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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.