WITHYCOMBE AFFAIR
State May Have To Pay
Uncle Sam $40,000
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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fills, Ore.
Thursday, February H, 1963
SALEM (LTD Oregon may
have to dig up $40,000 to repay
the federal government for money
misused by the State Military De
partment while the late Alfred
Hintz was Oregon Adjutant Gen
oral, a legislative officer (aid
Wednesday.
The figure was given by Legis
lative Fiscal Analyst Cleighton
Pcnwell as a Ways and Means
subcommittee continued its review
of the military department budg-!
el.
A secretary of state's audit last
month put the state's liability at
528.339. Penwell said continued in
vestigation indicates the total may
reach $40,000.
The case came to light last year
not long after Hintz died. It cen
tered on Camp Withycombe In
Clackamas County.
It initially Involved what hap
pened to surplus property from
the Tongue Point Naval Station
Investigation showed. $8,388 was
put Into a special cash fund au
thorized by Hintz.
The secretary of state's audit
detailed misuse of funds in the
department. The items included
falsified claims, sale of federal
property, use of federal funds for
unauthorized projects, misuse of
state money, and use of paint and
supplies for the general's home,
The report included these
items
An oven, cooktop and electric
hoist, bought for armories, ended
up in Hintz's home, the hoist as
an elevator.
A check drawn for encamp-
ment rations was used for activi
ties at a governor's day review
and the balance turned over to
Hintz.
Sale of Tongue Point logs val
ued at $13,065, for $6,980, includ
ing moving costs.
Use of paint purchased for
armories at Medford, Dallas, St.
Helens and Clackamas on the gen
eral's house.
A grand jury investigated the
Withycombe affair last year, but
failed to return any indictments
Rep. Beulah Hand, chairman of
the subcommittee, said in addition
to the $40,000 the situation could
jeoparidze other federal funds.
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Diggers Free
Burled Man
LAKE TOMAHAWK. Wis. (LTD
A well digger trapped eight feet
underground was freed by rescue
workers today after spending
nearly 15 hours buried to his
shoulders in a sandy pit.
Rescuers worked through the
night before wresting Raymond
Fink, 31, Athens, Wis., from a
caved-in well where he was nearly
buried alive Wednesday. He was
pulled from the well early today.
Fink was taken to a Woodruff.
Wis., hospital where doctors said
he was in good condition after
his ordeal.
Fink sipped warm milk and
smoked cigarettes while rescue
workers struggled to free him. His
brother, Lawrence, stayed at his'
side and when a second and third
cive-in buried Fink to the neck
his brother clawed away the dirt
with his bare hands.
The scene is located about 100
feet from the Chicago and North
Western Railway tracks and au
thorities ordered all train traffic
halted so as not to cause another
rnve-in from vibrations. After
hours of waiting, trains were al
lowed to proceed slowly.
Fink's wife was at the scene
hut did not speak with her trapped
husband.
A Catholic priest administered
the last rites of the church to
Fink and told the buried man he
had his rosary beads "flying" for
him.
"I've got them going pretty
fast down here, too, father, "Fink
replied.
More than lno rescue workers,
Including 25 inmates of a state
rrison farm, worked to save
Fink. A large tunnel was dug
next to the well and shored up
with plywood boards.
A culvert was lowered over
Fink's body to provide protection
ag iinst further cave-ins.
Fink was at the bottom of the
newly dug 10 foot well installing
a pump when the initial cave-in
occurred.
Legislators
Talk Rules
Of Driving
SACRAMENTO (LTD The
California legislature is thinking
about slowing motorists down,
raising age limits for licenses and
painting luminous strips down
roads to keep them in the right
lane.
As usual, the lawmakers are
concerned with the traffic prob
lems of the nation's drivingest
state. And this concern stretches
from the freeways to the scenic
backroad drives.
Part of it is Gov. Edmund C.
Brown's six-point traffic safety
program but most of the bills in.
traduced so far are creations of
the individual legislators and lob
One of the first to hit the legis
lature would affect applicants for
driver s licenses. The bill by As
semblyman Milton Marks, R-San
WASHLS'GTO.V (LTD - The
mysterious crash of a Northwest
Orient Airlines Boeing 720B in the
Florida Everglades Tuesday will
spur development of indestructi
ble voice recorders. .
Many air safety experts believe
some means ol recording pilot
voices will help provide the key to
crashes which are becoming pro
gressively more difficult to solve.
Experts believe the last words of
a crew caught up in a life-or-
death emergency might supply
clues to the cause of the result
ing crash.
All jet-polvered airluiers and
HOPEFULS If hard work will get 41 boy and girl students of Spanish claiies at
Klamath Union High School to Mexico next summer, they will all get there on tha
double (by charteVed bus). Tha students are selling boxes of candy at $1 a box to
raise the funds to take a 10-day trip to Mazatlan,, Mexico, chaperoned by their Span
ish instructor, Mrs. Beatrice Tanielian, and two others, a man and a nurse. Mazatlan
is about halfway down on tha Wast Coast. Left to right are Dennica Hall, sopho
more, Charles Sanders, junior, and Mary Draee, sophomore. Interested persons may
place orders at TU 4-9757.
Reluctant Income Tax
Payers Applaud Repeal
SALEM (LTD-The forces be
hind the "liberty amendment" ap
plauded their spokesman on Wed
nesday night as he called for re
peal of the federal income tax.
Nearly 300 reluctant taxpayers
crowded Into the House State and
Federal Affairs Committee hear
ing to backstop Willis E. Stone,
author of the proposed amend
ment to the U.S. constitution.
Stone said it would mean a 20
per cent increase in take home
pay.
More important, lie said, it
ould take the federal govern
ment out of some 700 activities
that are in direct competition with
private enterprise, and are losing
money as well.
It would strip away overgrown
federal powers, he said, and re
turn sovereignty tu the slates and
the people.
Tile amendment, along with re
pealing the tax, would limit Uie
Francisco, would require driving federal government to only those
tests every 10 years. innn'i pi im-s !.hchipu m me cun-
Ine legislature s only woman.
Assemblywoman Pauline L. Davis,
u-Porloia, authored a measure
to cut the statewide speed limit
from S3 to 60 miles an hour.
Drunken drivers are a major
target already In the legislature.
A number of bills affecting their
area have been 'introduced hy
lawmakers.
Sen. Randolph Collier, D-Vreka,
Introduced a bill to tepeal a mill
law allowing Judges to waive a
mandatory six-month license sus
pension in hardship rases.
Assemblymarf William T. Hag-
ley, R-San Rafael, proposed two
bills to curb drunken driving. One
would require that all applicants
(or a driver's license agree In
advance to submit to a blood
test if arrested on suspicion of
drunken driving. The oilier would
establish a .15 per cent blood
alcohol test as prima facie evi
dence of intoxication.
Assemblyman Joseph M. Ken-
nick. P-l,ong Reach, authored an
administration-backed bill to al
low the highway palro' to use
radar in apprehending speeders.
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Rusk Talks
On Cold War
LOS ANGELES (IIPD Secre
tary of State Dean ftusk Wednes
day night gave a full explanation
of U.S. cold war tactics and con
tinued the call for removal of all
Soviet military forces in Cuba.
He reiterated President Ken
nedy's statement of last week thai
"we arc reasonably certain thai
the offensive" weapons deployed
by Soviets in Cuba have been re
moved. But he admitted that the
United States cannot he certain
about this without on-the - spot
inspection.
The secretary spoke Wednesday
night at a dinner at the end of
a daylong State Department for
eign policy conference for In
Icrested citizens. About 2,4(Hi per
sons attended the dinner and an
oilier 1,2011 listened to various
State Department experts explain
foreign policy at a series of brief
ings.
About a dojrn persons, includ
ing our member of a local chap
ter of the John Bnch Society,
picketed the Palladium. There
were no incidents.
Bihk said I lint "the armed
forces ol the I nited Slstes and
Us neighbors in the hemisphere
will insure that arms in Cuba
will not he used outside Cuba
stitution." Stone said, the cutback
would save $45 billion a year.
Programs that would be elimi
nated include the Small Business
Administration, the Tennessee
Valley Authority, the Bonneville
Power Administration, and the
Federal School Lunch Program.
The proposal has been approved
by the legislatures of Georgia,
South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas
Wyoming and Nevada. If two-
thirds of the states approve it, it
would become a formal proposed
amendment, needing final ratifica
tion hy three fourths of the states.
Several members of the com
mittee agreed the federal govern
ment should relinquish some of its
enterprises, but they balked at re
pealing the income tax which
makes up the largest block of
federal income.
Tom Scanlnn of the Oregon
AFL - CIO, testified against the
measure.
We see nothing desirable in
1 he said. "It would leave us
open to complete and easy at
tack, he said, "and remove the
underpinnings of free enterprise
to such an extent tivat we could
have a depression like we have
not had to date.
Fire Sweeps
Peoria Hotel
PEORIA, III. I LTD Fire
swept through the Mayer Hotel
in downtown Peoria early today
and firemen feared not everyone
was evacuated safely.
At least eight persons were
hospitalized. Many of the 130 per
sons fled in their night clothes.
Others were taken from the five-
story brick structure by ladders.
Fire Chief Lester Menace said
ixilice and firemen ran through
the 200-room hotel and crashed in
doors trying In evacuate the oc
cupants. But he said they were
driven back by the flames which
erupted in the northwest wing ol
the filth floor.
An adjoining motel. The Sands,
iilso was evacuated, and owners
of surrounding buildings Mood on
the rools of their stores and
watched for wind-driven sparks.
The top floor of the brick struc
ture was completely burned and
flames leaped from windows on
all floors.
Fire departments from four
suburbs were called into Peoria
to stand hy. Five ambulances
ilso stood bv.
Senate Eyes
Uninspected
Meat Claim
SALEM (UPD-A chaige that
uninspected meat was being used
in school lunch programs was
made Wednesday at a Senate Ag
riculture Committee hearing on
the farm slaughter bill.
Floyd Green, representing a
Eugene meat company, voiced the
charge, and urged laws prohibit
ing the sale of uninspected meat.
Sen. L. W. Newbry, R-Ashland.
asked if Green personally knew of
any uninspected meat going to
schools.
'I know it gets into the school
program, Green answered.
"Can you prove it?" Newbry
asked.
I think we could, hut why
should we, that's up to the stale,"
Green replied.
Meat inspection and the use of
mobile slaughtering units are key
features of the bill, SB103.
Under present laws, both in
spected and uninspected meat can
be cut in packing houses. The
proposed law would prohibit this
Proponents of the new law say
loopholes in present regulations
do not prevent some packing
houses from selling uninspected
meat to retail outlets.
Among those favoring the bill
were Donald Gardner, Medford,
representing four meat packing
lirms. He urged "protection of
c o n s u me rs from uninspected
meat."
Fred Bnycr, Roseburg. charged
"mobile slaughter units are a
loophole" and can sell uninspect
ed meat to markets.
John Johnson of Eagle Point.
speaking against the proposed
new law, said he invested $13,000
in a mobile slaughter unit. Ho
does custom cutting, and said this
was "a great asset to formers in
our area." He said passage of the
hill could cause hardships for "a
lot of small businesses."
He added he had neier before
heard of any uninspected meat
being sold to retailers.
Committee Chairman Walter
l.eth. K Salem, said. "We have no
fixed ideas on this issue, this bill
was drafted so we could start dis
cussions . . . . "
Use Of Pilot Voice Recorders Proposed
To Help Solve Plane Crash Mysteries
some piston-engine planes now
carry flight recorders. These sup
ply data on such actors as speed,
altitude, direction, G (gravity)
forces encountered and attitude.
They arc required on high - per
formance airliners simply because
such planes are extremely com
plicatedand complexity makes
an accident that much harder to
solve.
The flight recorder on the North
west Orient plane has been re
covered and sent to Washington
(or analysis which may take sev
eral davs or longer. But the de
vice admittedly is second choice
to a voice recorder placed in the
cockpit.
Rep. Roman C. Pucinski. D-lll.,
has introduced legislation which
would make installation of 'voice
recorders mandatory on all air
liners. While he has considerable
support from pilots, airlines and
both federal air agencies, experts
point out that (D more research
is needed to perfect such a de
vice and .121 tliey probably will
be enormously expensive.
One estimate gives $8,000 per
aircraft as the cost of a voice
recorder that would be immune
from impact, fire or water dam
age. The tentative bill lor equip-
ping about 2.000 aircraft would
hit $16 million.
There is a third obstacle the
feeling of some authorities that
the last words of a crew in trou
ble could mislead investigators.
Pilots may not always recognize
the source of an emergency and
could give the wrong information.
In one case on record, a crew ra
dioed that a fire was raging in
a baggage compartment. A fatal
crash followed, but it turned out
that the fire originated outside
the baggage compartment and
the pilots' last message led in
vestigators info a fruitless search
down the wrong allev.
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SAN FRANCISCO U'PD- Gov.
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Wednesday that he is generally
labeled as a liberal Hi publican
hut that he would prefer "no lag
at all."
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lie told a news conference "I
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