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In The- Lo'W TT7 I t-, ; Day's km By FRANK JENKINS About a year ago the advisory committee of the Oregon Planning and Development Department hired Dr. John Sly, of Princeton University, to make a study of Oregon's tax "climate." He has been working at the job ever since, and in a progress report the oth er day he said: "Throughout the study, I have asked myself this question: Is Ore gon's tax structure COMPETITIVE that is, does it compare favor ably with tax practices in com peting states? "1 have reached Uiis answer: "It is NOT out of line, but it Is on the HIGH side." Why is it high? Dr. Sly answers that question In his first report, which was is sued on July 1 of this year. He fays: "Oregon is known as a high lev el SERVICE state. As long as this is so, it will remain a high level TAX state." That is to say: If the people of Oregon demand and RECEIVE a wide range and a large number ol SERVICES from their state government, they are going to have to PAY FOR THEM. They will pay. for them In the form of taxes. That is realistic reasoning. Is Dr. Sly right in his state ment that Oregon's tax structure compares favorably with tax prac tices in competing states? I think he is. Southern Oregon and Far Northern California pro vide rather striking evidence of the correctness of his statement. They sit side by side. Their bas ic resources are quite similar. They are divided by a purely im aginary line. There is wholly free choice of sites. Industries seeking locations, if they don't like one state, can step over the line into the other state. mere Has been little, if any, stepping over. Once located in this general area, industries tend to STAY located. Southern Oregon hasn't suffered in this free choice. That indicates rather conclusively that Oregon's tax climate is NOT unfavorable to industry. Nor has Far Northern Califor nia suffered. Industrial develop ment on both sides of the line is proceeding at a quite satisfactory rate. So : I think Oregon will do well to discard this unfavorable lax climate thcorv. It has its attractive angles, of course. If it were true that all Oregon needs is a better tax cli mate, it could fix everything up bv PASSING A LAW. Passing a law is easy. Just write it on the books and then dust off your hands and sit back in your easy chair while new industries pour in. But, Dr. Sly says, it isn't true. And his statement is borne out by experience down here on the bor der. Still- VkSSm that "while Vbasic Oregon will do well to ponder tax structure is not out of line with competing states it IS ON THE HIGH SIDE. It is on the high side because the people of Oregon demand and get a high level of SERVICES from their state. Serv ices cost money. They cost tax money. If that is permitted to go too far, Oregon's tax structure could get out of line with tax structures in competing states. That wouldn't be good for Oregon. Klamath Wildlife Refuge Marks 50th Anniversary By TOM STIMMEL The Lower Klamath National Wildlife Reiugc marked its 50th anniversary yesterday, appropri ately enough at the start of a duck season that has seen a record num ber of birds settled on the vast marsh. High ranking officials from var ious sportsmen's organizations and personnel of the Fish and Wild life as well as state figures were on hand for the celebration. A tour of the reserve was held in the afternoon for all interested par tics, showing the many improve ments made in the area as well as the teeming millions of ducks and geese. It was no less a man than Theo dore Roosevelt who created the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge in a vast basin that lay in Northern California and spread northward into Oregon. " Old T. R. was a president who knew his country intimately. He had ventured into the immense vastness of the Grand Canyon, he had bumped along half developed roads in California's rugged Yo - Semite region, and in his younger days he had bedded down on the endless Dakota prairies. Far out west in the Klamath Ba sin, which in his day was a place few congressmen had heard of. much less seen, was an 81. 000 acre body of water half lake and half marsh where ducks, geese and marsh fowl stopped on their way south along the Pacific Flyway. It was the country's greatest nursery for fowl. Roosevelt wanted the lake pre- served as a refuge. And because it Charles Yocum. Game Management was Teddy Roosevelt who want-i Department. Humboldt State Col ed it. the lake eventually becamellrce and others, a refuge. I Tiie banquet was prepared by That was 50 years ago August the ladies of the Church of Latter t, 1D08. , jDay Saints. Yesterdav the Lr Klwn - nth and its s'ir raivs-i. Twit 1.41 mt, fUlA" W - QUEEN OF 1958 OTI Homecoming, elected Friday to pre side over the weekend activities, was Pat Maguire, Klam ath Falls, a 'first year medical technology student at Ore gon Tech, Her candidacy was sponsored by the institute of radio engineers of the electronics technology course. Announcement of the vote tally was made at Friday night's bonfire on the 'campus' and Queen Pat and her two princesses, Donna Kessi of Eddyville and Grace Grate of Albany, received an ovation from the assembled student body and alumni. Coronation took place at the half time of the OTI-SOC football game Saturday afternoon. Investigator's Report Supplants Suicide Theory WICHITA, Kan. (AP The I bomb that blasted Forrest Don McCuiston to death in Wichita's big air terminal Friday was hand detonated, police reported Satur day. This, Police Chief Eugene Pond said, "Seems to bear out the theory of suicide. Forrest Don . McCuiston was killed in the airport building Fri day when the bomb he was carry ing exploded. He was known to have taken out a $25,000 life insurance policy on himself at the airport last week before leaving on a job-hunting trip. Authorities were attempt ing to determine if he had other policies. The airline policy contains i clause stating the beneficiary can not collect if death is due to suicide. A Federal Bureau of Investiga lien explosives expert discovered that the homemade dynamite bomb had no timing device and had to be set off manually, Pond said. The engineer, married and the father of a 10-year-old daughter, died in a shattering explosion in a corridor just off the main lobbv of the airport Friday. Only 10 minutes before, he had left a Braniff Airways plane from Kansas City which carried 26 persons. The explosion devastated the corridor and shattered the plate J three persons were knocked down OPERATION INTERRUPTED PUEBLO. Colo. (UPD Robcr,t Peterson was on an operating table, ready to undergo surgery for ulcers, at St. Mary - Corwin Hospital Friday when doctors in terrupted the anesthetic to tell him his home had been wrecked, his wife injured and his son critically burned in a gas ex plosion. served that 50th anniversary. It is an appropriate time. The marshes are jammed with water fowl, the skies are darkened by migrating ducks and geese, and just off the borders where hunting' i.-. permitted, the sound of hunters' shotguns at daybreak resembles a minor war. Physically, the Lower Klamath is not the lake it was when Roose velt insisted it become a wildlife refuge. At that time it was led by tiie Klamath River through the Klamath Straits and steam boats could tnllow the river's course north to Lake Ewauna and Klam ath Falls. A railroad grade across the straits cut off water travel and even the flow of water into Low er Klamath Lake. The lake went dry and useless as far as Roose velt s intentions were concerned. But now 30,000 of the 81.000 acres have been returned to a wildlife habitat and development is contin uing. Principal speaker of the evening's i banquet, held at the Tulelake Fairarounds. was ! Butte Valley W. T. Shannon, deputy director. California Department of Fish and Game. The program was sponsored by the California Wildlile Federa tion. Other speakers included Dan iel H. Janzen. director. Bureau of Sports Fisheries; William Reavlcy Western representative, National Wildlife Federation; the Honorable Ed Johnson, state senator. Califor nia; Phil Schneider, director, Ore gon State Game Commission; Nor man Murray, Assistant Regional Di- rector, Bureau of Reclamation: Dr. I Frank Jenkins. Herald and News publisher. ,rr:i ;ps. was niaver ol by the blast although .McCuiston was the only person in the corri- dor at the time. His body was badly mangled and his gold wedding band, twisted out of shape, was found in the grass outside the corridor windows. McCuiston was ill and unem ployed. In Tulsa, his father, F. D. McCuiston. said his son had been losing his eyesight the wore extra-thick horn-rimmed glasses', had heart trouble and was out of work. Earlier this year he was con victed of income tax evasion in Tulsa ' and lost his job. He had not worked steadily since last Miy. McCuiston's widow, Mary Louise, said he left home -about 1 a.m. last Wednesday to drive to Wichita. She said he carried his briefcase. At the Wichita Airport, he paid $1 for a $25,000 flight insurance policy that named his wife as beneficiary. He took a plane to Denver, then rode on flights to Salt Lake City, to Las Vegas, Nev., to Phoenix. Ariz., to Kansas City and back to Wichita. 6 Drug Firms Deny Charges WASHINGTON (UPI) - Six manufacturers of antibiotic "won der drugs" have denied Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges of trying lo monopolize the indus try and fix' prices. The denials came Friday from Charles Pfizer & Co. of Brooklyn, N.Y.. American Cyanamid Co. of New York, Bristol Myers Co. of New York. Bristol Laboratories, Inc.. of Syracuse, N.Y., Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. of New York and the Upjohn Co. of Kalamazoo, Mich. All denied in similar replies they carried on illegal licensing arrangements in restraint of trade, as charged by the FTC last July 28. The companies asked the charges be dismissed Ike Arrives In Colorado DENVER (UPD-Prcsident and Mrs. Eisenhower flew to Denver Saturday for a weekend intermis sion in the chief executive's 5.300 mile political campaign trip for the Republican party. Mild Indian summer weatner greeted the Eisenhowers on their arrival at 10:45 a.m. mst (1:45 p.m. EDT) for what will be his first overnight stay in Colorado since his 1955 heart attack at the Denver residence of his mother- in-law, Mrs. Elivera Doud. Gov. Steve McNichols, his wife and five children headed a dele gation of about 200 persons, many of them Republican candi dates, who greeted the nation's first couple. The Presidents last visit here was a one-hour appearance at Stapleton airport Oct. 20, 1056, for a oriel political rally. A burst of applause greeted the President and his wife as they stepped off the Columbine III shading their eyes from the bright sunlight. Weather ' FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy with occa sional showers Sunday. High tern ! peraturcs 60-68; low Sunday 35-40.! High yesterday 57 Low last night 44 Northern California Rain spreading from noHi unast to In. iana arras fttmtw. ronmii mnasi esefeV 12-25 mtfmm hour. I KLAMATH FALLS. Price Ten Cents 74 Pages Private School Corporation Chief Says Negroes Should Not Register LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) i The superintendent of the Little Rock Private School Corporation said Saturday Negroes "will just cause trouble if they try to register for the private, segre gated schools scheduled to open Monday. W. C. Brashears, the superin tendent, said he doesn't mind "facing the thing head on." "If any Negroes try to register. I will talk to them if they are reasonable," he said. "I don't Air Contract Talks Recess WASHINGTON VPV Contract talks between Capital Airlines and its 2,500 striking mechanics were in recess Saturday until Mon day morning. Capital s 730 flights which nor mally carry 13.000 passengers a day between 77 cities east of the Mississippi have been idle since midnight Thursday, 24 hours after the mechanics walked off the job. Francis A. O'Neill, a faicmbcr of the National Mediation Board, said there was "a little progress" before the contract negotiations recessed Friday night. The talks have been going on for more than a year. It was learned (hat wage in creases arc the main stumbling block in the deadlocked talks. The1 company has offered a 9 per cent hike over a two - year period. The union wants about 9 per cent more in each of two years. Dag Promises British Aid UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) The United Nations will help the British get their troops out of Jordan, Secretary General Dag Hammarskiold anio Saturday. He announced die U.N. will aid with ground control of British transport planes flying paratroops from Jordan to Cyprus over Syria and Lebanon. A Jordanian official earlier said (hat within the next week the United Arab Republic would lift its air and ground blockade of Jordan to help speed the British withdrawal. It will begin by sea Monday and by air a week from Saturday. Abdel Monem Rifai. Jordan's minister of national guidance, told a reporter there was a gentle man's agreement" that tralfic to Jordan, including airline flights and oil truck tralfic from Syria, would resume. Press and radio in citement against Jordan also would stop, Rifai said. He added that the tone of (he U.A.R. press and radio (oward Jordan already had grown friendlier. Rifai said some British troops would sail for home from Jordan's Port Aqaba on Monday and para troops would begin flying out a week from Sunday. He added lhat all the British forces would be out in about three weeks. Britain sent her forces into Jor dan July 17 at the invitation of King Hussein of Jordan who ac cused the U. A. R. of trying to subvert his government. Rifai said the forces would withdraw because (hey no longer were needed in Jordan, and no threat (o the country now existed. Britain announced on Oct. 1 her intention to start pulling troops out of Jordan by Oct. 20. She pre viously had urged lhat the U.A.R. agree to lift the Jordan blockade first. Non-Stop Flier Interrupts Trip CORDOVA, Alaska UPI Charles iChuck) Banle, forced to interrupt a Tokyo (o Miami flight, said Saturday he will take another crack at the non-slop distance record for light planes. Banfe landed in a driving rain storm here Friday night, 29 hours alter he left Tokyo for Miami in an unsuccessful bid to break the 6,782-mile mark set by Marion (Pat) Boiling last August. Banfe, a Pan-American pilot, told a United Press International correspondent he flew the last 15 minutes into Cordova under take off power to hold the plane in the air. SHOOTING HOURS: OREGON Oclnber 20 OPEN 5:54 CLOSE 5:20- CALIFORNIA October JO OPEN fTf S: St 3:24 OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1958 Telephone TU 4-8111 know what I will actually do until the time comes. I hope they don't show up. It would be a mad move, and they know it will cause some trouble." Painters and repairmen moved in Saturday to put finishing touches on a two story brick building purchased recently from the Uni versity of Arkansas. It has served as the university's graduate cen ter. Dr. T. J. Raney, president nf the corporation, announced Fri day that registration for "all white high school seniors" would begin at 9 a.m., c.s.t., Monday. He said' the corporation had $61,- 481 in the bank and sufficient teachers to "get in business." Negro leaders say they know of i Negroes who will attempt to register al the school Monday. But Wiley Branton, the chief attorney for the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Col oi ed People in Arkansas, said "anything is possible." He said the NAACP regards the private school as "merely a sub terfuge" and legal action against the private school corporation might be expected. Church Slaps 'Old Bogey' ST. LOUIS (AP)-The Interna tional Convention of Christian Churches devoted itself Saturday o an examination of their reason for being "A passion for Chris tian unity." Ministers and laymen at the an nual assembly heard again the old story of why they are "a peculiar people." I heir old slogans rang through the convention hall: "No creed but Christ . . . New testament Christianity ... In opinions, lib erty . . . The Church of Christ on earth is one . . . Every man his own priest. . . ." The old bogey "We are the only Christians" was denounced anew. The Rev. Granville T. Walker, minister of University Christian Church at Fort Worth and prcsi- aeni ot ine convention, struck a note of urgency for the 8.01)0 at the service of inspiration and de votion which opened the sessions rnday night: "Some are saying it is too soon for a united church. It is loo late lor anything else. We do not know how much time is left in which lo do in our world what Christians know ought to be done. But even in this situation some are standing pat. Looking at the race problem they say it is too soon for Christian brotherhood. Looking at world politics. Ihcv in sist it is too soon for any kind of world law and order. It is too late for anything else. In the kind of world we live in. it is loo late to bear any less effective witness than the witness which only one great church can bear." Crews Search For Lost Boy A search was being continued on Saturday for (he body of the third member of the ill-fated hunting party which met disaster on Tues day of last week. Dragging operations in Upper Klamath Lake were being con tinued under the supervision of Klamalh Cnunly Sheriff Murray Hiillon. Still missing is Hal Fur- man Jr., 18. and all rescue agen cies are cooperating in the search. Ihe body of Jim Lime. 44. own er of Monroe's Moorage, was re covered on Wednesday morning, some 18 hours alter die three men had started across the lake in a boat to hunt deer on the west side area. The body of Hal Furman Sr., 45, was brought to the sur face by a dragline operated by sheriffs deputies on Thursday aft ernoon shortly alter 3 o clock. An autopsy established drown ing as the cause of Cline's death and his funeral was held on Fri day. The widow, Maxino and his mother, Mrs. Frank W. Clinc of Clinton, Illinois, survive. Furman Sr., a native of Nebras ka, was employed by Klamath Lumber and Box Company here Survivors include Ihe widow, Ma zie and three daughters, Claudettc Kay and Sharan Mickic, all of Klamath Falls, and Mrs. Patricia Jean Day of Anderson. Cahlornia. Hal Jr. was (he only son. O'Hair's Memorial Chapel will announce fu ncral arrangements. Bellboy Solves Pronunciation SEATTLE AP '-Names will be a problem to contend with when the 21-nation Colombo Conference opens its month-long run here Monday, a hotel bellboy discov ered Friday. Ordered to page, the secretary of Ihe Thailand Technical and Economic Committee. tl bfcii'wr found himself stymied The name? Chavalft Si:urealat'!'. The belli- ,;!!c f ' fejp gate from No. 6209 He said It could take the form of a petition in Federal Court to make the corporation board of directors defendants in the origi nal integration case, and forcp the dours open to Negroes. Branton explained such a move would be based on the theory the private schools were a "sub stitute" for public education which is guaranteed under the state con stitution. and Negroes are entitled to attend. 5,000 Depart Border Homes RIO GRANDI? CITY, Tex. (UPI) Another 5.000 persons have fled their homes on both waterlogged sides of the Rio Grande, trudging up roads knee deep in water or riding state guard trucks. The rain and drizzle which fell all along the lower Rio Grande I'l'iday continued into the night. Rain in northern Mexico fed tri butaries which empty into the Rio Grande. La Grulla. Tex., and Garcias- ville. Tex., residents waited to see if floods would rise over levees early Saturday. The Red Cross set up another disaster area center Saturday, at the elementary school in La Jova. Tex., to provide emergency food. clothing and medical care lo flood victims. Two buses were scheduled to circulate in the area, picking up evacuees. An estimated 11.000 in the low er Rio Grande Valley were made homeless by the river last week. Friday's victims included some 3,000 U. S. citizens and 2,000 residents in Mexico. Latest in the long list of little towns to see residents depart in front of the piling up waters was La Grulla, lex., where evacuation of the community's 1,000 residents began rnday. ine community of Abram, 30 miles to the southwest, was iso laled Friday after a levee broke (wo miles above the town. Thurs day (he town's 1.200 residents re fused lo board guard trucks' senl lo evacuate (hem, but Friday mcy stooa in line to climb aboard Police Closer To Solution ATLANTA (LTD Atlanta nolice said Saturday lhat a new arrest in tneir investigation of last Sunday's Jewish temple bombing has brought them "one step closer to solution of the case. Richard Boiling. 25. whose brother was one of the first picked up in (he case and was one of five indicted tor the dynamiting was arreslcd while he was driv ing on a city street. He did not resist although police had been in formed he was trying to get out ot lown. He was turned over lo the FBI for questioning. The grand jury that relumed in dictments Friday that could send convicted men (o (ho eleclric chair began gelling anonymous threatening and nuisance tele phone calls Friday night. Assistant jury foreman Robert C. Van Camp reported he received a call threatening to "kill all nf you who indicted those innocent nif,.n Van Camp said the caller warned lhat he and his family had seven minutes lo leave their home before it was blown up. He called police and six squad cars roared up to his residence lo pro - lect it through the night. 'zL. : iT L J. Vf? Jt - " Ji, Vj- SOME OP TH6 OWLS vwe whoo-ping it up yesterday in preparation tor the homecom t9 qem with SeutW Oregon College. Herald and News staff photographer Don Kft nr Ast lei; fi'Vwft terday morning as the Owls paraded down Main Streef. For fle4iW ttife eM gme, see sports section. UNITED NATIONS DAY, October 24, was officially pro claimed in Klamath Falls by Mayor Lawrence E. Slater. Ross Ragland, left, chairman of the United Nations Week committee, and Ben Kerns, right, who has-organized a panel of Toastmaslers to discuss the UN at service club meetings, watched while the mayor signed the proclamation. Basin Joins In World Fete Honoring United Nations Klamalh Falls joins in the world wide celebralion of United Nations Week, beginning today. Different displays of the United Nations will appear throughout the week at the city and county libra ries and in the Chamber of Com merce show window. The library exhibits will include free reading material on the UN, for distribu tion. Many churches are observing United Nations Sunday, today, and Atomic Shot Shakes Area ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nov (UPD Atomic shot Rio Arriba shook a remote area of Ihe south crn Nevada desert early Saturday, nooming from mop a 75-loot tow cr in a minor-scale experiment o. Ine current 1938 fall series. The U.S. Aloinic Energy Com mission triggered its ninth full scale snot at t:25 a.m. p. S t. as the first of three scheduled blasts n successive days in a virtual crash" program lo complete the tests before a proposed Oct. 31 internal tonal deadline. It wasn't visible immediately, but the tower disappeared in (he fireball nf the sub-kilolon (less than 1,000 tons of high explosive! range on desolate Yucca Flat. A small fireball appeared to bounce off (he desert floor into Ihe usual trademark mushroom cloud. The gray cloud balloon shol quickly to 6.(100 feet, turning toi near white as it went skyward. At about 8.000 feet (ho stem broke from the body of the cloud. Newsmen, some five miles dis tant from the tower, said the blast was a "real dinky" one, and that the Shockwave was "hardly no ticeable." Stassen Given UNESCO Post PARIS (AP) Harold Stassen has been named special adviser to Ihe Turkish pnvernmenl on ex pansion of Ihe Technical I'nivnr sity at Ankara, the U. N. Kduca- tioiial, Scientific and Cultural Or Kaiiization t UNKSCO) announced Saturday. The former ad isnr lo President Kienhower on disarmament ques- tinns will ro to Turkey toward the 1 end of this month lo take up the Ijob. Ihe week will be marked by other recognition of (he importance of the world organization. Specifical ly, (he Kiwanis and Rotary meet ings will each include a panel dis cussion on the role ol the UN, moderated by Ben Kerns of the - Toastinastcrs'. The week will also serve as a period of recruitment of member ship in the Klamalh Falls chapter of Ihe United Nations Association, of which Mrs. Everett Dennis is membership chairman. Ross Ragland has been appointed by Mayor Lawrence E. Slater to head the committee planning many ol these community activities. Serv ing with Racland are Mrs. Den nis, Charles Johnson, Mrs. Kcn Ineth Lamhie, Mrs. Bill Barnett and I Mrs. Isabclle Brixner. Mayor Slater appointed the com mittee chairman in response to a request Horn the U.S. commutes for the United Nations. This na tional group is delegated by the President of (he Uni(ed Slates to promote the nation-wide obser vance of United Nations Day, which brings the week to a close on October 24. It was on (his date in 1045 that the United Nations of ficially came into being. The (heme lor Ihe 1958 celebration of UN Day is "The UN is your business." A parallel state-wide committee or the observance of United Na ions Day throughout Oregon has been named by Gov. Robert Holmes. Chairman of the commit tee is Thomas L. Scanlon. Port land. Local members of this com mittee are Charles Johnson and Mrs. Ed Geary. PNW Viewers To See Orb PORTLAND (AP) The rocket which launched Russia's Sputnik III into orbit will be visible over Ihe Pacilic Northwest in early morning hours this week, weather permitting. The Oregon Moonwalch team provided Ibis schedule for the rocket, which will be moving from the northwest to southeast: Monday. 5:11 a.m., 48 degrees, southwest sky. Tuesday, 5:29 a.m., 25 degrees, southwest sky. Wednesday, 5:47 a.m., 10 degrees.- southwest sky. Thursday, 4:26 a.m., 45 degrees, southwest sky; 6:36 p.m., 20 de grees, southwest to northeast, in southeast sky. Friday. 4 42 a.m., 23 degrees, southwest sky. V
