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
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beginning of the end of our en
tire civilization.
Of course we don't want to
let the Reds get away with mis
treating our airmen and violat
ing the terms of the Korean arm
istice, but the answer does not
lie in perpetrating a war. We
must work through the United
Nations and other diplomatic
agencies and not go off half-
cocked.
As usual, the President is com'
pletely right and as usual the
junior demagogue from Wiscon
sin is completely wrong. Cor-
valhs Gazette Times.
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.
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T REALIZE, of course, that im-
pounding the car would in
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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
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biles being almost as much a
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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. , - '
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Oregon civil defense agency,
was a simulated explosion
which was supposed to de
stroy a house and trap seven
persons inside.
The rescue mission involved
police, firemen. Red Cross
rescue and first aid units,
and, of course, the 16 students
civil defense instructors.
To make the exercise real-,
istic, firecrackers were set off
to simulate the explosion. The
"injured" were smeared with
red paint and dirt.
One member of the cast
even put on a hysterical scene
which fooled some of the par
ticipants into thinking they :
had a real problem on their
hands.
The hoiise used for the exer
cise was one being torn down
on the Lloyd tract. "
The defense workers used
real bandages to wrap up the
make-believe wounds of the
"victims." However, the band
ages came in handy. On
photographer on hand to take
pictures of the test cut his
finger on a broken flash bulb.
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