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co-i? CRS.'-IBSAM Enjoy Summer Fun With Monej0WM Solving Coinword Puzzle On Page 5-B In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Up in Salem the other day. Sen ator Warren Cook, of Gresham. made a little speech to his col leagues in behalf of a bill to create an U-member interim com mittee to study ways to bring more tourists to Oregon. He made it sound quite worth while. For example: He told his hearers that tourism is a healthy infant' in Oregon's almost static economy. He said tourism could become Oregon's second industi-y this year behind timber, but ahead of agriculture He said tourists spent more than $400 MILLION' in Oregon last year. H Thai's a lot of money. In lOUO, the last census year, Oregon's population was approxi mately 1.800,000. To bring the fig ures into round numbers, let's as sume that our state's population might by now have reached 2,000, ooo. ,. That would mean that last year's tourist income of $400,000, 000 came lo an average ol $200 per Oregon person or $300 lor each average family of four in our stale. That's a lot of NEW money. It's worth going alter. To bring Senator Cook's figure of $400 million inlo accurate focus, a w ord of .explanation is in order here. He included in his total the sum of $184 million estimated to have been spent in Oregon BY OREGONIANS vacationing in their own state. This, added to the $217 spent in Oregon last year by OUT OF STATE tourists, adds up to $401 million. It can be argued that the tour ist money spent by Oregonians in their own stale isn't NEW money which, is true. But let's put ill this way: If we of Southern Oregon, tor example, could induce the people, of O.egon to epend $100 million vacationing in our area it would mean the addition of $100 million to the economy of our region. That goes for any other area of Oregon. A tourist dollar is a tour ist ClOUifr Ml IOT OB roni .vb... is concerned. Lcl' now get back to the tour ist problem of Oregon as a whole. Our state's estimated income in ISM from out-of-stale visitors trav eling by automobile came to a- total Ol lt million, me esiimai-, ed number of out-of-state cars vis iting Oregon last year was 2.804.-1 650. The average length of stayj per car in our slate was a IWtiDA.l ,Oaf-'Jd less than three days-2.93 days.lrOSl VTT ICG according to the estimates. Thcl average expenditure per day fori r J M , each tourist car was $20.45. IDIUS M5KGQ So- ! You see- The General Services Adminis-D,!pme If we could have induced eachtralion will Issue invitations lo, ln rcturn- Ca5,ro Rot ' nc out-of-state tourist car that vifited. bid on Mav 27 for the SI mil-iP'Se (rom Khrushchev that -'an Oregon last year lo slay just ONE j lion extension and remodeling aUK'k on Cub would nstd DY longer, we could have added job at the Klamath Falls Post 0(-ered an a,,ack aPainst nearly M million to our tourist ficc. "iet Union." Western diplomats income. I A copy of the bid will be post-i53"1 hc apparently got more dur- That. in a nut-shell, is Oregon's ,ed at the post office as soon aslnS bis four-week stay m the tourist oroblem. The figures indicate that c are gelling our share ol the lourisu.iJune zu in Seattle. Thev just dont STAY LOMj enough: How to get them to slay long er That's a problem tliat calls for a lot of study. If we can find the answer to it. we can add 1M MENSELY lo Oregon's prosper ily. Kennedy Ups Demo Funds WASHINGTON iLPD Presi dent Kennedy returned to the W hite House today from a 24-hour visit lo New York City where he helped bring in funds for the Dem ocratic campaign chest and did a liltle political .'ence mending. The President landed at the Military Air Transport Terminal here following a flight from New York. At the dinner Thursday night. Kennedy topped olf the gala al lair by gently twittins his Republi can predecessor and the steel in dustry. The President, who will be 46 on Wednesday, was Riven a birth day party hy tome ffiO routers who Datd Jl.OiiOapiece to the Dem ocratic partv to attend what a, Kennedv aide insisted was ' non- hartisan" atfair. For putting up their money, the. New York "Presidents club' members were visited at their tables by Kennedy during dinner. saw an all-star show that Wtooo couldn't buy. and heard their juest of honor al his jocular best Veallur Klamath Palls, Tulclikt and Lakavlcw Fair tonight and Saturday with lama salens- aarly marnind tod. Lows tonioht M-44) warmar Saturday 71-n. Wastarly winds S-tS m.p.h. Waekend waathar will ba tair and warm with no precipita tion. , High yastorday 74 Low this morning 34 High vaar agd $4 Low yoar ago n Prccip. past 14 hours .00 Sines Jan. 1 1.04 Samo panod last yaar 7.47 Red Peril Concerns NATO Meet OTTAWA iUPH - The NATO Ministerial Council today expres sed grave concern over the con tinuing Communist-created peril around the world, and formally endorsed a new nuclear striking force for the alliance. In a communique at the close of its spring mecling, the council said that the continuing presence of Soviet troops in Cuba was a cause for concern" and "also ex pressed their disquiet over recent events m Laos On the Western Front, "w ith re gard to Germany and Berlin, the Ihreat has not disappeared," the communique said. The foreign and defense minis ters of the 15 member nations for mally ratified the British-Ameri can plan for pulling together tar geting arrangements for existing nuclear forces in the European area. These include 180 British nuclear bombers, three U.S. Po laris submarines in the Mediter- lanean. and the nuclear-capable aircralt ol eight other NATO na tions. The communique said: "Ministers discussed NATO de fense policy and approved the steps taken to organize the nu clear forces assigned or to be as signed to the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. These in clude, notably: A) Assignment of the United Kingdom V - bomber force and three U.S. Polaris submarines to! - . L,- i . 'r' r-siaousnmeni 01 .u tutt v.,, mo aiaii VI a UL'JUiy ll'SpOll sible to him (or nuclear affairs. Ci Arrangements for broader partliipaiion hy officers of NATr) member countries in nuclear ac tivities in Allied Command Europe and in coordination of operational planning at Omaha. D Fuller information tn na lional authorities, both political and military. The council decided to hold its next meeting in Paris in Decem ber. lit received from GSA. Rep. Aliu l'llman said bids are to be opened ine ucnerai services Adminis- (ration is the federal agency that The public pledges were ex supphes building space for fed-Changcd Wednesday at a mam eral olfices. The new facilities will moth farewell rally for Castro at double the building interior space and parking area. Included in the remodeling will be a new air rendition svslem. ad- ditional post office boxes and a large fallout shelter in the base ment. Basement space will also include storage. re;t room?, em ploye lockers and air condition ing facilities. Ways, Means Okays Spending Plans SALEM 'I'PI' Spending plans, the overall Hatfield figure if it worth $188 million for schools, granted more than $1 million that special classes, community col- being sought for further improve leges, and hinher education build- menls in salaries lor college mgs in the 1963-63 biennium came teachers and state omp!oes. A out of the Ways and Means Com- few minor money requests also mittee today, nearly clearing the I committee's decks. Hie only big budget still lo come out was about $30 million lor operating expenses lor t h e higher education system. When that happens, co-chairman Ward Cook said, the committee' lion budgets comprised $147 3 mil will have approved a general fund 1 lion in general tund money. $6 spending program of about $404 j million in one-shot money from million lor I9vHm. compared to the common school fund, and $403 million proposed by Gov. ; $34 5 million in various bonds (or Mark Halfkld. The committee work, however. represented cuts of about (II mil lion m the Hatfield budcel. ofl;et by the addition of about $10 mi lion in general fund money for college construction where Hatfield wanted to use bonding Could Top Figure The committee still could top W$X Price Tea Cents 18 Pages r-v Kit FIRST SIREN BERTHED ON stalled in Klamath Falls was Jlji 4 I t .Ml i a.1 at Lakeview Avenue end Trinity Street about 8:30 a.m. Thursday, by three employ es of the Roseburq Fire Equipment Company. Three other sirens were also to be erected elsewhere in the city this week, and will be supplemented later in the year by three more alarms, which will complete the seven-siren system. The Roseburq firm en tered the low bid of $4,485.75 for the sirens, including installation. Story, Page 4A. Federal Injunction Asked To Open Alabama's Schools By United Press International A federal court in Birmingham, Ala., today was asked lo issue an injunction blocking Gov. George Wallace from carrying out his low to "stand in the schoolhouse door" when two Negroes enter Hie University of Alabama June 10. Atly. Gen. Robert Kennedy an nounced in Washington that an immediate court lest was desired on Wallace's announced position of legal resistance and legal defi- lance 01 icaerai couri oraers tn. ,j:i ,i, ,.. v Federal Judge Saymour H. Lynn set a hearing for June 3 to show ruue why the injunction sought by the government should not be issued. Castro Nod Called Victory For Nikita MOSCOW (L'PH Premier kila S. Khrushchev today ap-1 pcared to have won a diplomaticl victory over Communist China by aainina Cuban Premier Fidel ' Castro's public endorsement of the 'Soviet position in the ideological as " ,mf promised new economic and pos sibly military aid. Exchange Pledges Lenin Stadium. Today, the two leaders were believed planning to head for the Black Sea for a rest before Castro's flight back lo Cu- ba. expected early next week. Castro's support was all the more signilicant because China used the Cuban crisis of last Oc tober to ridicule Khrushchev's policies of peaceful coexistence were pending On the biggest chunk of general fund spending education com mitlee members figured they had provided slightly more than the governor recommended. Todav's $188 million in eduia- college buildings. The budgets approved today in cluded. A $6.5 million afspropriaiirin lo tlie Department of Education This included $4 3 million in state aid for presently-existing commu nity colleges. $1.3 of it for building and the rest fitr ojieratmn. A companion bill culs off state aid! At m il W- POWER POLE Thi air unceremoniously hoisted uo The federal complaint asked fori bolh preliminary and permanent injunctions preventing Wallace, his agents, employes, subordinates successors from interfering with the enrollment and atten dance of qualilied Negroes at the university. This would include not only Viv ian Malone and David McGIath- ery, who are scheduled to start ' the summer term next month, but! any qualilied Negro student. In Montgomery, Ala.. Wallace had no immediate comment. Birmingham itself w a. s quiet with Negro leaders voicing some skrplit'ir-m as tlwy wailed for some "direct progress" in race relations. Ni-iand demand a more militant stand against the West, The Russians. Peking charged, are "as timid as mice" before American "paper tiger." (.astro did not rctcr specilical ly lo Use Soviet missile pullout in his speech. But he lavishly praised the Russians for their willingness to risk nuclear war and imperil the achievements of the Russian revolution for the sake of liny Cuba. Krfutri Peking t'hargri This was a direct refutation of hat Peking charges. It says Rus sia has abandoned its revolution ary radicalism now that it has some of the comforts of an es tablished society. According to Peking, this means the undevel oped nations seeking revolution ary guidance must turn to China. Thus Castro's pledge is likely lo have important repercussions among the Communist parties in the poorer Latin American coun- ries. Peking has been trying tOtjon5 Hc f(,.Ue k(mcs woo these parties, but thev canl be expected to follow the line of!"1 "" Castro, the one Communist in 1 power in the hemisphere. lo new community colleges in the next two years, except lor Rose- burg. New co, leges, however, could be formed and supported locally. Higher Education Buildings $11.5 in general (und money for hiclier education construction, part ol an overall building pro gram worth $44 million for 196.1 tw. A projxisal lo a-k voters lo approve $10 million in general ob ligation bonds for higher educa tion, of which $12 5 would be is sued in 1963-65 The issue would go to the voters next May -Authorization lor the Board ofi Higher Education In issue an addi tional $10 5 million in revenue bonds for self liquidating build ings, such as dorm. tones, that pay for themselves out of fees. A similar sum was approved earlier this session. $141 million to go to local school dilr Jets in basic school aid from the state. Th money was ii ii ii a j j ii ii ii ii fnu iid ii ii ii vs- KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRITMY. MAY 24, 13 raid warmnq siren ever in- and affixed to nowir nols Mayor Albert Boutwell and a nine-man city council Thursday assumed control of governmental operations in Birmingham, re placing a hard-core segregation ist board of three commissioners. Each group had claimed to be the legal government ol Birming ham following a change-of-gov- eminent election in April. n1le Alabama Supreme Court Thursday ousted the commission- ers who had refused to relinquish 1 office because of an apparent conllict in election laws. The new city council immediately called upon Birmingham., cili.f.is Jar suppo.t and pledged to maintain order and work for solutions to Birmingham's racial problems. Boutwell said the new govern merit's attitude "will be sympa thotic In harmonious solution lo all problems. . ." Negro leader Martin Luther King Jr. said he was encouraged by Boutwell s statement and a top King aide. the Rev. F. L. Shuttfesuortli. said Negroes "look to the Boutwell ad ministration for direct progress in the area of race relations." Astronaut Goes Home HOUSTON iL'PD L. Gordon Cooper finally settled down in his ranch-style home on Galveston Bay today to some "normal liv ing lollowing a tumultuous Texas welcome home from his 22 9-orbil space flight. Tlie rest will only last a day. though. Cooper must leac Satur day lor Capo Canaveral lo begin li(e wllh JonC!)i Kennedy and Lei writing a technical report of his'kin still objecting. Lcikin said he 34-hour flicht. kiould appeal the move lo the Cooper was tired from almost i a week of oarades and celchra-l .. ... . York beloie tlie parade herc'posing the substitution of 38 pages I Thursday. appropriated under a completely revised basic school formula at $14.) per school child the first year and $152 per child the sec ond year. The sum was nearly identical to the governor's over all request. .Special Programs $58 million for sjweial pro crams (or the handicapped, re tarded, gifted, and migiant chil dren and (or curriculum improve ment. The overall figure was shchlly more than the governor's. The committee also: Authorized construction of a pay for itself patk:n( facility In serve Portland Slate College -Favored nnslru I inn ot a rc - partment o( Agriculture building. Rejected a proposal to emply the State Tuberculosis Hospital at Salem and transter its patients to Portland, where they would be cared tor at the I'raversily Medi cal School TB hospital. Tlie plan included polling some patients in other facilities. Compromise On Apportionment Okayed By Senate Conferees SALEM lUPP A compromise on legislative apportionment was accepted unanimously today at a less than friendly meeting of the Senate Committee on Constitution a!' Hevision. The action gave a new. constitu tion a new chance of getting to the voters next year. The compromise grew out of proposals tossed out this morning by Sen. Anthony Ylurri, R-On-tario, whose plan has been in the new document, and Sen. Glen Stadler, D-Eugene. one of eight who fought the Ylurri plan. The eight blocked the document on the Senate floor because they said it mandated a prelcrence or the least populated counties. The essential feature of the compromise was that it retained the Yturri plan, but gave the leg islature mure discretion in group ing sparsely populated counties and thus deciding how many seats they should get. The plan makes sues of the House flexible up tn 63 and 3o members. The compromise also provided that, instead of using 1-30 and 1-60 lo determine the population unit for a seal, the current mem bership of the House and Senate would be used. If membership of the houses increase, this would Yorkmens Comp Bill Eyed Again SALEM 'L'PI'-l'he controver sial ' o r k m e n ' compensation measure was brought back to life under proles! today in a drama packed meeting of the House La- lioc and Industries Committee. The meeting suddenly adjourned when Rep. Richard Kennedy, D Eugene. objected lo 3 pages of amendments he bad not seen be (ore the meeting began. Rep. Jake Bennett. D-Portland. started the firewoiks when be said "I bid you goodby," and slumped from the room. I didn't ask to be on this com mittee to x utile Oregon's work men's coniiensalion law." Ben nett said as lie resigned from the committee. Rep. Merrill Hagan. R-MrMinn- villc. then asked the rules be hanged so that the Senate bill which had been indefinitely posl lned could be revived by a simple majority rallicr than a two-thirds vote. Kennedy, Rep. Robert Jones. R- Portland, and Sid Lcikin. D Hosc-1 burg, allemptcd unsuccessfully to block the move. Tliey said it vio lated House rules. The bill was brought back lo speaker of the House. The show ground tn a halt when Hie commiuee spin d-, wiui ni-p. Kd Whelan, D-Porlland. joining .Jes. Kennedy and Leikin in op- !ol amendments. j Turner then abruptly adjourned Hie meeting Pope Begins 9-Day Rest VATICAN CIT' 1 PD - The Vatican press ofliie today report cd a "marked improvement" in the condition of I'ojie John XXIII as he began a nine-day retreat of rrt and prayer. Vatican sources said tlie Pon till. 81. icnl a "quiet night" and was reported feeling "rather well" Ihis morning However, it was believed likely that the Pope's illness may cause "wt dcla'' preparations for the second session ol the Ecumeni ( al Counc il, scheduled to resume epl. 8. Sources said the full rest ordered lor the Pope hy his doc tors is bound to hold up piepara lions. i tie Pofie has been receiving blond transfusions for internal jhrwlinj. lelephone make the population requirement lor a legislator slightly lower. The plan would grant a legis lator for each full unit, for major fractions (more than half a unit) standing alone, and for counties combined into districts lo qualify. I hen. remaining members would go to leftover major frac tions. he committee ordered lan guage dialled. Son. Don Willner. D-Porlland, one o: the eight fighting the for mer "Yturri plan," served no Income Tax Blocks Efforts; Fag Levy Approved SALEM t UP1 ' Apparent agree ment on a cigarette tax was reached Thursday by Senate House lax conlerecs but the com mittee remained deadlocked on the income lax issue. II marked the seventh day of the deadlock over a program lo raise an additional $00 million to finance a $403 million general fund budget for the biennium be ginning 37 days Irom now. House conlerecs Richard Ey- mann, D . Marcola, and F. V. Montgomery, R - Eugene, stood firm in their demand lor a net receipts lax. Senate conferees Donald Hus band. R-Eugene, and Glen SI ad ler. D-Eucenr. wer emiallv firm m declaring the Senate would notlaaopt, ine House wants some neliper cem. progressive rcceipis approve a net receipts nroeram. First apparent ' break tame Thursday alternoon when Stadlerl When commitlee sessions re- $5.5 Million Put In General Fund SALEM (UPIl - The general fund today had a $5 5 million shot in the arm to keep the state from going into the red in the 37 days remaining in this biennium. The Senate approved transfer ring the sum from the veterans bond sinking fund to the general fund, where it can pay for slate services. The money represents the re mainder of funds the state ad vanced lo the veterans program years ago to get it started. The bill went lo Gov. Mark Hatfield for certain signature, since he originally proposed the transfer. Some services were cut back because of a shortage. Long Day Tlie House and Senate worked through long calendars. The House passed a bill revis ing penalties for murder. The bill would make parole possible in first degree nttirdcr cases only after 10 years of im- r fix ALL SMILES Klamath County candidates for 1963 dairy princess were present May 22 for luncheon at Molatora'i whera they law colored slides of tha 1962 state contest in Portland and the national at Chicago shown by Mrs. Frances Hall, Klam ath County home economist, entension service. The three qirli, left to right, Gene Lae, Nancy Went and Cathy Ross will speak Monday niqht, May 27, at a 7:30 dinner at the Willard Hotel before judges Beth Anderson, Bob Beach and Kurt Austermann. The public is invited to the no-host dinner. At right is Stan Masten, Poa Valley, as sisting with the contest. The syinner here will go on to state competition. TU 4-8111 No. 7150 tice he might later oppose the compromise alter studying it fur ther. As a sidelight. Yturri said he envisioned apportioning the legis lature under the new plan in 1965, although the constitution docs not require it until 1971. This would probably revise membership , fig ures as a basis for the 1971 ap portionment. Some sharp remarks were ex changed at a meeting. Chairman Walter Pearson, D-Portland. sug gested Willner intended to oppose proposed a 4-ccnt a pack cigarette tax. w ith $3 million to go to cities. Stadler also called for holding the one-shot withholding tax collection in reserve in case the cigarette tax was referred to the voters. I don't think the Senate will go for the cigarette tax, unless we make it a part of a program that includes something pretty close to the income lax program approved by the Senate," Stadler said. Eymann and Montgomery agreed lo use the cigarette tax, and to hold the one-shot program in reserve. They did not agree to accept the Senate income tax plan, however. "No mailer what income bill we receipts natures in u.r eymann. said. " - prisonment. If would drop the maximum sentence for second de gree murder from life in prison to 23 years. Rep. Berkeley Lent, D-PorLland, railed it purely a "sop" to win voter support for abolishing capi tal punishment. He said the fig ures were arbitrary. Tlie vote for passage was 33-23. The bill returned In the Senate for concurrence in House changes. Amendments OK'd Bills reinlorcing farmer bargain ing groups and overhauling local budget procedures went to the governor after the House accepted Senate amendments. The Senate passed a Hons a hill requiring doctors to report cases of chiklren who have sulfered physical abuse. It also passed House bills tax ing charter boats, and limiting landowners liability In an effort to encourage the opening of pri vate lands lo the public. Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Cool tonight with chtnc for ipotty light fog. 1M ptr ctnt sunshine 5tur dair with warm dayllmt ttmperature. Humidity rangt tj pr ctnt with hvy dtw again tonight. Outlook Sunday is conllnutd fair. any plan but his ow n. Willner de nied it. Sen. Thomas Mahoney, D-Port-land, said the eight senators were being too "rigid." Stadler replied they considered apportionment a matter of basic principle. Willner and Stadler Thursday offered a compromise, but it was voted down today 7-2. A compro mise offered Wednesday by for mer Gov. Charles Sprague was dropped, although some o.' its fea tures were similar to the plan now adopted. Revenue sumed Thursday night, Stadler said he had taken a poll which indicated senators probably would vote for a cigarette tax if it is part of a program that in cludes the Senate income tax pro posal." Husband said the Senate would not approve the governor's net receipts tax which was proposed Wednesday by House conferees. Stadler then proposed a com promise" version of the Senate income lax measure patterned closely alter the present law, and including a capital gains feature. After a short recess House con ferees submitted their "compro mise" net receipts proposal which included a $5 filing fee, and a 1 v ei.uuu touku. Eymann said he would not make any recommendation at this time on cither a capital gains measure or an Increase In cor porate excise taxes. Montgomery asked: "What Is our' roll as conferees, are sve ex pected lo compromise our own positions?" Eymann said our Job is to come up with a program, we don't have lo trade item for item. We me House already compro mised In tlie bill we sent to the Senate." City Budget Published Tlie members of the Klamath Falls Budget Committee have formally approved a proposed budget to operate the city of Klamath Falls for the fiscal I9B3-19M year. The complete budget is car ried in today's edition on Page 9-A. At its final meeting, earlier this week, the budget commit lee approved the addition of $2,700 from tlie county as the city's share of boat licensing funds, and earmarked these funds In a special account to be spent only for marine pur poses. r
