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16 A MONDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1362 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON Record of Congress Good or Poor, Depending on Individual Reaction By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribun Washington CoftMpondent Washington (Special) - The 87th Congress approved a number of bills that Oregon ians may have reason to long remember, especially In the resource development field, , but it left as many or more issues to be faced some other day. Apgipval o f the projected Hanford atom ic power plant, t h e world'a largest nu clear - energy Wot station, was likely the most significant decision of the 1061-62 congressional ses sions. In addition to this sanction for local public power devel opment, Congress generously appropriated funds to start three new federal dams In the Pacific Northwest and a ma jor improvement of the navi gation utility of the lower Columbia river. Moreover, it authorized for further con struction eight other dams in Oregon alone, plus others in neighboring states of the Co lumbia basin. Deferred for further con sideration were the Oregon Dunes seashore bills, the ques tion of a California-Northwest power intertie and legislation granting the Northwest re gional preference on Colum bia river power, the wilder- V SI u you'll be PROUDER of your CHOWDM! ncss expansion bill, and an overhaul of the so-called Jones act which Northwest lumber men say handicaps their com petitive efforts with Canada in the water-shipped lumber trade. For some citizens and or ganizations, defeat of a con troversial bill is as note worthy an accomplishment as its enactment is for others. So the record of the 87th Con gress is good or poor, depend ing on one's philosophical re action to its decisions - and its indecision on various is sues. Letters of Protest A child labor bill, for ex ample, provoked more letters of protest from Oregon than any other single measure af fecting the lives of Oregon citizens because It would have restricted the employment of youngsters in the harvest fields. Drafted to prevent exploi tation of the children of mi grant workers, it was unpopu lar with those Oregonians who feared it would needless ly violate i the tradition by which Oregon youngsters go out to the fruit and vegetable farms for summer jobs that also greatly help the local farmers. Rep. Edith Creen successfully amended the bill on the House floor, after it had passed the Senate in 1061, to limit it to migrants - but In the end It died when an ex traneous rider was attached affecting the whole field of state-federal relations. Beyond such national leg islation of immediate local in terest, there were other more publicized legislative fights about which some Oregoninns felt strongly, such as medi care and federal aid for edu cation, which were not en acted. Sen. Wayne Morse skillfully piloted the admin istration's aid for public school construction bill through the Senate in 1001, but it died in the House Rules Committee. Medicare passed neither chamber. Compromise Version Killed Congresswoman Green and Senator Morse led aid for col lege legislation through their respective houses; but the compromise version worked out in conference was later killed In the House by a coali tion of conservative Republi cans and Southern Democrats'. The most significant nation al bill to pass whs the trade expansion act, which will have as yet undetermined consequences for better or worse as far as Oregon agri- California Law Officials Close Books on Murder Nevada City, Calif. - IUPP -Nevada county authorities have "closed the books" on the 66-year-old mysterious slaying of Sheriff David Douglass, who was found shot In the back near the bullet riddled body of a desperado of the Mother Lode region. Present day Sheriff Wayne Brown has disclosed that the missing gunman in the case was just 12 years old when he fired the fatal bullet. He is now a respected retired sales executive living in the Pacific Northwest. Brown refused to divulge the name of the man because "there is nothing we can do officially." But he said the mystery was solved because the suspect was driven by re morse years later and sought the sheriff's son, with the in tention of paying him an un disclosed sum. Died in Gunfire Sheriff Douglass set off on the trail of outlaw Claude Meyers in July, 1806. The two men met on Cement Hill July 26, and Meyers died in a hail of lend from the sher iff's guns. But, there was a witness to the battle, and he dropped the sheriff with a single shot in the back. For many years It was be' culture, lumber and manufac tured goods are concerned. Rep. Al Ullman was on the House Ways and Means Com mittee which drafted the bill. The bill offers prospects of I more foreign markets for Ore gon goods if suitable tariff concessions are concluded with Western Europe's Com mon Market nations; and the bill continues to afford Tariff Commission procedures de signed to protect injured do mestic producers. One other national bill, a modest aid for educational television, may help Oregon's educational TV operations to be extended to .all parts of the state. Sen. Maurine Neuberger succeeded in getting the bill board control feature of the interstate highway act con tinued for another two years last yeir. Originally cham pioned by her late husband, Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, it offers modest incentive pay ments to states restricting ad vertising on the new inter state highway system. For the past year, the Northwest members of Con gress were preoccupied in large part by the complaints of segments of the lumber in dustry who demanded protec tive action against Canadian competitors and Forest Serv ice timber sales practices. Morse and Mrs. Neuberger, along with Sen. Warren G. Magnu.'-on (D-Wash.), devoted Funds Distributed Salem -IUPD- Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. has apportioned $12,002,170 to Oregon's 36 counties as their share of federal forest lieved that the sheriff killed reserve rentals the past fiscal Meyers and, In turn, was gun ned down by one of the ban dit's confederates," Brown said, "but the fatal shot was fired by a boy." Brown said that the youth had befriended the desper ado and believed that he was involved in a gunfight with another killer. When the youngster saw his friend shot down, he killed the other man. After shooting the sheriff, the boy presumably escaped a dragnet that was taked out for the fictitious outlaw. The lad wound up in the Pacific Northwest, where he became an executive In a nntlon-wide company. year. The federal government pays the tcf? a kickback of 25 per cent of its receipts from rentals of forest reserves, um ber sales and other revenue sources. Lane County got the biggest share in the latest allocation, $3,018,743. The second biggest share of $1,658,910 went to Douglas County. Other prime shares, in order, went to Linn County $044,578; Clackamas County $8!)3, 025; Klamath County $630,584; and Lincoln County, $620,310. The smallest share, $463, went to Malheur County. more attention to this prob lem than anyone else in Con gress. Legislation to suspend the Jones act ban on use of cheaper foreign ships founder ed on opposition from South ern pine interests, but Mrs. Neuberger's proposal for opening the Puerto Rican market via foreign ships was enacted. Congress also authorized increases in the federal for est road construction pro gram, but it deferred until next year efforts to get funds to implement this legislation. Under congressional pres sure, the Kennedy adminis tration opened talks with Canada about voluntary con trols of lumber exports to the United States; it jacked up allowable cuts in some na tional forests and promised reviews of some disputed practices; and it issued a new policy at Morse's instigation denying the legal claims of private timberland owners who In the past have in some places prevented access across their lands to adjacent na tional forest timber while at the same time assuring a right to cross federal lands. Congress appropriated funds for a new range rehabilitation experiment on the grazing lands of the Vale district in eastern Oregon. Congressman Ullman and Sen. Morse, who pressed for the project, were later unhappy when the Bu reau of Land Management in dicated only a minor portion of $2 million appropriated would actually go for range improvements this year; but higher Interior officials pri vately assured that the proj ect was nrt to be down graded. An immigration bill enact ed last year outlawed the proxy adoption system used ro effectively by Oregon's Harry Holt in his Korean orphan adoption program, thus virtually ending Holt's baby-lifts. The new law re quires the adopting parents to see the child before the adoption and abide by adop tion laws in their home states, many of which preclude adop tions of children of another race. Morse's private immigra tion bill to bring back to Portland the two men deport ed in November, 1060, Wil liam Mackie and Hamish S. MacKay, didn't get past the speech-making stage. Mrs. Green helped push an equal pay for women bill through the House but it died in the Senate. As for the successful enact ments In the resource field, the Hanford reactor project was first rejected as a federal undertaking and at length, after numerous preliminary setbacks, was approved as a revenue bond effort by Wash ington Public Power Supply System. It will generate over 800,000 KW - or twice the capacity of Bonneville dam -and WPPSS must offer half of it to private utilities, which assures that some of the en ergy will be used In Oregon unless the utilities turn it down. Dams Scheduled The new federal dams which can be started this fis cal year are Little Goose dam on the lower Snake river in southeast Washington state, Bruces Eddy dam just east of Lewiston on the north fork of the Clearwater, and Blue river dam east of Eugene. The navigation projects which can be started this year are the 40-foot navigation channel from Portland to the sea to accommodate deep draft merchant ships, and work on Yaquina Bay and harbor. Each is a $20 million federal project. The newly authorized dams For STATE REPRESENTATIVE Outstanding Freshman Legisaltor 1961 Session Pd. Pol. Adv S. V. Mc Queen, 2136 Hillcrest, Med-ford for future construction when funds are appropriated by an other Congress are Agate, Elk Creek, Lost Creek and Apple gate, all in the Rogue river basin, chiefly for irrigation and flood control purposes; Cascadia southeast of Albany on the South Santiam; Gate Creek dam on Gate creek, Strube re-regulating dam; and modification of Fern Ridge reservoir on the Long Tom, all in the Willamette basin flood control plan; and Mason dam, an irrigation proj ect near Baker. In addition td Ullman's Baker reclamation project bill, Congress enacted his bill to extend the Crooked river irrigation project to addition al acreage. The omnibus riv ers and harbors authorization' bill also listed Asotin dam but dropped China Gardens dam. Both are on the middle Snake below Mountain Sheep site. FRANCIS H. BOGARD, M.D. Physician Announces ... 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