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Oregon Lawmakers Face Tax, Structure Problems By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. i . SALEM (AP) Problems of! more aid lo Ihe schools, higher state finance and governmental j state salaries and medical care structure will top the heavylfor the aged. agenda facing the 51st Oregon Legislative Assembly when it opens here Monday morning. If past sessions are a criterion, the lawmakers will consider more than 1.300 bills and take more than 100 cays to do it. Loaded With Controversy The session will be loaded with controversy, with the Republican minority in a good position to hold cigarette tax and reducing me ln the balance of power. jcome tax, they would abolish in- The Democrats have majorities i come tax exemptions, and levy a of 31-29 in the House and 20-10 in! sort of super-lax that would most- Ihe Senate In recent sessions, the Repub licans have been able to persuade enough Democrats to vote with them on party issues, so that the iOP could block much of the Democratic program. Chances are that the same thing will happen asain. Cigarorto Tax Proposed The financial matters facing the lawmakers center around the budget of Republican Gov. Mark O. Hatfield, the Taxation Interim ('nmmittee's Drooosal to enact a 3-cent cigarette tax while reauc-und ine income taxes, and a new for mula to distribute aid to school districts. Hatfield recommended a budget New Boeing Plane Packs More Punch WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A new model of the B52 bomber with more power and more punch is ready for the Air Force. The first B52H rolled out of the Boeing Airplane Co. plant here , Thursday. Perched beneath its swings were two test models of the Skybolt, an air-launched ballistic missile. Both the range and the thrust of the B52H will exceed that of its predecessors, B52G. Eight jet engines provides 17,000 pounds of thrust, an increase of about 4,000 pounds. Without giving any de tails, the Air Force said the B52H will have 10,000 miles more range. The Skybolt missile can fly 1, 000 miles after leaving the bomb er. This is twice as far as the Hound Dog missiles mounted aboard the B52G. The Skybolt is scheduled to ready for combat use in 1964. Public Hearing Slated PORTLAND (AP) A public hearing will be held by the state Game Commission here Jan. 13 to formulate 1961 sports fishing regulations. The tentative regulations will be announced after the meeting. Another hearing will be held be fore the regulations become final. Official Says Oregon Needs Incentive To Get Offshore Oil Drilling Started SALEM (AP) Oregon should get an oil industry before it be gins to worry about regulating one, an official of the California Lands Commission said Thurs day. Francis J. Hortig, commission executive officer, said "The key to Oregon's problem is not to over-control until there is some thing to control." He said that technological ad vances had brought methods to eliminate pollution and fish dam- j used to map geological structures age from tideland drilling. ' is supervised by the California " Hortig and Henry Wright of i Fish and Game Commission. He the Western Oil & Gas Associa- said fish kills are all but elimi tion were guests at, a meeting naled. called by Atty. Gen. Robert Y. California, he said, does not Thornton to discuss leasing laws lease any tidelands without com for Oregon's tidelands. I petitive bidding. He said this was Hortig said that in view of the! done early in the 60-year tideland conference he was sure that Ore-: gon would not eliminate incen tives for oil exploration. He said that offshore oil well platforms are hard to distinguish from a passing ship on a clear day and he felt they did not mar the coastal scenery. Oregon, he said, is not position to adopt counterparts of! leased wildcat land such as California's statutes because it is i Oregon tidelands are for 12'i not in the same position as Cali-jper cent royalties, fornia with its producing fields. I A Shell Oil Co. proposal to Oregon will have to consider an lease all Oregon tidelands calls FRANK STRINGER Frigidoir Saleiman says: "Wothabiliry, flexibility, durability and dependability all odd up to the 1961 line of Laundry Equipment by Frigidaire." A SWEETHEART OF A PAIR AT Phono OR 2-1616 630 t48 65 S. t. Rom 63 S S. E. St.pK.n. Homt-Owned ond Operated of S359 million. That includes This budget would use up all available state revenues in the bi ennium which starts next July 1. So it is sure to draw fire from legislators who want lo spend more, or who want to spend less. Highly Controversial The tax proposals are highly controversial, besides levying Iv affect nersons with low comes. This plan has Hatfield's support, but several legislators al ready have condemned it. The Legislative Interim Com mittee on Education goes along with the governor's plan for more school aid. But there are several plans to change the basis for dis tributing the money. Each plan hurts somebody. Fight Hatfield's Plan - The governor's proposal to re organize the state government, tnus put siaie agencies more firmlv under his control, faces heavy going. Many state depart ments are unlimbering their guns to fight it. Opposition so far is heaviest against Hatfield's plans to abolish the Board of Control, which runs state institutions, and to create a state Department of Natural Re sources. The legislature also faces other conflicts, such as labor-management battles over labor, unem ployment and industrial accident legislation. Reapportionment o f the legislature will cause a ruck us, too. Boivin Runs Show Two Southern Oregon lawyers will run the show. They are Sen. Harry Boivin, 56, Klamath Falls, who has the Senate presidency wrapped up by a coalition of all Republicans and some Demo crats; and Robert B. Duncan, 40, Ex-0regon Man Among U. S. Embassy Employes By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Robert Sayre, financial secre tary of the U.S. embassy in Havana but formerly pf Beaver ton, Ore., was one of the U. S. officials who arrived in West Palm Beach, Fla.,. Thursday from Cuba. Sayre, a 1949 graduate of Wil lamette University, came over on the ferry from Cuba. His wife and two children met him. At Willamette Sayre won a number of speech contests. He was a member of the debate team that won a national title at West Point in 1948. incentive to get tideland oil drill ing started. Hortg said. He said unless this is done "there won't by the type of development most beneficial to Oregon." Hortig said pollution from tide land drilling is prohibited in Cali fornia by law and lease terms. He said companies are required to post minimum performance bonds of 550,000. He said that seismographic explorations in which blasting is oil leasing history of that stale He said California leases its tidelands for a specific sum, a cash bonus and a sliding royalty based on a production curve that begins at 16 2-3 per cent. This, he said, is in areas where oil is believed present. He said that in the past California had A SWEETHEART OF A PRICE! Eiclunvo Antoinette Sook Wash inf 0 Eiclnrr Flwinj Heo 9 Four Avtoawtic Dfyinf Cyclei BuJt Pricttf . S Tear . LA Medford. who will be speaker of the House. Boivin was speaker in 1937. Dun can also was speaker in 1959. They will be tlected at caucuses Sunday night, unless something unforeseen snould happen. Boivin and Duncan are propos ing rules changes which they hope will shorten the session The last session of less than 100 days was in 1949. That one was 97 days The 1959 and 1955 sessions were 115 days, while the 1957 session of 128 days was the longest in his tory. Con&ervaMvo Session Because of the expected coall tion of Republicans and conserva five Democrats in each house this session could he the most conser vative in several years. The House again faces a short a,se of lawyers. There are only seven of them, which means there will not be enough to handle much of the technical legislation that requires legal knowledge. The Senate has 10 lawyers. In the Senate, there also will be nine businessmen, four farmers and four insurance men. The House will have 21 businessmen 12 farmers and seven insurance men. Each house is lucky in that al most all of the key employes will be back again. Have Experience Twenty-eight of the 30 senators, and 43 of the 60 representatives, have had previous legislative ex perience. That's fortunate, too. The deans of each house will be two Republicans Sen. Carl Fran cis, Dayton, a veteran of nine ses sions, and Rep. Gust Anderson, Portland, with seven sessions. Technicians Seek Cause Of Failure CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Technicians today sought the cause of a spectacular in-flight explosion which showered flaming chunks of a Pershing missile into Uie Atlantic Ocean. The 34-foot missile blew apart 25 seconds after it was launched on a 160-mile test flight Thursday night. Scores of beach observers watched as blazing pieces spiraled into the water just offshore. A few fragments fell harmlessly onto the Cape. This was only the second failure in 10 flights for the solid-fuel Pershing, which is being de veloped as a mobile field weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to targets 700 miles dis tant. It was the first time the first stage did not work properly. The previous failure occurred in the second stage. The Army plans to have the missile ready for deployment in Western Europe early next year. for the 12i per cent for the state. Hortig said the California nark system is pleased with the leas ing because it gets much of the revenue. He said pipes from some wells lead ashore underground through state beaches and there is no problem. Hortig said to permit only slant drilling from shore down under tidelands probably would kill ex ploration in Oregon. He said both slant and platform drilling is per mitted in California. The platforms, he said, hold a derrick that can be dismantled after drilling. 'He said thai, the platforms stand 50 to 60 feet above the water and are visible from shore only on a clear day. Thornton, who did much of the questioning of Hortig. said the purpose of the meeting was to gather information for an Ore gon law. ' He said Oregon lease laws would first of all protect the recreation land of the state and I also protect the common school I fund which would get any rev-1 enue. Sen. Neuberger Opposes Bigger Road Billboards WASHINGTON (API Sen. Miurioe Neuberger. D-Ore., Thursday notified federal high way administrator Bertram I). Tallamy that she is opposed to increasing the size of billboards along interstate highways. Mrs. Neuberger said in a let ter to Tallamy that a proposal to increase the size of signs would be "defeating Ihe purpose of federal signboard control." She added that she hoped the present limitations would be re tained. Pre- Inventory Crate . ' . - AH art fltw Foil Stylo ind 100' wool, TwMdl, ploidi, lolidt. Siitt S . to 16. Value, to 179 95. III 11 Rural Fire Leader Chosen ROSEBURO,0RE- NAMED AS CHIEF of the Roseburg Rural Fire Depart ment is Cliff Thrasher, assistant chief for three and a half years. In the switch-over the department head will now be a paid chief, instead of, as in the past, a volunteer (News-Review Staff Photo) Thrasher Named New Chief Of Rural Fire Department Cliff Thrasher, who for three and a half years lias served as assist ant fire chief of the Roseburg Rur al Fire Department, has been named chief of that department. Thrasher's appointment to that position means he'll carry on basic ally the same duties, but thai the department itself will switch from being headed by a volunteer to a paid chief. Replaces Ellison Thrasher will replace volunteer chief A. J. "Bud" Ellison in the top spot. Ellison had served as volunteer chief and head of the department since July, 1952. Ellison in turn will become as sistant chief. The change-over be- Big Packing Firms Talk Merger Plans HONOLULU (AP) A move to merge Ihe 'Columbia River Packers Association,- big salmon canning company, with Castle & Cooke Inc., one of the wdrld'l largest pineapple producers,' was disclosed Thursday. 1 , ... Directors of Castle & Cooks and Ihe Dole Corporation, formerly the Hawaiian Pineapple Co.J also authorized merger talks Thurs day. 1 The merger would he based, President II. C. Cornuelle of Dole said, on the exchange of five shares' of Dole common stock for three shares of Castle & Cooke capital stock. In a notice to stockholders, Cor nuelle said Caslle & Cooke now own about 52 per cent of the out standing Dole common stock and about 60 per cent of the outstand ing Columbia River Packers com mon stock. If the mergers are completed, he continued, Dole and Columbia River Packers will become wholly-owned subsidiaries of Castle & Cooke, retaining their present officers and management. Blind Convention Slated At Salem Two Roseburg people are ex pected lo attend the slate execu tive board meeting of the Oregon Council of the Blind at Salem Sat urday. The two members of the state board are Dorothy Skenzick and Harld Baxter, immediate past presineni. coin are now aeiegaics ?l,'a,'Se- One oi lhe mosl, important Hems (ill me agtniua iiic iit.imp will be a legislative report to be presented by Stanhope Pier, who will represent Hie organization as lobbyist al the coming state Legis lature. The membership has gone on record favoring retention of the present independent status of the Oregon Commission for the Blind. The council was founded in 1054 for the purpose of improv ing economic and social welfare of the blind. Shipping Head Dies PORTLAND (AP) - Alex J. Chalmers, 78. vice president' of the States Steamship Co., died Thursday after a heart attack. He leaves a widow and three daughters. CLEARANCE $ yru unit n m .... . . - . hiMII M 1.1ft JCUC . MONI Ot i-WI can effective the first of t h e 5'ei"- I Bettr Point Rating The newly-appointed chief said Ihe basic change in the new lead ership arrangement will be a bet ter point rating from the Fire In surance Rating Bureau, granted because the department now has a paid chief. , Thrasher,' a native of Fort Rock, Ore., has been a fireman for 21 years. He started out as a civilian' instructor to military personnel at Ft. Lawton, Wash, in 1939. He served as a Naval Aviation Fire Control Officer during World War Two and then returned to Ft. Law- ton. At Angle Lake He became fire chief at Angle Lake, Wash, in 1947 and moved lo a similar post at Cottage Grove in 1949, moving from there to Rose burg in Septemler of 1957. Thrasher, his wife Florence and five-year-old daughter Debora live at 335 NE Cummins St. As chief he'll be heading a de partment of six paid men and 28 volunteers who oiler, tire protec tion to a 12-square mile area on ail sides of the city with an as sessed valuation of more than $9, 225.000. r i Take a Tempest out on the highway and put it through its paces. This car w a whiz at moving into fast-stepping company on an expressway. Takes you from a standing start to a safe operating .speed in seconds . . . gets you up a steep hill in high gear. Run the Tempest over the roughest road you can find. It rides like the big one because it's balanced! The engine's up front the transmission's in the rear. And it's got independent suspension at all four wheels. Tires dig in firm on, curve and turns. Full 15-inch wheels make car look big-Tires Last. Brakes run cooler. Before it hit the market, Tempest had 3,0O0,(XX) miles of testing by engineers, pro drivers and a team of teenagers. Its reliability checked out 100. Owners have rolled up millions more. The only kick is the one it puts back in driving. Try it! THE NEW TEMI'EST Frl., Jon. 6, 1961 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 3 Nixon Has Ironic Duty Of Naming JFK Winner Probe Continues In Air Collision NEW YORK (AP)-A lop fed eral aviation official says a bolter system of radar plane control is desirable, but presently there are insufficient airport personnel and radar scopes to do the job. David Thomas, director of the Federal Aviation Agency's Bureau of Air Traffic Management, testi fied Thursday at a Civil Aero nautics Board hearing into the collision of a United Air Lines DCS jet and a Trans World Air lines Constellation. The Dec. 16 crash killed I'M persons, includ ing six on the ground. 1 nomas advocated a system under which planes would be kept under continuous radar surveil lance from tile time Ihey nearod the airport until Ihey were on the ground. At psent, Thomas said, the big drawback in radar was that it afforded no information on a plane's altitude. In the Dec. 16 crash, LaGuardiu Airport observed on radar both the jet headed for Idlewild Air port, and the TWA plane, which was headed for LaC-uardia. Idlewild. however, never picked up its United jet on its radar screen. Al present, when planes ap proach an airport, a regional con trol center takes control and then hands the plane over to the air port's approach controller. Thomas said radar hand-offs and accl!racy and that morc workers and radar scopes might produce better results. Opposition Lacking At Rate Hearing PORTLAND (AP) There were no opposition ' witnesses Thursday when Greyhound bus lines asked the Oregon public utilities commissioner for per mission to increase Intrastate fares 10 per cent. William K. Hastings ,of San Francisco, traffic .manager of Greyhound Lines, said the in crease was necessary because costs were rising and passenger traffic was falling off. He said also that interstate fares would be going up again next month. The hearing was conducted by PUC examiner Lou Greenberg. Norman Webb, representing the PUC, asked for more time lo de cide, whether he wanted to offer evidence. Greenberg gave him until Jan. 10. (Range of horsepower choices from 110 to 155) IS SOU) AM) SERVICED BY YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED ROSEBURG MOTOR CO. WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Richard Al. Nixon has the ironic duty of officially pro claiming today that he lost the Nov. 8 -presidential election lo John F. Kennedy, And he will name Lyndon B. Johnson official winner of the vice presidential contest. iM.Min win mi a joiiu session oi inu oi-utiie ami we House mat Newspapers Show Circulation Gain SEATTLE, Wash. (API-Daily newspaper circulation in the. Unit ed States has increased 52 per cent in Ihe last 2.V years while the nation's population has grown only 40 per cent. The figures were eiven lodav by Stanford Smith, general man ager of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Today's total dailv circulation. he said, is 58 million. In 25 years it will be 81 million, lie forecast. Smith told a 25th anniversary meeting of Allied Daily Newsna'- pers of Washington in a prepared speech that in 1935 the population of the United States was 127. mil lion, the tola! circulation was 38 million and the tolal advertising volume was S762 million." 'The latest annual figures cov er the year 1959 when total news paper advertising .volume was $3.54 billion. This is a .gain of more than $2.75 billion," he said. Newspaper circulation grows because the service rendered lo leaders is nol available from anv other source and not likelv ever to become available from any other source," Smith said. "Newspaper advertising volume grows on the basis of a service to advertisers which produces re sults on a consistent, day-in, day out basis." Morse States Kennedy Inherits Bad Situation WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Wayne Morse. D-Ore., said Thursday that the Kennedy ad ministration- has inherited a bad situation in the break of diplo matic relations with Cuba. ' Morse added that he hoped Ihat President-elect John F. Kennedy can take the fuse out." Morse conferred Thursday with Thonras C. Mann, assistant sec retary for inter-American affairs. Morse, who is chairman of the Senate t.alin American Affairs subcommittee, did not discu-ss de tails of his conversation with Mann. ., Morse said thai he is still con cerned about the diplomatic break with Cuba, but that he has "great confidence in the approach the Kennedy administration will lake" toward the Cuban problem. TI IE I IOT TOPIC IS THE NEW TEMPEST 3iY TOXTfAC f DOC fO Kennedy received 303 electoral votes and Nixon 219, with the re maining 15 going In Sen. Harry '!, D-Va. Needed to win: 269. Indcf the law, the announce ment is "a sufficient declaration ol the persons elected nresiHent and vice-president of the United , states each for the term beein- ning on ihe 20th day of January, 1961," That announcement confirms for the history hooks what the elec tors of the 50 slates made official when they met in their respective state capitols Dec. 19 and cast their votes. The formality includes no Tef ence to the popular ote: 34,221, 531 for Kennedy,, 34,108.474 for Nix on. That gave 'Kennedy a mar gin of 113,057. Post office officials here were alerted lo give speedy handling to an official registered letter from Hawaii. The letter contains certi fication that Kennedy is entitled lo Ihe slate's three electoral voles. The final decision giving Ken nedy the stale by 115 votes had been delayed by a recount. The constitution requires Con gress to meet in joint session to formally tally the ballots of the state electors. In effect, it makes Congress a board of canvassers. The electoral vote count session is one of the few joint meetings over which (lie vice president pre sides. Normally, Ihe Speaker of Ihe House presides al joint ses sions. Nixon doesn't do the actual counting. Official tellers, two sen ators and two representatives rep resenting the Iwo major political parlies, inspect the electoral certi ficates from each state and add up the figures. The certificates have been kept under lock and key in Ihe Senale since they were sent to Washington by slate officials. They show that Johnson received 303 votes for vice president, Henry Cabot Lodge 219, Sen. Strom Thur mond, D-S.C, 14 and Sen.. Barry Goldwaler, -R-Ariz., 1. Thurmond's came from Alabama and Missis sippi. Goldwater's came from Ok lahoma. The results also show that Ken nedy carried 23 states and Nixon 26, with Mississippi's eight electors being unpledged. The Mississippi ans gave their votes to Byrd, who also got six from Alabama and one from Oklahoma. FALSETEETH That Loosen Need Not Embarrass Mtiny wourorH of raise teeth riava uttered mil embarrassment becausa their plate dropped, slipped or wob bled at, Just the wrong time. Do not live In feur of this hnppentun, to you. Just Aprlnkle a little FABTfiETH, tile nl kit li in (non-acid) powder, on your pin tea. Hold falso teeth more firmly, so they feel more comfortable. Doea nnt sour. 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