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Newspaper Page TextWeather K limit Pilt, Tutolik tn4 Uk vitwi Inert tint cloudinm through Thursday with rain latt Thursday. Lows toniffht N t 17. H19M Thursday S3 to sr. increasing winds Thursday. High ytitarday 57 Low this morning M High yaar ago M Low ytar ago 14 Prtcfp. last 34 hours .44 Sine Jan. 1 7.S Samt period ytar 14.SJ Vessel Mad Weather AGRICULTURAL POMCAST Harvast outlook only fair to good ntit tivt days with nar stasonablt ttmpar aturas and recurring showery periods. Showers Indicated Thursday and agam Saturday or Sunday. Coast Price Tn Cents 32 Paget KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1963 Telephone TU 4-8111 .No. 7609 Tax Views Asked zx ILS. Of Ua 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 Or. 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 Uie 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 rax bill wai defeated because: 1. The tax increase was too much 2. The budget was too large D 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 D 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 10. Other What, if any, new taxes should be enacted? A. Cigarette tax B. General sales tax, providing new revenue and income and property tax relief C. Revised income tax D D. More property taxes D E. No tax increase of any kind .. F. Other - ' In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Speaking at Los Angeles last night to the Council of Profit Sharing Industries. Oregon's Governor Hatfield told his hear ers hat profit sharing by em ployers will help employees' morale and will improve their attitude toward free enterprise. Question: True or false? Answer: It all depends. IF THERE"!! A PROFIT, the employees' morale will be improved and their attitude toward free enterprise will be much friendlier. If there is no profit, the em ployer will go broke and the employees will lose their jobs. That's about the long and the short of it. Turning to automation. Gover nor Hatfield said he has no solu tion of the problem but believes that business leaders must pool together to solve it. He added: "I believe that within the NEXT DECADE the work week will be down to 25 hours." What about That? J, Let's put it this way: - A work week of 25 hours for a five-day week will mean an average of five hours of work per day. The result of that will prob ably be a lot of MOONLIGHT ING. More business news: According to a statistical note in the Wall Street Journal, the profit margin alter taxes of U.S. manufacturers rose to five cents per dollar of sales in the second quarter of 19S3 from 4.2 cents in the first quarter and 4.7 cents in the corresponding quarter of 19S2. It was the high est since the second quarter of 1939. Question: Is that good news or bad news? I suppose it all depends on your point of view. If you in cline to the belief that profit is a sinful thing and ought to be done away w ith, you w ill regard it as bad news. Many politi cians in these days lean to the belief or at least PRETEND to that a good profit is wicked and shouldn't be permitted. Let's put U like this: If you continue to make a profit, your business expands and you . hire more people. These added people provide more customers for other busi nesses. tr ...... b r..-nr;i you go broke and your employ ees lose their jobs. If you go in the hole, you don't pay income taxes and so other people have to PAY MORE TAXES to make up the difference. And so on. It's a 1 1 r a n f work) we're living in, isn't it? Negotiations Underway For Wheat WASHINGTON (UPI)-A So viet trade delegation and a number of private U.S. grain dealers were in Washington to day, but there was no word on progress toward possible wheat sales to Russia. Some U.S. traders said little could be accomplished until something was done about the gap between high freight rates on U.S. ships and lower rates charged by foreign vessels. The Soviet delegation, which arrived Tuesday night, was headed by Sergei Borisov, first deputy foreign trade minister who negotiated the Russian wheat purchase from Canada in September. Undersecretary of Stale George W. Ball invited the So viet delegation to lunch at the State Department. Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges and Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman also were to attend. The lunch was described as a "courtesy." U.S. officials said the next step was for the Soviet delegation to negotiate purchase agreements with American grain dealers. But some questions involving U.S. policy appeared to need working out. One of these was President Kennedy's order that the wheat should be shipped mainly in U.S. vessels. The Russians apparently were balk ing at paying the high U.S. shipping rates. Safety Last EXETER. England iUPI Tom Day, 38. who has ap peared in safety-first movies, was fined $5.60 Tuesday for jaywalking Commandos Boast MIAMI (UPIi-A Cuban exile group known as "Mambises Commandos" said today its fen ces inside Cuba had attacked and "badly damaged" govern ment patrol boats docked in L-abcla de Sagua. on the north ern coast of Las Villas Prov ince. There was no indication of how many commandos partici pated in the attack Tuesday or how many of Fidel Castro's patrol boats were damaged. The announcement from the group, which claims to be based in Central America, came" by telephone from Panama, ac cording to Cuban exile radio commentator. Salvor who made it public. Lew said Rafael Martinez WELCOME TO GERMANY Soldiers of the 2nd Ar mored Division march from C-135 jet transports that brought them to Rhein-Main Air Force Base in Frankfurt, Germany, from Texas in "Operation Big Lift." Rhein- 'Big Lift' Half Completed; Bonn Skeptical And Fearful FRANKFURT, Germany (UPI I Despite rain and fug, sleek U.S. Air Force jet trans ports poured a steady stream of American GI's into Europe today in a dramatic transatlan tic airlift. Some West Germans ex pressed skepticism about t h e aims and effectiveness of the massive aerial transport exer cise. But West German Defense Minister Kai-Uwe Von Hassel said he was convinced it did not mean the United States plans to reduce its fighting strength in Europe. The main landing point at Rhein-Main Air Base was closed for 12 h Ours but the vast operation "Big Lift" continued. Before it is completed by midnight Thursday, the vast operation will have carried more than 17.000 fighting men from bases in Texas to points in West Germany in less than 72 hours. Involved are 14.500 men of the 2nd Armored Division from Ft. Hood. Tex., and 3,000 others from supporting units at other domestic U.S. Army posts. While Rhein-Main was closed, the Air Force diverted five C 135's to Ramstcin base here in Germany, and sent a sixth to Overloaded In Korea, To SEOUL, Korea (UPI I An overloaded ferryboat carrying schoolchildren, teachers and parents back from a picnic cap sized in the Han River 50 miles south of Seoul loday. drowning at least 49 persons. Another 88 were rescued. The exact number of persons on board could not be deter mined immediately. But t h e ferry was a flat-bottomed barge which had a normal carrying capacity of two trucks or 70 persons. Police said they be lieved at least 157 persons or more than twice its capacity were on board. The ferry capsized In a pocket of deep, swift-running water at a point only 10 yards from shore near the town of Yoju, 50 miles south of this capital city. The river at this point is about 150 yards wide, but only Pupn, Mambises spokesman, made the call and asked him to release the news. Havana radio made no imme diate comment on the reported attack. The announcement said the attack "avenged" the kidnaping of 19 exiles in Cayo Anguila, Bahama waters last Aug. I. Three of the 19 have since been executed by Castro firing squads, according to exile re ports reaching here last week. The Mambises group has not previously indicated that it has forces operating inside Cuba. Only four days ago. an an nouncement released here by the group from Central Ameri ca warned that it was about to "carry the war to our enemy Fidel Castro until he if de 1 -v Mildcnhall Air Base in Eng land. When Rhein - Main reopened after the fog lifted, the aerial armada resumed lights into the vast base near Frankfurt. By 3 p.m. 17 a.m. PDTi. a Big Lift spokesman said a total of CO troop transports had made the 5.600-mile flight with a total of 3.588 combat-ready sol diers. Muj. Gen. John Brown, dep uty chief of tile Military Air Transport Service MATS, said that in spite of losing Rhein-Main for seven hours, Big Lift plans took into ac count the possibility of weather shutting down some target air fields and had provided for al ternate landing points. He said the airlift should be completed well before its allot ted 72 hours are up at midnight Thursday. When newsmen asked him if he had any comments that Big Lift was the forerunner of American troop cuts in Europe, Hassel said: "I am convinced the United States does not plan to reduce its fighting strength in Eu rope." He said he based his views on talks he had with Secretary Ferry Spills Near 50 seven feet deep most of the way across. In the present dry sea son, it is not normally swift flowing for most of its course. However, many of the children apparently panicked and were loo frightened to try to swim to shore. The victims were sucked un der and drowned by Uie fast current coursing through the small eddy which created the spot of deep water at the scene of the tragedy. The accident took place about 2:40 p.m. Res cue workers plucked 49 bodies from the river and rescued 88 others alive by nightfall. Five of those rescued were seriously in jured. The children were mostly fifth and sixth graders of the Hungan school at Anyang, 15 miles south of Seoul. They were on their way back from a pic nic and visit to (lie Shinrok-Sa Buddhist temple near Yoju. Of Attack In Cuba stroyed and Cuba is freed for ever from foreign tyranny and communism." That announcement also for warned the Cuban government that the Mambises would use every possible means to burn or destroy all units of the produc tion that contributes to the per manence of communism. Cas troism and Soviet troops on the Island. Last Monday, a rival exile or. ganlzation. the Commandos-L, charged that the Mambises ac tually were operating from Flo rida. They said claims that the group was stationed in Cential America were false. They said the Mambises were being or ganized and operated by the U.S. Central Intelhjzcnce Agetv 7 Main, No. I European terminal for the airlift, wai closed by fog for some 12 hours, but the Air Force quickly shunted planes to alternate airfields. UPI Telephoto of Defense Robert S. McNam ara and on talks West German Foreign Minister Gerhard Schrocdcr had with President Kennedy in Washington. In Bonn, the government has asked for official clarification of U.S. intentions about future trocp deployments. Earldom Given Up By Home LONDON (UPD -"Prime Minister Lord Home renounced one of the oldest titles in the nation loday to run for Parlia ment as a commoner and if successful direct his new gov ernment personally from the House of Commons. His election In the "safe" con servative constituency of Kin ross and West Perthshire was virtually assured. Home signed at historic No. 10 Downing Street a document disclaiming his earldom and three other titles which will be come effective when his name is enscribed this afternoon by Sir George Coldstream in the office of the lord chancellor. The carl, who will be known in future by the relatively sim ple name of Sir Alec Douglas Home, summoned a cabinet meeting lor the moment when the document of disclaimer is deositcd. The move automatically bars him from the House of Lords where he has presented British policy in the past as foreign secretary. It placed him squarely in (lie race on equal terms with the opposition Labor party which fought for years for the legis lation which enabled him to take the step. Home, who in defiance of strong Labor opposition decided to postpone Parliament until the voters are given the chance of expressing confidence in him, leaves Thursday to prepare for his Nov. 7 election fight. His plans to become a com moner again were welcomed by both parties, but his decision to postpone Parliament for two weeks so he can contest a by election for a Commons seat caused stormy protests from tlie Labor party. Neither the Mambises nor the CIA have made any comments on the charge. The Mambises claimed to have staged three previous at tacks on Cuba, Uie last one on Oct. I, when raiders attacked the Cayo Guin saw mill on the northern coast of Oricnte Prov ince. The other two were carried out on Aug. 17 against the port of Casilda, in Las Villas Prov ince and another the next day against a metal processing plant in Santa Lucia, Pinar del Rio Province. lsabela de Sagua on the northern coast ol Cuba is 150 miles Irom Cabo Corrientes, on the southwestern tip of Pinar del Rio Province where a U.S. freighter was attacked Tuesday. Reds Want To Up U.S. Dues In UN UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPD The United Stales stood firm today against any Soviet-inspired attempts to raise the U.S. dues in the United Nations and cut those of the Russians. American oilicials wore drafting a strong statement of its position on the 1964 regular budget estimates. Informed sources said the statement would refute a Soviet demand that Uie U.S. assessment should be raised and the Soviet assess ment lowered. Committee, action dominated the U.N. scene with the Gencr al Assembly in recess following uie policy speech Tuesday by Yugoslav President Tito. The main political committee had 10 delegations listed to 1 speak on the question of nucle ar testing, and the budgetary committee continued its debate on the 1964 estimates. Privately some diplomats ex pressed concern that Tito can celed a 750-invitaUon reception scheduled for Thursday night at the Waldorf Astoria. The an nounced reason for the cancel lation was the alleged lack of police protection for the Com munist leader who has been the target of several incidents by dissident Yugoslav emigres in New York. The United Stales is not ex pected to speak on the budget estimates until later in the week, but American officials were dismayed at the position taken by Russia in Uie budget ary committee Tuesday. Soviet representative Alcxei Roschin criticized Uie U.N. fi nancial administration, the peace-keeping opcrotions and the scale of assessments for members. Hurricane Threatens Coast Area MIAMI (UPI I - Florida's East Coast from Cape Canaver al to Fort Lauderdale was placed on a hurricane watch today for maverick storm Gin ny which showed no signs of turning its 75 mile an hour winds away Irom the mainland. "There is a possibility that hurricane conditions may affect a portion of this coastal area (watch area I within 24 hours." the weather bureau warned in an II a.m. advisory. Persons in the watch area were urged to keep posted on wcahter reports, "consider pro cautions arid safeguards and be ready for quick action if hurri cane warnings are Issued later today," tlie advisory said. The hurricane was centered about 155 miles east of the na tion's big missile center at Cape Canaveral. It was moving toward the southwest at m.p.h. Cu Canaveral began batten ing down for a big blow. Emergency crews at the tl billion launching renter latched down giant rockets standing on their launch pads and other equipment that could be tossed bout by high winds. WASHINGTON (UPD - The United States today investigat ed the "most serious" incident yet involving Cuba and an American vessel Uie strafing attack by a lone plane on an unarmed ship flying Uie Liber ian flag 13 miles off the coast of Cuba. The Stale Department de nounced the incident as an un provoked attack on a vessel op erating in international waters. The ship, identified as the U.S. owned ore-carrier SS J. Louis, was sU'afed by a single plane for 61 minutes shortly after midnight Tuesday the first an niversary of the Cuban missile crisis. The State Department said that the attack plane was pre sumed to be Cuban and that Uie investigation would deter mine whether a protest should be made. A spokesman termed the incident the "most serious so far" of three similar shoot ing scrapes involving U.S. ships in Caribbean waters. Two Previous Attacks On Feb. 20 four Cuban MIG jet fighters fired on a 67-foot shrimp boat, Uie Ala, about 80 miles southeast of Key West, Fla. On March 28. two Jets fired on the merchant ship Flo ridian. Neither vessel was hit. and in the case of the Florid ian the Castro government apologized and said its pilots had been In error. No casualties were reported about the 669-foot J. Louis, but the ship's captain, Gerhard Krause, radioed that the super structure and hull were dam aged and that a resulting fire took two hours to bring under control. Krause radioed the owners: "Under heavy airplane gun fire attack with 16 passes count ed causing damuge to super structure, hull above watcrline quarters. Fire under fo'c'slc. Af ter two hours fire fighting now under control. No casualties." Ordered To Scene U.S. jet fighters were ordered to the scene from Key West when first word ot the attack was received, hut' the attack plane had left before they ar rived. The American planes are on standing orders to retaliate against any attack over Inter national waters in the Carib bean. In Havana, the Cuban Armed Forces Ministry issued a com munique several hours after the attack stating that Cuban air force planes "intercepted and attacked two V20 pirate launch es as Uiey attempted to disem bark arms end infiltrating sab oteurs on Die south coast of Pi nar Del Rio. The two launches were being transported by a Rep. Ullman To Conduct New Hospital Ceremony Congressman Al Ullman will conduct the ground breaking ceremony for the Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital In the company of Gov. Mark O. Hal field and Sens. Maurine Nou bcrger and Wayne Morse, 1:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 2, the pub lic rclatiuns committee ol Uie hospital announced today. Invitations have been extend ed to all officials of the area to be served by the hospital. Dr. Don Bauer, representing the hospital board of directors, has invited the public to attend HOMECOMING HOPEFULS c.,Lr. i oo u. school's athletic latterman and will be selected through voting by the Henley football team. The queen will be announced during halftime of the game between Henley and Lakeview High. The six daft to right) are Cindy Harleis, seniors Karen Sentry, sen ior; Oma Lee Whipple, senior; Ginger Daniels, junior; Barbara Hornetter, junior, 'and Janis Payne, junior. - ) i ( moUier ship which came from Florida and was stationed 2'i miles off the coast . . . (it) was also attacked. Effect of the attack could not be determined with exactitude." The communique made no Stop -Gap Cuts Made By Board SALEM (UPD - Fearful of what might happen at next month's special legislative scs siun, the State Board of Educa tion Tuesday decided to make stop-gap cuts and postponed making final policy decisions on budget reductions until after the legislature adjourns. ' The action came after deputy Supt. James Turnbull reminded boaid members, "don't forget the legislature may change it all at the special session." .' As a result of last week's de feat of Uie tax measure, Gov. Mark Hatfield ordered the Edu cation Department's general fund allotment cut nearly $1.5 million to $11.4 million. In addition, the governor scrapped the $1.3 million com munity college construction pro gram, and said he would ask I he legislators to cut basic school aid $10.5 million to $124.2 million. But education board members and department officials were obviously fearful that more severe cuts might be made by (lie special session. Turnbull said he would recommend cuts in services and supplies, but only limited re ductions in personnel. "We will be In trouble if we destroy our stall," he said. - Vie also announced no c u t s had yot been planned in edu cational television. "We won't know what to do unliL-we hear what is being planned by higher education ami local school districts," Turnbull said. Public Instruction Supt. Leon P. Minear said, "We had a poor budget to begin with. These cuts don't leave us enough money to do the Jobs assigned to us. We needed all the people we re quested, or we wouldn't have asked for them in tlie first place." "Wc arc in a tough situation, we have to establish priorities," Minear said. But board members decided the ceremony. "We certainly want everyone to share in this celebration as earth is broken for the start of construction," he said. Beginning at 2 p.m., tomor row, Thursday, bids tor the con struction of the hospital will be opened at a special meeting of the board of directors. The successful contractor will participate in the ground breaking celebration ns one of his first acts In beginning con struction of the 141 bed hospi tal adjacent to the new OTI campus. One of thoie six girls will become Henley High c.:J... :-Li tl. -:.t. i - J l... . menUon of Uie strafing of the J. Louis nor did it attempt to link the incident with the action against Uie "pirate launches," ail apparent Cuban exile raid. Pinar Del Uio province is Cuba's westernmost province. to avoid listine priorities unt after Uie special legislative ses'- sion. It was pointed out that com munity college enrollments al ready were up 27 per cent this year seven per cent above expectations - and may in crease more next year. "The major impact of the tax election defeat will not be felt unlil the 1964-65 school year," Minear warned. Welfare Cut Restored By Hatf ield SALEM (UPI) The Gover nor's office has ordered $1.2 million of Uie public wel fare department's $2.9 million budget cut restored, the depart ment revealed today. Department oilicials said the funds were restored to protect federal matching funds. Each dollar cut from state funds results in Uie loss of up to several dollars in various fed eral matching grants. The revised $1.2 million de partment cutback will result in the loss of $4.5 million in match ing money, it was explained. The department announced that despite the austerity pro gram resulting from last week's tax measure defeat, there will be no change in welfare depart ment food standards, and no percentage reductions in grants to aged, blind or disabled. Few, if any, layoffs are planned In welfare department personnel. Existing staff vacan cies probably will not be filled for some time, however. The department is planning to achieve economies through ad ministrative changes, and hopes it will not be necessary to cut nmnramc ttw wolfnl-A mpiniltni r.V&.u... ........... . Shooting Hours OREGON October 24 Open Close 7:00 a.m. 6:15 p.m. CALIFORNIA October 24 Open . Close 6:55 a.m. 6:13 p.m.