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2—ft»« Orford New*, Thuisday, February 18, 1965 EDITORIAL " — — — Johnson Picked On Shrine Team --------------------------------- Of Things Fatal to the Seven American* were k ille d in V iet Nam last weekend. These men were soldiers. They were in a war aone, and were aware of the hazards they faced. Six American* were k ille d in Oregon traffic accident* last weekend. 1 base people were not soldier*. They were men, women and children who were on peaceful missions. *,r*t six weeks o f 1965, 50 people have died on Oregon * streets and highways. During the same period of 1964, 40 Cfeegonians were kille d. Oegon's death rate is up 20 per cent. And, the year is just beginning. . X *ar’ 5 drivers, passenger* and pedestrians were k i l l e d . If the present bloody rate continues, w e 'll k ill 115 more people this year than we did last year. At this rate, our tra ffic death to ll w ill reach an a ll-tim e high of 690 people. What can you do about it? The T ra ffic Safety and Education Division of the Oregon Department of M otor Vehicles says, observe the three "C's" of driving: care, courtesy and caution. Fasten your seat belt. Expect the unexpected. Drive de fensively. Doa't drink and dnve. Let your Legislators know where you stand on the tra ffic safety legislation now pending. It’ s bad enough to die in the service of your country, as those men in V ie t Nam did. It's worse to die needlessly in tra ffic. Take i t easy'. À A Political Test Now that the professors have demonstrated by their reading frank poetry In public that their academic freedom In Oregon Is secure, perhaps they should turn their attention to a test of their political freedom. I wonder If they know that according to an Attorney Gen e ra l’s opinion they cannot act ively support a candidate for public office or a ballot Issue nor can they make contrilsitlons to a candidate for public office o r to a ballot measure. I also wonder if they are aware that the proposed new constitution for Oregon contains a provision expressly prohibiting fa c u 11y m em lers of the state colleges and universities from running for public office. It occurs to me that the professors, with all their academic freedom, are cast In the role of second class citizens. A good place for a demon stration - political not poetic - would be at Salem before the Legislature adjourns. Fourth District Eliminates Linn, Accepts Benton County and distributed to the remaining districts; and the other Is that some population from already existing districts will have to be added to the Second District. Musi File To Claim Refund New Bills Said To Aid Courts Subscription In C u rry C o un ty (p e r y e a r in a d v a n c e ) ............................$3. 00 O utside C u rry C o u n t y ............................................................. $3. 50 S in g le C o p y ...................................................................... 10 Cent* A nnouncem ents, N o tices, New» and A d ve rtisin g M ust be in th e O ffic e by 5i00 p. m . Tuesday* 1 ★ Port Orford N A T IO N A L E D IT O R IA L Cases appearing before Justice A r t h u r F. Niemann in Justice Court since last report were: Clyde W illiam Losey, Feb. 9, f a i l u r e to provide for m inor children, held for grand jury; Clyde W illiam Losey, Feb. 9, vagrancy, disorderly conduct, d is m is s e d ; Richard Kenneth Carden, Feb. 10, no operators license, $10 bail forfeited; C lif ford Ie v i VanFussen, Feb. 11, VBR, $50; Beulah May Lorent- zen, Feb. 15, permit unlicensed person to drive, $10. .- s > ^ c 6"5 n ' -< ■ A n F F i IL u IA n T E i e i i i m i e FULLBACK John Johnson of the Pacific Pirates was named as one of 27 football players from Western Oregon to play In the annual East-West Shrine All-Star game In Pendleton. He was selected by the A-2 high school football coaches of O re gon for this honor. Proceeds from this game go each year to aid the S h r i n e Crl|ipled Children's hospital, Portland. John ran and passed for over l,0 0 d yards In the tou. h 4-A-2 c o n f e r e n c e of Southwestern Oregon. “ I feel John Is certainly de serving of (his hniMii,” said Coach John Botz of Pacific. "If he Improves as much this coming year as he did for us last year, he could make It as a college ball player. I think this Is the goal he’s set for at the present time. I know everyone at Pacific wishes him a lot of success." Wages and Freight Make Farming Highly Competitive Missing W- Then Do This Managing Editor HJMe r w S rjecj f w <>I K LOW PRICES S and 11 (¡KEEN STAMPS The change It: specialty crop growing was emphasized in A talk by A1 Randall, managet of United Growers In Salem, before the Salem AreaChamtier of Commerce agricultural crftn<; mittee this week. Randall pointed out that 17 years ago his firm had over 1000 growers. The number of growers has decreased to about 225. Yet the volume of the plant has Increased five times over In the same period. While much of the early-day volume came from war-time practices of small plots In fruit or vegetables for the war«>ffort, many families were makln. a living on 10-acre farms. Yields In straw berries pro bably averaged al>out 1 1/2 tons In post-war days, tut now new varieties are averaging 4 to tons and up to 8 tons in some A special tax problem may varieties. f a t a the taxpayer whose for Bean yield has not changed mer employer has gone out of appreciably, tut costs have for business. In some cases, such ced larger acreage to make a e m p l o y e r s fail to give em living for a farm family. ployees a Form W-2 showing Randall said the combination the wages paid and the tax of freight rates and low wages withheld. In the east and south combine If this Is your situation, A.G. to hold prices down In the Erickson, district director of west. Internal Revenue, suggests the Wages In Oregon begin at following. $1.65 for women and go ovei F irst try to get a Form W-2 from the employer. If you do not succeed, prepare your In come tax return from the best information available and file Returning delegates from the It before the deadline. Attach a note explaining why the W-2 Central Point assembly o f Je Is not included with the return. hovah's Witnesses included lo Alien a taxpayer leaves his cal minister E, C. Carlson and job during the year, the law fam ily. Almost a ll of the mem requires that the employer fur bers of the 17 southern Oregon nish a W-2 at the time of the congregations attended the con last payment of wages, if a vention, according to Carlson, person leaves a Job permanent bringing the final attendance to ly for any reason and does 1, 262 for the Sunday lecture, not receive a W-2 when he re "The Moral Breakdown —What ceives his last payment of wa Can Be Done About It?" Principal speaker and Watch ges, he should request the em tower representative, Arden R, ployer to furnish one. Those appearing before M u- icipa l Judge Loraine Haines in Recorders Court since last re port were: Richard Bauman, VBR, $10; Johnny Pascua, VBR, $10; A l fred Esselstrom, VBR, $10, bail forfeited; J a s p e r V. Benscoter, VBR, $10; C liff Bales, ille g a l parking, $1; C liff Bales, illegal parking, $1; Roger Longelier. VBR, $15; M ichael Alves, VBR, $10; Hal Strain, VBR, $10; Ber tha McCrackin, VBR, $10, bail forfeited; Robert J. Nowlin, VBR, S10; Dorothy Tuckett, VBR, $10; B illy Dean Jerde, driving with license suspended,$150; Laureen Purkey, VBR, $15, $5 suspended; Lester Smith, VBR, $10; James Jarvis, improper turning, $15; A l i c e Durgee, VBR, $10; W. Lester Jeffries, VBR, $10; M ich ael Easter, drunk in public, $25; Barden Beaty, VBR, $10, bail forfeited; George Anderson, dis orderly conduct, $50, S25 sus pended; David Hicks, VBR. $25; Ja m e s Dean, VBR, $25, bail forfeited; Keith Brouns, drunk in public. $200, $100 suspended; Myron Forty, VBR, $5; Oscar Potter, follow ing too close, ac cident involved, $15, bail for feited; Raymond Throne, VBR, $15; Francis Bohlen, VBR, $15; Edgar Seelye, following another vehicle too close, $15, $5 sus pended; George Pinneo, VBR, $15, bail forfeited; M .E. M odi- selle, VBR, $15, bail forfeited; Edna Schilling, no operator lic ense, $15, bail forfeited; A n- YOUTH tone Rose, VBR, $10, bail for "W h e re have you been so feited; Rudolth Hidalgo, disor derly conduct, drunk in public, long?" "In the phone booth pitching three days in ja il. a line tom y g irl--b u t some body wanted to use the phone so we had to get out. " Paul L. Peterson ............................................. A S S O C IA T IO N SHOP Passage o f b ills to p e rm it a r rest on probable cause and to cre a te a separate and serious o f fense fo r a tte m p tin g to elude a p o lic e o ffic e r were re fle c te d in the vo lu m e o f c o n v ic tio n s re p o r t e d to the D e p a rtm e n t o f M o to r V e h ic le s d u rin g 1964. The d e p a rtm e n t said th a t re ported c o n v ic tio n s fo r d riv in g w h i l e under the in flu e n c e o f liq u o r to ta le d 4, 152 last year, an increase o f 28 per c e n t over 1963. In a ll, 2 7 1 ,5 5 8 tr a ffic c o n v ic tio n s were rep orted by O regon courts. "T h is d rin k in g d riv e r fig u re un do u b te d ly is a ttrib u ta b le in la rge m easure to the fa c t th a t p o lic e la s ty e a r were able to a r rest on probable cause a t a c c i- de ntsce n e s," a cco rd in g to Vem L. H ill, d ire c to r o f the D e p a rt m e n t o f M o to r V ehicles. P rior to Septem ber, 1963, po lic e c o u ld n o t arrest or c ite un less they p e rson ally witnessed the v io la tio n in v o lv e d in an a c c id e n t. H ill also no ted th a t 281 d riv e r licenses were suspended by the lic e n s in g agency as a re su lt o f co u rt c o n v ic tio n s fo r a tte m p tin g to elud e a p o lic e o ffic e r Last year was the firs t f u ll y e a r this la w was in e ffe c t. It was passed by the 1963 Le gislature and took e ffe c t la te th a t year. Both measures were re c o m m ended by the Oregon T r a ffic Safety C om m ission. Form s 1040 and 1040A are not only tax returns; they are also the forms taxpayers must use to c l a i m their refund check or savings bond. A. G. Erickson, director of Internal Revenue for Oregon, pointed out that many people believe that because tax with held was more than the tax due, they will automatically get a refund without filing a re turn. This is particularly true among students or others who worked only a part of the year, had taxes withheld, but made less than $600. Although no re turn Is required when Income Is less than $600, a return must be filed to obtain a refund of any tax that was withheld. Erickson added that every one whose gross income Is $600 o r more must file ex cept persons 65 or over. They must file If gross Income Is $1200 or over. Louis L. F elsh eim ........................................ E dito r and Publisher P U B L IS H E R S Tuesday Rotary Club, i 2i 10 p. in. City Council, 8 p, in, Wednesday Quarterback Club, 7:30 p. m. Sincerely yours, REP. BETTY ROBERTS Post O ffic e Box 5 Port O rford, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY T H U R S D A Y Second class m a il p riv ile g e s authorized at Port O rford, Ore. NEW SPAPER langlols I’TO, 7i 30 p.m . Jayceet, 8 p. m. Friday Sunset Carden Club, 1 p, m. Saturday Eastern Star, 8 p. m. Monday Ch, of C om ., 12 noon I-ions A ux., 8 p, in. To the Editor; by Robert L. Oernedde FOURTH DISTRICT And the F o u r t h D istrict, losing Linn county but gaining Benton county, would consist of Benton, Coos, Curry, Doug las, J a c k s o n , Josephine and Lane counties. The U.S. S u p r e m e Court ruling of Feb. 17, 1964, said that each member of the U.S. House of Representatives must be elected from Congressional districts roughly equal In pop ulation to other districts in the state. Oregon's d istricts presently v a r y as widely as 522,813 in the Third D istrict to 265,164 in the Second D istrict, a dif ference of 25,649, based on 1960 federal census figures. The high court’s ruling for ces the legislature to either re-apportlon the state’s f o u r d istricts or provide for state wide e l e c t i o n s In 1966. The legislature prefers to reappor tion. Whether or not the Senate will accept the House bill Is yet unknown. Senate hearings on the bill will probably begin sometime late this month. Nonetheless, if the Senate does not like the House passed bill, it can either reject or amend It. If the Senate rejects the bill, there are still other redlstrlctlng bills In the House. And If amendments do come from the Senate, It Is quite pos sible they would be slm illar to the other bills still In the House. All redlstrlctlng bills, how ever, visualize the need for es sentially two changes. One of which Is that a portion of the Third D istrict must be removed T hun da y E ditor Salem Scene Voting 45 to 14, the House passed on to the Senate Friday a bill providing for the re- distrlctlng of Oregon’s f o u r Congressional d i s t r i c t s . The action hopefully solves one of the major Issues before this session of the legislature. The bill, which shifts te rri tory In all four present dis tric ts, Is one of several pro posed at the legislature to cor rect the present imbalance of population and to comply with a recent U.S. Supreme Court de cision. H.B. 1279 removes Benton and Marion counties from the F irs t D istrict, but adds that part of Multnomah county west of the Willamette river. The F irs t D istrict would then con sist of Clackamas, C l a t s o p , Columbia, Lincoln, Folk, Til lamook, Washington, Yamhill and the western half of Mult nomah county. Oregon’s S e c o n d District (eastern Oregon) would get the addition of Marlon and Linn and include existing counties of Baker, Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood River, J e f f e r s o n , Klamath, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sher man, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco and Wheeler. The Third D istrict, which is now the most populated, would consist of only that part of Multnomah county east of the Willamette riv er. /W $2.00 an hour for men working In the processing plants. In the south and east, the rates are in some cases under $1.00 an hour, up to the minimum wage of $1.25 an hour. T h e s» rates m a k e com petition tough and our yield and quality Is our main com petitive f a c t o r , according to Randall. Flood damage has hurt pro duction tn Oregon, more than most people realize, Randall said. A survey Is being made, but final figures are not com plete at this time. From a n o t h e r source we learned that losses from the flood to stored b erries were quite heavy In Oregon. BIRTHS This could be a good year for l>erry growers if lalur Is Mr. and Mrs. Sam D. Will— available and there are not too hoft, Gold Beach, are parents many restricting laws fori In; of a 4 pound, 14 1/2 ounce son more costs on farm ers and l>orn Feb. 12 In southern Coos processors. General Hospital. r Y //- / w&L&uu I f T T T BUILDERS y r c H E N ______________ , 5 I PH ° N * Jet' NMVa 1 1 j IO** I BCAMMIXW C 0 N C W £ | BACKHOE WORK LOA OCR WORK. J | SAHD andGtAVEL ♦ • Dependable Service « • Reasonable Rates ”1 WORKSHOP h DRUGS 13 O’ 03; Moral Breakdown Is Witness Theme Stutler, pointed out that "one of the great causes of the moral breakdown today is the break down of fa m ily life . The answer to the moral breakdown, wheth er in the fam ily, among youth, in business or in religion, is the application of Bible principles in everyday life, " Stutler said. Saturday's baptismal cere mony followed a Bible talk on dedication. Sixteen new m in isters were baptised. Practical instruction received at the assembly w ill be put into use in the home Bible study and door to door m inistry by the lo cal congregation in this area, Carlson said. Don't Forget If you owe more tax when filing your 1964 Federal in come tax return, make your check or money order payable to “ Internal Revenue Service.” Send your return with the payment In full to the District Director of Internal Revenue, Portland, O re., no later than April 15. 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