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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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