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Sen. Mansfield Defends Changes For Foreign Aid, Washington- (UPD -Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said yester day his plan to reshuffle the foreign aid program and end economic grants in three years would make it "manageable, saleable and understandable." The Montana Democrat told the Senate Friday that failure to act might bring next year a "tide of public reaction so strong that it will swamp the entire undertak ing." Mansfield, a member of the Foreign Relations committee, announced he would offer amendments to the Foreign Aid Authorization Bill to abolish the International Co operation administration and to end secrecy on military aid spending. His plan would put control of the aid program' and its personnel in the state depart ment, but let military assist ance be handled by the de fense department. It would shift the emphasis from grants to loans. Mansfield's plan to termi nate grants within three years would apply to "give away" items for economic and defense support assistance gr?ns, but he explained that need for economic and de fense support aid could be reduced by . "cutting excess military forces." Chairman J. William Ful bright (D-Ark.) of the Foreign Relations committee already has offered his own foreign aid revision plan. It calls for a shift of emphasis to eco nomic aid and would expand the development loan fund by giving "it one and a half billion dollars a year for five years. Rhode Island is the smallest of the 48 states. Its area is about three times greater than that of New York City. Court Records MUNICIPAL COCBT Norman Wayne Bushnell, viola tion of basic rule, S10; excessive noise. $5. Loretla Mary Zeleznik, disobeyed red light, $10. TerriU Lawrence Turpin, follow ing too close, $25. Carrie Bex Yoakley. failed to yield right of way, $15. Carl Brower Funk, disobeyed red light, $10. Arliss Charles Peterson, viola tion of basic rule, $10. Margaret Jean Compagnoni, vio lation of basic rule, $20. Sparrell Hill Dye, disobeyed red light, $10.' Burton Hdor Pabst, disobeyed red lieht. $10. . James Meadore Eeneau, violation of basic rule, $10. Bernard Lee Nork, violation of basic rule, $10. May Carolina Johnson, disobeyed red light, $10. Jeffrey Parker Barnes, violation of basic rule. $10. Bessie Louise King, operating without glasses, $5. Joseph Curtis Barnes, expired plates, $5. Curtis Roland Holmes, excessive noise, $3. DISTRICT COURT Carlene A. Schuppenies, failure to make traffic top, $10. Clifford Butler, failure to make traffic stop, $10. Thomas L. King;, passing stopped school bus. $15. William Jess Rightmier, no op erating light on. $15, and violation of basic rule, $15. David R. Baker Jr, angling In closed season, $30. Michael R. Redmond, violation of basic rule, $15. John Bush, no operator's license, $10. Shirley E. Brown, failure to make traffic stop, $10. Joseph W. Garris, violation of basic rule. $15. John B. Stanley., passing 1 stop ped school bus, $15. George H. Dixon, improper lights, $750. Elmer C. McCannon, no light on motor vehicle license, $5. Billie L. Milton, overload, $109. CIRCUIT COURT Vernon G. Ludwig vs. Gwendolyn Ludwig. divorce complaint. Ruth R. Nelson vs. Carl T. Nel son, divorce decree Sheila Cox vs. Eugene Davis Cox, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE Robert Wayne Fields, Seattle, Wash., and Alyce Jane Beckman, 309 Stanley ave.. Medford. John H. (Harmon) Fox, Lake Creek, and Anna Marie Therres, 2439 Highway 66. Ashland. Charles Roy Damon, 926 Vi Cen tral ave., Medford, and Barbara Jean Robinson, route 1, box 478, Central Point. WRITERS' CONGRESS , Moscow -(UPD- Writers from 40 foreign nations have been invited to attend the third AU-Union Congress of Soviet Writers opening here May 18, the Soviet news agency Tass said yesterday. Included among the countries are the United States, Britain, France, Italy and Japan. 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"I am proud of the record I made in ODDOsition to the nomination of Mrs. Luce," Morse said, "and I shall op pose confirmation of Mr. Lewis Strauss to be Secretary of Commerce because I do not believe he is competent to perform his duties to the credit of the public interest, any more than Mrs. Luce was." Morse pointed out that the duty of the Senate to advise and consent to Presidential nominations is found in Article II of the Constitution, which confers and describes executive powers, not in Article I, which confers and describes legislative powers. Advice, Consent Clause "Thus, the advice and con sent clause bestows an execu tive function upon the Sen ate. Under it, we are com pelled to share with the Presi dent the responsibility for the quality of the people put into these top jobs ... If an ap pointment turns out badly for the nation, we in the Senate are just as responsible as the President. We cannot approve a person who is poorly quali fied with the excuse that the responsibility lies with the President. Under the Consti tution, it lies with he Senate to reject such a nomination." The purpose of the Found ing Fathers in requiring the advice and consent of the Senate for nominations, he said, was to give the Senate a veto over the bad ones, so the quality of persons nomin ated by the President would be high. "Where we fail to reject poor nominations, we fail to live up to the intent of the Constitutton." Implications of Sales Tax Subject Of Dr. Woodell Implications of the sales tax and its effect on various crouDs was discussed by Dr. Marshall Woodell of Southern Oregon college at a meetmg of the Jackson County Demo cratic Party central commit tee last week. Dr. Woodell pointed out that three groups have his torically opposed the sales tax. They have, the farmers and Granges, the labor move ment, and the classical econo mists and political scientists. These groups, he said, believe the sales tax . is heavier on the lower income groups pro portionately than on the high er income groups. . Recently, however, there has been a renewed interest in the sales tax, Dr. Woodell said, because of the increased services offered by govern mental agencies. Taxation Methods The government, Jie noted, has four basic 'taxation meth ods. They are the property tax, the income tax, the sale tax and the privilege tax. In Oregon, Dr. Woodell said, 76 per cent of the rev enue is raised by the property and income taxes. The other 24 per cent is raised by sales and privilege taxes. Dr. Woodell noted that, ac cording to the Sly report, Ore gon at the present time has a sound basis of taxation. 4 Both property and income taxes are considered progres sive, because they tax a per son's ability to pay, be said. A sales tax, used in combina tion with property and income taxes, is much less insidious than a sales tax used as the only source of revenue. Produced Revenue He said 40 per cent of Ore gon's revenue is produced by people in the $10,000 to $40, 000 income bracket, and a sales tax, exempting food and other necessities, would not be too regressive in tendency. It would produce between $61 and $65 million annually, which can not be ignored, he added. The chief criticisms of the sales tax are that it is unpre dictable, expensive to collect and lends itself easily to cheating, he said. The argu ments for the sales tax are that it is an excellent revenue producer, being a fairly sta ble tax, it is needed to bal ance the present tax structure, and it is relatively painless, he added. He noted that Oregon resi dents have voted down the sales tax five times. The beginning of the Ameri can school system was in Bos ton where in 1635 a school master was employed to give instruction to children who lived in the pioneer settlement. Woodland Owners Get $813,685 Salem-Farm woodland owners of the state received an income of $813,685 from the sale of forest products during the nine-mnth period of the current fiscal year, ac cording to Assistant ' State Forester Don Maus. This was nearly double that for the similar period during the pre vious fiscal year, he added. The sale of stumpage brought in $563,360 which in cluded 14,875 thousand board feet of sawlags, 3,205 cords of pulpwood and fuel wood, 1,850 pieces of piling and 7,300 posts and poles. One of the surprising items of income was in miscellane ous products which was made up almost entirely of Christ mas trees with a total of $91, 226. The income from this source for the previous year was $42,029, Mays said. ROULETTE FATAL Highland Park, Calif. - (UPD - Harry Hill, 19, killed him self with the fourth pull on the trigger , of a .38-caliber pistol Friday night as he dem onstrated "Russian Roulette" to two friends in his living room. Holdouts of World War II Sought in Jungle Hideout Manila . (UPD A Japanese task force sailed for Lubang Islands yesterday determined to contact two soldiers who believe they're still fighting World War II. The group was headed by psychological warfare expert Yuzo Miura of the Japanese Welfare ministry. It was ex pected to arrive at Lubang early today and establish base camp. 1 The searchers are prepared to spend two months, if nec essary, in their effort to bring Lt. Hiroo Onoda and Sgt. Kinshichi KotsuRa back to civilization. An earlier attempt to con tact the two holdouts ended last Sunday when the task force was ambushed by an angry swarm of bees. Miura was hospitalized with more than 1,000 bee stings. Two accompanying Japanese reporters also re quired medical treatment. . This time the expedition is carrying additional personnel and 60 tons of equipment and supplies, including bee-proof head nets. Once established on Lu bank, a mountainous jungle island 30 miles off the mouth of Manila bay," the Japanese planned to install a network oi powerful loud-speakers for broadcasting messages to the stragglers. They also will set up postoff ice boxes contain ing written messages. The Japanese consul gen eral in Manila, Shichiro Kono, is a member of the task force. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Sunday, May 17, 1959 3 He has tried unsuccessfully for 18 months to contact the holdouts. Garden Sawdust McGinty Fuel Go. Ph. SP 3-6297 TOSTESEN Quality Decorating Painting Paperhanging SP 2-7503 j , ri v - 1 m "" the key to a good night's rest T M Mi "fijry tiro A rn ht ma m I ft ft . lift ft w :v -lr l ' jT. M m MM Ilk VJV: ::;, fS.fWW-sra' a. ft :. ft m-m m.-.-m ft . ft ft, m-y.-ys.-vs fep ma to mmf -OT' y QOj fo) if I In n&r' nas m o u SIMMONS Yes, for a limited time only you can sleep on Beautyrest, as our guest for 30 nights with no cost or obligation 2 you're not completely de lighted. 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