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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1961)
Ke lister-Guard, Eugene. Oregon (A Sunday, May , 1961 Road Funds Top Budget Item in '61 But Time Permit Most Talked About EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in a five-part series summing iip accomplish ments of the 1961 legislature. By DOUGLAS GRIPP and A. H. PEARSON By United Preu International ' m SALEM (UPI) The legisla ture approved $224 million for roads and a bridge to ease Ore gon traveling; then it provided two sets of time to confuse half the travelers who take to the highways. If roads $192 million, plus a $24 million Astoria-Megler bridge, and $4 million each for slate highways 42 and 107 were the biggest budgeted items, Portland area daylight saving time is cer tainly the most talked about - At many a driver has found ' out, it now takes a little over two hours, by the clock, to travel form Salem to Portland. It takes about five minutes, by the clocks, to get back. v ' ' Opponents are calling this the legislature's most insulting ac tion, since Oregon voters turned down daylight time again last year. Nervy or not, It's catching. MANY CHANGING - Communities all over the state have met to consider fast time, artificial time, summer time, and sundial time, and one town de clared in jest it would move its calendars a week ahead, The change, at least, has point ed up the ties that link the rest of the state to Portland and per haps by Influence the ties that bind Portland to the rest of the nation, If nothing else, the experiment is timely, since it will give voters an actual up-to-date experience when they vote on statewide fast time at the polls next year. ' In-addition to highway spend ing, the highway code got a thor ough spring cleaning. ; , . . ( Hotrodderi were told to lift their car bodies at least to the level of the wheel rime, log truckers won protection against outsiders, and laws were laid to ' dear away billboards that, ob- , struct scenic views. : TAX CUT VETOED ' A few more daring inovations were dashed. The legislature had its fingers rapped with, a veto : when it tried to give' heavy trucks a tax break. Beflectorized - and life-term license plates were rejected, v. The driving age stayed at 18, in spite of efforts to raise it , Compulsory auto: insurance , died, but Sen. Rohaft Straub, D- Eugene, said he will try to take It to the people. What looked like the outbreak ' of a bridge epidemic was nipped when the solons denied pleas for four more bridges at Albany, ' Oswego. Dayton and Ontario. ! Gov. Mark Hatfield's pleas for ' speed limits and laws to make It easier to arrest and test drunk : en drivers were ignored. A law - requiring safety belts died after one lawmaker said surveys showed people usually "sat on them."; ' Like-highways, the legislature made extensive overhauls in the . fields of criminal law, the mili tia, and commerce. IDEAS APPROVED Most of the Judiciary Interim Committee's legal recommends' tions, were approved, including , a strengthened law aimed at curbing obscene matter, partic- ' ularlv for children. The legislature's successful ef forts in the field of Justice were capped with a modernized definl tion of legal insanity that will give more weight to psychiatric findings. K replaces a century- mo law. The code governing the state - anllltla was completely revamped. A sweeping commerce code, to update laws governing nearly all business transactions, was passed, but it won't go into effect for two years. The need for the two years was expressed by a young attorney, . who said it made half his law school training at least partially obsolete. The legislature extended olvll rights to public services. It also approved humane slaughter for steers and pigs, but got no-where in efforts to end the death penalty. Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton failed to win $50,000 for crimo prevention. Lobbyists' fortunes swayed with the legislative tides, but as a class they won an implicit volo of confidence when a bill to regu late lobbying failed even to got out of committee. Kingston Trio Plans To Split Up Act SAN JOSE, Calif. OP The Kingston Trio, one of the most successful acts in show business, plans to split up in six months because the three young record ing stars don't get along any more. Dave Guard plans to leave his two partners, Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane. Reynolds and Shane will continue the trio with a new partner. Guard said ho In tends to continue his singing career alone, ' I 4-IQUAHI GUARANTEE K. , ft lJI Wl A ifi I 1 AsMlafchhiMtariak,o- ,r. r .'l J """ Q" 1 I . nonMp tar M of Ina4. 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