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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 .
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seen around the Portland area. This work
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the
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