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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, December 26, 1940
SSfAL NEWS
O Official Family
O Reapportionment
O Building Program
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. Oregon's official family
will continue to function with only
one major change of personnel after
the first of the year. Leslie. P.
Scott of Portland, the voters' choice
for state treaurer in the recent
election will take over the dutes now
performed by Walter E. Pearson on
January 6. In addition to his duties
as state treasurer Scott will also sit
in as a member of the Board of
Control, Land Board, Printing Board
and State Bond commission. In
compliance with the statutory pro
vision that requires the treasurer
elect to take the oath of office within
20 days of his official notification
Scott was sworn in by Justice Percy
R. Kelly this week, the simple cere
mony taking place in the presence
of a few friends in the supreme
court chamber.
Incidentally, Justicie Kelly be
comes chief justice of the supreme
court after January 1, succeeding
Justice John L. Rand who has held
that post of honor the past two
years.
In addition to the $19,500,000 of
general fund cash which it is esti
mated will be required to finance
appropriation-supported state activi
ties during the next two years, state
boards, commissions and depart
ments will spend the huge sum of
$87,000,000 according to estimates
filed with the state budget director.
Greatest spending agency will be the
highway department whose budget
calls for a total of $31,000,000 finan
ced largely through gasoline taxes,
automobile licenses and federal
grants, Expenditures of the Public
Welfare commission are estimated
at $19,200,000 including liquor prof
its, federal aid and county contribu
tions toward relief of the needy. The
Unemployment Compensation com
mission expects to disburse $9,700,000
in jobless insurance payments and
administrative costs, financed thru
taxes on industrial payrolls. Expend
itures of the Industrial Accident
commission are estimated at $9,500,
000 in benefit payments to injured
workmen and their dependents. Ex
penditures by other non-general
fund activities include: World War
Veterans State Aid commission, $5,
000,000; Fish, game, forestry and ag
riculture departments, $3,200,000;
education (in addition to appropria
tions from general funds) $3,000,
000; public utilities commission and
other regulatory bodies, $2,000,000;
general government, $900,000; health
and sanitation, $400,000.
A discarded measure of the 1935
session has been dug out of the
scrap heap, dusted off and is being
presented to members of the forth
coming legislative session as the
solution to the problem of what to
do with the state's aged residents.
Briefly, the measure provides for a
retirement annuity of $60 per month,
or so much thereof as finance will
permit, to all residents of the state
who have passed their 60th birthday
and who are ready to cease gainful
employment. The retirement annuity
would be financed through a tax on
wages, salaries and other individual
incomes. The 1935 measure called for
a tax of one per cent with a pro
vision that this levy could be in
creased to a maximum of two and
one-half per cent if experience prov
ed the one per cent levy to be in
adequate. The measure has the sup
port of leaders of the old age pension
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offer it to the session; as a substitute
for the program to be offered by the
governor's interim committee for the
retirement of public employees.
Lt. Col. Elmer V. Wooten, state
director for selective service, return
ed Friday from Washington, D. C,
where he conferred with national
officials on problems connected with
the draft. While no official word has
yet been received on the subject
Wooten expects a call for a large
number of Oregon men for military
training in January.
One of the biggest problems con
fronting the approaching legislative
session will be that of reapportion
ing 'the state. While the constitution
provides that the task shall be un
dertaken every ten years, following
each federal census it is now more
than 30 years since the last legisla
tive reapportionment although minor
readjustments in representative and
senatorial districts have been made
from time to time.
Mutlnomah county legislators,
whose county would be the chief
beneficiary of any thorough reap
portionment at this time, are coming
to the session prepared to insist upon
a complete reshuffling of the legis
lative deck. At the present time
Multnomah county has six members
of the senate, plus one other shared
with Clackamas county, and 13 rep
resentatives, plus one shared with
Clackamas and Columbia counties.
That gives this one county approxi
mately 22 per cent of the senate and
House membership. Inasmuch as
the county contains approximately
one-third of the state's population
its delegation insists that it is en
titled to one-third the legislative
seats. That means an addition of
three senators and six representa
tives. But in order to give Multno
mah county these additional mem
bers they must be taken away from
less populous counties. And there is
the rub. Up-state counties feel that
Multnomah county wields entirely
too much influence in the legislature
already for the good of the state as
a whole. To give Multnomah the ad
ditional members to which she is
entitled on a strictly population ba
sis, it is feared, would be to turn over
complete domination of the law
making body to that county. Counties
destined to lose through a legisla
tive reapportionment at this time
can be expected to oppose the move,
and, under the circumstances these
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