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2—Port CYford New», Thursday, April 13, 1967 State To Sell Vehicles ____ Poet Office Box S 97465 Port Orford, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Second class m a il privileges authorised at Port Orford, Ore. Editor and Publisher ... Managing Editor Louis L. Felsheim Paul L Peterson Subscription In Curry County (per year in a d v a n c e )......................... $3 00 Outside Curry C o u n ty........................................................... $3 50 Single Copy........................... .................. ...................... 30 Cents Announcements, Notices, New» and Advertising Must be in the Office by S»00 p. m. Tuesdays GUEST FWTORIAL Equal Justice Under Law MIKE McBRIDE First Place Essay Winner • » The United States of America is one of the few countries in the world today to enjoy "Equal Justice Under Law. " With the signing of the Declaration of Indepen dence in 1776, die United States became a nation and has been fighting for equal justice, for all its people, ever since. Two hundred years ago, before the Declaration of Independence and die Revolutionary War, KingGeorge III of England ruled over the thirteen colonies that would one day become the greatest nation in the world. The King of England was very unfair and most of the colonists hated him. He demanded taxes and more taxes until the colonists couldn't stand it anym ore! So, therefore, the revolution began. More than a year after the first battle, the Declaration of Independence was signed. After that war, our constitution came into being. It was our first written insurance of "Equal Justice Un der Law". That insurance has not failed us yet. In all of the wars we have fought since writing of our Constitution, equal justice has been perhaps our m o s t important goal! Equal jus ice, not only for our people,but for all people in all other countries as well. Today, many people do not enjoy equal justice, even in this country. Many schools and public places are still closed to s o m e of our citizens, even though, through our courts, many of our people are demanding that this situation be stopped. There have been civil rights laws passed in Congress to help this condition. The American Negro, for example, has had a long hard struggle to gain equa’ justice, and though great strides h a v e been made, that struggle has not been com pletely won. In many countries, like Soviet Russia, commun ism rules. The people cannot do what they want to, go where they want to, or even think the way they want to! Instead,the people, and everything else in that country is controlled by the state. The party leaders exercise a complete dictatorship over the populations of these countries. Communism has tried many times to expand throughout the world. This has usually resulted in a war s u c h as Korea and the war being fought now in Viet Nam. In these wars, and all the ones we've fought be- fore, die United States, and "Equal Justice Under Law" have always prevailed. It is hoped that some day, wars for freedom and equal justice will be no longer neces- sary. That all people can enjoy the kind of government that Abraham Lincoln wanted for us. A government "of the people, by the people, and for the people. " The tourist season is Just a- round the corner and local folk should be thinking about their spring cleaning. There's weeds and brush to cut in yards and vacant lo ts.. . old cars and other i unk to remove from city streets and private property . .buildings to repair, paint or tear down. It's dum hard to get a strang er to stick around and admire our beautiful scenery when all the junk gets in his way. Re member, too, every car full of tourists that zoom through town t a k e their money along with them . . . the only time they spend money is when they stop to do it, and they w on't stop if things a in 't right purty. - P_ 1 think we've finally got rid of the skunks, or civet cats, but I do w a n t to thank all them very kind people who did come up with several suggestions to do the jo b .. . after I'd put the critter to sleep in the garbage can in the garage. Norm Valet, of barbering fame,was convinc ed, however, t h a t I probably have a nice nest of younguns still in the attic. Seems he has his problems with them also and is positive you can 't get rid of t h e m . . . and he's tried more ways than I did. Cue suggestion I received was f ro m Betty and Frcnchie Delamarter who now live in Corvallis. It was, simply, MOVE TO CORVALLIS, fl may be forced to if they (the cats) de cide to come back. ) New Constitution ' Closer Than E ve r' Oregon’s Senate and House certainly are not abandoning traditional concepts of checks and balances, but they appear much closer than in the last two sessions to agreement on a revised State Constitution proposal to put before the peo ple. Since voters in I960 auth orized the legislature to pro pose Constitutional revision, in whole or part, senators and rep resentatives have seen different needs and goals. In 1963 and 1965, the Senate held out for moderate, updating changes. House members wanted sweep ing reform, and to give the governor more authority to match his responsibility. Solons here, aware of the need to streamline state gov ernment as one means of keep ing federal power out of in ternal affairs, now say they are “ closer than ever” to com promise on SJR 7. The proposed revision bill, whirh ruts the length of the present Constitu'ion nearly in half, passed the Senate In Feb- rv.a: y. It was amended and passed by the House last F ri day. Because of House amend ments and disagreements,SJR 7 now will go to a joint conference committee before gaining--if then necessary two-thirds votes in both chambers and getting on the statewide ballot. This may seem to be a slow process, but giving our state’s most significant document a face-lifting is an awesome re sponsibility. It is complex: Ore gon’s 108-year-old Constitution already has experienced 115 amendments, and changes now being considered in SJR 7 must be carefully thought out be cause they will bear on the lives oi all present and future Oregonians. H e re are some m a jo r changes, other than rewriting: —The more than 100 state board and commissions would be consolidated into a maxi mum 20 departments, serving in an advisory rapacity. De partment heads would be ap pointed by the governor, where as various agencies now elect their own directors. --A House Judiciary Com mittee amendement would give I i the secretary- of state the role filled by lieutenant governors in ether states. He would run in tandem with the governor, re ceive duty assignments from the governor and be first in line for gubernatorial suc cession. —Statewide elective office of treasurer would be eliminated. Instead, a comptroller, hired by the legislature, would direct a “bureau of audits” depart ment. House amendments also would make the attorney general and superintendent of public instruction offices appointive rather than elective. —Legislative seats would be increased in each house—by five each according to the Sen ate version of SJH 7 and by one each according to House amendment. The House ver sion also calls for lengthening legislative terms by two years, giving senators six years and representatives four, and for legislative authority to call special sessions. —The Senate specifically would prohibit the spending of public money for “ direct anu immediate” benefit of relig ious institutions, and would out law college teachers from ser ving in the legislature. Here the House shows conservatism, recommending that teachers should be allowed to serve, but not draw teaching pay during sessions. --Other modifications which may appear In a final Consti tutional revision proposal would affect Initiative and referendum signature requirements. Asap- proved by the Senate, SJH 7, initiative laws could be de manded by 5 l/2Tc of voters registered at the preceding gen eral election; a Constitutional amendment could be Initiated by 7 1/2^,. R e fe re n d u m pe titions would require signatures of four percent of the last gen eral election’s total registered voters. Just when and whether a fi nal, new Constitution will be up for public approval still is a matter of conjecture here. But those close to working it out will agree on some points: strong, progressive state gov ernment is a means to saving authority from federalism; we must remove some purely sta tutory material and obso- The Department of Finance and Administration will con duct a Public Sale of used ve hicles, equipment and mis cellaneous property at the Salem Armory Auditorium on Saturday, April 15. Among the 45 vehicles are four station wagons, 24 sedans, II pickups, three dump trucks, one sedan delivery ami two carryalls. Among the 1957 to 1966 se dans, station wagons, pickups and other vehicles are two 1965 V, 8 Fords, nine 1961 to 1963 Dodge 6 cycllmlers, one 1966 V 8 Chevrolet; also Dodges, Studebakers, Chevrolets, 1965 Rambler seitans, 1963 and 1965 Plymouth station wagons ami a 1960 International Travelall. The miscellaneous property and equipment portion of the sale commences at 11 a.m., with the oral auction of a horse trailer, lawn mowers, passen ger car tires, a file cabinet, roofing or asphalt kettle mount ed on trailer, office desks and chairs, manual ami electric typewriters, and miscellaneous office equipment. Spot bidding on all other vehicles will begin at approximately 11:30 a.m. or upon completion of the oral auction. A brochure listing all Items ami terms and conditions is available d u rin g inspection hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. F ri day, April 14, and from 8 a.m. until sale time Saturday at the Armory, 2310 17th St., N. E., adjacent to the fairgrounds. Personal checks will be ac cepted for all vehicles sold on Saturday only. Successful bid ders haveunttl Friday, April 21, to complete payment for any item purchased. - P- Ol' HappyMcGarvey, the san Oregon Farm Cash itary engineer,said he'd finally learned something the other day. Sales Set Record; "W hat's that, " I asked’ "Why, when the sun shines in Farm Total Drops the morning it rains in the af ternoon, " he r e p l i e d , as he Cash sales by Oregon farm headed for the door laughing ers hit a new record high in like a man whose burden had 1966, topping the 1965 level by plumb got too heavy to carry. some eight percent. — P— The cost of farming also went Don't forget to take in the up in 1966, according to the high school play this weekend. preliminary estimates quoted I'd preview it for ya but then I by Mrs. Elvera Horrell, ex haven't seen it either so y a '11 tension agricultural economist ha vet a go see it for yerself.. . as at Oregon State University. the man says. Ward Oakshot,who Livestock s a l e s , notably directs it, says it's got an a ll cattle and calves, jumped 14' school c a s t . . . which doesn't over 1965 while crop sales were m ean the entire studentbody is up some 3~. Biggest contribu in it*. .ju st that it isn't a class tors to the Increase in the value play. The story is elsewhere in of crops were strawberries and this issue. cherries. —P— Addition of some $24 million^ And don't let me forget.. . out in government payments, about* ofthe oodness of my heart (and the same as last year, brought I didn't even tell the publisher) total cash received by the I've extended the special anni state's farmers to$538 million. versary subscription o f f e r to While dollar figures for farm NEW subscribers through April operating costs aren’t out yet, 20. Yep, they can get a full Mrs. Horrell says indications year's sub for only S2. And be are that feed and livestock will fore you accuse me of discrim prove to have cost farmers inating against those already more in 1966, but the total subsetibing,may I say that they amount spent for hired labor already know they're getting a and setd may show some de bargain. crease. - P- The trend toward fewer but I hope mayor Frank St. Clair larger farms continued during gets back from Alaska in time the year. There were some to plan ground-breaking cere 40,500 farms in Oregon at the monies for the start of the sew start of 1967, according to U.S. er construction Monday. At no Department of Agriculture est other tim e in history wil! the imates. This is 1,500 less than city ever start its first sewer a year earlier and the small system a g a in ... and I think it est number of farms in the should be started in a tradition state since the turn of the cen al manner. In fact, all the m ay tury. Acreage per farm is up ors, (Ira Tucker, Andy Cribble, sharply. Lloyd Bates and St. Clair) who The net income per farm in have worked on th e project 1966 is estimated to be $3,865, should each turn a shovelful of 14% above 1965 and the high dirt to commemorate the oc est since records were started casion. What do you think7 in 1949. -P - Oregon Is still below the Did you hear about the guy national average Income per who put a slug in a pay-scale farm, which is $5,024. Lowest . . . then stole a weigh? And with average farm income for the that I'll steal away until next year was in West Virginia week. where the figure was 91,055. Cancer Funds Aid Oregon Arizona, at $21,071, was tops in this department les Heidelberger of the Univer sity of Wisconsin, developer of a powerful anti-cancer drug, as to the need for cancer society funds: American Cancer Society "Only a free voluntary group funds totaling$378,339 were at work in cancer research projects like the American Cancer So throughout Oregon during the ciety has the flexibility to take and to finance 'long shots' past year, according to Clarke risks in research, " Dr. Heidelberger P. Miller, Portland insurance stated. "This flexibility, thia executive and chairman of the willingness to support new ap April crusade for the society's proaches, new techniques, new Oregon division. scientists, has made the ACS an Research grants were in effect enormously creative force in at University of O egon m edi research. cal and dental schools, Oegon cancer Gambles on research under State University and Providence taken by the American Cancer Hospital in Portland. Society have helped develop Miller said the $378, 339 in procedures like the Pap test, cluded $274,215 from the Am which has saved thousands of erican Cancer Society's nation lives from uterine cancer, M il al organization and $104, 124 ler explained. from the Oregon division of ACS. Thousands of Crusade volun Research projects cover many teers are participating in the areas of investigation by scien April campaign in Oregon, and tists over the state. Projects Miller said it is hoped that ev range from a study of the bio ery person will be reached to chemical changes during em receive copies of th e seven bryonic development to an in warning signals and to have an vestigation of the mechanism opportunity to s u p p o r t the of hormone action. Miller pointed out that a society. total of $15 m illion in ACS funds were allocated for re search throughout the United Sta tes 1 ast ye ar, a 1 ong w 1th m any more millions from the federal government.He quoted Dr.Char- The first of continued m eet ings of Port Crford's newly or lescence from this basic doc ganized Saddle Club will be held ument; we must streamline Saturday, April 15. at 1 p. m. The meeting will take place some of the costly mechanics of democracy while at the same directly across from Mayea's time p r e s e r v i n g citizens’ Union Station. Proapectlve m e m b e r s are rights. Local Saddle Club Forms IN REHEARS AL fo rth e forthcom ing play "Tom Jones ............. edy, is from the highly successful • uovie i by the April 14, 15, at 8 p .m . Admission L< $1 for ad : ts and Marsh,Michelle Deets,Teresa Ihill ips, I ; id.i •■si. .1 avlfii I. ,1. school's drama mass I he play a del Ightful com - ,| . i- p r \etiled at tin- high s< iiool 1 hnrsday anu Irhlay, ,-nts i n students. In scene Iwre are, left to right standtngi llrad k, Jerry Hall and Boh Com ara. Jerry I orty kneels and Rod For- ty is sitting. MERICANISM ESSAA, Equal Justice Under Law by Karen Price Second Place Winner I feel, that before I explain y views about "Equal Justice ider Law," I should explain hat it means. "Equal Justice Under Law," a word, is the same amount just and equal treatm ent set t the body of rules recognized / a state or country. In the United States, the m ain w,or the "Supreme law of the nd, " is the U n i t e d States onstitution' It tells what eachol the three ain branches of government in do and what they caiuiot do. explains so well, in its pce- ■nble, th e real meaning of qual justice for everyone! There is also a BUI of Rights, stter known as the first ten mendments to the Cons' itution. These ten amendments pro- set the equal rights of the in- ivldual.They tell the rights of »e people as a whole. Some of the things which the ill of Rights say are: You are Hawed to Speak freely and you lay choose your own religion. Amendment 1). It continues to state: "No a son shall have his life, 1 ¡her itor possessions taken from him xcept in a lawful m anner.' Amendment 6). I believe that this is "Equal astice Under Law. " On the other hand, though, ike the many minority groups a America, such as the Negros, "here are stUl public places hat will not allow them to in egrate with the majority group. Is this right? No.Because our "Constitution tates that all men are created qua 1 so as to enjoy equal rights. Too many people feel that hey are better than the m em - ers of the minority group. The legros are just now getting to /here more people will accept hem. By this I mean more chools, jobs and living areas ire open and-being opened to hem. People are now working to other to clean up slums, build nore and better schools, provide setter Jo b s, and passing new ;ivil rights laws to help and irotect each individual. Today the minority group iving standards are higher now ban ever before in the history >f America. For this we can feel ve have come a long way in iroviding equal justice for ev eryone. But there are still those who :onsider all members of the ninority,unequal citizens of the Jnited States. Is this "Equal Justice Under .aw?" I agree that there are some svil doers in every large group it people, but there are just as nany, ifnotinore, fine and out standing ones. I feel that America has come luch a long way in preserving 'EqualJustice Under Law" as it vas written for us in our Consti tution one hundred and seventy- nine years ago. We, A merica's youth, must work together not only toprotect this great heritage,but see to if that the generations to come will continue to have and want "Equal Justice Under Law!" zrged to bring then horses to he m eeting for games and re- ays. Ribbons w ill be awarded ind a prize will go to the high xiint horse and rider of the day. Ponies, parents and spectators ire welcome. Don’t force liquids on an unconscious or semi-conscious nerson; it may cause strangu- ment alt work together to pro tect our rights and freedoms and isset up to give each and every one a la u ami qual lustier Under law" to all of its people. byjeritu Hefner Saturday I astern Star, 8 p, m. .S’on lay Job's Daughters, 7:30 j . m, Tuesday notary, l.h 10 jp, m. 7ops Club, 1 p. ni. COMING EVENTS Third Place Winner Am. Leg. C Aux., 8 p, m . Thursday We are very lucky here Baseball, CouuUle, here America, to Fave been aised C. , 1 e owship, 7:30 p. m, W dnesday in a country where ev< Friday I Ions, 7: 10 p. m, Baseball, Bandon, there hastieen given an equal c St. i hr is. Guild, 7: 10 p. m. tunity for "Equal Justice, m atter wh.it nationality t Cur forefathers cared e oug h about our future generati draw up a set of laws to p ro tect our rights as citizens anil to keep us a free nation. litis is known as the Constitution of the • • • United States. Eirst of all in order to make laws, our ovenim ent is set uj in s u c h a way tliat the wants and needs of the people are the most im portant thing. these men and women who make up our governm ent are elected y the people, whom they are to «•present. $ t The first ten amendment» of die Constitution ot the Unite I PHILLIPS States are known as the Bill oi R ights." These rights restrict the kind of laws that can I* passed by the ! edera' Congress. We have the freedom to worship as we please; the right to speak freely; the freedoi i o' the pie is; the riglit to liold m eetings anil P O P / M O M F IC K L E have guns in oui homes unless they are used unlawfully. I ln.il- AND ly, through our representatives we m ay ask the Congress to Gef Your Own Anchor Hocking change any law which we do not like. Quite different liotv. our fo rt, G/assware Sef of laws and government are the You Receive I Glass with each 10 gallons or more kinds of govern' .ent that drag jieople from their hoc es in trie m iddle of the night in ! im prison them without n i t e inse. in oui system, people cannot 1 e arrested,or their hom esse >reh ' except for a reason and with i ! < • ■ aV court order giving this pe. •■. is- sion. "Equal Justice Under Law ,” in t h i s country i c irri- I mt very fairly in our courts -' I iw ' People are innocent until pr iv- en(beyond a shadow of loubt i guilty. The accu teu is provi led with a lawyer too, if he tnnot IN PONT 0PF6PD afford one of his own. Also he is provided w i t h a fair and j u t jury. No person can he ion cd 1 speak against hi' self in a trial for a crim e. Once you have been tried for a crim e you c a n not be tried again for the same one. Our Constitution and govern COME IN AND MEET V0UR NEW m tt 8 Glasses and Pilcher tek .JiF PlH FOU A REAL FUN T IM E .. • JOIN US EVERY FRIDAY SATURDAY AMD AT THE M ftT MTOt !MN G-OLD BEACH
