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About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1959)
It Feels That Way to Every Recryit NEA Scrvico. Inc DREW PEARSON SAYS: EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Monday, November 23, 1959 "Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes'' Byron. RILEY ALLEN, publisher Grady Panncll, managing editor George Challis, advertising director Tom Humes, circulation manager Income Tax Base To Be Broadened - More than 170 witnesses will testify at hearings of tlie House Ways and Means Committer on possible reforms of the federal income tax system. The hearings opened in Washington Monday and are scheduled to run through lVc. IK. They are designed as a first phase of a broad investigation of the individual and corporate income tax structure by the tax-writing committee. M is the first attempt at over-all revision of the income tax system since the Kith Amend ment was adopted in ll)i:. Most income tax experts auree that present tax raUs are too hinli. It is generally considered that the inesent schedule, with its rates up to ill per cent on individual income over $2011,(1011 a year,, generates pressure on Congress for special exemptions, deductions and loopholes. Hep. Wilbur I. Mills (It -Ark.), chair man of the House Ways and Means Committee, told Nation's Ihisinoss this month, "The key to income tax reform is broadening of the tax base." Taking 1937 as a typical tax year. Hep. Mills phowed that "I.I billion dollars was collected on a total individual income of 350.G billion dollars. While this repre sents less than 10 per cent of the tax base, Uep. Mills computes that of 'JUS. 2 billion dollars which went m.taid. only '2S billion represents unreported income, and that amount includes individuals who need not file returns under tlie present law. , The remainder of Hi- pntaxed in come represents persona! exemptions in taxablo returns (77 biilion dollars), ex clusions by statute, regulation or court decision (12 billions), personal expense and a standard deduction (36 billions) and income on which no tax liability accrued ljecau.se of exemptions, deduc tions, tax credits and other reasons (18 billions). It is readily apparent the federal government is losing a lot of income. Proposed tax changes include specific recommendations for new treatment of depreciation, minerals depletion allowj ances, business deductions, state and local bonds income, capita! gains and stock options. The proposals have been advanced by incom"1 tax analysts, university profes sors, tax lawyers, management and union tconoinists anil accounts. One such ex pert. Uoswell Magill, former under secre tary of the Treasury Hcpartment and present head of Tax Foundation, Inc., ad vocate a reduction in federal expenses. Magill contends that none of the so cailed "loopholes" is "an intended Unefit to particular taxpayers." He would like to se federal excise taxes provide about " per cent of federal revenues, as in Canada and I'.ritain, instead of the pres ent levy of about 11 per cent. Theiv are a lot of people who would tak exception to Magill's tax concepts. There are a lot of people who will take exception to any change that doesn't directly benefit them. In any event it is certain the Congress is not going into the tax rewriting business on the eve of an election. The tax study will be comprehensive. Kep. Mills himself has intimated the law will not be changed until MM! I or IW2. Timber Resources Review Misleading Within recent years tli" t'.S. Forest that statement. Service did a monumental job of in ventorying American t.miier resources. It published the results in a many-paged Timber llesourco Keview. At the time, in I'.,") and li,:,. the work was widely .acclaimed, as it should have been. It -was a-truly giant undertaking. Hut, it was. far too large for most per sons to bother, to read or study. As a result, one conclusion of the report gained' very wide circulation. That was : ' .Timber is' J'""' H''"Wing nt a rate faster than we are us:n;; it. This is true, of course. The-statement was used by some in dustry associations to put additional pressure on federal and state agencies in this Pacific Northwest revi.m to in crease cuts of puUiely-ow-ied timb'l. And some private owners notably Georgia-Pacific began cutting at a fast er r&tc. As noted above, the Matement from . iheTKK was rue. sentence condensation of the TIM:, and ' J'.ut, there's more t th" i'"M ih.tn tin w i ,1 Ih Stout Forest Win s i i: 'il timl is :i fast A to si Th had in th ut Dynamited School Rebuilt By West Virqinia Hamlet OSAGE, W. Va. One year ago this week I stood before a gap ing hole in the concrete floor of a schoolhouse in West Virginia A bulge was punched into the ceiling above. Twisted school lockers, torn textbooks, broken plaster, splinter glass, desks and chairs were piled topsy-turvy A hate monger had stolen into the school on a Sunday night carefully placed a case of dyna mite in the hall, meticulously run a wire through the gypsum, over the transom cf the gym door to a car outside, from Us salety he had blown up the school. In the months that passed, the man who wreaked vengeance on children was not caught. But in those months the people of Osage and Moncngalia county have not been idle. From the rubble and ashes they have rebuilt the school. It had looked as if it could never be rebuilt, but they rebuilt it. And last week, the boys and girls of the Osage school band necked out in spic and span green and white uniforms, sat in that same gymnasium, once lit tered with broken glass and brok en plaster, to play the Star-Spang led Banner during the ceremony redcdicating the school. History la Mad .' 1 Osage is not exactly a metro polis. It has a population of 1,000, most of them coal miners and most of them out of work It has seen tragedy before. It saw 57 bodies, wrapped in gunny sacks, carried out of the Christo pher mine In 1942. And it has seen historic events. It saw John Lewis stand under a tree in 1922, long before the United Mine Workers were I power in the coal fields, and proclaim that la bcr had as much right to organ ize as banks and business had to join together to promote indus try. Walter Hart, a young report er, now editor of tha Morgantown Dominion-News, had his notes seized by the district attorney when he reported that speech. The D. A. seriously considered whether John L. Lewis should be prosecuted for treason. Tragedy and poverty are why the people of Osage long ago learned to live with each other. They learned, working under ground that white coal miner has to rely on black, and vice versa, in a rescue operation. There is no color line underground. They learned also to govern their town by electing three Negro city councilmcn and three white coun cilmen. So when the Supreme Court ruled that Negro children had a right to study with white child ren, Osage, . W.Va., had one of the first schools to integrate. There were 80 Negro children enrolled when the school was blown up one year ago. American Defeat; hitting in the gymnasium, as I did last week, listening to the very simple ceremeny of redcdi cating the school, it seemed to me this was a historic occasion It punctuated a period in Anieri can history When we suffered great setbacks, both at home and ..broad. It was Oct. 4. 1957. while V. S troops were occupying Central High School in Little It ck. that Russia first occupied outer space. It was one year la ier. (Jet. 5, 1958, that the school hi.usc in Clinton, Tenn., was blown up. Four weeks later, the Osage- school was shattered. During this two-year period, 84 schools, churches, synagogues, or hrmcs were dynamited in a war l hate. The Committee of Am ericans Against Bombs of Bigo try, headed by Gov. pat Broun of California and Charley Taft of Ohio began mobilizing public opinion against the outrages, tried to raise money to repair the dam age. It was not easy. National or ganizations usually outgiving in generosity, shied away. Too much political bitterness was involved. Meanwhile, in the race with Russia, we also fell behind. There was little cohesion in Washing ton, more concentration on bud get-cutting than on progress- making. Instead of eatching up in the conquest of outer space, we suffered defeat after defeat. But in the little town of Osage there has been a historic victory.! 1 hanks to the goading of Editor Hart, the energy of school Super intendent Charles Stevenson, and the vision of the county school board, the shattered school was rebuilt. After the rededication cere mony, a reception was given in the home economics room. One year ago, its electric ranges had been blown into chaos. But in the middle of the room, untouch ed by the dynamite's blast, was a plate of biscuits. A little eirl had baked them on Friday be fore the hate-monger had come in to wreck the building, and they sat there, surrounded by wrecked closets, fallen chandel iers, and shattered glass. Instead of the biscuits, Mrs. Merle Miller presented me with a cake. Last year I had picked up a book: "Our Environment: How We Use and Control II," by Wood and Carpenter. The people of Osage had been trying to con trol hate. On the wall, a year ago, hung picture of Abraham Lincoln who once proclaimed a nation "dedicated to the propostion that all men are created equal." He looked down from that picture on the broken plaster, the twisted cinder block of a school where children had been studying as equals, but had been forced to disrupt that study by one who disagreed with Lincoln. This past week, Lincoln looked down on a different scene a brightly painted, freshly repaired school, completed by citizens de termined to carry out his dcclara tion regardless of these who stalk in the night carrying dynamite and nursing hate. Ike In Round Of Golf Before Trip Back To Capital AK.I STA. Ga. a PI i Presi. dent F.isenhoer got in final olf game today before flying back to Washington and an un usually heavy schedule of con ferences preparatory to his 11- iiiitnin tour next month. . The President's schedule in Washington will be so heavy that he will not spend Thanksgiv , at his larm in Gettysburg, but will have his holiday dinner in inc Winie House with Mrs. Eisen hower Eisenhower was expected back at the W hite House between 2 and :i p in. p s.t. today. His schedule Tuesday includes an early morn ji.g meeting with Paul Henri Spauk. secretary general of the .vii in Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tiun and Secretary of state Cliristia'i A Jlerter. OBITS United Press International iinl'cr is jirowinK in some regions of the lS. faster than it is being cut. In this region it is still lieini; cut much faster than it is growing. And pnvntel.v-owni'd timber in this ire ion is lii'injr cut t a ruinous rate. If to continues, private tinilierlntids all hut out of production in an other '-' years or so. This situation 1ms been touched upon in recent days in speeches by J. Herbert regional torester of tlie U.S. Service, and by (.'..urge Wever- lt.'ieuser. viopresident of the Weycr haetisi r Company. lit Stone anil iy. rhaeiber are ; is thus: te Ian I a1 .Norinwest is not mnuinir r as fast us it is bein;r cut. There I any chance we can (nw lo-st p. is we are milling them, lot of sawmills are going to have t down in tlie coming few ji ars. s mav be a shocker to tln.s,. .i,0 relied too stionglv on trio single i:it respect iho TIM! mav nt h-ivf" b. en the ; lad tidmys w ..mv lli,in..,t . s QUOTES IN THE NEWS United Press International PITTSBLRGH Bernard Brown, loot stolen by a $500 in quarters, FBI A'it describing the bank robher :i- $100 in nickels. BOSTON L'PI Funeral services wiil be held Wednesday at Trinity 1 Episcopal) Church here for Dr. Sarah M. Jordan. 75, co.fomler of the Lafeey Clinic, who oiel Saturday nignt. k MI NEW VOKK i CPU Judge John E. Murphy, 64. justice of the New Vork State Supreme Court, died Sunday. NEW VOKK lUPD Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Dr. Frederick A. Pizzi, 57. medi cal director of Charles Pfizer & Co., who (lied Saturday. WASHINGTON H'PI Funer al services will be held here Tues day for H. Edwin Joyce Jr., 62, vice president of National Distil lers l hemical Corp.. who died in New York Saturday. and $3,000 in one dollar bills: "That's quite a load to cany." HOLLYWOOD Art t'xr.'rt Taylor Curtis, of the Curtis Gal lery in Pasadena, asserting tha! the paintings discovered in the home of a television repair man are not masterpieces: "The world is full of old pic tures." FORT WORTH, Tex. Jim Tucker, program direcior of radio station KXOL, revealing that one of his disc jockeys had received "financial aid from record plun gers": "He's no longer with us." CHICAGO Former Preside.it Harry S. Truman, discussing New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller: "He's a very fine man. He did several good things for me when I was president. The only thing 1 have against him is he's a Re publican. " M. Lewis, 76, who wro'e the lyrics for more than 400 songs, induing "Mammy."' Dinah," "Sittin' On Top Of The World," and How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm," died here Sunday. NEW YORK 'CPU Samuel DooEs into the many advantages of General's "All-ln-One" Homeowners Insurance! REYNOLDS INSURANCE AGENCY o( orrict-SMTHI LOENf RAtJ Black & Decker Portable Power Tools Authorized Dealer INDUSTRIAL Machinery & Supply 1410 Adams Ph. WO 3-4423 'eU talk thy clean?' By Ed Craig Vilvetcen and corduroy ar being used rather extensively for both dress and leisure clothe? ' . t ., ... i k good reason. B o 1 1, give long wear, are dry-clean-ahle. and of ;er plenty of A warmtu on con: atjif and evenings. Velveteen is generally an all cotton cile fabric in v.'hich the weft threads form the pile. The pile is somewhat lower than in silk and regulation vel vets. Corduroy is an all-cotton velvet with the pile appear ing in vertical ridges. As a 'rule, velveteen and cor duroy are as susctptible to pile removal during cleaning as silk velvets, and they re quire special cleaning care and finishing techniques. We advise ycu to examine the la bels on garments made of ihese materials before buying them to make sure they have been treated to prevent shrink age. As with velvets, the pile threads of velveteen and cor duroy often become badly crushed and or matted during wear and must be straightened and smoothed out when clean ed. We've built our business on service, and our service takes many forms: prompt pickup and delivery; quick service hen you need it; reliability tnd dependability; and special care to treat every article you send us silks, velvets, cor duroys and all synthetic fab rics with the newest and saf est scientific methods. REMEMBER I . Inspect The germent after wear ing If it is too soiled for the next wearing, it is too soiled to hang beck in the closetl CRAIG'S NU-WAY CLEANERS 1708 Sixth Phone WO 3-2311 The advertiser's higliest standard t t O REMEMBER WHEN . . . 25 years ago, 12 I a Grande school students received cash awards for winning essays on 'Oregon Products Week." Winners were Lola Brown, 1st. Donna Feik, 2nd. and Margaret Zurbriek, 3rd, high school; Joyce Ilendrickson, 1st, Greenwood: Dorothy Tucker, 2ml. Central; lessic Jackson. 3rd. Itivrria. all eighth graders; Florence Oehel- tree. 2nd, 7th grade; David Lyon. 2nd, 6th grade, both Green wood; Buddy Cooper, 2nd, 7th siade and Keith Winn. 3rd. 8th cradr, both of Central; Edward Varkham. 2nd. 8th grade, and Marjorie Beickel, 6th grade, 3rd both of Riveria. ... 15 years ago. a "third ar my" group of La Grande store clerks was organized for the sixth war loan drive underway, with Lynn Bohnenkamp as chairman of the merchants division. Mrs Ann Decker headed the women's division of the city drive, with W. C. Perkins as county chair man. assisted by Miss Mabel Mor ton. county women's division. Local churches were mapping plans for special Thanksgiving Dav services, and on this day. at the La Grande High School ath Utie field, the Tigers were to host powerful Roosevelt High of Portland in a playoff game for the semifinals cf the state nreu football championship. Headlines told of the U.S. and French breakthrough at Mctz. with the Allies sweeping forw-ird till tloiiK the l.eiiiiMU (inli r. of CEreu3afiioat value Every industry has a standard by which its products can be measured. The jeweler uses the symbol of a pure diamond. In flatware, the word "sterling: and in dinncrware, the word "bone china" represent high standards of quality and value. For the advertiser, the symbol of the highest standard of circulation value is the emblem of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. 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