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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, April 13, 19S3 House Faces Heavy Calendar; 26 Bills Await Passage ( sss, I 4 " . CBgarette Tax (Expected To Withstand CSefferendEDomi Junior College Assistance OK'd By 40 to 18 Vote Salem (U.R) The House to day faced its heaviest calendar of the session. Twenty-six bills vere on the agenda for final passage, including a mass of ap propriation measures from the Joint Ways and Means Commit tee. The House yesterday approved a bill that would provide state assistance to local school dis tricts who maintain a program of education at tne junior college level. Only school district in the state r.ow in position to benefit from the bill is Bend. It would rrv-Hve a grant of SI 000 olus $100 for each full time student in 'he 'ollce courses. The bill was approved by a vote of 40 to 18 after surviving an attempt by Reo. Joe Rows (D-Independence) to send it to thp education committee by a vote of 45 to 13. It now goes to I the Senate. j Other Schools Possibl ; School districts would be re quired to operate their junior colleges for at least three years before they would be eligible for aid. Rep. Harvey De Ar mond (R-Bend) said the bill would ease pressure for costly buildings at the state's campus schools by providing lower di vision work locally. He said ; there were possibilities that such schools would be established af ter the Bend pattern at Coos Bay. Astoria and Ontario. Cali- f rm 1 Tlrtin Iik. O run V. inr-f itit . tions and Washington 10. Fought Measure The state board of higher edu- a.; e a. f . canon lougni me measure, iear ; ing that $18,500 estimated cost per biennium would be taken from the board's budget. But Rep. Orval Eaton (R-Astoria) told the House that Dr. John Richard, vice chancellor of the state system of higher educa tion, had not opposed the meas , ure in three appearances before a ways and means subcommit tee. Rep. Al Loucks (R - Salem), supporting Rogers' move for re ferral, quoted a letter from Richards claiming that the jun ior college proposal was prema- . ture and should have further study. The House also approved a $246,000 appropriation for equipping the new wing of the state hospital in Salem. Vice-Presidency Urge Denied by HST Kansas City, Mo. '(U.R) For mer President Truman today characterized as "sheer bunk" a . report published in New York ' that he is available for the vice- presidency. The report was carried by the New York Daily News in a copy righted article by Ruth Mont gomery of the News' Washington bureau. The dispatch said life in Inde ; pendence, Mo., "has becomebor ing" to Mr. Truman and that he I would like to return to the Sen late, but since Missouri's sena i tors, Stuart Symington . and Thomas C. Hennings, are Demo- crats, he did not wish to disturb ; party solidarity. : "Mr. Truman has now deter ; mined to solve this problem by seeking the vice-presidency if ; Stevenson is willing to accept jhim as a running mate," the dis , patch said. ' "This is sheer bunk and it is ridiculous," Mr. Truman told 'newsmen. "You can expect to I hear more right on through 1956." SIGNING PAPERS FOR TITLE BOUT, Tony DeMarco (right), world welterweight champ, who won title April 1, hands pen to Carmen Basilio, Syracuse, at New York ceremony. Fight will be held June 10 in Syracuse. Commissioner Julius Helfand is in center. Background, from left are Harry Markson, boxing club official and Promoter Norm Rothschild, Syracuse. (International) Malik's Illness Delays Conference London (U.R) Meetings of the five-nation disarmament conference have been postponed due to the sudden illness of Soviet chief delegate, Jacob Ma :lik, the United Nations announc ed today. : A spokesman at the Russian 'Embassy said Malik was con fined to bed by doctor's orders. ;He said he did not know when Malik could resume his engage ments. He said Malik became ill yesterday. ; Malik, 49, is known to suffer ,-from serious heart trouble, like ;his former chief, the late An--drei Y. Vishinsky, who died of a heart attack in New York. ' Malik was to have presided at today's session the UN spokes man said. The talks have been .going on among the United States, Britain, France, Canada and the Soviet Union for more than six weeks. " First auto traffic death on : record occurred when a car struck and killed a pedestrian in New York City in 1889, ac cording to research by the Na tional Geographic society. Seaman Election Referred to Court San Francisco (U.R) A peti tion to delay proceedings in the National Labor Relations Board certification election among sea men on Pacific Maritime asso ciation ships has been referred to the entire U.S. Supreme Court. The petition was filed by the International Long shoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and the National Union of Marine Cooks & Stewards. They ap pealed the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal which refused to stop the NLRB elec tion. The AFL Seafarers Interna tional Union, accused by the ILWU and NUMCS of racial dis crimination, won the election. The ILWU yesterday filed ob jections to the election with the NLRB, an action which may de lay certification of the SIU as bargaining agent for 6000 sail ors, marine firemen, cooks and stewards. The two unions had asked Su preme Court Justice William O. Douglas for a delay in the elec tion and he notified the ILWU that he was referring the re quest to the entire court. No Polio Occurred In Oregon Tests Portland (U.R) None of the 4,232 Oregon school children vaccinated last year under the Salk polio vaccine tests con tracted the disease, statistics re leased by the University of Michigan showed today. In the "control group" of 20, 602 children included in the Oregon study in Lane, Marion and Multnomah counties, three cases of paralytic polio were re ported in Marion county. How ever, none of these had received the Salk vaccine. No cases with in the study group were report ed in Lane or Multnomah coun ties. The state breakdown on the nationwide study was received today by Dr. Harold Erickson, state health officer. The county breakdown: Lane 9027 under controls; 1776 vaccinated; no polio cases. Multnomah, outside Port land 5544 under controls; 1166 vaccinated; no polio cases. Marion 6031 under controls; 1290 vaccinated; three polio cases but none in the vaccinated group. Dead l(ie Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for Monday;, other days 5:30 previous day. Dozen Towns Named As Refugee Points Portland (U.R) A dozen towns near Portland were named by local civil defense officials today as suitable for assembly points for refugees from threat of enemy bombing. They include Scappoose, Banks, Forest Grove, Newberg, Carlton, Canby, Molalla, Estaca da, Sandy, Brooks, Hood River and a town yet to be selected in Clark county, Wash. Ecuador Fines Fish Boat Owners Quito, Ecuador (U.R) Fines totaling nearly $50,000 have been levied by the Ecuadorean government against the owners of two American fishing boats seized last month for fishing within what Ecuador regards as territorial waters. Economy Minister Federico Intriago announced last night the Arctic Maid would be fined $43,481.20, and the Santa Ana $5,881.10. The ships are owned by a Seattle fishing company and, according to Ecuadorean authorities, were part of a fleet of 15 found fishing off Dead Man's island outside the Gulf of Guayaquil. The Arctic Maid and the San ta Ana were captured by an Ecuudorean naval cutter last March 28 and escorted to Guay aquil. The Arctic Maid was fired on- by the cutter when it sought to escape, according to the au thorities. One American crew man was injured slightly. Intriago said a "great quan tity" of tuna was found in the holds of both vessels. He added that the ships were fishing in Ecuadorean waters without the necessary permits. Ecuador, Peru and Chile main tain their national jurisdiction extends 200 miles eastward. The United States does not recognize the claims. French Troops Maintain Calm in Tense Saigon Saigon, Indochina (U.R) French troops guarding key in stallations maintained calm in this tense Viet Nam capital to day despite threats by a rebel lious sect of ex-river pirates to destroy the city. The Binh Xuyen sect said if Premier Ngo Dinh Diem "wants war he'll have it," but the French kept a safety curtain between the rebellious group and govern ment troops and an expected flareup failed to materialize. Use Tribune Want Ads ARABELLB J ELI.-WILL. SAYS: om my AEH Dessert onusesfast.. SO EASILY. TOO I Prepare 1 package Jell-well Orange-Coconut Tapioca (such a wonderful Hand-Blended Fla vor combination) according to package directions, except use cups milk and cup orange juice instead of 2 cups milk. Cool slightly; stir in 1 tablespoon -grated orange rind. Cool; spoon into serving dishes, garnish with fresh orange sections. Your Taste Can TELL It's JELL-WELL! - Featured at Salem (U.R) A plan to raise $10,000,000 of new revenue for the state with a cigarette tax probably could withstand a ref erendum attack, according to Elmer McClure, master of the Oregon State Grange. McClure told the Senate Tax ation Committee last night the Grange could support a cigarette tax as a luxury tax and one that the public could avoid by giving up the luxury. He said he doubted it would be referred. Labor Opposed Grange support of the ciga rette tax left the farm group at odds with organized labor spokesmen who said last night they still opposed the plan be cause all tax payers should pay the tax bill, not just those who use cigarettes. J. B. McDonald, president of the Oregon Federation of Labor, said that while his organization was opposed to such a tax, it had not threatened to refer it to the voters. McDonald said he "assumed the tobacco people would refer it." Both McDonald and McClure proposed to the committee a 50 per cent increase of tax rate within the bracket of the per sonal income tax structure in Oregon. They said they consid ered that structure one of the fairest in the nation. 25 Granges for Sales Tax They continued their opposi tion to reduction of personal ex emptions from $600 to $500, claiming that such a reduction would touch on the subsistence level of earnings which should be tax free. In reply to a question from Sen. Lowell Steen of Milton Freewater, McClure said the state Grange headquarters had received pro-sales tax resolutions from about 25 subordinate Granges. He said that out of 350 Granges it did not represent a change in past policy against the tax. The Senate Tax Committee was due to continue its study of revenue measures throughout the week, despite the absence of its chairman, Sen. Rudie Wilhelm of Portland. Completion of the committee's work is considered the yardstick that will measure the length of the legislative ses sion. hi ATTENDING GOOD FRIDAY RITES at National Presbyterian Church, President Eisenhower cnats witn tne minister, ur. to ward Elson, before returning to White House. (International) French Painter Seeking Return of Original Work Swine Quarantine Rescinded by State Salem (U.R) 'J. E. Short, state director of agriculture, said today the Oregon quarantine of tne swine disease vesicular exan thema, in effect since September of 1952, has ben rescinded. W. E. s Williams, president of the Portland Union stockyards, said lifting of the quarantine would allow resumption of trading in feeder pigs at the yards. Paris (U.R) The noted artist, Fernand Leger, admitted recent ly that one of his paintings esti mated at $20,000 might have gone to a German art deal er to whom he was under con tract some 40 years ago at a fee of about SI. 5 3 a month. "In 1913 I had a contract with Daniel Kahnweiler, to whom I sold all my works for 500 francs a month," Leger told the United Press. Leger pondered the possibility that a painting, which he claims he never sold or gave away, might have been part of his out put that automatically went to Kohnweiler under their contract. Owned By Swiss Dealer The painting, a huge abstract work entitled "Contrastes de Formes" (Contrasts of Forms), is presently in the possession of a Swiss art dealer. Leger claims the painting is still his, and he has filed a complaint with French police. They are investigating, in an almost hopeless attempt to trace the channels through which the painting reached its present owner. Leger, creator of the murals in the general assembly hall of the United Nations building in New York City, said he never sold or gave away the painting and that it is still his property. "And j'ou don't throw away 7,000,000 francs," he added. "I frankly cannot remember what happened to( this painting except that I am sure it is still mine. Maybe it was included in the works I sold to Kahnweiler under contract. In that case it could have been sold by auction when his belongings were seized by the French state as enemy property during the first World War." But Kahnweiler, who runs one of Paris' best known art galler ies, is inclined to doubt this. "My contract with Leger began on Oct. 25, 1913," he said. "The painting was completed before then, I believe. At least I have no recollection of it having been handed to me by Leger in ac cordance with the terms of his contract." A Swiss art dealer, Siegried Rosengart, exhibited the work at Lucerne. It was through coinci dence that Leger heard about the matter. A Dutch buyer asked him for a very large painting. Leger did one, but on seeing it, the buyer told him he preferred the one he had seen in the Lucerne exhi bition. Leger immediately in structed his lawyer to file a complaint so an investigation could be opehed. Not Confident Inspector Clot is not at all con fident the police investigation will be successful since appar ently the painting passed through several hands in the course of 40 years. . "Even if we tracked it down to a dishonest person who orig inally stole the work this could not be prosecuted because there is a three-year prescription for theft," Clot said. This limit does not apply to a civil complaint, and it would be possible, if police did discover who originally stole the painting, for Leger to be awarded dam ages. But this result is rather remote. In any case, Clot is certain that Rosengart is the painting's present legal owner and that he cannot be forced to return it un less every person concerned in the probably numerous transac tions over 40 years pays back the money involved in each one. 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