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8UNDAYhJUNE 12, 1160
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MEDFORD MAJL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE.
District 4 Association of
Counties to Meet in City
A meeting of District 4 of
the Association of Oregon
Counties will be held here in
December, County Commis
sioner Chester Wendt, district
chairman, has announced.
It will include the county
courts of Coos, Curry, Doug
las, Josephine and Jackson
counties.
: Wendt returned last week
from a meeting of the AOC
executive committee in Port
land where various bills pro
posed for the state legislative
session starting in January
were discussed.
"This year, the legislative
committee will concentrate
on a basic program, it was it-
elded. It will decide on not
more than 10 or 12 top prior
ity measures.
"We will be called upon to
favor or oppose numerous
other proposals, but special
efforts would be made to re
search, document, and effec
tively present the basic pro-
gram to the legislature," it
was explained.
... To be included in the basic
program will be a constitu-
1 1 o n a 1 amendment to per
mit a tax base, once estab
lished, to remain available as
the basis to compute a future
tax levy even though more
than three years have inter
vened since the date of the
last levy.
Bancroft Bonding
A proposed statutory
amendment would permit the
counties to use the "Bancroft
bond", method of financing
street assessments as cities are
now permitted to do.
Also in the program will
be a proposed law to permit
counties to license businesses
outside cities for regulatory
Former Prisoner
Angry at State
Portland - IUPD - Charles F.
Hollo was a bit put out Satur
day after being cleared of an
arson charge that put him be
hind bars two years ago.
-He complained because he
was released from prison last
month without a dime or the
traditional suit of clothes sup
plied men leaving prison.
Rollo was originally con
victed of setting fire to the
Peyton Bag Co., in Portland
in May 1058, although he
claimed he only dropped a
match by accident after light
ing a cigarette.
The case went all the way
to the Oregon Supreme Court
while Rollo remained in pris
on. The high court finally de
cided he had been improperly
questioned Bbout alleged pre
vious crimes of which no docu
mentary proof was ever ob
tained. The court granted a new
trial and the District Attor
ney's office then dismissed the
charge.
Commented Rollo: "The
state owes me something for
the time in which I was de
prived of my freedom. They
kick me out without a dime,
a job or anything and yet the
record shows I did nothing to
even be in prison for."
purposes. A bill to delegate
this authority to the counties
was sponsored by Multnomah
county and endorsed by the
AOC in 1959.
The executive committee
discussed a statute to amend
the 1959 boat regulation law
with respect to provisions for
whistles and lights on small
boats and license posting re
quirements, Wendt said.
They discussed a proposal
to specify in the law that
moneys received from the
Marine Board be earmarked
for enforcement of boating
regulations. Wendt said he fa
vored such a proposal, provid
ing such enforcement would
be under the jurisdiction of
the county court or county
commissioners.
Referred to Convention
Referred to the convention
In the fall for further discus
sion is a proposed law to re
quire appraisal of farm land
In urban areas at its value for
agricultural purposes, a pro
posed law to permit counties
to provide certain urban serv
ices outside cities and charge
the cost to the areas benefit
ted; a law to establish a re
tirement system for elective
county officials.
Also approved was a pro
posal to repeal the required
$10 per census child county
school levy, Wendt said. If
this law cannot be repealed,
it has been suggested it
should be amended to provide
clear authority for offsetting
the levy with a non-property
source. Wendt suggested the
proposal be amended making
it permissible for the county
to contribute.
Recommended for further
study were statutory amend
ments to permit flexibility in
establishing procedures by lo
cal welfare commissions, re
quire a review by counties of
proposed biennial monthly
welfare allocations, limit state
and county welfare commis
sion members to two terms,
permit local control of wel
fare personnel hiring, and au
thorize notifying credit asso
ciations that individuals are
welfare recipients.
More Study Suggested
Further study was recom
mended also on a law to en
able local governments to lax
possessory interest of private
companies In federally-owned
real and personal property.
This legislation Is needed to
take advantage of some recent
U.S. Supremo court decl-
I slons, and would be of spe
I cial value to counties affect
ed by the proposed missile In
dustry developments, Wendt
said.
Also recommended for fur
ther study are statutory
amendments to permit spread
ing of county street and side
walk assessments among
properties benefitted by an
improvement instead of limit
ing the assessment to abut
ting properties only.
Being considered by the as
sociation, Wendt said, are:
Statute to either require the
state instead of the counties
to pay the salaries of circuit
court reporters or to permit
the county courts to deter
mine the amount of salary
and fees to be paid; a law to
change the county fiscal year
back to a calendar year basis;
a law to permit counties to
bring suit to declare public
ways open for public travel,
espeically where recreation
areas are involved; a law to
reduce present requirements
on publication of county re
ceipts and expenditures; a law
to provide the counties with
a share of the net revenues of
the Oregon liquor control
commission comparable to
that received by cities; and a
law to allow counties to pay
mileage of county officials for
travel between their homes
and county courthouse.
Other proposed laws being
considered are: a statute to
require all school elections to
be held on regular primary or
general election days; a law
permitting any county con
trol of access on new county
roads; a statute to repeal the
law enacted by the last legis
lature which requires pay
ment of the prevailing wage
rates on public works contract
jobs, and statement of
amounts to be paid in the
contract; a law to authorize
counties instead of the speed
control board to determine in
dicated speeds on county
roads; and a law to repeal
low which enabled Malheur
county to bond for its court
house under special circumstances.
HOW
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SCIENCE
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Station K-BOY
'Task Forces' to
Report to Group
Salem - (UFO - Attorney Gen.
cral Robert Y. Thornton said
Saturday current plans are
for 11 "talk force" groups to
make recommendations to the
attorney general's advisory
committee on crime preven
tion at a general meeting the
end of July.
The committee is now split
up into the work groups in all
parts of the slate. The groups
are considering crime preven
tion from particular profes
sional viewpoints.
Election Turnout
Close to Record
Portland CUPD The May 20
election drew the largest per
centage of city of Portland
voters lo the polls since 1948,
final tabulations revealed
here Friday.
Completed figures showed
that 7 2 percent of the 199
198 registered Portland vot
ers cast ballots.
In 1948, a turnout of 74.69
percent was recorded.
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