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W ST ., STATtHOffift Tempers grew short and hot words flew in the muggy Ways and Means Committee room while weary lawmakers sweat to shear off any visible frills within the firm outlines of the state's record-breaking $362,188,800 budget for-lB61-63. ' While most attention lately has been focused on Ways and Means chopping away at budget requests, some special Interest groups have been far ing better at the hands of the Legislature. Some observers say Big Business (or at least, as big as it gets in this state) is in the saddle in Oregon again. One legislator said, "The same old lobbies are running the show. You can't get any thing passed unless the utili ties write the bill." , Certainly, labor union rep resentatives, who opposed the "Little Landrum-Griffin" bill, are dissatisfied this session. Others Not Happy , But some segments of Big Business are not happy, ei ther. The trucking industry taces the governor's veto of a Legislature-passed bill to cut truck taxes $1 million, - And the insurance compan ies who, together with the As sociated Oregon Industries, put up an unknown total of thousands of dollars to pass the Three-Way Workmen's Compensation plan, will take little comfort in the compro mise bill amounting to a Two Way Plan (allowing state in surance and industry self-insurance for injured workmen, jj'nd possibly universal cover age of all workmen) which, at this writing, is the most they will get for their money. Making out in fine style, on the other hand, are other vest ed interests. The House's refusal to re move the property tax ex emption for fraternal organi zations should please the Elks Lodges, etc., but it may lessen the average taxpayer's respect for his elected representa tives. Another Example And the bill to cut by 40 per cent the state's share of money bet on the ponies is another example of expected Legislative bowing to-a min ority group. Ostensibly intro duced to assist throughbred horse breeders by increasing purses at races, the bill is said by opponents to give up to a quarter million dollars back to the race track operators (mainly Portland Meadows) and, in effect, put the state in the position of subsidizing horse racing. That half million would have paid for far more than the medical school research facil ities Gov. Mark Hatfield ask ed for, only to be turned down by Ways and Means. The big timber companies (who got the compromise tax program they wrote them selves), the oil companies (who are getting the off-shore oil bills with minimum safe guards for the public's inter est), the paper companies (easements across the beaches) the utilities (a bill to prevent future electric service dupli cation), the Oregon cattlemen and other farmers (tax favors, milk audit, anti-picketing, etc.) all seem to be getting pretty much what they want out of this session. , For the average man-in-the-street there was still talk of an income tax cut, now down to five per cent in the drastically-changed Senate's version of the House's ten per cont cut incorporated in a net re ceipts bill. ' There was still hope for a basic school increase of more than the $10 asked by .Gov. Hatfield in his budget, but anything more than a possible Counsel With Mr. Insurance Fred R. Brennan, C.I. A MEDFORD INSURANCE Agency PHONE SP 3-7343 27 North Holly Street By Marguerite W. Wright compromise at $15 seemed un realistic If the total budget was to remain balanced. The state now pays $105 to local districts per child per year. Any increase in basic school funds would help reduce lo cal property taxes. . . Dashed was the earlier ex pectation of some lawmakers that they could find and chop out $10 million worth of "fat" in the governor's budget. - They did reduce that bud get by $2,300,000. But the total general fund budget is more than $3 mil lion over the governor's orig inal recommendations. . That is because of such new appro priations as the $900,000 ssk ed by Hatfield for Oregon to acquire the Boardman. Bomb ing Range for hoped-for indus trial development, $702,000 for suplus food distribution to the needy, $1,700,000 for com munity colleges, and $200,000 for community mental health clinics. Such new programs as the appropriations for post-high school education in communi ties not now served by col leges were stripped down to provide only the beginnings: 75 per cent of the cost for expected college buildings in Bend, Coos Bay and Astoria, plus additional funds for op erating expenses. Long-Rang Costs Eyed Elsewhere; as when Ways and Means refused to spend $48,000 requested by Hatfield to remodel part of the U. of O. Medical School Hospital for a research unit, lawmak ers showed how carefully they were considering long range costs which small ini tial expenditures might en tail. Similarly, a proposed green-' house at Dammasch State Hospital and a swimming pool at Hillcrest School (for de linquent girls) was stricken from the original Hatfield budget as expendable items. A bill for a cerebral palsy unit at Fairview Home (for feeble-minded) was tabled. The appropriation for equip ping the. new Salem National Guard Armory was cut from $150,000 to $112,000 by elim inating a timeclock and score board and specifying cheaper chairs. The governor's request for a new $800,000 women's pris on in Salem to replace the present overcrowded quarters at the penitentiary was cut to $346,700 - eliminating any possibility of fancy luxuries for the lawbreaking ladies. Legislative fiscal committee alertness resulted in a $1,168,- 152 cut in the governor's re quested budget for welfare funds (an error was found in the state-federal funds fig ures), bringing the total ap propriation to $40,844,770. Another half million was pinched off the state's emer gency board fund earmarked for possible pay increases for state employees during the 1961-63 biennium. However, state civil service employees still are scheduled to get an average 10 per cent raise, and substantial salary increases for state elected of ficial?, dr-cartrnent heads, and other non-civil service work ers already are assured (some listed in a previous column.) Also, preliminary approval has been given a bill appro priating $100,000 for more as sistants for the governor. Cur rently, Hatfield's office staff includes: Warne Nunn, admin istrative assistant ($12,600 a year salary); Travis Cross, publicity and political liaison officer ($11,500); Loren Hicks, legak adviser ($9,720); and Dan Allen, natural resources ($8,940). If the new bill passes, Hat- Fred Brennan C-R-AS-H! Another auto accident. Are you IN SURED? When? Where? How much? let a Certified Insurance Agent survey your coverage. May save you expense, embarrass ment. SEE field could hire four more aides at an average of $10,000 per year each. These assist ants supposedly would help the governor keep in closer touch and maintain firmer control over the government's widespread operations - a substitute for the statutory cabinet system of government that Hatfield wants and has failed to get when legislators refused to pass his govern ment reorganization plan. Among other innovations approved by Ways and Means was a $10 million bill to be gin a medicare program for about 55,000 Oregonians over 65 years old with limited in comes. New buildings for Ways and Means approved for high er education totalling $9,715, 750 included the governor's recommendations plus a $150,- 000 computer building at Ore gon State University. If the Legislature concurs, this means: a new $2,385,000 li brary at OSU, a new $2,540, 000 science building at Port land State, a $1,035,000 hu manities building at U. of O., and $2,750,000 for Oregon Technical Institute campus development at K. Falls. Institution Buildings Another major appropria tion bill cleared by Ways and Means was $5,037,320 for new buildings at state institutions work projects which mean jobs and paychecks for many Oregon workers. Also approved by Ways and Means was the $7,700,000 Civil Service pay adjustment plan that means an average 10 per cent increase starting July 1. Under this plan the lowest paid state workers (do mestics) would still get a max imum of only $222 a month while the highest paid (doc tors) could get a maximum of $1,475 a month. Maximums are reached on the basis of service and merit pay increases, and starting pay in all jobs is well under the maximums . Here are some sample max imums under the new plan: clerk typist 1, $296 a month; accountant 1, $525; income tax auditor 1, $500; chief in come tax auditor, $915; liquor store clerk, $400; highway de partment information officer, $715; game department infor mation officer, $845; civil de fense planner, $600; employ ment office interviewer 1, $460; law clerk, $460; driver examiner 1, school bus inspec tor, teacher for the blind, pub lic health nurse, and meat in spector 1. all $440; civil engi neer 1, $550; elevator opera tor, $265;- deputy highway en gineer, $1,285; laborer, $342; painter, $480; mason, sheet metal worker, carpenter, elec trician, plumber, welder, ma chinist, all $500; graduate nurse, $400; welfare casewor ker, $460; psychiatric social worker, $525; parole officer 1, $550; farm laborer, $342; egg inspector, $460; veterin arian 1, $685; forester, $525; deputy state forester, $1,030; wildlife district supervisor, $775. 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The Council reports on prob lems that have been deal! with by responsible agencies and counselors. (Copyright 1961 General Features Corp.) Mrs. G. A. - Without any warning, he walked in on us with a beard. Warren A. - Why should they care? It's a personal proj ect, isn't it? Mrs. C. A. - Imagine my humiliation when Warren Subcommittee Calls Former GE Official Washington -(UPD- A Senate anti-trust subcommittee today summoned a man once be lieved headed for the presi dency of the General Electric Co. to tell about price-rigging schemes that cost him his job. William S. Ginn .former $135,000-a-year executive with GE, and 15 other executives of the company were found guilty of criminal violations of the antitrust laws last year. The Senate investigators in tended to ask Ginn about pre vious testimony from other former employees who said higher-ups in the company knew about, and in some cases encouraged, their price-rigging witn competitors. GE's high command has dis claimed any knowledge of the price-rigging. Ginn, for his part in the schemes, was fined $12,000 and given a 30-day jail sen-tence-the heaviest penalty im posed on any of the indi viduals. She'll Love If Fashion loves a whirly dress - and so do little girls. This dress is so cool, yet dressy. ( So pretty, with or without embroidery. Pattern 7092: transfer; directions; pattern pieces in children's sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Summer favorite! State size. Send Thirty-five cents (in coins) for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Alice Brooks care of Medford Mail Tribune, Needlecraf t Dept., P. O. Box 163, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PATTERN NUM BER. JUST OUT! Our 1961 Nee dlecraf t Book. Over 125 de signs for home furnishings, for fashions - knit, crochet, embroider, weave, sew, quilt toys, gifts, bazaar items FREE - six designs for pop ular veil caps. Quick - send 25 cents TODAY. 7092 ill ll I i lliiiiii iiiiiiiiillillii ' 'ihs III! I MEDFORD ARMORY An MAY'5,67 came home for his spring va cation with a three-month-old beard which he hadn't said a word about in his letters. He just turned the key and walk ed in on my canasta party, where all my friends were waiting to greet him. Look at him. You'd never know that behind that mess there's a clean, good looking fellow. I almost fainted when I saw this freak, this monster at my door. My first impulse was to call the police. Is this supposed to turn him Into a Samson? Anyway, when he grinned and said, "Hi-ya, Mom!", the voice was familiar. It was the same old Warren, up to some new tricks. Only this one can't be laughed off. It must be shaved off. Warren A. - I wanted to try growing a beard. Lots of the men at school are doing it. Since when is a guy sup posed to write home for his mother's permission? It's just too bad that my vacation co incided with my beard-cultivation period. In another month I'll decide whether I want a Vandyke or mutton chops, and then I'll start to tame it and train it. I like the shrubbery. I ad mit it's going haywire now, but when I begin to groom it, my mother may like it too. As to her friends, I'm not wor ried about their opinion. If my mother is embarrass ed, that's too bad. Some of the Junior Miss dresses she goes around in embarrass me. while were on the subject, but like my beard, that's per sonal and I don't dictate. The Council: Breathes there man, Mrs. A., who doesn't wonder how he'd look with whiskers and an Abe Lincoln or Rip Van Winkle beard? What color, what directions, how long? These are questions some of them find answers to at some time and under vari ous pretexts. Warren chose the ideal time of life for Op eration Beard-a period when he doesn't have to worry about anybody's frowns, not his boss's nor his wife's nor his customers'. Only his moth er s, and she's a pushover. Perhaps we can help War ren push her closer to equa nimity by pronouncing beard growing a harmless pastime. Whatever the motivation, be it curiosity, experimentation, or out-and-out exhibitionism, the whole project dwindles 'usually and, in retrospect, be comes a "passing fancy." At any rate, we doubt whether Warren will hold on to the bush after graduation, when he goes out into the business world for a job. Un less, of course, he looks for a job in a barber-college, or as a grizzled Forty-Niner in a TV western. And there's always a chance the Man-from-Schweppes may seek a stand-in, while he satisfies his own curiosity as to how he'd look without a beard. Warren's only booboo was in not tipping his ma off ahead of time, so she (and "the girls") could be steeled emotionally for the fuzzy wuzzy. It does take some ad justing to. Kissing through a "mattress," for example, is a bit of an art. Failing to have warned Mrs. A., he might have stopped off and had the adornment trimmed, shaped, and dressed a bit, so as not to burst in like a survivor of a shipwreck. No, Mrs. A., there's nothing wrong with growing a beard. It's an innocent way of mak ing life exciting and interest ing for a young man. It brings him a fleeting distinction and recognition which he needs. When he sees how much real care it actually requires to look smart, he may well de cide to chuck it for the good old safety blades. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF - SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS, always willing to try any thing once, consented to attend a nudist party one Fourth of July afternoon. Describing the experience to friends in Auburn that . evening, Sam said, "Those folks didn't do things by halves. Even the butler who opened the door for me was nude." "If he was nude, how did you know he was the butler?" asked Mr. Adams' literal -minded publisher. "Well," said Mr. Adams, "it certainly was not the maid1." - Lynn Faraol reports that a crowded elevator was about to ascend the other afternoon when a happy drunk shoul dered his way into it Al the car arose, he faced his fellow riders and announced cheerfully, 'Til bet all of you are wondering why I called this meeting ..." . . ' ' A chronic bad check passer suffered his greatest indignity re cently. He received a call front his Red Cross blood bank. It seems his blood bounced. 0 1961, ty Burnett Cert Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate How Underwater Feeding Was Accomplished Some of the "higher" ani mals seem as active and de veloped at birth as they will be at several months of age. These are whales and por poises. These creatures are practically "born swimming." We watched the birth of a baby bottlenose porpoise. He was as active "as a cricket" within minutes after entering his watery world. Right from his very first gasp the little guy seemed to know what it was all about. Peculiar, too, for apparently he had one strike against him right from the first, because he was born tall-first-a reversal of the reg ular biological order of warm blooded animals. As soon as the little guy entered this world, he took but a moment to get his bearings, then away he went, full speed ahead, right alongside his proud mother, who had slowed down a little. It was several hours before the baby mainfested any de sire for food. In some un known way, maybe by sense perception, both mother and baby had the same idea at the The choice coffee beans in Boyd's come in assorted colors red on the tree.greefi after drying, brown after roasting. They come from assorted countries the hills ... of Central America, the mountainsides of South America, the, coastal shores ofj Hawaii. And they come with assorted flavors the deep, hearty rich . . .but, frankly -you don't need to know beans about how Boyd's is blended. That's our particular; stock in trade and we've been hard at it all this century. What we'd prefer you ; remember about Boyd's (besides that it's time you stocked up again) is that peo ple like it. Almost all people. Including true coffee lovers like you and me. Four thousand restaurants prove it they serve a million cups of Boyd's every day.. PQ Sammt iiktd If that millm tupt hctmJu nfills. II in. eWe tludu hli a ''em Thml't why w'n urt ytm Hit Btyd't, BET BOYD'S IN THE BIB Small Worlds Around Us By lynn M. Watkins (Besiiter and Tribune Syndicate 11) same time. The little guy in dicated his hunger. His moth er slowed down and set the table for the first meal. He took a deep breath, ducked under the water and nursed. In but a few seconds he was up again on the surface, swimming alongside his moth er. It seemed impossible that he had received enough In such a short time but he appeared satisfied. During the next several days the feeding schedule be came regular. It occurred at about the same time, almost like clock-work. Mother porpoise had now developed a new technique. She would roll far over on her side. The baby could al most get his little head above the water-line. It was when the two animals were In this position, that an .unforeseen occurrence separated mother and son, just as the feeding began, and revealed just how all the meals had been served so quickly. A lumbering turtle had rammed Into the pair of poropolses, knocking the youngster away' from his mother. At the same, instant a stream of milk shot out . Aw La 1 ' '"-til 44 jfiv la.r.l II . TWO-POUND TIN... P-!ili! s TUESDAY. MAY 2. House Endorses Milk Price Bill Salem-flJPD-The House Mon day gave strong endorsement, 46-11, to a bill that would give Oregon milk price con trols for the first time since 1954 The bill went to the Senate. There was no opposing speakers. Dairymen said the emergen cy legislation is necessary to protect the Industry, threat ened by cuts In prices of two cents per quart in much of the Willamette Valley. Rep. Joe Rogers (R-Inde-pendence) says the loss to pro ducers amounts to $1.12 per hundred pounds, and the loss is running $250,000 a month. The bill would allow the State Agriculture Department to set up minimum prices for producers, based on five cri teria: 1. Average cost to produce milk. 2. Purchasing power of the consumer. 3. Price of milk used in manufacture of milk products. 4. Supply and demand. 5. Price of milk in adjoin ing states. The controls would be in ef fect until July 1, 1963. Rep. Don McKinnis (D-Sum-merville) said although gov ernment price controls are generally disliked HB1752 is "justified" because this is a case where free enterprise is "spurting a little."- into tne water. There was pressure behind It. Nature had foreseen the dif ficulties of underwater feed ing and had equipped mother porpoise with the necessary muscles to force the milk into the baby's mouth. OREGON'S TUALATIN VALLEY FEATURED IN THIS WEEK'S P0SL.m. of Oregon farmland far as the eye can see. Thafs the subject of a dazzling, full-color Face of America in this week's Saturday Evening Postl In this beautiful Post feature, you'll tee all the broad, boundless beauty of Oregon's Tualatin Valley. You'll learn how this lush land, got its unusual name. How wandering fur trappers were among the first settlers in Oregon and how they struck it rich. And you'll see breath-taklngly beautiful Mount Saint Helens rising ghoit-like mmmrmwmnmmmmmriimjtn see th lPOSTl;E POUR YOURSELF A 5 Youth Still Sought In Killing of Girls Holland, Mich. - (UPD - The search for 16-year-old James Scott Stephens, sought in the slayings of two young girls, spread today into the neigh boring states of Illinois , and Indiana. But authorities still played a "hunch" that Stephens might be in the rugged Maca tawa Dunes area along the shore of Lake Michigan whera the bodies of Carol Gee, 11, and Margaret Chambers, 12, were found Monday. Stephens left home Sunday morning. He wrote in a note to his mother: "Mom, . I'm sorry but it was an accident. I tripped over a log and the gun went off a couple -. of times. I didn't mean to do it." Authorities said the slay ings were no accident. Both girls had been shot at close range in the head, Mar garet five times, Carol seven times. 1 GENTLY NOW Nottingham, England -flJPD-A bakery baked a two-foot-square cake here that was too big to get through the shop entrance. A crane had to low er the 90-pound delicacy from a window. MotheiSDay Cards ' MAY 14TH 217 I. Main $. Medferd in the distance. Be sure to see this Intriguing Face of r I e a "Wanderers, Home"-ln this week's Post. up your copy todayl - ALL THE REFILLS YOU WANT 19(1 t .1-
