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Price 10 Cents Medford 54th Year tribune 2nd Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1959 10 Pages Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlb MRS. QOOSE.eG 4RE DEAD SET ASAlHST THEIR DAUGHTER, QSJAILA eOihiO ANYWHERE WITH OUT AT LEAST A SQUAD OF CHAPEROMES' 0 I KMOW .THERE S NO YSCM DAUGHTER Of MINE NOT ! 1 TARE WTOAMOWEf ISGOlM'4NVWHEPE P4RENTS K ADPDOKJE 'A THAT AM'T PROPERLY I SO WHAT?rr"S WUM R "OSef," 'X SUPERVISED.' V LITTLE NEI&HBOR- V145 NO, SIR xVjood dance- ZYrnrr- - ry '4 P-noo-soppy-we C4?tWtell em WEe pTd'm'!!!'" I every time v. "7 I I MX Jr Bills Relating To Trial Procedure Approved by House Salem -UPD- Six bills re lating to trial procedure have been passed by the House and sent to the Senate. All the bills were requested by the State Bar Association. They were introduced at the last session of the legislature but died in the Senate Judi ciary Committee. Two bills would broaden ho nnp of depositions taken before a trial and also provide safeguards so that a person could not be harrassed. Another bill would allow parties to a trial to know whether documents to be used in the trial , were considered genuine before the trial start ed. To Inspect Evidence A fourth bill would allow parties to inspect items of evidence to be presented by the opposing side before the trial. A fifth bill would provide for written questions being submitted to a person as well as a deposition before the trial. This procedure also would have safeguards. The final bill would provide that handwriting evidence would be ruled on before a trial by the 'judge as well as all other types of evidence. In the past, handwriting had been treated differently. Rep. George Layman (R Newberg) said the package of bills would. help maketrials "less of a game and more of a Boyd Appears in -Magazine Picture Ashland - Appearing in the current bulletin of the Citizen ship Clearing House is an article featuring a picture of Howard J. Boyd, Southern Oregon college student, with the house, at the recent student-faculty conference con ducted at Lewis and Clark college to evaluate the Oregon internship program and to dis cuss the 1958 campaign. According to Dr. Marshal E. Woodell, SOC professor of political science, Boyd was appointed because of his in terest in political affairs and the resulting experience to be gained during the one-week assignement in Salem when the interns were afforded the opportunity to work with state legislators and study public policy issues and legis lative processes. Sixty students from 13 Ore gon and Idaho colleges par ticipated in the general semi nar; prominent state legisla tors and lobbyists took part in panel meeting attended by Boyd and other interns; and Gov. Mark Hatfield discussed his legislative program with the group. loco Youth Arrested As Parole Violator A 17-y earmold Medford vouth was arrested Wednes day as a parole violator from McClaren School, Medford po lice reported. Police said the youth ad mitted taki ng numerous items, including a rifle, a port able radio and an engagement rins from his mothers' resi dence here recently. srden Sawdust cGinty Fuel Go. " Ph. SP 3-6297 search for truth." He carried all six bills on the House floor. The House passed and sent to the Senate a bill taxing all house trailers in the state over 12 feet long. $6 Registration Fee Rep. Clinton Haight (D- Baker) said that under the bill the Motor Vehicle Department would register all such trail ers for a $6 fee, of which it would keep $2 for administra tive costs. There also would be a li cense fee at the time of regis tration amounting to two per cent of the wholesale price of the trailer when new, with al lowances made for deprecia tion for six years. This money would be returned to the counties and local taxing dis tricts. . Haight said the - bill was favored by the Oregon Mobile Home Owners Association, trailer dealers and manufac turers. He said that 6,000 trailers now were on the tax rolls, but that there were an esti mated 30,000 to 70,000 trailers in the state. In the past, Haight said, it had been hard to collect taxes on trailers because assessors did not know where they were. Voluntary Commitment A bill providing for volun tary commitment of mentally retarded children to Fairview home was sent to the gover nor. Rep. Grace Peck (D-Port-land) explained that many parents did not want to take their children to court to get them committed to Fairview, but would put them on the waiting list for the school vol untarily. Avbill which would have done away with 'the three-day waiting period for marriages was tabled by . the Public Health Committee. Patrol Car's Light Reported Damaged The rear red light atop the Medford police department's vehicle No. 1, a Pontiac, was broken early yesterday morn ing by an object thrown by an unidentified youth, accord ing to the patrolman driving the vehicle. Patrolman Gordon K. Wright reported that the youth, whom he described as about 15 years old wearing a white jacket and dark trou sers, was standing in the shad ows at the southeast corner of Beatty and Edwards sts wngnt said he chased the youth for several blocks af terward but was unable to overtake him. Entre'acte is the French word meaning between acts of a show, otherwise "intermis sion." But, originally it was called acttune" meaning aud ience could smoke or carry on conversations while an orches tra played soft music. All-Woman City Officers Plan No Chintz Curtains . Inona, Kan.-flJPD-Mrs. Marie Wycoff, new mayor, of this western Kansas village has promised that she, her wom an police judge and all-woman city council won't hapg chintz curtains in the windows of the two-room city hall. But it woman t surprise Winona's menfolk if they did, after what happened in the municipal elections Tues day. The seven women, none with any political experience, successfully waged a last minute write-in vote cam paign and ousted the seven unopposed male candidates for the city offices. Nothing Like It "I never saw anything like it in my life," said E. T. Huntington, editor and pub lisher of the weekly Winona Leader. "The town is" full of characters." j "We girls got together Sat urday and decided to run af ter several people called lis and said it was time for a change," Mrs. Wycoff said. "It's quite an honor, I think . . . but we didn't really ex pect to win. I shouldn't say that, should I?" she added. The girls have no special ax to grind, Mrs. Wycoff said. "But we've been thinking about the sewer system and cleaning up the town a bit. We also plan an addition to the school." Some of the male candi dates still can't understand how their opponents logged a 2-1 margin over them with the write-in votes, Huntington said. East Lansing, Mich.-(DPB-The Great Lakes will become a "new Mediterranean" with the opening of the St. Law rence Seaway, according to Haxy C. Brockel, Mil.:ukee municipal pc i director. j kel told a Michigan State Uni versity audience the basil job of the seaway would be to serve the- growing interde pendence of the United States and Canada. Contract for Pipe Awarded by Court The county court has ac cepted the bid of Armco Drainage and Metal Products company, Portland, for gal vanizes metal culvert pipe for the county highway depart ment, the court reported Thursday. The company's bid was $20, 498.48. The pipe is for general use by the department, Judge Earl Miller explained. Bids were also received by Beall Pipe and Tank corpora tion, Portland; Rogue Equip ment Sales, and Moore Steel Service company, both Medford. The original Mayflower was only about 100 feet long. SURPRISE VERDICT Niagara Falls: N.Y. - (UPD -Court observers were sure they knew how a $200,000 negligence suit against -the New York Central Railroad would turn out when one juror broke down and cried during the testimony. How ever, the Supreme Court jury decided in favor of the railroad. Washington (UPD The De partment of Health, Educa tion and Welfare has given preliminary approval for c $49,416 grant for 31 beds for the Physicians and Surgeons hospital in Portland, Ore., Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.),reported. Montclair, N. J.-(UPD-Amzi Lake, 94, retired hospital ad ministrator, died Tuesday. PROFESSOR DIES. New York - (UPD - Dr. Kisle C. John, 66, associate pro fessor 5f English at Hunter college for the past 30 years, died Tuesday. The moment a Cadillac comes into view it begins to say wonderful things about the man at the wheel. It tells of his fine taste ... his good and practical judgment '. .V his achievements in his chosen field. And the reasons for this are found in the character of the car itself. For longer than fifty years, .goodness has been the watchword; craftsmanship the creed. 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