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HERALD AM) NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore.
Monday. March SS. 1963
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Defense Exercise Ends
After Flurry Of Letters
WASHINGTON UP1 Water
Moccasin III. a Defense Depart
ment field exercise, came to an
uneventful finish last weekend but
left in its trial some of the most
excitable congressional mail in
recent history.
A routine Pentagon announce
ment last month that foreign
military students would take part
in the maneuver snowballed into
exaggerated fears that Congolese
hordes or Mongolian troops
would be roaming U.S. soil.
The most painstaking efforts by
the Detente Department and
many congressmen to explain
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LEAVES OFFICE Alone in his St. Paul office following a crowded news conference,
Gov. Elmer L. Andersen of Minnesota packed his brief case for the 'last time with
personal papers from the executive desk Friday. Anderson announced that he would
not appeal a court decision giving the November, 1962, election to Karl F. Rolvaag,
and that ha would allow Rolvaag to move in first thing Monday morning.
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CONSTITUTION REVISION EXPLAINED
Commission Decides To Prepare
New Document Not Just Amend Old
"A NEW CONSTITUTION
, KOK OREGON"
. (This Is the second In a series
of articles about the revised
Constitution proposed by 4hc
Oregon Constitutional Revision
Commission. The articles were
written by Hans A. I.lnde, pro
fessor of constitutional law at
Ihe University of Oregon and a
member of the Commission.)
T h o Constitutional Revision
Commission was appointed in
19K1 by the President of the State
Senate, the Speaker of the House
of Representatives, the Governor
and the Chief Justice, lis mem
bership of 17 was representative
of both political parties, all parts
of the slate, all thieo branches nf
government and private life
Among the members were seven
legislators, two ex-governors, two
Supreme Court justices and a clr
cuit judge. Nine were members of
the bar. It included three news
paper publishers, business men, a
housewife, and a professor of con
stitutional law.
After its organizational meet
ing, when It elected Hep. George
Ijiyrruin of Nowbcrg as chairman,
the Commission had to face Its
first and fundamental decision.
Should it proposo a series of
nnlendmcnti to the existing Con
stitution of 1U.V.I, already amend
ed lit times? Or should it pre
pare a single, complete draft that
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would incorporate a 1 1 needed
changes in one revised Constitu
tion?
There was no doubt that muh
would need to be done just to
"clean up" the old Constitution.
Of Its obsolete provisions, some
seem today like amusing relics-
such as the disqualification fur of
fice of anyone fighting a duel, or
the prohibition against granting
titles of nobility. Others are em
barrassing reminders of past prej
udices, such as a section In the
Bill of nights guaranteeing the
procrly rights of "while foreign
ers.
In the patchwork of past amend
ments to the i old Constitution,
many provisions are misplaced
The Bill of Mights guarantees the
right lo mix and consume cock
tails, along with freedom of
sjiecch and religion. Equally mis.
placed is the death penalty, a
privilege guaranteed in the Bill of
Rights side by side with' the
pledge that "punishment of crime
shall bo founded on the principles
of reformation, and not of vindi
cative justice."
The old Constitution contains
two Articles VII, because tbe new
er version, adopted in 1910, con
tinued parts of tlie original Arti
cle Vli in forco as law. Besides
Article XI, the old Constitution
has Articles Xl-A, Xl-D, Xl-E
XI-FU) and X1K(2, each of
them writing the clalwrate details
of a Seci(lc state bonding pro
gram into tlifl Constitution. On the
other hand, there is no longer an
Article 1-B, Xl-C, or XIU.
Yet the Constitutional Commis
sion quickly recognized that h
could accomplish very little by
only "cleaning up" -the old con
stitulional text, for a number ol
reasons:
1. Corrections in wording and
spelling, rearrangement of sec
tions, and removal of obsolete
provisions could be handled by
legislative staffs at any time, in
the form of amendments. 1 h c y
were not the purises for which
the 1!X0 amendment authorized
institutional revision, of for
which a siwcial Constitutional Re
vision Commission was created, j
1 While the flaws in the old text
deserve correction, they do not
havi much practical significance.
It is as the framework ol stale
and kcal government, not as a
literary document, that the tonsil-
tutkm is lniHrtant to the people
who govern themselves by it.
3. The report of the tommis-
sibn. and the action taken on it.
would probably be the only major
constitutional revision effort for
some time to come. A slate does
not and should not rewrite Its con-
stitution lightly or often. If an edi
torial face lifting were performed
on the ia"9 Constitution, tlie leg
islature and tlie public would
think live Job of living Oregon a
20th-century constitution had been
accomplished. Yet such editorial
"revision" would be largely loi m i
without substance.
Thus the Commission decided i
lo offer the people of Oregon the '
best revised Constitution it could
prepare, consistent both with the
Oregon traditions embedded in
the'1839 Constitution and with the
needs of the coming century.
HKCENT STATE
CONSTITUTIONS
In modernizing the Oregon Con
stitution, the Commission n o t
only studied problems arising un
der Ihe old Constitution. It could
also turn to the experience in
many other stales which cillier
have adopted or arc working to
ward new constitutions since
World War II, Missouri modern
ized its constitution in 1945, and
New Jersey In 1947. Hawaii and
Alaska entered statehood in 1959
with new constitutions based on
careful study of the needs of mod
ern state government. Perhaps a
score of states are engaged in re
vision efforts like Oregon's.
In September, l(W2, when the
Oregon Commission was complet
ing its task, the Commission on
tlie Revision of the Rhode Island
Constitution also made its report
lo the governor and legislature of
Rhode Island
"We were not confined to
mere rc-editlng. Sucli a rc-edit-
ing, although an onerous mechan
ical task, obviously does not need
a commission of thirteen citizens
to effectuate It.
"Thus the undertaking imposed
upon us was obviously to bring
the Constitution up to date. To
that end, we soon came to the
conclusion that a draft Constitu
lion as a whole should be present
ed by us to the governor, the gen
eral assembly and the citizens of
the state, rather than a scries of
piccc-mcal suggestions for
Phone 'Tap'
i Probe Asked
By Powell
WASHINGTON lUI'li Rep
Adam Clayton Powell, who says
a bartender once answered his
inter-olfice telephone, has asked
the Justice Department to see if
his lines have been tapped.
Powell did not seem too worried
about the bartender incident,
which appeared to be a case of
switched lines. But he said "I
am demanding a full investigation
in view of the fact that since Jan.
l so many things that were ab
solutely confidential became non
confidential."
I make no charges whatsoev
" Powell said Friday. But he
said he wanted these "unending
difficulties" stopped.
Dispatches Aide
Powell reported Alty. Gen. Rob
ert t. Kennedy "said he would
have a man over here immedi
ately." 1
The New York Democrat said
the troubles started this year in
his office and the House Office
Building rooms used by the staff
of his Education and Labor Committee.
He had telephone service men
in once or twice every week,
Powell said, but didn't worry about
it until last week.
At that time, he said, Mrs. Max-
ienne Dargans, chief clerk of the
committee, saw the light flash on
the private line connecting her
office with Powell's.
She picked up the receiver and
a man's voice said "Dave's East."
Dave's East is a restaurant and
cocktail lounge about four. blocks
from the Capitol.
Circuits Connected
Powell said telephone company
officials told him thatr a private
line which ran from the offices
of former Rep. Peter A. Garland
H-Maine, to the night club was
disconnected early this year. Ap
parently, they said, it was hooked
onto the circuit between his office
and Mrs. Dargans.
Schap said he paid for the in
stallation of the telephone after
Garland and other congressmen
that none of this was true failed
to stem the flurry of alarmed letters.
One House member, Rep. Jim
Wright, D-Tex., suggested that
the wild stories surrounding Wa
ter Moccasin III were reminis
cent of the rumors planted by
"deliberate saboteurs" in World
War II.
He and other congressmen were
hopeful the furor would now abate
but in tlie ofling the Pentagon
has scheduled Water Moccasin IV
for June 5-30.
Water Mnccasin III brought in
thousands of letters and tele
grams to congressional offices,
most of them bitterly protesting.
They demanded to know who
had allowed 3,500 to 17,000 Con
golese troops or 80,000 Mongol
ian troops or, in some in
stances; United Nations troop1
to roam the Georgia countryside.
"Will they have bare footed
Africans as were shipped into
Cuba for guerrilla warfare?"
asked a California woman in a
letter referred to the Senate
Armed Services Committee.
Committee staff members esti
mate that 500 letters have been
received in their office alone
since the Water Moccasin mail
struck in February. Beginning
with correspondence from Louis
iana. Texas and Georgia the mail
spread to include states across
the nation.
"We have not made 'change for d 'l,Cy T,'"1. sotme ,f",K'k
the sake of change' a guiding
principle. On the other hand, we
have not shrunk from recom
mending changes . . . when we
thought the public interest re
quired them."
It was in tlie same spirit as
that of the Rhode Island Com
mission, and of similar bodies in
other stales, that the Oregon Con
stitutional Revision Commission
turned to its task nf preparing a
revised Constitution for Oregon.
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production dock at General Dynamics-Astronautics to start a trip to Cape Canaveral,
Fla., where it will be mated with an Atlas for ground tests. In the foreground is the
Centaur scheduled for the next flight. ' UPI Telephoto
Angry Dads
Fight Dance
In Schools
Pt isoner Fails To Find
Body Of Girl Viciim
Volcano Ash
Kills Cows
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica lUPD
The cattle-grazing slopes df Mt.
Irazu were declared an emer
gency zone today and autnori
ties feared a heavy toll among
livestock in the latest shower of
volcanic ash.
There were no human casual
ties from the eruption of the vol
cano, but it was expected that
children would have to be re
moved from villages on Ihe moun
tainside as a precaution.
This capital city, 20 miles from
the scene of the eruption, was
coated ' with ashes that drifted
down like dirty gray snow.
President Francisco J. Orlich
said he would ask Congress to
appropriate emergency funds lo
aid the distressed areas.
Clergymen urged Costa Ricans'
to pray for an end to the week-
long "calamity." Only 'last Mon
day this cily of 350,000 had given
President Kennedy a rousing wel
come when he arrived for the con
ference of Central American presi
dents.
Mt. Irazu could be heard rumb
ling in the background at the time.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (UPU-A
group of angry parents protested
Saturday that schools teaching
their children square dancing and
the "Virginia Reel" were waltz
ing the youngsters into sin.
The parents circulated a peti
tion charging that "the dance hall
is the starting point and the com
panion to drinking, divorce and
other degenerative actions."
Mrs. Bob Stockstill, spokesman
for the group, said many re
ligions were represented among
the several hundred persons who
have signed the petition. It urges
that dancing be banned from the
Missouri public school curricu
Mrs. Stockstill. a member of
the Church of Christ, is the
mother of two sons in a grade
school here. She said one of the
boys was exposed to dancing les
sons in the school until she wrote
a note to his teacher "to separate
him from that group."
Dr. Roy F. Lltlc, head of ele
mentary education in Springfield,
said, "Rhythm games and activi
ties, normally called square danc
ing and the Virginia Reel, are
taught in the elementary grades,
but all they do is lock elbows and
link hands."
He said no dancing was taught
in high school because physical
education classes on (hat level
are segregated by sex. Litle sakl
Ihe protesting group mainly is at
tacking the state curriculum
guide, which does advocate ball
room dancing in high school.
EUREKA, Calif. (UPI)-A state
prison inmate who has confessed
to the unsolved murder of a Hum-
bolt County couple accompanied
sheriff's deputies to a deserted
logging area Saturday where he
said he buried the body of one
of his victims, a teen-aged girl,
13 year ago.
The prisoner, Gail Patrick Irish
whose age is 45, was flown from,
the California Men's Colony at San
Luis Obispo to Eureka earlier Sat
urday. Deputies immediately took
him to the alleged grave site,
some 25 miles north of here, near
Crannell.
Officers scoured the area for
several hours in an effort to find
the grave. Irish pointed out pos
sible areas where he said he may
have buried the victim, Barbara
Kelly, who was 17 years old at
the time of her disappearance.
The search proved unsuccess
ful! but authorities said they
would try again Sunday morning
They noted that the terrain had
changed somewhat since the
crime occurred on June 18, 1950
The renewed investigation into
the 13-ycar-old unsolved crime
was touched off by Irish last Sat
urday when he told a prison chap.
lain that he had killed the girl
and her boyfriend, Henry Baird,
28.
The priest advised the prisoner
to tell authorities his story and
a few days later the Humbolt
County sheriff's office requested
and received permission to bring
Irish to Eureka for further ques
tioning. Irish, who is serving a term for
a sex offense committed in Kern
County in 1958, told authorities he
was driving around in his car
near Table Bluff beach south of
Eureka on the night of the crime.
He said he saw the couple sitting
in Baird's car, ordered them to
get out and take off (heir clothes
and then shot Baird in the back
of the head.
He said he then tied the girl.
wrapped her in a blanket and
drover her to the - logging area
near Crannell where he killed her
and buried her in a shallow grave
covered with leaves and loose
dirt.
Baird's body was found in the
surf by fishermen the following
day. Irish told authorities he did
not know the names of his victims
until he read about them in the
newspaper. He told prison officials
he decided to confess to the
crime last week because of a
sudden turn to religion."
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MONDAY i
CDA NO. 1295, 8 p m., social
meeting, parish hall. Short busi
ness meeting.
DEGREE OF HONOR, 7:38
p.m., drill team practice, K(J
Hall.
KLAMATH HOME ECONO.M
ICS AND HOMEMAKING, 8 D.m .
election of officers, Mrs. Wayne
Fung. 737A Wright Ave. Tour of
Orient.
KUHS PARENTS AND PA
TRONS 7 45 p.m. meeting. Cafe
teria. Program presented by
speech department. Election of of
ficers.
TUESDAY f
RIVERSIDE PTA. 3 p.m.. meet
ing, election of officers, school
cafeteria.
RUMMAGE SALE. Ladies So
ciety. Brotherhood of Firemen anj
Enginemcn, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Clyde's Towing.
ALOHA CHAPTER NO. SI,
OES. 8 p.m., stated meeting. Ma
sonic Temple.
THREE R CLUB, 12 noon.
luncheon, Shasta Grange Hall.
BUTTE VALLEY FARM CEN
TER, 8 p.m., regular meeting
Maedoel School.
WEDNESDAY 1
SOJOURNERS, 12:30 p.m.
luncheon and cards, Willard Ho
tel. Newcomers welcome.
REPUBLICAN WOMEN, 12
noon, luncheon, Winema Hotel'.
Open to all interested men and
women. U.S. Rep. Edwin R. Dur
no. speaker. '
KEATON LEAVING HOSPITAL
CANOGA PARK, Calif. UPI
Famed deadpan comedian Buster.
Keaton, 66, today leaves West
Hills Doctors' Hospital where he
was treated for what physicians
described as a minor chest con
dition. He entered the hospital
Sunday.
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of being notified of votes on the
House floor. Garland, he said,
used to come there often for lunch,
Last year, when the phone
would ring, announcements were
made in the dining room of Dave's
East as to whether it was a quo
rum call or a vote on a bill.
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