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EIGHT MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, March 3, XSSI ales Tax Measure Wmu at ssd Before Overflow Audi Salen Withholding Tax Increase Grabs Pari of Spotlight By BILL FORCE United Press Correspondent Salem (U.PJ The sales tax bill went on trial here yesterday when the House Taxation Com mittee took testimony on the measure before an overflow audi ence, but income tax grabbed part of the spotlight. At an executive session the tax committee voted to recom mend an increase in payroll de ductions from the state income tax from one to two per cent. vould also be collected from payrolls of farm employees and would catch transient laborers now exempt from withholding taxes. Kill Introduces Bill Appearing in favor of the sales tax bill, introduced by Rep. Earl lull (R-Cushman), was the Ore gon Farm Eureau Federation, plus more than a dozen Individ ual farmers and several spokes men for Oregon industry. Op ponents included the Oregon Slate Grange, the Oregon Farm ers Union, the CIO, the AFL, longshoremen, Streetcarmen's union, and the Oregon Institute for Social Welfare. Hill appealed to the commit tee to give his bill full considera tion. He said the people of Ore gon deserved the courtesy of being allowed to vote once more on a sales tax proposal. He explained that it was de signed to go exclusively for support of schools and that it vould act as a property tax off set on the local level. He de scribed the state gasoline tax as a 30 per cent sales tax for tenance. Hi3 general sales tax highway construction and main- would be three per cent. It vould hit, Hill said, everyone in the state instead of the few. Cost of schools must be spread to all the people who benefit from them, not just to the prop erty owners, Hill told the com mittee. Pressure Mentioned Argument mentioned most frequently by supporters of the bill was the increasing pressure of property taxes. H. B. Gillins, a Polk county farmer, said property taxes were so high now that farmers were buying back their farms every 10 years in taxes. R. E. Kerr, speaking for the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation said there was a danger inherent in that part of Oregon's voting population with little or no tax responsibility. He called them freeriders. He said 32 states and the District of Columbia now have a sales tax and that to his knowledge, no sales tax had ever been repealed once it was enacted. Mrs. Harry Bryant, Sherwood, and W. R. Robinette, master of the Holly Grange 325 at Sweet Home, denied that the Grange was solidly opposed to the sales tax. Robinette said his organi zation was on record in favor of such a revenue measure pro vided it was earmarked for a specific use such as schools and did not go directly to the gen eral fund. Said Inequitable Tax P. M. De Laubenfels, repre senting the Oregon State Grange, admitted his organiza tion was not 100 per cent op posed to the Hill measure but he said it would oppose any sales tax as a regressive and in equitable tax based on necessity to spend rather than on ability to pay. He added that Hill's tax plan was a bad one and would not help finances on the state level unless some state expenses were thrown back on the coun ty property tax. It would lower county property taxes for cor porations who would pay no sales tax, he said. George Brown, executive sec retary of the Oregon CIO, testi fied that a sales tax would re duce sales of consumer goods by the amount taken out of in comes and that it would en courage extravagance in state government spending. Tom Scanlon, speaking for the AFL and the railroad broth erhoods, asked the committee to look at the experience of Wash ington state which he said was in a more serious financial di lemna than Oregon despite the sales tax in that state. Income is the only true source of rev enue, he said, adding that the sales tax would not tap any new source. The committee voted unani mously to double the state with holding tax and members indi cated they might depend on in creased personal income taxes as part of the method of balanc ing the budget. Yesterday's crowded hearing schedule included sessions on state permits for exclusive serv ice by utilities for sale of nat ural or manufactured gas; on unemployment compens a t i o n coverage for firms employing less than four persons, and on o rnmspH state oarks commis sion and Columbia Gorge com- Favorable ComsndeiratDOiD off Recreation Resources Urged Salem (U.R) Fuller use of Oregon's recreation resources was the aim of three bills dis cussed here last night at a hear ing before a ways and means subcommittee headed by Rep. Francis Ziegler (R-Corvallis). Purpose of the three bills, all introduced in the Senate, was to create a State Park commis sion separate from the highway commission, to provide funds for the Columbia Gorge commission for land acquisition and admin istration and to create an office of state recreation director. Sen. Pat Lonergan (R-Port- land and Rep. Alfred Corbett (D-Portland), authors of the parks commission bill, urged the committee to give favorable con sideration to their measure which would take control of 52 state parks from the highway commission and give it to a sep arate agency. They would have the Legislature give the propos ed parks commission $3,500,000 in highway gas tax funds to op erate. The highway commission's present state parks department now uses about $1,000,000 in gas tax money to maintain the state . park system. They said a separate system was needed to develop park sites not necessarily contiguous to state highways. Opponents of the measure were the highway commission itself and Alfred Collier, Klam ath Falls, a donor of park sites to the state. Collier said the highway commission was doing an adequate job of park de velopment and had given the state a system of parks superior to any other state in the west. The highway commission, through a letter, said it feared a separate parks commission would duplicate present serv ices and cost too much for ad ministration. It warned, too, that the state could not afford the diversion of more money from its highway construction and maintenance fund. Mrs. Gertrude Jensen, chair man of the Columbia Gorge Commission, appealed for $59, 000 worth which to buy lands in the gorge to preserve them for public use. She said the commission was particularly anxious to acquire the sites of six waterfalls in the gorge which were in danger of destruction as public attractions. Mrs. Jen sen charged that the highway commission had defaulted from its responsibility of protecting the beauty and cash value of the gorge as a scenic attraction. The proposed recreation de partment that would be created in a bill authorized by Sen. John Merrifield (R-Portland) would serve as a clearing house for recreation information in the state and act as a consulting service. The bill would appro priate more than $34,000 for the department's activities during the coming biennium. Levy of 50 Cents Urged On Telephone Poles " Austin, Tex. (U.R) Rep. T. W. (Buckshot) Lane has pro posed that Texas, now operating at a deficit, levy an annual tax of 50 cents each on telephone poles in the state. He said he couldn't estimate how much revenue it would raise, but noted "there are jil lions of telephone poles in Texas" One tiny leak in your horns can waste precious water at the rate of 200 gallons a day more than 72,000 gallons a year. Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrewt Phone 2-4107 Wm 66T1 Wmm Sizes 4 to SV2 - si Hi PRESENTING THE GREATEST AGGREGATION OF AMAZING BUYER'S FREAKS EVER ASSEMBLED UNDER ONE ROOF! 38 ACTS FOR WHICH OUR BUYERS WILL NOT WIN OSCARS! i t o TWO DAY SHOWING - FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WHILE QUANTITIES LAS1 Aft Aft ;. DEPARTS PRESENTS FdDMLIIIES (MF 11 5 fi" J 22 PAIR WOMEN'S 2-SNAP GOLOSHES Only Our buyer thought you ladies would "snap" these right up. However, before you could do that, they went out of style (about 10 years ago.). They're marked $2.64, but we could be Sit flfl pursuaded to part with them for . V "WW 32 PAIR OF MEN'S LIGHT-WEIGHT DRESS RUBBERS Sizes 6 to 101,4. -No one apparently wants to pay us $1.98 for these so-o we have finally seen the "light," and you can have a pair of these light-weight rubbers for .. $1.00 15 PAIR OF MEN'S DRESS OXFORDS These "pups" have been tried on so often they are getting run down at the heels, and need half soles. Your choice of both black and brown styles. Sold for $9.95. Good buys if you only use them to throw at yowling cats. Now only . $4.99 17 PAIR OF GIRLS WHITE GYM OXFORDS Believe me, we sure got "gymied" up on these! Sizes 13 to 3. We've sold lots of them at $2.89. Why the girls didn't buy these, we don't know; in fact, we don't even know why we bought them, CI Eft but you can sure have a pair for only . V 30 BOYS COTTON UNION SUITS Short sleeve knee length. We had hundreds of these, and frankly, we don't sell many of them, but the sales man who sold us sure sells a lot of them. Sizes 8 and 10 only. We tried to get $1.49 for them. Can we interest you at SPECIAL! OUR FEATURE ATTRACTIONS 26 PAIR LADIES BROWN & WHITE SADDLE OXFORDS Ladies, do your feet hurt? Are you tired from walking all day? Then come in and get in the saddle. We got saddled with too many of these saddle oxfords. Sizes 5V2 to 9 in AA and B widths. They were SyiAA $6.95, but you can lead them away for ftgi 12 PAIR MEN'S WORK SHOES and OXFORDS The salesman told us these would sell like hotcakes, but these lazy loafers have just been hanging around, taking up shelf room. We'd like you to put them to work. $7.95 is the price, but if you want a pair, we'll 5&V344 part with them for only ffjQt 22 PAIR GIRLS PATENT LEATHER STRAPS Sizes 8 to 3. No one seems to need these at $4.95,, so we'll try and get rid of them for $99 (And girls, if your name should happen to be "Great Scott," we'll have it engraved on these shoes free of charge!) IADIES' FAMOUS MAKE BRAS Just 16 left in white only. Size 40 in. B and C cups. Reg. $2.95 values. These are terrific! They've got everything, including a little dust and dirt. C I Eft Very up lifting. Now only V FAMOUS MAKE BRAS 15 left in this group. Sizes S4 to 40 in B and C cup size.' Reg. $1.50 values. These are a happy bunch of bras (shelf-happy that Is!) Won't you take them off our hands for only. .. ........ .... 88 15 each 11 SUEDE KNIT SKI PAJAMAS FOR MEN Made by a famous maker, but these sure aren't the ones that made him famous, by a long shot. We couldn't sell them for $4.95, and we can't eat them, so how about. ... $2.99 BOYS REVERSIBLE WARM-UP JACKETS Sizes 4 to 18, in bright satin or fancy check. Reverses to water repellent poplin. Our buyer was really on the ball on these. They were very good at CQ MM $6.95, and are really a steal at VWi1?! BOYS NAVY BLUE CORDS Just 24 pair left in sizes 4 to 10, not all sizes however. Another extra hot item. Nothing wrong with 0 1 QQ these. Were $3.98. While they last. V w3P 9 Men's Linen and Dacron Mix SPORT COATS Our buyer thought these were knock outs, and we've been knocking ourselves out trying to get rid of them. These sporty sport coats were $19.95. Won't you be a sport and take them CIO QQ off nnr hands for ' 7 MEN'S HORSEHIDE Flight JacketsI Sizes 38 to 44. These are quilted lined and are really warm In fact they are too HOT for us. If you are planning to spend your vacation with the Eskimos, these are just the thing. These flight jackets were $29.95, and we're Uingthey'llflyout$8i66 Children's Bolta-Tex Plastic Western Jackets Our buyer bought 14 of these, but unfortunately, he only has four children (so far) so we have 10 left. These were $8.98, and we're sure any child between the ages of 2 and 8 would be tickled with one of these. We'd be tickled too if you would take these CC QQ off our hands at 9 Boys Letter-man Style Coat Sweaters All wool .... and we sure got the wool pulled over our eyes when we bought these. Sizes 6 and 8 only. So if you have a 6 or 8 year old that made his letter in football or basketball, you'll sure ly need one of these we 9 hope! Cut to 6 Boys Red Plastic Rain Jackets Sizes 14 and 16. Well, they're rain jackets, so all you have to do is buy one, wait for it to rain and see . . . they have two sleeves and zip up and down the front. If we'd known enough to come in out of the rain we wouldn't be stuck with them now! C I Eft Reg. $2.69 Now V W 8 Men's All Wool Sport Shirts Sickly yellow mustard color. Strong men pale when they see these sickly woolly freaks. Ladies, if you want to really scare your husband, buy him one of these. We couldn't sell them QM QQ for 7.95, so how about 12 Boys Suede Knit Ski Pajamas Size 6 only. Reg. $3.49. Oh yes, we have several different colors, but all we can see is RED, when we look at them. These are all cotton, guaranteed moth proof for 5 years, and won't rust M AM er tarnish. Cut to Vfci1" fUP Km errrfl fTrz& fttl&W rv-?fV7 ESPO5 STSSBB 5 SMALL SIZE ROLL-ON GIRDLES Ladies, if your husband is having trouble making ends meet, come in here, we'll hlep support you. We've had these little beauties long enough. Now we'd like you to v take them off our hands. They were $1.95. C QQ 20 FANCY Rayon and Nylon GOWNS These gowns have hung around till they're hanger happy and we're getting slap-happy thinking about' how crazy we were to hang them up in the first place. They were $5.98 to $9.98. J 98 (2 for $7.97 You don't lose a cent by buying two) POLISHED COTTON YARDAGE Yards and yards of the doggone stuff, and frankly we're getting awfully tired of polishing the stuff. Orchid, green, blue, grey, chartreouse, and red, the same color as our buyers face. We thought we could get 98c a yard for it, but won't you EC v na Uf help us out at w pBl JfOi 120 CHILDREN'S COTTON ANKLETS I don't think we bought these. We inherited them. Our buyer cringes at the sight of them, and customers pass them by like they had smallpox. Small sizes 4 to fi, and we've knocked the price down I Cc from 39c to lr 12 FANCY COTTON CHALLIS NIGHT GOWNS Fancy printed and plain colors. These are night gowns, and it must have been an awfully dark night when we got stuck with these! They're marked $3.98 but you can have your choice CI QQ for only .. .. V 10 LADIES BLACK CREPE SLIPS Boy, our buyer sure slipped up here, or else some slippery salesman slipped these slips to her when she wasn't looking. They're really not too bad though, and although they didn't sell at $3.98, they 4 MM surely ought to go for only Ait Hey, Look This Is Important to Us! DON'T CALL US We'll Call You (No Phone Orders) REFUNDS? Nope! EXCHANGES? How You Talk! ALTERATIONS? Sure, But We'll Charge for 'Em C.O.D. Goodness, No! WILL CALL? Will Call Who? SELL for CASH? now you're talkin'I mission.
