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!,X-.;t;,",:,-Wt''S''.'-'''''J'-W,l .f.r ,rtA.'l Salem, Oregon, Thursday, October 4, 1956 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Sectiort 1 Page 3 '4-K 'J ".-A. ,4. ... ... Labor: Group To Fight New Tax Proposal Oregon' constitutional provision prohibiting the legislature from declaring emergencies in acts reg ulating taxation or exemptions is the only area remaining in which citizens are guaranteed their right of referendum, Tom Scanlon, edu cational director of the state AFL CIO council, told a meeting of the Committee to Save the Tax Ref erendum at the Labor Temple Wednesday night. "In states where the people have allowed immediate effect clauses on tax bills, majority votes of from two-thirds to three-quarters are required. Ballot title No. 1, which would amend our Oregon constitution, allows a mere major ity vote to attach the emergency clause," Scanlon said. Scanlon said (hat the Oroonn Supreme court has ruled that the courts have no right to question whether or not an emergency ac tually exists, that the courts must uphold any legislative declaration 01 an emergency. Guy Jonas, secretary of the com mittee, announced that letters are being sent to all Marion county organizations, offering speakers to taiK against the proposed consti tutional amendment. ' Next meeting of the committee win De on Thursday, October 11 at 7 p.m. at the Labor Temple. Man Retires After 32 Years Service With Road Group After 32 years of service with the state highway department, Wren C. Crews, 341 North 19th street, is retiring as utility per mit engineer, W, C. Williams, state highway engineer has an nounced. . Crews started to work for the department in 1917 as a transit man. Later he was promoted to office engineer and resident en gineer. In 1924 he resigned to become city ' manager of La Grande but returned to the de partment in 1931. He has been at the head of the perrcdepart ment since 1936. ' Fellow employes honored Crews with a farewell party ear lier this week. Indecent Literature Cleanup To Continue, Woman Predicts The campaign to rid Salem news stands of alleged indecent litera ture will be continued and new complaints may be expected next week, Mrs. John Pfeifer of Sil verton has announced. Mrs. Pfeifer led the efforts against such literature which brought a grand jury investigation and indictment of two magazine and book distributors. She said several stands had voluntarily re moved objectional books and mag azines. "But quite a few are. continuing to carry them," she said, "and new charges will be filed, perhaps next week." The two indicted dealers. Jack St. Clair, of the. American News Agency and Claude Cummings of Salem News Agency, are slated to appear Monday at 1:30 p.m. in Marion county circuit - court to enter pleas to the charges made Smith, Holmes Slated to Meet Governor Elmo Smith and his Democratic opponent, State Sena tor Robert D. Holmes, will' meet on the same platform Saturday for the first time during the fall campaign. . The two candidates are sched uled for 20-minute speeches by the League of Women Voters at York's Country Kitchen in Corvallis. Fol lowing the two talks, the candi dates will answer questions from the floor. Several times during the cam paign both candidates have been scheduled to speak from the same platform but on each occasion one or the other has failed to appear. against them. Efforts of attorneys of the two men to have the indictments re jected by Circuit Judge George Duncan failed when Duncan ruled the indictments to be valid. It was indicated that at least one of the two dealers will appeal to the State Supreme court if con victed in the lower court. This would provide the first test in Ore gon of the law governing sale of literature. Both are expected to plead innocent Monday. , In her present drive Mrs." Pfeifer is using a list of some 600 publica tions considered unfit for distribu tion by the National Organization for Decent Literature. Two of the books on this list were the basis for indictments against St. Clair and Cummings. . ' ChamberPlans Campaign for Airport Tax The Chamber of Commerce air port committee, beaded by Roy Ferris, will make a campaign for approval in the November .elec tion of the $50,000 city tax levy for improvements at the airport. At a meeting of the committee Wednesday it was decided to in form tHe public about, the needed improvements through a publicity campaign. While the airport pays its own way in operational costs, funds for improvements of the field must come from other sources. The proposed $50,000 fund would be matched equally by the gov ernment. The fund would improve taxiways that have begun to' de teriorate, add a unit to the Ad ministration Building, and reac tivate the control tower. , Others on the committee with Ferris are Mayor Robert F. White, Sonald Blundell, Dr. Mor ris Crothers, E. Burr Miller, Dr. Charles- Mills, Reynolds Allen, Lee Ohmart, Charles Barclay, George Kreitzberg, Edwin H. Armstrong, Wayne Hadley and Mrs. Paula Gehlar. ' GIVEN KEY TO CASH ' CHICAGO (,UP)-Mrs. Margaret Katz' estranged husband moved fast today to collect revenues from assorted juke boxes, shuffle board games and other coin ma chines he owns. A court gave Mrs. Katz permission Wednesday to empty the machines herself until she collects $2,000 she claims Katz owes her in attorney fees and support payments. Russian Aims Seen as Same That there has been no change found that the Russians were cap able of turning out machinery that would compare favorably with many items in the United States. Prices of - clothing and food re main extremely high, reported Pangborn. For instance a common work shirt will have a price tag of in the long range aims of soviet . h" ' n i. i .: f it. -..Mi..i 6 would cost from $60 to $80. Russia in spite of the meeting- at fvhil ,..:.. h.v ri. p.n- the summit at Geneva, was one of bom said a Russian worker would draw about $75 a month in this the many impressions gained by Arden X. Pangborn, editor of the Oregon Journal who spoke to the Salem Rotary club Wednesday noon. Pangborn spent a month in Eur opean Russia during a two months tour around the world, including a visit to Stalin's homeland of Genrein. The journalist said he gained the dominant impression that the Rus sian leaders do not hesitate to sa crifice the human element so that every effort may be channeled into the manufacture of machines for war purposes. Nevertheless he country if he was paid in rubles. "The Russians are making every effort to make buying a difficult operation, the speaker said. The leaders aim to strip the salaried man of his earning so that there will be no demand for luxury items, Students engaged in getting out Salem high schools publications were guests at the luncheon. The program was in recognition of newspaper week. Pangborn was introduced by Ro bert Sprague of the Statesman-Journal. River Group ; Plans Confab Fred G. Aandahl, assistant sec retary of the interior, will be the principal speaker on the opening day of a joint meeting of the Ore gon Reclamation Congress and the Willamette Valley Basin Project committee Oct. 18 in the Marion hotel. . . The opening day program. In cludes addresses on such subjects as Reclamation, irrigation, water law and administrative activities of the State . Water Resources board.. . " ' Aandahl will speak at a banquet to fie held the first evening of the two day session. Reports from county chairmen of the Willamette Valley Project committee will be given Friday morning Oct. 19. Maj. Gen. E. C. Itschner, . now chief of the Corps of Engineers, but who was formerly Pacific Northwest division engineer for the Army Engineers, will speak at the final afternoon cession He has chosen as his topic "An Engineer Looks at Oregon's Future." Mrs. Douglas McKay will be the speaker at a noon luncheon slated in Llpman s tea room on friaay. Mrs. McKay will tell of her life in Washington,' D.C., during the per iod her husband was secretary ot the interior. MOTHERS COMPLAIN HONOLULU, T.H. 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