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2—Port o rto rd News, Thursday, October 21, 1971 ----------------------------- using low-cost food Item s, at the local community action center. Dellenback Repork ! -P- y j 1 Post O ffice Box 5 97465 Port Orford, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Second c la n m s il privileges authorised at Port Orford, Ore. Louis L F elsheim ......................................... Editor and Publisher Paul L Peterson ................................................. M anaging Editor Subscription In Curry County (per year in a d v a n c e )............................. Outside Curry C o u n ty .............................................................. >5,50 S in gle C o p y .............................................................................15 Cents Announcements, Notices, New» and Advertising Must be in the O ffice by StOO p. m. Tuesdays -MEMBER- MEMBER Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association ÎNêMA ^PER Ayociation - Founded 1999 Salem Scene by Jack Zimmerman New P rop erty Tax R e lie f P lan E xpected To Start With Bang One out of three Oregon home- owners w ill receive significant property tax re lie f this year And the machinery making this possible goes into motion late this month Along with property tax state ments, each Oregon property taxpayer w ill receive a "H o m e owner's Property Tax Relief Application." the result of HB 1639, passed by the 1971 L eg islature and designed to ease what has become 62 per cent of the average Oregon tax b u r den One of a kind among p ro perty tax re lie f programs, the Oregon application of the "curcult breaker" technique is based on a households ability to pay - • its adjusted gross Income Five other states grant s im ila r re lie f But the programs in Minnisota. W is consin, California, Vermont and Kansas all are governed by age Oregon's residential property tax re lie f plan was designed to ease the burden on the state's aged and those In lower income brackets Con sequently, a homeowner In any age bracket could apply and receive re lie f Department of Revenue an alysts estimate somewhere in the neighborhood of 177,000 households w ill be involved I Oregon currently has p ro perty tax re lie f for its elderly homeowners through the long- established Senior Citizen Homestead R elief Law Some 22,000 elderly property tax payers currently are taking ad vantage of that plan this year But next year the old law is repealed and all of their r e lie f w ill come through the new law Some >43 m illion was ap propriated by the 1971 L eg is lature to fund the new re lie f program during its firs t two years Actually about $41 m il lion Is expected to be paid to taxing units in behalf of those who qualify for re lie f Of the remaining $2 m illion half goes to the Department of Revenue and half to county assessors also involved In ad m inistering the program Exactly how much re lie f w ill be granted to .individual home- owners? Thè amount varies based stric tly on Income and the amount of property taxes you are expected to pay The income portion of the requirement is pretty easy to understand - - everything that accrues to the household The amount you pay In property taxes es easy to undertsand. too It's on each taxpayer's statement Then, following a table arrivin g with your p ro perty tax statement, you can apply the two to determine your new property tax liab ility The Department of Revenue provides this example A person with >3,000 house hold Income living in a $10,000 of true cash value proviously would have paid $300 In p ro perty taxes Under provisions of the new law he would r e ceive re lie f from 66 per cent of the b ill He would pay $105 and the state would pay >195 to the taxing unit In his behalf Two major qualifications muat be met to apply for the new re lie f Recetpients must be Oregon residents during 1971 and occupy the property on which they are applying R e sidents of non-profit homes for the eld erly also qualify but need yet another application form They are available from those who own or manage the home Interestingly, those applying for the re lie f need not pay th eir current property taxes by Nov 15 this year • • the date one normally meets In order to receive a three per cent discount The tax can be paid by the customary date and the discount received as usual Then, the application for tax re lie f la sent to the Department of Revenue before next A p ril IS and a refund sent to th e taxpayer Hut tf he elects to wait, payment of the property lax car be de layed conalderably without In currlng an Interest penalty He SHOP F rid a y was a real red-letter day for News correspondent and p an -tim e office g ir l M ary Loan when she pumped into movie star Lee M arvin having a cup of coffee in B artlett's cafe. Like she re ally got to TALK to him . M arvin told her they were traveling thru and had been looking Port o rfo rd over. The star declined M ary’ s request to photograph him , tho, ’ cause he wasn’t all sllcked-up in his glamour-type duds. He did, how ever, touch her on the arm . -P- Our editorial hat Is off this week to Battle Rock 7thgraders and the H.O .P.E. fund raising project slated for Halloween night. Give generously . . . the cause Is good and kids like these youngsters deserve your sup. port. -P - Just received word of the fo r mation of a state-wide Patsy Mink for President committee. One of their firs t tasks w ill be to secure enough signatures by petition to place the Hawaii Congresswoman’ s name on the Oregon Democrat p rim ary bal lot. Rep. Mink has agreed to support the move by personally campaigning in the state. M rs. G loria Dillingham , Elk R iver Road (Box 138, St.Rt.) is the local committee repre sentative. must file the property tax r e lie f application by A p ril 15 with the County Tax Collector and pay half of the tax owed - - after deducting the re lie f due The third quarter of the remaining tax must be paid by May 15 and final quarter by August 15. County tax collectors are well informed on the new program and can answer individual qu estions But most taxpayers w ill find answers to all their "W e need help" said M rs questions on the application. In the meantime an exten Ralph Hildreth, a spokesman for the Community College O r sive educational campaign w ill chestra at SWOCC this week. begin on a statewide basis - - " W e 're having a hard tim e probably about the same time tax statements and re lie f ap finding enough people for the plications go in the mail. It orchestra, and right now we’re w ill be conducted in all new weakest in the string section, media on a public service but can use talent in other areas as w e ll." basis. The orchestra practices on Norm ally It takes a few Tuesday evenings at 7 in Room years for a new tax program 7 of Coaledo Hall on the SWOCC to be extended to everyone In campus volved But Department of Re " W e 're looking for adults venue people believe this one w ill start with a bang They’re or high school students with . . either even predicting how loud the fa irly good ability from Coos or C u rry county," bang w ill be. said M rs H ildreth who is p re s If property taxes re ally are the burden people have been ently conducting the orchestra She added that special C h ris saying they are, the firs t half of the Revenue Department p re tmas music had been ordered, diction is a cinch to come true . but that more participation is And with an estimated 350,OCX) needed Additional information can be individuals expected to share in the re lie f program, the bang obtained by calling M rs H il is just as likely to be a noisy dreth at 347-3259 after 4 p.m. one SWOCC Band N eed s You DINNER GUESTS M r. and M rs, Del Newkirk were Saturday night dinner guests at the Wes Zumwalts in Coos Bay. Whoever wished for a storm to Improve hunting and fishing conditions hereabouts sure got their wish Monday night and Tuesday a.m . Trust they are now happy. -P- S till haven’t seen anything to shoot at. M atter of fact...haven’t seen anything except the sun coming up. Hear a few shots occasionally . . . from a long way off. Guess that means the big ones really aren’t where pve been. Gonna change my locations that’ s what. -P- Port O rford’ s Belva McDon ald received national recogni tion and publication of 21 re cipes In the November Issue of Lady’ s C irc le magazine. The recipes were submitted to food editor Holly G arrison and ap peared In her column on “ Tas ty and Nutritious Budget Re cipes.” M rs. McDonald devotes Tuesdays to cooking instruction, W E A L L like to be ad m ired. looked up to. IS Y O U R record for pav ing your b ill* one to be proud of? ir NOT— T O D A Y S THE DAY T O PAY! L et'* Mart building a good credit record today, so you oan charge tomorrow CREDIT BUREAU by Rep.John Dellenback House Approves Equal Rights Amendment "Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." This is the proposed Equal Rights to the U S. Constitution in its traditional and recognized form. It has been introduced in substantially the same language in every Congress since 1923. Although the Senate has approved an amended version of the Equal Rights Amendment twice during the past 48 years (in 1950 and again in 1953), the House had never acted on the Amendment until last year During the F irs t Session of the 91st Congress (1969), the measure proposing the Equal Rights Amendment was as usual locked up In the House Judiciary Committee which refused to consider it But in the Second Session (1970), the measure was brought to the Floor through the very seldom used means of a Discharge Petition. Under this procedure, a m ajority (218) of the Members of the House sign a petition discharging whatever Committee has jurisdiction over the b ill in question from its responsibility for the b ill, and demanding that it be brought directly to the Floor of the House for consideration. I was one of the signers of the Discharge Petition for the Equal Rights Amendment during the 91st Congress, and it came to the Floor on August 10, 1970 On that date, the House passed the Amendment by a vote of 350 to 15. Unfortunately, how ever. the measure then went to the Senate and died. This year a Discharge Petition was unnecessary because the House Judiciary Committee took action on the Amendment and reported it to the House in July. Last week the House finally acted on the Amendment, with debate centering on a proposal to attach certain restrictions to the Amendment The intent of those who proposed these restrictions was to perm it the Federal government and the States to retain certain laws that are supposedly "p ro tective" of women But it must be understood that the Equal Rights Amendment as originally worded would not require that the sexes be regarded as identical under the law. Equality does not mean "sameness " What the Amendment would require is that men and women be treated equally by the law. It be came clear during the extensive Floor debate on the proposed restrictions that these restrictions would in fact lim it equal treatment and could perm it the Federal government and the States to retain laws which actually do discrim inate against women I voted aginst the proposal to add restrictions to the basic Amendment, and this proposal was defeated 265 to 87. I then voted in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment as originally worded, and it passed by an overwhelming vote of 354 to 23. The Amendment now goes to the Senate where I hope it w ill receive prompt and favorable action. A fte r nearly half a century, it is surely tim e that Congress completed action and put before the States to be ratified as part of our Con stitution the basic principle that men and women are fully equal under the laws of this nation. house approves equal rights amendment COQUIIAX. OREGON Alvan W. King Alvan W. (Scoop) King, 57, Coo* Bay, died Oct. 16 in Co- <*ilUe. He was born March 19, 1914, in Coquille and lived hi« entire life tim e in Coo* county. M r. King was a member of the Episcopal Church and the Coquille Valley Elks Lodge 1935. He and his wife, Phyllis, w ere m arried May 31, 1947, in Reno, Nevada, and were to r. mer residents of the M yrtle Point and Powers area. Surviving are the widow Phy. Ills , Coos Bay; mother, Minnie King Jolly of Port o rfo rd ; broth ers , Jim m ie A. King, M yrtle Point; and L eslie R. King, M yr tle Creek; sisters, Frances El len McKenzie, Powers, and A l ice L . C lark, Powers. Services w ere held Tuesday at 10 a.m . In the M yrtle Point Chapel of Coos M ortuaries,with the Rev. Alan Grant of Em manuel Episcopal Church of Coos Bay officiating. Private cremation was held In the Sun set M em orial Crem atorium . ERNEST FOSTER Ernest Henry F oster, 7 6 ,died Oct. 11, at Harbor, Oregon. He was born Oct. 14, 1894, in Smith R iv e r, C alif. Foster was a 50-year charter member of Port Orford Mason- ic Lodge and a member of V.F.W . Services w ere held at 1 p.m. O ct. 14, to the Brookings Fun era l Home with Frank Hyatt, Worshipful M aster of Sidney Croft Masonic Lodge No. 206, officiating. Interm ent was In Smith R lv. er. Arrangements were by Brookings Funeral Home. BOX NUMBER CHANGED A change has been made In the box number of the C urry county planning commission. I t ’s Box 746, Gold Beach, Ore. instead of Box 1078 as pre viously printed. H0K£ T0WK s r o te s r /a r Packw ood A sk s Intervention Of Lunch Act Interpretation Concerned that 30,000 Oregon needy schoolchildren may have to go without school lunches, Sen. Bob Packwood (R -o re ), has asked the President to Intervene to prevent what appears to be an “ unlawful interpretation” of the National School Lunch A c t Under strong pressure from both Houses of Congress, the De partment of Agriculture last week Increased reimbursement rates for school lunches from 35 cents to 45 cents. However, the effectiveness of that move was diluted by Agriculture’ s fol low-up decision to impose a new upper lim it on eligib ility fo r the program at >3,940 for a fam ily of four. The proposed regulation would draw a mandatory cut-off of aid at the >3,940 income level. As a result, 30,000 Oregon school children would have to pay the fu ll price for school lunches o r go without. In a letter to the President, Packwood and 58 other Senators charged that the Department of Agriculture had Interpreted the >3,940 national poverty line for participation in the school lunch program as a “ celling” rather than a “ flo o r.” “ Essentially, the National School Lunch Act established the poverty line as a minimum eligib ility standard and allowed state and local school districts to make the final determination of e lig ib ility ,” Packwood said. “ But the Department of Agri culture has a rb itra rily inter preted the law as a celling, and this d e a rly violates both the letter and the s p irit of the National School Lunch Act,” he said. Under the A griculture to- terpretatlon of the law, Ore gon’ s present elig ib ility levelof >4,000 for fre e lunches and >4,940 for reduced-prlce lun ches would be disregarded. “ The Government can’ tafford to lite ra lly take the food out of the ’ mouth« of babes’ to cut spending. It seems to me we would be enforcing poverty a- mong fam ilies of the working poor,” he said. ALWAYS AVAILABLE O ur S kill J n d Knowledge For Health and Beauty ...S o d Us Your headquarters for SPOT AP$ ARE w. vitamin* and health and beauty aÿ». Port Orford B ill L enox J o in s Navy Jack H ilbert “ B1U” Lenox, son of M r. and M rs. Albin L Lenox of Port O rfo rd , enlist ed to the Navy’ s cache Pro gram on May 26, and report ed for active duty on Oct. 8. A 1971 graduate of Pacific high school, he is presently taking Recruit Training at the U. S. Naval Training Center, San D i ego, Calif. He reported fo r active duty as a Seaman in the Navy’ s Ad vanced Electronic Program. COT. CHEESE MATCHES PEACHES 29* 1» v a i VITA FOIL ALCOA QIAKE' n NAPKINS 9 ti '489*| l£X2? ROU. 29* 10* W E B l(,<n mewoH oil 59* 59* TOM ATOES ’ 2 9 GRAPEFRUIT 8»<«1 GR.BEEP 'Z 5 9 ’S THWK., FtLBAr. OF COQUILLE Serving the Bandon North Curry Area » OBITUARIES M M ikMSaviiuA C oconut How High Is Your Community Credit Reputation? B For every tree we cut» we plant nine more. We ra growing mora betor* And w ere growing them lasts' Computers help ou' torssters decide which trees to harvest each year Then the cycle of reforestation starts over again in that area The replanting ot the h«rvetted tree ■* done by either hand planting or heli copter seeding The choice ot method Sand tor tree booklet. 0™ 9 -US 10 4© 7 t depends on the type of ton. terrain a m M 1 j - lj - stij-in ■HQ (OCBUwfl. Replacing treat as quickly as pos sible is just one part of the new Weyer haeuser High Yield Forestry* program —a comprehensive plan to grow more wood volume on the same land. At least one-third more This m eans you can count on Treasure ot me TamberfandS Weyerhaeuser lor iobs in the woods and mills in 1971. as well as 3071 It a ls o m e a n s wa can halo heap up with the world's in c re a s in g d e mands tor wood and wood fiber products W ey erh a eu ser A Write Weyerhaeuser Company. Box M-101, Tacoma. Wash 9B401. O a i l W SUMPAV 1
