Hansell...
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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..
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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.
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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...
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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
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