V/2 Per Cent Tax Limitation
Petition Drive to Begin
PORTLAND (AP)—New peti
tion* for the 1V4 per cent proper
ty tux limitation will probably
start appearing In all parts of the
state some time in May.
There will be a headquarters
in every county as the Oregon
Homeowners Association makes
its second drive to put into Ore
gon’s Constitution a sharp limi
tation on property taxes.
The association got its program
under way at a meeting Thursday
night and officers said Friday
things were already moving and
requests for petitions were com
ing in.
But the legal work of getting a
liallot title approved and the pe
titions printed is expected to take
At the Legislature
Thornton Feels
Oath Not Needed
SALEM (AP)—Representative Lee M. Thornton (R-Milwaukie),
the (nan who has questioned University speakers, says teachers
should not be required to take a loyalty oath.
He urged the House Education Committee to delay a Senate
passed measure that would enact a new teachers’ loyalty oath
to replace the one that has been declared unconstitutional.
The new oath would only require teachers to say they will sup
port the constitutions and laws of the United States and the
state.
Thornton, a major in the U S. Army Reserve said:
"It should not be incumbent upon them to prove their loyalty
by an oath which, if they want to be subversive, they would take
with mental reservation or rationalization.”
* • +
The Senate Taxation Committee has ordered a public hearing at
1 p m. next Friday on the House-passed tax bill.
It calls for a special election in April at which the people
could direct the Legislature to pass a 3 per cent sales tax.
The committee's chairman. Senator Harry Boivin < D-Klamath
Falls), has severely criticized the bill, which has little Senate
support.
Senate President E. D. Potts told the committee Friday it should
take a look at the entire tax structure, and decide if state taxes
should be increased in order to provide property tax relief.
The sales tax would raise $100 million a year, and reduce
local property taxes by one-third.
Chairman l,ee Johnson of the House Taxation Committee ap
pointed a subcommittee to draft a bill that would let counties and
cities enact income and sales taxes by vote of the people.
• • •
Two legislators say there isn’t much chance that Oregon will
have an ombudsman to represent the public complaints against
state agencies.
Senate President Potts, (D-Grants Pass), said today he doubts if
the bill to have an ombudsman could get through the Senate.
"Every member of the legislature is an ombudsman who
takes care of public complaints. That gives us 90 ombuds
man, so why should we provide money to have another one?”
Potts asked.
Senator Glen Huston (D Albany), chairman of the Senate State
and Federal AITairs Committee, said his committee would hold a
public hearing on the ombudsman bill late in February
But he, too, predicts the bill will have a rough time in the Senate.
Governor Tom McCall recommended creation of the job of om
budsman, but legislative leaders said he doesn’t care much one
way or the other.
• * •
A bill to have the Forest Research Laboratory at Oregon State
University study air and water pollution was introduced in the
House today.
It would be financed by timber taxes. There is already a federal
laboratory on the OSU campus that is studying water pollution.
* * •
The Senate Constitutional Revision Committee has recommended
a new constitution for Oregon. It has only three changes.
It provides for the state’s agencies and 115 boards and commis
sions to be placed under 20 departments, provides for member
ship increases in the Senate from 30 to 35 and in the House
from 60 to 65, and prohibits college teachers from running
for public office.
Left intact are the same elective offices, the line of succes
sion, biennial sessions, the lottery prohibition, and the six per cent
limitation on local government taxing districts.
The constitution now goes to the Senate for action.
two months or more .
The petitions failed to get the
measure on the ballot laet No
vember because of a technicality
in the filing of signatures.
The limitation measure will
have two changes from last time,
said A1 F. Gildemeiater, associ
ation president. It will provide
that the limitation will not apply
on any part of the tax levied to
pay off an existing bonded in
debtedness or the interest on it.
The other change would exempt
from the limitation any tax vot
ed by the people at a November
election, opening the way to a
vote once each year for purpos
es costing more than the 1V4 lim
itation on property value would
permit.
Arts Commission
To be Discussed
The background of legislation
currently pending in the Ore
gon Legislature concerning the
formation of an Oregon Arts
Commission will be discussed by
Jarold A. Kieffer at 7:30 p.m. to
day in a lecture sponsored by
the Friends of the Museum.
Kieffer, who is assistant to Uni
versity President Arthur Flem
ming, is also vice - chairman of
the Governor’s Planning Coun
cil on the Arts and Humanities.
The planning council initiated the
legislation, and also sponsored a
state wide survey of arts resour
ces and activities.
The talk will be given in the
lecture room of the Eugene Pub
lic Library. It is one of a series
of winter term lectures sponsored
by the Friends of the Museum on
the theme. Art Discovered.
Festival of Arts
Presents Speaker
A Heed College humanities pro
fessor will be the first speaker
in the month-long Festival of
Arts at 8 p.m. today in the SU
Dads’ Room.
Kasper Locher will discuss “The
Inescapable Romantics.” The cen
tral theme of the Festival is Ro-'
manticism.
Locher taught at Vanderbilt
University and the University of
Washington prior to joining the
Reed College faculty.
He is now a Senior Research
Fellow of the Rockefeller Human
ities Institute.
Locher received his doctorate
in Comparative Studies from the
University of Chicago in 1949. He
has also studied at the "Universi
ties of Zurich and Geneva, in
Switzer alnd.
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PRESTOW - COCHRAN
The engagement of Diana Preston of Sigma Kappa to Mark
Cochran of Sigma Phi Epsilon was announced on December 12.
Miss Preston is a senior in elementary education from Portland.
Cochran is a first-year student at the University of Oregon Dental
School from Medford. A. June 24 wedding is planned.
KNOTT • JENSEN
Leslie Kay Knott, a graduate of the University now teaching in
Seattle, announced her engagement to L. David Jensen, aw off
campus student on December 25. Miss Knott is from Eagene.
Jensen is a senior in sociology from Hood River. A June 24 wedding
is planned.
HOSIER BLANCHARD
The pinning of Jill Hosier to John Blanchard was announced on
November 21 at the Alpha Phi house. Miss Hosier is a sophomore
in art education. Blanchard, a member of Sigma Chi, is a senior
in marketing. Both are from Sacramento.
KIRKPATRICK - HOLLAND
A candle passing at the Gamma Phi house announced the pinning
of Pat Kirkpatrick of San Francisco to John Holland of North
Hollywood on December 6. Miss Kirkpatrick is a senior in general
social studies. Holland is a senior in business and a member of
Chi Psi.
DAVISON - HOGAN
Nancy Davison of Gamma Phi Beta announced her engagement
to Chuck Hogan at a candle passing on December 8. Miss Davison
is a sophomore from Salem. Hogan is a junior and a member of
Phi Gamma Delta from Redmond, Oregon. Both are sociology
majors. No date has been set for the wedding.
BRUTER - EVANS
The engagement of Janet Bruyer of Alpha Gamma Delta to
Gordon Evans, an off-campus student, was announced on November
20. Miss Bruyer is a junior in musk education from CorvaKis.
Evans is a senior in math from Salem. No wedding date has been
set.
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