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ension, Utner Reports Due In Few Days ' (Story also on page ,1) Subcommittees of the joint ways and means group of the current legislature swung into action Fri day with the result that a num ber of reports, dealing with some of the smaller state activities, may be ready to file within a week or 10 days. The subcommittees will inves tigate the budget requests of all state departments, institutions. boards and commissions along with the recommendations of the state budget division. Two sub committees will take advantage of the week-end recess and visit state institutions in the Salem area. Xye Social Welfare One of the outstanding sub- Smmittees, including Sens. Rex lis and Austin F. Flegel and fceps. William Morse. Earl Mc Nutt and Francis W. Ziegler, will Investigate all social security Jroblems. Important among these ctivities is the public welfare commission which administers ' relief. A bill is now being whipped Into shape providing a minimum B50 a month pension, based on need, for all men who have at tained the age of 65 years and women who have reached 80 fears. Such a 'bill was approved at the last general election, but later was held unworkable by the attorney general. t.75MM Estimated Need (Loa Howard, state - adfninistra tor- of the public welfare com mission, told the house social wel fare committee that an average of $4.55 month per case (or total approximating $2,750,000 for the biennium) would be needed for the $50 "minimum.) A subcommittee, composed of Pens. Carl Engdahl, Angus Gibson And Dean Walker and Reps. Alex . Barry and William Morse has been assigned to Investigate the wants of higher education. In ad dition to strictly budget requests f the state board of higher edu cation this : committee will probe the budgets of Doernbecher nos pital, child guidance clinic, blind students subsistence and the pro posed state building program. , ll2.Mt te Be Asked The board of higher education was expected to center much of Its argument on a request for capital outlays, probably in the amount of $12,000,000, for con- . struction of new buildings. This recuest was eliminated from the state budget. A state building program. Involving individual ln eome tax revenues, may be re ferred to the voters at a special lection. The subcommittee to investi- Cite salaries and wages for state orkers Is composed of Sens. Gibson, Engdahl and Stewart Hardie anl Reps. McNutt and jtudie- Wilhelm, Jr. It was ex pected this committee would fol low closely the recommendations X the state civil service commis sion for an average $30 per month Increase for all state employes provided funds are available. This would include the $20 month cost-of-living increase granted by the state emergency board last June which terminated a December 11. 194S. Cfcaiiaase est All Creeps A special finance committee Is Composed of Carl Abrams, clerk ft the joint ways and means com Knlttee; Sephus Starr, state adul ter, and C C. Chapman, pub lisher of the Oregon Voter. Ex -officio members of all com mittees are Sen. Howard Bel ton. ehalnnan of the senate ways and .. means committee, and Rep. Henry - iMnon. chairman of the house . ways and means committee. Portland Port Governors Are Appointed Appointment of two members ef the Port of Portland and re appointment of three members was announced by Governor Douglas McKay here Friday, Reappointed were Robert H. Atkinson, Edwin Dwyer and Cap tain Clyde 'Raabe. all of Port land. New appointees are Chester E. McCarty and Olin Harrison. They succeed James H. Cassell and F. N. Youngman. who expressed s desire to be relieved of their port duties. McCarty, a Portland attor ney, has been active in develop ment of the aviation industry and served as a colonel in the air corps during world war II. He formerly served as a member of the state legislature and as assistant attor ney general for Oregon from 1930 to 1935 Harrison is a teamsters union secretary- Supervision of airports in the Portland area is under the Port ef Portland. Reginald Williams Named to Committee Reginald Williams, Salem attor ney and former deputy prosecutor of Marion county, was appointed Friday as chief clerk and legal ad viser of the senate revision of laws committee. ' t Williams, who left he district attorney's office January 1, per formed similar legal work for sev eral law committees in the Okla homa legislature. Sen. Allan Car son of Salem is chairman of the committee. t Ficneer Tins! Company Safe Depcrii Boxes $3.00 to $20.00 a Year ' Was 20 Tx i jf t f t it lW nl t With Watson at lEleven Men Launched on Job Of Fixing Up State's Finances By Ralph Watson Edttars Beta: la FrMay's Statesman. Ralph Wstsoa desert Ue makes aat. iiUM ef ta -Little Leglslatvre" ae 1 - Joiat ways aa4 nuu cemmlttee which shapes the appropriation tins. Today, he details the UuUoa eemaalttees which cat the cloth freas which the aperoprta Hmm arc mads.) mvn men. five of whom have nee. have started on the lob oS fixing up the state's finances for the next two years. They face the problem of finding a way to meet $109 million of the state budget, which is some $38 million in excess of the last two years, and which does not take into consideration any money for the $28 million building program of the state educational and other institutions. On the face of it, the chore handed the 11 cold diggers would seem to be a major endeavor and it is. So who are the 11 strong men who during the coming SO or 80 days or so are to X discover the key to the jack potT Officially the group makes up the house com mittee on taxa tion. Its mem bers are suppos ed to be the wise men of the west who can find a war to unlock the s ncr cent tax limitation amend ment. to unlock the $38 million "urolus" tied un in the state trea sury by the corporate excise and Income tax laws and release it for the benefit of the taxpayers, and to do a few other feats of nnan dal Jugglery to make the consti tuents happy. ' Chairman of this group is Ralph Moore, of Coos county, timbennan and logger. He has spent a lot of time and printers' Ink writing about taxation. He was a member of the committee two years ago. Other members who served with him on the committee in the 1947 sessionj include Herman Chindgren of Clackamas, who usually has lot of bills about county fairs and similar subjects. He is a farmer. Robert Gile. chairman of the 1947 committee, of Roseburg, is a fruit packer. E. W. Kimberling of Prai rie City is a hard-headed veteran of a lot of former sessions, owner of an 1,800 acre eastern Oregon stock and wheat ranch, Lyle Tho mas, school teacher of Polk county who has turned aside from the teaching profession to become the executive secretary of the Oregon Farmers Union, also is a member, as is Giles French. ' j j 3 The freshmen on the committee include J. F. Short, who owns and operates 700 acres of irrigated land near Redmond; David Baum of La Grande, farmer, secretary of the county fair association and field man for a fraternal group; Ben Day, farm operator of Gold Hill; Phil Dreyer of Portland, recently through Reed college, and John Sell, The Dalles, auditor, former banker and now office manager for the Seufert Brothers Cannery. -'When this group of 14 finish with their work of finding the way out of the financial woods, their remedy for the tangle in the bud get will go into the senate there to be given the scrutiny of an other group of financial experts. four of whom, were members of the 1947 committee On assessment and taxation, and all of whom haver llHiifi Salcn Healing ( and Sheel llelal Co. "Heating neadq Barters" A - 1185 Bread way Salem. Oregea St PhJ S-S5S5 Day er Night I I BUlpfc Wat I ( i 1 the Legislature had no nrevious legislative expert - had previous legislative experience except one, Austin Flegel. Flegel, however, is no spring chicken in the matter of finance, as he- one time held the position of attorney for the liquor control commission, and later became the president of the major ship build ing corporation, the Willamette Iron 8c Steel company of Portland.' Chairman of the senate group is Dean Walker, who has been on the tax committee or the ways and means committee since away back. Howard Belton of Clackmas, chair man of ways and means, also is a member, as he was two years ago, so is Frank Hilton of Multno mah and Eugene Marsh, Yamhill, both lawyers. New on the commit tee are Orvil Thompson of Linn, and William "McAllister of Jack son, former house speaker. Thomp son and McAllister' also are law yers. In the hands of these two groups, rests, primarily, the fate of the revenue and fiscal program of the session. The taxation committee has the job of finding a way to shake enough money out of the treasury, and the taxpayers, to meet the demands of the budget; the ways and means committee has the Job of cutting the money provided into the right sized chunks to satisfy each department and activity. The latter committee will spend its time checking the departmental and institutional demands, and then after the taxation committee brings in its program, the approp riation bills will be cut to fit and started rolling through the legisla ture preparatory to shutting up shop for another two years. But that time will not come for a long time yet, even though the assembly has got off to a faster start in its first week of the cur rent session than its 1947 predeces sor did. Weodbnrn Bern ice Yeary will speak at the Business and Pro fessional Women's club in Wood burn First Methodist church Thursday at 6:30 p.m. on county health activities. ( u In the Senate rXTKODUCKD HB u Com. oa Hih) Provides for registration, plates Issued to owner of motor vehicles. Instead of to vehicles, with owner to keep same number on whatever car he has. HB M (Com. on High.) Would star ger registration of motor vehicles, ex cept trucu. Duses. motorcycles and miscellaneous, so that renewals are aue a year after issuance, and year! thereafter, instead of aU on Januarv 1 HB ss (Com. on High.) Would tax gasoline sold to. military except for snips ana aircraft. vr roa final vot monbat HB S (Steelhammer) Would ellmia t designation of illegitimacy on wfui cCTTiiicatea. RESUMES 11 a.m. MONDAY. In the House mrxoDUCED SB IS (Medicine. Pharmacv Si Den. tlstry) Raises cost of birth certificates xrom sq cents to SS a copy. SB M (Roads Mt Highways) Mak ing minor changes in chauffeur license taw. SB 2S (Porestrv z Forest Products) to set tip administration of 1847 for est rehabilitation act. SB S3 ( Forest Ac Forest Produetal To provide $129,000 appropriation for insert control m western Oregon. SB 84 (Br LamDort. bv reauest) to enect minor changes in law gov erning ruing oi plats. adopts: d SB U (By Resolutions) Providing for appointment of clerk for commit tees on forestry and forest products and resolutions. SB 14 (By Resolutions) Providing zor cmex cierxs in committees on state affairs, mining, railroads and public uwines. RESUMES 11 a.m. MONDAY. New System Proposed f or Car Licenses Permanent car license plates, already adopted by some states and proposed in others, are sought for Oregon in bills introduced in the legislature Friday by the house committee on highways. The bills were formulated by Secretary of State Earl Newbry who several months ago indicated a preference for the proposed sys tem. He has expressed hope it might be applicable for 1950. The plan calls for plates to be issued to owners, rather than to vehicles, with the owner to keep the same plate on whatever car he acquires. Licenses would be re newable annually, but in stag gered rotation 112 each month so there would be year-around li censing activity rather than a sin gle crush. Insert tabs with new dates would be provided to go with the permanent plates at each renewal. The move toward the new plate system has no connection with proposals, still in the talking stage, to increase registration fees for cars. The permanent plates would not be used on trucks, buses, mo torcycles and miscellaneous ve hicles. with Salem Federal BRINGS PROVED SECURITY The IIS r tits OsrtsJ poRcfes ef oer type Swowdel insHtwHoe :w tteHt sefefy east ieceeis. let cask reserves eara 2V hi safety tedey. J cerrssr rare 560 State Street Facing Court Houtm SALEM, OREGON SAVINeS flDI RALLY INSUtID forest rlan Brought Out In Senate Bill , Administration of the 1947 for est rehabilitation act is provided for in a bill introduced in the sen ate Friday by the committee on forestry and forest products. The measure was passed by the 1947 legislature as a constitutional amendment and was "approved by the voters in last Novembers elec-i tion. 7 The act permits the state to is sue bonds for reforestation not to exceed of 1 per cent of the states total assessed valuation. The bonding measure will provide a gross income of $10,500,000 for the forestry department. Under the proposed act, the board of forestry would be au thorized to sell bonds in various denominations, but not to exceed $500,000 in any one year. The money derived from the sale of bonds will go into a special "Ore gon Forest Rehabilitation fund.' The bonds are to be retired .from moneys to be deposited in a sink ing fund. These funds will come from sale of forest products on lands acquired under tfee act and from other forest lands benefit ted by the act. Most of the bond retirement, however, will come from state taxes. It is contemplated that between 10 and 15 years will be required to carry out the replanting pro gram. Value of New Deutsche Mark Cains Ground FRANKFURT, Jan. U-(JP)-The nigh prices which provoked Ger mans to riot last fall are tumbling down. The new Deutsche mark which Germans used to distrust is gain ing in value. The American dol lar and American cigarets, which used to yield such high black mar ket profits are losing their lure. All these signs, U. S. military government officials say, point to a rapid recovery of health by the war-sick German economy. The price decline set in right after Christmas. Some German officials were skeptical at first. They thought maybe it was only because the Germans had spent all their money for Christmas pre sents .and stores were trying to get rid of Christmas wares that bad not been sold. But prices are still dropping. Now officials are hopeful the back of the price boom may be broken. Legal as well as black market prices are going down. Shoes and leather goods have dropped 20 per cent in Frankfurt, though textile prices still hang high. Every second of the day and night, 7,000 persons board street car, trolley coach or bus in the United States and Canada. Oh, So Good . . TURKEY TURNOVERS TRY ONE TODAYI A meath watering meal for one -easy ie prepare and oh. se reed! The Only Single Service Turkey Dinner (Complete with Gravy! Gravy! A Made By Sunset Donut Co. ...as a firecracker -that's PPES-fO-lOGS THE EFFICIENT, CLEAN, CONVENIENT FUEL Capital Lunher Co. N. Cherry Aveane Phone 2-SSS2 Z-4421 1 nj" At Year 1 OwfV Local Dealers II C . SIT 'f Ft OH v l The Stoieeanan,' aiom, Oregon. SararciaT. Jcnmarr 15; 193U- Governor Draws Winner in DAR Contest This was the recent scene at the Oregon stateheosse when the new governor, Deoalaa MeKayr drew the lucky number for Doris Groves ef Lebanon which awarded her the seed citizenship $100 prise ef the Oregon Daughters of the Revolution. Left to right, Mrs. R. M. Ilayden ef Lebanon, state DAK chairman for the contest; Rex Putnam, state superintendent ef pnblle ins true tlon Geverner McKay and Mrs. Martha Ferguson McKeown, state DAR regent. (Statesman phote). Florence Chief Of Police Fired EUGENE, Jan. 14-(vP)-L. L. Ray, local lawyer and city attorney for Florence, Ore., told the Associated Press here yesterday that Mayor Paul Woraer and the Florence city council dismissed A. R. "Ray" White and his wife from the posi tions of chief of police and police matron, respectively, of the coast city. 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Pitts, who later swore out a charge of disorderly conduct warrant for Whife, who was in turn arrested by state police from Newport. Soviet Keeps Alive Talk Of Truman-Stalin Meet MOSCOW, Jan. 14 -CP)- The possibility of a Truman-Stalin meeting is a subject that is be ing kept alive in Moscow. The Soviet press this week pub lished two stories in which such a meeting was mentioned. 453 COURT Timber Tract Bidders Few PORTLAND, Jan. 14-(P)-The declining lumber market echoed in a public timber sale Wednesday. There weren't many bidders. The bureau of land management reported that bids were offered on only 19 of 21 tracts placed on sale this month. And the bids totaled only $286,872.05 not much above the appraised valuation of $292, 173.50. The timber was on Oregon and California and public domain lands in the Pacific northwest. I 2-1565 U