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TWO MEOTORD (OREOOH) MAIL TRIBUNE Oregon House lakes Breather After Completing fax Action; (Program Sent to State Senate By BILL FORCE United Preti Correipondcnt Salem (U.R) The House took a vacation Saturday, skip ping a Saturday morning ses sion after completing action Fri day on its full tax revenue pro gram and sending it to the Senate. The upper house must now consider whether it will ac cept without change the pro gram which originated in the House. The state constitution re quires that revenue measures must originate in the House. The Senate may amend and change House revenue bills but may not write substitute rev enue measures of its own. Now in Senate committee is the controversial income tax measure that passed the House Friday with the minimum num ber of votes required for pas sage. Opposition to the bill came principally from Democrats in the House and led some obser vers here to predict it would have smoother sailing in the Senate where Republicans hold a more solid majority. Special Election Talked Also in the lap of the Senate Assessment and Taxation com mittee is a bill to impose a tax on Oregon cigarette smokers. That and the income tax bill weve the .only revenue tax mea sures seriously challenged in the House. . Farm and labor groups have promised they will immed;ately circulate petitions in an effort to put the two measures on the ballot for voter attack. That threat has prompted the House Taxation committee to consider a bill that would automatically call for a special election as soon as referral petitions are certified with the secretary of state. Democrat opposition to the in come tax bill stemmed from what they said would be its Impact on the Incomes of small wage earn ers. Rep. Pat Dooley (D-Port-land) called it a "rich man's bill" and said the House had allowed itself to be frightened by catch phrases. He said he found it amusing that Rep. C. Allen Tom(R-Rufus)had said the bill would broaden the tax base while Rep. Loran Stewart (R- Cottage Grove) had said there would be no serious addition to the tax burden of lower income groups. Dooley asserted the two state ments were contradictory. He predicted the tax "won't last 60 days after we leave here." Tom and Stewart, principal proponents of the bill in floor debate, had both urged on mem bers the advisability of bringing- into the tax rolls at least part of the one-third of the state's families that now pay no tax at all. By cutting the exemption from $600 to $500, they said they had achieved a broader base but that the total tax would be levied against low er income groups would be neg ligible. The three-cent cigarette tax passed the House with less dif ficulty than the income tax bill Sunday Arll 3, 1955. Woman BoUflcf Over Oil Fatal Shooting Charge Portland (U.R) A' 55-year-old Portland woman was bound over to the grand jury here Friday in connection with the fatal shooting Thursday of a tenant in the rooming house she managed. Mrs. Ethel L. Edwards, held in connection with the death of Gerald Edward Holt, 39, a par tially disabled Navy veteran, waived preliminary hearing be fore Municipal Judge John J. Murchison. but several members pointed out they had voted for it with serious misgivings. Voters have repeatedly turned down "such a tax, but Rep. Roderick Mcken zie (R-Sixes) pointed out that never before has the state been in such serious financial straits. All states bordering on Ore gon have such a tax. California which has both a. sales tax and income tax will have a cigarette tax in July. The House Taxation commit tee has not offered an alterna tive revenue program to the one now before the Senate. It will barely balance the state's books and, if it is rendered inoperative by a referendum petition, the only recourse will be collection of a state tax on property, ac cording to Stewart. . Dog Kace Foe Tallies Case to Legislators Salem (U.R) Vincent J. Farina, who hopes to keep Lane county free of a dog racing track, Friday appealed to the House State and Federal Affairs Committee for favorable action on a bill that would allow voters in his county to pass on the issues. - Representing a citizens' com mittee opposed to dog racing and its accompanying pari mutuel betting, Farina said a local option provision in the racing law would free the State Racing Commission from the sole responsibility of passing on applications for race operations. An expression of public opin ion would ease the burden of the commission which is already charged with policing of present racing plants, he said. Farina ex pressed confidence that anti-racing groups could successfully combat the campaign that racing groups might bring to bear in such an election. "Deal" Charged Archie Weinstein, represent ing Greyhound Park of Eugene, said he agreed with Farina there should be local option. But he declared that privilege should be statewide and he accused I Farina's group of "making a deal" with Portland dog racing interests to restrict the bill's ef fects to Lane county. The charge was immediately denied by Fari na and Rep. Edwin Cone (R-Eu-gene). Weinstein said the "vested in terests want the status quo." And he added that Cone's local option bill would tend to per petuate a monopoly. Portland is the only Oregon city which now has a dog racing plant. A racing commission bill now is before the House Judiciary Committee. It would give the commission a set of nine bases for rejecting applications for a racing operation. Rep. Loran Stewart (R-Cottage Grove) said he believed that bill would be adequate to protect Lane coun ty if it did not want racing. The racing commission has twice turned down Greyhound park applications for Lane county. Portland Man Killed In Washington Mishap Chehallis, Wash. (U.R) Cari M. Wood, 41, Portland, was killed Friday night in a two-car collision about a mile and a half south of Toledo, Wash., the state patrol reported. Wood, who was a welder, was thrown from the car. No other injuries were reported. - - Yemen King Ahmed Driven From Throne Aden (U.R) King Ahmed of Yemen has been swept from the throne of his isolated desert country in a bloodless Army coup, authoritative reports said Saturday. These reports, reaching this Indian ocean port city from the Arab kingdom, said the crown was given to Prince Saif Al- Islam Abdullah, brother of Ah med and his former foreign minister. (A dispatch from Cairo said Yemen Premier Seifel Islam el Hassan, who is in Cairo, con firmed that the coup had taken place.) Abdullah, a well-travelled diplomat of 48, is one of the few Yemenites known to the West. He represented his country at many Arab nation meetings and took part in the Palestine con ference of 1948 in London. He also has visited the United States as chief delegate to the United Nations. Reports from Yemen said the coup was carried out by the Army. They said Ahmed left his palace to meet Army lead ers -but refused during the abdi cation negotiations to give up his Elurdhi fortress at Taez southern Yemen's major armed post. Politician in Chicago Keeps Promises; Buys New Street Sweeper West Coast Lines Buys Liberty Freighter Portland (U.R) West Coast Steamship Line announced Fri day the purchase of a . Liberty freighter to be added to its Pa cific fleet. . The vessel, the 'North Light, will be renamed the Willamette Trader, according to Kit C. Con yers, general manager. Conyers said the vessel was purchased through Columbia Steamship Company, a wholly-owned West Coast subsidiary formed recent ly. West Coast's Portland fleet now numbers four vessels. , Chicago (U.R)-Charlie Weber was born on : Southport Street. The other day he bought a $600 street sweep and cleaned up his old neighborhood. A "colorful character, Charlie Weber, a politician of the old school who believes in doing "little favors" for his people. As newly-elected alderman of the 45th ward, he decided to keep his campaign promise and clean up the streets even if he had to buy a street sweeper to do it. "I bought It with my pay as a state representative," said Weber, a veteran of more than 20 years in the state Legislature. "Last summer, on the hottest day of the year, I bought a snow plow, and believe me it came in handy this past winter." He said the plow, a sidewalk type, cost $1900. Spare Time Work Weber contends the City Bu reau of Sanitation can't do a good job of street cleaning be cause of parked cars. With his own sweeper, he said he can have his 70-odd precinct cap tains take turns cleaning the streets "in their spare time." ... Weber's flair for showmanship turned the sweeper's shakedown cruise into a big thing. He showed up in a Bavarian costume short pants, galluses, knee-length socks and a green Tyrolean hat with a big, white feather. The outfit was given him by the late Mayor Reuter of Ber lin. Most of the 70,000 people in Weber's ward are, like him, of German extraction, so it wasn't bad politics to wear the outfit. Bare knees and all, Weber climbed aboard the bright red sweeper and posed for photog raphers in front of St. Adolphus Church. Directly across the street is a bench Weber installed on the corner for constituents waiting for buses. A sign on it says: "Courtesy of Charlie Weber." Joe Weber House Down the street is the house where Weber was born. He haj converted it into a hall for pub lic meetings, and has named it for his father, "Joe Weber Hall." Next door a sign says, "Char'w Weber, real estate office." Across the street is a lot Weber donated as a playground, equip ped with swings and a jungle jim. A huge sign says: "Charlie Weber independent play lot. "Charlie Weber says: "Have fun but be careful. "Good kids always have good luck." Some of Weber's tactics don't set too well with his opposition Charles J Fleck, Republicen committeeman in Weber's ward, charged that Weber spent $40, 000 on his campaign. Weber says hev spent between $3000 and $4000. Fleck charged Weber left $50 bills on the bars of saloon" t- buy drinks for voters. Weber de nied it, but said of Fleck: "He never bought a drink for anybody." Northwest Power Plant In Action Week Early Seattle (U.R) Another Pacific Northwest power plant went into action a week early to meet the power needs r-f the region's rapidly expanding econ omy, the Army Engineers an nounced Saturday. Col. N. A. Mathias, Seattle district engineer, said generator No.l at Albeni Falls dam on the Pend Oreille river was on schedule one week in advance. He said the first power unit was scheduled to begin producing power on the line Friday. But the unit passed Its est 00 well it was ready March 24 and be gan actual production on tha line that date. HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS Station KWIN 1400 K.C. Sundays 10:15 A.M. HEAR Christian Healing Explained Science Larry Smyth Resigns As Interior Assistant Washington (U.R) Larry Smyth, assistant to Interior Sec retary Douglas McKay and in formation' director of the depart ment, has announced his resigna tion effective May 1. 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