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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1946 THE BEND BULLETIN and CENTRAL OREGON PRESS Tin Bend Bulletin (srecklrl If 01 . 1MI The Rend Bulletin (Dellr) Est. lt Published Kverr Afternoon Kxeet Sunday mnd Certain Holtdaya by Th IWnd Bulletin tH . ?s Well Street. Bend. Omw Bnleietl aa Sceond Class Matter. January a. 191?, at tha Poetoffk at IVnA, Oregon. Under Act of March a. lit;. ROBERT W. SAWYER Rlltor-Mamurac HKNRY N. FOW1.KR Associate Editor FRANK H. LOliliAN Adeertisint Manager An Independent Newirr Ntnnttlne: fur tha Square tVed. Clean Rusineej, Clean Polities and the IWt Interests of Bend and Central Orewwa UEMHUt AUDIT BUREAU OK CIRCULATIONS suBScmrnoN hatch Br Matt Br Carrier Ona Tear . One Tear . Sis Months t.t.lO Six Months I4.AO Three Months H 00 One Monti ,0 AU Sobeerlnttone are Dt'K and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Please notify na of any chance. aX addreas or failure to receire too paver raarularty IT MEAN'S HIGHER TAXES A letter from Mrs. Una B. Inch, president of the Orepnn education association, asks for a clarification of statements recently made in this column regarding the initiated measure, "to create basic school support fund by annual tax levy", which will be passed upon by the voters at the general election in November. In the following paragraphs we shall endeavor to do so. We fear that Mrs. Inch will not agree with many of the things we have to say, for it is apparent from her letter that she sees nothing but good in the measure. We, on the con trary, find little that is good in it. We shall endeavor to ex plain our opposition. The basic school support fund bill provides for a state property tax. outside the six per cent limitation, to produce $50 for each child of school age in Oregon. It would be offset by income tax revenues, if available. Lacking them, it would be a levy on property and, as a state levy, would be a pre ferred claim on county collections. In bad times, when de linquencies run high, this would result in mounting warrant debt with which the counties would have to struggle. The estimated return on the $50 per capita levy, based on the present number of children of school age in the state is $15,000,000. On present taxable property valuations for Ore gon this would mean a tax rate of almost 13.4 mills. From this should be deducted the two mill elementary school tax, al ready in effect, although long paid out of income tax moneys. It would be included in the basic school support fund. A net addition, then, of nearly 11.4 mills to the tax rate. What would this mean on your tax bill? And it would be an addition ; make no mistake about that. Proponents of the measure are making some capital of the fact that the basic school support fund would replace the present school support fund. It would. But the two are as dissimilar as their names are similar. The school support fund So. 000,000 a year, plus $3,000,000 in each of the fiscal vears 1945 46 and 1946-47 is taken only from income tax surplus (no surplus, no fund) and must be used in reducing the taxes levied by the districts. The basic school support fund, on the contrary, must be raised one way or the other, from surplus or by property taxation. Moreover, the bill creating it pro vides that "no part of this fund shall be apportioned and dis tributed to apply as an offset to a school district levy or a county school fund." Passage of the measure would wipe out the tax reduction features of the fund now established annually. In place of Jhis it would provide for an additional tax three times as great as the reduction for which the fund, as set up by statute. normally provides. Argument for the measure, as given in the voters' pam phlet lays considerable stress on financing the school program with state funds, "so that support need not come through the property tax, but can be drawn from the income tax and such other methods as the legislature may determine." This is misleading. The income tax surplus has yet failed to off set the $10 per capita county school fund lew, even in part, to say nothing of the fact that no money has been available for income tax relief, as is also provided by statute. It can only be deduced that support would, indeed, have to come from property tax if the additional demands on state funds which the bill proposes were made effective. As so frequently develops when the subject of school sup port comes up, affirmative argument for the bill draws dis paraging comparisons between .Oregon and its neighbor states, Washington and California. Washinpon, it is stated, spends $147 per pupil, California S165 ami Crr-pcm a mere $133. This, it seems to us, is worthy of some rlight explana tion. Both Washington and California have the sales tax; Oregon has not. It is from this source that our neighbor states are able to spend so generously. Oregon, already operat ing under extremely burdensome property taxes and an in come tax rate that is among the highest, has no way of in creasing its allotments for education except by increasing the rate still more on either property or incomes. The Oregon-California-Washington figures prove nothing unless it is need for a sales tax in our own state. If the basic school support bill is soundly beaten there would be incentive to do something in this direction. That, it occurs to us, is another good reason for a negative vote. Marked on the ballot, this would read : 317 (X) No. I vote against the proposed measure. Hong Onto Your Hats, Folks, They're Off Again B Washington Column By Peter Etlson I N'KA V.ashlntoo Correspondent! military government nil have po sitions ot trust and the authority to (Val with their responsibilities. Byrnes' two ureal problems are relations with Kussia and the atomic bomb. He has concentrat ed on these, particularly the for mer, leaving his assistants to run the department in his enforced absence. Even the shaping of policy on Bend's Yesterdays (From TH Bulletin FiUi) COMMUNICATIONS Conimunteetlnne are Invited on mat tare of current and loeal Interact, tjev tare should be not e.er etHl words to letiMtK on onls one etde of the pat and. It possible, typewritten, letters ar raanucrltta submitted for publL eaUne) will not he rel'jrncd.) a a a more si'i'roit r i-oit r. t. a. tienil. Oct. 18, HMO To The Killlor: Helms the parents of two school line children my wife unci 1 lire very Interested In P. T. A. With the new methods of teaching wo feel It Ik essential I hit I parents hhvn some way, other than through their children, ot know ing how they lira being taught unit how they lire supposed Jo study. How can parents aid their children In their home work if they are not sure their nsslstanco conforms with the school system. 1. T. A. not only enables the parents anil teachers to Ix'ctime better acquainted, It makes the children feel that we are Inter ested In the thlncs they learn and do each day. The average town with Just one grade school has n I'. T. A. surely Bend with one high school and three grade stnools has enough Interested parents to get behind an organi zation as lmHirtnnt as I'. T. A. While on the subject ot schools may I atld that I have played In, officiated, nnd witnessed many high school games In the past fifteen years. While nttendlng the high school games in (lend this fall I was very surprised to see one of the officials smoking on the field. In my past extH'ii enees I have never heard of an official smoking while on the field of play. Is this duo to the of ficials lack of knowledge? To the neglect of the school authorities? Is the answer Bend needs a I. T. A. Yours Truly Arthur A. Rixr Salem high st'linol student nnil was fined $rs) anil etmls In Silver ton Justice court, It was reported today. en,.-,..,,,, n.,. rv..i ri till.' Put ev Sitter, who was ni- James Brown, Salem, pleaded volved In the same complaint, guilty lo n charge of assault unci Vim fined Hi "' amount last battery Involving tho lialng of (iweeK in justice cniin. Charge of Haiing Brings $50 Fine DISEASE KKI'OKT MAIK Three cases of chlckenMix and one of mumps were the only com municable diseases reported to the county health department by 100r'r of the county's doctors, lor the week ending Oct. 19 att k .1 ft yV v- .. I f 'f 'Ti JTi seri PUT YOUR BEST FACE FORWARD pGG PGQG Ol.iiut rc your mini minor luni Btxotory. They stc ic latrtl to your cyo-thc firl point s H-rMin looks st, the IHiiix person lisiki at nititt, Ic sure your glutei arc right for your fdtc. lie uiuri-wvar cytveatcuiioni-tlrMKiiciljiut for your own individual face. MLESJ 11 V 'ft 1 ,. 'I JfiGSa aV 4TT M r 3 STOPIES 0PTICOI 9)4 WAlLSItUl BEND-OREGON A newspaper headline says: "Fewer Crashes Sought By Aeronautics Experts." Something like only one a week, we suppose, instead of the present rate. Harney History Essay Subject Burns, Oct. 21 t Special) In or der that the colorful history of Harney county be preserved for future generations, the Oregon Historical society is offering prizes for creative work in essay writing in the high schools and elementary schools of the coun ty, it has been announced. These essays, covering historical sub jects, are to be limited to 1200 words. Members of the committee In chargf! are Archie McGowan, D. W. Patch, H. L. Slater, Leland Duncan, Julian Byrd, J. V. Sulli van, R, H. Anderson and Myra R. Weittenhiller. Firemen Can't' Buy Truck So They Build One Kenton, O. 'U"1 The Kenton fire department needed another fire truck, but couldn't buy one. So the firemen did the next best thing they built one. j They created a truck with the aid of Kenton factories, mer chants and the nine townships ; they serve along with Kenton. The 1 townships bought an army six-by-six chassis for SlOO. A $480 pump which the firemen already I owned was mounted, a tank hold ! ing 1,300 gallons of water was I welded together, and the other necessary equipment was added by the Kenton firemen working Ion their days off. wmm mm studio WATCH FOR LOCATION and OPENING DATE! see EME TKAXLiU right AWAY FOR RESERVATIONS 4 PILOT BUTTE INN Washington, C.t. 21 In the atomic bomb control was deleeat' ( year and eight months that James ed to a commission headed by F. Byrnes of Spartanburg. S. C, ! Lrndl'' secretary LVan Acheson. I has been secretary of state, he' It is a popular belief that Byrnes has been away from his desk over was mrown into iurvii;n umm eight months, but not on vacation. Old and inexperienced, and that .Returning now to Washington -this accounts for his early set from the Paris peace conference backs at Paris and London and j the seventh International pow-i Moscow. What is generally for iwow he has attended he must goten is that Byrnes was principal immediately prepare for the advisor to Roosevelt at the Yalta eighth, ninth and tenth. United .copference with Churchill and ! Nations assembly and Foreign Stalin, when, post-war policy was Ministers council In New York, first outlined. Then Byrnes went 'CJerman and Austrian peace con- o Potsdam with Truman. Also ' ferences, where and whenever before he became secretary. held. Byrnes served on ssccretary ot I Tho anvil r-hnms nf ritiriQm lo war Henry Stimson's advisory already clanging at the Byrnes committee on the atomic bomb, record. This being an election which shaped Jhe atomic bomb year, the republicans are trying policy. In dealing with Russia to make something of it, though Byrnes has battled consistently foreign policy is supposed to be fr 'he rights of small nations, non-partisan bi-partisan affair the speeding up of peace-treaty no peace treaties signed. Nothing making, freeing the world trade settled except the loan to Britain, and information channels. re Trouble piling up on nearly every establishing stability. At first he corner. showed a willingness to give and Any' fair appraisal of Jimmy treat fairly for coperatlon. When Byrnes however, must include a he found that did no good, he list of good starts. Tha war suueiiea Mmipiy. out mi im having thrown the whole world Byrnes calendar of unfinished into confusion for over five years, business is a long list of unsolved It would be impossible for even a problems which are a challenge republican to bring order out of t 'he greatest brain of this or the chaos in a little over a year, any generation . . . Germany, The outstanding Byrnes char- Austria, Spain, Yugoslavia, Po acteristic is extreme patience, land, the Balkans, the Danube, His ability as' a compromiser the middle east, China, Japan, comes second to that. "With his Korea, the Pacific islands, the patience is a quiet firmness. This Argentina. Policy on Palestine is not the "get tough" quality has been largely a White House that some of the more aggressive affair, out of state department critics would like to see him mani-, hands. Rumors of rlft-s between fest. The Byrnes critics are from the president and Byrnes have two extremes reactionaries who been proven false. Whether the consider him an appeaser, left- president realizes it or not, Byrnes wingers who say he is not co- is his strong right arm not, the operating with soviet Russia fori White House clowns and Mis peace, jsourians. Actually, there have been no1 Reports that Byrnes will resign great changes from the foreign are to be discounted, unless his policy objectives laid down by health fails completely. He is not Cordell Hull. There are no new a quitter, policies that can be definitely j ticketed as by James V. Byrnes.' Byrnes has not run a one-man HoUSinO PrOD eiTIS state department nor a one-man 1 wuaiiiy ' foreign policy. He has deligated AJ-pJ MpPInfl authority in great chunks. Under- nlleu al Vlt.tSllliy secretary Dean Acheson and will ! Seattle, Oct. 21 HI'' Over 2,10 Clayton command respect in any ' lumbermen from across the coun company and either would make , try mot today , Uscusg housing a good secretary of state. ( probPrns at thf! opening session Assistant secretary Donald ftus-, ol tne nm bl poHtwar meeting ff'l.'n-charge of administration, 'of tne Natlrin!li Kotail Lumber William Benton In charge of in-1 Dealers association formation. Spruille Braden in. Government control, policy charge of Latin American R. af-'mal, and hoUHnK snrtage., fairs, John Hlldrlng in charge of wj hl(,hMl,nt tne three-day ses- Hjun, joKenrrmii iiiu. j lit! con vention Is headed by S. Lamar Forrest, Lubbock, Tex. FIFTEKN YEARS AGO I (October 21. 11131) , A total of 2,ass children were ; enrolled In Bend schools the first ; of this month compared with l.ftTO at the same date last year. County Judge H. H. DeArmond , and County commissioner Jmnes ! Whltlock left today for Portland to attend a meeting of the state highway commission. W. C. Wilkes, former owner of Wilkes warehouse In Bend, was visiting here yesterday from his home in Sacramento. TWENTY-I'lVK YEARS A(iO I (October 21, 192! Frank B. Kbhert, associate at torney for the Antl-Snloon league which was instrumental In se curing the passage of the Vol stead act. will speak In Bend October 23. The Childers & Armstrong con fectionery will move Its new quarters In the Warner building on Wall street next week. Dr. John Besson returned this morning from a trip to Portland. An odorless sterilizer, which sterilized army surgical Instru ments without heat, is now avail able for use In restaurants, dair ies, hospitals and other civilian buildings. Royal Typewriters . STANDARD OR sssSrl PORTABLE Order Now Hornbeclc Typewriter Co. 122 Oregon A"e, Phone 13 Bend No Repair Work) JAPS START EARLY Tokyo, Oct. 21 U' Japan be gan gearing her industry for war five years before the attack on Pearl HarWir, according to evi dence presented before the war crimes tribunal trying Ex premler Hidekl Tojo and other high-ranking Japanese officials today. I raW at eM.I. 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Macmillan Oil Phone 909 FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS By MERRILL BLOSSER eiL. IT LOOKS EVENIMS AT T-IE SWANIC NORTH pIDGff MOTEL TUB KID3 WAVI? EATEN DINNER C AT FANCY PRICES) AND IN THE SPIRIT OFTWIRP . bEASON, THE WOMAN IS REQUESTED 10 fMl Ler nor Talk ABOUT MONEY ATA LETb TALK ABOUT IT FOft. JUST V MIN UTE HAVE vpu oar. Creepem, FLOSSIE,, HOW CAN VOL! smile? ) OUR CHECK 1DTAL3 j Q-S5j j n "i " -'C1 f zj Att; r fmhk Attn n w t7 "r-m Wm9 iPS I ... 1 I sf A fi'rikVlJ imXnne.. ..rfmrrr -"l If. OF COURSE Tmen WHAT ARB we I HAVE 1 WORRIED ABOUT? i r LETS ENJOY OUR-- selves i y