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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1945)
PAGE QGHTECI Thm OrXGOZI STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon. Sunday Morning. March 18, 1343 time and prevent! ADDITIONAL IXGISLATIVE I MM in full, to save 55DUUS filibustering. mm OIK , 4 - . i: . H Session ad Big Calendar ' Major Business Disposed of in 69-Day Meeting By Wendell Webb (Managing Editor, The Statesman) The 43rd legislative assembly which ended last night, set a new record for length i of time 69 days; but it also will rank high in the state's history in substan tial accomplishments. Faced with unprecedented prob lems regarding war veterans, and under heavy pressure on other issues born of world hostilities, it still found time to add greatly to state aid for schools, increase po tential pensions for the aged, lib cralize unemployment and work' : men's compensation, add safe- ! guards to the. state's milk supply, i protect sports fishing, and pro vide civil service and retirement for public employes. Major legislation affecting ma Jor topics included the . follow tng: SCHOOLS Five-mill, two years property tax (which wouldn't be levied If income tax surplus ; remains suf ficient) to add $10,000,000 to building fund for board of higher education and state institutions. An increase in the school sup port fund from $5,000,000 to $8, 000,000. 1 A cigaret tax to raise $2,000,000 annually for schools. Rural school districts to assure equalizations. ' ,' Allowing five teacher-training days a year to count as attendance days. Authorizing a health program; in the public schools. f VETERANS . Creating a new department of veterans affairs with $5,000 di rector. Giving veterans job preference in public works. Liberalizing income tax exemp tions for those disabled. Providing loans up to $3000 for farms and homes. ' Providing $35 monthly educa tional grants. ! Autnonzing counties to name service Officers. Allowing omce-noiders to re tain jobs if re-elected while in service. " Giving free i armory space to veterans' associations. ; Allowing teaching credits to ac cumulate during service. i Assuring vote by extending from 45 to 70 days the time be tween filing of -candidacies and elections. ! AGRICULTURE Providing for compulsory con trol of Bang s disease. Specifying conditions u n d e which milk must be pasteurized. Calling for official state grading f milk. Allocating $50,000 for insect pest control. ; Suspending seed inspections an- other two years. ! J- PENSIONS Lifting the $40 ceiling on old age asistance. : Setting up system of retirement and disability benefits, manda tory for state and school districts and optional with sub-divisions. Permitting retirement . systems in cities and counties of more than 100,000 population. ! TAXES Memorializing congress for tax parity! with community property states..! (,.", Repealing community property tax law now deemed unconstitu : tional. : , Creating commission to study Oregon tax structure. Petitioning federal government to keep expenditures within bud get estimates. Exempting life insurance an- nuiues rrom income tax up to price of policy. Letting family incomes be di vided into any proportion for In come tax purposes, i Exempting from income tax gifts to governments and sub-di visions. . f Providing a short-form for in- - come tax returns in lower brack ets. - JKaismg property tax cushion, irom income tax surplus, from t $5,000,000 to $15,000,000. Unemployment Compensation increasing benefits from' $15 lor 1H weexs to $18 for 20 weeks. Reducing maximum payroll tax es from 4 to 2.7 per cent Reducing waiung period from two weeks, to one week. . Exempting newspaper delivery men, insurance agents, real estate salesmen. - Workmen's Compensation Increasing from $25 to $30 the benefits per degree of injury, and - increasing possible benefits other- "- wise. ' - - v , Extending from one to two years the time Xpr claiming benefits for aggravated Injuries. Creating a second injury fund and a $500,000 major injury fund. - v - - ' Fish - Putting the state" fish commis sion on" a direct appropriation basis. Barrine commercial fishing in - most coastal streams. Placing master fish warden at head of commercial fishing laws. . Setting minimum shad size. ttarrinar fishing for crawfish fresi April Xi ta June 1 annually Continuing fisheries interim committee. Liquor Authorizing and financing in vestigation of 1943 liquor purch ase. v Compelling liquor commission to give preference to uregon wines.''." Strengthening laws of confisca tion, forfeiture and abatement of nuisances. Barring sale of liquor when elec tion polls are open. Other major legislation com pleted included: . Providing means for counties to adopt the manager form of gov Providing a merit civil service system for state employes. Extending for two years the operation of over-size trucks. r Prohibiting PUD s from serving outside areas without customer's consent. Authorizing governor to restore voting rights to released convicts. Letting - counties . spend up to $25,000 for war memorials. Authorizing state to tajce over North Pacific Dental college Empowering barber board to recognize price scales by coun ties. : i' ' . Raising salaries of some state officials, and many district attor neys and county officers. Providing for 31 (instead of 30) senators. Studies were authorized regard ing care of children, motor hide taxation, federal and state veterans' legislation, city and county planning, Columbia river fishing, the state's tax structure, hospitals and jails, the primary election law, and lower . salaries among state employes. . In addition, the federal govern ment was asked to include the na tional guard in postwar military policies, to return the country to standard time, and to give merch ant seamen benefits under the G, I. bill of rights. Other bills which passed both houses included these: Barring mobile registration booths. Strengthening control of forests regarding fires. Validating past marriage con summated before expiration of waiting period after divorce. T? TocitAfi Validating divorces which might JGiIlliSSU.C be questioned because of residence. t Repealing the bar against luring KptOpYpH tgil Chinese on public works, Authorizing statues of Oregon- ians in statuary hall in Washing ton. -' : Increasing from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000 the fund for state of fice building in Salem. Raising pay of election clerks from $3 to. $4 a day. , Compelling fire - proofing of tents used for public gatherings. "' Dividing authority of state ag riculture and health departments. All legislation was not on the affirmative side. The session killed, withdrew or let die measures which would: Call! for deporting alien , Japa nese and excluding all Japanese from the coast for the duration. Give Oregon a lieutenant gover nor, ; . V - . .'; t Compel ali Judges to wear robes. Ask a 25 per cent limitation, on federal income tax Invoke a limited national serv ice act Call! for compulsory military training. 1 Bar i discrimination as to race, creed or color (civil rights bill). Raise the salaries of top state officials. " Compel Ismail employers to come under unemployment ; com pensatlon. Put liquor revenues in the gen eral fund. ; -Open workmen's compensation to private insurance firms (three- way plan),' Place all iortified wine in state liquor stores. Tax; wine 5 cents a gallon. Provide for a governor s man sion.'' , .4 " ", - Give Multnomah county a psy chiatric hospital. . Provide for free-ways (limited- access': highways) : Eliminate three-day wait before marriages. Provide a new highway trans portation fee code. Establish; game management reas. -7 .-Voter a n - statehouse attaches said the 43rd session probably set a recqrd in the number of amend ments to bills a factor which considerably delayed adjournment Popular Vote The 43rd legislature left' up to the people eight. Issues favored at the session just closed.' - since an amended . bill had to be acted on at least twice The house kept somewhat ahead of the senate most of the session, and the . smaller group i had to wade through exceptionally heavy business the last few days to speed the . end. ; The session broke by three day? the record of; 66 days set in 1939. - To be voted on at a "special election June 22 are these; - : L'A 5-mill, two-year property tax (the money to be taken from income tax surpluses to provide $10,000,000 for a building pro gram at state institutions and at institutions of higher learning. t. A 2-cents-a-package ciga ret tax estimated , to. raise $2,000, 000 additional annually for schools: ' v , , !.!." , - Left' for later vote, probably at the next regular election n 1946 - X. The creation of rural school districts as a step toward equali zation." , " 4. Permitting tax levies in 22 cities to provide armories; 5. Providing . for the secretary of state- and state treasurer to follow the president of the. senate arid the speaker of the house in line of succession to the governor. C. : Permitting Chinese to ' own property and work mining claims. 7., Splitting the 17th senatorial district to add another (31st) sen ator and give Klamath county a senator, of its own. j - r 8. Letting bills- be read by title only at the legislature,: instead of AT FIRST A o Cold Preparations a dincttdj 1 V SPECIAL OlltUulliu iiuuuuii i it NO MONTHLY SERY1CS CMARCS! it NO MINIMUM ALANCS REQUlRtOl U :'T-:.: Ask. for Det<e ' i . ' ; wnn lr niK'li.SALEr.1 CAfXIl OrUTED STATES NATIONAL BANK ! 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