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PAGE I HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Monday, December 23, 1961 Holiday Roulette EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Johnson No Stranger To The U.N. Forum fcdxhfxhcd (paqsi According to statistics released just this week from the Bureau of Municipal Research and Service, with headquarters in the College of Liberal Arts, University of Oregon, the report explained that property taxes represent about 45 per cent of all state and local taxes and about 88 per cent all local taxes in the United States. In Oregon, the report says, property taxes provide about 47 per cent of state and local tax receipts and about DQ per cent of the taxes imposed by local government. If you are wondering how much this is, here is the bad news: Local governments of the stale have levied a total of $238 million in prop erty taxes for the 1963-64 fiscal year. In 1948-49 it was $77,738,605. The biggest slice, naturally, goes to schools, 63.9 per cent. That figure has held quite firm since 1954-55 when the percent age was roughly 60 per cent. It is interesting to note that Oregon counties have levied about 17 per cent of all property taxes In the state; cities, about 15 per cent; school districts, 64 and special dis tricts about 4 per cent. IN WASHINGTON . . By RALPH tie TOLEDANO In Washington's world of rumor and conjecture, very lit tle goes a lona way In making political forecast. Senator Goldwater's understandable shock at the new, of President Kennedy's assassination, lilt si lence at a time when many as sociates believe he should speak out, and a lew randnm remarks made to reporters have been twisted into a "report" that lie does not Intend l seek Hie .Re publican Presidential nomina tion. Those who are making t h 1 1 prediction had better forget II. If they are betting men and still hold to their original opin ion, tliey can find some ready takers Including this corre spondent. As certain as any man can be without (he word direct, J know that Senator Goldwater will declare his candidacy and at about the time (hat he said he would make his deci sion public. JSIy feelings on Hie subject BARBS It's not too bad II bad for tune follows you all of your days, but never catches up witli you, The married man has a wile (irst in his heart and then in his wallet, When Iwo braggarts get to gether It's an I lor an 1. The dentist and doctor ar really lite only persons who can make It pay by louking down In the mouth. It's nice wlien you can have all live memories, of your past life without regrets. Two convict on honor duly escaped from a southern pris on, (live 'em enough rope and they'll skip. It's kind of a shock hen some men marry for love and then discover the wile hasn't any money. Always remember that a flu sneete is an III wind that blows nobody else good. When you live to learn well you learn to live well. You're lucky when your cred itors have faith, Iwpe and char y. Scenery on lots of trips runs mostly to tooth paste, beer and smoking tobacco. Dad's aslvea and ashes mean dust and dust and the work 'round the house to Mom is a bust. The average w oman needs no eulogy he speaks for herself. Flay It safe and don't let your imagination run rampant with your Judgment. Oregon Tax Picture The tabic below will show the signifi cant alterations in the proportions of taxes levied since the end of World War III. Local Taxing Bodies 194 49 19545S 1960-61 I96M2 1967-63 1963-64 Countlei !J0. 2W. i;.4' 17 35. 16 1'. 17?. C'ties I. 7 IS? 15 2 15.3 15 0 ISO School Di'lricll 56 4 59 9 63 5 63.4 64 3 63 f Special DlltrictS 2 9 3 5 3 ? 4 0 3 9 3 9 Total 100.0. 100.0't 100.0 100.0 100.0". 100.0 Although the report illustrates total property tax levies in Oregon have more than tripled in the last 15 years, the increase from 1962-63 to 1963-64 is the smallest in re cent years. , A table in the report shows the per capita amount of property taxes levied for county purposes for the 1963-64 period. The total for Klamath County is $21.47. Highest of Oregon's 36 counties: Sherman, $74.60. Lowest: Jackson, $3.44. All of these figures arc based on 1962 population estimates. The Bureau expressed gratitude for the assistance of county assessors and other county officials and members of the staff of the Oregon Tax Commission for making the information presented by the organization possible. We would agree. The people at the University who compiled all of these sta tistics rate a tip of the hat even though the lax picture continues to grow more grim. Forecast On Goldwater are based on more than a well polished crystal ball. There Is a tell-tale air about a campaign headquarters which speaks of success or failure, hope or pes simism. After a reporter has been in as many of tticm as 1 have, lie can sense much by this air. At Goldwater headquarters there is an air of confidence and purpose. Activity continues at the usual pace and new proj ect are discussed and begun. Jf those around Air. Goldwater had doubts as to his intentions, tills would not be so. The spir it would be of letdown. The groups and individuals banded together to nominate and elect Senator Goldwater are both practical and responsible. They would not waste their time and money if they were in any doubt that their candi date was vacillating. It would not be possible for them to com mit others to (he battle now if they were not sure that his hat was poised to be thrown Into the ring. Beyond this, other factors make It clear to me thai Sena tor Goldwater is In the race. ' The reports from around the country have shown a very in teresting pattern. They have been ol considerable help in maintaining morale and s u s taining the "draft Goldwater" drive. night after the Kennedy as sassination, the consensus in the country seemed to be that Mr. Goldwater had been badly damaged and would be at a strong disadvantage against -President Johnson. Even some of the professional politicians really believed this, basing their conclusion on the mistaken idea that tlie new iProsidciit was a conservative. At Unit point, there was a de gree of panic in Goldwater ranks. And to be candid about It, defections by the loss stout of heart shook tliose who them selves remained on Uie battle "Dear Mr. Khrushchev: In Regard to Your Chemical Fertilizer Expansion Program . . ." line. Since tlien, however, a marked change can be seen in reports from all parts of the country. Those of little faith who had run for the storm cellars be gan returning. They had re examined the roots of Senator Goldwater's strength. They had looked over Uie electoral scratch sheets and come to Uie conslusion that President John son's strongly liberal record was not accidental, that t h e logic of Democratic politics w ould force him increasingly to the left. This would, of course, restore to Mr. Goldwater what ever ground he may have lost in the South, the Midwest, and other parts ol the country. SimidliMicously, the pundits began to realize that ilicy had not been sounding out the coun try but interviewing each other. That they leaped to the conclu sion that Barry Goldwater was finished is not hard to under stand, nor Is their willingness to accept the Capitol press gal leries for the entire nation. But the hardest blow to the "forget about Barry" brigade was delivered by General Eis enhower. By giving his benedic tion to Ambassador Henry Cab ot Lodge, lie torpedoed Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and Rich ard Nixon. The pro Nixon forces immediately spread the story that this was all part of a very shrewd maneuver to help Mr. Nixon and this writ er has already reported their very ingenious explanation. The verifiable fact is that Mr. Eisenhower's "nomination" of Mr. Lodge caught the Nixon and Rockefeller forces completely by surprise. At present tliey are In complete disarray. The only Republican beneficiary of Mr. Eisenhower's entry into the king-making business has been Senator Goldwater. All of this leads me to assert flatly that the Goldwater name will be presented to Uie UW4 convention. ,v v.---. . jr' I IS ISUV ' W0A mm lit Women Face A New By DORIS FLEESON WASHINGTON - Women achieved the right to vote in the United States in 1921. Forty three years later it apears they will be asked whether they arc ready to give a fully quali fied woman an equal chance in national politics. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, i Maine Republican, has succeed ed in politics by really trying and at the apex ol her Congres sional career gives every sign at readiness to make an equal effort nationally. The quaint convention that candidates for vice president must begin by trying to get the Presidential nomination has been applied to Senator Smith in spades. At once she was de scribedthough not by her as aspiring only to the vice pres idency. This has some practical jus tification, but not much in view of Sen. Barry Goldwater's can didacy. Maine is no national' barometer now, if it ever was. But in population it lags only 300.000 behind Goldwater's Ari zona, which does not reflect the national temper, either. Ideologically, Senator Smith occupies the vital center. She is anathema to the far right because of her famous declara tion of conscience against Mc Carthyism, but she is rarely as liberal as some labor and in tellectual quarters think right. Virtually all other aspirants (or the presidency wish they had it so good. She is a member ol throe stellar Senate committees: Ap propriations, the big prize; Armed Services and Aeronauti cal and Space Sciences. These came as no lavor but w ere achieved by strict seniority and the Senator's astute refusal to be fobbed oft as a freshman with less valued assignments. The parallel with President Johnson's career is striking. The Presklent entered the House in 1IV17, the year Senator Smith be came Congressional secretary to her late husband, Rep. Clyde Smith. Three years later she was elected to fill the vacancy created by her hu-band's death. Krom 1940 to 194!) she served with President Johnson on the Naval Alfairs ami later 1 11 e Armed Services Committee. In 1949 the Presklent was just barely elected to the Senate. Senator Smith defeated three men, including two millionaires, one of them the governor and t lie other a former governor, for the Republican nomination and swept in triumphantly. She again served w ith the President on major committees, including Aimed Services and the Pre paredness Investigation sub committee. Senator Smith has served twice as long m the Congress as President Kennedy had w lien nominated, and on stronger committees. During all this period she ap plied herself to "tlie slow, dull tasks which keep a nation strong" m a manner which won respect as her attractiveness and amiability had won liking Her 98 male colleagues of the Senate do complain occasional ly that she does' not ask their advice, forgetting mat she is. alter all. from Maine and a pro fessional politician w I lie Ut seiv. American women are poorly placed in politics today and net really fighting to improve their lot. Foreigners alwas mane! t how few occupy elective ol- (ice, and there are none in the executive branch above sub cabinet level. Men often profess tlie notion that women do not like each oilier. Former President Eisen hower gave hundreds of stag dinners but pretended to believe tliat "the women could not agree" on a guest list lor equiv THE GLOBAL VIEW... ktm Some fM Needed By LEON DENNEN Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) The disarray in NATO is the top for eign policy item on President Johnson's list of worries for m. The disputes rocking the At lantic alliance will be the ma jor item on the agenda when the President talks with West German Chancellor Ludwig Er hard in January. To tlie men in Bonn, NATO is not just a defensive alliance against Russian aggression, but tlie sole guarantee of their in dependence. The West Germans do not rel ish their role as a "neutral bul fcr" between the United States and tlie France of Charles de . Gaulle. As Erhard puts it: "The concept of tlie Federal German Republic sitting be tween two chairs is not cor rect. My goal is that all three ol us the United States, France and West Germany sit on one bench." Unfortiuiately, the President has yet to set a firm date for a working meeting with Dc Gaulle. Even those Washington diplo mats who dislike tlie "reac tionary" French president should have realized by n o w that Western unity without a strong France is wishful think ing. NATO's disarray will con tinue as long as there is no friendly and firm understanding between the two men. The Flench president is ad mittedly a difficult man at the diplomatic bargaining table. He is determined, regardless of cost and clfort. to develop France's own nuclear weapon. Some of President Johnson's advisers also deplore De Gaulle's nationalism, his vision of a great and strong France which, they claim, is more of the 19th than the 20lh Century. Yet, for all his real or imag inary faults, the French presi dent is a farsighted statesman firmly dedicated to keeping tlie Soviet bloc from expanding in Berlin and Europe. In any eon llict with the Communists, he always will be on the side of the United States and NATO. Soviet Premier Khrushchev understands even if some State Department diplomats do not that he will never realize his great ambition to destroy NATO as long as De Gaulle stays in power. That is w h y Moscow is exerting every effort to undermine the French presi dent's domestic and internation al position. A delegation of French So cialists, headed by cx-premier Guy Mollet. even visited Khrushchev in Moscow where' plans were laid to defeat Pc Gaulle in tlie, 195 French elections. Ti'rvv.'.vt.i. Challenge alent affairs for his women sup porters. He refused to name the women he said couldn't agree. Should Senator Smith enter presidential primaries in New Hampshue and elsewhere, she would force women generally to examine their political prem ises and present status. The results would be informative. NATO Cement In Workshops One - time anti - Communist Mollet, a master of the art of political survival, denied wide spread reports that he discussed the formation of a Popular Front government with the Com munists in the event of De Gaulle's defeat. But the se cret was soon "leaked" by Com munist Poland's ambassador in London. The Red diplomat revealed at a private luncheon he gave for British Labor party officials that Mollet did. in lact, "discuss extensively" the question ol a Popular Front with Khrushchev. He also said that the Soviet pre mier agreed to "convince" the French Communist leader, Mau rice Thorez, to throw his sup port to his erstwhile Socialist en emies. Why should the spurious is sue ol "diplomatic protocol" prevent President Johnson Irom reaching a quick understanding with De Gaulle? What differ ence does it make whether the President goes to Paris or De Gaulle comes to Washington when Western unity is at stake? President Johnson is a prag matist with vast political experi ence who knows how to cut a corner where American inter ests arc concerned. As the lead er of the world's strongest na tion, he will suffer no humilia tionand will earn internation al admiration by accepting the invitation of a weaker ally to meet in Paris. Al manac By I nlted Press International Today is Monday. Dec. 23, tlie 357th day of 19m' with eight to follow. The moon is at its first quar ter. The evening stars are Saturn, Jupiter and Venus. On this day in history: In 1783. George Washington resigned his army commission and returned to his estate at Mount Vernon. In 1923. a permanent coast to coast radio network NBC was established. In 1948. ex-Permier Tojo of Japan and six other war lead ers were executed in Tokyo by an Allied War Crimes Commis sion. In 1953. tlie former head of Russia's secret police. Lavrenti Beria was executed. , A thought for tin day It is written in the New Testament according to the Gospel of St. Matthews, ' Love your enemies, blesslxw that carso yea." By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON 'NEA (Pres ident Johnson's appearance be fore the United Nations General Assembly Dec. 17 is a fitting finale for its important 18th ses sion. President Kennedy addressed this session Sept. 20, just after it convened. He gave tlie dele gates a whole barrel of requests and recommendations, but he didn't pick off any proposals which were not ripe for h a r vesting. As a result, Johnson can point to tlie year's accom plishments with considerable American pride. This will not be Johnson's first appearance before t h c United Nations. In 193S, when he was Senate majority lead er, he was asked by President Eisenhower to speak on outer space before the U.N. Political Committee. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Space. Johnson explained American bi-partisan commitment to the development of outer space for peaceful pur poses only. Johnson appealed to the Rus sians particularly to cooper ate with tlie West in carrying out a U.N. space program. This led to formation of tlie General Assembly's Outer Space Committee. For three years the Russians stymied its work. But this year tlie Russians agreed to the principle of rule-of-law in space. This is one of the most important of this year's final General Assembly actions. It is considered a m a j or breakthrough in American-Russian cooperation at the U.N. It was worked out behind the scenes in New York. The d i s pute and dilferences in reach ing the agreement did not emerge in the spotlight of the U.N. auditorium in plenary ses sion. One of tlie features of this General Assembly is tlie num ber of issues that have been worked out by quiet diplomacy between the United States and Russia. This development has caused some concern among small - country delegations in the U.N. Their concern is that it "the big two" get together on too WASHINGTON REPORT . U.S. Senate Okays Costly Boondogle Bv FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON - By the top heavy vote of 74-9, the U.S. Sen at has okayed a $17 million boondoggle. Appropriations for the so called Glen Elder project were approved last week over the impassioned objections of Sen. Bill Proxmirc, maverick Demo crat. The bill would authorize a $17 million irrigation project f o r western Kansas. It would bring 13.000 new acres into the pro duction of teed grains. This, said Proxmire, was fol ly. The Federal Government is now paying SR'i million a year to farmers who promise not to grow feed grains. Another $475 million goes for the storage of government-owned surpluses. The Glen Elder funds were ap proved despite strong evidence that residents of the area want no part of the project. Proxmire neceivod affidavits from 90 per cent of the farmers who own 85 per cent of tlie land around the Kansas towns of Clyde, Simp son. Glaseo. and Beloit. They asked the Senate to turn thumbs down on Glen Elder, a project first proposed 20 years ago. Not until last year were federal funds first allocated for Glen Elder. Senator Proxmire then made a 10-hour speech on what he called tlie "most wasteful proj ect I have ever seen." The Senate spurned his words and allocated a million dollars to study the Glen Elder possibili ties. To nobody's surprise, the fed eral "experts" found Glen El der to be economically feasible, and an appropriation of $j mil lion was requested in the latest public works bill. Again. Proxmire served no tice lie would oppose Glen El der. He made a major speech on the Senate floor and intro duced an amendment to veto the project. Both Kansas Senators spoke in favor of Glen Elder. Rcpu! lican members cast their b a I lots against the PreMwee amendment almut an (... their collcam.!. .fcas tftmi and Frank Car !:!. many issues, it will destroy the power ol the neutral nations to stand hallway between Commu nist and Free World positions. This might end the neutral nations' balance of power over U.N. decisions. On questions of human rights, which wore major items on this year's General Assembly agen da, President Kennedy did not make specific recommendations last September. He couldn't do this because the United States did not have its own house in order on race relations. This year, however, tlie Gen eral Assembly gave its first se rious consideration not just emotional specehmaking to questions of discrimination. Af rican nations were prepared to wage major battles against apartheid in South Africa and Portuguese rule in Angola and Mozambique. But President Kennedy said in his September U.N. speech. "We do not recognize the right ol black Africans to drive out white Africans. " This was tlvc other side of racial equality, to which tlie African nations had not fully addressed themselves, and it caused them to pause. After Kennedy's assassination, altitudes of many African dele gates showed further change. They apparently decided to re examine their own problems and to let the new American president enunciate his own pol icies on human rights, which Uiey consider so important. President Johnson's record in this tield is good. His eftorts to push civil rights legislation since becoming President have given tlie African delegations much satisfaction, in Uie opin ion of American observers at the United Nations. Johnson comes onto tlie U.N. stage at the intermission in a long and continuing movie, says Assistant Secretary of Stale Harlan Cleveland, in charge of international organization af fairs. A lot of big things are go ing to happen, many of them on American initiative. The new President has given his general support to the Unit ed Nations, but it is not going to be just a "let us continue" President Kennedy's policies. What he has to say from here on is the development of his own ideas. This is why such conservative stalwarts as Barry Goldwater and Milward Simpson voted for a project that is economically ludicrous. The only Republican to vote against Glen Elder was Dela ware's John J. Williams. Colo rado's Dominick and N e w York's Javits were absent but sent word they opposed the project. South Dakota's Mundt was paired against Glen Elder. On the Democratic side, sev en colleagues joined Proxmirc. They included Harry B y r d. Frank Lauschc. and Strom Thur mond, conservatives: and Tom Dodd, Ernest Gruening, Gaylord Nclscn. and Maurine N'cuberg cr, liberals. Among the publications read hy Lee Harvey Oswald was The Militant, a bi . weekly that claims to speak for the "work ing people." The Militant is affiliated with the Socialist Workers Party, a Trotskyite group that has been lalieled subversive by the attor ney general. Published in New York, it backs the Chinese Reds, the Albanian "Socialists," and the Black Nationalists. The June 17 issue of Tlie Mil itant called for a "drastic Cu-' ban-type revolution" to solve" the United States' racial prob. 1cm. The Militant editors theri suggested Fidel Castro fop President and added: "Most beautiful of all. Fider would disband the entire re- plosive FBI apparatus and would burn all the secret police! garbage and intimate gossip that thousands of psychopathic; FBI agents have assembled over the years. "He would put J. Edgar Hoov er in an integrated cell in At lanta Penitentiary as punish ment for four decades of crim inal neglect of duty." The Militant editorial suggest, ed that Fidel would chase 95 per cent of all U.S. policemen Irom the country. weuM shoot "K.ilJ" Cnwr, tie farmer Bit :-!ihatHv ,V.a,. pahu ehief. ani x I joJ r "fcuGe wl: ni:iii!B em e4 U-ns triai.1stmi r o O O
