MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Straub Backs CCC Program of 1930s
MONDAY. APRIL 1, I9S2
Albany "Revive the CCC
camps to provide healthy out
door work for the many young
people who are out of school
and unemployed so they can
earn money, learn needed
manual skills and help de
velop our resources," State
Sen. Robert W. Straub said
in a speech to the Linn Coun
ty Democrats.
Straub spoke at the Linn
county courthouse in Albany,
recently. He is a candidate
for the Democratic nomina
tion to Congress from the
Fourth District.
"The best program Roose
velt started was the CCC
camps during the 30's. These
camps should never have been
stopped. We still are benefit
ting from the work these boys
did in our national forests,"
Straub said. '
"If I serve in Congress, I
will work to re-establish the
CCC camps to give employ
ment to boys between the ages
of 16 and 22. Approximately
one million young men each
year find themselves out of
school and out of work. In
Oregon, recent statistics show
that twice the number of
young men under 21 were un
employed than was true of
the labor force as a whole. It
is very important that we put
these young men to work at
healthy, useful jobs."
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HOME DAMAGED - This scene of destruction resulted at
the home of Anna Straughn in Portland when vandals broke
into the residence while Mrs. Straughn and her daughter,
Betty, were at work. Furnishing, including a hi-fi set, tele
vision and piano, were damaged and record and slide col
lections were strewn over the living room. Fire was set
in a bedroom. Loss was estimated to be $1,650. (UPI)
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COLLEGE of LAW
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Editor's note: This col
umn is to present general
principles of law. It is not
to be taken as legal advice.
Slight changes in the facts
may change the outcome of
a case. If you have a prob
lem, see an attorney.
Mary sued the defendant
city for personal injuries sus
tained when her rayon dress
came in contact with an un
protected gas heater and
caught fire in the ladies' pow
der room of the City Commu
nity Center;
The defendant city acquired
the premises from the county
by deeds which provided that
the property was to be used
"exclusively as a community
recreational center."
Plaintiff ihad come to the
premises to attend a dance
given by the Havana club, an
organization of Spanish speak
ing people which had made
arrangements with Mrs. Jones,
an employee of the city who
had the immediate supervision
over the recreational program
and activity for the use of the
hall. They paid her $15 as
hall rental" and the club was
charging 75 cents per person
for admittance. Before pur
chasing her ticket, the plain
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room" in the other wing of
the building to make last min
ute preparations for the dance
when the unfortunate accident
occurred.
The court stated that a city
may act both in a public and
private capacity and that
when performing in a public
or governmental function it
is not subject to tort liability
for ordinary negligence.
The most general test of
governmental function relates
to the nature of the activity
It must be something done or
furnished for the general pub'
lie good, that is, of a "public
or governmental character.
such as the maintenance and
operation of public schools,
public parks or recreational
facilities. In addition to the
general test these supplemen
tal ones are also applied: (a)
whether there is special pe
cuniary benefit or profit to
the city and (b) whether the
activity is of such a nature as
to be in real competition with
free enterprise.
THE COURT HELD: The
Dlaintiff could not recover,
and the court dismissed the
case. The center was intended
to be, and was used as a pub
lic service for. the common
good of all, and maintained
solely for the entertainment,
pleasure and benefit or tne
general public, and that the
arrangement with the Havana
club was in accordance with
the general purpose of the
recreational facility. Where
the activity is otherwise con
sistent with the governmental
function, the fact that a nomi
nal charge is made does not
change its character. (Ramirez
v. Ogden City, 3 Utah 2d 102,
1955)
Lowell Stockman Happy in Business
Role After Shedding Political Life
r?
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune
Washington Correspondent
Washington -(Special)-Fun-ny
thing happened to me on
the way to the Capitol the
other day.
Met a fellow who had be-
rS come com.
- fv 1 pieieiy curea
of that com-
t - J inon ana ouen
T"WP 1 !n.Mi I
iii.iutuua mal
ady around
here, Potomac
Fever. The
man is Lowell
Stockman, for
mer Republi
can congress
man from Pendleton. It's been
almost a decade since Stock
man did what so very few
men nis age do voluntarily
retire from public office.
Many are involuntarily re
tired by the voters, and many
of these disappointed fellows
stick around Washington rath
er than go "home" to the
places they used to boast of
loving so greatly.
The fellows in this latter
category, for the most part,
have contracted Potmac Fe
ver. The most noticeable
symptoms are a tendency to
ward name-dropping, a rising
anxiety at the cocktail hour
if the patient is not milling
through a socially-correct "re
ception," and a dogmatically
voiced notion that Washing
ton is the center of the uni
verse and that the rest of the
globe is flat.
Nibbled for Appointment
Tiny Stockman, who earned
his nickname simply by being
the biggest man in Congress
when he was here, appeared
to have a touch of the fever
in his last years here before
bowing out in 1952. He fre
quented the fashionable Burn
ing Tree Golf club, later made
famous by President Eisen
hower's afternoon recreation
there, and he nibbled around
for an appointment to the
Federal Reserve board, which
offers its members 14 - year
terms.
That hope never materializ
ed. But something better came
along. Lowell Stockman dis
covered the joys of trailer life.
He and his lovely wife, Dor
cas, hitched a trailer to their
Deposits Rise at
Central Point Bank
Record highs for springtime
deposits and loans were post
ed by the First National Bank
of Oregon, Ralph J. Voss,
president, has announced.
D e p o s i t s of $893,760,887
were reported compared with
$866,423,020 in April a year
ago.
Loans outstanding in the
statewide 88-office banking
organization totaled $502,
072,518 for a gain of $18,959,.
569 over the April, 1961,
figure.
The Central Point branch
of First National reported
first quarter deposits of $3,-
477,074 and loans outstanding
of $3,353,777, according to
Branch Manager F. C. Ayres.
Comparable totals for the
branch a year ago were $3,-
2ol,bJ4 in deposits and $2,
412,807 in loans.
car and traveled back to Ore
gon one year, liked it so well
they used it while campaign
ing all over Oregon's huge
eastern district which he rep
resented for 10 years.
When he quit politico, he
decided that wheat growing
didn't offer as much promise
for the effort expended as
running a trailer court. He
talked his son out of a long
held ambition to run the
ranch, bought him a trailer
court in Portland, sold t h e
ranch and bought himself a
trailer court in Seattle.
"1 don't do much, but I
manage to keep busy," Stock
man said with a happy grin.
"And Dorcas goes to adult
education classes. She makes
hats and things and wishes
she had learned to sew 20
years ago."
First in Four Years
Stockman's visit to Wash
ington was his first in four
years. It was a business trip.
He didn't plan to stay around
long enough to get involved
in the social whirl. He visited
with old colleagues and lunch
ed with Rep. Al Ullman, his
successor whom he praised
for being a hard-working con
gressman. Having developed an immu
nity to the fever. Stockman
could have stayed longer with
out risk but the big man
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with the big western h a t
seemed more anxious to get
back to the peace and quiet
of hig trailer court than to
endure the stimulation of pan
demonium on the Potomac.
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Adlai Stevenson's
Sister Quits DAR
Southern Pines, N. C. -(UPD-
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, sister of
United Nations Ambassador
Adlai Stevenson, has resigned
from the Daughters of the
American Revolution (DAR),
saying she does not agree with
its policies.
Mrs. Ives, a granddaughter
of a founder of the DAR, said
an increasing number of DAR j
policies "are wholly out of
line with the policies of the
United States of America as
formulated by both the Re
publican and Democratic par
ties, and B9 overwhelmingly
endorsed by a majority of
American voters."
She said this trend reached
Its climax when the DAR
"was unable to support the
children's fund, the UNICEF
program of the United Na
tions. "
Ex-Central Point
Man Takes Position
Corvallis Richard L. Pur
dy, a civil engineer, has Join
ed the staff of Cornell, How-
land, Hayes St Merryfield, re
gional engineering firm with
offices at Corvallis, Seattle
and Boise.
For the past two years, Pur
dy has been an engineer with
Eugene To Open
Offices Earlier
Eugene -IUPD- The Eugene
city council has decided to
open city offices an hour ear
lier when other parts of the
state go on daylight saving
time April 29.
The Eugene Chamber of
Commerce earlier had urged
the council to consider such
a move.
Last year the council also
urcrprl rpairlpnt.il to set their
clocks ahead one hour, but it
did not make that request
Thursday. Eugene businesses
have not yet announced whe
ther they will set their clocks
ahead, or simply open and
close an hour earlier this summer.
the Bechtol Corporation, San
Francisco. He will be station
ed in the Corvallis office.
A graduate of Oregon State
university, Purdy also attend
ed Oregon Technical Institute,
Klamath Falls, and Southern
Oregon college, Ashland. He
is a former resident of Central
Point, where he attended Cra
ter High school,
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