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In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: The Treasury Department esti mates that President Kennedy's proposed ten billion dollar tax cut could bring an INCREASE of $2.9 billion in state and local tax reve nues. The basis of the estimate is a prediction that the federal tax cut, if voted by congress, would result in expansion of economic activity to tlie tune of an annual increase of 30 billion dollars in personal income and that this in turn would increase state and local tax reve nues by $2.9 billion a year for me 50 states. The resulting UP in Oregon state taxes is estimated at 34 mil lion dollars a year. That is to say: If you cut taxes in one place, it will INCREASE TAXES some where else, Personally, I think I'd rather the federal government would just SPEND LESS and let us get our tax savings that way. As this is written, our stale de partment announces that it has or dered families of U.S. officials in Haiti to leave the troubled eoun try, and is urging private Ameri can citizens to do likewise. The evacuation was decided on be cause of continued deterioration of the situation in Haiti and the dif ficulty of insuring the lives and safety of U.S. citizens. What cooks in Haiti? Well, it is anticipated that at any moment Haitian President Duvalier may attack the adjoining Dominican Republic. That would involve the whole island of His paniola in bloody warfare. A suggestion to President Duvalier: You are presumed, sir, to be a believer in Voodoo. If so, why don't you just make a doll of your enemy in the Dominican Republic and then STICK PINS IN IT? That, according to Voodoo would cook his goose. It would be much simpler than going to war. In Salem, balloon bread is back on the legislative agenda. A bill has been introduced to legalize its sale in Oregon if it is identified by adequate labels. The fear is that Oregon housewives will be fooled by tlie larger size of the "balloon" loaves, and so may be done dirt in their marketing. The new bill is intended to make sure that this doesn't happen. A suggestion to the legislators: QUIT WORRYING! If anybody thinks he can fool Oregon housewives for any consid erable length of time by putting out a loaf that LOOKS bigger than it is, he is just kidding himself. Under the hair-dos of these charming creatures who do their marketing in the food stores of our fair slate is a COMPUTER that puts to shame anything that IBM can devise. If balloon bread tries tn palm itself off as something that it isn't, it won't get very far. You can bet your bottom dollar on that. Weather Klamath Falls, Tuitlaki and Lake vlaw Variabla claudinass will! periods I rain tonight ind Thursday. Wsstarly wlndi l-is m.p.h. Lows tonight ZS W. Highi Thursday 5142. High yaslarday So Law this morning 31 High yoar ago SI Low var ago 4 Procip. past 34 hours .014 Sinca Jan. I 4.7? Satno period last yaar 4.71 Wt U.OP ORE.tilDHAKr r,E3?fPEB SBCttON GEN.ReP.AND. WCUMSHTS DIV. EUGEMEaABKl COUP. K X aC u amp mtw0 Weal her AGRICULTURAL PORKCAST . Contlnuad unsatllad with shows rs Thursday and again Saturday or Sunday. Mostly fair Friday. Llrtla Changs In ttmparaturas. Eight inch soil lampara tun 49. Price Ten Cents 24 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. MAY 8, 1963 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7136 ? 1 1 iV, ' ' i i miiniwi-JT" Vi Yi I SCIENCE FAIR EXHIBIT John Heilbronner, right, Klamath Falls, area coordinator for the Northwest Sci ence Fair, explains one of the exhibits from Klamath Falls to Joe Bennett of the Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Port land, at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry last weekend in Portland. Heilbronner points to an exhibit made by a sixth grader, Robert Ernst, entitled "Known Campsites of the Klamath Indians at the Time of Con tact." Over I 10,000 students participated this year in the Eleventh Annual Science Fair, now one of the largest in the nation. Fire Noses Quell Usee Eliote&'s So Soyffi Board Deadlocks On Mcltinny Case The Klamath Union High School Board of Directors reached an impasse Tuesday night on the question of reinstating Willard McKinny as principal and ad journed without action after an angry 10-minute session. The meeting w as called initially for the canvassing of the Monday voting on the budget and'school board members, but at the Mon day evening session, the board adopted a motion placing the Mc Kinny matter on the Tuesday night agenda. When the meeting convened at 7:30 p.m. Margaret Sheridan questioned whether the McKinny discussion should not be taken up first since it was unfinished business, but Chairman John Volh ruled the question inadmissible. Senators Take Issue With Mark's Criticism SALEM (UPI) Criticism of the Senate Tax and Highway Com mittees by Gov. Mark Hatfield came under attack today on the Senate floor. Sen. Walter Pearson, D-Port land, lashed out at the governor's criticism of the highway commit tee action in tabling a speed lim it bill. Hatfield scored the com mittee actios Monday night dtir-i ing j television appearance. Pearson said that before the session began he protested that Uie governor was being given time on a television station that could be used to promote the gov ernor's program and criticize the legislature. The Portland Democrat said the Highway Committee opposed the speed bill because it increased the speed limit, and charged Hatfield had used the television appear ance to make "personal attacks" on the legislature. Sen. Vernon Cook. D-Gresham said "if tlie governor Is sincere in wanting a compromise tax pro- Man Hunted In Slaying ENTERPRISE. Ore. UPI Search for a husky red - haired stump rancher wanted for a dou ble slaying at Clarkston. Wash. resumed in the wooded area around the remote northeastern Oreson town of Flora today. Bloodhounds were brought in from Lewiston. Idaho, to aid tracking Billy Evans, 44. who twice slipped away from police Tuesday and disappeared into the timber, once alter otneers urea shots. Evans was charged in a war rant issued at Asotin. Wash., with first degree murder for the death of Mrs. May Griner. 40. and sec ond degre murder for the slaying of William Gerry, 40. Both were shot to death with a .30-30 rifle fired at close range in Mrs. Griner's home just out aide Clarkston a few minutes be fore midnight Monday. The killer then locked Mrs. Griner s 6-year-old daughter. Irene, in the bath room with her pet dog and fled in a car. The search for Evans, who lived in a trailer house at Lewiston, Idaho, began almost immediately. His car was found stuck in mud about a mile and a half from his own cabin south of Flora in the Grande Rondc River country. Evans was sighted at the cabin hv to shcrilfs deputies, who said Evans first started toward them rifle in hand, then bolted into the woods and disappeared. About 4 30 pm. Evans was wn altemoting to start his car and officers began to close a ring around him. When one oi m m ..r. .hooted at him to surrender. Evans grabbed his rifle and offi cers fired two shots over his Pvn fled and officers fired at him twice more. gram he should have a represent ative attend Senate Tax Commit tee meetings" to express tlie ad ministration's view on proposed changes in the House-approved tax measure. "We are entitled to the gover nor s views. Cook said. "It is not lair for him to sit back and snipe at everything we dohtxsaid,,.., . ... hiring Monday's news confer ence. Hatfield had warned of the dangers of writing a compromise lax bill in a Senate-House con ference. Senate Minority Leader Anthony Yturri, R-Ontario. defended Hat field's right to criticize members of the Senate Highway Committee. No vote was taken in commit tee or on the floor is secret or confidential," Yturri said. "It is immaterial whether the governor should have named the committee members who voted to comoittee members who voted to kill the speed limit: the governor had a right to disclose t h e names." he said. Workers Die In Mishaps Ry United Press International Three Atlantic Coast ship mis haps Tuesday took the lives of six workmen and injured at least one other. Flash fires raced through an nil tanker and an atomic subma rine in shipyards and a small Dutch vessel sank in New York harbor after colliding with a Brit ish freighter. At Gibbs Shipyard near Jack sonville, Fla., three men were killed iird a ' fwth critically burned when a flash fire engulfed the hold of an oil tanker under repairs. Firemen with oxygen masks worked in dense clouds of black smoke for an hour before bring ing the victims to the deck. The four men were working about 10 leet below the water line of the "Gloucester," anchoredn the St John's River. At Groton, Conn., t h e atomic submarine Flasher, sister ship of the ill-fated Thresher, was hit by lire. Three workmen in the sub's aft ballast tanks were killed and two others were injured. FBI Snaps Trap On Illinois Mayor, Charging Extortion STREATOR, III. UPH i Shocked residents of this small Illinois city expressed disbelief today at tlie arrest of their popu lar mayor (or extortion. Federal Bureau of Investigation i FBI i agents snapped a trap on Ray Sophcr, in a plush cocktail lounge in Chicago Tuesday short ly after he received about $3,000 in cash from a sewage system equipment i.i m. Only hours earlier. Sopher told a festive crowd attending his swearing in ceremonies that dur ing his second term he planned to resurface the alleys, build a oolf course and buy a water plant. "It's really been a shock here," one citizen said. Some persons questioned how- much politics was involved in the arrest of the man who had won a near 2-to-l victory in the may oralty election less than a month ago. Olhcrs asked if he were a; guilty as the circumstances indi caled. Firm Official Informs Tie FBI taid Sophcr was charged with "having alfected commerce and movement of ma terial being shipped from Kansas to Slreator by exlortion of a sub stantial amount of money. Stiecial agent in charue M. W. Johnson said the trap was sot up after an official ot tlie firm. Smith and Loveless Inc.. Ix-nexa. Kan . informed the FBI of the al leged extortion. The FBI agent in charge de clined to reveal the amount of money involved but said it was recovered. U S Dist. Ally. Jame: P. O'Brien said about ttono io per cent of a iw.000 sewage equipment transaction was in volved. Sopher was arraigned before U.S. Commissioner C. S. Bentley Pike Tuesday night and released on J1.000 bond. The hearing was continued with the dale open. The FBI said evidence in the case probably would be present ed to a federal grand jury "in the near future." Sophcr returned to Strealor. Married, the father of one son and three daughters and the grandfather o( one.- Sopher, 48. was elected to his lirsl lour-year term as mayor in 1939. Tells Of Kickbacks B. Aldcn Smith, managing di rector of Smith and Loveless. said "kickbacks" had been im posed more than two years ago. shortly altor the firm began ne gotiations wi'h officials of the citv of 22,500 for the purchase and installation of factory-built sewage lift station. "In early April, 1961, our repre sentatives attended a meeting of city officials at Streator and were told that our prices and specifics tions on the equipment were ac ceptable, but that we would have to agree to pay them, in cash, a 'kick-back' amounting to 10 per cent of the sale price before they would approve the order," Smith said. Smith said he was unsuccessful in persuading the city officials to proceed under legal circum stances. At the previous meeting, Voth refused to acknowledge a motion to reinstate McKinny as principal. Mrs. Sheridan then pointed out that Roberts Rules of Order pre scribe that a two-thirds vote ot the board could rearrange the agenda which had tlie canvass ing of the ballots preceding per sonnel matters. She then moved to change the agenda and Hous ton seconded. Voth, however, re fused to call the motion to a question. Mrs. Sheridan then explained her position to the 125 persons present for tlie meeting, saying, "If the votes are canvassed first, then the complexion of this board will change." Her remarks stemmed from a series of legal complications which have beset the board. A few weeks ago, Conrad Borsting member of the board, was found to be residing out of the district from which he had been elected He then filed for the school posi tion to be vacated July 1 by Voth, and in the Monday election, Lou Kellison was elected to take the remainder of Bursting's term and Borsting was elected to replace Voth as ol July 1. It was apparent that the legal counsel of the board ruled that when the votes were canvassed Borsting would be off the board until July 1. The board alter the canvass and before July 1, would then be comprised of Mrs. Sheri dan. Houston, Walker, new mem ber Kellison and Chairman Voth. This would mean that the board might then be split 2-2 over the question of reinstating McKinny and Voth would have the deciding vote on the matter. What Kcill- sen'svote u-"ld ni lis not known at this time. The Herald and News contacted the new board member Wednes day and he said he hadn't expect ed that the matter would be still pending and he therefore hadn't reviewed the matter carefully enough to draw a conclusion. He added that he didn't think he would get a chance to vote on the matter since he is getting ready to take a long planned vacation that will probably last over month. When Voth refused to budge on rearranging the agenda Tuesday night, Mrs. Sheridan moved tor adjournment and was upheld 3-2 in the voting. This left the board at an im passe, me law floes state tnai the election results must be can vassed within 10 days of the election. The question of reinstatement of McKinny arose when it devel oped that he has appealed a re cent ruling revoking his teaching certificate by the Slate Board ol Education on the ground of irregu larities in his application. His ap peal acted as a stay on the revo cation and his teaching certifi cate has been validated pending the hearing of his appeal on June 16 by the stale board. Regardless of w hether t h e KUHS board elects to return him to the principal post, they are obligated to pay his salary up to the time of the state board hearing McKinny's appeal. Both groups in the argument were expected to get together in some sort of an Informal session Wednesday, and it may be that a compromise will be forthcom ing. NEW COUNTY PTA OFFICERS This new slate of officers for the Klamath County PTA Council was installed at a meeting in Molatora's Rnstaurant May 7. Tha naw of ficers are, from left, R. A. Mitchell, treasurer, Shasta Grade School; Mrs. L. E. Saunders, president, Altamont; Mrs. George Demetrakos, secretary, Fairviewj Mrs. Orson Stearns, vice president, Riverside, and Mrs. Edwin Ritchie, second vice- presi dent, alto of Riverside School. Yanks Airlifted From Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE. Haiti (UPU ington recommendation they leave The United States today evacu- Haiti apparently had not been ac ated nearly 200 Americans from copied, strife-torn Haiti in a two-plane oihPr Flichls Thursdav airlift. The evacuation was car ried out without apparent incident. The first hatch of 68 depend ents of U.S. Embassy personnel went out on a regular commer cial flight at 7:50 a m. pdt. The second aircralt, a charter flight from Miami, departed at 9 a m Of the 106 persons on the char tcr Might, 84 were dependents of military personnel. The first plane was reluming to Miami, Fla., via Montego Bay, Jamaica. The second (plane, how ever, was scheduled to fly direel to Miami. U.S. Embassy officials said they had expected about 200 American civilians or their dependents also tn evacuate, but that tlie Wash- Evacuation of 220 U.S. govern ment civilian personnel and de pendents here is expected to be completed Thursday morning with the arrival of a second charter flight from Miami. There are also Iwo regularly scheduled Pan American World Airways flights out of Porl-au-Princc Thursday Most of today's evacuees were children, dressed in their Sunday best for the occasion. Heaps ol baggage were stacked around the airport. . . ' The U.S. Older to 6vatuate wo men and children of government personnel was Issued Tuesday be cause of what Washington icrmcu a "continued deterioration" of the internal situation in Haiti. The U. S. government Tuesday Romney Leaves Field To Goldwater, Rocky LANSING. Mich. (UPU Gov. George Romney returned to his state capital Tuesday and prompt ly left the 1964 Republican presi dential nomination battle up tn Sen. Barry Goldwater and New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. Romney, home after an eight- day sojourn to Washington and New York, repealed that he is "not a candidate and I do not plan to be a candidate in 1964." The lormer industrialist said that Goldwater and Rockefeller are the "top candidates at this point" and said he had invited both of them to come to Michi gan "to let the stale get a look at them." Romney said he was "amazed at the publicity given his recent trip during which evidences of a Homney-for-prcsident boom was growing within GOP rank "People have been interpreting things that ami t there, he said "All I've been doing Is refraining from indicating what I'm going to do alter this term as governor, The governor denied reports that he had been listening to en ?s. - " I 4 -if couragement from prominent Re publicans, among 1 n c m former President Eisenhower and former GOP National Chairman Leonard W. Hall. "I've met Len Hall only twice and have only a casual acquain tanceship with him. And it's been months since I've communicated with Gen. Eisenhower," Romney said. Asked If he would accept the 64 nomination if it were thrown his way, Romney replied sharply: "That is so remote and unlikely that it would he absolutely pre sumptuous and foolish on my part to comment on." The governor said he met with Goldwater, leader of the GOP's conservative wing, on his trip and expressed the hoie that his situ alion would not lead to a divi sion in party ranks." Asked what he meant by Gold water's "situation." Romney said lie was referring to "organizations that are being formed to support his candidacy." "The most Important Issue Is maintaining unity within the par ty, said the governor. ordered all 220 dependents re moved and urged the 1,300 pri vate American residents to leave Haiti also. "Progressive Disintegration' Undersecretary of State George W. Ball said in Washington that the regime of President Francois Duvalier "seems to be in a kind of progressive disintegration" and in fact appears to bo "fall ing apart. i In Willemstad, Curacao, in formed sources said the Haitian government had requested per-1 mission lor a military plane to land on that Dutch Caribbean is land' off .the -Venezuelan coast, about 475 miles southeast of Hai ti. (The sources said Haiti told Curacao authorities the plane's mission was to pick up passen gers but there was no immedi ate reply to the aulhnritlcs' re lation that Haitian officials, pos sibly including Duvalier himself. might be making arrangements to leave the troubled Negro re public, l Capital Appears Calm The Haitian capital appeared calm today, but a strict to-5 curfew remained in effect Tuesday night. An exodus of Americans from Port-Au-Prince has been In evi dence for tlie past 10 days since the crisis with the Dominican Re public, Haiti's neighbor on tlie is land of Ilispaniola, ncared the boiling point. Tlie threat of a Dominican in vasion seemed to be held In abeyance today pending action by the Organization of American Slates 'OASI and tlie United Na- ions Security Council. , Haiti re quested tlie U.N. action. The internal political situation remained tense. Duvalier's oppo-1 nents have marked May IS as the day for an attempted uprising, That is the day the president's legal six-year term expires, PSC Student Finds Bomb PUBLIC TO VIEW "VOODOO" Ont of tht Air Forc'i F-I0I Voodoo jet fightar-inttrctptort and other modern jet fighters of the U.S. armed services will bt diiplaytd for the public durinq Armad Fores Day, Saturday, May It, at Kingsley Field. Soma of the hundreds of people who viewed the famous fighter-interceptor at the open houso last ytar walked up a wooden ramp for a "loolt tee." More than 20,000 people art expected at the open house, featuring equipment demonstrations, flyovers, and displays of aircraft. Harry Truman Notes Birthday KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPU - Former President Harry 8. Tru man celebrates his 79th birthday today, feeling "line in spite of my youth." The highlights ol the day was to be the traditional lunch staged. by a group known only a: "Friends of Harry s. Truman. Truman was to receive long distance telephone calls during1 the lunch Irom President Kenne dy. Chief Justice Earl Warren and comedian Jack Benny "I wish they'd quit reminding me of my birthdays," Truman joked. They only make me one year older. The lunch in a downtown hotel was limited to two hours this! year in deference to Truman's age. PORTLAND fUPIl A home made dynamite bomb was found attached to tlie front door at the home of a Portland State Col lege student and his wife early to day. Army demolition experts from Ft. Vancouver, Wash., disman tled it. Police arrested suspect. Tlie same student, Ronley J. Duncan, 27, reported several weeks ago an explosive device had been placed under the dash board of his automobile. Duncan called the sheriff's of fice about 4 am. and told depu ties he heard a noise like a small explosion in the front of his home while he was studying. He said he looked out the window and saw a "package" lying against the front door. Duncan said the noise appar ently was to attract him outside Deputies arrived and then called in an Army bomb disposal squad before touching the object. Tlie demolition men told depu ties the bomb was wired with now-type auto switch attached to the front door, and that the ex plosivestwo sticks of dynamitel would have been touched off by jarring the door. JFK Waits Solution By South By United Presa International The demonstrations at Birming ham, Ala., overshadowed all other racial developments in the South Tuesday. More than 3,000 Negroes partic ipated in the demonstrations in which rocks were hurled at police men and firemen who routed the demonstrators with water hoses. Alabama Gov. George Wallace in Montgomery ordered 250 riot trained state troopers to Birming ham to help preserve order. President Kennedy was in close touch with the situation but the White House Tuesday indicated lie had no immediate plans to intervene. 'The President continues to hope the situation can be solved by the people of Birmingham themselves," said acting White House press secretary Andrew Hatcher. The Justice Department's chief civil rights trouble shooter. Burke Marshall, conferred almost con stantly with various groups in an attempt to reach a settlement in the crisis. Negro leader Martin Luther King Jr. said just before the new round of demonstrations Tuesday that negotiators appar ently were making some prog ress. Says Merchants Reneged We have found tlie ground work for some meaningful nego tiations, but nothing positive has been done so far," he said. King ordered the demonstrations April 3 because, he said, white Bir mingham merchants had reneged inn promises to end segregation practices. In New York, former baseball star Jackie Robinson said he would lead a demonstration in Birmingham next week "to show Martin Luther King that we are behind him." Negro leaders in Washington announced plans for a nationwide pilgrimage to Bir mingham to support tlie demon strators. They were awaiting word (rom King as to when to start the pilgrimage, they said. Negro author James Baldwin warned at San Francisco the events in Birmingham should he ample indication to other cities that they are sitting "on a pow der keg." Birmingham, ho said, a foretaste of what's going to happen throughout the country.'.' A group ol Negro ministers at Mobile, Ala., protested the "treat ment of Negroes In Birmingham and other high-tension areas in the South who seek merely to demonstrate against tlie injus tices of a segregated society." Say Negroes Misled But a Negro organization in Montgomery, calling itself the; Sensible Approach of Negro Ef forts (SANE i, charged that "pro-; fessiona) agitators posing as min-; istcrs aro using the cloth to mis lead Negroes." The group said persons such as King were creat ing an atmosphere so intense that peaceful settlement was difficult. In other racial developments Tuesday: Tho Georgia Board of Re gents ordered Savannah State College closed to outsiders and gave striking Negro students un til Thursday to return to classes or face expulsion. A large num ber of students withdrew from the college In protest against the dismissal of a professor, appar ently for his efforts to get white students to attend his classes. Rocky Shuns Politic Talk CHIRGUA, Venezuela (UPI) - New York Gov. Nelson A. Rocke feller, playing the role of a coun try squire, threw open his Vene zuelan honeymoon house to news men Tuesday but refused to dis cuss the possible political effects of his marriage to Mrs. Mar garets (Happy) Murphy, M. This Is not the proper moment to talk politics," Rockefeller taid with his bride at his side In their hilltop residence. "This Is a social gathering." Rockefeller, who married the recently divorced Mrs. Murphy in a surprise ceiemony Saturday, said he and his bride had been relaxing by trimming fruit trees, riding and reading since they ar rived her Sunday.
