CLACKAMAS COUNTY NEWS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1929 fAGE six reduction of county road bonds and ESTACADA LOCALS Tax Relief Com­ interest thereon. Approval of the principle of com­ Douglass Johnson finally took the mission Submits m issioner-m anager governm ent for flu and was confined to his home has been given by the com­ for several days last week. Ten Proposals counties mission, leaving the m atter to the leg­ Miss Maude Sherman, primary islature to subm it to the people a teacher in the Estacada schools, made Tlie S late P roperty Tax Relief constitutional am endm ent which herself a fine Christmas present when Commission has agreed upon ten m a­ would be optional as to application she purchased a radio set. jo r recom m endations to the legisla by th e vote of the counties them Mrs. Mae Reed's brother, Mr. Oak­ tu re for the purpose of equalizing selves. ley of Newburg, visited the Reed R ecom m endations is made of some home for a few days last week. the tax load and to relieve taxation on tangible property. The program control of local bond issues. The Richard Hayman of Portland vis­ deals with the problem s of both state proposal of public hearings in ad ited his parents in Estacada Satur­ and local taxation and provides for vance of the election is suggested day. equalization through a plan of cen­ ulong with a lim itation of one-third Mr. and Mrs. John Githens are tralized control of assessm ent under of the assessed valuation in overlap driving a new Model A Ford four- the state tax commission. This pro­ ping territo ries. It is proposed th at door sedan, recently purchased from posal would encourage the equaliza­ the laws relating to state and local the Bob Cooke Motor company. budgets have m ore teeth in them and tion of property values with counties. th at aceounintg practices be stan d ­ Banks would be taxed under the HERE AND THERE A system of forest taxation fo u rth m ethod prescribed by the fed­ ardized. to encourage reforestation is recom-' eral law for the taxation of national mended. F or the purpose of obtain­ Sixteen-year-old Marie Dravier of banks, follow ing the plan recom m end­ ing France, married Henri Oav- from federal forest Nantes, ed in C alifornia for an excise tax of lands, revenues euse, a banker, 76 years old. legislation by congress is rec­ probably four per cent on net in­ After a run of four blocks, Mrs. L. come. Coming under this tax would ommended. This is the substance of the pro­ H. Foster of Chicago, overtook and be com peting moneyed capital admin istered by financial corporations and uf the P roperty Tax Relief seized a burglar who had fled from oil husin, - S , corporations, including Commission so fa r as Its major rec- her home. m ercantile and m anufacturing con- om m endations are concerned, cerns. A gainst this excise tax would The bill d raftin g com m ittee will Agnes Birnes, aged 21 of Boston, be an o ffset fo r taxes paid on per- | bring these suggestions to the legis- was arrested for stealing her grand­ sonal property up to 90 per cent of lature in concrete form . T heir adop- mother’s money for a sweeheart. the am ount. tion will reduce taxes on real estate John L. Norman, 72, of Seattle, The personal property of national an