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FOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, JULY l, 1948 OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams Published Daily Excapt Sunday by tha News-Review Company, Inc. Una aaeaa elaaa mattar Mar T, taM. at tha paat afftaa at ftaaaaarf. Orafaa, aaaar act at March I. ISIS CHARLES V. STANTON appw EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Managar Mambar of tha Aaaoclatad Prass, Oragon Nawapapar Publlahara Aaaeelatlan, tha Audit Suraau of Circulations B.araaaal.4 ar WtST-HOLLIDAT CO., INC., altlcaa la Near Tan. Calcaia. aaa rraaclaea, Laa Aaialaa, UK, rartlaaa, at. Laala. UBSraiFTION ATrs I. Orafaa Br M.ll r.r Taar II (a, alt aianlka M.M. Mraa aaaalaa U.ta. Br Cltj Carrlar r. rear SISM (la aaraaeal, I... la. a aa yaar. ar Mania, ll.aa. Oatslla Oraaa Br Mall rat raar if at. ala aaaalka M.7, lar.. m.nlh. Sl.la. TREASURY GRAB BAG By CHARLES V. STANTON The decision by the Oregon Supreme Court that Income tax surpluses may be placed in the general fund opens the , way for a merry free-for-all. We may be certain that the next legislature will suffer extreme pressure from various groups to appropriate funds from the surplus for many pur poses. Schools, highways, counties, municipalities, state Institutions all will be attempting to grab a handful of cash. In the split decision by the Supreme Court, it is Interesting to note that the majority opinion was based upon strict in terpretation of law, while the minority opinion was more concerned with expediency fears of a collapse in the tax system and opening of the treasury gates to free spending. In other words, the minority opinion and the position is . well rounded fears the power of pressure groups to dissi pate tax funds. , The decision points very clearly to the necessity of com plete revision of Oregon's antiquated, patch-work tax gtruc- ture by the legislature. The legislature also must be adamant in resistance to the money grabbers, using extreme caution in disposing of the surplus in such manner that it will go into projects or activities normally supported by taxes, thus serving its intended purpose, indirectly, that of reducing taxes in the future. Correspondent Shows Prejudice It is not the usual practice of The Newt-Review to permit its news writers to express opinions on controversial issues. We endeavor to make our news reporting strictly factual, leaving comment and opinion to the editorial columns. An exception was made in Friday's issue, however, in a report from Reedsport by our correspondent, Fred M. Wright, in which he voiced criticism of Reedsport's retiring mayor, John Skaaluren, claiming the mayor gave more of his influence to a successful tax issue to finance a community center building than to the work of a committee, of which he is chairman, organized to promote a community hospital. The criticism was used in a by-lined article because our correspondent doubtless was expressing the sentiments of a segment of Reedsport's population who should have the right to make their views known. , ' It should be understood that the sentiment expressed by our correspondent did not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Newt-Review. In our association with Mayor Skaaluren we have found him one of Douglas County's most civic-minded men, an in defatigable worker for the best Interests of his own com munity, with a widt vision for the county as a whole. f TENTH FLOOR FOR 1 SUPPOSE ( IF THERE AIMT cardiograph, third I there was U much wrong FLOOR FOR X-RAYS, l A TIME WHEN WHEW YOU ( V NINETEENTH FLOOR, THAT OLD BOY COME, THERE for blood count, 1 had stamina (will be when j I SECOND FLOOR FOR I ENOUGH TOGO A YOU GO-IT S CONFERENCE-- J THRU ONE OF ) MAKES STRONG) -TrSK THEN PRESENT THESE MEN CREEP J Jf-THIS CARD BACK J , MODERN! Vw IX J T m KM V t MT Off BORN THIRTY YEARS TOO SOOM r mV traviet was. Scraps Frorn The Mending Basket By VIAHNETT S. MARTIN Illumination Planned At Drain The progressive City of Drain Is requesting residents to keep porch lights burning, which, with normal street illumi nation, should serve to give the approaching tourist a favor able impression of the community. Traveling the highways at night, it is always a pleasure to come into a town in which the streets and store windows are lighted, while the residen tial districts furnish evidence of life and activity. The pro ject has only one drawback, and that is the current shortage of electric power in the Tacific Northwest ; but we doubt if the increased consumption in Drain would place enough additional load on the Bonneville system, from which the city is supplied, to be noticeable. If other cities should fol low suit, however, the load might become too great. In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) to the Pacific In the space of a few short, decades. If we cease to be that kind of people, Goo. help us. We'll he sunk. a a a WITH the convention fun over, we must turn back to grim mer affair. They're plenty grim. A Berlin dispatch by Wei Galla gher (another good reporter) gaysi'Only two courses of action have any hope of breaking the Soviet blockade which is stran gllng this city and bringing Eu rope closer to war than at any time since Munich. "The first la the uie of western power military forces to .crash the land blockade. The second Is retaliatory action by the West In other parts of the world which would makj It too costly for the Soviet Union to continue Us Ber lin policy." a a WHAT li Russia's Berlin polio ? Gallagher answers that one. He aayi Moscow has two ma jor alms: 1. Establishment of a strong German government ON THE SOVIET MODEL, dominated by the Communists. 2. A Soviet voire In the ero nomic life of Germany, prlnd pally the industrial Ruhr (where the coal and the steel tome from). .aaa tlTHY does Russia want Ger If many In the hollow of her hand? The answer Is brutally simple. Here It Is: The Germans are workers and producers aa we are. They IN VENT things. They MAKE thlngi. They are engineers. They are scientists. They have KNOW- HOW. Without Germany and the Ger mans, RUSSIA CANT AFFORD TO TACKLE US. With Germany and the Germans, she ran afford to tackle us. The situation Is Just that primi tive. DONT try to laugh off Berlin and what Is happening there. It's much too grisly to be laughed off. IJ a world where anything ran happen but hasn't yet, SOME THING HAPPENS at Lake Suc cess. The-Securlty Council of United Nations ORDERS THE WAR IN PALESTINE STOPPED. It gives the Jews and the Arsba three days to quit shooting. It com. nils Itself to back up Us orders with force. Britain. U. S. and France, with four minor nations, vote ta back up the order. (There are It na tions In the Security Council.) I Russia, the Soviet Ukraine and Argentina abstain from voting. Thua Russia leaves herself free to do whatever she thinks the situation calls for later. a a IT would be nice If this United Nations order had soap on It. It hasn't. Frankly, It Is a bluff. But It la an ORDER. United States, Britain and France line up bark of It. Watch It. It's the stuff that showdowns art made of. Greetings to the Readers of the Roseburg News-Review! I hope you will like 'The Mend ing Basket" which was, for many year, In California and New York State newspapers. It was my habit, when I first began writing stories, verse, and other material, to keep a small notebook handy. In the basket where I kept mending. With two small boys enthusiastic about marbles, there was plenty of mending. When time for writing was available I'd use the Ideas Jotted down In the little book. One day an editor asked me to contribute a "column". What to call It? How natural that It should become "Scraps from the Mending Basket!" The Scraps Included about everything that came Into my ex perience. I dipped Into my mem ory aa my neighbor fished out pieces of bright material from her piece bag for her quilts; I snipped bits of interesting letters from reader-friends; I shared ideas that came through Parent Teacher work and a long and en joyable contact with schools and teachers; sometimes I 'talked' about a book I particularly liked. Then came the War. With two sons, seventeen then, In the Navy I found much to write about. A. W. V. S., Red Cross you know all the things we worked In during the War years. But there came a day when I decided to give up writing, every kind of writing, for the writing seemed like a spring that had stopped welling up. Then we came to Douglas County where amid the green hills, the sound of a creek singing past our home, the quiet of the canyon, the friendly people, the urge to write came welling up again. And I suddenly missed 'The Mending Basket." . . I am glad to be writing It again! Computation of Dividends on More Than 20 Million Insurance Policies Held by Veterans Poses Huge Task WASHINGTON, July 19 4 The massive machinery for the pay ment of dividends of war veterans life insurance policies will start whirring faintly Aug. 1. That's graduation day for 26 Veterana Administration specialists two from each of the 13 branch offices who've been taking a sort of dividends course at the Washington headquarters for several weeks.. The 2 "students." their heads crammed with Information about the National Service Life Insur ance (NSL.I) program, In turn will Instruct VA employes throughout the country. And some time early In 1950. If all goea well, the dividend checks will start rolling out, to all vet erans or heirs of veterans who have or once had NSI.I policies In force for three months or more. Some VA officials estimated that of SfiJM.OOO.nno In the NSLI fund, a surplus of as much as $2. 000,000.000 may he available for distribution as dividends. The amount of each check will vary according to the aue of the Insured, the amount of the policy and the period In which prem iums have been paid upon it. The average pavmcnt? Some would-be experts say $100. The VA aays It's impossible to estl mate with any degree of accuracy. Colossal Taik Faced (letting back to the machinery It's massive because It has to compute Individual records for more than 20,000.000 policies, many of which were allowed to lapse months ago. The Veterans Administration asked for $7..1ft4.nnn with which to start an audltlne and allotting Job expected eventually to cost iU.ftlO.non. With that start, the agency estimated It could hire an additional 2.7(10 employes for a year or 5.4(10 for six months to get the tabulations going. Congress aiwronrialed only 1. AM .000. forcing VA to read lust Its goals and postpone possibly un til 19.V) the starting date for pav ment of dividends. A Insurance heads. In train. Ing the 2S prospective exnrrts. employed film strips showing tvp Icai premium account cards from every part of the United States. lards were selected to Illustrate every Imaginable type of entry that might he encountered In the million', oi Insurance file rases. 'Mtt' Optra Ends Season With $220,000 Deficit NEW YORK (.T Grand opera didn't make money for the "Met" last season, hut directors think there was a profit anyway. The Metropolitan Opera Asso ciation yesterday reported a deficit of about $220,000 for the fiscal year ended May 31, 1948, and added: "While the financial results of the past season are obviously un satisfactory, they did not, of course, constitute the measure of results achieved." From The Oregon Press Tha Orcgonlan Statesman We quote this paragraph from the Roseburg News-Review Edit tor Stanton's column: The Oregon Highway Commlnlon eould perform a moat valuable and needed service to Weatern Oregon'e munlrlpalltlee If it would determine the rnutea to be adopted either through or around towns, and buy the right or way. even though con atrurtlon were left until e later dale. At the rale land valuea are Increaa. Ing. towna growing and Improvement added, the Stale would aave money by buying righta of way in and near populoua centera without further delay. This is a sensible recommen dation provided the commission has definitely decided what the new or altered location will be. If not, and a subsequent change is made, it might find itself own ing strips of land quite worthless for its purposes. The real reason why the high way department doesn't do more advance buying of right-of-wav Is lack of funds. Pressed as it is for money for construction It cannot tie up funds In highway locations that are not scheduled for Improvement. However the commission does more preliminary buying than Is generally announced. It bought up the Sunset highway connec tion between Portland and Banks several years before work started Right-of-way on the Wilsonville cutoff was purchased quite some time ago though the contract for construction from Tigard toward tne river was let only a few monthe ago. As far as land values go It s true they have been rising for the past dozen years, but they may recede as they have ofte'i In the past. The great advantage in forward buying for the hlt-h- way department is that then they no not find Improvements on lands tiiey want, which run up the cost. To Illustrate, planning authorities here have agreed that Fairgrounds road should be Bush ed on to Join Broadway but a coupie oi years ago a concrete structure was built at the head of Fairgrounds road. Before that the cost of land acquisition would have been small; now It would Property Tax Base Not Wiped Out By Court's Decision SALEM. Ore. (&) The state oi Oregon has not lost its property tax base, even though in come tax receipts have wiped out the state property tax for the past several years. State Sliniwma fmtr nflnlsl. said this is the effect of last inursaay s supreme court decis ion, in which it was held that $40, 000.000 of surplus Income tax reve nues can be spent, Instead of hav Ing to be saved up to offset fu ture property tax levies. The H i irh rvtiir-f Hoi.lnn 1 holds that the 6 per cent const it u- iiuuai ia iiiruiaiion applies only tO raisin? of rPWniU anrf nnfr in the spending of it. These two rulings settle ques, tlons which have twen argued in tne ipgisiature tor many years. 'The factor which has resulted In i-ontntinn nnrl amklnul,,. I u - tax system for years has been the anxiety nf the lfTilntiir n B.mll losing the tax base and the uncer tainty as to what circumstances might result In Its loss," the ma jority opinion said. "Conseouentlv alnr-e tha lim when the Income tax revenues have been sufficient to eliminate state property taxes, It has been thought necessary to levy such taxes to avoid losing the tax base, nothwlthstanding the fact that the six per cent limitation applies on ly to the raising of funds and not to the use of revenue already rafeed." The provision that no levy can be made by a taxpaying body ahAua K Imnlll-I levied in fl V one of the three previous years, tne court saia, appim otuy w property taxes. Sawdust-Slab Wood In 12-K-24 and 30 Inch lengths Old Growth Fir - Double Leeali WESTERN IATTERY SEPARATOR Phone 631 Coveniently Located for : Convenient Banking DOUGLAS COUNTY STATE BANK Member federal Deposit Ineuranco Cora. v Cass and Jackson St. I he so large as to delay or make impossible the connection. we hope the highway depart ment makes up its mind regard ing the location for a second bridge across.the Willamette hern and proceeds to acquire right-of-way. Otherwise it may run into neavy costs tater on. ine two factors which prevent adontion of the oollcv Editor Stanton recommends still remain valid: Lack of funds and danger of route changes. NO WAITING! Immediate repair service on all makes of home and car radios. 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