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FKIDAV, FEBRUARY 6, 1B5S
TAX BILLS IN CONGRESS
Most ofthe many tax bills introduced for consideration
at this session of congress are written about the single basic
idea of tax reduction. To attain the objective they would
travel almost as many roads as there are measures. They
seek both changes in rates and in exemptions and deductions.
One would advance the date of already scheduled tax cuts by
an entire vear. One would reoeal the war excise rates. One
would exempt pension and annuity payments up to $ 1,440
a year and another would allow deduction from the tax base
of annuity and life insurance premiums up to 15 per cent of
adjusted gross income. One would make farmers' soil and
water conservation expenditures deductible retroactively
through the tax years back to 1944 and another would shorten
the holding period for draft, dairy and breeding livestock
which is required to qualify profit on sale for long-term
capital gain classification. One would change the deadline
, for filing personal returns and declarations from March 15
. to April 15.
There are others but these are sufficient to illustrate the
variety of approach in seeking to satisfy the nation-wide
demand for lower levies on income. How many of them will
finally make their appearance as new law is, of course, con
jectural. It is especially so in view of the belief held by top
legislators and administrators that budget balancing must
come first, that expenditure reduction must be the basis for
tax relief. ? The amount of expense paring possible in the
first, and even in the second year of this administration may
not be too great; it has been closely limited by the commit
ments made by the outgoing administration. Some will be
possible, however, and there will be some tax reform as a
result. ., I
As interesting as this possibility is the idea exemplified
by another tax bill which, differing from the others, does
not propose reduction. Its purpose is to reimburse employers
for their expense in acting as the government's tax collector.
Since the Ruml plan of pay-as-you-go personal income
taxation was put into effect, employers have had the job
and the expense of doing it. They have been required to com
pute the tax on each employe's pay, withhold the amount
from his check and provide him with a statement of the
4- rrun.. u i ; i x i i 4.1
debits and, at. stated intervals, turn over the "take" to the
government's fiscal representative. They must make quarterly
and annual reports to the government. At the end of the Vear
they must provide the employe with a memo of the total of
wages or salary earned and the amount withheld. This is de
manded as a part of the individual's annual tax return to the
director of internal revenue. For all this the employer re
ceives nothing.
Now and then there have been protests and even refusals.
The best known of these was carried through the courts by
Vivien Kellems, eastern manufacturer, after her bank ac
count had been seized to obtain the withholclincrs with whieh
Bhe was charged. Miss Kellems won her suit against the col
lector but lost in an action airainst the government. In noithor
did the question of constitutionality, which she sought to
raise, receive recognition by the court. That has never been
decided. ,
If the measure now in congress i(H.R. 321) is enacted, it
. would be one way of settling the question which otherwise,
sooner or later, is almost bound to be raised again. What is
more important, simple justice would be done and our federal
government would no longer be in the position of chiseling
valuable services under the mandate of a law.
They Send a Boy to Do a Man's Work
Bend's Yesterdays
(From The Bulletin Files)
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
(Wednesday, Feb. 6, 1018)
Dement's grocery has just put
in a timelv display In which are
exhibited a number of substitutes
for fJour recommended by tne
war food administration.
Out of 155 men from Bend who
took physical examinations last
week, 93 were found eligible for
class I.
Blanks for the registration of
Germans have been received at
the local postoffice.
Bend has been suggested as
the site of an aviation school, to
train fliers for service In Europe.
A sunny place where a school can
be established is being sought In
the northwest.
The new teacher for the West
End School at. Mlllican, Maude
Hubbard, arrived here yesterday
and left for Mlllican.
Survey Studies
Science Students
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (lit Most super
ior science students come from
middle-class families and small
communities, according to the con
clusion of E. G. Williamson, pro
fessor of psychology at the Univer
sity of Minnesota, based on a sur
vey to identify the characteristics
of scientists.
In a report at a conference on
scientific manpower here, William
son said his findings show research
workers are more individualistic
than other persons, although the
need of teams to carry out projects
of modern experimentation have
made the "lone wolf" researcher
a thing of the past.
Crook Chamber
Favors Pelton Bill
PRINEVILLE, Feb. 6 Citing
that it represents sentiment of a
cross section of Crook county and
PrinevUle's labor, industry, agri
culture and business, the chamber
of commerce here has forwarded
to Mark O. Hatfield, chairman of
the House State and Federal Af
fairs committee of the 47th Ore
gon general assembly, Its endorse
ment of House Bill No. 160, along
with an amendment which elimi
nates application of eminent do
main to rights lor tne Deneiiciai
use of water for municipal, do
mestic, livestock or Irrigation.
The endorsement of the mea
sure, which Would change various
features of the Hydro-electric
Commission of Oregon and allow
the right of review in the courts
to its decisions, the latter the
most drastic departure from for
mer legislative enactments per
taining to the commission, was
accompanied bv a statement from
President Stuart MacDonald of
the chamber in an "expression of
hope that enactment of the mea
sure will oave the way for a hy
dro-electric development of Pelton
and Round Butte dams on the
Deschutes river in Jefferson
county in accord with plans of
construction by the Portland Gen
eral Electric Co." ,
"Such development," Ma'cDon-
aid's comment continued, "will
provide central Oregon cities and
counties with an aaaea ana un
interruptible volume of hydro
electric energy. Such a change
in the power situation in central
Oregon Is much to be desired, in
that It will prevent interruptions
such as have occurred the past
year, which have proved costly
to Industry, business and home
owners and created emergencies
of inconvenience and hazard."
Tne statement of the Prineville
Crook County chamber, however,
asks for a preservation of the
rights of irrigationists when the
Jefferson county Deschutes river
dam3 are built. The final para
graph of the statement of en
dorsement of House Bill No. 160
was:
"The Prinevllle-Crook County
Chamber of Commerce has been
consistent in its support of pro-
nosed development of hydro- JSTSiX
electric energy on the DenuiH """"KJg" now" vested or to be
river in Jefferson county since with rtgms now gh
plans for it were initiated In 1948. PP"tredn bly recognition of
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support, however there has ever firm pri warnmg
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"Germans Plan Revolving Cafe" says an Oregonian news
story caption. That's what we are going to have in Oregon
when the liquor-by-the-drink bill is passed.
Washington Column
By PETER EDSON
(NEA Waehlnirton Correeiwndent)
WASHINGTON (NEA) One
of the- most unusual facts about
new Republican National Commit
tee Chairman VVes Roberts Is that
he has met President Dwiglit Eisen
hower only five times, face to face,
though bolh are .from Kansas.
The first time was at Abilene,
when Eisenhower came back from
Europe. Next was at Denver, where
Ike made his headquarters. Then
at the Chicago convention, and once
again briefly! at Washington, when
the presidential candidate came
through during the campaign.
In December Mr. Roberts went to
New York for a mceling wilh the
President-elect. It was at this meet
ing mat Eisenhower gave his blcss
ing 10 me election ol itonerls as
national chairman.
There is one other most unusual
fact about Mr. Roberts. In an ad
ministration that Is now character
ized as eight millionaires and a
plumber, Wes Roberts is one or the
least wealthy men, and chairmen
of political parties are traditionally
big-money men.
lie will gel handsome $32,500
annual salary plus expenses as
GOP nalional chairman. But this
will be the most money he ever
made. And his modest assets are
said to mark and to prove another
of his greatest altribules. He is
called that rarity among rarities
a completely honest politician.
e
But he is a politician. It's in his
blood, lie was born Dec. 14, 1903.
at Oskaioosa, Kans. the stale from
which political hell has always
come, lie was the youngest son of
a country newspaper editor.
He took, journalism when he went
to Kansas Slate. A dollar was hard
to come by in those days, and he
made a few on the side wriling for
his dad's string of Ihree weekly
papers. After he left collceo. he
became editor of one of them for a
10-year period.
Then he got Into polilics. His fa
ther had never been a Kansas reg
ular, and Wes became identified as
one of the young Turks. He backed
Carl Friend against Gov. Al Schoep
pcl, now U. S. senator from Kansas,
and lost. In IH.Ifi he was campaign
manager for Will G. West in Hie
gubernatorial race, and again he
lost.
for the next two jears Wes
The Mississippi river dumps 2,'
000,000 tons of soil into the Gulf ot
Mexico every 24 hours.
Roberts served as executive sec
retary of the Kansas Republican
Committee. In that time he built up
the organization that hasn't suf
fered a defeat since.
He went on to become assistant
stale chairman and secretary to
Gov. Payne Ratner for two terms.
In 1943. Wes Roberts was com
missioned a captain in Ihc Marines'
Intelligence. He rose to become a
major in a Fourth Marine Air Wing
bomber squadron which saw action
in the Pacific.
Discharged in 1910. hp came back
to Kansas and polilics. He did
publicity for the slate highway
commission, and from 1947 to 1950
was stale chairman. He managed
Sen. 1' rank Carlson s successful
campaign that year.
The great mystery ot the Wes
Roberts career if it is a mystery
Is how a politician with only Kan
sas acquaintance could zoom to nat
ional prominence in a year.
The answer to his success is thai
he applies grass-roots, precinct-level,
Kansas polilics to every cam
paign. The delegates to the Chicago
convention were mere voters to
him. He learned who they all were,
who they were for and where Uiey
could be reached.
Wes Roberts was married in 1929
to Ruth Patrick, a high school
classmate in Oskaioosa. They have
one son. Patrick, a junior in high
school at llollon, Kans., where the
family has lived since Hie war.
The family will eventually make a
home in Washington and Ihen. may
tie, it will be possible to gel Wes
Roberts away from that telephone
and out of that bolel room.
Through
Every Shadow
This Light
Shines Brightly
No darkness so deep as to
quench the light of the spirit
. . . it shines on forever. That
every funeral service shall elo
quently express the beauty of
the life everlasting is our
steadfast aim.
PHONE 118
for Ambulance Service
Niswonger
and
Winslow
Morticians
KKDMOM) HOSPITAL
Redmond. Eel). B Mr. and Mrs
R. V. Povey. Redmond, are par
ents of a son born Thursday morn
ing al Cciilr il Oregon District hos
pital. New patients at Ihe hospital
Thursday included three out-pa-
tienls treated and dismissed, and
three children entered for tonsillec
tomies and dismissed Ihe same day.
A half-million dollars worth of
damage to agricultural crops re
sulted from a recent seven-day
siege of smog in southern California.
ffiS Gift Mfirt Srore
' "WEDDING
PRESENTS"
When the occa
sion nrtses and a
"wedding present" must be
Kurchased. it always seems to
e a problem. If you need to
buy such a gift. now. why not
give something really practi
cal? Wo can save you money on
these practical gifts: Two only
Julce-O-Matic fruit Juicers, reg
ular S5.9S now S.ttS. Three
only good quality 2-picce Carv
ing" Sets, regular 4.23 now
2.03. Two only Flint 3-plecc
carving sets, regular $10.93
now 11.90!
They are in our window
drop by and see them.
BRUCtTS
Gift & Art Store
"If you need a lifl, give a gift"
Phone 13 123 Oregnn
K' '
how to
take a poke at
the
high cost
of living
"What with the abominable High Cost of Living these days, my dears, a lot of people are either going
broke or are flat-busted. I am neither.
"Would you like to know why I'm so heavily stacked, I mean to say with all these sparklers, so dear to
a girl's heart . . . why I'm in the black instead of the red . . . why I just reek with prosperity. All right,
come closer . . . I'll tell you.
"I'm a conservative young matron and one of my many admirable money-saving habits is patronizing
the Brandis stores, where you save as you shop because the prices are always rock-bottom, day in and-day
out. I'm thrifty at Thrift-Wise, I economize at Economy, and I'm saving my green stamps I get at both
stores, too.
"In closing, let me say YOU JUST CAN'T BEAT THE BRANDIS STORES when it comes to giving your
budget a break. Really, you can't."
The Friendly Brandis Stores
THRIFT-WISE DRUGS 1020 w.n Phone 371
ECONOMY DRUGS, Inc.
801 Wall . Phone 323
We Give
Green Stamps