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Newspaper Page TextC01P. 4a T1m- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS OregoiTs Governor Hatfield is reported to have told a member of the U.S. House of Representa tives education and labor com mittee, which is considering Pres ident Kennedy's omnibus federal education bill, that he doesn't think Oregon wants federal school aid. That rubbed the fur the wrong way on Speaker Clarence Bar ton, of the Oregon House of Rep resentativeswho was miffed the other day when Governor Hat field accused the ways and means committee of the Oregon legisla ture of "wielding a meat cleav er" on some of the governor's requests for appropriations. So- In Salem this morning Barton disagreed sharply with the governor on the issue of federal aid for Oregon's schools. As quoted by the reporters, he said: "I don't think the governor speaks for the majority of Ore fm people on this question." He pointed to Oregon's basic school support program where, he said, some "have" areas share with "have not" areas. Federal aid, he said, is designed to do the same thing at the federal lev el. Speaker Barton then added: "There is a place for federal aid in Oregon's school program. "Oregon is a COLONIAL state. If it were not for federal grants all our money would go to De troit or to the California o i 1 fields." ALL of our money? Oh no, sir! A lot of it would keep on going to Washington for federal taxes. Last year, for example, we sent back to Washington some $600 million for our share of the FEDERAL taxes. That's about 50 per cent more than we are pro posing to raise for our own Ore gon state budget for the next bi ennium. Let's look at it this way: When we send money to Detroit, We GET AUTOMOBILES BACK. When we send money to Cali fornia, WE GET GASOLINE BACK. We don't build automobiles. When we send money to Detroit and get automobiles m return, we don't go into competition with any local industries. We WANT automobiles. We NEED automo biles. We couldn't get along Without them. We don't produce gasoline. We have no oil wells within our Ore gon borders. We NEED gasoline. Without it, our economy, in these modern days, would go to pot. But- When we send moncv to Wash ington, we get GOVERNMENT back. We don't need to import govern ment. We have vast quantities of it right here in our own state BETTER GOVERNMENT, most of us are inclined to believe, than the government we get from Washington. And- Not only docs Oregon consume a lot of government. Oregon produces a lot of gov ernment. Oregon, from time to time, even EXPORTS govern mentthe initiative, the, referen dum and the recall, for example. Under the product name of The Oregon Plan, Oregon has shipped popular government all over the country. t The situation, sir, is quite dif ferent. Cuban Troop Count Out WASHINGTON (UPI - Next Friday, the Ides of March, and the day the Russians have prom iscd to have "several thousand' troops out of Cuba, may well be a great international anti-climax High administration officials said today they do not expect to be able to make public on that day a "head-count" of the num ber of troops that have left the island. Unlike last October and Novem ber, when Soviet officers rolled back the coverings of missiles aboard ships so U.S. planes could count them, there is no agree ment with the Russians on count ing departing troops. The Soviets may try to claim some kind of "settlement" has occurred with the removal of a number of troops. But, as far as can be learned, they do not ap pear to be making it easy for the Kennedy administration to count the departing soldiers and justify the "settlement" to the American public. U.S. aerial reconnaissance can count persons on the decks of ships, but must guess how many are below deck. Moscow Radio this week protested what it called the "bulling'" of Soviet passen ger ships on the Russia-Cuba run by th U.S. Air force. Weather Mih yttttnUy Lew Ukt Niftf High Hr Low year 9 High (Mil 14 mrt Low Mil 14 Vftrt Prtop. wit 24 hours Sinct Jn. I iamt period list ytar 11 u ntsu is (1t tract tit S.M Coventor Denies Feuding' Report SALEM (UPI'-On a soothing note, Gov. Mark Hatfield denied Monday afternoon that he was feuding with the legislature and repudiated reports of deep-seated personal bitterness. The governor said his argu ments of the past week were a matter of issues, not personalities. He said differences over civil defense and the budget - cutting policies of the Ways and Means Committee had been "political- ized ' too much. "It takes two to feud, and I'm not feuding," he told a news con ference. I lie governors tone was in marked contrast to his angry de nunciation of "meat cleaver budget cutting a week ago. Those words sparked heated retorts from legislators over what many con sidered a personal attack on the members of the Ways and Means Committee. Agrees With Leaders Hatfield's latest remarks jibed w ith those of House Speaker Clar ence Barton and Senate President Ben Musa a few hours earlier. Barton said last week's running battle was "not persona!" and Musa said Hatfield had a right to fight for issues as he saw them. It seemed to be an effort on all sides to remove some of the sting from the fight. Until last week, cooperation between the Republi can governor and the Democratic controlled legislature had been stressed. Hatfield made it clear he would continue to fight for issues, how ever, by delivering another round in support of the State Civil De fense Agency which many legisla tors want to abolish. Hatfield said the agency was misunderstood. He blamed this partly on lack of understanding that its primary role was as a Hired Man Hunted In Stocking Death BOSTON (UPD - A 35-year- old handyman was sought today in the stocking slaying of an eld erly woman who is the ninth vic tim of a strangler in greater Bos ton in as many months. Police hope capture of the sus pect, whose name was known, would shed light on the maniacal "Boston strangler" who is be lieved to be the slayer of some of the women killed since last June 14. A new wave of terror spread through suburban Belmont where Mrs. Israel B. Goldberg, 62, a hospital worker, was found stran gled with a nylon stocking Mon day in her $30,000 home. Hired For Party Police said the chief suspect was a Cambridge handyman hired to clean the Goldbergs' house in preparation for a party Monday night. Israel Goldberg, 68, told police he telephoned his wife in their home six miles northwest of Bos ton Monday from his office in Chelsea at 2:30 p.m. Her body was found about 90 minutes later when Goldberg returned to the fashionable Dutch Colonial house. Mrs. Goldberg's body lay on PI If II nrjrrirrm i rnrTT rr r n f I f Iff uiL ftUu;.:, i , r fJ' v q. ,'LS 4!li AMCti, r3 Ml FIRST BOOK OF BRAILLE Addi. Mae Nixon, head librarian, Klamath Falls City Library, received the February, 1963, edition of the "Boy's Life" magazine in braille from Jim Patterson, chairmen of the Dr. Cecil Adams Memorial Trust Fund, which pro vides seven county libraries with a shelf of Boy Scout books. This limited edition of "Boy's Life" in braille was distributed to the Modoc Area Council through the nation. jil rnunril Tlia knnlr inrlu4t inttrurtinnl mlariIi tkl nkla m klinl knu 4a nnlinit I " " 1 to pursue scouting. mxmn urn nw$; Price Ten Cents 14 Pages coordinator, on recent shifts be tween evacuation and shelter plans, and on the changing organ izational structure of CD at the national level. Favors Keeping Agency He said misunderstanding, how ever, was no reason to abolish the agency. . j The governor said it did a fine job during the Columbus Day storm. Disputing charges that warnings were inadequate as the storm moved northward, Hatfield said there were plenty of warnings. He said people tended to play down the warnings because of the frequency of windstorms in west ern Oregon, underestimating the ferocity of the killer storm. Hatfield said Civil Defense and other agencies in Salem provided the only coordinated and opera tive communications center in the hours during and after the storm. Hatfield said the Oregon CD agency has an "outstanding rec ord" in the nation in designating shelter spaces. Dismisses Other Issues On other matters, Hatfield said Traffic Safety Hatfield said if the legislature was concerned about saving lives, it would stop talking about the storm and con centrate on the 76 lives lost in traffic in Oregon so far this year. He called for passage of his traf fic safety program, including seat belts, speed limits, implied con sent, and expanded arrest power. Recreation He said he had written U. S. Senate Minority Leader tverett Dirksen urging his support for the federal out door recreation bill. Dirksen has said he will oppose it. Party Hatfield said he planned to continue frequent meetings with Republican leaders in the legisla ture, and would continue to attend some GOP caucuses as well. the living room floor. One of her stockings was knotted so tightly around her throat that it was im bedded in the flesh. Police said there was evidence she had been raped and indica tions she battled her assailant violently before she died. They said Mrs. Goldberg's clothing was torn. In the living room they found lamps and chairs over turned, vases smashed and a lampshade crushed. Slayings All Similar Mrs. Goldberg's slaying was similar to at least six of the eight other victims, police said. Six of the others were stran gled with an article of clothing and had been raped. The other two may have been sexually as saulted. Mrs. Goldberg was a volunteer aide at two hospitals and six of the others had worked at area hospitals. Two others recently had been hospital patients. There was no evidence of forced entry in any of the slay ings, but Mrs. Goldberg was the only victim who did not live in an apartment. A handyman, painter or roofer was a key suspect in several of the strangling. ' 4 ASYLUM NEAR Former French Premier Georges Bidault is shown leaving police headquarters in West Germany following his plea for political asy lum. Bavaria has offered Bidault asylum if he wants it. UPI Telephoto Asylum Set For Bidault STELNEBACH, Germany (UPI Georges Bidault, leader of i movement seeking to topple French President Charles de Gaulle, appeared certain of politi cal asylum m West Germany to day if he wants it. Heinrich Junker, interior minis ter of the West German state of Bavaria, said Bidault could have asylum if he makes a written re quest and pledges to forego po litical activity. He said Bidault already had made an oral re quest for refuge. Bidault, 63, a gray-haired for mer French premier, heads the National Resistance Council (CNR, an organization dedicated to overthrowing De Gaulle and seizing control of France. The CNR is linked to the Secret Army Organization (OAS! which has1 conducted terrorist activities against De Gaulle and his govern ment. Bidault's aides Monday night denied he had made an oral re quest for asylum after being dis covered in this Alpine resort Sun day. There was speculation whether the dapper fugitive from France would agree to Bavaria's conditions that he cease political activities. In Paris, French officials said they interpreted reports that Bi dault had asked for asylum as meaning he had abandoned his struggle against De Gaulle. They looked upon his possible stay in Bavaria as an adequate solution to the problem. Officials in Paris believed ac ccptance of asylum by Bidault would get De Gaulle and West! German Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer out of a tight spot. De Gaulle and Adenauer recently signed an historic friendship! treaty, and Bidault's discovery in Bavaria created a sensitive situ ation. ' . 1 . ... p .: T KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. Thousands Flee Floods In Tri-State Twisters Leave 4 By United Press International Pounding rains and deadly tor nadoes set the stage for some of the worst floods on record in the Southland today. Thousands of persons fled their' homes, cities were isolated and states of emergency and disaster were declared as rivers roared from their banks in Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee. It was the East's second major flood disaster in a week. More than 4.000 families were driven from their homes and more than 20 persons were killed in floods which poured through the Ohio River Valley last week. March violence punished other parts of the nation. Snows of bliz zard intensity piled up 8 to 10 inches deep in Northwest Kansas. All roads in the atlccted area, were impassable, cars and trucks! were stalled on highways and in! ditches, and the Weather Bureau called the blast "a prolonged af fair and extremely dangerous.' Thick fog and murky weather spread from the Middle West to the Atlantic Seaboard. The landing wheel of an Eastern Airlines plane collapsed while landing on the rain-slicked runway of Boston s Logan Airport, but none of the 20 persons aboard was hurt. The fog closed down Chicago s O Hare airport, the world's busiest ter minal, through the night until 7:45 a.m. CST. One death was blamed on the Dixie floods a man killed when a train overturned at a washout east of Shelbiana, Ky. A man whose truck was believed swept into a creek in Kentucky's Pike County was also believed to be dead. Four more persons were dead and more than 20 were injured in tornadoes which raked Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee late Mon day and early tlWay. The threat of more twisters hung over the Southland. The Birmingham Weather Bureau flashed an alert of possible twisters in the Cull man area, wnicn iook tne worst of Monday's storms, and in Syla- cauga and Tuscaloosa areas. Tornado damage was estimated Jake Seeks Citizenship LOS ANGELES (UPI) - U.S. citizenship was sought today for John (Jake the Barber) Factor by the same government agency that only last December recommended his deportation. Factor, 70, Chicago gangland kidnaping figure -of 1933 turned investor and philanthropist, could be granted immediate citizenship if a petition filed Monday in U.S. District Court is approved. The petition, filed by an attor ney for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, comes be fore U.S. Judge Jesse W. Curtis next Monday. The same agency recommended Dec. 18 that Factor Le deported on the basis of his 1943 conviction in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on mul tiple counts of using the mails to defraud. Although Factor served six years in prison for the 194.3 mail fraud conviction, he was best known for his part in an alleged gangland kidnaping in Chicago in 1933. Factor maintained he was kidnaped by Roger Touhy, who was shot to death on a Chicago street 22 days after his release from prison in 1959. Touhy had served 26 years for his part in the kidnaping. Leaders Study Polaris Plans LONDON (UPIi-President Ken nedy's special envoy Livingston T. Merchant conferred with British leaders for two hours today to try to nan. Anglo-American nil ferences on a proposed multi lateral Pr.laris nuclear force for the Western Alliance. Merchant, assisted by U. S, North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion Ambassador Thomas K. Fin letter, met with Foreign Secretary Lord Home and Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath at the Foreign Of fice this morning. In the absence of the ailing De fense Minister Peter Thorneycroft high of I icials of his ministry par ticipated in the talks. TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1963 at more than $4 minion in Ala bama alone. At least 24 commu nities were hit by the tornado bar rage and more than 130 homes and buildings were destroyed or hcavuy damaged. The same storm system which TORNADO SHAKES SOUTH This large cotton mill at Berlin, Ala., was demolished by a tornado one of many that grew out of a squall center in the mid-South Mon day. At least two fatalities were reported in Alabama and one in Mississippi. School Board Eyes Shift Or Split shift or extended sched- ule . . . which is the lesser of two evils?.. - . , ' The members of the KU school board wrestled with this problem Monday night at their regular board meeting in the city admin istration building and decided it would take futher study and pos sibly a tour through the high school before making a final deci sion on the 1963-64 schedule at KU. It was agreed that action should be taken no later than March 25. so the school administration could work on the class schedule for the new school year. The board did not decide on a date for the necessary special session, but it will be announced later. The administration Monday night recommended to the board that a split shift be adopted. Teaching success was not as ef fective this year as in years past, Willard McKinny, KU principal, felt. Ray Hunsakcr, superintendent of schools, listed some of the problems that he felt a split shift would help alleviate. We musl give students a chance to attend a well organized and controlled high school," he said. The control is slipping and the truancy rate is going up. Fights in the vicinity of the school area are becoming more frequent because kids are just milling around the school with Clerk Strike Talks Stalled SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-Anoth cr "day of decision" has arrived in the long-threatened strike by the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks against Southern Pacific Railroad, according to Federal Mediator Frank O'Neill. There have been several such days since the mediator entered into the lengthy dispute over auto mation on Feb. 6, when the 11,000- member union was scheduled to walk out in seven Western states O'Neill brought the negotiations through one "day of decision after another and appeared to have Uie two sides within hours of an agreement Saturday, when a real snag developed. After a brief meeting Monday, the mediator appeared to have lost some of the confidence for a settlement he had shown during the past month. He said the ses sion raised some doubts as to whether "it is fruitful to go on any further in these talks." "If we can't clean up one or two problems, I think we're In for trouble," he said. "This is the date on which a decision is going to bt made." Telephone spawned the twisters poured down up to four inches of rain. The downpours, coupled with a fast thaw of Southern snows, uncorked flood waters in the southern high lands. Rivers on the rampage included Extended Schedule At nothing to do. With two distinct shifts the kids will cither be in class or they'll have no reason to be at the school, u js le nojse anc nnnera! con fusion that's concerning the ad ministration most, however. "You just can't have 700 stu dents milling around the school without having noise in tlio halls and outside the building," McKin ny said. "It's been our experience this year that this general noise has interfered with classroom activi ty. The kids just can't concen trate and the teachers arc on edge and can't do their best," he said. 'We are aware of the problems split shift introduces, but we feel the new problems would be less serious than the ones we are now facing," Hunsakcr said. The shifts would run about like this: freshmen and juniors would ultend from 7 a.m. to 12 noon, and sophomores and seniors from 12:30 p.m. to 5:30. There would Land Fraud Bills Studied By House SALEM (UPD - The problem of fraudulent and misleading ad vertising for subdivisions and land schemes in Oregon occupied the House Planning and Development Committee for more than two hours Monday. Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton and Heal Estate Commissioner Robert J. Jensen both supported bills they had drafted to halt op erations of what Jensen termed "marginal and unscrupulous sub- dividers." The proposed laws would outlaw misleading statements, and re quire bonds by devclocrs to as sure that promised improvements would be made. Violation would he punishable by a $5,000 fine and a year in jail. The attorney general said he had been studying the problem for "more than one year." He said the main problem in volved with desert land promo tions in Central and Eastern Ore gon was that people were not fa miliar with the area. "People not familiar with the lack of water and the isolation arc about to be defrauded in large numbers, Thornton said. State Lacks Power "A review of existing law shows' there is nothing we can do to re strain these operations at the present lime." Ho said the advertisements were "very skillfully worded and the "greatest misrepresenta tion is failure to disclose all of Uie facts." Thornton termed the problem TU 4-8111 No. 70S6 the Cumberland and Kentucky in Kentucky, the Guyandotte and Tug in West Virginia, tlie Sequat chie in Tennessee and Toms Creek in Virginia. The flood pictures by states: Kentucky: Lt. Gov. Wilson W. Merits Of Split have to be a cafeteria break dur ing each shift. ' "The new schedule- might iourt bolh our music and athletic pro grams and all students would be denied a sixth subject unless we could work out some night cours es, HunsaKer sain. Most of the parents in the audi ence (about 20-25) Monday night objected to depriving hard work ing students of the opportunity of taking six courses. Lorcn Miller, assistant KU prill cipal, said he thought most par ents would rather have their chil dren taking five classes and studying under conditions condu cive to learning than taking six courses under present conditions. 'The teaching situation is defin itely being affected by the noise and under a split shift a sixth course could be added at night," Miller said. McKinncy said at the March 6 teachers' meeting there was a pervasive feeling among the teach ers that there was a general fail- "one of the five major serious issues confronting the legislature this session." Rep. Berkeley Lent, D-Portland, opposed agency rule-making pow. crs called for in the proposed leg islation. "It's another case of the legisla ture abdicating its power to a tato agency," Lent said. Thornton replied, "Isn't that cut- ling off your nose to spite your face? Id rather have the section cut from the bill than lose the legislation." Many Are Questionable Jensen said many of the 60 sub divisions now being developed in Uie state were "questionable. He said the proposed laws were patterned after laws now in force in California, Hawaii and Arizona "Give us a strong law, or don't give us any law at all," Jensen pleaded. Hop. Bob Channel, R-Portland said he had reports that national crime syndicates were moving in to the field. Lake County District Attorney Chick Chaloupku said his county supported tlw proposed law. He said, "Thousands of lots have been sold in one tract, a city of 5,000 people is planned." Ijikr County Suffers Ike County Judge C. W. Ogle said his county hasn't yet re covered from a 1909 development, and urged adoption of tho laws. Bend Bulletin Publisher and Editor Robert Chandler said land scheme advertisers misrepresent ed "water, ground and climate.' Weather Klamath Fall. Tulelake and Lakeview clearing and cooler tonight, lows 22. Fair Wednesday, highs near 40. Decreasing winds. South; m Wyatt, acting governor of Ken tucky, asked President Kennedy to declare 20 Eastern Kentucky counties a major disaster area. Thousands of Kentuckians fled their homes in the face of flood waters which raced down moun tain valleys like rain water off a high-pitched roof. Waters were six to eight feet deep in both Hazard and Hnrlan. Harlan, deep in the Allegheny coal country, was isolated by a torrent which had already topped the level of a devastating J9 flood. Tennessee: Flood water coursed through the same area hit by Monday's tornadoes and a five foot mud and rock slide blocked Highway 68 between Sladisonville and Tellico Plains. Several homes were washed away on the Se quatchie near Jasper. West Virginia: The Guyandotte jumped 24 feet at Logan, W, Va., in 112 hours and topped a 1957 flood peak by five feet. Hundreds of persons fled, towns were iso lated, telephone exchanges were closed by high water, and schools in at least one county shut down. Virginia: Mass evacuation be gan in several counties and roads in six counties were out, along with power and telephone lines in many areas. Rescue squads in boats were called in to help re move scores of families near Big Stone Gap. KU ure in getting the job done this ' year. The teachers, he said, were willing to support the administra tion on tho proposed change to split shifts next year as the lesser of the two evils. In other business the board re viewed a letter from the Klamath County Taxpayers League criticiz ing the way commencement ex ercises are conducted at KU. There is loo much time spent on the presentation of scholar ships, the league feels, and since mast scholarships are based on need it is this special group that is singled out for honors, the let ter stated. "Commencement should be for all students not just for the special groups," Truman Johnson, league Commencement Committee chair man, said. McKinny said most scholarships are based on achievement not need. Need, he admitted, is usu ally one of the qualifications in scholarships, but it is never the most important consideration. C. O. Borsting, board member, moved that the administration draw up a plan for future com mencements to be presented to the board for approval. The motion was carried. Borsting said awards might be given at an awards assembly and that at commencement time the names of awards winners could be read. Honor Slated For Churchill WASHINGTON (UPI) - The House today was expected to over whelmingly approve a resolution offering Sir Winston Churchill hon orary citizenship in lite United States. The joint resolution, which the Senate also probably will approve this year, would direct the Presi dent to offer honorary citizenship to tho 88-year-old British states man. If enacted, it would be the first time Congress has ever bestowed honorary citizenship upon a for eigner. The House Judiciary Com mittee, which approved the bill last week, said the action was "to express the highest esteem and admiration of tho American people for a great statesman and leader of free peoples." Churchill, whose mother Jennie Jerome, was an American, once described himself as an "angle- American alliance. Hie former British prime minis ter has made no public comment on the resolution, but he was un derstood to havo informed Rep. Francis E. Walter, D-Pa., Its spon sui', that he would accept the honor.