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
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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.
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