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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE actions Lined ition To Law on Oonirol of Campaign in Tuesday, February 22, 1955 Single Committee For Candidates Draws Objection .. By BILL FORCE United Press .Correspondent " Salem (U.PJ Usually div ergent political factions were lined up shoulder to shoulder here today in opposition to parts of a proposed law to control election campaign expenditures Witnesses representing La bor's league for Political Edu cation and the state Republican Central committee both object ed strenuously to a provision in the. bill that would require camDaien expenditures to be channeled through a single cam paign committee for each can didate or measure. Reports Before Election Rep Maurine Neuberger CD- Portland), who sponsored the bill along with -Rep. Elmer Deetz (R-Canby), said the bill's chief purpose was to provide for expense reports before the election rather than afterward, There was no objection to that principle at a hearing on the bill yesterday before the House Committee on Elections and Re apportionment headed by Rep. E. H..Mann, (R-Medford). James T. Marr, executive sec retary "of the state AFL organi zation and of LLPE, said the long-standing campaign prac tices of his organizations would be in violation of the proposed law. He approved the principle of pre-election filing but declar ed it was not the business of a candidate how much labor spent in his behalf, so long as the ex penditure was accounted for in labor's own report of campaign spending. Said Invasion of Rights A similar viewpoint was ex pressed by Ted Tibbett, repre senting the GOP Central com mittee. He said the single com- mittee requirement was an inva sion of constitutional rights of freedom of speech and assembly. It . would tend, he said, to re strict individual participation in election campaigns.: Tom Lawson McCall, unsuc cessful Republcan candidate for Congress from the third district in the last election, endorsed Mrs. Neuberger's plan, for pre election filing. But he saii the proposed law, should . have enough teeth to force com pliance and should not be left to the descretion of .-a candi date to comply. ; Offered as Substitute Mrs. Neuberger said her pro posal for pre-election filing was offered as a substitute for a flat limit on campaign spending. She said she and Deetz had decided such a limit was unenforceable but that the alternative would allow the electorate to decide whether contributions were too large or were from the wrong sources. She asserted that "many interesting things have come to light after the elections" when it was too late for the expense reports to guide the voters; :. Grants Pass Man Stranded on Peak Anchorage, Alaska -U.PJ A o two-man paramedic team was still stranded on the treacherous east face of Mount Susitna - to day where the scattered wreck age of a Navy Neptune bomber and the bodies of . 1 1 men lie buried in deep drifts. The tail end of a howling bliz zard still lashed the mountain where M. Sgt. F. R. Sackrider. Topeka, Kan., and Airman 1C R. L. . Josephson, Grants Pass, Ore., have been keeping a lonely vigil. The two men from the 71st Air Rescue Squadron parachuted down to the wreckage Saturday. Additional food, cigarettes and survival gear were dropped to the two men yesterday. Tax Return Courses Given School Students '' New York (U.R) The three R's are moving over to make room for another one "re turns." As though it won't come soon enough anyways, the Internal Revenue Service has developed courses for the ; c i t y's high schools to teach students how to file income tax returns. mm 3D Legislative Letter (Editor's note: The Mail Tribune' city editor is in Salem this week, visiting the legislature. This is his first dispatch.; By ERIC ALLEN JR. Mail Tribune City Editor Salem Sunday at the state capitol is quiet, despite the hec tic activities during the rest of the .week. Even here in the clut tered press room, usually filled with the babel of clattering typewriters and chattering tele types, nothing is doing. The great and stately senate and house chambers are closed, and the only people in the build ing are a few tourists and an occasional state employee com ing down to catch up on a few chores. . Tomorrow will be different, with both houses in. session in the morning, and many commit tee meetings and hearings in the afternoon. The legislature is starting its seventh week tomor row, and only 32 bills, out of some 777 introduced, have been enacted into law. Between now and the time the senators and representatives go home, tension will mount and the pace of activity will in crease until the last hectic day, when the final bills are shoved through, and when . the two houses will relax, weary but happy, for the singing of "Auld Lang Syne." This legislature is faced with what appear to be the most dif ficult and serious problems of any of the six I have observed. The one big problem , is related to almost all the others how and where to raise the money to keep state services operating. For years nowOregon has been operating at least partly off the "fat" left over from high war time income. The time has at last arrived when the legislators have to face the financial facts of life, and either impose new taxes or cut deeply into the services offered by the state. En route to Salem I stopped in Eugene for two days to; at tend the annual ; Oregon Press Conference, attended by many of the state's newspaper pub lishers and editors. One of the highlights of this session was the address made by Irving Dillard, editor of the editorial page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, one of America's best newspapers. Dilliard's talk was informal and rambling, and he touched on many subjects. One of his points, of particular interest in southern Oregon, was the fact that Crater Lake, probably the most spectacular of all National Parks, is one of the least known. Dillard took Oregonians to task for not letting the rest of the world know about Crater lake. The park, he said, doesn't get nearly the publicity that Yosemite, Glacier . and Yellow stone National parks do, and yet, in his view, it is probably the most interesting and beau tiful of them all. In another portion of his talk, Dilliard expressed his in dignation that one of the most important parts of the U. S. Con stitution has come !into dis repute through the loose and in nacurate . statements of some irresponsible politicians. He referred specifically to the Fifth Amendment, and - to the fact that people who have exer cised their constitutional privi lege of immunity under the terms of this amendment have come to be called "Fifth Amend ent Communists." This," he said, automatically brings to mind the feelnig that the amendment itself leaves something to be desired, despite the fact that it is one of the im portant keystones to American freedom? . He suggested that it would be well for all Americans to find out just what the Fifth Amend ment does say, and ' then see if they have any quarrel with it. Here is what it says: "No person, shall, be held to answer for . a capital or- other wise infamous crime, unless on a presentment of indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when ' Lili St. Cyr Honeypioons With Actor Ted Jordan Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) Dancer Lili St. Cyr, 32, and actor Ted Jordan honeymooned today not far from the atomic proving grounds after . celebrating their nuptials by cutting a mushroom cloud wedding cake. The cake was inscribed: 'Hap py' Wedding to the Anatomic Bomb, Lili St. Cyr." It was the dancer's . fifth wedding venture and the third for Jordan, a nephew of entertainer Ted Lewis. - in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice - put in jeopardy of life ' or limb; nor shall he be compelled in any criminal case to be witness against himself, nor be depriv ed of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." The point that Dilliard was making, and it is one with which we can all agree after a little thought, is that the protec tion of this amendment (and the others in he Bill of Rights) ap plies equally to all Americans. It is a fact that the majority of those who take advantage of its protection are people few of us admire. But if the amendment did not protect all equally, how long would it be before the in nocent as well as the guilty would be deprived of this pro tection? 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