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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1959)
53rd Year Medford Price 10 Cents Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1959 12 Pages Most Congressional Mail Brings Prompt, Official-Looking Answer Washineton-UPD-Rep. Wal ter Norblad (R-Ore.) has re ceived a letter from a consti tuent who asks him to spon sor a congressional investiga tion of the Constitution. "It's unconstitutional," this voter says of the Constitution. Congressional mail this year as usual is pouring in by the truckload and fortunately not 11 of it is that hard to answer. There are only 10,000 or so people working for Congress, including the 534 members, and there wouldn't be time to think up replies. Mostly a letter to a House member or senator prompts an official looking answer, bearing the congressman's sig nature which he may or may not have affixed himself, and reading like this: "Dear sir: "I am glad to have had the benefit of your viwes on the subjects you discuss and to assure you that they will have every consideration should legislation on these matters come before us." Form Letter In one well-organized con gressional office this is form reply No. 6. In other offices the number is different but the letter is the same. Although President Eisen hower's recent message on the state-of-the untion, the bud get, and the economy got a lukewarm reception from Congress, House and Senate postmasters think they were great. They weren't the kind that generate much extra mail to members of Congress. House Postmaster Hap Mor ris and his Senate counterpart, David D. Jenhins, have their work cut out for them with out any help from the Presi dent. When hot issues are up, they are swamped. Even be tween crises like now they and their 100 helpers lug around to the members' of fices about 200 bags of in coming mail daily, with may be 50 pounds to the bag. Tm an Idiot The time-tested way to re tire after one term in Con gress is not to answer " the mail. So there is as much, or more, going out. As noted above, this sometimes poses a problem. Sen. Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.) got a letter recently which read in full: "I heard your speech last night on the radio and I read it again in the newspaper this morning. Believe me, you're no idiot. I am for ever having voted for you." Every lawmaker keeps a file, appropriately labeled, of letters like this. All others, and even some of these, are CRACKDOWN Los Angeles - (UPD - Beatnik coffee houses have been told to close at 2 a.m. and procure entertainment licenses, despite the entertainment being pro vided by the customers. Coun ty suprvisors said the 2 a.m. closing hour will eliminate a potential law enforcement problem and keep teen-agers from sitting in the houses all night. Spokane -flJPD- Herbert Schneider of Hillsboro, Ore., is the new president of the Pacific Northwest Hardware and Implement association. answered faithfully and in some offices with considerable pains. ' Pressure mail printed postcards and the like, ob viously inspired by a lobby is generally discouraged. But most members think when a voter takes the trouble to write, somebody better look at what he says. Mail from home plays a big part in some congressional actions. Scientists Study Runoff of Rivers Washington, (Science Serv ive) Scientists from 30 coun tries are studying 65 rivers, which provide 75 per cent of the total runoff to the oceans of mineral matter from rocks and soil. The work had been assigned to a Committee of World-Wide Runoff of Dis solved Solids, appointed from members of the International Association of Scientific Hy drology of the International Union of Geodesy and Geo physicis. Water samples are being taken at least four times a year near the mouth of each river at points where natural river turbulence insures rep resentative sampling and where there is no contamina tion by sea water. Results will be compiled for publication by the U.S. Geological Survey here. SHUFFLES CABINET Amman, Jordan -4UPD- King Hussein has shuffled his cabi net, relieving Premier Samir Rifai of his duties as defense minister. The defense port folio went to Ahmed Taraw neh, former finance minister. Knoxville, Tenn-(UPD-When the city administration refused to grant a raise for Claims In vestigator Frank Workman, City Law Director John Dun can cut his own salary by $200 and added it to Workman's. IN TROUBLE John M. Spiritto, a U. S. citizen from Los Angeles, and a captain in Castro's rebel army, ac cidentally shot and killed a rebel private near Cienfue gos, Cuba. Spiritto is being held pending investigation and possible trial. (File photo). Salem -(UPD- The Senate has confirmed appointment . o f Vern A. Hill as director of motor vehicles. International Language Gains French Support Paris, (Science Service) France has joined the move ment for the utilization of In terlingua, the international auxiliary language that is now widely used for scientific ab stracts in journals and con ferences. A section of the world organization for Inter lingua (UMI) has been form ed as l'Union Francaise pour l'Interlingua (UFI) with An dre Tartiveau as secretary. Interlingua is the language with regularized grammar and universal vocabulary that is a sort of modernized Latin or a standard average Euro pean - based language, that most people can read with out the necessity of study ing it. 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