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Day's IVews
By FRANK JENKINS
From Salem, as this is written
Proposed cigarette taxes and the
governor's net receipts tax re
form plan were outlined to the
house tax committee yesterday by
Representative Victor Atiyeh.
The session marked the last of
five days of hearings by the com
mittee on the major revenue pro
ducing bills introduced this ses
sion. The committee will now be
gin work to determine which bill,
or combination of bills, will be
submitted to the legislature.
The cigarette and net receipts
bills both proposed by Governor
Mark Hatfield to balance his $405
million general fund budget
were sponsored by Representative
Atiyeh.
The plan to tax cigarettes four
cents a pack was approved by
Cecil Psey of the Oregon Edu
cation association. Urging a five
cent tax, with one cent to go to
cities, were Astoria Councilman
Arnold Swanson, president of the
league of Oregon Cities, Portland
Mayor Schrunk, and Eugene City
Manager Hugh McKinley.
The cities, of course, could use
the extra cent per pack income.
All governmental bodies, in these
days, are scraping the barrel for
tax money enough to keep them
going.
Not unexpectedly, the represen
tative of the Tobacco Distributors
association termed the tax dis
criminatory. Representative Atiyeh said the
cigarette tax, modeled after the
California law, would raise $18
million per biennium. That
brings into focus this bit of in
cidental information from Wash
ington: The Commerce Department re
ports that cigarette smoking de
clined by an average of TWO
CIGARETTES per person last
year the first drop since 1954.
Average consumption was 199.2
packs per person in 1962. com
pared with 199.3 packs in 1961.
The decrease will be reversed
this year, the Commerce Depart
ment predicted, with average use
of the weeds rising to 200 packs
in 1963.
That checks rather accurately
with Representative Atiyeh's esti
mate as to the amount of money
"Oregon could expect to take in
from a sales tax of five cents
per package on cigarettes.
Oregon's population is assumed
to be about 1.800.000. A tax of
five cents per pack on the aver
age 200 packs each person is
expected to smoke during 1963
would come to $10 per person.
At that rale. 1.800.000 persons
wijld pay a tax of $18,000.'
Keep this in mind:
ff you are a cigarette smoker, il
is going to cost you more than
ton dollars a year. The 200 packs
per person per year estimated
by the Commerce Department is
an AVERAGE. It includes infants
and all other non-smokers. The
average smoker will obviously
pungle up more than $10 in the
course of a year.
And-
f course
If you are a smoker and re
sent being nicked for ten dollars
a year to help balance Oregon's
budget, you can always QUIT.
In the case of other taxes, you
don't have much choice.
Five Killed
On Highways
By Unilrd Press International
Five Oregon residents lost their
lives in traffic accidents during
the weekend. Three were killed in
the state.
Timothv DcMnlis. l'.l. and his
sislcr. Carolyn, both of Milton
Freewaler. died in a to-c-ar.
head-on collision 15 miles south
east of Libby, Mont.. Sunday.
Also killed in the accnent was
Margn Voc.t of Stcvensvi,,e. Mnnt.,
a school teacher at Milton-Free-water.
The victims all were in
one of the cars.
Ralph Killham, 22. Salem, died
when his car went off the Paiilic
Freeway near Wondtnirn and
struck an overpass pillar Sunday.
He was a former Orceon College
of Kducation track star.
Robert Bailev. 31. Arlington
was killed in a two-car collision,
on nmmvav . seven nines. -
. , i , " , j .to 15 vears in sta e prison on
east of Ar ing on Saturdav. - , . , 1
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Frank Carpenter, 2. Empire.
died in a two-car crash on Cape
Arago Highway between Empire
and Charleston in Coos County
Fndav night
MASTER OF THE HOUSE I proached many of the players and
NEW BRITAIN. Conn 'I PI -corrupted many of them."
Lawrence J. Pavdison. a Repub-i There was an audible gasp
luan. and Adrienne Krasnoff. a j throughout the crowded court
Democrat, were married Sunday room when Saralite pronounced
but there'll he no political beefs ithe sentence upon the former Co
in their home.
Mrs. Davidson said alter Hie
ceremnnv she would resi-ler with
tKe GOP after iherr honeymoon.1
Weather
Hl9h yftttrdiy
Low lair night
High yur go
Low year tgo
High pair 14 ytr
Low Mil 14 ytan
Prtclp. pnt 14 hours
Sine Jan. 1
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AMERICA'S BOUNTY "It't t craiy world; whila most
nations haar walls of hunger, whila tha Iron Curtain
countries desperately try to cope with food shortages,
we wallow in surpluses and spend $4 billion a year to
bribe farmers not to grow too much." That is 'the mes
Iraq "Dead Quiet" After Rebel
Smoke Communists
BEIRUT. Lebanon iUPI
Iraq's new rebel regime executed
two generals and two other offi
cers today but travelers arriving
here from Baghdad reported
'dead quiet" in the capital for the
first time since fighting erupted
Friday.
West German Member of Par
liament Rudolph Werner said
streets were empty and only a few
shops were open. Tanks and ar
mored cars moved through the
streets continuously.
"Sunday, there was firing all
over the citv as trooos smoked out
Communists, but today I did not!
hear any shooting," he said. 'Ev
erything was dead quiet today,
almost frightcningly so."
Werner said that the people or
Baghdad appear to show no signs
ml joy over the end of hassems
jlour and one-half years of rule
and his replacement by pro-Nas
ser military leaders.
"They're indifferent and (hough
there was no shooting today, the
whole place does not smell good,"
he said.
The communique on the execu
tions was signed by Rashid Mus
ich. new military governor of
Iraq.
Other travelers rcMirted pic
tures of the new leaders are now
being distributed hut few Iraqis
are putting them up.
In other developments, shipping
resumed on the Shatl-EI-Arah
'Fixer' Sentenced To Fifteen Years
In Nation-Wide Basketball Scandal
NEW YORK U'Ph Convicted
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and subornation of perjury.
Supreme Court Justice Joseph
V Saralite characterized Molinasl,
completely amoral person.!
who not only managed this con
spiracy
but also personally ap-
ilumbia University star. Molinas
exhibited no sign of shock or dn
appointment. .
Nine other defendants, who had
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River for the first lime since the
revolt, and tankers and barges
jammed in its channels began
moving out.
The military governor general
of Baghdad was reported to have
relaxed the curfew hours. It is
now in effect from 8 p.m. to 6
a.m.
(Britain today became the sec
ond major power to recognize the
new Iraqi regime. Earlier today,
West Germany extended its recognition.)
Negotiations Stall
In NY News Strike
NEW YORK (UPIi Mayor I
Robert F. Wagner recessed mar-
athon peace talks in the city s
Gfi-day-old newspaper strike today
and reported that "substantial dif
ferences" still exist between pub
lishers and striking printers.
Negotiators for both sides ad
milted they were discouraged.
Failure of the so-called showdown
peace talks deepened the gloom
around City Hall where Wagner
has tried for 17 days to end the
newspaper blackout which is cost
ing the city $4 million a day.
Wagner dismissed negotiators
I pleaded guilty in the basketball
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The oflice of Dist. Ally. Frank
Plane Wreck,
Body Found
TIMBERLINE LODGE UPI-
The wreckage of a light plane
which disappeared earlier this
month on a flight from Portland
to Burns was lound on White Riv
er Glacier on the south side of
Ml. Hood Sunday.
The single-engine aircralt was
piloted by Airman 2C. Ronald P.
Myers, 22. Portland. Hit body
was recovered.
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sage noted agriculture expert John Strohm brings to you
in a series of dynamic dispatches starting in the Herald
and News today on Page 2. In the series, ha offers some
potent answers to "Our Craiy Food And Farm Problem."
Out Of Buildings
One eyewitness estimated about
1,500 persons were killed in the
initial day of the revolt. No offi
cial figures were available.
Baghdad Radio in a broadcast
heard here said the four "crim
inal traitors" were shot and killed
because they "violated the peo
ple's rights and lived in corrup
tion." The officers were identified as
Brig. Gen. Abd Al Majid Jalil,
Brig. Gen. Dawud Al Janabi, Col.
Husavn Khidr Al Duri and Lt.
for the Publishers' Association ofibloody revolt last Friday
New York City and the Interna
tional Typographical Union after
I9'j hours of nearly continuous
contract talks at City Hall. He
said no further meetings were
scheduled pending a report from
both sides "by Tuesday at the
latest."
The mayor said lie would decide
what further steps to take toward
settling the record dispute after
he receives the reports. He said
(he talks "have succeeded in nar
rowing the issues and clarifying
for the parties the extent of the
differences between them."
S. Hogan noted that its 2'i-year
investigation has resulted in the
indictment and conviction of 10
lixers. six of them former college
basketball players.
The investigation, according to
Hogan. touched 50 cities in 17
lates and involved 47 college ath
Ictis representing 27 schools. Odcomplcte surprise. It was 'carniTyurft Mor DflVS
these. XI admitted acccptingi.Saturday night that he had beenj "w I
bribes to "dump games." The oth
er II athletes turned down oilers
but only one reported it lo olfi
ciiils. Hogan noted.
Molinas had faced a possible
maximum of 36 years on all five
counts.
He was found guilty Jan. II by
a we of right men and four
woiVcn.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON.
Troops
Col. Ibrahim Kazim Al Musawi,
all retired.
Military units and armed stu
dent bands were reported hunting
down and wiping out pockets of
resistance in Baghdad to the new
rebel regime.
Reports reaching Tehran said
fighting had erupted in the big
port city of Basra in southeastern
Iraq, which is considered a Com
munist stronghold. The reports,
which could not be confirmed,
spoke of heavy casualties.
Most of the steadily dwindling
resistance in Baghdad also was
said to be coming from Commu
nist opponents of the pro-Nasser
Iraqi forces who launched the
Soviets Free
Archbishop
VATICAN CITY' 'UPD
Ukrainian Archbishop Josyf Slip-
yi, unexpectedly released from 1 B I
years of "horrible torture" and
imprisonment in the Soviet Union,
met with Pope John XXIII lor
an hour Sunday.
A Vatican source said the Poie
greeted Msgr. Slipyt "alfection
atcly" and took him into his pri
vate chapel where the two gave
"a prayer of thanks" and then
had a "very cordial" talk.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian
Pnntilical College in Rome said
,ne 7n.year-old archbishop of
Lwow was "horribly tortured
and was forced to do hard labor
in Siberia during his imprison -
ment.'
Msgr. Siipyis' release from
Communist captivity came n a
Ireed by the Russians last Christ
mas. He arrived in Rome at mid
night Saturday.
Vatican sources said Ihe arch
bishop! release was in no way a
result of an agreement between
the Kremlin and the Holy See.
"There have been no negotia
tions on this matter," he sources
said.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 19C3
ECennedy Official Asks End
f Elassie Over Cuba ilras
WASHINGTON (UPD A lop
Republican member of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee said
today that despite administration
explanations on Cuba "There is
uncertainty that the full story
Resolution
Asks 'Kill'
Of Revision
By ANN H. PEARSON
United Press International
SALEM (UPI) A resolution
asking the Senate to kill constitu
tional revision for this session of
the legislature was announced to
day by Sen. Thomas Mahoney,
D-Portland.
Its chances were uncertain, but
it met with disapproval from
three legislators who carry some
weight in the Senate.
Mahoney said the Senate prob
ably will vote on the resolution in
a day or so.
It calls on the Senate Commit
tee on Constitutional Revision to
stop further consideration on the
proposed new constitution written
by the Oregon Commission on
Constitutional Revision.
Mahoney was a member of the
17-member commission and one
of its two main dissenters.
Problems Many
His resolution says many "per
plexing problems" remain to be
determined. "The matter of a new
constitution for Oregon is not onel
of immediate urgency, but rather
should await further study, delib
eralion and opportunity for public
discussion, he said.
Mahoney said it is "extremely
improbable" that the Senate
would muster the two-thirds vote
needed, along with the same vote
in the House, to send tne docu
ment to the people.
He also said the legislature
should devote "full time and en
orgies toward matters of immcdi
ate concern."
Sen. Walter Pearson, D Port-
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Four Missing
People Found
Four people who had been re
ported missing while on a trip to
Medford Sunday have been locat
ed near Rocky Point, the Oregon
Stale Police reported about noon
lodav.
Missing were Sherry Alexander,
Rte. 1. Box 558, junior at Henley
High School: Mrs. Ronald L. Har
less, .15. 7B9B McGuire Street. Fal
con Heights, and her son, Steven
V.. 17, and daughter, Cynthia.
State police said they were noti
fied that Mrs. Harlcss' automobile
had broken down, stranding the
party near Rocky Point. Assist
ance was being sent to them, but
no other details were available at
the time.
Mrs. llarless left Klamath Falls
in her automobile with the other
missing jicople Sunday to attend
an auto show in Medford, it was
presumed by a spokesman of the
airfield. The group was expected
'back in this city about p.m..
Sundav. but as of 10 a m. Ihe
following morning they were still
reported missing. Mrs. Alexan
der, mother of Sherry, reported
the party of four missing to the
state police as of 1:30 a m., Mon
day.
Mrs. Horless is the wife of Capt.
Ronald L. Harle.ss Jr., who is re
ceiving special training at Cha
nute Air Force Base, 111., and Is
expected to lie reassigned here
next March 10. Captain llarless
is an aircraft maintenance offi
Cvnlhia is one of tlie queen can
didates for Ihe Kingsley Field
iMardi Oras, slated lor Feb. 22
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Spring To Last
PORTLAND 'UPD-The weath
or man said today "spring" would
Aould last at least a couple ol
more davs in Oregon.
Although spring officially
more than five weeks away, tem-
Ipcraturcs in the high 60s and
bright sunshine sent resident
scurrying to the mountains and
beaches Sunday.
Telephone
hasn't been told the American
people."
Rep. E. Ross Adair of Indiana
aid that "Cuba as a potential
Communist enemy just won't lie
down and play dead ,nor go away
ith a few well-chosen words.
Adair said he still does not re
gard the evidence presented by
Defense Secretary Robert S. Mc
Namara and the Central Intelli
gence Agency as "fully satisfac
tory." The feeling persists that there
a mighty military machine in
the hands of Castro and that soon
er or later this menace must be
dealt with," he said.
Rep. Ed Foreman, R-Tcx.,
arncd in a similar statement
that Cuba is now making "dan
gerous moves" to set up armed
camps on the mainland of Latin
America.
"Two ships steamed out of the
Cuban port of Mariel last week,
o Clues
On Missing Tanker
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPD
Planes and ships fanned out over
tlic Atlantic today in an effort to
solve the deepening mystery of a
tanker missing for eight days
with 39 crewmen aboard.
There was no clue to whether
the 524 - foot Marine Sulphur
Queen, carrying a cargo of mol
ten sulphur, had exploded and
sunk or was lost or disabled
A Coast Guard officer speculat
ed that if the hot sulphur had
come in contact with the water
Four Little
Sisters Die
BABYLON, N.Y. (UPI) Four
little sisters walking on a frozen
Knd near their Long Island home
drowned Sunday when thin ice
gave way. A fifth sister was res-
ued by an off-duty policeman.
The dead were identified by
their mother as Mary Ann Coori-
dan, 5. and her sisters, Kath
leen, 10, Palti, 7, and Louise, 3.
Lerraine, 11, was hospitalized lor
exposure and submersion.
Patrolman Paul Barnard, who
had taken his two-year-old son to
sec the ducks on Argyle Pond,
aid he had no chance of aiding
the four younger sisters.
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CALLING COMMITTEE AT WORK That membart of h Republican Women1!
Club will be conducting a telephone campaign Monday and Tuesday, lituing invita
tiont to the Lincoln Day Dinner which it scheduled for tha Winema on Thursday, Feb,
14, at 7 p.m. Seated, left to right, are Mrt. Mary Maxwell and Mrt. Darrell Heard.
Standing, lame order, are Mrt, Blanche Baltiger and Mrt. George Clark. Reservation
may ba phoned to the Winema, TU 4-4181. John Davit Lodge yill be the principal
speaker.
TU 4-8111 No. T06I
loaded with arms destined for
British Guiana," said Foreman
He also said guerrilla bands have
been sent into Venezuela.
The Texas Republican said "it
is high time that President Ken
nedy takes the bull by the horns
and invokes the time honored
Monroe Doctrine."
He said Kennedy has "backed
down" from his 1960 presidential
campaign stand against any ex
pansion of the Cuban Communist
foothold in the hemisphere.
The new charges came despite
the plea of a high administration
official for an end to public de
bate over Cuba.
Undersecretary of State George
W. Ball said Sunday night that it
was "a little bit extraordinary
that we keep on hectoring one
another over this Cuban prob
lem." Ball spoke out after members
of Congress unleashed a new bar-
Reported
steam explosion would follow
causing "the whole thing to go
up iiKc an atom bomb.
The World War II Merchant
Marine vessel sailed from Beau
mont, Tex., nine days ago bound
tor Norfolk, Va.
The ship transports sulphur in
heavily insulated steel tanks that
:oils. The alup s operators, Ma
nne Transport Corp. of New
York, said hauling sulphur Is
more dangerous than hauling oth
er cargoes.
The Coast Guard rushed two
el,.'., fn hI, J
we lloaling debris Sunday nigh
square mile area east of here
produced no trace of the ship.
ihe Coast Guard reported the
flotsam did not appear to be
from the vessel, last heard from
when it dispatched a radio mes
sage Feb. 3 while sailing near
Dry Tortugas in the Gulf of Mcx
ico.
The disappearance of the ship
recalled another great maritime
mystery in the Atlantic the U.
S. Navy supply ship Cyclops
which vanished in 1918 with 309
men aboard.
The Cyclops, carrying a cargo
of manganese, took on coal at
Barbados, then sailed, never to.
lie heard from again.
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Weather
Klamath Falls, Tulelake and
Lukcview Fair through Tuesday.
Cool tonight, lows 24. Mild again
Tuesday, highs about 50. Variable
winds 7-15 m.p.h. Tuesday.
rage of statements on Cuba. Re
publicans demanded a harder line
toward the Castro regime, and a
Democrat accused the GOP of
trying to push the United States
into World War III.
Rail Clerks
To Decide
SP Action
SAN FRANCISCO (UPD- The
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
was expected to make a definite
move today in its oft-postponed
threat to strike the Southern Pa
cific railroad in seven western
states.
The walkout, which has been In
an off-and-on state since midnight
Wednesday, has been averted only
through Uie psistent efforts of
Chairman Frank O'Neill of the
Federal Mediation Service.
In near-marathon meetings with
representatives of both sides.
Neill has gained five postpone
ments in Uie threatened strike
which would idle 50,000 SP em
ployes In Oregon, California, Ne
vada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexi
co and Texas.
However, William McGoyern, a
union vice president and special
representative of union President
George Harrison, announced after
a meeting with O NeiH Sunday
night that a decision would be
made today.
no
McGovern said O'Neill would
-
meet with SP officials this morn
ing and then present the com
pany's latest proposals to the un
ion.
Sea Death
Story Told
KODIAK, Alaska (UPI) - The
lone survivor of a shipwreck off
Kodiak Island staggered into this
small fishing town Sunday and
told how two of his companions
were thrown overboard and
drowned.
The victims were Mike Bjerken,
52, and Gladys Frump, 40. The
survivor was George E. Eckon
berg, 44, who has been nicknamed
"Lucky" since his childhood days.