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$38 Million Needed To Meet Old Budget By FLOYD L. WYNNE Editor's Note This it the third In series of articles covering the tax proposal to be voted on October 15. Voters may ask why the tax bill was designed to raise another $63.5 million when the budget actually was increased only $37,600,000. This stems from the action of the 1961 Legislature which used up all of the then $33 million surplus, plus transferring $5 million from the veterans' loan program funds to meet the cost of its 1961-62 budget. These were both one-time-only funds, and the 1963 Legislature had to find $38 million in funds just to replace these one-time-only funds and keep agencies and education operating at its prior level. This $38 million which had to be replaced, plus the $37,600,000 in increased budgeted funds made a total of about $76 million that the Legislature had to find to finance the program it has set out for the 1963-65 bienniurn. However, the continued growth of revenues from existing tax laws produced about $14 million more than expected in the 1961-63 biennium, leaving a deficit of about $M million to be found. Faced with this $64 million deficit, the Legislature enacted House Bill 1846 which is designed to raise a bit in excess of this figure. Some quarters estimate that the bill will bring in as much as a $5 million surplus over the needed $64 million but this is merely con-lecture. However, it is this $38 million one-shot loss from the 1961-62 budg ets that gives rise to much of the statements from various agencies that defeating the msasure would their operating budgets were for Were the proposed tax bill would be necessary for the Legislature to find some $38 million just to keep services at the level of the 1961 budget, not to say anything of having to find ways of cutting $38 million from the budgets in some manner. It appears that there are two possible alternatives in the event the bill is defeated. It may seem to be a negative approach but in defeat of the measure lies the there is no need to cut budgets So, if it is defeated. Governor Mark Hatfield can do one of two things, or a combination of both. He can, within his statutory authority, reduce expenditures to match the reduced amount of funds available, or he can call a special session of the Legislature and hand it the problem. The Attorney General has already ruled that the Governor cannot cut the amount of money appropriated for basic school support which amounts to $135 million or about 30 per cent of the budget total. However, the Legislature can reduce this amount if it were called into special session. It appears, that in the event the bill is defeated, the Governor would make some cuts in the state governmental budgets where he legally could, and then would call the Legislature back into special session. These would seem to be the only two courses of action open in the event HB 1846 is defeated by the voters on October 15. Next We explore these two courses of action In more detail, detail. Announcement Likely On Russian Wheat Deal WASHINGTON UPI - Presi- dent Kennedy was expected today to announce approval of a pro posed multi-million-dollar "one shot" sale of surplus U.S. wheat to the Soviet Union. The President's announcement may come at his news confer ence at 6 p.m. EDT. The confer ence originally was scheduled for 4 p.m. EDT, but the time was changed, possibly to coincide with the closing time of the west coast commodity markets. Administration sources con firmed privately that potential sales to Russia and its satellites could reach about 275 million bushels of wheat. One source said Russia alone might lake up to 130 million to 140 million bushels. Russia indicated to the U. S. government for the first time ear- lit The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Saigon this morning: Two U.S. Marine Corps helicop- ters. carrying 12 Americans, crashed in the Vict Nam jungles last night, possibly shot down by communist ground fire. American rescue planes sighted the wreckage of both helicop ters this morning. There was no sign of survivors and the search planes were fired on by the red cuerillas. wounding one U.S. Ma rine officer and killing his South Vietnamese companion. The wreckage of the two heli copters downed last night . was sighted near the banks of the Thu bon river, about a half mile from the wreckage of a T28 fighter bomher plane which crashed un der communist fire yesterday, killing an American army cap tain who was its pilot. Both helicopters belonged to a newly arrived Marine Corpsi squadron based at Danang, about 40 miles northeast of the site of the crash, w hich is 323 miles north of Saigon. If the 12 Americans on the two downed helicopters are dead, it will bring to 124 the total num ber of Americans who have died in this strife-torn country since the United States began all-out aid in the fight against the Viet Cong communists who are seeking to take over South Viet Nam. So much for the fortunes of war where one must take risks and suffer losses. War is like that. It is grim business. But, when our nation goes to war to protect -.ot!ior nation. V like to feel that t are going to war in a good caure that the ftnf ! w are fighting (or are the oftWtftowl Page 4-A) cut them back sharply under what the 1961-63 biennium. to be defeated on October 15, It only problem. If it is approved, and slice programs. lier this week that it is interested in buying between $150 million and $200 million worth of grain. The proposed sale, which would be handled by private American grain traders, would be for gold or dollars. A 1934 law forbids ex tension of any but ordinary Commercial short-term credits to any nation that has previously de tailed on a debt owed the Unit ed States. Senate Democratic Whip Hu bert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, who has favored such a sale, said the transaction might involve as much as 5 million tons, or about $.175 million to $400 millon worth of wheat. But his total included possible grain purchases by Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bul garia. Canada announced Tuesday that Communist Bulgaria had agreed to purchase more than 11 million bushels of Canadian wheat in equal amounts over the next three years, and an addi tional 5.5 million bushels ' this crop year if Canada can supply u. The administration' was be lieved lo have delayed a decision because of failure to obtain bi-1 partisan congressional support for a wheat sale to Russia. But Hum phrey said there were indications now of "broad support for a one- shot wheat sale for cash or gold.' Illness May Force Macmillan To Quit LONDON lUPIi-Prime Minis ter Harold Macmillan's illness, which may put him out of action for three months, today in creased the odds in favor of his resignation before the general elections. Macmillan, who will be 70 in February, was admitted to Kingl Edward VII Hospital Tuesday night for an operation, possibly Thursday, on his prostate gland. The news of his illness on the eve ot the uinservative party convention in Blackpool brought an entirely new factor into the party's leadership battle and election campaign plans. Macmillan, under fire Irom dis sidents in the party as well as the Gnawing Pain In Stomach? LONDON 'l'PI - National Health Service officials dis closed today they had ap proved a new set of false teeth for a Scotsman who swallowed his old ones while sleeping. Weather Klimarh PHi, TultWtt and Laktvliw; Consideriblt cfoudrntit with pthodt o thowirt or pottiblt HiuiHtcnhowari and incrtating winds through Thursday. Southerly windt incrtatlng to 10 to 10 High yttltrday 73 Low thii morninf 47 High ytar ago 51 Low ytar ago 43 Preclp. last 14 hourt tract Slnca Jan. 1 . Samt ptriod ytar ago .io Helicopters Crash In Viet Mam; Suit Filed Challenging KF Condemnation Act A man whose property was con demned by the Klamath Falls City Council last month has filed suit charging the condemnation ordi nance is unconstitutional. Named in the suit filed by Frank R. Weaver are the City of Klamath Falls. Mayor Robert Veatch, City Manager Robert Kyle, Citv Attorney Henry Per kins, City Building Inspector Verne Schortgen, and councilmen Walter Fleet, Chester Hamaker, Ladd Hovt, Lyle Kellstrom and James Barnes. The properties in question are four houses at 901, 907, 909 and 919 Alameda Avenue. Weaver asks the court to award him damages in the amount of the rent on two of the houses be tween July 15, 1963, and whenever the suit is settled, at the rate of $45 per house per month. And further, he asks that if the city goes ahead w ith the destruc tion of three of the structures or dered by the council, the court award him $12,500 as the value of the property. City Councilman Walter Fleet probably summed up the feeling Rusk Backs Foreign Aid WASHINGTON (UPD - Secre tary of Stale Dean Rusk sought! today to soften Senate opposition to foreign aid and prevent severe cuts in President Kennedy's em battled program. Rusk was booked for a closed door session with the Senate For eign Relations Committee, which has taken no action on uie S4.5 billion aid measure for two months. Although the session was sched uled primarily on foreign aid. Chairman J. William Fulbright D-Ark., said it would probably touch on a variety of world trou ble spots, notably South Viet Nam and the Latin American nations where elected governments have been overthrown recently by mil itary coups. The Vietnamese situation and the Latin American takeovers have raised new threats to the aid program, which already face stiff opposition. Aid supporters were nopeiui. however, that the testimony Tues day of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Cen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, may have blunted some of the demands for a severe crackdown on aid to the present Vietnamese regime. opposition Labor party, had been scheduled to wind up the ennven tion Saturday with a speech which many observers thought would spell out his intentions. Opinion was divided on whether Macmillan would announce his retirement or whether he would disclose plans to stay on and fight the elections, which must be held sometime within tlie next 12 months. But now the speech w ill not be given, and the illness, although not considered serious in itself, lent weight to the chances of his retirement. At the same time, it improved the position of Deputy Premier R. A. Butler, who became acting premier for the duration of Mac millan's incapacity. Butler was the favorite of ob servers speculating on a possible successor to Macmillan. and tak ing over the prime minister's du ties for such a length of time dur ing such a crucial political period was bound to strengthen his po sition. Two other party leaders. Sci ence Minister Lord Hailsham and Reginald Maudling, the chancel lor of the Exchequer, also had wide support. U0f OM.UBRARf MfilSPAPM a O Price Ten Cents 16 Pages of the city officials when he said today: "We might just as well get this situation settled once and for all Verne Schortgen, the building inspector, said the suit is a "good thuig because it settles the ques tion for ail time. Weaver is challenging ordinance 5260, passed Jan. 22, 1962, which provides for condemnation f what the city considers to be sub standard buildings. The council Sept. 3 ordered the condemnation and removal of three of Weaver's houses after a hearing at which Weaver strongly denounced the council s action. The fourth house was ordered to be brought up to standard with in six months or also face remov al. Weaver charges in his suit that the council's action is "unauthor ized by law, is arbitrary, capri cious and confiscatory, and was ordered without judicial hearing or determination." He further states that the law violates both the U.S. and Ore gon constitutions. Weaver said he had two par- tics "ready, willing and able" to rent two of the houses, but that the council's action chased the prospective renters away. He therefore asks the court to award him rent fiom July 15, when the properties were tirst posted as being substandard. The city has waged a vigorous campaign agamst what it consid ers to be substandard buildings for the past year and a half. About 150 structures have been condemned and removed, usually by burning. Snag Delays Firing Event TYNDALL AFB. Florida - Electronic trouble with drone tar gets continued to disrupt the world-wido missile firing com petition of U.S. Air Force inter ceptor fighter squadrons, observ ers from Kingsley Field in Florida told the Herald and News today. Among those affected by the erratic drones was a Kingsley Field squadron of F-10ls which sought to trace a malfunctioning drone during a night mission Tues day. The squadron's performance during that mission was stricken and the flight has been resched uled for tonight. Lt. Tom Hanlin, information of ficer of Kingsley Field, was un able to evaluate the squadron's! score of 2,000 points. 'Because of the target malfunc- lionings, some of the teams haven't even completed two mis sions," LI. Hanlin said. For that reason it is difficult to judge whether the squadron's score is a good mark, he said. DHDln)0 MWV Way $2,000 TO HOSPITAL FUND C. W. Davis (right), president of the Liom Club presents a check in the amount of $2,000 to James Stilwell at a donation for the build ing fund of the proposed Intercommunity Hospital. Observing the presentation it Boyd Sanderson, administrator of the hospital to ba constructed on a lita near the naw OTI campus. cop. DIV O KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, PATCHES EXTOL WEAPONS MEET M.Sgt. Barden Strickland Jr. (right), head of the Kingsley Field weapons control system, admires one of the patches worn by members of his team competing in the William Tell missile firing competitions now going on at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. The F-I0I interceptor squadron of Kingsley Field is one of four competing for the title of the best such fighter group in the world. Americanism Booster Speaks Here Tonight An avowed patriot who sincelyears as an orange and olive 1950 has traveled more than one million miles and addressed some 2,000 groups on Americanism is expected to direct some of his views on that subject to the Klamath County Chamber of Com-, merce during its annual meeting, beginning 6:.10 tonight at the Keames Country Club. Much sought after as an after- dinner speaker, Stary Gange 'rhymes with flange), 61, will draw from more than 40 years of personal experiences in the varied fields of agriculture, banking, cor porate management and service club organizations in delivering his key address, Included in tonight s program. chairmanned by Floyd Wynne, will be the installation of new of ficers for 19B3, which will formal ly take place w hen outgoing presi dent Jim Monteith presents the chamber gavel to his successor, Jim Slilwell. Following the preliminary ac tivities, Wynne, who is director of the chamber's Local and State Affairs Committee and managing! editor of the Herald and News, will introduce the featured speak er whose address is titled, "How High Is Up?" If diversified experience in vari ous industries qualifies one to comment on such subjects, then Gange should be regarded as an authority. Born in Iowa in 1902, Gange moved with his parents to Tu lare County, Calif, in 19119 and has remained in that county since his youth. His business record includes 40 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1963 grower and some 12 years ex perience jn banking. In addition to his business rec ord, Gange has a long slate of service in civic and service club activities. That record includes posts as president and director on the Lind say, Calif., Chamber of Com merce; director of the Visalia Chamber of Commerce and cur rently its national councillor; member of two active committees of the California State Chamber of Commerce; member of the Unit ed Stales Chamber of Commerce and one-time participant in its Government Operations Commit tec. In 1954 he was named Visalia's Man of the Year by that city's chamber of commerce. His experience also includes nine years as a director and vice president of the Pacific Olive1 Company of Visalia, as well as holding director posts on boards ot the Orange Belt Supply Company, the National fanners Association, He also served on slate and legislative committees for several of those associations. Gange is no stranger to Klam ath Falls. Several years ago he addressed the local Kiwanis Club and was the recipient of laudatory com ments for his talk. Gange is a past governor of the California-Nevada-Hawaii District of Kiwanis International and has participated in Congressional hear ings on farm and business legislation. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 75(17 12 Feared Dead Communist Blamed For SAIGON. South Viet Nam (UPl)ito Two U.S. Marine Corps helicop ters carrying a total of 12 Ameri cans crashed and burned in the jungle highlands 325 miles north of Saigon. One military source said they may have been shot down by Communist ground fire, but other American military spokesmen! said it appeared the helicopters collided in tlie air. The pilots may have been distracted by Commu nist groundfire in the area, the spokesman said. On the basis of preliminary re ports from rescue aircraft which flew over the scene, and were fired on by Red guerrillas, it ap peared that all 12 men died in the flaming crash. The two helicopters were on a mercy mission searching for a South Vietnamese plane piloted by an American Army captain when they crashed. The captain is missing and be lieved dead. The helicopter disaster was tlie most serious incident involving Americans since the United States began pouring military aid into the anti-Communist light in this Southeast Asian nation two years ago. If all 13 men were killed, it would raise the toll of Americans who have died in battle in South Viet Nam to 124. Search planes sighted the wreckage of the two downed hel icopters and the crashed fighter- bomber plane on the banks of the Thu Bon River this morning only half a mile apart, not far from the Laotian border. There was no reported sign of life at either place. The area is heavily infested with Communist guerrillas and the search planes reported they were fired on from the ground. Both helicopters were taking part in rescue operations in the rugged mountains near tile Lao tian border where a Vietnamese Air Force T28 fighter bomber, was shot down, apparently killing a U.S. Air Force captain and a Vietnamese observer. Search planes also reported no signs of survivors at the site on the T28 crash. The spokesman said the Ameri cans aboard the helicopters in cluded four Marine officer pilots, five Marine enlisted crewmen, one Navy doctor and two Navy hospital corpsmcn. Both helicopters belonged to a newly - arrived Marine Corps squadron based at Danang about 40 miles northeast of the crash site, which is 325 miles north of Saigon. An all-out air rescue search had been launched at dawn today when the two helicopters failed lo return lo Danang Tuesday night. They had last been heard from at dusk, heading back to the base from the site of the T28 crash. Protests Beating In Saigon, Rep. Williams S. Broomfield, It-Mich., member of an eight-man U.S. congressional team touring Viet Nam, protested Storm Baffles Scientists WASHINGTON (UPD-Wcalhcr scientists are baffled and awed by Hurricane Flora. Nothing quite like it ever hap pened before since the weather bureau started keeping detailed hurricane records in 1870. lt may well go into history as the biggest tropical storm, to date, of the 20th century. Flora produced the strongest sustained winds 140 miles an hour ever measured by hurri cane research planes. And If the casualty reports turn out to he true, it has been Uie greatest kill er since 1900 when hurricane tides drowned 6,01)0 persons at Galveston, Tex. That explains the scientists awe. What baffles them is Flora's peculiar conduct during a four- day period when it practically stood still and aimed blows un ceasingly upon Cuba after devas tating a large part of Haiti. In Haiti alone it claimed 4.000 lives. according to reports from the stricken area, before laying siege to Cuba. Weather AGRICULTURAL PORBCAST Harvait outlook fair to food with var iable condition naxt tour day. Abova normal ttmptraturt and abova normal precipitation in rocurnng tnowtry pe riod. Htavftit rain Indicated Friday, Windy Thursday, Groundfire Disaster President Ngo Dinh Diem against tlie beating of three American newsmen by Vietna mese police. Broomfield said he had made the protest Tuesday in separate meetings tlie team held earlier in the day with the president and his adviser brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. "When we arrived here I was deeply disturbed to find a corres pondent (John Sharkey of Nation al Broadcasting Co., from De troit), who was a constituent of mine had been beaten up last Saturday, Broomfield said. "During our talks at the high est level I also entered my offi cial protest against the beatings," he said. Sharkey and two other news-l men were beaten while covering the suicide by fire of a Buddhist1 priest in Saigon as a demonstra tion against alleged government religious persecution. Mme. Nhu Cites Plot, Blames U.S. NEW YORK (UPD-Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu charged today that the United States Information Agcncy in South Vict Nam was involved In a plot to overthrow her broth er-in-law's regime. "There will be an attempt to overthrow the government," tiiei out-spoken Vietnamese first lady said, "but I can assure you it will not succeed." In her first public address since coming to this country Mon day for a round of speaking en gagements, she said in a televi sion interview that she wasn't sure whether tlie "plot" had offi cial sanction In Washington. But she indicated that the Unit-! ed Press International, Associated Press, New York Times end Voice of America might be In volved. "They just dislike us," she said. While she was speaking, a doz en demonstrators picketed the hotel Waldorf-Astoria, I v e r a I blocks away, where ho was to address the Overseas Press Club. The demonstrators identified themselves as college students and marched behind police lines across the street from the hotel. They chanted, "Madame Nhu Pentagon puppet," and "No more Koreas. Bring the Iroops home." Mme. Nhu criticized American news cnrrcsnnndenls in South Vict Nam. She said at one time the government had planned lo sue six American newsmen for "obstructing" police during a reb el demonstration. "We just can't explain Flora'sl behavior," Dr. Robert M. White, the chief of the U.S. Weather Bu reau, said today. Normally a tropical storm gen. crated in the Caribbean Is car ried westward by the trade winds. The westward movement continues until the trade winds are overpowered by another set of winds, the faster-moving pre vailing westerlies, These more often than not shove the hurricane east and north until It dies out over the ocean. When the westerlies are displaced to the north of their usual west-to-east route across the continent, hurri canes may veer inland below them and clobber the U.S. coast Flora is the first hurricane in recorded history that got (tailed in a small Caribbean region for more than 24 to 36 hours. In most cases a hurricane that pass's over land, particularly mountain ous regions loses lit vitality and quickly dies because of Irictional drain on its life forces. But Flora did it and kept its Death Count May Climb Over 9,000 MIAMI (UPD - Hurricane Flora's Caribbean death toll rose to more than 2,700 known fatali ties and another 6,500 were feared lost today as the storm finally moved toward the open Atlantic and away from the U.S. mainland. Radio reports, intercepted In Miami, added 105 known dead and 4.000 missing in eastern Cuba to previous reports of 2,500 dead and fears for 2,500 others in Haiti and at least 112 other dead in Cuba. In its nine-day rampage through tlie Caribbean and across the southeastern Bahamas, the hurricane which may turn out to be the most deadly of the 20th Century, also claimed nearly 50 more lives in Tobago, Grenada, Jamaica and the Dominican Re public. At Miami Beach, a college stu dent was presumed drowned in heavy surf flung against the south Florida coast in a two-day buffet ing of Flora's fringe gales. .A Cuban radio broadcast re ported this morning that "two en- . tire villages have disappeared, washed away by the flood waters, and there is fear that 4,000 stu dents and workers have perished." The villages were not identi fied. An earlier broadcast reported 100 coffee pickers drowned in Or icnte Province. Despite Cuba's plight after five days of steady pounding by the hurricane. Premier Fidel Castro, turned down offers of aid front tlie American Red Cross. He called such offers from United States sources "hypocritical." Although it may be weeks be fore the full extent of death and damage can be determined, the Miami Weather Bureau said dam- age in Cuba alone would run into "several hundred millions of dol lars." Haiti counted nearly $100 mil lion in damages. Boasting 100 mile per hour winds In its center, Flora passed over tlie island of Mayaguana, where the United States has a missile tracking station, at 2 a.m. EDT. There were no immediate reports of damage to the island which was hard hit by hurricane Donna in 1960. . Behind Flora lay what the weather bureau called in a pre liminary report tlie worst hurri cane devastation to Haiti and Cu ba "since the time Columbus dis covered the New World." Haitian Health Secretary Ger ald Philippeaux reported from Port au Prince Tuesday that 2,500 persons were dead or missing and that the toll of casualties "might double." He said cities had been swept away by Flora, which struck Haiti's southwestern Tibur- . on peninsula last Thursday night with 150 to 200 mile-anhour winds. Shooting Hours OREGON October 10 OPEN CLOSE 6:45 6:40 CALIFORNIA October 10 OPEN CLOSE 6:41 6:33 hurricane status. The trade winds apparently suspended their east-to-west travels while Flora stood still. Why they did so is a mys tery. An explanation of sorts Is pos sible (or Flora's continued strength over land. The land area was not large enough to keep Flora from gathering new energy from Its primary source, the warm sea over which its outriggers con tinued to tide while it was smash ing at Haiti and Cuba. There have been times when a hurricane actually picked up strength over the North Ameri can continent. But this was the result of special meteorological conditions which did not prevail in Flora's case. In 1964 Hurricane Hazel and Its accompanying mass of moist warm air ran into region of heavier cold air coming down from the north. The kinetic en ergy of cold air sinking through the warm regenerated Hazel and carried It on destructive, foray into Canada.