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Correct address for
fan rebate checks
"Some Oregon taxpayers
who filed their 1974 federal
income tax returns may have
their rebate checks delayed,
"Ralph B. Short, IRS District
Director, explained, "if they
have moved since filing and
failed to notify their post office
of their current address."
Taxpayers who have moved
and failed to leave the post
office a change-of-address
form, may have their rebate
checks returned to the dis
bursing center marked "un
deliverable." Taxpayers anticipating re
bates who have a different
address from that listed on
their 1974 income tax return
should insure that a change-of-address
card is filed with
the post office that serviced
their former address.
Short also provided some
simple rules for determining
the amount of tax rebate to be
received:
If tax liability is less than
$100. then rebate will be full
amount. If liability is $100 to
11.000. then rebate w ill be $100.
If liability is more than $1,000,
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SPECIAL ELECTION BALLOT
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DISTRICT
TO BE HELD IN THE LEXINGTON CITY HALL ON
TUESDAY MAY 6th, 1975 from 1:00p.m. to 8:00p.m.
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Enjoying the open house at the Child Development Center are the youngsters
who attend. From the left, Rachel Terney, Kelly Brannon and Jacque Johnston.
then rebate will be 10 per cent
up to a maximum of $200.
Taxpayers with adjusted
gross incomes exceeding
$20,000 will have rebates
reduced by $1 for every $100 of
income over the $20,000 level.
The maximum rebate allow
able for taxpayers with ad
justed gross incomes exceed
ing $30,000 is $100.
Short stated that the Tax
Reduction Act of 1975 limits
rebates to a maximum of $100
for married taxpayers filing
separately.
Rebates will be issued first
to taxpayers who filed the
earliest income tax forms
The first mail out of rebale
checks is expected to be in the
first week of May.
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1, 1975
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iGUfiialiers have chance to
save everyone money
' Legislation often is consi
dered that would save money
for some taxpayers at the
expense of others. But more
often than not, legislative
solutions wind up costing
nearly everyone more and in
sums the average citizen has
difficulty comprehending.
The Legislature's Senate
Judiciary Committee how
ever, has before it a proposal
designed to save everyone
, money. If enacted, some
proponents content it could
help produce the most signifi
cant dollar saving for the
average Oregon resident since
repeal of the politically un pal
pable surtax-income tax rate
! revision of 1955 57.
The measure before Senate
Judiciary is Senate Bill 822
aimed at deterring a common
criminal practice that is
costing Oregonians more than
$25 million a year.
The $25 million is a highly
conservative estimate of the
annual loss to Oregon mer
chants from shoplifters,
whose activity significantly
increases the cost of doing
business and is reflected in
prices honest consumers pay
for merchandise they buy.
For example, theft of a $10
item from a store operating on
2 per cent after-tax profit
margin means the retailer
must sell $500 worth of
merchandise to compensate
for the loss.
Oregon law already deals
adequately with the criminal
aspects of shoplifting Thefts
of this type to $200 in value are
misdemeanors punishable by
up to a year in jail and $1,000
fine. Thefts in excess of $200
become class C felonies,
punishable by as much as five
years in jail and a fine of
$2.Soo.
But these penalties have not
deterred a steadily rising rate
of what often is described as
the country's most common
crime.
Thirty years ago the aver
age merchant could expect
one visitor out of 60 in his store
would try to steal something.
Today the odds have risen to
the point one out of 15
customers is a potential shop
lifter and one shoplifter out of
20 gets caught.
Sixty-five per cent of all
shoplifters are amateurs.
Seeniy-!ive per cent of those
amateurs are teenagers and
setenty per cent of teenage
amateur shoplifters are girls,
according to S T EM . a
sldtcuxle public information
campaign launched three
years ago by the Oregon
Retail Council. The initials
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stand for Shoplifters Take
Everybody's Money. And in
Oregon, the "take" is in
excess of $70,000 daily,
S.T E.M. has concentrated
its efforts on convincing teens
and their younger brothers
and sisters that shoplifting is a
crime. And its efforts have
paid off. Following an inten
sive campaign during a recent
Christmas shopping season,
one Portland department
store reported a forty per cent
decline in shoplifting appre
hensions. While, concentrating on
young people, S T.E.M's pur
pose is not to put teenage
shoplifters in jail.. It is
designed to keep them out of
jail and to save everyone
money. Oregon merchants so
far have invested nearly
$60,000 in the program and are
continuing its support.
They also have increased
security personnel by 25 per
cent in recent years and have
spent countless thousands of
dollars on other shoplifting
deterrents, such as store
architecture, display techni
ques, eleetonic price tags and
a multitude of surveillance
devices. But each additional
expenditure helps increase the
cost burden ultimately borne
by the honest customer.
SB 822 is patterned after
successful laws adopted in
Idaho and Nevada It does not
tamper with current criminal
procedures by which most
large stores can and do
apprehend and prosecute
shoplifters. Highly trained
security personnel in one
Portland department store
caught 800 shoplifters last
year.
Enactment of the new law
would help the small retailer
most.
Several provisions clarify
existing statutes regarding
Several provisions clarify
existing statutes regarding
detention of suspects and
parental liability in criminal
actions But of greatest signif
icance is a section that would
enable merchants to recover
stolen property and seek
damages of from $100 to $250
in civil proceedings. It would
extend that civil liability to
parents and legal guardians of
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SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1975
ll:00AM.
DON HfllKfR RANCH l(M, OREGON
Located approximately half way between Morgan and lone, Oregon. Co wett
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FORD K9 WHEEL TRACTOR
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1015 FIBRE FORM ISJ BOAT
With 1N Mere IS HP motor
EZ load trailer tt canvas. Atao
Merc I HP Motor
MILLER A.C POWER SUPPLY
A Welder on 2 wheel trailer
Model AEA 200L
2 500 GALLON FUEL TANKS
With Hotel
SEARS RADIAL ARM SAW
1000 GALLON TANK
TECO CALP CHUTE
SEARS AIR COMPRESSOR
150 PSI Complete
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TERMS CASH LUNCH SERVED ON GROUNDS
SALE CONDUCTED BY
MURRAY'S AUCTION CENTER HOOD RIVER, OREGON
Wilbur Murray, Auctioneer, Phone 386-3915
or 676-9183, Mr. Stookey, Heppner, Ore.
minors. As with S T E M., SB
822 is designed to reduce
shoplifting- not to put youth
ful offenders behind bars.
Senate Judiciary Commit
tee has already conducted two
hearings on the bill and is
expected to take subsequent
action soon. Spurring that
action may be testimony from
a seventh and eighth grade
attitude survey conducted by
teams of high school students
in ten cities. Interviewers
reported more than half the
seventh and eighth graders
questioned admitted they
shoplifted. Seventy per cent
recognize shoplifting is a
crime and sixty-five per cent
favor stronger laws against
shoplifting
It would almost appear
Oregon lawmakers have an
opportunity to help those who
find it too difficult to help
, themselves and save everyone
money at the same lime
Ulhizn urges
weed control
The federal government
ought to weed its own back
yard, Cong. Al I'llman said as
he requested $500,000 to bring
weed infestations under con
trol on public lands in Oregon.
Testifying before the Ap
propriations Subcommittee on
Agriculture, I'llman said 10 to
15 per cent of Oregon has
become infested with noxious
weeds because the federal
government has been ignoring
the weed problem on its own
lands.
He asked the committee to
increase the administration's
$50,000 budget for weed con
trol fo $500,000 because the
continuing infestation from
public land is costing Oregon
agriculture millions of dollars.
I'llman also requested a
budget increase for the Co
operative Forestry Research
Program administered
through Oregon State Univer
sity, and testified that almost
no funds are available for the
recently expanded Farmers
Home Administration housing
programs.
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APPROX. IN POLES,
BC ICC offers
farm program
A new farm management
program designed to help area
farmers operate more effi
ciently will be added lo Blue
Mountain Community Col
lege's offerings if the college
budget is approved by the
voters May 6.
The program was added to
the college's growing agri
culture curriculum after a
citizen advlsery group
appeared before the board and
budget committee In Feb
ruary. Budget Committee member
Ben Holdman. Pendleton,
asked that the farm program
be added because "the college
has an obligation to provide
the additional services to
farmers." He said. "Agricul
ture forms the base of our
economy, and if we can't help
Morrow County's Fair and
Rodeo Court will make their
first appearance of the 197$
season at the Arlington Jack
pot Rodeo Saturday, May 3.
Bedding Plants
to arrive May 1
Vegetables
4
All Garden Tools and Needs
Cornott Green Feed
676-9422 Heppner
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BARBED WIRE
HOG WIRE
APPROX. MM FT. ASSTD.
LUMBER
MISC. PAINT, NAILS, ROOF
ING STEEL FENCE POSTS
LADDERS
SMALL OIL TANK with puaap
HOUSE JACKS
2 SMALL PROPANE TANKS
2 SMALL UTILITY TRAILERS
HAY CHOPPER, On Trailer
SMALL HAY CHOPPER
DISC t POINT
OLDER MANURE SPREADER
FARM HAND or HAY LOADER
FOR TRACTOR
BACK BLADE FOR TRACTOR
TOW BAR
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POWER SPRAYER
PTO POST HOLE AUGER
WATER PUMP WITH GAS
ENGINE
OLD INSULATORS
PITCHER PUMP
OLD STOVES
HARNESS
SINGLE TREES
DOUBLE TREES
It-IS tt
our farmers operate more
efficiently the whole area will
suffer economically."
Raymond French of Hepp
ner and Bob Laiinka. Butter
Creek, appeared earlier to
urge adoption of the new
program.
The college budget, to be
voted on in Umatilla and
Morrow counties, will require
a levy of f 1,465,594 to operate
the college for the next school
year. The rate is expected lo
be between $185 and ft 95 per
$1000 true cash value. Cost per
taxpayer would run between
$37 and $39 for a $20,000 home.
The rate depends on total
Umatilla Morrow county
evaluation.
BMCC has no tax base,
requiring an annual election to
provide funds to operate.
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Tube Painting
Open House
Open Home
Hrgree of Honor Rldg.
MavS. 1-1 p.m.
Flowers
Seeds
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