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.
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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
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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.
He said the plan calls for
training 25 men each at Eu
gene, Coos Bay-North Bend,
Astoria, Bend and Pendleton
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