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L. Gordon Cooper, 36, whirled
through the final orbits o( Ameri
ca's greatest space (light today to
ward splashdown in the Pacific
this afternoon.
The Air Force major long since
had logged more hours and miles
space than all of his American
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COOPER SPLASH PINPOINTED When Astronaut Gordon Cooper has completed
his full 22 orbits of the earth he will have flown over more than 100 countries and
possessions and made four passes over the Red Target lone as shown in the newsmap
above. When his full mission is completed, Cooper will splash down, arrow, about 100
miles southeast of Midway Island in the Pacific at 4:23 p.m. PDT.
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In The-
Bay's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
The Big News today?
It's still Astronaut Cooper.
As this is written, he has just
been given the nod to go ahead
and complete his full 22.9 orbits
mission. The go-ahead means that
if everything continues to go well
he will splash down in the Pacilic
100 miles southeast of Midway
Island at 4:23 p.m., PDT.
Not "about 4:30 or thereabouts,
as we would say here on earth
if calculating the time at which
we will probably get home from
a trip. At 4:23 p.m.
The space scientists have no
use for the word "about." They
do it right on the button. (If all
goes well.) (.
Why the careful timing?
Well, FUEL had nothing to do
with it. Fuel isn't a problem when
you're orbiting out in space. The
problem is Allt. Astronaut Cooper
is geared lor NO JIUlir. than
three days. That's the limit of
the oxygen supply in his cralt.
He took his air with him, just
as you would take water along on
a salari into a waterless desert
Going into the desert, when your
water's gone you're a goner.
When Major Cooper's air is
gone, he's a goner. Hence his
time limn.
WHY the flight?
lt wasn't just a stunt to see 11
we could do it. We KNEW bar
ring the totally not-to-be-expected
we could do it. We had done it
twice before and what one has
done twice before one is fairly
conlident one can do again.
The problem was one ol
WEIGHTLESSNESS and air. Es
pecially weightlessness. The astro
naut can carry his air in the
lorm o( oxygen. Lack of weight
is a horse of another color.
What is weightlessness?
II is a measure of the amount
of force with which a body is
pulled toward the earth by grav
ity. At the center of the earth, a
body would have no weight at all
because it would be equally at
tracted in all directions.
The scientists tell us that the
farther a body is Irom the center
of the earth the less will be the
force o! gravity and therctofc the
less weight it will have Because
the caith is FLATTENED at the
poles, a mass of iron which
weighs 1.000 pounds at the equa
tor will weigh five pounds MOKE
at the poles because the tmlcs
are nearer tu the center of the
earth than the equator.
Sn-
The farther nut in space man
pels the less WEIGHT there is un
til the point arrives where there
is no weight at all. If jou should
cirop your waicn mil i'ictc in i
distant space it won't lall to the
fl , lu II uill ill. I '
FLOAT AltOLND.
We need to know more about
tins business of weight and the I
lack of it That s one of the tea
sons lor these space flights.
What alumt tiie an '
We think of it as LIGHT. It
isn't It s HEAVY. Believe it or
not. the air pressing down on this
pate as uii read it weighs near
ly HALF A TON. Incidentally, the
weight less at Klamath Falls
than at Med lord or Hnsclmrs be
cause Klamath Falls is HIGHER
IT and dncMi't have so much air
resting on II.
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predecessors combined.
Shortly after the 147-pound as
tronaut started his 19th orbit at
8:45 a.m. PDT less than five
laps from his goal flight con
trollers reported that weather
conditions in his Pacilic recovery
area were "pretty good."
As of 9:30 a.m. PDT. the space
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Klamath Palls, Tulalakt and Lahavlaw
Fair tonight and Friday with low!
tonight of M-JBI high Friday 10-TS. Vari.
abli wind) s-12 m.p.h.
High yattorday 45
Low thii morning ia
High year ago aj
Low yaar ago 34
Preclp. past 24 hour .00
Since Jan. 1 i.tj
Soma period tail year 7.01
Education
TV Budget
Gets Okay
SALEM (UPI I - A trimmed
educational television budget of
S906.900 with a feature, liesigned
to stimulate state and lncal school
participation won legislative
committee approval Wednesday.
The Ways and Means Education
subcommittee voted for the sum
which is $57,100 less than the gov
crnor had proposed.
Furthermore, $70,000 of the sum
approved by the subcommittee
would be available, only if the
higher education system, the edu
cation department, or local school
districts put up $2 tor each $1 of
state money.
Rep. John Mosser. R-Beavcrton.
expressed hope that would encour
age the state's school and college
systems to take part more seri
ously in educational television.
The subcommittee abandoned a
proposal to put educational tele
vision and radio under an inde
pendent council and decided to
leave it under higher education,
where it is a semi independent
branch.
Most of the monev approved by
the committee for Hie 1963-63 bi
ennium. $696,900 of it. would go to
the svstem for cultural broadcasts
and its "College of the Air."
Of the rest, $80,000 would go to
higher education and $ao,ooo to
tlie Department of Education for
school programming.
The cflect of the budget
approved by the subcommittee
would be to hold back the expan
sion of the 3-vear-old state educa
tional television system, which
had hoped to increase its broad
cast hours. Ediica'.ic.r.al radii is
included in tin? budget.
North Carolina Negroes Protest
Segregation In Cafes, Theatres
fly United Press International
Negroes staged another big
demonstration in North Caro
lina Wednesday mht in a protest
acamst e cremation a' restau
rants and theaters.
At Birmingham. Ala . a group
of businessmen urged citizens of
tlie racially tense city to accept
an asreement with Negro leaders
lr. rioegregate downtown stores.
Mayor Art Itancs called for re
pudiation of tlie agi cement.
Biracial committees at Nash
ville. Tenn., and Raleigh, N. C.i
continued working Inwaid a solu-j
tion of racial problems in those
capital cities.
An estimaied 1..VH, Negro col
lege students marched at Greens
boro, N. C. in attempts to inte
grate restaurants and theaters in
that textile city huh gave birth
to the sit-in movement apainst
lunch counter Kgregation. There
agency said, everything was set
ior a triumphant conclusion of
the 22.9-orbit flight -which Cooper
began with a flawless liftoff at
6:04 a.m. Wednesday.
Said an agency spokesman:
"Recovery forces, weather, and
all our people in those areas are
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OPERATION TURNAROUND Kingsley Field airmen
begin refueling two FI0I Voodoos, jet fighter-interceptors,
in one phase of a "turnaround" carried out soon
after the aircraft landed at the field. In a turnaround
operation, the fighter planes land, taxi to the ramp and
shut down. Airmen then refuel the planes from petroleum
Armed Forces Day
A day-long slate of activities!
commemorating Armed Forces
Day followed by tlie dedicationj
of the site for the proposed Inter
community Hospital are in pros
pect for residents of the Klamath
Ba.sin next Saturday and Sun
day in one of the most eventful
weekends planned for Klamath
Falls in recent years.
The two-day schedule of events
opens 10 am,. .Saturday, when
a parade of marching units, mo
torized float and mobile exhibits
pass along Main Street in one of
various activities for Klamath
Falls, Kingsley Field, and tlie Air
Force Station at Keno in cele
bration of Armed Forces Day.
At 2:45 p.m.. Sunday, the week
end program ends with the dedi
cation of the hospital site, near
the new OTI campus, by Kcv.
.lohn O. Iteynolds. pastor of the
Ifcdiu. d WelMiiiiU'i Pi vtty it-
nan Church, who will be among
was no violence.
Police arrested 200 demonstra
tors on trespass charges. Some oi
the .Negroes were carried bodily!
to paddy wauons from the estab
lishments alter they refused Te
(jots to leave. Two white girls
and two white youths were ar
retted with the Nccroes at one
cafeteria when they blocked a
serving lin.
More than f Negroes had
marched throuch Raleigh Tues-i
day nicht to back up desrurea !
tion demands. Police arrested 54
of the demont-tratoi s. The previ
ous day. a similar march at
Nashville touched off fightiniremnved from Alabama. He ac
with white youths. Olltcials nfiniH-d the government of il!egal-
both cities began negotiation ly sending the troops into the
with Negro leaders tn theUtate. President Kennedy dis-
situation. p.itciicd more Uian 3. "W soldiers1
Tlie ' senior iturns" group atjo military bases near Birming
Birmingham said Its agreementham Sunday following six hours
with Negroes to desegregate bu&Mof racial noting in the steel city.
To
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Waiting to pluck Cooicr and his
Faith 7 spacecraft from the sea
about 100 miles southeast of Mid
way Island were the aircraft car
rier Kcarsarge, with 2.156 men
aboard, and two destroyers.
"We are sure he will get a
warm welcome." said Lt. Col.
John A. i Shorty i Powers, spokes
man for the Mercury man-in-space
program.
Cooper In Good Shape
Cooper, refreshed after the first
long sleep ever taken by an
American in space, had been de
scribed as in "vei"' good shape"
as he soared at more than 17,500
miles an hour toward the climax
of a trail-blazing flight for U.S.
moon journeys of the future.
Already the question was being
raised as to whether Cooper's
flight would wrap up the $500
million Mercury project, which is
to be followed by the two-man
Gemini and Apollo moon pro
grams. Space officials said it was too
early yet to say. Hut the national
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration had stated previously that
a successful mission by Cooper
would wind up Mercury.
D. Brainerd Holmes, director of
.NASA's oflice of manned space
flight, put it this way: "we're up
to this lime delighted the
flight's not over yet we'll do
our cheering when he gels back."
NASA officials estimated that
a number of guests in a ceremo
ny in which William B. Sweet
land will be master of ceremo
nies. Tlie guest speaker at the dedi
cation will be U.S. Senator Barry
Golduater of Arizona.
Senator Ooldwater, who is to
be the honored guest at a mill
tary banquet at Kingsley Field
later that evening, will arrive
with his entourage at the dedica
tion site in a helicopter H-43'.
The aircraft will depart from
Kingsley Field and then hover
several inches above the hospital
site uhile the senator and his
party of five deplane near the
speaker's platform.
Accompanying the senator, who
is a major general in the t.S.
Air Force Reserve. Mill be Maj.
Gen. Henry R. Spicer, command
er. 25th Air Division. McChord
Air Fuice Base. Tacoma; Coi.
Iron Gray, commander. Portland
Iterate
ness "violates no law. It binds no! posed constitution, but as a acpa
one in the white community ex- rate question,
cepl the businesses involved." It The Senate committee also
urged Birmingham citizens "to marie several other changes,
appraise the co-l of him or her Tlie House had adopted Ore
f more thoughtless irresponsibii-lgon's present legislative apor
ity. violence or hate." jtionment plan. And it had lelt the
Uanes, however, told some fiOOidcalh penally in the constitution,
persons Wednesday night to "do with the intent of asking voters
everything in your power" to re-at the November general election
-it desegregation. He called the, whether it should be removed,
i itiens committee "a group of The two Senate committee votev
hi?y minded liberals, pinkos and a gainst Ihe document came from
Reds . . ."
iov. (tftitkie Wallace said
Wednesday he would 20 to court
in an effort to get federal troops
braking rockets on Cooper's 3.000
pound spacecraft would fire at
4:02 p.m. PDT about 170 mile;
southeast of Kyushu, Japan, to
ward the end of his journey to
pull him aown from orbit.
Iteturn Is Complicated
That would put his splashdown
in the Pacific recovery area at
about 4:20 p.m. after a sharp
plunge d u r i ng w lliui Cooper's
weight would jump about 7's
times under the forces of decel
eration. Powers warned that the braking
maneuver, called retroiire. is a
complicated and difficult timing
operation. Ships and planes were
ready to got quickly into action
if Cooper should miss the landing
bullseyc.
CooHM had elected to stay
aboard his spacecraft until it was
hoisted aboard t h e Kcarsarge
rather than let himself be lilted
aboard a recovery helicopter.
Space officials said Cooper
awoke from his space sleep
around 3:23 a.m. PDT, calm and
relaxed.
The Air Force major got his go-
ahead to complete his pace-setting
assignment at 6:37 a.m. PUT, 24
hours and 33 minutes alter he
rocketed into space Wednesday.
1 ho uluc-eyed astronaut, drilling
around and around the world.
completed his lHth orbit at 5:45
a.m. PDT. His condition: "Excel
lent." KLAMATH FALLS, OKKGON,
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trucks, and if necessary, reload them with the proper
armament for the next mission. Aircraft land, are re
fueled, rearmed, and returned to the skies in less time
than most recinq pit stops. A "turnaround" and other
demonstrations will be performed during an open house
at the airfield, Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 18.
Observance Set
Air Defense Sector, Adair A i rlcommandinK ollicer of Kingsley
Force Station, Corvallis; Col.
William Pitts, aide to tlie aena-
lor; Col. Kdwin J. Witzenburfjcr.l
Constitution Faces
Action By Senate
SALEM i UPI i A new constitu
tion was approved 7-2 by the Sen
ate Committee on Constitutional
Revision Wednesday night, with
Senate action planned Tuesday
morning.
Sen. Walter Pearson, D Port
land, chairman, said he will ask
the Senate to make the document
a special oro.T of business at
Hi: 15 a m
The constitution that cleared the
Senate committee contains two
gnificant changes from the
House-passed version:
The Senate committee adopt
ed the legislative apportionment
plan of Sen. Anthony Vturri, It
Ontario. The committee decided to put
the death penally issue on the
same May, I'M, ballot as the pro-
,Scns, Don WiHncr, I) Portland
and Glen Stadler. D-Kugene, be
cause of Ihe Vturri apportionment
plan. They said, however, if sub
sequent study convimes them it
is a true population plan, they
will support the document on the
floor.
It needs a two-thirds vole of
tlie Senate to pass Then the two
Houses must agree befme It can
reach Die voters.
pes''
The go-ahead meant that if
everything continues to go well
Cooper will splash down in the
Pacilic about too miles southeast
of Midway Island at about 4:23
p.m. PDT.
This w ill climax the .most am
bitious space venture vet attempt
ed by the United States. Already
Cooper s flight had amassed piles
of information which will help
America shape its Apollo program
to land men on the moon before
1970.
He had set a new t'.S. record
for time spent in space and had
guaranteed for himself the dis
tinction of having made the third
longest orbital flight in history.
1 his was assured at the 25-hour,
lo-minutc point in Cooper's flight
after 440.000 miles of space travel
The No. 3 honor previously be
longed to Soviet cosmonaut Gher
man S. Titov who flew 17 orbits
in 25 hours and 18 minutes on a
437,500-mile trip Aug. 6-7, 1061.
Soviet Maj. Andrian Nikolayev
holds the record with a 64-orbit
flight Aug. 11-15. 1962. which last
ed just under four days. He flew
1,615.000 miles.
Kunnerup is Soviet Lt. Col. Pa
vel Popovich who (lew 48 orbits
in just under three days Aug. 12
15, ma. His distance was 1,243,-
000 miles.
"All systems are go, the astro
naut is go. and he has been given
go' decision" for the full mission.
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1W.3
Field, and Mayor Hobert Vcatch
(fnnllnurd nn Pari' 4-A
The Vturri apportionment plan
would make the sizes of the
House and Senate flexible, with
top limits of 35 and 65 members.
Kach county would Ret a legis
lator tor each 1 .10 nr 1-60 of the
population of the state. Counties
with more than one half (lie re
quirement lelt ' over (a major
fraction) would set an extra leg
islator. Counties with less than
one half the requirement to start
with would he combined intn dis
tricts meeting the major fraction
requirement for a legislator.
Vturri said it is a true popula
tion plan, although its immediate
effect would be to give a slight
advantage to Kastern Oregon.
Milk Control
Bill Approved
SALEM 't'l'li - The Hnue
approved milk price control bill
won unanimous approval in the
Senate Agriculture Committee
Wednesday, and was sent to the
florrr for action.
The bill is designed to stabilize
tlie prices farmers get tor milk
by setting up automatic market
pools to equalise prices.
Tlie committee tlien rewrote an
other bill to it would set minimum
prices on processed milk sold at
Ihe wholesale level. Tlie rewritten
measure is designed to give
stronger control over out-of-state
milk shipments which are
dumped'' in Oregon. Sen. Harry
Hoivm. D
Klamath Kails, ex-
plained
22 -Orbit
a Mercury spokesman said in an
nouncing the go-ahead.
At that point, Coo)er was swing
ing across the southern coast of
Australia on the start of a north
east path across the Pacific
Ocean back toward the United
States. He was midway through
orbit 17.
Cooper slept ?': hirs during
Astronaut's Family Books
Passage On Hawaii Plane
TAYLOIt LAKE VILLAGE, Tex.
i UPI I Mrs. L. Gordon Cooper
and her daughters broke out their
luggage today and booked passage
on a jet plane to Hawaii.
They plan to join astronaut Coo
per at Honolulu after he comes
down. Mrs. Conner awoke today
about the lime hrr husband
aroused himself from a sound
sleep in his Faith 7 spacecraft.
An hour later, Mrs. Coniwr
awoke her daughters, Camala. 14,
find Janita. 13. Jan prepared n
breakfast of scrambled eggs and
toast.
They plan to leave Houston Fri
day morning on National Airlines
Flight 35, which will take them
Telephone
Small Tax Increase Noted
In Tentative City Budget
A modest Increase of $ig,nr3
in the tax levy will be necessary
to finance the budget tor opera
tion ol tlie city of Klamath Falls
during the KHi.1-14 fiscal year.
The city budfict committee has
yet (o formally approve the li
nalizrd budget, hut it has
processed It thoroughly and has
tentatively approved a combined
city budget of $l.i2,10fi M
Estimated revenue from a 1 1
sources except taxes for tlie city
amounts to $i24,110. Cash on hand
will be $.W8.3ft5.0R. and UM.m,
derived from translers.
This leaves a total to be levied
property taxes to meet the
budget of $(24.1(3. It is expected
that $02,417 will he uncollectible
during the 1963-M year, leaving
net tax levy of $jfil,745 lor
budget purposes.
The total budget is composed
of $t!fi4,0l0 for general fund ad
ministrative budget, ffi4S.MZ lor
departmental budgets and $I.V
2o4.IKt lor involuntary budgets
covered by siecial tax levies
The total budget represents an
increae of about $100,000. Of this
amount. exiecled revenue will
absorb about $110,000 of this in
crease, and a balance of $19.0).1
will be levied via taxes. This
amount amounts to the permit
ted six per cent increase over
the amount levied for this pur
pose last year.
The increases in tlie city budg
et are entered mainly in the gen
eral fund budgets which show
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DAY CAMP COOKERY Camp Fir Girls Day Camp
lettions feature a variety of educational and fun ae
tivitie. including cooking hobo-ttyla. Learning how to
operate the "hobo itova are, from left, Kathy Farr and
Kathy Rot. Information and applications for th day
camp are beinq distributed this weak to all qirls between
7 and 17 in the community. Two four-day sessions, Mon
day through Thursday, are scheduled at Cable Corral
on Stukel Mountain, with bus transportation furniined.
Datat ere June 1 7-20 and June 24-27.
the night as his Faith 7 rahin
drifted through space. He awoke
about 3:25 a.m. PDT.
Dr. Charles Berry. Project
Mercury physician, said Cooper
slept with "very regular respira
tion." "Medically, he has been in very,
very good shape," Berry said. He
added that the astronaut had cat-
in Los Angeles. They will leave
Los Angeles for Honolulu at 12:30
p.m. PDT Friday on a Pan Amer-,
ican jet.
Although they took their lug
gage out of storage, they did not
start packing immediately. Hawai
ian leis were expected to be de
livered to the Cooper home later
today.
Mrs. Conner and the girls tried
to listen to Cooper's voice on a
special radio receiver as he mrde
his 16th orbit but failed to hear
anything intelligible.
Mrs. Cooper said Wednesday's
reception of her husband's voice
Iransmissinns was poor. But she
said she did hear her husband's
voice.
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net increase ot $78,500. Another
$22,000 increase is In the vlun-
tary budgets which are supported
by (unds from other than prop
erty tax sources.
The major portion of the $78,500
increase comes in two depart
ments. Ihe police department
budget which is up $48,000 and the
street department which Is up
S.10.000. The general administra
tive budget is down $lB.ono and
the legislative budget $5(10. Tin's
decrease is absorbed in modest
increases in other budgets such
as $4.0110 in the legal, judicial
budget, $1,5(10 in the planning
department, $3,000 in the sewer
department. $2,000 in the engineer
ing department, $ti,jO0 in the lire
department and $3,000 in the dog
pound funds.
Actually, the major nhare of
the increase in tlie police de
partment budget comes about
from a transfer of expenditures
usually carried in previous years
under the parking meter lund.
Some $.14,000 in salaries has been
Iranslerrcd from tlie parking me-
ler fund tn the police depart
ment fund, leaving an actual in
crease of $4,000 in tlie police de
partment exicnse for IOtiJ.9r4
year. Much of this comes about
for salary adjustments and mi
nor increases in other items. The
item of prisoner meals of $7,000
was formerly earned in the ad
ministrative budget and has now
been moved into tlie police de-
alpartment budget.
mht
en at least twice during his first
24 hours in space.
Although Cooper's spacecraft
was in drifting flight while he
slept, it was not a case of drift
ing and dreaming. Asked from the
ground if he had any dreams while
asleep. Cooper replied:
"Negative. Actually, I slept very
soundly."
"It was very comforting to
hear," she said.
Mrs. Cooper will not talk to re
porters until her husband is safe
ly down from his flight.
Hat Dave Schwartz, public af
fairs officer for the national
space agency, said, "w i t h this
textbook flight, they couldn't be
less than pleased."
Throughout the d,oy, Mrs. Coo
per and the two girls followed the
progress of the Faith 7 on televi
sion. The girls went outside dur
ing Cooer's sixth orbit, however.
and played badminton in the
backyard with two neighbor girls.
Mrs. Cooper called the liftoff of
her husband's rocket Wednesday
"beautiful."
Weailur
AGRICULTURAL FOR IC AST
Mostly fair tttrough Saturday with full
tun t hint both days. No rain expected.
Liqht winds and warm daytime ttmpere
turei. loll Temperatures 4a and rising
slowly.
I Examining the police depart-
ment budget in detail we find
salaries up $4,000 above the $34.-
000 translcrred in, $2,000 increase
in expected payroll costs for
State Industrial Accident and So
cial Security payments, cloth
ing allowance is up $400, supplius
$1100, prisoner clothing up JW-
gas and oil up $1,000, motor ve
hicle maintenance up $1,000, re
serve for office equiimicnt up $800
and -Identification equipment up
$300. The reserve for auto equip
ment was decreased $1,000 and
another $2,500 was dropped from
last year's budget when the pistol
range was purchased last year.
This sum was a non-recurring
item.
The $10,000 increase in the
street department comes about
through three items. A sum of
$.000 in salaries previously car
ried under tlie Slate Street Tax
Expenditures has been moved into
the street department budget,
and two new accounts have been
added to the budget. One is for
$10,000 and would provide funds
for sustaining tlie newly initiated
street improvements by providing
money (or paying assessments
against city owned property in
volved in such improvements.
City Manager Robert Kyle Indi-
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Boards Set
Election Day
The Klamath County School Dis
trict and the Klamath Falls Ele
mentary District No. I jointly
agreed this week to hold a spe
cial county wide election. June
10. on the proposal lor single dis
trict reorganization.
Attorneys lor both district are
working together to draw a bal
lot title and legal notice of elec
tion. Hay llunsaker. city school su
perintendent, will write to the at
torney general for an opinion nn
certain issues that would arise
in the event a majority of citizens
in the separate districts involved
vole to reorganize.
One of tlie problems is wheth
er another budget election w ill be
necessary. llunsaker said. Anoth
er question is how to arrive at
tlie new district's lax base and
third Is whether Ihe Union
High District is automatically dis
solved or does the county court.
acting as a boundary board, have
to act to dissolve the KU district.
Welfare Group
To Meet Here
SALEM (UPD-The Slate Wel
fare Commission w ill hold Us riett
regular meeting May 24 at tlie
county courthouse in Klamath
Ealla.
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