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SIXTEEN MKOFOE 3 (OPEGOIO MAIL TSIBUZ Monday, Juna 24, 19S7 Legislation in Presidential Emergency Truman Started Early To Think About Story Revealed 'Continued from P3 1) inet to the Congress in the event Af'T the fir', S'ftck of arming j the nation was without a Vice President Roo veit, I tried to disaiiss from my mino th omin ou thoughts of a possibi brek d'lum, coun'ing on b: ability to bounce buck from the strains and s'ress of office. AitT Yita. Pre.sid'.-.nt roo.st.-vei. continued to carry on w;'h sustained energy and alertness until suddenly called by dea'h. From the d;iy I iriccceded to the Presidency, I had been think ing about the needs of an act of legislation to provide machin ery to meet the emergency of a President s disability. Shortly after taking office. I considered setting up a commis sion to study the problem and make recommendations. But in the midst of war and during the period of postwar reconstruction we were preoccupied with more immediate and urgent matters. Changa by Statute I therefore chose instead to President. Up to that time the Secretary of State was next in order of succession. I did not think that a Cabinet officer who is not elected by the people should succeed to the Presi dency, which is an elective of fice. The Speaker of the Hou.e who is. in fact, the top-rankins; elected public official, after the President and Vice President, is now, under the new Jaw, next in succession. This, however, does not meet the problem when a President is unable to perform the duties of his office. I suggest, therefore, that the following proposal may provide us with a workable solution: Committee of Seven 1. When a President is strick en with an illness, raising the question of his ability to carry out the duties of his office, there should come into being a corn- recommend to the Congress a i mitlee of seven composed of rep change by statute of succession rescntatives of the three branch to the Presidency from the Cab- es of the Government. This com- The Family Council editor not.: Th. Family CohbciI eonuti of a. u4c. a povcntatrlit, tti-f clercymn. a aew-ipper e.ttor. a wumfn's editor and two writers tarn article la a nummary of an artual report. Trie Family rounrll riort not give advire; it mreiv report oat aroaleau uut bava been dealt with by responsible aceewlea ana) cooaveJors. Sandra . brother's fault. It a all my Donald E. It nont business. of her Sandra Z,. I a n a J.rl of 24 and I'm having a terrible prob lem with my brother, who is three years older. Not long ago I introduced him to a very fiood friend of mine and they started going out together. Gertrude fell for Don like a ton of bricks and I thought he felt pretty much the same. Now Gertrude tells me Don made love to her and she had relations with him, thinking he loved her enough to marry her. But it turns out he doesn't feel that way at all Gertrude is a very lovely girl and I always thought she wai quite prim and strait-laced. I'm sure it is all Don fault. Ger trude is such a terrible state I'm afraid she'll have a nervous breakdown. She comes and cries on my shoulder all the time and asks me to help her. I've told Don he ought to marry her,' but I can t do more than that. Donald E. This "prim and strait - laced " girl practically threw herself at me. If I wanted to seduce anyone, it wouldn't be my sister's best girl friend. But it was practically impossible to say no to Gertrude. I'm not responsible if some girl gets the crazy notion that this is the way to hook me. Besides, the whole thinr is none of Sandra's business. Ger trurie had no right to tell her and Sandra has no right to meddle in my affairs. She has threatened to ta! to our par ents about, it. That would be the end. Does she really think that would get her anywhere? I've gotten disgusted with the way Gertrude has acted and I wouldn't marry her now, no matter who intervened. All I wish is that Sandra would keep her girl friends to herself in the future. The Council: Donald's light and airy attitude is just false bravado. He undoubtedly knows underneath that it is completely inappropriate to the seriousness of this episode. In the first place, he has shocked his sister bv his cond and has betrayed her trust is natural for Sandra to feel some responsibility in the af fair. She never would have made this introduction if she had ex pected such an outcome. Aside from the ' mif.ee should consist of the Vice President, the Chief Justice of the United States, the Speaker of the House, and the majority and minority leaders of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. This committee would select a board of leading medical authorities drawn from top medical schools of the na tion. This medical board, thus chosen, would then make the i necessary examinations, present ' ing its findings to the committee of seven. Should the findings of the medical board indicate that : the President is unable to per form his duties, and that he is. in fact, truly incapacitated and j not merely stricken with a trans i itory illness, then the committee of seven would so inform the j Congress. Congress then would : have the right to act, and by a i two-thirds vote of the full mem bership declare the Vice Presi I dent as President. ! The Vice President, designat ed as President, would thercup ' on serve out the full term of his predecessor. Should the stricken President, thus relieved, experi ence during this term a complete recovery, he would not be en tilled to repossess the office. Meeting of Committee Should the Congress be in ad journment or recess when a President is incapacitated, the Vice President, the Speaker and Chief Justice should call a meet ing of the committee of seven. This committee, after receiving the medical findings, would have authority to call Congress into special session for the purpose of declaring the Vice President as President. 2. When a Vice President suc ceeds to the Presidency and leav es the office of the Vice Presi dent vacant, the last Electoral College should be called into ses sion by the new President for the purpose of selecting and de claring a new Vice President- I would recommend that in every San Francisco If The commander of the submarine Nautilus has revealed the inside c!nrv rf hrtn tl-m alnmtr rinvi-pr. instance where a Vice President ied "vessel was "sunk'' recently succeeds to an unexpired term I H,,rir, t, ff th rli. of a President, the Electoral Col lege be convened to choose a new Vice President. By this procedure I think we would be able to ensure the proper continuance of the func tioning of the Presidency and. at the same time, protect the nation's paramount interests throuph the full exercise of the checks and balances of our free democratic institutions. I suggest procedure along these broad general lines could be enacted into law by statute. If necessary, these provisions could be framed into a Consti tutional Amendment. fornia coast. Reports of the "sinking'' cir culated here recently when the First Fleet paid a visit to San Francisco. But until Sunday, de tails were lacking. Cmdr. William A. Anderson, the youthful skipper of the Nau tilus, told the story to newsmen while escorting them on a tour of the sub. The Nautilus is pay ing a four-day visit to San Fran cisco. "It happened while we were surfaced," he said. "The task force commander asked the Nau tilus to receive a personal pack age to the commanding officei. Weather Bureau Reports 11 was beins SCIU over by heli- . . i copter. "The personal package proved 'Bride and Groom7 TV Show Will Be Broadcast Starting Next Week By WILLIAM EWALD United Press Correspondent New York 'IP "Bride and Groom," a show which operates under the assumption that it's safe to play with matches, waltz es down your NBC-TV aisle next Monday. A veteran of five campaigns on radio and four on TV, "Bride and Groom" will return July 1 on a Monday through Friday ticket to dispense free loot to willing newlyweds and a good cry to mama at home. If its advance mail is any in dication, the show's trendcx should be as high as guests at a wedding reception. Right now. letters are pouring into John Reddy, producer of the program Typhoon Near Luzon Manila IP The Weather Bureau forecasting center re ported Saturday that a typhoon was approaching the -eastern coast of Luzon. The effects of the typhoon would be felt over the eastern coastal areas of Luzon by last night, the Weather Bureau said. A typhoon warning had been issued for Luzon and an advis ory for the Visayas. All ships at sea and aircraft were warned to avoid the path of the strong disturbance. to be a booby-trapped cigar box, which set off a photoflash bulb when the lid was opened. "Inside was a note from the antisub ships that said, 'at last we got you!' " Anderson said the Nautilus went along with the joke and sent back a message saying, "package received, went off as scheduled." Thomas A. Edison's claim to being sole inventor of the inca descent lamp was upheld by the U S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Governor Holmes Says Hells Vote 'Triumph' Washington HP Gov. Rob ert Holmes of Oregon said Sat urday that the Senate vote au thorizing a high federal dam on the Snake river at Hells Canyon was a "great triumph for the northwest congressional delega tion." Holmes sat at the desk of Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.). He is at tending a conference of gover nors in nearby Virginia. Total 1956 value of mineral production in Texas was esti mated by the U. S. Bureau of Mines at S4.300.000.000. at the rate of. a couple of thou sand a week. Free Gifts Galore The writers' objective to offer themselves as candidates for TV's aisle of bliss in ex change for honeymoon trips, re frigerators, silver. cameras, stoves and TV sets. In short just about everything but a free Wasscrman test. "We're looking for interest- i ing people with appealing stor- j ies," said Reddy today. "We ' want to have a happy show ra- thcr than a hard luck one. I "The whole object of the show i is to give girls the kind of big wedding that only a Grace Kelly or a Queen Elizabeth gets in real life." Chosen Ihus far to tie the knot on TV are a passenger from the Mayflower II and his girl who is flying here from Eng land; a couple of Hungarian ref ugees who'll be wed July 4: and Senator Edward Ford and Louise Grase. You may remcm-, ber Ford as a panel member of radio's "Can You Top This." All Over Country - ' Applications for the show have come in from points as scattered as Erie, Pa., San Ma-j too. Calif.; Amite, La., and Mar-: shall, Tex. Among them are a girl in Minnesota who want; to marry her chemistry teacher: two Arthur Murray dance in structors in Champaign, 111.; and twin sisters in Water Park. ' Wash., who wish to marry a pair of brothers. Perhaps the most c.irious plea to arrive in Reddy 's office this month came from a female in Louisville, Ky. She described herself as 36-years-old and 215 pounds heavy. Her plaint: "Find me a man!" a tmraoa or Meant tim et I PACIFIC . INDUSTRIAL 16 S. Central Phon. SP 3-5301 a7 Builders Supply MlDte QUALITY !flj BLOCKS 5 fell Bricks, Flues, 's.atrSSp Drain Tile a.! - W. .MeAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 L,i Check on Prowler Brings Different Job Portland IP Policeman Kenneth Whitman was called moral anslo n to hunt a prowler late Sat- Donald couldn't have used worse i urday but wound Up delivering 1 a mhir instead taste and judgment than to get involved in a casual intimacy with his sister's friend. Donald shows he is aware of this, but tries to defend himself by putting all the blame on I Gertrude. This is every bit as illv ac it ic nn pa 1 in nt Ho Hiri not have to arced- to r.rri nirie's ' Kerns 'nto h's apartment where demands presuming she made Whitman answered a call to "check a prowler" but insead of a prowler he found Orra E. Kerns frantically searching for a telephone to call medical help for his wife. Officer Whitman followed them. As a first step toward re covering a little of his sister's respect, Donald ought at least to acknowledge he has been in the wrong. Sandra should realize, how ever, that her responsibility in the matter is quite limited. 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