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Record Breaking County Budget Planned During 1952-53;
ore 0-C Money Allocated for Roads, Courthouse Addition
By ERIC ALLEN JR.
Mail Tiibuns City Editor
Jackson county will spend a
lot ol money in the coming year,
if present budget plans go
through.
The budget which totals an
all-time record high of $2,270,
572 has a number of inter
esting features this year.
One is a proposed $200,000
"sinking fund" to pay for a pro
posed new courthouse addition,
which has long been the dream
of county officials. They have
felt the need for such an addit
ion, they say, but this is the first
year that there may be funds
which could be used for the
purpose. Their being published
in the budget is the first public
announcement of the tentative
plans.
Another new feature is a
$200,000 "sinking fund" for
county roads and bridges.
Money From O and C
The money for these two items
$400,000 is not in the cash
register yet. They are paper fig
ures, and represent expected in
creases in federal payments
A from federal Oregon and Calif
ornia revested lands.
The story of the O and C lands
and the income from them
(which is the chief financial
mainstay of 18 western Oregon
land grant counties) is too long
to be told here. But briefly, the
counties in recent years have
been receiving 50 per cent of
the income from the federally
administered lands. Also in re
cent years, another 25 per cent
of the O and C income has gone
to make payments of back tax
es due the counties from the
period during which the federal
government agreed to pay ad
valorem taxes to the counties,
and became delinquent. These
back tax payments were com
pleted in 1943, and in June,
1951,- other obligations charged
to O and C Income were cleared
"P.
Bigger Payment Due
Since last June, the counties
have been receiving their 50 per
cent, and sooner or later when
federal bookkeeping "catches
up," will receive the additional
25 per cent. It is this amount,
half as large as the previous to
tal payments, which is expected
to help increase O and C income
to the counties.
A further complication in
forecasting future O and C pay
ments is the fact that congress
is now studying bills which
would change the percentage of
the counties' share.
But under the present set up,
Jackson county can expect a
minimum of more than $1,000,
000,000 perhaps considerably
more.
This, then, is the money which
the two "sinking funds" are de
signed to accomodate If end
when it becomes available.
Just how much actually will
be received is anybody's guess,
and is dependent on a variety
of circumstances, including tim
ber prices and timber sales.
There's an outside chance that
the county may run into a snag
in the courthouse sinking fund.
A similar plan was under con
sideration this year in Lane
county, which needsa new
courthouse, but it was declared
legally questionable by the dis
trict attorney there.
OK'd by Attorney General
However, on May 1, 1952, the
state's attorney general ruled
that a 1945 law authorizes fi
nancing of public projects, and
their maintenance, by the use of
sinking funds. It was on this ad
vice that the county acted in
setting it up.
Whether any objections will
be made to the proposed budget
remains to be seen. If there are,
they will be heard at the public
budget hearing which has. been
set for 10 a. m., Wednesday,
June 25.
Of the $2,270,572 which the
county budget committee feels
should be the budget total, only
$598,621.82 will be levied as
taxes. The balance will be made
up from various revenues, in
come and cash on hand which
the committee estimates will be
available, including the "hoped
for" extra money which the O
and C lands, in addition to regularly-budgeted
O and C funds.
Budget totals for the past two
previous years have been, in
1951-52, a $1,767,456 total, with
a tax levy of $572,856, and in
1950-51, a total of $1,587,650, of
which $637,501 was raised by
taxes.
Highlights Given '
Here are a few other high
lights of the big new budget:
The biggest chunk of mon
ey will go for roads and bridg
es, a total of $1,016,680. This
total is broken into various
parts, including the general road
fund of $573,120 (money for
which comes from state gas tax,
public utilities commission fees,
O and C lands and other sourc
es); the market road fund of
$243,560 (of which some $65,020
will be provided from a three
mill continuing tax levy), and
the new $200,000 "sinking
fund" set up in the hope of in
creased O and C revenue.
The second biggest item Is
Jielp for the poor, which is class
ified tinder 15 different categor
ies in the budget, and which
adds up to the grand total of
$260,765.
For Help to Poor '
(Among these are the county
farm ($54,147); the programs ad
ministered by the County Public
Welfare commission such as old
age assistance ($123,750), aid to
dependent children ($27,840),
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and other including medical care
all of which total $203,718, and
miscellaneous relief ($1,000), and
aid to indigent veterans ($1,900).
The county assessor, with a
total budget of $98,918, has the
largest departmental budget.
That office had $60,268 last year.
Biggest item of increase is $49,
000 to match state and federal
contributions in the classification
of lands, compared to $10,000 for
that purpose last year.
One item in the budget re
vealed officially for the first time
that county officials plan to con
struct anew elevator in t h e
courthouse. A total of $14,000
has been set aside for the pur
pose. County Commissioner L. G.
Morthland said that space for an
elevator was left when the main
building was put up in 1932, and
that only "false floors" need be
removed to clear the shaft.
, Miscellaneous general coun
ty expenses account for a good
share of the budget $98,911.66.
These include such outlays as
$13,880 to pay for elections;
$17,000 for retirement, (down
from $33,000 last year due to
the fact -that many county em
ployees voted to come under
federal social security rather
than state retirement); $14,000
for social security payments;
$15,000 to pay tax discounts to
prompt and thrifty taxpayers
who get discounts for early pay
ment; and other smaller expen
ses such as fire control, insur
ance, advertising, land sales,
herd inspection, weed control,
range seeding, experiment sta
tion and others, including a $100
contribution to the Keep Ore
gon Green association.
Another big-budget depart
ment is the health office, which
is slated for $74,660, the same as
last year. Most of the amount
goes for salaries for the public
health officer ($9,600 in the bud
get), plus eight public health
nurses, and for clerk stenogra
phers and typists, sanitarians, a
bacteriologist and others. An
item of $10,500 is for travel,
much of which is for mileage for
the nurses.
Many other departments
have budgets the same as last
year, while several are up either
considerably (as with the asses-,
sor's office), or moderately (as
with the county library, which
gets a flat 210 of a mill levy
and which increases only propor
tionately with the assessed valu
ation of the county.)
Some Budgets Down '
Some departmental budgets
are down, however. Notable
among these is the juvenile de
partment, which was cut from
$14,925.20 in 1951-52 to $14,475
in the coming year. The cut here
came in payments to institutions,
from $2,964 to $2,400. Protests
to this cut may be heard at the
public hearing on the budget
June 25, -for this outlay is one
of the vital costs of juvenile
care and the budgeted amount
is said to be only adequate to
care for present commitments,
without providing for new cas
es. Mileage also was cut. The
juvenile officer has resigned
since the budget was published,
and, while he has not said so,
many people think he was mo
tivated partly by budget cuts.
The deputy juvenile officer is
thought to be considering resign
ing for the same reasons.
Several of the departments
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have revenues f r o m various
sources which cut down on the
amount that property taxpayers
must pungle up for their support.
Expect Revenues
- Examples of these include the
district court, which is expected
to bring in more money than it
costs to operate the court; the
clerk's officers, where fees and
licenses will bring in an estimat
ed $40,000 of the total clerk's
budget of $49,396; the county
farm, where the overall $54,147
budget will be decreased by an
estimated $45,000 in income; the
health department, where in
come next year is estimated at
$32,685, and others on a smaller
scale.
The general fund of the county
the amount needed to keep the
general, every-day, run-of-the-mill
county government going
will total $836,633.92, the bud
geters estimate.
In addition to the general
fund, there are the general and
market road funds, mentioned
previously; $11,550 for the coun
ty library fund (including mon
ey to both Medford and Ashland
public libraries); $12,000 in an
emergency fund; $7,735 for civ
ilian defense, and the two sink
ing funds.
Other Items
Three other items are still to
be added to make the grand total.
These are the county school
fund, figured at $10 for each of
the county's 16,631 school-age
children ($166,310), the county
library fund, at 10 cents for each
child ($1,663.10), and the contin
uing levy for support of the
Jacksonville museum, $18,000
this year.
(In 1948, county voters ap
proved a continuing levy "not to
exceed" one-half a mill for the
support of the museum. This
year the levy will be .3 of a
mill, and the $18,000 figure is
an estimate of the amount it will
bring in.)
Adding these all together
makes the budget grand total of
$2,270,572.02, or about $31 for
every man, woman, and child in
the county.
But from this total is deducted
$633,810 of expected revenues
from general fund income items
(as mentioned above, and others,
plus an estimated $15,000 in cash
on hand (or "carry-over"), plus
$162,078 in O and C cash on
hand, plus $262,344.21 in other
O and C funds, plus $500 "mis
cellaneous"). Also to be deducted is general
road fund and market road fund
income and the previously men
tioned items of $200,000 and
$200,000 from the O and C, in
addition to other O and C in
come. These income items come to a
grand total of $1,671,950.20, and
when subtracted from the total
budget, leaves $598,621.82 to be
raised by county property taxes.
The tax total has not yet offi
cially been applied to the new
year's assessed valuation to reach
a millage rate, but assessors ex
pect it will be figured by some
time this week.
Eight Brifains Killed
In Channel Air Crash
London (U.R) A chartered
airplane crashed Saturday in the
English channel, killing six of
the eight Britons aboard.
Five of those aboard the plane
were picked up by the 8,231-ton
American freighter American
Miller, but three of them died
before s naval surgeon could
reach them.
The 18,000-ton British Air
craft carrier Triumph and the
destroyer Zest Joined In an all
day search for the three missing
persons. But the search was fin
ally abandoned Saturday eve
ning. TOO WET FOR DUCKS
Eau Claire, Wis. (U.R) It
got too wet even for the ducks
during a quick one-Inch rain
fall. Resident found a mother
duck leading 17 ducklings to
higher ground after the rainfall.
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Unemployed Payments Up
$3,000,000 Over 1951-52
Salem (U.R) Payment to
Oregon's unemployed workers
in the first 11 months of the
1951-52 benefit year amounted
to $13,376,018, the State Unem
ployment Compensation com
mission said Saturday.
That represented an increase
of more than $3,000,000 or 32
per cent above the same period
of 1950-51. The upward trend,
the commission said, has been
much more pronounced in re-
Police Continuing
Search (or Slayer
Of Elderly Woman
Salem (U.R) Salem city
police admitted Saturday that
they were no further toward the
solution of the slaying of 82-year-old
Mrs. Susan Litchfield
than they were when her slash
ed and beaten body was found
in the shed of her home here a
week ago.
Chief of Police Clyde War
ren said there was no possibility
that a former Salem man held
in The Dalles for the hammer as
sault of a young women there
had anything to do wtih the Sa
lem slaying.
No Additional Clews
Chief Warren said no addition
al clews to the Salem , crime
were uncovered by investigation
into the similar slaying of an 82-year-old
woman in Tacoma,
Wash., in 1950. Police here
learned that case was solved and
the convicted killer was hanged.
The body of Mrs. Litchfield
was found by a roomer at her
home by Harold Shell, a taxi
driver. Still puzzling police are these
essential factors: The time of
the killing. The weapon used to
inflict the 14 gashes on her
head and shoulders. And the mo
tive. It was not robbery. A sub
stantial sum of money was found
unmolested in her home.
cent months, passing 62 per cent
for May's total of $741,360 and
averaging over 53 per cent for
the past five months. Benefits
during the last half of 1951 var
ied but little from the same per
iod of 1950.
Claims Ahead of '51
The number of persons filing
1951-52 claims passed the 91,000
mark early in June, nearly 6000
more than were on record a year
ago. Checks have been issued to
nearly 75,000 of these claimants,
about 7500 more than during the
previous benefit year.
Fewer than 10,000, however,
have exhausted their annual
benefit rights as compared with
almost 13,000 last year.
With the 1952-53 benefit year
due to start in July, local offices
will start taking the new claims
later this month. An average of
about 8000 claimants a week
drew compensation in May but
the total has been dropping
steadily since the winter-time
peak. Those filing compensable
claims during the first week of
June numbered 5679 against
4153 a year ago.
Guilty Plea Entered
By Larceny Suspect
Grant Everett Morrison, alias
Swede Ulysses Morrison, enter
ed a guilty pica in circuit court
Friday to a larceny by bailee
charge, the district attorney's
office reported. His case was
continued for sentencing.
Morrison, whose last address
was listed at Portland, was ar
rested in St. Helens on May 27
on a warrant from Jackson
county. The charge involves two
saddles owned by Fred L. Walk
er 907 West 10th street.
Louis Gale Hopson, 37, gen
eral delivery, Medford, accused
of obtaining money under false
pretenses, also pleaded guilty
and his case was continued for
sentencing, the office said. The
charge concerns a $30 fictitious
check passed at Barker's Men's
store.
Harold Ray Hudson, Ashland,
Pickup Truck Hit
By Switch Engine
A pickup truck operated by
Cartee Wood Jr., route 1, box
265, Eagle Point, was struck by
a Southern Pacific switch en
gine about 2 p. m. Friday at the
Sixth street railway crossing, ac
cording to a city police report.
The truck had stalled on the
track and Wood abandoned the
vehicle before the collision, it
was said. Wood's truck was car
ried about 15 feet after the im
pact, it was said. The left rear
end of the car and the left front
fonder were damaged and a tire
was blown.
According to police, Wood
headed east, had been forced to
stop on the tracks because of
traffic halted at the Front street
intersection. He then pulled into
an offset because of the ap
proaching train, but was not
quite off the track. Robert R.
Berryman, a passenger in the
vehicle, got out and attempted
to flag the train, police said
they were told.
Traffic on Sixth street cleared
drew a one-year suspended sen
tence on a non-support charge.
Three Given Jail
Terms for Larceny
Douglas Eugene Brown, 25,
BemedJI, Minn., and Lawrence
William Brownell, 19, and Jer
auld Eugene Daily, 17, both
Bremerton, Wash., were sen
tenced to six months in jail by
District Judge Rawles Moore
Thursday on petty larceny
charges, according to district
court records.
The young men have been
held in the county jail since
about May 20, thereby serving
part of their time, and the bal
ance of the jail term was sus
pended during good behavior.
The larceny charges involved
thefts from autos from the Red
Barn and the Y club, according
to police records.
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ahead of Wood and he backed
onto the tracks in order to get
back into the traffic lane. At
this point, his car stalled.
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OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF
ANTIQUE FURNITURE
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periods, as follows In parti
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Spanish wrought Iron styles.
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perfect One solid walnut Organ Style Desk. One very old Silver Case.
French Style Two Piece living-room Suite. Several separate Provincial
pieces) Pie-crust Tables, etc. Dishes, Glasses, Bric-a-brac, lamps, Teak
wood nested tables, Pictures, Albums, Chandeliers, Umbrella stand. One
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Inspection Dates
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AUCTIONEERS
Col. L. J. Stanley, Portland
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Business For Sale
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