COMP.
Costly Mental Health verrr'ogram Proposed To Congress By Kennedy
By MF.RRI.MAN SMITH
UPI White House Rcporlor
WASHINGTON (UPI '-Radical
new plans fur cutting the nation's
mental hospital population in half
and preventing thousands of new
mental retardation cases were
submitted to Congress today by
President Kennedy.
The program, built around hun
dreds of new, comprehensive com
munity mental health centers,
would be costly running into
hundreds of millions of dollars
when fully implemented by the
stales. But the President said in
a special message. "We can pro
crastinate no more.'
Government officials estimated
Ih-it the wider use of therapeutic
facilities possible under the pro
gram and new drugs could cut
in half the current mental hos
pital case load of 600.000 patients.
Over-all costs fur beginning
operations were included in the
Chief Executive's $H8 8 billion
budget submitted last month for
fiscal 1964. With his message to
day the administrat on proposed
four pieces of ne legislation
which would involve $31.3 million
in new obligalional authority Irom
Congress at this session.
Kennedy pointed oi't that men
tal ailments now cost the taxpay
ers more than $2.4 hillion yearly
in direct public outlays lor serv
icesabout $1.8 billion for men
tal illnesses and $600 million for
mental retardation. On top of
these public costs are even high
er indirect public outlays in wel
fare costs and wasted human re
sources, he noted.
"The time has come for a bold
new approach," the President
said.
He conceded the need for post
pone any longer re'ersal in our
approach to mental alfliction." he
added.
The President asked promp.
grants for initial staffing costs.
Tlie federal government would
provide up to 75 per cenl of costs
in early months and phase out
such support in abou; four years.
For this proposed system of com
munity centers with facilities and
staffs fot all types of mental ther
apy the President asked no funds
in fiscal 14 beyond the $4.2 mil
lion in planning grants requested
earlier for the National Institute
of Mental Health.
To set up a live-year pro
gram, starting with $5 million in
the next fiscal year, for project
grants to stimulate state and lo
cal health departments in plan
ning, initiating and developing
comprehensive maternity and
health care service programs.
This was the heart of his plan
to prevent mental retardation.
Government officials estimated
that half of the current 126,000
human beings with proper pre
for services to the mentally re
tarded and others whose voca
tional rehabilitation potential is
natal and post-partum care for
mothers.
To establish project grants to
states to promote public planning
for comprehensive state and com
munity action on retardation, plus
provision of federal tunds for up
to 75 per cent of the construction
costs of mental retardation re
search centers.
To amend tlie Vocational Re
habilitation Act to provide addi
difficult to determine. The Presi
congressional action on a broad
national mental health program
dent wants legislation to permit
rehabilitation services to a men
tally retarded person for up to 18
months.
uivolvmg new legislation:
To authorise grants to the
poning new domestic programs
slates beginning in fiscal 1965 for
establishment of comprehensive
community mental health centers
with the federal government pro
viding from 4i to 75 per cent of
the project cots and short-term
The depth of Kennedy's feeling
nd reducing government expen
about retardaticn obviously
stemmed partly from the fact
that he has a sister who has long
been under private care for a
handicap suffered at birth.
ditures if possible at a time when
he is attempting to get Congress
to cut taxes.
"But we cannot afford to post
mentally handicapped children
born each year could have been
brought inlo the world as normal
tional federal financial assistance
U.O? ORE.LIBRARt
Iii The-
Day's km
By FRANK JENKINS
From Sacramento this morning
Governor Edmund G. Brown's
$3.2 BILLION spending proposal
for fiscal 1963-64 was greeted
with mixed reactions by Republi
cans and Democrats in the legis
lature today.
The huge budget largest FOR
ANY STATE IN HISTORY-was
introduced in both houses yes
terday. It's a huge budget the largest
for any state in our history.
But
California is a huge state. Us
population is the largest for any
state in our history 17,000.000 in
round figures. So let's put it this
way.
California budget $3,200,000,000
California population 17,000.000
Per capita lax $188.20
For purposes of comparison,
let's now take a look at Oregon
where the comparative figures
look like this:
Oregon budget $405,000,000
Oregon population 1.800.000
Per capita tax $225 00
That is lo say:
While California's budget f o r
the current biennium is roughly
eight limes Oregon's budget for
the same period. California's
POPULATION is roughly TEN
TIMES Oregon's population.
So-
California's per capita tax is
slightly LESS than Oregon's per
capila lax.
Interesting?
The answer is YES.
But you haven't heard it all.
Let's take a look now at the
figures for the U S A. as a whole
-Ihe FEDERAL PICTURE. II
looks like this:
Federal budget
U.S. population
Per capila lax
Sioo.ooo.ooo.nno
lwi.ooo.ono
$531.00
Rather slaitling?
Again the answer is YES.
But you still haven't heard it
'all.
The California and Oregon
budgets are for the next BIENNI
UM. and a biennium is a period
of TWO years. The federal budget
we are looking at is for the next
FISCAL YEAR. To be properly
comparable, the federal per capi
la budget should be doubled,
bringing it to $1,062.
Uncle, you see, is the BIG
spender.
French Veto
Draws Slap
STRASBOURG. France 'LPI
European Common Market Presi
dent Walter Hallstcin, in a slap
at France, urged member nations
today to oppose "the appearance
of a one-power" dominance of the
European community.
Without mentioning France by
name, the German head of the
six-nation market's high commis
sion blasted President Charles de
Gaulle's regime for the way it
vetoed Britain's bid to join the
market.
Hallstcin spoke at the opening
of political debate in the Common
Market Assemblv. composed of
members of parliaments from
France. West Germany, Italy. Bel
gium, tlie Netherlands and Lux
embourg.
Letters Rap
Closure Law
SUM 'l'PI - Utters op
posing the proposed Sunday clos
ing law flooded over legislators
desks here today.
House Speaker Clarence Barton
and Senate President Bon Musa
both said today they did not feel
it was tlie legislature's job to en
act such laws.
Barton said he received '15 or
20 letters'' on the plan Monday
from Seventh Day AdvcntisLs who
oppose the idea.
Musa said his wife. Rep Kath
erine Mua. D-The Dalles, re
reived a "whole bunch'' of mail
end he had been visited by three
Seventh Day Adventist students
who opposed the measure.
Hiqh vesttrday 94
Low last night 31
High ytar ago 34
Low vear ago 10
High past 14 yaart 51 (its)
Low pait 14 years a (IfSM
Prtcip. past 24 hourt .41
Sinca Jan. 1 1.43
Sama parlod fast yaar 1.73
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PRESENTS RESOLUTION Vern Owens, chairman of
the OTI Site Fund drive that purchased the campus site
for OTI, is shown as he presents the city council with a
resolution from the Klamath County Chamber of Com
merce asking that the lone around the OTI campus be
maintained as is. He was one of many persons who
backed a denial of a rezone request by Fred 8nioff.
The council turned down the reione application.
Canadian Parliament
Near Breaking Point
OTTAWA a PI' - Prime Min
ister John Diefcnbaker, his Con
servative government collapsing
under the strain of a nuclear de
fense crisis, was believed ready
to dissolve parliament today and
take his case to the people.
Dicfenbaker was expected to
make his move shortly alter the
House of Commons convenes at
2:30 p.m., EST. However, if the
prime minister should hesitate to
act, there is no doubt that his
opponents will.
All three opposition parties
were united in their intention to
;upport a "no conlidcnce" vote
at the Commons which would
force Diefcnbaker to break up the
25th parliament and sound the
call for a general election.
Since he would face almost cor-
Troubled Plane
Lands Safely
A West Coast Airlines DC-3 de
veloped trouble in its electrical
system alter departing from
Klamath Falls at 9:45 am, Mon
day, but landed safeiv in Red
mond, an official of the airlines
has reported.
The plane was on 's regular
flight connecting Klamath Falls.
Redmond. Salem and Portland
but only the captain, co-pilot and
tewardess were aboard as it left
this city. Another plane completed
the scheduled flight to Salem
and Portland.
Automatic Vote Count Seen
SALEM i UPI' Automatic vole
counting may liecume a reality
within the next two or three
vcars. Secretary of Stale Howell
ppling Jr. told the House Elec
tions and Reapportionment Com
mittee Monday.
Appling termed present methods
of recording and tabulating votes
as "archaic, outmoded and horse
and buggy."
"In I.IU B.C. the I;: si written
ballot was used in Home." Ap
pling explained, "and balloting to
day is essentially the same."
He cited a recent Orccon elec
tion which required 4rt;.ono man
hours to count ballots, and said the
ct w as $47.oon
"We now rely on the nes gath
ering media to count trie votes
and take the pressure oft of us
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Price Ten Cents 12 Pages
I leiects U
tain defeat in the no-confidence
showdown, it would be polilicallv
advantageous lor Diefcnbaker lo
dissolve parliament on his own
initiative.
The prime minister's hopes of
avoiding n national election suf
fered a shattering blow Monday
when his defense minister, Doug
las Harkness. resigned from the
cabinet in protest of Dielenbaker's
refusal to commit Canada to nu
clear arms.
Thp resignation, the first by a
federal minister in circumstances
of discord since a conscription
crisis during World War II. con
firmed speculation of a cabinet
split on the nuclear issue and left
a gaping hole in Dielenbaker's
crumbling government.
Tlie nuclear controversy
smoldering in the background for
several months, erupted into an
international crisis last week
when the U.S. State Department
sharply criticized Dielenhakcr for
relusing to arm Canadian rock
cts and planes with U.S. nuclear
warheads.
The prime minister lashed back
at the United Stales, accusing
the State Department of "unwar
ranted inference in Canadian af
fairs."
The election, to he held early
in April, would he tlie nation's
second in nine months. The cam
paign shapes up as one of the
roughest in recent history with
Diefcnbaker set to make anti-
Americanism one of his key is
sues.
This is done at a great ex-
jiense lo them.
"If left to nflicial agencies a
month would pass belt-re we got
tlie word." he said.
Appling questioned the economic
feasibility of standard voting ma
chines which cost froi S1.5U0 lo
$I.1 per unit. He favors contin
ued use of a paper ballot so it
would not be necessary to train
voters in new procedures.
He explained that electronic
firms such as International Busi
ness Machines, Itcminjton Rand,
and the National Cah Recistcr
Company were now working to
develop optical scanning devices.
The-e could scan pent ll - marked
ballots, and transler information
lo punih-cards which could be
led through data processing ma
The City Council unanimously
rejected a request to rezone an
area adjacent lo the Oregon Tech
campus to permit construction ol
multiple housing at its regular
Monday night meeting in city hall.
Mayor Robert Veatch delayed
calling the hearing until four coun
cilmen were present. Councilman
Chet Hamaker was absent be
cause of family illness, and was
excused.
When Ihe issue of the continua
tion of the hearing on the rezone
request was opened, Vern Ov ens,
local businessman and chairmen
of the chamber committee which
secured contributions for purchas
ing Ihe OTI campus site, submit
ted a resolution from the board of
directors of the chamber opposing
any zoning change around OTI.
Then Gordon Hi union. Eugene.
informed the council that Fred
Benioff who had requested the
rezoning was hospitalized in Seat
tle and unable lo attend. He re
quested a delay of 60 days or an
indefinite delay until Pcmolf could
be present.
Mrs. Irene Tice. secretary of
the Klamath County Taxpayers
League, 960 Patterson, presented
a resolution of that body which
supported the principle that only
the owner of a piece of property
should have the right lo delcr-
mine what is done with that
property other than any action
which does physical harm lo an
other person. The resolution also
recommended that government re
strict its actions to government
owned proper!; .
In all, 17 persons spoke on the
subject. Of these. 1C asked that
the zone around OTI he kept un
changed, and only tlie resolution
of the Taxpayers League opposed
it.
Dr. Winston Purvine listed four
points which were the basis of
OTPs objection. These were I
legislators need lo see that
community support for OTI is un
changed, 2i need to avoid fan
tastic cost of acquiring adjacent
land for future expansion at OTI
'3 no present need lor housing
for married students, and 4
architects and engineers of the
new campus view ai-y change in
lire atmosphere around the site as
"unthinkable."
Councilman Waller Fleet com
mented that any 60 day extension
was unwarranted and moved to
deny any change in the zoning
around the campus. Councilman
James Barnes seconded the move
Councilman Larid Hoyt sought a
clarification a; to how soon such
a request could be re-submitted.
It was determined that six months
must elapse.
Councilman L y 1 e Kcllstrom
stated he was voting for the mo
tion only because of the informa
lion from the Klamath County
Legislators, and that he was in
no position to dispute their state
ment that such a rezoning might
jeopardize future development of
the campus.
"I would like to see some build
ing and stimulants to Klamath
Falls." Kcllstrom said, "and I
find (here are not a great many
sound reasons against this propos
al. I want the council position clar
ified that we had initially pro
posed only first and second read
chines now used by government
agencies and private business.
"I leel conlident the final an
swer will be available in the next
two or three years." he said.
He said Oregon's interest in
such development had sparked in
lercst among electrical concerns
Taxation The need for simply-
fying tax laws was cited belorc
the House Taxation Committee
which began a review ol major
revenue hills.
Sunday (losing Sen. Vernon
iCook. D-Gresham, termed the pro
posed Sunday closing law one of
the greatest threats to freedom in
recent Oregon history.
Rating A hearing on a bill to
limit horse and dog racing turned
into a shouting match. The explo
sive hearing was continued.
II li M IN .11 II II fil rWiU itr II II II Nt
KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON.
ezoning Request
ings of the rezoning ordinance
and would not have made it linal
until we had examined the plans
and specifications ana determined
them suitable."
All four councilmcn voted to
deny the rezoning request.
Mrs. lice then anise lo explain
that the resolution of the Taxpay
ers League actually did not take
side in tlie issue, but was a
statement of principles.
A second request for rezoning
on Hillside Avenue lo permit con
struction of a duplex, however,
was given the green light by the
council despite the ret there was
expressed opposition to the move.
Hearing on the request by Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Wells had been
ontinued from a previous meet
ing when other objectors hac
been present. City Manaeer Rob-
Abolishment
Of Doe Hunt
Season Asked
A resolution urging Ihe abolish
ment of female deer and elk hunts
will be among a packi.gt of five
resolutions on deer hunting which
will be present cd lo Ihe state leg
islature sometime this week by
Lane County state representatives
Ed Elder and Gene HlIcu. ac
cording to C. E. Milhnrr. of Beat
ty. president of the Oregon Fish
ind Game Council.
The resolutions were (halted by
members of the council repre
senting Klamath, Lan and De
schutes counties during a meet
ing in Eugene last weekend.
The motion which would end big
game female hunting in the stale
reads ". . . that the kiiliiip of deer
be limited lo those animals having
forked horn or grealer num
her of antlers and elk with
piked horns or bcttc."
Four other resolutions lo be of
fcrcd at Ihe same time forbid spe
cial hunting seasons for bolh deer
and elk, sets the number of days
for the deer and elk hunting sea
sons, recommends a one - buck
limit per hunter, and proKsos
that former big game refuges
now open to hunting be closed.
Tlie four resolutions read:
1. Open season on deir and elk
should be no longer than 16 days.
2. That all special seasons for
both deer and elk be forbidden
3. That all previous existing
big game reserves lie restored
and that the same remain closed
to hunting.
4. That no more than one deer
tag be issued to any nne hunter
Representing Klamath County
al the Eugene meeting were Mil-
horn, R. A. Pyle, Klamath Falls;
and Judge R. A. Walker, Crater
The Oregon Fish and Game
Council is a newly formed organ
ization of sportsmen which was
organized to end antlerless deer
and elk hunts in Ihe slate.
Space Trip
Postponed
CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI)
U.S. astronaut L. Gordon Cooper
Jr., who had hoped his years of
wailing for a flight into space
would end April 2, will have to
extend his patience by another
two weeks or so.
The federal space agency has
decided to "slip" Cooper
planned 22-orbit voyage around
earth to mid- or late-April pos
sihly April 16 or 23.
The April 2 firirg date was
canceled when engineers discov
ered what was described as a
"minor but lime-consuming" proh
lem in the rocket a modified At
las intercontinental ballistic mis
sile that will shoot the slender
Air Force major into orbit.
Informed sources said the prob
lem was centered in an electrical
system.
bib
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 13
ert Kyle read letters from Mr.
and Mrs. Homer Ross. Bonanza
and from Arthur R. Keenan, 221
Hillside, opposing the request. An
other letter was introduced from
W. It. Pierson, 237 Hillside, op
posing the move. This was hand
ed Ihe council by W. J. Steven
son, 223 Hillside, who also op
posed the request.
Mrs. J. C. Renie, 230 Hillside.
was also present to protest the
move
The council indicated it wished
to delay the matter to better as
sess the opposition to the move,
but Mr. and Mrs. Wells insisted
the matter be passed on now,
and the council Ihen voted to go
ahead with first and second read
ing of the ordinance permitting
the rezoning. Kcllstrom moved
for first and second reading and
Barnes seconded the move.
H. C. Head, 2030 Erie Street,
asked that the council do some
thing about providing more po
lice protection at the high school
during events held there. He cited
increasing vandalism in tlie area
and asked why policemen could
not better patrol the area.
I Mavor Robert Veatch informed
him that two off-duty policemen
were hired by the school board
to police games at Pelican Court.
nvmi l.lilMllllui-u iihil r i
this was true, the policemen were
inside the building during the
game and not outside where Ihe
vandalism occurred.
In other action, the council indi
cated it would take an option to
purchase an old home across
irom city hall for use as addition
al parking, provided the offer ol
sa.OOO were accepted by the own
ers.
Also, Building Inspector Verne
Schorl gen asked initial moves to
condemn a number of cabins and
sheds located at 723 Market Street
and the council aulhorized a hear
ing for such condemnation pro
ceedings. Rail Clerks
Talk Peace
Railway clerks pessimistically
agreed to another peace effort by
federal mediators in their year-old
dispute with tlie Southern Pacific
Railway today.
Chairman James Weaver of thel
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks'
Soulhcrn Pacific unit agreed to
meet with federal mediators
Wednesday but said the mcctingj
"won't amount to much.
In the event of a strike the
Southern Pacific's operations in
the Klamath Basin would be at
a comoletc standstill with a 1 1
freight and passenger trains
stopped.
Tlie railway would be able to
move all the freight that was on
the line at the time of the strike.
hut would not be able to accept
any more freight.
The lumber firms in the Basin
would be hardest hit. About (CI
per cent of Use foodstufls brought
into the Basin are shipped by
truck and grocers, large and
small, wouldn't feel the squeeze.
Weyerhaeuser ships 100 per cent
by rail and divides its business
almost equally between the South
ern Pacific and the Great North
ern. II the Southern Pacilic was
shut down the lumber firm would
lie lorced to rely on the Great
Northern to handle all its com
merce.
The 1 1 ,000-mombcr hrolherhood
threatened strikes in January.
and again in August, but
both limes Ihe government media
linn efforts forestalled a tie-up.
A strike would idle 50.000 South
ern Pacific employes and shut
donn operations from Oregon In
Texas.
The dispute arose over automa
tion and job displacement. The
union wants a job retraining pro
gram within Ihe company and a
clause prohibiting reduction of the
total ork force except by natural
attrition, such as death, rcsigna
tinn or retirement.
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TOWNS FLOODED Scenes such as this in Bancroft, Idaho, were duplicated In
Oregon Tuesday as ice jams in the Powdar River below Baker continued to threaten
ranches and homes with flooding. The switch from winter to springlike temperatures
thawed snow and ice to precipitate floods in the Pacific states forcing residents to
flee homes. Bancroft Was left a watery and virtual ghost town. UPI Telephoto
Planners
The County Planning Commis-land til variance procedure. ling ordinance where warranted.
inau .nnl a lotto,- nt rcrnm.l "Tim Plnnninn Commission feeklAnv modifications in the DrODOsed
'mcndatjon , ihp county Courtllhal these points should be stud-
(t,... (l, ...L.rh-in r.uianntE
be allowed lo vole op, the pro
posed zoning plan.
The commission in making its
recommendation, seemed to have
satisfied the demands ol the gen
eral public in recommending a
vole.
It apparently had been a grow
ing (ear among some of the op
position that the democratic right
of a ballot would be denied on
this issue,
The complete text of Ihe com
mission s recommendation lot-
lows.
"After studying the transcripts
of the four public hearings held
during the month of January,
ilong with teslimony gathered dur
ing the two and a half year dura
tion of the zoning study, and In ac
cordance with OHS 215.12B, the
Klamath County Planning Com
mission herewith submits its rec
ommendation concerning the zon-j
ing of the county suburban area.
"The County Planning Commis
sion respectfully recommends to
the Klamath County Court that
the zoning proposal be placed on
the election ballot at the next gen
eral election.
"Tlie Planning Commission be
lieves that zoning has proven to
be an effective means of promot
ing orderly growth and maintain
ing property values by progres
sive communities throughout the
United Stales, and the county sub
urban area should be aflorded the
opportunity lo vote on whether
or not tliey desire zoning protec
tion
"Tlie County Planning Commis
sion feels that public hearings held
luring the month of January
brought out several points con
cerning the proposed zoning ordi
nance which warrant further
study by the Planning Commis
sion.
These points are: H farm
animal restrictions, (.') fence re
strictions, 131 setback restrictions.
4i home occupation restrictions,
Simplified
SALEM i L'PI I Top priority
hould be given to simplifying
Oregon's tax laws and removing
discrimination against the singk1
taxpayer, former Tax Commis
sioner Dean Ellis saio Monday.
Ellis was lend-off witness as the
House Tax Committee opened a
general survey of lax plans be
fore it. Rep. Richard Kymann, D-
Marcola, chairman of . the com
mittee, said it is seeking $iio.5
million In new revenues.
Ellis said Oregon's present per
sonal income tax laws contain a
"40 per cent penalty" against the
single taxpayer because of split
income provisions for m a r r i e d
couples.
He said Oregon's income tax
laws also need to be "simplified.
TU 4-8111 No. 7036
Ask Zoning Vote
1 inrl Kuril onrnfllllv nnrl miVtlf Ira.
lions made lo Ihe proposed lon
Cuban Military Buildup
Denied By JFK Official
WASHINGTON I UPI I Thelone by name, McNamara was
White House maintained today
that tlie situation in Cuba has not
changed since Jan. 24 when Pros-
idem Kennedy said there has not
been any military build up in
Ihe sense of tlie equipment coming
in from outside Cuba
This assessment coincided with
a report that Defense Secretary
Robert S. McNamara has angrily
denounced statements by con
gressmen who have questioned
Pentagon figures on Soviet forces
in Cuba. .
Although not referring to any-
Boardman
Plan Okay
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Oregon
Gov. Mark Hatfield said Monday
ho had reached a "definite un-
Iderslanding" with Army Engl
necrs over access to the Colum
bia riverfront at the state's pro
posed Boardman space age indus
trial park.
'I believe we have a delimte
understanding and that now It's
just a matter of formalizing the
details." he told UPI after a
meeting with officials of the Corps
of Fngineers..
The Republican governor a I a
his only reason (or coming to the
nation's capital had been to dis
cuss problems arising ouf of the
state's plans for the industrial
sile In Eastern Oregon.
Tax Laws Urged
streamlined" to go with the lim-
puiica punencara return inai ure-
gon pioneered in 1959.
Ellis said unless the income tax
law Is simplified, the state may
have to either return to the long
form, or begin the "scale meth
od" of prosecuting persons who
use the short form to abuse com
plex laws.
Praising a proposed "net re
ceipts tax." Ellis said It would
both simplify the income tax laws
and help remove inequities.
The committee has at least sev
en major tax plans before it:
The governor's net receipts in
come tax plan to pick up low In
come earners, eliminate most de
ductions, and raise $31 million.
Woalher
Klamath Falls, TuMake and
Lakeview Variable cloudiness
through Wednesday with showers
tonight. Southerly winds 15-25
m.p.h at times. Little change In
temperatures. Lows tonight 35.
Highs Weduesday 50.
ordinance would be advertized ex-
ItntlttlVolV in Sill tlPWm mPIIS OTlOr
- lto voting on tlie zoning proposal.'
said to have told me House Armed
Services Committee that such
statements were "irresponsible"
and "disgraceful.'
White House Press Secretary
Pierre Salinger was asked about
the Cuban situation today in the
light of a speech by an adminis
tration official who said that Ken
nedy was "concerned about the
obvious build up of Soviet strength
In Cuba."
The statement was made In a
speech Monday by Edward A. Mc-
Dermott, director of the Office of
Emergency Planning.
Salinger'a reaction was: . I
think the President made his po
sition clear in the press confer
ence last week and the situation
has not changed since then."
Kennedy, at the Jan. 24 news
conference, said "the best infor
mation we have is that one ship
has arrived since the October
crisis, whfch may have arms on
it, possibly military cargo. But
there has not been a military
build up In that sense of the equip
ment coming in from outside
Cuba. There is no evidence that
this ship carried any offensive
weapons."
McDermolt also said in his
speech that he believed Kennedy
shortly would make public his re
action to the current Soviet
strength in Cuba. Salinger said he
knew of no special statement in
preparation, but pointed out that
the President will hold another
news conference at 1 pm. PST
Thursday. -
The Musa Income tax plan to
pick up low income earners, part
ly through a filing fee, and raise
$4-15 million.
The Mosser Rat fee income
tax plan.
The Eymann income tax plan
to provide a 10 per cent property
tax offset.
The governor's cigarette tai
bill to raise $18 million.
Two 3-cent sales tax plans.
Senate President Ben Musa, D-
The Dalles, said his plan's aim
was to avoid increases for per
sons already paying personal In
come taxes, while broadening tha
tax base to pick up new taxpay
ers.
Tie hearings resume Wednes
day.