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Changes Proposed
In Planning Report
A long-range plan (or Salem, graphically illustrated in an at
tractive 84-page magazine report, wu presented to 300 city and
county officials, civic leaders and prominent out-of-town guests
at a dinner meeting in the chamber ot commerce rooms last night.
Described by James Walton, chamber vice president and pre
siding officer at the session, as "the result of a really intensive
! tffort." the progress report is-
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present course on Capitol, per
il will take men of extraordi- haps near Lancaster drive or in
nary qualities of tact and foie
bearance to make the compromise
plan of integration of the army
navy and air force succeed. Foi
it sets up four secretaries instesn
of two, gives each access directly
to tn president, and makes all
eligible for cabinet status.
The Dlan axreed to by the
heads of the secy ices provides were under consideration for
for a single secretary of national ' possible future sites of the state
defense. Then there would re- : prison; explained a suggested de
ma in the separate departments of' velopment of Bush pasture and
rmy, navy and airforce. headed j proposals for new parks in and
by secretaries. The secretary of j near the city, and described pos
national defense would have sible changes in the city's ar-over-all
charge of the three serv- 1 terial streets to improve traffic
Ices with authority to lay out flow.
common policies and programs. The speaker closed with the
With men of the right type in i hope that "we catch some of the
these four high offices the plan j vision that was Mr. (C. B.) Mc
may work. But stiff-necked as Cullough's," late chairman of the
gold braid usually is, we may commision. and declared "we have
have just a continued wrangle the opoprtunity to build a great
behind the doors of the capitol, city, a beautiful city, and now is
frequently spilling out the win- ( the time to do it."
dows. Walton, presiding in the out-of-
If men of the cooperative type I town absence or chamber pres
get the' top positions when thelident Keith Brown, turned the
plan is initiated a plan of co- meeting over to J. N. Chambers,
ordination of work may be estab- who as acting chairman of the
lished which will prove effective.
Under this the secretary of na
tional defense would coordinate
the purchasing, both standardiz
ing the items to be bought, regu-
lating the flow of orders and delegations from Portland and
maintaining a proper control over I Eugene, and several railroad of
inventories. One of the strongest I ficials. as well as members of
arguments for consolidation has i the Salem and Marion county
been the chance for great econo- j governmental groups,
mies in purchase of supplies for j Centinaed Sapport Urged
the services. I Carl Hogg, commision mem-
The secretary of national de- ber who sparked the $65,000
fense also would be the one to ' campaign which made the group's
approve
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Oarw- -m w fi i iiljxzi mi y
lltlallt I rst'llnffl sprinkled with maps. charts,
lllJJlll 1UU11LU architects sketches and pictures
described Salem as a city of
Total v alue of crops produced j 38.000 "growing by leaps and
on the Colony farm in Polk coup- bounds."
ty owned and opeialed by the' The city was declared defi
state hospital amounted to $53,074 nitely in need of a scientifically
in 1946. accocding to the report of arranged program to chart that
Dr. John C. Evans, superinten
dent, to the board of control.
Principal crop from the stand
point of value wa stomatoes. at
$16,959. Next came potatoes
$9297, alfalfa- hay, $8890
hi ps i
;
$8418.
Most of the produce is con-
fumed by the institution, the hay '.
being used in the hospital dairy. Hogg, vice chairman; Clay Coch
The hops are sold. ran, secretary, and Charles A.
The 400-acre farm was pur- j Sprague, William Hamilton,
chased in 1942 at a cost of $60,000. i George Putnam. Paul Wallace,
Institution inmates perform the
farm labor under supervision.
The hospital also' operates the
Cottage farm southeast of Salem
where the chief activity is dairy
ing and poultry-raising.
Stork 'Margin'
To Return Feb. 1
WASHINGTON. Jan. 17-P-The
Federal Reserve board to
night restored security trading to
a credit or -margin", basis effec
tive February 1.
Chairman Marriner S. Eccles
announced that postwar "infla
tio nhas largely run its course"
provided government debt re
duction continues and "further
wage Increases" are avoided. The
marjjn for buying and carrying
stocks and bonds will be 73 per
rent of the value of the securi
ties. Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
Td watch him U I were you
nVs rtally a black sheep
a bleach.
j-ued by the chamber's long-range
course of re-zoning, transportation
re-alignment. public buildings.
parks and a general program of
orderly, efficient expansion,
i Charles A. Sprague. member
j of the commission, explained in
: detail the recommendation and
1 suggestions thus far growing out
of the efforts which started
nearly two years ago. He cited the
group's major recommendation
! a new bridge at Division street;
disclosed that the highway com--mi;ion
was studying possible re
location of highway 99 east of its
the area of nth street closer in;
and told of conversations with
Southern Pacific officials regard
ing possible tunneling of main
line tracks, as the commission
favors, or under-passes for east
west streets.
Street Changes Proposed
Sprague also said four tracts
planning commisison presented
the magazine-report to the chamj
ber via letter in the book's fore
word. Guests weer introduced by
Sen. Douglas McKay, including
work possible, urged a thorough
study of the progress report and
further support of the continuing
n i
Prefaced with an in-memoriam
to Mr. McCullough. who died last
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growth in regard to expansion
and zoning, transportation of all
kinds, public buildings, private
construction, parks and play
i ounds, public services, industry.
municipal goernment, taxation
and education.
Serving with Chambers on the
planning commission are Cail W
Douglas McKay. W. W. Chadwick.
Guy Nugent, W. M. Bartiett and
former Mayor I. M. Doughton.
Andrtorlnm Proposed
Planning engineer for the com-r.-ission
is C. A. McClure of Port
land, who spoke briefly last
night.
Among specific ideas men
tioned in the printed report is a
municipal auditorium, the build
ing .and grounds occupying the
space between State and Court
streets from 14th to 17th and pos
sibly extending jwest to 12th to
connect with the statehouse
grounds. Still another is a sports
arena, proposed for the fair
grounds if those facilities ever
are moved.
New pants, to the north, north
east and between State and Ferry
from 19th to 21st treets also were
suggesed. as well as county parks,
community groves and a water
front park in West Salem.
Parking areas in the middle of
business blocks were mentioned
as a partial answer to the park
ing problem.
The magazine-report was con
cluded with a description of all
soils found in this part of the val
ley and a weather-precipitation
chart showing the area's equable
year-around climate.
Butter Below OP A
Price in New York
WASHINGTON. Jan. 17 -uP)-Further
drops in food prices
cheered housewives in many sec
tions of the nation today.
Butter again headed the list,
falling as low as 65 cents pound
in New York compared with the
$1 -a-pound peak for the golden
commodity last winter. OPA't old
ceiling price was 07 cents a
pound.
In Washington, government of
ficials forecast a fairly general
reduction in the price of milk by
f -February 1. On the other hand.
OPA authorized an increase m
the cost or sugar which it said
would amount to about one
Quartex cent a pound at retail.
NINETY-SIXTH YEAR
10
Rebuffed
WASHINGTON. Jan. 17 Sen.
Hash Batter (R, Neb), whose
t A J - - JLAI. !
a trade agreements with fer
elgn eeantries pending the fsr
matioa ef a new tariff policy ,
by the GOP was rejectesl today i
by the state department. !
GOP May Use j
Present Trade
Pact Program j
WASHINGTON. Jan 17-JP-A j
proposal by Senator Butler (R- !
Neb) to suspend negotiation of !
trade agreements with 18 coun- !
tries until the new republican I
congress could write a new for
eign trade policy was rejected out-
I risht tswav hv th state rtenart-
...... j j ,
ment.
At the same time Senator Taft j
(R-Ohio) told reporters he did
not think the republicans would
attempt to repeal the reciprocal
trade program' "if the state de
partment does not go too far in
cutting tariffs." :
The existing law empowers the
administration to cut tariffs as
much as 50 per cent in return for
concessions from other countries.
Taft's predicuon reinforced that
of Chairman VandenDerg (K
Mich) of the senate foreign rela
tions committee that the adminis
tration's trade policy would be
continued in some form.
jDorm Building
j Hopes Raised
Virtual assurance of permission
to go ahead with construction of
I Willamette university's new men's
1 dormitory was received yesterday
'. by Robert Fenix. university bus
i iness manager, in telegrams re-
ceived from both Senators Guy
Cordon and Wayne Morse,
i The messages stated that the
' appeal of a previous unfavorable
decision had been granted by the
federal housing project adminis
tration in Washington. D.C.
Since rules and regulations gov
erning projects similar to the one
contemplated by the university
have been materially liberalized,
it is entirely probable the appeal
will result in favorable action, and
that construction will begin this
spring. Fenix said last night.
It is hoped to have the 100-man
dormitory completed within a
year, Fenix said, and added that
preliminary sketches for the dor
mitory, to cost between $400,000
and $500,000. have been drawn by
Pietro Belluschi of Portland.
Company Ships
Flax Rug Carload
The first full carload of flax
rug ever to leave this area was
! dispatched yesterday via South
! ern Pacific to the Fay Carpet com
! pany in New York. Clyde Ev
j erett. manager of Oregon Flax
Textiles in West Salem where the
rug was manufactured, said the
material was in 30-foot rolls
varying in width from 27 inches
to 12 feet and that the shipment
totaled 55,000 pounds.
Everett also said the market
for the material was expanding
rapidly. Most of his plant's out
put thus far has gone to San
Francisco.
REDS DRIVE FOR VOTES
WARSAW, Jan. 17-P-The
Communist - supported govern
ment bloc parties mobilized their
entire enrolled membership o
close to 1,000,000 tonight for an
intensive house-to-house cam
paign to bring out the vote in
Poland's parliamentary elections
on Sunday.
Weal her
Max.
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34
Min.
S3
Proip
Sain.
Portland
23 M
S3 .00
23 .00
San franciaco
M
Chicago 43
Nrw York 41
33 SO
Willamette river .1 feet.
FORECAST (from US weather bu
reau. McNarr Itekt. Salem l: Partly
cloudy today, with local valley foe.
Highest temperature today 40 aod low
est tonight 33
PAGES
Satan.
By WILLI AM R. SPEAR
WASHINGTON, Jan. l-JPy-The
adminisration plan for uni
fying the armed services provides
for a single cabinet officer, it de
veloped today, to act in effect as
rn umpire over self-operating
army, navy and air forces.
No activity carried on now by
the separate services would be
"automatically cancelled by the
plan," explained Vice Adm. For
rest P. Sherman, deputy chief of
naval operations!
The way would be opened for
one service to use another's fa
cilities duplicate army and navy
airfields in the same" locality, for
example, might be eliminated
and the proposed new secretary
of national defense would have
complete authority to decide.
Officials who explained the
proposal at a White House news
conference said no estimate had
been made of expected savings
but declared there would be econ-
omies "in the long run" as a re
sult of greater efficiency. There
was no suggestion that the $11,
200,000,000 budgeted for the
armed forces in the fiscal year
starting July 1 could be trimmed.
Charles G. Ross, presidential
press secretary who presided at
the conference, said the plan
contemplates that only the secre
tary of defense will be a regular
cabinet member, although the
army, navy and air force will con- !
stitute individual "departments"
and the head of each will be
called a "secretary." Ross added
that these three secretaries may
be invited to attend cabinet meet
ings from time to time.
Elmination of
Boys' School
Farm Studied
Elimination of farming operar
tions at the stale training school
for boys near Woodburn, as a pos
sible means of reducing operating
costs of the institution, was sug
gested at a meeting of a sub-ways
and means committee Friday to
consider the school's 1947-49 bud
get. Members of the sub-committee
are Sen. Howard Belton and Carl
Engdahl and Rep. William B.
Morse.
Figures presented showed a to
tal appropriation of $833,553 ap
proved by Gov. Earl Snell for the
two-year period starting July 1,
as against $255,056 for the cur
rent biennium.
M. D. Woolley. school superin
tendent, said much of the increase
was due to salary rises, contribu
tions under the state retirement
law, advance in commodity prices
and additional operating person
nel. He said the farm operations
constituted part of the training
program for the inmates.
"It looks to me as though it
would be economical for the state
to do away with the farm and
dairy operations and purchase
these products in the open mar
ket," Rep. Morse declared. Sen.
Engdahl also said that the new
budget appeared out of line.
Russians Told U.S.
Practicing for New
War in Aleutians
MOSCOW, Jan. 17-(P-The
Communist party newspaper
Pravda carried a Tass dispatch
today under an Ottawa date giv
ing an account of "intense" mil
itary activity by the United
States in the Aleutians "the
American territory closest to the
Soviet Union."
The dispatch quoted a Fair
banks. Alaska, correspondent of
"World Letter" as saying that
despite almost "impregnable
censorship" he was able to get
out a story of the American mil
itary "working on the problems
of a new war."
Merger
Sets Up
'Umpire'
Antarctic Scouts Find Little America
Buildings Preserved in Glacial Ice
By Alton L. Blakeslee
WITH NAVY EXPEDITION AT
BAY OF WHALES, Jan. 1 (De
layed) -JPy-1 dropped through a
skylight today into the subzero
buildings and tunnels of Little
America, buried under 20 feet of
snow where everything was per
fectly preserved and untouched
since the camp was abandoned
six years ago.
Eleven men in our scouting par
ty came to the old camp of the
1939-1941 expedition and for three
of them, this was a gleeful home
coming. By light of a flashlight
and lanterns, they shouted their
discoveries of old bunks and for
gotten supplies in the camp they
left on February, 1941.
No one hadTet foot inside the
NUNDBD 1651
Oregon Saturday Morning. January 18. 1947
T 1 P Scores IrOooirt
6OwP Train Derailed Near Bakersfield
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Jan. 17-(P)-A broken rail sent five cars
of the Southern Pacific Owl, San Francisco-Los Angeles passenger
train, careening into the ditch 12 miles northwest of here early to
day, killing seven persons and injuring scores.
Coroner Norman Houze said it is unlikely there are any more
bodies in the wreckage. The railroad placed the number of injured
Ex-Department
Of State Aide
Labeled Red
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 - UP) -Carl
Aldo Marzani, 35, who
worked on state department in
telligence for a year, was indicted
today on charges of falsely stat
ing he had never been a commu
nist. At the same time, the state de
partment disclosed that intensive
loyalty checks are being made on
53 employes who came to the de
partment in 1945 from temporary
war agencies.
Attorney General Clark an
nounced the indictment of Mar
zani by a federal grand jury here.
The specific charge is fraud upon
the government. Possible penal
ties run as high as $10,000 fine
and 10 years in prison.
"The indictment," said Clark in
a statement, "is the result of an
intensive inquiry that has been
under way by government offi
cials for some time ac to federal
employes suspected of subversive
affiliations."
Marzani joined the state depart
ment in 1942 as an economic edi
tor in the division of research and
analysis. He went on a military
status with the office of strategic
services in 1943, then returned to
civilian status in September, 1945.
From then until Dec. 20, 1946,
when he was removed, he was
deputy chief of the division of
presentation which prepares
charts and such material. This is
part of the office of intelligence
collection and dissemination.
Fog Blanket
Veils Salem
Fog slowed traffic in Salem and
most of the Willamette valley last
night and this morning, but state
and city police late last night re
ported no mishaps in the area.
In Portland, a freezing Friday
fog caused eight cars, all skidding
in the same spot, to pile up near
the St. Johns bridge, and in an
other multiple-car pile-up, four
cars crashed into a bus, injuring
one passenger slightly.
Thermometers were slightly
higher in Oregon yesterday, ex
cept at Baker, where the mercury
skidded eight degrees to two be
low zero. Other minimums yes
terday: Pendleton 24, The Dalles
16, Bend 21, Klamath Falls 6, Eu
gene 26, Med ford 20, Roseberg 31,
Salem 23, and Portland 25.
Ramadier Nominated
Premier of France
PARIS, Jan. 17-iP)-Socialist
Paul Ramadier was nominated as
French premier tonight to try to
form a coalition cabinet to direct
the Fourth Republic. Leon Blum
had turned down the post despite
reported last-minute American
urging.
The 69-year-old Ramadier,
tapped by France's new president,
Vincent Auriol, will consult with
party leaders to tee if they will
endorse his nomination. If they
do he will draft a program and
present it to the national assem
bly. 3 BURN IN HOTEL. FIRE
WATERTOWN, N. Y., Jan. 17-(JP)-A
fire attributed to a lighted
cigaret today swept the upper
floor of the Graystone hotel,
burning three persons to death
and injuring, two other guests.
buildings and interconnecting tun
nels since then until today, when
we pierced through the snow co
ver. The buildings are now com
pletely buried in glacier snow and
ice. We couldn't stay long inside,
where temperature was below
zero, possibly 10 to 20 degrees be
low, while on top of the camp it
is perhaps only 25 degrees
I had lunch inside, consisting
of a seven - year - old graham
cracker.
Icicles of beautiful crystalized
design hung from the ceilings. The
narrow tunnels are jumbled with
huge stores food, pails, dyna
mite, nails and junk. We found a
couple of chickens and hams well
frozen and in the galley there
were steaks already cut, waiting
at 71 and said only a few of those
were seriously hurt.
Three of the dead were not
identified. The known fatalities:
James Leroy Hall, Kansas City,
Mo.: Bessie Diles. Richmond,
Calif.; Pvt. Joseph Bernavich, 18,
15th and Broadway Sts., Rich
mond, Calif.; Mrs. Erma Hall,
Beaumont, Texas.
The unidentified dead. Southern
Pacific officials said, are a white
woman, about 30 years old; a ne
gro woman of 20 to 30, and a
negro man of approximately 30
years.
Highway Patrolman Jack Bor
deau credited two soldiers Mar
vin .Stansberry, Moulton, Iowa,
and Orvis Humphrey, Kiddf
Mo., with heroism in rescuing
passengers. Bordeau said the two
men, themselves hurt, smashed in
windows and broke down doors
of the over-turned cars and drag
ged rqany passengers to safety.
Bordeau said their prompt action
probably saved the lives of some
of the more seriously injured.
Dr. Robert J. Dowds, Southern
Pacific district surgeon, who ar
rived shortly after the tragedy,
said he saw one man's leg crush
ed from his body by an over
turned car, and another small boy
with his arm torn off.
Robert Crowley, 29, Miami.
Fla., a combat war veteran, said,
"I never saw such a mess," even
on a battlefield. He had been con
versing with a man across the
aisle, Crowley said, and the lat
ter was killed instantly.
Texan Would
Levy 100 Tax
On Portal Pay
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -fP)-Senator
O'Daniel (D-Tex) today
introduced legislation to recover
for the treasury all money work
ers may receive from portal-to-portal
pay suits.
The Texas lawmaker's bill also
would allow employers to charge
off on their income tax the full
amount of any portal claims they
are required to pay by court or
der under the fair labor standards
act.
O'Daniel took this action after
the American Federation of Labor
and a CIO union joined in oppos
ing anti - portal - pay legislation
previously introduced. The AFL
said it 'would deprive "millions
of workers of their rights.
The suits were mostly filed by
CIO unions. The AFL leadership
frowns on such court actions but
takes the position that the legis
lation is not the answer to them.
Group Passes
Excise Tax Bill
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17- fP) -Legislation
freezing indefinitely
the .high wartime excises on li
quor, furs, jewelry, theatres,
transportation and many other
goods and services was approved
unanimously today by the house
ways and means committee.
The bill would continue the li
quor tax at $9 a proof gallon, pre
venting an automatic drop to $6
on July 1.
The excise bill was hurried to
the house floor, where quick ac
tion is expected next week. Knut
son predicted it would pass unani
mously. The senate then must act.
DO REN A DAM BIDS DUE
PORTLAND. Jan. 17-(P)-A call
for bids for construction of the
Dorena dam and spillway a job
estimated at $5,740,000 probably
will be made February 3, Col. O.
E. Walsh, district army engineer,
announced today.
only to be grilled when 30 men
abandoned camp after spending
13 months there.
In rooms each with a pot-bellied
stove, there are notes scrib
bled on the bare wood walls, a
poster advertising the movie
"Love Affair" starring Irene
Dunn and Charles Boyer. Cans of
peaches, socks hanging from raf
ters, a big box of candy, cans of
graham crackers, and memories
which thrilled veterans of the
Byrd expedition.
I brought out to the surface a
Tuesday, Dec. 3, 1940, issue of the
Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City,
Okla., with news of Greek victo
ries over Italians. The paper was
still as fresh and white as the day
it was printed. -
"No. 253
Am all in
f Pro Tern
Capitol'
ATLANTA, Jan. 17 -JP)- Ellis
Arnall lost his temporary offices
in the statehouse rotunda today
as rival governor claimant Her
man Talmadge took charge and
Arnall promptly set up a capitol
J of his own in a downtown office
j building.
I Arnall was barred from his ro
) tunda office, established yester
day after Talmadge seized control
of the executive offices which Ar
nall had occupied for the past
four years, by a Talmadge lieu
tenant when he showed . up for
work this morning.
Reiterating his claims that he
is the "legal governor" and that
he was ousted from the statehouse
by a "military coup d'etat,", the
39-year-old Arnall said he would
function from the business sec-
i tion office building "until the
! courts remove the pretender who
j by force and storm troopers" de
I nied him a desk at the capitol.
Troopers Assigned
Talmadge, 33, a former lieuten
ant commander in the navy, made
no comment on Amall's charges
at a news conference but asserted
"everything is quiet." He said
earlier that four state troopers
were assigned to Arnall on his
capitol visit today because "the
temper of the people is such any
thing might happen."
Rep. Jimmy Dykes, a Talmadge
aide, blocked Arnall from trie ro
tunda desk set up yesterday when
Arnall .was denied entry into his
former offices.
"Jimmy, I'm governor," Arnall
said as he asked for the desk.
"You remind me of a hog,"
Dykes retorted. "You got your
head in the trough and you just
can't stop."
Dykes Retorts
"You have no more right to be
governor than I have," Dykes re
plied when Arnall asked "Have
you taken my office?"
Hisses and cheers echoed
through the corridors when Ar
nall, speaking to the crowd that
surrounded him, declared that he
was moving downtown "to func
tion as chief executive" in order
"not to discredit the people of
Georgia and to create a disturb
ance." Fog Blamed as
Cars Derailed
The derailment of eight cars
of logs last night at Gerlinger
station-, at the iunction of the
Southern Pacific railroad's Dallas j
and west side lines, was blamed
by railroad officials on the fog
and low visability of the area.
The railroad's Salem yard of
fice reported that the eight carsj
were up?et when two trains
sideswiped, one hitting the rear
car of the other at a juncture in j
the track. The accident caused
no injuries to employes on either
train, nor did it occur in an area
whu5n would hold up highway
travel, company officials said.
They added that a wrecker had
been called and predicted that
both lines will be clear early this
morning.
Keizer District to
Discuss School
Consolidation Plan
KEIZER, Jan. 17 Community
growth and its possible bearing
on the move to consolidate
Keizer" school with the Salem dis
trict, will be discussed at a tax
payers meeting called for 7:45 p.
m. Tuesday, January 21, at the
school house. Herman Rehfuss is
chairman of the board and other
members are Andrew Beardsley
and A. E. Waldorf. Genevieve
Oldenburg is clerk.
Keizer school census in Novem
ber, 1944, was 656, an increase
of 126 over the previous year.
Twelve teachers compose the
present school staff, an increase
of three over the previous year.
Ralph A. Nelson is principal of
the school.
QUICkTES
'Well, m admit your Statesman
Want Ad said the Job was per
manent bat mast ym pmi bars
a all the windows:
Price 5c
Measures
Set for
Asse
Tax bills proposing to raise an
estimated $18,000,000 and a reso
lution seeking to bar the closed
shop in Oregon, will be intro
duced in the 44th legislative as
sembly within the next few days.
Preparation of the measures
was disclosed late Friday, follow
ing a brief session of the state
senate, and apparently presaged
an early enlivening of the current
assembly now one week old.
Would Cut Exemptions
Advance information indicated
the tax bills, prepared by Sens.
Earl T. Newbry and Eugene
Marsh and Rep, Giles French all
members f the state tax study
commission would contain these
provisions:
Eliminating the state property
tax.
Reducing the state income tax
exemptions from $1509 to $1000
for married persons and $750 to
$500 for those unmarried.
Repealing the personal property
tax.
Making the corporate excise tax
a flat 6 per cent and eliminating
property offset provisions from
the corporate excise levy.
Inaugurating a 10 per cent sales
tax on liquor.
Placing all liquor revenues in
the general fund.
Making the state tax commis
sion responsible for the assess
ment of forest lands.
Giving assessors, instead of
sheriffs, the jobs of tax collector.
Ready for Monday
The tax measures, which also
may include a business tax, were
expected to be introduced Mori
day. Rep. William Morse of Pr;no
ville said Friday he would intro
duce a resolution in the house re
garding the closed shop. Legisla
tive approval would call for a
referendum vote since the move
would entail a constitutional
amendment. Other labor legisla
tion was being discussed, but
some legislators said they were
ready to follow Gov. Snell's tacit
advice to avoid acti n on labor
matters pending congressional
moves.
Also on the fire vere proposals
to increase unemployment com
pensation benefits to $25 a wee is
for 26 weeks in any one year,
instead of $18 for 20 weeks, and
to eliminate the present waiting
period. They were being prepared
by the CIO and AFL. representa
tives of those organizations seid.
11 New Bills in Senate '
Eleven new bills were intro
duced in the senate Friday, in
cluded one to place justices of the
peace and constables on regular
salaries in 'suitable" offices,
bringing to 37 the total bills in
troduced in both the senate and
house during the first week of the
session about two-thirds of the
number ejitered in the comparable
period two years ago.
More than a score of bills al
ready were known to be ready
for introduction into the house
Monday, however. AH daily ses
sions hereafter are scheduled to
start at 11 a.m.. with committee
meetings scheduled earlier.
Among proposals known to be
in the making are bills calling
for a sweeping reorganization of
several state departments, and En
other providing that the criminal
ly insane shall be housed at the
state prison rather than at state
hospital.
New Department Sought '!
Some of the proposals would:
Create a state department of
conservation, combining the firrt
commission, game commission and
the state forestry department.
Place revenues of self-sustaining
state activities in the general
fund, exempting the state high
way, unemployment compensation
and industrial accident funds.
Have a single state tax com
missioner, abolishing the present
three-man tax commission.
Combine the state banking and
corporation departments.
Transfer the state inheritance
tax division from the state treas
urer to the state tax commission.
Many sports and commercial
fishermen are expected to oppose?
the move for the department of
conservation, since neither would
want to relinquish their present
separate status. The plan to place
revenues in the general fund
would be supported by old-sga
pension groups who have opposed
the current arrangement whereby
pensions come directtly from liq
uor revenue.
Follows Nebraska Plan
The potential closed-shop reso
lution. Rep. Morse said, would be
modelled after the Nebraska plan,
with this possible wording:
"No person shall be denied em
ployment because of membership
in or affiliation with, or resigna
tion or expulsion from a labor or
ganization or because of a refusal
to join or affiliate with a labor
organization; nor shall any indi
vidual or corporation or associa
tion of any kind enter Into any
contract, written or oral, to ex
clude persons from employment
because of membership in or non
membership in a labor organiza
tion." t Other lertslatnre pare t)
CARDINAL SUCCUMBS
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17-Pr-Rodrigue
Cardinal Villenueve, 63,
of Quebec, Can., prince of the
Catholic church who came here
in quest of health last Tuesday,
died of a heart attack today at
Ramona convent in suburban
Alhambra.
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