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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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"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.
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KLAMATH FALLS, OK EG ON,
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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