In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's go back to Douglas
' William Johnson, the Los An
geles colored man who found
the money bag containing
$240,000 that bounced un
noticed out of a Brink armor
ed car. He tells a reporter:
"It has been one grand
headache. I can't eat. I'm
sick at my stomach. The
money wasn't mine. I just
happened to find it after it
was lost. If it happened all
over, I'd do the same thing."
DEOPLE, he says, won't give
him any peace. Strangers
knock on his door to compli
ment him. He has received
somewhere around 125 letters,
three-fourths of which com
mend him.
The others have said, in
substance: "You should have
been hit on the head with a
2x4." A stranger on the street
. told one, of his three sons:
"Here's a knife. Go home and
cut your fool dad's throat."
And so on.
TUT-
He keeps his balance. He
tells the reporter who inter
viewed him:
"You have to remember, af
ter all, that these are the
crackpots. You have to allow
for ignorance in people. But
I'm not a showman. I'm not
looking for movie contracts.
I just want to do my job.. The
scholarship for my son, of
course, is a wonderful thing:
He concludes:
"I've always figured: Treat
a man like you'd like to have
him treat you. That's all I
' did. All in all, if somebody
ever finds a big sum of money
again, I hope it happens to the
next guy, not me."
WHO is this man Johnson?
What does, he do for a
living?
; Well, he is' a self-employed
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AS to the crackpots who
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Let's remember this also:
If there were more people
like this Douglas William
Johnson and fewer like the
crackpots who have been
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we'd have a better world. .
And
Probably
FEWER DEPRESSIONS.
Unemployment Checks
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Washington - (UP!) .-. Both
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that the total was still a rec
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The Labor department re
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down by 62,300 for the week
ended March 4. The previous
wr?k it had gone down by a
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Saturday his House health
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1 SPECIAL'
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Is Oregon s Legislature an
unconstitutional body?
If some legislators hold
their seats illegally, would the
laws they have acted upon be
void?
The mind boggles at the
prospect of the . chaos that
would result if someone tested
the constitutionality of the
present Legislature in the
Oregon Supreme Court, and
the Court ruled adversely.
. The possibility is not as far
fetched as it sounds.
An Indiana county judge
has ruled that Ihe Indiana
Legislature is an illegal and
powerless body because it dis
obeyed constitutional m a n-
dales to reapportion itself. The
dilemma this poses undoubt
edly will have to be resolved
in higher courts.
A similar question -has
aiisen in Oregon.
Our existing apportionment
of legislators might be uncon
stitutional except for the sav
ing fact that the present re
apportionment law was voted
by the people in 1952 as a con
stitutional amendment.
The situation in Indiana
shows how Important il is for
reapportionment according to
constitutional provisions, and
why legislators are biting
their fingernails over this
problem right now.
If they don't do a good job
this time, the senators and
representatives elected at the
next election might find their
seats challenged in court, and
the 1963 Oregon Legislature
would be in the same awk
ward position in which the
Los Angeles Blaze
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Los Angeles - IUPII - Damage
was estimated at $500,000 in
a spectacular four alarm fire
which swept through a paper
storage warehouse in an in
dustrial downtown area Fri
day night.
The wind-fed flames spread
through an entire block
bounded by Mateo, Sacramen
to, Wilson and Bay streets and
completely destroyed the-one
and two story brick and cor
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the Solomon Mill Division of
tho Comco Paper Stock corpo
ration of San Francisco.
Firemen said there were no
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WILDERNESS
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By
Marguerite W. Wright
Indianans now find them
selves. The Oregon Constitution
makes it the duly of Ihe Leg
islature, at the session follow
ing a federal census, to reap
portion (or redistribute), the
senators and representatives
among the slate's 36 counties
according to the population in
each.
Oregon's total population
(1,768.687) has increased by
247,346 in the past ten years,
but seven counties (Clatsop,
Columbia, Grant, Malheur.
Wallowa. Wheeler and Yam
hill) have Inst residents.
Representation in the Leg
islature legally must be based
on population but the Legis
lature is legally limited to 60
representatives and 30 sena
tors. Counties which have gained
population are clamoring for
more legislators; counties
which have lost hate to give
up any seats. Obviously, some
counties have to share their
legislators thus the contrast:
one senator (Ben Musa, D-The
Dalles) represents six coun
ties while one county (Mult
nomah) is represented by
seven senators.
One big issue in reappor
tionment is how to divide up
the stale inlo districts so that
each legislator will represent
about the same number of
people. The ratio of legislators
to people is determined by
dividing the number of legis
lators Into the total popu
lation. The senatorial ratio
now is 58,956 (dial is, each
senator represents 58,956 per
sons), and Ihe representative
ralio is 29,478.
Counts as Wholo Number
The number of senators and
representatives for each coun-ly-or
district is determined by
dividing the population of the
county by the two ratios given
above. When a fraction of
more than 'i results from
such division, that county or
district is constitutionally en
titled to a legislator for that
"major fraction." In olher
words, a major fraction counts
as a whole number - just as
you pay a wholo penny when
the price comes to a halt a
cent. '
When dividing the state
into districts for the purpose
of electing senators, whole
counties can be joined to
gether but a county cannot
be split up. When forming
representative districts, coun
ty lines do not have to be
considered, however.
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The big factor is the loca -
lion of Hie population, and
that's where politics comes in.
It's a political rule of thumb
that urban population lends
to register Democratic while
rural population lends lo reg
ister Republican or have con-
servative leanings favoring
Republicans.
So, in reapportioning Ihe
state, each party would like lo
split up the geographic areas
in such a way that its party
membership would be likely
to out-number (he opposition.
That is how the word
"gerrymander" came into our
common language. It derives
from Gov. Elbridge Gerry of
Massachusetts whose party
(the Jeffersonians) in 1812
divided Essex county into a
salamander-shaped district for
its own benefit. Since then,
dividing a district in an unfair
way to benefit a political
parly has been called gerry
mandering. Task for Appling
A valuable aid to legisla
tors pondering this problem of
rearranging the state's politi
cal future is Ihe "Do-ll-Your-self
Legislative Reapportion
ment Kit" produced by Sam
Haley, legislative counsel. In
27 pages of maps, charts, sta
tistics, history of past reap
portionments and exerpts from
the laws, Haley has provided
lawmakers with everything
they need to know except a
reapportionment plan that
would please everyone, Demo
crats and Republicans alike.
lMhe Legislature doesn't do
its duty, then Secretary of
State Howell Appling is legal
ly charged with tho task of
reapportionment.
Meanwhile, several plans
have been put forward but
none have met the test of
legality.
A Republican - sponsored
"preferred" plan, which (with
a minor change) had been ap
proved by the House Elections
and Reapportionment Com
mittee is considered uncon
stitutional in a formal opinion
by Attorney General Robert
Y. Thornton.
He pointed out that this
plan would have limited
Multnomah county to the
present 16 representatives al
though the major fractions
provision entitles It to 18
Another plan, suggested by
House Speaker Robert B. Dun
can (D-Mcdford) gives Mult
nomah another scat, and puts
Polk county inlo a district
with Lincoln and Tillamook
The "preferred" plan joins
Polk with Yamhill. And so it
goes
As a result of the attorney
general's opinion, an assistan
attorney general, Louis Bon
ney, has been asked to advise
the House committee as it re
writes its reapportionment
recommendations.
Can't Write Law
The attorney general, ' al-
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, though he may be called upon
again to give his opinions and
ni a k e suggestions, cannot
legally write, a new reappor
tionment law himself since
the Constitution gives that
job lo the Legislature. Thorn-
Ion s opinions are not binding
either. Only the State Su-
preme Court has th
final say
on constitutionality
The final reapportionment
plan passed by the Legislature
will likely be a compromise
plan - a compromise between
the political interests involved
but no compromise with Ihe
Constitution of Oregon.
As a footnote, readers may
he surprised to know that leg
islators are seklnm concerned
enough about the constitution
ality of the laws they are writ
ing to seek a formal, official
opinion from the attorney gen
eral. Of Ihe more than 1.400 bills
introduced at this session, less
than half a dozen have been
studied for constitutionality
by Ihe attorney general at the
formal, written request of leg
islators. No one knows how many
new laws will be passed this
session that are not constitu
tional! A law may stand on the
state's statute books for years
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I before someone questions its
constitutionality, lhcres no
law lo force lawmakers to be
more careful about making
lawful laws!
Example Given
Ail example of a law which
may or may not be constitu
tional but has been followed
for years is the law which
permits tho state to sterilize
mentally ill and feeble-minded
persons. Ron. George Van
Hooinissen (D-Portland) wants
to abolish the state's steriliza
tion board on the ground that
this law is unconstitutional.
The attorney general says tho
law is constitutional, Theru
has been no court lest.
Many Oregonians have been
sterilized, legally or illegally,
and if a court test should de
termine the law is unconstitu
tional '.here is no way to re
verse surgery although a sub
sequent court may reverse an
opinion!
At any rate, the wisdom oC
consulting the attorney gen
eral about the reaportionmcnt
law becomes apparent. And
the time may come when tho
Legislature will gel official
opinions on constitutionality
of important laws dealing
with life and death - as a
matter of routine before the
laws go into effect.
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