; Thursday, Juna 28, 1973
The Nysia Oat* City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon
Pag* Three
Cut Ineffective Programs, Avert Tax Hike, Says NAM
The sound way to avert fed
eral tax increases in the sev
enties is to eliminate or re
duce ineffective government
program* now, the National
Association of Manufactur-
R«*M*ar<-li I)«*vrlopinrut
Increase Is Planned
By American Industry
:
111
A UNIQUE PROGRAM OF SACRED MUSIC
will be presented by the Bob Jones Univer
sity Ensemble at The Conservative Baptist
Church on July 1 at 800 p.m. The pub
lic of the Nyssa area has been invited to
attend the service.
George Pritchard of South Carolina, Is
in charge of the talented group and will
bring a short Gospel message. Mr. Prit
chard received the bachelor of arts degree
in Bible from BJU in 1972 and Is presently
pursuing the master of arts degree in the
School of Religion. Other members of the
ensemble are Miss Kay Cornell of New
York, Miss Angela Dominick of South Caro
lina, Richard Stewart of Florida, Jav-Martin
Pinner of Virginia, and Mrs. Pritchard of
Colorado.
The young people are typical of Bob Jones
University, Greenville, S.C., which draws
Its student body of more than 4,800 from
nearly every state in the Union and about
30 foreign countries and territories.
Typical, too, of the institution is the
spiritual and musical quality of their pro
gram. These musicians offer a combination
of vocal selections including quartets, trios,
duets, and solos.
Both well-known and
seldom-heard selections will be presented--
all of them especially adapted for this
ensemble.
U. S. business plans a five
|>er cent increase in research
and development expendi
tures in 1973 and a 23 per
cent increase between 1973
and 1976, according to the
economics department of
McGraw Hill Publications
Company.
Total R i I) performed by
industry will amount to $21.2
billion in 1973 and $26.1 bil
lion in 1976.
“This year's expected rise
represents a dip in real
terms." said Douglas Green
wald, chief economist at
Mi Graw-HIII. “The salaries
of scientists and engineers
and the |>rices of materials
connected with the |>erform-
ance of R 4 D will increase
more than 5.5 l>er cent in
1973."
ers has declared in a study mendations:
just released.
• Sus|>end new funding for
A I. Bolton. Jr , chairman housing subsidy programs
of NAM'» Government Ojier
• Gradually terminate fed
ations/Expenditures Com
eral participation in social
mittee, named programs af
service funding.
fecting housing subsidies,
• Restructure the federal
compensatory education, so
cial services and manpower manpower training effort
training as logical targets, with extension of the Public
while calling for a continua Employment Program con
tion of federal funding of a cept, when necessary.
• Maintain and increase
"coordinated research and
development effort in areas funding for a co-ordinated
of high civilian national pri federal civilian research and
development effort.
ority."
The NAM task force also
Mr. Bolton, president, Bol
ton-Emerson, Inc., Lawrence, recommended specific
Mass . in a statement accom changes in the public expen
panying the report, said that diture process including 1>
“the committee initiated this introduction of a federal
study late last year to high economy act in each session
light spending areas where of Congress to identify pro-
there is available and credi grams which should be cut
ble evidence of a failure of back or eliminated. 2) regu
lome federal sjiending pro lar i>eriodic review of all fed
grams to achieve program eral programs, and 3) annual
objectives, and to quantify po enactment of a firm spending
ceiling.
tential budget savings."
The 31-page report "Fed
The report concluded:
eral Spending: An Analysis "Public spending must be
of Selected Spending Pro better directed to programs
grams" presents cost and pro which are proven effective
gram evaluation evidence to and away from those which
supjiort the following recom- have proven ineffective. In
by Jack Zimmertnsn
ment. It is an integral part the presiding officers of both
of the legislative process and houses appo.nt two members
was devised solely to avoid from each body as a conference
stalemate and ultimate defeat committee oa that particular
of legislation desired in prin measure.
cipal but unresolved in detail.
These four people, selec
In order to make that trip to ted for any variety of reasons,
the governor's desk and ultimate > meet and usually settle the
enrollment in Oregon Revised problem. One side or the other
Statutes, each proposal must gives in. Or the amendments are
achieve passage in identical modified until acceptable to all
form by both House and Senate. conferees and both houses
Often as not, a measure passing speedily accept the committee's
one bouse is amended in the > version. That panel is then dis
other.
It is then up to the solved.
originating house to concur in
The process is a little uni
those amendments or to re que to Congress and the Legis
ject them. And if the second latures of the 50 states. And
house fails to concur, con it evolved from Fnglish Par
ference committees are appoin liamentary Law, although the
ted to attempt to iron out the practice has virtually disap
differences.
peared from lawmaking in Bri
The normal process works tain.
Democracy in ancient Greece
like this: The presiding of
ficer usually knows the other consisted of city council-type
house has amended the bill al legislative bodies. And Rome,
ready passed by his chamber. for practical purposes, had an
Upon passage of the amended unicameral legislature. The Ro
version, he notifies the chair man Senate put the legislation
man of his substantive com together, marched out on the
mittee that considered the bill. steps of the forum and told the
The chairman usually indicates public what it had done. If the
concurrence or nonconcurrence. populace approved, it became
If he concurs, the bill may be law. if the assembled crowd
accepted In its amended form. made enough fuss, the disap
But if he rejects the amend- pointed Senators would tighten
ments--or if any member of the their togas, point their san
originating chamber moves dals inside and make some
successful non-concurrence-- changes.
Parliament tended to put its
landed gentry in its senate--
the House of Lord: v The people
achieved their bii'ameral se
cond House of Commons--and
members assumed considerably
more than the thumbs-up,
thumbs-down role assigned the
Latin populace.
Commons pretty well rules
today’s legislative roost. Con
ferences occur most often be
tween members of opposing po
litical parties. Lords has re
latively little tn say.
Conference committees in me
Oregon Legislature are appoin
ted less frequently than they
are in Congress. And the system
is a little different. It’s been
said nearly 10 percent of bills
passed in th« nation's capital
emerge from conference. Some
times those are free con
ferences, in whichconfereescan
meddle with the entire bill-
not just offending amend
ments. This is the way those
pesky riders are attached to
Congressional legislation, often
having nothing to do with a
particular measure’s original
subject.
Oregon conferences are clo
sed and usually invoked to re
solve differences involving 20
or 30 bills. A proliferation
of conference committees might
indicate basic differences of
opinion between presiding of
ficers.
If original conferees are
stalemated, a second commit
tee is appointed. Sometimes
as many as four conference
committees have been named on
a single bill.
Political scientists point up I
drawbacks and advantages. De- I
tractors claim they usurp too I
much influence from the legis- I
lature as a whole. Proponents I
praise their work and cite the I
final acceptance of a conference I
report by both houses as an I
adequate check i;n power im- I
plied.
I
The legislative process often I
is described as the art of com- I
promise. In Oregon today the I
conference committee is most I
aptly described as the final <
compromise.
GRADUATE FROM BYU
all cases, the idea that merely
spending money for well
meaning objectives is the so
lution to national problems
must give way to a rigorous
demand for programs which
do indeed prove effective.”
Who, What, When or W here?
What publication has more
than 10,000 authors, weighs
around 50 pounds, and is split
into 24 volumes with 28,264
pages ?
What publication features
nearly every well-known pho
tographer in the world such
as Karsh. Salomon, Margaret
Bourke White, Robert Capa,
Alfred Eisenstadt. Tom Hol
lyman, Cartier-Bresson, Cecil
Beaton, Edward Steichen and
Werner Bischof?
The answer is the Encyclo
paedia Britannica. It con
tains more facts on more peo
ple, places, and things than
any other publication in the
world.
Cherrylee Chamberlain will
graduate with the August 1973
class at Brigham Young Uni
versity. In April she was ini
tiated into the Honor Society
of Phi Kappi Phi, which inclu
ded the top eight percent of the
graduation class.
Cherrylee is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Chamberlain
of rural Adrian.
" s S-GLO oi O c S ,1
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■ Salem Scene
As leadership of both houses
struggles to adjourn Oregon's
longest legislative session, a
heretofore little-public lied
term achieves prominence in
news reports from Salem.
Certain legislation, following
passage by both House and Se
nate, suddenly is referred to
another committee--the con
ference committee.
The emergence of this new
body of lawmakers tends tocin-
fuse some newcomers to the
legislative seem- and often baf
fles the casual observer.
They hai
-
■ familiar
with the process involving tn-
trodu< ti<u.
I ii, first and
second readings, committee re
ferrals, hearings before sub
stantive committees, recom
mended'vis of those panels,
third readingsandultimatepas-
. sage or failure of a measure
after a vote of all members
tn one house or another. And
they understand the process is
, repeated in both houses before
; a given bill is submitted to the
• governor for his signature.
What then is this monkey
.' wrench in the already comp
licated democratic machinery
that stalls progress of a bill
• on its way to becoming law?
I Simply stated, the conference
I committee is not a roadblock in
; the path of statutory develop-
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