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COUP. Socket leliveirs Mail From USN Sub At Price Five Cents 16 Fieri KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. MONDAY, JUNE . 1S Telephone TU 44111 No. MIS U.OP 0R2.LIB3ART lUVISPAPER SECriOS CEN.REF.AND DOCOIEHTS DIV. tUQWC,OaEO. Sea nrlrSreinigoiftainftwQwt iiiiiiiiniimn nn iFir la The- IBafs km By FRANK JENKINS In California. Governor Brown loses his battle to levy a two per cent severance tax on oil and natural gas taken from the ground, with an equal levy on IMPORTS. The reason for the equal levy on Imports is obvious. Otherwise over-the-borders gas and oil products would have been given a market advantage in California, which is now an oil and gas importing area. It is obvious that with the im port tax added the levy would have amounted merely to a selec tive sales tax on gas and oil. Its result would have been to make gas and oil products more costly in California than elsewhere. One could lecture on that point at considerable length. Gas and oil are basic raw , materials. Through the processes of chem istry, they are sources of a wide range of commercial products. They are basic sources of power. To the extent that a tax on power Increases operating costs of in dustry, such a tax would tend to limit industrial expansion in the Itate levying it. That, in turn, would tend to limit employment The same is true of a tax lev ied on basic raw materials. So- It could be arsued The result of the proposed sev. trance lax on gas and oil would have been to lower the profits of industrial concerns in. California thus handicapping their expansion and causing them either to cut down their production or to go to more costly automatic processes in an effort to meet the price. That would tend to REDUCE JOBS and job opportunity in Cali fornia and to build up other states rot subject to such added costs Thus California development would be handicapped. That, however, is not the pur pose of this piece, which seeks merely to point out FACTS. One of the facts of lite is that NO BODY can permanently dodge tax es. Nobody can permanently shove his share of the tax burden off onto somebody else because taxes are a part of the cost of doing business and so have to be Add ed to prices. Since we all have to BUY THINGS, we all in the long run pay our share, according to our means, of the tax burden. The ha i truth is that the only way in which taxes can be reduced Is to reduce the COST OF GOV ERNMENT in other words, to spend less for government. What we need to do. above all else, is to reduce the WASTE in govern ment spending. - Government is inherently waste ful. Let's put it this way: You and I would be wasteful also If when we ran out of money all we had to do was to reach into the people's pocke's and take out what we needed. I And - We shouldn't be too rough on our representatives in the state legislatures and the congress. They think that in spending recklessly thy are doing just what we want them to do. They have reason to think that the reason being that for decades the spenders have tended to be elected and the econo mizers have tended to be defeat ed in elections. As long as that goes on, govern ment spending will tend to be reck less. WRONG DREAM BRISTOL, Conn. (UPIi After Elmer Madsen lost his wallet con taining $19, he dreamed it was lying in a parking lot. Next day, tie went to the tot where, sure enough, he found a wallet but it wasn t his. I u.Smii( 'Iffa v -7 NEW AND OLD OFFICERS of (he Weed High School student body are, from the left, Joyce Linville, pait vice president; Sally Welch, secretary-treasurer; Eddie Fruzza, oait (resident; Jim Lemoi, president; Gloria Acqu istapece, past secretary. treeturer, end La Verne Solus, vice president. The new officers were elected before the and of this year's erm end will take office next fell. . Photo by Don Kettler RR Worker Sires Quads; Problems Just Starting EAST ORANGE, N.J. AP) i Ciro Bravata's quadruplets and their mother are doing fine in East Orange General Hospital. But the proud papa admits "I ve got troubles" another family in New York City. Bravata became the father of a girl and three boys Saturday. Sunday he admitted ha was mar ried to another woman and had two children by her. Oh. he s a fine one. moaned Bravata's wife, Grace. 38, as she lay in bed under sedation after hearing of the quads. Debt Ceiling Hike Asked WASHINGTON (API President Eisenhower today asked Congress to scrap the interest ceiling on government bonds, both long and short term. He also called for an increase in the national debt ceiling. In a special message, Eisenhow er said such steps are necessary for successful management of the public debt, now a record 286 bil lion dollars. He said the Treasury Depart ment will formally put before Congress requests for: I. Removal of the current 3' per cent interest ceiling on sav ings bonds-. 2. Elimination of the present 4'i per cent interest limit on market able bonds of more than five years maturity. 3. A hike in the permanent na tional debt ceiling from the cur rent 283 billion dollars to 288 bil lion dollars, plus an increase in the temporary limit from the pres ent 288 billion to 295 -billion. In the savings bond field, Ei senhower said the Treasury De partment plans a new interest rate of 34 per cent on all series E and H bonds sold begin ning-June 1. Th.-' is an interest hike or a half of one per cent Eisenhower said further the Treasury Department plans an "improved interest rate" on all scries ' "E" and "H" bonds now outstanding, as well as improved extension terms for outstanding "E" bonds when they mature. "The public debt must be man aged so as to safeguard the public credit," Eisenhower told Con gress. "It must be managed in a way that is consistent with economic growth and stability." The President cited reasons why he believes removal of the inter est ceiling on government bonds is necessary at this time. Rapid growth in borrowing de mands of corporations, individu als, state and local governments tends to diminish the amount of funds available for investment in direct federal government securi ties, he said. Christian Demos Losing In Italy PALERMO, Sicily (API . A Christian Democratic rebel and his supporters of the Communist- led left were running far ahead of Christian Democrats today in early returns in Sicily's crucial legislative election. Christian Democrat regulars, whose party holds the reins of government at Rome, had the big gest single total. With about 60 per cent of the ballots counted, returns showed the Christian Democrat rebel Sil via Milazzo. the Communists and Socialists together had about 44 per cent of the votes. But Bravata. 39. a railroad freight conductor, said the quads' mother. Louise Strohlein Bravata, knew all along he was married. "Louise couldn't be happier," Bravata said. As .for Grace: "I have no desire to talk to her. I never did. She's been giving me a hard time since the first day I married her." Bravata said his lawyer. Her man Caponi of New York, "has got the case." Caponi said Bravata and the mother of the quads had never been married, that legal action the wife Grace had started never had been put on a court calendar and never ' brought to termination. The only thing legal about the separation, Caponi said, "is that it's mutual." However, Caponi said that un der a court order. Bravata was required to pay $40 weekly in support of Grace and their two children, a girl and boy, now 13 and 12 years old. Grace at her home in Hollis. Queens. New York City, said her husband s support payments had been an on-again-off-again thing and that he owes her 900. "I suppose he's proud of him self with his picture in the paper. grinning with that other woman, she said. Several years ago Grace under went a delicate heart operation. Mv relatives lent him money to nay most of the hospital bills. she said, "then he goes and buys a new car. Bravata. who makes $115 a week as freight conductor of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Louise have been living here for more than two years in a five room apartment. Bravata spent two hours at the hospital Sunday visiting Louise and the quads. Then he had two aspirins and went to bed. He will be 40 years old en Father's day. ' Propaganda Group Asked LONDON 'AP) Western lead era at the Atlantic Congress today urged NATO to set up a division of counterpropaganda to fight back against Soviet political war fare. They urged, too, that the West sponsor a new international organ ization to be called the Free World Assn. Open to all nations, its aims would be to make clear er "the ideological aggression of totalitarian communism" and the true value of liberty. These proposals were among recommendations set before the Congress, an unofficial NATO Parliament. They came from sub committees which have been de bating for three days on the course NATO should take in the next !9 years. The Congress has brought 650 of the NATO nations' more distin guished persons into a six-day thinking session. It closes Wednes day with a declaration of recom mendations to member govern ments. RECORD SALES RECORDED WASHINGTON (UPI) Bus! ness rang up record sales hi April and stocked up heavily on goods to keep pace with rising demands, the Commerce ' Department re ports. Sales by manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers rose to $60,700,000,000. an all-time high for any month after correction for seasonal swings. World News In Brief I'nited Press International GERMANS Moscow East Ger man delegation headed by Red party boss L'lbricht and Premier G role won I is flying in today for talks with Khrushchev that may spell the fate of the Geneva con ference. GAS McRae. Ga. South Geor gia town of 3 500 facing evacuation following derailment of freight cars carrying chlorine gas. NICARAGUA Managua Na tional Guard commander says in vaders breaking up and fleeing: guard now engaged in police ac tion. STEEL New York Steel wage negotiators meet again to day; in background is steelworkers union policy meeting scheduled Friday. ADENAUER Bonn Adenau er s Christian Democratic party meets with opposition Socialists in debate over Adenauer decision. Reds Trying To Press West For Quick Pact On Summit GENEVA (AP) The Big-Four I conference went into its fifth week today amid signs that the Soviet Union would press the Western powers for quick agreement on a summit conference. Foreign ministers of the United States. Britain and France met with the Soviet's Andrei Gromyko at his headquarters here in late afternoon after holding a strategy conference among themselves. They were reported gloomy about prospects for a Berlin agreement after a weekend declaration by So viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Fear Grips Georgia Town McRAE. Ga. (AP) Fear gripped this Georgia community today as wrecking crews began removing two derailed railroad tank cars containing 16.000 gallons ol dangerous chlorine gas. The mam railroad .line was cleared about' 8:45 a.m. of debris left by the derailment of 19 South ern Railway freight cars. The wrecking crews concentrated on the two cars filled with the ir ritating and potentially suffoca ting gas.-. The vice president of a chemical firm in Atlanta, William Mackle, pointed out that although chlorine is highly dangerous, it is a slow moving gas and not difficult to escape. Moreover, it is not ex plosive, except that daytime rising temperatures tend to increase the pressure under which it is con fined in the tanks. Portland Girl Wins Contest SEASIDE, Ore. (AP) Karlyn Mattsson failed to win any of the prelims but still walked off with the main event Sunday in the Miss Oregon contest here. The 34-23-36 brunette from Port land took no first places in the go-rounds in bathing suit, evening gown and talent competition. But Miss Mattsson. 18. wowed the judges in the Sunday finals and was named Miss Oregon. As such, she will represent the state in the Miss America contest and be the official hostess for Ore gon's Centennial celebration. In addition to the title. Miss Mattsson, who is S-S'-i and weighs 120 pounds, also picked up $1,200 in scholarships and a trip to Hawaii. She said she wants to enroll at the University of Oregon next fall and study psychology. Second place if) the contest went to Miss Salem. Thelma Mae Mas serdotti. an 18-year-old from Ath erton. Calit. who is studying at Willamette University. Miss Masserdotti won the talent competition. Third place went to blonde Rose Thrush. Miss Loos county, a is- year-old from North Bend. Ore.. who Is a junior at Brignam Young University. Trophies in the swim suit and evening gown competition went to Joan Burgoyne, Miss Corvallis. In all, 20 girls entered the con test. , Israel-Arabs , Wage Air Battle TEL AVIV. Israel (API-Israeli and United Arab Republic planes fought five-minute air battle Sunday. Israeli and Arab military spokesmen disagreed whether the clash occurred over Israeli I Neg ev Desert or Egypt's Sinai Pen insula. Israeli spokesmen said their fighters drove off four U A H. jets after intercepting them over Is rael. A spokesman in Cairo de clared one of two Israeli planes was hit in an encounter over the Sinai Desert. r First Manned Successful In EDWARDS AFB. Calif. (IPP- The rocket ship X15. America's first manned space vehicle, was dropped without fuel from a bom ber high in the sky over Mojave Desert today and glided success fully back to earth. The experimental craft rolled to a landing on the Rogers Dry Lake runway of this base four minutes after it was dropped from the B52 jet bomber "mother ship." Test pilot Scott Crossfield. 37. of North American Aviation, sal at the controls of the multimil- lion ' liar X15 as it was carried 38.000 feet high in clear, crisp weather to set one of the mile posts of the National Advisory and Space Administration's program to get man to the fringe of space. The first drop without the space that he would not accept any ar rangement which would "pcrpetu the occupation regime in West Berlin." This seemed to rule out a formal accord sought by the West to guarantee the Western position in the Red-encircled city. Some dip lomats thought it would not neces sarily bar an understanding that the Soviet Union would refrain from any threat or use of force to try to squeeze the Western powers oui oi Berlin. Khrushchev said in Budapest oelore returning to Moscow that East-West 'accords "undoubtedly will be reached at the summit even if no agreement is achieved by the foreign ministers. The Soviet premier displayed confidence a, summit meeting will materialize by advising the gov ernments of Finland. Denmark. Sweden and Norway that he may have to postpone the Scandinavian tour he is scheduled to make in August. ' Stefan Hevmann. chief informa tion officer of the East German government, told a group of West ern newsmen flown to East Ber- )' from Geneva that the issues of Berlin and Germany "can only oe soivea at uie summit. "There can be . no concrete agreement of any kind in Ge neva, Heymann said. It was the threat of a new blockade cutting traffic to the isolated city that made the Berlin crisis acute last year and forced the calling of the foreign min isters' conference in an effort to avoid a military showdown. U.S. secretary of State Christian A. Herter, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd and France's Maurice Couve de Murville seem to have run out of fresh ideas to propose to the So viets. Gromyko hasn't come uo wan anything acceptable to the west. Eastern diplomats in Geneva began taking an optimistic line over the weekend, talking of a quick, successful conclusion to the foreign ministers' talks with summit conference to follow. Western diplomats stuck to their reports that secret talks of the last 10 days have made little or no progress en Berlin. They are keeping a weather eye on talks opening in Moscow today between Khrushchev and East German leaders. They could provide a guide to Soviet policy at Geneva. BULLETIN NEW YORK (AP) The major leagues will play a second All Star game this year, at the Los Angeles Coliseum on Monday, Aug. 1, Commissioner Ford Frick announced today. The commissioner said It was his nnddrstandlng that the game has been approved for 193 only. "If this second All-Mar game proves successful," Frick said, "ceasideratioa will then be given to continuing H through 1K0 and mi." This will mark the first time since the All-Star game tneeptioa ia 133 that two games will be played la a single aeasea. The originally scheduled All Star game this year win be played la PIMstiarga, Taeaday, Jaly 7. Tax Law Review Slated By Solon State Senator Harry Boivin will review tax legislation at a meet ing of the Oregon Association of Public Accountants in Medford June 11-20. In addition to Boivin, Allen A. Drummond, a San Francisco ac countant, will address the conven tion. Drummond is president of the National Society of Public Ac countants. Panel discussions will review typical tax and accounting prob lems confronting Oregon business, industry and agriculture, said Walt Fleet of Klamath Falls, member of the board of governors of the Oregon association. A fun feature will be a contest on Centennial beards, a move insti gated by Frederic Lawson of Klamath rails, fleet said. Space Ship Glide Test craft's own rocket power being ignited was accomplished at 8:45 a.m. p.d.t. The B52 carried the XI5, slung to l pylon beneath the bomber's right wing, as high as possible to cue pilot Crosstield a brief but maximum chance to test the 50- foot long rocket's controls. At first, 'he X15 fell vertically away from the mother ship and then began moving into its glide pattern at about 400 miles an hour actual ground speed. According to plan, Crosstield had about two minutes to lest re sponses of the X1S to Its complex controls. In one of those minutes the pilot had to bring the space ship to a predetermined spot over Edwards Air Force Bases sprawling dry lake bed at about 20.000 feet. Then, after making one complete circle, the X15 was guided into its landing sweep. This was the critical moment tor the X15 and Crossfield, who had practiced countless similar dead- stick landings in conventional jet aircraft. North American experts had cautioned that the first landing of the ship would be "like driving a racing car toward a brick wall at 100 miles an hour, slamming on the brakes and stopping two feet from the wall only harder because if the pilot 'lands' too high the X15 will drop the rest of the way into the ground. Although the most precise In struments ever put into an air craft have been built for the X15. North American said the landing phase was "close to the old-time seat-of-the-pants flying. As a result, Crossfield had to use sheer judgment and depth perception to get safely down on the lake bed. The X1S touched down on its ski-type landing slid ing to a halt. The X15 has been designed to return to earth from an altitude of 100 miles after going into a bal listic arc with its 60.000-pound thrust rocket power at hypersonic speeds between 3,600 and 4,500 miles an hour. Sen. Collier Turns Demo YREKA (UPI) - State Sen. Randolph Collier changed his par ty affiliation today to Democratic. The change was filed in District Court by the registrar of voters. Louis Sbarbaro. Collier, the senior Republican. now will become the junior Dem ocrat. He has been elected in the primaries every four years since 1938. Collier represents Siskiyou and Del Norte counties, both heavy in Democratic registration My decision to change my reg istration to Democrat was not ar rived at hastily." the senator said. I feel that in the light of cur rent governmental developments in California, my ideas and prin ciples are more In line with the philosophy of the Democratic par ty than with any other political organization. HUSBAND, WIFE ORDAINED NEW YORK (UPI) - A 24- year-old Egyptian and his 22-year old Chinese wife were ordained ministers and disciples of Christ Sunday. The Rev. Mina Erian Mina and his wife, the former Sara Li, both graduates of Bethel College m Newton, Kan., plan to work as missionaries in South America. ft MONTAGUE LANCERETTES ore shown in drill form at the Montague Rodeo Grounds. From the left are Patricia Marty, Dorris Wheeler, Elaine Akin, Marilyn Akin, Bonnie Rowe, Diane Fehlman, Nolo Wheeler, captain, Carol Petersen, Ardyce Joilin, Lutitia Lacy, Nancy Robus. tellini and Arlona Seers. The girls were first organized in the spring of 1955 by Millar Brown. This will bo their fifth year's eppaerance at the Montagua Junior Rodeo on Sunday, Juno 21, and they have appeared in all county rodeos and horto shows, at well at at Redding and Klamath Falls. Kneeling in the foreground arc Bob Akin, left, pratant advisor of tho club, and Millar Brown, former adviser, Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Variable high clouds but mostly fair through Tuesday; a few showers in the Cascades. Highs MWo; low tonight 38-43. High yesterday (8 Low last nicht 33 Precip. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 . S.4S Same period last year 16.33 Northern California Fair through Tuesday rxrrpt fog on the coast from Cape Mendocino north ward and partly cloudy in the ex treme northern Interior; little change in temperatures. Winds along the roast northwesterly to westerly, 12-23 miles an hour. Truck Crash Kills Sixteen PHOENIX. Aril. (APi-Sixteen farm laborers were killed and 32 others were injured when a crude ly tasnioncd bus crashed into a tree and exploded near Phoenix today. The highway patrol, which had difficulty determining the number of charred and cremated bodies in the twisted wreckage, listed these figures as official but said there may be more dead. All the victims were Mexican nationals. Many of the injured were re ported in serious condition with burns and broken bones. The patrol quoted the driver. Nato Manuel Gloria Jr., as saying he dozed at the wheel. Gloria said he had been feeling sleepy and was. going to stop at an intersec tion 100 yards ahead to turn the driving over to h assistant. The driver escaped serious in jury. The workers were en route from a labor office at Mesa, Ariz., to garlic fields at Tollcson, west of Phoenix. The truck, which had been con verted into a bus 'with sides and a top. left a mam suburban thor oughfare just south of the Phoenix city limits, plowed through a ditch and smashed into tree. Patrolmen said the head-on crash burst the vehicle's fuel line and caused an explosion. Elmer Charbeneau, who lives near the scene, said an explosion awakened him. 'It sounded like loud clap of thunder," he said. I ran to the window and saw flames spread over the entire bed of the bus. Then I heard screaming. By the time I got there, most of those who could get out were wandering in a nearby field or were stretched out in the ditch, The converted truck had only one exit, a single door at the rear. Those who escaped appeared to be in a state of shock. They wan dered about the field aimlessly. Lost Tyke, 7, Found Unharmed LAKE ARROWHEAD. Calif. (AP) A large-scale search of the mountains around this Southern California resort area ended suc cessfully today when a 7-year-old boy was found unharmed. The boy, Craig Sweet, was found not far from Lake Arrow head. He had been missing since Sunday morning. His father, Rob ert T. Sweet, had brought the family to thr Deep Creek area 10 miles northeast of Lake Arrow head, on a camping trip. Craig became separated from a brother while hiking. IW l- Navy Regulus Totes Post WASHINGTON (AP) The Post Office Department today an nounced the first successful mail delivery by guided missile. The missile, a Navy Reeulus I. was launched by a U.S. subma rine in the Atlantic and landed at the auxiliary naval air station at M port near Jacksonville. Fla. The submarine was the Barbe- ro. a missile vessel. The distance the missile trav eled was not disclosed. The de partment said only that the sub marine was "somewhere at sea." The Navy in Washington, how ever, estimated the straight line distance at about 100 miles. The Regulus flics around 600 miles an hour and today's run took 22 minutes, which would in dicate a total flight of well above 100 miles including any changes of course and the landing maneu vers. The Regulus is controllable in flight. The takeoff was from the mis sile submarine Barbero. The event marked a long step -toward regular missile mail serv ice, a development which Post master General Arthur E. Sum- " merfield has been confidently pre dicting. A sample of the covers distrib buted by the Post Office Depart ment in Washington carried a 4- ccnt regular mail stamp not even air mail. The cancellation stamp carried the words "USS Barbero." The cargo of 3.000 letters in cluded one addressed to President Eisenhower. Other messages in the cargo, all from Postmater General Sum merfield, were for members of the Cabinet, members of Congress, justices of the Supreme Court, the governors of all American states and territories, and the postmas ters general of the 99 other na tions which are members of the Universal Postal Union. The missile was fired at 10:10 a.m. and landed safely at 10:32 a.m., the department said. Summerfield. describing the event in a telephone conversation with the Washington Evening Star, said It was a dramatic sight. , He reported the wheeled missile m de a perfect landing on the run way, trailing a parachute to slow it down. . The weight of the payload was not immediately disclosed but Summerfield said postal workers were ready for it. They unloaded the mail, proc essed It and sped it on its way. Last Jan. 23. Summerfield pre dicted regular missile mail. in an address to the annual awards dinner of National Busi ness Publications. Inc., Summer- field said that before man reaoace . the moon mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to England, to India or to- Australia by guided missiles. He disclosed today s missile de livery followed an unofficial test flight with a similar Regulas I on the Pacific coast several months ago. He called today s flight of his toric significance to the peoples of the entire world." Today's shipment of mail by missile has given "extremely val uable information of far-reaching. importance to trie future of the United States Mail service," he said. Guided missiles may ultimately provide a solution to problems ot swifter mail delivery for interna tional mails for isolated areas where other transportation is in frequent, as well as a supplemen tary high priority service to big population centers, he said. Photo by Don Kettler 11 O
