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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1961)
MEOrGrtO MA.L 'irlifcuftt;. mlOFOHD. ORE MARCH 23. 1961 Capitol Memo Crime Prevention Like Motherhood; Don't Criticize 'Em B7 DOUGLAS GHIPP Salem fUPO Crime preven tion is like motherhood, virtue and the flag. Don t criti cize 'em, bus ter. And if you are a politi cian, you can't I go wrong if you're all for I them. Crime pre ' ventlon, then, is good not Dublic but for those who promote it, and It is interesting that a quiet but firm struggle is on in Oregon government to see who out prevents whom. Last year Atty. Gen. Robert Douglas Grlpp nnlv for tne Persian Cat Is Seeing Financial Status Increased New York-ffiPC-'Cat people are all a little nuts," said Loiselle Adams. "They'll buy anything for their pets." Mice Adams who is the de voted owner of a platinum Persian cat named Nicodemus, is planning to work on that theory to improve Nicodemus' financial status. She's got him incorporated, in a manner of speaking. Nicodemus, a silvery, long haired animal with big green eyes and a thoroughly indol ent manner, earned about $5,000 last year posing for advertisements for such things as eye makeup, diamonds and luxury furs. Miss Adams, who can pam per a cat with the best of them, is now trying to mar nf Nicodemus' fav orite luxuries his golden castellated carrying basket, for instance, with "a little bubble like the President's" for bad weather. Other items she hopes to sell in Nicodemu's name to '.the fanciers of the nation's estimated ?7 million cats, in clude perfume Feline Fatale ' and Glamor Puss, naturally. She has a doctor working on such things as a "feline-izer" for untranquil cats and a "feline-atric" pill for those who are feeling their age. Lying Down Nicodemus is taking the whole thing lying down. "He's a very lying down cat, his mistress said. "He won't stand up for very long." "That's fnr sure." mutter ed a harassed photographer who was trying to get mm io stand up for just one more. TV!;,, AHnms said she had hoped to make Nicodemus the nation's first incorporaveu t, but New York State law pro vides that corporations may be organized only by citizens, which cats aren't. So she's the president of Nicodemus Enterprises, Inc. She's had a signature paw print made for Nicodemus, however, over the title "chairman of tne Doara. Socially, the 7 - year-old pedigreed Persian has little use for his own kind, his mis tress said. "He loves dogs, monkeys, birds, everything but cats," she said. A Russian wolfhound is a particular friend, and he had some cor respondence with the dogs mascot of the atomio subma rine Triton "just before they dunked, or whatever they call Nicodemus also likes to go to the park and climb trees, and when she takes him to the movies, Miss Adams said, nnH nnrrs. He doesn't always look at the movie, but he loves it." im: a Hume rsn't imagine - her life without a cat around the house. "He's so loyal and sensible," she said of Nico demus. "He makes me feel so silly." Y. Thornton, a Democrat, es tablished a crime prevention division. He hired a director and formed an advisory com mittee. Teen - age advisory groups have been formed in 46 high schools plus the Portland school system. Meanwhile, State Sen. Carl Francis, Dayton Republican has introduced a bill for crea- tion of a state criminal law commission, a new state with 11 members - six of them leg islators - and a life span, of 10 years. One of its primary functions would be crime prevention. Francis, who was defeated by Thornton for attorney gen eral a second time last Novem ber, said his bill is "not in tended as an answer" to Thornton's proposal, "but in a sense it might have that effect." Gov. Mark Hatfield, on the other hand, favors crime pre vention as an aspect of a pro posed advisory board on po lice standards and training. H. G. Maison state police super intendent, submitted an amendment to this effect re cently to a pending bill. A number of Republicans, nnns nf them Francis or the governor, say privately that mormon s nroKram is nog- wash," a clever vehicle for nlihlintfv Thornton's reaction io this is "political high-jacking" and "muscling in. Me says it was an "afterthought" by those who criticize his plan. Francis admits the crime commission and Thornton1 division enniri rlunlicate each other and the legislature isn't likely to go for this. Both ask appropriations in tne neigiiboriiood ot sau.uuu. Francis says the crime com' mission would give the gover nor a "strong voice" in crime prevention since he would ap point five of the 11 members. Hatfield denied Thornton's request to include $52,958 for the division in Hatfield's 1961 63 budget. He remarked that crime prevention is not prop erly in the attorney general's bailiwick. Thornton disagreed. Demo Opponents Of Boardman Bill Criticized Salem - (UPD - Rep. Carl Fisher, Republican legislator from Lane county, Wednesday criticized the seven House Democrats who voted against HB1600, one of the measures allowing the state to acquire the Boardman Industrial park. Thp House nassed the bill and one other for a necessary conn nnn nnnrnnrintinn and shipped them to the Senate where passage is also expect ed. Fisher singled out Rep. Ed ward Fadcley, Lane county Democrat, and charged h i m with joining a "legislative vendetta" against proposed leasing of Boardman by Boe ing Airplane Co. Efforts To Kill Work Fisher said it was "an ef fort to kill more than 15 months work" by Gov. Mark Hatfield and the state depart ment of planning and develop ment. Joining Fadeley in voting against the bill were Reps. Ed Benedict, Phil Lang and George Van Hoomissen, all of Portland; Sidney Leiken of Roseburg; Thomas McClel lan, Neotsu; and Wayne Tur ner of St. Helens. 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