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Morse's Frequent Trips To Oregon Raise Speculation liT' -4 (if I LITTLE PEOPLE'S WORLD-Parking me ters are among the problems encountered by "little people," adults under 4 feet 11 Inches tall who held a convention of the Little People of America at Des Moines, la., last week. Pat Lytel of New York City demonstrates in this photo the prob lem posed by parking meters. He can't reach the coin slot. About ISO midgets and dwarfs attended the convention to do some socializing and talk over mutual problems. Shown with Lytel are, left to right, Lee Landry of New Orleans, Dale iPaullin of Marshalltown, la., Selma Grant of Houston, Tex.; Alfred Mills of Ukiah, Calif.; Martha Whear of Anamosa, la. and Hobert Fowler of Mason City, la. (UPI) Legality of Timber Operators' Action Pondered By Unions Portland (UPO The North west lumber industry strike front was calm Saturday while labor leaders pondered the legality of an unusual management action. The 196-member Timber Operators council Friday rec ommended to It members that they put increases into effect immediately, despite the fact that the two striking lumber unions have not ap proved such raises. The TOC, with member companies from northern Cal ifornia to Alaska, mad the proposal In an effort to settle' the drawn out dispute. . . The management group rec ommended that firms adopt 26-cent hourly wage increases spread over three years, with 12 cents retroactive to June 1. The International Wood- Listen to BARKER'S message en K S H A (radio 830) todayi morning afternoon 10:07 1.07 10:38 4.07 11.07 4.38 11.38 5.38 12:38 6:07 a breath-taking eight tecondsl workers of America and the Lumber and Sawmill Work ers Union earlier rejected a similar wage offer. Karl F. GIos, executive sec retary of the TOC, said labor law permits an employer to put his last and final offer into effect if an impasse ex ists in negotiations. He said the talks had reached such an impasse. Legality Chscksd Harvey Nelson, regional president of the IWA, said "We'll check the legality of It." He termed the move one which would precipitate a general strike. The TOC urged Its non- struck: members to effect the plan immediately. A spokesman for the Geor gia-Pacific Corp., which has refused to meet the unions demand for a 3314 cent per hour wage Increase, said the firm's position hasn't changed. Two TOC members have been struck, Edward Hines Lumber Co. and Pope and Talbot, Inc. About 2,300 em ployees are idled in the two firms. About 4,900 are out in struck G-P plants. The strike and lockout has idled about 29,000 persons. No new shutdowns were re ported Friday but an IWA spokesman at Lewiston, Ida ho, said that chances are about 50-50 that operations will be struck at Potlatch Industries Monday. SERVICES HELD Portland - IOTD - Funeral service was held Saturday for Paulua Newell ,81, a Portland attorney. Newell, who prac ticed here for 40 years, died at his home Thursday. He was a graduate of the University of Oregon and a member of I the Multnomah County and uregon state car associations. Fruit Growers Rest Case Against Harvey Aluminum Portland - (UPI) - Fruit grow ers from The Dalles area seek ing to prevent the Harvey Aluminum Co., from spread ing fluorides in the air rest ed their case in petition for injunction Friday. The fruit growers seek to stop damage to their farm lands and orchards. Testimony by Wasco county fluent John Theincs highlight ed the hearing before Fed eral Judge John Kilkenny Friday. Theines defined on an aerial photograph damage caused by the fluorides. Me said prevailing winds in the area had much to do with the spread of the chemical. Earlier a pair of scientists testified the amount of fluor ides In fruit tree leaves in The Dalles area had increas ed substantially since Har vey began operations in 1958. A Harvey spokesman said $30,000 has been paid out in claims lor damaged ' crops since the plant opened. Harvey is to open its '.-ti-mony Monday before Judge Kilkenny who is hearing the case without a jury. INSTALLED WIIILE-U-WAIT AUTO AIR CONDITIONERS MUFFLERS NO DELAYS 3 HOISTS JUL Tail Pipes Armstrong Tires Trailer Hitches Shocks OPEN SUNDAYS The Store With 10,000 Items THRIFT AUTO SUPPLY jj-iir .S5" Mea'fer', Ml N. HK-arsM Grants Pais, 32 S I. 6th Civil Defense Request Denied Salem - (UPI) - Oregon's Civ il Defense agency is gqing to have to scrape along with only tnree people. By a six to three vole Fri day afternoon the State Emer gency board turned down a request for $46,110 to double the three man staff. The decision came after two hours of discussion where Civil Defense officials argued that the trimmed agency couldn't perform the work which state law sets out for it to do. The recent legislature cut the civil defense staff from 18 members to three. Voting against giving more money to the agency were Sens. Harry Roivin (D-Klam-alh Falls), E. D. Potts (D G rants Pass) and Ward Cook (D-Portlaiiri), House Speaker Clarence Barton (D-Coquille) and Reps. Ross Morgan (D Portland) and Beulah Hand (D-Milwaukie). More money was favored by Senate President Ben Musa (D-The Dalles) and Reps. Shir ley Field (R-Portland) and Stafford Hansell (R-Hermls-ton). Hansell said that when the legislature approved the pres ent Civil Defense budget it was believed by many law makers that the federal gov ernment would match the .state money to make a six person staff for the agency. He said he could support a six member staff but would be against seeking any fed eral matching money to in crease it further. By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington - (Special) -Ever since Sen. Wayne Morse won re-election handily last fall, his political behavior has been quite out of character. Morse has been behaving as though he were still running for re-election - and running scared at that. The most ap parent manifestation of this strange phenomenon Is that he has been making frequent week end trips to Oregon for speaking engagements around the state. It is not unusual for Morse to leave Washington for speaking dates around the country, for he supplements his senatorial salary hand somely by speaking for a fee which he says averages $500 per talk. But it is unusual for the Oregon senator to devote much speaking attention to groups in Oregon in the pe riod immediately after he has been returned to Washington for another six-year term. And yet this is what has been hap pening. Can't Charge Fee This is unusual because It is expensive to fly back and forth across the continent on frequent occasions to address organizations and public for ums in his home state where he can't charge a fee or ex pect to have his expenses paid. This sort of cost is normally incurred only in an election year under the whiplash of political anxiety. Had Wayne Morse been re elected by a narrow margin, this behavior would be read ily understandable. But he de feated his GOP opponent, Sig Unandcr, by a comfortable margin of over 50,000 votes. Obviously he is still the fa vorite of a majority of Ore gon voters. What, then, drives the sen ator to this expensive current undertaking? Wayne Morse, as is his cus tom in the realm of practical politics, is keeping his own counsel. But his colleagues are speculating about the meaning of it all. The most plausible theory is that Morse is planning to run as a delegate to the Demo cratic national convention next May in the Oregon pri mary, ii ne does that, there is little doubt he will run hard in an effort to roll up the highest number of votes of any candidate on the ballot running for delegate. Could Be Chairman In addition to the virtue of winning such a political popu larity poll, with its political status value, the prize that customarily goes to the dele gate with the highest vote is chairmanship of the delega tion to the convention. The speculation here, then, is that Wayne Morse wants to head the Oregon convention dele gation which will go to Atlan tic City next summer to re nominate President Kennedy for a second term. Beyond this relatively per functory task there may lie a more compelling reason for Morse's energetic pursuit of the Oregon voter these days. If he heads the Oregon dele gation, he may presume that he will gain a degree of Influ ence he has lacked with the Kennedys and within the Democratic party. Ever since President Ken nedy assumed office, Rep. Edith Green has unquestion ably been the most influential member of the Oregon con gressional delegation with the new administration. Her cre dentials - chairmanship of the Oregon delegation to the 1960 convention and chairmanship of Kennedy's Oregon cam paign - have been honored by the President and the at torney general and their top aides. This circumstance has been difficult for Sen. Morse to accept, despite the fact that he not only caustically op posed Kennedy s presidential nomination but conducted a furious but futile campaign for convention d el e g a t e s pledged to Wayne Morse for The average motorist in the U.S. pays about 72 cents in combined federal and state taxes each time he orders 10 gallons of gasoline for his car. NEW OCEAN CABLE Paris - UPI) - French, West German and American com munications companies have agreed to finance a new 4.375- mile transatlantic cable link ing the United States and France. The cable is to be laid during the summer of 1965. French Post and Tele graph officials announced, from Tuckerton, N. J., to Saint Hilaire de Riez. France. 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Yet the fruits of gaining spe cial influence with the Ken nedy administration aren't no ticeably bounteous. In the Washington political commu nity, prot bly the most sought after advantage from such a relationship is the personal prestige it affords those known to have a special "in" with the powers that be. An other advantage is securing a decisive voice in patronage matters, which is important in intraparty affairs but of no real significance in terms of public affairs. Mrs. Green has had the de cisive voice for Oregon the past two and a half years. But it is beginning to appear that Sen. Morse will try to supplant her in this prestige role in 1964. An administration official reports that the senator has gone to the curious extreme of planting the notion that Mrs. Gran won't even seek re election to Congress next year, that she is fed up with Washington. Such a rumor is most un convincing with the Kennedy administration where it is common knowledge that Mrs. Green turned down a presi dential offer of an ambassa dorship because she prefers to remain on Capitol Hill. She plans to run for re-election to her Portland congressional seat in 1964 to start a second decade in the House, where she has become one of its more powerful members. Mrs. Green, incidentally, has been telling friends she has no in tention of .running for the Senate in 1966 if Sen. Mau rine Neuberger runs for re election, Relations Good Surface relations within the Oregon congressional delega tion are reasonably good these days. They meet periodically for breakfast to discuss state problems, and they circulate proposed letters for joint sig nature on matters of common interest affecting Oregon. Both senators also attended a party at Mrs. Green's Wash ington apartment not long ago on the occasion of Howard Morgan's departure for Ore gon. 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