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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREH Hearing m Oregon Highway liilboariis gomes ef ore Joyse Cdmmiftoe Friday February 23, 1953 Up Zoning Measure, Self-Regulatory Plans Presented By BILL FORCE United Press Correspondent Salem (U.R) The fight that occurs here every two years to clear billboards off Oregon high ways or" to control unsightly signs was opened yesterday in a lengthy hearing before the House Highways Committee. The committee had three bills before it. One, sponsored by tne Oregon Roadside Council, was described by its supporters as a zoning measure rather than a sign prohibition. The other two were offered as "self-regulatory" laws by the sign companies themselves. Would Control Signs The roadside council bill would control signs only along state throughways as defined in the act of 1947. Such limited access routes now include numerous sections of highway 99 between Portland and Ashland, parts of the Columbia River and Oregon Coast highways and part of the Sunset highway from Portland to the coast. It would prohibit outdoor ad vertising within 500 feet of the center line of a throughway but would not apply within the cor porate limits of a city or within- one to three miles of any city, depending on the population. Supporters said it would ac complish the aim of beautifying Oregon highways and making them safer. Opponents said the bill would damage advertising firms and ' roadside businesses that depend on advertising. Permit Fee for Signs The bill sponsored by the Ore gon Highway Business Council would regulate the spacing of roadside rigns and require the removal of delapidated signs but would permit more well-maintained signs to remain along the highways. Costs of administra tion would be defrayed through a permit fee for each sign con structed and a license fee for sign companies. It would be ad ministered by the commissioner of labor. The outdoor advertising coun cil of Oregon sponsored a third bill setting up a formula for spacing signs based on mileage and population and would place the responsibility for policing on the advertiser. . The House committee on financial institutions held a pub lic hearing on a proposal to set up a statewide teletype network for law enforcement agencies. 'Hostage' Bill Discussed The Senate had before it to day a measure providing that a prispner in the state penitentiary who willfully holds a person as SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR YOUR MONEY REFUNDED INCITES RIOT Mardi Gras Carnival visitor Lawrence Morrison, 18, Arlington, Va., precipitated a riot in New Orleans when motorists caught him breaking into automobile. When police ar rived on scene Morrison was battling hundreds of merry makers and tear gas had to be used to dispell them. A nightstick took care of Mor rison. Two Adult Classes Are Discontinued ; Of the five adult classes of fered this week through Med- ford city schools, only three will be continued because of lack of interest in the other two, Elliott Becken, assistant superintendent of schools said today. The two which will not convene are the courses in rug braiding. A few more registrations are open, however, for an afternoon class in tailoring, he announced. The classes in which there is a full registration are water col or painting and the jiight tailor ing class. Those wishing to register in the afternoon tailoring sessions should telephone 2-9992. The classes continue for a six-week period and are held Monday and Thursday afternoons from 1 to 4 p.m. The classes start Feb. 28. hostage mav be given a sentence as serious as life imprisonment, or for a neriod of not less than 20 years. Any prisoner who will fully participates in killing sucn a hostage would be guilty of first degree murder and would be sentenced to death in the gas chamber. Ten bills were up for final ac tion in the House, plus a Senate approved resolution inviting the Reynolds Metals Company to locate its aluminum fabricating plant in Oregon. IT m ACTIO G3 ' AT .'O'VR Ketapiver By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington U.R) One of the luckiest breaks in American political history Ren. Kefauver into the 1952 con test for the D e m o c ratic p r e s i dential n o m i nation. He will be looking about this year for another such break. The tall man from Tennes- Lyle C Wilson see was 48 years old m 1951-52 when his television road show exposing racketeers became what they call on Broadway a smash hit. Big, rough customers who could bump off a rival gangster or hire a goon to do the job, A NichoVs Worth of . . Comment1 On By HARMAN United Presc Washington i(U.R) There was a bit of repetition in the public prints a century ago this week. Last week we told you about the unhappy char acter who lost "4 or 5 keys." As of Feb. 1855. the eent 3 still hadn't found 'em, was i still looking, and still was willing to pay a "substantial reward" for harman mcnois same. Mathias Mar tian, the librarian of the House of Representatives, was more than a little cross at some mem bers of Congress. He announced in the papers that a large num ber of books belonging to the li brary of the House had been borrowed by the lawmakers "in good faith" and never returned. He demanded that the books be brought back. Featured prominently on the front page of one of the papers (there was little or no news on page one 100 years ago) was an ad which read: $5,000 sale of watches at auction. This sale will go on until all watches and jew elry are gone." And in a P.S. (just like that) the advertisement added: "Also we shall sell a prime assortment of household and kitchen furniture and also caskets." In the House, Representative Mason of Virginia made a yard long speech which bubbled down to a suggestion that the sword of Andrew Jackson, which he wore through all cam paigns, plus the Battle of New i Orleans" be presented to Con- On This NO MONEY DOWN Bf3 112 SOUTH RIVERSIDE Looks for squirmed before Kefauver's camera. . Kefauver parlayed his tele vised crime crusade ana smart state-by-state campaign accom panied by his pretty missus into a real chance for the 1952 Dem ocratic nomination. President Harry S. Truman secretly had picked Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois to succeed him and took a cold, dim view of Kefauver's upstart candidacy. Defeated Truman Kefauver's response was to enter the New Hampshire pri mary against the President, himself, and he gave Mr. Tru man a classic licking. From that moment the politicians began to take Kefauver and his coon skin hat somewhat more than seriously. Small wonder that Kefauver is looking now for another . This and That W. NICHOLS FetiiM Writer gress with ceremonies Turned out, it eventually was. A local silversmith offered, in an ad, "Pure silverware which I will retail at wholesale prices." Under local items was print ed this gem: "We apologize for the sever ity of the weather. The notice was brief and it cut down on the attendance Saturday night at Carusi's . saloon to hear the Rev. W. H. Milburn on the sub ject of 'The Rifle, The Axe and The Saddle Bags.' But those who were present enjoyed a rich re past." Interesting Ads The ads of the day were more interesting than the goings-on on Capitol Hill. The latter may have been fascinating, .too, but caught little attention. A merchant who apparently was hunting for ready cash of fered "Gent's traveling shawls and blankets at reduced prices. Warm and comforting." A shocking story was copied from the Cleveland, O., Herald, with proper credit. It said, with out fear cf libel apparently, that "various robberies of the mails of the Salem, O., post office have been committed by Thomas Walton, a clerk in the post of fice and Joseph S. Wilson, son of the postmaster. "Both young men have been arrested. There is no doubt that they are guilty." "If Franklin Pierce, a Demo crat and the 14th President of the United States, had anything noteworthy to utter 100 years ago this week, lie kept it to himself. A search of all of the records added up to nothing but silence, from the White House. 95 C YOUR OLD n KELVINATOR $2 S1 Break leading To PresMeiracy lucky break such as his 1951-52 pre-convention television show. If he gets it he will be hard to beat in the 1956 Democratic Na tional Convention. If he doesn't get it, he may still be a conten der. He'll be 53, barely, when the convention meets but looks much younger. The senator has what it takes to inspire young voters and, especially, the wom en, young and old. His pretty New Books Listed By Public Library Rental Department The rental department of the Medford Public library this month received 34 new books, which are now in circulation. A list of them follows: Non-Fiction Titles and authors: Bafut Bea gles, Gerald M. Durrell; Neigh borhood Frontiers, Erie Stanley Gardner; Apache Vengeance, Jess G. Hayes; Pictorial History of the Wild West, Sann and Horan; The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh; The Fifty-Minute Hour, Dr. Robert Lindner; Song of the Sky, Guy Murchie; The Rise and Fall of the Maya Civilization, Eric S. Thompson. Fiction Titles and autors: The View from Pompey's Head, Hamilton Basso; Letter to a Stranger, Elswyth Thane Beebe; Vale of Tyranny, Suzanne Butler; My Brother's Keeper, Marcia Daven port; Jonathan Blair; Bounty Lands Lawyer, William Dona hue Ellis; Sign of the Pagan, Roger Fuller; The Adventurers, Ernest Haycox; Blood Like New Wine, Toni Howard; North of Welfare, William Krasner; Mr. Maugham Himself, SOmmerset Maugham; The Corner-Stone, Zoe Oldenbourg; Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Czenzi Ormonde; Marriage for Three, Elizabeth Seifert; Benton's Row, Frank Yerby. Mysteries Titles and authors: The Man in the Green Hat, M. Coles; The Coral Princess Murders, F. Crane; The Devil Threw Dice A. Dean; Invitation to Murder, Leslie Ford; Invitation to Mur der and Other Novels, Leslie Ford; The Case of the Glamor ous Ghost; Erie S. Gardner; Tell Her It's Murder, H. Reilly; Tell Her It's Murder and Other Nov els, H. Reilly; The Black Moun tain, Rex Stout; The Benevent Treasure, P. Wentworth. Western Title and author: Lost Pueblo, Zane Grey. Title and Editors: The Best From Fantasy-and Science Fic tion, J. Francis McComas and Anthony Boucher. AUTOMATIC 1 M II STORE wife, Nancy, is a solid cam- paigner in her own right. Kefauver led the field on the first two ballots in 1952. There are more than a few Democrats who believe Ke fauver will do better in 1956. One break this year has gone against the senator, who is a member of the Senate Judici ary Committee. He had hoped to be named chairman of the subcommittee to investigate monopoly. But Committee Chairman Harley M. Kilgore (D-W.Va.) disappointed Kefauver. He took the subcommittee chairmanship for himself. Kilgore and Mr. Truman were friends, politically and otherwise, back in1 what the Democrats call the good old days.. 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