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2A Wednesday, May 10, 2017 Appeal Tribune OBITUARIES Emily Pauline Henjum Dec. 5, 1924 — April 29, 2017 Emily “Emmy” Pauline Henjum, 92, a long- time Silver- ton resi- dent, died April 29, 2017. She lived in Silverton for nearly five decades with her hus- band, Gordon Henjum. For the past 12 years, she resided at Willamette Lu- theran Retirement Com- munity in Keizer. Born Dec. 5, 1924, in Silverton, Emily was one of seven brothers and sis- ters. Her parents, Reinert and Inga Holm, immigrat- ed from northern Norway in 1913. Emily graduated from Silverton High School in 1942. She mar- ried Gordon Henjum on April 3, 1948. In 1957, they built a home on Jerome Street, where they raised their family. Emily worked for sev- eral businesses in Silver- ton, including PGE, Steel- hammer Drug, Weiby’s, and John’s Men’s Shop. She also worked as a book- keeper with her husband at Henjum Oil Company. A highlight of her life was a month-long trip to Norway with her mother. They visited the two is- lands located above the Arctic Circle where her parents once lived. An on- going highlight was her special relationship with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. When asked what she was most proud of throughout her life, her steadfast answer was her children and their fam- ilies — and being Norwe- gian. She embraced being a full-blooded Norwegian. She enjoyed speaking Norwegian and making traditional Norwegian food. With her indomitable spirit, she also had a won- derful sense of humor, of- P.O. Box 13009 Salem, OR 97309 Address P.O. 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USPS 469-860, Postmaster: Send address changes to Appeal Tribune, P.O. Box 35, Silverton OR 97381. PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID: Salem, OR and additional offices. Send letters to the editor and news releases to sanews@salem.gannett.com. PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Self Storage Sale Please take notice Absolute Storage LLC – Salem located at 2605 Hawthorne Ave. NE, Salem, OR 97301 intends to hold an auction of the goods stored in the following units in default for non-payment of rent. The sale will occur as an online auction via www.bid13.com on 5/26/2017 at 12:00PM. Unless stated otherwise the description of the contents are household goods and furnishings. Jenny M. Dolan unit #321; Sorryn Kauffman unit #339. All property is being stored at the above self-storage facility. This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply. See manager for details. Silverton Appeal May 10 & 17, 2017 ten filling the room with laughter. In addition, Emi- ly was a kind soul who tended to her family, neighbors, or anyone who needed care and compas- sion. Emily was preceded in death by her husband, Gordy; brothers Richard, Edward, and Carl Holm; and sister Louise Cross. She is survived by her sis- ter Betty Matovich and her brother Don (Norma) Holmall of Keizer. Emily is also survived by her children: Diane (Jim) McKillop of Keizer, Mark (Debbie) Henjum of Silverton, and Scott (Pol- ly) Henjum of Portland. She had six grandchil- dren: Jon McKillop, Jen- nifer Matson, Matt Hen- jum, Erin Henjum-Scott, Hannah Henjum and Jack Henjum. Great-grand- children are Nash and Rhett Matson, Jake and Jamie McKillop, and Ri- ley and Norah Scott. Family members would like to thank the dedicated employees at Willamette Lutheran Re- tirement Community for their care and compas- sion for mom over the past 12 years. We extend a special debt of gratitude to the staff in the facility’s Grace Center who cared for mom the past three years. We appreciate the staff from Serenity Hos- pice who also cared for Emily. In lieu of flowers, con- tributions can be made to Willamette Lutheran Foundation, 7693 Wheat- land Road N, Keizer OR 97303 or Serenity Hos- pice, 11481 SW Hall Blvd., Tigard. A memorial service to honor Emily’s life was held Saturday, May 6 at the Willamette Lutheran Retirement Community Grace Chapel in Keizer. Gertrude Henrietta Humpert Jan. 4, 1920 — May 3, 2017 Ger- trude Hen- rietta Hum- pert was born on Jan. 4, 1920, to Emma and Sebas- tian Aicher in Woodburn. She lived just east of Woodburn along with her five brothers and sisters on the family berry farm, learning at a very young age a strong work ethic around home and helping her dad in the fields. She attended Union School and later attended Mount Angel Academy for a short time. She met Aloysius “Aloy” Humpert at one of the local dances and went on to marry him in Janu- ary 1940. Together they lived and worked on the same 60 acre plot of land between Mt. Angel and Silverton for over 60 years. Not only did they raise almost every crop possible, they went on to harvest all the rocks un- der the soil, establishing Abiqua Rock Products. She did all the bookkeep- ing and administrative management for the busi- ness. Gertrude was all about her family. She made and mended clothes; grew, harvested and canned from her huge garden; was always cooking and baking; worked full days in the fields and did what had to be done for her six children. As the grand kids arrived, she doted on each one as if they were the most precious to her. She enjoyed the beach, and there was at least an annual trip there. It began with clamming with her dad when she was young and developed later with her own family on crab- bing expeditions. The trips to the ocean con- tinued until she was un- able to travel anymore. Seafood remained her fa- vorite food of choice. She was a caretaker to many and found joy in helping others. She helped with the local blood drawing, and was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Parish in Mt. An- gel, the Catholic Daugh- ters of America and the Saint Anne Altar Society. She is survived by her six children: Carolyn (John) Fitzsimmons of Keizer, Jean (Mike) Tate of Canby, Joan (Doug) Da- vis of Keizer, Richard (Nancy) Humpert of Sa- lem, Thomas (Pamela) Humpert of Oregon City, and Kathy (Don) Seiler of Mt. Angel. She also has 13 surviving grandchildren, 32 great grandchildren and a sister, Catherine Nathman, of Portland. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 10, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Mt. Angel. Rec- itation of the Rosary was held Tuesday, May 9, also at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Memorial contri- butions may be made to St. Mary’s Parish in Mt. Angel. Arrangements by Un- ger Funeral Chapel. Democrats unveil plan for tax that raises $1.4B for schools DIANE DIETZ STATESMAN JOURNAL Oregon’s Democratic lawmakers came up with the most detailed plan yet on Thursday for fixing the state’s wobbly budget by tapping business coffers. House Speaker Tina Kotek would place a 0.95 percent tax on annual business sales in excess of $5 million. About 5,000 businesses would pay the new tax. The tax — to start in 2018 — would produce $2 billion in new state rev- enue in the 2017-2019 bud- get cycle. The revenue would increase over time to as much as $3.6 billion in subsequent biennia. The revenue is needed to shore up schools and stabilize the state budget, which, fed by personal and corporate income tax- es, is highly susceptible to shifts in the state’s econo- my. “To think that fiscal discipline and cost con- tainment — and just tight- ening our belt — is going to solve this problem is not supported by the num- bers,” Kotek told the 14- member Joint Committee on Tax Reform. Kotek and other top Democrats described a three-decade old chronic, structural revenue prob- lem that leaves the state budget short of funds, and they argued that now, when the economy is in good shape, is time to fix the problem. But Republicans said the problem is chronic overspending and ask why — when the state is expecting $1.4 billion more in revenue than the state had to spend for its last budget — do lawmak- ers need to raise taxes? The Democrats’ gross receipts tax proposal would replace the exist- ing corporate income tax, which produces about $1 billion in revenues a year. The new tax would take effect Jan. 1, 2018. Busi- nesses with sales under the $5 million threshold would pay a flat $250 an- ZACH URNESS / STATESMAN JOURNAL Oregon’s Democratic lawmakers came up with a plan for fixing the state’s wobbly budget by tapping business coffers. nual filing fee. Businesses with less than $150,000 in sales would pay nothing, according to the lawmak- ers. Lawmakers said they would bring the state school fund up to as much as $8.8 billion, up from the proposed $7.7 billion — and that would allow schools to add two weeks to the school year and re- duce class size in the ele- mentary grades. Law- makers would also add $250 million to the higher education budget, which could pave the way for some tuition reductions. “We hear a lot from people wanting new in- vestments, particularly in education,” Kotek said. The new tax would be paired with $400 million in cost containment ma- neuvers and $250 million in outright budget cuts for the next biennium, Kotek said. The state, for exam- ple, can save an estimated $100 million on the cost of the Public Employees Re- tirement System and $20 million by putting off con- struction of a new prison for seven years, she said. Rep. Mike McLane, R- Powell Butte, called the proposal a wolf in sheep’s clothing. “It is a massive, multi- billion dollar tax on Ore- gon sales akin to Measure 97 that was rejected by voters less than six months ago,” he said in a prepared statement. “It is an admission of the fact that Democrats can’t bal- ance the budget despite record revenues. And once again Democrats claim, ‘it’s for the kids,’ even as they continue to drag their feet on what would truly secure lower class sizes and more school days — addressing PERS, health benefits and other cost drivers.” Rep. Phil Barnhart, D- Eugene, took umbrage at the idea that what he helped Kotek propose amounted to a sales tax or to Measure 97. By com- parison, the proposed tax charges a much broader base of businesses a much lower rate, he said. It allows businesses with two or more related entities to exclude inter- company transactions so the tax doesn’t accumu- late or “pyramid.” Businesses can be ex- pected to pass some of the costs onto consumers — research predicts about 42 percent of the cost — so the lawmakers are pro- posing certain provisions to protect low income and middle income Orego- nians, including possibly reducing individual in- come tax rates, increas- ing the standard deduc- tion, increasing the per- sonal exemption credit or expanding the earned in- come tax credit. Earlier, the tax reform committee was consider- ing a tax on business sales of over $1 million, which would affect 13,000 addi- tional businesses, but at a rate that could be as low as 0.25 percent. Barnhart directly ad- dressed business owners who were certain to be streaming the tax discus- sion on the web, saying that if the state doesn’t act to improve its education, it will have to depend en- tirely on the importation of people with good edu- cations to fill the state’s good jobs. “If you look only at your income and expense statement this year it may not look so good,” he said, “but if you look out into the future and see what this kind of proposal can do for the economy and your business, you’ll have a different opinion.” The Main Street Alli- ance of Oregon, a coali- tion of 3,500 small busi- nesses, seems to agree with that logic. “For small businesses, when the economy is healthy and families have access to good schools and services, they can afford to shop locally at the tens of thousands of small businesses that make Oregon great. Our suc- cess relies on the success of our communities, and investments in schools and family services make us all successful,” the group said in a statement. Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-On- tario, a member of the tax reform committee, said he doesn’t see a justifica- tion for increasing busi- ness taxes given that vot- ers so recently turned down a business tax pro- posal. Opponents, he pre- dicted, would force the question onto next fall’s ballot, where it would fail again. “Explain to us how we don’t charge up this hill for nothing,” Bentz said to Kotek. “I always think it’s worth it charging up the hill for our kids,” she re- plied. Letters to the editor PUBLIC NOTICES POLICY Public Notices are published by the Statesman Journal and available online at w w w .S ta te s m a n J o u r n a l.c o m . The Statesman Journal lobby is open Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. You can reach them by phone at 503-399-6789. 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All three have a background in education — they have balanced school budgets, cut costs, worked with parents, stu- dents and boards, and they are all determined, in their role on the School Board, to continue to do so. All three candidates also have young children in the school system. They are invested in making sure our schools work for everyone. And all three do not turn their heads when confronted with hard is- sues. Unlike their oppo- nents, three male incum- bents on an all-male school board, Finicle, Nealon, and Traeger are ready to take on the issues of bullying, infrastruc- ture failure, staff attrition and low staff moral that incumbents have failed to even ask questions about. When it comes to creat- ing safer, sounder, more creative and welcoming schools for our teachers and children, I know Fin- icle, Nealon, and Traeger will do the job. Naseem Rakha Silverton Woman’s Club thanks fundraiser attendees The Silverton Zenith Woman’s Club wishes to thank all who attended our Bunko Fundraiser on March 18. A tremendous amount of fun was had by all, and we raised $1,171 that will go toward our an- nual community projects: scholarships for Silverton High School graduates, layettes for the Silverton Hospital Birthing Center, maintenance of The Town Square Park and the Tree of Giving at Christmas time. We want to express a very special thank you to the Elks Lodge for spon- soring our fundraiser and providing wonderful snack foods for our guests. Barbara Fischer-Chase Silverton