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Newspaper Page TextPAGE. ( HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath FslK Orrjnn Friday. April 26. 19M "And as You File Out, Mr. Salinger Will Supply Rose Colored Glasses." EDSON IN WASHINGTON ... Censorship Practice Gets House Scrutiny eral&aniiSeto; iiiiiaaiiiiiMa Federal Spending Should Be Cut The Legislative Information Service, which is published biweekly by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States while Con gress is in session, has done an excellent job of summing up, in objective fashion, the pend ing changes in tax rates and tax policy. Then it adds some suggestions of its own which are at variance with the Administration position. Excessive tax rates, the argument runs, are slowing economic growth and progress and are a prime cause of a comparatively high unemployment total. Just about every one is in agreement with this premise. The differences consist of what to do about it. : The Administration stand is that revised rates and tax reform should be combined in a single bill, with the reductions taking place over a three-year period. , Individual income tax rates now run from 20 per cent to 91 per cent. They would be re duced to range from 14 per cent to 65 per cent. The rate on corporations of any size is now 53 per cent. It would be cut to 47 per cent. This would largely be accomplished by grad ually reducing the surtax rate which corpor ations in substantial income brackets now with this, if the Administration plan is followed, there will be structural changes in the tax system. These, as the In formation Service observes, are highly con- troversial. The Wilderness Bill (Th Christian Scitnca Monitor) For the second time, the wilderness bill has been passed, overwhelmingly, by the United States Senate and is entering into the wilderness of committee and parliamentary procedures in the House of Representatives. Opponents of the bill mustered a few more votes in the Senate this time than in August, 1961. This may indicate that few per sons have been persuaded Congress should keep a little more control over the designation of wilderness areas than the bill provides. Essentially the contest Is between con servationists who wish to preserve the recre ational shall we say, inspirational? val ues of some 2 per cent ol the land area of (he United States and the economic interests concerned with timber, mining and grazing uses important to some western states. IN WASHINGTON We : By RALPH it TOLEDANO 11 li I tragic irony (hat the Kennedy Administration'! current X'uban target Is not the Castro Xommunist regime but the exiles Un. Miami and Its environs. At the :txliet of the State Department, ;British authorities in the West In dian islands have begun round up o inti-Communist action groups. Cuban exiles In the U.S., who helped raise the ransom mon ey (or il Bav of Pigs prisoners tleld by Fidel Castro, are now at tempting to gaUier together new fansom hinds in order to buy the liberation of Freedom Raiders im prisoned by Uie British. The cost 'itC roughly $140 a head in the him of fines, and if the money Is not forthcoming soon, the Cu bans now in British prisons will be forced to servo eight to 10 years. At the same time, the Adminis tration has placed Cuban exiles In Florida under a kind of "house arrest." They have been confined to the limits of Dade County (which Includes Miami' and told that they will be thrown in the pokoy If they leave. The consti tutionality of this action Is open to question, but It is hardly likely dial anyone will carry the case to a Supreme Court which now openly subslilutes political ex pediency for Hie strict rule o( law. Tli State Department, moreov er, has launched what can only be described at a terror campaign against the exilea and their lead ers. Many of Uiesa exiles would be in dire poverty except for U.S. financial help. Hie word is being quietly spread that tlws who op pose li Administration's "do noth tag'' Cuban policy will find them wives without that help and on a blacklist. This is not a new situation. hcn Hie State Department and Central Intelligence Agency want ed to see the creation of a Cuban Revolutionary Council, they se lected the leadera , and hand picked Its president, Jose Mirn Cardona. It w as no secret that the Cuban exiles did not want Senor Lost A Tough Fight Miro Cardona to head the council. But a CIA representative, known in Miami simply as "Mr. B." told the exiles bluntly that this w as the way it would have to be said that those leaders w ho opposed tlie selection would find themselves cut off from CIA funds. Senor Miro Cardona has never been truly popular among his compatriots. CIA would not listen to any evidence Uiat he did not have the vast following among - antl-Caslroites in Cuba that was claimed. Th., Bay of Pigs fiasco, which was In part predicated on a revrlt of Miro supporters against Castro, showed that they were al most non-existent. "Mr. B" had his way. how ever. Now Jose Miro Cardona is considered a kind o( Cuban Pub lic Enemy Number One by the AdministraUon. He has il com muted the unlorgivable sin of in sisting that this country live up to its promise to liberate Cuba, and stirred up Uie Cuban exiles land many Latin Americans' by underscoring the utter bankruptcy o( current U.S. policy in the Car ibbean. Until President Kennedy makes public his long and continuing cor respondence with Comrade Khrushchev, the world will not know definitely whether or not he has agreed to allow Cuba to remain a privileged sanctuary for Communist depredations. But the vigor with which he has slapped down all efforts to embarrass the Soviet occupiers of Cuba and, in effect, cut off shipment of arms and munitions to some 4.000 anti Castro guerrillas on the F.scarn bray "front." has convinced Cu ban exiles and anti-Administration legislators that some deal was made which. II true, could blow the roof off Itwo Pennsylvania Avenue. The altempls of Slate Depart ment officials to silence Dr. Miro Cardona and to mnke a complete puppet of the Culan Revolutionary Council are in strange contrast to Mr. Kennedy's fervid words to tlie Bay ol Pigs survivors when they There are three main ones: 1. The plac ing of a '-floor" on itemized deductions, lim iting these deductions to those exceeding 5 per cent of total inome. The taxes of every one itemizing deductions would thus be in creased. 2. Eliminating the present credit allowed for dividend income. 3. Major changes, resulting in higher taxes, on the capital gains provisions of the tax laws. These three steps, according to Administration estimates, would bring in about $3.4 billion of the revenue lost through rate reductions, which is figured at about $13.6 billion. A great many authorities, however, be lieve that changes such as these would be a barrier, rather than an encouragement, to the stimulation of economic growth. It is not able that the Administration holds out no promise of a decrease in government spend ing indeed, big increases are in the off ing. The Chamber's release urges a different approach. For one thing, it believes that rate reductions should be separated from legis lation covering structural changes. For anoth er it recommends a different approach to mini mizing losses due to rate reductions namely, substantial cuts in federal spending, now and in the future, accompanied by, if necessary, . a low-rate uniform excise tax. This outlines the general problem, and the broad cleavage in point of view. What will happen? As of now, one man's guess is about as good as another's. Again Last year the House Interior Committee undertook a more restrictive bill for the one it received from the Senate. The committee sought a rule to prevent amendments, and the bill never reached the House floor. It may be that there should be careful review of some of national park, national for est, or wildlife refuge lands before they are locked away where a human being can only be a "visitor who docs not remain." But it is also true that intrusion of defacing "improve ments" into such an area becomes an almost irrevocable change. The Interior Committee has a right to seek reasonable compromises in reporting a bill to the House but it should he willing to submit its product to the test of debate and the amendment process on the floor. were liberated. Obviously, if the U.S. has liquidated any effective anti-Castro policy, it becomes im portant to silence the Cuban ex iles and to keep them from or ganizing for action. The Cuban Revolutionary Council thus be comes a liability, particularly If headed by Uiose who (eel that they were let down by the Ad ministraUon. It is expected that in the days and weeks to come, more and more restrictions will he placed on exile activities, new humilia tions will be piled on exile lead, ers. and anti-Castroism that goes beyond lip service will be dis couraged. It was a tough fight. Mom. hut we lost. Al manac By l ulled Press International Today is Friday. April W. the 116th day of 19W with 24!) more to lollow. Tlie moon is approaching ils first quarter. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury and Mars. On this day in history: In IH07 the first British colonists to set up a permanent settlement in America landed at Cape Urn ty. Va. In IBM. Federal troops killed John Wilkes Booth, tlie assassin of President Lincoln, near Port Royal, Va., despite an order to lake him alive In 1!M, a nationwide test of the Salk anti polio vaccine began in 171 districts of 45 slates. In IW1. tlie Ranger Knur space shot hit the moon A thought lor today-English essayist Charles Lamb said. "A pun is a pistol let off at the ear. not a leaiher In tickle tlie intel lect ' By SYDNEY J. HARRIS One of the wire,sorvice stories out of San Francisco last month, reporting that Alcatraz Prison had shut up shop after nearly 30 years as a "maximum security" jail for "incorrigiblcs," failed to men tion the most significant fact of all. In its three decades of opera tion. "The Rock," as it was unal feclionately known by inmates and guards alike, became less and less grim and punitive to ward its prisoners. Founded on a philosophy of absolute toughness, it was nevertheless learned in practical experience that such toughness did not work out. When it was first opened In 1934 as a federal penitentiary, the rule of silence was imposed upon tlie inmates. This was dropped in less than three years. Then, in dustries were established, and a two-channel radio system was in stalled for evening programs in each cell. Privileges at first denied the men. and later given, included subscriptions to as many as eight magazines per man: a dozen books; considerable correspond ence; the buying of art sup plies and musical instruments; movies at weekends; and three packs of cigarettes a week. As time went on, the inmates w-cre permitted to take corres pondence courses, and could earn up to $50 a month working in the laundry, the furniture, glove and brush factories, or the tai'or shop. Softball and handball weie instituted in a recreation area All these innovations, according to Alcatraz ollicials, "have re duced tensions and improved mor ale." Many of them were insti Beastly ACROSS 1 Sim (in beaut 4 Marred beast 4 Red Riding Hood beut 12 1 hum 11 Und measure 14 (irartdparenlal 15 Goddesa of infatuation 1ft Repeat 1ft Quell 30 Conducted again 21 roMt 22 Rowing implements 24 Petty quarrel M Feminine appellittoa 27 Tail M Candtd 32 Homeland to a Roman M Horn M Lucidity 36 In the middle irorrh fornv 37 Sup 39 Hardy heroine 40Tiipian Indian 41 Ranylonun moon-god 42 Gem weight 4.S Farm machine 4P Primal 61 High note tn (u.do'a icale MSolilarv M In addition 64 Maacuhne. mrknamt 85 scatter, a, hay M AdoWcent 57 Con w me DOWN 1 Three handed armadillo 2 Top of the heed S Pachvderma 4 Roman god R Frmu ft Praver 7 in I 12 13 I 14 15 16 7 I IS 19 110 111 U 13 U H 16 IT " f5 19 Ha 1 1 5i n" jpVj p 27 Ia 30 31 32 33 U 35" si rj 37 38 ""n33 42 43 44 I 4b 46 47 Hi " 51 52 53 54 3 56 "" 57 STRICTLY PERSONAL tuted in 1946, following a prison riot in which two guards and three inmates lost their lives. It was the last serious disturbance at the penitentiary. As 1 suggested in a recent piece, those inverted senti mentalists who are against "cod dling" convicts could "learn from the experience at Alcatraz that human beings are made only worse when they a treated like animals and given no chance to exercise their distinctively human abilities. The rigid punishment policies at Alcatraz did not work, and they do not work anywhere. Putting a man behind bars is punishment enough for anyone; any severity imposed on top of this only turns men bitter and desperate and to tally incapable of being rehabili tated. There is not a warden in the world who is not painfully aware of this fact. Society still lags behind its pen ologists: we remain punitive and vengeful and fearful and our at titude makes the job of prison of ficials twice as hard. Let us hope the closing of Alcatraz marks the opening of a new chapter in .American prison treatment. THEY SAY... The change is good for Guate mala and (or Central America. President Miguel Ydigoras Fu- entes of Guatemala, after he ing deposed by the army and exiled to Nlrarsr-::. Anwr to Prsviou Puiirt ft Merchandise t Mlinsoidal 10 Tardy 1 1 Hurried off 17 Printing (auK 19 Musteline mammal 23 Aromatic plant 'i4 imposture 2 Torn bread M Naiittcil term 27 Following 2ft Rier islet! ill Calm .13 Caper .ift Slinging plant 40 Domesticate! 41 Drawing room 42 Prehistoric ehivl 4S Tropical plant 44C1eae 4ft Demolish 47 Genus of true olive 4ft Rave SO Purmeee wood rnre 9 tWfw of wtr LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Reply 1 read with passing interest the comments of Supervisor V. A. "Art" Barr in the Mount Shasta Herald of April 18. regarding the Siskiyou County taxpayers' gath erings which have been recently held in Mount Shasta. 1 shall not argue with the su pervisor as to whether the tax payers are taking detrimental ac tion to themselves or not: time uU tell. I shall point out that either the supervisor was badly misinformed, or used his infor mation badly to draw the wrong conclusion that the taxpayers were being wooed into bed by the big interests, particularly by the timber interests. Tlie supervisor's article stated, "Your chairman said several talks had been held with a Mr. Jordan representing the Northern County Timber As sociation and financial aid had been offered the Southern Siskiyou Protest Organization." I was the chairman alluded tn. I did not state that several talks had been held with Mr. Jordan of the timber association. I did not state that financial aid had been offered the Southern Sis kiyou Protest Organization. In fact no financial aid was mentioned or offered. I did state that I had talked with Mr. Jordan that alt ernoon. I did state that since the timber interests were paying tax es and had an interest in why appraisals were being raised and where the tax dollar was being spent, that a liaison with their group could do us no harm. And I did ask Mr". Jordan to identify himself and give his views, which he did. Mr. Jordan stated briefly that those who foot the bills of the county budget are entitled to know what they are paying for. This makes sense whether the taxpay er is an individual or a corpora tion. The supervisor seemed to he under the impression that taxpay ers were kicking about the lax rate. Tins writer had heard no protest against the tax rate. The protests are against appraisals which have risen 200 per cent to 1.000 per cent and even higher on properties that are being used for the same purpose that they have been historically used for and with the same income. Tlie supervisor mentioned that appraisals are "a mailer of law and should be decided as p r e scribed by law." No intelligent persons would argue the s t a t e ment. But there are those who question whether the law has been interpreted correctly This is why an attorney was mentioned: to interpret the law. We taxpayers believe, as the San Francisco Examiner puts it, that an enlightened citizen is a better citizen and a wiser voter. We propose tn become enlightened. We are spending nobody's time but our on We are spending no body's money but our own. which is our privilege. We wonder why there seems to be such intense opposition to our purpose. Tlie meetings are not secret. The supervisor is Invited to attend as is every other citizen There is no obligation to join our group. Hugh B. Fate. M.D. Mount Shasta. Calif. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON iNEAl Chair man John E. Moss, D-Calif., will take his Government Information subcommittee into executive ses sion April 2G for closed door hearings on what the White House Olfice of Emergency Planning and the Department of Defense plan to do about censorship. The general impression is that such planning as has been done is nuw pretty well out-of-date. It is believed to be based on World War U experience when there was no enemy attack on the U.S. mainland, when there were no rockets or missiles, when America had a monopoly on nu clear weapons. In the Korean war all censor ship was exercised by field com manders in the Pacific. Field censorship also is being exer cised now in Vietnam, and there are complaints about that. Government attempts al news management over the U-2 and the first and second Cuba crises created only confusion. These are all local affairs. There is no established policy for dealing with them, either. If one of these limited wars should lead to another world war. it is reeogniz; that the U n i t e d States would become an active theater of operations. That would mean military field censorship right here at home, all over. There would have to be news management such as this country has never dreamed of. And a lot of people wouldn't like it. The Office of Emergency Plan ning has been working on a new censorship code since the mid 19j0s. Its Government Readiness Olfice, now under Robert Y. Phil lips, has drafted a plan for set ting up a stand-by, voluntary cen sorship code for imposition when ever the President declares a na tional emergency or state of war. Bryon Price. Office of Censorship director in World World II, has been consultant tn OEP in this work. The draft has been revised from time to time, the last revision be ing dated February I'.Ki'l. It is a seven-page typewritten document. Tlie main headings covered arc war plans, attacks on the U.S., location or movement of U.S. armed forces, ships, aircraft, mis Washington report . . . Republican Leaders See 1964 Success By Kl'l.TON LEWIS JR. November ISKV4 is the golden opportunity for Senate Republi cans. Kentucky's Thruston Morton, chairman of the GOP Senate cam paign committee, feels confident his party w ill pick up at least six new seats. His optimism is based on some cold political facts. Although 2.") Democrats are up for reelection, only nine Republi cans must go before the voting populace. Most of the Democrats, moreover, are freshmen first elected in 195R. the Republicans most disastrous year in recent history. In a nationwide debacle, the party lost Senate seats in Ninth Dakota. Ohio. California. Nevada, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, New Jersey. Connect icul. Wyo ming and Utah. GOP leaders feci tlicy have an excellent chance to regain most of them. One almost certain se:it is that now held by Ohio's Sieve Young, who defeated Republican John Bruker in a massive upset live years ago. Ohio Democrats reached their political zenith that year, winninii Bricker's seat, the governorship, conlrnl of the Slate Legislature and several new House seats all at once. The Governor is again Republi can. So is the Stale Legislature. The House delegation is over whelmincly Republican. And Steve Young faces certain dcieat if he runs again Most likely GOP nominee is Cor.-gressman-at-large Bob Taft Jr.. who scored an easy victory in his statewide race last fall. Other Rcpuohcan possibilities include Congressman Ollie "olton and former Senator Bncker. Indiana: The GOP nominee is not yet known, but Democrat Vance Hartke appears certain to have an uphill fight on his hands. Hartke rode the national Demo cratic tide to win election in lua. Many Republicans feel that Con gressman Don Bruce, first elect ed from Indianapolis in 10. could give Hartke the best race. Other possibilities: Stale Senator Russell Bontrager. Congressman Ruhard Roudcbush North Dakota- Democratic Sen ator Lee Mctcalf won a razor-thin victory oer Republican John D.i ms in iwn. Pans has been urfol siles and satellites, fortifications. ' defense production, military intel ligence, and so on. The general principles set forth would govern al! civil news me dia. Department of Defense planning for military censorship is much more comprehensive. The Pen tagon had a censorship planning committee at work from 1953 through April 1961. The commit tee was then abolished after it had made final revisions on "Depart ment of Pcfcnse Directive 5200.1, Safeguarding Official Information in the Interests of Defense of the U.S., May 29, 1959." This has been declassified. Furtlier planning then was turned over to the Office of Plans and Programs for Public Affairs, now under Col. F. M. O'Neill and the Assistant General Counsel for Manpower, now Frank A. Barti mo. This planning now calls for the military to exercise censorship until such time as a civilian agen cy could be set up. staffed and organized to issue its own regu lations. It is recognized that this might take as long as a year, but the hope is that it would be done in ,) much less time. Having a re serve staff ready for this job is an OEP responsibility. Unlil this reserve could take over, the military would exercise full control. The Pentagon wnuld continue to run field censorship, postal and travel movements and all telecommunications, including ra dio and television broadcasting channels. This is the same set-up as in World War II. None of this planning, however, covers censorship for emergen cies arising from the cold war. That is another of the great gaps Moss and his committee are in terested in closing. When President Kennedy first addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Wash ington two years ago, he sug gested a voluntary plan for re straints in publishing news in volving national security under cold war conditions. He got noth ing. Last month the Moss commit tee made a second cflort to get a panel of newspapermen and broadcasters to come up with some constructive answers (or this problem, without success. to take on Mctcalf again. Other GOP possibilities Include Arley R. Bjella, former Republican chair man, and Mark Andrews, who has run unsuccessfully for gover nor. California: What appears tn be a hopelessly split Republican Party may make it impossible to dcieat Democrat Clair Engle. first elected in 1958. Early polls show former Senator William Knouland to be tlie strongest candidate, trailing Engle by only a few per centage points. State Senator John McCarthy is thought anxious to make tlie race. Conservatives and liberals continue to brawl. Engle has his problems, how ever. Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorly. a maverick Democrat who supported Nixon in IlKiO, may op pose him for the nomination.. Utah: Democrat Frank Moss won 19.V1 election when Republi can J. Bracken !.ce ran as an in dependent, splitting the GOP vote. Lee may again try for tlie Senate, this time as a Republican, but will have difficulty getting the nomination. Under consideration for the race are Lawrence Burton and Sherman Lloyd, first-term Congressmen. Minnesota Republican Con gressman Clark MacGregor is making noises like a candidate and would be given a good chance to unseat freshman Senator Eu gene McCarthy. A long-shot lor the nomination is former Con gressman Walter Judd. who was gerrymandered out o olfice last year He is considered in poor health, however, and has indicat ed he does not wish to run. Texas: Republicans hope to give John Tower a GOP colleague next year. Incumbent Ralph Yarhor ough. who laces dilhculty getting through his own primary, will meet strong GOP opposition, par ticularly II Barry Goldwater heads tlie GOP slate. Who tlie Republi can nominee will be is not known. In addition lo the above states, GOP leaders (eel they have good chances to knock off New Jer sey's Harrison Williams Jr.. Ok lahoma s J. Howard Edmondsnn and Michigan's Phil Hart. Suit able opponents have not yet been found, however And Wyoming Congressman William Henry Har rison has been asked lo tack e frehman Senator Gale McGee. .1 . ;