TWO MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday, March 8, 1955
sus-case
Two Cases Heard
In Circuit Court ,..
Friday, Saturday
One man was given a
pended sentence and the
against another was dismissed
Saturday morning . in Jackson
county circuit court.
Larry William Irvin, 23, gen
eral delivery, Medford, was sen
tenced to one year in jail on a
petty larceny charge. Judge E.
H. Howell suspended the sen
tence and placed Irvin on proba
tion for three years.
The case involved theft of $28
from Weter and Olson Shell
service station, 1258 South Riv
erside avenue on Feb. 14, ac
cording to city police records.
Irvin earlier had entered a
guilty plea, district attorney rec
ords showed.
Waives Extradition
Charles Edwin Joy, 22, Spo
kane, Wash., has waived extra
dition to Spokane, according to
court reports, and charges of
attempted burglary against him
were "dismissed .Sheriff's depu
ties said Joy is wanted in Spo
kane on a charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses.
Charges against Joy here in
volved entry of the Eullock's
Orthopedic Appliances quarters
at 902 East Main st. last month,
according to police information.
Merrifield Submits
Blood Test Measure
Salem (U.R) Sen. John Merri
field of Portland introduced a
bill Friday which would require
motorists suspected of drunken
driving to take blood tests to
keep their drivers' licenses.
The proposal would make
preconsent to a blood test a
condition of issuance or renewal
of a driver's license.
It would not prohibit a drunk
en driving suspect from refus
ing to take a test. However, if
he did so and was convicted the
trial court would be required to
notify the secretary of state
which in turn would be required
to suspend the driver's license
for at least 90 days but not more
than a year.
The measure was advocated by
Oregon Highway Lifesavers.
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Seven Taxation Package LBSflDs
Survive Senate Floor Debates'
By WILLIAM WARREN
United Press Correspondent
Salem (U.R) The Senate
tackled a dozen bills Saturday
at its first Saturday meeting to
clear the way for a running start
Monday into the ninth week of
the session. -
But the House adjourned until
Monday after a strenuous Friday
struggle both morning and after
noon that saw seven out of eight
bills in the taxation package
survive floor debate.
One Rejected
Members rejected only one of
the bills presented by the In
terim Tax Study Committee to
revise and modernize Oregon's
property assessment and apprais
al system. The defeated bill
Anna Louise Strong
Pleased by Russian
Decision on Charge
Los Angeles (U.R) Anna Lou
ise Strong said Friday night she
was "awfully glad" she had been
cleared by Russia of spy charges
and would be "delighted" to re
turn to the Soviet Union.
The 69-year-old American
writer was arrested as a spy and
expelled from Russia in 1949.
Radio Moscow announced Friday
that she had been framed by the
late former Soviet Police Chief,
Lavrenti Beria.
Can't Understand It
"I'm awfully glad this hap
pened," Miss Strong said of the
exoneration. "I never met Beria
and I can't understand why he
was blamed."
The Nebraska - born Miss
Strong said the charges had
"wrecked my career."
"I was on my way to China
and had requests from 40 differ
ent countries for articles," she
said, "but all that stopped when
they said I was a spy.
"Of course, I will go back to
Russia, if any newspaper, news
agency or publishing house
would like to send me to do a
series of articles. I always knew
this would come out in the open
some day."
436 Motorists Lose
Drivers' Licenses
Salem U.R) A total of 436
Oregon motorists charged with
traffic law violations lost their
drivers' licenses in February,
Secretary of State Earl T. New-
bry said Saturday.
License suspension followed
court convictions in 333 cases,
including drunk driving, hit and
run, and driving while a pre
vious license was suspended or
revoked.
An additional 98 licenses
were suspended by discretionary
action of the secretary of state's
office. Fifty-eight of these dri
vers failed to report accidents.
Thirteen drivers with records
of repeated traffic convictions
also received suspended licenses
during the month. '
Oregon Motor Stages'
Permit Revoked
Salem (U.R) An order re
voking the operating permit of
Oregon Motor Stages was signed
by Public Utilities Commissioner
Charles H. Heltzel Saturday. It
followed waiver by the company
of notice and hearing on the
revocation.
Major services of Oregon
Motor Stages previously were
transferred to Pacific Greyhound
Lines. The final service of OMS
was between Portland and Ore
gon City, now served by Inter
city Bus Lines.
would have continued the pres
ent reappraisal program in the
36 counties, making a new ap
praisal every four years manda
tory and requiring that only ap
praisers qualified by examina
tion be used in the program.
That proposal was defeated 31
to 25 by members who said it
would relegate county assessors
to the position of record clerks
and give a disproportionate
amount of authority to the State
Tax Commission.
Serious Challenge
Only one other bill in the
package was seriously but unsuc
cessfully challenged. It would,
if passed by the Senate and
signed by the governor, re-define
the term true cash value on
the basis of market value. That
is defined in the bill as passed
as "the highest price in terms of
money which a property will
bring when exposed for sale in
the open market, with a reason
able time allowed to find a pur
chaser, buying with a full
knowledge of all the uses and
purposes for which it is capable
of being used."
Values determined on that
definition would be the basis on
General Motors
Sets New Record
For Car Deliveries
Los Angeles (U.R) Harlow
H. Curtice, president of General
Motors, announced Saturday the
corporations' five divisions set
a new record for car deliveries
in February for the second
straight month.
Curtice said GM's Cadillac,
Buick, Oldsmobile, Chevrolet
and Pontiac divisions recorded
280,824 new car retail deliveries
last month, an all time company
high for February. A record
261,393 in retail deliveries was
set during January.
Deliveries for the two months
totaled 542,078 and represented
a 128.7 per cent of the previous
two months high set in 1950 and
152.4 per cent of last year's fig
ure, Curtice said.
Curtice, who recently predict
ed a record 7,500,000 unit pro
duction for the industry in 1955
said "despite our current high
rate of production, our dealers'
stocks of cars continue to be ab
normally low in relation to the
rate of sales." !
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First Six Months
Were Toughest for
State Sen, Hardie
Salem (U.R) The Senate
got the best laugh of the sea
son when Sen. Eugene Allen
(R-Portland) had a bill read
Friday afternoon making il a
matter of constitutional law to
treat other people like farmers
and "so-called agriculturists."
Sen. Lowell Steen (R-Mil-ton
- Freewaler), himself in
agriculture, arose to say that
if all people were to be treated
like farmers, they would have
to sell everything at whole
sale and buy everything at
retail.
Sen. Stewart Hardie (R
Condon) arose to cay with a
serious face thai farmers were
hard - working people. He
knew, because he worked on
a farm from the time he was
born until he was 20 years
old.
Sen. Allen asked him: "You
say you worked from the day
you were born: "Tell me. Sen
alor, what did you do the first
day?"
Sen. Hardie hesitated a
moment, then brought the
house down with:
"Well, for the first six
months, I did the milking!"
which county assessors would
levy and collect property taxes.
The definition was adopted by a
vote of 34 to 24.
Fine Discussed
In other floor action Friday,
the House passed a bill giving
Justice Courts the same author
ity now enjoyed by District
Courts and Circuit Courts in
suspending fines and sentences
where such leniency appears to
be in the public interest.
Another bill would exempt
district attorneys from the law
which requires vacancies to be
filled by appointment from the
same party as the vacating offi
cial. Rep. Harvey DeArmond (R
Bend) asked for approval of the
measure with the emergency be
cause of a situation in Crook
county where . the Democratic
district attorney wishes to re
sign and there are no Democratic
attorneys to replace him.
Referred To Committee
On motion of Sen. John P.
Hounsell (R-Hood River), chair
man of the Senate Committee
on Alcoholic Traffic, the Senate
Saturday referred to its judiciary
committee a measure to permit
private clubs, not serving the
general public, to serve liquor
by the drink, whether they serve
food or not. Language of the
measure had been 'questioned,
and it lost by a tie vote Friday.
But Sen. Hounsell changed his
vote from aye to no which gave
him the opportunity to move to
reconsider yesterday.
Another measure which was
retrieved, at least temporarily,
was one to permit the Oregon
Development Commission to do
limited advertising to promote
industry in this state. It, also,
had lost by a tie vote. Sen. John
C. F. Merrifield (R-Portland)
changed his vote to no, and Sat
urday moved to reconsider. The
Senate so voted, and the measure
will be up for final action Monday.
Pickford Planning
Finish Fight on
Studio Ownership
HOLLYWOOD (U.R) Retired
film star Mary Pickford says she
fully intends to finish her court
battle with Samuel Goldwyn ov
er ownership of a motion picture
studio.
"I always finish a fight, but I
have never started one," Miss
Pickford told a press conference
Friday.
Miss Pickford owns slightly
more than half interest in the
Samuel Goldwyn Studios and
has been involved in a drawn
out court battle over operation
and ownership of the property.
Up For Auction
The studio, by court order,
goes up for public auction April
2 and the actress indicated she
intends to submit a sealed bid
which will top all others. She
has also asked Goldwyn for an
accounting of studio finances
during his operation of the prop
erty. A hearing on her request
is scheduled March 21.
Miss Pickford also increased
her ownership in United Artists
Corp., last week to 33 13 per
cent when comedian Charlie
Chaplin sold his share of the
studio. The actress said she and
her husband, Buddy Rogers,
plan to go into production of
television and motion pictures.
Two Oppose Change In Primary Dates
Salem (U.R) A Democrat and
a Republican spoke out Friday
against a proposed measure to
change Oregon's primary elec
tion from May to August at a
hearing of the Senate Elections
Committee.
Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D
Milwaukie) said he was against
any change in the primary date.
Sweetland is Democratic na
tional committeeman for Ore
gon. Mrs. Olive B. Cornett (R
Klamath Falls), who is Repub
lican national committeewoman,
said she favored advancing the
date 30 to 45 days but didn't
want the primary held less than
30 days before the major politi
cal conventions.
Sweetland said the change
would threaten Oregon's prefer
ential primary system by which
voters in each party state their
choice for a presidential candi
date. The bill was introduced by
Sen. Pat Lonergan, Portland. ,
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Gevurtz, who was a Polish
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