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.
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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
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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,
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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. Francyl Howard, who was
swept up in the tide created by
his own editorial vigor, unex
pectedly found himself spear
heading a drive to strike down
the legislature's M) million tax
increase package.
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