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© THURSDAY. MARCH 2. 1961 e> o ® o THE NYSSA G ATI CW? JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON i "" Rigney Attends Siunz Predicti Passage of 7DD Bill»; Mrs. Speech and Hearing Governor Has Signed 26 This Session Association Meeting To date only 26 bills have been signed by the governor. i The legislature will probably pass approximately 700 and if we are to get through in a 100-day session things will need to move along a little faster than they have been. Tomorrow (Feb. 27) will be the 50th day and much important legislation is still in committee without action by either house. On Feb. 24 Senator YturriT? and I met with Phil Schnied- has been amended to allow teach er, director of the Oregon Fish ers to accumulate 100 days of sick and should come up for a i and Game department, to find leave of the house this week. out if there is any possible vote The bill regarding summer chance of getting any money from that department to be used for work camps for boys is in the Joint Ways and Means committee improvement of the Lake Owyhee road. He doesn’t know if that with passage recommended by the Senate State and Federal Af department would be allowed to fairs committee. use money for that purpose but SB 238 is the school bus bill will take the matter up at their that I explained to you last week. next meeting which will be held It would prohibit use of school in March. buses for transporting of students He furnished us with a state- any place other than to and from ment of fish license sales in Mal schools. This bill is in committee heur county, which is approxi and it seems very doubtful if it mately correct for the year 1959 will pass. and states that Malheur county No committee action has been fish license sales amounted to taken on the bills that would pro $32,915, which included $10,059 vide educational television in the daily anglers’ license fees. During classroom or to establish junior this same period, Oregon licenses colleges. sold in Idaho amounted to $15,642 which included $8.745 daily angl Hearing Held on Liquor Bill A public hearing has been held ers’ fees. This makes a total of on the bill which would require $48,557 worth of fish licenses to fishermen who no doubt did most that places selling liquor by the of their angling in Lake Owyhee. drink to account for 25 percent of their establishment’s receipts Irrigation Bill Introduced by the sale of food. Amendments I introduced a bill Friday con are being prepared which would cerning irrigation districts which state that the percentage of food relates to maintenance and opera sales as required by the bill be tional costs for lands withdrawn deleted and more thought given from districts to be used as state to the requirements of the rest highway rights-of-way. I will aurant facilities and the avail keep you informed on this bill. ability of a choice of good foods The three-way Workman’s Com for patrons. pensation biy, which would let Another amendment to be con employers choose between a state sidered is one that would require fund, private insurance or a plan that the entire establishment, of their own making, was the sub both liquor and food, be under ject of three hearings last week, one ownership. with labor taking the stand that A bill was introduced in the they, under the provisions of this Senate recently requiring lobby bill, would receive less protection ists to register, giving name, than they do at present and that firm, for whom they work and in most cases they would not have expense accounts. And now’, the recourse through the courts. lobbyists have sent out question On the other hand, industry naires asking for background in claims that with the passage of formation on legislators, asking this bill a weakness would be such questions as who is the leg covered as to whether the em islator’s doctor, who does he bank ployment was considered hazard with, and who in the bank does ous or not and less money would he deal with, and who are his be paid out for legal fees. This customers and clients. Turnabout bill is still in the Senate Labor is fair play! commitee. Visitors from home this week included Paul House of Nyssa; Bill Referred to Committee I have introduced a Migrant Joe Hobson and his son, Joe, Jr., Farm Labor bill (HB 1647) that of Ontario. Young Joe acted as was prepared by farmers of Mal honorary page and everyone heur county, the Bureau of Labor agreed that he did a fine job. I and the Legislative council. It believe that the regular pages has been referred to the House were sorry to see him leave. Sincerely, Agriculture and Livestock com EMIL A. STUNZ mittee. State Representative HB 1010—Repeal of the busi ness inventory tax has been call ed for by both large and small Sugar Company Men business concerns at a public hearing. This bill is part of the Given Service Pins interim committee tax package At Annual Banquet and would replace the business Approximately 440 area resi inventory tax with a 1% percent dents were served at East Side tax on net business income. (An cafe in Ontario Feb. 17 when amendment to this part of the bill Amalgamated Sugar company would extend a proposed repeal employees, their wives and hus of the business inventory tax so bands met for their annual “end that it would also do away with of campaign" dinner and dance. all personal property taxes.) Committee members for the Witnesses at the hearing con event were Frell Blair, Raymond sisted of wholesale and retail Larson, Ward Tyler and Lloyd lumber dealers, grocery men, Wilson. jewelers, etc., who testified that Following invocation by Way- the fear of accumulating large nard Talbot, service pins for con taxable stocks at the end of the tinuous employment were pre year stifled business all down the sented by Dick Forbess. Henry line, from the manufacturer to Zobell was recipient of a 25-year the retail outlet. Even witnesses pin. Twenty-year awards were such as doctors, lawyers and rep given to Leland Ricks, Frank Rus resentatives of service industries, sell, John Moran, Earl Boston and who would pay more on income Leo J. Gonyer. than on inventory, agreed the Retired employees and their charge would be fairer and would wives were introduced. They in promote a better business climate cluded Dean Smith, Lee Taylor, for Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Kav Cottle. Mr. and The Senate has okehed a bill Mrs. Fred Points, Mr. and Mrs. that would permit parents to Clarence Pounds, Mr. and Mrs. claim children going to school as I George Poulson and Mr. and Mrs. dependents in figuring state in Sam McConnell. come taxes — even though the Musical selections were pre children earned more than $600 sented by Reed Child. Reed Pat per year, thus making the state terson, Dick McPartland and D. L. law the same as the federal in Fife. Thirty floral arrangements come tax law. and house plants were given as Bill Regulates Trading Stamps door prizes. » A trading stamp bill provides Following the dinner and pro that value of the stamp must be gram, a dance was held with mu printed on the face, that stamps sic furnished by Nyssa high must be either redeemable in school dance band, ‘The Sugar cash or merchandise, and that the Beats.” stamp companies cannot give ex clusive franchises to stores or to Mr and Mrs. Owen Gann visit ed Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. firms. The teachers’ sick leave bill Clarence Hobbs at Kuna. Robert W. Blakeley, president of Oregon Speech and Hearing association, announces the annual spring meeting will be held March 3 and 4 in Oceanlake. Ore, at Surftides resort. Professional personnel engag ed in treatment of speech and hearing handicaps will come from all parts of Oregon. This area will be represented by Mary Ann Ed wards of Ontario and Mrs. J. W. Rigney, special education depart ment, Nyssa schools. Keynote speaker will be Dr William Perkins, director of the Speech and Hearing clinic at Uni versity of Southern California His topic Saturday morning will be "Childsmanship: An Exercise in Autonomy." At the banquet Saturday evening his subject will be “Metaphorical Language of Mis-articulation." Functional articulatory defects and articulatory problems as re lated to deafness, cleft palate and other organic speech disorders will be topics highlighting this meeting. Articulation makes up a major area of speech disorders. There is a greater percentage of school children with articulation GIRL SCOUT MEMBERS GIVE FLAG INSTRUCTIONS Fourteen members and one vis itor were present Friday when Girl Scout troop 80 met at the Methodist church. Juma Kay Mitchell and Teresa Hamilto-. advanced and retired the colors. President Evelyn Weeks presided during the busi ness portion of the meeting. The group discussed the matter of re freshments to be served at meet ings and all members rehearsed "The Mexican Hat Dance." Miss Mitchell and Miss Hamil ton were selected to visit Mrs George Rush's Brownie troop at their next meeting to give flag instructions. —Teresa Hamilton, Reporter Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Chard and sons of Boise were Sunday dinner guests of her parents, Mr and Mrs. Earl Farr. Edison Dee Child, a student at Utah State university, Logan, spent the weekend with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs Edison Cmld. problems treated in Oregon as compared with the problem of stuttering. Professional and com mercial exhibits will be a feature of the meeting. Veterans Must File Use of Electricity By Oregon Residents For Exemptions Holds Upward Trend Prior to April 1 The upward trend in the use Disabled war veterans and wid ows of veterans must apply for their state of Oregon property tax exemptions by April 1, Vere A. McCarty, service division manag er for the Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs, said recently. Application for the exemption, which amounts to $7500 of the true cash value of the property, must be filed with the county as sessor on or before April 1 of each year, McCarty said. He cautioned applicants not to wait until the last day, however, because April 1 falls on a Saturday this year and the law makes no provision for extending the deadline. Per sons entitled to the exemption in clude: 1. War veterans with disabili ties of 40 percent or more as cer tified by the Veterans administra tion or the Armed Forces, regard less of the amount of income. 2. Unremarried widows of war veterans, regardless of income. Pensioned widows of Spanish- American war veterans get an extra $500 exemption. 3. Spanish-American war vet- ATTENTION GROWERS! We Are Now Contracting SWEET CORN ACREAGE and POTATO ACREAGE A Contract-Rotational Crop Combination Is Good Insurance for a Steady Farm Income! WE APPRECIATE WORKING WITH YOU. o OREGON FROZEN FOODS CO Ore-Ida Potato Products, Inc ti Phone TU 9-8611 PAGE THREE ~ Ontaa^o. Oreço» 8 of electrical energy by Oregon residential consumers continued through 1960 with the 450,940 consumers served by the five op erating utilities, using 9.447 kilo watt hours on the average for the 12 months. This compared with 8.966 in 1959, 8,253 in 1958, 8,128 for 1957 and 7,805 in 1956, accord- I ing to year-end figures released i this week by the public utility commission. Commissioner Jonel C. Hill said that although 1960 revenue perI erans, regardless of disability or income. Veterans whose 40 percent dis abilities are certified by a private physician and the county health officer, rather than by the VA or Armed Forces, are also entitled, but in these cases they must not have received more than $2500 total gross income in the past year. Further information is available from county assessors, county ser vice officers or the Department of Veterans’ Affairs in Salem or Portland. SCOUT CERTIFICATES RECEIVED BY TROOP 99 Members of Brownie troop 99 met Thursday at the home of Mrs. Dick Tensen. The girls received their certificates of membership and are also learning the Girl Scout promise. The group prac ticed singing songs. —Barbara Fangen, Reporter. kilowatt hour was up 2.40 percent over 1959, the cost of 1.28 cents per kilowatt hour was still low when compared on a national basis. A total of 9,750,109,000 kilowatt hours of energy was sold in the 12-month period ending in De cember, up 7.23 percent over the previous year. "DRIVE SAFELY— We Need Your Business!" 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