Constance Garrett
Case Dismissed
' Portland (UPD Mrs. Con
stance Garrett, 32, was free
today after a six-month legal
battle which saw her acquit
ted on one murder charge
.and then nearly stand trial a
second time in connection
with a fatal fire at her home
last October.
Circuit Judge Herbert G.
!Schwab dismissed the second
charge against the ' former
Texas socialite Monday and
Substantiated her plea of in
nocent by reason of double
jjeopardy.
The state may appeal the
decision to the State Supreme
;Court.
The dismissal order fol
lowed presentation of addi
tional arguments by state and
defense attorneys before
:Judge Schwab.
" The charges stemmed from
a fire at the Garrett home in
October that claimed the lives
of three of Mrs. Garrett's four
daughters and a resident
maid. She had been acquitted
'in January of the death of
her youngest daughter, Gaye,
five months, but an indict
ment charging her in the
rdeath of another daughter,
Angela, three, was immedi
ately brought against her.
: Julian Herndon, deputy
district attorney, said no simi
lar case has been tested in the
State Supreme Court. ;
Small
Worlds
Around
Us
I Lynn W.
Watkins
(Register 1 Tribune Syndicate, 1961)
'Do You Know What
'A Dicky Bird Is?
Regardless of the meager
hess of your knowledge of na
tural history, you have never
theless certainly heard about
the "dicky bird, the fool fish
and the hop toad." The names
are merely cloaks to hide par
tially the real identity of the
unknown animal or the one
that is pitifully misunder
stood. Calling them such general
names would seem to indicate
a lack of actual information
but implying a misplaced
knowledge to mislead the lis
tener, probably causing him
"to be as confused as is the
person using the expression.
. Probably the actual differ
ence between species of any
animal is unimportant to most
"of us; sufficient enough to
say that a bird, probably a
dicky bird, was singing in an
unnamed bush, or. any bird
in the hand is worth a couple
in any other tree. But the
-use of the all-embracing but
erroneous expression usually
-implies to the listener that the
.user of the name knows what
he is talking about.
Name For All
Any feathered creature
flitting through the bushes,
observed on the wing, or
swimming in the lake could
be called a "dicky bird."
What the term actually
means is that the observer
does not know one bird from
another, so he embraces all
birds under one confusing and
meaningless name. This same
person, being asked to des
cribe a "dicky bird" could
merely come up with the pro
found information that it had
feathers and two legs and a
nest under the eaves of the
garage.
The all - embracing name,
"hop toad," probably takes in
anything that jumps: toads,
frogs, and tree toads regard
less of species. Some become
a little more lucid by discrib
ing some of the amphibians,
those with the very rough ex
teriors, as "warty toads."
Fool Fish
In their general classifica
tion of fish in localities
where several species are us
ually present, the same unin
formed ones call the unknown
species a "fool fish," or "sail
or's choice." Some even go
way out on the fishy limb by
contradicting themselves b y
telling the curious fishermen
who has reeled in a stranger
that he has caught a "no-name
fish."
In the event the observer
could not tell the difference
between fish and fowl, h e
would refer to the creature
as a "crittur," or, if he thought
it would bite, sting, scratch
or claw, he would call it a
"varmint."
Even a hoo toad, a fool fish
or a dicky bird could be, and
often has been called a var
ft 4
mint or a pest if it infested
our outdoor pool, flew against
our living room window or
sang during a time when we
were trying to take a nap.
At such a time, even the
hext-door neighbor may be
called a "pest," or something
worse, but the fool, fish, the
dicky bird, and the hop toad
are only excuses for not know
ing of which we speak.
THAT IT IS
London -UPD- A Conserva
tive party poster in the win
dow of a funeral parlor car
ries the following slogan:
"The future is ours."
Home Rule Would Give Power
Mrs. Alice Rutter, chair
man of the Jackson county
home rule study committee,
said Monday that home rule
"would return to the voters
of Jackson county the pow
ers which years ago they
voted away to the state."
Mrs. Rutter made her re-
Klamath Youth
Sought in River
Red Bluff, Call f. (UPD
Tehama county authorities
searched the Sacramento ri
ver today for a Klamath
Falls, Ore., youth who was
listed as a possible drowning
victim.
Police said that Lyle Mc
Farland, 19, has not been seen
since Saturday night when he
refused help and drifted
down the river after a scuffle
on the river bank.
Officers said that he jumped
into the river after they ar
rived to break up a fight in
volving McFarland, an uniden
tified youth and Robert Dean
Bramwell, 20, of Klamath
Falls.
McFarland was spotted
holding onto a clump of
brush about four feet from
shore. Then he headed out
into the river.
A search of the river banks
was unsuccessful. The youth's
father, Floyd McFarland, ar
rived here Monday to help in
the search. 1
Winema Forest
Personnel Named
Portland-OIPD-Regional For
ester J. Herbert Stone Tuesday
named administrative person
nel to manage the new Wine
ma National Forest in South
ern Oregon.
The forest will include
former Klamath Indian Res
ervation lands and later parts
of the Rogue River, Fremont
and Deschutes National For
ests. Alexander E. Smith, Port
land, will be supervisor of the
new forest with headquarters
in Klamath Falls. Smith has
been assistant chief of the di
vision of information and edu
cation in the regional U.S.
Forrestry office here.
Smith formerly worked in
the Malheur, Willamette and
Rogue River National forests
of Oregon.
Members of his staff will
include Charles B. Waldron,
now with the Malheur Nation
al Forest; Norman E. Gould
and William A. North, now
with the Umpqua National
Forest; Dan B. Abraham, with
the Siskiyou Notional Forest,
and Kjedd M. Bakke, with the
Mt. Hood National Forest.
Recession Seen
To Have Run Course
Portland -IUPII- Secretary of
Commerce Luther H. Hodges
said Tuesday the recession
"has pretty well run its
course" and took some of the
credit for the Kennedy ad
ministration. "The Democrats have done
a very great deal for busi
ness," he told a news confer
ence. "The thing most people
want is an attitude of being
on the job-more energy and
decisions. In the first 100 days
they've had enough of both
to justify the entire term."
Hodges, at 62, is the oldest
member of the Kennedy cabi
net and the first to visit Ore
gon since the inauguration.
He addressed a combined
luncheon of the Pacific North
west Trade Association and
the Portland Rotary Club
this noon.
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MEDFORD
marks during an explanation
of the purposes and functions
of the home rule committee
at yesterday's Medford Cham
ber of Commerce roundtable
luncheon. Also speaking at
the luncheon were Committee
Members MacLeod Maurice,
Gold Hill, and Earl Day,
Sams Valley.
Mrs. Rutter said the only
decision that the committee
has made to date is that "a
county home rule charter
would be of advantage to this
county." The next step, she
said, "is to sit down and
write one."
To Hhelp Draft Charter
The committee has called
upon Orval Etter, a research
attorney for the bureau of
municipal research at the
University of Oregon, to help
draft the charter. Before this
can be done, however, it must
first be determined what pow
ers the county should have,
the committee chairman
pointed out. This is the com
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MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD,
mittee's current project.
The main advantage of hav
ing home rule, according to
Mrs. Rutter, is that a county
could adopt certain specific
legislation for itself. The way
it stands now, the county de
pends on the state legislature
for all legislation.
Mrs. Rutter implied that
having the legislature ap
prove special legislation for
a county is often a lengthy
process, particularly so since
the legislature meets only
once every two years. Also,
the legislature cannot pass
legislation for one county in
particular, but legislation ap
proved for one must be for
all.
Could Start Legislation
Under a home rule charter,
she said, voters of a county
could initiate legislation for
themselves. This means that
if the county court fails to act
on something, the voters
would have recourse to initi
ate action through petitions,
OREGON
To County, Roundtable Is Told
bringing the matter to a vote
at the next regularly sched
uled election.
An example of the advan
tages of home rule, Mrs. Rut
ter said, would be in the field
of air pollution. Under the
existing system, the city of
Medford has the power to en
act controls within its bounda
ries, but the county does not.
With home rule, she said, the
county could enact its own air
pollution control ordinances.
The practice of home rule
was approved by the voters
of the state in 1958. Follow
ing the election the Jackson
county court appointed four
members to study the feasi
bility and desirability of hav
ing home rule in Jackson
county. The county's state leg
islature delegation then ap
pointed another four mem
bers, and the eight members
of the committee then ap
pointed a ninth member.
Would Be An Advantage
Although the committee
IT'S A
$1
to
does feel that home rule
would be of advantage to
Jackson county, Mrs. Rutter
cautioned that it hasn't said
for sure that a home rule
charter will be -presented to
the voters.
If and when a charter is
drafted it would be presented
to the voters through a series
of public hearings throughout
the valley. When these hear
ings would be concluded the
committee would then make
any revisions in the charter it
felt necessary, and following
yet another hearing, it would
be presented to the voters.
Day, who was county judge
here in the 1930's, called the
existing set-up between the
legislature and the county "a
ridiculous situation."
Several Experience
He recalled several experi
ences during his tenure as
county judge when the coun
ty's hands were tied because
it didn't have the authority to
enact legislation or make de
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cisions for itself.
Day said that when some
thing new comes up requiring
a quick decision "the county
court doesn't know what to
do." He said it has no law,
no head and no way to make
other county officers cooper
ate with it.
Day envisioned one crucial
decision that might some day
be required of the county
court. This would occur, he
said, if and when O and C tim
ber funds should suddenly be
denied the county. He said
following the meeting that if
such a thing happened, it
would require quick decisions
on the part of the court to
keep the county from going
bankrupt.
Little Help Expected
Little help could be expect
ed from the state legislature,
he said, since two-thirds of
its members are from non
O and C counties.
Day pointed out too, that
O and C funds are "under
new styles.
'
WEDNESDAY, APRIL
attack all the time" in both
the state legislature and in
the Congress of the United
States. He said: "Just don't
think it is a guarantee for
ever." Maurice declared: "We need
home rule to help solve prob
lems for ourselves." He called
upon the Chamber of Com
merce to help the committee
in deciding what the proposed
home rule charter should con
tain in the way of powers.
Maurice noted that the
county "has no authority
whatever" to borrow funds
Jackson Council of the
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'New & Used' Sale
Saturday, April 22
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108 NORTH IVY
Hours are from
9 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.
For pickup pleaie call Mrs. John
Ragidala l SP 3-SS52 evenings
or Mri. Gerriry at TW 9-1642.
Van Raalte and other famous
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19. 1961
or obligate itself for more
than $5,000 In one year with
out legislative approval. Ha
said he hopes that the state
home rule charter amend
ment will be amended so
that counties , can manage
their own financial affairs.
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