Salem Voters to Decide on Five Million Dollars Worth
Of Public Improvements on Primary Election Ballot
By ROBERT E. GANGWARE
City Editor, Tke Statesman
Salem city voters going to the
polls Friday will come face to
face with a yes or no choice on
five million dollar' worth of pub
lic improvement ai proposed by
the City Council.
These projects, grouped under
nine separate bond Issues or spec
ial taxes, generally reflect a
growing city's needs as seen by
the elected City Council. They
extend from a West Salem branch
library to a big new water supply
line from the North Santiam
River.
They Include, briefly, proposals
for additional water supply line,
new parks and park improvement,
replacement of wood bridges,
street widenings. a fire alarm
system and additional firemen,
library, remodeling and airport
Improvement.
tit Burning Issue
None of these has become a
burning public issue, In fact, the
entire city ballot has figured only
quietly this campaign season,
with the single exception of the in- j
flammatory fluoridation issue.
Although no opposition cam
paign has formed tt fight any of .
the special finance measures" on
their merits, many a voter has
asked about the costs of the 1m-,
provement program.
A complete estimate of a tax-,
payer's costs would require a tax
accountant with six sharp pencils
to compute, because, of the com
plication of how bond issurs are
paid off over varying periods of
years.
Figure Computed (
But city officials have estimated
that passage of all finance meas
ures on the ballot would, add 6Vi
mills to the city tax rate, on top
of an estimated 14-mill increase
in the general budget which
doesn't have to be voted on.
Thus, the highest total city tax
increase possible would figure out
matter of cost of the biggest proj
ect on the entire billot a $3,
790,000 bond Issue to increase the
to It or $9 for the taxpayer who
now pays $100 on bis Salem prop
erty. The city tax levy of the past
year was 24.7 mills. School and
county taxes brought the total tax
to 97 mills. The assessed valua
tion on which $100 tax was
levied would have been $1,030,
Not all of the picture is In new
costs to taxpayers. Two or. the
finance proposals would actually
lead to savings for most taxpay
ers. These are the $69,000 bond
issue for fire alarm system and
related improvement! and
$37,000 new annual tax (about
one mill) for additional firemen.
Rednced Premiums
This tax cost would be more
than offset by reduced fire insur-
Financial measures on the tlty ballot for May 1$:
Water Supply (bends) $1,751,000
Park Sites (bonds) ..T 700,000
Park Ooerition (lax) - 13,000
Street Widening (bonds) 188,000
New Bridget (bonds) 140,000
Fire Alarm (bonds) ...i. (3,000
More Firemen (tax .'. 37,000
Library Expansion (tax) im; 30,000
Airport Improvement (tax) .... .... 50,000
Total ....
All these figures leave out the
city water supply by a new main
line from the North Santiam
River.
Water Revenues
City officials have planned to
pay off this bond issue out of
water department revenues by
increasing water rates under a
plan that has been before the
aldermen two or three years. The
proposed water rate revision
would be the change in 40 years,
years.
Household rates would be af
fected only by elimination of the
favorable irrigation rate in sum
mer months. Small water users
would pay the same basic rate as
at present, but with heavy water
use for gardening and household
in summer, the extra cost would
average out $1 to $2 a month
over the year. With industrial In
creases, too, the water rate reve
nue would gain by about 20 per
cent.
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$4,095,000
ance premiums, city officials have
been assured. The fire depart
ment changes were planned to
win for Salem the next highest
fire insurance rating-. This would
mean an estimated reduction of
premiums of $150,000 a year. On
dwellings the reduction would
amount to about t per cent.
The Salem Chamber of Com
merce, leading group advocate ot
the city finance measures, has ex
pressed the position that passage
of all the issues would be "good
business." Chamber speakers have
told many groups that the city's
ability to attract new industrial
payrolls and to serve as center of
a growing trade area depends on
keeping municipal facilities up to
date, with capacity to serve grow
ing population.
Here art the money issues up
for vote:
WATER BONDS This proposed
$3,750,000 bond issue would pay for
a new (second) water supply from
tht Santiam River at Stayton to
Turner Reservoir and from there
into Salem, plus additional Infiltra
tion facilities at Stayton Island.
Capacity would be 50 million gal
lons of water day, bringing total
capacity to 7S million.
City officials nave considered
this the top priority project of the
present. An independent engineer
ing study by Clark, Groff k Cave
said "the water supply of the city
was reduced to dangerous mini
mum" In August, 1935, adding,
"with the continued Increase In
Salem's growth, a similar dry
period in future years will be cer
tain to exceed all water produc
tion and cause serious shortages."
PARKS AND PARK DEVELOP
MENT Two related ballot issues
cover parks a $700,000 bond Issue
and a $35,000 annual special tax
(about one mill).
Spending of the money would
require City Council action, but the
projected plans call for purchase
of S75 acres in four new park sites
for about $250,000, with the remain
ing $450,000 bond issue money for
developing these sites and improv
ing present parks. The annual tax
would provide for the additional
upkeep costs.
Two of the tentative plans of
considerable interest call for a new
outdoor swimming pool at Bush's
Pasture and eventually a munici
pal golf course on the old McNary
Farm parksitc out Wallace Road.
Another 100-acre park site is
west of the Willamette and sim
ilar to Bush's Pasture; one site is
SO acres in North Salem and the
fourth Is 50 acres near the bypass
and Santiam Junction.
BRIDGE BONDS This $140,000
Issue would pay for concrete
bridges to replace old wooden ones
across South Mill Creek on South
High Street, across Shelton Ditch
on Lee Street, across Mill Creek
on 2Sth Street and on 14th Street.
STREET WIDENINGS Based
on traffic counts showing heaviest
use, this $180,000 issue Is earmark
ed for widening work on 12th
Street south of Mission. Fair
grounds Road between South and
Hood, Market Street tut of Sum
mer Street.
AIRPORT TAX-Thil $50,000 tax
(about Vt mills) would recon
struct tht north-south taxiways,
add a connecting taxiway, recon
struct part of one runway and add
second unit to the administration
building. City's money would be
matched by $50,000 in federal
funds for the work.
LIBRARY TAX A $30,000 one
year tax would make first change
in library building since 1913 by
putting a $14,300 addition at south
west corner and furnish it with
steel stacks, Improvt lighting,
make $5,200 worth of repairs and
establish for $5,000 I branch lib
rary at West Salem city building.
FIRE DEPARTMENT Tbt
$65,000 bond issue would cover
cost of a city-owned fire alarm
telegraph system and rebuilding
an old aerial ladder truck. The
$37,000 annual special tax would
permit employment of fight ad
ditional firemen.
Both measures art needed to
meet recommendations of fire
underwriters for lowering Salem
insurance rales
Statesman, Salem, Ore., Mon.; May 14. '56 (SetvITll
Cattle Breeders
Close Convention
PORTLAND ub - The Ayrshire
Breeders Assn. closed Its annual
meeting here Saturday, electing
G. Fred Williams of Hutchinson,
Kan., as president.
Other officers art Philip Stockly,
Urbana, Ohio, first vice presi
dent; Charles Rodrigues of Troy,
N.Y., F. F. McHone, of Stockton,
Iowa, and Cuthbert Nairn of
Douglasville, Pa., vict presidents;
end Chester Putney, Bandon, Vt.,
clerk.
MEET
ED BARNES.
STEELWORKER
When the United States Information
Agency sought a man to typify an average
American industrial worker in a project to '
debunk Communist propaganda abroad in
the cold war, the agency chose a Pennsyl
vania steelworker. He is James Edward
Barnes, of Morrisville, Pa., millwright in
"a steel plant.
A massive exhibit, consisting of 27 enlarged color photo
graphs of the normal living routine of the Barnes family, has
been sent to Japan and the Far East to acquaint the millions
in other countries with the American worker's way of life.
First displayed by The Advertising Council in Washington,
the exhibit eventually will be sent around the world. Just a
few of the pictures are shown here.
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Like any typical young father of three, 14 finds work U
be done even after he gets homo and he love tt. Tricks'
project, too, helping assemble the bey's asodol airplane.
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Mrs. Barnes takes charge of the big job of keeping plenty
of wholesome food on hand for the household of five. And,
often as not, the whole five go to market and help shop.
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The Barnes home, car and family all modern, all typical. Inside the house
Mrs. Barnes' kitchen and laundry are equipped with labor-saving electrical
ipplianees. The modern school is not far away. And Ed is planning more
duration for the children than he himself got in trade and high schools.
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Ail present and normal at the evening meal normal even to that remark
9-year-old Jimmie has just tossed at big sister Linda Gay, 13 . . . Just possible
that Mrs. Barnes is waiting to tell Ed what tonight's do-it-yourself project la
toon as they get the children to bed. Lana Lte, who's only 5, just eats.
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The Barnes Family Budget
Based on earnings of $500 1 month as i millwright.
Food
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Savings
10
House payments 17 Income tax 7
Car payments 14 Clothing
4
As a millwright Ed ranged all over the big mill.
Here he's signaling a crane operator. He liked
his job, figured to "go places" in the mill. He
did, too. He was recently promoted to foreman.
The mortgage on Ed's new home, tha payments
on the car and the family bills get squared away
on payday. Then Ed stops around at the bank
to add a few dollars to the growing nest gg.
Recreational Miscellaneous
and personal 10 expenses 7
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