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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.
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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.
"A stubby of beer never hurt
anyone," says Mrs. Forbes,
who drinks a bottle a day. "It
helps me sleep, too."
BERLIN (UPI) -The West
Berlin city council said today
it is considering a law to allow
a certain percentage of taxi
cabs to hang out "no smoking"
signs and accept only non-puffing
passengers.
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