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.
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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.
They include a dentist, a real
estate man, a retired construc
tion engineer, an advertising
man, the head of a grape juice
company and a postman who re-
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Women aren't barred, but so
far the only do-it-yourself lady
a professional photographer
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who Is making some furnitura
for her studio. -The
clients pay $50 . for the
privilege of using the shop for
12 periods of three and half
hours each. "It works out at less
than $1.25 an hour. They can
spend an evening here for about
what it would cost to go to the.
movies," Kuhn said.
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