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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 .