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Newspaper Page Textcoup. ... nne t.T3HARt In The- Day's iVews By FRANK JENKINS Today's big news especially for Astronaut Cooper: The planned 22 - orbit flight around the earth was "scrubbed" I postponed I 12 minutes before it was scheduled to blast off. As this is written, it is expected that another try will be made tomor row morning. When the postponement came. Gordon Cooper had been in his cramped little "cabin" for four hours and 19 minutes. It must have been a -frightful let-down. but at least the opportunity for a sireicn was welcome. The reasons for postponement? mere were two: 1. A faulty "tracking" radar at Bermuda, which was to have kept him spotted. 2. A balky diesel engine used to move the 450-ton "service" tower to and away from the huge "booster" that was all ready to loss his capsule out into Uie un knowns of space. The weather was perfect. 1 Question: What about this word SCRUBBED, used in the dis patches this morning to indicate postponement, or cancellation? It's a part of the new world in which we're living new man ners, new mores, new WORDS. In the world that is passing, this word SCRUB had two mean ings, according to Webster: 1. To rub hard, to clean a thing by scrubbing, to cleanse of lm purities. 2. To be diligent, or PENURI OUS, as: "lo scrub hard for a living." Penurious! Scrubbing hard for a living! ! ! Obviously, that meaning had to be got rid of. In this older world that we are leaving behind, ""pe nurious" meant EXCESSIVELY SPARING IN THE USE OF MON EY. In the newer world that we are entering, being sparing in the use of money is the last tiling that must be thought of. It just mustn't be done any more. It must be SCRUBBED. New davs. NEW WAYS'. There was a time when just making a living was the chief concern of Americans. Now we are spending twice as much to get to Uie moon as it cost to run our whole lederal government as recently as 1940. In 1940. the total cost of the federal government was S9.0K2, 032.304. Now the interest on our national debt is about ten billion dollars and we're spending 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon. tilers have thought of it all? One hates to say. It would sound profane. But- Lct's nol be cynical. Let's look at the doughnut and not at the hole. It takes MEN to make worlds. It took MEN to strike out across the mysterious and terrifying Western Sea lo find this new world of ours. After it was found. it took MEN to settle it and to make of it the best world ever jet known by man. It takes MEN to strike olf into outer spare. We still have that kind of men. Nol only are they WILLING. They are eager for the chance and hold it to be a HIGH HONOR to be chosen. As long as we have that kind! o! men. wen oe an ngni. JFK Move Protested WASHINGTON 'ITI - Presi dent Kennedy held firm today to his insistence that he had legal power to send ft-dcral troops to Alabama despite a nrw protest by Gov. George C Vaiiace against their presence. The President had a forum available for his views at a lunch scheduled for 2i Alabama newspa per publisliers and editors. Invi tations lo the event. 21st in a se ries for news executives liom all areas of the country, were sent May 2. belme'the latest Biiming hanT flareups. The luncheon was scheduled for 1 p.m . KDT Replying Monday to Wallace's challenge of his authority lo send slandhy troops. Kennedy appealed to the governor for "conlruc(ive cooperation'' to make tlieir use unnecessary. Kennedy's teiceram repiicd to one Wallace sent him Nmday mcht. alter the President an nounced shipment of riot control units In bases near Birmingham and took preliminary action to led rra'le the Alabama National Guard if necessary. Won I her Klamath Pall. Tultlikt and Laktvltw Fair tonight, lowl 31-jr. Vartablt cloud Iniit won a law arlaf ahowara poistBla Wadnaiday, night aS-tf. Oanarally light wlndl. High vrilardav u Low tail night jt High ytar ago it Low ytar ago M Proclp. patt 14 hour tract SiiKa Jan. I a.H Sam ptriod last ytar 7.11 i LM..-. ---1rtiiftinr-mi''ai iMji rrmtai nl,..-. -I'-"., i rw,t, itm MitVif 4..J GLOBEM ASTER PACKS 74.000 POUNDS The U.S. Air Force C-124 Globemaster will be on display at the King slay Fieid flight line during Armed Forces Day next Saturday, as it was at last year's observance. The aircraft was the most popular dis play last year and featured a walk through ramp (above) for visitors. Exhibits Readied For Field Armed Forces Day Program A jet plane capable of trans porting 200 fully equipped troops at altitudes above 30,0(10 feet, and a mechanical monster designed to lift damaged aircraft from run ways w ill be two of countless ex hibits on display for the public during an open house at Kingsley Kicld beginning noon. Armed Forces Day, Saturday. May 18. Tlie jet transport, a C-124 Globe master, carries 74.000 pounds of 'Secret Income Tax P la n'Fac SALEM (U PI i An income tax program drafted in secret to raise an additional $32 million was ap proved 4-3 bv the Senate Tax Committee Monday. The measure, a substitute for the House - approved' bill which would have raised an additional 15 million, was approved in a 30 - minule executive session capped by the formalities of a vote and the distribution of a pre prepared publicity release. The bill appeared destined to be rejected fry Ihe House, thus necessitating a conference com mittee to draft an income lax pro gram. The Senate committee also passed out a $12 million "one shot" revenue bill to speed collec tion of withholding taxes, but amended it to go into effect in April 19t)5. only if needed to keep the general fund from dipping into the red. Cigarette Tax Ignored Senators indicated they would let the proposed 4-cent a pack cigarette tax die in committee, and hinted Ihey would substitute Czechs Purge Former Chief VIENNA 'I PI1 :nmmunit Czet'ho sinvakia today disclosed the piirj:e of its former secret police chief. Karol Bacilek. and another old-line CommunM, Bruno Koehl er. from their leading party pots. The Czech government an- noumTmrnt said both were dis missed from the party's Central Commit lee. which nv,ns Bacilek has lost his post on (he nine-man ruling Presidium a well, and Koehler is out as one of the six .secretaries of the Central Com mittee No reason was (men for tlx1 purt;e. Kit hoUi leadors are old ime Slaiinisls closely identified w it hi the harh policies of the late President Klrment (Kiltwald Knehler, was co-founder of the Czech Communist party and a former close aide of tiottwald's. I Price Ten Cents 30 Pages cargo and has a ceiling of more than 30.000 feet. It has operated in Korea, at the north and south poles and virtually all other areas of the world. The Globemaster and other air craft will be on display Saturday, when Armed Forces Day com mences locally with a military pa rade starting at 10 a.m. in down town Klamath Falls. The parade will feature marching units and S H a s s I e a (tales (ax plan for a Mouse approved business inventory la. relief measure. Voting for the income tax plan were Sens. Robert Ellstrom. H Salem; Glen Stadler, D-Euj;cne; Boyd Overhulse, D-Madras, and Walter Pearson, D-Portland. Vot ing no were Sens. Vernon Cook, D-Ore.sham; Donald Husband, It Eugene, and Anthony Yturri, K- Ontario. The Senate plan drew immedi ate protests from the Mouse side. Speaker Clarence Barton term ed the bill "very severe in the low and middle income ranee." House Tax Committee Chair man Kichard Kymann said the plan "lacks progressivity and vio lates the principle of ability to pay. The Senate committee went through the motions of discussing the proposal for about 15 minutes before voting for it. Kymann '( !rf Newsmen learned that a draft of the press release had been giv en to Kymann about 2 p m. The committee took its ute about J 15 pm. The Senate version has not yet had discussion in open public meeting. Tlie measure would do away with the net receipts feature of the House approved plan, and makes major rate increases to raise nearly $20 million more than the House proposal. The Senate committee made these changes in the present law Eliminated the federal income lax deduction. Increased personal exemptions from $fioo to p&i for a single per son, and from 11.200 to $1,300 for a married cmiple. while at the same time rrducina tl depend ency credit tiom $fi lo $400 Decreases Ihe lop published ra?e from tPi per cent to 7 per cent, l Imposes a minimum no lax on single persons, and f20 on joint returns. .rants lull deduction "n ai medical expenses in excess of 5 per cent of income. aru ?F.NJ Kingsley mobile displays of the Armed Forces Day theme, ' Power for Peace." ; l ... - . . As the parade gets underway, a flight of K-101 "Voodoo" jets will make a low level pass in salute and will reappear several times while the parade is in progress Quick acting camera enthusiasts will have a chance to "shoot" these airplanes. An 0)en house at the air base begins at noon. Col. Edwin J. Witz- enbuiger, base commander, will give a brief welcoming address at 12:50 p.m., followed by a drill team exhibition at 1:15 p.m. Next on the program is a Dino saur demonstration. The Dinosaur, looking much like a mammoth mo bile tinker-toy crane, is used in emergencies to haul aircraft and (Continued on Pagi 4) Venezuela Ousts Yank CARACAS. Venezuela L'PI A U.S. educator has been expelled from Venezuela because a news paper here quoted him as saying that the way to end Communist terrorism in Venezuela would he to kill a ncore o( top Beds, in cluding those who arc sheltering behind parliamentary immunity. Philip Taylor, associate profes sor of Latin American studies at Johns Hopkins University, was es corted to the airport Monday bv three plainclothes policemen and put abtiatd a plane bound lor New York. Taylor said he was "grossly misquoted" by the Caracas news paper which published what it said was an "interview" with him Monday. The newspaper quoted him as saving that "Violence and subver sion in Venezuela will be wiied out onlv when I lie government commits a score of homicides." "In that way, the heads and di I rectors of the wave of terrorism aflecting this country will be finished off." the interviewer said Taylor told him. '11ie.se gentle men are in the Senate and Cham ber of Deputies. "They are first and foremost among thoe who mut be eli minated. For instance. Dr. iCom munist boss and Congressman' Gustavo Machado and his brother Lduardo." "f did not say what the news paper said I did." said Taylor who came here to participate in week long seminar on "the chal lenge of democratic ideas" sjkhi aored by lite V..S. Kmbassy. "I was talking In rather general terms I mentioned no one by name " iuwvt 11 10 KLAMATH FALLS, Faulty Radar CAPE CANAVERAL, Kla (UPD Gordon Cooper's attempt to fly 22 times around the world was postponed for 24 hours today by o faulty tracking radar on which his safety and the success of his mission depended. Walter C. Williams, operations chief of the Mefcury space pro gram, announced that a second attempt would be made al 6 a.m. PDT Wednesday. Today's postponement was an nounced at 7:57 a.m. PDT, 12 min utes before the Air Force major was to have vaulted into the sky atop an Atlas rocket for a 34 hour trip through space. Cooper, 36, whose mission is to set a new space flight record for Americans, had been in his cramped Kaijh 7 cabin 4 hours and 19 minutes when the reluctant decision was made to scrub the flight. Radar Is Essential The radar trouble developed at the Bermuda tracking station on which Mercury controllers depend to determine whether a spacecraft has gone successfully into orbit. The radar will be given a final check at 4 p.m. today. The trouble with the radar coin cided with failure of the diesel engine which moves Uie 150-foot,! 450-ton service tower away from the Atlas booster before blastoff. The engine failure, first in the1 memory of cape veterans, forced a delay of more than two hours in Cooper's planned liftoff. Then Ihe radar difficulties necessitated a scrub for the day. Williams said the radar defect at first appeared to be minor Then conditions "deteriorated as the count progressed." Uthcr than the diesel and radar troublcs, the preflight check, known as the countdown, had pro- ceeder with unusual smoothness. Cocr and the weatlnr, the spacecraft and its booster were ell right for Uie shot. Returns to Hangar After the postponement. Cooper was eased out of his spacecraft and returned to Hangar S. his preflight home on the cape. He had started the day at 12:50 a m PDT. Cooper had been reported "in good spirits" as he awaited his fate aboard the Faith 7. Williams remarked at a news conference alter the scrub that the astro- Mark Vetoes Refuge Bill SALEM LPD-. bill to give county governing bodies veto pow er over establishment of federal migratory bird relunes was ve toed itself late Monday by Gov. Mark Hatfield. Hatfield said such refuges al ready must be approved by the "povemor or his designated agen cy, " in addition to numerous fed eral parties. Hatfield said this "seems to af ford ample protection for statel and local interests." Chief supporter of the hill was Hep. Rohert Smith. It-Burns. It passed by a close vole in both! houses, and the veto was likely to stand. S200 BENEFITS LITTLE LEAGUERS Dallas Fnnnlnq, preiiden. oHht South Suburban Little League, receives two $100 thecki from T.Sqt. Bob M. Fotr. left, Non-Commis-sioned Officers' Club, and T.Sqt. JernM R. McWilliams, fprntinq th Officsn' Club. The fundi wr contributed by the Kinqtlty Field orqaniiatiom to defray eoiti for financing the South Suburban Little League this season. OREGON, TVKSDAY, MAY 14, 1WJ3 -Orbit Id naut's 4 hours and 19 minutes in his cabin was "a very good simu lation" of space flight. Cooper's mission is to spend 34 hours in space to check the ef fects of weightlessness on human beings and to perform tests vital to the forthcoming two-man Gem ini Apollo moon flights. President Kennedy was notified of the scrub a minute before it was announced publicly at the cape, according to Press Secre tary Pierre Salinger. Salinger said Ihe president was notified in a telephone call from the cape. The faulty radar at Ber muda is one of the key stations in the worldwide Mercury tracking network. This radar tracks a spacecraft as it goes into orbit at a point 100 miles in space and 500 miles from the cape. KU Board Favors Hears McKinny Request Withdraw The Klamath Union High School Board of Directors Monday night heard a statement prepared by Willard McKinny asking that his request for reinstatement as KU principal be withdrawn, and the board decided no further action was necessary on its part until the state board acts on McKin- ny's appeal to the state's sus- liension of his teaching certificate. The complete text of the state ment appears on Page 2 of to day's Herald and News. The stale will act on McKin ny's appeal at the next regu lar Slate Board of. .Education meeting which at last rcjHirl was set for June 15. At Monday night's KU board meeting two new school board members were sworn in after the May A election was canvassed and approved. Lou Kelltson look his place on the board replacing r' n RnrulinK nc rnnropntjil ive from Ilie Plevna District. Borstingl Uneasy Calm Rules In Riot-Torn City BIRMINGHAM. Ala. il'PM Two white youths were cut with knives and a Negro was wound ed by a pellet gun Monday night on the streets of this racially torn city. State lriMicrs patrolled tlie slrcels while a small detachment of federal troops maintained an observation post in the federal building lierc. Tlie incidents Monday night were scattered and there was no rcru.-rence of the weekend riot ing that caused President Kenne dy lo order 3.000 troops sent to military bases in Alabama on slandhy alert. Negro leader Martin Luther King Jr. apealed to members of his race at a mass meeting Mon Telephone Stalls Cpi- p For 2$ Hours The "scrub" came nearly 50 minutes after another difficulty, a balky diesel engine, hud been cleared up. The engine is used to move the 450-lon service tower to and away from Cooper's mighty Atlas booster. It refused to work when called on to move tlie tower at 5:05 a.m. It took a little more than two hours to got it going. Meanwhile, the Bermuda radar was working only intermittently. These difficulties spoiled an oth erwise perfect preflight count down. The weather was fine here and at key recovery areas around the world. Cooper, 36, was in "lip-top" shape. The Atlas was reaily to go. Wednesday is the earliest anoth er attempt can lie made. The big Alias had been loaded with ItiO.IHK) will take his place as board chair man July 1, replacing John D. Volh. The hoard also acted to fill the vacancy on tlie board by appoint ing Hay L. Garrison, 2958 Hope Street, lo replace the lale Mrs. Margaret Sheridan. He will serve until the next annual election. George Proctor, city school system attorney, read a memori al on behalf of Mrs. Sheridan who died May 8. Mrs. Sheridan was a member of the KU board for eight years. In other board action, Charles Houston moved that the board go on record favoring the single district reorganization plnn as the most effective for all school purposes. Ints motion was ap proved by unanimous vote. Outlining the sciiool noarn s past action in regards (o the Mc Kinny case, George Proctor said that on the basts of conduct and performance of duty McKinny day night "lo he calm and rctainl our commitment 10 nonviolence. "We can't win meeting violence with violence," lie said. "If there1 is any blond spilled in the strcels. let it lie our blood." One while youth. J. W. Bur gess, 18, was trealed at a hospi tal for a deep gash on his arm. He told police be and another youth, Richard Hite, 17, were standing in a telephone booth near his home when a group ol Negroes drove by and cursed them, tlicn returned and heal them with slicks and slashed htm with a knife. Police said llilc was slabbed in the left arm and tun inr-he nf the hlatlp hrnke off in his arm. TU 4-8111 No. 7141 pounds of liquid oxygen to burn the 73.000 pounds of high grade kerosene fuel previously put on board. Technicians began at once to drain the liquid oxygen, roll the service tower back in place, and liberate Cooper from his cabin. It was not immediately deter mined what had gone wrong with Ihe Bermuda radar. The trouble showed up around 5 a.m. PDT. The countdown was continued, however, in the hope the radar would start functioning again. Space Team Disappointed The postponement was a disap pointment not only to Cooper but to tlie. whole Mercury space team. President Kennedy and Democrat ic congressional leaders were at breakfast when Uie delay caused by the diesel engine was dis Single District was reelected to serve as princi pal for l'JM-64. The board at that time felt that McKinny's certifi cation needed clarification by the slate board. When on April 23, tlie stale hoard suspended his certificate it was necessary for the KU board to remove him from his principal ship at the high school. When McKinnv's anneal was filed his state certification was Atitomatl- ..,llu In fnrr-A aaain tint 11 ant inn was taken on the appeal. It was it this point that the principal requested reinstatement at the high school Monday night's statement made it unnecessary for the KU board to consider this request further. In other regular business Uie school board agreed to allocate $250 to send two teachers who are on Ihe Able and Gifted Chil dren Committee lo a summer workshop on gifted children in Corvallis. Charles Houston said (hat Ihe hoard should act to lake advan tage of every opportunity lo im prove Ihe curriculum at KU. The board voted unanimously to alio- ale the funds which w ill help pay part of the expenses for the work- Imp. New board member Garrison was a member nf the county school board for two terms, 1949 to 1959. while his Ihtee chil dren were In Ihe county school system. His wife is a teacher at Peterson School at the presejtUettlement of tlie loathcrbedding Cycle Flip Kills Driver A 28-year-old Chiloquin man was killed about 4:15 p.m. yes terday when he was thrown 50 loot from his motorcycle alter it went off Agency Lake Road on a curve and plnwed IfiO leet Into a lield covered with stumps. Dead is l.con Crawford who was westlmund on Agency lke Road one - quarter ol a mile west of Chiloquin, when the accident oc curred. Craw lord lost control of Ihe ve hicle on a curve and It sped In the opposite side of the road and mlo a held. He remained on Die cycle as it plowed about loo leet over the ground and llien was thrown about 30 leet through the air. Crawford's head struck a tree slump and his body flipped an additional 20 feet. Tlie motorcycle continued an- oilier SS feet when It struck a tree stump and slopped, Chiloquin Po hce Chief Max Smith told the Herald and News. Police were unable to determine the speed of motorcycle at the time It left the rnad. Crawford was taken by Chilo quin Ambulance In Klamalh Val ley Hospilal where he was pro nounced dead on arrival. Several hours before the acci dent Crawford had been cited (or! traveling In excess of 100 milesi per hour, Oregon Stale Police, re- porled. The victim grew up in Chiloquin and went In school there. His par ents are Vivian and Merl Craw- lord. Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Partly cloudy mif wvtral days with liqhl ilwwtrt poult! Wdrwdiy nd q.n Friday. Slight cooling trtfitf b mninaj Thursday. iigM. Inch Mil torn saraluro AS. closed. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said the President Indicated "great interest in the flight." But delays and scrubs are old stuff in the space business. The first American in orbit, LL Col. John H. Glenn Jr. sweated it out twice in his spacecraft before he got off on his three-orbit flight Feb. 20, Aa. Virgil I. Grissom, who made a suborbital flight July 21, 1M2, also was removed from his cabin be cause of delays. Grissom holds the record for time spent in a capsule before flight 6 hours and 19 minutes. It was Glenn who voiced the thought always uppermost In the minds of astronauts. When he was pulled out of his cabin he said, "There'll be another dav." time and Garrison has been an instructor in mechanical engineer ing technnlogy at OTI for eight years. 1 i Featherbed Report Mod WASHINGTON (L'PII-A presi dential emergency board today proposed procedures, including final and binding arbitration, for ui.u. " b.vii n iinmiimi.ic iai- toad strike in 30 days. Tlie hoard, which submitted a report to President hennedy lale Monday night and met with him today, centered most of its pro- Kisals on terms for coping with management demands for elimi nation nf the jobs of diesel fire men, which rail unions have been lighting. Tlie Iward said a r a i I slrik would be "crippling" to the na tion. The hoard made a numhrr of recommendations for settlement of (lie work rules issues. It said that during its Vj weeks of deli berations and mediation efforts "Considerable progress has been made towards Ihe erealion of a climale which could support genu ine negotiation." Asking each side to "re-examine its responsibilities not only lo it self, but lo Ihe nation," Ihe board said. Roads Flooded In Missouri Bv t nlled Pre". Internalional Hood water up tn six fee deep poured over amithrm Missouri highway todsy. Rain, winds and hail swct the Midwest for the third consecutive day. Highways were flooded und at least two major traflic. arteries into Springfield, Mo., were closed. Strong winds and hail caused widespread property damage. The Missouri Highway Tatrol said waler was tip to Urn head lights of automobiles on U.S. 5 and 00. Hash flooding from surface wa ter hit many areas but no major property damage- was reported. . - a ' ... ii i -i i KAY I. GARRISON