8 Capita Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 1, 1949
Singer Feature
PENNEY'S,
In Orchestra
AT
One of the many attractions
of uie i4M Cherryland festival
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is the dance held nightly at the
grandstand at the fairgrounds,
with Claude Bird and his or
chestra playing.
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Salem, Oregon
Priest Resigns
From City Club
Portland, July 1 W) The res
lgnatlon of a Catholic prelate
from a prominent civic club be
cause of its recently adopted di
vorce report was disclosed to
day. The Very Rev. Thomas J.
Tobin, vicar-general of the arch
diocese, resigned from the City
club in a protest of a report he
called "a violation of funda
mental human rights."
The report, drafted after
months of study by business and
professional men in the organ
ization, suggested changes in di
vorce laws, marital counseling,
and a possible "family court."
"They proposed to say wheth
er people should marry," said
Father Tobin. "This is a fun
damental privilege of the indi
vidual and the state has no right
to take it away from him."
One bit of the long report
eta forth as a general principle
the premise that the welfare of
the community ahould nave pre
cedence over the desires of peo
ple who wish to make or break
a marriage contract.
Opportunity Drive
Three-Fourths Over
Tokyo, July 1 U. Communist-led
rioters seized a police sta
tion and held it for eight hours
last night in a Fukushima pre
fecture town north of Tokyo.
Jaoanese press reports said
600 to 700 demonstrators, led by
a brass band, overpowered the
small police force in the coal
town of Taira and raised red
flags outside the station.
The rioters were said to have
beaten five policement severely
and smashed windows and furni
ture. They freed a communist
prisoner and locked up one
policeman. Five demonstrators
were Injured during the fight
ing, two of them severely.
The mob dispersed about mid
night. By noon today, the situa
tion was reported quiet. The
rioting was believed in retalia
tion for the removal by police
of a large communist placard
from the center of the city.
Viviem Kellems
Plans Womens' Party
Portland, July 1 (U.B Vivien
Kellems, Connecticut industrial
ist, self-styled reactionary and
one of the government's severest
critics, arrived Thursday en
route to Eugene to visit her 78-year-old
mother.
Miss Kellems said she planned
to start a new political party
a women's party.
"It's motto will be 'Put house
keeping in the White House.' "
Miss Kellems, who operates a
factory at Stonington, Conn., will
refuses to collect withholding
taxes from her employes be
cause It is an "unwarranted"
burden on the employer and
"unconstitutional."
Baron Rothschild,
French Banker, Dies
Paris, July 1 (UP.) Baron Ed
ward Alphonse James de Roths
child. 81, titular head of the
great international banking fam
ily, died at his home here yes
terday. He was a former regent of the
Bank of France, president of the
board of the Nord railways and
a large shareholder in oil, steel
and metal developments.
He leaves a wife, the former
Germaine Halphen, and a son,
Baron Guy de Rothschild.
Last Look Ruth Steinhagen, flanked by Attorney Michael
Brodkin and a policewoman in Chicago's felony court, cranes
her neck to see her hero, Phillies' first baseman Eddie Waitkus
(in wheelchair, right), who she shot June 14 "for the thrill of
murder." The felony court bound her over to the grand jury,
which indicted her for assault with intent to commit murder.
The proceedings in which Waitkus testified against her, took
only one hour and a half. She was adjudged insane at the
hearing. (Acme Telepohto)
HANDLES A MILLION BUCKS A DAY
Pearson, State Treasurer,
Admits Politics as Hobby
By WILLIAM WARREN
What's this? A stale official who admits politics is his hobby!
State Treasurer Walter J. Pearson says golf and politics are
his hobbies. From putter to politics. From state affairs to fairways.
From greens to
greetings they
are uie pui pus
times of your
state treasurer.
Pearson' si
compact depart
ment some 35
employes a 1 1
told closed
Saturdays anc"
Sundays, han
dles nearly a
million bucks a
working day, some $225,000,000
a year.
Income taxes, insurance, in
heritance, gift taxes. Gasoline
and malt beverage taxes. And
taxes in the form of contribu
tions for workmen's accident
and unemployment compensa
tion. Fees, fines, interest, fed
eral government contributions,
and revenue from state sale of
liquor.
All this luscious lucre passes
through the office of state
treasurer.
Featured with the orchestra as
a vocalist is the wife of one of
the orchestra men, Kay Acoff.
Her husband, pianist for the or
chestra, is Norman Acoff.
Kay, who came to Salem two
and a half years ago, and has a
young son 10 months old, who
claims much of her time, is a
brunette. The former Kay But
ler, she has been singing and
writing music since 12 years of
age. For 12 years her interest
was in classical music, but later
she switched to singing the
blues in Los Angeles resort
clubs.
During the time she was sing
ing at Los Angeles clubs Kay
wrote a blues song called Ba
by," which caught the fancy of
Nate Cole and later of Johnny
Mercer. Both used the song for
their orchestra.
. In late 1944 Kay's song was
used by the nationally famous
singer, Peggy Lee, for one of
her first recording sessions with
the Capitol Record company.
Only recently the record was
released in an album of collec
tor's items featuring the best
of several well known singers
and bands.
Members of Bird's orchestra
are all local men. Besides Bird
who plays and Acoff, other
members of the orchestra are
Charles Claggett, drummer: Ed
die Jones, trombone; Dean Pra-
ther, saxaphone; and Ralph Wa
gers,' bass.
WlllUm Warrel
Pearson is quick to point out
that his department functions
efficiently because of a staff
that knows its stuff.
Man-behind-the-know behind
the dough is Fred H. Paulus,
deputy state treasurer. E. E. Pe
terson is cashier.
Betty Tcmplcton, Pearson's
private secretary, and Bcrnice
Martine-Lally, accountant and
attorney in her own right, do
double duty as receptionists.
Pearson says the department be
longs to the public, and the pub
lic is always welcome In the
department, headquartered in
the northwest corner of the Cap
itol's first floor.
The Salem office handles all
the treasurer's business except
inheritance and gift taxes of
Multnomah county, which are
handled by the Portland office.
The inheritance tax brings In
some $1,200,000 a year.
It works like this: If you die,
leaving lineal descendants
children, parents, stepchildren,
stepparents, grandchildren, etc.
your estate is exempt for the
first $10,000. The state will as
sess the estate 1 per cent on
the next $15,000, Hi per cent
on the next $25,000, 2 per cent
on the next $25,000, 3 percent
on the next $25,000, 5 per cent
on the next $200,000, 7 per cent
on the next $200,000, 10 per
cent on the next $500,000 (have
you still got money?) 13 per
cent on the next $500,000, and
15 per cent on everything over
$1,000,000.
If the estate goes to collater
als brothers, sisters, aunts un
cles, nephews, nieces the state
basic inheritance, as listed in the
last paragraph applies. In ad
dition, after $1,000 exemption,
the next $2,000 is tapped for 1
per cent, the next $2,000 for 2
per cent, the next $5,000 for 4
per cent, the next $20,000 for
7 per cent, the next $20,000 for
10 per cent, the next $50,000 for
15 per cent, and everything over
$100,000 for 20 per cent.
Hang on, that's not all.
There's still the stranger class
Money to beneficiaries who
are no relation. First you de
duct the original Inheritance
tax. Then after exempting
$500, you take out 4 per cent
for the next $500, 6 per cent for
the next $1,000, 8 per cent for
the next $2,000, 10 per cent for
the next $6,000, 15 per cent for
the next $15,000, 20 per cent for
the next $25,000 and 25 per cent
for everything over $50,000.
Some try to duck the inherl
tance tax by donating their
dough before they die. But the
state takes a cut of the cake
anyway, in the form of gift
taxes.
If you want to shuffle your
sheckles to charitable, educa
tional or religious establish
ments, your donations are ex
empt from the gift tax. Other
wise, if you have an' urge to un
burden your booty, you'll have
to cut the state in for I'A per
state of any gift not over $10,
000, 2 per cent from $10,000 to
$50,000, 3 per cent from $50,000
to $100,000, 5 per cent from
$100,000 to $300,000, 7 per cent
from $300,000 to $500,000, 10
per cent from $500,000 to $1,
000,000 (say, this is getting
downright generous!) and 12
per cent over $1,000,000.
Practically all slate money
passes through the office of state
treasurer, who incidentally is
also a member of the board of
control, stale land board, state
banking board, state bond com
mission and state reclamation
commission.
Also, it is up to ihe stale
treasurer to invest the state's
surplus cash there's always
some, you know.
Mostly these state investments
amounting to about $169,000,
000 in the two years ended June
30, 1948 are in government
operations. Federal govern
ment bonds, municipal bonds,
school bonds, port bonds.
That way the greenbacks have
a two-way stretch- they help
the various governments func
tion, and at the same time they
make money for the state of
Oregon.
Pearson is married and has
two youngsters, a girl now try
ing her business wings in Port
land, and a boy going to Grant
high school in Portland. I
$117,915,000 for
Oregon Highways
Washington, July 1 (U.R) The
federal works agency recom
mended today that $324,524,500
worth of Improvements be made
in the Oregon and Washington
highway systems in the inter
ests of national defense.
The recommendations includ
ed $117,915,000 for Oregon
highways and $206,609,500 for
Washington. A $50,243,000 fig
ure was proposed for Idaho.
In a report covering nation
wide highway deficiencies, the
agency proposed that congress
boost the federal ante for im
proving highways.
Hawaii, three times the size
of Delaware, grows 90 percent
of the. world s supply of pine
apple. V ; '
Pearson says his duties as
state treasurer do not call for a
lot of travel.
He did go to Washington
D.C., recently to testify for the
proposed Columbia valley au
thority at a congressional hear
ing, but he stressed that he went
as a citizen of Oregon, not as
state treasurer, and he paid all
his expenses out of his own
pocket.
Which comes back to his can
did admission that golf and poli
tics are his hobbies. Says Pear
son:
"What's wrong with politics?
After all the dictionary defini
tion of the word is 'the science
of government.'
"What's wrong with politi
cians? After all, a politician is
'one versed or experienced in
the science of government.' If
a man isn't versed or expert
cenced in the science of govern
ment, why should he ask the
voters to put him in office?
"What we need are more poli
licians, in the original sense of
the word."
Featured With Orchestra
Kay Acoff, local singer, who
is featured as a vocalist with
Claude Bird's orchestra, play
ing nightly for Cherryland
Festival dances.
Army-Reclamation
Plan Now in Bill
Washington, July 1 (U.R) Sen.
Warren Magnuson, (D-Wash),
has introduced a bill to author
ize the reclamation bureau-ar
my engineer c o m p r e h ensive
plan for development of the Co
lumbia river.
Magnuson said in a statement
that he believes the plan should
be authorized in order to in
sure that the projects is includes
will go forward without delay.
He said authorization of the
plan could not be regarded as a
substitute for the proposed Co
lumbia valley administration.
Continued Ban on
Jap Fishing Urged
Seattle, July 1 (P) The con
tinued closure of coastal waters
of all the allied powers to Jap
anese fishermen was recom
mended in a report by a special
American fisheries mission re
leased yesterday through the
U.S. fish and wildlife service.
The report, which followed a
survey of the Japanese fishing
industry, further urged that "it
be made clear to the Japanese
that subsidies on export of fish
or 'dumping' will not be tolerated."
Boy's Mouth Burned
By Firecracker
The first fireworks casualty
reDorted in Salem this
a painful injury suffered Thurs-
aay aiternoon Dy Johnny Judah,
7, who nut a liehted firecrackpr
in his mouth.
The result, bad burns in the
moutn and several loosened
teeth, and part of one thumb
nail blown off.
Johnnv found thf firiarronVof
on the Richmond school
grounds. First aid was ballon
to help him, and succeeded in
taking care of the wound with
out sending him to a hospital.
Tn finlrttlial timni. .
-.. U.U..,UA timcra, pu&iuis were
paid in meat grown by Virginia
planters.
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