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Explanation Given of How Millage, Tax Rates, Levies Determined In County (This is the second of two ar tides prepared from information furnished by the Jackson coun ty assessor's office, regarding taxes in Jackson county. The first, published several weeks ago, explained the manner in which appraisals and assessments are made. The following article describes the manner in which overall taxes are determined, in cluding fixing the rate, in mills, and how this rate is related to the budget, resulting in the total "levy" or amount to be raised throughout a taxing unit, such as a county, city or school district. Editor's note.) 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 mill Is one-tenth of one cent, and is written thus: $.001. There fore a levy of sixty-three and three-tenths mills would be writ ten as $.0633 (or six and thirty-three-hundredths cents). 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 is the amount of money to be spent for the operation of the unit or district for one fiscal year (in some cases, such as the state, for two years). Two Factors The amount of money set up In an operating budget in a coun ty has two controlling factors. The first is a budget commission of three to six men, either elect ed or appointed for a given term of office. The second is the state constitution's limitation on budg et increases from year to year. The budget commissioners are E resented tentative or requested udgets from the various depart ments of the county each year. After the budget requests are all in, the commission determines how much shall be allocated to each department. The final hearings on the total budget are open to the public. Though it is up to the com mission to determine the amount of the budget, they are limited in their decision by the state constitution. The six per cent limitation says in effect that the budget (or the actual amount to be spent) shall not exceed by more than six per cent the high est budget of any one of three preceding years, except by di rect vote of the people. Example Given Here is a hypothetical exam ple: Assume that a county had a budget of $375,000 in 1947; of $400,000 in 1948. and S39S.0U0 in 1949. The 1950 budget can be larger than the highest of these (the $400,000 in 1948) by six per cent, or $24,000. Thus the 1BSU budget cannot, under the con stitution, exceed $424,000. The only exception to this lim itation is when the voters them selves vote additional funds to be spent. (This is what is meant when a tax election ballot ex plains that the proposed levy is "in excess of the six per cent limitation.) Levies are established by sim ple long division. The budget (amount to be spent) is divided by the assessed value (or taxable value) of all real property in the county, to arrive at the levy in mills. Heres another hypothetical example: Subject To Tax bay you are the owner of a house with an assessed valuation of $1,660, located on a lot as sessed at $340, for a total tax able value of $2,000. In other words, it is this $2,000 valuation which is subject to ad valorem (according to value) taxes. Let's say further that your house is located in City X, which is surrounded by School District Y, which is in turn located in County Z. Thus you are subject to city, school district and coun ty taxes. City X has a budget of $5,000, with a total assessed valuation within the city of $200,000. School District Y has a budget of $210,000, with an assessed valuation of $7 million. County Z has a budget of S500.00U. witn an assessed valuation of $60 mil lion. And, since your hypothet ical house is located in all three areas, you have to pay your share of each of the three budgets through taxes. Division Used Here the lone division comes in again. The city divides its budget by its assessed valuation ($5,000 divided by $200,000) and arrives at its millage rate 025. or 25 mills. The school district does the same ($210,000 divided by $7 million) and gets a millage rate of 5.U3U, or au mills. And the county also fol lows the same procedure, divid ing $500,000 by $60 million, get ting a millage rate of $.0083, or eight and three-tenths mills. The total millage rate ($.025 plus $.030 plus $.0083) is $.0633, six and tnirty-three-hundredths cents, or sixty-three and three tenths mills. The next step in determining the amount of tax is to multiply the assessed value of each indi vidual piece of real property by the combined millage rate. Your property has a total assessed val uation of $2,000, so this is what happens: County levy of $.0083 times $2,000 equals a tax of $16.60. 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. Total Tax So $16.60, plus $60, plus $50 results in. 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 which result in your basic taxes. In addition to city, county and school district taxes, your prop erty may be subject to special taxes which have been voted by the people of the area in which you live, in special taxation elec tions, either within or outside the six per cent limitation. These may include a special school tax, a bond redemption tax for construction of buildings or other improvements, a post war fund tax, a special city tax (the continuing levy for Med ford's parks and swimming pool maintenance, recently approved by Medford voters, is an ex ample), a fire patrol tax for rural areas, or an irrigation dis trict tax. Junior Miss Dater ii 9247 SIZES I 1117 piMiiHHMiiitmmii On the Side-8 E v Mn IDIitrlbuted b Kief Features Syndicate. , lee.) i ill,,,,, ..,M,IIIHI,ltllMI,,l,IM"' Whether It rain, Or whether it mow, We must have weather, Whether or no. Old Brooklyn Folk Song. Do you think the climate is changing in your locality? That it is different than when you were a lad? If so, you are prob ably right. Dr. C. E. P. Brooks, the celebrated climatology ex pert, recently voiced the opinion that climates all over the world are changing, especially as to hot ter summers, drier winters and diminishing rainfall. I certainly believe the climate around New York is changing. So far there's been practically no snow here. Why, sir, when I was a kid in Brooklyn it snowed continuously all winter. Or so it seemed to me. My father was the superintend ent (fancy name for janitor) of three flathouses and I was the assistant super intendent, in charge of shoveling the snow off the sidewalks. I hardly ever had that snow shovel out of my hands from January to the last of March. Please Note. Are British actors better than American actors? And how about the actresses? Think it over. We will argue it out later in the semester. This comment inspir- n You'll be so cute to go out with in this dating two-piecer! Darts and gathers at the mid riff give you a figure, and that peplum has a saucy flare. Skirt is new slim at front, back full ness. Pattern 9247: Jr. Miss sizes 11, 13, 15, 17, Size 13, 3's yds. 39 Inch. This easy-to-use pattern gives perfect fit. Complete illustrated Sew Chart shows you every step. 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Yes, it's the most modern of fine cars, yet the price of a Nash Ambassador, even a Custom model regally tailored to your order is as much as a thousand dollars less than cars of comparable size and quality cost! See your Nash dealer, and nake this frank comparison yourself Compmhn to tht Nesh Statttmtm The finest valuee In America's fine care Nod, Motoi, DMiten NseVJChhofe Cofperaffen, DeFrotf, Midi. Only Nmh AmLauaJer Ownera Injay All Tin Wne-Cor Feafurtx Turbo-head Valve-in-head Engine . , . America's highest compression ratio (7.3 to 1) utilizing regulargasoline. America's only 7-bearing, 100 counter-balanced crankshaft. Airflyte Construction. Entire frame and body, welded into one super strong unit, squeak-free and rattle-proof. Twice as rigid, stays new years longer. THtni'S MUCH Of TOMOIIOW IN All NASH DOM TODAY Prtcee may vary fltcbtly tn adjnlnlnc communltlei due to trantporuuon eharsei. CLAUSS MOTORS 5th and Bart left Telephone 2-6185 Grand Jury To Ponder Insane Woman's Case Davenport, la., Jan. 19 U.R) The case of an insane young woman who confessed setting fire to a hospital where 41 wom en died will be given to a coun ty grand jury for consideration, Prosecutor Clark Filseth said today. A three-member county sanity commission took just 17 minutes yesterday to decide that Mrs. El nora Epperly, 22, Rock Island, 111., was suffering from dementia praecox. She was an Inmate of the Mercy hospital mental ward when it burned January 7 and later confessed to setting it afire. Filseth said he would not press a murder charge against Mrs. Epperly but the matter would be turned over to the jury for investigation. Record Peacetime Turkey Supply Seen Washington, Jan. 19 (U.RI A record peacetime turkey supply is in prospect for next fall. The agriculture department said growers plan to raise 41, 384,000 birds. That would be one per cent larger than the 1949 crop and second only to the war time output in 1945. ' The department set a price support floor of 31 cents a pound for the 1949 crop. As a result, it had to take 11,000,000 pounds of turkey meat out of the mar ket and store it in the govern ment's price support hoard. Price supports for the 1950 crop are expected to be lower. 50,000 Gallon Tank Is Believed 'Mislaid' Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 19 (U.R) Red-faced national guard offi cers reported today that a 50,000 gallon gasoline storage tank must have been "mislaid." The tank arrived in Cheyenne two years ago. Its disappearance was not noted until several weeks ago when the guard want ed to put it into use. ed by the arrival of T. S. Eliot's piay "The cocktail Party," with an all-British cast. T. S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Mo., which is also the birthplace of Winston Churchill. I should leave that sentence in without comment. Then I could probably win. a lol of stogies with it from fellows who would say I was balmy; stating that Winston Churchi! as born in St. Louis. However I am not referring to the Britisi statesman, but to the America novelist of that name, the autho of "Richard Carvel," Th Crisis" and other best sellers o the yesteryear. To return to T. S Eliot. He was educated at Hai vard, Oxford and the Sorbonnt He settled in England and be came a British citizen in 1921 Mr. Eliott is an enthusistu aelurophile. I believe he hat about, seventeen cats. Anyway, he has more cats than Jamet Mason, the British actor, ann that's a lot of cats. Asking, Queries from clients. Q. Have just read an article titled "Tht Strongest Woman in the World.' It is about a woman named Kate Sandwina. It says she had a son who was 7 feet tall. Wasn't Kate Sfiidwina the mother of Ted Sandwina, the boxer? Was he " feet tall? A. Kate Sandwina wa. Ted Sandwina's mother. Ted cer tainly was not 7 feet tall, but maybe had a brother who was. Last I heard of Ted he was run ning a cafe somewhere out on Long Island. Mules b Men. The admiration of unusually lengthy fellows by feminine film fans appears to be increasing. A recent sensation in the heart throb line is British Actor Julian Dallas, 28 years old, who is 6 feel 4 inches in height, In the early days of the cinema, film stars oi over 6 feet in height were rare. Most of the movie actors you: mother sighed over were unde. 6 feet and that includes Valen tino. Perhaps mother knew best The records reveal the maioritj of the great lovers of history were under 6 feet. It has also been claimed by women of ex oerience that the men with the greatest capacity for interesting affection are those between 5 feet 7 and 5 feet 9 in height. That Cold. "How is your cold?" asks n kindly Philadelphia client. Just about over, sir. Colds usually last about four days with me. 1 just take it easy and let the cold run its course. Some medical men believe it a mistake . to try to cure a cold too quickly. They say it is one of Nature's ways of cleansing poisons out of the sys tem and that the sufferer is in better health after the cold is over. Over There, Returned traveler says he thought the women in Rome much more beautiful and more smartly dressed than those in Paris .Quite so. The charmers in the Italian capital are the best dressed females in Europe. Rome also has Europe's highest per centage of "oomph girls." Those Italian blondes up around Milan are not hard to look at, either, Stogie Department, "Name a world famous Ameri can actress whose father wai a postman or forward carefully wrapped stogie by return mall," writes an Albany, N. Y., sub scriber. I believe the father of Edna May of "Belle of New York" fame was a postman in Syracuse, N. Y. Or am I stuck for another of my hard , earned stogies? (Acmt Telephoto) SOUGHT Mrs. Yolanda Lopez Puckett (above), daughter of the Vice President of the Philippines, Is being sought on charges that she kidnaped her child from Its father, her divorced husband. The child was allegedly stolen from the home of Puckett's mother in Roswell, N. M. Bhe Is reported to be aboard a plane headed for the Philippines. SUFFER FROM RHEUMATIC PAINS OR ARTHRITIS? TRY MEDICINE ROCK Relief at lait In new local dlicovery, inlnf netlon-wide attention. A lam eat clinical laboratory'! exhaustive reira shew H holds (reel hope for rhaumttlim and arthrltit fulteren. Many leeal people greatly benefitted. Medford and Aihtand drug stores have it oN FOR ? m TAB I DAYS ' Friday and Saturday $2495 $125 A Westinghouse Automatic Coffee Maker Reg. $29.95 NU-TONE SINGLE NOTE CHIMES - Regular $1.95..., A SPECIAL LOT OF LIGHTING FIXTURES At Special Low Red Tag Savings USED RANGES WRINGER TYPE WASHERS At Unheard of Savings TROWBRIDGE & FLYIJN ELECTRIC CO 214 WEST MAIN STREET DIAL 2-5211 MAKE A DATE. FOR Start the new year out by circling a definite date on your calendar... a date on which you'll serve your family Mrs. S. W. Watson's delicious Date Puddingl Make a date, too, to purchase enriched Crown Best Patent flour for all your baking needs. Throughout the Northwest, the best cooks in town are using Crown flout I They agree with Mrs. Watson, Crown Cook-of-the-Month from Longview, Washington, that Crown flour's "results are always good with any recipe ... the quality and texture the very best" Join them soon . , . get Crown Best Patent flour for successful home baking! 4 'ffljm I PATE PUDDING AND TOPPING ICallo It Ttd Raclp) Allot to tool, then add: 1 H9i batft I Vi cup tJffMf Crown ImI Potent Hour Vi tMipoMi baking powder Pat Into pu Urge enough to allow shout 1 inch rising, Bake at 390 about 40 minutes. Add I cup hailing tMr to: 1 cup oVrtot, art In fourths 1 teaspoon moo 1 teaspoon thortenlnf 1 cap granulated luaar Vi teaspoon salt Cook together until thick: Y cup pitted dates cap suaey Vi cap water While hot. spread on baked pudding. When ready to serve, top with whipped cream. CROWN COOK-OF-THE-MONTH Send for a copy of Crown's Special Recipe Folder. Cella Loo, lax A, Crown Mills, Portland, Oregon. Mre. S. W. 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