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12 MAIL TRIBUNE. M4for4, Oregon, Friday, January 23, 195 (Oregon Legislature (Doing Some E3eall Soul-Searching Regarding Economy Editor's note: Thu Is the first of four dispaethes anajrzing the temp er of the 50th Oregon Leftsatnre on key issues. It is based on an ex clusive CPI poll in both House and Senate. Br DICK HUMPHREY Salem - (CPD - The Oregon Legislature is stirring to do some real soul-searching over the problem of economy in government. Most legislators, both Re publican and Democratic, seem to feel considerable pub lic pressure against any new taxes which large-scale spend ing might entail. This was revealed in an exclusive U.P J. poll of House and Senate members. But the problem is not that simple. As responsible men and women they also feel the the pressure to provide need ed programs and services, even though they cost money. Especially is this true in fields of education, building and welfare. Senate President Walter J. Pearson (D-Portland) stated the economy case bluntly when he said "the 1959 Leg islature will not be a spend ing Legislature." 'Had Better Be' Sen. Ben Musa (D-The Dalles) phrased it a little more ominously when he said Back Stairs: Sherman Adams' Memoirs By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter Washington-TCPD-Back stairs at the White House: For the Republician politi cians who were highly cur ious, if not a mite concerned, the word around the White House is that Sherman Adams will not publish his memoirs until after the 1960 elections. In fact, the Eisenhower ad ministration might be out of office before the book by the former assistant to the Presi dent' gets into the hands of the readers. The theory behind this de layed timing is that after the 1960 elections, Adams, who walked a political plank be cause of his close friendship with Bernard Golfine, would be less inhibited In discussing persons now in office. Shortly after Adams de parted from the White House last September and made a deal for publication of his book, the expectation was that he would complete it fairly soon and hit the mar ket ahead of the next elec tions. Ahead of Most Books Even if he waits until the early winter of 1961, Adams will run ahead of most of the Second in Series on , Concerts Scheduled , The. second in Leonard Bernstein's series of hour -long "Young People's Con certs" is scheduled for noon Saturday on KBES-TV, Med ford. Bernstein composer, pian ist, conductor will discuss "What Makes Music Classi cal.'' He will illustrate his points at the piano and by conducting the -New York Philharmonic orchestra in ex cerpts from classical compo sitions. The first program was pre sented several weeks ago. books that follow the depar ture of any national admins tration from office. Adams, in fact, could beat his old boss, the President, to the bookstalls by several lengths. Eisenhower has made no commitments, to be sure, but a number of his friends be lieve that he will want to write a sequel to his highly successful postwar "Crusade in Europe" once he leaves office in 1961. The chances of his being ready with any lengthy prose before a year or two after he leaves the White House would seem remote, however. Adams came down from the snowy precincts of his home in Lincoln, N.H., before the Christmas holidays to shop around New York for a lit erary agent. If he made a se lection, the literary set in midtown Manhattan hasn't heard about it. Lawyer Retained Quite frequently, big public figures, when they get down to selling their memoirs, re tain a lawyer instead of an agent because their tax prob lems are more important than strictly literary details which they leave largely to the pub lishing house. - Some public figures-a n d the President was one of them -sell their memoirs under a capital gains tax arrangement which must be approved by the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service. Such an ar rangement is much more to the benefit of an author than paying the straight income tax. Once an author, public fig ure or . not, avails himself of a capital gains tax deal on a book, he can't do it a second time. A second book would make him, in the eyes of the tax collector, a professional and not a man merely making a one-time sale of his' mem oirs. A Lot of Money , Adams would make a whale la wanted DIRTY BUCK with blight YELLOW LACES REG. TO 5.99 BOW 3 99 Small 10 to Large 3 ' Large 3! to 6 And boy oh boy do they WEAR. . Come look at the value that's built into 'em ... the double-husky soles they have! You'd surely expect to pay more. CHILDREN'S leather COWBOY BOOTS Hey kids! Your T.V. Cowboys wear these . . i FLAT HEEL BOOT REG. 4.99 HIGH HEEL BOOT REG. 5.95 3- : "SALE 3.99 MIDFOR9 Boys' and Girls Red Goose Shoe A QQ Reg. to 6.99 "taJJi? Men's Winter House Slippers I Q7 Reg. to 4.99 1 of a lot of money out of his book, even in 1961. The mem ories of the Goldfine matter may be dimmed somewhat by that time, but Adams stands a good chance with being first out with a trulv inside story of this administration. Assuming that he tells a frank story of some of his rather delicate relationships inside the Eisenhower official family, there will be a 'lively market for his tale. this session "had better be economy minded." Rep. Clarence Barton (D Coquille), chairman of the im portant House tax committee, sees the problem of economy as one forced upon the Leg islature "of necessity" as far as fiscal matters are concern ed. The feeling of the public was emphasized by Rep. Pat. J. Metke (R-Bend) when he said: "The November election was an economy mandate and responsible legislature must recognize this pattern." Reps. Beulah Hand (D-Mil-waukie) and Katherine Musa (D-The Dalles) are for, econ omy but hope the Legislature will not be "penny wise and pound foolish." Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D- Milwaukie) approached the question cautiously, stating that the Legislature should be economy-minded as all Leg islatures should be 'Hysteria' Cited "But a sort of tax-hysteria has been stimulated which has befogged the real tax situation," he said. "Along some lines Oregon should spend now to forestall great er costs later." Being asked to choose be tween "economy and spend ing" rubbed Rep. Keith Skel- ton (D-Eugene), co-chairman of the joint ways and means committee, the wrong way. "This is in my opinion, a stupid question," Skelton said. "The Oregon 'Legislature has always been for economy first and other things, such as progress, second." "Otherwise, why should we have to spend as much now (proportionately) to catch up with the short-sighted, penny pinching policies of past Re publican administrations?" "We are spending more now than we were, but that doesn't mean we're not inter ested in real economy." Economy in Mind "Was it real economy that kept us from spending suf ficient amounts in education, SPECIAL FEATURE ! , Wij Ms! W mm A mm . I;. I only. - -F:; 1; . VALUES TO 3.50 From Mann's HAND On FOR VALENTINE GIVING . . . SHORT GLOVES, LONG GLOVES and LONG, LONG GLOVES . . . SHE WILL WANT SEVERAL AT THIS VERY SPECIAL PRICE! PUT OUR WONDERFUL GLOVES ON THE HANDS YOU LOVE TO HOLD. YOU'LL FIND ALL HER FAVORITES HERE . . . 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