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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1956)
Two Highway Bills Given Approval by Interim Committee Salem U P! Two of a dozen proposed bills have been ap proved by the Legislative In terim Committee on Heihways for recommendation to the 1957 Legislature. One bill would extend author ity to the highway department nd state police to stop any ve hicle believed to carry an over size or overweight load. Arrested After Weighing Under present law owners of commercial vehicles carrying such overweight or oversize loads can be arrested only after the vehicle has been weighed in weighing station. The other bill approved by the committee would amend the state's throughway law to give highway engineers the power to place "stop" signs at locations considered appropriate. Committee members adopted a suggestion by Sen. Warren Mc McMinimce of Tillamook, chair man, that the remaining propos ed bills be given further consid eration before being approved or rejected. Chief counsel for the highway department, C. W. Enfield ex plained that the highway com mission operates under two sep arate statutes, one the highway code and the other the through way bill. Enfield suggested that the lat ter should be changed to elimin ate the requirement that no ex pressway could be constructed where there are 10 business es tablishments to each mile. Conforms To Regulations This change, Enfield said, was necessary to conform to federal regulations under the new feder al highway law. One bill to be considered later would transfer complete author ity over Oregon ocean shores to the State Land Board. Authority over the beaches is now divided between this board and the State Highway commission. The highway departrnent pre sented another bill which would I give the commission authority ; to designate highway routes, j Such routes, on most primary j highways, are designated by sta- tute. Grandmother Finds Toothpicks Multiply Muskcpon, Mich. 'U.R3 Four Four years ago, Mrs. Herb Mor ton of Mupkegon had four tooth pick holders and five children. She decided that to bequeath her possessions equally when, she passed on, she must find a fifth holder. Today, Mrs. Morton has five children and 320 tooth pick hold ers. When she found the fitth hold er she found a sixth. Then she considered one holder for each of her 17 grandchildren. But when she found the 17th she found an 18th and so it went. Mrs. Morton admits her fas cination got out of hand, but like a true collector, she has no re grets. Toothpick holders, she finds, have gone the way of the spinning wheel, the back-scratcher and other ancient household items. They have become fair game for the collector, and the field is virtually uncontested. Her sources of supply are an antique shops, auctions, and mail order curio houses. In the sum mer she takes "field trips" through Michigan and Wisconsin, adding to her collection when ever she can. "I figure I have holders for 240-000 toothpicks." she said "It's a shame; I probably would have started my collection much earli er but I never did use toothpicks." LIFE FOR PEN Seoul, Korea tU.R) Republic of Korea Army Lt. Hwang Chang, 25, traded his life for a pen, authorities said today. He dropped dead of a heart attack while chasing a pickpocket who had stolen his fountain pen. Back Stairs: Campaign by Train Hinted By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press While House Writer Washington (U.R) Back stairs at the White House: It may be announced any mo ment, b'lt thus far it has been secret the White House is con sidering the possibility of having President Eisenhower do some of his campaigning this fall by train. Until now, the understanding has been at the White House that the chief executive would con fine virtually all of his reelec tion trips to air travel. Railroad officials, however, say with some authority that they believe that this has been changed. Mr. Eisenhower has used trains relatively little since he lias been in the White House and this has not always been popu lar with the hundreds of thou sands of persons who make their living in the railroad in dustry. Mr. Eisenhower, according to present information, plans no ex tensive railroad campaign trav el, but he may make one or two relatively brief rail trips be tween now and election day and find himself whistle-stopping, after all. Mr. Eisenhower has said all along and said it quite force fully, that he absolutely will not whistle-stop. If he does travel by train this fail, he will not regard it as a whistlestop cam paign, but merely as using an other method of travel to go to the site of a major speech. Na turally if there are crowds along the train route Mr. Eisenhower will greet them in some manner, even if only with a handwave. In his tour last week of Iowa there was seme disappointment in some of the towns through which his motorcade passed without stopping. Sure, the President slowed down, waved and turned on his biggest and best smile, but some of his sup porters who stood for long per iods at road intersections and street sides thought he could have stopped long enough for a brief hello. Mr. Eisenhower's reasoning on this is two-fold. One, he has said all along that he has no inten tion of barnstorming for the presidency as he did in 1952. He dees not think this becomes an J S "riS: - , TL J'r- ' amvm' ill rtffl Ull m r Tuesday, September 23, 1SSS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MINK Portland Woman Dies of Injuries Bend U.R) Mrs. Robert E. Sunday in which her husband Will, 34, of Portland, died here I was killed, last night of injuries she re- Will, a native of The Dalles ceived in a truck-car collision I who was slated to have taken the oath of the Oregon State Bar yesterday, died instantly at the scene of the crash 11 miles north of here on Highway 97. Joint funeral services for the couple will be held at The Dalles. . YOUNG BOOSTER The first official greeter received by President and Mrs. Eisenhower on their arrival at Des Moines, Iowa, is little Martha McCune wearing her Ike dress and unbrella and holding a basket of "Let's Back Ike" buttons. The chief executive continued his personal ity tour of the farm belt, campaigning on the scene of a mammoth agriculture show a day ahead of bis Pmocratic opponent, Adlai Stevenson. incumbent in the White House. His other reason is that if he were to stop at every gathering along the route of a motorcade it would stretch his schedule in terminably. Also he would run the distinct danger of losing his voice if he talked constantly throughout the day. This reasoning obviously is quite logical to the man who has to do all the work. Neverthe less, the loyal supporter with an "I Like Ike" sign who has stood on the street corner of his vil lage for hours does not see the problem in quite the same light. The redecoration of the White House is not without its hazards. Painters recently spent the bet ter part of a week repainting the enormous black iron fence that encircles the White House grounds. Chief victims of the fresh paint on the fence have been tourists who press against the wet bars to snap pictures of the White House. They come away with zebra-like stripes on their faces and clothes. The painters are not too happy about this, themselves. They must go around and touch up the spots rubbed off by the tourists. The painting and other redeco ration work is going on inside the White House, too. Signs post ed at the entrance to the execu tive mansion inform tourists that the White House is closed to the public until Oct. 2. Coal fields in France are only about one-twentieth of the area of those in the state of Illinois. In normal times they produced 40 million tons annually. The Opening Monday, Oct. 1 Of The Rogue Valley's Newest Finance Co. Crater Finance Corp. Locally Owned And Operated In CENTRAL POINT, ORE. 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