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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1952)
Many Proposals Expected Oregon Ballot In November Salem (U.R) Oregonians may get a chance to vote lor prohibition or for more liberal liquor laws next November. They may get a chance to vote to make horse and dog betting legal (so written into the law) or to ban all gambling, including parimutuel betting on the nags PLENTY OF ROOTERS are on hand as John O'Donsell, milkman, gets bachelor of science degree from LaSalle University, Phila delphia. Father of 10 children, O'Donsell completed hard course In four years despite full time Job driving truck. (International) Wets, Drys Locked In Fight Over Rain In Rich Yakima Valley Yakima, Wash. (U.R) Riv al farmers shooting counter-acting chemicals into the air In a rain war over eastern Washing ton kept each other and mother nature confused Sunday. While the wheat-growing wets fired silver iodide into clouds in an attempt to make it rain, the cherry-raising drys sent up cloud-dispersing chemicals to prevent rain. The conflict is on because soft fruit growers want sunshine, fearing rain will split the cher ry harvest, and the grain farm ers want rain to ripen their crop. Showers Warded Off ' Each side hired mercenaries to wage the war, one to bombard the clouds and produce rain, the other to drive the clouds away before they reached the fertile Yakima valley. Meteorologist Jack M. Hub bar, Olympia, Wash., command ing the dry forces, released this communique Sunday: "Our operations warded some heavy showers that were heart ed toward the Cherry Hill area Saturday night after we discov ered rainmaking evidence south of Satus pass." He said his men have found indications of silver Iodide gen erators having been operated in the valley itself "for the pur pose of inducing rainfall." Ground Generators Used Hubbard's defensive force con-: sists of ground generators to spray the cloud-dispersing chem icals. He does not use airplanes. He said he is fighting for time few . yitUt-t "retEsioN center. stucco KIaw MM rkkjod. hotel- bin- 1 bill Holly 4 Vine ''e" MaTST lStffy-Vliie ""I fw office, business A FACTORY k CSJV living. Adj. to NBC CBS 75 CT ' EENBRIARVSSi? PARK Reas rent. I -.' com "iy!' "!,. public.;! oOti tain Ave. Vft "&7' P3NJfJ yr. wA JHrsripsI VOUT Vms? Vale i.5MHoiyi,l ove on. .V""l iood i li Acconri. 4 e.V CyW J 1 g! Hry Iflhbd Rm. E5BfcB J?A t I Frl. till 1.1 ff'VMCCT. H(. 1. 1 I . JUST RECEll II lETTTliSId. flpllWi-SX IA 1 V An ""JINESTel II' ""r- rrml- ('-' T S I V J Wm the WANT ADSJi rtio co lf tomb. UTTcuinss;!!!'"?' Sw wwMiM ,ntheNvI mkW-W BEDFORD 1 . J MAIL-TRIBUME and the greyhounds. Quite a few measures have been referred to the voters by the Legislature, and these will be voted on for sure. Others Proposed Quite a few more are pro posed in initiative measures for which preliminary petitions have now until the cherry crop is in. He claimed victory so far, say ing: "We have had only normal rainfall this month whereas in June a year ago the precipitation was 600 per cent above normal with disastrous results to the cherry crop. Meanwhile, efforts were made to arrange a truce. Agreement Hoped Leo E. Horrigan, president of the Horse Heaven Water Devel opment league, issued a state ment, expressing hope that the wets and drys "can iron out their differences." Roger Neal, official of Sun shine, Unlimited, of Yakima, voiced the same hope. There were signs of a new build-up of dry forces in the val ley. Owners of pear orchards, and hay farmers indicated they might join the cherry growers in trying to ward off rain clouds. Hapless state weather fore casters, caught in the middle, said it would be partly cloudy Monday. DOWN THE RAT HOLE Boston (U.R) Free-loading tipplers were aghast for sev en nights at one counter in the Union-Industry Show. A local law forbidding free distribution of alcoholic beverages forced bartenders teaching how to mix drinks to pour the cocktails down the drainpipes at the rate of $200 worth per eventing. Dead line Stindny Clasftlfiert is at 5:30 p.m. for following day; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; noon Saturday To Be On been filed. There are not, how ever, any completed initiative petitions yet filed with the State Election . Bureau. But Dave O'Hara, veteran head of th bureau thinks enough of them may be filed completed to make the Novem ber ballot in Oregon almost as long as the May 16 primary bal lot. Deadline for filing completed petitions is July 3. The 1851 Legislature reierrea nine 'measures to the voters and three legislative acts have been referred to the people' through means of referendum petitions.. Would Change Education Post One referred by the Legisla ture would make the post of state- superintendent of public instruction appointive by the State Board of Education. It is now elective. - Another referred measure would repeal the World War I state aid sinking fund and trans fer money in Wat fund to the State Board. Others include: An act authorizing establish ment of a mental hospital within 20 miles of Portland. Any state institution proposed for any where else than Marion county must be approved by the voters. -An act providing for the state or any political sub-division to establish a new tax base in order to eliminate special elections for authorization of expenditures in excess of the six per cent lim itation provision of the state con stitution. 1 An act extending eligibility to the veterans loans for homes and farms. One creating', a State Emer gency Board. There is a State Emergency Board now, but At torney General -George Neuner has ruled that it is unconstitu tional as it stands and can only recommend actibn to the gov ernor. This proposal would make the emergency board constitu tional and return it to the power of distributing emergency funds between legislative sessions. An act making terms of the legislators extend to the first Monday in' January instead of expiring after a "ieneral election. An act amending provisions for titles to constutional amend ment. And an awt limiting state property tax to six mills. Truck Weight Included The three measures referred by petition include the truck weight and mileage tax which was referred under sponsorship of the big-, truckers, district school reorganization and a three cents a package tax on cigar ettes. Preliminary petitions have been taken:' ' out for measures making battering on Mondays unlawful, establishing standard time, prohibiting commercial fishing on the Columbia river between sunjset and sunrise, abol ishing the State Milk Control Board and repealing the law re quiring payment from estates for money paid to public welfare recipients. Would Repeal Bonus Act One initiative measure would repeal the bpnus act, but it will be a sort of; ipso facto thing if it should reach the ballot, be cause most ; of the bonus will have been paid by then. One act would return prohib ition to Oregon. Another would allow sale of; liquor by the drink. One would put a gross income tax of V4 pr cent on property to provide $100 a month old age pension. There are? several others that may be voted on if completed petitions are filed. pit MJp F. t,.r v--? i J f i i k A if- w-ma ft SL, H -JL; JM i THAT'S A LOT OF WATER - Bruce Parker, 35, and Evelyn Wolford, 21, are not too tired to flash these smiles although they spent the last 8 hours 12 minutes water skiing on the Atlantic Ocean. They traveled from the r.ritis)- Bahamas to Miami, Fla., 196 miles, on water skis, a new long distance world's record. House To Debate Added Insurance Benefits for Aged Washington (U.R) Elec tion-minded House members got a second chance Monday to get on record in favor of increasing old age insurance benefits by about $5 a month. Both Democrats and Republi cans predicted that the House will pass the bill this time, al though the final vote may not be taken until Tuesday. The le gislators had an agreement pro viding that there would be no roll call votes Monday because of the Maine primary. Bill Defeated in May When the bill came up origin ally on May 19, it was defeated after the American Medical as sociation protested that some of AND ITS BEAUTY IS MORE THAN SKIN DEEP This breathtaking Ford beauty ti one of the loveliest of America's cars. Its styled-ohead Coachcraft Body, Its curved one-piece windshield, Its car-wide rear window are but a few of reflect its fine-car look . , beauty is a host of advances Power-Pivot Clutch and Brake Pedals and convenient Center-Fill Fueling I its provisions would open the way for socialized medicine. The AMA objected to a sec tion in the bill giving Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing specific authority to se lect private physicians to exam ine disabled presons seeking to preserve their insurance benefit rights. Democrats agreed to eliminate part of the bill to which the AMA took exception. They said Ewing already has the power which the bill originally propos ed to spell out in specific terms. Would Increase Minimum The first bill, as well as the new one, would increase bene fits of the 4,500.000 persons now m M JfelL the many features that . and underneath its like easier-acting Monday. June IS, 1952 Million Dollar Trust Fund Inadequate To Rear Young Rockefeller, Mother Says Lowell, Ind. (U.R) Chunky thtee-ycar-old Winthrop Roche feller Jr. romped in the back yard of his grandparents' home here Monday, unaware that he is one of the nation s youngest mil lionaires. "Winnie" is the son of beauti ful Barbara "Bobo" Rockefeller, whose storybook marriage t o Winthrop Rockefeller in 1948 captivated the country with its Cinderella similarity. "Bobo" and her husband have been estranged two and a half years and his attorneys announc ed in New York that a $1,000,000 trust fund had been set up to provide the child with proper "maintenance and education. But "Bobo" scoffed at the amount and call it "inadequate." "It doesn't mean a thing," the former model said. "It's a lot of on the rolls by $5 a month or 12Vi per cent, whichever is larg er. The minimum benefit payable to a retired person would be in creased from $20 to $25 a month, and the maximum benefit to a family wolud be Increased from the present $150 to $168 a month. GIRL SMOKES PIPE Weymouth, Mass. (U.R) Miss Carol D. Plercy, 18, of Ballston Lake, N. Y was listed Monday as the first entrant in the In ternational pipesmoking contest at the Weymouth Fair Aug. 10 16. t the atone gives MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE money if you have nothing like we have now," she said, "but it's inadequate if he's to be raised to the station of life that a Rocke feller should toe." The sun-bronzed beauty was Interviewed as she cut the lawn of her parents farm, her home since her marriage went on the rocks. Young "Winnie" played nearby. , "I have no Intention of telling him about the money, not for a while anyway," she said. "I don't believe in that sort of thing and I want him to be just normal. Under the terms of the trust fund the brown-eyed youngster will begin immediately to get $750 a month until he's 18. Then the stipend goes to $1,200 a month until he's 30. After that he gets the Interest on the fund for the rest of his life. But "Bobo" indicated she didn't think the sum was enough to raise "Winnie ' in the tradi tions of the Rockefeller family. FREEfumol moth protection uvit roue cioihij s.vu you moniti omJj tC aum, mh 'ew.' ri ynir tlalkn In May H MEDFORD CLEANERS 34 North Holly PHONE 2-6500 lumps ore "bygones," curves "come easy" with Ford's new lower center of gravity, wider front tread, diagonally mounted rear shock absorbers and new springing. YOU'LL Ford's Strato-Star V-8, with Its high compression and 110 horsepower, most powerful engine, and the only V-8 In the low-price field. And Ford you a choice of three driven Fordomatie, Overdrive and Conventional. YOU'LL LOVI ITS SAVINGS! 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