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PAOE. I HtHALl) AND tfETVS, Klamath Palls, Ores, on riday. May S, IMS "And Speaking for My Client, May I Say, I Love You!" WASHINGTON REPORT . . . UN Hungarian Policy Alarms Congressmen herald aWieto Though Adm. George W. Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations, considers sabotage a re mote prospect in the loss of the nuclear sub marine Thresher, past history works against ruling it out. ; '- It has been disclosed that when our first atomic vessel, the Nautilus, was in Ports- , nlouth naval yard for repairs four years ago, tome 235 separate sabotage efforts were made fit a two-week period. All involved 'lclibcrate Ci(s in armored, cable-style wiring affecting ship controls. '; The FBr failed to turn up the saboteurs, despite hard search. Its quest was similarly fruitless in the case of another nuclear sub Move (Oregon Statesman, Salem) Members of the Senate committee on taxation should be careful what tools they pick up as they begin looking over the tax package handed them by the house. The major bills revision upwards of income tax revenues and Imposition of a cigarette tax were hammered out in many and prolonged sessions of the House committee. This com mittee explored many ways of supplying the State treasury with some S60 million in ad ditional funds, and come up with the solution approved by the House last week.- If senators have the notion they can throw out the guts of the income tax bill and Education's Higher Purpose (Timet, San Mateo, Calif.) In his inaugural address as president of Columbia University Teachers College, Dr. John H. Fischer said some things about pro gressive education which would have been considered heretical in the days when the in stitution he now heads was known as the cradle of progressivism. "What a child can do and what he should be doing arc not necessarily the same," said '.Dr. Fischer. "Indeed, much so-called progres sive teaching came under fire and has been largely abandoned precisely because children too often did merely what they could rather than what was good for them to do." President Fischer went further in his dis course, however, to paint educational goals Letters To The Editor Budgets ; On Monday, May , It will be oiir responsibility as citizens of tins community to vote in t h e budget elections of our school districts. As responsible citizens, we have no choice but to recognize that teachers must be paid ade quate compensation or they will leave the community and seek a more favorable environment. It is also our responsibility to p r o vide tho physical plant and the curriculum (or both students Uiat plan (or college and those seeking terminal education in our schools. ' As acting chairman of the Kl'HS citizens' commiltre and as .a member ( the KU11S budget committee, It has been my privi lege to become rather well ac nuainled with the problems that beset our local schools. Both the elementary and Hie KUHS budgets are good budgets. Every item In either budget can be defended with logic. Contrary to one letter to the editor, there is not one penny in the budget for golf, howling or skiing Our dollar cost per pupil compares very well with any oilier district of our size in the stale. ; 1 urge you to accept your citi zenship responsibility and make certain that both of these budg ets are passed. : Harry J. Fredrlcks :Credit ; We would like to thank publicly Hie following people whose names Were omitted from U list of credits on the programs pub lished for the successful produc tion, "Eliza and tli Lumber ' jack." Publication deadlines pre vented the printing of these names: Loyal Lovenoss (Loveness Lum ber Company, patron' ' Miller's Department Store 1; Dee Surprenant " Connor's TV Frightening Possibilitie; Tax Program cast aside the cigarette tax bill, they should think twice. Because when they get through with their surgery they will still face the problem of digging up that $50-$60 million. It may be possible to juggle some of the terms of the income tax revision but not to reduce the over-all take. Also the Senate committee should act with reasonable dispatch. The session is drag ging, to the evident irritation of the public. The time is at hand for team play, with a minimum of partisan grandstanding, and a show of , cooperation to polish off the tax program and set the stage for adjournment. which tend to be forgotten in the dc'ojle over teaching methods. The study of the sciences and the hu manities, he said, should be pursued "not to improve our competitive position as a nation, but to improve ourselves as persons. ... We owe our children more than a promise of technological proficiency or the chance to merchandise American culture overseas." Dr. Fischer's views are as timely as thev are refreshing. With the current emphasis on training youth to meet the stresses of a com petitive world, school men sometimes lose sight of education's highest purpose, which is to deepen the individual's Insights and broaden his horizons both for private life and public service. Nvback's Florist Pepsi Cola Cora Rogers Phyllis llankin Virginia Ellen Blohm I-cah Hcnningcr Yvonne Parllow Lcnoro Zumhrtm Mrs. David Tolton Mildred Jacobl The Klamath flayers Neighborly As 1 entered Bly on April 2!. I noticed some friends standing by the road and so I stopped to visit. For some reason, unknown to me. they refused to talk to me and seemed to wint to hur ry me off. litcr I was to learn the reason (or their distant reac tions. Mien I returned to my home alter visiting my husband. Mike Dillavou. who is recovering in Hillside Hospital from a back dis ability which occurred on April l!, I had no idea what was in store for me. As w ith any family, when the bread-winner is ill, debts and grocery bills seem to pile up, especially when there are eight children in the family. When I opened the door to our home, t was greeted by a num ber of neighbors who took me by the hand and led me through the kitchen and bedroom Every where I looked. I saw box alter box of groceries. Then tliey pre sented me with a cnvcloi which contained money to pay lor the electricity needed to cook the lood. It was explained to me that the entire community had gotten to gether and realizing Uie prob lems that faced our family, de cided to do something about it. I have no idea how many per sona were gracious enough to share their food with us nor who tlie donors were for all was given anonymously but 1 would like to take this opportunity to pub licly thank the community ol Illy marine and a guided missile destroyer, both of which suffered sabotage later in 1959. Whether this kind of thing is the work of conscious foreign agents or simply of dis gruntled workmen, it is not very heartening to hear that it can occur in the tight security atmosphere of a U.S. naval shipyard or that the perpetrators can go undiscovered. Whatever the cause of the Thresher's sinking, we would all gain from assurances that far tighter screening of workmen is now being applied in critical naval defense tasks. Obviously, too, it should not overlook men of a temperamental weakness which might lead them to work out personal resentments in actions against the nation's safety. Along and In tell the other readers of the Herald and News of the many kind and understanding people that we have in our town. It must be remembered that a number of these people have been out of work for at least a month and yet they were willing to share what they had with another. To me, this had been a very rewarding lesson in human nature and will be long remem bered. Our heartfelt thanks goes out to each and every one of you. Betty Dillavou. Bly. Al manac n.v l nlted Press International Today is Friday. May 3. the lilrd day of l!i,1 with 242 to follow. The moon is approaching lull phase. The morning stars are Venus and .Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury and Mars. On this day in history: In ISfij, the body of assassinat ed President Abraham Lincoln arrived back In his home town of .Springfield. III., after a journey from Uie nation's capital. In IM, Japanese bombers ranted Chungking, China, setting fire to tlie heavily congested downtown area of the city. In IMS. tlie U.S. Supreme Court forbade tlie states to enlorc those agreements that bind own ers not to sell property to racial and religious minorities. A thought lor the day French ...it nut Rabelais said: "I drink no more than a sponge " LETTERS TO THE Candidate Outlines It is impossible to present in one letter all the information that must be, and has been, consid ered regarding school reorganiza tion. I do, however, wish to state some of the reasons I now support a county unit plan as a means of providing all o( Klam ath County with a sensible, practi cal educational system. Briefly, 1 would like to review the steps and action taken by the KUHS Board since Klamath County was exempted from the 1937 School Reorganization Stat ute. Until May of 1961, the city school boards were dependent upon a local reorganization com mittee set up to study the matter and present a plan to the voters which would unify all districts. In the last days of the 1961 legis lative session, Klamath County was exempt from this statute, and the Reorganization Commit tee dissolved. When this happened, the KUHS Board was faced with taking im mediate steps to relieve t h e crowded condition of the inhool. This resulted in presenting two plans lo the voters, both of which were defeated. The first plan voted down incorporated bonds and serial levies to provide two junior high schools, which candi date for the KUHS Board now proposes as a solution lo our over-crowded high school. The second plan voted down would have provided a four-year high school on the Summers Lane site. At this point, we organized a citizens' committee to make a study and recommend a plan (or future action. This committee was (ormed from delegates sent by 2.' organizations contacted by the board. After weeks of study. 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""i5 "Tj74 T ' ' 46 147 48 1 149 50 bl 17" U SS 57 ""58 58 33 si J I I I J j EDITOR this committee felt that the first proposal made to the voters was the logical solution to the prob lem, however, their recommen dation was that no new construc tion should be considered until reorganization of the three dis tricts was attempted. We solicited the City Elementary Board and the county board which resulted in the formation of the Klamath School Board Association. After several weeks of deliberation, a metro-urban plan evolved that ap peared workable with equalization to provide protection to both dis tricts in the future. , Tlie three school boards were aware of the fact that new leg islation was necessary to provide permanent equalization. At this time, representatives from the three school districts involved were told we could not expect and get local support in the leg islature (or any reorganization plan that required legislation with built-in equalization. Without this support for needed legislation, the city school boards and the citizens committee felt a metro urban plan could not be justifiably pre sented to their constituents. This left two approaches (or reorganization with a third alter native of maintaining the status quo. which I believe very few people want. The first approach is the so-called gerrymander plan outlined by another candidate (or tlie KUHS Board in his letter. This plan, with arbitrarily drawn boundaries, is an attempt to bal ance student population and as sessed values. This does not lend itself to a permanent situation because, as student populations shift, we are again faced with the same old problem. Besides the answer to Previous PtiTz't Si IVnnn, .11 I'.sn.H mi-H g Frilled drawers "to be" lOToward the 33 Farm buildinp sheltered side 35 Tillers !i SET JS Sen 20 Arboreal homes 45 Oriental riltar n MpiCM 4t Speed contest 24 Rounders 47 Hebrew month 25 Mountain Firn icomb. form) 50 African stream MVariancea SI Fillip 2d Pointed a fun 52 Shield .10 Heavy blow 55 Abstract belnf Viewpoints payment of at least $500,000 to the county unit, it requires t h e metro area to provide new facili ties for approximately 350 stu dents now in Zones I and II of the plan in grades one through eight. Finally, the primary con cern 1 have with this plan is that the metro district will be obligat ed to educate the current student high school attendance until the division of assets obligation is de pleted, and then on a tuition basis until the county unit provides faci lities for these students. This ar rangement could easily extend for another five years. The second approach to re organization remaining to the people of Klamath County is a one-unit county system. This plan, with no boundary lines to create future problems, has the flexibili ty to meet any future population growth wherever it occurs. It has the builtin equalization that the Klamath School Board Association was trying to get in the other plans. When I consider equaliza tion. I am thinking not only of school support from property tax es, but from the income taxes paid to the state o( Oregon and distributed to the schools in the form of basic aid. Next to local taxes, basic aid from the state is the largest contributor to our educational institutions. As of this date, the sum of money budgeted by the state (or education ex ceeds the total of all income tax collections. I believe that the strongest selling point for a one county unit is that it will place one administration under one repre sentative board that can coordin ate the most efficient use o( all school facilities for the benelit of students and taxpayers alike. In closing 1 would encourage every voter to consider the fact that our youth are tlie most im portant resource of this country, and no matter what type of or ganization results, the budgets to operate our schools are neces sary. Got nut and vote for your school budget on May 6. C. 0. Borstinc. Member KL'HS Rnard of Directors ny SYDNEY J. HARRIS A reader in West Virginia writes in to ask me whether 1 find the word "Gems" offensive as an abbrevation for "Gentlemen" on doors to certain public rooms. 1 must conless that I do. but I must in all honesly add that my reaction is irrational and snob bish. "Gent." as an abbrevia tion, has been in the English lan guage since the lfith Century, and has better credentials than many words we abbreviate without re alizing it. When we call a certain kind of d.H-tor a "quack." (or instance, how many of us realize that this is an abbreviation of "quacksalv er?" Today there are many such words in the standard language lhat are accepted in Ihe shortened forms of the words they have dis placed. Prof. J A Shead. Uie philolo ny FULTON LEWIS JR. Ten days before Christmas, 1962. Secretary of State Dean Rusk received an urgent letter from five U.S. Senators two Democrats and three Republicans. They begged the Secretary to in ' struct our United Nations delega tion to "stand firm" on Hun gary. "We are deeply concerned," they wrote, "over recurring re ports that the United States may be considering a change in atti tude toward the Hungarian ques tion on the U.N. agenda." The Senators Thomas Dodd. Eugene McCarthy, Kenneth Keat ing. Karl Mundt and Hugh Scott were fearful the U.S. would bow lo "neutralist" pressure and drop the very issue that stuck "like a bone in a dog's throat" when Ni kita Khrushchev visited here in 1959. The five were familiar with re ports that Sir Leslie Munro, an eloquent spokesman for human liberty, would be relieved of his post as Special U.N. Representa tive on Hungary and his duties transferred to U.N. Secretary Gen eral U Thant, Burmese "neutral ist." That proposal, urged by mem bers of the Communist and Afro Asian blocs, was opposed by the five Senators. They wrote to Rusk that "in our judgment, it would be most difficult for the Secretary General in his position to pursue the mat'er with the independence and determination which have characterized Sir Leslie Munro's dedicated efforts." When the votes were tallied, however, Secretary Rusk and Am bassador Adlai Stevenson had re jected the Senators' advice, and the United States voted to abolish Sir Leslie's post. "At long last." chortled Mos cow's New Times, "common sense has prevailed." Thant then accepted an invita tion to visit Budapest as official guest of the Communist govern ment. Similar invitations were consistently refused by the late Secretary General Dag Hammar skjold. Sir Leslie, a brilliant foe of Communism, never even re ceivedmuch less accepted an invitation. Within days after Sir Leslie was (ired, Thant cancelled all U.N. news programs beamed to Hun gary. The broadcasts, , long a tar Rcl of Red attack, were often the only non-Communist news' the Hungarian people received. A spokesman for "Tiant said the broadcasts would be resumed only if Budapest asked for them. An "Of count, you're one of the 'in' group, Lyndon, but you're jutt not one of the family!" STRICTLY PERSONAL gist at London University, has pointed out that nobody calls a piano a "p.anoforte" any more: that a "curio" was once a "curi osity:" and what everyone calls a ' bus" today was only a half century ago called an "omni bus." Even in tlie rigorous academic Iield. we speak of "exam." "lab." "math." "matric." and so on. ra ther than examination, labora tory, mathematics and matricula tion. No one considers it infra dig to speak of a "bike." a "photo." or a "pram." instead of bicycle, pho tograph and perambulator. Young people invariably go to "proms." rather than to promenades, and attend "prep" rather than prepar atory schools More than two centuries ago. Jonathan Swift was complaining about the habit of shortening Eng other source reported that Thant felt the Hungarian question was dead. The five Senators who wrote Rusk remained concerned. All are members of the American Friends of Captive Nations. They wrote in December: "Sir Leslie Munro's latest, re port as Special United Nations Representative makes it very clear that the U.N. resolutions on Hungary still have not been complied with. There has been no withdrawal of .180,0001 Soviet forces from Hungary: there have been no free elections in Hun gary under U.N. auspices; and there has been no observance by the Hungarian authorities of fun damental human rights and free doms. The Senators intend to remind Secretary Rusk of that once again. Perhaps because of their prod ding, the U.S. delegation to the U.N. has bitterly protested the end of U.N. broadcasts to Hun gary. American taxpayers will be happy lo know that Morocco's King Hassan II whose tiny coun try has received more than $350 million in U.S. foreign aid ap preciates our free enterprise sys tem. In a recent trip to this coun try Ihe king shelled out $780,000 for personal goodies. "It was a conscientious effort to return much of the American aid mon eyin U.S. dollars and through the free enterprise system," said one of his many press agents. While in Washington, Hassan ordered a $30,000 reception at which his guests had put before them duck in aspic with foie gras; lobster, pheasant, roast beef, and all the booze they could drink. In a short New York stop. Hassan paid a visit to a local auto dealer and bought out Ihe house including five air-conditioned Cadillacs. In one depart ment store, Hassan bought $18,000 worth of clothes, then turned around and bought more blankets, towels, sheets, mats, robes, pil low cases and bedspreads than any housewife could ever dream of buying. When Hassan got ready to jet home (courtesy of the U.S. Air Force I, three U.S. Army trucks were required to carry his loot lo the airport. The King's private parly of 25 rode to Idlewild Air port in black limousines, followed by 45 Moroccan second-stringers in buses, followed by the Army trucks. lish words. His particular animos ities were "mob" and "banter." which are now thoroughly accept ed standard English. Indeed, not one person in a thousand recalls that "mob" is Uie popular form , of the Latin term "mobile vul gus." -And ho thinks of a "fan" as coming from "fanatic?" Or "la xicab" as being an abbreviation of the cumbersome "taximeter cabriolet?" A wig was once a "periwig," a drawing-room was a "withdraw ing-room," and even a "chap" is an abbreviation of "chapman," which was a Middle English term for a wheeler and dealer of that day. Only a pedant or a prig would speak of taking his children to the "zoological gardens," rather than to the "zoo." In our own time, a microphone has become a "mike." a racetrack totalizator is a "tote." and the cinematograph be came "cinema" in England while motion pictures became "movies" in the United Slates. "Gent" re mains a Kwer-class stump - word in England, but I infinitely prefer H to the ghastly American eu phemism of ".lohn." or. even worse, "little bovs' room."
