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Obse rvor, L Grande, Ore., Thur., Aug. 13, 1959 Pag 10 fesjpj i C4M1' SUMS' BEDS flihC H 09 ""a- ' ... i HERZ4IST0H B0AB.DZ3AH - KLQN3IXE STSIPE WATERMELONS 1 c THE COST AIN'T HAY Picket at a Newport, Ky., steel plant arrive cn horseback for a . 6it-iowii tour of duty. Cost of Hie nation's steel strike is, however, far from "hay.'f It is estimated that strikers and industry are losing a total of some 29 million dollars each day. States ShoW Trend For Higher And Higher taxes And Budgets By RAYMOND LAHR UPI Sfa'f Wril.r WASHINGTON a'f'l - Slate Legislatures reached into lax payers' wallets.. fur hundreds of pillions of dollars this year to keep state bank accounts in the black and finance record bud gets. , Lawmakers in almost all of the 4f states with legislatures meeting in Ili.VJ have approved or still must approve budgets at an all time high. In some cases, they found that the tax take from economic growth or the bounce back from tle 11)58 recession would cover the increased drain on the Treasury. I But in many other states, the Legislatures glumly agreed that .they had to raise taxes. Some tried new tax gimmicks but most of them simnly raised income taxes, sales taxes or excises on liquor, beer and tobacco. New York, No'th Carolina, .Oklahoma, Sou 111 Carolina and l'tah joined the federal govern nient and about a (Inel other states which impose withholding taxes on paychecks lo help in sure collection of income taxes. Idaho levied a $10 head tax o.i each income tax return filed. Oklahoma Goes Wot Colorado, Ohio, Maine and l'tah put a tax on hotel and motel bills. Nebraska levied s new tax on pari-mutuel oelling. Hie heretofore dry state of Okla- Liz Taylor Says She And Eddie Not Expecting SAG A It O, Spain VVV -Actress Klizabeth Taylor said today ru mors she and Kddie l'isher are expecting their first child are "ridiculous." Miss Taylor said there was no truth to the rumors which start ed in Paris Wednesday a'ler .she boarded a plane for Barcelona wearing a brown, sack-like dress often worn in Kra'.ce by expect ant mothers. "It is completely ridiculous," she said. "I'm not expecting. I'm here to do a picture." r She dismissed the idea that the rumors may have been started by her costume in Paris Wednes day lis "silly." Others who have seen Miss Tay Jor here within the past few weeks also discounted the idea that she ,rnay be e) peeling. "She is trim .incr today than when she came here." one said. , The Rhesus menkey, so widely Used in medical and outer-space research, bus given the fir-t two jetters of its name to w hat is so widely, known as the Hit factor Jn blood. homa legalized liquor, and the Legislature promptly taxed it. $2 40 a gallon to yield an esti mated $3,500,000 a year. Cigaret smokers were a fa vored target in the search for rew revenue. California, which hail no cigaret tax, got a levy of 3 cents a package when the Legislature approved 222 million of Gov. rMmund O. Brown's 2.r million dolla:' tax program. Of 11 other states which in creased cigaret taxes this year. Iowa and Wyoming went to four cents a pack; Idaho, New York, Ohio, South Carolina and South Dakota to 5 ecus: Minnesota Pennsylvania and Washing ton, 6; and Vermont 7 Cents. Ac cording to the Tobacco Institute, 2'i states now collect cigaret tax es of 5 cents or more per pack age on top of the 8-cent federal tax. In Minnesota, the Legislature boldly approved a slight increase in the beer tax, which had been untouchable for 2" years. Al though it balked at a withholding lax, it ulso raised taxes on per sonal and corporate income, li quor, cigarets and other tax sources i as part of a 45 million dollar tax package. Besides California with its 222 million dollars of row taxes, slates wilh six-figure tax. increase packages this year included: Ohio, 275 million dollars; New York. 273 million: Illinois, 135 million and Washington, 112 mil lion dolla' s. ' In the crisis-ridden slate of Mieh:gav, the legislature appears lo lie moins lowart a sales tax im'ie:re from 3 lo 4 or 5 per cent, with an exemption for food if it goes to 5. Action, along this line would kill off Gov. (i. Mennen Williams' pioposal tor a new stale income tax as part of his 140 mil lion dollar tax plan. The Washington State Legisla ture raised the sales tax from 3 1-3 to 4 per cent and increased other levies, too. Although they controlled the legislature, the Democrats failed to muster the necessary two-thirds vote to get a referendum on a constitutional amendment to authorize an in- tax Four States Up Gas Tax After the recent rash of state gasoline tax increases, fewer slates reached for the motorist this year. Among those which did were New York w ith a gas tax in crease from 4 to 6 cents a gallon, Chio.from 5 to 7 and New Jlamp shire and West Virginia from 6 lo 7. Proposed gas tax increases arc still pending in Massachu setts and Pennsylvania. Several governors presumed lo have national political ambitions as candidates or kingmakers had to wrestle with record-breaking budgets nnd sizenblc tax pro grams this year. Beside Brown and Williams" on the Democratic side, Hiey included Hepublican Govs. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York and William G. Slrat lon of Illinois and Democratic Gov. Michael V. DiSalle of Ohio. In Calilornia. where the Legis lature concentrated on upper bracket taxpayers in voting an in come t: increase. Democratic memliers, liked .to compare their plan wilh what they called Rocke feller' "soak the poor" income lax schedule. In an order delaying new state const met icn in Illinois. Stra'.lon had Michigan in mind when he sa'd his administration was "not gong to wake up some morning and find we' can't meet our payrolls." WARPELLfsl FOR BETTER MEAT BUYS S.&H. Green Stamps Free Delivery PRICES EFFECTIVE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY 1116 Adams - WO 3-2697 Morrell's Chef Brand BONELESS HAMS ... 73c lb. Fully cooked, ready to eat, aK fat, bone, rind and waste removed. A Truly fine buy. Yorkshire Thick Sliced I Worrell's Smoked Loin BACON FORK CHOPS 2 lb. pkg. S3c ' 75c lb. From Eastern corn ltd pork- Partly cooked, simply brown, rs, will not fry awly. serve. So good and tender. 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