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tv Ail WALKS TO CLASS - Lynda Bud Johnson, daughter of President and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, walks to her Latin class in Austin, Tex. She is attending the University of Texas. Lynda, who is the oldest daughter of President and Mrs. Johnson, will continue her schooling in Texas at least until January 1964 when she may change schools. (UPI) Bloodmobile Plans Visit to County In Mid-December The Red Cross Blood gram's 15th Anniversary Year 1963 was a prosperous one. Another peacetime record (or collections was made in the 1962-63 fiscal year 2,6:,200 pints compared to 2,562,700 pints in 1961-62. Progress was made in the sev eral research projects now un der way in the national head quarters blood laboratory and its two branches in Los Angeles and New York. Unfortunately the program has not been as successful in Jack son County. Collections for the past year have fallen below quota, Red Cross officials noted, with several hundred pints still to be collected. Residents will have one more opportunity this Pro- The Bloodmobile will be at the Mmpw iiuiwc ill miuiuiu, DU I Hawthorne Ave., from 2 to 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9, and from 10 a.m. lo 6 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 1 10. It will move to the Elks I Lodge in Ashland on Wednesday, Dec. 11, and will be open from 1 to 6 p.m. Local Red Cross officials said that so far only 20 appointments have been made for next week's visit. Drop-in donors will be welcome, they explained, but shoppers could save time by making an appointment in ad vance by telephoning 772-3813. Persons between the ages of 18 and 59 are eligible to donate, but those between the ages of 18 and 21 must have a written con sent from their parents or guardian Law Deceptive on Line of Succession For Presidency WASHINGTON (CQ) The t Vice Presidents Nixon and John son providing lor lemporary as sumption of the full powers of the Presidency by the Vice President in the case of physical "inability" of the President. The President would resume full powers when he declared himself able to do so. In their 1961 agreement to this effect Kennedy and Johnson pointed out that prior to the Eisenhower - Nixon agreement, "Vice Presidents have hesita ted to take any initiative during the period when the President was disabled. Obviously, this is i a risk which cannot be taken in these times." The risk may well be run again, however, if the 1947 law remains on the books. The law would require McCormack to re sign from the Speakership and Congress if he assumes the pow ers of the Presidency even temporarily. The law does provide that a man may resign the Presidency or decline it. The prescribed procedure is by written declara tion to the Secretary of State of the United States. Earlier Law Until 1947 members of the Cabinet followed the Vice Pres ident in line of succession to the Presidency. In one of his first messages to Congress, President Truman in June 1945 pointed out that under the 1886 succession law he would be in a position to name his own suc cessor by his Cabinet appointments. year to donate blood when the Transportation and baby sit Red Cross Bloodmobile visits let's will be available for per here next week. sons wishing Ihese services. succession to the Presidency of the United States is not as sim ple a matter as it appears at first glance. A widely cited 1947 law pro vides that in the event of the death or disability of the Presi dent and Vice President, the succession to the Presidency would be, in order: The Speak er of the House, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, and on down the Cabinet list. With the death of President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson's ascendency to the Presidency, the nation no long er has a Vice President. Speak er of the House John W. Mc Cormack D-Mass., 71, is next in line for the Presidency. Speaker Always Next But if. McCormack himself were to become President and then die, the man in line to be President would not necessarily be the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, currently 86-year old Carl Hayden, D-Ariz. A close reading of the 1947 law makes it clear that McCor mack's successor as Speaker of the House of Representatives would be next in line. In fact, the succession would never go further than the Speak er of the House, unless the House had failed to elect a Speaker, or the new Speaker was ineligible because he was foreign born or not old enough. Probably a national catastro phe, killing most of Washing ton officialdom, would be the only event in which the Senate Pro Tempore or one of the Cab inet officers would become Pres ident. Moreover, if a Cabinet officer did become President, he would be forced to relinquish the Presidency just as soon as the House chose a Speaker or the Senate chose a President Pro Tempore who qualified to be President. However, a Senate President Pro Tempore would not have to step down should the House subsequently elect an eligible Speaker. Temporary Powers In order to succeed to the Presidency, the House Speaker or Senate President Pro Tem pore would, under the 1947 law, be required to resign those posts and their seats in Congress. Thus, if Speaker McCormack were to become President be cause of a temporary disability of Johnson, and Johnson were then lo recover. Johnson would resume the powers of the Presi dency hul McCormack would no longer be Speaker or even a Member of Congress. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy made agreements with Curriculum Study Report Is Received ASHLAND - Copies of the final report of the Portland High School Curriculum Study for the years 1958 through 1963 have been received at Southern Ore gon College. Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, SOC president, served on the advis ory committee for the project which was primarily concerned in developing a program for im proving instruction for high school students. The report also restates the recommendations of the consultants who examined Portland high school offerings for those students judged "college-capable." He requested that the law be amended, suggesting that next in line after the Vice President should be the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, who as elected officials might be closer to the people. The Democratic Congress in 1945 failed to enact such a measure. A Republican Congress in 1947, however, looked with more interest on a bill which might place a GOP member in the Presidency. A bill was spon sored by Senate Majority Whip Kenneth S. Wherry, R-Neb., to place the House Speaker and the Senate President Pro Tem pore after the Vice President in the line of succession. It was passed by the House (365-11) and Senate (50-35) in 1947 and was signed into law July 18, 1947 by President Truman . President Johnson, who was then in the House, voted for the bill, as did McCormack, the cur rent Speaker. Hayden, the cur rent Senate President Pro Tempore, voted for an amend ment to place that office ahead of the Speaker in the succession. The amendment was defeated, and Hayden voted against the bill. (Copyright 1963. Congressional Quarterly Inc.) SECTION D PAGES 1 to 12 NO MORE FLIES MOORPARK, Calif. (UPD One government department here may shut down for lack of business. Directors of the Moorpark Mosquito Abatement District, formed three years ago to com bat flies in the area, say the insects are disappearing. They will decide Dec. 11 on whether to close shop. Pour one more pay no more ! RG Half Quarts SAME PRICE AS KING SIZE SERVES 1 MORE 3 drinks (not 2) SWITCH TO RC HALF QUARTS 1 '''' ' ' SiVVE ! ' v. -1 r 'fcr-'i MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1963 BRISTOL. England (UPI) NO SMOKING John Wakosman, 24, and Dudley White, 22, were fined $224 tout-all'basgain ETA ET TTT Wednesday for firing flaming metal arrows into the sides of passing trains and buses. "It reminds one," said an at torney, "of hostile Indians on the plains of Colorado, with at tacks on wagon trains and the defenses of General Custer and Colonel Cody." SHORT SNORT SEATTLE (UPI) - Mrs. Martha Forbes will celebrate her 101st birthday here Sunday with a bottle of beer and a cake decorated with 101 candles. 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