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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon
Tuesday, November 19, 1903
"That's Nice! . . . President Of What . . ?"
IN WASHINGTON . .
State Dept. Deceit
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If
They
v This is the time of year when advocates
of public power, public ownership of utilities
"have little to say.
They gladly accept the property taxes
'which private power and other private utili
ties contribute to the tax bill of the various
counties.
In this county, the situation was vividly
:'illustrated Friday when five major firms
.'paid property taxes which equalled about
' one-quarter of the entire property tax bill.
Pacific Power and Light Company had
the dubious honor of being the county's
largest single taxpayer. The power firm paid
. a tax bill of $381,873 to Klamath County,
and their property tax bill for the state was
; over $5 million.
Right behind came the Southern Pacific
i; Railroad with taxes totalling $305,510.
A relative newcomer to the area, Pa
' cific Gas Transmission, owner of the long
! natural gas line that flows through the coun
ty, was third in size of tax bite at $239,100,
. while Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone paid
Revolt After-Effects
.Though the United States must wel
Jcome the installing of a new regime in long
'troubled South Vict Nam, It can only hope
i. the result will be a more settled nation and a
hiore effectively prosecuted war against the
Communist Viet Cong.
Most promising at this stage seems to
be the fact that the successful coup against
the Diem regime was supported by virtually
all of Vict Nam's major military leaders.
5; The expectation now is that military
! morale will soar, since the lale President
j Diem sought in recent years to divide his
;tnilitary leadership to discourage just such
an event as has occurred. The leaders are
J eager to pursue the war more avidly.
Furthermore, early reactions from the
Vietnamese people, especially in the capital
of Saigon, suggest strongly that the change
Is not merely welcome, but that it may yield
benefits to the populace.
': The muclvharrasscd Buddhists, who
;comprise 70 per cent of the population, ap
pear to believe that their long ordeal is
Over. Some who were jailed have now been
released.
When Diem took over In 1955 as his
country's first president, proclaiming a re
public, hopes were high. His sturdy national
ism encouraged the West to believe he could
Sweet Life On Potomac: 3
Officials Find Schedule Too Full For Girls
By bill Mccormick
Newspaper Knterprlse Assn.
: WASHINGTON (NEA) - Is
Washington one big, continuous
Saturnalia, as one might think
from a hasty look at tlie Bobby
Baker case?
' A cool-headed survey Indi
cates tlie answer: "Of course
not." (
' Capital gaiety, such as it is,
is restricted for the most part
to official circles. Outside of of
licialdom. spare time usually is
spent being bored to death or
on a grim search for pleasure
and company. This city for
years was so staid it boasted
only one night cJub and that a
very dull affair now Washing
ton is loaded with second-rate
joints offering strip teasers and
;belly dancers.
; . Married groups join little
;firoups of oUier married people,
just as they do In Nebraska or
Maine.
There are a few scallywag
Vatyrs occupying seats of honor
and some parties you wouldn't '
take your wife to, but tliere al
ways have been. Nan Britton
who claimed she bore a child
by Warren G. Harding always
'insisted the child w as conceived
In the Senate Office Building.
I - The District of Columbia does
Jiave a higher rate of consump
tion of hard liquor than any
itate. In 12, 55 gallons of
distilled spirits were sold for
every resident of Washington.
Pay Taxes,
$121,390 to Klamath County. The telephone
company's property tax bill for the state also
exceeded the $5 million mark.
Weyerhaeuser Timber Company paid
property taxes of $163,000. This did not in
clude timber taxes which are paid directly
to the state and then credited to the county.
These five firms paid about $1.5 mil
lion, which amounts to about one-fourth of
the county's property tax bill which totalled
just over $5 million.
The point we'd like to emphasize is that
under public ownership, these firms would
not pay one cent toward property taxes, and
the big load of property taxes would fall
back on all of us.
Not only that, but our taxes of other
types, income taxes for instance, would be
used to supplement the cost of such publicly
owned enterprises.
We may complain sometimes about the
price of power or the cost of telephones but
let's not lose track of these figures that show
just how important these industries are to
our local economy.
keep the little nation safe from Communist
assault, given aid from us.
But far too soon he resorted to repres
sive measures which discredited his regime
before the people, handicapped the conduct
of the war which developed with the Vict
Cong, embarrassed us in our efforts to sup
port a nation whose survival in independ
ence is vital to the freedom of all Southeast
Asia and thus to the world.
The symbol of Diem's increasing op
pressions was his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu,
his chief adviser and head of the secret
police, and Madame Nhu, whom the coup
found still traveling in America.
Now Diem and Nhu are dead and the
little country has a chance to make a new
start. The United States, with 16,500 troops
in Viol Nam and an aid program totaling
nearly $500 million a year, has a tremendous
stake in the future of the new regime.
If Vict Nam's independence is to be
saved, obviously the new leadership must
succeed with the people. Without that, no
observer of the Asian scene would imagine
that even a substantially improved war ef
fort would in the end bring victory. For
the Vict Cong fattens on the discontent of
the Vietnamese.
Perhaps, nevertheless, optimism is the
note to strike now. Change brings hope, and
we have had great change in Viet Nam.
Nevada, where Uiey lap it up
in Las Vegas, was next on the
list with 3.98 per capita.
Liquor prices are remarkably
low in Washington and some of
tlie juice sold there is taken out
of Uie District by bargain buy
ers. But that still leaves a lot
In be ladled out at parlies and
dinners.
From time to time Washing
ton has known elected officials
whose conduct was downright
scandalous. One senator of long
tenure, now dead, was even
shunned by casehai dened pros
titutes. "He'd corrupt the morals of
my girls," a madam once ex
plained. Tlie average gnvcrnnvent big
wig is so busy with aflairs of
slate and mandatory social
functions that he hardly has
time to go astray wiUi girls.
Talk to Mrs. Pat Gray, ap
pointment secretary to Sen. Hu
bert Humphrey, the majority
whip, and you'll wonder how Uie
gentleman from Minnesota man
ages to fill all tlie engagements
site books (or him.
"This is the slack season
the social season hasn't really
opened in Washington yet and
schools aren't asking for t h e
senator because the Thanks
Riving holidays are coming up,"
she said as her calls were
switched to another on Hum
phrey's stuff so we could talk
in peace.
Too
"This morning there were 31
requests for tlie senator in tlie
mail and the telephone never
stops ringing with invitations. I
make a list of everywhere tlie
senator is supposed to go each
day. It usually is two pages and
his first engagement is ordi
narily at 9 or before, if he
doesn't have a breakfast dale
earlier to talk business with
somebody.
"The senator puts the list in
his pocket and checks off the
engagements as he gets them
out of Uie way. Of course, lots
of times (he list gets shot full
THE TIGHT SCIIEIHTE! "The average Rove rnmenl Mewls
Is so busy with affairs of state that he hardly has time to
go astray."
WASHINGTON REPORT .
Freshman Senator
Boosts Red Cause
By FL'LTON LEWIS JR.
WASHINGTON Sen. George
.McGovcrn (D-S.D.) last week
made an impassioned plea for
recognition o( Red China. In a
Senate speech, he hit current
U.S. policy as "sterile and
shortsighted against our best .
interests."
"I wonder, " he asked col
leagues, "how long we can
maintain the ostrich like posi
tion which ignores a nation
embracing one-fourth of all the
human beings in the world. Docs
such a policy advance Ameri
can security;"
' To buttress his case, t h e
rcshman Democrat inserted in
the Congressional Recurd an
article by Oliver Edmund
Clubb, whom he described as
the "former director of the
State Department's Office of
Chinese Affairs."
What McGovcrn did not say
is that Clubb resigned under
fire in 1952, labeled by the State
Department Loyalty and Securi
ty Board a security risk.
So found the board by unani
mous vole in 1951. Carlisle
Humclsinc, Deputy Undersecre
tary of State for Administration,
the department's top security
officer, concurred in the board's
judgment.
Suspended from his job on
June 27, 1951, Clubb appealed
the board's finding to Secretary
of State Dean Acheson, who ap
pointed a retired diplomat, Na
thaniel Davis, to review t h e
case. On Davis' recommenda
tion Acheson overruled the
board and restored Clubb to
duly.
Clubb promptly resigned,
whether by piearrangemcnt or
not. It is impossible to say.
He continued his interest in
China, plumping for Red Chi
na's recognition. In the article
inserted in the Record by Sen
ator McGovcrn. Clubb comes
out not only for recognition but
trade with Mao as well.
Note: Senator McGovcrn last
fall received campaign contri
butions of $20,000 from a paci
fic lobby called tlie Council to
Abolish War. He won election
of holes by last-minute develop
ments." Humphrey strode through
Mrs. Gray's office into his own
with a big hello.
"That's what I mean," she
said. "According to my sched
ule, lie's supposed to be address
ing a woman's organization in
New Jersey right now. But late
last night a caucus was called
lor 12:30 today, so he had to
cancel.
"Once or twice a week on an
average there will be a call
horn tlie White House asking
the senator to do something that
to tlie Senate in a freak upset
by 595 votes and the Council
claims McGovern's victory as
its first triumph.
On Sept. 24 of this year, Mc
Govern offered an amendment
on the Senate floor to slash by
$2.2 billion 1 10 per cent)., the
Pentagon's budget for weapon
procurement and development.
The amendment was strong
ly opposed by military experts
in both parties, including Sen.
Richard Russell, chairman of
the Armed Services Committee.
They said McGovern's amend
ment would endanger U.S. se
curity. Their colleagues obvi
ously agreed and McGovern's
amendment was defeated by the
overwhelming vote of 74 - 2.
Only West Virginia's Jennings
Randolph, a maverick Demo
crat, went along with him.
It was not the'first time Mc
Govern found himself a mem
ber of a tiny minority. In 1948.
before lie became active in the
Democratic Party, McGovern
supported the Presidential can
didacy of Henry Wallace, whose
Progressive Party was later de
scribed by a Congressional Com
mittee as one of the largest and
most successful fronts ever ere
ated by the Communists.
Wallace received only 2.801
votes in South Dakota that year.
In a letter to the .Mitchell
i S.D.I Daily Republic in 1948.
McGovcrn wrote: "I lake my
hat off to this much-smeared
man (Wallace) who has had the
fortitude to take his stand
against the powerful forces of
fear, militarism, nationalism
and greed. I'm tired of listen
ing to the thoughtless jeers and
cheers of 'crackpot' and 'Com
munist' being thrown his way."
In conclusion. McGovcrn
asked that someone "take the
time to point out to me tho:-e
specific issues wherein Wallace
departs from the Sermon on
the Mount."
McGovern later urged forcian
aid for the Red Chinese. He
professed to understand Russian
opposition to U.S. policy. He
ridiculed U.S. efforts to secure
free elections in Eastern
Europe.
tokos up two or three hours
and there goes the schedule
again."
Humphrey is gregarious. He
tries to make every social af
lair on tlie list.
"He not only likes to be with
people, he doesn't want to of
fend anyone by not showing
up." Mrs. Gray said. "You
probably won't believe this, but
i Mrs. Humphrey or one of the
children want to talk to the sen
ator I have to make an appoint
ment for them.
"He has only two receptions
to go to tonight, so 1 guess he
may get home by 1 a.m. but
you never know."
Official Washington has been
livened by tlie presence of a
group of younger people in
high oftice for the first time
since the early davs of the New
IV.il.
"These young folks arc party
crazy." said an old-timer who
has attended a few. "But you
see one. you've seen 'em all.
They're just about like parties
nf tlie country club set in Brook
line. Mass, Kansas City or
Wichita.
"I have noticed one moral let
down." the old-timer continued.
"For years Washington has
had tlie strictest regulation of
jaywalking in tlie country. Late
ly. I notice a growing tendency
to try to beat the lights. And
just the other day 1 saw a
fellow walk right across again
Uie red."
By RALPH it TOLEDANO
Three State Department offi
cials are in trouble and two of
them have been "furloughed"
because they willfully deceived
a Senate committee. At t h e
same time, Otto Otepka, until
recently the chief security eval
uations officer at State, is fight
ing to get back his job. The
State Department reluctantly
acted against the three officials
and only after some pretty
strong language from Sen.
Thomas Dodd of Connecticut. It
acted ruthlessly against Mr.
Otepka, whose only crime was
to obey the law by cooperating
with the Senate Internal Secur
ity subcommittee then probing
lax security procedures in the
sieve-like State Department.
What this proves is that the
department remains un
changed. It continues to think
of itself as a private club, priv
ileged above ordinary society.
It continues to act as if it were
more important to cover up its
misdeeds than it is to think in
terms of the national security.
The Otepka Case is important
because the man was treated
unjustly. But it is also one more
exhibit in a lengthy list which
shows that U.S. officials cannot
seem to understand the dangers
of bad security. The Slate De
partment is still doing its best
to hush up the scandal and for
a while it reportedly had co
operation from Sen. James O.
Eastland, chairman of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee, which .
is parent to Internal Security
The Otepka case was worrying
Republicans for some time. But
they were reluctant to act be
cause Mr. Eastland had made
it plain that he considered Re
publican concern . "partisan"
and therefore not to be counte
nanced. It is reported that he
threatened a "whitewash" if
any GOP senator moved to pub
licize the case.
It was into this void that Sen
ator Dodd moved and since he
is a Democrat, the "partisan"
charge could not be pinned on
him. It was Senator Dodd who
forced into the open some of
the more unsavory aspects of
the Department's treatment of
Mr. Otepka. In this way he
made it impossible for the Sen
ate Internal Security subcom
mittee to sit on evidence in its
files.
This evidence has been brief
ly summarized in the press. But
it bears extensive quoting so
that the public may know what
goes on behind the scenes in
the Federal government.
On July 9, 19B3, Elmer Dewey
Letters To The Editor
Eliminate Wasteful Spending
Now that Oregon taxpayers
have voted "no" on increased
slate income taxes let's go fur
ther and demand a return to a
balanced budget by the elimina
tion of wasteful federal send
ing of millions of dollars of .
our tax money. Of course it
would seem to be necessary to
elect new representatives, sen
ators and a president, too, to
get Uie job done.
It would take too long to list
all of the various methods of
spending, or giving away of the
lax dollars (while increasing
federal patronage and payrolls'
but here are a few as listed
by Fulton Lewis Jr., and Ralph
de Toledano.
$55,000 for determinating the
"Behavior and Ecology of the
Wandering Albatross": $36,800
to learn the "Social behavior of
Ants"; $17,500 for studies in
"Modification of Alcohol Pref
erence in Rats"; $75,000 for
scientists to set up colonies of
baboons and monkeys; $J mil
lion for an air conditioned yacht
for Haile Selassie from the- U.S.
i definition of U.S.. us taxpay
ers'; $10 million for a Libcr
ian gold plated presidential pal
ace: $2.4 million to increase the '
White House fleet of 10 pas
senger helicopters from eight to
10. and $12 million to study the
relationship of tlie infant mon
key to its mother. 'So who's
being made a monkey of? The
taxpayers, maybe?'
Then there is the matter of
our providing "Worldwide Wei
fore Assistance." according to
California Congressman James
B. l it in the last 15 years an
excess of $100 billion or one
third of our national debt has
gone to over 100 countries,
many in better financial shape
than we arc. with in fact, the
V S. Treasury borrowing money
from many of these same
countries! Much of the money
was used to build factories in
Communistic countries, includ
ing a chemical factory in Yugo
slavia. To quote Congressman
lit "Foreign aid has not
stopped the advancement of
communism in any country in
tlw world " and "Hundreds of
millions of dollars appropriat
ed in foreign aid Jijvc been lit
erally lost, and the accountants
t
Hill, chief of the Division of
Technical Services, testified un
der oath before the Senate sub
committee as follows:
"Q. Do you know of a single
instance in which the Depart
ment has ever listened in on the
teleone of an employe?
"A. I cannot recall such an
instance.
"Q. Do you know of any in
stance where a listening device
has been placed in an employe's ,
office?
"A. Not to my knowledge . . .
I have never engaged in this
in that type of security mea
sure. . . .
"Q. Did you ever have any-
thing to do with placing a list
ening device in Mr. Otepka's of
fice? "A. No, sir."
On Nov. 8, 13, after Senator
Dodd had begun to make his
charges of perjury against un
named State Department offi
cials, Mr. Hill wrote to the sub
committee "amplifying" his tes
timony of July. Hear this:
"On Monday, March 18, 1963,
Mr. John F. Reilly .Deputy As
sistant Secretary for Security,
asked me to explore the possi
bility of arranging some way
By
Purely Personal Prejudices:
Unless we u n d e r s t a n d the
grounds of our own opinions,
then we do net understand our
opinions; to comprehend why
we believe often tells us more
about ourselves than what we
believe.
I am always saddened and
amused by our unconscious ar
rogance in speaking of the
"Dark Ages" as if we were
living in the age of light, rea
son and humanitarianism.
What passes for "patriotism"
in many parts is simply hatred
of strangers; just as what pass
es (or fondness is merely fear
of the unfamiliar.
Rumors about us should al
most always be ignored; as An
dre Maurois shrewdly observed:
"We usually spread that calum
ny which has hurt us most by
denying it to people who had
never heard of it."
We generally dislike and avoid
cannot even Uacc where the
money went."
Do you wonder why the fed
eral government needs over
2.500 public relations officers?
Is it perhaps to convince us that
Uncle Sam is all-wise, all be
nevolent, and that all agencies,
bureaus and edicts are essential,
and of course "in our best in
terests"? Now anoUier federal
agency in the making, accord
ing to de Toledano. a National
Communications System which
(I quote) "will pour into news
rooms a constant flood of 'in
formation' touting the adminis
tration in power.
"Since it will be a govern
ment project, cost accounting
will not be a factor in its op
erations. The main victim will
be the taxpayer."
The cost in salaries, $15 mil
lion a year for public relations
oflicers and now more millions
for NCS to tell us what Uie gov
ernment wants us to "know."
All at our expense, whether vie
.like it or not. and it will con
tinue unless you and yen, and
of course, vou. will organize and
"You Suppose These
to eavesdrop on conversations
taking place in Mr. Otepka's of
fice. . . . Later that day I dis
cussed the technical aspects of
this matter with Mr. Clarence
J. Schneider. . . . We agreed
on the approach to be used. . . .
That evening Mr. Schneider and
I altered the existing wiring
in the telephone in Mr. Otepka's
office. We then established a
circuit from Mr. Otepka's of
fice to the Division of Technical
Services laboratory by making
additional connections in t h e
existing telephone system wir
ing. We tested the system
and found we would be unable
to overhear conversations in
Mr. Otepka's office .' . . be
cause electrical interference
produced a loud buzzing
sound. ... I reported our un
successful effort to Mr. Reilly
the following morning. Mr.
Schneider has told me that dur
ing that day he asked an offi
cer in the Division of Domestic
Operations . . . whether he had,
or knew where to acquire
equipment which would elimin
ate such a buzzing sound."
This is only a part of the
story. I will return to it in
mv next column.
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
those who are unhappy, as if
their misery could spread to us
by a sort of spiritual infection;
in this way. people who are
known to be "unlucky" have
their private misfortune com
pounded by public avoidance.
The man who is proud to be
able to say, "I was wrong."
rarely reflects that his pride
cancels out his confession.
It is foolish to suggest that
the skillful burglar or confidence
man could make as much, if
not more, if lie expended his
talent and energies in legitimate
pursuits; of course, lie could but
his vocation appeals to him not
because of the gain involved
i although he himself may even
think it does) but. more deeply,
becaue it is a way of cheat
ing society and of retaliating (of
buried injuries suffered, if not
remembered, in childhood. The
criminal never chooses his me
tier for gain; that is merely
his conscious rationalization.
work and contribute to an all
out effort to reverse the pres
ent disastrous trend. Good can
didates must be found and
elected to office; and to fight
this sort of campaign takes not
only money but hard working
committees and committee men
and women in every precinct.
Yes. I am a Republican but
members of any party are wel
come. Please, what can what
will you do?
In closing, I quote the Hon.
Noah M. Mason "When a na
tion keeps spending beyond its
means, it is bound to lose its
liberty and be taxed into social
ism, just as an individual who
spends beyond his means al
ways ends up bankrupt and at
the mercy of his creditors."
Our present fiscal policy is
leading the nation step-by-step
down the road to financial cha
os, national bankruptcy, re
pudiation and then dictatorship.
Is that the road we want to
go?
I don't. Let's hear from you. :
Gladys Goldcifl I
2305 Patterson.
Spots Will Come Out?"
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