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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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