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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