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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Hornbeclc Typewriter Co.
122 Oregon A"e,
Phone 13 Bend
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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. M f-
THE QUINTUPLETS
alwayt ut this great rub for
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When you buy new
Ureal you urn entitled
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Whether ou buy the fllllifte AniluMMtlor, Tha
, Gillette lire, or the (illli'lln Beer you get nil four
SAMTYI Hich tensila itrcnth card protect! asiinst brtllte -breaks
and blowouts.
tONO WIAkl Oillette'a eipertly tntlnecred tread adils mll
to rite lire. . .
OAJICK STOP! I Husky, sharp-edgrd rlbe all arotind tha Ifead
protect against skida.
QUAtrrV'tlSTIDt Tested In the laboratory and 00 the road
to saute uniform high quality.
S. GILLETTE fir it t Thart't
a GILLETTE truck lira lor
vary typa of truck or but
..aoch built with ipaclol
conitructlon facrtura for
lonp, low-coil m Mao ga
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