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n?.w3:'apR sscrio: 6 o o e In The- e Day's to By FRANK JENKINS Interesting news: According to Commerce Clear' tag House, Inc., a Chicago tax research firm, Oregon's STATE taxes in 1961 are the lowest on the Pacific Coast. They amount in the 1961 fiscal year to $113 per person. Here is the comparison: Hawaii $206.00 Washington $167.00 California $142.00 Alaska $138.00 Oregon $113.00 The report adds that in the 1961 fiscal year only three states in the Union had lower tax collec tions than in the preceding fiscal year. These three states were Ore gon, Ohio and Wyoming. Of the three, Oregon's four per cent re duction was the largest. All of which is statistical proof of our boast that Oregon is one of me Best governed states in the niion. That's the good side of the news. Let's now turn the page. In the 1961 fiscal year, the cost of Oregon's state government was $113 per person. For the same period, according to a careful computation worked out by Tax Foundation, Inc., Oregon's share of the cost of operating the FED ERAL government was $408 per person or 3.6 times as much. Which is to say: Of each total tax dollar you pay, 27 cents goes for the cost of state government and 73 cents goes for the cost of federal gov ernment. That's quite a difference. It hasn't always been that way. Not too many decades ago say back in your grandfather's time the situation was almost exactly reversed. In those days, the cost of the federal, government took about one-third of he total tax dollar and the cost of local gov. ernment about two-thirds. Why the change? There are many reasons. Wars are now much more costly than then, and the bulk of the cost of wars comes out of the federal treasury. Statecraft is also much more expensive than in Grandfa-I ther's time. Grandfather would have had a duck fit is in his day it had been suggested that we should pay out tens of billions of dollars in aid to foreign nations whose friendship we want to influ ence. He would probably have looked upon it as BUYING FRIENDS, and as such would have wanted no part of it. And.in Grandfather's day, there were such things as federal grants in aid. We have the odd notion that such things are manna from above, showered down upon us by our kindly old Uncle for free. Grandfather would have recog nized, instantly that all such gifts come out of taxes, and axes come out of the pockets of the people: Anyway Times have changed. We now have BigGovernment-a long-way-off. Because it is a long way off, we don't watch it as closely as we watch government that is closer to us. As a result, big government in Washington now takes two-thirds of the total tax dollar instead of the one-third it used to take. Plane Crash Kills Five BURNS, Ore. (API - Wreck age of a single-engine plane, with ,the bodies of five Palmdale, Calif., residents, was found late Saturday morning on the south slope of Pueblo Mountain. The scene was south of Denio on the Oregon-Nevada border. Dead were: The pilot. Craig Wilson, owner of the Topper Poultry Co. His wife. His sister, Edna Wilson. Mrs. Gary Pierce, 20, and her 6-month-old son. Chris. The plane disappeared Fri day on a flight from Reno to John Day. Ore. A search was started with planes taking off from Pendleton. Baker, John Day and Burns. Planes from Reno and Sacramento joined the search Saturday. Vaughn Michael, a pilot from John Dav, spotted the wreckage. He landed nearby and. made his way lo the scene. He reported no survivors. The bodies were to be removed later. Hunters Sight Guns On Wire ''inters sighted in their guns on a power line in l9e Davis Creek area between Lakeview and Al turas Saturday morning and made Och an excellent score on the wire jat they plunged Ccdarvillc. Ca. and Jun'gr into an elec tricity outage that lasted 40 min utes. Power was out from 8.29 a.m. to 9:10 a m. in the Cedarville sec tiotO"d 'as not restored to the entire line until 1124 a m. o KlanPath Falls and vicinity -Partly cloudy.eLo Saturday 25-30 with freeze warning tssufd: high 60-63. High yesterday 60 Low last night 33 Precip. last 24 hours .00 Since Oct. 1 12.93 Same period last year 9.27 7 V V GODFREY BLOHM G. C. Blohm Dies Friday In Portland Godfrey C. Blohm, manager of the U.S. National Bank in Klam ath Falls from 1937 to 1945, died in Portland Friday, Sept. 29, at Holiday Park Hospital. He was 73 years of age. Mr. Blohm left Klamath Falls in 1945 to manage the United States National Bank branch in Eugene and at the time of his retirement in 1958 was vice presi dent of the banking chain. Survivors include sons, Philip of Malin and Richard of Sunnyvale, Calif., his wife, Margaret, three brothel's, and five grandchildren. Since his retirement he and Mrs. Blohm have been living on their Malin ranch. Mr. Blohm was active in many civic organizations in Klamath Falls during his term .with tne bank here. Among these activities were Rotary Club president, chamber of commerce president, member of the school board and draft board and past president of the Oregon Banker's Association. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge in Portland and the Scot tish Rite bodies in Klamath Falls, Hillah Temple AAONMS, BPOE 1247, and the American Le gion. Funeral services will be held from Finley Mortuary in Portland Monday at 10 a.m. Memorial contributions to the Malin Community Presbyterian Church are suggested by the fam ily. Power Held ByDe Gaulle PARIS (UPl) President Charles de Gaulle, under heavy parliamentary and public pres sure, Friday relinquished most of the dictatorial powers he as sumed during last April's revolt in Algeria. But in a surprise last-minute announcement Friday night, De Gaulle said he will keep enough power to block any attempts to overthrow his government. De Gaulle said he would retain the right to proclaim a state of emergency, to arrest and hold persons on suspicion of plotting against the government, to ban certain writings, and arrange pecial trials for plotters. Berlin Crisis Talks End In No NEW YORK (AP' Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro- myko held the last of their New York talks on the Berlin crisis Saturday with some evidence they Kill be able to agree on a nego tiating formula at further meet ings in Wanhington. Western diplomats said the dis cussions here, though apparently inconclusive, had served to de fine the issues more clearly. They also gave some encouragement that the Soviets will agree to ac ceptable arrangements for an East-West foreign ministers' con ference later this year. The Western powers are re ported to have told Russia em phatically through these talks that they have no intention of ne gotiating with East Germany over thO' ghts to maintain troops in West Berlin. They also pressern3romyko for an explana tion of what the Soviet Union means by talking about guaran tees of access to West Berlin. Price Tea Cents 52 Pages Mmm 'DeaF'Jale LOS ANGELES (AP)-Richard M. Nixon denies he sought a se cret deal to get former Gov. Goodwin J. Knight out of the 1962 race for, California's Republican gubernatorial nomination. "False and libelous on its face. the former vice president said Friday of Knight's charge: That Nixon sent an emissary to offer Knight any state job he wanted if Knight withdrew. "No person representing me or authorized by me has made such a promise," said Nixon. Knight retorted, "I will disclose the name of Nixons pressure emissary and present my proof and witnesses at a public press conference within a very few days." These were the latest develop ments in a dispute between Cali fornia's two top Republicans a long-simmering feud that has come to a boil since Nixon an nounced his candidacy for gover nor Wednesday night. Knight, now a Los Angeles TV commentator, claims Nixon en California Battle Slows GOP Hopes SUN VALLEY, Idaho (API i California's early outbreak of Republican- feuding- tempered GOP optimism today over prospects for major political gains in the West next year. t. Party leaders from California at the Republican regional con-; ference, lined up behind Richard M. Nixon in his fast-developing battle with former Gov. Goodwin J. Knight in the Republican race for governor. But there was open concern over how the intraparty squabble New Border Curfew Set HOF, Germany (AP) East German authorities will Impose a curfew on border areas effective Sunday in a new move to make the Iron Curtain escape-proof, Ba varian police said Friday night. They said they have learned the restrictions would affect all East Germans living in a 500-yard zone along the border. At the same time, police reported preparations seem under way to evacuate all residents of this zone and to level their houses. The police said their informa lion was based on reports from police observation posts along the frontier and stories received from refugees. ' In the wooded Harz area, East German lumberjacks were report' ed at work cutting trees to im prove visibility for Communist guards. The future status of the U.S., British and French garrisons in West Berlin is one of several critical issues discussed by Rusk and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home in separate talks with Gromyko. Rusk and Gromyko expect to meet again in Washington this week. Rusk is returning lo Wash ington and Home to London to night. In Washington, it is understood Gromyko hopes to have a confer ence also with President Kennedy, but U.S. officials said the meeting has not yet been arranged. Toe talks, which actually mark the start of informfi negotiations over a compromise settlement, have dealt with three major as pects of the Berlin crisifQ 1. Rusk and Home have tried to impress upon Gromyko that the Western powers will fight to defend West Berlin and its access routes. Some aides tQ the two Western ministers think Soviet Premier Khrushchev now 'Qier- E WIM1C Ssys Knight gineered the GOP maneuvering that forced him to step aside as governor in 1958 to allow then U.S. Sen. William F. Knowland to run for that office. Knight ran for Knowland's senate seat. Both lost badly. Knight claims and Nixon de niesthat Nixon, then vice presi- dent, wanted both men defeated so he could have unquestioned control of California's Republican party. The latest rupture in the never cordial relations between Nixon and Knight started in this fashion: On the eve of Nixon's na tionally televised news conference Wednesday night, William A. Munnell, state Democratic chair man, issued a statement claiming a Nixon friend offered Knight a secret deal to withdraw from the race. The next morning, Knight told newsmen that he had been offered any state job he wanted includ ing California chief justice in a telephone call Sept. 7 by a would affect Republican chances in the West's biggest state. Nixon- arrived here Saturday lo address delegates from 13 Western states. It was his first public ap pearance since the I960 GOP pres idential candidate announced he would seek the California gover norship. Rep. Bob Wilson, R-Calif., chair man of the Republican Con gressional Campaign Committee, talked of a 50-seat gain for the GOP in 1962 congressional elec tions, including a pickup of eight districts in California and six to eight in Southern states. This would overturn Democratic con trot of the House. Wilson said Nixon would be of i great help in his home state's campaign provided he wins his own primary contest. The present congressional lineup in California favors the Demo crats 16-14. Eight additional con gressmen will be elected next year as a result of census gains. Wilson said he expected former! President Dwight D. Eisenhower to campaign in California next year but not until after the Junei primary showdown. In another development, Sen Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., a lead er of the Republican right wing, acted to halt a "stop-Kuchel' movement against Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel, R-Calif., who is aligned with party progressives. Goldwater told California's del egates before leaving Friday that he would campaign for Kuchel's reelection next year. Rep. John Rousselot, R-Calif., an avowed member of the John Birch Society, has indicated he might oppose Kuchel. stands thai he runs the risk of war if he overplays his hand. 2. Rusk has tried to discover whether Khrushchev is willing to ajgree to a basis for negotiations on Berlin. If he is, an East-West foreign ministers conference in November or December seems certain. 3. Rusk and Home have sought to explore the possibilities for suc cess of a foreign ministers' con ference. In essence, they want to know whether Khrushchev is will ing to compromise or whether he intends to dictate the terms of a settlement. Gromyko's practice in the talks. Western informants say, has been to repeal stated Soviet policy. Thus he has reaffirmed his gov ernment's plan 69 gn peace treaty with Communist East Ger many by the end of the year. Gromyko is said to have argued that troops stationed in Berlin aft. er the treaty is signed would be there by agreement with the East German government. la ami WtW KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. Mse wealthy Republican friend of Nix on s. Robert Finch, Nixon's 1960 cam paign manager, termed Knight's report "totally preposterous." The Democrats, plagued by in traparty fights for years in Cali fornia, obviously were happy at sighs of an intramural vGOP squabble. Democratic Gov. Edmund G Brown expected to seek reelec tion, suggested Nixon withdraw if Knight's charges were true. State Democratic Cochairman Roger Kent requested a state bar mves tigation. He suggested Nixon be disbarred for violation of legal ethics if the Knight charges were substantiated. Then Nixon counterattacked Fri day. In a statement telephoned to newsmen by aides in his law of fice, Nixon said: "Mr. Knight's charge that an unnamed indi vidual representing me offered him a job to stay out of the race for governor is false and libelous on its face. "I demand that Mr. Knight and every newspaper and television and radio station which carried this charge publish a retraction. "I have never made any prom ises of any kind to Knight or any other individuals to keep them out of the race for governor." Two other Republicans lumped in. Mayor George Christopher of San Francisco, a Nixon man and possible candidate for lieutenant governor, said Knight had a la natical obsession against the Re publican nartv."He said Knight seems to want to help the Demo crats. , Assemblyman Joseph Shell of Los Angeles, another gubernatori al aspirant, asserted some GOP officials had "suggested" he drop out of the primary. He said he was in the race to stay. Blast Not Death Try NEW DELHI,' India (AP) - A senior police official said Satur day an explosion in a crowded street shortly after Prime Minis ter Nehru rode by in a car was not an assassination attempt. Nehru himself shrugged off the incident and said he did not even know about it until he got home Friday night. Then," he said, "police told me that there had been a cracker explosion." Indians use this ex pression in referring to a fire cracker sometimes placed in a bottle or wrapped in mud or stones. Appearing at an integration con ference here this morning, Nehru told newsmen with a smile: "It seems to have created a little more excitement in London and Washington than here. I had two cables from London and Washing ton." He did not identify the send ers, other than to say one was "a colleague. Decision' The West maintains thai the troops are in Berlin by right of World War II conquest. Khrushchev's ultimate objective is complete withdrawal of the Western forces. But he has talked Dubliclv about the Allies remaining in Berlin un der some new arrangement hv which Soviet forces also would be introduced into the Western sprlnr of the city. Khrushchev has also said he would agree to let U.N. forces garrison in West Berlin. The Western Dowers are under stood to have indicated to the So viet Union that the accent mkiiv may be negotiable so long as the basic rights of access are not im paired. That simply means that the West, as Dart of anv over-all settlement, probably would be willing to recognize East German authority in the operation of the supply lines, but it would not recognize any East German rights to interfere with the flow of traffic. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1961 OUSTS FIRST BELTS Bruce Galloway, in his buckot-seat foreign car, backed the Klamath Jaycees' seat belt campaign Friday . by being first in line. Galloway Is as sistant secretary of the local YMCA. Belts are avail able from M.J.R. Muffler Service and Dick's Richfield Service in the Klamath Falls area. Foreign Inked By NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) Presi dent Kennedy Saturday signed a $3.9-billion foreign aid appropria tion bill which also included funds for the Peace Corps and other fi nancial activities abroad. Kennedy also put his name on legislation allowing the National Football League and other sports circuits to enter package televi sion contracts. ,., . , At his vacation retreat over looking Narragansett Bay, the President signed two other spend ing measures Including the $1,133,453,164 supplemental appro priation which the House dropped on the Senate in a temper-boiling adjournment of Congress early Wednesday morning. The disputed money bill was a compromise of separate measures passed earlier by the Senate and Lid Clamped On Shipping SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -The Masters, Mates and Pilots Union clamped a lid on Pacific Maritime Association shipping from West Coast ports Saturday and spokes men said the strike will continue until shipowners come to terms. Pickets were set up late Friday after a meeting urged by the fed eral government between PMA and union representatives ended without agreement. Acting Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz had arranged the meeting, no federal represonta live attended. "If these people (the 13-firm member PMA) want to nego tiate," Capt. Robert Durkin, the union's West Coast president, said, they 11 negotiate with their ships picketed and they are going to stay that way until we get a contract. "We want lo talk about more than just pay," Durkin said, "We are trying to redistribute the addi tional percentage we get through automation so that It will help our unemployment problem. A PMA spokesman said ship owners might meet over the week end to reconsider the union s posi tion. Approximately 20 ships were tied up in San Francisco, Los An geles, Portland and Seattle. The PMA operates 136 ships. Durkin said as more of these ships en tered harbors they would be pick eted. Foreign flag vessels, Amer ican flag ships already signed to contracts and ships with military cargoes are unaflected. Hardest hit so far are the Mat- son Lines' ship Lurline and the American President Lines' Presi dent Cleveland. Among the hun dreds of vacation-bound persons beached by the three-day strike was Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz. Telephone Aid Bill Kennedy the House to add to funds pre viously appropriated for govern ment agencies. The House quit after ."passing.- th - compromise, sending It tb the Senate on a lake- it-or-leave it basis. The Senate took it, but only after bitter com plaints about some of the provi sions agreed lo by the Senate- House conference. . The other appropriation bill fur nishes $3,877,915,989 for public works of the Army, Atomic En ergy Commission, Interior De partment, Tennessee Valley Au thority and for several study com. missions. The foreign assistance bill totals $4,123,345,000, including $3,912.- 000,000 for economic and military aid. Kennedy originally sought nearly $4 8 billion in new assist ance funds, but critics of spending abroad slashed that request while aenying Kennedy the authority he sought to borrow .money from the lTeasury for economic develop ment loans; The over-all aDnrnDrlntlnn m. bodies $30 million for the Peacel Corps, $10 million less than Kennedy asked, nlus funds for the Export-Import Bank and the Inter-American Development man runa. 'Error1 Said Crash Cause N DO LA, Northern Rhodesia (UPD An aviation expert tenta lively blamed "pilot error" today lor tne Sept. 18 crash that killed U.N. Secretary General Dag Ham marskjold. The official said the crash 7 miles north of here may have occurred because the pilot was fatigued or because he was un familiar with Ndola airport. He said there was no evidence so far to suggest sabotage, but added he was not surprised by rumors of it. Accidental Shot Kills Man On Deer Hunt Trip Ronald Dave Watson, 32, 1606 Siskiyou, became Klamath Coun ty's first hunting fatality of the 1961 season when a loaded gun standing on the floor of the car in which he was riding discharged hitliag him in the chest. The acci dent occurred at 6:30 p.m. Satur day. ; According to authorities, wal-i son, with Carl Werner Heinz, 1940j Fremont, was riding In the back seat of a raralrivwi by William Anderson, 329 Torrey, returning from a hunting ground In the 'Telephone Flat" area above Klamath Lake and four miles southeast of the Johns-Manville plant. TU 4-8111 No. 6805 SYPTIAM Me iv Flag Flies Over Buildings BEIRUT, Lebanon (API-Syr ia's new civilian regime raised the flag of the Syrian Arab Republic over government buildings Satur day and ordered the ouster of Egyptians in quick sequel to the revolt against Cairo's rule. All Egyptians, civil and mili tary, were instructed to present themselves at military headquar ters Sunday for shipment home. The .order, signed by "the com mander of the Syrian Arab army," was broadcast by Radio Damas cus. This broadcast and another an nouncing the flag-raisuigs were monitored in Beirut, capital of neighboring Lebanon. Premier Mamourt Kuzbari had announced dissolution of the mili tary group that boosted him to power. He promised democracy and constitutional rule. Kuzbari has not yet proclaimed Syria's independence from Presi dent Nasser s United Arab Repub lic, in which it joined Egypt in February 1958. But the new flags flying over government offices in dicated this was just a technicality- The exact number of Egyptians in Syria is not known, but there must be several thousand. In ad dition to the hundreds of govern- ment officials who serviced the now-sundered United Arab Repub lic in Damascus and other cities there were large numbers of Egyptians holding posts in the Syrian army. There were several units believed composed, entirely of Eavotian soldiers. . Egyptian women were asked to stay in their homes Saturday "tor their own safety. This, and a previous communi que asking Syrians to stop staging demonstrations in support of the revolution, indicated the leaders may have been worried about dis orders. . i In Beirut the newspaper Llsart al Hal reported the new govern ment, which was named only Fri day, freed , all political prisoners in Damascus. There was no con firmation in Beirut of the report. U.S. - Syria Out Of Question Yet WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. recognition of the new Syrian re gime seemed out of the question today until a lot more unfolds In the latest Middle East drama One Impelling reason ruling out early establishment of formal ties with the Damascus insurgentsr'was a U.S. desire to remain on good terms with President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the now-disrupted United Arab Republic. , , Another was that the Syrian group has yet to make any re quest to the United States lor recognition. Still another was lack of ev)- dence of the new regime's nature. Some experts said that it was still possible the Syrian group would want to maintain some po litical and military ties with CairO; provided Syria has a high degree of autonomy. Resentment against being treated like a stepchild In the U.A.R. is considered a major reason for Syria's splintering the 3'i-year-old union. The U.S. policy to go slow on The gun, a 30-30 carbine, had been placed on the transmission well of the station wagon; and leaned against the front scat. When the car hit a particularly rough bump the weapon dis charged, the bullet narrowly missed Hcini who was riding in the front, plunged through the! seat back and struck Watson In the left arm and chest. He was immediately rushed to the highway for medical aid, but apparently died en route. The am bulance was called from Rogers Service Station near the Johns- Manville plant, and the body was removed to Ward's Klamath Fu neral Home, Weather Shasta-Siskiyou Fair slightly warmer. Mi day; Sun. Northern California Fair Suit day but some fog or low clouds on coast in morning; slightly warmer Inland. The government waited less than two days after Thursday's virtually bloodless coup to ask foreign diplomats in Damascus to seek recognition by their govern ments of the new Syrian regime. Turkey and Jordan already have accorded recognition. Iran was reported considering recogni tion, and Iraq came to Syria's defense. All four nations have long been wary of Nasser's ambitions for a unified Arab state dominated by Egypt. Premier Abdel harim Kassem of Iraq, Nasser's major counter weight in the continuing Middle East struggle for power, said in a speech in Baghdad that the Iraqi army was alerted "to stand ready in the face of any foreigner, if he tried to interfere in our brother country Syria." The only Arab leader with a sympathetic word for Nasser as his dream of a single "Arab na tion" started crumbling was Pres ident Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia. He sent Nasser a friendly tele gram expressing regret at the revolution and hope the dispute could be settled peacefully. Radio stations in Damascus and Aleppo broadcast pleas to Syrians jto stop staging demonstrations in support of the revolt. They warned that continued, excitement might allow exploiters to infiltrate their ranks." , The Lebanese-Syrian border was still closed, but life appeared mov ing back toward normal In the country. Telephone communications, shut . loff jlvben the revolt started;.WeTe ; reopened, and 'a flood of calls choked the lines. - Damascus radio also broadcast a word of friendship for Egypt In Its morning program. 'Syria extends its hand to sister Egypt to strengthen the aim of the Arab nation on the basis of freedom and equality. We are ready any time to accomplish this," said an announcer. This was not an official statement, but was made by a commentator between musical programs.. Recognition any recognition of the Damascus government was stated Friday by Joseph W. Reap, State Depart ment press officer. Asked about U.S. recognition. Reap said, "It is premature to consider the ques tion.", ' Reap also reiterated Washing ton's hands-off policy. He said the evidence indicated the uprising was of internal origin, not set off by any outside power. Another high-ranking official said, "As far as we are able to detect there is no Communist in fluence" In the rebellion, which he attributed to deep dissatisfac tion with Nasser. , ' U.S. authorities were reluctant to say anything more about the revolt for fear of further stirring up Middle East troubles and get ting the United States involved. It was apparent Nasser had suf fered a damaging blow to his as pirations for wide Arab leadership and the realignment of the deli cate Middle East power structure was under way. Washington hoped the transition would be peaceful and would not present the Commu nists with an opportunity to step in. , ' Early signs of the realignment showed up in the prompt recogni tion of the Syrian regime by Jor dan and Turkey, both long op posed to Nasser. Israel, too, was expected to be pleased by the split in her neighboring enemy. Portland Port :. Ships Struck PORTLAND (AP) - Members of the striking Masters Mates and Pilots Association Friday placed pickets at four ships In the Port land harbor. The ships are the Santa Anita at Terminal 4, the P T Navl. gator (t Terminal 1, Oregon Matt - lat Luckenbach Terminal, and (Montana at Swan Island. Si
