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Troops Use Eskimo Methods Keep Warm Watertown, Mass. (U.R) The ancient Chinese principle of pil ing on layers of clothing to keep warm is being utilized by Amer ican armed forces personnel sta tioned in the Arctic. Soldiers, sailors and airmen In the 50 below zero wear one pair of light cotton and wool socks, two pairs of heavy wool socks and a pair of felt bootees inside rubber and canvas "muk luks" made here by the Hood Rubber company division of B. F. Goodrich. Harry W. Martin, manager of footwear and former consultant on rubber footwear to the quar termaster corps, said the Amer ican-made mukluk is patterned after native Eskimo footwear and compares favorably with it in warmth tests. The idea of wearing several layers of socks Inside the mukluk is to permit circulation of air to the feet, Mar tin explained, and thereby to prevent perspiring and possible freezing. DRAWBRIDGE SHUT Boston (U.R) The turntable draw of Prison Point bridge has n't been opened in more than 20 years. Miller's river, up which ships once sailed to Cambridge and Somerville. has been divert ed from its old course under the span. Brockton. Mass. (U.R) It was easy for Mrs. Virginia Silves trino to report a $40 holdup to police. She said two young men robbed her directlv across the street from police headquarters. I Ivtifc BflM "SPRING CLEANING" To accomplish lovely miracles with your complexion ... a regular 1.00 jar of DuBarry Cleansing Cream plus a miniature size DuBarry Special Cleansing Preparation . . . brought to you by Richard Hudnut for only 1,00 pia tax (for both) CENTRAL REXALL DRUG MEDFOR'S NEWEST REXALL STORE Main and Central Phone 2-9431 COOKING TIME AT:. ASK YOUR GROCER ' r r 1 1 ' DISCUSS WHEAT PROBLEMS Oregon's two senators, the house delegation, and Rep. Clif ford Hope (R., Kans.), met with representatives of the proposed National Wheat Growers association recently at a luncheon in Washington, D.C., to discuss problems facing the wheat industry. Left to right, above, are Congressman Walter Norblad, Astoria; I. H. Peterson, secretary to Sen. Wayne Morse; Congressman Harris Ellsworth, Roscburg: Sen. Guy Cordon, Roseburg; Congressman Lowell Stockman, LaGrande: Llovd Case, secretary of the Colorado Grain Growers association; Congress man Homer Angell, Portland; K. Eugene; Ed Bell, administrator of Kansas, and H. W. Clutier, Kansas Lancaster, O. (U.R) A jury came close to convicting a man charged with a traffic offense after voting to find him inno cent. Jurors by error signed a printed form of "verdict guilty" instead of the other form and the jury foreman read it in court. When the jurors inter rupted to protest, the mistake was corrected, freeing Charles Clark, 68. ECONOMICAL DELICIOUS HEALTHFUL NOURISHING Iejr to proper ffl&B , 1 nzz a. Taylor, uregon wneai urowers league: sen. vayne morse, the Oregon wheat commission; Congressman Clifford B. Hope, wheat farmer. Legislative Procedures In Oregon Described; Voter Tells Recommendations (A recent edition of The Oregon Voter, a Portland magazine devoted to politi cal, economic and govern mental affairs, was requested to publish an article concern ing legislative procedure in Oregon, some of the ins and outs of how the laws were . made, and suggestions and recommendations for improve ment. The request was made by Mrs. Lester F. Adams. Medford. chairman oi a League of Women Voters com mittee charged with compiling a report on legislative pro cedure and organization for the state league's general re port. (Because of the increasing emphasis being placed upon revision of legislative pro cedures. The Mail Tribune herewith publishes the Voter article in full, and expresses its appreciation to the maga zine for the tremendous job of preparing the report. Be cause of its length, it will be carried as a series of articles on successive days of publica tion. Editor's note). Oregon League of Women Vot ers is making a study of the Oregon legislature this year, re ports Mrs. Lester F. Adams, chairman of Medford committee of local league charged with responsibility for compiling a re port on legislative procedure and organization for the infor mation of the state league in preparing its general report. Mrs. Adams has asked us for information concerning: "Current legislative rules of procedure: method of revising; suggestions for changes (if any); standing committees (a) effect of power of appointment of com mittee members, and (b) assign ment of bills given presiding of ficers of each house; number of committees; (a) committee pro cedure, (b) provision for records of committee meetings; sugges tions and recommendations (if any)." These pertinent questions make it possible for us to at tempt to compress within one article a review of procedure in the Oregon legislature and sug gestions which from time to time we have pressed for moderniza tion of that procedure in the in terest of expediting legislative business, better public under standing of what is going on, and perhaps most important of all, reducing by weeks the length of legislative sessions, of recent years so protracted as to impose far too heavy a sacrifice of leg islator time away from farm, professional practice or business. Manv nf nur most rnmnptont legislators refuse to run for re- ,2) x i S i election after having suffered the losses due to prolonged ab sence from home. We will attempt to reply to these questions seriatim. We will capitalize Senate and House when referring to either qf these houses .specifically and use the small "h" in referring to a house which may be either Senate or House. Rules of Procedure "Each house," says the Ore gon constitution, shall . . . deter mine its own rules of proceed ing . . " Custom is for each house, in organizing at the be ginning of a session, to adopt the rules of the preceding ses sion as its temporary rules, and, when its organization is per fected, to adopt permanent rules effective throughout the session except as they may be revised later under procedure prescribed in the permanent rules, tsy con current resolution, or joint res olution, the two houses adopt procedure as is necessary for joint sessions and for the trans action of business between the two houses wlien in separe ses sion. Under long-established prac tice, the rules of each house have developed along lines peculiar to each. For instance, the House permits no introduction of bills by individual members after the 25th day of the ses sion, while the Senate leaves the gate open until after the 35lh day. The - House formerly re quired action on a committee report on each bill before it came up for third reading, while the Senate permitted any bill to pass to the Third Reading cal endar if the committee report proposed no amendment there to. The House now has adopted the same practice as the Senate in this respect. The Senate dur ing several sessions made a five cent charge for a printed copy of a bill, while the House made no such charge. The language of similar rules has developed along lines peculiar to each house. The traditions and prec edents of each house affect pro cedure and behavior differently. Rules relating to distribution of postage stamps to members have varied from time to time in each house according to the prevailing sentiment of the ma jority towards members inclined to demand large allotments of stamps, occasionally to create scandal by selling them at a dis count to put cash in their own pockets. Each houre establishes its own wage scale for secre taries and clerks, and fixes the number which may be employed by committees and by individual members. In many sessions the houses have differed In rules affecting such employment, and Your best buy In coffee Is the one that everyone enjoys most. Rich, satisfying Hills Bros. Coffee is a blend of the finest coffees grown. "Controlled Roasting," an exclusive Hills Bros, process, roasts the blend a little at a time continuously-for uniform flavor-perfection. It's vacuum packed for freshness. Everywhere . . . People Are Saying . . . "Everybody Likes Hills Bret. Coffee." In the allocation of supplies. In cluding costly sets of the Ore gon Codes, which some mem bers sell at $33 to $30 a set, pocketing the money. The reason some of these prac tices art condoned is that it is difficult for members to get along with each other in their legislative work if some mem bers, perhaps those more effec tive on the floor, are singled out as guilty of petty thievery or other scandal. While the great majority of members do not steal stamps, and a substantial min ority refuse to regard State Codes as private property they are at liberty to sell for their own personal gain, the preval ence of these practices is over looked in the interest of trying to work together in committees and to avoid personal enmities and acrimony on the floor. . Each house has a different procedure for notice as to intent to move to suspend the rules for reconsideration of the vote by which a bill passed or failed to pass, the limit of days dur ing which such motion may be considered, and whether a bill shall remain on the desk of the House pending such considera tion. In the Senate, it is up to the presiding officer to announce whether final sine die adjourn ment is likely to become effec tive that same day, and when that announcement is made, an nouncement by a member of intent to make the reconsid eration motion the following day does not hold the bill in the Senate. There are other differences between the houses in their pro cedure that we will bring out under other headings. (Tomorrow Revision of Rules) Gasoline Thieves Fail To Stop Stork's Visit Orlean. N. Y. (U.R) An am bulance was taking a prospec tive motner to tne nospitai wnen it ran out of gasoline. The triD was completed. ahead of the stork, when the woman s husband pushed the ambulance with his automobile. Investigation disclosed that thieves had siphoned most of the gasoline from the abmuiance. Vitamin A deficlences are most likely to occur in calves during winter and spring months. M I is y The exhaustive research RANCHO wai to unusual that it wai featured In the (imAiii Miv "Strana mm It Seem." Thursday. March I. 19S6 Writings Disclose Aegean's Culture, Scientist Claims Sofia, Bulgaria (U.R) A Bul garian scientist has deciphered Europe's most ancient preserved writings. Prof. Vladimir Georgiev has "unveiled the Minos (Cretan) writtings," which are considered the most ancient preserved writ ten documents in Europe, it was .Ivan Vclkov in bgrev, Bulgarian periodical. Mankind has learned about Aegean culture from the excava tions carried on in the past few centuries. Aegean monuments are scattered all over the Medi terranean, but the biggest con centration is in Crete and the Peloponnesus, said Prof. Velkov. Catastrophe On Island Cretan culture dated back as far as 3000 B.C. About 1800 B. C. some unknown catastrophe befell the island and much of its civilization was wiped out. The renaissance in Crete came about 1700 B. C, when the mag nificent palaces and other pub liv buildings were constructed Their ruins Indicate the once mighty city of Knosos, ruler of the ancient Mediterranean world. That was the period connected with the mythical King Monis, his labyrinthine palace and his fabled minotaur. From this time date the most ancient preserved writings in Europe the so-called Cretan or Minos writings, in scribed on clay tablets. Some 3 000 or 4.000 have been pre served, about one - fourth of which now are published. CATER DINES WELL Winter Park, Fla (U.R) Per cy Harris went out to look for his prize goldfish in a backyard pool and found an itinerant three-foot alligator instead. The saurian, it seemed, had taken free board as well as room. When a woman buys a home, it's "little things" that count, like flower-boxes, book niches, porches, closets, pleasing colors. and test undertaken by II Westinghouse in planning Ml, l BIG range eendenied in- III to the "Tuck . 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