4 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Mar. 19, 1947
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Snell Recommends Sales Tax
Without admitting at any time the deficiencies of his
own "balanced budget," for which he has contended as meet
ing the state's needs, in a special message to the Oregon leg
islature commending to that body a plan offering a means
of solving the state's financial problems for at least two
years, Governor Earl Snell has given his tardy and reluctant
endorsement to the three percent sales tax bill tardy in the
sense that two months ago he was busily engaged in disown
ing the tax recommendations of his own interim committee,
and reluctant in the emphasis he places upon his own lack
of enthusiasm for such a tax.
His reluctance, as expressed in the' statement that "I have
never been enthused about a sales tax," qualified as it is by
his admission that "this legislature has studied long and
faithfully" and has reached the conclusion that the sales tax
offers the only visible solution of the tax tangle, may prove
a more compelling argument in favor of the tax than his
outright endorsement.
As further cause of his conversion to the sales tax idea,
the governor points to the fact that "recent court decision
in connection with public welfare places an additional bur
den upon the state's finances sufficient to develop somewhat
of an emergency. There is involved the possible loss of $16.8
million of federal assistance funds. Obviously, that would
bring about a chaotic condition."
Then to make doubly sure that his position as regards
sales taxes in general and this one in particular, he excused
himself again in these words:
"Therefore, I feel it my duty to support this legislature In the
adoption of a sales tax as offering the best and most logical means
of meeting the situation. It is thoroughly understood, of course,
that the measure is being submitted to the people for their final
decision. I so recommend." ,
The state must indeed be in dire financial straits when
even Governor Snell feels it necessary to excuse himself at
such lengths in defense of a definite commitment to any tax
program. Speaking in generalities, as he usually does, the
governor outlined the proposed new plan for financing public
welfare during the coming biennium as follows :
It will include a fixed minimum millage levy on real property
for all counties, tentatively estimated at about four mills, with a
prediction that most counties will
need, and that the maximum levy
counties principally Multnomah in which local demands for
general assistance are abnormally heavy. While the governor
declares such a levy would "not be mandatory" in the sense that
it would not rest as heavily upon some as upon others, he repudi
ates that statement in his next, defining the manner in which the
procedure is outlined.
Said the governor in this respect, "Definite guides are prescribed
governing the county public welfare commission in making esti
mate! of the anticipated cost of public assistance. . . . Estimates
made in conformity with such legislative guides after having
been reviewed by the state public welfare commission will be
certified to the respective counties." Each county would be re
quired to levy a tax sufficient to pay such estimated costs of
public assistance but in no event would any county pay more
than the amount certified for that county on a need basis.
In the counties, chiefly Multnomah, where the estimated cost
of public assistance exceed the amount which the maximum levy
would bring in, "the excess will be supplied from state funds and
federal funds." That means that the surplus hold in reserve by
the welfare commission to make up such deficits in the Portland
welfare expense would be painlessly separated from the rest of
th counties, although not revealed in the tax levy of those
counties.
One bright spot in the otherwise gloomy welfare skies is
the governor's statement that the general welfare costs, of
which the state is now paying 85 percent and the counties 15
percent in which the federal government does not partici
pate the counties would be placed on a more equitable per
centage basis for all kinds of relief. The state would pay a
flat 70 percent toward the expense of all types of public as
sistance and the counties 30 percent.
The governor also committed himself to a program or for
mulas which would give to the counties a portion of all sales
tax receipts with which to offset county property taxes in
the amount they would be levied for public welfare. He
said that it is his recommendation that "receipts sufficient
from the proposed sales tax, if adopted will be earmarked
for this increased portion of the state's welfare program.
. . . Without such additional funds from some source, further
complications are inevitable."
In an obvious effort to prepare the way for his intrusion
upon the legislative picture, Governor Snell took occasion
to call attention and to excuse the manner in which the ses
sion has been dragged out. "Right here I want to commend
the members of this assembly for their determination to do
the job thoroughly, orderly and well, even though it means
great personal sacrifice and time and money. Following
such courageous leadership, the lawmakers and their army
of paid assistants should be able to wind up the job and get
home by the Fourth of July. The chief executive, under
pressure from all angles, has at least set the peg upon which
the legislature can hang the whole tax program and adjourn.
Teachers Winning Higher Salaries
The nation-wide demands of teachers for higher salaries
accompanied by school closing strikes in some instances has
resulted in legislative action in seven states raising minimum
salaries, increasing retirement benefits and in some cases
granting additional funds for length of service and experi
ence. Two state legislatures have killed similar legislation
and bills to increase pay are pending in many others. Mean
while local school boards all over the country have provided
additional pay for instructors.
States that have passed pay increases are Delaware, Idaho,
Indiana, Nevada, New York, North Dakota and West Vir
ginia. States which killed pay raises were Montana and
New Mexico. Passage of a wage measure is assured in Ari
zona, where the bill is in conference committee, after both
houses passed different versions.
States where salary increase bills are pending include
Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mich
igan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ore
gon, Texas and Wisconsin.
The increased pay voted varies with the states from $200
a year up, depending on education and experience. In New
York an emergency salary increase of $300 a month was fol
lowed by measures fixing the permanent salarv schedule at
$2000 to $5,125 yearly and granting additional salary and
merit boosts, which perhaps tops the list of increases
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Notlc. Il hereby ilvrn that the com
mon council ol the eiiy ot Salem. Oreion.
tleems It neceaaary and expedient and
hereby declares tin purpose and Inten
tion to Improve Claude street Irom the
cast line of Ford street to the east line
t Txenty.thlrd'. street at the expense o!
he abutting and adjacent property, ex
jepl the, street and alley Intersections
the expense 01 which will be assumed
by tha city of Salem, by brmalnx said
portion of said street to the es'sbl'sher'
trade. constructina cement v. .terete
urba, and pavlni aald portion ol laid
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every afternoon except Sunday at
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levy much less on the basis of
will be necessary only in those
street with an asphaltlo concrete pave
ment thirty leet wide. In accordance with
the plana and specifications therefor
which were adopted by the common coun
cil March 5. I7 which are now on
llle In the office of the city recorder
and which hereby are made a part 01
this notice.
The common council hereby declares
Its purpose and Intention of maklni the
above described Improvement by and
throuih tha street Improvement depart
ment. By order of the common council March
ft. 1947:
ALFRED MUMDT. oily Recorder
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By Don
There's never been a radical
change made in our civic daily
lives in these part, but a howl
went up about same, this being
especially true in traffic matters.
We can remember years back
when folks used to park their
cars downtown by backing them
up against the curb and when
they went out into traffic they'd
hca,d out as fast as a jalopy of
those days could get away from
a standing start. When this
change was made the holler was
loud and long. But in a few
weeks the kick died down and
nobody would have stood for a
change back. The same thing
happened when there was first
talk of downtown traffic lights,
when the cops put the no left
turn signs in the downtown in
tersections, et cetera. A big
hullabuloo was put up which
promptly died down after the
switch was made and nobody
would think of going back to
the old systems. We can't help
but wonder if this isn't what
would happen should the people
by some rare miracle adopt a
sales tax, we betcha.
It was 35 years ago or so that
people first began agitating the
city manager form of govern
ment in Salem and it was voted
on a number of times before it
finally carried, but now that it's
in the matter has quieted down
to less than a whisper, Just an
other exemple of what we tried
to express in the preceding para
graph. So maybe there's a
chance for a sales tax to carry,
even yet.
A mra, old cArrientntT friend
ship which sprang up during the
war between ueorge towards,
ntv r1ptertivf rind Ral Main.
prowler car operator, when the
two boys entered into partner
ship to win the war with garlic
has split up, It seems. At any
As I See It
by
ELMORE PHILPOTT
One swallow does not make a summer. But when you ge'
three letters in the same mail from far corners of this continent
and when they all say the same thing they are worth think
ing about. A railroad expert in f-
Spokane, Wash.; another one in
Vancouver, Canada, and a coal
miner in Nova Scotia all write
in the same vein.
The Spokane man says:
"You are to be congratulated
for your concern, which accords
with mine, at number of train
wrecks, but your neighbor's
plan for installing "monorail
to end accidents is far-fetched.
What this country needs is not
a revolutionary change in rail
road operation but to put real
railroad men, and not financiers,
at the helm of the great prop
erties. "Why do you think the Union
Pacific won the safety emblem
for 17 years out of 25? Was it
smart financing or political in
fluence, or because President
Bill Jeffers knew how to oper
ate a railroad safely and was
America's smartest operating
officer?"
My friend gives many tech
nical hints of how necessary it
is to check up on laxities and
safety violations especially by
surprise checks of speeds on
curvature. He reasons that we
will never get back to this while
the bankers and lawyers are
running the railroads.
The British Columbia rail
roader is a union man. He says:
"Don't blame the railroads
for the awful mesa of empty
wheat elevators in Vancouver
while the ships wait around for
wheat to rush to hungry Brit
ain. Each year more and more
control moves east. We fellows
who actually run the trains
know that the local officials are
doing the best they can with the
powers they have. But the
Higher-up Jobs are more and
more passing into the hands of
non-railroaden."
supper
Upjohn
rate, George is going into the
gardening end himself this year
and his ex-partner, Buck, says
he's out. But even George has
abandoned the idea of raising
garlic. During the victory gar
den days they figured they'd
raise enough garlic to take care
of the situation on the coast but
it seems the only ones that bene
fitted were moles or similar
pests. George has now switched
over to onions. He says if he's
going to get away from raising
garlic he's going to do it by de
grees, figuring the shock would
be too great to quit all at once
and he thinkrthe smell of onions
is milder. George can smell out
a criminal a mile and a half
away and It seems like taking
long chances to have the best
nose for criminals in town get
its scenter dulled by garlic and
onions, but maybe George knows
what he's doing.
The Forgotten Remedy.
Washington, (P) A father of
eight children blamed spare-the-rod
theories for the nations juv
enile delinquency problem. Rep.
Gross (R-Pa) a York county
farmer who said he also "took
in and raised" four children in
addition to his own eight, told
the house "the only' answer to
juvenile delinquency lies in the
home." Midst cheers and ap
plause he concluded with this
advice: "If the school teachers
gives 'im a lickin' in school,
give 'im another lickin' when he
gets home and you'll soon do
away with a lot of this juvenile
delinquency."
The foregoing suggestion
works all right up to the time
they get on the high school foot
ball team. Then papa applies it
at his own peril.
The belief that some species of
snake have poisoned horns on
their tails is false.
The Nova Scotia coal miner
says that the strike there is
pretty tough to take, but he
thinks it has to be fought right
through. The miners feel a
terrible sense of frustration be
cause they do not even know
who their "employers" are. The
big steel and coal corporation
they work for is represented by
a group of corporation lawyers
in Montreal. These themselves
are merely agents for unknown
interests who may live in Can
ada, New York or Timbuctoo for
all the miners know.
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A letter in another vein comes
from an elderly but irate lady
who was born in Cape Breton
and who resents my recent de
scription of conditions in Glace
Bay.
She says that "there is no
spot on all the earth so lovely,"
and that "it is a shame to give
people such a false impression."
I was not "running down"
Cape Breton, which is famous
all over the world for its nat
ural beauty. I was trying to
show what modern depersonal
ized corporationism has done to
that natural beauty spot.
A mother writes about the
shortage of sugar as follows:
"Can anyone explain why we
are not growing sugar beets
everywhere to make us less de
pendent on outside sources? Or
why sugar cane juice has not
been dehydrated? This proc
ess is twice as efficient as ordi
nary methods, according to Dr.
Royal Lee, a Milwaukee dentist.
In a report to the thirteenth
annual convention of the Den
tal association he said that not
only would dehydration yield
twice the amount of sugar, but
it also contains most of the vita-
mini and minerals. Sugar cane
By DeWItt MacKenzle
(AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
England's colorful ambassa
dor to Washington, Lord Inver
chapel, declares he rejects any
suggestion that Britain "is fin
ished as a world power," there
by challenging those prophets
who view John Bull's future
darkly.
Addressing the English
speaking union and the Rich
mond (Va.) forum, Invercha
pel asserted with characteristic
forthrightness that he failed "to
follow the arguments of peo
ple who say that our guts have
withered and shriveled within
us and that we have lost our
power and will to work." He
added that Britons still have
the guts which "will carry us
out of the present crisis as they
have carried us out of far graver
crises in the past."
I question whether Lord In
verchapel would find many
among well-informed Ameri
can who would bet him that he
is wrong in this declaration.
The determination of the fol
lowers of Winston Churchill
through the valley of "blood,
tojl, tears and sweat," is still
too fresh in our minds to per
mit of doubts about England's
stability.
Different Reaction
However, with a slight
change in the phraseology of
the ambassador's thesis, we pro
bably should get a different re
action. It would have been an
other story had he talked about
Britain being "finished as an
imperial power" that is, as the
imperial giant of half a cen
tury ago. Since then there has
been a vast transformation in
which we have seen the British
commonwealth of nations take
the place of the bulk of the em
pire in which England has
found It expedient to grant in
dependence to her priceless In
dian and Burmese possessions
and in which she herself has
ceased to be the globe's para
mount financial and Industrial
nation.
Still, despite these changes It
would be absurd to believe that
the capital of the British com
monwealth of nations encom
passing Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, the Union of South
Africa and England herself
had ceased to be a world pow
er. We must recognize, though,
that its strength lies In the fact
that it is the heart of that com
monwealth. Not Temporary
Had there been any doubt
about the significance of this
metamorphosis it would be dis
pelled by the nature of the pres
ent politico - economic crisis.
This is not, I believe, any tem
porary afflication. It was, of
course, brought about by the
exigencies of the late war, but
it was on its way long before
the war as part of the trans
formation of the empire.
Indeed, one seems to see an
admission of this in England's
request that America take over
her interests as dominant pow
er In Greece and Turkey. Equal
ly striking was the decision of
the British general staff last
year that in the event of an
other world war England
wouldn't be able to defend her
imperial life-line through the
Mediterranean a sea which
she had controlled for genera
tions. The defenses are to be
shifted to East Africa.
juices are among the richest
sources of these, especially
vitamins A, B, C and K, also
calcium.
"The process is simple sim
ilar to that in egg and milk
drying. We are already pro
ducing a molasses from wood
waste. This is to be used as
cattle feed. Research people
say sugar could be made from
the product. Surely with all
these sources something can be
done to cut down cost of sugar
to families with moderate in-
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$85,500,000 for
Rolling Stock
Raising Its expenditures for
new rolling stock received or or
dered since V-J day to a total
of more than $85,500,000, South
ern Pacific company has placed
orders for 6200 more freight
cars of various types, according
to announcement by A. T. Mer
cier, president.
Deliveries of the new cars are
scheduled to start in the third
quarter of this year and run into
the first quarter of 1948, Mr.
Mercier said. Included in the
new orders are 3000 lightweight
box cars, 500 automobile cars,
2000 gondolas, 500 flat cars and
100 covered hopper cars, order
ed from five car building com
panies, and 100 sulphur-carrying
cars to be built in the rail
road's own shops.
Announcement was also made
that deliveries are expected to
start in the next few weeks
on Southern Pacific's previous
orders for 20 freight and five
passenger diesel-electric loco
motives for main line operations.
All of these powerful loco
motives are scheduled to be in
service before the end of this
year, together with earlier or
ders of 1000 box cars, 50 ca
booses with bay windows in
stead of the conventional cupo
las, and 23 diesel-electric switch
engines. A large number of the
new switches have been received
The company's switching fleet
of this kind is already one of
the largest in the country.
The railroad also has on order
52 streamlined passenger cars
for the coming diesel-powered
"Shasta Daylights" to be oper
ated on the San Francisco-Portland
run, the diesel-powered
"Golden Rockets" for the Los
Angeles-Chicago run, and other
streamlined trains.
Included in the total expendi
ture of about $85,500,000 is
Southern Pacific's half owner
ship in 5100 postwar refrigera
tor cars for the Pacific Fruit
Express company. Only 100 of
these have been received but
the remaining 5 0 0 0 cars are
promised for delivery this year
to bring the PFE fleet to a total
of about 41.000 cars.
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Mayoralty Agreement
Los Angeles, March 19 W)
Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, De
troit, vacationing in California,
agreed with Mayor Fletcher
Bowron, Los Angeles, that in
their cities:
Smog is bad.
Housing, terrible.
Crime, growing."
Employment, good.
But, on population, said Jef
fries: "We still believe Detroit
is the fourth largest city in the
nation and you believe Los An
geles Is; and that's that."
Double Play
Bloomineton. 111.. Marnh 10
W) Deputy sheriffs sped to
nearly a score of establishments
in surprise raids in search of
gambling machines.
The deputies who stopped at
a downtown pool hall didn't
take time to find a parking
place and when they returned
from the raid they found po
lice had given them a traffic
violation ticket.
Sheriff Curtis Gilberts said
the raid was worth more than
the SI fine assessed the rirmntips
for double parking.
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Upon the Celebration of
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35th Anniversary
CITY ELECTRIC CO.
(Fred M. Snider, Prop.)
245 Center St. Salem
A representative in the U. S.
House must be more than 24 ,
years old and a U. S. senator!
must be more than 29 years '
old.
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