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2 —Port Orford Newt, Thun day, A pril 3, 1969 ir of t w rtD fn ¿Mtuis 5 » ■aLrw .4 Port O ffice Box S 97465 Port Orford, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY second class m a il privilege» euthoneed rt Port Orford, Ore. LöUJS L Felsheun ...................................... Editor and Publisher Peal L. Peterson .............................................. Managing Editor Subscription In Curry County (per year in a d v a n c e )...........................S3 00 Outtide Curry County . . ......................................... .. $3 50 Single Copy..................................................................... . . 1 0 Cena .Announcement*, Notice*, New» and Advertising Must oe in the Office by 5 0 0 p. m. Tuesday* to the E d ito r Do We Want Sales Tax In Oregon? contributing to toe welfare of <*ir State If part erf toeir time was spent ta plugging loopholes In our graduated income tax laws, which If administered fa irly and properly would well support our State government. By planned maneuvering, sev eral other bills have been at tached to the proposed sales tax bill to make It more pala table, all of which can be nul lified at a Later late. Every politician In Oregon kreu what the salary was for the office he asked for when elected, and I feel they should not be leaders in spiraling ta- flatior by sponsoring ex hort ltar.t pay raises. As a citizen and taxpayer in Oregon, may I urge you to vote “ NO” or this sugar-coat ed sales tax bill on June 3, and keep this unreasonable creeklr.g sneaky beast out of our State. EDITORIAL fa a buUetfa received by the Game Commission b a n the National R ifle Association an item points out that the Supreme dcxrrt recently ruled that a man w ith a previous crim inal record cannot be required reregister a firearm became it would amount to self-incrim ination, which is specifically NO T required under the BiU of Rights A crim inal record makes ownership of firearms illeg al, so to register ownership would im m ediately incriminate th» owner. ?"hat is exactly what a lo t of Ckegon hunters and target diooters have been trying to say a ll along, as w ell as otter fire arms owners across the co m try—that firearms registration does not affect the crim inal elem ent of society. It affect» only and pute undue burden on the hunter, competitive shooter, or other law -abiding r i rrien To The Editor: There Is no b a la n c e d relationship ber*eer the earn N E W S PA PER ing power and the paying power In a general sales tax. Those P U B L IS H E R S in lew income brackets that A S S O C IA T IO N are compelled to speod their Assoc a? on - FounOtJ 1MS tag our re-integrated pro entire Income tor living for gram . The program, now in themselves and their family Ways and Mears, asks for $1.1 have no choice but to pay a Sincerely, million to be used to accom tax on 100v of their income, C. H. BROCKS During the last lev years plish six prim ary steps: while those In ad-, ar tag ecus po Langlois, O re. 97450 . . . Immediate Implementa we have witnessed growing civil sitions and with greater op tion of plans to establish four (ED NOTE—M itt Patti McKenzie wat named first piace winner unrest and lawlessness on ev ery portunity to pay a tax on only new correctional centers in of this year’s 3atile Rock eighth grade essay contest sponsored level and avenue <rf our society. a portion of their income. In Oregon, during the 1969-71 bi by die Am ericas Legion auxiliary, The subject this year was This has brought much distress other words the richer pays ennium. This is to be used to Freedom is Not Free, and Mis* McKenzie's essay appears below among the vast majority of our the least percentage of a sales adjust the convict to the com a* a guest e d ito ria l.) people. But, the crim e rate tax in accordance to the ad munity after release. still grows. Over toe last seven vantages he has ir. our country. Board of County Commissioner . . . Starting a unified aca There was soc a United States of Am erica until 1776. That years, Oregon, alone, has re All the unfortunate, those on County of Curry year our forefathers wrote the Declaration of Independence. They alized a 51% Increase in Its demic and vocational training re lie f, the aged, the crippled, Gold Beach, O egcn system for inmates at the Ore v.-rote it to te ll the world that Am er i n ns wanted tc have rheir crime rate, while increasing the blind, every child, and ever, gon State Penitentiary. own independent nation free b a r . the m ocher nation, F " ;1 =»pd its population by 11%. the handicapped war veteran Gentlemen: . . . A reduction to the in They meant that everyAm erican should be free to think a - With this bleak situation con would be taxed on 100> of what dustrial and farming operation We received y o K letter of fronting our State and toe na bout God in his 3 her own way, every Am erican should be free they have to live on. They would at the Penitentiary. This was March 3,1969, inform fag us that to say and do a* they please a* long as they do not interfere w ith tion, the public has demanded have no freedom of choice. They favored because many of toe you w ill be unable, at this tim e, the right of others: all men should be created equal and all of strengthening our law enforce cannot count their small amount skills taught cannot be applied to m eet o k request f financial ment practices and controls so the people were to have a part in their own government. of money in their pocket with once In the commuirity. The re - aid ict educational purposes fa that our streets will once again After our fere fa then signed the Declaration of Independence the idea of having that much to emphasis should be made on the county. be safe. But, In the midst of the War of Independence was still raging! No,Freedom Is Not Free. spend for necessities of life, training useful trades and rot We hope that we made o k The Americans had to add a new "Bill erf Rights to r h / this hue and cry, we seem to because a general sales tax one of keeping men busy. position clear in that we would have lost track of the after C .nst i tut i cn in 1791. with its small voice says, “ That . . . Expanding the peni During the War for Inde-vnderye many lives were sacrific match of crim e . . . that of Is not all yours.” No consid lik e to receive $150.00 per A DM tentiary’ s new gate program ed and there were many wounded. The people fin a lly gained asa tax offset, but that we would what to do with offender, once eration is given to ability to for educating convicts, by add their independence, but many more wars w e e to follow m a in he has received our due pro b er.o re than happy with w hat pay. ing a pilot program at toe Ore taining it. cess of law and has been found ever help you could give us. There Is no favorable con gon Correctional Institution: guilty. • >e do not have the freedom to pick o k subjects at school, Thus we were not asking f a a nection whatever between prop and the m inority group* do act always have the freedom to go to’ Historically, the community beginning a program for tech erty tax relief and this sales fixed amount. We wanted w hat nical-vocational education, and schools of their choice. No Freedcm is not Free. has maintained criminal de tax, because those who really ever amounts you could transfer adding to the present college Our forefathers’ m ain problem in education was m aking tention and Incarceration fa reed property tax relief would from less pressing needs to ed level program at the peniten schools available far a population that was expanding farter than cilities, for this reason. In toe be paying a much greater tax ucation. fa o k opinioti, educa tiary. any one had cheamed. The battle ict public schools and a neces beginning the accent was on tion is the most important need In sales taxes than he now pays . . . Establishment of a stu sary education was very severe a ll over the states. The people prim itive, If not brutal, vengen- in o u r commiaiities because on property taxes. This has been dent fund for 75 Inmates who were fighting > ith their old friends about who was to control and ance. With reform , milder without the education of your proven in other states and toe are capable of pursuing further teach public education; and what was the program of public ed forms of confinement were in best authority we have In Oregon youth o k communities can not academic or vocational training ucation to b e ! troduced. Slowly, the emphasis tells us it win be the same exist. on the community level. The Bill of Righo, so necessary tc the freedom of each in turned from harsh punishment Some people use the excuse here. We need economy in our . . . Employment of at dividual consisted of these right»: freedom of speech; freedom of to one of warehousing a person State, which we w ill not get that CCC funds can not be usee least one statistician, that would the ;ress; right to assemble; right to petition the government, if a sales tax Is passed. It is as tax benefits to the schools. In order to satisfy his debt to provide basic data to aid cor voting in free elections; right to do any kind of work; right to society. Fortunately, In Oregon, a buyers’ tax and subtracts There are otter counties that rections in promoting programs ■ership as one pleases; right to own property; right to keep and we have moved beyond the ware Its percentage from the buying have used these OCC funds (that that w ill achieve this re -in te bear arms; and the right to see, to know, and to ask questions of unallocated money paid to the housing stage and Into a new power, which hurts business to gration goal. his accuser fa o k court; and fines and punishment for misdoings counties in lie u of taxes) to aid realm of modern corrections by that extent. The Legislature 1s also look must be fair and reasonable; each employee has the right to bar initiating a program that uses The sales tax group starts education by allocation to the ing at another proposal that gain ith his employer cn wages and working conditions in keep the convict’ s time during con out by appropriating $300,000 schools budgets as tax offsets. would provide substantial sup ing w ith law. These are all declaration* of freedom—but they We plan to pursue this issue finement, to re-integrate him for an election, and if It should port to aid the county courts to never have been fre e ! They have had to be earned! back Into the community, once carry, It wcsild mean additional until we either get some re lie f Improve their level of service I as a junior high student, am going to try to get all the ed his sentence has expired. in the way of an offset or a good office space In Salem, an ad of detention programs for our ucation lean, I want to be honest, to share, to help other», and to reason why it is not possible to But Improvements can always dition of hundreds of extra State youth. This Is an attempt to let try to m y be« ab ility to keep o k nation always free. be made. This session, a six- employees to handle the extra get some help. local people handle local prob What I have said in this report w ill show that o k warirm is We a ould hope hat you would point program has been tatro- office work, besides the auto lems. reconsider y o K answer and try duced that Is aimed at fu rth er- not free. You can not just wish to freedom, you m int earn it! mobiles and auditors that would It Is our hope that we can Freedcm is not Freef be required to travel over the to find some monies in your la rt week. . .from Mrs.Calhoun's expand our programs, so that budget to aid education in ad State. they w ill further this re-in te H ever a general sales tax dition Bo t h a t now levied as third grade class. For y o K en grating approach, and yet not joym ent I present them as fo l is passed, the wolf w ill have his county school tax. fall into the trap of coddling lows: We would appreciate an ans head In the door, and history our crim inals. I believe we can wer by April 4,1969, if possible. In other states has shown It THE W HITE CLOUD________ accomplish this. Thank you. does not decrease, but steadily A white cloud a white cloud Buddy E. Sm ith Increases and spreads to other It makes me so proud MENTAL HEALTH by Everett E. Cutter Brookin gs-Harbor commodities like it has In our Way up in the sky Budgets and programs for School District 17-C neighboring states, where it The birds so happy do fly. mental health were up for con covers food, drugs and all nec Boni J obxson — sideration t h is week. The essities. Legislature took action that RAIN A vote for a sales tax Is a would Improve the treatment Rain it r.oisey I think, vote to Increase strikes, unrest, at Fairview , by reducing the It falls on houses and goes pi ink. crim e, demonstrations, mental hospital’s patient capacity . This 1 L ittle puddles beside the road distrubances and the ghettoes w ill allow more space per pa- I And ditches overflowed. Mention public schools, and zatlon. we hear so much about. The con tient, allowing aides and f t e ra - i Barbara Gates — most people envision a teacher- tinued passing of sales taxes D r. bale Parnell, state plsts to work with severely re classroom situation with A - in our states is certain to s u p e r i n t e n d e n t of public THE HONEYBEE____________ tarded patients who are now ta b -C ’ s parading above the front Instruction, supported the study bring about a reckoning day. The heneybee over-crowded conditions. This blackboard. and lo a n e d coordinating per We cannot put the burden of The honeybee move w ill, however, cause an Then, If they are taxpayers, sonnel from the State Depart taxes on those least able to increase ta the waiting list. BKzfag around the honey tiee. they likely w ill think of the ment of Education. Other sup pay, taking food from their Lots of activity going on a - Also, a plan that would pro Beck Neal ----- considerable cost of education. porters Included the Oregon mouths and clothing from their roundthe community this week vide state aid to school dis Many tax dollars, however, THE N IG H T ________________ School Boards Association and backs, and have it continue to . . . construct! -a is w ell under tricts, private agencies a;id are spent on support activities Oregon Association of School work, without creating a chaotic way at M ’ v -•'* 76 U n io n ... The night is dark, day-care centers that offer pro far outside the classroom. Of Superintendents. condition. clearing a n u turning of old The nigbt is H ack, grams for trainable mentally the total $425 million budgeted O verall project guidance was Our state officials could be buildings and brush at the Blaine The night seems like a great retarded children, gained ap big sack. for Oregon’s elementary and provided by Warren King A As Marsh homestead.. . th e ply proval by a subcommittee of secondary education this year, sociates, Chicago management day-to-day business operations wood Lawrence M ille r said he Rhonda Isakscn — Ways and Means. The subcom for example, >182 million lafo r consulting firm which has con made possible by such reor was going to plant turned out to TREES ______________________ mittee approved the spending of operating, administrative and ducted sim ilar studies In sev ganization. be the clearing of ground for a Trees trees how beautiful they some $400,000 during toe next other non-lnstructlonal fun eral states. Such p o t e n t i a l efficiencies new restaKant being built by look two years to finance this pro ctions. Of the study’s 231 recommen contained ta the report range Aggie Leutwyler, opposite Bat gram. Trees trees in a book Tightening up or. this expense dations, Gov. McCall called the from Improved accounting tle Rock Park.. . and the Lions Trees trees I love them I do and making more money avail lawmakers’ attention p rlm arlly methods to centralized school Club has erected a big sign at I love trees as much as you. EDUCATION able for c la s s r o o m appli to those requiring legislative bus m a in t e n a n c e facilities, the location of their new Buf Julie Riedlinger ----- In education, the chairman of cation— and offering equal op action for implementation. from streamlined lunchrooms fington M em orial park project. toe Senate's education commit HONEY BEE _________________ portunities for students In all Many of these Involve reor operations to construction tech Don't know what it's a "sure tee, A] FI eg el, has urged a parts of Oregon— is the main The honey bee, the heneybee ganization of school districts: niques which would deter van sign o f," but it's not hard to take. crack-down on any community W ill y tn go to sea with me, thrust of a business-manage — Classify all elementary and dalism. - P- college that does not participate ment study whose results were secondary school systems as The report recommends that It's been a long-long tim e No high high, high, ta toe overall community ed unveiled before the legislature “ school districts,** eliminating the state’s f a v o r a b l e credit since there has been a real old- fa the sky, ucational scheme. The request here last week. the confusing proliferation of rating be extended for use In fashioned grange h a l l dance No no, came ta response to reports Gov. Tom McCall,addressing categories such as the seven local bond issues, a move which hereabouts.. . so put yo K X cn Let us go, that some of our two-year col Where it snows, a Joint legislative session, re classifications now existing. could ultimately reduce Interest the o l' calendar f o r Friday, leges were not co-ordinating ported on findings of the Bus — In sm aller or more sparse costs by as much as $3.5 m il A pril 25. That's the date the Oh no toeir efforts with other educa iness Task Force on Education, Let us go, ly settled counties, the whole lion annually. It urges improv Quarterback Club has set far tional Institutions, to provide Inc. After a six-month probe county could be a single school ed efficiency and coordination their big shindig.. . complete Where the sun shines, the training needed by our grow Into business practices of a Okay just follow this line. district; In more densely popu through automatic data proces w ith a dandy band (The Inter ing communities. representative sampling of 125 lated areas, counties could con sing, an area already under In ludes. . . featKing organ, bass, Laura Nice — Oregon school districts, its tain more than one school dis vestigation by the governor’ s sax,violin and drums) midnight W HAT IS A FLOWER ______ study teams came up with 231 tric t. Gov. McCall emphasized office. supper (sponsored by some of W hat is a Flower? specific recommendations for the suggestion Is not intended The study reports that com- the be« cooks roundabouts. . . Cnee upon a tim e, improvement. to affect the size of Individual blned purchasing of one common the Grange Women, natch) and I knew a flower, “ Their careful research has schools. Item such as standard-sized whatever else it takes to make Who lived by a tower, shown us ways by which we — Require each district In the white mimeograph paper could a good grange dance. ( If you've It was so big, can move an estimated $22.6 state to provide education In result in an annual savings of never b e e n to one, you don't It looked like a fig. million from management costs grades one through 12 beginning more than $100,000. Some other know what you've missed. If you It had petals as many as ten, to Instruction coat* each ye ar,” with the 1971-72 school year, suggestions could te ••worth’ ’ have been to one, you 'll know Soround they looked like a pen, Gov. McCall said. “ This can to provide control of schooling millions of dollars each year If "whatever else" m eans.) They were so flat, be done through the application to the residents of the district implemented, the study shows. Proceeds, of course, w ill go They looked like a m at. of modern business practices to and to enable coordination of L ittle legislative action on for the club's athletic programs. M isty Wood — the systems operation of our curriculum and course stru details of the study Is antici Tickets, at a buck per, are schools.” cture for equal p r o g r a m s pated this late In the 1969 ses now cn s a le by Quarterback This amount would rise, he throughout the state. sion, a lt h o u g h reorganisation m e m b e n .. . so get yours early, added: the Task Force esti — Require that not more than proposals reportedly are re —P— mates within ten years O re- one school district shell provide ceiving the prompt attention of Somebody once said if you gem could conserve $28 million elucation In the same geogra lawmakers. Many other recom can't say anything good.. . don’t annually. The governor said phic area in grades kindergar mendations can he Implemented say anything a ta ll. So.. . I won't Oregonians can divert millions ten through 12. This Is In by administrative action, at the say anything about the weather of dollars into instructional ac tended to protect rights of dis state aixl local levels, and some this week. tivities “ without *a c rlflc li< one tricts without negating efforts already have gone Into effect. to promote reorganization. lota of quality in elementary “ It ha» been said that edu I learned Tuesday of th e and secondary wlucatlon.” — Provide that all school dis cation is the defense of the tragic death of Johnny Fish, who He praised the expert opinion tricts have one contiguous area state,” Gov. M c C a l l told the worked as a plumber here in and suggestions of the report, of Jurisdiction, eliminating ad legislature In presenting the 1960-61,.ind vas the nephew of “ prepared by businessmen, as ministrative overlap and creat report. “ And, certainly In a Art and Qeanor Fisk who op a voluntary s e r v i c e to the ing districts with dearly de lemocracy, education must be erated K-Lynn Fashions.Johnny state.” Tour Port Orford State Farm nt fined boundaries. given top priority. was in Chino,California,to ferry More than 200 business and Reorganization along the “ Ideas curtained In the Busi an airplane back to his home Industry firm s supplied man lines of the Teak Force re ness Task Force report will town of Kansas City, M o ., Sun power, Including 32 “ loaned” commendations would in Itself enable us I continue to main day when the plane crashed a - executives, and money for the conserve education funds, the tain and build an even more bout 5 3 0 a. m. He was buried project. Chief sponsor was report states. More signifi effective elementary and se in Kansas City. Associated Oregon Indust rtee, State Farm ins k ance Companies cant, however, would be dollar condary school system In O re statewide employers’ onganl- efficiencies stemming from gon.” I received tome more poetry Homs Offices ---------------- M E M B E R --------------------- N ê W A r E R a Freedom Is Noi Free CODEINE Gan Registration Mot Required SLANG NAMES: Codeine is the weakest derivative of ooiizm and is less addictive than heroin morphine. It ii frequently prescribed to ease m ild pain and is often found in cough medicines. a HCNV TAKEN: Fk-imk in rough medio f r i g , le t ferm at diluted w ith wine cr water. HCM’ SPOTT ED: Users m aybe toxicated. 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TAXES COMPARE CU RRY W ITH County Curry Coos Josephine Jackscc NEARBY COUNTIES: Population 13,495 55,320 3 6 ,500 95 ,000 Douglas Budget $ 4,0 9 5 ,4 2 3 $ 4 ,5 0 0 ,0 0 0 $ 6 ,5 8 0 ,0 0 0 between $ 8, 000, 000 and $ 9, 000, 000 $16, 000, 000 7 2 ,000 CCNCLUSICNS: O k money is being misused and wasted. Proper budeet decisiais can give tax re lie f. It's up to the budeet c o m m ittp p and v m i PLEASE SEND T Q SIGN 6 THE F C U C W IN C FORM AND VANCE NOBLE, SECRETARY, P.O .B O X 557, PORT ORFCRD, ORE. IT WILL BE PRESENTED T O THE BUDGET CC M M ITTEE. NO RTH CU RRY FAX ASSOCIATION -P- LARRY HOOVER tab DANGERS: Codeine is frequently the beginning of ad diction ict teenagers. ( I f it is regularly consumed in cough medicines that have a high alcoholic content, the user can become an alcoholic as w ell as an addict If this happens, and the alcoholic user "progresses" from codeine to barbiturates, the combination of alcohol and depressants m ay k ill him . ) Withdrawal from codeine is less d ifficu lt than w ith o tter drugs. From The Office of Sen. Sam Demeni 1 in PRIM ARY U-'FECT: Perception dulls, attention strays and t e user becomes unaware of his surroundings. Over doses, taken by young children, may prodisce convulsions. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ 3 ta k e n 1 ( a we) want a substantial direct tax re lie f rather than spending a ll o k funds cn c o u r t hou»e costs and immediate projects. Name( .................................................... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * #