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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday, March 18, 195S
mendnient to Change
Counting Method
pposed By Douglas
Washington (U.R) Sen. Paul
H. Douglas spoke out Saturday
against a proposed constitutional
amendment to change the meth
od of counting votes in presi
dential elections. He said it
would cost large states and cities
what limited influence they now
have in national politics.
The Illinois Democrat an-
Chinese Peddlers
Of Fish Disappear
San Francisco, - Calif. (U.R)
Modern methods have done away
with a colorful sight in port city
streets throughout California.
Chinese fish peddlers in native
garb once wandered the avenues
of seaside towns with huge bas
kets of fresh fish, caught by the
vendors themselves, slung over
each shoulder. While padding
along his sales "beat," the Ori
ental would cry out at the top
of his lungs: "Sammy, lockcod,
smellit."
This told the initiated that the
merchant was peddling a newly
captured load of salmon, rock
cod and smelt.
: Refrigeration of seafood is one
of the developments that caused
their disappearance. And by
state law a fish salesman now
must keep a careful record of
those products of the sea he
catches himself. If he buys his
fish from another netcaster he
still must enter them into his
personal set of books.
No wonder the peddlers of old
have disappeared.
Buyer of Land Finds
'Gold Mine' in Grave!
Lansford, N. D. (U.R) Lester
Convis bought a quarter-section
of land south of here at an
auction two years ago.
He never suspected that there
was gravel on the land until a
search for gravel was made in
the area for construction of run
ways, roads and other facilities
at the Air Force jet interceptor
base at Minot. ' .
Now Convis is gleaning ap
proximately $1,000 a day from
the pit.
Farmers and other small own
ers control about 57 per cent of
the commercial forest area of
the United States.
ounced in a United Press inter
view his opposition to the pro
posed amendment sponsored by
51 Senators. It would retain
the present formula for assign
ing electoral votes to states but
would allow each state to divide
those votes among the president
ial nominees instead of casting
them on a winner-take-all basis.
Early Debate
The amendment is scheduled
for early debate in the Senate.
Douglas said he would support
a substitute calling for direct
popular election of presidents.
One purpose of the amend
ment is to give weight to min
ority votes in one-party states
such as Republican votes in the
south. Another objective is to
dilute the influence of minority
groups, which may hold a blance
of power in states like New
York, Pennsylvania, California
and Illinois with large electoral
votes.
The Senate approved an
amendment similar to the one
now pending seven years ago but
it died in the House. Douglas
supported it then but has since
changed his mind.
He said the new proposal
proposal . would "diminish the
influence of the large states and
cities."
Present System
Under the present system a
presidential candidate gets the
entire electoral vote of a state
equal to its number of Senators
and House members if he polls
a plurality of the votes in that
state.
The amendment would per
mit each state to choose either
of these methods to divide its
electoral vote:
1. The vote would be split in
nroportion to the popular vote
for presidential candidates.
2. It would be divided so that
two electpral votes would be
cast at the. state at large voted
and the remainder for the pres
idential choice of each congres
sional district.
To be adopted, a constitution
al amendment must be approved
by a two-thirds vote in the House
and Senate and then by the
legislatures of three-fourths of
the states. '
There are 262 Mud lakes, 67
Round lakes, 35 Cranberry lakes,
31 Crooked lakes, 32 Pine lakes,
27 Silver,, lakes and scores of
Black lakes listed in Michigan.
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only dreams ol far away places all day long on the job
but she is directly connected with them in her work in
ban Francisco. She's a supervisor's clerk in worldwide
directory section of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
Co. When confronted with a Tokyo directory (above)
printed in Chinese characters (Japanese use Chinese
characters), Mabel usually has a long-distance conference
with an English-speaking operator in Tokyo.
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Young GOP Leaders
May Slate Nixon
Portland (U.R) Young
Republican leaders held out
hope Saturday that Vice-President
Richard M. Nixon would
be in Eugene to address the
groups state convention, April
13-15. Leaders of the organiza
tion said that several circum
stances had led them to believe
the vice-president might accept
an invitation to address the
greup.
Some federal officials in Port
land were reported to have been
informed that Nixon will be in
Oregon next month, but the re
port was not confirmed.
Also lending to the specula
tion was the fact that State
Young Republican leaders said
the National Speaker's Bureau
was a little on the complacent
side in regard to assigning a
speaker to address the Oregon
meeting.
Leaders said that the entry of
Interior Secretary Douglas Mc
Kay into the Republican pri
mary for nomination for . U.S.
Senator may also be a factor
that would stimulate' Nixon to
visit the state next month.
Auto Crash KilSs 36
Antelope, Not 1
Bend (U.R) When an au
tomobile plowed into a herd of
Antelope east of Millican earlier
this week, 36, not 18, antelope
actually were killed. Wildlife
research personnel, studying the
dead animals, discovered that
18 unborn animals also were
destroyed.
Two adult bucks, ten does
and six short yearlings were
killed when a car struck the
fringe of the herd Wednesday,
careened sideways down the
highway and into the center of
the herd of animals.
Research personnel said the
older does were found to be
carrying twins, which would
have been born in late May.
The younger does would have
mothered one fawn each.
M. W. Wauge, of Bend, driv
er of the car, escaped injury in
the accident which was said to
have been the largest single
slaughter of antelope in recent
history of the central Oregon
area.
Former Stewardess
es .
San Bernardino, Calif. (U.R)
Former airline stewardess Boni
Buehler, 25, has won $265,000
damages for the loss of an arm
and a leg in a speedboat acci
dent at Lake Arrowhead two
years ago.
A jury returned the verdict
Friday after deliberating the
case for 13 hours. The trial of
Miss Buehler's $500,000 damage
suit lasted 18 days.
Defendants included the Los
Angeles Turf club, which owns
the lake in the nearby moun
tains; hotelman Conrad Hilton,
owner of the boat; and Geary
Steffan, former husband of act
ress Jane Powell, who was wa
ter. sRiing behind the boat.
Steffan, who was credited
with saving Miss Buehler's life
by keeping her afloat until help
arrived, was assessed $100, 0QP
of the damage award. .
Miss Buehler charged that
negligence on the part of the
boat owners and operators caus
ed her to fall into the water.
The boat's propellor severed her
arm and leg.
Although only one-fourth of
the United States population live
in the Northeastern states, they
receive nearly half of all lamb
arid mutton shipped. .
IN THE WAKE OF THE WIND Homeowners at Marion, Ind., returned to this scene
of desolation andt ruin to begin the discouraging task of clearing away debris, patch
ing roofs and rebuilding houses. Several persons in these two houses were injured
when the tornado struck. One person in Marion was killed-
Low Bid for Peltort
Dam Is $7,716,905
Portland (U.R) An apparent
low bid of $7,716,905 was sub
mitted by the Guy F. Atkinson
Company of Portland for major
construction work on Portland
General Electric's Pelton dam on
the Deschutes river.
The bid, one of three opened
by PGE here Friday afternoon,
was for construction of an arch
dam, spillway, re-regulating
dam and fish passage facilities.
Other bidders were L. E. Dix
on Company and Arundel Cor
poration with a joint figure of
$7,716,900 and C. H. Montag and
Sons, Inc.; Carl M. Halversoh,
Inc., and Austin Construction
Company bidding jointly at $8,
337,018.40. PGE officials said all three
bids would be reviewed and the
actual low bidder determined
soon.
Construction is to start; 15
days after an award is made.
SMILING broadly, Vice Presi
dent Richard Nixon is happy
to hear President Eisenhower
say he'd like Nixon as 1956
running mate. (International)
During the past 100 years an
estimated 4,000,000,000 tons of
freight has passed through the
Sault Ste Marie locks linking
the Great Lakes.
W. S. Gilbert, who wrote the
lyrics for the Gilbert and Sulli
van light operas, was born in
1836 and died in 1911.
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Boat Renter Learns
Paw Paw, Mich. (U.R) Ed
Wagner, 73, who operates a
serve-yourself boat rental ser-!
vice here, said he has found
most people are honest.
"I've been beat out of only
one or two rental fees during
the last two years," Wagner said
"and I'm sure it wasn't inten
tional. They just forgot to pay.
Because of failing health,
Wagner has been renting boats
to fishermen on the "honor"
system at nearby Cedar Lake
for two years.
A sign at the rear of his gar
age tells fishermen to put $1 in
a slot corresponding with the
number of the boat they are
going to use and to help them
selves to the boat.
New York Qity's annual budg
et is larger than that of almost
any of the states. -1
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The University of Illinois oper
ates a fleet of 38 airplanes for
aviation education and research.
Wisconsin paid bounties on 38,
597 fox, 2,579 wolves and coyotes
and 524 lynx and wildcats in
1954-55. -
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PROUD FATHER Former
President Harry S. Truman
smiles as he announces in
bis Kansas City, Mo., office
that his daughter, Margaret,
will be wed in April to E. C.
Daniel Jr., New York Times
newsman. - -
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