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MONDAY, JUNE 8. IPS PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Authorities Investigate Nazi Club UGnlMTl ANDREA SCHNEBERGER. left. qavo the valedictory at the commencement exercises or the Weed High School on Friday night. Andrea also won a Bank of America award. Sha it the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Sehneberqer. Jeanne Anderson, right, th daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glea Anderson, was talutatorian of tha class of 1959. Sha was awarded tha John Philip Souia award in music recently. State Income Tax Boost Signed Into Law By Pat SACRAMENTO 'UPH - Gov Edmund G. Brows today signed inio law a bill that will boost the late Income taxes of middle and upper income California families starting July 1. The governor's first major vie tory in his budget balancing tax program lollowed closely on his iirsl Dig tax oeieat. The Assembly, alter locking its doors six hours in a parliamentary maneuver and after scouring the stale for absent Republicans, killed Brown's oil and gas severance tax oroposal Saturday- Twelve Democrats joined all the Republicans on the 43-29 vote. The proposal to put a 2 per cent tax on oil and natural gas taken from the ground, with an equal levy on imports, died after a tech nical knockout. Administration lorces Friday had maneuvered to revive the bill by switching it from a hostile AS' sembly committee to a friendly committee. The vote Saturday was on motion by Assemblyman Charles J. Conrad U( -Sherman Oaks) to erase the transler. On the first roll call. Conrad raised 40 votes one short of the majorily needed. While the Assembly was kept in session, the Highway Patrol sent out officers to round up four missing Republicans. Assemblymen Harold K. Lever ing, Los Angeles, and Bruce F. lleagan, Pasadena, flew back to Sacramento from a fishing trip near Quincy. Assemblyman Alan G. Pattee, Salinas, left his son's graduation ceremonies in Santa Barbara, and Assemblyman James L. Holmes returned by air from Santa Maria. Assemblyman Joseph Shell (R Los Angeles), Republican floor leader and an oilman in private life, led the fight on the tax plan and charged the governor with ap plying pretty tough pressure. In addition, he said, the drafters of the legislation "don't know any thing about the nil business. Castro Remains Key To Cuba's Uncertainty By LEON DENNEN HAVANA NEAI Solve the rid dle of Fidel Castro and Cuba's fu ture will stand revealed. But the inner key to this perhaps mys tical idealist has so far eluded all who have searched. A former Cuban prime minister, who knows him well, said: "The trouble with Fidel is that he is a lawyer who never prac ticed law, a champion of labor who never worked in his life." Others might add: A leader of a government who knowi little of governing. The his question may be wheth er Castro is more or less per manently denied by his dramatic, exciting, inspiring role as the rev olutionary who led a ragged, hill country army to triumph over an ugly dictator. It is a part he has played, one way or another, since his student days at the University of Havana. Son of a Spaniard who came to Cuba and gained wealth as a su gar planter, Castro spurned the comfortable life. He took his degree as a profes sional revolutionist In 1952, when he and a tew fellow students tried to kill Fulgencio Batista, then seizing power as a dictator from the legitimate Prio government. The young firebrand was arrest ed, sentenced to a long prison term, and then freed three years later in a general amnesty. He went Into self-imposed exile, and began building an expeditionary force against Batista. On December 2, 195. he landed on Cuba's coast with 82 men. He was among just 12 who survived the Initial fighting, but slowly his force gained recruits In Cuba and Ihe provincial mountain cam- fiaigns began. No one doubts he oves the role of revolutionary hero, acclaimed by all Cnha since he came out of the hills the vic tor. A close associate (eels he will not easily he able to lay aside Ihe garb of rebellion. "He still has a romantic, almost childish attachment to revolution any rev olution. Even the Communist? have stature In his eyes because they always call for revolution." In his- moments of self-styled grandeur. Castro liku to com pare himself with South Amer ica s fabled liberator. Simon Boli var. A good many doubt the apt An administration stalwart in the Legislature, Assemblyman Jesse M I'nruh DLos Angeles) reminded his colleagues that they had previously approved all of Browns 236 million dollar tax package. "How in God's name can you go home and tell the people that you have voted a cigarette tax and beer tax and then refused to put a tax on the- richest industry in the slate?" I'nruh demanded. "This house has never had any guts when it comes to bucking the oil industry, ne said. Unruh said he would urge the state's voters to place the oil tax on next year's general election ballot as an initiative measure Brown's aides estimated that the nil tax, if passed, would have brought 128.500,000 a year into the slate treasury. The income tax signed into law today Is expected to yield an ad ditional 171.400.000 a year. The governor said two-thirds of he revenue would come from tax payers with incomes of more than $25,000 a year. He noted that the proposed consumer taxes on cig arcttcs and beer are relatively harder on low income groups Brown said the head of a family of four receiving less than $10,000 annually would pay no increases under his income tax plan. At 115.000 a year, the increase would be about $44; at $20.ono. about $92: at $40,000, about $580: at $100,000. about $1,380; and it $500,000. about $5,3C0. Defending the increased income laxes, the governor said, "This state has been on deficit financing more often than not in recent years. "I have proposed a tight, balanced budget, and the revenues from this and the' other taxes the administration has proposed are absolutely necessary to achieve such a budget." Brown said legislative action on his oil and g.is severance tax had been "ruthlessly blocked by the oil company lobbyists." ness of the parallel. Others leave open the matter whether he may be one of those rare men who appear as a lib erator at a crucial point in his tory. Observers whose views com mand respect think the time is coming when Castro will take a firm stand against the Cuban Com munists and steer his country away from chaos. President Manuel Urrutia is one who thinks Castro is master ol Ihe situation. Himself calm and serene, an important element in Cuba's stability and democratic continuity, Urrutia said: "The Communists are trying to take advantage of a revolutionary situation. But Dr. Castro is Ihe real chief of the Cuban revolu tion." But another Cuban who is not so sure, a widely regarded leader versed In every twist and turn of world communism, likened him to Alexander Kerensky. democrat ic premier of Russia who deposed the Czar 42 years ago and then iet the Communists outmaneuvr him and grasp power. Said he: "Castro is prohablv not a Communist, but he is being groomed by the Reds as Cuba's Alexander Kerensky. Still another parallel some think valid is with Premier Abdul Kar- im Kassim of Iraq. The Iraqui leader Is no Communist, but each passing day he finds it more dillicult to extricate himself from Ihe stranglehold of his Sov'iet sup porters. Right now. it is argued, the Reds need Castro as the man who commands the loyalty of the Cuban people, as one. who is will ing to let them operate freely. Some feel they will eventually ditch him, as they have ditched others, when he has outlived his usefulness. Is Castro a Communist, or Is he the freedom-loving man of stern stuff that I'rnilia paints, who can rise to the test when It comes? Or is he neither of these things, but simply a professional revolu tionary who has not learned and may never learn to be a profes sional anything ele? The Cuban who droe me from the airnort to downtown Havana said with simple dignity: "We ate bread een under Dalista. hut Fi del gave us liberty." VISALIA. Calif. UPI 1 Author ities today delved further into the activities of a Nan youth club consisting of admirers of Nazism and headed by a 17-year-old "fu ehrer" assertedly "distressed with modern day society." Existence of the 25 . member group came to light Saturday when the leader and three others. including a young Navy veteran. were arrested for the May 23 rob bery of a private museum. Police said they stole Nazi flags, Lugers, dangers and medals. The quartet was to appear in juvenile court Wednesday. Each was released in custody of his parents, pending further action. Chief Probation Officer Merlin Winter said initial talks with the leader of the gang showed that the youth, described by his teach ers as intelligent, was "distressed with modern day society and way of living and would like to change it." The ringleader said the club was formed in January hy a group of boys who admired Naz ism. We wanted to 'sig heil' togeth er, not alone, he said. The club includes an SS groun. whose members cut the initials into the flesh of their wrists as part of their initiation, police said. inn was lust in case some storekeeper got rough with a member," the boy was quoted as saying. "Then we'd send the SS alter him." Average Red's Attitude Termed In Opposition To Kremlin Bosses' Views (EDITOR'S NOTE: The tel. lowing dispatch by Frank H. Bartholomew, president of Unit ed Press International, reports m prevailing and contrasting' attitudes of Geneva, East Ber lin, West Berlin and Moscow oa the German crisis In Interna tional affairs. The writer visit ed each city I sequence.) By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW MOSCOW (I 'PI) - The present adamant position of the Soviet negotiators in Geneva, the peri odic threats of Premier Nikita Khrushchev at Moscow' and else where, and the continuously pro vocative acts of the Communist satellites in China, Ihe Near East and Germany, are in stark con trast with the attitude of the peo ple themselves In Communism's world capital. Soviet diplomacy and the Soviet people themselves seem to be of dissimilar patterns. In busy Moscow the man in the street talks earnestly of world peace and the desire to be left undisturbed to complete the na tion's seven-year-plan for his per sonal welfare. This theme is so wide-spread and so frequently re peated as to negate any thought of a conspiracy of six million peo ple to hide actual warlike intent from the foreign visitor. The Russians are an air-minded oeople and more recently Khrush chev has made them rocket-conscious. He has repeatedly staled lhat the decisive modern weapon is tne rocket. Nevertheless, to all superficial appearances the peo ple are not being prepared for rocket warfare. There are no air raid shelters, no dress rehearsals of the civilian population for atomic warfare, no apparent fear that war is imminent. Inversely, popular interest cen ters on Ihe miles of new apart ments undor 'construction on a scale perhaps not equalled any where else in the world. Street work goes on day and night. In dustries appear to be operating to capacitv. The theaters are jammed, by poorly dressed peo ple obviously hungry lor a touch of beauty. The people are well-fed. An im mediate result of the end of ra tioning is lhat most of them are too fat. Now the yearning lor a few of the finer things of lile is mani festing itself, possibly as a sub stitute for religious worship which has been made politically unpopu lar to a point where attendance at the surviving churches is con fined to the older generation and principally to old women. The infrequent new Western cars on the streets are immedi ately surrounded by silently ad miring throngs. A routine recep tion at a Western embassy will draw a crowd across the street equal in number to a major Hol lywood premiere, despite the fact that none of the embassies is in the public directories or listings Slowly some of the better things are coming within view of the common man. He still usually dresses in an unmatched coat, baggy pants and tieless shirt, and his wife still occasionally wears a bandana to the Rolshoi Theater, but he does go to work in the cleanest and most beautiful sub way svstem in the world, or on foot down boulevards lined with newly planted and luxuriating green trees People living several to a room in present apartments, or arriv ing from Fast Berlin four to a compartment In every train, tell ou that the difficulties are less than they were, lhat they are worth enduring because the seven-year-plan will deliver them to a better world. "If." they sav, "the warlike capitalistic world does not take matters out of our hands." It is certain that the people of Mocow have h-en c-""lr( r'v sold on the seven-year-plan, to I ... - J-'1 iii.nrii.ii-iVL-f ARSON probably was committed with this "fusee" or railroad flare at a garage belonging to Keith Walker at 504 North Tenth Street Sunday morning. Two other fire's over the week end, one touched off with a fusee, were listed as probably caused by arson. The Klam ath Falls Department firemen are Gino Gheller, left, and Harold Uglun. Funeral PASILLAS Funeral services for John Clyde A. Pasillas took place at the grave side in Klamath Memorial Park on Monday. June 8, at 4 p.m., Ward's Klamath Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. the extent that the Khrushchev regime has bet its very existence upon its ability to deliver the goods by the deadline Six years nence. Completion of the seven-vear plan would become an immediate impossibility in event of World War III. Obvious even to the most casual observer among the west s approximately 40.000 tour ists in tne soviet union this year is the fact that the people do not want war and have not been emo tionally conditioned for war. An impression gained in talking ivnh Communist boss Walter LI bncht in East Germany is that the East German government. while under the complete control ol the Kremlin, nevertheless, to Ihe best of its ability keeps the Kremlin under pressure lo force a showdown, with arms if neces sary, in Germany. Russia would appear to have everything to lose and nothing to pain Dy precipitating a war. The same is not true from the stand point of the East German Com munists and their present precar ious political - situation. Strong indication that Ihe East German" government feels it does not have popular, support and could not survive a plebiscite ap pears in its refusal to consider free elections. The feeling in West Germany is that East Berlin at least cannot continuously survive with its gloom-encompassed low living standards and slow recov ery immediately adjacent to the igorous, lively and spectacularly successful city of West Berlin. The situation in Communism's Oriental perimeter is believed, in some Western diplomatic circles here, to he basically diflerent from the relationship between the Kremlin and East Berlin which it completely controls. The Chinese Communists, like their Caucasian brothers in East Berlin, are garded as definitely warlike. The added danger to world peace here is believed to lie in the fact that Moscow is not sure of its influ ence over Peiping, and in the fur ther fact that tace-saving is so important in the Orient that Com munist hina cannot acenmmo date itself to zig-zags in foreign policy such as that involving the recent abortive deadline for West' ern evacuation of Berlin. World War III, stemming from a showdown over East Germany, may result from miscalculation or accident. But it seems certain at the moment that it will not re sult from the wishes of the peo ple themselves in Ihe t S S R. as expressed in Ihe capital city. In perspective, the weight at tached hy the West to the present unyielding position of Ihe Commu nist negotiators at Geneva might he regarded as a tribute to strong case oasea more upon threat than fact. The warlike threats of the U.SS.R. which brought the for eign ministers conlercnce into being at Geneva scorn, as viewed from the interior of Russia, to have been based on bluff, insofar as any visirae, warlike prepara tion ot the Soviet people them selves is concerned. West Berlin believes that if the conference fails to produce Ihe desired sum mi! meeting, the city will be sub ject to immediate Communist harassments. Some Western env hassies here feel certain, how ever, that any excursions Into! brinksmanship permitted East German leader Walter I'lbricht will be under tight Kremlin rein and control and not permitted to lead to a military showdown. V MILLIONAIRES new uhk a PI '-There are an estimated 270 Americans with an annual pre-tax income of $1 million or more. Approximately M0 are in the troono, to $l mil lion bracket: 23.000 tn the $100 000 to ivw ooo set and (B ono in the $30,000 to $100,000 class. Two Garages, Battered By Arson Blazes Arson-caused fires battered two private garages and a heavy earth loader in Klamath Falls and in the suburban area over the weekend. The Klamath Falls Fire Depart ment was called to a04 North Tenth Street early Sunday morn ing to battle a fire started by a railroad signal flare in a garage belongmg to Keith Walker. The flames so badly damaged the frame structure that a portion of it will have to be rebuilt. While firemen were battling that fire another started in a garage at 915 Jefferson Street,' at a home occupied by Mrs. Bernard W. Zoll- man. around a corner from the Walker home. The fire apparently was started with a match. A neigh bor reported it immediately and firemen held damage to scorched walls. Firemen said Mrs. Zallman s ga rage is located in a heavily popu lated area and could have torched Authors1 Kin Disappears DAVIS. Calif, f API California I and Nevada police are hunting the 19-ycar-old daughter of mystery writers Kenneth and Margaret Millar. Her father uses the pen name John Ross McDonald." The girl, Linda J. Millar, dis- anoeared after leaving a Nevada gambling casino, saying she had to get back to school. Miss Miliar, a sophomore at the University of California branch in Davis, was last seen leaving the casino at Lake Tahoe the night of May 30-31. Millar told reporters his daugh ter was a bnlliart student, She may have snapped under the strain, he said. He said three years ago she was driving a car which struck and killed a 13-year-old boy in Santa Barbara. "She was haunted by a feeling of guilt, I think." continued Mil lar. He said she may nave oeen worried about final examinations "not that she would fail, but that she might not get all A s." Wound Said Self-Inflicted NEWELL Leonard Edward Ly nam, 52. a native of Hoxie. Kan sas. and a resident of Newell, Mo doc County. Calilornia for 11 years, died of a gunshot wound at h i s home near Newell about 7 a.m. June 7. Modoc County Sheriff E. R. Ser ver. whose office investigated, said the wound was self-inflicted with a .32 Special rifle in the yard of the family home. Mr. Lynam had been in failing health. He was a member of Portneuf No. 120. 1O0F of Pocatello, Idaho. He had been employed as a car penter. Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Nellie Lynam and a sister. Mrs. Berneta Ackley. both of New ell. Funeral services will he held from the chapel of Ward's Klam ath Funeral Home. Klamath iFalls. June at i p.m. with concluding services and commitment in Klam' ath Memorial Park. California Weather United Press International San Francisco Bay Area: Fair tb-ough Tuesday except low over- east near ocean Tuesday morning: 1 gh today San Francisco. S3. Oak land 87, San Mateo 70. San Ra faei 74: low tonight 48-52: wester ly above normal becoming normal trmgnt. Mt. Shasta-Siskiyou area: Part ly cloudy through Tuesday: little change in temperature. Sierra Nevada: Fair through Tuesday: little change in temper ature. Northwestern California: Fair through Tuesday except fog and low clouds on coast from Cape Mendocino northward and partly cloudy extreme northern interior little change in temperature: high today and low tonight Napa 79-48. Ikiah 75-48. Santa Rosa 77-4 cnlal winds northwest and west 12-2$ m p h. Earth Loader a disastrous fire in the neighbor hood if control had not been prompt. Men of the Suburban Fire Department put out a fire, also started with a railroad flare, on a huge, expensive rubber tire on a giant earth loader belonging to the Kenneth Nelson Construction Com pany Monday morning at the cor ner of Homedale Road and Harlan Drive. The tire was not ruined, but Nel son told firemen it was weakened and will not last long. The Stewart-Lenox Fire Depart- ment confined damage in a frame storage shed belonging to George Davis of 2203 Autumn Avenue to about 100 dollars worth when it caught fire of unknown origin Sat urday afternoon. Neighbors armed with garden hoses kept flames down until fire men arrived. Some lumber in the building was damaged slightly. The county fire department was called to put out a fire in a box car amid a Southern Pacific tram near the California line on High way 97 Saturday. Firemen said flame started from overheated brakes. The lumber loaded car was cut from the train and isolated on a siding at Worden. One end of the car was badly damaged and the cargo received moderate damage. COLD TRAIL BUFFALO. N.Y. (UPH Two nn- licemen picked up a very cold trail and lollowed it about a mile be fore they nabbed Lee James. 18, for stealing two overcoats. They arrested the youth after following his footprints .in the snow. The bends we mean are brought on by those Z-shaped door openings on many of the '59s the kind of door you have to fall, crawl or back into! Mercury ends the bends with the most generous doors in its field up to 6 inches wider, with windshield" posts 2H inches forward, out of knee-knocking range. Secret of Mercury's easy access is the only body shell in the medium price YREKA The Shasta Valley Gar den Club held its regular meeting at the home of Mrs. nenneuo Terwilliger, club president, who was assisted with hostess duties by her daughter, Mrs. Larry Walters. During the business session. Mrs. Terwilliger appointed her standing committee chairmen for 1939-60 as follows: Mrs. Charlotte Robinson, hnsnitalitv: Betty Dow, publicity: Ellen Walters, historian: Alta Coat, ney and Mary Lilly, garden ther apy; Rae Sylva, wild flower: and Ed Board Holds Meet YREKA At a recent meeting of the Siskiyou County Board of Educafion held at .reka. audio visual department contracts for all school districts were signed. Applications for lit- diplomas were also approved by the board for Dorothy W. Johns, health and development: Jack M. Murtha of Mount Shasta, general elementary: Harley J. Zeller of Tuielake. gen eral elementary; James B. Meek. Yreka. special secondary in in dustrial arts; Arthur E. Fish of Weed, general elementary; Dor othy Ann Newton. Yreka, general elementary: and Nicholas Floratos ol Mount Shasta, general elemen tary. Board members also approved the purchase of eight new films for the audio-visual department: voted to cooperate with the California Highway Patrol suggestion that school bus drivers file a daily re port on the mechanical condition of the vehicle they drive. They also gave instruc'on to the Siski you County superintendent of schools to submit all credentials to board members at least four days prior to approval requests. A temporary certificate form was also approved by the board. authorizing the holder of each not more than 60 days of teaching from the first day prior to receiv ing regular certificate approved credentials for. Sarah J. Gibson. Yreka, special secondary to teach exceptional children: Robert B. Manley of Mount Shasta, general pupil personnel services: Edward Moris, junior college: and Bessie Waters, general elementary. BASIC ENGLISH HARTFORD. Conn. iUPI State Rep. John Shostak wants to establish a commission to make sure highway signs are written in plain English. He thinks such signs as "crossing medium divider prohibited'' should be changed to "don t cross center strip. A bear hunt is staged annually in Northern Ontario. Canada, to provide bearskin hats to be worn hy the Queen of England's Brigad; of Guards. BENDS ami x - field not designed for a smaller car. Big-car shell puts Mercury's transmis sion under the hood instead of under-foot-Mercury's power tunnel is half as big as competition's. Lower tunnel means extra leg room, extra-padded seats. No more bucket-seat ride for the man the middle. Come in for a treatment-and a turn at the wheeil Be MERCURY BASIN MOTORS 424 So. 6th St. Mrs. Terwilliger will work wita Rita Prather as program chair, man. AJso during the business session, Mrs. Terwilliger distributed the ribbon awards won by the vari ous members at the recent flower show held at Yreka. Mrs. Terwilliger reported on ihe Medford Garden Club flower show, which she and several members and guests attended. Mrs. Ellen Walters gave a talk on classification of flowers, plants and arrangements as used by f. ficials in judging and arranging for flower shows. Mrs. Walters had served as a judge's aide at the Yreka Flower show. An announcement was received from the Siskiyou County Library, informing members mat the li brary has several books on gar dening, flowers and plants, avail able for use by garden cluo mem bers or other gardeners. It was also announced that the district meeting of the California Garden Clubs incorporated, was to be held on June 8 at Paradise, California, and Mrs. Terwilliger. as president left Thursday. June 4 to attend the event. Refreshments were served after members had viewed a series of colored slides which were scenes taken of numerous gardens in Shasta Valley, shown by Mrs. Walters. Others present in addition lo those mentioned included Mrs. Alta Allen. Pearl Conroy, Mar garet lAldec) Davis, Ada John stone, Edith Williams, Hilda Coo- ley, Alta Coatney, Mable French, Orpha Kouts, Grace Leavers, Mary Sylva. Evelyn Hansen. Marie Lenz, and three guests Di Raver, Vera Dietrich and Mrs. Josephine Aus tin, guest of Mrs. Ada Johnstone from San Fernando Valley. Women's Society Holds Potluck YREKA The home of Mrs. John Brazie. south of Yreka on Highway 99, was recently the set ting for a potluck dinner for tha Yreka Women's Society of Chris tian Service, with members of the Mary Martha Circle sharing host ess duties. !'rs. James Sullivan, new presi dent of the Yreka WSCS. present ed p: to Mrs. Harold Evett and Mrs. Carrie LeMay. each of whom has served as president of t R e WSCS for two years, and to Mrs. A. H. Henig. who served the WSCS as treasurer for eight years. . CENTRAL AIR - CONDITIONING SYRACUSE, N.Y. (UPII-With- in a decade, air conditioning will be pumped into homes from. central - source just as gas and electricity are today, according to Charles V. Fenn. a vice presi dent of the Carrier Corporation. He says underground pipes and wires from a central power plant will supply healing, hot water and air conditioning.
