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Tax Committee to Enter Bill For Ratio on Certain Property Salem -CPD- As a begin ning to study of shift in taxes from utilities to residen tial property, the Senate Tax committee Friday voted to in troduce a bill which would place an undetermined ratio an all property other than utilities an dresidential prop erty. Whatever this ratio is, pri vate utilities would pay 30 per cent more and residential property would pay 10 per cent less. Sen- Ward Cook (D-Port-land), chairman of the com mittee, reclared following the session that "we will be a long time working this prob lem out." Committee members all agreed that property taxes were now at the highest peak. Pearson Predicts Senate President Walter Pearson, who sat in on the meeting, predicted that unless some relief was accorded property owners, . "you will sea some property owners not paying their taxes next year." Sen. Anthony Yturrl (It Ontario) objected to variable taxes, giving some groups spe cial, consideration. He quest ioned the wisdom of making the private utilities carry too large a load, saying that, aft er all, the consumers pay the utility taxes through the rates charged them. Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D Milwaukie) declared that in Clackamas county last year the taxes on utilities were de creased and the taxes on resi dential property increased without any bond issue. Mrs. Humphrey Challenges Mrs. Louise Humphrey, rep resenting Oregon Tax Re search and herself .a resident of Clackamas county, chal lenged Sweetland's statement regarding bond elections. "The increase in residential property taxes in Clackamas county was due entirely to the bond issue voted by the people," she said. Chairman Cook said the dis cussion on ad valorem taxes would be continued at sessions to be held this week, after members had an opportunity to study the bill which was voted for introduction Fri day. State Fiscal Officer -Creation of the office of state fiscal officer to work under the direction of a legis lative fiscal committee and report directly to the legisla tive committees and legisla ture was recommended by the Joint Ways and Means com mittee Friday. The bill carries an appro priation of $60,000. Sen. Ward Cook (D-Port-land) said creation of this of fice was no reflectiton on the State Department of Finance nor the division of budgets. I "Members of our commit tee felt that the Department of Finance is so closely' re lated to the executive depart ment, a different branch of government, therefore we should have someone to study budgets who is respon sible to the legislature only." Sen. Dan Thiel (D-G ear hart) predicted that a fiscal officer would bring about a large saving in state expendi tures. Two bills dealing with the bonding capacity of the Board of Higher Education for con struction of self-supported buildings were reported out with "do pass" recommenda tions. One. would raise the amount of bonded indebtedness the board could incur for build ings such as dormitories, and other living quarters, paid out for out of student fees, from $15,350,000 to $24,400,000. Repeal of Law Asked The other is a constitution al amendment increasing the bonded indebtedness of the board to finance building pro grams to three-fourths of one per cent of the state assessed valuation. A bill repealing a law giv ing the State Board of Control authority to close up existing state institutions was report ed out favorably. Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said this law was unconstitu tional. Other Highlights Night session: The Oregon Senate will hold its first night session Monday at 7 p.m. Sen ate President Walter Pearson said the night session would be necessary because Gov. Mark' Hatfield is presenting his tax program to the House and Senate that day. The House will also hold its first afternoon session Monday for the same reason. Divorces: The Senate passed a bill legitimatizing marriages by divorcees before the six month waiting period now required. MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtfr4, Crete, Sunday, February 8, 195 J Two Sentenced For Prostitution Two Mediord women Fri day afternoon in district court were sentenced to three and four months in the county Ex-Salem Youth Shot in Minnesota Monticello, Minn.-flll'D-Ken-neth D. Pederson, 18, form erly of Salem, Ore., was shot to death by police yesterday when he aimed a gun at a posse of officers that closed in on him on an ice-covered lake after a long chase. Pederson was killed after a chase that began when he pulled a gun on a policeman making a routine check for burglary suspects. Shotgun pellets struck Ped erson in the eye, wounding him fatally. The youth had been living in a Monticello rooming house. Relatives in Oregon were notified and asked to come to Minnesota to identify the body. jail, " respectively, on charges of vagrancy, involving prosti tution. Adalene Mae Miller, 51, of 422 South Riverside ave., pleaded guilty to charges that she engaged in prostitution after making a signed confes sion. She was sentenced to three months. Lillian May Duggan, 53, of 602 North Riverside ave., pleaded guilty to the same charges after she too had made a signed confession. She received a four-month sen tence. Richard Leon Barnes, Kla math Falls, is scheduled to appear in district court again on Feb. 16 for sentencing on charges of making statement. in writing to obtain benefit. He had pleaded guilty to the charges on Jan. 30 and the case was continued until an FBI report could be re ceived. Barnes is charged with is suing a false check for $18.76 to Central Market in Medford on Jan. 29. Airmen Complete Endurance Flight Las Vegas, Nev. -(IIPD- Two weary Air Force veterans landed their small plane yes terday afternoon after spend ing almost 65 days in the air . and bettering the former all time endurance flight record by 15 days. Bearded Robert Timm, 32, Las Vegas hotel executive, and John Cook, 33, an airline pilot from Los Angeles, land ed at 2:10 pjn. PST after establishing a new record for sustained flipht ! A crowd of 200 greeted the plane as it landed at McCar ran field. Timm and Cook broke the former record of 50 days on the afternoon of Jan. 23. But they decided to stay up for at least 10 more days to focus attention on the Damon Run yon Cancer fund drive. The single engine Cessna 172 landed here nine weeks and two days after its depar ture from the same field. Timm, who celebrated his 33rd birthday last Wednesday, and Cook, also 33, took turns at the controls. They alter nated in four-hour shifts at the controls in bettering the record set only last Sept. 21 by two Texans, Jim Heth end Bill Burkhart, who stayed aloft 1200 hours. Timm and Cook flew a course between Las Vegas and Blythe, Calif., over the desert with occasional swoops over Los Angeles and Phoenix. 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