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"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.
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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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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
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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."