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C02P. BubbD b mm u. or ore.Lrs-iAar NS'.APiK SECTION CEN.RF.A!D OOCUKSKTS DIV. Stew Lawmakers Approve Governors Requests SALEM lUPIi-The two bills asked by Gov. Mark Hatfield to deal with the state's fiscal crisis already approved, lawmaker? were scheduled to meet today to untangle the Boardman lease, then go home. Both the House and Senate Wednesday passed a bill which formalizes the austerity pro gram announced by Hatfield aft er the Oct. 15 defeat of the leg islature's tax increase package. In the House the measure was approved by 18 Republicans and 13 Democrats, and in the Senate la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Day before yesterday, in the Utile village of Gettysburg, a few miles north of the line that divides the state of Pennsylva nia from the state of .Maryland, an interesting event in the his tory of our nation was com momoratcd. Tlie event was the delivery of President Lincoln's Gettysburg address on November 111, 1H63, and the ceremony on Tuesday ended a three-day centennial ob servance of the ideas and aspir ations expressed by Lincoln in his "few appropriate remarks" which he thought "would be lit tle noted nor long remem bered." He was too modest. The less than 300 words which he uttered that day have lived for a cen tury and will continue to live as long as there is a United Stales of America. Lincoln's Gettysburg address has been called the greatest ut terance in American history. It is a classic of the English lan guage. It is a classic ant .merely be-. cause 'Of what Lincoln said although what he said was ex actly what should have been said at the time when he deliv ered his address. It is a literary classic because of the simple BEAUTY of its language. It contains only 2fi7 words in ten sentences. But Lincoln chose those 267 words with such care and precision that ever since they have stirred the deepest feelings of our nation. And- Ll.NCOLN CHOSE THOSE 2157 WORDS HIMSELF. He didn't turn the job over to a professional speech writer. He did it all himself. He. chose them with particular and labori ous care. Weighing each word as he chose it. Testing it. Sav voring it. Making sure that it did its part to carry the mes sage he wanted to be carried to all the people of our land. Nor was he content with the first draft. He made five hand written copies. ; He studied them all with me ticulous care, and eventually chose his second draft as com ing nearest to what he wanted to say to the people of a war torn nation roughly midway of a great civil war. It h3S been truly said that there is no excellence without labor. Lincoln labored long and hard on his Gettysburg address. Tlie big point is ,nal ,nc-' were LINCOLN'S words. Tlie thinkine back of the words was LINCOLN'S think ing. He didn't just get no and read something that somebody else had writ'en He LIVED what he was say ing. What he was saying was a part of hirmclf. Our public men in these davs of course, are BUSY MEN. Vast responsibilities rest on their shoulders. But the same was true of Abraham Lincoln. Vast respon sibilities rested on his shoul ders. But he found time to write his speeches himself. One can't help wifhing that in their speech making our public men could go back to the pat tern so admirably used by Lin coln on that 19th day of Novem ber a century ago. A word in conclusion. Edward Everett, tlie most fa mous American orator then liv ing, had spoken for two hours when Lincoln arose to speak. His address has long since been forgotten. But Lincoln's 267 words still live in the minds and the hearts of all Americans. by 5 Republicans and 18 Demo crats. The bill squeeked through the House 31-28 without a vote to spare and breezed through the Senate 23-7. When it became apparent work on the Boardman bill was hours from completion, lawmak ers abandoned plans to w ind up the session Wednesday night, and both houses adjourned until 10 a.m. today. The other measure asked by Hatfield, a onc-s.net speedup of withholding tax collections to bring in an additional $12 mil lion this biennium, which was approved by the special session last week, was signed into law by Hatfield Wednesday after noon. The allotment bill wipes out S18 million in capital construc tion and salary hikes, slices $17 million from agency budgets, and cuts $12 million from basic school aid. The bill allows the Emergency Board made up of legislators to restore cuts if money be comes available. The measure was designed to make it legal for the legislature to transfer its allotment control power to the governor. Ruling by Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton that the governor could not make selective cuts forced lawmakers to enact Hat field's austerity program into law. In effect, the two bills asked by Hatfield trim the $404 mil lion general fund budget enacted al tlie 1963 regular session by about $48 million, and add $12 million to general fund receipts tliis biennium. Voting against the measure in the House were Heps. Baleson, Bennett, Branchficld, Cannon, Chappel, Dellenback, Detering, Dickinson, Elder, Eymann, Haight, Hand, Hanscll, Holm strom, Hulett, Hunt, Kelsay, Kennedy, Lang, Leikcn, t Lent, McClure, Orr, " Rogers, Jack Smith, Turner, Whelan and Wil mot. Senators voting against the measure were Ahrens, Vern Cook, Fadeley, Hare, Ireland, Leth and Naterlin. Tlie Boardman measure calls for the Department of Veterans Affairs to dip into profits of its loan operations and put up the additional money needed to fin ish acquiring the tract of land in northeast Oregon which the Boeing Co. of Seattle plans to use. Coalition Rules Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq (L'PI - A new 21-man coalition cabinet of Baathists. Arab Nationalists and independents today ruled Iraq, replacing the all-Baath govern ment ousted in Monday's mili tary coup. The premier of the new gov ernment announced Wednesday night by Baghdad Radio is Gen. Taher Yahya, a Baathist lead er and former army chief of staff. Another Baathist, Maj. Gen. Hardan Takriti, former commander of the air force and deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces, was appoint ed defense minister. Game Council To Discuss Petition Calling For Vote The circulation of an initia tive petition calling for posts on the Oregon State Game Com mission to be elective rather than appointive will be among a number of topics to be dis cussed when the board of direc- Shooting Hours OREGON Nos'ember 22 Open Close :JS a.m. 4:40 p.m. CALIFORNIA Novrmber 22 Open Close 6:32 a.m. 4:41 p.m. Weather Klamatlt Falls. Tuklaka and Likt view Mostly cloudy through Friday. Panaris of mow tonight, changing la ram on Friday. Lows tonight 15 la 3t. High Friday 4 to S. Soulhgrly winds High yesterday 11 Low this morning iff High year ago si Low year ago 31 Pracip. past 14 hours .00 Sinco Jan. 1 t.l? Sama period last year is. 11 $2.5 Million Offered In Indian Claim A settlement of $2,500,000 to the members of the Klamath Indian Tribe has been offered by tlie United States Indian Claims Commission to resolve a land dispute that stems back to the treaty signed in 1864. The disputed claim has been pending in the courts since 1931 and the $2.5 million settlement would constitute payment to the tribe for its claim that an area of land sold by the tribe to the United States by treaty of 1864 was taken by tlie government lor an amount far below the fair market value of the land as of that time. It has been stated that the federal government paid ap proximately three cents an acre for the land, an area of several million acres in South Central Oregon surrounding the Klam ath Indian reservation. U.S. To Cut 1,300 Men In Viet Nam HONOLULU (Ur I "-Approximately 1.300 American troops now serving in South Vict Nam will be returned home within the next two months, according to top-level foreign policy plan ners for the United States. The announcement was made Wednesday at the close of a se cret' one-day meeting of high-' ranking U.S. military and civil ian leaders at the Pearl Har bor headquarters of Adm. Har ry D. IFelt, U.S. commander in chief, Pacific. The planners, led by Secre tary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert Mc Namara. issued a brief formal statement at the close of the meeting which apparently was devoted entirely to the fu ture position of the United States in South Viet Nam. The statement, given to news men by McNamara's public af fairs officer, Arthur Sylvester, said that a contingent of 300 U.S. troops would leave South Vict Nam Dec. 3, and an addi tional 1,000 would leave near the end of the year. Officials said there are at present 16,500 U.S. troops as sisting and training the Vietna mese. The statement said reports received by the planners "indi cated establishment of excellent working relations between U.S. officials and members of the new Vietnamese government." "In general, information re ceived at the conference indi cates an encouraging outlook for the principal objective in South Viet Nam the success ful prosecution of the war against the Vict Cong Commu nists," Sylvester said. tors of the Oregon Fish and Game Council meets 1 p.m., Sunday, at the Eugene Hotel. The council is composed of sportsmen representing six coun ties in Oregon, including Klam ath, Deschutes, Jackson, Jose phine, Douglas and Lane. Bob Pyle, president of the Klamath County chapter of the group, said that the council had agreed to circulate the pe titions sometime ago. It wiU now decide when to go ahead with the project, he said. The council has charged the com mission with mismanagement of the state's deer herds and be lieves that the public's views on game management problems would be more seriously consid ered by a commission estab lished by Hie election process. In addition to the initiative petition, the council will discuss its bylaws and amendments to them, as well as other matters. Members of the council's vari ous chapters are invited to the meeting. Price Ten Cents - 28 PiiRc Settlement Several officials of the execu tive committee of the Klamath Tribe, meeting in Portland with their attorneys, made the an nouncement today of the settle ment oiler. They stated that the settle ment which had been approved by a letter from Ramsey Clark, assistant U.S. Attorney General of the Department of Justice, is subject, however, to approval of the tribe, the Secretary of the Interior and the Indian Claims Commission in Washington, D.C. They also, announced that a meeting of the Klamath Tribe has been called for Satuidav, Dec. 7. l'JH3. at Chiloquin io consider approval of the settle ment offer. Payment to the Klamath Tribe of the amount in settle ment would constitute separate payment to members of the tribe in addition to live pay ments which were made from l!ir8 to 19(51 in connection with the termination of federal su pervision over the tribe. . . All enrolled members of the tribe, as it existed prior to the termination of federal trustee ship, would be entitled to share in the $2.5 million settlement if it is finally approved by the tribe and the federal depart ments concerned. Attorney ForHqffa Disbarred NASHVILLE, Tcnn. lUPIl Two federal judges ruled Wed nesday that an attorney fur Teamsters (President James R. Hoffa was guilty of an attempt to bribe a prospective juror and disbarred him. The court accused attorney Z. T. Osborn Jr. of conspiring to offer $10,000 for a vote of acquittal when Hoffa goes on trial on jury tampering charg es. The judges said Osborn, a minister's son and former assistant U.S. district attorney, tried to have a "middle man" approach one of 36 prospective jurors in the trial scheduled next Jan. 6. Hoffa has six co-defendants in the jury tampering trial. He faces a maximum penally of 25 years in prison and $25,000 fine if convicted. The union boss and the others arc charged with trying to in fluence by bribes and other means members of the jury in Hoffa's conspiracy trial here last year. That hearing ended in a mis trial when the jury was unable to agree on whether or not Hoffa had shared in an alleged $1 million kickback from a trucking lirm. 1 Jttt6i GET COMMUNITY TREE The 40-foot Christmas tree erected on the Parle and Shop lot at Eighth and Klamath on Wednesday was a cooperative effort. It was hauled in and out up Wednesday. Shown here are, left to right, Al Carlson, Weyerhaeuser, donors of the tree; Howard Moore, truck driver for Andrew Bostwick, logger, who hauled it in, and Lowell Jones, contractor, who logged it. The Pacific Power and Light Company put up the tree. KLAMATirlT U2 Crashes After Cuban Flight WASHINGTON H'PH - The Defense Department said today that Navy divers had located live wreckage of a high-flying l"2 plane which disappeared Wednesday after a reconnais sance mission of Cuba. The wreckage was found in about 100 feet of water. 40 miles northwest of Key West, Fla., the Pentagon said. The pilot of tlie plane has not been found, the announcement said. The Navy divers who located the wreckage were operating from a PT boat. The Navy said it had started salvage opera tions to raise tlie craft. The Strategic Air Command i SAC I w ill appoint an accident investigation board to try to de termine the cause of tlie inci dent. Informed sources said earlier that the plane had conducted a reconnaissance mission of Cuba but that there was "no indica tion" it was downed by ground fire or by any other plane. The malfunction caused the plane to go down in tlie Gulf of Mexico. The pilot was C'apt. Joe G. Hyde Jr. of Leland, Miss., and La Grange, Ga. The Defense Department said nothing about tlie U2's mission at tlie time it was lost. The Pentagon announcement followed disclosure earlier by SAC that an oil slick and bits of debris were found where the U2 was believed to have gone down. Navy and Coast Guard ships and planes searched the area in hopes of finding Hyde alive. Mostly clear skies, calm seas and mild temperatures made search conditions ideal. Military sources in Washing "ton did njt discounliiitirely Ihf pussiuimy oi a luuan auacK on tlie U2. . .' , If it had been shot over Cuba, the high-flying plane could have glided as far as the area w here it crashed. It was the U2 that discovered the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba last year and has kept tlie island under surveillance since. An air-sea search was begun immediately after the plane disappeared from land-b a s e d radar scopes at 10:32 a.m. EST Wednesday. Eight minutes later a pilot spotted an oil slick in tlie area of tlie gulf where the debris was found. The pilot's mother, contacted at her LaGrange home, an swered all questions with a "no comment." No one an swered the telephone at the Iwme of Hyde's wife, Mari anne, in Leland, Miss. Must Be Time For Lunch FORT WORTH. Tex. (UPH A Fort Worth houscwile opened a can of green beans for lunch Wednesday and found a man's wrist watch in tlie beans. She wound the water-proof watch and it ran. WSrVWWrWrVNArWrW , 7, 1 . 11' ' I 'i ilVt jr"tei . . l,-t CStfcf' 0l0mmmk CC- i-.- ' - . . II COMMUNITY TREE ARRIVES The huge Christmas tree erected on the Parle and Shop lot at the corner of Eighth and Klamath was donated by Weyerhaeuser, hauled in Wednesday by the Andrew Bostwick Logging Company, logged by Lowell Jones, contractor, and erected by the Pacific Power and Light Company with its special equipment. The tree stands about 40 feet high and plans by the Klamath Mer chant's Association are to decorate the tree next Monday, with the lights scheduled to be turned on Friday, Nov. 29, the night of the Christmas opening downtown. Soviet Plane Shoots Down Unarmed Iranian Aircraft TEHRAN, Iran (UPI)-A So viet MIG fighter plane accom panied by two other Soviet military aircraft shot down an Iranian civilian plane Wednes day in Iranian territory, killing two aerial map surveyors, olli cials said today. Government oflicials said Iran was protesting "strongly" to the Soviet Union over the shooting which they said came without warning. They said it had been "in dubitably established" that tlie Iranian plane was shot down at least 15 miles away from the Soviet border and that tlie first indication the pilot had that he was being followed came when the MIG opened fire on him. Eyewitnesses among a crowd of about 30 persons said they IV1 T7ic7i NfiM ' I saw the three Soviet planes cross the Iranian border and chase the twin-engine survey aircraft. They said (lie MIG fighler 0xmim1 machine gun fire on the Iranian plane which immedi ately caught fire and crashed at a point north of the town of Meshed, well inside Iranian ter ritory. Two Iranian specialists were killed in (he crash, officials said, but the pilot survived, be ing hurled about 50 yards out of his burning cockpit and picked up unconscious by on lookers. He was hospitalized with injuries. Tlie unexplained inci dent came while Soviet Presi dent liConid Brezhnev was visit Venezuelan Police Nab Communists At Funeral CARACAS, Venezuela lUPD Police broke into a funeral procession today and arrested dozens of Communist militants attending last rites for a fellow party member killed in street fighting. Authorities appeared once again to be in complete control of Caracas and the rest of (he country where terrorism and sabotage racked up a total of 24 dead and more than 120 wounded in a 48-hour period. Officials said they had more than 200 terrorists under arrest. The most recent known vic tims were a policeman killed by a Communist snioer as he rode through the slum district of Li dice and a teen-ager who died in a hospital Wednesday night of wounds suffered Tuesday. Tlie terrorist campaign failed in its aim of strong-arming Venezuela into a nationwide general Mnke to disrupt prep arations for the Dec. 1 elec tions. Bullets and bombs drove people off the streets of Carac as, but tlio city's factories con tinued near normal operations. Weather LONO HANGS OUTLOOK Cloudy unttltltd wtathtr through Friday niyht will chinea to partly cloudy wtathtr evtr Iht wttktnd. Ttmptraturtt tor tht moit part con tmut cool. Prtcipitatlon Kktly t p htavy Friday. ing Iran on a seven-day goodwill visit. Sources said Brezhnev seemed amazed when Iranian authorities informed him. He was reported to have ex pressed his regrets and said he would order Moscow to investi gate the matter thoroughly. Tlie Iranian ministry of for eign affairs declined comment today on the incident. It was understood to be waiting a full report from Hie crash scene be fore deciding on any official ac tion. . A team of exports flown to the scene from Tehran to in vestigate the incident was known to have confirmed that the plane definitely was shot down. The provinces reported busi ness as usual in most places. Communist arsonists burned down the U. S. - owned DuPont paint warehouse in the "oil capital" of Maracaibo Monday, hut tliere were no reports of major violence. A bomb was set off in Bar celona and eight suspected ter rorists were arrested in Mara caibo and Maturin. , . .. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmam f Legislator 'Cuts' Own Pay SALEM (UPli - One legisla tor, angered because his col leagues refused to allow a bill lo cut lawmakers' salaries to be voted upon in the House, took tlie matter in his own hands Wednesday. Rep. Edward Elder, R Eu genc, jumed to his feet during debate on the pay cut issue and said "I guess if t want my pay cut, I'll have to do it myself." He then took a pair of scis sors and cut his expense check apart, and threw the pieces on Demo Bloc Challenges Pending Bill SALEM (UPH - Tlie Board-man-Boeing bubble sprung a new leak today. Democrats who have become disenchanted with the proposed Space Age Industrial Park and angered at Uie governor for sur rounding it with secrecy today blocked its advance in tlie House. Reps. Richard Eymann, D- Marcola, and Sidney Leiken, D Rosebui g, challenged tlie legal ity of proposed legislation to bail the project out of new troubles and requested an at torney general s opinion. Twenty-two Democrats blocked suspension of tlie House rules needed to advance the legisla tion to get it before the House for final action. The matter the final task remaining before tlie special session threatened to prolong the 11-day-old special session. ine latest Boardman problem was tossed unexpectedly, into the lap of the legislature by tlie governor last week. House Speaker Clarence Bar ton said he was hopeful the House could receive an attorney general's opinion and act later today. He said an unfavorable opinion would mean drafting new legislation. Barton said there was no point m going home without handling the prob lem, since the governor would simply call another special ses sion. Senate President Ben Musa' said the Senate would 6tand on call today, but if the matter : were not settled today, it would probably adjourn until Monday. The legislation pending before the House would transfer the Boardman project, for better or lor worse, lo Ihe one state 'agency that can best afford the gamble, Hie Ways and Means Commit tee Wednesday night approved, 10-4, legislation to shift the proj ect from the Slate Land Board to the Veterans Affairs agency. Tlie veterans agency wwild dip into the profits from its loan operations to put up the addi tional $1 million needed to finish acquiring tlie vast tract on the Columbia River in northeastern Oregon. The state director of veterans affairs would administer the project and its lease to the Boe ing Company of Seattle. Earnings from the Boeing Jease would go back into the veterans fund a separate fund from tlie state general fund. The veterans farm and loan program is one of the state's few successful profit making operations. Eventually, the legislation calls for the veterans agency to repay to the state general fund tlie $900,000 already invested in Boardman. Despite charges of "give away," nothing was done to modify the lease that gives Boe ing the right to use the property for 77 years at $60,000 a year about 60 cents an acre. The state now represented by the Veterans Affairs agency still will pay county taxes on the bare land. Boeing will pay on Improvements. Separate legislation was ap proved by the committee to keep tend taxes down. It would freezo land taxes at levels be fore any development has caused land prices to boom. The state still will pay to move the Navy from part of the site. Boeing still will exercise con siderable control over future sub-leases or expansion. Supporters of the project said its value lay in potential space age Industrial development for Oregon not in rentals. tlie floor. Tlie self-styled economy move may not prove much of a sav ing, however. The state treasurer's office said the check would be car ried on the state's books (or seven years, and at the end of that time if it was not presented for payment, the secretary of state would advertise that the clteck was to be canceled. Officials were unable to esti mate what R would cost to write off the check.
