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coal. minds Sheriff air if Weather KUmth Fills, Tutelaht and Lakivlsw: Partly cloudy with tcilltrtd light show in through Friday. Continued cool. Lows tonight 31-1). Highs Friday ntir . Weittrly wind! Ml m.p.h. High yetltrday . jj Low lait night ji High yaar ago 4; Low ytar ago 4 Prtctp. pail 24 hourt trace Sinct Mi, 1 4. if Kama ptrtod lait yaar .ti in The- ays By FRANK JENKINS From Salem: The sales tax is apparently dead for this session of the legisla ture, after indefinite postpone ment yesterday by a 34-26 vote ol the House. Four Republicans joined 30 Democrats in Die action which can be undone only by suspen sion of the rules. However, sus pension of the rules would re quire 40 votes, and that total is considered virtually unreachable. As you will note from the fig ures, the sales tax was killed by a heavy Democratic vote 30 Democrats, joined by four Repub licans. Opposition to the sales tax is Democratic dogma in Ore gon, and has been for decades. But Oregonians will pay a sales tax, whether they call it that or not. All taxes are sales taxes, in that they are a part of the cost of doing business and so have to be add ed to prices. And Taxes are cumulative. They have to be added first to the raw materials cost. Then the manufacturer adds his taxes to his other costs of doing business, which include taxes on the raw materials. The jobber adds his taxes, and passes them on to the wholesaler. The wholesaler adds his taxes to his other costs and passes them on to the retailer, who adds his taxes to the price. You. as a consumer, pay them all. sales tax or no sales lax. A lax is a tax. As Gertiude Stein, with her say it again and again ano aga.ii style, would have put it, a tax is a tax is a tax is a tax is a tax. Thai's about the size of it. From Moscow: Fidel Castro and Nikita Khru shchev stood side by side on Len in's tomb yesterday and re viewed a May Day parade that included Soviet rockets ol the kind that once brought them both to the verge o( nuclear war. A strange hush came over the audi ence in Moscow's Red Square as the long gray rockets rolled by. Foreign observers tailed them "the tuba rockets." The Cubans with Castro were so numeious that even the So viet's four astronauts, who norm ally get positions of the greatest honor at Soviet celebrations, could find no room on the top ol Lenin's historic tomb and had to huddle in a group at its base. All this on May Day which i a top holiday in Communist Rus sia. Why this exaggerated honor to Castro and his Cuban buckos? You answer it. There are so many considera tions that could have been respon sible. At the very least, it was designed to say that in Moscow's plans for the future. CUBA oc cupies a very large place. It's hard to make anything else out of it. This is the p'ctuic: Haiti. The Dominican Republic The two of them already at sword's point, with bad trouble that could serve as an excuse for intervention apparently just around the corner. And all the dissatisfied countries of Latin America looking on. And Cuba relit in the middle ol it all. One just can't believe that the dangerous story of Communism and Cuba has come to its end and thai all will be sweetness and light from here on Four-Way Death SAN QUENTIN. Calif. 'UPI' -Tlic first quadruple execution since the gas chamber was installed in San Quentin Prison 25 years ago apparently will be carried out Fri day on sciiedule. Gov. F.dmund G. Brown, a Manner, opponent capital pun ishment, announced Wednesday be would not intervene hi the cases' ol three convicted murderers scheduled to die. The fourth was refused a stay of execution by both L'.S. Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douelas and the Cali fornia Supreme Court. sews Price Ten Cents 28 Pages Commies Claim kip TOKYO 'UPli Maritime au thorities sought today to unravel the mystery of a scuttled Com munist Chinese freighter whose crew claimed the ship had been torpedoed three times by a sub marine of unknown nationality in the Yellow Sea. Japanese officials were skeptical that the 11.432-ton Leap Forward had been torpedoed. They said it was more likely the freighter rammed a rock or a reef. All crewmen were saved. Military sources tended to dis count the possibility the cargo ves sel had struck a mine left over Storm Cuts Mountain Climb Link KATMANDU. Nepal UPI Word was anxiously awaited to day on the attempt of an Amcri can mnvnitaip-chmbing team to rcacn tifcisiimmu ol Ml bvcrest despite adverse' weather condi tions. The rapidly changing weather on the world's tallest mountain cut olf radio communications be tween the base camp of a 19-man American expedition and Katman du, the nearest link to the outside world. This made it impossible to learn immediately the progress of a four-man team which set out Wednesday from the sixth anrl final camp at the 27.800-foot level in its quest to be the first Ameri cans to scale 2t, 028-foot Everest. Name of the climbers were with held pending the outcome of the effort. A spokesman for the expedition said the weather was fine in the morning when the men started but turned bad during the alter noon. He said the final thousand feet of altitude should be climbed in about four or five hours under favorable weather conditions. In order to climb a thousand feet vertically Uie men had to traverse four or five times that distance in a zigzag route to the summit. Winds up lo 150 miles an hour, extreme cold, snow and mtL are a constant peril at the "roof of the world'' in the Himalaya Mountains between Nepal and communist-held Tibet. Lack of oxygen in the rarefied air is known to bring on head aches, nausea, dizziness, extreme latigue and mental disorieniation. A second assault team of four men waited at camp live to try lor the summit if the first team (ailed A two-man party was sta tioned at camp four to go to the aid of either of the otlier teams. The expedition, which led Kat mandu in February, hoped to place the first American on the summit of Mt. Everest. School Board Candidates Offer Solution To District Problems HANS NORLAND KLAMATH Torpedoed from World War II or the Korean War. Japanese officials feared the sinking, reported early today, would mushroom into a major in cident with the Communist regime in Peking. The Leap Forward was Red China's first home-built ocean-going vessel and its first cargo ship scheduled to visit Japan. The freighter, pride of Red China's rrerchant fleet, sank 167 miles west of Cheju Do, a large island off the southwest coast of Korea, en route from the Chinese port of Tsingtao to the southern Japanese port of Mojo. Crew In Lifeboats The Japanese fishing trawler Itsuki Maru radioed it had picked up all 59 crewmen in three life boats. The sailors, using sign lan guage, said they were hit in the engine room by three torpedoes and sank four hours later. Adm. Masayoshi Nakayama, chief of staff of the Maritime Self defense Agency, said only the United States. Russia, Indonesia and Japan have submarines that might be operating in the area Japanese and U.S. ofticials said their navies had no submarines in the vicinity of the reported sinking. In Taiei a spokesman for the Nationalist Chinese Defense Min istry said the Nationalist navy Republicans Speculating About Rocky WASHINGTON UPI Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's possible remarriage is setting off a great er spate of speculation among Re publicans than anything since Wendell L. Willkie came irom no where to win the 1940 presiden tial nomination. The speculation grows with each "no comment" Die New York governor givcj to questions to whether he may marry Margaretta Murphy, who was di vorced in Idaho last month. Rock efeller was divorced last year alt er 31 years of marriage. There is a widespread belicl within the GOP that remarriage would damage his chances of w in ning the presidential nomination and the White House-tmt no one is sure how much. Those who regard themselves as Republican king-makers are are sure to be taking a search ing look at other possible choices. Tlie alternatives include Gov. George Romney of Michigan. Sen. Barry Goldwatcr of Arizona. Gov. William W. Scranton ' Pennsvlvania and possibly for mer Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the defeated 1900 nominee. Fred A. Young, newly elected New York slate GOP chairman. said Tucsdav he ok! not nenevc remarriage would damage Rocke- leller's political future. tional. maintenance and hospital "II it's a solid marriage, what'sifacilhie at Kincsley Field near wrong with it." he asked. In a series of three articles starting today. May 2. the Her ald and News will gie Klamaih resident a chance to review i some of the ideas and comments of each o( the school board can didates running lor posU in the three school districts. Some of the candidates have already used Ihe "Letters to the Kditor" section of tlie editorial page n this newspaper as a means of coming before the public with thetr respective views un school district problems and sol utions. To give each candidate an equal chance before the public Uie Herald and News gave the men Uw opportunity to answer three FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, had no ships operating in the Yel low Sea, or East China Sea. at the time of the reported sinking. Nationalist China has no sub marines. "I am inclined to believe that it tiie Leap Forward i made an error in navigation and ground ed." commented Isamu Wada head of the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency, which is similar to the Coast Guard. Looking for Alibi ''When the freighter grounded the crewmen may have thought they were being torpedoed," Wada said. "Or maybe they cooked up the torpedo story as an alibi to placate Peking. Churchill Quits Post In House LONDON 'UPI' A grateful Britain regretfully accepted today the reluctant decision by Sir Win- flop Churchill ti call jt quit in the House of Commons altci' 60 years. The former prime minister. plagued by old age and an jured leg, announced Wednesday night he would not be a parha mentary candidate in the next election. The sudden announce ment virtually closed Uie pages of a remarkable career that .panned two world wars and countless personal adventures. Sir Winston, now confined much of the time lo a wheel chair, said his reason fur quitting politics was his game leg. which prevented him from celling to Commons as I would wish." British newspapers generally agreed that Churchill's retirement from Commons will end one of the greatest British parliamentary icareers of all time. The Daily Mail called Sir Win ston "the supicme member of the House of Commons." "No one living has served Ihe House ( Commons for anything' resembling such a period and lew have served it with so deep a respect," said the Daily Tele graph. "He is. as he said him self. 'A child of the House ol Commons.' " Kingsley Funds Given Approval WASHINGTON LPI The House Armed Services Committee today approved lunds for I wo Ore gon Air Force facilities. Rep. Wai ter Norblad. R-Ore., reported. A sum of sl S9,000 was ap proved for operational, mainte. nance, housinc and communities Irtilities at Portland AFB. and $213,000 was approved lor opera IKIamalh Falls basic questions: What experience' halt you had in making chool work? Why are you interested i in running for the school board?! and. What is your solution to Ihe county's basic school prob lem which is presently focused around the overcrowded condi tion at Klamath Union High School? In conneitinn with Ihe third question, the candidate were asked il they supported Uie pro posal lor a single county-wide school dMriit. Today's story will include tlie interviews with tlie candidates for tlie opening on Uie city ele mentary achool board. MAY S, 1963 Telephone W Wt:MfM 7-: GOING UP IN THE WORLD Thasa youngsters were enqaqing in on of childhood's favorite pastimes when Herald and News photographer Donald Kettler happened by. Nothing can take the place of a solid perch in a tree where a youngster can look down on the world, and nothing poses a more fascinating challenge than a climbable tree. Staging this tree assault at Siskiyou and Delta were Jo Lynn Penny, fop left, and billy Almeter, top right; Michelle toreen, lower lelt, and L egislators For Congressional Redisricting SALEM (UPli Two nearly- identical congressional redisrict ing proposals which dilfcred wide ly with a plan promised by Rep. John Mossef. ft - Portland, were submitted Wednesday to the House Planning and Development Committee. The nearly-alike plans were sub mitted by House Sieaker Clarence Barton and Myron Katz. spokes man for Ihe Bipartisan League to Retain Equal Representation. Observers anticipated the com. Navy Slates U-Boat Test PORTSMOUTH. Nil. H'Pll- The Navy was scheduled to con duct tests today on simulated submarine compartments in an attempt to find the cause of the Thresher disaster. Vice Adm. Bernard L. Austin. head of the court, said Wednes day the tests will be conducted at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard lo show what a rush of water would do to submarine equipment. Offi cials said the tests may be pri vate but a statement probabI will be issued alterward. The Navy apparently was try ing lo lind out il a bursting pipe could have disabled the subma rine's controls, causing it to drop to the ocean bottom. Earlier testimony lo the court indicated that similar tests had been conducted at Vallcjo. Calif. The raie for this post is be tween Rollin A. tantrali. present chairman of the elementary board, and ll.'ns Norland, a local insurance agent. t antra!! ha been on the ele mentary hoard for the past five vears and is board chairman this year. Hi current term of office :s expiring and he has elected to run lor reelection because he wants "to serve the community and help solve the problem of the overcrowded condition at Klamath Union High School " "I have enjoyed working on Ihe hoard and being a part In work ing to solve some of the prob lems that have arisen In the city No. 7131 Study Two mittce would adopt the plan sug gested by Barton. Barton's plan includes all of the City of Portland in the third dis trict, but adds Eastern Multno mah County to a first district made up of Clackamas, Washing ton, Columbia. Clatsop, Tillamook, Yamhill and Polk counties. Marion and Linn counties would be added to all of Eastern Oregon to create an expanded second dis trict. The lourlh district would include Lincoln, Benton, Lane, Douglas. Jackson, Josephine, Curry and Coos counties. This proposal was identical to that proposed by Katz. except that it added the Portland city area west ol Uie Willamette River to the first district, which also in cluded Lincoln County. Kalz admitted there were dis advantages to dividing a city, and Barton claimed his proposal more nearly grouped areas of economic interest. Barton said shifting Marion and Linn counties to the Eastern Ore gon district would not be a prob lem because ol the good highways that join the areas. Both plans were at wide vari ance with Ihe Mossor prniosal which would split the City of Port land and create a third district of the Multnomah County area east of the Willamette River. It also would add Coos. Curry. Josephine and Jackson counties to the East ern Oregon second district In a "boot toe" ellect that would ex tend the district from Idaho to the Pacific Ocean. At present there is a wide pop ulalion variance between Oregon's jelementary schools in the past ! live years," Cantral! said i Cantrall indicated that he sup port the plan for a single county- wioe school district because, "it is the best plan for education and most equitable for tlie tax burden." I "In Ihe county unit plan the I same high quality of education in tlie three districts will continue and there is even a greater likeli hood that it will improve," Can trall said. Hans Norland, like his opponent, is a proponent of the single dis trict plan reorganization. "I be'.leve I well organized sin gle district for Uie entire coun ty will he a good solution lo our TU 4-8111 Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Soma slight Improvement expected neit thrte day, but with variable cloudineis and continued cool temperatures. Eight Inch ami tempera tvrt 4J. i it f rN Kicky Penny, lower right. Proposals four congressional districts: The lirst 517.000. Uie second 2S5.000. Uie third 522.0110 and the fourth 4M.000. The Barton plan would have 458.000 in Uie first district, 441.001) in the second, 3117,000 in the third, and 467.000 in the fourth. Other Highlights Athletics The Senate passed and sent to the House a bill to require new safety regulations (or prolcssional boxing. Nixon Plans Move East NKW YOItK (Wit-Richard M Nixun announced today that he is moving to New York and uill be come a Grneral partner in a law firm, working mainly on affairs in Washington and Paris, The former vice president and1 California native, w ho missed being elected president in 10 by the narrowest of margins, nounced his move here from Is An He in a brief mitten state ment. He did not meet with reporters. but sent an aide from Ins 40th floor suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Towers to the lobby to hand out the statement. The aide said: "This is purely a legal matter and there Hill Ik! no interview The former vice president has been acting as consultant to a Los Angeles law firm. problems and that il will achieve the highest level of elliciency at co'ts that are reasonable. When asked why he is running for the school board, Norland said, "My lour children received their grade and high school edu cations In the public schools in Klamath Kails and in appreciation lor these benefits to my family, I am willing lo ofler my services 10 our schools." In reference to his experience in school board matters, he said. "I have been a business man in Klamath Kails for over JO years and feel the application of busi ness principles are useful and necessary in school board dec! nons. Beymer Brings Citation Sheriff Murray "Red" Britton was arraigned in the circuit court of Judge Donald A. W. Piper early today on a charge of causing a prisoner to escape from official detention. Sheriff Britton appeared without counsel before the circuit court bench at 10:45 a.m., today, and re quested additional time to seek an attorney. Judge Piper then instructed Sheriff Britton to enter a pica to the charges in court at 10 a.m., Thursday, May 9, after the sheriff requested that the the presence of his attorney. Before appearing in court, the I sheriff posted $1,000 bond and will continue to serve In his elective post pending the naturci of his plea next Thursday. Ifi Britton pleads guilty or is con victcd following a jury trial, he will be required to vacate his post, according to an opinion of a reliable authority. Information from District At torney Dale Crabtree indicated that Sheriff Britton is accused of unlawfully releasing Fred Bey mer from custody after the latter had been arrested by State Live. stock Inspector R. W. Wheeler, last March 16. Beymer had been charged with the embezzlement of an animal belonging to Billye Ullrich but did not post bail until his arraign ment nine days later. Under the law, Beymer was to have been in the custody of the sheriff in the county jail until he posted bail. The charges against the defend ant were later dismissed and he was released on March 25. On April 30. Slieriff Britton was named on one of three secret indictments returned by the grand jury to Judge David II, Vandcnberg. At that time the sheriff was en route to Monroe, Wis., to take into custody Ed Marsh, sought by the Klamath County Sheriff's Office on check charges. The sheriff returned with hisi prisoner early today and was served the warrant by his deputy Del Summers. Sheriff Britton declined to comment on the charge at this lime. Slieriff Brilton has served Klamath County Sheriff since Jan. I, lt).2, wlien he was ap pointed lo that post by the county court upon the death of Uie then slieriff Jack Franey. The sheriff was elected to serve a term of four years the follow ing autumn and has since been re-elected to the office two times. Giveaway' Rule Asked SALEM (UPli - The Oregon In-1 dependent Betail Grocers Associ ation voted Wednesday to ask the attorney general to decide wheth. er grocery store "giveaways" vjo- lale the Oregon anti-lottery law. The attorney general of Wash ington ruled earlier this week such "contests" are In violation of the anti-lottery law in that stale. Ally. Gen. Robert Thornton said he will be happy to meet with the grocers to discuss the mailer. Harold E. Carlson and Claude Ball of the association said the grocers' resolution is aimed at situations where a person gets a chance to win a prize via a ticket received lor visiting a grocery lore. They said even though custom ers do not hae to make a pur chase, tlie "contests" add to the expenses of doing business, result ing in increased food prices. Thus, the grocery spokesmen said, the ticket- are obtained for "a con sideration." Tlie lottery law requires three elements to be present: Chance, la consideration, and a prize. ROLLIN A. CANTRALL A' ,; ij i.muxf ilvb Handling indictment be read without A i vr -A MURRAY BRITTON New School Districting Plan Eyed A counter-proposal to the single county.wide school district reor ganization plan was outlined by the Klamath County School Dis trict Board of Director! Imme diately following Wednesday night's meeting at Jfenley High School. In a statement to the Herald and News concerning the counter proposal, the board said: "The Klamath Counly School District Board of Directors has taken action to initiate a build ing program, prvbably at its re cently purchased 20-acre site im mediately adjacent to the Henley schools, to alleviate anticipated overcrowded conditions in that area at the secondary school lev el. "There have been numerous re quests to accept, for high school purposes, student presently re siding in ono or more of the dis trict's suburban elementary school attendance areas. The board looks with favor on accepting some stu dents, provided Uie territory w here they reside is chanced from the Klamath Union High School District lo tho hlamalii County School District. "This type of change, for high school purposes only, from tlie Klamath Union High School Dis trict to the Klamath Counly School Dtstrict, may be initialed by peti tions to Uie Boundary Board of at least three interested legal voters. There are legal provisions which must be met by the petitioners and Uie Boundary Board." The county board approved this plan for tlie voters' consideration Immediately following the Henley meeting which was called for a Hiscussion of "Why the One Dis- -i,.t Plan CI,.,M Dn rwA..t.t a ' About J00 Interested city, sub urban and rural residents attend ed tlie meeting and participated in a question and answer session. A slory on this meeting appears on Page 4 ol today's Herald and News. The plan offered by Uie counly board is essentially a gerryman der plan with Uie county unit ab sorbing part of the territory and students of the suburban area. This type of proposal had been previously discussed at Joint meet ings of the three school hoards and Klamath Kails and Kl imath County citizens committee meet ings, but the three boards couldn't reach unanimous agree ment on Uie proposals. OTI Bids Opened A representative of Uw State Board of Education will open con struction bkls on tlie buildings in Phase 2 of tlie new OTI campus building projects today, Thurs day, at 3 p.m. Daylight Saving Time (I p.m. Standard) in Room, 210 at tlie school's AdministiV tion Building. Phase 1 entails all new cat buildings with the except) the student dormitory auj tor plant nas.v - ?
