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Salem, Oregon, Friday, April 5, 1957 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section I Page 9 MANY LEGISLATORS LIKE IT Dooley's Tax Plan Would Net $5 Million Over Ceiling By JAMES D. OLSON Capital Journal Writer Speaker ot the House Pat Dooley csumaies mat nis proposed tax plan will bring in close to 270 mil lion dollars, which is 5 milion more than the budget ceiling of ' 263 million set by Democratic leaders. The Speaker's plan, which has had general acceptance by many of the legislators, proposes an in crease in rates (or taxpayers earn ing between $4,000 and $10,000. Present graduated income tax rates start at 2 per cent of the taxable income up to $500 and go upward to S per cent for a taxable income in excess of $8,000. When the 45 per cent surtax was added by the 1955 Legislature, the rates rose from about 3 per cent to 11 per cent. . i Per Cent on 1st $1,000 Under Speaker Dooley's plan, the first $1,000 of taxable income would carry a levy of 5 per cent. There would be 6 per cent for the next $1,000, 8 per cent for the next $2,000 and 10' per cent for taxable income in excess of $4,000. Personal exemption and de pendency credits under Dooley's plan would be increased from $500 to $600, just as it was before the changes made in the tax rates by the 1955 Legislature. A blanket 10 per cent or $1,000, whichever is lesser, is allowed the taxpayer to cover all exemptions. Thus, persons with extremely low income will cither pay nothing or pay just what they are paying under existing rates. The persons with incomes rang ing from $4,000 to $10,000, how ever, would pay more than they do now, while those above $10,000 would pay slightly less. This is based on combined state and federal taxes. Dooley says, that generally families with from $4,000 to $10,000 income would pay more to the state and less to the federal government. Families with more than $10,000 income would pay less to the state and more to the fed eral government. . Dooley's theory is that the tax Increases must be made in the categories where the largest number of taxpayers are situated. The 1955 state income records show that of the total 442.693 re turns made. 418,239 were made by those families earning $10,000 or less. Calls for Offset Elimination In the corporate income tax field, Dooley's plan calls for the elimination of the offset now al lowed for personal taxes paid up to 50 per cent on corporate tax payments. Dooley's plan will likely be amended somewhat, particularly If the Ways and Means Committee calls for expenditures much in ex cess of 26o million dollars. It will pectcd to begin work on the tax De a number of weeks before the program sometime next week, with ways and Means Committee's final the completed program to be ready work is completed. between April 15 and 20, accord- ine House Tax Committee is ex- ing to present estimates. FOR COUPLE, 2 CHILDREN Tax Rate Comparison Total Income 1.000 2.000 3.000 4.000 5,000 6,000 7.000 fl.OOO 9.000 10.000 20.000 30.000 40.000 50.000 60.000 70.000 80.000 90.000 100,000 Preient Income Tun SUIe $ 0 0 19 Federal 0 0 Tout Tlx I 0 Proposed Income' Taxei SUIe I 0 Catholics Hit By NAE Aide BUFFALO, N.Y. m An of ficial of the National Assn. of Evangelicals says the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the United Stales is "a threat to our Ameri can way of life." Clyde W. Taylor of Washington, D.C., secretary of public affairs for the NAE, said last night that Catholic leaders "are per sistently and constantly driving toward the establishment of a Roman Catholic nation with a church-state union. . ." . He gave the principal address on the last day of NAE's 15th an nual convention. Dr. Paul P. Pel ticord of Portland, Ore., was re elected president. Taylor said: "In general. Evangelicals have been alerted to the tactics of the Catholic hier achy to use every loophole to ad vance the cause of their church." He said the "loopholes" were used to "secure (federal' funds to put up hospitals, to buy land through the Federal Housing Ad ministration, to get a 26-million-dollar gift through special legis lation for their (Catholic) work in the Philippines, and to raid fed eral, state and local treasuries." The association represents 40 theologically conservative Protest ant denominations with about two million members. At a business session Thursday the NAE passed a resolution that sharply criticized federal aid to education as tending "toward so cialism, the first step toward totalitarianism." WRONG SPOT FOR CYCLE PORTLAND (UPl John O'Day. 2!, of Portland, picked the wrong place to try out a motorcycle. He lost control of the vehicle while trying it out on the roof parking lot of a supermarket. The bike struck a retaining wall and cata pulted O'Day into the street be low. He is in serious condition. Schaefer Corn Remedy The corn or callous should com off In tie lOdtyi. 25c SCHAEFER'S DRUG STORE Opea Daily 7:30 I. m. fo ( p.m Sundays a, n. to 1 P- m. 115 N. Commercial 75 12' 27 it m as 896 m Bin 169 1.13H 212 1.37 7 267 1,615 324 4.825 1.021 8.024 1.6E0 13.911 2.22 19,5.15 2.731 26. 664 3.163 32.IW4 3.S68 38,659 45,533 4.203 92.652 4,613 Tax ComDUted on total Income less lh fnltnwInD? Percnnal ,y. emption and dependency credit, 10 percent of total Income or Il.OCO whichever Is lesser and accrued Federal income taxes. 2 Tax comouted on total income less the following: Personal ex emption and dependency credit. 10 percent of total Income or' 11,000 whichever is lesser and accrued state income taxes. The above tax tables compare the federal and state income lax, Including the surtax, now paid, compared to the rates which would be In effect If the proposal of State House Speaker Pat Dooley is approved. The plan calls for raising personal exemption and de pendency credit to $600 each and change state tax rates and brackets to: Up to $1,000, 5; $1,000 to $2,000, 6; $2,000 to $4,000, 8, and over $4,000, 10. 78 120 163 20a . 260 . 312 1.036 1.765 2.423 2.M7 3,505 3.980 4.424 4.835 5,213 231 404 576 1.117 1.303 3.789 7.159 11.489 18.533 22.159 28.064 34.234 . 40.698 47,439 Federal O , 0 ' 58 230 403 579 746 929 1.115 1.301 3.794 7.195 11.579 16.686 22.371 28.320 34.5)9 41.072 47,871 Total Tax I 0 70 279 488 700 915 1.142 1.382 1.625 4.814 8.976 13.621 19.418 25.534 31.888 38.491 45.369 92,484 Portland Vice Charge Pleas Due April 12 PORTLAND m A number of persons under indictment by Mult nomah County s vice - probing grand jury are scheduled to enter pleas April . 12. They include Terry Schrunk, Portland mayor charged with ac cepting a bribe and with perjury; Joseph P. McLaughlin and Thom as t. Maioney, both of Seattle; and several Portland pinball in dustry men. MpT.aliphlin and Malnnpv Am accused, among other things, of ,w0 Pcnnics' FIRST OF A SERIES Foreign Aid Questions Lie Like Boulders oh Many Capital Desks Edilor'i Note Bitter con gressional hearings are brewing over President Eisenhower'! re quest for $1,400,000,000 for forelrn aid. This Is the first of five arti cles of U.S. foreign nld programs as a background for the caning debate. By RELMAN MORIN WASHINGTON UB-Take a $20 bill, three singles, a nickel and "internationalist" "Cut back!" the whole conspiring witn Clyde C. Crosby, top Teamster official in Oregon, to profit from selection of a site for Portland's proposed eight-million-dollar sports center. Crosby, for merly a member of the site-selecting committee, also is under - in dictment on the matter. Also arraigned and scheduled to enter their pleas next Friday arc Stan Terry, Lou Dunis and Alvin Brown, alt of whom once were in the pinball business here. They are accused of law violation in con nection with their business deal ings. Meanwhile, the grand jury, which is winding up its business, asked Dep. Dist. Atty. Oscar D. Howlett to appear. But Howlett could not be located. Dist. Atty. William Langlcy, who is under indictment on charges of neglecting his duty and permitting gambling, said he did not know where Howlett was. Langley's trial is scheduled to open Monday. This is what the United States foreign aid programs cost you last year. It is the "per capita" figure. In effect, it means that helping other nations took from every American man, woman and child $23.07. Did you get your money's worth? Did the dollars hit the targets overseas? Merely nick the edges? Or miss completely? Will the same' portion of your taxes be taken this year and sent abroad? How long docs this , have to go on? Indefinitely? Or can Congress cut back now, and eventually stop the programs entirely? Big questions. They lie like boulders on many desks in Washington today. Thou sands of people have written their representatives. Some were angry, some merely puzzled. Their com munications have come from all narlc nf thn mnntrv hliirrinc Iho I old boundaries between "isolation ist" and tions. Many of these say. Some say, "Stop thing." Meanwhile, learns of analysts, specialists, business heads and military men have put the intri cate problems under microscopes. Most of them say, "Don't cut back now." Some recommend, "Step up the Dace." President Eisenhower's own view: "I believe it is one of the cheapest ways we have of insur ing the position in the world we want to maintain." He has asked for $4,400,000,000 for foreign aid programs for the coming fiscal year. Congress isn't ready to vote on that yet. Right now, it is taking testimony from key witnesses. Soon the sparks will be flying from a red-hot story. , At this moment, the mood of Congress appears to be for a cut in the $4,400,000,000. Perhaps to the bone. , Some legislators talk of a one-billion-dollar cut. Others would go even deeper. Some argue that the program hasn't attained its goals. Others say the present approach Is out dated. Still others believe it's a good thing as it stands. In short; there are very mixed feelings about It today on Capitol Hill. Here are some, reflections "Insofar as winning friends or sec I battling the Russians, our foreign aid program has been an abysmal failure," says Sen. Ellender ID La), He traveled in 28 countries last year and submitted a 525 page report to the Senate. "It's a good program," says Sen. Cooper (R-Ky), former am bassador to India. "Nations in the Middle East and Asia that have recently become Independent, and arc trying to establish a stable economy, have great needs. We can't determine where they're go ing to land. But if we're trying to establish the right kind of feel ing, we must help them." "A lot of technical assistance has been baloney," says Congress man Taber (R-NY), veteran mem ber of the House Appropriations Committee. He said he believed the administration of the Inter national Cooperation Administra tion has improved, but added, "There are still many people in it with nothing but political qual ifications for their jobs." Tomorrow: Atlas After 10 Yean Dean Takes Command TAIPEI, Formosa IB Brig. Gen. Fred M. Dean assumed command today of the U. S. air task force In Formosa. He took over from Brig. Gen. Benjamin O, Davis Jr., who is returning to Washington. Dean has been com' mander of the Flying Training Air Force at Waco, Tex. Lloyd Asserts Rightto Differ LONDON -Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd said last night Brit ain claims the right to differ on occasion from "its closest friends and allies" and proposed to "re tain a spirit of robust independ ence." "We do not wish to be the satel lite ot any country," Lloyd told a British-American audience at a dinner given by the Pilgrim So ciety to welcome U. S. Ambassa dor John Hay Whitney. He emphasized what he called the differences that still persist between Britain and America al though an open breach over Brit ain's invasion of Egypt has been patched up. Agreeing with Whitney that the recent Bermuda conference had restored the traditional alli ance, Lloyd declared: "We must never again take friendship for granted. It is a liv ing growth which needs constant core and attention." Whitney told the society the British-U. S. alliance had been re forged as a "titanic force" for world peace. Hearing Set Thursday On Vote Reform Bill The House Elections Committee will hold a hearing next Tuesday evening on the major election re form bill. The bill would repeal about 150 election laws, and would amend another 100. It would provldo the first major cnanges in the election statutes in more than 40 years. N.Y.Man Dies in Double Hit-Run NEW YORK m An unidenti fied man was killed Thursday night when struck almost simul taneously by two hit-and-run driv ers on a Manhattan street. A witness told Dolice the driver of the first car didn't even alow down. The driver of the second car stopped sharply, got out, looked at the body, shouted to onlookers it wasn t my fault," and drove on. MacArthur Statue SEOUL (AV-Tho South Korean government will erect a bronze statue of Gen. Douglas MacArthur to commemorate his role in the Korean War, a Home Ministry source said today. , Favorite figureheads on Amer ican sailing ships included Abra ham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin ana, of all people, Davy Crockett who probably never saw a larger body of water than a river he could swim. 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