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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1963)
FAGE-tA I1KRAI.I) AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Oregon finnday, Dreemhrr t, 1S6J Letters To The Editor fcdikftial (paqsi Brain-Storming Sessions J Klamath County Chamber of Com tmerce members are biting into a new proj ect expected to go a long way toward im 'proving business and building a better torn 'munity. Each day a small group of chamber members are convening. In a manner of speaking they are having their brains picked. Or you might call these meetings brain-storm sessions: getting members to say what they feel should be the primary 'projects of the organization. '. Chamber president Jim Stilwell and . manager George Callison feel these group gatherings are serving a useful purpose. Each morning for an hour 10 to a dozen or more members are breaking up into small groups. Each is asked to list what he be lieves should be the chamber's primary proj ect in its program of work for this year and those to follow. It's interesting to note how many good ; ideas are emerging. ; Here's an example of what came out ' of the Thursday morning meeting: That the chamber should be certain the new hospital gets the complete backing of : the community; that the program to build ; it is completed successfully and then oper ate smoothly after it opens; That the problem of school district re : organization be accomplished with a mini i mum of "acrimony and debate" when the issue is brought into the community spot j light again and this will be soon; THE GLOBAL ; Ity I.F.ON DKNNEN ; Newspaper Knterrlse Analyst .' UNTIED NATIONS, N.Y. .' (NEA I According to Moscow's ' Pravda, Premier Khrushchev decided o call a special meet ing of Die powerful Communist Party Central Committee chief ly to discuss Russia's agricul tural crisis and "lagging" chem ical industry. But the press of Moscow's Kast European satellites gives a different view. They indicate that the chief concern of the Central Committee will be Soviet-Chinese relations since Lya don R. Johnson succeeded John F. Kennedy as President of the United States. This is also the view of U.N. diplomats. llin-American Reds, faced with mass desertions due to the Russian-Chinese rift, have long urged Premier Khrushchev In settle his dispute with Red Chi na's Mao Tsc-tung. Culm's Fidel Castro, who, ac cording to dissident Latin Reds, keeps his pocket in Russia and . las heart in China, even hinted ; of a secret meeting where Khru ; shchev and Mao would h u r y their Marxist-Leninist hatchets. The meeting never was held, of course. Rut in the view of ' specialists on communism, the "peacemakers" in Ihe It e d camp are increasingly encour aged and backed by a strong pro-Chinese group inside the So- ' Viet Central Committee. THEY SAY... This has been an interesting decade on Ihe I'.S. Supreme ' Court. The years have been challenging and I hardly need tell you. tltcy have been con troversial. However, it is not Ihe court that has made them controversial It is the limes in which we are living. Chief Jujiliee Karl Warrrn. I Send your son to Moscow, and ; he will return s an anii-Com-j munist. Send Inm to Hie Sor ; bonne, nnd he wjll return s a ' Communist. President Felix llouphnurt llnlgny ol the Ivory Toast. Buddhism, Islam and Hindu Ism are resurgent. They ride on and . . . strike out in revolt against a Christ who came to them resembling loo closely a European or North American col onist. Kev. Canon Howard A. John ana nf New Vork'i Cathedral of fit. Jnhn Ihe Divine. That we create an atmosphere which will create a greater amount of tourism; That the chamber work toward better labor relations, and, That efforts should be expanded to ward developing Upper Klamath Lake as a recreational area. Disposal of the Eagle Ridge area by the Oregon State Game Com mission for commercial development as a result of a budget cut was not immediately endorsed by the chamber people. Those sit ting in at Thursday's meeting seemed to agree that rather than auction off the land for private ownership it would he better to keep at least part of it intact as a public recreation area. The foregoing are just some of the things being discussed. One member attending the "brain storming session" noted that carload after carload of potatoes are being shipped out of the county to be processed elsewhere. He felt the chamber should make a strong effort toward creating interest in local food processing plants. Callison is opening each of these daily meetings with an appeal to chamber mem bers to demonstrate a "new spirit of team work, to conscientiously study the new things we need and to be a part of a dynamic program of work." , Stilwell urged greater pride in com munity. "We've got everything here. Let's start talking about it." It all makes sense. Getting some action will he the big job. VIEW... What Now In Red Camp? Even Poland's Party boss Wladyslaw Gnmulka, who was once hailed as a liberal Red, has now joined Romania's Gheorghhi-Doj as a strong advo cate of a Russian-Chinese get together. According In East Eurocnn diplomats, Gomulka recently in structed Poland's envoys in Mos cow and Peking (o make them selves available as intermedi aries between Khrushchev and Mao. A complete rift in the ranks of international communism has always been (iomulka's great nightmare. Re is said to he the man who largely influenced Khrushchev not to break open ly with Mao. The Soviet premier was able in the past to exploit his fiiend ly relations with President Ken nedy as a strong argument against Mao's revolutionary brinkmanship. Ciomulka, beset by his own economic troubles, had to concede that better rela tions with the United States could oMn new economic chan nels for Ihe "building of social ism." Hasn't Poland received millions of dollars in American aid for more than a decade? President Tito of Yugoslavia, Italy's lop Red Palmiro Togli atli and olher Western Commu nists continue to back Khrush chev's policy of peaceful coex istence. Rut dogmatic Reds like Gomulka now insist that Presi dent Kennedy's deatli must in evitably result in a change in American foreign policy. Lyn don It. Johnson, a Texas Demo BERRY'S WORLD "It nain't until I learned modeitf that I iwcomt h greatest:" crat and a seasoned pragmatic politician, hardly qualilies as a "liberal" in their Martfist-I.cn-inist hook. 1 President Johnson assured Premier Khrushchev in a spe cial message that he will carry on President Kennedy's efforts to improve relations between Ihe t inted States and Russia. He also repeated his assurance in a personal conversation in Washington with Kirst Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, Khrushchev's friend and per sonal emissary. Some specialists on Russia be lieve that the President's friend ly gesture will strengthen Khru shchev's position in the Cen tral Committee amf may even postpone the long-awaited show down between the Kremlin's re visionists and pro-Chinese dog m.il ists. The Soviet premier is appar ently in no hurry to make peace with his Chinese rival. For the preslnl at least he seems to be more concerned with East-West trade and Amer ican economic aid than with Mao's threats. Khrushchev is undoubtedly aware of reports reaching Hril ain and olher Western govern ments that Red China's leader is gravely ill. He hinted as much recently when, alter say ing that politicians are limited by liistory and that only time will tell whether Man or he was Ihe bolter revolutionist, he add ed: "It even seems to me that litis won't take very long." Ways To Improve The following are my sugges tions on the "Searching inquiry jwrformcd by a special com mittee on ways to improve Klamath County." 1. Budget several thousand dollars per year to advertise the recreational facilities and the in dustrial advantages of Klamath County in various media I such as leading newspacrs, maga zines and TV throughout the en lire country). 1 am in a position to meet many people from all over these United States. These people, before coming to Klam ath Falls, had never heard of it before (even those who came from as near as Southern Cali fornia!, ft pays to advertise, the returns will be ten-fold. I be lieve that Southern California is the greatest potential. 2. Raise the wages of indus trial and commercial employes to compare with similar wages of those in areas north and south of here. According to the Army-Air Force Wage Board . survey, the Klamath Falls area wages arc lower than any other area in the West Coast states lymi re pi jy By MARQUIS CIIII.DS WASHINGTON With the po litical landscape shattered by the events of the past 10 days the ruin of the old order pre sents a confusing and uncertain picture. The Republican high torn mand, largely taken over by (he Goldwater wing of the party, had planned a campaign attack ing the Kennedy dynasty. It would be interesting to know how many thousands, or hun dreds of thousands, of those posters showing the three lock ing chairs, one for each of the Kennedy officeholders, had al ready been printed. Chairman William Miller of the Republican National Com mittee was blasting the Kenne dy family for permitting such indignities as the twist in the White House. In short, every sign was that it would be made an intensely personal campaign. While Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, the only avowed candidate for Ihe nomination, was calling lor n constructive alternative to Ihe Kennedy policies, his voice seemed then to be a voice cry ing in the w ilderness. But even before the tragedy conscientious Republicans had become deeply disturbed by the growing power of the forces within their party bent on pur suing a course from which there could be no turning hack. No one had followed the stam pede of the Goldwateritcs to lock up the Presidential nomina tion for their man with greater apprehension than Sen. Thomas Kuchel of California. His associ ates felt that alter the Christ mas recess, when he could con sult with his political allies Barbarians At The Ity Itltl'CK ItlOSSAT A lot of people do not like any effort to find parallels be tween the decline of tile Roman Empire and the troubles of Western civilization today. But some long viewers keep trying. They single out the period from about 200 A ll. on. long before the empire really had crumbled and the barbarian in vaders were at Rome's gates. It was a lime ol prosperity for city and empire. Living wore a high gloss. The second ol Ihe two great classical civili zations oflerod a bright facade. Yet behind it. moral decay already was far advanced. Cor ruption was a commonplace. Standards of conduct bad sunk perilously low. Most of those who governed lacked either the will or the capacity to miose QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS At what age did Mnrart begin composing symphonies? A-AI 8. At 12. he eomosrd an opera, "La Finta Semplicc." Q Why dn Ihe Chinese observe Oct. 10 as Independence Day? , It commemoraies the anni versary of the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty in 1911. Q When was the lirsl erumenl ral council held? A In the year 12. at Nicaea. The last one was held at Home in IW9-70. Q What wa Ihe medieval equivalent nf tralav's labor un. Ion? A Associations called guilds. Q Whal pen-miner ol Ihe population lives In Ihe slate here II was born? A Nationwide, i 5 per cent. including Washington. Oregon and California. Believe me this is a true picture as they are real thorough with their survey. Check the civilian personnel of fice at Kingsley Field for verifi cation. 3. Lower the prices of fuel oils and gasoline within one cent per gallon of Portland prices. It costs approximately one-half cent per gallon freight for oil from Portland to here, this is according to the SP rail road dispatcher. People are aware of this, especially new comers, tfiis little factor tends to induce them to move on. 4. Lower price of building ma terials to compare with those in Ihe Medford area. It is a known fact that a person can drive over to the Medford area with a truck and haul the materials hack, saving at least 20 per cent. A lot of business is lost by the local building materials dealers on this account. To ver ify this check the trucks that are hauling daily over the Green Springs. This tends to dis courage newcomers from set tling and building in this area. 5. Install adequate street light WASHINGTON CALLING Goldwater Drive Halted back home, he w ould declare for Governor Rockefeller as a rally ing point. Kuchel is unique in several respects. He is the only Repub lican to hold a high slate-wide office. While Richard Nixon was being defeated for governor in 1962 by 250.000 votes. Kuchel was re-elected to the Senate by a majority of 750.000. In a forthright Senate speech he spoke out against the ex tremists and the kooks noisily infesting the right wing of Cali fornia's brilliantly colored politi cal spectrum. That speech and one that followed helped to ex plode some of the crude Inyths about Communist conspirators propagated by the extremists. It won national attention and also letters of such virulence and violence as to document the Senator's point. Kuchel saw those same ele ments rushing in, under cover of the Goldwater candidacy. In take control of the party in Cali fornia. That was a development he could not view with detach ment, since his role as the only Republican who has had Ihe ap proval of the voters is directly at stake. But the already complex pic lure was further complicated by a large and determined figure. Former Sen. William F. Know land had made himself the Paul Revere of the Goldwater move ment in California. In his zeal he was making forays around the country warning that only Barry could hall Ihe menace of the New Frontier. While Know land lost the governorship by a million votes in 1058, he is still influential and his Oakland Tri bune is one of the most power more than superficial order. The seeds of destruction had germinated and were growing. Rome's greatness bad hist its power and vigor even as its surface added sheen. When the invaders struck, they crush ed an empty shell. The Americans and Western Europe are not Rome. T h c West's power is immense and still growing. It too has a bright facade new buildings, new products of industry, new leaps into space and other unknowns by science. But this also is something of a false front, though to a less er degree than was true in third-century Rome. We live in an era where, in creasingly, crime and corrup tion not only exist but are wide ly tolerated. While we comfort ourselves with llic "only a mi nority does it" excuse, the nlv solute number of transgressors multiplies enormously. Often- guilt in high public places is cither not acknowl edged or not understood by the guilty. Some men, admitting guilt, seem to think a proper rcsponc is to say they wi 1 1 cease misbehaving when others do. Lines between acceptable be havior and misconduct are fuz zily drawn. A suburbanite can see no dilterence between push ing a friend into a swimming pool at a party and thousands o( dollars worth of vicious van dalism done to an expensive home. Morality weakens at all eco nomic levels, in all parts of this land. Knowing the burden will lall on insurance tirms, and be widely spread in higher premi ums (or all, juries award fan tastic sums to the injured in automobile accidents. But a sur vey in one city shows juries seldom impose stiff penalty on persons who have killed others in such accidents. Manners sag along with mor ing in Klamath Falls. (The street lighting in this area is sub standard'. For example: the two cross walks on South Sixth Street at Safeway and a tavern are very poorly illum inated and marked, constituting a very dangerous hazard es pecially during the winter months. Have heard many com ments on this from newcomers. 6. Improve recreational areas at the high lakes such as roads, lodges and camping facilities. The county could budget several thousand dollars per year for this. This would tend to bring many more tourists in this area and encourage them to stay longer. The word of mouth works wonders. 7. With the Cod given recrea tion areas in this vicinity, Klam ath County could be the leading resort in these United Stales with the proper management and advertisement. Name Withheld. No Sympathy In response In Naomi M. Bean's letter of Dec. 2. 1963. ful Republican organs in the slate. Kuchel had been shown re ports of a speech Knowland made in Mobile, Ala., to a draft-Goldwater organization. To say he was dismayed is putting it mild. To a cheering audience Knowland was quotedas saying: "I believe that in your hands rests the salvation of the na tion.", He was also applauded when he said that "every American citizen has guaranteed rights, and civil rights are more broad than racial rights." Predicting a quick and easy victory for Gold water at the San Francisco con vention, Knowland went on to say, according to the newspaper reports, that the Senator from Arizona "will have all 86 dele gates from California." This was, of course, a direct chal lenge to Kuchel. That statement assumed that Knowland would determine the fate of the delegation of the largest state in the Union. And that state, according to the reck oning of the recent past, could have been the key not only to Ihe nomination but to the elec tion. That was the past. The Re publican party in 1964 cannot run against the Kennedy dynas ty. President Johnson will be a difficult target to fix on, since be will have been in the office so short a time before the elec tion. If the Republican parly has a hopeful future in the coming year it rests with men like Sena tor Kuchel and Governor Rocke feller. That is to say. with men who know w hat it takes to win elections. Gate als. Much public behavior to day finds the individual moving as if in a magic capsule, indif ferent to all about him. A civilization, in its biggest acts and its smallest, is made and maintained by men who care. Relatively, they are a di minishing number in our life to day. If we do not lind more of them, the troublesome "minor ity" may become a majority one day. Then Ihe power and vigor and spirit of this great civilization would he gravely menaced. Almanac By United Press International Today is Sunday, Dec. 8. the .142nd day of 1963 with 23 to follow. The moon is approaching its new phase. The evening stars are Jupiter, Saturn and Veins. On this day in history: In 1776, George Washington crossed the Delaware River, near Trenton, N.J., and landed on Pennsylvania soil. In 1863. President Ianeoln an nounced his plan for reconstruc tion of the South, a plan pro viding for amnesty to all those who were part of tlie Confeder ate rebellion except the highest leaders. In 1886. delegates from 25 la bor unions founded the Amori can Federation of Labor at Co lumbus. Ohio. In 1949. the Chinese National ist government defeated by the Communists, moved its head quarters Item the mainland lo Formosa. A thought for the dav Presi dent Lincoln said: "Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." Lee Oswald was a know n Communist. He denounced the I'nited States of America, he defected to Russia, and you, N.B., ask how many tears have fallen and how many prayers were offered for his soul. I of fcred none! My tears are for the veterans in V.A. hospitals who lost an arm, a leg, a piece of their mind and much more. Some w ill never know the freedom they fought so hard to get, other than the confines of a hospital ward. My prayers are for the souls of men who gave their lives for the free country we live in to day. These men ' speak of did nut denounce our country, did not delect to our enemies as Lee Oswald did. Whether or not Lee Oswald is proven guilty of the assassina tion, I for one will not mourn a known Communist. As for your sentiments as stal ed in the editorial column. Lee Oswald would have laughed he- "Only Thing Changed Around Here Is The Name On The Door!" State'Editors Report Faculty Salaries fCnrvallis Gazelle Times) ' With higher education budget culling in Ihe limelight, faculty salaries are a matter of interest not only to those who receive them, but also lo the general public. Even here in Corvallis we have heard several non-academic people talk loosely about $20,000 a vear as if everyone on the staff received payments in that neighborhood. At least local people should know the truth. A study of salaries in higher education institutions in the Pacific Northwest has been compiled by the American Association of Univer sity Professors for 1962-1963. Here is some of the information with which they have come up: The average compensation at Oregon State is $9,081 per year with the compensation per student at S575. The average com pensation at the University of Oregon is $9.4(14 with the average com pensation per student at $396. These salaries are higher than all the private colleges in Oregon except at Reed where the comparable figures are $9,723 per year with $1,079 cost per student. The salaries at Washington University average $10,710 and at Washington State $10,2.16. The average compensation per rank at Oregon State, according to this study, is as follows: Instructor. $5,510: Assistant Professor. $6,450: Associate Professor, $8,350: Professor, $11,090. These salarics vary according lo the length of time the particular individual has been with the stale system. According to this schedule, salaries at the University of Oregon average a little higher after the Instructor level. If there is a tend ency for teachers to remain longer there than at Oregon Slate, this might account for the difference. At both universities in the state of Washington, salaries average from one to two thousand dollars higher than Oregon salaries. Reed's are a little higher at the lower levels but about the same at higher levels. We asked IX-an Milosh Popovich at Oregon State if he could supply any further figures which might be of any interest. He gave us tlie mean figures in all categories, including Deans. These are as follows: Instructors (10 months), $6,183; Assistant Professors (10 months) $7,692: Associate Professors 10 months) $9,328: Professors HO months). $12,042: Deans (12 months) $18,238. Low for the Deans is $11,520 and high is $21,50(1, This might be where some of this talk about $20,000 salaries comes in but a man of a Dean's responsibilities cer tainly deserves a high salary. If the mean salary for Deans is $18, 218 we don't have very many in the highest bracket: we have only 16 Deans when all the vacancies are filled. We also phoned down to tlie chancellor's office to see if they could supply us with information on comparable salaries at other in stitutions. They evidently have some sort of an information exchange, with other state-owned universities all right, hut it is forbidden hyl agreement that these institutions be named. The list includes anony-I mous universities all over tlie country but they don't do much good' unless you actually know what ones they are talking about. '' It is interesting to note that among these institutions our salaries ranked 8ih in 1957 58 but had dropped down lo 14th by 1962-63. So let's not hear any more local talk alwut $20.ooo salaries at Oregon State. The mean lor all ranks is $9,075. He Deserves It j (Eugene Register Guard) ' Governor Hatfield is entitled to the ptolcition of stale police'. So is his family. This twaddle about tlie expense of providing guard for the governor's home is unleeling and unrealistic. As citizens we dare not target that his home was once fired! upon. At other times it has been defaced. He and hi family have' been (lie object of many threatening telephone calls. We cannot ask; that Ihe man w'c cIioom' to head our state government subject himself' and his family to this kind of thing unless we are also willing to olfer them protection. Also, it is well to remember how he happens lo have this guard around his home. The Legislature, on June 1. provided for it There were no dissenting voles. This means that even legislators who per sonally or politically, do not care for Mark Hatlield, still recognize" that he's the governor. VI the nuts in the world don't live in Texas Some live here.; Whal kind of person can aigue that for the sake of a lew dollars the' stale withdraw the security diil af3 pave tlie way for tragedy? cause Communists do not be lieve in Gud. Frank A. Huder, 2336 Green Springs Dr. Being Facetious At the time I wrote the arti cle entitled "Bow Technique" which appeared in a recent is sue of the "Herald and News," it never occurred to me that several statements which con tained tlie words "other great artists" and "my many admir ers" might be taken seriously and I hoe that such is not the case. 1 can assure tbe readers of this paper that they were not so intended and tlie last para graph should have convinced anyone that I was merely being facetious. ' Should I have shocked my vio lin playing friends and lovers of this noble instrument they have hut to realize that it is the seri ous things of life that are more often subjected to humor as when we kid our friends, it is but to emphasize their virtues. Harry Borel, 505 Alameda.
