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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon
Monday, October 2J, 1963
'Fifteen Yards
For Pushing . . .!'
'Fifteen Yards
For Holding . . .!'
"WASHINGTON CALLING
issippi Transformed
The Nearer, The Clearer
Argument rages in many quarters
these days about whether or not Sen. Barrv
Goldwater of Arizona is "modifying" his
.strongly conservative views as he speaks
around the nation in the traditional posture
:of an active but undeclared candidate for
;the presidency.
;.'r Goldwater himself has just said "no"
'4b the question of altering his opinions. It is
-a fact, however, that he has said some wide
ly varying things about certain major sub
jects. Just as o;:e example, he is accustomed
to telling audiences that though he person
ally believes racial segregation is morally
wrong, education as such is a matter which
should be left to the states.
' . This statement has been interpreted by
jriosl of his staunch southern supporters as
imeaning that, despite his personal beliefs,
;he would leave the slates alone to practice
whatever segregation in the' schools that
;they could maintain.
'. Recently, however, Goldwater told the
Washington publication, Congressional
Quarterly, that under some conditions he
would approve the use of federal troops to
enforce federal court orders in school de
segregation matters.
This expression received slight nation
al attention. It was, in fact, buried in a small
news item deep inside the pages of one of
Ithe country's leading national newspapers.
But it seems to have been an accurate re
port. : He begins by saying he would oppose
Mrs.
When an elected office-holder dies, it
is not unusual for some member of the
family to seek his place, capitalizing on the
deceased's name and reputation. Some
times the succession works out well, some
times it does not. Yet the myth persists that
joffice-holding competence can be passed
Jalong to a survivor like a scepter. One per
IN WASHINGTON
I By RALPH de TOLEDANO
I It will bo a long lime he
lore llio world knows just how
Jiard Hurricane Flora struck
J'uba. Fidel Castro has tried, for
Strategic reasons, lo minimize
Jhe toll in life and property.
;lIowever, in its time of great
travail, the curtain of secrecy
which surrounds the island has
been opened. And we now know
that Cuba, already devastated
by the ruthless Communist lo
custs, has now been ravaged by
tho elements.
Right after Flora. Dictator
Castro communicated with
Ithe local leaders.. Alert U.S.
Intelligence operatives were able
Jo monitor Jorge Hisquelt, mi
litary commander of Orientc
JProvinoe. Castro said agitato
;dly, "The situation that I have
been able to grasp Is incredible,
incredible lor the porportions of
the floods. This is something
unprecedented. The magnitude
of the damage in human lives
cannot bo estimated. The mag
nitude of tlie damage cannot
really be calculated.
Risquctt later reported to Fi
del Castro Uiat "two villages
where more than 4.(m0 students
and workers were harvesting
colfre have been totally demol
ished by the waters and we
idespair of their lives."
Free Cuba News, through its
'.jiitelligen.ee network, estimates
carefully Uie extent of the pro
erty damage: ion per cent of Uie
coa crop; 70 per cent of rice:
TO per cent of vegetables: M
per cent of coffee; 60 per cent
of corn; M per cent of cotton;
SO per cent of sugar; and 50 per
cent of bananas.
Before Castro seized power,
Cuba had 6.4 million head of
cattle, Communist mismanage-'
ment had brought the figure
down to 2.2 million head of cat
tle. The hurricane added losses
) conservatively estimated at 30.
J 000 head. Industry In Oriente
ivas equally hard hit. Official re
ports to Castro Informed him
that every industrial plant was
either seriously damaged or
use of troops but then adds quickly that he
would endorse such action where the presi
dent's authority in this field is clearly out
lined. lie says this means the president can
dispatch troops when a governor or state
legislature asks for them, when it is neces
sary to put down rebellion or insurrection,
and when it is necessary to enforce a fed
eral court edict.
Since that definition of presidential au
thority covers the use of troops by both
President Eisenhower and President Kenne
dy in the various segregation crises, it is
hard to see wherein Goldwater differs.
( It is being said, of course, that Gold
water lias changed stance in such other
fields as social security, the federal income
tax, and the role of the far right wing in
American politics.
Yet most of those who believe these
changes are clearly observable are not mak
ing harsh critical comment. They are simply
noting what to them is a normal phenome
non of American politics:
As a man moves up the scale toward
serious consideration for the highest office
in this country, he tends to see more and
more the maddening complexity of our af
fairs, the grays instead of the blacks and
whites. And he usually is moved in conse
quence lo take a more central position on
major matters which seemed so simple and
sharp-cut when viewed at a greater distance.
Kefauver Says
son who has no illusions about this is Nan
cy Kefauver, wife of the late Sen. Estes Ke
fauver, D-Tcnn. Mrs. Kefauver definitely
will not seek her husband's Senate seat. She
explains: "My first responsibility is to my
children. I am not trained or qualified for
public office." Refreshing, is it not?
Devastation In Cuba
demolished. The mines were
flooded. In two provinces, tin
per cent of (lie housing was ei
ther leveled or made uninhnbita
blc. All of this, it should lie noted,
came at a time when agriculture
and industry in what was once
(lie third most prosperous na
tion in Latin America (from n
per capita standpoint) had be
gun to grind to a halt. Lite was
on subsistence level, with the
possibility of starvation lurking
around the corner. Castro
then blamed his difficulties on
"saboteurs" and the "Yanqui
imperialists."
The misery of that tragic is
land should have been turned,
at the critical moment, into a
means for bringing liberation
and peace to its people. An
American government not tied
down by tlie sorry limitations of
a sorrier idcoloiacal position
'Bobby Asked Me To Dig This One
Out Of The Files!'
&&ym$y 'Sir
"' wiijul.-Wv '--'J
No
w mild have throw n open t h e
gates of the Navy base at Guan
tanamo and said lo tlie people
of Cuba. "There is food and
clothing (or you here. Come and
get it." U.S. Navy ships, equal
ly provisioned, might have an
chored off tlie shores of Cuba
while our medium and long
wave radios informed the peo
ple that they came bearing help.
The pressure on Fidel Castro to
invite them into his harbors
would have been tremendous
and this might have been t h e
opening wedge.
Nolo that I do not say we
should simply have shipped food,
clothing, and mcdicai supplies
into the island. This would
have achieved nothing either
(or us or for tlie Cuban people.
We should haw offered to deliv
er it personally in full view of
every Cuban starving for food
anil freedom.
In New York, some time ago.
I was invited by a friend to
play bridge with him one after
noon at the Cavendish Club,
where the masters make their
home between tournaments. Af
terwards, there was the custo
mary gossip about various ex
perts, their habits and peculiari
ties. What interested me was the
discussion about one particular
master, who invariably wins at
rubber bridge, even with the
most mediocre partners. Other
experts play just as well as he,
but he knows best how to adjust
himself to the flaws and defi
ciencies of his partner of tlie
moment.
Most of his colleagues, I was
told, do exactly the opposite. If
they find themselves in a seri
ous game partnered by a duller,
they make tlie partner "pay"
for his ignorance and ineptitude.
They punish him for being a
a poor player even though he
is their partner, and they suffer
the same bad score for their be
havior. They make bids he cannot un
derstand, place burdens upon
him that he cannot full ill. and
then heap withering scorn upon
him for falling down on the
hand which scorn only makes
him play worse, and adversely
affects their own score as well.
This seir-dc(eating attitude re
minded me o( marriage 1 have
known, in which one of the part-
Letters To
Fair Picture
I have just completed reading
your last article in your scries
on the Tax Referendum. I wish
to commend you for an excel
lent series which, in my opinion,
has been an outstanding piece of
work. I have read extensively
on this subject since the out
come of the election will materi
ally affect this institution. Your
articles have been very factual,
unbiased, and have presented a
(air picture of both sides.
Regardless of the outcome of
the election or my personal feel
ings about it, I believe jour edi
torials have been exemplary ot
the finest journalism.
W. M. Douglass.
Administrative Dean, OTI.
Revolt
We comment on this part o(
a front page article in the Ore
gonian of Oct. 7 and quote tlie
following: "The wide margin of
defeat seemed lo justify t h e
claims of opponents to the tax
increase that the victory repre
sented a 'Taxpayers Revolt.'
But exactly what the voters
wanted was not clear."
I think the man who wrote
the article should take a good
sneeze lor himself, get the duM
o(( the shelves and clean his
specs. It seems to me they were
telling tho boys who raised
their own and the governor's
salary that Ihoy would like a
little of that old-fashioned econo
my in state affairs that we com.
mon people have to practice
when we eat T-boncs tlie first
three weeks of the month, then
have to resort to Van Camps
(or the last week in order to
balance tlie budget.
My guess is tlie boys had so
little resistance on their salary
raise that they thought, "Heck,
the public is asleep, let's give
em the other barrel."
My kick is that I twk a loo
per cent raise on my pharmacy
registration, and a 25 per cent
smack in tlie puss on my li.nl
er depreciation. And (urtlier
that the big bite was put on the
low income and fixed income
iolks.
I think the people demonstrat
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
ners is always excoriating the
faults of the other, and would
rather see the partnership be
come a dismal failure than for
go the bleak pleasures of criti
cism. Cutting off one's nose to spite
one's face is a much more com
mon attitude than we realize.
Tliis attitude says, in effect, "If
you're not going to fulfil! my
expectations, if I am to be sad
dled with your shortcomings,
then I'll strain you to the limit
and test you to the breaking
point, as much as it may hurt
me: because the satisfaction I
get from feeling superior to you
is greater than the cost of disas
ter." But the winning player in
bridge where all the masters
have about tlie same level of
technical skill is the one with
the most flexible and adaptable
temperament, the one who can
bring out the best in his part
ner, the one who knows that
the noose he draws around his
partner's neck also hangs him.
When one reaches a certain
high level of aptitude in any
pursuit, the decisive differences
are then emotional; the line that
really separates w inners and los
ers is not a technical or strate
gic superiority, but a psycholog
ical approach. In bridge, in ten
nis, in most other competitions,
games are not so much won as
lost lost by those who are not
in full command of their inmost
natures.
The Editor
ed that Uiey are fed up with
work o( the present incumbents
and unless they can come up
with a fair and equitable tax
program, there will be a fine
bunch of gardening come next
election and some wholesale
weed pulling.
R. H. 'Doc' Cook.
4710 Hilyard Avenue.
Bad Practice
In Mrs. Ken kuhlman's letter
of Oct. 14 she writes about Rus
sia buying American wheal at
a lower price than American
buyers.
Also, she sugge.-ts about
writing to Oregon's senators
and local district representa
tive. May I suggest under our
planned economy Russia is only
pay ing the world price or prices
that many o( our products are
sold at?
Writing to Oregon's senators
and local representative or
most other senators will be of
little value because this has
been an established custom (or
sometime and our senators and
representative have done noth
ing about it.
The only way to overcome
this and many other conditions
in our government, is to elect
pro-American candidates in the
coming elections.
Elmo Ru.-sell
Matin. Oie.
Helpful
I would like to thank you and
your staff for the One publicity
we were given for the adult edu
cation classes offered this term
at Klamath Union Ugh School.
c have had SO adults register
(or classes in bookkeeping, alsc
bra. tailoring, woodworking, En
glish, and typing.
Your newspaper has helped
make it possible (or us to otter
a scK supported adult education
program. Mr. Walters and oth
er slalf members furnished us
ery courteous and helpful aid
F. N. Scapple.
Assistant Principal,
KtHS.
By MARQUIS CHILDS
PICAYUNE, Miss. -Whether
the National Aeronautics and
Space Agency lands a team on
the moon may be problematical
but one thing is certain tlie
agency has landed on Mississippi-
Since tlie first trees were bull
dozed down on May 18 the Mis
sissippi Test Operations Center
has made remarkable progress.
This lonely piney w oods country
is being transformed into a cen
ter for testing the first and sec
ond stage engines of the Sat
urn V that will carry three men
into outer space with the moon
as the goal.
So difficult and delicate is Uie
testing process for boosters w ith
a 7.500.000-pound thrust in tlie
first stage, lifting a load of
many tons into space, that an
area of 141,900 acres must be
cleared. Part of this. 13,550
acres in the construction zone,
is being acquired outright. The
balance in the easement zone
can be used for lumbering and
other operations but all dwell
ings must go. The test explo
sions set up vibrations that are
shattering to buildings not spec
ially constructed.
By a curious set of circum
stances this almost empty coun
try with its moss-draped live
oaks and great stands of pine
where moonshiners were seldom
troubled is becoming the focus
the next to last stage of one of
man's greatest adventures.
Prior lo the selection of this
area between Picayune and Bay
St. Louis 23 other sites ranging
all the way to Wake Island in
the Pacific were surveyed.
Mississippi was chosen be
cause it is the center of a net
work of waterways. By barges
on -those waterways c a n be
shipped the Stage One and Stage
Two boosters which are so big
that they could not move by any
land route. Only 35 miles away
in New Orleans is NASA's Mich,
oud operation where Boeing,
once construction is finished,
will begin work on the moon
ship's Stage One boosters.
It will thus be only a short
haul to the static firing stands
here and technicians can move
between the two centers with
ease. From Seal Beach in Cali
fornia w ill come by way of the
Panama Canal and the Gulf of
Mexico the second-stage boost
ers which North American Avia
tion is making.
Under direction of the Army
Corps of Engineers 15 miles ot
new canals arc being dredged,
the Pearl River is being wid
ened and docks to take the mas
sive engines otf specially con
structed barges are already be
WILLIAM
By W ILLIAM S. W HITE
WASHINGTON While the Su
preme Court is pondering one of
the mosi fundamental tests of
the civil rights of everybody
ever brought before it. tlie pro
fessional liberals and shouters
for civil rights for Negroes alone
are strangely silent.
The general question is this:
Shall the ancient right of every
American to a trial "by a jury
of his peers" be set aside in a
single, special type o( offense
an offense against the Negro mi
nority? The specific questions are
these; shall Gov. Ross Barnett
of Mississippi be granted a jury
trial on charges of criminal con.
tempt brought against him by
the federal government for ob
structing admission to tlie Uni
versity of Mississippi of a Ne
gro student now graduated,
.lames Meredith? Or shall he
be tried only by those whose or
ders he disobeyed, the judges of
tiie Fifth Federal Circuit Court
of Appeals?
This is not simc petty con
tempt like that involved when
a itness. a defendant or an at
torney is abusive to a judge on
the bench and is fined or lec
tured or perhaps even cooled off
m jail for a day or two. What
Barnett in truth stands accused
o( is a hih crime obstruction
of justice, though this is not tlie
k'gal charge and the power of
the Appeals Court to punish him
has no precise legal limit set
upon it. In theory, at least, he
could be sent to prison for jc.u s
by the very judges who feel ag
grieved by him.
Tlie issue here is not the
wrongncss of Governor Bar
nctt's official conduct which in
this columnist's opinion was in
deed unarguahly wrong. Tlie is
sue is nothing less than the
maintenance of justice in t h i s
country a concept (or which
men in England had to fight for
centuries before at last they
gained it and in due time trans
planted it to these shores. It is
the maintenance of the most in
timate and irreplaceable of all
ing built even though the water
is still to be brought to tliem.
A lock 880 feet long w ith a lilt
of 20 feet must be constructed.
When you see this with Navy
Captain William Fortune,
on special assignment to NASA
to supervise the job. you have
a sense of the familiar Amer
ican pride in building: in subdu
ing the raw earth and bringing
a new complex into being. If
jour big line dredges strike
black, gummy muck that tends
to harden like rock wlien dug
out then you must find a way
lo get through it.
Tlie mind of tlie visitor reels
with facts and figures. The test
stands will be the tallest struc
tures in the stale of Mississippi.
All operations, including canal
traffic, will be directed from a
tall airport type of control tow
er. And on the average 72 water
moccasins a day are giving up
their lives for this project as the
dredges and the earth movers
dig deeper into the woods.
The impact on Mississippi of
the operation is bound to be
great. The first phase of con
struction will cost $250,000,000
and a payroll of 1,700 persons
will man the installation. NASA
people have a way of talking
about "first stages" as though
once the landing on the moon
has been successful a commuter
service will be established with
the run sooner or later to be ex.
BERRY'S WOULD
". . And here's another vkw ef
Ottaisis? yacht . ."
S. WHITE . . .
Shouters Are Silent
civil rights, the right lo jury
trial on any criminal charge.
Nevertheless those politicians
and commentators who cry
(or "civil rights" either are
looking the otlier way now or
are actively supporting the gov
ernment's effort to destroy jury
trial in one kind of criminal
case and one alone. A thousand
pages of logic-chopping argu
ment will never hide this ef
fort. Nor is the great prin
ciple in the smallest way made
less by the fact that Barnett is
a "bad" man involved in a
"bad" case. The law was not
made only for good" men. In
deed, absolutely good" men
are rarely brought to trial in
any event, since there are so
very lew of them.
But the only liberal" voice
thus far raised not in behalf of
Barnett but in behalf of an in
dispensable constitutional right
has been that of tlie American
Civil Liberties Union. It alone
among all tlie liberal establish
ment seems to realize that the
issue here infuiitely trans
cends men named Ross Barneit
and James Meredith
There is another curious point
too. When the basic Civil Rights
Act of 1957 was at length ap
proved by the Senate, that bods .
alter grave debate, wrote into it
a positive guarantee that per
sons accused under it should
have what? The right of trial
by jury. Among those so votuic.
and so rightly, was a senator
called John F. Kennedy.
The government's argument
here comes down to this: If you
grant jury trial to Barnett
and perhaps to other Barnetts to
come as the civil rights contro
versy boils on a jury ot his
peers may very likely find him
not guilty. Perhaps so. But the
first reply to tins is that the gov
ernment is really demanding an
automatic verdict of guilty an
outcome that would happily suit
any prosecuting agency a n y
where at any lane in any law
case.
And tlie second and greater
tended to Venus and other plan
ets. What the impact will be on a
state in the tliroes of a racial
crisis it is too early to say. Gov.
Ross Barnett w as at Gulfport re
cently for a NASA ceremony
and in his speech devoted five
minutes to the glories of NASA
and 40 minutes to the iniquities
o( that monstrous tyranny, the
federal government. When tlie
Republican candidate for gover
nor, Ruble Phillips, was in Pica
yune he issued a clarion call to
get the heel of the federal gov
ernment off the neck of Missis
sippi. It must surely be counted
tlie most generous heel in his
tory. Captain Fortune's hiring poli
cy is one of complete equality
of opportunity. But since most
of the jobs, aside from those in
the contracting operation, call
for a high degree of skills the
openings for Negroes in the
area are few.
The men directing this project
talk not of if but of when. In
the midst of an unhcaval of land
and water they are looking lo
that day in late 1969 or early
1970 when, after tlie static fir
ings have proved out the boost
ers, the great engines will again
be loaded on barges and start
on the 1.064 water miles to
Cape Canaveral. That will be
the day before zero for the lu
nar journey.
reply is this: The whole jury
system carries within it tlie
clear possibility that a guilty
man may go free. But for a
thousand years men have
thought this risk infinitely pref
erable to another. They have
thought it better for a thousand
guilty men to be set loose than
for one innocent man to be pun
ished. For if a Barnett can be hus- .
tied out of his rights today, a
far better man, in a far better
cause, can lie hustled out of his
rights tomorrow. Where are the
professional "liberals" n o w?
How (ar are their principles tru
ly principled: and how far are
they a fake facade?
Almanac
By I'nilcd Press International
Today is Monday, Oct. 28, (lie
:wist day of 19B3 with 64 to fol
low. Tiie moon is approaching its
full phase.
Tiie evening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
On this day in history;
In IBSfi. on Bedloe's Island ui
New York harbor the Statue of
Liberty was dedicated.
In 1918. the Czechoslovak na
tional committee in Prague pro
claimed the independence of
tlie republic of Czechoslovakia
from the Hapsburgs.
In 1919. following tlie lead
of tlie House, tlie Senate passed
the Volstead Prohibition En
forcement Act over the veto of
President Wilson.
In 1938, the College of Cardi
nals elected Pope John XXIII
as tlie 2ft2m) pontiff of the Rom
an Catholic Church.
A thought (or the day At
tlie ooenins of tlie second Ec
umenical Council Pope John
XXIII said: "Christ is ever re
splendent as the center of his
history and life."