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Newspaper Page Textcoup. Wont her .o i?ri M e Day's Sews By FRANK. JENKINS The news today? You may be surprised. The federal government is con sidering the idea of taking over the problem of Daylight Saving Time. Three bills to that effect are now before the Senate commerce committee. One of them is by Senator Warren Magnuson. of our neighboring state of Washington. Another is by Senator Norris Cot ton, of New Hampshire. The third is by Senator A. Willis Robert son, of Virginia. Senator Magnuson and Senator Robertson are Democrats. Sena tor Cotton is a Republican. So. you see, the idea that the federal government should take over the Daylight Saving Time mess is getting so popular that neither party wants the other party to get the credit for bringing it about. That's the politics of it. senator Magnuson s bill pro vides for a federal agency to es tablish, after hearings, Daylight Saving Time within zones. It would set the change-over dates as tlie last Sunday in April and the last Sunday in October. Senator Magnuson's bill is of fered at tlie request of the Inter state Commerce Commission which, one suspects, may be be ginning to wonder how the heck interstate commerce can be car ried on at all if (as seems not improbable at the moment I every state in the Union and maybe every town and every county has a different kind of time. Question: Just what is a DAY? Again you may be surprised There are DIFFERENT KINDS of days. The period between the lime when the sun moves across the great circle in the sky which ex tends north and south through a point DIRECTLY OVER US, is called the "apparent solar day." More complications: This "apparent solar day is not always the same in its length. because the motion of the earth varies in its orbit, or path around the sun. Therefore scientists have developed a unit of time which is intended to be always the same in length. That unit has been adopted as the standard for the measure ment of time, and is called tlie "mean solar day." It is as long as the average "apparent solar day" in 1900. And- , At one time The mean solar day was con sidered to begin at noon. The civil day used for measuring the day for calendar purposes began at midnight. But in 1925. the use of a solar day beginning at noon was abolished by international agreement among astronomers. Day is now considered to begin at midnight This day and night business, you see. Is a complicat ed affair. It's little wonder that we get all snarled up when we tart trying to make changes in the way we handle day and night. Fidel Visits K's Family MOSCOW (LIM - Cuban Pre mier Fidel Castro and Premieri Nikila Khrushchev look a break in their private talks in the Krem lin today and joined the Soviet leader's family for a day in the country. i With them were President Leon id Brezhnev and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and their wives. the news agency Tass said The agency gave no details of what appeared to be chiefly a so-' cial event, and said "Khrushchev and Castro struck up a lively con versation." Other Cuban and Soviet officials joined the partv at the country house. Tass said, following the two leaders' apparently satisfying pri vate talks Monday on military and economic aid for the Carib bean Communist state. , Castro was reported highly sat' Islied with his talks with Khrush chev so far on Russian military and economic assistance. Mother Jailed For Aid Fraud PORTLAND. I'PI1 - A mother of eight children was sent to pris on for welfare fraud Monday. Circuit Judge Virgil Lanctry sentenced Mrs. Dorothy June Becker. 40, to a maximum term of three years. The Judge said he hoped the punishment would serve as "an example" to her children. The state claimed the woman drew welfare funds while also draw ing unemployment compensa tion, working at various jobs and receiving a $2,400 settlement from an automobile accident. She was found uilty by a jury in February- KUmath Fill, Tultlakt and Laktviaw Parity cloudy toniahr and WMnttdiy. Chanc of brief thowtrs tonight, contin ued mild. Lows foniflht hiqh Wed nesday 40. Westerly winds Ml m.p.h. gusty at limes. HI9I1 yesterday 41 Low last n9ht jl High year ago 43 Low year ago li Procip. past 24 twuri .W Sine Jan. 1 4JI fame period last year e-tt cm. ..-.... f Iff 'V ' $ k PA COMMUNISTS SHOW POWER Italian Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti, top, appeared to be the big winner and Premier Amintore Fanfani, bottom, seemed the big loser as returns in Italy's crucial general elections indicated the Communists had picked up one out of every four votes. Fanfani's government was threatened by the balloting and a possible five years of political instability for the country was predicted by experts. Both men are shown as they cast their ballots. UPI Telephoto Italian Commies Gain Mew Power ROME (UPD The powerful Communist party polled one out of every four votes in Italy's cru cial national elections and today served notice that this country should chart a "new political course." Communist party leader Palmiro Togliatti, in a post-election state ment, indicated that the Reds would pull the political rug out from under Christian Democratic Premier Amintore Fanfani and his center-left government. The Communists have recorded a gain in every Italian election, and the 23.7 per cent they picked up in the latest parliamentary vot ing Sunday and Monday carried them to a new high. Togliatti promptlv used the gain as a lever to hint that five years of political instability possibly lie ahead for the country, because even though the Christian Demo crats emerged as the largest sin gle party their total was, not enough to permit them to govern alone. The Red boss hinted that his' party's victory should bring the Socialists back to the Communist fold. The Socialists headed by Pet ro Xenni have been supporting Fanfani's coalition regime. Togliatti hinted that the Com munists and Socialists, who be- tween them could carry nearly 40 per cent of the Vules in Parlia menl, could decide what road this "I ' Aaayjr '- .? ) ENTHUSIASTIC SPONSORS Klamath Branch. AAUW, is on of the local women's groups sponsoring the Klamath Community Music Festival to be proiented Tuesday, May 14, at Mills Auditorium. Jean Underwood, left, teket tickets from Mrs. E. E. Howard to place on sale at OTI where she is instructor. AAUW members will also take tickets end serve s ushers for this first concert. Proceeds from the performance will benefit the Klamath Community Symphony. Price Ten Cents 14 Pagei "X- -: i&atoAjiTtrmt.j.i , .-.a'smi country should follow in the next five years. "It seems to me certain that a new political course has been opened in Italy," Togliatti said, "in which tlie initiative of our party and of left-wing democratic fores if united could have a de cisive part." His statement added that our party has obtained a great vic tory." Togliatti's words carried the Ihrcat of political instability for this NATO member nation. If the Communists and Socialists team up, as they did in the "people's Front" in 1948, they could cause endless trouble in parliament. With five-sixths of the vote counted, tlie Christian Democrats polled 37.2 per cent of the vote, down from their 1938 figure of 42 41 per cent. At this point, the Socialists also were running behind their 19j8 figures. They polled 13.8 per cent of the vote this time, compared with 14 2 per cent in 1938. The Neo-Fascists went up to 5 8 per cent from 4.8 per cent. Social Democrats 8 per cent from 4 3 per cent. Liberals 6.9 per cent from 3.5 per cent, while the Mon archists dropped to 18 per cent from 4.8 per cent five years ago. The Republicans polled the same 1 4 per cent thev did in the last elections, while all others fell from a total of 1.7 per cent five years ago to 1 4 per cent at present. OAS PORT-AU-PRINCE. Haiti UP1 A five-man truce team from the Organization of American States arrived today for on-the-spot ef forts to stave off threatened war between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The peace-makers, headed by Colombia's Alberto Zuleta Angel, were met on their arrival by rep resentatives of the Haitian Foreign Office. They were scheduled to meet immediately with Haiti's Foreign Minister Rene Chalmers at the palace. Truce-team members saw no evidence of military movements in Port-au-Prince, at least at the air port where their commercial transport landed. Two U.S. Ma rine Corps helicopters were on the field. T'le helicopters were assumed Tornadoes Kill Dozen In Midwest By United Press International Tornadoes and powerful thunder storms killed 12 persons in five Southern and Midwest states Mon day night and winds up to hurri cane lorce roamed the midlands today. The latest of a vicious series ot springtime twisters and storms killed five persons in Mississippi, three in Tennessee, two in Mis souri, and one each in Alabama and Indiana. Damage to wrecked homes and businesses totaled mil lions of dollars. The onslaught continued today with hurricane force winds of 98 miles per hour slamming through the south Texas community of Kenedy. Torrential rains lashed the town and the high winds blew outbuildings apart and knocked down power lines.. - To the north, whole gale warn ings were hoisted on Lakes Michi gan. Erie and St. Clair. Coast Guard vessels plowed through waves 10 to 20 feel hihj on Lake Michigan in search of a 25-foot powerboat reported missing Monday night with twn Ludington, Mich., men aboard. The boat set out for Ludington Sunday night from Sheboygan, Wis. Pounding rains and freakish, wintry weather followed the torna does. The Weather Bureau report ed an unofficial measurement of eight inches of rain in seven hours at Fort Payne, Ala. Springfield. Ill . had more than an inch of rain in GO minutes, plus GO-mile-an-hour winds. There was two inches of rain at Rockford. 111., and 3 25 inches of rain at Oak Lawn. 111.. near Chicago. Full Crew Law Signed By Mark SALEM I UPI i The pollution control bill and railroad full crew- measure were signed into law Mnndav by Gov. Mark Hatfield. Both measures will become ef- leclive 90 days alter the legisla ture adjourns. The full crew law represented a victorv for the railroad brother hoods. The railroads had intro duced a bill to revoke the law which requires three brakemen on mainline freight trains. KLAMATH FALI.S, OREGON, Truce Team Tries For to be here to aid in the with drawal of the 30-man U.S. naval training mission which Haiti called on the United States to pull out last F'riday. Only the usual handful of Haiti an army transport craft was in evidence at the airfield. In down town Port-au-Prince, apparent calm existed. There was no sign of unusual military activity. The OAS group confirmed on its arrival that Haiti, as pledged, had withdrawn police forces from the Dominican Embassy, as de manded by the Dominican govern ment. Zuleta Angel said the truce team would meet with President Fran cois Duvalier this evening, prior to an official reception in their behalf tendered by the Haitian government at Villa Creole. TORNADO WRECKAGE Debris of this former resort on the east shore of Moon Lake near Lula, Mist., was typical of the devastation left by a late afternoon tornado which roared across the Mississippi River end struck the area, killing at least four and injuring nine Monday. UPI Telephoto Question Counsel The question of proper legal counsel for withdrawing mem bers of the Klamath Indian Tribe in their suit to recover addition al funds from the federal gov ernment has been raised by Wade Crawford. Crawford has taken issue with the statement of the law firm of Wilkinson. Cragun and Barker, Washington, DC. on two count. First, he questioned their meth ods in attempting to have with drawing members sign a state ment authorizing that firm to rep resent them in further suits, and he also questioned the use of some $350,000 in tribal funds for pressing individual suits against the government. Crawford refers to the ruling of Commissioner Herbert N. Ma- letz of the U.S. Court of Claims. filed on April 17. 1963. to the ef-, feet that the individual withdraw ing member and not the tribe is the real party in interest in the suits filed in the Court of Claims. The commissioner ruled in fa Committee Okays New Constitution SALEM UPI '-A proposed new state constitution won 8-1 commit tee approval today and was sent to the House floor for action Mon day. The "do pass" recommendation from the House Committee on constitutional Revision culminated more than three months of com mittee work on the document. The dissenting committee vote came from Rep. Robert Coappel. R Portland. Chappel said the leg islative committee had made too many changes in Ihe document, written by tne Commission on Constitutional Revision. Now. the proosed constitution faces its hardest lest so far. It needs a two-thirds vote of Ihe House, and then of the Senate, lo be sent on to the people lor ratifi cation next year; Rep. John 'Dellcnbat x. R-Mcd-ford, chairman of the House.com. mittee. said he will ask to have the constitution made a special orrler of business Monday. The proposed constitution would replace one written 105 years ago and amended 111 limes. The House committee has met jointly with its Senate counterpart most of this session. Since the constitution laced action first on the Hou.e side, however, the TUESDAY, APRtt, 30, 1963 The truce team stopped off at Santo Domingo for 15 minutes, en route here from San Juan, Puerto! Rico, where it spent the night, and Zuleta Angel held a brief airport conference there with Dominican Foreign Minister Andres Freites. The Colombian said tlie OAS peace-makers probably will be in Port-au-Prince for three or four days, prior to returning to Santo Domingo for an on-the-spot inves tigation of Dominican complaints against Haiti. The immediate threat of hostili ties between the two countries was cased Monday night when Haiti agreed to withdraw a police man from tlie Dominican Embas sy in Port-au-Prince, as had been demanded by the Dominican gov ernment. But the Haitian backdown was r-J . '-5 ' oVi Raised On Legal For Indian Claim vor of the Anderson suit which is represented by the law firm of Whitcford, Hart, Carmody and Wilson of Washington. DC, Wil liam E. Rollow, Esq., of counsel. The controversy arose over the filing of two suits against the government, one known as the Anderson suit, which has now been upheld as a legitimate suit, and the other, filed by Morris Jimenez. Patrick Shelp and Syl van Crume on behalf of the w ith drawing members. Tlie latter suit, according to the ruling of live commissioner, was ruled out in his conclusion which permits in dividual members to file suit, but not three persons to file a suit on behalf of all withdrawing members. Commissioner Herbert X. Ma letz of the U.S. Court of Claims, filed an "Opinion and Conclusion" on April 17, 19U, that the indi vidual withdrawing member and not the tube is the real party in interest in the suits-filed in tlie Court of Claims. House committee made some fi nal decisions on its own. If the document is not killed in the House, a few differences with Ihe Senale committee will have to be ironed out. The proposed constitution sheds a number of obsolete provisions, moderni7es language, shifts de tails to the laws, retains much of Oregon's traditional government framework, and makes some sub stantive changes. The major change is in the ex ecutive branch, where the gover nor would he tlie sole statewide elective executive officer and agencies would be grouped in 20 departments to clarify authority and responsibility. An elective secretary of state would serve as a "watchdog." performing post audits as check on the administration. The House committee made Its final major decision today when it decided how lo handle vacant judgeships Vacancies in midterm would be filled by appointment u they are now. The small percent age of end of term vacancies would initially be filled by ap pointment, with tlie appointee lo face the voters and any would-be opponent within three years. Telephone followed by a midnight statement from Dominican President Juan Bosch who demanded that the Haitian government also guaran tee the safety of 22 Haitian politi cal refugees in the Dominican Embassy at Port-au-Prince. Bosch notified OAS Council Chairman Gonzalo Facio of Costa Rica that Dominican Embassy personnel would not be withdraw n from tlie Haitian capital until safe conduct was granted to the Haitian political refugees as well as the three Dominican diplomats. Dominican Foreign Minister An dres Freites communicated his government's demand to Haitian Foreign Minister Rene Chalmers in a separate note. Bosch warned in his note that he would take all necessary measures to protect Dominican Tlie Commissioner ruled in fa vor of the Anderson Miit which is represented by the law firm of Whitcford. Hart, Carmody ;nd Wilson of Washington, D.C., Wil liam E. Rollow E&q., of counsel. On Page 71 paragraph 2 in the "conclusion" the commissioner stated: "Beyond that, the tribe has no pecuniary interest what ever in the lands taken and dis posed of. Indeed, should there he judgment in this case, not one cent would go to the tribe: the contrary, judgment by UiLs court would require payment di rectly to the withdrawing lndi ins. Furthermore, the conclusion stales: "If the claim is tribal, then, in view of Congress' plenary power over tribal property, then value thereof for just compensa tion purposes would be deter mined as of I960 and 1961, when the marsh, forest areas and fringe units were taken or sold. But, if the claim belongs to tlie individual members, the value would be determined as of the date when members had rights' vested and this date was no lat er than lite date of partition in 1938. For the principle is eslah lished that when property rights are vested in the memliers of (Continued on Page 4) aaMMWBaBwiwapawaswwaiiwawiw h i'iwnp'"W""a''i. ywxswr-w ...w.. '' m : W) fen Ski ' frs a- , ; 5? STATE rI :. j LL fc -iiate-iiin y ajataMaaJ baaaMUwiaMwwtliHaia)aw NEW KUHS OFFICERS The Klamath Union Hiqh School student body Friday elected its slate of new officers for the cominq school year. Dave Piper, a unior this year, was elected student body president. Other officers, e t e H from left, are Janet Denham, freshman, third vice president, end Jessie Powell, junior, lecritary. Stendlnq are Roy Van Pelt, junior, business manager; Piper; Jim Drew, sophomore, second vice president; Ron Bonham, junior, first vice president, end Cindy Miller, not pictured, junior, yell queen. TU 4-MII No. 7129 citizens in Haiti. Dominican air force, naval and army units stood poised to back the latest warning. Two Domini can destroyers and three frigates were ready to steam to the Hai tian capital on the other end of the island of Hispaniola. Tanks and troops moved toward tlie border Monday. Earlier, the Dominican Foreign Office had said the Haitian gov ernment had sent word that a Haitian policeman had -been with drawn from the Dominican Em bassy in Port Au Prince and guarantees gnuitcd to all 25 per sons. The Haitian government of strongman President Francois Duvalier thus appeared to have bowed to a Dominican ultimatum. easing the crisis that started Sat- Met Receipt Tax Draws Criticism SALEM (UPD Vigorous opposi- tion to the House-approved modi fied net receipts-graduated income tax proposal was expressed Mon day before the Senate Taxation Committee. The opposition came from tlie Portland Chamber of Commerce, Associated Oregon Industries, the AFL-CIO, Oregon Tax Research, and a private tax attorney. After almost two hours of oppo sition testimony. Sen. Waller Pearson. D-I'ortland. commented: "Maybe we should invite Mr. Ey mann to testify." Rep. Richard Eymann, D-Mar cola, is chairman of the House Tax Committee which drafted the Ifoposal to raise an additional $35 million a bienmum. Main opposition was to the net receipts feature, and the elimina tion, of tiie federal income tax- de duction. While the Senate committee made no comment, it seemed like ly the Senate would strip the net receipts feature, restore deduc tions for federal income taxes, ad just the rates, and then send it to the floor. If the Senate ww lo pass such a bill, it would then have to go to a conference committee. Rate 'Too High" Richard Brown and Robert Hall of the Portland Chamber of Com merce argued the House bill's rate structure was too high, and said a proposed $22 lax credit would not expand the lax base. Hall said the major share of the state's income taxes now were paid by 25 per cent of the taxpay ers, and that the House measure would increase their tax burden. "You can't expect 25 per cent of lite families In educate every one else's children, he said. The chamlicr proposes a 2'4 per cent net receipts lax, with ex panded capital gains relief and reduced property taxes. Tom Scanlon, AFL-CIO, said organized labor opposed the House hill primarily because of the "gross income tax." his term for tlie net receipts proposal. He said labor favored eliminating the fed eral deduction. Scanlon commented that elimi nating the federal deduction would raise $50 million a bienmum. Portland Tax Attorney David Patullo said high bracket taxpay ers were leaving Oregon because Weather AGRICULTURAL FOMCAST - Ttrnparalurti will contlnu mild for tht next raw day! with so par ent chanca at tluwart tonight. Tht outlook tor tha ml of tha wtok It tunny and mild until Friday. eace unlay with the alleged Haitian violation of the embassy. But Bosch's note indicated the safe conduct guarantees had not yet been issued by midnight and tlie situation remained tense. Venezuela, which also has a history of friction with Haiti, Monday offered the Dominican Republic full armed support hi the dispute, according to the Do minican Foreign Office. The Haitian charge d'affaires in Santo Domingo, Jean Louis Charles, requested political asy lum today and it was quickly granted. Charles, who was due to return home following the break in relations, attributed his defec tion to "the increasing acts of re pression and violations of inter national conduct" of the Duvalier regime. - - of the tax structure. He said eliminating the federal deduction would send more high bracket taxpayers out of state. Other Highlights Relief Bills to give tax relief to businesses with large inven tories and to suburban farmers passed the House and went to the Senate. The House also approved and sent to the Senate a property tax exemption for labor temples. Milk The House passed and sent tlie Senate a bill to provide minimum milk prices for dairy farmers. Signed Bills lo strengthen anti pollution laws and to retain the railroad lull crew law were signed by the governor. Water A measure authorizing creation of water conservancy districts passed the House and went to tlie Senate. Commerce A measure to estab lish a department of commerce got unanimous approval of tlie House State and Federal Affairs Committee and wenl to Ways and Means. Milk Price Bill Okayed SALEM IUPI) A milk price Icontrnl bill was on its way lo the Senate today after getting 40-18 'approval in tlie House. Hie lower chamber passed the bill Monday despite objections that it ignores the consumer. The action highlighted one of the House's busiest days as the lower chamber stayed in session until 3:55 p.m. Tie bill would provide for min imum prices to dairy farmers based on milk market areas. Rep. Kcssler Cannon, R Bend, said tlie dairy industry wanted slate instead of federal controls. Hep. Don McKinnis, D-Summer-ville. said that without legislation "we'll see a price war. Tlie dairy industry will bo in trouble." Rep. Shirley Field. R-Portland, tried to get tlie bill killed. "We also represent consumers," she said. "This would freeze tho retail price to the consumer."