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Court Photography Issue Debated by Judiciary Committee Salem fUPD The House Ju diciary Committee Thursday heard spirited arguments on both sides of House bill 529 which would give photograph ers and newsmen the right to take pictures in court and to film and make tape broadcasts for television and radio. . It also would allow such activities in public assemblies, administrative agencies, city councils and other public bodies. Under the bill judges would have the power to lay down rules to maintain the dignity of the court. While witnesses were testi fying, the proceeding was be- Ing filmed for television, taped for radio and shot by 35 mm camera for newspaper use as a demonstration by propon ents of how quietly these pro cesses could be carried on. Lawyers Oppose Bill The bill runs counter to canon 35 of the American Bar Association code of ethics which advises judges not to allow courtroom photography. Appearing for the bill were its two sponsors, Rep. Carl Fisher (R-Eugene) and J. Pat Metke (R-Bend). Fisher, himself a radio ex ecutive, said technological ad vances had produced equip ment that could be operated without being offensive or up setting decorum. He said on-the-spot broad casts or recordings of court activities would insure wit nesses that their testimony would Tse reported accurately and without the element of possible human error. "Twentieth century meth ods should be allowed to carry the proceedings of our courts to the people," Metke said. Witnesses Said Shy . Randall Kester, Portland at torney and former Oregon Supreme Court justice, op posed the bill. He said he wasn't worried about the decorum of the court being violated, but that the main question involved was the right of an accused man to a fair trial. He said it was his exper ience that many witnesses were camera shy and might not be able to express them selves under the nervous strain of photography or tele vision. He also was concerned about the right of privacy, stating that the bill would "repeal" it. Portland TV commentator Tom McCall said media men and lawyers appeared to be getting farther and farther apart on the issue in the last few years. BANS U.A.R. FILMS London - (UPD - Baghdad Ra dio said Thursday night the Iraqui government had banned all showings in Iraq of movie films made in the United Arab Republic. Two Drivers Get Licenses Suspended Salem - The department of motor vehicles has released names of 325 drivers whose licenses were ordered sus pended during the period be ginning March 30, and ending April 3. -. Length of suspension varies, depending on charges in volved, recommendation of court, discretionary action by the department or require ments of Oregon law. The de partment said some of the licenses involving court rec ommendations may have been re-instated after suspension was ordered. The department warned drivers that the penalty for driving while suspended is a jail sentence of no less than two days and up to six months, and there may be im posed a fine up to $500. Under licensing procedures, this will also result in an additional year of suspension. Those suspended in Jack son county were: Driving While Suspended (In cludes any conviction for viola tion of traffic laws, involving operation of motor vehicle, while driving privileges were under suspension) Jones, Evan Edward, 48, of post office box 492, Rogue River, failed to yield right of way, l year. Driving While Under Influence of Intoxicating Liquor (Mandatory suspension) Heubner, Henry Carl, 42, of route 1, box 317, Eagle Point, 90 days. HONORS ADMIRAL Washington- (UPD -Adm. Hy man G. Rickover, "father" of the atomic submarine, will get a special, congressionally au thorized gold medal at cere monies next Wednesday. HEAVY VINYL COVERING B' o 3 POSITION BACK ' . 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Las Vegas-Singer Eddie Fisher, on fiancee Elizabeth Tay lor's plans to enter a hospital next week for treatment of a chronic throat infection: "I don't want the slightest thing to happen to my baby." New York-The National Mother-in-Law Day committee, pointing out one of the purposes of National Mother-in-law Day next April 19: "It is also a day dedicated to combating the use of mothers-in-law as targets for sarcastic humor." Hollywood-Eva Gabor, expressing sorrow at the reported suicide of model Venita Radcliffe allegedly because her boy friend visited Miss Gabor in Madrid recently: "I am not the kind of a woman who would ever take away another woman's love." 1 -j Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins - The 'Passing Parade' of Migration Will Never Stop Many times at night, espe cially on little used or side roads, you will observe frogs or toads hopping across the road. Sometimes your head lights will reveal dozens of them. The road is no place for a frog, but there they are. Actu ally, they are migratmg. They may be just going across the road to a nearby pond, or they may be moving toward a lake or a river a mile, or many miles distant. Back in the home pond, or ponds, where they all started Pearson's Sales Tax Bill Would Help Schools Salem (UPD Senate Presi dent Walter Pearson says it would take a 60 per cent in crease m Oregon income taxes to meet increased school costs and to keep other state activities at present levels. For this reason, he told the Senate. Tax Committee, he submitted a sales ' tax pro posal. Further hearing will be held on the suggested three ner cent tax. according to Chairman Ward Cook (D-Port-land). Would Increase Exemptions If the sales tax proposal is approved" by the Legislature and the voters it would en able the Legislature to in crease income tax exemptions for single persons from the present $600 to $1,500 and for married couples from $1,200 to $3,000. It also would result in a decrease in property taxes an estimated 40 per cent and in- cease the basic school allot ment fom $105 to $140 per census school child. Cecil Posey, executive sec retary of the Oregon Educa tion Association, and Dr. Vic tor Laugherty, Portland school system, both felt that more money would be needed in the basic school fund than would be provided in Pear son's bill. Both urged the Committee to consider an in crease in the basic school al lotment for the next two years. Would Hike Support The current rate for basic school support is $105 per census child. The proposed sales tax would increase this allotment to at least $140 per census child. Sen. Ben Musi (D-The Dal les) asked the two educators if they ever gave a thought to the ability of taxpayers to furnish the additional money they sought. Sen. Don ald Husband (R-Eugene) asked if they felt there was a lim itless amount of state money available for school purposes. Both men denied the latter suggestion and said they real ized that it was up to the people to decide how much money was to be allocated to the schools. , Pearson testified in favor of his bill saying that he had long been a foe of the sales tax but now favored one sim ply because he knew the peo ple could not afford to pay higher state income taves. Twenty-one . senators and 18 representatives have sign ed Pearson's bill. Josephine Historical Society Sets Meeting Cave Junction - The Jose phine County Historical So ciety will meet Monday, April 13, at 8 p.m. in the Women's club museum in Kerby to elect officers, according to Dr. A. N. Collman, chairman. All persons in the county interested in establishing a Josephine County Historical Society are urged to attend. from, some signal was given, and they all obeyed and took to the road'. Maybe a shortage of food dictated a move; per haps a crowded condition; too many frogs for the size of the pond no one can say for sure. Other Kinds Ordnarily we think of a mi gration as a mass movement of many individuals, all going a great distance, but there are other kinds. Nearly all living things that have the power to. move, migrate at some time in their lives. Some every year, others once in a lifetime. Some migrations arelimited to a few feet, or even a few inches; others may stretch out to thousands of miles. There are vertical as well as horizontal migrations. Some insects migrate up and down a tree; some across a vacant lot, or a field, some up and down a mountain. There are some creatures that perform an oblique migration; up the side of a hill. They move with rhythmic regular ity, according to their species and the season of the year. Even the lowly earthworm migrates from the depths of the soil where he lives during dry weather, to the surface when the rain dampens the earth. This is a vertical migra tion of only 10 or 12 feet, but it is a migration. Up, Down, Sideways Many fishermen wait for the migration of certain fishes that usually occurs with the regularity of clockwork. Up or down, sideways, under wa ter, over water, in or on the ground through the air, up a hillside or a mountain, the pulse of life moves, and crea tres obey, according to their kind. Some migrations are no ticeable, like that of the frogs on the highway, or the birds of the air; or the lemmings, or the hoofed animals across vast plains. Some migrations are never seen, and barely suspectea. But the mystery of organized nomadism is the strange im pulse of life, and all living creatures, great and small, continue to migrate across the face of the earth, or through its waters. The "passing pa rade" has never stopped: it never will as long as there are living beings to participate. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) Japanese Prince Weds Commoner To Defy Tradition Tokyo - (UPD - Crown Prince Akihito married his common er sweetheart, Michiko Shoda, today in a 15-minute cere mony of Oriental splendor that shattered 2,619 years of tradi tion and brought joy to all Japan. The 26-year-old prince de fied palace traditionalists by marrying for love and bring ing to the threshold of the throne of Japan the daughter of a milling executive he wooed and won on a tennis court. Ends With Sake Akihito and Michiko be came man and wife when their Shinto wedding ceremony ended with a sip of sake from a silver bowl in the inner shrine of the Imperial Palace, the "other world" for most Japanese. Akihito wore the ceremon ial saffron-orange robe known as onino-o. His bride wore an antique robe made of 12 lay ers which burdened her with 44 pounds of red, yellow, lav ender, blue green and white silk and brocade. The wedding gown was used by the Em press Nagako when she was married 35 years ago to Em peror Hirohito. Ceremonial Hair-Do Atop Michiko's hair, woven with a wig into a ceremonial hair-do that took hours to per fect was a tiara of 1,000 dia monds set in platinum, a tiara used by the Empress Teimei, Akihito's grandmother, for her wedding in 1900, but re modeled for today.- Michiko wore the same tiara in the triumphal pro cession afterwards through the streets past cheering mil lions as Akihito bore her in a maroon and gold carriage to his Togu Palace. It was a dazzling horse and carriage procession rich with golden trappings and the colors of royalty. For this procession Akihito . wore evening dress. Michiko wore a Western-style, off-the-shoulder evening gown. Around her shoulders was a stole. Butler Encourages Meyner Candidacy Newark, N. J. - (UPD - Demo cratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler has encour aged New Jersey Gov. Robert B. Meyner to seek the Demo- cratic national nomination next year. "Meyner is a very highly regarded, popular and color ful figure" in the eyes of par ty leaders, Butler said here Thursday night. "A man as attractive as he is both politically and person ally can achieve his objectives by making more speeches around the country and mak ing more contacts with Demo cratic leaders, he said. Girl Saves Life After Snake Bite El Paso, Tex.- (UPD -Doctors said today that 11 -year -old Sharon Mounsey saved her own life when she sucked the poison from a rattlesnake bite on her finger. The girl was playing at a school playground Wednesday when a boy came up with a rattlesnake in a tin can. She was trying to move the snake from the can to a box when it bit her. She immediately sucked the venom from the wound, and was in good condition to day in a hospital. Wright Will Be Buried in Wisconsin Phoenix, Ariz. - (UPD - The body of Frank Lloyd Wright will be returned Saturday to the Wisconsin hilly farm country where " the world famed architect was born 89 years ago. Wright, the storm center and guiding light of modern architecture, died in the pre dawn hours Thursday at 'St. Joseph's hospital where he had undergone abdominal sur gery Monday. The white-haired "rebel lious old gentleman" who fought the conventions of so ciety, will be buried in the hillside Chapel cemetery at Spring Green, Wis. A few friends and members of the family joined with the famed architect's widow, Ol givanna, his third wife, Thurs day night to pay last respects at Taliesin West on the out skirts of Phoenix where his body lay in state. Taliesin West was Wright's winter home. NAMED KNIGHT Portland-Monte Voight, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford C. 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