EDITORIAL Measure 5 doesn’t live up to promises Good thing Measure 5 (Missed last year, or things would be mightv boring these days around Oregon, in terms of taxes Now, instead of property and home owners exclusively enjoying the pleasures of buckling under a massive tax burden, we can ail join in the fun. Voters approved Hallo! Measure 5 last November in hopes of lessening the state's property taxes. The move stemmed from the understandable urge to plug up. the seemingly bottomless pit of governmental spending. The consequential tax limit reduced money avail able for st.ite funded operations, resulting in some painful'effects One example was this year's almost one third tuition hike for Oregon's public-colleges and universities This, combined with' a reduction in de grue program offerings, faculty and staff positions, and eligible student numbers made more than property mv tiers feel the t ranch Hut hey it would all lie worth it,wouldn't e* Property owners would get their break, making the off) e; tin.mci.il be!! and chains easier So lug Right/Wrong I ..me ('.minty landowner s got a big surprise recently whei tiles started rei.eis mg the first post Measuie 5 tax statements their tax bills wore nearly as much as last years 1 he measure had seduf tivoh proposed about I percent worth ut savings on tax bills should voters p. it And pass it tiles did who wouldn't ‘ But a tunnx thing happened after the fund reducing measure was approved. Property value assessments suddenly rox< over most of the state 20 percent in the Kugerto Springfield area, (Ini in idem e ■' No Lac k of bu< ksv ’i es However, the possibility state government would just get its money in a different w.i\ should voters up prove the measure conveniently got left out of the do bate Now. landowners have their tax cut. but with their land worth more, they end up paying as much as they did in the first place Next year's disappearance of Oregon's Homeowner and Renter Refund Program is another remedy for the lost money. The program, which every fall for the last 17 years rebated part of homeowners' and renters' housing payments, will be axed in an effort to deal with Measure 5 cuts. So Oregonians' efforts to send a message that they're tired of scraping the bottom of the pot when it comes to paying taxi's seems all for naught. Voters said "no," yet still end up paying, facing more problems than when they started — problems that affect more than just the state's property owners Gov. Barbara Roberts' effort to find replacement monies via her "Conversation with Oregon" now con tinues with her closed-circuit television appearances to. and survey of, voters. The "Conversation" will go until next Marc h Citizens can hope this frustrating situation will be resolved in a real wav through this process. Oregonians tend to get itc h\ when the wool is [lulled over their C\ es Oregon Patlv Emerald PO BOX )1W CUGCNt ORf.GON §7403 T*'« Ongon Da y l moo*! * da> tA.KXl.1) Sf^tX/g-' f •*'*<«» O ' -*g !'a» »«*• a;xl Twrfftackly A/t) Tdunrvg •*>« Mjmm« &y ’,’mi Ot^.r Du *y I r*ur.pd T\.-t>?fefw»g i O I'V a! th« y o! O'Mytr" i -go *» Ottg<w' Th* J •“»-*»'<nJ opo'n.ix. *>o;w*/xW» !’> ot !ha IVirviv*.* 'y » o"-. m*. .»' . u o? '•*» I ft> l>'x>n nl •*» a rrw”ht*f o! !’■« Aft-iwx.*’•*! 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I ll explain It usually runs to about '.it) de grees w 11h 00 pen ent humidity In full gear, you swelter until your clothes are drenched Then it usually rams, wheroup oil the humidity goes up even higlur 1 finished my base training and s« iire tii mv self 1 w t old never again live in a plate that g.iver 'Ml degt - -■ \nlan tit a Xxtcaid be p 1 tui s .i n 11 v mild, I thought, when con Ira strut to Georgia humidity f ills lust weekend, while on tin:! with my National Guard unit I Was I i It-* x hat k foi 11V on those I ort Henning memo ties as a time ol good fortune, great w • illier and high living ! lev sent us up - Yakima. \\ ash ! hail nos it hi t n in t ■ (. Hal Washington, an-! 1 lonki i forw irti to it. despite the fre quent warnings that it might he a httle i old Colti, I thought How tough l oulli it Im' We got off the bus If! the middle of the night I looked around in astonishment at ^ ak ima (apparently the Indian word tor wasteland.1 lhe Arms only puts up liases in the most desolate of areas cheap land with no other uses lhe real scars places get turned Into br ing ranges ; hi Yakutia Firing Kan go h i- no tn-“s N-. :n- /.ip Zero hist sagebrush and six uuhes ol i f ' l-:t k : i W uod prod lil ts Would : ulli!' Iwil to haunt I!;i' \ i; rded us imhi u tint k 1 ■■ »r l!:- hour-long trip out to the M <i0 in.ii him; gun tiring range il possible, the range was even nw'r desolate fh.in the base i .un|i Surmising th.it a tin- had re (i ullv swept through the area. I figure.I tin1 starkness of the hind was due to nature taking its sweet 11nits getting hack to normal I asked tin? tango offi cer alniut my theorv "Nope,” the captain said It's alnays like this On the t ohi s< ale. the weath er was somewhere between un bearable and unbelievable A luting wind swept across the range, and there was no trover. My |ob as an ammunition bear er (read low man on totem j: lej lor an M-(H) team is really jiisl a glorified name lor a pack mule I lug around equipment and hold tile ammo so il foods properly into the gun t a riseijuentlv, I sjient the en tire day i touched into the snow with one hand up. cursing and alternately trying to stay warm Writer's riufe: Using a Zippo lighter to thaw your fingers is definitely a last resort kind of tactic.) finally and mm ifully. the day ended just as the sun due ked behind the mountains As we were pai king up to leave, the range officer came over to my squad, whir h con sisted of nine guys in a foul mood I "here weren’t enough trucks to get everybody bat k to the base camp, the captain said lia ha ha, we laughed Somebody's going to have to stay behind Ha ha, w e chut kled You're it Ha uni, that's not very funny But unfortunately, it was the truth We had to stav behind, brave the i old and wait for the trm ks to come back at least a two hour wait W hen it got liark, it got cold cr Survive and adapt is the motto of the infantry soldier, and we did Uegalliei d up the paper targets, sagebrush, etc , and somebody fiii ked a Die Idle lire was warm, but we quickly ran out ol tilings to burn Alter an hour, the targets were all gone, foraging parties bad stripped the immediate area bare, and the first oblique references to the Donner party were put forth Idle range officer stayed be hind, mostly to keep us from tearing down the three-story wood range tower and the ply wood target holders Hut inuti m w as fermenting, and after 90 minutes, the ultimatum was de livered In ill) minutes, my squad leader said, the Itrsl target hold er would come down livery hall hour alter that, another would he sacrificed until We were picked up II we ran mil of target holders, the range tow er was going to make a very pretty bonfire One guy couldn't wait He came back with a piece ol wood, covered in gray paint Idle only thing painted that col or w as the tower, so the i aptaill was immediately suspicious ' Where did you get thut,” he demanded ‘■fim, it was just lying there,” the intrepid forager an swered The captain accepted the ex planation, apparently for mo rales sake He ignored the hunt nails sticking out of the hoard five minutes before the first target holder w as to go up, the truiks finally arrived. Some of file squad members were disap pointed, figuring we had the tight to torch -it least one of the them Sufficiently thawed hack at the base camp, I revised tn\ opinion on cold, (add is just as had as hot. How come they never send us to Club Med for training7 It was just a thought.