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.
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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? It is all part and parcel of
the principle of . Anglo-Saxon
law that each is to be presumed
innocent until proven guilty.
There is the corollary assump
tion if a man is to be damned
for his opinions, it is only a
question of time before - every
one will become suspect.
Only in a , free diversity of
thought is there the opportunity
for true freedom. And if your
enemy is punished for his opin
ions today, what is to protect
you from being punished for
your opinions tomorrow?
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 previous day.
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Detroit (U.R) Carol Lud
ington, 25, a New York farm
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over the job of directing the
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Douglas High School Girls Found Safe
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The girls were identified as
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lotte Barclay, 16, and. . Velma
Page, 16, all students at Douglas
high school near here.
Out for a hike, the girls be
came lost Sunday afternoon.
They were able to start a fire
Sunday night with matches and,
authorities said, this may have
saved their lives. Temperatures
in the" area dropped to around
22 degrees.
Monday, the lightly - clad
girls followed a stream to a road
just as the sheriff was about to
hunt for them with bloodhounds.
Twenty men spent Sunday
night combing the woods for the
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