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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1963)
PACE-4C HERALD Our Up and down West Coast Airlines' route complaints are being made that the com pany's service in recent months has left something to be desired. To some extent this is understandable a small line attempting to adequately serve small cities and towns between San Fran cisco and Seattle; from Boise to Great Falls. At points along the line, some days, no one boards or lands. And in some communities they are up against the "use it or lose it" clause. People either ride the airplanes that land there or give up the service. What is "bugging" some of the cities on West Coast's route, however, are those sporadic schedules. There have been a num ber of occasions recently where flights sud denly have been cancelled. A person might sit in the airport in Spokane headed for Great Falls, and have a West Coast passen ger agent cordially tell him that his flight to Great Falls will be delayed. Why? Because there is a shortage of planes and the one slated for Montana, first had to make the run from Spokane to Lewiston, Idaho, and return. In other areas complaints have been made in regard to the company missing or cancelling schedules. Gov. Robert E. Smylie, Idaho, said West Coast's schedules "are not convenient and the state may acquire its own fleet of air planes" to transport employees who now must travel the length and breadth of Idaho by automobile. A West Coast official was quoted as say ing in reply to the governor's remarks, "It's no secret. West Coast has gone through the most difficult period in its history." In many quarters West Coast has been criticized for buying into Pacific Airlines of California when, it was having troubles enough of its own. The company is defendant in an action filed by the enforcement divi sion of Civil Aeronautics Board which has ordered the airline to divest itself of major ity control of the California company. West Coast denies it has bought con trolling interest in Pacific. CAB contends West Coast in fact docs have the control and that it was bought in violation of CAB rules. Critics explain that the action has no WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK Gagsters Aim At By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAl First Republican pag on n e w President Lyndon Baines John son: "They're rushing la bring out a new L.B.J, doll in lime (or the Christmas trade. Have you heard uliout it?" . "No. What does I he doll do'.'" "You wind it up and watch io sec how fast it dames bark and forth, from North to South, across the Mason-Dixon Line." Victor Joluiston, executive di. rector ot tho Republican Sena torial CampaiRn Committee, did not realize until recently how far Gov. James Rhodes ot Ohio has carried his economy drive. Visiting tho governor In Co lumbus, Johnston pot a hearty invitation to lunch, lie de murred, saying he did not want to take up Rhodes' lime. When the governor insisted, Johnston gave way. Ho turned lo leave the otlice, sure they were heading (or one ot Rlrodes' (avorito restaurants. Johnston was met at the door by a secretary bearing two pa per sacks containing hambur gers. Said tlie governor: "Come on, Vic. Let's eat at my desk." A group of 1'entagonians wore discussing the report lhat Sec retary o( Defense Robert Mc Namara might be tlw Republi can presidential candidate in 1964. "Who would he get as cam paign manager?" someone . asked. A voice from the rear an swered: "He wouldn't need a cam paign manager. He'd Just rent a computer." The postman dropped a tired looking letter on tho desk of Marsha Brock, receptionist at the Draft Goldwater Committee headquarters in Washington. The envelope was stamped like a well-traveled euitrasc. The letter contained an an nouncement of the July 4 Cold- AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Airline Service particular connection with West Coast's serv ice in the area it serves but they do feel that expansion of its service area will hamper its performance even more. In a November editorial, the Tii-City Herald said: "The old joke flying is faster than walking but you don't get where you're going any sooner has lost its humor for Tri Citians who used to rely on West Coast Air lines. WCA's service in recent months has not been satisfactory." The Yakima Morning Herald said in . connection with a request that West Coast Airlines be permitted to operate a non-stop service between Seattle-Spokane and Portland-Spokane, that "West Coast should be forced to comply with scheduled operations here before being given 'flyover' privileges across the state." Part of West Coast's problem has been shortage of equipment. It has been attempt ing to get F-27 service into all points along the route it serves. DC-3's, however, are still being flown Into some of the cities the cities east of Spokane, for instance. Montana cities served by West Coast have been promised F-27 equipment for many months but unless they arrived with in the last couple of weeks the same old DCs are still doing the job. The Klamath Falls area has a big stake in West Coast. Many businessmen depend on the service it provides. The same is true of the general public. We are hopeful that the "dark days" de scribed by one of the company officials when lie was confronted by Governor Smylic's threat to buy a fleet of state airplanes is a thing of the past. We believe the governor's proposal is ill advised. From a positive point of view we can hope that the two F-27 prop jets which were out of commission earlier this month, now are back in service and in good operating condition. Bather than becoming involved with gaining control of another company wo fool West Coast should upgrade the serv ice in areas throughout the Northwest it now serves and where people are depending on it. water rally held in the capital under draft committee auspices. It had been sent June 3 to the Cambridge, Mass., home of Harvard Prof. J. Kenneth Gal braith, llien still serving as am bassador to India under Presi dent Ke'nncdy. Altogether the envelope bore 15 separate post oflieo mark ings, including Bombay and New Dchli in India, where it just missed tialbraith. Granting all its travels. Gold water workers were puzzled over tho letter's long orbit stretching over six months. A bigger mystery w as w hy it was ever sent to Galbruitli in the first place. For those congressmen who have -never been through an adjournment and for those wIki havo forgotten what adjourn ment is like, Rep. Joe Pool, D Tex., quotes a description of "Just think of !t os tht first BERRY'S WORLD Thursday, December II. IMS LBJ how conferees look in the cham. ber on tho last day of session. "It's right odd to look around and see the differences of faces on tins occasion. Some quit, thinking they have established a name in the nation and look satisfied; some quit, right glad to get home, and know they are coming back. "Some are restless and fidg ety, with a journal under their arm to take home, to prove how punctual they were: others are soberly and sadly calculat ing how they can travel down from their heights of political dignity to tlie level ot their constituents. Kcw have got more honor than they expected; many have got less." The author of this clear pic ture? Itep. Pool reveals H was none other than the famed frontiersman. Davy Crockett who penned these words while congressman from Tennessee in 18.11. thing on our Chrlstmat list!" Letters To The Thanks To Court To the parents of the subur ban area: We would like lo give a rousing cheer for the county court acting as boundary board in its actions toward the new reorganization plan dividing Klamath County into two school districts. We presented a petition to the county court Slay 10, lata, to withdraw our small area from the Klamath Union High School District and place it in the lien ley High School District. We found the court members very interested in tlie overcrowding of Klamath Union High School and in the special problems of the suburban area. We found them very willing to help us and very lair in their ideas and solutions to the over-all prob lem. Kor the past year and a half it has seemed like a hopeless situation with two bickering .school boards unable to solve their differences and an unwill ing public not ready to vote any relief for the double shifting at Klamath Union. We all know any school which is double shifting cannot possibly give the quality of education our chil dren need now. Our youngsters are now paying dearly for tlie procrastination of the past five years. We were surprised and pleased to find a group of three plucky people ready and willing to take on the almost impossi ble job of finding and working out an agreeable plan which would satisfy all parties con cerned. No matter how contro versial a situation was present ed to them, (lie members of tlie county court found an agree able solution. Now their plan is ready to present lo parents and the pub lie for approval. We urge you as parents to please attend these meetings planned hy the county court to educate the pub lic on tlieir new plan of reor ganization. let us not hear any more answers of "I guess 1 didn't understand what I was voting (or." or "It wasn't writ ten up tlie way 1 thought it should have been." Let's give them oiu' suggestions and sup port now! Tlie county court lias sent much time and effort to solve our problem, now it is up lo us to fully under stand its plan and to give our help. We arc also responsible for our children s education. Again we would like to thank tlie county court for its tireless eflorl and determination. Klam ath County needs more people like you! Let us hope your ef forts have not been in vain Eklon ami Lorraine Storey, 3KJ1 Hope Street. What Effect? It will be interesting to watch just how the deteated income tax bill will illicit education in the state. Legislators, educators, and some others predict an cf ticiency drop, curtailment of certain activities and subjects usually ottered by our schools, and various other economy moves pending. This might indicate a return to teaching the three Ks with more time devoted to the same and tlie lace removed from the book binders. Savings real, ized by the lace removal might be aptly applied to increasing teachers salaries. Good brains sell high! In any event, a return lo eco nomical ways would beneficial ly a: led the state as a whole. Psst When Does Your Divorce From the West Become Final?" including school systems. But one wonders if all that would have any affect on a school employing a teacher who fre quently removed an obedient student from his class functions because the student disturbed his methods by asking ques tions; or whether it would af fect a teacher who, assigned to teach a certain basic subject, chose to dispense with that sub ject and embark on a course entirely alien to that assign ment; or whether it would af fect a prevailing lack of teach ing policy, faculty discipline apparent throughout an institu tion; whether it would affect one major school in a county that has minimum athletic fa cilities when most other similar county schools are amply en dowed with such facilities by taxpayers' money; whether it would affect athletic supervi sion that favors unnecessary.. roughness; whether it would af- , feet the uncanny foresight re flected in a school psycholo gist's opinion that a pre-high school student is under the fin est teacher he will ever have; or whether it would affect a high school that provides totglly inadequate mathematics and science curriculum necessary for college entrance require ments? If the tax defeat effects any change at nil in 'academic ap proaches some might think it all for the best. Robert C. Moore. Box 735," Gilchrist, Ore. Appreciation I would like lo express my deep appreciation lo the long distance operators of the Paci fic Northwest Bell Telephone Company in Klamath Falls and out of town, who gave their help on difficult telephone con nections during the last s i x weeks while my husband, Jack Marsh, has been seriously ill in Pendleton. It has been necessary for me lo locate Navy personnel that I did not know and to make ether calls tliat were difficult lo put through. Not ence did any operator complain, or lack in courtesy during tlie crisis. I thank you all sincerely. Mrs. Jack (Janei -Marsh. C! Homedalc Road. No Christmas I can't imagine what this world is coming to. With the holidays so dose. 1 was look ing lorwaid to seeing tlie Twyla Ferguson School play. Tonight, my sister, who attends this school, told me there wouldn't bo a play. Why? Because they are not allowed to portray Je sus Christ. Where is the true meaning of Christmas? Is it not to cele brate the birth of our Saviour? Has it come that Santa Claus. is to replace Christ? Yes. the young learn about Christmas fust by beuig told about Santa But while tliey arc still young, that is tlx" time to teach tbeni that there is more to it than jus hut, presents and Santa Claus. May God forgive us. As a free people, we should express ourselves in our schools, as well as our homes ami churches. Tlke who do not wish to do so. don't have to. for those of us who believe, let us have our freedom of speech and worship. Tliese rights are ours througn the IVclarath'n of Independence. Editor For those of us who wish it, let's keep the true meaning of Christmas in our schools. The plays the children put on can help to keep our faith in man kind. Sirs. Joe Alt, 809 Owens Street. Happy Mother Tlianks lo a very sweet story written in your paper about a "lost dolly," our little girl will get a doll for Cliristmas. The last one was not relurned but a very kind person saw to jt that she would get one anv way. This should be a good lesson to other shoppers to keep an eye on their packages and by all means lock their car doors also, for there are those who will take what does not belong to them without a second ..thought. Then again there arc others that give with their hearts and, though unknown, I would like to wish them the same Merry Christmas they have given my little girl. A Happy Mother. Tell Us How - In a recent letter to the edi tor by "Name Withheld" seven suggestions were made to im prove Klamath County. Prob ably all had merit, but all cost money. If "Name Withheld" would just tell us how to raise the money instead of merely budg eting it. we could get on from there. Unless, of course, t h c answer is higher taxes, some thing citizens have turned down recently. T. S. Durment Purely Personal Prejudices; Our understanding of the nature of "law" has sunk so low in this country that Dallas lawyers were afraid to accept the de fense ol Oswald for fear that public disapproval would ruin their careers a pathetic com mentary on the ignorance and prejudice so deeply imbedded in this presumably "civilized" na tion. Another illuminating aspect of the recent tragedy was tlie way in which people spoke of "his tory" in tlie sense of "I thought such tilings happened only in history" without any con sciousness that today is history, also, and that each individual act performed in the present is on integral part of the closely woven fabric of history. Speaking of this short-sighted attitude, we ousht to keep in mind tlie remarkably apt savin; of Thomas Arnold a century ao: "Two things we s h o u I d learn from history one, that we are not in ourselves superior lo our fathers; another, that we arc shamefully and monstrously interior to lliem, if we do not advance beyond them." And the final twist of irony in the whole macabre episode is (he general agreement that President Kennedy would have been saler paradini down the streets of Moscow than he was .within our own national bor ders. Many people are willing to be generous who are not willing to Demos National Meet To Open Veep Choice By DORIS KLEESON WASHINGTON The Demo c r a t i c National Committee meeting scheduled here for Jan. 4 seems destined to open to tlie loud beat of vice presidential drums. This could prove greatly to the disadvantage of President Johnson as he seeks to estab lish himself as leader of hr s party. Everywhere he looks, in cluding his own South, there are political holes to be plugged and factions to be conciliated. Nor can he be sure in what area his major problems will lie by the time of the national convention next summer. First in tlie vice presidential field are backers of big-state officeholders who happen to be Catholic. The list, which is grow ing fast, includes Govs. Ed mund i Pat) Brown of California and Richard Hughes of New Jersey, Mayors Robert Wagner of New York and Richard Da ley of Chicago. Tlie claims of others who thus qualify are sure to follow. Massachusetts has two Ken nedys: Tlie Attorney General and Senator Edward. Illinois has a Kennedy brother-in-law, Sargent Shrivcr, widely admired for his job w ith the Peace Corps. Ohio offers tlie experi enced cx - mayor of Cleveland who is HEW secretary in tlie present Cabinet, Anthony Cele brezzc. While Minnesota would surely put (irst its senior senator, Hu bert Humphrey, it has a dark horse in its junior senator, Eu gene McCarthy, who is a liber al like Humplu-ey and a Catho lic like the Kennedys.' The Johnson pitfalls in deal ing with this situation are ob vious. It is early, but once men t WASHINGTON REPORT By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON Tlie hereto fore unidentified "top - ranking Communist" who swapped let ters with Lee Harvey Oswald is a veteran revolutionary once convicted of leaching the vio lent overthrow of the U.S. gov ernment. He is Arnold Samuel Johnson, w ho, it can be revealed on ex cellent authority, wrote Oswald from Communist Parly head quarters in New York. Johnson urged Oswald to "keep in touch" as he moved back and forth from Dallas to New Orleans. While the John son letters indicate Oswald was not under Communist Party dis cipline, they do show him to be a dedicated Marxist. Johnson was indicted in 1951, and convicted in 1953, of violat ing tlie Smith Act. The prosecu tion showed that Johnson was loyal to a foreign power and that he had taught the violent overthrow of the federal gov ernment. He served three years in prison, getting out in 1937. Johnson acts now as the Com munist Party's legislative direc tor and serves as a member of the party's national committee. STRICTLY PERSONAL. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS be just; tlieir generosity is the price they agreeably pay for w ithholding justice when it suits tlieir purpose. For all the furor about "edu cation" in this country, ask a dozen persons what, in their estimation, the proper end of education is. and you will receive a dozen different answers: un til we can agree on the goal, how can we evolve any rational program or even know what we are talking about when we use the word "education"? A marriage will flourish when it is composed of two persons who will nurse each other; it may even survive when one is nurse and the other an invalid; but it is sure to collapse when it consists of two invalids, each needing a nurse. Those who inordinately enjoy Murdi Gras and such masked lestivals must feel extremely repressed when dressed in ci vilian clothes with tlieir faces showing: for it is only when they are costumed and masked that they (eel tree to express themselves a curious psycho logical reversal, when conceal ment becomes a form of dis closure. We succeed best in those en terprises which not merely call upon our virtues and talents, but which also in some way are able to make Use o( our de fects, as. for instance, the neu rotic psychoanalyst who em ploys his defect in the service o( his craft. tioned for high place, the best of men tend to develop a vest ed interest in their absolute claim to it. As might be expected, a small rally is taking place among liberals backing Senator Humphrey. Tliey argue his case on the ground of experi ence and ability to take over as president, asserting a belief that under tlie circumstances t h e country can be expected to pay much more attention to the vice president's capacity to lead the country. The President's doctors are going bond for his present good health, but it is, of course, a fact that lie liad a serious heart attack some years ago. Tile claim of some Demo crats that a Catholic has some kind of vested right to join Johnson on the 1964 slate is called invalid by others. One pro-Humphrey senator puts it lhat "our credentials on the Catholic question are settled. We have just given the coun try its first Catholic president. Tlie next man in the presiden tial succession. Speaker MeCor mack, is a Catholic. He is Sen ate Democratic leader Mans field. Our national chairman is Catholic." A labor admirer of Senator Humphrey ' suggests that the President is stamped a conser ative by reason of his long ca reer when representing Texas. He points darkly to business ad miration for the new Chief Executive and argues that a lib eral identification on the ticket will be more useful than a mail's religion. Vice presidential discussion of this type is inevitable when tlie country has no vice president. It does offer a hard test of Johnson's domestic diplomacy. Top Ranking Red Oswald Pen Pal When my associate. Bill Schulz, phoned Johnson to ask about the Oswald letters, an aide in formed Mr. Schulz that Johnson was "unavailable for any com ment." It was not the first time that Johnson has clammed up. On May Day, 1962, the grey-haired party official was scheduled to appear on a New York radio show. The program host, Barry Gray, had arranged to have Herb Romerstein, a staunch anti-Communist, debate with the party spokesman. Johnson stalked off the program when told he would share the mike with Romerstein, a former Com munist who serves now as an expert consultant to various government security agencies. Note: Another Oswald pen pal was Vincent Theodore Lee, head of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Lee first denied any knowledge of Oswald, who was arrested once for passing out Fair Play leaflets in New Or leans. Lee then discovered in his files six letters from Oswald, and turned them over to the FBI. Sleanwhile, federal author ities had uncovered letters from Lee among Oswald's effects. The letters carried instructions on setting up local Fair Play chapters. Lee has never been identified as a Communist. In an appear ance before the Senate Internal Subcommittee, however, Lee took the Fifth Amendment more than 75 times in refusing to an swer questions. He ducked quer ies on Communist Party mem bership and on Cuban assist ance to his "independent" group. Nelson Rockefeller has served notice he will seek convention delegates from tlie District of Columbia in his fight for the Republican presidential nomina tion. Rockefeller has not said so publicly, but Carl Shipley, the local Republican chief, has an. nounced flatly that Rocky will run in a District of Columbia primary. Shipley, a lawyer, has close legal lies with tlie Rocke feller family and is thought fa vorable to Rocky. Barry Goldwater has long been considered a top . heavy favorite in any D C. primary contest with Rockefeller. One Republican leader said shortly beicrc the assassination of Pres ident Kennedy that Goldwater had 70 per cent of tlie local GOP behind him. Rocky has no orcanization in the District. Neither does Gold water. Leaders of tlie local Young Republican Organization, however, can be expected to thro w their support behind Goldwater. In many sections of tlie District. Youns'Republicans make up tlie only precinct or ganization for the GOP. Tlie current Young Republi can National Chairman, Bui LuKens. is a District resident. He won election earlier this year by labeling himself a Gold water man.
