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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.
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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.
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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.
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