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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1949)
iBuclget Voted By Committee For Education A $30,000,000 budget for higher education was approved Tuesday by the ways and means committee which named a subcommittee to draft finance plan for new buildings for higher educations nd state institutions. . The total budget Is $8,000,000 ' more than spent during the cur rent budget period. The budget includes $1,000,000 for a new heating plant for the University of Oregon. Higher education building re quests total $12,000,000, and for state .institution buildings total $9,000,000. A means to finance these buildings will be soughtby the sub-committee. The committee also sent to the floor the old age pension bill. It does not provide for $50 monthly minimum pensions and is expected to spark a major battle. Also recommended was the state supreme court justices sal ary raise from $8,500 to $9,000 a year. The senate has voted $10,000 Sen. Angus Gibson said his sub committee was being pressured by the governor and other officials to provide an emergency fund of $625,000 to construct a new cell block at the state penitentiary. House Beats Negligence Bill By 32-25 Vote Climaxing one of the longest de bates of the session, the house Tuesday defeated the senate approved bill which provided that the judgment in damage actions would go to the participant less at fault. (Under the present law, if any Earty is proven even slightly neg gent no recovery is possible even if the other party is proven far more negligent). The house by a vote of 32 to 25 refused to substitute a do-pass minority report of its judiciary committee for a do-not-pass maj ority report, and subsequently adopted the adverse report there by indefinitely postponing the bill. Proponents, including Reps. Barry, Steelhammer and Johnson who signed the minority report, declared the present law unfair and that contributory negligence should not be a bar to recovery. Opponents, Including Reps. Gill. Geddes. Francis and McCulloch. contended passage of the bill would increase insurance rates and lead to added litigation. The senate had passed the meas ure 17 to 11. Bill tojCoihpel Aid for Needy Passes House s Th Orfffnn houM sot renrn tatives took i action Tuesday to reduce the old age pension rolls by forcing financially-able chil dren to take ; care o their needy aged parents. It sent to the senate! a bill allow ing the public welfare commission to Dnng court suits to compel ret atives to take care of other rela tives receiving public; assistance. The bill sets up maximum amounts that relatives might be expected to contribute. For in stance, a married couple earning less than $255 a month wouldn't contribute anything toward sup port of a needy parent. But cou ples earning more than that might contribute up to a maximum of $100 a month. In the Senate rASSEOi SB 41T (Game) RrculaUs com mercial flailing for striped bass in tha Coos -river, and sets up sports fishing: area.' . I 1ft 34 (Institutions) up five- man senate interim committee to in vestigate conditions at the state pen itentiary. HM I a Will t YUvnat. : t v an dUwl fuel from S to cents fa gallon. BB 223 Hlchways--Boosts motor vehicle license lees from S3 to 910 a Tr. if HB 479 (Highways) - Boosts state gasoline tax from S to S cents a gal loo and exempts airlines leaving Port land lor Alasu ana Hawaii xrom pay ing aviation gas tax. HB ZM (Mult. uel.I Allows lh Portland school district 1 to levy taxes for school purposes over tne per cent limit for three consecutive years. BB 442 ( Education N Bars hold ing elections to dissolve union high districts more than once? in five years. hb 9i trooa at u airy in) a sub for KB 293. including rabbits in the law which forbids sales for human consumption animals used In med ical experiments. i HB 321 (Educations Lets rural school boards place emergency fund items in budgets up to s 3 per cent of the districts' total budfets. HB 32S (Game) s Increases fees for hunting and fishing; licenses; res ident fishing or hunting: licenses from 13 to $4; non-resident Ashing licenses hunting licenses from $23 to 933; com bination licenses from 93 to 97. HB 32 (CameCt Increases li censes for hunting ell from 93 to 97.50 for residents. i HB 3M (Game) -Increases cost of deer tags from 30 cents to 91. HB 333 (came) increases from 99 to 97.30 the charge for special hunting tags for residents. DEFEATED Sift 27 (Lab. Sr Ind Providing legislaUve Interim committee to study labor practices, REFERRED SB 421, 422. 423, 424. I HB 242. 414. 4S. 92. 99. DO PASS REPORTS J ADOPTED SB 344. ! HB 273, ISt, 492, 493. HJM T. VP FOB FINAL ACTION TODAT B ISt, 924. 342, 334. 3393. 419. 344. HB 123. 243. 33S. 3S4J 474. 17. Ml. MS. 273, 3Sf 492, 493. HJM 7. SENATE RESUMES 145 A.M. TODAT. Increase Voted Gjas Tax, Car License Fees The senate Tuesday approved house-passed bills increasing gas oline taxes' a cent a gallon and doubling license fees to finance Oregon's $487,000,000 15-year road modernization program. The gas tax will be raised from 5 to 6 cents and vehicle license fees from $5 to $10 a year. The third plank of the revenue pro gram a proposed increase In truck fees is still pending in tne i senate highways committee. The three measures will raise about $8,000,000 a year, of which the ; highway commission will get $5,600,000 and counties and cities $2,400,000. The $8,000,000 is $2,000,000 short of the $10,000,000 needed by the commission to com plete revamping Oregon s high ways over a 10-year period. The gasoline tax is expected to raise $4,500,000 a year and the registration fees another $2,500.- 000, The $1,000,000 of additional revenue is expected from the house-approved truck fee sched ule. Most opposition to the revenue plan centered on the license fee boost Opponents said the doubled feel would hit the poor man hard in years to come. sen. William McAllister. Med- ford, continued his verbal assault against the highway commission, and opposed both the license and tax': increases. MI don't know what the 'commission's program is, Mc Allister said, "and the commission has refused to tell us." Last week McAllister sought passage of a bill ' which would have wiped out such city projects as the proposed Baldock plan In Salem by prohibiting the highway commission from spending money inside cities until-: Oregon s pri mary highways are brought up to federal standards. In the House PASSED B 3SS (Chindgren et el) Pro vides that S790O of part-mutuel receipt shall go to each county fair annually (49 to 9). HB 411 (Military Aff. com.) Pro vides for a national guard reserve (49 to 4). HB Se (Tax. com.) Permits dues to issue bonds for hospitals. HB 944 (Ways, Means com. Re quires relatives of old-age assistance recipients to contribute to their sup port on the basis of Income (83 to 9). HB 431 (Social Welf. com.) Re quires that persons mentally in. not charged with crime, be kept other than in jail. RE-PASSED (senate amenta ) B 111, 179, 413, 329. 479. 4L DEFEATED SB 2M (Carson. Rep. Hendershott) Provides that contributory negligence ahaU not be a bar to recovering dam ages: judgment to be based on com parative negligence. (Move to substi tute do-pass for do-not pass reported defeated 32 to 38 and bill Indefinitely postponed.) HB 1SS (Drtnr et mlt private banks to Invest trust (Dreyer et al) Would per- funds in public housing bonds. (Do not -pass report adopted 99 to 91.) DO-PAS t REPORTS ADOPTED S 24. HJft 2S. SB 332, 347, 412. 3M, 374. HB IS. 152, 213, 34S, 434, 44S. 24. S4S. REFERRED TO COMMITTEES SB 39. 139. 193, S19, 943, 944, MI 194. SJR T. INTRODUCED B 911 (Wade. Sen. Gardner) Hps par of Lincoln county officers. SB 44, SSS, SIX, 417. VP POR FINAL ACTION TODAT SB 344. 947, 979, 412. mmwL ZS. HJM S. HJR 21. HOUSE RESUMES 14 A.M. TODAT. VaMey Mews IBnrfioffs Family Moving To North Dakota ROSED ALE Mr. and Mrs Elno Uhrhammer and family have gone to Perth. N. L to live. Donna has been enrolled in the first grade. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bates spent a few days in Mt. Vernon, Wash. visiting Mrs. Bates' relatives. A Great Dot In 3alem History EXPECTATION A REALITY Available to You! - Tomorrow - n-B April 7lh inn? iuls If W mm i Delivered Here, Ucene and Stat Tax Extra ) KMWCSfnl MntifPFl frW)' uvr -ilo mk . .hoi z-r- mi eKf ST m aw j V KH 375 Center sireet I r LJoerty Tne Missionary so ciety of the Liberty Church of Christ will meet today (Wednes day) at 1:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Milton Stephens on route 9. Mrs. Rusiell Mayer of the Re form church will be the speaker. Bible study will be held today at 7:30 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Luther Billings on route 9. Elkhorn Phil Dooley has pur chased a tract of timber at Myrtle Creek in southern Oregon. He is moving his cat down the first of the week and the family will camp near there for the summer. UMONVALE A serine: festi val sponsored by the Unionvale school, will be held In the slum of the Unionvale Evangelical united Brethren church Friday, April 8. Refreshments will be sold and contributions will be taken at the door. Proceeds will go to ward buying ice cream for the last community club meetina of the school year and to buy new song doors for tne school and club. A program will be given by the school. Lincoln Spring Valley Home Missionary society will present a pre - Easter program at the meet ing Thursday, April 7 at 2 p. m. at the Lincoln home of Mrs. H. J. Nelger, under the direction of Mrs. T. L. Hicks. Assisting Mrs. H. J. Neiger will be Mrs.! C. F. Merrick, Mrs. I E Merrick, Mrs. Elwood Cooper and Mrs. Lois Crawford. Four Corners The Rickey Garden club will meet Thursday, April 7. Dinner will be served at We Can't Stop - The Clock BUT We can save you money on plumbing materials and fix tures I Decalnr and Ilaerz Ph. S-CZZS 7 I. CernX St 1 - ' i. That StaUafnan, Solera, Oregon, -Wednesday April 6. IMS 3 6:43 p. m. Hostesses are Mrs. J. S. Beck, Mrs. Robert Burns, Mrs. Oliver Rickman, Mrs. Raymond Hough, Mrs. Lawrence Lee, .Mrs. Floyd Green, Mrs. A. E. La Branche, Mrs. Lee Haworth, Mrs. G. M.-Deen, Mrs. Iglehart, Mrs. Ross Chrisman, Mrs) Homer Bales, Mrs. E. R. Corning, Mrs. Ray Wil cox, Mrs. 3. E. Webster, Mrs. Le roy Austin, Mrs. S. H. Cable, Mrs. E. A. Snook, Mrs. L. J.' Stewart, Mrs. William Fiester, Mrs. Blanch Stuart, Mrs. Frank Tower, .and Mrs. Wallace Tower. Dorothy Pe dersoh will play the piano. Mar jory Jordan will - whistle, accom panied by Miss Pederson. kaiser mkim 9 i i Slashes Prices Drastically Save Hundreds of $$$$$ YOU HAVE SEEN THE REST. WHY NOT BUY THE BEST? KAISER-FRAZER i league E-IoSor Co. Open Evenings UntU t S5N. Liberty ! Phon 2-41 .J , i ljintii'irfcrf r 1 1"""1Wf' .".r'r '" " . ' iC'""'' fir""" ' ' - iff i:H .i i W'-K'f' it ?, s " ' r.f m m: Ik , . . , tf, ,;;:. 9 I Cold Facts can sometimes be very heartwarming, too FORD 8131 TUDOR 8EDAU This daRvered prke Indudss tronsportorion frem the factory, fadacel taxes and an oS fUtar and air Mter, too. 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This money is helping widows main tain their homes and bring up their children without hardship. It is helping to send sons and daughters to college who otherwise might not have gone. It is helping families enjoy the peace of mind that comes of knowing that the future is financially more secure. It is helping men and women in 'their old age live without financial worry. It would be impossible to tell all the stories about all the people who benefit through life insurance policies. But in our Report this year we try, at least, to show what human values the facto and figures of our business often have. In addition, the Report contains helpful informa tion on "Hie Problem of Growing Older," as well as a description of an improved service for policyholders so that death benefit payments and policy loans may be expedited, a review of the way the Company has made mortgage money available for housing, and a discussion of the Company's policy in making it investments in 1948. f i The essential facto and figures of our 194$ opera tions will be mailed to policyholders as usual with ' ... a a aha ' premium notices. The larger illustrated booklet will gladly be sent upon request. A few figures from our 104th Annual Report to Policyholders December 31, 1948 Assets totalled $4,44869,759, aa Incraaae of $214,185,161 over the close of the previous year. After deducting $4,181,863,874 of reserves and other liabilities, surplus was $266,505,885 off $35,387,161 more than at the end of 1947. Sales of new life insurance in 1948 amounted to $857,719,600, which is $335,600 greater than la 1947. The Company had 3,779,541 policies In force for $9,539,584,229 of life insurance protection on December 31, 1948. The net growth of the Com pany during the year, aa meaetuvd by the increase In life insurance in force, was $475,979,615. The provision for 1949 dividends to policy holders is $45,741,294. New York Life has always been a mutual company and pays dividends to policyholders only. A copy of the 443-page illustrated 104th Annual Report to Policyholders will gladly be sent to anyone requesting it. 0 NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 51 Madison Avenue, New York 10, N. Y.