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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?"
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. 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.
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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. ,
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.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
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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
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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,
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