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Thursday, January Polio P otter Children Corni 26. 1950 Ashland, Oregoa Southern Or- gm. New» Bevi«« Oregon Fairs Profit 'roiu Racing Progra Y our T axes. .H ow They A re AssessedF March o f Dirnen Honor Guard (Editor's note, the following information concerning property taxation goes into considerable detail in explaining tin- taxes you pay and the manner in which they are arrived at. Although the percentages may not fit your particular locality, they explain the procedure in which your taxes are arrived at) 19.70 iirin-, liilliitn iii nulum’i irurtl epidem ic, Will Ite led fcv If muhi If ¡ley, rtuurlrtl by initier children nf prit I finir year». these (the $400,000 in 1948) by six per cent, or $24,000. Thus the 1950 budget cannot, under the constitution, exceed $424,000. Tin- only exception to this li mitation is when the voters themselves vote additional funds to be spent. (This is what is meant when a tax election bal lot explains that the proposed levy is “in excess of fhe six per cent limitation.) Levies are established by simple long division. The budget (amount to be spent) is divided by the assessed value (or tax able value) of all real property in the county, to arrive at the levy in mills. Here’s another hypothetical example. Assessed Valuation Say you are the owner of a house with an assessed valuation of $1,660, located on a lot as- scsed at $340, for a total taxable value of $2,000. In other words, it is this $2,000 valuation which is subject to ad valorem (accord ing to value) taxes. Let's say further that your house is located in City X , which is surrounded by school dist rict Y, which is in turn located in County Z. Thus you are sub ject to city, school district and county taxes. City Z has a budget of $5,000, which a total assessed valuation within the city of $200,000. School District Y has a budget of $210,000, with an assessed val- lation of $7 million. County Z has a budget of $500,000 with an assessed valuation of $60 m il lion. And, since your hypothet ical house is located in all three areas, yau have to pay your share of each of the three bud gets through taxes. Here the long division comes in again. The city divides its budget by its assessed valuation ($5,000 divided by $200,000) and arrives at its millage rates — $.025, or 25 mills. The school district does the same ($210,- 000 divided by $7 million) and gets a millage rate of $.030, or 30 mills. And the county also follows the same procedure, di viding $500,000 by $60 million, getting a millage rate of $.0083, or eight and three-tenths mills. The total millage rate ($.025 pus $.030 plus $.0083) is $.0633, six and 33 hundredths cents, or sixty-three a n d three-t e n t h s mills. The next step in determining the amount of tax is to m ulti ply the assessed value of each individual piece of real property by the combined millage rate. Your property has a total asses PO R TLA N D , (Special) — Re venues from racing have enabl ed the Oregon Fairs aaaociation sed valuation of $2,000, so this to expand Its program greatly I is what happens according to Herman (.’hinde Tax Levias ren, president of the organizat County levy of $ 0083 times ion, which concluded its annual j $2,000 equals a tax of $16 60. meeting here recently. School district levy of $.030 times $2,000 equals a tax of $60 City levy of $ 025 times $2,000 equals a tax of $50 So— $16 60. plus $60, plus $50 results jn a total tax on your property of $126 60 If, on the other hand, your $2,000 house is located outside the city, but still within the school district and county, your tax would be $16 60 plus $60, or $76.60. This article does not pretend to cover ad valorem taxation in detail, but is written to give a general idea of the procedures DON’T DELAY ! which result in your basic taxes. In addition to city, county and school district taxes, your prop CHECK UP today on erty may be subject to special your Fire Insurance, taxes which have been voted by Don’t w a i t until you the people of the area in which have a iose to learn that you live, in special taxation el your protection is not ections, either within or outside adequate that some the six per cent limitation. These may include a special thing has been over school tax, a bond redemption looked that your pol tax for construction of build icy does not fit because ings or other improvements, a of an addition to vour postwar fund tax, a special city property or a new mort tax (the continuing levy for Med ?age. Call us now. ford’s parks and swimming pool maintenance, recently approved by Medford voters, is an ex ample), a fire patrol tax for ru ral areas, or an irrigation dist- lct tax. For an understanding of real property ad valorem taxation, it is first necessary to define terms used in the technical mat ter of determining taxes. Ad valorem is a latin term meaning simply according to value.” A m ill is one tenth of one cent, and is written thus $.001. Therefor a levy of sixty-three and three-tenths mills would be IV I6 1 buliniti 4 ntl m o n , Or». I 9 t 7 i H a n n It r a r r . H r. written as $ 0633 (or xix and 33 hundredths cento) The word levy for this pur pose, is the amount of money in mills to be collected against each dollar of assessed value A budget for a taxing unit 1911h » n iiil/i H i i n . T r u n is the amount of money to be spent for th e operation of the unit or district for one fiscal U l i I I O f b l M I . S p u , h r c h it year (in some cases, such as the * * ilr r n i r h i i i r p lig h t a n ti p r t ig r a ii state, for two years) - I r p i r l i h r f ig h t n g t i i n i l p o l i o u i l l The amount of money set up h u ir t r i m r i l i r t in i h r 1 9 3 0 J r i t r , J u m ilt) I h u l l . I h r y it i l l n i a l t r « in an operating budget in a r o n r t r t r j u p p rrtl fu r g r r t ilr r ru n county has two controlling fac I n h t i l l u n i In p m r i t l r e f e r t i g e ru n tors The first is a budget com liiiu a lin n o f p a lir n l ra re , r r i r t t - t h mission of three to six men, a n ti r jt ic n lio n n l p ro g ra m 1 rg o ra -l either elected or appointed for tin t r I ' I ' I I p i:. S n liu n u i f o n o 1919; I r r r , 'lu llt ,. 1/ bb , 1*11*1 I.imin Urun 11, I r m i a given term of office. The sec •I niton I n 111 In u it*. ' nrolygte. ond is the state constitution’s March of Dimes poster child limitation on budget increases ren of the past four years w ill BILLINGS AGENCY from year to year form an honor guard to escort Pet Foods and Farm Supplies 'Since July 1683) The Allocation the 1950 March of Dimes poster DEPENDABLE The budget commissioners are girl, Wanda Wiley of Austin, NSURANCE COUNSELORS presented tentative or requested Texus. on a tour of seven East Highway 99 Phoenix Corner Main and Oak budgets from the various depart ern cities on behalf of the Natl Paint • Fertilisera Ashland Hotel Building ments of the county each year. o n u l Foundation for Infantile PO R TLA N D , ORE., JAN 25 taled 9 868 billion board feet, a Weed Killen Phone 8781 A fter the budget requests are all Puralysis during its drive, Jan For the fourth consecutive gain over the previous year of uary 10-31, it was announced year aince the end of World War 680 million feet Orders for these in, the commission determines recently. II, Douglas fir sawmills have four fine woods, as West Cast how much shall be allocated to The final shown a gain in lumber product lumbermen designate these top each department The five children, all of whom hearings on the total budget have been helped with March of ion over the previous year.ac- commercial species, reached 9 95 are open to the public. Dimes funds, w ill lead the nati cording to H. V. Simpgoa, ex billion board feet in 1949, exce Though it is up to the com onwide appeal for greater con ecutive vice president of the eding orders for 1949 by 1 1 b il mission to determine the amount tributions to continue patient West Coact Lumbermen^ Asso lion board feet. The weekly average of West of the budget, they are limited care, research and education pro ciation. in their decision by the state West Coast mills in 1949 pro Coast lumber production in Dec. constitution. The six per cent grams sponsored since 1938 by was 184.427,000 b.f. or 115 6% the Nationul Foundation. Tin- duced 9.51 billion board feet of limitation says in effect that the re c a ll of poster children from lumber, topping the previous of the 1943-1948 overage. O r budget for the actual amount the past emphasizes the need for i p< ar's 20-year record output by ders averaged 174,994,000 b.f.; to be spent shall not exceed by 187,113,000 b .f; increused funds following the j 190 million feet, Simpson said. Shipments more than six per cent the high nation’s worst polio epidemic The relatively small, compact Weekly averages for November est budget of any one of three were; Production 193,626,000 Lubt year The cities they w ill I Douglas fir region of Western preceding years, except by dir- visit include: Washington, D C.; Washington and Oregon main <121 4% of the 1943-1948 aver I ect vote of the people. Anadiar fin» toadarrl of age); Orders 204,170,000 b.f.; tained its leadership at the nat New York, N Y.; Boston, Mass.; Here is a hypothetical exam (ha Kraft Food* Camyany Philadelphia, Pa.: Cleveland, ion's most important lumber i Shipments 214,475,000 b.f. ple: F ifty two weeks of 1949 cum Ohio; Chicago, III : and Detroit, producing section and account ed for 28% of the nation's total ulative production 9,594,981,000 The 6% Limitation Michigan. b.f : Fifty-two weeks of 1948, Assume that a county had a Eight-ycur old Wanda Wiley is lumber cut. f ; Fifty-two budget of $375,000 In 1947; of The lumber leader said ship 9,405,104,000 b the second consecutive poster SUPERB CHEESE FLAVOR $400,000 in 1949, and $395,000 child chosen from Texas to sym ments of Douglas fir, West weeks of 1947, 8,962,268,000 Orders for F ifty two weeks of in 1949. The 1950 budget can • KRAFT GRATED bolize the annual March of Coast hemlock, Western Red Dimes Her selection points up I cedar and Sitka spruce lumber 1949 breakdown as follows: Rail be larger than the highest of the fact that polio may strike an j from this region during 1949 to- 6,999,382,000 b.f.; Truck 446.- 733,000 b.f. Domestic Cargo 1,- area in successive years and 516.742,000 b.f.; Export 322.- that, while the majority of pati 1 is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ents make quick and complete Frank Drury, 2533 Rowan St 657.000 b.f. Local 667.640,000 b f. recoveries, thousands, like Wan- Louisville. Kentucky. The Industry’s unfilled order du, face a prolonged and costly Donad, stricken in 1943, wears uphill fight long after the epi .1 body brace part-time and has file stood at 520,346,000 b.f. at demic lias subsided never been hampered from par the end of December. Gross Wanda was stricken in 1948, ticipation in active sports He is Stocks at 658,654.000 two weeks after her 16-year old still under medical care and vis Shortest History of C ivilizati sister was hospitalized with its the hospital clinic for check polio Both girls were respirator ups every six months He is the on — "Adam to Atom.” cases for several weeks; both son of Mr. and Mrs Edward were sent to Georgia Warm Anderson, Warm Springs Indian Stationery Supplies Springs Foundation for conval- Reservation, Warm Springs. Ore scent care, with all expenses I gon at the News Review paid for by the Travis County Chapter of the National Foun dation More than $8,i)(iu m March of Dimes funds has been BOVS expended t^> date for the care and treatment of the two Wiley sisters. Wanda is now able to get about on crutches and in a wheelchair. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Wiley, 37- I 08 Webberville Road, Austin Wanda’s honor guard in the 1950 March o f Dimes includes the 1949 poster girl, Linda SOME ALL WOOL Brown of San Antonio, Texas, who w ill celebrate her fifth birthday on January 13th. Stricken three and a half years ago, Linda has only a slight limp today as evidence of her bout witli polio. Home treatments, re gular hospital checkups and cor rective surgery have steadily im proved her condition She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon ★ ★ ★ ard Brown, Jr., 234 Cromwell Drive, San Antonio. The other poster children par ticipating with Wanda and Lin-1 da in the 1950 March of Dimes I arc: 5-year old Terry Tullos of , ALL WOOL Laurel, Miss., 1948 poster boy; 7 ' It's ihe most powerful truck engine in Thrift-Master Engine also delivers year old Nancy Drury of Louis- , Chevrolet history! And it's here now more power with improved perform ville, Ky., 1947 poster girl; and | to give you a new high in on-the-job ance. 9-ycar old Donald Anderson of j performance for your 1950 hauling. Warm Springs, Oregon, 1946 ! Come in and look over these new poster boy and first polio pat This great Load-Master Valve-in- Chevrolet Trucks in the light of your ient ever chosen to symbolize Head engine with 105 horsepower own hauling needs. See all the impor the national appeal. enables you to speed up heavy-duty tant improvements for 1950. See how Terry, stricken in 1945 be- | schedules — complete more deliveries Chevrolet offers just the model you lore he had learned to walk, has j in less time. And for light- and medi want—with more power and greater made continuous progress in ov um-duty hauling, Chevrolet's famed value *han ever! ercoming crippling after-effects ADVANCE-DESIGN TRUCKS and now has progressed suffici ently to discard one of his two p* n* D* » * p* * • • leg braces. He is the son of Mr • P rice 1 P erformance 1* L eaders P ayload 1* L eaders P o p u la r ity L eaders L eaders “On the Plaza” and Mrs. Clarence Tullos of Lau rel, Mississippi. Nancy, victim of the 1944 Kentucky epidemic, lias compl etely recovered from her polio attack. Regular physical therapy ASHLAND, OREGON at home and in the hospital for several years has restored her I (By Our Good Service You Will Know Us I limbs to full functional use. She y Douglas Fir Sawm ills On West Coast Continue To Show Gain In Output ç C. Jones & Sons Phoenix Feed & Seed , tg ZT' FLUFFY MACARONI PIUS Sweaters Coat and Slipover 95c BOYS JACKETS 3.45 M J J 1 F S BETTER CLOTHES FOR LESS MONEY SELBY CHEVROLET COMPANY OF
