MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON
Opponents of Wildlife Refuge Failed To Have Much Chance
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 26. 1963
B? A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune
Washington Correspondent
Washington (Special) - The
opponents of the federal gov
ernment's plan for creating a
F new wuame
I ' didn't have a
chance. Per
haps some of
them knew
1 t h a t in ad-
; vanpp nf the
decision o f
the Migratory
Bird Conser
vation commission last Tues
day, but they kept writing
their congressmen and sen
ators from Oregon in hopes oi
getting some help to block the
proposal. They wrote in vain.
Rep. Walter Norblad, in
whose district the refuge will
be located, told those constit
uents who wrote him that the
decision was for the Commis
sion, not Congress, to make.
Sen. Wayne Morse said vir
tually the same thing.
Sen. Maurine Neuberger
didn't hedge her enthusiasm
for the idea, although she
didn't make any effort to in
f luence the decision of the
Commission.
Needed No Pressure
The Migratory Bird Com
mission, it is fair to say, need
ed no congressional pressure
to act favorably on the idea of
establishing a 5,371-acre ref
uge for Canadian geese and
ducks in the Willamette val
ley. Its chairman is Interior
Secretary Stewart Udall, wno
strongly favors such develop
ments. The other cabinet members
are Agriculture Secretary Or
ville Freeman, who is prob
ably happy to get a little more
farm land out of production,
and Commerce Secretary Lu
ther Hodges, who is probably
delighted at the thought of
stimulating tourist services in
the area.
The other four members are
from Congress Sens. Lee
Metcalf of Montana, Roman
Hruska of Nebraska, and
Reps. Leo Gavin of Pennsyl
vania and Frank Karsten of
Missouri.
Others Set Aside
It is clear that the Oregon
congressional delegation
might readily have Influenced I refuge plan. Two other pro
the Commission to postpone posed refuges on the Commis
approval of the Muddy Creek ! sion's agenda were set aside
he
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ting with Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt at press
conference at Governor Rockefeller's Pocantico Hills home
in New York Friday. The Venezuelan Chief Executive is
winding up an official visit to the United States. (UPI)
until another meeting at the
request of members of Cong
ress from the states in which
they were to be located.
One was the proposed
Wabash wildlife refuge in
Indiana. The other was the
proposed Pee Dee wildlife ref
uge in North Carolina.
In both instances the cong
ressional request was based
on the claim that there was
inadequate information local
ly on the implications and de
tails of the plan.
Local opposition to the
Muddy Creek refuge was
based largely on fears it
would cause an increase in
property taxes in the area,
judging by letters sent to Ore
gon congressmen.
Would Close Season
A Corvallis doctor, who
said he was an active sports
man, said in addition to the
tax issue that it was unreal
istic to think that more ref
uges can provide enough ad
ditional birds to take care of
"785,000 or more happy hunt
ers in the state of Oregon each
season." He advocated closing
the hunting season as long as
necessary for natural increase
in bird population.
Sen. Neuberger and the
Izaak Walton League backed
pending legislation to increase
the federal contribution to
counties in lieu of taxes to
make up for loss of property
taxes due to creation of fed
eral bird sanctuaries. Most of
this increased revenue to
counties would come from oil
production royalties the gov
ernment collects on a refuge
in Louisiana. The 'Kennedy
Administration supports the
bill.
Not all property owners
were against the refuge by
any means. As one Corvallis
citizen wrote: "As a property
owner, any increased tax tee
arising from establishment of
the refuge I shall regard as
the cost of admission for see
ing these wonderful birds."
Vandals Break Info
Service Station
Vandals broke into the
Standard Service station op-1
erated by Richard Scott Ham
ilton at the corner of Stewart
ave. and Holly st. about 4
o'clock this morning, state
police reported.
Vandals broke six windows
and the glass in a door and
damaged extensively a car
parked in the service station
lot, police said.
Full extent of the destruc
tion had not been determined
by Hamilton, who resides at
68 Oak dr., Central Point, of
ficers said.
The car, owned by Robert
D. Stochr, 2555 Old Military
rd., Medford, had tjroken
headlights, door window, ra
dio and antenna.
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pilation of campaign expenses
and contributions in the Ore
gon 1962 general election.
Morse's rival, Republican Sig
Unander spent $135,991.
Morse listed total contribu
tions of $185,011.52, and
Unander's total contributions
were $136,445, the report
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the term for which he is elect
ed is $70,000.
Nor is it here desired to In
timate that Oregon is alone in
heavy spending in political
campaigns. In the recent gub
ernatorial election in our
neighbor state of California,
Mr. Nixon and Mr. Brown
spent in their campaigns more
than the office of governor of
California will pay in salary
in nearly seven decades.
w
HEN tabulated, the figures
look like this:
Morse spent $154,000
Unander spent 135,991
TOTAL $289,991
AU. S. Senator's annual sal
ary is $22,500. A U.S.
Senator is elected for a six
year term. His total salary
for the six-year term for
which a Senator is elected is
$135,000.
Which is to say:
Both Mr. Morse and Mr.
Unander spent more in their
campaigns for the U. S. scna-
torship from Oregon than the
job will pay in salary in the
entire six years of the sena
torial term for which they
were campaigning.
T DON'T want to harp too
1 long on one string. The Or
egon election at which all
this happened is long since
over. Nor do 1 wish to inti
mate that Mr. Morse and Mr
Unander did anything illegal
Or that they were alone in
heavy campaign spending.
According to the report
from the Secretary of State s
office, Governor Hatfield
spent $98,231 in his campaign
for reelection. The salary of
the governor of Oregon is
$17,500 a year. The term of
office is four years. The total
salary of the governor during
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For lhat mnllnr
Is there any purpose here
to contend that campaign
spending ought to be limited.
It can be logically argued that
so long as the people know
how much is being spent and
who spent It and where it
came from no harm is done.
The laws of both Oregon
and California require the re
porting of campaign expenditures.
BUT
It does seem to this
writer that if candidates for
office are to spend materially
more in their campaigns than
the office for which they are
campaigning will pay in sal
ary during the ENTIRE term
of the office, disclousure of
the amount spent during the
campaign, along with who
contributed it, ought to be re
quired BEFORE election day.
It seems to me that is some
thing the voters ought to
know before they go to the
polls to vote. It might be
bit difficult to do that. But
in these days of almost instan
taneous communications, it
ought to be possible.
All that would be needed
would be to require that the
total spending be reported a
reasonable time before the
opening of the polls. The
newspapers, the radios and
the TVs would see to it that
the people got the word before
going to the polls to vote.
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