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Forest Fee Seen Writer soys day coming when forest user must pay fee to cross forest boundary. See Editor's Cor ner. Page 4. a Tribe Faces Tornado Roscburg's Indians face Med ford's Black Tornado here Fridoy night. Story on sports page. Established 1873 16 Pages ROSEBURG, OREGON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1963 268-63 10c Per Copy mm COP Presents Six-Point Stop Gap Plan In House the bienniuin. Legislative establishment of "guidelines and priorities" fori SALEM (UPl)-House Repub licans laid out a six-point stop gap prosrain late Tuesday in an effort to crystalize sentimentithe governor's budget cutting. and fill a leadership void in the A reduction in salaries oi legislators and state ollicials. A session that is "short special session of the legislature. But perhaps the most signifi cant thing about the minority party program was that it was each stressed a different course. The Rules Committee concen trated on approving mainly stop-gap fiscal bills for introduc tion. The House Tax Committee, snubbed in an effort to get addi but long enough to fulfill ouru0nal tax bills through rules, responsibilities. ! introduced them on its own vague and even then, the 28 Fundamental tax reform inj The Joint Ways and Means House Republicans were not i5. unanimously behind it. Rcp F F Montgomery, R- Their effort reflected a funda- Eugene, minority leader of the1 mental question that had devel-l House, and Rep. John Mosser, oped by the end. of the second day of the special session: Should the legislature just take stop-gap measures to close the $60 million gap in the state budget, caused by the voters' defeat of a tax increase passed last spring? Or, should the legislature seek longer range . solutions, since otherwise the current money problems will simply reappear in more pressing fashion in 1965. The Republican program was essentially stop-gap. A majority of the GOP caucus recommend ed: No increase in total taxes at this special session. A speed-up in turnover of withholding taxes to the state, to be used to avoid a $12 mil' lion cut in basic school support this year. A cut would be made. however, in the 1964-65 year of R-Beaverton, announced the pro gram. They said it had been developed by a committee of nine House Republicans, then a proved by a majority of the 28 House Republicans in a caucus. On the key point of taxes, Mosser and Montgomery said the caucus was not unanimous. Two House Republicans were the first to introduce sales and cigarette tax bills. The House GOP program was similar to Gov. Mark Hatfield's Monday message in many re spects. But Mosser and Mont gomery said Hatfield had not been advised of the legislators' stand. Indecision was evident all around the legislature. The Sen ate waited idly for some action from the House. The three activated House committees worked hard, but Professor's Arrest By Soviets Draws Tough U. S; Protest MOSCOW (UPI) U.S. Am bassador Foy-' D-Kohler today strongly protested to the Soviet Union against the arrest on spy charges of Yale University Pro fessor Frederick C. Barghoorn and "requested his release forthwith." Kohler called on Soviet Depu ty Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin at the skyscraper Foreign Ministry offices and in a 15 minute interview "denied em- Leaking Vessel Heads For Port HONOLULU (UPI) - The American freighter Green Moun tain State, one hold filled with sea water as a result of a se vere leak, was headed for Mid way Island today escorted by the Coast Guard cutter Winnebago. The vessel left San Francisco Oct. 31 with military and gen cral cargo bound for Yokoha ma. Okinawa and Korea. There were 45 crewmen aboard the freighter, including its skipper, Capt. Azchery Garr. The Green Mountain State, owned by States Marine Lines, sent out a distress call Monday night advising that she had i Kremlin walls. sprung a leak and was unablel Ambassador Kohlcr's action to control the flooding of No. 3 i.i personally taking American hold. j protests to the Foreign Minis At that time she was battling I try underlined the gravity with mountainous seas and was be-iwlnch the embassy here re . ine buffeted by winds up to 78 garded the professor's arrest. miles an hour. i The embassy said it would The Winnebago, detached continue to press for an inter from ocean station duty in theiview with the 53-ycar old Sovi- North Pacific, reached theiet affairs expert. But the Sovi- freighter Tuesday night. Botlvots were expected to ignore vessels changed course for Mid-j requests and hold Barghoorn way Island, 700 miles to the: incommunicado during a pre southeast. Iliminary investigation. phatically" that Barghoorn was a spy,- demanded "immediate access" to the professor and re quested his release. Kohler's trip to the Foreign Ministry fallowed a firm pro test lodged there this morning by Walter J. Stoessel, deputy chief of the U.S. mission, against the arrest of the 52- year-old American professor. under Soviet law, Barghoorn faces imprisonment or a pos sible death sentence if found guilty of the charges. Kohler was pressing a request for further information on the case and a demand to see the New York-born expert on Rus sian affairs. Mikhail Smirnovsky, chief of the American section of the Soviet Foreign Office, told Stoessel this morning that no details could yet be provided and that the request for an interview would be passed on." The ambassador's action was the fifth official American move here on the case since the So viets notified the embassy Tues day that Barghoorn had been picked up. Barghoorn apparently was ar rested somewhere between the American embassy and his ho tel, the Metropole near the committee broke up into sub committes to struggle with the shorter and longer range impli cations of expense trimming bills Rep. Richard Eymann, D-Mar- cola, chairman of the House tax committee, represented one point of view. As his coinmitte neared a vote on the one-shot withholding tax speed-up he de clared: "I hope. ..we also pass out some revenue measures that are of a recurring type." He said otherwise that the state will have to raise $41 million in new revenues next biennium just to break even. Rcp. Morris Crothers, R- Salcm, a cigarette tax sponsor, said the legislature should pro vide some other revenue in stead of teaching the people a "painful lesson" by severe budg et cutting. Eymann said he was ready to send a sales tax or a cigarette tax proposal to the people. He already is getting hearings un derway on both proposals. But on the other side, Rcp. Victor Atiyeh, R - Beavorton, said, "the people do not want a new tax out of this session." Reaction was cool to democra tic House Speaker Clarence Bar ton's suggestion that the legis lature might recess to let the Interim Taxation Committee draft a sales tax bill. The legis- lature could then reconvene and refer it to .the -.voters., Even the interpretations of Barton s suggestion differed. Ey mann said, if the special session could not get the job done, a recess would be a good idea. But Rcp. Joe Rogers, R-Indc pendence, a sales tax sponsor, said it sounded like Barton might be trying to stall in order to avoid a sales tax at all for now , . , i . ' - A . I 1 1 t ft K . , - Vv , Baghdad Fighting Erupts After Air Force Planes Hit Presidential Palace FIREMAN (LEFT) CONTINUES to hose water on fire that threatened to des troy two of Son Francisco's famous land murks. Cliff House and Sutro's Ice Rink, Tuesday. Some 40 pieces of equipment were brought to the scene. (UPI Telephoto) Castro Claims U. S. Marines Stone Cubans Fire Spares Famous Cliff House Dinery SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)- Alsaid lie could not estimate the five-alarm fire roared through damage tban i'ranclscos UUf House Thn first rairr Hihkp wn built' havava n'Pn r,uWarci!, 1,uesaay msm' 0111 Ulc in the 1850s. following the Cali ........... . --u-iirui rn mn rni aiirum wiisi Armea forces minister auijspare(j Castro charged Tuesday nighti . ' . , . . ... . . . that U.S. Marines at the Guin-I The wind-wlupped blaze, which tanamo Naval Base have beenfent flames shooting 100 feel waging "constant aggression"!"1'0 le alr g"cd of against Cuba and "opening ! sll0Ps wnlcl wcrc "ordered by Blast Hits AEC Plant SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)-! An estimated 60,000 pounds of a chemical high explosive erupted with a thunderous roar today at the Atomic Energy Commis sion's Medina, Tex., nuclear! weapons plant, shattering win dows 10 miles away in ban An tonio. There was no radiation dan ger, officials emphasized. Officials reported three men "superficially" injured. They were able to walk away from the blast. Residents of the area fled. The blast occurred in mound-like igloo used to store explosives. An Atomic Energy fire" on Cuban troops. In a two-hour speech broad cast by Radio Havana, Castro said also that a draft law about to be enacted will authorize the government to call up Cuban men aged 17 to 45 for military service. The armed forces minister, brother and deputy of Premier Fidel Castro, charged that the marines ai iriianiunamu nave committed "120 provocations against Cuba in three months, throwing dirt and stones at "our posts" outside the base and "opening fire from close by." Castro said some Cuban sen tries had been hit and hurt by stones thrown by the Marines, but he made no mention of any gunshot wounds. At times we have had to transfer comrades because they could not contain themselves in the face of these provocations he said. "On 47 different occasions (between Aug. 5 and Nov. 3), the U.S. Marines have crossed over the dividing line between the base and the free territory of Cuba, cither through the fence or the entrance." In one instance, he said, the Marines tried to pull down a Cuban flag flying from a staff on Cuban soil outside the base. Castro said also that Cuban forces have "captured many persons trying to leave the base," presumably Cubans em ployed by the Navy at Guan tanamo. The armed forces minister in dicated that the proposed draft a I law would be aimed specifically at "loafers and bums." He said draftees will serve three years including some time in work the restaurant to die south and the historic Sutro Baths to the north. Among the buildings destroyed were the gift shop and antique pavilion where thousands of his toric relics were kept on display for sightseers. About 270 firemen with 60 nieces of rolling equipment were hampered in- their- three'-houn battle by an estimated crowd of 1,500 spectators attracted by the blaze which broke out at 5:30 p.m. The fire fighters could ap proach the complex of buildings only from the cast side, becausr the other side faces the ocean over a sheer cliff from which the popular tourist spot gets its name. Sixteen firemen were injured, but none of their injuries was considered serious. Most were hospitalized for treatment of smoke inhalation. Two policemen also suffered minor injuries when a group of teen-agers pelted firemen and police officers with rocks from a high hill over the fire scene. Two of the youths were arrested. Fire Chief William Murray fornia gold rush. It was nearly destroyed in a violent explosion when the schooner Parallel, loaded with explosives, crashed into the rocks below. Then it burned down in 1881. , Two subsequent Cliff Houses were destroyed by fire and a fourth, built in lOOi), was closed because of prohibition in 1925 and did not open again until 1937. The present structure was built in 1950. Commission spokesman said the explosive consisted mostly of brigades harvesting next year's TNT. sugar and coffee crops. The explosion at 8:35 a.m. PST sent a column of smoke, R.: Warm Temm Due billowing 1,000 feet into the sky. The Federal State Livestock Marketing Service located 20 miles from the scene reported the blast blew its doors open. Nuclear explosives are kept at Medina. But the base docs not have an atomic reactor as first! reported. The five-day weather fore cast, according to the Weather Bureau station at the Roscburg airport, calls for temperatures averaging above normal with UF Auction Set Sunday The game is set, the players are ready and the kickoff has been set for Sunday at 4 p.m. for the Douglas County United Fund television auction, an nounces Hazel Saxon, campaign chairman. The auction will take place over KPIC-TV between 4 and 6 p.m. A list of merchandise which will be numbered, will be printed in Saturday's News-Review, and participants may bid by number from the list, it is announced. Any merchant not contacted for merchandise contributions to the auction may participate precipitation above normal, by calling the United iund of Highs will be mostly 48 to 58 fice, 672-1734, or Mrs. Saxon, and lows mostly 38 to 45. '672-1225. Barton Predicts Solons Will Pass Tax On Cigarettes SALEM (UPI) A cigarette tax measure will be approved by the House, Speaker Clarence Barton predicted today. 'I have talked to many of the members, and find there is a sentiment for a cigarette tax," he said. I believe a cigarette tax will pass the House if one is sent down by the Tax Committee," Barton added. He said he did not believe a sales tax would win House ap proval at this special session, and he added he could not pre dict what kind of reception the Senate would give to a cigarette tax. The Coquillc Democrat said he favored a 4-cent cigarette tax with receipts to go into the general fund. Two smoke tax bills already have been submitted. A measure by Rcp. 1 Morris Crothers, R-Salem, would levy a 5-ccnt a pack tax, and earmark the funds this biennium for basic school aid. House Tax Committee Chairman Richard Eymann, D-Marcola, submitted a 4-cent a pack tax, with reve nues to go into the general fund Raise $10 to $13 Million Both measures would raise from $10 to $13 million a bien nlutn, according to Eymann. Barton said he believed Gov. Mark Hatfield "used good dis cretion" In budget reductions he has Imposed. "I have confidence in the gov crnor, I don't think he will go overboard, he said. BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) . The Iraqi government appeared today to have quelled a brief revolt after unidentified rebel units launched ground and air attacks in the heart of Bagh dad. Reports reaching here still were sketchy, but diplomatic observers said it appeared the ninc-month-old Baath party gov ernment had muted the rebels. The fighting, observers said, was believed to have developed following a reshuffle in the Baath hierarchy in which strongman Deputy Premier Sa- leh El Saadi was ousted. The fighting broke out this morning when Iraqi air force jets attacked the presidential palace. Fighting was reported at tho heavily fortified defense minis try and in the city streets. There was no information available on casualties. Diplomatic circles here said the fact the Baghdad Radio was still in government hands indi cated Premier Maj. Gen. Ah med Hassan Bakr's regime was in control. The station was heard here ordering workers back to their jobs. It specifically asked elec tricity and water department workers and postal and tele graph employes to - return to their jobs. Control of the radio, it was pointed out, is a prerequisite for success for an uprising in the Middle East. Another indication of govern ment control was the calling of u leadership meeting by Bakr. Cairo s voice of the Arabs radio said Bakr's government1 had imposed an indefinite cur low on Baghdad. '-Reports reaching Tehran, .tho "capital of ' nclg'liborihg" I r a n, said martial law had been im posed. Saadi, and Brig. Hardun Tak- riti, commander of the air force, were dlmissed, the sta tion said. No explanation was given. Their names were left out of a list of the new 10-man parly leadership. The situation was confused further by a Spanish foreign of fice announcement that Saadi had been in Madrid sinco Tues day, when he arrived with "a valid passport and was conse quently admitted to Spain." Egypt's semi-official Middle East News Agency said he had been "expelled" from Iraq. His abrupt departure and the participation of air force jets in the attack on the official resi dence of President Abdel Salem Arof led observers here to be lieve the Baathists are strug gling among themselves f o r power. Bakr broadcast an appeal over Baghdad Radio for the Iraqi people to resist "attempts to. divide" the unity of the Baath movement and "make Baathist kill Baathist." The statement was read by Defense Minister Saleh Mandi Anash. "The party is able to settle all disputes through the party and the party will win," Bakr's statement said. "We must take euro that not a single drop of blood be shed." Ho called for a return "to the spirit of brotherhood." Stranded Hunters Reach La Grande LA GRANDE (UPI) A group of elk hunters, stranded by snow for nearly a week in the rugged Minam River area east of here was flown out of the area Tucs day after walking to a lodge. They were reported in good condition. They said they had had plenty to eat but were glad to get out of the area. Pilot Bob Waltcrmiro of Lu Grande flew them hero from where they were taken to their cars. The group was trapped by a snowstorm last Thursday on the Minam Lake side of an 8,000- foot pass. The storm caused drifts as high as 20 feet. The party flown out Tuesday included nine hunters, two cooks and a cowboy. Guide Bob Blank of Baker and three others had left the group after the snowstorm to blaze a trail out. Blank said the horses on the trip were worse off than the hunting parly, because of luck of food. Tax Committee Okays Mark's 'One-Shot1 Bill SALEM (UPI) The gover nor's "ono-shot" bill to raise $12 million this bienniuin by speed ing up the turnover of withhold ing taxes to the stale won tho approval of the House Tax Commltteo today. Tho commltteo sent tho mea sure to the House floor for ac tion on a 10-1 vote. Rep. Joo Rogers, R-lndependcnce, a sales lax .spousoiv 4ittt, ..the- only dis senting vote. " The bill is one-hulf of Gov. Mark Hatfield's program to deal with Oregon's $60 million fiscal crisis, caused by voter defeat of a tax p r o g r a m passed lust spring. The other half of Hatfield's program calls for more budget cutting. He has asked tho legis lature to give him authority to trim basic school support and other budgets which ho cannot now touch. He already has done considerable cutting in arcus where he has allotment control. The one-shot lux bill would re quire employers lo remit with holding taxes to the stale on a monthly basis instead of the present quarterly basis. The ef fect would be to give the state two extra months of payments in the 1963-65 biennium. The House Tax Committee continued to consider sales and cigarette tax proposals. Jet Plane Burns At Klamath Falls KLAMATH FALLS (UPI)-An Air Force F-101 Voodoo jet piano caught fire while prepar ing to take off here early today hut tho blaze was quickly put out and the two crewmen were not hurt. The plane's auxiliary fuel tank dropped to the ground and burst into flames. The blaze spread to the plane isclf but firemen at Kingsley AFB quick ly put it out. The two men aboard were Lt. Col. Richard C. Garrett, 42, To ledo, Iowa, and Capt. Reginald Scheloski, 29, Milwaukee, Wise. Biggest Jewel Robbery In History Of New York Has Turned Into A Comedy Of Errors NEW YORK (UPI) - Five days ago even New York detec- The Weather j AIRPORT RECORDS ' Mostly cloudy with occasional rin today, tonight and Thurs day. Highest temp, last 14 hours S3 Lowest temp, lilt 24 hours 4J Highest temp, any Nov. (SS) 7 Lowest temp, any Nov. (55) 15 Precip. last 24 hours 01 Normal Nov. precip. 4.4 Precip. from Sept. 1 . 7.47 Precip. from Nov. 1 .... 4.00 Sunset tonight, 4:51 p.m. Sunriso tomorrow, 7:05 a.m. lives grudgingly admired thccar, a station wagon loaded careful manner in which hi- with the stolen diamonds, em jackers planned and staged the eralds, rubies and gold, lie was biggest jewel robbery in the unfamiliar with shifting gears city's history. and could not get the car roll- But today the golden image ing. of the bold bandits was turning! He gunned the motor and the into brass. The miracle in Man-'vehicle jerked forward a few hattan had become a comedy feet and stalled. It happened, of errors. It was not exactly a repeatedly. ; laughing matter, not with anl "Hey." he called to a group estimated S3 million worth of of workers nearby. "How do loot involved, but it was a bun you get this damned thing to gled job. igo?" And all because of an auto-i Empty-Handed mobile that had become some-1 One of the men made a vul thing of a relic in these days gar remark. Without another of automatic transmission and. glance, the driver got out of the power steering. station wagon and sprinted I The wrong man was in the empty-handed down the street, driver's seat of the getaway! The workers examined the car and helped themselves to even took gems to his weekend the real bandits got nothing." tho loot. farm near Gettysburg, Pa., and His buddy called police. "A grab bag situation devel- buried them. Another man had The other witness was a de oped," said Capt. Charles C. more than $200,000 worth In a molition worker who, apparent Holt Jr. of the detective divi- briefcase. ly, had no part In the looting, slon. "It was finders keepers."! Real Story He told private detective An- He emphasized that many of. Late Monday night, the rcalithony Negri, 28, he had seen a the workers neither witnessed story the story of the "badly station wagon near the robbery the heist nor took place in theibungled" heist began to seep'scenc. Several men were ncari looting, but - several stuffed, out. It came from two separate.it, he said, looking 111 at ease, handfuls of jewels diamonds, 'sources. One a witness who One man, the witness said, emeralds, a few rubies into, talked to a private detective, flashed a briefcase in an old their pockets. They left behind and the other a demolition boiler lying discarded on the worker who "got snootful" in lot. a Manhattan bar and talked too Negri found the briefcase, much. filled with jewels, in the boiler The demolition worker, well and called police, in his cups, 'Started bragging to By dawn Tuesday, dozens of Some hid the jewels in the his buddy. 'detectives and FBI agents. building being torn down. "We saw it all," he said, dressed in neat business suits, Others took them home. Onc"And we got all the loot while were probing the debris with bars of jeweler's gold and the gems they could not easily carry away. None returned be cause they figured police would show up at any minute. shovels, long poles and with their hands. At least five demolition work ers admitted their part In the looting, and led the detectives to hiding places. Some were ac companied home to get dia monds and emeralds that had been hidden in teapots and cookie Jars. ' Unearthed In Ruins Hidden jewels were unearthed in the ruins of the building hc-t ng torn down. A pump wasl rushed in to drain the basement of several feet of water. A fil ter was placed over the hose to catch any louse gems. Some .workers didn't realize this, and stationed themselves down istream to ratch any diamonds Hint might come floating by. Police found no gems in the basement, but they did find silverware knives, forks and spoons that had not been re ported stolen in this robbery. Police figured Ihey had recov ered at least 85 per cent of the loot. One high official said, how ever, that not all of it was re covered and most likely the lest will never be found. PLAY BALL IWtiL ll-'i-J C..-J I mm wniieu rung Goal Score To Dot $69.36 $46,971 67
