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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
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1400 K.C.
Sundays
10:15
A.M.
HEAR
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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.
Smyth will return to the staff
of the Oregon Journal at Port
land where he was a political
writer before taking his present
post in February, 1953.
McKay said he was accepting
Smyth's resignation "with keen
regret." He said he would an
nounce Smyth's successor later
this month.
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