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THI NYSSA OAÎI CITY JOUtNAl. NYSSA. OSIOON TNUIIOAY. MAY «, I««« Salem Scene By Everwtt E. Cutter U A legislative proposal to bar outside agitators from college property in times of emergency snared headlines last week. At the same time, a purse-strings panel worked less con spicuously on another matter of concern to higher education: its state budget for the next two years. Probably the quieter funding issue will have more effect on state Institutions of higher learning in the long run. Reasons why are explained by Rep. Philip D. Lang (D-Port land), chairman of the higher education subcommittee of the Joint Ways and Means Com mittee, fiscal arm of the legis lature. “The subcommittee gen erally feels that the legislature has abdicated the responsibil ity of giving direction toeduca tion in Oregon,” he says. “Policy goals and objectives have long been left up to the education establishments in stead of being set by the state's policy-making body.” The panel therefore is taking a different approach, which goes beyond simple trimming and tidying of budget recommenda tions submittedby the governor. It aims instead for control— not over militants or protestors or potential riots, but control over the quality of public-sup ported college and university programs. LIMIT ENROLLMENT One unprecedented panel re commendation is to restrict enrollment in the six institu tions comprising a part of the State System of Higher Educa tion. This can be achieved by the State Board’s raising qual ification standards to limit freshman and sophomore en rollment, and restricting out- of-state entries to 10 per cent of total freshmen. (Out-of-state students now number about 15 per cent, notes Rep. Lang; they pay a bargain $999 tuition for $1,300 worth of education.) State funding then would be tied to 44,830 full-time equiva lent students in the coming biennium. This, along with adoption of a slightly higher student-teacher ratio than sug gested by the governor, could save $2.6 million out of higher education’s $145 million base budget for the biennium. “More important than this saving is the fact that pro- jected enrollment increases show that our resources can not keep up; we face deterior- Welding A Machine REPAIR Tam Ashby At Mel Beck Precision Planters 214 N. MAIN Ph. 372-3532 RADIOS atioa in the quality of our ed ucational programs,’’says Rep. Lang. “Our recommendation also redirects emphasis from graduate programs and re search back to undergraduate instruction.” His subcommittee has authorized introduction ofa legislative resolution outlining “fairly broad but definitive” goals for higher education. At present, he says, the State System’s primary objective amounts to a complete open door policy for student enroll ment. “They are more interested in affording post-high school education opportunities for any one who comes along than in whether students can achieve a baccalaureate degree and benefit from a college educa tion,” he charges. "Our sub committee feels this role can be more suitably filled by com munity colleges.” NEED FISCAL CONTROL Besides lack of policy on this relationship, he says, Oregon statutes are lax regarding duties and objectives of the chancellor’s office, and long- range goals of the entire system. In addition, budget hearings have shown that systems and organization for management and fiscal control are “totally inadequate.” He cites examples of significant deficit spending at two state- supported universities, and promises that such practices will be dealt with in the panel’s forthcoming legislative resolu tion. Rep. Lang, a lawmaker for nine years now, believes this year’s legislature will pass a bill to move the chancellor’s office from Eugene to Salem and thereby strengthen state control. While chancellorshave tended to view themselves as part of the academic fraternity, he says, a chancellor really is an executive administrator whose job is to carry out pol icies set by the State Board and the legislature. Another different approach to legislative leadership is shown in a new interest in faculty student relationships. Some lawmakers seriously consider recommending to the State Board that minimum hours available for teacher-student contact be established. The idea gained additional backing from a recommendation of the recent House of Representatives tour ing task force investigation of higher education, in which many students expressed dissatisfac tion with inaccessible profes sors. “Many instructors teach all their own classes and keep their office doors open, but some others don’t,” says Rep. Lang. “We haven’t really done the necessary work to back the person really interested in teaching. The teacher who really gets ahead is one who subscribes to the ‘publish and flourish’ theory.” 021.95 & 824.95 FLOWERS & FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS VARIOUS PRICES $1-39 GONDOLA BOWLS $1.89 SALT A PEPPER SHAKERS 49e BIG APPLE 89e 98e CREAMER A SUGAR BOWL TO MATCH TEA EOT $1.29 $1.39 BANK 89e 98t Nyssa Variety Store 204 Main Nysso HEALTH PLANNING GROUPS ANNOUNCE PUBLIC MEETING COMING EVENTS TONIGHT - 8 p.m. Regular meeting of Nyssa PT A unit in school cafeteria. MAY 9 - Arcadia club meet at home of Mrs. C. R. Kesler, Sr., Gem avenue. MAY 10-9 a.m. -6 p.m. Job’s Daughters rummage sale in for mer Liquor store building. MAY 10-9 a.m. Cub Scout Pack 450 Candy sale - head quarters at Don Savage home, 307 South Seventh street. MAY 10-2 p.m. Nyssa Jay- cee’s auction in Thunderegg Mall. MAY 12-7p.m.-AAUW meet in Frank Morgan home. MAY 13 - 10:30 a.m. Senior Citizens meet. MAY 14 - Out Our Way club meet at Lester Cleaver home. MAY 14-8 p.m. St. Paul’s Episcopal Guild meet in home of Mrs. Grant Rinehart. Budget Bureau Rulings Rile Repr. Ulman A federal agency was the recent object of stinging criti cism from 2’nd District Con gressman Al Ullman for its handling of Pacific Northwest matters. In a statement supporting the establishment of aCongres- sional Committee to review Bureau of the Budget (BOB) actions, Ullman told the House Rules Committee that the agency was guilty of “legisla tive usurpation” in its handling of the O & C revenue formula and its rejection of the role of the Bonneville Power Ad ministration in the Pacific Northwest thermo power agree ment. Ullman is a co-sponsor of House Resolution #350 which would authorize an eleven man committee to oversee the op erations of the BOB. Other sponsors include House Major ity Leader Carl Albert, Ways and Means Comm. Chrm. Wil bur Mills, Armed Services Comm. Chrm. L. Mendel Rivers, Atomic Energy Comm. Chrm. Chester Hollifield Foreign Affairs Comm. Chrm. Thomas Morgan, Interior Comm. Chrm. Wayne Aspinall, House Administration Comm. Chrm. Samuel Friedel, and 16 other members, many ranking high in House seniority. Concern stems primarily from the policy making func tions assumed by the Budget agency in recent years. Ullman accused “B.O.B. beaurocrats” of changing long established Congressional and Administra tive policies without hearings or without consultation with af fected localities, the federal agencies involved, or with Con gress. As a result, he said long arguous negotiations can Joint Ways and Means also is looking toward long-range efficiency possibilities through improved business-manage ment practices. The committee has authorized a feasibility study to see whether it might be fruitful to launch a full- scale higher education invest igation, similar to the Business Task Force on Education study which recommended steps to save $22.6 million in operat ing public schools. Rep. Lang is confident his subcommittee’s recommenda tions will gain legislative ap proval and help chart a new course for sound management of higher learning institutions. “We cannot use the people’s tax dollars to subsidize con fusion of second-rate educa tional opportunities, ” he says. “It is up to the legislature to provide guidance and make policy consistent with goals of maintaining quality education and getting the most for our money. Members of the Malheur county court and the steering committee for Comprehensive Health Planning for Malheur County are co-sponsoring a public informational forum for Malheur county residents at 8 p.m. Monday, May 12 in the Weese building on the Treasure Valley Comm unity college campus. Dr. Gus Tanaka, chairman of the steering committee, has announced that health planning at the community level in a truly coordinated and compre hensive manner with a broadly based citizen participation, representing all segments of society is mandated under Pub lic Law 89-749, the “Partner ship for Health Act” passed by Congress several years ago and which is just now going into effect. Only through citizen planning efforts will future health programs be made avail able to communities. He further states: “This law is unique in that the “Feds” are passing government back to the people. We, at home, are being asked to identify lo cal health problems; to assess our local health needs; and to establish our own priorities. Then inform the higher levels of government, state and fed eral, what needs to be done. “It’s a real challenge for those of us who have objected to the ever increasing federal bureaucracy that has dictated increasingly from above. If we don’t pick up the ball and run, the “Feds” will again pick up where we fail so I hope we will get a good turn out both from the specially invited agencies as well as from the general public. We hope to ex plain what the game is all about.” The program will include a brief explanation of the federal laws and a description of the state plan by Allan Kahn from Oregon Governor McCall’s Of fice. Ulisse Pardini and Richard Adams from Idaho Governor Samuelson’s Office will explain that state’s program. Chris Daflucas of Boise, chairman be in vain because a “minor official” may capriciously de cide his own interpretation of an Act of Congress is better than the agency delegated by Congress to carry out the Act. In the case of the O & C formula, Ullman said the Bud get Bureau has tried to sweep aside a series of legislative enactments dating back to the turn of the century. His criti cism is directed at the re commended budgetary ceiling on payments to O & C counties from timber sale revenues. The present law provides that 50% of total revenues be paid to the counties, 25% to the fed eral government and 25% for development of the lands. The B.O.B. policy is intended to limit the amount paid to the counties to increase the federal share. Ullman and all other members of the Oregon Con gressional delegation have been fighting the limitations. Ullman also singled out a B.O.B. ruling which would have the affect of overturning an agreement of the Bonneville Power Administration with Pacific Northwest public and private utilities providing for joint participation in the de velopment of thermo generating plants to supplement the regions hydro-electric power re sources. The agreement was reached after many months of negotiations and now all parties to the accord are awaiting clar ification of the surprise ruling Ullman stated. In his statement to the Rules Committee on the B.P.A. rul ing, Ullman said the action was taken by the Bureau of the Budget “arbitrarily and with out regard to the incalculable damage it was inflicting.” Ph. 372-3914 It’s Your Law! of the Treasure Valley Com prehensive Area wide Health Planning committee (of which we are a part) will explain planning efforts in Treasure Valley to date. Finally, a proposal will be made to the citizens of Malheur County in this area of Com prehensive Health Planning. “We should all understand that comprehensive health plan ning is a broad concept aimed at reducing total cost, elimin ating waste, avoiding needless duplication and avoiding areas of ommissions. Theconcept re lates to health as well as to sickness and does not restrict itself to problems of doctors, hospitals and drugs. “Environmental health, such as air and water pollution, pub lic sanitation, disposal of waste, occupational safety, prevent ative and public health, poverty and the welfare program and all areas of public concern which have immediate and re mote effects on health are potential areas of concern in comprehensive health plan ning,’’ Dr. Tanaka concluded. VISITATION RIGHTS When parents divorce, the courts “award” children to the parent whom the judge believes can take the best care of them. In deciding, the judge considers the child’s age, the parent’s ability, the child’s preference, and other factors. The court will not award a child to an "unfit” parent. In rare in stances, the court may award a child to someone besides a parent, perhaps another rela tive or to an institution. The parent who does not have custody can visit his child as a matter of law. A court may detail his visitation rights, but any limits should be “reason able.” In unusual cases the judge may retract these rights. In one case a court denieda father the right to visit his son be cause a court had convicted him of non-support. Besides, he had threatened to take the child out of the state. When a parent is denied vis itation rights by the other par ent, or had them limited by the court, he still has the legal duty to continue to support the child. But just because the parents HATFIELD BILLS live far apart does not bar a child from visiting his par (Continued From Page 1) ent. In one case, a court al tive learning and service; to lowed a father living in South create a new agency to test Africa to have his daughters medical drugs and devices; to improve and ease federal con er and the Monmouth-Dallas demnation proceedings; and to division of the Willamette Riv form a national economic con er; a proposed Interior Depart version study committee to ana ment study of part of the Cas lyze ways to convert defense cades Range in Oregon as a industries to peacetime use prospective national park; a after the Vietnam war ends. Social Security amendment to permit persons to continue FOR OREGON ONLY community work programs; a proposal to permit the U. S. Oregon bills introduced by District Court to sit at Co Hatfield include public works quille; a measure to create the projects for the Merlin and Eagle Cap Wilderness area; a Illinois Valley divisions of the Yakima Indian Tribe inheri Rogue River Basin and the Olal- tance amendment; and five pri la Division of the Umpqua Riv- vate relief bills. Work Smarter - Not Harder YOU HAVE 100 HOURS PER WEEK LEFT if you sleep 8 or 9 hours each night. How you use this 100-hour week makes you the kind of person you are. Many people think time planning is too cut and dried for family living, too likely to interfere with spon taneous good times. We would like to be the first to say there are occasions when a time plan should be tempor arily chucked if something more worthwhile than a routine job offers itself. But that shouldn’t keep you from having a plan which certainly can make home work move more smoothly. Be sides it may also make it pos- visit him for six weeks each summer. The father made sat isfactory guarantees to return the children. To interfere with visitation rights is punishable as contempt of court. A mother who secretly moved her children to another state to keep the father from visiting them was held in con tempt of court. The court grants visitation rights only to the parents. These rights do not go to other rel atives. In a recent case the court awarded custody of a child to his father. The child became ill and incurred many medical bills. The court ordered the mother, who was wealthy, to make support payment for the child. Her failure to pay vio lated the court’s order. The courts expect that the parents, although divorced, will make every effort to avoid conflicts that will affect the children. (Oregon lawyers offer this column as a public service. No person should apply or in terpret any law without the aid of an attorney who is com- pletely advised of the facts in volved. 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In the race for two spots on the Nyssa Board of Dir ectors Mark Hartley and Ira Ure, Jr. tied with 212 followed by Mitchell with 193, Blaylock with 143 and Charles Quinow- ski 119. ADRIAN VOTING Adrian rejected the IED bud get 126-63, the TVCC budget by 121-67 and gave their local con testant (Seuell) for the TVCC board a big majority with 163 to 64 for Turner and 38 for Jackson. 100 years ago we united America What have we done for you tomorrow? HEADGATES MADE TO ORDER RED, GREEN, BLUE AND AMBER FACI NINI ORDER NOW $12 million worth of sophisticated equipment prepares our men here to uncouple, sort, switch and recouple 800 cars per hour Introducing twenty five 6600 hp giants with more power to keep fast schedules without letup—'round the clock in any terrain or weather Industrial properties—planned ahead ior businessmen who need geographic opportunity, not raw real estate. Write m confidence to Edd H Bailey. President. Union Pacific. Omaha, Nebraska 68102. 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