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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1963
Voters Should Study Tax Issue
An orgniization is being formed to
work for an affirmative vote on Ballot
Measure No. 1, the referral of the tax
measure passed by the last legislature.
The legislature proposed various meth
ods of raising some $60 million said to
be needed to meet the state's expenses
for the next two years. The measure con
tained several very controversial factors.
As a whole it was unsatisfactory to a
great many people. Consequently refer
ral petitions were circulated and quick
ly signed, despite urging by nearly all of
Oregon's newspapers to "let well enough
alone."
However, the very fact that there was
some opposition to a proposed referral
added to the determination of a large
number of people to secure an election.
The right of the people to decide contro
versial issues shouldn't be abridged in
any form, it is declared, and the very
fact efforts were made to head off an
election only added to the insistence that
the controversy be placed before the
people.
There is a feeling among many per
sons that it would be a far better policy
to accept the tax increases proposed by
the legislature for a brief period, rather
than to experience the cost of another
election, possibly a special session of the
legislature and drastic cuts in state oper
ations. -
Particularly fearful of a budget slash
are the organizations connected with our
schools, for there is a possibility that, if
the state is forced to reduce its budget,
the principal part of the reduction will
come from a lopping off of basic school
support. This in turn will cause local dis
tricts, to increase property taxes to meet
needs. Again, however, there is danger,
for property tax increases would require
elections to permit budgets to be raised
by more than six per cent. Then, unless
local boosts were authorized, the school
program doubtless would suffer.
But the great danger to an adequate
tax program lies in the matter of preju
dice and ignorance.
The legislature's proposal contains
several things many taxpayers don't like.
There is much objection to the idea
of removing the federal tax payment as
a deduction. The federal government is
cutting deeply into the wage earner's in
come. If he is not to receive credit for
the amount paid the federal government
in taxes, he is apt to vote against the
whole state program simply because he
doesn't like this particular feature.
Another cause of a negative vote
doubtless is found in the fact that legis
lators voted themselves more salary than
some people thought they should have.
Consequently vindictive voters may avail
themselves of an opportunity to vote
against the tax measure simply as a pro
test to legislative salaries.
The tax measure also sets up a plan
for a $5 minimum from every taxpayer.
Presently a good many people pay no
taxes. This particularly is true of large
families on moderate income. The new
measure would cause everyone to pay
something.
A certain segment of the public will
oppose one or more features of the meas
ure. Because of opposition to one part,
voters will, in a good many instances,
vote against the whole.
Then there are a considerable num
ber of people who will oppose the meas
ure simply because it's a tax bill. They
would oppose any tax under any circum
stances. Another factor is that a very large
number of people simply won't attempt
to inform themselves. They'll vote on a
subject about which they know little, par
ticularly as details are concerned, ex
pressing opposition to taxes, per se, with
out particular thought for the need. Nor
will they be prepared to suggest any sort
of substitute by which the state's finan
cial needs may be met.
A good many organizations have de
clared themselves in favor of accepting
the tax measure until the next meeting
of the legislature. Interestingly, Oregon
Associated Industries and the AFL-CIO,
usually bitter opponents of t h e legisla
ture, are in agreement in opposition to
the overthrow of the tax bill. Other or
ganizations include the Oregon Farm Bu
reau, Oregon Educational Association,
Parent-Teacher associations, and other
bodies.
These groups may be expected to
work among their respective members.
Now, it is noted, a Citizen's Committee
for a Yes Vote on Ballot Measure No. 1
is being formed.
If the tax measure is received by a
public determined to reach a decision
based on facts and need, the election is
to be commended. If, on the other hand,
prejudice, ignorance, retaliation and a
general lackadaisical attitude are per
mitted to become deciding factors, the re
sult could well be most detrimental to the
state's welfare.
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Editor's Corner
By Charles V. Stanton
Sports Fishing Betterment
Seen In Charleston Project
The Port of Coos Bay Commission reportedly is mulling
a plan to enlarge sports facilities at the Charleston Small
Boat Basin. A firm of consulting engineers has submitted
results from a three-month study. The firm proposes a huge
development program. Methods of raising the needed mon
ey are now under study.
Development of sports fishing on the Oregon Coast re
ceived its original impetus from the installation of Salmon
Harbor at Winchester Bay, the mouth of the Umpqua Riv
er. In late years the Charleston development . has . been
Salmon Harbor's chief cdhipetitor. It promises to take the
play away from the Umpqua, unless more is done to ex
ploit Salmon Harbor's many advantages.
Ihe Charleston Small Boat Basin
now can accommodate around 240
small boats, and 200 automobiles.
It is reported that during 1962, 80
requests for moorage were refused
because of a lack of space; that
room for parking was insufficient.
The report from the engineering
firm recommends 395 more boat
151 Co1
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or No Yardstick
Discrimination
By ROBERT C. RUARK
It seems to me that not enough
stress has been placed on the Ne
gro American's basic share of
eventual complete integration, in
which color might desirably be
completely forgotten. There are
duties on both sides of the fence.
The Negro has made great
strides, culminating with the tn
Washington. He is conscious now,
as never before, of his power; the
testings in schools, the demonstra
tions, the sit-ins and pickets and
lie-downs all have given him spe
cial awareness of his muscles.
He is, literally and reasonably,
afire to press home his advantages,
and to achieve crushingly and mon
umentally, in one blow, the rights
umphant and orderly march on I which have been denied him over
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
News Analysis
Nehru Experiences
Big Disappointment
By PHIL NBWSOM
UPI Foreign Ntw Analyst
For Jawaliarlal Nehru, in
heritor of the mantle of Gandhi
!nd the only prime minister India
has known in its 16 years of inde
pendence, it has been a year of
shock and disillusionment.
First there was the massive at
tack on India's border by the
Red Chinese, blowing into smith
ereens Nehru's cherished concept
of the five principles of co-existence
md severely testing his pol
icy of neutrality and non-alignment.
Then there was the motion of
censure which his opponents in
the Indian parliament wore able
to muster for the first time in
all the 16 years.
In the early weeks of the Chi
nese aggression, the Indian peo
ple rallied behind Nehru as never
before.
Indian women contributed
their jewelry to the fund to build
India's military strength.
Indian Army Dtfstttd
Then came the defeat of the In
dian army and the revelation of
its true state of unpreparcdness.
The disgrace and ultimate ous
ter of V. K. Krishna Mcnon, Neh
ru's righthand man and defense
minister followed.
But perhaps worst of all for
Nehru was the fact that for help
he had to turn to Uie United
States and Britain, the very pow
ers of whose world policies he
had been most critical.
Nehru still clung to non-alignment
because if he gave up that,
he gave up the cornerstone of his
whole philosophy.
But his tired voice as lie de
fended himself in parliament
reflected both his shock and dis
appointment and the weariness
Uial went wiUi it.
All these also were evident as
he defended himself against his
critics in the debate over the mo
tion of censure.
It was a political hodgc podge
arrayed against him, and against
the heavy majority of Nehru's
Congress party it had no chance
of success.
But it cave voice to the rising
discontent against him and it was
given further expression by dem
onstrators outside the parliament
after the Chinese aggression and
the lack of tangible evidence that
the country was in much belter
shape than before.
There were other challenges.
.There was the poverty which aft
er 16 years of independence re
mained India's greatest internal
problem. There were charges of
corruption - and now also the
failure of a policy which had
given Nehru voice us the
world's greatest neutral.
Nohru touched briefly on them
all.
The country, he suid, was los
ing its vision and the government
was tied up with humdrum affairs.
In the end the debate settled
nothing.
General elections arc not neces
sary until 1967 but Nehru already
is sending Congress party leaders
into the field in an attempt to re
vitalize support.
Nehru will be 74 this year. He
is tired and out of fresh ideas.
But if the censure debate dem
onstrated anything it was that
there is no one now to take his
place.
-In The Day's News-
Aerothon Problem
To Imogene Coca
By DICK WEST - This method has one basic de-
WASHINGTON (UPI) When feet, however. Miss Coca still
I arrived at the hotel suite fori hasn't decided what song she
my interview with Imogene Coca, should sing.
she was in the bedroom tolephon- She was leaning toward "Near
ing her children in California. er My God To Thee" until Miss
Presently she came into the Durand reminded her that it was
parlor and reported that it wasjhat the band played when the
raining on the West Coast. tTitamc was sinking.
"It was raining so hard they n i. in ii .. ,.
i,it ,,i u, ,i,,i r.,,i ii ,i,, slio sang she should skip the
3n 2)aej
Gone
Taken from the files of the News-Review
didn't put the duck out all day
long, she said.
Obviously she has very consid
erate children. Which figures.
Miss Coca herself is certainly not
the type who would chuck a duck
out of the house on a rainy day.
I should explain that Miss Coca
is participating in what some
press agent has labelled an
"aerothon." It's a gimmick to
publicize her new television se
ries. "Grindl," which premieres
later this month
An "aerothon'
verse or she might not have time
to finish the chorus. That cheered
her a lot.
Canadian Lumber
Shipments Heavy
PORTLAND (UPI) British
Columbia lumbermen shipped
nearly twice as much lumber to
requires her to i markets than did the western U.S. I tions. That is a return to discrimi
the long years of second-class citizenry.
Of course, you cannot expect
him to forget that he is black; that
he has long been discriminated
against .and denied full rights of
man. As a very relaxed Negro
professor of political science said
to me recently, when I asked him
if a Negro ever momentarily for
gets that he is black, the answer
was: "If he is silly enough to try
to forget it, something always hap
pens to remind him of it."
But there can be as much dan
ger in reverse discrimination, in
terms of future harmony, as in the
kind of discrimination which is in
process of eradication. It is ad
mitted that anti-Negro discrimina
tion has been a national disgrace
in the country which calls itself
the land of the free.
But I thought President Kennedy
had a very good, plain point the
other day when lie said that any
assignment of quotas on the basis
of color would create more turmoil,
more antagonism, than less. The
President was firmly against "spe
cial dispensation" as a sort of sop
to past mistreatment.
Arbitrary quotas for any reason
whatsoever are vicious tools, which
invariably turn in the hand. If
the Negro American has any real
dream, it should be of complete
acceptance in opportunity and ful
fillment, with no accent, positive
or negative, on the color of hide.
Quotas perpetuate second-class cit
izenship; the answer is not numer
ical. If there is an answer it is the
granting of a firm platform of
equality of access. This does not
mean forming an All-Negro politi
cal party, as has just been an
nounced, with a view to run an
all-Negro slate in next year's elec-
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 7, 1923
Some Roseburg man is today suf
fering considerably from birdshot
wounds in the rear portion of his
anatomy, said wounds having been
inflicted last night while he was in
the act of removing a number ,of
watermelons irom a paicn near
Dillard.
25 YEARS AGO
Sept. 7, 1938
The Roseburg Swimming pool
project has approval of the PWA
office at Washington, D.C., ac
cording to a message received to
day by the Roseburg school di
rectors and the project now de
pends on the decision to be made
by voters at the special election to
be held Monday. The PWA will
give a 45 per cent grant on the
project providing the district pays
the remaining S3 per cent.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 7, 19S3
Ex-President Harry S. Truman
was in a "go after and get 'em"
mood last night, urging Democrat
ic members of Congress to atop
supporting the Eisenhower administration.
fly to one city for breakfast, to I states during July.
another city for lunch rnd to an- The Pacific Lumber Inspection
! other city for dinner. i Bureau said recently B.C. lum-
i Miss Coca is ideally suited foriber companies shipped 175.7 mil
j Hint type of tour because (lying j lion board feet, compared with 98
terrifies her. j million board feet from Oregon,
i "You're going to have a prob- Washington and California.
' lem on this trip." she warned her Approximately one-half of t h e
' (ravelins comnanion. Lindsav Du-: Canadian shiDments vont tn the
j ram United States' Atlantic Coast.
There was an interesting story has become a fortified citv with "How so?" asked Miss Dii-lTho Pacific Northwest lumber
on the wires as this wns written, rapid-fire anti-aircraft batteries dot I rand. ! strike cut heavily in to American
It comes from Dick Ricmann. one tins the rilv Tliev arn evrn in- "I have tn have three drinks I shipments the bureau said.
of the 59 American students who stalled on the tops of Havana's before 1 can get up enough nerve I During the first seven months
spent seven wecKs in cuna as hotels." !to board an airplane, and wnen ot iKf, British Columbia mills
By FRANK JENKINS
guests of the Castro government.
They are now back in the United
States.
What ot the group?
Reimann tells the reporters that
he and a Barry Hoffman, of Brook- j
line, Mass., where the only two
who made the trip wiUi open
minds. Hoffman, he savs. made the
trip as a researcher for an author
who has contracted to write an
article for an American masazine.
He was looking only for facts.
Why did Riemann go?
He says:
"I volunteered for the trip be
cause I knew the type of group
that was going and 1 wanted to
lend some balance to it. Besides,
I felt Uiat the Kennedy adminis
tration was down-grading Cuba,
which in my opinion is our No. 1
problem. I feel that integration
comes AFTER our national secur
ity. "I wanted to sec for mvself
what is really going on down!
there."
What is going on?
Well, Reimann says:
"There are Russians all over the
place in Cuba. They avoid the use
of uniforms. They live in a walled
city of their own In Regla, a fish
ing village across the bay from
Havana. This fortilicd area in
What ot the group itself?
What will it accomplish?
It was impossible. Riomann says,
to make an accurate evaluation of
Cuba, even in seven weeks, be
cause the group's principal con
tacts were limited to CASTRO
GOVERNMENT LEADERS.
The group leaders, he adds,
"didn't make even half an effort
to establish contact with the PEO
PLE of Cuba. Their contacts were
solely with PICKED Castro lead
ers.
! 1 have three drinks I'm a prob-1 shipped 648 million board feet to
i lem," Miss Coca explained. i the Atlantic Coast. The three
nation, and erects the same old
barriers of black-against-whitc an
tagonisms. The courting of any bloc is ba
sically immoral, although it has
always been a political practice to
bid for support of minorities, rang
ing from Vito Mancantonio's Pu
erto Ricans to the Bible Belters of
the Middle West. It seems to me
that the cause of the Negro would
best be served if he did not set
himself up as a Jim Crow political
entity as one of his first signs of
success in the striking off of his
shackles.
Since the day Jackie Robinson
broke into organized major league
Cost Of Legislative
Session Is Going Up
SALEM (UPI) -The 52nd leg
islative assembly has already cost
the taxpayers Sl.314,827, and the
total is expected to top $1.8 mil
lion before the end of the bien
nium. If a special session is held this
fall, the total could go even high
er. The 1961-63 legislature cost $1,-
267,323, and the 1959-61 legisla
ture's operating expenses totaled
$959,209 about half the cost of
the 1963-65 legislature.
Higher pay for lawmakers en
acted earlier this year accounts
for most of the increase.
Legislators formerly were paid
S1.200 a biennium, plus certain ex
penses. The 1963 legislature raised
the scale to S6.0UO a biennium and
expenses of S20 daily for a maxi
mum of 120 days each session
slips in a new location, plus 26
more in the existing basin, togeth
er with room for 460 more auto
mobiles. ' ".
The engineers also suggest wid
ening the street leading to t h e
basin. Widening is desirable, it is
stated, because of the anticipated
increase in traffic.
The plan outlined by the engi
neering firm would permit the im
provements to be made over a pe
riod of years, rather than at
one time. The cost is estimated at
more than $600,000.
For many years I have contend
ed in this column that the Oregon
coast is to become an outstanding
playground. The contention is
borne out by engineering surveys,
as the study made for the Charles
ton Small Boat Basin says that
the demand for facilities will con
tinue to increase for many years.
We recommend to the Port of
Coos Bay Commission that it will
have to "hustle its bones" if it
keeps development in pace with
demand.
Salmon Harbor, loo, was develop
ed in accordance with a master
plan. This plan was devised by the
same engineering firm now work
ing at Charleston.
Salmon Harbor is mniiLpH hv
the Douglas County Park Depart
ment, wun tne consent ot the Doug
las County Court and the Port of
Umpqua Commission. ;
The Douglas County Court has
been most farseeing and generous
in providing funds for facilities.
The Port of Umpqua Commission
is sharing in the development
work, but has advanced little in
the way of funds, ft has consent
ed, however, to Douglas County be
ing reimbursed from all receipts
until the port commission's por
tion of the debt is repaid.
Salmon Harbor has been return
ing a considerable profit to the
county, making the investment well
worth while. At the same time the
assessed valuation at Winchester
Bay, because of Salmon Harbor,
has increased materially, thereby
giving the county a higher tax re
turn from that community.
The Port of Coos Bay Commis
sion reportedly is looking into the
matter of federal aid.
Salmon Harbor has been de
veloped entirely without help from
the federal government, the Corps
of Engineers, or other federal ag
ency, insofar as finances are con
cerned. The money used to build
Salmon Harbor facilities has come
entirely from county revenues.
We sincerely hope the Charles
ton Small Boats Basin is develop
ed a:.d soon. We predict the
fastest development will not be
able to keep up with demand. At
the same time we commend the
Salmon Harbor management, the
County Court and the Port of Ump
qua Commission for the continuing
building at the mouth of the Ump
qua. where additional moorages
are being provided, more parking
space built, new airport planned,
a beach drive completed, a public
camp being constructed and plans
made for a large resort.
- These things, I predict, still will
If a snecial session is called.
the $20 daily expense allotment ; be insufficient to satisfy the de-
will be authorized again. mand of me coming years
Actually, however, she was i western states shipped 277 mil
spoofing about the drinks. Miss j lion board feet. Shipments to baseball, we have seen tremen
Coca signed a temperance picuge i fuerto mco totalled 6.4 million dous strides in "equal opportunity,
when she was six years old. 'from the U.S. and 42 million from enual enjovment. equal employ-
I asked Miss Coca how she had ! British Columbia
managed to control her fear and
she said she docs it by day
dreaming. While in the air. she Dan I eiken Gate Two
dreams up situations where
things go wrong with the plane ! T-Y roniitiittp Pftctc
and she performs some sort of 1 HA Wnimiliee r 0515
'llr'n.?l,(I1,. ci,. r,,.i,m intiJ SALEM (UPI) Subcoin miltee
the crew compartment, grabs the I PPointmcnts for the Legislative
.mi, ,i, n, nin Interim. Committee on Taxation
nian-1 inu-rnn. vummiuee on taxation
What of young Kicmaiin?
Who is he?
He is an unknown. He probably
made the trip as an adventure.
He isn't a trained intelligence op
erator. He is on his way to Cali
fornia to be a teacher. He may
just have wanted a final fling be
fore settling down to work. But
he touches on a question that in
terests all of us.
The question is this:
What is Kroosh up to?
controls and
...rnl. Hot wtl,. cl.n
bravelv stands up in the aisle l"- ' Overhulse, D-Madras
and calms the uther passengers
by singing.
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Committee chairman.
Listed were:
Local and State Financing: Rep.
Victor Atiych. R-Portland. chair
man: Sen. Robert Elfstron, R
Salem: Sen. Donald Husband, R
Eugcne: Rep. Sidney Bazett. R-
Grants Pass, and Rep
uymann. u-Marcola.
Dedicated Revenues and lnsur
ment," without regard to quota.
Sports has made an enviab(e show
ing in racial amelioration, and in
a remarkably short time. When
Rosey Brown hauls down a ball
carrier, the color is not in context
with the jarring impact.
When Hank Aaron leans into one
with two out and the score tied,
nobody counts any color calories.
Joe Louis was always superb as
a man and an American, and 1
fancy that very few of his million
admirers ever thought of him as
principally black.
The livelier arts have generally
been pretty free of color accent,
and in recent years since the days
of minstrel show and coon-shout
Richard singers employment has rested on
talent, not color.
I do not go to hear Sammy Da
vis Jr. or Lena Home nor are
few.-, JSs? r JSr
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BUST FOR CAP
ST. LOUIS. Mo. ( UPI ) Rich
ard Maney, 10, received Friday
ance Sen. Elfstrom. chairman:
Sen. Alice Corbett, D-Portland: I they employed preferentially be-
Kcp. Atiyen; Hep. Bazett. and cause of color. The success of ath-
Tr Nf.vj-Review is a member ot tne Rep. Sidney Leiken. D-Roseburg. Ictes and show business people, bv
nlted Pross international. NEA Service.: c- .,; o.-u:i... r : . . ...... . . .. .
Audit Bureau ot circulation and tn. orejon ."""'c !-nep. ; stressing amuiy ana opportunity 10
Newsoaoer puoiisners Association Evmunn. chairman: Sen. Crohett: use it. could be a handv reminder
Adve-islng Representative is'Ren. Clinton lilllii it. D-Bater: i In thr. nf hlg.l. thl
Rep. Leiken. and Rep. Jack ; color is not the yardstick to, or
Smith. D Condon. j ine criterion of. success as a citi-
month. ii Mi t montn.. no.io: i year, hi oc. .. . , ' . .. . . i zen. ana mat me use ot color as a
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William Frawley. i subscription rates
The bov. who won the bust in '"'':. j". ""..? .
which they live in is OtF LIMITS ' a letter - writing contest, wrote I By aii 1 m orroon: i rnonm. ii j, 3 Methods of Valuation-Sen. Ward ! wedge in reverse discrimination is
to all but 1 handful of Cubans 1 that he wanted it because he had :wih. st so. months, wco 1 soar Cook. D-Portland: Sen. Overhulse: 1 1 ..' ! . m u-a
1 monm. !.: t- ,i...-K--,. 13. '
with special passes.
"Under Fidel Castro,
'; no place
Havana cap.
tn
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liang nis uasiuaii ,s. ,
iltu. l:v months. SIOO- 1 vear
Sen. Husband: Rep.
Rep. Smith.
Haight,
and days or t'other way round.
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AND THIS LITTLE PIGGIE
CAME TO OUR BANK
As icon as you've fattened that little piggy bank with
money, bring him In to ui. We'll count the cash and help
you get it into one ol our fully insured savings accounts.
From that moment on, you'll stort earning on your savings.
Lots of little piggies come to our bonk.
Douglas County
Roseburg
STATE
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