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g THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, MM MKDFORU MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON ' McCormack Shocked by Suggestions That He Retire As Speaker I Truman Olijpcls Mr. Truman said the old law in effect gave him the right to ; pick his potential successor, stored to the top of the list. Mr. Truman's answer to this i was that House members are i closer to the people, being elect ed every two years, and that , anyway there was a better j chance that the House would normally be of the same polit . ical faith as the President. The election of a Republican 30th Congress displeased him mightily. But it didn't change his mind about the need for a new succession law of the kind potential replacement instead of Democratic Speaker Sam Uay burn. I Congress Acts to lei the House elect a younger speaker, just in case something happens lo Johnson. Everybody has recalled that Mr. Johnson once nearly died of a heart attack. However his doctors now say he whipped that completely and is in perfect health. Mr. Johnson and McCormack, just in case, have agreed on procedure that McCormack Richard M. Nixon, after Mr. Eisenhower suffered a bad heart attack. Presidents Kennedy and Johnson had also accepted the plan. The agreement calls for Mc Cormack in some circumstan ces to make a finding that Mr. Johnson was unable to function, and to step in as acting presi dent until the President de clared himself able again. The agreement, although bet- has tried unsuccessfully to an j swer. One thing is clear. If McCor i mack ever took office as acting 1 president, as provided by law, ! he would have to quit Congress. 31 Et 3 since the cabinet appointments were his, and that he did not think this was right. "I do not believe that in a democracy this power should rest with the chief executive," he told Congress then. As for the choice between the speaker and the Senate's top elected official, Mr. Truman I The 80th Congress, unlike the 1 79th, gave Mr. Truman what he wanted. Now some members of Con ! grcss, and some editors and ! other observers, are not so sure j the lawmakers did ihe right thing. Sen. Hugh Scott, R-Pa.,' has proposed that Congress re study the problem. A couple of newspapers have suggested edi ! torially that McCormack is too i old lo be President and ought Then if Mr. Johnson were re stored to health and reclaimed his office, McCormack would be out in the cold. McCormack, of course, isn't concerned about this. He is considerably grieved that anyone would suggest that under these or any other cir cumstances he might want to get out from under the load. 5v GC-D I would follow in event the Presi 'dent became temporarily dis- abled. It is the same procedure set up by President Eisen i hower and his vice president, i ter than nothing, raises ques tions not about succession but . about presidential inability I which the Congress frequently j disappointed some Senators he had asked for, even though now Republican Speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., would be his when he failed to suggest that the president pro tern be re- HiW . 1 HE WOULD SUCCEED-This is a 1963 photo of President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker John McCormack, R-Mass., who would become president under the present law if anything should happen to President Johnson. A new House speaker would be elected to be next In line of succession. (UPI) By FRANK ELEAZER United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Carl Haydcn, 86, president pro tern of the Senate and a fixture on Capitol Hill for almost 52 years, can quit worrying about the possibility he could he asked Slain Policeman's Widow Injured PARIS, Tex. (UPI) - Mrs. J. D. Tippit, whose husband was killed by President Ken nedy's accused assassin, was In jured Wednesday during a Christmas trip to visit her hus band's family. She received a small cut and a bruise on her head when the car she was driving collided with another car as she was turning into a service station. Police Sgt. Steve Dockery said Mrs. Tippil required a stitch for her head wound, but thai her three children were not hurl in the accident. The driver of the other car, 22-year-old Dclbcrt Miller of Paris, was uninjured in the wreck. Mrs. Tippil and her children were driving to Clarksville, Tex. to visit the Edgar Tippits, her slain husband s parents. Dockery said about $400 dam age was done to the Tippit car, and that $50 damage was done to the Miller vehicle. He said Mrs. Tippit's father-in-law drove from Clarksville and took the family to his home. Dickery said the accident was still un der investigation. Court Records AlKlirilllO MI'NH'IPAI. l OIHIT wary hltftm Hninnmi, Ittthirr In yield rich! of why. ia.V susririiilril tn Attend driver Improvement trhnnl. Dennis Nntilr Chsni'ler. vlnln llnn n hnslc rule. (25, iiisnemlerl (I)ISI. Larry Ross Chentum, violation of basic rule, Via, suspended (DISl. William MU-lmel Cnx. violation eif basic rule. 910. suspended IDISl. Kred Jamen Knusl. violation of basic rule JIO. suspended iOISi. Gwendolyn Jackson, violation of basic rule. SUV suspended (l)ISI Sue Kileen Kaey. violation of basic rule, MS. suspended IDISl Stephen GcorKe Lewis, violation of basic rule. $10. suspended illlSl Step Arne Lovenborg, violation of basic rule. Michael J.eonard Mavfleld. no operator's license, $.1, suspended, work In park. Rose Louis MonlaR. Improper elt turn. 110. David Lee Mllchell. failure lo obtain Oregon operator's license. I2.V Gary Arlhur Nlederoiever viola tion of basic rule. Jin. suspended mist. Orvte Glendnn Pelltjnhn, Impro per lelt turn. Silt Mary Kllrn IMankcuhorn, Dlred operator's license. John Michael Peter Snwlcr. dis obeyed liaflic signal, till, sus pended I DISi Vlrstnla Lynn Teeter, violation of basic rule. M'.V suspended 1 1)1 Si Wayne Nebraska l'rnvcll. dis obeyed Irallic signal. SIO Mary Kalbryn Walsh, violation nt basic rule, SIO Lonnte Rex Wallers, violation Of basic rule. SAO. suspended illlsi Ursa Robinson Weston, dis obeyed tralflc slRnal. HO. sus pended, woik In park Victor Don WIrbiiiIou, Improper lane usace and spinning tires, IIP. suspended (DISl. John Karl Yoaklev. lotatton ol basic rule, $11). suspended I DISl. ex- to move lo the While House. bo can all the younger Cabi net members who stand behind Haydcn in the long presidential line of succession set up in its wisdom by Congress in l!H7, when President Harry S. Tru man fell uneasy without a pub licly elected backup man in the vacant vice president's spot. The fact Is that if Lyndon B. Johnson should flio or become disabled between now and the end of the term he is filling out (or the slain President Kenne dy, the job would fall to the speaker of the House, currently Rep. John W. McCormack, D Mass. Under no likely set of circum stances could it ever go furth er. McCormack will be 72 on Dec. 21. He is shocked at suggestions he might, or should as one New England paper proposed editorially step aside from the No. 1 spot in the line nl succession he now holds in ac cordance with the 1947 law. McCormack said two weeks ago he slill supports the 1!M7 law, as he did when it was en acted, not because I m m It but because 1 foci it's Hie best way of solving the problem." A review of Ihe succession law is a mutter for Countess to explore if it wishes, he said, but "I don't want to pursue the matter further because It con cerns a thought that I don t even want to entertain." If anything should happen to Johnson, McCormack stands ready to take over the presi dency. He already is being briefed, as would a new vice president, on the awesome bur dens that could fall to him. Bui suppose he should suc ceed Johnson and himself fall by the wayside before the end of the current presidential lei'm'.' Would not the presidency then go to llnvdcn, or I lie sec retary of stale, or some oilier official on down Ihe line'.' i No, It would not, By thai time the House would , have elected a new speaker. And he would be first in the i new line of succession. It was Mr. Trillium himself, an old Senate mini, who suggested (his House-oriented approach lo the problem of as suring an orderly continuation of government it both president and vice president died or he came unable lo serve. From 17(12 to nun; the Senate president pro tempore had stood No 1 in the line of succession, i In lllllll the law was changed to put the Secretary of Slate on top of Ihe list, with other falsi- net members slaiuhng behind him in order of rank. When Mr. Tinman succeeded the late president Franklin 1). 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