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o o o TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, n K 5 Candidates Hesitant To Forecast Outcome of Election in Michigan o 1960 I V 'I 4 $Tn.m .V. lkS: BETURNING TO SCHOOL Mrs. Donna Alt, 17, was to go back to school today. The Ohio First District Court of Ap peals has ordered the Loveland Board of Education to admit her to classes at Loveland, O., high school. The board planned an immediate appeal. She has been refused admil tance because of a ruling which prohibited married students. Mrs. Alt married Pfc. Ted Alt last May. He is now overseas and she wants to complete her education. (UPI Telephoto) What Is The Law? This column is prepared as a public service by the College of Law, Willamette University, Salem, to explain basic legal principles, not to provide legal advice. The reader is cautioned not to apply these cases to his own problems without an attorney's advice, for differing facts may change the outcome. . Restrictive Employment Covenants Trouble Courts Anson, upon graduating from a college of architec ture, went to work for Smith & Sons, architects. As part of his contract of employment, he agreed that if he ever left the employ of Smith & Sons, he would not compete with them in the architecture bus iness anywhere in the same state for 20 years. After gain ing two years of valuable ex perience with Smith & Sons, Anson quit and started his own business in another city In the same state. Smith- & Sons then brought suit, ask ing the court to order Anson to close his business. Is Restraint Reasonable? The courts have been trou bled by the so-called "re strictive employment coven ants," in which the employee agrees not to compete with his employer should he quit his job. One of the questions asked by the courts is whe ther the restraint is reason able in scope. Generally such a restraint must be limited geographically, and cannot cover the entire nation. The different state courts are in disagreement as to whether a state-wide restraint is too hard on the employee. Most courts do not require that t.ff vA M; such restraints have any time limit, but if the rest of the covenant is too strict, a short time limit may induce the court to go ahead and enforce the restraint. The courts al ways consider the nature of the employee's work. A chain store janitor, for example, probably could not legally be forbidden to start a store of his own, -whereas a chain store manager probably could be so forbidden, The covenant cannot be too harsh on the employee. If it would cause him to be un employed, or to move from his life-long home, or give up the work for which he is best trained, the courts will not enforce it. Would Not Be Enforced Moreover, if the courts feel that the restraint will create a monopoly, thereby prevent ing competition and free en terprise, or denying a needed service to the public, the re straint will not be enforced. Most courts will either en force all of the covenant, or none of it. However, a few courts follow the "blue pen cil" rule, and enforce the part of the restraint that is rea sonable, and reject the rest. In Anson's case, the court refused to make him close his business. Since his business was in another city, he was not competing unfairly with his former employer. To en force the covenant would have forced him and his fam ily on public relief, and would have given Smith & Sons a monopoly in the ar chitecture business. Can we stay free with.. RATIONED EDUCATION? Trained minds are more powerful than missiles. And now America is engaged in a great education race. We must not lose. Yet today many of our colleges and uni versities are already cwwded. And in just ten years, appli cations are expected to double. Mi can help prevent it'3 college crisis. But you timt help now! Give generously to the col lege of your choice. Help it to expand its facilities and pay adequate salaries to its faculty. Send your contribution now! learn more nbout this urgent col lege crliil. Write for your free booklet, "OPEN WIDE THE COl LEGE DOOR," Box 34, Times Square Stotion, New York 36, NX PiMithti u o puHie ".' cooperation irU Tht tdrertin Council and the Ketctpap" M serijinfl Extculites Auonalion. Grange News Phoenix Grange Glenda and Susan Cox en tertained members of Phoe nix Grange with piano solos during the lecturer's program preceding the meeting of Sept. 27. They are granaaaugniers of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Cox. The degree team is prac ticing in preparation for put- tine on the first ana secona degree work at Sunny Valley Grange in Josephine county, Oct. 8. Members voted to nave a Booster night, Oct. 25, with potluck dinner to precede the event. It will be an open meeting. Mrs. Willis House, Home Economics club chairman, re quested memt4s take me bands from ioiger coiiee una; the stars are needed, or the wrapper from the instant (r. fee jar. This is necessary to acquire the cifee-maker that ifcs shown tne display V?ble. An announcement was made by Marcus Norton in re gards to displays of all types of wood products that will be hnwn in Medford in the near future. . . m 1 X.J Serving were mi. aim mw. Cox and Herb Thorny The value of meat exports from New Zealand dropped $30 million between 1958 and 1959, to a total of $205 million. Results Appear To Be Toss-Up; Demos Have Edge By RAYMOND R. COFFEY Detroit - (UPD - Ordinarily it's no trouble at all getting a politician to predict a land slide victory for him and his party in an election. But in Michigan even the candidates are a little hesitant to forecast the outcome of the Nov. 8 election, and in their hesitancy seems to lie the truth of the current political situation in the Wolverine state. The coming election in Michigan appears to observ ers at this point to be a toss- up, with the Democrats per haps holding an edge in the races for state offices and U, S. senator and the Repub licans holding an advantage in the presidential contest. Detroit Free Press political writer Ray Courage, who re cently completed a doorbell ringing tour of a dozen com munities, summed it up this way: - 'The presidential race in Michigan is a tossup." Neither Vice President Richard M. Nixon or Sen. John F. Ken nedy so far has "made signifi cant gains. And one of every four voters interview is un decided." Presidential Race Tops On the state level, Courage found the races for governor and U. S. senator shoved into the background by the presi dential contest but that "if either candidate for governor making headway, it is Swainson the Democrat, tie benefits from a pleasing per sonality, a want-to-be-mothered look and his war injuries." Two big factors in tne elec tion in Michigan are: 1. Six-term Democratic uov. G. Mennen Williams is step ping aside and, 2. Historically Michigan has gone Republican in presidential elections, wnn the GOP carrying tne stale for Thomas E. Dewey in ihio and President Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956 even wnen Democrat Williams was win ning big at the state level. Nixon and Kennedy would appear to agree witn tne xoss up assessment. Both have nmr.aiened in the state al ready and both have promised to come back in pursuit of Michigan's 20 electoral votes. Religious Question Raised The question of Kennedy's religion has popped in a small way in some outstate areas that are generally Protestant and generally Republican any how. But it would not appear to be a major issue here since, for example, both of Michi gan's present U. S. senators are Roman Catholics and the late Frank Murphy, also a Catholic, had no trouble get ting elected governor. One thing that could harass Kennedy in heavily Demo cratic Wayne County Detroit, where civil rights is a major issue with the large Negro population and with organiz ed labor, is the fact that Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas is his running mate for vice president. The first reaction of Gov. Williams and other Michigan delegates to the national Dem- ennvention to John son's selection was anger and disappointment. Some dele gates even muueieu ing "betrayed" and "double crossed." . Johnson 'Adds Nothing Just before leaving for the convention Williams had said Johnson could "add nothing to the ticket in Michigan. nt aw that they have him, Williams and other Dem ocrats say mey However,' up to now they have not called upon him to campaign in Detroit or Wayne Democrats freely and al most universally grant that not having Williams at the A- th state ticket this year will hurt them. Or, as i onkinn Democratic or ganization official put it, S ,.u... him the outcome v.o certain as u won v -- would be with him. ntv, Handicapped The candidates for governor this year arc present Demo cratic Lt. Gov. John B. Swain son a handsome, baby-faced .,n.mB man of 3D hnth his legs to a land mine in World War II, and Republican Paul D. Bagwell, 47, a Michi an State University profes- .t- tne tft Williams i.j sor who ivl" -w . 1958 arfwho, like his con "rp hv-ipai hanSSap. ... , nrinnled TS i S?a boyhood bout with , rA " J i, p around withVSe aim i"; help of canes. n?v, candidates flfor U. S senator are incumbent Demo- crate PatricK v. muim"i 65, and Republican U. S. Rep, M.,i M Bentley. 43, a mil lionaire and former Foreign Service officer from Dewey I old hometown, Owosso, Mich Automoible Can Have Serious Affect On Student's Grades. Survey Shows V By LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent An automobile may be a social asset, to a teen-ager but it can also be a serious academic liability. High school principals have been saying that for years. Their judgment has now been strongly cor roborated by bouis Cassels a nationwide survey conducted by the All state Insurance companies. The survey covered a large sample of the U.S. high school population-20,000 typ ical juniors and seniors in 29 communities, representing all sections of the country and all social-economic brackets. It shows a definite relation ship between driving habits and academic performance. The higher a student's mile age, the lower his grades are likely to be. For the sake of conscien tious teen-agers, it should be emphasized that occasional use of the family car for dates does not appear to have a det rimental effect on school work. Majority Restricted The survey shows that about 75 per cent of all high school juniors and seniors have driver's licenses, and nearly 60 per cent have ac cess to automobiles "for social purposes." The overwhelming majori ty of the A and B students are restricted by their parents or voluntarily restrict them selves -to week end driving, predominantly on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Relatively few of these upper bracket students use cars on school nights. The percentage of students using cars on week nights rises steadily as you go down the academic ladder. At the extreme-seven nights week-there are 20 times as Youths Charged With Illegal Possession Medford police took two youths into custody and ar rested a third Saturday on charges of illegal possession of alcoholic beverages. Two youths, ages 15 and 16, were questioned and re leased to the custody of their parents. The third, Gregory Dean Hildebrand, 18, of 602 North Riverside ave., was arrested and released on post ing $35 bail. Police said the three boys were picked up after four six packs of beer were found in car in which they were riding. many 1 students as A stu dents. The survey also shows that students who own cars are more likely to drive exces sively and to make poor grades. The percentage of car owners is highest among F students, next highest among D students, and so on until it reaches a minimum among the A students. Another finding should give pause to parents who One-Yard Wonders Sack. One. W 9073 ONE SIZE MEDIUM think they can solve the car problem by telling teen-agers: "You can have a car when you earn the money to pay for it." Students who work at part time jobs in order to support a car, the survey shows, are twice as likely to make fail. ing grades in school than other students. Finally, it is clear from the survey that a year s differ ence in age makes a lot of difference in the teen-ager's ability, to handle the heady freedom of an automobile without getting into trouble at school. Students who ob tain a car, or extensive use of a car, at age 16 nearly al ways show a sharp drop in academic standing. When car privileges are withheld for a year longer, the effect on grades is considerably diminished. Summing up the findings, the authors of the Allstate survey conclude that "paren tal laxity" can be blamed for most situations in which pre mature ownership or exces sive use of cars leads a teen ager to academic disaster. Status Symbol To modern youngsters, the automobile has become jin important status symbol. Many high school students feel that access to a car is es sential to social success. It's up to their parents to main tain a wise and firm control over the situation, restricting driving privileges to week ends or other occasions when school work won't be dis rupted. Above all, parents should not pass the buck by telling a high school youth that he can have a car when he can buy it himself and pay for his own gas and oil. If he accepts the challenge, the time he devotes to "working for the car" will be deducted from his studies. And he'll feel that he has the right to drive as often and as far as he can afford financial ly. That's likely to be a lot more than he can afford academically. Road Builders Hear biscussion of Proaram Fundamental policy deci sions on the national highway program cannot be postponed much longer, Louis W. Pren tiss, executive vice president of the American Road Build ers' association, declared at the recent association conven tion in Atlanta, Ga. He was referring to a high way program which includes the new Pacific freeway now being constructed through the Rogue valley. The convention was attended by Jackson County Engineer Robert J. Carstensen. "The most urgent and thorniest decisions to be made are those concerned with the financing of the federal-aid program, and especially the interstate system," Prentiss said. "First of these decisions is do we Intend to complete the interestate system on schedule and if not when?" The 1956 highway act set up a schedule of authoriza tions for the interstate pro gram calling for the final ap portionment of funds to be made for the fiscal year 1969. Apportionments have been made already for each fiscal year through 1962. Including the 1963 appor t i o n m e n t, which will be made next year, there are only seven more In terstate apportionment au thorized. The seven future allotments will be insufficient to pay the federal share of the Interstate system. 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