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WAYNI WAGNER, pianist, of Roseburg, performs at the audition last Saturday while Joyce
Johnson and Claudette Manning of Looltingglass look on. Wagner was on of the parformsrt
ttlacttd for tha Activa club's amateur program, scheduled for next Tuesday at 8 p. m. in the
junior high auditorium. (Picture by Paul Jenkins.)
Liberty Bell Tap
To Open Drive For
Savings Bonds
Oregon's Independence Savings
Bond drive will open at noon, Mon
day, May IS, with a tap of the
clapper on Oregon's new Liherty
Bell, theme of the fifty-day bond
selling campaign, at a special
ceremony in Pendleton.
While the sound waves from this
tap are spreading, they will be
swelled by the tones of most of
the church bells in the state and
flags on business houses and pub
lit, buildings in many an Oregon
city and town will be unfurled
in honor of the occasion.
Umatilla county was selected as
the scene of the formal opening
of the drive effort because it had
the best sales record among Ore
gon's thirteen largest counties in
the Opportunity drive In 1949.
A short ceremony in Pendleton
will be broadcast by radio over
much of eastern Ore eon. Similar
programs, including the bell ring-
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work, and a greater variety of work than by any other
means.
The Farmall fits most effectively into contour farming
practices. Use it for building and reworking terraces
to tat productiv soil. The Farmall' maneuverability
makes it unexcelled for following rows and farming
on the contour.
Use Farmalls today for better farms tomorrow.
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SYMBOL of SERVICE
I.'!
MARK of QUALITY
ing at noon, will be underway all
across the nation, with the colorful
climax being reached during the
evening with a full hour broadcast
by the best known' names in the
entertainment world.
After the opening ceremonies at
Pendleton, the Liberty Bell will
continue on its state tour. During
the afternoon of the second day
of the drive it will be in Hood
River county, which led all Oregon
counties with its sale record tor the
Opportunity drive last year.
jouglas county's quota in Ore
gon's $5,892,000 E. bond drive will
amount to $160,500, according to
H O. Pargeter, county chairman
of the Savings Bond committee.
Big G. O. P. Gain
In Next Congress
Is Predicted
WASHINGTON .Tv A leading
house Republican predicts the
GOP will come close to winning
control of Congress in the Novem
ber balloting.
For publication, Democratic
strategists were saying nothing
except that it is too early to make
forecasts.
Republicans now have 171 House
and 42 Senate seats. Democrats
have 260 House and 54 Senate
seats. There is one American-Lab-orite
in the House and three va
cancies. -a-
To have numerical control, a
party needs 218 House and 49 Sen
ate seats.
Rep. Clarence Brown of Ohio,
who managed the GOP congres
sional campaign in 1944 when Re
publicans regained control of Con
gress after a long dry spell, told
newsmen the GOP will "pick up
from 25 to 35 House seats and
probably five Senate seals in the
November elections."
While gains of that size wouldn't
knock the Democrat out of con
trol, it woujd make the party di
vision so close that a coalition of
Republicans and southern Demo
crats could run the show. There
always have been some south
erners who won't vote with the
Truman Democrats.
Between now and November,
Brown said, the picture - may
change to such an extent that Re
publicans could w i n numerical
control of both branches of Con
gress and wouldn't have to rely
on southern Democrats.
"There is a definite trend now
away from radicalism and the
Truman program," Brown said.
"Evidence of that is the defeat of
Senator Pepper in the Florida
Democratic primary and the elec
tion of a Republican representa
tive from Texas for the first time
in more than twenty years."
News-Review classified ads
bring results. Phone 100.
A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO SHEEPMEN
WHO ARE NOT YET MEMBERS OF THE PACIFIC
Your neighbor wool growers want you to join with them in marketing your
wool ond mohair direct to mills through this 30-year old cooperative.
Here is all you' have to do:
1. Ship your clip, freight charges collect, to Pacific
Wool Growers, 734 N. W. 14th Ave., Portland,
Oregon.
2. Contact R. L. Irving, Roseburg, for membership
blanks.
3. Get your bags and twine without chorge at any
of the following places:
t) CfiMli4td Frttghrwars depot, Rataaure,.
Chat. I. Williams prt Goad's, Ceavonvilta.
W. M. lawdin Rtfritaratiaa Service, Myrtle Creak.
Sutlitrlia Frvif Growers Attn., Svthertia.
Liberal ath advances. Expert grading and handling.
Non-profit only actual costs deducted.
"THE PACIFIC IS ON YOUR SIDE OF THE FENCE"
Heavy Taxes Paid On Federal
Lands In Oregon Revealed To
Refute Report To Contrary
The Bureau of Land Management has sent a letter to Robert D.
MacLean of the Oregon State Tax commission commenting on his
recent assertion that tha federal lands in the state of Oregon "pay
no taxes," it was revealed by Daniel L. Goldy, Pacific Northwest
regional administrator for the bureau In Portland.
Goldy'i letter to MacLean
pointed out that tha federal gov
ernment paid $3.1 million to the
18 O as C land grant counties of
Oregon in lieu of Uxes for forest
lands in federal ownerahip in 1949.
ine teller was prompted by a
news story' which appeared In the
Oregon Journal March 23, 1930.
quoting MacLean as stating that
"more than 1547 million of federally-owned
property in Oregon
pays no taxes." MacLean was fur
ther quoted aa staling that "Doug
las county has the most untaxed
federal property with a total val
uation of $87,721,000 followed by
Lane county with t38.753.OQ0 of
federal property on which no taxes
are paid." ,
Cauntias Gat Lien's Share
In his letter, Goldy pointed out
that although the federal govern
ment, like the state, pays no taxes,
large amounts are paid annually in
lieu of taxes.
Goldy explained that 50 percent
of the receipts from the sale of
timber and other resources on the
O at C lands, and 25 percent of
the receipts from national forest
lands are paid in lieu of Uxes to
counties for road, school and other
purposes. In 1949, O A C pay
ments were 11.8 million. National
forest payments to these same
counties totaled $1.8 million.
The Forest service also apends
an additional ten percent of its
income in the state, for the con
struction and maintenance of roads
and trails in the national forests
all of which are of direct benelit
to the people of the atate. Known
as the ten percent fund, in 1949
these expenditures amounted to
S828.146.55. To this amount was
added, in the aame year an ap
proximately equal amount from
regularly appropriated funds for
use on roads in the national for
ests.
Douglas, Lane Payments
The letter disclosed that Doug
las county received paymenla in
1949 in lieu of taxes trora O k C
and national forest lands amount
ing to 8735,786, compared to total
ad valorem taxes of 82,178,481 lev
ied in the county aganist taxable
non-federal property of all kinds
in the same year. Lane county re
ceived O k C and national forest
payments totaling $679,439 in 1949.
compared to ad valorem taxes of
$4,819,853.
Since 1916, $22.1 million has been
paid to the 18 western Oregon
counties in lieu of taxes from the
OaC lands. Since 1906, the United
States Forest service has returned
a total of $5 8 millions In lieu of
taxes to 16 of the It western Ore
gon counties.
Regular Revenue Assured
Goldy pointed out that each of
the II western Oregon counties
receives its proportionate ahare of
annual O k C receipts regai'dleaa
of the county In which the timber
is cut. Under sustained yield man
agement the annual salea of tim
ber assure these counties of regu
lar and substantial revenuea.
The foregoing figures represent
only the payments made to the
western Oregon counties in lieu of
Uxes on the O C, Coos Bay
and national foseat landa. Other
typea of paymenla are also made
by the federal government to the
state and counties, including pro
portions or the receipts ol the
Bureau of Land Management from
grazing fees, grating leases, min
eral leasea and permits, and aales
of public landa and materiala. Dur
ing the fiscal year 1949, the dis
tribution of receipts of the Bureau
of Land Management to the State
of Oregon and Oregon counties
totalled $1,811,567.11.
Twenty-five states and the ter
ritory of Alaska will receive a dis-
Thtira., May 1 1, If SO The Newt-Review, Rotobuff , Or. S
trlbution of $11.1 million from the
administration of the public lands
by the Bureau of Land Manage
ment in 1949. The total receipts
of the Bureau in 1949 were $37.1
million. An additional diatribution of
$16 8 million is being made to the
reclamation fund for the credit of
various reclamation projects in
the western states.
Data It Available
Another Item in the news story
to which Goldy referred in his
letter to Maclean waa a atatement
attributed to Jamea E. Bunnell,
appraiser in charge of the study
for the tax' commission. He is
reported to have atated that "it
waa impoasible to ascertain what
federal bureaus have control of
certain land," and declared that
"there is no central agency in
Washington, D. C , where infor
mation regarding federal property
is available." ,
Goldy wrote that the Bureau el
Land Management maniuins com
plete base title and use records
of all remaining reserved and un
reserved federal public lands, ana
will furnish the states of any tract
of such lands upon request. Mapa
showing the status of public landa
have been prepared for certain
areas, and are available for pub
lie inspection and use. The Bureau
of Land Management Is the cen
tral office of record for public
lands. The Bureau does not, how
ever, maintain a title record of
government acquired lands, which
are a very small proportion of tha
total government ownership. In
formation on these trade must be
obtained from the agency admin
istering them.
News-Review classified
bring results. Phone 100.
Re-Elect
LYNN V. BECKLEY
Republican for
County Commissioner
Primary Election May 19
Economical, Efficient Administration
Equal treatment far all part af Douglas County
Pd. Pol. Adv. Backley tor Commissioner
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