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KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1963 Telephone TU 4-8111 .No. 7609
Tax Views Asked
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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
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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
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