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r Univ. of Oregon Library The Partly cloudy and cooler In FOrCCOSt Central Oregon region. High temperatures, 3 to 41 de gree. Low, 20 to 25. High yferday, 46 degree. Low last night, 32 degree. Suntet today, 4:39. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:01, PST. Hi and Lo SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON 60th Year Ten Pages Friday, November 15, 1963 Ten Cents No. 291 BUIJL One-shot tax bill is nearing passage SALEM (UPI) -The gover nor's one-shot tax bill moved to day to within one step of final passage. The Senate Tax Committee unanimously approved the House-passed bill at a meeting that lasted about 10 minutes. It went to the senate floor for final action. The bill would bring an extra $12 million into the state's cof fers before the end of the 1963 65 biennium by speeding up the turning over of withholding pay ments to the state. Employers would have to remit the taxes on a monthly basis instead of a quarterly basis,' netting the state two extra months of payments this biennium. The other half of Hatfield's two-part stop-gap program to deal with Oregon's $60 million revenue shortage was not far Hatfield pleads passage of on Boardman SALEM (UPI) -Gov. Mark Hatfield, in a special message to the legislature this afternoon, pleaded for immediate passage of a bill to confirm the state's purchase of land for the Board man Space Age Industrial Park, and its subsequent lease to the Boeing Co. Hatfield warned "without such legislation this project may fail." Ha said "this matter is of such Importance that were this legis lative body not now in session, I would feel it my duty to call a special session for this single purpose "v . .... At the time the message was delivered, the governor's office submitted the bill which Hat field said "will give the State Land Board the necessary au thority and means to meet the state of Oregon's commitments under the Boeing lease and put the Boeing company into posses sion as an operating industrial tenant." Earlier today, legislative lead ers apparently agreed at a closed door meeting to rush through the emergency legisla tion. Pay cut again turned down SALEM (UPI) -The Ways and Means Salary subcommittee failed again today to approve a bill to cut the pay of legislators and state officials. Three members of the sub committee voted to approve the bill. Four voted against it. The bill would have empower ed Gov. Mark Hatfield to cut salaries of himself, the legisla ture, secretary of state, treasur er, attorney general and labor commissioner up to 10 per cent for the rest of this biennium. Several legislators told the committee the legislature, in particular, should tighten its belt in view of the state's fiscal crisis. Most of them agreed, however legislators are not overpaid. Reps. Ross Morgan, D-Gresham, and Beulah Hand, D-Milwaukie, replied that it would be a mis take to cut salaries purely "for a better image." The discussion brought forth some praise for Republican Gov. Hatfield from Democratic Ways and Means Chairman Morgan. . It came during a debate over whether the legislature should sDecifv budget cuts, or delegate general budget-cutting authority to Hatfield. Morean said Hatfield's own party feels the governor has made a "grave political mis take" by volunteering to do the cutting himself. "Hatfield has shown unusual political courage in doing some thing he knows is probably a political mistake because he can do a better job." Morgan said. Rep. Stafford Hansell, R-Her-miston, called it "the big lie" to say that the legislature can not spell out cuts in more de tail. Sen. Alfred Crobett, D-Port-land, responded that the gover nor must have flexibility in making adjustments after the legislature goes home, since the full effects of some of the cuts will not be known for several weeks. j o behind the tax bill. The second bill would empow er Hatfield to cut the basic school money that the state gives to local school districts. It has passed the House, and awaits action in Senate commit tee and on the floor. SALEM (UPI) The House Thursday approved the second half of the emergency program asked by Gov. Mark Hatfield to deal with the fiscal crisis re sulting from the Oct. 15 refer endum. By a 34-23 vote the lower chamber approved a measure allowing Hatfield to make cuts in basic school support. It followed by one day House approval of a one-shot speedup of withholding tax collections to bring in an additional $12 mil lion this biennium. Both measures await Senate action. Hatfield needs legislative ap proval of both so he can trim about $60 million from the $404 million general fund budget ap proved at the 1963 regular session. House approval of the basic i school bill came shortly alter it rejected by a 38-19 vote a move to send the measure back to Ways and Means for further modification. The vote came at 5:30 p.m. after two days of haggling over whether the governor should be given a free hand to make the cut, or whether the legislature should set down ngid guides. The measure finally approved included watered down guide lines. Back To Committee But the bill probably will once again end up in Ways and Means for Senate President Ben Musa said he would send it there for review. Wednesday the nine Demo crats on Ways and Means ap proved a measure without guide lines, over the solid opposition of the five Republicans on the committee. Shortly before the bill was to come up for a vote in the House Thursday afternoon, it was re called to Ways and Means. M Id guides were inserted, ana then the bill was sent back to the houses. The Euides ask Hatfield to make school cuts "proportion ate" to other cuts "if he can. If additional money becomes available later, Hatfield is asked to restore some of it to the basic school fund. In effect, the bill gives Hat field a relatively free hand. U.S. hold up Soviet BERLIN (UPI) American military police today held up a Russian army bus ana a kus- sian military automobile in re taliation for the holdup of two U.S. Army patrol cars in East Berlin Thursday. Military police stopped a bus carrying 25 Russians for 19 minutes and an automobile carrying four Russians for 20 minutes, American officials said. The Russian vehicles were halted at different times near the U.S. Army's Checkpoint Chwlie on the East-West Ber lin border. Two military police sedans in each operation cut off the Rus sian vehicle, forced it to the curb and prevented it from con tinuing its drive. Both the bus and the automo bile were held up for exactly the time two American patrol cars were delayed by East Ger man police in East Berlin Thursday. In each case, a Russian- speaking MP officer told the Russians why they were stopped. u. s. MOSCOW (UPI) U.S. offi cials tonight boycotted a cere monial "friendship meeting" with a group of Russians, in cluding Mrs. Nikita Khrushchev, as American officials failed in another attempt to win release of Yale Prof. Frederick Barg hoom. None of the American Em bassy staff members attended a well-publicized meeting at "friendship house" near the Kremlin to mark the 30th anni versary Saturday of resumpUon of diplomatic relations between Hunflngfon death cause is studied Perit Phillip Huntington, 53, son of Mr. and Mrs. Perit S. Huntington of Sisters, died Thursday in the Middle Fork of the Willamette River, follow ing a one-car accident six miles west of Oakndge. State police said the vehicle left the road, plunged over a 40-foot embankment and came to rest partly submerged in the river. The Lane County Medi cal Examiner's office was at tempting to determine whether Huntington died of injuries, drowned, or suffered a heart attack prior to the accident. Mr. Huntington, member of a pioneer Oregon family, was born December 30, 1909, in Mahnomen, Minn. He was a school teacher in Blachly. In addition to his parents he is survived by his wife, Eva; a son, John, and three sisters: Mrs. Lloyd Hewitt, Sisters; Mrs. Richard Eastmond, Rose burg, and Mrs. Cecil McKen zie, Springfield. Funeral services will be Sat urday, November 16, at 2 p.m. at the Sisters Christian Church. The Rev. Keith Sorenson will officiate. Burial will be in the Redmond cemetery. The Oak ridge Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Bachelor now has 38 inches of white stuff Depth of snow at Bachelor Butte reached 38 inches this morning, following a night fall of eight Inches, and prospects for operation of the double-chair lift this weekend are good, Clifford L. Blann, manager of the ski area, reported at 10:30 a.m. today from the nigh coun try. . He said light snow was still falling, with the temperature at 30 degrees, ine road into tne area was in good winter shape, with plows operating in the morning hours. Operation of the T-bar lift, used for the first time this past weekend, will start on schedule Saturday morning, with the double-chair lift to start at the same hour, 9 a.m., if snow depth permits. Forecasts indicate that more snow may fall in the Cascades tonight. No information was available as to plans for the start of winter operations at the Hoodoo Bowl. Five inches of snow fell on the Santiam divide last night, with the roadside depth meas ured at 10 inches. Motorists planning on driving over the high McKenzie route were ad vised to carry chains, following three inch fall last night. Light snow was reported from Government Camp, but at re porting time snow was still fall ing. Plows were operating over the Diamond Lake cutoff. The five day forecast for this part of Oregon calls for more than normal precipitation, with snow likely after Saturday. AF destroying fish products FUCHU AIR FORCE BASE, Japan (UPI)-The U.S. Fifth Air Force announced today that it is destroying all smoked fish products now on hand which contained fish caught in the Great Lakes. Air Force officials said the U.S. Food and Drug Adminis tration recommended the ac tion because of several cases of botulism, a type of food poison ing, traced to Great Lakes fish products. Col. Harold F. Funsch, Fifth Air Force command surgeon, said no cases of food poisoning have been reported in Japan. The action was merely precau tionary, he said. the United States and the Soviet Union after the 1917 revolution. The reception in the former mansion of a pre-revolutionary millionaire began at 6 p.m. beneath crossed American and Soviet flags. This was little more than an hour after U.S. Embassy Con sular Chief Thomas Fain tele phoned the Soviet Foreign Min istry and repeated for the sev enth time strong American de mands for Barghoom's imme- diete release or immediate ac cess by Amercan officials to Baath leaders taking over Iraq control BEIRUT, Lebanon (UP!) -The International leadership of the Baath Socialist party ousted the Iraqi government early to day and announced it has as sumed control of the oil - rich country. A statement by the party's Supreme Council, composed chiefly of party leaders from Syria and Iraq, was the latest development in the split within the Baath s Iraqi leadership, which erupted in an abortive revolt in Baghdad Wednesday. Baath's "international com mand council," headed by Syr ian Secretary General Michel Aflak, declared over Baghdad Radio it was "undertaking the responsibilities of the regional command government in Iraq" until new elections could be held, within four months. Council "Illegal" The international Baath lead ership dissolved the party's Iraqi council, which has run the country since September, and declared the new council elect ed Nov. 11, "illegal." It was the Nov. 11 election which ousted strongman Deputy Premier Saleh El Saadi and touched off Wednesday's short lived revolt by his supporters. Saadi flew to Madrid on Tues day. The international Baath com mand retaliated by ousting the organizers of the election, For eign Minister Taleb Hussein Shabib and Interior Minister Hazem Jawad, who were exiled to Beirut Thursday with some of their followers. Saadi, in a news conference in Madrid Thursday night, backed up reports by travelers from Baghdad who said he ex pected to return to the Iraqi capital with the approval of the Baath international command. To Return Hdme Saadi, the reputed strongman in the group that overthrew Premier Abdel Karim Kassem last Feb. 8, told newsmen he would return home via Damas cus sometime today. Reports circulating in Beirut said Iraqi President Abdul Sa lam Aref, a non-Baathist figure head once considered a strong supporter of U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser, may be exiled shortly. Political observers here said nothing was likely to be settled now until Saadi's return from Madrid. Saadi is a leader of the ex tremist faction in the Baath party. His followers favor a tight one-party rule for the country. His chief foes, Shahib and Ja wad, were reported in hiding. A spokesman for the group said they left Baghdad of their own accord. LaPine Co-op is burglarized LaPINE - The Mid - State Electric Cooperative headquart ers building here was entered last night by a burglar who gained entry by breaking through a door, then drilling in to the office safe. Loss suffered in the burglary was not definitely known up to noon today, but George Lari mer, cooperative manager, es timated it was not heavy, inas much as not much money is kept in the safe. No explosives were used in entering the safe. The Mid-State Electric office is close to U.S. Highway 97, which passes through LaPine. Oregon State Police were in vestigating the burglary. DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Pre International Dow Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrials 740.00, off 7.04; 20 railroads 172.34, off 1.07; 15 utilities 138.36. up 0.31 and 65 stocks 261.12, off 1.69. shun Soviet me 52-year-old scholar, who was accused of being a spy. Russian authorities, who have been holding Barghoom for 15 days, said there was nothing new to report in his behalf. The Soviets told an American Embassy official Thursday that the Russians would reply to U.S. inquiries about the Yale professor as soon as possible. President Kennedy said in Washington Thursday that prompt release of the New York-born scholar was essential to the continuation of the U.S.- atn T ax MI speedkf d by Finance ANOTHER FIRST Two small six-week old pups owned by Mrs. Eva Coolc, 354 Florida, discovered another first this morning snow. Ths Central Oregon country had a thin cover of the ice crystals early this morning. Snow-slickened roads blamed for two crashes Snow-slickened highways were blamed for two accidents last night that hospitalized four per sons, three of them in one car. Brought to St. Charles Me morial Hospital in the city am bulance were Caroline Bradley Perry, 48; her husband, George Perry, 53, and Mrs. Aileen Ger ger, 53, all from Seattle, Wash. They were victims of an acci dent on the santiam ingnway near the Blue Lake junction about 4:30 p.m. Thursday. The Seattle people were driv ing west over the Santiam when they struck the snowline just east of the summit, and at tempted to turn around. The car started sliding and went over a roadside embankment some 18 feet and came to rest with the wheels against a clump of trees. Injuries of the Seattle people were not believed serious. Another Washington motor ist, Michael Kelly of Mt. Vern on, was injured Thursday when his car skidded on the snowy surface of U.S. Highway 97 south of Chemult. He was brought lo Bend by city ambu lance, and is a patient at St. Charles Memorial Hospital. A number of minor accidents also occurred in the snow zones of Mid-Oregon highways. Smlfh donates Christmas tree Bend has a Christmas Tree, Jaycee tree chairman Bob Bal timore announced today. Baltimore said Seaton Smith, 20 Drake Road, donated the tree, and that the big evergreen is located on Smith's property. Pacific Power & Light crews will remove the tree Thursday, November 21, and raise it in town at the intersection of Ore gon and Wall Streets. Pacific Northwest Bell will string lights Tuesday, Novem ber 26. Soviet cultural exchange pro gram. Calling the professor's arrest "unwarranted and unjust," the President said it would be hopeless to discuss broadening cultural exchanges with Barg hoom in jail. U.S. Embassy officials this morning informed Soviet cul tural officials that negotiations on a new cultural exchange agreement have been p o s t- poned. They were due to start here Nov. 19. The Soviets acted surprised, JFK sees delaY in tax cuf as threat to U.S. economy NEW YORK (UPI) President Kennedy today told the. At L- CIO convention that passage of his income tax cut Dill by Die current session of Congress would insure the nation against a recession that may be in the offing for next year. He said prompt passage would mean "sailing by next April on the winds of the long est and strongest peacetime ex pansion in the nation's econom ic history. Kennedy indicated there would be a distinct danger to the nation's economy to post pone action on the tax bill until next year's congressional ses sion. "I think this Congress will not go home next summer without passing the bill," he said. "I County's top taxpayer gets i in under wire Pacific Gas Transmission Co., biggest taxpayer this year in Deschutes County, mailed a check for $139,377.36, in time to meet the deadline today, A three per cent discount is given when the tax for all four quart ers of the tax year is paid by November 15. Pacilic Gas paid $8,000 more in taxes this year in the county than in 1962. Last year, the tax was $131,360.60, also the largest amount from any single source. The increase is due to an in crease in valuation, up about $100,000 since 1962. Additional lines, both in the Redmond area and outside Bend, are the rea son for the increase. Taxpayers were in line today to meet the deadline. The Tax office in the courthouse closes at 5 p.m. Payments made by mail and postmarked not later than midnight escape the penalty. A discount of 2 per cent Is allowed for payment of three- quarters of the tax; one per cent for two quarters. The pen alty for late payments is two thirds of one per cent per month. American sources said, and said that the agreement had no connection with the Barghoorn case. Earlier, American novelist John Steinbeck wound up a one month goodwill tour of the So viet Union under the cultural exchange program with a blast against the Soviet regime for its handling of the Barghoorn case. "I am leaving with feelings of protest against the arrest of Prof. Barghoorn. I feel very strongly about it" fcmmfttse 4a i think we should slay there until we do." flirt Phiof tfvAplllivfl fiflid the nation did "not dare obtain this tax cut too Jate In the game." Cites Year's Statistics He said he based his predic tion of a possible recession next year on statistics of the nation's periods of peacetime expansion. These periods have lasted 32 months since World War II. "The present expansion is In its 33rd month," the President said. Kennedy was greeted enthusi astically by the nation's labor leaders. He told them he agreed with them that greater employment is the most important domestic issue facing the nation today. He said his tax cut proposal, designed to create $30 billion worth of jobs, was the most important single step toward resolving the issue. The overflow audience of 5,500 delegates cheered, whistled and applauded Kennedy on several occasions during the spcecn even though he did not touch on the convention's major eco nomic demand a 35 - hour work week without loss of pay as a hedge against further em ployment through automation. The administration believes shortening the work week is a half-measure that would in crease unemployment and force prices up because of increased manufacturing costs. Kennedy assured the delegates, represent ing 13.5 million workers, that the chief beneficiaries of his tax cut would be "the two or three million who would get new lobs. The President drew loud laughter when he said he did "not believe selling the Tennessee Valley Authority is a program to put people to work," a reference to Repub lican presidential hopeful Sen. Barry M. Goldwater's recent proposal. Kennedy praised the economic measures of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and said the planning of the 1930s made the prosperity of the fu ture possible. He said measures taken by the government now would de termine whether the '70s and '80s would be periods of pros perity Kennedy said he came lo the convention to ask labor s sup port "for my program." He quipped that he had been elected by a "landslide" major ority of 112,000 votes. "It Is possible you had some thing to do with this," he told the delegates. "I hope the day will never come when the AFL- CIO is satisfied with less than the best." Kennedy said that existing un employment was an intolerable waste that could be avoided by passage of his income tax cut bill. lolled Action seems o doom any hope for '63 WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Finance Committee to day crushed by a vote of 11 to 1 a motion to speed up hearings on President Kennedy's $11 bil lion tax cut program. This ap parently killed once and for all any faint hopes for action on the bill this year. The vote came unexpectedly but only the margin was sur prising to any degree. The sponsor of the speed-up motion, ' Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind., said earlier he had little hope that the move would succeed. As it turned out, Hartke was the only member who voted for it. The tax cut bill has been passed by the House but ap pears to be tied up in the Sen ate committee until at least the Christmas vacation. Hartke's motion called for closing out the month-long pub lic neanngs as quickly as pog- smie ana starting of draft worlc on the bill. Chairman Harry F. Byrd, D Va., assailed the move as "publicity, stunt." Wanted Vote Delayed Hartke had suggested tbat the vote be put of! until next week but Byrd, who opposes the bill, called an immediate . executive session to. beat It ' 1 Hmun I The one-sided vote, in effect," f was notification to Kennedy that the finance committee would not heed his ursine of Thurs day to finish work on the mea sure this year. Kennedy conceded at Thurs day's news conference that the outlook was bleak for enact ment of the tax legislation this year, but said it still was pos sible for the Byrd group to fin ish its job. Byrd insisted today that the committee was not stalling. He contended the committee had "worked industriously" and that there had been no effort to delay action on the measure. Today s action came as the committee moved toward the end of its fifth week of hear ings on the bill passed by the House Sept. 25 providing the biggest tax cut in history for every American taxpayer and corporation. Hearings are . scheduled lo run until mid-December too late for final action this year with the Senate facing a Dec. 20 Christmas holiday recess. Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen, a member of the tax-writing group, joined Byrd in taking Hartke to task for his "excessive zeal for ex pedition." Quarterly visit of Bloodmobile due next week The Red Cross Bloodmobile will make its quarterly visit to Central Oregon next week. On Monday, November 18, it will be at the Sisters High School, from 3 to 7 p.m. The quota is 60 pints. Tuesday will be Biooamonne day in Prineville, at the Elks Temple, from 2 to 6 p.m. In or der to make the quota for 1963 it is hoped to collect 126 pints, according to Mrs. Lester Owen, Crook county blood program chairman. The Bloodmobile will be in Bend Wednesday, with donors to visit the basement of the Elks Temple between 1:15 and 5:45 p.m. A quota of 200 pints has been set. Thursday Redmond donors will be received at Westminster Hall, from 2 to 6 p.m. The quota is 100 pints. HOW ABOUT KHRUSHCHEV WASHINGTON (UPI) Ne ver fear little Ivan, wipe away your tears Natasha, you still can visit Disneyland. The State Department said Thursday that the new travel restrictions for Russian and Eastern European diplomats and officials did not apply to the city of Anaheim. Calif. Dis neyland is in Anaheim. y