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Kennedys Blueprinfnr Health Asks Medical Facilities, More Manpower
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WASHINGTON UPI - Presi
dent Kennedy sent to Congress
today the administration blue
print lor improving the nation's
health and boosting its medical
facilities and manpower. j
In a special message "on im
proving American health," Ken-,
nedy said Social Security health
insurance (or older people "must
be enacted this year." He said Administration officials declined
such a measure was "long over- to give the total cost of today's
due" and should be at the "top proposals, mostly familiar items,
of the congressional agenda onjOllicials said the financial recom
health." Imcndations were included in the
But he reserved the details ofllXM budget,
the controversial medicare pro- Among the requests Kennedy
gram for his special message nnjrenevved were grants for medical
aging expected to go to Congress and dental schools, air pollution
late next week. .control, health research, vocation
al rehabilitation, rncouragementltcnsion of the Hill-Burton Act pro
"especially great" anil urged an
increase in the budget for such
land slate agencies to survey and
'nl:in nppH.'il licillh f;icililip in
diseases, particularly among old
ple against contamination of food,
air and wafer, and the hazards
of group practice, improving ma
viding federal aid for construction
er people.
He asked Congress to
tenia! and child care and health
of health facilities, due to expire
facilities from $20 million lo $30
their communities.
The Resident laid particular
associated with dings." Kennedy
said. But he added that "much
remains to be done."
and community health services
June 30. 1!W4. He asked an addi
tional $35 million to provide fi
nancial assistance lor moderniz
ing or replacing hospitals and
nursing homes under the law.
He said the need for "high
million annually.
legislation to abate interstate air
The President also said there
Kennedy proposed federal aid
putluliun along the lines, of the
was a "clear and urgent need"
for tighter control over the mar
keting of food, drugs, therapeutic
devices and cosmetics.
Kennedy urged a five year ex-
to expand nurses' training facili
stress on scicntilic "overwhelm
existing water pollution control
enforcement measures.
"Substantial advances have
been made during the past year
in protecting the American peo
"We need to broaden our sur
ties and to assist students unable
ing evidence linking air pollution
to the aggravation of heart con
veillance and control of pollution
in the air we breathe, the water
we drink and the food we eat."
lo alford nurses' courses.
lie also requested planning
grants to assist public, non-profit
ditions and to increases in sus-
quality" nursing homes would he
eptihility to chronic respiratory
he declared.
In The-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
Big question:
What's really going on in Cuba?
When we told the Russians
back in October to take their
deadly toys and GO HOME
and take their nuclear misiles
with them did they do it?
Or are they finagling?
It's hard for us ordinary citizens
lo say with conviction.
The reason it's hard for us to
say and to be SURE that w hat
we're saying is RIGHT is that
the whole Cuban question is so
heavily loaded with politics.
If the Russians DID get out
taking with them the whole kit
and kaboodle of their offensive
nuclear armament it was a
great victory for the Kennedy ad
ministration. If they DIDN'T
if they hid a considerable part
of it out, in caves and elsewhere,
where it can't be seen by our
spies in the sky it will be very
damaging indeed to the Kennedy
administration.
That's the politics of it.
Whom shall we believe?
Well, Secretary of War McNa
mara. a former industrialist who
is undoubtedly anxious to get out
of politics as soon as he has
finished his mission there and gel
back to the good clean business of
making a good product and sell
ing it to people who want it and
thus making a profit for his com
pany's shareholders, lays it on
the line.
He says:
"I believe beyond reasonable
doubt that ALL offensive weap
ons systems have BEEN RE
MOVED FROM THE ISLAND OF
CUBA and NONE have been in
troduced there since."
That's pretty flat and, coming
from a businessman who wants
to do a good job for his country
and then gel back lo his own
job it has to be given respect
ful attention.
That's aboul the long and the
short of it up to now.
From Salem (his morning:
The first of possinly $100 mil
lion worth of highway bonding
proposals came lo light in the
52nd Legislative Assembly yes
terdaya $37 million proposal
that would sprerd improve
ments over seven highways and
a number of legislative districts
in the state.
It is expected Inal this will
he the first of a series of spe
cial highway bonding proposals
that may reach up lo a total
approximating $100 million.
Let's hope it gets nowhere.
Let s hope NO BONDING PRO
POSAL gets anywhere in this ses
sion of the Oregon legislature.
Here in Oregon, lets PAY OUR
WAY AS WE GO from here on
out even if it hurts like a sore
thumb.
Let's keep Oregon solvent.
West Seeks
Veto Change
LONDON i UPI' Western Eu
rope put increasing pressure or
France today to force President
Charles de Gaulle to reverse his
vein of Britain's bid for member
ship in the European Common
Market.
In Bonn. West German Chancel
lor Konrad Adenauer said he told
De Gaulle last October that he
favored British entry. nd he re
peated today that "I am for
British membership in the Com
mon Market above all else."
Adenauer added that De Gaulle
had promised to renew discussion
of Britain's Common Market
membership as soon as the (lend
ing Franco-G e r m a n friendship
treaty is ratified.
In other developments:
Delceates attending the .six-
nation European Parliamentary
Assembly in Strasbourg criticized
De Gaulie and by implication sup
porter! strong European ties with
the United Slates despite the
French preidenfs bid to fnrti a
Euronean "third f;rce" bloc led
by France
--In Paris. De Gaulle's govern
mcnt dispelled last week's rumors
that he was working for a Paris-
Moscow axis France delivered a
stinging rebuff In Soviet Premier
NiVita Khrushchev by banning a
Limed interview with him on thr
stale-operated Frerk-h telct iMon
network.
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High past 14 years
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Precip. paif 34 hours
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SUPPLIES FOR AIR RAID SHELTERS Joe Searles, county civil defense director, in
spects several containers of survival crackers which were part of a shipment of food
and medical supplies received from the government Wednesday for the stocking of
three public air raid shelters. Only part of the shipment is shown in the picture. Peo
ple under the county's Welfare Help Program unloaded the supplies from a truck
into the exhibit building at the fairgrounds.
Items Arrive
To Stock CD
Air Shelters
Food, sanitation and medical
supplies to stock three public
buildings designated as public air
raid shelters arrived by truck at
the exhibit building of the county
fairgrounds about noon, Wednes
day, and were being sorted early
Thursday in preparation to being
moved into the shelters early next
week.
The civil defense items were
shipped from Troutdale and rep
resent part of two shipments to
lie delivered to the Klamath Coun
ty Civil Defense office for fur
nishing five public air raid shel
ters with supplies provided free to
tlie county by the federal gov
ernment. Emergency shelters must have
a protective factor of 100. as rated
by government inspection teams,
to qualify for the stocking pro
gram. The three buildings to !c
stocked with the 5.872-pound ship
ment, with almost half of the
weight comprised of survival
crackers, packed in tins, are the
Williams Building. 722 Main
Street: Medical - Dental Building.:
'JOS Main Slrect, and the Coun
ty Courthouse.
Supplies for two grain elevators
at Tulana. also designated as pub
lie slickers, will be shipped here
later, in addition lo radioactivity
detection equipment for all five
belters.
Larger Land
Board Asked
SLEM UPI - Addition of
two members from the public to
tlie Slate I .and Board was railed
for todav in a hill submitted bv
Rep. Richard Kennedy, D-Eugene
The pre.-sent land board coasisls
of the governor, secretary of stale
and state treasurer.
Kennedy's bill would add two
lay members, lo he appointed by
the governor and confirmed by
tlie Senate, who could not be re
moved except for cair-e
A bill submitted by Ihe com
mittee on natural resources would
substitute one monthly meeting of
the Land Board i.i place of the
presently required meetings on the
second and fourth Tuesday of each
month.
A hill bv Rep. Italian Hand
I) Milwaukie. would prevent a
public utility enmmi-skmer becom
ing a consultant or attorney lor
any private utility for at leat
three years alter serving as com
missioner. A House joint resolution submit
ted by Rep. Fred Meek. RPort
land, and Sen Alfred Corhett. I
Portland, calls (or a study to de
termine "suitable lighting im
provements" for the Senate and
House chamliers.
Price Ten Cents 28 Pages
Peace Effort Renewed
By SP, Railway Clerks
SAN FRANCISCO (UPIt
Chairman Frank O'Neill of t h e
Federal Mediation Board met
early today with representatives
of Southern Pacific Railway and
the Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks in renewed efforts to avert
strike which could come any
time after 10 a.m. PST.
The 11,000 member union, which
U laims the support ni 59.000 other
SP employes, could tie up the
railroad's operations in seven
western slates, extending from
Oregon to Texas.
O'Neill gained a 'ew hours of
lime in meetings with both sides
Wednesday. The union earlier had
threatened to go out anytime aft
er midnight today. But, there were
ndications that time was all he
gained.
James Weaver, the union's SP
chairman, said the company of
fered a revised proposal to end
Ihe dispute over loss of jobs
through automation, but that the
olfer was "absolutely not what
we want
EARLY DAY LINKVILLE This view was taken of Link
ville iutt a short time before the name changed to Klam
ath Falls. Chartered as Linkville on Feb. 25, .1889, the
community became officially Klamath Falls about four
yean later on Feb. 7, 1893. At the time of this photo,
the town consisted of seven stores, four taloont, three
blacksmith shops, a brewery, three livery and feed
stables, a flour mill, sawmill, sash and door factory, har-
Klamath Falls Observes Anniversary
By FLOVD I.. WYNNE
Seventy years Kzn today Ijnk
ville ceased to exist and Klam
ath Falls officially became the
name of this city.
The little community that began
in the spring of 1867 as a trading
post alongside the Unk River
sbtres in a spot which was a
lormer trading area (or the In
The union has demanded a
training program within the com -
pany for workers displaced by ma
chines and new procedures. The
railroad maintains it "cannot
agree lo the retention or creation
of unnecessary positions which
would stifle technological ad
vances."
The lengthy dispute has brought
two previous strike threats by file
union in the past year, but they
were postponed by federal media-
lion efforts.
The walkout would tie up SP op
erations in Oregon, California. Ne
vada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexi
co and Texas. It would also ef
fect 11,000 SP commuters in the
San Francisco Bay Area.
Weaver assured commuters they
could depend on train service both
this morning and this evening, but
he said that did not mean that
the rest of Ihe railroad would not
be struck in the meantime.
The union has no quarrel w ith
the commuters," he said, 'just
the company
dian, became known as Lmkville
because of this ktration.
Begun by George Nurse who
moved his sutler's store from Fort
Klamath to this location and took
up land. Linkville began to grow
"Uncle George's Store" became
a distributing point lor the area
.imi was located about where the
( rtv Center Motel is turn.
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KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON.
Claim
WASHINGTON (UPH Using!
photographs and intelligence re
ports, the administration pressed
its no military threat from Cuba
campaign, but a Senate investi
gator said today he remained un
convinced. Sen. John C. Stennis, chairman
of the Senate prepaiedness sub
committee, said there is "no evi
dence of a lessening military
threat" from Russia's base in
Cuba.
Stcnnis made the statement as
the subcommittee wound up a 90
minute closed door questioning
session of Central Intelligence
Agency Director John A. Mc-
Cone.
The question remains, Stcnnis
aid. as to why the Kremlin is
maintaining its "tremendous
force in Cuba.
He said there may have been
some "rotation and leolacement"
but he said there has been "no
evidence of any general w t h-
drawal.",F
! Stcnnis
said he expected lo
bring McCone back for further
questioning, but he said the conr
miltce will now turn its attention
lo "military witnesses."
But he said no further hearings
have been scheduled for the prcs-i
cnt
Cuba Buildup
By tm Breads
President Kennedy is cxpectedlreintroduccd."
Soviet Spy Sent Home
CANBERRA, Australia (UPP-
Australia denounced a Soviet dip
lomat today as head of a vast
new spy ring and gave him seven
days to gel out of the country.
The accused spy was identified
as Ivan F. Skripov, first secre
tary of the Soviet Embassy in
Canberra, and Ihe first Russian
diplomat sent to Australia when
diplomatic relations were restored
in 195(1.
External Affairs Minister Sir
Garfield Barwick told a news con
nen hop, butcher shop, U.S. telegraph office, four doe
tors, four lawyers and one newspaper. It alio had one
church structure, the Presbyterian, erected in 1885. A
disastrous fire swept the town Sept. 6, 1889, however,
destroying about half the town and setting back the
growth for several years. This view was taken from the
qeneral area of the high peak just south of the city
limits above U.S. Highway 97.
Nurse platted the site and place
lots on tlie "market."
This early platting, however,
was informal and was never of
ficially rorVirdrfl,
Liter, in IB7B. the tnwnsitr
was replatted ami recorded ami
ihe original plat voided.
In IW'9 (lie terry aerovs Unk
River at this (mint was replaced
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1903
'eniei
to repeat at his news conference
loday that all Russian offensive
weapons have left Cuba.
The administration, acting swift
ly to try to counter charges by
some members of Congress that
Cuba was still a potential aggres
sor, made these moves Wednes
day: Hastily scheduled and carried
out the two-hour briefing, all but
half an hour of which was tele-
ised nationally, by McNamara
nd an intelligence expert who
displayed nearly too aerial pho
tographs of Cuba, some so sharp
that tools could be seen in the
hands of the Russian soldier.
Sent McCone to the Senate
subcommittee to try lo squelch
reports of a new Cuban buildup.
The CIA director told the sena
tors the government had no evi
dence of any offensive Soviet wca
pons in Cuba.
Announced a long - expectca
crackdown on non-Communist
shipping to Cuba. The order
effect denied U.S. government
cargoes to ships that call at Cu
ban ports.
McNamara, at Ins bricling. said
lie believed "beyond any reason
able doubt" that all offensive wea
pons nave nccn rcmovea irom
the island and none have been
(orence that the latest espionage
ring bad been uncovered largely
through the cloak-and-dagger ef
forts of a woman counterspy
working in an investigation last
ing almost two years.
The case was Ihe most spectac
ular uncovered here since the
defection in 1954 of Soviet secret
agent Vladimir Pelrnv. He re
vealed Hie workings of Soviet es
pionage activities through the em
bassy here, and the disclosures
led to a break in Soviet-Australian
diplomatic relations
by a wooden bridge. By 1B72
enough people had begun to settle
this vicinity that post ollice
was established. Nurse was post
master in the area for 12 years
maintaining the post office in his
store
Nurse left tlie community
tronllnued en Page (A)
he
Telephone
SPUDS TO PEEL The Mt. McLoughl'm Chapter of the Knights of Columbus col
lected over 100 sacks of potatoes from- Klamath Basin ranchers to donate to the St.
Mary Boys' Home in Beaverton. The spuds will be trucked to Portland free of charge
by the Bend-Portland trucking firm. Helping to load up are, from left, Otto L. Smith,
chairman of the K of C Spud Committee, Roger Weiseman, Gene Yates, manager of
Bend-Portland, Bud Kenney, past grand knight, and George Andrieu, grand knight of
the Klamath Basin K of C. j
Tax Proposals Eyed
Bv State Legislature
SALEM IUPH House Taxi
Committee members expressed In
terest in a novel state, income
lax plan here Wednesday.
But Ihcy appeared unreceptivc
In a oroposal to send a sales tux
r!an out to the voters, even after
seeing a proposed narfot.
The Mosser income lax plan and
the Rogers - McKinnis sales tax
proposals occupied the committee
Wednesday as it continued a gen
eral survey of major revenue-
raising measures.
Also before the committee arc
ihe governor's net receipts
come tax, the Musa income tax
plan, the Eymann-Overhutse in
come lax for properly tax relief.
nnd the cigarette tax hill.
Rep. John Mosser. R-Bcaverton.
said his plan would raise some
$43.5 million in new revenues.
Its essential features arc a flat
oer cent lax. with increased
exemptions to give lower bracket
relief. It would eliminate the leu-
oral income 'ax and capital gains
deductions, and allow other de
ductions only in excess of 10 per
cent of income.
Mosser said In spite of tlie flat
rate, his plan in effect would re
tain the graduated income tax
because of the exemptions.
He said key features of the
plan were Its simplicity and the
removal of pressure on taxpay
ers to escape higher tax brackets.
Mosser said taxpayers in the
tower brackets are tarrying most
of tlie income tax load now. He
said Oregon's income tax tmdrt
the present graduated structure
averages out at 5.1 per cent.
Reps. Joe Rogers, It-Indepen
dence, and Don McKinnis, D-Sum
mcrville, said the legtsla
tore should submit a sales tax
plan to the voters.
Prerrdrnt Set
Roiiers said the voters should
be given alternative tax plans
plus a chance lo reject both ol
them. He added a legal prece
dent for b vote on a choice of
tax iilnns was net in l!H7 when
the voters defeated cigarctle and
sales taxes.
The Rogers 3-cent sales I a x
would raise some va million a
biennium. The McKinnis plan,
which exempts food, would raise
about SI2.1 million.
Both would tisc part of the lake
(or property tax relief.
Rogers said he thinks any lax
plan will get to the voters sooner
or later. He said the legislature
ould increase public conlidence
and reduce organized resistance
by a referral.
Rogers conceded a sales lax
would shift a burden onto Ihe av
ernge consumer. But lie saxi it is
this ronsumcr. rather than prop
erty and business interests, that
asking lor Increased services
such as schools, welfare and jki
lice.
McKinnis said a sales lax, ir
effect, would tend lo "equalize'
Ihe tax burden.
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McKinnis. said tarmina Is worth
5o million a year, and Rogers
said unless property taxes are re
licved. "You're going to drive
great many farmers out of this
Willamette Valley.
Other Highlight
Farm Labor The Senate!
Health and Welfare Committee!
was asked to approve a bill to
let stale health officers close un-i
sanitary farm labor camps
sos where there is no county
officer.
Higher Education legislative
Fiscal Officer Kenneth Bragg
said higher admission standards!
would bo a better way to dis-
mirage out of state students than
higher student fees.
Gasoline Rep. Fred Meek,
D-Portland, said lift plans a bill
imed at cutting down on gaso-
inc price wars.
News Reps, Kessler Cannon,
It-Bend, nnd Merrill Hagan, R-,
McMinnville, said they are spon
soring a bill to bring full radio.
television and news coverage in
to tlie courtroom.
Fund Switch
Given Okay
By Thornton
SAIJvM (UPI - If the Icgisla
tore finds a "legal surplus" in tlie
veterans' bond sinking fund, it
can transfer tlie surplus to tlie
general fund to help pay for stale
ervicTS. Ally. Gen. Robert Y
Thornton said loday.
Tlie opinion offered a possible
way of dealing with the shortage
of general fund money that has
threatened a severe cutback in
state services for the remainder
of the current biennium between
now and July.
The grounds for Thornton's find
ing were different from those sug
gested earlier by Gov. Mark Hat
lield but they may make more
money available.
The legislature started out the
veterans' lending agency by ap
preprinting tax money in 1945. It
took some of that hack In 1931.
Hatfield proposed taking the re
maining (5 5 million back as "tax
moneys" this winter.
Thornton declared "tlie present
reserve. , does not involve any
tax moneys."
He noted, however, account of
I lie agency show it has earned a
profit of HO million ". . .represent
ing earnings over and above ex
penses " This is the same finding
made in a report by legislative
Fiscal Officer Kenneth Bragg, who.
suggested the legislature tap the
jirolrt for general fund money.
Wen I tier
Klamath Falls, Tulelake and
Lakevlew Partly cloudy and con
tinued mild tonight and Friday.
Low tonight 33-40. High Friday
near 33, Southerly winds I0-J0
m.p.h.
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Review Bill
SALEM (UPII - Sen. Walter
Pearson's bill to give the legisla
a
ture power to review agency regu
lations drew strong support today
from legislative leaders.
Both Senate President B e it
Musa, D-The Dalles, and House
Speaker Clarence Barton, D-Co-
qullle, voiced support for the plan.
Musa termed it a good idea,
and long overdue."
The bill, signed by 26 senalors
and 40 representatives, would es
tablish a joint Senate-House com
mittee to review administrative
rules while the legislature was not
in session. The review commis
sion would have authority to sus
pend agency rules until the next
legislative session. -
Barton said "we need something
during interims, agencies get ton
ambitious." T
He cited two examples involving
the Board of Education. :
In one the legislature defeated
bill to require five years of
college for an elementary teach
ing credential. Shortly after the
session closed, the board adopted
rule setting the live year re
quirement.
In another instance Hie board
wanted lo require driver training
to be handled by certified teach
ers. Barton explained at Coquille Ihe
school bus drivers teach tlie
course. He added that both orders
were Ialer rejected.
'There's m question (lie board
of education is too big, too pow
erful," Barton said.
Plush Train ;
Leaves Rails
CORAM. Mont. (UPII - The
Great Northern Railroad's plush
Kmpire Builder passenger train,
carrying 1S9 passengers, was de
railed by a boulder Wednesday
night and narrowly missed plung
ing ion feet into Ihe Flatbed
River.
Three dirsol units and seven
cars ol the wosinnunn n-umi
train were buckled into a V-shape
on Ihe left side ,of Ihe tracks. If
the (rain had been derailed to the
right side, it would have pitched
dowi the steep bank to the mid
dle Fork of the river.
The only Injuries were received
by two passengers, whose heads
were bumped by (ailing baggage.
They required minor first aid.
The train left Chicago Tuesday
night for Seattle. Investigators at
Ihe scene said Ihe boulder, which '
the train struck at a spqed of
about 50 miles per hour, apparent-
ly had been loosened by recent
thawing weather and heavy rafn
in Ihe area.
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