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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.
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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.
That was Tuesday's report from
Marion I). Thomas, extension
agricultural economist at Oregon
State Cullrge.
Buyers continued interested in
better grade logs, the report said
In the green fir market, the
report said, mills able to supply
two-inch utility and economy
stock had a good demand, hut
other trading was slow.
On other forest products: Iirv
esscara bark wa reiwrted at i;
cents a pound in the Kugene area,
fern fronds were quoted at i;
cents a hunch, salal 2a cents and
huckleberry 33 cents.
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