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Newspaper Page TextTHE LIGHTER SIDE: A NEW LEAF 4 The Newi-Review, Reseburg, Ore. Tax Load The formula for a new state personal income tax bill is still quite a way from being completed, but the proposal ap proved by the House Taxation Committee could very possibly be the basis for the final decision. " Of course a lot still depends on action "on the reconsideration of the cigarette tax and anything the House might do in . other tax bill considerations, such as cap ital gains. These decisions will have a big bearing on what changes the Senate "makes and it is' almost certain to Inake some. ' With no surplus to soften the blow and with demands from many quarters, such . as education, for more money, the ..House's formula is not as crushing as at times it seemed it might be. It broadens the tax base by bringing t Jow incomes into the state income tax paving program. It's a pretty hefty boost .,.111 tux for the rest, too, as can be seen in the comparison of taxes under the pro posed and present formula. The Associ- ated Oregon Industries estimates only $2 million will come from the present non laxpayer. But this was expected. If the base had not been broadened the middle and high . er income brackets would have been hit . oven harder. The alternatives, except for perhaps the sales tax, could not possibly raise the $35 million predicted under this formula. The state Tax Commission has made, projection to compare the present with .the proposed formulas. For the purpose it takes a family of four, using standard deductions. The following figures in order are -income, present tax and proposed new tax figure. With an income of $4,000, present tax is about $29, proposed tax $40 ; $5,000 $58, $81; $7,000 $129, $176; $8,000 .$172, $230; $9,000 $220, $284; $10,000 '$270, $339; $12,500 $407, $498; $15, 1)00 $562, $665; $25,000 $1,196, $1,409; $50,000 $2,489,, $3,284; $100,000 4-1,286, $7,034. Reader Opinions Reader Gives Helpful Tips On Military Life To The Editor: It is unfortunate In this cnlicht ened day and ago that all young men must faco a tour of military service, wnai runs is not tno serv ice but the fact that they have no choice in the matter. , flaybo somo day in tho future mankind will wake up to the fact that war never really settles any thing. I hopo so. But the fact re liiains that to keep our country free we do have an obligation to servo. One bright spot Is that we at least do have a choice in the way wa serve it. Thcro are many ways to do so and, being in the National Oiiiard, naturally 1 think that meth od is a good ono. However I think nomo young men enter the service with a w,rong altitude. If you would permit me to direct my comments to tho young men of Douglas Coun ty it might go liko this: ..No matter what service you en ter, it depends on YOU how far you will go. Bcliove me if you en ter with a big chip on your shoul ,dcr, you will get exactly nowhere. In any service there will always be .some one giving you orders. It may bo some one you personally can't stand, but you must learn to re spect his rank. Incidcntly, that is true in anything else you do as well. Somo one will always have authority over you and as soon jas you learn to live with that fact land respect it, the smoother life will go. ! 1 am not saying to be a defeatist, far from it. But a proper attitude .toward authority will servo you well, and actually can be used to ,your own benefit. Some thoughts toward your military obligation .now would be wiso because the sooner you start the sooner it will ,lm, over and the longer you put it oir tne naraer it will tic to break .aw'ay. Yon can't finish until you start. Most reserve obligations arc .shorter if you sign up before you ;lurn ls'-a, so the time to act is .now. . J This comment, naturally, is dl. reeled to young men. So far we lean'! enlist girls in the National Guard. It would rnnke camp more fun though. .... I.t. Hiehard A. Booth ; Co. B ItHnd Infantry Oregon National Guard The Armory, ltoscburg Jbo31eu$Rcoicu US S- F .vain St, Rowburg, Oreoci Tekfihorw ORchard 2-33il . Fnfirvd at lhund c'is matter Way 7. ,lti0, Jt the pi.ii otlice at Rrmburg, Ore under act of March J, 1873. Publiihed Oa-ly Eet Sunday by i NEWS-RFVIEW PUBLISHING CO. 'i. V. Brenner PublUhtr Th Miu,i.Diu;.u, 1. ... .... 'United Pres International. NEA Service, .lurjit Bureau of Circulation amj the Oreggn .Newspaper Publishen Association . National Arjvtrhvng Representative -.Newiraper Atlve'tliing Service Co , Run Building, fan Franc hto Calif SUBSCRIPTION RATES , I Carr-et a no RotehutQ P O Box! 1 mcnth, $1.75; month., $10. JO; year, Jit 00 I Bv lr. C.-egon: 1 month, II 7Ji J I jmonlhtt 54. SO,- & montM, W00; 1 year IU.0O. Oulnfle I Orego.,; 1 month, l.f ' 'mi's! 15 351 monmi -Mt 1 yMf i o r i a I Broadened Somewhat By Plan WILDSTORM CITED Willamette U. Report Blisters Civil Defense By ZAN STARK ' Unlttd Press International SALEM (UPI) v- A blistering review of Civil Defense perform ance during tne Columbus Day storm is included in a study of community reaction to disaster re leased today by Willamette Uni versity. ' The 8flpage report, "Our Com munity in Disaster, October 12, 1962, Salem, Oregon," was pre pared by the Department of So ciology and Anthropology of the university. A summary of the state Civil Defense activity stales "it was felt that because of the confusion within civil defense itself, it could not generate the confidence nec essary to mccl any crisis. "Perhaps by even redefining the purpose of the organization to meet many different crises this confidence could bo established. "Questions arose concerning tho Civil Defense generators. The stato institutions were all in need of emergency power. Fairvcw had access to a generator furnished by Civil Defense but no one could operate It." The report, in its 12-page sec tion of conclusions and recommen dations, notes: "Many emergency agencies were caught without adequate provision for emergency lighting. Even operative flashlights and candles were lacking. "In tho stato Civil Defense of fices, a large number of gasoline lanterns were stored for such un occasion. But the gasoline to fill them cannot, according to safety ordinances of the city, be stored above ground within the city lim its. "Therefore, it was impossible to have them ready to use at a mo ment's notice, or even to fill them on short notice. "An underground storage lank with a hand pump could solve Uiis difficulty." Communications Poor The report noted "on the whole, the community functioned pass ably during this disaster. "The most glaring deficiency was in communications. Great improvements need to be made. ." Tho study suggests placing key telephone lines underground, pro viding auxiliary power for radio stations, and making battery pow ered transistor radio receivers "available in at least every block in cities, and every township or household in rural areas." "Police services, fire protection, military support for these in emergencies, and ambulance serv ices seem to have been fairly adequate and reflect their planful HAD BIG FEET LONG BEACH. Calif. (UPIl- The only descriptkn 12-year-old iimiiTy Merosma was able to give Monday of the burglar that invaded his home was that "he had big feet and woro gray slacks." "That's all Tim my saw as he hid under the bed while the bur glar stole a television set and an electric razor. He stayed there four hours until his parents returned. IP a a e TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1963 In the lower income brackets, a family of four with up to $2,000 income now w.su allv pays nothing in income taxes. Under the new bill, such a family with $1,000 would pay $10 and with $2,000, about $20. The $3,000 income for such a family now lakes a tax of $7, but under the pro posed bill would pay $23. The proposed tax rates begin at 1 per cent on $500, and go up to 6 per cent on $14,000 and over. Anyone making less than $500 pays 'ho income tax. The federal income tax deduction is eliminated, but practically all other de ductions remain. The personal exemption is replaced by a $22 tax credit. , This part of the proposed bill is good psychology because the , rates appear to lie lower than under the present state tax schedule. At present the rates are 3 per cent beginning at $1,000 and up to 9' per cent after $16,000., , But the change of figures is deceiving. One unweighed figure is the federal in come tax deduction. The other is the net receipts angle incorporated into the grad uated tax.. Added to the graduated taxis 1 per cent of all income up to $16,000 and 1V-. per cent over $16,000. , v Here's how your, tax would be figur ed, according to Oregon Voter, a weekly magazine devoted primarily to taxation. 1. List your total income and subtract allowable deductions. 2. Compute tax from your bracket rate as listed in regular tax form instruc tion. 3. From that sum subtract $22 for each dependent. " I 4. In another operation, take a flat rate of 1 per cent (under $16,000 )or l'j per cent (over $16,000) of your income. 5. Add the two sums to get the total tax. , If, the tar credit for exemptions totals more than the tax computed by the brack et, the taxpayer is not allowed to subtract the difference from the flat rate. consideration of the possibility of emergencies. "Hospitals wore also on an cmcrgoney fooling with little do lay or difficulty, again because of planning and resources provided for anead of time. -"State, county, and private in stitutions varied in their readiness to meet (he emergency. "Most did well with their available resour ces, but supplies of water and fuel for auxiliary power genera tors and for heat wore small enough to threaten exhaustion if the emergency had lasted signifi cantly longer." Cooperation Lacking The report notes "lack of co operation and acceptance of the (Civil Defense) program was the rule rather than the exception. "Altogether, Civil Defense seems to have played a very mi nor role in the crisis. "It's chief usefulness, perhaps, was in being a whipping-boy on which to blame all the lack of planning, preparation, and coordi nation which the entire commun ity exhibited. "It is a matter of disputo wheth er this was worth the cost of maintaining the organization." Another significant point related in the report is that Civil Defense was ono of 13 organizations tele phoned by the weather bureau at 10 a.m. the day of the storm. The weather bureau had mis takenly predicted "gusts up to 60 miles per hour or better. . . the winds reached 90 miles per hour The weather bureau reported later that "about 75 per cent (of the a g e n c i c s . called) appar ently did not take the report ser iously. It is expected that in many instances that persons ans wering the warning call did not relay the information beyond the person answering the phone. "No reports were made from the weather bureau after t h c storm began until the following Sunday afternoon, due to the shortage of power." 3n e2)a Taken from the filei 40 YEARS AGO April 30, 1923 An experiment in the culling of sheep for the purpose of breeding a better brand of wool producer, has been started at the R. B. Oliv or place at Glide. G. Emerson, Corrigan, charged with the murder of George Marsh. Taroma taxicab driver, was kept in the county jail overnight on his way back to answer for his alleged crime. 25 YEARS AGO April 30, 1938 Postponement from May 18 to i June 1 of the hearing by the dis-j trict board of A. my Engineers on i the proHiscd canalization of the, Umpqua River between Scottsburgj and Roscburg was requested by i the Roscburg Chamber of Com merce. I News Analysis LfoJ In Venezuela Try By PHIL N6WSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst CARACAS, Venezuela Com munism is on the retreat in Ven ezuela. This is important news. For if Communism were to take over Venezuela, Castro Cuba would have ils oil problems solved and Soviet Russia would be relieved of a tremendous burden. And if democracy were to fail in Venezuela, despite natural wealth which includes $3 million a day from oil alone, then the prospects of the success for the goals for the Alliance for Prog ress would be dim indeed through the whole of South America. VepezUela is snot totally .peace ful, for as the Communists and the Caslroites have failed to gaiu a popular following Ihey have turned to terrorism. Hand gren ades explode in populous streets at night and Communist youths battle police in gun fights in which at least 00 police or army guards men have been killed. - Fires causing millions of dol lars of damage have gutted prop erties owned by Scars Roebuck and Chiclet. Oil pipelines have been blown up. Plots against American cigar ette, automobile and film compa nies have been uncovered ana thwarted. But Venezuela's lough interior minister, Carlos Andres Perez, re gards these as a dying gasp. They have not prevented an increas ing return of foreign investment and not for more than a year have the communists been success ful in staging street riots. Today's story of Venezuela large ly is the story of a stockily built man m horn-rimmed spectacles who sometimes goes under the nickname "Papa Pipa" papa Willi the pipe. He is President Homulo Betan court who took office Feb. 13, 1959, and who, in March, 1964, has the prospect of turning over his office for the first time in Venezuelan history to a peaceful-1 ly elected successor. Betancourt already has served in office longer than any of his elected predecessors. Betancourt took office just as Venezuela was emerging from the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Ji minez. The country, with a pop ulation of only about 714 million, was S100 million in debt. As the Betancourt government acted to pay off its debts and tighten credits, the economy fell into stagnation. Unemployment mounted and opposition rose from both right and left. f I j f .M1 S -JUI IC fJLL I (J of The News-Review J. W. McFadgcn, Southern Pa- i cific engineer, was seriously injur- i cd as he sat at the throttle of a locomotive entering Eugene. Youths hurled rocks into the cab. j breaking his glasses and severely! injuring an eye. ' 10 YEARS AGO April 30, 1953 ! Practically the whole junior class at Stitherlin High School was sus-) pended today after an unauthorized: tin- wuirtum was Magci! ; i ue siory goes inai wnen ne was-neany ivo centuries leiore it was when high school authorities de-i ambassador to France he awoke ! finally revived to save fuel during mantled that Die class release ; unusually early one morning and a great war. funds to pay a committee from: found daylight streaming through, And another class which cleaned up aft ' his windows, while most of the citi-i After the war was over er the recent Junior I'rom. tens of Paris still slept. ' ! To provide more time for LIV- Twelve American fighting men, j It started him thinking. As ev-;iNu IT UP AT NIGHT by the the vanguard of the first 25 rcpa-: eryone knows, Ben was a frugal simple process of getting up ear triated POWs to be returned from person. Waste appalled him. And Her in the morning which is Korea, arrived at Travis Air Force! here was sunlight GOING TO i the chief value of Daylight Saving base in California today. i WASTE, while the people of Paris in these modern davs. Communism Venezuela today has $700 mil lion in foreign credits and its for eign debt has ' been reduced to $160 million. The bolivar is among the soundest currencies in South America. In Betancourt's four years, he has been the target of one assas sination attempt and four major military revolts. From the assassination attempt he still bears the scars on his face and hands. Government efforts and encour aging facts and figures are one thing, but in Venezuela something else also is occurring that is among the most heartening in all of South America. I It is a phenomenon affecting Uie "barrios," the slum villages whose shacks crawl wretchedly up the sides of the hills surround ing Caracas. One of these is the Altanista area. In the Altanista area is a little barrio called "La Linea" be cause a rail line once ran there. Red Leadership Toppled It is noteworthy for the polit ical change which has seized lead ership from the Communists there and for an American girl named Winifred Marich, a blonde 25-year- old graduate of the University of California, at Los Angeles who could be a beauty queen on any campus. Winifred is a member of a unique organization called Accion en Venezuela, founded several years ago by another UCLA grad uate, Joseph Blatchford, who now makes his headquarters in Cara cas. Accion en Venezuela pre-dated - In The Day's News - By FRANK The big news? It jusl could be the fact that Oregon, after long years of bat tling, finally gave up the struggle and went along with its neighbors on Daylight Saving Time. To those of us who know (and ADORE) this slightly screwball but utterly loveable State of Oregon, that is SOMETHING. Who knows what will happen next? Question: What IS Daylight Saving Time? Well, it's a plan by which all clocks are set ahead by an hour. But no chanee is made in the usual clock time of people's activities. The result is that the day's work begins an hour earlier for every- body. It was first designed as a means of saving fuel. It was used in turope during woria war i ana i in the United States for one year) 1918. i The plan was revived during World War II. and most large cities have continued it ever since. Question: Who first thought of Saving Time? You'll be surprised. It was BENJAMIN FRANK- LIN. How come? Slips the U.S. Peace Corps and its the members moved directly into barrios. I Among the slum . shacks and their dwellers, Winifred Marich has worked for the last year and a half. Communist youths tore down a fence which had been erected to prevent children falling lo their deaths down the precipitous hill sides.' Communist leaders campaigned vigorously against Accion en Ven ezuela. But the Reds were fighting a losing battle. Today, the man who threatened or endangered the tall, blonde girl fro'n California would take his life in his hands from" other vil lagers. . Adults are learning to read and write. Homes are being beautified. Trades are being taught. Dwell ers of the barrio are building their own sewage system with supplies donated by the govern ment. The secret of making your wife listen to you is to talk quietly to some other woman. JENKINS snoozed. Come that night, they would be BURNING CANDLES whereas if they had the good, thrifty common sense to GET UP EARLY IN THE MORNING, when the sun was shining, and to go to bed earlier at night, before ths sun sank in the west and darkness came along again, they could have SAVED all these candles. Out of his thinking came the idea of advancing the clocks an hour, thus enabling the people to j use the sunlight in the morning, i when there was plenty of it, and to SAVE their candles at night by i going to bed an hour earlier. He even went so far as lo cal culate how many candles this would save (he people of Paris and it was a rather startling num j ber. He had no luck, however, in selling uie iaea to uie parisans who, then as now, were fond of staving tin late at nishl and slnen. j ing late the next morning to make un for it. Thcv coidd see nn morii ! in getting up at the crack of dawn : and going to bed with the chickens 1 1 just to save a few measlv can Daylight dies. So His thrifty scheme to save can dles by getting up early in the morning and going to bed earlv ai mgni niea i-oormng. It was By DICK WEST . sion," he said, and "I came WASHINGTON (UPI) Good ; away impressed by your grasp of solid citizen types who come here public affairs." to fill high positions often go i What impressed him most, how through a difficult period of ad-lever, was a question about his justment I haberdashery.. A reporter noted r-ot.inJ M,mii7PH In life i i that he was wearing a hard collar .u. f..i :'! n,io,- ihB f Jf. vr n p. it is a series of traumatic experi ences, not the least of which is meeting the Washington press sucn was tne case or auu Plumley, an estimable Worcester, Mass., insurance executive who has just completed a year of service here as president ot me U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Plumley's term of office ex pires this wpek and as a parting gesture he gave a lunch for a group of us newsmen who either had written something about his tenure or, as the invitation said, had "threatened to." Most Pleasant Affair It was a most pleasant affair and was capped off by a short speech by the host entitled "Plumley's farewell to the .troops." As a sociological document, casting insight upon the tribula tions of public figures, I think it ranks wit h another Plumley speech entitled "Cliches my grandfather taught me." There are, Plumley told us, "two truly lense moments that come to all Chamber of Com merce presidents. "The first is when he meets the press and tries to answer their questions as frankly as good taste and a decent sense of re sponsibility will permit. "The second is when he tries to explain to his friends that he didn't really say it that way." These denials, Plumley added, "take a little more skill" when the press conference is televised. Recalls Debut Plumley recalled that "I made my Washington debut early last year before Hie National Press Club, where I outlined the cham ber's position on such non controversial subjects as tax re duction, tax reform, foreign aid, medicare and federal aid to edu cation." .- "It was a memorable occa- HURRAY HURRAY r 0t 'mM Trow!,r',,9e THIS-WEEK-ONLY SPECIALS 'TTZJt&h) Wlrin9 Materials 14-2 ROMEX BUY NOW AND SAVE! 250 Ft. $"779 coil now ONLY USED APPLIANCES Westinghouse Washer & Dryer $08 Matching Pair kmr RANGE Frig id oir or Horpoint . REFRIGERATOR General OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT UNTIL 9 721 S. E. Ook OR 3-5521 C-C Chief Recaps Trials By Press : and asked if it were detachable. "I assured him that it was, that I always wore hard, detachable collars, and that in Worcester they were considered most econ omical and not particularly news- ! ,,.l, " Plnmlov cirt ,.Th t .nar(,H t saikfv him but it left me permanently scarred sort of cooked by my own choker. To this day, I have not had the courage to wear a hard collar in public. . "In many ways, I regard this as the Washington press corps' number one accomplishment." The Almanac Today is Tuesday, April 30, the 120th day of 1903 with 245 more to follow. ) The. moon is at first quarter. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening stars arc Mercury and Mars. Today in history: In 1YS9, George Washington look the oath of office in New York City and was sworn in as the first President oi the " United States. In 1312, Louisiana was admitted to the Union as the 18th state. In 1900, fabled Casey Jones, Hie "Brave Engineer." was killed when his train collided with a freight train at Vaughn, Miss. In 194.r!. Nazi dictator Adolf Hit ler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin. A thought for the day French saidt "From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step." OYSTER TREASURE THOUSAND OAKS. Calif. (UPI) Housewife Mrs. Charles Valen cia was cleaning oysters for her husband's dinner when she heard something hard clatter in the pan. It was a pearl later ap praised by a local jewler at $75. the ISt ol MAY SPECIALS Start Tot,ty and Appliances LIGHT FIXTURES RED TAG SPECIALS 50 0 F F to WEST BEND FULLY AUTOMATIC 9 CUP PERCOLATOR Patented time and tempera ture cmitruls for sparlMing clear, savory coffee. Coffee's automatically kept at opti mum serving temperature. Bright aluminum, rich wal nut brown handle and base. Glowing coppertone cover. 5 to 9 cups. 799 only $35 $35 Electric .