Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Page Five
SSFalNEWS
o Less Tax Money
o Border Patrol
o Reciprocity
By A. Lk LINDBECK
Returned to Farm Credit Board
Thursday, Dec. 7, 1939
Salem Oregon property owners
will be required to pay only $301,
203.89 toward the support of state
government in 1940. The remainder
of the $8,965,025.73 required to fi
nance the state's tax-supported ac
tivities will come from income taxes
and miscellaneous fees.
Tax requirements of the state
within the constitutional six per
cent limitation total $7,245,046.78 with
special millages authorized by vote
of the people acounting for an ad
ditional $1,719,978.95. Included in
this last figure is $1,132,856 for high
er education, $449,546.03 for. the
World War Veterans State Aid com
mission, and $137,576.92 for irriga
tion district interest bonds.
This is the first time in three years
the state has levied a tax on prop
erty. The recurrence of the property
levy this year is accounted for 'by
the inclusion of the bonus commis
sion levy of one-half mill, which was
waived in the 1939 levy, and the
gradual increase in the tax base
through the constant application of
the six per cent increase each year.
The elementary school tax of $1,
798,184.12 while included in the state
levy is not properly a state tax in
asmuch as the tax is retained by the
several counties and is distributed
among the elementary schools.
If you are an average consumer
of water utilities operating in Ore
gon your water bills for 1938 totalled
$30.87, according to statistics com
piled by O. R. Bean, public utilities
commissioner. Of this amount $5.94,
or 13.71 per cent went toward the
payment of taxes.
Lynn F. Cronemiller, mentioned as
a possible successor to J. W. Fer
guson, state forester, when the tat
ter's resignation becomes effective
December 31, is not in line for the
appointment according to authorita
tive sources. Cronemiller served as
state forester prior to the appoint
ment of Ferguson four years ago
and has continued in the employ of
the department since that time in
other capacities.
Arthur A. Rogers of Eugene took
over his new duties as state super
intendent of banks Friday, succeed
ing Mark Skinner who has held that
position for the past four years,
Rogers, a republican, was formerly
president of the First National bank
at Eugene but more recently was
connected with the Federal Land
bank at Spokane.
Oregon national guardsmen will
wind up their special seven days of
field training this winter, on Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday of this
week. The final field training period
was originally set for January 5
and 7, but was moved up to the ear
lier date so that the guardsmen will
be able to draw their extra pay be
fore Christmas.
The California border patrol about
which Oregon motorists have been
wont to complain a great deal in the
past appear to really have been bless
ings in disguise according to Frank
McKennon, chief of the Oregon de
partment of agricultures division of
plant industry. For instance only
recently some Japanese beetle lar
vae which had stowed away in an
Oregon car which had visited the
state of New Jersey, were detected
by the California inspectors and pre
vented from entering this state to
do any damage. Numerous instances
are cited by McKennon to illustrate
the vigilance of the California in
spectors in detecting pests of various
kinds being carried into this state
by Oregon motorists returning from
a tour of the east or middle west.
New reciprocal agreements were
entered into between automobile
registration officials of Oregon
Washington and California meeting
here last week. Under these agree
ments transient workers will be
permitted to operate their cars in
any of the coast states without ob
taining new license plates so long as
they are properly registered and li
censed in their home state. This
William A. Schoenfeld (left), dean of agriculture at Oregon State
College, Corvallis, and Harvey R. Shoultes (right), Chehalis, Washington,
dairyman and cooperative leader, begin new terms in January on the
board of directors of the Farm Credit Administration of Spokane and its
credit units. Both are members of the present board. Shoultes was
elected by Federal Land Bank borrowers of Washington, Oregon, Idaho
and Montana. Dean Schoenfeld was appointed by Governor F. F. Hill, of
the FCA, to represent agriculture and
agreement is of particular import
ance to workers living near the state
line whose work takes them into the
adjoining state. Trucks registered
and licensed in their home state will
also be exempt from registration in
the other states so long as they re
frain from doing any intrastate bus
iness. A 90-acre island in the lower Co
lumbia river has just been "dis
covered" by the state land board.
Of course the island has been there
all the time and other residents of
the state knew of its existence for
it has been in cultivation for the
past 20 years or more but the land
board had no record of its existence
and has never received any revenue
from it. Now it will be leased and
the rental turned into the common
school fund.
Farmers are being urged by John
Cooteiy farm placement officer with
the state employment service, to do
as much of their work as possible
during the slack winter months. The
business revival, Cooter points out,
is causing a shortage of help hereto
fore available for work on the farm.
Forest Grove, Heppner and Stay
ton are among the Oregon towns
which have- enjoyed a reduction in
fire insurance rates during the past
year, according to Hugh Earls, state
insurance commissioner. The rate
reductions followed reductions in
losses from fires in the several cities,
Earle explained.
Salaries earned by state officials
and employees will be subject to
the federal income tax for the first
time in history. A recent ruling of
the United States supreme court
opened the way not only to the tax
ation of state employees by the fed
eral government but of the taxation
of federal employees by state gov
ernments. Department heads are
now engaged in making out payrolls
for submission to the federal in
come tax department.
State Insurance Commissioner
Earle has refused to license between
70 and 80 local dealers of the Gen
eral Motors corporation as insurance
agents on the ground that their prin
cipal business would consist of the
insurance of their own property. The
automobile dealers sought licenses
as agents of the Motor Insurance
corporation, a subsidiary of General
Motors, organized for the purpose of
insuring new automobiles sold by
General Motors dealers. Under the
proposed plan the automobile deal
ers were to write the insurance at
so-called board rates but were to
keep the commissions themselves.
The State Association of Insurance
agents and a number of independent
agents filed protests against the
granting of the applications.
A move is on foot here to per
suade Governor Sprague to declare
the Saturdays immediately preced-
in Christmas and New Years as le
gal holidays. Inasmuch as these two
holidays fall on Monday this year
the plan would provide a three -day
holiday. Workers in public offices
and banks would be the principal
the public on the board.
beneficiaries of such a plan. Inas
much as state and county employees
already have Saturday afternoons
off it is doubtful if the governor will
accede to the requect.
There were more fatal accidents
on Thursday than on any other day
of the week during the month of
October, according to figures com
piled by the state safety division. Of
the 20 fatal accidents during the
month, seven were on Thursdays.
Sundays saw five fatal accidents
with two on Saturdays.
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