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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, June 22. 1955 Democrats, GOP Agree on at Least One Thing - Long Weekends Are Really Fine By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington (Special) The highest succees at reaching bi partisan accord between battling Republicans and Democrats in this closely divided 84th Con gress is not in the lofty realm of foreign policy or national' de fense but on how congressmen should be freed from anxiety about their weekends nice, long weekends. The unwritten rule in both House and Senate to which mem bers of both parties adhere with fantastic harmony is that any one of the 435 representatives or 96 senators is free to join the "Thursday to Tuesday Club." That's the unchartered chow- der-and-marching society headed by eastern congressmen who are in Washington, D.C., in midweek between trips home or else where that stretch from Thurs day night to Tuesday morning. The invention of the airplane enhanced the attractiveness of the club to westerners as well. - This doesn't mean that the Congress of the United States is out of action every Friday and Monday at least not utterly. But plans for floor action are usually rigged so as not to em barrass any of the club members who have lengthy weekend en gagements, either personal or political. If the . House meets, for ex ample, on Monday, this incon venient show of legislative labor will usually be preceded the pre vious week by an announcement from Majority Leader John Mc Cormick, who oozes political savoir faire. He will put it like this to his breathless colleagues who have rushed in from the cloakroom with train schedules in hand: "Monday we will take up H.R. 9999, the anti-vivisection bill (groans rise heavily from the chamber at the thought of vot ing on this momentous issue) and there will be two hours gen eral debate. Voting on the bill will be held over until Tuesday." In language a voter might better understand, McCormick would be saying: "Monday a handful of members of the com mittee which handled the anti vivisection bill will read their arguments pro .and con, or simply insert them in the Congressional Record for that day. But don't worry boys, the coast is clear because we won't have any roll calls until Tues day." But from Tuesday through Thursday, the lawmakers really grind out the fresh new statutes. Tuesday, June 7, the House clip ped off 99 bills between noon and 2:33 p.m. that afternoon when it quit for the day. Tues day, June 14, the Senate punch ed out 90 separate bills from noon to 4:43 p.m. Both chambers employed an old device called the unanimous consent calen dar a kind of legislative auto mation. ... Looking at this rate of speed, one can readily understand the good men and true being groggy by Friday and in bad need of rest. Sometimes they reverse the process and labor long and Local Officials Said Doing Good Job With Youths Salem UJ!) Officials on the local level appear to be do ing a good job in preventing commitments to the MacLaren school for boys. Superintendent James Lamb told Oregon district attorneys here yesterday. Lamb said that "actually very few of the boys apprehended for law violations are sent to the school. Instead, the local of ficials find means of handling the situation locally." Lamb said that any juvenile officer has more than saved his salary and expenses if he can prevent just three boys who have violated laws from being sent to MacLaren. . He added that . MacLaren school must help in a recon struction job 'which includes a complete change in a boy's per sonality, behavior and attitude. Records of parolees from MacLaren school are excellent, Lamb said, and the boys now in the school have caused but little community difficulties compared to those in the past. This was the second day of a three-day institute for district attorneys sponsored by the State Department of Justice. , Miss Marjorie McBride, sup erintendent of the Hillscrest School for Girls, said broken homes was the principal cause of delinquent girls sent to that institution. loud to produce one bill, like last Thursday when the House convened at 10 a.m., two hours earlier than usual, and ran until 7:25 that night to complete ac tion on the public works money bill and clear the deck for the long weekend. The Senate, al ways seeking the last word, ran until 7:33 p.m. cleaning up the Commerce Department money bill. . - All this 'high-powered time tabling of the nation's lawmak ing is in the nature of psychoso matic medicine for the politician who sprouts ulcers just think ing about the next election cam paign when Candidate Joe Blow discovers he was absent that Monday the vote was unexpect edly taken on the omnibus pork barrel bill. Now he doesn't have to think about such a fearful possibility. He knows it won't happen. Be cause everybody is a member of the Thursday to Tuesday Club, and the member who would blunder into calling for an un scheduled vote . on Friday or Monday would later gladly swap his case of chills for a dose of poison ivy. In an organization where suc cess is counted by the number of your friends, no one violates the rules. Search Resumed for Bodies in Reservoir Detroit, Ore. (U.R) Search resumed today for two bodies still believed to be in a car which apparently carried four persons to their death at the bottom of Detroit dam reservoir Saturday night. The search was halted by rough water yesterday noon af ter authorities had recovered the bodies of James A. Jennings, 41 -year -old highway worker and his son Leo, 16. State police also located the car 75 feet off shore in 185 feet of water. Still missing are Jennings' 14-year-old son, Richard, and John Wallace, 17. All four were resi dents of Detroit, Ore. The four disappeared Satur day night after leaving for the movies at Mill City. A highway maintenance worker on Monday found a broken guard rail, the license plate from Jennings' car and other auto parts at a point where a 175-foot cliff drops to the reservoir. ATTRACTIVE ATTRACTION Carolfae Peterson and her bunny fill the bill as attrac tions ai the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, Cax., June 24-July 7. As well as exhibits and entertainment features, the fair boasts 12 days of horse racing. Judge East to Take New Office Friday Portland (U.R) Judge Wil liam East of Eugene is scheduled to take office here at 10 a.m. Friday as Oregon's new federal district judge. Judge East succeeds Judge James Alger Fee who has been elevated to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Several speakers are scheduled for the event, including Harold Warner, chief justice of the State Supreme Court; Herbert Ander son, president of the Multnomah County Bar Association; Thomas Tongue, vice-president of the Oregon Bar Association; C. E. Luckey, U. S. attorney for Ore gon and Robert F. Maguire, Ore gon federal court master. Chief Judge Claude McColloch said the Oregon Circuit Judges Association and the Lane County Bar Association also have been asked to furnish speakers. WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Fair ex cept coastal fog; occasional cloudiness extreme north. Solar Batteries Available For $25, But Still Won't Run Any Household Gadgets By ALFRED LEECH UP Staff Corespondent Chicago U.R) The solar bat tery, long a pet of science fic tion writers, has become a com mercial reality. You can buy one for $25. But don't expect the sun-powered gadget to run your electric shaver. The battery hasn't reach ed that stage of development yet. The solar battery, a silicon wafer about the size of a half dollar, was developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories. . It is being produced commercially by Natural Fabricated Products, Inc., of Chicago, under a Bell license. "Actually we're producing the batteries as' prototypes and sell ing them a various industries for experimental purposes," said M. E. Paradise, company president. "We've got ideas on how to improve the battery. Now we want .specific ideas on how and where it can be employed." The little silicon wafer repre sents man's first successful ef fort in converting sunlight di rectly into substantial amounts of electricity. Look To Future In the not-too-distant future, improved versions may be used to power portable beach radios' light meters and perhaps mili tary fied telephones. The. Bell System already is installing the batteries in Geor gia to boost power during day light hours on rural telephone lines. And some scientists believe the day will come when solar energy, converted into elec tricity, will run factories and perform much of the world's work. Fred Pollak, National Fabri cated Products sales manager, put one of the hermetically sealed wafers on the window sill where the sun's rays could strike it. The needle of a milliameter promptly kicked over to regis ter a current of 32 milliamperes. "Not enough to run an elec tric motor," Pollak conceded. "But an engineer was in here the other day : with a wafer wired to a micro-relay and used it to actuate the starter of a 10 horsepower motor." Sample Wafers The company put its sample wafers on the market early this month. Since then it has received more than 500 inquiries from various industries and govern ment agencies. Foreign govern ments, including "India, Austria and several South American countries, have expressed inter est. The company "grows" sugar shaped silicon ingots at its semi conductor plant in suburban Evanston. 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