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.0f m.f-.T333T IPflSi'Vr'SK SECTION 0EH.RBf.AII3 t0CU2!rS CIV. C03P. JiiM,03Cti. la The- Day's JVews By FRANK JENKINS As was rather generally ex pected, the Oregon legislature's $60 million tax increase mea sure went down to defeat in yes terday's lcfcrcndum election. Its worst drubbing w as in Jo sephine county, where 68.4 per cent of the registered voters went to the polls and voted 8063 to 708 against it a negative ma jority of 11 to one. At McDer mitt precinct over in Malheur county, 18 of the 37 registered electors turned out to vote. They ALL voted NO. In Benton county, home of Oregon State University. 63 per cent of the registered voters went to t h e polls and turned it down by a vote of 4235 YES to 5781 NO-a negative majority of nearly one and a half to one. Over the state as a whole, the voting was about three to one AGAINST. Why? Here are some figures that may provide the answer: According to the oflicial State of Oregon Bi-cnnial Budget Re port, the recommended ap propriations for the 1963-65 bi rnnium for all funds came to a total of $1,285.7 million. That figure is too big to be grasped by most of us. So let's it out. Spelled out. it comes to tine billion, 285 million, 700 thousand dollars. That is for the upcoming bi ennium. A bi-ennium is two years. Which is to say: The recommended Oregon slate budget for EACH of the next two years was 642 million, 850 thousand dollars. Oregon's present population is assumed to be about 1,800,000. the proposed state budget, the per capita lax (meaning the tax for each per son would have been about $357.00. Which means Kor the average family of four, the annual state tax would lie about $1428.00. But that isn't all. According to Tax Foundation, Inc., Oregon's share of the $98.8 BILLION federal budget for the 19B4 fiscal year w ill be $899 mil lionor a per capita avewage of about $490. Adding the two, we get a com bined (federal and slate I per capita tax of about $847. Or- For the average Oregon fam ily of four An annual lax of about $3388. Bui, you will say: "I haven't got that much. So how could I pay that much in taxes?" Don't kid yourself. The cost of taxes is added to the COST OK PRODUCTION, and therefore has to be added lo prices. Otherwise, all pro ducers wculd go broke. In one way or another, we all pay our full share of taxes all taxes. The truth is that taxes are Ire ginning to BITE. People are getting gun-shy of MORE taxes. So Everything considered It isn't TOO surprising that yesterday's referendum election in Oregon turned out as it did. China Membership Comes Before UN . .. UNITED NATIONS. N Y. (IPD The General Assembly today returned to the issue of Lost Ad Worked A Salem hunter, here last weekend with his two sons, will have a valuable shot gun back thanks lo a Want Ad and cooperation of the State Police. When he had to leave for home hurriedly after misplacing the gun be cause one of the boys be came ill he was advised to run the following ad. John Hammersley of Homodale Road turned the gun in to State Police. LEPT attfr rtufitlno, lowsr Klamath S'fO. WinchSftsr It automat wth fibrosis) Darrrl. Wtll find?' pitas h-ina gun to Orrgo Slats Poiks. K. Palis. Think first ol the Herald and News Want Ads when anything is lost or mis placed. It's easv to place a Want Ad. Just dial TU 4-81 II or stop at the Her ald and News office, 1301 Esplanade. A Want Ad writ er will be glad to help you word your ad. Weather . Klamath Fills. Tutelako itH Lao- visw Mostly f.ir through Thursday. Lowi tonight 21 I. 11. Highs Thurs day U I. 7t. Variaolo winds livt I. IS mllss psr hour. High ytstsrday n Cow this morning It High ytar ago u Prtclp. Iltt 14 hours .00 Sines Jan. I J.t? Sams period ytar ago HM oteira Smash "Fax Inlike HI County Votes 'No' Klamath County voters issued an overwhelming "No" against accepting the $60 million tax measure as a result of the spe cial tax election held yesterday in the county's 75 precincts, Cutting Session Seen By Area Legislators Consensus of politically-experienced persons in the county indicates that there is no sin gle reason that led to the de feat of the measure. Rep. Carrol Howe said that he believed the vote is a deci sive mandate for budget cutsT and that Uie people do not want additional taxes of any kind. However, Howe explained, he believes the legislature should be called into special session, and that the lawmakers will h a v e to explore some other types than income taxes to raise the money necessary to keep essential state services going. Howe said: "I interpret the election results a strong resis tance to further income laxa- L tion and resentment at the way the state legislature, handled the tax matter. "Budget cuts must come in all categories. A good place to start is on legislative salaries. It is only too bad people have so lit tle lo say about the federal budget." Rep. George Flitcraft. w h o served on the Ways and Means Committee during the 1963 regu Improper Ballot Marking Leads To Citizen Arrest Frank Weaver, the Klamath Falls hotel owner who com plained Tuesday about irregu larities in a voting precinct, fol lowed his words with action Tuesday afternoon by making citizen's arrests on three wom en election officials. The women were not held af ter County Clerk Charles DcLap said he would be responsible (or them, but Weaver today con ferred with Dist. Ally. Dale Crabtree and Crabtree said he will investigate further before deciding whether to file a com plaint. Weaver first complained early Tuesday afternoon in a tele phone call to the Herald and News that the numbered stub on his ballot was removed by workers at Precinct 14, but they wrote the number back onto the ballot. He claims this is in violation of state and fed eral law. County Clerk DcLap said the women at the precinct were in whctlier the Communist or Na tionalist regime should repre sent China in the United Na tions. Every year since 1950, the assembly has barred Commu nist China and given National ist China another year in pos session of the seat it has had since joining the United Na tions as a founding member. The Nationalist government has also retained its perma nent seat on the Security Coun cil, and thus its veto power. There was nothing in sight today to portend a different re sult. Observers expected litlle change from the 56-42 vote in the last assembly that defeated a Soviet resolution that would have expelled the Nationalists and put the Communists in their seat. If anything. Peking has lost friends since last year's vote, but despite the Sino Soviet split, the Russians continued to back rcking,s cause in the as sembly. The Soviet stand fs based on the assumption that the Com munist regime is the only law ful rcprenta(ie of China. Price Ten Cents 26 Pages as well as in the remaining counties of the state. Voters in the county stood 9 to 1 in opposition to the increase in income taxes which had been approved by the legislature to lar legislative session, said that he is hopeful that if a special session is called, the legislature will confine itself to studying the problem at hand balancing the budget. "The people are not sending us back there to dump into the hopper all of the bills that did not pass during the regular ses sion." Flitcraft said. "We must go to Salem with an eye to reducing expenditures rather than to find new sources of taxation to maintain stale services at existing levels," Flit craft said. Sen. Harry Boivin said that he thinks the legislature will be called into special session and that it will be practical for the assembly to convene within a matter of weeks. "The matter of cutting budg ets and balancing the budget will be the sole concern of the Senate in a special session," Boi vin said. "I do not think we will be bothered with matters not di rectly related to the problem of budget cutting and balancing in the Senate." the former Senate president stated. error, but that he had correct ed the situation and only five ballots had been affected. He denied that the error was a bas is for criminal action. But Weaver shortly before 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon ap peared at police headquarters seeking an officer to accompa ny him lo the precinct so that he could make a citizen's ar rest. Lt. R. N. Adkins accompanied Weaver to the polls, located in a Sixth Street auto dealership. Adkins later reported that this occurred: Weaver walked into the voting room, pointed to three women conducting the voting and said: "I am making a citizen's ar rest by arresting you three women for conducting an illegal election by numbering the bal lots so they may be identified which is contrary to state and federal law." Lt. Adkins then advised the women. Mildred Cook. Ada Bar leen and Bcrda Decker, to noti fy DcLap. But just then the county clerk walked into the precinct. DcLap contended that there w as no basis for the arrests and finally, Lt. Adkins agreed not to hold the women when DoLap promised to be responsible for them. Further action in the matter is up to the district attorney. In another development. Sec retary of State Howell Appling Jr. said today in Salem that im properly numbered ballots will not invalidate Tuesday's tax ref erendum election. He said the incidents occurred not only in Klamath County, but in Multno mah County as well. He said the numbering was "a completely erroneous proce dure." but noted that in two pre vious court cases involving sim ilar errors, the elections were not invalidated. Car Proves No Match KANSAS CITY. Mo. iL'PI -The left side of Mrs. Clara Bertier's station wagon was badly damaged in t two-vehicle accident Friday. Tnere was no visible dam age, however, to the other ve hicle a 26-ton. M-41 lank that plowed into her car. By 9-1 balance the budget (or the next biennium but which was re (erred to the voters by ref erendum. The final unofficial tally Wed nesday morning showed 9.491 "No" votes as contrasted with 1,183 votes favoring the meas ure. A breakdown of the rural and urban areas revealed that the county voted against the tax increase 5,325 to 629 while city precincts opposed the measure 3,813 to 497. Only one precinct of the 73 vot ed in favor of the tax measure. That was the Oregon Vocational School where the tally showed 30 in favor and 14 against. At Beatty and Dairy only one vot er in each precinct cast a ballot favoring the measure. Klamath County Clerk Charles DeLap reported that 59.6 per cent of the county's 19.414 regis tered voters cast ballots in the special election, representing a "heavy" turnout for such an election. 1 Several other counties pro duced a better voter turnout but only Josephine County sent the tax measure to a more re sounding defeat. In that county, 68.4 per cent of its registered voters were 114 to 1 against putting the tax measure into effect. The turnout in that county was also the high est in the state. Statewide figures indicate that 60 per cent of the state's 758, 047 registered voters cast bal lots in the election, but the mar gin of defeat was only about 34 to 1 compared to the resound ing setback it received in South ern Oregon. Following is the unofficial vote tally from Klamath Falls and Klamath County precincts: PRECLNCT YES NO Algoma ' 6 37 North Altamont " ' . 19 177 South Altamont 21 227 Beatty 1 21 Bly ' 22 85 Chemult 14 46 East Chiloquin 16 120 West Chiloquin 10 79 Crescent Lake 3 35 Dairy 1 79 N. Enterprise 13 107 S. Enterprise 8 101 Gilchrist 15 113 East Homedaie 16 243 North Hornedale 10 172 South Homedaie 53 593 Klamath Lake 2 44 Lakcshore 9 79 Langell Valley 4 86 Lost River 15 109 East Malin 18 128 West Malin 14 150 East Merrill 13 134 West "Merrill 23 130 Midland 33 144 Modoc 2 21 Mt. Laki 21 207 Odcll II 59 Orindale 10 133 OVS 30 14 Pelican Bay 24 156 Pine Grove 39 277 Plevna 12 140 Poe Valley 6 38 Shasta 16 142 East Shasta 39 302 North Shasta 44 246 South Shasta 17 161 West Shasta 7 108 Sprague River 14 43 Stewart-Lenox 27 276 Wood River 8 114 Totals 629 5325 CITY PRECINCT YES NO One 5 62 Two 11 104 Three 10 80 Four 21 126 Five 7 105 Six 13 84 Seven 10 100 Eight 10 39 Nine 3 28 Ten 9 fil Eleven 5 78 Twelve 6 47 Thirteen 8 42 Fourteen 4 25 Fifteen 9 138 Sixteen 9 159 Seventeen 18 160 Eighteen 17 196 Nineteen 18 174 Twenty 4 115 Twenty One 18 82 Twenty Two 3 82 Twenty Three 30 143 Twenty Four 30 186 Twenty Five 24 173 Twenty Six 90 334 Twenty Seven 17 107 Twenty Eight II 75 Twenty Nine 7 119 Thirty 14 207 Thirty One IS 139 Thirty Two 31 185 Thirty Three 10 5 ToUU 497 3811 KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 16. 1963 HMMMMM Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin looks positively down-to-earth puizled as he ponders a newsman's question after his arrival in New York with Russian cosmo nefte Valentina Tereshkova. They're making a one-day stopover in New York an routs home from Mexico City. During the questioning, Gaqarin confirmed that Russia has embarked on a program to put men on the moon before 1970. UPI Telephoto Quick UN Action Will Ban Space Nuclear Weapons UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. (UPII The U.N. Main Political Committee gave unanimous en dorsement today to a Soviet American agreement banning outer space to nuclear weapons. It sent the agreement to the General Assembly for final rati fication. Ambassador Carl W. A. Schurmann of flic Netherlands, chairman of the Ill-nation com mittee, declared a 17-power res olution on the agreement adopt British Convoy Blocked Nine Hours By Russians BERLIN l UPI I The Soviet Union again harassed Western Allied traffic on the Autobahn to Berlin today by holding up a British army convoy for more than nine hours. The convoy was cleared after tlic British re fused lo bow to Soviet pressure. The convoy of 28 men in nine vehicles had been held up at Babclsbcrg, just outside the bor der of West Berlin, since 6:43 a.m. It was cleared shortly be fore 4 p.m. Soviet control officers had tried to force the British troops to' dismount. But the British convoy commander refused. Then, after vigorous protests at the scene and at the diplomatic level in London, the convoy was allowed to proceed without ac cepting the Soviet demand. "The convoy is moving on our terms," a British spokesman said. The spokesman said Maj. Gen. David P. Yates, the Brit ish commandant in Berlin, sent a "strongly worded protest" to Russian Gen. Ivan A. Jaku bow ski. The unexpected Soviet block Mad Arsonist Threatens To Burn More Buildings MONMOUTH. III. 'L'PII-At 7 o'clock Tuesday night, I h c telephone rang at the home of Mayor Allen Walters. His wile answered it. "I am going to say this only once." Iho caller declared, in the voice of a man who may have been between 20 and 30 years old. "K the pottery works are not closed down, there will be four more fires tomorrow night." That's tonight. This message, plus three blazing holocausts Monday, had police armed with rlllcs and pistols patrolling the streets of this tense celic-ge town in search of a shrewd but "mad" arsonist. Walters said live man who sparked the Uiiee big blazes ed by acclamation. The del egates applauded his an nouncement. Schurmann said it was hoped the assembly would" give its final approval Thursday morning. The United States and Russia gave their public endorsement to the resolution based on their agreement. The resolution put before the General Assembly's Main Politi cal Committee by the 17 mem bers of the Geneva disarma- followed a similar holdup of a U.S. Army convoy at the same checkpoint last week. It aroused (cars the Russians were about to apply the same pressure tactics on the British. British officials said the So viets demanded that the 28 British troops get out o( their vehicles and line up to be counted. They said the convoy commander refused. Shooting Hours OREGON October 17 Open Close 6:50 a.m. 8:30 p.m. CALIFORNIA October 17 Open Close 6:48 a.m. 6:24 p.m. was a "highly intelligent" per son to whom fires were "like a game of chess." The fires climaxed a month of threats and arson attempts at the Western stoneware Co. here. Flames leveled two lum beryards and nearly destroyed a metal firm. Two hundred policemen, aux iliary police and volunteers pa trolled the streets of this com munity of 10.000 persons in west-central Illinois following the fires. After dusk, businessmen banded together lo protect their establishments. They hid In al leys and other out-of-the-way places to avoid being seen by the arsonist, manager J I m Jludd of station WRAM reported. 4 Telephone menl talks, was the result of an agreement achieved Tuesday by the United States and the Soviet Union. U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson opened today's com mittee debate with a declaration that the resolution "sets forth a policy which has al ready been adopted by the Unit ed States." "The Unlfed Slates, fully in tends to pursue this policy," he said. Stevenson recalled that As sistant Defense Secretary Ros- well L. GHpatric announced on Sept. S. 1962, that the United States opposed any "bombs in orbit" program lo put nuclear weapons in space. Soviet Ambassador Nikolai T. Fedorenko added his endorse ment to Stevenson's. Thousands In Algeria Join Army ALGIERS (UPII-Thousands of Algerians, many singing and cheering, flocked to recruiting stations today to answer Presi dent Ahmed Ben Bella's appeal to take up arms against Moroc co. Old and young massed before army barracks near the center of the capital and south of the ca sbah. As volunteers marched through (lie streets they sang and cheered. Women lined the route, wav ing and cheering on their men. Former Information Minis ter Mohammed Yazid and a senior Algerian army adviser, Maj. Slimane Hoffman, flew to Marrakech as special envoys from Ben Bella for talks with Morocco's King Hassan. The pair met Tuesday with Moroccan officials and re turned Tuesday night to inform Ben Bella of the situation. L. Erhard Wins Vofe BONN, Germany (UPD Ludwig Erhard, who as eco nomics minister engineered West Germany's postwar boom, was elected the nation's second chancellor today to replace re signed Konrad Adenauer. The Bundestag, lower house of parliament, voted, 279-180, in favor of Erhard, The Christian Democratic Union which Adenauer and Er hard turned into the most pow erful vote-getting machine in German history, voted for Er hard along with their coalition partners, the Free Democrats. The opposition Social Demo crats voted as a bloc against Erhard. TU 4-8111 No. 7603 Widle Smmk Emergency Meeting Called By Governor PORTLND (I'PI) - Oregon voters Tuesday defied the pleas of Gov. Mark Hatfield and leg islative leaders, and smashed down the legislature's $60 mil lion tax increase bill. Hatfield termed the defeat "a mandate to slash programs and services." House Minority Leaner F. K. Montgomery immediately called for enactment of a cigarette tax, and a sales tax to be referred to the voters'. A county-by-county (ally of election returns appears on Page 4-A of today's Herald and News. The defeat threw the state in to a grave fiscal crisis. Hatfield called an emergency meeting of legislative leaders in Salem for 1 p.m. today. It seemed certain the governor would order a special session of the legislature. The tax measure suffered more than a three to one de feat. 60 Per Cent Vole About 60 per cent of the slate's 758.047 registered voters cast ballots in the referendum. Returns from 3,114 of t h e stale's 3,253 precincts showed No 345,839 and Yes 101,258. The measure was defeated in every county in the state. Worst setback was in Jose phine County where 68.4 per cent of tile registered voters cast ballots, and scuttled the lax hike S.0U3 lo 708. In Benton County, home of Oregon State University, there was a 64.7 per cent turnout There were 4,255 yes voles and 5.781 no voles the best show ing the measure made in any county. At McDcrmitt in Malheur County 18 of the 37 voters cast bailors all no. Howard Comments Weekly newspaper editor J. Francyl Howard, who spear headed the drive to refer the tax bill, said "I'm delighted. This is a move toward econ omy." Senate President Ben Musa said the vote means "we will have to cut budget. It means basic school support will have to take its share along with the rest." House Speaker Clarence Bar ton commented he would do "Whatever tlic people want. They are the final authority." Hatfield termed the defeat "an obvious rejection of t h e legislative tax program, and a mandate to slash programs and services. The full impact of this vole w ill not be felt at once, but it is inevitable." Hatfield was expected to call the legislature into special ses sion next month after this alt eration's meeting with legisla Leaders Claim Vote Not Anti-Education PORTLAND (UPI) Educa tors Tuesday nighl said they did not believe the vote against the legislature's tax bill was also a vote against education. Educators said tho heavy "no" vote was against the amount of taxes and the man ner of raising them instead of spending for education. Eugene Fisher, chairman of the State Board of Education said only about a dozen of the state's 400 school districts had trouble getting their local budg ets through this year. "I think that's some indica tion that people want the quali ty education." he said. William Walsh, chairman of the Stale Board of Higher Edu cation, indicated that it might be necessary to raise admission standards and tuitions to pre serve the quality of education. The extent of cuts in educa tional expenses will not be known until further action Is taken by the legislature or Gov. Mark Hatfield. No emergency meetings have been scheduled by the S t a t e Board of Education or the Stale Weather AOPICULTUP.1L POP.ICAST Harvail outlook moitly good ntxt (Iva days with abovo ssasonablg Ism psratursi. Showsrs posnbl. early Friday anaagain about tunday. tive majority and minorily leaders. The defeat means that the slate is $60 million short of the money it needs to finance the two-year $404 million general fund budget approved by t h e legislature. Vote Called 'Mandate' By Officials By United Press International "A mandate." That's how most state leaders described Tuesday's defeat of the legis lature's $60 million tax increase measure. Here is what they said: Gov. Mark Hatfield: "This Is an obvious rejection of the leg islative tax program, and a mandate to slash programs and services. The full impact of this vote will not be felt at once, but it is inevitable." Secretary of State Howell Ap pling Jr.: "I'm not surprised. My department has long since made plans to reduce our costs in line with out continuing pro gram. We anticipate no diffi culty in complying with the mandate reflected in this vote." House Speaker Clarence Bar ton: That's what the people want. They are the final au thority. Senate President Ben Musa: "This is a very emphatic man date. It means that we must cut budget. It means that basic school support will have to take its share along with the rest." House Minority Leader F. F. Montgomery: "We have a clear mandalc from the people. It's going to be difficult to deter mine whether they want a budg et slash or if they want us to come out with an entirely dif ferent approach to taxation. I will urge a cigarette tax if a special session is called, and will urge a referendum on a sales tax." J. Francyl Howard, Albany weekly newspaper editor wfio headed the successful referral drive: "I'm delighted, it ex ceeded my expectations. This is a move toward economy. I don't think the governor will call a special session of the legislature." Eugene Fisher, cliairman of State Board of Education: Sometimes I don't feel educa tion is as popular as It ought to be. However, only about a dozen of the state's 400 school districts had trouble getting their local budgets through ear lier this year. I think that's oonie indication that people want the quality education." Board of Higher Education. The former meets Oct. 22 and the latter Oct. 23. Chancellor of Higher Educa tion Roy Lieuallen: "Hie vote does nut alter my thinking that the people want quality educa tion for their youngsters. We will place the cuts where they will minimize damage to quali ty of education and research programs." University of Oregon Pres ident Arthur Flemming: "I believe the vote was a tax re pointed, but we'll do the best volt. Naturally I was disnp we can." Oregon Stale University Pres ident James Jensen: "We will make whatever adjustments are necessary in order to continue contributing to the well being and growth o( Oregon." Rep. Joo Rogers, R-mdcpen-dence: "We have prepared a sales tax that will guarantee some property tax relief." Portland Slato College Presi dent Branford Millar: "The people have spoken but It's not quite clear (o me what they have spoken about."