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2 A SUNDAY. MARCH 19. 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. IES AF SNOW CONTENT St. Louis - Ten inches of snow equals about one inch of rain in moisture content. INFANT TOLL Washington - About 69,000 1 infants are born dead in the 1 United States every year. wHITE MISSILE MONOPOLY Lane Democrats Protest Political Parly Measure Eugene -TO- The executive committee of the Lane County Democratic Central commit tee Friday protested action of the Oregon Senate In passing a bill to "weaken" responsi bility of Oregon political par ties. The committee said it hopes the Oregon House doesn't make the same mistake. The bill is under consideration by the lower chamber. In a letter to House Speaker Robert Duncan, Chairman George Balsinger Jr. said the bill would "weaekn the two party system and discourage citizens from participating In government." "We question the authority of the senate in denying a political party or any other group the opportunity of free speech and expression." The bill, sponsored by Sen Thomas R. Mahoney and oth ers, would disallow party con ventions in Oregon from en dorsing candidates. It is contrary to a unit rule plank adopted at the 1960 Ore g o n Democratic convention which calls on all party mem bers to go along with the ma jority. California Republica Interest in Hatfield1 f CHRISTIAN J I SCIENCE J llHEALSg Station K-BOY Sundays 9:45 A.M. By DOUGLAS GRIPP United Press International Salem tUPU Top California Republicans have popped in and out of this state capital frequently in recent months to probe the future of Gov. Mark Hatfield in national politics and Hatfield admits the talks have been "very interesting." "I have had very interesting visits with California Republi can leaders in recent months," he said. "But their impres sions would have to come from them." Their impres sions have been favorable. The last such visit was two weeks ago when G. Harvey Mydland and Julius A. Leeth- am paid a call, Mydland heads the California GOP assembly and Leetham is chairman of the Republican Central com mittee in Los Angeles county. May Smile The San Diego Union said the California GOP may smile on Hatfield if Richard Nixon decides not to run for presi dent in 1864. Hatfield nominated Nixon for president in the I960 con vention and campaigned ex tensively for Nixon last fall both in Oregon and other states. Nixon carried Oregon despite a 75,000 vote Demo cratic registration advantage. The 38-year-old state chief executive was mentioned In 1960 as a possible running mate for New York Gov. Nel son Rockefeller. But when things didn't work out for Rockefeller, the balloon was punctured. Both From West It is conceded that Nixon and Hatfield could never be running mates. They're both from the west. Hatfield swamped a favored Democratic Incumbent in a Democratic state In 1058 when he became governor, graduating from Secretary of State. He and Rockefeller1 were two of the brightest stars for the GOP that year - SHC Kills Optional Flaf Fee Measure Salem - OIPD - The Senate Highways committee has kill ed a controversial bill to end the optional flat fee for log truckers, and okayed a meas ure creating a scenic area commission for billboard con trol. The committee amended the billboard bill to increase the commission from five to sev en, adding two members from the general public. The commission would have the power to ban billboards along scenic stretches of the state's highways. The committee postponed final action on a companion measure to regulate highway signs along interstate high ways. The bill to bring log-haulers under the weight-mileage fees charged to other truckers brought violent protests from log-truckers, who said the in crease would break many of them. The highways committee also okayed a bill to permit police officers to give chemi cal drunken driver testa un less the driver flatly refuses. Written consent now is re quired. The committee gave tenta tive approval to a bill that would set a 65 mile speed lim it on most Oregon highways, but would allow the highway commission to raise the limit to 70 miles on freeways. Another hearing was order ed on a controversial bill to provide permanent license plates for Oregon cars Instead of the present system that re quires new plates every year. ns Have s rurure an election year generally deadly for Republican candidates. Hatfield has been preparing himself for the next rung - a fling for national office - but there is doubt that he is ready yet for anything as heady as the presidency. Hesitant He is hesitant about the U.S. Senate, even the chance of evening old scores with Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.), whose term expires next year. He is known to prefer admin istrative to legislative work. and enjoys running his own show in Oregon. Hatfield has insisted that he will seek a second term as governor in 1962 but he is having a hard time convincing political pros that he won't run for the senate. On his side is the argument that he might slide easily into a sec ond term in the statehouse, while a tussle with Morse will be rough going. There is no ready-made Democratic can didate to oppose him for the governorship, Clark Gable Widow Awaiting Childbirth Hollywood-IUPD-Kay Gable moved into a cheery hospital room Saturday to await the birth of the late Clark Gable's only child. Her room (411) is in the same corner location, but two floors higher in Hollywood Presbyterian hospital, as the one in which Gable died last Nov. 16. As she walked through the hospital corridor the blue eyed blonde said, "I'm terri bly excited, but I'm not frightened. "I am also one of the hap piest women In the world. White, Schriever Testify at Special House Hearing IK Ha fl I Dream Sfp drew httl with ,1 I cummerbund evarloy and 14 II 3 button trim on vamp. 1 XJ 1 Double nodi to In black patnt Uathtr or whlto, '''i-iil "'"iir! jffj ''IK,, 9 'd' it).! 'M li'wl lrowr or 9'" smooth ftlfli jllV!H''!y leather. Sliot 4 to 10, AA W' ''''';'. LT "nd B. V S65 I. Jackton - SP 2-7733 In The Medford Shopping Center Ntxl Door to la Polnte'l mot ndMM to OoltonKomp) Washington - (UPD - Gen Thomas D. White, Air Force Chief of Staff, assured con gress Saturday that the Air Force has no plans to monop olize the U. S. missile pro gram. White and Lt. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, new chief of air research and development for the Air Force, were summon ed before the worried House Science and Space committee at an unusual Saturday hear ing. The lawmakers wanted to question them about a confi dential directive White wrote last April and a March 6 or der by Defense Secretary Rob ert S. McNamara giving the Air Force nearly all control of military space programs. To some, the two develop ments indicated the Air Force was establishing a U. S. mis sile monopoly. Point Blank Committee Chairman Over ton Brooks (D-La.) asked White point blank whether his memorandum Indicated the Air Force hoped eventu ally to take over control of the Civilian National Aero nautics and Space administra tion (NASA). "Absolutely not," White de clared. Schriever admitted to the committee that he was the "culprit in the case." He ex plained that lie wanted to hang on to, a certain group of Air Force missile experts assigned to NASA and that White issued his controversial memorandum to overrule him. Actually, White said, the document was "a sermon" to key Air Force commanders that they had to cooperate with NASA in providing tech nical personnel to help on space matters. Pledged Cooperation He said his memorandum pledged full Air Force coop eration with NASA on the is sue of technical help. He add ed that Air Force relations with the civilian space agency were excellent and had been all along despite the incident. The memorandum, he said, did not advocate merger of NASA with the military but recognized this as a possibil ity. The general also quieted congressional fears that Mc Namara's order might lead to the Air Force seeking control over the Navy's Polaris sub marine missile and the Army's Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile. The order, calling for the biggest peacetime shakeup of Air Force structure in history, would consolidate all Air Force space, weapons, commu nications and warning systems under Schriever's command. White said he personally saw no reason to combine the military and civilian space ef forts. Plenty Big "The job Is plenty big for both of us," he said. In regard to McNamara's order. White said it gave "enormous responsibility" to the Air Force and that top commanders were called to the Pentagon to discuss it soon after it was issued. He pledged that the Air Force would "bend over back wards" to see the Army and Navy were treated fairly. Asked If the new command would give impetus to the space command. Schriever said it was a "very good move." "It should got the job done better, faster, and more effi ciently," he said. Oregon's Legislative Makeup Looks Wrong According to Boney Salem -OIPD- A bill to create an Oregon tax court was ap proved by the Senate Tax committee Friday, and on the other side of the legislature a deputy attorney general told the House Elections commit tee Oregon's present legisla tive makeup appears illegal. The traveling tax court would include a small claims, division and a division to rule on larger differences with tax assessor. Hailed by state economists as a potential major improve ment in Oregon s business cli mate, the tax court would do away with dragged-out hear ings before the tax commis sion that are now necessary before courts will rule. Judges Elective The tax court judgeship would be elective. Senate Approves Eleven Measures Salon. - flJFI) - Measures ap proved Friday: Bv thr Senate SB 103 Minor tax amendments. SHUt Department ot Auricul tttre statements- SBMfl RolBtlnd to turkeys. snail PUD mirchnMna nrae- SB27R Amending county road Improvement petition laws to con- ; (orni with Bancroft Act. con Ltquor Control Commission, 1 ICKHinilve COlinsiM uiminmrr HB12.tR Allowing river dredce ; material to be used for land fill ! hevnnd one-half mile tim273 Relating to public and official records. HBK142 -Relailnr to rural school districts and hoard H1U-U1 Repealing nountle on ,vidM wnlvr wildcats, tiohcats and lynves. HBUM. 145 Amending minor coiiinicrct.il fishlns laws HIM .v'2 Permitting more than one polling place in a building. i HB1326 Relating to school rec- ord . ! HB1.1H3 Re at ins lo school Mid get notice 1 4 M Ifannini nrmrnim mr ,,...tir 1 a Inline thoi- hV' HIM4R0 Requiring youngteri n io te aceompamea oj mi while himtln linil Rrtttf ing Pacifie Ma- nient lo permit states such as Alas ka and Hawaii to Join J SR23 Relating to legislative pro-. cedures. I siuni Relating to adminutra-1 ttva procedural. Commie Threat Said Great in Brazil Alva, Okla.-UIPD-A foreign news analyst told a district Rotary club conference here Saturday Brazil is the strong est candidate among South American countries to follow the path of Castro. Phil Newsom, New York, news analyst for United Press International, said Brazil has the strongest Communist party of South American na tions, and is economically strapped, with debts this year of one-half billion dollars. Newsom predicted Bazil's new president, Janio Quadros, will probably do some things the United States will not like. They include recognition of Red China and establishment of formal diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, "in a desperate search for new mar kets and in response to pres sure from the left." I Meanwhile, the House Elec tions committee heard a start ling statement from State At torney Louis Boney that Ore gon's 1952 reapportionment plan was probably unconstitu tional, since it cut Multnomah county short and joined Yam hill and Washington counties for one representative. Boney was there to tell the committee how to straighten out its current reapportion ment, plan, which he ruled unconstitutional last week. The committee had okayed the plan but snatched it back before it reached the house floor. Boney told the committee flatly it would have to give more legislators to growing areas like Multnomah county. Split Counties He also advanced a new thought: Counties, he said, may be split for representa tive districts. One stumper for the com mittee has been a constitu tional conflict - the represen tation formula would put too many legislators in the senate and house. The committee set a hear ing next week on a proposed constitutional amend ment that would provide one way out by increasing the house from 60 to 61 and the senate from 30 to 34. Other highlights: Liquor - The House Alco holic Control committee ap proved a bill to let the Liquor Control com mission decide how much food must be sold in bar-restaurants. Exempt - The Senate Tax committee voted to extend a two-year tax exemption on new manufacturing buildings to other new commercial structures. Bounties - The senate pass ed a house-approved measure to repeal bounties on wolves, cougars, wildcats, bobcats and lynxes. The saving would be used to turn control, of such animals over to professional hunters. 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