PAGZ TWELVE
Tha OrJXSOn CTATECI LIir, Cilcsi. Cre-cn. Wednesday I-Icrxlss. rebruny 13.
Y7ays, Means Group Disapproves
Repeal of State Tithing Fund
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Hobnobber
Quips. "Angles"
And Personalities
At the Capitol
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Repeal of the state tithing law as proposed in a bill by Sen.
J. J, Lynch, Multnomah, was disapproved by the legislature's
joint ways and means committee Tuesday. It was reported that
the self-supporting : boards' and commissions contribute to the
general fund about $280,000 a year
underl this law the committee al
so frowned upon Sen. Thomas R.
Mahoney's bill which would have
compensated .Mrs. Pearl R. Kee
gan, wife of a Portland police cap
tain, for injuries: suffered when
her automobile was involved in a
collision with one. driven by an
escapee from the state training
school for boys. i ;
Thorough investigation of the
state blind trades school In Port
land was favored by the commit
tee after Rep. F. H. Dammasch and
Sen. Lee Patterson, both Mult
nomah, had charged that it had
become a custodial rather than a
training institution. . ,X
Question was raised by Sen.
Dean Walker, Polk, In connec
tion with an appropriation for
f 22,305 for the traffic safety
division of the secretary - ef
state's office. Sen. Walker said
. he could not 'see why so large
an J appropriation was desired
In view of gasoline . rationing
and fewer antomibiles on the
highways. It was agreed to de
fer action on this appropriation
until later in the legislative ses
sion.' 7 ... t
Another appropriation under
fire involved $225,000 for hand
ling motor vehicle drivers exam
inations by the state department
Sen. W. H. Strayer said this ap
propriation request appeared ex
orbitant on its face.
I Thhe committee went on record
Tavoring an ' increase in charges
'assessed .against; relatives of per
sons receiving - treatment in the
- Oregon . state hospitals' and state
" tuberculosis hospitals
Budgetary appropriations- ag
gregating $1,426,285 were . ap
proved by the committee. These
included:: '
Transportation of convicts, $13,
500. Transportation of insane and
public charges, $26,000.
Crippled children's division,
$109,600.
V State bureau of labor, $125,327.
r Wage and hour commission,
$26,000. . .
- Oregon state librrary, $131,531.
Public utilities commission,
$12,745 for investigations.
Log boom appropriation, util
ities commission, $2715.
State tax commission (income
division) $369,250.
State tax commission (assess
ment and utilities division) $156,
970. Veterans' burial plot, Portland,
$1000.
Pensions, involving monthly re
lief, $3360.
State Drinting building, inter
est and principal, $86,000.
Primary and general elections,
state department, $80,000.
Public printing, state depart
ment, $18,000.
Presidential electors, state de
partment, $300. :
Oregon Blue book, state depart
ment, $6000.
State treasury department, $77,
80. State board of control, $83,342.
Collection department, board of
control, $23,512.
Arrest and return of fugitives
from justice, $10,000.
State blind trades school, $85,-873.50.
Action on
Bills
PASSED BT SENATE
SB 39, by Best To provide for
inspection and sealing of railroad
track scales.
SB 128, by military affairs Re
lating to cancellation of registra
tions. SB 55, by medicine Relating
to adoption.
HB 317, by ways and means
Relating to fiscal agency of the
state.
HB 321, by ways and means
To provide for escheating of un
claimed money.
PASSED BT HOUSE
i HB 145, by administration and
reorganization To create agency
to coordinate plans for post-war
readjustment; appropriation
therefor.
i.. HB 146, by Pier -To exempt
from income and intangibles tax
persons serving on active duty in
armed forces.
HB 160, by Gile et al Relating
to Douglas county school fund.
HB 238, by Smith Repeal of
dormant act relating to investi
gation of voters' registrations.
HB 283, by Kimberling To
provide for salary, eta, of justice
of peace in Burns district, Harney
county. ...
SB 51, by military affairs Re
lating : to records of vital statis
tics. SB 63, by Belton et al Relat
ing to cooperative associations.
They Had a
Date with
MOT
The
City That
Kecked the
World!
Starts Friday
Elsiaore
Don't: you usually picture "a
human dynamo" as a big man,
obviously brimming with energy,
striding forcefully into any task
facing him? , '
The Kaiser companies' Todd
Woodell doesn't measure up to
any such conception in outward
appearances, dynamo that he , is
known to be as Edgar F. Kaiser's
executive! assistant : But; this
smalL quiet man's force of char
acter is there, just the same, as
members and witnesses alike ob
served as he testified and traded
verbal blows before the senate in
dustries committee Tuesday after
noon at a hearing on proposed oc
cupational disease compensation
bills.
) ' Neither Sen. Wallace's twit
ting and continual interruptions
nor the labor . lobby's disputing"
of his statements phased him.
Be either pursued his line of
thought in unswervable persist
ence or entered 4he argument at
hand with a soreness that ac
complished such ends as talk
ing a reluctant lobbyist into
producing a booklet containing
labor's master agreement with
the shipbuilders, from which
Woodell wished., to quote and
prove s point that labor for
bids the . shipyard employers'
reqairiag new employes to sub
mit to physical examinations.
Typical of the Kaiser crew, too,
was young Dr. Rieke, who has
charge' of the yards' medical ser
vices. These men seem all to be
tempered in the fire of action and
debate. They know their way
around without appearing dog
matic or shut-minded.
Other Portland war industries
were also represented at the pro
tracted hearing, which was still
going .on at 6 p. m. from a 3:30
start, with no indication that any
thing concrete would come out of
the discussions as a whole for
some time yet. Among the indus
try representatives was tenacious
Austin FlegeL of Willamette Iron
& Steel , corporation.
Here's why Sen. Rex Ellis of
Umatilla county isn't on the sen
ate agriculture committee this
year:
"I got tired of listening to
arguments lasting two days at
a stretch en how big an egg
should be and whether it's fresh
or not."
The short, businesslike little
by-play most of the time senate
sessions ; are seldom interrupted
by the nice but time-consuming
gestures of calling for the cour
tesies of the senate to be extended
to Mr. or Mrs. So-and-so this year.
Fewer people are traveling from
the home town to Salem to see the
legislature in session; when they
do, in normal times, the home
senator makes and preserves
friendships by having this com
pliment accorded them.
The legislature Is, going on the
air Friday afternoon. Arden X.
Pangbom, managing ' director of
radio station KEX, is sending one
of his top announcers, Phil Ir
win, to the capitol to emcee a
Lincoln's birthday program to be
broadcast from the hall of repre
sentatives between 2 and 2:30 p.
m. Singers w ill include - Neva
Clark, Bob Mills, Suzanne Burce
and Carol Worth. Sen. Marshall
Cornett will give a reading, "Lin
coln, ; the Man I of the People
Favorite tunes of the Civil war
president will be played by Abe
Bercovitz and the KEX orchestra.
Frequent visitor in house and
senate is Miss Rovena Eyre of
Salem, who can't resist the news
paperman's instinct, to be where
things are happening, history be
ing made. ;
' Charles Childs, a senator from
Linn county two years ago, is
keeping more or less busy, in the
lobbies this session. -
"The bill, having received a
constitutional majority, is de
clared passed. The title of the
bill shall stand as the title of the
act." That much, at any rate, of
the speaker's routine was familiar
to Rep. W. W. Chadwick, when he
took the rostrum for a while Tues
day. He was mayor of Salem for
four years ending just last De
cember, ; and presiding, over the
passage of bills is old stuff to him.
Strayer Asserts ".
House Holding
Up Senate Bills :
Renewing the , cry t h a t the
house is holding up our bills,"
Sen. W. H. Strayer of Baker told
the senate Tuesday morning that
unless the other chamber changed
its tactics of. he alleged, holding
up senate bills in committee, he
was going to move that every
house measure be re-referred to
committee.
Sen. W. H. Steiwer, senate pres
ident, said he had been promised
Saturday by Speaker W. M. Mc
Allister that senate bills would
be -acted upon promptly. '.-
One senate bill Sen.' Strayer
was understood to be particularly
interested in, simplifying birth
certificate procedure, was report
ed out later in the day by the
house judiciary committee with a
"do pass' recommendation.-
Survey of the legislative cal
endared for the day showed that
Voter Signup J
Battle Seen
Near Solution
A solution of the Multnomah
county voter registration squab
ble, described as fairly satisfac
tory to all parties, less costly arid
at the same time more effective
than the present law, may be the
sequel to a hearing held Tuesday
before .the house elections, com
mittee at which many members
of the Multnomah delegation were
present. ' -
Rep. Leo Smith's bill proposing
repeal of the law providing for, a
continuing investigation of regis
trations will be amended, or! a
new bill substituted, to provide
that the county clerk shall appoint
in each precinct two canvassers
of opposite parties to check the
registration roll of that precinct
within the 30 days prior to elec
tion. v;iv y-:;-.l;iv
Rep.: Smith said this was the
"Missouri plan which gave rise
to the legislation two years ago
on this subject: -that it would
prevent fradulent. registrations
which now are possible after the
rheckuD Is made: and that it
would cost no more than $4000
for the biennium, In contrast, to
the $61,000 which, he contends,
the two investigations ordered by
the 1941 legislature have cost to
date.
The house Tuesday passed a
companion bill, repealing the now
defunct law requiring a checkup
on all registrations prior to the
1942 elections. ....-
The house also ' passed the
' bill requested by Gov. Earl
Snell which creates a 15-man
commission to coordinate plans
for post-war readjustments and
appropriates $10,800 far the
commission's expenses. Anoth
er bill approved. Introduced by
Rep. Stanhope Pier, Multnomah,
would exempt from income and
Intangibles tax up to $3000,
persons In active service with
the armed forces.- J!,
Also related to post-war prob
lems was the concurrent resolu
tion approved by the house, de
claring it the state's purpose to
rehabilitate service men upon
their return so they will not have
suffered economically by com
parison to those who remained at
home.
senate bills were faring relative
ly well in the house.. Of 49 senate
bills in the lower chamber, 13 or
26 per cent had been passed. In
the senate, 54, or 28 per ent,
of the 150 house bills on hand 'had
been adopted. -j
Balanced Supply Over Freeze
Period Urged, Canned Foods j
Urging housewives to take stock of their canned goods land
to plan to keep on hand a balanced supply of the rationable com
modifies to tide over the week of ths "freeze," Chairman John
A. Heltzel of the OPA's Salem rationing board said:
"The five cans per person to be
Senate Rejects
SeaP Fence
" Five Measures Passed,
Including Sale of
. Fish Commercially
Legislators who favor building
a fence around the great seal of
Oregon in the , capitol rotunda
were balked againTuesday when
the senate rejected the ways and
means committee bill authorizing
its construction. The bill had been
approved In. the lower house. A
similar bill was passed at the 1941
session but was vetoed by Gov.
Charles A.Spragtfe who objected
that the fence $ would mar the ro
tunda's appearance. I .
The senate passed five bills on
third reading, among: them Sen.
Merle Chessman's bill regulating
the sale and distribution of fish
caught for commercial purposes.
Persons intending ; to sell fish
caught commercially .would be re
quired to obtain a pass book from
the- fish commission, in w h 1 e h
would be recorded all catches and f up to $35.
sales. Sen. Chessman said the pur
pose was to prevent fish bootleg
ging and to insure payment of the
poundage fees.' -
Acceding to house amendments,
the jenate repassed the bill relat
ing to small claims departments
ofS
justice courts. As passed, the small
claims department would have ex
clusive jurisdiction of civil maW,
ters involving $20 or less, and
' ' 4..;.!4tn Avai rlalmt
The senate reconsidered the vote
by which it had passed on Mon
day a bill relating to the secretary
of state's duties. The bill was re-i
referred to the ways and mean s,
committee. . - .
allowed under the forthcoming ra
tioning program should be ample
to tide everyone through the
"freeze" period of one week when
no rationed goods will be sold.
This is the week during which
registration for war ration book
No. 2 will take place, the exact
dates to be announced soon."
Heltzel explained that the allot
ment is five cans per person, so
that a family of four would be al
lowed 20 cans for that week. He
urged that housewives prepare
now for th it week so that no hard
ships will result.
Actual rationing of most pro
cessed, canned and bottled foods
and juices will begin immediately
upon completion . of the week's
"freeze" and everyone, including
infants, will be eligible for books,
he said. Meat rationing will, fol
low soon after the issuance of war
ration book Ho. 2, it was stated.
that will help win the war!
Business and Professional Men! Clerks!
College Students! Farmers! All Able
bodied men in Salem
You ore urgently needed to work on SJ. track on week-ends In this vicinity.
There Is a serious shortage of track "workers. W must keep our track In
first class shape to snore vital war traffic
Help win the war. get healthy outdoor exercise and be paid for It
At other points on the line many business and professional men hare been
doing week-end work far us. They hare been very helpful and hare gotten
a lot of personal satisfaction oat of this patriotic contribution to the
, effort . ,
For full details, please see. as soon as possible ,
a A. LARSON
PHONE 44C3
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