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6 A SUNDAY, APRIL 29. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON State Constitution Amendment Tough Under Proposals Salem -IUPH- The Oregon Constitutional Revision Com mission lias voted 10-4 to make it tougher to amend the state constitution, and get a law passed b" the legislature referred by petition to the ballot. After a long discussion, the commission tpproved the mo tion of Mrs. Esther Lewis. formula fjr figuring out the number of signatures required on initiative and referral pe titions. At present, the number of signatures required is a cer tain percentage of the total vote cast for State Supreme Court justice. If more than one justice race is on the ballot, the highest number of Portland, that sets up i new yes and no votes in one race Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. WATKINS (Register and Tribuni Syndicate 19621 Pitch Prttty Important To Piont.r Woodim.n Years ago the man, alone in the woods, injured by an ax or a gun, had to treat himself, or be treated by someone who know little more about it than did he. So remedies had to be secured from the woods and fields. Serious injuries had to be doctored quickly or the victim bled to death, or died later from infection. But either by accident or application most of the pio neers, as well as the early In dians, found that the pitch from fir, balsam or pine trees seemed to be helpful; the pitch from some trees was more beneficial than others. In the more serious wounds, the pitch from the fir trees was frequenty used. Houtawif Too The pioneer housewife, also dependent on what remedies she could gather from the for ests, knew the value of pitch. She, or some member of her family, gathered the globules of gummy material and stored it for future use. Many years after the pio neers, the small boy found a use for the pitch of fir, bal sam and spruce trees. He gath ered the blisters, popped them into his mouth and chewed them like gum. The pitch had a strong, piny taste and was gummy enough to tire small jaws in only a few moments of chewing. Some of the yougsters, fa miliar to woodland ways, even used a pilch-blister for an application on a stubbed toe. It was sticky enough to adhere and was impervious to water. The pitch the woodsman gathered from the nearest fir tree to seal or to sterilize a wound was in reality a result j of a minor Injury to the tree i itself. Actually the tree bled a little. ! As the sap oozed from the , tree-body it solidified on con tact with the air, forming a I blister or a trauslucent bub-; ble. From the "bleeding" tree, j the material had a tendency I to stop the bleeding in an animal body. Gummy and Sticky j The pitch-blister, In the' form of a globule, was usual- ly of a dark yellowish color, i gummy and very sticky. The! Student Council j Acts on Agenda During SGD Here The Medford student city council met Thursday in the council chambers In city hall ; and acted on a one-page agen-; da of items connected with city government. The meeting was presided fiver by student Mayor Doug Robertson, and all eight stu dent councilmcn were pres ent. Among other Items on the agenda, the council voted to reverse a planning recommen-, daliun and granted a variance to Siskiyou Memorial park to allow the construction of an illuminated sign at the en trance to the park. A proposal by the student administration to establish a department of planning In city hall received the nearly unanimous endorsement of Ihe group. Vole Down Proposal After voting down a pro posed air pollution rnntrol or dinance, the council ordered the installation of a number of traffic signs at various in tersections in the city The meeting was concluded ' with a discussion of ways and means by which new industry might be attracted to Med ford. Council members Included Bill Dames and Kathle Fitz patrick. Ward I; Jim Burke and Wally Huffman. Ward 2: Dhvc Elmgrcn and Bruce Nie dermeyer. Ward 3, and Paul Bauer and DrEtla Lawson, Ward 4. Carl Washburn served as city manager, Darelyn Huson ; ns recorder-treasurer, and Pat Meeker as city attorney at the meeting. globule looked very much like a gob of plastic looks today. The blister was squeezed to break the outer, slightly hard ened skin that formed when the pitch dried, the softer, gummy material spread over the wound, and like turpen tine which, of course, it is in its crudest form, tended to prevent Infection, and was ex pected to seal the wound and stop the bleeding. There are many folks, even in this day of the miracle drugs, who use refined tur pentine in the treatment of wounds of a minor nature. The use of pitch is, of course, in disuse today but at one time it served a purpose. Even if It lacked the curative qualities of modern drugs, the pitch did seal off the wound from outside contamination At least that was "the pitch." are chosen, and the total and percentages pertain to the number of signatures needed on petitions at the next elec tion. Present Situation Explained As it works under the pres ent constitution, the whole vote cast for justice in No vember. 19B0, was 530.367. Since 10 per cent of that is taken. S3.037 signatures are needed this year on a petition to put a constitutional amend ment on the November, 1962 ballot. Lesser signature totals are needed to get laws re ferred and measures dealing with non constitutional ma terial on the ballot. The reason the commission wants to require more signa tures to get a measure on the ballot is that often a special interest group faced with a hostile legislature gets a pe tition, rounds up the signa tures from voters, and gets its pet project on the ballot and sometimes in the consti tution. At a previous meeting the commission voted to change the base for computing signa tures needed from the vote for justice to the vote for gov ernor. This is because the total voles cast for governor is al ways higher thi.n that for justice. P.rc.ntag. Sat The motion, made by Mrs. Lewis, augmented the earlier plan, setting percentages of 8, 6 and 4 of the total vote for governor. The 8 per cent pertains to petitions for con stitutional amendments. The commission is making the proposal because it wants They'll Do It Every Time - By Jimmy Hatlo new state constitution to be basic but lean, not larded up with items it says belong in the statutes. 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