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o 0 O o 1 II III! llllll..llJ.WlfimiJ o o s r s S i LOOKING A BIT SHEEPISH, Bruce Bergum, graduate psychology student at Northwest ern University, Chicago, points to his wavering signature, result of drinking six ounces of whisky for benefit of police officers from 17 states attending traffic institute. (International) Shift in Emphasis in Claim Probe Seen by i rung riter A shift inQmpfts!s 1 the Al Earena mining claim-timber tale cfligtroversy was indicated today ina dispatch from the Oregon Journal's Washington corres pondent, Roulhac Hamilton. Hamilton quoted Sen. WPKerr Sitt (D-N.C), chairman of the congressional committee investi gating t)ematter, as saying he "dotnot thinS" the interior de partment's grant of the patents "is illegal." Hearings on the granting of patents to 15 claims in Jackson county are toiesume in Washing ton early in January. The mat ter figured prominently in the congressional election campaign of 1952. Turn To Assayi Hamilton said: "The statement 'that Scott does not) regard as il legal the granting of the patents by Interior Secretary Douglas McKay and Undersecretary Da vis, former solicitor of the de partment, indicated that the fu ture of the probe may turn on the validity of the assays on which it was determined min eralization of the lands involved was sufficient to justify issu ance of thepatents." He reported that Robert Red wine, chief counsel for the sen ate section of the joint investi gating committee, has gone to Mobile, Ala., where a private company made the assays on .which the patents were based, to look into "a number of un answered questions." Shift in Approach The Journal says that it thus appears the congressional investigators now appear to be preparing an effort to show that there was some thing wrong with the assay re ports on the basis of which the patents were granted rather than attempting to build a case designed to show that McKay and Davis, urged by Congress man Harris Ellsworth, did some thing "illegal." This would mean, Hamilton said in his Page 1 story, that the January hearings would not be To Ask Extension For Portland System Portland (U.R) City Com missioner Nathan Boody said to day he would ask that an exten sion be granted to Portland Traction company to operate its franchise after the Jan. 31 ex piration date if owners go ahead with plans to investigate sale to a locally owned company. Boody said he did not expect any termination of the service at the expiration of the fran chise. He said he had asked the company to issue a statement giving its intention to continue operations beyond that date dur ing pendency of negotiations for possible sale. The city council denied the company's request . for a fran chise renewal two months ago. Dead Una Sunday Classified is at nrtrrncnonft 1 noon aaturcay: iu a.m ivionaay ior COrresponaeni .vOI1(lay. otiier aays 5:30 Drevious day devoted primarily to what Scott has called a story of influence and pressure, of "high level in terference" with the processes of government. Instead, the correspondent said, it would be devoted, cen trally, to the question whether there was a good mineralization sampling of the controversial Jackson county public timber lands, and whether the assay re port was bona fide. Had No Choice He continued: "If the assay re port was bona fide, both sides now seem to agree that McKay and Davis had no choice, under the controlling law, but .to issue the mining patents, even though the applications had been re jected previously. "And Chairman Scott, at least, appears to think that McKay and Davis had a right to assume the genuineness of the assay report in the absence of then-existing information to the contrary since he says that in his opinion there was no question of the le gality of their actions in issuing the mining patents." Hamilton's story concludes, "So ,what has started out to be a big early-session Capitol Hill 'spectacular' next month, may turn out to be merely art investi gation of the technical questions whether: (1) There was a proper mineralization sampling of some 400 acres of public lands, and (2) whether a private metallur gical firm made a correct and valid assay report on the basis of those samples." 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The meetings continued today in Vancouver, Wash., with final changes to be decided on Jan. 10. Commissioners ' discussed a proposal to let the spring salmon season below Bonneville remain from April 30 to May 27, but to elminate the last two weeks of the season upriver from the dam. This, commissioners said, would allow more escapement of fish if the spring freshet failed to ma terialize as it has for the past three years. Five Days Off Fall Season For the fall run, commission ers proposed to cut five days off The Washington zoo has a monkey that has flown twice as high as any man. Together with another macaque monkey, it rode an Aerobee to an altitude of 36 miles before being para chuted down in the rocket's nose section. Both animals recovered in excellent health and spirits. the beginning of the season be low Bonneville to make it run from Sept.. 15 to Dec. 1, instead of from Sept. 10. 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