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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
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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.
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