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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."
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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.
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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!
MARCH 27, 1961
Day and Evening Classes
40 North Riverside Medford SP 3-4264
NOT Bargain-Counter Coverage .
AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE with BIG safe
driver SAVINGS from THE TRAVELERS,
the company, that INVENTED auto insurance.
Available now to Oregon motorists from your
local indeoendent Travelers Agent:
Don Stathos, insuror
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Quilted Cotton
SHOP EARLY . . . SAVE! Yes, that's what we said . . . it's the right-now shopper that wil
save because we have reduced prices on loads of terrific buys . . . just in time for Easter!
Hop on down . . . treat yourself to BIG SAVINGS.
HOUSECOATS
Sizes 10 to 18
Colors Mostly Dark
$10.98 VALUE
$199
EBSri
PRE-EASTER SALE!
Nylon Quilted
Good assortment of
colors. Sizes 10 to 18.
$16.98 VALUE
10
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PRE-EASTER SALE!
Famous Brand
BLOUSES
Mostly white, some colors. Short sleeve and ?i sleeve.
Sizes 30 to 38 . . . slightly soiled.
values $199 $099
- PRE-EASTER SALE! 1
Bulky Knit 1
Cardigan
Sweaters
I This Is a Terrific Value 1
Good Range of Colors
. Sizes 38 and 40
$12.98 $99 I
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PRE-EASTER SALE!
Lush
Angora
Sweaters
Beautiful new spring pastel col
lors. Pull-overs and a few Cardi
gans. Sizes 36 to 40.
$16.98
Value
$99
PRE-EASTER SALE!
FUR
BLENDS
Beautiful soft knit pull-overs . . .
also bulikes in all spring pastel
colors.
Values $10.98 to $14.98
SE99 $799
J and 0
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Mostly straight styles. All the new pastel
colors for spring. Solid colors and plaids.
Sizes 8 to 16.
Values $10.98 to $16.98
$799
$099
PRE-EASTER SALE!
Corduroy
Pastel Colors Also Black
Sizes 8 to 18
PANTS .
$4 99
PRE-EASTER SALE!
NYLON TRICOT and SOME COTTON BLENDS
HALF SLIPS
$499
Sizes small, medium and
large.
VALUES TO $5.98
PRE-EASTER SALE!
COTTON BEDFORD CORDUROY
CAPRI PANTS
ALSO PINWALE COTTON CORD.
Lots of pastel colors . . , also
black.
$4.98 VALUE
S99
PRE-EASTER SALE!
Wool Capri Pants
Wool Slacks
S199
ALSO
SOME
Lots of sizes 8's to 10's; some
12, 14, 16. Solid colors and
plaids.
VALUES TO $10.98
T0 $5'98 I and
$4.98 VALUE
112 EAST MAIN STREET Next
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