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srs DIV. Babe Ruth Team Heads For New Mexico Series Weather Klamath Filli, TuUlakt Laktvitw Fair through Friday. Cool again to night with low ranging from M in Low tr Kb math Bonn ra 44 al Klamath Falls and Lakovitw. Hiha Friday . AHirMM winds wtilcriy lt-IS m.p ft. High yaslarday ll Low this morning 43 High yiar ao II Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Continued sunny and mild days with cool nights tha next few days. Spotty light frost possibl In lower Klamath BUn tonight. Haying and fitW work outlook good. Eight-inch toll tempera ture M degrees. low ytar ago 4f PreOp. past 14 hours $inct Jan. i . Price Ten Cents 28 Paget KLAMATH FALLS. PRECOX. THL'RSDAV. AIGIST 15, 1963 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 752! cotlaund Yaurd Crac N?3?Art.n r.EN.ne-r in 1 1 ks Mail Cas I . A THUMBS UP FOR VICTORY The Klamath Basin Babe Ruth All - Stan show their enthusiasm as they left this morning for Farmington, N.M., where they will compete in the Babe Ruth World Series. Their first opponent is Joplin, Mo. The regional cham pions, in two cars, were given an honor escort out of town by the police, and a host of fans were at the courthouse to see thsm off. Those identifiable in the picture are Bob Williams, left, Arie DeGroot, left rear, Stove Huettl (in cap I and Alan Mai ger, right. In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS This modern world talc: Down in the Bay Area the oth er day, a gentleman named Nor man Perry Anderson was thrown in the pokey for a list o offenses against the laws of the state of California. He blamed California women for his downfall. If it hadn't been for their "in effable" charms, he confided to the cops who took him into cus tody, he wouldn't be in durance vile, charged with bigamy and grand theft and held in lieu of $9,450 bail. 11 all came about like this: According to the police, Ander son wooed two California women both at the same time, the story goes. One was a 53-year-old widow. The other was a 48-year-old divorcee. He married the divorcee. A few days after ilie wedding, she gave him $300 to invest in a vending machine company which, apparently, he recommend ed rather highly. A little later, (he gave him $1,000 to invest in a steel company. Not only that. She also staked him to a set of false teeth. So much for the divorcee. Now for the widow: She reported to the cops that last January she gave the dapper Mr. Anderson $3,500 to invest in a San Francisco apartment house. "He promised me that we would live forever in a lovely penthouse," she reported a bit tearfully the other day. "a n d right after that he vanished." What about Anderson? Well, it appears that he forgot to tell either the divorcee or the widow that all the time he had a perfectly legal wife down in San Luis Obispo whom he had married back in 1958 just after getting out of San Quenlin, where he had served a term for forgery and grand theft. He told the San Jose cops: "I want to get back to San Quentin and serve out my full term and then GET OUT OF CAL IFORNIA. 1 never got into any trouble in my life until I met up with California women." fHe had another complaint. His new false teeth don't fit. "THEY HURT," he told the po lice. Question: Can we really blame the teen agers too bitterly for some of their antics in an age when old folks carrv on like that? House Eases Education Log Jam By Approving College Aid Bill WASHINGTON (UPli The congressional log jam on educa tion legislation was eased again today with House passage of a $12 billion "bricks and mortar" college aid bill, but no general break was yet in sight. The bill was sent to the Sen ate where it joins a House-approved bill expanding aid for vo cational schools. No action has yet been scheduled on either measure by the Senate education subcommittee. No decision has yet been made In the Senate subcommittee to break up President Kennedy's $5 billion omnibus education bill into segments such as college aid. There were indications the ques tion will not be faced for a mat ter of weeks. There were some privately ex pressed hopes in the Senate that the House might even approve Editor Says Mark Position On Tax SALEM (UPI) - J. Francyl Howard claimed today that Gov. Mark Hatfield had changed his mind and now favored referral of the 1963 legislature's $0 million tax increase package. Hatfield termed the claim "To- SALEM UPl) Gov. Mark Hatfield today issued a state ment reiterating his opposition to retcrral of the 1963 legis lature's $60 million revenue in crease package. The statement declared: "There are many people In Oregon who doubt that the tax law written by the 1963 legis lature was the best of all pos sible bills. I share that view. At the same time, it seems unthinkable that we should flirt with fiscal chaos by referring the hesl product on which the legislature could agree. "Those who are already con cerned about the adequacy of our education program, those who are already concerned about the weight of the proper ty lax burden know that the proposed referral will endanger us ou both counts. I urge again that anyone considering signing a referral petition recognize that no special legislative ses sion Is likely to adopt a 'belter' measure than the one now on the books." tally ridiculous and utterly mis leading. Howard, editor of weekly news papers in Corvallis and Albany, is spearheading the drive to gam 23,- 185 signatures to refer the tax Son Of Merrill Mayor Killed In Gun Mishap MERRILL Jerry Geraghty, 15, son of Mayor and Mrs. Law rence Geraghty, died sometime Wednesday afternoon of an acci dentally, self - inflicted gunshot wound. State police who aided in the search for the boy with about 100 persons, report the youth left home about 3 p.m. to hunt squir rels on the family dairy ranch just north of Merrill. When he had not returned by dinner time at 6 p.m. the family started a search. Later members of the Merrill Fire Department, Merrill Mar shal Dal Reed, state police and others began an intensive search. The boy's body was found at 12:10 a.m. Thursday in a four foot deep, dry irrigation ditch other portions of the President's program although House lead ers expect no such action. Ulti timately, informed sources said, the Senate will in all likeli hood approve as much as the House has approved and per haps a little more. The bill had top-level support from both political parties. The vote for passage was 287-113. The college aid bill would pro vide $835 million in matching grants and $360 million in low interest loans over a three-year period to four-year colleges and universities, graduate schools, junior and community colleges and college-level technical insti tutes. The bill was the only new school assistance program ex pected to pass this year. Oth?r congressional news: Railroads: The House and Sen ate commerce committees were package to a special election Oct. lo, The lead editorial of today's! Benton County Herald in Corval lis. one of Howard's publications, is titled "Governor Hatfield now for referral." Opposition Noted Howard noted that earlier Hat field had urged voters not to sign referral petitions. "The governor stated that the $60 million income tax law was a mess and that he washed his hands of this income tax gouge," the editorial said. "Our readers will remember that our governor refused to sign this unneeded, unwanted and out rageous law. By doing this he de layed the efforts to get referral petitions printed for ten days," the editorial said. The editorial then declares, "the greatest single success in (the campaign to get the tax bill re ferred) and the most influential convert is Governor Hatfield. Our governor is a wise man and wise men change their minds. Letter Cited "We have in our newspaper of fice a signed letter from our gov ernor.. .to a local Southern Pacific Railroad man, in which he says, quote: 'Oregon's constitution clear ly affords the people the oppor tunity to vote on any program of expenditures that would require an increase in taxes. It has been my recommendation that, should ad ditional taxes be required, the in creases should be tied to tax re form and the issues referred for decision by the people.' " Howard's editorial conclud- about one-half mile from t h e ranch home. A bullet from the .22 caliber bolt action rifle had pierced his forehead. Exact time of his death has not been deter mined but it is probable that it occurred soon after he left home In reconstructing the accident, it appeared that Jerry, long fami liar with firearms, had slipped and fallen as he attempted tol jump the ditch. He would have been a sopho more in the Merrill High School when the fall term opened. Mr. and Mrs. Geraghty, well- known Klamath County dairy ranchers, have an older son, Bill 17. The body was taken to O'Hair's Memorial Chapel in Klamath Falls. rcported today to be planning re sumption early next week of hearings on President Kennedy's plan to have the Interstate Com merce Commission solve the rail road work rules dispute. The committee had delayed action on the plan in the hopes Iabor Sec retary W. Willard Wirtz would be able to bring both sides to gether for a settlement. But the collapse of the rail negotiations Tuesday ended the possibility. Corns: The Senate approved by a three-vote margin President Kennedy's proposal to create a domestic Peace Corps authoriz ing creation of a group of vol untee's to aid Americans still iso lated by poverty and despair. The measure, passed in a 47-44 vote, calls tor recruitment of up to I, 000 persons during the first year, ending next June 30, eventually rising to an enrollment of 5.000 I volunteers in three yean. LONDON (UP1 - Scotland.OOO Yard today cracked the 57.1 mil lion mail train robbery case one week to the day after it oc curred. The police arrested three men and two women and it was unof ficially reported that about $280,- Shifted Referral led: "Thank you Governor Hal field." The governor told United Press International "I recommend ed that an election be held on any tax increase while the legislature was in session. The Democrats wouldn't let it happen. "There is no question the peo ple have a right to vote. Earlier this year, and in my budget mes sage I said the legislature could avoid problems by reaching an early decision on taxes and hav ing an election while the legisla ture was in session." Hatfield said Howard's editorial was "utterly misleading," and termed the suggestion that he had changed his mind as "totally ridiculous.' Mob Forces Congo Chief To Give Up BRAZZAVILLE. Congo (UPI President Fulbert Youlou re signed today in the face of a howling mob which besieged his palace and screamed for his ouster. A Congolese army announce ment said the army seized power in this former French colony fol lowing Youlou s resignation. The unfrocked former Roman Catholic priest who still calls him self "abbe," quit after three days of demonstrations and violence in which at least five persons were reported killed. The army said the 46-year-old Youlou signed his resignation at I p.m. and said it would remain in power until a new cabinet is formed. (Authoritative sources in Wash ington said the Congolese army totals 700 men and the gendar merie 500. ) The resignation came as an es timated 10,000 persons chanted demands outside the heavily guarded palace that Youlou quit. A spokesman for the French forces here said Youlou's resig nation has terminated the mili tary support given him by mem bers of the 2.000-man French army garrison at the start of the anti-government riots Tuesday The rioting was started when an estimated 3.000 trade union members marched on the city jail in an attempt to free two of their leaders. They burned and looted the jail freed all the prisoners, burned down the television station and looted private homes of several government ministers. When the demonstrations con tinued Wednesday, Youlou fired his cabinet members and was re ported trying to form a new gov ernment when he was forced to quit. U.S. Fires Atom Shot WASHINGTON (UPI 1 -The United States today conducted an underground nuclear test in Nev ada, the second announced shot in four days. Such tests arc permitted under the limited nuclear test ban treaty which forbids other types of experiments. Today's shot was the second to be held since the agreement was reached in Moscow and the 70th underground test to be conducted by the Atomic Energy Commis sion (AEC.i Announcement of the test was made by the A EC which said it was of low yield. This means that the power of the lest was under the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT. uie loot was re covered. Unconfirmed reports said eight other persons were taken into custody. None was identified. An oflicial police announcement said two of the men were seized "for complicity in the mail rob- of n DAMAGED Superintendent Warren Lough of h Simplot-DaVoa Lumber Mill in Chiloquin points to the machinery in which the fire that damaged the mill started Tuesday night. An insurance adjuster today was scheduled to appraise the damage. The fire was controlled after two hours' work by firemen. Twenty to 50 per cent of the mill was badly damaged and the plant is expected to be closed for at least Joint Chiefs Okay Pact WASHINGTON (UPI) - Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor assured the Senate today the Joint Chiefs ofl Staff endorsed the nuclear test ban treaty without any admini stration "arm-twisting" and were kept "constantly abreast" of its development. In public testimony before go ing into an afternoon closed ses sion with senators considering the pact, the chairman of the joint chiefs said: Tne area of "high-yield" su per nuclear weapons in which Russia leads "has very little if any military significance." The joint chiefs feel use of more smaller bombs on an enemy tar get is better than dropping one 50 to 100 megaton weapon. He is confident President Kennedy will carry out "safe-, guards" to the test pact by main taining full lab and test facilities' and pushing underground testing permitted in the treaty. Past nuclear testing has "tended to close the gap" and let Russia gain on the United States in nuclear weapons. He said that if Russia had not been able to test she "never would have caught up" with this coun try. He said the joint chiefs had opposed a comprehensive test ban because of fear the Soviets could cheat end test underground while the United States would not. Hope for Peace There are military "advan tages" in the limited treaty, as well as disadvantages. Reduction of tensions that will improve the chances of peace Is a "military advantage," he said, because peace is the "primary hope" of the military. It is "conceivable" that Corn- munis'. China wants to expand in to Soviet Asia and that Russia in signing the limited treaty wanted to take "some small step" to deal with the China problem. Taylor assured the Foreign Re lations, Armed Services, Joint Atomic Committee members con sidering the treaty that the joint chiefs suffered no "unusual pres sures" from the administration in endorsing the pact. And re said he was kept fully informed about negotiations on the treaty and instructions given Avert!! Harriman, chief negotia tor in Moscow, and passed this along to the other military lead ers. Ouealioncd at Length Senator "ueslioned Taylor at length on the likelihood of the United States maintaining all the facilities for test readiness under the treMy. He was asked if it were likely to "inhibit" or "down grad such preparation and he replied. No sir, quite the con trary." He conceded there is some "dis ability" in not being able to con. bery." They were arrested at Bourne- mouth, a seaside resort, less lice, put up a struggle and had than 100 miles from the place injlo he subdued by arresting, of-; Buckinghamshire where a gang ficers. About lOO.OOO pounds! of bandits hijacked a royal mail$280,000 was reportedly found train last inursday and made otftm with 120 bags containing 2'j tons t t . duct full antimissile system tests in the atmosphere under the treaty but said it is "not a criti cal one.", Taylor joined Dr. Glen Sea- borg, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and the sec retaries of defense and state in endorsing the treaty and calling. for Senate approval. Seaborg tes- tified Wednesday before the three-committee panel that theimittee was made public late strenuous objections of nuclearl Bids On OTI Far Exceed PORTLAND (UPD-Bids were! opened here Wednesday for more than $1.1 million worth of work on new residence hall and a small radioactive isotypes labora tory building for Oregon Technical Institute in Klamath Falls. The work, to be completed by fall term of 1964, is for Phase 2B of OTI campus construction. The residence hall will serve 328 stu dents. The bids were taken under ad visement. The architects 'Skidmore, Ow- ings and Merrill of Portland i, OTI officials and representatives of the state chancellor's office will meet jointly to analyze the low bid to find out why the net cost tar exceeded the estimates and to determine what the next step will be concerning the new cam pus construction. Wednesday's bids totaled $1,175-, 352 while tlie allocated funds Boy Struck By Auto A 6 - year - old Klamath Falls youngster who was struck by a car nt 5:23 p.m. Wednesday is in satisfaclory condition at Klamath Valley Hospital today. William H. Badger, 1941 Vine Street, received a broken nose, bruised leg and possible back in juries when a car driven by Joseph Charles Brucker. 56. Kern Hotel, struck the youth as he walked from behind some parked cars a he crossed Owens Street near Garden. The boy was taken to Klamath Vallev Hospital by his mother Bruckor said he was driving at about 15 miles an hour and couldn't stop in time to avoid hit ting the youngster. He was cited (or having an expired driver's license. lot worn, but valid, pound notes. Both men. according to the po- two cars thev had. The other suspects a man and scientist Dr. Edward A. Teller! were "not Important enough to forego the treaty. Taylor said the criticisms Tell er advanced had been considered by government advisers "over and over again. The testimony of Taylor on Wednesday, and Teller the day before, before closed hearings of the Senate preparedness subcom Wednesday. Buildings Estimates amounted to $1,020,000, a differ ence of over $155,000. Rejecting Wednesday's bids and advertising for new bids would cramn the 1964 fall term new campus completion schedule. Apparent low bidders included: Geneftl construction: Halvorson Inc., Spokane. $814,717. There were two other bidders. Mechanical work: Urban Plumb. ing and Heating Co., Portland $143,717. There were four other bidders. Electrical work: Ace Electric Portland, $62,959. There were three other bidders. Built-in Furniture for the Dor mitory: Reliance Engineering and Manufacturing Corp., San Anto nio, Tex.. $153,959. There were three other bidders. Tax Writers Review Provisions On Stock Dividend Recipients WASHINGTON UPI - Demo cratic tax writers, having voted to cut everybody's income taxes, planned today to scale down the relief that would go to taxpayers receiving sizable income from stock dividends. The House Ways & Means Com mittee Wednesday approved Pres ident Kennedy's request for the biggest tax cut in history. Every taxpayer individual and corpo ration would share in the lax relief starting next Jan. I. Their total tax savings would be some what greater than the net reduc tion of $10.6 billion recommended by Kennedy. Tax treatment of dividend in come was the most controversial of the few remaining issues which the committee hoped to settle to day. The bill then would be ready for final drafting touches next week and expected House pas sage in September. Whether the two women were arrested in raids on London homes by Scotland Yard's "flying squad'" of detec tives, but the police made no for mal announcement about them. It was reported that about 500 pounds ($1.4001 was recovered in those raids. The money found in the pos session of the two men arrested at Bournemouth was said to be in old notes, similar to the bills which British banks had placed on the train so that they could be taken to London, de stroyed, and replaced by new currency. A police source in the resort! city said the arrests followed a tip from an unidentified woman who became suspicious when the men askrd for rooms at her boarding house. The arrests appeared to be tlicl biggest break so far in police at tempts to solve the daring rob bery a week ago of the Glasgow London mail train near Chedding- ton. The arrests followed the dis covery Tuesday of the gang's abandoned hideout a 200-year- old farm near the village of Oak ley in Buckinghamshire. Empty mail sacks and half-eaten meals indicated the gang had fled the farm in a hurry. Police at Bournemouth said the two men were being questioned by Det. Supt. Malcolm Fewtrell head of the Buckinghamshire Criminal Investigation Division, and Del. Supt. Gerald McArthur of Scotland Yard. Search Widespread As the two men were being questioncd, police scoured the country for additional clues to the whereabouts of the gang and the record cash loot. I New raids were carried out In khe London area Wednesday1 night, and a large dossier of1 clues taken from the farmhouse; Unemployed Rate Sliced The unemployment rate in the hlamalh Falls area is expected to be cut in half this week, re flecting the end of the lumber industry strike-shutdown. The rate for the last week of the dispute, which ended here last Wednesday, was 7.8 per cent in the Klamath Falls area. But Oregon Department of Employ ment officials estimated that this might drop to as low as four per cent this week when figures are computed. The 7.8 per cent figure itself was a drop of about one percent age point from the preceding four weeks. Beginning of harvest in th c Basin also is expectel to contri bute to a large drop in the job less rate. The department of employment reported that the jobless rate throughout the slate dropped in the week ending Aug. 8. The highest unemployment rate 8.4 per cent was in the Hood Hiver area, while the lowest 1.5 per cent was at La Grande. Weeks of unemployment insur ance benefits claimed last week in the state totaled 13,169, com pared to 16,204 four weeks ago in July and 11,437 for the same week in 1962. Senate will complete action Uiisi year remained uncertain. rvenncuy warns amuemi uii-inur of stockholders taxed at the same rates that apply to wages and salaries. His proposal, designed 10 produce $370 million in new revenue, would leave untouched the existing tax exemption for the fust $oO-a-person in dividend in come. Despite GOP opposition key Democrats claimed they had the votes (0 win committee ap proval of a compromise The tax-cutting provisions ap proved Wednesday would Knock off the tax rolls alto gether some 1.5 million individual taxpayers. Their tax-free status starting in 1964, would result from establishment of a new "minimum standard deduction" which would increase with family size. One result: No one with an annual Income of $900 or less would have to pay U.S. income near Oakley was being studied minutely. A senior Scotland Yard officer said Wednesday night police knew the identity of some of the 10 to lo men who took part in the ambush. 'It is now a question of find- ing where they are," he said. Ike Takes Conditional Pact View NEW YORK (UPI) - Former President DwiglH D. Eisenhower said today that he would favor the test ban treaty with Russia ' unless there is evidence. . .that the Soviets are way ahead of us or that the security of th United States is in danger." lhe fit-looking former chief ex ecutive aired his views on many' current topics when he and his wife, Mamie, returned aboard the liner United States from Europe. However, he said he did not like giving an "off-the-ciiff opinion" on the treaty until he reads the full text and studies it further.. -Eisenhower said he received a telegram aboard ship Uiis morn ing from the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee asking him for his ooinion of the treaty. He said .a rarresponaence wun sci- enus.'5 a mner "P'ons he respects in his efforts V0. 8 conclusion, which lie w, make public m mitlng. umi'sa uwre is eviuence 01 which 1 know nothing rather hard evidence that the Soviets are way ahead of us or that the security of the United States is in danger Uteri I would certainly be on the favorable side, he said. Eisenhower described his two- week trip to Portsmouth, Eng land, and the Normandy invasion beachheads of World War II for a CBS-TV 20th D-Day anniver sary documentary as "a pe riod of reminiscence for me." PO To Close Saturdays Saturday window service at the Klamath Falls Post Office will be discontinued effective this Satur day, according to Postmaster Chester Langslet. Langslet said the action is be ing taken to conform with the practices of local business firms, many of whom are closed on Saturdays. He said all regular services with the exception of foreign par cel post wil! still be available on Saturdays at three post office sub-stations. They are Ganong's Variety, South Sixth and Shasta Way; Underwood's Camera, 3950 South Sixth; and Buy Low Food Center, 1338 Oregon Avenue. ; Langslet said that the curtail ment of window service at the post office's main branch on Sat urdays will not affect the carrier delivery of either letter or par cel post on those days. taxes. The cut-off point now for persons using the standard oeouc- lion is $667. Reduce tax rates tor: the other 50 million individual' tax payers by an average of 20 per cent. Two-thirds of this relief would take effect on 1964 in comes, the rest on 1965 incomes. Individual tax rates now range by income brackets from 20 to 91 per cent. The new scale: 10 to 71 per cent in 1964 and 14 to 70 per cent in 1965. The lowest rate would apply only to tlie first $500 in taxable income ol single per sons and only to tlie first $1,000 in taxable income of married couples filing joint returns. Reduce the 30 pee " ax on the first $25,000 of corporation profits to 22 per cent next Jan. I. The 52 per cent rale on profits in excess of that would drop to 50 per cent next Jan. 1 and to 48 per cent on Jan. 1, 196S. I
