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Revived Scandal, Political Show Highlight At Salem Br ZAN STARK United Pitti International Salem - IW - A scandal came back to lite, a political show was made of the Board man project, and an effort to throttle political differences 1o achieve a workable stale lax program highlighted Ore gon's legislative activities this week. Spice was added when a Ways and Means subcommit tee voted to kill the state's present Civil Defense agency, and liberty amendment pro ponents urged elimination of all federal income taxes. The Camp Withycombe Na tional Guard scandal emerged again when a Ways and Means subcommittee was told the slate may have to dig up $40,000 to repay the federal government for money mis used by the state military de partment. Gov. Mark Hatfield plead ed the issue should not be exploited for political pur poses, and Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton was given condi tional authority by the gov ernor to launch an investiga tion. The condition was that the probe should not be for political purposes. A special joint session of Allen Lecturer Attacks Federal Government Secrecy Eugene - (UPD - The doctrine ' of "executive privilege" used to invoke secrecy in govern- ment affairs was attacked Fri ; day at the 44th annual Ore ; gon Press Conference here. Clark R. Mollenhoff, chief ' of the Washington, DC, : bureau of Cowles Publica , tions made the attack In de : livering the annual Eric W. . Allen Memorial lecture. The lecture is in memory of the late Eric W. Allen, the first dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Oregon. Mollenhoff called the doc trine a "naked claim to un limited secrecy on the whim of the executive branch As a means of retaining the check and balance of govern ment authority, Mollenhoff called for every newspaper and every citizen to give full support to Congress in assert ing its right to investigalc government activities and spending. Wesley Sherman, publisher of the H e p p n e r Gazette Times, was elected chairman of the 1964 Oregon Press Con ference at Saturday's session of the meeting. Sherman was elected at a luncheon. Carl C. Webb, secretary manager of the ONPA and member of the Journalism School faculty, was re-elected secretary and W. Verne McKinney, publish er of the Hillsboro ArRus, was reelected, rcprescntative-at-lurge of the Allen Memorial x'und. . Friday afternoon, the group was told that there is an "in satiable appetite" for good newspaper feature photo graphs. The speaker was CHu McDowell, Pacific division newsplcliires manager of United Press Inlernalional. The UPI newspictures exec utive said that spot news pic tures were covered adequate ly by local news staffs and by the wire services but that good spot pictures simply were not available every day. "Consequently," McDowell said, "the reader wants variety and what we're look ing for Is the kind of picture that will make a reader ask Mid you see that picture of so-and-so today?' " McDowell said UPI was stressing feature photos more than ever, lie exhibited a mimhrr of slides of unusual feature pictures, illustrating content and also what editing find cropping can do to make them more interesting. Other speakers at the pub lishers meeting included Dean John L. lliilteng. University rf Oregon School of journal. Ism: Kay Johnstone and Galen It. Rariek of the school's faculty; Mike Brad ley, city editor of the Cor- vallis Gazette-Times; Harry B. Bcarg, chief of the review staff of the Internal Revenue Service in Portland; Hans A. Linrie, law professor at the University, and Robert Frazier, associate editor, Eugene Register-Guard. A highlight of the after noon was a panel discussion led by former Gov. Charles A. Sprague, editor and pub lisher of the Oregon States man in Salem, on political news. Members of the panel were Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton, Carl Fisher and Robert W. Chandler, congres sional candidates last fall, and Doug Seymour, Salem Capital Journal political writer, House To Get Stamp Bill This Week Salem-(UPH-A trading stamp regulation bill will be intro duced in the House this week by Rep. Eugene Hiilett (D Eugenc), the representative has announced. Under the proposed law, all trading stamps would be available to any retailer, and the consumer would he able to receive any type of stamp he choso, Ilulcll said. He also said the measure would make the stamps redeemable by ci ther merchandise or cash. The bill includes a tax of $5,000 per stamp company per Oregon county. HulcU said this would be an offset to property lax and would be applied as a relief to the basic school support fund. Year-Around School Bill Introduced Salem - IITII - A bill to al low elementary and high schools to operate all year was introduced Friday by Rep. John Mosscr (R-Beaver-ton). A normal four-year high school course could be com pleted in three years by stu dents attending ear-around sessions. the legislature Friday after noon was called so Hatfield and Sen. Wayne L. Morse could say officially what everyone already knew agreement had been reached with the Army engineers on the Boardman project. Tax Plan Argued Rep. Clarence Barton (D Coquille) issued a stinging re ply early in the week when Rep. Joe Rogers (R-Independ- ence) charged the Dcmocraitc leadership was stalling on adoption of tax programs. In a fit of anger Barton threatened to call Rogers' sales tax plan out of commit tee, but apparently changed his mind because no such ac tion resulted. When Hatfield returned from a California speech-making swing he refused to side wtih Rogers. The governor admitted his proposal to hold a during-ses- sion tax election was dead. He quickly added that the tax committee needed lime to study revenue proposals be cause of the critical money problems faced by the state. The governor, House Speaker Clarence Barton, Senate President Ben Musa (D-The Dalles) and the House and Senate tax committees apparently have agreed to keep politics at a minimum as far as the tax program is con cerned. A Ways and Means subcom mittee, after hearing weeks of testimony critical of civil defense as a do-nothing agency, voted 5-0 to kill the agency's $105,000 budget re quest. Addition of a CD co ordinator to the governor's I staff was proposed as an al ternative. Tax Hopeal Idea Applauded Hundreds of people turned out Wednesday night for a hearing on the proposed lib erty amendment which would repeal the federal income lax. It was the largest turnout for a committee hearing so far this session. Frustrated taxpayers listened happily as Willis E. Stone, author of the plan, outlined it in detail. It appeared doubtful, how ever, that the House State and Federal Affairs committee would take any action on the measure. Education continued to at tract attention. A program to freeze community college con struction was. introduced. Plans for operating . schools and colleges on a year-around basis were proposed. And committees continued to study the biggest expense item in the stales general fund budget. . The Ways and Means Com mittee's budget-slashing at tempts were battered Friday when the House voted 32-27 to send the stale engineer's budget back to committee so special interest groups could testify against the cuts. The committee had slashed $100,000 from the budget. Two olher budget measures were returned to committee at the same lime. The action was significant. It pointed up thai economy is easier to talk about than to acheive. Page 2A Medford Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1963 Log Truck Operators, PUC Clash Over Bills Salem -dili- A group of log truck operators and the Pub lic Utility commsision have clashed head-on over two bills which would tighten require ments for log truck permits. The truckers want the tougher restrictions. The PUC said they were not needed. One trucker said the gover nor agreed with the need for the new regulations. A PUC representative said he knew of no such support from the governor's office. The hearing before the House Commerce and Utili ties commission Friday also was ' advised a request may be made to have the present law repealed. Rep. John Dellcnback (R Medford) told the committee he had received a letter from the Southern Oregon Conser vation and Tree Farm associ ation asking for repeal of the present law. Dellcnback said he would decide whether to push for repeal after meeting with con stituents this week end. The 1961 Legislature adopt ed laws requiring PUC per mits for log truckers. Before 1961 they were not required to get permits for public con venience and necessity. The two bills discussed Fri day would strengthen load and service area restrictions. Roscburg truck owner Jim j Faulk said the present law "opens the back door" to com petition for licensed truckers. Wilson Boycr said the Coos County Loggers association favored the now proposals. Howard Dullcy of Lane county said the truckers had the governor's support. He charged the PUC "is not administering the present log law fairly." James Singleton of the PUC denied any knowledge of gu bernatorial support for the measures. He said the propos als were not needed, and the problem could best be solved through administrative measures. OSU Chosen For Scholarship Project Corvallis - (UPli - Oregon State University is one of five institutions chosen to share In a new scholarship program for studonls interested in ca reers in food processing. A total of $4,000 in schol arships will be awarded to freshmen in the 1963-64 school year and $5,000 to freshmen and sophomores the following year, according to Dean F. E. Price of the OSU School of Agriculture. The scholarships are spon sored by the General Foods Foundation. Olher universi ties participating are Califor nia, Cornell, Maine and Mich igan Stale. Josephine Cancelled Grants Pass A contro versy over so-called sociology lesls given to fifth grade chil dren in Grants Pass and Jose phine county schools started to quiet down this week, after superintendents of b 0 1 h 'ITP Sociology Tests Are After Parents Object ' WE INSTALL ('p X WHILE-U-WAIT t j - WmtW MUFFLER I OPfcN SUNDAYS W .. . M (1 Hctdqujrtrri THRIFT AUTO SUPPLY Medford, 801 N. Rivertide-Gri nti Put, 529 S E. 6th The Store With 10,000 Items Elmer Fleming of I lie counlv district issued a statement an nouncing cancellation of fur ther tests and of any further use of the tesls already given. school districts announced the tests were being cancelled. The tests were question naires which asked such ques tions as "Who arc the leaders (in the student's own class)'.'" "Who are the ones who break the rules?" "Who are the boys and girts who come and go alone'."' and "Who are the boys and girls who are trouble makers?" The Grants Pass cily and Josephine county school dist ricts agreed to give the tests at the request of Dr. Fred erick J. Trost, sociology pro fessor at Southern Oregon col lege, who instructs an exten sion class in sociology at Grants Pass. Identical tests have been given in such areas as St. Louis and Kansas Citv, Dr Trost indicated, and arc part of an overall program which after a period of time has re sulted in as much as an Rtl per cent drop in juvenile delin quency. Twenty per cent of the young men in prison today could have been helped if they had been identified at an early age. the professor said, adding that only by catching potentially delinquent child as early as the fifth grade can educators have chance to help him. Hut many parents of the ! children who took the tests didn't look at it that way. i New Seat Belt Bill oome caucn it uncnrisiian and "communistic." Others denounced it as an invasion of privacy and as an attempt to get youngsters to "tattle" on their classmates. The officers of both school districts received numerous phone calls from parents ob jecting to the tests. Bowing to publir opinion. Superintendents Ralph E Jones of the city district and Parking Near Post Office Congested Re-opening of the Holly theater on West Sixth st. has aggravated the parking prob lem near the U.S. post office. Medford Police Chief Charles P. Champlin said today. Champlin reminded Med ford motorists that no park ing is allowed in front of the post office between 4:1)0 and 6: So pin daily, except Sun days and holidays Parking there the balance of the tune is limited to 15 minutes, except for the space in front of the car mail drop box, where only momentary parking is permitted. That same ruling applies to the mail drop box on North Holly St.. the chief said. I "To expedite llir etticient ! handling of mail." Chief I Champlin said, "these park ing restrictions must be ob served. Motorists who do not nj observe them may expect to receive a citation." Introduced In House Salem - ! PP - Installation of seat belts or shoulder har nesses on all new cars .-old in Oregon would be required by a bill introduced in the House Friday by Rep Morgan iD-l'iieslianil. The measure is .similar to a bill Introduced in the 1981 session. It passed the House, but not the Senate, He said the PUC's biggest problem was lack of agree ment among truckers. "I think you'll find most truckers agree the present law is working," he said. Singleton told the commit tee the present law "has sta bilized the log trucking indus try in Oregon." Duncan Urges Efforts To Avert SP Strike Washington -fl'PD-Rep. Rob ert B. Duncan (D-Oregon) has urged the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and the South ern Pacific railroad to try to avoid a strike he said would hurt Oregon. Duncan made the appeal in telegrams to union president George M. Harrison, Cincin nati, and to Southern Pacific president D. J. Russell, San Francisco, Friday. He said Oregon had suf fered "season after season by successive strikes of the con struction industry and badly needs a period of industrial peace." The railroad serves many communities in western Ore gon, including Portland, Sa lem, Eugene, Roseburg, Med ford, Grants Pass and Klam ath Falls. Talks between the railroad and the union were suspend ed in San Francisco Friday, but were scheduled to be re sumed in Chicago on Feb. 19. as forestry aides. The course will take 52 weeks. At Ontario, 40 men will be trained for 30 weeks as trac tor aide's, Duncan said. The projects are part of the government's program to train men thrown out of work in one industry to take skilled jobs in another. Washington 0IP The La bor Department plans six pro grams to retrain 165 men for jobs in Oregon's forestry in dustry, Rep. Robert Duncan (D-Ore.) said Friday. 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