MEDFORD MAIL TRIBU!)' MEDFOR3. OREGON
MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1960
MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1960
B 9
COURT HELD
am
a public setviie bv the
COLLEGE of LAW
VILiAMETTE UNIVERSITY
Church Held Liable For
Injury To Bingo Player '
: Mabel paid a dollar to play
in a bingo game being con
ducted in a church basement.
Although she was not a mem
ber of the church, she attend
ed in response to publicity
circulated to attract a crowd.
The game was conducted sole
ly for the purpose of making
money for use in the church's
various activities.
Unfortunately, the chair in
which Mabel sat while playing
was not in good repair. It col
lapsed and she was injured.
She brought an action against
the church to obtain damages
for her injuries. The church
defended on the basis of
"charitable immunity," a doc
trine which provides an im
munity to charitable institu
tions regarding any tortious
act committed by their agents.
This exists as an effort to pro
tect trust funds of charitable
institutions.
THE COURT HELD: The
supreme court of an eastern
state, in this 1960 case, how
ever, held that the church was
liable. It reasoned that im
munity from liability depend
ed upon whether or not the
church was engaged in the
charitable purposes for which
it was founded at the time the
injury occurred. In this case,
the court held that the church
was conducting a "game of
chance" as a business enter
prise; therefore, it was liable
and must respond in damages.
This column of general le-:
gal principles is presented
by the Willamette University
College of Law. It is not to be
taken as legal advice. Slight
changes in the facts may
change the outcome of a case.
Ontario Accident
Victim Recovering
Ontario, Orc.-IUPD - A St.
Helens, Ore., woman who was
injured se:iously in a four-car
crash just north of here that
took the lives of two of her
children was listed In satis
factory condition at Holy
Rosary Hospital here today.
Mrs. Bert L. Chaffin had
been listed on the serious list
since the accident occurred
early Saturday morning on icy
and fog-shrouded highway 30
six miles north of Ontario.
Killed in the accident were
Mrs. Cliaffin's two children,
Bert, 8, and Edith, 6-months.
Her husband and two other
children also were injured
NEWSWOMAN DIES
San Diego, Calif.-lUPU-Emlly
Stoker, 53, veteran news
paperwoman who served as
club editor and general as
signment reporter for the San
Diego Union, died Saturday
night at San Diego hospital.
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NO DOLLS, PLEASE-Reaching (or a book lo read In her
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BLM Starts Program
To Streamline Land
Use and Management
Washington - (CQ) - A $4.1
billion 52 -year program to
streamline the management
and use of nearly 500 million
acres of public lands has been
launched by the Bureau of
Land Management, the princi
pal custodian of the public do
main. But it's headed for
trouble in Congress.
The program is called Proj
ect 2012 and its aim is the
sympathetic, balanced and co
ordinated development of the
nation s public lands and re
sources, including minerals,
timber, forage, wildlife, water
and recreation. The target
date for completing the pro
gram is the year 2012.
Project 2012 is primarily a
conservation program and as
such helps fulfill one of the
principal responsibilities of
the Interior Department, the
Bureau s parent agency. Con-
servation, and the related
tasks of management and de
velopment of natural re
sources, is not the assigned
job of any one office in the
Department. Instead, it is the
responsibility of each of its
major operational offices in
the areas which they manage.
These offices carry on a co
ordinated effort to maintain
maximum conservation of the
nation's natural resources.
Two Major Obstacles
Two major obstacles may
prevent completion of Project
2012: Congressional appropri
ation of funds amounting to
more than three times the cur
rent annual appropriation, and
passage of certain key legisla
tion which the 86th Congress
rejected.
If the $4.1 billion which the
Bureau expects to spend on
Project 2012 is distributed
evenly over the 82 years, it
would require an annual ap
propriation 0 1 $78,846,154.
The Bureau's appropriation
for fiscal 1961 was $26.3 mil
lion. The legislation which the
Congress turned down this
year would have permitted
the Bureau lo sell certain of
its lands for urban, suburban
and business uses. Under the
proposal, which BLM said was
necessary to carry out the
program, the Bureau would
have sold the land to brokers
who then would have sub
divided it for sale to Indi
viduals. C o n g r ess, fearing
speculation by the middlemen,
rejected this suggestion and
made no attempt to pass a
satisfactory substitute.
Sen. James E. Murray (D-
Mont.), chairman of the Sen
ate Interior and Insular Af
fairs committee which has
jurisdiction over most of the
legislation relating lo the pro
gram, wrote Secretary of the
Interior Fred A. Scaton that
his proposal was "late, but
welcome" despite the fact that
it lacked data on investment
and operating costs and a
state by-statc analysis for both
short- and long-term periods.
Murray said this Information
was necessary In order to ana
lyze the program. The In
terior Department said it will
supply this information.
To Reclass Lands
Specifically, t h e program
called for the reclassification
of all Bureau lands and the
transfer of some to more ap
propriate ownership; an in
ventory of all public mineral
resources; Increasing public
land forage sufficiently to
permit a 300 per cent increase
in the nation's livestock and
big game reserves; raising the
nation's annual timber yield
from 1.1 billion to 1.3 billion
board feet; and completing
surveys of all unchartered
public lands.
BLM is charged with man
aging about 477 million acres
of approximately 800 million
acres of federally owned land.
In addition, it surveys all fed
eral lands, manages publicly
owned mineral resources on
private land and carries on
numerous joint management
activities with other federal
agencies.
The program would be of
special interest to Alaska
where nearly 300 million
acres of the Bureau's 477 mil
lion acres are located. About
177 million acres lie in 11
western states and 119,000 in
other parts of the country. . .
(Copyright I960,'
Congressional Quarterly Inc.)
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Look fresh as a daisy morn
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bow. Sew-easy in no
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Printed Pattern 9002: Miss
es' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20.
Size 16 takes 4V yards 39
inch fabric.
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