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Newspaper Page TextCOM? .... 5CrlON Ml UUUM f WE LAST Weal her KUmatti Falls, Tulalaka and Lakavicw Partly cloudy with a ftw showers this averting. Pair lata tonight and Saturday. Lows -4$ tonight, high Saturday 7MJ. Westerly winds Ml m.p.h. Weekend weather fair and warm. High yesterday jj Low this morning 4 High year ago 41 Low year ago 34 Precip. pail 24 hours .00 Since Jan. 1 5. 31 Stmt period last year i.w legislature Snaps Tax Deadlock; In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena say they have made radar contact with Mercury, the smallest and the hottest of the planets I in the solar system, there are nine planets, including the earthi. It is believed that Mercury al ways keeps its sunny side toward the sun. The temperature on its sunny side is estimated to be be tween 500 and 770 degrees Faliren heit hot enough to melt lead and tin. That seems to head off any pro posals lo put a man on Mer curywhich should be good news for the taxpayers. Still, you never can tell. Mercury's gravity at the surface is about one-fourth of the earth's gravity. So ... a man weighing 150 pounds on earth would weigh only 40 pounds on Mercury. Somebody might sell the present free-spending administration on the idea that Mercury would be a fantastically attractive place to start a weight-reducing salon . . . thus increasing vastly our national physical fitness. In Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, President Sukarno accepts an of fer from his congress that he KEEP HIS JOB FOR LIFE. The wires add that he then took of.' for a month-long vacation among the bright lights of Tokyo, Home. Vienna and Paris. As he departed, he left this mes sage for his people: "Do not ex pect the government and ME to become Santa Claus. YOU MUST WORK HARD." (The Indonesians will have to work hard to pay Sukarno's bill. A gay time among the bright lights doesn't come lor free.! This Sukarno isn't dumb. For years, he has been playing the U.S. against the Communists in Moscow and Peking. From us, he has received somewhat more than $700 million in economic aid. His aid from the Soviet Union is estimated at around a BILLION dollars, alone with a slew of MIGs and minor warships to enable him to keep his Indonesian Republic going. This dictator racket is a pretty good one. Then There's this fellow Duvalier. president of Haiti. His term ex pired several weeks ago. but he didn't let that bother him. He seems merely to have said lo his people: I "OK. you guys. "I'm IT again." He thus eliminated the BIG problem of holding public office -which is HOW TO GET ELECT ED AGAIN. (Continued on Page 4-A) JUDGE PIPER DELIVERS MEMORIAL ADDRESS Circuit Court Judge Donald A. W. Piper, in delivering the Memorial Day address Thursday at the Memorial Shaft cere mony in front of the courthouse, stressed the need for "more old fashion patriotism." Judge Piper said Memorial Day it not an anachronism at long et it makes citizens think back on the country's war dead end remember that they died that the demo cratic procets might live in a free world. Herald amftHttas Price Ten Cents 16 Pages Income Taxes To Be Hiked; Sales Tax Plan Referred SALEM (UPI) The House voted 35-24 today to approve a $48 millVm increase in the state In come tax. The House also was to act on a companion sales tax measure. The income tax measure went to the Senate. When the roll call vote was completed on the Income tax bill, (here were 33 votes against it. The measure won the needed 31st yes vote to pass when Rep. Vickir Ativch, R - Portland, changed his no vote to yes. Five Democrats and 1$ Republicans opposed the measure. SALEM (UPI i The 13-day rev enue program deadlock was set led Thursday night when Senate- House conferees agreed on an in come lax hike, and a sales tax measure to be re.'erred to the voters. The House and Senate were slated to vote today on the com promise program. The income tax hike was de signed to raise an additional $48 million needed to finance a $405 million general fund budget for the 1963-65 biennium. It was backed up by a one-shot speedup of withholding tax collec tions if needed, and carried a provision that if the income tax raised more money than antici pated, any surplus in excess of $10 million, would be used as a property tax offset, Vote in 1964 The 1 per cent sales tax would Absentees Reminded Harold Ashley and Dale Goodo, city and county school clerks re spectively, reminded Klamath res idents applications for absentee ballots must be received by the school clerks no later than June i., Persons desiring absentee bal- lots or further informalion should contact cither clerk immediately. Residents who are eligible to vole must have resided in their respective districts at least six months prior to the June 10 elec tion on school reorganization, and must have registered on or before May 10, 11163. A number of county district vot ers are entitled to use the absentee ballots since they live more than 15 road miles from the nearest polling place in their precinct. Dale Goode indicated. Persons who have reason to be lieve they will be absent from the1 county on the election day and persons who are unable by reason of physical disability to attend Ihe election may also vole by ab sentee ballot. In only a few cases can applications be received alter! June 5. 1 v !&SWfcSif las KLAMATH be referred to the voters at the November, 1964, election. It was designed to raise $125 million a biennium. Half this amount would be used as an offset against prop erty taxes. The legislature would be "morally obligated" to use 25 per cent to offset state income taxes, with the balance to go into the general fund. While agreement on the income tax measure was reached Wednes day, Sen. Robert Elfstrom, R-Sa-lem, refused lo sign the commit tee report until the sales tax question was settled. Elfstrom and Sen. Boyd Over take, D Madras, worked w ith Rep. Richard Eymann. D - Mar- cola, and Rep. W. O. Kelsay, D- Hoseburg, to draft the income tax compromise. Elfstrom anticipated trouble with House members in reaching agreement on the sales tax meas ure which at the time hadn't even been passed by the Senate and refused to sign the report. Thursday morning the Senate voted 22-8 for a sales tax measure which was immediately thrown into conference committee by the House. Photographs Show Grave Of Thresher BOSTON UPH - Photographs of the ill-fated nuclear submarine Thresher lying in 8.000 feet of water off the New England coast were to be flown today to a Navy board ol inquiry investigating his tory's worst submarine disaster. The pictures were taken by the Lament laboratory research ship Conrad which located the Thresh er Thursday in a 700-by-200-yard area about 220 miles east of Bos ton. The Thresher sank April 10 with 129 men aboard. Vice Adm. Alton W. Grenfcl. commander of the Atlantic sub marine force, said the photo graphs would be flown to Ports mouth, N.H.. for study by the board of inquiry. The Conrad was due here this afternoon. A spokesman said the board will decide whether to send the deep diving hathyscaph Trieste to the scene to take more photographs. The Trieste holds the world's diving record of 35.810 feel- Atlantic Fleet headquarters in Norfolk. Va.. said a ruptured sec tion of the Thresher's hull and diving (ins were clearly visible in the photographs, along with tlte submarine's conning tower and other vertical deck equip ment. A Navy spokesman said the Trieste could obtain additional photographs of the Thresher. FALLS, OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1963 Eymann and Rep. Sidney Ba- zett, R-Grants Pass, were named House sales tax conferees. Elf strom and Overhulse were picked as Senate conferees. Groceries Not Exempt The Senate - passed bill called for a 3 per cent sales tax which exempted groceries. The compro mise was a 2 per cent tax that did not exempt groceries. Only items exempt under the sales tax proposal are gasoline feed, seed, fertilizer, drugs, and elementary and secondary school student lunches. Elfstrom wanted a more liberal sales tax plan, and Eymann fought for a rigid bill without ex emptions. When the compromise was reached, Elfstrom signed the in come tax committee report, and all four agreed to sign the sales tax report as soon as the amend ments were drafted. The House gave up its demands for a net receipts and cigarette tax in reaching agreement on the income tax measure, and consid eration of the sales tax also was considered a Senate victory. The sales tax would not go into effect until July 1. 1965. Tile deadlock over the revenue program began May 17 when the Senate refused to agree to the House proposal. The lirst two con ference committee attempts at compromise were unsuccessful one .. deadlocked and was dis charged, the oilier produced i program that was soundly reject ed by the Senate. IWA Talks To Continue PORTLAND L'PH Another' round in the negotiations between lumber producers and two large unions was being held today. Representatives of the Interna tional Woodworkers Union met with six big Northwest companies Weyerhaeuser. International Pa per, Crown Zellerbach, Rayonier, U. S. Plywood and St. Regis Pa per. T))e same six firms have a ses sion with Lumber and Sawmills Workers Union negotiators sched uled Monday. Contracts of both unions expire Saturday, but bolh sides have agreed on an extension until Mon day, The IWA is seeking a wage increase of 40 cents an hour, while the LSW is asking 60 cents The wage hikes are sought over a three-year period. A spokesman for the IWA said the union 1 1 cured the average1 base pay for the lumber industry, including woods, sawmill and ply wood employes, as $2.52 an hour He said this was the (mure upon which it bawd calculations re gardinc the value of any percent-i age oiler. Unskilled IWA em ployes receive an average basic pay of $2 10' 2 an hour with other job classifications running higher, a spokesman said. KUHS Baccalaureate Scheduled For Sunday More than .170 graduating sen-1 ceremony and tlie Rev. Quinn L iors will attend Klamath Union Hish School s baccalaureate cere - mony Sunday at 8 p m in I cli - -an Court. Annroximalelv 337 ten - - iors graauaiM in In a prelude concert before the prncei-'inna! the Mamain i.ninn (s .. Hi:h School Svmphnny Orchestra , . . . . , ,, J u ' . ....I Ihe scripture readin; will be de- ui p bv par s of Warners Die,, .. .. ., , , , , , ' .. ..TU i u. ii .liveied by Kev. Holman. fallowed .Ml' MCI i . I nam i" , ,, , . , ,. , ,, .. . i, i , i t,L bv Bach s hvmn, A Michty tort- ParadtM (jaidcn. bv rrrdruki - - . ... Dciitis and Ihe "Slavonic Rhap-o-" ",ir dy Number Two," by Carl Fried-' A messase for the graduating mann jilass will be read to the students Follow inn the mdude. tlie nro-.hy the Rev. Robert L. (iiecne. ,es,ional. ' Aon Nobis Dominc will be sun2 bv the combined tappelia and Ireshman choirs. The Rev. Lawrence T llolman The audirme will stand as the First Church of Ihe Nazarene, will school choirs and orchestra lead preside during the baccalaurcatejthe recessional, "Sine Nomine." Telephone J ... .$ LIFE EBBING AWAY Pope John XXIII hat been given Church and appeared to be sinking toward death at last reports from the Vatican. He had been reported at "out of danger" early Friday morning, only to suffer a complete reversal several hours later. The 8 1 -year-old Pontiff is shown here in a re cent newsphoto released by the Vatican on May 22. UPI Telephoto Four Lightning Fires Quelled By Winema, KFPA Four fires started by lightning, in the Winema National Forest and lands administered by tlie Klamath Forest Protective Asso ciation since Wednesday were ei ther extinguished or under control today, according to reports from the Winema and KFPA. Lightning bolts sot off two fires on Foster Hutte. about six miles norlh of Weyerhaeuser Camp Nine, late Wednesday night, bring ing the total number of fires re ported in the KFPA district to 12 for this year, including live which were man-caused. A crew Irom the Weyerhaeuser camp put out the blazes. In the Winema Forest early this morning, a spot lire was delected in the vicinity of Sellers Creek. east of Chemult, according to Dan Abraham, fire control oflicer of the national lores!. Abraham said the lire had apparently been started by lightning Wednesday and has been smoldering, unde tected, lor Ihe past several days. The other lightning fire was dis covered Wednesday in the vicinity ol Little Wik-us Hay. Haw ley. Conzreeational Church jfiner u,e invocation. j nWK.aiion j he fallowed li.. ..... . ..-i-.,. -i j rV IWU HUM (11 s, n- HUII "Uid iThl)U ,a,, ,, 0ur ,,aiv .. an(( -,mard Dwelling Ye Pen- 'h - Pl'' Kpucopal Chuich snd,,, civilizations of hilory. a"" neneniMinn will ne reao Iltcv. Hawley. TU 4-8111 No. 7136 Mears End . V.. V J K . if In addition, a grass fire was reported near Comfort Point yes terday and was controlled by fire lighting crews Irom the Lake of the Woods Fire Guard Sta tion and Rocky Point volunteer firemen. The three lircs are the only ones reported in Ihe Wine ma so lar this year. LBJ Issues Statement On Racism GETTYSBURG. Pa. L'PI -Vice President Lyndon B. John son believes whites and Negroes must work together to solve ra cial tensions because "it is not our respective races which are at slake il is our nation." In a maior address on race re lations. Johnson Thursday urged both races to resolve their prob lems within the law and "lead (he way through this moment of challenge and decision " His Memorial Day speech re flected the administration's grow ing concern over racial conflicts. Johnson said there is no other way out of the present crisis than (or both sides lo work together. "One hundred )cars ago, the slave was freed." he said. "On hundred years later, the Negro pondage 10 me color of his skin. "The Negro lodav a-ks Justice We do not answer him we do not answer those who lie beneath this soil when we reply to Ihe rgto by asking, 'jat!cnre.' "It is empty to plead that ihe solution to the dilemmas of the present rests on the hands of tlie clock. The solution n in our hands. Unless we are willing to yield up our destiny of greatness ny.vrnrr,rans - white and Negro , togetiier must be about the husi ness of resolving the challen which conlronts us now." Johnson said. C3P it !L nrin,,.,,,..,..,.,,,.! Won I her AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Ont hundred per cent sunshine Sat urday. Warmer daytime temperature with lower humidity. Moderate dew again to night. Soil temperature il degrees. Hay ing outlook fair. , 2X1 4: ,V"'7 'V1 f ri n ; 28 Ihe last rites of the Cathol Mishap Kills Local Man William H. Hansen, 24, report ed by California Highway Patrol to be from Klamath Falls. died Thursday, May .10, in Ihe plunge of his car over a Jnn-fool cliff into the Trinity River near Hoopa, Calif. The patrol said the car appar ently tore through a guard rail on State Route 96 and into the deep river canyon. His body was dis covered downstream Irom the ac cident. Hansen, a former choker set- Icr for I h e Weyerhaeuser Com pany, left its employ last Feb ruary. The city directory lists his wile as Barbara, and Hie family home at 173 Washburn Way, Other details have not been learned. lie attni ) 'a, i 1 ii I : L.i i , .insi COURTHOUSE LAWN BECOMES FLANDERS FIELD Klamath County veterans and patriotic groups decorated the Klamath County Courthouse lawn with whit crones and poppies to honor this county's war dead as part of the impressive Memorial Da',' ceremony Thursday at the Memorial Shaft. The shaft was laden with flowers and wreaths placed by Individuals and groups to pay tribute to tht 222 names of the Basin's dead that art etched in the shaft's plaque. f - f - VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pope John XXDI slipped painfully toward death tonight. The Pope was given the Roman Catholic Church's last rites for the dying, and a late Vatican announcement said his condition was "worsening." At 6:45 p.m. (10:45 a.m. PDT), the Vatican press office said there was "a further worsening" of his con dition. It added that he was "suffering a lot of pain." As crowds massed in St. prayers, a Vatican spokesman said, "The pontiff, in his suffering, prays." A Vatican communique condition worsened during tions of "generalized peritonitis." Peritonitis is an in flammation of membrane lining the abdominal cavity. The communique said the r pontiff's pulse rate "and the cardio circulatory system. . . are deteriorating now be cause of respiratory diffi culties." "The holy father is still lucid and is fully conscious of his own condition despite heavy suffering which he Is bearing with . . . resigna tion," the communique add ed. Pope John himself seemed to sense that the end was tlear as lie requested the administering of the rite of Extreme Unction, the final anointing with oils of Catho lics before death. Shortly after 5:30 p.m. 1:30 a.m. PDT) Father Uarino da Milano, a Vatican priest who is close to the Pope, told news men at the Vatican press office after he visited the pontiff: "The Popo looked as if he had only few minutes to live. Perhaps his final act was to be1 a secret consistory which Vatican sources said he might hold at his bedside this evening to reveal the names of three princes of the church he had created on March 1!M0, but whose identity has1 been held secret. The 81-year-old spiritual leader of the world's half billion Roman Catholics took a sudden turn for the worse during tlie night and his condition became "critical Up to that point, he had been reported improving in his battle witli a stomach tumor that medi cal men say is cancerous. The Vatican had announced he had "spent a tranquil night." Suddenly Turns Worse Then, with stunning sudden ness, the Vatican announced: "Tliere has been a sudden worsening of Ihe condition of the holy father. Dr. Luciano Casimirri, head of Ihe Vatican press office, made Ihe disclosure shortly after mid day. His words were echoed by broadcasts of the Vatican radio, which said: After two days of steady im provement, the condition of his holiness worsened following a sud den crisis that took place during the night." Doctors and nurses were at his bedside. Cardinals In Rome rushed lo the papal chambers as though to pay their last respects. The Vatican radio went on special alert. Tlie Pope's three brothers and a sister hurried by car and plane from their homes in northern Italy lo be at his side. Prof. Antonio Gasbarrinl. the of ficial papal physician, who had returned to his home in Bologna Irom Rome only Thursday, re turned to the Vatican when he licai d of tlie new crisis. "Hie situation is very grave. perhaps desperate," he said. World Oilers I'rayera Crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square to watch and pray. Cath olics and non-Catholics around the world offered their prayers Cor, Ihe Pope of peace, whose last days were complicated by severe Peter's square and offered at 7:15 p.m. said the Pope's the evening with complica-: internal bleeding, anemia and a prostate condition. The director of tlie Vatican press office, Prof. Raimondo Man zini. was besieged by newsmen for details of the Pope's condition. "The death of the Pope is now a matter of hours," he said. Tlie bulletin said the Pope had spent a "quiet and serene eve ning" talking with Gustavo Cardi nal Testa and conferring with iVmlcto Cardinal Cicognani, Vati can secretary of stale. Then die new crisis struck at midnight. Its nature was not de scribed, but may have involved a recurrence of severe hemorrhag ing. At 6:30 this morning. Pone John listened as mass was cele brated in his nearby study and received Holy Communion. Summon Papal Doctor Shortly afterwards. Prof. Pietro Valdoni, one of the Pope's doc tors who has been staying close to his bedside in the Vatican, was summoned. Valdoni examined tlie pontiff. determined the seriousness of his condition, and informed his pa tient of his condition. The Pope then talked with Msgr. Alfredo Cavagna, his con fessor, and summoned Cicognani again. He greeted the papal sec retary of state with the Latin wortls of Psalms 121 which in English were: "I have rejoiced in what I have been told: We shall go into the house of tlie Lord." Knew He Was Dying This was his way of saying he knew he was dying and was pre pared. At 11:15 a.m. Msgr. Cavagna gave Ihe Pope Viaticum Holy Communion for the dying. Immediately afterwards, at the Pope's express wish, he was given Extreme Unction by Alsgr. Peter Caniaius van Lierde, sacristan of the papal palace. Ho then invited Msgr. Cavagna to remain near his bedside. After that, his doctors and at tendants could only wait as the day wore on. People Mingle Quietly Outside the Vatican, dark clouds scudded across the Roman sky as tourists and pilgrims mingled together quietly on the cobble stones of St. Peter's Square. I lie hours ticked away lor Ihe Pope of peace, who probably would go down in the annals as one of the greatest leaders of the church. Born the son of poor peasants in Ihe northern Italian village of Sotlo il Monte, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli went on to become a priest, bishop, patriarch, cardinal and finally Pope in 1938. As such, he held out the hand of friendship lo all other Chris tians and sought to bring them all together in one church. The sec ond Vatican Ecumenical Council w hich met last year and is due to reconvene in September was a major step in his plan to imple ment this aim. '. He received a warm response: from all parts of the world, with : Protestant and Orthodox Chris tians praising his efforts and sending observers to the council.