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8 B THURSDAY, MARCH 30. 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. Oregon Delegation Undecided on Aid To Education Bill: Durno Waiting By YVONNE FRANKLIN Mall Tribune Washington Bureau Washington (Special) - Con gressional mailmen are stag gering under the mounting stacks of voter sentiment o n the aid to edu cation bill and opinion in the Oregon delegation i s as divided as that of the cons tituents who write rr.im.in The mail in most offices Is heaviest on whether or not private elc mentary and secondary schools should receive federal loans. Rep. Walter Norblad says that his mail is heavier on this issue than any which he has seen during his 16 years in Congress. He was the lone Oregonian to take a position against the $2.3 billion school construction bill. He has re ceived about 500 letters, 98 per cent of which he said favored aid to parochial schools. Reps. Edith Green and Al Ullman have not made up their minds about whether or not to support a separate bill providing loans to private schools. Both are against loan provision in the general construction bill. Sen. Maurine N e u berger would not take a position on whether or not private schools should receive loans. "I am not prepared to say yet; I don't know what form the bill will take," Mrs. Neu berger said. "The reason I am hesitant is that I support a much more liberal form of aid to education." She con tinued: "If we allow allocations of money to go to the States to be distributed according to the laws of those States; then the States could decide if they want to give free textbooks to all children regardless of the school they attend. "The people of the States have closest control over edu cation. When people talk about federal control, this is the answer. You don't have federal control if you allow States to use the money as they see fit." States To Decide : The bill as now drawn al lows the States to decide whether to spend their share of federal money for construc tion of buildings or teachers' salaries in the public schools. . Sen, Wayne Morris supports a separate bill granting loans to private schools. He wants no amendment to the general bill, and has been outspoken in his criticism of the position taken by the Catholic church which opposes federal aid to public schools if parochial schools are not Included. Rep. Edwin Durno was In Oregon, however his adminis trative assistant, Robert Park man, said that Durno had not made up his mind on aid to private schools, and would not until the Congress was pre sented with the bill which they were to vole on. "You can't tell what the committee is going to do," Parkman said, "and you don't know what will be offered in the way of amendments." On aid to schools, general ly, Parkman said that "Durno is against any aid which will lead to federal control of edu cation, and he will have to analyze what the Education committee suggests, with this In mind." Durno's Mail Heavy Parkman said that Durno's mail has been very heavy, running 60 per cent to 40 per cent In favor of aid to par ochial schools. Much of the mail Is coming from the Port land area he said. Some of It is similar In phraseology. They have received mimeographed Instruction sheets which the person has simply signed rather than writing a letter, which he sold Indicates a great effort Is being made to urge people to write. He noted that this was equally true on the part of those who write in opposition to aid to private schools. Ullman says he has been receiving much mall from the Portland, Snlcm and Eugene area urging his support of aid to private schools. Much of his mall, he said, is well thought out. Individually writ ten letters, both pro and con. Mrs. Green said that her mail was about evenly divided pro and con. Some of the mail was "Inspired" on both sides. Believed Violation She snid that she has al ways opposed grants (free gifts) to private elementary and secondary schools, "he cause I think it Is a violation of the Constitution. "I have not made up my mind on , the question of loans," she continued. "We do not have the clear constitu tional guidllncs in this area, and I think there must be a court test on this. I havi briefs on my desk from lawyers whom we must respect ui constitutional lawyers, who take opposing positions. Even the decisions of the courts on released time, bus transporta tion, etc., have not been unani mous on this question "Therefore, it isn't very inv pressive to me to have a per son write in and be extreme in his views and be absolutely positive on the constitutional question, because I don't think we have the absolute answer, Mrs. Green expressed con cern that loans to private schools might open the door to so many sectarian schools seeking federal money that the public school system might be undermined "This would be my primary reason for opposition," she said. This nation has been dedicated to the principle that Democracy rests and depends on the education of the mass es, and a pood, sound nation wide public school system. If you start giving funds to all private schools, there will he an Increase in Drivate schools, and I am much concerned "s to what it will do to our pub lic education." Foresees No Danger Ullman said he does not foresee any danger of this if loans are made to private school systems. Mrs. Green continued, "I am not ready to say that I will oppose it (loans) to private schools on constitu tional grounds, because of the conflicting legal opinions on this." "I hope that we can pass the administration's bill, and later on consider a separate bill which would have the loans and debate this issue," she concluded. Neuberger, Ullman and Morse agree with her on this. They are not happy that the religious issue has clouded the school construction bill. Ull man said they are fearful that those who oppose an aid to education bill may Include the amendments, which will as sure its defeat. They also support the bill to provide $1.5 billion of loans over five years to construct academic facilities at both public and private universities plus scholarships. Bill Not Studied Norblad said that he had not studied Mrs. Green's bill for aid to colleges and would withhold Judgment until the bill is before Congress. Mrs Green said that her bill would probably come before Con gress first, and then the gen eral construction bill for ele mentary and secondary schools. Norblad said: "I think the local school districts in Oregon have been doing an excellent job. They have constructed in all corners of our State, and I think they will continue to do a good job. think the Federal Govern ment should keep out of grade schools and high schools. We ought to worry more about some of our tremendous prob lems of defense and our na tional debt, and let the local people take care, of the schools." ' Mrs. Neuberger d i s agreed with Norblad. "I don't think this is the way to look at it," she said. "It is important to our defense to have young people adequately trained and educated. Admiral Rickover says we now have great dif ficulty getting as many train ed scientists and technicians as we need. Sink or Swim "Maybe Oregon is taking care of its school needs, but I like to look at this thing nationally. We will sink or Bills Approved By Legislature Salem - (UPD - Measures ap proved Wednesday: By the Senate SB81-Vagrancy. SB90-Bawdy houses. SB206 - "Little Landrum Griffin" bill. SB35'4 - House trailers. SB382 - Rural fire protec tion district elections. SB477 - Charitable contri butions by corporations. By the House HB2028, 2070, 2081, 2101, 2102, 2108, budgets for board of control, Including Dam masch hospital MacLaren, cor rectional institution. HB2094 - Forest products harvest tax. HB1301 - Forest research, HB1302 - Tax on forest products. HB1004 - Refuse dumps. SB148 - Deputy state veter inarians. SB 194 - Log patrol. SB313 -- Commercial fish licenses. SB337 - Monuments on rlv- erbanks. SB170 - Loans. SB86 - Income taxes. SB106 - Personal Income taxes. SB390 - Abolition of hyro- electric commission. SB 133 - Bees. SB172 - Motorists' service firms. Firecrackers Used ' In Pecan Groves Stillwater, Okla. -IUPD- Ok lahoma pecan growers hope to save thousands of dollars each year by scaring crows away from their crop with fire crackers strung in long rope fuses. Cotton ropes which burn about one foot per hour are strung in pecan groves. Fire crackers are spaced along the rope to explode every 15 to 30 minutes to scare the crows away. I fTTVVTT I Ik &4 umea time oftm COMPLETE WATCK CLEANING . . Only Wl WILL LOAN YOU A WATCH WHIlf TOURS IS IIINS CLIANID NO MONEY DOWN 41 ISc WEEK 4r . CfcV I THE AVAtftN I W, rifi I TABU RADIO jL ut. eipprovra Tor acpcim THE AVALON TABU RADIO UL approved for dependa- bllity. Hai superheterodyne Circuit, Alnico V speaker, built-in aeroscope antenna. Hi-Gain t-F amplifier and linqer tip tuning. 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It is the same with education concluded. she Variety Stores Are Largest Toy Outlets New York - IUPII - Variety stores accounted for 24.5 per cent of the national toy mar ket in 1960, making them the nation's largest toy outlet, ac cording to Variety Store Med chandiser. : Independent d e p a rtment stores sold 23 per cent, chain department stores 14 per. cent, toy stores 7 per cent, discount and mail order houses 17.5 per cent, auto supply stores 5 per cent, drug and hardware stores 4 per cent each and food stores 1 per cent. Legislative Tempo Increases; Bills Move to Senators " j -,. , r nm sure that Swinne; By L. W. NEWBHY State Senator from Jackson County During the last two weeks the legislative tempo has In creased tremendously. Al though the committee work has been at a high plane since the legislature opened, the hearings are completed on the most important pieces of legis lation in each house, and the bills are starting to come to the floor for final passage. Tension is mounting and pa tience is beginning to dwin dle. The Senate has passed vir tually all of the so-called "housekeeping" measures. Teen-Age Charge Plan Meeting With Success Tulsa, Okla.-IUPII -A Tulsa department store reports "real success" with a program which allows charge accounts for teenagers without parents as co-signers. "We limit them to $30 and try to impress them with the importance of good credit." said credit manager Bill Vance of Froug's Department Store. This country's economy is being built on credit and you must teach children to use credit . , . and use it wisely." HEAT NEEDED Chicago-The nation's green houses - about 15,000 of them -require 50 to 15,000 tons of coal each growing season. (Those which facilitate the ad ministration of present laws). It has also acted on some of the extremely important new legislation, bills to control water and air pollution, the reorganization bills having to do with the department of "commerce" and department of "revenue" and the extreme ly controversial "three way bill." There are many other Sen ate bills which have not come to the floor as yet and most of the major House bills are just getting into committee. President Boivin and Speaker Duncan are setting their tar get for adjournment on April 20. I hope that we can ac complish this but it will re quire a tremendous amount of work. Busy Week Last week was an extreme ly busy one for me. 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