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MtUr'OhD MAIL IKiiJUH
Quarterly)- The last time the
United States held a constitu
tional convention was in 1787
when the founding fathers
gathered In Philadelphia to
draw up the Constitution of
the United States. But if a
group of conservatively ori
ented state leolKl
their way, there will be an-
uier national constitutional
convention soon.
ine constitution provides
IT" "icmoas 01 amendment.
omy metnod used so far
1 .ufn.Ior me Congress, by
two-thirds vnio in knu -u :
bers to approve a new amend
ment, after which it is Sub
mitted to the states and be-
. mciii i amy.
The Constitution i
aisu per-
.1 ?, the slates. by passing
-"""""". m require Con-
sress ui can a constitutional
;; lu siaer a spe
cific amendment. If the con
vention should approve such
an amendment, it would then
be submitted for the approval
of three-fourths of th fa.
The second method has nev
er succeeded in the past, eith
er because the legislative me
morials to Coneres larlrori
uniform wording, or because
me memorials were passed
many years apart, destroying
their effectiveness as a single
juauuuLe 10 congress.
Memorial Method UncUar
Backers of a limit on the
Income tax, for instance,
claim that three-quarters of
the states have submitted
some type of memorial on this
subject. But the record shows
that the memorials date back
as far as 1038, contain widely
differeing wording and pro
visions, and that some states
have even attempted to re
scind their resolutions.
Congress has never set
down a policy as to how many
years apart memorials must
be, whether states can rescind
memorial resolutions, how a
constitutional convention
would be organized, who
would sit in it, and the like.
But some Congressional com
mittees are currently con
sidering calling hearings on
the subject this summer.
The specific Impetus for a
fresh Congressional look at
the second method of amend
ing the Constitution comes
irom the campaign recently
initiated by the General As
sembly of the States, a group
of state legislators affiliated
with the Council ol State Gov
ernments. This group is seek
ing to persuade two-thirds ol
the states to memorialize Con
gress to call a constitutional
convention to consider three
states' rights amendments,
Progress Report
The General Assembly ap
proved the three amendments
at its Dec. 6, 1962 meeting in
Chicago and recommended
that "to the fullest extent pos
sible" all state legislatures be
in session in early 1063 for
the purpose of pausing the
memorials in identical form,
thereby avoiding the past de
fects of the little-used amend
ing process.
The three proposed amend-
date:
-Prohibit the U.S. supreme
Court or any other federal
court from exercising jurisdic
tion in any case "relating to
apportionment of representa
tion in any state legislature."
This amendment is intended
to nullify the effects of the
March 1962 Supreme Court
decision in the Tennessee ap
portionment case (Baker v.
Carr), which has resulted in
court cases in jo stales ana
reapportionments - almost all
benefitting urban or suburban
areas at the expense of rural
counties - in 17 states.
The reapportionment me
morial resolution was ap
proved so far in 11 states -Arkansas,
Idaho, Missouri,
Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, South Dakota,
Utah, Washington and Wyo
ming. It was also passed in
Nebraska but vetoed by Gov.
Frank B. Morrison (D) who
said it would weaken the U.S.
Constitution.
-Establish a "Court of the
Union" composed, of the chief
justices of the supreme courts
of the SO states, with power to
review and reverse decisions
of the U.S. Supreme Court
"relating to the rights re
served to the states or peo
ple."
Four states - Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida and Wyo
ming - have asked Congress
to call a constitutional con
vention to consider this
amendment.
-Change the amending pro
cess of the Constitution so
that two-thirds of the states
could directly propose con
stitutional amendments with
out obtaining, as is now re
quired, the approval of Con
gress or a constitutional convention.
This amendment has been
endorsed by the legislatures
of 8 states in memorials to
Employees Receive
Pins for Service
Among 13 state highway
department employees from
the Medford area to receive
service pins was John M.
I s h a m, district officeman,
Medford, who received a pin
for 35 years of service.
Other employees to receive
service pins from R. L. Lam-
m e r t, district maintenance
superintendent, were Lyle E.
Springer, Siskiyou section, a
20-year pin, IB-year pins to
Stanley G. Rising, Charles W.
Dennlston, Ray C. Jones, John
A, Strahan, all Grants Pass
sect'on; Burse H. Cathey and
Harold A. Klngery, both
Eagle Point section; and 10-
year pins to Jack L. Rose,
assistant section fore man;
Prospect; Kenneth A. Brown,
Cave Junction section; Don
ald Force, bridge mainte
nance. Grants Pass; George F.
Guthrie, parks depart ment,
Medford; and Mrs. La Murle
Farrar, secretary to Lammert.
homa. South Carolina, &oum
Dakota and Wyoming.
Chances of Approval
Since most states are now
completing their legislative
sessions for 1963, prospects
for early two-thirds approval
of any one of the states' rights
amendments now seems quite
dim.
Moreover, the states which
have ratified to date are all
conservatively oriented states
that would be most likely to
ratify any conservative
amendment. The proposed
amendments are likely to en
counter much stiffcr opposi-
Concerted liberal opposition
to the proposed amendments
is just forming. The most
sweeping condemnation of
them to date came recently
from Prof, Charles L. Black
Jr. of Yale Law School who
said they were "radical in the
extreme" and "constitute, col
lectively, one more attempt,
so late in the day, at con
verting the United States into
a confederation."
Chief Justice Earl Warren
recently said the proposals
"would make profound
changes in the judiciary, the
and even in the
the Constitution.'' H
ycrs had fjiikci to
public to a move !
of Hie
ilitv of
y.M law
alert the
r Israel
Con.-t:tu-
amenriment
lion.
States' rights defenders,
however, say that resen'ment
about encroaching federal
power is tati iltrlin up in the
states and that the proposed
amendments cannot he dis
missed as a concoction of
reactionary groups.
George Prentice, staff man
of the National Legislative
Conference, says "wo ' have
hin?." Backers of the move
ment, he tavs, "sincerely be
lieve in it us a matter of state
' in-.;vncif nee.-'
S'.i'e Rep. Warren Wood
i;R-ii!.i. who or.fjinally pro
'posed the "Court of the Un
ion" amendment, says he sup
ports it because the 10th
j Amendment, which reserves
j to the s'.atcyor the people all
powers not delegated to the
Federal Government in the
'Constitution, has been "raped
twice a day for ten years."
(Copyright 19S3,
' Congressional Quarterly Inc.)
Knights of Columbus
Hold Installation
Alex Austin was installed
grand knight at a recent
meeting of the Knights of
Columbus council in their
building on Black Oak dr.,
Medford.
Also installed oy Robert
Herbage, district deputy, and
Stephen Ferche, grand
Knight, Roseburg, were Rob
ert Howard, deputy grand
knight; Charles Moore, chan
cellor; Donald MacPherson,
warden; Wilson Edinger, ad
vocate; Iven Allen, recording
secretary; Robert Messer,
treasurer; Lee Pendergast, in-
Residents Warned Of 'Notice' Mail
The Medford Chamber of
Commerce has warned resi
dents about the use of official
looking "public notice" mail
ings to sell so-called "dis
tress" merchanaise.
nnn McNeil, manager
tho chamber, said
public notice
of
that the
headings are
similar in style to legal no-
side guard; and James Dziar
maga, outside guard.
In addition those appointed
were the Rev. Carl Mai, Sa
cred Heart parish, chaplain;
Michael Altobello, financial
secretary; and Leonard Kuc
kleman, lecturer.
tices and auction and bank
ruptcy announcements. The
implication is that the mer
chandise is being sacrificed at
a fraction of its worth to satis
fy the claims of creditors.
In a typical example the
mailing notes that several
tons of brand new cookware
with a "list price" of 199.50
must be sacrificed for S35,
implying the need to satisfy
creditors claims.
The merchandise is being
regularly sold throughout the
country in large volume for
$35 by means of this gim
mick, McNeil said, noting that
the list price of $199.50 is
"wholly fictitious."
Texas has more farm wood
land acreage than any of the
other states.
The Medical Roundup
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Emtruui ConaulUnt In Medicine
mayo runic
Emtiitui Professor ol Medicine
Mayo Cltnlo
(Rtflittr and Tribune Syndicate.
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Anti-Tubtrculoiii Drugs
Given Free
Dr. J. Arthur Myers of the
University of Minnesota
School of Public Health, one
of the coun
try's experts
on tuberculo
sis, said In a
recent re
lease that tu
berculosis is
now costing
t h e United
States $740
million a
year, primar
ily because we are neglecting
to use the methods of diagno
sis and euro that we have
available.
Tuberculosis is still killing
10,000 of our people each
year and In 1962, 55,000 new
and active cases of the dis
ease were reported. Sad to
say, some 43,000 of these were
in an advanced stage, in which
a cur is difficult to obtain
What Is most distressing is
that a large percentage of
the infected people have not
yet had the proper diagnosis
made and they constitute
tremendous danger to their
families and to the nation as
a whole.
As Dr. Myers says, we
should begin right away skin
testing all children with tu
berculin (like a vaccine) to
see If they are infected. The
menace of tuberculosis will
not be eliminated until one
generation of children after
another has gone through life
iree from Infection with tu
bercle bacilli. Such a cam
paign will cost money, but it
will save us many millions of
dollars In hospitalization
alone.
A skin test provides infor
mation about the infection
but it does not tell us
whether in the individual
there Is active tuberculosis,
Free Drugs
The Municipal Tuberculo
sis Sanitarium In Chicago is
going to distribute free to
Chicago patients with tuber
culosis, the valuable and very
helpful drugs lsoniazid and
aminosalicylic acid. This
looks like a good idea, be
cause people on a very low
Income might fail to be treat
ed because they cannot af
ford the medicine.
It is extremely important
that all patients wlh tubercu
losis be found quickly, and
then be well treated. What is
so unfortunate is that many
an old person with a chronic
cough doesn't worry about it
he docs not know that he has
tuberculosis; and he docs not
know that if he has grand
children living In his home,
he is very likely to give them
his disease.
It only the old man knew
that he was handing out
death to his adored grand
children, he would promptly
leave the home and go to a
hospital. I feel strongly about
this because a friend in high
school and college had to die
of tuberculosis, as did his
brother and sister. What hap
pened was that as children,
they used to play In the
room In which, for years
their grandmother kept
coughing out into the air the
germs of tuberculosis.
If only our public health
authorities in charge of work
on tuberculosis could quick
ly discover every infected
person they could soon wipe
this disease out of our coun
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