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By FRANK JENKINS
From London this morning:
Queen Elizabeth II came home
from Australia yesterday after a
Commonwealth tour that raised
undercurrents of doubt about the
value of parading royalty in dis
tant domains.
Behind the loyal greetings
lurked a realization that the six
week royal tour of Fiji, New Zea
land and Australia had scarcely
proved the resounding success
that might have been anticipated.
Correspondents covering the tour
reported the welcome in parts
of Australia was less than 100
per cent enthusiastic.
The London Times, in an edi
torial this morning, suggested
that this kind of royal tour might
have outlived its day. '
Question:
If Queen Elizabeth's tour wasn't
the rousing success it should have
been in order to justify the rath
er large sum of money it cost
the taxpayers of a Britain that
isn't too (lush in these days, WHY
wasn't it?
A correspondent of the Man
chester Guardian, one of the
Greats of British newspaperdom,
offers this possible explanation:
"If the Queen were truly an ex
trovert, rollicking and glamor
ous, yet a slightly mysterious
woman who tried to live up to her
publicity buildup, perhaps this
visit would have been different.
"But she is not an extrovert,
Her own response to big cheering
crowds when they were near was
part of the reason for the dying
off of enthusiasm.
Hmmmmmmmmm.
. Maybe Britain's Elizabeth
should take some lessons from
our Jacqueline. .
From Toronto:
Canadian Prime Minister Dief
enbaker, in a political address
last ninht. warned his audience
that an OVERPOWERFUL press
(he doesn t think mucn 01 tne
press) could be dangerous.
He said:
"If we ever arrive at a point
w here two or three powertul news
naDtrs control the thinking of Ca
nadians, then the people's rights
will be at an end.
IT nut it this wav: ,
If Canadians ever reach the
point where two or three news
papers CAN control their think
ing, Canada will indeed be a gon
er. If people are to remain free,
they must be able to THINK FOR
THEMSELVES.
From Nice, on the French Rivi
era: King Saud of Saudi Arabia is
rcnnrtpH in he seriouslv ill. Re
liable sources report that there
is no immediate iear lor tne ti-ycar-old
monarch's life, but add
that his troubles are complicated
by a disinclination to follow doc
tors' advice.
There just MIGHT be another
reason.
After the crash of his plane the
other day the occupants had pre
viously left it, you will remem
berl the Nice dispatches report
ed:
"The 30 wives and concubines
of King Saud, armed with 30
checkbooks, headed for the swank
shops of this Riviera resort city
to replace some of the clothes
lost in the crash of the Saud's
private plane."
His troubles ARE INDEED
complicated.
' Fish, Game
Meet Called
An important meeting of the
Oregon Fish and Game Council
has been called for the Willard
Hotel Sunday at 1 p.m. by state
president C. E. "Red" Milhorn
Milhorn said that at least eight
counties would be represented at
the meeting which is expected to
discuss a broad range of topics
on the deer situation.
New legislation to be submitted
to the legislature, study of a more
effective program on validating
the deer kill and a discussion on
the public use of public lands
are some of the topics on the
agenda.
The group, Milhorn said, will
also have to vote on accepting or
rejecting participation in a "show.
mc" trip scheduled this week
end by the Oregon State Game
Commission.
Milhorn said he expected repre
sentatives from Lane. Douglas.
Josephine, Jackson. Klamath. Dcs
chutes, and possibly Lake and
Multnomah counties in Oregon.
- and Modoc County and Dunsmuir
in California to attend the lunch
con session.
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TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER An array of items such as shown, including a new hair
dryer, 12-gauge Savage automatic shotgun, small appliances, an oil painting by Dr.
Mark Kochevar, shown by Mrs. George Nicholson, and a white car coat modeled by
Mrs. J. Martin Adams, will be on the auction block April 3 for a sale sponsored by
the Klamath County Women's Medical Auxiliary. Time is 7:30 p.m. at the armory on
Shasta Way. Most items will be new, all will be in good condition and are being do
nated by city business firms, auxiliary members and their friends. Auction proceeds
will benefit the Intercommunity Hospital Fund. A baked sale and preview of sale items
will be held April 3 from I to 6 p.m.
Elective
Stalls Revision Committee
SALEM (L'PIi-The House and
Senate Committees on Constitu
tional Revision indicated today
they would eliminate a feature of
the proposed new constitution that
calls for the governor to be the
only elective state officer.
The committees discussed the
problem their toughest at a
meeting Thursday and promptly
deadlocked on how to approach it.
The deadlock raised some key
questions.
The Constitutional Revision
Commission, which wrote the doc
ument, said the governor should
be given power to run all the
state's administrative agencies
through direct lines of authority.
In turn, he would have clear cut
responsibility for what the agen
cies do.
The committees have decided
informally they could "never sell"
a new constitution with only one
elective officer. Several members
said they preferred the single of
ficer, but would vote for multiple
otficers to make the document
more palatable to the legislature
and the public.
Two Others Now
The present century-old constitu
tion also makes a secretary or
state and a treasurer elective. In
addition, Oregon now elects an
attorney general and a labor com
missioner, but these are provided
for in the laws, not the constitu
tion.
The legislative committees indi
cated they may provide for as
many as three elective officers,
although not necessarily the same
as the present ones.
One might be a secretary of
state, perhaps running in tandem
with the governor. One might be
the controller called for in the
commission's proposal to conduct
post-audits and act as a watchdog.
The committees reached their
impasse Thursday on whether to
consider the number of elective
officers first or the functions they
will perform.
The impasse is expected to be
lesolved, but it highlighted these
problems:
No Functions
If the committees decide on
more elective officers, they could
still leave one- or both of these
posts without any specific func
tions, leaving the governor as the
"responsible" officer in charge of
executive agencies.
Cardinal Notes
71st Birthday
VIENNA (CPU - Joszef Car
dinal Mindszenty, who has been
called a living symbol of Com
munism s anti-religious policies,
today quietly marked his 71st
birthday within the confines of the
United States legation in Buda
pest.
Reports reaching here from tha.
Hungarian capital indicated the
Roman Catholic cardinal would
spend the day much as any other
since he took asylum in the le
gation Nov. 4. 1936. to prevent ar
rest by Russian authorities who
had crushed the Hungarian revolt.
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Officer
Or, the committees could strip
away some of the governor s de
partments and assign their func
tions to the other officers, weak
ening the concept of a responsible
and accountable governor and an
efficient single executive branch.
In short, tlie committees arc
faced with a choice between set
ting up "figurehead" posts in or
der to keep the governor strong
and accountable, or dividing up
BillieSol
Found Guilty
EL PASO, Tex. 'UPIi Reports
circulated today t h a t a federal
grand jury will look for evidence
of perjury in a trial that resulted
in conviction of Billie Sol Estes
on five counts of mail fraud and
conspiracy.
A U.S. District Court jury of 10
men and two women, with a Ne
gro foreman, found Estes guilty of
four counts of mail fraud and one
count of conspiracy Thursday after
49 hours and 44 minutes of de
liberation.
The jury acquitted him of eight
counts of mail fraud and one of
interstate transportation of a frau
dulcnt document. U.S. Dist. Judge
R. E. Thomason dismissed two
other counts of mail fraud before
the jury started deliberation.
Estes, 38, a bankrupt farm fi
nancier who had high connections
in Washington, could get a maxi
mum of 25 years in the peniten
tiary when Thomason sentences
him in about two weeks.
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EARNED RECOGNITION Otis Metzgsr, chairman of th Sick and Visiting Com.
mittee of Klamath Falls Lodge, No. 1247 BPOE, was named Elk of tha Year for 1 962
1963. Me was presented with an angraved plaque Thursday night by Exalted Ruler
Mika Holland. Among the many acts of kindness, Metzger has served willingly on
any committee, assisted with Christmas baskets, has made more than 200 hospital
and home calls to tick members or their families, has visited 30 persons other than
Elks during his rounds, has found wheelchairs, crutches and other equipment for the
ill and has attended nearly every regular lodge session to report for his committee.
Problem
the executive in order to give ad
ditional elective officers genuine
lunctions.
A controller could be an excep
tion, since his watchdog duties
would be separate from the ad
ministration of state government.
The committees voted for a pol
icy of government reorganization,
grouping more than 100 present
state agencies, commissions and
boards into a maximum of 20 de
partments with heads appointed.
by the executive (or executives I
and confirmed by the Senate.
Since the intent of reorganiza
tion, however, was to strengthen
the governor's hand, the decision
is meaningless until the commit
Ices decide what to do about ad
ditional elective officers.
Death Driver
Gets Jail Term
LAKEV1EW Robert Lee
O'Connor, 26, was sentenced to
one year in the Lake County Jail
and fined $300 Friday morning in
the court of Circuit Judge Charles
r oster.
O'Connor was driver of a pick
up from which Mrs. Theresa Arz-
ner, 64, fell to her death on
March 6.
He had first been charged with
first degree murder. This charge
was later dropped to second de
gree, and following receipt of
findings by the Oregon State
Crime Laboratory, the murder
charge was dropped and he was
charged with failure to stop at
the scene of an accident in
which a person was killed.
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON.
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Boards Drop Okay
Of Gerrymander
School Proposal
The bottom dropped out of the
proposed gerrymander plan
Thursday night w hen the members
of the Joint School Boards As
sociation voted unanimously to re
consider their Feb. 23 action to
adopt the gerrymander plan as
a solution to county-wide school
problems.
The action came after a mo
tion was introduced by Rollin A.
Cantrall. Elementary District 1
board chairman, to reconsider the
Feb. 28 vote.
Cantrall said the city school
boards were interested in sitting
down with the county board and
looking into the reorganization
plan for a single district county
wide. The county board has indicated
several times in the past that they
are against the county-wide reor
ganization and felt it w as a waste
of time even to discuss the plan
Paul Fairclo, county board
member and association vice
chairman, said that if the city
Boston Fire
Claims Four
BOSTON I UPIl Boston's worst
hotel fire since 1013 flashed
through three upper floors of the
Sherry Biltmorc before dawn to
day, spreading death and injury
among some 150 guests.
Four persons were killed and
24 injured in the blaze which
whipped along carpeted corridors
the fifth, sixth and seventh
floors of the eight-story hotel.
One of the dead was identified
only as Selma Hyman, who was
in room 621. The other two men
and a woman, were not immedi
ately identified.
Some guests, trapped in their
smoke-filled rooms, were rescued
spectacularly over aerial ladders
r irei ighters shouted "stay
there!", "stay there!" as panicky
guests seemed ready to jump.
Irom windows.
Among those who fled to safety
was the entire 25-member cast
of the Broadway road show "The
Sound of Music which is play
ing here. One woman guest fled
with her parakeet, and another
escaped clutching her income tax
returns.
It was the fourth time the road
company had been involved in
lires in recent months. The last
previous time was in Baltimore,
Md., two weeks ago. The others
were in Columbus, Ohio, and
Minneapolis, Minn.
FRIDAY. MARCH 29, 1963
boards weren't interested in the
previously proposed gerrymander
plan that the group would profit
by going back and re-evaluating
tlie gerrymander plan proposed
by Buz Wagner, Klamath Falls
Citizens Committee member.
Wagner's plan would encom
pass a smaller area, drawing the
cast west boundary back to Wi
ard Street.
Fairclo moved that the associa
tion study the less encompassing
gerrymander plan. The motion
was voted on and defeated six to
three, the city board members
voting against and the county
for.
Neither gerrymander plan
would solve the long range prob
lems and both divide the people
and probably would cause dissen
lion," Charles S. Houston, KU
board member said.
Margaret Sheridan, another KU
board member, said she was
against any gerrymander plan be
cause she is against dividing the
suburbs.
In discussing the gerrymander
plan formerly proposed, some of
the city board members said they
thought it conceivable that some
citizens would vote for the gerry
mander plan, but the county boun
dary board wouldn't dissolve the
KU boundary.
Mrs. Sheridan said she felt sure
the people in the areas being
changed would vote against the
plan.
"Other plans we've discussed
would come closer to equalizing
the tax load," John Voth, associ
ation chairman said.
Before the session ended tlie
group agreed to meet April 17. to
discuss the county's objections to
the county-wide district and to
hear the reasons the city boards
are in favor of the plan.
Ways, Means
Votes Slash
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SALEM (UPI) - The full Ways
and Means Committee voted over
whelmingly today to slash the 20-
man state civil defense agency to
a three-man staff attached to the
governor's office.
It represents a cut of more than
$30,000 from tlie governor's budg
et request.
Hep. George Flitcraft voted
with the majority in favor of
slashing tlie civil defense funds.
Only committee member to vote
against the slash was Sen. Walter
Loth, H Salem. Another commit
tee member, Rep. John Mosscr,
R-Portland, is ill and was absent.
The budget approved by Ways
and Means calls for a general
fund appropriation of 30,034, and
$2,940 of federal funds known to
be available.
The revised budget also would
limit further federal aid to $47,-
0!4, which would mean if the fed
eral government fully matched
Oregon's general fund appropria
tion, the civil defense agency
could receive a total of $100,064.
Gov. Mark Hatfield had re
quested $-120,000 $195,000 from
the general fund and $215,000 in
federal moneys to finance a 20-
man staff.
The Ways and Means Commit
tee also voted to submit a com
panion bill which would make the
state lire marshal, directors of
the Department of Finance and
Administration, Board of Health,
Highway Department, State Po
lite and military departments,
members of Die civil defense ad
visory committee. Two lay mem
bers would be appointed by the
governor.
I he advisory committee Is now
made up ol five lay members
named by the governor.
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YOUTH MEDAL There will be 22 youths of the Klam
ath Basin awarded a medal like this at tha annual Ki
wanis Club sponsored Youth Award banquet to ba held
Wednesday, April 3, at the Winema. A boy and a girl
from each of the I I high schools of the area will be hon
ored for their activities.
Kiwanians
Awards Dinner April 3
The Kiwanis Club Youthl
Awards Banquet, to be held Wed-
nesday, April '3, at tile1 Winema1
will honor 22 boys and girls from
Basin area high schools
Those selected to receive the
special Youth Award medals in
clude: Diane Melsness and Mi
chael Quadros, Bly; Joan Fern
land, Lynda Holbrook and
hind and Wayne Lnlioda, Bonan
za; Lynda Holbrook and
John Parsons, Butte Valley; Di
ane Haas and Joe Kirk, Chilo
quin; Jane Anding and David
Sporrcr, Gilchrist; Gena Spiel-
man and Charlie Thompson, Hen
ley; Phyllis Bauer and Jim Sib-
bct, KUHS: Lois Owens and Rob
ert Holt, Malin; Colleen Crockett
and Lynn Pope, Merrill; Janice
Miller and Richard Stcinbock, Sa
cred Heart Academy, and Sharon
Massey and Jerry Potter, Tule-
lakc.
Taking part in the affair will be
the Klamath Falls and Linkvillc
Kiwanis clubs, the KUHS Key
Club and the OTI Circle K Club.
The latter three clubs were char
tered by the Klamath Falls club
t a record-breaking Triple Char
ter Night in I960. The local club
went on to win the International
Gold Award, the highest award
in Kiwanis International, for that
year's activities.
Visitors are also expected from
other Kiwanis clubs in this area
including Redmond, Tulclake,
Medford and Alturas. Lt. Gov
Youth Killed
In Accident
ALTURAS An automobile acci
dent involving two Modoc Union
High School students Wednesday
night resulted in the death of one
boy and serious injury to his com
panion.
Donald Yarbrough, 17, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Mitch Yarbrough,
Alturas. died Thursday evening
from internal injuries. Tlie own
er and driver of the automobile
Royal Graham Rcid, has been
unconscious in the Modoc Medical
Center since the accident. Rcid.
also 17, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Doug Reid of Alturas.
The incident occurred at 9:40,
p.m. Wednesday as Rcid was tra
veling westbound on Highway 290,
one mile west of Alturas, at an
excessive rale of sliced, accord
ing to the California Highway Pa
trol report.
He had passed another west
bound vehicle and his car swerved
when he pulled it back into tho
right-hand land, going olf the
roadway and striking a culvert
Tlie CUP said both occupants
were ejected from the car which
flipped end over end and landed
on tP of Reid.
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Slate Youth
Merle Foland, Medford, will be
on hand to prosent 40 year Ki-
;wnms Lcuion of Honor- pins and
plaques to Dr. Lloyd Gass, John
Houston, James Kerns, Frank
Jenkins, and Dr. George A. Mas
sey: a 35-ycar award to Henry
Perkins and 25-year presentations
to K A. Moore and Lawrence
Slater.
Warren Lcistikow will be in
stalled as president of the Key
Club and Jim Erickson as presi
dent of the Circle K. President of
the Klamath Falls club, Dick
Hicks, will handle the installa
tions. He will present Past Lt.
Gov. Joe Hicks with a plaque de
noting his life membership in the
Kiwanis Foundation of Klamath
Falls.
This is the fourth annual Youth
Awards Banquet. Speakers at tlie
three previous banquets wore
Stury Gange and Elliott Taylor,
both past governors of the Cali-
fornia-Ncvada-Hawaii District of
Kiwanis International, and U.S.
Senator Maurine Neubergcr.
This year's guest speaker will
be II. Park Arnold, Glendalc,
Calif., 1957-58 president of Ki
wanis International.
Borsting School Board
Posf Vacated By Move
The Herald and News learned
Thursday night there will be one
more owning on the KU board of
directors than was previously an
nounced. The election will be
held May 6.
It was learned this week that
C. O. Borsting, 1020 Pacific Ter
race, who moved from the district
he is representing (Plevna or
Weycrhacuscr-Lenox) will not be
allowed to complete his unexpired
term.
There will therefore be a va
cancy in that district to fill Bor
sting s unexpired term ot one
year and an person residing in
tlie district who is a registered
voter may run in the school board
election once a nomination peti
tion with the signatures of 76 reg
istered voters in the district has
been filed at the school clerk's
office in the Administration Build
ing. There is still time to run for
this board vacancy, but action
will have to be taken quickly
since April 5 is the dead
line for filing of petitions and reg
istering.
Nomination petitions may be ob
tained at tlie school clerk's of
fice. Voters must register, how
ever, in tlie county clerk i office
at tlie courthouse.
Nomination petitions are being
circulated for Borsting to fill
the vacancy left by John D. Voth,
KU board chairman. Volh's term
Wealher
Klamath Falls, Tulflake and
Lakeview Variable cloudiness,
windy and continued cool with
showers of snow or rain through
Saturday. Lows tonight 30-33. High
on Saturday 48. Southwest winds
10-25 m.p.h. with occasional gusts
to 40. The weekend will be mostly
cloudy and cool with showers and
gusty winds.
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As Bullets
Cross Bow
MIAMI, Fla. (UPI (-Two Soviet
built jet fighters swooped down
on an American motor vessel in
international waters off Cuba
Thursday night, firing at least 30
machine cannon bursts across its
bow, the ship captain said today.
The incident was the second in
six weeks in which American ves
sels reported Soviet-built MIGs de
scended on them with guns blaz
ing in tho water between Florida
and Cuba.
Capt. Curtis Olsen, Minneapolis,
skipper of the 4,680-ton Floridian
which plys between Miami and
Puerto Rico on weekly trips, told
reporters after docking in Miami
this morning that the two jets cir
cled his ship for 20 minutes, al
ternately buzzing and firing ma
chine cannon bursts,
"They were MIGs; no doubt
about it," Olsen said.
The Cuhan-based MIGs fired
rockets in tlie vicinity of the
American shrimp boat Ala last
Feb. 20 while two crewmen fran
tically waved a distress flag.
President Orders Action
After the Feb. 20 incident, Pres
ident Kennedy told a news con
ference he had ordered the De
fense Department "to make sure
that action will be taken" if any
new attacks occurred.
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was about 30 miles off the north
coast of Cuba and 19 miles north
of Cayman Grande Island when
tha jets appeared.
The shrimp boat was about 60
nautical miles north of Cuba and
150 to 170 miles west-northwest of
Olsen's position when the rockets
were fired in its vicinity.
As Olsen told of the incident
there were these developments:
Kennedy had a meeting with
the Executive Committee of the
National Security Council. It was
certain tlie attack on the Flori
dian and raids by Cuban refugees
would be discussed. The White
House said the meeting was not
arranged as a result of any re
cent incident.
Soviet Makes Charges
-r-The Soviet Union threatened
lo take "appropriate measures"
to protect its ships making trips
to Cuba. The Soviets charged the
United States encouraged attacks
on Soviet vessels and that Cuban
exiles who attacked the Soviet
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C. O. BORSTING
expires June 30 and he indicated
he will not run for re-election.
Borsting's petition is the only one
out for this vacancy.
Rollin A. Cantrall, chairman
of Elementary District 1 school
board, will be running for re-election.
Nomination petitions for Can
trall have already been filed
with the school clerk.
Cantrall at the present time is
unchallenged in his bid for re
election. Only 37 signatures are
needed on a petition for nomina
tion of an elementary board mem
ber. i