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MEDrORD (OREGOIf) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Method of Disposing of Objectionable Comic Books Discussed at Hearing Friday March II, 1953 Book Distributors, Public Heard by Senate Committee Salem (U.R) There Is noth ing comic about a lot of comic books on the market that blue print crime or sex. and distrib utors are agreed with the public that they should go. But distributors and some sec tions of the public disagree as to the method of control, a Senate judiciary subcommittee headed by Sen. Warren McMinimee (R Tillamook) learned at a hearing that lasted nearly four hours here late yesterday. The hearing was on two bills by Sen. John C. F. Merrifield (R-Portland). One would author jze a county court or board of county commissioners to estab lish an advisory committee to check on whether comic books obviously put out for the young er set are harmful to minors, Criteria Listed The criteria would be wheth er or not these so-called comics are "of an indecent nature, or use obscene language, or be cause they tend to stir the sex impulses and lead to sexually impure and lustful thoughts, or because they contain accounts of stories of crime or deeds of bloodshed in such a way as to induce imitation and weaken re spect or law and justice . . ." Sen. Merrifeld told the com mittee he had received hundreds of communications endorsing the two measures, the second of which would put a ban on block books, which means a dealer must accept one magazine in order to get another. Sen. Merrifield said he had received petitions with 201 names from Jackson county and one from the Kenwood Kings town Parent Teachers Associa . tion of Bend with 300 signatures endorsing the measures. Mrs. Walter Harvey of Mo- lalla, chairman of the legislative committee of the Oregon Farm Bureau, and Elmer McClure, master of the Oregon State Grange, both spoke in favor of the measure. McClure got a double-take look from the committee when he said "maybe we should do some book burning to focus pub lic attention on these objection able so-called comics for young sters." He added he was not in favor of book burning, but used that expression as a means of pointing up the objectionable nature of the comics under dis cussion. Ray Martin of Roseburg, chairman of the State Knights of Columbus literature commit tee, said he had found outright filth in several comics. After he had detailed example after ex ample, Sen. Warren Gill (R Lebanon) paid him the compli ment of being "one of the best witnesses ever to appear before a legislative committee.' Second Bill Unnecessary Henry A. Buehner, Portland attorney representing 16 distrib utors, presented a brief saying that the distributors he repre sents are as one against objec tionable comics and weed them out as soon as they find them. But he objected to the measure which would enable each of Oregon's 36 counties to set up a comic book advisory committee on two grounds first, that it might lead to an infringement on freedom of speech and sec ond, considering the hundreds of magazines on the market, it would be too cumbersome to be practical. Fred N. Bay Jr., whose Port land firm distributes 500 differ ent magazines including 2300 comics, and 1000 book titles, and Robert Weinberg of the Publishers Distributors Corp., both testified under oath that the second bill concerning block booking was unnecessary because there is no tie-in book ing in Oregon. Telegraph Hill in San Fran cisco takes its name from a man ual semaphore telegraph used to signal the arrival of ships through the Golden Gate dur ing the Gold Rush. Sears Pension Fund Director Says Stock Market Now Too High Washington U.P.) Gen. Rob ert E. Wood said today he is not buying stocks with $90,000,000 in a Sears, Roebuck employee pension fund because of fears the market may be too high. Wood, chairman of the com pany's multi-million dollar em ployee pension fund, formerly headed the big merchandising company. He told the Senate Banking committee investigating the mar ket boom that he is "uncertain" about the present level of stock prices. For this reason, he said, heis holding $90,000,000 in cash in the pension fund instead of in vesting in stocks. Won't Risk Money "It (the stock market) may not be too high," he said. "On the other hand I don't want to risk my employees' money at the present level." Another witness testified that stock market trading should be put on an all-cash basis if stock prices continue to rise. Benjamin Graham, head of an investment fund and part-time finance professor at Columbia university, made the recommen dation to the Senate Banking committee. It is conducting a "friendly" investigation of .the upsurge of stock prices in the past 18 months. "I am inclined to favor strict controls for margin trading and a fairly rapid advance to the 100 per cent margin limit no borrowing at all as the Federal Reserve board becomes increas inly concerned about the extent of speculation," Graham said in a statement. Margins up 10 Per Cent The Federal Reserve board re cently raised margin require ments from 50 to 60 per cent. This means that buyers must put up cash for at least 60 per cent of the cost of a stock. They can handle the remainder on credit. Previous witnesses have been divided on the issue. Exchange officials and brokers have op posed putting stock trading on an all-cash basis. Marriner S. Eccles, former chairman of the Federal Reserve board, and John K. Galbraith, Harvard econom ics professor, favored it The market reaction to Eccles testimony indicated traders were heeding the advance of Sen. J. William Fulbright (D.-Ark.) com mittee chairman, to ignore day-by-day developments in the in vestigation. Market Recorery Noted The market staged a small re covery despite Eccles' recom mendation that margin require ments be hiked to at least 75 per cent and to 100 per cent, if necessary, to check speculation. Meanwhile, Fulbright rejected a strong plea by a committee member, Sen. Homer E. Cape hart (R.-Ind.) that columnist Walter Winchell be called as a witness today. Fulbright said that he might call Winchell about the middle of April but he gave no definite commitment. Fulbright and witnesses have discussed plugs of certain stocks by Winchell. Capehart said the columnist should be given an early opportunity to give his side. British Public Believed Being Readied For Marriage of Princess To Townsend London (U.R) Two British newspapers have hinted that news of a romance between Princess Margaret and Group Capt. Peter Townsend had been "leaked" to prepare the public for the shock of her marriage to a divorced man. The Labor Party newspaper Daily Herald and the Daily Sketch reprinted reports in Am erican newspapers there might be an early wedding and sug gested that this was a trial bal loon to see what the British public thought about it. ' Most British newspapers were silent on the reported romance, news of which was revived last week end and has filled the press ever since. The Daily Mir ror printed three letters from readers, two of which discussed whether the royal romance should be publicized. "When the Duke of Windsor chose between duty and love, Hornbrook Hornbrook, Calif. Mrs. Thomas McHenry received no tice last week of the death of her mother, Mrs. Alois Duen chede of Heidelberg, Germany Mr. and Mrs. Henley Clawson have purchased the Will Rader property and will take posses sion soon. The Contract Bridge club met March 8 at the home of Mrs Lester Nye who served dessert luncheon before the game. Guest players were Mrs. Emory Par shall and Mrs. Laura Swinner- ton. Members playing were Mrs. Marshall Horn, Mrs. J. W. Hodge, Mrs. Bertha Bradley, Mrs. Charles Quigley, Mrs. Dwain Hamner, Mrs. L. E. Jeter and the hostess. High score was won by Mrs. Parshall, second by Mrs. Bradley and third by Mrs. Jeter. Mrs. Bertha Bradley returned this week from a trip to South America. On Jan. 25 the tour "Wings Around South America' left San Francisco for Miami, Fla., via Pan America. From there the tour included sight seeing stops at San Juan, Puerto Rico, Rio DeJaniero and Sao Paulo; Brazil, Montevideo, Uru guay, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Santiago and Valparaiso, Chili, Lima, Peru and Panama City, Panama. Returning to Los An geles she visited relatives before returning home. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Lowary of Canyon City, Ore., were over night guests at the Lester Nye home here March 8. the public was not given a prop er hearing," one letter .said. "This folly must not be repeated with another of our beloved persons." Another letter called the black headlines "The Worst Pos sible Taste." The third letter, from a per son who said she married an in nocent person in a divorce case like Townsend declared she was "very, very happy . . . with best luck to them both." No London newspaper has ventured to guess where the truth lies, and even the tab loids which revived talk of a Townsend - Margaret romance have avoided predicitions. The reticence about royalty which kept the Fleet Street preSs muzzled for so long . on King Edward VIII's romance with Wallis Warfield Simpson is not a factor. Almost every London newspaper carried stor ies in 1953 on the original re ports of the Margaret-Townsend love affair. Buckingham palace still was saying nothing. But the fact that Townsend suddenly be- of silence stirred the most ser ious speculation since the Ed ward abdication even if his statements contained ambiguities. Czech Film Actress Victim of Suicide Mexico City (U.R) Miroslava Stern, beautiful Czechoslovak movie star whose name had been linked romantically with that of Luis Miguel Dominguin, was dead yesterday with a portrait of the Spanish bullfighter clutched in her hand. Police termed her death a suicide. 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Local Osteopathic Physicians Hear of Progress, Problems The Southern Oregon Society of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, at a meeting last night at the Rogue Valley Country club, heard Dr. Morris Thomp son, president of the Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Sur gery, and Lewis F. Chapman, di rector of the Osteopathic Prog ress Fund and Osteopathic Foun dation, review progress at six osteopathic colleges and tell of recognition the profession has received in recent years on fed eral and state levels, and in the fields of higher education. Dr. Thompson described gov e r n mental acknowledgements, from rationing and deferment considerations during the war, to current research and cancer teaching grants to the osteo pathic colleges. He also told of the colleges' problems in expanding their fa cilities, maintaining high teach ing standards and research pro grams. He told of inspections the colleges have successfully undergone, principally from ac crediting agencies and licensing boards. In Missouri, he said, the osteopathic and the allopathic (MD) licensing boards have now combined into one board, as in Oregon. In Missouri, many of the public hospitals are used by both professions. Chapman said the colleges and their teaching hospitals cannot be supported by the tuition in come, but that research grant money, income from teaching clinics, and donations from the osteopathic doctors in practice must supplement the cost of osteopathic education. Through the Osteopathic Progress Fund, an agency established to accept and dispense donations to the colleges, the doctors in practice have donated $5,000,000 in the past six years. 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