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Newspaper Page TextCOUP. In The- Day's Aews By FRANK JENKINS From Salem: Another effort to get a sales tax bill referred to the people was voted down 34-26 by the House of Representatives of the 0 r e g o n legislature the snr.r vote that earlier had indefinitely postponed a sales tax bill. While this effort met the same fate as others before it, the de bate had the effect of breaching the indefinite postponement wall, which requires a two-thirds ma jority 40 votes in the 60-mem-ber House to overcome. The immediate effect, however, is only to change the focal point of the conflict from the House to the House taxation committee, where there is a 6-3 majority AGAINST a sales tax. It rather looks like Oregon is Icad set against a sales tax, doesn't it? Or is it? 1-ct's look at some figures. The last time Oregon voted on a general sales tax was in 1947. It went down to defeat by a popu lar vote of 67.514 yes to 180.333 no. That was a ratio of 2.7 to 1 in the popular vote. Day before yesterday, the Ore gon House of Representatives vot ed 34-26 against referral of a sales lax to the Oregon electorate. That is a ratio of only 1.3 to 1. Could it be that sentiment against a sales tax in Oregon is declining? These words are written, and will be read, in Southern Oregon. If any place, anywhere, should oppose a sales tax. it should be the towns and the cities of Southern Oregon. California has a sales tax. Oregon has none. Lack o( a sales tax in Oregon brings a very considerable volume of trade, running into big figures over the period of a year, from over the border in California. People love to escape a tax. It just could be that if Oregon should overcome its long time prejudice against the principle of a sales tax the towns and the cities along the Oregon-California border in the south and along the Oregon-Washington border in the north might lose quite a lot of business. So this isn't a plug or a sales lax in Oregon. Down here in the southern part ol Hie stale, we need all the business we can get. That, presumably, is equally true of the towns and cities along the Oregon-Washington border. Idaho has no sales tax. Nevada has a sales tax, but the Oregon-Nevada border is rather thinly settled. The sales tax is VERY popu larif it can be said that, any tax is popular. According to the best information available as this is written, 39 of our 50 states have some form of sales tax. Why this popularity? The answer is rather simple. The sales tax is ALWAYS PAID I. P. There is no anxious scratch ing of the bottom of the barrel when comes the grim hour when you must dig up your share of the cost of government. That, presumably, explains why 39 of our SO states have sales taxes. There is an ancient tax principle that goes something like this: "That tax is best which gets the most feathers from the goose with the least amount of squawking." The sales tax does just that. Plane Fare War Opened LONDON i LTD - Britain and the United States declared an air fares "war" that could ground all transatlantic passenger flights. The British demanded that America's two transatlantic car riers, Pan American World Air ways and Trans-World Airlines, raise roundtrip fares 5 per cent by 7 pm. EDT Sunday. The American government's Civil Aeronautics Board 'CAB1 refuses to permit the fare in crease. The aviation ministry here said that, if the two U S airlines do not comply, they will not be al lowed to land at British airports. .i.wr.l Mb Cmn... ni,nn. -including France and Bclgiumi'l'1"; 'Rh'" 'iri" n ''"Ifirst three years of his sentence1 ,A ih.u .ill (nn Brii. reported arrest of a Roman lath- , nriml lh. r.m.,rf i . lead and bar American1"1'0 Pri"' . nlawi Irnnt ttuttr .irrvtrfa if lhv ' ' I do not raise their fares. me .mcriran goYcmrwni is, expected to retaliate by refusing landing rights to pianes from Europe. The center of the controvers) Is a 5 per cent fare increase for Ihe North Atlantic route agreed on !al fall in Chandler, Ariz., by the 91 airlines belonging to the International Air Transport Asso ciation ilATV. Weather Klamath Path. Tvlalaka and Laktvlaw Mostly tunny and warmer today, night about is. Fair tonight, Iowa M-3S. In craatini cleudinatl Monday, nigha SB-SS. Vanaela winds undar IS m.p.h. Hih yattarday M Low Friday morning u High yaar ago S5 Low yaar ago 31 "rocig. pail 14 houri .01 Sinco Jan. 1 a.H Sama poried last yaar a.ts h i Fa tr M 1 , i ! f) l , -1 READY FOR TUESDAY FLIGHT Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper is shown as he wen through his third simulated flight test in Cape Canaveral Friday. Cooper's 22 orbit flight is scheduled to start Tuesday from the cape. UPI Telephoto Coopers 22-0rbk Trip Said In 'Go' Condition CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI -I Project Mercury officials met for three hours Saturday with astro naut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and announced all operations for the spaceman's marathon 22 - orbit flight Tuesday were in a "go" condition. Walter C. Williams, Mercury flight director, sounded the good word in an advisory issued after the meeting. Cooper went from the meeting to the beach for ex Dr. Massey Modoc Scout President Dr. George D. Massey was ra elected president of the Modoc Area Council, Boy Scouts o( America, at the annual meeting in Klamath Falls Saturday. Named vice presidents of the -ouncil were Joe Hick and J. Vern Owens. Other officers elect ed included Joe Green, commis sioner, and William G. Ely, treas urer. National representatives of the council are Harold Ashley, Del Hale. Joe Hicks and James Pin- niger. The officers and representatives were installed in ceremonies at the annual Recognition Dinner at Hie Willard Hotel Saturday eve ning. Installing officer was Ron Phair, a member of the Region Eleven Executive Committee of Boy Scouts. Highlight of the awards dinner was presentation of the Silver Beaver Award scouting's highest award to Dr. Massey and to Wil liam B. "Red" Thompson of Prineville. Both were cited for the long and devoted efforts to promote scouting and the things for which scouting stands. Mak ing the presentations was .1. Vern Owens. Modoc Area vice president. I Other significant scouting awards went to the loUming: Scouter's Key: Jim McDonald, scoutmaster. Troop 76, Lakeview: George Sprague, etibmaster. Pack 31. Klamath Falls. Scouter's Award: Ernie McKcn zie. scoutmaster and post adviser of Troop 2 and Post 28. Prine ville: Russ Fairchild. scoutmaster of Troop 10. Klamath Falls: Irving Elle. district commissioner, lake view; Lewis Ansrll. training chair Haiti Capital Tension Eases PORT All PRINCE. Haiti ttPI' Tension in this Haitian capital 'asri somewhat Saturday despite President Francois lJmalier's cV)Vmnrunt an nraninna In r . , r " , licne nvc-naiion inci-unuini; - .,,,. (rom ,i n-oa.,,.,,.. , American Slates Mondav. T T n July and he inspected Hitler's The group, with ils pnnv "rcuw,) 01 h'h ,rM""n- jbunker. the scene of the suicide, broadened since its lirst visit, meti The maximum penalty for both ju, months ader the Fuehrer in Washington Saturday to enm-jdefendants was death and theu,.,), nl, own ,, plcte plant for its visit. minimum seven years The prose- fhr Russians announced recent- Friday the curfew was re cu'ion in winding up its case hadv ,nat iy ln act haj filfC,n. duced imm nine to six hours ,a'ked a 10 year sentence for frrri wlt,r", i,v alwi Hisoosed II pm. to 5 a m -iltixiiicri anti- government Uiut alter darki Indcr Soviet law there is no lias not been completely halted. ;appeal fiom the court decision. Price 15 Cents 48 Pages ercises and later began another detailed study of the scheduled flight. Williams' statement followed an earlier advisory which also said that operations for the flight were proceeding smoothly. Sunday the 36-year-old astronaut will simu late his flight with a countdown starting between 6 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. est, and ending some 12 hours later. "There are no abnormal prob- Renamed man, Klamath Falls, and Lee Al len, assistant district commission er, Klamath rails. Den Mother's Training Award: Mrs. Eris Fairchild. Pack 10, Klamath Falls. ' Harold Ashley made presenta tions to award winners, Ashley is council training chairman. Special recognition awards went to the Herald and News, KOTI-i TV, radio stations KFLW. KAGOI and KLAD for promoting scout' activities in the area. Also recog nized was Phil Parsons, execu tive secretary of Klamath Coun ty United Fund for his special ef forts to promote scouting. Making the presentations was Jim Allen. Speaker of the evening was Irv ing E. Stimpson, Seattle advertis- ing firm executive and a prom inent scooter in the region. Master of ceremonies was Gene Stivers. Klamath Falls. a member ol the faculty of Ore gon Technical Institute. Soviet Spy Given Death MOSCOW (LTH -The Soviet; Supreme Court Saturday docreed Ihe death penalty for a playboy KusMan scientist and eight years! imprisonment for a British busi-j ne&sman who had admitted spying! for the United States and Britain. In the mndup of Russia's mosv nensatinna! sy trial since the 12 1 case three years ro. the court ' a! condemned the activities of i several present and former mem bers of the U. S. and British em bassies in Moscow and hinted that , further action might be taken in the case. (i rev i lie Wynne, a businessman who said he was tricked into spy. nt; by the British Intelligence! ,.' ... r(W , ,ri lh. .corrective labor camp. Oleg Perikovky, a former So- Iviel scientific official was order. . , '"TH ' " '''"', nne. lems." a spokesman for the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration iNASAi said. "Everything seems to be going an ngnt. Even the weather, a constant thorn in the side of planners, seemed to be cooperating. "Conditions are about as good as normal for this time of year,' a weather bureau spokesman said. A high pressure system was reported kick'ng up some rather heavy swells in the eastern At lantic, but these were expected to subside by the time of the flight. (.wrier is slated to ride a gleaming Atlas rocket into space between 9 a.m . and J 1.31) a m EDT Tuesday.-If all g- well, he will cover 575.0U0 miles oaring his mission. His meeting with Project Mer cury officials was described by one spokesman as "a sort of where do we stand meeting" con cerning the stilus of the space capsule, tange and recovery prob lems. The Atlas was reported to be checking out perfectly and techni cians were scheduled to begin loading its fuel tanks with high grade kerosene Monday Mrnmg. 7H HITLER DIED IN BUNKER Ben Adair, Route 2, Box 685B, Pine Grove Road, dis plays a signed photograph of Adolph Hitler and tome sheets of unused German cur rency that he picked up in Hitler's suicide bunker lest than two months after Hitler took hit own life. Adair was with the First Allied Airborne, tome of the first allied troopt to arrive in Berlin. While Hitler's bunker remained intact, most of the buildings tur roundinq it were leveled by allied bombs. Man Who Was There Believes Hitler Probably Cremated Is Hitler dead A Kbmath ho " with some of tlie first American ,rn"P v' ,n ""n in 1945 thinks he is. Ben Adair. Pine fimve Road. wa with the First Allied Airborne .... . . , kMmrmi ,. of it Adair thinks not. "There is every indicalion that in following Hitler s orders his UaOP -ORSeUIBaAST OENoREKo AND COCUUSHTS DX. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Riot Plagued Syrian Chief esians DAMASCUS. Syria (UPI (-Syrian Premiej Salah Bitar quit Sat urday after a week of cabinet resignations and pro-Nasser riot ing, but tlie man who replaced him apparently failed to form a government. Culture Minister Sami Al Jundi w as picked to head a new govern, mcnt by the National Revolution ary Council, but United Arab Front and Arab Socialist mem bers failed In cooperate with him, informed sources said. The sources said Jundi was continuing negotiations, but had little prospect of success because the two parlies put great pres sure on the men he selected and convinced them they should not join tlie cabinet. Observers were skeptical from the start of Jundi's ability to solve the crisis that broke out in Syria over diiflering view-s on how much dominance Egyptian Presi dent Gamal Ahdcl Nasser should have in the proposed United Arab Republic of Syria. Egypt, and Iraq. Political circles here were stunned by the news of the resignation of the Iraqi cabinet. Opponents of Bitar believed a na Canadian To Aid In HYANNIS i'OVT, Mass. ,l j V -....I!.. D..li. .!-;.... B. Pearson promised President Kennedy Saturday he would in stall nuclear weapons in Canada as fast as possible as part of North America's defense against a sneak Russian atomic attack However, both Kennedy and Pearson made it clear that any arrangement with Canada would have to be "consistent w ith Cana dian parliamentary procedures." The two-day meeting between guards cremated the body in tlie courtyard garden in back of the hunker." Adair said. The garden was badly destroyed by bombs, he said, and there would have been mi chance for the Russians to find any remains. Tlie cremation was popular knowledge among tlie (iermans who lived in the immediate area and everyone accepted it as fact. Adair said. None of Ihe (Iermans Adairl talked to. however, ever declared that they were eyewitnesses to the cremation. The bodies of the nine guards! that Adair saw in tlie bunker were V I SUNDAY. MAY tional front on the Egyptian mod el would be formed in Iraq, making it impossible for Bitar's Ba'Athist party to retain sole power here. They said such a front would have to be formed in Svria too. The sources said the next pos sible course of action here might be a military government under anti-Nasser Interior Minister Brig. Amin Hafez. Hafez, they said, was responsible for ousting pro Nasser officers from the Syrian army last week, touching off Ihc rioting and the cabinet crisis. Bitar, a leader of the Ba'Athist Party, resigned after other cab inet ministers accused him of blocking efforts to give non- Ba'Athists an equal represcnla ttion in the government. The Ba'Athists have opposed plans to form the new three- nation U.A.R. which would be governed from Cairo. Bitar had demanded that Syria be autono mous w ithin the federation. His opposition to immediate union with Egypt and Iraq on present terms had led to riots in Damascus, Aleppo and Horns in tlhe past two days by mobs sup porting Nasser and the union. Pledges Defense .the two leaders wus heid in convivial mood. It appeared cer tain to improve tlie relations be tween tlie United States and Can ada which have been somewhat strained In recent months. As the conference ended, Ken ncdy and Pearson issued a 17 point communique in which they said a number of important mat ters pending between the two na tions were "frankly discussed in a spirit of good will and under standing." probably the very ones that car ried out their Fuehrer's last or ders. "These men appeared to have died of suHoration," Adair said. "One of Ihe things I remember most about (lermany is that at tlie lime, viewing Ihe destruction of Berlin and Ihe death all around me, I thought it would be physi cally impossible for the Germans to ever rebuild again " Adair said. Talking of tlie Germans he met, Adair said he felt they had no more apparent loyally toward Hitler or what he stood for. "I sensed that they didn't even feel bitter toward Americans." Post Telephone TU mmm. .rj m NASHVILLE DEMONSTRATION Negro demonstrators are forced back by police from the front door of a cafeteria where the Negroes, arms interlocked, kept custo men from entering. UPI Telephoto Southern Racial Tension Boils Out In Mew Spots Ily L'nlled Press International Nashville. Knoxville and Halcigh today became focal points in Ihe boiling Soulhwide racial contro versy now that the crisis al Bir mingham has ended. In Nashville, Mayor Beverly Briley said a planned demonstra tion would have been a "real don- nybronk" had it nol been called off. Negro and w bite civic leaders soughl a solution in Tennessee's capital city. In the other Tennessee sore spot, Knoxville, 30 Negro and white youths v. ere arrested while staging a protest demonstration in front of a downtown llicater. I At Raleigh, N.C., a al racial tension readied a peak Friday night when 1,000 Negro college students invaded the grounds of the governor's mansion during a symphonic ball. Tlie demonstration at the man sion capped a day of racial inci dents in North Carolina's capital. including tlie release of more than 1000 jailed demonstrators, a down- tow "freedom march" and a mass rally. No end to the demon strations was in sight and Negro leaders said the protests would increase "in intensity." The chanting, hand-clapping Ne groes surged to the etops ot the governors mansion wlicro (hey shouted "We want (Gov. Terry) Sanford." The governor responded to Ihc call, apicaring on tlie mansion's .steps. He to'd the crowd that 'I've enjoyed your singing and said he would be glad to talk with them at his office. "But," Sanford emphasized, 'this is neither the time nor tlie place." A Negro in the crowd yelled, "We didn't come to entertain you governor. And batuora rep.'teo, "Well, I didn't ask you to come, friend." "You can come to my office," Sanford said, "just let my office know." He was interrupted by hoots and calls. As the governor attomled to continue with "You're living in a democracy ..." he was drowned Flume Blast Investigated A dynamile blast, that early Saturday monring blew a three- loot hole in the center of the irrl- Ration flume crossing Lost Rivcrj at Olene. is being investigated try Oregon State Police and Bureau of Reclamation officials, but late Saturday no arrests had be en made. According to olliccrs' report. Mrs. O. K. Rornickc, who lives nearby, was awakened by a muse similar to a sonic boom at 12 50 a.m. Saturday and rushed to the DftrLpV Tptfc window to see water muring fromilOwat?T I WIJ the hole ln the flume Into tlie river. O. L. Lynn. KID dilchridcr, wasl called and found a hole three feet long and one and one-half feet wide. Water was shut olf imme diately and repair to the estimat ed t2,urio damage is slated to be gin at once. The flume, which was about half full of water at the time of tlie blast, carries aboot .10- acre feet of water to serve tlie South Poe Valley and Crystal Springs districts. No crop damage is predicted from the break. 4-8111 No. 7139 out by the crowd and returned inside. There were no reported arrests by the squad of highway patrol men on tlie scene and no violence. The march to the governor's mansion followed a mass rally at Shaw University, where tlie ma jority of the demonstrators attend classes. Senators Develop Tax Bill At Informal Meet SALEM (UPli-Tlie Senate Tax Committee may pass out Its ver sion of the major income tax bill Monday, Chairman Boyd Over hulse. D-Madras, told UPI late Friday. The announcement gave rise to the belief that the Senate version was hammered out at a series of informal, unannounced meetings that were not attended by re porters. Overhulse to'd UPI on several occasions on Thursday and Fri day that he was not going to call Senate tax meeting because committee members had "con flicts" with other work. Late Friday he admitted the lax committee had held an "in formal" session Thursday. The two-hour meeting broke up about 6 M p.m. No newsmen were pres ent at tlie unscheduled meeting. At noon Friday Overhulse said there would be no Senate tax meeting until Monday. That afternoon UPI discovered Overhulse, Senate Tax Committee (Dunscl Evelyn Scott. House Tax Committee Chairman Rep. Rich ard Eymann, D Marcola, House Tax adviser Forrest Amsden and several others in Hie Senate Tax Committee meeting room, When asked by UPI if the group was holding another informal tax session, Overhulse replied, No, we are discussing another mat ter." About two hours later Overhuls" admitted the croup had discussed the "Green Bell Law," but said the major Income bills had not been discussed. The "Green Belt" bill, which has passed tlu House and it now in the Senate Tax Committee, grants prowrty tax relief to farm ers in area adjacent to cities. The Senate may be proposing changes, and seeking agreement wiiii tlie House tax people before sending the bill to tlie Senate lor action. No reporters were present for Friday's discussion of the "Green - Bell" measure. House Speaker Clarence Barton Russians Plan MOSCOW (UPli The Soviet Union Saturday announced plans for new rocket tests In the Tacil-I ic, possibly as a prelude to the flight of tlie first woman cosmo naut. The official Tass news agency said the tests would be conducted between May and July lo "with Die aim of furthering the conquest of space." Soviet scientists will lest "per lected variants of carrier rockets lor Sce flight purposes," the I announcement said. Weather AORICULTUIUL POMCASr Si"ny and drying- waathor tooay with ' loowgra indKatod ooaM Tugadayl high lamparatvraa StosV towt JMI. 1 Earlier in tlie day. Dr. diaries Lyons, spokesman for the Negroes, met with two members of the 100-membcr committee set up by Mayor E. G. Enloe to ne gotiate tlie city's racial problems. Lyons said the Negroes were dissatisfied with the pace of the committee. said he was unaware of any "in formal" meetings between House and Senate tax officials, and said he would not agree to allow House members to participate in secret sessions. ' The last open meeting of the Senate Tax Committee was held Wednesday afternoon. Some dis cussion of the House-approved in come tax measure was held at that time. Most of the meeting was devoted to other bills, how ever. Because of the apparent wide gap between Senate and House feeling on tlie major revenue bill. newsmen have been waiting for the Senate group to begin public discussion of its plans. Sex Crime Plan Okayed SALEM (UPI) - Sexually dan gerous persons would be civilly committed to the state hospital and given special treatment wi lder a pioneer program approved 53-3 by the House Saturday and sent to tlie Senate. Kep. Ross Morgan, D-Gresham, estimated it would involve 15 per sons in Oregon in the next bi ennium at a cost of il.lfi con. Rep. Bai kcley Lent. D-Portland. said the rewritten bill "ensures adequate safeguards" for the in dividual. Kep. Beulah Hand, D-Milwauk- te, replied the language was so broad it "could set off a witch hunt." She also questioned the ts.OOO per patient cost, and said the money could be spent in other areas where needs are higher and results could be greater. The measure is one of a pack age of six sex offender bills. Morganaid criminal convic tion of a sex offender often is impossible when tlie vict'm Is small child. He said the Intent ot the bill was to get these persons out ol circulation. Under the bill, civil commit ment proceedings could be brought against person thought sexually dangerous. The accused person would be entitled to two jury trials. The first trial would determine whether proceedings should be continued or dropped. If the Jury thought there was evidence of sexually dangerous tendencls,two psychiatrists would be given 30 lo days to make report. If one or both agreed, the ac cused would have another hearing and could request amther trial where commitment would be determined.