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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, February 27, 1958 1ILIV3 Director Believes IViiartieting Area By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent . Washington Director Edward Woozley of the bureau of land management indicated to a" con gressional committee last week that he thinks perhaps BLM's marketing area restrictions on O&C lands have outlived their useful ness. Chief Rich ard E. McArdle of the Forest a. Robt smith service weni a step further and told the same committee his agency is study- fall due to their inability to get for national-forest timber, it has ing the feasibility of making sufficient O&C timber in their been increasingly more difficult Sponsor Wants Political Spending Bill To Cover Primary Elections Washington U.R) Sena-, elections" bill, which is nowi drawing up. Johnson and Know- tor Thomas C." Hennings said today he will fight to make any new law governing campaign contributions and spending for federal office cover primaries as well as general elections. The Missouri Democrat charged that a group of Demo cratic and Republican senators from "one party" states appear to be joining forces in an at tempt to rewrite his "honest Labor Plans Record Budget To Support Political Candidates . WashingtondJ.R) COPE fig ures to get increasing political attention in the next nine months as an organization hoping to raise and spend $3,000,000 for labor "supported candidates -in the 1956 campaign. The word stands for Commit tee on Political Education, po litical arm of the AFL-CIO and heir to the separate AFL and CIO political organizations main tained before the labor merger last year. x c a! : i. Senate Republicans already are anxious to turn a bright floodlight on labor political ac tivity in the projected investi gation of "illegal and improper" efforts to influence members of and candidates,for the Senate. At the recent AFL-CIO Coun cil meeting at Miami Fla.y Presi flent George Meany said COPE will have a record budget this year. While he gave no figure, the budget goal is reported in labor circles here to be $3,000, 000. Half of the sum would go to the national organization and half to state and local units. Labor political organizations have regularly sought contribu tions of $1 from each member of Portland Traction Files Court Suit Salem (U.R) The Portland Traction Company has filed suit in Marion county Circuit Court, asking that thie recent decision of Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel ordering the company to provide more adfr quate interurban serviqe be set aside. ' ' The company has two inter urban lines, one to Oregon City and the other to Bellrose. Sev eral months ago the company curtailed service on the two lines and the Marian county court held that the traction company was within its rights in reduc ing service on the lines. ' " Last week Heltzel "ordered the company to reinstate the fuller service. An appeal from the earlier ruling is pending with the Supreme Court. UNMATCHED QUALITY UNBEATABLE PRICE NEW FAST SERVICE Reg. Size or Jumbo 8 EXP ROLL Reprints.. 5 323 EAST timber in each national forest working circle available to all bidders, regardless of the loca tion of their mills. The restrictions imposed upon lumber companies against bid ding outside their own market ing area, particularly on the O&C lands, has led to rising criticism of the marketing area idea. BLM temporarily waived these restrictions in the Smith river drainage area, located in the South Coast marketing area, to open salvage sales there to companies whose mills are out side the area a demand voiced mainly by Lane county mills last fall due to their inability to get sufficient O&C timber in then- pending in the; Senate. He said they want to eliminated . pri maries from the bill's require ment. Aimed at Bi-Partisan Bill " Hennings' statement ap parently was aimed at a bi partisan elections bill which Senate Democratic Leader Lyn don B. Johnson (Tex.) and Re publican Leader William F. Knowland (Calif.) have been affiliated unions in campaign years but have collected from only a fraction of the members. : Several large unions have their own .independent political committees. Two Charges ; GOP critics of union political activity have made two general charges: 1. That the irfoney raised from members is in fact not contributed voluntarily but under coercion, and 2. That dues money from union treasuries has been spent to help political can didates in violation of the Taft Hartley law. Police Throw Book At Subdued Motorist Flint, Mich. (U.R) An en raged motorist subdued Glenn Guerin and held him for police when Guerin hit his car after Already damaging three olh-. ers. : Police charged Guerin with being drunk in a public place, driving without a license, sus picion of felonious 'assault, suspicion of carrying a con cealed weapon, - suspicion of being a fugitive, leaving the scene of a property-damage accident and driving under the inf luence of ; liquor . Sfafe Employees Group To Have Own Building Salem (U.R) James Daniels, executive secretary of the Ore gon State Employees Association, said today the group expects to have its own building, complete with meeting rooms and office space, "within the next year or so." . .; The state - wide organization headquarters . here has about 6,000 members. Its goal is to secure for state employees wage and working conditions compar able to private industry. President of the association is Eugene Schmidt of Astoria.. Record milk production for a fcow during a single year is near ly eight times the national aver age ot 5,500 pounds. ; ' Dead line Sunday Classified . is at noon Saturday: 10 am - Monday for Monday other days 5:30 orevious day 0 MAIN own area.. Original Purposes Woozley and McArdle agreed that marketing areas were not necessary to administer the for ests on sustained-yield basis. But Woozley pointed out one of their original purposes was to main tain the economic stability of communities dependent upon timber. McArdle said that since 1944, when Congress authorized ' the Forest Service to establish sustained-yield units, only five have been set up. Since 1944 "logging conditions have changed considerably. Long hauls today are a common thing . . -. Under present competition land . joined forces behind the idea of an election reform measure in the wake ofthe furor over campaign contribu tions offered during recent con troversy over the natural gas bill. "This reform is needed quite as much in that third of the states which are now under one-party rule as in the other two-thirds," he said. Text Not Made Public Johnston declined to. make public the text of his elections bill, pending consultation with Knowland and other GOP lead ers. Informed sources disclosed, however, that the - measure would: Require that every indivi dual or campaign committee; spending or repeiying more than $100, report full financial parti-' culars to the clerk of the House, the secretary of the Senate and the nearest federal district court. Those agencies - would be re quired to set up facilities for more effective publicity on the reports. , :' .- Permit every individual who files an income tax return to claim up to $100. as a tax-free campaign, contribution, thus stimulating small gifts and de emphasizing the stress on large ones. " Letter Purports Ford Solicited : Campaign Funds Washington (U.R) Senate in vestigators today offered "a. let ter purporting to come from the office of Henry Ford II," as "doc umentation of earlier charges that Ford Motor Co. asked its dealers to contribute to President Eisenhower's 1952 campaign. Chairman A. S. (Mike) Mon roney (D-Okla.) of a Senate Com merce, subcommittee; investigat ing auto industry practices, revealed the letter yesterday. He said it urged Ford dealers to contribute to the GOP cause. Urged Solicitation The letter, which referred to the 1952 campaign, advised the dealer to whom it was addressed to meet with other Ford dealers in his area and arrange to solicit their, campaign contributions, Monroney, said. Monroney did not disclose the name of the dealer nor the city where he is in-business. Monroney said the subcommittee would .investigate to see if the Ford request amounted to "pressure" or "duress." .' Further Probe Seen If the contributions themselves need further scrutiny, he said," the information will be turned over to a special blue-ribbon Senate committee set up last week to investigate lobbying, campaign contributions and pos sible improper ' attempts to in fluence the Senate. -; Monroney's committee earlier had heard Milton Ratner, a for mer Chicago Ford dealer, testify that a fellow dealer told him Ford wanted its Chicago dealers to kick in $50,000 for Mr. Eisen hower's 1952 'campaign. Ratner refused. Portland Man Stabbed To Death in Hotel Room ' Portland (U.R) A 43-year-old man was stabbed to death in a hotel room here last night. The victim was identified as Arlo Rhoten. ' . Held; in connection with the stabbing was Thomas J. Hender son, 52. Police said Rhoten had been stabbed with a pocketknife. Two men and a woman were held as material witnesses. f MARKET 1202 North Riverside OPEN EVERY NIGHTTIL MIDNIGHT to justify the establishment of sustained-yield units because the advantages to the particular com munity or. communities propos ing such units are found to be outweighed by the disadvantages which would result to other com munities which also depend upon timber from the proposed unit," McArdle said. More Stringent Standards '-. He said his agency ' is how considering "m ore stringent standards" for the establishment of such units, and whether "tim ber can contribute more to main tain a healthy, progressive and competitive condition in the for est products industries if the full sustained-yield cutting capacity available in each national forest working circle is made available by the usual competitive pro cedures." Woozley did not spell out his attitude in detail, but said he agreed that lumber economics had changed in the past decade. - "I agree with Mr. McArdle that you don't have to have mar keting areas -to have sustained yield," Woozley told the com mittee. 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