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Critics of ' Oregon's 1961 Legislature are working them selves up into a froth of charg es that wis is a "do-nothing" session. . ' ' Tein't necessarily so! With sine die adjournament now officially. set for April 22, it is time to accentuate the positive .-accomplishments of the '' people's representatives working such long hours (from 8 a.m. to as late as 11 p.m.) for such little pay ($6 a day). ' ; ; . -Loudest critics of the Legis lature recently have been the Republican leaders, although some newspaper editors and reporters (including this one) have done their chare of grip; ing, too. . , . .' , Gov. Mark Hatfield, at his weekly, press , conferences, , rarely has missed a chance to get in a dig at the Legislature. He has expressed displeasure at the long deliberation over the Boardman.. industrial site, . ovir state , construction proj ect funds, and over the gener al legislative pace.' ( Former Gov. Charles A. Sprague in an Oregen States man editorial, however, point ed out that: ' ; " . . "Gov. Hatfield gains no ground with his' sniping at the Legislative ' Assembly. It is a' law unto itself, and legis- Wc'H give you this ceiling installation kit 'SSEKQ when yon buy an Armstrong ceiling " s rs 4.IUJU to Weekend Wonders. AWmlonrf Wonder is someone who in stalls his own Armstrong ceil ing. The kit makes it easv.lt contains a ceiling tile knife; . w oieei tape; cnalK and chalk line;' installation instruction book; Weekend Wonderapron. -. .'Get ', ; jronrsr 6th & Fir Ph. SP 3-5333 By Marguerite W. Wright lators brook no umbrage from the executive. The Oregon Legislature sets its own pace, and in recent sessions has overrun 100 days. No one can say members at this session haven't worked. They have been exceedingly diligent in their committee work. Test on Subitum "Lack of cohensive control accounts for failure to dis patch bills, but rarely has Oregon in recent years had any tight; organization of the Legislature, with a few able to crack the whip and get per formance. The test of a session is not the rate at which bills emerge and go to the gover nor, but on what the substance is of the legislation that is passed. For- that we must await the 'sine die' adjourn ment." -Legislators joined in their own defense against the gov ernor's charges. Some of them said Hatfield was using the suffering of Oregon's unem ployed as a political weapon in his. criticism of the Legisla ture's handling of the state building program. Sen. Al Flegel (D-Boseburg) cited .the Joint. Ways and Means Committee's labors of 14 and IS hours a day in at tempts "to come to a conclu sion for the benefit of the people of the state of Oregon." He said the governor's build ing program had inequities which the Legislature would be remiss in approving hasti ly. '"V. j'-- - '!';' ',. Sen.Dan Thlel (D-Astoria), chairman of Ways and Means, and Sen. Harry' Boivln (D Klamath Falls) president ' of the " Senate, concurred with Flegel. Boivln said, "I do not believe we have to apologize for' Ways and Means In any way." '" - (Ways and Means reviews all . appropriations . and has been'; very . cautious ' about spending .the taxpayers' mon ey this session.) : i . . Another prominent' critic of the Legislature is Sen. Antho ny. Yturri;(R-Ontario), Repub lican 'minority leader 'in, the Senat.He says legislators aire dragging'" their; feet "on Hat field's plans for government reorganization. Of the 20 re organization bills, hone have yet reached , the governor's desk.ior.his signature. ,,,.. ?7 Ko Public Outcrr ! ; But defenders of the Legis lature are quick to observe tht "the public usually gets' what it wants and deserves" -meaning that there has been no great public outcry back ing . up' the'' governor's : de-. mands. Instead, the pressure to leave things as they are ap Medford Tribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1961 PAGES 1 to 8 I A" !fTTO'!te H ft M - ; f QUAKER OATS PLUS WATER Flood ' waters of the Cedar river edge toward the giant Quaker Oats company plant at Cedar ' MBNSiaWwnsi '1 si MACHINES TO TESTIFY? Machine To Do Away With Reporters Carrying Things a Little Too Far TO Rapids, : la., before crest begins ' to recede.' Officials expressed optimism that the worst of the threat' was over, -. (UP! Telephoto) parently is much greater than any pressure to make the changes the governor (and many of the more liberal leg islators themselves) ; would like to make.' V ' v Since legislators tradition ally are not much "ahead" of the people,' criticism of the Legislature's reluctance :l to make radical changes amounts to criticism of the Oregon pub lic's rather conservative mood, ' "Notwithstanding that appar ent contentment 'With the status quo, .'the governor is getting more and more ; of what, he wants as the session advances. !'" '- ,''' :'.' - Legislators' acqulessed- to Hatfield's request for bills en abling Boeing Airplane Co. of Seattle to lease the 100,000 acre Boardman site -for 80 years' at $60,000 a year, even though some of them fear that Oregon may have bought a pig in poke. Some Jiave serious reservations about the ulti mate benefits to Oregon if the Boardman site is used only as a missile testing ground' with no big-scale . job-creating' de velopment , there.- Stilly-they are! willing to take the gov ernor's, word for it that this will become a great economy boost for the state. ' -i. Recommendations -by Hat field's Finance and Adminis tration Department forhsub stantial' pay raises for the state's top employees have al so, found favor in the Legisla ture. Raises of $2,000 to $3, 000 per year for some institu tion1 heads- (with top pay of $19,500 going to the state hos pital superintendent) tenta- . SCHENLEY DISTILLERS CO., N.Y.C. BLENDEO WHISKY; 86 PROOF. 65 GRAIN NEUTKALai-mu Hon an exclusive iiscdverjf whips eMra smoothness into Schenley uhishy ,,-w, m. l Af iitiiic"o1 whisky. It is Schenley. Its ' extraordinary smooth ness is the result, of the -greatest advance in whis- ky making in the last twenty-five years. j Taking the same fine whiskies arid grain neu tral spirits reserved for Schenley, we now put them through a costly hew step The. whiskies are whirled in special vats hy stainless steel blades and literally whipped into a smoothness Inever before attainable. The result can only be realized by tasting Schenley whisky. We think you'll agree: smooth ness in a whisky now takes on a new meaning. So start enjoying Schenley, the only whisV" with .extra smoothness whipped in. 48,lh 3"p lnt tively have been approved by the Ways and Means salary subcommittee. , ... ,; ; ; If finally . passed, the new salaries would include $18, 300 for the state health offi cer, $18,300 for the state high way engineer, $15,000 for the penitentiary warden, $13,200 for state , police superinten dent, $12,300 for the state for ester,' $13,200 "for the game commission director, and so on'.':' V'...C.;s..Y"'r-". The governor also had his way on the issue of decreas ing the; size; of the planned Capitol Mall and the expense of projected Mall, buildings. Under threat of a Hatfield veto and objections from all over the state, the Mall cut back failed. ' . hewbry's Opinion , ; - . 1 It appears that the gover nor, will also get his wish 'to move the Welfare Commission from Portland to Salem. Sen. L. W. Newbry (R-Talent) said he thought the Welfare Com, mission needs "a slap on the wrist" - and Sen. John Hare (R-Hillsboro) said he thought Vit needs a kick in the pants" and that the governor ought to have this $100,000,000 opera tion "under his thumb.!. . ; ; ,oiaps, .kicks,, and firm gur bernatorial thumb all seem to be:.dn .the. pffing;:jiow,; after the. dispute between1 .Welfare and Hatfield made sensational headlines earlier in.' the ses sion.' ;!,, - .::; Another .source of satisfac tion for the governor should be passage of the Republican approved, legislative reappor tionment bill. It passed the House by a coalition of Repub licans ana Eastern O r e g o h Democrats and, with minor changes, is expected to pass the Senate. ' . ;' .. . Chief objections to the bill come from Washington coun ty, which constitutionally, is entitled to more than the one senator allowed, and Multno mah county which wants an additional senator on the same grounds of population growth Considered unconstitutional, therefore, by some, the bill may go to the Supreme Court for final decision. Favorable Action Community mental health olinics under, a new state di vision of mental health, pro posed by- Gov. Hatfield, are getting favorable action in the House,, although the gover nor's request also to place five state mental institutions un der the new division has net been approved so. far.- If ap proved by both houses, the clinics (also proposed by lead ers in both parties) can be claimed another Hatfield suc cess. '.-., - Two labor bills, one to pro vide enforcement against un law lubor and manaeement practices, and one to provide for state-conducted union elec tions, have passed the Senate. The "Little Landrum-Griffin bill" was supported by all but one Republican senator and about half the Democrats, and amounts to another GOP vic tory which shduld please Re publicans from Hatfield on down.,"- -,: : ' A bi-partisan group of 19 Republicans and 19 Democrats in the, House beat down' ob jections to a bill to cut weight- mile taxes on trucks by $1,' 000,000 a year. Opponents say that if signed by the governor, the matter will be referred to the 'Voters. ... 1 r'. " r. , Pollution, Civil Mights Other measures that should win compliments for the Leg' islature from the governor in clude House action to strength en anti-water- pollution forcement; and Senate approv al of a major civil rights Item this session - a bill outlawing discrimination in personal service establishments such as barber shops.' - Action on' some kind of net receipts income tax, request ed oy Hatfield, is. still possi ble... ;V . " ! : The off-shore oil lease bills, requested by Hatfield, are up for action soon, .'. , ''' Much other legislation, up 'till now in various commit tees, is due for action in the next two weeks. . y- ; ' - Up 'till now it has been too early to discuss legislative ac complishments. From now on, however, as "the substance of the legislation that is passed" becomes clear, there'll be plenty to nraise and an abun dance to .belabor by sine die day. , V Then Gov. Hatfield can say whether the Legislature comes up to the Mark! . --. ; , -:a College Negroes i Will Be Recruited ! Washington - (UPD r The Ken-. neay administration has em barked on the first step In a nationwide drive to recruit college-trained ? Negroes for: upper level obs in the federal i It is inline ,witHan!order, L... Tyi AUt V. lL' 1V -'. ill.' "j caciii ciiiicuy ior me goverririieiit to' take "positive measures iqr me' elimination of ' any discrimination.' direct of indirect,1 which now exists". in government niring. . -. i Ross CHnchyi a Civil' Sew ice Commission official ' as signed to minority' group mat ters, lert Sunday on' a sixr week tour of 24 predominant ly Negro colleges. Later; he' will visit -70 additional' col leges with heavy Negro enroll Cuba Units Control Navy Installations i Havana, Cuba - (UPD - Cuban army . units today controlled most of the island's naval in stallations to prevent further uprisings by naval personnel opposed to the pro-Communist policies of the Castro regime, i Twenty-one sailors and one of ficer-the entire detachment of a small navy post at Guana- bo Beach-were reported to have defected and escaped aboard a coast guard craft Sunday. On Saturday, reports in Ha- vana said the government had broken up a counter-revolu tionary movement by 300 na val personnel. It was . the fourth reported mutiny by na val officers and men. Navy Makes Effort To Save Russian Washington (UPD The- Navy Saturday dispatched two transport planes to the Ant arctic in an effort to evacuate a Russian scientist who is seri ously ill with stomach ulcers, The Russian is Leonid Ku- perov,- who arrived in Febru ary at America's Byrd station on the South Pole continent as part of an exchange program. He has been in serious condi tion since March 23. CASTRO, K TO MEET - Mexico City - (UPD-Premier Fidel Castro will meet Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev later this year to discus means of disposing of the Cu ban sugar crop, diplomatic en-1 sources said . Saturday. MflW Medford's Newest and Finest Automatic Hill Transmission Rebuilding WATCH FOR CUR GRAND OPENINGI MEDFORD TRANSMISSION 1910 T.M. Rock Road &SS SP 2-8361 7 Acroil Fm IIG Y Mtrtot Br DICK WEST Washington - (UPD - A House labor subcommittee has been holding a series of hearings this month on m a n's con quest of ma chines, and vice versa. -In general, the testimony tou c h e d on the progress- i f "prograss" is the proper word - that man has been making toward rendering himself obsolete with instruments of his own creation. . . - i , Machines . already can do most things better than we can, except invent better ma chines. And that probably will be the next step. ; Being a homo sapiens my self, about the only comfort that I could derive from the hearings was the fact that all of the witnesses . were of the human variety. ; If Congress ever .starts call ing, in machines . to testify, which is not as far-fetched as it might sound, then we mem bers of the human race might as well hang up our uniforms. One of the witnesses was John Diebold of New York, a 34-year-old management con sultant who is alleged to have invented the word "automa tion." In fact; I-understand ha has confessed to the charge. ' Diebold said the, machine age really came of age, so to speak, with the development of electronic computers, which for the first time, provided in struments with "brains." , By the time, that Diebold got through outlining all the things that computers can. do, or soon will be doing. I was nursing a king-sized inferior- liy complex. Anc tee Chairman Elmer J. Hol land (D-Pa.) seems to feel the same way. "I was just wondering, sit ting here, are you going to do away with Congress?" Holland inquired. "And also with those news reporters down there-do away with them? "You have me a little afraid. Maybe we are not going to need any Congress. . You will just put it in that machine," ., Holland's soliloquy left me with mixed emotions. Or, put ting it another way, I agreed with SO per cent of his fears. There are times when I feel that a machine that would do away with Congress might not be a bad thing. But any talk of doing away with news re porters is carrying things too far...' As I visualize it, Congress could be replaced by two big computers with Remington Rand representing the Senate and IBM standing in for the House. ' ; ; Then,' if someone felt in need of legislation, he would merely press a button and out would come a new law. Or, -if the legislation happened to be against t'vti national interest, a light would flash and the machine would register "tilt." All ' a government bureau would have to do to get an ap propriation would be to pull the handle and pick up the money as it came down the slot. ..... ' . Only two things that I can think of stand in the way of computer legislation. ..x-.-jji. In order to function proper ly, a lawmaking machine would have to have a built-in lobbyist. 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