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.
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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. .
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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. The ingots then are
skillfully sliced into thin wafers
to give the proper atomic struc
tures to each slice.
Bell Laboratories'claims that
the efficiency of the battery can
be compared to that of the best
gasoline engines.
Officials of National Fabri
cated Products believe the sili
con material soon may be per
fected to the point where it can
be put on a rooftop 4o form a
big solar battery which conceiv
ably could power all the house
hold gadgets inside the house.
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