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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Quotes From the News , BX UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Market Drayton, England Mrs. Mary Perry, 91, com menting on her first airplane ride: 4 x' ',.Ya,S rather disaPP0inted. We didn't teem to be going fast. I d love to try slunt flying next." London Director John Huston, on the emotional troubles of actress Mariyln Monroe: , "I think that her big handicap is that she is unable to live up to her sex symbol status in real life. In fact. I aon i imnK she really cares very much about sex at all." New York Ed Sullivan in onnn.,n;n 13 it --. ...:n moderate the debate between Sullivan and Jack Paar over cuui mer ices: "Bennett Cerf is a man of dignity and excellent reputa tion who never has been mixed up In any silly shenanigans End that's what we need here." MONDAY, MARCH 13. 1961 P vil wa: Washington R. Sargent Shriver, director of the Peace Corps, on what life In the organization will be like: "I would suggest that anybody who anticipates a joyride get off the train right now." r i . . . public service by the COLLEGE of LAW WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY Burglar Fails To Qualify As 'Expert Witness' Richard Roe sued the Doe Insurance Company on a mer cantile robbery and safe bur- . glary policy. One of the de fenses advanced by the Doe Insurance Company was that the robbery was committed as a result of collusion with the corporate officer and stock holder and that the loss was the result of a "faked inside job." In order to substantiate this defense, The Doe Com- Burglary Prevention Practiced Year-Round Cleveland, Ohio - (l!PD -Mayor Anthony Celebrezze gave a quick and clear answer Saturday to a request to pro claim a burglary prevention week. "Nuts," said the mayor, "every week is burglary pre vention week In Cleveland." TOURIST MURDERED Las Vegas, Nev. - IUM - A 71-year-old tourist from Eeav erton, Ore., was murdered early Friday in his room at a downtown hotel. Police said ha had been stabbed in the back 22 times. pany offered the testimony of an experienced expert bur glar to the effect that neither the witness nor any other so experienced would go about the matter as Richard Roe's evidence showed; but would have done it in a more skilled, polished and adroit manner. THE COURT HELD: There is nothing in the record to indicate that all or most pro fessional or expert specialists in this field would employ identical or similar techniques in the same circumstances. The evidence was speculative, was not a proper subject for expert opinion evidence and is not admissible in court. (340 SW 2nd 525, Texas, 1960). This column of general legal 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. OREGONIAN KILLED Pomona, Calif. - (DPI) A Gardiner, Ore., sailor, Mau rice L. Hedges, 20, was killed early Saturday when a speed ing car crashed into a parked construction crane-truck. if- &l J r ' ' fft Ji -r v LINCOLN FACED WITH TASK In choos ing nis cauinei, Lincoln was tacea Willi tne task of living up to bargains made by his campaign managers, who had traded cabinet posts for votes. In the drawing above, Lin coln is shown with his cabinet and Gen. Winfield Scott, Commanding General of the Army, during a meeting on the fate of Fort Sumter, in March, 1861. Frof left, they are Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, Gen. Scott, Secretary of War Simon Cam eron, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, Sec retary of State William H. Seward, Lincoln, Secretary of Navy Gideon Welles, Post master General Montgomery Blair, Interior Secretary Caleb B. Smith and Attorney Gen eral Edward Bates. (UPI Telephoto) Lincoln, Davis Pick Cabinets By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent In March, 1861, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis faced each other across the Mason-Dixon Line and closed their civil ranks for the con flict each hoped to avoid but was ready to fight. These two presidents were as unalikc as any two men could be, but strangely enough they sprang from surprisingly similar backgrounds. Both were born in log cabins within about 100 miles and nine months of each other in Kentucky - Davis on June 3, 1808, at Fairview and Lin coln on Feb. 12, 1809, near Hodgenville. No record exists that the families were acquainted. A hundred miles was a long way in that new country. The fathers of both men were unsuccessful farmers with the itchy feet of pioneers always pushing farther out on the frontier for new land. By 1861 the Lincoln family had been in America for seven generations, the original fore- bearer, Abraham, coming to Massachusetts in 1637 from England. The Davis family had been here four' genera tions - John Davis, the first one to arrive, having reached Philadelphia in 1701 from Wales. Follow Different Paths The parallels between Lin coln and Davis end in Ken tucky. From there Thomas Lincoln moved his family first to Indiana and then to Illinois, one traditional reason being that he disliked slavery. Samuel Davis took his brood - he had 10 children of which Jefferson was the youngest -south, first to southeast Loui siana and then to southwest Mississippi. Both families found frontier life hard and hazardous. Lincoln's mother died in Indiana of the "milk sickness," a malady caused by cows eating the flowers of the poisonous snake weed. Davis had regular bouts with the fevers that plagued the swampy south land. In education, the lives of Lincoln and Davis were poles apart. Lincoln in later years estimated that in all he had about a year of formal educa tion. By the time Davis was 10 he was studying at the St. Thomas Aquinas School in Washington County, Ky. Later he attended Transyl vania College at Lexington and from there, on to West Point. Both Lincoln and Davis went into politics, Davis be coming a U.S. senator and secretary of war as a Demo crat. Lincoln was in the Illi nois legislature, served a term as congressman and failed to win a senatorship. He first was a Whig, then a Republi can. Lincoln Has- Troubles So by March 1861 these two men had won the ultimate offices of their careers on the eve of the war that would end in death for one and imprison ment for the other - Lincoln, the awkward, story - telling backwoods lawyer and poli tician, whose simple Anglo Saxon prose still lives; Davis, graceful, precise, determined, whose writings are mostly em balmed in dusty books. Lincoln had trouble select ing a cabinet. His convention managers had baragined away cabinet posts for votes and the President faced the task of fulfilling their promises al though he repudiated the deals. For secretary of slate he chose William H. Seward, former governor of New York. The U.S. senator fancied him self as the real leader of the Republican Party, and still smarted under the loss of the nomination. Fifty-nine years old, he was certain he would bo the "premier" of the ad ministration, an ambition Lin coln soon cut down, but in such a way that Seward proved to be Lincoln's ablest man through two administra tions. Cameron War Secretary The others were: Secreary of war - Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, 62. Lincoln did his best to ma neuver Cameron out of this post which had been promised by the convention managers. Cameron, a U.S. senator, headed a powerful state po litical machine. He would last less than a year and go to Russia as ambassador with war contract scandals trailing him. Secretary of navy - Gideon Welles, 59-year-old Connecti cut editor and newspaper owner; able, conscientious and the choice of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin as the New England representative in the cabinet. He would go all the way through with Lincoln and keep a diary which is one of the source books of the Civil War. Secretary of treasury - Sal mon P. Chase of Ohio, 53; former governor and senator, leader of the anti-slavery wing of the party, perennial aspir ant for the presidency. Later he was made chief justice when he resigned in 1864. j Secretary of interior-Caleb I B. Smith of Indiana, a former congressman and railroad and j canal promoter. Another man who came into the cabinet as the result of a convention deal. Attorney general - Edward Bates of Missouri, former coiv gressman, politician and lawyer, solid Union man from a border state and oldest man in the cabinet at 67. Postmaster general - Mont gomery Blair of Maryland, the other border state repre sentative and youngest mem ber at 47. Son of F. P. Blair Sr., a political power dating from Jacksonian days. The younger Blair was a brilliant lawyer and counsel for Dred Scott. Another Blair brother, F. P. Jr., was instrumental in keeping Missouri in the Union. Davis' Selection Easier Selection of a cabinet was less difficult for Davis. The Confederacy was too young to have developed political parties. Davis' main job was to distribute the posts equally among the seven seceding states. He chose: Secretary of state - Robert Toombs of Georgia, 51, for mer U.S. senator, wealthy planter and disappointed seek er of the C.S.A. presidency. No diplomatic experience and no liking of it. Lasted only six months and took a military command. Secretary of war - Leroy Pope Walker of Alabama, 44, political power in the state, active secessionist. He took the job with the understand ing that Davis would be his own war secretary, but broke under the prssure in seven months. Secretary of navy - Stephen P. Mallory of Florida, 48, son of a Yankee sea captain, for mer U.S. senator, without naval experience except on congressional committees, one of two cabinet members to go all the way through the war in the same job. Secretary of treasury-Christopher Memminger of South Carolina, 58, born in Ger- IKE TAKES TRIP Palm Springs, Calif. - rtlPO Former President Eisenhower flew to Mexico Saturday for a week of deep sea fishing with three other men. many, reared in a Charleston orphanage, served in the state legislature, without fi nancial oxperienec, served until '63. Attorney general - Benja min P. Judah of Louisiana, 50, former U.S. senator, Yale graduate, lawyer and politi cian, ablest member of the cabinet and closest adviser of Davis. He would hold the war and state portfolios before the end of the war. Postmaster general - John H. Reagan of Texas, 43, Indian fighter and congressman. Tak ing over federal post office system in the South, he made it pay its way. Served all through the war and was cap tured with Davis and impris oned for several months. 3 Portland Plumbers Go Out on Strike Portland - HIPD - A strika by approximately 1,500 AFL CIO plumbers and steamfit ters against the Portland As sociation of Plumbing and Heating Contractors was to start today despite last-hour attempts to avert it. The strike was sanctioned Friday night by members of Plumbers Local 51 and Steam fitters Local 235. Federal mediator Elmer E. Williams said management and union representatives would meet this afternoon in an effort to reach a settlement. The strike was sanctioned after the unions rejected a contractors' offer of a five-cent-an-hour pay boost. Tho unions had lowered the wage increase requests to 10 cents from an original request ot 20 cents. ROBERTSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ENROLL NOW SPUING TEH! 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