Wednesday, April 22, 195S
Legislation Enacted
During 1953 Session
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
Pant'
By PAUL W.'HABVEY JR.
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jiKxvn legislature, sec
ond longest in history, passed
bout 700 bills to set a new
uwu, ana among that num
ber are some measures with
far-reaching effects.
State officials, judges and
uuirid attorneys got pay in
creases, but the state employes
-"it. na lmerim committee
was created to study property
taxation.
Oregon joined Washington In
pcuiiming ions
on the Van.
couver . Portland highway
bridge, the money to be used
w ouiia a second bridge.
The amount of insurance re
quired under the state financial
responsibility law was dou
bled, and motorists were prohi
bited from Installing television
in their cars, where driven
could see them. An Interim
committee was ordered to study
all highway problems, and mo
torists were banned from
. throwing lighted material from
weir cars at any time.
Government Keorraniiatlon
The Legislature voted to have
1 legislative counsel tp draft
bills and revise the laws, and
it let the governor take over
the Board of Control's duty to
appoint the Tax Commission.
An interim committee was Cre
ated to begin work' on a new
Constitution.
' The proposed State Depart
ment ol Revenue will be stu
died two more years, as will
the proposed State Department
of Motor Vehicles. Legislation
for a full-time Parole Board,
with the right to fix prison
sentences, died in committee.
The Ways and Means Commit
tee rejected the idea of having
a legislative analyst check on
operations of state departments,
and the bill to have a lieuten
ant governor was defeated.
Power and Water Resource
A two-year study of water
resources was ordered to try
to find a way to end the con
stant bickering over use of wa-
ter. Oregon's Interstate Co-operation
Commission was direct
ed to begin helping other
Northwest states in writing a
Columbia River Compact, and
a Klamath River Basin Com
mission was created to work
with California In writing a si
tnilar -impact. A bill was pass
ad to require public hearings
after electric companies add
surcharges.
Initiative Petitions
: i Measures passed would re-
: ejulre more signatures on InlU-
atives to amend the Constitu
tion, amended the Constitution
1 to permit dividing legislative
districts, require that an ap
pointee to any vacancy be of
the same party as his predeces
sor, let counties use voting ma
chines, require elections before
construction of housing proj
ects, -and put "price tags" on
. ballot measures that reduce
revenue.
Flinn Guilty
In Indian Fraud
'Portland, (U.B Clyde W.
Flinn, one of the three men in
dicted by a grand jury In Feb
ruary in connection with an
Indian land fraud, was free on
$3000 ball today pending sen
tence after pleading guilty to
llthree indictments in which
he wa named.
' Flinn -yesterday entered his
plea 'of guilty before U. S.
District Judge Claude McCol
loch here Just as court opened.
He had pleaded innocent to all
three charges when arraigned
earlier this month.
Flinn, along with Fred
darsh, Lebanon logging opera
or, 1 and John C. Blanford,
ras named in two indictments
barging conspiracy and giving
ilse information to the gov-
rnment.
The former land officer for
le Indian bureau here was
amed alone in a third indict
lent for giving false informs
on to the government.
Labor failed in its efforts to
get higher unemployment and
industrial accident benefits. Its
bill to extend unemployment
insurance to firms with fewer
than four emnlovei also failed.
On the final day the Legisla
ture banned nlcketine bv a un.
ion that is not the workers' rec
ognized bargaining agent
Education Measure .
Attempts to get school re
organization by simple majority
vote in a proposed consolidated
district failed.
Legislation wa approved to
continue operation of Oregon
Technical Institute at Klamath
Falls, settle the dispute be
tween the Board of Higher Ed
ucation and Civil Service Com
mission, officially change the
name of Oregon Agricultural
College to Oregon State Col
lege, and begin Oregon's parti
cipation in the Western States
Compact to pool higher educa
tion facilities.
Fish and Game
The governor was allowed to
postpone hunting seasons dur
ing periods of great forest fire
hazard.
The bills passed would regu
late aerial sprayers of farm
crbps, create commodity com
missions, increase the butter-
fat content of milk from 3.2 to
3.5 per cent, ban sale of horse
meat in market where other
kinds of meat are sold, provide
stronger Bang's Disease con
trols, reimburse for loss of
hogs which are slaughtered be
cause of vesicular exanthema,
and ban feeding of uncooked
garbage to hogs. .
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