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Thursday, June 3, 1971 Th« Nyssa Gat« City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Pag« T«n fies that any law unsigned -- or not vetoed by the governor within the 20-day time limit, automatically becomes law any way. Secretaries and other staff by Jack Zimmerman members of individual Legis Adjournment sine die signals House Speaker, Senate Presi lators usually wind up their the end of nearly five months dent and Governor. post session duties quickly. of intensive lawmaking effort Engrossing continues through They consist largely of gather by 90 Oregon Legislators at out the session and a certain ing up personal records and be Salem. amount of enrolling does, too. longings for shipment to their But it also marks the begin But the Oregon legislative pat employers’ homes. Another ning of more than a month of tern produces passage of a duty is returning office equip fever-pitch activity by a small prodigious number of bills in ment furnished by the state du cadre of the 250-odd people waning weeks and days of each ring the session. working directly behind the session. Then there are the staffs of scenes of the 56th Legislative E & E must have all of each the Legislature's standingcom Assembly. session’s enrolled bills on the mittees. They must relinquish Probably the most pressure- governor’s desk for his signa official records and equipment ridden post-session job falls on ture within 20 days of final the shoulders of Bonnie Davis adjournment. Working closely also. Staffs of both the Bill and and her staff of 25 charged with Legislative Counsel and Mail Rooms labor on for se with engrossing and enrolling the State Printer, E & E often veral days, providing law bills. “E &E,” as the office finds itself with several hund is known, works steadily through red bills to enroll after law makers, state agencies and other interested persons with the session modifying printed makers call it quits. final copies of bills, advance bills as they are amended. This This job consists largely of process is called engrossing a extremely tedious proofreading sheets and calendars. Offices of both Chief Clerk bill. An enrolled bill is one and present staff can’t recall which has passed both houses a time when the deadline wasn’t of the House Winton Hunt and Senate SecretaryCecil Edwards and is ready for signatures of met. State law also speci begin the arduous tasks of re vising House and Senate Jour nals and Session Laws. The Journals contain an accurate record of all official actions taken by both houses. And Session Laws, of course, re EXTERIOR cord bills enacted into law. Neither, however, tends to reveal that always interesting legal substance called “legis EXTERIOR lative intent.” This elusive commodity most often is found ANY COLOR by a tedious study of taped and written records of both formal legislative sessions and com color g mittee hearings. Preservation of these re cords — along with bill manu scripts and hearing exhibits, is the job of State Archivist ANY COLOR OT. David Duniway. He is custodian of perhaps six tons of such records dating back variously into legislative history. ea S149 The archives contain enrolled bills beginning with the Organic Act of 1843 and continuing for 1088 Decorator Colors sessions until 1859. The Sec retary of State hold those after Choose Any Color You Want 1859 up until more recent history. Duniway’s collection consists We Give A Redeem SRV Stamps of virtually all legislative acti vity since the Archivist’s of fice was created in 1955 and some scattered material back to 1945. All of the state’s enrolled bills survive in custody of either Duniway or the Secretary of State. Missing from any of ficial file, however, are jour 417 MAIN NYSSA PH. 372-2124 nals and bill files for the period Salem Scene FULLER PAINT SALE LATEX PAINT o... M” OIL BASE o.,. 55” INTERIOR LATEX SEMI GLOSS ROLLER & TRAY SETS 'Firestone STORE J398 $289 Five Students Accepted By United Electronics Five 1971 graduates from Nyssa and Adrian High Schools have passed their entrance qualifications and have been accepted by United Electronics Institute for electronics train ing. between 1865 and 1924. They were lost when the Capitol bur ned in 1935. Duniway reports the search for legislative intent between sessions involves any contro versial new law. Following the ‘65 session his archives were searched for matter pertaining to passage of the so-called Three-Way Workmen’s Com pensation Act. After the ‘67 session it was the Beach Bill. And his office processed some 600 queries in 1970 many of which involved events leading to passage of the Tri-Met Bill in 1969. Similar activity in the archi RICHARD BUNN ves during the next interim could They are Richard Bunn, son of involve a revison of Oregon’s Mr. and Mrs. Jay Bunn; Frank Criminal Code. And Duniway Sells, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl believes the ‘71 session likely Sells; Kenneth Vandewall, son will fill his archives with as of Mr. and Mrs. George Vande much as a half-ton of new ma wall; all Nyssa graduates; and terial. The straight logistical job Ronald Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Miller; and Gene of closing down the Legislature Mackey, son of Mr. and Mrs. is that of the Joint Committee Gerald Mackey, both Adrian on Legislative Administration, High graduates. guided by Robert Stevens. He and his staff are charged with coordinating post-session acti vity, storing supplies and equip ment for the ‘73 session, dis posing of surplus equipment, keeping Legislators’ offices open during the interim, allo cating space, supplies and equip ment to interim committees and making certain records get where they are supposed to go and lawmakers' personal pos sessions are returned. Complicating Stevens’ job this interim — as it did last, will be extensive Capitol remodeling programs. Some of these various jobs are completed within a week FRANK SELLS or two following adjournment sine die. Some take a couple The boys will enter training of months. in the fall at the Portland Whatever the time involved, Training Center. They will its easy to compare a session train in the laboratory under a of the Oregon Legislature with work and learn by doing pro serving Thanksgiving dinner. cess and will receive 1,980 After diners have been sated, classroom hours instruction and the hostess labors on with dirty will be taught all phases of dishes, soiled linen -- and lots electronics. of leftovers. AVIATION COURSE OFFERED AT TVCC Treasure Valley Community College is offering a variety of commercial aviation courses during the summer quarter, ac cording to Bob Franklin, in structor. Tuesday and Thurs day evenings are set aside for instruction of Aviation Ground School while Mondays andWed- nesdays are set for Instrument Ground School. The evening classes begin at 7:00 p.m. and run to 10:00 p.m. Other courses include: Commercial Pilot Flight Lab and Commer cial and Instrument Flight Lab. Registration is slated for June 21. SAVINGS BONDS KENNETH VANDEWALL INTEREST EXTENDED Before graduation, students receive many interviews and job offers by such companies County Chairman Jim Leslie reminds Malheur County resi dents that all outstandingSeries E and H Savings Bonds and all Freedom Shares continue to draw interest, as a result of action recently taken by the Treasury. The Treasury has granted ad ditional 10-year maturity exten sions to Series E Saving Bonds purchased from May 1941 through January 1957, and to Series H Bonds issued from June 1952 through January 1957. Also, Freedom Shares, sold May 1967 through June 1970, have been given a 10-year exten sion beyond their original 4-1/2- year maturity. GENE MACKEY as RCA, IBM, Western Elec- tic, G.E., Motorola, McDonnell Aircraft, NASA and many others in the electronics field. “This means Savings Bond owners can continue to count on their older Bonds as part of their long-range financial plan ning for retirement security, children’s educations, and new homes,” Leslie said. Retirement Workshop The third annual summer workshop on Education for the Retirement Years will be con ducted June 21 to July 30 at the University of Oregon i'rr Eugene. The program carries 12 quarter-hours of academic credit at the undergraduate or^ graduate level and is designed for those whose duties or pro fessional goals involve the ini tiation, development, adminis tration or improvement of edu cational programs for the mature or aging adult. The workshop is jointly sponsored by the Oregon Center for Ger ontology, the Division of Con tinuing Education and the UO Summer Session. Content of the course is divided into three two-week units. The first unit, Orien tation to Gerontology, is a survey of problem areas of, gerontology, including theories of aging, health and physiologi cal and phychiatric problems, family and sex roles, environ mental design and retirement housing, leisure and recreation, political movements, the econo mics of aging, and death. Educational Resources for the Mature Adult, the second unit, concerns the organization of' material and its presentation to adult groups. Research find ings in pre-retirement studies will be explored, along with existing and potential sponsor ship of pre-retirement edu cation programs in industry. The third unit, Demonstration of a Pre-retirement Program, provides in-depth background and skills in designing, ad ministering and conducting pre retirement programs. PLUMBING AND HEATING Authorized Lennox Dealer 13 N. 2ND ST. PHONE 372-3911 Nyssa, Oregon RONALD MILLER 4