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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12. 1961 Said Di in Talks With Macmillan MEDFORO MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. Kennedy Dlomaticallv Successful (Edith Green Concerned About Mail Attacking Congressmen Br YVONNE FRANKLIN Mail Tribune Waihingion Bureau ; " Washington (Special) - Con greswoman Edith Green thumped a bulging folder-of letters, many .of them bitter attacks on her patriotism by membersof anti . - commu ' nist societies, leaned across ' her desk and issued a dis sent a n d' a warning. ml rruklln ' She said that she disagrees with liberal Democrats who think the John Birch Society should be investigated, for she believes in freedom of expression and the right to . disagree. ', , . "I don't think any individ ual," she : said, "or Member of Congress should set 'him self up as an anti-communist expert, and make the deter mination of what is American or what -is un-American.", : mZ TimjnlMUA 'J MODERN PLUMBING & SHEET METAL 1J Eatt Jtekion Street - Phon SP 3-S36S l OR KITCHENS 1 WE WILL BE CLOSED April 10th to 24th FOR Remodeling Watch for Our Opening! Your Thrify Green Stamp Redemption Store J you Union Pacific has been serving shippers for almost a century. There isn't a piece of equipment, a new freight facility, or an electronic device, (many of which we pioneered) that hasn't been studied . . . and placed in use if it met our needs and high, standards. All of which means that Union Pacific service is as up-to-date as today. Cot anything going our way? A Union Pacific Traffic Repre tentative is no farther away than your phone. I Mil A W But she is gravely concern ed about her mounting corre spondence, some of it scurri lous and obscene, coming from individuals at the behest of super-patriotic organiza tions, which accuse the Su preme Court Justices, , the President, Congressmen, as well as herself,, of being "com munists or their dupes." Currently, her office is re ceiving ; dozens of letters a day, urging that Congress im peach Chief Justice Earl Warren.- A signed tract which sometimes accompanies the letter is anti-Negro. The Su preme Court school desegre tion decision is one of the bases for attacking Warren. Letters Acknowledged . ' Mrs. Green acknowledges the letters, with a short state ment saying she must disagree with the writer. "Whenever she receives a reply, inevitably the writer hurls the ultimate weapon: "since the impeachment of Earl Warren would slow down the fast progress of the com munists. . . I am wondering why . you take this position unless you are a communist sympathizer and have much to hide." ,. She answers: "I consider the efforts to. smear this great American and to impeach him to be ridiculous, contrary to the intent of the Constitution and based upon a complete misunderstanding of the na ture of our system of govern ment." She sent the' writer a Congressional Record reprint of an article on the John Birch Society. - . i Those writers identifiable as members of the John Birch Society ' are only a part of Mrs. Green's worry.'- ' The daily mail brings ad ditional . letters and tracts which are printed in southern California, Oklahoma and THIS MESSAGE IS DIRECTED TO... who ship UNION PACIFIC THE MOST DEPENDABLE DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO POINTS POK PEOPUE and Texas (centers of fundament alist, ultra right-wing, "pa triotic" movements) and which are signed by Oregonians who agree with the contents. Names Heavily Emphasised - The Impeach Warren, tract says that the same punish ment (electric chair) be me'ted out to Warren and the other Justices, as was given to the spies Ethel and Julius Rosen berg. Jewish names are - al ways' heavily emphasized: ." Another tract printed'- by the "Cinema Educational Guild in. Hollywood (printers of the Warren tract) says that the television screens show programs which "sanctify Marxism, one-worldism and desegregation." v -'- It lists ' over .100 Holly wood stars as being "Reds" and suggests that the reader threaten the sponsors of such programs with a boycott of their products. They urge giv ing the tract to grocers and dealers ' who also carry the products. ' i Sometimes the. racism is veiled, sometimes it is blatant, and Mrs. Green sees a danger in the unreasonableness of the writers. She warned that no one Is exempt. Earl Warren may be, because of his posi tion, impervious to attack,. but less well known figures are not. She said: .. ... "They . say the- churches, schools, colleges and universi ties are all infiltrated by com munists or dupes. "They undermine confi dence; in public officials, and are doing their best to under mine our judicial system when they call members 61 the Su preme Court communist. It isn't based on fact, but sim ply their disagreement on a position taken by the Court.' Mrs. Green said that' she sometimes tries to "educate" the writer of . such mail. Her second, and sometimes third, Eastland Calls for Court Impeachment Dallas, Tex.-(UPD-Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) Monday blasted the Supreme Court and called for impeachment of all nine justices. Eastland, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the court in recent years has is sued more pro-Communist de cisions "than any judicial tri bunal outside of the Iron Cur tain." 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Court replies, although terse, dis agree with the vengeful writ er, and make this point: "Preaching of racial hatred or to suggest that the Con gress, - the 1 President, the Courts, the churches and both political parties have been taken over by the communists does nothing but divide our people,' and destroys confi dence in the Democratic way of life. f "There is plenty of room for honest controversy about is sues, but I do resent it when people in public life are labeled 'communist' because they don't agree with the en tire ' program of some par ticular group." . Mrs. Green plans to make a speech in Congress' about this subject within a week or so. : Bridge Approved; Highway 42 Funds Hit Snag ' Salem - (UPD - The Astoria Megler bridge has received a stamp of approval from the Senate, Highways committee but a bill unfreezing $4 mil lion for Highway 42 recon struction hit a temporary snag: ;:. Both bills have passed the House. . ... , The bridge bill went to the Senate floor and action is ex pected ,within a day or two. The vote was unanimous, with five of the . seven members present. They were Sens. An thony Yturri (R-Ontario), chairman; Al Flegel (D-Rose-burg), R. F. Chapman (D-Coos Bay), Richard Groener (D-Mil- waukie), and Loyd Key (D-Milton-Freewater). ; There were no, opposition witnesses to either bill but a motion to send the Highway 42 bill to the floor failed 3-2 with Key and Groener voting no. It takes four votes to send a Bill out. . f . Wants Time for Study Key said the legislature shouldn't "tell the Highway commission where it should build roads." Groener said he doesn't op pose the bill but wants to study it a few more days. Yturri,. said., the.: measure would come up again Thurs day. ' Rep, William Holmstrom (D-Gearhart), testified in be half of the bridge. - ' He said there is justifica tion in Washington paying 34.4 per cent of the bridge s cost and Oregon 65.6 per cent. One reason is the boost to Oregon's economy, through in creased tourism and trade, and another is "so we can get rid of the increasing sub sidy for our ferry operation." AND PRODUCTS. Washington-(UPD - President Kennedy won a very import ant diplomatic success in his talks with British Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan. He gained the full confi dence of the 67-year-old lead er, who was soundly impress ed by Kennedy's understand ing of world problems and his determination to deal with them relentlessly and real istically. British fears that tha 43- year-old President's adminis tration might prove "trigger- happy" in a crisis proved un founded. Kennedy, for his part, found that Macmillan, far from suf fering a case of diplomatic tired blood, was willing to have Britain stand up and be counted when the chips were down. Vital To Relations This mutual confidence Is vital to British-American re-' lations, which stand at the heart of the NATO Alliance and wider free world coopera tion. In addition, the Kennedy charm laid a warm mantle of fellowship over the hard core of diplomatic agreement to revitalize the western alliance - an Important factor in this era of personal diplomacy. Kennedy now. must try to win a similar measure of con fidence from West Germany's 84-year-old Chancellor Kon- rad Adenauer, who begins talks here with the President next Wednesday, Adenauer, as usual,, is fearful lest his coun try's interests be overlooked in the Anglo-American pre occupation with wider affairs. Test Next Month : The U.S. President's biggest test on the personal diplomacy front comes next month when he journeys to Paris for talks with President Charles de Gaulle. The austere and aloof French General was much on the minds of Kennedy and Macmillan as they wrestled with the problem of strength ening the political, economic a n d '. military cooperation among the 15 NATO powers. De Gaulle s refusal to com mit France to complete coop. eration in NATO s military ar rangements strikes at the heart of the Kennedy-Macmil- lan plan to tighten up the Western Alliance. ' The French leader's insist ence on developing his own nuclear weapons hampers British and American efforts to reach agreement with Rug. sia on a test ban. His insistence upon having a completely equal voice with Britain and the United States in global strategy before he will cooperate in Europe poses a problem Macmillan and Kennedy were unable to re solve. ' - Same Old Problems The "crises" Kennedy and Macmillan dealt with during their talks here were, with the exeception ., of Laos, the the same tired old problems which London and Washing ton have, wrestled with for years, The important result, in the opinion of high British and American officials,, was the mutual discovery that there would be no lessening of co operative efforts to deal with them. On Laos, Kennedy and Mac millan had struck their bar gain at their "quickie" meet ing in Key West 10 days be fore they began the full-dress meetings here. The United States, which previously had insisted on a pro - western government in the southeast Asian kingdom, agreed to accept ' a neutral coalition if this can be worked out at an international confer ence. First, however, there must be a proven cease fire in the civil war there in which Russia is supporting the reb els. The British, in turn, agreed that if the Red advance con tinued in Laos, they would join the United States in mili tary action to block it. Situation Unchanged This week's meetings did nothing, to change this situa tion. Macmillan and Kennedy merely awaited Russian agree ment to a "verified" cease fire, which would set the dip lomatic machinery in motion. The Kennedy-Macmfllan de cision to try to find a way to give. the other NATO coun tries more "partnership" in the control of; U.S. nuclear weapons power was the ex pression of a general hope. Neither yet sees any practical way to do it. The determination to get European members of NATO to increase their convention al forces was a reaffirmation of what the two countries have been seeking for. years, On Red China, they agreed that hitherto successful U.S. efforts to prevent the United Nations from even considering the admission of Peking prob ably would fail next fall. The British, if the matter comes to a vote, will have to vote to ad mit the Communists. The United States said it under stood, but would seek a for mula to block them. .., Work at Legislature Described Ashland Luncheon Ashland-Two Southern Ore gon college students described operation and problems of the state legislature at a meeting of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce yesterday." Dr. Marshall Woodell, SOC professor of social science, in troduced Richard Swinney who worked in the office of Sen. Lyndel Newbry of Talent, and William Hampton who worked for Rep. Robert Dun can, house speaker. Both stu dents were in Salem five days. . ;. . In describing Duncan's ac tivities, Hampton said he was impressed with the work load the speaker carries.. He ob served that Duncan spent 12 hours a day in the capitol building. . , Sessions Informal Hampton - said he was im pressed with the informality at legislative sessions. "This is good because it eases ten sions which could build up," he said. He commented that legislators have a thorough understanding of each bill be ing presented. They ; do an "amazingly good job consid ering conditions they work under, Hampton remarked He pointed out that they have no office space and are only paid $600 annually. Swinney said legislators have decided how they will vote before bills come to the floor. He said party leaders are able to get a pretty good idea of whether a bill will pass prior to: the actual vote, However, he did say that oc casionally a few votes are changed shortly before the of ficial vote; 1 ' : ; ' I Lobbyisii Effective - ' ' Woodell answered ques tions about lobbying. He was asked if a small group could influence legislation without a lobbyist. Woodell said it i-. V V V N I FULLER T CURTIS Y FORMICA Y WINDOW A V PAINTS i ftARINFTS . TRIMS S0.RFFNS fl III niiiiw . . m 1 wn w " m issniw . wwbskmisw ... 11 L S S II IS? it I CLpsWvsv57 : m April 13thto 20th ;; . 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