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.Motor Court Association Proposal To Increase Highway (Croup Said Bead issue B7 BILL FORCE t United Press Correspondent Salem U.R, a proposal by motor court operators to in crease the stale highway com mission from three to five mem bers was a dead issue here to day. A motion to table was ap proved in the House Highway committee yesterday and in ef fect removed the bill from fur ther consideration thi session The bill originally offered by the Oregon Motor Court associa tion would have made one of the new members a representative of roadside businesses. But that provision later was dropped. Commission Objects Despite the change, the com mittee,' in two hearings on the bill, heard twice as much oppo sition as support for the meas ure. The Highway commission itself expressed strong opposi tion and declared proponent ar guments that the present three members were overworked had stemmed from ignorance of the commission's procedures. The commissioners explained they worked as a unit and that two more members would not lessen their work. Bernard Mainwaring, publish er of the Salem Capital Journal, said he believed he spoke for "hundreds of thousands who do it Ktj So smooth it leaves you breathless mirnojf Ce arzaiest name VODKA 0 proof Msde from 1 00 grain neutral spirits. Sue. PwrreSmirooS Fit, Inc. Hartford. Conn. mm not want to tamper with the present system." No Special Interests The present commission, Main waring said, represents no spe cial interest and there has been no evidence of sectionalism in its deliberations. A five-member commission, he believed, would encourage sectionalism. The committee heard F. G. Maison, superintendent of state police, declare that radar speed detection devices would be put into operation on a. state level whether, or not the Legislature passes enabling legislation. So far, radar equipment to catch speeders has been used only by city police departments. It has been called entrapment in some quarters but Maison said radar .has not been serious ly challenged to the point where a court ruling has been obtained. He said state police consider it little different from other meth ods of law enforcement, just more efficient. He said it is in creasingly difficult to pace speeders in heavy traffic. Included in Budget An item of $7500 has been in cluded in the state police budget for the next bienium to buy radar sets at a cost of $1000 each. The Senate has passed the bill now before the House com mittee to clarify the legal stand ing on the devices. The House yesterday was forced to hold two plenary ses sions in order to complete its heavy calendar. The judiciary committee met through much of the noon hour to hear publishers and broadcasters who favored a bill eliminating special damages for persons libeled by innocent mistakes in print or on the air, provided retractions were pub lished. Main item of business on the House agenda today was the often-amended package of taxa tion bills relating to property tax assessments. The eight meas ures were on special order of business at this morning's session. Oil The Side By E. V. Durling (Distributed by King Futures Syndicate, Inc.) and' blue petticoats could be pop ularized. At football games co eds could feature their college colors that way. On Kentucky Derby day the Blue Grass beau ties could wear the racing colors of their favorite thoroughbred. And so on. Please Note The percentage of spectacle Look how he laughs and stretches our his arms. And opens his wide blue-eyes upon yours. To hail his father; While his little form Flutters as winged with Joy. Byron. Poems about babies gazing lovingly at their mothers are numerous. The above is the only poetic passage I know of dealing with the joy of an infant gazing , wearers among the Japanese is at his father. . hishpr than in anv other nation j --o - " a George M. Cohan Am asked what is my author ity for saying George M. Cohan was not born on the Fourth of July. George was born, as I said, on July 3, 1878; there is a record of his birth and baptism at St. Joseph's Church, Providence, R. I. Horses & Women ' Campaigns opposed to femi nine fashions featuring scanty attire are not always launched by reformers battling against al leged dress - indecency. Some have been inspired by textile manufacturers. The less women wear the more the textile in dustry suffers financially. Span ish women of fashion once wore eight petticoats in the summer, 12 in the winter. That made the textile and lingerie manufac turers very happy. That such a situation will again prevail any where seems improbable. In the 18th centry, fashionable Frenchwomen wore three petti coats, each of a different color. Now there is an idea textile manufacturers might revive with profit. On the Fourth of July the wearing of red, white in the world. One reason is be cause the average Japanese nearly goes blind learning to read. A Japanese must know 5,000 different characters before he can read' a newspaper! De spite the difficulties in master inug reading and its effect on the eyes, 95 per cent of adult Japanese are literate. A much lower percentage of Chinese know how to read. First Meeting ' Dp you remember the place, the date and the time of day you first "met the girl who be came your wife? How about the day after? Did you call her up? The day after 2nd Lt. Ike Eisen hower met Mamie Doud he called her up 15 times. They were married two months after that. The President and the First Lady have now been mar: ried 38 years. Briefly A ring for divorcees is by no means a recent idea. Thirty-five years ago there was originated such a ring. The design was a broken Cupid's arrow. Was worn on same finger as the wedding ring . . . How long do you think NEVER BEFORE AT THIS LOW PRICE! fa am? 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Childreth, 2393 Jacksonville highway, has brought suit against Goldie Dol ly DeVore in a personal damage suit filed here this week in cir cuit court. Mrs. Childreth seeks $25,000 general damages and $1,000 spe cial damages for alleged injuries received April 25, 1953 in an automobile accident at , the in tersection of West Main and Lincoln sts. in Medford. Mrs. Childreth was a passen- it would take a jet plane to trav el from Soviet Russia : to the United States? Answer is about seven minutes. Wales, Alaska, is only 74 miles from Russia. Osculation How many consecutive kisses can a couple exchange before the lipmuscles are exhausted? A New Yorker once wagered he could kiss Anna Held 200 times without stopping. After 152 kisses he quit completely ex hausted and paid off the bet. How about this, young fellow? What is the extent of your stay ing power as a kisser? How many times do you think you could consecutively kiss Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner, Rhonda Fleming or Lisa Kirk? Elderly Woodburn Couple Injured as Train Smacks Auto Woodburn (U.R) A South ern Pacific passenger train traveling about 70 miles an hour slammed into an automobile that apparently tried to beat it to a crossing near here yester day evening, injuring the auto's two elderly occupants. , The injured were George H. Zeek, 82, and his wife, Rilla, 78, of Route 1, Woodburn. They were taken by ambulance to Hutchinson General hospital at Oregon City, where Zeek was listed as "critical." His wife was in "fair" condition. An eyewitness told police Zeek made a left turn to cross the tracks, "kind of slowed down" as the train approached, and then accelerated into the front of the train. The accident happened about halfway be tween Hubbard and Woodburn. Auto Broken in Half The tremendous impact broke the smaller vehicle in half, and scattered pieces of its wreckage over a -considerable distance. None of "the passengers of the train, SP's Cascade, was injured. Engineer W. D. Donaldson of Portland said that by the time he realized the automobile was not going to stop, it was much too late to halt his train. He said it appeared that the auto was trying to beat the train to the crossing. State police investigating the wreck said the train struck the automobile to the rear of the driver. If .the auto had been hit a few inches forward, they said, both of its occupants probably would have been killed out right. ; . Friday. March 4, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TtJREB ressional Demos, Contender For President Differ on Tax Cuts Cong ger in a car operated by her husband when their vehicle was involved in a collision with a vehicle operated by the defend ant. In a separate suit, Mrs. Chil dreth's husband, William I. Childreth, has brought suit against the same defendant. He seeks $400 for costs of employ ing assistance for his wife, and $1,500 for other costs. By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) Congres sional Democrats and a top con tender for next year's Demo cratic presidential nomination seem to be bucking each other On what to do about taxes. Democratic Gov. Averell Har riman of New York is raising income taxes for the voters of his state. He has just vetoed a Republican Legislature's meas ure to continue for another year a "forgiveness" of taxation be gun by former Republican Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. . The "forgiveness" amounted to 10 per cent for individual income tax payers and 25 per cent for unincorporated busi ness. You made out your state tax return in the usual way, then deducted the forgiven per cent from the total tax. It was a popu lar measure. Veto Almost Certain Congressional Democrats are seeking now to ram through Congress a $20-per-head federal income tax reduction. It is fairly certain now that President Eis enhower would veto this Demo cratic tax cut if it reached him, which it is not likely to do. Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) and Chairman Harry F. Byrd (D Va.) of the Senate Finance Com mittee oppose the tax maneuver of their fellow Democrats. Their opposition probably, will defeat the measure in the Senate. But i the tax cut was sponsored and i sprung on the surprised Eisen-1 hower administration by no less than Speaker Sam Rayburn, the acknowledged leader of the Democratic Party on Capitol Hill. The speaker cannot always lead conservative Democrats such as Byrd and George. But he is the party's big man in Con gress, a notable figure in the Roosevelt and Truman adminis trations. And that adds interest to the difference between Harri man and congressional Demo crats on taxation of the voters. Harriman was a candidate for Democratic presidential nomina tion in 1952 with no very im pressive preparation or claim to the distinction other than that he was 100 per cent a Roosevelt Truman man who ran principal ly on Mr. Truman's record. Oth er Democratic aspirants in 1952 thought it better to qualify their endorsement of the previous Democratic administrations more or less. Not Harriman. He made no qualifications. The voters are supposed to love the party which cuts taxes. But do they? Within a matter of 12 months during the Republi can 80th Congress, President Truman vetoed three bills cut ting income taxes. The Republi cans passed the third one over his veto. Nine months after that third veto, the voters elected Mr. Truman president of the United States to the amazement of almost everyone.. The record suggests that Har riman may be right and con gressional Democrats wrong on the vote appeal of a tax cut And nlj 4: H 41 A YT-X k . uiu uiuna icttut mat xv al ways raised taxes, never lowered them. No one ever beat FDR. 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