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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.