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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fall), Ore.
Thursday, May 30, 1963
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SPECIAL
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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
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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.
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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.