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TO TESTIFY Billie Sol Estes, the bankrupt
West Texas farm tycoon, left, and his attor
ney, Jack Bryant of Abilene, right, refuse
comment to any questions as they board an
airliner in Dallas en route to Washington and
Estes Refuses To Answer
Questions
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Billie
Sol Estes, the rags-to-riches
Texas farm financier, took the
Fifth Amendment today when
Senate investigators asked
whether he used influence in
high places to build his now
toppled farm empire.
First in private, and then at
a public hearing, the ex-tycoon
pleaded possible self-incrimination
to questions by the Senate
investigations subcommittee.
The subcommittce'had'suspend
cd a long inquiry into Estes' cot
ton allotment operations about
a year ago.
As the hearing got under way,
he told Chairman John L. Mc
Clellan, D-Ark., that he was the
same Billie Sol Estes who fig
ured in the subcommittee's long
inquiry on how he acquired
pooled cotton allotments from
farmers displaced by govern
ment activities in other areas.
McClellan, who had already
outlined Estes' refusal to testi
fy at the closed-door session,
then asked Estes when he first
became interested in pooled cot
ton allotments.
"I respectfully refuse to an
swer the question on the
grounds that it might tend to
incriminate me, sir," Estes re
plied.
Questions asked the west Tex
as farm tycoon in the. closed
door session were understood to
have centered on Estes' opera'
tions in acquiring cotton allot
Toys for Christmas
Project Are Accepted
Toys for the annual Christmas
project of the Medford Fire De
partment are "coming in bet
ter" than they were several
days ago, firemen have re
ported. It is hoped that people with
broken but repairable toys will
continue to bring them in, fire
men said. Firemen repair and
repaint the toys for distribution
by the Salvation Army to
youngsters of needy families at
Christmas.
1EIVS0)BRIEFS
ITtMl FROM m y AROUND IHI OlOM
PRISON CONVICTS FOILED IN ESCAPE TRY
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (UPI) Two convicts attempted to
escape from the federal penitentiary today by using a ladder to
clin'h over a -to-foot wall, rhcy
wall when a guard shot one of
'ItlO LIFT' STARTS IN REVERSE
FRANKFURT (UPI) A fleet of silvery U.S. Air Force trans
port planes headed for the United
armored division flown lore last
U.S. CONVOY CLEARS CHECKPOINTS
BERLIN (UPI) A U.S. Army
Intentions today passed through
Berlin highway without harassment.
NEW YORK TELEPHONE STRIKE POSSIBLE
NEW YORK (UPI) The threat of a telephone strike In this
krv citv remained a possibility today despite a new 38-month
contract agreed upon Monday between the Communications Work
ers of America and the American Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany.
RUSSIA ANNOUNCES
MOSCOW (LTD The Soviet Union today announced It bad
launched an unmanned artificial earth satellite Monday and pre
liminary data showed It It operating close to its prescribed orbit.
MEDFORD,
a scheduled appearance before the Senate In
vestigating Subcommittee. Estes is expected
to be quizzed about his relations with the
Agriculture Department during his wheeling
dealing days. (UPI)
by Subcommittee
ments from farmers who had
been displaced from cotton
farming elsewhere in the coun
try because of government ac
tivity. Estes arrived promptly for
his appointment. He was ac
companied by subcommittee
counsel Don O'Donnell and an
other companion.
He refused to answer news
men's questions on whether he
Nixon Promises To
Take Legal Steps
Against Candidacy
NEW VORK-(UPI) - Former
Vice President Richard M. Nix
on, who has been relentlessly
stalking rumors of his presiden
tial availability,, Monday cut
down a speculation given life
by former President Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
On Sunday Nixon's one-time
chief said that, if the GOP 1964
nominating convention became
Bishops Split on
Law-Making Powers
VATICAN CITY (UPI) - U.S.
bishops at the Ecumenical
Council split three ways today
in a vigorous debate over a
proposal to grant ecclesiastical
law-making powers to church
eroups like the U.S. National
Catholic Welfare Conference.
James Francis Cardinal Mc-
Intyre of Los Angeles vehement
ly opposed the entire idea as a
threat to papal supremacy. Jo
seph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis
endorsed it as an effective way
to promote decentralization of
authority in the Catholic Church.
Albert Cardinal Meyer of Chi
cago, speaking for 120 of the
approximately 160 U.S. bishops
at the council, took a middle
position.
were halted at the top o( the
them in (he legs.
Slates today, carrying home the
month to meet a mock crisis.
convoy sent out lo test Russian
two Russian checkpoints on the
SATELLITE LAUNCH
OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1963
planned to answer the subcom
mittee s questions. But ms com
panion gave an indication of Es
tes stand when he said "we will
have no comment."
McClellan said the subcom
mittee had accumulated an ex
tensive record on Estes' cotton
allotment operations and felt
that it was important that Estes
be given an opportunity to testi
fy before the record is closed
deadlocked, the king makers
would have to examine and
approach" Nixon as a possible
compromise candidate.
"I appreciate such a gener
ous remark about myself," Nix
on said Monday, however, I
am sticking by my decision to
serve not as a candidate but
as a constructive critic of the
administration.'
Nixon, who lost by a razor-
thin margin to Sen. John F.
Kennedy in the 1960 presiden
tial election, foresaw "no cir
cumstances whatever" under
which he might become
didate in 1964.
He spoke at a news confer
ence held to announce the se
lection as "industrialist of the
year" of Charles E. Daniel,
board chairman of the Daniel
Construction Co., Green v i 1 1 e,
S. C. Nixon headed the 10-man
committee which chose Daniel
for the honor.
Promises Legal Steps
Nixon buttressed his denials
of interest in the nomination
with a promise to take "legal
steps" for removal of his name
from any primary election in
which it might be submitted.
By this, he said, he meant to
ask officials of any such state
to remove him from considera
tion.
The nation's first presidential
primary is March 10, in New
Hampshire, and Nixon said he
thougnt the GOP contenders in
that test should be Sen. Barry
Goldwater of Arizona and New
York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefel
ler, the only announced GOP
candidate.
Home Loan Fraud
Trial Resumed
DENVER (UPI)-A U.S. Dis-
trict Court iurv resumed delib -
erations today in the trial 0f
two building supply company
employes accused of fraud in
connection with federal home
improvement loans.
The jury had been recessed
Friday until after the Veterans
Day week end by Judge Hat
field Chilson.
Defendants are Theodore J.
Venable. 44, of Medford, Ore.:
and Thomas M. Roth. 32. of
Rockford, 111., formerly of State
wide Builders Supply Co. of
Denver.
Chilson had earlier directed
icquilL'l nf a third defendant.
Mrs. Margery Kincheloe Lytle,
1 38, of bait Lake City.
Barton Suggests
Recess To Draft
Sales Tax Plan
Income Tax Laws
Would Be Rewritten
SALEM (UPI) A plan to re
cess the legislature to allow the
Tax Committee time to draft a
sales tax program for referral
to the people was suggested to
day by House Speaker Clarence
Barton, D-Coquille.
The proposal would include re
writing the income tax laws to
mesh with the sales tax, but
would not include a property
tax offset.
Barton, who made it clear he
personally did not favor a sales
tax, said the legislature should
move quickly to make the au
sterity cuts recommended by
Gov. Mark Hatfield.
Could Be Reconvened
The legislature then would re
cessrather than adjourn so
the Interim' Tax Committee
could draft new tax laws. When
the committee bills were ready,
the session could be reconvened
to take action on the measures.
Under Barton's suggestion, the
new revenue bills would be sub
mitted for voter approval during
1964, so the 1965 legislature
could draft new budgets based
on the new revenue program if
it won voter approval.
Barton made it clear he want
ed the special session to settle
the fiscal crisis at hand first,
before devoting its .attention to
a new revenue program.
Temporary Measure
He said he favored the auster
ity program recommended by
Hatfield as a temporary mea
sure including reductions in
basic school support, and enact
ment of revenue speedup.
But he warned adoption of a
one-shot speedup of withholding
tax collections would "compound
the problems tacing tne raw leg
islature." He said a $418 million budget
would be required for the 1965-
67 biennium to maintain state
services at the reduced levels
resulting from the Oct. 15 tax
referendum.
Barton said he favored use of
bonds to finance all capital con
struction projects. He said infla
tion would offset the cost of
bonding.
"We should not neglect need
ed building programs for fear
of issuing bonds," he said.
Job of Legislature
Barton said he did not believe
a sales tax program should be
initiated by the people, for fear
it would favor the special inter
est groups who would sponsor
such measures.
He said drafting of a sales
tax was properly the job of the
legislature.
"We wouldn't find a three
lpueeH revenue program very
popular if one leg were longer
than the other two," he said.
"There is no question the leg
islature has got to find a tax
plan to provide more funds,"
Barton said.
But he insisted the legislature
should not turn its attention to
such programs until the "crisis
at hand" is settled.
Towers Are Being
Placed on Lodge
ASHLAND-The first of four
towers which will adorn the top
of the Mt. Ashland Ski Lodge
was hoisted into place during
the opening hours of daylight
this morning.
A 30-ton crane brought In
from Eugene especially for this
job was used to lift the first ,of
the towers, which themselves
weigh 22 tons each.
The towers were first assem
bled individually on the ground
beside the lodge.
Hoisting of the large struc
tures into place top the ski lodge
was originally scheduled to take
place last week, but the project
was held up by snowy and rainy
weather.
The ski area was clear and
1 well above the fog this morning,
however, and the wind was not
lems.
At least one other tower was
scheduled lo be put into place
today, with the other two to be
hoisted up and secured cither
this afternoon or tomorrow.
Gen. John Hodge
Dies in Washington
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Four-
star Gen. John R. Hodge, 73,
one of t h e outstanding U. S.
ground commanders of the Pa
cific campaign during World
War II, died early today at
Walter Reed Hospital.
Yale Professor
Held in
on Spy Charges
MOSCOW (UPI) A Yale
University professor, noted for
his anti-Communist views, has
been arrested by the Russians
as a spy, the U.S. Embassy an
nounced today.
An embassy spokesman said
Professor Frederick Barghoorn,
52, a member of Yale's political
science department, had been
touring the Soviet Union.
The spokesman said the em
bassy was informed of Bar
ghoorn s arrest by the Soviet
Foreign Ministry, but it was not
known where or when he had
been taken into custody.
the spokesman said the em
bassy was pressing for further
details about Barghoorn's sei
zure and was seeking "the op
portunity of seeing him."
He is believed to have been
arrested a few days ago.
Barghoorn, a bachelor, came
to the Soviet union early last
month on a one-month tourist
visa. The embassy said he had
been in Tbilsi in Georgia in con
nection with the Robert Jenkins
Clarion Concert Group, and at
Alma Ata in Kazakhstan for the
opening of the American graph
ic arts exhibition in October.
The charge against Barghoorn
followed by only nine days the
arrival back in Moscow of two
Russian diplomats ordered to
leave the United States for al
leged espionage activity.
The FBI charged the two and
a third Russian" working in the
United States had been engaged
in an espionage conspiracy with
John William Butenko of Engle-
wood. N.J.. an Amenran elec
tronics engineer. The two who
were returned to tne soviet un
ion had diplomatic immunity
but the third, an employe of the
Russian trading group, Amtorg,
was lailed
A few weeks before that, the
Soviet Union released the Rev.
Walter Ciszek, 58, a Roman
Catholic priest, from prison aft
er 20 years of confinement, in
cluding time in Siberia. At tne
same time, American student
Marvin W. Makinen, 24, of Au
burnham, Mass., was released
from a Communist jail where
he had been serving time for al
legedly helping refugees escape
from East Germany.
Father Ciszek and Makinen
were released and returned to
the United States in exchange
for
two accused Soviet spies j
who were set free in the United
States.
Barghoorn, whose home is at
New Haven, Conn., is a recog
nized authority on the Soviet
Union.
On Sept. 4 he made a speech
before the American Political
Science Association which was
strongly critical of Communist
tactics.
Duncan Questions
Need of Subsidies
SALEM (UPI) -Rep. Robert
Duncan, D-Orc., Monday ques
tioned the need for continuing
subsidies by the federal govern
ment to some segments of agri
culture. He sooke to about 200 persons
at the opening of the Oregon
Farm Bureau Federation's three
dav convention here.
Duncan took issue wun sta
tistics provided by the Census
Bureau and otner sources pur-
nortine to show that farm in
come was below the standards
for a living wage.
He speculated that many of
those persons classified as farm
ers actually were farming as a
sideline.
Duncan, a member ol the
House Agriculture and Interior
committees, was given the fed
eration's "Top Hand" award for
his service to the state's farm
ers. WEATHER
FOItKCAST: Mnsllr cloudy Io
nium and Wrdimrtay. rondd
frable valley lot, ''I"'1"'
about noon, chance of a lit
tle rain Wcdneiday nlfht. Low
tonlihl 3J-40. Illlh Wednet-
M- Temn.
Hlihrit YfilMdiy SI
Lowest Thli Morning 39
pr. to 10 .m. TotUy, Trace.
Our Skies Tonight
flutuft todiy 4:SJ p.m.
HunrUe tomorrow :5 .m.
.Moonrl tomorrow.. 4:1 .m.
New Moon ... Nov. 15
PROMINENT STAR
Spifi, rHe 5:09 i.m.
hflow the Moon.
VtMHLE PLANETS
vnu, ift pn-
MMirn, diir louth 0:04 p m.
Jupltrr, huh in wuth
pxtt 1:1 p.m.
No. 201
Russia
(UPI)
PROF. BARGHOORN
Authority Arrested
Medford Man Dies
In Hospital of
Accident Injuries
Harold .lean Davis, (ft nf .11!)
Willamette Avp . MerifnrH riipH
Monday tn the Sacred Heart
Hospital from iniuries suffered
.. '
earlier in a three-vehicle acci
dent on Oregon 62 about five
miles north of Medfoid.
According to Oregon State Po
lice, the accident occurred about
5:15 a.m. when the Davis car
pulled onto the highway in the
path of two northbound vehicles.
In the collision Davis was
thrown from his car, landing
m a ditch with water. The other
drivers revived him and he was
taken to the hospital, but died
S'A hours later.
Police said the drivers of the
other vehicles were George Al
len Harshamn, 31, of 1253 Neil
Creek Road, Ashland, and Wal
ter Pulsipher, 60, of 610 Chest
nut St., Ashland, who was driv
ing a log truck.
This is the 21st person to
die in a traffic accident in
.lnrksnn Cnuntv this venr. Last
vcar at this time 19 persons
had been killed in county traffic
accidents.
Rules Committee
Bypassed by Group
SALEM (UPI) The House
Tax Committee bypassed the
House Rules Committee today
despite a warning it would look
like a new legislative squabble.
The Tax Committee voted to
introduce four bills proposed by
Tax Committee Chairman Rich
ard Eymann, D-Marcola.
Eymann failed twice tn get
the bills cleared by the Rules
Committee, which has power to
stop bills by individual mem
bers, but not by committees.
The Eymann bill? provide for
a net receipts income tax, a 10
per cent hotel and motel tax,
a doubling of the beer and wine
tax, and a one and one-half per
cent tax on domestic insurance
companies.
Members of the Tax Commit
tee who voted to introduce the
bills made it clear they felt the
Rules Committee had "broken
faith" with the House. Mem
bcrs of the House had given
the Rules Committee clearance
of bills' on the understanding
that all hills dealing with slate
revenue; and expenditures
would be approved. Rules has
not done this.
Beauty's Death Unveils
New British Scandal
LONDON (UPI) - Officials
scheduled an inquest today into
the death of Julie Molley, raven
haired "high priestess of love"
who has become the key figure
in an investigation of sex orgies,
blackmail and drugs.
Press reports said social lead
ers, army officers and wealthy
businessmen may be involved.
The sex scandal centers on the
death of the 24-year-old Italian
born beauty who apparently led
a double life as a dentist's re
ceptionist by day and an exotic
playgirl by night.
TRIP BRINGS CRITICISM-Rep. Wayne L. Hays, D-Ohio, and
Ernest Petinaud, headwaitcr for the dining room ol the House of
Representatives, are shown leaving London's Hilton Hotel. Hays,
head of a 10-man delegation at a meeting of parliamentarians
from NATO and a member of the House Ways and Means Com
mittee, has been criticized for bringing the Negro waiter to the
NATO meeting at public expense. Expenses for Petinaud, who
served as a messenger and page for the U.S. delegation, amounted
to 5200 and were paid from the
Hays said. (UPI)
Airplane Crash,
Traffic, Fire Kill
Nine Oregonians
By United Press International
Nine Oregon residents died as
a result of accidents Monday.
Eight of the deaths were re
corded in the state.
A woman and her three chil
dren lost their lives when a fire
swept through their cottage at
Cannon Beach.
The victims were Mrs. Mar
garet Gee, 24: he daughter,
Michelle, 4, and sons, Warren,
2, and Daniel, 8 months.
Roy Kelly, 50, Myrtle Point,
died in a Bandon hospital from
injuries suffered when his light
plane crashed in the Sixes Riv
er area 25 miles south of Ban
don Sunday afternoon.
He was attempting to land his
aircraft on a small, landing
Strip,
I 11 1 J t- . . ! ! ! t 1 r 1
nmiu u v u, w, nnuuni,
was fa.ta"y iniured wnen nis
car collided with another car
and a logging truck on State
Highway 82 five miles north of
Medford. .He died about five
hours after the accident at a
Medford hospital.
Sixton Jimenez, 49, Portland,
died in a Eugene hospital from
injuries received in a tour-car
pileup on Interstate 5 near Al
bany Friday night.
A logging accident near
Two Feared Lost
As Boat Capsizes
COOS BAY, Ore. (UPI) - A
43-foot San Francisco-bound cab
in cruiser capsized near the en
trance to Coos Bay early today
and a body believed to be that
of nne of (he two men aboard
was found In the surf.
A distress signal from the ves
sel, the Avanti, was received
about 2 a.m. Later a stern sec
tion was found washed up on
the beach and personal effects
belonging to the skipper, R. F.
McCarty of Seattle, were lo
cated, according to the Coast
Guard in Seattle.
Also aboard was Norman
Ledger, also of Seattle.
Anti-Sales Tax
Pickets Parade
Before Capitol
SALEM (UPI) Anti-sales
tax pickets paraded In front
nf the Capitol Building here
today.
More than a dozen student
members of the Greater Port
land Young Democratic Club
carried signs proclaiming
"M a k e Corporations Pay,"
"First T a x SP Then Me,"
"Make PP&L F o r k O v e r,"
"Fork Over Crown Z" and
"No Sales Tax."
Air Rescue of Hunters
Expected This Evening
LA GRANDE (UPI)-A group
of elk hunters stranded since
Thursday by a snow storm was
making its way down the Big
Minam River today, and a pilot
said he expected to fly them
out of the area by this evening.
Nine hunters and their pack
ers were marooned when a
storm dumped two feet of
snow In the area 30 miles east
of here Thursday and Friday.
Drifts were up to 20 feet deep
In some places.
Bob Waltcrmire, operator of
Hillcrcst Aircraft Co. here,
flew to the Minam Lodge air
strip Monday In hopes of pick
ing the men up. When they had
not arrived by noon, Walter
mire flew up the canyon look
ing for them.
Ho found them al Red s Horse
Ranch upper camp, some five
miles from where they had
been (landed. Wallermlre aaid
committee s "counterpart funds ,
Recdsport claimed the life of
James Cushman, 31, Coos Bay.
He was employed by the Mat
thews Construction Co. of Em
pire. Mrs. Grace Tuttle, 86, Sheri
dan, was one of five persons
killed in a two-car collision on
U.S. Highway 71 about 20 miles
north of Nevada, Mo.
The Veterans' Day traffic toll
brought to 14 the number of
persons killed on Oregon high
ways in the first 12 days of
November, compared with 16
for a similar period last year,
There have been 477 traffic
deaths in Oregon so far this
year. There were 412 in the
same period a year ago.
Plans Completed
For Duncan Dinne
Plans have been completed
lor the "Meet Your Congress
man Night" tonight honoring
congressman Robert B. Duncan,
who began a heavy day s sched
ule this morning with radio and
television appearances.
The dinner at Kim's restau
rant will be preceded by a so
cial half hour, starting at
6:30 p.m.
The public is invited by the
three sponsoring organizations
of the Democratic party.
Congressman Duncan came
to Medford late Monday from
a speaking engagement at Al
bany, where he was honor guest
at an American Legion banquet.
He has scheduled office hours
today in the Franklin building
to meet with constituents be
tween 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. and
was speaker at the luncheon
meeting of the Crater Lions
Club at noon at Kin's restau
rant. Gasoline Is Found in
Company Manhole
Gasoline which had seeped
into a telephone company man
hole at Court St. and McAn
drews Road was pumped out by
Medford firemen yesterday
morning and flushed into a
storm sewer.
Similar seepage of gasoline at
the same location occurred last
year following heavy rains. All
possible sources in the vicinity
were checked, and piping found
to be faulty was replaced at a
nearby service station.
Firemen said that, because of
the seepage found this week,
further inspection will be made
he then landed at the main
ranch and operator Red Hie
gins talked by phone to the
camp crew, who told him the
hunters were working their
way down to the main ranch
The pilot waited until nearly
dark before learning they had
camped for the night about 10
miles from the main ranch
"They can't be hurting for
food, they passed up two
camps," Waltcrmire said.
"I don't know why they're
moving so slow unless their
horses are played out or some
one is hurt," he added.
The snow is only two or three
inches deep in the area through
which they are traveling, he
said. Some concern was felt
earlier about feed for their
horses and an attempt was
made lo airdrop some feed and
supplies, but clouds kept the i
piano away from the target
area.
Cigarette, Sales
Bills Introduced
In Quick Order
Withholding
Speedup Entered
SALEM (UPI) -On a "try,
try again" note, tax bills sailed
Monday into a chastized but not
cowed Oregon Legislature.
Sales and cigarette tax bills
were introduced before the spe
cial session was hours old.
Gov. Mark Hatfield's bill to
speed up withholding tax pay
ments to the state was entered.
And Ren. Richard Evmann.
D - Marcola, promised to fight
tor introduction of a net re
ceipts tax measure and bills
taxing beer and wine, hotels and
motels, and domestic insurance
companies.
Eymann got a temporary re
buff Monday from the House
Rules Committee, but said he
would try to introduce the bills
through his own tax committee
If the rules committee did not
relent.
Lawmakers Reminded
The tax bills began appearine
even before Hatfield went in
front of ah opening joint session
of the Senate and House to re
mind the lawmakers their last
tax achievement had been
summarily and decisivelv"
dumped by the voters.
The people don't want anv
new taxes this session, Hatfield
said.
The governor asked for morn
budget cutting authority and a
one-shot withholding tax speed
up to bring the state budget
back into balance. The voters
defeat of t h e tax program
passed last spring put the budg
et $60 million out of whack.
But while some legislators
agreed that a simple program
such as that proposed by Hat
field was in order, others such
as kymann said it would be a
mistake to concentrate only on
stop-gap measures. ,
Six bills were introduced the
first day all in the House. In
addition to the sales, cigarette,
and one-shot tax bills, the rules
committee cleared a measure to
give the governor power to cut
basic school money, a bill halv
ing legislators' salaries, and a
bill to let the governor trim the
pay of state officials and admin
istrators. . ' Bills Speeded
The bills were sped through
two readings so the Ways and
Means Committee and the Tax
committee could begin consider
ing them at once.
And the Joint Ways and
Means Committee approved for
introduction a bill that would
let the Governor cut expendi
tures in more than a dozen
'dedicated fund" budgets now
beyond his control, including
the Department of Veterans Af
fairs, orphans and foundlings,
and the Oregon Museum of Sci-
ience and Industry.
The sales tax bill was spon
sored by Rep. Joe Rogers, R
Independence. The proposal
would go before the voters.
It was the biggest money
raising p r o p o s a 1 of the day.
Rogers estimated it would raise
an additional $48 million during
the rest of the 1963-65 biennium.
Rep. Morris Crothcrs, R-Sa-
lem, sponsored the cigaretto tax
measure.
Rep. F. F. Montgomery, R-
Eugene, minority floor leader of
the House, introduced the gover
nor's bills to cut basic school
support and speed withholding
tax collections, each a $12 mil
lion measure.
Committees Meet
Committee meetings got un
der way with dispatch. The joint
Ways and Means Committee
struggled over how much budget-cutting
leeway the governor
should get, and then referred
the problem to a subcommittee.
It also heard a suggestion
from Legislative Fiscal Officer
Kenneth Bragg that the gover
nor be given power to cut liq
uor revenues for cities and
counties by 10 per cent for a SI
million saving.
The House Tax Committee got
down to work with a report on
the current picture of Oregon's
tax revenues from members of
the State Tax Commission.
Commissioner Charles Mack
said there were some ups and
downs in tax collections com
pared to the estimates made
last spring, but overall expecta
tions for the biennium remained
the same.
Central Point Youth
Accidentally act
Clinton Nobles Gibson. 17, of
3079 Sunnyvale Road, Central
Point, was treated at Crater
Osteopathic Hospital Monday
afternoon after he was accident
ly shot in the left leg while
hunting.
According to Jackson County
Sheriff's deputies, Gibson was
injured about 1 p.m. when his
.22 revolver discharged as ho
was getting out of a car on
Tolo Road. The revolver was
cocked at the time of the inci
dent, officers said.
Gibson was hunting squirrels
with four companions.
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