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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1963)
com?. In The- Ml MI Tans lill Day's lews N By FRANK JENKINS . In Salem this morning, Gov ernor Hatfield recommends to the Oregon legislature, assem bled in special session, a pro gram of austerity in expendi tures AND NO NEW TAXES. This morning's dispatches re port that after hearing the gov ernor's address the legislative assembly "struck out bravely" along the new path ordered by the voters. There isn't much else to do. The people's mandate at the re cent special election was clear. They said in no uncertain terms that they want TAX REDUC TION. They made it unmistak ably clear that they are getting hot under the collar under the burden of taxes. Probing question: WHY are the people of Ore gon getting hot under the collar about taxes? Let's take a look at some figures. Oregon's STATE taxes aren't extravagantly heavy. The refcrended legislative budget came to a total of $404.3 million. Assuming that our pres ent population is 1,81)0.000, that 4s a per capita tax of $224. And that is for a B1ENN1UM two years. For one year it is only $112 30.' Let's take a look now at fed eral taxes. According to Tax Foundation, Inc., Oregon's share of the 1903 federal budget of $98.8 B I L LIO is $899 million. That comes to a per capita annual tax in Oregon of $493 and that is for ONE year. Put on a per capita basis, for one year, it looks like this: Oregon legislative budget $112.30. Oregon's share of the federal budget, $493.88. Which is to say: Oregon's per capita share of the FEDERAL budget is three and one third times Oregon's per capita share of the state general fund budget that was referended and heavily defeated at the Oregon election on Octo ber 15. Uncle, you see, is the EXTRAVAGANT spender. What to do about it? How can Uncle's extrav agance be checked? Well, about all we can do about Uncle's extravagance is to vote against Oregon's sena tors and representatives in con gress who, we think, are voting for extravagant federal spend ing. And that doesn't get us very far. Oregon's voice at Washing ton isn't very loud. Parliament Reconvenes LONDON (UPD-Tbe Conser vative government of Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home reconvened Parliament today with a speech pledging to mod ernize Britain and work for world peace. Douglas-Home was not pres ent for the speech this morning because he did not officially be come a member of the House of Commons until the afternoon session. He was to open debate on his government's policy statement, contained in the traditional speech by Queen Elizabeth, with Labor leader Harold Wil son. The queen's speech is written by the government, not the queen, and it was not even de livered by the queen this morn- VETERANS HONORED Klamath County's war dead commander of the, Veterans 1 1 o'clock Monday morning. crowd at the shaft. . Won I her Klamitti Falls. Tutlikt tnd tikt vitw Cloudy with rain r thowtrs be ginning tonight or Wtdntwlay. Lowt tonight M to 31. High Wcdnttday 47 to S3. Southerly windt tivt to IS ml let High ytitarday $4 tow this morning tt High year ago si Low year ago n Precip. put 14 hours .M Sine Jan. 1 v.or Saint period bit ytr 13.00 Test Convoy Rolls Past Checkpoints Unmolested BERLIN (UPD-A U.S. Army convoy sent out to test Russian intentions today passed through two Russian checkpoints on the Berlin highway without harass ment. The convoy of 54 men in 13 vehicles traveled along the autobahn tlirough East Ger many from Berlin to the Vest without dismounting for a head count as the Russians demand ed last w eek. Informed sources said the convoy passed without incident Russian checkpoints outside Berlin and on the East-West German border. The Russians did not demand that the convoy dismount to be counted, the sources said. The convoy cleared the Rus sians' Babelsburg checkpoint, just outside Berlin, in about one hour, and the Russian check point at Marienborn, on the Driver Enjoys Being Pinched SYRACUSE. N.Y. (UPD Police Chief Patrick Murphy posted a letter on the station house bulletin board Monday from a citizen who received a ticket for disobeying a stop sign. The letter read "I have nev er been treated with more courtesy or respect than when ticketed by your officer. He was so courteous that he almost made me like the traf fic ticket." 1' 4 jrj- y.ryv tvr.-ti.' w m '111 II i " in' tn tli Inn 1 1 r-tHina T ir7llifli 'ill -in SALUTES VICTIMS Tom Winterringer of the American Legion Post 8 salutes the Memorial Shaft Monday during Veterans Day ceremonies. Inscribed on the shaft are names of local men who died in battle. Hundreds gath ered for the ceremonies Monday. Several hundred pertoni Monday morning paid tribute to in ceremonies at the Memorial Shaft. Fred Mandell, district of Foreign Wars, conducted the memorial ceremonies at This photo shows honor guard of veterans with pert of the i Price Teo Cents East-West German border, in about 80 minutes. Tile convoy was considered an expression of Western Allied de termination to keep B e r 1 i n routes open. This was1 considered signifi cant because there were more passengers in today's convoy than in the convoy halted by the Russians Nov. 4 and held for 41 hours. In the convoy halted last week there were 20 passengers. Soviets Nub On Charges MOSCOW (UPD - A Yale University professor, noted for his anti-Communist views, has been arrested by the Russians as a spy, the U.S. Embassy an nounced today. An embassy spokesman said Professor Frederick Barghoorn, 52, a member of Yale's political science department, had been touring the Soviet Union. The spokesman said the em bassy was informed of Bar ghoorn's arrest by the Soviet Foreign Ministry, bid it was not known where or when he had been taken into custody. The spokesman said the em bassy was pressing for further details about Barghoorn's sei zure and was seeking "the op portunity '. of seeing him." He is believed to have been ft'. t-; KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 12. 1963 Today's convoy comprised 54 men in 13 vehicles. This includ ed 26 drivers and co-drivers, and 28 passengers. The convoy was regarded as a test of Russian intentions be cause of this composition. The Western Allies have told the Russians their soldiers will dismount only if there are more than 30 in a convoy. Today's convoy was com manded by Lt. Charles P. Bern stein of Raleigh, N.C. Professor Of Spying arrested a few days ago. Barghoorn, a bachelor, came to the Soviet union early last month on a one-month tourist visa. The embassy said he had been in Tbilsi in Georgia in con nection w ith the Robert Jenkins Clarion Concert Group, and at Alma Ata in Kazakhstan for the opening of the American graph ic arts exhibition in October. The charge against Barghoorn followed by only nine days the arrival back in Moscow of two Russian diplomats ordered to leave the United States for al leged espionage activity. Barghoorn, whose home is at New Haven, Conn., is a recog nized authority on the Soviet Union. v Communist Diplomats Restricted WASHINGTON (UPD - The United States today clamped new travel restrictions on Com munist diplomats from eastern Europe to prevent spying. Certain areas of the United States now will be closed to travel by these diplomats, as they have been for Soviet offi cials since 1955. The purpose is to prevent the satellite nation diplomats from gathering intelligence data for the Russians by touring U.S. defense areas which are barred to Soviet officials. Representatives of the em bassies of Poland, Czechoslo vakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary were summoned to the State Department one by one and informed of the new rules. Meantime, ' the department was overhauling the map of U.S. areas closed to Russian travelers. The map, a patchwork of "closed" cities, counties and states, will still place some 26 per cent of the country off limits. But the geographic areas will be different. The measure has been under intense debate in the Kennedy administration since last sum mer. Military officials argued that the Russians do not need to en ter the closed areas, because they can always send a Hun garian or Czech diplomat or military attache. State Department officials op posed the measure. They said some eastern European coun tries recently have begun, or indicated they will begin, eas ing restrictions against U.S. travelers. Shooting Hours x OREGON November 11 Opel Close l:zl a.m. 4:S0 p.m. CALIFORNIA November U Oprn Close i:22.a.m. 4:47 p.m. . A1? - ; 'W ' x V" ' , " . t " , . 4 ? J. A ELEVATOR NOT WORKING? rope from atop the Claremont Hotel s 180-foot bell tower to the ground Monday in a demonstration of mountain climbing technique at Berkeley, Calif. The three climbers, left to right, are Joe McKeown, 18, Galen Rowell, 23, and Jim Harper, 19. Thoy made the perpendicular free rappell (free air ) descent, with the aid of special nylon ropes, i.in approximately six., lecondi the four-day California Winter Fair in Berkeley which starts. Thursday. , 1 ' . ' UPI Telephoto 'Big Lift' FRANKFURT (UPI)-A fleet of silvery U.S. Air Force trans port planes headed for the United States today, carrying home the armored division flown here last month to meet a mock crisis. The first plane off the ground, a giant C135 carrying 73 sol diers of the 2nd Armored Divi sion, left for Bergstrom Field, Tex. The entire division, flown to Europe in less than three days last month, is to be ferried home in nine days. On its arrival it picked up heavy weapons, halted and threw back a mock aggressor and returned its tanks, vehicles and missies to storage sites. Pfc. Charles Ottens of Comp ton, Calif., said before boarding Nixon Vows Legal Action To Keep Name Off Ballot NEW YORK 'UPIi-Former Vice President Richard M. Nix on, who has been relentlessly stalking rumors of his presiden tial availability, Monday cut down a speculation given life by former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. On Sunday Nixon's one-time chief said that if the GOP 14 nominating convention became deadlocked, t h e kingmakers would have to "examine and approach" Nixon as a possible compromise candidate. "1 appreciate such a generous remark about myself," Nixon said Monday, "however, I am slicking by my decision to serve nut as a candidate but as a constructive critic of the admin. l.tration." Nixon, who lost by a razor thin margin to Sen. John F. Kennedy in the I960 prcdcn lial election, foreww "no cir cumstances whatever" under which he might become a can didate in 14. He spoke at a news confer ence held to announce the se lection as "industrialist of the year" of Charles E. DanieL hoard chairman of the Daniel Construction Co., Greenville, S C. Nixon headed the 10-man committee which chose Daniel for the honor. Telephone TV 4-8111 No. 7h6 Three vounq mountaineers .1 he, trio will. present the Heads Homeward the gleaming jet, "the maneuv er was fine, I guess but I'll be glad to get home." Maj. James W. Booth of Hart well, Ga., also on the first plane, said Big Lift "proved we can reinforce NATO, (Amer ica's European allies) quickly. We can do it again anytime." Five more C135's and throe C124's carrying full troop loads were to take off from here be fore midnight. In addition, three C130's and four C'118's Lift masters were departing from other German cities. The 2nd Armored was flown here tn demonstrate the United States' capability to reinforce its troops in Europe on short notice. To make the operation more realistic and to give the division field training, it fought Nixon buttressed his denials of interest in the nomination with a promise to lake "legal steps" (or removal of his name from any primary election in which it rliight be submitted. Tlie nation's first presidential primary is March 10. in New Hampshire, and Nixnn said he thought the GOP contenders in that lest should he Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona an,d New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefel ler, the only announced GOP candidate. Billie Sol Takes Fifth Amendment , WASHINGTON (UPD -Billie Sol Estes, the rags-to-riche Texas farm financier, look the Filth Amendment today when Senate investigators asked whether he used influence in high places to build his now toppled farm empire. First in private, and then at a public hearing, the ex-tycoon pleaded possible self-incrimination to questions by the Senate investigations subcommittee. The subcommittee had suspend ed a long Inquiry into Estes' cot ton allotment oerations about a year ago. As the hearing got underway. Wenllior LONO . RANGE OUTLOOK Ttmptraturts to cool slightly be ginning Wednesday and above normal precipitation in periods ol rain or hewers beginning tonight or Wednes day and again about Saturday. demonstration again, during a mock war fur more than a week in the area between Frankfurt and Kasscl to the northeast. The exercise put the 2nd Ar mored in the role of defender against an aggressor division that was supposed to have at tacked through the Fulda Gup from Communist East Ger. many, the invasion route East ern armies have used for cen turies and a likely route for any Communist aggressor. Flemming To Speak Dr. Arthur S. Flemming. pres ident of the University of Ore gon, will deliver the main ad dress Friday evening at dedica tion ceremonies for the n e w Chiloquin High School. Dr. Flemming will speak on "Pursuit of Excellence." Paul Fairclo, chairman of the County School Board, will pre sent the building and it will be accepted by Al Samples, for mer L'hil'Kuin principal. Dr. Clilf Robinson, siicrin tt'iidcnt of coumy schools, will present the platform guests. The ceremony will begin at 7:43 Friday evening at the school. The rest of the program will include music by the Klamath Community Symphony, and the Chiloquin lligh School hand and Indian dancing by the Wild Eagle Dancers. An oHn house will follow the ceremonies to which the public is invited. he told Chairman John L. Mc Clellan, D-Ark., that he was the same Billie Sol Estes who fig ured in the subcommittee's long inquiry on how he acquired pooled cotton allotments from farmers displaced by govern ment activities in other areas. McC'lellan. who hod already outlined Estes' refusal to testi fy at the closed-door session, then asked Estes when he first became interested in pooled cot ton allotments. "I resKctfully refuse to an swer the question on the grounds that it might tend to are shown descendina bv Other Measures Back Governor's Requests SALEM (UPD - On a "try, try again" note, tax bills sailed Monday into a chastised but not cowed Oregon Legislature. Sales and cigarette tax bills were introduced before the spe cial session was hours old. Gov. Mark Hatfield's bill to speed up withholding lax "pay ments to the state was entered. And Rep. Richard Eymann, D Marcola, promised to fight for introduction of a net re ceipts tax measure and bills taxing beer and wine, hotels and motels, and domestic insurance companies. Eymann got a temporary re buff Monday from tlie House Rules Committee, but said he would try to introduce the bills through his own tax committee if the rules committee did not relent. Tlie tax bills began appearing even before Hatfield went in front of an opening joint session The full text of Governor Hatfield's remarks on the opening day of the special session appears on Page 5 of today's Herald and News. of the Senate and House to re mind the lawmakers their last tax achievement had been Governor's Remarks Draw Varied Reaction SALEM (UPD -The special session of tlie legislature was launched Monday agreed there was much to bo done, but not agreed on what should be done. Reactions tn Gov. Mark Hat field's special message to a joint session of the House Sen ate ranged from enthusiastic support to bitter disapproval. Hatficid admonished lawmak ers to go swiftly about tlieir work, then go home. House Speaker Clarence Bar Inn, D-Coqtiil'e, said the ad dress was "what I expected." Senate President Ben Musa, D-The Dalles, commented "I agree, we have a jb to do. I still hope we can get the job done in seven or ten days." House Minority Leader F. F. Montgomery, R-Eugenc, said "we will tighten our belts along the lines he recommended." Senate Minority Leader An thony Yturri, R-Ontario, termed Hatfield's address "brief, clear and to the point." "Worst Ever:" Pearson But Sen. Walter Pearson, D Portland, blasted the message as "(lie worst address I have ever heard any governor de liver. I resent his remarks di rected at the legislature. He of fered no solution to tlie prob lems." Underlying the day's activities was a tone of seriousness. Musa termed it "a different attitude of legislators." What it foretold was not clear. Hatfield admonished lawmak ers not to enact any new tax measures. But within an hour of his speech more than a dozen had been proposed, and it ap peared the flow had barely be gun. Barton commented "it's any one's privilege to introduce bills as long as they are germane to the subject and hand." Pearson acidly noted, "They're wasting their lime and the legislature's lime by holding tax committee meetings. Musa refused comment. "It's not for the Senate to pass judg ment on House tax proposals at this time." Contusion and Contrast It also was a day of confusion and contrast. There was confusion because tlie normul legislative processes were revved up to jet speed. Six of the bills introduced Mon- incriminate me, sir," Estes re plied. Questions asked the west Tex as farm tycoon in the closed door session were understood to have centered on Estes' opera tions in acquiring cotton allot ments from farmers who had been displaced Irom cotton farming elsewhere in the coun try because of government ac tivity. Estes arrived promptly for his appointment. He was ac companied by subcommittee counsel Don O'Donnell and an other companion. "summarily and decisively" dumped by the voters. The people don't want any new taxes this session, Hatfield said. The governor asked for more budget cutting authority and a one-shot withholding tax speed up to bring tho state budget back into balance. Tlie voters' defeat of the tax program passed last spring put tlie budg et $60 million out of whack. But while some legislators agreed that a simple program such as that proposed by Hat field was in order, others such as Eymann said it would be a mistake to concentrate only on stop-gap measures. Six bills were introduced the first day all in the House. In addition to tlie sales, cigarette, and one-shot tax bills, tlie rules committee cleared a measure to give the governor power to cut basic school money, a bill halv ing legislators' salaries, and a bill to let the governor trim the pay of state officials and admin istrators! The bills were sped through two readings so tlie Ways and Means Committee and the Tax committee could begin consider- (Continued on Page 4) day were given two readings and referred to committee with in an hour's time a process that under normal procedures would take two days. Contrast resulted because leg islators assigned to committees were put Immediately to work, while others had nothing to do but wait. the legislature would make budget cuts, or allow the gov ernor to make them. - There was no agreement in Ways and Means whether it should assume a one-shot mea sure would be approved. And there were so many con flicting views on proposed cuts in basic school aid, that the problem was turned over to a subcommittee. The responsible leaders con tinued to voice the belief that the session would end in a week VI MS. (DUI. MKMU was Oil UIIUCL lying note of concern that in dicated the session might drag on for a longer period. Shortly after the joint session ended, Robert Jossy. secretary- treasurer of the Multnomah County Citizens Committee for economy and equitable taxation a branch of the group that spearheaded referral of the $60 million tax increase measure presented petitions to Musa urg ing adoption of the Liberty Amendment. This proposed change in the federal constitu tion would outlaw income taxes. Recess Idea Suggested By Barton SALEM (UPD A plan to re cess the legislature to allow tlie Tax Committee time to draft a sales tax program for referral to the peoplo was suggested to day by House Speaker Clarence Barton, D-Coquille. The proposal would include re writing tlie income tax laws to mesh with the sales tax. but would not include a property tax offset. ( Barton, who made It clear he personally did not favor a sales tax, said tlie legislature should move quickly to make the au sterity cuts recommended by Gov. Mark Hatfield. The legislature then would re cessrather than adjourn so the I n t e r I m Tax Committee could draft new tax laws. When the committee bills were ready, the session could be reconvened to take action on the measures. Under Barton's suggestion, tlie new revenue bills would be sub mitted for voter approval during 19M. so the 115 legislature could draft new budgets based on the new revenue program if It won voter approval. Barton made it clear he want ed tlie special session to settle the fiscal crisis at hand first, before devoting Its attention to a new revenue program.
