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SIXTEEN MED70RD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, December IS, 1SS4 1955 Legislature Expected To Be Busy One; Sales Tax Talk Heard Salem U.R) The 1955 ses sion of the Oregon Legislature will convene here in January, and veteran observers are as; one in predicting it will be one of ; the most interesting sessions in a couple of decades and per haps one of the longest. Some knotty problems con front the session, from educa tion and the direction of the basic school support program to taxation. Talk was revived in Corvallis at a tax conference last week of a sales tax to take up a de ficit expected to develop within the next year. Oregon voters have turned down a sales tax five times. 'In 1951 some legis lators made overtures indicating they would like to. try it again, but F. H. (Dutch) Young, head of the Oregon Tax Research, who had a spearheaded previous tries at the sales tax, told the legis lators: "Don't do it, boys. The time isn't ripe yet. You'll just get turned down again by the voters." May Try Again But the indications are that the attempt will come again this next session. The Oregon Farm Bureau Federation this year, for the first time, at its recent meet ing in Medford, came out in favor of a sales tax. Then came the further emphasis at the Cor vallis conference. And several legislators and commentators have said Oregon must look to a new form of tax, other than its property tax and income tax. Few doubt that the "new form" they mention is the sales tax, in ington to the north and Califor nia to the south. An indication of the long strug gle the Legislature will have in the field of education is seen in the fact that an advisory com mittee to the State Board of Higher Education split pretty close to down the middle on whether the basic school sup port fund formula should be changed or left as is. Those who want to change it would like to put it more on an equalization basis; that is, give more to the school districts with less local tax resources to bring their schools up to minimum stand ards. That would take about $600,000 of basic school funds from Portland and spread it to upstate districts. This plan was recommended by the advisory committee by a vote of only 17 to 14, and ob servers are quite certain the de bate will be about equally di vided one way or the other when it comes before the education committees of House and Senate and when it gets to the floor of each house. The State Board of Education, meeting here last week, decided Mendes-France Wins Close Reform Vote Paris (U.R) Premier Pierre Mendes-France won , a narrow parliamentary victory Saturday on his North African reform pol icy, then turned to face a loud Soviet diplomatic drive aimed at scaring France into scrapping the German rearmament aaree- vogue for many years in Wash- mentsl to pass the report of its ad visory committee on to the Leg islature, without taking any stand on it. In fact, George C. Huggins of Coos Bay, chairman of the board, questioned whether it was within the province of the board to recommend changes to the legislature. Welfare will be another mat ter, as it has in the past, to get a long look and a lot of atten tion. Liquor control will, as in the past, also be given a careful scrutiny. Only recently Attor ney General Robert Y. Thornton said he was going to look into any and all reports of gratuities or favors received from distil lery representatives by Oregon Liquor Control Commission of ficers and employees. Suspension Upheld He made the statement after the State Civil Service Board had upheld the suspension of an OLCC executive for accepting a small amount to help defray the expense of bringing his wife to a convention. In all, it looks as if the 1955 session will have a . job on its hands. And the men destined to lead the two houses Edward A. Geary of Klamath Falls as speak er of the House and Elmo E. Smith of John Day as president of the Senate have taken a page from the past and have indicated they would make no predictions as to the length of the session. For the. past two sessions, lead ers had predicted a certain goal, and last session the Legislature adjourned sine die on the 100th day, 16 days shorter than the 1951 session. 5 IRELAND jMW 3f conic fwS fP ' MILES"" IRISH DISASTER Shaded area on Newsmap locates Dublin, Ireland, where winds of gale proportions drove towering tides from the Irish Sea into five sauare miles of city, flooding 6000 homes. A municipal spokesman called it Dublin's worst disaster since Republican Raiders burned the city during the 1916 anti-British r p r i s i n g. Navin, 40 miles north, also reported floods. Two Sharp Quakes in Puerto Rico Reported New York (U.R) Two "sharp earthquakes"' in the vicinity of Puerto -Rico were recorded Saturday on the Ford ham university, seismograph. The university said the' first quake shook the recording in struments at 8:03 a.m. It was followed by a second one five minutes later. - The university said the earth quakes probably were not from the same area from which quakes originated Friday, about 1,800 miles from New York in the Caribbean. . 'Db-It-Yourself7 Woodworkers Receive Professional Help at Shop in New York New York (U.R) Pity the j poor ao-it-yourseu nend who doesn't have a basement to put ter around in. Or even a work bench, or a. brace-and-bit. But he need sorrow no more if he can cough up $50 plus subway fare to a nondescript old building on the upper east side of Manhattan where, lo and behold, his workshop is ready and waiting. Behind the doors of this con verted garage is a mouth-watering array of brand new hand and power tools, individual workbenches and stacks of lumber. Also there are three profes sional cabinet makers who have nothing to do all evening but look over the do-it-yourself man's shoulder and help him out if he has trouble squaring up a board. All this is the project of Sam Kuhn, a retired management en gineer and . long-time - amateur woodworker. It is not exactly a woodworking school nor an oc cupational therapy center nor a private club. In fact, Kuhn thinks there isn't anything else quite like it. "When I sold my place in Con necticut and moved into New York I couldn't bring my work shop with me," he explained. "I looked around for a place I could set up a little shop and before long I was organizing this thing." So far Kuhn has recruited about 20 "clients" from the Man hattan cliff dwellings where a drill-press wouldn't fit into the penthouse decor or the neigh bors wouldn't countenance the whine of a lathe or electric saw. 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