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HERALD AND
Slavery, Insurrection Cases
Go Before Southern Courts
.By United Pres Inlernatlonal
: . Slavery and insurrection, an
achronisms in 20th century
America, were the subjects to-
day of federal court study in
South Carolina and Georgia.
-A three-judge court in Amerl
cus, Ga., will be asked to halt
nrncjamiMnn nt iniiritinn
iharees asamst five voune Ne
groes and whites. The five
- .nave oeen neia in jail wunout
-3ond since their arrests last
-August during racial demon-
strations in that city.
; The slavery charges Were or
. dered placed against Robert
Moultrie Cook, a prominent
I South Carolina tobacco farmer.
-;by a federal grand jury
C Wednesday. Federal attorneys
: charged that Cook used threats
;-to force Max Roy McKenzie to
;-work on his farm for $3 per
: -day and kept half of his pay to
:-"pay off some sort of alleged
;:debt."
l".- The civil rights workers in
Robinson Explains County School Board Views
X Editor's Note: The following
statement on the present re
; organization effort of the three
school boards of the county was
'- submitted to the Herald and
- News by County School Super-
- lmenaent cuir iuroinson to ex-
plain the viewpoints of the
- county school group.
" - ' OMiRiHnrwhlp Intarpst. in ty.
Ing shown in the efforts of the
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'.agreement on the division of as
'sets and the sharing of respon
- sibilitles in the proposed school
district boundary changes which
will be presented to the voters
In the near future. County
ecnool district directors and of
ficers are of the opinion that
their position has not been pre
sented olearry to the public.
; They opposed the one-district
proposal, which was voted on
last June, because of the ex
.ccssivcly high tax Increase
on the rural residents of t h e
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NEWS, Klamath Falli. Orefon
Amcricus are charged under a
reconstruction era statute
which provides that death may
be imposed for violation of it.
The suit seeks immediate re
lease of the five and asks the
court to prohibit officials from
intimidating or obstructing ef
forts to demonstrate peacefully.
This second phase of the pe
tition which seeks to halt inter
ference with demonstrations
could set a precedent or legal
action in civil rights disputes
all across the South.
Officials in Jackson, Miss.,
continue their court testimony
today in an action to perma
nently prohibit massive racial
demonstrations in that city.
Mayor Allen Thompson testi
fied in a state court hearing
Wednesday that integrationist
organizations threatened action
that was "potential dynamite"
unless they complied with their
desegregation demands.
A temporary injunction
county district and because
they sincerely believed that two
districts of nearly equal size
and resources were sounder and
would better serve the educa
tional needs of the area. After
the single-district plan was de
feated, tile county school offi
cials joined the city school offi
cials in an intensive study of
possible plans to be submitted
to the county court, which also
serves as the boundary board.
A plan was accepted.
Now, it appears thai an im
passe has been reached over
the adjustment of the assets.
The key issue seems to be the
use of a "common yardstick of
property values." This term has
been repeated numerous times
of late and has taken on an
aura of importance far beyond
its merits. Actually, the coun
ty school district is using a
"common yardstick of proper
ty values" In its efforts to
reach agreement with Districts
No. 1 and No. 2. Possible "yard
sticks" are original cost, re
placement cost, depreciated val
ue, and fair market value. Tlie
latter Is riot applicable in this
Instance because no one wants
to buy a school house o r
school purposes.
The table of depreciated val
ues, which was prepared for
study by the directors of the
three boards, employs the same
"common yardstick of proper
ty values" as the figure submit
ted by tile union high school dis
trict. The only difference is
that the county's "depreciated
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against demonstrations in Jack
son was issued during that
city's mass protest campaign
last spring and the current suit
seeks to make it permanent.
Holmer Back
At State Post
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. lUPH
Freeman Holmer said today
he will return to his duties as
Oregon director of finance and
administration prior to the Ore
gon legislature's special session
next month.
Holmer look a leave of ab
sence from his post earlier this
month to conduct a market sur
vey for a private firm. He is
in Albuquerque attending the
Western Conference of the Coun
cil on State Governments.
values" were prepared by the
county school district's insur
ance broker, who used experi
enced insurance appraisers to
determine the roplacemnt cost
of the county's buildings and
their depreciated value, while
the union high school's sched
ule was prepared by the Ameri
can Appraisal Company.
The directors of tlie county
district can see no reason why
fcliey should spend almost $10,
000 of the taxpayers' money to
have an appraisal made by an
appraisal company at this time
solely for the purpose of assur
ing the directors of Districts
No. 1 and No. 2 that the in
surance company's appraisal is
accurate. They doubt if the pa
trons of the district would look
with favor on such an expendi
ture. The arithmetic of the issue,
which we believe Uie public is
entitled to know, is simple. The
assessed value of the overlap
area is $15,774,600. This is tlie
difference between the assessed
value of District No. 1 ($28,508,
674) and District No. 2 (544.283.
0641 both per Hie 1963 Tax Sum
mary. If tlie present plan of boun
dary changing is adopted by a
favorable vote of the people,
$6,084,068, of tlie assessed val
uation, now in the county school
district will be transferred to
District No. 1. This is part of
the present overlap area. This
$6,084,9(18 represents 0.6 per
cent of the total assessed value
of the county school district
($6.0114.068. the total assessed
value of tlie county school dis
trict, divided by $63,057,486. the
part to be transferred to D I s
trii'l No. li. So, the people to
be transferred to District No. 1
are entitled to take with them
as a credit, 9.6 per cent of tlie
total value of the assets of the
Klamath County School District.
Tlie three boards have been in
agreement on this point.
The disagreement lies in wluit
are the total assets, using de
preciated values as the "com
mon yardstick of property val
ue." The insurance schedule of
the county school district puts
a total depreciated value of
$3,323,920 on the elementary
school buildings. The county be
lievos this figure Is accurate
because it has all of its build
ings insured for full replace
ment cost. Tlie depreciated val
ue of the elementary scliool
buildings, according to tilic in
surance schedule, and other as
sets make a grand total of $3,
973,900. This amount times 9.6
per cent and minus tlie depre
ciated value of the Fairhaven
building equals $119,385, the
credit that the area being trans
ferred from the county school
district to District No. 1, under
the proposed change, would
take with it.
There is a second important
consideration. If the boundary
changes are approved, the un
ion high scliool district will go
out of existence and Its assets
and responsibilities will be di
vided between District No. 1 and
Uie county school district. The
question Is who gets how much
and who is responsible for ed
ucating the union high school
children?
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Selection Of Jury'Eritecs .Ffiiurih Day
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. UP1
The Thompson "murder for
hire" trial headed today for ig
nition of the fireworks. That
may come by (Friday. Veteran
observers said the jury could
be picked by then.
The trial of the little man
from St. Paul, the criminal at
Strange Letter Baffles
Housewife And Officers
SAN JOSE. Calif. (UPI -San
Joe police today checked
the possibility that a "treat"
received by a housewife earlier
this week may have some
"trick" involved.
The woman received a letter
Monday addressed "Occupant."
but tarrying her address. It
contained four colored snap
shots wrapped in five $20
bills of her l-ycar-old daugh
ter.
The pictures showed the little
girl playing on the sidewalk in
front of her home with a neigh
bor's child. Neither youngster
part of the union high school
district going to the county will
be $9,689,797. Since the union
high school district has an as
sessed valuation of $44,283,364,
as per the 1963 Tax Summary,
the $9,689,797 going to the coun
ty represents a 21.9 per cent
interest.
Since the union high school
building would be operated by
District No. l, they would keep
a 78.1 per cent interest in the
assets of tlie union high school
($2,954,727, depreciated value t
and Uie county school district
would receive a 21.9 per cent
interest of $647,085. Since the
area leaving the county school
district would take a credit of
$119,385 with them, which would
be a debit for the county, the
county would end up with a net
credit of $527,700, a sizable sum
of money. This is the sum of
money that District No. 1, ac
cording to Uie report in t h e
Herald and News, . . . "sees
no other alternative than to
cancel. . . ." 11 is difficult to
understand how anyone truly
interested in solving the over
crowding problems at the un
ion high school by district re
organization could raise such a
financial obstacle as this.
The third important consider
ation involves the rosponsibili
ity for the high school students.
If tlie plan under consideration
is approved, tlie county will
have the responsibility for 640
students now attending Klam
ath Union. The 19l3 legislature
enacted a law that permits stu
dents who are enrolled in a
high school to finish their edu
cation in that school and causes
their home district to pay their
tuition.
The forecast indicates that
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torney with the piercing eyes
and the silvery-mousy crewcut,
entered its fourth day today
with five jurors yet to be cho
sen. They are three members
of the regular panel plus two
alternates.
Tilmer Eugene Thompson,
(he criminal attorney who at 35
knew when the pictures were
taken or by whom.
The woman also said she has
received a series of mysterious
phone calls and in each case
the party calling held the line
open but did not speak.
Police returned the pictures
and the $100 to the perplexed
woman, and began checking the
possibility of a link between the
anonymous calls and the letter.
A police spokesman empha
sized that no law has been vio
lated, but authorities felt an in
vestigation of the incident was
advisable.
On Redisricting Issue
this provision would cost the
county school district $417,186
over the three-year transition
period. This factor further high
lights the difficulty faced by the
county board in accepting a
proposition that on the one
hand wipes out a credit of
$527,700, knowing that tlie coun
ty will be obligated for $417,
186 for tuition. This is an ex
tremely dear sacrifice in be
half of school district reorgan
ization and the effort of the
county to help solve an over
crowded condition of its neigh
bor. It was mutually agreed, at
several meetings attended by
representatives of the three dis
tricts, that success in reorgani
zation would be possible only if
it would not be necessary for
either district to have to pay
the other district anything in
the adjustment of assets and
for the education of the other
district's students during t h e
three year transition period.
The county scliool district be
lieved in this principle and so
advised the county court of its
decision in a letter dated Sept.
27. 11983.
This position was taken with
the realization that the county
school district had a potential
credit nf $110,914 after the tui
tion for the high school stu
dents would be paid. ,
It recognized that there are
many factors to be considered
in the adjustment nf assets.
The schedule that was submit
ted by the county for prelimi
nary study contained only those
items that had been mutually
agreed on. .Reconsideration of
factors could favor District No.
1, but there are many others
that would favor the county's
Center
was plunged into tragedy when
his wife was slain last spring
and three months later became
the renter of shocked and an
gered interest in the Twin
Cities when he was indicted on
a charge of murder, has been
taking a sort of mental beating
in the jury picking.
Three-fifths of all the persons
examined as prospective jurors
Wednesday in Hennepin County
District Court were excused
from duty because they said
they were opinionated as to his
guilt.
The tiial was brought here
on a change of venue from the
Twin City of St. Paul, where
the murder was committed.
The issue that won the location
switch was that publicity in St.
Paul tended to create bias
The slate of Minnesota ac
cuses Thompson of first degree
murder in the bludgeon-knifing
of his pretty wife Carol, 34,
mother of (our and devoted
church worker whose life was
insured for 91.061,000 in policies
of which Thompson was the
beneficiary. It will try to prove
that he masterminded a three
man pint to do away with her.
position, i.e., the shift of the
Weyerhaeuser multi-million dol
lar assessed valuation, with few
children to educate, from the
county elementary to District
No. 1 was accepted graciously.
The resolution of District No. 1
also opens the door for some in
teresting changes in what the
county should include in its to
tal "depreciated values."
The paragraph "District No.
1 is also of the opinion that
such items of assets as are used
should be the same in all dis
tricts involved, and that those
items should include all as
sets toward which the taxpay
ers in the areas affected have
made a contribution" possibly
refers to the county's serial
levy funds. The resolution could
buildings in the county which
very well exclude all of the
were in existence before the
county unit was formed in 1923.
Their total depreciated value
represents a considerable sum
and it was included in t h e
schedule submitted for study.
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LAWYER-CLIENT HUDDLE T. Eugene Thompson I right I confers briefly with hit
attorney, Hyam Segell, before the opening of another clsy of Thompion's first degree
murder trial in Minneapolis. He is charged in the March murder of his wife. After four
days, only nine jurors had been selected. UPI Telephoto
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In Slaying
PORTLAND lUPH-The .Mult
nomah County Sheriff's office
reported no new developments
in the Nona Christine Jackson
slaying today, after hopes for a
major development in the case
Merc dashed Wednesday.
Reports that a break in the
case might be forthcoming end
ed about 5 p.m. when two detec
tives returned from an out-of-town
assignment and reported
to Sheriff Don Clark.
Clark and his top aides had
been hopeful throughout the day
but had refused to give the de
tails of their lead.
The 28-year-old woman's body
was fmmd by two boys near
Gresham Sunday. She was re
ported missing .lune 11.
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