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PAGE I HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Oregon Tuesday, June 11, 1KJ EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Racial Unrest Called A National Problem Dixie Hourglass Bite f Anyone who has over nursed a mouthful of misery until he had the money to pay for proper dental care will eye with twinging in terest the growth of two dental pay plans. In the first type of financial operation a patient receives necessary services and then makes payments to a bank. The bank has a contract with the dental society to which our friendly dentist belongs. ;: The dentist gets his money promptly, the patient gets relief, and the bank extracts Interest from the patient without novocain. : Almost $90 million has been financed by California alone by postpayment plans over the last 10 years, according to the American Dental Association. For the fellow whose choppers are op erating without any trouble, the pay-before-you-ache plans offer toothsome opportunities to anticipate trouble with the ivories. Dental society "service corporations," commercial insurance, and industrial and gov (The Now York Times) The basic purpose of Astronaut Cooper's mission in Faith 7 is to seek answers to a number of vital questions about space and to learn more about the physiological and psycho logical adjustments that man must make for journeys to the moon and into interplane tary space. ; During his journey, Major Cooper is conducting a long list of experiments to find answers to some of these questions. One of the primary experiments is to determine how a human being is affected by many hours in a state of weightlessness. For example, there Is evidence suggesting that, in extreme cases, lack of normal gravity pull could lead to de mineralization of the bones. There are other still basically unknown physiological changes that can occur during extended periods of IN WASHINGTON . . . By RALPH de TOLEDANO When Newton Minow, Uien Hie spanking now chairman of tlte Federal Communications Commis sion, assailed tlic "vast waste land" of television, his villains were the sponsors, the networks, and the local stations. They were responsible for the low stale of TV entertainment. Tliey were hnlding back the creativity of those with proven or potential tal ent. Or so people were led to be lieve. Mr. Minow has stepped out of the FCC (or a more lucrative Job w ith the Encyclopedia Brilannica. But between his maiden speech and the present, TV has contin ued to slump. The "vast waste land" grows vaster. The FCC gets quieter. And, it develops, the vil lainy Is not exclusively tlie prop erty of those tycoons and execu tives we read about. I got a glimpse Into what con ditions are in television last week when I was making a guest ap pearance on Cleveland's KYW TV to discuss my new book on Almanac By United Press International Today is Tuesday. June 11, tlte lR2nd day of 1963 with 203 to follow. The moon Is approaching Its last quarter. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Tlie evening star is Mars. On this day In history: In 1910, tho Printers' Associa tion of America decided to cam paign against the portrayal of women's skirts on billboards. In 1920, Sen. Warren Harding of Ohio learned he would be the He publican party's nominee for President. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh was welcomed home In Washington, DC, after his flight across the Atlantic Ocean. In 12, a coalition government was formed in strife-torn Laos. A thought for the day The Creek tragic dramatist, Aeschy lus, said: "Strange speech, strange ways, are a mark of men's dispraise." ( Now - Pay Later ernment programs offer this protection in varying measure. The United States Public Health Serv ice reports that almost one million persons spent almost $11 million dollars in 1962 for some form of pay-ahead dental work. Actu aries cutting their eye teeth on the projec tions of present figures see $15 million in such plans by 1970. In the past three years alone, dental service corporations have been chartered in 21 states. So see your dentist three times this year the last two times for checkups, the first time to investigate the financial aspects of care for your teeth. Oh, sure, your favorite tooth saver will ease your pain at once, if you're in misery. But it's not fair to keep him waiting for his dough while you enjoy a long series of dental visits. Dentists have to eat, too and even get their own teeth fixed! The Mission Of Faith 7 weightlessness, such as the effect of zero gravity on the cardio-vascular system. New knowledge is also being sought about the nervous control of respiration, body temperature and metabolism, as well as the functions of various segments of the balance organs of the body. Even while he sleeps, Ma jor Cooper keeps relaying vital information. He is wired with a variety of detectors of temperature, radiation, heart beat and brain waves, designed to record his reactions dur ing every second of his flight. There is some reason to believe that man will be unable to withstand space flight stress for two weeks or longer without con siderably more knowledge and life-support systems than we have to offer at this time. But the flight of Faith 7 is still "another rung in our ladder to the moon." Unions Cramp Television atomic espionage, "Tlie Greatest Plot in History." Tlie Mike Doug las Show on KVW was my host. It was the kind tif spontaneous and live TV w hich has just about vanished from the New York and Ixs Angeles stations. It had life, it was fun and equally import ant, it made an effort to bring top people in from around the country to appear with local tal ent This is tlie kind of program lliat gives new faces a start. It is what TV needs nationwide instead of the filmed soap-and-horse operas and Uie contrived "dramas" that now fill tlie tele vision hours. Tlie Mike Douglas Slow is known in the profession. Plans had been made to allow it to branch out, to be shown in oth er markets through syndication and eventually to get it on the networks. AFT11A 'American Fed eratnn of Television and lUdio Artists', the TV performers un ion, had agreed to cooperate by allowing syndication without a prohibitive increase in par lo performers. Owe on the net work, of course, K'W w.u ready to pay tlie usual scale It ime!y needed a waiver Irom AFTRA ta this formative period. It w a promised the waiver. It engaged talent at the higher syndication figure. And then tlie union moved in. Though the show offered oppor tunities and work lo talented peo ple In Ihe Cleveland area as well as to established personali ties AFTRA said nix on the arrangements it had agreed to. This was not important to AFTRA, nor was Its earlier firm promise lo cooperate In expand ing tlie TV Job limits ki Cleve land. Unexpectedly, it dug up two completely unrelated matters and insisted that they must be set tled before the Mike Douglas Show could be syndicated. One of of these matters was a demand (or additional fees for all an nouncers, with retroactivity to ISM. The other was concerned with pension and welfare funds, with retroacUvity to November, 1961. Ne of this had anything lo do with the Mike Douglas Slww. The station offered to arbitrate Uiese questions but got nowhere. AFTRA, moreover, thwarted the possibility of any modus Vivendi in tlie case of tlie Douglas pro gram by refusing to come to any kind of agreement that lasted more than 90 days. Since KYW's plans Involved considerable sums of money and an extended period of time to put the show over, the 9tvday limit was the kiss of death. To make matters worse, at a crucial period in which final arrangements had to be made for the syndication, tlie union officials suddenly made themselves un available. Vt ho have been tlie losers? First, the viewers in five cities who could have had the oppor tunity to see the kind of unfettered television program which the critics say is so desperately lack ing Second, the perlormers and technicians who are deprived of added income and Ihe chance of making television's big time. Third, the producers, whose al titude will now be: "Why try to riM ti level of TV if tlie unions are g'.aig to beat us over tlie ted bclore we even get started- .Sadly enough. AFTRA doesn't gain anything For this kind of unionism which attempt to kill the ge that lays the golden engs is. of course. sell-defeating. In time, tlie membership discov ers this and breaks loose. Tile union is weakened, as a result. Tlie only people who prolit from this extension of tlie vast waste land are those who make a living grinding out tlie kind ol pap which makes up tlie boredom of tele vision fare. The Mike Douglas Show is not tlie greatest tiling lo hit TV. But it Is both live and alive. And It moves tlie focus of televi sion from Hie entertainment fac tories of East and West Coast and begins to open up the rest of the country. The centralization and the deadly control of a deadly dull few are challenged. By a nearsighted policy, AFTRA hurts AFTRA most of all much as those who attempted lo hold back the Industrial Revolution by smashing machinery hurt them selves most of all. It Is, as they say, for to cry. A Creation Of Congress By NEAL STANFORD (In the Christian Science Monitor) Washington has innumerable problems, but not the least, is it self. The fact is that Washington, Ihe nation's capital, is in serious financial trouble, not all of its own making. This trouble stems from many tilings. One of tlie most obvious, and important, is the fact that well over half of the city's land is occupied by the government or other tax - free establishments. Thus a lot of real estate reve nue, on which most cities de pend for income, is unavailable in tlie capital. The federal government owns 42.9 per cent of the city's land. Another 6 9 per cent is occupied by foreign governments and oth er tax-exempt groups. No other city in the country can claim such a high percentage of tax exempt land. The total assessed value of tax exempt property not owned by tlie government now totals $370, 000,0m If taxes were paid to the District for all tax-exempt land and improvements, the District would collect some $45, 000.000. But of course it doesn't. The District's income also suf fers from the fact Uiat many resi dents are members of the mili tary services and so exempt from tlie D.C. income tax. On top of this a surprising number of local residents maintain their legal domicile elsewhere and thus es cape llie local income tax. Washington also suffers from the lack of home rule. The people in Ihe District do not govern themselves. The District is Ihe creation of tlie Congress, and the Congress exercises exclusive leg islative control over the federal city. The District's board of com missioners must even receive congressional auUionz.il ion to spend live money it collects in taxes from its own citizens! The result is that with all Americans, as it were, respon sible for llie government of the nation's capital i through their congressmen) few Americans are actually responsible. Tlie people who live in the Dis trict are constantly agitating for home rule, but the prospect of gelling it seems dim. Tlie forces Uiat feel the city should be both Uie seat of the federal government and its ward arc politically en Irenclied. It is not widclv realized, hut "AO, fttt w RotktjtUir llie federal government does not pay for the city's entire budget. Most comes out of local taxes. The part Uie federal government contributes varies enormously. Up until 1921 the federal gov ernment paid 50 per cent of the city's operating costs, with taxes from District citizens mak ing up Ihe other 50 per cent. In that year, however, the Con gress discontinued this practice picking up half the budget check and arbitrarily set its own share at 40 per cent. Since then Congress has ap propriated a lump sum toward the D.C. general fund, ranging from as much as 39.5 per cent in 1924 lo Uie low of 8 3 per cent in 1934. For fiscal year '63 Uie Con gress appropriated $30,000,000 for the District, which was only about 12 per cent of Uie city's operat ing budget. President Kennedy recently quite frankly recognized that such a contribution had little if anything to do with actual lo cal taxes or requirements, nor did it reflect the proper share of Ihe financial needs of Uie Dis trict which Uie federal govern ment should provide. He has therefore proposed a formula, based on Uie amount of real estate, personal property. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS The warm, moist people always (eel cheated or let down by the dry. cool people. And Uie dry. cool people always feel embar rassed by the warm, moist peo ple. I have a friend in the West who is a fine person, but warm and moisl. He is full of feelings, very big on Friendship, on Let ters, on Photos of the family. He goes (or "Real Human Beings." My own temperament tends more toward Uie dry and cool. I write no letters, carry no pho tos, find any effusiveness rather sticky. This has nothing to do with my feelings, only with my way of expressing them. This bothers the warm, moist VA ST la itrell tbrou&b Ctnttrl" and business income taxes the federal government would pay to Uie District if it were not tax exempt. If there were such a formula today the federal pay ment to Uie District for fiscal year 1964 would be about $53, 000.000. The City of Washington also finds itself uniquely circum scribed physically. It cannot grow outward as do many cities as its municipal problems increase. The result is that many high in come taxpayers move to Uie sub urbs in Maryland or Virginia, the District losing their tax pay ments. The average D.C. resident pays something in the neighborhood of $225 in District taxes, a figure that is well above Uie average for tlie nation. District taxes on D.C. resi dents have increased from $105. 000.000 in fiscal '54 to some $203,000,000 in 1963 an increase of nearly 100 per cent in a dec ade. The time comes, it is ob vious, when lax increases only step up llie exodus of Ihe higher income families and business from the city. Thus Washington is caught in a pernicious financial squeeze: it must pay for more out of less, as the federal government con tinues to expand. STRICTLY PERSONAL people. They feel Uiat their friend ship is not adequately returned. They want you to be as demon strative as they are. Tlieir ideal of true companionship is sitting around a campfirc. holding hands in a circle, and singing old songs. It is hard lo get tliem to under stand that one can be a true friend without saying so every half hour, without writing long, chatty letters, without celebrat ing tlie fraternal rites. Their sen sitivity is so acute that every omission seems a snub, every un derstatement seems a rebuff. They interpret a difference of temperament as a personal af front to their own code of living relationships. Some of them, indeed, are so excessive in their unremitting de sire to prove their friendship that tliey remind me of what Tally r.ind said about Mmc. de Stacl: "She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquain tances into the water for Ihe pleasure of fishing them out." And. no doubt, wo dry. cool personalities arc just as vexing and trying lo them. We must seem singularly unresponsive, changeable. uncommunicative, ami frightfully off-hand about the sacred bond of friendship. They must wonder if we have any "ical feelings'" at all. Laissez-faire may or may not be a good economic philosophy: it is certainly the best emotional philosophy. Live and let live, each in his own way. working out his on lile-stylc this is the only sensible attitude In take toward those around us. close or not. But H is devilishly hard for many people to do. Parents, es pecially, become infuriated if their children differ temperamentally from themselves; they look upon it almost as a rejection or rcpudi alion which, indeed, in some cases it may be warm, moist parent tends lo breed a cooler ami drier child, as an inevitable reaction to all that steam. There is no right or wrong in By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON NEA - Presi dent Kennedy's sudden decision to extend his western trip and make a civil rights speech before the conference of mayors in Honolulu was a complete reversal of policy and strategy. The President had been coun seled in Washington to reject all demands that he make a fireside chat on race relations. Tlie feeling has been that one speech wouldn't solve anything or do any good. But from a platform in completely integrated Hawaii, the President w as in a good posi tion to lecture mainland United States on greater racial tolerance. One point that has not been made sufficiently clear is that this is a national and not just a southern problem. There have been demonstrations in Washing ton, Philadelphia, New York, Chi cago, and St. Louis as well as Birmingham. Jackson and other southern cities. The concern in Washington is that U.S. race relations may get worse before they begin to get better. It is considered something of a miracle Uiat there hasn't been more violence. The use of child demonstrators and the nonviolence tactics of the Negro leaders through an appeal lo the religious feelings of their people may have helped. But if any children happen to get hurt or leadership passes to more mili tant hands, violence may erupt. There is already some rivalry between National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple (NAACP) and Uie Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and other groups to show which can be the most aggressive. . . . One of Ihe great difficulties now is getting white and Negro leaders to communicate. Moder ates on both sides who declare their positions openly lose stand ing with their followers. There is constant pressure from extrem ists to make no compromise. The feeling on the part of some local authorities seems to be that if they show any sign of weak ness they will lose control of law and order, making a bad situa tion worse. The resulting feeling of many WASHINGTON REPORT . . . FBI Investigates Racial Disturbances By FULTON LEWIS JR. It is the anguished cry of James Baldwin that Attorney General Robert Kennedy could not "communicate" during their recent closed-door session held as a meeting of the minds on Ameri ca's racial problems. There would have been even less communication, however, if Kennedy had heard the outlandish slander thai Baldwin, prominent Negro author, had previously di rected against the Federal Bu reau of Investigation. The Baldw in words were report ed in the Worker, organ of Uie Communist Party: "If 1 find my self castrated on the streets of Birmingham, which is not improb able, and the FBI moves in. which is extremely improbable, it could turn oul lhal the person investigat ing the crime is the same ier son who committed it." Had Baldwin repeated that statement at their conference, the Attorney General would undoubt edly have set the record straight. As much as any man. Bob Ken nedy is cognizant of the job the FBI has performed in the civil rights field. Tlie Bureau, being strictly an investigative agency, doesn't side with segregationists or integra tionists, despite what Baldwin and others charge. Southern racists as sail tlie Bureau as a gestapo agency. FBI investigations in this field arc conducted thoroughly, prompt ly and impartially without apolo gy to anyone. They are handled by special agents who have com pleted special training which spe cifically qualifies them lo conduct civil rights investigations. Some idea of tlie vast size of the Bureau's investigative respon sibilities in this field may be gauged by tlie fact that 2.0R5 al leged violations of civil rights were rejiorled to tlie FBI during the fiscal year ending June 30. 1961. This was up from 1.396 in I9H0 and 1.81.1 in 1961. Last August and September, Negro churches were htirned in tlcoixia and rifle shots fired into several houses. Because the acts of terrorism seemed designed to discourage Negroes from voting, tlie FBI opened an extensive in- matlrrs of this sort: personalities are as different as linwrprints And if we are ever going 'to learn to love our enemies, the best way to start is by tolerating our friends a little better, and m4 trying to change them. Negroes is Uiat they can expect little or no co-operation from local authorities and that the federal government has let them down by not moving for faster integra tion. Kennedy's speech in Hawaii is also expected to prepare the way for his special message to Con gress requesting additional civil rights legislation. The week's de lay in sending this package lo Capitol Hill was decided on to give Democratic leaders and White House legislative assistants more time for lining up Republican support. Without such advance bi partisan support the President's recommendations were considered certain to run into a Senate clo ture fight. It is fully recognized that there is no magic wand that can be waved to solve all race relations problems. The President can't be made a dictator. An order to de segregate all schools immediate ly would probably mean that most of them would have lo be occu pied by federal troops. It is also admitted that no new legislation will automatically solve all Uie problems. But since the administration has said that it doesn't have all the tools to do everything that is required, it is forced to ask for more tools lo use in situations where it has been found there is insufficient authority for adequate enforce ment. The whole problem is sized up as 20 million people who can't all be educated overnight, trained for jobs they can't now do, forced into labor unions that main tain rigid segregation, moved into decent housing Uiat doesn't now exist, given voting rights that are denied Ihem by stale law and cus tom. It is frustration over delays in achieving these goals that causes the dcmonsU'ations. The government can't move against demonstrations Uiat are protests under constitutional guarantees. The government is limited lo act ing against the causes of the dem onstrations. And it is considered important lo keep the faith of Ihe victims in their government even while they have little im mediate hope for education or jobs or housing or voting rights. vestigation. Two of Ihe church burnings were quickly solved. While conducUng an interview in connecUon with the burnings, two agents of the FBI were brut ally assaulted. The assailant was arrested for assaulting federal officers in official performance of their duty. The beaten agents were both born, raised and edu cated in the North. Two of the other three agents assigned to the Albany. Ga., resident agency were also Northerners. It is Uie FBI thai has laid the groundwork for thousands of pre viously disenfranchised Negroes to register and vole. Bureau agents late last year conducted investi gations involving more Uian 100 counties in which racial d i s criminatinn was reported to exist. Supplied with these findings, llie Attorney General has been able to file more than 30 suits in five states for the purpose of ending racial discrimination in voting. Again at the request of the At torney General, tlie FBI conducted a ira survey of 21K cities in 17 stales to determine if interstate bus passengers were subjected lo racial vercgation. Evidence of such prartic.es was found in 97 fines The Justice Department t.vn petitioned Ihe Interstate '.'mmerce Commission for a nil 'ng to end such discrimination. Swh a ruling was promptly is. ued and became effective on Nov. 1, lint. In 1961 and a, at Lie request of Uie department, investigations were conducted to determine if racial segiesatwn ex.stj ln a,r terminals having reguiarlv-scncd-uled commercial fiignu. fnese in vestualions included 199 airports in 14 slates. Similar investiga tions have also been conducted by Ihe FBI with regard to railroad terminals and ferryboats. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ft-llow old is the game of hn. lag? A It is believed to have origi nated some 7.000 years ago in Egypt. Q-Mhal prevent the spider from being caught la Its oa wrb? A It coats its legs wiUi an oily substance from its mouth, which protects against the sticky web.
