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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.
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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
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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
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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.