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Flood of New Bills Introduced in Salem ; SALEM ( The 36-day-old .uregon legislature was deluged with a flood of new legislation, dealing with such topics as tim - ber taxation, power and labor. : Reps. Clarence Barton, D-Co-:quille, and Richard Evmann n. Mohawk, introduced their timber taxation proposal. It is the same as the one which the House al- " most passed two years ago, and is designed to encourage timber owners to hold their timber until maturity. Fast cutters would be penalized by higher taxes. ; The bill will run head on into a more moderate compromise proposal introduced last week by : 35 of the 60 House members. The measure to ratify the pro- From Page One ..WorstStorm ; the car and taken to Western ' Lane Hospital in Florence, where she was reported in fairly 'good condition Monday with a broken arm, cuts and bruises. The slide also cut off under- ground power cables to the light . house and knocked but the aux iliary generator. Allik, the light 1 house keeper, and his assistant, Ronald Redfearn, used a gas powered "Aladdin's Lamp" Sun . day night to light the lighthouse's powerful prisms, and spent the . night revolving the prisms man ; ually. ' .! Another earth slide about 4 a.m. Monday at Toledo cut the ' water main to the Georgia-Pacific ' paper mill. Plant operations were shut down. - In Eugene-Springfield, .27 of an 'Inch of rain fell in the 24-hour period ending 10 a.m. Monday - a total of 6.94 inches since last I.Wednesday morning. . The weather continued raw as brisk southerly winds raked the area. Gusts up to 32 miles per ; hour were reported Monday morn- ing, but the average was 18 to 20 m.p.h. : The McKenzie River continued -.to fall, but a slight rise was re- ported in the Willamette. Water was being spilled at a slow rate from Lookout Point Dam, only .partially full, and water also was : -spilling over the top of the Cot tage Grove and Dorena dams, . which were full. The tail-end of the storm brought a fresh supply of snow - to the Cascade Mountains, allevi ating a no-snow condition which ' has persisted for more than a month. " It began snowing Friday noon ; at Willamette Pass and was still snowing Monday morning. More than a foot of new snow fell, with the total snowdepth now 27 inches at Cascade Summit. Chains were needed for autos traveling over the pass. posed Columbia River Compact was introduced by Rep. George Layman, R-Newberg. If it is rati fied by the Northwest states and Congress, then the states could plan development of the Colum bia Basin. Rep. Ed Whelan, D Portland, introduced a bill to permit state employes, and employes of politi cal subdivisions, to bargain col lectively through labor organizations. Sen. Boyd Overhulse, D-Madras, and Rep. Stafford , Hansell, R Athena, said they have filed a complaint in order to obtain the expense money which the legis lators voted for themselves. The Supreme Court will hear the suit. APPLING BALKS The expense money would amount to $75 a month during sessions, and $150 a month be tween sessions. Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. refused to pay the claims on grounds that the Constitution forbids payment of expenses to legislators. Rep. Robert L. Elfstrom, R- Salem, introduced a bill to re quire the establishments serving liquor must do 25 per cent of their business in food sales. The Liquor Commission had such a regulation, but the circuit court in Coos County knocked it out on grounds that is a matter for the Legislature to decide. Another new bill would raise the pay of election judges from $1 an hour to $1.25, with a mini mum of $10 a day. It was intro duced by Sen. Monroe Sweetland, D-Milwaukie. SOUNDPROOF ROOMS Sen. Alfred H. Corbett, D-Port- land, sponsored a measure to soundproof legislative committee rooms. Gov. Mark O. Hatfield said he would deliver his special message to the Legislature at 10 a.m. Tuesday. It will outline what the Legislature must do to prepare for the lease of the Boardman Bombing Range by the Boeing Airplane Co. The second hearing on the gov ernor's charges against the Public Welfare Commission will be held Tuesday evening, while a hearing on the bill to abolish the Board of Control is scheduled for Wed nesday evening. Legislation to create interim committees to study public health and state lands were introduced by Sen. Vernon Cook, D-Trout-dale. Ike, Mamie Relax At California Resort .. PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (UPI) It was a day of "just relaxing" Sunday for. former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his ' wife, Mamie. The Eisenhowers did not go to church and the former chief exec utive didn't play golf. He was expected to get in plenty of golf . this week, however. Eisenhower and his wife are living in a $100,000 cottage at the Eldorado County Club where they are expected to vacation for up to three months. Calabash Curare Speaker's Topic Virgil Boekelheide, University of Oregon professor of chemistry, will speak Tuesday on possible medical uses of calabash curare, a paralyzing poison used by South American Indians to coat the tips of their hunting arrows, The lecture will begin at 8 p.m. in Room 16, Science Building. The talk, sponsored by Sigma Xi, is open to the public. The paralysis produced by the poison, Boekelheide explained may also be useful for relaxing muscular areas in surgery. Boek elheide is now studying the struc ture of the calabash curare. Boekelheide came to the uni versity this year from the Uni versity of Rochester. His AB and Ph. D degrees are from the Uni versity of Minnesota. Hatfield Says He's Willing To Alter Plan On Reorganizing Welfare Commission SALEM (UPI) Gov. Mark Hat field said Monday he will accept "modifications" in his plan to reorganize the state welfare com mission if they do not violate his basic aims of making the agency more efficient and responsive. Two such compromises have been offered by House Speaker Robert Duncan and Senate Pres ident Harry Boivin.' They would leave the commission with more power than Hatfield's plan. Hatfield said the proposals were interesting and he would have 'to see them in relation to the whole program before com menting further. 'We are certainly going to sup port programs that bear out our basic principles, Hatfield said. BRIDGE BILL BACKED "There may be modifications that will be necessary," the gov ernor said, but not in principle at all." Hatfield, at his weekly news conference, also urged passage of enabling legislation for a $24 million bridge over the Columbia River between Astoria, Ore., and Megler, Wash., and said State Land Board records are "open and available" if the Legislature wants to investigate the board's activities. Hatfield said it was "hard to evaluate" a hearing last week to air his charges of "chaos"- in activities of the State Welfare Commission. But he thought his own case as given by his assistant, Warne Nunn, had been well presented. He said he expected his office would be able to "rebut" charges by commission spokesmen at a second hearing Tuesday. WELL PROVEN "No doubt, we will certainly have our case well established and well proven," he said. Hatfield said the welfare re covery division should be more aggressive" to get at cases where people should not be re ceiving money. He declined to estimate how many cases he felt were involved. Hatfield said he has not recom mended any candidates for a new Republican state chairman to re place Peter Gunner, who re signed. The governor also said he has asked Sen. Maurine Neuberger, D-Ore., to clarify her position on the proposed. Nez Perce dam. Hatfield said a bill sponsored by Mrs. Neuberger would permit construction of the dam, by a Washington public power agency, to the detriment of salmon. Motorist Dies Monday Of Mishap Injuries James Edward Clark, 46, of Oakland, died early Monday in Eugene of injuries suffered Feb. 3 in an auto accident near Riddle, about 35 miles south of Roscburg. Clark died at Sacred Heart Hos pital, where he had been in critical condition since the acci dent. State police said he tost control of his car on a curve. He was on his way to Riddle to watch his son play in an Oakland- Riddle 'high school basketball game when the accident occur red. 1 ; ! I . 1 1 :Zfzu 1 x - v) (AP Wlrephoto) HER HUSBAND "MASSACRED" Mrs. Patrice Lumum ba, whose husband's death was announced Monday by the Katanga government, wept outside their home in Leopoldville last month after he was transferred to a military camp outside Elisabethville. Roland Gilbert Lumumba, 2V'a, watches his mother's grief at that time. More Mature Treatment Urged in High Schools By G. K. IIODKN FIELD , Of the Associated Press DETROIT Ht If students are treated like babies in high school they can't be expected to act like adulfs in college. Lloyd S. Michael, principal of Evanston, 111. Township High school, voiced that warning Mon day in urging broad new pro grams of counseling for college students. In a speech to the National Assn. of Secondary-School Princi pals, convening here, Michael said: "In too many high schools, youths are typically treated as immature, irresponsible persons requiring a maximum amount of supervision and control. CASUALTIES' CITED. "It is folly to assume that these same youths, after a senior prom and a magical summer, are ready to shoulder all the responsibilities of adults in a new environment where they are essentially with out restriction and supervision.' Michael said that about one out of four students who enter col lege drop out by the end of their freshman year, and that only two out of five entering freshmen stay to graduate from the same institution four years later. He said colleges and high schools alike have a greater re sponsibility than they are now assuming to see that the right student goes to the ngnt college. "Mistakes are too costly," Mi chael said, "for failure in one college can mean the end of a youth's education. With 50 per cent of the na tion's high school graduates now eoine on to college. Michael said, preparation for college is a pri mary function of the secondary schools. This means, he said, that aca demic programs must be given more emphasis in high school, and standards of achievement must be raised. PROGRAM PRAISED Michael praised the advanced placement program of the Col lege Entrance Examination Board as "perhaps the best plan for co operative action in the curricu lum between school and college." Under this program, worked out by teams of high school teachers and college professors, bright high school students take college level courses in 11 sub jects. Dean Stephen Romine of the University of Colorado told the convention that population explo sion at the college-age level, plus tne growing popularity of a col lege degree, is putting tremend ous pressure on the colleges to be more selective in their enroll ments. Westerners Term Shot Remarkable LONDON (UPI) Western scientists Monday termed the So viet Union's picgy-back rocket shot at Venus a remarkable a enlevement that may help plumb the mysteries of earth s cloud covered sister planet. "This venture demands 400 times as much precision as their previous shot at the moon, said Prof. Jan. H. Ooort, director of he Leydcn Observatory in Hoi land. 'I am led to believe that the Russians must have developed a highly reliable system of guiding rocket while it is traveling through space." French space expert Prof. Al exandre Aanaov said Soviet scien tists seemed to be trying to leap frog space achievements by 'firing big space ships with room for two or three men far out into the solar system." He said it appeared to him that the Russians might leave to the United States the task of putting the first man in space close to earth. Finnish astronomy Prof. Gustaf Jaernefclt said the feat would be most remarkable" if the rocket ship 'were able to take pictures to show what kind of a surface Venus has. Prof. A. C. Bernard Lovcll, di rector of Britain's Jodrell Bank radio telescope, described the shot as "fantastic. Prof. Anancv said the Venus project had tremendous propa ganda value for the Russians. "If you demonstrate you have the' technology to put a satellite nto orbit around the earth and fire a rocket off that satellite at the right moment, with the right trajectory and the right velocity to hit Venus, your ability to hit any point on earth becomes all the .more impressive, he said. Gas Price War Topic of Meeting SALEM (UPI) The Salem Gas Dealers Assn. will meet Monday night to seek ways of nipping another gas price war. Prices in the area have fallen as low as 27.9 for regular gasoline and 32.9 for premium, and in one case regular was reported as low as 24.9. President Dan Osborn said he hoped the group would agree on a way to halt the gas price cutting. Gasoline prices also are down in the Portland area with regular going at many stations for 27.9 and 28.9 cents a gallon. . POAU Opens Convention Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon Monday, February 13, 1961 3 Venus Similar to Earth In Several Respects By I'niled Press International Venus is a fog-shrouded sphere of mystery spinning throuch space in an orbit between 160 million and 26 million miles from earth. Named after the Roman god dess of love, the planet has al most completely defied efforts of astronomers to probe its surface. The planet is considered of great interest because scientists feel there is a possibility it may either sustain human life or be somewhat similar to the earth. The planet is slightly smaller than earth, with an estimated di ameter of 7,700 miles. It moves around the sun at an average distance of 67 million miles in 225 days. i lie planet, like the barlh, is enveloped in an atmosphere, but unlike the earth the clouds ap pear to form a complete wrap ping around its surface. Venus shines with a dazzling light because of the great inten sity of the solar radiation present. This radiation is almost twice the amount on the earth's surface The atmosphere of the planet appears to consist mainly of car bon dioxide. For some time it was believed it contained no free oxy gen or water vapor. But in 1959 a camera-telescope sent to an altitude of about 100, 000 feet indicated that both free oxygen and water vapor were present, according to American scientists. This discovery has not been completely confirmed. Scientists estimate that with free oxygen and water vapor present, Venus, because of its nearness to the sun, would be a steaming jungle. Previously it had been thought that its surface was nothing but a desert. The latest observations also in dicate that the planet does have seasons. The current estimates place its daytime temperature range from about 212 F., the boil ing point of water, on its sunny side, to about 10 degrees F. on its dark side. Venus is the second planet in order around the sun. Closest to the sun is the planet Mercury. Rose Cleaners mrr pickup & rnEiEi Delivery S85 River Road Dl M012 diamond pendant PORTLAND Wl The national convention of Protestants and Other Americans United for Sep aration of Church and Stale opened in Portland Monday with its attention centered on the theme of religion and public funds. The organization, commonly known as POAU, has been vigor ous in its opposition to such church links with public funds as textbook or other aids to paro chial schools. . In the opening session, the Rev. Charles R. Bell Jr., Pasa dena, Calif., spoke at a clergy men's conference on that theme. Government subsidies for churches or church schools, he said in remarks prepared for the meeting in First Baptist Church, will inevitably breed indiffer ence and bring with it some kind of state control. We who stand in the pulpits must know that no amount of money can give vitality to a church and no official spon sorship can produce enthusiasm and faith in peoples souls." Monday evening s meeting was to be addressed by the Rev. W. A. Criswcll, pastor of the First Bap tist Church, Dallas,- Texas, and by the Rev. John C. Mayne, or ganizational director for POAU. Logging Accident Victim in Hospital Robert M. Gardner, 47, of Vida, who was injured last Wednesday in a logging accident near Mc Kenzie Bridge, was reported in fairly good condition Monday at Sacred Heart Hospital. ' A Lane County sheriff s office report said Gardner was injured last Wednesday when he was struck by a piece of steel cable. The accident occurred on Bal- siger Logging Co. operations be tween McKenzie Bridge and Blue River, the report said. Another logger injured last week, Robert Sellers, 37, of Rt. 1 Box 364, Eugene, was released from Sacred Heart Saturday. 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