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Wednesday, March 20. 19M
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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
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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
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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.
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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.