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7tmntV MEDFORD (ORECOK) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, February 28, 1957 Anti-Trade Stamp legislation Seen In Many States y UNITED PRESS Legislation to curb or regulate the trading stamp business is jiendixj in 20 states, a survey showed today. In several states, the proposed nti-stamp laws stirred up squab bles involving lawmakers, gro cers and irate housewives. -, Hie state by state check, con- ducted by United Press, turned up everal proposals to make the stamps redeemable in cash as well as merchandise. Other bills would outlaw the stamps completely, require the companies issuing them to take out a license or tax the mer chants handling them. States in which anti-stamp legislation is pending include California, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon. It appeared doubtful that the measures would pass in many of the states. Much of the anti-stamp activ ity was in ihe South. Stamp saving housewivese, encouraged O by merchants, sent a flood of letters to the South Carolina leg islature to protest a series of bills, one -of which would out law stamps altogether. Many merchants were supply ing paper, pens and even post age stamps for customers who wanted to register a protest Sponsors of the anti-stamp legislation claimed big stores were using the trading stamps to squeeze little ones out of business. School Officials Discuss Bills Pending in Oregon Legislature Jackson county and Medford school officials last night dis cussed about 30 House and Sen ate bills pending in the state legislature which would affect education, at a county regional meeting in the Jackson county courthouse auditorium. Thirteen officials representing schools in ."ickson county and Medford spoke on issues at the informative session in which no decisions were reached. About 100 residents attended the meet ing. House bill 171 to increase the basic school support fund from S30 to $120 per school census child in Oregon was discussed by H. P. Jewett, superintendent of District 6C schools. Original Bill Pointing out the history of the basic fund, Jewett said it was enacted in 1946 when the legis- student basis to districts irre spective of their wealth, he said. The new bill is a corrective measure, Mayfield pointed out, intended to restore equalization of state school funds to the less wealthy and populous districts. The school superintendent said the proposed bill has three pro visions: that education in Ore gon is a state function and should assume some of its fi nance since it also sets up cer tain standards, that a basic mini mum school program should be established below which no dis trict could go, and that this pro gram would be financed and equalized on state resources as determined by the legislature. Dccrcass Noiad Jackson county received $25, 000 in equalization this year which shows a decrease of $200,- 000 in the past seven years, he iature decided education should "id. According to Mayfield this Higher Savings Bond Interest Qets Approval Washington iU.P.) The House Ways and Means commit tee doday approved the Treasury department's request for author ity to raise to 3', 4 per cent the interest rate on government sav ings boncft purchased on and after Feb. 1. The interest rate now is 3 per cent. The treasury wants to make the bonds more attractive to purchasers to bolster sagging sales. . Use Tribune Want Ad be broader than just a local problem. The original bill pro vided that 50 per cent of school costs would be borne on a state wide level. At that time, Jewett said, $50 was appropriated per school cen sus child and was increased to $80 in 1949. Becase of the rapid ly changing economy, he added, that amount now only makes available 27 per cent from the state fund to local and school costs. The new bill, according to Jewett, would increase and re store the state's contribution to local school districts to the orig inally planned 50 per cent. ,Its "end result," he said, would re lieve local districts of the extra lax burden which has compen sated for what the state has not been paying. Jewett said local property taxes would be "substantially lower." Citing an example of the effect of the new bill, he said the Medford school district would have received $574,000 in state receipts instead of $357,000 for the 1956-57 school year had the bill been enacted last year. Leonard Mayfield, superin tendent of Medford schools, ex plained Senate bill 64 which would revise the distribution formula of state funds to local school districts. State funds are now distributed on a teacher- Wateqfill RAZIER OF fl KENTUCKY BOURBON SIMCE IOIU yd i tru imno m hum dihrlew couFutr, iudstowi. unven decrease, which has been similar in the "less wealthy counties in the stale, is due to a fault in the original distribution plan. He added the proposed bill would eliminate that part of the law which now permits the in equitable distribution. In effect, he said, the bill would change the distribution formula from flat grants to districts already wealthy to a basis of need and tax relief. More populous areas in the state, like Portland, are fighting the bill because their contribu tion from state school funds would be less, Mayfield said. To reduce the impact of their loss, he added, the increase in the basic school support fund as outlined by Jewelt would keep their school receipts from the state stable. Would Reduce Taxes If the proposed distribution formula had been enacted last year, he said, school district taxes in the county would have been reduced about 20 per cent. Answering a question from a resident on what caused the county's equalization funds to drop, Mayfield explained part of the problem lies in the fact that county assessment ratios have decreased while proprty valua tions have increased. House bill 163 to reorganize Oregon school districts was out lined by Dr. Howard Balder stone, superintendent of Ash land schools. The bill would establish a county committee of nine legal voters that would make recommendations on loca tion of buildings, use of existing buildings and construction of new ones, he said. Make Study The committee would make studies and surveys, with tech nical aid from the state, on ade quacy of local education pro grams, adequacy of school build ings, determine value of school property, bonds, adjustments of all property, assets, debts and liabilities. School building aid to local districts from the federal and state government was discussed by John Niedermeyer, chairman of the Jackson County School Boards association. According to President Eisen hower's proposed program for 1 education, Niedermeyer said, FRIDAY MARCH lst-6 P.M. The Newly Remodeled "21" CLUB' - o ) The Working Man's Club '(FORMERLY STAN'S "Y" CLUB) DINING NOTHING FANCY - JUST GOOD PLAIN FOOD DANCING Music By Bob Roberts and the Melody Wranglers STARRING: DUKE POTHIER KENNY JACKS HARRY ALLBRIGHT Phone ..; 2-4190 $1 13 billion in grants-in-aid would be made available for construction of schools over a four-year period. He said Sen. Richard Neu berger of Oregon has introduced a bill, similar to the previous Kelly bill, which would make available federal funds for dis tribution over a five-year period on a basis of school-age popula tion. Niedermeyer said the bill would not necessarily mean wealthier districts would re ceive federal funds, but it could happen in cases like Portland. House bill 480 would provide S7 million annually for school builduig aid in "distressed" dis-; tricts, Niedermeyer said. To j qualify as distressed a district j must be bonded from 95 to 100 ; per cent of its capacity or have I substandard and multiplt shift classrooms, he said. j Under these standards no school district in Jackson county now qualifies as distressed, he said. Rural Districts Low Alf B. Mekvold, county school superintendent, explained Sen ate bill 174, which would revise the present rural school district law. The bill originally was en acted in 1947 to provide equaliz ation of education costs on the county level, he said. The law has upgraded stand ards of rural schools, he added, but recently rural school districts have become less in number, smaller and ineffective. Mekvold said the bill would do six things. They are: provide partial equalization on the coun ty level, reorganize adminstra tion of rural school districts, include equalization provisions for all school districts and not just rural, establish a tax base for rural school districts, revise the district's budget pro cedure so its funds would be di vided by a county board instead of several sources, and make the county school superintendent appointive by the county board instead of elective. Increase Bonding Frank Bash, member of the Medford school board, outlined House bills 168 and 317 which would increase the bonding ca pacity of school districts. He said 168 would increase it in district 549C, Medford, 30.7 per cent from $5,696,923 to $7,445,479, and 317 would increase it 29 per cent to 37,346,206. Harry Heidenreich, chairman of the Lone Pine school board, and John Harr, superintendent of Rogue River schools, summar ized about 25 bills now pending in the House and Senate of the state legislature. Discussed was House bill 369 providing state funds for stu dents educationally advanced, House bill 385 increasing appro priations for the physically han dicapped and mentally retarded, and House bill 476 providing for the instruction of alcohol and narcotics in public schools. Others were Senate bill 17 providing $45,000 for a state rec reation board, Senate bill 134 providing $220,000 in grants-in-aid for public libraries and Sen ate bill 1, co-sponsored by Sen ator Phil Lowry, of Medford, to provide for an interim commit- ; tee to study extent of mental re-. ; tardation. He is a member of the : senate education committee. ! Discussion Panel j A group discussion panel con cluded the program. Members of the panel were Glenn Smith, j Lyndal Newbry, Mrs. G. O. I Grove, Claude Thompson and 1 Otto Bohnert. Mrs. Leigh Gustlson was gen- ' eral chairman for the confer ence. She said one of the pur poses of the meeting was to prompt citizens to inform Jack son county legislator their views on education. i Dr. Marshall Woodell, pro fessor of political science at Southern Oregon college and ' chairman of the Ashland school board, was moderator for the ! conference. j The conference was sponsored : by the state joint committee com posed of representatives from the Oregon Congress of Parents and : Teachers, Oregon Education as sociation and the Oregon School Boards association. Wilsonville Hospital Name Voted in Senate i Salem (U.R) The Oregon Senate voted unanimously yes- 1 terday to name the new state mental hospital to be located in I th Wilsonville area near Port- i land the F. H. Dammasch state ! hospital. j The measure now goes to the ! House, where Dr. Dammasch, as ! state representative from Port ! land, fought for nearly a quar ter of a century and finally suc ceeded in obtaining a state men i lal hospital in the Portland area. 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