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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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