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12 Tli Newi-Revlew, Hoseburg, Ore. Thurt. Mor. 27, 195S Washington Border Cities In Tizzy Over Old State Law Affecting Trade Stamps Br THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Washington Hit law on the bookf since 1913 but seldom, if trr, enforced has coUectori of green trading stamps in tome of Washington'! border cities in a tizzy. The Sperry k Hutchison Co., which issues S. t H. Green .Stamps, redeem them for mer chandise in ttatei where it'i al lowable, for cash in others. Washington is one of the latter. The Washington 1913 law re quires that any merchant who gives trading stamps or other de vices entitling a purchaser to re deem them for free merchandise or goods selling at less than the retail market price must obtain a $6,000 a year license from his county auditor. Ce To Portland Sperry at Hutchinson has a mer chandise redemption store in Portland, since Oregon bas no re striction against this gimmick in the trad stimulation stamp scheme. Until a month or two ago, green stamp collectors in Clark County and Vancouver, just across the Columbia Kiver, had been going there to swap their stamps for merchandise. Where a full book of stamps is worth only S2 in cash in Wash ington, it got goods valued at about S3 at the Portland redemp tion store. Then S. & H. sent a periodic reminder to Washington border city merchants handling their green stamps, cautioning them that state law prevented redeem ing the Washington-issued stamps in merchandise even across a state line. The redemption store also clamped down on the swap of goods for stamps if they came from Washington and were able to tell through serial numbers. Produced Grumbling All of which produced plenty of grumbling, particularly in the rural areas of Clark County where the subject even became a major topic at some urange meetings. E. W. Pearson of San Francis co, Sperry and Hutchinson vice president, says he's sorry but there's nothing the company can do about it. S. & H. was a little more out spoken, however, in a pamphlet sent out to green stamp savers. It said bluntly "an unfair law is on the Washington state hooks The same situation applies. a geographically lesser degree, along some ot the Washington Idaho border. S. & II. distributes its stamps in the border cities in Vancouver, Longview, Kelso, Woodland, Bat tle Ground, Camas, Castle Rock, Cathlamet. Bingen. North Bonne ville. Stevenson, Underwood, Washougal, White Salmon, ( larks ton, Anatone, Asotin, liaytun, Pa louse, Pomeroy and Pullman. tWTHE LAW A PUHX SERVICE OF THE COLLEGE OF LAW, WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY .Mr. Stanley died without leaving a will. His wife hsd passed away several years before, and the only remaining heirs were bis tnree chil dren. His daughter. May, was mar ried to a very successful young insurance salesman, whue his cid er, son. John, had a good position in a bank which promised a bright future. The younger son, Sam, was a very different case, however. Sam was 20 and had been crippled by polio. His future required consid erable medical attention as well as special vocational training. Botb would be expensive and the $10, 000 estate of the lata Mr. Stanley would have been barely enough to take care of them. ON MANY OCCASIONS Mr. Stan ley had said thst May and John did not need any help from him, but that Sam would need all he rould possibly give him. He had also stated that if he died before Sam was in "good shape," he want ed his estate to be used tor Sam's training and treatment. He had told some of his friends that he expected to make a will to this ef fect. But no will was found, and there was no evidence at all that Mr. Stanley intended such provi sions. What happens to the estate ot Mr. Stanley? By tha laws of the state in which Mr. Stanley lived the three children would shsre equally in the estate. May and John would receive money that they did not need, and Sam would receive entirely too small an amount to take care ot bis medi cal and training needs. EVERY STATE legislature has enacted a statute for the distribu tion of the property and money of those who die without a valid will. Therefore, Mr. Stanley had a clear choice. He could choose the dis tribution as provided by the legis lature by simply doing nothing or he could have made a will. The assumption is that by not making a will Mr. Stanley chose the for mula set forth in the ststutes of the state, although. In fact, he prob ably did not know how the state Flu Strikes Hundreds On Island; Only 1 Nurse OCRACOKE, N C. vfl The only registered nurse on doctorless Oc racoke Island said today she be lieves a flu epidemic which has struck 300 of the 500 residents now is under control. Mrs. Kathleen Bragg, herself ahed with flu, said drugs sent from the mainland and from neighbor ing Hatleras Island, plus the visit nf a llatteras doctor, had control led the situation. Dr. Garland Wampler. U.S. Pub lic Health Service officer at 'Hat leras Island treated as many as he rould among the estimated 2V0 bed patients on Ocracoke. Mrs. Bragg is tresting the resi dents, mostly fisherfolk, by trle- pnnne and messenger. She has the help of a practical nurse, who gives antibiotic shots to the pneu monia cases and others who may need them. would divide his propertv. The fact that he had told friends he wanted his estate to meet the needs of the crippled son has no ellect whatsoever upon the dis tribution of his property. Permit ting his remembered statement to be used in the distribution of the estate would provide all man ner of opportunities for perjury, contradiction, and improper infer enccs. Biased witnesses cannot establish what a man said without an accurate permanent record of wnat be said. Ihe law has to be as it is. Anything less than a written will. solemnly signed before witnesses. would cause endless confusion. In such a serious matter the inten tions of a dead man can only he indicated through the writing he has left behind. He cannot appear as a witness to explain what he wants done. The document must spesk for itself. The purpose of this column is to explain basic principles of the law end not te give legal advice. The reader should never apply the law to his particular problem without consulting an attorney. Other facts of the slightest variation In a tact ual situation may change the out. come of a controversy. Rocket's Change To Piloted Glider Now Proposed SAN DIKUO. Calif. 11 A rocket that would start flight from a sled and end it as a piloted glider was proposed today by an aircraft spe cialist. "he sled launching was likened to a slingshot by V'jekoslav Grad ecak, structural engineer for Ityan Aeronautical Co. lie said it would eliminate the enormous fuel weight required to get the conven tional tail sitting rocket off the ground. Gradecak, who will present his idea to a symposium on high speed aerodynamics Wednesday, aid his rocket would get airborne speed of about S00 miles an hour from the rocket powered sled on rails. Us pilot would then ignite its own rocket power and it would climb to 38 miles and attain a speed up to IB.IkKI miles an hour. It would then glide back to earth. Gradecak figured that on such flight the winged rocket . glider could circle the earth, lie said it might even be developed into a passenger craft for intercontinen tal flights. BZ73R mm Few Logs Sold In Open Market In West Oregon CORVAI.L1S i -Kew logs were sold on the open market in West ern Oregon in Ihe past week and the price of those that did sell reflected no change from the pre vious week. 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