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Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, April 10, 1957 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section 2 Page 9 Dooley Target OfMuchHarsh Tax Criticism Speaker-Resents Hints He'd Help Out Top : Executives By GORMAN HOGAN Associated Press Writer Taxation is the "hottest potato In Oregon today." Nobody knows this better than House Speaker Pat Dooley, whose income lax program to finance a 26i million dollar budget has made him the target, in recent days, of some sharp criticism in letters to him personally and to newspapers. His critics arc people unhappy because he proposed increasing the tax of those in the middle income group. The increase, as. he points out, would be small. But any boost these days makes John W. Public see red. City, County Hikes to Blame That's the result, Dooley says, of city and county property tax hikes from which the state gets nothing. But it takes money to ran the slate and Dooley believes that his income tax program will supply funds from the people "in accord ance with their ability to pay." The bulk- must come from the middle income , group because that's where most -.tf the people are. " His plan 'also will have the "least repressive effects on our economy," he says. "We can't hit "nse in the upper brackets too Hard, cither, because they must have an incentive. And, in trulh, if we levied a 100 per cent tax in the bracket above $100,000, for example, we wouldn't raise enough money to run the state for two weeks.' But Dooley objects to the mo tives attributed to him by some of those who support his program. They contend that the reduction his plan would provide for those above the $10,000 income level would create a more favorable climite for high-salaried execu tives who have the most to say about the location of new indus tries. Tax Setup Has No Effect Dooley, who has been working on Oregon's tax problems as a member ot the Legislature and interim tax committees for years says studies show that the state's tax structure has virtually no effect on whether industries will be located here. "The simple fact," he says, "is that industry operates where it can make a profit and for no other reason." A 265 million dollar budget likely couldn't provide for a 50 per cent Increase, to $120 a pupil, in the basic school fund, as Gov. Holmes has called for. Yet 'there' will be an increase. "And even if it isn't the full 50 ner cent." Doolev says, "educa tion supporters should bear in mind that no past Legislature has given basic school support any Increase. The basic support program, he points out, was set up by a vote of the people. The only previous increase in the fund was made by a vote of the people, too. "So whatever increase we can give, coming as it is under a Democratic administration, is evi dence of our good faith, Dooley says. "And it will be a big step toward the goal of 50 per cent." The 311-year-old son of a black smith, Dooley has been called a member of Gov. Holmes' "palace guard" with possibly more influ ence with the chief executive than any other member of the Legis lature.' Questions Influence Extent While he agrees that he and the Governor, a personal friend, "talk things over," he questions the ex tent of influence. 'The Governor respects my judgment on certain affairs and asks my advice." Dooley says. "And, I might add, I feel it's a measure of the Governor that he's big enough to ask for advice. But he makes up his own mind." Dooley, who worked in depres sion days for 20 cents an hour and once was a cargo checker on the Portland waterfront, says that since he's been speaker no less than 250 people have asked him tn use his influence with the Gov ernor to help them get jobs. He doesn't oblige. "I give the Governor advice only when he asks tor it and that never is about jobs." As to rumors he will take a post in the Holmes' administration when the legislative session ends: "I can't afford it. I've got to think of my family's future." As speaker called one of the best in recent history by veteran observers Dooley considers him self an arbiter of sorts, trying to resolve sectional differences with in the party over legislation and keeping the Legislature working at the business to be done. "Things are pretty well laid out as to what's to be done," he says. "The big.prohlem is how to do it." Anyone with ideas on the subject Is welcome to go in and talk things over. ' The door to my office is always open," he says. 'Ban jo' Missionaries Can't Visit N. Y. Jail RIVERHEAD, N.Y. tfl Suffolk County Sheriff Charles Dominy has barred what he calls "self styled missionaries and banjo playing evangelists" from -isiting prisoners in the county jail. Dominy said he took the action to prevent possible jailbreaks. "It isn't any kind of feat to hide a submachinegua in a banjo case," he said. I Italian Actress Meets the Press CHEMICAL COOLAIST USED LOS ANGELES Italian actress Sophia Lorcn is interviewed by reporters after her arrival, at Los Angeles International Air- port yesterday. Miss Loren is In Hollywood to star in Paramount's "Desire Under the ' Elms." (AP Wirephoto) Tractor Crushes Lumber Worker COTTAGE GROVE in A trac tor, being driven up a ramp for loading onto a truck, overturned Monday and fatally crushed the driver, Thomas G. Howard, about 42, an employe of the Bohemia Lumber Co. The accident oc curred four miles east of Cottage Grove. Soviet General Dies MOSCOW (fl The Soviet army newspaper Red Star today an nounced the death of Lt. Gen. I. I. Zatevakhin. a senior instructor at the Voroshilov higher military academy. Red Star said he died in Moscow Sunday after a long illness. Youth Knocked Off Bike, Swept Up by Machine NORWALK. Calif. WV-A 7-year-old boy was hospitalized with painful injuries after being knocked off his bicycle and swept up by a street sweeping machine. Ronald La Rocque suffered severe cuts and brush burns when the whirling bristles of the sweep er plucked him from the pave ment alter the machine had knocked him down while making a U-turn. The driver, C. W. Sibbach Jr., said he was unaware of the ac cident until he heard residents of the neighborhood screaming at him to stop. The boy was carried 125 feet. - Portland Airport Granted 172,805 PORTLAND Wl Portland's new airport terminal, now about 29 per cent completed, received another $172,805 Monday. . 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