anaheim-gazette 1964-11-04

The States Can Do Many have been the claims by federal spenders that vast financing projects for education and such are necessary because the states and local governments aren't able or willing, to handle their own problems. What are the facts? According to the Kiplinger magazine, Changing Times, state and local spending increased 135 per cent during the decade 1952-1962. Of the present per capita state and local tax average of $319, schools and highways get $173.54. Between 1958 and 1962 local government expenditures on education increased 28.1 per cent. Other increases were: public welfare, 22.3 per cent; hospitals, 15.5 per cent; health 18.3 per cent; housing, 29.5 per cent. No one likes increasing costs, in creasing taxes. But the money being spent in increasing measure by state and local governments in areas so deep to the hearts of the federal do-gooder is money well-spent, money that good direct to the job to be done, without detour to and a discount in Washington. Yes, state and local government can do. And are doing. And could do more if the federal government would quit pre-empting choice tax revenue sources. Silence Means Consent "What happens in business today is determined more and more by what happened in government yesterday." That is the advise of the director of civic governmental affairs for a leading automotive manufacturing company, wondering "why haven't more businessmen leaped on the public affairs bandwagon?" He said "government has an impact on business policy and planning at least as great as the impact of competition in the market-place because government, to a large degree, determines the nature of the marketplace." According to this director one of the reasons for apathy is simply that is the same as tolerating any other unnecessary cost increase simply because sales are good. "A dollar of higher costs brought on by government action is just as serious as a dollar of higher cost in manufacturing, in purchasing, or in marketing. "There is no more excuse for a businessman to conform blindly in matters of politics and government than there is in any other aspect of his work. "For a businessman to seek to avoid conflict by being a 'yes man' is wrong whether it's in government and political affairs or in financial and product." company, wondering "why haven't more businessmen leaped on the public affairs bandwagon?" He said "government has an impact on business policy and planning at least as great as the impact of competition in the market-place because government, to a large degree, determines the nature of the marketplace." According to this director one of the reasons for apathy is simply that we are having very good times. The prosperity that has engendered the present mood of political apathy on the part of the general population has also had its effect on businessmen. "It's an attitude of 'everything is rosy so don't anybody rock any boats.' 'Lately I have heard an occasional businessman say that with things so good he might be willing to accept a legislative setback. Yet I know in other times he would have fought like a tiger at that prospect. 'To tolerate a legislative setback on the grounds that, now I can afford it' That’s Baseball If you think a football takes crazy bounces, how about baseball? Consider. One of California's major league teams, the world champs, collapsed to a tie for sixth place in the recent season. The manager was rehired. Another, which had been right near the top las season, dropped to fifth. Its manager was rehired. The third was in contention down to the last few days, despite loss of one of its best pitchers, and a series of highly damaging injuries to key players. It made tons of money at the gate and ended up just three games out of first place. Its manager, who had previously led the tea mto one league title and two third place finishes, was told by the club's owner during the last game of the season that he'd been fired. In baseball it's not only "Dark b nimble, Dark be quick," but "Dar jump out of Candlestick." LYONS DEN Why Jackie Loves NY By LEONARD LYONS During his one day stopover in N.Y., before sailing to Europe, Richard Burton visited his daughters. Kate, who is 7, campanion: "That's why I love New York." Irwin Shaw flew to Dallas for the Giants game, to research for his Esquire cover been to Moscow, Tel Aviv Athens, Antibes, Jordan, Istanbul and Paris. This hectetraveling confused him, but cause when he dozed in LYONS DEN Why Jackie Loves NY By LEONARD LYONS During his one day stopover in N.Y., before sailing to Europe, Richard Burton visited his daughters. Kate, who is 7, asked if he speaks Italian. Yes, said Burton, but only medieval Italian. Kate was puzzled over what he meant by medieval. Burton demonstrated it by reciting to her portions from Dante, learned as a student at Oxford. Charles P. Taft organized a "Committee to Suppor Moderate Republicans." Henry Cabot Lodge and James P. Mitchell gave their names to the project...Tony Curtis and Vittorio Gassman will co-star in the movie version of the London hit, "Boeing Boeing." It will be directed by John Rich in Rome. Frank Sinatra is presiding at an unusual event Nov. 18, during his engagement at the Sands in Las Vegas. Sinatra will give a concert there, with Count Basie and a 25-piece orchestra. The audience, by invitation only, will pay $500 a couple. SHARE will get the proceeds...Edna Ferber is completing her new novel for which a major movie sale is assured ... Lord Snowden may photograph, for Life, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev doing "Swan Lake" at the Vienna State Opera. Unusual Photographer A cruising, N.Y., press car stopped at a traffic light on Fifth Ave., just as Jacqueline Kennedy and a friend were crossing. Mrs. Kennedy saw the newspaper's name emblazoned on the car, and seemed to freeze. "Don't worry, Mrs. Kennedy," said the photographer up front, "We're on our way to cover a collision..." Mrs. Kennedy turned to her campanion: "That's why I love New York." Irwin Shaw flew to Dallas for the Giants game, to research for his Esquire cover story on quarterback Y. A. Tittle ... Shaw's book, "Voices of a Summer Day," probably will be an alternate Book-of-the-Month Club choice. Before starting their nationwide tour here, Israel's National Youth Symphony Orchestra spent five days at Grossinger's. They never tried any of the marvelous facilities, but watched that which Israel doesn't have—television. I. P. Lazar, the Hollywood agent, established a record earning $500,000 for himself as commissions on these $5 million in deals in one week: Richard Quine to produce and direct "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "Owl and the Pussy Cat" and "A Talent for Loving"; George Axelrod to produce and write five films for United Artists, and Stanley Shapiro to write two films for Universal. Lazar isn't yet counting the big deal for "How to Succeed." During Richard Burton's visit here he sang the praises of Sam Levene, starring in "The Last Analysis." Both were in a Shakespeare work class here, and Burton deems Levene among the foremost of actors...Josephine Premice is resuming her career this week, at the Ritz Carlton in Montreal...The crew of waiters and busboys at Sardil's, headed by Captain Sanford, became foster parents to 8-year-old Andreana Francesca of Sardinia. James Michener flew to Spain, to make the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. In recent weeks Michener had been to Moscow, Tel Aviv Athens, Antibes, Jordan, Istanbul and Paris. This hectetraveling confused him, because when he dozed in a Madrid cab and woke up, he didn't know where he was until he read the sign in the cab. The late hours meant only Spain: "Meal hours for the driver strictly observed." Lunch, 5-6. Dinner, 11-12." A James Bond movie with out Sean Connery — "Casino Royale"—will be produced by Charles Feldman. He'll make it in Rome with an Italian director...Leonie Rysanek of the Vienna Opera, who sang "Tosca" at the Met Opera Oct. 23, has been signed for a movie on "Macbeth." It will be produced by the new Austrian film company, Vienna next summer...The AAU commissioned Robert Berks, the sculptor, to design its JFT Sports Memorial Medal. Signed By Sinatra Frank Sinatra decided to sign Chuck Walters to direct the movie he's producing; starring Dean Martin, Deborah Kerr and Ann Margarete. The Sistine chapel set from "The Agony and the Scastasy" was to be shipped here on the maiden voyage of the Michel angelo. Anne Bancroft, who recently married Mel Brook, the comedian, was asked by an interviewer for her opinion of her husband. "No comment," Miss Bancroft replied ... The story is told of a soldier, about to be shipped to Viet Nam who reported to his colonel that he'd just been married and wanted to take his wife along. "Soldier," said the colonel, "if the army meant for you to have a wife, it would have issued you one." THE ROCKET'S RED GLARE Do r cent; health 18.3 per 5 per cent. increasing costs, inBut the money being measure by state ments in areas so dear the federal do-gooders ent, money that goes to be done, without a discount in Washingand local governments doing. And could do general government would choice tax revenue onsent derating any other uncrease simply because higher costs brought t action is just as sef higher cost in manchasing, or in marketmore excuse for a unform blindly in matnd government than other aspect of his sman to seek to avoid a 'yes man' is wrong, government and pofinancial and produc SYLVIA PORTER Job Vacancy Index SYLVIA PORTER Job Vacancy Index "Since 1957 joblessness has stuck above 5 per cent of our work force. This is economic, social and political dynamite, and we all know it...." "But what about the unfilled jobs that exist throughout the country? We do not have accurate statistics showing how many jobs are seeking workers, in what occupations there are major job opportunities, in what regions there are untapped pools of unemployment. The lack of statistics on job vacancies is one of the more conspicuous gaps in our labor force information—so obvious a gap that it seems astounding we've permitted it to exist so long." It was precisely two years ago today, in a column dated Nov. 2, 1962, that I wrote the above indictment. Yet, despite repeated promises by both the federal government and private research agencies to fill this crucial statistical gap, the gap remains. At a time when our knowledge of the DEMAND for labor—as well as the supply of labor—is clearly essential, we have no national job vacancy index, no reliable way to measure how many jobs are looking for workers, where the jobs are, what sort of jobs they are. At last, though, there is solid evidence of progress. The National Industrial Conference Board in June launched an intensive 18-month probe in an effort to devise a sensitive measuring stick. It is concentrating its studies in Rochester, where an unusually high number of job openings are believed to exist. Broadening The non-profit NICB also has been broadening and deepening the data it assembles on the volume of classified job advertising in 52 major newspapers across the country—as a stepping stone toward a national measure of labor demand. The NICB helped advertising index, incidentally, has just hit an all-time high—up from a sluggish 104 in June 1963. To a peak reading to 128 in September, a gain of 21 per cent. If past experience with this index is indicative, this rise is signaling a downturn in the unemployment rate in the month ahead. The U.S. Labor Dept. has just launched a separate program to count and classify job vacancies in 16 key markets—beginning with Providence, Milwaukee, Birmingham and Portland. It hopes to extend the project to all labor market areas in the next year. In February 1965 a conference on the results of our search under way now at various universities and institutions will be held by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The conference will exhaustively analyze job vacancies collected in Sweden, Britain, many other countries—and the use to which the data has been and can put. Obvious Obstacle An obvious obstacle to the development of a U.S. job vacancy index has been the complexity of our economy. The fears of industry and organized labor about possible implications and interpretations of the statistics have slowed progress. Some business fear this index would encourage government employment agencies to pry into their employment policies; some uncleaders fear publicizing the number of actual job vacancies would belittle the problem of unemployment. But as economist Arthur Burns has said repeatedly, job vacancy index is a "missing link in our entire system of economic intelligence." We must have the job vacancy data to help us develop appropriate training and retraining programs at all educational levels and to pinpoint jobs which are desperate seeking workers. We must have the statistic to help guide employers... National Men's Team Champion If you have to be bitten, here is a kind of consolation in being chewed up by your own teeth. This happy fate befell Howard Schenken a couple of months ago in a regional tournament held in Washington, D.C. East dealer Both sides vulnerable. Opening Lead 4 Club Schenken jumped to three spades with the South cards in the hope of disrupting the East - West bidding. He was quite surprised to be doubled, and only then did he notice that his opponents were using the Schenken "Big Club" bidding system. The opening bid of one club in the Schenken System promises 17 points or more in high cards. West could afford to double three spades with his meagre strength, relying on the power of his partner's strong opening bid to do most of the job of defeating the contract. If East's opening bid promised merely the 12 high-card points of a minimum opening bid, West would have to pass over three spades. East would reopen the bidding with a double, but West would still not dare pass the double for penalties. West would probably not oven take a gamble on East dealer Both sides vulnerable Mail Box Letters are important to a newspaper. They help us know how our readers feel on issues of the times in our area of coverage. We invite our readers to communicate with us at any time. Letters for publication, however, must be less than 300 words, must be signed and have an address which can be checked. Name will be withheld on request, but no "anonymous" letters will be accepted for publication. The editor reserves the right to edit any letter for libelous or objectionable material and to fit the maximum length. JOHN POWERS On Deadline A noted expert on agricultural resources has painted a gloomy picture about the urban sprawl that is threatening the economic abundance of our society. And Dr. Daniel G. Aldrich's comments make sense, at least to our way of thinking. The chancellor of the new Irvine campus of the University of California has expressed deep concern about the manner in which we are taking land out of agriculture. California is fast becoming a state where freeways, shopping centers and subdivisions are clawing unhealable wounds across the landscape. Our cities and communities across the nation now are undergoing a great urban surge. While farm jobs themselves account for only eight per cent of the total civilian employment, agriculture has a great impact on the nation's economy. Thus, without intelligent planning, indiscriminate removal of land from agricultural production may seriously threaten the entire economy. In California hardly $75 acres of open farmland comes under the blade of the bulldozer every day. This amounts to 14,000 acres a year. At this rate, we can expect three million acres of California's open land to disappear by 1980. The continuation of our opulent society is at stake. We cannot afford as a people to make unwise decisions on what use we will make of our best land. Our first consideration must be to assure an adequate supply of food and fiber, forest products and other materials we need. Still in the subject of agriculture. A farm dollar doesn't remain a farm dollar for long. C. J. Marks, Orange County chairman of the National Farm-City week, November 20-26, tells about a North Carolina dollar received from a tobacco crop, was traced through several transactions, encased in plastic and with an accompanying note. It was an example of the distribution of money derived from creation of assets for the community through the forces of nature and the guidance of the farmers. The farmer bought eggs from another farmer, the dollar was used twice to purchase gasoline for two vehicle owners. A bakeryman got the dollar at the service station and bought cigarettes. At this point Uncle Sam got eight cents from the cigarettes which contained slightly over three cents worth of tobacco at the farmers' price. The bill then went from the country store to a miner who bought some shotgun shells at the hardware. Then a barber got it and gave it in change to a college student who bought a record. The record store manager spent it on lunch and the dollar wound up in the pocket of the high school son of the restaurant owner. Then it went to a football game and the trail disappeared. The president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, B. C. Mangum, comments that the tobacco dollar "is still out there somewhere, providing a good life for citizens who ordinarily believe themselves to be Index rate in the months d. The U.S. Labor Dept. has launched a separate test farm to count and classify vacancies in 16 key labor areas—beginning with Proce, Milwaukee, Birmingham, and Portland. It hopes to end the project to all 150 market areas in the next year. February 1965 a conference on the results of research under way now at var universities and institutes will be held by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The conference will insistively analyze job data collected in Sweden, many other countries—and the use to which data has been and can be Obvious Obstacle An obvious obstacle to the development of a U.S. job variety index has been the complexity of our economy. The industry and organization about possible implications and interpretations of statistics have slowed progress too. Some businessmen this index would encourage government employment policies to pry into their eminent policies; some union leaders fear publicizing the number of actual job vacancies would belittle the problem unemployment. But as economist Arthur Russo has said repeatedly, a vacancy index is a "vital link in our entire system of economic intelligence." He must have the job vacancies to help us develop appropriate training and retraining programs at all education levels and to pinpoint the which are desperately working workers. He must have the statistics help guide employers in the blade of the bulldozer every day. This amounts to 14,000 acres a year. At this rate, we can expect three million acres of California's open land to disappear by 1980. The continuation of our opulent society is at stake. We cannot afford as a people to make unwise decisions on what use we will make of our best land. Our first consideration must be to assure an adequate supply of food and fiber, forest products and other materials we need for consumption and for trade. Those responsible for urban development must make certain they provide both economic opportunity and the amenities of life for all of us who are caught up in the great urban surge. These were some of the points which Dr. Aldrich brought up. It has been some time since this problem has been explained so fully. DR. MOLNER Bland Diet Dear Dr. Molner: Please send my a copy of "Lost Secret of Reducing." I enclose the required five cents in coin and a long, stamped, self-adressed envelope. Would this leaflet be helpful in case I have ulcers and/or an irritated colon? — M.D.H. Yes, the leaflet is adaptable, although you must use common sense in adjusting your diet. With ulcers, a bland diet is required, but a bland (non-irritating) one need not necessarily be excessively high in calories. One problem is that of drinking cream. You can hold this to a minimum by not overdoing it or else by substituting milk. Watch the pattern of your ulcer pains. Learn how long you can go, at various times of day, without suffering. Then drink just a little cream (or half and half) at the strategic time which will stall off an attack. The irritated colon is a different problem. You will have to avoid, as a rule, foods with too much "ash" or residue, and those with strong, resistant vegetable fibers, as well as sooty fruits. ed envelope that you sent Please enclose 10 cents in coin instead of five if you want both together. Dear Dr. Molner: Should a diabetic who takes insulin drink alcoholic beverages? I have heard that this could cause blindness.—Mrs. B.D. Alcoholic beverages do not of themselves cause blindness in a diabetic. All the same, they are risky from the standpoint of upsetting control of the condition and provoking acidosis when done to excess. If a diabetic proposes to use alcohol at all, he should discuss it with his doctor—and abide by whatever restrictions are specified. Uncontrolled diabetes does indeed sometimes cause blindness. Dear Dr. Molner: I am 28. Ever since my teens I have walked and sat in a slumped position. As the years go by, my posture gets worse. Is there such a thing as shoulder braces for this?—Mrs. J.B. Yes, but you may be a little late, and shoulder braces are not very comfortable. It's better to pay attention to your sitting and standing but as economist Arthur has said repeatedly, a vacancy index is a "vital link in our entire system of economic intelligence." must have the job vacanata to help us develop appropriate training and retraining programs at all education levels and to pinpoint the which are desperately working workers. must have the statistics help guide employers in hiring outside recruitment on-job training programs to help guide employees to areas and jobs which need must have the information to create proper programs for depressed areas to design our basic vocational educational system so it today's labor market real- a broader front, we need available job vacancy index help us forecast more effectively coming business—up or down. Even its widely inadequate heeded advertising index, the NICB has been "very sensitive to changes business conditions" over past 40 years. exploratory work is disfellowly overdue—but begin at last. GINGER By Gettermann "I give up, Tommy! You'll have to wait for your mother to cook dinner for your!"