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u.c? 03.i3Asr Ni5PA?sa sscrioa" ecu?, u naawnw nrmin.iww KLAMATH -14 Pae Prtee Five Ceeti la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS - ." The Portland Oregonian has opened up n interesting line of inquiry as to Oregon's somewhat unique weight-mile tax plan for charging heavy trucks for the priv ilege of using Oregon's tax-financed highways, it cites the growth of rail-trailer "piggyback" service as a transportation devel opment that may rob Oregon of a lot of truck tax money unless the state's weight-mile system of truck ' taxation is revised. The Oregonian says: "Each time a 40-car 'piggyback' train leaves Portland for Califor nia with the equivalent of 60 load ed truck-trailer rigs on board, the Oregon state highway department loses about $3,000 in weight-mile tees. "Other Western states have less Immediate concern about the 'pig gyback' trend because their truck tax methods are based on combin ations of vehicle weights, registra tion fees, estimated earnings and ad valorem. They collect from the truckers, whether the trucks roll onheir highways or not. Oregon, It is obvious, does not." - It adds: "No matter how much one ad mires the weight-mile plan, and the Oregoni?-" has been among its supporters, it cannot be denied that relating truck taxation to truck mileage is going to be pro gressively mare impractical as the popularity of 'piggyback' increas es. "Existing high weight-mile rates in large commercial vehicles ac tually serve as a stimulus to the growth of trailer on-datcar traffic. If the law stands as it is, and the trend continues; truckers most cer tainly over the years will pay an Increasingly smaller share into the highway fund." ' This thought occurs: How much will the state of. Ore gon SAVE as a result of taking large numbers of heavy trucks olf the roads if "piggyback" transpor tation grows and grows? As I recall it. the weight-mile '' "- mile haulage was devised to re imburse the s'lte of Oregon for additional wear and tear on its highways by heavy trucks, which at the time the tax was adopted were getting heavier and heavier. The thinking was that the heavier and more numerous the trucks the greater the damage to the high ways. The idea was to compensate the state for the added expense of building and maintaining highways adequate to stand up under this type of heavy traffic. " The economics of transportation, it seems to me, enter into the situation. If it turns out to-be cheaper for the heavy truck-trailers to go by "piggyback." they will go by "piggyback." Compara tive costs have to be watched closely by business of all kinds In these days. ' It might easily be that if the "piggyback" service ofiered by the railroads turns out to be cheaper than moving the trucks over the highways, the state of Oregon may save more in highway construction and maintenance than it loses in truck taxes under the weight-mile system of taxing trucks. At least, we need some pretty careful figures before making Dp our minds to change the present aystem. " Tutor Marks fiftieth Year ! MONTAGUE - Fifty years of piano teaching was marked with the recent piano recital given by Henry E. Kirkpatrick. at the Wy hy Music Studio in Yreka. featur ing 21 of his students whom he has taught the art of playing the piano an the past year. Kirkpatrick. who has had the finest training available in the United States, has taught private ly and in colleges and conservator ies, founding his own school of mu sic in Chicago in 1923. where throughout the years he conducted training classes for music teach ers as well aa instructing large Classes of students. Some ot these atudenta are among the finest younger musician to Chicago to- ajr. FALLS. OREGON. THURSDAY. JUNE IS. 193 ' Telephone TU 4 111 Talks Halted For 24 Hours By Request Of Soviet Aide GENEVA (APi-The Big Four foreign ministers today postponed their talks for 24 hours at the request of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The postponement was an nounced shortly before the minis ters were scheduled to meet at Gromyko's villa. The Soviet foreign minister re quested the delay during a private Beck Denies Loan Wrong NEW, YORK (AP) Former Teamsters President Dave Beck and two trucking company offi cials have denied there was any thing wrong in a $200,000 loan made to Beck by the other two while he headed the Teamsters Union. . ' Indicted Wednesday by a feder al grand juai were Beck, 64: Roy Fruehauf, president of the Frue hauf Trailer Co. of Detroit: and Burge Seymour of New Vreston. Conn., president of Associated Transport, Inc., New York. . Fruchauf and Seymour said the loan, since repaid, was made to Beck because he had previously made them loans when they needed them. The indictment charged them with violation of the Taft-Hartley Act, one section of which prohibits union officers from accepting pay ments from management officials and vice versa. The $200,000 payment was made to Beck in 1954. In Seattle Wednes day Beck had no comment. His attorney, Charles S. Burdcll, saidi that "naturally we'll fight this charge." Burdell indicated he would seek postponement of the June 24 date on - which Beck is expected to make his plea,. ,. - Court Voids State Law LITTLE ftnrK Ark (4P1 ,h. illH ,.t -,, ,,. '"-fvoided a state law under which Gov. Orval E. Faubus closed Lit tle Rock public high schools last fall against integration. - The court added the governor's proclamation shutting down the four schools was void. The Arkansas Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, recently upheld the disputed act but the three fed eral judges called it unconstitu tional. In the same ruling, the federal judges held invalid a companion state law which diverted public funds from the closed schools to others to which displaced pupils transferred. The second act, the court said, was a device for depriving the Little Rock School District of funds to which it properly was entitled. U.S. Circuit Judge John B. San born of St. Paul and district judges Axel J. Beck of Elk Point. S.D.. and John E. Miller of Fort Smith, Ark., held a hearing oa the case here May 4. Today's ruling was unanimous. An appeal to Hie U.S. Supreme Court is considered certain. A FAMILIAR, SCENI to many is that of a youngster taking piano leisoas at an aarly age.. Hare, Henry E. Kirkpatrick of Montague, who recently observed his SOth year of music teaching with recital in Yreka, il shown at he joins his youngeit pupil, Allen Malaby. 4, ton of Mr. and Mrs. William Malaby of Yreka, in the "Big Bell Sonq." t Photo by Yreka Studio No. S4Z4 luncheon with British Foreign Sec retary Selwyn Lloyd. Lloyd quick ly obtained agreement from U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and French Foreign Minis ter Maurice Couve de Murville. The postponement will allow Gro myko another day to consult Mos-jeast cow and study the new Western compromise formula for a stop gap Berlin settlement. It was as sumed the Soviet government still had not reached a definite deci sion. Moscow radio reported that So-1 viet and East German leaders met at the Kremlin today to dis cuss the Big Four problem m an atmosphere of, "complete mutual understanding and friendship." Western diplomats had expected to hear this afternoon whether the Soviets were willing at least to negotiate on the basis of the new plan. Gromyko was critical of the plan but had asked for 24 hours to study it before giving a definite reply. Western spokesmen had made it clear that a rejection of the new formula by Gromyko would mean the end of the six-week-old foreign ministers conference. Bomb Blast Rips Havana HAVANA (AP) Four bombs exploded in Havana Wednesday night during a television appear ance by Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Castro during his telecast made no mention of the bombings, which occurred in areas of the city away from the TV studio. There were no reports of injur ies or damages from the bomb ings, which were reminiscent of tactics used by Castro's under ground during the terrorist cam paign in Havana against President Fulgencio Batista. Castro told his TV audience he would unmask elements of the press he accused of campaigning against his government. Obviously nettled by editorial and other criticism of his land re distribution program, he said the newspapers would prefer to forget the "corrupt past and all the im moralities of past governments." He did not explain what action he plans against the press. But he said a million rural residents would be brought to Havana soon for a rally in support of agrarian reform. Tobacco Tax Bill Signed By Brown SACRAMENTO (UPI) Gov. Edmund G. Brown today signed a bill establishing a three pennies a pr ' tax on cigarettes and cigar illos. effective July I. The governor estimated the measure would increase state rev enues by $61,800,000 during the next fiscal year. Passage of the measure brought praise to the Legislature from the governor. But at the same time he said he regretted that cigars and other tobacco products had not been included in the revenue measure as It finally was approved. First Twister In 10 Years: Scores Injured, Homeless MIAMI. Fla. I AP Pouring rain added to the misery of tor nado scarred Miami today ,as householders tried to patch up damage caused by the vicious storm which swept the city Wednesday night, injuring at least 100 persons. Harry C. Ebright, Red Cross disaster chairman, estimated damage at t5.0O0.00O. The injury estimate came from the highway patrol. There were no deaths. The weather bureau said the threat of a central Florida torna do has ended. A warning had been issued for a broad band starting just east of Tampa and running t0 ,ne Cape Canaveral mis sile test center. Farther up the east coast, tornado-like winds swept across Jup iter Island, just north of Palm Beach. The island is a million aires' resort. Property damage was minor. Vost of the homes were boarded up for the summer. The Miami storm was the first of its kind since the late 1940s when a hurricane-spawned torna do destroyed property. Neuberger To Vote 'No' PORTLAND (AP) Sen. Rich ard Neuberger (D-Orel said Wed nesday he will oppose confirma tion of Lewis L. Strauss as sec retary of commerce. The Oregonian, in a dispatch from Washington, D.C.. quoted Neuberger as saying: "The Op penheimer case, the altercation with David Lilicnthal and the Dixon-Yates case all cast doubt on his fitness to be secretary of commerce." The newspaper reported Neu berger said many scientists do not think that Strauss has "suf ficient respect for the detached integrity of the scientific mind. Neuberger earlier had polled number of scientists in Oregon on the Strauss question. Fourteen were opposed to confirmation, 10 approved and 10 were noncommit al, Neuberger said. , The Oregonian quoted' Neu berg er as saying he rarely opposed a presidential appointee and he recalled that he had voted to con firm Clare Booth Luce aa am bassador to Brazil. "The case against , Strauss in volves how he conducted himself in another position in the federal government. The case against Mrs. Luce involved her flam boyant - statements in political campaigns, and while they didn't do her credit, they were outside her appointed role as ambassa dor," the paper quoted Neuberger as saying. . . Dogs Saved In Grass Fire LOS ANGELES (AP) Police man Kenneth Shipp.had the dog gonedest time fighting a grass fire Wednesday. He hastily reported the blaze alter spotting it heading for a large wooden house. In the back yard, he found about 50 dogs in kennels. He freed them and heaved each one over the fence to safety. Then Shipp broke down the front door and found the house full of dogs in kennels. More than 100. he estimated. It took him 15 min utes to empty the building. After the fire was out. Shipp rounded up all the dogs. He never did learn the name of the kennel owner. Didn t have time. The Red Cross reported over I, 000 families were atlected by the storm and loo homes sutfered major damage. Five hundred oth nouses were less seriouslv damaged. At least three homes Wei COmDietflv dpstrnvwl anH neany too business- establish ments were severely damaged. Scores of bayfront homes werp lelt in wreckage amid tangles of tree trunks, signs and overturned automobiles as the storm lean Irogged over a 12-mile Daih. Hun. areas ot persons were driv.i. irom their homes. An 1 1 -year old bov. Frank Vj. lotti, was reported in critical con dition with head injuries. Nearly 60 persons, some seri ously hurt, were treated by hospi tals, police, and civil defense units mustered on a disaster footing. In1 ail, about 100 were hurt, the Flori da Highway Patrol said. No one was reported killed. Hardest hit was a four-block residential and business area around the 79th Street causeway wnere rouce sgt. Stewart Coolev estimated the loss would run at least to one million dollars it missed downtown Miami. L. S. Pope, picked up bleedinc on the causeway, said he was on the second floor of a five-family dwelling when its roof blew off. His bed was flung into the air. Don Shoemaker, who lives in the area, said: "I've been through two tornadoes and have never seen anything like this. It looked like a bomb had hit" Mrs. Nola Cone. 40, scrambled out of wreckage of her bar with six patrons, shaken but unhurt. "I've seen Oklahoma tornadoes but none like this," she said. "I heard this roaring sound and yelled 'Everybody hit the floor and get under something.' "Then it ' struck. Bottles new- through the air. The cash register it takes two men to lift it fell off the counter. Parts of the ceil ing fell down. "The tornado must have lasted two minutes. As soon as it let up, I shouted 'Count off. I want to hear seven voices.' And, thank God, they all spoke up. We got out ot thete. ' ' v Johj Brandt, 54, said, ht and his wife weie in their small apart ment when something wrenched their front window out of its frame. "We ran into the bathroom," Brandt said. "I braced my back against the door and my feet against the bathtub. If I hadn't the tornado would have been in there with us." City police, sheriff's deputies Florida Highway Patrol detach ment, and Civil Defense auxilia ries shunted curiosity - seekers away from the,area and guarded against looting from stores and homes where building fronts stood wrenched open. "Everything, we had is gone- leveled," said Dr. George Ferro "My $40,000 house is destroyed. There's a grapefruit tree where our living room was our pool's been ripped out of the ground. In a single block of north Bay- shore Drive, in the area of great est destruction, more than a dozen autombiles lay overturned or crumpled. Some had been slammed against buildings. Admiral OKs Navy Budget WASHINGTON fAPl - Rear Adm. R. E. Dixon, chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, said today that pending budget re quests ."will provide an adequate but austere program" for the Navy. Dixon denied published reports that the Navy has been holding ships and planes together- "with baling wire to stay within its budget" for lack of spare parts. "I have never said such a thing and I know it is not true," he said as he waited to testify be. fore a Senate Appropriations sub committee-. The Detroit Free Press used the baling wire" language today in a Washington story on the budget and spare parts situation. The issue arose after a crewman of a Navy plane attacked by Com munist fighters over the Japan Sea said the reason the U.S. craft could not shoot back, was missing gun parts. The Pentagon had an other version that, armament spree had betn used tor recon naissance equipment, presumably radar and cameras. LEVY REJECTED SALEM. Ore. (AP) Voters here Wednesday rejected t 12.- 680.000 tax levy that would have helped operate the Salem School District in the 195-1M0 school year. The levy was rejected by a vote of (.041 to MIL r:-"-- " ?IivS :LUs, lit"" i vl&;c, a QUEEN CANDIDATES, rodeo western dinner. The ride took FOREST FIRE DANGER TODAY KEEP OREGON GREEN Weather Northern California Fair through Friday except morning teg near the coast. Coastal winds northwesterly, 12-25 miles an hour. Klamath Falls and vicinity -Fair through Friday. Warmer. Low Thursday night 50-36; high Friday 82-88. :9 High yesterday Low last night Precip. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 Same period last year ... 16.68 Six Killed On Turnpike AUBURN. Mass. (AP)-Six per sons were killed Wednesday night on the Massachusetts Turnpike when an automobile leaped the dividing strip of the dual highway and was ramm I by another car. Three persons, two of them children, were critically injured The dead included Jerome Ma- kara, 57, of Springfield; and his wife, Cora, about 53. - , Their children, Geraldine, IS, and Edward, 11, were injured. The other dead were Springfield employes of Monsanto Chemical Co. returning home after a day s deep sea fishing off Boston. They were Wilbur B. Handheld 41; Richard Donaldson. 28: Arthur Deveno. 38; and Martin F. Wilson. i, all of Springfield. John Pasterczyk. 32, of Chico- pee Falls, a fifth man in the car, was injured. Two Sects May Unite NEW YORK (AP)-A constitu tion designed to unify two Prot estant denominations was re leased today. It provides for regu lation at the top and freedom at the bottom. The document, proposed for the new United Church of Christ, has been a matter of keen interest. In setting forth a joint structure for the two bodies the loosely knit Congregational Christian churches and the centrally organ ized Evangelical and Reformed Church it combines elements of both. It guarantees the autonomy of any congregation or local church in the management of its own af fairsincluding property, worship, and hiring or dismissal of pastors. This has been a crucial point for the Congregationalists, some of whom have opposed the merger on the ground it might impair their traditional independence. The constitution was dratted by I a 30-member commission, headed j by the Rev. Dr. Gerhard W. Grau-i er of Chicago. - It was mailed to delegates In advance of . the United Church's forthcoming general synod July 5-9 at Oberlin, Ohio, so they would have it in hand by the time it was made public today. It must be approved by that meeting, and then by two-thirds ot the Evangelical and Reformed regional synods, and two-thirds of the individual Congregational churches voting to become effec tive. Together, the two denominations include more than two million members. The constitution specifies that its provisions define and regulate the national church functions, but only describe the free and volun tary relationship of the local churches and regional groups. Thus, in general, the traditional Evangelical and Reformed sys tem is applied In the upper church echelons, while the customary Congregational freedoms are re- fans and officials rode to Stukel Mountain Sunday for a two hours each way. Hopefuls For Take Two-Hour Horse Ride Candidates (or qucenship of the na. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tulelake Junior Rodeo and thei Arthur Hanna of Tulelake: Ona N a t i o n al Intercollegiate Rodeo, both of which will be held in the Klamath Basin next month, took a two-hour horseback ride on an outing sponsored Sunday by local rodeo officials and fans. The girls and other members of the party were served a western style dinner when they arrived at Cable Camp near Stukel Moun tain. Nine of the 10 candidates were present. One has since filed (or candidacy. They will be judged 60 per cent on horsemanship and 40 , per teiii on puise anu personality 1 lib,. d,,i.h rniiA.. En:rn.n..4. L I Mi'Mftt-uuuv- vain-; r an gi uuiius Tulelake. One will be named queen. Two runnersup will serve as her prin cesses. They will lead the Fourth of July Parade in Klamath Falls and the grand entries during the college rodeo July 3, 4 and J in Klamath Falls, and the Tulelake rodeo at the fairgrounds there July 19. The candidates are Carole Frei, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. PauilHarboJr- tTne mayr- recently re- Frei of Klamath Falls; G i n g e r Bell, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Leon Bell of Klamath Falls: Tana Raye Roberts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vern Roberts of Lake- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Nortwick of Tulelake Jerrie Han Film Actress Dies In Sleep HOLLYWOOD (AP) Actress Ethel Barrymore died today. Death came to the famed stage and screen actress as she slept in her home in Beverly Hills. She suffered from a chronic heart condition. With her was her son, Samuel Barrymore Colt. Miss Barrymore. 79, long was known as the queen of Ameri ca's royal family of the theater. Her two equally famous brothers, John and Lionel Barrymore, pre ceded her in death. She had been relatively inactive m recent years, but still took an occasional film role. Ethel started on the stage at the age of 14 and went on to become a great Broadway leading lady and one of the most famous beau lies of her time. In 1928 a New York theater was built and named in her honor. She acted in London, made Holly wood movies, and had her own ra dio show. Her throaty contralto voice became known to millions all over America because of ex tensive road tours. In later years, she turned to character roles and played scores of these with distinction. Hollywood paid her its top trib ute, a movie academy Oscar, in 1944 for her supporting role as the Cockney mother in "None But the Lonely Heart." Briqitte Weds Leading Man PARIS (API Brigitle Bardot and Jacques Charrier were mar ried at the town hall of suburban Louveciennes this morning by a nervous mayor. The ceremony was almost an anticlimax in the complicated scenario the couple had impro vised in their effort for secrecy. Charrier said Tuesday they had already been married. Anne-Mane Bardot. Brigitte's mother, con firmed that Wednesday. But both let used to be specific about where or when the ceremony had been held and no one was able to lind a record of the event. The sexy 14-year-old movie star Liet Charrier. 13. while they were cestarring in their latest movie. She previously was married to director Roger Vadim and only recently broke her engagement to guitar player Sacha Dulel. Rodeo Queen Lee Terry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Terry of Tulelake; San dra Sponier, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. I. Spomer of Tulelake: Pat Harkey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Harkey of Klamath Falls: Donna Mae Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Williams of Klamath Falls, and Deanna Brown, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Frank Brown of Bo nanza. Unionist Hit By LA Mayor LOS ANGELES (UPI) "If Harry Bridges achieves his goals he'll make James Ho((a sound like the fourth soprano in a high school choir." Mayor Norris Poulson issued that statement Wednesday as he commented on labor difficulties at the Los Angeles-Long Beach ,"'u. ""' "nin8ion, ninieo. lhal ,thcre n,'8ht be congre. " "T- lne "uauon- . seems to ,"tne labor P'e" Poulson IU. "Harry Bridges Is at work to set up an enormous idteraational labor empire. He hopes to con solidate forces with certain east ern labor leaders. "And he is strengthening him self in the Hawaiian Islands, Ja pan and the Philippines. If ha acnieves his goal, he will have enormous powers over the econo my ol the world." Poulson said federal officials were concerned over the trouble at the harbor which several ship ping lines bypass because of dif ficulty in havinff eamoes unlnari- .j Army Groups; Backing Seen BUENOS AIRES. Argentina (AP Support grc today for dissident army' groups that al ready have forced' the replace ment of Argentina's undersecre tary of war by a fervid anti Peronist. As President Arturo Frondizi's government entered its third day of crisis, hca -ily armed units manned all military establish ments and fortified the War Min istry in Buenos Aires with ma- chinegun posts. . At least two powerful army gar risonsin Campo de Mayo, near Buenos Aires, and at Salta, it northern Argentina were re ported supporting the stand of the Cordoba Army Command, which forced Col. Manuel R. Raimundex to resign as undersecretary of war. Raimundcz, felt by his felltfw oflicers to be an ultranationalist. was replaced by Gen. Roscndo Frego, described as closely linked with the Cordoba group led by Gen. Roberto Grotz. Grotz demanded a thorough In vestigation of a rumored pact be tween Frondizi and ex-president Juan Peron to assume Frondizi't election last year. The Cordoba faction also is demanding an end to the government use of troops, and its military powers to block or break strikes on the railroads and other key enterprises. Japan Minister Replaces Cabinet TOKYO (API Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi replaced most of his Cabinet today in a move to lessen dissension among rival tac tions of his Liberal-Democratic party. Only party politics was involved in the change. The government is pledged to continue Japan's close tie with, the West despite Socialist fret sure for a neutral policy.
