Page 14 Section 1 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Salem, Oregon, Thursday, December 13, 1958 Legislature's Tax Troubles Affect Schools By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. Associated Press writer SALEM tfi The key to whether the 1957 Oregon Legislature will have financial troubles hinges on whether it plans to increase the basic school support fund. Gov. Elmo Smith will submit a balanced budget of about 260 mil lion dollars (or the next two years. Hungarians Reach Italy MILAN'. Italy UP A French airliner landed here yesterday with 45 Hungarians from the Olympic Games in Melbourne. Most of them vere expected to So on to Budapest by special train. 'We must return to Budapest because out families are there," one member of the Hungarian water polo team told reporters. Dr. G. Rozrony. fencing team official, said "most members" of the group would go on to Hun gary. 'it may be." he added, "that about 10 per cent of the athletes will prefer to remain here in or der to have exact news of their families. Those knowing their rel atives are in Hungary will return home." A second plane carrying B2 more Hungarian athletes is sched' uled to arrive here Thursday. But It will be based upon keeping basic school support, which is the state's way of helping school dis tricts, at the present level of $80 per 6chool census child per year. The groups interested jn schools, hacked by the Legislature's Inter im Committee on Education, want it increased to $120 per child. Democrats ana ncpuDiicans alike arc pledged to repeal the 45 per 'cent income surtax that was voted in 1355. It looks, how ever, as though income tax rates will be increased to raise the same amount of money as the sur tax. ' If that is done, says a state Tax Commission expert, the state won t have any financial problcr I in the next two years. Provided, of course, that the basic school formula isn't chanced to $120, If the basic school increase is approved, then the Legislature would have to find about 38 mil lion dollars in additional revenue Since the Democratic majority in the House is committed against a sales tax. raising that kind of money won't be easy. Supporters of the basic school fund increase point out that it wouldn't increase total taxes. It would only shift some more of the burden from the school districts to the state, and thus bring about a reduction in local property taxes. The people, by a very narrow margin, voted in 1MB tor the Bas ic school support plan, providing for $50 per year per child. I he theory was that the state should Tell Your Meddling Sisters To Mind Their Own Business By DOROTHY DIX ni.-An nnnnTHY DIX: Several years ago I came home take care of my invalid mother, who recently passed away. A single brother lived at home, and there are several married sisters wun homes of inei own. inrougnoui moi.ncr s nines.,, I had full responsibility for her. Now that she is gone, my brother has asked me to remain and keep house for him. We get along very well, and the arrangement would be ideal, except for the sisters who are interfering. They tell me what to do, what to buy, how much lo spend. Friends say I am foolish to stay under these circumstances, but I know my brother and I would be happy if the others kept out. What should I do?-Polly. DEAR POLLY: Tell the meddling relations lo slay out. Remind them that this Is your home. You don't go around butting into their domestic affairs, and you expect the same courteous restraint from them. Stress the fact that you love your family and want to enjoy harmonious living with everyone, but there is a limit of endurance beyond which they cannot go. n DEAR DOROTHY DIX: There nro two darling boys In my school I don't neluallv know them and they don't know me, although we are In four classes together. How can I introduce myself in a sbutlc manner? Tessa. DEAR TESSA: II you young people aren't acquainted after sce- Inl each other every day. 1 doubt II subtlety will go. Maybe you don't have to be as obvious as "Pardon me, could you givo me the history assignment for tomorrow? I didn't quite catch it!" Can't you take no a collection, sell tickets for a basketball came. Inveigle vol unteers to decorate for the Christmas dance or make up a caroling party? My stars, girl, have you no initiative? DEAR DOROTHY DIX: If I think a boy Is culc, I get very shy. I have a feeling boys are aware of their attraction and would think me stupid for noticing them. Teeny. DEAR TEENY: Boys are appreciative of girls who notice their good points. I seriously doubt that any young man would admit to being "cute," however. DEAR DOROTHY DIX: My husband is wonderful about every thing but my clothes. When we married two years ago, I had an ex tensive and expensive wardrobe. Now that we're buying a home, naturally I haven't anything new to wear. When we go out he always complains about my old-fashioned dress, or shoes. Sometimes I have to change three times before 1 satisfy him. Dinah. DEAR DINAH: Assuming that wardrobe replacements are fi nancially out of the question, let your husband select your clothes before instead of after you dress. DEAR DOROTHY DIX: Martin comes over lo my house two or three times a week after school. I used to like him, but stopped because he is such a pest. How can I tell him he's a pest without hurting his feelings? Slielin DEAR SHELIA: Today's pest oflen becomes tomorrow's pet! Send your problem In Dorothy DIx. Or write for her free leaflet D-19. "Are You A Gond Daughter-ln-Law?" In all rases, he sure to enclose a stamped, trlf-artdrcssrd envelope, and send request lo her rare of this newspaper. "COT THE COOD 01D SNIFFLES!" ! Bmm TISSUE jjjl SIZE PKGS. j jyR- LIMIT 2 PLEASE m f Downtown pay half the cost of education. but it amounted only to 36 perl cent in the first year. j In 1950, the people, again by a! small margin, voted to boost the, apportionment to $80, the idea again being to try to bring thej state's share to 50 per cent. j However, because of soaring! costs at the local level. Hie state's share never did get to 50 per cent. I Now it's about 33 per cent. Back in 1H47, the stale paid IS million dollars in basic school aid. I This year the total is-36 millions With a $120 formula, it would soar beyond 55 millions a year. The slate budget for the current hiennium is 221 millions. Of that amount, 111 millions is being spent for grade, high school and college education. With the number of children In creasing rapidly, you can't talk in terms of -reducing state ex penses when education eats up half the budget. But basic school fund now amounts to 32 per cent of thej state budget. If the $120 formula! is approved, it would be 39 perj cent. I A principal theory of basic' school aid is that it is intended to: equalize education costs and op portunities throughout the state. I In other words, the rich districts help pay the costs in poor dis tricts. I Consequently, the rich districts' generally aren't enthusiastic j about the idea. Supporters of the $120 formula believe they have a friend in Rob ert D. Holmes, Democratic governor-elect. Holmes, as a state senator, has been education'. staunch friend. It was he who car ried the ball during the reorgan ization of the school system a few years ago. He hasn't said whether he'll go for the $120 formula. If he does, he'll also have to say how the state should pay the extra cost. Israel Admits Massacre of Arab Families JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector ,11 .Israeli authorities disclosed Thursday the killing of a num ber of Arabs by Israeli frontier police in a curfew' incident 45 days ago at Kfar Kassem, a village near the Jordan border. Men, women and children were slain. The exact number, was not disclosed. Premier David Ben Gurion said it was a "terrible oc currence." and the police respon sible will be tried. The government has decided to pay 1,000 Israeli pounds ($560) to every Arab family affected. All deputies in the Israeli Par liament stood in silence in mem ory of the victims. Joseph spnn ! zak, the speaker, read a state ' ment expressing shock and bewil i derment at the shooting. An all-night curfew was pro ' claimed In several Israeli villages on the eastern border after the Sinai Peninsula invasion and a j unit of Israeli border police was 'charged with supervising it. Villages generally complied with the curfew order, but 'some who came home after the curfew hour were killed by jnembers of the patrol. Molalla Lad Burned MOLALLA (Special) Mrs. John Rollins' grandson, Dickey Grieve, nearly 2 years old, was badly burned recently pn the left arm when a glass coffee-maker ex ploded, spilling boiling coffee on his arm. Dickie had just been brought home from the doctor's of fice after receiving a shot for coldj and was hurried back to receive . treatment for second degree burns. It i j i' mfMT iml M I j gf Y U'Lzi LJ 8 LI LU U U LJ U Iter O! Ol open TON GOT PHONE 3-9191 o 550 N. CAPITOL nn V