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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."
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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,"
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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.