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PAGE -A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fall. Ore. Wedneiday, March XT, 1963 EDSON IN WASHINGTON . . . "This Should Stop You From Coining" Plans For Service Corps Not Complete Potato Festival, Roundup Citizens of Klamath and Lake counties : can take exception to Senate Bill 330 which proposes to change principles of allocation of I money in the Oregon Racing Commission Ac- count. The bill, as it is written now, would take away annual allocations to both the Merrill Potato Festival ($1,000) and the Roundup in . Klamath Falls ($4,000). It is extremely doubtful that, without these allocations from the racing fund, that either of these functions could make the grade financially. If they were to continue, some sort of public subsidy would be re quired. : It is interesting to note that Senate Bill ;330 does provide an additional amount ($40, ; 000 more, in fact) for the Oregon State Fair. Up to now, the state fair has been the recip ient of up to $35,000 from the racing fund. (Th Christian Science Monitor) We trust that Defense Secretary McNa- mara is undismayed. A reporter writes, "The .explosive attacks" from members and leaders loT Congress have "enveloped him from all di ; rpctions." .' C The charge is one-man rule of the na tion's military establishment and the making ' of "purely military decisions" by a civilian. The defense Is that Mr. McNamara is doing an exceptionally fine job and that by its very nature this is bound to stir strong opposition. ; No previous defense secretary has really ' mastered the job, let alone used it construc ; tively. In the Truman days the weapons mak !ers were in full control, once the short post war economy wave was over. As President ! Eisenhower dug into the problem, a few of the more blatant examples of duplication and competition between the services were re fused by the executive, although the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended and Congress voted the money. Mr. Eisenhower was so Impressed with the dangers of an alliance between politics and the special interest of the weapons makers and the special Interest of the separate military Services that he loft his now-famous warn ing against this military-industrial complex as his last presidential word to the people. J It remained for Mr. McNamara, who is not afraid of tackling bigness, to apply the warning. He will not dance to the piper any IN WASHINGTON . , . i By RALPH de TOI.EDANO s To the uninitiated, James Carey Is the moody, sometimes wild, president ot the International Un ion of Electrical Workers, other wise known as the IUE (AFL CIO). Jim Carey Is also the man who scratched up his secretary treasurer, Al Harlnett, and then had him suspended from office. ;IIaruiett's crime was to stand up ;to Jim on a variety of union Quitters including the embezzling Activities of some IUE organizers hi Puerto Uico. Having gotten '.id of Ilartnett last year after a ' controlled" convention, Jim Car ey found ways and means to exonerate the accused organizers, and everything was pretty happy at the IUE. Note that I say "was." For the men accused by Al Ilartnett and defended by President Car ey were recently arresled in San Juan by the FH1, and subsequent ly Indicted on charges of em bezzlement. '. None of Uiis rame as a surprise to President Carey of the ll'E. M the Jan, 2t, UW2 meeting of .the IUE Executive Board. Hart pott, as secretary-treasurer, at Jcmplod to discuss the matter of the alleged emliezzlers. The ofll cial stenographer was ordered to stop taking the proceedings down, but they were tape-recorded and a copy o( this transcript was filed last summer with a federal court in Washington. iThc labor lobby, however, has succeeded in burying the story. JCven lalwr experts liere were .'startled at the Kill arrests and ;iil not learn of them until a ;inonth after they had occurred ! Some quotes Irom the tape re cording should be of interest to those who have argued that all the corruption in labor exists In the Tei'mstcrs Union and Hie old AFL crafts, wliercas the onetime CIO groups are simon pure. "ilartnett: During the period just past there wero some other financial matters which I would like to bring before the Executive- Board. One of these in Mr. McNamara's Ordea Labor Scandals volves the shortage in the funds of an organizer Involving $a,0uo $9,000. . . . "Carey: I said no. Al. "Ilartnett: . . . which I think ought to be brought , . . "Carey: I said no, Al. "Ilartnett: . . , before this Ex ecutive Board. "Carey: I said no, Al. You are out of order." Despite Carey's objections to any discussion of the shortages in union funds, Ilartnett persist ed. He was finally able to (xiinl out that a year earlier the Execu tive Board had specifically asked to be kept informed of such mat ters. He told of confronting the embezzling organizer who admit ted handling tunds improperly. Most interesting, Harwell in formed the board that the records involved "eitlier have been de stroyed or they have been aban doned left some place w here we cannot locate them. I have been told by the field representative in question, who is unfortunately in my opinion still on our payroll, that these records were left be hind in Puerto Hico but we can not find any such records in Puer to Hico. ... I have had documen tary evidence of the shortcomings of this organizer. I brought this to tlie attention of the president i Carey as lar Kick as Oct. 5th limit i." As 1 noted, the lbutnctt dis closures led to an "investigation" by a committee of the IUE's Executive Board. Tlie committee found nothing wrong and its "findings" were sustained by Carey. Ilartnett got the ax. In a lawsuit to keep his xisl of secretary-treasurer. Haitnctl filed the tape recordings of the meet ings. That was bark ip Januarv. IM2. ' II look tlie Justice Department until February, IM to move against the ll'E organizers. To the best of my knowledge, tlie Attorney General's ollice, which eagerly announces tlie indictment of every pickle manufacturer who violates the anti-trust laws, is Threatened Under the provisions of the proposed legisla tion, the state fair could receive up to $75,000. Also, it is rather surprising to note that the Pacific International Exposition would be the beneficiary of an additional $40,000. Up to now, PIE has been allocated $35,000 annually, but the new proposal would give PIE $75,000. We have no quarrel with the amounts of money allocated to the state fair or PIE. Both are worthy enterprises. PIE, particularly, of fers an opportunity to see new developments in the livestock and agriculture elements, both of which are significant in our own Basin econ omy. But, so are the Potato Festival and the Roundup. We want them to continue. Citizens of the area should make themselves heard as being opposed to the shift that will take subsi dies away from our local expositions. piper in defense, industry, or Congress. He is smart enough to know that his own estab lishment contains many masters at the art of what is called infighting for lack of a better word. It actually is an honorable professional desire to serve the nation, as each official or command sees the path of service, with the infiltration of the less desirable motives and special interests that Mr. Eisenhower warned against. The greatest single task of an efficient secretary of defense is to taper off production of weapons and weapons systems as they be come absolesccnt, and to stop building them as soon as they become obsolete. This is where the only big savings can" be made in the military budget. This is where the greatest resistance concentrates and where the worst mistakes and misjudgments have been made, as the military historians surely will record. It is questions like produc tion of bombers such as the RS-70 and the award of contracts for fighters like TFX that are crucial to a modern defense and to the military budget and also to the many special interests both in industry and the military es tablishment, i Nothing has been said, despite the sud den spate of criticism, to shake faith in the judgment and competence of Mr. McNamara, and the nation desperately needs such ability as his. We trust he will continue to make the big and difficult decisions as best he can, and not permit the resistance to destroy him. Squelched sued no publicity releases. (An nouncing nickel-and-dime a n t i trust actions seems to fascinate the Justice Department, whether it is being run by Republicans or Democrat s.l Why the long delay and the relative silence? The most chari table explanation I can think of is that the Justice Department has been so busy looking for fleas on Jimmy Hoffa and the Team sters that it has little time for anything else. I said tilings were happy at the IUE until this embezzling trouble. But there has been other bad news at the IUE headquar ters here in Washington. General Electric and Jim Carey can't stand the mention of the compa ny's name just issued $73 mil lion in (IE common stock to 150. ikhi of its employes under a special plan. Now more than half of GK's employes own stock in the company. From Jim Carey's point of view, this is terrible even worse than having an eager heaver secrelarv treasurer Al manac By United Press International Today is Wednesday, March 27, the With day of pnu'with 279 to lollow. Tlie moon is approaching its first quarter. Tlie morning stars arc Venus and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. Those born today Include Amer ican painter Nathaniel Currier, a partner in the team of Currier and Ives in 1813. On this day In history: In 1513. Ponce de Leon discov ered tlie east coast ol Florida. In 1K0. "America's Sweetheart." Mary Pickford, was married to actor Douglas Fairbanks. In 1933, Japan resigned from the league of Nations. In 19a, the military forces oust ed Argentine President Frondizi in a peaceful roup. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS If large organizations of various sorts would spend less money on publicity, promotion, and "public image," and transfer these funds to communication with the pub lic and with their own employes they might find some startling results in terms of profits and good will. Flying back from Florida last month, more than a hundred passengers on our flight were detained a half-hour at the bag gage counter when our bags mys teriously refused to show up. The wait itself was not so ter rible but the attitude of the airline personnel made enemies by the score. Nobody would tell us a thing; we stood around like refu gees waiting for a visa from a hostile government. At the present time, the airlines are about as bad as any group in communicating with the public: but other groups are not far be hind. It seems pointless for tlie airlines to spend millions in woo ing travelers and then to create so much ill will by refusing to give information. To a waiting person, any explanation is better than none; he would rather be lied to (politely) then rebuffed or ignored. Take the matter of calling for information on departing flights. I always call 20 minutes before I am about to leave for the airport; invariably I am told that tlie flight will leave on time. Ar riving at the airport, I learn that there will be a delay, sometimes an hour or more. In most cases', this was already known by the time I made my call; but nothing was said. In fact, on occasion I have gone to a Birdlife ACROSS 1 Small bird 5 Bird food 9 What birds do Y2 Demigod 13 Sea bird !4 Falsehood IS Travel on circuit 17 Hawaiian pepper 1R hoctrint lt Quieter 1 1nU11ih '23 Harden 24 IWessed 27 County in Florida 29 Security 3'J Annul 34 Screen ;w Correct 37 Sols 38 Opine 39 Ut fait 4'2 Cardinal'! color 44 Hemic 4li Weichly 49 Noblemen 53 Biblical prophet M Amphitheater 56 SeK-esteem 57 Summers iKr 58 Ciirl i nickname 59 Scarlet acer 50 Interpret 61 Killed DOWN 1 lota 2 Plexus 3 Ireland 4 Roman dale 5 Weight of In i,l 1 1 6 Expunged 7 Grafted (her.) flUgal documents 9 Mac hine of a ' i i U I 5 16 17 18 3 110 I" 12 13 H ' 15 !7" W T8 I 1 19 20 2l 22 TT23 24 125 126 p 27 28 fTp9 30 iT 32 33 34 35 36 37 is riirSr irjTi 42 43 V" 44 43 Ti'TT 48 I" 49 53 "54 55 56 57 53 59 60 61 STRICTLY PERSONAL telephone booth at t h e airport (having been told in person that my flight would be late) and called the airline only to be told over the phone Uiat tlie flight was leaving on time. Whether this is stupidity, venal ity or bureaucracy, the ugly fact remains that many organizations (and I cite the airlines only be cause I use them so much) have little or no ability to communi cate, not only with their custom ers, but with their personnel as well. People want to know where they stand, and when no one will tell them, morale falls apart dis astrously. In this depersonalized, automat ic age, the individual perpetually feels a threat to his identity and his integrity as a person. And the "public image" of an institution to which so much attention and money are devoted can be no better than the manner in which it communicates, honestly, swiftly and unequivocally, with the people who work for it and with the people who make its survival possible. THEY SAY... A man's struggle for existence in this contentious society should end when he enters tlie door of his home. He should not be ex posed to furtlicr competition . . . nor required to bargain for af fection. ' Marital expert Victor Neu mark, on marriage. Aniwr to Previous Puiil fVvKl 3o Transcription! 40 Staggered 43 Kitchen implement 45 Kegs 4fi Encounter 47 Seaweed 48 Billot 50 Genuine 51 Musical instrument Period of time Musical studies Teller of fables Demolished Drove Toward the sheltered side Amusement Bar by estoppel Measure of land Fewer I' S coin 52 Merganser 5.S Monosaccharide 3Ai)BfrVBTT n;t lliggf il mm LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Grateful As I look about at dear, famil iar surroundings and consider the good roof over my head this morn ing, I am having a private service of thanksgiving and praise. I am grateful for good cars that roused me from sleep with the warning that there was too much fire in that stove. I am grateful for alert firemen who answered my call for help in a matter of minutes and who kindly helped a frightened woman to gather her wits. I am grateful for a kind Providence that does not always exact full payment for our carelessness. I think of my husband's dismay if he should return from his busi ness trip to find his home in ashes. I think of the grief of . two teen-age children coming home tomorrow to find cherished possessions gone. I think of the loss to a hard-working boy from a state university, who brought all of his clothes home dirty for his mother to launder during spring vacation. , For averted personal tragedy I thank my God, the senses with which He has endowed me, and some of the civil servants of Klamath Falls. And let me add. also, my thanks to the Herald and News for providing these col umns for the expression of our gratitude, as well as for the air ing of our grievances. Eloise Moore, 2316 Eberlein. A Plea Please! Citizens of Klamath Falls take notice. Please build us a new high school, don't vote it down. We, the students of Klamath Union High School have an ur gent problem. The administration is going to put us on a split schedule which would ruin us. Yes, it's true we have students coming out the cracks in the walls. They think that if they put us on a split schedule, they would have less confusion. I don't think this would help be cause the students who were out of school would come and wander around the halls when thcyr got bored sitting around home. And besides, how would the teachers be able to tell which ones were supposed to be there and which ones weren't? Also how w ill we be able to have sports, band, choir, pep and talent as semblies, and clubs? When would we be able to get together as a high school? Like wise, how would we be able to have our big dances like the spring formal and the junior senior prom? How would we get together to decorate? Most important, how are we supposed to got ready for col lege with only live subjects" Everyone who is trying to get ready for college will have to drop a subject and college is al ready hard enough to get into now. Think of what it will be like in four years! So again we make our pica, please citizens of Klamath Falls lake notice. Please build us a new school, don't vote it down. ,lackie Milligan. Cleanup I wonder how many of us have thought about how much we could do on our own initiative In have a rleaner community. Klamath Falls is surrounded by lovely hills, and beautiful forests. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) - Plans for President Kennedy's Nation al Service Corps, outlined in his special message to Congress on the problems of youth, are by no means completed. It is hoped to have draft legis lation ready to introduce in Con gress about Easter. If Congress approves it, the goal is to have 200 people recruited, trained and at work on five or six pilot proj ects by November. Thereafter, growth would be slow, to a maximum of about 5.000 at the end of three years. There would never be more than 200 projects at one time, in areas of greatest need. Cost k estimated at perhaps $1 millio'. the first year, ft million to K6 million for the three years. Siates and local communities would pay part of the cost, pro viding food and lodging. Part of the lack of understand ing about the National Service Corps is that it gets confused with the Peace Corps, Youth Con servation Corps and the Presi dent's employment opportunity drive. And all of them get tan gled up with anti-juvenile delin quency work. The Peace Corps, which works only in foreign countries, has just celebrated its second birthday and is an established success. Nation al Service Corps is to be a do mestic peace corps. The Youth Conservation Corps of 15,000 members between 16 and 21 would be recruited to work in national forests and recreation areas. They would be paid $4,000 a year plus subsistence. The youth employment drive is aimed at the 750,000 to one million boys and girls who have dropped out of school and are out of work. The goal is to get them back in school or train them for jobs in their communities. National Service corpsmen would be over 21. Many would be middle age or older, with special skills and training which fit them for a particular project. They might wear a distinguishing badge. Service would be (or 12 months. They would be paid from $6 to $8 a day, depending on prevail ing wage scales where they work. This would be in addition to food ,and lodgings. Most of the pay would be turned over to corpsmen at the end of their service, which WASHINGTON REPORT . . Shipping Magnates' Millions Tarnished By FULTON LEWIS JR. This is the story of a Greek born immigrant for whom Amer ica is indeed the land of oppor tunity. Manuel Kulukundis was under federal indictment on June 20, 1955. when he became a U.S. cit izen in ceremonies at Federal Court, New York. On that very day, the Justice Department let him off with fines of $900,000 for violating the Ship Sales Act of 1946. It had evidence indicating that Kulukundis, while still an alien, had violated fed eral statutes by attempting to buy World War II vessels. As a citizen, Kulukundis could buy those ships. Almost before the ink was dry on his citizenship pa pers, Kulukundis had bought a fleet of U.S. ships. On Aug. 27, 1958, Kulukundis received a government - insured loan of $9.5 million for the con struction of a 41,000-ton oil tanker, christened the S.S. Atlas. Kulu kundis then turned around and signed a long-term shipping con tract with the Soviet Union, and the first shipment from the USSR took place in 1960. On April 27 of that year, how ever, Kulukundis received a sec ond government loan, this one of $12.3 million (or construction of an other tanker, the S.S. Titan. Four months later, the govern ment loaned him an additional $10.7 million with which to build the S.S. Achilles. The total of these loans is more than $a million. Kulukundis still owes the government $30 million plus. Congressman Paul Rogers. Florida Democrat, has unearthed some startling information about Kulukundis, by now a New York millionaire. When Kulukundis became a U.S. citizen he did not give up a sub stantial interest in Rethymnis and Kulukundis R and Y. Ltd.. a British firm Investigators lor the But, tliere are loads of trash, and old car bodies, for people enter ing the city to see. If every neighborhood, no mat ter how modest, would clean up. all of our community could be a source for greater pride. Mrs Lawrence C. Thomas. 3R59 Altamont Drive. is standard procedure for the Peace Corps. Projects on which corpsmen might work include helping in hospitals (particularly mental in stitutions!, or working with re tarded children. They might be called upon to serve in migra tory worker camps, in day care centers or as teachers' aides. They could supplement the staffs of agencies working with Cuban refugees. They could be assigned for a year's work on Indian res ervations. They might be called on for service in city slums or in rural and mountain areas, where at least half the acute pov erty is found. From 25 to 35 million Ameri cans are now said to require such additional welfare services. One important point is that Na tional Service corpsmen would work only where they are re quested by state or local authori ties for projects meeting speci fied needs and standards. The second point stressed is that the corpsmen would serve as catalysts for recruiting local citi zens to volunteer for part-time welfare work. As soon as enough unpaid volunteers could be re cruited to carry on a project, Na tional Service Corps workers might drop out and be assigned . to other duty. Part of the plan is to have Kennedy issue a call for na tional volunteers after the corps is set up. There are over 20 mil lion Americans doing such volun teer work with private agencies now. But another million is need ed, at a minimum. New York and Illinois want to set up state service corps of their own. A further step would be the organization of the so - called Home Town Corps by local com munities. They would be p a t terned after the national corps. The President's youth message to Congress proposed that the federal government pay half tlie . wages of young people employed on home town welfare projects. He estimates that 40.000 youngsters could be recruited the first year. There has, however, been some opposition. First reaction from business groups was bad. Estab lished welfare agencies wonder if the federal government is pre paring to muscle in and take over. Many congressmen are doubtful. And the program still has to be sold to the general public. Justice Department have discov ered that Kulukundis owns 25 of the 115 outstanding shares in that company. R and Y now accounts for more than 30 per cent of all Free World shipping with Castro Cuba. Its tankers dock regularly at Cuban ports, carrying oil from the So viet Union. Ten Free World tankers have docked in Cuba this year. Nine of them were ships of Kulukundis' firm, ships flying the British, Greek, and Panamanian flags. Congressman Rogers, who sparked a House investigation last year into Free World trade w ith Cuba, is pressing for another probe, this one of Kulukundis. He urges the Administration to prqy hibit Kulukundis' ships from calr ing at U.S. ports. "Traffic with Cuba," he says, "continues today under the aegis of Kulukundis and others like him who value dollars . over democracy." Rep. Bill Cramer, Republican of Tampa, is interested in anoth er type of commerce. Ho has turned over to the House UnAmer ican Activities Committee the names of 73 Americans who vi olated federal law last year by traveling to Cuba. At least two have Communist backgrounds. One was identified as a Communist hy an FBI under cover agent in 1955. She also was identified by a former managing editor of the Daily Worker who broke with the Party and testified under oath.. She has been active in the Medical Aid to Cuba Com mittee, an organization recently investigated hy Coneress. Cramer is critical of the Jus tice and Slate Departments (or not prosecuting the 73. If convict ed they could be sentenced to five years in jail, and fined $5,000. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q-From what event does the recorded history of Greece datr? A From the Olvmpic Games first held in 776 B C. Q-Who were the first people to wear wigs? A Probably the early Egp-tians.
