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U.OF oas.LisaASt No?APER SECTION GEN.REFt AND DOCUMENTS DIV, UI3 CHE, OREO. In The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS In Salem, the highway commit tee of the house of representatives approves an increase of one cent in the Oregon gasoline tax. The present tax is six cents per gal lon. If the legislature approves the house highway committee's pro posal and the governor signs it into law, the tax would be raised to seven cents per gallon. It is estimated that the one-cent increase in the tax will bring in six million dollars a year. Of this amount.- the state will get about K200.O00. The rest will go to the cities and the counties. t Why the increase?. It's needed to match the ap proximately 56 million dollars in federal highway funds now appor tioned to Oregon if Oregon MATCHES THE FEDERAL GRANT. .Oregon, of course, wants and NEEDS the roads. That is the nub of the situation. If Oregon didn't need the roads, it would be a horse of another color. In that event, we would be money ahead if we declined to match the feder al grant in full. Since Oregon does want 'and need the roads, the house highway committee's proposal boils down to this simple question: HOW WOULD YOU RATHER PAY YOUR SHARE? Personally, I'd rather pay my share of it at the rate of a penny for every gallon of gasoline pur chased and poured into my tank than to dig it all up at once in one big sum. That's about the long and the short of it. At this point, let's take a look at these federal grants. They aren't manna from heaven. They come out of money levied in the form of taxes by the fed eral government upon the people of the United States. The people of the states, the counties and the cities who ask for and receive these grants PAY THEIR SHARE OF THE FEDERAL TAXES THAT PRODUCE THE MONEY. It's as if a child should say to its father: "Daddy, I want $100 to buy me a pony. If you'll give me the money, I'll break-open my piggy bank and give you $00 so that you can give me the $100." It's just that simple. As a matter of fact, in Oregon's case, it's even simpler. According to figures compiled recently by Tax Foundation, Inc., a non-political, non-partisan pri vate organization devoted to tax research, for every dollar Oregon GETS from the federal govern ment it PAYS BACK to the federal government 96 cents in federal taxes. ... . -. That is to say: Out of this 56 million dollars granted by Uncle Sam to his chil dren in Oregon he will TAKE BACK from them in the form of federal taxes the sum of $53,760 000. All they will get from their kind old uncle, when the books are balanced, will be the sum of $2.2-10.000. Well If Oregon NEEDS THE ROADS, even that gift will be welcome. But if Oregon DIDN'T need the roads, it would be a gift horse that should be looked in the mouth. As a final thought, let's add this: In the case of our neighbors in California, it IS different. Accord ing to the Tax Foundation figures, for every dollar California gets from the federal government it pays back $1.04 in federal taxes. That changes the California pic ture. DEATH PENALTY TRENTON, N.J. (UPI) The state assembly Monday defeated a bill to abolish the death penalty in New Jersey. The vote was 30-19. A Bimilar measure was defeated in 1915. Solons Okay Tobacco, Tax Hikes By JAMES C. ANDERSON SACRAMENTO (UPI) - Gov. Edmund G. Brown's program was rolling in nigh gear today through tne legislature. In the short space of 48 hours ine Democratic governors pro gram tor "responsible liberalism" scored these important victories: The Assembly voted 45-3 in favor of Brown's bill to levy a new tax of three cents a package on cigarettes and 15 per cent on cigars and other tobacco products If approved by the Senate, the to bacco tax would raise 68 million dollars a year. The lower house also approved 51-27 and sent to the Senate the governors proposal to boost mid dle and upper state income taxes by 71 million dollars a year. Assembly Democrats success fully beat off efforts by rural leg islators to exempt agriculture from Brown s minimum wage bill. However, sonic amendments were adopted to the measure which weaken its elfect. The Senate prepared to vote final approval to a key administra tion proposal to create a Fair Em ployment Practices Commission designed to prevent discrimina tion by employers or unions in hiring workers because of their race, creed, color or national or igin. "The vote on the income and cisarelte taxes in the Assembly were a courageous commitment to fiscal responsibility in California," (he governor said. Noting that six Republicans went (long with 39 Democrats in the Assembly in voting for the tobac Unions Plan To Hold Giant Rally WASHINGTON (AP) Hun' dreds of delegates to the AFL CIO un-eiiiployinent conference here were stricken with food poi soning, some en route Tuesday night and others in the meeting hall today. At least 30 were hurried to hos pitals from the National Guard Armory where the meeting was held, and one man was reported in a serious coudition. ' He was not identified. WASHINGTON (AP) Ameri ca's labor unions stage a giant rally today to drive home their claim the nation's jobless situation is still desperate. George Meany, president of the sponsoring AtL-CIO, in a pre pared keynote speech, charged President Eisenhower's adminis tration with a do-nothing policy toward the nations economy. Meany urged the administration and Congress to embark on a broad public works and economic aid program, not as a spending plan but as, what he called a sound investment toward the nations future. "It is a safe and sound invest ment," Meany said. "For the most part the funds invested by the government will be reimburs able. Whatever expenditures are entailed will be more than made up by a tremendous upsurge in tax revenues." More than 5,000 delegates were expected at the National Guard Armory, biggest hall in the na tion's capital. They represent both union officials and unemployed workers drawn from major em ployment areas in the East and Midwest. Besides Meany the program called for addresses from Secre tary of Labor James P. Mitchell, speaking for the Eisenhower ad ministration: Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas, and Auto Union chief Walter Reuther, who promoted the rally. However desperate may be the unemployment situation, some of its urgency was removed by new job data disclosed by the adminis tration Tuesday. This showed a substantial job improvement in March, with employment rising a whopping 1,106,000 and unemploy ment declining by 387,000. Both changes were twice as good as the seasonally expected improvements, lifting total em ployment to 62,828,000 and cut ting unemployment to 4.362,000 'or March. Meany minimized the improve ment, saying it represented only a little better than expected springtime change, tie said even the lower unemployment total is tfte worst idle figure for the month of March since World War II except for in the 1958 recession year. Three Perish In Car Crash An early morning tragedy took Ihe lives of three youthful Chilo quin and Sprague River youths today. Killed in a spectacular auto mobile accident one and a half miles north of Sprague River were the car's driver, Norman Barney, 19, of Chiloquin,:OJoseph Barklcy, 18, of Sprague River, and Geral dine Dexter, 19, of Sprague River. Oregon State Police officers said the car flipped end-over-end once and overturned sideways once in its 234-foot journey from the road into a field belonging to Hi' Rob bins in the Sprague River cutoff. The bodies were brought to Ward's Klamath Funeral Home in Klamath Falls this morning. Fu neral services are pending. iThree passengers were injured. co tax and seven Republicans joined 44 Democrats in approving the income tax measure, Brown added: "Those who voted for the tax bills today have demonstrated that they recognize the needs of this state and are prepared to provide for them without regard to poli D-Lne Ding-Dong Daddy Loves 'Em And Leaves 'Em LOS ANGELES (UPI) The 72-ycar-old marrying "ding dong daddy of the D-car line" said from his jail cell today that he doesn't remember all of his 18 wives but he knows he loved 'cm all. "Most of my marriages were on impulse," chcrubic-i o o k i n g Francis II. Van Wie said. "All I wanted was companionship, just like someone to be with, to go to me movies with someone and to the park." The roly-poly former San Fran cisco streetcar conductor who served two brief terms in jail for bigamy was back in jail, this time for breaking terms of his 1953 parole which ordered him not to engage in any more matrimonial pursuits for seven years. "One thing Van Wie wants everybody to know," the 5-foot, 2-inch Van Wie said, "and that's that I never never married t woman for money. "I can honestly say that," he a ii i mm Ill" m "M jliwi n "JliljllllgMg"1"" iiNiuinpviTOgjJMJUUUUUUiuis'ii Price Five Cents 24 Pages Reich Chief Predicts 'No Changes' BONN. Germany (AP) Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer declared tonight West German policy "will not be changed one iota for years to come" with his withdrawal to the less active role of president. The presidency, he told a na tional audience, "is far more now erful than people generally be lieve. Adenauer's agreement Tuesday to drop the chancellorship to seek the presidency, heretofore a post largely of prestige and protocol, caused repercussions not only in German politics but also in world capitals. East-West negotiations on Berlin and Germany are com. ing up this spring and summer. Adenauer has been in the fore front of a hard policy of no bar gaining without Soviet conces sions, a policy that has run coun ter to British Prime Minister Har old Macmillan's advocacy of greater flexibility. Adenauer, 83, said his decision was "designed to secure the con tinuity of our policies for years to come." This was -Adenauer's first per sonal explanation for his sudden and surprising decision to run for president next July and quit the chancellorship Viext September if as appears certain he is elected. Adenauer's decision brought mixed reactions in Europe. The Communists, as expected, said he had been a failure. West Germans and persons in Allied capitals looked for a new approach to old problems by the new chancellor but no startling revision in Adenauer's policies. Allied diplomats cautioned on expecting any major shift in over all Western policy to result. Morton Seen As Chairman WASHINGTON (AP) - Republi can critics abandoned today their light against the selection of Sen. Thruston E. Morton (R-Ky) as GOP national chairman. A congressional Republican who was influential in launching it con ceded privately that the stop- Morton drive itself had been stopped by the refusal of Post master General Arthur E. Sum- merficld to let his name be con sidered. Summerfield said in a statement Tuesday it would be "impossible for me to consider this assignment in view of my pressing duties as postmaster general.' In the light of this development, Rep. Richard M. Simpson (R-Pa) told reporters after a meeting of tne House campaign committee he heads: "I know of no candidate at all other than Mr. Morton.' Simpson and Sen. Barry Gold- water, chairman of the GOP Sen atorial Campaign Committee, had contended that Morton could not give full time to the chairmanship because of his senatorial duties. Previously, Simpson, Goldwater and others had hoped that State Chairman Ray Bliss of Ohio would take the post being vacated by the resignation jf Meade Alcorn to return to private law " practice. President Eisenhower is report ed to have approved Morton. tical consequences. I was pleased to see there were some Republi cans who stood twilh the majority. ". . .California is on its way to its first balanced budget in many years." Twenty six Republicans were joined by eight Democrats in vo ting against the cigarette tax, said with a touch of pride. "No woman ever had to work for me. Some of them didn't have any money at all, and I took care of them." I Van Wie, who appeared in court luesday and was assigned a court-appointed lawyer when he pleaded he was broke and couldn't afford to pay a lawyer for his May 1 probation violating hearing, married wives No. 17 and 18 in the past two years. "But I loved 'em all when I married them, everyone of them," he insisted. "But then I'd wake up and realize I'd done an awful thing. I didn't really love them after all, and soon I'd leave and marry someone else." Van Wie Is called "the ding dong daddy of the D-car line" be cause at one time he was mar ried to four wives, all of whom lived along his streetcar route. He used to clang the streetcar bell in a merry greeting each time be went by one of their houses. KLAMATH h T ' - M I - . -S FOR THE FIRST TIME since the Southern Pacific Shasta Daylight started its run a num ber of years ago, the streamliner stopped in Mount Shasta, its namesake town, last weekend. The occasion was to pick up 30 members of the Southern Pacific Ski Club, who had spent the weekend skiing at the Mr. Shasta Ski Bowl. The mayor, Pete Chinca, was there to greet the train, and the high school band played. Cub Scouts waved flags. Bunting and posters decorated the station, Special police directed traffic for about 20 minutes after the Daylight hummed southward to clear the crowd accumulated to wit ness the phenomena. Photo by Peggy Walsh End Of .Backstreet Affair To Be Told By INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-The end ing of a 15-year backstrcet ro mance in a post-midnight shoot ing will be told today by Minnie B. (Connie) Nicholas. An all-husband jury will hear the shapely defendant's version of how wealthy drug executive For rest Teel died last July 31 in his white Cadillac. Mrs. Nicholas. 44. was expect ed to support the defense conten tion that the handsome, sports- loving leel waschot in a struggle over a gun as he beat her. ine prosecution claims it al ready has proved a case of first- degree murder that Mrs. Nicho las killed Teel rather than lose him to a younger woman. Everyone was left in suspense luesdayv as Judge Thomas - J. taulconcr adjourned court im mediately after the jury inspected Dirksen Raps Morse Bill WASHINGTON (AP) - Senators who want to make their payrolls puDiic got an invitation today from Sen. Everett Dirksen (R- III) to go right ahead. But Dirksen. the Senate Renub- ucan leader, stood anchored against the kind of forced publica tion that Sen. Wayne Morse (D- (Ore) proposed in the Senate Tues day. There is no need for the kind of bill Sen. Morse is proposing." Dirksen said. "Any member who wants to make a statement about who is on his payroll and how much they are paid can do so anytime. Those who don t care to dis close the individual salaries that are paid to their employes ought not to be forced to do so." The House makes its payroll figures available, but public Sen ate records list only the names of employes and the total amount assigned the Senate for payment of them. which was opposed by organized labor. Only three Democrats plus 24 Republicans in the lower house voted against Brown on the income tax bill. The two tax bills approved in the Assembly and sent to the Senate are part of Brown's eight point tax program to generate 256 million dollars in new revenue. Ad ministration leaders said the bills arc needed to offset an expected deficit in the current fiscal year of 68 million dollars and a poten tial red ink figure of 200 million dollars in the fiscal year ending June 30. 1960. The Assembly action in thi low er house on proposed amendments to Brown's minimum wage bill virtually assured passage of the legislation later in the week. On a roll call of 42-37 Tuesday. the Assembly for the second time rejected efforts by Lloyd Lowrey (D-Rumscy) to exempt agricul ture from the bill, in its present form, the measure provides for a minimum wage of $1.25 an hour for industrial and trade workers and M-cents an hour for farm la borers. However, the lower house did adopt 58-19 amendments which pro hibit the Industrial Welfare Com mission from increasing the wage for male workers above the sta ted minimums. And Assemblyman John C. Wil liamson (D-Bakersfield) succeeded tM-8 in attaching a rider which will permit farm employers to continue using piecework rates for labor as long as 90 per cent of those on an incentive pay scale get more than 90-cents an hour FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, Defendant a farewell letter Mrs. Nicholas wrote Teel but left unmailed nine days before the shooting. ine placid composure Mrs. Nicholas had presented during the trial vanished in tears as defense lawyer Charles W. Symmes read aloud the sorrowful two-page type written note. "I know now that we can never go back and mean to one another; the things that we have for the past 15 years," the letter said. Mrs. Nicholas covered her face with a handkerchief as she sat on the witness stand and sobbed. I still love you," Symmes read on, "I am still not angry with you, just hurt and heartbroken. I am sorry that you failed me after all this time." The jurors glanced uneasily at the weening defendant. Two elder Iy women in the audience slowly i I. I ' "Life without you would have no meaning. I still love you with all my heart. There is no half way point for me when I truly leei as i do about you, bymmes read. Introduction of the letter over prosecution objections was aimed at proving Mrs. Nicholas meant to commit suicide and had no in tention of killing Teel. The defense offered a note left in the divorcee's apartment with a robe and slippers belonging to the executive vice president ol the Ell Lilly It Co. drug firm. It di rected that the clothing be sent to Teel at his home. Mrs. Nicholas lost control and sobbed several times during her first day on the stand, breaking down completely when Symmes showed her the .25 caliber pearl- handled pistol with which her lover was killed. She wept as she told of her first date with Teel in 1943 two years she said, after he began asking her to go out with him. After that they met at least twice a week, she said, "some times in my apartment, other times in hotels." She told of trips to Havana, Chicago and St. Louis with the married businessman. World iews In Ilricf United Press International ADENAUER Bonn - Ade nauer begins a month's vacation today, leaving his capital confused on motives for leaving office and guessing as to hi; successor. me Augusta, ua. Eisen hower plays another 18 holes of golf today in sunny weather. TIBET New Delhi Anti- Communist rebellion grows in Ti bet; Dalai Lama trekking ftiward Assam jungles to greater safety. ARGENTINA Buenos Aires Argentina expels one Communist diplomat, brands four others un welcome as prelude to expulsion. REPEAL-Oklahoma City - Ok lahoma prepares to take its first legal drinks and bootleggers start looking for a livelihood. KURDS Beirut Soviet ship ment of 855 armed Kurdish tribes men to Iraq seen as forerunner of new troubles in Middle East. NICHOLAS Indianapolis Con nie tells all-male jury her version of how the man she gave 15 years of her life was killed. JOBLESS Washington AFL- CIO president opens big unem ployment rally with sharp attack on Elsenhower economic policies Catholic Cleric Accident Victim ATHENS (AP) - Roman Ca tholic Archbishop Marius Macrio nites of Athens died early today of injuries received in an automobile accident April 2. The prelate's automobile and a military truck collided In the rain in an Athens suburb. A nriost driving the archbishop was killed. APRIL 8. 1959 Weather Northern California Fair through Thursday except coastal fog; little change In tempera tures. Coastal winds variable 8-16 miles an hour. Klamath Falls and vicinity Fair and warm through Thurs day. Low tonight 30-35; high Thurs day 70-75. High yesterday .. 62 Low last night .. 29 Precip. last 24 hours 0 Sinee Oct. 1 4.36 Same period last year 14.20 CRATER LAKE High yesterday 47 Low last night , 25 8 a.m. today 29 No new snow Snow depth 79 Last year 181 Skiing Corn Wind was calm, skies blue and roads all, open In the park this morning.' Heroic Girl Saves Mother A heroic littlt girl saved her mother, Mrs. Marjorie Zupan, 38, of 915 Donald Street from burn ing to death shortly after 1 a.m. today. Liza, 7, awoke to find the home flooded with smoke. She ran into her mother's room, and found the woman in bed, overcome by smoke and flame from burning bedclothing. The girl tried in vain to wake her mother and to get her out of bed. When her attempts failed she ran next door to the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Shaw. They entered the home, removed Mrs. Zupan from the bed and called the Klamath Falls Fire De partment and the Peace Ambu lance Company. Then they brought Mrs. Zupan from the house and laid her on the sidewalk in front of the home. She was admitted to Klamath Valley Hospital at 2 a.m. Person ncl there said her condition was critical at 9 a.m. today. She was burned very severely l her head and one arm, ac cording to Fire Chief Roy Rowe firemen said they are amazed that Liza was not overcome by smoxe. Another daughter, Jollyn, 16, is in Portland visiting her grandpar ents. Attempts to contact her were unsuccessful this morning. unci Howe attributed the fire to smoking in bed. He issued stern warning that smoking in bed is an extremely dangerous prac tice since smoke in quantity anes thetizes Its victim. Mayor Romps To Easy Win CHICAGO (AP) - Mayor Rich ard J. Daley romped to an easy predicted victory in Tuesday's municipal election, strengthening the stranglehold the Democrats have held on City Hall for years. It was no contest In the mayoral race. Daley smothered his Repub lican opponent, Timothy Sheehan, in his successful bid for reelection, lie led his Democratic ticket In the sweep. Daley, in winning a second four year term, polled a near record majority for a mayoral election. He won by more than 465.000 votes, getting 71.36 per cent of the total ballot and outvoting Shoehan by about 2'J to I. Daley, a veteran politician backed by one of the country's most powerful Democratic organ izations, made the best showing in a mayoral election since 1935. In that ballot, then Mayor Ed ward J .Hilly and his Democratic ticket got 75.8 per cent of, the total vote. Telephone TU 4-8111 Oklahomans Vote Repeal Of 'Dry' Law OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)-Okla- homans struck prohibition from their constitution Tuesday. With all but 13 of the state's 3.234 precincts in, repeal carried to 313.574. The state still isn't off the wag on. Legal liquor is at least two months away. A constitutional amendment sub stituting privately owned package stores for prohibition was ap proved by a margin of more than 80.000 votes in a record-breakine special election called at the urg ing oi uov. j. Howard Edm&nd son. Edmondson called on state resi- dents to use "good judgment and common sense ii the days ahead." The Legislatui" must validate the amendment and repeal anti whisky laws before liquor can be sold legally. This probably will take 60 to 90 days. Oklahoma then will emerge from 51 years of prohibition. Mis sissippi will be the only dry state left in the union. Failure of a county option pro posal Tuesday means the entire state will go wet. although liquor stores will be limited to towns of 200 and larger. lhe county option question, sub mitted separately, lost 221,520 to 467.928. Had county option passed, each county would have voted May 12 on whether to allow liquor stores. Liquor can be sold only by the bottle when the new amendment goes into effect. The "open saloon" will be banned, although 3.2 beer still will be sold in tav erns. Though whisky still is illegal. there was celebrating Tuesday night. Nightspots were crowded and honking horns reverberated through Oklahoma City. Repeal advocates marched down an Oklahoma City street, carrying a col I in bearing a sign Old Man Prohibition." The repeal victory came when Oklahoma was "drier" than at any time since statehood. Edmondson ordered a statewide crackdown soon - after taking of fice in January. State officers have driven hundreds of bootleg gers out of business, Many night clubs closed. The whisky crackdown and in tensive campaigns by both the wets and drys helped make this the biggest special election ever held in Oklahoma. The vote total of more than 700.- 000 topped by' far the previous high of 591,000 in the repeal elec tion 10 years ago won by the drys Collier Bill Given Okay SACRAMENTO (LPI) -A bill to establish a more than 10 bil lion dollar freeway and express way system in California was ap proved Tuesday in the Senate Transportation Committee. Sen. Randolph Collier 'R-Yrekai drafted the bill which will connect all of California's major cities with a 12,305 mile net of high speed roads. The system, Collier said, is geared to meet the state's needs through 1980 when California is expected to have a population of 31 million with a total of 17 mil lion cars and trucks. 8K 'ii X .. . li W I ii AUDIENCE APPLAUSE gave 10-year-old Sandra Ruconieh, Klamath Falls, fourth grade student at Conger School, the coveted trophy presented at the 1959 OAV-spontored local talent show (or outstanding performance April" 3. The show of 40-acts was presented at Mills School Audi, torium. Sandra alio took second place cash prize with piano number "Jezi Lag a to Medley." The presentation was made by Lada Wirth, adjutant of sponsoring Dewey Powell Post, DAV. Sandra is tht daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Ruconieh and has taken piano for four and hall years under Mrs, Pearl Foster. IThai i Leader Yarns Others Of Tibet Fate WELLINGTON, New Zealand ( UPI I The fifth SEATO Council of Ministers meeting opened here today with a warning by Secre tary General Nai Pote Sarasin of Thailand that the fate of Tibet could befall any small, undefend ed nation. Sarasin, who did not mention Tibet by name, said the Far East ern nation was a "clear exhibl tion of Communist imperialism, co-existence by force." He said the free world must be united in defense against the Communists. New Zealand Governor General Viscount Cobham opened the morning session with a call for increased emphasis on economic aid for Southeast Asia to combat Communist expansion in the area. An organization devoted to mil itary cooperation alone is too nar- rowly based to meet theNvaried challenge with which the free world is confronted at the present time," he said. His words were echoed by New Zealand Prime Minister Walter Nash, who said hungry, ill-clothed. Ul-housed men "are not likely to have the strength or the enthusi asm to stand firmly in the de fense of democracy." C. Douglas Dillon. U.S. Under Secretary of State, and Australian Foreign Minister Robert G. Casey indicated a reluctance to introduce a new program of economic aid into SEATO's range of affairs. I am confident the United States and the other free world coun tries would devote even greater resources to this pressing task were it not necessary for us to devote so large a share of our resources to building defenses against communist aggression." Dillon said. Casey said in a speech on the eve of the conference that Aus tralia preferred to see SEATO place its emphasis on the military defense against communism while leaving economic aid programs to tne loiomDo fian. wnicn ne said was a more appropriate vehicle for it. The eight nations attending the conference are Australia, the Unit-' ed States, Pakistan, Thailand, the Philippines, Britain, France and New Zealand. Group Seeks Tax Increase WASHINGTON (AP) - The Committee for Economic Devel opment, an influential business group, wants Congress to match any unbalancing of President Ei senhower's budget with a tax in crease, i. But the committee, in its annual report on the federal budget Tues day, saw no need for boosting taxes. It suggested that Congress keep within the budget by cutting expenditures for farm, housing and veteran programs, while in creasing appropriations for foreign aid. Supported by private funds, the committee is an organization of corporation leaders and educators. With its plea for a balanced budget, the CED coupled a warn-' ing that any tax increase probably would affect low and middle in come taxpayers the most. The committee said the govern-. ment can get little extra revenue by raising the taxes on upper in come people and corporations, for maximum income rates now reach 91 per cent and maximum cor poration rates reach 52 per cent. l he report of the CED s 50-mem- bcr research . and policy commit tee was not unanimous. Former Sen. William Benton (D-Conn), one of several dissenters, filed a long minority opinion. He said the report s presumption that the bud get will be balanced this year "seems to me wholly unrealistic and unwarranted."
