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J PAGE 6 A HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1. ins PETER RABBIT IS SICK JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. 1 1 PI) It's two days after Easter and They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Peter Rabbit is sick Not from eating Easter eggs, though. Peter HOWCUM DEPARTMENT THE 20-TON PUMP FROM THE OIL PATCH SUPPLV COMPANY IS INVOICED SIMPLY THUS- Rabbit, a member of the state Legislature and father of eight children, has the mumps. FRANK JENKINS Cditar BIU. JENKINS Managint Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Hgr Ph. TU 4-475Z Subscription Rates CARRIER Entered u second class matter at the put office at KUmaih Falls. Ore., on August M. 1908 under act of Congress. March I. 187 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS ! teotkera OrefM Aad Norther California I MONTH M MONTHS I Ml I YEAR . $U 0 MAIL 1 MONTH t I.M MONTHS . 8 50 1 YEAR . U00 IkaiiiKi'rouM Move By FLOYD L. WYNNK There is a move underfoot in the Slate Legislature that would give Multnomah Counly a stranglehold on the political affairs of the state. They already have such a hold in legislative affairs, but up until the introduction of a recent hill they did not have such a prepon derance of comrol in the affairs of Ihe State Dcmhcralic and Hcpuh lican Central Committees;. . The bill, House Rill (M, was in troduced in the Legislature by four Democratic representatives, Ver non Cook, Mullnomah Counly W, 0 Kelsay, Ro.-ebur:; Juamta Orr, Lake Grove; and Keith Skcl ton. Eugene. The bill, however, is not par'i san in nature, it would throw vir tual control of both Democratic and Republican parties to Mult nomah County. The bill provides that reprcsen talion on t h e stale central com miltees of each parly would be limited to .10 from the senatorial districts, and fin from the repre sentative' districts. Also, representation would be limited only to chairmen of the county central committees. The situation it would create would be soir.ewhat ridiculous be cause the net result in some coun ties would be only portions of .1 representative. Lake County would have one and seven twcllths ol a representative, Sherman County live twelfths; Lincoln County, two and one half; Malheur County, two and one third: Moro County, one and five twelfths and so on. I don't know just how you cut I man up into twelfths and expect him to represent you in the Legis lature. The end result would be to give Multnomah Counly 24 representa tives on each of the Republican and Democratic central commit tees. Al the present time each central committee is composed of the ehairman and vice chairman of each of Ihe counties in the state, giving every counly equal repre sentation on Ihe slate ccnlral com mittee. This prevents domination by any one group or sector. Traditionally, women serve in the capacity of vice chairmen of coun ty central committees. Under the current bill, vice chairmen could not serve on Ihe state central com mittee which would very neatly remove most ol the women from the state political scene. There's an additional feature in the. proposed hill that would take another advantage away Irom Ihe people. This one would give the state central committees the right to select their national committee men and committcewomcn. At present, the state at large elects these two national representatives on the ballot. They would lose this right under the proposed bill. It would also again tend to throw the choice to Multnomah County who would have 24 votes in the commillee. Klamath County, for instance, would have four repre sentatives on Ihe slate committees It is true as proponents of the bill say that Oregon and Florida are the only two slates thai elect their national committeemen and women, lull it's fair lo point out also that all Ihe other states have the county convention system which includes participation by hundreds in the selection, and not by a small gioup. The bill, if passed, would have a profound effect on the future poli tics of Oregon, and would aiv Multnomah County virtual control of all fnt ure political operations, both Democratic and Republican This is the type of discrimina tory legislation thai should draw protests from every cituen who reads this, including those in Mult nomah Counly who are intent on fair play and equitable reprcsen talion in the political affairs ol our state. Let's all write our legislators and protest this hill 11', tn our fu ture benefit to do so today The bill has had two readings and it currently in Ihe State and Federal Affairs Committee of the House ii : li By FLORENCE JENKINS Stale Senator Harry D. Roiv in is asking Klamath Counly voters for opinions on a proposed thiec per cent sales ia measure which would add funds (or education He has placed a paid advertise ment in today I Herald and News to be filled out. clipped and mailed to him at Salem so that he will he in a position 10 evnress ihe opinion of the majority ol the residents of the counn he repre sents Action by this session ol the Legislature on this propos.il ,pon- ored by Mullnomah County Sena-1 lor Walter J. Pearson' would place a measure on the ballot at the next general election relating to a sales tax. If passed, a three per cant sales tax would be levied in Oregon. Food and drugs would be exempt Irom the tax. The proceeds of the tax would be used to increase basic school funds for education. The $105 per child now allotted by the state has been the subject of much con troversy in Salem during this ses sion. At least two measures have been brought out which would increase the basic aid by twen ty dollars per child or more. Some increase seems certain and the money has to come Irom some where. By providing the needed funds through a sales tax (and maybe looking al the expected several million visitors to Oregon during this centennial year', it is pro posed lo reduce individual income lax rates by establishing larger individual exemptions. Proponents of the measure claim it would permit Ihe reduction of properly taxes on the average of forty per cent. Reduction of income tax pay ments and a drop in property taxes have been pinpointed as necessary planks in a program lo entice more industry and more people to Oregon. Whether or not a sales lax ear marked for one department, is Ihe way to handle the prickly prob lem of balancing Ihe financial budget, will, of course, be up to the voters in Oregon lo determine. A general sales tax has met de leat in the past but maybe it s lime now to lake a good, careful second look. "What we need around here is 1 Europe and talked to scores of not to print copies of a code of government officials, editors and ethics but to do something about imembcrs of American embassies. IK.'9 By TOM STIMMEL We've heard much about what happened in Oregon 100 years ago Here are a few things that hap pened elsewhere in 1R59: John Brown moved bis abolition- isl army from Kansas to Virginia, captured an armory at Harper's Ferry, and was hanged for his trouble The lirst oil well in history blew in on a Saturday afternoon at Xl-I liisville. Pennsylvania. Charles Darwin published "The Origin ol the Species." An adventurer named K.mile Blondin crossed Niagara Falls on tight rope. "Dixie," later adopted by the Confederate Army as 1 marching song, was written for a minstrel show. The Santa Fe Railroad was chartered. A group called the Knights of Golden Circle urged the United Slates to conquer Central Ameri ca lo obtain more slaves. The Comstoc k Lode was discov ¬ ered in Nevada. A Navy captain claimed Midway Island lor Ihe Uniled States. Dickons wrote "A Tale ol Two Cities;" Fitzgerald translated The Rubiayal of Omar Khay yam." and Gounod wrolc "Fousl." Pierre Curie. A. Conan Doyle and Alfred Dreyfus were horn. Washington Irving.. Lord Mac auley and Horace Mann died. The national debt was .Vt.4iH,B37. '( oil. Of Bthlc' Bj FRANK KLEAZER WASHINGTON 'UP1 - Write your congressman now lor your red white and blue copy of Con gress' new code of ethics The supply won't last. Better yet. make sure he keeps one for him self. Only 13.RS0 copies are to he printed, at a cost of K.97S This includes a double envelope and cardboard stuffer for mailing Some members thought this wasn't enough Others said it was too much. the so-called ethics that we prac tice, " said Rep. H. R. Gross R Iowa 1 when the House was ap proving the order lor printing. This congressional how to "the highest moral principles" in gov ernment comes engrossed in gold, on the best paper, and ready lor framing. It makes reassuring reading and possibly is just what you will want on your wall as you follow (he daily disclosures of nepotism, front porch rentals and other payroll practices ol some of the members of Congress. The code, which says public of fice is a public trust, etc , was adopted by Congress last year when the headlines were about unhappy developments in the ex ecutive rather than the legislative branch of the government. And don't get the idea the current de cision to print it up in three col ors and white represents Con gress' only reaction to the con gressional payroll disclosures. Take the disbursing clerk of the House. Under a barrage ol ques tions about how House members may have applied the $150 month ly allowance they can draw for running an office back in the dis trict, he acted forthrightly to head off possible scandal. He locked up the records. But the secrecy ban didn't last long. Several congressmen pro tested The clerk, alter consulting with Speaker Sam Rayburn. re opened the records under new regulations requiring anyone in specting them to state his reason and identity. The public also can see the books on what each House mem ber does with the $37,500 or so we give him each year to hire of fice help. In Ihe Senate, where payroll records are secret, some Republi can members considered whether sensibilities of the other senators would be olfended if an individu al member saw lit to make his own salary list public. No decision was reached imme diately on this ticklish question, but it may he discussed again lat er, they said. There have been other reac tions. Rep. Steven V. Carter 'D lowat cut his 19-year-old son's pay Irom $11(172 yearly to about half that. Rep. Randall S. Har mon iDInd.t, who rented his Ironl porch to us taxpayers for $f00 a month and hired his wifj to lend office there, blamed the publicity he got on drunken Wash ington reporters. He had the evi dence, too. He said he gave one of them a drink right in his of fice. 1 Rep. Leonard G. Wolf (D-lowai cut the pay of his wife Marilyn from $13,344 to $13,083. a saving ol $261 yearly. Wolf, at home this week during an Easter recess of Congress, had a chance to see how ihe voters think he and his vvile have been doing at their re duced combined pay of $35,583. Pending this, he made his own Iinding. "We are proud of our accom plishments to date." he said in a newsletter 1 "and I must say 'we' because without Ihe tremendous Uslatcflce, Ihe tireless effort of my wife. Lynn, these accomplish ments would not have been possi ble In retroscct, the c 0 u r s e could be described as the outer perfjte ter of the sickle in Communism's symbolic hammer and sickle. It could be the Turkish crescent or II could be the fertile crescent of the Middle East, embracing Leb anon. Syria and Iraq. Under the wings of the Luft hans German Airlines plane crept (he remains of Hitler's beer hall in Munich, Rome, and pyra mids of Egypt, Beirut. Damascus, Baghdad and the ruins of ancient Babylon. These are ancient battle grounds, both for real estate and for control of men's minds. Tech niques have changed, but not the objectives. In Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate divides East and West Ber lin and stands as a monument to man's destructive abilities as demonstrated by World War II. Camel trails and an occasional automobile track cut the desert between Damascus and Baghdad. Here, in Ihis vast desert, civiliza tion came to a halt BOO years ago when Tamerlane destroyed the fabulous canals which made the Tigris and Euphrates valleys the Garden of Eden. Between Berlin and Baghdad. Ihe airplane is the link and the persistently cheerful air and ground crews the guides in a journey that runs back in time but never escapes the conflicts that are strictly 20th Century. In Berlin, it is steadfast deter mination of the people, backed by an equally steadfast military, that gives the West its best chance against further Communist en croachment. Prosperous West Bcrliners give no indication of surrender, what ever Soviet Premier N i k i t a Khrushchev's threats. Stockpiles against blockade have been laid up for months to come And American military commander; there make clear their determina tion to retreat only under specific orders from Washington. It Ber liners and fighting men have their way. there will be no surrender in Berlin. But as of now, no such opti mism can be expressed for the Middle East. The Middle East itself is split. It is Arab nationalism aligned asainsl Israel. It is Arab nation alism divided by the ambitions ol Egypt's President Abdel Gamal Nasser on the one hand and by the creeping Communism in Iraq, which maintains Prime Minister Abdel Karim Kassem as its fig urehead. Worst of all. from the U.S. standpoint, is the failure of the Eisenhower Doctrine in the Mid dle East. Arab nationalism revolt ed against any attempt lo line the Arab states up, East versus West. Too late, the West recognized the reality of Nasser's positive neutrality and too late the Arabs themselves realized their headlong flight from Western colonialism was leading them directly into the Communist trap. Today. Iraq is all but Commu nist controlled. Western prestige in other Arah nations is at an all time low. And. as ol today, there 111 in existence no Western policy which might reverse the trend. Lowing llnllle Ry PHIL NKWSO.M 4 mil i s I PI Foreign News Editor ! ,. , . , , LONDON lUftl - The lnited: 1 n',f1 Prcss Inl"n'1,nal Slates is losing the battle lor the 1 NKW Y0RK - Cl,df St clair Middle East. In Berlin, the LuP'on- second mate of the tank chances still may he a liiile he:. r Valchem. describing his des- let than 50-50. Iperale maneuvers to gethis ship That is the capsule impression 01 .1 correspondent who in Ihe last live weeks has travelled close to 20,000 miles and in the course of it visited the principal pressure points ol the Middle East and SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal AtAft IN CVEftV (MftAOC- -SHORTER MMW HOUR - NO TAi-lfffKR VACATIONS-- MTTER Hw'JSES iVii VCRc iCK T WWE--- 1 k I WUNNEKftX. MRBnC I , -' wti ELtr Dees it svvrj out of the path of the Grace liner Santa Rosa: "I couldn't seem lo do anything to get away." RICHMOND. Va - Segrega tionist leader Edward J. Silver man, addressing anti-integration marchers al the stale capitol: "We must make a martvr of Virginia and Virginia leaders must he willing lo become mar !tyrs themselves." SALINA. Kara. Mrs Irene .Henderson Kelley. who was offi kially named "Kansas Mother of the Yrar" alter 39 other women received erroneous notification Uhat they had been selected. "I was sure I'd be named There was a committee ot the I Stale Rusmcss and Professional I Women s Club w orking lor me. and they re a powerful group " INDIANAPOLIS. Ind -Divorcee Connie Nicholas, charged with the murder of a married business ex jecutive who left her after 1 15 ear romance, after the srlectidn of an all-male, all-husband jury to try her case I "They seemed to be a group ot i fair-minded men. and that's all I lask " But the simple little washer prom the same outfit is Given THIS TREATMENT- 1UAHaNOJ-HOF THUTLOUT H JESS CKMY-rON VOLLEY, Alta.. Jl' WW W fr M t mJF- ' t f'ri.w" 1 t.,w -,, , s. . Air Pioneer Plans Talk Art Whitaker HtiM Itiiail Jlatotk. lltnr for Piner airnlannc a ; neer in civil aviation in the North- wcai. win De guest speaker at the April meeting of the Sports men Pilots of Oregon, Klamath Falls Chapter Saturday. April 4, in the lounge at Kingsley Field. A potluck dinner will be prompt ly at 7 p.m. Families are requested to take table service, and one of the fol lowing: a hot dish, salad, vege table, dessert. Coffee, butter, rolls, cream and sugar will be furnished by the host. The chapter will serve the meat dish. ham. The April meeting will honor the Klamath Aircraft Service on the 15th anniversary of the com pany which this weekend will hold open house at Kingsley Field. Whitaker will fly one of the lat est models of the Piper family, the "Piperama" to Klamath Falls for display Saturday afternoon and Sunday. There will be some free rides and special events. The program will include a re port on the recent air tour to view air terminal buildings in the North-j west and a report on progress of plans for Aviation Week in May Bud Cloake, president, will han dle the gavel. Daffy-nition Given Of SRO HONOLULU 'AP: - Sen Ken neth B. Keating fR-NY) told a Republican rally in this 50th state-to-be: "They've got the SRO sign out in the Senate in Washington. You know what SRO usually means .standing room only. "But for Hawaii. I say it means this: " 'Send Republicans only.' " The Welcome Wagon Hostess Will Knock on Your Door with Gifts & Greetings from Friendly Business, Neighbors and Your Civic and Social Welfare Leaders On the occasion of: The Birth of a Baby Engagement Announcements Arrival of Newcomers to Klamath Falls No cost or obligation Phone TU 2-0834 ATTENTION ALL SHRINERS HILLAH TEMPLE MEETING FRIDAY, APRIL 3 - Klamath Falls 6:00 - 6:45 - Refreshments, Willard Hotel 6:45 -7:00 --Dinner, Willard Hotel 8:00 -- Temple Meeting, Scottish Rite Temple All Shriners Invited and Urged to Attend llULUiglaNll.i jyoFfiM We Bought A Big Factory Close Out Of LINOLEUM heavy weight While the weather is bod outside dress up your floors with this very specially priced heavy weight print linoleum. 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