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The big news loday?
The Chror.ii.ie. with its uner
ring instinct for what will sell pa
pers, puts it this way in 120
point type spread across the top
of the front page:
3RD CHILD FOR JACKIE.
This screamer is topped by a
flyer in 48 point upper and lower
case blackface announcing "Baby
Due in August."
The bulk of the right-hand side
of the front page is occupied by a
feature captioned JACKIE EX
PECTING, and relating that al
though she has a history of mis
carriage and both of her children
were delivered by Caesarian sec
tion she is reported in good health
and undergoing a normal preg
nancy. The text is accompanied by
a picture showing Mrs. Kennedy
leading her son John Jr. to East
er services day before yesterday.
Carried over to Page 10, the
story relates that because of the
pregnancy it is not expected that
Mrs. Kennedy will occupy the
new house nearing completion in
nearby Virginia the first house
the Kennedys have built since
their marriage in 1953 and add
ing that her pregnancy with John
Jr. in I960 prevented her from
taking any active role in her hus
band's Presidential campaign.
Complete coverage of the story,
you see and CANDID.
Strictly modern, you ask?
It didn't used to be that way
in the Olden, Golden Days?
I'd like to be able to answer in
the affirmative. But history and
tradition tell us otherwise.
Let's go back to Tennyson and
his Idylls of the King, in which
this passage occurs:
"Wearing the white flower of
a blameless life
"Before a thousand peering lit
tlenesses.
"In that fierce light that beats
upon a throne.
There is no way to prove it, be
cause it happened a long, LONG
time ago in Camelot, where King
Arthur held his court. But the lit
erary sleuths tend to believe that
in this passage Lord Tennyson
was alluding to Queen Guinevere's
alleged passion for Sir Launcelot
of the Lake, in Arthurian ro
mance the most famous of the
Knights of the Round Table, the:
model of chivalry, bravery and
fidelity who went in search of the
Holy Grail and twice caught sight
of it.
It is believed that it was in
the hope of forgetting Queen
Guinevere that Sir Launcelot!
went in search of the Grail.
That was some 14 centuries
ago, as time is vaguely reckoned
in the Arthurian Legends. .
But-
The light that beat upon the
throne of Camelot 14 centuries
ago was just as fierce as the light
that now beats upon the White
House the only difference being
that back in Camelot there were
no newspapers, no reporters, no
radio, no T.V.
One regrets to have to report
that in the olden, golden days the
lives of the Bigs were NEWS to us
Littles, just as they are now. Hu
man nature has apparently al
ways been human nature.
PcodIc have ALWAYS wanted
LL the details. You can safely-
bet your bottom dollar that when
a child was born in the White
House to Frances Folsom Cleve
land and her husband President
Grover Cleveland the people of
that day were just as eager for
all the low-down as they are now
in the case of the Kennedys and
their latest expected.
Storm Hits
Plains Area !
By United Press International
A deepening storm thrashed
across the Great Plains today,
slapping thundershouers into the
Midwest and battering the Dako-j
tas with high winds.
The heaviest rain to hit Hawaii
in years fed rampaging rivers.
The torrent caused damage esti
mated at millions of dollars and
left two persons missing.
Mild and sunny weather blan
keted the East but posed new fire
threats in tinder - dry southern
New England.
Thundershouers racing ahead of
the storm front erupted from
Minnesota and Michigan south
ward to western Kentucky. Rain
and gusty winds scoured the
plains from North Dakota to
Texas.
Wind custs at Watcrtown. S.D..
were clocked at better than 60
m.p.h. early today.
The storm drew cold air over
(he Rockies and dumped snow on
the northern mountains and pla
teau. High winds caused the cancella
tion of the Project Stargazer
manned balloon flight at Alamo
pordo. N.M.. only 30 minutes be
fore the balloon was to be inflated.
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SPRING WILL BE A LITTLE LATE The weather failed
to keep en eve on the calendar for the KUmath Basin
and deluged the area with snow, beginning Sunday eve
Weal her
Klamath Falls. Tulelakr and Laktview
Partly cloudy I h rough Wednesday. Cold
again tonight. Low temperatures 15-20.
High Wednesday 45. Westerly winds S15
m.p.h.
High yesterday 31 ,
Low last night 14
High year ago
Low year ago 2
Precip. past 14 hours .46
Since Jan. 1 4.44
Same period last year . i. 31
PORTSMOUTH. N.H. (UPD
An admiral testified today a
searching submarine picked up
electronic signals two days after
the submarine Thresher sank but
that the signals did not come from
men aboard the Thresher.
Rear Adm. Lawson P. (Redi
Ramage who helped direct search
operations for the Thresher testi
fied before a Navy court of in
quiry into the disaster which cost
129 lives in Atlantic waters one
and one-half miles deep.
Ramage, deputy commander of
the submarine force, Atlantic
Fleet, said the submarine Seawolf
picked up the electronic emission
but "none of the signals could be
equated with anything that could
have originated with personnel"
aboard the Thresher.
He said the signals could have
been "buoyant noise sources from
a submerged submarine under
pressure." He did not elaborate.
He said the Seawolf dived to in
vestigate but found nothing.
Vice Adm. Bernard L. Austin,
JFK Cuts
Italy Trip
PALM BEACH, Fla. itlPU -President
Kennedy will pay a
"working visit" to Italy in June
rather than a full-blown state trip
because his pregnant wife will be
unable to accompany him.
This was announced today by
the vacation White House along
with word that the first lady will
join her husband in another trip
to Italy early next year this time,
a state journey with all the ap
propriate fanfare.
"Mrs. Kennedy will not be able
to travel in both the spring and
summer." the announcement said.
"But both the President and Mrs.
Kennedy wish to make a visit to
Rome together.
Sub S
Told
Third Kennedy Baby
Expected
WASHINGTON UPI - News I
that Jacqueline Kennedy is expect
ing her third child took Washing
ton by storm today. It had been
one of the White House's best kept,
secrets better than some nation
al security council meetings.
Rumors had been floating in the
capital for some time that the
first lady was pregnant. But mum
was the word among the Kenne
dys' intimate friends and asso
ciates. With her sense of history and
her love of children, Mrs. Ken
nedy has long cherished the idea
of becoming a mother again while
living in the White House. Her
babv will be born in August.
When she returned to Washing
ton from Palm Beach, Fla. fol
lowing the Christmas holiday
the 33-year-old first lady's social
activities were severely cut down
She has limited White House so
cial doings to the "musts" pre
scribed bv protocol, totalin;
three formal dinners and two re
ceptions.
During the past few months, she
has been seen in public only rare
ly. She has pursued her own pri
wtt aw mh
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About
president of the inquiry board,
asked Ramage if he saw "any
commercial ships hovering around
snooping while Ramage direct
ed operations from the bridge of
the destroyer Blandy.
Ramage, one of four living sub-
Soft Stand
Over Cuban
Reds Denied
WASHINGTON (UPI)-A State
Department spokesman today re
iected any suggestion that the
United States had softened its at
titude toward the presence of So
viet forces in Cuba.
Press officer Lincoln White
said he knew "absolutely nothing
which would tend to confirm", re
ports from Cuban exile sources
that the United States was willing
to accept the idea of a limited
number of Russian troops remain
ing in the Communist-dominated
island.
The spokesman said President
Kennedy and Secretary of State
Dean Rusk had said "many times
that we could not tolerate the con
tinued presence of Soviet troops
in this hemisphere." White said
he knew of no change in that
policy.
Today's statement followed one
issued Monday night in which the
Kennedy administration cracked
down on what it called Cuban ex
ile efforts to drag the United
States into war over Cuba.
In an unusually harsh state
ment, the State Department ac
cused Dr. Jose Miro Cardona,
president of the Cuban Revolu
tionary Council, of "gross distor
tion of recent history.'
In August
vale life. She has taken her twoj
lively youngsters Caroline, 5, and
John Jr., 2, to drug stores and
parks and to some of her old
haunts.
Mrs. Kennedy will be the sec
ond first lady to have a babv
while living in the White House
She was preceded 70 years ago
by Mrs. Grover Cleveland, who
bore Esther Cleveland in Scptem
ber, 1893, sliortly after her hus
band was inaugurated. Another
Cleveland daughter, Marion, ar
rived in July, 1BU5. before her
father left the presidency.
The first lady has had a diffi
cult time in childbearing. with a
history of two miscarriages one
in l!t:4 and the other after the
1956 Democratic National Conven
tion in which Kennedy lost the
vice presidential nomination
Both Caroline and John-John, as
he is called by his father, were
born by Caesarian section. Her
next baby is expected to be de
livered the same way. Although
she indulges in rugged sports at
times. Mrs. Kennedy has learned
to take il easy during the waiting
periods.
ning. Monday looked like the middle of winter instead of
a few weeks into the sprinq season. At left, a view on
Main Street during the height of the blowing snowstorm
Probers
Signals'
marine commanders holding the
Congressional Medal of Honor,
said. "One strange ship was seen
while I was out there. It was a
Norwegian trawler."
While the naval court ashore in
vestigated the sinking, a task force
of destroyers and research ves
sels tried to find the hull of the
Thresher 220 miles east of Cape
Cod. The submarine sank Wednes
day in the worst submarine dis
aster in history. Ramage said
there was a "small probability"
the Norwegian vessel and the uni
dentified craft reported by Lf.
Cmdr. Stanley Hecker on'April JO
was the same one reported to
him two days later on April 12.
Hecker, 36. Brooklyn, N.Y., tes
tified that the ship he had seen
from the Thresher's escort vessel
Skylark was originally thought to
be the fin of a submarine. Clos
ing on the object they saw then
that it was a fishing craft of
"dirty color." Hecker said identi
fying numbers of the vessel could
not be ascertained because the
Skylark was at a distance of 6.000
yards.
Man Rescued
From Cave-In
PORTLAND (UP! - A gritty
man who told rescuers "I'm not
dead yet" after being taken from
a sewer cave-in was reported in
an improved condition at a hos
pital today.
Alvin M. Gcpford, 51, Beaver-
ton, Ore., was trapped for nearly
two hours under eight feet of dirt
in the cave-in here Monday.
"It's a miracle that he's alive,'
spokesman for the Oregon In
dustrial Accident Commission
said. "We just got to him in
time."
Gepford suffered a broken pel
vis and possible internal injuries.
He was listed in fair condition.
"He's in good spirits," a hos
pital attendant said. "He was con
scious when they brought him in.
The whole thing is quite remark
able.
Gepford, who is having an
apartment house built, was in
stalling plumbing in an excava
Hon at the site when the cavc-m
occurred. He had laid pipe from
a sewer part of the way of the
excavation.
Council Plans Paving Bid Opening
Bids on the paving of Avalon
and Lark streets will be opened
on the same evening it was de
cided at the regular Monday
night meeting of the city council.
Councilman Lyle Kcllstrom in
sisted that the council live up
to an earlier implied promise
that it would combine as many
paving bids as possible to secure
more attractive bids.
When the council moved to
consider a request for an ordi
nance calling for bids on Lark
Street, Kcllstrom objected. "You
told the people vou were going lo
gather these projects in a group
and now you re not doing it, hi
said. "You let ft be known that
you felt you could get better bids
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
NEW OFFICERS Marion Wirth, left, will bs installed
as president ofiths Klamath Falls Classroom Teachers
Association at Conger School April 18. Also to bs in
stalled are Eima Bushong, vice president; Marion Kog.
lin, secretary; Elton Goil, treasurer, and Rita DePew,
parliamentarian. Anne Overman, right, retiring president,
who will be on leave of absence from KUHS next year
for advanced study at Oregon State University, will bs
honored. Installing officers will be Betty French, Hazel
Hallack and Charles Woodhouse. Refreshments will be
served before the 3:30 p.m. meeting.
Pair Held
In School
PORTLAND IUPD- Authorities!
in Seattle have arrested a man
and a woman accused of partici
pating in a fraudulent insurance
scheme affecting 68 school dis
tricts in Oregon and southwest
Washington.
The arrest of Kenneth Randall,
41, and Sarah Ann Chaffee, also
41, was announced today by Mult
nomah County Dist. Atty. George
Van Hoomissen.
They were named in a secret
indictment returned by the Mult
nomah County grand jury charg
ing alteration of an insurance pol
icy with intent to defraud, a fel
ony, the district attorney said.
Van Hoomissen said both were
Cold Slops Oregon
PORTLAND UPH - Oregon's
"April winter" continued today
with a forecast of local frost in
Western Oregon and lows in the
20's cast of the Cascades tonight.
Medford had a low of 28 early
today.
Klamath Falls, which got five
inches of snow, had a low of 19
above this morning and Lakevicw,
with an inch of snow, had a low
of 18. They were two of the cold
this way with $100,000 worth of j
work or substantial amounts, and
vou are not living up In this in
formation to the people."
Councilman James Barnes
agreed with Kcllstrom, but in
dicated that Ihe bids lor im
provements could not be com
bined, although they could be
opened the same night. He stal
ed that contractors would know,
anyway, that there would be
about $100,000 in paving projects
to bid on over the season from
May to September.
Mayor Robert Veatch staled,
"The council should he more in
terested in effect than proce
dure." Kcllstrom replied, "Then It was
Monday afternoon. In center view, spring floweri must
wonder at the crazy mixed-up season that finds them
with their blossoms open in the middle of the snow. At
TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 19U
For Fraud
Insurance
connected with the now defunct
National Scholastic Agency,
Portland firm which acted as an
agent for California Life Insur
ance Co.
An investigation started when
California Life refused to honor
some claims filed under policies
sold by National Scholastic Agcn
cy. The company claimed the pol
icies contained unauthorized cov
erage clauses, particularly affect
ing accidents such as football in
juries. A suit involving the company
and the David Douglas School
District near Portland is now in
U.S. District Court in an attempt
to determine the company's liabil
ity.
est spofs In the country.
Snow flurries were reported
Monday through the Willamette
Valley and mountain areas got
heavy amounts. Timbcrline Lodge
reported a season high of 113
inches.
The weatherman said skies
would clear partially tonight with
increasing clouds again Wednes
day as another Pacific weather
disturbance approaches the coast
a serious error telling the people
we were going to do it."
Veatch asked if it was the coun
cil's intention to hold up the call
ing of bids on Lark until bids
could also be called on Avalon
Street, and the council agreed!
this was its intention, although
Kcllstrom still voted no on the
proposal to call for bids on Lark
Street.
The council also approved par
ticipation in a study of the busi
ness district of Klamath Falls
This study will cost $9,000. The
county has indicated it is put
ting S 1 .230 in its budget and the
Merchants Association indicated
it would put up $50(1. The city
will be required to put up $t,2ju'
Telephone
Another
Inlikes
Consid
Bulletin
NKW YORK (UPI) U.S.
Steel Corp. today announced se
lective price Increases of ap
proximately $4.85 per ton on
29 per cent of Us steel
products.
NEW YORK (UPI) - Armco
Steel Corporation, sixth largest in
the nation, today became the
fifth steel producer to announce
an increase in prices.
The announcement, made at
Armco's headquarters in Middle-
town, Ohio, came as the Execu
live Committee of nation's largest
steel firm, U.S. Steel Corp., met
to consider a boost in its steel
prices. It would become the sec
ond of steel's "big three" to hike
its prices, following the example
of Republic Steel.
White House economic experts
Sol Awaits
More Trials
EL PASO, Tex. (UPH - Billic
Sol Estos, who now faces 23
years in slate and federal pris
ons, was continued free on a new
$100,000 bond today awaiting more
trials.
The new trials will not be long
in coming for the one-time boy
wonder of agriculture, who was
sentenced 111 federal court Mon
day to 15 years' imprisonment on
five counts of fraud and conspir
acy Involving $24 million in mort
gages.
Estcs, whose conviction of eight
years in prison on a state charge
of swindling is on appeal,
be tried July 8 on two of tlio first
suits filed against him after his
arrest March 29, 1962. In all, 32
more state and federal accusa
lions are still to be tried against
the now bankrupt farm tycoon.
Federal Judge It. Ewing Thorn
ason told Esles Monday he "per
petrated one of the most gigantic
swindles in the history- of the
country."
and, in addition, the council ap
proved a resolution to request
$6,000 Irom Ihe Bureau of Muni
cipal Research lo finance t h e
project.
Several councilmen expressed
surprise that the merchants
were only putting up $.)00 for the
study, but indicated their willing
ness to go ahead with the project.
Community Planner Ken Black
man indicated that the study
might take as lung as 18 month:
to complete.
A public hearing on the paving
of Avalon Street brought a query
Irom R. E. Wright, 635 Alameda,
iljotil the estimated cost and bid
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right, the decorativa pina trees along Main Street find (
the snow clusters beautifying and welcome tne late win-
ter session with oDen branches.
TU 4-8111 No. 7117
Prices;
I weighed the breaks in steel price
line on orders from President
Kennedy in Palm Beach. The
I Council of Economic Advisors
must decide whether the price
hikes actually fall within the lim-
Simulated
Berlin Riot
Dispersed
BERLIN (UPD-American sol
diers today dispersed simulated
Communist rioters at bavonet
point in the opening of a four-
day maneuver to test plans lo do-
lend West Berlin.
row- thousand soldiers were
called out before dawn to quell
imaginary mob attacks on Tern
plchof Airfield American Head
quarters, and key communications
centers.
Infantry backed by tanks fanned
out over the city and other sol
diers raced in trucks to practice
what the Army said was the kind
of action they may expect should
real trouble break out in the di
vided city."
The East German news service
ADN denounced the maneuver as
"war exercise."
The Communist police captured
another refugee at midmorning as
he apparently waited for a chance
to swim the narrow Spree River
to West Berlin, Western police reported.
Steel Firm
Increase
Net Receipts Tax
Approval
SALEM 'UPI) A $34 million
nioditicd net receipts income tax;
bill was tentatively approved by
the House Tax Committee Mon
day. It could win final committee
approval in time to reach the
Moor on Friday.
The new revenue package in
cludes a one per cent net receipts
tax on all earned income of $500
or more up ' I6.000, and a 1.5
per cent net icccipts tax on in
come above $16,000. No deductions
would Ire allowed for the net re
ceipts part of the tax.
A graduated rate would apply
to the amount of income remain
ing after deductions. There would
be no federal tax deduction, nor
would there be deductions (or
state auto licenses, federal trans
portation and communications:
taxes.
The standard deduction would
be increased from 5 per cent lo
10 wr cent, and all medical ex
penses would be deductible. Pres
ent law allows deduction of only
those medical e.icnses in excess
ol 5 per cent of adjusted gross!
income.
After the lax was computed, $22
m
Weather
AGRICULTURAL FORECAST
PirMy cloudy tonight tod Wednesday.
Preeie warning tonight. Lows of 15-30.
Highs WedneMljiy 45. Outlook (or Thurs
day: Considerable cloudiness! soil tern
peraturt 40.
its of "selective" Increases or are
across-the-board increases which
Kennedy opposes.
The Armco announcement said
it w a s "adjusting" its prices
upward on "a limited number of
steel flat rolled product the first
price increase in approximately
five, years." At the same tiilia tha
company announced tlfc reduction
of prices on wire products, all
prices effective April 17.
The Armco increases ranged
from $4.50 per ton on plates to
$7 on galvanized steel The wire
price reductions were a flat $5
a ton.
The company said the products
on which prices will rise ac
counted for 38 per cent of the
company's total dollar sales in
first quarter of this year. :
Jet Avoids
Collision
CHICAGO (UPI) - Continental
Airlines said today a Los Angeles-
to-Chicago jet carrying 61 persons
was forced lo take sudden eva
sive action to avoid colliding with
an Air t'orce jet tanker over Ne
braska. A Continental spokesman said
the near-collision took place Mon
day 29,000 feet over Grand Island,
Neb.
Pilot William Hart, Los Angeles,
had no time to warn the 53 pas- '
scngers aboard the jet when he
saw he was on a collision course
with the KC135A jet tanker, the
spokesman said.
Expected
would be deducl
sonal exemptiol
$600 dependency
d for vich per
At present a
xcrnpliiM.t ali
i:tsin cotnpiueV
I Vparcentflge
lowor Income
lowed before, tlu
Greatest im
wise, is on I
brackets, because at present thejr
pay little or no tax. Under the
OSS
net receipts feature, everyone ,
with an income over $500 would
pay at least one per cent regard
less of tho number of dependents
or other deductions.
While federal taxes would not
be allowed as deductions from Ihe
slate lax. the state tax still could
bo deducted from the federal In
come tax.
For example, a family of four
with a $5,000 income now pays a
state tax of $58, a federal tax of
$408, for a total of $466. Under
the new proposal, the family
would pay $81 state tax, $404 fed
eral tax, for a total of $485, or
an increase of 4.1 per cent.
A family of four with an $8,000
income pays $172 state tax, $038
federal tax, for a total of $1,110.
Under tlic new tax the state total
would be $230, federal $925. for a
total of $1,155, or an increase of
4.1 per cent.
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