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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1955)
TWELVE MTOrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Susday, Jaauary S, 1955 Owners of House o Trailers-Seeking tax Law Revision O Trailer owners cf Oregon are organizing to fight what they believe to be an inequitable pro vision of law regarding the tax ation of trailers, according to local members of the State As sociation of House Trailer Own ers. A law passed in the 1953 leg islature provided that house trailers be taxed as personal 9g Walk, ride, fly... GET TO PENNEY'S! Stock up now in 0 0 property, and the owners say that as a result, taxes on trail ers amount to? sums comparable to real estate taxes paid for homes m the $10,000 to $12,000 class. Seek Unity In a recent letter addressed to 0 all trailer owners of Jackson county, the association said, ". . . by uniting all house trailer ' owners in the State of Oregon O Gmd showing strength we can bring pressure to bear for a fair and just revision of said tax bill by the legislature that will be in session starting January . . ." : Meetings are held monthly fej?re at the Valley Center Trail . er court, 3410 North Pacific 8 highway. The next one will be rat 7:30 pjn. Jan. 8. Social Security Office Staff Up " Three additions to the staff of the Medford social security of fice were announced Friday by W. V. Nusbaum, manager. Included are two claims repre sentatives and a stenographer. Two additions will bring the of 0 fice's staff to eight persons, Nusbaum added. William W. Browne, formerly of Eugene, was the first to ar rive. He is a claims representa tive. Ee has taken up residence at Cargill ct. Browne formerly was a teacher in the seventh -and eighth grades at Fall Creeknear Eugene. . He spent over five years in Sine U. S. Air Force and attended the University of Oregon. His father, a retired Navy com mander, and mother, living at Coral Gables, Fla. On Monday, Mrs. Elva Mae Gardner, Medford, will begin york as a stenographer. About a . .9 .week later, Floyd B. Cummins, Portland, will report as a claims representative. He is a former Federal Reserve bank employee. Nusbaum said that the staff additions are due primarily to the increase in work necessary under the amended Social Se- curity act, and also to the in creased growth in the Medford . area. Ordinances Passed By Ciiy Council m Bedford's city council, in a year's end session Friday noon, approved the December payroll and adopted several ordinances. One officially adopted the city manager form of govern ment effective Jan. 1. Others in- volved sale, for and removal within 90 days, of three build ings on airport property. Buyers were Kenneth B. Fowler, $517 for old Biddle residence; Walter Armpriest, $275 for an adjacent barn and Seth L. Waters, $100 for a spray shed. Members of the council's land, building and light committee reported that no action has been taken as yet on sale of city owned Camp White property to Fir-Ply, Inc., although negotia tions are still under way. A $5,000 performance bond was adopted by the council for the new city manager position. Freak Mishap Halts Suez Canal traffic Port Said, Egypt (U.R) A freak accident blocked the Suez Canal Friday and authorities said the vital link between Eu rope and Asia would be closed for at least four days. The accident occurred at 3 a.m. when the second ship in a nine-ship convoy en route be tween Suez and Port Said struck a military bridge across the canal and then ran aground on the sand banks. The bridge collapsed across the ship, pinning it to the bot tom of the channel. 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