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THURSDAY. JANUARY 10. 19S3 MXDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Capitol Memo Measures Vetoed by Hatfield First on Legislative Agenda Mm By ZAN STARK Salem - MPD - The first four bills to be received by the 1983 legislature when it con venes Monday will be meaS' u r e s vetoed by Gov. Mark Hatfield after the 1961 ses sion adjourn' ed. Three are Senate bills and one orii nated in the sum House. Jack Thompson of the secretary of slate's office said the bills would be returned to the pre siding officer of the house of origin on the first day of the session. "By law," Thompson said, "these have to be the first Items considered." If they receive the two thirds vote necessary to over ride the veto - they become law. Prospects for the four meas ures seem dim, however. To date the legislature has been unable to override any measure vetoed by Hatfield since he took office. And interest In measures drafted by the legislature two years ago has lost Its impact. It would be a major upset for Hatfield if any of the measures survived his veto. Two of the bills could spring back to life. SB 96 would change the definition of criminal insan ity. Hatfield said the bill was "premature," and "lacks ade quate safeguards." The bill reads, "A person Is Lot guilty of criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental Illness or mental defect he lacks sub stantial capacity either to ap preciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his con duct to the requirements of law." Such persons would be de tained in a state medical In stitution until cured. The 1963 Legislative High way Interim Committee in Its report last week did not call for reintroduction of House bill 1653, but urged "the Ore gon Reclamation Congress to appear before the legislature and renew its request for pas' sage of the measure." The bill, introduced at the request of the Owyhee Irriga. tlon district, calls for the high way department to pay irriga tion districts for removal of land from the districts for highway department use. Hatfield said the bill "ap pears to be unconstitutional. Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton and the chief counsel for the highway department also said the proposal would be uncon stitutional. The recent committee re port said the proposal had "merit," but because of its ap parent unconstitutionality "the committee should not recommend its Introduction as a committee bill." . Also termed unconstitution al by Hatfield was SB 510. The bill provided the highway commission would pay the cost of moving certain utility facilities located on the high way right of way. The fourth bill, SB 526, would authorize a 60-day in junction against actions taken by the Liquor Control com mission in suspending or can celing licenses. Hatfield said "a 60-day in junction against commission actions would in effect frus trate the administration of the law and would be a disservice to the people of the state." John Day Girl Dies When Car Hits Bus Pcndleton-(UPII-A 6-ycar-old girl was killed when the car in which she was riding col lided with a school bus Wed nesday. No persons on the bus were Injured. The victim was Lealha El len Choale of John Day. The bus also was from John Day The accident occurred on U.S. Highway 395, 56 miles south of Pendleton. Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright. Hsll Syndicate, Inc. HOW 'MIXED' CAN AN ECONOMY GET! If ever an economy presented an inconclusive picture, It is that of the U.S. in January 1963. It is a combination of good, bad, indifferent and fair to middlln'. It is both lending up and tending down. When President Kennedy charcterized it as "a mixed bag" a while back, he was using homely but ex quisitely apt words. Underlining tills arc the current movements of the 26 economic indicators selected by the world-respected National Bureau of Economic Research after decades of study as the most valuable out of thousands in Identifying stages in the U. S. business cycle. Of the total, 12 are "leading indicators," meaning they usually signal in advance business peaks or bot toms. Another nine are "coincident Indicators," meaning they usually move up or down with the economy as a whole. The final five arc "lagging Indicators," meaning they usually turn up or down after the economy as a whole has changed trend. The 26 indicators arc exceedingly useful in economic forecasting hut only when interpreted by experts and the number of experts who can property interpret them is pica yune. Here, from a top expert In the field, is the talc the in dicators are telling right now. Indicator, trend tl) Average workweek, mfg.: leveling. (2) Accessions (hiring) rale, nifg.: sliding (3) Layoff rate, mfg.: holding. (4) Durable goods new orders: rising. (5) Housing starts: stable to rising. (6) Com. & Ind. Bldg. awds.: stable. (") Net new businesses: stable to rising (ID Failure liabilities: fluctuating up, down (B) Net corporate profits: stable (10) Common stock prices: recovering (11) GNP inventory change: stable after decline. (12) lnd. raw materials prices: stable. THE NINE COINCIDENT INDICATORS (13) Nomigriculturul employment: steady. Good (14) Unemployment rate: slightly higher than summer. (15) Industrial production: stable. (hi) GNP (current dollars): rising slowly (17) GNP (1954 dollars): rising slowly. (16) Bank debits outside N.Y.C.: rising. (Ill) Personal incomes: rising at slower rate (20) Retail sales: rising. (21) Nonfood wholesale prices: stable. Religion in America Noted Theologian Undertakes To Spell Out Meaning of Faith By LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent What is faith? Virtually every Christian writer since the time of St. Paul has offered a definition. Despite the multiplicity of words already said on the sub ject, it is a notable event when Dr. Karl Barth undertakes to spell out the meaning of faith. Barth's stature among mod ern theologians has been lik ened to that of "a giant among pygmies." Many regard him as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all time. In his latest book, "Evan gelical Theology: An introduc tion," Barth devotes a whole chapter to faith. First, he rejects as false or Inadequate a number of con cepts of faith which are wide spread today, even among theologians. Faith, Not Doctrine Faith, he says, is not merely a matter of giving "assent to certain propositions and doc trines" which one has en countered "second hand" in the Bible or in the teachings of the church. Such a "blind" acceptance of external authority is a "house of cards in which no one would be well advised to take occupancy." The first strong wind of doubt or ad versity may blow it down. Nor is faith a wishful opin ion, or "hypothesis' wnicn man formulates when he ar rives at "the boundary of what he considers to be certain human knowledge." If faith were no more than a brave hu man leap Into the unknown. It would be "scarcely worth mentioning." Finally, faith is not just a "mood or attitude" which helps men to cope courage ously with the vicissitudes of life. This subjective view of faith as an end in itself, Barth notes, is one of the most pop ular heresies of modern Pro testantism. Book Describes Faith Having cleared away the underbrush, Barth proceeds to give his own view of faith. And it is not so much a def inition as a description. Faith is a relationship be tween man and God which rests upon and is validated by first-hand experience. It oc curs when man finds himself confronted by God, not as a Reality. Man responds by "af firming, trusting and obey ing" the Reality which has laid hold upon him. "No one can take such ac tion by his own power," says Barth. "A man can only do this when he is overcome by God's word and its spirit of power." And yet, the act of faith is always "genuinely and freely The Medical Roundup Emeritus Consultant In Medicine Mayo Clinic Emeritus Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1963) THE FIVE LAGGING INDICATORS Signal Indifferent Bad Indifferent Good Indifferent Good . Indifferent Indiferrcnl Good Fair lo middlin' Fair to middlln' Indifferent Indifferent Fair to middlin" Fair to middlin' Good . Good Good Indifferent (22) Plant & equip, spending: stable. (23) Unit labor cost: falling slightly. ( 24) Manufacturing Inventories: rising slowly. (25) Instalment credit: rising. (2li) Bank loan interest rates: stable to rising. Fair to middlin' Fair to middlin' Fair to middlin' Good Indifferent Short of Breath Here on my desk is a letter, typical of thousands which I receive and cannot answer be- r nnnnnf -'Mini 8uess wnat s ' Hit,. I wrong. If I were to guess, I might well be wrong, and then any treat ment I might suggest would be useless. The man says, "I Alvjrex am short of breath. Tell me what to do." I wish my correspondent knew how many causes there can be for shortness of breath, especially in a man past 50 years of age. Of course, one thinks first of heart trouble, and If I could chat with the man for a lew minutes, i might be satisfied that it is his heart that is causing the trouble. But he might have a bad asthma or a bad emphy sema - in which the little lung sacs have broken or in which the lung has lost its elasticity and its power to get air out after it has been breathed in. Perhaps the man's trouble is that for 35 years he has smoked three packages of cigarettes a day. Perhaps he used to be a "rock miner," and his lungs arc now full of fine granite sand; per haps he has a bad tuberculosis with a number of cavities; perhaps he has bad a polio or an arthritis of his chest wall which has ruined its former efficiency as a bellows. Or he may have a high blood pres sure or a bad anemia or any one of a number of oilier ser ious diseases. He might just be too fat! It distresses me not to be able to send a helpful answer to a letter. 1 can guess how disappointed the poor man or woman will be, perhaps after having written nie 10 pages, but I Just must not try to guess what is wrong. In hun dreds of these letters, the per son says. "I have seen several doctors and they weren't sure what Is wrong with me." These doctors had a chance to talk witli him and to ex amine him thoroughly, and I cannot do either of these things. Covered With Spots Here Is another letter from a man who s:iys, "My face is covered with red spots. What do you say they arc?" All I can do is suggest that he sees a skin specialist. Perhaps even he will be puzzled after he examines the spots Willi the help of a hand lens. Here is still another type of letter which tugs at my heart. To many non professionals, the Indicators may seem just 1,1,1 1 know w'nnl ' so mucli bnlllcgab and tnc words used to pinpoint them en tirely too technical for understanding but dip vital part of the tale I have presented here In our language under the heading "signal." To .summarize: Of the 12 leading Indicators -which would signal an upturn or downturn from today's levels -five are flashing an indifferent signal, four are flashing a good signal, two are flashing fair to middlln' and one is saying bad. Of the nine coincident indicators which say where the economy Is right now four are reflecting a good picture, three an indifferent picture and two a fair to middlin' picture. Of the five lagging indicators which turn down or up afte r Die economy as a whole turns down or up. -three are acting in a fair to middlin' way, one is Indifferent, one is good. Mixed? Inconclusive? How mixed and Inconclusive can ,'5.1 set! lo about it. A woman writes that her husband had a pain Hi his abdomen, lie was oper ated on, and alter a stormy convalescence was allowed to go home. Then he got an Intes tinal obstruction and hud to go back for another operation. Again, he had a stormy time, and again hp had to be oper- aled on. Now the poor dis tracted woman writes asking what I think should be done. How I would like to help 1 her, but 1 cannot do any guessing that would do her husband any good I Imauine I that even the man's surgeons wish they now knew exactly what is wrong and what to do to get him well. man s own." Man is sought before he seeks; the Initiative is always with God. But the "event" of faith does not take place until man responds with affirmation, trust and obed ience. The responses is not made once and for all. Faith isi "a history, new every morning." Belief in God Although faith is always be lief in God rather than beliefs about God, this does not mean that it is devoid of intellectual content. The living relation ship of faith inevitably results in theological convictions. In deed, Barth holds, the man of faith "will hardly be able lo avoid for any length of time" the comprehensions of God's activity in history which are expressed in the Bible and the ancient Christian creeds. Barth firmly repudiates the idea advanced by Paul Tillich and others that doubt is a necessary and desirable ac companiment of faith. Man may be assailed by doubt be cause they are human and weak, Barth says, but "there is no justification" for treating uncertainty as an inevitable aspect of human relationships with God. 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A com mon cause of this problem is pulmonary emphysema. T o obtain Dr. Alvarez' booklet on this subject, send 25 cents and a 5-ccnt stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request for it to Dr. Walter C. Al varez, Dept. MMT, The Regis ter and Tribune Syndicate, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa, Labor Legislation Hinges on Dock Workers' Strike Washington -IUPD- No major labor legislation is expected to bo enacted by Congress this year unless the current dock ; strike drags on for many ! weekp, Senate labor experts said today. ! They predicted that if Presi- i dent Kennedy offers legisla- i tlon to end the tieup of East and Gulf ports, organized la-1 bor will, bring pressure toj see that the strike is settled before a new law could be ', enacted. ! The administration has been reluctant to offer any kind of anti-strike legislation. j New Methods Needed I Labor Secretary W. Willard '. Wlrlz said Wednesday he be-, lieved new methods were: needed to settle labor-man-; agement disputes without di rect government intervention. He 'said Kennedy would re port to Congress on the 111-day-old longshoremen's strike in his Slate of the Union Message Monday. But Wirtz said he did not know whether the President would call for labor legislation at that time. Earlier, administration sources said tile President might he forced lo ask Con grew for some type of com pulsory arbitration law un less the dock strike is settled soon. Little Concern The dock tieup by the Inter national Longshoremen's As sociation (AFL-CIO) was caus ing little concern In the new Congress. Labor committee members said they had nol been briefed on what the strike was doing lo the na tion's economy. The celiiig was that it came at a slow time of year and so far has nol been damaging. The New York newspaper strike probably does not have enough impact nationally to precipitate anti-strike legisla tion. 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