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Newspaper Page Textu.of ens.LinrusT coup. Nt5:jA?SR SECriOM 6EN.REF.AN0 DOCUMENTS CIV. The- ouse Approves Measure Day's lews V 1 By FRANK JENKINS The news today? Iff on the weird side. In Las Vegas, a $21,500 COM PUTER named LGP-21 picks up an easy $360 in a blackjack game. It worked like this: The computer decided wheth er or not draw a card or "hit" as U is known in gambling cir-iles-and HOW MUCH TO BET from $2 to $42 on the basis nf information fed to it on each play. The boss of Uie computer would indicate to the machine on each play what his two cards were and what card the dealer was showing in his hand. If nothing happened, it meant not to draw a card. If the ro bot flashed a green light, it w as time to take another card. f What happened? Well, at the end of 50 minutes the robot was $360 ahead and the Hotel Tropicana's casino, where the game took place, threw in the sponge and called it quits. In New York today, President Kennedy calls for prompt pas sage of his $11 BILLIOX tax cut as "top priority insurance against a recession in 14." He described senate adoption of the house-approved tax cut legislation as the MOST IM PORTANT single step that can be taken to reduce high unem ployment. The tax cut. WITHOUT a cor responding cut in spending, he said, would create from two million to three million more jobs. The speech was prepared for the fifth biennial convention of the AFL-CIO, and the President told his hearers that the need for more jobs and economic security is the over-riding do mestic issue in the United States at the present time. The business recovery, he add ed, may be RUNNING OUT OF STEAM and the great need is to fire up the boilers with more fuel and thus provide MORE steam. A lax cut without a corres ponding cut in spending, he in dicated, Is the best way to pro vide the additional steam that is needed. ???'????" 1 Well, you will note that at Las Vegas the robot acted on the information given to it by its boss. If its boss had given it the wrong information, its de cision as to what to do next would presumably have been wrong. That suggests a thought: Maybe President Kennedy is giving the wrong information when he says that taxing less (Continued on Page 4-A) Police Solve BIG Problem NEW YORK itUPIl - Ar resting suspected forger Fal co Baionc. 30. was no trou ble for police Wednesday but getting him to the s t a t i o n house was a weighty problem. Barone, w ho weighs 4 4 1 pounds, and has a 60-inch waist, couldn't fit through the .back door of a patrol car. Two policemen, shoving and pulling finally managed to squeeze him . into the front seat. 4 1? . "1 wr & try? '""w I "f v ft;. ' , - ' . , GOING DOWN The tanker Dynafuel is shown turned over on her back after the Norwegian freighter Fernview backed away this morning. The two vessels collided juit Ships Part, Tanker Goes Down RUZZARDS BAY. Mass. (UPI i The crippled tanker Dy nafuel, rammed Thursday by a Norwegian freighter, sank stern first off Cape Cod today with a chunk of the bow protruding above water. The sunken vessel was declared a hazard to ship ping. The 315-foot Dynafuel sank and capsized in 30 to 40 feet of water after the two locked ships parted. The collision had im bedded the freighter into the coastal tanker. The Coast Guard said the Dy nafuel was a danger to shipping and turned the wreck over to the supervision of the U.S. Army Engineers Corps which operates Cape Cod Canal. The crash occurred a few miles out side the canal. The underside of the Dyna fuel's bow remained exposed after it rolled over and sank. The stern rested on the ocean bottom. The Fernview under its own power pulled away from the Dynafuel to break the death grip while three Coast Guard cutlers and a tug boat stood by. The two vessels collided in haze at daybreak Thursday in Buzzards Bay, 10 miles from the west end of the canal and about 10 miies south of New Bedford. All 62 crewmen were rescued, but five received minor injuries. Both ships were set afire. Roads Open Tlie Green Springs and Dead Indian roads and the route over Willamette Pass were still open before noon today despite a storm which dropped eight inches of snow at Diamond Lake and lesser amounts elsewhere in tlie county, Oregon State Police have reported. The weather forecast for to day was for continued snow flur ries and police advised motor ists driving in mountainous ar eas to carry chains. Tlie Oregon State Highway Department at Klamath Falls disclosed that beginning Mon day, Nov. 18. it would provide reports to motorists on the high way conditions throughout the county. Such information may be obtained by calling TU 2-5591. - s-Ji Mil VJ A GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER A third grad.r Riv erside School, Andrea Willard, Is a descendant of Dr. Samuel Read Hall, who pioneered teacher-training in th United States and invented th. blackboard for th. tchool room. Andrea, daughter of Mr. and Mri. Read W. Wil lard, Klamath Falls, will b. nine years old December 16. v. 't a. vr Weather KUmjlh Falls. TuHIH. anil Lakr viaw: Partly cloudy and coolir with acallcred snow llurrits tonight and Sat urday. Low tonight 22 to II, high Satur day 44 to 41. woilcrly Kindl llva to IS milts par hour. High yesterday 47 Low this morning II High year ago 44 Low year ago It Precip. last 24 hours .13 Since Jan. 1 o.st US Boycotts 'Friendship Meeting' In Protest Over Barghoorn Arrest MOSCOW ifPI) U.S. offi cials tonight boycotted a cere monial "friendship meeting" with a group of Russians, in cluding Mrs. Nikita Khrushchev, as American officials failed in another attempt to win release of Vale Prof. Frederick Barg hoorn. None of the American Em bassy staff members attended a well publicized meeting at Six Principal Industries And Utilities Drop SI. 5 Million Into County Coffers More than one-quarter of the county's tax bill of $5,285,394.39 has been paid by six major firms representing utilities, lum ber, and public service indus tries in the county, a spot check by the Herald and News indi cated today. Residents and companies in Klamath County have until 5 p.m. today to pay their share of $5,285,394.39 in personal and real property taxes assessed against them for 1953-64, County Tax Collector Esther Newell d i s closed this morning. Taxpayers who settle their tax debit before the deadline will re ceive a three per cent discount while those failing to do so will be assessed a small interest charge to accrue quarterly on tlie balance due, Mrs. Newell re minded. The county tax collector's of fice reported it has been be sieged this past week by taxpay ers who have called to pay their fees ahead of the deadline. County Treasurer Eva Cook remarked that $382,283.53 in tax revenues have been received by the treasurer's office from the country tax c o 1 1 e c t o r as of iNov. 8. An additional report is expected from the tax office early next week, Mrs. Cook said. Meanwhile, a spot check njade by the Herald and News has in dicated that six principal indus tries, utilities, and other firms Education Week Holds Special Meaning For Third Grader At Riverside School By RUTH KING Tlie observance of Education Week. Nov. 11-16. may not mean a great deal to the average cit izen, but to a third grader at Riverside School, Andrea Wil lard, and her older sister, Jan ice Willard Jolly of W ashington, D.C., it has a special signifi cance. They arc great-granddaugn-tors of the founder of the first teacher-training institution or normal school in America, Dr. Samuel Read Hall, who also in vented the first blackboard. Andrea and Janice .lolly are daughters of .Mr. and Mrs. Read W. Willard of 315 Grant Street, this city. While Andrea is get ting good grades in Klama.h Falls, her sister, Mrs. James Uanicei Jolly, with her hus band, James, is employed as a geologist with the United States Bureau of Mines in the national capital. Both received their BA and masters degrees from the University of Oregon. James Jol ly is a native of Grcsham. Ore. It was 140 years ago, which was about 30 years after the ' ratification o( the Constitu- -.T Mew" 1 inside the entrance to Buzzard Bay off the New England coast Thursday. The impact locked the two ships together. UPI Telephoto Price Tf a Cents 16 Pagri "friendship house" near I h e Hremlin to mark the 30th anni versary Saturday of resumption of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet Union after tlie 1917 revolution. Tlie reception in the former mansion of a pre-revolutionary millionaire began at fi p.m. beneath crossed American and Soviet flags. This was little more than an have paid more than $1.5 mil lion for 1953-64, representing more than one-fourth of the county's tax bill. .. Heading the list of the great est taxpayers was (Pacific Pow er and Light Company which paid $381,873, representing the firm's property tax payments on its electric service facilities in the county. The power company has paid more than $5 million in property taxes to 30 of the state's 35 counties this year. Southern Pacific's tax share amounted to $105,510. including assessments against the Pacific Freight Express and Pacific Mo tor Transport, both operated by the railroad. JFK Pushes Tax Cuf In Talk Before Labor NEW YORK (UPI i President Kennedy today told the AFL CIO convention that passage of his income tax cut bill by the current session of Congress would insure the nation against a recession that may be in the offing for next year. He said prompt passage would mean "sailing by next April on the winds of the long est and strongest peacetime ex pansion in the nation's econom ic history." EARLY EDUCATOR Dr. Samuel Read Hall, who has descendants living in Klam ath Falls, has been honored as on. of most influential citii.ns in American educa tion. Dr. Hall successfully combined two careers, th. ministry and t. aching. 52 n- , - t .3 " . ---Z KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, hour after U.S. Embassy Con sular Chief Thomas Fain tele phoned the Soviet Foreign LMin istry and repeated for the sev enth time strong American de mands for Barghoorn's imme diate release or immediate ac cess by American officials to the 52-ycar-old scholar, who was accused of being a spy. Russian authorities, who have been holding Barghoorn for 15 The Pacific Gas Transmission Company has paid $2;)9,!06, or about one-third of its total tax obligation in other counties throughout' the Mate,' ' Pacific Northwest Bell Tele phone Company's tax charges amounted to $121,399, a small portion of somev$3 million in taxes paid by the company to other Oregon counties. Weyerhaeuser Timber Com pany, the largest logging opera tor in the county, paid more than $163,000 in such taxes, not including an undisclosed amount in timber taxes which went to the state but are credited to the county. The California Pacific Utilities Company's tax bill was $15,915. Kennedy indicated there would be a distinct danger to the nation's economy to post pone action on the tax bill, until next year's congressional ses sion. "I think this Congress will not go home next summer without passing this bill," he said. "I think we should stay there until we do." The Chief Executive said the nation did "not dare obtain this tax cut too late in the game." tion," says a Teachers College Record published in 1923, that the people of this country be came keenly conscious of the momentous part popular educa tion must play in a popular gov ernment. Elementary schools were abundant and accessible, but they were inefficient. Tlie only way to improve them was to improve the teachers, and the only way to improve the teachers was through the estab lishment of rpecial courses or institutions for their training. Teaching was something more than a special calling; it was a fine art. As such, training was necessary. The first concrete expression of the idea, the establishment of a teacher-training institution, occurred in a little hill-top vil lage. Concord Corner. Vermont, March 11. 182.1. The founder was Dr. Samuel Read Hall, born in Croydon. New Hampshire, on Oct. .27. 17S5, the son of Samuel Read Hall Sr. and the youngest nf It children. He was taught by his father and his mother until he was (Continued ea Page 4-A) Allowing School Fund Cute SALEM IUIUI - The House Thursday approved tlie second half of the emergency program asked by Gov. Mark Hatfield to deal with the fiscal crisis re sulting from the Oct. 15 refer endum. By a 34-23 vote the lower chamlx-r approved a measure allowing Hatfield to make cuts in basic school support. It followed by one day House approval of a one-shot speedup of withholding tax collections In bring in an additional $12 mil lion this biennium. Both measures await Senate action. FRIDAY, NOVKMUKR 15, 1963 days, said there was nothing new to report in his behalf. The Soviets told an American Embassy official Thursday that the Russians would reply to U.S. inquiries about the Yale professor as soon as possible. President Kennedy said in Washington Thursday I h a t prompt release of the New York-born scholar was essential to the continuation of the U.S. Soviet cultural exchange pro gram. Calling the professor's arrest "unwarranted and unjust," the President said it would be hopeless to discuss broadening cultural exchanges with Barg hoorn in jail. U.S. Embassy officials this morning informed Soviet cul tural officials that negotiations on a new cultural .exchange Agreement 'have' 'bcefl p o si t- poned. They were due to start here Nov. 19. The Soviets acted surprised, American sources said, and said that the agreement had no connection with the Barghoorn case. Earlier. American novelist John Steinbeck wound up a one month goodwill tour of the So viet Union under the cultural exchange program with a blast against the Soviet regime for its handling of the Barghoorn case. "I am leaving with feelings of protest against the arrest of Prof. Barghoorn. I feel very strongly about it." Chiloquin Schedules Dedication CHILOQUIN - Arthur S. Flcmming, president of the Uni versity of Oregon, will deliver tlie main address this evening at the dedication of the new Chiloquin High School. The dedication ceremonies be gin at 7:45 at the school. Flcm ming is scheduled to speak on dec "Pursuit of Excellence." Dr. Cliff Robinson, county su perintendent of schools, will in troduce platform guests and there will be musical entertain ment from the Klamath Com munity Symphony and the Chil oquin High band. In addition, the Wild Eagle Dancers will present a program of Indian dances. Paul Fairclo, chairman of the County School Hoard, will present the building and Al .Samples, former Chiloquin prin cipal, will accept it. The public will lour the school following tlie ceremonies. Shooting Hours OREGON November IS Open Close t:2i a.m. 4:."0 p.m. CALIFORNIA November III Open Close 6:27 a.m. 4:45 p.m. tat jf T Hatfield needs legislative ap proval of both so he can trim about $60 million from the $404 million general fund budget ap proved at the 1!K3 regular ses sion. House approval of the basic school bill came shortly after it rejected by a 38-19 vote a move to send tlie measure back to Ways and Means for further modification. The vote came at 5:30 p.m. after two days of haggling over whether (lie governor should be given a free hand to make the cut, or whether tlie legislature sltould set down rigid guides. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7629 ' ' Iti lnni rmi'i " .j PAIN IN THE NECK Sharon Burfca, 20, Sheraton Hotel elevator operator in Akron, Ohio, stuck her head out the door to sea if there ware any passengers. The door shut and Sharon was stuck for an hour before workman freed her. Bell captain Lea Allen triad to pry the door open with his foot, but was not successful. UPI Telophoto Senate Resolution Opposes Plan To Up Tuitions, Entry Standards SALEM (UPI) - The State Board of Higher Education ad justed its budget by $3 million Thursday, but its proposals to raise tuition fees and admission standards collided with a new Senate resolution. The board's cuts some of them tentative affected t h e state's system of universities, colleges, and medical extension and research services at most levels. There were two key parts of the board's plan: A general in crease in tuition charges next year; and higher admission standards for the fall, 1064, term only at (he University of Oregon, Oregon Slate, and Port land State College. Under present figures and es timates, the effect of a $3B per term tuition increase would be to raise $3 million more outside state funds, making only $5 mil lion in real cuts necessary. It also would discourage some students. Would Defer Some The clfcct of temporarily rais ing freshman admission stand ards from a 2.0 average to a 2.25 average for the fall lerm at three institutions would be to defer some students to later terms, detour some students to other colleges in the system, and discourage some altogether. In essence, the board's plan avoids turning away from the state system next year any stu dents who arc presently quali fied. But it makes It harder and more costly for some of them In get into the school nf their choice next (all. As tlie board met the Senate Rules Committee voted to jier mit introduction of a resolution that would direct (lie board tn leave both admission standards and tuition fees where they are now. If both houses pass the reso The measure finally approved included watered down guide lines. Back To Committee But the bill probably will once again end up ir. Ways and Means for Senate President Ben Musa said he would send it there for review. Wednesday the nine Demo crats on Ways and Means ap proved a measure without guide lines, over the solid opposition of tlie five Republicans on the committee. Shortly before the bill was to come up for a vote in tlie House Thursday afternoon, it was re- Woollier LONO HANOI OUTLOOK Cool, uimtHw wttlhcr wild roe curnnf ptriodi of thowtr or .now ftor. rttt through th wttkend. Improving wvithtr condition, tho first of tho WHt. lution, it would become a direc tive to the board. It would prob ably not be legally binding. But if the board defied it tlie stage would be set for the legislature to strip higher education of some of its independence in 1065. The board meeting itself was scheduled suddenly in tlie wake nf legislative prodding and throats. A band of legislators, who for some time have been seeking stricter controls over higher ed ucation, said they were strongly displeased over the board's plan o postpone its budget-cutting de cisions until a f t e r tlie legisla ture adjourns. Secret Meeting llrld Seven legislators talked with the board at a secret breakfast gathering prior to the board meeting. Computer Picks Up $360 In Vegas Blackjack Game LAS VEGAS, Nov. HIPIl -A $21,500 computer picked up an easy $360 at blackjack this week. The BO-pound "LGP-21" enm puler was carted Into tho Ho tel Tropicana's gambling casino Wednesday afternoon. Fifty minutes later, it was $360 ahead of the house and called it a day. Emmet t Ilutchins. 29-year-old research programming director at General Precision Co. In Los Angeles, handled the computer chores and Sam ltadan, unruf fled by the 3-foot high mechan ical brain, dealt for tlie house. The computer decided wlic ther or not to draw a card or "hit" as R is termed in gam bling circles and how called to Ways and Mean.'. Mild guides were inserted, and then the bill was sent back to the houses. The guides ask Hatfield to make school cuts "proportion ate" to oilier cuts "if he can." If additional money becomes available later, Hatfield is asked to restore some of it to the basic school fund. In effect, the bill gives Hat field a relatively free hand. The guides were intended to soothe a bloc which feels the legislature should make specific reductions in school support, and not abdicate tlie legislature s uthority" to the governor. As tlie Senate now has the two key measures which neces sitated the special cession, the way is clear for adjournment early next week unless a hag gle developes in the upper chamber. While the House is still work ing on sales and cigarette tax proposals, the Senate Democrats announced, alter a caucus, uiat no revenue bills would be ap proved by the upper chamber during the special 6cssion. Both houses were to meet at p.m. today.. Bill Nears Final Vote SALEM (UPI) The gover nor's one-shot tax bill moved to day to within one step of final passage. The Senate rax committee unanimously approved the House-passed bill at a meeting that lasted about 10 minutes. It went to the Senate floor for final action. The bill would bring an extra $12 million into the slate's cof fers before the end of the 1363 65 biennium by speeding up the turnover of withholding pay ments to the stato. Employers would have to remit the taxes on a monthly basis instead of a quarterly basis, netting the state two extra months of payments this biennium. ' The other half of Hatfield's two-part stop-gap program to deal with Oregon's $0 million revenuo shortage was not far behind the tax bill. The second bill would empow er Hatfield to cut the basic school money that tlie stale gives to local school districts. It has passed the ffouse. and awaits action in Senate commit tee and on tho floor. During their meeting, board members stressed three points: Some of tlie approved cuts are subject to deeper review. The entire plan is subject to change if the state's fiscal picture changes. The program is an emergen cy one, similar "to problems we faced immedialcly after the war." Despite many board state ments that the quality of educa tion must be preserved, the ef fect of the plan probably would also be to hurt quality, for ex ample, putting a heavier load on teachers. The plan to reduce enroll ments next fall, however, would also spread the student load more evenly through tlie year, making for better use of teach ers and classrooms. much tn bet (from $2 to $121 on the basis of information ted to it on each play. Blackjack, or "21" as It is known here, is a card game in which the dealer and player at tempt to get a hand totally as close as possible to 21 without going over that number. Ilutchins would indicate to the machine on each play what his two cards were and what card the dealer was showing in his hand. If nothing happened, this meant not to draw a card. But if LGP-21 flashed a green light, it was time to take another card. Commented dealer Radan: "The machine had a run of luck."