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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON SUNDAY. JUNE It. 1113 CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST QUESTION STIRS CONGR irj:i . immmwc m no; anouid e member oi Congreu whs rotes on defense appropria tion! be entitled to hold a reserve military commis sion, or is this an Illegal conflict of interest? The problem, which is causing quite a stir in Congress, is discussed in the following dispatch by United Press International). Washington -HT0- Should a simple change of hats be sufficient to convert Sen. Bar ry Goldwater and Rep. Carl Albert into Maj. General Goldwater, USAF, and Colo nel Albert, USA? The question involves pos sible conflict of interest and the meaning of the United States constitution. Also in volved are 175 other members of the House and Senate who, with Arizona's Conservative Republican Goldwater and Oklahoma's House Democratic leader, have retained commis sions in the Armed Forces re serves. Can these citizen - service men properly lead a double life, sandwiching drills and occasional tours of active duty between votes on weapons authorizations, defense budg ets and military pay raises to which they may become en titled? For his part Goldwater has asked the Senate Judiciary committee to look into the whole question. In that re quest he has been joined by Sen. Strom Thurmond (D S.C.) who is Maj. General Thurmond In the Army re serves. A similar study has been requested in the House by Rep. Gerald Ford (R-Mich.) who recently resigned a com mission as lieutenant com mander in the Naval Reserve after a period of inactivity, and Rep. Richard Boiling (D Mo.), who is the holder of a commission as an Army lieu tenant colonel. Recently published news- B 3 ESS and the rulings on members In service have been uneven over the years. In 1861, according to Gold- waters research, the House ruled that a man was "not en titled to his seat since he was mustered into the military services of the United States." Again in 1901 reference was made to a bar against active members of the military serv ice serving in Congress. In 1916 the House Judiciary committee decided, after a thorough study, that seats of members of the House who ac cepted commissions in the National Guard (there was. then, no reserve) would "at once become vacant." Report of 1918 In that 1916 report, how ever, the House Judiciary committee quoted in a Su preme Court finding that fed eral "office" within the mean ing of the constitution in volved duties which are "con tinuing and permanent, not occasional and temporary." Moreover, Congress, by Its own action, has provided that SENATOR-GENERAL U. S. Sen. Barry Goldawter (R Ariz.), a major general in the U. S. Air Force Reserves, strolls along the Berlin Wall. (UPI) paper stories (particularly in the Scripps Howard news papers) have focused Congres sional attention on the "com patability" of , Congressional office and Reserve military rank. However, Goldwater told the Senate recently that he has been arguing the issue with correspondents ever since he first became a Sena tor. Article I, Section 6, of the constitution says: "No senator or representative shall, dur ing the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authori ty of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been 'increased' during such . time; and no persons holding any office under the United States jhall be a mem ber of either house during his continuance in c'fice." Also under the constitution, the Senate and House are the judges of their own members. Countries Campaign Against Chickens; Other Areas Sought By JAMES R. CAMPBELL United Press International Siloam Springs, Ark.-fllPD-Herbert Hoover once talked of a "chicken in every pot" and eventually this came to pass. The birds were produced so quickly and cheaply that there were not enough pots to put them in. Europe provided the an swer. Exports widened the market and raised prices at hume. But then, on June 1 last year, the Six European Common Market countries upped their tariffs and the trouble began. Now, the levies have been raised again - by about one and one-quarter cents a pound - and exports must be cram med into the domestic mar ket at lower prices. Why has the United Stales been shut out of the Euro pean poultry market? Why so much fuss over chickens? Blames France W. H. Simmons, chairman of the board of the American Institute of Poultry Industries fAtpn hlamps France. where sex - even in chickens - has become an issue. "The French have a publi city campaign going saying nur Doultrv is not fit to eat," he said. "For instance, ads have appeared in newspapers and magazines over there say ing we put hormones in our chickens. These hormones were permissible but they were not used because they cost too much for the results vnn Bet "What they do is de-sex the chicken so you get more meat. The French implied we were t.uini tn de-sex all the Frenchmen. "That's kind of ridiculous, Simmons smiled. Pnnlanit In the Act Even England, non-market country, got into tne aci. r.ng nh nnultrv men. said Sinv mnn have raised a cry about the possibility of getting New castle disease irom nmenwn "NOW Newcastle uico i named after Newcastle. Eng- land," Simmons said. "Any of , it we've had here we got from England. This is a health bar-1 rier which is strictly trade barrier." "France is the big oosta cle," Simmons insisted. "By and large the German people want U.S. poultry. But a lit tle clique of importers who bring in from nearby coun tries, including Iron Curtain countries, want to shut us out." ,. The tariff is not a world shaking event. But Simmons believes it may be a fore runner of worse things to come for other exporters. "We were dead after June 15 of last year." he explain ed. "We lost all we had gam ed In five years overnight. Simmons' own firm. In the rich poultry-producing state cf Arkansas (second only to Georgia), exported 8 million pofcnds of frozen chickens during the first five months of 1962. It fell off to less than 1 million pounds for the rest of the year. The Arkansas Poultry Fed eration said $7,543,000 flowed into the state from exports in the first six months of 1962. After that, there was only a trickle. Arkansas ex ported 24,969,205 pounds dur ing the first six months of 1962, 16 per cent of the na tional export and 10 per cent of the state's production. Situation Critical Now, scarcely one per cent goes abroad and that only on demand loads. It's getting critical, he said. Some producers will go broke and there will be some jobs lost until we can adjust back to a profitable market for domestic demand," he said. Poultry is one . of the few commodities produced with Building Permits Issued for Homes Building permits have been Issued by the Medford build ing department to Leon L. Evans to make an addition to a warehouse at 837 South Riv erside ave. at an estimated cost of $18,000, and to Hut chins and Clarke Construction company to erect a $10,000 residence at 1551 Miracle lane. Hawthorne Gardens Apart ments, 737 Stevens st., was is sued a permit to complete construction of 45 carports at an estimated cost of $1,500. Don Furtick Apartments, 755 Stevens st., was issued a per mit to install a lawn sprinkler system at an estimated cost of $1,000; and to Mrs. Helen Bell to erect a duplex at 381 and 383 Benson st. at an ap proximate cost of $13,000. government-supported grain, processed by American labor. which can be put on the table in a foreign country at a high er quality and lower price than they can produce it themselves, he said. Finding a place' to sell the chickens now is the problem. He said suggestions of re taliation, such as slapping high duties on foreign cars. French perfume and tulip bulbs from Holland, are not likely to get anywhere with the government It concerns the North At lantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and defense as well as chickens." Other Placet Sought Simmons said he s con vinced there are other places in the world where the United Slates can sell its poultry. Campaigns now are under way in Japan and Liibya, among other countries, ne said. The exporters are publiciz ing "the wholesemeness of U.S. poultry," explaining it Is the "most-inspected in the world. Harold Snyder, president of Arkansas Valley industries at Dardanelle, Ark., recently re ported that something like 200 firms produced 50 per cent of the broilers three years ago. Today about 50 companies are responsible for more than 50 per cent of the production and marketing. Officially, the market claims it is "protecting" the European farms. The six member nations - France, West Germany, Italy, Bel gium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg - also claimed the higher tariff (now about 13 cents per pound compared with 4 cents per pound before the increase last June) was needed to offset a drop in import prices. The U.S. is protesting. It had expected a reduction, not a hike. It got a shock, instead. a member of the reserves or the National Guard is not con sidered an officer of the United States even when on active duty for training pur poses. Congress also has provided specifically that members of the Guard and the reserves can hold civilian government posts and collect pay from the federal government for both jobs. The Defense Department is officially mum In the argu ment over the status of its capitol hill reservists. Under standably enough, however. Pentagon officials make a strong case in private for re servists in the Senate and House. "Should a farmer serve as a member of the agriculture committee? If he owns a farm should he be required to sell his farm while serving on the committee?" one Defense De partment official asked rhet orically when the issue was posed. Others Mentioned "Should a newspaper re porter or editor be required to surrender a commission they may hold in one of the reserve components? They, too, occupy a position of very great public trust and are in a position to influence legisla tion through public opinion," the Pentagon official said. More outspoken is the Re serve Officers association of the U.S. which described the conflict of interest argument as "a subtle attack upon the 'minute man' tradition" in which members of Congress are entitled to play their role. "Those who seek to brand our patriotic reservists in Congress with 'conflict of in terest' simply because they make themselves available to the nation and train to main tain their readiness, have in deed erected a straw man: for there can be no conflict of Interest when patriotism is involved," the association de clared in an editorial. Is there, in fact, a conflict of interest? Conflict or no, it must be said that some of the reservists show a lively Interest in Congressional con troversies which involve their respective services. No one in Congress has been a more ardent champion of the Army's Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile than Maj. General Thurmond, who recently forced the Senate into its first secret session since World War II tn an effort to effect a Nike-Zeus speed-up. No one has been a sharper critic of the decision to phase out manned bombers from the j Air Force than Maj General ! lioiawaier, wno is also a strong supporter of the RS70 strike plane. The list could be extended. But many Congressional ob servers doubt that it would prove much of anything-ex-cept that many members of the Senate and the House are veterans of military service. There Is, for example, the case of Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield (Mont.), who once achieved the exalted rank of private first class in the Marine Corps and now maintains no reserve status. With other non-active Marine veterans such as Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-I1I.), Mans field has been instrumental in making the Marine Corps the only service with a statuatory minimum strength. 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