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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1973)
Hansell... (Continued from Page 7) Hansel! said the guarantee that 85 per cent would benefit was "pure conjecture” by the Revenue Department and didn’t take into account the increase in Federal and State Taxes as a result of Ihe property tax decline. Oregon lax research, certified public accountants and other tax consultants have repeatedly proved the claim wrong, he said. T^\ To the statement that the plan “soaked the rich,” Hansell said, “The big financial losers under the plan are single workers trying to get ahead, living with parents or by choice under housed. Also, couples with two incomes striving to amass savings by living in rentals or homes of conservative nature.” Hansell said the plan was not based on a person’s ability to pay, but instead on “how expensively they are housed or in what taxing district they live. A couple with a taxable income of $15,000 living in a $25,000 home in Portland will pay $152 more total tax. Living in Corvallis, this family will save $131 in taxes. Living in Eugene, the saving will be $51. Is this ability to pay?” Following the speech a local radio station took a poll of Lions Club members. There were three supporters of the plan, 17 op ponents, including Rep. Stafford Mansell, and 13 undecided. Hansell taped a 10 minute in terview with one of the local radio stations before starting back to the Capitol. On the way to Salem Hansell talked about his farm. He said it was one of the most modem hog farms in the nation. He owns a lot of land and farm equipment that will be tax free if the plan passes. Hansell claims the plan would benefit him personally. So why does he oppose it? “I just feel its so wrong, I guess the main reason is the lack of thrift. The overall tax increase of $75 million disturbs me much more than anything else.” Eymann.. (Continued from Page 7) For the local businessmen of Oakridge, Eymann said that “business will still be paying 51 per cent of the operating costs for school and individuals 49 per cent." And for the generally worried of Oakridge: “With-holding rates may be under for this year. The rate will be increased for with holding when the program is increased.” When Speaker Eymann left Oakridge, he could be sure that at least a few peoole had gained a clear understanding of what the tax program would mean tow them. And that small ac Financial Benefits as a Commissioned Officer in the United States Air Force USAF Pay Scale - as of 1 Jan 73 2nd Lt - 0 Yrs Svc Base Pay Subs Allowance Qtrs Allowance Flight Pay Monthly Pay Annual Pay 1st Lt - 2 Yrs Svc Base Pay Subs Allowance Qtrs Allowance Flight Pay Monthly Pay Annual Pay 1st Lt - 3 Yrs Svc Base Pay Subs Allowance Qtrs Allowance Flight Pay Monthly Pay Annual Pay Captain - 4 Yrs Svc Base Pay Subs Allowance Qtrs Allowance Flight Pay Monthly Pay Annual Pay Without Dependents Non-Flying_Fly ing $ 566.10 47.88 108.90 $ 722.88 $ 8,674.56 $ 712.50 47.88 138.60 $ 898.98 $10,787.76 $ 855.90 47.88 138.60 $ 1,042.38 $12,508.56 $ 989.40 47.88 158.40 $ 1,195.68 $14,348.16 $ 566.10 47.88 108.90 100.00 $ 822.88 $ 9,874.56 $ 712.50 47.88 138.60 125.00 $ 1,023.98 $ 12,287.76 $ 855.90 47.88 138.60 150.00 $ 1,192.38 $ 14,308.56 $ 989.40 47.88 158.40 165.00 $ 1,360.68 $ 16,328.16 With Dependents Non-Flying Flying $ 566.10 47.88 141.60 $ 755.58 $ 9,066.96 $ 712.50 47.88 175.80 $ 936.18 $11,234.16 $ 855.90 47.88 175.80 $ 1,079.58 $12,954.96 $ 989.40 47.88 195.60 $ 1,232.88 $14,794.56 $ 566.10 47.88 141.60 100.00 $ 855.58 $10,266.96 $ 712.50 47.88 175.80 125.00 $ 1,061.18 $12,734.16 $ 355.90 4 7.88 175.80 150.00 $ 1,229.58 $14,754.96 $ 989.40 47.88 195.60 165.00 $ 1,397.88 $16,774.56 The same subsistence allowance is paid to all officers. Officers receive the quarters allowance when not living in base government housing. Fringe Benefits Include: 130 Days Paid Vacation Yearly I Free Medical & Dental Care 120 Yr Retirement ■Travel Air Forces ROTC 2 year program application deadline is 15 May. Interested?? Call 686-3107 complishment was what Dick Eymann’s campaigning is all about. He has been travelling about the state, and especially his own 44th district, plugging the Governor’s tax plan for several weeks. Now that the vote is only a day away, he has redoubled his efforts to assure the successful passage of the measure. Eymann, in addition to being House Speaker in the Legislature, is also an ad ministrative assistant at Lane Community College. He was first elected back in 1957 to a term in the House, and has been in and out ever since. In 1961 he served as the chairman of the House Tax Committee and previously was a member of the State Tax Com mission. He also has a graudate degree in business ad ministration. All of this background has certainly come in handy during the current tax plan campaign. Eymann left Oakridge after the meeting and headed back to Eugene. Later that evening he would have two more speaking engagements, but right then he wanted to cruise around the area. After a stop at the local newspaper, The Oakridge Telegram, Eymann went up into the hills in his car to take a look at Westfir. “One of the last com pany towns in the country,” he says. A company town is a town owned completely by the com pany, in this case a lumber processing business, and that’s exactly what Westfir is all about. There are maybe 100 painted wood houses planted around the surrealistic ugliness of a huge sawmill crouching low by the Willamette River. It’s really a part of Oregon’s past. The houses are being phased out. The paint from some are slowly chipping off onto the ground where the might firs grow. But the people still live in Westfir and Eymann, the politician, is interested in those people. So this Canadian-born, Dartmouth-trained, Oregonian politician drove through the company town, talking about fishing skiing and sailing and — the tax plan. The bill contains “no major deviations from McCall’s original plan,” he says. “It provides equalization for school districts based on salary rates, class sizes and curriculums. You have the Governor and both houses of the Legislature working hard for it’s passage,” he says in a slow voice. “I’m confident it’s going to pass.” So this Merchant Marine-Army Air Corps-saw mill veteran drives around on a beautiful Oregon day and tells people to vote yes on the tax plan. And when the talking is over, he falls back in the seat and maybe dozes a little and waits to see what the reply of the voters will be on Tuesday. Theatre lab... (Continued trom Page 10) Solomon is directing The Ar tist, a comedy of manners by A.A. Milne. She recruited her cast on her own because of the low turnout at auditions. "We had 45 to 50 parts to cast and just about 45 to 50 people auditioned. Some of them cannot be used for physical reasons or because of certain voice qualities,” she said. Solomon’s “tremendous sense of the dramatic” led her to ac ting “The theatre's ego-center - of-attention business appealed to me ut fir:>;, but I am losing that feeling for ego-need,” she said. The tirst series of plays will be presented during the afternoon and evening on May I and 2 in the Pocket Playhouse, with free .trimi&sinn
