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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
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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
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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.
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tttre statements-
SBMfl RolBtlnd to turkeys.
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SB27R Amending county road
Improvement petition laws to con- ;
(orni with Bancroft Act.
con Ltquor Control Commission, 1
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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
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HIM4R0 Requiring youngteri
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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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