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Newspaper Page Textla Tk Day's flews By FRANK JENKINS From Salem: When the Oregon legislature ad journed Friday, the Ways and Means committee had passed out 53 ot the 105 budget bills making up Governor Hatfield's $405.2 mil lion budget. It has been able to reduce ex penditures only 18 of these bills, and the total reduction was only $702,146. Conclusion: It doesn't look like there's much chance of cutting material ly the $405 million budget request ed by Oregon's governor. Question: Is Governor extravagant? Hatfield's budget Weal her klemelh Pelll. Tuleleke enel Lefceview rtly cleudy through Tuesder with ccasMAAl tnew ehowers tonight, decret inp, TiMwJay. Gusty westerly winds S-IS m.p.h. Coel eaeih tehie.nl, lows neer 24. Hi9h Tvttdey a bowl 41. Mieh veilenjey 47 Low rim mornini IS H19A yeer 99 57 Lew yeer 490 3) Precip. P4SI 24 hours .34 Since Jsn. 1 4.14 S4me periea lest yeer 4.31 U.CF 0RE.UB3ART , n . o p o ep.crioN Bnarnrw.. ----- . J.REF.Al VUV.u.s.4. 17... noon. "rl COUP. 2. A. ZsO Weather AORICULTURAL FORECAST '.- '." Pertly cloudy tonight. 71 per cent sun Wine Taesaey. Lows tonight 23-Z7 wllk (reel. HUM Tuesday 41-44. Winds north, westerly VII m p h. Outlook WodMsdey mostly felr and a little W4rmer. Sell temperature 49 degrees. Price Ten Cents 14 Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1963 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7116 Before attempting an answer either wav ves or no let's take a look at some more figures. Oregon's budget for the next BIEN'N'IUM (a biennium is two years, as proposed by Gover nor Hatfield, is $450,000,000 or $202,500,000 per year. That comes to a per capita (per person) cost of $112. President Kennedy's federal budget for the fiscal vcar of 1964 is a record $93.8 BILLION or a per capila cost of $532 for the average American. Now for the shocker: Oregon's share of the Presi dent's proposed 1964 fiscal year federal budget, as estimated by Tax Foundation, Inc.. is $899 mil lion or FOUR TIMES as much as the proposed budget for the State of Oregon. Which is to say: In 1964. the FEDERAL taxes paid by the people of Oregon will come to FOUR AND A HALF TIMES AS MUCH as their Ore gon state taxes will come to. The State of Oregon budget! for 1964 figures out at $112 per person. Oregon's share of the federal budget for 1964 figures out at $482 per capita. But You will say A little better than half of the federal budget (roughly about 55 per cent) goes, for NATIONAL; DEFENSE. That, of course, is a legitimate tax on Oregon people. We need and want adequate de fense as much as anybody else in the U.S.A. Still Leaving out defense, the per capita cost of FEDERAL govern ment is about TWILh the per capita cost of Oregon govern mcnt. That's where the shoe pinches. Let's put it this way: If our old Uncle back in Wash ington weren't so fantastically ex travagant, we could afford a lot more of the' things we want here in Oregon. " id,-- h Ld' "r -' l-L. l-yf i i dock landin 5 Nations Press Laos Truce Plan BATHYSCAPH LOADED Two children on the a floating crane loads the bathyscaph Ineste aboard at San Diego. I he undersea vehicle will be used in the search for the nuclear submarine Thresher which was lost UPI Telephoto g ship Defiance watch as off the East Coast. Steel L eaders Study Hike PITTSBURGH lUPl'-The giant U.S. Steel Corp. today may dis close its position on the sensitive! question of price increases in the industry. Two smaller firms al ready have announced price hikes Lukens Steel Co., of Coatesville. Pa., stirred the watchfulness ofl President Kennedy and the rest of the industry Sunday when it announced increases ranging from $5 to $7 a ton. Wheeling Steel Corp. had announced hikes last Tuesday. U.S. Steel, the nation's number one producer and the bellwether of the industry, will influence the lest of the steel firms whichever way it moves. If it raises prices, the rest of the industry may follow suit. This probably would precipitate new wage demands from the Steel workers Union, which is free to reopen talks for pay and lringe benefit increases oni.Mav 1. If. U.S. Steel standi pal. Lukens; and Wheeling may nave to back down on their incriases. under threat of losing business from cus tomers who would turn lo cheaper sources of supply. U.S. Steel refrained from com ment on the Wheeling and Lukens price increases. It was U.S. Steel that aroused the administration when it announced a price hike of $6 a ton. An angrv President Kennedy forced the big firm to icscind the increase. What U.S. Steel-and the rest ol the industry was studying was the presidential reaction to the Lukens and Wheeling hikes. The White House commentary was cautious following the Lukens1 announcement Sunday. A presi dential spokesman reiterated a statement made by President Ken- Sub Escort Saw Mystery hied Skylark Challenge Ignored PORTSMOUTH, N.H. iUPH i Jiecker testified that because of A naval officer testified todav the deep depths in which the Thresher apparently plunged, his nedy last week when Wheeling raised its nriecs an average of $ii per ion. Recognizing the needs of the in dustry, the President endorsed "selective" increases, but said was important "for the industry and the country that overall price stability should be maintained." Kennedy made it clear that he again would oppose an across-the- board increase, such as U.S. Steel precipitated last year. Estes Gets 15 Years EI- PASO. Tex. (UPD U.S. District Juge R. E. Thomason, 83, sentenced bankrupt fertilizer king Billie Sol Estes to 15 years in prison today for committing mail fraud and conspiracy one of the most gigantic swindles in the history of our country. Estes, 38, took it calmly. "I have not entered in con spiracy and have not intended to defraud anyone, .stes saia. Estes remains free on $100,0001 bond. Juge Thomason rejected de fense motions for a new trial and a delay in passing sentence. A jury of 10 men and two worn en convicted him of four counts of mail fraud and one of con spiracy March 28 in a trial that lasted almost three weeks. He was acauitted on nine other1 counts of fraud. A state court at Tyler Tex previously sentenced Estes to eight years for swindling a farm er. Today s sentence means mat he now faces a total ot 23 years in penitentiaries and 32 state and federal counts against him re mained to be tried. "You perpetrated one of the most gigantic swindles in the his tory of the country," Judge Thorn ason told Estes, in summarizing the case. He told Estes that his swindle involving mortgaces worth $24 million in nonexistent anhydrous ammonia tanks, could not have been perpetrated without the help of Superior tank Manufacturing Co. of Amanita, lex. Three officials of Superior. Cole man D. McSpaddcn, Rucl Alexan der and Harold Orr. were indicted with Ecste. They pleaded ftuilty to five counts of what was at fir.t ?-eount indictment and have been sentenced to 5-10 year termi in the penitentiary. Blood Drive Needs Help Mrs. Virginia Dixon, executive director of the Klamath Basin Chapter Red Cross, reported Monday morning that 150 pledge cards had been received on t h e employment recruitment group plan. Twice the number are need ed to meet the quota of 250 pints lor the lirst day s operation, Tues day, April 16, at the Elks Tem ple. Hours are 2:30 to 7:30 p.m. Firms reporting include: Klam ath County Road Department, Pacific Northwest Bell, Pacific Power and Light, Herald and News, Klamath Union High School, Weyerhaeuser Company, Fairview PTA and Fremont PTA. The second day, Wednesday, April 17, the operation will be moved to the OTI campus, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. an-The-Bomb Forces Stage London Invasion LONDON (UPI) - An estimated 35.000 youpg ban-the-bomb march ers, many chanting the location of a secret government hideaway, battled police today in a noisy invasion of London. The marchers stormed to the walls of Bucking ham Palace and surged past Par liament. Fists flew and police helmets toppled to the streets in dozens ot skirmishes as the marchers broke through police cordons out side Buckingham Palace and along Regent St., one of London's smartest shopping districts. The demonstrators pushed on. breaking through cordon after cor don of reinforced police, to reach the area of Parliament and the Whitehall government buildings. Top Secrets Revealed The jeering, nose-thumbing dem onstrators taunted police by cry ing: "Get your official secrets here!" This referred to distribu tion over the weekend of thou sands of pamphlets that to the shock of government gave lo cations of top secret hideaways from which Britain would be run in event of nuclear attack. At least two persons were re ported injured. One girl suffered facial bruises when a policeman threw her to the ground. A man was kicked by a police horse and was taken to a hospital. By late afternoon police said they had made 73 arrests and ex pected the total number taken in to custody to approach 100. Two youths were swept away by policemen when they unfurled PLAIN OF JAUS, Laos (UPH- Diplomats from five nations, cap italizing on a temporary cease fire, pressed mediation efforts among rival Laotian factions to day in an effort to head off new fighting in this troubled little kingdom. The cease-fire arranged by neu tralist Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma Saturday was precari ous. None ot the antagonists seemed ready for permanent re conciliation. Diplomats who flew to the Plain of Jars from Vientiane with Sou vanna planned another round of consultations with rival neutralist and pro-Communist leaders in hopes of finding a formula for a settlement of the disputes. The diplomats involved in the talks were Ambassadors Donald Hobson of Britain and Serve Afanassiev of Russia, and the In dian. Polish and Canadian repre sentatives on the three-nation In ternational Control Commission i ICO. Britain and Russia are co hairmen of the 12 Geneva con- lerence which ended Laos two- year civil w ar and guaranteed the country's independence and neu trality. The ICC was charged by the conference to oversee the truce. Souvanna announced the tempo rary cease-fire Sunday night alter conferring with neutralist army commander Gen. Kong Le and Gen. singkapo Chounlamani. lend a small banner giving the location cr of the pro-Communist Pathct of an underground "regional seat Lao forces. He Jjjen returned lo oi government. ... ,. ... ... I Vientiane. Confers With Cabinet Police tried to halt distribution by marchers of some 20,000 pamphlets revealing delails-of the nation's preparations for war. Prime Minister Harold Macmil- lan broke off his Easter weekend in the country to confer with key cabinet ministers on the security leak. that an object at first believed to be a submarine was seen a few hours alter the Thresher sank. He said the object disap peared and it may have been a fishing boat. LI. Cmdr. Stanley Hccker, 36, skipper of the escort vessel Sky lark which was nearby when the Thresher sank Wednesday in the Atlantic with 129 men aboard, tes tified at a naval court of inquiry. He said that during the scarAi for the Trcsher Wednesday after noon the Skylark spotted an ob ject which was believed to a sub marine "sail" or fin. "We were anxious and possibly hoping it w a s the Thresher," Hccker said. Hecker-aid the Skylark moved in closer and challenged the ob ject. It refused to answer the challenge, he said. At one point. the Skylark was within 6.000 yards of the object when it disappeared he said. "It was lying to." lie said "Maybe it was a fisherman." He said the Skylark did not pursue the object. Asked if the ship or object car ried any identilying numbers, Hccker said, "No, it might have been grey at one time. It was a dirty color, l don t know what happened lo it." vessel, the Skylark, was in no position to otter any assistance. Hecker read off to the inquiry board the Skylark's log of the Thresher's last minutes in water one and one-half mile deep 220 miles east of Cape Cod His testimony was about the same as that of Skylark oflicers who testified Saturday The Navy completed plans for memorial services today for the Thresher's crow- Meanwhile, oceanograplicrs con tinued to bounce sound waves off the Hour of the Atlantic where the Thresher went down in an effort to pinpoint her final resting place The deep-diving bathyscaph Tri este, which descended more than 35,000 feet in the Pacific three years ago, was due to leave San Diego. Calif., today aboard the dock landing ship Point Defiance If and when the Thresher's crushed hull is located, the Navy hopes to lower the Trieste to the ocean lloor nearby to permit vis ual observation and photographing of the submarine Also expected to testify today was Lt. Cmdr. Stanley Hccker, skipper of the submarine rescue ship Skylark that accompanied the Threther on her final voyage The Skylark's navigator, Lt Taxpayers At Deadline As Revolt Gains Speed (jg) James D. Watson of Aurora, 111., told the court Saturday he and Hecker listened over an un derwater telephone as the Thresh er dove to her watery grave. Repairs and modifications to the sleek, $45 million submarine dur ing her recent seven-month over haul in drydock here assumed added significance Sunday when the shipyard's commander. Rear Adm. Charles J. Palmer, said an other officer had told him the atomic submarine Nautilus had been "deliberately damaged" here in 1959. Palmer said Capt. Landa Zech, then skipper of the Nautilus, told him cables in the sub s electronic control system were cut while the vessel was in drydock at the nav al shipyard. The New Hampshire Sunday News quoted Palmer as saying Zech told him the episode was definitely a case of deliberate sabotage. Palmer said later he had no personal knowledge of the incident because he took over as shipyard commander several months later, He cautioned that there was no definite link between the reported sabotage and the Thresher disas ter. lt was disclosed in an inquiry following the Nautilus episode that! a disgruntled workman had dam aged the sub's wiring. Palmerl said responsibility (or the damage had never been fixed. Governor t Rips Boards On Attitude Mark Okays Board Stand i -, 8tt - .' r v X - J A x urzz v 1 Y j SALEM (UPI i - The Board of Higher Education gave a "careful icalistic, forthright and honest" icply lo the legislature on pro posals to cut $5 million from its budget, Gov. Mark Hatfield said oday. The governor told a news con ference that higher education translated money into pro grams and termed the action a service to the public in helping t ndcrstand what cutbacks mean "When they translated a nossi i)'e $5 million cut to what it would c,o to programs, it didn't sound so good," he said. Hatfield said he did not think the statistics involved in teacher student ratios were important. He said the important thing was that (here be enough moncv for facul ty salaries. Earlier today, legislative lead ers criticized higher educate n s threats lo cut back on service case of a budget cut. RE-ENACTS CRIME Confessed slayer Thomas Bean, 18, re-enacts the murder end mutilation of 24-year-old Olympic skier Sonja McCailcie at the victim's home in Reno. Bean is telling police how he took hit victim's sports car for e joy-ride after he strangled and dismembered (he attractive blonde divorcee. UPI Telephoto 1,000 Attend Egg Search About 1.000 undaunlcd young sters made the Linkville Kiwanis Easter Egg Hunt a big success al Moore Park Sunday despite the inclement weather. The event started at 1p m. as cheduled and 7.000 colored eggs were gathered up within the lirst half hour. There were 100 siwcial prizes lor the numoercn eggs ranging from toy rabbits to bags of candv. Although the sun broke through shortly before the starting gun most kids, and parents, came decked out in rain gear. The event was handled in order- ly fashion with park employes and city police handling the hordes of cars jamming More Park's narrow roads. Rockefeller Praises Barry WASHINGTON (UPI)-Gov. Nel son A. Rockefeller Friday praised Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., his potential rival for the 1964 Re publican presidential nomination, lor service to the GOP. The New York governor's trib ute was contained In a letter to Sen. Thurston B. Morton of Ken tucky accepting an invitation to a May 9 fund-raising dinner. By I.YI.E C. WILSON United Press International In the lirst volume of his1 "History of the English Speaking People," Sir Winslun Churchill wrote of a period when high taxes and other impositions were becom ing too heavy for the people to bear. "They were bciqg taxed," Sir Winston wrote, "lo the limit of heir credulity." That is a rich phrase full of meaning. Somehow, it seems lo bear on a current matter of simi lar import to the U.S. common man. Now. 700 years alter the time of which Sir Winston wrote n such striking language, there is raised in the United States the queslion: Is the credulity of tax payers approaching a limit in ac-, cepling explanations of why taxes must be so high? Will the lax- payers continue to believe the pol iticians who insist the spending must go up, up. up? And, believ ing, will the taxpayers continue lo vole like sheep for those pol iticians? The questions are especially current now because today is the deadline for filing individual in come tax returns. And 1953 is the 30lh anniversary of the U.S. grad ualed income tax. President Wood row Wilson, a Democrat, first collected it in 1913. The basic tax rate in 1913 was one per cent. There was a one per cent surtax on net income over $20,000 rising lo six per cent on the net over $500,000. Present rates begin at 20 per cent and go lo 91 per cent, a confiscatory schedule in the upper brackets. U.S. taxpayers have accepted such rates for years, protesting s o m e t i m e s but accomplishing nothing. The politicians, mean time, discovered in the graduated income lax an artesian flow ol Kinds. It was there to tap and I they tapped the citizens' bankrolls as though they were conquering princes levying on a captive people. The lale Harry L. (llopkins, a welfare worker who became notable New Dealer, summed up in a few stark words the process by which the politicians accommo date the graduated income tax to their own ambition lo remain m ollice and on the public payroll. Spend and spend," said Hop kins, "tax and tax and elect and elect!" As simple as that. Persuade the heavily-taxed citizens that some one else is paying the government bills. Then, come election day, claim the citizens' voles because government has spent money in their towns or counties or states. Simple, and it worked! But to make it work, the pol iticians must convince the citizens that government costs cannot be reduced but always must go up. Thus, government cost $(i(i billion in 1956, $76 billion in l!H.o, $81 billion in 1961, $119 billion in 1962. President Kennedy expects to spend in the current fiscal year. I9li3, $94 billion and $99 billion in fiscal 1964. A great many billions are spread around the country in public works, in subsidies, and in vari- Sgt. York Hospitalized ous services lor the taxpayer voters. These categories of ex penditures go up even faster than does national defense. It is a sys tem whereunder the politicians legally buy the taxpayers' votes with the taxpayers' own money The voter who falls for that kind of a slid) game should he cheered on with Texas Guinan's famous Prohibition Era salute: Hello, suckers!" Pawned Camera Provides Clue To Murder Of Former Ski Star RENO L'PI Thomas Lcr Bean. IS, a stringy, touslehaiicd youth who has confessed to the strangulation slaying of British ski star Sonja McCaskic, 24. was to be arraigned on a murder charge today. He was arrested Saturday after a camera missing from the apart ment of the victim v. as found in a pawn shop, and the pawn ticket was traced to Bean. Alter police questioning, he ad mitted strangling the blonde di vorcee with a piece of twine and methodically dismembering her body. It was the sight of women's un derwear hanging on a clothesline. Bean told police, that determined his victim. He said he was prowl- ing Miss McCaskic s neighborhood when he saw the underthings. He entered through an unlocked rear door and strangled the attractive skier when she awoke. lluestioncd by Psychiatrist Dr. Rudolph B. Toller, a psy chiatrist, questioned the youth for three hours Sunday at city jail. Dist. Ally. William Raggio said he would seek a murder indict ment from the grand jury, elimi nating the need for a preliminary hearing. Police Chief Elmer Briscoe, who with Itacgio directed the weeklong search that resulted in Bean's ar rest, said that the youth's bravado. laded noticeably Sunday. "He seems to be aware for the first lime of the true nature of the crime." Briscoe said. "He sits very quietly in his cell just staring al the bars. Bean re-enacted the crime alter his confession Saturday night. He said he spent five and a half hours in the modest apartment of his victim after strangling her and sexually assaulting her body, The dismembered body of the onetime Olympic skier was found April 5. Her torso, three knives sticking out of ill back, was stullcd in a hope chest. Carried Knife and Garrole Bean, a Reno high school stu dent, carried a butcher knife and a homemade garrote when he on tered Mist McCaskie's apartment, according to police. - NASHVIUJC, Tenn. (UPO-Sgt, Alvin YorH one of America' mightiest fighting men, lay critical condition today with bolh heart and lung trouble. The 75-year-old World War 1 hero was brought to the St Thomas Hospital here Saturday bv ambulance from his Pall Mall, Tenn., home. He had been in the same hospital two weeks ago. The hospital late Sunday night said that York's condition was still critical but noled that his blood pressure, which had been fluctuating, was back to normal. Doctors were to get the results of tests this afternoon to deter mine whether the old soldier suf fered permanent heart damage and to pinpoint other troubles. York has been paralyzed from the waist down for the past eight years. He had been brought lo St. Thomas in March this year when he had chest pains and it was feared he may have cracked rib in falling out of his bed at home. York won the nation's highest military honor the Medal of onor for his World War I ex ploits. A mountain man who didn't want to fight, York was credited with single-handedly kill ing 25 Germans and taking 132 prisoners in a battle in the Ar gonne Forest 45 years ago. Mrs. York has remained at his side in the hospital room. Two daughters, Mrs. Betsy Lowrcy and Mrs. Mary Alice Franklin, have also been at his bedside. The Yorks have five other chil dren. SALEM (UPD - Boards and commissions can become ag gressive and autocratic," Gov. Mark Hatfield re-emphasized at a news conference today. The governor is urging reorgan ization of state government so de partments would be directly un der the governor's control, with assistance of lay advisers. " He made the comment in reply to recent criticism of the Game Commission. "In any board there is an in herent attitude of independence from review by the legislature or the executive, Hatfield com mented. Such boards are not responsive to the people. The power to ap point doesn't necessarily carry with it the power to remove," Hatfield added. . When questioned he said his comments also included the Board of Higher Education, and said that was why he favored combining the Boards of Educa tion and Higher Education into a single department. He termed a much - amended bill for a natural resources com mission "barely satisfactory," but a step in the right direction. Hatfield said of the much- amended proposal, "if is a start, and it can be corrected in future sessions of the legislature." He warned against strict "buy- Oregon," or "buy-America" poli cies as inviting retaliation thai could be harmful to Oregon. If wc wish to sell abroad, we must buy abroad," Hatfield said. "We should buy where we can get the best deal for the Oregon taxpayers." The Highway Commission re cently voiced a plan to "buy- America whenever possible. There has in the past been criti cism of the use of Japanese steel on the Astoria bridge. Hatfield warned "if we want to sell, we will have to buy." -' The governor also argued against statutory limits on sala ries for technical people. He said such limits hampered tho state's ability to hire top caliber experts. Winds Delay Balloon Trip ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (UPD Strong winds today forced another postponement of plans to send a balloon and two men 15 miles high to study the stars. The second Project Stargazcr balloon flight, already successive ly postponed nearly a month by a series of misfortunes, was put off again early today in the final hours of the countdown. A spokesman at Hollomon Air Force Base, where the launch is scheduled, said the postponement will last at least until Tuesday. Air Force Capt. Joseph W, Kit- linger .Jr. and civilian astrono mer William White, who made the first Stargazcr flight last De cember, were ready to man the gondola carried by the balloon. ,PACkY r v. "T ' kpOJ a pre v -p.. - l V rJ a - i F J' Packy, internationally famous baby elephant, celebrated hit first birthday Sunday. A large crowd of children and parents attended birthday party given in his honor at the Portland Zoo. Packy is shown hara with hii mother, Bella. UPI Telephoto PACKY CELEBRATES .