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Bill To Raise Driver License Age To 18 Years Tabled Regional Edition MttVrvRV&ii Page 2A Tribune MED FORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1961 Moscow Writer Enjoys Freedom From Censors Editor'! note: Htnry Shsplro, that what comes Out of this SS.'ShVJ Jhetd''OVofloUrSi typewriter will reach the out correspondents In Moscow. In the side world almost as fast as I followlnc aupaicn, nr ..tr ills new-found freedom to file in uneentored Itory from the Rusilin capital. By HENRY SHAPIRO Moscow - IUPD - This dis patch was written at midnight from the comfort of my apart ment, home of United Press correspondents for almost three decades. I am free to pick up the receiver and phone my story to London or New York with out an invisible censor look inff over mv shoulder. Or I can send it down to the Cen tral Telegraph Office where a friendly, cheerful girl recep tionist inserts it into a pneu matic tube to an upper-floor operator for Immediate trans mission. By force of habit, my wor ried wife - who because of the - peculiarities of local working conditions has not known nor mal existence for more than 20 years-asks if I will disap pear for a night-long vigil to the "sweatshop," as the for eign correspondents call the Central Telegraph. It seems too good to be true .House Leaders Push lor Vote on Pared Wage Bill Washington (UPI) House Democratic , leaders pushed for a vote today on a trimmed version of President Kenne dy's minimum wage bill. They were confident that they could defeat attempts by con servatives to enact 8n even slimmer measure. The new bill would retain much of Kennedy's wage floor program but make some vital concessions on the issue of new Wage-Hour Law cov erage. House leaders thought their new bill would set off a wave of defections from the Republican-Southern Demo c r a t i c coalition seeking approval of a shsrrply limited wage floor measure.. Coalition Claims Strength But Republicans leading the coalition said they still would have enough votes to beat both the trimmed bill and the Kennedy -backed version when voting began-probably late today. Although the administra tion was amply represented at the closed-door meeting where the compromise bill was drafted, Kennedy told his news conference a short time later that he still hoped his measure or something close to it would be passed. The President said, "I find it difficult to know why any one would oppose seeing somebody, by 1963, paid $1.25 an hour in interstate com merce. I consider it to be a ver minimum wage." Two-Slip Increase The new bill introduced by Rep. Carl Albert (D-Okla.) would raise the minimum hourly wage for workers now under the law to $1.15 four months after enactment and to $1.25 two years later. Tills provision is backed by Ken nedy. It- would extend limited coverage of the law to 3.8 million workers, but hold their wage floor at $1 an hour and provide no extra require ment for overtime pay after 40 hours a week. This repre sents i retreat from Kenne dy's position. Generally speaking, it would cover single retail and service establishments which gross $1 million or more in annual sales and the individual out lets of large chain store com panies which gross more than $250,000 a year. Coverage also would require that the stores affected derive at least a quarter of their sales from goods that have moved from stale to state. punch the keys - and without a single deletion. Graveyard of Stories UPI headquarters, one of the few foreign residences out side the so-called diplomatic ghetto, ig no longer a grave yard of untold stories. To some extent we still shall be compelled to make bricks without straw unless the Soviet authorities relax their monopoly of the sources of information. But henceforth, we are free to report the sounds, sights, smells, facts and views subject only to standards of objectiv ity, accuracy, good taste and judgment. This Is a far cry from the exasperating years of frustra tion of love's labor lost, of wasteful, brain-wracking try ing to outguess the censor s caprices or of futile waiting for his arbitrary, unappeal able decisions. Squelch Stalin's Death One night, during the fate ful days of March, 1953, when I had set up a make-shift bed room at the sweat-shop, a friend telephoned a report that Stalin had suffered a stroke. When I handed my first urgent dispatch to the normal ly polite young receptionist, she angrily tore it up and tossed the fragments in my face. The dedicated Commu nist girl, who had known no other leader but Stalin and was convinced of his immor tality, refused to hand my dispatch to the censor hiding behind the green curtain. This was unreportable un til hours later when Tass issued an official communique. ' There followed a three-day death watch when a handful of Western correspondents camped at the "sweat-shop"-unablc to report on develop ments before official releases. Efforts Unsuccessful I happened to learn of Stalin's death four hours be fore the official government announcement. Exasperating efforts to reach New York, London, Paris or Helsinki all proved unsuccessful. The tele phone line broke down at each mention of Stalin. I finally was able to report the death when I reached our London correspondent, Bob Musel, and asked him: "You know what happened?" Musel replied promptly: "Stalin died." The phone line became as dead as the Soviet premier, but we had the first Moscow dated story of the end of the Stalin era. kS 'i hf p L A mm pi! i ' ' ' i " if J'v'''lj . -- !-- " I ... : gf" .. -I TESTIFIES Prof. Edwin O, Reischauer of Harvard Uni versity's Oriental School, is shown as he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on his nomination to be ambassador to Japan- He told the committee that It would be "very dangerous' for Japan to rely on Commu nist China as a source of raw materials. (UPI Telephoto) Tax Deadlines, Laos Situation Affects Market New York -(UPD- Fractional declines dominated dealings in the stock market today, re flecting profit taking before the tax deadlines and the tense situation in Laos. Leading motors and steels. chemicals and oils were slight ly easier, and airerafts, build ing shares and drugs irregular. Red ink operations last month triggered widespread fractional declines in the rails NOW YOU KNOW United Press International The principality of Mon aco is iht most heavily pop ulated political entity on arth with a population den sity of 56,979 persons per square mile. Scout News Cub Scout Pack 31 Hornbrook-Cub Scout Pack 38 was reactivated here this week with Jim Dlcklson as Cubmaster and George Smith, assistant cubmaster. Den mothers are, Den I, Mrs. George Smith and Mrs. Jim Dlcklson; Den II, Mrs. E. E. (Pete) Fisher and Mrs. Robert Farmer. Boys belonging to Den I are Mike Slavens, Teddy Fish er, Danny Dooley, Rusty Smith, Benny Bennett, Den nis Swafford, Gene Farmer and Ronnie Smith. Members of Den II are Jack ie Smith, Larry Madison, Mike Chadwick, Johnny Rut ledge, Ronnie Watt, Andy Conger and Arthur Freilas. The first meeting of the newly organized pack was held Wednesday at the Meth odist church, sponsors of the pack. Both dens will meet at 3:30 p.m. each Wednesday. Den I at Mrs. Dlckison's and Den II at Mrs. Fisher's. DR. EDWARD V. CHANCE Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon Formerly of 4480 South Pacific Hwy., Grants Pan, Oregon ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF HIS OFFICES at 525 South Second St., Central Point Phont NO 4-1295 V DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - ll'Pl! - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 675.45. off 3.93; 20 railroads 14S.59, off 2.22; 15 utilities 111.67, off 0.40, and 65 slocks 228.34, off 1.62. Sales Thurs day were about 5.17 million shares compared with 5.84 million shares Wednesday. prices on selected Youngsters Say Proposal Not Curb To Sins Salem - (UPD - The House Highways Committee agreed with the pert 15-year-old daughter of a top state aide Thursday that you can't wipe out youthful immorality by taking what a policeman called a "rolling bed on wheels ' away from teenagers. The committee voted unan imously to table a bill that would have denied cars to younger drivers by raising the driving age from 16 to 18. No Age Limits The action came after Kathy Nunn, daughter of Gov Mark Hatfield's chief aide Warne Nunn, told the com mittee "immorality has no age limits. Sixteen and 17-year- olds who want to commit moral sins can do so almost as easily without a car." "The problem goes back to the home," she said, "you won't solve any problems and you probably won't postpone any" by raising the age. Her comments at a packed hearing came on the heels of a statement by Corvallis Juve nile police officer Roger An derson that cars serve as a "rolling bedroom on wheels' and set the stage for teenage delinquency, drinking and bad grades. Sponsor Ken M a h e r (R- Portland) agreed and said cars cause "traffic, moral and edu cational problems." He said, however, he would be agreeable to granting li censes at 16 if the consent of the school superintendent and the local juvenile judge in ad' ditlon to the parent were re quired. Still pending Is a bill to re quire driving training courses for drivers under 18, and a proposal to prevent car own ership under 18. Young people took the spot light at the hearing. Tom Fryback of North Eu gene High school asked why legislatures were beginning to consider 18 a "magic age" for voting, entering the armed service, driving. Learning these responsibili ties, he said, should be "a step-by-step process." Miles Schlestnger of South Salem High said he "shared the concern about juvenile problems, high accident rates and morality." But why," he asked. "should there be an age limit on respect for the law." Eileen Hadley, granddaugh ter of the late Gov. Douglas McKay, said "not too much is being done to Improve the adults ... we need a good ex ample to follow." Thursday's siocks: Allied Chemical Alum Co Am American Can American Motors AT&T American Tobacco Anaconda Copper Armco Steet .. nendix Corp .. Bethlehem Steel Brunswick Caterpillar Corp Chrysler Corp Coca Cola Continental Can ... Crown Zellerbach Curtlii Wright Dow Chemical l)u Pont Eastman Kodak Firestone Ford General Electric General Foods - General Motors Georgia Pacific Graham Palgo Greyhound Gulf Oil Homeslake Mining Idaho Power .. I. B. M Int Paper Johns Manvllte Kennecott Copper Lockheed Aircraft Merck Montana Power Montgomery Ward Nat l Biscuit . New York Central Northern Pacific Pac Gas Elec Penney. J. C. ., Pcmt RR Phillips Proctor and Gamble Radio Corporation Safeway Sears Shell Oil Soc-ony Mobil Oil Southern Co Southern Pacific Sperry Rand Standard California . Standard Indiana Standard N J. Sun Mines Texas Co. Texas Gulf Sulfur Texas Pac Ijsnd Trust Transamerlca Trans World Air TrI-Contlnental Union Carbide Itnlon Pacific 1'nlted Aircraft t'nlted Air I.inej It. S Rubber It. S Steel Westlnghouse Vote Laws for New Residents Changed Salem -U.TD- Oregon has changed Us election laws to allow newcomers to waive the six-month residence require ment and vote for president and vice president. Gov. Mark Hattield Thurs day signed a bill authorizing this. The electorate favored the change last November. It will be effective at the next election. The waiver is applicable only to the two offices. .. .19 14 .. 7(H' .. 38 V, .. aojj, nt, .. 74l .. 33", .. 70 i .. a.ti .. ... 03 t .. 35 ... 44 ... 8.1 , ... 37 l ... .16'. - 20'.!, ... 7.i , ,. 209 . 113i ... 40, 70 i; ... 6.1 ... Bl ... 47 ... 62". ... 23, ... 51', ... .17 .. 42 i ... M ...701 ... 32t ... 70 U .. 84, ... 43 'I ... mi ... 34 .. 33'. ... SO'i .. 20'. ... 48 SJi ... 40 ... 1.1 .. 3!) ..lion ...7s ... 4.1', . .1!I, ... 4.1', .. 44 ... .12 i ... 34'. .. 27, ... .11 'k .. 49t, . 4.1'. . 7", .. ftfl . 24i .. 20 II', .. IS .. 41', .131 ', . 32'. .. 43, .. 40i, . .13 . S.1, Saturday School. Migrant Child Education Approved Salem - (U?D - The Senate Education Committee Thurs day approved Saturday classes and special migrant child pro grams, and the chairman of In the Far East, children may still be seen wearing small bags of salt about theik necks to ward off the evil eye. Raise Is Approved For Court Baliff The Jackson county court has agreed to raise the salary of Circuit Court Bailiff Joe Cave, it was announced to day. The $15 a month increase becomes effective as of March since the current county midget allows for the increase, it was explained. Circuit Judges Edward C. Kelly and James M. Main had requested the raises for both Cave, Judge Kelly's bailiff, and Shy Morthland, Judge Main's bailiff. However, Morthland said he did not de sire an increase at this time Cave had requested the raise on the basis of five years service. 'K' To Convene Communist Heads Moscow-ilTD-Premier Niki ta Khrushchev will convene a meeting of Communist heads of state next Tuesday to dis cuss the increasingly critical situation in Laos, diplomatic sources said today. Commu nist China will be represented by an observer. Russia announced Thursday a meeting of the Warsaw pact nations on Tuesday but did not mention the Peiplng gov ernment, or the fact that heads of statp from the major Communist governed coun tries would be present. Observers believe It likely the conference, which also will be attended by defense and foreign ministers, will discuss not only the situation in Laos but possible joint measures should conditions deteriorate. U. S. Will Sit Out Stalling by Russians Geneva - 1TD - The United States has changed its mind and will sit out the Russian stalling at the three power nuclear test ban conference In Geneva, authoritative sources said today. The original plan demanded a swift decision but the United Slates has decided It wants to work out a fair and work able plan for banning nuclear test explosions even If It taes ume. District Rangers , Attend Meetings Rangers from the six dis tricts of Rogue River Nation al forest and from the Klam ath Indian lands are attending a three-day meeting in the post office building here. Theme of the discussion with the supervisor and his staff is multi-purpose use management in the adminis tration of national forest lands. The meeting started Wednesday, and will end to day. Participating in the sessions are Kermit W. Linstedt and Richard P. Bottcher of the division of watershed man agement in the Pacific North west regional office, Portland, and Lyle Carlson, Portland, regional attorney for the for est service. Rangers from the Klamath Indians lands are participat ing since some of the Jand under the jurisdiction ' of Rogue River National forest will be joined to Indian land and become the Winema Na tional forest April 1. Stanleyville Ousts Five Western Consuls Leopoldvllle, The Congo - (UPD Five Western consuls are being expelled from the block aded Stanleyville Lumumbist stronghold, diplomats said today.. They said the representa tives of Britain, France, West Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark have been told to get out on Saturday's plane to Leopoldville. the House Labor Committee said there is a fair chance both two-way and three-way workmen's compensation bills will die. The Saturday class bill, aimed primarily at courses like driver training, would let schools hold the classes on a voluntary basis for students and teachers. The migrant child measure, which goes to Ways and Means would appropriate $155,000 for special grants and summer schools for chil dren in the state just half the year while their parents work crops. Kelsay Comments Rep. W. O. Kelsay, whose labor committee is consider ing two-way workmen's com pensation and probably will receive the Senate - passed three-way bill, said the legis lature may well leave indus trial accident insurance as It is now-largely a state monop oly, Kelsay said the only change that may win approval would be a State Industrial Accident Commission package to revise and clean up appeals pro cedures for injury claims, Two-way insurance, which would permit companies to bond themselves for insurance instead of carrying state in surance, is a part of this pack age. But Kelsay said the com mittee has informally consid ered deleting the two-way sec tion. The three-way bill would let private insurance firms carry workmen's compensation in addition to the state or self insurance. Labor has fought the bill, Foreign Datelines QUAKES IN ITALY Messina, Italy-rtlPD-Eight sharp earthquakes rocked Mes sina today and most of this Sicilian city's 240,000 population fled In panic into the surrounding hills. No deaths or serious injuries had yet been reported. MISSION ATTACKED Lisbon, Portugal-IUPD-A mob of several hundred blacks, whites and half-castes Thursday night attacked the American Evangelical Mission building in Luanda, capital of Portuguese Angola, but no Americans were hurt, the Lusitania news agency said. TO LEAVE MONDAY London-flJPD-Elizabeth Taylor will fly to New York Mon day and spend the night there before going on to Hollywood, 20th Century-Fox's London office announced today. TORNADO DEATH TOLL Dacca, East Pakistan-fliPD-Latest reports today from dis tricts hit by last week end s tornado put the death toll at 207 Officials said 2,000 houses were destroyed and about 200 persons injured. Fifteen still are missing. CONCILIATION HOPED Leopoldville, The Congo-IUPD-President Joseph Kasavubu's efforts to woo the leftist leaders of Oriental and Kivu Prov inces raised hopes today for a possible conciliation between the Congo s rival political factions. tiie dress Just a flip of a cropped fitted jacket bares a neat sheath bound with black down bodice and 1 at waist. SCOOP: 4 IT'S A WONPtRFUt STOKI Saturday Check List OF GOOD VALUES Cotton knit co-ordinates Should have a double V V on ,n's cneck list of good values. Colorful stripes and solids. Vertically striped boat neck pullover with 3A sleeves only $3.98. Cowl neck poncho in 2 color vertical stripe only $3.98. Solid color matching knit capri pants that are lined . . . only $5.98. 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