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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1963)
PAG? (A HERALD diiofaaL (paqsL - The predictable holiday' slaughter and mayhem on the nation's streets and highways, have happened again with the usual frighten-. ing inevitability, will go into the record books as one more "routine" entry. The prospect is that these periodic hu man disasters, and the hardly less shattering daily death tolls which roll up between holi days, will get worse as traffic volume mounts steadily across the country. And the blunt truth is that, for all their professions of good intent; most traffic author ities fall badly short of serious effort to cope with the traffic safety, problem. The problem' breaks down into three elements the road, the car and the driver. In the matter of roads, we are getting more and more super-thoroughfares basically designed for heavy traffic and incorporating the best principles of safety engineering. But some of these very new roads are not well engineered. The complexities built in at certain "interchanges" .confound even the most sensible driver. Turnoff lanes are inade quately banked, deceleration lanes sometimes omitted or made too short. In all too many areas, highway authori ties really never have solved the sign problem. They just don't know where to put them. More often than not, they are placed at points hun dreds of feet from the spots where driver de cisions to turn or not to turn should be made. As for cars, most states understand the need to require periodic checks to assure their good condition. More and more are de manding seat belts in all new cars sold. Motor ' Working For Government America's 100 largest businesses gen 'eratcd and collected so much tax revenue in 1962 that a look at the books would convince anyone that tiicy work for the government ' rather than for themselves. Of total sales by the top 100, some 8.9 per cent went for taxes. Dividends paid to stockholders amounted to 3.7 per cent of sales. . Money retained in the. ; businesses amounted to 2.7 per cent of sales. HOLMES By HOLMES ALEXANDER Senator Lcn Jordan (It., Idaho), a sheep-raising frontiersman be fore the word was captured by the politicians, is tlie only former gov ernor on the Labor-Welfare Com mittee which Is" handling the Ad ministration's manpower develop ment and training legislation. This status gives Jordan a signifi cant viewpoint. The manpower training act culls for the states and federal gov ernment to split the cost of the program as of the end of this present fiscal year. But the itates have been very slow to come for ward with their funds. At the beginning of July only four had passed the necessary en abling legislation, and only Mon tana and Tennessee had appropri ated any money. As a result, the Kennedy administration has asked Congress to strike out the clause that requires matching funds from tlie states. If that happens, as seems likely, federal taxation and the Labor Department would be pretty much the whole show in this phase of the unemployment problem. While Jordan, an avowed con servative and states' responsibil ity man, usually favors the stiff arming of all federal intrusion, he docs not have the closed mind which caricaturists like to assign to Old Guardsmen. Jordan knows that tlie states, although strapped for ways to find new taxes be cause federal taxes have usurped so many fields, , will dig down when the cause is clearly ono in-, volving the principle of sovereign ty. Thus Idaho Is one of 29 states which havo passed enabling leg islation in matching funds for the Kerr-Mills medical care plan. Jor dan sees the manpower training situation as something diflerent from providing euro for aged per sons. Unemployment is a national problem, the most Bcrlous domes' AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon Car Fodder companies generally are co-operative in de signing their product more and more for safety. The driver is the big focus of failure. A high percentage of accidents, fatal and other wise, are adjudged due either to improper driver control or inadequate attention to driv ing. It is in this realm of "pilot error" that traffic authorities, lacking proper spur from the people themselves, appear in poorest light. The driver is the "operator" of the ve hicle, so his license states. Yet it is a fact that many "drivers" do little more these days than accompany the cars they ride in. Their hands and arms are everywhere but on the wheel. They talk, they shift about, ' they turn their heads away from the road. With laughable understatement, police in one big city protested mildly against drivers who make a "lovers' lane" out of main roads while moving at speeds up to 50 or 60. : By any fair test all this constitutes reck less driving. Until it is uniformly so defined, and heavily penalizod for what it is the chief menace to safe driving we can treat with scorn the empty blather from official sources about "driving safely." The comings and goings of most traffic . police are mere show window stuff. If safer driving really is desired, the means of urging it seriously through official action are surely at hand. So far nobody has shown much interest in getting down to cases. The death score is the proof. Tax collectors got $15,923 million, while stockholders received $6,467 million. In addition, the 100 largest companies collected $8',d31 million in taxes for various units of government. This makes a total of $24,854 million yielded or collected by the 100 corporations. Billions more were yielded or collected by America's other corporations. , Why hasn't anybody decleared "Be Kind to Corporations Week?" That's the least we can do. ALEXANDER Training Is Federal Job tic puzzle that we havo to solve. Automation, the central cause of hard-core Joblessness, is a phuso of the modern industrial revolu tion, universal rather than nation al or local in nature. "W'lien the industrial revolution first broke upon tlie world in the Nth Century," Jordan points out, "half the people who lost their jobs wanted to destroy the ma chines which had Misemployed them. But tlie other half decided to get back to work by manufac turing machines." Jordan feels that it Is primarily a federal responsibility to plan for tlio retraining of mature work ers who have lost their jobs to automation, and for the guidance of youth into places where they can learn the necessary skills. Jordan has the same skepticism that Barry Goldwater has about the craze for over-education. The Idaho cxgovernor-turnedsonator urges and experts that young sters with a desire and ability lor entering the profession will find a way to do so. Hut he wants the planners to lower their sights and aim at the vocational train ing of Hie multitudes who must work with their hands and should not be ashamed of it. Manual work these days does re quire trained skills, but it pays wages that support a decent liv ing standard. In a speech at Ricks College. Rexburg. Idaho, Jordan talked of jobs for cooks and butchers ut tlu.nuo a year. He listed sales and service jolis with starting incomes around $3000. Many of these positions go beg ging, so that employers olten have to bring in foreigners to work in kitchens or furniture shops as well as In agriculture. The need, of course, is for Americans to develop a will to work at non-glamorous jobs. .But even with the best of will, the ma ture worker and the beginning worker should have access to Thursday, July 18, 1963 skill - teaching schools, equipped with the best and latest training machinery. The mobilization of a mid-century work force still awaits a national plan, and Jordan is like most other Republicans on this matter. He is more than willing to go along witli any feasible Demo cratic program. Unforlunutely, the Administration schemes, Uius far, have been offered in bits and pieces. The New Frontier has not developed a rifle that shoots into the bull's-eye of domestic unem ployment. Al manac By I idled Press International Today is Wednesday, July 17, the I'.mth day of 1IW3 with 167 to lollow. The moon is approaching its new phase. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In Spain ceded Florida to the United States. In Una. President Abraham Lin coln was empowered m conscript, men into the armed fonts for nine months' service in the Civil War. In HM8. the southern Democrats from 1.1 stales met in Birming ham, Ala , and organized a states' rights parly to oppose the Tin man Hai kley ticket. In W.15, Arco, Idaho, became the first community in the world to receive all of Its light nnd power from atomic energy. A thought (or the day Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover said: "Older men declare war . . . but It is youth that must fight and die." fil-r : lev J MY ' M j ilM m : ; in Washington By RALPH de TOLEDANO Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman left July 13 for a month lung tour of the Soviet Union. His stated purpose is to study t h e farming methods of the Commu nistsand this supposedly justi fies the expense to the taxpayer. Wliat, exactly, can Secretary Freeman learn from the Soviets? Farming is the area of their big gest failure. They cannot produce enough to feed their people, the collective farms have been ex posed by the Communist press as centers of corruption and illegal practices, and the methods used by Russian farmers are decades . behind ours. In fact, the Soviets have repeatedly sent teams of ag ricultural experts to study Ameri can farming in order to improve theirs. One thing Comrade Khrushchev would dearly like to know is why less than 10 per cent of the U.S. labor force produces embarrass ing surpluses of farm produce whereas 50 per cent of the Soviet labor force can't grow enough on greater acreage to feed the Russian people. (The answer is very simple: Collectivization doesn't work in Russia or any where else in the world. It al most crippled Red China.) But there arc other reasons Letters To Basin Economy Our economy here in the Ba sin seems to be going from bad to worse. Recent developments in this area makes one wonder some times what will happen next, and also whether or not the people in responsible positions are very much concerned about our eco nomic future. There is a question in my mind as to whether the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. was justified in having their lockout here at this time, and also whether it was very good judgment on their part as far as public relations is con cerned. Most people 1 have talked to seem to think that it was a poor move. There is real hardship here at present. It has affected many peo ple not employed in the lumber industry, indirectly, and has caused much loss in one way QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What distinguishes a ca thedral from a church? A A cathedral Is a Christian church which contains the official chair or throne of a bishop. This throne is called a "cathedra," the Latin word for chair. Q Wliere did life begin? A The birthplace of life, most scientists are convinced, was in the water. Q What is the solar corona? A The outer atmospheric thell of the sun. divided Into the V corona and the K corona. Q In what year did Congress first exercise its constitutional power to declare war? A In 181!. Q What Is the name of the newest chemical clement? A Lawrtnclum, named In honor of Ernest Lawrence, devel oper of the cyclotron. All Is Not Lost! Freeman Goes why Secretary Freeman's government-paid trip to the Soviet Un ion doesn't make sense. Repre sentative Mclvin Laird of Wiscon sin, one of the most astute of the younger generation of Repub lican legislators, has noted some what acidly: "Certainly his time could have been better spent here at home working on the develop ment of sorely needed effective dairy legislation." It may be that the White House wanted Mr. Freeman out of town precisely for that reason: Con gress is pretty fed up with him since the wheat referendum and the hanky-panky involved in the unsuccessful effort to get iron fisted controls ratified. In addition to this legislation. Mr. Laird suggests other work for the Soviet-bound, "education" seeking Mr Freeman. For exam ple, the little matter of the new round of tariff negotiations now under way. In these discussions, "the poultry farmers apparent ly have already been sold down the river," says Representative Laird. This is a story all in itself. Listen to Mr. Laird: "Last year the European Com mon Market increased the tariff on U.S. poultry from five cents to 13 cents a pound. This seemed The Editor or another throughout tlie area. In fact some little children are even going hungry. This is too bad when one takes into consideration that tlie fathers of these young sters were not on strike, but have been denied the privilege of making a living for their wives and children. Let us hope that this situation changes and very soon. Many of us here, myself includ ed, think that this is one of the finest countries on earth, and re member when Klamath was con sidered one of the two best busi ness towns in the State of Ore gon. Let us also hope that we get a lew breaks soon, and that our economy will get back wliere it belongs. Bill Creswcll BERRY'S WORLD III "Give ut corner table, Andre , , ut're fixing prlcet today," c- Vi 1A Touring more than unfair when you con sider the policy of our govern ment to reduce trade and tariff barriers." The reduction was sup posed to be reciprocal, remem ber? "But following further ac tivity by our trade representa tives, the Common Market upped the duty to 14.5 cents a pound." This was described by Senator Russell (D.-Ga.) as a "total em bargo" on U.S. poultry, making it "impossible for our producers to export to Europe profitably." Secretary Freeman has been promising better terms. He still calls poultry "our outstanding suc cess in developing a new market abroad." He has said this .with all the stubborn determination of a New Frontiersman who won't let facts interfere with his views. To cap it all, Mr. Freeman add ed: "In a sense, we feel that as poultry goes so go our overall trade prospects." If this is so, then the Administration had bet ter toss out the reciprocal trade program. Of course, Mr. Freeman c,ould call for two chickens in every pot to make up for the death of poultry exports to Europe. Or per haps his trip to the Soviet Union is really to negotiate a trade agreement with Comrade Khrush chev under which he would take our surplus chickens in return for not burying us so soon. Representative Laird has a real point when he objects to Mr. Freeman's free-for-all in the So viet Union. "The dairy industry of this country, the wheat grow ers of this country, the shocking rise in sugar prices, and many other critical problems in the United States should command the full attention of the Secretary of Agriculture." Coming from a farm state, Mr. Laird is not talk ing through his corncob pipe. My feeling is that the Agricul ture Department will do as well or as badly (take your pick' with Mr. Freeman away as with him here. The real trouble could come should he return primed with phony Soviet statistics "prov ing" that regimentation and col lectivization arc the wave of the future in farming. They fooled Henry Wallace and he was a real farmer. Q Roger Fidler. Eugene Register Guard astronomer and writer, passed along some information to me regarding the upcoming eclipse of the sun next Saturday. I don't know a darned thing about tlie phenomenon, and inasmuch as Mr. Fidler's articles on astron omy et al appear regularly in tlie state's best newspaper, I'm will ing to accept what he says as the gospel. I'll pass along his rec ommendations and suggestions to you. At twenty-two minutes past noon PDT, July 20th, Oregonians will be able to watch the opaque disk of the moon as it slowly begins to pass across the face of the sun. Little by little a small dark notch on the edge of the sun will grow larger and larger, until at 1:40 PDT almost half of the sun will be obscured. The moon's disk will then be gin to recede and the dark notch will diminish and disappear on the opposite edge of the sun at 2:57 PDT. At approximately the same time in Alaska and Northwestern Can ada, the moon will totally obscure the face of the sun. This is one "of the rarest and most spectacu lar events in nature a total eclipse of the sun. During totality the day will turn to night, the stars and plan els will appear, the air will be come cool, and almost as a cli max a brilliant haV) will appear around the blackened disk of the sun. This halo is known as the solar corona and can be observed only during totality. , "Under normal conditions the intense brightness of the sun's disk completely floods out the faint coronal light. Scientists and amateurs with specially constructed telescopes and cameras will be strung out from Alaska to Northern Maine, along the path of the eclipse in an attempt to accurately record the event. Although the eclipse will not be quite as spectacular in Klamath By FULTON LEWIS JR. Orville Freeman got out of town just in time. Tlie Secretary of Agriculture has departed for a month-long "working vacation" behind the Iron Curtain. Angry members of Congress must wait until mid-August be fore they can question him about a British vessel las department chartered to carry surplus grain from this country to Formosa. The freighter, the London Statesman, was scheduled to sail from the Gulf of Mexico on July 5. arriving in the Orient on the 15th. It was to carry surplus foodstuffs under provisions of Public1 Law 480. The ship, several Congressmen have since discovered, is owned by London and Overseas Freigh ters. Ltd. This lirm has char tered 75 per cent of its shipping capabilities to the Soviet Union and its vessels make up approx imately one-half of the entire British tonnage now engaged In Cuban trade. It controls' a second firm. Lon don and Overseas Tankers, Ltd., which has carried more oil to Cuba than any other single com pany since Fidel Castro came to power. , The Administration lias made a half-hearted attempt to curtail free world shipping with Castro land. The attempts have tailed, official figures show. Thirty three British ships sailed to Cuba in the five months end ing May 31, 1963. The Greeks have engaged 23 ships in Cuban trade, the Lebanese 14. tlie Kal ians seven, the Norwegians five, the Spaniards two. West Germany, Japan, Morocco and Sweden have all had one ship sail to Cuba. Because of loopholes in the Ad ministration plan to curtail Cuban trade, any foreign steamship company that owns more than one vessel is permitted to con tinue trade with Cuba and at the s-ime time carry U.S. Guvcrn-ment-financed cargo on other silips. The American Maritime Asso ciation has urged the President to issue new and stronger shipping orders to halt (lie flow of goods to Cuba. The Association, which represents 40 per cent of the American merchant marine, sug gests a new order denying gov ernment cargoes to those shipown ers who use any of their vessels NOTHING SPECIAL (W. B. S.I Falls, it will still be fascinating to watch and photograph. However, before observing the solar eclipse there are several precautions that should be tak- Even though tlie sun will be partially eclipsed, the intensity of tlie sun's light will NOT be les-' sened. Without adequate protec tion, the unseen ultra-violet and infra-red light can permanently damage the eyes in a very short lime. During every solar eclipse, there are always people who carelessly view the sun without adequate protection. Consequent . ly they receive permanent eye y burns that canrpt be corrected. Everyone knows the burning power sun light has when concen trated with a lens. The eye also has a lens which conentrates light on the optical nerves. The most readily available pro tection is to use a double thick ness of black and white (not color) film that has been completely ex posed and developed to maximum density. This provides adequate protection for naked-eye use only. Dark glasses, gelatin camera filters, and smoked glass do not provide sufficient protection and definitely should not be used. If a telescope is to be used, the safest procedure is to project the sun's image onto a piece of. w hite cardboard. Filters should be used only by an experienced so lar observer. If you value your eye sight, these precautions should be taken quite seriously. As you read, Mr. Fidler recom mends that you take the utmost precaution with your eyes before you attempt to witness the eclipse. I was talking to Leo Morstad, and he has available some small pieces of exposed film made up in holders that will sell for a nominal sum. From what I see and Hear about tlie situation. I would advise getting some of the film from Leo if you want to witness the eclipse without dam age to your eyes. WASHINGTON REPORT ... Solons Demand Halt To Trade Practices in Cuban trade, regardless of whether they are owned by the parent organization or a subsidi ary. Florida Rep. Paul Rogers (D.) goes further. He demands the President deny the use of our ports to ships carrying the (lags of countries that trade w ith Cuba. The British." he says, "would think twice about ship ping to Castro if we banned the Queen Mary from New York Har bor." On the Senate side. South Da kota's Karl Mundl is another who urges lough action on the Presi dent's part. His proposal is simi lar to that of Rogers: "I ask a Presidential state- ment that henceforth commerce in American ports will be denied to the ships of any country which permits its merchant vessels to engage in trade ol any kind ex cept medical supplies to Cas tro's Cuba." Rogers and Mundt- make their demands in tlie wake of a broad cast by Radio Havana ridiculing the Administration's present plans to stop Cuban trade. Note: A Montana Congressman, Republican Jim Batting has re peated his demands that Free man resign. He says federal funds were used to lobby for passage of the Administration wheat plan in the referendum. The scheme was defeated by a top-heavy margin and Freeman's prestige plummeted to a new low. In addition to Battin. Senate lead er Everett Dirksen and House leader Charles Haileck have sug gested the secretary quit. THEY SAY... Tlie egotism of many rich peo ple, their blindness, is a more se rious problem (in South America) than communism itself. Dom Holder Camara, auxili ary archbishop oRlo de Janeiro. I fully understand tlial tlie past casts a divisive shadow between our peoples. I beg you to believe me that countless Germans to gether wiih myself have con demned that criminal r Nazi i re gime. Krani Josef Strauss, West German defease minister, in Israel.
