Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, January 16, 1963, Page 1, Image 1

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

    U.or ORE.LIBRART
n.no ePCTIfiM
COW.
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington this morning
Although the House has been in
session only about six hours,
some TWO THOUSAND bills
have been introduced. They deal
with almost everv subiect imagin
able including using Social Se
curity records to locate runaway
parents.
That one was dropped in the
nopper Dy Representative Abra
ham .1. Multner, Democrat, ol
New York. He had alrpadv intro
duced 172 bills, and that one was
his 173rd. He obviously believes
in earning his S22.3O0 salary,
j Then-
There is Representative Samuel
E. Stratton, also of New York
and, incidentally also a Democrat
He wants more holidays to fall
on Monday. So he drops into
the hopper a bill requiring Wash-!
inglon's Birthday, Memorial Day.
Independence Day and Veterans
Day holidays to fall on the near
est Monday.
This morning's dispatches re
port that bills are in the making
to add to the holidays we al
ready have others calling for the
rservance of Grandmothers Day,
Snut-Ins Day. Purple Heart Day,
Children's Day and Senior Citi
zens pay.
And-
Besides all that '
Representative Lindley Beck
worth, of Texas la Democrat,
incidentally) is atraid the new
and higher postal rates will pie
vent elderly pensioners from com
municating with their families.
So
He proposes a special colored
penny postcard for strictly per
sonal messages from these and
similarly unfortunate persons who
can't alford the higher price.
Question:
. Isn't Democracy wonderful?
Especially, in these days, the
kind of democracy that is spelled
with a Capital D.
Legislature
Talks Money
SALEM (UPI Money matters
came promptly lo the fore today
as the threc-day-old Oregon Legis
laluie cot down lo business.
The joint House - Senate Ways
nH Means Committee Held lis
nnrnint organizational meeting.
while the remaining 71 of the 102
basic governor's budget bills were
introduced in the House.
Sen. Ward Cook, D - Portland,
and Rep. Ross Morgan, D-Grcsh-am
named the five ways and
means subcommittcs that will do
the groundwork on Gov. Mark
Hatfield's $405 million budget pro
gram for the 1W13-65 biennium.
Sen. Daniel Thiol, D-Astoria. a
-chairman on Wavs and Means
in 1361, was named chairman of
the key subcommittee on educa
iinn Dial will deal with the larcest
chunk of proposed state expendi
tures.
Thiel's subcommittee will hear
Ihe first pilches from education
and higher education for more
money than the governor has pro
posed. Meanwhile, Rep. Richard Ey
mann D-Marrola. scheduled the
first meeting later today for his
House Tax Committee, wnicn win
lead off the action on key pro
grams for tax reform and raising
new revenues.
The 71 budget bills introduced
today included the big ones to ap
propriate $81 million In higher ed
ucation and $41 million to the
StAe Public Welfare Commission.
A few more private bills were
Introduced. Sen. Wa.tcr Pearson.
D-Portland. turned in a bill to
reduce the state gasoline tax from
six cents to five cents, a proposal
that got nowhere two years ago.
Also introduced in the upper
house was a resolution calling for
ratification of the 24tn amendmenl
to the U.S. constitution, which
would outlaw the poll tax.
Rep. .1. K. Bennett. D-Portland.
sponsored two hills in the House,
one lo change Ihe state's primary
election dale from the Ihird Fri
day in May to the second Tues
day in September, and Ihe other
to requxe public hearings before
a convicted murderer is pardoned
or paroled.
Four Indicted
In Race Case
OXFORD, Miss. 'UPI -A fed
eral grand jury Tuesday night in
dicted four men on charges of ob
structing the enrollment of Negro
James H. Meredith at the Uni
versity of Mississippi.
The men. arrested during the
14 hours of bloody rioting that fol
lowed Meredith s admission lo
the campus last Sept. W. were
from out of state
Weallier
High yttttrdiy
Law (ait ntqhi
High year q
Lew ytr ago
High past 14 yeart
Low pail 14 years
Prcip. pail 24 hours
Slnct Jan. 1
Samt ptriod last year
Sunma Thursday
Sunitt Thursday
41
II
11
1
4i tmt
t 151)
.00
.01
Hatfield Poshes Tax, Constitutional
Mew Cold Blow Staggers
Midwest, Eastern States
By United Press International
Sub-zero temperatures clung to
Ihe Midwest today after the mer
cury fell as far as 50 below in
one of the harshest cold spells in
5 years.
The early-morning readings
were not quite so severe as 24
hours earlier when the bitter arc
tic blast came close to giving
Milwaukee. Wis., and Minncapo-
lis-St. Paul, Minn., their coldest
weather in history.
Kennedy Action Looms
As Strikes Numb Nation
By United Press International
The possibility of presidential
ntervention was raised today in
one of the transit, waterfront and
newspaper strikes affecting mil
lions of persons in some of the
nation's largest cities.
Negotiations broke off at New
York in the Longshoreman'-;
itrike which has tied up Atlantic
and Gulf ports for 25 days.
Assistant Labor Secretary
James Reynolds sat in on the
talks before the breakdown and
announced afterward he would fly
lo Washington and report "a sor
ry chapter in Ihe history of col-
UN Awaits
Peace Proof
ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga.
The Congo (UPI) U.N. troops
kept alert near Kolwezi today
landing proof that Provincial
President Moise Tshombe will
arry out his agreement to end
Katanga's secession.
High U.N. military sources said
the troops, poised 45 miles north
west of Jadotville, would continue
their build-up.
The Indian contingents could
drive on Kolwezi should Tshombe
fail to back his words with ac
tions. Kolwezi, a mining center
and air base, is Tshombe's last
Katangcsc stronghold.
While U.N. officials were hope
ful that Tshombe would move last
to implement his agreement, they
pointed out that several times in
the past he made promises only
to do an almost immediate about
face. The Katangese leader announced
Tuesday in Kolwezi that he was
ready to end Katanga's secession.
give the U N. force freedom of
movement throughout the prov-
nce. and return to Elisabethville
to work out plans lor reunifica
tion with the rest ol the Congo.
Tshombe also asked central
Premier Cyrille Adoula to sign
an amnesty for Katangese offi
cials, and to come to Elisabeth
ville from Leopoldville for a meet
ing "to confirm the national re
conciliation." 2
NEW TRAFFIC SIGNALS "The new traffic lights at the intersection of Eleventh
and Pine Streets should be in operation before the end of the week," James Gii,
state resident bridge engineer, said. Faulty wiring at the interieet'on on Main Street
hat temporarily delayed the project. The traffic light en Main Street will have to be
rewired before the new lights can be hoolced up. The $4,500 project was directed by
the state at the request of Bob Kyle, city manager. Since it it the itate't responsibility
to inspect tuch projecti they also perform the tervice of detlqning and directing the
construction.
Price Ten Cents 20 Pages
Already nearly 100 persons1
were dead since the huge frigid
mass penetrated 48 states.
The Weather Bureau held out
hope of warmer temperatures
from the Rocky Mountain region
through the middle and lower
Mississippi Valley. There were
rising temperatures forecast also
from Southern California to Geor
gia. The Florida Kevs had 69 early
todav, and south Texas had read-
lective bargaining" to Labor Sec
rotary W. Willard Wirlz.
Reynolds had said he would
make a report which would serve
as a basis for possible action by
the President. It was reported
such action might take the form
of a call to Congress for special
antistrike legislation.
Negotiations also broke down in
the longest newspaper strike in
.New York history. Publishers' ne
gotiator Amory Bradford called a
halt to talks on grounds that strik
ing printers had offered no new
proposals.
Continued progress was report
ed in Cleveland, where talks were
under way in an attempt to end
llie city s 48-day newspaper strike
Mayor Ralph Locher, sitting in on
the negotiations, said, "significant!
results" came from the latest
meeting between the publishers!
and the American Newspaper
Guild.
But there was no progress re
ported in the 40-day newspaper
strike in New York Cily or in a
transit strike which forced a mil
lion persons to scurry for rides in
Philadelphia.
F. M. Flynn. publisher of the
New York Daily News, warned
that the future of New York Cily
newspapers would become im
periled if either side in the dis
putc ends the strike in a surren
der.
Flynn said in a statement "if
a settlement is reached only as
a result of submission by one aide
or Ihe other after a prolonged
test of economic strength Ihe fu
ture of New York newspapers is
even darker."
Institution
Tour Asked
SALEM i UPI i House Speaker
Clarence Barton, D-Coquille, said
today he wants legislators to tour
all stale institutions in the Salem
area.
He said tours of the school for
the deaf, the school for the blind,
and Fairview Home already have
hjen scheduled.
t
0EN.KEFw
era
ings in the 50s. But to the north,
the picture was different.
Mercury Plummets
It was 26 below ai Lone Rock,
Wis., early today, 14 below at
Minneapolis-St. Paul and only 29
at Dallas, Tex.
The mercury plunged to 24 be
low at Milwaukee Tuesday, the
city's second coldest day on roc-
ord, only one degree above the
25 below recorded Jan. 9, 1875
In Minnesota's Twin Cities, the
temperature fell to 32 below
new low for Jan. 15 and only two
degrees short of the Minneapolis-
St. Paul all-time low of 34 below
set in 1936.
The Minneapolis Auto Club said
it had 3,000 calls for aid in a 24-
hour period. St. Paul's Auto Club
said its trucks were running an
hour and a half behind.
Even Colder
There wire even colder places
elsewhere Tuesday.
The west-central Wisconsin
community of Black River Falls
had SO below. H was 46 below at
Lone Rock, Wis., 42 below at In
dian Lake, Mich., 40 below at
Crcsco, Iowa, 38 below at De
corah, Iowa, 37 below at Virginia,
Minn., and 35 below at Cadillac,
Mich.
A six-to seven-mile stretch of
the Mississippi River downstream
from the Alton, III., dam was
completely frozen over for the
first time since the dam was
built in 1938.
Three inches of new snow fell
on Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
Marquette, Mich., has had 26
inches of snow and Calumet,
Mich., 17 inches since the start
of the storm." "'
Fire Razes
Keno Home
A family of six escaped injury,
but lost all their possessions when
a fire of unknown cause razed
their single story wood frame
home in Keno at 7 p.m. Tues
day. When the Suburban Fire De
partment arrived at the scenf,
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Atkinson and
their four children. Duane, 16.
Elsa Mae, 15, Ruby, 13, and
Steven, 8, had escaped from their
blazing home and were standing
in the yard.
The firemen were unable to
save the house, but prevented the
tire from spreading into the tim
ber. The house was owned by
Roy Powell, Box 123. Keno. and
insurance covered part of the
loss.
The members of the Keno com
munity responded to the emer
gency and several families pitched
in to provide shelter to the At
kinsons in their time of need
Part of the family will be liv
ing with .Mrs. Mary Hudson in
Keno and other neighbors will
house the rest of the family. At
kinson is a construction worker1
in Madras.
.1'
Vi4 '
KLAMATH FALLS, OIIF.GON,
iMiiiiaimiiiiiliii'WiiiMMiw jui'li"'"'''1"1 "Vniw
HOSPITAL FUND DONATION The Board of Directors of the Klamath Falls Ex.
change Club at a Jan. I I meeting announced the club would donate all proceeds from
its coming circus to the Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, Inc., fund. The board
members specified that the donation Is to be used for the children's ward at the pro
posed hospital. The club is sponsoring the Ken Jensen Circus this March. Exchange Club
directors, from left, Robert E. Rutter, secretary, and John D. Voth, president, are
brought up to date on hospital progress by the Rev. Robert Groves, vice president of
the proposed hospital board.
Brazil Air Crash
SAO PAULO, Brazil (UPI)
Four passengers still were miss
ing today in the wreckage of a
Brazilian airliner that crashed
Tuesday killing at least 13 and
injuring 32.
City officials said the identities
of 10 of the 13 dead had been
established. Three others were
burned beyond recognition.
Four .ol the identilied bodies
were thosfAif residents of homes
into which the Cruzeiro do Sul
win-engined transport plunged in
a driving rain after overshooting
the airport.
Credit for the comparatively
small death loll went to army
medical corpsmen who happened
lo be undergoing a life-saving ex
ercise near the crash scene.
Richard B. Searight, Wichita
Kan., one of two Americans
aboard the plane, said the medi
cal corpsmen did a "terrific job."
The other American aboard was
Cipriano Angclo, New York City
If it hadn't been for the sol
diers, all of us would have been
burned lo death," Searight said
Searicht. a technician for the
Spy Pilot
Divorced
M ILLEDG E V I LLE , Ga. I UPI
Former U2 pilot Francis Gary
Powers was granted a divorce to
dav from a wife he claimed was
a "habitual drunk."
A jury deliberated the case for
about one hour.
Powers was ordered to make a
Vi.OOO cash settlement with hi:
wife and pay her attorney fes
of $500.
No provision was made for ah
mony.
Mrs. Powers was not in llio
courtroom when the verdict was
announced. She had stepped out
for lunch.
Powers charged during the trial
that while he was in a Sovic'
prison his wife neglected him lo
such extent mat even tne wis
sians got worried."
Cable Whip
Injures 11
SAN IflEGO I P I ' Eleven
crewmen were cut down by the
whiplash of a 300-foot cable that
snapped Tuesday when a jet fight
er plane landed on the arcidrnt-
plagued aircratl carrier i onsieila
lion. Chief Aviation Boatswain's Mate
Eugene Williams. 36, and Yoeman
Apprentice Gordon D. Buckman
had their leas severed hy Ihe snak
ing cable. Ens. 1-eroy Hudson Jr.,
31. lost his right leg in the acci
dent. The others injured received frac
tures. It was the third lime Ihe 75,000
lon warship was involved In a
serious accident.
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 16, 1063
V.
Minneapolis-Honeywell Company.
sullered a broken rib and lee and
a wrenched shoulder. Angelo, a
sales engineer for the same con
cern, suffered two broken legs and
Grunitzky Leads Race
For Togo Presidency"
LOME, Togo (UPI) - Former
Premier Nicolas Grunilzky, 48,
forged ahead of two rivals today
in a bid lo succeed assassinated
President Sylvanus Olympio, in
formed sources said.
Diplomatic circles in Paris re-
Third Zone
Hearing Set
The third public hearing on the
suburban area zoning proposal
will be held at 7:30 p.m. today.
.Ian. 16, at Circuit Court No. 1
in the county courthouse.
Residents and properly owners
from the area south of South
Sixth Street, north of Airway Ave
nue and east of Washburn Way
will be invited to give testimony
at the hearing.
The meeting will be held under
the direction of Bob N o r r i s.
chairman, county planning com
mission. Members of the county
court will attend Ihe meeting tn
hear the public testimony.
When the four hearings are com
pleted Ihe planning commission
will present the testimony lo the
county court along with the com
mission's recommendation. It will
be the court'! decision on what
action to take regarding the pro
posal.
Nikita Raps Red
BERLIN 'UPI Soviet Premier!
Nikila Khrushchev eased pressure
on the West today for a German
peace treaty and evacuation of
Berlin.
At the same time he indirectly
denounced the warlike theories o(
Red China.
Soon after Khrushchev's speech.
American newsmen were ordered
from the hall and inlormed they
would not he permitted to attend
any further sessions. This means
they will have lo rover any reply
hy the Communist Chinese by
state radio and Communist news
agency reports. The Chinese are
expected to reply lo hnrusncnev
in a speech Thursday.
In a two-hour. .I.Vminute address
lo the East German Communis!
party congress in Eat Berlin, the!
Soviet leader warned there can
be no East-West disarmament
agreement until Ihe Berlin and
German issues arc settled.
But he refrained Irom any new
ultimatum or deadline to the
West.
Telephone
lefor
Kills 13
two broken wrists.
Tile dead included six nasun
gers, (our residents of the homes
into which the plane crashed and
three unidentilied persons.
ported that Grunilzky had al
ready agreed to form a pro
visional government.
Grunilzky, a brother-in-law of
Ihe slain pro-western president,
returned to Lome Monday nicht
irom sell-imposed exile in Da
homey. He has been holding talks
with members of the military
junta which seized control of
logo over the weekend.
The ex-premier is considered
a right-wing leader by Western
diplomats. He is reported lo favor
close cooperation with France and
Ihe nations of former French Af
rica.
The capital of this small West
African stale has been calm since
the sudden coup d'etat. A curfew
was still in effect from 8 p.m. to!
6 a.m.
Grunilzky's chief rivals for To
go leadership appeared lo he An
toinc Meatchi and Anani Santos.
Mcatchi, a former minister of
agriculture, returned from exile
in Ghana after Ihe coup but his
role in the current talks was not
known. He is the leader of an op
position party outlawed by Olym
pio and favors closer cooperation
taween Togo and Ghana.
Santos was one of several po
litical prisoners released by the
rebels. He attempled to run for
president in 11 as the Juvento!
Movement candidate but was dis
qualified and later arrested on
charges of plotting against Olym
pio. Khrushchev added a grim nolo
when he said the United Stales
"now has roughly 40.000 hydrogen
bombs and warheads." He said
Ihe Soviet Union also "has more
than enough of this stuff."
Rut he said the Soviet Union
has the biggest bomb of all a
inn-megaton nuclear bomb and
implied it would be used only on
Ihe United Slates if necessary.
"Such a bomb should not be
used in Europe," he said. "Such
measures could only be used out
side Western Europe."
He called for a peaceful solution
lo East-West problems, saying
"We do nol want a kingdom In
heaven we want a beautiful em
pire on enilh.
"For that reason we act with
a sense of responsibility. We do
not want war. But if one is forced
on us, we shall hit back."
Khrushchev reviewed at length
Ihe economic progress made by
Soviet Russia and said it already
is pressing the United States hard
TU 4-8111 No. 71139
eh Measures
Legislative
Asked Of Demo Leaders
SALEM (UPH-Gov. Mark Hat
field appealed to the 13 legisla
ture Tuesday to minimize differ
ences in the interests of tax and
constitutional reform.
Hatfield said he will use his
1961 net receipts tax proposal as
a "point of departure."
"I am most willing to work out
with the legislative leaders a tax
reform bill," he said.
Similarly, Hatfield said he is
willing to set aside his own objec
tions in order to give Oregon a
modern, model constitution. He
commended the draft prepared by
Ihe Oregon Constitutional Revision
Commission during the past two
years, and said he hopes the leg
islature will pass it and refer it
to the people.
The Republican governor held
out the flag of flexibility and ne
gotiation to a Democratic legisla
ture whose own leaders are di
vided over key points in Hatfield';
program.
Called "Gross" Tax
Hatfield's proposal for a net
receipts tax has been termed
"disenchanting" gross receipts
lax by Senate President Ben
Musa, D-The Dalles.
The governor's 1961 proposal
called for a state income tax on
even the smallest incomes, with
rates ranging from one to live
per cent. It eliminated deductions.
The governor spoke at a news
conference, and many of his re
marks dealt with tax reform. He
said he still wants to see a tax
reform program referred to the
voters before the current legisla
ture adjourns.
"It could well be that we face
either a special election or a spe
cial session," Hatfield said. He
1 said he believed an election would
no. less cosuy.
The tax rcforrri problem is com
pounded because the governor
hopes to raise $23 million in new
revenues from a net receipts tax
and $18 million from a cigarette
tax to help pay for his proposed
$405 million general fund budget.
Election Date Open
Hatfield said he could not pin
point a desirable date for a spe
cial election until a tax program
takes shape in the legislature. But
Chiefs Split
Over Merqer
SALEM (UPD-Thc parly lead.
era of the Oregon House split
Tuesday night on Gov. Mark Hat
field's proposal to merge the
boards of education and higher
education.
Resistance to Ihe idea came
from House Majority Leader Rich
ard Eymann, D-Marcola.
Eymann said in an interview on
stale radio station KOAC he had
'some doubts" about combining
Ihe two boards Into a single
agency.
House Minority Leader F. F.
Montgomery, R-Eugene, took an
opposite view. He said he was
delighted wilh Ihe proposal and
termed It a "step in the right
irection."
Montgomery took Issue with
William Walsh, president of the
Board of Higher Education, who
piKwed a merger.
China War Theory
in this field. He said when the
Bolshevists took power. Russia
was economically far behind other
European countries and the Unit
ed Slates.
'Today the Soviet Union is a
socialist great power that has long
overtaken the other European
countries in llie level of its indus
trial production and is already
treading on the heels of such a
mighty capitalist country as the
United Males, he said.
Khrushchev clearly disappointed
his East German audience by his
treatment of the Wesl Berlin
problem and by the fact he ob
viously has put it on ice for the
time being. He paid lip service
to the idea of a German peace
treaty but made It clear he would
take no steps against the Western
posilion.
He said Ihe posilion of Com
munist East Germany had been
greatly strengthened in the mean
time, particularly by construction
of llie wall between West and
East Berlin.
Weather
Klamath Falls, Tulelake and
Lakeview Mostly fair .through
Thursday with generally light
winds and little change In tem
perature. Lows tonight 4 In lower
Klamath Basin In 10 in Klamath
Falls. Highs Thursday 40.
Flexibility
he said it should be held "at a
point in the session where the
legislature could then take subse
quent action" if the voters turn
the plan down.
On current financing of state
operations, Hatfield conceded a
question has been raised about
Ihe legality of transferring $5 mil
lion from the veterans fund to the
general fund to help pay for slate
operations between now and the
end of the current biennium in
June.
He said he understands the leg
islature's Ways and Means Com
mittee w ill receive a separate for
mal opinion on the proposal.
Without the money, Oregon
faces sharp cutbacks in services
in the coming months.
On other topics, Hatfield said:
Legislative Salaries He thinks
the people have shown confidence
that legislators win be reasonable
in setting their own pay.
Budget all requests in his In
augural message were provided
for in his budget.
Baby Killer
Death Stay
Said Certain
SALEM (UP11 - Child slayer
Jcannace June Freeman, 21,
seemed assured a stay of her
scheduled Jan. 29 execution today
as attorneys prepared to appeal
her case to the U.S. Supreme
Court.
Legal muchincry to grant the
stay was launched after U.S. Su
preme Court Justice William O.
Douglas extended to March 19 the
Jan. 23 deadline by which an ap
peal may be filed.
Tuesday afternoon attorneys
Carl Neil and Philip Levin of
Portland and William Holmes of
Bend fi'cd a motion In the Ore
gon Supreme Court asking the
court recall its mandate to the
Jefferson County Circuit Court, or
ssue an order staying the execu
tion.
The motion Is now under con
sideration by the Oregon high
court, and a decision is expected
soon.
If the Oregon court grant! the
ay, Misi Freeman s attorneys
then have until March IS to file
petition for a writ of certiorari
ilh Ihe U.S. Supreme Court. If
the U.S. high court grant! the
writ, it means it assumes juris
diction in the case, and will ac-
ept an appeal on Miss Freeman'!
behalf.
Murder Penalty
Bills Pledged
SALEM (UPI) - One bill to
abolish the death penalty in Ore
gon and another to stiffen murder
terms were promised today by
two Democratic senators.
Sen. Don Willner, D - Portland,
said he will introduce a constitu
tional amendment to end the
death penalty. It also would re
quire persons sentenced to life lo
lay in prison at least 15 years.
But he said the Interest in a
German peace treaty has not
let up.
Speaking in quiet, sometimes
almost professorial tones. Khrush
chev declared that "as long as a
German peace Ireity has not been
signed it obviously will he difficult
lo expect serious progress towards
concluding a disarmament agree
ment." Most of the latter part of his
speech was devoted to blasting
Red China for It! belief that war
w ith Ihe West is inevitable. How
ever, he did not once mention
China by name but directed hi!
attacks instead against Peking'!
tiny European satellite Albania
a favorite Soviet bloc ruse.
Khrushchev made these other
main points:
The United Slates no longe'
has the edge over Russia in nu
clear power or missiles, but East
West differences can only be set
tled by peaceful mean! and not
by nuclear world war.