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CO-? Attorney General's Answers Clear Air On School Consolidatio The Klamath Union High School District will automatically be dis solved and both the oity and coun ty school budgets for the 1963 64 school year will remain un changed in the event that both the city elementary and coun ty district residents Monday, June 10, vote for the passage of the school consolidation proposal. The above statements represent State Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton's opinions received in writing Friday by school super intendents Ray Hunsaker, city, and Cliff Robinson, county. Prospective voters and school officials have been greatly con cerned over what happens if the consolidation proposal passes and six maior Questions that arose asking "how do we know what happens for sure" in the event that the people vote for the con solidation. In their facts sheet the oppon ents to consolidation asked vot ers to vote "no" because (1) "No one has told us definitely what happens to the KU district if con solidation is effected" and 2i "What will happen to the separ Voters no longer need wonder about these and other major questions. "The attorney gener al's answers clear up a lot of muddy water," Hunsakcr said Friday. In Hie event of consolidation taxes will be levied as in the previous separate districts as if nothing had Happened and the dis trict budgets already passed will stand for the coming year, the attorney general answered. Answering the question, "What would be the tax base of the newly formed district?" the at torney general said the conclu sion was reached that no new tax ing district was created, but rather there was only a "merger" and there would be no change in the lax bases of the previously sep arate districts. In answering the question, "Will the Union High School District automatically be dissolved?" the attorney general wrote, "In re sponse to your fourth inquiry, it is our opinion that in the event consolidation is effective the un ion high district would be dis solved by operation of the law and that the county school dis trict will succeed to the assets and liabilities of the union high district." When asked. "W hat will be the composition of the board from the effective date of consolidation, and what is the composition for the succeeding years?" the at torney general conlirmed what most school officials already knew when he said the board for the first year would consist of II) members, five from tlie county district and five from the city elementary; second year, seven members and the city elementary by two. "In each year thereafter the board will consist of five mem bers elected from zones designat ed by the county court acting as boundary board and the school board members," the attorney general said. Tlie last question submitted by Hunsaker concerned teachers' tenure. The attorney general said that "upon consolidation or merger of school districts teachers' con tracts validly entered into by component districts are binding upon the consolidated district." The tenure law further reads that "whenever any school dis trict is merged into any other district of the same or a differ ent class, the teachers in the dis trict that loses its identity through such merger shall enjoy the rights of probationary teach ers' w ho have completed one year's service in the enlarged district." I members, one member from each needed legal clarification. Super of the county district zones prior to consolidation and two members selected by mutual consent from tlie newly included subdistrict committee." This means, in ef fect, that the toimer county dis trict will be represented by five intendent HunsaKer, two weeks ago, wtote the attorney general for the answers. Those rural and snhiirhan rnsi. ate budgets that have already been dents who are opposed to the consolidation especially have been passed for the coming school year?" U.O? Q?..lW't 11 i.iZ'.'te'ZX st;ci!o:J . ri'fF, All Li OCUiiiiji CIV In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Over the years, this writer has learned that when he needs to know who said something, or did something, or when something im portant happened, and the avail able reference books are silent on tlie subject, he can always find out what he needs to know by asking the readers of this newspaper about it. For example: Quite some time ago, at a cas ual luncheon gathering, tlie sub ject of extravagant public spend ing came up and someone at the table asked: "Who was it that said some thing like tiiis: 'Democracy in America can survive only until the politicians discover that by promising pie in the sny in un limited quantities, to be paid for out of the federal treasury, they can keep themselves in oilice in definitely?' " It stumped us all. So we went to the reference books. The available volumes were silent on the subject. So I asked our readers about it. Time passed, with no response. Then, one day, Ken McLeod came in with the answer. "That quotation you were ask ing about a while back." he said, "is from Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. What he sajd was this: "Democracy in the United States will last until those in power learn that they can perpet uate themselves through taxa tion." Who was de Tocqueville? He was a French historian, known for his studies of the na ture and operation of democracy with the view of advancing tlie rule of the people and at the same time controlling its unde sirable tendencies. His Democ racy in America, published about 18.15, is called the first impartial and systematic study of Ameri can institutions. He served for some time on a special French mission to the United States and during that period he gathered the material that resulted in his critical study ot American insti tutions. His conclusion that "democra cy in tlie United States will last oiily until Uiose in power learn that they can perpetuate them selves in office through taxa tion" is at least interesting in these days of fantastic govern ment spending. Now it s tlie Chronicle's Herb Caen who is in trouble. From a reader away up in South Bend. Washington, a few days ago, he got two postcards, spaced a couple of days apart. The first one read: "The industrial fire training course for our area will be con ducted on May 27 at tlie Grange hall in Humptulips." The second postcard read: "The industrial lire training course scheduled for May 27 at Humptulips is cancelled because the Grange hall burned down." This prompted Herb to com ment : "You are now up to date in Humptulips. Washington and I refuse even to conjecture on the derivation of that name. "The mind reels at the thought of if So Readers of this column Rally around; Let's help Herb nut. Government, Alabama Move Troops For School Showdown TUSCALOOSA. Ala. (UPI' -The federal government and Gov George C. Wallace moved their respective armies into position on Saturday fur a showdown Tues- day over the court -ordered descB rcgJtmn of the University o( Ala bama Wallace already has 825 aimed stale troopers, conservation oi fl eers and deputy sheriffs on the campus and a huh ranking offi cer in the Alabama National Guard said another non National Guardsmen would he moved into Ft Brandon, ahout a half miie from the school, Monday on or ders from Wallace. Wen I her Klamath Falls, Tulelake and Lakevlew variabla cloudiness through Monday with a few hunt thoweri possible today. Highs today and Monday near 70. Lows tonight 3i to 40. Northerly winds, S to is m.p.h. High Friday si Low Saturday morning 37 High year ago 10 Low year ago 3 Precip. last 14 hours .00 Since Jan. 1 s.4l Same period last year I. II loctor Arrested In Profumo Case LONDON (UPIi-Society osteo path Dr. Stephen Ward, who shook the government with dis closure of an affair between war minister John Profumo and a red- haired playgirl, was arrested Sat urday on charges of living off the earnings of prostitution. Two Scotland Yard officers picked up the 42-year-old doctor, who also is a skilled artist, at Watford, just north of London, where he had driven in his white Jaguar sports car with a brunette "to find some peace." After police at Marlybone sta tion questioned Ward for several hours, they announced that he had been charged with "living wholly or in part on the earnings or prostitution Mews, W. I. at 17 Wimpole 'Ward's London homei contrary to Section 30 of3.000 persons today made another the Sexual Offenses Act l&StV" !tn nit,.k r.. u;, ..;U(J He was ordered to appear in London's Marlborough St. Magis trates Court Monday to answer the charge. Sensational Turn The arrest was a sensational new turn in a scandal which has rocked Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservative govern ment and threatened to spread through the highest levels of Brit ish society. Police sources said detectives have questioned more than 200 persons in connection with ca girl activities ot the type Ward was suspected of organizing. Ward himself denied on a televi sion program earlier this week he was mixed up in the call girl racket. As an osteopath. Dr. Ward re ceived famous patients in his con sulting room, among them Sir Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Tay lor and American oil magnate Paul Getty. As an artist he earned $150 a painting for his portraits of the famous, including Prime Minister I Lights Set To Signal New Pope's Election VATICAN CITY tUPD The.bcen elected, or white, signaling Vatican announced Saturday that a system of lights will signal the election of a new Pope to preventvariolI t a wjlhin a fow the confusion that surrounded thC'sond,, causing widespread con- Aln.,tinn nt 1QMI -r... ns.,. ...in h. iis.i.ibwi oi,n nnr.,mr.orl nn th ha.ia nt Vatican Hadio with lines conncc- ted to the Sistine cnapei wncrc r i, ..in v.- lite S-Uliene in vaiuuioia "i" . .,i i .i- -.. 1 side world. so inc. sea en on irom lire uui- After each ballot someone in side will use the light system to signal whether any candidate haslmorning and two each afternoon1 received the required two-thirds !m-,L,riu- The traditional signal has been tually no communication between 'the color of smoke issuing from a,the cardinals and tlie outside chapel chimney after each ballot world in order to preserve ab - i- black indicating no Pope had solute secrecy of the balloting. Tlie Army wasn't discussing its preparations, or even confirming any were being made, but there were reports of military move ments at several poinls in the South. During the Birming ham crisis. President Kennedy or dered .t.noo troops into the vicin ity of the city, and 2.000 of these soldiers still are on Alabama soil. Drew The l ine At Foster Auditorium, tlie build ing where Negro students Vivian Malone and James A. Hood will attempt to register Tuesday, slate otiicials literally drew the line where Wallace apparently will make his "stand in the school Ibouse door." Price 15 Cents 52 Pages Harold Macmillan, Prince Philip, Princess Margaret and her hus band Lord Snowdon, Sophia Lor en, and the late Labor party lead er Hugh Gaitskell. Civil Rights Pitch Made By President BEVERLY HILLS. Calif. lUPH President Kennedy before SDemocratic brcaklast audience ofl strong pitch for his civil rights program, saying that if his party was to meet its mission for the 1960s there must be assurance that every child regardless of color "gets a fair chance." The chief executive spoke at a breakfast organized by the Worn' en s Division ot live Calitornia Stale Democratic Committee. Late this afternoon the Presi dent planned to fly to Hawaii where he w ill speak Sunday after noon belore the National Confer ence of Mayors. The president also took the oc casion here to fight for bis cm battled tax reduction program now pending in Congress. Kennedy said that if present conomic trends are maintained the country will have enjoyed "the longest period of recovery that has taken place since the Civil War." To maintain this upward economic movement, however, he said, the nation needed his recom mended tax reduction program we are gome to move into a re- cession." a new Pope. But in 1958 the smoke ranged fiikinn At nna mint Vatican Ratlin the smoke, that a new Pope had been elected. fi-i... j L-r.. nidi un uoja irciuit- liiv .-. : r. I. .-: icardinal Roncalli who beeameiCrtmn Zellerbach, Weyerhaeuser, ac ua e cc i n d mmu vimsc Pope John XXIII. There will be two ballots cachicr. The combined strike and starting June 20. Aside from theirs. ihvttom nf lifht ihnm will he vir- llartlpv and Nelson released The line, a half circle almut 101 feet across, was painted Saturday in Iront of the main entrance by state workers. A second such line was painted in front of an alter nate entrance, appaiently in the event the Negroes do not use the main door. I-ate Saturrtay alternoon tmieo; Press Movietone and tlie Ameri-jther down the street." can Broadcasting Compan:! Trucks loaded with gas masks. i ABC were advised by stale au- guns and billy clubs were parked thorities that they would have toiarmiml Ihe campus, which was give up 8n apartment they hadcaM off early Saturday. Only icnted near Hie campus and eon-lauthurized persons and students verted into a news center. Iwith proper identification cards l Similar orders reportedly wereiwere permitted in the area. UF BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETS The United Fund Budget Committee Friday finished heavy schedule) of business meeting with all the UF agency representatives. To diets 29 agencies have requested $155,000. Five new agencies asking for help this year include the Mental Lumber Bid For By United Press International Officials of two large lumber unions began a bid for support from other unions Friday in their dispute w ith the "Big Six" North west wood products manufactur ers. Western Hegional President Har vey Nelson ol tne international Woodworkers of America uwV and Executive Secretary Earl Hartley of the Western Confer ence of tlie Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union iLSWi met with ofticials of tlie Pulp. Sulphite and Paner Worker,, Union in Port- The latter union recently refused a contract oiler lrom some oi me same employers involved in the dispute with the lumber unions. The 1WA and the LSW went on strike against St. Ilegis Paper Co. and U.S. Plywood Corp. in Oregon. Washington and North- "n California Tuesday night. rour inner iin-iinni ui "n, yiv1' h,,t nWn t hoir nnerfl. , '? - -i .1 ... ni,.al l.u ThM. a r j.-'r""'- -'- - - ! International Paer and Kayon shutdown idled about I9.0W work-j statement after Friday's meeting The contract with the IAM un- with tlie Pulp and Paper Workers ion is a three-year contract which lsaying they hoped to meet in thelwill expire on June 1. 1M6. I next few days with reprcsenta-' Tlie wage portion of tlie settle- given to other netwuiks and pic ture agencies. Troops holered Apartment Four trooiers, one wearing a helmet and all of them armed, entered the UP-ABC apartment, showed their credentials and asked to see the setup. After inspecting the quarters, tlie newsmen were advied they M hav, to mov bM ur. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1963 viVLlSf-v mi jf ?57 , Jv rsS iSSJT ZmJ ' '. . '? - i ?- - 1 1 .h ..-.. Union Greater lives of the Teamsters. Sailors and Longshoremen's unions to discuss concerted action against the lumber firms. "We believe that through this type of joint effort the member ship of all unions will obtain greater benefits," the statement saiu Meanwhile officials of the Ore- gon Department of Employment and the Washington Department of Employment Security said many Hie strike spread to one inde workers affected by the strike and 'pendent plywood produrer Friday. iWeyerhaeuser Settles Dispute With One segment of labor difficul ties at the Weyerhaeuser Com pany was settled this week when ..... ..ai,llv ,,vh""""""a T,t'' """'""v concluded with Lhc International Association of Machinists, b u t the dispute with the IWA and the LSW continues to idle the huge plant and keep approximate- iy i.iuu men away iiotn aiiobs. Thice special buses wilh bars at the windows also were moved onto the campus Saturday. These apparently were to be used in tlie event mass arrests are made Saturday afternoon the univer sity announced that students liv ing on campus were to observe a 10 p.m. to a m. curlew. There was to be no movement between buildings during these hours. Tiie school said the cur cw. re quested by tlie security forces, would be in ellect lor an unde termined period and that viola tors could expect disciplinary c- Health Association, National Travelers Aid, International Social Work, United Seamen's Union end National Social Work Education. It has not been decided what agencies will be accepted in this year's combined fund raising effort. Officials Support shutdown will not be eligible for unemployment benefits. They said Oregon law provides workers are not eligible if their idleness is caused by a labor dis pute or by refusal to cross a picket line. The Washington agency said workers on strike, those who re fuse to pass picket lines and those 'ked out by employers cannot collect benclits in that state. Machinists ment provides increases in each of the next three years and ad justments to skilled job classifi cations effective the first year. Tlie wage settlement provides for eight and trtie-lialf cents )ier hour across the board increase 'effective June 1. I3. Beginning June 1, 1!M. wage rales will bc'.Iean. 8: Debbie, 6. Lana, 3, and increased live cents per hour, and theiron June 1. IWU, a two and one- i quarter er cent increase is el- tective. The dispute wilh 1AM resulted in a one day fctrike at Weyerhaeuser on Saturday, June 1. Authorities in many other parts! of the South also had their hands full with racial matters. Al Lexington, N.C., scores of slate troopers backed up city po lice, who remained on the alert for any signs of a new racial nut hurst. A white man was shot and killed and another wounded dur ing a pitched battle between whites and Negroes Thursday night. A ornfessional wrestling match scheduled Saturday night in lyx- inglon was canceled, but Mayor C. V. Sink said Hie city was going ahead with its "Miss Lex ington Beauty Pageant." Telephone Road Crashes Take Heavy Toll Of Lives By United Press International Four highway tragedies killed a total of 22 persons including a father and six of his children in Illinois, California and Can ada within a few hours Saturday. The spectacular crash occurred on the first summer vacation weekend of tlie year and just one week after tlie nation set a rec ord for tiic most number of per sons killed during a summer-season holiday weekend. Saturday's worst collision was near Pontiac, III., where a vaca tioning father and six of his sev en children perished in a car truck tmashup. ' Five persons were killed in a four-car pileup at Milpitas, Calif., and two accidents in Ontario, Canada, claimed five lives each. A car carrying Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Kozumplik of Rolling Meadows, III., and their chil dren crashed into the rear of a parked truck on U.S. SO, just north of Pontiac, III., less than two hours after the family had start! a vacation trip. Killed were Kozumplik, 41, Karen, II. Randolph, 10, Laurl Kimbcrley, 7 months Kozumplik's wife, Dorothy, 37, and Rhonda, 2, were reported in "very serious" condition at a Pontiac Hospital. Karen died In the hospital, several hours alter the accident. At Jackson, Miss , where more than ftiiO civil rights demonstra tors have been arresled in recent days, a federal district judge de clined to rule on a motion by the city. Tlie motion seeks to dismiss! a petition which was filed by the Negroes and asks that police be restrained from making further arrests. In Clarksdale, Miss., two olfi cers of the National Association) for the Advancement of Colored People iNAACI'i reportel their homes were riddled by bullets shortly after midnight. TU 4-8111 No. 7163 nions if Possible lail Strike WASHINGTON (UPI) - Time was running out rapidly Saturday on President Kennedy's efforts to block a paralyzing railroad shut down that could come anytime alter next Wednesday. Top-level government mediators said Saturday there appeared to be scant chance of settling a three-year-old working rules dis pute between the railroads and five unions before a Tuesday midnight deadline. The carriers will be free at one minute after midnight to enforce the new rules. They would elimi- nate thousands of (iremen on dle sol engines and make sweeping changes in pay systems for 200,000' operating employes. Union leaders have warned thai such action would trigger a strike on IDS major roads. A three-man board of experts ap pointed by the President has de clared tlie walkout would cause inestimable damage to tlie U.S. economy even if it lasted only a lew days. Meets Both Sides Assistant Labor Secretary Jamc J. Reynolds met with both sides again Saturday in another effort to find a solution. These sessions with Reynolds and Labor Secre tary W. Willard Wirti have been shifted frequently between two downtown hotels because of a shortage of meeting space. Tlie parties were reported to have settled at least one problem. They agreed that tlie 30-day pre strike cooling-off period expires at Tuesday midnight, not Wednes day midnight as some participants had contended. On tlie main Issues the ques tion of firemen on diesels in freight and yard service and over- School Reorganization Vote Slated On Monday lUmnlU Cniinlu unittrm will ffnt to the polls Monday to decide the falc of school reorganuation witn- in the county. Vntora in rilv Elementary Dis trict No. 1 will vote on whether nr nni ihev want to loin the coun ty unit, while voters in the pres ent county unit will vote on wbctlicr or not they will accept District No. I. Kither district vot ing no will deleat the proposi tion. I-gal voters arc those who have resided in each of tlie districts for six months Immediately pre ceding June 10. HIM, and who were registered as of May 11, lflfi.1. Voting hours for both districts an. from 2 to 8 D.m. Monday. Fremont Elementary School, 7isj High Street, will be live only poll ing place (or residents of School District No. 1. Precincts entirely within School District No. 1 are the city nrncinr-ts t to 33 Pelican Bay and Algoma. All legal voters living in tlicsc precincts will vote at Fro moot. Precincts Dartlv Within the school district are Orindale, Lake- shore, Oregon Tech., West Shasta, South Shasta, North Enterprise, and Midland. Legal voters of tliesji nreeineta livinti within School District No. 1 will also vote at Fremont. In the rnuntv rural area, these polling places for the various Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Possible light ihowert today, otherwise mostly lelr next several days with high temperatures 71-7S and lows 30 to 37. Moderate dew tonight. Haying outlook, continued good. Eight-Inch toll tempera luro St. uuarn hauling the pay system little or no progress was noted. There is no real basis for ot- limism," said one high govern ment official who sat in on most of this week's negotiations. Other sources termed tlie talks "an exer- ciso in futility." Wtrti has said he expects Con gress to act, and possibly impose compulsory arbitration, if a na tionwide strike occurs. May Defer Showdown The railroads may defer an lm- mediate showdown by spelling out uve rules changes they wish to - l maK.e a, announcing they will . a"fr . watting period. This period, -which could be 30 days or longer, would give Congress a chance to step in and block a strike with legislation. One of the big sticking points is the While House board's recom mendation for final settlement of unresolved issues by a special referee. Rail brotherhoods have traditionally objected to tlie use of arbitration in this nay. The board's report was received more favorably by the unions than the recommendations of the Presi dential Railroad Commission in February, 1D62. The commission had studied all tacets ot the dis pute for more than a year. Asks Ralls Acceptance J. E. (Docl Wolfe, chief nego- uator for the carriers, has an nounced that the companies ac cept both seta of recommenda tions, despite provisions for ex tensive paymenU to workers who would be laid off. H. E. (Ed) Gilbert, president of tha locomotive firemen and en gine men, has accused the carriers of refusing to put their acceptance of the latest firemen proposal in to writing. precincts, have been designated: Dairy, Lost River, Langcll Val ley at Bonanza School. Soulh Homedalc, at Peterson School. North Homedale, East Home- dale at Ferguson School. South Enterprise, South Alta- mont at Stearns School. Midland at Falcon Heights School. Wood River at Fort Klamath School. Plevna at Keno School. Beatty, Bly at Gearhart Ele mentary School, Bly. Klamath Lake, Lakeshore, Orin dale, Stewart-Lenox at Falrhavcn School. West Shasta, South Sfetl Shasta, East Shasta, Noiih Shasta at Shasta School. West Malin, East Malin at Ma- lin Elementary School. West Merrill, East Merrill at Merrill Elementary School. Gilchrist, Odell, Chemult at Gil christ School. Ml. Lakl, Pine Grove, Poe Val ley at Henley Elementary School. Modoc, East Chiloquln, West Chiloquin at Chiloquin Elementa ry School. Sprague River, at Spragua Riv er School. North Enterprise, North Alta mont at Allamont Elementary iSchool, Crescent Lake at Crescent Lake School, J
