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THURSDAY, AUGUST IS, 1966
THE OFFBEAT NEWSBEAT...
Herb Alpert Is Riding
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cember: a’go. that you make no financial commit-
menu during the latter two months.
ACROSS THE EDITOR’S DESK...
One County- With a Whole Passel of Problems
By J. CULLEN BROWNING
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Try And Stop Me
_______By BENNETT CERF_______
The hunt, they say, went on
for weeks.
By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
spokesman for California’s ex-
tensive agricultural interests.
Without taking a position chal-
lenging the justice of the strik-
ing airline machinists' demand
Melancholy thought while
watching Luci’s wedding to Pat:
What a tough act Lynda has
to follow’.
One of the nice things about
Sen. George Murphy of Califor-
nia is that he doesn't crow in
victory.
For well over a year he has
been after Secretary of Labor
Willard Wirtz to ease up on the
for anticapitalists!
Now the revolution has come, but in-
stead of being the one predicted by Marx,
it is a technological one that is sweeping the
working man. In 10 years before this year,
the following has happened:
1. Productivity per man-hour is up 33
per cent.
I had nothing-to fill my time
and could goof off whenever I
wanted to. I was miserable."
and loves it. When the beach in
front of her house gets too
crowded tor her own comfort,
- she simply circulates quietly
among the sun worshippers and
bathers, shades her eyes, and
exclaims, "Goodness, isn’t that
a fin out there?” In no time flat,
she has the beach to herself.
Every revival of old Charles Chaplin
movies produces a lot of laughs over the
original American assembly Une. But the
twisted nature of the humor still escapes
modem audiences, according to the Cham-
ber of Commerce of the United States. •
In his droll way Chaplin made the assem-
bly Une look like the last step in the deg-
radation of the working man, reducing him
to the role predicted for him by Karl Marx:
the despised “tool” of a growing capitalist
economy.
Marx realized that capital and technol-
ogy could combine to increase the produc-
tivity of workers, and thus bring economic
progress, but he predicted that capitalists
would get all the benefits.
Introduction of the assembly line brought
dramatic, visible proof of his error. Mass
production could only mean that our eco-
nomic system was providing for the many,
rather than the few.
month invade Europe and Eng-
---1 - home territory of his
friendly rivals, the Beatles —
and plan to make a movie early
next year.
"I‘s nice to be occupied,”
said Alpert, a family man who
actually prefers to stay home.
"I can remember the time when
for more money, be made an
issue of the strike losses to Cali-
fornia farmers whose income
depends on their ability to mar-
ket flowers and expensive fruits
in the East by air freight.
And again without going aput
on a limb against labor, or op-
posing the union shop inside the
State of California, he went
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His six-man band has made
six albums of which 11 million
recordings have been sold.
One of Us two firms, the A A
M Record Co., expects a gross
of $30 million during 1906. His
other firm, Tijuana Brass En-
terprises, should gross better
than $2 million from the band's
concert and television appear-
ances.
Herb and Us bandsmen next
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tated by Reagan that it is
making the senior Senator from
California. Thomas Kuche!, look
like a sullen spoilsport in his
refusal to be a loyal partv man
when it comes to California
campaigning. The time may
come when Kuchel may need
Murphy's help in saving his own
skin.
If Murphy has refrained from
crowing over Secretary of Labor
Wirtz' capitulation in the Mexi-
can bracero labor issue, this col-
umnist. who is not in politics,
could easily afford to crow in
his place.
along on a strictly "States'
Rights" basis with Sen. Dirk-
THE BUSINESS MIRROR . , .
Banks Charging Highest
Interest Rates Since 1920s
Bobby Poses Question:
What if God Is Black?
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YOUR HOROSCOPE . . .
The Stars Say
FOR TOMORROW
Concentrate on your most important interests on
Friday morning. Take advantage of every oppor-
tunity to advance financially and jobwise, but make
no hasty decisions and don't take risky chances. —
Let conservatism be your byword. The late P.M.
looks promising for social interests.
FOR THE BIRTHDAY
H tomorrow is your birthday, your horoscope
indicates that while you may not make much fi-
nancial progress between now and the end of De-
cember, you can, if you will temporarily forget
your innate love of luxuries and curb your overly
generous gestures, and stress the practical side of
your nature, make fine advances along monetary
lines, beginning with Jan. 1, 1967. There are several
other admonitions, too: It will be imperative that
Author Ben Hecht once cashed
in on this universal weakness.
In a secondhand bookshop, He
came upon several hundred
copies of a technical treatise,
marked down to a fraction of
the original list price. The book
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(he got more votes in 1964 than
Gov. Pat Brown ever managed
to roll up) to his junior Holly-
wood colleague.
He is doing this not because
of Reagan's conservatism, but
because Reagan is the oarty
nominee for governor. Mean-
while, Murphy has helped Re-
publicans in some 30 states to
raise more than two million dol-
lars. and is busy supporting any
and all Republican national can-
didates. including such liberals
as Mark Hatfield of Oregon and
districts.
Not one of the county’s four incorporated cities
is anywhere close to being as well financed as it
would have to be in order to provide the services
which are a legal responsibility of a municipal
government.
In fact, the Qty of Orange is digging into its
cash surplus and will either have to curtail its ser-
vices or go into the red starting with the 1967-68
budget unless it can be provided with a great deal
more revenue than it has in sight at present.
West Orange, Pinehurst and Vidor are struggling
along with minimal budgets and not coming close
to providing a full and satisfactory range of mu-
nicipal services.
Our county government is preparing to go into
1967 with an operating budget at least one-third un-
der the amount that would be needed to meet the
needs and desires of our people for public services
at that level.
The drainage district is being operated within
Ue framework of philosophy suitable for the de-
pression years but wholly unsuitable for the needs
for this program as Uey exist today.
So I repeat: Where did we goof? Looking back
through the past 20 years, I can recall numerous
occasions when we overlooked or shoved aside the
obvious and in so doing helped to lay the ground-
work for the public services problems now con-
fronting us.
And of course, that’s water under the bridge.
The challenge now is to pick up the pieces and
make an honest effort to work together toward
overcoming the obstacles to total community prog-
ress which we have created.
Beginning with recognition of the fact that this
tow is one county in all respects and any program for
public services which does not take that Into con-
sideration is ill-advised.
The present affluence of the American
society is placing heavy demands on the
availability of goods and services, a fact that
we often overlook.
Take, for example, the future availability
of a product discussed recently by Gov.
John Connally—petroleum.
“During 1965,” he said, “the United States
alone consumed each day more petroleum
than was consumed in the entire world at
the close of World War II, only 20 years
ago.
“And of all the oil which has been re-
covered from the earth’s reserves,” he added,
" ... we in the United States have supplied
and consumed about half.”
What the governor was leading up to is
that despite the fact that the petroleum in-
dustry has been finding about as much oil
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in new reserves as it has produced each
year, increases in consumption are forcing
the country’s domestic reserves-to-demand
ratio to decline.
To halt this downward trend of explora-
tory drilling and to tangibly add to the in-
centive necessary for this industry to in-
crease, rather than deplete, its petroleum
reserves, we must put down more explora-
tory wells.
If the petroleum industry is to risk the
high cost of greater exploration, it must
also see the chance for a reasonable profit
in what is an extremely high-risk business.
Therefore, it is imperative that govern-
ment regulations and tax policies do not un-
dermine the incentives and vitality of the
industry responsible for developing new oil
reserves on which we depend for future
supplies of petroleum products.
industrialized world with far greater force
than communism could ever have hoped to
generate.
In the United States, advancing tech-
nology has freed so many from factory and
farm work and created so many job oppor-
tunities for them elsewhere that we now
have a service-oriented economy.
More than half the labor force is cur-
rently employed in the service trades, in
which there is no assembly line at all.
In the factories, the assembly line is
automated, the tedious work is eased, and
the worker’s, dignity is secure.
Leisure time also/ has increased and the
common man enjoys a way of life superior
in many respects to that of the very rich in
Marx’s day, when there was nothing to com-
pare with modem plumbing, central heat-
ing, electric lighting or the automobile.
On the streets and in many cultural and
recreational centers, you can no longer tell
the wage earner and the millionaire apart.
And the trend continues to favor the
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FINVSHIM AT LAT.
The reopening of Orange County schools next
month will find more children in the classrooms
than there were people of all ages in the county
when the 1940 federal census was taken.
As a matter of fact, there will be more boys
out for football this season than were enrolled in
all grades of the county’s schools in 1940.
Which reminds me that our sports department
is hard at work on material for our annual foot-
ball section which will be included in the Sunday,
Aug. 28, edition of The Leader.
It you are a follower of any of the area football
teams be sure to road the section. And if you would
like to reserve one or more extra copies in advance
you can do so by calling our circulation depart-
ment. TO 3-8403.
There was only one football team in the 'county
26 years ago — the Orange High Schael Tigers.
Then, as now, they began each season with some
small hope of winning a district championship. But
mostly their aspirations centered on defeating the
Port Arthur Yellow Jackets
I haven’t consulted our sports writers on the
paint bet somehow feel that this season they have
2 o-t as good — i not a better — chance of de-
featlag the Jackets than of trouncing the Vidor
Pirates or Bridge Qty Cardinals.
Which isn’t the main point of this discussion It
is that some of us who have been involved with
the post - war economic development program
which brought the school enrollment and total pop-
ulation of the county to present figures are begin-
ning to wonder when and where we goofed.
There's no question that we fouled up — not in
the matter of economic progress, but in the area of
public services.
We failed to anticipate and make an organized
effort from the beginning to head off the problems
that are currently keeping us from having local
agencies of government adequate to the needs of
today.
As a result, we have come down to 1866 with
more headaches in the field of local public services
than we can aay grace over.
The echool system into which we will place
clone to 10,000 of our children next month leaves
a great deal to be desired, it could and shouid
be one of the best ia the country, but weal for
as long as we have a multiplicity of school
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2. Wages per hour in manufacturing have
risen 40 per cent.
3. Profits as a percentage of investment
are up by only one-tenth of 1 per cent.
It makes you wonder whether Marx him-
self might not have preferred it this way if
he could have foreseen the possibilities.
policy of excluding Mexican na-
tionals, the so-called braceros,
from California’s fields and or-
chards.
Wirtz's doctrinaire rigidity in
pushing the policy of exclusion
had resulted in tremendous
waste of needed food crops when
California’s ranchers found it
impossible to "make do" with
vacationing high s.c h o o l stu-
dents, moochers and alcoholics
from the skid rows of big cities,
and recruits from east of the
Rockies who, after using trans-
portation subsidies as a means
of getting to the West Coast,
quf after a few days work.
A proud and touchy man, Wil-
lard Wirtz resisted Murphy's
prodding through a score of
crises. But on Aug. 1 of this
year, Wirtz finally capitulated.
He authorized the admission of
6,000 Mexicans to help with the
approaching California tomato
harvest.
Instead of saying "I told you
so," Sen. Murphy made a rim- '
pie, low - keyed announcement
that he was "very pleased that
the Secretary of Labor has rec-
ognized the need for these la-
borers ... I hope the Secre-
tary's action is an indication
that California harvest needs
will be carefully followed with
a view to authorizing more
workers as necessity demands.”
Murphy has what has been
called the “emulsifying" touch.
Although he is personally rather
conservative, ne seldom talks
ideology. In his two years in the
U.S. Senate he has largely lim-
ited himself to pushing (a) the
interests of the State of Cali-
fornia and (b) the cause of unity
in the Republican Party.
Although he was known,'be-
fore his election, primarily as
a Hollywood actor and labor
leader (inside the Screen Actors
Guild), he quickly made him-
self felt in the Senate as the
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a week or so they could have
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NEW YORK - Sen. Robert
Kennedy’s succinct definition of
South Africa's Apartheid
(apartness) policy makes In-
formative reading in Look Maga-
zine:
"If your skin is black in
South Africia:
“You cannot participate in
the political process, and you
cannot vote.
“You are restricted to jobs
for which no whites are avail-
able.
“Your wages are from 10 to
40 per cent of those paid a
white man for equivalent work.
“You are forbidden to own
land except in one small area.
“You live with your family
only if the government ap-
proves.
‘The government will spend
one-tenth as much to educate
your child as it spends to edu-
cate a white child.
“You are, by law. an inferior
from birth to death.
"You are totally segregated,
even at most church services."
Sen. Kennedy asked a lot of
questions during his South
African trip and he received a
lot of answers. But one of his
questions, asked at the Univer-
sity of Natal in Durban, went
unanswered. A questioner had
explained the South African pos-
ition to him regarding the atti-
tude of most churches. After
all, the man said, whites and
blacks could not worship to-
gether because the Bible taught
that God created the Negroes
to serve.
“But suppose God is black?”
Kennedy asked "What if we
go to Heaven and we, all
our lives, have treated the Ne-
gro as an interior, and God is
there and we look up and he
is not white? What then is our
response?”
There was no reply.
President Johnson says that
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was over 1,000 pages long, hope-
lessly dull, often unintelligible,
and carried no index.
Hecht mailed copies anony-
mously to all his most im-
portant friends, with a typed
note inride that read, “I believe
you will wax justifiably indig-
nant when you come across the
numerous Insulting references to
you in this book.”
along Wabash Avenue in Chicago . , land
one afternoon this April. Two
automobiles came hurtling out
of nowhere, with the occupants
wildly shooting at each other
with machine guns. The cop at
the corner merely yawned and
observed to nobody in particu-
lare, "Heavens to Betsy! That's
the first robin I’ve heard this
832 million this year as the re-
sult of breaking the sound bar-
rier.
The sound barrier they broke
was the sound of rock ‘n’ roll
which has dominated the music
world for years. They created a
rollicking new sound, a sound in
which Alpert wedded Dixieland
jazz and the spirited rhythms of
Mexico’s strolling mariachi
bands
Herb, who has been blowing
the trumpet since he was 8, first
experimented with the new
sound in a Los Angeles garage
in 1962. But it was a full two
years before the sound really
caught the national fancy.
"There have been a lot of new
musical sounds, and you can
never In advance really put
your finger on one that the pub-
lic will take to,” said Herb.
"But perhaps people were
tired of protest music. Ours has
a happy sound."
Perhaps Alpert himself was
subconsciously looking for a
happier sound. One of his chores
during a two-year stint in the
Army had been the playing of
‘Tape" at funeral services.
emergency The Fed's policing
rules forbid making such big
profits on money borrowed from
Because the Fed frowns on
such borrowings, banks have
been borrowing from eaca other '
instead. They have lately paid
as high as 15% per cent for fed-
eral funds — the surplus re-
serve one bank may have tem-
porarily at the Fed — and on a
short-term basis, usually just
overnight.
Banks raising their prime-
rate this week are saying the
increase might dampen some of
the big demand for loans, and
thus help to keep the economy
fromoverheating.
But many of their big custom-
ers say that hiking interest
rates usually has little effect’
For one thing, interest charges
are deductible before taxes. For
another, business firms are bor-
rowing because they want to
expand their plant or activities
wit*' an eye on making larger
profits themselves, and are will-
me to pay the cost.
Would-be borrowers are usu
ally able to find a lender — if
they’ll pay the price of the loan
This goes for consumer loans as
well as business loans. The one
place where a real pinch has
been felt is in long-term home
mortgages.
Hartley provision which allows
the states to do whatever they
want to do about permitting or
prohibiting compulsory union-
ism.
The pro - California image
Which Murphy has made for
himself goes in tandem with a
pro-Republican image that cuts
completely across ideological
lines. He stayed out of the Ron-
ald Reagan-George Christopher
primary fight, but now that
Reagan has won Murphy is giv-
ing everything he has to trans-
fer his own vote-getting magic
Some days he blew this mourn-
ful farewell salute as many as
18 times at military cemeteries.
There's a perky little lady
who lives alone at Fire Island-
Moment of Meditation
And If one asks him, What are these wounds on
your back? He will say, The wounds I received in the
house of my friends. — Zech. 13:6
Human beings. famous and
inconspicuous alike, never tire
of seeing their names in print-
even linked to a completely In-
accurate item in a bsh-eague
gossip column. The late Sinclair
Lewis confessed unashamedly
that whenever he received a re-
view copy of a new book of
nonfiction, the first thing he did
was to look in the index to see
if his name was there.
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things continues he may have
to cut down on certain govern-
ment projects, including the ex-
ploration of space.
Several U.S. aerospace corp-
orations and countless inventors
would be happy to cooperate
with him on that The biggest
money-saver In the space busi-
ness , would be a recoverable
and reusable booster - rocket
Those 10-story tall jobs that
launch two small astronauts into
orbit, or instrument packages
hardly larger than a breadbox.
cost about $7,000,000 a copy.
They burn their tons of fuel in
five minutes, which results in
operational costs of better than
$1,000,000 a minute, and then
give up thetghost.
The first stages fall into the
Atlantic and are smashed to
bits. The second stages go into
wobbly orbit for a.short period.
- then descend into the thick
atmosphere blanketing the earth
and are burned up like the head
of a kitchen match being rubbed
across a manhole over on hell
The 100 per cent mortality
rate of the Thors. Atlases and
Titans has been the subject of
much debate and more tinker-
ing for right hardware and an-
swers.
As of now, a successful launch
from Cape Kennedy is akin to
an airline flying a DC-8 or
Boeing 707 from California to
New York, debarking its pas-
sengers and dumping the $7,000,-
000 jet Into the Atlantic.
It meant that the many had the means
to buy, therefore they had to be sharing in
the increasing wealth. And this buying
power, according to the most recent esti-
mate, is now measured at $6,900 a year for
the average Amertcah family.
No wonder the assembly line quickly be-
came a hated symbol and an object of ridicule
NEW YORK (AP) - “I don't
seem able to get caught up with
success," said Herb Alpert.
“I’m not used to it.
“My goal isn't to make money
- it's to find out what life is.”
But at 29, Herb, whose dark
sideburns and matador build
make him look like the late Ru-
dolph Valentino. Is riding a
golden avalanche.
The slender trumpeter and his
famed Tijuana Brass Band will
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are charging the highest inter-
est on loans since the 1920s.
How can,they raise their prime
—or lowest — rate four times
since December 1964 and get
away with it? Because the de-
mand for loans in a sizzling
economy is booming faster than
the supply of lendable funds.
And customers are willing to
pay the new 6 per cent prime
rate, or up to 6% and 7 per cent
in most instances.
The banks will be getting a
handsomer return on loans But
they hasten to point out that
they are paying more Interest
for the deposits from which they
can lend.
Theoretically, commercial
banks can borrow from the Fed-
eral Reserve Bank at the offi-
cial 4% per cent discount rate
and then lend that money to the
select few — their best and
most credit-worthy customers
— for 6 per cent Thst unusually
big spread would seem, at first
glance, to provide a very neat
profit indeed? And the profit
would be higher for the majori-
ty of borrowers who pay more
than 6 per cent.
Actually the Fed keeps a very
close watch on borrowing by
member banks at its discount
windows. Loans are for very
short periods, usually to take
care of a daily routine or some
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