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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1956)
Coon Says Congress Deserves Cre For Achievements During Recent Br BAM COON Republican Congreuman, East ern Oregon Baker Congress deserves both credit and blame this year for what it did and did not do lor the people ol Oregon and the nation. First, let me consider its pos itive achievements. These in cluded a Federal highway con gtruction bill, the soil bank plan. Increased social security bene fits, housing legislation, health research, flood insurance, and Increased railroad retirement benefits. A balanced budget was at tained by the Eisenhower ad ministration for the second traight year, even though gen erous appropriations were made for power, reclamation, flood control, and national forests and parks. Much In Ike's Program Much of the legislation passed by Congress was included in President Eisenhower's program. The Democrats dared not oppose this program too strenuously. It was too sound and popular with the people. In fact, the opposi tion actually boasted of Its sup port of Ike. But the fact remains that the President fared far better when the Republicans controlled the 83rd Congress than he did un der a Democrat majority In the 84th. In the last two years Ike ob tained favorable action on only 48 per cent of 431 specific re quests for legislation, compared to 69 per cent In his first two years. This is solid proof that the President's dynamic program for peace and prosperity will do much better with Republicans In Congress. Many Requests Killed Many of Ike's foremost re quests were killed this year by the Democrat majority. For ex ample, his legislation on civil rights, federal aid to education, postal rates increase and immi gration law revision failed to pass. The civil rights bill was bot tled up in a Senate committee after passage In Jhe House. And the aid to education measure was defeated in the House when the Democrats refused to go along with Ike's plan of aid ac cording to need rather than pop ulation. I voted against the bill in the form it was presented, as did many others. It's obvious that many states do not need Federal help. If they are able to meet their own needs, why should the Federal government spend tax money on them? Supported Highway Bill The bill that I was most happy to see finally passed was the Federal highway construction act. I supported this legislation when it was first presented by Ike to the 83rd Congress. it means that Oregon will receive about $104,000,000 during .the next three years to aid in work on Its primary, secondary and urban highways, and its inter state system. Oregon also was fortunate this year to receive generous ap propriations for public works, reclamation, power, and flood control projects. I testified for many of these appropriations. I am also pleased to report that almost $1 out of every 16 In the public works bill for the entire United States will be spent Young Chinese Girl Kidnaped, Raped San Francisco U.R) A beau tiful young Chinese girl was kid naped, raped, and held prisoner for three hours early Saturday by two men who forced her into a car after she left a fashionable party to get some fresh air. The girl, a 21 - year - old San Francisco State college coed, ar rived home bruised and crying at 5:30 a.m. after the two, who call ed each other "Bob" and "Mike," released her two blocks from her Mission district home. The young dramatics student told police she had stepped out for some fresh air and the two grabbed her and forced her into an old dark-colored coupe, drove around, and finally stopped in Golden Gate park where one of them attacked her. New York Boy Wins Soap Box Derby Title Akron, Ohio (U.PJ Fourteen-year-old Norman Westfall, Roch ester, N.Y., today was the 19th annual Ail-American Soap Box Derby champion and proud pos sessor of a four-year college scholarship. G. Landon Flake, Daytona Beach, Fla., finished second and David Ford, 13, Long Beach, Calif., third in the "photo fin ish" of the classic race for boys at Derby Downs Saturday. They topped 156 entries from all over the nation and several foreign countries. The thousands who attended the annual down hill race jammed every space as the trio crossed the finish line just a couple inches apart. The award for the best de signed derby car went to 12-year-old Robert Booth, Tacoma. on projects entirely In our Sec ond District, or partly in ad joining ones. In regard to my stand on pow er, I would like to clear up some misconceptions. Some of the people who seem to want all Federal power, or no power at all, have tried to give the im pression that I am against Fed eral power. This is not true. I try to take a moderate, sen sible position. I believe that meeting our future power needs as soon as possible without short ages or brownouts is the main objective. Local, public and pri vate utilities should be able to cooperate with the Federal gov ernment to serve our power needs. Political Reasons Seen As for Hells Canyon, the Dem ocrats tried to pass this bill mainly for political reasons, as was admitted by Democrat Na tional Chairman Paul Butler in a letter to party leaders in Con gress. Even if the bill had passed, construction on the dam might not have been started for many years. My stand on this issue has al ways been that the Federal Pow er Commission should decide who should build the dam on the basis of sound engineering data. The decision was made and dit, Blame Session power should be on the line by 1958 without costly Federal ex penditures. Hells Canyon was another ex ample of the Democrats' desper ate efforts to create diversionary issues while ignoring the one most important to the American people. That is, has the Republi can administration done a good overall job in the last four years? . An unprecedented prosperity, peace, and steady progress indi cate that it has. The Democrats were predicting a depression in 1953. They still refuse to look around them and see what has happened in four years. Seottsburg Millworker Believed Dead in Mishap Elkton, Ore., (U.PJ A 28-year-old Seottsburg millworker, Robert Ray Grogg, was presum ed killed late Saturday when his car plunged down a 200-foot embankment into the Umpqua river one mile east of Seottsburg. The car plunged down the cliff onto a group of boulders on the river edge and then into about 10 feet of water. The body was not recovered but eye witnesses said they could see the body float ing from the wrecked car im mediately after the accident. SGT. SARGENT Syracuse, N.Y. UR) John W. Sargent, an Air Force master sergeant, was recently trans fered from the Air Force Reserve Center here where he was ser geant major. Monday, August 13, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THH EE Ex-Game Commissioner, Highway Official Dies Redmond, Ore. (U.PJ Mau rice A. Lynch, former Oregon game commission member and member of the Oregon highway commission, died at a local hos pital Saturday at the age 78. Lynch had been ill for the past three weeks. Lynch was a former member of the state legislature from 1 chutes county, serving in the 1933 session of the legislature. A LITTLE DATED Logan, Utah (U.PJ Police gave Floyd A. Zollinger a ticket for driving with expired license plates. Zollinger was driving a 1909 Model T Ford with-, 1922 Idaho license plates. Freak Road Mishap Kills California Girl Grants Pass U.R) A 14-year-old San Francisco girl was in jured fatally near here late Sat urday when a piece of spring steel fell from a pickup truck and bounced on the highway, then crashed into an oncoming car and knifed through the windshield. Dead was Linda Jean McLean, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McLean. The father told police that he saw the object bounce twice on the highway after it fell from the truck. The chunk of steel, 2V4 inches wide and 17 inches long came through the car windshield, striking the young girl on the chest. The accident occurred about one mile north of here. The girl died Sunday morning from what doctors diagnosed as internal injuries. Buy At Builders Supply 2i QCALtrr BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Tile 727 W. 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