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k. Sale Of Eagle Ridge Area
: Every outdoorsman should take parti
cular note of the move announced earlier
this week of the State Game Commission to
sell 1,200 acres of property that they cur
rently own in the vicinity of Eagle Ridge on
Upper Klamath Lake.
There had been many reports that the
land was to be sold at auction in one chunk.
This immediately would have precluded any
average citizen from purchasing any of the
property.
: However, the county has begun investi
gating the possibility of purchasing the tract
fpr a county park addition.
-"; We agree with this move, but not com
pletely. In the first place, 1,200 acres makes a
Whale of a park and it would tax the re
sources of the county to maintain such a
park.
It would be much better if the county
would purchase the entire 1,200 acres, set
aside about 400 acres for county park pur
poses and then plat the balance into small
parcels of about five acres or less, and sell
these at public auction.
This would enable many persons in this
area to purchase small parcels for use as
recreation cabin sites.
We have explored the lake all the way
up to the northend and have been amazed
at the lack of use. This is not entirely at
tributable to algae in the lake. Much of the
Nearly every youngster, at one time or
another, succumbs to the temptation to try
smoking anything from dried clover rolled
up in an old piece of newspaper to a bona
fide, genuine cigarette.
This all may be well and good but the
youth on today's market who expects to be
a good student, make a letter in athletics or
protect himself from becoming a school drop
out will brace himself against making smok
ing a bad habit.
.' That's the Impression you get from a
report which was made by an authority on
the subject at a meeting of the American
Medical Association in progress at Port
land. ; The expert, Dr. Albert R. Allen, told
his colleagues that results of a survey which
fie has conducted conclusively proves that
Politics Must Go Forward
By BRIJCE BIOSSAT
Tho political moratorium for
mally decreed by the major
parties is proper and wise for
the mourning period set aside
tor John F. Kennedy. But it is
tot In the nature of politics that
(t ever ho totally adjourned.
; It was by careful design that
fresident Lyndon B. Johnson In
vited four key political figures
io join his wife In the House
gallery tho day he addressed
Congress.
Three of these are either com
manding or prominent figures
In important, populous northern
states Johnson needs to win to
gain election in 1064. They are
Mayor Robert Wagner of New
York, Mayor Richard Daley of
Chicago and former C.ov. Da
vid Lawrence of Pennsylvania.
In their areas Johnson could
not at the outset, if ever, hope
In mnlcli the voter appeal of
Kennedy. But he Is moving
tjuickly, with sure instinct, to
fast out vital political lines for
the months ahead. He clearly
does not intend to give anything
away.
Nor was it accident that the
fourth gallery guest was Gov.
Carl Sanders of Georgia. As a
moderate on tho race issue, he
is a soulliern leader tlie Presi
dent can make bond with with
out compromising his own mod.
ernte stance on the issue.
Sanders later had an hour
iv ith Johnson at tlie White
House, and he brought along
Eeorgia's Democratic slate
J-hairman. Plainly they were
Jiot discussing the state's famed
Jieiich crop.
; Presumably Die pattern here
begun will ho enlarged upon in
succeeding weeks, and Johnson
will talk quietly with other top
Democrats such as Gov. Kd
mund G. Pal Brown of Cali
fornia, Gov. Richard Hughes of
New Jersey, Gov. Karl Hoi
vaag of Minnesota.
' As for the Republicans, their
surface activity has of course
hailed, probably until after the
Christmas holidays. But tlie
AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Orrgoa
lack of use is attributable to the fact that
there are few places on the Upper Lake that
anyone can go for recreation purposes.
If the land isn't owned by Weyerhaeus
er, or the U.S. Government in one branch or
another, it's owned by a state agency or is
in private hands and not accessable to the
public.
The only way we can ever hope to pro
mote usage and popularity of Upper Klam
ath Lake is to make as much of the shore
line available as possible for recreation pur
poses. Eagle Ridge, itself, is one of the most
scenic spots on the entire lake.
This area, particularly, belongs in the
county park system, and should be pro
moted as an area that could cater to boaters
who could come up the lake and dock at the
foot of the ridge and enjoy part of a day
hiking or camping or fishing in the area.
We welcome the addition of lands to
the county park system, but we do deplore
the entire 1,200 acres merely being trans
ferred from one governmental source to
another.
Too much of Klamath County is al
ready locked up in tax-free governmental
ownership. Let's get some of it back on the
tax rolls and in the hands of private citizens.
We feel our recommendation would ac
complish this end, and would go a long way
toward promoting more recreational use of
the lake.
Student Smoking
the high school pupil who smokes docs not
make as high grades as those who don't.
lie put his finger right on the problem
when he found that students in their junior
year of high school smoked the most, 41 per
cent of them. Only two of this group were
members of the honor society and only five
had won letters in athletics.
So if you want Junior or daughler H
receive" grades in keeping with their
pacily to learn, prevent them from becom
ing one of education's worst catastrophies
a drop-out or to win a letter in sports, help
him keep away from those "gaspers" or
assist your youngsters in breaking the habit
if they get it early. As the doctor says, you
can start looking for the tell-tale signs when
thcy'ro fourth-graders. That's when some
of them begin.
minds of GOP leaders coast to
coast will nevertheless be churn
ing away on the big matter of
which man to choose for 19M
presidential nominee.
The surface quiet makes very
practical sense. Political speech
es are undecorous in the after
math of great personal tragedy.
In this instance, they might also '
have proved stunningly empty.
For Uio Republicans have lost
their cstablislied target, the late
President, and cannot yet focus
effectively on their new one. In
a very real sense they have
nothing to talk about.
Naturally tliey will not have
too many weeks to wait tor am
munition. As soon as they see
tho President's budget and hear
his specific l!vl proposals, they
BERRY'S WORLD
. Another exciting feature
mode is that it'i bigger than
Friday. December I, 1963
will be off to the races again.
But even now, beneath t h e
surface, the speculations on 1964
go forward. In this enforced hi
atus, they w ill perhaps be more
reflective than otherwise.
At issue is the question wheth
er front-running Sen. Barry
Goldwaler has been so broadly
damaged by the Democratic
chango over that lie is now a
diminishing prospect for the
GOP nomination. The emer
gence of Johnson, the southern
er and conservative, is acknowl
edged to have hurt Goldvvaler's
chances of a southern sweep.
No moratorium is likely to
susiend discussion of this and
related matters. We are too far
launched into the political sea
son. of this gi'anf-compoct
our tegular line!"
OAS Must Face Up To Threat Of Cuban Arms
By PHIL NEWSOM
t'PI Foreign News Analyst
Impossible to perceive at the
time, there was tragic irony in
President Kennedy's greeting
upon the occasion last Feb. 19
of Venezuelan President Romu
lo Betancourt's state visit to
Washington.
"You represent all that we
admire in a political leader,"
Kennedy said.
He was addressing a man
who had survived three assas
sination attempts and still was
to survive a fourth in a nation
which was the No. 1 target of
Castro communism's attempt to
destroy democracy in Latin
America.
Yet 10 months later, it was
President Kennedy, leader o.'
IN WASHINGTON
By RALPH de TOLEDANO
With so many front-page deci
sions facing him. President
Johnson will be hard put to
find the time and the concen
tration to cope with them all
immediately. But there are
problems of seemingly lesser
importance which he must also
keep in mind and some of these
are potentially more important
than the well-publicized ones.
In this second category falls
British Guiana. President Ken
nedy was well aware that a
complete Communist takeover
of British Guiana could mean
Latin America. He also knew
and he told this to British news
paper owner Cecil King not
long ago that the administra
tion could not sustain another
defeat in Latin America.
With the Communist flag wav
ing over British Guiana, the
West would be confronted by a
far greater threat than the cap
ture of Cuba by the Kremlin.
British Guiana is on the South
American mainland. It is alrea
dy being used by its admittedly
Marxist Premier, Cheddi .la
gan, as a staging area for Castro-trained
and Castro-financed
guerrillas who scatter into
neighboring countries to carry
out a planned campaign of ter
ror and sabotage. The problem
in Guiana stems from a British
promise of independence. If the
British were to withdraw tomor
row, however, there would at
best be bloody fighting, a t
worst a Communist seizure of
complete power.
In this situation, the State
Department has been pressur
ing tlie British not to grant in
dependence according to the an
EDSON
U.S.
By PF.TF.tt EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assu.
WASHINGTON ( NEA i-Amer-ican
farmers have tlie good
news from Secretary of Agricul
ture Orvillc S. Freeman him
self that there should be an in
creasing world market for all
their surplus food production
through I'M), at least.
Speaking in Rome, before the
biennial conference of the 107
nation Food and Agriculture Or
ganization. FAO, Freeman gave
the first meaningful estimates
on how the world's food deli
cits can be met by expanding
world trade and aid.
This is, in ellect. the Ameri
can answer to problems raised
at tlie World Food Conference
on "Freedom From Hunger."
held in Washington last June.
At that time it was estimat
ed that world population would
lie doubled from three billion
today to six billion by 2000 A D.
To meet a minimum require
ment of 2 -too calories a day. in
cluding 70 grams of protein, it
was estimated that food produc
tion would have to be quad
rupled in Asia, tripled in the
Near East and more than
doubled in Africa and l.at:n
America.
A $125 billion. five-vear pro
gram of surplus lood distribu
tion by the "have" nations t.r
tlie "have-nots" was called lor
by FAO Secretary General
R. B. Sen of India as part of a
40-pomt program to prevent
malnutrition fur a billion peo
ple. As host nation (or tlie lie
countries at Uio World F o o d
Congress, tlie United States
nude no immediate response
but said that tlie recommenda
tions would be considered.
Subsequently. US. Depart
ment ot Agriculture economists
Willard Cochrane. Arthur B.
Mackie and Grover Chappoll
went to work on the problem.
Last August their findings wore
presented to tlie American
the world's free nations, who
was himself to fall victim to an
assassin's bullet
This week Venezuela turned
an important corner.
Despite terrorist threats,
more than three million Vene
zuelans turned out in free elec
tions to name Betancourt's suc
cessor. It was an important tri
umph for Bctancourt who has
been determined that first, free
elections be held and second,
that next March he should turn
his ofiice peacefully over to the
man who won.
Important Victory
It was an important victory,
too, for the Venezuelan people
and for tlie Venezuelan military
who successfully had resisted
the temptation to seize the
Small, Deadly Pitfall
nounced schedule. It has also
called for steps that would
bring about the ouster of the
Jagan regime and allow pro
democratic and anti-Communist
elements to win. The Central
Intelligence Agency has been
siding with these pro-democratic
elements in National Secur
ity Council debates on the prob
lem. The State Department, howev
er, has urged the British to sus
pend the constitution and to
make a frontal assault on the
Jagan regime. This would play
directly into bis hands, for he
could then accuse both Britain
and the United States of "colo
nialism" and "interventionism."
Fortunately, the British Colo
nial Office failed to heed the
State Department's advice.
Instead, it has struck at Pre
mier Jagan in a way which robs
him of an issue. Mr. Jagan
holds almost every seat in the
legislature even though his par
ty polled but 42 per cent of the
vote in the la.st election. The
other two parties, with 52 per
cent of the vote between them,
hold only a scattering of seats.
Political considerations are com
plicated by racial divisions. Ja
gan's Progressive Party is over
whelmingly East Indian and
made up of plantation workers.
The People's National Congress
is primarily urban and Negro,
with the support of the labor
movement.
Under proportional represen
tation, the People's NaUonal
Congress, led by Forbes Burn
ham, and the United Front Par
ty, led by Peter D'Aguiar could
form a coalition able to run the
IN WASHINGTON
Plans Trade, Aid
Farm Economic Association
meeting in Minneapolis. They
have now been given to t h e
FAO in Rome for its consider
ation. In substance, the finding is
that the world's food deficits
cannot be met by merely in
creasing production in the de
veloping countries. Their own
supplies must be supplemented
by imports from (lie surplus
producing countries of the
world.
The key to these twin prob
lems. Freeman told the FAO, is
"trade and aid." which must
be considered together. He sees
the need for food aid and trade
between now and 1980 as sub
stantially greater than is gen
erally realized.
Using ratios which have been
observed since 1938 and which
arc expected to continue, it has
been found that in a developing
country where the population
is grow ing 2 2 per cent a year,
incomes have risen about 53
per cent a year.
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q How manv sinuses are in
the human skull?
A Eight four pairs.
Q To what church did Ahr
ham Lincoln belong?
A Lincoln was not a member
of any specific church.
Q Why was England's Quern
Mary I called "Bloody Mary"?
A Because of the relisious per
secutions that occurred during her
reicn.
Q W hat has become of Joyce
Kilmer's trre on the campus of
Rutgers University?
A The 300-year-eid white oak
that inspired his poem. "Trees"
died of old age ami was re
ccntlv cut down.
reins of government and thus
provide the terrorists w ilii proof
that democracy in Latin Ameri
ca would not work.
Now a new test involving the
whole of Latin America is at
hand.
Only a few weeks prior to Be
tancourt's Washington visit.
Communist Cuba itself had
made clear the importance it
attached to Venezuela.
In a Havana rally marking
tlie fifth anniversary of the ov
erthrow of Venezuelan dictator
Perez Jimenez, Cuban Commu
nist leader Bias Roca declared
that the Venezuelan rebels are
not alone and that "will will
continue giving them our back
ing every day." And he added:
"When they achieve their full
government. A peaceful change
over would then solve the Gui
ana question.
Premier Jagan, heavily
' backed by Fidel Castro and the
Cuban Communist government,
agree to proportional represen
tation, but he is now charging
that it is a betrayal. It is known
that his followers arc preparing
to prevent by violence any co
alition victory. Revolution in
British Guiana could easily
spread across the north of the
South American continent. It
wouid be a massive headache
for the Organization of Ameri
can States and for the Johnson
Administration.
Should the Jagan forces suc
ceed in a coup, the blow to the
new administration's prestige
would be incalculable. To many
in this country, it would be
Cuba all over again. Under
those circumstances, there
would be considerable agitation
here for military intervention.
For President Johnson it
would be a case of damned if
he did and damned if he didn't.
To allow the Communists to ex
tend their beachhead in Latin
America or to fight them this
would be his dilemma, with
either horn equally unpopular
to the public.
This is why the growing cris
is in British Guiana is one the
President must watch and must
attempt to settle even though
other questions and problems
crowd the nation's front pages
and occupy the minds of the
editorial writers. Here is one
case where the proverbial ounce
of prevention will certainly be
worth tons of cure.
Domestic food production in
such countries has increased an
average of about 3.3 per cent
a year. This is faster than the
population growth, but not as
fast as the income growth.
Under the impact of higher
incomes, therefore, the demand
for food has increased about 4.3
per cent a year. This is nearly
one-fourth more than food pro
duction increased.
"If tlie need for food result
ing from this demand is not
met." Freeman said, "billions
of dollars of increased purchas
ing power will flow against in
adequate food supplies and
bring about price inflation."
The solution, therefore, is to
supply these developing nations
with surplus food from the more
developed nations.
By calculations too intricate
to go into here, it is estimated
that tlie value of the over all
food deficit between now and
1W0 is estimated at $25 6 billion.
The developed countries, how
ever, can easily increase their
food production by $25 3 billion
between now and M80. So a bal
ance can be achieved if there
is tree world trade and aid.
"It's as simple as that," Fife
man told the FAO. He added:
"Those principles are much ea
s.er to state than to imple
ment." One of the main troubles
pointed to is that highly indus
trialized nations like the Euro
pean Common Market members
tend to encourage uneconom
ic production of food. They raise
instead of lower the artificial
barriers to tood trade.
This can be overcome only if
tlve highly dovefoped nations ac
cept their share of the rcsponsi.
biiity ami tho cost of providing
tood aid for tlve less developed
countries.
This is the approach to tlie
problem tlie United States will
present at the General Agree
ment on Tariffs ami Trade
meeting in Geneva. Switzerland.
net spring.
independence and make them
selves owners ot the great rich
es in oil, aluminum and every
thing their earth imprisons,
then all of America shall burn.
The whole of America shall li
berate itself once and for ail
from the ominous Yankee im
perialist yoke."
Clrar Intent
In Rocas' words were clear
intent.
Yet within the Organization
of American States, from whose
councils Cuba already had been
banned, there remained doubt.
Words, they said, were not wea
pons. Brazil. Bolivia, Chile. Uru
guay and Mexico continued to
maintain relations with the Cas
tro regime refusing to join oth-
'The 'Down'
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
WASHINGTON - The Justice
Department has been asked
why the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee is not found on its
list of subversives organizations.
Rep. Frank Becker made the
query soon after he learned that
Lee Harvey Oswald had close
ties with the pro-Castro group.
Congressman Bill Cramer asked
a similar question more than 18
months ago when he charged ki
a House speech that Fair Play
was crawling with Communist
operatives.
A Justice Department spokes
man says that no group has
been declared subversive since
1955, thanks to a Supreme Court
decision that makes it virtually
impossible to add new organiza
tions to the list.
One thing is certain: The Jus
tice Department has kept close
labs on Fair Play since its in
ception in April 1960. In a 1981
report, the director of the FBI,
J. Edgar Hoover, declared the
group had been "heavily infil
trated" not only by Communists
but by members of tlie Social
ist Workers Party as well.
The FBI revealed last week
that Oswald had received Fair
Play literature in Dallas under
the name A. Hydell.
In a recent column, this writ
er named several Communists
who have been active in Fair
Play. These included Joanne
Grant in New York, Dick Criley
and John Rossen in Chicago,
and Dorothy Healy in Los An
geles. In this column otlier Fair
Play operatives will be named.
They include:
Harvey O'Connor, an identi
fied Communist, who is a wheel
horse in the Emergency Civil
Liberties Committee, an official
ly cited front. He has been ac
tive in the fight to abolish the
House Un-American Activities
Committee.
Vincent Hallinan. 1932 presi
dential candidate of the leftist
Progressive party. Never identi
fied as a Communist, Hallinan
has racked up a record of affil
iation w ith left-w ing groups. The
record is on file in Washington.
Richard Tussey. chairman
of the Cleveland, Ohio, chapter.
Tussey and his w ife, Jean, head
one of the strongest Fair Play
outfits in the country. In an ap
THEY
SAY..
Kansas fafmers' hepo-s have
been that one i-3f tW peep'.o
tlie Iron Curtain wtirUMr
would get their Wviics- fait eta
communism. But if (nc
are full of our wheat, tfe c?.;
they come to a codcIimm J.
communism may be postptiuj.
Martin Byrne, presidw ife
Kansas Farmer) Union. opif
Ing celling surplus when to
Communis! countries.
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...u, in n diolo-
er American - -
malic and economic blockade of
CUThe Castro regime itself de
nied vehemently that it has giv
en other than moral support to
the Venezuelan terrorists.
This week, from a cache ot
arms discovered on a Venezue
lan beach. Venezuela presents
evidence to the contrary.
Venezuela, backed by the
United Stales, will demand that
the OAS unite against Cuba un
der tlie Treaty of Rio which
also is known as the Treaty of
Reciprocal Assistance.
The answer should be over
whelming hemispheric solidari
ty. Unfortunately, past perfor
mance permits no such encour.
aging outcome.
Escalator
WASHINGTON REPORT
Why Fair Play Cuba
Not On Left List?
pearance before the Senate In
ternal Security, subcommittee,
he refused to answer queries
about his Communist Party af
filiations. So did Mrs. Tussey
and Herman Kirsch, an organ
izer for the Socialist Workers
(Parly. They testified in Juno
of 1981.
Edward Shaw, a veteran
Detroit leftist who is midwest
regional director of Fair Play.
In June 1961, Shaw declined to
say whether or not he was a
member of the Communist Par
ty or under Communist disci
pline. On that same day Detec
tive Stanley Kowalski of the De
troit Police Department testified
lliat Communist Party members
in Detroit were active in Fair
Play. Another witness. David
Wellman, refused to deny he
was a Communist.
Steve Roberts. West Coast
representative of the Fair Play
group. He has been an official
of tlie Socialist Workers Party
and took tlie Fifth Amendment
in response to all questions
about tlie SWP and Fair Play.
A. J. Lewis, another SWP
leader active in Los Angeles
Fair Play. He refused to an
swer any questions about the
group or his activities.
Del Varela. an official of the
Southern California Communist
Parly. He took the Fifth in his
testimony as did Martin Hall
and William Martinez, also of
Los Angeles.
Present head of Fair Play is
Vincent Theodore Lee. another
Fifth Amendment pleader in
Concessional testimony. The
group's present membership is
not publicly known.
Al
manac
Bv United Press International
Today is Friday. Dec. 6. the
340th day of ltna with 25 to fol
low .
The moon is approaching its
last quarter.
Tiieeveninj stars are Jupiter,
Saturn and Venus.
Those born tilav include Jo
seph Conrad, the Enzlish writ
er of sea tales, in 1857.
On this day in history:
In 1847, Abraham Lincoln
took his seat in the House of
Representatives as a congress
man from Illinois.
In 18X9. people throughout tlie
South were saddened' by the
news of the rieafh of Jefferson
Davis in New Orleans.
. In 1917, Finland declared its
"dependence from Russia
In l'.m. Present Rxtsevelt,
sent a pers.-nal Rot Era?op,
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