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Editorial Comment CONTEMPTIBLE DEMAGOGUE What ever shred of respect decent people might have had left for that McCarthy person ' must now be "Gone With The Wind. The wind, of course, was blown by the demagogue him self. Accusing President Eisenhow er of congratulating senators who hamper "the exposure of communism" and putting up a "shrinking show of weakness " toward Red Chinese" proves the man has become mentally un balanced. Perhaps he is more to be "pitied than scorned," but we will continue to scorn him until such time as he is placed in a mental institution where he belongs. His first statement refers to the President's praise of the Wat kins committee for a "very splen did job." The members of this committee were respected Re publicans and Democrats whose ' methods and motives were above reproach. The Senate voted 67 to 22 to censure him on two counts that he obstructed a sen ate committee's work in 1951- 1952 and that he insulted fel , low senators. Where is there any possible connection between the censure on these two counts and hampering the exposure of Communists? The person from Wisconsin in actuality is accusing 67 senators as well as the President of ham- pering "the exposure of commu ' ' nism." This accusation is as ir responsibly ridiculous as his - earlier one which accused the . Democratic party of twenty years of treason. The President has shown no weakness toward the Red Chi nese but a lot of common sense and patience. What McCarthy wants is a blockade of the Chi nese coast. This would be an overt act of war and probably defeat all hopes of getting our captured airmen back alive. It might eventually lead to out right war and result in killing an untold number of soldiers and civilians. It might even be the a SAVE UP TO 1 1 KB)00 j ON A 7MfTH 3 AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC DELUXE RANGE O - - COMPARE' OTHERS AT $359.95 $2550 pay more? Now a Meluxc range with features found only ; on other models costing up to $100.00 more! 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In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The traffic safety division of the Oregon secretary of state's office reports that during No vember 545 driver licenses were suspended, 131 of them on court recommendation, 137 by discre tionary action of the Oregon state department and 307 after court convictions on traffic of fenses calling for mandatory license suspension. State Secretary Newbry says his office suspended 29 persons whose driving records branded them as "repeaters." Three driv ers ' lost their licenses because they were at fault in fatal acci dents. In addition, Newbry's office sent 632 letters to motorists ad vising them that their driving records had been placed in the repeater file due to too-frequent convictions or accident involve ment. Any further entries, they were told, would result in being called in for an interview with driver-licensing , officials (with the possibility involved of losing their licenses.) T ET'S GET this straight: Revoking driving licenses, if the penalty can be invariably enfdrced, IS THE MOST EF FECTIVE POSSIBLE DETER RENT OF RECKLESS DRIV ING. But it is hard to enforce. ' Completely effective enforce ment would mean that every police officer would have to memorize the list of those whose driving licenses had been re voked or suspended, and would have to be able to recognize such persons on sight. In the case of suspensions, the term of each suspension would have to be known by every officer. Otherwise, there would always be present in each officer's mind the embarrassing and annoying consequences of arresting a driv er whose term of suspension had expired and whose license had been restored. FT time, one fears if we are in wa tn it - ATI"! TYDTtrCO WHOSE LICENSE HAS BEEN REVOKED OR SUSPENDED IS ALLOWED TO DRIVE A CAR DURING THE PERIOD OF RE VOCATION OR SUSPENSION the police are going to have to stop a lot of cars for routine examination of licenses. That would be annoying and would tend to build up opposi tion to the system in the public mind. , ' T SOMETIMES wonder if it might not be a aood idea to IMPOUND THE CAR, instead of merely revoking or suspending the license of the driver. ' That would be a Dunishment that, would BITE. 30-INCH AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC RANGE 194 s COMPARE $ OTHERS At 249.95 An important "Big Range fea tures compactly built into- only 30 inches of floor space! Com pletely automatic Big Jumbo full width oven . . . bakes 1 0 loaves of bread at one time! Four large 7-speed Monotube surface uniti give you the most flexible top-of-range cooking performance ever! If it's a 30" range you want-thu U! ' Convenient Budget Terms FREE PARKING FREE DELIVERY Open Until 9 Wed. Night SHCIAIISTS IN HOMtWAttSI CENTRAL POINT MEDFORD T REALIZE, of course, that im- pounding the car would in volve injustices. The driver of a recklessly driven car is by no means always the OWNER of the car. But knowledge that if the- driver got into trouble in volving the loss of his license the car would be impounded would cause car owners to be very careful indeed about whom they permitted to DRIVE the car. T SUPPOSE America being America and use of automo biles being almost as much a part of American life as eating and breathing it could be argued that impoundment of cars operated by reckless drivers would be cruel and unusual pun ishment and therefore barred by our constitution. But it can also be argued that the grim and GROWING toll of death and injury and suffering and monetary loss inflicted upon us by careless or incompetent drivers on our highways is also threatening our American way of life. Grave evils call for stern remedies. Perhaps the evils re sulting from careless and incom petent driving on our highways are becoming grave enough to call for, the admittedly stern remedy of impounding the car in the case of driving offenses serious enough to call for revoca tion or suspension of the driver's license. Sunday, December 12, 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVK LONG AWAITED MOMENT This sketch depicts one of the highlights of the wife murder trial of Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard trial in Cleveland. In it, Dr. Sam takes the stand in his own defense to deny the bludgeon murder of his wife last July 4. CRIME BUSTING GRAND JURY ENDS PURGE OF PHEHIX CITY ' Phenix City, Ala (U.R) A blue ribbon panel, its six months of crime busting praised as "one of the brightest pages" in the history of grand juries, has end ed its purge of this former sin city. - Honolulu Bank Gets Order To Explain Release of Funds Honolulu (U.R) Federal Judge J. Frank McLaughlin has ordered officials of the Central Pacific Bank of Honolulu to ex plain why they released $27,956 in International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union funds, frozen by court order. The money was released to the union Friday by the assistant cashier of the central Pacific Bank. Not a Kindergarten McLaughlin who ordered all ILWU accounts in Hawaii banks frozen,, told the bank official "your're running a bank, not a kindergarten." The judge's order came on the heels of an attachment by the Juneau Spruce Company, of all available assets of the ILWU, to satisfy a $760,000 judgement. Juneau Spruce charged it was forced out of Business by ah ILWU jurisdiction strike. McLaughlin ordered the union accounts frozen pending a hear ing, but explained to the banks that ILWU locals were .unaf fected by the order. Only if a local account appeared to con ceal assets of the international organization should it be held, he said. . " .. , : From Political Fund Money given the union by the Central Pacific Bank came in part from the ILWU's "political action fund." The judge's action indicated he felt the money was not part of local assets but rather funds controlled by the main group. McLaughlin called a hearing for Monday and ordered officials of all Honolulu banks and 13 ILWU officers to appear with the union's financial records. Warm Air Expected To End Cold Snap By UNITED PRESS Warm air from the Gulf of Mexico Saturday made its bid to crack a snowy, wintry cold wave which has gripped the nation's North. The warm front was pushing northward over Texas and tem peratures as far north as South ern Illinois went up. Mean while mild weather returned to the East Coast. Elsewhere, however, snow continued to fall from the Great Lakes to Northern New England and gusty winds whipped snow flurries in parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Ne braska and Kansas. Clear, cold weather 'continued in the .Southeast and it was freezing as far south as Cross City, Fla. A reading of three degrees above zero at Grants burg, Wis., was one of the na tion's lowest Saturday, while Brownsville, Tex., -enjoyed a springlike 72.' Sleep Well at the . . . ; PLAZA HOTEL Broadway at Washington I N DOWNTOWN PORTLAN D . The special grand jury issued its final report Friday just 24 hours after it had named two former top officials here as the murderers of Albert Patterson, nominee for state attorney gen eral. Most Pleaded Guilty v Since it was empaneled for the cleanup drive which follow ed Patterson's death last June 18, the grand jury returned 741 indictments against 144 persons, 95 per cent of whom pleaded guilty. , Special Judge Walter E. Jones, who was sent in by Gov. Gordon Persons to revamp the Russell County Court and jury, praised the work of the special grand jury as' "one of the brightest pages" in the history of grand juries. In its final presentment t.h e jury in turn praised Jones' work as "an outstanding factor in the restoration of confidence and re spect for law and order not only in Russell county . . but through out the state of Alabama." Recommended Law Change . The grand jury recommended that election laws be changed to provide stiffer punishment for violators, and that liquor sales be prohibited in a once notorious riverside honky-tonk section of this former gambling center. One of its final indictments was a second degree murder charge against a Negro, Jimmy Washington, : 16, for the fatal stabbing of (Johnnie Griffin, a key witness in - the Patterson murder case. The grand jury indicted de posed solicitor Arch B. Ferrell and ousted chief deputy sheriff Albert Fuller for Patterson's murder. Final Exam Realistic for Civil Defense Instructors Portland U.R) The final examination for 16 students in a civil defense rescue in structors course went off with a bang last night. Oldest Industry in Portland To Merge Portland U.R) Merger of the Noon Bag Company with the Ames Harris Neville Company was "reported here Saturday. Of ficials said only minor legal de tails remained to be completed. Noon Bag is Portland's oldest industry.' It was founded 101 years ago to make gold bags, sails and covered wagon tops and has been in the textile bag industry ever since. It will con tinue in operation at its plant here which was built three years ago. It employs from 60 to 100 persons. Ames Harris Neville will ac quire all of the common stock of Noon- Bag, most of which is owned by the estate of the late William and Ellen Tannenbaum. The surviving firm established an operation in Portland in 1888, two years after it was founded in San Francisco. It also pro duces textile , bags, mostly for agricultural use. Blaze Takes Life Of Mother of Four Roseburg (U.R) Mrs. Betty Marie Jones, 31-year-old mother of four children, was burned to death late Friday in a fire which destroyed the family's small home in Camas Valley, west of here. Deputy Coroner L. L. Powers said the children were led to safety by the oldest child, seven-year-old Alberta Marie. Powers said the fire started when a wood cook stove explod ed as Mrs. Jones was attempting to light a fire, using kerosene. " Her husband, Isaac Abner Jones, was away at work at the time. , - ' 117 S. Central Phone 2-6241 PATTERN: "PORTLAND" Provincial pattern on barkclqth: Gray. Green or Brown. Ready-Made Slip Covers Sale Priced 78 and up Make your furniture look like new again at Wards Low Sale Prices. Slip Covers tailored to fit your Chairs, Sofas, Davenos, as smoothly and neatly as custom-made covers. Choose from several attractive patterns sure to enhance the decor of your room. Reg. 19.98 Sofa Slip Covers.-.-.. ......... . 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