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.
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