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la The- Day's evs By FRANK JENKINS I think everyone must agree that Washington (using Washing ton as a generic term for our federal government) is full of problems. There's Laos. (Even its name suggests problems. As ordinarily pronounced, it sounds like LOUSE, which starts us worrying about how we can keep from get ting any worse loused up in that part of the world.) There's Cuba, including Castro. There's Africa. There's the con tinuing problem of Mr. Kroosh and how to handle the old rascal. Then there's GOLD, which we don't seem to have enough of to enable us to go on living in the epen-handed way we've become accustomed to living. The list seems endless. Wcll- With Inauguration Day only a week and a half off, SOMETHING NEW in the way of Washington problems has been added: WHAT TO WEAR ON INAU GURATION DAY. A simple problem? Easily solved? That's what you and I, living out he? in the wide open spaces, think. Back in Washington, it's dif ferent. What to wear on Inaugura tion Day is so important there that the GOP held a PARTY CONFERENCE on it yesterday. It was discussed pro and con. The final decision, as has been the case so often in our history, was a compromise. It was decid ed to leave it on the basis of every man for himself. Senator Everett M. Dirksen, of Illinois, thT'Republican leader in the sen ate, announcing the momentous decision to the reporters, said: "We decided to let every man decide for himself on the occa sion. There may even be some who will wear formal or SEMI formal attire such as striped trousers and SHORT coats." The base cowards! How is the Grand Old Party to survive if its present stalwarts are as wishy-washy in their con victions as that decision seems to indicate? At the GOP conference, Sena tor George D. Aiken, of Vermont, took a dim view of formal attire WHEN THE VOTERS ARE LOOKING ON. He recalled that at a reception Jn Canada for the then King- and queen of Britain he wore a top bat, striped pants and a cutaway eoat. He told his fellow conferees: "There were about 400 Vermont- ers there. It almost nipped my political career in the bud." He added to the reporters: "The Republicans at the confer ence held mostly to the point of view that JFK's assumption of the Presidency on January 20 will be an inauguration and not coronation, and so we'll wear business suits." Meaning that no chances will be taken with the voters. Liquor Quota On Planes Set WASHINGTON (UPI) - Airline passengers will be limited to two drinks of liquor, 26 ounces of wine or 24 ounces of beer under a new government order. The' Civil Aeronautics Board Tuesday approved the restrictions voluntarily agreed to by the air line industry. In a dissent, board member John S. Bragdon called for a flat ban on alcoholic beverage served aboard airliners as a safety measure. Indict Former Governor Fine SCRANTON, Pa. (API-John S. Fine, former governor of Pennsyl vania, was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on charges of evading $45,554 in income taxes after he left office. Fine. 67, and his brother-in-law. Donald P. Morgan, were charged, in a three-count indictment cov ering the years 1955 through 1957. Fine, a Republican, has prac ticed law since leaving office in January 1955 after a four year term. Hypertension Plagues Author ROCHESTER. Minn. (AP) -Farrjd novelist Ernest Heming way has been undergoing medical treatment here for hypertension Since Nov. 30, the Mayo Clinic said today. He is slated for re lease within the next two weeks. The clinic said Hemingway's tonditlon Is regarded as satisfac- ' lory. Hypertension Is commonly re ferred to as bigh blood pressure. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Fair with high clouds today and tonight. Partly cloudy to cloudy Thursday. Highs 44-50. Low to night 25-SO. High yesterday 47 Low last night 2$ Preclp. last 24 hours none Since Oct. 1 5.22 Same period last year 1.57 Negroes Sit With Whites In Georgia ATHENS, Ga. (AP)-Two teen. age Negroes quietly sat down in classes with white students today after federal court rulings swept aside nearly two centuries of seg regation at the University of Geor gia. Charlayne A. Hunter, 18, and Hamilton E. Holmes, 19, trudged along the oak and elm lined walk' ways to psychology and zoology classes respectively. No crowds ' bothered them, There was just the usual flow of students making their way to the 9 a.m. classes in a score of build ings spread out over an area of more than two miles. Some of the white boys and girls cast curious glances at the two Negroes. Others paid them no attention. Some 'spoke to them. It was just another day starting at one of the nation's higher educa- tional centers. While all was quiet in the unl- versity town, there were rum blings in Atlanta of further dis pleasure with integration on any level. House Speaker George L. Smith and State Auditor B. E. Thrasher Jr. expressed the opinion that the present appropriations act auto matically cuts off funds to the university when integrated. But regardless of their views, normal operations proceeded. The U.S. Supreme Court Tues day refused Georgia s plea to fur ther delay integration at the school. Laos Warns Red Envoy VIENTIANE. Laos (AP) The Laotian government has threat ened to take "appropriate tepl" unless the Soviet government stops its airlift to pro-Communist rebels. The warning to the Soviet Un ion, sent to the Soviet ambassador in London Monday, was made pub lic shortly after the United States delivered the royal Laotian army its first armed planes. Four propeller-driven observa tion planes, each armed with ma' chine guns, were flown here Tues day. Two other planes and a num- ber of helicopters are also being turned over to Laos by the United States. The aircraft will be flown by Laotian pilots, A Laotian spokesman said the planes were needed to check on the movements of the pro-Corn munist Pa'.het Lao in the north central Plaine des Jarres. A U.S. spokesman said the de- livery of defensive weapons was authorized under the 1954 Geneva agreement giving Laos independ ence. But protests are certain from the Communist nations sup porting the Pathet Lao rebels and the forces of rebel Capt. Kong Le. The note said the Soviet airlift to aid the rebels had not stopped despite a protest delivered Dec. 31. and that Soviet planes were continuing a daily delivery at air strips and by parachute of sub' stantial amounts of war material and other kinds of unauthorized military assistance." The government charged 10 Anvs una that about 3.000 soldiers f,-nm rnmmnnicf Ynrlh Viol Kami invaded Laos, and U.S. intelli gence sources later reported So viet aircraft had brought in a sub stantial outside Communist force. Tuesday the government chargedi that Soviet as well as North Vi etnamese troops were invading the country. Few Western sources here, however, have believed the reports of invading forces were well-founded. Haiti Deports Catholic Clergy PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti (AP) The expulsion of Haiti's leading Roman Catholic bishop, orders for the deportation of four other priests and closing of the church paper threaten a new crisis in President Francois Duvalier's re lations with the Vatican. The bishop was the second Cath olic prelate deported in less than 'two months. Duvalier's govern ment charged both were intcrfer-j iing in its efforts to root out Com munist and pro-Castro students from the University of Haiti. But back of both cases was Duvalier's ,U. iU- -I 1 SUSUILlUn Midi utc iiiuiimircu. were friendly to ha political foes.iscious at the same hospital, tf.Of 0R2.LI8RAM IffSPAPSR SECtlOi Price Tea Cents 2 THE FINAL DONATIONS to the disaster car, funds were made Wednesday morning to city firemen. A total of $3,737 was collected locally from dozens of firms, organi zations and individuals for the local share of rescue equipment coit. City firemen John Mathews and Bill Ackerman, second and fourth from left, receive the final gifts from Barney Cavanaugh of the Toketee Lions Club, left; Al Blane of Standard Oil of Cali fornia Company; Mrs. T. J. O'Harra, XI Dalta Chapter, Beta Sigma Phi sorority, and Mrs. Percy Pierce, Carpenters' Auxiliary, right. (See story on Page 4-AI. Kennedy's Treasury Secretary Says He Won't Back Tax Cutting WASHINGTON (AP) - Douglas Dillon, selected to be secretary of the Treasury in the Kennedy administration, said today he has no intention now of recommending a temporary tax cut to give the economy a lift. He also told the Senate Finance Committee at a hearing on his ap pointment that it would be entirely up to Congress to decide whether to delegate authority to the presi dent to raise or lower taxes. And, in reply to questions about the drain on U.S. gold as a re suit of the adverse international balance of payments, he said he believed the problem could be solved in a 'way that would not adversely affect the economy of the free world. Dillon said, however, that he did not want to discuss In public sessions the steps that might be taken. The hearing was the first by a Senate committee on any of the Cabinet appointments announced by President-elect John F. Ken nedy. Dillon testified he had Made ar rangements to place his security holdings in trust to avoid any con flict of interest. Chairman Harry F. Byrd want ed to know if Dillon would ap prove of a tax cut that would cre ate a deficit. Dillon said he thought that a de cision would have to depend on the circumstances at the time. He added that as of now he has no intention of recommending a tax cut. He also said he thinks a bal anced budget is "highly impor tant," that it should be balanced over a period of years and in boom times "we ought to take in a surplus to reduce the debt." The Foreign Relations Commit tee plans a hearing Thursday on a second top Cabinet figure, Dean Rusk, designated as secretary of slate. Orville L. Freeman, Kennedy's Guard Kills Two Persons WASHINGTON (AP)-A govern ment building guard went berserk today, shot down four persons and killed himself. Two of his four victims died in stantly. The others were critically wounded. The dead: John Pledger, 40. a uniformed guard at the main Navy building, Constitution Ave. and 18lh at who took his own life at the end of his shooting spree. Pledger was i civilian employe of the General Services Administration which has custodian duties lor all gov ernment buildings. Pledger's estranged wife, Zel- ma. 32. Dr. Monroe G. Gregory, 50, of Annapolis, Md. The Pledgers and Gregory were Negroes. The wounded: Augustus Valentine, 37, a co worker of Mrs. Pledger in the Navy Bureau of Ships, reported in critical condition at George 1 Washington University Hospital. Theodore Wells. 38, an employe in the same office, reported in, undetermined condition but con- Pages choice for secretary of agricul ture, goes before the Senate Agri culture Committee Friday. These sessions are informal since Kennedy cannot submit ap pointments until he is sworn in Jan. 20. But, following past precedent, Democratic leaders hope to have all 10 Cabinet choices before the appropriate committees between now and the inauguration, and then have them confirmed almost as soon as their names are sent up formally. borne Republicans have ex pressed the fear that Dillon, now undersecretary of state in the El senhower " administration, will serve as a "fall guy" in the new Kennedy regime. Some Democrats, on the other hand, havo said privately that they are concerned that he may try to slow down economic and welfare programs pledged by their party. Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D-Va., thejing firm. Overwhelming Vote Ends Status As Company Town WEED This city's status as a lumber company town for more than 60 years ended yes terday when residents voted over whelmingly for incorporation. The final tabulation, announced when counting was complete at M-15 nm hk B71 lo 9? Thi.1 vote was extremely heavy even in relation to a record number of eligible voters. Voters also picked a city coun cil ot live members Irom nine candidates. .Winners were J. I. "Jack" Kejrsey, assistant mana ger of a mercantile store and chairman of the Citizens Com mittee for Incorporation, 714 votes; Holland Riley, Internation al Paper Company electrician and chief of the Volunteer Fire De partment for the past nine years, 670; Elwin Adams, IPC box fac tory employe and grocer, 656; J' - ( te ffidf ' ' ! 1 NEW OFFICERS of the Klamath County Historical Society will preside at the socie ty's first 1961 meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. II, in the lecture room of the Klamath County Library. A program on "Logging and Lumbering Past and Pres ent" it planned and will be illustrated with early day pictures and a recently pro duced film on today's planning for the lumber industry. Left to right are E. M. Chilcote, president; Albert A. Angel, vice president, and Nevarte M. Smith, tecretary treaturer. The public it welcome to attend all historical society meetings. COUP. K X C2 KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, Finance Committee chairman told a reporter he had conferred with Dillon and w as convinced the nominee was in favor of a "sound dollar" and a balanced budget, It was learned that Dillon had expressed the- hope committee members would not try to quiz him in public about the balance f F:t. t iu:.. vi pajriiiviiis auumivu auu uiia Mcl-i lion s steady loss ot gold in recent years. In his State Department post, I Dillon has been ultimately in volved in the efforts to ease the unfavorable U.S. balance of pay ments position He is understood to have said tne" iflat.ter is too delicate to be threshed out in a public committee session. It was reported that Dillon had given the committee advance as surances he had placed his per sonal holdings in trust to avoid any conflict of interest. He is a former vice president of a prom inent New York investment bank- Melvin Soletti, a grocer, 647, and Jessie Greene, IPC planing mill employe and minister for Mt. Shasta Baptist Church, Weed, 581. The other four candidates and their vote totals were Everett Warren, 548; Pete Belcastro, 525; Fred Pillon, 470, and Frank Riz- zo, 228. The Siskiyou County Board ofi Supervisors is expected to con vene soon, probably Monday, to canvass ballots and to certify the city council. When that is done, councilmcn will begin a series of meetings to get the machinery of self gov ernment rolling. They must ap point a mayor from Uicir ranks. and planning board and a sala ried city clerk. They must also dissolve some service districts and perhaps form new ones. The city is due to become for mally incorporated July 1. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY. 11, 1981 Bevem Bill hx Pmlwtye kirdused By Lmum&kers House Puts On Expense SALEM (AP) The Oregoniwas no question of the need and House of Representatives put oft until Wednesday action on a Sen- ate joint resululion to give lUlS a nia.unuill Ul ai.ouu a khi in expense money, but in the Sen ate the resolution drew new fire. Sen. Carl Francis. D-Daylon. protested that he had to learn from the newspapers that the Sen ate had voted itself expense mon ey. "The resolution was not read or explained," he said. "Had 1 known its nature 1 would nave voted against it." The Senate approved the resolu tion unanimously Monday the opening day of the session. If the House should suspend the rules and consider the reso lution immediately and favorably it would make it effective. The Senate approved earlier. A Democratic caucus unani mously approved it earlier. Re oublicans also approved 14 13 with the chairman not voting. Gov. Mark O. Hatfield expres sed reservations from a public re lations standpoint. He said there Department Completed By Kennedy 1 PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP- President-elect John F. Kennedy today completed the State Depart ment high command with the ap pointment of a close political as sociate of Adlai E. Stevenson as undersecretary of stale for eco nomic affairs. Kennedy, back at the seaside home of his parents after a week of conferences in New York, Bos Ion and Washington, gave the for eign policy job to George W. Ball, 51, a Democrat who has a back ground of service in government and now is a Washington attorney specializing in international law. Ball long has been a chief political adviser to Stevenson, the Demo cratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956. recently picked by Kennedy to be ambassador to the United Nations. Selection of Ball was announced by the president-elect as he turned to concentrated work on his Jan 20 inaugural address. In the $20,- 000 a year job as undersecretary for economic affairs, Ball will be the No. 3 man in the State Depart ment. Shortly before flying to Palm Beach from Washington Tuesday night, Kennedy also completed the top echelon of the Treasury Department. He named Henry H. Fowler, also a Washington lawyer who has served in a number of government positions, as under secretary of the Treasury. Telephone Off Action Money Bill that the move appeared legal. Hatfield said that the people lcgisla-ispccilicaliy turned down a pro - wsm vuiiaiiiuiiuuai cuiii-muiii-m to give the legislators a pay raise and this resolution is an attempt to get around this. The constitution sets the salary ot each legislator at $600 a year. A bid to raise it lo SI, 200 was re jected by the voters last May. Although the governor must sign the general appropriation for the legislature his signature is not needed to allow this to be come effective. The legislature, can spend its appropriation as it sees fit. Secretary ol State Howell App ling Jr. said he would ask the at torney genera! for an opinion on whether he could honor the cx-i pense vouchers of the legislators if the resolution passed. Hatfield told an afternoon news conference Tuesday he would nave 10 see any Dill Darnng al move of the Welfare Commission! from Portland to Salem before he would say if he would veto it. This came in answer to a re porter's question on whether Hat field would veto such a bill be cause Rep. Grace Peck, D-Port- land, had said she planned to in troduce one. Hatfield said not a single wel fare recipient would he affected by the move because he said the commission deals only with the county .welfare groups which' 111 iuin iieai wmi recipients. "I'm more interested in thel quality of the program. . . .and the efficiency with which the program is administered," he said. Hatfield said that he will push for a Salmon River sanctuary' Feb. 6 in Boise when he will con fer with Washington Gov. Albert Roscllini and Idaho Gov. Robert Smylie on the declining salmon population. Hatfield said a Salmon River sanctuary would bar the proposed Ncz Perce Dam. "Oregon needs power," Hat field said. "High Mountain Sheep (dam) wouid be the best source of thai power as well as provide the best protection for the salm on." Top Hat Crisis Shakes Senate, Vote Worriers WASHINGTON (AP) - WU1 a voter look down his nose at a sen ator who wears a high silk hat? More lo the point, will the fancy headgear cost the senator votes on election day? Republican senators will have to' decide for themselves and then choose before inauguration day. The party isn't going to advise them. The crisis stems from an indi cation by the inaugural committee that distinguished guests are ex pected to wear formal attire. A GOP conlcrcnce pondered the situation Tuesday and decided to! take no stand as a group. 'We decided to let every man decide for himself what to wear on the occasion," said Sen. Ev crelt M. Diikscn of Illinois, the Senate Republican leader. "There may be some who will wear formal or scmiformal attire such as striped trousers and short coats." Another Republican senator, George D. Aiken of Vermont, takes a dim view of formal at tire, particularly when voters are looking on. . Aiken recalled that he wore a top hat, striped pants and a cut away coat al a reception in Can ada in the 1930s for the then king and queen of Britain. "There wen: about 400 Vermont crs there,"'Aiken said. "It almost nipped my political career in the bud." Republicans at the conference, Aiken reported, held mostly to the point of view that John F. Ken ncdy'a assumption of the presiden cy Jan. 20 "will be an inaugura tion and not a coronation and we'U wear business suits." TU 4-8111 Nn. 6580 By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM (AP) A comprehensive taxation program was introduced in the House today as the Oregon Legis lature cleared the decks for action on financial problems. While the 11-bill package was presented to the House, the Joint Ways and Means Committee mat and organized to start work on the appropriation bills. The tax package calls for a 3-cent-a-package tax 011 cigarettes, with reduced income taxes to compensate for it. All income tax exemptions would be eliminated. instead of the $600 deduc-l Uon for eac, person there would be a $20 tax credit to be subtracted from the actual amount of the tax. Other features of the package: Permits deferral of taxes on homesteads of persons over 65 and with less than $4,000 annual in come. These taxes could be taken! from the estates afler death. Repeals personal property lax on inventories, and would enact a 1.5 per cent tax on net business income. Allows $8 million in bonds for higher education dormitories in addition to present $32 million limit. Taxes truck trailers hauled on railroad cars according to value. Repeals tax on insurance com panies and places them under the corporate excise tax. Eases the tax burden on farm lands in areas where land is actu ally zoned for higher use, such as urban development. The legislature, which opened Monday, took Tuesday off for an orientation school for new mem bers. Republicans will introduce bills lo carry out Gov. Mark O. Hat field's tax program. The governor merely asked for a ncl receipts tax, probably one per cent, on all net income, with- otit deductions. This would be fh addition to the regular income lax, but the tax rates also would be lowered, Blacltman Nev Prexy Of Potato Grower Group Duane Blackman of Henley Is the new president of Klamath Po tato Growers Association. Black- man, who is associated with wa ter Lake Potato Distributors, is active in marketing as well as producing potatoes. He succeeds James Ottoman of Malin as president of the grower organization. Named vice president at the an nual meeting in Merrill last Mon day was L. L. Porterficld of Dairy. Growers renamed Lewis Kandra of Malin as a grower-member of the Marketing Order Commltteei and renamed Marion Kilpatrick as Kandra's alternate. Louis Lyon of Malin and Troy Quails of Merrill were renamed to serve on the Oregon 'Potato Commission's Advertising Council. Growers voted for establishment of a permanent market news serv ice office for potatoes. They heard Jack Waul OSC seed corlltica tion specialist, state that some of the best seed slock available any where is produced In Klamath County. Gene Gross, Klamath Experi ment Station superintendent, ex plained that an expanded potato proicct includes work on diseases variety testing, fertility and soil moisture studies. Employment of George Certcr makes additional work possible. Gross reported thai a new soil fumigant, EP 161, looked better than vapam and chloropicrin in 1960 wilt control Inals. An estimate of an 8.500 carload total shipment from the 1960 crop was madi by shipping point in spection supervisor, Leonard Kin ney. The shipment total a year ago was 10,334 carload equival ents. He reported totals to date trail (hose ol a year ago by 700 cars. Growers voted to share expenses with the Klamath County Cham ber of Commerce in providing gift boxes of Klamath potatoes for selected distribution at the President's Inauguration. John Brooks, member of the Oregon Poti.to Commission from Madras, reported proceedings of the National Potato Council's last annual meeting. Resolutions passed Included Weather Northern California Fair through Thursday except moraine; fog in valleys and rain north of Eureka tonight; little temperature change. M'. Shasta Siskiyou area Cloudy through Thursday witk showers possible early Thursday) cooler Thursday. The governor also favors repeal of the personal income tax on in ventories and replacing it with a business income tax. Two controversial bills were in troduced by Rep. George Van Iloomisscn, D-Portland. One would repeal the law which says that vacancies in public office must be filled by persons of the same political party as the person who vacated the office. His other bill would increase from $20,000 to $100,000 the maxi mum amount that can be recov. cred in suits for wrongful death. Castro May Say He Seared U.S. HAVANA (AP) - Fidel Castro soon may tell Cubans that the strength of his people's army has frightened off the American ag gressors he claimed would invade Cuba before Jan. 20. Government-controlled , press. radio and television continued to trumpet warnings that invasion would come before President Ei senhower turns over the Whit House to John F. Kennedy. Big headlines sliU denounced the U.S. Navy maneuvers In the Caribbean and the visit Monday of the supercarrier Franklin D. Roosevelt to the base on Guantan- amo Bay. standardization of specific gravity tests used in evaluating seedlings developed by potato breeding and improvements in crops and stocks reporting. Importance of holding produc tion in line with needs was em phasized by several speakers at the convention. All areas were urged to comply with USDA Plant ing Guides. Guides have not yet been issued for the 1961 late crop. Brooks repeated statistics which indicate three to four per cent surplus production results in 10 to 15 per cent reduction In in ccaie. DUANE ILACKMAN, Rented This was one of many adver tisers who rent their properties through the Want Ads. FOM rtnt or lent. AHrcctlvt, unhir. nlihtd Iwo bedroom homt In louth su tirbl. SI 00. TU 3-xxx. To rent your place, or to find a place to rent, it's the Want Ad every lime. Just telephone the Herald and News, TU 4-8111, or drop in at 1301 Es planade. A Want Ad writer will be glad to help you word your ad. Pay cash, or pay your tele phoned ad within five days, and receive 50c discount. rw k 'AT' If
