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y..x ' 'A 9f - A"- f .2 :X MTOrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. May 22. 1955 Election Laws in Britain Would Bewilder Politicians of America By LYLE C. WILSON United PrM Correspondent Washington (U.PJ The Brit hh will hold a general parlia mentary election this week under the I strictest kind would be wilder an hon est American politician and almost surely entrap a crook. British So- clalists im Lyie v. wion posed the present election laws in two Representation of the People Acts passed in 1948 and 1949 But Conservatives and Liberals equally have accepted campaign restrictions which would make the going hard for almost any American seeking almost any public office, honest though he be. The Socialist Idea was to limit or abolish any campaign advantage a rich man might have over a poor man. They enacted rules to limit spending, and they are enforced. Use of automobiles to haul voters to and from the polls Is limited and "treating" by a candidate positively is forbidden. No cam paign cigars. It isn't against the rules to kiss babies. But don't lend a voter money if you plan to run for office in the British Isles. No Automobile Lifts Even a small loan to voter made in good faith .would be sufficient to disqualify a candi date if, by chance, a national election were called within six months after the loan -was made, Your British neighbor may take members of his household to the polling place in the family auto mobile. But he must not offer you a lift, nor any other person Jury Finds Eugene Lumberman Guilty Eugene U.R) A Lane county circuit court jury Friday found Eugene Lumberman Rich ard Bailey guilty of a charge of conspiring to obtain money un der false pretenses. The jury of seven women and five men deliberated less than an hour before returning the guilty verdict. Sentence will be pro nounced Monday. The state accused Bailey of conspiring with his brother, Al fred Bailey to forge bills of la ding to qualify for loans of $260, 000 which were not repaid. Al fred Bailey pleaded guilty to the charge and turned state's evi dence against his brother both at the present trial and at an earlier one at which the jury was deadlocked. Lamar Tooze, attorney for Bailey indicated he would file an appeal from the verdict. Accidental Gunshot ills Astoria Man Astoria, Ore. (U.R) Ca r 1 C. Kenwisher, 35, was fatally wounded at 9:20 p.m. Friday when a rifle his wife was clean ing discharged. ' His wife, Norma about 32, told state police she had been clean ing a .30 caliber rifle at their home in the community of John Day, 10 miles east of here, when the gun accidentally went off, striking him in the chest. Kenwisher was rushed to Col umbia hospital in Astoria, but died five minutes after arrival, at 10:15 p.m. Mrs. Kenwisher was not held. who is not of his household. The candidate's campaign manager may register before polling .day a limited number of automobiles to transport voters. The number is limited in a city constituency to one car for every 2,500 registered voters. It is one car for 1,500 in a country district. And if a car breaks down on polling day, it may not be replaced. One of the penalties for break ing some of these campaign and election day rules is disqualica- tion of the candidate if he is elected and punishment for his campaign manager, or agent. Agent Responsible The agent is responsible for seeing that the campaign and election rules are observed by his candidate. The person he manages and gets elected to the House of Commons probably will need outside work to sup port his family. The salary is $2,800 a year with $5.60 daily added for each day Commons is in session. That usually brings it to around $3,500 before taxes With its 1955 .pay hike, the Upited States Congress now pays its members $22,500 a year, The British agent does not make anything like that sum, but he usually does better than his client after a course in election law and obtaining a certificate of proficiency. The candidate may spend $280 of his personal Grange Shady Cot Grange The Shady Cove Grange will meet Wednesday, May 25.-A pot- luck dinner will be served at 7 p.m. Ladies are asked to bring a main dish and salad or dessert, also their own table service. For the lecture hour everyone is requested to bring something of interest and be prepared to tell its history. Lake Creek Grange A bedspread was presented to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sowell from the Grange membership. Mrs. Sowell is a member of our Grange, the former Mrs. Grace Marshall of Brownsboro, Ore. They are at present .living at Cave Junction. Murray Bartling reported that the Teenage Club of Eagle Point was happy to receive our juke box for their use in the. hall. None of our members will be able to attend the State Grange meeting at Klamath Falls in June. Murray Bartling, recreation committee, announced that a square dance party will be held on May 28. Lecturer Eunice Pech read two original poems composed by her grandfather, George B. Brown. The poems tell about the early history of Brownsboro. The Brownsboro area was named for Mr. Brown's father, Henry Brown, who came here and set tled in 1854. Next Grange meeting will be June 9 at 8:30 p.m. Seven per cent of the fatal accidents in 1953 in which a driver violation of the law was involved were due to one or more drivers failing to yield the right of way. Sams Valley Grange The Upper Rogue Grange will be guests of the Sams Valley Grange on Tuesday, May 24. Ralph James, master of the Sams Valley Grange, requests that all Sams Valley Grangers turn out and give the visiting Grangers a warm welcome. A good program is planned. Each Sams Valley Grange family is requested to bring sandwiches and cookies, one dozen of each. The meeting will be at the Sams Valley Grange hall at 8 p.m. Phoenix Grange Mothers are especially urged to be present at the May 24 meet ing as the program, with Mark Norton in charge is in honor of Mothers and. the theme will be "Your Mother and Mine." Merle Simmons, chairman of the refreshment committee prom ises a surprise. FURNITURE MOVING PADDED VAN Dependable Service Rates Reasonable rsrj L FURNITURE MOVING muya FURNITURE STORAGE - CONCRETE BUILDING -DRY & CLEAN "A Safe Place for Your Household Goods" F. E. SAMSON CO., Inc. "ANYWHERE FOR HIRE" Furniture Moving Furniture Storage funds on his personal camDaien expenses. The agent is limited to spending between $1,600 and 51,800, depending on the con stituency and that is all. His man is disqualified if he spends more than that. Sturdy protection of the voter and assurance that his vote will be counted remain entrenrhed in British election laws and tradi tion. They tolerate no nonsense around the polling places. It has been a long, lone time since anv British ballot boxes have been tampered with or stolen, es pecially in or from official premises, all of which has hap pened m the United States more recently. Non-Farm Work in State Above Level For April of 1954 Salem U.R) Seasonal in creases in employment last month were held to 7800 by the backward spring but the 448.900 non-farm jobs reported by Ore gon tirms was 4600 higher than last year. Gains in lumbering, construe tion, service and governmental lines more than offset losses in ship repairing and paper pro ducts, the state Unemployment Compensation commission said Saturday. It made its estimates in co-operation with the U. S Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sixth Successive Month This marks the sixth succes sive month in which year - ago figures have been exceeded. About 3000 logging and saw mill workers returned to work during April, bringing the total engaged in wood products to 78,200, nearly 2,000 .higher than last year. Construction showed smaller gains over 1954 but would have increased more if most of the 4,000 workers at The Dalles dam site had not been 'counted on the Washington side of the river. More Employees State and local governments reported 3,000 more employees than last year, bringing the total for all public agencies to 75,000. leachers accounted for nearly half of the increase. Trade and service also hired more help, mainly because of the Easter pickup. Completion of ship contracts brought a drop of 800 in trans portation equipment jobs. A paper mill labor dispute kept out about 200 workers. Canning and preserving plants also were slow er to pick up momentum than a year ago. Lesser losses as com pared with 1954 were noted in textiles, metals, furniture manu facturing, transportion and util ities. Klamath Court Jails Two in Beating Case Klamath Falls (U.R) Perry Chocktoot, 23, and his wife, Julia, 18, have been sentenced to Oregon State Prison to serve terms for the beating and rob bery of 90-year-old Roscie .Watch of the Klamath Tribe. Chocktoot pleaded guilty in Circuit Judge David R. Vanden berg's court to robbery with force and violence and was sen tenced to two years on a charge of larceny. A boy, 15, and a girl, 14, ac complices of the Chocktoots, were sentenced to indetermin ate terms in state correctional institutions. Guard Plane Crashes; One Man Found Dead Seattle, Wash. (U.R) An Air National Guard L-19 observation plane crashed in Blewett Pass in Washington's Cascade Moun tains Saturday and one body was found in the wreckage, the Civil Aeronauticl Administration here reported. There was no information on the base from which the plane took off nor whether the plane had carried more than one man. Identity of the dead man was not known. Twenty-three States and the District of Columbia impose the death penalty by electrocution. . t n Be Choosy Buy Jacuzxi Vs H.P. Deep SftQOO Well Pump 70 i3 H.P. Shal- $0150 low Well Pump 7 I WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS Siskiyou Hdwe. RDWARE 225 W. MAIN SPEEDING FROM ALASKA to Chicago by plane, Mrs. Audrey Crowell Day, 21, pediatric nurse, lqarns at University of Illinois Research Hospital that her baby daughter has an inoperable liver cancer, is likely to die within nine months.. Her husband is a seaman aboard Coast Guard cutter Heather. (International) Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood (U.R) How to stay a comedy team for 50 years: Don't be jeaous, don't try for in dividual glory and argue. This recipe comes cour tesy Smith and Dale, the oldest comedy team in the country. Such new- Aline Mosby fangled ' duos as Abbott and Costello and Mar tin and Lewis have had differ ences. Harrigan and Hart, the famed team of the Gay '90s, broke up and even Weber and Fields split. But Joe Smith, 71, and Charlie Dale, 73, and their Avon Com edy Four still draw crowds with "Mammy," a neat soft shoe and their famed "Doctor Kronkite" routine at a little nitery, Billy Gray's Band Box, in the cinema city. No Jealousy "A comedy team should not be jealous of each other," is Smith's explanation of their half-century partnership. "If one gets more laughs than the other, so much the better. We don't work as individuals or try for individual glory. We've been offered separate jobs but never took them. We know we work better as a team." However, after talking to the famed vaudeville team I think it's not merely amazing but miraculous they've stuck to gether. "I do all the talking for us," barked Smith, waving aside Dale, as they sat down at my table between shows. Dale sat silently while his partner rambled through a de tailed account of their years to gether from their 1898 meet ing when they ran into each other on bicycles to the middle name of the judge who once heard a suit they brought over billing, and what he ate for breakfast. County 4-H Agent Earns Scholarship Glenn Klein, Jackson county 4-H club agent, has been awarded a Sears Roebuck Foundation scholarship to attend summer school, it was announced today. The scholarship is for the "Hu man Development Workshop" for educators at Cornell univer sity, Ithaca, N. Y., July 5 to Aug. 13. The workshop is devoted to the development of an under standing of human relations and personal development of people in different age groups. Scholarships are awarded an nually to one or two agents in each state to attend the work shop. In addition to Klein, An thol Riney, club agent in Marion county at Salem, will attend the summer session representing Oregon. Arlington National cemetery in Virginia is under the juris diction of the Department of the Army. Youngster$ Compete in John Day Rodeo John Day U.R) Young sters here were to compete over the week end for cash, equip ment and trophies in the seventh annual Eastern Oregon Juvenile rodeo, sponsored by the Grant County Stockgrowers associa tion. Charlotte Carter, Long Creek, was chosen rodeo queen, and reigned over contests, parades, a Saturday night dance and a Sun day morning horse show. EE Each time Dale tried to cor rect an incident in the long tale, j Smith said, "Now . look here, ' don't interrupt. I'm trying to do this in order!" ' Dale pushed Smith's glass to the middle of the table, whis pering, "I know him. He'll tip it over." Smith eventually did,, and his partner sighed gently, "See?" At any rate, the boys were vaudeville and Broadways Stars with Al Jolson, Nora Bayes and other greats of the day. They in troduced such tunes as "School Days." Recently they appeared on the Ed Sullivan and Milton Berle TV shows. At the Band Box customers including Dan Dailey and Edward G. Robinson flock to see the nostalgic act. "We do argue," admitted Smith, "but only about gags. I think we get along because we're opposite types." ' Dale finally got in a word: "We'd feel lonesome without each other. We use the same grease-paint and insist on the same dressing room. "Why, we even will share the same burial plot in Woodlawn, N. Y." he said. Two Motors Reported Stolen Near River Two outboard motors with a total valuation of some $500 have been reported stolen, according to state police. One was a $200 five horse power motor owned by James Wilson Noell, Normandy, Mo., who was staying at the Happy days motel near Rogue River, and the other was a $300 25 horsepower motor owned by Sid ney Rudolph Sieger, route 1, box 178, Grants Pass. Officers were told that some one took the boats with the mo tors attached from a dock on the south bank of the river, crossed the river, and made off with the motors up the north bank of the river to the road. The theft re port was made Friday morning. STAINING, PEELING, CRACKING on Stucco and Masonry Homes Stt Iht Aflw 4 yW wath.f. Com n twlct o fail I Y. W, or oof p" ' rak,- wKn you vn SPUED Glido-Ofl. Revolutionary New Vinyl Paint Lets Surface Breathe, Resists Alkali Glide-On can be brushed, rolled or sprayed. Dries in minutes to a beautiful, durable suede like finish. Simple hosing removes dirt, rain water streaks, etc Clean brush or roller In seconds with wafer. 12 modern Western colors, olus White. 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