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SHERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL,
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- ^bljrrraau County .IJuurnal
Published Every Friday
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Gtlea L. French - ---------- Editor
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P u a t u lf it a a t M oro.
O ra fo n .
under Act
of l<in <re«a o f M a rc h 3. 1373.
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H L B H C K IP T IO N R A T E S
ONE YEAR
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A P R IL 12, 1957
VARIABLE RATIO
The press informs that the
state senate will likely approve
some bill lor a
variable ratio.
That means that valuation of pro
perty will be because of owner
ship Instead of Intrinsic value.
a city
ciLv lot
lot neionxmx
uw-
A
belonging to Joe
Doakes
Who
lives vu
on it n will
have
janes
wuu
uvea
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Doakes WHO nves on
valuation baaed un wm
lhe fa.l
that it is Joe Doakes’ home, if
he sells it to a utility company it
will have a higher valuation be
cause it belongs to a utility com
pany. A farm will be valued at a
Higher rate in proportion to its
actual value than will a home in
town.
it is probably
orouauiy me w
um pro
i/«w-
It
worst
posal
th it could be the made
toward
mixing politics with taxation, it
is essentially dishonest.
Senators are said to fear that
the humesleaO exemption now
vffttinif siunatures in Portland
wo^ld be^adoptedby! the people
unless the legislature passes some
« i of variable ratio
There is
some Justification for the home-
stead exemption in that homes do
not bring in actual income, it is
not
to eacuat a lower
MORO. OREGON.
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FRIDAY. APRIL 1«, 1937
Letter From Salem
The scheme of Speaker Tat
By Nicky Tom
Dooley to change the income tax
The legislature moves now into
rates has caught on with some what we hope will be the final
of the party leaders. It Is, as we quarter of the game. Up to this
commented last week, evidence of point there has been a great deal
home serious thinking.
of activity, but few bills of major
It is some other things.
importance have gone through
Five percent is a high rate at both houses.
which to start an income tax even
Now the big measures are stir
when it is softened by a $000 ring in committees. For the re
exemption. A lower exemption mainder of the session attention
and a lower rate would make will be focused on education,
a better graduated and better bal taxes and the budget.
ance tax structure. The Dooley
Early this past week House
plan would hit the smaller tax Speaker Pat Dooley brought out
payer harder than it wouid larg his proposed tax program. He
er taxpayers. Il would Help men stated that he was shooting at a
with large families and good in figure of about $265,000,000.
comes.
The Dooley plan raises exemp
The new scheme would raise tions $500 to $600, which excuses
but little more money than the about 12,000 people who are now
present plan with the -45% sur paying taxes.
This obviously
tax—which everyone has prom means that a smaller percentage
ised to repeal, and no one has— of the people will be paying a
Even with the $30 million the greater proportion of the taxes.
Republicans left the Democrats,
Some people may recall that at
it would hardly pay for the prob
able budget and, of course, that the last session of the legislature
$30 millions can be used but once. a tax plan was passed by the
In the
next
or —
before,
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wvwww biennium, w
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J 4 House
3WMOV which shifted the
--- burden
it would be necessary to increas'.* Of taxes downward, as Mr. Dooley
rates or find a new tax. Another is now proposing. On the day the
possibility wouid be to do what bill was passed Dooley made a
* enw * present
legislator, to be lengthy oration in opposition to
-
this ..most regressive” tax pro
un hlnkable-eut tbe budget.
The Dooley plan is a pretty gram.
In the coining days you wi’l
crude income tax system having
but four brackets and those un read and hear much discussion of
evenly spread.
it needs more percentage comparisons between
the new tax program and those of
thinking.
the past two bienniums.
Such
comparisons tenu to be unrealistic
SCH O O L B IL L
because opinions are molded by
income bracket of the indlvid-
A group of opponents of Senate the
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Bill 64 met in Pendleton Saturday ual making
and made plans for a program
uni
that would relieve the oppression feel t^a toth®y . ^ e 1^ 1rylng
caused by that bill.
fair share of the load,
The program collalsts uf retain. J h b u i x
h
1
lng the same distribution for an- $32,000,000 surplus ten oy i
thZr biennium , passing the $7 legislature, will take c a r. of the
million appropriation for building needs of this tom ng i t
new school buildings in poor dis- If the budget is held at $260,000.-
tricts, an additional appropriation ooo Many
’^ m i n g ’
for the poor districts and an in-
f^o bllnnium if the pre-
terim committee to find a better in the ob-60 bienr iu
P ,
w v t o Olalrlbule the elate school
the »32.«X),OUO
La3t Monday a delegation of
wheat growers from our general
area appeared before the House
taxation committee in support of
SB 92, which would take the stare
out of the property tax flelu.
Speaking on the bill, Wheat Lea
gue President Raphael Raymond
said, “Farm lands in Oregon are
being taxed twice as high as the
same lands in Washington and
one third higher than farm lands
In California.”
During the hearing the witness
es were badgered by three Demo
cratic members of the Taxation
committee with questions as to
why this measure has not been
passed before, If it is so neces
sary.
In other words, "If we
didn’t need it before we don’t
need it now." If you can make
any sense out of this argqment
you are wiser than I.
' T lu n g in g the tax ratio to 1.1 Un-
li Ig • h""0 ................... Uthoug I urplua having bean spent.
demands of a protesting group is we doubt the advisability of giv-
On Friday of the pa3t week
to start a policy that can never lng the entire
$7 million for Allen moved to bring HB 1 to
result in fair taxation, it will give school construction without some the floor of the House for final
the majority political advantage checks. The study committee passage. This hill, introduced at
over the minority, it will break would be named by the governor the request of the Governor, in
the state up into warring groups, and we believe that more than cludes the repeal of the surtax
it will certainly
handicap the one person should have a voice in and the income tax structure.
state in getting addtlonil resi- the selection of committeemen,
The motion was defeated by a
dents for who would want to Jive
Certainly If the western Oregon vote of 35 to 21. Following this
in a state managed on so strictly counties that stand to benefit action,
Representative Wayne
a political basis.
most from SB 64 push that bill, Gelsy moved to call HB No. 361
Changing the ratio means, as is, through the legislature it to the floor, this being the surtax
briefly tills: Say the true cash will touch off one of the harde t repealer Introduced by all the Re
value of a piece of property is fights on school and tax matters publicans in the legislature. Hla
$1000. It la assessed at a ratio of the state haH seen—and it has motion also was defeated.
its true cash value. This ratio had lots of them. It might very
This action was taken to protest
could
be - 50%
or $500 if a home; - well be the end of the basic the fact that the tax program
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It could he 75% or $750 If a farm; school plan entirely with the In- an(, the repeai of the surtax are
it could he 100% If a utility, equities it has brought and the inc|U<ied in the same bill. Because
it could be 100% or $1000 if a util- additional costs it has engendered of lhis it wm »x? impossible for
lty. Utilities will he allowed to without preceptible aid to educa- anyone
anvone’ to vote against the in
______ ■ crease in taxes without voting
duurge ingiici rates iin
b Uon.
system, of course, so that won’t
against the repeal of the surtax.
Moro IxHlge No. 113 I.O.O.F.
help anyone but bookkeepers.
Some feel this Is polltcal black
Meets
1st
and
3rd
What appalls us is the purely Tuesdays in I.O.O.F.
mail.
political approach to government, hall. Transient and
During the past two weeks We
the headlong attempt to gain visiting brothers are
have had a good many worried
votes at the cost of public hon- cordially invited.
letters from farmers In our area
protesting four Senate Bills and
Mty. We do n o tlH -O e v elh at rlow M arti,,. n .G.
urging the passage of one. SB 68
Oregon» cltlaen. are »o m oraly
..... Walk,n,
s Secretary
Leo
Watkins,
depraved that they resent fair
1 mentioned in
one earlier
luxation, nor do we think a ma Bethlehcm^TBnpter N o TT h O.K.H. column. We call It the "antl-do-ll-
jority of them want a tax system
Meets every second yourself” bill, since it would re
Thursday each month.* quire that a licensed contractor
bused on favoritism.
Visiting • members In be hired for any carpentry job
vited. Moro, Oregon
costing over one hundred dollars.
WARM DAY»
Genevieve Powell, W. M.
SB 12 would require a building
Gwen Ross, Secretary
permit from the county for any
It was warm the first of the
week and the frost stopped com B u r k a Lodge No. 121 A.F.AA.M. new building, or remodeling an
ing at nights. The wheat, held
Meets on the 1st and old one, on a farm. SB 131 re-
3rd Thursday evenings quin's a license from the State
back by cold damp weather res
each month. Visiting Department of I^altor for anyone
ponded by turning a dark green
members cordially In operating a steam or refrigera
and shooting up toward the Joint
vited to meet with us. tion plant. This would affect mint
ing stage in a rush to catch up.
Paul Alley, W.M.
growers In the operation of their
Garden seeds swelled and put
distilleries, and could even reach
shoots up through the ground at Clyde Glllmor, Secretary
ihe behest of the sun.
All this I.iiptue RebeluH Ixwtge Me. $!• the steam cleaners used by farm
ers to clean tractors and other
was cheering to agriculturalists,
(Meets 2nd and 4th
machinery.
professional and amateur.
of each J
SB 94 Is the minimum wage
Spring always has a different Tuesdays
month.
Visiting
law. calling for a $1 per hour min
way of coming, It seems. There frtemlters welcome.
imum, Including all types of ag
are years when a booming Chin
Grahenhorst. NG
rlcultural labor.
ook announces It, years when it L Vada
DeMoss, Sec.
comes In February before anyone
expects It and years when It is
long delayed and then quietly
arrives as the benediction after
too long prayer. This year was
like that.
Frogs that have stolidly with
held their vocal applause turned
up their pipes one warm evening
WE GIVE
to give their official sanction to
the advent of the long delayed
S and H
Green Stamps
season.
Trees have been slow about
ON ALL
putting out leaves because of the
recurring frosts and even the
smaller bushes, berry or decora
Residential
tive, have been cautions about
taking part In spring without a
Commercial
warmer Invitation. Those old-
curmudgeons, the locusts, still re
fuse to believe the signs and wld
Farm
wait until the radical plants have
tested the weather Itefore they
risk their conservative leaves.
llKATING OIL ACCOUNTS
A few warm days are a won
derful tonic for plant and animal.
They restore the spirit as well as
CALL
the body and send a man whist
ling down the street who last
G I 2-5454 WASCO
week went grumpily and so un
happy he would hardly speak.
We like our neighbors better; we
IKA FRIDLEY
like ourselves better. Glorious
these warm spring days.
UNION HEAT1NÜ OIL
Now we are hearing that all
eported gambling In Portland
ras just In fun. Sure, sure. But
h? winners kept the money.
JJNION OIL CO. of CALIF.
©
Farmers may also be dismayed
to learn that their Industrial
Accident Rates will be up about
50% if House Bills 260. 450 and
502, now In the Labor and Indus
tries committee, are passed.
Representative George Annala,
Hood River, has revised his form
ula for reapportionment of the
House In an attmept to pull the
bill off the table In the State and
Federal Affairs. He is putting up
a valiant fight. How about lend
ing a little moral support?
I promised you a conclusion
this week to the story of The Man
Who Came to Dinner (at the Gov
ernor’s house). He did go back
on the proper night, and Governor
Holme said they had missed him
at luqch. The End.
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE to CREDITOR»
Nouce is hereby given that the
undersigned has been duly ap
pointed Executrix of the Estate
of Harley Dutton, Deceased, and
has qualified. All persons having
claims against said estate are
hereby notified and required to
present the same, duly verified,
and with the proper vouchers, to
the undersigned at the residence
of the undersigned at Wasco
Oregon, within six month from
the date of the first publication
of this notice, to-wit: April 12,
1957.
Emma Dutton
Executrix of the Last Will and
Testament of Harley Dutton,
Deceased.
Donald E. Heisler
Attorney for Estate
23-6c
W ANT
ambition. Write The J. R. Wat
kins Company, 3903 Brooklyn
trailer. W. M Aatdewcn Box
354 Redmond, Ph 33R3
22-4p
Avenue, Seattle 5, Washington.
22-27c
The Sherman High Boother Mo
thers will give another benefit WANTED: Saleslady and Sales
card party at the school cafe-
man to sell McNess Products
torium April 29 at 8 p. m. All
part or full time. Big profits.
No experience needed. .Will
kinds of cards will be played
and refreshments served. Adin.
teach and finance you. Write to
day. McNESS CO., Box 14, Bay-
$1.00
23c
shore Station, Oakland, 23, Cal.
WANTED. Pasture for 20 cows
22-29p
and calves. Floyd Rathbun,
Wasco, Oregon.
23c Custom Slaughtering by appoint
ment only. Meat cutting, wrap
HORSE for Sale: Half breed
ping, sharp freeze. Kenny’s
Tennessee walker, 5-yrs old.
Market. Grass Valley, Oregon.
Helen Sather, Kent. Call Grass
Call 242 for appointment.
7c
Valley 683.
21-3p
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FOR SALE: 1950 D6 Cat, 4200
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23-4c
FOR SALE. Brown Swiss milch
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FOR SALE: TD-14, $2250. TD-40
Moore blade $1500; Model 184
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