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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1961)
- wtuiunu wAib iniBUHL. wturuwu, OBtttow FRIDAT MAT H 1961 ' j Democrats Must Split Credit With Republicans in State Legislature imiora note: Thla n th lacond di i-y m.ifaurnei comparing tha acliltvemcnu and failure! of the 1M1 leililature with Gov. Mark Hatfield's menace and with the iHjuiKiBuc party piauorm. : By A. H. PEARSON Salem - (UPD - Foiled by i broad spectrum of IncomDatl bje views, the Democrats who nominally ran the 1961 leg islature drew a zero and even lost ground in key labor and power fields. rThe majority party carried out its 1960 platform by mat ing sweeping gains in educa lion, industrial development and civil rights. . But credit for all of these had to be split with Repub licans, even though the leg islature went beyond GOP proposals. On issues where the official Democratic stand ran counter to GOP views, it was a lost cause from the start. - A labor-management law was successfully avoided, at- tgr a sometimes: harrowing fight. But no gains were made at all in liberalizing work men and unemployment compensation partly the re sult of a deadlock over a three-way workmen's compen sation bill backed by some Democrats. Actually, this struggle con tained the Democratic "prob lem" in a nutshell. Held Numerical Lead Democrats held numerical way in both, houses, but as in the case of labor. Demo crats were on both sides and the session's worst clashes came within the party rather than between parties. ' ' Democrats refused to vote together, and those who sup ported the official liberal party stand were a minority in both houses. The power lay in bi-partisan coalitions of ten along special - interest lines. In fact, Democratic leaders in the Senate supported one defeats: A bill giving utilities exclusive service areas. - A Democratic Senate com mittee quietly shelved a party bill for a state power agency, and the House killed a bill making ' it easier for public utilities to issue bonds. ' In education, the Democrats implemented . their platform by increasing school support and colleger faculty pay, en dorsing federal aid to educa tion, launching community colleges, and financing shol arships, loans, and special child programs. Other Gains Mad The party also won a $200, 000 start for local mental care centers, better state employees pay, civil rights, timber tax 22. ti ll ..... j V.v vV star v , v i . -t JUNCTIONS FLOODED- It appears that the junction of highways are -really bridges over some river, however, this is the lowlands around highway junctions US 141 and US 66 at Valley Park, Mo., covered with the overflow of water from the Mermac river in the background. The rail road bridge indicates the river channel. (UPI Telephoto) improvement, and modified jobless pay qualifications. "An aggressive program for attracting . . . industry" was kicked off with bills for oil exploration, and coastal and space age industry. The Democrats got nowhere on their platform proposals for abolition of the death pen alty, elderly tax relief, a bus iness income tax," or a mini mum wage law. They did hold the line against a sales tax. Government reorganization, urged by the party, also fail ed to get off first base. It was defeated by conservatives of both parties. t Actually, for the Demo crats, the, start of the session was typical. Senate Demo crats refused to vote as a unit, and half joined with Repub licans to elect Harry Boivm president ignoring a party plank calling for unit voting. Senate' Democrats carried off the final slap at the of f ical party by leading a succesful drive to keep party conven tions from' endorsing certain candidates. Ironically, that bill also .requires party conven tions to meet for the specific purpose of drafting more plat forms. .' ' IS ' Congress Urged To OK Wiretap Washington -OIP0- Congress was urged tbday to authorize court supervised wiretapping to arm law enforcement agencies with a weapon cap able of outwitting modern criminals. . , Anthony p. Savarese, chair man of the New York State Assembly's Joint Legislative Committee on Privacy of Com munications, said, present wiretap laws were so con fused that even the FBI vio lated Ihem. He told the Senate Consti tutional Rights subcommittee, in prepared testimony, that Congress owed it to law of ficers to end the confusion before another year passed. The subcommittee was studying three bills - which would legalize telephone in terception under" court ap proval, by authorized officials. Under, present law, and through Supreme Court rul ings, wiretap evidence may not be used in a federal court. Recent rulings also have cast doubt about some state laws, the gift that always thrills.. 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Harr, superintend ent of Rogue River schools spoke on "Loyalty to Our Country,": The high school band, directed by William Os- mer, played. Students of the Daryl Holte School of Danc ing, Grants Pass, also enter tained. Glenn W. Hutchinson, chair man of the committee, pre sented citations to the Rev. Robert Maxson, Harr, Osmer and Holte for their participa tion. A check was also pre sented to Osmer to help de fray expenses for band uni forms. - Chaplain Led Orvis gave the benediction. CHECK EXCHANGE New York - More than 15 million checks are cashed daily in the U.S., covering 90 per cent of all money ex change. . , LeMay May Get Chief of Staff Job Washington (UPD Gen. Cur tis D. LeMay, who made the Strategic Air Command the most lethal striking force in history, today was reported President Kennedy s choice to be Air Force chief of staff. The 54-year-old warhorse who sent the first atom bomb ers over Japan in 1945 will take over when Gen. Thomas White's term runs out in mid- July, Pentagon reports said. LeMay has been vice chief of staff since 1957, and has seen the Air Force through revolutionary changes. If the reports are borne out, he will take over the helm with the Air Force still in a state of rapid change, with spacecraft coming into its inventory. The reports said LeMay's vice chief will be Gen. Fred erick H. Smith Jr., who now commands U. S. Air Forces in Europe. New Money Color Said in Offing San Francisco - (UPD - Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, U.S. treas urer, said Thursday a new color of your money may be in the offing. She said studies have been under way for several months on the idea of changing the color of currency from its present uniform green to some sparkling hues. Purpose of the change would be convenience in handling, she said. Different colors would make it easier to distinguish denominations. Dollar bills would probably remain green, she said. No colors have yet been selected for other bills. "The biggest problem in volves ink and color chemi cals," she said. "When we de cide on something permanent, w will let tha publio know." Montgomery Has Vord of Praise For Legislature Salem -UPP- House Minority Leader F. F. Montgomery Thursday praised the 1961 Legislature as "industrious" and generally successful - a stand in direct contrast to an attack from Gov. Mark Hat field a few hours earlier. The Eugene Republican se lected community mental health clinics and a medicare for the elderly program as items of "prime Importance." Displeasure Expressed Hatfield has expressed dis pleasure with the clinic plan because it excluded the sec tions dealing with his govern ment reorganization program. Montgomery declared Hat field "can take pride in the response he received to his recommendations toward in dustrial development." He cited land lease meas ures for industry and bills for offshore oil exploration. Montgomery said the house had been "successful in pass ing some constructive social legislation." A house-approved bill for elderly property tax relief which he cited, how ever, died in a conference committee. Major Victory Montgomery said Hatfield "enjoyed a major victory" in winning a bill permitting area allotments for utilities. He also cited a bill regulating farm picketing. Hatfield earlier in the day attacked the legislature for killing his government reor ganization program, spending more than he proposed, and ignoring traffic saftey meas ures. Montgomery said there were "many moments of hap piness and many of disap pointment," but the leglsla-! ture was "without doubt the : most industrious legislature- ' Oregon has seen for many years." f COMPETITIVE f I PRICES I VA1IBJT7. I plus I TOUR f''y I V QUALITY J JllMm J Yiiin vou nut f The R. A. Holmes Agency MAR YOUR APPEARANCE WITH BIFOCAL SHADOW! 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