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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Oregon Senate Alcoholic Traffic Committee To Put Witnesses Under Oath Tuesday' March 1. 195S Move To Prevent Irresponsible Accusations Salem (U.PJ -All testimony taken hereafter by the Senate committee on alcoholic traffic will be taken under oath. Chair man John P. Hounsell (R-Hood River) said today. Sen. Hounsell said his com mittee voted 6 to 1 at its meet ing yesterday afternoon for the . unprecedented move to make sure "irresponsible charges" aren't made against the volatile subject of liquor regulations and against members f the Oregon Liquor Control Commission or their officers and employees. Veteran observers ray it is the first time in their memory that a committee of the Oregon Leg islature has made it a policy to put witnesses under oath. Want Responsible Evidence . "Our committee wants to get at t.ie roots of all the problems concerning liquor control in Oregon," Sen. Hounsell said. "And we vant all responsible evidence we can get. But we think we protect the respon sible testimony and give our selves protection against irre sponsible testimony once we put our witnesses under oath." First witnesses will be sworn at the committee's meeting next Tuesday. Liquor industry repre sentatives said they welcomed xne policy. -ine aenaie committee on Roads and Highways unanimous ly voted favorably on a House approved bill which would en able Oregon to rebuild the dam aged bridge over the Snake river at Nyssa. Educators Heard The senate committee on edu cation headed by Sen. John C F. Merrifield (R-Portland) heard several educators and parent ieacner representatives argue against a senate bill to repeal an act providing that physical education and health be taught in tne public schools. Advocates of the measure said they believe such provision should be at the local level. Briefly, here's what happened on the House and Senate floors yesterday: In the house, Rep. Katherine $Iusa (D-The Dalles) failed in an attempt to take three bills em bodying her tax program away from the house taxation com mittee where she said they had been killed without her knowl edge. Rep. Loran L. Stewart (R Cottage Grove) chairman of the House Taxation Committee, cpologized on the floor, if his remarks to Mrs. Musa had been misunderstood. He said the com mittee agreed on the merits of Mrs. Musa's program, but felt It should be incorporated with other planned changes in the same law. Her measures would repeal the so-called skyscraper clause, eliminate the property tax offset in the corporation tax offset in the corporation excise law , and remove the utility exemption from the excise law. Light for Firemen The House also approved measures authorizing a fireman to use a flashing amber light on their vehicles, with permission of their chiefs; and increase the bond limit of higher educatipn to buld self-supporting housing units for married students. The Senate passed a measure to increase from three to five the number of alumni of state colleges and universities eligible to be members of the State Eoard of Higher Education, with a limit at two instead of one graduate from any one institu tion. The Senate also passed a measure to abolish certain wild life game refuges after hearing Sen. Charles W. Binger (R-La Grande) explain that the deer population had increased to the point that the state game com mission is better able to regulate conservation at an administra tive level rather than under rigid law. Sen. Bingner said the commission now has the authori ty to make temporary closures in the interests of conservation. EtasoHirtion (DOT ifor Vote on Emergency Oause ffor Kevenaae Measures Court Records POLICE COURT Doris ' Evelyn Nicholson. James Ellis Henderson and Amy Luella Martin, violations of basic rule. $10 each. Richard Edward Walker, failure to stop at stop sign, S5. Fred Francis Mi'tledge. failure to top "-at red light. S3. Harney L. Ragland. overtime park ing, f ineand warrant.. S6. Arnold J. Rogers, parked more than 12 inches : from curb. $2.50. Salem (U.R) A resolution that would let the people vote on a proposal to end Oregon's traditional prohibition of the emergency clause for revenue measures was approved by the House Taxation Committee late yesterday by a 4 to 3 vote of the members present. The Democratic minority on the committee opposed the ac tion and announced they will submit a minority report recom mending thai the resolution do not pass. Approved by Senate The Senate already has ap proved the resolution which, if approved by the people, would make it possible for the Legis lature to enact tax laws safe from referendum action for one biennium. At a hearing on the resolu tion, farm and labor groups joined forces in opposition, de claring that the people should have the final word in tax. mat ters. Sen. Lee Ohmart (R-Salem), sponsor of the resolution, said Oregon's present financial di lemma stems from the inability of the Legislature to pass reve nue measures that are certain to stand up in law and be given a fair trial. He said the present fear of a referendum on any nec essary but unpopular tax meas ure has lead to "expediency legislation rather, than sound legislation. ' . Demands for Services He said there have been de mands for services by the people without provision for paying for them and that there has been in the background the "blank check of the state property tax." Opponents said the' people of Oregon would support any tax ation they were convinced were necessary. Rep. Roderick McKenzie (R Sixes) said the lack of the emer gency clause on tax measures gave a minority, as few as 20,- 000 persons, the chance to chal lenge a tax program and make it inoperative until the next election. He cited the challenge of the weight mile tax as an example. Though the people eventually affirmed that tax, the state lost more than $2,000, 000 while the question was de cided at the polls. Farmers Oppcse Manton Carl, a Marion county farmer who said he spoke for a group of farmers who were not affiliated with farm organiza tions, told the committee that no group could less afford to have state finances thrown onto a state property tax than farmers. Ohmart said his resolution still would leave the people with several safeguards against legis lative irresponsibility. They would still have the initiative and the governor could still veto the emergency clause oh a tax measure. Ohmart denied repeated op position charges that his resolu tion was a back door approach to the sales tax. He said use of the emergency clause ' was needed on other forms of needed tax legislation. The tax committee reached agreement on a proposal to re tain the personal property offset provision in the corporation excise tax law in a draft bill to be drawn up by committee coun sel. It also agreed to start night sessions this week, giving that committee one of the heaviest working schedules in the Legis lature. - V IHMH I RELEASED BY REDS Malcolm Bersohn (above), 29, of New York, is one of two Americans released by Chinese Reds after ZVz years imprisonment on spy charges. Along with Mrs. Adele Ricketts of Yonkers, N. Y., they turned down offers of hospitality from U. S. con sular officials in Hongkong, and denounced U. S. as "imperialistic." Mining Council Slates Meelig A meeting of the Northwest ern Mining Council, Inc., has been scheduled for Thursday, March 3, in the county court house auditorium, starting at 8 p.m., it was announced today. Plans for formation of a state mining association, and for a class in prospecting for such minerals as uranium, manganese and chrome, will be discussed. A. C. Van Galder will speak on the Colorado plateau and on uranium deposits in that area in which several local people are interested. Medf ord Attorney Bruce Man- ley will discuss manganese, and Leland A. Mentzer, of the Roxy Ann Gem and Mineral club, will outline plans for a meeting here this summer at which the North western Mining council plans to enter an exhibit. It is expected that scintillators and geiger counters will be on display at Thursday's meeting, according to Frank DeSouza, who will preside. DISTRICT COURT Roy A. McLaughlin, overload. $30. Vernon R. Oden, no operator's li cense. S10. Ann M. Despain. failure to stop at stop sign. $10. Richard J. Meister, failure to dis play motor vehicle license. S15. James V. Johnson, Rolland L. Breedlove and Arthur J. Churchman, failure to stop at stop sign. S10 each. CIRCUIT COURT Fred N. McPherson vs. Winona Q. NePherson, divorce decree. Opal V. Note vs. Harry S. Note, di vorce complaint. Ruth Miller Sowden vs. Irwin Thomas Sowden. divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATION William Duncan Keddie. 53. Ash land, and Irene May Kolb Rooks. 54, Ashland. Medford Girl Wins $100 National Prize Teresa Lee Thomas, 12, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Thomas, 580 Lozier lane, recently won a $100 prize in a Billy and Ruth contest, it has been announced by Dunhams store, 1951 North Pacific highway, local agents for the contest. The award, a grand prize in a nationwide contest, was based on. judging of an unprecedented number of contest entries by a Philadelphia firm. The contest was to name a picture of eight youngsters posed against a back ground of the American flag, Statue of Liberty, Independence hall and the Liberty Bell. Teresa obtained the Billy and Ruth book and entry blank at Dunhams, and received her award from Jack Swaryck, man ager. She is in the seventh grade at Oak Grove school, and has also won essay contests at the school on Americanism. Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Fines Drain Tile 727 W. Mc Andrews Phone 2-4107 Since 1940 the number of dwelling units using natural gas for central heating has increased by more than 400 per cent. Smart Northwest Field Mice May Live Longer Through Reseeding Experiment Washington (U.R) If a gov' ernment experiment works cut, smart field mice in the Pacific Northwest will live to a ripe old age: The dumb' ones will die of a tummy ache. It's a matter of diet, plus a valient attempt by the Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service to help the lumber in dustry find a better, faster and cheaper way of replanting val uable Douglas fir trees. The firs can be planted with seedlings but it takes a heap of doing in time and money. So the wildlife service hit upon the plan of sowing seeds by heli copter. It was a good idea, except that every time the seeds were dropped voracious field mice, better known as the whitefoot deer mouse, assembled for tasty banquets. It would have been simple to kill them off with poisons, said Dr. Joseph H. Linduska of the game management bureau, but mat also would have decimated the game and songbird popu lation. And it didn't do any good to thin out the mice. They multiply too rapidly. Besides, they aren't bad guys. They eat millions of Professor To Speak Af Foresters' Meeting Robert F. Keniston, associate professor of forest management at Oregon State college, will be the featured speaker Friday eve ning at a meeting of Siskiyou chapter, Society of American Foresters, it was announced. The dinner meeting, to start at 7:30 p.m., will be held in the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel. It will be preceded by a social hour starting at 7 p.m. Keniston will discuss recom mendations on forest taxation which were drawn up by the Willamette chapter of SAF. A copy of these recommendations has been mailed to all local members of the society. 4-H CiubNews Central Point Club On February 25, the Central Point Button and Bows 4-H Clothing club met at the home of Mrs. Paul Snook. Hostesses were Wanda Davis and Pat Sowden. Miss Brooks was at the meeting. Next meeting will be in the Homemaking room in the Cen tral Point Junior High on March 11. Beverly Little narmful insects. v So, in another version or "if you can't lick 'em, jine 'em," the wildlife experts decide to' expe riment with something called "tetramethylene disulpho tetra mine" and maybe spare the mouse. It was found, in a Denver ex periment station, that fir seeds soaked in the substance will kill the mice, or give them a violent stomachache. This puts it up to the mouse whether he's going to swear off the stuff, or risk death. More than two doses is fatal. What about the birds? Dr. Linduska says they pick their food by sight and find two col ors green and yellow unap petizing. 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