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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1963)
)Ki HU, Ut. TU. Uf PA M Off. 47? Hatfield Urges Legislature To Create Natural Resource Department SALEM HJPD-Gov. Mark Hat field Issued a special statement Thursday urging the 1963 legisla ture to culminate 28 years of plan ning by creating a state depart ment of natural resources. The governor's message came shortly after House Minority Leader F. K. Montgomery, R-Eu- gene, charged that a bill to create such a department has been sent to the Ways and Means Commit tee to kill it. The bill won 6-2 approval of the House Natural Resources Com mittee last week after extensive hearings and much redrafting. It would group natural resource agencies in six main divisions, in side a department headed by an appointee of the governor. There would be an overall nat ural resources board, with strict qualifications for its members. There also could be advisory com mittees for the divisions: Fish and "I hate to pass by this place! It always reminds me of Janle's father!" Berlin Refugee Relates Escape In Armored Car BERLIN (UPI)-A young refu gee wounded in an escape to West Berlin in a Communist armored car said today his successful flight was a miracle. Wolfgang Engels, 19, a mechan ic, told police dn a hospital bed side interview that only a lucky chance gave 'him an opportunity to get away from the Communist onoression he hated. Exhausted but happy, the youth told his story as he recovered from a successful emergency op eration that removed an East German tommygun bullet from his chest. Doctors said he was out of dan ger and his condition was satis factory. Engels said he stole a Soviet made armored personnel carrier from an East German repair shop fie worked in and drove it 10 miles from the East Berlin district of ICarlshorst to the American sector border. "It was a miracle that I was Fire Season Bill Signed Governor Mark Hatfield on April 16 signed House Bill 1112, which changes the beginning date of the closed fire season. ;The old law established April 1 as the start of the closed season. The new law provides that the season will not be closed until proclaimed by the Governor, based on the local fire weather conditions in each district. This might be earlier than April 1 or later, depending on the danger. Signing of the bill automatically rescinded the closure which had gone Into effect April .1. Burning permits are not now required, and will not bo until the uovernor proclaims the season closed again This will be done on the recom mendation of the Klamath Forest Protective Association, the Wine ma National Forest, and the Fremont National Forest. -Further information about the , new law can be obtained from the offices of KFPA and the Wi- nema National Forest. able to eet the armored oar ami that I could drive it all that way without being stopped," he said. "I knew how to operate the car Irom working on them. "But I never had Hrivon AnB before." Fed Up With Communism "I had nn real nlnn tn acnann Wednesday nieht althmmh I want . ed more than anything in the world to get away from East Germany. I was fed up with com munism. I could not take anv more. "Then I saw the car standing ready to L'o and nnmp.-itvlnJ in ih shop yard. I knew I would not gci anoincr good chance like that so I jumped in and took off. "No one made any attempt to stop me until I was at the wall. I suppose evervone thnnnht I huA a right to drive the car." Just before he reached the bor der, EngeU said he stopped at a main street corner and inviforl group of people standing there to go along. No one accepted. Car Wedged in Wall The armored car hnlfi.rpi a fiv barbed wire. In getting through the wire, the refntxw lvao ,.,,t severely all over his body. ine car was wedged in the wall. Engels was shot whn i out through the hatch and defi antly shouted at eastern border guards: "Let's go fellows. Come along with me." "I had planned to crawl through the hole in the wall but I could not because it was stopped up with barbed wire and masonry dislodged by the impact," he said. "I had to scale the wall." As he climbed up on the wall one of 5 tommygun bullets pene trated his back, passed through a rib and lodged in his chest. An other grazed his left hand. He fell into the barbed wire on lop of the six-foot wall and was rescued by two West Berlinors who climbed the wall under east ern fire to get at him. They pulled Engles through the barbed wire. In getting through Hi wire, the refugee was cut severely all over his body. j Cars Burned By Backfire Backfires were blamed for set ting two cars afire in as many unrelated incidents Wednesday, the Klamath Falls Fire Depart ment has reported. At 2:41 p.m., firemen were sum moned to the 500 block on Main Street where an automobile be longing to Norman Jackson, Chil- oquin, had caught lire. Minor damage was to the paint on the hood of the car, firemen said. At 10:27 p.m., firemen went to South Fifth Street and Klamath Avenue and extinguished another fire in an automobile. Small dam age was reported to the vehicle registered to Roger Ballard. game, agriculture, forestry, water resources, mineral resources, and small boats and harbors. Fiscal Implications House Speaker Clarence Barton sent the bill on to Ways and Means for a study of its fiscal implications. Montgomery accused Barton of planning to let it die there. Legislators have received much pressure against the bill from groups that would be involved in the reorganization. Hatfield noted Gov. Charles Martin was elected in 1935 on a plank including a department of natural resources. He said since then such a department was rec ommended by OrfgM'j Little Hoover Commission in 1949, by Govs. Douglas McKay, Robert Holmes and Charles Sprague, by a special committee on reorgam zation in 1961, and by several in terim committees. Hatfield said the House commit tee this session has studied the bill with thoroughness that "de serves commendation." The new department, if approv ed, would have some 1,500 em ployes and a $35 million budget. Has Safeguards Hatfield said the bill retains numerous safeguards and legisla tive controls, while at the same time offering a "unified approach to resource management" that would provide clear lines of responsibility, greater efficiency, and more resource management values. He said it would eliminate many controversies now surround ing areas of resource manage ment in Oregon. The House Thursday received a bill that would require at least ;hree votes to elect a precinct committeeman. Sponsor Edward Branchfield, R-Medford, said it would eliminate one-to-one tic votes in precincts where no one files and several persons vote for themselves. The House Food and Dairying Committee failed 5-4 to approve a milk price control bill and send it to the floor. The committee may try again. A bill aimed at allowing Warden Clarence Gladden to remain on duty at the State Prison beyond his retirement see. which arrives this year, was approved by thej Senate Committee on Buiiaings and Institutions. 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