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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON TtfESDAV. WAY 9. 1 961 Subcommittee Airs Wiretapping Bill Washington - (UPD - The Senate Constitutional Rights subcommittee today opened hearings on a bill to clarify conflicting laws and court rulings on wiretapping. - Sen. Sam J. Ervln Jr. (D-N. C), chairman of the subcom mittee, said federal laws against the practice have failed to wipe it out. The subcommittee's first witness, Brooklyn, N. Y., Dist. Atty. Edward S. Silver, was expected to argue that It is necessary to use telephone eavesdropping to fight organ ized crime. Subcommittee member Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (O-Conn.) has said that no American citizen is safe from wiretapping. One of the proposals up for consideration is a bill by Dodd ' to impose stiff penalties for wiretapping by federal and local officials and by private detectives. In some states, in cluding New York, police can tape wires under state laws. Others permit tapping with court order. TEST REQUIRED Washington - Starting in 1917 congress required liter acy tests to curb immigration. BEEFEATER BEEFEATER the imported English Gin that doubles your martini pleasure BT!US1( BEEFEATER Gill ' 94 PROOF 100 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS KOBRAN0 CORPORATION . NEW YORK I, It. . Washington Report By William S. White (o united Feature Syndicate . sr w i m WblU Washington - Meanwhile, back at the home ranch . . . Though one would hardly know it because of the great preoccupation with Cuba and Laos and all cant thing have been go ing on of late d o mestlcally. The store at home is still being kept by Congress. And, actual ly, the work there has Improved both in quality and in quantity while national attention has been mixed in painful intensity on foreign affairs. The great, cumbersome con gressional law-making ma chine has been moving much faster and much smoother than before. Almost the situa tion suggests that Congress is better off at those rare times when it is able to work under the fewest spotlights - those lights which tempt a fellow to grandstand it rather than to play It solid. , AT ANY rate, the legislative program is moving for ward soundly. This is not necessarily "President Ken nedys program, though in the short-hand of custom it is usually so described. Rather, it is partly his, partly the cre ation of "Kennedy Democrats" in Congress, but also tt part the creation of an informal congressional consensus In volving both parties. In short, nearly every ma jor bill being passed-and now they are being passed in fairly quick order-represents sim ply a series of compromises. The president gets something and gives up something. So do the congressional Demo crats. So do the congressional Republicans. To i p e a k breathlessly, therefore, of brilliant presi dential "victories' and of crushing presidential "de feats" is only a rather lazy and melodramatic oversimpli fication. There have been, and there will be, very few clear-cut and absolute Ken nedy "victories" or "defeats" either. TAKE the minimum wage bill as an example. When, In a preliminary test, the House rejected substantial parts of that measure as wanted by President Ken nedy, it was proclaimed that a tremendous "coalition" of conservative southerners and Republicans had. surely done him in. But now that he has fin ally got an in-the-mlddle bill, having some things he want ed and some he didn't, it is announced that this "coali tion" is dead and burled. Pre mature is the word tor both reports. The "coalition" never was quite so massive and quite so powerful and determined as advertised. And it ; is not nearly so powerless-arid sure ly not nearly so dead-as it Is now pictured. The Kennedy then prematurely declared to be Just about finished In Con gress Is now prematurely de clared to be ready to run right through Congress with everything he may want here after. There is no real prospect that he will now get all, nor even practically all, he wants. Just to, there never was any truth In the supposition that Congress was about to tear him to pieces. IT IS a practical certainty that ha will riA nmttv umll with Congress all through this session, and probably the next one. But it is quite as improbable that he will score anything like a hundred per Try and Stop Mo -By BENNETT CERF- VERMONT FARMER trusted his 20-ysar-oM son in Boston alone for th first time. The lad arrived home two days later with an empty wallet but a look of utter you?" demanded thst alarmed farmer. "Paw," replied the lad, 1 met a red-headed girl just be fore I was going to climb on the bus for home two days ago, and I don't know what you call it, Paw, but from now on thatfs my hobby?' This wssjjprize "over heard" is ' submitted by Polly Kahn. A visitor from the South was showing his jroung eon the sights of - . mid-Manhattan, The boy pointed to St. Patrick's Cathedral and asked, "What's that building, Pa?" The father unhesitatingly teplied, "Son, that is New York City's Baptist churohl" ... - ' JCfce Connolly cites a. Hollywood star who Jmsw instlnetiveJy how to behave when invited to the Flower Show, H got potted. Mike has also discovered the one way to keep a couple of Jumps ahead of his wife. He plays checker with her. 0 1M1 by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kins Vestures Syndicate Millie Buy a compact this week without looking at the '61 Lark. Then, a month from now test-drive The Lark with her along. Here's what she'll say about your recent "buy": "This Isn't roomy like The lark!" She's right The Lark has far more room In less over all length. "Yen can't past that earl" Not a Lark, anyway-the "Skybolt" Six accelerates from 45 to 60 miles in 10 seconds, and the V-8 goes from 0to60inl0'2. "Yoa tpint our money on this?" The Lark would have saved you up to $532 against 8 other compacts ... and kept right on saving more for you every mile you drive! S!m2F2& WHY HATE YOURSELF? . . TEST-DRIVE THE LARK TODAY- W MRK STUDEBAKER See it today at your Studebaker dealer's. Track srs-se and save with thi Ton CHAMP By Studebaker cent as It It that he will de mand and get some wild and wonderful list of reformist legislation. This is going to be just what lis composition plainly forecast from the start; a mildly liberal Congress mora inclined to expand past so cial legislation than to break any vast new ground, except possibly, and to some degree, in federal aid to education. For fundamentally nothing has changed politically since last November. The country spoke then in a moderate, middling tone, narrowly elect ing moderately liberal Democratic president over a moderately conservative Re publican. But it hedged a bit by giving the Republicans a fslfahf fnprafi fn niimhAn in Congress. All this Is still the central ton politically. CITY EXPANDS Albuquerque, N M. - This city led the U.S. in territory annexation during 1850. Stroke Fails To Halt Anniversary Party San Rafael, Calif, - WPO -Even a mild stroke failed to interrupt a golden wedding anniversary party for Mr. and Mrs. Marlon Beeman, Vlnlta, Okla. Mrs. Beeman, 72, collapsed during the party at the home of her son in San Raphael. The celebrants transferred the party to San Rafael General Hospital, and the hospital sup plied an anniversary cake- Cardinal Spellman To Undergo Surgery New York - (WO - Francis Cardinal Spellman was to be operated on today for de tached retina. Dr. Grama Clark was as signed to perform the opera tion on the 72-year-old pre late's right eye at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Eye Institute. The cardinal en tered the hospital Saturday. Father, Children Killed by Train Sumner, Wash. - IUPD - A ( father and his two daughters were killed Monday night when the car in which they were riding was siruclt by passenger train at a crowing about three miles north, of, here. I The victim were identified as Theodore D. Couture, 29, of Sumner, Roberta, 6, and Pamela, 3. A state patrol officer said (he crossing was unmarked "except for an 'X sign." The official report said the cause t$ the acilrienV was Gesture's "failure to, yield the right ot way." An eyewitness, Gilbert Telt zel, Sumner, said the train was sounding its whistle as it approached the crossing. He said the force of the collision knocked the car "about 100 yards." 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