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Corporate Techniques in Local Government
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Business Calling Upon
Educational Institutions
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draw attention to the reality of
this problem Poisoning is al-
ways accidental and almost al-
ways the result of carelessness.
statistics were drawn, is that in-
fants and children, who are
least equipped to protect them-
selves, are the very ones most
often exposed to the dangers of
the carelessness and inadequate
inspection of hazard areas
within the home
Toddlers Are Tasters
Toddlers and babies in the
C Children Chief Victims
Children are the chief vic-
tims. More than 50 per cent of
all poisonings occur in children
below the age of 5 years, and
the greatest number in chil-
dren of 2 years
The fact that stands out most
compellingly in the repor* from
the Poison Control Center of the
than most politicians and most
citizens.
NEW YORK (AP)—Industry
is calling upon educational insti-
tutions to help train- workers to
handle new and highly compli-
cated machines Many compa-
nies also are sending supervi-
sors back to classes to bring
them up to date so they can
teach recruits to become semi-
skilled or even highly skilled
workers,
This tackles two problems at
once: lack of job opportunities
for the untrained that has kept
two neat piles of debris
near the shore, indicating
that somebody had had
sufficient pride to police
the area thoroughly. Then
came disillusionment The
work, it transpired, had
not been done by thought-
ful campers, but by a
pair of beavers, sick and
tired of having their dam
littered by man - made
debris!
equal proportions of a state s
population
In Congress, both the House
and Senate approved measures
intended to slow down the reap
NEW YORK (AP (-Jumping
at conclusions—and how many
doyou agree with?
Ever wonder why people will
crowd around to watch a sky-
scraper's site being dug, but
few bother to pause after the
building gets above eye level?
The answer is simple—human
laziness.
It's easy to look down into a
hole. But you have to stretch
your neck muscles to look up.
The less confidence a man
has in himself the more credit
cards he has in his wallet.
No matter how many colleges
and universities we create in
America some people will al-
___ways continue to be impressed
by what they see on billboards.
They simply have billboard-type
minds, and nothing can be done
about them.
Skinny people eat more pret-
zels and salted peanuts at the
bar than do fat people
You can be fairly sure that if
the letter comes special deliv-
ery, its contents are more im-
portant to the sender than to
you.
An orgy is what the neighbors
next door seem to be having
when you haven't been invited
to the party.
The most popular form of ret-
IS TRUCULENT HIPPOPOTAMUS BULL-
DRIVES AWAY SMALLER AND WEAKER BULLS
OF THE HER.
Moment of Meditation
Elijah was a man of like nature with ourselves and
be prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for
three years and six months it did not rain on the Earth.
—James 5:17.
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scrapped and the court left
unscathed!
The fact that the two houses
had enough members willing to
approve these measures, differ,
ent as they were, could be taken
as a warning light by the jus-
tices to go slow.
But the justices have a better
perspective on the history of the
court, and its trial and tribula-
dwindled, and by the end of the
court term this year had hurri-
cane force again
This came after decisions
banning required reading of the
Bible- or the Lord's Prayer in
public schools and its decisions
• • -
Anita Loos recalls a summer day in Hollywood when Aldous
Huxley, Bertrand Russell, one of the top professors at U.C.L.A.,
Charlie Chaplin, and Greta Garbo joined her for a picnic. The
dazzling group parked in a shady glen, and not one of them
noticed the "No Trespassing" sign tacked to a sheltering tree. •
Just as they were unpacking the caviar end champagne, an
angry sheriff hove into view and demanded, "Don't anybody In
this gang know how to read?”
OVERHEARD:
Candid jockey to over-optimistic horse owner: ‘I don't know
what time we ll get in, so leave the keys to the barn under the
saddle.”
Magazine owner to extravagant editor: “I won’t OK your ex-
pense account, but how about selling us the fiction rights to it?”
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unemployment high: and deficits
of skilled workers that have
curbed output in many new in-
dustrial fields.
Professional men also are be-
ing linked by closed-circuit tele- "
, vision to get the latest word in
their specialities, whether it be
medicine, surgery, law, or in-
surance: And at the managerial
level, many companies are link-
ing their salesmen across the
land to centrally conducted edu-
cational courses, using both
television and the nation’s tele-
phone circuits.
Foremen of Jones & Laughlin
Steel attended an in-plant semi-
nar to learn both how to operate
a new mill and how to teach
subordinates Now they are in-
structing nearly 200 employes
who will work at the new $80-
million electronic rolling mill in
the company’s Cleveland plant.
Eastern Stainless Steel's Bal-
timore plant gave 100 supervi-
sors a course in handling em-
ployes as well as equipment
Now they are training workers
to be more efficient—and morale
is reported higher because of
the psychological pointers the
supervisors picked up
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Patrick R. Fischetti, director
of Employes Development Serv-
ices—EDS-Scranton, Pa., says,
"Firms can’t afford to wait un-
til after the installation of cost-
ly, highly automated equipment
to start training operators and
maintenance personnel.”
EDS. a division of the Interna-
tional Correspondence Schools,
has trained supervisors for Ana-
conda Copper, technical person-
nel at a Western Electric plant,
and 20 men to become aides to
engineers at an Ohio metal fab-
ricating plant, so the engineers
themselves would have more .
time for other than detail work.
ACROSS THE EDITOR’S DESK . . .
Old Friend in Town To Buy Some Drygoods
By J. CULLEN BROWNING
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Walt Disney Production
% orid Rights Reserved
Educational institutions are
joining in the move on an in-
creasing scale
R Lynn Kalmhach, general
manager if the South Carolina
Television Center, Columbia, S.C
sees courses designed to in-
crease industrial potential as
"far more exciting than the use
of educational TV in formal ed-
ucation.”
"A nation moving so rapidly
its citizens must be retained two
three times in a lifetime must *
develop the tools with which to
do it,” he adds.
that state legislatures' repre-ttions, down through the years
sentation must be based on
THE OFFBEAT NEWSBEAT...
You Ever Jump
To Conclusions?
Speaking of Your Health.,.
----By LESTER COLEMAN, M.D__
WAiY DIsNEs True Life Adventures
DESPOT’S
DOWN FALL
pressive as the single unneces-
sary death that occurs to some-
one close to us.
- A few statistics will serve to crawling stage are most likely
to taste and swallow anything
that lies in their reach. Unfor-
THE ORANGE LEADER
* TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1964
EDITORIAL PAGE
YOUR HOROSCOPE
The Stars Say
For Tomorrow
Yesterday's restrictions, where over-emotional-
ism is concerned continue to a degree Be espe-
cially understanding with loved ones who may
be under some tension Those engaged in artistic
pursuits may be especially inspired during the p m.
The period between now and late January will
also be good for travel and social interests; also,
March and the weeks between midJune and late
September Romantic interests should prosper be-
tween May and mid-August of (next year You
should find smooth sailing on the domestic seas
for almost the entire year—especially if you are
careful to avoid friction in late April and early
August ' IJ *
.A child born on this day will be idealistic, proud
and extremely self-confident.
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Q— How does a member of
the U.S. Senate obtain recog-
nition to speak?
A—He rises, addresses the
presiding officer and does not
proceed until he is recognized
Q— Is it true that the roof of
a purebred dog's mouth is al-
ways black?
A—This is true in only a few
breeds. Usually it is pink
Q—How much of an iceberg
is submerged?
A—About seven-eighths.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Supreme Court, perhaps the
most forceful in American histo-
ry. after the narrowest kind of
escape from rebuke by Con-
gress has returned to work by
plunging instantly into boiling
water
The nine justices traditionally
do not answer their critics And
they observed the tradition this
year although it was a year of
intense attack
Their decisions cutting across
many fields over several years
— particularly race, religion
and politics — produced a hurly-
burly between their critics and
their defenders
Out of all this naturally came
a question: Will the justices
now slow up until some of the
storm subsides, be a little more
restrained like many courts of
the past, be less willing to stick
their necks out?
Judging from what they have
just done it could be reasonably
concluded they are determined
to do what they think is neces-
sary rather than what is com-
fortable
Usually the court does no
business on opening day But
when it began its 1964-65 term
Monday the justices disregard-
ed the usual and at once began
hearings on one of the most
controversial social and politi-
cal issues.
This was on the Civil Rights
Act, the strongest in 100 years,
passed by Congress last July
The court was not asked to rule
on the constitutionality of the
whole act but on the sorest point
in it:
This is the part outlawing
racial discrimination at hotels,
restaurants and other places
of public accommodation This,
part of the act has been a sore
point in the South and an issue
in this year's political cam-
paign
Since the campaign will end
on Election Day, Nov.’ 3, the
court could have made things
easy for itself by deciding to put
off a hearing on an appeal
against the accommodation sec-
tunately, bleaches, insecticides
and cleaning solvents are usu-
ally kept on the floor, ,
It is at the age of three and
four years that children become
curious climbers and begin to
explore the medicine cabinets,
closets, and hidden areas. About
the age of five, youngsters pass
through this tasting, exploration
period and become more cau-
tious about bad - tasting and
dangerous substances.
The number of fatalities due
to the consumption of aspirin is
most surprising This effective
drug Is normally considered one
of the safest of all common
household drugs. The tendency
to make aspirin more palatable
has disadvantages as well as
advantages, because to many
children it is nothing more than
candy.
Many Deaths Preventable
Other serious poisoners are
lye, bleaches, insecticides,
sleeping pills and cleaning flu-
ids In New York City alone, the
deaths of 182 persons under the
age of 20, in a six-year period,
were considered preventable.
.If a poison is swallowed, the
most important immediate first-
aid measure is to try to dilute
it Milk, water, milk of mag-
nesia. fruit juice or diluted
vinegar are almost always
readily available. Call for a
physician or aid from your lo-
cal hospital immediately Keep
the container, valuable time
can be saved if the exact na-
ture of the poison is known.
Lock Up Medicine
Big industries operating in Orange County
%, are for the most part individual entities
within elaborate corporate structures which
include both a parent company and a num-
ber of subsid ies and affiliates
In some c es the subsidiaries and affili-
ates are whoL owned or controlled by the
parent company In other cases it does not
have total ownership or a controlling in-
terest but does have a close working re-
lationship that affects to some degree its
own operations
These complex arrangements, in the
main, are quite profitable and the reason
for this is that the area of free enterprise in
which they operate has evolved and is con-
tinually improving management techniques
for increasing productivity and keeping down
costs.
Smaller industries in the county -(includ-
ing this newspaper) and some of our retail
and service establishments have studied and
profitably adapted these techniques to their
own operations. The same is true of some of
our local agencies of government
Now it begins to appear that the agencies
of government are moving in the direction of
massive adaption, of these techniques, and
not on an individual but. on a wholesale
basis.
If this program works out, Orange County
will experience still more improvement in
the services of these agencies and a further ■
reduction in the unit cost of providing their
services
"This does not mean that the over-all cost
of loeca government will remain static or be
reduced. That will he impossible, during the
period of mushrooming economic develop-
ment which the county is beginning to
experience.
It does mean that during this period of
rapid growth, the over-all cost of local gov-
ern ment can be kept somewhere close to the
minimum figure consistent with the needs
and wishes of the citizenship.
It also does not mean that none of the
local agencies of government will have to
raise their tax rate or their base for assess-
ments from the present level Some will be
forced to do this by increasing needs and
demands for their services and it is al-
most a certainty in the case of the county
government.
From the very beginning the
court has been attacked when
its decisions jarred some re-
gion, some group, some faction.
But the tax increases which do come will
be minimal if the.program for adaptation of
corporate techniques to the local agencies of
government moves along as rapidly as it
should.
In our opinion, it can move fast and will
do so if the taxpayers insist on speed and
will work with the taxing agencies in their
efforts to implement the program
We have this opinion because, basically,
the governmental structure at the local level
in Orange County is very similar to the cor-
porate structure of the big industries which
perfected these techniques.’
The county government is the “parent
company.” The mosquito control district is a
“wholly owned subsidiary." The city govern-
ments. school districts, and other local agen-
cies are affiliates in which the parent com-
pany has a substantial interest because of a
working relationship.
So it is logical to assume that the tech-
niques which have made our big industries
successful can be applied with profit on a
massive scale to the local agencies of
government.
This has been started with acceptance by
other agencies involved, of a basic program
for countywide planning advanced bv County
Engineer Gus Foyle through commissioners
court. *
It moved a step further late last week
with acceptance in principle of a proposal
for a study of ways and means to reduce
the unit cost of tax assessment and collection
in Orange County.
As County Judge Sid J. Caillavet has
pointed out, these programs are separate and
apart from any of the various efforts to con-
solidate some of the existing taxing agencies.
For the present they assume that we are
going to continue having a multiplicity of
such agencies in Orange County.
Later on, the voters max' see fit to merge
some of the subsidiaries and .affiliates—per-
haps possibly even consolidate one or more
of them with the parent company. That re-
mains to he determined
Meanwhile, the existing agencies can and
are beginning to make use of corporate tech-
niques for dealing with their problems no
matter what the number of separate entities
in the local governmental structure.
. 4 .
portionment of legislatures - in
essence rebuking the court
The House and Senate, in the
last-minute rush to quit and go
home, couldn't reconcile their
differences and the result was
that both measures were
By JAMES MARLOW
tion until then
But no matter what the dec:
sion, or when, this whole year
will be full of thorny issues for
the court, covering religion,
communism, race, unionism
The storm over the court
began with a hurricane over its
1954 decision calling school seg
legation unconstitutional From
time to time the hurricane
Fams cal poisonings
Aalone The
Tinumber of
mA anon-fatal cases
Dr. Coleman is estimated
at more than one million yearly
Yet such overwhelming sta-
tistics never seem to be as im-
Accidental poisoning, espe-
cially of children, still presents
a staggering menace to health:
Despite the most arduous
pleas by public health educa-
_ tors, almost
t 72.000 deaths
Lj happen each
1 j year in the
I United States
‘ from chemi- New York City Department of
An old friend who lives out In the country a
little way from a town in Deep East Texas
dropped by the office to visit with me the other
day. -
He was in Orange to purchase what he referred
to as a “few drygoods.” I knew he meant the type
of drygoods you can't buy in his own county un-
less you (a) have the confidence of a bootlegger,
(b) he is not in jail temporarily, and (c) he
has any merchandise in the stump hole where he
keeps his stock
1 inquired as to whether or not any of those
three things had caused him to come down to Or-
ange, place a little money in circulation through
the local trade channels, and pay me a visit
He said no. the reason was that he has a
son in high school who is real good at arith-
metic. After a little figure work the son had
convinced his father that by omitting the value
if any of the parents time, it was more eco-
nomical to drive to a place where such dry-
goods are legally sold than to patronize the
local bootlegger.
The reason being that personal and business-
risk factors, coupled with a necessity for making
frequent and substantial campaign fund contribu-
tions to certain public officials in order to keep,
them looking in the other direction, the bootleg-
ger's prices for his merchandise are somewhat
above those of establishments where this ‘type of
drygoods is sold
2 Not all the customers of these illicit distributors
of drygoods have smart sons in high school. So,
according to my informants in that area, they’re
still doing a thriving business and will keep on
doing so ,
The reason being that this territory is still at
the point where Oklahoma stood when the late
Will Rogers made his famous crack about that
state voting to remain legally dry as long as its
voters could stagger to the polls
As we know, Oklahoma finally got out of that
category and because of economic development.
Deep East Texas will be heading in the same
direction pretty soon.
Meantime, bootlegging will remain an aggravat-
ing but nonetheless profitable industry there More-
over, stores selling their brands of drygoods in
areas of legal sales on the perimeter of that terri-
tory will cash in on the business of its residents
with bright youngsters in high school
They also will get quite a lot of business from
customers who figure out without the help of an
A-student In mathematics that it's more profitable to
drive some distance to make legal purchases
Try and Stop Me
---------By BENNETT CERF---------
A FOREST RANGER, patrolling a vacation area in Wis-
A consin, was impressed recently by the absence of tin
cans and empty beer bottles in a stream traversing the re-
gion. He was more im- 10-6 ,
pressed when he found A /
from shelves than to drive a few miles and buy
it out of a stump hole
This of course is bad for the economy of the
purchaser s community and good for the economy
of the perimeter area where such merchandise is
legally sold But economics don't mean much to
an individual who is not only thrifty and thirsty
but also has a yen to chat with an old friend
who lives in the legal territory.
'During the chat mentioned above I asked for
his opinion about a news release which happened
to be lying on my desk when he dropped by.
It was from a New York tub thumper and
quoted a national magazine of the petroleum in-
dustry as saying it's time to plow under for
keeps the tattered Image of the "hayseed,
farmer."
It also said s truer image of the new breed
of farmer is, that of a tough-- minded business
executive with the brains, brawn and courage
needed to run an enterprise which grosses $50,000
a year—the annual gross income per farm of the
nation's 350,000 leading farms
"You're a farmer." 1 said "And if you're mak-
ing 50,000 bucks a year what the heck do you
care about the cost of drygoods." - ,
He studied the words and figures on the piece
of paper for a moment nr two before replying.
"Damyankees!" he snorted "What’re they tryin’
to do—ruin me?” *
I requested an explanation and he put It this
way: "In the first place T don't make nowhere
near $50,000 a year but if them fellows up in
Washington should read this they might think
I do and cut off my soil bank payments and my
other gov’ment checks that help to keep me
In groceries and drygoods.”
I expressed the hope that this wouldn't happen
and said I would refrain from writing a letter to
my congressman about doling out tax money to
these $50,000-a-year hayseeds.
We chatted a while longer and my friend left
after inviting me to drop by his place the next
time I was up that way. And I hope that on his
way home he didn't partake dangerously of his
fresh supply of drygoods or litter up the road-
side with any -of the packages in which it
was contained, %
ribution is America is not to
send s Christmas card this year
to the fellow who didn’t send us
one last year.
The popularity of light-colored
raincoats is partly explained by
the fact their wearers have a
romantic hope that bystanders
will mistake them for an FBI
agent bound on a secret
mission.
Plump girls are the easiest to
borrow money from. They're
more likely to fall for a hard
luck story.
Bankers and dentists are the
members of modern society who
yearn most to be regarded as
hale fellows well met. They
worry for fear that because of
the nature of their jobs no one
really loves them for them-
selves Many minister have
this feeling, too.
After 40, the average man
rarely notices when his wife
buys a new hat And he is un-
likely to notice it at all if she
changes the flavor of her lip-
stick.
Lawyers are never dull when
they tell the truth That is why
it is more fun to listen to them
when they're out of court
You are bound to live longer
if vou drink a ouart of warm
water after every dry martini.
• BARBS
When a fellow has a suit for
every day in the week keeping
it pressed makes it look a lot
better.
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