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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1964)
Money Question Dominated State Government During '63 HAPPY NEW YEAR . . . to alt our friendi and customtrt, end thankt for your loyal patronage this past year. Thexfon's Aquarium The year In state f mnmrnt, a I PI yrar-rnd apreial. i By ZAN STAltK SALEM i I'Pl was the war Oregon ran out of money the taxpayers revolted. The money question dominated state government in 1963. The people and their govern ment grappled with the problem, couldn't agree on a solution, and put it oil in hopes somebody later could tind the ansuer. It was also the year of the long legislative sessions. Ths regular session ran 141 days a record, and the special session ran 22 days also a record. It was a year of tragedy. Ore gon was saddened at the death of Rep. V. 0. Kelsay. D-Rose-burg, in an auto crash Oct. 4 while driving back from a leg- Wednesday, January 1, 1964 HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ort- STOREWIDE CLEARANCE once 0m , islalive interim committee meet ing, and the legislature was shocked into a recess by t h e assassination of President Ken nedy. Hoardman Kattle Fought The foundation was laid for decades of partisan squabbling when lawmakers enacted emer cency legislation to pull the PAGE IB! Buardman project's chestnuts once again out of the (ire. The firing by Gov. Mark Hat field of Labor Commissioners Emily Logan and Sidney Lewis produced a sizzling, but short lived, flurry of excitement. Their removal was lined with the controversy over industry's drive for a three-way work men's compensation law, and labor's insistence on a one-way bill. The legislature, caught in the middle, let the present two way law stand unchanged. The split widened between the legislature and the slate Board of Higher Education. Lawmak ers were rankled because they could not exercise greater budg et controls. While it appeared ' the diH'ument's supporter launched a plan In get it on ' the ballot so tlie voters could decide. Kaise Voted It was the year of the legis lative pay raise. Lawmakers rushed the pay bill through in the early days of the session then began displaying a public guilty complex. In the special session eflorts to cut the pay scale died in a Senate commit tee. Oregon turned i t s back on civil defense, and instead o( ex panding the 18-man agency as the governor requested, the leg islature trimmed It to a three member staff. There was indignant outrage from the governor's office when Senate President Ben Musa, who was serving as chief executive while Gov. Hatfield was out of state, appointed a welfare com missioner. Hatfield was out of stale quite o(tcn during the year. And while highr education won the battle j denials were dutifully in 19H3, it also appeared the legislature may w in the war and eventually gain the tight control it wants. A new constitution for Oregon won support in the House, hut died in the Senate. Undismayed, BEAUTIFUL FAERIC FINISHING When You Wosh or Dry Clean Here. Professional Presser on Duty Drapery Pleating NORGE VILLAGE J. W. KERNS 734 So. 6th TU 4-4197 Irom the executive olticc, no body had any doubt that Ore gon's governor was testing the temperature of the national po litical waters. But money or lack of it was the big story in iota. The slate's surplus had lieon drained dry. Hal field asked for tax in creases and a $405 million gen eral fund budget. The legisla ture raised taxes and gave him $41)4 million. But weekly newspaper editor I. 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