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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1963)
Weather Klamath Pallt. Tulelakt and Lakt- vftw: CooUr tonight, Iftwt 21 to II. Patchy morning tog. Increasing clovdl nets with ihowart lata Wednesday. Highs SO to Ji. High yesterday S3 Low this morning jj High year ago 71 Low year ago 31 Precip. past 24 hours Ml Since Jan. 1 t.04 Same period last year 14.31 In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS In this space yesterday, we were talking about measures of weight and capacity, such as long tons and short tons and metric tons the point being that what is called a ton in one country may not be the same as what is called a ton in another country. Maybe, while we're at it. we might as well take a look at measures of DISTANCE, such as miles and kilometers. Only in American countries and coun tries with a British background (such as Canada l is the mile the standard measure of dis tance. That can be very confusing indeed if you are traveling by car in a country w here the kilo meter is the accepted measure 'of distance in Mexico, for ex ample. . A kilometer equals 3.280 feet. A mile equals 5,280 feet. If you arc driving in continen tal European countries, where the kilometer is the measure of distance on the highway signs, or in Mexico, where the same is true, and want to reduce kilo meters to miles, so you will know where you are at and how far it is to the next point you are interested in. you will find this a convenient rule of thumb: Take 60 per cent of the num ber of kilometers that is, multi ply the number of kilometers by .60 and you'll be pretty close to the number of miles. Factually, a kilometer is 62.1 per cent of a mile. Mishmash in the news: In New York the other day, a bull got loose from somewhere and went on a rampage through the downtown streets that was brought to an end only when a cop operating in a convertible w ith the top down instead of a cow pony lassoed the beast as neatly as any cowboy in t h e Wild West could have done. Questions: - Where did- the -bull come from? Did it come from Wali Street? And- If the bull was coming in wild flight from Wall Street, had it been driven out by the Wall Street BEARS? We'd all like to know. If the bulls are being chivvied out of Wall Street by the bears, it might be a good tip to sell short. Talks Open On Conflict BAMAKO, Mali UPI-Four heads of stale met here today to begin talks aimed at settling the Algerian Moroccan border confict over a strip of desert that may contain rich mineral resources. They are King Hassan II of Morocco and President Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria, whose troops have been fighting on the border since early this month, and Emperor Haile Se lassie of Ethiopia and President Modibo Keita of Mali, who are trying to help with mediation. All met in nearby Koulouba for lunch after Keita had greet ed each of the three heads of state, and were to begin their first conference working session shortly afterwards. Li kin SHOP AT WORK Wilder Bill Caiay stands beside a giant "V" plow being attached to a truck in the state Highway Maintanance Department shops. The ihops nave bean busy preparing the more than 300 piecel of state equipment for tha winter job f Price Ten Cents 12 Pages TAX QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS The (ax bill was defeated because: 1. The tax increase was too much 1 2. The budget was too large 216 3. The bill was poorly written and unfair 241 4. The state needs a different kind of tax 235 5. Other 40 What should be done now Is to: , 6. Cut full $60 million revenue increase Ill 7. Keep budget as is, raise revenue another way 90 8. Combine budget cuts, new tax increases 132 9. Devise entirely new tax program 175 10. Other 45 What, if any, new taxes should be enacted? A. Cigarette tax 276 B. General sales tax, providing income, property tax relief 332 C. Revised income tax 38 D. More property taxes 0 E. No tax increase of any kind 89 F. Other , 30 Editor's Note: A total of 477 questionnaires were returned and have been incorporated in the tabulations above. School Boards Jointly Call For Independent Appraisal Directors of the city elemen tary schools and Klamath Union High School Monday night joint ly called for an independent ap praisal of all school assets in the county as the basis for school reorganization division of assets. The resolution was part of an answer to the county court's re quest for advice on various mat ters to do with school reorgani zation. The resolution was identical to the one adopted by the elementary board last week. The county court had asked the boards' advice on six other points of school reorganization and the directors Monday night submitted their answers to these questions. In response to a question con cerning the usage of present fa cilities and the estimated con struction of new classrooms, the board told the court that a mini mum of 10 new classrooms would have to be constructed to house the elementary students coming into the metropolitan Interim Session Opens Technological Hearings Members of the Legislative Interim Committee on Techno logical Employment held i t s first of two days of hearings on technological changes in the potato harvest and local voca tional and apprenticeship train ing in the county this after noon at the Klamath Falls Of fice of the State Department of Employment. The hearings will resume at the administrative office of the Oregon Technical Institute at 9:30 a.m., tomorrow, featuring comments from Dr. Winston Purvine, president of OTI, and two others in the field of tech nical and vocational training in the county. Dr. Purvine will discuss the widespread need for vocational training and explain how OTI is meeting that need. Harold Teale, director of the industrial arts department at Klamath Union High School, will com ment on vocational training in the high school and Don Schorl gen, business agent for the local carpenters and jointers union, is to tell about apprenticeship in this area. Klamath County's legislative delegation of Sen. Harry D. Boi- j- wr :m;Y I - ;i3d'"i-l"7 far EUGENE, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. school district from the county district under reorganization. It was stated that this esti mate docs not include replace ment of present substandard rooms, or does it anticipate changes in usage of present fa cilities. Furthermore, the board told the court that the present Klam ath Union campus should be adequate to house the estimated 1,600 high school students to be left in the metropolitan district when the reorganization plan goes into effect. It is estimated that some 600 KU high school students will be transferred to the county district under reor ganization. In response to other questions by the county court, the two school boards Monday night: Indicated they would prefer not to have local school commit tees: Said they would prefer that each district be responsible for transporting its own students whether they are assigned to vin and Reps. George C. Flit craft and Carrol B. Howe have joined the interim committee comprised of Sens. Arthur Ire land (Washington County) and Alfred H. Corbett (Multnomah County) and Reps. Edward El der and Richard L. Kennedy (both Lane County) and Fred Meek (Multnomah County). Preceding today's session, the committee was escorted on a lour of the Blackman-Dehlinger farm, near Daily, and a simi lar establishment of Lawrence Cheyne located north of Wor den. Testimony at the hearing this afternoon concerned the techno logical change in the potato pro. duction industry and featured re marks by Len Sytsma, state em ployment officer for Klamath County, on transitions in the la bor market during recent years. He pointed out that the potato industry now employs 60 p e r cent more people locally than it did about 15 years ago. Mrs. Julia Brown, Klamath County welfare officer, told of the changes in welfare aid as a result of the changing employ ment picture. U.OF ORE. LIBRARY HS'APSR SECTION QBN.REP.AMO DOCUMENTS OXV. OSEG. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1963 Administration Wins Battle To Soften Civil Rights Bill WASHINGTON (UPI '-President Kennedy today won his battle to block a civil rights bill he felt was too strong to pass Congress. The House Judiciary Committee rejected the meas ure by a vote of 19-15. After the long-delayed show down vote, the committee turned to consideration of a less sweeping civil rights bill which, like the strong bill it re places, would touch on nearly every area of racial tension, in cluding voting, use of public ac commodations, desegregation of schools within or without the district; Indicated they would prefer no zoning in the metropolitan district and that the five direc tors of the new board be elect ed at large; and Presented a plan whereby the director receiving the great est number of votes have a five year term, the director with the second greatest number having a four-year term and so on. The directors of both boards discussed the controversial divi sion of assets question at length Monday night and Superintend ent Ray Hunsaker was directed to prepare a separate letter on (Continued on Page 4) Rain Faffs Along Dry East Coast By United Press International Hurricane Ginny feinted to ward Cape Cod today b u t veered off to sea, spewing more than 2 inches of rain across drought - weary New England and causing above normal tides from Atlantic City to Boston. A wintery storm off Lake Erie dumped an inch of snow in four northeastern Ohio coun ties and an inch and a half of hail pelted Cleveland. Gusty winds up to 60 miles an hour whipped the New Eng land coast. Fishing fleets sought the safety of port as the storm blew up 13-foot waves. Visibility was as low as h a 1 f a mile in rain and fog. Heavy rain fell across the tin der dry forests of eastern New England. Nantucket, Mass., re ported 1.66 inches in six hours today. Boston had 1.10 inches. The Weather Bureau said as much as 2'i inches fell in some areas. More moderate rainfall fell further inland northward to central Maine, where snow was reported in the highlands. Mod crate rain also fell in the Caro linas and Virginia. Some sleet was mixed with rain at Chicago and snow flur ries fell in the mountains of West Virginia. The mercury dipped to 28 de grees at Faycttevillc, Ark., and even lower in the frosty Dako tas and Minnesota. City, County And State Road Crews Lay Plans To Combat Snowstorms By DAN WALTERS City, county and state offi cials are preparing for the win ter snowstorms which choke Klamath County roads. And with this preparation, Ihcy are seeking to acquaint the public with their responsibilities during the winter months so as to head off any misunderstand ing. Official at all three levels of government emphasized tha. their primary responsibility dur ing the winter months is to keep the main arteries of traffic open and not to service individ ual problems. With this in mind, the officials have plotted those ' roadways which will be kept open in or der of their importance. The State Highway Mainte nancc Department throughout the stat has received orders COUP. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7614 schools and job discrimination. The vote on the strong bill was the first order of commit tee business when it met be hind closed doors. Members who left the room after the bal loting disclosed the vote. The showdown came less than an hour after President Kennedy called both Demo cratic and Republican House leaders together for one final effort to nail down agreement on the compromise. He obvious ly was successful. The committee action cli maxed strenuous personal inter vention by Kennedy and other top administration officials in the civil rights fight. Democrats and Republicans who had been lined up for the stronger bill went into the ju diciary meeting conceding (hat they probably had been beaten. Some of them already were calling the proposed compro mise a good bill that they could support. Giant U.S. Rig Rushed Into Action PEINE. Germany (UPD - A giant, American made drill rig, the largest in West Germany, today began boring a rescue shaft to three miners trapped in an air pocket 262 feet below the surface in a flooded iron mine. Rescue leaders did not have the heart to tell them it will be late Wednesday or sometime Thursday before they can be brought up in an escape cap sule. The three men have spent nearly five days in their under ground prison already. The men, supplied with foam rubber mattresses and five meals daily to ease their or deal, awaited their fate deep under a sugar beet field. The 50-ton drill rig, manufac tured by the Idcco firm in Ba ton Rouge, La., was brought to the mine on flatbed trucks from a natural gas field 75 miles away. Hans Schmidt, chief en gineer on the 22-man rig, said the new drill would churn into the earth at 15 feet an hour. Another drill started Sunday at a rate of about 4.5 feet per hour. Rudolf Stein, manager of the mine, said it had reached a depth of 125 feet by noon. Shooting Hours OREGON October 30 Open Close 6:02 a.m. 5:07 p.m. CALIFORNIA October 30 Open Close 6:06 a.m. 5:03 p.m. from Salem to avoid using chemicals for snow clearance, except in, emergency cases. Paul Jones, local maintenance supervisor, said this decision was made because of the ef fects on autns of the salt and other chemicals used in the past. This year, therefore, state crews will rely basically on me chanical means of snow remov al and use chemicals only in such cases as glare ice condi tions. Locally, stale crews will seek lo keep open U.S. Highway 97, State Route 66, Dead Indian Road to a point two miles east of Lake of the Woods, State Route 58 to Eugene and Dia mond Lake Road. The state highway shops on Altamont Drive are now pre paring numerous snowplows lor their job and soma of the plows Wont her AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Htrvcit outlook only lair thlt wttk with rtcurrlno ihowtry ptriodi Wd ntiday ond igtln Ultr In lltt wttk. INQUIRY OPENS The Senate Rules Committee opened its inquiry into the affairs of former Senate Democratic Secretary Robert G. (Bobby) Baker behind closed doors today with Sen. John J. Williams (R-Del. who has made a lengthy investigation of Baker's projects as the witness. Here, Committee Chairman B. Everett Jordan (D N.C. ), left, confers with Senator Williams prior to the start of the hearing. UPI TeleDhoto His-Her Mixup Quickly Fixed SAN FRANCISCO (UPD -Halloween pranksters struck early at the San Francisco Hall of Justice by changing the signs on the first floor restrooms marked "men" and "women." Janitors said Monday the signs were back in Uie proper places with no harm done so i far as anyone knows. German Beauty Declares Spicy Reports Not True BONN (UPI) A statuesque German model who was oust ed from the United States as an undesirable issued a blanket denial today of lier reported Washington (hi - jinx in high places. Mrs. Ellen Romelsch, 27, said she never had intimate rela tions with men other than her husband while living in Wash ington. Mrs. Romctsch, divorced since returning to Germany last August, issued a statement to the German press agency, which distributed it to all West German newspapers. She telephoned the agency from her parents' home on a farm near Wuppertal, in the Ruhr, where she apparently has been living for several weeks. Reporters besieging the farm since Monday noon were fright ened off Monday by a farm hand carrying a shotgun. To day, tliey were told by a mem ber of the Romctsch family if they did not leave the proper ty, police mould be called and asked to arrest them for tres passing. In her statement to the Ger man press agency, Mrs. Ro metsch said she thought suspi. have already been distributed to various points, awaiting t h e first major snowstorm. Meanwhile, the Klamath Coun ty Road Department is making preparations to keep other roads outside the city open to traffic. John Creed, county engineer, said the county will attempt (n keep all county roads open to traffic, except possibly several in the Chiloquin area. The county, to accomplish this task, has two push snowplows, one rotary plow, a sanding rig, and two scraper blades for Ice. Sand will be used on heavily traveled and steep roads where ice is likely to form, Including the road to Oregon Technical In stitute and the Riverside Hill road. (Continued on Page 4) Institution hmk Cut SAI.EM (UPD Slate institu tion budget cuts totaling $3.6 million were put into effect by the State Board of Control today and Gov. Mark Hatfield said more severe slashes might have to be made. I kwHl ' " Senate Opens Inquiry Into Baker's Activities WASHINGTON (UPD Sen ate investigators today opened an inquiry into the outside busi ness interests of former Senate Democratic Secretary Robert G. (Bobby) Baker but side stepped questions on the pos sible involvement of a West German girl. Sen. B. Everett Jordan, D-N. . . cion had been drawn to her be cause of her friendship with a woman employed on Capitol Hill as a secretary. She said she had known tile woman and the woman's em ployer socially, but she did not name them. Apparently she re ferred to Carole Tyler, another beauty, and Robert G. (Bobby) 'Baker, former Senate Demo cratic secretary who is under investigation by the Senate Rules Committee. Mrs. Rometsch said that when she first went to the United States two years ago, she also was friendly with another young woman who was said to have connections with a number of influential persons in Washington. But Mrs. Rometsch denied site ever had met any of these persons, even at cocktail par ties, to which she was invited because of her modeling activi ties. She also denied she ever was alone or in small groups with men other than her husband. Mrs. Komctsch said the FBI interrogated her about four weeks before she and her hus band returned to Germany on Aug. ai, and that she told them the same thing. READY FOR ACTION Thesa rotary snowplowt art raady fo baHl inow on Klamatft County highwayi this year. Tha stata Highway Maintenance Department machinery will be busy all winter keeping traffic moving. f 't oard Off Control As a result of the cuts, 426 jobs were eliminated but about 200 of these positions now are vacant. Hatfield indicated more cut hacks might be in order if the legislature, meeting in special C, chairman of the rules com mittee conducting the inquiry, said he knew "nothing" about the activities of 27-year-old El len Itometsch, the name drop. pine former wife of a West German army sergeant. Asked if the question would come up, Sen. Howard w. Ca n non, D-Ncv., said: "It doesn't appear to have any ma teriality now, If it appears to later, we might go into it." Sen. Joseph S. Clark, D-Pa., said he also was in the dark about the woman. She was giv en a ticket home by Hie West German government following an investigation of her penchant for high jiving while her hus band was based in Washington. Sen. John J. Williams, R-Dcl. the committee's first scheduled witness, showed up armed with a stack of notes and papers. He told reporters his presentation would take "some time." The GOP senator already had begun his own informal Inquiry inlo Baker's financial opera tions when the Senate, on his resolution, ordered the rules investigation into Baker's ac tivities. Baker won his spurs as "Lyn don's boy" back in 1949 when he became the unofficial aide of the then freshman senator from Texas, Lyndon B. John son. In 1955, Baker was elected by the Senate Demo crats to post of Secretary to the Senate majority. The committee's inquiry is to determine whether tlicre has been a violation of conflict of interest laws in any of Baker's many lucrative outside deals. DRINKING A FACTOR. WASHINGTON (UPI) - A White House study committee said Wednesday there Was evl dence that drinking was a fac tor in up to half of the nation's 40.000 annual traffic fatalities. ( Q ' session Nov. 11, did not approve a one-shot speedup of withhold ing ta. collections or the cuts he has asked In the basic school allotment. The budgeted populations for state institutions were cut 735 to 9,240 under the austerity pro gram announced today. Cuts announced today were: Board of Control administration, $150,412; state hospitals $2,642,. 319; adult penal institutions $303,929; juvenile institutions $350,112; and the deaf and blind schools $157,154. Included in the $2.6 million hospital cuts were these reduc tions: Oregon state hospital at Salem, $891,872; Eastern Oregon Male h o s p 1 1 a 1 at Pendleton $488,775; Fairview Home $774, 204; and Dammasch Hospital $277,890. The board announced it. had established a $1 million priority list to be reinstituted if funds become available. Hatfield warned the cutbacks orderedlmight be revised if the legislature's way and means committee decides to review in dividual budgets. "These are suggested points of departure, they can't be considered per manent as they depend upon ac tion by the legislature," Hat field said. , , The board also Indicated it might be forced to proceed with the purchase of at least five parcels of property in the Cap itol Mall area. The sales were nearly com pleted when all property acqui sition was halted, but one per son appeared at the board meet ing today and said he stood to lose $2,000 in earnest money he had put down on another house if the state did not complete the purchase of his house. The board ordered the purchase of the property from Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ward and indicated while it did not want to buy the prop erty In view of the tax election defeat, there was no other legal course open. Cook Raps Musa Plan TILLAMOOK (UPI) Slate Sen. Vernon Cook, D-Gresham, 'has renewed his demand that the entire legislature decide where to make budget cuts as a result of voter rejection of a tax increase Oct. 15. Cook lashed out at Senate President Ben Musa, D-The Dalles, (Monday night in a speech to the Tillamook County Democratic Central Committee. Noting that Musa had pro posed that the 14 members of the Ways and Means Committee meet with the Stale Department of Finance and Administration to agree on cuts, Cook com mented, "The membors of the Oregon Legislature were not elected to rubber stamp the de cisions of Governor Hatfield. Nor were we elected to delegate our responsibilities to less than one-sixth of the members of the legislature." "It is a sltocking thing to have the Democratic president of Oregon's ijenate propose that budget ciKs... should be deter mined by the governor's depart ment of Finance," he said. "To direct the Ways and Means Committee to examine the budget in one week Is like sending 13 men and one woman to put out the fires in the Tilla mook Burn," Cook said. 3
