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10 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Frl., Dec. 30, 1949 Highway Commission Sets 1950 Plans, Reviews Year By RALPH WATSON State Highway Department As the year 1949 draws to a close, the State Highway com mission reports that, in dollar value, Its activities tor the year have exceeded those of any pre ceding year. Its Income has amounted to $26,006,000 and its disbursements have totalled $34. 303,000. Of the amount disbursed, $12, 034,000 was used in the mainten ance of the 7,300 miles of high ways which comprise the Stale Highway system, and of that amount, $2,000,000 represented cost of unusual frost damage to state roads during the winter of 1948-49. $18,080,000 was used In highway construction, including the purchase of right-of-ways. I I I For ops" on Dralnboardi See Phil Durnam Lino'cum Laying and Venetian Blinds 920 S. Main 1336-J $1,236,000 was expended for other capital investment items such as, equipment, buildings and acquisi tion of parks. $2,953,500 was used for such purposes as administra tion, operation of state parks, conduct of the travel information service, debt service, operation of drawbridges and ferries, etc. From Gas Tax Income for the year has been derived by $19,506,000 from gaso line tax, motor vehicle registra tion fees, motor transport fees, and other roaduser imposts, and $6,500,000 from federal aid allot ments. Revenues from the gaso line tax. motor vehicle registra tion fees, motor transport fees and other road user imposts to talled, for the year, $31,33o,uUu, but of this total $5,558,000 was, in accordance with law, allotted to the counties for use on county roads, $4,108,000 was allotted to cities for use on city streets and Sl.035.000 was allotted to the State Police department for Its work in the policing of roads. An additional $1,128,000 was loaned to counties, as required by law, to be used by them in the repair of unusual frost damage suffered by county roads during the win ter of 1948-49. Past Funds Used The fact that disbursements for the year have exceeded income for the same period by approxi mately $8,300,000 has been made possible by utilization during the year of a part of the funds which were accumulated during the war years when construction ac tivities were of necessity deferr ed. Of these funds approximately $2 million remain unexpended at the end of 1949. Actions taken by the State Leg islature at its 1949 session, in creasing the gasoline tax and the motor vehicle registration fee, did not operate to increase state highway income in 1949 above what it would have been under old rates due (1) to the increase in registration fee not becoming effective until Jan. 1, 1950, (2) to the increase in gasoline tax not reflecting itself in actual re ceipts into the state highway fun! until October of 1949, (3) to a re duction in motor transportation fees and (4) to a required ad vancing of the time at which the cities are paid their shares of the motor venicle income, it is ex pected that, In 1950, the increases In taxes and fees will gross $7,- 900,000, of which the state's share will be $5,600,000, the counties' share $1,500,000 and the cities' share $800,000. Nearly Compensated This increase will approximate ly compensate for the extra fund3 spent, since the war, from the WANTED Men to Train For Real Estate Appraisers Age 21 to 60. Must be resident of this county two or - more years. Competent appraisers receive $175 to $325 per month. Farm experience valuable. Write Box 135 co News-Review DIESEL STOVE FUEL BURNER OILS Distributors of Shell Oil Since 1926 Try Our Oil Service DENN-GERRETSEN CO. Phone 128 402 W. Oak St. WHAT! Only a quart of oil! The Roxbilts don't scrimp young man put in five gallons! Five gallons is a lot of oil, rather sell that surplus to lots as shootin' are going to burn out a bearing for the lack of it. They're likely to need other adjustments too all of which will come to light with a regular winter check MAC WOOD UNION STATION i Open 7 . m. 'til 10 p. m. seven days a week. Located at Steph ens and Washington Sti. Phone 971 Mrs. Roxbilt. Frankly, we'd ot folks, we know, who sure 'tr. r .1- Property Sale Ad In 1857 Lists Six Negro Slaves Everything from slaves to a barrel of whiskey is listed in a bill of sale of personal property and farm equipment published in 1857 by an Oregon-bound pioneer from Kentucky. A reprint of the original clip ping was brought to the News Review office by Mrs. John E. Plnkerton. Mrs. Plnkerton said she was a kin of the W. L. Moss, who advertised the property lor sale. The bill of sale states: "Having sold my farm and am leaving for Oregon Territory by ox team, will offer on March 1st, 1857, all my personal property to-wlt: "All ox teams except two teams, Buck and Ben and Tom and Jerry, 2 milk cows, 1 gray mare and colt, 1 pair oxen and yolk, 1 baby yolk, 2 ox carts, 1 iron plow with wood mold board, 1500 10 ft. fence rails, 1 60-gal-Ion soap kettle, 85 sugar troughs made of white ash timber, 10 gallons of maple syrup, 2 spin ning wheels, 30 pounds mutton tallow, 1 large loom made by Jerry Wilson, 300 poles, 100 split hoops, 100 empty barrels, 1 32 gallon barrel of Miller Johnson whisky, 7 years old, 20 gallons apple brandy, 1 40-gallon copper kettle, 3 sides oak tanned lea ther, 1 dozen real hooks, 2 handle hooks, 3 scythes and cradles, one dozen wooden pitch forks, half interest in tan yard, 1 3-call-bre rifle, bullet mold and pow der horn, rifle made by Ben Mil ler, 50 gallons of soft soap, hams, bacon and lard, 40 gallon of sorg hum molasses, 6 head of fox hounds, all smooth mouthed ex cept one. At the same time I will sell my 6 negro slaves, 2 men, 35 and 50 years old, 2 boys, 12 and 18 years old, 2 malatto wenches, 40 and 30 years old. Will sell all to gether to some party who will not separate them. "Terms of sale, cash In hand or note to draw interest with Bob McComin's as security. "My home is two miles south of Versailles, Ky., on McComin's ferry pike. Sale begins at 8 o' clock a.m. Plenty to eat and drink W. L. Moss." wartime accumulation previous ly mentioned. This wartime ac cumulation of funds will be ex hausted In 1950 but the Increased revenues beginning in 1950 will permit the State Highway com mission to maintain approxi mately the same rate of construc tion as was maintained during the past three years. The pres ent rate of construction .enables Oregon to "hold the line" in the struggle for adequate highways but estimates of the highway needs of the next 15 years as made by the Interim committee indicate the present rate of con struction expenditures to be roughly two-thirds of sufficiency. In 1950, an income of $35,627, 000 is anticipated and disburse ments in the amount of $36,955, 000 are budgettcd. $10 million Maintenance Of the amount to be disbursed, $10,138,000 will be used in the maintenance of the State High way system, $20,676,000 will be used in highway construction, in cluding the purchase of rights of ways. $2,837,000 will be expended for other capital investment items such as equipment, buildings, and acquisition of parks, and $3,364. 000 will be used for such pur poses as administration, opera tion of state parks, conduct of the travel information service, debt service, operation of draw bridges and ferries, etc. Income for the year will be derived by $28,827,000 from gaso line tax, motor vehicle registra tion fees, motor transport fees, and other road-user imposts, and $6,800,000 from federal aid allot ments. Revenues from the gaso line tax, motor vehicle registra tion fees, motor transport fees and other roaduser imposts are expected to total, for the year, $40,715,000. but of this total, $7,. 270,000 will, in accordance with law, be allocated to the counties for use on county roads, $3,600, 000 will be allocated to the cities for use on city streets and $1, 018,000 will be allocated to the State Police Department for its work in the policing of roads. Progress Indicated Satisfactory progress on feder al aid programs is indicated by the fact that of the $21,200,000 total program for the fiscal years 1950 and 1951, $8,125,000 (38 per cent) is under contract as of Jan. 1. Contracting of the balance of 1 OIL HEATING Rooms don't get chance to get chilly you get heat quick from the G-E Boiler, or the O-E Warm Air Furnace. TOZER'S Heating and Sheet Metal 314 W.Cass Phone 1541 Man, 107, Laughs Off Report He's Missing OCEAN PARK, Calif., Dec. 30. (iW Clpriano Chavez, 107, laughed when police found him and told him he had been report ed missing. "Oh, I can take care of my self," he smiled. "I was only looking for work." His daughter, Mrs. Josephine Garcia, told officers Wednesday that Chavez had been working regularly as a gardener until this year. "Then he was hit by a bus," she explained. "That slowed him down a little." Born in SInaloa, Mexico, in 1842, Chavez came here as a young man of 94. 8U8PECT ARRESTED KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. 30. W0 Richard B. Robinson, 26, be lieved here to be wanted by Mult nomah county officers on at least three charges, was Laken into custody Wednesday at a Merrill motel. Robinson, state police said, faces charges of car theft, ob taining money by false pretenses and bond-Jumping. He allegedly skipped out on a $2,000 bond. this program will be completed by the early part of 1951. In the advancement of the com mission's highway improvement program, there were awarded during 1949 a total of 77 construc tion contracts. These contracts ranged In amount from $4,950 to $1,127,000, averaging $173,500. In total, their amount was $13,361,-700. Tax Payments Compared With Family Spending WASHINGTON. UP) American families pay out as much for federal income taxes as they spend on autos, furniture and home appliances from tele vision sots to vacuum cleaners. A new Federal Reserve board report on consumer finances esti mated that $9 of each $100 of in come goes for federal income tax alone and the same amount goes into purchase of the listed Items. The board calculations, based on 1948 data obtained in a survey taken this year, figured around $76 of each $100 is taken by "other consumer expenditures." Lumped in that category were outlays for food, housing, cloth ing, medical care, other essentials, state and local taxes, recreation, transportation, education, and goods from rugs to fur coats. The balance of the $100 was credited to "net saving." The federal income tax takes 13 per cent of the receipts of those in the top fifth of the in come scale, the board noted. It ranges down to a one per cent share of the bottom fifth of in comes. The reserve board figured that nearly one-third of the nation's 50,500,000 "spending units" meaning mostly families living together and pooling incomes for living costs overspent their 1948 incomes. But six out of 10 broke even partly because they had no nest egg to draw upon or no credit available while another 63 man- Missing Man Found Alive FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 30. UP) Mechanic Frank Wil liams, missing since Monday, was found alive Wednesday be side his crashed plane in a pass between Klana and Selawlk, 387 miles west of here. He was believed suffering from a broken leg. Williams was flying to Kotze gue after spending Christmas with his family in Tanana. aged to save a part of their receipts. The median or middle-sized In come of America's family units In 1948 was $2,840 and savings amounted to $75 or 3.5 per cent of income. The results differed by income brackets, however, work ing out like this: Families in the $6,000-a-year bracket saved $610 or about ten per cent of their inocme. For $3,750 incomes, savings were $235 or six per cent; for $2,000 incomes, $85 or four per cent. For lesser Incomes, no savings. Oregon's Jayvees Plan Hoover Report Campaign PORTLAND, Dec. 30. 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