1 Page Six 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 rtil 0 Complete Envelope Service Being a factory distributor in this city for Mail-Well Envelopes we are now able to fill ALL of your envelope needs. O Commercial and Official Envelopes Standard and special size envelopes for every need in many qualities and colors of paper stock. 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O Brag, Theatre Ticket, Iay, Florist Envelopes and many others 0 0 0 Insist on Your Double Guarantee of QUALITY SMforrcrw County's Newspaper movement who, it is understood, will 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 Continued on Page Seven Professional Directory Maternity Home Mrs. Lillie Aiken Phone 664 P.O. 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