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Published by NewiRevlew Co., Inc.,
Charles V. Stanton
Editor and Manager
George Castillo Addye Wright
Assistant Editor Bylinetl Manager
Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisher!
Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulation
Entered as second class matter May 7. 1920, at the post office at
Rosebu OreBon, under act of March 2, 1873
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EDITORIAL PAGE
4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. -aMon., Mor. 7, 1960
ASSESSOR MAKES PROPOSAL
By Charles
A nrnnnsal that rastl Dronertv be relieved of the oner
i 1 - it
ational cost of schools has been
er, Jackson County assessor. His ideas have been quite
widely presented. Tlty doubtless will colne up for much
rlicetisetnn Hlirino" thp next few months.
Thfi nnprationa cost of
accounts for the bis share of
continue the responsibility of
continue ine re,.u,..,.u .
investment of school districts
nnoratinn raised from some
(iAmonfr the new laws he proposes is a statute limiting,
school taxt on property to bonding issues only. He would
establish a millajre limitation for nil taxing districts. (Jhe
State of WasTiinfrton has such a limitation.) He would en
act a sales tax from which would be paid the operational
M alimta Tf tha anlaa f n i irl n't rniqp enniltrh mdn-
ey, he would have the additional amount needed paid out of ; :-r"ZlSJ
the state's generalcund. The operational school tax, as nejbu5tel. to be pres(,nt and awake
proposes it, would be administered at the state level, ana
would be allocaWl to school districts on a school child unit,
based on the class of the district. The departure from the
present system of budgeting, he contends, woulrt be a chal
lenge to school administrators to "work within the level of
comparable costs."
"Enactment of these laws" says Schumacher, "would
cut($)ie school tax on property to "less than half," the
amount presently imposed.
Property OvjrburcJrafd
It is the contention of the Sackson County Assessor that
real property is overburdened with taxatn. Reappraisals
have been made, and will be made, he says, in an effort
to secure better equalization of the tax. Rut reappraisals
do "not eliminate the burden of taxation when most taxing
districts are faceitwith increased costs and wanted sers--ices."
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The greater share of the taxSiollar, he asserls, is spent
for school operation, adding that "Most taxpayers agree
that this is an essential service and few would sacrifice
this for lower taxation."
People, he contends, are becoming resistant to proper
ty taxation. Thus a new tax base is essential.
Separating the cost of capital investment from the cost
of oppration, according to his
like 50 mill off real property
He would substitute a sales tax for operational costs.
"While these school taxes must still he paid," he savs,
"the payment would be less pailful tinder the sales tax
and income ijix and would be more editable.
"Also, 1 believe that the voters of OreRon would accept
the sales lax if it wii coupled with this positive property
tax offset
Adoption of. such plan, in
-nn in foJnVoblo nn.ifinn
Oregon in a favorable position
Hlvy Tx Systtrt Uititi
There is no question in my mind but that Oregon's pres
ent tax system, which places the Hhole tax burden on
property and income, is a barrier to new industry and busi
ness, o
The sales tax opponents contend that an income tax
will do everything a sales tax will do.
Rut we still must face the practical) viewpoint that the
men who decide where an industry or business ito be lo
cated are men in what we miftht call the upper income
group. They are not going to advocale location of an in
dustry in nn area where they personally must pay a high
rate of taxation when they can go rS a neighboring state
where their own taxes will be less and the loud will be
more widely distributed. o
Wo can cry all we please that this selfish attitude
shouldn't prevail, but all our crying won't overcome the
fact that no administrator in his right mind is going to
advocate the establishment of a plant where his own per
sonal tax is higher than elsewhere.
I would disagree with Schumaker, however, in one re
spect. O
A sales tax, I believe, should not fa enacted for one
particular purftse.
It has long litten my contention, and has previously
been stated in thra column, that we iieed nn entirely new
tax program one that would put a (imitation on the prop
erty tax, would give us a sales tax as an offset to both in
come and property taxes and would start income taxes at
a higher level, to take care of the people in the low in
come group.
Such a program, in which the sales tax would be a part
of the whole, rather than n added tax, would have pub
lic apfvoval, I believe.
Lenten. Devotions
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Text:
Luke 21:19-11:6
We have in this portion nf Scrip- Thus, knowing the future and hav
ture a prophecy foretold and ! ing predicted it, he proceeds In
pmpnecy nuiiiiea. in i.om jesiu
Christ, in this great prophetic
cisulier, has foretold the destruc.
lion of Jerusalem in the prereding
verses, and then the transition to
the portion that has to do with the
Lord's return in glory takes place
in lhe last of the 24th verse.
Ho begins lo cnimerate certain
signs and evidences that will pre
cede His coming. Then follows the
ill!i..iralion nf lhe fig tree, that
when it buds, it is evidence that
summer is lust arotQl the corner,
and that when we see predicted
signs of our Lord's coming taking
place, wc know that His coming is
nigh.
He further indicates that it will
take place within a nenera-
linn, that the same generation that
will behold the signs will behold
Christ's second coming.
A former propherv in John 6 70
71 concerning Judas Iscarmt, the
one who would betrav Christ, is
partially fulfilled in the first six
verses of the 22nd chapter, w Wre
Judas makes contract withMhe
chief priests and scribes to betray
Jesus.
Jesus knew lhe fulnr. rr all
things were known by liim, snd
He knew what was in the heart of
545 S.I. Main St., Rowbur,,
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made by Kay J. bcHumacn-ithc
schools. Schumacher contend?.
the tax dollar. He would :
real property for the capital
i- r ' :o ';'"f '
but gould have the cost ot
other source.
beliefs, would take nOmethinglcrlmm,all"n,,n lhe South will have
his opinion, would "place!'" the last, since more protection
fnr,Inrfi,fri1.l .lnvoln, mont " I for and lhclr rShls "
foe industrial development
I men, giving evidence nf Mis dielv.
nnng a warning lo lhe disciples
The warning was for Ihem lo be
on their guard, lhat these das
should not come on any assnar
or a trap. He warns thai or
hearts must he kepi above the
grosser satisfactions of sense and
appetite, and the less gross cares
of life being worried, with the
business of living.
These, He warns, could keep
us from being concerned about,
and prepared for Jesus' coming
The antidote to the danger of ho
ing concerned with the limes and
the world is lo be alert lo th"
plight of Jesus' coming, and to
be in prayer lhat we might he able
to escape the spirit nf lhe age.
so lhat when He comes, we may
stand in His presence with joy and
not in fear.
(iiiv R. Zohring. pastor
First Conservative Baptist
l nurrh
FOE Of REDS DIES
BALTIMORE ( AD-Herbert R
O'Conor, 63, twice governor of
Maryland and an outspoken op
ponent of communism during his
six vears In lhe I' S. Kenale, ISlii
URS2. died Friday. He was I Dcni-
drat.
In The Day News
.By FRANK
What's the big news today? i
hdro.)up the counly pail
1 think maybe it's the weather,
As everybody knows, biz news
tends to involve the LNLaLAL
as when a man bites a dog. Nor-
mally. a big storm is a local show.
The storm of the past fewQays ap
pears to have been a national hook-
sflt look a swipe at EVERYBODY.
Among other incidents of the storm,
threw Canadian Eskimos who are
visiting in the East Coast area got
snowed in in West Virginia!
Washington, the nation's capital
city, got eight inches of wet snow.
It snarled traffic to a standstill. It
kept people from getting to work
which, in these days, is a "tfR
RIBI.E hardship. Especially' in
Washington. It blistered the hands
of innumerable government work
r,a " n ,,au lu Kel oul
OTW M a waIks
ers wrg had to get out and shovel
But v
In Washington
There v.ss an exception to the
n,, ,,, rampd hv the
seasonable storm. The exception
was the august senate of the United
States of America, whose members I
required by the exigencies i
:nf u-hai itni.un kii.iki-k.
ter io be present and available
j" the senate chamber at ALL
nmes both day and night
So- O
When came the storm
The members of the senate (ex-
i cepting onlv those who were TALK
James Marlow
Southern
Scramble
WASHINGTON (AP) What ;
happens to the white Southern
politicians now fighting civil
rights legislation when Negroes
in the South finally are able to;
vote in large numWrs? G q'
There is only one realistic an-'a
swer. They will do exactly what
thoir nnnnc to niimhpr nnw rin
Like the politician from Northern ' Southern voting, all 18 filibuster-tbig
...iik k;n vr . niint, nnn.ung Southerners know they must
ulations, the Southerners will
scramble for the Negro vote.
It is no accident that in Con
gress many of the most
C !
advocates of
civil riuhts letit'a-'
Clll riliniS H ip.d
hnn rnnie from Nnrlhern renters.
lion come irom on nern centers
where there are heavy concentra
tions of Negro voters.
The old order of racial dis-1
to melt under pressure from both
the rest of the nation and the
rest of the world.
As lime passes lhe Negro will i
hold lhe balance of political power
in many areas nf the South. iNo
politician can ignore it or ficki it.
The present Southern filibuster
against civil rights, if it is not
the last of its kind, may be close
inevitable.
Bittsrnost Lackincj ,
lhe present filibuster seems to i
have little of the dead end hitler-
ness of olher years wlien South-1 Southern treatment of Negroes
ern members of Congress had real ' has given lhe Communist world
hope of blocking a civil rights bill I free ammunition lo use against us.
with their delaying tactics. I All these things, pilinsi up, can-
The filibustering going on now I not help but erodsT-,the" esistence
is like some kind of gentlemen's ! nf Southern whiles' to more equal
agreement. Kightcen Southerners treatment for Negroes and make
are doing the talking. The irttierilhc white South self conscious of
82 senators rre waiting them out, I its conduct.
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Hal Boyle
Antibiotic Drugs
To Treat Ailing
NEW YORK (AP) ThingP a i
columnist night never know if he I
didn't npe-i his mail: j
Tree dnclnrs haven t gnllcn
around yel to preset ihing aspirin
for an arthritic elm in your pack
yard hut don't het that they
won't. In lhe Pacific Northwest
they are now successfully using
anlibiolic drugs lo treat ailing
pine forests.
Women probably are more wide
awake than men. Most men blink
once "very three seconds, nios.
women :B(y once every (our sec
onds. Odd laws: Massachusetts once
passed legislation making it ille
gal (or anyone lo lounge on lhe
shelves o( a bakery.
Your blood is not only thicker
than water. II is six limes thicker.
Save Your Arm Join Army
If you don't like s.iluling, ioin
lhe Armv and sive your arm. The
ArmvAn only II 5 officers mil of
every 100 military personnel. I lie
comparable officer (igure in the
Air Force Is ljj.
What's in a - name dent : Mrs.
Henny Eggly owns a poultry (arm
at Kimhrrly. British Columbia.
Our quotable nibbles: Says
Somerset Maugham, "In France,
a man who has ruined himself for
a woman is generally regarded
with smpalhy and admiration;
there is a (eeling lhat it was
worthwhile, and the man who has
done it feels even a certain prtdc
in the (act. In England he will he
thought, and think himself, a
damned fool"
Think Fast To Avoid Error
It is wise lo be wary of snap
judgments Hp', according lo a
study made by a team of psychol
ns,sj, onsi,r tal.rs ml ,
make a decision, the greater the
chance you'll make a mistake.
The long and short of it: Abe
Lincoln, at 6 foot 4, was lhe tall
est C S. President James Madi
son, exactly a foot shorter, was
the sni.'il!rl
O Who was the first President to
live in the White House? II was
John Adams, who mood into lhe
slid iinlimshed structure in ISnO
His wife slniiig up the family
laundry in wh.Ois now known as
the East Room.
The only lalooed lady we eer
remember seeing was in a cir
cus. But it is estimated lhat 3
JENKINS .
and alert to head ff any sudden
shennanigans) were all curled up
in Qir little coti as snug as a
bug in a rug..
v. nn the storm at its height, a
little after midnight, there carae a i
dramatic interruption of the fill-!
bustenng process. Senator Morsel
of Oregon, strode majestically up
in the senate rrrki desk and!
PLACED THEREON A CLOTURE
ir-cn Tucornu A n rt'niui'
rbiiuun. ft cloture petition is a
peiuiun lo ciiuftB uii me idiivuiK. 11
enough senators sign it, the filibus
ter, under the senate rules, is
BUSTED. He invited senators to
walk up and sign it.
The incident so shocked SQator
Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky
that he grabbed up the petition
tore the paper to shreds and drop
ped the shreds into tne waste Das
ket. .
How come his outburst?
Well-I-I-
One suDDOses that the dis
tinguished senator from Kentucky
just couldn't see what on earth j dertakings for the glorification of advertising has appeared last year i In other words, it's not surpris
Senator Morse, the DISTINGUISH- wme politician it glill seems as t j such national magazines as Holi-1 ing that the daily newspaper circu
ED HOLDER OF THE WORLD S hf lhe thing in geniri al has settled , day, Reader's Digest, Sunset, West-; lations have not grown as rapidlv
FILIBUSTERING TALKATHOVKjown to a man vs. beaver battle, j ways, Natiol Geographic, Field , as the population because new-
RECORD, would be doing with a
CLOTURE petition.
it so astounma mm mai ne iiiewan hii ri a biecer one. Ana so u
"P-Jl S2 lWas- "j?her. more
unexpectedly deposited upon
Scotch tartan.
Hmmmmmmmm. down in the valleys are being live Males beckoning visitors to Ore -
Outfiiere in Orazon, where we!,ranpn anj transnnrted to the'gon.
Know our seiajr svuaiui, v.c nu ;
He just HAStPhe DIFFERENT.
No matter what it costs.
Poliricos Will
Fjor Negro Vote
patiently and gently. They have
more than enough voles to ram
through a civil rights bill of some
kind. O
All the Southerners can hope is
that their filibuster may get them
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muocr nui man n iney Qion i
I f'8hl at all
at rite wmies mih utJiiiuidie
Plt UP some kind of scrap if they
hope to be re elected when they
.run again.
J: ... ,Un..nk
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i.,,, J nlio ,c r, mk i nu
' , . "v,""".s
under the impact of events in this
icountrv am oierseas.
'Court Loavtt Efftct
I The S'lnrpmp Court, harked hv :
the government and public opinion,
which has been antagonized by
southern extremists and lynch-
inns, has led the wav in forcing ,
an end to discriminating. i
Overseas, where colonialism has
collapsed and one Negro nation;
After another is comingn life in !
I Africa, racial barriers are break-1
ling down fatl.J I
It is particularly embarrassing
to the American government
which is appealing to backward
people ot all colors lo Keep away
from communism, lo have, racial
violence and discrimination' in our
own back yard
Now Used
Pine Woods G
million AmericancV'omen, a?well
as 1? million men, are tatloood.
Wonder what they pick as their
: lavouie oesign:
Definition: "A celebrity," notes
lhe Catholic Digest, "is a person '
who works hard for years sj he- i
come well known and then wears !
dark glasses to avoid being recog-
nizen.
Some Sage Advice
Kxccutive signs: On lhe desk of
Irving .1. Bntlner, presirlent(j( Es
quire Shoe Polish: "When you
throw mud at somebody, you're
the one who's losing ground."
How lo calm a child: An Aus
tralian physician says crying ha
ws can he soothed more quirkly
by an up-and-down motion than
by either nicking or swinging
them. (Just lie a rope under ba
by's arms, mother, and run her
up and down like a yo yo!
Don t blame your head (or your
: headaches. Aboul 3S per cent o(
iH-niMviivs aie, causco ov some.
thing wronc elsewhere in ii.a
body. (A fellow we know claims
98 per cent of his headaches stem
from h.s wife's iawbone. )
II was Socrales who declared,
"io evil ran happen lo a good
imn, eitheryi life or after death."
Roundabout JMea
Frees Aviator
VASHINCTON (AP) - Airlift
magazine says a Southern Air
ways pilot whom It did not iden
tifylanded at Ben Epps Field,
Athens, da., only to (ind lhe air
plane's door stuck light.
I'nable to allrart attention lo
cally, the pilot sent a radio mes
sage lo lhe Federal Avian, in
Agency station at Anderson. S C.
The EAA in turn notified South
ern's agent Al Splawn at Creen-
ville, S I , who sent a teletype
message to Southern personnel at
Athens askine them to lei the m
iV.i V.ni hf. T... P
,, ' I Israel and that Britain will send
The message Ira.eled 164 submarines, the Arab leader de-
miles xiQIhrre relays asking f..r ci,rcd:
help frouT someone less than in), "This won't terrorue lis, be-
feet away, the publication said. , CSP w, already know who are
The magazine didn't sav wheth-iour enemies and because we are
er the pilot was the only person : already preparing o ,rsches to
in the plane. I face thin aggression."
BEAVER DAM
Klamath Falls Herald A News
The last issue of the game com-
! nn nreenn beaver, the animal :
that was largely responsible for :
the eary exploration of much of
American West.
There seem.! to be at least a ;
ki,f ihat nerhans the I
!.a . ,. ..i; i u: ......r... !
beaver hasn't outlived his useful-
i ness yetf despite the several inou
and complaints that come in annu
ally as a result of his dam build
ing. The beaver may have his bad
niinto hni hp cprtainlv has his
good ones as well. -Not tip least of
...1.1.1. .. hi. nnnA tonkin huild-!
ing smalledams up uW tributary
waters and holding water for fu-
This is an elemental procedure i
that seems completely beyond the
scope of today's planners and en-1
gineers. .Ven ll we umn uiai
some of our bigger dam projects ,
hu hen slncllv make-work un-
nkav sav the engineers to the :
hpav-pr vnu ran build a dam but 1 1
Well, anyway, according to the
storv beavers that get in trouble
moUiains where they can mma
all the dams they want to. Until'
W-y wtenere w n Mine iwo-oh
enierprise oi mauKinu. u.dc .
wna w.in waier pe ng tne mo,
valuable and sought after natural in proclaiming Oregon's virtues by
resource in the West today that personal mail and word of mouth,
sounds like good thinking. The ; The overnight camping figures
beaver are happv. Thev work with' represent only a small poWon of
out pav, there 'are no davs off lhe total patronage of state parks,
well, "maybe an occasional Si which many have no overnight
day for water polo and in thiv 'acuities but are popular as picnic
labor thev help everything. Ponds , sl Wes and among day I day
are created that hold runoff in , recreation sft-kers. So the lull im
the spring. Fish can find homos Pa.e . of,'ne state s paris is nut
there. Passing waterfowl find rest- j lol,d " ,'hf. overmshung statistics,
ing grounds, nest, to in the sta- L.1" ad,d"'on sla,e Parks the
So6 caltlf "ndo o1" 85 I K'ties
d. h,nnSk'", "splendid pfaS. I wish IS"
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inat more Vep.e cuu.u '';;
beavers do. I hen maybe we could ,
iihvk inuie Miimi unms aim irnn
,uV,
thai i
ones. The expensivj ones
are built under the guise of 1
free''
n n r nowpr tins 111 uie ul-uuiv.
After all. if we rjto believe all .
ui... on; iui.i
CJ, nnfnaf frfa thai
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otnm i. n in fnmp intn FPIlPra
""'". " , ri
use we will have no further u
tor our massive nynroeiectric
projects and the billions of dol-1
tare that have heen Doured intO
them will be as gone as granny s :
goose.
But the small dams at the heads
of the streams will still be there
to furnish ponds for fishing and
pleasure, the rivers will still flow
and 1 suppose tnal een in ine
atomic age people) are going to go
on drinking water. Nasty thought
though it may be to many.
I hope the beaver are allowed
I w go on W.tn meir men co.mry
building. And allowed to gam in
n'imncrs. Q v
j e gotta remember that now
that we have pertecien tne nuro
I gen bomb these same beavers may
be the only engineijjs leu pretty
quick. By Bill Jenkins
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PR AISEWORTH PRACTICE
Bandon Western World
Tft school house fire at Kitire
shouldQilert all school authorities
lo the importance oL fire drills.
The fact that more Wall -WO pu
pils left the huil(r!ng, without p1
ic, in a irftttcr of seconds, indi
cates the perfection of their train
ing and practice, ine scnooi au
thorities at Kmpire should be com
mended, and those of every other
district may well be reminded.
SPRING SUGGESTS
THE OUTDOORS
Albany Democrat-Herald
Approach of spring suggests out
door recreation which, in Oregon,
is associated wilh seashore, lakes
and forests, in all of which the
ctulo flhnnnilt
According ((PC. H. Armslrftg,
2 Nabbed After
Robbery Of Bank
SALT LAKE CITY (APl-'I'd
been expecting a robbery what
with this recent outbreak and I
. . ." . (rt . c irl
it ever happened." said bank man
"'V1h .h h-nt niV.i
ieT Thomas Wiseman. "She re
membered." The robbery came Friday while
lhe Wisemans were eating break
fast. Two armed men burst into
the home. One held Mrs. Wiseman
hnslace. The olher went with
Wiseman lo th Continental Bank
! and Trust Co. branch in the south
i part o( the city, and (orcrd him
and several tellers to fill a brief
rase with nearly $34,000 in cur
rency. Wiseman called police atl
er learning his wife was free and
unharmed.
FBI agents teamed with her
i(('s o((icers to quickly wrap up
mo case in inree nours. iwo nun
. . ..
are tailed loflay on nann ronnery
charges. They are Edwin Albaugh
25. Arlington. Va . and Milton Ja
cohsen. 21, San Francisco.
Albaugh has served a term ir
the Idaho Slate Penitentiary.
!. Thev are Edwin A bauch.
Premier Of Israel Top
War Criminal Nasser
DAMASCIS. Syria (AP) Presi
dent Abdel Carnal Naser of the
1 1 nited Arab Republic today Wast
led Israeli Premier Pasid Ben -
Ourion as "lhe greatest war enm
! inal of lhe 20th Century" and
warned the West Jgairrst giving
Israel arms.
" "lnsl nT'rl r ranee in -
I tended to send jet fighters to
iditorial
state parks superintendent, an all r
time high record of 517,061 over-1
night campers in state parks was i
set last vear. This is in sharp con-
lourned in the first overnight parki,
established in 1952.
To fuHill the rapidly growing de-1
mand for overnight camping fac.l-1
im. lhe state parks division of the
traonn siiat Hiohuau itnmpni
, i
has been under constant pressure
to increase the number of over
night parks and enlarge existing
facilities. Armstrong has reported
that 30 additional camp sites will
be readied for occupancy this year
on Detroit Lake, and tnal sues
are being increased elsewhere to
care for 1960 tourists and inter-
care for 1960
slate travelers.
These camp sites are becoming
an attraction ot wnicn the uregonne la; increase in population
tavcl Information Bun au. also an
adjunct of the highway department,
is making full use in publicizing
vyirguu, iu iiic CAicui 119 tuiiu? pc-
mit. O
Atlrartivelv iltiiRl ra I crl Orp?(in
and Stream. Outdoor Life. SDor'.s
Afield. Ski Magazine. Familv Cir -
cie ana a numDer ot slate motor
'Publti as well a, in metro -
equally al unng folders have bd.i
distributed throughout the Lniledi
i.ast yeaos parK auenaance at -
tests the etfecUveness of this pub -
.y mcn coma oe gre.t.y aug -
icn could be greatly aug-1
if Oregon's cifizenrvD.
. ''"""' -
u ,
1 1 1 d i . ui tuui Hiirri urpynn-
ians as well. That is the beauty of'
,he s(a(e and nallona, forest recre-
a,'on programs Ihcy benefit us
..ii ij,.,,i,.i,,
Oregon is included in the U.S.
l- c : .w
alion Outdoors" program, inaugur-
aiea in iso as a live-year aclion
, ,- . r . .
uvveiwmeni ana mainienance ot
.. I f.:i:.- . .
cviediiuiiai laciuues in nallona
forests in response to public de -
mand. o
Though much progress has been!
maHn tho furpcl ennMA 1 V. . i
ered by lacldof funds and has been
j unable to kj-ep up with require-!
ments. whiMi have exceeded e.
pectations. This should not he fnr
the national forests are more than
self-sustaining.
, we in uregon should make our-1
selves aware of what the stale and
I forest service agencies are doing'j
: lo spread Oregon's reputation as
: a recreation land. Mm as e as
a nation need the good'wiff which
tourists iivforeign land-, can nur-1 Now the individual personal and
ture (if they behave as tourists dependent exemption is $600, or
should) there is no reason why$1.200 for man and wife with no
Oregon cannot gain a sizeable i dependents. The single person now
share of the money tourists are j pavs $2,640 on $10,000 of taxable
spending and will spend as trans- income. o
continental nin.vays improve,
without inducing curtailment of
travePabroad. We simply must en
courage more tourism, but to do
so we must acquire full apprecia
tion of w hat Oregon ha do offer.
In olher words. Oregonians must
he able to guide tourists when tjttjy
come, that their visits may be pro
longed, o
Revenue from the tourist indus
try is gilt-edged, for it is one type
of income that can be acquired
YDhout great instmcnt. Nature
I has already provided us with our
capital outlays, if we will only take
ailvantftje of them.
ReqderQ
Opinions
School Bond Supporters
Urgerf To AnsweiFoes
To The Editor:
I don't know how many times
I have been one of tho..e "almosO
letter writers, but this time. I hist
nc u wnte io man
have to writ? lo thank you for vour
!n,',rmallve editorial on lhe school
hond issue. Why is it, we who are
or mis issue are so nesitanl in
lotting others know about it? I've
noticed that those against it cer
tainly don't mind telling us why
not tr vole for it.
I think loo oftrn when people
vote on an issue, thev have petiy
grievances aboul it'aSl, rather
than finding oul the facts, thev
spread their erroneous views Ismail
who will listen. These people had
a chance find out the correct
answers lo some of these ques
tions when the school board con
ducted the five informative meet
ings for this purpose. We are all
scry disappointed in lhe turn-out
. .
al tnese n (v'jtL'i inH fmm nma
. lh , . L. i .
. . . ':. .B''""' '" .
more people should have attennKl.
MaylO if those Oho are so
against paying for schools through
ft-operly taxes would .pend as
much lime and effort pressuring
those who could change the situa
tion, instead of putting all the
blame on the school ooard, some
thing different could he arranged
in years lo come. But. since it
won't help this bond issue. I hope
lhat everyone who is inclined lo
vote asainst it, will truly examine
their vote and decide if they ar
really against the bond or against
' other factors over which we, at
: this time. hae no control. a
1 we neen me schools now, not at
some indifinite date when olher
means cf raising the money mav
he found. How about those of us
who are 'or this bond issue Snd
j decent schools for our kids, voicing
; our opinions as lpudly as the oppo-
' sition.
Marv H. Kent
I S.14. SB Flint
Comment
NEWSPAPER READING
CROWING FASTER
Band Bulletin
During the past three or four
I " "'""'i
I speakers aepiore ine Iatl ( 1,131
mmm ft
""1'n,fon Matte, of fac : we've
j he ,iorv Vo ofteu e aort
lra tne siory so oiieu we son
nuincu.
(Once we even thought of going.
into the diaper business, since that, "l'Kll!V "V T
at least, seemed to have a guu- emP"n has brought under the n-
anteed markcU'or years.) ax of P01""",5 wntf
, ,, l ... in 1940 paid no tax at all lo the
But the worries have vanished. federal lgovernment. Further iM
The figures used by speakers turn , " increases couid becom"
out to be somewhat less than valid, j self.defeating bv reaching the lev
It is true that the national popu-, el of inability to pav-if not pav
latiofi is crowing faster IhiA the ; in.. v . in niT for
; numer of wspaper readers. But
i comes of course ft an ejrly
age. We IfV horns, the papeilho
; other night and asS-d our favorite
i mu-icfli-uiu lu reau II. one lllt'U,
j but the results were pretty hor-
rible.
, born hahies rinn't immertiaielv he
! come readers r
a h-
' t v, tfw newspa' U
over 18 years of ageKwhcn Ulis
romnarisnn k marie it huMmp,
icieaj. that the rate of newspaper
firr-nlatinn nrnnth cht t ni i a 1 1.. .
; ceeds the growth of the adult popu.
1 lation.
. ,since 1940, the mmD"eT of u
- adults increased 24 per cent. News -
,. Ir n...J OI ... K"
I piper cnulalm (daily) in that
period increased 43 per cent. That.
we feel, is a much better compari -
so.n..) , . . . ,, ....
e feel much better about the
many more millions of persons
roed a newspaper than listen to
thf radio, read a magazine, or
watch television.
There's apparently no need to
further consider the diaper or baby
food business.
DON'T CONFISCATE INCOME
Albany Democrat-Herald
Sales tax opponents rightly rnjj
son that the best and fairest tax is
the income lax because it is based
upon ability to pay. They can be
j "needed. Oregonians voted an in-4
"V "'"-" ""v1 sc,"" 'e
fusals. finally acceding to the re-
. A 1. r . ii...
i'i-"i vxyi1""'"
"ho monmA i. tk. fm, l
"; " " i'n "i
: all taxes: It begins with ability to
i pay and ends with inability to pav. c
When the state income tax was
ratified hnwpvpp the fprteral in.
come tax was jiiite mild, so that
the addition orihe state levy im-
posed few if anv hardshios. Year
bv vear the Bovernmenfc has reach-
' ed out after a bigger share of in-
j comes.
In 1941, for example, a single
person had an exemption of $800
and maigied couples S2.000. The
single person with a taxable in-
come of S10.000 paid S68S and a
married man or couple $528.
In 1940 the maximum tax was
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i ' an plant expansion and increase
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: es'. ro.hf tow.'rd !ne
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"f ,SSUred that thisretraint were
! ..,.i,h , lainc low measure
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! minds. At any rate the sales lax
is an is5ue that appears certain of
long life.
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