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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
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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.
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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.
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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. If things work out as
hoped, the seeds will be colored
before they are sowed.
The wildlife service's biggest
problem is getting enough tetra
mine. It is controlled by Ger
man firm and is expensive. The
service may have to find a
cheaper substitute.
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