tUESDAY,
Council
Editor'. Note: Tbe Family Coun
ill coniliu of a Judje, p.ycbla
trist. three clergymen, a newspaper
editor, a women' editor and two
writer. Each artlela li a lummarji
of an actual case hlitory The
Council repnrti on problem, that
have been dealt with by reiponiible
agencies ana counieiori.
Stuart I. - Now that he no
longer needs mother's serv
ices, he wants to send her to
live with us.
Herman I. - We want to sell
our home and travel. He has
room.
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Stuart I. - Our mother is in
her 70s and for the past 21
years, since our father died,
siie has made her home with
Herman. While his children
were growing up she acted as
maid, nurse and babysitter,
Now that she can no longer
be of service, Herman and his
wife feel she's in the way.
They want me to take her
now.
Of course they don't ad-
mit the real reason-that she's
outlived her usefulness to
them, Instead he says she's
like a fish out of water,
doesn't enjoy being with the
type of friends Herman invites
over, doesn't fit with the new
pattern of their life.
She'd certainly be no more
happy here. We're 1,000 miles
away from her familiar
haunts. Our children hnrdly
know her. To them she s a pic
ture over the desk and a dim
recollection from two visits
over a span of IS years.
' Herman's thinking of him
self, not mother, with this pro
posal. ,
Herman I. - I took mother
In 21 years ago, when she bad
no place to go. Stuart could
have had her then, too, but
he was just setting up house
keeping with his bride, and
they played deaf and dumb on
the subject of mother.
No domestic work was ever
asked or expected of her. Cer
tainly it was never forced on
her, as Stuart hints. We al
ways had part-time help. But
since mother wasn't the club
woman or career-woman type,
he kept busy and derived
pleasure, I'm sure, from cook
ing and baking and sewing
for the children, , .-.
. Now they're grown up and
not living at home. Our home
is the center for many com
mittee meetings from organi
zations devoted to political
and social causes that my wife
and I are Interested in.
We'd like to move to a tiny
apartment and be free to trav
el in a few years. Stuart has
a big house and can easily set
tle mother there. His young
children would delight her.
She misses ours and is bored
and discontented here. There
Is nothing In our community
to hold her. , .,
' ' The Councilt ' All through
this harangue, one' listens for
the still small voice-mother's.
What's her line? Ih this game
of who'll take mother, she
probably feels like a ball and
she'd rather -hide or go out of
bounds than belong to either
side! She may want to get
away from. both "adoring"
sons, but doesn't want to hurt
them by saying so.
From what we gather, Her
man can no 'longer accomo
date her and Stuart doesn't
want her. So the logical com
promise would be for the
principals to get together and
work out a pleasant living ar
rangement for. mother, pref
erably with a "foster family."
since she enjoys a commingl
ing oi ago groups. The local
family service agency can as
sist in a congenial placement.
Thcro's quite a demand, In
cidentally, for' displaced
grandmothers to serve as fos
ter grandmas, In homes that
never knew a real one. It's
been found that old and
young, when not hampered by
the kind of emotionally tinKcd
memories about each other
which blood relations have,
can get along famously.
But a word about these sons,
Stuart's excuse about not up
rooting mom f r om familiar
haunts sounds like hogwash
Her roots from one son's home
to the other's are easily trans
plantable, sue d nnvo a new
set of grandchildren to nur
ture and watch grow. And the
kids would have a flesh-and
blood ancestor to get acquaint
ed with, rather than a picture
on the wall. As for Herman, if
he wants to move lo smaller
quarters and mom wants to bo
nearby, he can't relocate her
by "dumping" her on Stuart
but must bend every effort to
meet her wishes. In a three
way talk,- we hope, the I.'s,
will each speak up honestly on
what they really wnnt.
We're reminded of, the words
of a Judge In a Domestic Re
lations court in Brooklyn last
year: "In all my years on
the bench I've heard hundreds
of parents fight over who gets
the children, but never have
heard children fight over who
gets the parents!"
Washington -IUPII- The U.S.
Forest Service has asked Con
grcss for a supplemental ap
Dropriatlon of $68,717,000 to
pay fur Klamath Indian for-
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Family
JANUARY 17. 1961
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ROCKET TOWER-Service tower for Amer
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Saturn, now dominates Cape
Canaveral, Fla., skyline as tallest gantry in
Free World. Gantry shown here rising above
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The real work of Oregon's
51st Legislative Assembly al
ready was under way by the
end of the first week with 161
bills, many of them ticking
like timebombs, in the hopper
awaiting explosions of debate
in committee and on the floor.
Indications were becoming
apparent of the legislators'
future action on such propos
als as Gov. Mark Hatfield's
g o v e r nment reorganization
plan, 62 appropriation bills
already introduced, some of
the tax measures being dis
cussed, and other hot potatoes.
The real workers, legisla
tors and employes, had their
tasks assigned to them as or
ganization of the 20 House and
20 Senate standing committees
proceeded as fast as clerks
were hired and their offices
set up.
And the real movers and
shakers, men who would
wield the power and reap the
glory, if any, made their first
efforts to exert influence and
draw battle lines.
In Line of Fire
Senate President Harry Bol
vin (D-Klamath Falls) and
House Speaker Robert B.:Dun-
can (D-Medford) were the first
to place themselves in the line
of f Ira as they announced com
mittee appointments. Boivin,
by shunting aside his chief
opponents (Sens. Alfred Cor
bett of Portland and Robert
Straub of Springfield, both
Democrats) in tho presidency
contest to relatively unimport
ant committees, firmed up the
Democratic liberal opposition
which will dog him through
out the session.- Duncan drew
prompt - Republican sniping
for keeping the most power
ful House committee positions
firmly in Democratic hands.
Standouts in the week's
skirmishes were Reps. Clar
ence Barton (D-Coquille), who
spearheaded the House's pas
sage of a resolution allowing
expense : money ' (over and
above salary and travel funds)
to legislators, and Rep. George
Layman (R-Newberg) who led
the unsuccessful opposition
Court Test Seen
The resolution itself (not
requiring the governor's sig
nature like regular bills) prob
ably is headed for a court test
of constitutionality if Secre
tary of State Howell Appling
refuses to hand over the re
quested expense money.
Among other requests for
funds was Attorney General
Robert Y. Thornton s an
nouncement that he would ask
the Legislature for $52,058 to
continue his crime prevention
program. Hatfield had chop
ped the amount from the state
executive departments budget
This was a direct slap at the
Democratic attorney general
for which the Democratic law
makers may retaliate by giv
Ing Thornton what he wants
(or what many believe is r
needed and popularly-support
ed attempt to "do something'
about juvenile delinquency
and adult crime
The Ways and Means com
mlttee, headed by Sen. Dan
Thiol (U-Astorln) and Rep
Barton this week begun con
sideration of Hatfield's high
esl evcr slHte government bud
get (including appropriations
for such state agencies as the
expensive Highway depart
ment - $102,936,000). The
Democratic leadership has
given notice that it wants to
cut down on some of the gov-
crnor's money requests.
Among Chtei Topics
Party lines are not so clear
In the expected hassle over
Hatfield's government reor
ganization plan. This, Induct
ing a Senate bill for creation
of seven anew government de
partments, is one of the chief
lopirt for the House and Sen
ate State and Federal Affairs
committees
this week. The
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By
Marguerite. W. Wright
son (D-Portland) and Rep.
Norman R. Howard (D-Port-
land), will have a great deal
to say about how much of the
governor's program passes
Whereas Republicans expect
to get conservative Demo
cratic support for some of the
governor's other programs, it
is the Republicans who are
balking at some of Hatfield's
reorganization ideas. Both the
liberal Democratic leaders,
such as Sen. Robert Straub
(D-Sprlngfield) and conserva
tive Democratic leaders, such
as Pearson, havt expressed
strong approval of the gov
ernor's wish to abolish the
Board of Control (which runs
state institutions), for ex
ample.
Speaker Duncan challenged
Gov. Hatfield to round up Re
publican support to pass his
own program, much of wnicn
the Democrats favor in prin
ciple. But observers are won
dering if the Democrats might
not be tempted to attach
price-tag to their support -
other words, find out if Hat
field wants his way badly
enough to make some deals to
get It,
The governor's troubles are
not only with the legislators.
His long - brewing disagree
ments with the state Public
Welfare commission appear to
be about to boil all over the
stove.
Work Programs Praised
In his message to the Legis
lature. Hatfield praised the
Work programs for able-bodied
welfare recipients now under
way in some counties. He has
lone favored such programs
but the state welfare people
have dragged their heels in
setting them up, he feels.
Similarly, he Is critical of the
welfare officials for not mak
ing federal surplus food easi
ly available to needy families
in Oregon, some of whom are
said to "go to bed hungry
every night.
The governor's demand that
the state welfare commission
move its offices from Port
land to Salem has aroused
active opposition by many of
its employees, and a bill to
block the move has been in
troduced by Reps. Grace Peck,
Beulah Hand, Juanlta Orr,
Edward Fadeley, and Sens,
Richard Grocncr, Robert
Straub, and Monroe Sweet-
land, among 26 others (most
ly Democrats).
Hatfield could take drastic
action and fire people who do
not agree with him, but that is
a risky business - illustrating
the dilemmas facing a gover
nor under the present govern
mcnt set-up of quasi-independ
ent boards and commissions
The joint meeting of the
State and Federal Affnirs
committees to give the re
organization bills their first
consideration before splitting
them up for discussion by the
separate committees in turn
follows the pattern already
set by a Joint meeting of the
House and Senate Education
committees the first week
School Needs Higher
Led by committee chairmen
Sen. Swcetland and Rep. Tom
Monagham (D - Milwnukio),
members learned that public
schools in Oregon will need
$35 to $65 millions more to
operate by 1966-67, and heard
the education Interim commit
tee's proposals.
One of the most widely-dis
cussed of these is the proposal
that state support for opera
tional costs of schools gradual
ly be Increased to 50 per cent
This would help relieve the
property tax burden, strained
to the limits In some areas
now, and assure an adequate
basic "foundation program
education for each Orcgifl
child no maftcr how poor or
remote his school district.
One recommendation by the
Saturn blockhouse stands 310 feet. Construc
tion of tower is finished, and electrical
Installations are expected to be completed
by April. First Saturn is expected to be
launched from Cape Canaveral in fall, 1961.
(UPI Telephoto)
state aid should be distributed
so as to guarantee every
school district the same
amount of money for its
school children. Every dis
trict (there are now 504 wide
ly varied school districts)
would receive a minimum of
state aid. But districts would
have to meet certain standards
of safety, efficiency and gen
eral operation (set by the
State Department of Educa
tion) to get -that state money
Distribution to schools of
the state's basic school funds
has been fought over ever
since the fund was set up in
1947.- This interim commit
tee's report notes that "the
hardest task undertaken by
the committee was Its attempt
to resolve the distribution con
troversy that has so long split
educators, the public and leg
islators.
Major Wrangle Seen
The committee recommends
that the question of the ulti
mate 50 per cent goal of stale
support should be referred to
the voters so that the citizens
of Oregon will all have a
chance to become better in
formed about the school fi
nancing problems and then ex
press their opinions at an elec
tion. Despite the committee's
walking - on - egg - shells ap
proach to the fund distribu
tion problem, there is bound
to be another major educa
tion wrangle this session. At
the joint session of the educa
tion committees, when the
distribution plan was reveal
ed, conservative-minded Sen.
Ben Musa (D-The Dalles), said
flatly, "I don't think I'm going
to like it."
He may turn out to be a
rallying point for the "agin-
ners once the real war
breaks out again.
BEAVER'S TALE: Funny-
of-the-weck is the letter to a
Salem paper praising an an
onymous gentleman who walk
ed his pet poodles every day
in Bush Pasture park, clean
ing up after the dogs with
little shovel." . . . Turns
out the meticulous, public-
spirited dog-owner is Sen. Al
Flegel of Roseburg!
Grange Notes
Upper Applegale
The Upper Applegate
Grange was called to order
with Master Anna Scott in
the chair. All officers were
present.
County Deputy Roscoe Rob
erts installed five new offi
cers. They include Forbes
Brown, treasurer; Mortin
G r i e r, gatekeeper; Lulu
Brown, Flora; Ed Finley,
Stewart; and James Winning.
ham, executive committee.
Lee and Floran Westphal
were ogligated in the third
and fourth degrees.
Deputy Roberts also in
structed the officers in the
new flag presentation cere
mony. The final report of the
Home Economics club chair
man Edna Sawyer was given
The Ruch Parent-Teacher as
sociation is to give a record
ing, "Communist Indoctrina
tion," on Feb. 3. The meeting
will be open to the public.
urucc nlanlcy gave an ex
planatory talk on the county
planning commission.
An open house meeting will
be held Feb. 24.
The lecturer announced
that each committee is to put
on the program once each
year. Men s and women s
quartettes are to be organiz
ed. Ed and Eleanor Ramsy of
fered to train the singers.
Dana Gearhart announced
there would be a white ele
phant sole at the next meet
ing. Deputy Roberts closed
the Grange. Refreshments
were served by Mr. and Mrs.
Leroy Offenbachcr, Mr. and
Mrs. Clifford Jones and Mr
and Mrs. Edward Henderson,
under the direction of Dana
Gearhart, serving chairman
for the first quarter of the
new year.
Upeer 9um.
MeLcod - U t r Vn,
Grange held Its fir meeting
of the year Jan. 5 with How
MEDFORD
Mrs. Neuberger Initiated Into
Formal Senate Hearing Rites
By YVONNE FRANKLIN
Mail Tribune
Washington Bureau
Washington (Special) - Sen.
Maurine Neuberger and Sec
retary of Agriculture-designate
Orville Freeman were
initiated into
the formalized
rites of Sen
ate hearings
o n prospec
tive cabinet
officers last
week, and
both were
properly sub
dued as befits
Franklin the n o v i c e
amongst his seniors.
The small agriculture com
mittee room was as bulging
with humanity as the storage
bins are with wheat. At a
long table in the center of
the room sat 11 senators,
flanking the witness. Specta
tors, reporters, TV cameras
and cameramen were jammed
so closely to them as to be
almost participants.
Chairman Allen Ellender of
Louisiana presided at one
end, Mrs. Neuberger was
near the other. Freeman sat
between Democrats Talmadge
and Holland, facing the Re
publicans. Questions of each
senator focused attention on
all the pressures which will
play upon Freeman in the
months ahead. Most pressed
the agricultural interests of
his state:
Sens. Aiken of Vermont,
dairying; Holland of Florida,
citrus fruits; Talmadge of
Georgia, cotton and poultry;
Young of N. Dakota and
Hickenlooper of Iowa, grains,
cattle and hogs; Cooper of
Kentucky, tobacco, McCarthy
of Minnesota, dairying; John
ston of S. Carolina, Jordan of
N. Carolina, tobacco and
other; Mrs. Neuberger, fruit,
lumber, wheat and other.
Four-Year Man
The ritual demands that an
administration man be mod
est and unassuming, yet forth
right. He must answer "yes"
to as many questions as pos
sible and make obseisance to
the fact that he is dealing
Mrs. Bash To Attend
Oregon City Meeting
Mrs. Frank Bash, Medford,
a state commissioner for the
Oregon State Public Welfare
commission, is expected to at
tend the last of a series of six
monthly sessions of the OSP-
WC held outside of Portland.
The meeting will be hosted
by the Clackamas county wel
fare commission, and is sched
uled Friday, Jan. 27, begin
ning at 9:30 a.m. in the Ore
gon Tri-City Chamber of Com
merce building in Oregon
City.
The meeting, which is open
to the public, will recess for
a noon no-host luncheon, and
the afternoon session is ex
pected to adjourn by mid-afternoon.
Similar sessions, drawing
county public welfare commis
sioners, and administrators,
civic leaders, officials and oth
er interested persons state
wide, have been held in La
Grande, Salem, Grants Pass,
Bend, and The Dalles.
Salem-IUPII-The House Com
mittee on Public Health and
Welfare will begin considera
tion Wednesday of a bill to
prevent transfer of public wel
fare commission headquarters
from Portland to Salem.
All new officers were present
but one,
During the lecture hour a
musical program was present
ed by Dewayne and Cliffton
Chapman and Don Gillispie.
Mrs. Dorothy Tackstein, past
president of the Home Eco
nomics club, presented the
past masters pin to Mrs. Eda
Torrance, The next s o, c 1 a 1
night will be Thursday', Jan.
19.
The Home Economics club
met Jan. 12 at the home of
Mrs. Dorothy Tackstein on
Big Butte. Mrs. Carl Richard
son was co-hostess.
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MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD,
with seasoned veterans. He
will be but a four-year man;
some agriculture senators
have servefi 20.
Senators Holland, Tal
madge and Hickenlooper
slowly and pointedly remind
ed him that the administration
proposes, Congress disposes.
Freeman bobbed his head
"yes sir" when asked if he
understood that "Congress
makes the laws, you only
carry them out, regardless of
whether you agree with them
or not."
These Senators are the men
to whom Freeman must come
time and again to plead for
authority for whatever plans
he and his experts propose.
On direct questions asking for
specific answers to agricul
ture's problems, he pleaded
lack of time for study, and the
need for consultation with
the experts-particularly the
Senators. He proposed "to in
crease farm income; to as
sure the U. S. an adequate
supply of food, and to put
America's farm abundance to
constructive use at home and
throughout the world."
After two hours of question
ing, lunchtime was imminent.
Sen. Hickenlooper had just
led Freeman on a wearying
20 minutes down the labyrin
thine path of specific propos
als on surpluses and controls
when Mrs. Neuberger's turn
finally came to speak. She
spoke briefly, turning atten
tion to the consumer by say
ing: Consideration for Consumer
"The consumers are inclin
ed to feel he is receiving a
double-barreled shotgun ap
proach, that in order to give
the farmer a good income he
has to pay the high price and
the taxes to support it. I
would like you to give consid
eration to the consumers."
Freeman assured her that
he would and promised that
he would have someone on his
staff responsible for this area.
Mrs. Neuberger had interrupt
ed herself during comment on
consumers to say,
"I don't think being a
farmer is necessary for the
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secretary's job. I have been a
farmer and have done cow
milking and appreciate it
from both sides."
Mrs. Neuberger also ex
pressed interest in the Forest
Service and the reforestation
program: "I am concerned
with its administration and
development because I have
seen in the immediate past a
decline in reforestation. I
think this is important and I
think the lumber supply is
being affected by present poli
cies." Freeman pointed to his
Unwed Mothers
Bill Introduced
Salem-iM-A bill was intro
duced in the Oregon Senate
Monday allowing an unmar
ried mother to take Circuit
court action against a man
accused of being the father
of her child.
At present, such complaints
go to the Justice court. The
bill was recommended by the
Interim Committee on Public
Welfare.
A senate joint resolution
was introduced amending lim
its on extent of public indebt
edness in water development
and other projects. Sponsored
by Sens. Vernon Cook (D
Troutdale), Donald Husband
(R-Eugene), and Alfred Cor
bett (D-Portland), the purpose
is to equalize taxation pro
cedures in all counties.
The resolution calls for a
public debt not to exceed l'fc
per cent of true cash value
of all taxable property. The
1V4 per cent compares to the
six per cent figured on as
sessed valuation.
Also introduced was a bill
by Sen. Robert Straub (D-Eu-gene),
for creation of state
operated summer work camps
for boys 15 to 19. Straub em
phasized the program would
be voluntary and not tied to
the state's correctional pro
gram. The camps would con
centrate on forestry work.
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record as Minnesota's gover
nor where an expanded refor
estation program is under
way, and promised his inter
est would continue as secre
tary.
As eacli Senator questioned,
some lauded Freeman's cour
age in taking the Job, but
they wanted particular assur
ance from him that their
state's interests would be
protected.
Sen. Holland wanted to be
sure that Freeman would not
interfere with treaties under
which foreign labor from
Mexico, the Bahamas and
Jamaica is brought into his
area to pick citrus fruit.
Freeman assured him.
Kennedy Not Mentioned
Sen. Talmadge, who said
broilers were important to his
state, pressed Freeman to
agree to "use chickens, the
lowest priced high protein
food" in the school lunch
program. Freeman agreed.
Talmadge also got from him
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vigorous assurances that I19
would "sell agricultural prod
ucts overseas," and he had
Egyptian cotton in mind when,
he said, "even if it makes
Nasser mad." Freeman
amended his statement later
by hesitantly saying that ho
would have to consult with,
others in the administration
to see if the selling policies
were in line with foreign pol
icy. The name of the new
president was not mentioned
during the hearing.
Mrs. Neuberger spoke for
less than five minutes and
Freeman's answers were also
brief. He paid ringing tributa
to American agriculture sev
eral times and denounced no
man or middleman. ,
Most of the Senators thank
ed him for his "forthright"
answers, and Sen. Talmadge
laconically allowed as ha
pulled on his cigar and blew
smoke toward . the ceiling
that "he was glad the farmers
had found a friend."
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