.SHT MZDfORD fORECON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Trlday, Mtreh 23, 1939
Right To Me for 1 8-Year-0lds May Be Placed on General Election Ballot
Oregon Senate
Puis Decision
Up io Adults
Salem OJ.P.) The adults will
get a chance to decide if the
right to vote should be extended
to 18-year-olds, as recommended
by President Eisenhower, if the
Oregon House approves a pro
posal to place a constitutional
amendment on the ballot reduc
ing the voting minimum age
from 21 to 18.
The Senate voted 21 to 9 just
before adjourning yesterday to
leave it up to those who already
have the vote, at the 1956 gen
eral election, whether Oregon
should let the young folk vote.
Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Salem)
said citizens at 18 now are fully
enough informed of civic affairs
to vote intelligently.
Georgia now lets its citizens ;
start voting when they reach 18. j
The Washington Legislature has j
voted to refer the matter to the
people.
Awareness Shown
Sen. Hatfield said that Presi
dent Eisenhower, as general in
World War II probably came into
contact with more young men
18 to 21 than any American.
AfW becoming thoroughly ac
quainted with their capabilities,
he urged that they be given the
right to vote.
The Salem senator said youth
have demonstrated their aware
ness of civic affairs by the time
they are 18. Under our present
law, he said there was a "citizen
ship lag" between the ages of
18 and 21. Only one of three
high school graduates continue
to college. The other two, who
have studied civic affairs and
become interested in govern
ment, have an intervening pe
riod between their studies and
the time they can vote and lose
a certain amount of interest.
Said Bipartisan Issue
Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D
Milwaukie) said it was a bipar
tisan issue, with both Republi
cans and Democrats in favor
of the proposal.
Sen. Paul Geddes (R-Roseburg)
said youth showed outstanding
intelligence at a hearing held by
the judiciary committee last Sat
urday on the resolution, but the
youths themselves were divided
on the issue. In the only discus
sion against the measure, he said
those 18 to 21, while intelligent,
were impetuous; more interested
in establishing homes than ac
cepting tha responsibilities of
citizenship.
Broader Tax Base for Oregon Included in
Tax Committee's Plan To Balance Books
Salem (U.R) Rep. Loran
Stewart (R.-Cottage Grove) and
his tax committee told the House
and Senate late yesterday how
they propose to balance Ore
gon's books, but they admitted
it was no permanent solution
and the job would have to be
tackled all over again in 1957.
Stewart made a series of fis
cal points in his explanation of
the program:
Paul McNutt Died in
Disappointment After
Yielding To Roosevelt
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington U.R) Paul V.
McNutt died in disappointment
rr.i;ti obscurity well able
to remember
and probably
to regret what
might have
been.
The time of
his eclipse was
mid - evening
of July 18,
1940. The
place: Chicago
Stadium
Lyle C. Wilson where Frank
lin D. Roosevelt had directed
that the Democratic National
Convention assemble to draft
him for a third term.
It was the day and night of
the bitter showdown on Mr.
Roosevelt's determination that
Henry Agard Wallace should be
the next vice-president of the
United States. Just previously
the Republicans in Philadelphia
had nominated Wendell L. Will
kie for president and Sen.
Charles L. McNary of Oregon
for the second spot. Willkie al
most could have been FDR's
selection because the President
knew he could lick him andJ
relished the chore. The men
nominated by the Democrats
were sure to be elected.
Pressure Builds Up
It was a set-up year for Mr.
Roosevelt and for those Demo
crats faithful to him. Of all the
other there came only to Mc
Nutt the chance to upset the
cherished plans of the mightiest
politician of his time. The op
portunity came. McNutt seized
it and let it go.
Nearly a dozen Democratic
aspirants to the vice-presidential
nomination had pulled out of the
contest by the time the conven-
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
u
Hollywood (U.R) The world
still looks black-and-white to
most TV viewers. But color TV
will be nailed
down to stay
Sunday when
NBC opens the
first new color
studio with the
fanfare of one
-'O of TV's biggest
all-star shows.
faWiiMtrmitrJ viewer com-
Aline Mot by plains that the
supercolossal musicals are de
signed for color sets, yet most of
the audience hasn't the $900 to
enjoy the glorious red, blues and
greens.
Some trade experts insist color
isn't sweeping TV and lowering
the prices of sets as fast as ex
pected. First for Color
But NBC indicates color TV
will march on regardless. Next
Sunday the network unveils the
first studio built only for color
TV, a colossus in Burbank equip
ped with an impressive array of
lights and control boards like
the inside of some futuristic
space ship.
The new color studio means
more color TV programs will be
produced in Hollywood, an un
comfortable reminder to the
movie studios over the hills.
The kick-off program, NBC
claims, will be one of the big
gest yet as to the number of ap
pearing stars. The program, "En
tertainment, 1955," will have
Bob Hope representing the
movie business and Dinah
Shore, records. Leontyn Price
will represent opera in a tele
cast from New York while Hel
en Hayes and the play that wins
this year's Antoinette Perry
Award will appear for the
stage. Jimmy Durante will do a
segment representing television.
Other celebrities appearing in
person or via film include Char
leton Heston, movie pioneer
Adolph Zukor, Judy Holliday,
Caesar Romero,. Jimmy Cagney,
Fred MacMurray, Donna Reed
and John Derek.
A salute to radio is conspic
uously absent, but producer
Jack Rayel, who sped her from
New York to master-mind the
program, shrugged that "I
tried."
"Fred Allen was going to do
his 'Allen's Alley from radio
with Dennis Day playing all the
characters," he said as he paused
between hehearsals in the new
color studio." But Day cams
down with pneumonia. He'll be
sick for another two weeks. So
we just had to leave out radio.
We wanted to include the circus
but that didn't work out either."
The biggest headache of pro
ducing a "spectacular", he add
ed, is the problem of which stars
should twinkle the brightest.
"The performers are very
sweet, but their agents'" he
groaned. "Each agent is very
concerned that his client gets the
same billing in the same size
type and has the same amount
of time on the program as the
other stars.
"But once I produced the
'Home' show with 30 women,"
he added after a thought, "and
nothing could be worse than
that!"
Multnomah Moves Fund
For Welfare Payments
Portland U.R) County Com
missioners yesterday authorized
transfer of 589,831 from the
emergency fund to the general
assistance fund to be used to off
set a recent cut in welfare pay
ments. The resolution carried a pro
vision that the State Welfare
Commission furnish matching
funds so general assistance pay
ments can be restored to at least
87 per cent of those made before
the reduction last month. If the
state commission approves the
increased payments would start
in April.
tion got around on July 18 to
picking the man. White House
pressure was too much for them.J
Wallace stayed in as Mr. Roose
velt's choice. Speaker John H
Bankhead was in as the last-
stand, anti-New Deal candidate.
And there was McNutt, who had
been named the year before to
be federal security administra
tor, a maneuver generally re
garded as intended to put the
brakes on the former Indiana
governor's ambition to get the
1940 presidential nomination for
himself.
Gets FDR's Call
On the evening of July 18 it
was still a contest with good
prospects for McNutt over Bank
head and Wallace. Failing that,
the political experts fieured
McNutt could at least split the
New Deal vote and give Bank
head a chance to slip in. A very
large proportion of the delegates
was frantically looking for a
way out of supporting Wallace.
That's the way it was when
McNutt was called away. The
White House was calling. And
from Washington spoke Mr.
Roosevelt in one way or the
other telling McNutt to get out.
What passed between the two
men has never been published.
But it persuaded McNutt.
Very shortly afterwards Mc
Nutt was on the convention plat
form. The hoarse and angry
crowd would not let him speak.
The word already had passed
that "Paul is going to quit" and
they did not want him to do it.
Last Political Say
But he silenced the conven
tion crowd in time and had his
say. And that, politically, was
the last heard of Paul V. Mc
Nutt who had a real chance, if
he could have withstood FDR's
pressure, to be vice-president of
the United States.
Four years later, FDR had to
drop Wallace but not for causes
which could have disqualified
McNutt. So take it from there
McNutt might have been nomi
nated for a second vice-presiden
tial term the one that fell to
Harry S. Truman.
Dairy Cooperative
Against Minimum
Portland (U.R) Directors of
the Dairy Cooperative Associa
tion today announced their op
position to any new state milk
marketing law which would set
minimum producer prices.
A bill providing for a new
milk control administration with
authority to fix producer prices
has been introduced in the Legis
lature. It has the backing of the
Grade A Milk Producers Asso
ciation and several other pro
ducer groups.
However, directors of the co
operative, the state's largest
milk processing and marketing
organization, ,said they believe
provisions of the bill would re
sult in lower prices to producers
than are now being paid.
The
Leathernecks To Get
Purple Heart Award
Washington (U.R)
Marine Corps announced today
that it will award the Purple
Heart to Leathernecks killed or
wounded while carrying out the
corps' traditional duties of pro
tecting American overseas inter
ests in time of peace.
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1. Oregon's tax base should be
broadened to include more of
the one-third of the wage earn
ers who are now paying no in
come tax.
Can't Avoid Increases
2. Budgetary controls can hold
down costs but can never avoid
the increased costs based on in
creasing population and the pub
lic demand for new services.
3. Further study should be
given to the Californiai system
of a combined sales and income
tax whereby the lower income
groups pay . no income tax and
the upper and middle groups pay
both taxes.
Principal interest among leg
islators was in the new income
tax law proposed by Stewart's
committee. He explained that it
would hit the upper income
brackets hardest but would
draw in a few taxpayers who are
now escaping altogether a
broader base in other words.
Special Election
Stewart revealed that his
Postal Pay Raise
Won't Be Retroactive
Washington U.R) The Sen
ate decided today that any pay
raise it approves for postal em
ployees will not be retroactive.
By voice vote, the Senate
agreed to an amendment by Sen.
Harry -F. Byrd (D.-Va.) making a
proposed 10 per cent pay in
crease effective on the first day
after it becomes law instead of
retroactive to Jan. 1. The 10
per cent increase proposal had
carried the retroactive provision.
The administration was threat
ened with defeat in its efforts to
hold postal pay increases to 7.6
per cent.
The administration bill, spon
sored by Sen. Frank Carlson (R.-
committee was considering ur
the first time a piece of legisla
tion that would automatically
call for a special election within
60 days after referral petitions
are filed against any part of the
revenue tax program. Though
the legality of such a plan is
still being investigated, it would
speed the process by which the
voters would decide the state's
fiscal dilemma, if a referendum
succeeds in stalling enactment
of the tax plan.
Chamber Directors
Hear of Gas Ruling
A description of effects of the
recent supreme court decision,
which requires regulation of the
price of natural gas at the well
head, was given to directors of
the Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce yesterday by Hal Ed
wards, of the Standard Oil com
pany here.
Edwards is supporting a bill
which would establish the intent
of congress as not requiring such
regulation.
A committee of the board was
named to prepare a resolution
on the matter for submission at
the next meeting.
Don McNeil, chamber mana
ger, reported that a discussion on
the state tax problem will be
conducted in Grants Pass Satur
day evening, .and that Medford
people are invited to attend.
State . Rep. L o r e n Stewart,
Grants Pass, chairman of the
house tax committee, will lead
the discussion, which will be
taped and broadcast over radio
station KUIN, Grants Pass, and
later over Medford stations.
The average housewife spends
one third to'one half of her work
ing day in the purchase, prepar
ation and care of food and related
Kan.) contains np retroactive pay activities, estimates the Twenti-
for most workers.
eth Century Fund
Fire Fighters To
Sponsor Auto Show
The auto show which will be
presented in connection with
the Pear Blossom festival on
April 23 will be sponsored by
the local unit of the Internation
al Association of Fire Fighters,
in cooperation with the Med
ford Automobile Dealers asso
ciation, it was announced today.
The show will be a part of a
fund-raising program undertak
en by the fire fighters to raise
some $20,000 for the purchase
and equipping of a disaster car
for the Medford area. It is hoped
to net some $1,000 through the
show.
Details are being worked out
by Floyd Courtright, chairman
of the show committee, and will
be announced soon.
It was also reported this
morning that many donations
have been received so far, but
they are "just a drop in the
bucket compared to the $20,000
needed for the project. Individ
uals or organizations wishing to
contribute may send their dona
tions to Fire Fighters, Medford.
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Portland U.R) Portland's
meatcutters will meet in two
groups at the labor temple here
Monday to vote on a "filial"
menagement offer to end a two
month labor dispute.
The management offer was
made yesterday evening at a ne
gotiating session attended by
Federal Mediator Leroy Smith.
Smith, who did not disclose its
terms, said the offer probably
averted a strike for this weekend.
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That's why you see so many new
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why to meet this unprecedented
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all time.
Buick Sales Are Soaring
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