The Capital Journal from Salem, Oregon • 1

Governor ponP reveal SALEM Prttotld Ixttnsiw a.r ltArr 0 Proposed 1-305 freeway Keizer freeway spur: No longer proposed plan crossed out way through Keizer to the Chemawa Interchange with Interstate 5. An official close to the city-county negotiations, who asked not to be identified, said the county is "favorably disposed" to the city's annexation proposal. He said it is the only possible way to finance a replacement arterial along the right-of-way. This annexation of the right-of-way is part of the agreement the county wants, guaranteeing that a four-lane, arterial street will be built along the western edge of Keizer. If the city annexes the land, city taxpayers would pay for the arterial through bond measures expected to be up for a vote within the next several months.

The bond measure will ask city voters to provide about $5 million that will be 'used to match the federal money freed from the 1-305 spur. The city and county also plan to lobby the legislature for laws which would allow bond elections for street improvements within metropolitan areas. Presently the two jurisdictions cannot call an election on street bonds for an area like the Salem Metropolitan Area. Instead, the vote would have to be county-wide or only within the city. County commissioners do not support a county-wide bond election to provide By CHUCK BENNETT Capital Journal Reporter Marion County and the City of Salem have agreed there will be no 1-305 freeway spur: through Keizer into North Salem.

The oral agreement announced today by county commission chairman Walter Heine and city council president Ellen Lowe puts an end to nearly 15 years of speculation surrounding the freeway spur's construction. The agreement also ends any hope that a third bridge across the Willamette River will be built within the foreseeable future. For years the county, city and state have been debating, planning and re-planning the 1-305 project and its accompanying bridge crossing. The decision reached this' week to abandon the freeway spur means the $38 million of federal funds assigned to the project can be transferred to other city and area street projects. Central to the decision to abandon I-305 is a memorandum of understanding presently being worked out by city and county officials.

Several majx)r points will be addressed in that memorandum. One of the points includes the annexation by the city of the 1-305 right-of- 364-HELP! HELP! is the feature thai solves problems, answers questions and gets the job done. Call HELP! 24 hours a day at 364-4357. HELP! answers questions only through this column. I have a problem with a Salem auction yard.

I took some goods out there on Aug. 7 and have not yet received the check for payment. I have called the yard numerous times (six to be exact), and each time I was told a check would be sent. I have not received it. G.

Salem. Check number 11010 was made out to you by the auction yard on Aug. 20 and mailed in September. It has not been returned in the mail or returned with the canceled checks, so payment on that check has been stopped and a new check has been written for you. Call for HELP I 3S4-4357 I'd like to know the address of the Portland Herpitological Society.

Dennis Desmond, Salem. The society is inactive apparently, but a newly formed organization of snake fans is the Pacific Northwest Reptile Society. The mailing address of the society is 1267 James Woodburn. The society is sponsoring an exhibition of 75 reptiles this weekend at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland. There will be additional charge to the exhibition after the regular OMSI admission.

What is the admission price for the Star Trek Convention in Portland? I think it's at the Expo Center. Lavonne Spencer, Salem. Gene Roddenberry, former producer of the "Star Trek" TV series, presents a program made to order for Trekkies tonight at the Memorial Coliseum. The only remaining tickets for the 8 p.m. event are restricted viewing seats next to the screen.

Upstairs seats are $4.50 and downstairs seats are $6.50. Call for HELP I 3S4-4357 I've been trying to locate the New York critics list of best books for 1976. My husband found a list last year in the newspaper, and he hasn't been able to find one for this year. This isn't necessarily a best-seller list, but a list of the best books written. P.L., Salem.

The reference librarians at the Salem Public Library suggested that what you have in mind is the National Book Critic's Circle list of best books. The first awards were made last January for books published in 1975. The awards were: for fiction, "Ragtime" by E. L. Doctorow; for general non-fiction, "Edith Wharton: A Biography" by R.

W. B. Lewis; for poetry, "Self Portrait in a Convict's Mirror" by John Ashbery; and for criticism, "The Great War and Modern Memory" by Paul Fussell. If you want the National Book Awards, the list is more lengthy. It, too, is available at the city library reference desk.

Do you know if any of the Salem radio stations are going to broadcast the Sprague-Grants Pass game Friday night? Tom Jackson, Salem. The game will be aired over KSLM radio, 1390 on the AM dial, beginning at p.m. to big budget By PAUL JACOBS Capital Journal Reporter Gov. Bob Straub is expected to announce next week major programs to aid local government part of a $2 billion state general fund budget for 1977-79. Straub is likely to be revealing important pieces of that budget in a series of meetings with governmental associations beginning Monday, the day his budget goes to the printers.

The full two-year budget must be presented to the legislature by Dec. 1. Loren (Bud) Kramer, the governor's executive assistant, said today that the state expected $1.83 billion in revenue over the next two years from various state taxes. And the budget analysts are now predicting a surplus of $159 million from the 1975-77 budget. The total general fund revenue would fall $11 million short of $2 billion if those estimates are correct.

That is about a 30 per cent increase over the current two-year budget. Kramer confirmed that Straub would recommend that the state provide 33 per cent of the cost of running local school districts an increase from the present budget. In 1975, the legislature approved enough state school funding to provide 30 per cent of local costs. Kramer did not want to comment on other budget decisions made by the Straub administration. But he said it is likely that Straub would announce major programs at a series of local government conventions, scheduled for next week.

A source within Straub's administration, who would only speak off the record, indicated that the governor would request $25 million for state revenue sharing for the cities over the next two years. The new state funds would go to the cities with no strings attached in a program: similar, to federal revenue sharing. Kramer would not confirm that figure but he said that Straub might reveal his aid-to-the-cities program at the League of Ofegon Cities convention Monday night Straub also will be requestingvS25 million over two years for new aid to the counties. Instead of a direct grant, the money would be directed to specific programs. For example, the state would pay an increased share of the cost of running the county courts and mental health programs.

Straub could announce his program for the counties at a meeting of the Association of Oregon Counties in Eugene Thursday. Straub is likely to be talking about his school finance program at a workshop for school executives at the Oregon School Board Association convention in Portland on Wednesday Kramer said. The local governments also are likely to be interested in Straub's plans for expanding the present state property tax relief programs that send state money to homeowners and renters to offset local taxes. According to the source in the governor's office, Straub may propose $15 million in additional tax relief for 1977-79. School bus leaves road A West Stayton school bus slid of a gravel road into a ditch this morning.

Geri Minden, secretary to ttie school's principal, Mrs. Phyllis Lowe, said there was only one child on the bus at the time of the 7:47 a.m. accident. Neither the child nor the bus driver, Mrs. Lillian Poplin, was injured.

"They were both still in their seat belts when the bus stopped," Ms. Minden said. The bus, which carries children to the West Stayton School District 161 Aumsville, was not damaged. Sports today NO REQUIEM for this heavyweight: boxing's "godfather," Frankie Carbo. Page ID.

THE DUCKS and Beavers are home this weekend for Pacific-8 Conference football games. Pages ID, 2D. SCHOOL presidents are mull- ing the idea of asking television to help deficit-ridden athletic. departments. Page 4D.

funds for street improvements only within Salem. That is why the annexation proposal is getting support from the commissioners. The city's general plan now is to use the $38 million of federal funds and the matching $5 million, if it is approved by the voters, to do major work on Salem's arterial street system. The transfer of funds was first formally proposed by Mayor Robert Lindsey in his State of the City Message in January of this year. Since then there have been non-stop negotiations between the city and county on how best to meet Salem's traffic needs and still provide a major north-south arterial from Chemawa Road into the Birds in Those passing Salem's First United Methodist Church at 100 State St late Thursday afternoon saw this sight.

Hundreds of small birds, presumed to f- Jf core area, relieving the congestion that has been steadily building on North River Road. The announcement today is the culmination of those negotiations. Plans now are to hold public hearings on Nov. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the city library auditorium, before the Salem Area Transportation Study Coordinating Committee, which is headed by Mrs.

Lowe. The hearings will give Salem residents an opportunity to comment on the several projects the city has recommended and to propose any other street improvement projects that could be financed with the federal and local money. the belfry be starlings, spent several minutes circling and intermittently landing on the steeple of the church. (Capital Journal photo by Gerry Lewin) Straub wants funds used for day care ill Fairview Hospital and the state's child care programs are battling for $2.1 million in federal funds. And Gov.

Bob Straub will be backing the combatants for day care when the question of how to use the federal grant goes to the state Emergency Board next Thursday. Oregon would receive $2.1 million this year under a special congressional appropriation for child care for low-income families. The states, however, are free to use those funds for other human services programs. Because the decision will be left to the states, Oregon's agencies are vying for their share of the federal money. The state Children's Services Division is asking that the money be used to provide child care.

The state Mental Health Division wants to use $1.1 million to add to the staffing at Fairview Hospital in Salem as well as its other facility for mentally handicapped individuals in Eastern Oregon. And the state Public Welfare Division is asking for $417,000 to provide medical care at those institutions. The legislature's fiscal office is recommending that the Emergency Board use the money for the state institutions. Federal regulations will force the staff Inside Today Capital Classified ads Comics Court records Display ad index Editorials Entertainment Markets Obituaries Regional News TV, 1C 13A 2A 4-5 A A 3B 3C IB to increase staffing at the two hospitals, or the state will risk losing the federal Medicaid money that provides for 90 per cent of the residents at the institutions. But Loren (Bud) Kramer, the governor's executive assistant said today that the Straub administration favors using the money for child care.

Child care is "the keystone" to a variety of other programs that the state and federal government must pay for, Kramer said. Providing child care for working parents and for those in job-training programs reduces the number of those who depend on welfare and saves the state money, Kramer said. Tourist lures PORTLAND (AP) Nearly $3 million is spent by 157 travel related businesses each year to promote tourism to Oregon, the Oregon Hospitality and Visitors Association reports. The travel industry organization estimated $15 million to $20 million is spent each year by all businesses in Oregon, including those not contacted in its study, to promote tourism to Oregon. COASTAL fishermen are forming a marketing organization in order to have their views represented on regional fisheries councils.

Page IB. THE SALMON produced by the Oregon AquaFoods hatchery at South Beach exceeds expectations. Page IB. LEGISLATURE is advised that it will still have to deal with issues rejected by the voters on the Nov. 2 ballot.

Page IB. Today's regional report Recommended reading SALEM WOMEN learned how to invest in the stock market at a recent workshop. See how to do it in today's Capital Life, section. YOU MAY need a calculator to help with the new 1040 tax form. It's going to be more difficult to prepare.

Page 2A. A MILD tug-of-war is going on among Jimmy Carter's staff. See Page 2A. NEWPORT personnel specialist Faye Parker will resign effective Jan. 1.

Page IB. LINCOLN County Commissioners slate a closed-door hearing to discuss property sale. Page IB. MORE THAN 25,000 persons turn out for the 25th annual Veterans' Day parade in Albany. Page IB.

County- Commissioners give up fight on permit fees. Page IB. Miss your paper? We hope not. But if you usually receive your Capital Journal from a newspaper carrier and it is not delivered by 5:30 p.m., please call us before 7 p.m. at: 364-6811 Extension.