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iH.tiuv COUP. In Tie- Day's Sews By FRANK JENKINS In New Hampshire, the gover nor signs a sweepstakes bill that has kept the state in turmoil for months and calls on the legisla ture to help him make it work "efficiently and in compliance with the laws of the United States government." He says tickets for the sweep stakes, first to be legalized in any state in nearly 70 years, can be sold to persons whether or not they live in New Hampshire. He adds: "It is perfectly lawful for our neighbors to come here on vacations, buy sweepsianes net ets and collect their prizes if they win." He says federal law is con cerned only with interstate traf fic and not with sweepstakes con ducted within a single state. What's a sweepstakes? - Webster defines it as "the whole stake on an event, a given amount being put up by each contestant and the slake awarded either ALL to the winner or in shares to several. A LOTTERY offering to distribute sweepstakes as prizes." What's a lottery? According to Webster, it's "scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot; especially. scheme in which lots or chances are sold." Historically, over the world state lotteries have been the last resort of a bankrupt state that has taxed and taxed until there isn't much left to be taxed. So, the slate falls back on the lottery, realizing that people will GAMBLE regardless, if per mitted to. Governor King concludes: "As (or those who raise the fear of undesiiable elements in vading our state, I firmly be lieve the fear i8 without founda tion. I am convinced that we can conduct an honest and respectable operation that will have the tendency to discourage those who seek gain in this field." Let's cite a little history: In 1868, the bankrupt state of Louisiana established a lottery. By 1890, the lottery's power had become so great that it was able to control to a large extent the jjpljtjco of the stale in its own In- ICi tM- - - Its revenues were enormous One-third of ALL the mail mat ter received at New Orleans was addressed to the lottery, while the money orders which it cashed exceeded 130.000 a day. In these inflated days, of 'course, $30,000 a day is mere pocket change, but in the Louisiana of 1830 it was an IMMENSE sum The lottery dominated the whole state of Louisiana. But lire MORAL sentiment of the state revolted against the continuance of such a gigantic gambling concern. When the com pany prepared to ask for a renew al of its charter, a determined campaign against renewal was ..launched. The lottery company of fered to pay a million dollars a vear fi 23 years as a renewal fee. By a liberal use of money, a proposal to amend the constitu lion in order to allow the compa ny a new charter was pushed through the legislature by a two- thirds majority, but was vetoed by the governor. An amendment to the constitution of the state was submitted to popular vote The people of the state then divided into two parties one pro lottery and one anti-lottery. The anti-lottery candidate SWEPT THE STATE. That cooked the fa mous Louisiana lottery's goose, and at the expiration of its char ter the lottery outfit abandoned Louisiana and moved to Hondur- ss-tt-hich by then hod ;pc.-.t itself into bankruptcy and needed the lottery racket to pull itself out of the hole. New Hampshire's governor is conlidcnt that he can make a great success out of & state lot lory, raking in enough money out of it to put his stale hack on its financial feet. Maybe he can. But the experience of-Louisiana tome seven decades tgn is rather interesting. Ballot Ups Red Threat ROVE ' CPU The result of Italy's fifth posl-ftar general elec tions today put the country under its most serious threat from do mestic communism in IS years. The election outcome appeared to doom Premier Amintcre Fan fani's pro-Western center-left gov ernment and promised a period ,of political instability for Italy, a kfy member of the North Atlantic Treaty Orcaniiation and the Euro pean Common Market. Weather Klamath Falls, Tultlakt and lakavlaw: Variable cfatidlntu tonight and Thunday wilt) soma snowart en Thuraday. Low to night u-40. High Thursday H. Windl watt and southwest t-ll mj.li. High yetterday ad Low thlt morning 33 High yaar ago " at Low yaar ago a) 43 Pracip. pan 3 houri .00 Since Jan. 1 4.3a Sama period lait year a.ai -3 r . J I 1 HsaA . li . -V . HAND-HOLDING BUDDIES Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, left, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev join hands as they acknowledge the cheers of the crowd during the May Day Parade in Moscow today. Castro and Nikita shared the spotlight on the re viewing stand as Russia flexed her military muscles. xTho annual parade was boy cotted by U.S. diplomats for the first time. UPI Telephoto U.S. Diplomats Avoid Red May Day By United Press Intcrnatipnal The Communist world flexed its military muscles to mark May Day today, but the speeches lacked the usu. tirades against imperialism ana ine uniica Stales. Focal point of the observance was Moscow, where Cuban Premi er hidel Castro showed up as guest of honor at the traditional Red Square parade. Castro was flanked by Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other So viet dignitaries atop Lenin's Tomb. But the affair was boycot ted by American diplomats for the first time since Washington and 'Moscow established diplomatic re lations 30 years ago. Soviet Defense Minister Marsha! Rodion Malinovsky said the dan ger of nuclear war with the Unit ed States still exists, but he made no threats. In East Berlin, the Communist East Germans paraded Soviet rockets and goose-stepping troops in a display that defied four-power agreements demilitarizing the di vided city. Parade Is Denounced The three Western Military com mandants promptly denounced the East German parade, saying that it showed clearly to the whole world that "the Soviet zone re gime still remains the enemy of freedom. On the other side of the Com munists' antircfugee wall, West Berliners attended a rally in which they pledged to continue protecting their freedom. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt said the Russian backdown in Cuba had taken the pressure off the city but a new Communist threat might crop up at any time. A carnival atmosphere existed in Peking, capital of Red China and rival of Moscow for leader ship in the ideological struggle between Khrushchev's coexistence V , , If - ft esses '"mm .ag w i n- f r - - - I I m in ii "ptlf ' a m0 , - JX TACOMA THEATER BURNS Fire roared through T. coma's Music Bo Theater as the movie began April 30. The fire, largest in the city since the Tacoma Hotel burned in 1936, caused the evacuation of many nearby shops. Estimated demaqe was on million Hollars. UPI Telephoto mt Price Ten Cents 36 Parade In policy and Mao Tse-tung's hard line. The Red Chinese held massive celebrations and pledged that the1 Chinese People will do their best to strengthen "friendship and uni ty" with Russia. Chinese Show Contempt But the Peking Reds showed their contempt for Khrushchev by displaying a huge portrait of the late Josef Stalin alongside those of other saints of communism. Stalin has been downgraded and discredited by Khrushchev. Similar observances were held i Belgrade, Warsaw and other capitals of the Communist world. In Havana, an artillery salvo launrhrid a-i-oiir imilitafr pa rade with an e.-tiii att'lm.ont.1 marchers, as Maj. Ksi .''Castro substituted as the main attrac tion for his brother, Fidel. Wichita Fence Symbol Of Law Day By United Tress International A 6-foot high, fto-foot longwa!l in the middle of Wichita's (Kan, main street today symbolized the sharp contrast between Iaw Day USA observances and the Com munists' May Day celebrations in Moscow. Tlie ugly, cindcrblock wall. which has three strands of barbed wire strung across the top, was built as a model of the Berlin wall. Personnel from nearby McCon nell Air Force Base donned "ag gressor unifoims" to patrol the wall. An armored car with a mounted marhinegun was parked near the wall. Guards halted mo. - mi 7 jo. ' - 'J rr f Ttt a al "3 E Pages Moscow The bearded Cuban premier shared the spotlight with Premier Nikita Khrushchev atop Lenin's tomb to watch an hours-long mili tary and civilian parade through Red Square past tens of thous ands of cheering Russians. Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Rodio Malinovsky took up Cas tro's cause and charged that U.S. led imperialists are continuing a policy of aggression against Cuba and supporting "piratic actions" against Castro's regime. Delivering the main speech from the reviewing stand, Mali novsky accused the enemies of Cuba of "grossly violating the elementary norms of international la. ' i "The imperialist circles ot the United States lead this provoca tive policy." Russia's top military leader said. In U.S.A. torists driving through "Check point Charlie" to give them Law Day literature. In Cincinnali, Ohio, famed Fountain Square was converted into a Red Square for the na tion's sixth annual salute to free dom under the law. Former Pres ident Harry S. Truman had been scheduled to speak but had to cancel out because of illness. Law Day observances were sponsored in many cases by bar associations to foster respect for the law, to teach the values and duties of citizenship and the roles of law and courts in protecting individual liberties and rights. Law Day Observed !n Klamath Law Day is being observed by bar associations across the nation today. May 1, and a court room ceremony was held at 11 a.m. in Judge David R. Vanden berg's court this morning. A special Law Day address en titled "Rule of Highl Not Might," was delivered by Joe O'Neill, a Klamath Falls attorney. Katherine McAulille, a Malin High School student, won the Law Day editorial contest on the coun ty level. This statewide contest is sponsored by the Slate Bar As sociation and Miss McAulifle will receive a certificate of merit for her essay. In his address this morning. O Neill emphasized that it is very lilting we in this country are honoring our law and judge", on the same day the Communists are flexing their military muscles in an attempt to influence people. Law is the enforcement of jus tice among men. not force, O'Neill pointed out. "Law, according to an ancient maxim, is g'Kid sense, and what is contrary to good sense is not good law. It is a mode of human action respecting society that must be governed by the same rules of equity which govern ev ery private action." O Neill said. OEM J?fC0 WCU"aT warn m m w .MeVaaW KLAMATH FALLS, OK EG ON, laiti Agrees Everest Climbers. Start Final Push KATMANDU, Nepal tUPH -Four American mountain climb ers started the final grueling push to the summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, in fine clear weather this morning. A spokesman for a 19-man American scientific expedition said the four men reached the sixth and final camp of the carefully planned assault route Tuesday night at 27,800 feet. They spent the night there be fore undertaking the last lap of the attempt to become the first Americans to conquer the 29,028 foot peak on the border between Nepal and Communist-held Tibet. The expedition also plans to scale two sister peaks, 27,890-foot Lhotse and 25,850-foot Nuptse, fol lowing the Everest climb. The men, whose names have not been disclosed, carried special new lightweight oxygen tanks and breathing apparatus to keep them from becoming quickly exhausted in the rarefied atmosphere. They faced not only dizziness, nausea and extreme fatigue due to the altitude but also the swirl ing mists and sudden snow storms that are a constant danger and can make it impossible to find the summit. Temperatures of 40 degrees be Crops Feel Frost Pinch Ry United Press International Spring crops from Kaiuas tol Kentucky Mt the pinch of frosjj today. Snow fell in Ohio and rain washed parts of the Atlantic Sea board. Great Lakes vessels, battered by 70-mile an hour winds and 30-foot waves, limped to safety. Snow showers and high winds hit Pittsburgh on the heels of 30 degree temperatures today and hampered firemen fighting gener al alarm blazes at opposite ends of (lie city. Youngbtown, Ohio, measured an inch of snow on the ground. The violent 6torm which spawned tornadoes across the Midwest and Southland pushed into the Atlantic, touching of! thunderstorms in Florida and steady showers gustcd by cold winds in New England. Heavy Rainfall Nearly l' inches of rain In. during the night at ralmouth Mass. Thundcrshowers ai vero Beach, Fla.. dumped a half inch of rain on the town. The Weather Bureau reported isolated tornadoes Tuesday in Georgia and northern Florida. Damage was minor and no injur ies were recorded. April lent a touch of winter to northern Michigan Tuesday, where 3'i inches of snow fell at Grand Rapids, the heaviest fall ever recorded this late in spring. The diminishing storm contin ued to dump heavy rains across the twister-damaged Southland TmauIv easinfi the threat of l;mhr.r god brush fires. Some f'i inches of rain fell at Jackson Shoals, Ala. Winds Ush Great Lakes The 290-foot cruise boat South America, with 43 persons aboard. rode out rough Lake Michigan waters oft Muskegon. Mich., to day, waiting to make repairs to a damaged engine which left it nearlv hebless. Lake Huron was battered with 70 mile winds and 30-foot waves Tuesday. The Canadian tanker Cane Transport, which had been adrift without directional, radio or steering equipment, limped for safety today under escort U.S. Coast Guard vessel of Gas Tax Hike Proposal Killed SALEM i UPI i - A bill to In crease the slat gasoline tax from six to seven cents a gallon Was killed Tuesday by tlw House High ways Committee, S-4. f Us supporters had urged its pas sage to help finance extra work on "have not" highways. Oppo nents included some legislators who are unhappy over the way tlie State Highway Commission pends Its money. " WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1363 low zero arc not unusual on the Himalayan slopes. The expedition, sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the Stale Department, the Na tional Science Foundation and the armed services, has been planned with the care of a major military campaign. It started out from Kat mandu in February. One member died during the climb. Only two other teams have ever scaled Everest. A British expedi tion led by Sir Edmund Hillary conquered the mountain in 1953 and a Swiss team reached the summit in 1957. The U. S. expedition is led by Norman G. Dyhrenfurth, an ex plorer and motion picture produ cer from Santa Monica, Calif. Housewife Flies Ocean To Hawaii HONOLULU (UPI) - A freckle faced California housewife has taken the largest step in her bid to become the first woman to fly the Pacific Ocean alone. She made it with hardly a wrinkle in her pretty, pink frock. Mrs. Betty Miller, 36, Santa Monica, landed her twin-engined aircraft at Honolulu Airport Tues day night, 17 hours and 3 min utes after she took off from Oak land Calif. The plr Joucher doCii at 1I.-38 p.m. PDT. "There wasn't a bump the wholo way," said the smiling aviatrix, still looking fresh in her pink dress. She was draped with Icis by a small crowd of well-wishers and newsmen who were on hand to greet her. The OaklawUo-llonnlulu flight, a 2.000-mile journey, was the long est portion of her 7,000-mile sched uled trip to Brisbane, Australia She is attempting to fly approxi mately the reverse of the course on which famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937, East-West Hope Dulled WASHINGTON UPI Ofli rials said today that W. Averell Harriman's report on his Moscow talk with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev offered no great hope for a breakthrough on any "major East-West Issue. Harriman, undersecretary of stale for political affairs, report ed to President Kennedy Tues day. He spent 50 minutes at the White House telling the President about his Friday session with Khrushchev. Laos Primary Issue Tlie Harriman-Khrilshchcv talk was concerned principally with Laos and Kennedy's hope that Russia would use its Influence toj get dissident Communist elements to cooperate Willi the Laotian Icoalition government. However officials said, Khrushchev and Harriman also touched on nucle ar testing, Berlin and Cuba. Harriman told newsmen Khrushchev said he had "every intention" of abiding by his 1961 Vienna agreement with Kennedy on the necessity for stabilizing Laos. Khrushchev reaffirmed his support of the 1962 Geneva agree menl on an independent and neu tral Laos. On nuclear testing. Khrushchev was understood to have informed Harriman that he was preparing an answ'cr to the Joint letter from Kennedy and British Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan urging an intensified new approach to break the deadlock in the test ban treaty negotiations. Discuss Cohan Hituatnn Harriman was said In have got the impression that Khrushchev s well aware of Kennedy's ef forts to avoid inllaming tlie Cu ban issue. Khrushchev mentioned Berlin. officials said, merely to the ex tent of noting that it was one of the outstanding East-West prob lems which still required solution. Telephone To Free HAITI AGREES In Port Au Prince, Mexican Ambas sador Bernando Payas, right, greets Albert Zuleta Angel of Colombia, leader of a five-man OAS committee as they arrived yesterday. Haiti has agreed to the Domini can Republic's demand that 22 political refugees in asy lum in the embassy be allowed to leave the country in safety, UPI Telephoto House Postpones Sales Tax Bill indefinitely SALEM (UPI)-In an uncxpect- cd series of actions, tlie House to- Wnr-sjoiM it-- vales tax n!l otit of reach for the rest of this ses sion. The House voled 34-26 to '"post pone indefinitely" action on the measure. This means It cannot be brought up again. Rep. Berkeley I,ont, D-Portland, said it was open to debate wheth er another sa'es tax bill might reach the floor and be considered, but in view of today's vote, it was unlikely. The action was the House's an swer to growing pressure from the Senate to send over a sales lax bill. All revenue-raising bills must originate in the House. Medal Winners Fly To Lunch PORTLAND (UPI - Four Ore gon Congressional Medal of Honor winners flew east today for a lunch Thursday with President Kennedy at tlie White House. They join other Medal of Honor winners from other parts of the country. Those from Oregon include Maj. Stanley Adams of Eugene, Ed ward Allworth of Corvallis, Arnold lljorklund of Portland and Henry Schauer of Wondhuin ' 'f INTERNATIONAL COMPETITORS The Journeymen from Eugene will ba the young eit quartet to appear in the 15th annual barbershop quartet parade at Mills School Auditorium on May 4, Thay received high acclaim when they appeared here last year and have since won the championship of the Evergreen District of SPEBSQSA and will compete at Toronto, Canada, July 4 in the annual International Quartet Contest. They have trained two years under Hubert Leabo who will accompany them to Klam ath Falls. Proceeds from the show will go to the Intercommunity Hospital Fund. Tick ets are now on sale at Derby's Muiie Store or from members of SPEBSQSA. Left te riqht are Curtis Roth, bass; Terry Shannon, baritone; Alan Koberstein, lead, and Den nil Stiers, tenor. TU 4-8111 No. 7130 22. Refugees It was still possible the Senate Tax Committee might try to sub stitute a sales lax for one ot the other lax bills sent over hy the House. The hill acted on today had been laid on the table without a vote to spare April 17. A tabled bill is considered killed, but can lie revived. On a motion by Ren. Frilzl Chuinard, R-Portland, the House took the measure off the table to day by voice vote. The House then dcfcaled mo- lions to send the bill to the Agri culture and Livestock Committee, and to the Tax Committee, before voting for indefinite postpone ment. Four Republicans joined 30 Democrats on the vote for indefi nite postponement. The only Dom- ocrnt'voting to keep the bill alive was Rep. Don McKinnis, D-Sum-mervillc, a sponsor. Republicans voting to kill it were Reps. Victor Atiyeh, Beavcrton: Russell Bone- Steele, Salem; Morris Crothcrs. Salem, and William Gallagher. Portland. The Senate Tax Committee Is considering the revenue program passed by the House: An income tax bill, a cigarette lax, and a one-shot bill. Members have been saying they also would like to consider a sales lax bill, possibly to send to the voters as an alternative. i . , .- H V Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST ' Gtntral agriculture outlook It for Iiji.t. ly coolir tUytlm timptralurtt with p rtodi of rtKurring light thowtrs In tht naif Itw dy. No precipitation or const quflneo Indlcatrd. Soil tamptraturet 43 dagrHif wilt continu to rii slowly. OAS Eyes Violation Of Embassy PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (UPI) Haiti ha agreed to tlie Dominican Republic's demand that 22 political refugees in asy lum in tlie Dominican Embassv here be allowed to leave the country in safety, diplomatic sources said today. The decision by Haitian Presi dent Francois Duvalicr's govern ment appeared to ease further the crisis between Haiti and its neighbor republic on the Carib bean island of Hispaniola. It was communicated to Latin American diplomats as a five- man team from the Organization of American States (OAS) inves tigated Dominican charges that Haiti violated tlie embassy last Saturday while searching for op ponents of the Duvalicr regime. Tlie incident led Dominican President Juan Bosch to threaten the use of armed force unless Haiti withdrew a policeman from the embassy grounds and guaran teed the safety of Dominican dip lomats and the Haitian political refugees sheltered in the em bassy. Bosch mobilized land, air and sea forces to back up the de mands. Haiti w ithdrew the police man Tuesday. Granting of safe-conduct per mission would permit the embas sy to close down under honora ble circumstances but would leave relations strained between the two countries. Haiti broke off diplomatic rela tions Sunday. Bosch has charged the Haitian government backed an. assassination plot against hint. in January and is still coniving with recently arrived members of tlie family of lalo Dominican dic- tntor Rafael Trujillo to overthrow the Dominican government. A United States naval task force stood ready in the Gulf of Gonaivcs off Haiti's west coast to remove about 1,500 American citi zens in Haiti if trouble starts, ac cording to informed sources in Santo Domingo, the Dominican capital. Although the Haitian-Dominican tension had lessened, Haitian op ponents of Duvalicr have marked! May as the month for an uprising." against his autocratic regime anil; there still were fears of violence; within tlie country. : Tax Proposal Wins Approval SAIJiM (UPI I - A proposal to let tax legislation become effec tive as soon as it is signed won tentative approval of the House Constitutional Revision Committee" Tuesday. : The constitution now prohibits: attaching an emergency clause to' tax bills. Without it, they cannot: take effect until 90 days after the lend of a session. 0 X
