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96th Year, No. 82
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Eugene, Oregon, January 13, 1963
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Money, Money, Money
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Sharply Split Legislature j
Qoes Into Session Monday
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
Of the Aiioctaied Press
SALEM UH Asharply divided Oregon
Legislature meets Monday to solve the
state's most critical financial dilemma since
the depression of the 1930s.
Gov. Mark 0. Hatfield, who will bo
inaugurated at 2 p.m., Monday, for his sec
ond term, faces his severest test in trying
to sell his money ideas to the Democratic
Legislature.
. The Democratic majority in the Legis
lature is split over Hatfield's proposal to
balance the budget. Some Republicans will
oppose Hatfield's ideas, too.
The heat of the Republican governor's
plan is a net receipts tax, which is a modi
fied income tax that would hit people with
low incomes. The same plan died in the
past two Legislatures, and again faces
Strong Senate opposition. '
The Legislature will have to find about
$50 million in new revenue to balance the
governor's $405 million biennial budget. No
solution is in sight.
' The House, with 31 Democrats and 29
Republicans, might go for the net receipts
tax. The Senate, with 21 Democrats and 9
Republicans, might favor a sales tax.
The financial problem is so critical that
it overshadows everything else.
Since World War II, the Legislature has
had a surplus in the general fund every
time it met. Now, the surplus is not only
gone, but a deficit looms at the end of the
biennium next June 30.
Ben Musa, 57, of The Dalles, will be
president of the Senate. A veteran of six'
sessions, he is an accountant and income
tax consultant He is part of the conserva
tive bipartisan coalition that again will have
17 or 18 of the Senate's 30 votes.
Clarence Barton, 52, D-Cuquille, will be
the speaker. His big problem will be to get
the liberal Democratic program through the
House, which includes three or four con
servatives among the slim Democratic ma
jority. ' '
Barton will exercise strong leadership in
trying to win House approval of the net
receipts tax. A lawyer, he has held key po
sitions on the Taxation and Ways and Means
Committees of the House during his three
terms.
Hatfield also favors a cigarette tax. This
is expected to win approval without any
trouble. . -v
' But there is strong opposition to his
proposal to hold a special election in March
or April to let the people pass on the net
receipts tax.
Most observers predict a long and stormy
session. The last one lasted 122 days, and
the 1957 session of 128 days was the long
est. This one might run as long as 150
days.
For one thing, the lawmakers will be re
lieved of financial pressure on themselves.
For the first time, they can set their own
salaries. No longer do they have to make
personal financial sacrifice in order to
serve.
The $405 million general fund budget
would be about $40 million more than for
the current biennium. Nearly all of the in
crease would go to education, which takes
55 per cent of the whole budget
So far, Hatfield has disclosed only his
proposals on raising and spending money.
The rest of his ideas would be outlined
in Monday's inaugural message of about
5,000 words.
Both Houses will be organized unoffi
cially at caucuses Sunday night When they
meet at 10 a.m., Monday, then they will
have only to go through the motions of organizing.
(See Page 6A.)
$10 Million
Congo Cash
WASHINGTON W) An esti
' mated $8 million to $10 million
worth of Congolese francs is re
ported missing from the Ka
tanea National Bank at Elisa.
bethville, and financial experts
on the scene are trying to find
out what happened to them, it
was learned Saturday night.
Diplomatic sources reported
that United Nations representa
tives who took over the Ka-
tanga National Bank late last
month are trying to find out
what became of the francs
under the administration of
President Moise Tshombe.
At the moment these inform
ants said, the cash is missing
and U.N. officials who took con
trol of the bank for the Mone-
tary Council of the U.N. central
government do not know what
happened to it.
Tshombe. who has left his
provincial capital of Elisabeth
ville which is now under U.N.
control, is said by U.S. officials
to have substantial bank ac
counts in Switzerland. But one
assumption here has been that
his sources of income for this
money were payments to the
Katanga government by the big
Belgian industrial concern. Un
ion Miniere, which has extensive
operations in the province.
Informants familiar with
Tnnco financial conditions re
ported Saturday night that
Tshombe issued his own Ka
tanga francs in 1960 against
several hundred million Congo
francs which were in the bank
at Elisabethville in 1960. When
U.N. representatives took over
ih Katanea bank late last
month, these informants said
they looked for the Congolese
francs and found tnem missing.
Messages on Television
" President John F. Kennedy's State of the Union address ;
to Congress and Oregon Governor Mark Hatfield's inaugura
tion and subsequent State of the State message will both be
carried locally on television Monday.
The President's speech to the 88th Congress will be car
Tied live at 9:30 a.m. on Channel 13 (KVAL). and Channel
-9 (KEZI):""" .- - - - -
?. The speech is expected to last about 45 minutes.
' At 2 p.m., live from Salem, the governor's inauguration
for a second four-year-term will be viewed on Channel 13
as weU as Channel 2 (KATU), Channel 12 (KPTV) and
Channel 7 (KOAC) for viewers on the cable system.
Nuclear Talks to Open
Solution Sought
To Arms Deadlock
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
' Of the' AskOcimted Press
, WASHINGTON President Kennedy's top disarma
ment expert will open talks with Soviet representatives
in New York on Monday in an effort to find out whether
recent Moscow hints of a nuclear test ban agreement
mean that a breakthrough in the long disarmament dead
lock is possible.
The Soviet Union, like the United States, may be
reaching the point of diminishing returns in its nuclear
test nroeram. U.S. officials said Saturday. That is the
ooint at which the possibility of discovering new infor-
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mauon aeciiues biiarpiy auc ouvici uuiuu may mau woui
to checK uie nuclear arms
Copter Toll
Brings Study
Of Tactics
SAIGON, South Viet Nam Wl
A rising toll of United States
helicopter crewmen and aircraft
in- the war against Viet Cong
guerrillas has brought helicop
ter tactics under review. Bodies
of the seven latest victims were
recovered from an island in the
Mekong River delta Saturday.
Of 53 Americans killed so far
in a year of supporting South
Viet Nam's armed forces, 23
were killed in helicopters.
Many others have been wounded.
Sixteen helicopters have been
destroyed, either as a result of
Communist action or in acci
dents. Nearly all the 100 or so
operating in South Viet Nam
have been hit by ground fire
and many . have been forced
down temporarily, .
The crash that killed seven
American crewmen Friday night
was attributed to mechanical
difficulty. Their H21 troop car
rier flipped on its back and cart
wheeled down from about 2,500
feet.
Three other helicopters had
race because of its harden
ing split with Red China, a
potential nuclear power.
But despite such reasoning in
official quarters here, adminis
tration leaders arc reported cs
scntially skeptical that the So
viet Union really intends to
change its policy on the vital
issue of inspection. In well-in
formed quarters, therefore, opti
mism is sharply curtailed by a
"show me" attitude.
The State Department an
nounced that the new round of
probing, exploratory talks will
be held between William C.
Foster, representing the United
States, and Ambassadors Niko
lai T. Fedorenko and Semyon
K. Tsarapkin of the U.S.S.R
Foster is chief of the U.S. Dis-
armament Agency. Fedorenko
is Premier Khrushchev's new
ambassador at the United Na
tions and Tsarapkin is the regu
lar Soviet disarmament negotia
tor at Geneva.
Foster met with President
Kennedy for about an hour
Saturday morning prior to the
State Department s announce'
ment. that the U.S.-Soviet talks
had finally been agreed on and
would open Monday. The first
session will be held at the So
viet U.N, headquarter! in New
York. ...
Plans for the talks were diS'
cussed here last week in
meeting between Kennedy and
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difficulty in the same 24-hour Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
period.
IVasily V. Kuznetsov.
Souiet-Chinese Quarrel to Play Big Role
Communists Gather for Party Cojigress
BERLIN Ifi Communists
converged on East Berlin from
afar Saturday for an East Ger
man Communist party congress
that looks as if it will be dom
inated by the Soviet-Chinese
quarrel. Diplomats expect the
meeting, starting Tuesday, may
open the way for a Communist
summit conference.
The end result may be a
world-wide party congress, pro
posed, by Peking. The last one,
in November I960, brougnt tne
Soviet and Red Chinese leaders
together in Moscow for a biting
quarrel that was only publicly
and temporarily patched over.
The star at the sixth party
congress -of the bast ocrman
Communists will be Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev. He is due
Sunday or Monday after a stop
over in Poland.
Khrushchev is expected to at
tack the Chinese Communists
Hunt Begins
For Skier, 13
pirNn rsnocial) A 13-year-
old Idaho ski racer was believed
missing on the slopes of Mt.
Bachelor, 20 miles west of here
Saturday night
a coarrh was being organized
to comb the mountain for Keith
Beauheir of McCall, Idaho, who
was last seen Saturday after
noon following the Sun cup sia
lnm raco at the ski area.
The boy apparently failed to
rstiirn in Bpnd late in the after
noon and his absence was later
discovered. Several persons who
drove to the ski area after
Beauheir was discovered miss
ing, shouted and shined ngnis,
hut could find no trace of him.
It was feared the boy may
have slipped and fallen, injur
ing himself, or may have wan
dered away from the iki area.
The temperature was expected
to drop close to zero during the
night.
for wanting to take a more ag
gressive line against the United
States and its western partners
and for underrating American
atomic strength.
To answer Khrushchev, the
Chinese Communists have
named Wu Hsiu-chuan, a mem
ber of their Central Committee,
as leader of a three mem
ber delegation. He used to be
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Theaters 5B
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Women's News 2-3C
Home and Garden ...... 8-9C
UO Religious Forum Week
To Begin 4-Day Program
Peking's ambassador to Yugo
slavia, where he had plenty of
chance to get acquainted with
the revisionist ideas that the
Chinese accuse Khrushchev of
adopting.
The Yugoslavs are also send
ing a delegation. This is the
first time they have been in
vited to a party congress inside
the Communist bloc since their
big break with Moscow in 1948,
The Yugoslavs and the Soviets
have moved closer together
sinco the Moscow-Peking split
became more apparent.
Among foreigners on hand
was Henry Winston, vice-chair
man of the American Commu
nist party. Winston has lived in
the Soviet Union since he was
Religious Fcrum Week, an
annual program of lectures,
panel discussions and displays
relating to the role of religion
modern-day lite, will open
tonight on the University of
Oregon campus.
At 7:30 in the Erb Memorial
Student Union, the five major
speakers for the four-day pro
gram will be introaucea Dy Ar
thur S. Flemming, president ot
the University of Oregon. This
will be followed by the week's
opening address, "In Search of
Meaning ... To Be a Person,"
by Dr. Camilla M. Anderson of
Salem, director of the outpa
tient department of the Oregon
State Hospital at Salem.
A "question period" with
Doctor Anderson and other
speakers is scheduled at 8:49.
Monday's schedule begins
with a faculty luncheon at noon
in the Student Union. Speaker
will be the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Thomas J. Tobin of Portland, a
delegate to the Second Vatican
Council, who will discuss the
council.
Monday's evening address will
be at 7:30 in the Student Union.
The speaker, David Bassan, is
assistant to the president of
ABC Life Insurance Co. His
topic will be "In Search of
Meaning . . . Integrity in
Business."
16th, 17th Polaris
Subs Launched
PORTSMOUTH. N. H. WWThe
nation's 18th and 17th nuclear-
powered Polaris submarines
were launched Saturday.
No. 17 the John Adams slid
down the ways- at the Ports
mouth Naval Shipyard after
Mrs. James C Manny of New
York broke the traditional bot
tle of champagne on the sub
marines stern, fahe is the great-
ercat - great granddaughter of
John Quincy Adams.
Earlier in the day. the 16lh
Polaris submarine Nathan Hale
was launched at the Electric
Boat Division of General Dy
namics Corp. at Groton, Conn,
Princinal speaker at the
launching of the John Adams
was Thomas B. Adams, vice
president Allied Activities Di
vision of the Sheraton Corp. of
America. He is the great-great
great grandson of President
1 Adams.
freed in 1961 after serving five
years of an eight-year sentence
for conspiring to advocate the
violent overthrow of the U.S.
government. President Kennedy
commuted the sentence because
of Winston's eye trouble and
ill health in prison.
Some sources in Poland said
Wladyslaw G o mul k a. Polish
Communist chief, would try to
mediate between the two major
Communist powers. Gomulka
will be coming to Berlin with
Khrushchev.
An indication of where Go-
mulka'i sympathy lies came in
the news that his foreign min
ister, Adam Rapacki, will visit
India this month. The visit will
be a rebuke to the Chinese,
who staged an armed attack on
India last fall.
Icy
Art
' - - " (Regiftter-Guartf photo)
Nature's own sculpture was the reward Saturday for Kenneth -Rodgers
at the front of his home at 124 W. Fifth Ave. Eugene, ;
after he left a sprinkler running. Rodgers had the sprinkler going
Saturday night as well, to see what interesting pattern would develop.
Skating Appetites Whetted
But Blades Remain Dull
life
Savannah9 s Symbol
This symbol of the Atomic Age is to be found every
where on the first atomic age passenger-freighter, the
N. S. Savannah. In this case the symbol is formed by
a ceiling light fixture. For a look at the Savannah and
what makes it tick or rather what makes its atoms
be bombarded by neutrons turn to page IB.
Boeing Issue
To Get Study
WASHINGTON W) Sen.
Wayne Morse, D-Ore, said Sat
urday the Oregon congressional
delegation will meet Monday
morning to hear about a pro
posed Boeing aircraft project in
Eastern Oregon.
Two representatives of Oregon
Cov. Mark O. Hatfield Sam
Mallicoate and Harold Ken
nedy are scheduled to sit down
with the Oregon legislators and
discuss a proposal under which
there would be a swap of pub
licly owned lands to fit in with
the nroiect
A report that Sens. Henry
Jackson and Warren Magnuson,
Washington Democrats, were
putting roadblocks in the path
of the project was denied by
Maenuson.
"I don't know anything about
it," he said, "And I'm sure Sen.
Jackson doesn't either. I talked
with him today before he left
for New York, and that subject
never came ud." '
Morse when asked about the
reports said:
"We've always had nothing
but the finest cooperation with
Sen. Magnuson and Sen. Jack
son.' Neither Sen. Jackson nor Sen.
Maurine Neuberger. D-Ore,
were available for comment
By MATT MITCHELL
or the RoUUr-Quard 1
Getting ice skates sharpened
In Eugene is like water skiing
in the middle of the Sahara
Desert.
In fact, finding a pair of ice
skates for sale was about as
impossible as collapsing from a
heat stroke Saturday.
Just taking an old pair of
shoe skates around town in an
attempt to get them sharpened
brought quizzical looks. "Nope,
we don't do that" remarked one
oerson. "Never even knew
skates had to be sharpened,"
another said.
John Robertson at Warren's
Hardware said "We haven't car
ried skates for 10 or 12 years.'
Howard Wicklund said in his
snnrtinc Goods store that ice
skates are just like sleds: "It's
a feast or famino situation. Wo
could sell 20 pair today, men
none for 10 years."
. Improvised Skating Rinks
For those who already possess
skates the improvised skating
rinks orovlded by the Eugene
fire and park departments ai
the. Amazon swimming pool
parking lot on south Hilyard
Street and the Washington Park
tennis courts will be good as
long as freezing temperatures
last.
The weatherman- said Satur
day evening there would De
gradual warming trend with
predicted high toaay oi J aucr
a Saturday night low of 15 de
grees. The mercury should drop
in nr. v za decrees tonisni.
For the frustrated sxater wno
rummaged through attics and
storage rooms to find his old
nair nf skates Saturday morning
the day may nave Deen w u
More Supplies Sent
For Flood Victims
PARIS OB Seven additional
nlane loads of tents and food
are being airlifted from Europe
to Morocco to aid victims of dis
astrous floods, Gen. John P. Mc-
Connell, deputy commander in
chief of U.S. Forces in Europe,
said todav.
Saturday's shipments w 1 1
bring the total number of planes
sent to Morocco with relief sup
plies to 23. More than 90,000
pounds of material have been
sent
the skates needed to bo honed.
A scissor sharpener In down
town Eugene said, "What? I
never even knew you had to
sharpen a pair of ice skates."
Down the street at a bicycle
shop, one man suggested trying
ski shop, but one of nis co
workers quipped,- Leave- em
here. We'll try anything."
Dale Berg, who operates ski
shop, said he didn't know whero
to get skates sharpened but ex
plained he would sell skates if
there were an ice nnn in uie
area.
A female customer said that
if the reporter was trying to
buy skates he "might try a war
surplus store. They'll carry any
thing. . i -: i
Cliff Baird. veteran Eugene
locksmith, said he had had eight
or ten calls during the day to
have skates sharpened and
noted about IS years ago ho had
a special clamp to help do the
iob correctly. "Maybe I'll build
another one, so that in is years
I'll be able to use It once."
After a long search, It was
The Jolt's
On You
'. The cold, ' dry air ' which
chilled Eugene residents the
oast few days brought an un
usual condition of static elec
tricity. ,
One man reported that
when he swept the seat of his
auto and touched the metal
door, he received a jolt of
electricity enough to "bite"
clear through his gloves..
Machines acted up, too,
especially those which had
enough moving parts to gen
erate invisible sparks.
Why? It's simple, according
to a University of Oregon
physics teacher.
Dry air is a poor conductor
of electricity, he said, so
charges store up in metallic
objects. They get stronger and
stronger.
Then, when a person who
Is moistly constructed
touches this storage unit,
wham goes the dissipation.
The same thing happens
during the summer when air
is dry.
found that Roy. Hatch at 3&J :
Garden Supplies formerly sharp
ened skates, "But it was more
than 20 years ago since I did.
How do you want these hollow
ground or square and flat?
An Extra Pillow '
" "By the way," he said crit
ically studying the reporter,
'Are you going to take an extra
pillow with you when you go
skating?"
"What would, you charge?"
Hatch was asked. . -
"There's a good question.
Gosh, I guess about $1.50 up
depending on how much time
it takes. -
About then a fellow .worker. '
Don Grigsby, walked up and '
suggested a home - sharpener.
Pulling down. a catalog brigshy
declared the stated price for the
electric home ice skate sharp
ener was $165.
A number of persons did
offer an alternate suggestion.
"You know, there s an ice rink
In Portland. You could take
your skates, there and probably
get -them 'Sharpened": -,
Torrential Rains Hit
City for Third Day .
SAO PAULO Brazil W Tor
rential, ruins poured down on
this flooded city Saturday tor
the third straight day. '
- At least 12 persons have died
as a result of the high waters.
Hundreds of houses in low-lying
areas were flooded.
First Looker
Bought Car
fc- Fast results from
this ad.
SS VOLKSWAGEN Sedan. WWta
wall Urea. Vary clan and top
condition. Ntw battery. Servlca
record by Jack and Cm. Owner
ale. $875. Some lerma If de
aired. See at 0000 Arthur St.
, You will always find
the best used car buys
In the classified col
umns.