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TUESDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1960 KEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. .A 5 BUYTTOW . . . LOWEST PRICES OF THE SEASON! Try and Stop By BENNETT CERF In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS npHE NEW TEACHER expected a tough ride when she J- faced her class for the first time, but one bright-eyed lad in the front row reassured her. He seemed so attentive, so willing to learn! Aiier Class, sure enough, he sidled up to her and said, "Teacher, won't you please smile for me again? I like it when you smile." I n o r dinately pleased, the new teacher gave him her broadest grin. "I knew It," whooped the lad triumphantly. "You look just like a cute chipmunk!" Bob Campbell, Los An geles bookseller, persuaded ' a customer to buy his wife a copy of "The Handbook of Knitting." "I guarantee," averred Campbell, "that this book will keep your wife in stitches." A, young lady who followed this customer into the shop stopped Campbell in his tracks, however. "I wont a novel," she de clared, "by that French author, Risque?' at Is The Law? This column is prepared as a public service by the Colleqe 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. Bouncing Checks Given . Judicial Frown J. Sam owed Bill a $200 gro cery bill which had been run j.up over a long period of time. Bill Insisted on payment,, so ' Sam gave him a check drawn -on the local bank, but the check "bounced". Sam had an .account, but the check was .returned marked "insufficient funds'. Bill was extremely angry and swore that he would prosecute Sam for drawing such a check with intent to defraud. Punish ment under many of the worthless check statutes is In most slates. Sam would not be guilty. The courts hold that there is no intent to de fraud if the person to whom the check is written is not deprived of something of vauie. It is said that a person under these circumstances the reason that acceptance of a check docs not pay a debt, unless the check is paid when presented at the bank on which it is drawn. Thus, ho money or property of value passed from Bill to Sam. Sam owed the debt before giving -the check. He still owes the debt. Generally, then, the giv ing of an insufficient funds check for a pre-existing debt is not a crime. - If,, on the other hand, Bill had cancelled and surrender ed a note or chattel mortgage securing the debt, he would have parted with something .of value and Sam would have been guilty. Second Check Given . In one case a man gave a worthless check in exchange for merchandise delivered then and there. When it was discovered that the check was worthless, he gave a second insufficient funds check in ex change for the first one. When charged with giving the second check without suffi cient funds with intent to de- Detectives Happy To See Motorist Milwaukee-Detectives Wil liam Schendel and Joseph Miszewski were happy to see the motorist who ran into their squad car. The two officers had been looking for the driver for al most two months on a theft charge. Red Cross nurses at out- posts, hospitals and nursing stations attend an average of 3,000 births annually in Canada. Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan ( I'" . liJI Fred R. Brennan, C.I.A. MEDFORD IRSURAHCE- Agency PHONE SP 3-7343 27 North m 'WW. fraud, he claimed that the check was given to pay a pre existing debt and that he had received nothing of value. The court disagreed, saying that both checks were simply part of the same transaction in which he had received mer chandise in exchange for a worthless check. It thus ap pears that application of the rule depends on the facts in a particular case. A few courts, especially in the western part of the United States, hold that giving a worthless check in payment of a pre-existing debt does amount to a crime. In all cases,- giving a bad check in payment of a fine is definitely not recommended. Commission To Investigate Rail Disputes Planned Washington-(UPl)-Labor Sec retary James P. Mitchell said .today the railroads and the five, operating rail brother hoods have agreed to the es tablishment of a 15-man presi dential commission to investi gate the industry's bitter dis pute over work rules and pay practices. The agreement put off until at least early 1962 the possi bility of a strike over the work rules issue. The five public members of the commission will be ap pointed by President Eisen hower. Five others will be appointed by the unions and five by management. Will Not Be Binding It will begin investigating the work rules dispute, pos sibly with public hearings, be tween Jan. 1 and Jan. Id 1961, Mitchell said. Recommendations of the group will not be binding, but "will have great weight." Mitchell said. "This is not compulsory arbitration," he added. He hailed the agreement to submit the dispute to the commission as a "monumen tal step forward in one of our basic industries." He said it "is an indication of maturity in labor-management relations which is unparalleled in American history." Deadline for the commis sion's final report is set for Dec. 1, 1961. Therefore, un der the Railway Labor Act, a strike could not be called before February, 1962. WHY NOT SAVE 15 WITH YOUR PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE AGENT? We can package your policies with one expiration date. Easy payments can be arranged. Why not save 15 on most personal lines. Consu"" Hojly Str freer C3 Campaigning in Los An geles, Mr. Nixon made this statement: "As President, I would have available the wise guid ance of President Eisenhower. He has signified that he will remain . . . after leaving the White House ... to continue his heroic work for peace and freedom." WHAT an assei to our na tion that would be! The people of the world TRUST President Eisenhow er. All over the world, in his travels, he is greeted by massed thousands, who chant WE LIKE IKE. These aren't trumpedup demonstr a ti o n s. They are genuine. He isn't IKE to them just by accident or the frivolous use of a nick name. "IKE" is used as a spontaneous expression of af fection. To the massed hundreds of thousands who greet our Pres ident when he travels abroad, he is the personification of the REAL America. WHAT would Ike do if, " after leaving the White House, he is willing to con tinue his work for peace and freedom?" There is talk as this is writ ten that he might serve as a sort of unofficial roving ambassador for his country, He would be a good one. QUESTION: Does Mr. Nixon mean to imply that ONLY in the event of Nixon s election as Presi dent would Mr. Eisenhower be willing to continue his work for his country in the manner indicated? I think not. That would im ply a degree of partisanship that is wholly foreign to Mr: Eisenhower's nature. But at least he would be more freely available and his work would be more effective in the event that Mr. Nixon is our next President because the two have worked very closely to gether in these years that are past. THAT leads up to another question: Is Mr. Truman making votes, or is he LOSING them, by his reversion to his "give 'em hell" techniques of the Triiman-Dnwev camnaien? Personally, I think he is losing votes . for 1 his party's candidates. We admire mm, nf course for beinu himself. But the office of President of the United Stales is a very high and very dignified of fice, and when an ex-President indulges in language that is fit only for the bar room or the gutter, it shocks us. It is hard to escape the conviction that it also shocks people all over the world who hear it or read it and draw their own conclusions from it as to the kind of people Amer icans are. e Between Mrs. Neuberger, Smith Possible Portland fUPH A statewide radio and television debate between Oregon's two U.S. senatorial rivals, Republican Elmo Smith and Democratic candidate Maurine Neuberg- er, concerning defense and foreign policy was in the off ing today. The debate was proposed by Smith here Monday at a press conference. Smith said he was deeply concerned about Mrs. Neuberger s fail ure to define what she oe- lieves about the defense policy of the United States. Ample Opportunity Smith said that three weeks ago in Salem Mrs. Neuberger said she would not risk a nuclear war to defend the treaty obligations of the U.S. to West Berlin or Formosa Smith added that since then she has had ample opportunity to defend her position or change her opinion but said she has done neither. 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