MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREH
Hearing m Oregon Highway liilboariis gomes
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Friday February 23, 1953
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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
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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
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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.
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KELVINATOR
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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.
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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.. Could , be that Kilgore
threw the: body block on Ke-
Brazil Bus Accident '
Kills Four, Hurts 53
. Teofilo Otoni, Brazil (U.R)-
Four persons were killed and
53 injured Thursday when an
inter-state bus ran off a highway
and rolled over several times.
The driver lost control when
he swerved to avoid a slow-mov
ing trailer-truck. . . "
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