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Newspaper Page TextCOitP U 0? OREGON LIBRARY EUGENE, ORE. la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Western Hemisphere note: Our neighbor across the Rio Grands held a presidential elec tion yesterday. There were four tandidates. The generally antici pated winner Ino election returns are available as this is written) is Adolfo Lopez Mateos. He is the candidate of Mexico's dominant party, which hasn t lost an elec tion in 40 years. He is an attorney who worked lip through a succession of con gressional and diplomatic posts to become minister of labor under President Cortines, the incumbent who is retiring. Mateos' principal opponent is Luis Alvarez, who ;s the candidate of Mexico's principal opposition party. He is a successful textile industrialist from the border state of Chihuahua. He was born in Juarez, went to high school in El Paso and attended the University of Texas. He is expected to come in sec ond in the running, but isn't given much chance of election. Candidate No. 3 is Miguel Men doza Lopez, who is running on the communist ticket. The commies were unable to muster enough sig natures to get his name on the ballot, so he is running as a write in candidate. He concedes he hasn't much chance, and explains it this way: "1 would make a better showing in the' election if more of my fol lowers knew how to write." The list is completed by Leo nardo Garcia Perez, who won the nomination of the minority DNA party. The No. 1 plank in his plat form is a promise to cure the na tion's economic ill and boost the value of the peso from eight cents to a dollar. Before gelling into politics he was a miracle healer. He used a magic potion to treat polio, can cer and various other afflictions. His miracles weren't numerous enough, and the .Mexican health department made h i m shut up shop. Like many another of his kind the world over, he turned to politics. Interesting sidelight: The Mexican government went . all out this year to enforce the DEP1ST0LIZATI0N laws. At yes terday's election, anyone caught carrying a pistol or a knife to the polls was promptly clapped into the calabozo. "Why this dissertation on a Mex lean election? It's like this: Mexico is the most hopeful na tion of Latin America. By all the rules of history, she has every reason to HATE us with an endur ing hatred. We forced upon her a WAR OF CONQUEST. We took from her vast areas of territory We took this territory by FORCE OF ARMS. Somewhat more than a half cen tury later, we took advantage of a bandit foray across the Rio Grande (by a brutal character named Pancho Villa) and sent a punitive military expedition clear to Vera Cruz. A similar foray by the French a century and a quar ter ago created the situation that is causing France s present trou bles in Algeria. Why are our present relations with Mexico good and getting bet ter? One reason is that Americans in increasing numbers are flowing into Mexico as tourists. These tourists are REAL Americans. They aren't too snooty. They don't sneer at Mexicans. They are genu inely interested in them especially in the younger generation Mexi cans who are coming up through Mexico's schools. These kids are as smart as tacks, and Ameri cans tend to adore them. Also We haven't poured too much FOREIGN AID onto Mexico. We've TRADED with her instead of shell ing out alms and playing Lady Bountiful. As a result, our rela tions with Mexico and Mexicans are improving steadily. If we could apply the same wise policies to the rest of Latin Amer ica, the Western Hemisphere could be built into the happiest and most prosperous area in the world. Fires On Rampage Over Eastern Oregon Ranges By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lightning set fires burned across Eastern Oregon rangeland Sunday night as thunderstorms followed the state's holiday heat wave. One fire still burned out of control Monday. About 12.000 acres of grassland' Sunday night in the northern part of the Vale grazing district. John Hunt, state fire control officer for the Bureau of Land Management, said that six of the seven lightning blazes were under control. Firefighters were slill being re cruited to combat the seventh fire, which had burned 600 acres in the Huntington area. Several wheat fields burned Sunday night. and Hunt said there was danger still more farms might be hit. About 300 men, including Mcxi can nationals from the Nyssa Ag ricultural Camp, local ranchers and BLM crews, were on fire lines Monday morning. Hunt said Ihe humidity is low snd the fire crews were anticipat ing more trouble Latex Monday ltiiMiiiinuiiimiBiiiiiiiiiiiiiMty?inn(iirnrinniiiiiinorn inrnrmnrnmmnmreimmnnnmmnTii KLAMATH -12 Pages Price Five Cenli ADMITS SCARE LETTER William Stanley Whales, 34, an out-of-work farm hand, is shown in London after he confessed he had written the letter which touched off fears "crazy" American pilot might drop a hydrogen bomb off the coast of England. Whales' letter was addressed to Soviet Amb. Jacob Malik who made it public. Reds Keep Threat Letter LONDON (AP) - The Soviet Embassy so far has failed to turn over the original letter purporting to be from a U.S. pilot tnreaten- ing to drop a nuclear bomb near the British Isles. Receipt of the letter, regarded by U.S. and British officials as s hoax, was announced by the So viet Embassy last Thursday. A Foreign Office spokesman said Monday the Russians showed the British the original but hand ed over only a photostatic copy. British security police asked for the original last Friday so that they could study paper, ink and handwriting in an attempt to identity the author. William Stanley Whales," a for mer Royal Air Force bandsman, admitted Sunday he lied when he confessed that he wrote the let ter. Reds Release Plane Crew LONDON (AP) - Moscow Ra dio said the nine-man crew of a U. S. Air Force transport plane forced down in Soviet Armenia June 27 was freed on the Soviet Iranian frontier Monday. The broadcast said the airmen were handed over to a U.S. mili tary representative at the town of Astara. It gave no further details. The U.S.S.R. announced on June 28 that the C118 military trans port had been caught by Soviet fighters inside the Soviet Armen ian border and forced to land. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow had since been negotiating at high level lor the relurn ot the men. NO RIGHT OF WAY OREGON CITY (AP)-The right of way along the Portland Trac tion Co.'s interurban line would revert back to heirs of the original owners if a suit filed here Thurs day is successful. The suit con tends that in discontinuing passen ger service, the company violated terms of the original right of way deed. Holiday Death Toll: Traffic 364 Drowning 182 Miscellaneous 93 from new thunderstorms. Fire crews have ben alerted in the Burns and Baker grazing dis tricts, which escaped lightning strikes in Sunday's storm. Some ligntmng strikes were re ported in national forest areas. but U.S. Forest Service officials said there were no major fires. Smokejumpers were flown into the Applegate area of the Rogue River Valley this morning to ex tinguish one blaze. Most of the Southern Oregon jumpers were flown to fires in the Mt. Baker area of Washington. Temperatures in Oregon Sunday were high before thundershowers hit, mostly in the southern part of the state. Grants Pass had the state's high with a 99. followed by .21 inch of rain Sunday after noon. Medford had 98, The Dalles and Salem 95, Eugene and Pendle ton 94. The Weather Burcru said near normal temperatures are expect ed in the stale despite thunder storm activity in the Blue Moun tain and Cascade vicinity. FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JLI.V 7, 195 Telephone TU 4-81 It Goldfine Case Turns Into Cops-And-Robbers Drama As Events Blasted Clear WASHINGTON (UP1) Thel Bernard Goldfine case suddenly turned into a cops-and-robbers drama today. In quick sequence: The chief investigator for the House influence investigating com mittee was caught planting a 'hidden microphone" at the hotel door of one of Goldfine's aides. A spokesman for Goldfine said that the hotel room of Mildred Paperman, Goldfine's secretary, had been "ransacked" and that a number of important financial papers had been stolen. Roger Robb, attorney for the Boston mil lionaire, said the papers had a bearing on Goldfine's testimony before the subcommittee investi gating Goldfine's relationship with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. The sensational turn of events came a few hours after Goldfine and his entourage plus a new public relations adviser returned to Washington for the resumption of Goldfine's testimony Tuesday. Goldfine complained to the FBI, the U.S. district attorney's office, and the Washington Police De partment, which sent detectives to the scene. Goldfine complained to the FBI about secret recordings made in the middle of the night by sub committee 1 n vestigator Baron Shacklette and Jack Anderson, an assistant to columnist Drew Pear son. The FBI turned the complaint over to the Justice Department lor determination whether federal laws have been violated. Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) called his investigating subcom mittee into emergency secret ses sions to consider what he de scribed as the "very serious" inci dent involving the hidden micro phone. He summoned Shacklette to appear before the group at an afternoon session. Harris, shown a copy of a story about the "ransacking" of Miss Paperman's hotel room, said "The integrity of the committee is at stake here and we have simply got to find out about it.' Watch Out Mankind1. Navy Now Announces Electronic Robot With Human Brain WASHINGTON (AP) The Navy announced today the partial de velopment of an electronic robot it says will be able to match some of the functions of the human brain. It calls the robot a Perceptron. At least another year will be re quired to complete the first full pilot model, the Navy said, but its principle and concept already have been demonstrated success fully by using a large electronic computer. When it is uilly developed, tne machine is expected to be able to perceive, recognize and identify its surroundings without any hu man training or control. It differs that it does not have to be fed facts and figures in advance. Among the potential uses to which such a robot eventually may be put, the announcement said, are these: New-type automatic landing systems and automatic pilots for Deluge Hits Texas Again; Fort Worth Feels Tornado DALLAS (AP) Flood-creating deluges up to 12 inches and violent and damaging winds struck Texas during the night. The slorm-breeding cool front stalled over the slate Monday, threaten ing more damage. Winds of tornadic force dam aged homes in Tyler and Dallas. Fort Worth lost a church steeple lo lightning. An estimated eight inches of rain hit Dcvine in south-central Texas and flooded the small town Sunday night. Several automobiles were submerged at an underpass, and several sections of Ihe town were under four feet of water. Some homes were evacuated, but no casualties were reported and damage was not estimated. The 12-inch rain struck Hannibal in central Texas. It sent the Cosque River and Barton Creek surging out of their banks, flooded Ihe Stephenville city park and damaged several stores. Cloudbursts Landslides In YAKIMA (AP) - Rock and, earth slides touched off by moun tain cloudbursts early Monday closed the cross-state White Pass Highway 30 miles east of here and the Stevens Canyon road in Mt. Rainier National Park. Four slides rumbled across the White Pass roadway in the Tciton River canyon near Trout Lodge. State Highway Department crews had the debris cleared lor one-way traffic by 8 a.m. and nor mal travel was expected to be re sumed later in the day. Men and equipment were sept U the scene from Yakima after No. 1613 Shacklette and Anderson were discovered early this morning with a microphone at the bottom of the hotel room door of Goldfine's new publicity man. Jack Lotto, former New York newspaperman. Harris said Shacklette was not assigned to the Goldfine case and. in any event, was "certainly not authorized" to plant microphones at hotel room doors. He promised to "find out about all the facts The Boston millionaire, who showered favors on Adams and passed out Christmas checks without partisan favor to White House and congressional workers faced searching questioning by the subcommittee Tuesday on his Ii nancial affairs. Meanwhile. Massachusetts Tax Commissioner Joseph P. Healey disclosed in Boston that all of Goldfine's personal and corporate tax affairs are under investigation by the state. He also disclosed that Goldfine has not yet tiled a state income tax return for 1956: did not file a 1955 return until June 2, 1951!: and had requested and received a 90-day extension to July 15 to file his 1957 returns. Harris was reported to have tried late in March to fire Shack lette from his $14,800 a year job. only to be blocked by other sub committee members. Shacklette was understood to have conducted the bulk of the in vestigation for Harris' subcommit tee inquiry into the award of Mi ami. Fla.. television channel 10. This was the case that led to the resignation of Federal Communi cations Commissioner Richard A Mack. The episode of the hidden mic rophone" was revealed after Lotto had called a midnight press con ference to make public letters he said Goldfine had received from several governors thanking him for bolts of cloth the textile ty coon had sent out during the 1955 Governors Conference. Lotto nev er got around to that. It was Lotto who also announced that Miss Paperman's room had been ransacked. (Early Story Page 10) aircraft . . . automatic reading of the printed or written word . responding to verbal commands . . . automatic language translation either in written or vocal form , . . automatic unearthing of scientific and other information buried in library books . . . and even rapid fire recognition of musical com positions, with all. the accuracy of a music critic. The Navy says the new system closely parallels, by electronic means, the "selective recognition or 'similarity' functions of man's mind." It would operate in much the same way lhat the human eye and certain brain areas work together to provide the human function of recognition. Dr. Frank Rosenblatt, research psychologist at the Cornell Aero nautical Laboratory, Inc., work ing under a contract with the Of fice of Naval Research, came up with the Perceptron concept. A wholesale grocery firm's building and several homes were heavily damaged in lylcr. Damage was estimated at sev eral thousand dollars when the Arcadia Park section of Dallas was hit by what residents de scribed as a small twister. Small outbuildings, ca.oorls and TV an tennas were damaged. the Polytechnic Methodist Church on the campus of Texas Wesleyan College at Fort Worlh was damaged about the same time when lightning knocked off one of its four concrete steeples Lightning struck another fort Worth church, but no damage was reported. Lightning also hit the St. Mary's Cathedral in Austin in centra Texas, knocking stones from the 100-foot tower through a tile roof of the sanctuary. About a half dozen homes in this area were damaged. Lighlning struck the Austin police station with minor damage. Touch Off Mountains logging company workers relayed word of the slides. In Mt. Rainier Park, the Stev ens Canyon road linking the Ohan- aperosh and Paradise Valley Longmire Breas was covered in several places with giant bould ers, rock and dirt to a depth of 10 lect. The cloudburst hit in an area of sheer rock chimneys, which loosened tons of debris and sent it roaring down over the road Park Superintendent Preston Macy said the mule would be closed at least until Tuesday. p.1 i milium gp ii fcd pmrmmmmmmmmmymmm Wis , J FIREWORKS BLAST KILLS ONE Fire Inspectors, background, examine scene of fire works warehouse explosion in Portland, Oregon, which razed several nearby homes end shattered windows as far as 22 blocks away. At least one person, a little girl, was killed and more than 20 injured. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls end vicinity: Mostly fair through Tues day except for scattered thunder storms. Low tonight 46-55. High Tuesday 77-83. High yesterday 87 Low last night 59 Prcclp.. last 24 hour .0 Since Ort. 1 19.01 Same period last year 15.04 Normal for period 12.42 FIVE DAY FORECAST By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Western Washington and West- ern Oregon: Cooler over interior Tuesday but temperatures aver aging near normal with maxi -mums for Western Washinetnn mostly 75 to 85, and Western Ore gon 80 to 90 except near normal with 60 to 70 on (he coast. Pre cipitation less than normal. Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon and Idaho: Temperatures averaging above normal with maximums mostly 80 to 90. Scat tered afternoon thundershowers mostly over the mountains. SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Five- day wealher forecast for Northern California: No precipitation: tern perature near normal; normal minimum - maximum Sacramento 58-92, Red Bluff 68-99, Eureka 52- 61, Santa Rosa 49-82, Blue Canyon 57-77. Red Infiltration Predicted Agafti In Guatemala GUATEMALA (AP) Gualemal ?ns are being warned lhat Com munists are again trying to bore from within. Four years ago Col. Carlos Cas- lillo Armas and a ragtag libcra-i lion army threw, out this hemis phere s only Red-dominated gov ernment. Hundreds of Guatemal ans followed president Jacobo Ar uenz Guzman into exile. A palace guard shot President Castillo Armas to death last July. Now President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes charges lhat the exiles he let return in recent months are active again, agitating "in Ihe slreet, among workers and even in Congress." Ydigoras Fuenlcs said his gov ernment will deal with the Com munists as their activities might require. Germany Moves To Re-establish Passenger Lines HAMBURG, Germany (AP) - West Germany is moving to re establish Germany's prewar luxu ry passenger fleet. The 29,500-ton Hanscatic. big gest passenger ship since the war lo fly the German colors, will cave July 21 on her maiden voy age to New York. In less than a year, the Hanse- alic will he moved to second place by the 30,500 - ton Bremen, now also being reconditioned. The Hanscatic is the former Empress of Scotland, bought by he Hamburg-Atlantic Line Irom Ihe Canadian Pacific Steamship Co. The Bremen, due lo make her debut next June, is the former Pasteur, bought from France by the North German Lloyd. California Tops Traffic Roster SAN FRANCISCO (L'PIl- Cal ifornia once again topped all states in the number of highway fatalities and rolled up a stagger ing total of drownings over the July rourth weekend. At least 34 persons died in ac cidents in California from 6 p.m Thursday to midnight Sunday night. The total for the Memorial Day weekend, the same length ol lime, was 3d. And 17 persons drowned as per fect summer weather drew thou sands to beaches and lakes. Three died in a plane crash and 11 were killed in other accidents lor a total of 65. CHRISTMAS IN JULY DENVER (API When It was Independence Day all over Ihe nation the Darrel Lents had Yulctide celebration, complete with gills and a lighted Christmas tree. The reason? The Lents' four daughters ranging in age from 3 to 13 never have spent Christmas with their gr .ulparents, who are visiting here iio'. Fireworks Blast Probed; No Cause Discovered Yet PORTLAND (AP) Investiga tors still had not determined Mon day the cause of the explosion of a fireworks warehouse here early Saturday. The blast killed a 4-year-old girl in a nearby house, inflicted miw : injuries on at least 26 other per sons, and damaged several scores of homes in a southeast Portland suburban area. Crews began removing debris from the sue of the Signal Fire works and Specialty Co., where an estimated 20 tons of fireworks detonated with a blast that rocked Ihe entire city in early morning darkness Saturday. A two-block area around the warehouse site still was roped off Sheriff Francis Lambert said Oregon Highways Free O f Death, But 72 Drown To Darken Holiday Weekend By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oregon experienced a tragic Independence Day weekend on the water, but apparently escaped death on the highways in the long three-day holiday.- J , Twelve persons drowned" as 90 degree heat drove thousands to swimming areas a n o fishing streams. Two oilier deaths pushed Ihe Oregon toll to 14 by midnight Sunday, when the counting ended. Not one traffic death was re corded in the holiday period which began at 6 p.m. last Thursday. The deaths other than drowning were those of a California youth crushed by a huge rock near Odell Lake Sunday, and a 4-year-old deaf mute who died in the thun derous explosion of a fireworks warehouse in southeast Portland early Saturday. Two of the drowning victims were Portland sisters, swept away while wading, hand-in-hand, in the Columbia River near Sauvie Is land. The sisters were Slielba Ann Scroggins, 15, and Connie Scrog- gms, 11. They were holding hands while wading with five other youngsters. None of the seven could swim. Their mother, and a brother. Ronald, 21, saw the girls slip into deep pool. Ronald and other adults jumped in, hut were nut able to reach the sisters. Roger Braman, 20, Eugene, drowned Sunday morning in the south lork of the Willamette River 16 miles above Oakridge. He was (ishing with a companion, who told stale police Braman tell into the stream and was swept away. The body was recovered. Another drowning in the Eugene area look Ihe We ot Walter A. Chaffee. 12. son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Chaffee, Route 2, Vcneta, Sunday. The falher said Ihe boy disappeared suddenly from a raft the imming area at Fern Ridge Reservoir. The body was not recovered until too laic. Richard Roy Lander, 25, Riddle, drowned in Ihe South Umpqua River near Myrtle Creek Sunday evening. He went under while at tempting to swim across the river. Ihe body was recovered Monday. A youngster wading in the South Sanliam Itiver, five miles east o.' Lebanon, drowned alter falling into a pool. He was Harry Allen Anderson, 15, visiting from Lin- Raft Lehi Cracks Up As Fourth Float Try Bobbles SAN PEDRO, Calif. (LTD - Skipper DeVere Baker, 42. made repairs on the raft Lehi IV today after failure of his newest attempt to float across the Pacific. Baker, who has had three olher rafls which bohbled like aimless corks in four attempts at floating like Kon Tiki, estimated it would tnke another four days lo get tht 12-ton raft olt the beach. The skipper and a four-man crew set oul Saturday intending In float lo the Hawaiian Islands by Ihe Japanese current. Eight miles out came one of the almost inevitable accidents which have plagued Baker's rafts. The 28-by-18 foot raft, costing an estimated $.10,000 to huild, broke .- double tow rope and banged Into Ihe yacht Crest which had been lowing it to Santa Catahna Island, there were some unexploded fire works scattered in the area. Crews began carting off debris Monday. Oregon bans fireworks use, ex- cent at licensed public exhibitions, but storage at the warehouse was legal. The girl killed was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Howe Jr. The parents managed to escape from their home with another daughter, 3 years old. The house was set ablaze. Howe said he searched the burn ing structure several times before being chased away by flames without finding the 4-year-old girl Her body was discovered later under debris in her bedroom. Of the 26 persons admitted to hospitals here, the last were re leased Sunday. coin, Neb. He was wading with his twin brother, Harold, who managed to reach shore. Ken Mayer ot the Lebanon Fire Department rescue squad recov ered tne Body.' ' Lewis Jackson Jr., 21, Seattle, a nonswimmer, drowned while wading in Ihe Sandy River near Troutdalc, east of Portland. He was visiting Portland friends for the holiday. In a boating accident south of Newport on the coast, three per sons reached safety but a fourth drowned when a 14-foot outboard powered boal was capsized by a large wave. The craft had been missing and lost in the fog Satur day. The boat cams upon a crab boat. tne ueorge E.. of Newport, skin pered by Ed Erickson. He told the four to follow a line of crab pots back to the harbor, and notified the Coast Guard. A Coast Guard patrol rounded up four olher boats, but missed one occupied by Donald F. Crosby, 27, Portland, and three compan ions. The boat drifted ashore and capsized. Crosby failed to reach Ihe beach. The survivors were identified as Robert Nucse. 29. and his wife, Barbara, 28, of Grcsham, and Evelyn L. Gospodnctich, 24, Port land. The youth crushed by an over turning rock was William DavM DcLay, 17, of Indio, Calif. He had been visiting in Springfield with Ihe Gordon Miller family, and took Millers daughter, 17-year-old ludy, on an outing to Odell Lake Sunday. ' Young DcLay climbed a huge rock, camera in hand. The rock slipped, pitching the boy to his death as it roiled on him. The other five deaths, four by drowning, occurred earlier in the holiday weekend. The victims: Marlin Fisher, 46. and his 19- year-old son, Allan, both of North Bend, and Andrew Young, 40. Oregon City, in a boating accident off Florence. Sally Jenkins, 14. Sweot Home, drowned while swimming in the Santiam River near Sweet Home. Mary Beth Howe, 4, Portland, died in the explosion of a fire works warehouse in' southeast Portland early Saturday. about 20 miles off the Southern California coast. Despite a hole above Ihe water line, Ihe yacht attached a new rone to Ihe Lehi, relused Coast Guard assistance and lugged the rait back to Los Angeles Harbor where it was tied up. The Lehi' 20-foot square sail. ihe raft's only means of propul sion except for a dingy's outboard motor, was damaged during the abortive attempt to get underway. Now, Baker said, he plans to tow Ihe rafl 150 miles oul, avoid Catalina and catch the Japanese current. If he makes It to Iho Islands, Baker hopes to eventually lloat from the Persian Gulf to Central America. He believes persons in fthe Middle East made Ihe trip on raits in prcnisionc aayi, Lost ManT Found After Desert Search PRINEV1LLE (AP)-Dazed and exhausted from hours of exposure to 90-degree heat, an 85-year-old Pnneville man was rescued by his son and a helicopter pilot Sunday (rom lonely desert country near Powell Butte. Frank Brown had driven inle the area Saturday morning, head ing for a ranch. His car became stuck on a back road and he tried to walk to the Prineville-Redmond highway. He got about four miles before collapsing from the heat on a high ridge. Relatives notified authorities and a search started Sunday. Horsemen and airplanes entered the search and Brown's son; Bus ter, went up with pilot Bob Griffith in a Coast and Geodetic Survey helicopter used by survey teams in the region. The son Is employed by the survey. They spotted Brown Sunday afternoon, landed the helicopter, and flew the elderly man to a Pnneville hospital. Attendants re ported his condition improving Sunday night. California CC Opposes Tax Measure SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Aa official of Ihe California State Chamber of Commerce told a leg islative committee today the chamber is unanimously opposed to Proposition 17, the initiative tax measure. The official was James Mussat- ti, general manager of the cham ber. He appeared before Joint Legislative Committee on Taxa tion. The chairman is ' Sen. James. J. McBride (D-Ventura). Proposition 17 would reduce sales and use taxes from 3 to 2 per cent. It would also change the tax rate on personal incomes from the present 1 to 6 per cent scale to a new scale ranging from 1-2 to 46 per cent. "The adoption of the reckless and ruinous tax scheme set forth in Proposition 17 , , .would create serious linancial and economic problems in California," Mussatti said. "Simultaneously, it would work havoc with state credit as related lo selling bonds for vet erans loans, schools and col leges." ..- ,--. - Mussatll said adoption of that initiative would "seriously slow" the slate's economio growth since it would discourago business de velopment. "The full effect of revenue shortages caused by Proposition No. 17 would start In 1959-60," Mussatti said. "In that year, the shortage would run 84 million dol lars. In 1964-65, the deficiency would be over 200 million dollars." One result of the measure would be to drive higher income tax payers "to a more tolerable clim ate." Leader Asks Hawaii Move LOS ANGELES (UPI) -Edward S. Shattuck, Republican national committeeman for California, has asked Democrats to join in a bi partisan move to press for Ha waiian statehood. In a letter to Paul Ziffern, the state's Democratic national com mitteeman, Shalluck predicted the statehood hill would pass both houses of Congress by substantial majorities if it gets out of com mittee. "Will you join me in advocating immediate bipartisan action for passage of Ihe Hawaiian state hood bill?" Shattuck asked. 'The bill is now on the Senate calendar and should be called up by the Democratic majority at any time. Similar legislation is pend ing before the House Interior Com mittee and could be acted upon at any time the Democratic chair man and the Democratic majority would bring it up for action." He asked Zilfern to urge Demo cratic members of Congress from California to help bring the meas ure out of committee. Hatfield Will Wed On Tuesday PORTLAND (AP)-The wedding of Secretary of Stale Mark Hat- lield and Antoinette Kuzmanich of Portland will take place here Tuesday night. The ceremony will be in the Hinson Memorial Baptist Church. The couple was together here over the weekend as Mrs. B. F. Johnson gave a wedding rehearsal dinner .it her home Saturday night. A.so on hand at the re hearsal were Dr. J. Herbert Smith, president of Willamette University, who will be Hatlicld'l best man. Hatfield, who is Republican nominee lor governor, lormeriy was a political science proiessor at Willamette. Bulletin WASHINGTON, (UPI) President Eisenhower to day signed into law the bill to make Alaska the 4ft h (tat.