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THURSDAY. JULY 25, 1963
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Morse To Refuse Dunes Park Support Unless Clause Curbs Condemnation
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By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune
Wuhington Correspondent
Washington - Sen. Wayne
Morse says he will refuse to
support any Oregon Dunes
national sea
shore legisla
tion unless it
contains "a
specific prohi
bition against
the Interior
Departmen t
gaining title
to any of the
property of
smith the area by
condemnation."
Otherwise, Morse indicated
he favors turning the Oregon
Dunes area on the Oregon
coast over to the National
Park Service as proposed by
the Neuberger and Duncan
bills in order to "preserve
and promote human values
through the establishment of
an outdoor coastal area that
can be enjoyed by all our
people now and in the future!"
Morse's views were set out
in a statement submitted Te
cently to the Senate Interior
Committee, which is consider
ing Sen, Maurine Neuberger's
Dunes park bill. The state
ment, initially kept secret at
Morse's request, has been pub
lished by the committee along
with all testimony on the Neu
berger bill offered at hearings
in Eugene and Washington in
May.
While commending Mrs.
Neuberger for sponsoring the
park bill, Morse emphasized
that the price of gaining his
support would be the inclu
sion of an amendment he has
prepared which would safe
guard all private property in
the area by forbidding the
Federal government to take
any of it unless the owners
voluntarily sold it for park
purposes.
Three Classifications
The Neuberger bill, backed
by Interior Secretary Stewart
Udall, calls for a 44,000-acre
park consisting roughly of
33,000 acres of public land
and 11,000 acres of private
property. The private prop
erty falls into three classifica
tions: unimproved land, land
on which family residences
have been built, and land and
buildings used for commercial
purposes.
The Interior would prefer
to have the power to condemn
all this land if necessary to
acquire it for the park, but
Mrs. Neuberger this year de
clined to go that far. Her bill
prohibits condemnation of
residential property. Interior
estimates there are 264 such
properties In the proposed
park area.
The Neuberger bill, how
ever, would permit condemna
tion of commercial ventures,
of which there are 39. Assist
ant Secretary of Interior John
Carver has told the Senate
Committee there is "no com
pelling need to acquire" these
establishments in the immedi
ate future and that many of I er bill) have communicated
them will serve the needs of
park patrons.
In addition, the bill would
permit the government to con
d e m n the unimproved privately-owned
land if the own
ers were unwilling to sell out
or swap it for F e d e r a 1 1 y
owncd land elsewhere.
Many Communication!
The Morse amendment, in
short, would pertain to com
mercial and unimproved prop
erty. The senator said:
"Scores of individuals who
own private lands within the
boundaries of the project cov
ered by S. 1137 (the Neuberg-
with me, pleading that their
lands should not be taken
away from them through con
demnation. Many have in
formed me of their deep dis
may over the fact that their
cherished plana for construc
tion of family homes for re
tirement years arc being de
stroyed through the threat of
condemnation."
Morse said he recognized
the long established legal
right of eminent domain
when "the interest of the gen
eral public must prevail
against the property rights of
the individual when private
property is required for pub
lic purposes," such as high
ways, defense installations or
public buildings. He said he
thought it should be limited
to "the most urgent cases"
generally, and in the case of
establishing parks, "only in
extreme cases."
"We have long regarded
private property rights as
basic to our form of free enter
prise capitalism," Morse con
tinued. "Upon this premise I
feel that private ownerships
within the boundaries of the
dunes area should be allowed
to continue and that free sim
ple ownership rights, with all
their incidents, should be per
mitted to exist without inter
ference, by the Federal govern
ment.
"If the Federal government
wishes to acquire private
ownerships within the boun
daries of a seashore recreation
project, it should do so on the
basis of arms-length negotia
tion with the owners. I would
be first to admit that the price
to be paid for such property
by the Federal government
might be somewhat higher
than under condemnation pro
ceedings, but I think it is a
price we should pay gladly
in a democracy for the protec
tion of private property own
ership rights."
Morse also submitted a
speech text from last year's
election campaign when he
took this same position at
Florence, the hotbed of vocal
opposition to the paTk. In
that speech he said if any
property owners "put it to
detrimental or unsightly uses"
there would be two remedies
available - local zoning regu
lations could be adopted, or
Congress could pass further
legislation "eliminating any
use that might become intol
erable and completely incom
patible with the purposes and
objectives of the Dunes park."
He said there are Federal
precedents for handling such
extreme cases.
The senior senator declined
to take any position on other
aspects of the controversy,
such as overall size or location
of boundaries, because he
said on these questions "I do
not profess to have special
knowledge." But he urged the
Senate committee to modify
the Neuberger bill to include
his amendment, adding:
"My support of any bill
which might be worked out
by the committee seeking to
establish a Dunes seashore
recreation area must neces
sairly be conditioned upon a
specific prohibition against
the Interior Department gain
ing title to any of the property
by condemnation."
Morse's view would hold
against the bill Introduced in
the House by Rep. Robert B.
Duncan because it is similar
to the Neuberger bill in
language, except that his park
would be smaller and there
fore it wouldn't affect as
much private property. Dun
can's bill calls for a 30,000
acre park. The Park Service
estimates Duncan's boundaries
would take in 30 private
homes and two commercial
establishments, but no one
has yet computed the acreage
of private unimproved prop
erty. Duncan's bill would
permit government condemn
ation of commercial and un
improved property but not
improved residential holdings.
Aeronautics Board
Head Reelected
Salem -PD- Roger Leoning,
Haines, has been reelected
chairman of the State Board
of Aeronautics.
Named as vice chairman of
the board this week was Alva
C. Goodrich, Bend.
The board has made an on
the-ground Inspection of a pro
posed new airport at Siletz
bay which would be built
with the aid of state and fed
eral funds.
Slate Aeronautics Director
Robert Dunn said the only
question remaining before the
project gets final approval is
the location and financing of
an access road to the project.
The landing strip would be
built on the east side of the
sandspit which forms the
western boundary of Siletz
bay.
The board has granted $19,
000 to Klamath Falls to re
pair and scalcoat runways on
its airport,
It delayed action on a re
quest from The Dalles to aid
in the enlargement of its air
port parking area.
The Black sea has an area
of about 164,000 square miles.
Your Money's
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By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright Hall Syndicate, Inc.
UPGRADING HOUSEHOLD SKILLS
For the first time In history, the U. S. government is
launching a major drive to upgrade the training and status
of household workers - give to women who enter this field
the skills they need, the pay they deserve and the dignity
they want.
The campaign is being organized by the Women's Bureau
in the Department of Labor and the Office of Education in
the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
The educational program is being directed at the public
in general as well as the workers, for the objective is not
just to train women in a long list of household skills. An
equally Important aim is to eliminate the archaic image of
the "servant," so that many more women will want to become
household employees and their employers will respect them
as they respect any office or factory worker.
The shortage of skilled household workers In the U. S.
is acute. At the same time, the rale of unemployment and
Job shifting among women who are household workers is
among the highest of any group.
"We have a tremendous interest In upgrading household
skills," says Mrs. Esther Petersen, director of the Labor
Department's Women's Bureau. "We must overcome the
prejudices in this field, get rid oi the notion that no train
ing Is needed for this type ol work."
"We are preparing training courses for nine specific jobs
in this field In cooperation with expert committees across the
nation," Tevealed Miss Rua Van Horn ot the Office of Educa
tion in the Health, Education and Welfare Department.
Pilot projects under the Manpower Development and
Training Act have been started In Youngstown, Ohio, and
St.' Louis, Mo. The women in these cities have been given
training for Jobs as a child day care center worker and a
management aide In a public housing project. As the cur
riculum for each course is completed by the HEW Department
and funds become available under the Manpower Act, the
training programs will be offered in cities from coast to coast.
There are now only 2,243,000 women In private house
hold employment. While the need (or household specialists
has soared as tens of millions of women have taken jobs In
offices and factories, the percentage of private household
workers has shriveled from 17',j per cent of all employed
women in 1940 to under 8 per cent today.
The answer to the problem lies clearly in educating the
workers and changing obsolete attitudes on pay, benefits,
status.
The nine training courses will be divided into two broad
classifications: live community-focused occupations and four
home-tocused occupations, report Mrs. Peterson and Miss
Van Horn.
Included in (he community-focused occupations will be
training for: a child day care center worker; a management
aide in a public housing project: a visiting homrmaker who
will work in a disrupted home under supervision ol a local
agency: a hotel and motel housekeeper aide (the chamber
maid of bygone days); a supervised food service worker who
will work under hospital dietitians and technicians, be akin
lo a nurse's aide.
Included In the home-focused occupations will be train
ing ion a personal wardrobe maintenance specialist who
will come In by the month to mend, spot, press, etc.i a
companion to an elderly (not sick) person! a dinner service
specialist who will come Into the home at a designated hour
to prepare dinner, serve and clean up before leaving; a
homemaker's assistant (the old live-in or live-out maid).
Europe, Incidentally, is way ahead of us on this. Sweden
has been working on the problem (or more than a decade and
Sweden's attitude toward the home "specialist'' Is one of high
regard. England In 194H established the National Institute of
Ifouseworkers, an organization of employers and employees.
with the express purpose of raising the status of household
employment to attract more worker into the occupation.
The Institute not only offers a training program. followed
by in exam and diploma-but also has a Daily Houseworkers
Service under which It provides trained help to employers
at a guaranteed weekly salary.
The need for upgrading this occupation here has been
obvious for years. Now at last has come the will to fill the
neejd and the program to aciueve it.
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