THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND. OREGON SATURDAY, JUNE 5. 1948 PAGE FOUR THE BEND BULLETIN and CENTS A L OUEGON PRESS Tea htni Bulletin Iwwklrl llKi 1H1 The Bend bulletin (Dally) Est. Wished Keery Alurnoco Kxeet Sunday and Certain Hutalars by Tlx Htwi Bulletin tm ra wsu smet. Ben ui bland fleeocd Can. Matter, January (, 1917. at th PustoNk. at Bend. Oregon Under Act of Mare a. MTO. OBERT W. 8AWYEB Editor-Manaaer HKNRY N. FOWLER Aaaociate Editor ia laleenuent Newepaper fctarvlir, lor the Square Deal, Clean Bualneas. Cleaa Pejilics and Lb. Beet Interests of Bend and Centra. Oregon MKMBtlt AUDIT BUBKAU OP CIRCULATIONS Br Hail B Carrier On Tear VIM On Year lie Six Momis V Six Months t . Xkraa Mcnta ...r tt.lt On Month LOO AD gttbatrllrUuui are DUB and PAYABLE EN ADVANCE Plane, ftotifj as oi any abaan of addraaa or faUnr. to receive the paper recolarb "COMPETING FOR TAX MONEY" A tax situation originally discussed in Klamath county and later in Lane has drawn the attention of the Oregonian be cause its existence in Multnomah is just now making itself felt in connection with local government needs. It is suggested in the title of the editorial in the Portland paper, "Competing For Tax Money". The condition referred to results from the existence of a number of government sub-divisions with overlapping bound aries. Each is a tax-levying district. In each district taxes are levied without regard to the levies in the others. The result is that the total tax that many a property owner has to pay is high and when authority is asked for a levy in excess of the amount permissible under the six per cent limitation there is often a "No" majority. When this condition of high taxes resulting from overlap ping taxing district boundaries was first discussed in Klam ath county it was urged that some sort of coordinating ar rangement be entered into under which tax boards would associate themselves for a review of proposed levies. If, on review, the sum of the various levies was found to be exces sive it was expected that budgets would be revised in order to bring the total down. The plan never got very far nor did a similar proposal made for tax payer relief in Lane county. Now the tax situa tion in Multnomah with its many overlapping'tax districts leads to discussion by the Oregonian. We never believed that the proposed Klamath plan would work and are glad to see that the Oregonian is not suggesting anything of the sort as a means of meeting the difficulties in its county. Instead it urges, with full wisdom, that the situation will not got better unless there is adopted a clearly thought-out plan for consolidation of districts and of purchasing, auditing and other administrative functions, elimination of duplication and waste, or, perhaps the final solution, a physical merger for Portland and Multnomah county. That seems to us to be the sound approach. Efficiency and economy and, in some cases, consolidation offer definite means of reduced taxation. In its discussion the Oregonian refers to the six per cent limitation and there, we believe, it has erred. It says, that is, that the last legislature made It possible for a county or other tax-levying body to acquire a new tax base by. voting special levies for three successive years. This, we tnink, is not the case. The legislature has not amended the constitution. What it did, by house joint resolu tion No. 15, was to propose an amendment to the constitution that would make possible the establishment of a new tax base. Only, after the amendment is approved if it is approved will the Oregonian's assertion be correct. The approval of the voters should, of course, be given. BOND PURCHASE AND CARE Every now and then a story of the discovery of a tin can cache of coins makes headlines or the yarn of the rodent's nest lined with hundred dollar bills finds a place on the front page. "Both are good stories and. we hannen to know, either may be true. Each points its own moral that a privately maintained hoard, "banked" at home is especially vulnerable, to looting or to loss through forgetfulness. But there are still plenty of people who continue to keep their valuables, their money, their securities at home. This fact, it is stated in a "handout" by Kenneth G. Martin, director of U. S. savings bond sales activities, must have led to heavy losses in the Vanport flood, judging from the number of calls received by Portland banks. In any time of sudden disaster reports of the kind come to attention. All too often home facilities for protection of important papers or of money or of articles of jewelry are utterly insufficient. When the home is destroyed, by fire or flood, the hoard goes with it. Much of what was lost at Vannort will never be retrained. Of course, Mr. Martin brightly reminds us (and this, we gather, was the actual reason for issuing the "handout") there was no loss if the values were in U. S. savings bonds. Well, we don't object too seriously to being used once in a while when the furthering of savings bond sales is the object. We'll even put in our own plug. They are good bonds, highly desirable ones. They are as safe as any securities can be; safer than most, for they are United States government bonds. Like any registered security, they can be replaced. That is no reason, however, to leave them kicking around. A safety deposit box is better than the dresser drawer any time and its accessibility (to the renter) is quite in contrast to the formalities which must be complied with in obtaining replacement of securities lost or destroyed. Buy your bonds, buy them regularly. They are fine things to have. But after acquiring them, take care of them, too. We hope that Mr. Martin agrees. Washington Column By Peter Edsor, Washington (NEA) Trying to set up voluntary agreements for allocation of scarce materials in American Industry has been slow and painful, like pulling teeth. Five months after passage of the .Taft "anti-inflation" bill last December, only one industry oil and only part of another industry steel arc under con. trol. . . Sen. Robert A. Talt 01 unio claimed it wasn't necessary to have government allocation con i mis. as reauested by President Truman. So last year's special session of congress decided every thing would be taken care 01 11 industry were Just allowed to work out its own problems. The food industry record is a complete blank. Authority to work with the lood ministry on voluntary agreements was given to then Assistant secretary of agriculture Charles F. Brannan. One agreement was drawn up and signed by the brewers. But when the distillers flatly refused to agree on any allocation- of scarce grains for their industry the brewers backed out on the deal. The poultry Industry refused to consider conservation of feed grain by agreement to reduce their spring hatch. The baking in dustry refused to consider allo cation of flour for their use. Temporary oil Industry alloca tions, worked out by the national petroleum council under Max Ball's oil and gas division in the department of interior, were a lit tle more successful. NPtj, had a going concern reporting to the interior secretary all through the war. So it was in business when the need arose to make a new agreement NPC has now worked out a per. manent allocation program. It Is being submitted to department of justice, for anti-trust law clear ance. If okayed, it will be put into effect for next winter. This guarantee of freedom from anti-trust law prosecution was the mg worry of the steel producers when they were first called in by Secretary of commerce Aver ell Harriman to work out their allocations. Though the Taft law exempted them from this danger, me steel masters relused to sit down and talk to each other till they had a letter from Attorney General Tom Clark telling them u was an ngnt. ; Even then the steel men we'n tthrough battle after battle to reach any agreemen on allocating steel to industries tha need it most. '" Secretary Harriman set up a special office of industny coopera tion under John C. Virden to han dle Taft act deals. Virden is the unfortunate Cleveland industrial ist who had tried to resign, fol lowing Michigan Congressman Fred Crawford's protest that Vir den's daughter was working for a Russian news agency. Anyway, Virden has had 16 in d u s t r y advisory committees working on voluntary allocation agreements. Only three have been fully approved. They provide stfV'l allocations for railroad car makers, warm air heating equip- I ment and the atomic energy com j mission. I An allocation for pre-fabricated steel housing was at first turned ' down but may be reconsidered. I'the petroleum equipment indus ! trv out in a reauest for up to 6,000,000 tons of steel a year. It was so big an order that it was sent back for restudy. Farm implement makers have refused to consider any alloca tion program. The same is true for the plywood, gypsum board and lath industries, which hope to get by without controls. As yet no allocation programs have been worked out. But as mounting demands for European recovery and more national de fense are received, it is consid ered likely that there will even tually have to be some system for sharing available supplies. The Taft act is due to expire March. 30. The best bet now is that it will have to be renewed, or replaced by government con trols, if voluntary agreements don't work any better and if the cost of everything keeps going up and up. Bend's Yesterdays (From The Bulletin Files) FIFTEEN YEARS AGO (June 5. 1933) Out of $13,165.99 in general fund taxes paid in the past two weeks, 513,158.86 was in the form of warrants, County Treasurer Walter G. Peak reported today. Elk lake is still blanketed with Ice, a party of Bend men found yesterday. In the party were A. fc.. benuman, Myron iymons, Nor man Symons, Hugh A ms berry and Paul Hosmer. The Fourth of July committee has announced plans for a water fete on the evening of,July 4.. It Is planned to have 12 floats, which will be drifted down the river past the audience. At the lower end the floats will move under a rainbow arch formed by streams of water from fire depart ment pumpers. . or amount of Income, will be re quired to go to work at some use ful occupation under the provi sions of an ordinance passed by the city council last night. Earl Miller, of Sisters, yester day enlisted In the marine corps. FOBTY YEARS AGO (June 5, 1908) Prohibition won a sweeping victory over the state In the re cent election and Oregon's nine dry counties will be increased to 21. Jim Brady and Carl Ewing, for est officers stationed at Rosland, are estimating timber on the Oregon-Eastern railroad survey and this is takea as evidence that the Harriman line is seeking a right of way through the national for est William Wilt, of Sisters, met with a painful accident last week, caused by the kick of a horse. Wilt had caught a bear In a trap. The horse became frightened when the trapper attempted to place the bear's hide on the sad dle and kicked Wilt in the face. has lowered the salt content of the sea, destroying crabs 150 mile north and south of Astoria, Ore., and 20 miles out to sea. Runoff Lowers Sea Salt Content Westport, Wash., June 5 IP Crab life along the Washington and Oregon coasts is being de stroyed by the heavy run-off of fresh water from the flooding Columbia river, fishermen report ed here today. Al Tilley, Westport crab fish erman, said the record run-off COMMUNICATIONS Communication are invited on mat ters of current and local interest. Let tera aboold be net over 400 words in lenaUi. oo oniy one aide of the paper and, if poatibie, typewritten. Letters or manuscripts submitted for piibli catioa will not be returned. WHY NO FLAGS? Burns, June 4, 1948 To the Editor: We visited the cemetery in Bend this past Memorial day. There were no flags flying over the vet erans' graves, as is the usual cus tom. Why? Gladys B. Ballard. to appear at said time and place and show cause, if any they have, why said Final Account should not be approved, and the estate settled and closed. CLARA SIMERVILLE, Admin istratrix of the Estate of Albert Reichei. Deceased. Charles E. Boardman and E. O. Stadter. Attorneys for Adminis tratrix. 137-143-149-154-C NOTICE OF HEARING ON - FINAL ACCOUNT NOTICE Is hereby given that the undersigned has filed in the County Court, for Deschutes County, Oregon, his Final Ac count of his administration of the estate of PAULINE LEU, de ceased, and that Monday, the I4ti, aay ui o-une, xmo, aim o clock A. M.. at the County Court Room, in the Court House in Bend. Iw chutes Count. Oregon has b hearing upon said account and all persons interested are hereby r tified to appear at said time aw place to show cause, if any the! have, why said account shouu not be settled and allowed and U administrator and his bondsman discharged. DATED and first published thh 15th day of May. 1948. Roy A. Dyr, Administrator DeARMOND. GOODRICH FOLEY. Attorneys lor Admini! trator. . " 137143-149-154C NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has filed her Final Account as Administratrix of the Estate of Albert Reichei, Deceas ed, and that the 19th day of June, 1948, at the hour of 10:00 a. m. o'clock, in the County Court room in Bend. Oregon, has been fixed as the time and place for hearing of objections to said Final Ac count, and all persons interested in said estate are hereby notified Dr. Grant Skinner DENTIST . ODonnell Bldg. Office Phone 73 Residence Phone 819-W Inviting Comparison SUPERIOR SERVICE BEND DAIRY Central Oregon's Finest THIRTY YEARS AGO (June 5, 1918) D. T. Carmody, W. G. McPher son tend H. J. Overturf have been delegated by the Commercial club to make arrangements for the Fourth of July celebration. 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