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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1963)
TAQE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Sunday, September I, 19CJ dJJtouaL (paqsL Up .. To those who maintain President Kcnne ''dy is seeking more and more power for the Executive Branch of the United States Gov ' ernment we ask the question, who permits this? And to anyone who regards the U. S. Supreme Court with a questioning eye, as this group of men purportedly overreach their authority by failing to strictly interpret the laws of the land and abide by the Consti Vtution, we ask, who is permitting this? ; We would place the blame for permitting 'the overlapping of the three branches of this government directly on the doorstep of the Congress. Nature hates a vacuum and rushes in to fill It. The same law of physics applies to a political vacuum. That to a large extent is what the general body of the United States Congress has become. Car (Oregon-Statesman, Salem) Crime like disease seems to lend itself readily to statistics. So we have tables show ing the number of crimes by kind, larceny, homicide, forgery, etc., the age groups of those committing the crimes, costs, etc. The compilation of the statistics is done by the Uniform Crime Reporting Section ofthe FBI. The July issue of the FBI Law Enforce ment Bulletin gives statistics on a common crime: theft of automobiles. In 1962 an esti mated 356,000 cars were stolen with a prop ,' erty value of $308,000,000. While 90 per cent of the cars stolen are recovered, often these cars are in damaged condition. The Bulletin reports that about 80 per cent of cars stolen were for transportation or unknown purpose, but eight per cent are taken so parts might be stripped from them. Only one per cent was for purpose of resale, which indicates the effectiveness of the licensing system in dis couraging such attempts. As would be supposed, a big majority :68 per cent of car thefts occur at night. The figures on location of thefts show that 39 per HOLMES The By HOl.MKS ALEXANDER Legislatively speaking, when Ihe gods arrive at Capitol Hill, the demigods depart. Tlte supernal matters ot seeking racial re forms without uprooting the Con stitution, of monitoring nuclear fallout without Retting bear trapped by an avowed enemy, of revising our taxes without deep ening our deficits and of aiding foreigners without impoverishing ourselves Ulesc big boys tend In run the urchins off the Hill. Maybe It's a Rood thing, be cause many of the urchin affairs ought to fio back where they li kingto the States, to communi ties, to business and civic groups. 1 don't expect tliat Interior Sec retary Udall will agree that his mammoth schemes for buying up playgrounds and seashores under his ltecrcalion Program are juve nile projects when compared with Civil Rights, the Nuclear Treaty and the rest, hut that's about the size of It. He's having trouble pelting Congressional attention. Stewart Udall, a personable and strenuous outdoorsman, believe in his mission to make the Sis ties what lie calls an "Age of Action" at tlie Interior Depart ment. He has created a new agen cy the Bureau of Outdoor Itevronlion and he has smashed the tablets of an old Congressional Commandment which said, in Speaker Joe Cannon's words, "Not a ienny for scenery." With Die purchase of Cape Cod for a National Park, I'dall initiat ed wnSat no other Interior Secre tary ever accomplished Federal land purchase for tlie explicit pur pose of nationalized vacation sites. The Secretary envisions downs ol new parks across the nation, hut w ith emphasis on the densely pop ulated East Coast, where the gen eral public is to be accommodat ed and regulated as a tax paying guest. In order to fet his way. L'dall has made concession. For ex ample, there are 800 persons still To Congress A suciessor of inept and inert Congress es have permitted their Constitutional powers to be usurped without protest. More and tnore the Congress has become an ineffectual body, consisting largely of law yers who gavo up their practice of easier money, shorter hours and the opportunity to tap the public till by making junkets through out the world. Fringe benefits, loo, that in clude salaries for wives and kinfolk. The Congress, and we include both Mouse and Senate, have the Constitutional powers needed to investigate, impeach or condemn wrongdoing or malfeasance. Congress also controls the purse strings and can let any undesirable project wither on the vine by simply not appropriating the mon ey for it. The return to Constitutional government and Fiscal Sanily must begin with the Congress. Theft Statistics cent occur when cars are parked on a public street in a residential area; 14 per cent from a private residence or apartment off-street parking area; 21 per cent from public street in a commercial area; 15 per cent from a shopping center or other free parking area; only 6 per cent from public garage or park ing lot where fee is charged. One can't sort out always where to leave his car with the least risk of theft. But there is one thing the car owner can do, that is, never leave the ignition key in his car when it is unattended. Of the thefts surveyed 42 per cent occurred when the key was in the car or the ignition was unlocked. It isn't enough to carry theft insurance. The car owner must exercise precaution to avoid having his car stolen. This calls for some care in selecting a parking place, removal of ignition key, and in many instances locking the car. One should carry in his wallet the license number of his car say on (he hack of his driver's license, so, In event his car turns up missing he can report the loss, with license number, promptly to the police. ALEXANDER . . . Udall Domai living in Cape Cod National Park. They may own the l;.nd, and may dispose of it, but not quite (roe'y only if they agree to keen the property in its present use. Moa i while Hie Park Service prac'ues conservation and hcaiitiliratinn. and in the end w ill take over en tirely. In another sot of concessions to placate Congress, I'dall has ac cepted the proposition of raising funds by "invisible" taxation a portion from the Federal high way gasoline levy, a portion from molor boat fuel levies, a jwrtion from admission foe and surpl"s properly sales. His legislation he loro Congress also contcmplal s "sharing" Federal cxendiluic.i with the Slates. He has even he.il nn old department rule by al lowing some commercial activ -ties in the new National Park. Mut these concessions, to any one who knows how such things go in Foderalia, have thel n ookf go in Fedoralin, have the look of "creeping socialism." From the Tennessee Valley Authority to the Area Redevelopment Administra tion, the takeover tactics alwajs iK'gin at a crawl and never at a pounce. If tlie past is any prologue, the prairies that I'dall has sought in Kansas, tlie Great Lakes dunes he has sought in Indiana and Michi gan, the sand pits that he is accumulating on tlie Atlantic ami Pacific shorelines will, in time, become part of a domain that is ruled, no doubt, with benevolence, but nonetheless ruled for tlie peo ple, rather limn by tlie people. All this can lie said without den) ing tliat population pressures aie Uion us, ami that natural beauties are worth preserving for human enjoyment. I'dall' case would lie more solid, however, if (lie States had not already done a great deal in these regards, if philanthropists named Rotkclcl ler and Mellon and ot Iters bad not plowed business profits back into Foundations to prcere natural in and historical treasures, if Gar den Clubs and other citizens' groups had not liecn active in the same work, if resort hotels and Chambers of Commerce had not made laying propositions of mountain and seaside vistas with out ruthlessly despoiling the aes thetic values. Private and local enterprises, despite many shortcomings, still represent a freedom to exploit and a law-of-tltc-mai kotplaco and this nation would be poorer be cause of their loss. I'dall's spirit of conquest looks out of proportion amid the overriding problems in Washington. It also looks mighty suspicious to anyliody who has watched Fedcralia grow. Almanac By I'nllril Press International Today is Sunday, Sept. R. the 2.1lsl of 196.1 with' IH to follow. The moon is approaching its last quarter. Tlie morning star Is .Itipitor. The evening stars are Mars, Saturn and Jupiter. Those born today are under the sign of Virgo. On this day in history: In 1565, (lie lirst permanent set tlement of Kuropeans in what is now continental t'nitod States was founded at SI. Augustine, Fla. In WM. the Crimean War ended In l!Hl. some 6.000 persons were killed when a tornado and tidal wave struck Galveston, Tex. In 19.14, the U.S. l.iner Mono Castle burned olt Asbtiry Park, N. J., taking 137 lives. A thought for the day: Gen. Douglas MacArthur once said "It is fata! to enter any war without the will In win It " By RALPH de TOI.KDANO The Democratic leadership has been making a tally of its suc cesses and failures during these first eight months of the 88th Congress. Not all the truth serum in the world could get Speaker John McCormack publicly to ad mit that the Republicans may have a point when they refer to this as the "do less than nothing" Congress. But privately, Mr. Mc Cormack and his aides are re portedly in agreement. Perhaps of more interest is the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Indignant How much power is invested in one member of the Klamath County Court? Or is it the court as a body? We understand that Judge Walker knew nothing of what happened to Betty Cote un til alter it was done. What is the function of our Library Board'.' Do they understand the problems and policies of our li brary and act for the best inter ests of the people of the coun ty? Or do tlwy simply carry out the orders of the court or of its members singly? We feel that the pub! should have some facts about our County Library, particularly concerning the years Betty Cote has been "acting" head librarian. The main desk circulation alone has risen to 93.au in the 19112-1963 period as compared to 17,7.18 in the 19:18 19.19 period. The average monthly circulation now is 7.772 as com pared to 1.479 in the 19.18-19.19 pe riod. Our library serves all county schools and live branch libraries: Gilchrist, Chiloquin. Malin. Mer rill and Bonanza. Also it is now serving nine active stations th.il were all inactive in 1918: Sprague River, Foil Klamath. Chemtilt, Crescent Lake. Crater Lake. Frank's Country Store, Odessa, OTI, and Ml. Uiki. Anyone in terested in checking this infor mation or obtaining any other in formation concerning the ad vancements made in the last lew vears m.u' do so hv asking at the library. ' We feel this has hovn a tre mendous accomplishment by a li brarian who has now lieen sum marily dismissed from any con nection with tlie binary. Why' Can this lie an example of some one in public oltice using that ollice lor personal spile? Berlha I.. Wrvn. Itte .1. Box 1144 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS t WHt mle did Princeton's Nassau Hall play In rarly nirr. Iran history? A Rich in history, the stiur lure once sheltered tlie nation's new Congress, ami Kith Rntih and A m e r lean Revolutionary lroois occupied it. A Chiller IN WASHINGTON . . . Congressional way they feel about this inactivi ty. Is it wiser to do nolhing. blam ing Ihe Republicans whenever possible, than to enact legislation which may give the voters heart burn? This is an interesting ques tion, for the legislation in mind was sent to the Hill by President Kennedy. And as of today, both he and the Speaker belong to the same party. The President, however, contin ues to sing, "Do nothing till you hear from me" and the Demo cratic leadership must perforce join in the close harmony. Mr. Kennedy has sent a basketful of bills up to Congress, 2.1 in the "major" category. This is what he wants Congress to consider, legislative will and initiative, therefore, do not matter very much. Congress docs not like the President's program and it has none of its own. Of the 23 hills that have Ihe Kennedy imprimature, only four have been passed and signed by Ihe President. The fourth doesn't really count since it is the emer gency measure to arbitrate the controversy between the rail roads and the rail unions over fea therbedding. Another one of the four measures is hardly an achievement since it merely ex lends the draft. The third bill extended corpor ate and excise taxes, and there was not too much bother about it. Only the feed grains hill can be considered of significance to Ihe administration. Meanwhile, what sits on the shelf or lies buried in committee? The tax cut and tax reform bill has had its full quota of hearings and is being marked up in com mitlee. What emerges will hear some, but not much, resemblance to Mr. Kennedy's request. For eign aid authorization has been scheduled for debate on the House floor and the Senate has com pleted its hearings. But the ad ministration can look (or no vic tories in this quarter. In commit tee, well over a billion dollars was lopped from what Ihe President sought. And in making an actual appropriation, Congress will un BERRY'S WORLD cr, town no "I'm lorry young man, ut J.m't carry aJult books for cbtUren!" Doldrums doubtedly chop even more off. Medicare under Social Security is a complete dud. No committee is considering the legislation and there seems to be not the slight est chance that it will get a hear ing this year. Members of both houses have sounded out their con stituents, and the response has jjocn less than enthusiastic. The press continues to act as if this were a burning issue, but Con gress knows better. A multi-hil-lion program to build civil de fense shelters Jnr the nation is equally moribund. And not a finger has yet been raised lo in crease congressional and ex ecutive salaries. Two other measures on the Kennedy list would "reform" the unemployment compensation sys tem and set up an Urban Affairs Department. This last was killed in the previous session, but Mr. Kennedy doesn't Rive up easily. So far, Congress has looked away apathetically when these two pro posals arc mentioned. The civil rights bill, an omni bus measure, is under considera tion by the appropriate commit tees ofthe House and Ihe Senate. What it w-ill do lo the congres sional timetable, if one still ex ists, is hard to tell. Certainly it will occupy the Senate for a good long lime unless the administra tion can muster the votes to shut off debate. But a cloture rule seems highly unlikely at this time. Going down the line of "must" legislation. Ihe chart shows hills that have cleared one house but are stymied in another, bills still in committee, hills that have not t he slightest chance of clearing the hurdle and going lo the Presi dent. It is still summer, but time's a-wasting. Congress does not like the idea of remaining in Washing ton past Thanksgiving or o! cele brating a White Christmas away from home, family and constitu ents. The only thing that will get the congressional troops out of the trenches will be a presidential re prieve and an admission thai the While House program can't make it this year. IP MB mm M J. Li 1 A' - ' 4h mtt The reason that worry kills more people than work is because more people worry than work. Although we as a nation admire technological progress, there are times when the advance of sci ence must be viewed with consid erable trepidation. A chilling prospect indeed is the report that a frozen breakfast, complete with disposable tray, is to be added to the now glutted TV din ner line. The benefits of convenience foods are many (largely in lime saved by the homemaken, but it is discomforting to con template the taste of a frozen egg or to visualize a clump of frozen oatmeal with a neat but solid square of butter on top. Breakfast is an altogether dif ferent sort of meal than lunch or dinner. And it does not Wtail a great amount of time in prep aration. The picture of tenderly beginning the day together over the toaster is fading, but frozen breakfasts do have implications for the family. While everyone can stand in awe of the technological achieve ments of a frozen four-minute egg, it won't do much to bring out the sunny sides of early morn ing dispositions. "INDISPENSABLE?" Sometime, when you're feeling important. Sometime, when your ego's in bloom, Sometime, when you take it for granted. You're the best qualified in the room. Sometime, when you feel that your going. Would leave an unfillable hole, ' Just follow this simple instruc tion. And see how it humbles your soul. Take a bucket and fill it with water. Put your hand in it, up to your wrist ; Pull it out; and the hole Rial's remaining, Is a measure of how you'll be missed. You may splash all you please when you enter. You can stir up the water galore, But stop, and you'll find in a minute. That it looks quite the same as before. The moral in this quaint ex ample. Is do just the best you can, Be proud of yourself, but re member. There's nn indispensable man ... or woman. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . i ) Kennedy Confused In Figure Quoting By FULTON LEWIS JR. When President Kennedy went on nationwide radio and TV to advocate ratification of the partial nuclear test ban, he promised to continue a comprehensive series of underground tests. Under this program. Kennedy said, the U.S. has carried out 97 tests beneath the earth's surlace in the past two years. The real figure is not 97 but 3il. The President increased the true figure by almost 50 per cent. Several days later the President again went before the people to castigate those Congressmen who voted to slash the administration's foreign aid authorization by more than half a billion dollars. "I recall during eight years in Ihe Senate from 19.13 to 1960 con sistently supporting Ihe (foreign aid' requests which General F.i senhower made as President of the United Slates." However, time after time Ken nedy had voted to cut the Eisen hower requests. His philosophy was first spelled out when he was a congressman: "The vision of a bottle of milk for every Hottentot is a nice one. hut it is far beyond our reach There is just not enough money in tlie world lo relieve tlie poverty of all the millions of this world w ho may be threatened by Commu nism." On anotlier occasion, lawmaker Kennedy said it was "impossible lor us to think of raising the stan dard of living of all the low- stan dard countries of the world." The President's voting record. a uncovered by Sen. Barry Goki waler. shows: On July 29. IBM, Senator Ken nedy voted lo cut foreign aid by M million. On Aug. 3. 19.14 be voted to chop HOO million from the Eisen hower request for foreign aid. On July 22. 1955. he approved a cut of $420 million in military foreign aid. On June 14, 1917. the junior NOTHING SPECIAL IW. I. S.I How do you rate the commu nity in which you live? Some time ago, a private power utility developed a questionnaire de signed to bring answers that would reflect whether a commu nity is a good place or a bad place to live in. Try them on what you feel is representative in your community. See how Klam ath Falls and other area cities and towns rate in your estima tion, i Reply "yes" or "no" to each question.) 1. Most high school graduates stay in town? 2. Getting a loan on a sound business venture is easy? 3. The local paper constantly pushes civic improvements? 4. The local chamber of com merce has a live-wire manager? 5. Young couples have little trouble finding a place to live? li. The head of city government is a "get-things-done" man? 7. Teachers' salaries are better than the state average? 8. There's at least one doctor per 800 people in the county? 9. There's a good local library? 10. Schools have plenty of room for students? 11. Fire insurance rates are low? 12. Service, veterans' and wom en's clubs team up on projects? 13. There is an active, well-organized Boy Scout movement? 14. A modern hospital is within the local trading area? 15. All streets are paved, and sidewalks in good shape? 16. The city has good hotels, motels? 17. It's easy to find parking space in the business section? 18. At least one restaurant serves outstanding meals? 1!). The sewer extension pro gram keeps pace with new hous ing? 20. Prompt, reasonably priced ambulance service is available? 21. Good zoning keeps factories away from residential areas? 22. Streets throughout the city are well-lighted? 23. Shade trees line nearly all the streets? 24. There's a recreation center where young people can dance? 2,1. The business section ap pears modern, prosperous? 26. There's as much interest in local as in national elections? 27. The tax rate is attractive to new industry? 28. There's a community coun cil to guide town progress? 29. There's an active PTA? .10. Firemen must take regu lar training courses? According to Ihe originators of the questionnaire, if your town rates a "yes" answer to 20 of these queries you live in a com munity to be proud of. senator from Massachusetts vot ed for reductions of $90 million in Eisenhower foreign aid. On June 6. 19.18, he voted to whack $200 million from the for eign aid budget. On vote after vote from 1938 on. Kennedy was not present for for eign aid. On May 2. 1960, for in stance, the senator missed 13 sep arate votes. On May 30. 19.19. Kennedy did nol show up to vote on a propos al to cut $100 million from the Development Loan fund. On Aug. 2 of that year he was absent when colleagues considered a proposal to slash $1.3 billion from the De velopment Loan fund. Five days later, the senator was nowhere lo be found when senators voted on proposals to reduce foreign aid by $700 million. In July of 1962, the President told listeners that loss of produc tion because of strikes had les sened. Figures of Kennedy s own Labor Department showed that production losses had increased 60 per cent over 1961. In August of 1962. tlie President claimed 400.000 unemployed Americans were being retrained hy the administration. False, said Republican Rep. Charles Goodcll, author of the bill that set up tlie job retraining program. "As of now tlie number being retrained is exactly zero," he said. In that same speech, the Pres ident referred to George De martz. whom he described as a Pennsylvania coal miner re trained under the Kennedy Ad ministration as a welder. Kenne dy said that Demarlz found work w ith a firm brought into Hazletnn by the Area Redevelopment Agen cy. Said the then Congressman James Van Zandt: "The only trou ble with that story is that most of it is untrue." Demartz. h re vealed, has "Never worked with in a coal mine in his life, and needed no training to become a we!der" O
