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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1961 J OLD FRIENDS MEET Two "old" friends make their second trip to the Orthopaedic Hospital in Los Angeles and enjoy a reunion. Tracy Patrick, left, and Sylvia Oropeza, both 2, became acquainted lost fall when they were at the hospital for treatment of birth defects. This time both will undergo surgery and rehabilitation. The two little ones are among 75,000 handicapped children cared for at the hospital. (UPI Telephoto) Rep. Durno's Mail Opposed Changing Rules Committee By YVONNE FRANKLIN Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special) - Ore gon's two Democratic and two Republican members of the House of Representatives split their votes Tuesday on the question of whether the Rules committee should be enlarged to insure that President Ken nedy's program comes before the House for a vote. Mrs. Edith Green was ju bilant over the 217-212 vote. , "This is a great day for freedom and the rule of the majority," she said. She and Rep. Al Ullman voted with the majority. Rep. Edwin R. Durno and Walter Norblad voted "no" to the resolution to enlarge the committee. Both said that the problem was strictly a Demo cratic one and should not have been brought to the floor. Said Durno: "They could have taken off Colmer (D-Miss.) and inserted Tops Everything! THE TUNIC fashion's new- topping for skirls, slacks, shorts! Wear it also as a beachcoat, jacket, coverall, smock. Easy-sew no waist seams." Make it in cotton or denim, 1 Printed Pattern 9292: Miss es' Sizes 12, 14, 16. 18, 20. Size 16 takes 3 yards 35-inch fabric. Send Thirty - five cents (coins) for this pattern add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Martin, Medford Mail Tribune. Pattern Dept.. 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. 100 FASHION FINDS the best, newest, most beautiful Printed Patterns for Spring Summer, 1961. See them all in our brand-new Color Cata log. Send 35c now! a man of their own choice in stead of getting into this vi cious fight." He said that he has no objection to the Kenne dy program coming to t h e floor for debate. Durno 1 a u g h e d ruefully about being awakened during the night by telephone calls, one at 4 in the morning, most ly from his former colleagues in the State Legislature urg ing him to vote for the resolu tion. His mail was running 20 to 1 in opposition to changing the committee. Norblad had 35 letters, 34 in opposition, one in favor of the change. Norblad also said that the resolution was a "packing" measure, which Mrs. Green heatedly denied. She said: "If they felt this was a Dem ocratic problem, then they C'.uuid have refrained from voting. It is inconceivable that anyone who understands government and politics would not say that the Rules Committee should be respon sive to the leadership of the majority party whether it be Democratic or Republican.'1 Norblad also said that he did not think the Rules Com mittee was obstructionist In moving bills to the floor. Once again, Mrs. Green disagreed. "The record is full of in stances when the Rules Com mittee has been obstruction ist. They held up the educa tion bill when it came back from conference and would not let the House vote. Con gress adjourned and it died. They held up my juvenile de linquency bill, and many ma jor bills." , The Rules Committee was never set up to vote on the substantive nature of bills. It was set up as an instrument for the leadership of the ma jority party to move bills to the floor in orderly procedure. Howard Smith (chairman of Rules) decided he would make it a committee on which he passes judgment on what his conscience tells him is good for the country. The people of Oregon never voted for How ard Smith to be the represen tative for, Oregon." Representatives Durno and Norblad said that no pressure had been applied by party leaders or by lobbyists here in Washington. Durno said: "I will certainly work to see that Mr. Kennedy's measures have ample consideration on the floor of the House. I will probably not agree with him in the domestic field, but I certainly agree with free dis cussion and free debate. Off-Dufy Period For Teachers Bogs Salcm-IUPD-Two bills to pro vide better pay and an off- duty lunch period for teachers got bogged down in the Ore gon senate today after heated debate over one of the measures. The bill to give teachers a 30-minute minimum duty-free lunch break failed by a vote of 15-14. However, Sen. Wil liam Grenfell Jr., (D-Portland) changed his vote so the bill will be reconsidered Monday. The measure to raise sala ries of teachers with bache lor's and master's degrees by as much as 5600-700 a year was sent back to the senate education committee. ""Wh1-'- "SI Government Food Stamps Seen as Poor Substitute for Weekly Envelope Editor's note: The tettinc grounds for President Kennedy's new fed eral food stamp tnrludes sections of Kentucky, West Virginia. Penn sylvania and Illinois. In each area there are many jobless men. For them the problem of dally bread has become a day-to-day strutele. The reasons may vary from state to state but to provide a close-up picture of the problem and the people in one of the affected areas I'nited Press International has as signed a team of three veteran re porters to southern Illinois. Here Is their report. By DAVID SMOTHERS, FRANK L. SPENCER and SAM HANCOCK UPI Special Reporting Team West Frankfort. 111. - (UPII- The triangular tip of southern Illinois that is known as 'Egypt and what once was the old frontier's land of milk and honey needs more than food stumps today. The emergency program of food for the unemployed an nounced by President Ken nedy Wednesday will make life a little brighter in south- Cheesecloth, diapers, flan nel or wool cloths are rec ommended for dusting. Shun coarse or open-mesh material, synthetic fabrics or new cloths that may be full of lint. Never use an oiled or treated cloth on waxed furniture be cause oil softens and smears wax and makes it sticky. era Illinois - even though few cupboards are bare and no body is starving. Housewives no longer will have to settle for the sur??lus powdered milk or dried beans which the federal government has been handing out for years. But the housewives' hus bands will still be out of work and the relief rolls will still be full, no matter how many grocery bills Uncle Sam picks up. For what southern Illinois needs is new ideas - new ideas to found new industries and put its men back to work. The same probably may be said of West Virginia, Penn sylvania, eastern Kentucky and any other areas named by Kennedy as victims of chronic unemployment, and eligible for the experimental food stamp program. Economists call these places "depressed areas" - a phrase which makes any southern Illinoisans wince. They point out that many towns in the area are prospering and bank deposits keep rising. They feel that all might yet be well if only the coal mines would open up again and the men of Egypt could go back underground. Coal is still king in West Frankfort and the rest of I cgypt. out lie is a King wno nas iosi nis power to rule. Venerable Town West Frankfort is a vener able town of 9,000, astride the Chicago & Eastern Illinois tracks 70 miles north of Cairo and 320 miles south of Chica go. It is not the most needy city in Egypt. But it is not wealthy. Not well. The town is in the center of Franklin county and in Franklin county there are 4, 000 unemployed of a total population of 38.000. Police Arrest Man On Check Charge Medford city police Thurs day arrested Larry W. Ritchie, 29, of 3423 Madrona lane on a check charge after Ritchie admitted in a signed state ment to cashing approximate ly $150 in bad checks during the past few weeks. Ritchie was formally charg ed with drawing a bank check with insufficient funds to pay same in full. He told police he cashed the checks because he is unable tj find work and has a wife and two chil dren to support. He was confined in the county jail. From 7.000 to 8.000 men went down every day into Franklin county's mines at the end of World War II. Today, only 500 to 700 men work in Franklin county's mines. The town once was known as a center of the world's rich est coal fields and still is ex cept that now not so much coal is coming out of the ground. Today, only one mine near town-Old Ben No. 9-is in full-time operation. It em ploys 350 men. Throughout Southern Illin ois, mines arc still operating. But automation - a vastly mixed blessing which has come early to Egypt - enables two men to do the work which once required four full teams of miners of from two to four men each. Along with West Frank fort's main street, few persons got overly excited about the food stamp program. Will' Take Long Time R. H. Chapman, a cement finisher, wasn't sure he liked the idea. "Handouts have ruined a lot of good men," he said. E. A. Bennett, a former coal miner, who now serves as night clerk at the Dimmick Hotel, said, "Automation is the thing that hurts this area I -it's taken a long time to get in this condition. It'll take a long time to unget it." Other West Frankfort folk didn't want their names used, but this is what some said: "Politicians have hurt us by talking about relief all the time. Industries begin to think this is tobacco road country." "Some of these people on relief are third generation re liefers." "We don't need any Santa Claus." Matter of Dispute West Frankfort is close to the center of the storied coun try known in Illinois as Egypt. The nickname's origin is a matter of dispute. Some say it stems from the della land where the Ohio and Mississip pi rivers meet at the foot of the state. The Egyptian names of Cairo and Thebes grace the map of this region. It is a proud land. It is a land which has grown used to hardship in the last 15 years ever since the coal mines began closing. Today, according . to Rep. Kenneth Gray, D-lll., of West Frankfort, at least 54,000 per sons are in immediate need of the government's food stamps -34,(100 of them in his own 25lh district. Other towns are In deep trouble. Rosiclare's fluorspar industry finds it difficut to compete with foreign imports. Cairo is a victim of agricul tural recession and mechani zation. In McLcansboro, tex tile industries are battling for markets against Japanese im ports. The troubles of the au tomotive industry are reflect ed in Herrin's car furnishings plants. Specials Announced Today the newspapers which carried dispatches on the food stamp program also carried grocery advertisements an nouncing this week's specials. Practically every housewife in West Frankfort checked them carefully and matched the prices against what she had in her purse. Too often, the gap between price and cash could not be bridged. Within a few weeks the gov ernment food stamps will nar row the gap a little. But they can never be a substitute for a weekly paycheck. ; LET YOUR DOLLAR EARN INTEREST EVERY rY AT VfeJ 8 tujjSfSlj P,r annum 522 S. W. Fifth Av.m Portland, Ortg. CA 8-21)2 Orgon Residents Only 1 SPARKS! 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