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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-
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you'll be
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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.
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