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Question Of Giving More Power To Governor Posed As Committee Slates Study By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM UV The trend toward giving more power to Oregon's governor bat plunged the contro versial attorney general, Demo crat Robert Y. Thornton, into the center of a new argument. The immediate question U whether the attorney general, who hai been elected by the people since the office was created in 1891, should be appointed by the . governor. The broader question is whether the governor should head a cabinet-type government, in which he appoints all of the top officials, who now are elected. In the past decade, there have ' been several moves to place more responsibility and power in the hands of the governor. Creation of the Department of Finance and Administration is one example. Another is the recent transfer of the Motor Vehicle Department to uie executive department. There is a move in the Legis lature to consolidate all revenue collecting agencies and put them under the governor. When the Legislative Interim Elections Committee meets next Tuesday, it will consider moves to make the attorney general's of fice appointive, or nonpartisan, or both. Whether the committee will rec ommend such steps is problemati cal. But it is sure to be consid ered by the Legislature in Janu ary. Thornton, who is a candidate for reelection, strongly opposes such plans. He believes that if the Leg islature wants a cabinet-type gov ernment, it should present it as one big package, instead of doing it office by office. Those who favor having the gov ernor appoint the attorney gener al say the latter is the governor's lawyer, and it is important to have the governor and the attor ney general in agreement. Thornton answers that the attor ney general is the people's law yer, not the governor's. He says only one per cent of his office's opinions are requested by the governor. Thornton and the late Gov. Paul Patterson clashed manv times. the chief reason being that thev were of opposite parties. Patter son didn't like Thornton's legal advice, and ended up getting it from private lawyers. Patterson claimed Thornton was playing politics. this led to two attempts in the TIHC Tfl Dl A KIT WW BUY IMPORTED v DUTCH BULBS NOW TULIPS CROCUS HYACINTH dot. $1.08 doi. 49c do. $1.79 BUY WHERE YOU SHARE IN THE SAVINGS Douglas County FARM BUREAU CO-OPERATIVE EXCHANGE Located W. Washington St. DIAL OR 2-2683 Free Parking At The Farm Bureau 1955 Legislature t trim Thorn-1 have talren away Thornton's pow ton's wings. er to appoint attorneys for state One of these attempts - would I departments. It failed to pass the 13 Industrial Power Users Warned To Be Prepared For Loss Of Power Supply PORTLAND Ul Thirteen big industrial users of electric power in the Northwest were warned Wednesday to be prepared for loss of all their interruptible power supplies by Oct. 1. Bonneville Power Administra tor William A. Pearl said Colum bia River flows in the headwaters are approaching a critical low and the level at downstream dams will be below median by Oct 1, barring "sustained and continuing rains." The interruptible power is that sold to the electro-process indus tries, including aluminum plants, with the ' understanding it cannot New Findings About Inside Of Atomic Nucleus Report By RENNIE TAYLOR 1 Associated Press Science Reporter SEATTLE Wl Some new find ings about the inside of an atomic nucleus, which will take scientists another step forward 'in their ef forts to understand the nature of matter, were reported today to the International Congress on Theore tical Physics. The new details relate to whai has been determined about the be havior of protons and neutrons, the basic particles of nuclei, while they are still within the atomic core; Heretofore research has centered mainly on what these particles do when they come out of the nucleus. By themselves, they act as atom smashing bullets if they are travel ing at high speed and if they hit an atomic nucleus head on. One report on their sharply dif ferent behavior while they are still inside the nucleus was made Dy Dr. B. R. Mottelson of the Europe an Nuclear Research Center at Geneva, Switzerland. This center was set up with a reactor supplied by the United States after the "Stoms for peace" conference there last year. Dr. Mottelson's report, along with another by Dr. Victor F. Weisskopf of the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology, throws light on what holds the nucleus togeth er. This has been a long-standing scientific mystery. Reason for the mystery is that protons carry a positive electrical charge, 'and because of this they repel each other strongly when out side the nucleus. But they do not repel each other while inside the nucleus; otherwise the nucleus would flv into many neices. In stead, it is a tightly knit particle oi matter. Inside the atomic core, said Dr. Mottelson and Dr. Weisskopf, pro tons and neutrons apparently are held together by clouds of other particles called mesons. Mesons are nigmy energetic panicles oi matter and energy which are ob served outside the nucleus during atomic explosions. The meson cloud inside a nucle us apparently is something like the dust clouds that fill space between stars in a galaxy or milky way. Protons and neutrons within the nucleus not only rotate on their own little axes like stars but also move through the nucleus in cir cular or elliptical paths, another phase of stellar motion. This move- ment produces a nuclear field, a form of energy that is neither mag netic nor electrical but something which controls the behavior of the particles. be delivered at times of low stream flow when all available power is needed to meet firm con tracts. It totals about 500,000 kilowatts. Loss of it means either the shut. down of plants or the purchase, where available, of high - cost steam power. Pearl said that sub-normal rain fall through the. summer had brought about the low stream flows. An earlier power cut-back would have been necessary, he said, had demand not remained light as warm weather continued' into September. John P. Jolliffe. BPA onerations chief, said some restoration ef in terruptible power may be possible later in tne tau u there are heavy, continuing rains. However, he said, long-range weather fore casts are not encouraging for this. Industries getting the curtail ment notices: Aluminum Com pany of America, Vancouver and Wenatchee. Wash.: Kaiser Alumi num and Chemical Corp., Spokane and Tacoma, Wash.; Reynolds Metals Co.j Troutdale, Ore., and Longview, Wash.; Electrometal lurgical Co.. Pacific Carbide and Alloys Co., and Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company, Port land; Crown Zellerbach Corp. and Kayonier uorpi, rort Angeles, Wash.; Keokuk Electro - Metals Co., Wenatchee; Pacific North west Alloys, Inc., Spokane; Vic tor Chemical Works, Butte, mom.; uaroorunaum lo., Van couver, Wash.; and Anaconda Al uminum Co., Columbia Falls, Mont. House by only three votes. The other one would have made the office appointive. Sponsors claimed enough votes to get it through the Senate, but they didn't try. When Gov. Elmo Smith took of fice last Jan. 31, he inherited Patterson s suspicion of Thorn ton's motives. However, Smith turned the Multnomah and Lane County investigations over , to Thornton, and there has been no friction between the two men. The Elections Committee also is considering making the office of labor commissioner nonparti san. This office, too, is held by a Democrat, Norman O. Nilsen. Democrats in the Legislature claim that the Republicans appar ently want to make offices non partisan whenever Democrats are elected to them. Nilsen is the state's first Demo cratic labor commissioner. Thorn ton is the first Democratic attor- Greek Cyp riots Protest Planned Execution Of 3 NICOSIA, Cyprus (JH Greek Cypriots went on an islandwide general strike Thursday to pro test the imimnent execution of three extremists convicted of mur der or violence against the Brit ish. An authoritative source in Ath ens said acting Greek Foreign Minister Constantine Tsatsos called in British Charge d' Affaires M. Lambert to warn that the ex ecutions would cause a "serious deterioration" in relations be tween Britain and Greece, al ready badly strained over the Cyprus issue. Archbishop Dorotheos of Athens, president of the Pan-Hellenic Un ion of Cyprus with Greece, cabled church and political leaders throughout the world asking them to pressure the British to grant tne condemned men clemency. ney general since 1895. The office of state superintendent of public instruction was made nonpartisan in 1939, just after a Democrat, Rex Putnam, was appointed to the post. Thornton, however, doesn't think much of this politics claim. Assertiifg he "will not impugn the motives of the Republicans," Thornton wants to fight it out on the broader issue whether the at torney general's office belongs to the people or to the governor. Something Wrong With Union, Examiner Says WASHINGTON I Pete Batal- Isas is right, a government trial examiner has ruled, about there being something wrong in his la bor union. Pete is so rieht the National Labor Relations Board examiner recommended putting the union Long Island, N.Y., Local No. 138 of the International Operating En gineerspractically out of busi ness. The recommendation is sub ject to NLRB approval. . uatauas was one of the outraged union members who joined labor columnist Victor Riesel on a radio broadcast, complaining about la bor racketeering a few hours be fore Kisel was blinded by an acid inrower in new tone. The report today by NLRB Trial Examiner David London, however, deals not with racketeering charg es, but with who is running Local 138. London found that employers in the Nassau and Suffolk County Contractors' Assn. really run it in violation of law. Frl., Sept. 21, 1956 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 3 Robber Relates Preparations BOSTON m Joseph "Specs" O'Keef bluntly told a Superior Court jury he robbed the Brink's headquarters of $1,219,000 and the eight men on trial were with him. He testified as a state witness yesterday that the robbery was in the planning stage for more than two years. He said members of the gang broke Into Brink's at least 15 times to study the physical layout of the place before the robbery was car ried out on the night of Jan. 17, 1950. O'Keefe said various methods of getting their hands on the big loot were discussed before it was de cided to invade the vault room with guns. Led through his expose by Asst. Dist. Ally. Frederick T. Doyle, O'Keefe related the plan for rob bing Brink's first came up late in 1947. ' Members of the gang made fre quent night-time exploration, the witness said, opening locked doors with an icepick and a piece of celluloid. FOR RENT John Deere CRAWLER TRACTOR WITH BLADE Meunttd O. A Track Reedy T. G.. Lansing-Oliver 1561 S. I. STIPHIN1 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK WALLPAPER Sale oh dlsoofitinuad patterns Colorcraft Paint and Wallpaper 626 S. I. Cas Ph. OR 2-2252 61k Wsrt ef Port Offlc. 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