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PAGE EIGHT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1954- HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Lack Of Highway Funds May Increase Gas Taxes By PAt't W. IIARVKV JR. BALEM Ml Oregon's motorists eiiner win nave to pay more oa. line taxes, or have their road Duildlng- cut In half. The present 6-cent a gallon state gasoune lax would have to be in creased by a cents. If the State Highway Commission Is to carry on its "minimum" program for th: next 16 years. And with President Elsenhower's 10-year So billion dollar highway construction program In the works, It probably will take another 2 cents to finance that. That makes another 4 cents that the motorists In Oregon might nave to pungle up. By next June, Oregon will have spent the last of the 72 million dollars worth of bonds that were Issued to take care of emergency needs. This was a live-year pro gram that allowed liie Highway Commission to double the rate ol construction. When the bond money Is gone, Oregon can't issue more bonds, be ' cause It's reached the limit. With the aid of these bonds, the state Is spending 43 millions for new roads this year, and mu lions next tear. If the gas tax Isn't increased, the amount of money available for construction would be only 22 mil' lions a year. Nixon Denies Radio Remark VAN NUYS, Calif. Wl Thou sands of television viewers watch ing Vice President Nixon deliver political speech Wednesday night heard at Its conclusion the Words: "Who the hell did that?" Immediately telephone switch boards at station KTTV and Los Angeles newspapers were swam. ped with persons demanding to know 11 Nixon uttered the sen tence. It wasn't me. I used no such language," the vice president told newsmen later. Bob Alton, a petroloum prod ucts dealer here, and Patrick J. Hillings, Republican congressman of Arcadln, Calif., said they were certain Nixon made no such re mark. James E. Bassett, director ol public relations lor the Republi can National Committee, said Al ton put the blame on a member ol the TV technical crew. - "This lellow said: "Who the hell did that?" when someone in tho audience knocked over a monitor microphone," , Bassett quoted Al ton. But a KTTV spokesman denied this. "This was an experienced crew," he said, "These fellows do 20 and 30 of these remote tele casts a week and they know their tuff. They were startled to hear tho words "who the hell" and lm mediately faded out the audio." But with an extra 1 cents added to the gas tax, the amount would be boosted to 30 millions a year. The commission says that would enable us to hold our own. But it wouldn't provide -for in creases in tuture traffic. W. C. Williams, deling state highway engineer, says the Hlgn- way Commission won't ask the Legislature to increase the gas tax It will just provide the facts, and let the lawmakers draw their own conclusion. Under uhe bond program, -two highways are being built so they will be adequate 10 years from now. They are the Pacific High way from Portland to Canyonvlile. and the Columbia River route from Portland to Pendleton. ' But President Eisenhower, under his 10-year program,. pi oposes that we nave an Interstate system that ill be adequate for 20 years. This means that the 17.0C0 miles of main inter-reglonal nighways in the United States would be four loned and with limited access. The only highways In Oregon under this program would be the Pacific and Columbia River-Old Oregon Trail routes. Money also would be avail able lor improvement ol other roads. Ol this 17.0OO-mllc network. 92 per cent ol It would be moved to new locations. . Gov. Paul L. Patterson Is one of a committee of seven governors that is trying to work out the de tails. The committee will meet in Chicago Nov. 9, and then will tell the President how the states feel It should be done. The worst problem Is financing It. Some governors want Uncle Sam to pay the bill, but Gov. Pat terson says "the states would lose their sovereignty if we let that happen." The states aren't exactly flush. either. Oregon would tlnd it hard to finance that kind of a program. Converting our two major high. ways into four-lane routes would be extremely costly. t It's a cinch that the states will be asked to add 2 cents to their gas taxes to help finance the Eisen hower road plan. But tills would produce less than half of the 50 billion dollars. The federal government has a 2-ccnt gas tax. and it's now return ing this money to the states. Some governors want the government to quit levying the tax. This would benefit the heavily populated slates, but would handicap the smaller states, like Oiegon. Oregon gets more road funds from the government than it could collect it it levied the federal tax itself. Gov. Patterson and the Highway Commission disagree with many Easterners who think toll roads are the final answer. They say that toll roads pay olf only near big population centers, and that It's an expensive way to build. Interest rates are high, and it also costs money to man the toll gates. But no matter how the new Ore gon and federal road programs are financed, the motorist will have to pay for It. "YOU MEAN YOU CAN TELL ME THAT?" queried Suzie, when, on a tour of United Fund agencies, she talked to Ralph Moon about health agencies such as the cancer, multiple sclerosis and arthritis and rheumatism foundations. Moon, laboratory technician at Klamath Valley Hospital, explained that study of slides under a microscope is only one phase of research to find possible cures and preventives for dreaded diseases. Research, clinics and rehabilitation offer an answer to local victims of these diseases because Klamath County donated dollars help make them available. USAF Orders Jet Bomber WASHINGTON Ifl The Air Force lias ordered "Initial pro duction" of Its first faster-than-sound bomber and possibly the world's first the Convair B58. Sonic experts say the B58, a medium-weight successor to the medium Boeing B47 and the heavy B52, may be the last of the piloted bombers before long-range strategy , turns to the intercon:! ne'ital guided missile. The first B58 is still under con struction behind a high wall hi a closely guarded section of th: mlle-lonir Convair hangar at Fort Worth, Tex., where the giant BD6 heuvy bomber was produced. B38 production ended there last sum mer. 1 In disclosing its B58 order Wednesday, the Air Force also announced art initial production order for the Lockheed FlOt light weight fighter which also flies THE TOUGHEST JOBS nrm ritvuE r 5 J TROUSERS World's STRONGEST Whipcord! 995 Trousers DIRT RESISTANT WATER REPELLENT SCRATCH-FREE COMFORT . . . lhv'' Pttt let my job all jrr 'levnd.' 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IB Gunfire ended another attempt to scale prison walls Wednesday night and one of two penitentiary inmates Involved in the escape ef fort was shot and seriously wound td. ; Prison officials said Vertls Bar rett, 26, servUig time for a Pierce County burglary conviction, was struck In the hip and shoulder with buckshot and creased across the stomach with rifle bullet. Robert McDonald, 24, convicted j of burglary In Okanogan County, was captured at the base of tbe prison wall Inside the grounds. Prison oflicers said the pair at tempted a break shortly after they had finished work on the night shift in the prison cannery. The two men crawled about 50 feet to the north section of the wall and hooked a makeshift lad der, constructed cf a section ol pipe with. , a hook on the end, over the .wall. A tower -guard spotted Barrett as he started up' the ladder and opened fire, ofCcials , said. McDon ald then surrendered.' 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