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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 8-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fall), Ore. Thursday, May 30, 1963 v NOTHING SPECIAL (W. B. S.I Q We have our troubles with dogs in Klam ath Falls. But, it would seem our troubles are insignificant compared with those who seek to rule Bulgaria. Red bureaucrats behind the Iron Curtain seem to have exhausted the roster of Amer ican capitalists and Western imperialists and are now turning on the dog as an enemy ot the "good Communist life." Communist Bulgaria's regime is currently carrying on a relentless campaign to extermi nate man's age-long silent friend ostensibly be cause dogs "spread infectious diseases among humans and animals." Law No. 26 issued recently by no less an august body than the Council of Ministers of the "People's Democracy" strictly forbids the feeding or even the possession of dogs by "unauthorized citizens." This, alas, is not another bit of capitalist propaganda against communism. It is a brutal fact printed in Dunavsko Delo, an official newspaper of the Bulgarian Communist Party. The Red oligarchs, who are as devoid of a sense of justice as they are of a sense of humor, insist that they only have the "good of the people" at heart. They claim that the decree to exterminate dogs was issued "in order to protect the welfare of the workers, prevent infectious diseases in livestock breed ing and to improve the general health of the country." Fortunately, even behind the Iron Curtain where food is scarce and the secret police ever present there are humans whose love of dogs is stronger than their fear. Ordinary Bul garian citizens, it seems, refuse to part with Numbers Game In Radio-TV (Daily Newt, Chicago) Congressional hearings on radio and TV , rating services have turned up a lot of in conclusive data but general agreement on one point: Nobody is satisfied with the system. ' Entertainers have protested the ratings for years except when they headed the listings. The public, in the rare instances when it spoke up loudly enough to be heard, has cast doubt on the ratings by demanding the revival of programs doomed by the per centage figures. The House subcommittee hearings have produced evidence that the rat ing services themselves are aware of what one executive incautiously termed "vital weaknesses." The whole business of judging programs by the numbers would be laughable were it IN WASHINGTON . . . By HALnt d TOLEDANO This is an account of a quest and of a mystery. It shows that tracking down a story In Wash ington can be a balding process, with no certainty of success. Hear my sad tale. On May 17, Attorney General Kennedy delivered an address to the North Carolina Cold War Council. The Justice Department dutifully sent out copies of the text. In dealing with guerrilla warfare, Vr. Kennedy proudly described this Administration's ef fort to meet a tough challenge. "By next month," lie said, list ing the steps taken, "some 87,000 government officials w ill have completed counter insurgency courses." These are courses in antiguerrilla warfare and pro cedures. The question arose: What offi cials have taken the course? If all the Stale Depai unenl and all of CIA were the students, it would certainly fall below the 57.000 mentioned by Mr. Kenne dy. The answer to my bewilder ment, t felt, could he found in tlie Justice Department's lublic Information Office. I called, quoted the quote, and asked if I might be told what category of government official was taking this basic training in anti-Communist action. The "57. 000" figure was not challenged, but I was informed that it was up to the Stale Department to give me the facts I sought. The State Department's Public Information Office was not much more helpful. Some Stato Depart ment officials and United States Information Agency people took the courses, but the 57,000 this seemed excessive. However. I was referred to the Foreign Serv ice'! School of Foreign Affairs, which handles counter-insurgency training. Dr. Myron L, Koenlg. dean of the school, was most helpful and friendly. Indeed they had a counter-Insurgency course. It had, he said, been in existence since June II, 1962. It was five week Dog Days In Bulgaria Vanishing Anti-Guerrillas course attended by ambassadors (in case they had to fight them selves out of a Washington cock tail parly?i, directors of All) missions, high-level Foreign Scrv ice officers, and others in this general category. Six or seven groups had run through the courso since It began. How many were in each group? Dean Koenig said that the figure was 60 people or too to 500 people since the course be gan. At this point, I took a fast look at the text of the Attorney General's speech. It was 57,000, all right. When I asked Dr. Koen ig about the discrepancy, he was utterly bewildered. I gave h i m tlie source of the figure. "Has that been published'.'" ho asked. It had, indeed, by tlie busy dupli cating machines of tlie Justice Department and into the mails for correspondents and oilier In terested parlies. Dr. Koenig had no idea how the 57,000 had been arrived at. He hazarded a guess that per haps it included a branching out by those who received tlie tunn ing. Some, he said, gave t h e course to colleagues. Hut tins would mean that every graduate of the school trained 115 other people, which somewhat stretch es the credibility. Or. he said, wondering out loud, tlie figure might include Delonso Department personnel who can take a similar course at F o r t Bragg. This might account for anotlier l.ooo or so it seemed to me but this left us a long way from Mr. Kennedy's categorical 57,000 people. My first reaction was to start all over with the Justice Depart ment's Public Information ofli cor, But this would have left me on a kind of treadmill. And yon don't win friends by bugging people who refuse to talk to you or w ho generously tell you all tlicy know. Perhaps II was a typographical error, I thought. But If It had been, the DOJ and the DOS would have called it to my atten their silent friends even though they face stiff fines for violating Law No. 26. This has aroused the ire of the editors of Dunavsko Delo who wrote in an angry edi torial: "The decree of the Council of Ministers was broadcast over the radio. Dates were fixed for the destruction of dogs. But the number of citizens who turned up was very small. The attention of all dog owners is drawn to the fact that the decree will continue in force until it has been fully complied with. "Let this decree be kept in mind. The next time dates are set for the destruction of dogs let all owners bring them to places speci fied. Should they fail to do so they will be fined and their dogs will be destroyed any way but in a compulsory manner." To date, according to the Red newspaper, 18 persons have already been fined. Of course, to use Orwell's famous phrase, while all dogs are equal in Communist society, some dogs are more equal than others. Thus Law No. 26 states clearly that "Only the of fices of the Ministry of National Defense and of the Ministry of Interior (Police) are allowed to have dogs." These are ostensibly the lucky dogs. "But all other dogs are subject to de struction." Dog lovers in the Free World who are doomed to live under "capitalist barbarism" will undoubtedly be horrified by this senseless destruction of animals. Perhaps they will find some solace in the fact that the dog, as an enemy of socialism, has now joined the com pany of American imperialists, revisionist poets and abstract painters. not for the fact that careers and millions of ad vertising dollars depend on it. Let a program's rating slip and it's dead. With so much dissatisfaction all around, the continuing power of the rating services is explainable only by the fact that no better system of counting the number of listeners or watchers has yet evolved. And numbers outweigh quality in determining which pro grams live or die. But it is probably too much to hope that the broadcasters will soon adopt the suggestion of Dr. Herbert Arkin, a New York professor of statistics who testified before the subcommittee. If there is no really ac curate way of counting listeners, said Ar kin, "we should drop the whole rating sys tem and trust our judgment." tion. There was no gulp, no ex clamation of "What number did you say?" from the DOJ. My next impulse was to stamp my notes: "For Kyes Only. Top Secret, and Secret" then file tliem in the round file with the handouts and Ihrowaways that pour in with each day's mail. Why give away the secret? Let Comrade Khrushchev believe that 57,000 of our doughty officials are trained in hand - to - hand lighting and other Lcathorstock ing techniques. Hut then. I decided that as a change of pace from all the "in side" stories, I should presenl an "outside" story. Because I'm def initely on the outside of this one. Al manac By l ulled Press International Today is Thursday. May 30, the 150th day of 1963 with 215 to fol low. Today is Memorial Day. Tlie moon is approaching its full phase. The morning stars arc Venus. Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mais. On this day in history In U.11. Joan ol r rc. the Maid of Orleans, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at the age of 19. In 1883, an unfounded report lhal ihe Brooklyn Bndco was about In collapse resulted in an outbreak of panic and 12 persuns were trampled to death. In 1M2, Britain's Royal Air Fore made its first "thousand bomber" raid on a German tar get as some 1,100 planes attacked Cologne. In ldB. Soviet Premier Khrush chev proposed a trade bloc em bracing the whole world. A thought for the day Third l' S President Thomas Jefferson said: "The republican is tlie only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with Iho rights of mankind." By SYDNEY J. HARRIS If you have noticed an appre ciable decline in the quality of the column during the last week or so, Ihe explanation is really quite simple. I have been writing it while visiting New York. There is a popular theory that a writer needs stimulation, which is true; but he also needs de tachment. And New York is prob ably the least detachable, most involved, city in the world. This is a community of pulsat ing personalities rubbing up against each other every minute of the day. It is an enormous vil lage, full of gossip, in - jokes, jockeying for power and prestige and status, profound insecurity, and shifting relationships. And, although New York is the literary capital of America, since i.jiiost all the important publish ing houses are centered here, it is surprising how many writers who came here for the stimula tion have left to secure some detachment. They have bought homes in Con necticut or Vermont or New Hampshire. They have moved west to Pennsylvania or further. As soon as recognition became theirs, they found the atmosphere of Manhattan inhospitable toward their creative energies. A w riter, or arUst of any kind, needs to set his own tempo, which must correspond to the rhythm of his particular talent. And New York has such a powerful tempo of its own that Uiey soon find themselves marching to the step of tlie city, part of a vast army moving in lockatcp and carrying tlie paradoxical banner, "I Above All." This is not to denigrate the city, which fascinates me, and which Memorial Day ACROSS 1 This day Americans their heroic dead 6 are placed on military sravej It Amphitheaters M I'mer U Nr,t IS Overthrow lti llaiehall nnmnttal 17 Mill 111 Keniininp appellation Vn v,n(. or.p Negative rep'y -.1 Migration :'4 I ea.ed .'7 Htolu a! panic 2S Klertn'icd Pittn le ?"Muk.! HaNe :t" W orthlrsa hit .T.! Musical quality .11 Heard louay 37 invigorates 'willi lint .IS Be quiei: 3!) Kails in drops 41 Kxit 4'2 Conger 4A I nil 4"i Mexican title 4H Kull apolngv M t'uhir nieleil .V leopardy S.I Weird 54 Artolt!.ccnt veais DOWN 1 imbl - Kulogist 3 Stineini plant 4 Number 5 short-nappei lalitic Viav 7 Mouth part ' 2 3 4 "b I 7 8 9 10 n ui u 14 T3 ; ft W . g, i8 19 3 TrjU 35 3l 32 33 "ppT" 35 '36 4l ris -yt 5 4o 4? 48 4d"bi a & 3 I 54 Taps Throughout the Land STRICTLY PERSONAL (contrary to the accepted yokel belief i is warm, friendly and in finitely more tolerant toward the strange and eccentric than any other place in America. But as a place for working in any creative endeavor, its pitfalls are greater than its advantage. I speak not as an occasional vis itor, but as one who knows the city well, and has lived here in the past. I know a dozen serious novelists who have moved away in the last few years simply be cause it became impossible to set one's own terms of working and living in this beehive of throb bing egos. The best argument for decen tralizing the arts in America is that concentrations of power whether political, economic, or artistic arc in the end self-defeating. New York drains the tal ent away from all oilier Ameri can communities, which makes tliem culturally barren, and ul timately makes New York too fiercely competitive, too self conscious of its superiority. Chekhov, who was also a doc tor, said that medicine was his wife and writing was his mis tress. New York is the artist's mistress, but unless he is wed ded to the rest of America, he loses the stability and the con tinuity so essential for his best work. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 0 How long did the Hatfield McCoy feud last? A From Civil War days until lB'JO. Answer to Previous Purrle 'Ml Pt-k'vii-Al Em ft Vinfrroiis .1.1 ! t rine .14 1'jritirn .'15 M Man-tihne name .HI in Irrminai point -17 1 Strong .t t?l (cri-J 41 Ripped 40 I'A Sutdx Kitrbrn gadget Pronoun Vtnt C,mvlct Antiquated H.rtiei of water Kqnalf Stripling Boundary iromh. form) Stoltuh Mirepfolfi Kntangle 7 Triple in TT'CJUlltfl "1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I'm deeply resentful of .Mr. ftollin CantralPs letter of May 22, 1963, entitled: "Facts" in which he states, quote: "The real question is who is going to car ry the load of tlie 'suburban' area?" Mr. Canlrall should either check his arithmetic or divide the "sub urbs" into "we" and "they" groups. A check of the assessor's fig ures for the 1962-63 will show the following assessed values: , 1. Klamath Union High District No. 2. $43,133,313 : 2. K 1 a m a t h Kails Icily) J33.028.061; 3. Klam ath Falls (suburbs' larca out side the city, but in KU District i, $20,105,232. This leaves a net difference of $2,922,809 between the "city" which he seems to Infer Is car- rying tlie "suburban" load now, and the true "suburbs." Please extend this $2,922,809 at the KU millage rate of 14.3 mills, and you have a difference of $41, 976 lax dollars. Now against this $41,976 apply the state equalization offset of ap proximately $60,000 which District No. 2 receives because of the lower valuation in the "overlap" area, and you have a net gain to Ihe district of $18,024 ($60,000 mi nus $41,976 equals $18,024). You people in tlie suburbs who have been told, that the city of Klamath Falls is "subsidizing" your children's high school edu cation at KU should take a real close look at a couple more facts 1. The "suburban area" Is not confined to Ihe South Sixth Street "bedroom" area, but is composed of Algoma, Shady Pine, Wocus. South Sixth Street. Stewart-Lenox and Weyerhaeuser areas, with some of these areas being in Kl cmentary No. 1 School District and some being in the county limit elementary school district. 2. All property in any taxing district tin this case the KU district) is valued by the local as sessor at one value only i.e. "mar ket," Ihe same ratio (23 per cent) is used against this "mar ket value" to arrive at "assessed value" and the same levy (14 3 mills in this case for the 19K2-63 year) is extended against the as sessed value to determine t h e amount of taxes you pay. So even though you may live in the "bedroom" area of South Sixth Street. Wocus, or in the cily, the measure of support you pay for Kiamalh I nion is determined by the "market value" of your individual properties, and noth ing else. You may determine the "facts" quoted so far at the coun ty assessor's office, and county whool oliice. The real question to me. with Ihe June 10 voting date coming up, is whether or not one "county-wide" school district is the cor rect and final answer to the solv ing of all our school problems or whether it forces our so-called "rural neighbors" into an alli ance that they neither trust nor desire, and in which they are granted tlie rather dubious "privileges" of "bailing-out" KU and picking up a substantial tax tab lor "henceforth and ever more." The only way you can get the job done, Mr. Cantrall, is through the use.of the tactical maneuver so adequately expressed at Fer guson School some lime ago "we have the votes, we'll ride right over 'em " My sincere hope is that there are a lot of good people in Klam ath County who don't agree with such ladies and who will show this by voting "no" on June 10. Buzi Warner. 440 Peck Drive If you haven't already paused for just a moment to reflect upon Ihe significance of today do so now. A lot of men have died to keep for us the enjoyment of this day. Picnics, cookouls, fishing, freedom a long holiday. Don't forget who made it possible. Part of a talk by Clarence Bar ton. Speaker of the House ol Rep resentatives, recently addressed the Metropolitan Club in Eu gene. As part of his talk, he pro posed a novel idea. He asked: "I have come down here to Kugcne as a lobbyist of sorts. I'm trying to persuade Dr. Lieu alien to add a vocational reha bilitation course to impregnate legislators against criticism from certain stale officials. These courses will be Skin Thickening I and Skin Thicken ing II. Each will entitle the stu dent to three hours credit. There will be no minimum grade point average as a qualification for entrance. "Naturally these vocational courses will not be taught at the -University of Oregon. They'll be al Oregon State University. The classes won't be restricted to legislators, either. It appears there is a need for them in aca demic as well as political circles. I think there will be a consider able traffic problem between Eu gene and Corvallis and between Salem and Corvallis on evenings skin-thickening classes are held." After this session, Clarence probably has about as tough a hide as man can accumulate. He did a masterful Job in get ting things done in a House that had 31 Democrat and 29 Republicans. A great many of those legislators had some -pretty definite ideas of their own as to how the course of action should go. Incidentally. Clarence, who is a pretty good man with that needle himself, pricked not a few hides dur ' ing the marathon session. Let's not forget that in a week or so we're going to have a large number of "unemployed" high school students out looking for jobs. I think that most of the more ambitious boys and girls have let Ihe employment office know they are looking for work. And, we'll be running our free want ad section soon, where they can ask for work. It doesn't hurt anything to keep them in mind when you're considering a proj ect in which you can use one or more of these unskilled or semi skilled youngsters. The first eookout proved two things. Burned hamburgers taste the same as always.' and there are six new eats in Ihe neighborhood. II doesn't seem lo do much good WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Commies Surround Hawaii Governor By Fl'LTON LEWIS JR. When astronaut Gordon Cooper was welcomed in Honolulu, among those present was an identified Communist once convicted of con spiracy to overthrow tlie U.S. gov ernment. Jack Hall, regional director of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union ULWU). has been identified 12 times as a member of the Com munist Party. Hall and his wife, who has been so identified only four times, helped roll out the red carpet when Cooper readied Honolulu on his way lo Washington. They at tended a reception lor him at the palatial residence of Hawaii Gov ernor John Burns. Here is the record of Comrade Hall: Identified an even dozen times as a Communist. Hall testified be fore the House UnAmcrican Activ ities Committee in 1950. He took Ihe Fifth Amendment when asked if he was a Party member. He was one of seven Hawaiian Reds convicted in 1953 of violat ing the Smith Act and conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government. He escaped jail thanks to a court decision in anotlier matter involv ing the Smith Act. Following that conviction, in June. Hall called an island wide political strike. While Ameri cans died in Korea, longshoremen refused lo load Navy transports that streamed into Pearl Harbor, headed for the Far East. Refer ring to the incident, the local press reported: "The dock areas were hardest hit. Longshoremen slaved off the job at Pearl Harbor lor three days. Ihe longest shutdown of ci vilian stevedoring operations ever called at the naval base. Sailors lo keep preaching about safety in the wator. People just go on drowning themselves. Bui, may be a little word can keep down the toll by observing two cardinal rules of artificial res piration. (1) Start respiration im mediately. Don't wait for any thing. Send someone for help, but don't wait for it to arrive. (21 Keep up your artificial respira tion efforts. Cases are on record of breathing starting again after a lapse of many minutes, when the rescuer kept steadily at work forcing air in and out of the lungs. The American Red Cross and other groups offer courses in ar tificial respiration, especially the mouth to - mouth method which almost anyone can prac tice. If you swim where trained supervision Is not available, be sure someone In your party knows mouth'to-mouth artificial respiration technique. Finally, don't swim alone. Economists predict that the av. erage pay check will amount lo between $10,000 and $12,000 an nually by the year 2000. It'll have to, in order to pay the taxes. We Honor Hero Dead WE HONOR OCR HERO DEAD By CHARLES HESS Today w e remember to Honor our Hero dead; As we stop at each stone And his name is being read. It matters not where they fought, At home, or far, far away; We are all remembering him As the folks kneel to pray. How can we thank them enough, For Ihe price they had lo pay; As we put blossoms on his grave, This Decoration Day. Soft breezes are whispering, O'er his lowly grassy Cot; But his great sacrifice, Will never be forgot. Tlie Star Spangled Banner floats. Long, long may it ever wave; O'er (lie land of the free. And the home of the brave. On this Decoration Day. May our heroes rest through the years; We will always remember them, With our prayers and our tears. passing cargo man lo man by hand worked Iwo Korea-bound transports at Pearl Harbor yester day and were to continue working the ships until the job is finished." Mrs. Hall has been fingered four times as a Communist, an al legation she did not deny in Sen ate testimony in December, 1956. She works for the law firm of Bouslog and Symonds, both part ners of which have been identi fied as Reds. They took the Fifth Amendment. Haii is a political supporter of Governor Burns, a Democrat first elected last fall. Burns, who re ceived substantial 1LWU aid in achieving victory, says Hall's un ion "laid the foundations for de mocracy in the islands." Hall is by no means the first leftist with whom Burns has as sociated. As a territorial delegate lo Congress in Ihe years before Hawaii won statehood. Burns ap peared in a photograph with Jclf Kibre. ILWU Washington repre sentative, and Yasiiki Arnkaki and Joe "Blurr" Kcalalio. ILWU oflicials. All except Burns have been identified as Communists and all except Burns have invoked the Filth Amendment when quer ied about Party activities. Another associate of Gov. Burns is Eduard Rohrhough, a campaign aide who served as Burns' offi cial biographer. Rohrhough has written for at least three Communist publica tions and was chief stockholder in the Honolulu Record, a newspaper officially cited as the voice of the Hawauan Communist Party. He is married to Je.inetle Nakama. who has been identified five limes as a Communist and who has pleaded the Filth Amendment herself.