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O . ' . . . . - In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In an editorial, the Salem Statesman says: "Periodically for years per sons in public life have cited the waste inherent in the 36 separate county governments in Oregon. Whereas once county seats were a day's travel or more from county hinterlands, few persons now are more than a few hours away from their home gov ernments, mostly only a few minutes. But the 36 divisions persist. 1 -"The same clinging to 'home rule applied to schools for many years, and still does in many instances. But just as school districts are realizing more and more the necessity for merger, so eventually will counties. So Governor Hat field certainly is not out of line in his suggestion for few er counties, , as voiced this week before the League of Oregon Cities convention in Portland." THE penaulum swings. The counties of Oregon were once immense. These is Wasco, for example. When it was created, January 11, 1854; it comprised all the area of Oregon territory between the Cascades and . the Rockies. The name, incidentally, is said to be derived from an Indiap word meaning ''small bowl ol horn." Wasco county wal anything but a "small bow a century ago. 1 rpHEN there is Jackson. When it was created, on January 12, 1852, it comprised 0 all that part of Oregon west of the Cascades and between the south boundary of Ump- qua county and the northern boundary of California. Most of present-day Josephine and Curry counties have been tak en out of original Jackson. Later Jackson county's boun daries were stretched across' the Cascades to include what - is now Klamath and ' Lake. ""Tjhis eastern area was in time split off to form Lake county. Still later, Klamath county was carved out of Lake. While we're on that subject, it. is worth mentioning that on the very early maps all of Northwestern California was shown as Klamath county. This vast area included rough ly the entire drainage basin of the Klamath river. - Crook, county once included an immense chunk of what is now generally known as Cen tral Oregon. The glamorous seat of this mighty cattle em pire was Prineville which shared with Lake view the glory of being the big cow towns. In later years, Des chutes and Jefferson counties were carved out of Crook. QO IT WAS in the beginning, j The counties were big and the people were 'big. Their horizons were wid'e. They were accustomed to the wide open spaces. One guesses they thought big - at least so far as space was concerned. And, besides, GOVERNMENT wasn't a very big item in their lives. If they visited the seat of it two or three times a year, it was enough. Keeping government as far away as possible probably suited them. THERE came then - some three or four decades ago -a change. , More towns grew up. These newer towns realized that county government was GOOD TOR BUSINESS. It brought people to the county seat. While there, they did a lot of trading. So - these new er towns wanted to be coun ty seats. The result of that was a rash of county division pro posals - of which the propos al to carve Nesmith county out of southern Lane, with Cottage Grove as its seat, probably generated the most heat. As a battle, it was a BATTLE. But it failed - and Cottage Grove i s probably now just as happy that it did. Two county seats instead of one would mean more taxes and in these days taxes BITE. The, carving of Jefferson county out of Crook included opera-bouffe highlights. Rival towns picked up buildings in the dead of night and moved. them back and forth. It was quite a ruckus, taking it by and .large'.; , U.S. Voting Machine Interests Average Viewer in Russia DOUBTLESS, -as :.the States man suggests, it would be a good idea if the pendulum swung again, back toward FEWER county seats. Govern ment costs money, and the more seats of government we have, presumably, the higher the COST of government. . . But I have an idea that if such were attempted a lot of blood would be spilled on the moon. ; - -, SUPREME COURT MEETS Washington (UPB The Su preme Court meets briefly to day to act on recently filed anneals before taking a two- week recess for opinion writ ing. ' .' . London - (UPD - Soviet Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev snubbed him pointedly. Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia was coldly formal. And Arthur Darby of New York returned- to the West convinced that the secret bal lot will remain a Western pre rogative until the summit melts. . - Like the legendary sales man who took refrigerators to the eskimos, Darby took a bona - fide American voting machine into Communist east ern Europe. The idea was to show the rest of the world how the American voter . records his choice " in . secret - and in safety. ;- -' Darby set up the Shoup voting machine exhibit at the U.S. fair in Moscow and on opening day awaited Khrush chev's arrival. ' "The Premier came beam ing along the various stands until he was a few yards from my exhibit," , Darby recalled. "Then he spun his heel and snapped, 'This machine does not interest me.' And off he went." . T The rest of the Russians that day mostly took their cue from the Soviet leader but as time went by more and more of them, overcome- by curiosi ty, demanded to know how the gadget worked. Among them ' were many, planted hecklers, Darby believes. . "These characters would ask questions like 'How many of these are in . use in Wash ington,' D.C.?' There is' no vote in Washington, of course. Or, 'Can. Negroes use these, too?' " '' .'-.': ' Darby said that when' the hecklers became too persist ent it was the. other Russians who shouted them down. "I was astonished - and pleased that . this should be so," ; he said. "We had the Russians vote on the machine but only for such innocuous things as their favorite author and the place they would like ta visit." (Mark Twain was voted favorite author, New York City the place they would most like to visit) Darby duly reported his ex periences to the Shoup or ganization in New York and was instructed nevertheless to take his machines to the Za greb , International Fair in Communist Yugoslavia. Mar shal Tito, who . opened - the fair, looked at the voting ma chine but made no comment. "It seemed to me he was a lot friendlier while examining the other exhibits," said the intrepid salesman. As in Russia, the Yugoslavs were given such harmless questions - at the request of the U.S. State Department as who was their favorite film star. 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