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Newspaper Page TextCCUP. GEN.REF.AND COCUE-"i .fee trf It's like - Visit TheMercommunity Hospital Rooms At Balsigers U.05 0nS.LT33ARY In The- Day's to By FRANK JENKINS The weather today? It's well over on the freakish side especially out here in the West. Below zero temperatures have returned to Utah here in mid-April. More than eight inches of snow fell in the mountains east of Salt Lake City yesterday. In Southern California, there is more than a foot of fresh snow on the ground at Mount Palomar. and ten incites are reported on Mount Laguna. Snow - packed roads have closed all but one of San Diego county's mountain schools. And so on. And- From Washington, this one: New evidence was reported yes terday that as space traffic in creases exhaust gas from boost er rockets may pollute the upper atmosphere and affect weather and radio communications. Two Bedford, Mass.. research ers told of mathematical studies indicating that a six-mile-thick c loud of rocket exhaust gas. from 30 to 90 miles above the earth, could RAISE temperatures in the atmosphere as much as 200 de grees! Hmmmmmmmmm. The fantastic cost of this space exploration business is beginning to raise the temperatures of a lot of us poor devils of taxpayers. Maybe that's what the instru ments of these researchers are measuring. And- From Pasadena comes this shivery prognostication: The first scientific evidence that human lung cells exposed to smog, gy air undergo changes charac teristic of the early stages of cancer has been reported by a group of Pasadena researchers. Using human lung tissue grow ing in laboratory dishes, the sci entists first exposed the tissue to a chemical used routinely by lab oratories for CAUSING cancer. Motion pictures, taken at regular intervals through a microscope, showed that the growth rate of the cancer cells was increased.,. Then Having established the nature of the changes caused by a chem ical known to cause cancer, the researchers repeated the experi ment with fresh cells, but this time they exposed them to PASA DENA AIR ON A SMOGGY DAY. What happened? Well, the story is a bit con fused from there on by scientific language considerably over this scribe's head, but the general drift of it is that when the human tissue came into contact w ith the Pasadena smog the cancer cells began to flourish like the prover bial green bay tree. Take it, or leave it. breathing this smog down in the Far Southern California megalopolises for a few days most of us from up here where the air is clear and sparkling and full of zip and zing and tne joy of living are ready to believe that the stuff that down there they call AIR is capable of causing ALMOST ANYTHING from housemaid's knee on up. Race Unrest Rips Chicago By CHARLES K. WEBB United Press International . Racial unrest, confined recently to the South, broke out in Chica go Wednesday night where more than a thousand persons demon strated around a South Side apartment into which Negroes had moved. In other integration-segregation activities. 47 Negroes were ar rested in Birmingham. Ala. where a stcpiicd up movement to break racial barriers is in its I8lh dav. At Hampton. Va., nine Negroes were fined $100 each and sen tenced to jail for violating auti tiespass laws in lunch counter sit-ins. A hearing to determine whether deliberate racial segrcga tion exists in Englewood. N.J.. ended alter nine days of testi mnnv. In Chicago, authorities called nut 110 policemen who used 12 po lice dos to break up the angry shouting crowd that became so unruly officers hustled three Ne gro men and a woman out the back door of the building. Windows were smashed and a United Press International report er and a police officer were struck by rocks thrown during the four-hour demonstration. Weather Klimalh Falls, Tulalaka and Laktview Partly cloudy with accatioflal Itgtil anewtn ac anew flurrot through Friday. Cool again tonight; lows 1MI, high Fri day 4. Wtslarly winds Hi m.p.n. High yasttrday s Low this morning V High yaar ago II Low year ago u Pracip. oast 24 hours .41 Sinca Jan. 1 4.41 Sam period Last yiar i.n nn lnJSlQ a U Elderly Jam House Hearing To Urge Property Tax Relief SALEM lUPD-The proud aged Wednesday pleaded for property tax relief which could keep them off the welfare rolls. Almost 300 elderly persons jammed the House Tax Commit tee hearing room to add support to prayers for assistance. The committee held discussions on a bill which already has clear ed the Senate, and four measures which were introduced in the House. It appeared likely the House would approve the Senate meas ure which grants a homestead exemption based on income and age and tack on an optional fea ture allowing elderly people to de fer payment of property taxes un til after1 their death, when their property was sold. In four previous sessions the Senate and House have approved different versions of property tax relief for the aged. The measures died for lack of a compromise. Rep. Juanita Orr, D - Lake Grove, author of one of the House measures, exclaimed I hope the committee opens up its heart and passes one of these bills." She related instances where el derly persons "live on a diet of tea and bread and. save pennies in a jar so they can pay their taxes." . The bill approved by the Senate would exempt 30 per cent" of the first $10,000 true cash value at ! 65, and increase the exemp tions by steps to 100 percent at ,,ayla,M.jui.l.i..puWuui.ULi1,iiu,M,, ".ll,tW-- ff j-l I i, V' J ??j SVrjf M'yU) imipifjrv i ttr . a, ft , : 1 r Ik Y'ti I Z v- GOLD MEDAL WINNERS Two elementary school girls display their science fair projects which took gold medals in their school fairs. The projects will be entered in the city school system's fifth annual Regional Science Fair which will be held at Conger Elementary School April 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. and April 27, I to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Participating schools will be Conger, Fairview, Fremont, Mills, O'Neill, Pelican, Riv- REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIR ENTRIES Ralph Ecctes, left. Riverside seventh grader, shows his gold medal project, "How Does a Mammal Compare to Fish?" Kelly Cook, right, a sixth grader at Roosevelt, dis plays a volcano and its rock constituents. Ralph and Kelly will enter their projects in the Regional Fair to be held at Conger School April 26 Price Ten Cents 24 Pages age 80, if income was less than S3.000 a year. The committee is expected to tack on an amendment allowing a person 65 or over to defer pay ment of ad valorem taxes until death. Upon death, or sale of the JFK Studies Steel Price WASHINGTON UPD - Presi dent Kennedy today studied a re port by his council of economic advisers on the consequences of the steel price increases. Council Chairman Walter Heller was called to the White House to make the report less than five minutes after Kennedy returned from Palm Beach, Fla., Wednes day. the report concerns what per centage of steel output is affected by the increases, and the percent age of company receipts involved Acting White House Press Sec retary Andrew T. Hatcher said he did not expect Kennedy to make any immediate statement on the issue. But he may make his views known Thursday at a lunch of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE). He was not expected to go into the matter in his prepared speech, but he will likely answer editors' questions about steel aft er the speech. n TO we property, the deferred tax would have to be paid. Charles Woodward, 79. Multno mah County, said in 1947 he paid 547 in property taxes, and in 1962 he paid $217.80 on the same prop erty. 'My income is less than $100 a month. My Social Security goes to pay for my wife's hospital bills," he said. He called the tax deferral plan "ridiculous." James Melene of the Golden Age Club of Clackamas County said his property taxes had dou bled in eight years. We can't strike for more mon ey or aid. We need some help. Give us some relief." he asked. Other witnesses said increased property taxes were driving the elderly out of their houses and on to the relief rolls. Barry O'Neil, Milwaukie. said "14 or 15 states now provide ex emptions for the aged." He op posed deferment of taxes. David Douglas School Board Chairman Sid Stewart said the elderly did not oppose education. but were voting against school bonds because increased taxes were iorcing them from their homes. Clayton Nyberg, Association of Oregon Counties, agreed "we must give these people a tax break." but said counties favored the tax deferral plan. Bill Brosy. Tri County Tax Re search, said "there are people in, tins room today who are living on $40 to.s."0 a month. I don't know how they do it." - KLAMATH F.LLS. OREGON. Tops Original $725, ia LEGION DONATES Klamafh Falls Post No. 8, American Leqion. Wednesday niqht presented a check for $1,000 to the Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital Associa tion at a report meeting in the Winema Hotel. Presenting the check to Jim Stilwell, campaign general chairman, was Charles Poteet, legion post commander. Looking on, from left to right, are Mike Balsiger and Dick Henzel, campaign co-chairmen; Ken Hartley, Irene Hartley, post adjutant, and Elton Mickelsen, post finance officer. Photo by Anderson Studio Heavy April If you've been lamenting the weather and maintaining that this situation is not normal with heavy snow in the month of April, you're correct. The normal average of snow depth for the month of April is not quite three inches, but already the month of April this year has produced 7.6 . inches ot snow depth on the ground. . ; The current month .'.ii.--y also prove to be !h second worst April for snow in records going back to 1930. Pacific Power and erside and Roosevelt. Regional gold medal winners will display their projects at the Northwest Science Exposition at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland May 4. Left, Roosevelt fifth grader Vicki Carter shows the uses of clay found in the Klamath Falls area. Ruth Cherry, right, Riverside student, shows what solutions will conduct electricity. and 27. Judges at the Regional Fair will be Dan Eastman, Arthur Ger lach, Dan Abraham, Robert Stockton, J. D. Vertrees, Donald Whitwer, Wayne Kimball, Lyle C. Smith, J. W. Merryman, Robert G. Kyle, Lela Thurman, Lillian Hill, Patricia Beymer, Gary Nichols and James Young. THCRSDAY, APRIL 18, 1963 Snows Set Light Company recently furnished snow depth records for the 10- year period 1930 to 1940 showing that April 1933 was perhaps the worst April on record, having produced 15 inches of snow depth. Old-timers still shake their heads about the winter of 1933 and well they might because the PP&L records show that 37 inch es of snow, fell in January ot that year. 6.5 inches in February, only a half Inch in March, 15 inches in April and five inches In May The federal weather bureau at Telephone Near Record Kingsley Field reported the snow depth figures for April this year, indicating that April 15 was the worst day of the month during which five inches of snow fell However, they show that the greatest depth of snow on the round at any one time was about three inches. Their records go back to 1050 and during this pe nod, this has been the "snowi est" A'pril of that period. Jhey also indicate that nine Inches' of snow on any ono day in April has been the most snow for an April day recorded in the period going back to 1930 and that undoubtedly was during the year of 1933. While averages arc not avail able immediately for the entire period from 1930 through 1902, the PP&L 10-year average 1930 1940 shows that this area aver aged 15.92 inches of snow for the month of January with 1933 being tlie worst year. The month of February has averaged 12.5 inch cs for the lO-year" period, although 39 inches of snow fell in February of 1938. March has averaged 3.52 inches over the 10-ycar period with 17.5 inches falling in 1938. another winter that will long be rememlcrcd locally. However, if figures are worth anything, local residents can look forward to an almost snowless May. The 10-year average for this month has been only seven- tcnths of an inch, and during the period 1930 to 1940 there was snow, in May only in 1933 and in 1939. Tornadoes Slash East By United Press International Snow, bitter cold and violent winds plagued the..West and Mid west today. Tornado warnings were issued for northwestern Oklahoma, south western and cast central Kansas and west central Missouri. Wednesday night tornadoes left destruction in Illinois, Michigan Indiana and Ohio. One person was killed and at least 70 were in jured. Below zero temperatures turned to Utah today and more than eight inches of snow fell in the mountains east of Salt Lake City. The Weather Bureau report cd scattered snow in Wyoming and Colorado. A tornado hit near the town of Vaughnsvillc, Ohio, during the night, cut a quarter-mile swath of uprooted trees through an orchard and bowled over utility poles. Some trees uprooted were said to measure four feet in diameter Communication in the area was; expected to be out until Friday Thundershowcrs skipped through the Ohio Valley and scat tered showers soaked parts of southern New England, casing the threat of timber fires. Nearly 2'a inches of hail bat tered the Milan. Mich., airport and an inch of hail socked Kenton, Mich. TU 4-8111 No. 7119 Campaign To Continue On Road To Cash donations and pledges to Presbyterian Inter community Hospital exceed paign goal, it was announced at a workers' report meet ing Wednesday night. The campaign total has reached slightly more than $755,000, it was revealed by campaign general chair man Jim Stilwell, and co-chairmen Mike Balsiger and Dick Henzel. The campaign will continue in an effort to raise at least one million dollars toward cost of the almost three million dollar project, Stilwell emphasized. The organized campaign will end April 30, with "cleanup" and followup effort due to be carrhd on indefinitely, leaders explained. Wednesday night's report re-i" vealed $128,450 was donated pledged since the first report of the campaign cabinet a week ago. Total at that time was $627,000. Bulk of the gain in the past week came from the Employe Executive Division headed by Alex Smith, Glenn Bowen, Paul Meier and Dorman Turner. They reported a gain of $39,204 for the week, and a total so far in the campaign of $89,470. Reports from other division hairmen and their totals includ ed: Business & Professional, Van Landrum, $67,416. Clubs & Organizations, Rev Quinn Huwley, $18,482. Employe - Executive, Alex Smith, Glenn Bowen, Paul Mei false' Land Promotions Ordered Out SALEM (UPD-Dcalcrs in land and state regulatory agencies were told Wednesday to get to gether on a bill to clamp down on "false and misleading" subdi vision promotions. The order came at a second hearing before the House commit tee on planning and development. The committee is faced with several bills, including a "com promise" worked out in recent weeks by Alty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton. Its main features call for real estate commission reports on land for sale, and for stop-sale provisions in cases of phony ad vertising. Real estate dealers, who de clined to work with Thornton on the measure, termed it too tough. They said it would penalize legiti mate operators. They were sternly questioned by committee members about their rciusal to get together wim the attorney general. We had no common meeting ground," replied the vice presi dent of a corporation that finances and developments. "They were were bound and determined to huild uo the (Real Estate) de partment to control the industry." Committee Chairman Ed Whel an, u-l'ortianu, nmcu a wan iuc .. i ..J iU second time realtors had Decn asked to take a hand in drafting an acceptable bill. The committee indicated if realtors won l cooper ate, they will get something they don't like. Thornton told the committee, "We've cither got to write a law with teeth or we're wasting our time." Springfield ' Mill Closes SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (UPI1 Georgia Pacilic Corp. will close its Springfield sawmill alter me day shift April 26, the company announced Wednesday. The announcement was made in1 a letter to all employes signed by sawmill manager J. O. Dixon. The closure will affect 214 em-l ploycs. Dixon's letter said present mar ket conditions make it impossible1 for the mill to operate profitably, It said the closure will be perma ncnt. The mill has been operating with only a day shift for several months. Weather AGRICULTURAL FORtCAST Continued cloudy and cool with thowtry periods through Sunday. Only flight amount mt drying nait few days. Ttm ptraturt range front noar treating or btlow to nar SO degrta. Soil ttmpara tura 39. $1 Million the original $725,000 cam er and Dorman Turner, $89,470. Medical, Dr. George Nicholson, $53,928. Intercommunity, Wyatt Padgett, Ben Adair and Ted DeMerritt, $96,389. Memorial, Gene Favell and Bui Larkin, $326,100. Special Gifts. Frank Drew and Chuck Bailey, $104,341. Presentation of certificates for Intercommunity honors upon com pletion of Employer - Executive plant solicitations was made to tile following: Balsiger Motor Company, Jim Peters. Bend - Portland Truck Service. Gene Yates. First National Bank of Oregon, Klamath Falls Branch, Carl Kelly. Jcld-Wen, Inc., Dick Wendt. - Klamath Lumber & Box, Mel Solbergi-- -,.. . ... La Pointe's, Mrs. Chloe Alex ander. Klamath Falls office, Oregon State Department of Employ ment, Leonard Sytsma. Morrison, Howard & Starbuck. Mario Martin. Pacific Power & Light Compa ny, 5yd Moon. Sherwin - Williams Paints. Bob Eaton. Swan Lake Moulding Company. Fred Ehlers. Tulana Farms, Dick Henzel. Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Dick Wylie. Some division chairmen have completed their portion of t h o campaign, while others have not made a report to the campaign cabinet as yet, Stilwell said. He urged that workers complete their solicitation before the April 30 deadline. Coordinating the cam paign is Dave Hanaman, repre sentative of the American City Bureau, professional fund raisers. Hanaman will complcje his con tract with the hospital association April 30. ; Individuals or groups desirinff to donate or pledge to the project may contact the Intercommunity Hospital Association office at 313 Main Street, immediately adja cent to the Chamber of Com merce office. Phone TU 2-4686. Dorris Vote Passes Tax DORRIS - The Dorris school board election held Tuesday re. suited in the passing of the ele. mentary school proposition, a 40 cent override tax, by a total of 20 votes. Turned down twice in previous elections, the proposi tion pulled 64 yes voles against 144 no votes. Also elected were new mem bers to tlie elementary school board, high school district board, and College of the Siskiyous Board of Trustees. Bob Edgar received 271 votes and Delorez Sundkepisf, 258 votes in the elementary school ballot ing. The two w rite-in candidates, Ernest Wells and Ruth Ryer, each received one vote. In the Joint Union High School election, AS Swain received 207; Clifford L. Gustason, 208; and John H. Carson of Red Rock. 247. Mike Judd, Bob Splane, and Anna Motchenbacher, all write in candidates, received one vote each. Candidate for tlie College Board of Trustees were Aldon James, with 211 votes, and Ray E. Mason, with 213 votes.