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o o 0 o O o o o o o o O EDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE o o RepriiilMive uncan Discusses Special Sesiioi (Editor's noti Th lollop- ,nmUte& "before It could re- Ing artcle by Stal;l?p.rgfiai? tCeir the further Consideration tire Robert Duncan dj$eujje the special session, Kfh3t It k attempting to (gpcomgljs). BfROBERT Most everyone has reaJ id lira news releases from Salem iforr thing of the problemsand th progress of the Spwiar Session of the Legislature. We hae tried to attack the basic problem 'lor which the session was called, solve it and adjourn. This requires us togpostpone consideration of other problems until the next general session and, regretfully, we are doing so. To open the doors to feneral legislation would soon convert the special session into a gener al one of interminable and in tolerable length. The number of requests for legislation points up the fact that Oregon is rapidly getting to the point where they must have an annual session. In addition to this, the magnitude of the problems and the time and study required for their in telligent solution makes it ap parent that the days of the part time legislature are also number ed. Only three committees were appointed in the House. Taxa tion. Rules and Ways and Means. I was appointed vice-chairman of the latter. ' Special Rule A special rule was adopted to provide that all bills introduced must be approved by the rules n THE FINEST WOOD .g& HEATER- t0lU .-tip P-J :TS, 'J M I! oc 24 HOUR THERMOSTATIC DOWNDRAFT WOOD HEATERS BUDGET TERMSq We will repair your Old Stove or ell you. the necessary parts if you Do-It-Yourself. BIG Y SUPPLY Lawn & Garden Equipment Center Ph. SP 3-3 1 60 1 948 N. Pae. Hwy. C "t&a He usa. This is a seif im posed Junitattoa to prevent the sessioa from considering all types of legislation; to Jfcee it a "special session." hs ruia follows the pattern la special sessions end ig ttiucfc iess stringent hfin tot rule forc in the Cottgress, in man? ct&er state legiola.Ui.res ni (A ejr own regular sessions ftgfc Vb SSUt ia?. Although thfr is a inaiority of Democrats on Rules, most of tf! fcills which havg befcn gasstel out fiavjt been Republican sponsored measures!. Itt:tiorS) vsJU6i fe(r from arbitrary. Bills Introduced CAs soon as the Governor's mes sage had beerjrj received, bills were introduced to implement his program and were in the hands of the proper (xtoimittees without delay. Together with other proposals they were con sidered and reported back to the House on Wednesday. We hoped to consider them immed iately so that the business of the session could be concluded as soon as possible, but an attempt to suspend the rules for that purpose failed and they were not debated and passed until Thursday. They were then sent to the Senate where most of the oppo sition to the Governor's program is centered. The increase in ba- Ag Council Needed, Steward Tells Board Salem (UT Oregon should have an agriculture council to deal with freight rates and sim ilar economic problems, Agricul ture Director Robert Steward told a meeting of the agricul ture board here Friday. The board said it felt a coun cil could effectively work on problems of tariff, state and federal taxes on agricultural bus iness, marketing research, con sumer education, promotion of Oregon products and other prob lems. It was the feeling of the board that the existing Oregon re search and advisory council, compos! of 26 independent pro ducer and processor groups, might be able to function as an agriculture council. Until now, the existing coun cil has worked exclusively on research problems. Chicago (IP) Patrolman Charles Mueller arrested James Davis, 22, for not having license plates on his car, took a second look at Davis to discover he was wearing a sports coat stolen from Mueller's car last year. sle school support was prompt ly approved by toe committee and will be considered by to Senate on Monday. The income tas reduction bill is still in com mittee , in toe Senate and will be considered in amended form hf them en Monday. Until to Senate sets the House had no more business and so adjourned until Monday. Some members objected to the adjournment but there -was no reason to meet end adjourn with nothing te consider. During tht rftceSqj wieny interim committees had an opportunity to meet and consider the problem assigned to them. I thinfc everyone in the legis lature is agreed that tax relief is possible and desirable. The differences arise in determining how much and how to do it. The state, has not collected a real property tax for many years so reel property tax relief can not be granted directly by the state. It can be accomplished only by the state assuming a burden otherwise carried by a local unit of government and financed by a tax on real prop erty. All of us remember the tre mondoug sentiment during the Aloft ef of fact By Stewart Alsop EXIT feTIGHT Washington There is an ex cellent chance that the Republi can political picture will very soon be changed in a roost im portant way, by the. withdrawal of Gov. Goodwin Knight of Cali fornia as axandidate for renomi nation. Knight V? ft H-A,?,..SfFi. Stewait Alsop would thus leave the field c o m p letely free for Sen. William Knowland, a leading candi date for the 1960 Republi can presiden P res iden t i a 1 nomina tion. If Knight withdraws, - he will try for the Senatorial nomina tion instead. Knight has repeat edly said, of course, that he will not withdraw in favor of Know land. He hjr$ not yet flatly com mitted himself to do so. But the pressure on him to bow out is very heavy and those who should know are convinced that Knight's withdrawal is almost certainly imminent. There are two cogent reasons why Knight is under such heavy pressure to withdraw from the gubernatorial race. One is the simple fact that, it has become clear to every leading Republi can in California that, if Knight does not withdraw from the race with Knowland, the re sulting donnybrook may tear the California party to shreds. KNIGHT, by taking a liberal , and pro-labor, position, is forcing Knowland, by the inex orable laws of politics, to take a far more conservative position than he might otherwise have done. Kijpwland is contering his campaign on a "right to work" bill outlawing the closed shop. In terms of beating Knight for the nomination, this is good poli tics, since anti-closed shop legis- lation0iscpopular among Repub lican voters by a margin of kfive to one, according to some soundings. VTET in terms of o the election, -Kngwland's stand may not be good politics at all, in a state with a heavy labor vote and a big majority of registered Dem ocrats. Moreover, a bitter prim ary contest between Knight and Knowland, lasting for months, could only do the Republican cause in California the maxi mum of harm. Thus influential Republican leaders in California are doing everything they can to persuade Knight to withdraw from the gubernatorial race and iun for the Senate instead. O o o So wonderful and new... and paid for ...when you save with us o That shiny new ear is even more wonderf awhen it's all yours because yoa saved for it. 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Kyle, President rpHERE is another reason why - the pressure on Knight to withdraw is so heavy the simple fact that current indica tions are that Knowland would win the primary contest hands down. Knowland will have the support of Vice-President Rich ard Nixon, and most of the Nix on organization (although Nixon will almost certainly make it clear that he does not agree with Knowland on the closed shop issue). Knowland will also have the support of most of the press, which is particularly in fluential in California, and cur rent polls show Knowland beat ing Knight easily in the pri mary. The role of Nixon in the situ ation has beerD interesting. Knowland is, of course, Nixon's leading rival for the 1960 Pres idential nomination. Thus it might be supposed that it was in Nixon's interest to permit Knowland and Knight to fight it out, perhaps destroying each other an the process. But Nixon has not only made it clear that he intends to support Knowland, he has also been instrumental in the attempt to persuade Knight to change hie mind and rug, for the Senate. Nixon if not, of course, per sonally close to Knight on the eontrary, Knight has never roade any bones about his al most pathological dislike of Nixon. Yet come of Xixon'e supporters, especially in north ern California, have also been Knight supporters. And these Nixon men have been among those trying to persuade Knight to withdraw. P . ' THE explanation for th role Nixon has glayed i simple enough. For one thing, he ad mires Knowland, althoughQthe two are not close friends, nd thinks he would make good Cl Governor. For another thing. Nixon is a thorough-going party man, and he is quita aware of what an all-out battle between -Knight and Knowland might do to the Republican party in California. Finally, he is al wgre that a severe weakening of the psjrty in his home state would do his own political fortunes no good whatever, even if Knowlaad might also be weafned in the process. Knigft's withdrawal will tit coursa greatly strength en Knowland' chance to chal lenge Nixon for the 186(Pnomin- ation fromJl position of great political strength. Yet there has been no deal between Knowland and Nixon. And there has been no deal beteyefn Xnowljnd and Knight. o Vht hs happened far simpler. It has become daily clearer that laigkt's -Vithdraw-al Would ba ia the interacts of all concernad. It in Knoa land's interest for obvious rea son. It is in Nixon's interest because a bitter primary fight would weaken his home baae. It is in Knight's interest be cause he otherwise faces the likely prospect of a defeat which would sink him political ly forever. These are the basic reasons whj it is highly prob able that Knight will bow out of the Governorship race in the near future. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. regular eesaion to increase basic' school support to fciao. .t tht time revenue estimates wre such thst e felt that tt could not prudently vote moreotnan a S19 increase maltina the total State aid 93 per census child. ine bill requested by the Gov ernor ajid approved by the House increases this by 910 to S109, another significant step to ward the goal of many people that the state should provide half, of th cost of educating the childrert This furnishes realy property tax relief because every dollar of state suDDort means one less dollar thai must be raised from real property for we all know that we musfc educate our chil dren and that it will cost money. About 80 per cent of the in crease will so to dirert. rrnrp-tv tax offset according to the best figures I have been able to ob tain but all of it reallv renre- sents money that will support tne school, and thus relieve real property of that burden. Belton's Proposal Sen. Belton's proposal for the state to assume the county school levy would not help Jackson county at all in any year, such as this, in which we did not levy any tax. It was for these rea sons thaf I supported the in crease in basic school support. In the income tax field the Governor askpri for a in npr cent cut and such was approvedifi mates of revenue are correct this coupled with the basic school bill, will leave a surplus of about S51 million at the end of thje biennium and should enable us to finance the 1959-61 biennium with no further Increase in tax es. The citizens of the state could look forward to a state income tax below the 1955 level for at least the next three years. This is important when we consider that the state is still growing, f Iggsslature and that, without fcny neg(g(ate prjDramiR the cost o0th? pres ent level of state servicers) will cgntinue to increase. EBtimatad Budget It isdestimated thithe budget fd? the 1959-61 biennium will be somewhere between $300 and $330 million even if no new pro grams are approved. Planning that far into the future with a lower tax than prior to the '55 legislature sms to me to be a real accomplishment. Should the Republican propo sals for income tax rSjiction prevail, some $60 million will not be collected. We would end the bienniunv on June 30, 1959, with about TiO million. If the same tax rates are maintained and the budget estimates- men tioned above prove correct we would end the 1959-61 biennium with a deficit of $65 to $70 mil lion. The only alternative would be a drastic increase in taxes during the next biennium that would make the surtaxes of the past look like tax relief. One other factor to consider is that the so lulled surplus is merely an estimate of how much the revenue of the state will ex ceed the expenditures during the remainder of the biennium. The money is not piled up in some vault. Estimated have been wrong before. Industry in Trouble The lumber industry in Ore- on is in trouble perhaps be cause the hard money policy in Washington, adopted to halt in flation, has gone too far and, in Oregon at least, the medicine is proving worse than the disease. Because we have been content to rely on a one industry econ omy, we now have ltitle other industry to pick up the slack and furnish employment. Oifr greatest natural resource, water, has not been developed as it should have been to furnish large blocks of low cost power that might have made the Pa cific Northwest the center of T great electrometalurgical in (3ptry even now able to furnish employment to large numbers of men. We have gotten so con cerned over ether the pow er should be public or private that we have lost sight of the goal which is power. TVA, Bon neville and Grand Coulee all were opposed and violently. Yet all have contributed greatly to our economic well being and our military success in World War II. Economy Not Healthy However, that may be, it is still true that our economy is not as healthy as it has been and that the estimates of reven ues may never "materialize. I for one lo not intend to vote for huge tax reductions, no matter how popular that might be po litically, when I can see just over the horizon the spectre of either a deficit or an even larg er tax increase. Neither do I think that is what the people of this state want. Whfch brings up the fact tfcat very few people have written to express their views on these subjects. May I invite your com ments. It is difficult to repre sent you if I do not have the benefit of your advice. My ad dress is Robert Duncan, House of Representatives, Salem, Ore. HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoes, Dishes and Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 2-4230 O LIKE MEETING PEOPLE? John D. 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