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TEH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, May 23, 1957 Record Number of Measures Handled By Legislature in Longest Session BY DICK HUMPHREY United Press Correspondent Salem in It took the 49th Oregon Legislature an unprece dented 10 days and more than 200 ballots to get its Senate organized. Then it took an equally un precedented 123 days to enact some vital and far-reaching leg islation in fields of t a xation, education, workmen's compensa- It had to wait until almost the last minute to see how the Demo cratic tax program fared in the Senate and how much money, would be available. Gov. Holmes hoped from the start for a $120 increase and made a last-minute pitch for 5100. A far-reaching school district re-organization plan that could reduce Oregon's 700 school dis tricts to 200 new administrative tion, unemployment compensa-1 districts in five years also won tion and pay raises for state I approval. Only skirmish was employees. j oyer whether re-o r g a nization Gov. Robert D. Holmes, the ! should be made compulsory and first Democratic governor in j the bill allows a present district more than 20 years, appeared I to keep out of the new district satisfied that the lawmakers j by a 60 per cent negative vote had made healthv progress with i al the re-oreanization election. his program while ex-Gov. Elmo Smith, a Republican, called the session "the worst in history." The 49th did things in a big way. Record Number of Bills It set records in the number of bills handled, number of interim committee's appointed and num ber of issues referred to the people. It passed a whopping S272 mil lion budget, up S50 million from the current biennium. To pay for expanding state nervices the Democratic House devised a tax program which repeals the 45 per cent surtax on , personal income, sets new higher income tax rates, raises exemptions from $500 to $600 and calls for complete withhold ing. Corporation excise taxes were amended in the Senate so that manufacturing companies will pay about what they do now, 4 per cent. Other businesses go from 5.4 to 6 per cent, utilities from 4 to 7 per cent and banks from 8 to 9 per cent. The Democratic tax program got through the Legislature with surprisingly little trouble when Senate Republicans decided their equal number of Democratic col leagues should not accuse them of obstructionist tactics, but take the consequences of their tax program. , Two relatively minor tax bills hiking inheritance and gift taxes died quietly in the Senate Taxa tion Committee, while a bill to prohibit the state from levying a state property tax passed the Senate but died in the House Taxation committee after a wrangle on the floor. j School Budget Upped Most dramatic e d u c a tional progress was the $15 million in crease in basic school support from $80 to 95 per census child. After a hard fight and much amendment, . the c o n t roversial "key district" bill providing a new formula for d i s tributing basic school funds passed both Houses in compromise from that calls for 20 per cent of the money to be spent for equalizing taxes and 80 per cent on the basis of where school children are. Earlier versions of the bill would have caused substantial losses to Portland and some eastern Orezon districts and generated heat among educators and law makers. But the final bill cuts few districts more than five per cent at $95 and gives substantial tax relief to poorer districts. Tabled by Committee A $5 million fund to aid build ing in distressed school districts was tabled by the Joint Ways and Means Committee for lack of funds, but $90,000 was pro vided to set up a state-wide com munty college program. Most vital to labor was a package of bills raising benefits under industrial accident com mission laws by 20 per cent. Affected would be workers with permanent partial injuries, tem porary total injuries, permanent total injuries and widows and orphans of killed workers. Maximum benefits under un employment compensations also were raised from $35 to $40 a week and the rate structure re vised to eliminate the continu ing downward trend in the un employment compensation fund. General across-the-board pay raises for state employees to the tune of $4.5 million were ap proved and raises proposed for all top state elective and ap pointive officers, Supreme Court justices, judges and district at torneys. The people will vote in November 1958, on increasing legislators' pay. from $600 to $1,200 a year. In all, salary in- The Family Council Editor not: The ramll; Council consists ot a Jodie, a psychiatrist 1)1 res clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Cacti article is a nummary ol an actual report The Family Council does not r'v advice; it merely renorts on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Amy T He geisha girl. Tom T. What can I do about her troubles? Amy T. What goes on with all this new male propaganda about American women driving their husbands to an early grave? Whenever I say or do anything he doesn't like, my husband now threatens me that he'll have a heart attack. We have been married ten years. We have four children. I do all my own work. I try to be a good wife and mother and homemaker. I don't make too many demands on my husband, but if I tell him about any troubles I've had during the day, right away he gives me that glassy stare and the hand goes to the heart. ( - My husband is in perfect health. He should be able to ftand hearing about the things I have to live with every minute of the day. I listen to his troubles though I must say they aren't much. What he really wants is a really wants a j apologies. She isn't satisfied un less everything is perfect. Amy thinks it's very funny about men getting heart attacks because their wives aren't' con siderate enough, but I'm not kid ding I feel something in the ticker when she carries on. The Council: It is very easy for a woman with four children to become lost in domestic de tail and catastrophe. She" moves from crisis to crisis in a mood of constant apprehension. She forgets there are such things as peace and pleasure. Since our society does not offer teahouses and geisha girls as the masculine escape from the burd ening facts of domesticity, men like Tom (who feel bothered in the ticker) ought to do something about women like Amy (who have forgotten about peace and pleasure). Amy's desire for perfection, and her apologies at producing anything short of perfection, sound like guilty cover-ups for her desire to chuck the whole Beisna gin to entertain nun a -j business. That ii exactly what the end of the day. - lsh( .hnnlri Hn nn m Tom T. I sure mind a geisha girl almost any one, in fact, who wouldn't greet me at the end of every single day with a long, long recital of mishaps and domestic problems. I'm willing to listen when there's something I can do to help, but what can I do if the groceries never arrived and the baby has been howling all day? I know that Amy has a rough time of it, but I think she takes things too much to heart. I don't mind eating beans for dinner when things go wrong, only I don't want to hear what went I Tom shnillri Cno tHat Amv note wouldn't;. f ,,, ,, ... j a then. If he can't get an outsider to take over the household, he ought to do it himself for a couple of Sundays. Much is said about the "to getherness" of today's families, but everyone needs some "alone ness." Certainly Amy does. If she complains after her holi days, Tom will have every right to have a heart attack. COPYRIGHT 1957 GENERAL FEATURES CORP.) North Dakota has 101 tree" farm with a total of 102,482 wrong and I don't want any i acres. JlJoiftoatV Distributer "01 TO BURN" Let Us Fill Your Tank Now Medford Fuel Co. Tel. S P. 2-2111 Court & McAndrews creases will total 10 million dol- lion while the Board of Con- last minute and an interim comU.S. 101 between Brookings and investigate state problems. But members to reduce the backlog lars from the general fund and other sources. Board Control Still In More than $2 million was pro vided in the S44 million higher education budget for increases of 20 to 25 per cent in academic salaries. But both the higher education and Board of Control building programs fared less well. They were slashed 50 per cent by the Joint Ways and Means Com mittee before they got to the floor. Higher education had ' asked for $14 million and got $7 mil- trol plumped for $10 million and got $4.5 million. The governor's plans for re organizing state government ran into some snags in the Senate where his bill to abolish the State Board of Control and cent er power over institutions in a new director of ' public institu tions was left in committee. Also killed in the senate were plans for a full-time paid parole board. However a dapartment of planning and development to re place the Oregon Development Commission was saved at the mittee will study possible elimin-! Gold Beach were voted by the ation or consolidation of some of the state's numerous boards and commissions. The people will vote in 1958 on the governor's suggestion to abolish the death penalty in Ore gon except in cases where a person commits first degree murder while under life sen tence. Other Highlights Highways: Bond issues of $8 million to finance full state par ticipation in the federal inter state highway program and $12.6 million for a new section of Legislature. 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