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. .
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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-
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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,
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$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. Dr. Dammasch died a year
ago last December.
FROZEN SIREN
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! Volunteer firemen at Gratiot
' Township were summoned to
duty by a police car siren
i Wednesday because the regular
siren atop the firehouse was
i clogged with ice.
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