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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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. ,
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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.
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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.
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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.