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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, March 16, 1953
Salem (U.R) No new snorr
was reported on any routes over
night, but the State Highway
Department advised motorists
today to carry chains at Gov
ernment Camp, Timberline, and
Santiam pass.
Bill Liberalizing Libel Laws Passes House by Vote of 32 to 27
Measure Survives
Challenges on
Constitutionality
Salem U.R) A bill to liber
alize state libel laws in favor of
newspapers, periodicals, radio
and television stations passed
the House yesterday with one of
the slimmest majorities accorded
a piece of legislation this ses
sion a vote of 32 to 27 with
one absence.
Rep. Walter Pearson .-Portland)
changed his vote from no
to yes at the end of the roll call.
The move would make it possi
ble for Pearson to move for re
consideration of the measure la
ter if he chooses.
The libel bill would eliminate
the right to collect general dam
ages in cases of inadvertent li
bel. It survived the attacks of
legislators who said it was "in
sidious," "unconstitutional," and
"terrible."
In a debate which started in
the morning session and carried
into the afternoon. Rep. George
Layman (R.-Newberg) told mem
bers that they sat in a legisla
tive. not a judicial body, and
that intricate questions of con
stitutionality should be left to
the courts to decide. He said the
attorney general's opinion that
the bill was constitutional, plus
the majdrity approval of the
House Judiciary committee,
should be the only guides nec
essary for the Legislature.
Layman said the bill, spon
sored by state publishers and
broadcasters was a badly need
ed protection against harass
ment. He pointed out that pub
lishers, who bear the responsi
bility for what is printed in their
publications, do not have full
end final control over that mate
rial. It is in the hands of some
times hundreds of fallible hu
man beings, he said.
"We are considering only in
advertent, accidental , 1 i b e 1,"
Layman said.
Rep. G. D. Gleason (D.-Port
land) said the bill was "terrible"
and that he was surprised that
publishers and broadcasters
would ask for legislation in
volving a denial of civil rights.
Gleason said that those who do
a wrong should pay for it, even
if their mistake was innocent.
He added that the damage to
reputation of an innocent libel
was just as great as from an in
tentional one.
Rep. Leon Davis (R.-Hillsboro)
cited for the House the case of a
Salem newspaper which is be
ing sued for $50,000 in general
damage for a libel that result
ed from a typographical error. A
full retraction was published
immediately, Davis said, but the
case was still taken to the courts.
Layman's bill would eliminate
such actions.
Rep. Alfred Corbett (D-Port-land)
also opposed the bill, as
serting that the present law im
posed a high degree of accuracy,
vigilance and responsibility on
the press, and radio. Passage of
the measure, he said, would en
courage carelessness and reduce
standards.
Daily Weather Report
DATE March 16, 1955 .
Sunset tonight 6:19 p.m. Sunns to
morrow 6:20 a.m.
FORECASTS
Med ford and vicinity: Partly cloudy
tonight and Thursday. Low tonight
25-28: high Thursday 58-60.
Western Oregon: Partly cloudy to
night and Thursday: slowly rising
temperatures. Low tonight 28-38; high
Thursday 52-62. . .
Northern California: Fair tonight
and Thursday except partly cloudy in
extreme north. Local frost in valleys
tonight.
LOCAL DATA
TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday
37: below normal. 10.
Record high this date 80 in 1947.
Record low this date 22 In 1955.
PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid
night, none: Midnight to 10 a.m.. none.
Total this month .19 in.. .68 in below
normal. .
Total since Sept. 1. 6.75 inches; 6.99
Inches below normal.
HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 25;
highest this a.m. 89.
CITY High Low Prec.
Brookings 61 40
Crater Lake . 34 6
Grants Pass 51 26
Klamath Falls . 39 18
MEDFORD 54 24
Portland 48 30
Seattle 49 34
Spokane 41 25
Yakima 52
Eureka 49"
Red Bluff 61
Sacramento 63
San Francisco 61
Los Angeles 64
36
38
40
48
49
Phoenix
Denver .
Chicago
51
15
31
65
47
50
32
54
81
.31
.14
Miami
New York : 49
Washington. D.C 51
.25
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State Senate Adopts Six-Day Work Schedule
Salem (U.R) The Oregon
Senate is going on a six-day
week and hold Saturday sessions
in hopes of winding up the 1955
session before or sometime dur
ing May.
Senators voted in caucus af
ter adjournment yesterday to
start putting in a Saturday shift,
so the committees would more
likely be on hand for Friday af
ternoon and Saturday meetings
than they have been. The House
has customarily adjourned after
the Friday morning session.
Called by Smith
President Elmo S. Smith CR
John Day) called the caucus, and
put the matter squarely up to
the senators: "Let's not kid our
selves. When we adjourn on Fri
day for the week end there is
little committee . work done
either after Friday p.m. ad
journment or. on Saturday." And
Wall Street
New York (U.R) The stock
market added substantially to
yesterday's wide, gains in an
orderly, moderately active ses
sion today.
The market today was helped
by a statement by President Ei
senhower at his news conference
that he regarded stock market
conditions as satisfactory.
Today's closing prices on se
lected stocks:
American T & T 179!i
Anaconda - 52
Chrysler 68s
Curtiss Wright 21
General Electric 50
General Motors 93 7 8
Montgomery Ward 77Vi
Penn. R. R 27?s
Penney, J. C 87
Radio 41 34
Southern Co 20
Southern Pacific 55
S. Oil of Calif 76 Vz
Texas Gulf Sulphur 3974
Transamerica 39Vi
Tri-Continental 26
United Aircraft 78
U. S. Rubber 41
U. S. Steel 77
Youngstown 77
PORTLAND LIVESTOCK
Portland (U.P.j Cattle 350. Good
fed steers S21-22, some higher: util
ity-commercial steers unevenly S13-
20; choice 847 lb. fed heifers S21:
commercial and good heifers $18-20;
canner-cutter cows mostly S9.50-11;
few $11.50; shells down to S7.50 or.be
low; utility cows $12-14: commercial
grades $14.50-15.50; utility-commer
cial bulls $14.50-16: one 2170 lb. Hol
stein bull $18; cutters down to $12.
Calves 50. Good-low choice vealers
$23-26: utility grade down to $14 with
culls down to $9.
Hogs 300. Choice 1-2 butchers 180-
335 lb. $18.50-19; choice 3 lots down
to $18; heavier and lighter weights
mostly $17-17.50: choice 350-550 lb.
sows $14-15.50.
Sheep 100. Choice 88-97 lb. wooled
lambs $22: high choice 98 lb. late
Tuesday $22.25; good-choice 65 lb.
feeder lambs $17.50; choice light
ewes to $9.
PORTLAND PRODUCE
Portland ( U.P.) Eggs To retail
ers: Grade AA large. 52c dor.: A large,
50-51c doz.; AA medium, 50c: A me
dium. 48-49c: A small. 44-45c doz.;
cartons. l-3c additional.
Butter To retailers: AA grade
prints. 66c lb.: cartons, 67c: A prints,
66c: cartons. 67c: B prints. 64c.
Cheese To retailers: A grade Ched
dar, Oregon singles. 421,i-4512; 5-6
lb. loaves. 46,.2-49'ic. Processed
American cheese, 5-lb. loaf. 39Va-41c
lb.
Farm Market
Prices mostly were unchanged to
day.
Poultry, Rabbits
Live Chickens To growers (No. l
quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers, 21, to
4 lbs.. 29c lb.: at farm. 28c lb.: roast
ers, 4 ,2 lbs., 29c lb. f.o.b Portland, 28c
at ranch; Jight hens. 17-I8c: neavy
hens, all wts.. 19-2lc lb.; old roosters,
10-1 lc lb.
Dressed Chickens No. 1 dressed to
retailers: Fryers. New York style. 39-
40c lb.; roasters, 40-41c: hens, light-
type. New York style. 28-29c: cut-up.
41-43c: hens, heavy-type. N.Y. style
32-33c: whole-drawn. 42-46c; fryers.
cut-up. all-weights, 53-57c; whole-
drawn. 47-51c.
Turkeys To retailers. A grade hens
readv to cook. 48-50c: N. Y. dressed.
44c lb.: Beltsville A grade hens, oven
ready to 52c; Beltsville toms. 47c lb.;
A grade toms, oven-ready. 41c lb.
Rabbits (average to growers f.o.b.
killing plants) Live white. 3si-4ii
lbs.. 19-21C up: 5-6 lbs.. 15-17c: color
ed nelts. 4c under: old does. 9-llc lb
a few higher. Fresh dressed fryers
to retailers, 55-58c; cut up. 61-64C
PORTLAND CASH GRAIN
Fortland Prices as reported by the
USDA market news service: wneat.
No. 2 soft white. $79.75 a ton bulk,
prompt delivery f.o.b. Portland. No. 2
white oats. 38 lb. test. Coast delivery
$57.50 ton: Portland delivery. S53-
$53.50; No. 2 Western barley. S53 ton
f.o.b. Portland Coast delivery: soy
bean meal, S89 ton. cars, prompt de
livery. Portland; standard millrun
prompt shipment. S43-43.50 ton. cars,
frompt deliverv Portland: No. 2 yel
ow corn. S66 ton f.o.b. Portland.
Wholesale hay prices: No. 2 green
alfalfa, baled, fob. Portland. $37
trucks. $39 rail. Timothy mixed hay,
$36-38 a ton, f.o.b. rail car. Seattle.
Portland grain exchange: Tuesday's
close: Bid
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most of the major legislation is
still in committee and has yet
to reach the floor of either cham
ber for final action.
Sen. Smith made the persua
sive observation that every extra
day worked now, with commit
tees busy and more floor action
taken, means one less day at the
end of the session.
He expressed some apprehen
sion that bills considered by
many to be "important now,
New Rogue River
Fire Truck Called
For Firs! Alarm
Rogue River Volunteer fire
men at Rogue River used the
city's new American LaFrance
fire truck for the first time
Monday to combat a house fire
which badly damaged the one
story five-room Eugene LeRoy
home, according to William
Peters, police chief and assist
ant fire chief.
The fire was reported about
2 p.m. and "had a good start"
by the time the city firemen
arrived. Also at the fire were
members of the rural fire de
partment with their equipment.
Bedroom furniture and other
furnishings were saved but the
contents of the living room
could not be removed because
of the fire.
'Fine Performance
The city fire truck, which is
mounted on a Ford F750 frame,
pumps 568 gallons of water per
minute and "gave a fine per
formance" on its first call, Peters
explained.
Damage to the LeRoy home
was believed to be covered by
insurance.
About 10:30 a.m. today the
firemen were called on a false
alarm to the same house when
neighbors saw smoke coming
from the home. When the fire
men arrived they found that the
owners had started a super
vised fire to dry the contents.
Bomber Crashes;
Three Men Jump
Florence, S.C. (U.R) A six
jet B-47 Strato-bomber crashed
near here last midnight after
two crew members parachuted
to safety, the Air Force an
nounced. A search was launched
for a missing crew member also
believed to have parachuted.
The Air Force said the plane
was on a routine training flight
from Hunter Air Force Base at
Savannah, Ga., and the two
crewmen bailed out near St.
George, S.C. ,
The plane crashed almost 5Q
miles beyond that point on a
farm five miles north of the
town of North, S.C, the Air
Force at Hunter reported. The
cause of the crash was not de
termined immediately, the Air
Force said.
The Civil Air Patrol at Flor
ence in an earlier report timed
one jump at about 11:40 p.m.
EST and two others in quick
succession several minutes later.
This timing indicated the big
plane traveled unmanned for
nearly 50 miles before it crash
ed, but the Air Force would not
confirm this.
A spokesman indicated that
until the order of the jumps
was definitely established the
Air Force would assume one
man stayed with the plane a
while after the two others
jumped.
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would be buried in the rush to
close the session and get home
once the taxation and ways and
means bills are cleared and sent
to the governor.
Earlier Opening Approved
Sen. John C. F. Merrifield (R
Portland) proposed that the Sat
urday session open at 9 a.m. in
stead of the usual 10 a.m. so
Market Conditions
Seem Satisfactory,
President Asserts
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower told his news con
ference today that stock market
conditions on the whole seem to
be very satisfactory. He coun
seled great caution in undertak
ing any step which might dam
age public confidence in the
economy.
The chief executive said that
as far as he knows, nothing in
the current Senate investigation
of the stock market boom has
Both Drivers Cited
In Vehicle Crash
Both drivers involved in an
accident yesterday afternoon
were cited by state police for
traffic violations, the investigat
ing officer reported.
The vehicles were driven by
Everett Richard Hogue, 48, of
513 Ash st., Central Point, and
Marion Frances Christopher, 29,
route 1, box 390A, Central Point.
Both were traveling south on
Highway 99 north of Medford
when Hogue stopped his car to
make a left turn, and the Chris
topher vehicle struck it from
the rear, the officer reported.
Hogue was cited for failure to
give an arm signal, and Chris
topher was cited for violation of
the basic rule. Damage was
minor and there were no in
juries, it was reported.
Two vehicles were consider
ably damaged but no one was
hurt in another accident at
about 6:25 p.m. on the Crater
Lake highway about a quarter
mile south of Casey State park,
police said. A pickup truck
owned by the Whitelaw Candy
Co., and driven by Phillip Brown
Doddridge, 37, of 796 Forest st.,
Ashland, went out of control as
it rounded a turn in the highway
and sideswiped a car driven by
Joel Edward Walls, 19, Laurel
hurst rd., Trail, officers said.
Both vehicles had to be towed
away.
Ike Maintains Stand
On Alaska Statehood
Washington U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower today main
tained his stand against Alaskan
statehood at present.
He told a news conference
there are national security con
siderations that must be solved
before he could remove his ob
jection to statehood for Alaska.
Food Bulletin Gives
St. Patrick's Menu
New York U.R) The U.S.
Department of Agriculture's
regular food bulletin started out
today like this, begorra:
"Whether it's green or orange
you'll be featuring on your St.
Patrick's day menues . . .
Seventy-two per. cent of all
passengers who travel more than
1000 miles by common carrier
go by plane.
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that floor action on bills could
be cleared and the committees
could get to work earlier. This
suggestion was adopted, and the
senators also agreed to convene
for their p.m. session at 2:30 in
stead of 2 so that committees
meeting at 1 p.m. would have
half an hour more to work on
legislation.
done anything to undermine con
fidence. He added, however, that as a
general proposition in the pro
motion of an expanding economy,
great care should be taken to
avoid doing anything that would
undermine public confidence.
Market Satisfactory
On the whole, he said, the
stock market seems to him to be
very satisfactory.
He interposed spiritedly that
naturally he is concerned about
any drop in the stock market,
but he is equally concerned
about any fall in agricultural
prices or deterioration in any
segment of the economy.
Other economic developments
in Mr. Eisenhower's weekly
meeting with reporters:
He said he has no fears of
what automation would do to
the economic life of America. He
believes strongly that as work
is done with fewer man-hours,
man develops other needs and
thus creates a market for more
work.
Writer Praises Probe
He declined to give his atti
tude toward the proposed guar
anteed annual wages in the auto
mobile industry.
Financial writer J. A. Living
ston praised the committee's in
vestigation today. He said the in
quiry was "pretty good insur
ance against a crash."
Livingston is financial editor
of the Philadelphia Bulletin and
a syndicated columnist. He said
a "clinical re-examination" of
the market was needed.
"We need to be reminded that
bubbles are man-made, and,
therefore, can be , man - pre
vented," he told the committee.
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Seven freshman-year scholar
ships of $300 each have been
awarded to southern Oregon stu
dents by the Elk Lumber Com
pany Scholarship committee, it
was announced today.
Similar scholarships are
awarded each year to students
planning to attend church-supported
schools. The awards an
nounced today are for Willa
mette university, Salem, and
Lewis and Clark college, Port
land. Applications for additional
scholarship awards are still be
ing accepted.
Lewis and Clark scholarship
winners are:
Winners Listed
Barbara Joanne James, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton A.
James, 647 Indiana st., Ashland;
Sydney Kay Sutherland, whose
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
F. Sutherland. 305 North Fourth
st., Jacksonville, and Miss Zon
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The W i 1 1 a m ette university
winners are:
Stanley Palmer Culy. son of
Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Culy, 21
Washington st., Medford; Ed
ward Everett Manley, son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. T. Manley. 416 King
st., Medford; Mary Matherine
White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. H. White, 3654 Pacific High
way South, Medford, and Bar
bara Patricia Roach, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Roach,
350 Delta Waters rd., Medford.
Truck Overturns,
None Reported Hurt
A Ford pickup truck register
ed to Robert M. Kuhl, Ashland,
was reported to have overturn
ed in a ditch near the intersec
tion of Ross lane and Sage rd. at
about 7:15 p.m. yesterday.
Medford Ambulance service
was called by someone who did
not identify himself, and ambu
lance attendants called the state
police.
When the ambulance and po
lice officers arrived, no one was
around the overturned pickup,
and police assumed that no one
was injured. Medford hospitals
have no record of treating any
one involved in such an accident.
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Mexico Big Headache
Mexico City U.R) A little
toothache gave Mexico a big
headache recently.
Arturo Medina Salinas told
police Tuesday he stole 10 feet
of cable wire and sold it for $5
to buy medicine for his moth
er's aching tooth.
The cable was the property of
Radiomax, part of the govern
ment's communications facili
ties. Radio-cable communications
with the rest of the world were
out for 12 hours until the break
could be located and repaired.
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