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Lift? The Primrose Path: Federal Transit Subsidy Could End Up Nowhere II Redwood Cly (Calif.) Tribune, Saturday, April 25, 1964 Tribunes Opinion Page Classroom Needs Must Be Met The Redwood City School Boards efforts to find temporary classrooms to meet classroom crowding in some areas is one which deserve the encouragement of the entire community, I I iTT j- Because of population shifts, some schools 1 which once were crowded suddenly become Vjigl ATtVF much more sparcely populated, while other schools experience the opposite situation. In Redwood City at this moment there is an overpopulation at Clifford School. This results from the construction of scores of new homes in the triangle bounded by Alameda de las: Pulgas, Eaton Avenue and Clifford Avenue. To meet the needs the city is studying ways, of finding classrooms in the area to handle the I Clifford School overflow. One suggestion was'-that the district might lease classrooms from St.

Matthias Church which is constructing classrooms for its religious school use. The school board was taken to task by the American Civil Liberties Union for considering this type of space rental citing possible unconstitutionality. Supt. Andrew L. Spinas assured the board that its legal counsel, the district attorney, sees no constitutional conflict Operation i Tribune 1 -if if a train or bus? There is the argument that if the taxpayer in Stamford, Conn, pays money to help Omaha get a four-lane, or Oklahoma to have a waterway.

or South Dakota to profit by not raising wheat why shouldnt these other places help the guy in Stamford get to Grand Central. So you have all the classic ingredients for a new field of federal outlays based on need. And the need is certainly there. This, however, brings us to the whither are we drifting" part of this essay. The man in Stamford who works in New York City could live in New York.

He doesn't choose to. He chooses to live 33 miles away where theres a lawn to water. But he doesnt a to pay the full cost of getting himself to and from. Stamford is delighted to have this man. He is an ad valorem taxpayer and a supermarket customer.

But Stamford doesnt want to pay part of his ticket. Indeed, the fact that Stamford taxes heck out of the New Haven railroad helps keep that railroad busted. And New York City is delighted to have the man work there. He contributes to its business vigor and economy. But New York doesnt want to chip in for his commuter ticket, either.

So here's the rancher in Wyoming who has to buy the gas that gets him into town. Under the federal subsidy system he would help get the suburbanite to his New York job. This is only the first insect out of Pandora's box. Here's Comanche Rapids, the bus line of which died of anemia 10 years ago. Now its chamber of commerce pressures the local congressman to get a federal subsidy to restore service.

Then someone in Washington is going to have to decide what the fare will be and whether the Butternut Boulevard line stops at 16th Street or goes on to McPheeter's Corners. The congressman from Cincinnati will get an angry letter from a constituent who visited his sister in Phoenix and found that he could ride farther, cheaper and in air-conditioned comfort. City boosters in Scatter-ville will rush to Washington, crying that they have more streets but fewer buses than rival Cackleburg. Then every city in America will come grunting up to the federal trough demanding lower bus fares, more frequent service and extended routes. And pretty soon Congressman Rains half-billion dollars will look like 20 feet of bridge sticking out from one side of the Grand Canyon.

By JENKIN LLOYD JONES I have been looking at a lovely primrose path that must lead down into some sort of a bottomless swamp. It's mighty attractive. The path is outlined in a special New York Times supplement on urban transportation by Congressman Albert Rains of Alabama. He is promoter of a bin that would have the federal government grant half a billion dollars for the improvement of city and intercity transportation. Alabama has less to gain from such an outlay than most states, hence you cant accuse Congressman Rains of setting JONES up a pork barrel.

Moreover, Mr. Rains paints an honest picture. Cities are strangling. They can't build expressways fast enough to care for the swelling traffic, and there is no place to put the private cars when they get to town. In spite of the fact that suburbs are booming, public transportation is generally deteriorating.

The commuter railroads are deeply in the red, and one, the New Haven, is bankrupt. In most cities the local bus systems are in trouble. They cant keep on cutting runs and hiking fares forever. Sixty cities, says Congressman Rains, between 23,000 and 50,000 population now have no bus service at all. And the megalopolis is here the almost solidly builtup countryside, such as the one that stretches from Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Portsmouth, Virginia, or from Michigan City, Indiana to Port Washington, Wisconsin.

The megalopolis presents the alluring dream of a multi-city, multi state but essentially urban transportation system. Super speed trains on this existing Pennsylvania Railroad right-of-way, for example, could take you from New York to Washington in two hours and five minutes, shaving half an hour off the present downtown-t04irport-to-downtown time. But this takes tax help. The Pennsylvania, which has recently been passing dividends, isn't going to go ahead without a subsidy. There is the argument that such a federal subsidy for passenger carriers would be no different than federal 90-10 aid for interstate highways.

If the government can subsidize the man who drives into town to foul up the traffic why shouldn't it encourage him to take Forum Column Travel Is Enlightening: Student Groups Plan Tours Of Europe This Summer A Student's Point of View To the Editor: In reply to a recent letter stating reasons why we shouldnt study communism in school, I think that a student's opinion should be heard. First of all, I noticed this letter continually quoted phrases out of the Bible about disassocia-tion of non-believers. However, these quotes seem illogically suited, since the main theme of the Bible seems to be how to live with yourself, others and God. Yet, this person would have us believe that it impossible to live in the same world with the Communist. He appears to want us to become an island unto ourselves breeding hate and contempt.

As to the reasons for studying communism, there are many. In a democracy we have certain unalienable rights such as freedom of speech, press and certainly of thought. However, this writer, Mr. West, would erase the word communism or else let it exist in a distorted manner. We should be presented with the facts and be allowed to make up our own minds on the value or worthlessness of communism.

Also, studying a different government, that is the opposite of ours, helps us to have a better perspective of our government, its values and perhaps any faults it might have. We can look at it objectively and see if we should change any part of it And, given two choices, we then have the prerogative to choose, which is a democratic right When you control what we read you indirectly control our minds, something the Communist now practices and, indeed finds very important to his philosophy. Hospital Care Brings Praise To the Editor: Our family recently had occasion to use Sequoia Hospital again, because of the illness of my wife's mother. We would like to publicly thank Max Gerfen, the administrator, and his staff for the wonderful care she received during three weeks at the hospital. In particular, we would like to thank LVN Nancy Marchant and all the others on 2nd South for their solicitous care and interest far beyond the call of ordinary duty.

Also, we wish to thank the administrator, because we know that all the extra care that makes Sequoia so outstanding Is because of the leadership that is exhibited by Mr. Gerfen, the board of trustees and the Ladies Auxiliary. The quality of patient care provided in these days of high costs is certainly exceptional, and the entire staff is to be congratulated. All of us living in this area are indeed fortunate to have such a facility available for our use when we need it. JACK POLK 928 Castle Hill Road Redwood City Stories Give Encouragement To the Editor: May we take this opportunity to thank the Redwood City Tribune Women's Editor, Jean Vellenga, for the fine publicity given to our club this past year, and of course for past years.

You have given us great encouragement in our efforts and helped our attendance by printing advance notices of our affairs. Speakers presenting our programs have also expresses appreciation for publicity given. MRS. CHRISTIAN SORENSON President Redwood City Woman's Club Proposal to use church classrooms for public school purposes isnt new in Redwood City. In the past, when the Woodside Terraces were growing faster than schools could be built, the school board negotiated with both the Methodist Church and Temple Beth Jacob for classroom facilities.

The question here isnt one of constitutionality or fear that our youngsters will be indoctrinated in the beliefs of a particular church segment, but rather whether equitable rentals can be obtained to meet the need in a reasonable way. We are confident that that is precisely what the school board intends to do, and we doubt that the ACLU is serving a helpful purpose in seeking to toss in a constitutionality question. Since Redwood City voters twice in recent months have turned down bond issues to meet the classroom crisis, the trustees have little recourse but to fiind less expensive, though possibly less satisfactory means of solving the problems. Reprisal Fails To Aid SC Image Bernard A. Coler had the nerve to criticize the City of San Carlos.

Because he did this, even as a candidate for city council, he was fired this week as a member of the police reserve. Mr. Colers loss wont be counted in reduced income, because the job as a police reservist is a thankless, volunteer assignment for which there is no monetary gain. But because Mr. Coler is dedicated to the principles for which a strong city police force stands, and because he loved his assignment on the special juvenile detail, he probably feels a void a helplessness at his inability to continue serving his community.

The city councils move this week to release Mr. Coler from his duties as a police reservist smacks of small town reprisal. He stated as part of his campaign for election that he believed the city needed more police protection. It was obvious that he was reflecting the attitude of the police chief for whom he worked. But the city council, both the incumbents seeking re-election, and those who were not involved in last weeks election, didnt like being embarrassed.

So Mr. Coler walked the plank. We dont believe this is typical of the men who now serve as city counciimen in San Carlos. We point out with some pride that in the past two elections we endorsed the candidacies of the five men who now form the city council, and we believe that this group, with its able city administrator and a new spirit at Chamber of Commerce, is on the verge of opening a new era of prosperity in its own community. But we cannot sit back and permit the Coler incident to pass without comment.

We recognize the authority of the city council and city administrator. We also recognize the value of restraint over reprisal at a moment when our fingers are still burning. Trlbuna rsadsrs ara invIM ta submit thair apinlam an topic at local, national ar Into national In. tarait. Contributor ara asked la lypa thslr letters, double-spscad and limit tlwir Items ta 1SS wards.

All letters should be signed. Try Violators In Regular Court To the Editor: A funny animal is the ostrich for he buries his head in time of trouble. A still stranger bird is this California Bar Association it has not only had its head buried since the repeal of the Act was launched, but it has its neck concealed as well. Of course it might have struck a gopher run and couldn't stop. It surely is missing a good chance to comment on a so-called piece of legislation which has its built-in tribunal.

Can it be that all members of the Fair Employment Practices Board are in the Association Bar Asso-iation? This would account for a great deal, but most of us are curious. We would like to know why the violators of this present active law Rumford Act are not tried in a regular court? Surely there are individual rights involved whether they are personal or property, or both, and deserve a fair (used in the true sense of the word) trial. Perhaps when the barristers checked on the definition of initiative their eyes picked up intimidation and they were subdued. It is very possible because this Unruh and his propagandists are clever. Who else would come up with the idea of the government paid (out of the taxpayers money) Fair Employment people campaigning for the law which will perpetuate their existence.

It is small wonder that they are trying hard to convince the citizens that they can interpret the laws as well as trained attorneys. The present procedure reads like something out of Tass about the USSR where the individual's rights are incidental to the will of the state. At this time we can appreciate James Otis, Alexander Hamilton, and their contemporaries. They contributed to the American tradition. Would that we had a Patrick Henry to speak out for the rights of individuals in California today.

The public is not asking you lawyers to break with tradition, rather to preserve it. If we need new laws, let them be just laws, and the violators of them be tried in our regular courts by qualified jurists. At this point, the bar's continued reticence is less helpful than the revealing displays of these misled clergymen who would have us return to the days of Henry VIII. Speak out and hang intimidation, help to preserve the dignity of our real courts show us what a farce these government spawned tribunals can make of true justice. Besides it is easier to breathe with your head out of a gopher hole.

LARRY SOMMER 1494 El Camino Real Sap Carlos MARTIN KIMELDORF 2130 Stockbridge Redwood City BERRYS WORLD From there they will go to Munich, where they will meet the San Carios-Carlmont group, then bus to Berchtesgaden for lunch and hiking. The Woodsiders will go to Salzburg, Austria, then to Vienna, where they will attend an opera. They will fly to Berlin, tour East Berlin, and interview Mayor Willy Brandt. At Copenhagen, they will stay in an international student hotel, and will go bicycling with Danish students. Both groups will go to the House of Commons in London, and will meet with a member of Parliament, who will take them on a tour.

In Brussels, the San Carios-Carlmont contingent will have a briefing on the Common Market. In Munich, all those who wish will record messages to go behind the Iron Curtain. One of the high lights of the groups tour will be an audience with Pope Paul VI. While in Rome they will attend the Sound and Light Spectacle, which is a conquering of the Roman Empire. This scene is enchanting to students.

At Lausanne, the group will attend the famous Swiss National Exhibition, which is held only once in 23 years. Both groups will have dinner at the Cheshire Cheese Restaurant, which was rebuilt the last time in 1600. The 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare adds to the evening at the Royal Shakespeare Theater at Strat-ford-on-Avon. The San Carios-Carlmont students will take a bus at Amsterdam and keep the same bus for the entire tour of the continent. Leader of the Woodside contingent is Ben Voss, who is in the heavy equipment leasing business.

He took the tour last year, but not as the program director. Other adults accompanying the Woodside group are Dr. Jack Dwiggins, Mrs. Eugene Kerwin and Mrs. Loyd E.

Ellis. Leading the San Carios-Carlmont group are Dr. and Mrs. Franco Cosco. Dr.

Cosco is a language instructor at San Carlos High. He was born in Italy, and for the past four years he has led groups of college students on tours of Europe. Mrs. Cosco is a former teacher. Other adults accompanying the San Carios-Carlmont students are Mrs.

Robert E. Germaine, Mrs. Ernest J. Raffetto and Miss Carol Walsh, a San Carlos High teacher. ft ft The Notre Dame group will take a Pan American jet over the Polar Route to London where, after five days of sightseeing tours and excursions, they will begin a trip by train, motorcoach and air through eight countries.

They likewise have an audience scheduled with the Pope. En route home, they will stop in New York City for a two-day visit at the World's Fair and other places of interest. Notre Dame's tour is under the direction of Sister Joan Marie, chairman of the history department, and Sister Helen Benedict, dean of students. Two other adults will accompany the group. Sister Joan Marie is the sister of the Very Rev.

Patrick A. Donohoe, president of the University of Santa Clara, and of the Most. Rev. Hugh A. Donohoe, bishop of the San Joaquin diocese at Stockton.

By OTTO TALLENT One of my earliest ambitions was to be a travel writer. Though I didnt make that my profession, I still am greatly interested in travel, and in persons who travel. Travel is an enlightening experience. It broadens your horizon. You have a greater appreciation of the world and of the people in it.

The people you may have thought of as French or Germans become human to you. Stimulated travel can make a major contribution to world friendship and understanding, and ultimately to world peace. ft ft Group tours from this area seem popular this year. ft ft ft Thirty students from Woodside High School will leave San Francisco International Airport on June IS for a 34-day tour of Europe. Two dozen students from San Carlos and Carlmont High Schools are listed as leaving on June 16 for a 32-day tour of Europe.

On the following day, June 17, 34 students from the College of Notre Dame at Belmont leave for Europe for a 46-day trip. This is the second year a group of Woodside High students have taken a tour of Europe. Two years ago, a group toured Mexico. This is the first year for a tour for the combined San Carios-Carlmont students. Tours for Woodside and San Carlos-Cari-mont were arranged by Mohun International Travels of San Carlos.

Making the arrangements was Val Safarik, vice president and general manager of the agency. He was aided in his contacts by being from Czechoslovakia. He got his American citizenship papers last month. Safarik toured Europe with the Woodside students last year and hopes to be with them again this year if his broken ankle heals in time. He broke his ankle while skiing at Squaw Valley on the opening of the season and has had trouble since.

He is a member of the ski patrol there. The Notre Dame tour was arranged by the World Travel Agency of San Francisco. The San Carios-Carlmont students will follow a route similar to one followed by Wood-siders last summer. They will visit England, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany. Austria, Liechtenstein.

Switzerland, Italy, San Marino, and France. They will leave San Francisco International Airport and fly Pan-American jet over the Polar Route. Woodside students will fly American Airlines to New York, where they will transfer to a Pan American plane and fly to Lisbon, Portugal. They will get a briefing at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, where they also will attend the bull fights.

At Lucerne, Switzerland, they will go to the top of ML Pilatus in two different types of cable cars, then come down the other side on a cogwheel train. I i I i.