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1 0-Stc. TJ-JJitetrtTin, tiTim, Orrjonr Mday, Jrtv 21 , 1 9S3 Former Accident Board Men Hold - Reunion9 Solons Want . Emergency Clause Vote A majority of Oregon's 1955 Legislature wants the people to vote on whether the legislators snouia nave aumoruj 10 pui an emergency clause on tax bills and therefore head off any refer endum move against them. The current proposal for changing the Oregon constitu tion to this effect comes from Sen. Lee Ohmart . (R), Salem, who said Thursday, he already lias signatures on the measure of half the House and two-thirds the Senate. Signers include Dem ocrats and Republicans. . Ohmart has exercised leader- x ship in the taxation field at the Legislature. He is now the Sen- IICI UU vice cuauiuau.-- . . , . Oregon voters .have approved nallot proposals costing - up to $100 million a biennium, declares Ohmart io they should also give the Legislature clear authority to devise appropriate taxation, to cover such costs. , As it stands now, when a tax bill is referred to the voters, its effect is- automatically postponed at least until after the next gen- jeral election which comes a year and a half following the legisla tive session. And there is aways the chance that the tax plan will be defeated by the electorate. Even, if the . Legislature didn't directly refer a tax measure to the voters, it can't go into effect vfor 90 days unless there it an emergency clause attached to say the new law must go into effect Immediately. That 90-day period gives time enough for opponents to get up a referendum petition signed by some 20,000 Voters in order to hold up the tax and get it on the ballot Conformity of Bureau Rules Sought in Bill - Conformity in rule-making and rule-enforcing practices of vari ous state boards and commissions, plus specified rights of citizens appeal, is the aim of proposed legislation now in a committee of the Oregon House of Representa tives. ' A public bearing on this meas ure of wide interest in state gov ernment circles will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. next Thursday in Capitol Room 421 by the House Judiciary committee, it was an nounced yesterday by the chair man, Rep. George Leyman (R), j Newberg. f Oregon's State Bar Association has requested the new law refer red to as a uniform administra tive procedures act and now pend ing as House Bill 49. Under the bill each board or rule-making agency would be re ' quired to formulate definite rules on its various procedures, and give the public notice before any new rules are made. ; . Then the rules would be filed with the secretary of state, who would be instructed to publish and distribute a monthly bulletin setting out the new rules or changes made by the several boards. Interested citizens could peti tion for rule changes they wanted . to recommend. Licensing bodies would have to give formal notice of license with drawals or expirations. The bill calls for certain stand ards for any hearings the boards conduct, including notice to in terested parties, provision for in troducing evidence and other mat ters. Decisions would have to be made in writing, if requested by the affected party. .In all contested cases given bearings, the decision would be subject to citizens appeal to cir cuit court and Supreme Court. Rep. Geary Investigates Vote Machine House Speaker Ed Geary de cided Thursday to investigate whether to install an electronic voting system in the - Oregon House of Reoresentatives. x He asked Rep. Robert L. .Elf- strom (R). Salem, to look into the system now being used by the Washington state House of Representatives. Elfstrom went to Olympia, Wash., with the House Fish and Game Commit t tee. The Washington House began try ing out a system at the begin . ning of the present session. - The electronic voting . would . save the legislature much time that now is consumed by roll . calls.. . V:V, m' f V U .'" ' ' : I i ,2 I Safety talk most have highlighted the meeting in California recently of these five men, all of whom are former employes of Oregon's State Industrial Accident Commission. From left to right, they are Robert M. Evenden, George Smith, Roy Miller, Ksuell B. Jeaet and George T.' Hewitt, all of whom . worked lor the accident prevention division of the commission for a number of yean. , Rep. Layman Likes to Chisel Off Rough Edges ofStateLaws V By BILL FORCE United Press Staff Correspondent Rep. George Leyman is a law maker who is bothered by laws that don't function the way they were intended. He has -several bills ready for introduction that he thinks will make the Oregon code of laws a little more efficient Layman, who is mayor of the Yamhill county town of Newberg, this year found himself the only Republican attorney in the House of Representatives. That meant almost automatically, the chair manship of the influential House Judiciary Committee. It also, has turned out to mean an increased work load on the House floor where non-attorneys are frequently in need of quick legal opinions. Layman is an "oil-on-the-waters" type of legislator one who can quiet a budding controversy, by cutting away extraneous issues and by keeping the discussion on the point at hand. He isn't the type to avoid a fight if it's necessary, but few have ver seen him lose his temper. : Corrective Bills This year he may be the center of some disputes when he intro duces his series jjf corrective bills. One of them would remove ambu lances from the classification of emergency vehicles. Layman feels that too many innocent bystanders have been killed or injured, by ambulances screaming through intersections i against the traffic lights. If he has his way, ambu lances will observe the same traf fic laws as all other vehicles, even though they carry injured persons. He says doctors have assured him that the 'few minutes saved by speeding ambulances are insignifi cant in relation to the accidents that are caused by that kind of rdriving. I At the request of the publishers of the state, Layman also will introduce a bill clarifying Oregon law on libel. If it is passed, per sons awarded libel judgments could collect only special, not gen eral, damages in cases , where there was no malicious intent In other words, if a publisher or radio station made an honest but damaging error and carried a re traction, the damaged party could collect only to the extent of the actual loss he suffered as a result of the error. License Suspension Another law that Layman; doesnt like, and one that he will try to change, is the one allowing the secretary of state to suspend a driver's license without a hear ing simply because that -official feels the driver may be an unsafe operator. Under the present law, the driver may, get a hearing on the suspension only after the li cense is taken away. Layman plans to introduce a bill requiring a hearing before the suspension. Another blooper bill in Lay man's opinion is the one requir ing motorist? to stop when they see an approaching school bus stopping ahead of them. The law requires you to come to a-dead halt behind or in front of a school bus loading or unloading children. Layman has no argument with that principle, but he feels ; ap proaching motorists are not given enough warning that a bus in the other lane ; is about to stop. If you're following a bus, the stop parnngt lights give you adequate warning. If you're approaching a stopping bus, the signal arm with its stop sign may swing out just in time for you to make a screeching stop and keep within the law. Layman would require bus drivers to raise their stop signal arm well in ad vance of their atop to give ap proaching drivers more time to apr ply their brakes. on Report Due Next Week Final report of Barrington As sociates, dealing with a survey of the state's salary and classifica tion structure, is nearing comple tion and will be in the Jap of the legislative compensation and re tirement interim committee early next week. Several preliminary reports have been presented to the com mittee. The compensation and retire ment interim committee is sched uled to meet here next week, probably Friday, when it will go over the final report and file its recommendations with the legis lature. ' The last preliminary report showed that a substantial number of state workers were improperly classified but added that none of their salaries would be reduced. Barrington Associates has been in operation here for sever al months. Members of the compen sation and retirement interim committee said approval of a sub stantial part of the report prob ably would eliminate a lot of work on the part of ' legislatures in future years. The State Civil Service Com mission has cooperated with Bar rington Associates in conducting the survey, A lot of information dealing with the salary structures of oth er states was obtained in order to make comparisons. : The survey was ordered by the compensation and retirement in terim committee for which an ap propriation was authorized at the 1953 Legislature. This appropria tion was increased by the, State Emergency Board. Farmers Union Wants Change In Income Tax The Oregon Farmers Union wants to" balance the state's bud get by Increasing taxes on In comes of .more than 1 17,000 a year. ; - .'- - . - A Its legislative committee an nounced Thursday that it is op posed to boosting the property tax, and opposes a sales tax. The committee also said it would work against any propos als to build power dams by part nership between federal and local agencies, - Ban Asked on Bulk , Gas Tax In Portland A bill to make the City of Port land quit taxing bulk gasoline dealers was introduced in the House of Representatives Thurs day by its highway committee. The bill j makes it illegal for cities,- counties or other local governments to tax gasoline, re serving this field for the state. Speaker Ed. Geary (R), Klam ath Falls, who was chairman of the legislative interim highway committee that recommended the bill, said: i The City of Portland's busi ness tax affects, among other things, -bulk gasoline -which - is shipped to all parts of the state. In effect the city is taxing gaso line . used by the rest of the state.;.-; f--A A. S-A. '.The constitution says; that all gas tax revenues shall go to the state. The city got around this provision, and this new bill is 'intended to correct that situation. "Cities now get; 10 per cent of all state highway revenues, and tho counties get 19 per cent I ' don't think they are. entitled to take more -than that through local taxes." Legislature Honors Four Death of four Salem persons who had been on the House of Repre sentatives staff for several legisla tive sessions was marked by reso- Ex-Employes Of SIAC Meet In California Five former employes of the State Industrial Accident Com mission, ' who met recently in northern California, together rep resent almost 50 years in accident prevention work in Oregon. The five men, all of whom were with the commission's accident prevention t division, are Robert M. Evenden, - former ' director? George Smith, Russell B. Jones and George T. Hewitt, all former safety inspector supervisors, and Roy Miller, one-time supervisor of education. ; Evenden and Jones are now with the Guy F. Atkinson Com pany, Smith is employed by the Argonaut Insurance Exchange, and Hewitt is with the zenith Nation al Insurance Company. All four work in San Francisco. Miller is in business in La Grande." Smith and Hewitt left the com mission most recently, both with in the last year, while Evenden left in 1951 and Miller and Jones left in 1953. Marriag lutions of condolences to their fam ilies, as voted, Thursday Jy the., sking congress to deepen the Divorce Bills Set in Motion The biennial legislation to leg! timize certain marriages and di vorces appeared in the Oregon Senate Thursday in two bills spon sored by Sen. Warren Gill (R), Leoanon. r i - ' ' One measure would make offi cial those marriages which took place before the end of the state's official waiting period of six months after a divorce. The other would back up divorces that were granted but were found to con tain technical legal faults in the proceedings, i These were among 17 bills re ceived by the House and Senate Thursday. They will be referred to committees today. One of the new House bills, sponsored by Rep. H. H. Chind gren (R), Molalla, would correct minor discrepancies in the state law governing soil conservation districts. A Senate bill would tighten standards for barber schooling and instructors, and re duce required apprenticeship pe riod from 18 months to a year. The first bill to come out of the joint ways an-' means committee also appeared Thursday- a pro posal, with committee approval, to put legislative 'employes under state industrial accident insurance coverage. ; , The Senate highway committee introduced a bill to permit state agencies to take out liability in surance to protect their employes.' Rep. Ma urine Neuberger (Dj, Portland, introduced a memorial House, The resolutions named the late Claribel Buff, chief clerk of the House last session and a veteran of 16 sessions: Helen Ficke, A. A Gueffroy nd Ben Ramsey er. Plane's Zippers Prevent Leakage NEW YORK (UP) The versa tile zipper has been put to a new use giving an added measure of protection against high-altitude leakage of liquids in the baggage of passengers on Lockheed's Su per Constellation planes. . . Thirty-three panels in two lower-fuselage baggage compartments of each new Super Constellation are closed by pressure-sealing zippers. Thus, the compartments are afforded virtually the same pressurization as the cabins. Cab in pressure at 23,000 feet altitude is roughly the equivalent of the pressure at an altitude of 8,000 feet in a non-pressurized plane. The baggage compartment lin ers are made of fiberglass com bined with a special rubber com pound... - Columbia River channel from 42 to 48 feet Other new House measures would deprive ambulances of ! their status as emergency vehicles unless aumonzea oy tne secretary of State, and create a five-member state historical board to su pervise and coordinate agencies in preserving historical sites and ma teriaL Inch Chopped More Than Ever PHILADELPHIA (UP)Scien tists now can divide air into such tiny streams that it is possible to divide an inch .into millionths. W. L Wilt and H. Kiefaber of the Sheffield Corp.; Dayton, O., told a meeting here of the Amer ican Society of Tool Engineers j that. "new ways are being found! every day in which air can be i used to divide that inch smaller." ..Such revolutionary develop ments, they said, "make it easier , for production , and inspection people to turn out and accept good parts in accordance with prints at lower cost of produc Horse Takes Snooze Atop Automobile JAMESTOWN,, N. Y. (UP) Two men were slightly hurt and plenty puzzled when, their auto collided with a horse near here. Louis Rivetti and Donald Put nam of Portland, N. Y., said the horse was standing in the middle of the road. The horse was bounc ed onto the roof cf the automo bile where it lay stunned for sev eral minutes. Then the animal scrambled off the car and ambled back to pasture. The car suffered the most damage. . POISON OAK! Why experiment?" Other remedies may possibly cure you, but the additional suf fering is not only unneces sary, but also very painful. For quick relief, try ' HOOD'S Poison Oak Lotion SCIIAEFER'S DRUG STORE Open Daily 7:30 A. M. to P M. . . 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