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PACE-I HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon Sunday, December 21, 196) EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Independent Solons Do As They Please For All to See Let's Pick Them Carefully Political stirrings are in the wind with 1964 just around the corner. On the local scene there are already indications of several persons ready to file for the office of county clerk. It's a position that Charlie DeLap filled extremely capably for many years. The fact that he is retiring represents a consider able loss to orderly organization at the court house. While the county clerk's office isn't the most glamorous of the political posts in the county it is by far one of the most im portant. In this office, all the orderly functions of county government and governmental op erations are catalogued and performed. Proper direction must be given to an office staff that records the activities of the va rious county offices. In addition, the office also demands an ability to direct and handle many groups such as election boards and juries. It's a job that must be filled by a ma ture person, one with a thorough working knowledge of courthouse activities, and one dedicated to courteous, efficient service to the public. This is what the public has received Dirty Dovntown Streets Weather is an important factor on streets and their conditions these days. We realize that it's hazardous to water down the streets when old man winter might step in with an icy freeze, but it would seem to us that something could be done about the condition of the streets in the downtown business area. It made one almost ashamed during the height of the Christmas buying rush when one walked down the Main Street and was greeted with swirling dirt and debris on almost every side. We found the sidewalks and the gutters extremely dirty and people trying to protect their eyes from dirt particles being blown around. IN WASHINGTON . . . By RALPH clc TOLKDANO When Lyndon Johnson suc ceeded to the Presidency, there was a feeling at the Pcntugon that the military's miseries un der Defense Secretary McNama ra had crested and that belter days were aliead. It was re called lhat in his Senate years. Mr. Johnson delved deeply into defense problems, that he was completely sold on tlie military uses of space, and that he would not fall prey to the com puter mentality of the "whiz kids" who do Mr. McNamara's bidding. The feeling that the worst was over for the. generals and ad mirals lasted fur a very short lime. Obviously, when Presi dent Johnson said that lie would follow the Kennedy poli cies, he was not indulging in rhetoric. Uust as obviously, he is ready to inherit the strengths and weaknesses of the Kennedy program.! In short, it will lie accurate in the future to refer to this as tlie K-and-J Adminis tration. The disappointment at the Pentagon is almost palpable and lias been building up for days. It had been hoped by vet eran military and career civil ian officials that President John son would immediately begin to divest himself of tlie McNama ra influence, retaining only his undisputed organizing abilities. But Mr. 'MoNamara was right at the President's elbow from the start and he was far more persuasive than many ex pected. Also working closely w ith the President and whispering in his ear has been McGeorgc Bundy, a White House aide since tlie start of tlie Kennedy Adminis tration. By virtue of his associ ation with (lie lute and great Secretary of War Henry SUm son. Mr. Bundy is no stranger to the military dialogue, and he has more tlwn a smattering of its vocabulary. That these two men remained high in Administration councils was the first indication the mil itary had that they were to re main on the outside looking in. They had forgotten that, though Mr. Johnson was accessible when he was Vice President, he had entered into the Great Lone liness of the Presidency. Only hit official and political family can reach him today. The gener als and admirals once enjoyed his respect and support, but now tlieyiere locked ojil. over the past years from Charlie DeLap and his staff and it's the type of service we hope to see continued in this office. There are a number of other county of fices which will be up for election in 1964, all of which should contribute to a hot elec tion year. Among the county offices will be two spots on the county court, the county judge and one county commission post; also the sheriff's race should be another exciting contest. The district attorney's office will be another one up for election, as well as one of the circuit court judge positions and the tax assessor's office. The city, too, will have its contests. The office of mayor as well as the council posts currently held by Chet Hamaker, Lyle Kellstrom and Waller Fleet will be up for balloting. In each of these offices, we hope that well qualified people will be motivated to answer the call to service and file for the offices. For qualifications to fill the office should be the prime factor in selecting the people who serve us in our public positions. It would seem that during the day when the weather appeared not too cold that the streets could be washed down. This would also entail cleaning out the tops of the storm drains at the corners where the debris col lects. As for the sidewalks, it seems to us that there is an ordinance that covers prop er cleaning of sidewalks and requiring that they bo cleaned daily and not swept into the gutters. A dirty business area commands little respect with the shopper or the visitor. Many persons get their impression of a city from the conditions of this area. Let's give a little consideration to cleaning it up. Military Still On The military continued to hope that the President would still hold the views he had expressed to them when he was on Capitol Hill. But they did not reckon with one great political pres sure: The President must make a record between now and No vember, 1964. To neutralize the effects his all-out push for civil rights will have, he had fixed on government economy think ing thereby to win suport from the wary business community. A reduction in government spending can be made most dramatically and with the least political trouble in the field ol defense. By cancelling tlie Air Force's highly important Dyna-Soar pro gramcost to date, almost Woo million tlie Administration will eliminate from the space field tlie major military research and experimentation. It will focus U.S. scientific attention almost exclusively on tlie "peacelul uses of space." The vital know how of hypersonic flight and of man-controlled maneuverability in and out of the earth's atmo sphere would have come from the Dyna-Soar program, but it seems more important to the Administration to reach tlie moon. There will, of course, be some strenuous objections fro m 'Don't Be Silly! There Aren't Any Skeletons In This Closet!" Outside House and Senate. The Repub licans in particular have charged that this country is neglecting military space research (and the advances it brings) in favor of propagandistic adventures. But once the President has de cided to eliminate a program, there is nothing Congress can do. It can simply hope that Mr. McXamara does not also con vince President Johnson to cm back on the building of Polaris submarines and attack carriers. Hopes that tlie B-70 would be brought back into our military picture had faded to noUiing. There will be some political fallout from the Dyna-Soar de cision. The state of Washington, still up in arms over tlie TKX case and the manner in which tlie Boeing aircraft company was elbowed out of the con tract, will be hard hit by the Dyna-Soar cancellation. The Boeing company employed some 1.000 men Uiere on that proj ect. This second blow might well cost the Democrats the state in lm. But political considerations of this kind are secondary. The most important point is the de fensc of Uie country and it may lie that President Johnson will some day perceive that Mr. McNamara's "economy'' measure was a costly mistake. WILLIAM S. WHITE Barry Urged To Announce By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON - Powerful and in many cases frankly emo tional pressure is being put on Sen. Barry Goldwater by his backers to announce without de lay his candidacy for the Re publican Presidential nomina tion. Whatever his own present in tentionsand he has never said more than that he would decide "early next year" whether or not to "go" the revolutionary change in the whole political situation since tlie death of John I' Kennedy has hit Gold water supporters with a special, chilling impact. They arc afraid that in the new situation, where Lyndon B. Johnson rather than John F. Kennedy will be the Democratic nominee, Senator Goldwater might more readily exercise the option still open to him not to try for the nomination. Indeed, ih their own minds they had never, even before the profound alteration in political outlook that followed Mr. Johnson's suc cession to the Presidency, been willing even to consider that Senator Goldwater would not readily say "yes" when the time came. Their investment of hope and emotional capital in him, as the man they see as t he one last best hope for deeply conserva tive Republicanism, has always been extraordinary. It has had no remote parallel, in human feeling, since the near-veneration given a decade ago by sim ilarly orthodox Republicans in Sen. Robert A. Taft as their ir replaceable champion. Now, that same investment of hope and emotional capital has only been increased by the as sumption, almost universal out side the unwavering ranks of the Goldwater partisans themselves, that the Senator's Presidential prospects have been gravely and perhaps irreparably dam aged by tlie circumstance that Mr. Johnson and not Mr. Ken nedy will be the Democratic candidate in 1-t. It was said in Napoleon's time lhat the Old Guard died but nev er surrendered. The same is un questionably true now of the Re publican Old Guard. It means to stand to the end with Gold water but only with Goldwater. if the private expressions of Goldwater enthusiasts can be taken at full value, as appar ently they can. Some are saying that if the Republican nomina tion goes elsewhere, they will sit out both the campaign and election day. This might seem an illogical position in light of seemingly massive evidence that a Gold water confronting Johnson would be weak in precisely those areas where prospectively he had been strongest the South and West. The most recent Gallup Poll, for example, was, objectively, a shocker from the point of Mew of the Goldwaterites. It indicat ed a staggering 78 per cent to 19 per cent margin in tlie Smth for Johnson over Goldwater. whereas when Mr. Kennedy was still alive, tlie thing was re versed. Then tlie poll Save Gold water M per cent to 3ft per cent for Kennedy. Granting this columnist's strong hunch that the figures t for Johnson may be unrealistic ally high and that the earlier figures for Kennedy may have been unrealistic-ally low, t h e fact remains that the South no longer looks to be "Goldwater country" by any possible stan dard. Still, none of this has in the smallest way shaken the deter mination of the Goldwater back ers. On the contrary, it has made them more resolved than ever that he must make the ef fort, come what might. The situation is creating dif ficult days for the Senator. He has never been nearly so con vinced as have they of the un Letters To Story Of ' May I make an attempt to help in "Your Help Needed" by telling of two kings? One king of a long time ago wanted to make his kingdom a better place for his subject to live in. He had thought up three questions: What is the most important time? Who are the most important people? What is the most important thing to do? For good, workable answers he offered huge prizes. But it seems no one. not even the w is est men in the king's court could even give one answer. In his kingdom, like other kingdoms around him, there was one very wise man, who not being par ticularly in tune with those around him, followed tlie cus tom of his day and withdrew away to himself, becoming a hermit. ' Tlie king, being told of this all wise hermit, decided to go to him to see if he could an swer the questions. After a three-day stay, the king told the hermit. "I can stay no longer, 1 must go back, but you have not answered my questions." Tlie hermit answered. "Oh, yes. I have, but 1 will answer them again." Tlie most impor tant time is now, because it is tlie only time man has. The most important people are those with whom you are, because one does not know when he will tie with anotlicr. (You will note nothing is said about color, creed, or politics And, the most important thing to do. is to do good to man, because that is why man is here. (Here you will note nothing is sold about business.' In these three questions and answers, is found tlie whole so lution to Klamath Falls' prob lems. But something is written about "let him that have eyes, see. and him that have ears, hear." So it appears that peo pie in Klamath Falls are very much like people elsewhere lltcy ck not see good or hear wcil. So. perhaps I had better tell you about the second king. But first, let us come back to this seeing and hearing If man could see and bear all right, lie would know that he i man' is heir to a natural heri tage, which, if man would ac cept, man would be able to ful fill all his desires, even to his fondest imagination. What d;d v;v--;.,v,-..p- f-r--, .'--J'..-. arguable desirability and inevit ability of his candidacy. All the same, they are telling him that he owes a great and unavoid able obligation to his conserva tive principles and also to them. Indeed, it is letting out no well-hidden secret to say that Senator Goldwater a personal friend, by the way, of both Ken nedy and Johnson has before this sometimes been made un comfortable by a somewhat ex cessive love of himself from some who are in his camp. He himself is no party bolter: and he is not happy to hear oth ers speak in such terms. The Editor Two Kings this second king do and say about this heritage? He walked on the vater, He stilled the wind and waves. He appeared and disappeared at w ill. He fed multitudes from ap parently almost nothing. He healed tlie sick, made the blind to see. made the cripples whole, and raised tlie dead. These things He did and said some thing about. "He who would be great among you, let him serve." He also said, "Even you can do greater things be tause I go unto the Father." 1 But most men refuse to be lieve, very few w ill even make an attempt to try instead, they insist on going the materi al (business! way, which, also, brought forth the remark, "What profit a man to go in tlie whole world and lose his own soul?" 1 This material way was also em.- of the causes for this sec ond King's crucifixion, because He was teaching those about 'Him how to live without trading w ith merchants. Believe this or not, it is there. ' With tlie knowledge and un derstanding Uiis second King had. He did not have to go through the crucifixion, but He allowed it to happen to show those around Him and those who thought they could destroy Him. that if man became con scious of the fact of the pres ence of God within, he 'man' could not be destroyed. This He told and proved it by tiic resurrection. Tliere are people in many parts of t h e United States, tlie world, and even a few in Klamath Falls, who practice one or more of these so-called miracles (nat ural heritage'. All can do it if they will try. This method would make a Heaven on earth out of Klam ath Falls, and give to the people a full protection, even from missiles, which your A i r Force cannot do. Well, sir. tliere. or here, it is. Tins is not new . all these things, with tlie exception of tlie cruci fixion, is okJer than Biblical his tory. The second King was the lust to go through a form of destruction to prove man in his rightful heritage is indestructi ble I hope this effort is worthy of your time it takes to read it. Elmo Russell. Malm. Ore. T S Whatever man decrees. Gvd fulfills. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON N"EA' - One word from L.B.J. and Con gress does as it pleases. Which proves once again that the cowboy who can tame that critter hasn't yet been born. A lot has been written and spoken about how the new Pres ident is a great operator on Capitol Hill. This is based on his record as Senate majority leader during the Eisenhower administration. The late Sam Rayburn was speaker of the House in those eight years, and the two Texans made a good team. During tlie Kennedy adminis tration, however, while Vice President Lyndon Johnson was Senate presiding officer, the rec ord of legislative accomplish-' ment was not so good. This can't all be blamed on the vice president. He sat in on White House conferences with congressional leaders. But he wasn't directly responsible for running the law-making machin ery. And he was out of town or out of the country much of the time on business for the Pres ident. In the 87th Congress, first two" years of the Kennedy adminis tration, White House aides main tained that Congress enacted three-fourths of the President's requests. Independent checks were never able to put the count above half, even though there were some notable accom plishments. This year Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield claims that Congress passed more than 60 per cent of President Kenne dy's 137 message recommenda tions and requests. Sens. Joe Clark, D-Pa., and Clifford Case, R-N.J., pushing congressional reform because of its do-nothing record say that over a quarter of Kennedy's more than 400 requests never received any consideration. And the number of presiden tial recommendations approved 85 by the Mansfield count won't total 50 per cent. This poor showing is attrib uted to the President's opposi tion in both parties. His oppon ents did not like either his for eign or domestic policies and they made him their personal whipping boy over Cuba, South Viet Nam, civil rights. When Johnson became Presi WASHINGTON REPORT . By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON - The reha bilitation of Janos Kadar is al most complete. The Hungarian lackey who ordered Soviet tanks into Buda pest in November, 1956 may soon leave the diplomatic quar antine in which he has been locked for seven years. The Johnson Administration, like the Kennedy Administration before it, seems ready to wel come Kadar and his puppet re gime into tlie community of na tions. The policy switch was sig nalled early this year when U.S. diplomats were ordered to fraternize with Hungarian dele gates at the United Nations. Lyndon Johnson, as Vice Pres ident, entertained the Hungari an ambassador to the UN at the LBJ ranch in Johnson City, Texas. Adlai Stevenson's UN delega tion approved the sacking of Sir Leslie Munro. rock-hard anti Communist, as special UN rep resentative on Hungary. For the lirst time since 1956 the Amer icans did not object to seating the puppet Hungarian delega tion. And now the State Depart ment's third-ranking diplomat, Averell Harriman, has been huddling in a secret conference at Foggy Bottom with Peter Mod. Hungary's first deputy foreign minister. Harriman, the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, conferred with Mod on a "nor malization of relations." it is reported. The Administration moves have been taken despite the an guished cries of Congressional leaders. Senator Tom D o d d. Connecticut Democrat, has pro tested time and again as State Department officials moved to establish closer ties with the Hungarian Reds. He has been assured there would be no change in U.S. policy, and then seen that policy altered weeks later. He has said bluntly that State Department officials have been untruthful to him. In the House. Rep. Edna Kel ly. New York Democrat, has protested bitterly the new poli cies. Mrs. Kelly was chairman of a special stuHy mission to dent, the assumption was that this would change because the new man was an old hand w ith Congress and knew how to get what he wanted. His first priorities were civil rights and the tax bill the same as Kennedy's. Neither one is be ing passed this year. The President approved a dis charge petition to get the civil rights bill out of the Rules Com mittee. It failed for lack of both Democratic and Republican sup port, in spite of the fact that GOP House leader Charlie Hal leck was invited to the W h i t e House for breakfast. Another breakfast for Harry Byrd of the Senate Finance Committee has failed to speed up the tax bill. Repeated statements on the importance of foreign aid in carrying on American foreign policies did not prevent the $4.5 billion request being cut to $3.6 billion. Still another White House con ference with Speaker John Mc Cormack and Itep. Otto Pass man, D-La., chairman of t h e House Appropriations subcom mittee on Foreign Aid, did not prevent the $3.6 billion being cut to $2.8 billion in committee. The House approved the cut. The Senate raised it to $3.2 bil lion before sending the bill to conferees for compromise. Meanwhile, Johnson's insist ence on Pentagon cutbacks and economy in all other depart ments of government, while un questionably sincere, are some what meaningless because next year's budget is going to be close to if not over $100 billion for the first time in history, despite everything anybody can do to prevent it. The new President has made desperate last-minute efforts to get new farm legislation to prevent a farm income drop next year. He has moved in to reorganize the faltering Alliance for Progress in Latin America. He is here, there and every where, promoting a 75-million job economy, protecting consum er interests, trying to abolish poverty. He has tackled everything ex cept oil, which being a slippery substance in his home state of Texas and elsewhere he has turned over to Secretary of In terior Stewart Udall. He still has his first miracle to pass in Congress. Hungarian Lackey Welcomed By West Europe in 1957 and has kept close tabs on the Hungarian question since. She finds the State Depart ment actions "deplorable." Un less the U.S. fights for the rights of the oppressed Hungar ian people, she argues, "we for feit our claim to leadership in the worldwide battle for survi val of the principles which are dear to each and every one of us." Note: Comedian Buddy Hack ed, just back from Hungary where he made a movie, offers his view of conditions there. He says he is still "numb" and adds: "I couldn't get over the mis erable way the Hungarian peo ple had to live. It was terribly depressing ..." The Assembly of Captive Na tions offers documented evi dence that the Communist re gime "has violated every do mestic and international obliga tion with regard to human rights in Hungary." Freedom of speech does not and cannot exist, the Assem bly says, when the official inter pretation of the law reads: "In citement also means a state ment by somebody that he or she dislikes the present re gime, and that tlie present state of affairs will not last." Members of the Assembly in clude some of the most brilliant scholars in the free world. These exiles report that more than 50,000 Hungarians were thrown in concentration camps after the 1956 revolution. They say anoth er 2.10O were executed and 2.000 more deported to the Soviet Union. An estimated 10.000 Hungari ans have been the victims of "internal deportation" and are under tight police control. Eighty thousand troops remain in Hungary. Despite liberal claims of a thaw, conditions in Hungary remain terror-filled. In 1957 the United Nations de clared: "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in violation of the Charter of the United Nations, has deprived Hungary of its lib erty and political independence and the Hungarian people of the exercise of their fundamental human rights." That is equally true today. O
