Forest Fee Seen
Writer soys day coming when
forest user must pay fee to cross
forest boundary. See Editor's Cor
ner. Page 4.
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Tribe Faces Tornado
Roscburg's Indians face Med
ford's Black Tornado here Fridoy
night. Story on sports page.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1963
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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
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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.
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