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Wednesday, April 13, 19S3
House Faces Heavy Calendar; 26 Bills Await Passage
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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.
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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.
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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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