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LEGILATUnS 'C3 ALBANY (ORE.) DEMOCXTURDAY, MARCH 30, 19S5 7 iff cjiL Iss- may push upportc prcparty-tax bill plan to Senate, Kitzhaber says Volunteer honored SALEM (AP) A Salem woman has been named one of the top three peace corps volunteers, the woman's mother said Friday. Shirley Gilchrist said her daughter, Kathy, has spent the past two and one-half years in Micronesia and that the Peace Corps chose her for the award. The young Gilchrist, 27, is due home this weekend, Gilchrist said her Aberdeen, said that adopting the song "Louie Louie" as suggested would be "like making marijuana our state plant." Author of "Washington My Home," the state song for 25 years, is Helen Davis of South Bend. The rock 'n' roll tune "Louie Louie" original with "The Wailers," Adopting it as the state song began as a "sort of tongue-in-cheek thing, and it sort of grew," said Ross Shafer of KING-TV. daughter will receive a citation for her work from President Reagan on-ApriUHepatitis tests done a.

to push It through bv themselves. There's little doubt that whatever plan the Senate finally might pass will end up In a joint negotiating committee. Here are other highlights of the coming week and a summary of developments on major issues during the past week: ENVIRONMENT The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee begins hearings Thursday on a bill to require refundable deposits, now mandatory for soda pop and beer bottles and cans, on carbonated wine and carbonated fruit juice containers. The House has passed and sent to the Senate a bill to require auto exhaust inspections In the Medford-Ashland area. SMOKING The Senate Human Resources Committee opens hearings Thursday on a bill to expand the law restricting smoking in public places to include workplaces in private Industry.

CRIME The Senate Judiciary Committee begins hear-inp Thursday on a bill to give the governor emergency authority to reduce prison populations when crowding becomes severe. The House passed and sent to the Senate a bill to extend the time limit for prosecuting sex crimes against children. SALEM (AP) Sales-tax supporters are expected to put on the pressure to move the proposal out of the Senate Revenue Committee In the coming week. Senate President John Kitzhaber, D-Roseburg, signaled that in a talk with reporters when he said he wanted the tax panel to wind up work by the end of the week and send the proposal to the full Senate. that's no guarantee that will happen, but sales-tax supporters are getting nervous because the version of the tax pekage that was whisked through the House is churning In heavy seas In the Senate, The biggest sticking point Is how tight a property-tax ceiling to clamp on schools in trying to ensure those levies don't continue climbing if voters also impose a sales tax on themselves.

Senate Republicans want a tighter revenue lid than the House put In the package. Formidable forces oppose wholesale changes In the House provisions, Including Gov. Vic Atiyeh and the Oregon Education Association, the state's largest teacher's union. Minority Republicans in the Senate also have plenty of clout because, as Kitzhaber acknowledges, the Democrats don't have enough votes (or the sales-tax plan in their caucus SALEM (AP) Democratic Sen. Ed Fadeley of Eugene said Friday the Legislature It on a course of abolishing most existing property-tax relief and offering voten a plan that would give 66 centi In tax relief for every $1 spent paying a sales tax.

Fadeley, who was Senate president In the 19U3 'eglslative session, said he has asked the Senate Rules Committee to draft a bill that would continue a program under which the state pays $170 of each homeowners' property taxes. Five other Democratic senators joined In the request. An ardent sales-tax foe, Fadeley told reporters that attention needs to be paid to Gov. Vic Atiyeh'i proposal to eliminate the property-tax relief program so It won't be "swept under the rug." All proceeds from Ativeh's proposed 5-percent sales tax would go to schools. Fadeley said under the current state school aid formula, homeowners would get an average of 68 cents In property-tax relief for every $1 paid In sales tax.

Fadeley said the property-tax relief program, which costs about $115 million, per year, could be continued without retaining an percent Income-tax surcharge. The surcharge, adopted as a "temporary measure" in 1982, automatically expires this year unless it's continued by the Legislature. SALEM (AP) Final laboratory tests for hepatitis among patients at the state's Fairview Training Center were completed Friday, Mental Health Division spokesman Don Hulbert said. Hulbert said a total of 23 patients in two cottages contracted hepatitis a less serious form of the disease than hepatitis B. The two cottages house 117 patients at the institution for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled.

Altogether, Fairview has about 1,400 patients. Nominations set SALEM (AP) "Republican precinct committee leaders will meet April 11 to submit nominations for a successor to former state Rep. Pat Gillis of Portland, said state GOP chairman Diarmuid O'Scannlain. The District 20 precinct leaders will select five nominees whose names will be submit- ted to the secretary of state. '84 ridership drops SALEM (AP) Ridership on Oregon transit systems declined slightly during the last three months of 1984, compared with the same period a year earlier, state Department of Transportation officials said.

Passenger trips slipped from 14.7 million to 14.1 million statewide during the 1984 fourth quarter. However, public transit rider-ship jumped 70 percent in the Medford-Ashland area and climbed 4 percent in Eugene. In the state's two other major' urban transit systems, ridership declined 7 percent in Salem and 5 percent in Portland. State keeps song OLYMPIA (AP) The House decided that "Washington My Home" would remain the state song after a floor discussion in which Rep. Bob Basich.

D- Msrlon Jury finds former Legislature cenditfoto guilty SALEM (AP) An unsuccessful candidate for the Oregon Legislature was found guilty Friday of four charges of providing false Information in voters' pamphlet statements. A Marion County Circuit Court jury returned the 10-2 verdicts against Ronald R. Huntley after nearly two hours of deliberation. He was found guilty of three charges of making a false statement and one of unsworn falsification. Judge Duane Ertsgaard set sentencing for 9:30 a.m.

May 24. The false statement charges are Class felonies, each carrying a maximum penalty of Ave years In prison and $100,000 fine. The fourth charge is a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum of one year in jail and $2,500 fine. Jx2ju LivkD fit, In 1975, Teledyne Wah Chang employees launched a massive safety awareness campaign to eliminate accidents at the company's Albany, Oregon plant. Their campaign worked.

Today, Teledyne Wah Chang Albany is one of the safest places to work in the State of Oregon. In 1983 the last period for which complete figures were published by the State of Oregon Teledyne Wah Chang had one-fifth as V. 1 A 4 "In the Imavy manufacturing industry categoiyy VJoh Chang has ono of the host safety records in the many lost-time accidents as the State average for manufacturing industries. Recently, Teledyne Gary Hagan, a hand grinder in Teledyne Wah Chang's Fabrication Division, has worked fa the company for 1 1 years without a lost-time accident. He and some 1300 Teledyne Wah Chang employees are makingsafety work by working hard at safety.

lt Wah Chang was recognized for the third time since 1980 for achieving one million continuous work hours without a lost-time accident. Commenting on the success of Teledyne Wah Chang's safety program, the Accident Prevention Division of the State Workers Compensation Department issued the following statement: "In the heavy manufacturing industry category, Wah Chang has one of the best safety records in the WTELEDYNE WAH CHANG ALBANY P0 Box 460, Albany. OR 97321 thanks to our employees, safety vjomzs..