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COSP. HSSPAFiR SSCMON GEN.REF.AND jjOCUMSSTS DIV. ft wteirs few ssott was la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Salem this morning: Oregon's voters will decide to morrow if they want higher in come taxes to maintain present state services,. or if they want the state budget reduced. The measure on the special election ballot would provide $60 million in additional revenues to sustain a $404 million general fund budget. It was passed by the 1963 legislature and then re ferred to the people by petition. What will happen tomorrow? Well, the general expectation , is that the tax bill wil) be de- feated. I The Salem dispatch already quoted adds that even the sup porters of the increase admit ; that they have little hope of suc , cess. Talking to people and reading taxpayer letters in the newspapers confirms that im pression. That prompts this question: If the tax bill is defeated, ; WHY will it be defeated? The answer seems to be that people are getting fed up with taxes. The tax burden is get- ting heavy. That prompts another ques tion: WHY is the tax burden so : heavy? Here are some interesting fig : ures: According to Tax Foundation, ' Inc., OREGON'S share of the record J98.8 BILLION federal ' budget for the federal fiscal year 1964' will be $899 M I L- LION. That huge sum will be paid ' by Oregon taxpayers IN ADDI TION to their state and local taxes. ; Tax Foundation estimates that Oregon's per capita share of the federal budget for 1964 will be $482. '"-Which is to say The federal taxes paid by Ore gonians comes to more than the total of Oregon state taxes paid , by them. That's the BIG reason why the tax burden is getting to be almost unbearably heavy. How lo vote tomorrow? The answer is simple: VOTE YOUR CONVICTIONS. When you enter the voting booth, it will be up to YOU. Vote the way you feel about it all. ARRIVE FOR COUNCIL MOSCOW (UPD Leading Communist economic specialists arrived in Moscow today for the ninth executive session of Comecon, the Soviet bloc coun cil for mutual economic assist ance. The Soviet news agency Tass said the session, opening Tues day, will "review a number of important questions concerning economic and scientific-technical cooperation among the socialist i countries." POLLING PLACES SPECLU, ELECTION OCT. 15, 1963 COUNTY PRECINCTS LOCATION ADDRESS Algnma John Taylor Home R-3 Box 1307 I North Altamonl Altamont Elementary School South Altamont Stearns School 3641 Crest Beatty Assembly ol God Church Beatly nly Schoolhouse Bly Chemult Hotel Chrmult East Chlloquin City Library Chiloquln West Chiloquln Alary Wright House Chiloquln Crescent Lake J. V. Acuff Store Crescent Lake Dairy John L'rbach Home Dairy North Enterprise First Church of God Altamont Drive South Enterprise Clarence Cornctt Home 2942 Laverne Gilchrist Recreation Hall Gilchrist East Homedale Twyla Ferguson School Delaware Ave. Xorth Homedale Suburban Fire Depl. South Homedale Peterson School Klamath Lake Grange Building Lakeshore Kit Johnson Home 1341 Lakeshore Langell Valley Grange Hall Langell Valley I.OTt River Library Bonanza East Malin Broadway Hall Malin West Malin Malin Community Hall Malin East Merrill Moose Hall Merrill West Merrill Odd Fellows Hall Merrill Midland New Midland Grange Hall Old Road Modoc Mrs. William Helm Modoc Point Mt. LakI Grange Hall Ml. LakI Odcll Guddat P.O. Bldg. Crescent Orlndale DeLuxe Motel Cabin 7 Greensprlngs Drive OVS Student I'nlon Parlor Oretech Pelican Bar Pelican School Pine Grove Olrne Grange Hall Olene Plevna Schoolhouse Keno Poe Valley Grange Hall I Mhasta Bible Baptist Church 2244 Wiard ! Fast Shasta Shasta School North Shasta Shasta School Commaaity Hall South Shasta Peace Memorial Church 4431 South (Ih St. West Shasta S. Barnes Residence 4243 Shasta Way Sprague River Schoolhouse Sprague River .stewart-Lenoi Fairharrn School Junction Wood Rer t. Clubhouse Ft, Klamath t Weather Klamath Falls, Tultlak and Lake vitw Cloudy with shOwtrs through Tuesday- Gutty southerly winds, tows toniflht mar 40. Highs Tuasday tl lo 7. High yesterday Low this morning High year ago Low year ago Prtcip. last 34 hours Since Jan. 1 Same period year ago 49 x 7.07 14.54 Mme., Nhu Raps U.S. liberalism' NEW YORK (UPD - Mme. Ngo Dinli Nhu, defending the policies of her family in South Viet Nam, has charged that the Kennedy administration ap parently "is following the new fashion of liberalism which is much closer to communism than we are." Mme. Nhu, speaking . in a television interview Sunday, said she was led to this con clusion by recent trends in Unit ed States policies in her trou bled country. She appeared on NBC's Meet the Press. In fact, she blamed the pres ent tension between the regime of her brother-in-law, Vietna mese President Ngo Dinh Diem, and the U. S. government on the fact that "we are more strongly anti - Communist than you are." Mme. Nhu, 38, began the sec ond week of her U. S. lecture lour today with three sched uled appearances. She was to have lunch at the New York Times and later fly to Boston for talks at Radcliffe College and Harvard University in Cam bridge. During the television Inter view, she accused U, S. govern ment agents of making "unoffi cial" requests to Diem that she be exiled from South Viet Nam. Local Team Places 2nd ' TYNDALL AFB, FJa.-Kings-lcy Field has placed second be hind Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Mich., in the F101 1963 Air Force fighter-interceptor wea pons meet, according to final tabulations of the missile firing competitions which started here Oct. 7 and ended today. The four competing F10I units finished with the following scores: Wurtsmith AFB. 6,872: Kings ley Field, 6,499: K. I. Sawyer, Mich., 4.501; Glasgow, Mont., 4,395. Lt. Gen. Herbert Thatcher, commander of the Air Defense Command, praised the squad rons which competed in the Wil liam Tell meet and remarked, "the winners of the competition this year were the ones who had the best advantage and the best luck during the one week of competition." A spokesman for the Kingsley Field unit said that even the teams placing lowest are capa ble of handling their missions, for the squadrons which com peted are among the finest in the world, it was said. Price Ten Cents 14 Pages SOP Popularity Goldwater To Debate EUGENE (UPD - Western Republicans today pondered the outcome of a one-day popularity contest between the two leading contenders for the lop GOP po litical prize of 1964 the presi dential nomination. The two front-runners Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York and Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz. missed a face-to-face confrontation at a weekend Western Republican Conference by 45 minutes. But, for the first time since their unofficial campaigns were launched, they spoke to com paratively similar audiences on Castro Sets Cuban Toll Over 7,000 HAVANA (UPD Premier Fidel Caslro announced over the weekend that Hurricane Flora killed more than 1,000 Cu bans and caused damage esti mated at hundreds of millions of dollars. In a communique published here, Castro charged that "en emies of the people" are rejoic ing at the plight of tens of thoif! sands of peasants left homeless and destitute by the disaster. He promised government help to hurricane victims and 6aid his regime will rebuild every thing that was destroyed during the five days the hurricane lashed Cuba. ' Castro, who returned Satur day from a tour of the disaster area, said central Oriente Prov ince was flooded over a zone 25 to 50 miles wide. He said flood waters rose suddenly to unprec edented heights, bringing devas tation and death to entire com munities. "Indescribable . . . suffering took place." Castro said. "En tire families sought refuge in trees or on the roofs of houses where they were not to tally covered. Others perished. "Thousands of houses were de stroyed. Tens of thousands of families of peasants and farm workers lost all their belong ings, including crops." Shooting Hours OREGON October 15 OPEN CLOSE 6:50 a.m. 6:30 p.m. CALIFORNIA October 15 OPEN CLOSE 6:44 a.m. 6:31 p.m. GOLDWATER GREETED when he arrived in Eugene KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, Rejects Bid Party Line the same place. day the same Rockefeller picked the confer ence to challenge Goldwater to a series of debates on the "vital issues" of next year's political campaign. Proposal Rejected Goldwater, after first appear ing to grant a provisional ac ceptance, then rejected Rocke feller's proposal outright. But both agreed on this: Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who lost in a bid for the presidency by 119,000 votes in 1960, is trying to get a second chance against President Ken nedy. Republicans from 13 western states, including Alaska and Hawaii, attended the three day conference, starting Friday and ending Sunday. There appeared to be no gen eral consensus on who won the popularity contest. Rockefeller addressed 7,500 listeners at one public session a noon appear ance at the 10.000 capacity Mc Artliur Court. Goldwater, who spoke in the same place s i x hours later, had an audience estimated at 8,5001,000 more but the hour was to his ad vantage. He spoke informally with another group later at the Lane County Fairgrounds. Both sides claimed victory. Hatfield Comments But Oregon Gov. Mark Hat field, often mentioned as a vice presidential possibility, said Rockefeller "regained some of his lost ground." He said Goldwater "remained strong in Oregon with avid fol lowers." "There was no dark horse talk," he added. "The Nixon references evoked no response but he remained a distinct dead lock possibility. It appears to me this was the dress rehear sal." In a 45-minute session with only a handful of delegates be fore adjourning the conference Sunday the Republicans adopted a scries of resolutions attacking the Kennedy administration's domestic and foreign policies. They included a compromise civil rights resolution condemn ing "exploitation of individual human dignity for political pur poses" an apparent reference to Kennedy's civil rights pro gram. Another resolution urged Con gress to pass a federal income tax reduction combined with a limit on redcral expenditures. A third resolution called for action by the state to provide equal educational opportunities. If they do not, the resolution said, they face "the inevitable pressure for federal aid." The conference lashed out at Kennedy's policies in Latin America and accused the ad ministration of mishandling for eign affairs in Cuba and South Vict Nam. J. Edmund Converse, Nevada national committeeman, was elected chainrian for the 1965 convention, set for Albuquer que, N.M. T"CWI' . ' I . Nl fl' 1; ; Ur I vMtUUrm. Barry Goldwater of Anion received a warm welcome Saturday eveninq for the Western Republican Conference. UPI Telephoto MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1963 Contest J&i:. .N ,SltfV NOT MUCH LEFT Survivors search for belongings at what was the town of Longa rone, Italy, after Vajont Dam flood reduced their homes to rubble. With a death toll in the thousands from this tragedy, conflicting reports today indicated new I a n d slides might cause more devastation in the area. UPI Telephoto Con flitting Slide Reports Result In Fear, Confusion BELLUNO, Italy (UPI) conflicting reports of a new landslide behind the Vajont Dam today created fear and confusion among rescue work ers and survivors of last week's flood disaster. Although OsvaIdo'Marlinelll, deputy mayor' of the vacated village of Erto, had warned over an amplifying system that another slide was coming, other authorities at Bclluno said there was no danger. A UPI reporter who flew over the area in a U.S. Army helicopter said he could see a constant movement of rocks down the side of the mountain but that it was impossible to tell from the air whether there was any large-scale landslide under way. The warning early today was that another slide was moving down Mount Toe at the rate of a foot an hour and that if it hit the water remaining in the Politicians Continue To On Possible Candidacy WASHINGTON (UPD-Wcck-end political developments in creased speculation today over whether Richard M. Nixon is a candidate for the 19B4 Republi can presidential nomination. Nixon, who lost a close race lo John F. Kennedy in 1960, said in Hcrshcy, Pa., Saturday that he could not conceive of himself as the GOP nominee again next year. But the top contenders for the Republican nomination said they believed Nixon was a can- Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7601 Ends In ' upper part of the Vajont Dam reservoir it might cause a backlash wave similar to that which roared into the sleeping valley below the dam last Wednesday. Later, other au thorities denied that a new slide had started.. An estimated 2,500 persons died in last week's disaster. Originally, officials had be lieved the death toll might run as high as 4,000, but it turned out that many of the listed in habitants in the villages were in other countries as migrant workers at the time. When the original landslide, estimated at half a billion cubic meters, hit on Wednes day, it virtually cut the reser voir in two. Some of the water still is backed up behind the dam, but another lake has been formed behind the natural dam of the landslide. The lakes are at two different levels. If a new landslide came didalc, and political observers here refused to rule the former vice president out of the pic ture. The discussion of Nixon's fu ture shared top billing over the weekend with a new exchange between Gov. Nelson A. Rocke feller of New York and Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, both unannounced candidates for the Republican nomination. Rockefeller, In a speech to the Western Republican Confer ence at Eugene, Ore., chal lenged Goldwater to a series of debates "to sharpen Interest in the Republican party and what it ttands for." Nothing To Re Gained Goldwater, replying at a news conference at Eugene a few hours later, said that he saw "absolutely nothing to be gained by the proposal." He said such debates might "tend to add to what little division there is in the Republican party." Regardless of their differ ences about a debate, Rockefel ler and Goldwater agreed in their belief that Nixon still re mains very much in the presi dential picture. Rockefeller said, "I think he's n candidate. He has been mak ing consistent comments on in ternational affairs and taking a greater part In national and party affairs. He sounds like a candidate." Goldwater said he had thought all along that Nixon was in the running for the GOP nomination. Goldwater said that "any man who lost the presi Weather AGRICULTURAL FORICAST Harvest outlook only fair this week with showers through Tuesday and again later In week. Abovo normal temperatures. Draw down, it would hit the second and higher lake. Its waters could be pushed backwards and could hit the towns of Cas so and Erto, already partly destroyed by the tidal wave backlash of the original elide. No special precautions were being taken in the iPiave Valley below the dam, where Kalian troops are clearing away the wreckage left by last week's dis astrous flood. Some villages above the dam were partially destroyed by me flood. They have officially been vacated, but a number of peo ple are camping out in the near by woods while they try to sal vage belongings from their homes An investigating committee, whose members were assailed as "murderers" on their arrival here Sunday, convened today to try to determine the cause of the disaster that killed an esti mated 2,260 persons last week. Speculate Of Nixon dency by a fraction, of a per centage point" should be con sidered a possible contender. Political observers here felt that it still was too early to as sess Nixon's Impact on the 1964 presidential race. They said it would depend on whether the Goldwater boom continues. May Turn To Nixon If a deadlock should develop at the GOP convention and Goldwater is unable to muster enough voles to get the nomina tion, these observers said, the delegates might well turn to Nixon again. Nixon's disavowal of any presidential inlentions next year was supported by at least two major party figures. Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower is understood to feel that Nixon will not be a candidate again, although his former running mate will main lain an active voice in party af fairs. GOP National Chairman Wil liam E. 'Miller said in Eugene that he thought Nixon "says what he means and means what he says and is not a candi date." "As I travel around the na tion I find no semblance of ef fort for Dick Nixon no one is committed to him, no one is getting delegates for him and no one is raising i single dol lar for him," Miller added. Nixon, attending a birthday party for Eisenhower in Hcr shcy. said that if his name were offered In any state primary re quiring the consent of the can didate, he would not give lt. v i f a . rL 1 Jilr' A'-y..W VT- Polls Forecast Defeat Of $60 Million Issue SALEM (UPD-Oregon voters today were urged to go to the polls Tuesday to determine the future of the 1963 legislature $60 million tax increase measure. ' Gov. Mark Hatfield, who is spearheading the drive to sal vage the tax bill, urged Ore gonians to ballot on the meas ure. But he had no last minute statement on the controversial issue. "All lias already been said that can be said," Hatfield told United Press International. Unofficial polls from through out the state indicated the voters will reject the tax hike the first enacted by the legis lature since the 1955 surtax. The controversial measure eliminates the federal deduction and increases state personal in come tax rates about 28 per cent. 400,000 Turnout Likely Polls open at S a.m. and close at S p.m. More than 750,000 voters are registered, and a turnout of 400,000 Is expected. There are 3,261 polling places. Polling places In Klamath County will open Tuesday at 8 a.m. and remain open until II p.m. Complete lists of pre clnets and locations are printed In the lower two cor ners of this page. Election day is a state legal holiday, and state and county offices will be closed Tuesday. If the measure Is turned down, immediate cutbacks in some state services are expect ed. A special session of the legis lature probably would be called for early in November. The last special session of the legislature was called in the fall of 1957 to repeal the 1955 tax increase. There have been 11 special sessions in the state's history. Including two called in 1933. Because education gets more than half of the state s $404 mil lion . general fund budget, educators have been leading the battle to salvage the tax meas ure. Chancellor of Higher Educa tion Hoy Lieuallen urged voters to keep an open door to educa tional opportunity on all levels of schooling. "I implore those voters who recognize the great importance of a yes vote to go to the polls Tuesday. Every responsible vot er must realize that his yes vote is urgently needed," he said. Climaxed Stormy Session The legislature's adoption ot the tax increase measure clim axed a bitter 141-day session the longest Jn the state's history. Hntiield allowed the measure to become law without his sig nature. He said he didn't ap prove of the bill because It did not include the reforms he had recommended. He Is spearheading the drive for a yes vote but on the grounds that while the tax bill is not to his liking, the money is needed to maintain state services. The referral movement was led by Albany weekly publish-, er J. Francyl Howard. He needed more than 23.000 signatures on referral petitions. In less than a month he got 5,000 certified signatures, and POLLING PLACES SPECIAL ELECTION . OCT. 15, 196S . CITY PRECINCTS LOCATION ADDRESS One Klamath Art Center South Rrrerslde Two Conger School California Avenue Three Baldwin Hotel 31 Main Four Mitchell-Lehmana Office 4th A Pine Five Mitchell-Lehmann Office 4th Pine Six Presbyterian Church 6th It Pin Seven Episcopal Church tth Jefferson Eight Courthouse Basement 4th ft Main " Nine City Library tth Klamath Ten First Christian Church Mh ft Pine Eleven Moose Ledge 1010 Pine Twelve Gospel Mission Ki Walnut Thirteen Bulck Garage 1330 Main Fourteen Jim Olson Motors S22 South th Fifteen Wall's Boats ft Motors 2237 South th Sixteen Sewing Machine Center 1414 East Mala Seventeen Church of Christ Cottage Wanlland ft Martin Eighteen Jennie Vernon Home 2120 Dsrrow Nineteen Mills School East Mala Street Twenty Calhoun Building 353 East Main Twenty One Municipal Swim. Pool 1R0S Main Twenty Two Balslger Motors Main ft Esplanade Twenty Three Ponderaa School 107 South Williams Twenty Four Paul Robertsoa Rome Ml Alameda Twenty Five Harry Larsoa noma 1933 Melrose Twenty Six Roosevelt School 1125 Eldorado Twenty Sevea Klam. Lutheran Church 1173 Crescent Tweaty Eight KLIIS . MonClaire Street Twenty Nine Falrvtew School ' 1017 Donald ' Thirty Free Methodist Church 1(11 Oregon Avenue Thirty One Reene Radio ft Electrlo 192 Oregon Avenne Thirty Two W. H. Harris Heine U Front St. Thirty Three Shasta View Apt. Office U2T Washbora Way thousands more which county clerks didn't have time to cer tify. The legislature was so fear ful of the bill being referred that Oct 15 was written into the law as the date for a special election. Support Heavy House Speaker Clarence Bar-: ton and Senate President Ben; Musa, both Democrats, have urged approval of the measure. But support is not unanimous. The Republican State Central Committee refused to take a stand, and some civic groups have urged defeat of the bill. Convoys Roll To Berlin, No Incidents BERLIN (UPI) - Three U.S. Army convoys sped along the autobahn from this cold war capital to West Germany today without challenge trom Soviet control officers who last week held up one group of trucks and men for 52 hours. Two of the convoys were small, regular supply groups from the U.S. Army garrison here. But the third included 141 men in 26 vehicles. All three were cleared at both. ends of the 110-mile highway' between this divided city and West Germany "without trou ble," an Army spokesman said. The Soviet control officers made no move to repeat their last week s challenge to u. S. rights to move convoys over the autobahn. They had held one U.S. con voy for 15 hours and another for a total of 52 hours at the checkpoints last week in a dis pute which flared up to interna tional proportions and an armed show of strength. The Russians finally backed off their demand that the troops in the blocked convoys get out and be counted. In return, diplomatic sources said, tiie United States would send several convoys through the autobahn this week which were large enough so the troops would automatically dismount according to a long-established American procedure. 'Little Shaver Misses Boat SOUTHAMPTON, England (UPD A man with a handle bar mustache strode up the gangplank of the liner Pen-; dennis Castle recently and in a gruff voice said, "avast there, shipmate. Do you need an able-bodied hand to sail with you?" A dock policeman standing nearby took one look, grabbed the mustache, ripped it off and arrested Chris Watkins, 14, who said he had run away from home and want ed to go to sea. Instead his parents were called and the crestfallen boy was taken ' home.