2—Port o rto rd News, Thursday, October 21, 1971
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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repealed and all of their r e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 .
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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.
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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
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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.
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school, he is presently taking
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He reported fo r active duty
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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
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