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Democrats Must Split Credit With Republicans in State Legislature
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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
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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,
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such as in New York, which
permit wiretapping evidence
in state courts.
Savarese said it was an "em
barrassing fact" that the FBI
now was tapping telephones,
despite the Supreme Court
rulings.
A Justice Department
spokesman told the subcom
mittee Thursday that the FBI
was operating 85 taps in cases
involving national security.
Rogue River Post
Has Loyalty Day
Rogue River - Rogue River
post of the Veterans of For
eign Wars held a Loyalty day
observance at the post home
recently. The event had been
postponed from May 1, reg
ular Loyalty day. , V
John B. 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."
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