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Gun safety bill introduced Property tax cuts benefit rich
Oregon Congressman Earl Blu­
menauer today introduced a b ill
aimed at curbing the alarming rise
in accidental gun deaths among
children
“ Every 90 minutes a child is
killed with a loaded gun,” said the
T h ird D is tric t C ongressm an.
“ Shootings are the fourth leading
cause o f accidental death for c h il­
dren, and for every child killed by
gunfire, four more are wounded
This is a tragedy, but it is a tragedy
that we can do something about.”
Blumenauer’ s b ill, the Defense
ofC hildren Act, would require gun
dealers to offer to sell a locking
device or “ lock box” for gun stor­
age, and post a sign stating that
this law is in effect It would also
make owners legally responsible for
leaving a loaded firearm, or a fire­
arm near ammunition, in a place
where children could gain access to
them
“ By making potential gun buyers
aware o f these problems and by o f­
fering a solution at the point o f sale,
we can "c h ild -p ro o f guns in the
home, leading to fewer gun-related
accidents and a greater sense o f
awareness about gun safety,” said
Blumenauer.
The b ill is modeled after similar
laws on the books in 15 states and
many more localities. These laws,
known as C hild Access Prevention
laws, encourage parents and anyone
else who m ight have children
around to keep their guns safely
locked away. Florida was the first
state to pass such a law, and imme­
diately showed 50 percent drop in
u n in te n tio n a l shooting deaths
among kids in the first year after
passage. C a lifo rn ia has shown
simi lar resu Its after passing its own
version o f a Child Access Preven­
tion Law
Now it’ s time to take this suc­
cess story national, so that c h il­
dren everywhere can be protected
from sudden tragedy. And this is
an approach that we know works
from the experiences w e’ veseen in
our cities, counties and states.”
said Blumenauer
Long Before “Amos and Andy”,
We Had “Mr. Hambones”
by
P rof . M c K inley B crt
In the e a rly 1 9 6 0 ’ s,
Fairmont High School in
Eugene, Oregon, graduated
a talented group o f white
teenagers. The F airm ont
Singers.
Eventually they became
nationally known as The
New Christy Minstrels. The
word “ New” in the title hand
no significance until one day
in 1973, I noticed an unfa­
m iliar periodical in the PSU
library.
The latest issue o f the
Cambridge University Jour­
nal (England) featured a his­
torical article, “ Music o f the
Christy Minstrels: White co­
medians in Black Face” .
It was noted by the Gradu­
ate students who did the re­
search that “ o f all the white
minstrel shows that reaped fortunes
in Europe with their Black-face im i­
tations o f African American song
A new study o f the effects o f prop­
erty tax cuts in Oregon suggests that
the economic growth stimulated by
cuts benefits the rich more than the
poor. The study, conducted by econo­
mists Edward Waters and Bruce
Weber at Oregon State University
and David Holland at Washington
Stale University, focused on the near-
term impact on the Oregon economy
o f Measure 5, the property tax lim ita­
tion initiative passed by Oregon vot­
ers in 1990.
“ The study reaches some interest­
ing conclusions about the effects of
large property tax reductions," said
Weber. “ First, in the short run, house­
hold income increases as growth is
induced by the property tax cut. High
income households benefit the most -
and low income households the least
- so that income inequality increases
under a property lax limitation
■ "Furthermore, even as income
grows and state income taxes increase,
total state and local government tax
revenues and spending shrink," We­
“ Black artists who lied
slavery in A m e rica to
find econom ic opportu­
n ity in E u ro p e soon
found that the master had
fo llo w e d th e m .” The
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Irish Theatre going pub­
lic was w arned by a
p ro m in e n t new spaper,
Free-M an’ s Journal.
“ Wait and see a practi­
cal co m p an y o f real
niggers (sic) with genuine
wooly heads and skins o f
sable that cannot be
washed white”
Black artists went on
into legitim ate theatre,
from Shakespeare to Op­
era.
I have maintained a pro­
ductive relationship with
w o ¡ i/o mm «y a
Cambridge students over
Wl.it« Com«di«m ,n Blat,
the years, they have pro­
and dance, none were more success­
vided me with fascinating revela­
ful than the Christy Minstrels who
tions o f black cultural and techno­
came to Dublin. Ireland in 1859 ”
logical contributions.
THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
AND
THE GOVERNOR’S ADVOCATE FOR MINORITY, WOMEN AND
EMERGING SMALL BUSINESSES
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try in 1968 when he was nominated
for Vice President, and he has played
a significant role in the c iv il rights
movement ever since,” said Joe
Hendricks, director o f O SU’ s Hon­
ors College, a co-sponsor o f the lec­
ture. “ He offers a long-term perspec­
tive on c iv il rights that few people in
America can match."
Bond’ s history o fc i v il rights work
spans four decades. In I960, while a
student at Morehouse College in
Atlanta, he founded the Committee
on Appeal for Human Rights, a stu­
dent-run c iv il rights organization
that staged three years o f non-vio­
lent, anti-segregation protests. Those
protests were credited with helping
integrate Atlanta movie theaters,
lunch counters and parks.
Bond was arrested during a sit-in
at an Atlanta C ity Hall cafeteria
during a protest o f its segregation.
His political career began in 1965
when he was elected to a one-year
term in the Georgia House o f Repre­
sentatives. However, members ofthe
House voted not to seat him because
o f his outspoken opposition to the
Vietnam War
He won a second election in 1966
- to till his own vacant seat - and was
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again barred from membership He
won a third election in November o f
that year and, a month later, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled unanimously
that the Georgia House had violated
Bond’ s rights in refusing to seat him.
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The researchers estimated income,
consumption and taxes for the 1990
Oregon economy, and for high-, me­
dium- and low-income households
under the pre-1990 property lax sys­
tem They then compared these pro­
jections with estimates from a sce­
nario that simulated the Oregon
economy under a fully phased- in
Measure 5 property tax system.
"The report examines how firms
and households respond to the price
changes induced by the tax cut, but it
does not attempt to value the public
services that w ill be partially replaced
with substitute private services," said
Holland. "It suggests that consump­
tion expenditures o f high income
households would be substantially
increased, while those low income
households would increase only mod­
estly.
Low income households may be
less able than high income house­
holds to replace lost public services
with their post-Measure 5 increases
in income," Holland said.
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Julian Bond to lecture at OSU
Julian Bond, who rose to national
prominence during the 1968 Demo­
cratic Convention, w ill discuss the
current status o f the c iv il rights
movement in America during a lec­
ture on March 11 at Oregon State
University.
Bond’ s free public lecture, “ C ivil
Rights: Now and Then," w ill begin
at 7 p.m. in OSU’s LaSells Stewart
Center, 26th Street and Western
Boulevard in Corvallis.
He also w ill meet w ith college
and local high school students dur­
ing a reception from 8 to 9 a.m. in
the Steward Center on March 12.
The reception w ill be follow ed by a
student discussion w ith Bond from 9
to 10 a m. moderated by Meghna
Chakrabarti and Steven Fuller o f
OSU’ s University Honors College.
Co-chairman o f the Georgia Loyal
National Delegation to the Demo­
cratic Convention, Bond mesmer­
ized the delegates and made history
when he was nominated fo r Vice
President o f the U.S. - the first A fri­
can American to be so honored by a
major political party. He withdrew
his name because he was too young
to serve.
“ Julian Bond electrified the coun-
ber said. "The induced income growth
does not generate nearly enough new
tax revenue to offset the property lax
.cut."
Weber said the researchers' analy­
sis wits done with a 1990 model o f the
state economy in which Oregon was a
relatively high-tax. high-service state
"In 1990. Oregon's state and local
taxes represented 12.1 percent o f per
sonal income, and Oregon ranked
12th in the nation in state-local taxes
as a percent o f total personal income,"
he said.
By 1997-98, Weber said. Oregon
w ill be a low-tax, low-service state,
relative to the nation, placing around
40th in this ranking, with stale and
local taxes representing 10.7 percent
o f personal income.
"W ith the recent passage o f Mea­
sure 47, Oregon in 1998-99 is ex­
pected to rank about 44tli among the
50 states and the District o f Colum­
bia, with state-local taxes represent­
ing 10.1 percent of personal income,"
Weber said.
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