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Tax Views Asked
On Oct. 15, Oregon's voters overwhelmingly voted "no"
on a proposed income tax increase measure.
"The people have spoken, but it is not quite clear to me
what they have spoken about."
This quotation, by Dr. Branford Millar, president of Port
land State College, sums up the dilemma now facing legisla
tors who will convene in a special session Nov. 11 to act on Ore
gon's financial crisis.
There probably were many different reasons for casting
"no" votes, but no one knows the majority feeling.
With the hope of obtaining a sampling of public opinion
the Herald and News invites its readers to give their views, which
will be tabulated and reported. Clip and mail or bring to our of
fice the following ballot if you wish to participate. It should arrive
by noon Saturday, Oct. 26, to be counted.
TAX QUESTIONNAIRE
Publisher
Herald and News
P. 0. Box 941
Klamath Falls, Ore.
In my opinion, the tax bill was defeated because:
1. The tax increase was too much
2. The budget was too large
3. The bill was poorly written and unfair
4. The state needs a different kind of tax
5. Other
What should be done now is to:
6. Cut full $60 million revenue increase
7. Keep the budget as is but raise revenue
another way
8. Combine budget cuts and new,
smaller, tax increases
9. Devise an entirely new tax program O
10. Other
What, if any, new taxes should be enacted? -
A. Cigarette tax C
B. General sales tax, providing new
revenue and income and
property tax relief
C. Revised income tax i
D. More property taxes
E. No tax increase of any kind ... ...D
F. Other
! The-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
Mishmash in the news:
Lord Home, Britain's new
Prime Minister, assembled his
cabinet this morning to discuss
the problems that lie ahead.
One of these problems is that
as Prime Minister he must be a
member of the House of Com
mons. He ISN'T.
So the opening of the fall ses
sion of Parliament must be post
poned, until the new Prime
Minister can get himself elected
as a member.
Happily, that isn't as difficult
as a similar situation in the
United States would be. One of
the peculiarities of the British
House of Commons is that its
members don't have to be elect
ed from the districts where they
live. They can toss their hats
into the ring in just ANY dis
trict that looks the most promis
ing. So
il is reported this morning
He will contest for the election
in K i n r o s s, up in Scotland,
which is regarded as a "safe"
conservative district.
There's another block in the
road that must be removed.
Lord Home is a member of
the British peerage. He is an
carl. Before he can be elected
Prime Minister he must become
a commoner.
So-
He must shed his earl
dom. That he is preparing to
do. He will ask Queen Elizabeth
to postpone tbo reopening of
Parliament, which is scheduled
' (rw this month.
Speaking of hats
The National Hat Council is
feeling pretty chesty these days
because President Kennedy,
who doesn't wear one, came out
and admitted the other day that
"a man is not well dressed
without a hat." '
Whether he was influenced by
the fact that next year is a
Presidential election year Is be
side the point- His statement
brought from one of the TV
commentators this crack:
"The modern politician needs
three hats
"One to throw in the ring.
"One to talk through.
"One to pull the rabbits out
of."
From Houston. Texas:
A lar;e black horse ran to
Wally Franks' house Friday,
kicked in a window, knocked an
air conditioner down on top of
a TV set and then tried to climb
in through the window.
Good Lord!
Are the horses beginning to
act that way, too? ,
It's bad enough . when only
HUMANS carry on like that.
PS.:,
They SHOT the horse.
Castro Asks
U.S. To Lift
Its Blockade
HAVANA (UPI) - Premier
Fidel Castro, facing a stagger
ing rebuilding job because of
Hurricane Flora's devastation,
asked the United States Monday
night to lift its economic em
bargo against Cuba immedi
ately. J
. The bearded Cuban leader
made the request in the midst
of a three-hour Havana radio
and television speech. After dis
closing that "starvation killed
as many persons as floods" foU
lowing the hurricane, Castro
said he did not want American
help.
"What we ask for is an end
of the economic blockade of our
country, especially at this mo
ment,' he said.
"We don't want Yankee im
perialist aid nor do we need it.
What we want is that they halt
their hypocritical policy and
their attacks. That's why the
Cuban people did the right thing
in rejecting their hypocritical
aid."
Castro's appeal came as the
United States was reportedly
stepping up pressure on free
world nations to restrict ship
ping to Cuba.
Reviewing Flora's devastation
among some three million per
sonshalf of Cuba's population
in the eastern half of the
island, Castro suggested the
United States was partly to
blame for "refusing" to allow
hurricane hunter planes to fly
over Cuba. ,
He also charged that a U.S.
"plot" to blow up a Cuba
bound ship, the Antilla, was dis
covered in Genoa, Italy, "a
short time ago."
The United States planned to
create a "new La Coubre inci
dent," he said.
The La Coubre was a French
ship, crammed with Belgian
munitions, which blew up in
Havana harbor in March. 1960.
Castro blamed American "sabo
teurs" for the explosion.
Cuba's known death toll from
Flora is 1.157 and all but .11
deaths were in Oricnte Prov
ince, Castro said. "But of course
the actual toll is even greater
because many persons are miss
ing." he added.
College Building Program Junked
SALEM UPI i - The State
Board of Education today
junked the planned $1.3 million
community college building pro
gram, adopted a curriculum
guide for community colleges,
and approved two school district
reorganization plans.
Acting on orders from t h e
governor after last week s tax
election defeat, the board I n
definitely postponed allocation
of the following community col
lege construction funds:
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n I
Weather
KlamHi Fills, Tuklakt and Likt
vttwi Partly cloudy with showtrs
through Wtdntiday. Ouity touthtrly
winds Nvt to IS milt ptr hour. Slight
ly cooltr. Lowi tonight U to 43.
High yeiltrday to
Low this morning 44
High yer ago as
Low ytar ago 34 '
Prtcip. lait 24 hourt .00
Sine Jan. 1 7.15
Samt ptriod ytar ago 14.5
US Withdraws
To Viet Special
SAIGON. South ' Viet Nam
(UPI i The United States has
informed President Ngo Dinh
Diem's government that the
2.000 Vietnamese special forces
troops, used in the crackdown
on the Buddhists, will be cut
off from their $3 million annual
U.S. allowance until they re
turn to combat.
Reliable sources said U.S. of
ficials told special forces com
mander Col. Le Quang Tung
that his units, originally trained
to fight ' the Communists, will
Sluggish Ginny Drifts
Off Carolina Coast
CAPE HATTERAS, N. C. -(UPI)
Hurricane Ginny drift
ed sluggishly off the North
Carolina coast today battering
a disabled Navy ship with its
80 - mile - per hour winds and
causing beach erosion as far
north as New Jersey.
"Ginny appears to be drifting
very slowly toward the south
or southwest," the Washington
Weather Bureau said in an 8
a.m. EST advisory which plac
ed the storm about 163 miles
southeast of Cape Hatteras. ..
This was roughly the same
position the hurricane, seventh
of the season, had held 'since
Sunday night when it sprang up
as a menace to the eastern
coast of the United States.
A turn to the north was in
dicated tor. tonight, the Weath
er Bureau said.
Warn Of Erosion
The storm's center was about
15 miles southwest of its loca
tion at 5 a.m. EST.
"Rough seas and heavy
pounding surf will cause ero
Drought-Stricken Towns
Facing 7ater Shortages
By United Press International
A crop-crippling, fire-sparking
drought across the East forced
schools to close today and
threatened many communities
with water shortages.
Turbulent weather raged
around tlie stricken area.
Hurricane Ginny fumed off
the Carolina coast and a Pacific
storm spewed 74-milc-an-hour
winds and more than an inch
of rain at the Northwest.
A tornado struck in Minne
sota Monday and scattered light
showers drifted across the Mid
west. Here is how the drought situ
ation shaped up:
Nearly 2.000 students started
half-day classes today in Tussey
Mountain schools near Saxton,
Pa., in an effort by city author-
Price Of Noise
Remains Same
HENDON. England lUPD
Magislrate E. Hudson-Davies,
who recalled that , he was
fined $1.40 48 years ago for
having a faulty silencer on his
car. levied the same fine for
the same offense on a defend
ant Monday "to show that the
cost of living has not gone
up."
tral Oregon $206.8!i0. Clalsnp
College rj0.370. South Western
Oregon $331,030. Treasure Val
ley $206,890, Eugene Technical
Vocational $124,000, Portland
Cbmmunity $t.230.
Approval nf the curriculum
and course eligibility guide for
community colleges came after
board members expressed the
hope that the Board of Higher
Education would adopt a similar
guide for programs and lower
division courses.
Public Instruction Supt. Leon
Price Ten Cents 13 Paget
receive no pay or supplies from
the United States as long as
they remain around Saigon as
security troops for the regime.
The action was expected to
anger Diem and his brother
and political adviser, Ngo Dinh
Nhu, who is believed to run the
special forces through Tung.
Tung's six battalions of
troops were formed about two
years ago with the help of the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agen
cy, the sources said. Their pur
pose was to infiltrate Commu-
sion to continue along the outer
beaches of North Carolina to
New Jersey," the Weather Bu
reau said.
Two rescue vessels reached
tlie decommissioned Navy de
stroyer escort Fogg, heaving on
40-foot swells, at about 9 o'clock
Monday night to end a two-day
air-sea search for the drifting
vessel and its 10-man caretaker
crew.
The Fogg was en route to a
mothball fleet in Texas when
its tow line snapped and it
drifted near the center of the
hurricane. It was located off
Point Lookout, N.C., to tlie
south of the turbulent center
of tlie storm which sent gale
winds 450 miles to Che north
and 170 miles in other direc
tions... . . ..,. ,.
Ships Stand By
The Fogg's crew blinked out
a signal saying "everything's
okay" and "watertight integrity
is good." Assisting ships stood
by to try to take her in tow
when the heaw seas subsided.
itics to conserve water. All
school cafeterias were ordered
shut down.
A bottling firm and a laundro
mat agreed to close down two
days a week in Saxton because
of dwindling water supplies.
Youngsters at Bakcrton, Pa.,
returned to class today for the
first time in a week, but were
asked to carry boiled water un
til new wells are tested for
purity.
The West Virginia state health
director ordered the town of
Harper's Ferry to post signs
that its water supply is poten
tially unsafe. The city's well
supply is low and water Is be
ing pumped from a nearby
creek.
The drought has sent West
Virginia's crop losses for the
year soaring to more than $76
million.
In Illinois, state sanitary engi
neers worked today with city
authorities at Macomb, Beecher
City and Albion in an effort to
meet problems arising from
drought-caused water deficien
cies. Fires continued to flare across
the kindling dry forests and
fields of the Midwest and East.
Forty new fires broke out in
West Virginia Monday and 41 of
the state's 152 current blazes
were still spreading. Fifteen per
sons were arrested for misde
meanor in refusing to fight for
est and brush fires.
P. Minear said while the state
board liked specific outlines for
courses, higher education tradi
tionally avoided specific out.
lines. Board members felt there
should be more coordination In
setting guides for community
college programs. .
Two administrative school
district reorganization plans,
one covering parts of Washing
ton and Yamhill counties, the
other Clackamas county, were
approved and now go to a vote
of district residents.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON',
All Aid
Forces
nist North Viet Nam and neu
tral Laos, where Viet Cong
guerrillas were entering South
Viet Nam, and to work with
mountain-' tribesmen in the
guerrilla-infested central high
lands. The sources said the CIA
made "under the table" pay
ments of $250,000 a month to
Tung for upkeep of tlie forces,
which also received U.S. com
munications, transportation and
supply support.
But when the Buddhist oppo
sition to the Ngo family
reached crisis proportions last
summer, the special forces
troops were used on Nhu's or
ders to raid the Buddhist pago
das and arrest religious lead
ers. Since then, Nhu lias kept al
most all the special forces
troops in and around Saigon,
presumably to prevent demon
strations or any attempted
coup.
War Rages
Despite
Truce Talk
ALGIERS (UPD-Ncw fight
ing was reported today on the
Algerian - Moroccan border as
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selas
sie met with President Ahmed
Ben- Bella ij an attempt to ar-
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(Official Moroccan sources re
ported in Marrakech that Mo
roccan troops repulsed two new
Algerian attacks. One was
launched before dawn today at
the post of Hassi Taghoucht,
about 55 miles from the Moroc
can city of Taouz.
(They said 150 Algerian troops
attacked 20 Moroccans defend
ing the post but were beaten
back. In another area, Al
gerians attacked the post of
Oussada, but Morocco said they
too were forced to retreat.)
Selassie, the 72-ycar old "Lion
of Judah," met Ben Bella in
the second stage of his attempt
to mediate the undeclared bor
der war. ,
The Ethiopian monarch flew
to Algiers Monday from Rabat,
Morocco, after talking with Mo
roccan King Hassan III in Mar
rakech, where Hassan was di
recting nis armed forces. Out
come of the talks with Hassan
was not known.
Diplomats said Selassie faced
one of the toughest jobs in his
50-year career in attempting to
mediate the dispute, which now
threatens to involve another na
tion, the United Arab Republic.
OREGON
October 21
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CALIFORNIA
October 21
Open Close
l:5S a.m. (:I3 p.m.
Action on a third proposed
district, including parts of Polk
and Yamhill counties, was post
poned. The board announced 1 1
would hold another public hear
ing early next year, probably
at Hood River, on boundaries
for the proposed Mid-Columbia
area education district.
Proposed boundaries for the
new community college district
were changed after objections
were voiced at a hearing Aug.
27 at The Dalles.
Shooting Hours
loo UmhUi ftmUm
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1963
HOSTESS, Gl STYLE This pretty Air Force serqeant, Yvette Thome, welcomes
Spec. 4 Howard Johns and members of the 2nd Armored Division, known as "Hell on
Wheels," as tho first troops to start "Operation Big Lift" to Germany at Austin, Tex.
UPI Telepnoto
Elementary Board Backs
Independent Appraisal Plan
The Klamath Falls Elemenla
ry School Board Monday night
called for a common independ
ent appraisal of all school as
sets in the county as tlie basis
for discussion of tlie division of
assets which will accompany the
school reorganization plan.
Houk Wins
Promotion
NEW YORK (UPI) - Gen
eral Manager Roy Harney of
the New York Yankees retired
today and was succeeded in that
position by Ralph Houk under a
four-year contract.
Club President Dan Topping,
who made the announcement,
said that the Yankees' new
field manager to succeed Houk
would be named Thursday at
noon. There was speculation
that Yogi Berra, long time
catcher and during the past
season a coach for the Yan
kees, would be appointed field
manager.
Topping said Harney will re
main with the Yankee organiza
tion on a full-time basis until
the close of spring training In
1964. He then will continue with
the Yankees In a consulting
and advisory capacity for five
more years.
Parliament
Delayed
For Home
1.0NDON UPI The new
British cabinet today aprovod
a decision by Prime Minister
Lord Home to ask for a delay
in the re-opening of Parlia
ment until after he wages a
Scottish by election fight to
w in a House of Commons seat.
Lord Home met with his cabi
net for the first time today aft
er telling the nation in his first
major statement as prime min
ister that he looked forward to
"real cooperation" with the
Soviet Union in negotiating set
tlements of cold war issues.
The new prime minister, who
has announced he will resign
his earldom and run for a Com
mons seat in a Nvv. 7 Scottish
hy-elcction, plans to ask Queen
Elizabeth II to postpone the re
opening of Parliament sched
uled (or this month until after
the vote.
Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7608
The board, In effect, backed
its administration's position and
left the next move in the con
tinuing controversy up to coun
ty school officials, who have re
fused to pay for an Independent
appraisal of their properties.
Also, the elementary board
said that if agreement cannot
be reached on a common ap
praisal, it sees "no other alter
native than to cancel all con
sideration of assets and each
board pay tuition to the other
for the children they educate
from the opposite districts."
The positions were taken in a
resolution passed by tlie board.
The same resolution will be pre
sented to the Klamath Union
High School Board for approval
at its next meeting.
School directors passed the
resolution after hearing a report
from Superintendent Ray Hun
saker on a meeting held last
week. The meeting included tlie
chairmen of all three school
boards and the two superintend
ents. The disagreement voiced
at that meeting led to the can
cellation of Inst Thursday night's
scheduled joint city county
school board meeting.
County Superintendent Cliff
Robinson was reported to be out
of town for this week and not
available for comment.
The resolution passed Monday
night will be included In H u n-
V
ft
GOODBYE, OLD PAL Maj. G.n. Edwin H. Burba, com
mander of tha 2nd Armored Division, qivei a parting
goodbye to hit pat Axal who bows hit head as tha general
and hi troops start "Operation Big Lift," Sixtaan thoui.
and Gl's art being airlifted to Germany undar tha pro
gram. UPI Talaphoto
Weather
AGRICULTURAL FORECAST
Harvctt outlook only fair to good thli
WHtt with abovo ttasonabl tomport
lurts and recurring thowtry oorioda.
Cooltr ttmotraturts tndicattd ntar tht
tnd of lha wttk.
saker's report to die county
court on efforts to settle the
division of assets question. The
county court had asked that the
three boards reach agreement
(Continued on Page 4)
Guerrillas
Hit Cuba
MIAMI (UPIl-The leader of
a militant Cuban exile group
says a band of armed com
mandos have landed in Cuba
hurricane-ravaged Oriente Prov
ince to wage war against Fidel
Castro and his Communist fol
lowers. Dr. Luis Conte Aguero, chief
of the Sentinels fori Liberty,
made the announcement Mon
day but would not' say how
many guerrillas were in the
band.
The commandos, he said,
were led by Maj. Marcellino
Rodriguez, a former officer In
Castro's rebel forces.
Aguero said this was the
group's first landing in Oriente
Province, but did not Indicate
if Iho commandos would try to
join other underground units or
fight on their own.
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v. ' s
Planes Haul
16,000 Gl's
To Germany
FT. HOOD. Tex. tUPD-Sleek
military jetliners and barrel
bellied transports streaked
across the turbulent Atlantic
from Texas to West Germany
today in an aerial ferry for
16,000 Gl's, including an entire
armored division, that was
working "like clockwork."
Eight hours after the first jet
thundered off , a runway at
Bergstrom Air Force Base at
Austin, Tex., there were 71
planes aloft moving the van
guard of troops from the 2nd
Armored (Hell on Wheels) Di
vision on their way to Frank
furt in "Operation Big Lift." It
was the biggest transatlantic
aerial armada of troops ever
attempted.
Six C135 jet transports, (our
C130 prop-driven transports and
18 C124 Globe masters were in
the vanguard. Platoons of
planes were leaving every hour
Each plane carried an aver
age of 84 persons including 72
soldiers, 9 crewmembers and 3
newsmen.
The start of the 72-hour oper
ation "went like clockwork," a
spokesman at Ft Hood com
mand headquarters said.
"We are very well pleased
with the way tilings are going
right now. everything is on
schedule," he said.
Tlie 13,000 men of the 2nd Ar
mored (Hell on Wheels) Divi
sion from Ft. Hood, Tex. and
3.000 supporting troops from Ft.
Sill, Okla., Ft Benning. Ga.,
and Ft. Campbell, Ky., began
flying out from (our Texas air
bases at 1:57 a.m. EDT as part
of Exercise Big Lift Planes
took off hourly through the
night and into the day. Destina
tion: Frankfurt, Germany, 5,600,
miles away.
Gl 8 wearing winter uniforms
against the chill of October hi
West Germany despite the sum-
iirci-iiM; leiuperaiureg ui cen
tral Texas piled aboard planes
,uit i,,rru kr,. ;nn., nnA l,Al
nihil uuuro INIga, t.tiva UIIU
mets.
An Air Force band tooted a
farewell at Bergstrom AFB in
Austin as tha lead plane, a mil
itary version o the 707 Boeing
Jetliner, thundered off the run
way with division commander
Edwin H. Burba and Gen. Paul
D. Adams of MaeDill AFB,
Fla., the "strike force" over-all
commander.
The entire operation was lb'
take 73 hours, with planes leav
ing from Connally AFB at
Waco, Tex., Sheppard AFB at
Wichita Falls, Tex., and Gray
Army Airfield near Ft. Hood.
It seemed like an endless
stream and the swiftness and
efficiency with which the troops
boarded and the planes taxied
out to the runways reflected
weeks of arduous planning.
The exercise is a test of the
U.S. military concept of global
combat readiness and was a
test of America's ability to hurl
troops to foreign trouble spots
in time of crisis.
(West German officials in
Frankfurt showed concern
about the maneuver and won
dered whether It meant the
United States is planning to re
duce the size of forces stationed
permanently there.
(They referred to Deputy -Secretary
of Defense Roswell
Gilpatric's speech to United
Press International editors and
publishers at a meeting In Chi
cago last Saturday. Gilpatrlc
said the airlift would enable the
United States "to make useful
reductions in Its heavy overseas
military expenditures." He said
it also would realign American
forces overseas).
Adams said before takeoff
that the only aim of "Big Lift"
was to demonstrate to friend
and foe the ability of the Unit
ed States to meet any military -situation
with troops.
He would not comment on
German questions about possi
ble troop reduction.
It was the biggest aerial
trans-A 1 1 a n 1 1 c shipment of
troops in history. .
The 2nd Armored Division
will maneuver in Germany with
tha 3rd Armored Division sta
tioned there, using artillery.
Tanks and other heavy gear
were already on hand there. No
heavy equipment was being
brought by the armada of some
220 planes.
The C135 jets were making
the run in 8Vt hours. Lumber
ing Cm Globemaster propeller
driven planes were taking 31H
hours for the trip.
The operation was costing 0
million.
NO NGW8 CONFERENCE
WASHLNGTON (UPD-Presi.
dent Kennedy will not hold
news conference this week. Hie
Chief Executive's last meeting
with newsmen was Oct. 9.
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