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Southwestern Ore. Doctors To Meet A t Courtel Wed. Salem Scene by Robert L. Dernedde With the 53rd session of the Oregon Legislature soon to be written Into Oregon history, passage of a couple key Issues w ill perhaps rate this session as one of the more constructive in recent years. For the firs t time since 1913 when Oregon’ s Workmen’ s compensation act firs t became law, the state’ s Job Injury act received an overhauling this session with the passage of the controversial workmen’ s com pensation b ill, HR 1001. The measure, w h ic h was signed into law by Governor Hatfield la s t week, w ill in crease b e n e fits to injured workmen an average of 25^. It is designed to encourage greater safety, prompter pay ments to injured workmen and sets up a new system of claims handling. Additionally, employers w ill have a free choice in providing coverage for their emnlovees— they can Insure with either the state fund, a private firm or self insure. The new act, hailed in the legislature as a “ model b ill” and “ milestone for I n ju r e d workmen” w ill become totally operative Jan. 1, 1966. Benefit increases and certain limited organizational p o w e rs , how ever, w ill become effective July 1, 1965. Passage of the new compet itive workmen’ s compsensation law ends a six-year battle over the merits of a competitive sys tem vs a state-run monopoly waged in three legislative ses sions and one general election. PROPERTY TAX RELIEF The problem of increasing property taxes was also par tia lly solved by the 1963 legis lature. With the passage of a series of property tax relief measures, homeowners can an ticipate a reduction in property taxes by about 10°?. A fter the Governor’ s announ cement that an estimated $35 m illion in revenue would be available during the 1965-67 biennium than had been e arlie r anticipated, the l e g i s la t u r e raised a $5 m illion property tax re lie f appropriation b ill to $25 m illion. This particular appropriation would je placed ftt a “ property tax relief account” and dis tributed to localtaxingdistrlcts as a direct offset against es tablished budgets. Law Permits Moving Pay A legislative b ill recently signed into law by Governor Mark Hatfield w ill perm it the State Highway Department to pay moving costs to persons or businesses displaced by any highway construction project. P rio r to the new law, House B ill 1058, the Highway Depart ment could pay relocation costs o n ly on federal-aid highway projects. Although most state highway projects receive fed eral-aid monies, n u m e r o u s projects are also carried out by the Highway Department in which only state funds are used. The law allows payment of moving expenses to any occu pant of an improved property if he is in occupancy at the time the state commences its right-of-way acquisition pro cedures. The Highway Depart ment w ill pay actual costs up to a maximum of $200 in the case of an individual or family and up to $3,000 for the moving of a business or farm. Forrest Cooper, state high way engineer, said that per sons eligible for r e lo c a t io n payments w ill be advised of this by representatives of the Highway Department well in ad vance of the necessary moving date. The 1963 Legislature passed the firs t law allowing the High way Department to make pay ments for relocating persons or businesses in the path of high way construction. Since that firs t law went into effect A pril 30, 1963, the Highway Depart ment has processed 902 claims. Cooper said these claims in cluded 738 “ f a m ily cases" which received payments total ing $47,533 and 164 business or farm cases which received pay ments of $113,308. An additional $3.8 million was added to the basic school support fund for (he second year of the biennium because of In creased revenues. The total appropriation w i l l therefore provide basic school support amounting to $152 per census child for the 1965-66 year and $160 per census child for the 1966-67 year. This is up from th e present $132 per census child and represents a boost of some $21 m illion. Another $10 m illion tn sup port to community colleges and some $8.2 m illion in highway- receipts amounts to a total of $65 m illion headed for prop erty tax relief during the 1965- 67 biennium. The revised revenue estima tes gave rise to a large share of the property tax relief pack age, but the subject of pro viding relief was a serious consideration throughout the session. Although this property tax relief package is only a two- year answer to the growing property tax problem, it w ill provide some relief while a long range answer m ay be sought in the interim . Amd f i n a l l y , the scientific guessing game of determining the amount of revenue the state car. expect some 30 months in advance may have a little help in future years as the legisla ture expects to have its own economist tn the next biennium. A position of revenue esti mator is included in the budget for the Legislative Fiscal Com mittee w hose sole objective year-round would be to est imate the number of dollars the state w ill receive in fu ture bienniums. Governor Proclaims M ay As Mental Health Month My Fellow Oregonians: May has been designated as Mental Health Month. We in Oregon join the nation in call ing attention to the problems of Mental Health. At least one person in every 10—19,000,000 people in a ll— has some form of mental or emotional illness that requires psychiatric treatment. There are more people in hospitals with mental illness, at any one tim e, than all other diseases combined, Including c a n c e r, heart disease, tube; ulosis and every other killing and crip pling disease. The social grief and tragedies caused by mental illness are truly staggering. Oregon has been a pioneer in the care and treatment of its mentally i ll citizens. I hope all of us can take some time during this month to acquaint our selves with the problem and proposed solutions. State and private facilities are planning open houses, and the commun ications media w ill p r e s e n t special programs and stories dealing with mental health. With adequate public under standing of the problem, steps toward better treatment, de tection and prevention can be taken. I, therefore, designate May as Mental Health Month in Oregon. MARK O. HATFIELD Governor Inside one may witness star official “ evaders” tn action, the “ care-less,” the “ do-noth ings” which do the best Job of bolting the doors of progress. A person could not count the many times that the “ Hall of Disappointment’ - has reigned in Port Orford through the years. It very definitely had star b ill ing last Tuesday evening at the meeting of the Business A Pro fessional Women’ s club. The subject, of course, as most everyone knows by now, was “ telephone service” rend ered by the one and only West Coast Telephone Co. which ser ves this area. The consolidation of Lang lois, Port Orford and Bandon exchanges was the desire and goal hoped for but very elo quently dismissed as an impos sible thing. Langlois w ill continue to be “ left out in the woods” in the fa ll when all other communities switch to a seven-digit number while it remains with three n u m b e rs . The lengthy dis course failed to explain how they go through the town to other areas without including them; also they failed to give their IBM figures on calls from Langlois to Bandon which no doubt are more than Langlois to Port Orford. Langlois telephone patrons w ill continue to dial the small est numbers, pay the biggest b ills , receive the poorest ser vice—and recognition registers “ O.” For the unsatisfied custo mers in the Hall of Disappoint ment there must be a solution! * * Doctors of Southwest« in Ore gon w ill meet Wednesday at thi Courtel, Coos Bay, In the first Spring Scientific Assembly It be presented by the Southwest ern Oregon Medical Society. The lecture series is the first in a continuing p r o g r a m ot semi-annual sessions to pro vide post-graduate programs In various fields of medicine atxi s.ugery to doctors of Coos and Curry Counties. Physicians from neighboring Lane and Douglas Counties have also been invtted to attend, ac cording to Dr. Peter T. Wolfe, president of the Southwestern Oregon Medical Society. Guest speakers who have been Invited to address the session include Dr. Daniel M. Bachman, head of the Division of Rheuma tology at the University ofOre- gon Medical School, Portland, who w ill be discussing the clas sification and t r e a t m e n t of r h e u m a t ic diseases. Dr. F. Kingsbury Curtiss of the Uni versity of Washington Medical School, Seattle, and Dr. Roger H. Hutchings, a former member of the University of Washington Division of Nephrology, pres ently In practice In Medford, are the other scientific guest speakers, and w ill discuss var ious phases of kidney disease. Appearing as dinner speaker w ill tie Dr. Craig B. Leman, a surgeon In practice in Cor vallis, who w ill tell of his experiences a b o a rd the S.S. Hope. Wives of the doctors have also been invited to attend with their husbands, and a luncheon and fashion show are among the activities planned for the women guests, a c c o r d in g to Mrs. Anson H.Stage,chairman. * * * * * ★ * * * * ★ ★ ★ * * port orforp * * * * * * MAY BROS * * * * ★ * Night Camps Use Increases Overnight camping at state parks totaled 1,003,331 camper nights in 1964, an increase of 1 4 ', or approximately 125,000 over the same period during NEONTA HALL the previous year, according Sixes, Ore. to figures compiled by the Ore gon State Highway Department. A “ camper night” repre TO THE EDITOR sents one person staying one Noticed the photo in the Port night in a park. Records show that camper Orford N e w s dated Thursday, May 6, 1965, I know quite well nights have increased about their names since I happen to be 300,000 over the past three one of the boys in t h is photo years. Camper nights totaled 708,210 in 1961. There is every taken in 1915. Top row, standing, left to right, indication that camper nights Jess Sutton, Clarence Wright, w ill again increase this sea John Stone, Delmar Wright and son, a c c o r d in g to Forrest Charles Quigley. Hooper, s ta te highway engin Front row,seated, left to right, eer. John Marsh, Oscar'Bud' Post and The top 10 parks with the most camper nights for 1964 Weston Zumwalt. It was not a traveling photo were Jessie M. H o n e y m a n grapher that took the photo. It State Park, with 119,164; Fort was Mr. Pickett, who lived up on Stevens, 115,188; B e v e r ly Starveout Ridge, that took it dur Beach, 84,089; Cape Lookout, ing an Agate Carnival at Port 79,652; Sunset Bay, 48,488; De Orford. It must have been taken tro it L a k e , 47,385; Wallowa before 1915 as I le ft Port Orford Lake, 46,871; Tumalo, 35,012; in 1914. Prineville Reservoir, 31,567; I enjoyed the picture v e r y and Emigrant Springs, 16,748. much and have one of the or iginal photos here at my home. HERE FOR HOLIDAY That issue of the paper was Mr. and M n. Court Boice of sent to me by m y niece, Mrs. Gold Beach spent Mother's Day Noma Thomas. at the home of Mn. Boice's par ents, Mr. and Mn. Robert Forty. Sincerely, John W. Stone Portland, Oregon VISIT MRS. STUD LEY Mrs. Nora Holtbuer and Mrs. MOTHER DIES Elizabeth Powen, both of Port Harold Davidson, of Sea Crest land, were recent guests of Mrs. Motel, was called to Ada, Minn. , Katherine Studley. A ll th re e Tuesday morning because of the women had been classmates in death of his mother. Ireland. TO * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ★ * * * * * * * * ★ ★ * * 1:00 and 8:00 p.m. * FREE TICKETS AT fWWTC * * * * * THE FABULOUS DUKES Razzle Dazzle in the Act of Juggling — Proclaimed Tops in their Field. * CAPT. DUKE * * AND HIS PONIES PAULINE and her Poodles k AERIAL BALLET * * * * ** * Post Office Box 5 Port Orford, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Second class m a il privileges authorized at Port Orford, Ore. Louis L. 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The first correct answer receiv ed at the News office w ill earn the prize. Cub Scout Pack Holds Last Meeting The last meeting of the year for Port Orford Cub Scout Pack No.98 was held Wednesday, May 5, at the grade schooL The only recipient of the Bear Badge was Ronald Branham of Den 2. Wolf badges were pre sented to Steve Cardin and Ger ald Stole. Gold arrows went to Tim m y M ille r and Ron Branham and silver arrows to Gerald Stole and Ron Branham. Mrs. Leonard Zastera’s Den 1 presented a skit on gardening and displayed plants they had grown. Participants were Gerald Stole and Arlen Zastera. A skit on forestry and a dis play of planters made from l i quid soap containers, was given by Mrs. Bill Foster's Den 2, with Randy Foster, Darrel and Paul Hammerber&JohnSamudio and Ron Branham participating. Norma McBride's Den 3 show ed a display on forestry and planter boxes made of wood by Chris Jensen, Ray Smith and Mr. Jensen. 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