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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.