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Tuesday, October 30. I9S8 Oregonians Have Seven State Laws to Pass Upon at Next Week's Election IX MZDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Stevenson Says Israel Invasion Gives Lie To 4 Claim by Republicans Boston (U.R. Adlai E. Ste venson charged Monday night that the Israeli invasion of Egypt gives the lie to the Eisenhower administration's claims that "all is weil in the world." He declared the administra tion has not told the "whole truth" in a speech before a crowd of 9,000 in the Mechanic's building. Stevenson headed for Mary land, New Jersey and Pennsyl vania with his campaign cara van today. The Democratic presidential candidate said the developments In the Middle East were "omin ous and confusing." Lm Than Truth "The government in Washing ton has been continuously tell ing us that all is well in the world, that there is peace, that there is as the President an nounced a few days ago good news from the Middle East," Stevenson said. Stevenson said report cf the Israeli invasion of Egypt "con firms" that these reassurances "have been tragically less than the truth." "We've got to be trusted," he said. "We've got to be ready to meet problems, to face them squarely and make the right decisions. Measure No. 1, Tax Authority, Most Controversial Portland (U.R) Oregonians who originated the idea that voters can be legislators have seven state laws to pass on at next week's election. Five of these pieces of legislation were referred to the people for action by the Legislature; one is a re ferendum ordered by a public petition, and the seventh was proposed by a petition circulated at the people's own initiative. Of the seven, none has created quite so much controversy as Ballot Measure No. 1. None of the seven is quite so complicated as that one nor would any of "And how can we. unless we the others have such a far-reach- EXPERIENCE IS ALWAYS THE BEST ' V 'TV ; ' t fs 'j " 1?N Jfl RE-ELECT L. G. "Shy" Morthland- Ke-ep Him On the Job) "Shy" has no interests to serve but the interests of all Jackson County eiti ins, and he serves county widel As the records will show, his work on the Court has been most pro ductive. You can profit by the eight years experience, training, and proven ability "Shy" has gained as County Commissioner. Protect your interest in ef ficient county operation by re-electing L. G. "Shy" Morthland as your county . commissioner. Pd. Pol. Adv. Jacl-son Co. Republican Central Comm. know the facts, unless we know the whole truth about the world in which we live?" he asked. Stevenson said we have been "patted on the head and told that everything's all right" un der the Eisenhower administra tion. "This is dangerous danger ous to our very survival in a troubled world," he said. Fails as Leader Stevenson spoke for 30 min utes over a nationwide television hookup and then talked off-the-cuff to the crowd for about five minutes. He said President Eisenhower "seems to have climbed down from his pedestal and become a politician." "As a campaigning politician there is none better," Steven son said. "It is as a performing politician, as a President who knows how to control his own party, who knows how to grasp the reins of government, that I believe he fails." Stevenson's schedule today was to open with a Baltimore speech at mid-day followed by a talk at Camden, N.J., and two in Philadelphia. His major address will be delivered on the Uni versity of Pennsylvania campus at Philadelphia tonight. Private Atomic Reactor Completed Columbus, Ohio (U.R) Com pletion of the nation's first pri vately owned atomic research center was revealed here today by the Battelle Memorial Insti tute. The center includes a 5770,000 nuclear reactor which uses solid uranium-235 as fuel. Radiation laboratories were finished at the center just a year ago. In February, Battelle completed another laboratory for reactor development. Battelle scientists said the re actor will be operated 24 hours a day, six days a week. It was designed by the institute's own physicists and engineered and built by the American Machine and Foundary Co. fag SeaI-0-Matic Asphalt Shingles . because they ore Self -Sealing JpSf fchksTv Hf'i th Mtrt: TK iiin'i heat afvV ' ' --.fc-' ZN meh th tobi outomaticolly b A liigfjjpp V caus of jpacial ptro Jfe sw'u,,, ennt itrip n K undtntd. J" 'So fear of damage in high winTrv "J wiad can't get under th shinglei. 'H ditional thingle desjg This development of Johns-Manville research is the most important contribution to roofs in the last 20 years. Seal-O-Matics seal themselves down grip the shingles underneath with bulldog tenacity. Cost but little more than ordinary shingles. Your choice of many colors and blends. Come in and see them! BIG PINES LUMBER CO. 6th at Fir St. Phone 2-6251 ing effect on Oregon's govern ment. On the surface, and judging from the ballot title, it sounds simple enough. It would merely authorize state tax laws to take effect immediately. As things stand now, no tax law takes effect immediately. It sits idle for 90 days without force or effect after the Legislature has adjourned. During that time, the voters have a chance to challenge the law by circulating petitions against it. If that happens, and if enough signatures are obtain ed, the law is suspended until it can go on the ballot at the next general election. Then it can be finally approved or rejected. That very thing happened with the cigarette tax measure that is on this year's ballot. Ballot Measure No. 1 would change all that by amending Ore gon's constitution to allow the Legislature to attach an emerg ency clause to tax bills. Legisla tion bearing that clause goes into effect as soon as the governor signs it. Opponents say it would take control of tax policy out of the hands of the voters and that it is the back door approach to a sales tax. They argue that voters of Oregon have proved better judges of money matters than the legislatures of many states. Supporters say approval of the measure would prevent special interest groups as few as 20,- 000 of them from stalling col lection of needed revenue for as long as 18 months. That happen ed in 1951 when trucking in terests successfully held the weight-mile tax in abeyance until voters finally approved it at a general election. The state lost some $2 million while wait ing for the people to act. Sup porters claim that the measure has adequate safe-guards the governor could veto the bill or only the emergency clause; voters could attack such a tax law by initiative, and, they add, legislators are subject to' an ac counting at the polls for tax laws they have passed. Proposition No. 2 would allow the state particularly the State Board of Higher Education to accept gifts of corporation stocks left tc it in wills. Quite a num ber of people would like to bequeath such gifts for support of state schools and they can't understand why the board is pro hibited from accepting them. The fear has been that the state might get mixed up in the business af fairs of private companies. But now the state's hard-pressed col leges and university are more and more loathe to turn down such badly needed gifts and thev are asking voter permission to accept them. ! Once again Oregon voters will j find on their ballots this year a , proposal to levy a cigarette tax. This bill was passed by the Legis lature and signed by the gov ernor but petitions were im I mediately circulated against it I and the whole thing was held up pending this election. ! Oregonians have consistently turned thumbs down on such a tax but the Legislature said it had to have the money to keep the state out of the red. The spark was taken out of that argu jment when the treasury turned i up with a whopping surplus j from income taxes. But propo ; nents still like the tax, saying that, it offers one means of get , ting rid of the hated 45 per cent surtax on incomes. Opponents argue that any tax that hits at only a part of the taxpayers is unfair. Why, they ask, should cigarette smokers be taxed when pipe and cigar smokers go scott free? The tax would raise about 5i million a year. Oregon and Virg inia are now the only states in , the nation that do not collect such a tax. Another measure that has caught the popular interest is the one initiated by voters. The Legislature had nothing to do with it. If approved, it would make the Columbia the only coastal stream in Oregon where commercial fisherman could operate and . it has, naturally enough, attracted the vigorous opposition of those fishermen. The measure would require that salmon and steelhead must be caught by hook and line in any coastal stream south of the Co lumbia. No nets. Backing the measure is nearly Examinations Announced For Federal Service A written examination for college seniors and graduates who wish to enter federal serv ice through its federal service extrance examination will be held Jan. 12, 1957, if applica tions are filed prior to Dec. 27, the civil service commission has announced. Additional information and application forms may be ob tained from the civil service commission in the post office building here. every organized sportsmen's and conservation group in the state. They say it will save salmon for sportsmen and for tourists and they argue that commercial fish ing in the affected streams is not important anyway. They claim that no salmon netter south of the Columbia makes his full living from fishing and that it is a part-time occupation of little significance. They assert, further, that the bill would mean more salmon for everyone by permitting a larger escapement to the sea where commercial trollers could catch them. The commercial people say those sports arguments are based on emotion rather than fact and they plead with voters to leave fishery regulation up to the State Fish Commission.- On these and other pieces of legislation, the voter s-turned-lawmakers will have the final word next Tuesday. Bride Found Dead From Exposure Jackson, Wyo. U.R) Twenty-three-year-old Elizabeth Pallman of Columbus, Ohio, a bride of 10 days, was found dead from expo sure Monday in snow-covered Teton National forest. Her husband, John Pallman, was being treated for shock and frostbite at a Jackson hospital. They left Columbus 10 days ago after their marriage, to hon eymoon in the Jackson Hole area. They first got lost last Wednesday night in a snow storm. Pallman said they got separat ed by accident on Saturday, while trying to find their way back to their car. Bethlehem Steel Negotiations Moved New York 'U.R Negotiators representing Bethlehem Steel Co. and the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Work ers of America moved contract meetings today to Bethlehem's offices. Federal Mediation Commis sioner Sidney S. Shciner re ported "progress is being made" toward an agreement on a con tract to govern 14,000 workers in eight Eastern Seaboard ship yards. He said he would con tinue to mediate the dispute. V Sit ARRIVING IN NEW YORK, three Russian leaders who will observe presidential election by invitation of TJ. S. gov ernment, are greeted by Dr. Allen Little (left), of State De partment. From left: M. I. Rubenstein, economist; V. L. Kudryavtsev, political writer, and Leonid Solovev, trade unions official. (International Soundpkoto) Norman Thomas Calls For Bomb Test End Princeton, N.J. (U.R) Nor man Thomas, six-time candidate for the presidency on the So cialist ticket, Monday called for an end to H-bomb tests. Thomas, who graduated from Princeton University in 1905, said that an end to H-bomb test ing is "a necessary step toward disarmament." "I don't thing people are cog nizant of the fact that if we don't stop, other nations are go ing to join in testing," Thomas told a group of 200 townspeople here. He said that our form of gov ernment "paid little heed" to what "the majority" of scien tists believe. Expulsion Demanded For Soviet UN Member United Nations, N.Y. 4J.R) The United States demanded Monday the expulsion of a mem ber of the Soviet United Nations delegation for his role in help ing a turnabout Russian refuge smuggling his American daugh ter to Europe. The demand was made in a note to Arkady A. Sobolev, So viet permanent delegate, from U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Tanya is the 2'2-year old daughter of Alexei Chwastov. Immigration officers tried to prevent her departure aboard the liner Queen Mary Oct. 3 on the grounds that Tanya is a U.S. citizen and was leaving without an American passport. Both Tanya and her father are now in London. They were prevented from sailing to Rus sia Oct. 12 under a British court order obtained by her mother, Mrs. George Diaczok, of Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Diaczok charged that Tanya was kidnaped. SCRAP LEADS TO SCRAPE Cleveland (U.R) Robert E, Crawford never lets legal pro ceedings stand in the way of business. Monday scheduled to present his defense in his trial for a grocery robbery he was arrested for hauling three ions of material from a transit system yard to sell as scrap. ttf-f ft I Olympian -1 i witn measure: RrT."-, t-f ,V"V. . Like a bracing Autumn evening and a wood JJ lJLJ ff -T3""? , 'T - v; fire's friendly glow, good fellowship and good beer yg flfV J.;,fv) ( In'f t " seem to belong together. That's why so many i i fV.' 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