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.
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the atomic submarine, will get
a special, congressionally au
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Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Washington-A National Aeronautics and Space adminis
tration official, on why only married men were chosen for
the first jaunt into space:
"Medical statistics prove that married men live longer
than bachelors."
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."
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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.
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Voight, 5 Valley View dr., re
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of the college chapter of Inter
collegiate Knights, national
service honorary. The group
ushers at public events at the
college and sponsors campus
clean-up projects. Voight is a
sophomore personnel manage
ment - business administration
major.
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