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From The Office of: Sen. Sam Dement (Feb. 14)— To Oregonians, Valentine’s Day has two very special meanings . . . firs t, It Is an occasion to remember loved ones, and secondly, It Is the 110th birthday of our state. But, even with the fes tivity of the two occasions, business of the legislature went on as usual this week as the legislative momentum shifted from the bizarre to the rea listic as the lawmakers* at tention moved from the more colorful bills of sex education, fluoridation and abortion to the real problem facing us this ses sion . . . property tax relief. With the week barely under way, the House voted out a sales tax program for prop erty tax re lie f, with a margin of 32-28. The b ill was then forwarded to the Senate for the upper chamber’ s consideration. .The b ill In Its present form comes In four basic parts. They are broken down In the follow ing-manner. HJR 8 . . . This Is the ve hicle for the sales tax. It places the tax Into the con stitution at a fixed rate of 3% and specifies that the money w ill be used for school sup port. . The philosophy being, If the tax is locked Into the con stitution the rate cannot be raised nor the use of the funds changed unless by a vote of the people. House BUI 1127 . . . This Is the machinery of the plan. It specifies In detaU what Is to be taxed and what Is to be exempt. The present tax plan taxes all commodities expect prescription drugs, water, gas . fuel, animal life, feed, seed, and fe rtiliz e r, plants, publica tions, containers, property used or consumed In Industrial use and one-half of all fuel for In dustry and agriculture. This v plan varies from the tax pro posal of last session In that It taxes food. However to com pensate, this proposal gives a rebate to all persons under a taxable Income of $6,000. House BUI 1126 . . . This deals with how the money wUl be allocated to school districts, by giving the districts a new tax base equal to the operating budget of the previous year. It also lim its school elections to twice a year and fixes the allowable growth In the budget to 5% without a vote of the people. House BUI 1055 . . . In creases the corporate excise taxes from 6 to 7 percent. According to the architects of the measure, It wUl raise some $100 mUllon a year. This, they say, wUl allow the state to carry 50% of the local school districts* financial burden rath e r than the present 23%. This additional money sent back to local school districts Is ex pected to lower property taxes some 25%. The Senate Taxation Com mittee In a surprise move Thursday evening, voted out of committee apian much different than was expected by legisla tive observers. The plan, as it now goes to the floor of die Senate for consideration, dif fers from the House plan In two major areas: It achieves property tax relief by direct ing the money through the prop erty tax relief fund rather than through basic school support suggested by the Senate’s coun terparts. If the tax proposal should pass the Senate, and there are strong Indications that It wUl, the bUl wUl be referred back to the House for them to concur on the Senate amendments. Al though there Is a difference In opinion between Senate and House members, It Is felt that these can be smoothed out quickly so that the people a t Oregon may have a chance to vote on the package In June. With the sales tax package of the House and Senate steal ing the lim elight, other im portant actions were overlook ed. One such slighted measure was Senate B ill 87, which pass ed the Senate by a vote of 22-5. in Its present form , the bill creates an office In Washing ton, D. C. The extension of our state’s voice In the nation’ s capital is Imperative especially In a time when the federal govern ment is making crucial de cisions In such areas as O and C money, allowable cut of timber, forest land review and Irrig a tion development. In essence, this office w ill act as Oregon’ s Chamber of Commerce on Cap itol. making sure that our In terests In Josephine County and the Interests a t all parts of Oregon are promoted. LOCAL RELIEF A bill was Introduced In the Senate this week that would provide some property tax re lief for Coos and Curry coun ties. The b ill achieves this by modifying the appropriation of federal forest land receipts to the two counties. Under the present situation, 25% of the forest land receipts are sent to schools with the remaining 75% used for road funds. The b ill, SB 67, would change this, making It possible for educa tion districts In both counties to receive an additional $700,- 000 In school revenues, thus lightening the burden on prop erty tax payers. The space race that has man ifested Itself during the last decade has once again become a glaring Issue as the legislature ' tries to stuff scores of people Into rooms not adequate to hold the number. The problem of space, never a concern until the session begins, has become acute during the last few years as more and more citizens of Oregon participate In the legis lative process, through com mittee participation and public hearings. Because the space problem In and about the capital Is so acute, many legislators fear that the Inadequacy may discourage this growing par ticipation, thus losing a vital part of the state government. To counteract the growing problem two proposals have been made to Increase the work ing space within the capital and to Increase the parking space without. Twenty legislators this week Introduced a b ill to con struct a 50,000 square foot ad dition to the capital, to be used fo r public hearing rooms, more facilities for the press and p ri vate offices for the legisla tors. The second measure was pro posed by the Ways and Means Committee to construct a m ulti- million dollar underground parking structure, under the capital m all. Already approved in concept by the committee, the measure w ill accommodate some 840 cars in a two block underground parking facility. Money to finance the structure would be borrowed from the state trust funds and would be repaid over the next 35 years with parking and other state fees. A monthly fee of $10 Is expected to be charged for using the lot. In other action of the Ways and Means Committee, state employes are In for a wage In crease. Under the pay plan approved e a rlie r this week all state workers w ill get an across-the-board pay hike of 4% on April 1; a 6% Increase on July 1, 1970. Also a new system of advan cing state workers from wage scale to wage scale was ap proved. The system stretches out the length of time needed fo r a worker to move up on the pay ladder, and it Increases the level of pay. This program was adopted to help attract career minded people to state employment and to give wage Incentives to workers on the tap of their pay scale. The Green Belt law, which gives farm ers a tax break, may receive a face-lifting this ses sion If a b ill Introduced In the House Is passed. The bill would remodel the six-year-old law by giving farmers a refund If they had failed to receive one last year under the special treatment provision of the law. If passed, farmers may get a refund by simply filling an ap plication with the governing board of the county where he lives. A b ill that would require the state to pay half the cost of a c c e l e r a t e d education pro grams for gifted children was Introduced. The measure would provide $1 per child in average dally membership. The school district would have to match the state tr oney. Districts would draw up their own programs and would be allowed to Include no more than 5% of their pu pils. Oregon’ s modern day police force may be forced to use bow and arrows for protection If Senate B ill 239 Is not passed. Sound b iza rre and strange? Well It may not be as strange as one might Imagine. According to Sen. W illiam Holmström, author of the b ill, there is a 44-year-old statute that pro hibits anyone from firing a 22 Combined telephone re venues and manufacturing sales of General Telephone & Elect ronics Corporation established a new record high In 1968, caliber or hunting cartridge on lands not his own. O riginally, the statate was enacted to In volve forest protection. During the years the statute has been forgo1 an. The b ill would re peal the obsolete statute. Hie ironic thing about the finding of the statute and the introduction of the bill is that during a time when the nation is clamoring for stricter gun control legislation . . . Oregon is liberalizing theirs. «w Atfe TUNA FISH P PHEASANT PEARS BRAPLEY'S HONEY FRUIT COCKTAIL INSTANT COFFEE - : ósi G ta e ç H REALLY Rev. N . D. Davidson, Oregon district superintendent of As- semhly of GodC'turcne oi guest speaker at tlx P l ., rt. church on Sunday evening, r b. 23, Everyone is invited. Tonight, Thursday, Feb. 20, a special missionary service w ill be held in the Assembly of God Church in Port Orford to hear R e v . Bmce Manning, A .O .G . missionary to Chile. The teens class ( C .A . ’s) went to Coquille cn Tuesday evening of last week and saw the B illy Graham film ,"For Pete's Sake. 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I FREE APS Special Speaker Tu4 694 £.«&•. 8 9 ^ new scctionaiizco coition M EW S W ANT Consolidated net income from operations amounted to $220,- 836,000, In comparison with the preceding year’ s total of$217,- 421,000, and the former record of $218,448,000 in 1966. “ Had It not been for the federal Income tax surcharge, net income would have been $238,418,000 and earnings per share would have been $2.27, or 10 per cent and 8 per cent, respectively, greater than In 1967,“ M r. Warner said. STAM PS Geology Course Chapters Told this final period that the coastal shelf was farmed in the Pacific Ocean. The next session in the geol ogy for Curry county series w ill be cn Friday, Feb. 28, from 7:30 to 9:30 p .m . in Roams 20 and 21 of the Gold Beach high school. The subject w ill be the physical geology of southwestern Cregcn and the adjacent areas. The geology course is a n tn - credit course sponsored cooper atively by the Division of Con tinuing Education and the Cur ry C o u n t y Extension Service. The fee for the entire course is $6 fcr adults,$3 for students and senior citizens, and $2 fcr a single lecture admission. The course w ill be clim axed by a field trip under the direction of Dp. Stevenson.______ Leslie H. W arner, president, reported today. Consolidated net Income from operations, after absorbing the federal In come tax surcharge, also reached a new high, slightly exceeding the record set two years ago. Earnings per common share were $2.10, based on 1,614,000 more common shares outstand ing than In the preceding year. Earnings per chare for 1967 restated to Include companies acquired In 1968, also amounted to $2.10. Revenues and sales totaled $2,927,055,000, which was 11 ,per cent ahead of the previous high of $2,643,776,000 In 1967. B Y G E O R G E , ^ W E RE CHOPPING DOWN Coupon worth 1 /2 0 oi Ctoe C e n t-----Expires Feb, 22, 1969 Gold Beach—Seven chapters in the development of the geol ogy of Cunry county were cov ered by Dr. H m o Stevenson in the geology of Curry County Short Course. Dr, Stevenson said that these seven chapters a ll occurred in a period which might be com pared to ten minutes of the six- tyminutes known as geological tim e.T he first chapter found the area that Is now Oregon and much of the Western United States under a shallow Pacific Ocean. The folding of the earth farmed the Blue and Siskiyou Mountains for chapter two. In t h e Innerspaces between the mountains, the ocean, and the Rockies,large lakes were form ed. The Bonneville Salt Falts is one remnant of these ancient lakes from chapter three. The next chapter saw the birth of the Cascades through early vulcan- ism, where m olten rock explod ed and spread over the land. This was followed by the general up l i f t and crack-up of the area which was responsible far the Coast Range in chapter five. Chapter six was known as the rejuvenation of the Cascades when Three Sisters,MtiMazama, M tiHood and other central Cre gcn volcanoes burst forth from the earth.The final chapter was tte era of glaciation when large masses of ice covered the earth and in m elting sent torrents of water, unlike any e v e r seen, down through the valleys. The effect of this torrential flooding vfpy eroticn, ’ h* formation of valleys, and sfltad an .lt was from Port Orford News, Thursday General Phone Income High M C □»«■«■*■* Exr* FREE A* ERR CABFA&E O N IO N S » IK 3 IS'r »
