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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1955)
8-sec Ij-Maiesman, saiem, Or., Tuesday, May 3, 1953 Jbi ducat ion Measure APP ro vedby House The House Monday .passed the Senate-approved bill designed to create countywide education dis tricts to promote equalization of education costs, to assist local school districts and to reorganize the cpuaty superintendent's office. Under the bill the superintendent SolonsAsk! j State Officer ncrease ravl The means Legislature's ways and committee Monday re versed its stand on salaries of top state officers and recommended increases of from $500 to $3,000 . a eel i i or some vj omciais. Most elective and many top appointive officers would receive raises if the Legislature passes the bills as recommended. The increases advocated: ' Governor, $15,000 to $18,000. Secretary of state, attorney general and state treasurer,' each from $10,000 to J$12,000. Labor commissioner, $9,000 to $10,000. Supreme court judges, $iz,uuu to $13,500 (despite recent Sen ate action to raise them to $15,-000). - Circuit judges, $10,500 to $11,- 000. - Health officer, $12,000 to $13, 000. State Hospital superintendent, $9,500 to $11,000 (despite recent Senate passage of a $12,000 sal ary). State Tuberculosis Hospital su perintendent, $9,000 to $10,000. Penitentiary warden, $9,000 to $10,000. MacLaren School superintend ent, '".OOO to $8,500. Hillcrest superintendent, $7,000 A f AAA State Game director, $9,300 to $9,500. . r New salary of $9,000 for water resources board secretary. Raises of $500 in the annual salaries of public utilities com missioner, finance director, East ern Oregon State Hospital super intendent, Fairview superintend ent, welfare administrator, the three tax commissioners, forester, engineer, agriculture director. state police superintendent, the three industrial accident com missioners, retirement board sec retary, superintendents of blind and deaf schools, superintendent of Commission for the Blind. The committee sustained its recent action on other salaries Vf top 'officials. Armed Women March in East Reich Parade Conservation Week Plns Announced would be appointed by a district board elected from zones within the countywide district This board would take over such present func tions as the district boundary board. Centralized Baying ' Centralized purchasing could be done by the board. Taxes it levied on an equalized basis would offset local district taxes. l" The House made many amend ments to the bill, so it goes back to the Senate today for .possible final action there. In the House Monday, an effort to revive a bill increasing state basic school support to local school districts failed. Rep. Herman Chindgren (R), Molalla, rallied only- 20 votes in trying to force the bill out of committee. The Senate Monday passed the House-approved bill to standardize the administrative procedures of most state agencies so that their rules will be published regularly, meir Hearings conducted alter ad vance notice and according to cer tain standards. . Exemptions Noted juxempiea irom the provisions are thd tax commission, numic utilities department, parole board, civil service, industrial accident, unemployment commission, wel fare, finance and motor vehicle departments. Most of these either have clear procedures now established or come under other regulation, said bill sponsors. The Senate was to consider the House-approved 3-cent cigarette tax bill Monday. But it voted 16 14 to delay consideration until after it takes up the 3 per cent sales! tax measure Tuesday morning. Argument Given Sen. Warren " Gill, Lebanon, ar gued that if the sales tax is passed by the Legislature and the people, the cigarette tax wouldn't be needed. Sen. Rudie Wilhelm, Sen ate tax committee chairman, took issue with Gill, assertiig that the state would have a deficit without the cigarette tax, which would raise $8,800,000 in the next two years. The Senate sent to the House a bill calling for a special election Oct. 14 on a 60 per cent income tax increase, if the people refer it Anniversary Fnnd The upper house also sent to the governor a bill appropriating $120,379 for the Oregon Pevelop ment Commission. This includes $30,000 for the Stanford Research Institute, which will be asked to survey why new industries should locate in Oregon. A $3,000 appropriation bill to have a celebration of the 150th anniversary this year of the Lewis and Clark Expedition was ap proved by the Senate and sent to the House. w1 r i mm m . ine aenaie ceteatea 23 to I a bill appropriating $36,000 for ex tending the Capitol elevators back of Senate and House chambers from the third to fourth floors. It had passed the House with little opposition, but senators said the state1 should save the money for something needed more than ele- vatoYs just during legislative ses sions. . v L 1 M . 4 ft sc. '4 1 J1 i L BERLIN Wemen members of an East German pre-military organization, rifles slung over their should ers, Join men folk In Communist-sponsored May Day parade in East Berlin Sunday. While East Ber liners were parading, some 100,000 West Ber liners converged en City Hall square in rally of pro test. (AP Wircphoto by radio from Berlin) , Prospects were bright for a suc cessful conservation week May '1-7 throughputs Oregon, Homer G. Lyon, state chairman for Gov. Paul Patterson's conservation pro gram announced Monday as 36 counties throughout Oregon report ed activities. Dedication of the N'. S. Rogers State Ferest firthe Tillamook Burn Friday is one of the major state wide events. State Forester George Spaur will open the "cefemoijies at 1:30 p.m. with the dedication ad dress by Junior F. Daggett, mem ber of the State Board of Forestry. Mrs. NI S. Rogers and children will be. present at the dedication More than 123.000 school chil dren throughout the state will par ticipate In the conservation week program which emphasizes con servation of wildlife, water, soil. range, minerals and the forests of Oregon. . - Programs have been set up for both television and radio conser vation releases with some 120 radio programs scheduled to date. In Grants Pass plans have been made for jumps by forest para chutes and in Lane County char tered buses will- make tours through private tree farms, saw mills, fish hatcheries and dam projects, j Coos Bay will observe. the week with Pageant of Prog ress. j Some 123 programs at which speakers j will appear before civic - and service organizations have been arranged and 24 testimonial -dinners honoring prominent con servations have been scheduled. Oregon's 1955-57 State Building I? . 4r Portland Mental iogram Hospital State Fish Commission Salem Airman i - Wins Honors' Airman Donald R. Satter. son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Satter of Sa lem Route 6, has been named air man of the month for his unit. the 6021 Reconnaissance Squad ron in Japan. A graduate of Salem High School in 1954, young Satter is squadron draftsman for his unit In his spare time he is working with missionaries at his base and is currently teaching a class of young Japanese. New Corporations Filed With State New corporations filed with the state Monday included: Cable T. V. Corporation, Win chester Bay, $25,000, George W. Neuner, J? V. Long and Donald A. Dole, radio, television and elec tronic industry. Greater Portland, Inc., Portland, Frank E. Clark, John Rebstock and George Bertz, to promote sports, recreation and business. Gas-Heat of Baker, Inc., Port land. $50,000. Prescott W. Cook- ingham, W. C. McCall and Paul F. Murphy. (Editor's note: This is one in a series summarizing the $15 million state building program now under consideration of the State Legislature. The series Is taking Bp first the 11 projects planned in the Salem area, to be followed by projects elsewhere in the state.) j PORTLAND MENTAL HOSPITAL I Biggest construction project in the $15 million state building program for the next two years is start of construction of a sate mental hospital in the Portland area, i This project is put down for $6,330,000 for the next two years, including $450,000 for initial equip ping and the bulk of it for the first phases of. construction. The hos pital eventually will cost about $15 million.! In arriving at the amount of money to request for this institution. considerable study was made,! not only ; by the architects but by the institution superintendents and other personnel. Mental Hospitals are generally sub-divided into a receiving! unit, intensive treatment unit, medical-surgical unit, continued treatment unit and geriatrics unit. It was the unanimous opinion of each individual concerned that the receiving and treatment unit and the medical-surgical unit should positively be the first ones constructed j in i that order. All patients. regardless of type, in a mental hospital must pass through the ad mission and receiving ward f for detailed diagnosis) and then the treatment ward where intensive treatment frequently makes it possi ble for them to be discharged directly from that unit without ever having to 6 to the continued treatment unit. , Suffer Other Ailments ; ; Likewise the medical-surgical unit i necessary at the start for the simple reason that patients who are mentally ill also suffer such ailments as pneumonia or other ailments frequently involving surgery. . i j . I - The above units will provide a total of 450 beds and it is contemplated'-using these faculties for all types of mental patients until such .'time as the continued treatmen units and geriatrics, unit can be undertaken. j I j The existing two mental hospitals are gaining in resident popula tion at the rate of approximately 125 additional patients each year. At this rate, the gain in resident population in a three-year period will be 375 over and above that we now hate. Upon completion of the new wing at! the Oregon State Hospital, it is estimated that it will be practically filled immediately due to the fact that the old infirmary, Ward 28 ind an old wooden barracks will be vacated and that, in addition, those patients now sleeping in corridors after these changes take' plaice including the new wing, will be 3400 patients and the average population during March, 1935, at the Oregon State Hospital was 3380. iThe Eastern Oregon State Hospital is filled to capacity. I 1 ' ! I The first phase of construction is materially the most expensive due to the fact 'that certain basic work roust be performed such as the purchase of site, construction of, roads,! sewage facilities, water facilities, etc. Parts of this work must ibe performed whether the institution houses 100 or the ultimate immediate goal of 1500. STATE FISH COMMISSION 1 In the state building program for the next biennium, the State Fish Commission is down for $50,298, divided into three parts two in connection with the Alsea River fish butchery and the third with the commission's laboratory. Items to complete the Alsea station are; required because initial funds were not enough to complete construction. The first item is $9,600 to build a utility building on Upper Fall Creek in Lincoln Commanders Of 2 Reserve Units Named Two Salem Army Reserve units had new commanders Monday af ter shifts ordered by the 104th In- ! fantry Division of which they are a part. Maj. Thomas P. Bays, Salem, a veteran of World War II service in the Pacific, was named to com mand the 929th Field Artillery Battalion, and Capt. Willard Hul- burt, Albany, will command Com pany K, 413th Infantry Regiment. Both have headquarters at the Army Reserve armory here. Bays succeeds Mai. Glen W Wyatt, 1174 Ruge St., who has been transferred to the Reserve's com mand school in Salem. A member of the artillery unit for six years, Bays has served as commander of Battery A, v plans and training officer and executive officer of the battalion. Mai. cays, in assuming com mand of the battalion, announced two shifts in personnel of the head quarters unit. Maj. Joseph Coffey, 1026 N. Winter St., was advanced from S-3 to executive officer, and Capt. Lloyd G. Hammel, 2380 E. Nob Hill, from assistant S-3 to S-3. The 929th Battalion has its Head quarters and Headquarters Bat tery and A Battery in Salem. Bat tery B is located in Enterprise. Bays, a loan appraiser for Trav elers Insurance Co., resides at 1633 Madison St. vehicles are under shelter. subject to County. At present state equipment and rapid deterioriation because' they are not Rearing Pond Space. . The second item of $5,400 is to provide additional rearing pond space to make use of full capacity of present facilities . for produc tion. The pond would be 50 by 200 feet, of earth construction. Third item is $3538 for repairing and altering buildings which the commission obtained near Clackamas; from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These will provide office! and laboratory space for the commission's research division. I Since the federal buildings were used they require alteration to be of permanent which is now using them without any upkeep. If the buildings are not altered, the .offices eventually would have to find more suitable rental quarters at an estimated cost of $6,000 per biennium for residence purposes. use to the commission EKstromMay Seek Speaker Of House Post By ROBERT E. GANG WARE City Editor, The Statesman A Salem. legislator. Rep. Robert L. Elfstrom, said Monday he prob ably would become a candidate for speaker of the House at the next legislative session. Half a dozen of the state repre sentatives have been eyeing the presiding officer s post and mak ing at least tentative overtures to ward it in the final days of the present session. ' Elfstrom; now in his second term and chairman of the House highways committee, said he hadn't definitely made up his mind to seek the speakership, but had been asked to do so by several Republican leaders. Elfstrom is a Salem businessman and a former mayor. ! ; Abo Candidate Rep. 'Robert Jensen, a Portland real estate and insurance man active in Republican circles there, announced . he would run for speaker. ; Two other Ranuhlirans vhnc names nave been mentioned fre quently for the post are Rep. Loran .Stewart of Cottage Grov and Kep. Ed CardweU of Lebanon. They haven't come to any deci sion, but have conferred with each other and with other House lead ers on the subject Two Democrats. Dredictin? a Democratic majority in the House next session, also announced thev are candidates for speaker. These are Reps. Pat Dooley, Portland attorney, and Robert Klemsen, St Helens. Demu Majority Some of the Senate Democrats also are Dredictinz a Democratic majority in their chamber, of the Legislature. One of them. Sen. Robert D. Holmes, Gearhart, now in his fourth, session, said Monday he would be a candidate for Sen ate president. He is a radio sta tion manager. s . Republicans interested in the Senate president nost include Sens. Warren Gill, Lebanon, and Paul Geddes, Roseburg. Both are attorneys and legislative veterans. The Republicans hold a 24 to S majority in the Senate and a 35 to 25 majority in the House this year. 'Last Effort' Due On Marion County Districting Bill A last effort will be made -to day to get the Marion County sub- districting bill out of committee, announced Sen. Pat Lonergan (R), Portland, chairman of the Senate elections committee which received the bill after its passage by the House. Lonergan said he doubted the bill would get far in view of the Senate's defeat Saturday of a similar Lane County districting bill. The Marion County plan calls for two districts, each electing two state representatives, instead of electing all four at large. The proposal would go to the voters of Marion County for final decision. Solons Thank Salem Doctor Dr. Ralph Purvine, Salem phy sician. - was rnmnlimpntprl and thanked by the House of Repre sentatives Monday for his volun tary services during the Ieglsla live session. The House adopted a resolution oi manxs ana aeciaea to give Purvine a 250 pi ft in rMnmt. tion of this daily attendance at House and senate, for medical tuusuimuuu tjy legislators. mm S TAR GAZER AMCC J&3 MAR. 21 AWL 20 yf MAY 21 32-40-51 (MM MAY 22 JUNE 23 JULY 23 1-43-55-59 '61-70-B3-W uo 3 JULY 24 AUG. 23 3.10-12-24 1-60-75 vtco AUGl 24 i CfAT 9-17-25-d Br CLAY H POLLAN- M Your Ooity Activity GuKt JK According to tht Stan. . To develop messoge for Tuesdoy, reod words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth sign. 5rr.2J ft OCT. 23 7- 38-39 Tl 64-6881-86M 1 U 2 Don't 5 Be 4 A . 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DEC 11-27-29-53 63-71-76 capmcom fe J3 t- -13-15l P3-36-54 VJ AQUAHm FES. 19 tl8-2o-34Tri 157-63-79-87 mas 1 4-16-19-28 ft 45-48-56 House Rejects Bill to Revive State Price Controls on Milk The long-developing move for reviving milk price control stopped short Monday at the Legislature when the House voted down the bfll 38 to 22. Oregon voters repealed milk control last year, but some of the state's Grade A milk producers proposed new legislation to set up a system of guaranteed prices to the dairy producers, while leav ing the retail price to open compe tition. - Rep. Joe Rogers (D), Independ ence, said producers would have to YMCA Adds 2 Swim Classes For Children Registration went beyond expec tations Monday at the Salem YM CA for "Tots Swim Periods." As a result, two additional, classes have been added. . Classes are open for boys and girls 6 to 8. Twenty-six can still be taken for the second added class, which will be held at 8 a.m. Tuesday through Friday during the following four periods: June 6, June 27, July 18 and Aug. 8. ; Each period lasts three weeks. When this class is filled, any registrations will be placed on a waiting list. Meanwhile, the YM announces that the day camp for boys 6 to 8 has some 15 openings remaining. Youngsters are picked up at the YM Monday through Friday at 9 a.m. and returned to the YM at 5 p.m: s Camp Crestwood, the camping site, is 8V4 miles south of Salem. seek a federal milk control setup if the bill failed and that prelim inary moves for a federal setup , had been made. He was prime sponsor of the bill, along with Rep. ! Elmer Deetz (R)f Canby, who said the legislation was necessary to keep milk producers in the business in the event of a price war. . Another dairyman - legislator. Rep. Arthur Ireland (R), Forest Grove, predicted passage of tht bill would tend to encourage price wars and would be harmful to producers in the long run. He and other opponents said the people had made their wishes clear in re pealing milk control and the in dustry now should work out its own problems. f . The 22 legislators voting for the bill were Rogers, Deeti, Reps. Ed die Ahrens, Ben Anderson, Gust Anderson, George Annala, R. F. Chapman, R; L; Elfstrom, William Grenfell, Richard Groener, Earl Hill, , Norman Howard, Robert Klemsen, Jean Lewis, Rod Mc Kenzie, Thomas McClellan. Boyd Overhulse, Maurine Neuberger, Henry Semon, Robert Steward, Wayne Giesjt and G. D. Gleason. Herrold Resigns From County Planning Board O. R. Herrold, Stayton, a mem ber of the Marion County Planning Commission since its inception, re signed from that agency Monday. Herrold said business interests in Dallas, which is in Polk County, have necessitated a move to that city. The Commission is composed of nine members, plus the county engineer and county assessor. Check Passer Gets 9 Months A bad check charge Monday sent John Henry McNeill to Mar ion County jail for 9 months. Mc Neill, 37, was sentenced by Circuit Judge George R. Duncan. Calvin Lee Lewis, 38, and Rob ert Lee Smith, 27, were the only others arraigned in Circuit. Court Monday. Both pleaded guilty to bad check charges and were con tinued for sentencing. LAST STORY HOUR The last Salem public library story hour for the 6eason will be 4 p.m. Wednesday in the fireplace room. It will be resumed in Sep tember, r Long Illness Takes Life of Sglem Woman Mrs. Daisy E. Laughlin, 80. who lived most rjf her life in Newberg. died Thursday in a Salem hospital after fivej years illness. For the past seven years she lived with her daughter, Mrs. Ruth McCoy, 1545 Pearl St., Salem. Born Aug. 13, 1874 in Steele City, Neb., Mrs, Laughlin came west in about 1889 and to Newberg in 1916. Her late husband John C. Laugh lin, who died in 1941, was a black smith. i - Mrs. Laughlin entered the hos pital Friday. Besides her daughter, she leaves .two grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The grandchildren are Mrs. Beverley McCoy, Albany, and Mrs. Marjorie Graham, Port - land. i Services will be 1:30 p.m. Wed nesday at the Hodson-Grirn funeral home in Newberg under the direc tion of the Clough-Barrick funeral home. Burial wiH be at Friends Cemetery, Newberg. WW typical rates from Salem . . . . . i $ Medford Bend . . . Astori V Eugen . .80 .60 .55 .40 - Station to station rates, not includiag for 3 avnutes sfter S .. weekdays and fl toy Sunday . Savm timmcall by number FaerTte Taliphoni vorks to auki year tekaaeM a aiu v1m mv to Unit d UHI7ED. . . Fastest x Along the Coast and to the East! hrs. SAtimnncisco SEATTLE ! firs. liTOrs CHICAGO, m'jvomi JO' hr. 2 IfiigbU da3y both North , anrjISoutk in the world's most advanced twin-engine , airliner United's Convair Mainliner. Airport rarawW. 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