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CMP. Weather Klamath Fa lit, Tulatako and Laksvitw Fair through WMniwKy. titttt changt in temperature. Lows tonight 40-M, high Wtdiwtday U-M. Sou lit westerly wind IS m.s.h. Wtdntiday afttrnooa. High yttltrday M Low this morning 41 High year ag M Low ytar ago 44 Weather AGRICULTURAL PORICAST Continuod tunny and warm mxt few days. Highs M-M, tows 40-Sf. Conllnuod high soil moitturo leases. Haying and fitld work outlook good to excellent. Eight-Inch soil temperature 47 degrees. t Prtcia. patt 14 hours Sine Jan. I 4 21 L, . " sam period ut yar a. Price Teo Cf Dts 24 Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. TUESDAY. ALGIST 13. 1963 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7519 U.OF 03E.LIBi?AHT NSJCSPAPER SECTION GSN.REF.AND DOCUMENTS DIV. EUtfENE.OSEG. I 6 ... 1 l r u iT.ti 111 $!&iJ J REMODELING STARTS A machine begins preliminary digging work for the re modeling of the post office building here which will see the structure's walls expanded. Work on the project started late last week with the clearing of trees and shrubs. The $883,280 prime contract for the job, expected to take a year and a half, was awarded to the Work Saver Body Company of Seattle. This digging machine was rented from a local company. In The Day's lews Livestock Show, Sale flans Increase Tempo (Congress Support Rising For Tax Cut By FRANK JENKINS ' Defense Secretary McNamara, who seems to have a pretty good head on his shoulders, told the U.S. Senate this morning that the United Slates, with TENS OF THOUSANDS of atomic war heads, is MANIFESTLY SUPE RIOR to Russia in nuclear power and would run little risk in rati fying the test ban treaty. He added: "The limited lest ban would SLOW Soviet nuclear progress and PROLONG U.S. nuclear superiority." Why? It's a bit technical. But here is the gist argument: of his Russia's lead in the MON STERS resulted from Amer icas CONSIDERED DECISION against concentrating on such bombs. He said "horror weapons" of the 100 megaton (100 million tons of TNT) type, which Russia can develop, have doubtful mili tary utility compared to the smaller megaton weapons which the - U.S. can launch now with precision and in vast numbers. He put it this way: We just don't think the mon sters are THE THING. They are too unwieldy, for one tiling. (If your enemy had nothing but a cannon and you had plenty of men with rifles, his armament would be so unwieldy that you could pick him off and get rid of him before he could get his huge cannon into action.) It was for that reason, he said, that we turned down the " idea of monster bombs. We think our immensely greater number of smaller bombs are more- efficient. The members of the Senale are reported to have listened with close attention to Secretary Mc Namara's testimony. From armament, let's turn to inflation. Brazil has been having plenty of inflation trouble. Why? Well, the Brazilian government spent TOO MUCH and taxed TOO LITTLE. When a government spends too much and taxes too little, inflation follows in the course of time. It cot pretty bad in Brazil. It got so bad, in fact, that the Brazilians had trouble finding places to carry their paper mon ey. At lirst, tne nispatcnes ten us. thev solved the problem by using brief cases instead of wal lets. That took care ol tne siiu ation for a while. But. as more and more money was printed by the Brazilian gov ernment (in order to have some thing to pay its bills with' even the brief cases got too small. So the people took to carrying their money around in bundles wrapped up in newspapers. Then Somebody up at the top had a brilliant idea, .lust print bills in BIGGER DENOMINATION'S. That doesn't lake any more paper. It doesn't take any more ink. Just make the FIGURES bigger. Thus, instead of having to carry around sacks full of little bills the people will have only one BIG bill to bother with. Isn't government finance wonderful? Preparations for the 28th an nual 4-H Club and FFA Klamath Junior Fall Fair, Livestock Show and Sale are moving at increased tempo toward show dates, Aug. 18, 19, 20. Livestock judges have been an nounced by Klamath County 4-H Club Leader Francis Skinner as follows: Beef Harvey McDougal of McDougal Livestock Company. Birds Landing, Calif.; sheep Milton Shelton, Sheep Herdsman, Oregon State University; Swine Dean Frischknecht, Animal Sci ence specialist, OSU, and F. B. Wolberg, associate professor, Ani mal Science, OSU. Judges for the garden, lowers fores' ry and entomology exhibits will he announced. Skinner has listed 442 animals, a few in excess of the 1962 num bers, to be shown and sold at 170 beef; 121 sheep; 111 hogs, and 40 dairy animals. There will also be 48 garden entries, nine in forestry and eight in entomology. Activities at the fairgrounds will start on Saturday with ar rival of livestock and weighing in. Evonts on Sunday, will start at 8:30 a.m. with hog judging, trac tor driving, dairy showmanship and a period for church attend ance in the morning. Rabbits and poultry will be received dur ing the afternoon. Monday's program gets under way with beef judging, followed by hog showmanship, sheep1 showmanship, dairy judging con-' tests, poultry and rabbit judging, and the receiving and arranging of flowers and vegetables, ento mology, forestry and fishing ex hibits before noon. From '12 noon to 5 p.m. there will be dairy judging, judging of vegetables, flowers, entomology forestry and fishing exhibits, flow er arrangement contest, vegeta ble and flower judging contests. Tuesday, Aug. 20, will include continuing judging, special live stock contests, animal identifica tion contests, the barbecue and sale. The big livestock parade, intro duction of clubs, leaders, nam ing of the garden king and queen, feeding of exhibitors, and presen tation ol awards will start at 4:30 p.m. in the grandstand. The livestock auction in the sales arena wil get under way at 6:30 p.m. Klamath Falls Rotarians, hosts' at the barbecue, expect some 2,500 to go through the food lines, 27 Survive Boat Mishap WASHINGTON (UPI Presi dent Kennedy's new tax-cutting formula drew a much more en thusiastic response from congres sional Democrats today than the original plan be presented last Januiry. The revised plan was outlined Monday to the House Ways & Means Committee by Treasury Secretary Douglas Dill.. It would take ellect next Jan. 1, and nrovide net tax reductions of $10 6 billion for individuals and corporations with the relief staged over two vears. Compared with Kennedy's orig inal $10.3 billion tax-cutting pro gram, the new plan would pro vide slightly more total tax re lief and more would go to in dividuals and less to corpora tions. But its chief political attraction was that it was burdened with fewer of the tax-tightening pro visions that made Kennedy's orig inal nlan so controversial. Reduces Rate Cuts To compensate for this revenue loss, the new plan would provide reductions averaging only 20 per cent in individual tax rates, com pared with 23.3 per cent in the original plan. The initial response of influ ential committee Democrats was so favorable thai it seemed pos sible the committee might ap prove the new plan with only rel ative minor tailoring, if it de cided lo vote for tax cuts of $10 billion or more. But that was a (revisions in lax structure to less big "if." The magnitude of the tax re duction was the big issue still undecided as the committee sum moned Dillon for a second dav of qjestioning behind closed doors. The committee was not expected lo begin voting on the proposed rate cuts belore Thurs day. Main Features The main features of the re vised plan Individual tax rales would range from 14 to 70 per cent in stead of the present 20-91 per cent schedule originally recom mended by the administration. The lowest rate of 14 per cent would apply to the first $3U0 in taxable income of the single per son and the first $1,000 of tax able income of married persons with joint returns. The top rate of 70 per cent would apply to all taxable income in excess of $100,- 000 for single persons ($200,000 for married couple filing jointly) Taxes on corporation income in excess of $25,000 would be re duced from the present 52 per cent to 48 iper cent. That com pares with the 47 per cent rate which the administration initially proposed. The tax rate on the first $25,000 of corporate earnings would be lowered to 23 per cent from the present 30 per cent. The administration originally pro posed a 22 per cent levy. Limit the revenue-producing CD Meet Attempting To Get Federal Funds than one-third of the $3.3 billion originally advocated. So far as individuals are concerend, the re vised plan called for adoption of only two major structural changes which have not already won committee approval. All of t h e committee voted changes were accepted by the administra tion. One of the two additional re visions it recommended would provide a new "minimum stan dard deduction" under which many families with low incomes would be able to claim deduc tions in excess of the present 10 per cent standard. This would provide ta savings of $310 mil lion for such taxiwyers. The other additional chance would gain $370 million in new revenue by repealing ' the preference in tax rates on income from stock dividends in excess of $50 a year tor single persons and $100 for married couples. m cNamara Savs U.S. Superior m To Russia In Nuclear Weapons Governor's Guard Noted TACOMA (UPD Twenty seven persons, including 25 children re turning from a church camp swam to shore safely in life jack ets alter their 33-foot boat sunk in Puget Sound west of here Mon day night. The boat, a converted landing craft named the Walrus! was on its way from Camp Blanchet, a Catholic youth camp, on Raft Is land to the mainland. All the children aboard were from the Seattle-Tacoma area. The group swam to nearby Cutt Island alter the port side of the boat's hull broke away. The Coast Guard said the damage was caused by heavy armor and as sumed rotten timbers. SALEM (UPIi-Around - thc- clock security protection for Gov. Mark Hatfield is continuing, his office said today. Uniformed members of a spe cial security detail under the ad ministration of the superintendent of state police may be seen near the governor's residence here. The security force was es tablished after the 1903 legislature adopted a resolution calling for strengtnened security measures for Hatfield. The legislative action came shortly after an incident in May which a disgruntled person fired more than a dozen shots near the governor's house. At the recent governor's con ference in Miami it was brought out that security is provided all governors who live in state-owned executive mansions, and that most other governors have some type of security provided cither by state! or municipal authorities. Oregon docs not have a state owned executive mansion, and the Hatficlds live in their own home in southeast Salem. SALEM tUPIl An attempt to salvage federal matching funds for civil defense organizations in six Oregon counties was to be made today at a meeting between federal officials and State CD Di rector Robert W. Sandstrom The future of the state's fallout shelter marking and stocking pro gram also may be decided at the meeting, Sandstrom said. Federal matching funds were made available for civil defense organizations in six counties on the condition that the slate agency supervise the programs. The c o u n t i e s are Deschutes, Linn. Washington, Polk, Benton and Umatilla. Sandstrom said "two staff peo ple from region eight headquar ters in Washington state win meet! with me and we will try to map out a program. If we can draft a program that satisfies the fed eral officials, we will send it lo the governor for approval." The 1963 legislature slashed Ore gon's 18-member civil defense or ganization to a three - member slaff after charging civil defense was a "do nothing agency After the cutback, federal offi cials refused to provide matchingl funds for the slate program, but authorized matching funds for the six counties on the condition that the stale provide supervision. Sandstrom said it might be pos sible to keep Ihe fallout shelter program going on the local level without slate aid. He also said that 37 stored civil defense field hospitals had been transferred to the State Board of Health. He said the board will maintain so the hospitals could be utilized in emergencies. Sandstrom said the hospitals were complete units. "They have everything but a building and the people to operate them," he ex plained. Rail Talks Continued The custody of the 20O-bed hospitals but said he did not know what are still signilicant issues training programs were planned which there is disagreement WASHINGTON (UPI) railroad firemen's union gathered its decision-m a k i n g committee here today but there was no pro posal for it lo ratify, nor even a hint of a possible solution to the threatened nationwide rail strike. The committee was scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. EDT. The 156 general chairmen of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen met aft er being called to Washington last week at the urgent request of La bor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz. At that time Wirtz said it was necessary they be on hand to give immediate approval lo any pro posal produced by daily negotia tions under way at the Labor De partment. But Monday night Wirtz said there was no plan to put before the body, which has the power to make a binding agreement for the firemen's union. Wirtz said after a night nego tiating session the best he could report was that both sides were discussing new avenues toward possible solution of the four-year- old dispute. But he said "there on WASHINGTON (UPI) - De fense Secretary Robert S. Mc Namara asserted today that the United States, with "tens of thou sands of atomic warheads, was manifestly superior" to Russia in nuclear power and would risk little in ratifying the test ban treaty. The limited ban would slow So viet nuclear progress and prolong U. S. superiority, McNamara told the Senate in the second day of hearings on Ihe historic Moscow pact. He acknowledged that Russia "apparently" was ahead of the United States in design of super bombs in the multi-megaton rangei a point that has disturbed some Senate critics and military leaders. But he said that lead resulted from America's "considered de cision against concentrating on such bombs. He said horror weap ons of the 100-megalon type, which Russia could develop, had doubtful military utility compared with smaller megaton weapons that America could launch now with precision and in vast numbers. Asserting his "unequivocal sup port" of the treaty, McNamara said the risks it entails are either small or under our control and the values under the treaty arc substantial . . ." This was in essence the same lliing Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk said Monday. Rusk was the administration's first witness be fore the Senate foreign relations, armed services and atomic energy committees to urge ratification of Ihe pact which would ban air, space and underwater tests but allow continued underground blasts. McNamara elaborated on sev eral points made Monday by Rusk particularly assuring senators that this country will pursue under ground testing and will keep at peak readiness to resume atmos pheric testing and other develop ment at once if Russia breaks tlic ban. Rusk also said he felt a prime reason the Soviet Union agreed to the test ban was because the Cu ban crisis last fall gave Kremlin leaders a look "into the pit of the inferno." Rusk said Rus sia concluded it was in its self interest to agree to the treaty, which it had rejected previously.' McNamara said neither an un likely successful secret violation nor an abrupt abrogation with surprise testing on Russia's part would threaten U. . S. security. Nothing that could happea under the treaty's terms or in violation of them, he said, could change 'the basic fact that America "will maintain its ability to survive a surprise attack with sufficient power to destroy the So viet Union." It inn j , v X ' V N 1 J J'" , J 5. "J - SHAMEFUL ANNIVERSARY Fears mounted of new anti-Communist riots on the second anniversary of the Berlin Wall despite government appeals for calm. This photo shows the wall winding through the heart of the city against the background of the Brandenburg Gate. UPI Telephoto Solon Given Simple Rites MADISONVILLE, Tcnn. (UPI) A nation's leaders and just plain mountain folk -gathered in this cast Tennessee hill country town today to pay their final tribute lo Sen. Estes Kefauver, "friend of the little man." Funeral services at 1 p.m. PDT, were to be brief and sim ple. "Just a simple service," said Democrat. "Estes liked simple things." Kefauver, 60, vice-presidential candidate in 1956, strong threat for the presidential nomination four years earlier and 15-year Senale veteran, died Saturday near Washington of what doctors called a massive heart attack Scotland Yard Discovers Robbery Gang's Hideout LONDON (UPI) - Police dis closed today they have located Ihe hideout of the robbery cang that looted a royal mail train of more Uian $7 million. By the time the police got there the robbers were gone, and so was the loot from the biggest rob bery of all time, Scotland Yard announced. "Empty mail bags" were found said Commander George Hat- herill, deputy commander of Scot land Yard. The hideout was a brick house called Lcalhcrsladc farm, about 23 miles from the scene of last Thursday's robbery at Chcdding-ton. Halhcrill said the house looked as though the gang had lelt in rather a hurry." "There were a lorry (truckl and two Landrovers (Jcep-hke vehi cles) outside. A pit had been dug. It looked as though they intended lo bury the stuff," the comman der said. Hathcnll said no money was found at the hideout, but that some mailbags had been located. He said the hideout "resembled an cmply cottage." He said it was located some distance from main roads and warned that po lice would keep the area scaled off (or two or three days while investigations were carried out. Hiilhcrill said he already had ordered a team of finger-print ex perts to the house. He said he believed the gang had left the house about three days ago and that they might have been scared away by press publicity. 1 he press has carried numerous reports that police believed the gang may have hidden within a radius of 30 miles of Ihe scene of the robbery last Thursday morn ing. "We have satisfied ourselves that this is the place. We don't know who the owners are yet," Hatherill said. The estimated 12 lo 30 masked men vanished after seizing the Glasgow-to-London mail train last Thursday morning near Chcdding ton in Buckinghamshire and tak ing $7,146,000 in cash. Grease Fired City firemen Monday afternoon were called lo 130 Washington Street to extinguish a (ire on the back porch of a home. Firemen said a pan of grease had eaunht (ire and the occu- nant o( the house. Mrs. A. R Wilson, had carried it as (ar as the hack porch before being lorced to drop it. - l - - -2 . - as--. v x h? s t ' -if. i . a i . . . m .jw.ii i'"T'(ift " v mr ,i- -y; e a? 4. .an f ' i k Y t tll'hl !' . ' ri If' f ' fF JfwJ J : l0CAL' if f I fecrf - : HI 1 j : Riot Squads On Alert For Trouble BERLIN (UPI) - Riot squads stood at alert in West Berlin to day during wreath-laying cere monies marking the second anni versary of the hated Communist wall. Water cannon and barricades were held ready to disperse any riots which might threaten to erupt as they did last Aug. 13. The anniversary was ushered in by a mysterious heavy explos ion on the Communist side of the Tcltow Canal during the night. Communist police carried out a search along the border. It was exactly two years ago that East German police and troops arrived at the Branden burg Gate and oilier city border crossing points and began erect ing barricades at 3 a.m. to stop the flow of refugees out of the Communist zone. By the time the city was awake, it was split by a concrete block and barbed-wire barrier which has become a sym bol of the division between the free West and the Communist world. As a tribute lo the 65 refugees killed climbing tile wall to reach the West, West Berliners today laid wreaths on monuments to their memory. POST OFFICE MOVE BEGINS The majsive job of moving tons of office equipment and records from the Klamath Falls Post Of fice building began this morning with the Agriculture and Home Extension services. All offices in the building are being moved because of an extensive remodeling job. The Agriculture and Home Extension services are moving to the County Health Department building, 1949 Main Street. Here, Peggy Setzler, left, a Home Extension employe, packs a box with books. Center photo shows 4 a People's Warehouso truck backed to the post office for the mov ing job. And at right, Ennis Johnston, foreman of the moving crew, wheels a filing cabinet out of the post office door and into the truck. Child Fights For Survival LYON, France I UPI) - Five-year-old Elsa Simon, sole survi vor from a French plane which crashed killing 16 persons, fought for her life in a hospital today. Doc'ors said she was in grave condition. Little Elsa was "very serious ly" injured when a French air liner en route from Lille to the Riviera resort of Nice crashed Mondiy while landing at Bron Airport in heavy fog and rain. Airport sources said the British made Viscount prop-jet may have been struck by lightning. All aboard the airliner were French. Eleven of the 12 passengers and all four crew members were killed. A farmhand was killed by debris and two other youths on Ihe ground were injured. - V
