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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1971)
I V I PORTLAND/OBSERVER Thursday A p ril 15, 1971 Kinsey hot line Most of the b ills which have been introduced in the House of Representatives this session have been heard in committee and are now ready fo r vote on the mittees are now scheduling hearings on Senate b ills which have been passed in that chamber and sent to the House fo r further action; and by the same token the Senate is now holding hearings on b ills which have been passed by the House. As the b ills are heard in the opposite chamber, more and different testimony w ill be p re sented and the b ills may be further amended before receing final action. It is very important therefore, fo r us to learn of your thoughts concerning legislation which is yet to be acted upon in either the Senate or the House. On Friday of this past week, the House voted to refe r to the people at the next prim ary election in May of 1972 the ques tion of the 18-year-old vote. At issue in that election w ill be a proposed amendment to the Oregon Constitution to lower the voting age to 18 years in both State and local elections. Congress having last year voted to give them the vote in national elections. During the House debate on this issue the discussion de veloped into a definitely partisan matter, unfortunately in my opinion, with the Democrats wanting the Legislature to ra tify an amend ment to the United States Constitution to lower the voting age fo r all elections, and the Republicans contending that the people should be given another opportunity to vote on the issue since they had turned down a 19 year-old vote measure last year 1 regretted the fact that this turned into a partisan issue. In the end the Republican m ajority won, thus climaxing a Democrats in an attempt to sub stitute a m inority report as an amendment to SJR7, which would have allowed the Legislature to ra tify the amend ment. This amendment, in order to become the law of the land, w ill have to be ratified by 38 states and has thus fa r been ratified by about a dozen. In opposing this method of giving the vote to 18-year-olds instate and local elections, it was argu ed that in fact they may receive it faster by the route of submitting the measure to the people in 1972 rather than in re lying on ratification by the re quired 38 states since there is no way of determining how long this may take. The final vote approving the proposed state amendment was 56-4. Another piece of controversi al legislation. House B ill 1036, was passed out of the House State and Federal A ffa irs Com mittee this week and is expected on the flo o rF rid a y . This bill requires a five centdeposit on viding economic incentive for people to return th e ir bottles and cans to re ta ile rs rather than throwing them away on our beaches, streams and roads, with snap-tops, which some bottlers feel w ill have a dis astrous economic effect on them In the Senate, the fir s t major overhaul of Oregon’ sC rim inal law is expected to come to the flo o r shortly. The C rim inal Law Revision Commission spent almost foru years draw ing revisions to the law, which has remained basically unalter ed since 1864. There has been some public opposition to one or two sections of this mamoth b ill — 180 pages of crim inal code — but it is felt that this was p rim a rily due to a lack of com plete understanding as to the in tent of the law. The Committee on Urban A ffa irs , ofw hichlam a member The Quest PSU glass has voted to send House B ills "D o Pass’ * recommendations. These b ills provide for the Ore gon FAIR Insurance Plan (F a ir Access to Insurance Re quirements), which creates, protection for residents and business owners in the so- called "re d -lin e d ” areas. The standard ris k insurance fo r fire protection and extended cover age, personal property and lia b ility insurances. Ica n p re - dict that this legislation w ill have great social significance in the State, and most important to Portland, it w ill help curb the deterioration of the inner city. The original amendments covering crim e insurance were deleted because this is now covered under a Federal law which was just passed by Congress and w ill go into effect on August 1, 1971. The Urban A ffa irs Committee has put in long hours hearing testimony from representatives of the Portland Urban League, the NAACP, the Metropolitan Human Relations Commission and the Portland State U niversity Urban Studies Center, as well as from indi viduals who live in the Albina and Irvington areas, the State Insurance Commissioner and representatives from the insurance industry. A ll of these groups are now in accord that this w ill be a model piece of legislation to be created by a State. This week a Republican caucus position was taken to support substantial increases in the Workmen’ s Compensation benefits to workers injured on the job. The total increase w ill be nearly $9 m illio n a year in benefits awarded to total temporary d isability and permanent partial disa b ility. I w ill develop more details on this m ajor and much-needed in crease in Workmen’ s Compensation benefits in a future column, and I would like to urge you to share your views with me on this very important subject. recycling program TO: A L L Media FROM: Portland State Uni ve rsity, Oregon Student Public Interest Research Croup. P.O . Box 751, Portland Oregon 97297 Telephone: 229-4500 On Friday, A p ril 16, 1971, Portland State University O5PIRG in cooperation with Portland Student Services w ill implement a glass recycling program. Collection barrels w ill be placed: 1. Between Smith Memorial Center and South Park Hall, next to the No Parking sign. 2. In the visito rspa rking lot at the com er of Harrison and Broadway. 3. A t P c r t l a n d S tu d e n t Set vices at Montgomery and P a r t Streets. The Portland Student Service fa c ility w ill also accomodate aluminum, steel, paper, etc. OSP1RG and PSS would like to extend to the public an invitation to participate in this recycling program . An e cample of beautiful works of art to be seen around the Portland area. This work of art adorns the front of the new and modern Georgia Pacific Building in the downtown Portland area. 1 ,4 0 0 CHROME TOWEL BARS Building nwwwivz/i Supply From 24" to 36" »ag S3 95 to $4 95 lif t ! ARRIVIM 4 TRUCKLOADS Of DOORSI t u t u BNIlBtflS W A IT » ! 1.000 *►*!»»», 2 4 tong 6 *O I ? . d. unl.n.thro o«<t twnhed *1.49-*1.95 CEO AB FENCING A f la t t f t a r t p r i t t t ! M IS. OVIBSTOCR S F tllliS ! 50% OiWOUOt' AH «hope« ond I to 4 lo'tq. 2 ♦ 4 ttgr b Many us* •' FRIGS START AT 49 G reat »election1 > o> sa% atscownw iow as J S 2.9S to SS SO Door iambi, S 3 .SO Prehung doort. S tO .IS - S12 9 5 - S IA .SO. 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