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Farm Federation Challenges
Solons to Submit Sales Tax )
Proposal to Vote of Citizens
The Oregon Farm Bureau Federation challenged the House taxa
tion committee Wednesday to submit a proposed 3 per cent retail
gales tax to the people, along with-alternative plans for raising new
state revenue. ' ' -, '
R. E. Kerr, Lane County farmer who -represented the statewide
farm organization at a tax committee hearing Wednesday, said the
I sales tax, if it supports schools and
Sales Tax Proponents Check Strategy &
Congr
essmen
Top Governors
In Pay Scale
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Under raises voted themselves
Tuesday. Congressmen from most
states will be drawing larger
salaries than their governors.
In some cases the congressional
pay checks , will be more than
twice those, of the governors of the
same state.
But the senators and represen
tatives won't necessarily be better
off from an overall financial
standpoint because nearly all
governors are allowed at least
partial expenses. Some chief
executives are allowed to spend
rather liberally at their state's
expense.
The compromise congressional
pay raise ; bill, which President
Eisenhower is expected to sign,
provides each senator and repre
sentative with:
1. $22,500 a year in salary:
2. A $3,000 annual tax deduction
for the cost of living in Washington
and at home:
3. One round trip home each year
at the rate of 20 cents a mile.
Up U $50,000
An Associated Press, survey
showed Tuesday that gubernatorial
salaries range from $10,000 a year
in Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky.
Maine, Montana. Nebraska and
Utah to $50,000 in New York.
Only six governors draw salaries
larger than those their congres
sional delegates will get under the
scale voted Tuesday. Next in line
below New York's $50,000 is the
$30,000 paid the governor of New
Jersey.
California, Illinois; Pennsylvania
and Texas each pays its chief
executive $25,000.
Michigan's gubernatorial salary
equals the new $22,500 for Con
gressmen, while Massachusetts
and Ohio each pays its governor
$20,000. -
Most $15,000 t Less
More than half of the 48 gover
nors. however, have salaries of
$15,000 a year or less.
The gubernatorial pay In at least
30 states has been Increased since
1946. when Congress upped the
salaries of its members . from
$10,000 annually to $15,000. Future
boosts for governors are pending
In Legislatures or expected to be
presented in seven or more states.
Expenses, for governors , vary
greatly. They include such items
as housing, food, .household ex
penses, travel and entertaining.
Some governors are allowed
more in expenses than in salary
Louisiana gives its governor
$18,000 annually in salary and
$36,000 for mansion expenses.
Tennessee's governor gets a
$12,000 pay check and $18,000 for
running the mansion plus travel
expenses.
Money for Travel
New Jersey allows $20,000 a year
for gubernatorial travel, entertain
ment and other personal expenses
but has no executive mansion.
California's governor draws $12,-
000 annually for mansion expenses;
$12,000 for travel; $2,500 for auto
operation and $15,000 for salaries
of highway patrolmen serving as
his chauffeurs.
i In Maine, the governor, with a
$10,000 salary, is allowed a $15,000
expense account" and $25;000 for
upkeep of the executive mansion.
Additional expenses are provided
In nearly all cases for salaries and
other non-personal expenses of the
governors' offices. v
The governor of Vermont, though.
receives the same expense allow
ance as any other state officials
$750 annually. His salary is $11,000
a year. Vermont has no governor's
mansion and its Legislature last
week killed a bill to provide one
i Arkansas gives its governor no
travel expenses but provides him
with a mansion and funds to
operate it.
Utah fixes no specific sum for
personal gubernatorial expenses.
It simply provides "actual"
expenses for travel and household
operations.
i In Oregon, the State Constitution
still lists the governor's salary at
$1,500 a year. But the Supreme
Court has ruled the figure, fixed
in 1859, may, be ignored, and the
chief executive gets $15,000. Addi
tionally, he receives $100 a month,
tax free, for any personal expenses.
offsets property tax as proposed
in a pending bill, is favored by the
Farm Bureau Federation.
He said Oregon citizens at past
elections voted against a sales tax
when the alternative was merely
that tax or no tax at all. He pre
dieted a sales tax would show more
popular appeal if it were one of
two br three alternative taxes pro
posed on the same ballot. (
One of 1$
' Kerr was one of 16 farmers ap
pearing in behalf of a sales tax.
Most represented farm bureau un
its but some were Grangers or
farmers speaking as individuals
The State Grange is still on
record strongly opposing tfie sales
tax and so is the Oregon Farmers
Union, the tax committee heard
from their official representatives
Wednesday. . f
Those farmers asking for a sales
tax said they felt property tax had
reached its limit, especially for
small farmers, and the sales tax
would. spread the burden of school
costs. f
But in his opposition .statement,
P. M. DeLaubenfels, State Grange
legislative representative. said
state tax figures show that over
the state school support cost local
districts $79 million in property
tax out also cost $30.5 million
more, through state support prim
arily financed by income tax. i
Strong Opposition
"Organized labor also voiced
strong opposition to a sale tax. So
did representatives of retired per
sons and pensioners.
They attacked the sales tax as
an overwhelming burden on per
sons with small incomes, all K
which must be spent for the nec
essities of life and , all of which
would be subject to this tax.
. George Brown, representing the
state CIO, said a Michigan sales
tax stuoy snowed low income
people paying the equivalent of
11.8 per cent tax while high in
come persons paid an average 4.6
. E. Baker o( the Longshore
men estimated that a wage earner
of $3,000 income class would pay
an added $90 in taxes under the
proposed sales tax. Karl Arnold,
a linn County farmer, estimated
that the tax applied to his farm ex
penses last year would have meant
$200.
Opposes Tax
A. C. Heyman, another Linn
County farmer opposing the tax,
said the percentage of his total
taxes going to schools last year
(based on a state average figure)
meant $468, while the . proposed
sales ' tax if applied then would
have added up to $600.
"Don't let any; Granger tell you
the Grange is solidly against la
sales tax." declared one of the tax !
proponents ; at the bearing, Mrs.
Harry Bryant, Sherwood poultry
raiser. ?
She said many farmers now fav
or a sales tax "out of she (desper
ation." She said she had changed
her attitude after non-property
owners were allowed to vote in
school elections. "Industry and
thrift are penalized," she said,
"when people can vote for big
schools they don't have to pay lot."
Favor Sales Tax
Manton Carl. Woodburn area
farmer, said he interviewed ,38
neighbors and found all but nine
favoring the sales tax. i
State Rep. Earl Hill, author: of
the sales tax bill, said failure of
the sales tax at the polls in recent
years is no argument against it.
"We had income tax Up 10 times
before it passed and when it final
ly succeeded it was because prop
erty tax payers felt they were over
paying."
Other proponents speaking were
W.-. Robinett, Hawley Grange
master; H. K. Merrill, represent
ing Timber Structures, Inc., Port-
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Korea Veteran
Convicted of
nemy
FT. BRAGG. N. C. (4 M. Sgt.
William H. Olson, a veteran of
two wars and a prisoner in both.
was convicted by an Army court
martial Wednesday night of aiding
the enemy while a prisoner of war
in North Korea. ,
The eight - member court de
liberated ' about six hours before
holding the 40-year-old Army ca
reer man guilty of three of seen
specifications of collaborating with
the Chinese Reds.
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Proponents of a retail sales tax checked their strategy and list of hearing witnesses Wednesday at out
set of a hearing before House tax committee In the Capitol. Left to right are ueraid metering, state
legislative chairman of Oregon Farm Bureau Federation which supports sales tax; Rep. Eddie Ahrens
(R), Turner, himself a Farm Bureau leader, and Rep. Earl Hill (R), Cushmaa, sponsor of sales tax
bill (Statesman Photo.) (Picture also on page one.)
Ike Signs Pay '
Increase for
Congressmen
WASHINGTON Hi President
Eisenhower signed the Congress
pay raise bill Wednesday and said
he was" happy that Congress had
voted it. '
In his comment, at a news con
ference, the President also dropped
in a plug for four-year terms for
members of the House. Their
terms now run only two years;
senators are elected for six years.
The new law raises the pay of
members of the House and Senate
from $15,000 a year, to $22,500. a
jump of $7,500 or 50 per cent.
It also raises the pay of approx
imately 400 judges by $7,500 to
$10,000.. There are also increases
for United States attorneys and
their assistants.
Uo to $22,500
Federal District i judges who
have been getting $15,000 a year
will now get $22,500, higher court
judges who have been getting $17.
500 will now get $25,500. Associate
justices of the Supreme Court get
a raise of $10,000 to $35,000 and
the chief jusUce wul get $35,500
instead of $25,500.
All of the pay raises are effec
tive as of Tuesday.
Eisenhower said with a grin that
Congress members should be paid
well, but not to forget tnat tne
government would eet half of it
back in income taxes. ' ,
As Hiefc as SO Per Cent
Actually, the amount ot tax will
varv according to wneuier mem-
hrs have outside ' income and if
so. how much. In the case of a
verv wealthy lawmaker, the tax
rate runs as high as 90 per cent.
But. taking a member who has
no outside income, uses the stand
ard income tax deduction permu
ted anvbodv. ulus the $3,000 de
duction permitted ! members of
Congress for maintaing two homes
one in Washington, and assuming
he has a wife but no other de
pendent At the present salary basis, his
tax would be $2,148. With the raise,
his tax: would be $4,362. Thus his
tax would be increased by $2,214.
or almost 30 per cent of the $7,500
raise, t
Eisenhower said members of
Congress have unusual expenses,
including the need for maintaining
two homes and the need of going
back to their districts from time
to time. He said the pay boost
fitted into the idea of encouraging
good men of modest means to
serve their country.
ACCIDENT KILLS DRIVER
FLORENCE, Ore. tfl An auto.
mobile went off the Coast Highway
on a curve Tuesday and killed the
driver. Gerald Aubrey Worthlake,
24, of Ada. A passenger, Leo
Murphey of Westlake, escaped
with minor injuries.
Sentence will be passed Thurs
day morning. Maximum penalty
is death, the minimum a repri
mand.
The three specifications on which
he was held guilty charged Olson
made speeches derogatory to the
United States and wrote pro-Co m-
mumst articles in a prison camp
newspaper.
Originally charged in eight spec-
ifications, Olson was acquitted on
four and the eighth was drooped
shortly after his trial opened Feb
14. One ot the SDecmcations on
which he was held innocent ac
cused him of informing on fellow
prisoners.
SMOKE RECORD '
FREEPORT. 111. Eli .Ben-
nethum celebrated his 100th birth
day by taking it easy on his son's
farm and smoking a cigar. Smok
ing is an old habit with him... "I
think I was smoking at two," he
told a reporter. "I know I was
smoking cigars at five."
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REMOTE INJURY
RICHMOND, Va. W) Mrs.
George C. Rankin was sound
asleep in her apartment when an
automobile crashed into her car
parked oh the street outside.
Awakened by the crash she
climbed on a chair to look out of
a high window, slipped and broke
her leg. j
THOUGHTFUL THIEF
CHARLESTON, S. C. (fl Police
here are on the lookout for a neat
thief after breaking into a res
taurant and stealing $20, he fried
himself some eggs then thought
fully washed the dishes.
Six American presidents have
been National Guardsmen.
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land; George Gordon, Polk Coun-.rp l CJtrikp
ty farmer; Wally Johnson, Yam- 1 eaCIiers Oinivc
In Texas Town
hill farmer: Jack Kessner, Ore
gon City; Robert Hall. Portlafnd
Chamber of Commerce; Carl Berg
er, Washington County: Rollie Rob-
uon. Benton county: Charles Tea-
garden, Yamhill , County; Robert
Irish, Linn County dairyman; H.
B. Gillius, Perrydale farmer and
school director; Julius Brewstrom,
Polk County; Sidney Newton, Ben
ton County; Floyd Fox, Silver ton;
Harry Ashbar, Benton; J. Z. Wei
mar, Condon; John Haviland,
Portland. - I
Weather Extreme
In Michigan City
CADILLAC. Mich. This city
. of 10,42a often figures prominently
in the nation's weather news as
either the hottest or coldest spot.
It frequently has reported 100 de
gree temperatures when the rest
of the state was basking in ideal
high-70 weather. Generally Cadil
lac's lows are the lowest in Michi
gan, often 15 to 25 degrees below
neighboring towns, and on Jan.
30. 1951, the official weather sta
tion thermometers froze. At spirit
thermometer registered 40 below
zero. I .
! Experts says the 'reasons is that
Cadillac sits is a depression in
high hills 40 miles west of Lake
Michigan and cold or warm air
waves drop into the cup and stay.
HURT BY OWN CAR
; TEXARKANA Ul Erneit
i Graves was run over by 'his own
car as be attempted to open a
gate at bis home near here. The
driveriess vehicle rolled down a
: dope. Graves was hospitalized but
was not critically injured.
STUFFED CAT
LEE, N. H. (UP) The moun
tain lion that came to dinner 99
years ago is still hanging around.
He was shot in this town, stuffed
and sent to the Woodman Museum
at Dover.That was the last au
thentic record of one of the big
cats in New Hampshire's forests.
IRVING. Tex. un A school
row reached a climax here Tues
day. Teachers went on strike, par
ents taught classes under police
guard and the board fired nine
principals and executives.
Just how the controversy would
end was anybody's guess.
About one-fourth of the estimat
ed 300-teacher staff stayed away
from classrooms after voting Mon
day night to strike in protest of
the firing of Supt. John Beard. He
was discharged by the school
board two weeks ago.
Ninety per cent of the custodian
staff and about half of the school
system's office force stayed away,
Acting i Supt. Charles Langston
said. Parents filled in for them,
too. I
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Bridge erase; Many Conveyor
Systems; iooo lsoo K.W. Gen
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Motor Generator Sets; 4 dry
kilns; Machine Shop Equip.; 4
Hyster lift Trucks tc Lumber
Carriers; Refnse Burner; 4
trucks: Fire Truck; Welders;
10,000 Chain; Large Quantity of
Motors from 14 to 300 H.P.;
Garage Equipment; Car Winch
es; Roll Cases, etc. All Equip
ment is motorized.
Hundreds of item! too nnmerous to mention
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