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The Sentinel!
One Year -
Six Months
submitted- this week to the state in
dustrial development commission by
Fragments of Fact
and Faneg '
AH was hurry and bustle over on
the city lot facing on Willard street
this mprning where Chairman Bert
Folsom and a crew of men were busi
ly engaged in getting the tent for the
Chautauqua raised, the platform built
and the seats installed.
Ray Jeub went up to Portland yes
terday moçning to drive a new car
down.
Mrs. W. C. Laird, who has been
visiting here since early in May, in
tends leafing Sunday for hef Mme
in Honolulu. Her sister. Miss Vesta
Boyrie, will accompany her home for
a visit of indefinite lehgth.
Sharing of state non-property tex
collections would “encourage busi
ness in general and the location of
J. M. Sturdivant, a pioneer of Coos new industries in particular in Ore
county and resident of the Coquille gon," is the conclusion of the memo
valley for 40 years, died Monday randum’s authors.
Such sharing
night at his heme at Myrtle Point, would also, it is believed by the
aged 88 years.
League researchers, “represent a con
structive method of hedging against
Last Saturday morning James H. return of the holocaust of property tex
James, one of our oldest citizens and delinquency of the depression peri
a prominent member of the Masonic od;” “help slow down the movement
fraternity, died at his home here at of people from the cities to unin
troubles incident to old age.
corporated suburban areas;” and
“help reduce inequalities of property
ta» bills and benefits ' received from
local government among residents of
different taxing units.”
Particularly available for sharing
with local units .
. county, school
district, and city . . ’, are income
texes and liquor texes, in'addition to
motor vehicle and land-user taxes.
The memorandum outlines a method
of sharing Income taxes by distribut
ing all amounts collected over a cer
tain aum to local units.
. Necessity for sharing state-col
lected texes to relieve the plight of
Last Saturday George Raymond
Clausen and Miss Goldie Gertrude kens, J. K. Norton, Jack Bridges and
Johnson, of Riverton, were married C. W. Gardner.
,
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eamp consists of 300 men and the
average cost to the government Is
31000 per man per year.
Oregon
camps would have cost 13,600,000.
Between 1911 and 1941 property
taxes levied by all governmental units
|ncr«ased 185 per cent, while the as-
teased value of taxable proprty with
in the state increased only 6.1 per
cent, the memorandum points out.
Shrinkages in local tex bases are
accounted for by the removal of sub
stantial Valuations through foreclosure
of marginal properties; by depletion
of timber resources; by removal of
valuable classes of property from
the local tax rolls, such as motor ve
hicle property, stocks, bonds, mort
gages, certain institutional property,
by^ increasingly
large
etc., and
amounts of federal properties not tax
able by local governments.
Tax bills in cities of oVkr 5,000
population varied in 1941 from 7.75
cents per dollar of assessed valuation
in Grants Pass to 3.40 cents in Pen-
(move from cities, and added to tax of improvement of administrative
services will reduce high levies that
primarily result from supplying
governmental services which our 20th
century environment requires, and
which are now being financed on a
tax base designed to support the lit
nuse," the report em
tle red I
it “penny-wise and
phasizfl
Ky major reduction
pound I
iment services.”
of local
I inequalities in different taxing unite.
In pointing out the feasibility of
greater local, sharing of* state-col
lected tex revenues, th«* Leagt»' of
Oregon Cities notes that complete
figures for 194U show Oregon was
30th among the states in local tax
sharing, and test in flneftcial support
given local schools. Oregon shared
ony 7.8 per cent of its collections,
whereas Washington, in first place,
shared 39.2 per cent of its texes.
Only .2 per cent of local school sup
port came from the state in 1938. In
the same year California schools re
ceived 43.2 per cent and Washington
schools 56.7 per cent of their funds
from the state.
Ruled out by the -League as effec
tive remedies for excessively high
property taxes were radical reduction
of public expenditures and stream
lining of local services. “No amount
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