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■ GATES A Salem Scene ! 7—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, Feb. 4, 1971 By Rose Cree Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Geston spent Tuesday and Wednesday ¡of last week in Milwaukie I by Jack Zimmerman where they attended funeral services for a friend. OREGON'S LEGISLAIIVE Thursday Mr. Geston became PROCESS HIGH 714 bills. Ranging in size from ill and was taken to Santiam VISIBILITY’ OPERATION 1 to 128 pages, a full set of bills Memorial hospital by ambu From the outside, Oregon’s contained 17,427 pages. And lance. Friday he was operated Capitol Bulding looks like solid .during the course of the ses on for a ruptured appendix. marble, stone and concrete. sion—counting amendments, Mrs. Geston called her nephew, But from a Legislator’s desk, reprints, calendars, indexes, Lyle Geston, at Longview, the building is transparent as advance sheets, sessions laws Wn„ who came with his daugh glass. and the like, the printer com ter and stayed with Mrs. Ges The high-visibility “fish posed something more than ton for a couple of days. Mr. bowl” tradition surrounding 40,000 pages. Braxton Fouts, and Mrs. deliberations of the State Leg Last session it was common friends of the Gestons, spent islature is not uniquely Ore practice to order 1.500 copies Friday and Saturday at the gon’s. But our state’s practices of each bill. But some bills— Geston home. Mrs. Geston re- in this respect have been rais depending on “sex appeal,” re ported on Monday that her ed to a relitively high degree. quired as many as 2,500 copies husband was holding his own And it’s an expensive propo to satisfy demand. Monday morning. sition. . fa This staggering load of pap- Miss Olive Sherman and One part of this open-door erwork funnels through Mrs. Herba Scott from Lincoln legislative practice involves and Mail Rooms. City visited at the home of ready availability of bills in Chief Bill Room Clerk Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilson troduced in House and Senate. raine Kerr and her staff of six and other friends in Gates on Oregon residents can ask for categorize each bill for ready Monday afternoon. They form- and receive copies of bills ab reference. Next door, Chief erly lived in the house which solutely free. The process is Mail Room Clerk Marcella belonged to Edna Hutcheson directed by the Joint Commit Green and her staff handle before moving to Lincoln City, tee on Legislative Adkninis- distribution in the Capitol and where they now live near tration and from the public’s throughout the state. They “Spanish Head.” They wit standpoint, the bills emanate process as many as 80 individ nessed the terrific storm there from the prosaically named ual bills in an eight-hour day recently and wondered if they “Bill Room.” And the volume of their work would live to see morning. Tucked in a lower-level is reflected in a postage bill Sunday afternoon guests at corner of the Capitol Building, that totalled some $20,000 for the home of Mrs. Lang Staf-, the Bill Room and its com the 1969 session. ford were Mrs. Webb Case, | panion Mall Room are scenes All this paper handling is Cindy and Terri. The Cases I of feverish activity during done with order and dispatch, Tony Bishop, Tim Chytka, are former residents of Gates. much of each biennial session And the volume is increasing. Darleen Roy and Vickie Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Case and Cindy of the Legislature. Total bills increase each ses This group will hold their I recently moved to Beaverton Together they employ 23 sion. The House this year is Ry Eva Brewoler on the second and from Salem and Teri is living I people. And their work is gear requesting a minimum of 2,000 Oregon Independent Tele meetings ed closely to round-the- clock copies of each bill. State phone Association held a meet third Tuesdays of the month, i I with Mrs. Jay R. Mason in Sa- The St. T ‘ Catholic ~ " |em whlle attending school. Patrick production by the State Print Printer John R. Chamberlin, ing of Governmental Affairs club will hold their anm annual _____ _ ____ i al i I Monday afternoon visitors er. who watched his workload soar Work shop in Salem Friday, «»♦ Yhe fV»n h hnmn zvf Mrs. lVfrc T Lang oner Staf- Qtaf- “ome of Roughly 100 people are em by 25% in 1969. expects an January 22. People’s Telephone “Valentine Cake Walk” at the ' at Catholic hall Sunday evening,• ford were Miss olive Sherman ployed in the Printing Section other 25% increase this year. Company guest for the day February' 7 at 7:30 p. m. Ev-.and Mrs. Herba Scott from of the Department of General On top of everything else, was Gary Kenz, assistant to eryone is invited to attend. | j 4nco]n City. Services and most are involv there’s reason to believe 1971 Jack Annunsen, representative Mrs. Alfred Hemshom was. » __________ ed in printing measures as bills will be more voluminous for Oregon, to acquaint repre- hostess a shower held Wed-1 .. .■ . T p . Trt quickly as they are introduced. than they were in 1969. More sentatives with the Independ- nesdav for evening at the City rs/lail In 13X Keturn IO House bills, traditionally and than half the bills introduced ent Company operations. Cal 7,0 honoring Mr. and i_i o inc 11PO Tax 1RS p;_ Figure historically, are printed after in House and Senate last ses-| I Culbertson, manager of Peoples Hall at 7:30 honoring Mr. and Have A. G. Erickson, district di-j Mrs. Herman Nelson, who lost first reading and printed cop sion were only four pages or Telephone Company in Lyons , all of their belongings in a rector for the State of Ore ies are delivered to each Leg less. also attended the meeting. fire which destroyed their mo gon, said this week that tax-' islator’s desk next morning. One source indicates there al Alfred Bailey has opened a Senate bills often are printed ready are half-a-hundred 80- new saw shop in the former Ed bile home. payers who wish to have the Last week the Busy Bees government figure their tax in advance. In addition to the page bills in the works this Slaydon shop east of town. He fact this calls for speedy work, session and the measure revis handles HomeLite Chain went on a tour of the North i the volume is prodigious. And ing Oregon’s Criminal Code saws. usual, but leave the computa- Santiam Guard Station. The| the pri nter finds the bulk of I | runs 185 pages. Deputy Richard Grossnock- Ranger showed the boys and I : tion lines blank, and mail the each biennium’s work com All but a fraction of the laus was enrolled at Chemeke- I return to the IRS service cen- pressed into a few short weeks. cost of exposing the legislative ta College in Salem for the fall girls the pump trudks and | , ter in Ogden, Utah. Further other equipment, then showed ; I details are contained inside the The Legislative Assembly in process to the public by dis term, taking a course in crim 1969 introduced a total of 1,- tributing bills is bome by the inal investigation and homi them through the office. Next1 front cover of the instructions month the project is to have that come with the Form 10-10. state. While the general pub cide, in which he received a a plant press made. lic, libraries, news media and 4 point average. Mr. Gross- Mr. and Mrs. Winston Lut The IRS has offered to fig ' others receive bills free, there ‘ nocklaus is the local deputy trell of Scio will be guests at ure the tax for taxpayers who INCOME TAX is a nominal $25 charge to lob- ' here, Santiam Valley Grange Friday have income of $20,000 or less SERVICE i byists requesting a complete j The first phase of the Shake nigt, February 5 and furnish consisting only of salaries, | wages, tips, dividends, inter- j cot nf all hills And nprsnnsi More than 30 years contin set of all bills. And persons j and Bake Homemakers 4-H j i special music. There will be a | ■ est, pensions, and annuities. requesting more than 10 copies cooking club met at the home j delegation from Scio. A potluck I uous sendee and experience i of an individual bill b.-'st pay, Of Mrs. Lawrence Chytka last' supper will be held following j ■ and who claim the standard in this area. ■deduction. The offer also in- 25 cents apiece for additional | Tuesday and those demonstrat-1 the meeting. 1969 recorded over 1,750 I copies. ' ing how to make cookies were | Mr. and Mrs. Leland Man 1 eludes figuring the retirement satisfied clients. income ' The Bill Room discourages Susan Moore. Marcia Gran-i ning were Sunday afternoon | lncom 5 credit <-™. for older taxpay- w*° m*nnc.ome and Courteous satisfaction | requests for complete sets of tham, Chris Mahurin, Mary visitors in Gresham at the' non , at ». deduction requirement. assured. all bills. On the basis it’s un- Chytka, and Alan Franklin. ____ __ ___ __ home of their son, Mr. . Taxpayers who wish to have 1 likely many people are inter- Newly elected chairman for the Mrs. Rich Manning, EDW. J. BELL I their retirement income credit I ested in ail bills on all sub- first year group is Mary Leonard and v; Vi Wolfer from Public Service Office I jects, ___, _______ measures ________ introduced I in Chytka. They will meet every Canby were Sunday guests at I compuuted should follow the 247 North Third Avenue I both Houses are assigned to. second Tuesday of the month tde Henry Croisant home. ' instructions at the top of Stayton, Oregon 97383 Schedule R and attach that ’ * in-1 National Assembly was ob one or more of 200 special Henry Kruse from Inde- Phone: 769-2265 inn cnhnnl »___ __ __ »_ ov- _ , schedule to the Form 1040 be-, terest categories. | served at fVvzv the AiorLT Mari-Linn school '___ pendence was a Saturday In addition to single re- __ last _____ week, , with Don Comfort ernight guest at the home of iug mailed to the service cen-I quests for a specific bill, most ¡ ’ n charge, who r entertained _A—— I his son-in-law and daughter, ter, Mr. Erickson said. Figuring of taxes will be requests involve persons who with accordion music. Don Mr. and Mrs. Orvall Landers, done by computer at IRS serv want to receive all bills dealing started to study accordion at and visited friends Sunday. with education, welfare, the the age of 8, and majored in Mr. and Mrs. Earl Allen ice centers, not at local offices. environment or some other music in high school. He earn- were Sunday callers at Wood- After the tax is determined, speclfic interest category. ed an Association of Arts de bum and also visited Mrs. taxpayers who have overpaid will be sent a refund, and those The Bill Room honors re- gree in music and made fur Carrie Naue in Salem. who owe additional tax will be quests both by mail and phone, ther studies in music compo- Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Olm sent a bill. for homeowners And much of each employe’s sition and orchestration at the stead were Sunday guests in time is spent helping people University of Redlands in Corvallis at the home of her sift through the welter of leg- California. He plays for Na- mother, Mrs. Bertha Young. islation to find bills they want.' tional School assemblies and The Lyons United Methodist Putting a total price tag on this year is featuring two spe- church board members will this operation is not easy. The ,cial electric accordions. hold their meeting Thursday- 1969 printing bill alone was' The Shake and Bake Home evening, February 4, at the $258,139 makers second year cooking home of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Subjecting the work of law-! club met at the home of Mrs. | Roye. makers to public scrutiny is Jack Roy last week and have one of Oregon’s richest tradi-, started practicing for the * dons. The position of State spring fair. Demonstrating _ bou t You __________ Why Subscribe to Prin’er. for instance, predates how to make coffee cakes were The Mill City Enterprise statehood. 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