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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1963)
'Option Play' PAftE-CA HF.RAJ.D AND NEWS. Klamalh Falls. Oregon Friday. November il, 196$ WILLIAM S. WHITE . . . dubual (paqsi Many times in the news columns, we have occasion to publish uncomplimentary items about teenagers and their activities. Too seldom do we have an opportunity . l.o turn the spotlight on their achievements. : :, That spotlight, though, should be used fj illuminate the work of the Key Club, a : Kiwanis sponsored group at Klamath Union ' ,'iigh School and their current project. These youths have undertaken the task of cleaning out the planters that line Main Street. It's an excellent community service project, but, even more important, it indi cates that these young men have a healthy -sense of pride in their community and a de sire to do their best to keep it attractive. The planter project, itself, was an ex cellent one, but has become somewhat ne Despite the fact that parking appears to be at a premium in the congested busi ness area of Klamalh Falls, we'd like to ad vance a suggestion that wc hope will be given consideration by the city fathers. More attention should be given to the parking of automobiles on the corners of some streets. In Klamalh Falls where we .have many curving streets, intersections be come a major traffic hazard. : From painful personal experience, we Tfind that the intersection of Ninth and Klam ;ath Avenue is one of those corners. : Automobiles coming up Ninth from 'Walnut face a stop sign at Klamath Ave nue. If they are going to proceed on across Klamath Avenue, or even left or right, they must first begin to inch their vehicle out into Klamath Avenue if there arc any autos parked along that side of Klamalh Avenue. While this is one particular spot that Cambodia Move Puzzling ny PHIL NEWSOM I'PI Foreign News Analyst Under ordinary circumstanc es, the United Stales should wvlcomc with loud cheers Cam bodia's announcement that it was renouncing U.S. aid as of the first of the year. But the circumstances are not ordinary. One condition that makes them so is Cambodia's location bordering upon Smith Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand. A pro Communist Cambodia would open up a new privileged sanctuary for the Communist attack on South Viet Nam and add to Communist pressures on Thailand. ' A further circumstance cen ters upon Prince Norodom Si hanouk. Cambodia's 41-ycar-old saxophone playing chief of stato who since 1!)55 has been a maverick in Southeast Asian politics and whoso policy of "positive neutrality" lias taken a number of twists and turns. For instance, in 1955 lie re nounced his litle as king so that he could take an active part in Cambodian politics against the spread of commu nism. Tlio decision to renounce U S. aid also was taken, lie said, to halt a swing to tlie loft. Speaks His Mind In the intervening years, lie also has had this to say: About communism "A prince and former king must be well aware (hat the first concern of tlie Communists is to get rid of the king and nat ural elite of any country they succeed in laying hands on . . . I have no particular liking fur ; communism." : About South Viet Nam: The ivar In South Viet Nam is "al ready lost as far as the free vorld is concerned." - About the United States: "i I have) lost all confidence in tlie Americans . . . who arc the most unjust people in the world ..." About Cambodian neutral ity: "Wc want guarantees . . . If no one wants to give guar antees, I shall ask the Chinese Communists to send us enough forces to discourage aggression (from Thailand and South Viet Nam). I stress (hat this Is no joke." In his early days of "positive neutrality," Sihanouk patterned limsclf after Indian Premier Uawaharlal Nehru, following the Jive principles of co-existence which Nehru also hoped would Youth At Work glected. It may be that there is some ques tion as to just who is responsible for the planters. They were purchased by the individual merchants but apparently this did not in clude maintenance. The upkeep of the plant ers must be done either by the merchant or the city. It would seem that a combination of the two could keep them in presentable con dition. The city might be able to use some of its prisoner labor to clean them out at periodic intervals, and the merchants should be responsible for care and maintenance of the trees planted in them. If a community is to take pride' in its appearance, it must be a joint effort of all concerned, including all the people a well as the merchants and the city.' Idea On Safety we have in mind, there are a number of other such intersections around the busi ness area that could be made safer by wip ing off a car space or two from the corner to give belter vision clearance. I realize that even more parking spaces arc needed in this area, but safety should merit some priority. While we're discussing the question of parking spaces, we note with a jaundiced eye at times that the spaces now taken up with bicycle parking stands are rarely, if ever, used. For one thing, few bicyclists are brave enough to fight their way through the down town traffic. Wc can't recall seeing any bikes parked in any one of these stands. Unless the spaces arc needed for addi tional vision safety, anyway, it would seem they could be better utilized for parking cars. preserve the peace between In dia and Red China. The Geneva conference estab lishing the so-called neutrality of Laos sprang from a sugges tion by Sihanouk. Ill Two Worlds In the meantime, lie also has been able to live in the best of two worlds. U.S. military and economic aid from the United Slates since 11155 has totalled about' &H5 million or around $30 mil lion per year. Communist China allocated $40 million for four factories. The Soviet Union contributed a $12 million hospital. Another $35 million came from France. Sihanouk has not hesitated to crack down on Communists at home. Last year 14 were sen tenced to death for a plot against tlie government. Tlie sum of it seems to be that Sihanouk is aware of the Communist danger to himself and to his country. He also wants to keep his job. His ivnuncialion of U.S. aid. expulsion of U.S. and French troops and his invitation to lied China to help him speed Cam bodia into "advanced social Ism" smack of desperation measures. Appeasement never jet served as a bar to Communist ambitions, and this could be tlie beginning of tlie end for an in dependent Camlwlin. THEY SAY... If anything is capable of turn ing the habits of centuries full circle in their tracks ft is the nuclear bomb I-onl Home, British foreign secretary. I would lake a Governor Wal lace of Alabama over a 'Presi dent Kennedy. At least Wallace fights for what lie believes in. Negro comedian Dirk Greg ory. Tlie racketeer is not someone dressed in a black shirt, white tic and diamond stickpin. . . . Ho is more likely to be out fitted in a gray flannel suit and his influence is more likely to be as far-rcochuig as that of an important industrialist. Attorney General Robert F. Krnnedv, OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS Priorities (Corvallts fla.et(e Times) There are two schools of thought on public budgeting. One school says estimate tlie expenditures then levy enough taxes to meet this amount. The oilier says figure bow much rev enue you will have and then make up the budget accordingly- Neither of tliese schools of thought is completely satisfac tory and most budgets except (or school districts-re either a compromise between the two or arc run on a deficit basis like the federal government. Senator J. W. 1'ulbilght (D Ark) In a recent speech sug gested. "The real question be lore Congress is one of priori lies, of how we are to allocate our great but not unlimited re sources among many important national programs." Tiie New York Times inter prets this to mean, "Is the Fed eral Government sponduig too much on space or armaments or payments lo farmers or vet erans' benefits and too little on education, oil medical care or cn housing'.' "More generally, does tlie en tire nation's spending pattern really rellect a rational alloca tion of resources'.' Are we as a people spending too much, say. on cosmetics, cigarettes or ii iiuvr and too little on capital in vestment, education, the preven tion of juvenile delinquency or cleaning up slums?" it is a good thing someone brings up (his point and we hope Congressmen listened with an open mind It would seem tlut Mr. Kuthright u( the Times interpretation is right would la vor making up your budget in accordance with what you have available and tlien allocating this on the basis of priorities. Tins would eliminate a lot of pork barrelling, something dear er to tlie heart of all Congress men than motlierhood and the (lag. and it certainly would be in (lie best interests of the country now ami In tlie future. Tlie trouble is: Who is going to decide on the sequence of priorities? 2?S By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASIIINGTON-At the strong urging of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and over the my-goodness-me objectiuns of some State Department types, tlie United Stales government has closed to Communist-bloc diplomats certain areas of this nation where missile installa tions are in operation or being built. Nothing is wrong with this or der except that it has come la ter than it should have. Communist-bloc diplomats are often also Communist-bloc spies, a truism a dozen times estab lished by the most indisputable of evidence. And they are not necessarily any more purblind than arc Soviet diplomats them selves, who have long since been forbidden to travel to such vital installations. In order words, if bloc diplo mats in their reports to their home offices can give the pre cise locations of these installa tions, only the most credulous can suppose that the informa tion will not quickly find its way to Moscow. It is true, of course, that a peek through a wire fence at a weapons silo will not tell the looker the precise mathemati cal formula involved in the gadg ets inside. Still, the simple fact remains that military intel ligence is military intelligence, even if it be restricted to the ability to tell the rocketeers abroad just where to zero in just in case. IN WASHINGTON ssue By RALPH de TOLEDANO CHICAGO In this muscular Midwestern metropolis, the big gest worry among Democratic politicians is the Negro ques tion. But since they hesitate In talk about it publicly, this worry remains the "hidden is sue" of the coming Presidential campaign. It ceases to be so hidden when talk turns to the 'recent Philadelphia mayoralty election in which the Democrats barely squeezed through de spite the efforts of one of the na tion's most powerful big - city machines. Chicago has always been safely in Democratic hands, and Mayor Daley has been able to make it the pivot of Illinois pol ities by delivering such large pluralities that I hoy nullify tlie votes of the rest of the state. Bui Mayor Daley is in bad trou ble with the Negro voters and suffering from his identification with the Kennedy Administra tion among other ethnic groups which feel that the civil rights program up before Congress strikes at them. Because Democratic power in this city was based on a coali tion o minorities, the new an tagonisms dividing them can kill Mr. Kennedy's chances of carrying the state in 1IIK4. To overcome this handicap the ob server notes that in 14 the GOP will have poll-watchers in plenty to prevent any theft of voles. Of particular interest in sur veying the situation here is the fact that whispered reports heard in Washington arc as cur rent this far from the source. Communication between the var ious parts of the country has become so easy, of course, that a joke born in Hollywood can make it cross-continent in a matter o( hours. Obviously, the same is true of accurate and-or inaccurate political intelligence. Nevertheless. I was somewhat startled to hear that the Presi dent and his brother Robert, New Frontier Svengali and At Which Order Closing Areas All counter-intelligence meas ures are necessarily based, in deed, on the assumption that while it may be impossible in the end to prevent the other fel low from penetrating your se crets, only a fool will make it so easy for him that he need only send one of his agents out on a tourist bus ride from Washington. All the same, now that our government has at last acted to plug such blazingly open holes in our screen, the inevitable shrill complaints are going up from American quarters which deplore this inhospitable act against an alleged "thaw" in American-Soviet relations which only they can see. Surely, they cry, all this runs afoul of those "liberalizations of people-to-ieople contact" which, against all history and common sense, they persist in believing could somehow put everything aright between this nation and the Soviet Union. Unhappily, the Kennedy Ad ministration itself has followed this chimera to a degree all too lamentable. But sensible men can be relieved that this Admin istration, even in its desperate desire for some reliable accom modation with the Russians, is not willing to be shaken .by yells that vie are aping the "closed society of communism" and other such rubbish. For the idea that shutting off vital military information to hostile powers is somehow bad is only matched in silliness by Haunts Democrats torney General of the United States, have had strong words. According to this report, which 1 had heard repeatedly in Washington, the President more than once told off his brother in no uncertain terms for his in ept handling of the civil rights issue and his tendency to shoot first and ask questions later. It w as also rumored that the Pres ident has asked Bobby to re sign in January, thereby taking some of tlie heat off Ihe Admin istration. This latter rumor, as of now, has no basis in fact. I am not in the confidence of cither the President or Ihe At torney General. But I am cer tain that if the altercation so categorically reported were true, neither would leak it to the press. Such a set-to, more over, would hardly take place in the White House rose garden during a reception. It is true, however, that those close lo the President have inadvertently given away his deep concern over the ad verse elfect of Bobby's actions in the civil rights struggle on the Presidential chances in 14. It is also true that those to whom the President talks have themselves expressed consider able dubiety over the way in w hich Bob Kennedy has run the Justice Department. These as sociates do not quite say that the younger Mr. Kennedy should be fired. But they make it clear that it would be much nicer if somehow, with out political consequences, he were to disappear. Away from Washington, those whose fortunes are tied in with the Kennedy Administration as sert Irankly that il was a mis take to place in one pair of hands the department of the federal government w h i c h should at least strive to be non partisan as well as the leader ship of Ihe New Frontier's polit ical os.se. This, more than demonstrations of an anti-business altitude among some Ad ministration leaders, is what One Today? ft M the illusion that the mortal dif ferences lying between the two societies can be healed if only there are more "cultural ex changes" and "freedom of movement." Even Nikita Khru shchev in his more candid mo ments has shown his contempt for such drippy nonsense. We shall make an honorable and real accommodation in the cold war if at all only at that now unseen point in time when Western power and determina tion have become so' massive and real that the other fellow will never dare to challenge them. And if that splendid time ever does arrive, it won't mat ter in the least if the bloc dip lomats carry their busy little Czech and East German cam eras into every corner of this country. In the meantime, it is some satisfaction that, no matter how earnestly he pursues the hope of some true easing in the cold war, the President invariably sides when the last chip is down with those whose ultimate con cern is the security of the Unit ed States of America. One such is Secretary McNa mara. He is a bad, bad guy to our dreamers, whose glad vi sions can espy immine'nt "peace" every lime the Rus sians blockade another road to Berlin. But he is, all the same and notwithstanding a certain imperiousncss of conduct some times charged lo him, a good man to have around when tlie going is really sticky. has so worried those who must deal with the government. With Attorney General Ken nedy now regarded as a kind of civil rights Carry Nation, the image has changed but the old fears are there. In the past months, civil rights as an is sue has become more ex plosive in the North than in the South. The dynamite is hid den, but the fuse is visible and there arc always people on either side who would like to light it. This is why the politicians worry, and why they keep won dering to themselves where it will end. This is why, too, they are looking desperately for an other issue "right to work" or what have you to give them lime lo disarm the explosives and get on with the business of winning elections. Unless the national temper changes radically in the next months, there is little chance that they will succeed. Like oilier northern cities, Chicago is primed for racial troubles from which few will benefit and least of all those ideologi cal extremists in the Adminis tration who wish to change the United States overnight. He is a short, chunky, near bald man, with a shrewd eye, an aggressive jaw, and a ready juke for nearly all occa sions. His beliefs are firm and ex plicit, in every realm, from the economic lo Ihe psychological to Ihe esthetic. He is a man who knows his own mind, and expresses himself freely and pungent ly. In economics, he believes that the economic factor is the most important in human liic. Ideals and spiritual qualities are all very well in their place, but it is money that makes the mare go. What most deeply in 1 1 u e n c e men's decisions are their economic needs and drives. In psychology, he is suspi cious and disdainful of any Freudian interpretations. Psy choanalysis should be banned, he believes, because it holds that unconscious psychic fact ors determine our conduct and he will have no track with such mystical interpretations of life. In esthetics, he is against all "modern" manifestations. He despises abstract art as a cor rupt, degenerate and lnlantile activity: he will have nothing to do with music tliat is not traditional and familiarly mel odic. In literature, he prefers facts lo fancy; he wants a "message" lo be go across, in plain, everyday language. WASHINGTON JFK Donates $100 At Boston Address By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON - The records of Ihe Democratic National Committee, on file in tlie House of Representatives, show that a check for $100 was received earlier this year from one J. Kennedy, 122 Bowdoin Street, Boston. The address is that of a din gy little flat owned by the Pres ident. Neither he nor Mrs. Ken nedy has ever lived there. Aidei are unable to explain why the Chief Executive did not list 1000 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washing ton, as his legal address. The President heads a list of several score top-ranking gov ernment officials who have this year contributed substantially tq the Democratic National Com mittee. Brother Robert, the At torney General, listed McLean. Virginia, as his home, and gave 'another C note. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall gave $500. Anthony Cele breeze. Secretary of Health. Ed ucation and Welfare, contribut ed $100. So did Agriculture Sec- rotary Orville Freeman and recently-retired Postmaster Gen eral J. Edward Day. On the Presidential staff. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger and ghost-writer Arthur Schles inger each, gave $100. So did special assistants Ed Sorensen and Tim Reardon. Larry O'Bri en, the President's Jiaison with Congress, gave $200. Even Aug ust Hcckscher, the President's cultural adviser, got in tlie act. He contributed $100. Adlai Stevenson sent in $100 from New York. A distant rela tive, William Stevenson, air mailed liis check for $100 from Manila, where he is U.S. Am bassador. Another Ambassador, Carl T. Rowan (Finland', also gave $100. The State Department legal counsel, Abiam Chaves, contrib uted $100. So did William Had dad. who recently left the Peace Corps to return to newspaper work. Tcodoro Moscoso, head o the Alliance for Progress, gave $100, as did Pedro San Juan, who directs the Stale Depart ment's anti-bias campaign. STRICTLY PERSONAL. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Indeed, "practical" is the keyword of his nature. He will use ideology when it suits his purposes, but what he wants to see is a huge industrial machin ery oieratiiig at top productive power, a high standard of liv ing, and an administration that is cool and efficient, with em phasis on technical and scienti tic developments. He is ardently nationalistic, although he may pay lip-service to such concepts as "hu manity" and "brotherhood." He wants his nation to be first in everything, from missiles to marathons: and his entire for eign policy is based on nation al self-interest. What is good for his country, he firmly be lieves, is good for the world. He is, in short, a completely modern man: pragmatic, ma terahstic. bourgeois in his atti tudes toward the arts, uneasy subtleties, utterly convinced thai with the right political par ty in the saddle and the econ omy booming, most of the peo ple's problems would he solved. What lie most dislikes are in tellectuals, fanatics, artists who will not sensibly serve the needs of the community in clear and simple terms, people who will not work hard at their jobs, beatniks of all sorts, re ligious cranks, promiscuous and immoral citizens, and those who flirt with alien creeds. His name: Nikita Khrush chev. Do you recognize h:m in vourself? . REPORT . Assistant Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach doubled his boss' contribution and gave $200. The Attorney General's chief press agent. Ed Guthman, con tributed $100. James Quigley, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, gave $100 and Undersecretary Ivan Nestigen, $200. Former Senator J. Allen Frear, appointed by the Presi dent lo the Securities and Ex change Commission, gave $200. Another lame duck, former Con gressman Joseph Barr, gave $400. He w as named Special As sistant to the Secretary of the Treasury. Henry Fowler, appointed As sistant Secretary of the Treasu ry, gave $100. The Chairman of the Federal Power Commission, Joseph Swidler, chipped in $100. So did Herschel Loveless, a defeated Governor appointed lo Ihe Re-Negotiation Board. Ralph Paicwonsky, a wealthy business man named governor of the Vir gin Islands, contributed $1,000 to the Kennedy re-election ef fort. At the Pentagon, Navy Secre tary Fred Korth gave $200 lo the National Committee before he was hustled out of his job for conflict of interest impropri eties. Air Force Secretary Eu gene Zuckert also gave $200. Adam Y'armolinsky, the contro versial confidant of Secretary McNamara, gave $100 as did Defense Department General Counsel Cyrus Vance. Heavily-backed by out-of-slale labor barons, Wyoming's Gale McGee won razor-thin Senate victory in 1958. Since then, he has cast but three "anti-labor" votes, according to AFL-CIO Committee on Political Educa tion. A year before Wyoming vot ers must pass judgment on his service, labor dollars are again flowing to Gale McGee. COPE has made a personal grant of $500 and Ihe MacWnists' Union one of $738.46. Other unions have made sub stantial contributions to Mc Gee's campaign committee. These include tlie Electrical Workers i$500, tlie Communica tions Workers S100, tlie Rail way Clerks ($100), and the In ternational Ladies Garment Workers Union ($5001. The ILGW'U, incidentally, has raised more than a quarter mil lion dollars for the 19H4 cam paign. Some $4,000 of this was funneled into Pennsylvania's 15th Congressional district ear lier this year for a special Con gressional election. Contribu tions by the ILGWU and other unions helped Democrat Fred Rooney emerge triumphant. Labor strategists e x p e c t to give their heaviest support next year to Sens. McGee, Hartke, Moss, Metcalf, and Yarborough, all Democrats up for reelection. Al manac By United Press International Today is Friday, Nov. 22. the ."2iith day of 13 with 39 to follow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The evening stars are Jupiter Saturn and Venus. On this day in history: In 1775. the American Con tinental Naval Fleet was active ly organized under the com mand of Ezek Hopkins, a for mer New England sea captain. In l'.5. the "China Clipper" lelt San Francisco for the first oflicial transpacific airmail flight from that city. In 1954. the Council of Minis ters of the European Coal and Steel Community approved a draft of a treaty for closer co operation between the commu nity and Great Britain. In 10. the U.S. Navy's most powerful atomic submarine, the Ethan Allen, was launched at Groton, Conn.
