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Newspaper Page TextWWW, 10) yi vsfc SSlf ny rnANK jknkinn From Muunan, Korea; "The communists today accused the United Nullum command ol dclayum a truce in Koren hv re tuning lu iicuotlata further on prla oner exchaiiKO, North Korean (Ion eral Nnm I) aaaerlcd Uila moril Iiiii: 'Vnur so-called acreenlUK of our captured ucraonncl Is abaurd.' " When you'ro dealing with crooks you have to expect either crook ed deul Oil A l''iUHT. Thai'i about the long and the short of tho tlurean true buslneos. Just a reminder; -. , II wo wnd the hjrut upon tens ut thousands ol prisoner back to the cotnmlra, we'll be nendliiK the tulk ol llicin to firing miuu.iI, aleve labor campa and varloua other Jtrla Iv devlcca the communliiU uae to W't rid ol non-cotiiiiiuiilnUi. iti don't think America hai sunk it low. From Waahlnttlon: ..,., "Claiming testimony AU.EOINO and DKNVINO wide acale grail and malpractice at huge U.S. air baaes In French Morocco wan marked today lor Juatlce depart, ment inveillKatlon . . . Senator Johnson (Democrat, Texaai aald hla senate preparedness subcom mlttre will hand a transcript of the testimony to the department of Juatlce for 'appropriate action.' " "Appropriate action" would be Pi.t n ..Arlurv l,MrN In a lot ol these cases and In thete (leva of amoan and counler-ameara, chargea and counter-chargea. Ilea and counter-lies i wins wo utw nt Int nf iwtrttirv trlalll llow are vou going to have good government It people can I oe mane to tell Hie truui f But what about the department el juatlce In Waaiimaionj it h.i kron mixed ud In ao much amearlng and counter-amearlng thai I wouldn't have any faith In it tf It DID hrlng perlury chargea. I'd feel Inatlncilvel that It waa jtut aUacklng It enemies ana cov ering UD Its friend lan'l thai an awful way to feel about your government? I'm not the only one who feels ..... t II Unaltln In At. uiai way wm . ir--... bnny i Oregon) laal night. Governor warren 01 v-amurm miu. ..-th.. .n.LHiki-rlnn i In Wnfthlnv- I lie ton! la worn out. old and has lost lla vision ana tomi ui responsibility. Instead of solving problems, the administration Is -....ifiitm tham on end for someone else to aolve. which mcana thejj are leaving inrm lot vyr That's putting 11 mildly bul AC aJCORATELY. . . . .. nt..n f rllirNA Is uovenwr ttv.. ' ------ a candidate for lite Republican nomination for president. " lie la The kind of man who wouM- n't ay as a canoraam " wouldn't say aa private eltten. What ha aya-a a dJ' "r as a private cltlen-be MLAN8. I'm for Elsenhower who. I feel, hsa the world-wide nB,0' nrrtence and knowledge gained at . a i A . uaa maa VIAttJ A at VL'ft Ural nanci TV ... . ih.r. never needed it be ore. But If Uiere ahould be a oeauioi. ventlon and Governor Warren ahould emeree aa Republican candidal I'd certainly feel that "r ldershlo la In honeat. sincere capable hands. Oregon BPYs To Meet Here Over 400 delegates, stale officers and visitors are expected to attend " i, nf nuatneaa S5 roal "womi Cjuba atnrtlng tn luamaui '' Registration will be at Uie Wll lard Hotel, bedlnnlng at 1 p.m., and registration for delogates who will vote closes at 10 a.m. Satur day. The convention opens with a board meeting Friday 3 p.m. at the Pelican Cafe, and Uie first gen eral meeting will be a 7:30 p.m. dinner at the Willard. Following the dinner there will be an enter tainment at the Veterans Memor ial Hall. IIKillMOIITH . , Borne of the highlights of the tnogrum are: lantmdny morning, new club pres ident's breakfast nt the Pelican: buHlness scsMona and olectlon of new atnto officers. Saturday night, formal bnnqucl. The guest speaker will be Miss Hazel Palmer, Scdnlla, Mo BPW'a nntlonnl public affairs chairman, film Is ah uttorncy. Sunday morning, past presidents will bo honored, now officers in itialled, citations and awards made. Hon. Phil Hitchcock will bo tho principal speaker. . The convention will dcbnle on a proposed new legislative platform, which Includes tho subjects of reg. iNtratlon and draft of women for the armed services, support of uni versal military training, equal pay laws, Jury servlao for women, and en equal rights amendment to the Constitution, NEW PRKHIDENT MIhh Forn Trull of Ornnts Pass Is Iho nominee for noxl atalo presi dent; Laura York of Modford for first vice president, Mrs. Cocelln . P. Onley, Bweot Ilnnic, In president of tho federa tion now, and Mvn, F:diu Alhiecht president of the Klamath Falls BPW. Tliere are 5 clubs In the 2,800 total membership,, Mrs,. Isabellc Brlxncr,. Is general convention chairman, plhcr com mittee leaden nro: Rulh King, publicity! ' Ruth Lo bnuuh. music: Wanda Elliott, Fri day dinner; Beth OiIkks, Saturday bahouet: Calhorlno Bi'iimbaugh, Sunday bronkfivst; Dorothy Lowell, hospitality; Blanche Fctroff, trans portation; ImOReno Boothby,' ses sions and election; Avis ' Mecon ium, board meeting Riid'tea; Lyra vl)ie Fish, registration; Mary Backcs, Friday lun irhl. -,v.,( . ' t . ' jf;",", I.'--'' Graft Probe On Airbases Gets Hotter WAHII1NOTON 11 Clashing wlilo-si aln gralt and malpnictlce at huko U. B. alrbasea In French Mo roccci waa marked Thursday for Junllco Depurlmcnt luvontlKatlon. Ben. Johnson (D.-Tox.) announc ed his Hrnute I'reonrednrss sub eoinmlltee will hand a transcript of the leatliiiony to the Justice De partment "for appropriate action." Johnson's grouu is exnlorlng charges that corruption and mis nianiiurmcul have added lens of minimis to the co.it of the bases, alartod aa a rush nrolrcl during a war ii are In early days ol the Ko rean fighting. COST . The five buses, rallmatrd lo col between 300 and 413 million dol lars, ultimately will be handed over to the French government. Thev were built bv Atlas Con atructora. a combine of five con tracting firms. Two contractor bosses of the big project accused four recent w)t mroic of having given false testi mony that corruption waa big-scale and the Job grossly mismanaged. J. 11 Bnnnv of Kllrnnburg. Wash, and Lyman D, Wilbur, tho bosses, denounced the four and also ol leclrd to tratlmonv given bv E. V. Hilgglns, assistant secretary nf the Air Force, and Lt. Gen. Lewis A, Pick, chief of Army Engineers. CIIAI.I.KNtiKH Thev described Muggins and Plik aa mlalakrn. but challenged the "veracity and credibility" of Col. Ralph Reed, chief of Armv audit: William J. Cassldv. a civil ian auditor for the Armv: Joseph Connolly, a former Inspector on the Job. apd John W Leahv. whom the contracting group had fired as a minor official In I ho policy dis pute Johnson ssld all six would have a chance lo reply under oath. Hnny vice president ol Morrl-aon-Knudsen Co., Boise, Idaho, waa one ol the principal witnesses dur ing a heated committee aessinn highlighted by charges Ihe congres sional Inveatlgalora were "headline hunting" to promote Johnton lor President. Bonny said he agreed with the charges "In general" but later withdrew Uie statement and apol- OglMHl. Johnson ralaed Ihe Issue when he produced a copy ol Ihe Morrison Knudaen Co.' house publication and (Minted to an article which charged Uie Alias Constructors had been made "aeatlerehpt tarRcta" of riolltlcal attack In congressional nvcatlgatlona. HSTMayGef Oil Strike DENVER Ml Refusal of 32 AKL. CIO and Independent oil In dustry unions to call an end to their week - old :itrlke may send the wage dispute to President Tru man. Tie President told his news con ference thai he Is working hard to get the strike sallied and la hope ful an agreement will be reached. The oil case has not vet reached the White House officially, but all slims Indicate It la headed tliere. Truman aald he It not now con sidering use of the Toft-Hartley Act with It provisions for delay ing strikes In essential lndustrv. Tile Wage Stabilization Board called a meeting for Thursday and It seemed likely the board would decide lo send the dispute to the President, Chairman Nathan P. Felnslnger of the board asked the union coalition Tueadav to send Its striking members bnck to work. Meanwhile, offects of the atrlke were Increasing. There has been a 30 per cent slash In high octane gasoline available for commercial airliners and private planes. The Air Force has reduced training flight hours. Filling atatlon sunnlles are dwind ling In some scattered locnles, par ticularly around Chicago and Detroit. 4a' 9 A.M. DAYLIGHT SPECIAL caught Jean Wright, 2122 Reclamation, and Emma Wyatt, 617 Lincoln, on their way to work this morning for the U. S. National Bank and Realtor Everett Dennis, respectively. ISaMSMllliaiaaMSaMMMMMMMMMMMMaMeW imiiiiil,. J in twiir lllfllnrrrrr, tfifTiiffln-rrr' --TtJf-t'-.-"--."- .-----f -.i "Vrlc Klv tenia ,4tVnn tp AMATH FALLS, OREGON, TIIURHDAY, MAY I, 1953 Telephone 8111 f No. 3814 " "y m i ft i"f AMERICANIZED Egyp tian dancer Samia GamnI looks like any American girl as she takes in the desert sun at Las Vegas, Nov., resort. She caused in ternational stir when she 'married Shepard King, Tex as oil heir. Newell Prison Chief Named Lemuel Fox who will be aupcr Intendcnl o the Newell Prison Camp. Is a veteran of 23 years with Ihe Federal Bureau ol Pris ons In various capacities. He started as correctional of ficer at the Atlanta, Ga., prison In 1B30, and during hi career w frtallotfed at 'Atlanta, -federal de tention headquartera at New York City, federal detention neaaquar ters at New Orleans National Train ing 8chool for Boys, Washington, D. C, the Federal Correctional In stitution, Milan, Mich. In the early part of his career he was promoted to lieutenant hi the service, and then to captain. At Milan he was assistant war den. Other heads of departments to be stationed at Newell arc Ed ward R. Slmlnskl. captain, from McNeil Island: Frank J. Smith, chief clerk, from the U 8. peniten tiary, Tene Haute, Ind.; Lawrence H. Brown, mechanical superintend ent, from McNeil: and Leo S. Nor en, culinary superintendent, from Alcatras prison. The remaining camp personnel were transferred to Newell lrom other federal Institutions. The Newell prison camp' la lo be located on the site of the World War II Jap camp, and about 100 federal prisoners are to be sent tliere to rehabilitate the buildings. A detachment li expected at tho camp sometime this month. The prisoners are to be short time offenders selected for mini mum security Institutions such as the Newell camp will be. Eight other camps of this typo are operated by the Bureau of Pri sons In various parts of the coun try. James V. Bennett is director of the Bureau of Prisons. In other federal camps of tho type, Inmates are used for such work as road construction, lumber operations and maintenance of gov ernment property. 1 1, u-iy . tit a ,fidens;7 States Hit SEATTLE I Operations of Northwest Orcyhound Lines buses were tied up early Thursday as 1, 1 400 drivers nd other employes wanted on uioir jods in a pay dis pute. The latent walkout added three more states lo the seven already affected by a strike of Paclflo Greyhound employes and raised the number of dim company work era on strike In the Pacific Coast I region to nearly 6,000. Representatives of Northwest Greyhound management and the AFL Motor Coach Employee Un- IN KLAMATH The Greyhound office here Is cloard during the strike, but the Bus Depot Is open mornings and afternoon while Red Ball and Trallwaya buascn are arriving and departing. Ion conferred right up to the mid : night dradllne In Seattle last night betrjre deciding they were hopeless ly deadlocked. No further meetings have been scheduled. Tlie strike cut off bus transpor tation lor thousands of paasenRers In Washington and parts of Ore gon, Idaho, Montana and Utah. Borne 3,600 other employes of Pa cific Greyhound, a separate com pany, struck In California. Arizona. Western Oregon and part of Ne vada, Utah. New Mexico and Tex as March 2. Negotiations to settle that walkout still are being con ducted In 8an Francisco. Demands of employes In both systems are similar, a company spokesman said today. The work ers are demanding a live day week at the same pay formerly received for alx days. Pay rale for em ployes vary widely, depending on Job, route and classification. Some drivers receive $1.87 an hour, oth ers are paid .0738 cents a mile. Earnings vary because work weeks route and mileage differ, accord ins In J. n. Noelv. Northwest Grev- bound Line spokesman. He said h would- guas average .earnings ranged around 1376 to (400 month. PARALYSIS The new atrlke paralyzes Grey hound operations from Portland to Belllngham, west to the Olym pic Peninsula, east as far as Butte, Mont., and to Seattle sub urban areas. Most of these points are served by no other bus line. Also afleoted are Oregon Motor Stages running mostly In the Wil lamette Valley and Overland Grey hound running between Portland and Salt Lake City. Pioneer Film Producer Dies NEW YORK William Fox, 73, a pioneer motion picture pro ducer ana one - nine operaior oi more than 360 theaters valued at more than 100 million dollars, died In Doctors Hospital Thursday. Fox ran $1,600 Into a personal fortune of 36 million dollars but his moving picture empire crumbled under the depression, creditors and law suns. He served a five - month term In prison at the age of 63 on charges of conspiring to obstruct Justice and defraud Uie govern ment. Ho was charged with giving mon ey to a Pennsylvania Circuit Court Judge to obtain favorable bankrupt cy verdicts. Tneda uara, me vampire, ana Annette Kellerman, who made the one-niece bathing suit famous, wore among stars of his produc tions His own rags lo riches story was as dramatic as any of Uie film (let Ion ho presented. Fox was born in Hungary. He eniliniucd to the United States and became a $17-a - week pants press or on Now York's drab lower East Side. The refusnl of his boss to give hi in a $3 rnlsc started him on his tn unions movie career. He quit the Ironing board and bought a rundown nickelodeon in Brooklyn wiUi his meager savings. The dingy nickelodeon was the forerunner of the Fox Films Cor poration and the Fox Theaters Cor poration. His first films were pro duced at a studio In Fort Leo, N.J. Later, his Hollywood studios pro duced such well - remembered films M "What Price Glory" and "SevcnUi Hcavon." Fair Trade Laws Approved WASHINGTON J,Pi The Hnuso passed 1DB-10 Thuivdnv a nirnmira giving federal sanction to state fair iranc laws. The measure now goes In the Senate. ...... Tho bill nlvea federal approval lo trade lawn of 46 slates which permit retnllers and manufactur ers to agreo on minimum selling, prices for many fair-trade arti cles.' . The agreements bio binding on non-signers as well as on signers. The measure, sponsored bv Rep. MoGiiire (D.-Conn.) was described In testimony before House commit tees alternately as a boon to small business And an extortion on con-uumors. s2k n FIFTY CENT LIMIT Although only a few miles from some of the world's largest oil refineries, Chicago gas station attendant Peter Gaich limits sales to 50 cents as the nationwide oil strike continues without a settlement in sight. But, plane and auto travel has been sharply reduced in the Great Lakes area because of the growing gasoline famine. Timber Strike Fading, Se veral Mills Settle Four mills In California, repre sented by the Pine Industrial Re lations Committee, have resumed operation on wage settlements with CIO woodworkers local unions. and tne war-Ad-co plant nere also Is back In operation on at least a partial basis, Klamath Basin Pine Mills here Profits. High On.Munitiohs ASHLAND Wl Sen. Wavne Morse R-Ore) said Wednesday lhat munitions makers now are getting higher profits, even after taxes, than they did in World War IL He told students at Southern Oregon College of Education that he would like to see such profits taken out of war. Morse urged mors funds for air plane production. He said Russia is building four or five Jet fighters lor every one built In tho U.S. He told the students that a nationwide orimary would elimin ate the evils of machine politics. The primary has fieed Oregon of such machines, he said. "If political machines ran things In Oregon I wouldn't be nominated for precinct committeeman," he said. Forger Jailed For Sentence John Nelson Aday, 37, of Tule- lake, pleaded guilty in Circuit Court Wednesday afternoon to a charge of forgery, and was re turned to the County Jail to await sentence. He was charged with forging the name of a Malin rancher. Wood- row W. Cuddy, to a check made out for $160. Aday. nicked un by City Police. said in a statement he had signed Cuddy's name to four checks, but haun t cashed them. He admitted serving a reformatory sentence In California for passing bad checks. Trapped Boy Found Alive SEASIDE l.fi A five-year-old boy was found nsleop and un harmed here Wednesday, three hours after he became locked Ui slde an abandoned refrigerator. Pollco said Uie boy, Clifford (Chipper) Monk, was saved from asphyxiation because the rubber gasket around the refrigerator door was worn, pormittlng air to enter. Clifford was playing hlde-and-seck near his home with Ronny Campbell, also 5. He spotted the abandoned refrigerator behind the Peter Hansen home and slipped inside. Ihe door snapped shut be hind Mm. The boy told police after his res cue that he yelled and screamed and boat on the door until he was cxhnusted. Then he cried himself to sleep. When his mother, Mis, Charles Monk, missed him she called po lice about 3 p.m. Clifford's play mate could otter no ncip since ne hadn't seen the boy hide. Police searched a wide area. When Mrs. Hansen lfeard of the search about 8 p.m. she thought of the abandoned refrigerator. In side, cramped in a compartment 15 inches deep, IB Inches wide and 2G Inches high, she found Clifford asleep. ' ,. mm i immi 3-m remains down because of the strike of CIO woodworkers, now nearing the end of its second week. The bUr Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company at Anderson, Calif., em ploying some 600 persons was one of Uie four plants in California to resume work today. The plant management settled with the local CIO union, giving uie worxers a cent pay in crease, three additional paid holi days and a 3-cent night shift dif ferential Increase. : Other settling were, the Graeagle Lumber Company. Graeaele. Calif - Jarler-WebstersJohnson, Delleker. cam.: and the Redding Forest Products Company, Redding. All were on the same basis. The four mills employed a total of nearly 1,000 persons. NO COMMENT Neither the Car-Ad-Co manage ment nor officials of the woodwork ers union could be reached for com ment this morning, but a reliable source said that 69 men have re turned to work at Car-Ad-Co. The plant employes around 100. There was no settlement. Representatives of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were in Klamath Falls today for a meeting with union officials and Car-Ad-Co employes at the Federal Building. Death Claims Mrs. Victorin Mrs. Elizabeth Victorin. one of the original Czech colony which settled Uie Malin area, died this morning at Hillside Hospital. She was 81 years old. She had been in the hospital for two days and had been bed ridden at home most of the winter. Survivers include two sons, Frank and Tony, both of Malin. Her husband, Joseph Victorin, died in 1940. Mrs. Victorin was born at Mel nick, Czechoslovakia, in 1871, and came to the United States with her husband In 1900. Nine years later they settled at Malin. takuig up an 80-acre homestead. She had resided in this county 42 years. Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday, a p.m. at Ward's Funeral Home. COUNTING A VICTORY Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia (left), with Georgia's senior Senator, Walter F. George looking on, counts returns in his Washington, D. C., office from the Florida presidential primary. Sen ator Russell gave Senator Estes Kefauver his first de feat, winning over the Tcnnesseean by a narrow margin. , U.S; Planes In Record War Attack SEOUL, Korea Ifl Dav-long waves of American planes, In the biggest air raid of the Korean War. turned a major Communist supply base "into billowing flames awl smoke" Thursday, the U.S. Fifth Air Force reported. The Air Force said the dawn to dusk rain of high explosives, roc kets, lellied gasoline fire bombs and machinegun bullets destroyed 1B5 supply buildings and damaged CI. American and Australian let planes screening :he raiders shot down two MIO-15 Jets and dam aged another, the Air Force added. LOADED Target of the mass raid was Suan 36 miles southeast of Pyong yang, North Korean capital. Suan is a feeder ooint to Chinese troops on the Western Front. Air Force photos had shown the area literally loaded with trucks and military supplies heavily guarded by anti aircraft guns. Jets and propeller driven planes drawn from four wings made well over 300 Individual attacks. Uie Air Force said. Thev "tore the Communist sup plies to shreds," a communique said. "Thousands of gallons of fiery napalm (jellied gasoline) were spread over the target, turn ing piles of supplies into billowing flames and smoke." HARD HIT F-80 Shooting Stars opened the attack at dawn. "We hit Uie enemy flak (anti aircraft) positions and hit them hard." said Lt. William N. Wright of Sebring, Fla. "We just walked right down their lines of tracers with our machinegun bullets to score hits first. A lot of their guns suddenly cult." Then came waves of F-84 Thun derlets. more Shooting Stars, pro peller driven Mustangs, and Mar ine Pantherjets, Sky Raiders and Corsairs. 'The'lead flight Set, roaring jBrea and smoke really, po.ured up," said lv Thomas b; ipgrassia, mun derjet pilot lrom New Orleans. 'We followed that flight in and plowed right through the smoke columns to get at cur target." Former Local Woman Dies Word has been received here of the death May 6 in Roseburg of Mrs. E. C. (Lu) Adams, long time resident of Klamath Falls. Mrs. Adams and Ami Lander. now with LaPointe's, operated the Empire Hotel in the late 20's and later purchased the Gertrude Hat Shop, doing business under the neme Lu-Ann Hat Shop. Mr. and Mrs. Adams lived for many years In the Marion Apart ments. Adams was a well known Southern Pacific conductor. They left here about five years ago. She was born Lulu BeU Gilvin, member of a pioneer Roseburg family. Surviving besides her widower are a sister, Mrs. Kate Tvnan and two brothers Harrv and Dick GU vin. all of Roseburg. Private funeral services Thurs day were followed by cremation. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California: Mostly rloudy with a few showers Thursday. Partly cloudy Thursday night and Friday. Hi eh today 55, llow tonight 35; high tomorrow 60. Low last night 34 ;Preclp yesterday 65 i Since Oct. 1 14.98 ! Normal for period 10.46 'Same period last year 14.24 nisiiiiM'aStdaWKaM. s ,,,, ..v-..- jM POWs Hold Commander As Hostage PUSAN, Korea, Friday, May i.fl Red prisoners of war on Koje Island seized the American general commanding the prison Wednesday and are stlU holding him Inside the stockade. In announcing early today the capture of Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd. 62. the U.S. Eighth Army said another officer was seized at the same time but escaped. The Army said a note In Dodd's handwriting had been received. In dicating he was not harmed, but Information In this provisional cap ital of South Korea was that Uie note was several hours old. Its contents had not been dis closed. The officer who escaped was not identified. The island prison Is 28 air miles southwest of Pusan off the South Korean coast. VIOLENCE Koje Island has been the scene of two violent prison disorders this year. On Feb. 12, 19 persons were killed in an uprising by Red pris oners In notorious "Compound 62." On March 13, 12 prisoners were killed when anti-Communist and Communist prisoners engaged la a rock-fight. Dodd. who was deputy chief of staff of the U.S. Eighth Army, took command at noje alter uie 1-eDru-ary riot. The fact that the general had been captured by prisoners was known in tnis provisional South Ko rean capital several hours before it was announced. SEIZURE Correspondents were not allowed to go to Koje to Investigate, and a tight censorship was clamped on the Island. Soldiers (not otherwise Identified in this dispatch) said Dodd and his companion were walking near Uie stockade when prisoners sud denly seized uiem. On AprU 26, Uie Army announced that lt was moving all anti-Communist or non-Communist prisoners to six new camps on the mainland. leaving only about 70,000 die-hard Reds on Koje. Whether the move had been completed waa not dis closed. Dodd was named deputy chief of staff of Uie Eighth Army on Feb. 6, but only one week later was sent to Koje to take command be cause of Uie riot there. Alter uie March riot, Gen. James A. Van Fleet, Eighth Army com mander, said the Reds '.'take ad vantage of our good treatment." PREVENTATIVES . - ." v ';. steps had been taken to prevent further disorders and that all polit ical signs had been removed from Uie Reds' camps. - . , The shift of non-Communist pris oners to Uie mainland followed a "rescreening" of those who did and those who did not wish to return to Communism in the event of a Korean truce. Deficit Said Overestimated WASHINGTON Wl Congres sional tax experts calculated Thursday that President Truman's budget overestimated this year's government deficit by two and a half billion dollars and next year's by $2,700,000,000. Figures prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation indicated that treasury receipts would be some what lower than the budget esti mate submitted In January, i that actual spending would be down even more. As a result, the Joint Commit tee looks for a deficit of $5,700. 000,000 in the current fiscal year (ending June 30) instead of Uie $8,200,000,000 estimated in the bud get, and an $11,700,000,000 deficit in the 1953 fiscal year beginning next July 1, instead of $14,400,000, 000. - For the 1952 fiscal year, Uie Pres ident's budget estimated receipts of $62,700,000,000 and expenditures of $70,900,000,000; the Congression al experts put the income at $61, 30,00,000 and Uie outgo at 67 bil lions. For fiscal 1953, the budget fig ured receipts of 71 billions and ex penditures of $85,400,000,000; the Jo nt Committee staff $68,300,000, 900 income and 80 billions outgo. "The budget Is dominated by the defense expenditures and for some months these have been run ning below the estimates," the staff report explained. It is highly unusual for Uie Joint Committee Jtafl to guess Income at a lower figure than tne trea sury, which .nas consistently under estimated total receipts. The staff report said, however, it was evident that the budget es timates were prepared on a some what higher level of national In come than that used by the staff, 297 Absentee allots Out A total of 297 -absentee ballots tor the May 16 primary election had been distributed by the County Clerk's office through this morn ing. Countv Clerk Charlie DeLap said that no more would be mailed out prior to the election, but that per sons who are coins to be ab sent from the county election day may still vote at tne uierk s of fice. MOCK CONVENTION SALEM W Delegates from 12 Oregon collegts and universities will attend Willamette University's mock Republican convention, open- . Irnr at 3 p.m. Friday with an ad dress by Harold E. Stasscn.