Democrats
More Laws Through
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington - A group of
about 120 Northern and West
ern Democrats in the House
of Representative have organ
ized to push more liberal leg
islation through Congress in
1960.
Although the group says it
is not in conflict with the
Democratic leadership in the
House, the move presents a
direct challenge to the firm
grip of Speaker Sam Rayburn
(D-Texas) for two principal
reasons:
First, the liberal Democrats
feel that Rayburn's assurance
that certain legislation fav
ored by them would not be
held up unduly, has fallen in
to question. Two such bills
a n aid-to-school-construction
measure and a civil rights
bill have been stuck in the
conservative House Rules
Committee since the middle
of last year's session.
Second, Rayburn s an
nouncement last September
that he favored Sen. Lyndon
B. Johnson (D-Texas) for the
Democratic Presidential nom
ination has persuaded the
Northern Democrats that they
must pursue their own legis
lative program even harder.
Study Group Formed
The new developments con
vinced the group's leaders
that a more formal organiza
tion was needed to make their
weight felt. On Sept. 1959
they formed the Democratic
Study group, which claims
about 120 members. Whereas
these House Democrats were
loosely organized in the past,
communicating generally on
a personal basis, the DSG has
officers, a policy board, more
regular meetings and "whips"
to round up strength for vot
ing action on the floor.
"This is not an anti-Ray-burn
or an anti-leadership
group," Rep. Lee Metcalf (D
Mont.) chairman of the DSG,
said, "We merely feel the
need of better communica
tion." Another member put it
this way:
"Metcalf's district is a
mountainous, watershed area
half owned by the Federal
Government. Thompson's is
all under concrete. These
like-minded members, seek
ing a unified point of view on
liberal legislation, want to be
informed about each other's
specialties and problems.""
Rep. Frank Thompson Jr. (D-
N.J.) is secretary of the Dem
ocratic Study group and one
of its chief backers.
Stronger Efforts
Since organization in Sep
tember, the use of the term
"study group" has developed
into an understatement. The
exchange of views and in
formal meetings among the
Members involved has pro
duced more militancy among
them. Their efforts to develop
a legislative program for 1960
accordingly will be more
forceful.
These are some of the areas
where the Metcalf group will
concentrate:
Aid to Education-Efforts
to produce a compromise bill
providing Federal aid to edu
cation will complicated by the
DSG's determination to get
an aid-to-school-construction
provision which is unaccept
able to the Administration
and Republicans in Congress
Civil Rights-Most Mem
bers of the DSG have signed
a discharge petition to get a
compromise civil rights bill,
now lodged in . the. House
Rules committee, to the floor.
Depressed Areas - The
DSG will support area rede
velopment legislation which
almost certainly would be ve
toed by the President.
Minimum Wage A bill
to raise the minimum wage
from $1 to $1.25 an hour also
will receive the group's sup
port but this, too, is opposed
by the administration.
Farm Program-The lib
eral Democrats are not com
pletely unified on farm legis
lation but attemps are being
made to outline a program ac
ceptable to most of the group
Social Security -. Among
other improvements in Social
Security, the DSG will sup
port the Forand bill, opposed
by the Administration, to in
corporate health insurance in
the Old Age and Survivors
Insurance program.
Frequent Meetings
The group's position on leg
islation will be molded during
the session at frequent meet
ings. One of the jobs of the
"whips" will be to maintain a
unified position on major is
sues.
Another job the DSG plans
to concentrate on this year
is aiding their members and
new candidates with similar
views in getting elected in
November. In 1958, the Met
calf -Thompson group provid
ed campaign literature to
many liberal Democrats
which, they claim, greatly
helped in increasing their
numbers in the 86th Congress.
Vice chairmen of the DSG
include: Reos. James Roose
velt (Calif.), John A. Blatnik
(Minn.), Frank M. Coffin
Organize
(Maine), William J. Green Jr.
(Pa.) and Abraham J. Multer
(N.Y.).
All three of Oregon's Dem
ocratic representatives have
participated in the group's ac
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ON GOTHAM TOUR Actress Kim Novak took an un
usual sightseeing tour of New York which included riding
in a press car and responding to police calls. Here she
attempts to console Alfredo Colon, 19, a prisoner at the
police station accused of driving a stolen automobile
involved in an accident.
The Family Council
Editor's Note: The Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist.
three clergymen, a newspaper editor,
Each article is a summary of an actual case history. The Council reports
on problems that have been dealt wl u by responsible agencies and
counselors.
Laura J.-Jean is too timid.
Jean R. - I'm not sure it's
the best thing to do.
Laura J. - I am trying to
be of help to a friend who
has become seriously depress
ed because of a love affair.
Jean is in her late 20s and
the man is in his mid-30s.
They plan to be married, but
his mother, a widow, has been
seriously ill for the past two
years. The doctors say there
is no hope, but they don't
know how long she'll last.
Keith can't leave his mother
now and it seems that mar
riage is impossible in the im
mediate future.
Keith has asked Jean to
have relations with him. She
is not religious and has no
objections on those grounds,
but can't overlook her tim
idity about such a relation
ship. I think she is very frus
trated. Jean R. - Laura keeps tell
ing me that physical relations
are just what I need and that
it will be good for me phy
sically and emotionally. She
may be right because I know
I certainly do feel awful. In
Eagle Point Cubs
To Meet Tuesday
Eagle Point-Plans for local
observance of the Cub Scouts'
50th anniversary will be dis
cussed at Pack 48's meeting
at the Eagle Point Grade
school gymnasium at 8 p.m.
Tuesday.
Scheduled for Feb. 16 in
conjunction with Scout Week
is a jubilee banquet for active
Cubs, former Eagle Point
Cubs and former Cubs from
other areas who now live
within the Eagle Point Grade
School district.
Highlighting T u e s d a y's
meeting will be the first Lion
graduation ceremony to be
held by the pack since it
reorganized a few years ago
This also means a new Webe-
los den will be formed.
Pack 48 will meet in the
school gymnasium on the
third Tuesday of each month
until the end of the current
school year.
Interstate Bridges
Placed in Service
Portland - ICPD - Interstate
bridges between Vancouver
and Portland have been
place in full service.
Traffic began moving on the
old interstate span, which has
been reconstructed to brin;
it up to modern standards as
part of a $14, 500,000 improve
ment program.
Jury Returns 'Not
True BUI' in Death
Roseburg - (UPD - The Doug
las county grand jury has re
turned a "not true bill" in the
incident in which Lawrence
Isom, 18, shot his father to
death Christmas day.
Isom admitted to police that
he shot his father after he
found him beating his mother
with a pistoL
To Push
in 1960
tivities, including Charles O.
Porter of the 4th district, Al
Ullman, of the 2nd, and Edith
Green, of the 3rd. Mrs. Green
also is on the DSG's policy
committee.
a women's editor and two writers.
spite of that I find I can't get
over certain feelings of fear
and disgust at the idea of sex
outside the marriage relation
ship.
Keith also assures me that
physical relations will cure
my depression. At times I am
almost convinced and then I
start thinking again and I just
don't know if it's the best
thing to do.
My parents keep bothering
me about when I'm going to
get married. They think I
ought to give Keith up and go
out with others.
The Council: Amateur doc
tors who make prescriptions
for others about delicate,
highly complicated matters
ought to be put out of busi
ness for practicing without a
license.
It is just possible that Jean's
depression could be cured by
more vitamins, sleep or exer
cise. It is also possible that
she needs treatment for a
glandular disturbance. W e
don't know. We are, however,
fairly positive that an affair
with Keith is just what she
doesn't need.
Depression can come about
as the result of prolonged
frustration, but according to
the best medical evidence we
can find, sexual frustration is
borne far more easily by most
humans than a lot of other
frustrations. We don't doubt
that Jean is deeply frustrated
in many ways at this time,
but she must do some serious
thinking about the root of
the problem, and not grab at
makeshift and dangerous
prescriptions.
Jean probably has many
doubts about her own feeling
toward Keith and his toward
her. If these doubts did not
exist the couple would be
able to arrive at a better solu
tion of their problem. They
would decide either to mar
ry and accept the difficulties
involved at this time or wait,
accepting this unhappy period
witn as good grace as pos
sible. They would know that
they want more from one
another than momentary
thrills.
Jean seems to feel the pres
sure from others more than
she should at her age. She
should not feel the need to
discuss these matters with
Laura and to seek boosting
from her friend to do some
thing she claims she doesn't
want to do. Her parents' pres
sure, also, would not affect
her deeply if she knew what
she wanted to do. If she were
sure of her feelings and of
Keith's, the waiting period
would be accepted with a lit
tle more calmness.
.We suspect that Jean has
lost confidence in the future
of this relationship but lacks
the courage to make the
break. What may be needed
here is not more together
ness, but more apartness.
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A Monday. Jan. 11, 1960
Committee Told
Of Shippers'
'Bad-Guessing
Salem (UPD The gover
nor's Emergency Transporta
tion committee was told Fri
day afternoon by Southern
Pacific company that state
shippers have been "bad
guessing" their rail car needs.
This has contributed to rail
car shortage in western Ore
gon, the SP said.
The railroad officials who
attended the meeting were W.
D. . Lamprecht, SP general
manager and W. G. Peoples,
vice president in charge of
traffic.
Help Needed
They told Medford Lum
berman R. J. Hogue, chair
man of the committee: "We
need your help in correctly
anticipating your car needs."
They said if they knew by
the 10th of each month what
the potential western Oregon
loading would be for the fol
lowing month, "it would ma
terially assist moving the
proper cars into position."
Both men denied that the
SP's program of tearing up
trackage on sidings would re
duce car-storage facilities in
Oregon.
Lamprecht said that, last
year Southern Pacific hauled
the largest volume of timber,
paper and wood chips over its
Oregon lines in the history of
its operations.
Oregon Not 'Island'
Lamprecht told the commit
tee that Oregon "isn't an is
land by itself" in respect to
car needs and that shortages
occurred throughout the na
tion. The meeting was attended
by Public Utility Commission
er Jonel Hill and members of
his staff who produced fig
ures indicating the possibility
of an acute shortage in wood
chip rail cars in 1960, with
an estimated 623 cars needed
to augment the normal sup
ply.
The SP officials said that
continuance of an incentive
loading program whereby
near-capacity loads are ship
ped at lowered volume rates
will tend to ease tight car
situations.
Salem Schools
Picked for UNESCO
Salem - (UPD - The Salem
school system is one of five
districts in the United States
chosen to contribute to an in
ternational library which the
U.S. Education office is pre
paring for UNESCO.
UNESCO - United Nations
Educational Scientific and
Cultural organization - will
receive Salem teacher-developed
writings including the
Oregon Story, The Salem
Story, Oregon Picture Set,
Our Indian Friends and Salem
Children in Action.
Coroner's Jury
Says Death Natural
Salem (0PD The death of
Robert Otha Niemi, 37, Gates,
was natural and no violence
was involved, a Marion coun
ty coroner's jury has ruled.
Niemi was found dead last
Tuesday in his home. He had
complained earlier of being
beaten in a fight, and Dis
trict Attorney Hattie Kremen
called the inquest.
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