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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
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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.
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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.