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PAGE A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Wednesday, October f. 1963 'Don't Think I Stand Idly By - I Keep Asking Them Not To Do This' jWILUAM S. WHITE . . . i k a I i i n J j " - s "m W H sT ' ' r FVr J Vote 'NO' Despite the seemingly overwhelming flood of material supporting the 1963 legisla tive income tax program, we believe the peo ple of the state should defeat the measure at the forthcoming October 15 election. It may be an oversimplification, but we believe the reason for our position is simple: it is a bad tax bill. In support of this contention, we offer these arguments: The measure bears most heavily on those least able to pay the lower income citizens. The measure embodies a tax on a tax because it does not allow the deduction of federal income taxes. We can defer some of the programs outlined for implementation during this bien nium. The law does not go far enough in dis tributing the costs of government among the whole population. : There is considerable room for wonder ing if the sizeable tax hike embodied in the bill is necessary. While the Ways and Means Committee did an excellent job of scrutiniz ing and overhauling budget requests, we think there is still room for improvement. This is particularly true in state agency serv ices and elementary education. We reiter ate here our hope that higher education budg ets will escape additional pruning if the meas ure is defeated. Rejection of the measure by the voters will serve to convince legislators and state officers that we do not favor instigation of WASHINGTON REPORT By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON - The Kennedy Administration stands accused of "gross deception" in winning Senate ratification of the partial nuclear test ban. The charge is made by Rep. James Weaver, a member of the House Space and Astronautics Committee willi access to top secret Information. Weaver says administration censors deliberately withheld from scnaiors information that would have Jeopardized chances of treaty ratification. Curing the Senate debate, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond c&arged the Soviet Union may have developed a "clean," fall oat free H-bomb. Ho referred to an unpubllcizcd Aug. 3 ex plosion at the South Pole Hint ex perts thought might have been a Soviet bomb. Thurmond, a general in the army reserve, was flatly contra dicted by Sen. John Pasture, ranking Democrat on the Joint Atomic Energy Committee. Tho Antarctica report, said Pastorc, was untrue. v One day after Senate ratifica tion, reporter Earl Voss wrote in the Washington Star: "A myster ious explosion near the South Pole, estimated to have been 25 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atom bomb, has been detected by eight dee world sta Letters To Rumor There have been rumors that the Klamath caso under the ter mination act in the United States Court of Claims (Ducket No. 125 61) has been thrown out of court and only Hie claims brought by those members in the Anderson case (Docket 87-2 are now be fore that Court. I consulted with the Klamath tribal attorneys, Wil kinson. Cragun & Barker, on Sept. 18, K3, to clarify the uncertain ty. I was advised that tlicre is absolutely no truth to the rumors. Becauso tlie rumors have led to uncertainty and mistrust, I would like to have Hie following infor mation published so as to truly Inform all Die Klamath members of the status of their claim. '. Mrs. Marie Norrls, : J305 Altamont Drive. Increase Even though we have sufficient referral signatures to place the State Income Tax Bill up to the voters on Oct. 15 i think we should go (11 the way to arouse the voters so U of them will On Income Tax Measure programs and services we are not in a position to pay for. Another argument although admit tedly not having anything to do with the merits of the measure itself is the evident pressure that is being exerted for passage of the bill is a source of irritation and wonder. At least, one cannot help but wonder where all the money comes from for the flood of "YES" propaganda that crosses our desks. Postage, paper and handling of all of this ma terial must call for a staggering expendi ture. Much of this material is coming from the state offices and institutions which claim it is not possible for them to cut budgets, man power and capital outlay. But this frenzied activity cannot help but produce some wonder of the validity of the claim. There is considerable exchange of half truths and distortions being carried on by partisans on both sides. But the simple fact remains that HB 1846 is a bad bill and de serves defeat by the voters. One must admit that some inconvenience to state agencies and institutions will result from defeat. We think the heads and adminis trators of these various units at state and lo cal level should have foreseen the inevitability of referral of the tax measure and its defeat, and planned their budgets accordingly. It is obvious the legislators considered referral when they appropriated a special fund to handle election expenses. Those who did not heed the warning might find themselves fac ing economic and administrative crises in the next biennium. Regardless, we feel that now is the time to face up to reality. Solons Blame Kennedy tions watching for unannounced nuclear tests." The blast occurred Aug. 3. There was no fallout from the blast, leading experts to suggest tho Soviet Union may have de veloped a clean bomb, according to Voss. Such a bomb, in the hands of the enemy, would radi cally alter the nuclear balance of power. Only atmospheric test ing could develop' such a wea pon for the U.S. Possession of clean bombs would mean uninterrupted atmos pheric testing by the Soviets since fallout samples arc presently the only proof that above-ground nu clear explosions have taken place. The Aug. 3 blast was not the first. There have been live similar explosions since the Soviets be gan tile use the Antarctica for "peaceful scientific purposes" in I WO. News of Die South Pole ex plosion was deliberately withheld until Senate ratification of the test ban, an administration offi cial told Voss. Those reports were not the only ones to bear top-secret labels during Senate debate. "Missiles and Rockets," an aulhoritutive trade publication, broke classifi cation Sept. 9 to reveal: "The Soviet Union may lie de veloping an anti-ballistic missile system capable of deactivating U.S. missiles in their silos with The Editor go to (lie polls on that date. Kor example: Under this bill a fam ily of four earning $1,000 w ill have a tax increase of 100 per cent; COM 60 per cent: $3,000 70 per cent: $4,000 02 per cent, AND $10,000 only 40 per cent. Plain to be seen just who it is intended to hook. Then use my "tell them and sell them" plan, that is tell to or more persons, have them tell to or more and those do the same. Write your friends in oilier parts of the slate to do likew ise and in a very short time everyone will know what the score Is. This ap plies especially to the home grounds of those who supported the bill. Your senator or repre sentative can give you the list. I carry extra copies of the Greater Oregon paper and hand a ropy to f those who may lie luke warm or undecided and it has proven 100 per cent effective. It's high time that the money hungry chaps In Salem and the Hawaiian picnickers learn that we common folks aren't as dumb as they think we are. Claude M. Hall. Sunny Valley, Ore. the electro-magnetic energy from exploding high - yield Soviet nu clear weapons. "The Soviet lead in anti-ballistic missile development has been acknowledged even by adminis tration supporters in the test ban debates. It is based on the long range electronics of strong electro-magnetic pulses to cripple llio electronics system of a mis sile so that it cannot be fired. "It could moan the United States has invested billions of dol lars in a Mnginot Line of Atlas. Titans and Minutcmon that could lie rendered useless by the new Soviet development." Earlier U.S. tests showed ex ploding bombs could throw out o( kilter the U.S. second strike re taliatory system. The 1!I58 Argus test series in the South Atlantic caused "dra matic and unpredicted trans-hemispheric clcctro-mngncctic disturb ances," according to one scienti fic report. The report said that a low-yield blast at 200 miles alti tude caused intermittent failures in the "function of the North Atlantic coaxial cable and oilier critical defense systems." Some scientists say explosions of high megaton bombs, which the Soviets possess and we don't, impact (or distances of more than 1,000 miles. Thus, an ex plosion over Kansas could well atleel weaponry throughout most of the continental U.S., perhaps nullifying our second - strike capability. With a ban on atmospheric test ing by this country we might not know until it is too late. Almanac lly United Press International Today is Wednesday, Oct. 0, the 282nd day of 19H3 with 8.1 to follow'. The moon Is at last quarter. The morning stars arc Mercury and Jupiter. The' evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1701, Vale College was founded. In 1781, George Washington fired the first gun at the siege of Yorktown. In 1858, a mail-carrying over land stagecoach reached St. Iiu is Mo., after a trip of 23 das and four hours from San Fran cisvo. In Pope Piux XII, the 2Mst pontiff of the Roman Cath olic Church, died. A thought for the day The American president, James Mon roe, said: "National honor is na tional property of the highest value." By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) - The good feeling toward Indonesia that has pervaded Washington during the last year is about all gone. In this past year: Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy conducted a successful mission to Indonesia. Sargent Shrivcr got the first Peace Corpsmen admitted to In donesia, and more have been asked for. American aid for volcanic eruption victims on Bali was ef fective and appreciated. President Sukarno's threat to confiscate American oil proper ties was settled with a 20-year agreement for 60 per cent of the profits. Sukarno reorganized his gov ernment, removed all Commu nists from top offices, and Ameri can aid officials began (o work directly with ministers who could make decisions. An economic stabilization plan to curb inflation was worked out and its first phases put into operation. An American economic mis sion planned a five-year, $400 million aid program for Indo nesia, half of it to come from the United States. Sukarno began to see he must have western aid to survive. When the Netherlands turned over West New Guinea to Indo nesia for free at U.S. and U.V urging Sukarno indicated this was the last of his expansionist dreams, for a time. After initial protests, lie agreed to join the Philippines in support o( the new Federation of Malay sia Malaya, Singapore. Sara wak and tile rest of North Bor neo. Now he lias changed his mind and threatens war. And things arc going from bad to worse. Malaysia has replied with or ders to b u i 1 d up its defense (orccs. But there are thousand mile distances wilh few roads and less transport on the North Borneo frontiers. So any fighting will be with words or with jungle warfare. Where Sukarno put himself in real trouble was by allowing the JIM "Attotttr mtrtnut to m you, Mr. Gttty. Ht u-ntt to know bow murb you want for 'your UttU tUcbrtl EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Indonesia Tactics Dull U.S. Patience British embassy in Jakarta to be sacked and by seizing British properties in Indonesia. There are still -British garrisons in North Borneo, and both Australia and New Zealand have pledged support for Malaysia if it is at tacked. Indonesia has a 350,000 - man army. It has received more than a billion dollars worth of arms aid from the Soviet bloc, includ ing a cruiser, support ships, 20 1 submarines, 100 MIGs, some bombers and transports, radar and ground-to-air missiles. Contrary to general belief, there has been no great Ameri can military aid to Indonesia. She bought some transports on credit. Some of her officers have been trained in the United States. ' Army engineers have trained In donesians in road building. In 18 years, Sukarno has solidi fied his own political position as the father of his country, having been elected president for life. He claims to be a neutral, run ning a coalition of political par tics. But the Indonesian Commu nist party PK1 is the world's largest outside of Russia and Red China. He has mismanaged the once liuurbhing though war-torn econ omy inherited from the Dutch into near ruin. Today It cannot raise enough food for its 100 mil lion people and must depend on imports. There is galloping inflation. The official exchange rate of 45 rupiahs to the dollar has gone as high as 1.300 on the black market, but is now reported at around 850. The United States has plowed $750 million aid into Indonesia since it gained independence in 11145, trying to save it and build it up as a South Pacific bulwark. But unless Sukarno backs down f r o m his Malaysian defiance, fu ture U.S. aid will be cut off. Funds already committed, like a $17 million loan to get industries going, w ill be expended as agreed on. Indoensia's balance . of - pay ments deficit is put at $400 mil lion a year. Its big creditors are the United States, West Germany, Japan, France and the Interna t i o n a 1 Monetary Fund, from which it wants more. By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON - An election just held in the Maryland town of Cambridge has delivered a cru . el blow to the hopes of all moder ates for a reasonable accommo dation of the racial problems of this country. It has also again illustrated the enormous difficulty of seeking so lutions by law to the ethical ques tion of discrimination in private ly owned eating places. By a 274-vote margin out of nearly 4,000 votes cast a proposed amendment tq the city charter to desegregate lunch counters and restaurants was defeated. It was offered, if reluctantly, by white moderates in an effort to end four months of race turmoil. And it was in fact rejected not by whites but by a partial Negro boycott of the voting booths or dered by a militant Negro leader, Mrs. Gloria Richardson. M r s. Richardson proclaimed that it was improper even to hold a referendum on what she called an "uncontrovertible, un votable, constitutional right" to eat where one chooses. The mathematics of -the thing, at any rate, were indeed incon trovertible. For only 40 per cent of the eligible Negroes cast their ballots as against 76 per cent of the whites. Incontrover tible, too, on the very face of the returns, was the fact that the Ne groes could readily have had this ballot box solution of t h e i r complaints if they had chosen to take it. For, again mathemati cally, they would have had, and did have, much white support. VGoldwater Boom Spurts By MARQUIS CHILDS WASHINGTON The Goldwa ler balloon is going up so fast that it is almost out of sight of this fogbound capital. The pro pulsion comes from many sources, not the least of which is the senator's own driving pow er fed by the growing conviction of his followers that he is the man of destiny. Euphoria is the only word to describe the atmosphere being created around the country in the Goldwatcr for - President movement. The true believers have ceased to count the number of delegate votes necessary to give their hero the Republican nomination. Taking that for granted, they are now counting the electoral votes that will give him victory over President Kennedy: To some of the pros in the party this seems a bit prema ture. They can sec several dan gers in the early inflation of the tioldwater boom. One obviously is timing. There will be so many months for the opposition in both parties to center fire on the balloon as the full light of publicity falls on it. Up until quite recently almost no one, in cuding the senator, took the presidential boom seriously. But a greater danger lies in the maneuver which Goldwater seems to be undertaking. H i s clitics, and even some of his friendly backers, believe he is trying to make a 180-degice turn while steaming full speed ahead. That is to say. having gone on record over the past 12 years with forthright, not to say ex treme, views on almost every issue of foreign and domestic pol icy. lie is presently engaged in revising and downgrading those views. Goldwater does not see it in that light. As he put it to me in a brief talk sandwiched into his crowded schedule, no one up un til now has paid very much atten tion to what lie has said. When lliey examine his views they do not find them as "crack potty" as they hd been made out. He says with the disarming smile that is part of his charm that he dues not hold that con ststency is a virtue. The senator might have added that it is a luxury no politician can afford. A thick book at the top of the best seller list (JFK: The Man and the Myth) was w r i 1 1 e n to he all things to all men. In this same department the most careful job done thus far on tioldwater is by Congressional Quarterly in a report putting his QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q-.Wlut was the ori(inl pur pose of the Mamn and Dixon Line? A It was surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the lath Century to settle terri torial disputes between tha pro prietnrs of Maryland (jijl Pennsyl- The fate now of Cambridge where white leaders with a cen tury's tradition of segregation as a way of life had sought to meet the Negroes a good deal more than halfway by their lights is not pleasant to contemplate. Nor is there any lack of sadness as the mayor of Cambridge, Calvin W. Mowbray, turns away in de feat from a brave and patient ef fort to lead his fellow whites to a tolerant settlement of the town's troubles with this weary com ment: "We'll have to start all over again, so to speak." But what is much sadder is the impact of this referendum on the whole issue over this nation. If white moderates, after months of persuading and pulling the immoderates along are in the end to be denied the practical means for racial peace even when of fered in a full and fair election, where are they now to turn? And how many moderates will there be now, in a place like Cambridge? These questions are of funda mental importance. For if the Ne gro militants now take the line that discrimination -is not prop erly to be voted upon in Cam bridge, how can it properly be voted on in the Congress of the United States? What hap pens, under this logic, even to the Kennedy Administration's civil rights bill demanded to placate the Negroes? The alternatives to voting solutions are what? The permanent use of state or federal troops in a kind of continuous state of martial law, to open up lunch counters and restaurants WASHINGTON CALLING . . record, his statements and his votes alongside an interview up dating his position on important issues. The embrace of the extreme right is another and even more threatening hazard to the Cold water candidacy. This was brought into sharp focus by what happened in California the other day. Robert Gaston, head of the California Young Republicans, made a violent speech in Salinas attacking many Republican lead ers and calling Democrats "thieves, crooks, liars and trash." General Eisenhower "de stroyed the Republican Party," the United Nations was "nothing but a gigantic Communist front." He welcomed the support of the John Birch Society. When he took his stand on principles and someone asked him to define them, his advice was to read Goldwater's books and they would learn. But he brought his audience up cheering when he said "the an swer in '64 is Goldwater." "Talk to your neighbor," said this fiery ultra, "if he doesn't like it ram it down his throat." When the speech was called to Goldwater's attention, he wrote a letter of sober rebuke to Gaston. While he differed on most issues with Democrats, he said, they were not thieves, liars and By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Is the Negro a man, or is he not a man? This is the root ques tion that the times have put to us, and wo must answer it un equivocally. For this is, at bottom, what the current race conflict is all about. Eitiier the Negro is a full fledged human being, and a com plete American citizen, or he is Joss than a human being and in capable of citizenship. If we believe the first, the Ne gro must be assured of all his civil and legal and human rights. If we believe the second, the Ne gro should be stripped of citizen ship and made a ward of the state. No middle course is pos sible. Most Americans, on both sides of the issue, refuse to face this central point. The Negro should be treated just like everyone else no better, no worse or else he should be confined to a reserva tion, returned to Africa, or sent back to slavery. Any other "solution'' is jusy hy-. pocrisy and foolishness, and only postpones the ultimate day of reckoning. Is the Negro a man. or is he not a man? Once we answer this question honestly, all the oili er answers will fall into place, painfully but surely. I happen to believe he is a man i though grievously flawed by cen turies of abuse', created by the same God W ho created the rest of wherever they may be closed to Negroes? A constant stream of orders from the Supreme Court to the same effect? It is, of course, obvious that Mrs. Richardson does not speak for all Negroes, and not even for all the more militant Negro leaders. Still, the history of this sad racial conflict is full of in stances where one day's single extremism by one Negro leader has led to tomorrow's extremism among many Negro leaders a fact that is well known to the administration itself and private ly deplored. It is arguable, moreover, that if the Constitution of the U n i t e d States really forbids discrimina tion on all private property, Mrs. Richardson may be historically correct in her position. The Con stitution, however, has not yet been so interpreted. And until and unless it has been it would seem there is surely no evil in an at tempt at an ordinarily demo cratic local solution especially when that solution could readily have assured what was sought. This columnist has spoken nut against instances of white Southern extremism most re cently the Birmingham church bombing which bedevil any rea sonable accommodation of a trag ic issue. Is it not now time to consider Negro extremism? And is it not time to ponder whether the solution wherever the question at issue is not an undoubted legal right, like the vote, but a most debatable right, like entry to private property is, after all, really attainable only in the hearts of men? crooks. Nor could you ram any thing down anyone's throat. The Arizona senator made it plain he did not agree with most of the extreme views of the young Re publican leader. The incident illustrates only too clearly his problem in hold ing off extremists who give him idolatry just this side of down right worship. Goldwater has criticized Robert Welch, suggest ing he should be removed as head of the John Birch Society. But he has praised Birchite members as good citizens whom he knows in his own community. What the ultras could do for Goldwater if it came in late De cember, a month before he has promised to make an official pro nouncement on whether he is a candidate, it would be the finest possible Christmas present would be to repudiate him as a traitor to his past. They are not likely to do that. They have too big a stake in him and his candi dacy is too attractive. Defying all the rules in the rule book, the Goldwater boom will go down as one of the most remarkable phenomena in Amer ica's political history. He is of Jewish origin. He comes from a state with only four electoral votes. He is on the record with extreme views on almost every issue. Yet there it is big as life and twice as natural. STRICTLY PERSONAL. us. To treat him any differently is. to my mind an act of profound impiety. Those who think otherwise should not make concessions they do not believe in. They should not hide behind the deception of "sep arate but equal" schools or any such other mumbo-jumbo. They should frankly ask that the Negro be assigned to a sub-human status in our society. If we do not think the Negro is a man. wc should both ignore his "rights" and absolve his "respon sibilities." If he cannot live any where, work anywhere, eat any where, go to school anywhere then lie should not be asked to pay taxes, to light for his country, to give his lime, his labor or his loyalty to enterprises in which he cannot fully share. The white man has made the Ncro what he is, and has kept him where he is. Nobody knows how (ar the Negro can go up, he cause he has never had the chance; we only know how far he cm go down and it frightens us terribly because we have pushed him down. We have re fused to let him live decently, and then we accuse him of the sin of indecency. Do we think the Negro is a man or not a man? We can no longer squirm and back away from this crucial question. For already hav ing postponed it so long, cither answer we decide upon will bring anguish to millions. o
