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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TlHUff
Wednesday, November 6, 1957
State Senate Passes Six Bills;
Supreme Court Ruling Overcome
Salem W Six bills were
passed by the state Senate Tues
day, two of which validated
bonds and tax levies of some 108
districts in the state, overcoming
a decision by the State Supreme
Court on July 3, 1957.
This decision held that two
provisions of the 1939 law auth
orizing formation of zoning.
rural fire and similar districts
were unconstitutional. One pro
vision held invalid by the court
provided for freeholders with
90-day residence the right to
vote.
The two bills corrected these
defects and provided that only
qualified voters with six months
residence will be able to vote.
Pickin' Pears
News and Notes
Frcm Camp White
Br SID HOLLINGSWORTH
Facts and figures relating to
the problem of alcoholism were
presented to a staffQneeting at
the VA Domiciliary Friday after
noon by Gordon Raney, counsel
lor of the Oregon State Alcoholic
Educational committee.
The purpose of the conference
was to establish a liaison with
officials and medical authorities
in dealing with the alcoholic
situation here. Manager E. K.
Ricker introduced the speaker
and Chief of Police Charles
Champlin of Medford was pres
ent. "Let us look at the whole
man and not the obvious," he
stressed in summing up his ap
peal for cooperation with the
state in working out solutions.
Raney offered to set up the
needed state facilities at Camp
White to aid the VA and the
veterans who are confronted
with difficulties that cannot be
reached by AA.
AmongDthe facts cited by the
speaker were these: There are
approximately 32,000 known
alcoholics in the state of Oregon.
The United States with more
than five million alcoholics,
leads the world and has double
the number found in France,
which formerly had the largest
ratio in proportion to population.
At present, 75 per cent of
Raney's work is in the education
al field, in consultation with
school authorities. The other 25
per tftnt of the work is handled
in contact with patients them
selves. Raney emphasized the point,
now accepted by the medical
profession, that alcoholism is an
illness. He distinguished between
those who drink occasionally,
the "heavy drinkers' and the
alcoholic, who is one step be
yond the heavy drinker class.
Thomas J. Andrews, X-ray
technician, has returned from
Portland where he made a spe
cial study of the facilities pro
vided by the veterans adminis
tration to correct hearing disa
0 bilities.
Andrews spent four days visit
ing the Portland hospital, the
Regional office, and the Oregon
Central Hearing Service, which
supplies veterans with a suitable
hearing device after medical
diagnosis is made.
He also received additional
training in the operation of the
station audiograph, designed to
determine hearing loss.
Ernest Hesser, laboratory tech
nician, also visited the Portland
hospital for additional instruc
tion. He continued on to San
Fernando VA hospital, where
he will attend classes this week
in mycology and TB.
Col. James O. Convill, retired,
former city manager of Cor
vallis, stopped over in Medford
en route to Los Angeles to make
a special study of traffic condi
tions for Governor Holmes.
Col. Convill visited his sister,
Mrs. Mary Hines, and came out
to Camp White to see William
Hunter, a veteran and an old
friend. Hunter escorted him
around the station and he ex
pressed pleasure at finding the
men so well taken care of.
Members have been notified
that a Social Security representa
tive will visit the domiciliary
Thursday, Nov. 7, to hold inter
views with those who have ques
tions to settle at this time, and
whose file is available. Appoint
ments, it is announced, are ar
ranged in advance.
Administrator Harvey V. Hig
ley has sent a Veterans Day
message to "fellow employees"
in the Veterans Administration.
It reads:
"As the nation pauses to ob
serve Veterans Day on Nov. 11,
it is gratifying to realize that,
for those of us in the Veterans
Administration, every day of the
year is Veterans Day.
"The dedicated manner in
which you perform your daily
dilties is, I believe, clear evi
dence that you consider your
work at the VA as far more
than a job; lfs a means of serv
ing America's veterans and those
near and dear to them."
There was no opposition to eith
er bill.
Four senators voted against
granting the State Emergency
Board $721,988 to bring the state
emergency fund up to $1,500,
000. They were Sens. Phil Brady
and G. D. Gleason, both of Port
land, and Sen. Monroe Sweet
land, Milwaukie, all Democrats,
and Sen. Warren Gill, Lebanon
Republican.
Winter Welfare Cited
Sen. Alfred Corbett, Portland
Democrat and co-chairman of the
Joint Ways and Means Commit
tee, told the Senate the money
was needed because the emer
gency board allocated $647,000
to the State Board of Control to
allow award of contract for con
struction of the first phase of
the state correctional institu
tion, just east of here.
Both Sens. Sweetland and
Gleason complained that no con
sideration was being given to
the prospective large welfare
load that the state would be re
quired to carry this winter.
"I think this Legislature is re
miss in its duty," Gleason said,
"in not making a thorough study
of the welfare needs that are
certain to come up this winter."
Corbett explained that he had
word from the director of the
State Welfare Commission that,
through administrative changes,
the welfare fund could be in
creased from 72 million dollars
to 80 million dollars and said she
felt the commission could cope
with any situation that might
arise.
The other three bills were
corrective ones. One removed
Lane county's court of domestic
relations out of the judicial dis
trict in Marion county where it
had been inadvertently placed
during the regular session.
Another changed the notarial
fee bill so that $1.50 would be
returned to county clerks by the
secretary of state instead of $1.
The extra 50 cents covers the fee
for recording the commission.
The third bill corrects an in
advertent error in adoption pro
ceedings whereby service by
publication can be made in the
case of a parent whose where
abouts is not known.
CALLS FOR PROTEST
New Delhi (IP) Prof. Lucie
Rodrigues, newly elected leader
of the Goan National Congress,
called Sunday for a satyagrah
(civil disobedience) movement in
Goa in protest against continued
Portuguese rule there. He told
a meeting of Goans here that he
plans to organize 50,000 Goans
for the satyagrah, to carry "the
war . . . into the enemy's camp."
He did not say when them ove
ment would start.
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Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF-
THERE ARE SECTIONS of our great country, points out
Don Boulton of Oklahoma City, where some questionable
old political practices still are in vogue. Boulton was driving
through the sticks one after
noon, for example, when he
came on an old friend sob
bing over a gravestone in
the local cemetery. "How
come you're mourning
now?" he stopped to ask.
"Isn't that your grandfath
er's grave? And hasn't he
been dead over 30 years?"
"Yes sun," agreed the
mourner. "Ah knows how
long he's been dead, but he
done vote three times this
y'ar, an' he dkin' come to
see me oncer
After a long sermon In the chapel, a saddle-sore Dartmouth
soph wrote:
"1 love a finished speaker:
I really, really do.
I don't mean one who's polished.
I do mean one who's through."
O UR. br Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate ,
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Chicago Prof. Ivan H. Kidin, head of the Moscow Institute of
Steel, hinting the Soviets will eventually share their satellite
secrets:
"Even if there were not voluntary information forthcoming,
science secrets, as you know, do not stand alone for long."
Washington Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler,
on the Republicans putting party prestige on the line in New Jer
sey, Virginia and New York City;
"They lost the test."
Kearney, Neb. Reinhold Schmidt of Bakersfield, Calif., claim
ing he was invited to enter a cigar-shaped "space ship" on the
Nebraska prairie:
"They (the occupants) told me to look around but wouldn't
answer my questions about the ship. All they would say is 'tell
the people we're doing no harm.' "
Washington Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson of
Texas, announcing a serious investigation of the U.S. satellite and
missile programs:
"The Russians handed us both a technological defeat and a
propaganda defeat. The limes call for bold leadership by strong
men and a feeble denial of facts of life will not strengthen us."
London Mrs. Nellie McGrail, on winning a tax-free half-million
dollars on a 2-cent soccer pool bet:
"I'm going to give myself and my family a holiday in Norway.
It will be the first vacation I've ever had."
Oregon Jobless
Reaches 39,400
During October
Salem OPI The number of
unemployed in Oregon rose
from 33,200 to 39,400 during Oc
tober despite favorable fall
weather conditions that sent
many lumber workers to work.
The State Unemployment
Compensation Commission re
ported Tuesday that insured un
employment also rose from 16,
314 in September to 20,864 in
October. Initial claims, denot
ing new layoffs, dropped some
what, from 6,895 to 5,288, but
both figures were well above re
cent years.
Portland Has 17,000
A year ago 25,400 jobseekers
were listed and in 1955 the total
was 21,100. Most of the increase
came in the western Oregon fir
country although the metropoli
tan Portland area reported 17
000 looking, for work as com
pared with 14,100 last month and
9,200 a year ago.
Eugene, Lebanon, Corvallis
and Tillamook noted that many
timber workers had returned to
their jobs following layoffs in
recent weeks, because of the dry
fall weather, and deer hunting
season.
Payments to" insured workers
last month were about $2,375,
000, highest October total on
record.
Benefits for the first 10
months of the year have passed
24 million dollars and may reach
30 million dollars to break all
records during the 20 years in
which payments have been
made.
long-Range Solution
Found To Retrieve Skunks
Chicago IIP) Harried police
in suburban Park Forest found
a long-range solution to the over
powering problem of how to re
trieve skunks that fall into win
dow wells and can't get out
They invented "skunk lad
ders" boards with cleats nailed
on them.
Now the police lower a skunk
ladder into the window well and
beat a hasty retreat. The skunk
does the rest.
AUTO ACCIDENT LOSSES
Grand Rapids, Mich. (IP) Fi
nancial losses from auto acci
dents rose 220 per cent in 10
years, according to L. J. Wall
of the Michigan Insurance In
formation Service. Wall said that
from 1947 to 1956 traffic acci
dents caused a paid insured loss
of more than $710,000,000 in
Michigan. The rate of accidents
was up 79 per cent and injuries
rose 77 per cent during the 10
year period, but fatalities climb
ed only 19 per cent, Wall added.
The Pacific is about twice the
area of the Atlantic.
Alabama Only State
Having Official Fish
Montgomery, Ala. (IP) Ala
bama is the only state in the
Union with an official fish. The
state's publicity director, Geof
frey Birt, said the tarpon, fight
ing sport fish found in abund
ance in Mobile bay and the wa
ters of Alabama's gulf coast, has
the honor.
Some of the largest onion
fields in the world are near
Kenton, Ohio.
Queen Pledges Britain
To Seek Disarmament
London (IP) Queen Elizabeth
II pledged the British govern
ment Tuesday to work for world
disarmament so that the advance
of science shall not be "retarded
by the fears of mankind."
Her speech opened the 1957
58 session of Parliament.
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