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. Man is a creature
of the middle distance, and his
Actress
ACROSS
1 Art rest,
Patricia
6 She is
alar
11 HiKhwaymin
el the deep
12 Takes si one's
own
14 I nwino
IMemimne
appellation
15 Mrs. Cantor
!7Ruin
lftCenturv its.)
ao Hair (comb.
form)
US Saratou, for
instance:
J3 Peel
'J4 Interpret
'.tunic-em
117 Measure! of
rtnth
?S Bitter vetch
WLetiucs
.12 Era
34 1'nit ot
rrnictanre
3S Svmboi (or
natrium
MTeitile Cthnc
41 Placet
42 Panv Ionian
moon-god
44 Tumult
4fl Peer font's
mother
47 Pinner mtire
41 ln,tian limber
tree
SO Body part
52 Surrender by
deed
M Characteristic
or old ace
SS Maket into law
SS Remotes
At Withers
DOWN
1 Harvesting
machine
S l.eial term
JSailvard
4 Routes itM
33 Dine
S E 16 7 8 9 10
' 25 29 ri3(F3i
32 33
H 3b T" W SI 'Vj 35 Si 10
IT" I 4l 4J I I 3
5) bi I "53 sJ
ol
I ?
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
vision is limited to objects in
the middle ground.
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.