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By FRANK JENKINS
Mishmash in the news:
In a fountain at the University
of Kansas City there are two
marble maidens who have gone
without clothing ever since they
were sculpted back in the 1930's.
Night before last some k i n d-
hearted lor perhaps prudish) per
son painted bathing suits on them.
Question:
In view of the weather this
winter and spring, might not FUR
COATS have been more appro
priate? Dr. Peter van de Kamp. pro
fessor of astronomy at Swarth-
more College in Pennsylvania, re
ports the discovery of Barnard's
Star B which, he says, is an
INVISIBLE planet six light years
distant from the earth, 500 times
the size of the earth and one and
a half times larger than Jupiter,
the biggest planet in the solar
system.
Oucstion:
li Barnard's Star B is invisible,
how did he find it?
He explains that he found it by
tracking the movements of Bar
nard's Star, whose "irregular
movements." he says, indicated
the presence of Barnard's B.
A bit improbable, you say?
Wait a minute.
Did you ever watch a jack rab
bit that in its turn was watching
a coyote? You couldn't see the
coyote, but by the way the jack
rabbit was acting you Knew
private was there. "
That's the way ur. van oe
Kamp found his new star.
From Salem:
A battle over the major revenue
bill of the 1963 session of the
legislature the modified net re
ceipts income tax raged this
morning on the floor of the house.
In addition to the income tax.
which would raise $34 million per
biennium. the house was slated to
decide again the fate of a pro
posed four cent a pack cigarette
tax which would raise $18 million
a biennium.
The cigarette tax measure has
already led a stormy life. It was
roiortoH hv a 33-24 vote in the
house on April 8. and rcconsid
cred and sent back to the house
tav rnmmittee tha following flay.
The tax committee reacted by
sending down a sales tax
bill. The tax committee anticipat
ed the sales tax would be defeated
' but sent it to the house to clear
the way for consideration of the
income tax and reconsideration
of the cigarette tax.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Do you remember the ancient
tale of Finnigin. the railroad
brakeman, and his brief report
f iho fWailine of a car on his
freight train? It read like this
"Off ag'in,
"On ag in.
"Gone ag'in.
"PivNiniN."
That just about describes the
career of the cigarette tax in the
present session of the Oregon leg
islature. Seriously
What about this cigarette
business?
tax
it's true that Oregon is now
the only state in the Union that
doesn't have one. That s some
thing of a distinction. It is ex
pected to raise about $15 million.
which is quite a cnunK 01 money.
And it will raise the price of
cigarettes. But this must be said
for it:
You can pay the tax. or you
can QUIT SMOKING the things.
Or you can smoke a pipe. Or you
can roll your own.
You have a choice.
That's more than can be said
for most other forms of taxation
Fall Kills
Aerialisi
OMAHA, Neb. UPI - A vet
cran circus acrialist faltered as
she stood atop a 50-foot swaying
pole Thursday night, then tum
bled to her death in the green
sawdust below.
' Henrietta Grotofent. 42. a fifth
generation circus performer and
a former member of the tragedy
haunted Wallenda aerial troupe,
died almost instantly.
Mrs. Grotofent, who was billed
as "Miss Rietta." performed with
out a net. Her act was known
as "skirting on the borderline of
eternity.
Fellow performers said Miss
Rietta was "extremely nervous
the past few days.
"She was just plain worried."
said Barbara Woodcock, who has
a trained animal act. "1 think it
got a little worse each day."
The 4.666 spectators at the
Shrine Circus were stunned into
silence as a spot light followed her
fall and then for just a tew sec
ondslighted her crumpled body
as it lay fact down.
Weather
Kllmdl Falli. Tulalaka and laktviw:
Variable clouaiiwu; continuod cool wirh
Ihowara or mow flurrlat tonight and Sat
urday. Low tonight 1M7; high Saturday
41. Wottfrly wind! fr-ll m.o.h. Waokand
waarhar indkalaa littla changg wim con
tinued cool showery weather.
High yesttrday W
Low thia morning M
High year ego 0
Low year ago 37
Precip. past 14 iiouri .as
Since Jan. 1 4.S
Same period last year a.u
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YOUTHS HONORED Klamath Falls Kiwanis Club honored four high school students
Thursday as finalists in their essay contest on "Responsibility, The Key To Freedom."
A first and second place was awarded for both boys and girls. Shown here, left to right,
Steven Lawrence, second place winner; James Sibbet, first place in boys' division;
Van Mollison, director in charge of the Youth Committee; Pam Bauer, second place
girls' division; Frank Tomic, Kiwanis chairman of the Youth Committee; Kitty Stalker,
winner of the girls' division; Dick Hicks, club president; Darrell Boone, English instruc
tor at KUHS, and Gene Favell, Kiwanis district director of youth work. The four stu
dents are from KUHS.
Submarine Probe Closed
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (UPI)-A
Navy court of inquiry investigat
ing the sinking of the submarine
Thresher was unexpectedly closed
to the public today for undisclosed
reasons.
The Navy said the hearings
would be held in private and that
open sessions of the court "proba
bly" will resume Saturday morn
ing.
Lumberjack Show Ups
Hospital Drive $7,312
Eliza and the Lumberjack." a
musical production staged by the
Klamath Players at the OTI Lit
tle Theatre earlier this month,
netted $7,312.56 which will be pre
sented in the form of a check to
the Intercommunity Hospital Fund
Drive at the Victory Dinner 7
p.m., April 24. at the Winema
Motor Hotel, according to Martin
Franz of the Klamath Players.
The public is invited to the
dinner being held to celebrate
the receipt of $755,000 in cash
donations and pledges which has
been acquired ill the current
Klamath Basin fund drive to raise
some of the money needed to
finance construction of the pro
posed Intercommunity Hospital.
The money collected thus far in
the drive, which ends April 30.
exceeds the hospital committee's
self-imposed goal of $725,000.
Mrs. Robert DeRosier, publici
ty chairman of the Klamath play
ers, said she believed that the
amount of $7,312.56 would repre
sent the iargct donation made to
the hospital fund by any group of
its type.
The proceeds collected from the
play grossed $7,574.45, less $261.-
89 for expenses.
The success of the production
was the result of months of in
tensive effort by the cast and
stage crew, Mrs. DeRosier said.
Members of the production staff
G-P Announces
Sawmill Cuts
PORTLAND UPD - More cut
backs in sawmill production were
announced today by Georgia-Pacific
Corp. because of market
conditions.
The firm said the cutbacks
would affect 135 men in opera
(ions at Toledo, Ore., and Coos
Bay. It announced Wednesday It
would close its sawmill at Spring
field, Ore., April 26.
At Coos Bay. the sawmill's band
saw will be shut down April 24
with a one shift gang saw opera
lion retained. About 100 men will
be affected.
At Toledo the gang sawmill will
be reduced to one shift instead of
two starting May I. It will affect
about 35 men.
Georgia Pacific, which has
other operations in both cities.
said it has not been able to oper
ate the sawmills profitably and
that it cannot do so under "the
market conditions which we have
and expect to have."
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Officials gave no explanation
for the change in plans and did
not identify witnesses who might
appear at the closed-door session.
At the hearing Thursday, two
crewmen who by chance missed
the last dive of the submarine
which went down with 129 men
aboard, testified the ship was
plagued by mechanical difficulties
and "sloppy" work during nine
included Ellen Miller, director
Ni Patterson, choreographer; Bob
Stevens, stage manager; Elwin
Brown, lighting; Steve Peters and
Howard Schaucr, makeup; Ruth
Jones and Betty Kcllstrom, cos
tumes; John Sandmeyer, tickets;
Bill Canfield, set design; John
and Virginia Schubert, properties;
and LaMar Jensen, music direc
tor. Cast in leading roles were Win
ifred Favell and Eliza: Airman
Jerry Strickland as Tom Bar
rett; Lorrin Miller as Davis
Todd; Alice Gilbert as San Fran
cisco Annie, and Forrest Hawlcy
as Bullw hacker Joe.
Minor leads were played by Ron
Carter, Alberta Hinton. Lorraine
Johnson, Pat Bradshaw, Jean
Coddington, Jules LeBcau and
Bob Davenport.
An unexpected treat was the
appearance of Miss Indian Ameri
ca. Kamona solo, in tile Indian
scene presented by Lefty Wilder.
All materials for the production
were donated by community mind
ed local businessmen.
TOTS ADD PENNIES TO HOSPITAL DRIVE Fiye
youngsters of the Kindergarten School, 211 East Main
Street, count some of the $7.2 I they and their classmates
donated to the fund drive to help defray costs for the
construction of the proposed Intercommunity Hospital,
The $7.21 in coins was included among more than $755,
000 which has been contributed to the project since the
campaign officially opened April I. The latter figure ex
ceeds the goal of $725,000 set before the drive wat
launched, but campaign workers are continuing their
months of overhaul and tests.
In the Atlantic 220 miles cast
of Cape Cod, meanwhile, the
search for the sunken ship con
tinued amid a published report it
already had been found. The re
port was officially denied by the
Navy.
In Thursday's testimony, Ma
chinist's Mate 2.C. Frank J. De
Slefano. 29, of Hartford, Conn.,
who was transferred from Thresh
er's crew the day before she left
on her last cruise, said that de
sign changes- on the sub- may
have hampered the crew's ability
to respond w ith split-second preci
sion to emergencies.
He said some general work done
at the Portsmouth Naval shipyard
during a nine-month overhaul of
Thresher was "very sloppy
Flooding drills, held during a
March 29 dockside "fast cruise"
which simulated sea conditions,
were not as successful as they
should have been because the crew
was not familiar with a design
change in the position of the sub's
sea valves, he said.
De Stefano's testimony followed
that of a veteran submarine offi
cer who said the Thresher had
experienced continuous trouble
with the vital high pressure air
system used in surfacing.
Lt. (J.G.) Raymond J. McCoole,
33, not aboard Thresher because
his wife had a minor home ac
cident and he was granted tem
porary leave, also explained nu
merous other mechanical malfunc
tions aboard the submarine.
During the March 29 drill, De
Stcfano said, certain important
check valves with tricky labeling
were found to have been installed
backwards. This defect was found
by the sub's crew and later was
corrected, he said.
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KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON,
Income Tax
Bill Passed
By House
SALEM lUPI) - The House
passed a sweeping $35-million in
come tax bill 42-18 today in a
stunning victory for the House
Tax Committee.
The, major revenue - raising
measure went to the benate,
where its future was less certain
and some changes were expected
to be made.
The House action culminated a
session-long effort bv the commit
tee to meet the state's biggest
problem a need for some $65
million to keep state services at
their current level. The committee
has toiled to "reform" the state
income tax structure without of
fending the House and Senate by
a too-radical measure.
Passage came with surprising
swiftness after less than one hour
of debate. The House opened de
bate on the cigarette tax bill, then
recessed until 1 p.m.
The income tax bill action came
on the heels of another tax com
mittee victory: 53-7 passage of a
$9 million bank tax bill that also
went to the Senate.
(Contlnued on Page 4-A)
Theft Loss
Action Set
SALEM (UPD - An embezzle
ment case at the State Hospital
will be brought up on the House
floor as a result of action Thurs
day by a Ways and Means sub
committee. The subcommittee approved a
$16,393 special appropriation to
the Board of Control for "re
imbursing patient trust fund
losses ..."
The money was embezzled from
the patient trust fund by Cecil
Stinnette, who later served eight
months in prison.
Rep. George Flitcraft, R-Klam-
ath Falls, said. "I hope there'll
not be many bills like this. But I
guess it's best to wash this linen
out in the open."
Board of Control Secretary Nick
Pect injected: "This linen has al
ready been washed in public."
Rep. Bculah Hand, D-Milwau-
kic, said she thought the money
could have been replaced by in-
eluding a special appropriation in
the Board of Control budget.
I m not convinced this is the
wav to go about it," she reflected
"This isn't exactly going to be
a popular bill to carry on the
floor," Flitcraft said, "how do you
explain a thing like this?"
Ciu
solicitations in an effort to boost the subscriptions to $1
million. The kindergarten class began donating its pennies
for the drive soon after the school term started in Sep
tember, according to Mrs. Dean Howell and Mrs. Jerry
Wiekartham. teachers at the school. The tikes earned the
money by performing such
irons, polishing silver, and feeding goldfish, among many
other jobs. Counting the change are, loft to right, Earl
Eldridge, Larry Henderson, Christy Korsen, W. K. Patter,
son and Connie Balentyne.
FRIDAY. APRIL 19, 1963
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ADVISORY COUNCIL Members of the Winema Forest Advisory Council were
announced Thursday by Supervisor Alex Smith. They and U.S. Forest Service person
nel shown here are, front row, left to right, Frank Ganong, Laurence Shaw, Dibbon
Cook, William Sweetland and Norm Gould, Winema National Forest. Back row, Wil
liam Marshall, Smith, Herb
dale and Dwight Kircher.
Winema Forest Advisory Council
Organized
Formation of a Winema Forest
Advisory Council was announced
here today by Alex Smith, Wi
nema forest supervisor.
Members of the council include
Winston Purvinc, Jack Bishop,
Harry Boivin, William Sweetland,
Fred Hyde. Russell Tisdale, Wit
liam Marshall, Dibbon Cook, Lau
rence Shaw, Dwight Kircher and
Frank Ganong. Smith is chair
man of the council.
The group held an organization
al meeting at the Winema Hotel
Thursday with Regional Forester
Herb Stone, Portland, in attend
ance.
The function of the council is
to consider broad questions of pol
icy, programs and procedures af
fecting the administration of For
est Service activities on the Wi
nema National Forest, and to give
the Forest Supervisor the bene
fit of opinions of members of the
council.
Questions and problems for con
sideration of the committee will
be Dicsenled by the Forest Su
pervisor or developed by individ
ual members of the committee.
The committee will meet at least
twice annually, and one of the
meetings will be a field trip
through the Winema.
"We feel a strong tie between
the Winema National Forest and
the community," Smith told the
council momliers at the Thursday
session. "I am hopeful that sug
ncstions of the council and inte
rested citizens will be forthcom
ing as a result of this decision
tasks as cleaning fireplace
Telephone-
Chief
Stone, regional forester, Portland; Fred Hyde, Russell Tis-
At Meeting
to organize a citizens' council,
the supervisor added.
The Forest Service is the
agent of the people of the na
tion in representing their inter
ests in the forest and public
lands, Smith said.
While the council will be in an
advisory capacity, final decisions
on all matters pertaining to the
Winema will remain the responsi
bility of the supervisor and the
Forest Service, Smith explained
Among topics tor early con
sideration by the council will be:
District multiple use plans as
suggested by the rangers in each
Debate Faced
On Apportion
Revise Plans
SALEM UPI- Three separate
courses on legislative apportion
ment were taken Thursday by
members of the House and Senate
Committees on Constitutional Re
vision, with a house floor debate
looming on two of them.
The House committee adopted a
plan similar to the present one for
handing out legislative seats. The
change is that a flexible feature
would be added in determining
the population figure per law
maker, so that the House and
Senate would still end up with 60
and 30 members.
Oregon's present plan has a
built-in conflict which this would
eliminate.
Meanwhile, Reps. Richard Ev-
mann, D-Mnrcola, and Veola Wil
mot, D-Eugenc, said they plan to
take a minority report to the floor
urging adoption of the plan of the
Constitutional Revision Commis
sion. That plan would bring Ore
gon even nearer one man, one
vote."
The House committee action
came after the Senate committee
earlier adopted, and the House
rejected, the plan advocated by
Rep. Stafford Ilanscll, R-Hcrmis-
ton. which would make sizes of
the houses flexible, another way
of eliminating the present built-in
conflict.
The two committees have been
trying o find common ground on
each point in the proposed consti
tution.
But the document would go first
to the House, and the committee
concensus seemed to be in favor
of testing sentiment on the two
apportionment plans before worry
ing more about the conflict with
the Senate committee.
In effect, the plans adopted by
the House and Senate committees
arc not far apart.
The committees nudged hy a
milestone Thursday, but didn't get
(ar past it.
TU 4-8111 No. 7120
Thursday
of Wincma's three ranger dis
tricts.
Establishment and implementa
tion of planning for development
of resources in the Sky-Lake coun
try, and consideration of area
status. - 1 .
What should be done about prac
tices involving summer homes on
Forest Service lands.
Timber rc-inventory and estab
lishment of allowablo cuts in the
Winema.
Grazing capacities on that por
tion of the forest formerly in the
Klamath Indian Reservation and
development of range manage
ment plans.
Recreation planning and imple
mentation.
Game management in the Wi
nema and how it is related to oth
er areas in the proximity of the
national forest.
Formulation of policies and
practices regarding the multiple
use of forest areas.
Members of the council will be
organized into subcommittees for
the purpose of studying and re
porting on specilic items. Smith
explained.
Crew Unhurt
In Derailment
Southern Pacific railway crew
men escaped injury in the de
railment of two diesel units on a
southbound SP freight train near
Dorris at 6 a.m. Friday.
SP officials termed the damage
minor and said there will be
about a four-hour delay in pas
senger train traffic. The cause
of the accident is not known.
A southbound passenger train
that arrived in Klamath Falls
at 7:45 a.m. will be held up until
about 10 a.m. and a northbound
passenger train that as due to
arrive in Klamath at 10:05 a.m.
is not expected to arrive until
11 a.m.
This is the second derailment
on the line this week. Late Sunday
night 17 cars on another freight
were derailed near Hotlum
Cam. There were no injuries in
this accident either although
there was considerable damage to
the cars.
Tribal Meeting
Slated Saturday
An important meeting for all
mcmliors of the Klamath Tribe
has been scheduled for the Wi
nema Hotel at 1 p.m. Saturday,
April 20.
Don C. Gormlcy, Washington,
D.C., attorney will bo here for
the meeting which will be of vital
concern to all members of the
I Klamath Tribe.
Weather
AGRICULTURAL WCATHIR
UniMMnably cool air and totl ttmpffra
hires continuing tftrough Sunday. Snow
idowtrt tontght and Sahirttay, diminish
ng on Sunday. War mar lamperaturas and
mora sunshina will caut soma drying
conditions en Monday and Tuasday,
Miro Says
JFK Failed
In Promise
MIAMI (UPD - Antonio de Va-
rona, vice-president of the Cuban
(refugee) Revolutionary Council.
sought today to rebuild the exile
group following the stormy resig
nation of President Jose Miro
Cardona.
Miro, 60, resigned Thursdav
charging that President Kennedy
lauea 10 Keep a promise to mount
a second invasion of Cuba to top
ple the regime of Premier Fidel
Castro.
The State Department issued a
statement in Washington calling
Miro's charge a distortion of the
truth and saying the United States
could not allow Cuban refugees
10 icaa it into possible war with
Russia.
Seven other members of the 17
membcr CRC resigned with Miro,
pulling out four of the six politi
cal groups in the council, which
has been the chief representative
of 250.000 Cuban exiles In th.
United States.
The nine reinaininj! mpmhpi-
planned to meet today to decide
on me council's future. It was not
known whether it would continue
10 receive financial backing from
me u.o. government.
Miro gave newsmen copies of a
10.000-word "white paper" shortly
after the final 10-minute session
with the council during which he
announced his resignation. It
gave his version of talks with
President Kennedy following the
abortive invasion of Cuba in
April, 1061.
Breaks With Associate
Varona broke with his longtime
associate during the session over
release of the statement and the
two men argued vehemently, ac
cording to informed sources.
Varona said following the meet
ing that publication of confidences
in Miro's document would mpan
that "no government is ooine to
deal with Cuba exiles" in the fu
ture.
"I will fight to maintain and '
rebuild the council," Varona said.
Miro went into seclusion. Dre-
sumably at his Miami Beach
home. He received permission
Thursday from the government of
Cosla Rica to live in political
asylum in that Central American
country.
The U.S. government lias made
no attempt to deport Miro and
there were indications he might
remain in the Miami area.
Praises Red Strategy
Miro's long statement credited
Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush
chev with a "master stroke" lasl
October, heading off the second
invasion purportedly promised by
Kennedy.
. The exile leader said Kennedy
personally cleared the way for a
second Cuban invasion at a White
House meeting April 10, 1962.
When the Caribbean crisis arose
last Oct. 22 over the placement
of Russian missiles in Cuba, Miro
said Cuban refugees trained by
the U.S. Army, were poised to
form the vanguard of an Invasion
force.
The invasion never came.
Khrushchev agreed to withdraw
the missiles, the United States
lifted its naval blockade and the
two countries announced the cri
sis is over.
Bill Entered
On Goose Lake
SACRAMENTO (UPI)-Leglsla-lion
ratifying the Oregon-California
Goose Lake Interstate Com
pact was Introduced hi the assem
bly yesterday.
The bill, by Assemblywoman
Pauline Davis. D-Portola, would
take effect Immediately.
The compact forbids any expor.
tation of water from the lake, and
establishes appropriation Tights
between the two states. The two
states' border run through the
center of the lake.
Oregon already has ratified the
contract, which also needs to be
approved by Congress,
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