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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.. .
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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. .
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