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Delaware River
Crossing To Be
Staged Christmas
, PHILADELPHIA Ml George
Washington's historic crossing of
the Delaware will be re-enacted
on Christmas Day.
Leading the group Is showman
St. John Terrell, producer of the
successful Music Circus at Lam
bertvttle, N. J., a summer resort
on the Delaware.
Terrell, who will play the part
of Washington, belies the cross
ing on Christmas, 1776, is Amer
ica's greatest holiday story. He
hopes his project comes off so well
that the country will nuke it traditional.
The showman and hi crew will
wear uniforms copied In every de
tail from the famous painting of
the crossing by Emanuel Leutte,
They'll cross in a boat from one.
third the site of Hie bulky Durham
boat used by Washington's men
but Terrell said it has been built
along identical lines.
They'll even improve a bit on
the earlier vovase ac-nss the Del-
aware, for instance, there will be
no ice cakes to threaten the voy
ageurs with a chilling dunking in
Die river. Historians doubt there
were any floating about 177 years
ago, anyway.
And besides, Terrell said. "Our
families are leery enough of this
already without our adding any
more perils. They're coming to
watch just to see if we fall in the
river."
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CREOMUCSION
Folic
Sanity
Want To Tst
Of This Thief
SALEM, N. H. Wl Police would
like to find the thief who broke
into Mrs. George H. Brear's home.
They want to test his sanity.
The burglar unwrapped 20 Christ
mas gifts but took only camera
and tie and all the wrappings. Hr
stold three jars of candy, but left
two boxea of chocolates.
He took two boxes of fishing
tackle, but left two fishing reels
behind. He picked up a .22 calibre
revolver, but turned down a hunt
ing rifle.
And when ne had nnisned he
swept the floor.
convictions 4 alma
Attorney General s Rulings
Disliked By Control Board
8r PAUL W. HARVEY JR
SALEM I Ally. Gen. Robert
Y. Thornton, the first Democrat
to hold his office in 58 years and
the only Democrat now in high of
fice in Oregon, isn't very popular
right now with his Republican col
leagues
That's because of two recent
Thornton opinions dealing with the
state's penal system.
The first one held that the prison
must stop its 30-year-old practice
of letting convicts harvest crops
on private properly. This will make
it necessary for the state institu
tions to buy all their fruits and
vegetables on the open market, at
much higher prices.
The second opinion said that the
Board of Control can't buy a site
for the new slate reformatory. This
means a delay until 1955 in this
long-awaited project.
The three Board of Control mem
bers, all Republicans, didn't like
either one of these opinions. And
some Republican politicians are
saying that Thornton is giving
them a ready-made political issue
ton then would have to defend the
state officials involved, and defend
a position opposite to which he took
in an opinion.
Some people wonder why the
Board of Control asked Thornton
for the opinions in the first place.
They point out that if the prison
had continued Us fruit picking
practice and II tne board had
bought the reformatory site, it is
doubtful that anybody would hive
brought a suit to attack it.
But the board Slid it felt that
it should be on strong legal ground
neiore proceeding.
Astoria Youth
Wins Contest
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SALEM Ifl James Mantel!, 15,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Mantell.
Astoria, Friday night was declared
winner of an 'Oregon "Voice of
Democracy" contest. .
It was part of a competition spon-
for next year that the Democrats!- , f-. .t. xr,.; i a-
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D3CGY PRE-CHRISTMAS PARTY-Santa Claus plays host at
the Seattle, Wash., Humane Society Kennel pre-Christmas party.
He arrived with a tree and all the trimmings for the impounded
dogs. Here he holds a pup who seems delighted with Santa's
choice in presents. During the pre-Christmas season, the organi
zation itself is playing Santa, and will give away each ot the
dogs in custody for the price of a license.
CHRISTMAS SPIRT
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J..W -There's
nothing like the Christmas ;
''court officials here reported Mrs.!
Betty Shamblin of Englishlown
paid a S2 parking fine by maili
Saturday and enclosed a Christ
mas card. I
TO RETURN ISLANDS
TOKYO un The Japanese gov
ernment announced Friday that the
United States will return the Am
ami Oshima islands to Japan on
Christmas day. The islands lie
midway between the southernmost
Japanese island of Kyushu and
Okinawa.
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Treasurer Sig Unander believe
that Thornton's opinions in these
cases are wrong. But they will
accent his advice.
The Republican state officials
think Thornton is too strict in in
terpreting the laws. They believe
the convicts could do their fruit
and vegetable picking, and that the
reformatory could be built, be
cause the law doesnt say they
can't be done. Thornton savs these
practices would be illegal because
the law doesn't say they can be
done.
"I know those opinions are un
popular." Thornton said, "and I'm
just as anxious as anybody to get
jobs for the convicts, and to build
the intermediate institution.
'But my job is to give advice
right down the middle, regardless
of how I feel or anybody else feels,
and regardless of the politics that
misht be involved. I have to inter
pret the laws in accord with the !
constitutions and court decisions of
the United States and the state of!
Oregon."
His opinion on the reformatory.'
he says, follows to the letter the
principle laid down by the state
Sppreme Court early this year in!
case in wnich it threw out the
crop-dusting law because the Leg-:
islature delegated law-making pow
ers to the Department of Agricul
ture. Similarly, Thornton ruled the
Legislature couldn't delegate pow
er to the Board of Control, without
spelling it out in the law.
The law gave the Legislature the
$1,250,000 to build the reformatory,
but it didn't mention that the state
should buy a site for it. I
Politics Denied
Thornton says "I don't play pol
itics in writing opinions."
Hit two chief deputies, K. 0.
Foxley and Catherine G. Barseh, !
are nepimicans wnom he kept oni
the job. Thornton says the Demo-
crats are giving him a good cuss
ing out for keeping them on. !
Thornton says the policies inj
making opinion haven't been
changed since he took office. j
Thornton is the legal advisor for
state officials, and they could ig-!
nore his advice, if they wished. But I
this is rarely done. This makes!
his opinions have almost the save
importance as court decisions.
If his advice were ignored, then
a court case might result. Thorn-
theme "What Dcnv.?racy Means
to Me."
For his seleotion the Mantell boy
won a trip to Washington, D. C ,
where he will take part in a na
tional high school forum on democ
racy. The judges were State Treasurer
Sig Unander; Harry W. Collins,
Salem, a member of the State
Board of Parole, and Robert Sum
mers, Eugene, secretary of the
Oregon State Broadcasters Asso
ciation and member of the Univer
sity of Oregon journalism school
ASSEMBLE PARLIAMENT
TEHRAN, Iran 11 Iran's gov
ernment and Shah were Friday re
ported preparing to assemble a
new parliament in February to
deal with "urgent matters" pre
sumably the long dispute with Brit
ain over nationalized Iranian oil.
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sawed off the top six feet of
the community Christmas tree
Thursday night while the town's
trained police dogs slept soundly
a lew yards away.
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