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
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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.
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of those in the state of Illinois.
In normal times they produced
40 million tons annually.
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