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OA Voices Favor for Ion-Partisan Study of Government Security Program
Move Said Needed
To End 'Abusive'
Investigations
Washington U.R) Ameri
cans for Democratic Action said
today a non-partisan study of
government security is neces
sary to put an end to "abusive
congressional investigation and
take the "Communist question"
cut of politics.
ADA also suggested that pro
tection of national security ac
tually has been hindered by the
government's personnel security
program because it has become
so all-inclusive.
The FBI, it said, may have be
come so preoccupied checking
the security of government em
ployees that it has been diverted
from its vital counter-intelli
gence operations.
" ADA suggested that the gov
ernment personnel security pro
gram be limited to government
employees who have a hand in
determining national defense
policy or whose positions give
them access to secret mforma
tion.
Joseph L. Rauh Jr., ADA vice
chairman, outlined the organi
zation's position on the govern
ment security program in testi
mony before a Senate Govern
ment Operations subcommittee.
Tha subcommittee is considering
a proposal by Sen. Hubert H.
Humphrey (D.-Minn.) to estab
lish a non-partisan commission
to study the problem of internal
security.
ADA led off a group of 13 pri
vate organizations testifying on
government security procedures.
The testimony of four govern
ment agencies last week led
Humphrey to conclude that
there is "significant inconsist
ency and lack of coordination"
in the government's security
program.
Meanwhile Humphrey an
nounced that hearings will be
broadened to determine wheth
er the security program is be
ing "misused to clamp an un
necessary lid of secrecy" on gov
ernment news.
Rauh endorsed Humphrey's
idea for a commission on secu
rity. He said there is a need, "as
never before in our history, for
a reevaluation of the proper de
mands of internal security and
their impact on our fundamental
liberties."
Such a commission study,
Ttauh said, "might suggest meth
ods of eliminating the abusive
Congressional investigations of
recent years, with their harmful
effect upon our national secu
rity." A commission study, Rauh
said, might also find means of
removing the "Communist ques
tion" from the political arena.
"A basis for a political morato
rium in this field must be found
before the low level of political
debate of the 1954 campaign be
comes the standard operating
procedure in American political
life," he said.
Ike's Praise of
Belatedly Seen
ixon at Capital Dinner
Possible Presidential Plug
Deer With Strange
Characteristics Found
Keene, N. H. (U.R) Biologist
James Lee of the New Hamp
shire fish and game department
tells of a deer that could be a
"close relative to Satan, once
removed."
It was shot by R. C. Cameron
cf Keene and brought to Lee at
a checking station here.
Lee said the deer had some
external characteristics of a doe.
others of a buck, "while still
others were lacking entirely."
Most prominent among the
odd features, the biologist" added
was a pair of "antlers" which
had never been shed, poked up
under the skin of the deers
head and carrying the hide with
them.
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Hollywood after being named
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By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) The worst
reported story of the month is
ji,ct hpninnjne to get around as
the capital
press corps re
flects on Pres
i d e n t Eisen
hower's latest
expression of
great admira
tion for Vice
President Richard M.
Nixon.
The occasion
Lyle C- Wilson was the an
nual dinner of the White House
correspondents association at
the Statler Hotel 10 days ago.
Hundreds of newsmen and their
guests were assembled there. It
is dawning on some of them now
that Mr. Eisenhower chose that
very public occasion to give
Nixon a pheer calculated to
knock down the idea that he
might want to abandon him now
or as a running mate in 1956.
A Plug for Nixon
Moreover, it seems now that
Mr. Eisenhower might have been
giving his yong friend and as
sociate a plug toward the presi
dential nomination itself.
Mr. Eisenhower spoke briefly
and in a light vein as the dinner
ended. It is not customary to
record nor to make news of his
remarks on such occasions. No
record was made this time.
But as those present recall it,
Mr. Eisenhower spoke of being
gratified that Nixon was here
to take his place if anything hap
pened to the President. He lik
ened war to public life in Wash
ington with himself as the com
manding officer. He was pleased
that Nixon was here to take over
if the commander should become
a battle casualty.
Nixon's Stock 'High'
All this was before an audience
which included many of the high
ranking officials of the Eisen
hower administration as well as
top drawer Democrats who have
declared war on Nixon personal
ly for his bare knuckled use of
the Communist issue in last
year's political campaign. They
hope to drive him out of public
life.
No interpretation of Mr. Ei
senhower's remarks seems pos
sible other than that he deliber
ately chose an occasion when all
hands could be informed that
Nixon's stock was very high at
the White House that he
backed Nixon and his campaign
tactics 100 per cent.
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ORIGINATING IN CIGARETTE, flames light sky at San Rafael, Cal., as old mansion converted
to guest house is destroyed by fire with loss of at least eight lives, injuries to 8. (International)
Last Survivor of
Chief Joseph Band
Dies in Accident
Colfax, Wash. (U.R) The last
known member of Chief Joseph's
fighting band of Nez Perce In
dians died here yesterday of in
juries suffered in an automobile
wreck Thursday night.
She was Minnie Yellow Wolf
Poween of Nespelem, where she
had lived since the Nez Perce
returned" in 1885 from their
eight-year exile in the Oklahoma
Territory. She had suffered in
ternal and other injuries in the
head-on crash which killed Mrs.
Nancy Broncheau.
Mrs. Poween was only six
years old in 1877 when Chief
Joseph defied the United States
cavalry and refused to move his
small band from Oregon's Wal
lowa valley to the Nez Perce
reservation in Idaho. She stayed
with the Nez Perce band as it
fought the Army across corners
of Washington and Oregon,
through Idaho and into Montana.
She was on hand when Chief
Joseph finally surrendered to
Col. Nelson Miles at Bear Moun
tain, Mont., Oct. 5, 1877. The
surrender came after a long Nez
Perce retreat that has become a
classic of military tactics.
Final tribal rites for Mrs.
Poween will be held Wednesday
morning at the Nez Perce ceme
tery near Nespelem. Her body
will be buried only 50 yards
from where Chief Joseph is entombed.
University Student
Has Busy Schedule
Rochester, N. Y. '(U.R) Rob
en re. (Kooin) tsarrett, a senior
at the University of Rochester,
is to put it mildly a busy man.
When he isn't studying or at
tending classes he's apt to be
found digging graves, selling vac
uum cleaners or writing about
college sports for the Rochester
Times-Union. Barrett is working
his way through college and do
ing so well at it that he made
$3,000 last year.
Barrett, who lives at nearby
Pittsford, begins a typical day
at 6:30 a.m., driving after break
fast to the newspaper to drop
off his sports copy. Then he goes
to classes until 1:30 p.m., on to
Pittsford Cemetery to dig a
grave or two, more study, dinner
and house - to - house vacuum
cleaner selling until 10 p.m.
He maintains an average of C
plus.
Foreign Aid Pumped
Info Retarded Areas
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower reported to Congress
today that the United States now
is pumping the bulk of its for
eign aid into economically re
tarded areas, especially Asia, as
the best way to build up the free
world's security and prosperity.
In his semi-annual report on
the mutual security program
covering the last half of 1954,
the President indicated this shift
in emphasis to underdeveloped
countries will continue.
"The underdeveloped coun
tries hold the bulk of the world's
population, occupy the largest
part of its land area, constitute
the major, source of its key min
erals and raw materials, and
contain many of its most valu
able military bases," he said.
Puerto Rico Plot To
Kill Engle Revealed
Washington (U.R) A House
member's projected trip to
Puerto Rico last fall was called
off when the FBI learned three
assassins had been assigned to
kill him, it was disclosed today.
Chairman Clair Engle (D-
Calif.) of the House Interior
Committee disclosed the inci
dent. He said committee mem
bers still plan to visit Puerto
Rico but "not very soon." He im
plied the delay is to let the FBI
make security arrangements.
Puerto Rican Nationalists at
tempted to shoot their way into
Blair House residence of Presi
dent Truman Nov. 1, 1950, and
Nationalists shot up the House
of Representatives chamber
March 1, 1954, and wounded five
congressmen.
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Report on State's
Taxation Problem
Given Committee
Former State Rep. Bob Root,
who returned last week from a
visit to the state legislature at
Salem, discussed the problem of,
state taxation and finance at the
breakfast meeting of the legisla
tive committee of the Jackson
County Chamber of Commerce
ths morning.
Root said that, judging by
present indications, the legisla
ture wil probably act to elimi
nate the "skyscraper clause" ex
empting real estate holding com
panies from corporate excise
taxes, and on other minor items
of taxation, an d will depend
largely on increasing income tax
rates to raise needed state
money.
Other Plans Lacking
There are no present plans
for an increase in real property
taxes, he said, nor is there senti
ment for passing a sales tax. But
the legislature may enact a cig
arette tax, he said.
Root suggested that the legis
lature should initiate a special
study of sales tax legislation, to
work out the best possible for
mula for such a tax, in the event
such a proposal is every brought
to a vote. Oregon has never had
a chance to pass on a really
good, equitable, and well-thought-out
sales tax, Root indi
cated. If this were done, and
such a bill prepared, sales tax
proposals which might be made
in the future would not reflect
the interest of special groups, he
said.
Four Minimum Rales
The committee also went on
record in favor of Senate Bill
121, which proposed to require
all carriers, including railroads,
to have minimum rates set by
the public utilities commissioner,
and voted to oppose House Bill
105, which would remove all
minimum rate requirements.
A wire from the Corvallis
Chamber of Commerce asked
the committee for support for
Senate Bill 356, which would
regulate auction sales through
out the state. The committee
voted in favor of the principle
behind the bill, but voiced ob
jection to some of the phases of
the bill itself.
The committee also voted to
take no action on the national
proposal for a $20 income tax
cut.
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TALENT SCHOOL VACATION
Talent Spring vacation in
the Talent schools will be for
three days, March 16, 17 and
18, according to Superintend
ent Roy B. Parr. A two-day
vacation for the schools was in
correctly announced in a list
ing of vacation dates for other
county schools published Sunday.
Dead line Sunday Classined is at
noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 orevious day.
Rock, Mineral Show
Plans Discussed
By Roxy Ann Club
A number of reservations for
space at the third annual South
ern Oregon Gem and Mineral
show, scheduled to be held in
the Junior High school here
June 18 and 19, have already
been received, it was reported
Friday.
Members of the Roxy Ann
Gem and Mineral club, which is
sponsoring the event, were told
by L. A. Mentzer and L. P.
Crocker, co-chairmen for the
show, that it is anticipated that
practically all the space avail
able in the school gymnasium
will be filled, and that the show
will be of a quality better than
ever before.
Fifty-four members attended
the meeting, which was at the
Girls Community club.
Other Chairmen
Other committee chairmen for
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me snow appointed so tar in
clude Chester Fitch, for the
agate slide show and fluorescent
minerals; Jack Crump, informa
tion and public address system;
W. A. Hastain, grab bags; Trea-
velle Turpin, Indian artifacts
Clark Anderson, advertising and
publicity; Lloyd Smylie, field
trips, and Mrs. George Renaker,
signs.
Crump, who is also chairman
01 me program committee, in
troduced Dr. Paul Olsen of the
Rock market, who showed some
of his new fluorescent minerals
from New Jersey and New
Mexico.
Women members of the club
served home made pies, and sev
eral pies were auctioned for the
benefit of the club treasury.
MedfordSpeakerWins Toasfmasfer Contest
Foster Hibbard, Medford, was
named "outstanding speaker In
the Area 3 speech contest of
Toastmasters International held
at the Medford hotel Saturday
evening. Some 95 Toastmasters
and their wives attended from
Medford, Ashland, Grants Pass,
Klamath" Falls and Yreka.
Hibbard, with the Medford of
fice of J. Henry Helser Co.,
spoke on "The Salt of the
Earth." Second place winner
was Adair Wilson, mayor of
Yreka, speaking on "You and
Your Neighbor."
Other speakers participating
in the contest were, Chet Flory,
Grants Pass "The Bible and To
morrow; Parker Hess, Ashland,
"Juvenile Delinquency," and
Walt Dalois, Klamath Falls,
"Let's Live It Up."
Toastmaster for the evening
master was Carl Francis, Yreka;
and critic was Dave White,
Grants Pass.
Also speaking were Carlton
Abbott, Ashland, Governor of
Area 3, and Al Surrett, Madras,
lieutenant governor for District
7, which includes the 68 Toast
casters clubs throughout Oregon.
Hero's Role Seen
For Sen. McCarthy
Washington U.R) Sen. Karl
E. Mundt (R.-S.D.) predicted to
day that Sen. Joseph R. McCar
thy (R.-Wis.) will emerge as
"sort of a hero, for sticking his
finger into the hornets nest," of
the Army's handling of former
Maj. Irving Peress.
But Mundt said new public
hearings on the case, beginning
tomorrow before the Senate Per
manent Investigation subcom
mittee, probably will produce
no "villain" except Army's red
tape and buck-passing. '
Mundt said the hearings "will
point out what was wrong, rath
er than who was wrong" in the
Army's promotion and honora
ble discharge of the New York
dentist who refused to answer
questions about Communism.
The proportion of women
among all persons at work in
the United States increased from
17 per cent in 1890 to 24 per
cent in 1940 and was close to
30 per cent in 1952.
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