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PAGE I HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Tuesday. May 28, 19M EDSON IN WASHINGTON Off to the Races Sugar Shortage Will Increase Candy Cost Governor's Resolution Raps Aside from the pure economics of the sit uation, Klamath Basin people have a great deal at slake in the present delay by the federal government in balking a power Inter tie between Pacific Power & Light Co. and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. The intertie, a $10 million project, would connect PP&L lines with those of PG&E at Round Mountain in Shasta County, Calif. If private power companies arc not per jnitted to proceed in an orderly, efficient - manner with providing power for a growing region, then the entire economy of that re ' gion could suffer through lack of power avail ' able. In the West, more than half of the lands available are controlled or owned by the fed eral government. In the area through which ' PP&L and PG&E propose to install their inter tie line, much of the land Is controlled by the government either the Interior Department or. the Agriculture Department. Pacific Pow er' and Pacific Gas have had on file an appli cation to use federal lands for the Round ;Mbuntain project for more than a year. If Una two private cdmpanies "had been given Mhe go-ahead (there is no question of the '' merit of the proposed power intertie) by the government burcaurcrats Involved, the line would have been operating this year, accord ing to company spokesmen. Recently at the Western Governors Con ference at Phoenix, Ariz., governors repre ' senting the Far West states put their finger - on the problem and passed a resolution criti 3 cizing the policies of the departments of In A Moment Of Remembering ; Klamath Basin voteran and patriotic : groups this year again will act as sport sors and instigators of special services high lighting Memorial Day ceremonies at the Me morial Shaft in Klamath Falls. Theme of the endeavor this year is "Let's put memory back in Memorial Day." The theme is appropriate. For most of us, : Memorial Day has become nothing more than ; a, holiday the first of three summer holi days. We are not so naive as to think that the attitude of people will change and Memorial Day will become again what it was supposed tot be. People will continue to regard Me morial Day as just a holiday. : But, we are hopeful that a great many people will keep in mind the significance of this day. To start with Memorial Day was WASHINGTON By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise- Awn. WASHINGTON (NE.O - Can ada's Prime Minister tester Pearson is, it turn out. quite a baseball (an. When President Ken nedy discovered this at their re cent Hyannts Port meeting, In quickly summoned aide David Powers, hit own minister for baseball. Towers, who ha a steel-trap marnory for baseball names and statist irs, extracted from Pear son that the New York Yankees art his favorite team. But the prime minister said that once, a general ion ago, he liked the Bos ton lied Sox Kennedy's favorites. Pearson recalled one Plosion player from tliat era, Joe Cronm, now president of the American League. Powers needed no fur ther cue: "That was Has 19J8 Red Sox. Jimmy Foxx at first. Bobby Docrr at second, Cronin at short. . . ." Pearson nodded in evident agreement and some wonder ment. A constituent in Schenectady wrote New York's Sen. Kenneth Keating that he's been thinking about our planned trip to the moon and its estimated RO bil lion cost. The. correspondent said this "travel project" Is being financed with a new twist. Whereas Uie current American fashion Is the "trawl now-pay later" plan. Uie costly moon trip would offer Just III opposite: "pay now travel later." Emerging from an Alabama editors' luncheon with President Kennedy at Ui White House, Rob ert Bryan, publislier of tha Cull it! terior and Agriculture relating to easements across public lands. On March 23 the Secretary of Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture ruled that the former could refuse requests for grants to qualified applicants for the construction of electric transmission lines across public lands. This refusal, they said, could be based on the Secretary of Interior's determination that such a grant in some way conflicted with the power marketing program involved. With Secretary of Interior Udail's atti tude towards private enterprise, it is not dif ficult to imagine that his determinations will always be based on the concept of more and bigger government involvement in power generation and transmission. The governors, at their conference, point ed out that the effect of such regulations as those Imposed by Udall and Freeman will be "to hamper the economic growth of the West ern states in which large areas of federal lands are located by thus denying opportunity to de velop the resources and industries of such states." They asked, in the resolution, that the secretaries be requested to suspend the regu lations promulgated, and that Congress in vestigate the "vital and far-reaching issues raised during which interested parties may be heard, and take such other appropriate action as may be indicated." We would urge that people of the Klam ath Basin and the entire Pacific Northwest, for that matter let their Congressional dele gation know that we dislike this additional usurpation by federal directive that stifles economic development of the region. known as Decoration Day. A day to decorate the graves of loved ones lost in battle, and the others, friend and foe alike, who perhaps had no one to mourn them. Today, 05 years later, Memorial Dav marks the tribute the United States pays to the dead of all wars tribute by family, friends, military, patriotic and civil organizations. We who are alive to enjoy the fruits of the sacrifice of those who died including this Memorial Day holiday, and all it repre sents should be able to find a couple of min utes to spend in reflection on those sacrifices. Somewhere along the way of this holiday, find a place at the Memorial Shaft exer cises your church, a corner of a field where fence and woodland join, a place in your heart, and spend a moment in remembering. NOTEBOOK Ceegar SmokirT man Times-Democrat, was asked if any of the President's stall had sat in. "Just Pierre Salinger ip r ( s s secretary'," said Bryan. "Did ha say anythuig?" a news man asked. Bryan's answer: "No, he Just sat there, smoked a cigar and blew his nose." Sen. Karl Mundt, R-S.D., says that in some quarters people think the "D.C." in Washington. DC, stands for District of Confusion. Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, veteran House minority leader, made a great confession at Uie Senate Republicans' sl.OOO-a-plate dinner honoring Sen. Bar ry Goldwater of Arizona. "At one time t aspired to the Senate." said Halleck, who will complete .10 years of continuous sen Ice in Congress at the end of the present session. "But I've about given that up. I'm getting too darned okf." Vt hat he politely didn't mention Is that there are three members of Uie Senate-JHayden of Arizona. Russell of Georgia, and Byrd of Virginia, as well as 10 members of the House who have been in Congress longer than Halleck. Sen. Thruston Morton of Ken tucky, former Republican nation al chairman, now chairman of the Senate Republican Cam paign Committee, undoubtedly knows a lot about politics and may be a great political prophet. But as a predictor of horse races, he's not so good. Asked on a radio program who would win the Kentucky Derby, Morton replied: "Well, thera is one that came from old Kentucky Never Bend. 1 think he's going to make it, Power Grab Honker! probably take It all. If you want to. you can guarantee that." Never Bend came in second in a field of nine and paid to place But in a political race, second isn't good enough. Radio Free Europe reports an underground story about Soviet Chairman Khrushchev. On his re cent visit to East Berlin, he was asked by East German Com munist boss Walter L'lbricht how many enemies he thought his re gime had in the Soviet Union. "Oh, about IS or 17 million. I should think." replied Khrusch chev. "And what about you?" "Oh, about Uie same. I should say." answered l'lbricht, whose territory's total population is 17 million. Gov. George Romney of Mich igan, who keeps his office door wide open once a week for any one to come in with his troubles, may be finding pressures from private citizens a little bit trying. Before a Washington rally the governor told a story attributed to Uie late Sen. Moms Sheppatd of Texas, a Democrat. Back in the good old days w hen there wasn't a new world crisis developing every hour on t h e hour, a reporter in desperate search for any kind of story on a particularly dull day asked the Texan: "Senator, what would you do if you suddenly inherited a million dollars?" "My boy." replied Sheppard. "I'd go back to Texas, and the first constituent who came up to me and said. "'You don't knew who I am. but "I'd say to him: No, I don't know who you are, and 1 don't care." By SYDNEY J. HARRIS The day I arrived in New York last month, 1 heard nothing but the scream of fire engines from morning until well past midnight. As you may have seen in the pa pers, the five boroughs of New York together turned in 1,000 alarms on that Saturday in April. The fire departments were taxed to their limits, and in some cases beyond. A grave wa ter shortage developed late in the day. A wave of fires on south ern Staten Island Involved more than half of New York City's Fire Department alone. In our muted discussions of atomic attack, we think mostly of the cataclysmic impact of the bomb. But, according to phys icists I have read and listened to, the consequences of fire from such an attack are equally ap palling. And the 1.000 alarms on this Saturday would be infinitesi mal compared with the confla gration begun by a single H-bomb. How can we begin to imagine the unimaginable? This question, I think, is the clue to most of the passivity and fatalism of Uie public toward atomic warfare. Just as no finite and mortal per son can really comprehend in finity or eternity, so none of us can actually grasp Uie apocalyp tic quality of the next war. Some things art too small In grasp nobody, for instance, can really visualize Uie world of sub atomic matter and tome things are too large. 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It is no accident that the few philosophers of science in o u r time have pointed out the quite remarkable fact that the human species is, with almost mathe matical exactitude, midway be tween the largest order and the smallest order of magnitude in the universe. We stand in relation to Uie proton as the universe stands in relaUon to us. Such a concept is nearly inconceivable, except in a scientific formula, which robs it of all concreteness and existential meaning. But what a wonder, and a bafflement, that a creature so equidistance from both magni tudes should be able to under stand and t partly l control both of them. There is no doubt in my mind that the human race is approach ing its ultimate moral crisis. We have gone too far to turn back, we have opened too many doors that will not close again, and perhaps released too many de mons that will refuse to be put back Into their bottles. The 1.000 fires in a day were extinguished by heroic efforts; but we now have the capacity to start one million fires simultane ously, with no capacity to ex tinguish them. Perhaps tlie most . crushing paradox of our time is that never before has mankind been so powerful and men so powerless. This is what we do not want to think of. Anlwer to Previous Pulllt s Hound rrifi Dfxittton 7 t'a'.M od At Blockhfid .14 H timed 35 Everlasting A Dower property rxxt w nrtorci 10 Muitfllfi ma mint Illhen Cr. 1:1 Rational lAl'nrlftw fpofl.) 31 Mandardi of p'rifclion 53 Hi ran nprt rgmit .17 Be- sick 3tf Village ia Illinois 40 Brnni brnd 41 Light touches 4.1 NoMrils 4i ry tr t 47 Bargain event 4ft i nw tand hill M Lubricant M Impair Liw.U 1&3 i:i'r$'gBeY)Si 1 taa.r- fcr. 3! I t U - Balance Of Power May Shift In '64 By GLADSTONE WILLIAMS (In The Sacramento Bee) While there is little danger of the Democrats losing control of the Senate in the 1964 elections there is a distinct possibility the balance of power in the chamber, now narrowly held by moderates and liberals, may be ahilted to the conservatives by the results. This is a conclusion the National Committee for an Effective Con press has come up with after stu dying recent election trends and the list of senators up for re-election next year. The chief basis for it is that the group of senators facing the polls next year belong to the clas. of 1958. which is the year which saw more Democrats swept Into the Senate than at any time since 19W. That upheaval shifted the center of gravity in both political parties, giving the liberals and moderates a slight advantage over the old coalition of south ern Democrats and conservative Republicans. Here is the way the committee analyzes the situation: "Just as November, 1958, put an entirely different ball club onto the Senate field, 19A4 could take it nut again. "Regardless of partisanship and regardless of who wins the presi dency, 1964 will be a decisive year for the moderates of both parties and for the future of Congress. What is at stake is not merely a shift in the center of gravity hut the whole orientation of Amer ican politics." Before the 1958 election the two major parties were almost evenly balanced in the Senate. After the election the Democrats emerged with a majority of approximately 2 to 1. That election also changed the ratio of northern and western Democratic senators to southern ers from about even to a 2 tn 1 margin in favor of the north and west. At the same time the 2 lo 1 margin formerly held by conser vatives among Senate Republicans was reduced lo 4 to 3. The effect n( this was to wipe out the 3 to 2 voting advantage which the coa lition of conservative Republicans and southern Democrats had pre viously held over liberal northern Democrats and moderate Repuhli cans. It gave a slight edge to the combination of liberals. Tlie Democrats have 25 scats up lor election next year. The Nation al Committee for an Effective Congress, a nonpartisan group which raises financial aid for se lected consressional candidates, estimates that from seven to IS of these could be lost to the Re publicans. Even the maximum loss pro jecled would not upset Democrat ic Senate control, since the divi sion of the two parties in the Sen ale now stands at 6? Democrats to 33 Republicans. But it could up set the advantage now held by liberals over conservatives. The committee assumes Presi dent John F. Kennedy, on the ba sis ot his present popularity rat ing, will run even better in 1W1 than he did in 1 But it finds it "highly unlikely" he could car ry the Democrats up to or be yond the extraordinarily high lev el of I9.su. which would require a victory of landslide proportions. Tlie point is that Kennedy may By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent WASHLNGTON NEA) Now you take candy. Everybody can understand candy, and most ev erybody likes it. Candy is either an energy food, or it makes you fat, depending on how much you cat; But it is fraught with no economic or in ternational significance. That's what you think! But 3,000 candymakers and their suppliers, assembled in Washington for the 80th annual convention of the National Con fectioners Assn. didn't come here to compare products in 2,000 ex hibits or to swipe each other's recipes. Their program was a cram course in business, foreign trade, tariffs, world agricultural produc tion, food and drug administra tion, legislation, congressional and other government relations. There's one candymaker in Con gress, by the way. He's William Brock 3rd, R-Tcnn., of the Brock Candy Co. family in Chattanooga. You would never think you could pack so much trouble into a box of candy until you listen to Doug las Steinberg of Chicago, presi dent of the candymen's associa tion. There are about 2,000 candy makers in the country, but most of them are what you call "mom and pop" kitchens and stores. About 250 of the big boys make 85 per cent of the 3.2 billion pounds of candy sold last year. (About 17.5 pounds per capita, if you got your share.) About a third of the sales were candy bars, most of which sold for five cents apiece. But the sad news is that the five-cent candy bar may be on the way out along with the nickel itself, since there's not much left you can buy with it. The size of the nickel candy bar can't be reduced much more or it will begin lo compete with the .two-cent candy bites which are being sold in increasing quan tity to catch the spare pennies left over after you've paid sales taxes on other purchases. And if the quality of the candy bar is reduced by using substitutes or additives, there may be trou ble with Food and Drug Adminis tration. So the 10-cent candy bar seems inevitable. It's all due tn the two million- By FL'LTON LEWIS JR. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is a bright man who has displayed re markable insight on more than one occasion. It appears, too, that he thinks most clearly when alone, when Arthur Schlcsingcr Jr. is at Har vard; when Walt Whitman Ros tnw remains at Massachusetts In stitute of Technology: when W. Averell Harriman is clipping cou pons. Note carefully tlie 1949 words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, then a tall, thin young Congressman. In a brilliant address attacking the foreign policies of President Harry Truman and George Mar shall, who had just resigned as Secretary of State, Itep. Kennedy criticized the idea of a coalition government for Nationalist China in these words: "Our policy in China is reaping the whirlwind. The continued in sistence that aid would not be forthcoming unless a coalition gov ernment with tlie Communist was formed was a crippling blow lo the Nationalist government." Thirteen years later, John Ken nedy no longer occupied a cramped two-room suite in tlie House Office Building. He worked out of plush nil ices at 1600 Penn sylvania Avenue and found him self surrounded by the likes of Schlosinger and Rostow and Har riman. It was then that he altered his ideas on the desirability of coali tion governments. Such a set-up. he decided, was just what the anli-Commurust rulers of Laos Laos could use. Ijios. a tiny landlocked king dom in Southeast Asia, was under heavy attack directed from Mos cow and Peiping. Its stratecic im portance was obvious. To the north and northeast lay Commu nist China and North Vietnam; tn the west and southeast, tlie pro Western nations of Thailand and South Vietnam. To Ijios. John Kennedy sent W. win re-election comfortably hut still find himself short of enough liberal support in live Senate to overcome the coalition of conserv ative Republicans and Democrats. He has been up against that sort of coalition in the House for the last two vears. ton shortage in world sugar sup ply and consequent higher prices. From 1957 to 1959 raw sugar sold for two cents a pound, even though it cost four cents a pound to produce. There were seven mil lion tons in reserve. That has all disappeared now, and the price is 10 cents a pound. Why? Cuba. This puts the candy bar right in the middle of the international sit uation. Under Castro's Communist prosperity paradise, Cuban sugar production has fallen from 6.5 mil lion tons to an estimated 2.9 mil lion tons for this year and an estimated 1.9 million tons for next year. In 1961 Russia signed a five-year contract with Cuba to take 4.8 mil lion tons of sugar a year at four cents a pound, 20 per cent cash, 80 per cent in barter goods, like missiles. Russia hasn't dumped any of this sugar on the world market at today's high prices, because ft is sold lo Russian people for 30 to 35 cents a pound. Before Russia got the Cuban su gar, it charged its people 50 cents a pound for its domestic beet su gar production. Last year Russia produced 6.75 million pounds of beet sugar, making it the world's largest producer. The state sugar industry profits of from 500 to 1,000 per cent which no capitalist country would dare mark up have more than paid for the entire Russian agri cultural program. American candymakers natural ly are interested in what can be done to increase world sugar sup plies and get the price down. This gets them into congressional rela tions on foreign trade and sugar legislation, Department of Agricul ture and presidential regulations on sugar quotas. Possible actions are temporary suspension of im port restrictions, import taxes and processing taxes on domestic beet and cane sugar production. In the opinion of sugar experts none of these actions will lower sugar prices, which are based sole ly on world supply and demand. And it will take years to build up new supplies. What all this points up again is that practically every industry in the country now has to look to Washington for guidance and help even tn make a candy bar. WASHINGTON REPORT . . Laos Experience Not Encouraging To U.S. Averell Harriman. an unemployed politician. His mission: to per suade its anti-Communist leader into accepting a coalition govern ment w ith Marxist "neutrals" and avowed Communists. Harriman possessed ample ex perience. Shortly after World War II he was responsible for institut ing a coalition government in Ru mania, a government that fell, in evitably, under Communist con trol. Harriman was brusque and threatening. The anti-Communist General Phoumi Nosavan was stunned and said: "You know, Governor Harriman, we in Laos have had many years experience of colonial rule. But we were nev er spoken tn in quite that fash ion." Sen. Peter Dominick, Colorado Republican, revealed the oilier day to what extent the Iotian patriots resisted the coalition de mand. They went to the Philip pines, South Korea and National ist China, begging aid. U.S. government personnel fol lowed the Laotians. They warned the anti-Communist leaders of those countries that any support lor the lntians would mean an end to all U.S. foreign aid. Finally, the Laotians gave in and agreed to a coalition govern ment. Harriman returned home and told newsmen he didn't care what happened lo Laos. Tlie tragic story of Laos was told brilliantly the other day by Sen. Dominick in h i maiden speech to the Senate. A freshman Republican, elected last fall. Dom inick referred to a pamphlet writ ten by Jan Kozak, Communist mrrrnVr of tlie Czechoslovaks National Assembly. The best and most effective way lo subvert any democratic regime. Kozak wrote, is Communist par ticipation in a coalition govern ment. With this foothold. Kozak said, it is possible to combine1 j 'pressure from above" With "pressure from below" In destroy the democratic political parties one by one. Laos, says Sen. Dominick, is ready to fail, like overripe fruit, into Communist hands. And all of Southeast Asia Bur ma. Thailand. Cambodia. South Vietnam, the entire Malayan Pen insula may fall next. John Kennedy, hack in 1949, knew whv.
