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Seattle Council Acts To Combat Rent-Gouging Seattle-dlPD-A Fair Practice Council has been formed and an anti-eviction ordinance de layed In the two latest de velopments in Seattle's World's Fair connected rent gouging problem. The council came out of a meeting of civic, fair and business leaders here. Gov. Albert D. Rossellini, Mayor Gordon Clinton, Joseph Can dy, president of the fair, and Edward E. Carlson, chairman of the Washington Century 21 Commission attended. The purpose of the council Is to hold the line on prices and discourage rent raising. Any association, firm or indi vidual is eligible to join. Consideration Delayed Meanwhile, consideration of Clinton's proposed ordinance to prevent rent gouging and evictions in Seattle apart ment houses was delayed until Monday by the Seattle City Council. Clinton submitted the ordi nance with the claim that the cituation was an emergency brought on by the fair, which opens April 21. After hearing about the ordinance, the council agreed to consider it between now and Monday and then call in the mayor and his legal advis ers for a final discussion. The mayor's proposal would license any apartment or ho tel intending to rent rooms to World's Fair visitors. Would Limit Licenses His ordinance would limit licenses to structures which devoted at least 90 per cent of its rental units to transi ents from April 21 through Oct. 21, 1961. And among other things, it would limit licenses to those hotels which were operating as hotels from April 21 through Oct. 21, 1961. While the mayor's plan doesn't specifically mention rent control or evictions as such, it indirectly would ac complish this. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON l WW "VJ s& :; TOP DOG Top dog of the International Kennel Club dog show at Chicago, 111. is "Ozzie", a Norwegian Elk hound, shown with owner Mrs. Susan D. Phillips, Royalton, Vt. (UPI) Portland Woolen Mills Plant Sold To Group Portland - (UPD - Portland Woolerf Mills' 10-acre plant has been sold to a group head ed by a Portland dentist, Dr Milton Lebenzon. The purchase price was re ported in excess of $1.2 million. WHOA Dubuque, Iowa-IUPIV-Despite "caution," "dungs r" and "dead end" signs posted at the end of a street by police, the hot rodders still crash through the barriers. The cops are giving it one more try with a new sign that says "whoa." New York School Teachers on Strike For Pay Increases New York-IUPI)-Thousands of disgruntled teachers in the nation's largest school system went on strike today for high er salaries. Officials watched closely to see how the walk out would affect the city's public schools. The United Federation of Teachers ordered picket lines to be set up early today at the city's 840 elementary, junior and senior high schools. But the big question to be decided is how effectively would the strike snarl class room activity of one million students. Elected Bargaining Agent The UFT, which claims a membership of 15,000, is the elected bargaining agent for the city's 40,000 public school teachers. The union voted in favor of the strike, which had been threatened for the past two weeks, at a mass meeting Tuesday night in St. Nicholas Arena. Less than 5,000 UFT mem bers participated in the ballot ing and the strike was ap proved by a narrow margin of 313 votes. But union of ficials confidently predicted that the walkout would be supported by a majority of the teachers and that the widespread absence would close the doors of nearly every school in the city. Board of Education officials sharply disagreed. Shortly after the strike vote was disclosed, school Supt. John J. Theobald announced that "schools will be open." He also said he expected a majority of the teachers to re port for work despite the strike call. Full police protec tion was promised and 12,000 patrolmen were assigned to strike duty. The board of education was scheduled to meet today to discuss what new steps could be taken to meet the crisis. There was a strong possi bility that, legal pressures, in two separate forms, would be brought to bear against the teachers in an effort to nullify the walkout. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 11. 1962 Original Proclamation Found In Three Different Places B 3 By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International Washington-(UPB -Who has the original of Abraham Lin coln's Emancipation Procla mation? That seemingly-innocent in quiry was received at the UPI bureau in Washington recently. It embarked a re porter on what turned out to be a fascinating piece of historical detective work. Before he had finished tracking down the priceless historical document, he had been assured by reputable historians that it: -was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871; is stored in a vault at the New York State Library in Albany; -has been on public exhibit for many years in the Nation al Archives building in Wash-ington. Moreover, all three answers proved to be correct, in a sense. It all depends on how you define "original." The problem is complicated by the fact that Lincoln ac tually issued two Emancipa tion Proclamations. The first was dated Sept. CAN USE MONEY Norristown, Pa.-IUPII- Mont gomery county court clerk James C. Brinton Tuesday turned over hundreds of old indictments dating from 1924 to the district attorney, al though he knows most of the cases can't be prosecuted be cause of the statute of limita tions. Brinton said he would ask the district attorney that bail bonds in the pr.hibition, wife desertion and assault cases be forfeited to the county. CRASH KILLS 10 Jerez De La Frontera, Spain IUPII-A Spanish air force DC3 piston engine plane crashed near here Tuesday killing all 10 occupants. Dr. Schleicher To Attend Conference Eugene - Gov. Mark Hat field has invited Dr. Charles P. Schleicher, professor of po litical science at the Univer sity of Oregon, to attend the 66th annual meeting of the American Academy of Politi cal and Social Science in Phil adelphia Aug. 13 and 14. The academy is a forum for the discussion of political, so cial and economic issues. Its annual meetings deal with in ternational q u e s tions and bring together persons who have an interest and compe tence in such problems. The theme of this year s meeting is "American For eign Policy Challenged." Par ticipating in the conference will be several, noted states men, political leaders, and authorities in inter national relations. Dr. Schleicher is acting head of the political science department at the University of Oregon. He also Is associate director of the University s Institute of International Studies and Overseas Administration. Drunk Suspect Sends Flowers To Poice Barstow, Cailf. - IUP1I - A 53 year-old Barstow man, booked Monday night on suspicion of drunkenness, sent one dozen red roses to police Tuesday in appreciation for keeping him out of trouble. Police said the flowers, sent by Joe Albert Totton, bore the following inscription on an accompanying card: "In ap preciation of your fine police work." A Statement of from the Oldest Brewery in the West... Policy jjfa We have just one policy at Blitz-Weinhard Company that governs everything we do and every decision we make. That policy is a very simple one: TO GIVE OUR CUSTOMERS THE MOST PERFECT CLASS OF BEER IT IS POSSIBLE TO BREW. There are several fine beers brewed here in the West where nature provides the finest ingredients for" brewing beer. But no other brewery, or beer, can match Blitz-Weinhard's years of skill and experience at blending these ingredients into a perfect beer. It takes time to develop these skills and develop a spirit of never being satisfied with less than perfection. That is why we suggest that you will be very pleased when you taste the time-perfected quality and character of Blitz-Weinhard beer. Enjoy the light, consistently refreshing good taste that time-perfected Blitz-Weinhard Beer will bring into your life. And remember Blitz-Weinhard's policy. Neither the policy nor the quality of the beer will ever change. 01962 BliU-Weinhird Company, Portland. Oregon mW 23, 1862. It declared that on Jan. 1, 1863, "all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall he then, henceforth and forever free." Historians call this the "preliminary" or "promis sory" Emancipation Procla mation. It was a warning to the Confederate states that unless they quit fighting by Jan. 1, their slaves would be proclaimed free. This threat produced no re sults, so on Jan. 1, 1863, Lin coln issued a second Procla mation, which contained simi lar language to the first, but ended with the declaration that "all persons held as slaves within said designated states, and parts of states, are and henceforth shall be free." Historians have been argu ing for 99 years as to which of these proclamations is the really significant one. Neither of them actually "freed the slaves," since both were aim ed solely at states which were, by definition, "in rebellion" against Lincoln's authority. Duplicate Originals The question of what hap pened to the "original" proc lamation is further compli cated by the fact that Lincoln wrote each version in long hand and turned his rough draft over to a professional penman to be engrossed. The engrossed versions were then signed by Lincoln, counter signed by Secretary of State William H. Seward and sealed with the Great Seal of the United States. The rough draft of the Sept. 23 proclamation in Lincoln's own handwriting was sold at auction shortly after the end of the Civil War, at a bazaar given in Albany, N.Y., to raise funds for relief of wounded Union veterans. It was pur chased for SI, 000 by Gerrit Smith, an ardent abolitionist leader. Later he resold it to New York state for the same price. The document was almost destroyed by a fire which swept through the New York state capital building March 29, 1011. A state official risked his life to save it from the blazing building. Since that time, it has been kept in a vault in the State Library, where it could- be seen only by special request. Public Display At the urging of the state Civil War Centennial commis sion, plans now are under way to place the document on public display in a perman ent shrine in the rotunda of the state library. Lincoln's handwritten first draft of the Jan. 1 proclama tion was also sold to a pri vate collector, at a relief bazaar in Chicago. A few years later is was destroyed, along with Mrs. O'Leary's barn and most of the city, in the great fire of Oct. 8-11. 1871. The engrossed copies of both proclamations - which are the "originals" in the sense of being the official versions - are on display at the National Archives in Washington. G! 05 Itf fexlieijnit DURING PAUL LEA'S BIG r 'J MOMENTUM Sales Are GO . . . Now at Lea PROJECT MOMENTUM'. Rambler Motors What a Sales Event . . . We're overstocked and MUST SELL THESE CARS! See our Spring Sale Priced Demonstrators and Save, Save, Save. We need Used Cars too, so your Trade is WORTH MORE. 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