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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1935)
16 SALARY SCALE OF OFFICIALS REMAINS SAME Woodburn TJie city council met In regular session Tuesday night which was the date for the annual election of city officers. A motion was made and seconded that John Mulr be re-elected as street com missioner but the motion was not, put to a vote and the matter of electing officers came to an abrupt close. It will probably be taken up again at the next meeting. Salaries of all city officers were fixed with no change from last year The salary of the water superinten dent Is $90 per month; that of the street commissioner, sra per monin, marshal. $85 per month; city re corder, $85 per month; city attor ney, $29.75 per month; city treas urer. $25.50 ner month; fire chief, $8.50 per month, and health officer $85 per year. A motion was made and seconded that the ordinance committee be authorized to prepare an ordinance fixing the number of police officers to be hired. This was discussed but also failed to come to a vote. A mo tion that only one police officer oe hired was lost. Chief of Police Alfred Ashland was Instructed to secure a bond. Tile scale of wages for municipal labor was fixed at 30c per hour for common labor and 50c per hour for skilled labor. Two Insurance policies, covering the city hall, were paid, totaline $153 In premiums for policies ag' gregatlng $9000. OILING PLANS GET APPROVAL Oiling of market roads In Clack' amas, Yamhill and Washington counties at a cost of nearly $100, 000 was approved late Wednesday at a special meeting of the state highway commission. The commission met here primar ily for a conference with the state land board to object to paying roy alty of ten cents per yards for sand and gravel taken from the beds of navigable streams. It will cost the commission $76,000 more per year under the law passed by the special session of the legis lature, R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, said. Private companies which now sell sand and gravel to the state cheaply will demand ten cents If the land board gets that much, Baldock said. State Treasurer Holman pleaded for . the money for the Irreducible school fund. The engineer was Instructed to conduct preliminary surveys for pro posed railroad crossings in The Dalles. Construction of additional shed room at Government Camp main tenance headquarters, Including t light plant, was authorized for $1600. A $1000 addition to the Cor. vallls maintenance shed will be built later. Hearings on highway rouje chang es were set for Estacada on Decem ber 27 and Astoria December 28. The commission postponed until ' another special meeting in Portland next Tuesday action on oiling of the roadway leading to the top of Pilot Butte at Bend, and on a letter from Hedmond chamber of commerce urging elimination of a dangerous curve on the Ochoco highway one fourth mile cost of a railroad cross ing at Redmond. Italian Wheat Yield 123 Bushels to Acre Rome (LP) A world's soft wheat record of 123 bushels to the acre Is claimed for a new seed produced by Senator Ntizareno Strampclll, Ital ian authority on cereals. The seed was experimented with In the last sowings In Italy, and, It Is officially reported, established the record yield. The new wheat also Is said to ripen faster than any known variety. KIN GET 2, STATE $3,278 Evansvllle, Ind. (IP) John W. Tharling, local photographer, left an estate on which Indiana will collect $3,278 Inheritance taxes but Ills closest kin, a brotner and sister, get only $1 each, under terms of a will filed for probate. A QUAINT, RELIABLE RUSTIC Weather Prophet IT PREDICTS THE WEATHER FOR WORK OR PLEASURE Cut Out Tills Reminder Get a WEATHER PROPHET For 69c Reg. $1 Value Mall ordftra loe titrft An Ideal Christmas Gift Guaranteed- Made In America When the weather Is fine tho two children will be out; when bad weather Is approaching the witch will como out from 8 to 24 hours ahead of rain or snow. It is surprisingly rcllablo on local weather conditions. Made on strictly scientific principles. Wo lmvo secured a special price on I quantity and, as long as they last, will aril them for 69c. PERRY'S DRUG STORE lit So. Commercial HI. ITALIANS TAKE ANOTHER ETHIOPIAN TOWN A machine gun crew In action behind a pile of rocks, as tanks covered the rouoh around, bristling with gunB, In the background. This action picture by Joseph Caneva, Associated Press staff photog rapher, was taken on the Adlgrat-Makale frontier. The Italians took Makalo In their latest drive. (As sociated Presa Photo) v Not Sales Tax, but Gross Income Levy, G ommission Avers In the first place it isn't a sales tax. Instead, the mea sure passed by the recent special session of the legislature was a gross income tax, the state tax commission declared today. But since the Income tax field em braces levies on net and gross re ceipts and gross sales, the new law has easily, but Incorrectly, been call ed a sales tax, the commlsison ex plained. The gross Income tax, however, would not be passed on to the con sumer on each purchase as the retail sales taxes operate In Washington and California. It would be shift ed only If and when the merchant was able to transfer it Into the cost of doing business. It would be only paid In the form of higher prices on more expensive merchandise. All Income from sales of foodstuffs would be exempt from the tax. This, the commission believes, would cut the tax revenue 50 per cent or from $8,000,000 annually to $4, 000,000. The bill House BUI No. 85, by Rep. Warner B. Snider of Deschutes and Lake counties was Jammed through the legislature on the last day of the session, and was a sub stitute for Snider's H. B. 54, which was an exact copy of the Washing ton state sales tax law. The people will approve or reject the gross income tax at a special election Jan. 31, 1030. Title of the bill supports the tax commission's view In that the act is not a sales tax. It rends: "A bill for an act to provide funds for old age assistance, aid to the blind, aid to dependent children and aid for the unemployed by imposing a priv ilege tax measured by gross Income from retail sales of tangible person al property and, also, a privilege tax mesaured by grass Income from wholesale sales of such property. . ." Neither taking a stand tor or against the bill, the tax commission made these observations for the United Press. "1. First and foremost, the act is a gross Income tax not a sales tax, the fundamental dflfercnce be ing that a gross Income tax Is charged to and paid by the merch ant, not the consumer, and can only be passed on to the consumer In the sense that other Items such as rent and personal property taxes are con sidered In the cost of doing busi ness and added to the merchant's mark-up of his goods and cannot be said to be paid by the consumer any more than the real property taxes on the merchant's store and stock of goods arc paid by the consumer "2. Unuko snips tnxrs. there nrc . no provisions for passing the tax to the consumer, or that the con sumer shall pay the tax at the time of purchase. "3 There are no tokens or other means provided to be used In con nection with small purchases. "4 If it were a sales tax there woud either be provision for pay ment of the tax in pennies or tok ens or at least a means offered of paslng the tax on. Or there would be exemptions of certain small sales and schedules covering sales be tween certain prices, such as are us ed where tokens are In vogue all be ing various types of machinery for passing on the tax. "6 It follows the Indiana gross income tax low the purest type of such inclme tax legislation in the United States and Is similar to the South Dakota and certain other gross Income tax laws. The gross Income tax law Is far different from the retail sales tax defeated by the voters In 1933, the commission said. A sales tax has been voted down twice. The previous law was modeled on the California retail sales tax and provided for the passing on to the consumer of a two per cent tax on each purchase. It contemplated the use of a schedule which would elim inate the tax on purchases up to 15 cents, collect one cent on the next bracket, two cents on the next and so on, or else requires the use of tokens to make change when pennies did not work out evenly. me new law. If approved at the Warehouse Clearance of FAMOUS WASHERS&IRONERS 12 different makes, all greatly reduced floor samples, demonstrators and rebuilt machines all fully guaranteed 15c a Day, No Down Payment Necessary $166 ALUMINUM TUB MAYTAGS $170 EASY DRIER DOUBLE TUB $165 GENUINE ALUMINUM $A fift SQUARE TUB MAYTAG ... AT5U 3 $150 SQUARE TUB MEADOWS WASHERS- $99.50 SQUARE TUB AUTOMATIC WASHER...... 2 $165. COPPER TUB EASY WASH ERS VACUUM fli A TYPE $3450 ONE MINUTE WOODEN A TUB ELEC. WASHER 914)U COPPER TUB MONTGOMERY WARD WASHER (Reconditioned) SEVERAL OTHER A! REDUCED PRICES HOGG BROS. 325 Court St. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. . .... January election, will tax wholesal ers one-quarter of one per cent and retailers two per cent on their gross incomes. Both rates of tax are on sales of tangible ' personal property and not on personal serv ices unless the service Is Incident to the ales of the property as a suit made by a tailor, a meal served in a restaurant, and so on. In order to avoid a nuisance to both the taxpayer and the state, there is an exemption of $50 per month of gross income of each per son from sales of tangible personal property, thereby eliminating the cigar stand, lunch counter and road side stand. The tax will be collected by the commission in monthly installments on or before the end of each month next following the transactions. TITLE ACCEPTED TO . SCUTCHING MILLS Title to the three flax retting and scutching plants which will be built in the Willamette valley by federal and city cooperation was accepted by the state board of control at a meeting late Wednesday. One of the plants will be built at Eugene. The others have not yet been located. Ten Ford V-8 four-door sedans were bought for the highway de partment. Seven of the cars were purchased from Alexander Motor company, Albany, for $4344.20, and three from Isaac R. Tower, Marsh- field, for $1560. Sixty per cent of the state's $60,- 000 annual tire and tube purchases was awarded Lee Tire & Rubber company, Portland, with the bal ance to be distributed by Purchas ing Agent Dan Fry. A $2840 ambulance will be bought for the Oregon State hospital. A new flax scutching machine costing $645 was approved. Improvement of the grounds or the Eastern Oregon Tuberculosis hospital at The Dalles as a WPA project "was approved. $49.50 $59.50 -En $25 $29.50 $24.50 MAKES OF COPPER TUB WASHERS Electric Appliance Store SALEM. OREGON OPERATIC FILM COMEDY, DRAMA IS NOW SHOWING America's favorite baritone, Law- ence Tibbett, returns to the screen in "Metropolitan," the 20th Century production, showing at the Elsinore theater, as the star of a picture that sets new high standards In musicals. In the course of the dramatic co medy, which traces the adventures of a young singer in pursuit of fame and romance, Tibbett sings selections from the operas "Car men," "Pagliacci" and. "The Barber of Seville," as well as a duo of po pularnumbers. Romantic complications beset Tib- bett's path in "Metiopolitan." In love with Virginia Bruce, he cannot reveal his inclinations because Alice Brady loves him. She Is a tempera mental prima donna, and Tibbett's fate, and that of the company, hang on her good will. When Tibbett decides that he cannot pretend for Miss Brady's sake any longer, the company faces a crisis, without money or support ers. The climax shows how this gal lant band of performers rally round their leader and come through with a crashing success. Personally produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, and directed by Richard Boleslawski, "Metropolitan" features Cesar Romero, Luis Alberni, Thurs ton Hall and George Marion, St., in its supporting cost. PROTEST MADE BY ETHIOPIANS Geneva, Nov. 21 (flV-Ethiopia pro tested to the League of Nations yes terday against any claim for a set tlement of her controversey with Italy which might be based on the advances made by Italian armies into Ethiopia. "As the victim of unjustified ag gression perpetrated under the most unfair conditions, said the note, "the Ethiopian government and people refuse to entertain any pro posal which directly or indirectly would allow the aggressor to reap the reward of his crime." The Ethiopian protest accuses Italy of military barbarity and op pression. "With the help of Almighty God," the government stated, "the Ethio pian government and people will fight to the death no matter what the cost and however long the war may last to escape this savage dom ination. "They are confident of the sup port of the League of Nations In winning through in this dreadful ordeal. Ethiopia charged Italy bombarded undefended towns from the air and massacred women and children. It denounced the leaders of the Ita lian armies as claiming to be ful filling "the sacred trust of civiliza tion" on the ground that they ac tually are engaged in murdering a civil population of old men, women and children. The protest attacks Italy saying that an unequal warfare was ac companied by an attempt to buy traitors for cash and to bribe them to rise against the lawful govern ment. Manitowoc, Wis. (IP) Marine dis asters on the Great Lakes from 1900 to 1935 are described and tabulated in chronological ordet in a record book of Capt. Edward Carus, retired local marine authority. nop Phone 6022 , , ,i LtTf' " " New Bridge May be Simpson Memorial Naming of the Coos Bay bridge "A. M. Simpson Memorial bridge" will be considered by the state high way commission at its next meeting in Portland next Tuesday. The span, now under construc tion, is one of the five coast high way bridges, HOME REBEKAHS SERVING DINNER Woodburn The semi-annual election of officers of Home Re bekah lodge No. 58 was held Tues day night at the I.O.O.F-.hall and the following were elected to take office in January; Bculah Lessard, noble grand; Eth el Tresldder, vice grand; Edith Frentz, recording secretary; Mabel Jackson, financial secretary; Myrtit Hall, treasurer. The appointive offi cers will be announced later by the noble grand elect. The Rebekah degree was confer red upon Mrs. Ida Garrison. A num ber of visitors were present from Monitor and Needy and short talks were given by the visiting member during the social hour and also by Mrs. Garrison. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Susan Strike, Mrs. Bculah Lessard and Miss Rowena Cole. Plans were made to hold the an nual family pot-luck dinner Friday at 6:30 o'clock to which members of all branches of the order and their families are invited. The committee in charge includes Mrs. Nora Broy les, Mrs. Edith Frentz and Mrs. Pearl Hopkins. A program will fol low1 the dinner and is being ar ranged by Mrs. Cora Taylor ano Mrs. Myrtle Hall. At the next regular meeting, De cember 3, degrees will be conferred on three candidates and refresh' merits will be served by Opal Ha senyager, Kathleen Garrison and Joyce Woodfin. Chicago (LP) Leo Bterstein bought a $15 German police dog for a watchdog. "He's a one-man ani mal," Bierstein told his friends. Af ter letting the dog out for a run one morning, Bierstein discovered his "watchdog's" collar and license tag had been stolen. A Three Days' Cough Is Your Danger Signal No matter how many medicines yuu imve tnea lor your cougn, cnesc cold or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulslon. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with anything less than Creomul slon, which goes right to the seat of the trouble to aid nature to soothe and heal the Inflamed mem branes as the germ-laden phlegm Is loosened and expelled. Even If other remedies have failed, don't be discouraged, your uruggmi, is uutnorizea to guarantee Creomulslon and to refund your money if you are not satisfied with results from the very first bottle. Get Creomulslon right now. (Adv.) 35th Anniversary Sale! Save on Auto Supplies LOOK AT THESE WHITE ELEPHANTS WE MUST SELL! YOU GAIN Dry Cleaner qt. 23c Dry Cleaner pt 13c Dry Cleaner y2-pt. 5c Liq. Wax, qt 21c Metal Polish pt. 5c Luster Wax ...10c Solvent Soap Va-Pt 15c Furniture Pol- ish, qt. 10c SUPER ANNIVERSARY SPECIALS 1 Repossessed Car Radio $16.95 1 Demonstration car Radio, New Guarantee $21.00 1 Used Set 500-19 Tires, Tubes and Wheels $35.00 and LIBERTY AT CENTER THURSDAY. CAMP COOKERY CLUB TITLED Gates The boys of the camp cookery club have selected their club name, "The Bluejay Porridge Club." The girls' group are to be known as "Patch-'Em-Up Sewing Club" was decided at a special meeting the first of the week. Mrs. H. N. Wilson led the discus sion for the plans for the year. Three AUAmericabasmar veled at the Smooth, creamy quality of Schenley Red Lahel Blended Whiskey. So outstanding a value that you'll agree it's by all odds the best "buy" in whiskies today. Schenley Distributors, Inc. New York, N. Y. FIRESTONE'S BIRTHDAY Celebration Values AUTO AUTO FUSES 5c STEEL BRUSH 15c SPOKE BRUSH : 14c CANVAS GLOVES 13c SPONGE 10c CHAMOIS 29c ASH RECEIVER 10c AUTO BULBS TAIL LIGHTS No. 63 10c HEADLIGHTS No. 1133....23c " TWIN X rj,.uv Pmf Dress tyK fSSl P"'' 1 I up your Jg?E,t J V W'"r- y f V install. J 1X3 W Xmodfi iWr, MDI '''"ill OtfffiKAUTO SUPPLY SERVICE STORE PHONE 9144 NOVEMBER 21, 1935 additions were made to the previous Official list K) inciuue nuuicy oei- lnw ntanlcf DplftrR Dike. SOnit leaden and Zetta White, yell leader. A committee on games, rcireau ments and on program have been rmmoH anrl HpmOnKtrated their EST vice following the business session in a social hour. i Mrs. H. N. Wilson will open her home to the members for a party Saturday evening. Two divisions of the girls organ ization report for work. The second year classes are making tea towels and the third year group are mak ing articles of clothing. ;aasm33 Save on Auto Supplies FIELD GLASSES 3 power, adjustable. Reg. $2.50 value. ,g Qff Sale price .... 9- SUPERETTE AIR HORN Latest model, easily in stalled . EC Sale price .... 9359 STRAIGHT TWIN HORNS Dress up your car in pairs, AS sale price .... J SPARE TIRE LOCK Prevents theft, fits most spare tires, sale price LOCKING GAS CAP Fool-proof and theft proof all cars, ifjik sale price V I C FLASHLIGHTS Nickel plated, with Maz da bulb, carry f At one, sale price.... m Batteries iA for l 5C KOZAK CLOTH Drywash, ,. scientifically treated, absorbs dust will not scratch, 2Ait sale price Yi f
