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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1963)
HTOALD AND NFWS, Klamath fat, Oregoe " Monday, December a), 191 Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . " Vocational Program " :To Cut Unemployment Flash ; r- The weekly Oregon Voter points up in Its biennial Tax Review edition that Oregon pays well over a third of personal income in direct levies for government. It also warns ' that this is a situation that must be watched closely because it indicates more services are being offered than the people of the state can afford to pay. These include police protection, high ways and traffic safety, prisons, .hospitals, care of the mentally disturbed, the criminal ly insane, public welfare, higher education facilities, regulations protecting the public . against excesses of the trades and profes sions, fraudulent schemes to attract inves tors, maintaining a watchful eye on insur ance companies and banks, assistance in case of disaster, or war, and numerous other services.. These, points out the Oregon Voter, are not to be confused with local government - services given by counties, cities and service districts (like fire, water and sewer, etc.) : which provide fire and police protection, sewage systems, parks, streets, local traffic regulations, zoning to protect real estate in- : vestors, building restrictions, welfare facili ties, elementary and secondary education. People must realize that much of gov ernment service is an administrative respon sibility of those etected to operate local and state government. Some, however, are voted by the people who desire specific services but often do not provide the money to carry on these services. The.. only recourse has been new taxes. It must be remembered too, that since government has nothing to give the people except what it first gets from the people, : we have taxes. '' ; ' "In Oregon, property taxes are high .' to the point of hurting; income taxes in Ore '; gon are still among the highest levied by all states. "Thla li why fhera it a growing aceept j ance for a talea tax which reaches practi s cally all of the people, or for a small net receipts tax on all earned income which would be a tax after the cost of earning ' the Income has been deducted; or a gross income tax on all Individuals and business that would be levied before the cost of WILLIAM" S: WHITE No White By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON - One of the most difficult decisions lie lias nude is In back of President Joraison's arrangement to meet Ludwig Erhard, the West Ger man chancellor, after Christ mas in his ranch home in Tex as rather than here in Washing ton. In a sentence. Hie decision, as the President has privately put it. is this: "I cannot and I will not become a prisoner of the White House." Every time Mr. Johnson has left the total hut at times Almanac By United Press International Today is -Monday, Dec. 30. the anth day of 1963 with one In follow. ' ;.The moon b full. The evening stars are Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. On this day in history: ; hi IBM, tlie United States inn chased tlie land south of the Clla River in southern Ariiona and New Mexico. Tlie deal was biter known m Hie "Cadsoe" dLrohase. J In 1885, British poet Halyard &pllng was born. Iln 3903, fire broke out in the Iroquois Theater in Chicago kill - iog more than 630 persons. I . In iI9(7, King Michael of ltd ; mania abdicated, charging he ; M forced out by local Com i KftaiMa lidni by the Russian. j ' A thought for the day The . American writer Ernest Hem I tog eaid: "Prose is archl L lecture, not interior decoration, "od Ilia baroijue is over." Warning Signal House Prisoner I somewhat cloying (security nf the great mansion here there there has been a flow of an xious messages from all over (he country: "Don't let the President take any chances" . . . "Please, Mr. President, just stay In (he White House," and so on. Sliock from the assassination of President Kennedy, is still fresh in the nation's memory. Concern about Air. Johnson's air travel in winter weather is anollier factor. So. too, is the circumstance that there is now no Vice President, though (lio President has brought fully into all high national affairs the man who by law is next in line of succession. Siienkor of (he House John W. McCormack of Massachusetts. Air. Johnson understands, sympathizes with and appreci ates public concern for his safe ty, and he will take all pro)er precautions suggested by (lie secret service. He feels, how ever, that no President can ex pect the country to come to him In ell circumstances; that at times he must go out to Uie . country, as t times he must' visit with people outside Wash ington to discharge fully his responsibilities. President Kennedy took a sim ilar attitude, as did both Presi dents Truman and Eisenhower. And with special reference lo the Texas visit of Chancellor Krhard there was yet anotlier strong consideration. This was that Mr. Johnson as Vice Presi dent had notably entertained and most uselully negotiated with Mr. Krhard's predeces sor. Chancellor Konrad Adenau er, at the ranch. The Germans niaile n clear some time ago that Mr. Er hard would be most apprecia tive of an opportunity to meet President Johnson at the same place and in tlie same rclased auil intimate atmosphere an producing that income is deducted or a profit taken." . All of the foregoing is considered with out reference to federal income tax and ex cise tax which actually take more than state income and property taxes. It is interesting to note that personal in come earned by Oregon residents in 1963 will total about $4-6 billion; that the federal government will take about $644 million out of the state in income taxes; that the state government takes about $100 million a year in personal income taxes and more than $21 million in excise taxes and that over $1 bil lion is used to make up the dedicated funds for special services. Local government units counties, cities, schools and service dis tricts will this year receive more than $240 million in local property taxes. What it all amounts to is that of Ore gon's $4.6 billion of personal income, ac cording to the Oregon Voter, $1,723,000,000 goes for taxes or about 37.3 per cpnt. The figures show that in 1946 Oregon Income Taxes were $22,867,942. In 1963 they are $121,834,826. Corporation Excise Taxes have risen from $17,016,962 in 1050 to $21,896,909 in 1903. Individual Income Taxes have expe rienced a boost from $20,459,533 in 1950 to $99,937,917 in 1963. t .This is somewhat reflected in state aid to public schools. In 1933 schools received $3,933,109. In 1963 the figure is $130,125, 568. The school population has grown from 265,500 in 1940 to 565,885 in 1962. The cost per pupil certainly has climbed! There's one heartening thing about all of this: Taxes in Klamath County for this year have shown an 8.5 per cent decrease and the per capita property tax $104 is one of the lowest in the state. Only Josephine ($.89) and. Morrow ($92) are less. At the same time school levies have decreased $462,618 from the total of 1961-62. Statistics and figures can be confusing but they all add up to what the Oregon Voter notes: Taxes aro rising steadily and the warning signals are flashing. c atmosphere never quite attain able, given the best effort in the world, in state visits in the White House itself. Too. Uiere is tlie fact that Mr. Johnson loves the old wood and limestone ranch house built in his grandfather's time, and at length restored by the President himself as he loves no other place. In tlie area, cousins, sisters, other relatives, abound. And these and old neighbors ranch ers, wranglers, foremen, local laboring men and businessmen and bankers the President has always visited at or near Christmastime when he could. Too, tliere is a special compan ion. Judge A. W. Moursunil. with whom the President likes lo get in at least one deer hunt a year. The LBJ Ranch is what Hyde Park was to Franklin Roose velt, what Independence. Mo , 'was to Harry Truman. It is home. And it permits President Johnson a freedom of move ment rides through tlie mes qtiite on a bay horse, walks alone through the hills along : the Prdernalos River which do a good deal to restore his spirit and to ease, not the work Itself, which always continues at tlie ranch about as here, hut the pressure of (lie work. . Finally and fundamentally and beyond all this, however. Mr. Johnson simply feels that lie cannot do all tliat lie must do if he Is to restrict himself unduly to tlie confined locale of the White House itself. He is deeply aware thiit a a( country lies out beyond the White House, beyond Washing Ion, beyond tlie Eastern S e it board. And be wishes and ful ly intends (o keep in touch wuh it all. never in travel for trav el's sake but in communication . ; for the sake of sensing national ,..L ni!ls Jind national hopes and ipw .... -iii, .-.:tt'r-f.rV . ii in ,a.y w jjTZy .Ul .'AT' .. 1 -J .U-Si IN WASHINGTON . By ItALPII de TOLKDANO At every turn, tliere are in dications that tile present Ad ministration! will continue to press for the steady reduction of U.S. military power. Tlie Strategic Air Command has al ready been marked for t h e scrap heap, the Navy's Polar is attack carrier strength is be ing whittled down, and now a substantial number of military installations aro being closed down. None of this has come about with the agreement uf LhcAJr Force, the Navy, or the Army. Men trained in the strategy and logistics of modern warfare are being ignored or told to stand in the corner. The Intelligence community is also being given the brush-off by tlio.se bright young academics known as the "whiz kids." For years, U.S. military ex perts have known that the So viet Union has some 150 divi sions. Though only 60 of them are full strength, there is enough trained manpower and radio to put the entire Red Army into the field within 30 days. Against this, the U.S. has 16 divisions. The new team at the Penta gonnew, that is, since ltitU brushes all of this aside. They now claim that whereas the so called "division slice" of the So viet army is ROOD men, the U.S. "division slice" comes to about 50.000 men. They say that Soviet mobilization will take six months. Where our generals, basing tlieir estimates on solid Intelli gence, have always said that a Soviet division matches up fair ly evenly with a U.S. division, with ours somewhat weaker in fire power, the "whiz, kids" ar gue that any U.S. soldier can lick two Russians. In other words, the ratio of strength in comparing the divisions of the U.S.and tlie Soviet Union is 1:2. What is happening, therefore. Is that the civilian team is trimming our military might to fit Us new theories. Tlie three service secretaries, following the bidding of Mr. McNamara and his whizzers, are commit ted to the position that a sub stantially reduced military ea pahility will not endanger Amer ica's defensive posture. It should be noted here thai tlie balance between Fast and West can be reckoned onlv bv comparing NATO and the War saw Pact powers. Tlie NATO al liance has 96 divisions. The Communist bloc has ITS divi sions. Tlie Soviets show no sign of demobilizing. Rut tlie NATO nations are following our mili tary lead and Secretary McNa mara has predicted a "decline" in the U S. defense budget. There is no concern among QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS V What Is the most south erly t'.S. ullonal forest? A Ocala National Forest, also known as "Big Scrub," in north-eemral Fla, . More Cuts For Military Pentagon civilians over this method of defense via statis tics. The computer to them is mightier than the sword so they have equalized U.S. and Soviet ground forces by simply eliminating some 115 Red Army divisions from their tally. And they argue that a Communist bloc with only 60 divisions can not stand up to our convention al forces or ever attack t h e West. . This is a reassuring thought if it is true that 115 Red Army divisions have suddenly been plowed under by Nikita Khru shchev. It is a nightmare if the "whiz kids" have made a sta tistical miscalculation. The en STRICTLY PERSONAL. Hy SYDNEY .1. HARRIS A highly successful advertis ing man. in his recent autobio graphy, remarks that the two words attracting the most at tention and Uie biggest pull in any adverisement are "Free!" and "New!" I see no reason lo doubt his statement, which is based on long and profitable experience. What interests me, however, is that these arc not necessarily the most potent words for ad vertising in other countries and different cultures. What wo think of as "human nature" is often a matter of longitude and latitude. When a famous American gum company, for instance, ad vertises its chewing gum in England, the ads (which I have seen) take an entirely different lack from those in America. They appeal to British decor um, good taste, and the deep ly - rooted fear of giving of fense. "Refreshing" may be the word (o American chewers. but "respectable" is the keynote of the British campaign. likewise, when an American razor company displayed i t s product shaving the fuzz off a ivach to German consumers, it was greeted with a mixture of laughter, derision and puzzle ment. The literal Germans sun ply never have the slightest de sire (o shave the fuzz off a peach. ' New" may le tlie operative word in American advertising, hut most European rations still prefer the old, the trustwxirthy, the reliable, and look upon highly - touted innovations with groat dubiety. They want to know w bother a product ill do lis ) well for a kmg lime, not whether it was given birth e tenlay by some feverish brain ratvr fix- fast returns. Incidentally, the beat adver tising campaign in America in tlie last 10 years, (or the Volkswagen automobile, shrewd ly adapted these European ston 1"N.,rds to American eed. (Hi tire U.S. defense strategy is being reshaped to fit tlie Mc Namara thesis and if he is wrong the United States can find itself fatally feeble when next Comrade Khrushchev goes adventuring. Beyond this danger and the damage to military morale which stems from Mr. McNa mara's cavalier treatment of the Joint Chiefs tliere is an equally serious diplomatic dan ger. The other members of the NATO alliance have their own Intelligence services.. E veil . I hough they would like to spend less on arms, they know that the "whiz kids" are woefully wrong. indicated that even in our own country maay people are less beguiled by novelty and chrome than by rugged honesty, depen dability, and common sense. I also have some lingering doubts about tlie puissance of the word "Tree!" in so many ads. My 8-year-old boy will tear out any such coupon and send it away, and I suspect that millions like him do the same which gives tlie adver tiser a good statistical record, but the purchasing power of 8-year-olds is scarcely o v e r whelming. On balance, however, tliere is no question that "Free!" and "New!" have done (heir work well in the recent past. As a na tion, we are prone to take de liglit in novelty for its own sake, and we still retain a na ive faith in samething for noth ing. But in the long run, we must ask whether these appeals to greed and curiosity do not defeat themselves. v By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA - New vocational education legislation approved by both Senate and House will greatly expand America's job-training efforts to hold down unemployment. Final approval this late in tlie congressional session raises some doubts that supplemental appropriations can be passed to start the new programs immedi ately. Also, it will take tlie states some time to plan expansion of tlieir vocational training s y s tems 6o as to qualify for $731 million or more in new grants which the federal government will offer on a matching fund basis over the next four years. The full impact won't be felt before the 1964-65 school year. The expanded vocational edu cation program is aimed pri marily at training many of the 26 million youngsters expected to enter the labor market dur ing the 1960s. It also aims to keep them from becoming school dropouts and joining the ranks of the unskilled unem ployed. There are now an estimated 3.000 to 4,000 vocational schools offering varied courses under state and local public school sys tem supervision. This year they have an enrollment of approxi mately four million students. This is about seven per cent of total secondary school enroll ment. About half of these voca tional students are adult work ers updating their training to take better jobs. The other half are full-time secondary school students preparing for their first job. State and local governments now overmatch by $4.50 to $1 federal contributions of $57 mil lion to vocational education pro grams authorized by existing legislation. ' At the end of (he fourth year for which the new programs are being-authorized, it is expected that, the financing and the num ber xif students will more than double. Tlie number of schools may not double, as the trend WASHINGTON REPORT Ban-The-Bomb Visits President By FL'LTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON A controver sial ban-the-bomb buff won a private audience with President Lyndon Johnson the other day, much to the consternation nf Pentagon top brass. He is Seymour Mclman, a 45-year-old Columbia professor, brought to tlie White House by James Farmer, head of the Con gress of Racial Equality. Melman talked defense with Johnson and four top-ranking aides, but White House spokes men will not reveal details of the conversation. Melman's record is found in Congressional files. He has been active in the National Commit tee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. According to the far left Nation al Guardian, Mclman journeyed to Oslo, Norway for a ban-the-bomb conference in 1961. The Columbia professor has publicly called for a 26 billion dollar cut in the annual defense budget. Pentagon generals say this would guarantee Commu nist victory in the arms race and would put (his country at A, is toward larger, consolidated training schools. Expansion is expected fn all of these areas: The 15 to 19-year-old stu dents in high schools. Courses for students of less than average ability who might become dropouts if not given vocational training. High school graduates and dropouts age 19 to 25. Unemployed workers not qualified for training under the Manpower Development pro grams to teach new skills. Evening classes for the un employed to raise skills. Vocational courses in junior and community colleges. Technical schools for met ropolitan slum areas. Industrial education centers tied in with state development plans like those in North and South Carolina. For the first time, authoriza tion would be given to build and operate vocational centers where students from under-developed areas, needing close personal supervision, can be trained in residence, in short, vocational boarding schools. The legislation will permit transfer of federal funds from one of these programs to anoth er to meet different labor mar ket demands in states with dif ferent economies. There is no apparent shortage of teachers to meet this expan sion in vocational education, says Dr. Walter W. Arnold of the U.S. Office of Education. Active recruiting has been go ing on in industry. Employers are cooperating in furnishing teachers. Retired armed service techni cians make excellent teachers. Older men leaving production like part-time work as teachers, and the states are training oth ers. While President Kennedy's 1961 Panel of Consultants on Vo cational Education filed a com prehensive report on the subject a year ago, the idea to broaden U.S. programs in this field came from House Republicans this year. Their primary purpose was to close gaps in existing Manpower Training and Devel opment Act programs. Buff the mercy of Soviet button-push-ers. Mclman has been critical of U.S. diplomatic support for anti-Communist allies throughout the world. In October, 1958, he joined other leftist intellectuals lo issue a call for an "entirely new foreign policy." The National Guardian quot ed Melman as saying that U.S. policy toward Nationalist China and Lebanon, both anti-Communist states, must be altered. A committee of Congress has clas sified the National Guardian as "a virtual official propaganda arm of Soviet Russia." In April of 1962. Melman signed an appeal for clemency for Junius Scales, the North Carolina Communist leader who had been convicted of violating the Smith Act. Scales was sub sequently freed hy President Kennedy. A Christmas present (or back ers of Senator Barry Goldwa tcr: Mr. Conservative will soon an nounce his candidacy for the Presidency. Intimates say Gold watcr has made up his mind tn challenge President Lyndon Johnson for the nation's high est office. He has not yet deeded on the date. Some advisers have urged him to announce Dec. 29; others have advised a January date. Several factors have reported ly convinced Goldwater to make the race. He feels President Johnson is pushing hard the accommodationist policies of the Kennedy Administration. He thinks the Johnson "im a;e" w ill shift soon from mod erate Westerner lo liberal ideol ogist. He thinks Johnson will antagonize conservatives and moderates alike when he cracks the legislative whip next year Goldwater feels he cannot let down his hackers. He leels ,. Mont. ton. of victory in the V- Hampshire primary He think, he ran cn tn s.mYtan nsrn uh a substantial number of delegates and profoundly in fluence the Republican poture Kve If hi doss not get the G.leVav j, f eld oi,..N 1 .m, bM fel'r kam a itr. J 4
