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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1963)
PACE I HERALD AND NEWS, Klanulh Falll, Oregon Sunday, May 26, 1963 fcdiliftiaL (paqsL Bureaucrats Stall Intertie Secretary of Interior Udall and Secre tary of Agriculture Freeman have ganged up to put into effect an agreement which is hold ing up progress on a project that could mean much to the Klamath area. The two secretaries, in March, agreed to put in effect new federal regulations on the use of public lands in the building of pow er transmission lines. The new administrative agreement au thorizes Secretary Udall to deny permission to cross or use public lands for building pow er transmission lines, if, in his personal judg ment he believes such a grant might conflict with federal power marketing programs. At stake, as far as we in the Klamath Basin are concerned, is a project of consider able magnitude in which Pacific Power & Light Co. and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. have agreed to engage in a power intertie project. The new line would extend 110 miles from Klamath Falls to Round Mountain in Shasta County, where it will join the Pacific Gas system. The project is estimated to cost about $10,000,000, and would undoubtedly mean quite an addition to the economy of the Klamath area for a considerable time. Best thing about this prospect is that the money would be coming from private investors and would not be just another federal govern ment project. In commenting on the situation earlier, the Portland Oregonian had this to say: NO BOGEYMAN "Federal Power Commissioner Howard Morgan apparently went to Washington with a itrong dislike for the Pacific Power & Light Co., perhaps acquired during his tenure as Oregon's public utilities commis sioner. For outside of personal prejudice there appears to be no explanation for his outburst in opposition to PP&L plans for an Oregon - California power inter tie, approved 4 to 1 Wednesday by the KPC. "The gist of Mr. Morgan's accusation is that PP&L, associated with the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. in the intertie project, is an accomplice in a "power raid" on the Pacific Northwest; that its plans will con diet with or thwart Bonneville Power Administration plans for additional interties, and that the FPC and state officials in Washington and Oregon have been unaware that the plans call for a 500-kilovolt line from Klamath Falls to Round Mountain, Calif., rather than the 230 KV line mentioned in the FPC statement. "The record refutes Mr. Morgan's arguments and suspicions. PP&L and PG&E on Jon. 16 announced their plans to build the 110-mile intertie linking the 6 million kilowatt generating capacity of the Cali fornia utility with Pacific's 1,350,000.000 kilowatt capa bility. Their statement, given page one publicity through out the region, said the line would be designed for a 500.0IK) voit alternating current capacity, although it would be operated at 230,000 volts for the time being. "The next day Charles F. Luce, Bonneville Pow er administrator, said the intertie is consistent with BPA task force recommendations, which took into ac count the likelihood that a private line would be built in conjunction with the federal direct current inter ties now on BPA's drawing boards. "And as for any 'raids,' Mr. Morgan urely is aware the private power companies cannot move BPA power into California unless and until BPA makes sales agreements with specific purchasers in the South land. There is no reason to fear the premature conclu sion of any such agreements, in view of a I960 Senate resolution with full Pacific Northwest backing which in effect directs BPA to make no such sales prior to enactment of legislation protecting the rights of the region in the power from its own rivers. "If the PP&L proposal did indeed pose a threat to the power future of the Pacific Northwest, there would have been many voices speaking out against it long ago. Mr. Morgan thinks he sees a bogeyman in the bushes. But others would see it, too, if it really were there." No SIAC Reform (Portland Oragonian) The inability of employer and union lob byists at Salem to agree on key provisions once again has led to the death of legislation de signed to reform Oregon's antiquated and in adequate industrial accident insurance sys tem. A good compromise bill slid through the State Senate with the somewhat grudging ap proval of both factions, and each side prompt ly set about to obtain amendments to its liking In the House Labor and Industries Committee. In the subsequent horsetrading,' labor's spokesmen tried to drive too hard a bargain, and employer representatives at last decided they were being required to give too much for what little they would receive. Too late, the two union officials on the committee. Reps. Wayne Turner and Ed Who lan, tried to save the bill for further and pos sibly more conciliatory changes. But the em ployers were tired of the wrangle; the bill was shelved for this session of the Legisla ture bv a 7 to 2 vote. For private Insurance companies and some employers, the most-wanted feature of the bill was the elimination of the present state insurance monopoly through the establish ment of a new category of "direct responsi bility" employers. Proponents of this change have argued that better safety programs and Improved private Insurance would reduce em ployers' costs. But opponents have defended the monopoly system as more efficient, claim ing that in states permitting private insurance competition the cost to employers is 35 to 45 per cent more for the same employe benefits paid in Oregon. Of particular interest to employes, the bill would have extended SIAC coverage to nearly all workers in Oregon, instead of ex cluding about 40 per cent as at present. It also promised increased benefits. Employ ers had agreed to increases amounting to about 20 per cent in nearly all categories, but balked when new amendments sought to jack up benefits even higher. From an administration standpoint, the bill would have reorganized the State Indus trial Accident Commission into three logical groupings: A governor-appointed manager would have handled the insurance function: a new review board, also named by the gov ernor, would have handled the judicial func tions of the agency, and the original SIAC commission would have remained responsible for enforcement, regulation and safety pro grams. Many of these reforms were recommend ed by the Governor's Advisory Committee on Workmen's Compensation, assigned to study the shortcomings of Oregon's 50-year-old in dustrial accident insurance act. With the fail ure of the bill, these faults will remain for another biennium to inspire pressure for im provement from both labor and management factions. It is unfortunate that the great ef fort put into this legislation by Industry and union lobbyists and legislators themselves has gone for naught. But valuable lessons have been learned that can aid in the preparation of a new bill that may fare better at the 1965 session. Letters To The Editor Objective Last week my husband brought home a news bulletin distributed at the Weyerhaeuser plant by un ion members. Among other things in the bulletin was this state ment: "In 19)3, 3.550 work stoppages occurred in tlie United States, and these stoppages involved ahout 1.3 million workers and caused a loss of 19 million man days of worktimc. In terms of the wliole U.S. economy, 19 million man days may sound high until one realizes that almost 50 timet as many man days were lost lie cause American workers could not find jobs." I would like to express my sin cere appreciation to union olli elals for gatliering these statistics and pointing out clearly to the Weyerhaeuser workers how fortu nnto tliey are in having year around, steady employment. Tills is truly a blessing for every worker's family. I hope that lite lop union of i ciati of every union In the coun try will Join their forces to do umdhiiui lor the urjeirujlojed. U Is not altogether necessary to lie concerned about men who have steady Jobs. Bather, effort should be made to help those w ho have little or nothing to live on. Otherwise, the union officials would have much the same ap pearance as a man wto is con cerned about a healthy person not having enough entertainment, but paving no attention to another person lying on the floor, strick en with a heart attack. It'i put our strength and ef fort where there Is a genuine need. I can conceive of no big ger contractor to menial. phvM cal and spiritual deterioration than that contracted by unem ployment. Reduction of unemployment should be tlie number one project of the nation'! unions. Mrs. Frank Krok Thanks Please consider this a multiple "thank you" letter. First of all. we wish to thank tlie citizens o( Klamath Falls for their over whelming support of the concert which was given Tuesday eve ning, .May 14, as (lie initial' effort in terming a Community Symphn nv Orchestra in Klamath Falls We are confident that the initial concert attendance, which ex ceeded 600. is a firm indication of community support and desire for such an organization. Also. e would like to thank the various clubs and organiza lions which sponsored the May 14 concert. These organizations are tlie Library Club, tlie American Association of Cnivcrsity Women, tlie 11 u s i n e s and Professional Women's Club, the Quota and Ni roptimist clubs, the l.ions Club, the Downtown and Linkvillc Ki wains clubs, and the Hotary Club. L1. but not least. we want to thank the news media of our com munity. Tlie support given our project by the newspaper, the ra dio stations, and television station was certainly gratifying. With continued support in tlie future, we leel confident that a sym phony orchestra in Klamath Falls will become a reality. Board of Directors, Kbrruith Community Symphony Orchestra. "Too Bad You Weren't in Berlin When They Put Up the Wall" EDSONMN WASHINGTON SOP Works Grass Roots By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent . Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON NEA An nouncement by the Republican Citizens Committee that it will hold a workshop in Hershey, Pa June 13-14 probably will start an other round of political specula tion, most of which will' be thumb-sucking baloney. This organization was set up formally in Washington last De cember after a preliminary pic nic meeUng in a tent on Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Gettys burg farm in June. It has been accused of a lot of party-splitting and a presidential candidate - making intentions and activities all of which are de nied. The truth is that the Republican Citizens Committee still doesn't quite know where it's going, but it's trying to find out. That's one purpose of the Her - shey workshop. It will be an invitational affair for about 75 hand-picked participants. Keep ing attendance small was inten tional, because the Citizens Com mittee wanted top leadership which could get a lot of work done at this first session. The drive for citizen members in large numbers will come later. Eisenhower, as honorary RCC chairman, will be at Hershey and will preside at one off-the-record workshop session on crit ical problems facing America to day. A special feature of this ses sion will be the unveiling of an RCC-financed Elmo Roper sur vey of voter concepts of what the Republican party stands for and how this differs from voter con cepts of what the Democratic party stands for. Albert L. Cole of Reader's Digest w ill make this presentation. Another workshop was to have been chaired by RCC Chairman George (Tim) Herrmann of Chi cago, but his sudden resignation because of the press of private business and his wife's illness throws the organization and the program into some confusion. Donald C. Frey, executive sec retary of RCC in Washington, who also is in active charge of the Hershey meeting, was for 10 years chairman of the Los Angeles County Republican As sociates. This organization set tlie pat tern for similar organizations in San Diego, San Francisco and Sacramento. There also are suc cessful GOP citizen action groups in Chicago and Cleveland. Since the national RCC movement was started, new com mittees have been set tip in St. Louis and San Antonio and on a state-wide basis in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The goal is to concentrate on organizing for the Republicans the metropolitan area vote which in recent elec tions has gone Democratic. A special effort will be made to enlist independents. RCC Vice Chairman Peter M. Flanigan of New York will chair a workshop on how best to aid Republican candidates. C. Wrede Petersmcyer, president of Corin thian Broadcasting Co.. New York, is workshop chairman in charge of the program. All ses sions will be closed, but the press will be briefed later. 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This is considered important, be cause the Citizens Committee has been accused or suspected of wanting to usurp some of the functions of the National Com mittee, take over the policy-mtik-ing functions of congressional leaders, name national conven tion candidates. The fact that Gov. William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania is the only COP presidential possibility who has been invited to the Her shey workshop may start another round of rumors that the RCC is trying to put him over. But this is officially denied all around. Scranton was invited solely, it is maintained, because he is governor of the host state. When the Citizens Committee plan first emerged early in the 1913 congressional campaign there were charges it was a New York plot to nominate Gov. Nel son Rockefeller in 12. Lately, this has been changed to gos sip of a conspiracy to put over Michigan Gov. George Romney. It then became a "slop Goldwater" drive. Actually, it is none of these things. Tlie Citizens Committee is merely trying to set up an or ganization to back whatever can ' didatos the Republican national or state conventions and primar ies nominate and get them elected. They're a bunch of in fluential but frustrated Republi cans who would like to see the GOP win one for a change. First year operatioas of the Citizens Committee have been fi nanced by $1,000 contributions from 100 of its charter members. A budget for the 16 months be fore the 1M elections and a drive for smaller contributions from many more citizens will be made after program is developed at Hershey. OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS The Marvel Of Canning IWashlnctnn Evening Star) Among the more interesting and even startling random statis tics of our time, or so it seems to us. is this: The I'nited States manufactured approximately 47 billion tin cans in 12, and tlie output probably will be a couple of billion more during the cur rent year. Tie American Iron and Steel Institute, speakins through one of its publicity organs, has under standably gasped at these figures with wonderment and prisle. What they mean, according to the insti tute is that in 1913 some 2SO cans i in round numbers i were made available to every man. woman and child in America cans for practically every imag inable use. including the contain ment of beans, soups, baby foods, and stK-h exotic items as rattle snake meat and ant filled choco lates. This is something that surely NOTHING SPECIAL Can't let the school year pass without commenting on the spirit of cooperation and helpfulness ex . tended by LaMar Jensen's KUHS Band and Pep Band. Whenever a community project is in need of a little music to pass the time or fill in during program intervals LaMar and his kids are right ' there blowing away. They're ex cellent musicians, and we can feel gratified that we have the coop eration of the high school music groups. Some of us have lived in communities where the attitude of the music directors and the kids is to heck with any special appear ances for the good of the commu nity. I'm glad it's different here. When it comes right down to it, these special appearances are quite an imposition on the time of the boys and girls who comprise the various music units. Having finally joined the ranks of those whose names adprn the so-called court records in the Herald and News, I feel quali fied to comment thereon. Not that I'm squawking. I guess there's no arguing against a cold radar box. But, If the police are going to rack up us pld fo gies for clomping along a few miles too fast In the residential - areas and elsewhere, they might also take a look at the driving practices of the hot'shots who use Main Street for a race track, and spectacular take-offs fryim stops in Intersections. Several dogs in our neighbor hood take particular delight in going through (thoroughly through) our garbage cans which I suppose is par for the course. I like to think about tlie idea of a guy in Phoenix, who came up with a good if lamentable plan for solution of the dog-garbage can relationship. Having some knowledge of elec tricity, he wired his garbage can so that it would give the dogs a terrifying, but non-fatal jolt, if W. B. S.I they touched their wet noses to the can. As a safety precaution he added a switch at his back door so that his electronic dog scarer could be turned off each morning. Anyway, he forgot to throw the switch one morning and a conscientious and hard-working garbage collector man reached for the can, and . . . you can imag ine the rest! The story (on that a simple ending resulted. The dogs are bark happily pushing over the garbage can and the electrical - genius spends his Saturdays hauling his own garbage to the dump. I guess there's a moral there somewhar. "Some people object to divorce," said the Juarez attorney. "But a' large number of divorces proves that America is the land oi the free." "Perhaps," his client replied, "but the steady persistence of marriage shows that it is also the home of the brave." Browsing through some of the m a g a z i n e s on the newsstands' these days makes one curious to sec the stuff the editors reject ed Looking pver the federal budg et, one can conclude that every thing is much simpler these days. Instead of solving a prob lem, you just subsidize it. One of the more disappointing failures of Klamath Falls citizens is the wide disregard for commu nity pride. We need some agency or committee or something to spark our pride in the appearance of our property. It takes a lot ofjime and ten acity to dislike another person; so much, in fact, that often little en ergy is left to get anything con structive done. WASHINGTON REPORT . . Indonesia Dictator Known Communist By FULTON LEWIS JR. The President is advised here to study carefully a State Depart ment Intelligence Report, No. 4489R-15, drafted earlier this year. Particularly because he has just dipped into "emergency for eign aid funds" to bail out In donesia's pint - sized dictator Su karno. The Intelligence Report. "World Strength of the Communist Party Organizations." details the Marx ist stranglehold on Sukarno's gov ernment; "The Communist Party's strength rests basically on its le gitimacy, and on its strong orga nizational control over its follow ers. Its legitimacy and respecta bility are attributed to President Sukarno's public endorsement of the party as a genuine participant in tlie political process and in the nationalist movement. "This endorsement has been concretized by the appointment of large numbers of Communist Party members to the parlia ment and to advisory organs of the government, such as the Su preme Advisory Council and the National Planning Council." The report goes on to reveal that Communists control organized labor, transportation, and agricul ture. Their influence is felt strong ly among rank and . file Gov ernment employes. A single Com munist group, the Peasants Front, boasts 3.700.000 members. Mem bership in tne Indonesian Com munist Party, world's third larg est (after China and Russia', is estimated at 1,900.000. Sukarno has received a total of $o71 billion in American econom ic aid, plus another $206 million in Food for Peace shipments, plus millions in military assistance. Figures on military aid are la beled top secret and not avail able, (or some reason, to Con gressional leaders. Similar aid to other nations is not so stamped. "Why." demanded Rep. Oliver Bolton iR.. O.i a fortnight ago. "are the amounts and types of U.S. military assistance to In donesia withheld from public scru tiny by our Agency for Interna tional Development when U.S. military aid to other countries is not so classified?" He has received no answer. In recent weeks. Sukarno has challenges the mind's eye. Any how, when one thinks about them in terms of being lard end to end. or placed on top of each other like building blocks, the 47 billion cans have an aweomenes that speaks for itself. In the pres ence of a statistic like this, all of us must be given furiously to think about tlie marvels of packaging pocketed another $10.7 million in emergency funds from the Presi dent. The monies. Congress has been told, will continue flowing to Indonesia. They are, one sup poses, sent to Sukarno care of General Delivery, Jakarta, for the grinning little Marxist is often found in some other Communist capital pledging solidarity in the fight against Western imperial ism. Winner of the Order of Lenin, Sukarno has an interesting past. During World War II, he held down a posh job. that of Gen eral Political Adviser to the Jap anese Military Government. In that position. Sukarno turned two million of his countrymen over to the Japanese to be treated, in the words of General Charles Wil Inughby, "like coolie slaves." One of Sukarno's chief tasks was to exhort the Indonesians to greater war efforts in such phras es as "We shall flatten out Amer ica" and "We shall overturn Eng land." Sukarno organized a colossal anti-American rally in Jakarta on , November 8. 1944. The Indonesian weekly Dwaja Baros published photos of him burning bigger-than-life pictures of Western lead ers. A caption under one picture read: "Roosevelt, Churchill con demned." Ever the opportunist. Sukarno jumped the sinking Japanese ship in 1945, and honked up with the Soviets. He telegraphed Stalin, asking support and pledging him self to the attainment of Russian aspirations. That was the year Sukarno and other Indonesian na tionalists proclaimed the Indone sian Republic. The Dutch bowed to I'nited Nations pressure and capitulated four years later, hand ing the sprawling islands their freedom. Within the United Nations. Su karno lackeys consistently spout the Communist line. Indonesia, for instance, was one of 12 "neutra lists" who refused to approve a General Assembly motion that asked Russia to leave Hungary in I9.Vi. Nolo: In addition to million in cold cash, the I'nited States has asreed to send Peace Corps men to Indonesia Sukarno hud dled with Sargent Shriver last September and sealed the deal with a handshake. The Indonesia ruler was insis tent that Peace Corps volunteers be cognizant of "Indonesian cus toms and ways " A Shriver aide. Douelas Kiker. tells my asso ciate. Bill Schulz: "You can be sure e're not going to send any flas-wavers over there, any kids with the Declaration of Indepen dence tattooed on their chests. All our people will be acceptable to Sukarno."
