HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath FtlU. Ore.
Suidty, December XI, 1963
PAGE-I
Hope Chest
WASHINGTON REPORT . .
On-Again, Off -Again
Wheat Deal Looks On
1
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Pesky
Dunsmuir as booted out the parking
meters!
These long cussed and discussed pieces
of equipment have been both the bane and
the blessing of motorists wherever they are
located.
In Dunsmuir, where the fight has been
raging for some time to get the parking me
ters removed, the city is substituting instead
a sign that says "Welcome to Dunsmuir . . .
Home of the Best Water on Earth."
Mayor Dave Anderson commented after
the council had moved to outlaw the meters,
"I'm glad to get this thing settled and as
everyone already knows, I hate parking me
ters." In Dunsrnuir's case it was a matter of
self-survival to a certain degree. The bypass
moved traffic around the town where before
traffic moved through the town.
In Klamath Falls' downtown area, we
find the opening of Park and Shop parking
lots has eased the parking situation to a
great degree.
The meters still remain, however, and
do constitute a big aid to proper traffic en
forcement. The revenue from the meters, though,
appears to be declining in recent years. In
the city's figures for the fiscal year 1960-61.
parking meter revenue was In excess of
?91,000. In 1961-62 it rose to over $100,000.
It was about then that the parking lots
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1 WILLIAM S.
Military Cut May
By WILLIAM S. WHITE
WASHINGTON To back up a
Secretary of Defense he gladly
inherited from the Kennedy Ad
ministration. President Johnson
has taken his first politically
dangerous decision.
This is his approval of Secre
tary Robert McNamara's order
for a wholesale closing of non
essential military bases to save
$106 million a year. No such
deep and wide fall of the econo
my axe in this sensitive area
has occurred since the second
World War.
The cries of members of Con
gress and Senators from dis
tricts and stales most painfully
affected now understandably
rend the Washington air. The
sweat of worry, more over,
gleams from the brows of some
of the President's purely politi
cal advisers. These had frankly
hoped he would not carry his
budget-cutting drive to quite this
point, and had urged as much.
Their reasons were cogently
put; military bases, with the
federal spending they bring to
Use Of Merry Xmas
Stems From Greeks
By DON OAKLEY
Seldom during this particular
season of the year does a news
paper fail to receive at least
one sincere and indignant letter
complaining about someone's us
ing the word "Xmas."
Most likely the word was seen
on a hastily scrawled sign ad
vertising Christmas trees. For
most stnreowners and certain
ly all newspapers have learned
to shy away from this abbrevi
ation, which in recent years has
come to be viewed as almost a
smear against beliefs cherished
by Christians.
A little investigating into the
origin of the word tells a great
deal, not only about language
but about people. We are too lit
tle aware of the w ays in which
words and spellings are links
connecting us with other human
beinss who lived hundreds of
years before us.
Contrary to the common mis
conception, the, "X" in Xmas
stand not (or an unknown fac
tor and is certainly not a slur
on the name of Christ, devised
either through malice or lazi
ness. Nor is it another capitalistic
denigration of the "meaning of
Christmas" nor a Communist
plot. It is the Greek letter chi,
which is the first letter in the
word christos, from which we
derive our word "Christ."
Tie use of X to stand for
Christ began in the early days
of Christianity when persecu
tion drove the believers under
Parking Meters
began to take hold, and in 1962-63 the
amount from this source had fallen to $94,
000. This actually was $80,000 from the me
ters with a $14,000 cash carryover. For 1963
64 the city budgeted only $80,000 from the
meters.
The steady decline in revenue from this
source indicates that use of the downtown
parking lots is picking up and taking up a
great deal of the parking slack.
The meters are a highly controversial
matter, and the object on which many a
motorist has vented his wrath at the sight
of that little square ticket under his wind
shield wiper greeting him upon his return.
However, one must examine both sides
of the coin.
If the meters were not there, store own
ers and employes would then park in front
of their business places and leave no room
for the customer.
Some method of traffic control is neces
sary, that's obvious, and the city fathers
have attempted to fill all the needs. They
have installed 12-minute meters around
busy, quick turnover traffic areas. 30-min-ute
meters on the corners and two-hour me
ters away from the busy business section.
While meters are not the best public
relation builders in the world, they do pro
vide a method of orderly traffic control
without which parking places might be hard
to find.
WHITE
communities and states, are sa
cred cows in Congress. Worse
yet, in this unexampled case of
cutting down in 14 states, five
of these states New York, Cali
fornia, Illinois, Texas and Ohio
are also five of the biggest,
and most critical in electoral
votes.
Why, then, did President John
son allow it; and how does he
feel now about things in general
and Secretary McNamara in
particular? Far from inept as
a practical politican. it was a
poignant thing to him to open
this first hour of discord in his
heretofore warm relationship
with Congress. Far from insen
sitive, he privately does not hide
his discomfort that in this epi
sode he has had to anger not
merely influential members of
Congress but in some cases in
fluential members who are also
old personal friends.
And he is not exactly made
happy . by his awareness that
three of the five really big
states hit New York, Illinois
and Texas went Democratic in
ground literally in Rome. The
cult was forced to take on the
aspects of a secret society.
X was also considered a rev
erent sign because it was a re
minder of the cross on which
Christ was crucified.
Shown here are two chris
mons, or monograms, of Christ
and another early symbol found
in Roman catacombs. The first
combines the Greek letters I
and X ilesous and CHristos'.
Christos in Greek letters looks
something like XP1STOS. The
second letter, rho, resembles an
English "p" but is pronounced
like an "r." Thus the second
chrlsmon combines chi and rho,
the first two letters of XPISTOS.
It is often seen even today.
An important symbol in early
Christianity was the fish in
Greek, ichthys. Each of the
Greek letters stands for a word
in the name and title of Christ:
lesous CHristos. THeou HYios.
Soter Jesus Christ, Son of God,
Savior. Again note the X.
Scholars and monks continued
In use the symbol X as short
hand for Christ down throujh
the Middle Ages, long after
Christianity was established in
Rome As early as the llth cen
tury. Christmas was referred to
as Xms
Actually, it is a symbol hoary
with age and inextricably linked
with "the hopes and feari of all
the years" and of the countless
generations that have lived and
died in the 20 centuries unci
the first "Xmas."
Be Risky
the last Presidential election
and that the fourth and fifth,
California and Ohio, are on his
"must" list for his own cam
paign for 1964.
Still, there were, as he sees
it, more controlling factors.
First when he set out to slim
the budget he meant it. Second,
he knew that the most rational
area for savings is within the
military establishment and thai
this country is dotted with ex
pendable military bases which
could be closed without the
slightest harm to national secur
ity. Third he had long heard the
clamor from Congress that Con
gress wanted "economy" as the
price of approving the Kennedy
Johnson tax-cutting bill. Fourth,
and by no means least import
ant, he had, all through the
Kennedy Administration, closely
observed Secretary McNamara
and had formed a deep admira
tion for his determination to do
what was right as he saw it, ir
respective of political considera
tion. After the first Cabinet meet
ing of the old administration
nearly three years ago, Mr.
Johnson told a friend: "A man
in this new Cabinet to tie to is
McNamara. I saw him in action
this morning and I think I know
what I am talking about. If I
were the President I would put
in my stack with him. (This
Texas expression means that
when a poker player has abso
lute confidence in his hand he
shoves into the pot every chip
he has; he is going all the
way. )
So, the new President has. in
deed, put in his stack with Mc
Namara. He knew it was a cal
culated risk politically. But he
also knew that mere talk about
reducing federal spending would
avail him little, with country or
Congress. He understands that
place. Congress, as few Presi
dents have ever understood U.
Especially he understands the
plain (act of life, notwithstand
ing all wistful notions to the con
trary, that powerful conserva
tives ultimately control its tax
policies and that when they de
mand demonstrated economies
before they pass a tax bill they
mean what they say and are
fully capable to proving they
mean it.
But, in the end, it always
comes back to this: The Presi
dent also thinks McNamara
knows what he it talking about
when he says these bases can
he closed with no hurt to secur
ity. It is conceivable that some
exceptions may be made in
the closing order, if at and when
McNamara can be convinced
that there are overriding rea
sons. But. In any event, no such
pressure is going to come from
the White House.
Letters To The Editor . . .
School Dispute
Some weeks ago, Lyle Smith
wrote a letter to the editor. In
this letter he pointed out the
(acts, as he saw them, relative
to the transfer of Art Millard
from his job of principal at Pe
terson Elementary School to
the job of principal of Chiloquin
Elementary.
As a member of Peterson
School committee I would like
to state that I agree with the
statements made by Mr.
Smith. I would also like to ex
press some of my observations
and opinions of Uiis action.
As most people know, each
school has an elected school
committee. These committee
members are parents of chil
dren going to the school and
have a close relationship to the
school. One of their duties is to
relay any parental dissatisfac
tion with the school or its staff
to the county superintendent. In
March they usually meet and
accept or reject the staff for
the coming school year. Their
powers are advisory and not
binding, and they try to repre
sent the thinking of the majori
ty of the parents. The Peterson
committee met Uiis spring and
did approve the teacher selec
tions and assumed the princi
pal, Art Millard, would be re
tained. It therefore came as a
surprise when Die transfer of
Mr. Millard was noted, as we
had not been informed of the
action. This came about after
the close of the school year.
Here are some of the points
raised when this situation came
up:
1. Art Millard had been princi
pal of Peterson School since
its first occupancy in 1951.
2. It was generally known
that Peterson was a well - run
school.
3. Mr. Millard had turned
down opportunities lor advance
ment so that he might remain
at Peterson.
4. No parents had expressed
dissatisfaction. Many had ex-,
pressed confidence in Mr. Mil
lard. 5. No formal charges were
filed, therefore no chance for
defense.
6. This places a definite cloud
on a person's ability and char
acter and regardless of his ex
perience and ability it hurts his
"I'm trying f get info
chances for work In other dis
tricts. 7. There seems to be no re
course for teachers in a situa
tion like this. A hearing was
held, everyone that spoke was
very much in support of Mr.
Millard but the county board
did nut reconsider its action.
8. This action created (ear
and unrest among many of the
principals and teachers of the
county school district because
it appeared based upon person
al differences and not on actual
performance on the job.
As parents and interested cit
izens, we can not do too much
about this action at this time.
The man that replaced Mr. Mil
lard at Peterson, Mr. Frank
Hale, is also a dedicated edu
cator and deserves our support.
I do feel that we should try to
prevent future happenings of
this type and should elect a
county hoard that will carry
out the wishes of the citizens of
the community.
Robert B. Kennedy,
5013 South Etna St.
Birds As Food
Arriving in Brittany one sun
set at a wayside inn, dinner
was skylark pie. c objected
eating sweet songsters. Our host
said: "You refuse. That does
not put them back singing in
the sky!" We nevertheless ale
only potatoes.
Latin countries lack Saxon
land's love of birds. We move
at snail's pace "South-of-the-Rio
Grande," trying to conserve our
migrants there. We ourselves
once did but little better. When
passenger pigeons were a dimc-a-dozen
in pioneer Chicago, pig
eon pie was cheap.
Go to the land of hush pup
pies, of catfish frys. Cross Dixie
to proceed through Cuba's royal
palm forest to Batabano sponge
fishery. There they serve you
fish cooked in paper bags, with
a dessert of Islc-o-Pines fresh
pineapple, dripping wilh "pine"
honey. You then will still hear
of dishes based on green tur
tle. Fished to near extinction. Na
tional Parks now save these
toothsome turtles. Virgin Islands
National Park recently planted
1,200 babies. Each can grow to
a 'j ton. One Dixie university
hatched 20.000 eggs.
When undersigned last was in
the Chrhtmos spirit."
; v i ;.I,..v.-.v.o-,".
Everglades National Park, a
friend suggested calling on a
banana fleet owner. His first
question was turtles. "I keep
one boat on turtles. We catch
them on Central America banks.
When a darky catches one,
he flops it on its back, marks
his sign and the date. We corral
them in a Caribbean island
close to Florida. Sometime, one
escapes. He then works his way
over sealloor back to his home,
700 miles away. This skipper
knows the turtle has no com
passes. Do your books tell?"
Scientists still have much to
learn. Above 1,200 baby turtles,
however, arc growing. Those 20,
000 eggs arc given care. U.S.A.
lurlhcr has a self-guiding un
dersea nature trail with bright
colored corals in Virgin Islands
National Park. A high Washing
ton official, underwater in skin
diving outfit, cut the ribbon
while brilliant tropical fish kept
their thoughts to themselves.
C. M. Goethe,
Sacramento, Calif.
Patriots
In reply to your request for
expressions of opinion regard
ing the need to Include ac
counts of the exploits of early
American patriots like Patrick
Henry. Nathan Hale, and John
Paul Jones in school history
texts, I regard this as essential
to the well being of our nation.
Let me explain why.
These men lived In a time
when Americans had been liv
ing under tyranny. Having
lived with tyranny they knew
full well the value of a system
of government "deriving its
just powers from the consent of
the governed." 'Hie accounts of
these men are an essential part
of an understanding of Ameri
can History because Uiey
showed what they believed, by
laying their very lives on the
line. Their principal concern
was not about security, or an
easy way of life; they were
concerned with freedom from
tyranny.
An author that fails to even
mention these men, it seems,
would miss the very essence of
the American Revolution and
the basic philosophy of the Con
stitution of the U.S.A. How can
a text that misses these be ac
ceptable to any educator that
believes in our present govern
ment of the people, by the peo
ple and for the people?
Glenn C. Miller,
6010 Shasta Way.
It's The Water
As a harried husband should
be on a Saturday morning, I
was busy scrubbing the wall to
wall carpet. A neigh bor
dropped over and observed how
nice the carpet looked. My
wile (in an effort to convey that
she had worked very hard
on the accomplishment), of
fered the neighbor the solution
to all her cleaning problems.
She handed her the pan I had
been using to hold the solution
I cleaned the rug with.
When the neighbor appeared
at the door that evening to
thank my wife for introducing
her to this magic cleaner, I
was wide-eyed with wonder,
and could not contain myself,
the pan I had been using I had
cleaned thoroughly, and left the
pan and the brush soaking in
clean water. This site had giv
en the neighbor. To restrain a
laugh at the time would have
been to the detriment of my in
tides. All 1 could do was meek
ly offer it as a solution to any
bathing problems the may have
also.
James J. Walthrop,
4426 Crosby Ave.
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
WASHLNGTOX The on-again-off-again
wheat deal looks on
again.
The administration appears
ready to capitulate on its de
mand that SO per cent of all
wheat sold to the Soviets be
carried by U.S. freighters.
In a little-noticed move the
Commerce Department has told
the Hungarian Reds that they
may carry 91 per cent of their
wheat back home in foreign
bottoms.
The department informed a
Minneapolis export firm, Car
gill, Inc., It could ship 91.000
tons of a 100,000-ton purchase to
Hungary in Communist bloc
ships.
Newsmen who query the Com
merce Department are told
there are not enough U.S. ships
available. Nonsense, says Max
Harrison, head of the Ameri
can Maritime Association. He
claims to have informed Cargill
that U.S. bottoms were avail
able, and was ignored.
Labor has joined management
to protest Uie Commerce De
partment's action.
Joseph Curran. head of the
AFL-CIO maritime committee,
shot off an angry letter to La
bor Secretary V. Willard Wirtz
in which he labeled false the
claim that American ships were
not available. He said U.S. ships
have been offered to Cargill,
and "have been refused without
justification."
Curran told Wlrtz the Hungar
ian "waiver directly violates the
objectives clearly set forth by
the Kennedy Administration, ob
jectives which the new admin
istration had pledged to up
hold." American shippers are con
vinced a similar waiver will be
made for the Soviets, w ho have
indicated they will buy no grain
if forced to use U.S. ships to
carry some of it home.
Comptroller General Joseph
Campbell, head of the watch
dog General Accounting Office,
reports that the Department of
Defense leased a pair of IBM
computers for 2,i years at a
cost of $2,468,492.
Pentagon procurement officers
never bothered to find out that
they could buy the electronic
marvels outright at less than
half the cost. Campbell says the
machines could have been pur
chased for $871,182. Mainten
ance would have run another
Washington Window ...
Cold War Struggle
Changes U.N. Picture
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
It has become commonplace
in American politics for a U.S.
President to address the U.N.
Assembly In warm terms of
commendation and pledges to
mutual objectives. Thus it was
that President Johnson con
formed Tuesday to the U.S. po
litical tradition that the hopes,
aspirations and actions of the
United States and the United
Nations flow gently side by
side.
To question the validity of
this U.S. political tradition is to
invite speculation that the ques
tioner Is, maybe, some kind of
a nut or something. This tradi
tion was established during the
bright final months of World
War II when those pally allies,
the United States, Britain and
the Soviet Union, had the war
well won. So it was that in
April, 1945, in San Francisco
the United Nations organizing
conference produced the U. N.
charter founded firmly on the
flinty rock of allied solidarity.
All for one, one for all!
Rock Becomes Gravel
Whatever practical validity
the United Nations had as a
keeper of the postwar peace
was also founded on this flinty
rock. The flinty rock, however,
proved to be mere gravel, a
shifting substance and no firm
foundation for anything at all.
Quickly faded was the concept
of a peaceful world overseen
by the three great pals o(
World War II in their capaci
ties as military powers and
permanent members of the Se
curity Council.
The Idealism of the United
Nations dissolved quickly into
the realism of the cold war.
The tradition of the identity of
U.N. and U.S. hopes and aspi
rations and actions has been
maintained, howev er.a blob of
idealism on the realistic tide.
Presidents Truman, Eisen
hnwer, Kennedy and, now.
President Johnson have encour
aged the American people to
believe In this U.N. . U.S.
Identity. This, despite what
seems to be the fact that the
United Nations with which the
United States could identify in
hopes and aspirations has been
$206,034. Saving to the taxpay
ers: $1,299,276.
Tlie comptroller general also
revealed that Air Force officials
paid the Grumman Aircraft En
gineering Corporation $2.3 mil
lion for modification of SA-16
aircraft.
At the same time the Navy
had the same work done for
half the price.
Republican pros have greeted
with supreme indifference the
appearance on the political ho
rizon of trial balloons bearing
the name Henry Cabot Lodge.
They say Lodge cannot pos
sibly hope to win the Presiden
tial nomination indeed, be con
sidered for it if he stays in
South Vietnam as VS. Ambas
sador. They say, moreover, that
Lodge is too old (62 next year)
and too identified with the in
cumbent administration to make
a strong candidate.
They note, too, that Lodge
campaigned poorly in 1960 for
vice president, 8nd that he
showed little taste for the kind
of campaign that will be neces
sary next fall.
Lodge, however, appears to
have left the door open. A Man
chester, N.H., businessman, Vic.
lor Lemieux. talked with him
by radio-telephone last week. He
told Lodge there is a "growing
swell for you to enter the New
Hampshire primary." After that
call Lemieux told newsmen:
"There is no doubt that Lodge
will enter New Hampshire's
first-in-the-nation primary. As
of this moment. Ambassador
Lodge has not received a letter
from General Eisenhower urging
him to become a Presidential
candidate.
"As soon as he receives word
from Eisenhower and makes up
his mind, I will be notified im
mediately and will set up a
campaign for organization in
this state."
Lemieux said he told Lodge
" 'It looks as if Senator Gold
water will pull out of the race."
I told him, now that Eisenhow
er has come out in favor of
you, Goldwater is finished."
Goldwater backers in New
Hampshire remain confident
that their man will run. They
are certain that Lodge will eat
into the Rockefeller vote, and
that Goldwater will come out on
top with a healthy margin.
changed almost beyond recog
nition. Tlie first change and the
most destructive to the useful
ness of the United Nations was
the imposition of the cold war
upon the West by tlie Soviet
Union. In tlie years since the
United Nations was born, the
United Kingdom has ceased to
be the world's greatest colonial
power and tlie Soviet Union
has succeeded to that distinc
tion. That succession also
worked fundamental U. N.
changes.
Afro -Asians Dominate
U. N. membership reflects
the greatest and probably least
noted change. Least noted be
cause the change has been so
gradual. Tlie U. N. Securi
ty Council recommended this
week that Kenya and Zanzibar
be admitted as the 112th and
113th members of the United
Nations. These two African na
tions obtained independence
from the United Kingdom last
week. They bring the number
of African members of the
United Nations to 34 and the
membership of the Afro-Asian
group to 58. The Afro - Asians,
thus, comprise a majority of
the U.N. Assembly.
This expansion of member
ship among new - born nations,
some being unable to meet the
minimum qualifications of a
sovereign state, was not fore
seen when the United Nations
was founded. Neither Is fore
seen now the end result of this
membership.
Plainly in view, however, is
this fact of International life:
The United Nations of the
mid-1940' s to which the United
States committed itself 100 per
cent does not much resemble
tlie United Nations of the
1960's. Thus it is that the
identity of U.N. and U.S. hopes
and aspirations is more wishful
than substantial.
BARBS
You're better off with a few
real friends than with a hun
dred that are just acquaintanc
es. Women divide men's sorrows,
double their Joys and treble
their expenses.