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Medford, Tribune ' Regional Edition Page 2A New Proposal for Basic School Fund Distribution Told Portland OJPU A new pro posal to distribute state basic school funds was outlined to the Association of Oregon Counties Wednesday by State Sen. Ward Cook, (D-Portlfind), chairman of the Legislative Interim Committee on Educa tion. The proposal, called an equalization flat grant pro gram, was criticized by some including Rep. Clarence Bar ton, (D-Coquille), chairman of the Interim Tax Committee. Cook said the new plan Murder Charge Dismissal Asked Gooding, Idaho -IUPU - A mo tion that murder charges against Mary Katherlnt Hampton, 18, Sandy Hook, Ky., bo dismissed was on file In the 4th district court today. Prosecutor Cecil Hobdcy lias asked that Miss Hampton be a state witness against Hodger Hall, 22, Crescent City, Calif., who is accused of the gunshot death of Dr. John Hunt, a Pqrtland, Ore., plant pathologist. Hobdcy said his motion was made after an Investigation by the sheriff and his office. He said this showed Miss Hampton in no manner aided or participated in the alleged crime. ' The 36-year-old doctor was on his way to accept a post at Vale University when he dis appeared in Idaho. His body was later found in his desert ed car in the desert near Bliss. STATISTICIAN DIES Washlngton-IUPII - Mrs. Vir ginia Todd Vcnneman, 54, re sponsible for. many govern ment statistical studies before her retirement this year after 17 years with the Bureau of the Budget, died Wednesday. would lift in biennial steps the burden of school operating expenses from property taxes until In about four years half of the school expenses would come from the state's general fund. The state now distrib utes about 37 per cent of school operating expenses. Cook said percentages turned over to school districts would be based on expendi tures made in the year prior to the appropriation rather than on a per-census-child basis. No Tax Cut Cook said the plan would not result In any property tax cut but would make more non school funds available for county projects. He said "eve ry district will get some amount and every district will feci some local tax there would be no free riders." Barton said he had "some misgivings" about the propos al, one because it was based on current expenditures and was not a fixed figure, per pupil. "It is a cost-plus fig ure," he said. "We prefer so much per census child, rath er than on what the school ad ministrators choose to spend." Already Spending More The education committee is reported to have suggested that 12.5 per cent of school operating funds in counties re ceiving O&C money come from these funds. Barton said O&C counties already were spending more on schpol taxes per home than some non O&C counties. Rep. Stafford Hanscll, (It- Athena), charged Eastern Ore gon members of the education committee did not attend enough sessions and that the position of "Eastern Oregon schools is left out of the re port." He said the EFG plan was not fair when cities such Eugene had a non-taxed electric power system and where orchard trees were not taxed in some counties, such as Jackson. t ft ' W , r iff t ' KENNEDY IN TEXAS A casually dressed elect, talks with members of the press after Lyndon B. Johnson, vice president-elect, his arrival at Johnson's ranch at Johnson looks on as John F. Kennedy, president- City, Tex. (UPI Tclephoto) Profit Taking Hits Electronics As Stock Prices Driven Lower New York - (UPI) - Sellers were in control of the pro ceedings today driving stocks lower all along the line. Electronics, among the re cently favored, were hit by profit-taking. Texas Instru ments lost more than 5, Litton around 3 and RCA more than a point. Steels were easier with U.S. Steel off more than 1 and Youngstown and Bethle hem off small fractions. Industrial stocks were de pressed mainly on losses of around 2 points in Procter & Gamble and more than a point in Du Pont. Autos edged off despite re ports that auto sales during the first nine days of Novem ber rose to a new high for the period. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - (DPI) - Dow Jonei final stock averages: 30 Industrials 604.77, off 2.10i 20 railroad! 128.39, off 0.31; 15 utilities 94.10, up 0.39, and 65 stocks 200.16, off 0.30. Sales Wednesday were about 3.11 million shares compared with 2.99 million shares Tuesday. Wednesday's pricex on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 52'i Alum. Co. Am 66 American Can 33 American Motors 101 AT&T... 9li Anaconda Copper 4n!L Arinco Steel (31b Uenillx Corp 64 '.'a Hcthlehcm Steel 40 Boeing Air 35 Caterpillar Corp an1. Chrysler Corp. (xd) 41 Continental Can 341s Crown Zcllerhach 47 'a Curtlss Wrlsht IB'i, Dow Chemical 7(1 'k DuPont 1(11 Eastman Kodak 108l Firestone 3BV, General Electric 78 General Foods Bfl1. General Motors 42 H Georgia Pacific 52 Graham Paige 1T Greyhound 20'B Gulf Oil 2(14 Homestake Mining 4G1B Idaho Power 471,k I. B. M 541 Int. Paper Johns Manvllle Kennecott Copper Lockheed Aircraft Montana Power Montgomery Ward Nat'l Biscuit New York Central Pac Gas & Elec Penney, J. C Penn RR ... Radio Corporation Richfield Oil (xdl Safeway Sears Shell Oil Socony Mobil Oil Southern Co l Southern Pacific Standard California Standard Indiana Standard N. 1 Sun Mines Texas Co. . Texas Gulf Sulfur Texas Pac Land Trust . Transamerlca Trans World Air Tri-Conllnental Union Carbide Union Pacific United Aircraft United Air Lines U. S. Rubbei U. S. Steel . 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No Remorse Shown Authorities said he showed "no remorse and a complete lack of emotion as he told them how he killed Mrs. Fran ces Murphy, 47, Mrs. Lillian Oetting, 50, and Mrs. Mildred Lindquist, 50, all wives of prominent Chicago business and civic leaders. La Salle County State's At torney Harland Warren said he would take Weger to the park for a reenactment of the crime. A special session of the Starlings Halt Takeoff of Plane Boston (UPD An Eastern Air Lines DC8, with 108 per sons aboard, was forced to halt its takeoff run at Logan Airport today when birds were sucked into one of the engines. Last Oct. 4 an Eastern Air Lines Electra crashed on take at the same airport, killing 62 of 72 persons aboard. Some in vestigators have blamed birds for that disaster. The airliner involved in today's incident was Flight 641 for Philadelphia and Mi' ami, Fla. It carried 99 passes gcrs and a 9-member crew. The craft was brought back to the terminal where me chanics cleaned out the dead birds. No damage to the air liner was evident. However, it was held at the airport for further inspection and the passengers were transferred to other flights. The big jet had just started its run when a flock of star lings loomed in its path. Capt. M. F. Junger, Miami, Fla., at the controls, decided as a pre cautionary measure to abort his run. grand jury was called for this afternoon to consider indict ments. Weger, a short but muscu lar blond-haired father of two, was charged early today with 11 crimes, including the three killings in Starved Rock. Assistant State's Attorney Peter Feracutti said Weger was also charged before Jus tice Louis Goetch with raping a 17-year-old girl, robbery, as sault with a deadly weapon and other crimes. In his oral confession to Feracutti, Weger said he met the three women while out on an afternoon break from his bus boy job in the park lodge. Weger told authorities the three women were just emerging from the canyon when he accosted them. He said he told the women he in tended to rob them and a struggle began. Weger, who described the killing as a "robbery that got out of hand," said he dragged two of the women to a tree and tied them to it. He said when Mrs. Murphy continued to fight back, he hit her with a tree branch and then beat the other two women. He told police Mrs. Murphy Morse Asks Study Of Post Office Move Washington - (UPD - Sen. Wayne Morse, (D-Ore.), Wed nesday asked the U. S. comp troller general to look into the proposed move of the North west regional office of the Post Office Department from Portland to Seattle. Morse said Postmaster Gen eral Arthur Summerfield had agreed earlier to withhold the move pending a study of its advisability by the Senate Post Office Committee. But he said the department an nounced last week it planned to go ahead anyway, starting Dec. 1. 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