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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday, November 14. 1963 THE m GAZETTE-TIMES MOHBOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established November 18, 1912. WESLEY A. SHERMAN Editor and Publisher NIWfPAMI ruiusHits -XlSOCtATIOM Subscription Rates: $4.50 Year. Every Thursday and Entered at as Second Class Matter. Robin Hood or Jesse James? A recent editorial in the Oregonian came up with some rather startling facts on the Social Security program. It points out how, under the program, the payroll tax, which started at 1, has climbed to 3 58 on the first $4800 of earnings, or a maximum of $174 per year. This is matched by the employer, making a total of $348 per individual per year going into the fund. By 19G6-67 the rate will go to 4 percent and in 19G8 to 4 58. Thus, by 19G8, $222 will come out of the paycheck of every person under the program who makes $4800 per year or more, and the employer must match that with $222 more. Should President Kennedy's medicare program go through, another 14 would be added, so that in 19G8 each person would contribute $253.50 in taxes, matched by the employer's $253.50. Now consider this: An employee-employer contribution of $500 per year would build up a $50,000 savings account at 6 per cent compound interest over a 40-year working life, from age 25 to 65. The interest on the $50,000 at 4 per cent is $2,000 per year. So a person drawing $165 per month from Social Security would merely be collecting the interest on his own $50,000 estate which he has donated to the federal govern ment rather than leaving it to his children. "That's not Robin Hood lurking in the Potomac Forest, fellow taxpayers," says the Oregonian editorial. "It's Jesse James." Extending some additional Ideas from the daily paper's editorial, we suggest that if you have been under Social Security for say 10 to 20 years, sit down sometime and figure what you and your employer have contributed, adding in the 4 compound interest that you might have received had the money gone into a savings account. The result may surprise you. While the purpose of Social Security to provide old-age security and other benefits is good and noble, the contributor is not merely saving for himself but is getting socked with what amounts to a tax at the same time, and the money is going to the federal coffers. It's too bad that Social Security is not set up like Oregon's State Industrial Accident plan. An employer may reject the plan, but he must provide other accident insurance. It may be agreed that it is right to have an enforced savings plan for Social Security, but why not make it possible for the employee-employer to reject the federal Social Security plan provided that they set aside their own fund as a trust account with savings accruing to the employee and his heirs? This, to be sure, would not provide the federal government with the bonanza from which vast "loans" are made for governmental purposes other than Social Security, but it would stay with the fellow who earned it, supplemented for his benefit by his employer, and the rates would not have to be accelerated so high that, combined with a myriad of other taxes, they pose a real threat to small business today. The contemplated rate of 4 58 that Social Security will eventually exact is enough to make a small businessman, as well as his employee, shake his head with gloom. It is partic ularly vicious to employers whose type of business makes it necessary to carry a high payroll-to-volume ratio. For instance, a business paying 60 of its volume in payroll would contribute close to 3 of its volume, above the 60, in Social Security contributions. ThcTe probably are thousands of small businesses who do not net 3. If the trend continues, one day Jesse James will find that he has few left from whom to plunder. TO THE EDITOR. . . Dear Wes, As a member of the Board of Directors of the Blue Mountain Community College, I sincerely enjoyed and appreciated your editorial November 7. We are proud of our faculty and student body and we believe Blue Moun tain Community College is serv ing a real need in this area. The Board of Directors is con cerned about the future of the College because of the loss of state funds for building. We are not certain what course or courses we can follow to re place the leased buildings we are presently using and to pro vide additional space for in creasing enrollments. The Pen dleton School District has in formed our board that it will need the upper floor of the John Murray Junior High school when our lease expires two years from now. Where the Liberal Arts fa cilities and library will then be located, is one of the many prob lems we face. Generally, the people in the Blue Mountain District have been very generous in their support of their college. The board greatly appreciates the interest and support it has received from them and I am very pleased with the number of students enrolled from Morrow county. I hope that people from Mor row county will follow your sug gestion and visit the college in Pendleton. Thanks again for your informative and accurate coverage of Blue Mountain Com munity College and its facil ities. Sincerely yours, Bob A bra iris Club Adds Members A meeting of the Lively Five 4-H club was called to order In regular form. We decided to name a sewing article when answering roll call. We have two new members, Jeannine Hunt and Dixie Peck. We will fine our club members 5 cents it they have an un excused absence. Our next meeting will be No vember 23 at Jill Padberg's home. Christine Munkers, reporter HEPPNER 1897. Consolidated February 15, HELEN E. SHERMAN Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL Single Copy 10 Cents. Published the Post umce at Heppner, Oregon, Club Reorganizes Hoof and Horn Livestock 4-H club had a reorganization meet ing September 21 at the home of Marcel Jones. Completion cards were filled out for the year. Officers were elected. These are Steve Pettyjohn, president; Al fred Drake, vice president; Ter esa Harshman, secretary; Sue Greenup, recreation leader, and Kit Anderson, sergeant-at-arms. At the meeting October 23 Dean Graves took over as leader. Larry Pettyjohn was elected news reporter. We discussed taking a tour December 7 through Feedville and C&B feed lot. We had a movie about rais ing and culling sheep. We will meet November 21 at the home of Doug Drake. Larry Pettyjohn, repoiter HEC Cancels Meeting The regular meeting of the Rhea Creek Home Economics club, scheduled for Thursday, November 21, has been cancelled, It has been announced. It is ex pected that the December meet ing will be held on the regularly scheduled third Thursday. ftfcffaAitlOW COST, STORM DOOM, STOm WINDOWS, PORCH ENCIOSURES WITH ONI Of TUM-A-LUM 388 N. Main mm wm wi it l Heppner Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman WEDNESDAY headline: "Mad ame Nhu Blasts U. S." Is that something nhu? WINTER surely must be here. Claude Cox says that he has closed up his mountain cabin and is settling down in the valley. When you can keep him away from his favorite haunt, it must be as cold as Pride of Oregon ice cream in the moun tains. VALE'S VIKINGS have an ele- quent way of easing Heppner s disaonointment in losing the western division football title of the Greater Oregon league. The eastern pennant winners beat the western division champ, Burns, onlv 46-0, Saturday. That's convincing enough. This could be you! HEPPNER'S Explorer Scouts are hoping to spur public interest in xne local acuuinin piuiai" and add something for their post fund at a forthcoming "Record Hon" featuring latest dance music and a KUBE disc jockey on Friday night, November 22, at the Legion hall. Scoutine has had its ups and downs here, but the leaders, in cluding Paul Warren, who is in charge of the post, have some new vim and vigor to put into it. They deserve good public support. Evervone short or wooden- legged editors is invited to come out and have a good time. IT WAS quite fitting that the special session of the legis lature convened on Veterans Day. It was much more approp riate to assemble then and take Fergusons Called By Pair of Deaths Mr. and Mrs. Gene E. Ferg uson and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ferguson returned Tuesday evening from southern Oregon where thev attended funeral ser vices Monday, November 11, for sister-in-law, Mrs. 0 1 1 1 n (Pearl) Ferguson, 63. Services were in Gold Beach where she made her home. Mrs. Ferguson s death follow ed only two weeks the death of Otis T. Ferguson, 87, of Langlois, father of Gene and Raymond Ferguson. He had been a ranch er in the Langlois area for many years after leaving Heppner in 1940. He had farming interests here from 1917 to 1939, and was a partner in Ferguson Motor Co, from 1926 to 1940. Services were held at the First Christian church in North Bend on Monday, October 28. He died October 22 at the Bandon hospital where he had been a patient. Survivors include his wife Wilammetta of Bandon; one daughter, Mrs. Vida Estelle of Medford; three sons, Ollin of Gold Beach, Gene E. and Ray mond, Heppner; one sister, Mrs. Letha Hatfield of Kansas; one brother, Homer of California; 11 grandchildren, 26 great grand children and 1 great great grand child. Tabor Shows Gains, According to Letter Word received this week by Mrs. Frank Adkins from Mrs Roy Tabor In Rochester, Minn. tells of some improvement in the condition of her husband, under treatment in Rochester Methodist hospital, Worrall Building, Roch ester. "He's had one x-ray treat ment on his neck and seven on his stomach and will get treat ments every day for a month," she writes. "He's improving, although weak and has no appetite, and has lost 49 lbs. Today he sat up in a chair and walked out to the lobby. Karen and Allen (his children) got to see their daddy. It would cost $G a day to send Junior and Brenda to school in Rochester, so they are staying with Roy's sister in Spring Valley. Roy's parents live on a farm at Spring Valley." Mrs. Tabor and two younger children live with her sister-in-law at 2321 14th Ave., N. W. in Rochester. Need extra cash Sell unused Items around your place with a Gazette-Times classified ad. ,4 III If 1 IHIXJBULJHATTHMQOP.MAOI IITTW, U$T IONJ 15 far just Cut t 4andTack04 LUMBER CO. Ph. 676 3212 a few minutes out in fitting memorial to the men who served their country than to declare a holiday. Holidays, which were set aside to commemorate certain events, have in many instances become times when one may cast cares aside and pursue pleasures with never a thought to the intention of the holiday. So the purpose tends to become a mockery. We can't help but note with some cynicism how much "pat riotic" a good many of us are when Veteran's Day falls on Monday (making it possible for a 2 or 3-day holiday) than we are when it comes in mid-week. In the latter case we often de cide not to close our businesses. If this community prefers to observe Veteran's Day, . and schools are even let out for the occasion, let's have some fitting Program or observance that at lcao' a-ivuwieuKes uie purpusv.-. THIS BRINGS up a related sub jcet. Doesn't it seem a little archaic that we still shut down all public offices on election days? In the old days this might have been done to hold shootings and riots at a minimum, but we should be more civilized than that now. Take the recent special state election: Here we were voting on a measure that involved a severe financial crises for the state. So what did we do? Give all state, county and local of ficials a day off at a cost of many thousands of dollars while we devoted a day to voting. This, by the way, was a task that re quired a voter about one second to make an X. It's the law to close up pub lic offices on election day but it could stand some study. Such pseudo holidays only work additional hardships on those who don't get the same days off. gtw ;rr Tir -hII3 Engine trouble, and not a Far out in the Sulu Sea, beyond the direct ship lanes, the little Ermedita ran into trouble: a shat tered crankshaft. The captain and some of the crewmen left in small boats for help but help never came. Seven days had gone by. There was no radio, just a white flag fluttering from the mast. Not a ship had passed. Supplies were running low. And hope, too. Aboard our tanker, outbound to Sumatra, a lookout thought he saw a flash of white on the far horizon. The captain altered his course to investigate. Extension Studies Home Management lone Extension Unit met No vember 7 at the home of Mrs. Jim Pettyjohn. The project, led by Mrs. Pettyjohn, emphasized the need for using good manage ment to bring about a relaxed holiday season for the entire family. Rather than leave events to chance, she pointed out how a homemaker can guide others of the family in best use of skills, time, money, energy and know-how. In this program, en titled "Twelve Days of Christ mas," members learned five steps toward making a wise de cision regarding pressing prob lems. A business meeting was con ducted by vice chairman Louise Keene. Those present were Mrs. E. M. Baker, Mrs. L. A. McCabe, Mrs. Bryce Keene, Mrs. Wilbur Steagall, Mrs. Emma Breshears and Mrs. Pettyjohn. fl CjSvM UN. FT. 'r-"'" "71 .. .: TIME p-Uke Your Winter ht, Draft:Free TIME to on Your Fuel ig FLEX-O-GLASS Is th. winaow material that 8 YEAR GUARANTEE. name FLEX-O-GLASS Get Genuln. FLEX-O-GLASS At It teas such a tiny speck on the ocean that our tanker almost missed it! STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA Knitters Set Goals The Knlfty Knitters opened their meeting with the flag salute and the 4-H pledge. We set the goals for our club. The rest of .the meeting was a work meeting. Jill Padberg, reporter Couples Hear Talk By Everest Climber Mr. and Mrs. Bob Abrams were in Portland Saturday and Sun day on business and also to at tend a meeting at the Sheraton Hotel of the Mazama Climbing club, of which Mr. Abrams is a member. Guest speaker was Luther Jer stad, one of the members of the American expedition who climo ed to the summit of Mt. Everest. His descriptive talk held much interest for those who attended. Also attending the meeting were Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jepsen of Ion - Home fcNBTACKON only carries a DOORS Look for tha on the edge. Your Local Hdwr. or Lmbr. Dealer service station -fr They found seven shocked, tired men, took them aboard, gave them medical care, and towed their stricken vessel to the Philippines, saving their means of livelihood. It's only one of many times our tanker men have made friends for our Company by giving aid at sea. On land, Standard men and women seek to make equally good friends for our Company-by the char acter of our public services, the integrity of our products, and our behavior as a citizen. ALL TYPES of Moore Rediforma available through the Gazette Times office salesbooks, pur chase order books, requisitions, receipt books, and others. COMMUNITY IT ) BILLBOARD K Coming Events BAND PARENTS MEETING Monday, Nov. Junior High room. 1. 7:00 P.m. School band WSCS SILVER TEA Methodist Church parlors Saturday, Nov. 23, 2 to 4 p.m. Public invited. DEGREE OF HONOR PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION Family Thanksgiving dinner Saturday, Nov. 16, 6:30 p.m. Heppner Christian church Turkey and rolls furnished BASKETBALL GAME Harlem Clowns vs. Morrow All-Stars Monday, November 18 Sponsored by High School Lettermen's club. Tickets now on sale. Adults $1.50, Students $1, Children 50c. . SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 Heppner in sight