COUP.
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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-
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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!
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.corrective labor camp.
Oleg Perikovky, a former So-
Iviel scientific official was order.
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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.
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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
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of it Adair thinks not.
"There is every indicalion that
in following Hitler s orders his
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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
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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
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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."
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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.
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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.