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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, March t, 1959 Political Opponents Attempt to Discredit Governor Hatfield By EVELYN NYE RepresentaliT from Jackson County It would defeat the purpose of this column to use it to car ry on a political "hassle with the paid pub lic informa tion director of the Demo cratic party, Ken Johnson, and I don't -f propose to do it. There seems to be a frantic effort on the part of two or three of Gov ernor Hatfield's political op ponents to discredit him in the eyes of the voters and makes one feel that there must be some personal political motive behind it. It is easy enough to confuse the over-all issues by the almost vicious tactics be ing used. The voters of Oregon elect ea uovernor Hatfield by a very large majority and I think the average, fair-minded individual is willing to give him a reasonable length of time to demonstrate his good faith with the people of Ore gon. Mail Directed Right now a large percent age of my mail is directed against two tax bills which are part of ex-Governor Holm es' tax proposals. I am suggest ing to the writers of these let ters that they remember that the final tax program will not be written until the budeet has been recommended by the Ways and Means committee and aDDroved bv the legisla ture, "rms is not, mf esti mation, the way it should be done, but apparently we are n't ready to reverse the pro cedure andadopt a budget tailored to fit a reasonable and equitable tax program. May I suggest that anyone Interested in the various tax programs being proposed get a copy of the Feb. 14 Oregon Voter which devotes several pages to a detailed comparison of the taxes and tax rates now in effect and as proposed by Governor Hatfield and ex Governor Holmes. The anti-picketing law is j1 Xyjg In Vm We're Painting, Building Shelves, Changing Around and Cleaning Out Our Present Stock To Make Room For Incoming Shipments ntw Carpet for famous brand namaa kf-?l5V JL while you have a 5mwARGE SELECTI0N EXTRA SPECIAL Wmm cotton now a dead duck. Many peo ple in southern Oregon wrote expressing their concern over repealing the law. We heard some impassioned, but re strained oratory in the House before passage of the bill, but it was mostly for the record, since everyone knew how the vote was going to go. To provide some protection for both employers and em ployees in the field of collec tive bargaining, Senator Ytur ri and Representative Elf strom, Republican leaders of the Senate and House respec tively, have introduced Senate Bill 369 which is being refer red to as the Anti-coercion bill. The bill provides that em ployees shall have the right to select or reject without coer cion or intimidation labor or ganizations seeking or claim- Housing Measure Said Exiravagan! Washington-IUPD-An admin istration spokesman said Fri day that a multi-billion-dollar housing bill approved by the Houe Banking Committee last week is "extravagant and inflationary." Housing Administrator Nor man P. Mason, plugging Presi dent Eisenhower s economy drive, said the measure still would be costing the taxpay ers in the year 2000. He told reporters that the $2,100,000,000 price tag Demo crats put on the bill is only "half the truth." Counting public housing subsidy costs over the next 45 years, he said, the bill actually adds up to 55,800, 000,000. Mason said some of the con gressmen supporting the bill do not realize its full cost. He declined to say whether he would recommend a presi dential veto if the measure reached the White House in its present form. But he indicated he expect ed the House would cut the bill and that it would be trimmed still further by a house-senate compromise. nan 30 'A. CHECK THESE TERRIFIC REDUCTIONS! ing to represent them in bar gaining collectively with their employers, except to the extent that such right may be affected by a closed shop agreement existing between the employer and a labor or ganization which requires as a condition of employment membership in such labor or ganization. The bill defines "corecion"; provides for secret election re lating to the representative as the bargaining agent. In asking for repeal of the Anti-picketing bill, Labor rec ommended a two-year study of labor-management relations, which would (hopefully) pro duce a better law than the present one. We opponents of repeal said in effect, "Let's see the new law before we re peal this one." Three-Hour Hearing On Tuesday night the edu cation committees had a three- hour hearing on House bills 59 and 60. Briefly, House bill 59 would make mandatory the establishment of classes for mentally retarded children in all school districts where there are 12 or more mentally retarded children, by the year 1964, and House bill 60 would provide scholarships to assist teachers in preparing themselves to teach these classes, since extra training is required for certification. Wednesday afternoon the House Education committee held hearings on House bills 157, 158 and 159. These bills have to do with tightening and extending teacher tenure laws. The Oregon Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, testified in favor of the bills, which was a bit puzzling since their group is small and they do not have any members in dis tricts not fully covered now by tenure. The OEA remain ed neutral on the bills, while the School Boards association and a number of administra tors opposed them. One lone classroom teacher testified that he felt that in the long run teachers would be better off, and certainly ed ucation in general would, if three-year contracts were giv-j en instead of life tenure. FIL I 1? t",Vf ' lip" MEETING newsmen in Washington, President Ei senhower says outlook on Berlin crisis is not hopeful in view of Russia's rejection of West proposal for foreign ministers' conference. Centennial Group Can Meet Payroll Portland-(UPD-T h e Oregon Centennial Commission has plenty of money to meet its payrolls despite a report earlier last week that it lacked funds to pay employees in some departments, Fiscal Officer William Gaarenstroom said Friday. "The problem is not inade quacy of money, but distribu tion of the allocation as orig inally set up," he said. "But we have enough latitude to operate within the money al located by the Legislature." Using a blackboard to ex plain the Centennial budget breakdown, G a a r e n stroom said there were two major categories the general fund, subject to the same strict con trol as the funds of state agencies, and the operating account. The general fund consists of the $1,790,000 allocated by the Legislature. The operat ing account now contains about $125,000 from advance space sales for the Exposition and International Trade Fair opening June 10 and other revenue sources. Help Us Help You SAVE! Reg. $7.95 Sq. NOW $1595 C It Was Painful for the Pup, But She Learned Lesson It turned out to be an un fortunate episode, caused by lack of judgement or. intelli gence on the part of one of the individuals involved, and too much curiosity on the part of the other. The wasp lacked judgement. It over-stepped itself when it Elew down to the water in the glass dish, slipped off the ver tical side and couldn't get out of the water. The other actor in the silent drama was a Boston terrier pup who depended on the glass dish for her drinking water. The pup's curiosity and playful antics had plunged it into all kinds of predicaments, so far unpainful, giving her the idea that everything was fun. On the day of her painful adventure Pixie had been flat on her back in the sun. She awoke, thirsty. She made straight for her water dish. In the water the wasp was beating its wings, unsuccess fully trying to get off the water into free flight. For the pup here was something new and mighty interesting. She watched the insect buzzing angrily beating its aimless way around the dish. Forgot Her Thirst Finally Pixie, completely forgetting her thirst in the light of this new discovery, put one fore paw into the water trying to hit the wasp. Several times she did push the angry insect under water. It was great sport. The wasp made an entirely different noise when its wings were wet. Then the buzz be came almost liquid-sounding until the water was whipped away. The dog became so ex cited she could hardly contain herself. She circled the dish barking excitedly. She discovered she could see the wasp by looking through the side of the dish. It looked funny. Distortion threw it out of focus. So far she had avoided using her muzzle. The only time she tried is she got water up her NOTHING DOWN, 3 YEARS TO COTTON Regular $3.95 Wt 12x15' 100 Dupont NYLON Reg. $8.95 $5.95 Sq. Yd. Installed 12x15' Wall Yd. MIDLAND WOOL Reg. $11.95 $7.95 S. Yd. Installed 12x15' Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins nose, but she found it was much more fun to push the in sect with her mouth than the paw. Under her muzzle the in sect twisted and turned trying to get itself into position to use, its stinger. Only One Result There could be but one re sult. The wasp got herself in position just as the little dog pushed. The wasp drove" its stinger into Pixie's lower lip. The dog yipped, jumped back and up, throwing the wasp into the air. It took off for the far distance. The dog ran for just anywhere at all. - By the time she had ex hausted herself, her lip, as well as her face, was painfully swollen. We live, they say by actual day to day living; we learn by experience. The child learns, by burning himself, not to touch the stove again. By hurting himself he learns a lesson. This we would like to thing is intelligence. Wheth er or not the wasp learned is doubtful but the little dog did. She learned that things can be dangerous or painful, even though they happen to look pretty or exciting. Since she "got it in the lip" she has pass ed up many a needed drink because once there was a wasp in a water dish. THE FUTURE is one minute from now People who think of the future as a long time from now . . . often miss the pleasure of. TODAY. Your "Dream Home Of The Future" CAN be yours this year...... with a Jackson County Federal home loan . . . available in all sizes. tAVIMCS V LOAN AStOC 126 E. Main Medford TWEEDS SALE $289vS Will Install 8960 Wall-to-Wall S1CA80 - to - Wall ivv ROOM Wall-to-Wall 190 80 m 11 Contractors Submit Offers A total of 11 contractors submitted bids for construc tion of the U.S. Army Reserve center here, according to the Army Engineers' office in Seattle, Wash. Lewis Kowolowski, Madras, was apparent low bidder when bids were opened Wed nesday at the Seattle office. His bid was $268,229, com pared to a government esti mate of $257,346. The contract is expected to be awarded soon, according to the Seattle engineers. No date for starting the construc tion has been announced so far. Other bidders listed in clude Waldo S. Hardie and Son, Eugene, $275,228; Vik Construction company, Eu gene, $281,114; Lord-Carroll, Portland, $285,337; Salter and Klein, Grants Pass, $286,717; A. "V. Petersen company, Portland, $289,416; Ausland Construction company, Grants Pass, 8291,810; H. Barnhart, Medford, $299,384; Wiley company, Ashland, $300,750; Cummings Construction com pany, Grants Pass, $310,089; ' and Teller Construction com- pany, Portland, $382,017. The center is to be situated j on the proposed extension of! Columbus ave. between West Jackson st. and McAndrews rd- .- Eros, a minor planet, discov ered in 1898, is remarkable as the only asteroid with an orbit between Earth and Mars. ATION Phone SP 3-6201 PAY On Approved 27"x54" THROW RUGS $099 Regular $4.95 Sq. Yd. 0 VISCOSE Sponge Rubber Back NO PAD NECESSARY Regular $5.95 THIS SALE $4 VISCOSE Reg. $3.95 $2.89 Sq. Installed 12x15' ROOM Wall-to-Wall OP LTU McCormack Backs Hiring of Relatives Washington - (UPD - House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack said Friday it's perfectly proper for a Con gressman to put a family member on his payroll - if the relative is qualified for the job. McCormack said that while he has no relatives on his of fice payroll, he sees nothing wrong about lawmakers who do, so long as the relatives can do the work well. "It would be just as wrong for a publisher or editor of a newspaper to refuse to give a job on his newspaper to his son or daughter, if there were an opening they were quali fied to fill," the Massachu setts lawmaker said in an interview. WANT A- BEAUTIFUL It's as simple es this: a Paint Brush and a Can of GLIDDEN SPRED SATIN . . . and you, too, can have a lovely kitchen! Come in and choose from hundreds of Luscious Decorator Color and paint your kitchen NOW! S&H Green Stamps! F RAKE & SMITH Artist Supplies 315 EAST MAIN Credit, ON EVERYTHING WE OFFER! Firth Private Tweed Nylon and Wool Blend Regular $7.95 Now $6.95 Sq. Yd. W Will Install 12x15' Magee ACRILON Reg. $11.95 $989 Sq. Yd. 12x12' Td. 40-oz. PAD TACK STRIP AND LABOR Ft. Regular $OQ60 NOW ONLY J S. SP Local Youth To Go On Concert Tour Portland - Richard Arnold, 1011 Reddy ave., Medford, will appear wtih the a cappel la choir at the First Presbyter ian church at 8 p. m. on Fri day, March 20. The concert will be the last program, on the choir's annual spring con cert tour agenda. Under the direction of L. Stanley Glarum, the 61 chor isters will present 25 concerts in 16 days, mostly in Califor nia. Arnold, first tenor, is a jun ior music education major and a member of Phi Mu A1-" pha, national men's music dor mitory. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Arnold, Medford. Leoncavallo wrote only one successful opera, "Pagliacci." KITCHEN? Custom Picture Framing PHONE SP 2-4564 $1 180 Wall-to-Wall ROOM . Wall-to-Wall 229 60 to install wall-to-wall $2.25 sq. yd. $159 Sq. Td. 709 Riverside 2-7376
