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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rescinded the closure which had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. It would let the
superintendent of an institution- re
main in office until a qualified
successor is found.
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