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. f MWHI 11 el& ISSUi SPEED DID THISI Richard St. Jean, 21, of Valley Stream, N. Y. lies on the ground seemingly ignored by the bystanders milling around the wreckage of the auto in which he and two friends were injured. The car rolled over six times before coming to a halt. Richard and his two companions, who were already in an ambulance when "this photo was made, were reported in serious condition. State Representative Discusses Tax Cutting, Capitol Punishment Robert Duncan, state repre sentative from Medford, urged active citizen participation in tax cutting, and elimination of capital punishment while speak ing before the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce round- table Monday noon. This was third and final talk In a series of round-table speech es presented by state legislators on the recent state legislative session. Taxes may not be acutally de creased but the rate of -increase can be slowed. Citizens should decide what state governmental services they want, how much they want to pay for them, then act. Duncan said. Too often the state legislator gets a letter from a constituent demanding certain services. Final paragraph of the i.ime letter will rant at tax in creases which his demands and those of others are helping to bring about, Duncan remarked. Me Sarins People should realize also by shifting services to higher levels tat money Is not being saved. Recent basic shcool support ap propriation is an example. This provides for 54 per cent of the state general fund for education. This may save on local taxes but is merely shifting the money from one pocket to another. This, he pointed out, is the first time that a state legislative .session has directly provided for contribution to basic school support. Similar measures came through initiatives or direct pub lic vote. Study Needed "The key to the whole thing Is a careful study of budgetary requests made by state depart ment heads," Duncan empha sized, waving A 330-page paper bound volume. Both big and little state gov ernment expenditures should be carefully analyzed, he stated. For instanace, Duncan said he learned through research that out-of-state travel expenses list ed by legislators total ?8 million dollars. Through the work of his committee (ways and means) this total expenditure was cut and a substantial saving result ed. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, State Board of Health Administrator, requested an appropriation sim ilar to the schools basic fund to provide more extensive health departments in the poorer coun ties of eastern Oregon. This was turned down, but will probably be put through in the future sessions, Dunean said. Duncan added that later he was sorry he voted against the proposal. Appropriations were passed for much less critical needs. Funds granted for two, more National Guard armories and provision for one more in Salem and Portland is a good example, he said. The state now has more armories than Nation al Guardsmen, he commented. Not Good Idea To provide funds for these services, taxes which are too easily collected are not a good idea, either, Duncan, said. If . the state legislature has large ' sums of money readily available they will react to pressure groups and spend that money. Oregon, he said, has a good income tax program. The sales tax probably would have be come affective this year if the emergency clause measure had gone through. Increase in the corporate excise tax should not keep industry out of Oregon, he said. According to letters re-. 0 f -v.. .V 1 i I ceived from various industry of ficials they were happy they vere not hurt more seriously. Capital Punishment Switching rapidly to capital punishment, Duncan argued that two wrongs do not make a right. Taking a man's life for murder does not restore his victim's life. Also, existing cases prove that jury mistakes have sent many innocent people to their deaths. By referendum in 1958 the people will vote on abolishing capital punishment. If the peo ple remove the death penalty provision in the state constitu tion for first degree murder, a law passed in the recent state legislative session will become effective. This, in effect, strengthens parole laws, Duncan said. No parole would be granted a man convicted of first degree murder, until a written notice has been sent the county in which the prisoner was convicted, and a public hearing held. Further more a man so convicted is never released from parole. He is under constant scrutiny of his parole officer. Fifteen years must be served first. The same law provides that man convicted of second de gree murder be paroled after serving one-third of his sentence. .Presently penalty is life im prisonment with clemency if judge see fit. Capital punishment is not a dcterrant against crime, he stat ed, adding the best deterrant is a swift trial and swift penalty. Douglas Aircraft Reports Earnings Santa Monica, Calif. (in Douglas Aircraft Co. today re ported net earnings of $17,994, 289, equal to $4.86 a share of capital stock outstanding, for the first six months of the fiscal year ended May 31. The company said the net in come was reduced to S16. 674,223 or $4.50 a share by a special charge of $1,320,066 paid under protest by the firm as a renego tiation refund for the 1953 fis cal year. Earnings for the same period last year were $12,820, 637. Basel, Switzerland, though 500 miles from the sea, handles some four million tons of ship cargo each year, the National Geographic Magazine says. George This V-8 also has Radio, Heater, Power Steering, Rear Seat Speaker, Back Up Lamps, Washers, Spotlite and many other accessories. We give new car warrantee, can take trade and arrange financing. , See and Drive This Unit at Courtesy Chevrolet or Call Me at SP 2-8037 or SP 3-5245 Thomas Dewey, Family, Visiting in Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark HP) Thomas E. Dewey, former gov ernor of New York and two time ' Republican presidential candidate, began a visit here today with his wife and son. They planned to stay a few days and then continue on to Norway for a vacation. CP Police Chief Gels Citation for Service in Korea Wallace P. Bowen, Central Point police chief and member of the local Navy reserve unit, has been awarded the presiden tial unit commendation and cita tion from Charles E. Thomas, secretary of the Navy. The presentation was made Monday night by Lt. Cmdr. Richard Knight at a regular re serve meeting. The presidential citation was awarded Bowen for meritorious service during hazardous opera tions against the enemy aggres sor forces in Korea from Oct. 15, 1950 to Nov. 25, 1952. Demolition Team Bowen was a member of the underwater demolition team at tached to the USS Essex, which inflicted extensive .damage and destruction upon "enemy lines of communication, installations, facilities, transportation facili ties and troop concentrations. Bowen holds several distin guished Navy medals, ribbons and citations from .World War II. Among them are the Philip pine Republic presidential unit citation badge, Korean presiden tial unit citation and Navy unit commendation. In 1947 Bowen received a certificate of merit from Dwight L. Green, gover nor of Illinois, for distinguished service in the Navy in World War II. In the early part of World War II, Bowen was an instruc tor in under water demolition in New York City, Liverpool, England, and Pearl Harbor. In the Korean conflict, he was an instructor in the same field in San Diego, Calif., before being assigned to the Korean area. Portlander To Manage Cattle and Horse Show Boise. Idaho IW Walter A. 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