 million in five yejirs. Here are highlights: To meet tlie housing needs of senior citizens, the President asks for $250 million for direct, lowr interest loans, with another $10 million earmarked for rural areas. States would be asked to pass new legislation to protect stand . ai ds of rental housing. Additional employment oppor tunity would be sought, although it was only a few years ago that Social Security law was amended to permit earlier retirements and so reduce unemployment. A new senior citizens act would provide $142 million over five years to aid local communities in planning recreational facilities. Adult education and library services would be offered those who missed college. To provide better nursing homes, Hill-Burton construction grants of $30 million a year for five years are asked. Old age insurance benefits under Social Security would be raised from $127 to $134 a month for individuals, double that for families. The Food and Drug Administra tion would be given authority to test foods, medicines and thera peutic devices sold to the aged. This is a direct result of the re port recently filed by a special committee under Sen. Pat Mc Namara, D-Mich., showing how the aged have been bilked by quacks. But this new back-to-Methu-selah bill almost outpromises any thing offered by the quacks. The President's tax message, sent to Congress earlier, offers the aged a tax cut. The present $300 tax credit would be repealed. But individuals could earn up to $5,788 a year without having to pay United States income tax es. The total tax reduction to the aged would be $700 million a year. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Labor Leaders Fight Right-To-Work Laws that would have put him back in court. On Feb. 23, Kennedy was in volved in a scuffle at S t o w e, Vt., that made national head lines. A 21-year-old photographer, Philip Lawson, told reporters that Kennedy grabbed his cam era, broke its flash attachment and carrying case, and exposed a roll of film he had taken of Ken nedy. Senator Kennedy arrived back in Washington and termed the story a fabrication, designed to inflict political damage. He brushed aside suggestions that he apologize. Last Wednesday, this reporter revealed that Kennedy had been informed that he would be sued unless an apology was forthcom ing. On that very day, Kennedy sent two letters to Vermont, one an original, the other a carbon copy. The original was sent to Lawson, the copy to F. Ray Keyser Jr., a former governor of Vermont who had been retained as counsel for Lawson. In his letter to Lawson, Kennedy wrote: ". . . my wife and I are truly sorry about last month's misun derstanding and hope that this letter will serve as a sincere apology for any difficulty it may have caused." Lawson has told Keyser that he accepts the Kennedy apology, and has, therefore, cancelled plans to sue. He does expect, however, that Kennedy will pay for the cost of damage to his camera, flash attachment and leather earning case. Al manac Hy l ulled Press International Today is Wednesday, March 20. the 70th day of the year with 286 to follow in 19H3. The moon is approaching its new phase. The morning star is Venus. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 1852, Harriet Beechcr Stowe's "L'nclc Tom's Cabin" was pub lished in book form for the first time. In 18h5. John W ilkes Booth, the man who later assassinated Presi dent Lincoln, failed in an attempt to abduct tSe Chief Executive when Lincoln failed to show- up al a scheduled event.
