Virginia Special Session Meets On Poll Tax Issue RICHMOND, Va. (UPI) A "lame duck" special session of the Virginia General Assembly meets Tuesday to consider leg islation which would short cir cuit the anticipated federal ban on the poll tax. The controversial poll tax is expected to be outlawed in fed eral elections next year with passage ot the 24th Amend ment to the U S. Constitution. Thirty-six of the necessary 38 slates have ratified the anti poll tax amendment which passed in the 87th Congress with bipartisan support Virginia Is now one of five states to require a poll tax of its electorate. The others are Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas. Gov. Albertis S. Harrison, who called the special session, wants the poll tax kept on the books in state and local elec tions as does U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D-Va., czar of Virgin ia's Democrat organization. Requires Two Books Tliis would require maintain ing two sets of books at the polls one for those paying the $1.50 poll tax and another for those fulfilling requirements for voting in federal elections but refusing to pay the poll tax. Last week Harrison handed down the administration's pack ace bill to the appropriate leg islative committees, called into session a week early. The bills would permit Virginians who re fuse to pay the poll tax to vote in presidential and congression al elections by filing a certifi cate of residence six months be- 33 Fellowships Win Approval WASHINGTON (UP!) The U.S. Office of Education an nounced Saturday it has ap approved 10 graduate fellow ships at Oregon Slate University and 23 at the University of Ore gon for the 196445 academic year. The Oregon fellowships In clude four in German, three each in elementary education and comparative literature, two each in chemistry, mathe matics, business ndministra tion, economics, English and an thropology and one in physics. Oregon State will receive three each in chemistry and biochem istry and quantitative bioloRy, and two each in geology and plant physiology, OUR ANCESTORS V VV V KooM V y Y THE NEW f ol U-gp"- ib. JP 64 B.C. "Let's face it, Antonlua, you're Just not the compact type!" Remember For Thanksgiving YOUR T'i"?' . ' ? a . 'iliS' iy"'V.-A -. si Jig ',V' J" l?.M:l - jjf V'. ... rr' J Cascade Laundry . and Dry Cleaners Opp. Post Office TU 4-5111 New Method Cleaners Cold Bond Stomps 1453 Esplanade Ph. TU 4-4471 Broadway Cleaners "S&H" Creen Stamps 4615 So. 6th Ph. TU 4-6403 Trucks Radio Dispatched for Fastest Possible Service fore the election the same cut off date as for paying the poll taxes. Those failing to pay the poll tax could not vole in state or local elections. Harrison and tlie state attor ney general believe the propos als would prove compatible with the U.S. Constitution. Harrison said he hopes the special session will last less than five days. Figured on a four-day basis, cost of the ses sion would be approximately $20,000. Considerable opposition has been voiced in the stale to re tention of the poll tax at any level. However, Harrison's pro posals are expected to clear both houses which are domin ated by conservative Byrd-or-ganization Democrats. Stiff Opposition Clamoring against retention of the poll tax are most Republi can politicians in the stale; Ne gro and labor organizations, church groups and women's clubs. Leading the anti-poll tax forces is Rep. W. Pat Jennings, D-Va., and a dissident Democrat faction calling themselves "Vir ginia Democrats for the Repeal of the Poll Tax." Democrat Sen. Edward L. Brecden Jr., a Norfolk lawyer, has drafted a resolution calling for a referendum for a consti tutional convention to repeal the poll tax for all elections, and Republican lawmakers plan to introduce anti-poll tax legisa tions this week. Such legisla tion, however, is expected to be buried in the privileges and elections committee on which sits Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., son of the l.S. senator. Administration Democrats say they want the poll tax merely because It is a convenient way to keep voter lisls up to date. Republicans chargo lite Demo crats with trying to manipu late the electorate and perpetu ate the Byrd organization. Scnalnr Byrd said he consid ers the Kill tax a simple and non-burdensome way of deter mining which Virginians are el igible to vote. Ho indicated he did not like annual registrations ns a means of maintaining up-to-date voting lists. 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UPI Telephoto Red Searchlights Endanger BKRM.V IUPH - The Com munists threalened two Ameri can airliners over Berlin last Few Use SBA Fund PORTLAND (UPI) Eugene Foley, director of the Small Business Administration, won dered Friday why more of the Oregonians haven't taken ad vantage of the financial aid programs offered by his agency. "Only t5 small firms in the state have taken advantage of the opportunities otfered by Small Business Investment Com pany financing. I would like to see many hundreds more follow suit," he said. Foley said that more than $1 billion of the agency's funds are now "out" around tho country. Foley addressed a luncheon meeting of SBA officials and small business investment com panies and talked in the evening to a group of lumber industry representatives. Judge Avoids Skirt Decision ANCONA, Italy (UPI) A judge here refused today to de cide when a short skirt ceases to be fashionable and becomes an immoral invitation. The judge dismissed charges of soliciting against three young women who were arrest ed because they sat on a park bench here, in short skirts and with crossed knees. Police said passorsby com plained that the girls were showing a "scandalous" amount of leg. TRADE NOW AND SAVE $30 A GAS WATER ifprma hot water far hoi water nrleo coi 1a to uaol Cihol wator orrtoo to dopondablot SEE YOUR PLUMBER OR DEALER C.U.UimNIA-PACIKIClTTII.lTiKS Co. NATURAL GAS PROPANE TANK GAS SERVICE NEWS, Klamath FaUs, Orrgon . .,...., . .,,-,-.,..1,. -, .f (I ( f week by turning searchlights on them as they were making their landing approaches, West ern officials said Saturday. The Western allies filed a sharp protest with the Soviet of ficer at the Four - Power air safety center, a Three Power statement said. The searchlight tactics might indicate the Communists were switching their pressure on al lied access right to the air cor ridors from the highways where the Soviets held U.S. and Brit ish military convoys in a scries of incidents in the last month, informed sources said. The searchlights were turned on Pan American airliners as the pilots were bringing them down on their approach runs to a landing at Tempclhof Airport, an allied spokesman said. Tho first incident occurred about 6:30 p.m. (12:30 p.m. EST) Thursday, and the searchlight technique was re peated on Friday night. After the second incident, the U.S., backed by Britain and France, protested to the Soviet representative at the air safety center. The allies said the Commu nist action "constituted a haz ard to the flights," a spokes man said. The searchlights flared up on the airliners as they were over the western edge of Berlin. The planes were at a height of about filH) yards, inlormed sources said. It was not known whether the lights were operated by Fast Herman or Soviet troops. Bolii have bases near the (light Though il seems to be a sin gle star, Polaris (the north star) actually is a system of three stars, according to t h e Encyclopaedia Britannica. HAY t NItillT 30-GALLON GLASS-LINED HEATER 10 YEAR GUARANTEE Monday, November II, 1963 Airliners paths of allied airliners ap- preaching the Communist - en circled city. The Communist tactics were not protested Thursday because they were regarded as possibly accidental, the spokesman said, but the U.S. officer at the air safety center protested immedi ately when the searchlights went on again Friday night. H ' H H M M H M M H M H H M Bugged Phone, Red Letter X, Sleuth Vs. Sleuth, All Lend Sense Of Melodrama To Otepka Case WASHINGTON (LPIi - A "bugged" phone, a red letter "X." a purloined typewriter rib bon, sleuth hunting sleuths and charges of untruthfulness and malice. These are the ingredients of what has become known as the "Otepka Case" Washington's latest fight involving State De partment security and relations between Congress and the Exec tive branch. In its higher aspects the case raises the issue of whether the State Department can forbid its employes to give certain infor mation to Congress. On a lower plane it is a snarling office quarrel. But the fact that it takes place among security agents lends a tone of melodrama. The central figure is Otto F. Otepka, 48, a sad-eyed veteran investigator and chief of the evaluations division of the State Department's Office of Secur ity. The division handles secur ity clearances for department employes. On Sept. 23 Otepka was noti fied of the department's inten tion to dismiss him on 13 charg es. Three of these accused him of giving documents concern ing loyalty to J. G. Sourwine, chief counsel of the Senate in ternal security subcommittee, which has been investigating State Department security. A directive signed by former President Harry S. Truman March 13, 1948, closes govern Check-mates! This couple has made an important discovery: a checking account is more convenient than cash. It is safer and saves time. Check stubs tell you where your money goes and how much 3'ou have left. Cancelled checks are automatic receipts. And our modern electronic banking insures that your account will be handled with maximum speed and accuracy. Our checkbooks come in styles and sizes to fit every need. Won't you check on our checking account services soon? ment loyalty files to Congress to protect individuals unless the President opens them. The directive is still in effect, and the State Department recently invoked it to deny information to the subcommittee. Eight other specifications charged Otepka with unauthor ized declassification and "mu tilation" of documents by snip ping off the "confidential" la bels before allegedly giving them to Sourwine. Two others accused him of preparing lists of questions for the subcommittee to use in in terrogating his boss, John F. Reilly, State Department secur ity chief. The department called this a "breach of the standard conduct expected of an officer." Before going deeper into the story it is necessary to under stand a Washington institution known as the "burn bag." A clever spy can learn much from an official's waste basket. Because of this, government trash, including carbon paper and used typewriter ribbons, is placed in brown paper sacks called "burn bags" which are collected and taken to an incin erator. Tlie burn bag is a brood ing presence under the desk of employes high and low in most agencies of the government. The State Department said that for some time Otepka's burn bags had been under surveil lance. A friendly secretary had been graciously offering to take them to the depository for Otep rff THREE BRANCHES SERVING KLAMATH COUNTY Dai State Rl fail ff ka's secretary. On the way she marked each one with a red "X." Then she made a phone call. Within minutes the 6ag was retrieved and turned over to security chief Reilly. The evidence against Otepka, the department said, was ob tained from bits of paper pieced together, carbons which were held up to tlie light and a used typewriter ribbon all from the paper bags. On Oct. 14 Otepka, in a writ ten answer, denied all tlie charges and made some of his own. He denied clipping the documents. He said such infor mation as he had given the committee did not fall under the Truman directive but was a matter of telling . the "whole truth." "I have reason to believe," Otepka wrote, "that my office telephone has been tapped and that my desk and my safe have been surreptitiously open ed and searched." Accuser Becomes Accused The next chapter involved a dramatic turn in which accuser suddenly became the accused. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn., a member of the subcommittee, declared that Reilly and other security officials had, in effect, denied knowledge of tapping Otepka's phone but had subse quently amplified their testi mony in letters conceding that an attempted phone tap was made. Reilly and Elmer D. Hill, chairman of security's di 1 Nrtfft4 rittonl M( I vision of technical services, were placed on administrative leave by the State Department. Reilly and Hill both stated they considered their original testimony accurate. They said their additional statements were made to avoid any misunder standing. Otepka, in a later written ap peal from his dismissal, charged Reilly and others with "untruth fulness," "malice," and "over zealous attempts to build a case against me." He asked that all concerned take lie detector tests, and offered to take one him self. His appeal is still pending. State Department officials re gard the case as an "echo" of the era of the 1950's when tlie late Sen. Joseph R. 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