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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ThundT' April 7, 1935 Measure To (..crease Salary of Legislators Goes To Senate Over Mann's Objections ' . t City Officials Protest State's Attempt To Preempt Rights in Financial Matters '--Salem CU.R) Officials from .widely separated Oregon cities appeared here yesterday to pro test what they called the state's attempt to preempt the rights of local units of government in solving their own financial prob lems. City officials testified at a hearing before the House Taxa tion Committee in opposition to Sen. Rudie Wilhelm's senate passed bill that would reserve to the state the right to impose income taxes. " Wilhelm, a Portland Republi can, said Oregon relies more on the income tax method for its revenue than any other state in the nation and that that de pendence should be protected by keeping cities and counties out of the income tax field. Local units of government should de pend on the property tax for their revenue, he said, and the state should stay out of that field. Wilhelm told the committee that Portland would be the only city affected by the bill since it is the only city collecting a busi ness tax based on income. But mayors and city attorneys and the League of Oregon Cities said they objected to a state at tempt to deny them the right to impose the same tax" whenever they wanted to or needed to. The bill was supported by rep resentatives of the Portland Re tail Bureau and of several Port land firms who said the Port land tax was unfair and dis criminatory. The trade bureau said the Portland tax was driv ing many businesses out of the downtown area and into the fringe area, just outside the city limits, where they still received many city services without pay ing for them. They also asserted the tax jeopardized Portland's standing as a northwest distribution cen ter. Mayor Fred Peterson of Port- MOBOY THE FINEST OF FANCY ORANGES In the Handy 5-lb. Plio Bag For Your Shopping Convenience VALENCIAS Most Popular Juice Variety NAVELS The Best For Eating GET YOUR PROTOPECTIN FOR HEALTH FROM FRESH SNOBOY ORANGES Only Your INDEPENDENT Grocer Featu SNOBOY ORANGES res land said he had originally op posed the tax but that he now objected to the bill to eliminate it because it would be a viola tion of the home rule principle in municipal charters. The tax brings Portland $1, 400,000 a year. If the city should be denied the right to collect it, that amount would have to be raised from other sources, Peter son said. Portland City Commissioner William Bowes said the bill would require Portland to cut its city services and would cre ate an almost unbearable situa tion in municipal finances. Mayor Paul Landry of Klam ath Falls told the committee that his city collected a business tax similar to Portland's but based it on the number of employees in a business rather than on in come. '"Where are we going to get our moneyiif the state preempts all our revenue sources?", he demanded. Cave Junction Man Making Charcoal Cave Junction A Cave Junc tion man has applied an ancient practice to a current problem and come up with a use for heretofore-useless southern Oregon hardwoods, according to the Ore gonian. E. J. (Jiggs) Morris, Cave Junc tion, makes charcoal from man zanita, oak and madrone wood, long considered useless in this 'area. He has found a brisk de mand for his product from re tailers who serve the growing number of persons who own backyard charcoal broilers. Morris, a contract logger, tree farmer and soil conservation su pervisor, has constructed two charcoal kilns with a total ca pacity of 10 tons per month. He envisions an even larger produc tion from the great quantities of otherwise-useless hardwoods in the area, and thinks that char coal-making could become nrofitable sideline for valley farmers clearing hardwood growth from their lands and woodlots. ON -3-LB. CAN OF ( n5?) Jts Esy -Simply ) WlT ' SNIP THE STRIP' X I word SNOWDRIFT from the J ; Zr37r"," . ' A it fcuiiil m Here's all you do: With ordinary scissors, snip the word SNOWDRIFT from the strip you unwind with key from . a 3-lb. can. (Cuts easily!) Send to Snowdrift in handy mailing envelope you get at your grocer's. (Or mail in ordinary envelope to Snowdrift, Box 144, New Orleans 3, La. Include strip and your name and address.) Snowdrift will send you n "ouron worth 25 on your next 3-lb. can ot bnowarut. Limit, one coupes to a family. so cz2iiZ - j 3 3 lbs. Medford Man Balks At Resolution for Expense Account Salem (U.R) The Senate to day received a resolution passed by the House to raise legislators' pay from $600 to $1200 per year and to grant the lawmakers a $10 per day expense allowance for 90 days per session. The bill passed easily over Rep. E. H. Mann's attempt to send it back to the State and Fed eral Affairs Committee. The Medford Republican said he favored the resolution until the per diem expense account was in serted by the committee. Rep. Richard Chapman (ID Coos Bay), author of the resolu tion, said it represented the con census of most of the members of the House. It would require voter approval if passed by the Senate and signed by the gover nor. Chapman said the increase was enough to pay expenses but not high enough to encourage professional politicians. House action yesterday on a group of ways and means appro priation bills was. slowed when Rep. John Hare (R-Hillsboro) at tempted to send them back to committee pending final action on tax revenue bills. He con tended no appropriations should be passed until the Legislature is certain how it will raise the money. Other members objected that such a procedure would keep the body in session "until Christ mas." Hare was the only member voting for his motion. Also approved was a bill ap propriating $98,000 for continu ation, with federal help, of the spruce . budworm control proj ect. Educators Bill Passed A Senate-passed bill removing the restriction on residences of members of the Board of Higher Education won unanimous ap proval. Present law requires that the members of the board may not live in cities where state institutions of higher education are located. Creation of Portland State College as a full-fledged institution was deemed to affect those board members who now live in Portland, and led to draft ing of the bill to eliminate the residence requirement. ' A hearing last night took testi mony on committments to the proposed new intermediate pe nal institution. Up for final passage today was a bill that would repeal the present state law requiring schools to provide a physical ed ucation course in their curricula. Ex-Ashhnd Boy Wins Legion Speech Contest Ashland A former Ashland boy. Barney Michael Miller, now of Hollywood, Calif., recently won national first place in the annual high school oratorical contest of the American Legion, it was reported here this week. He wins a $4,000 college scho larship to the school of his choice. Young Miller, 18, is the grand son of Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Miller and the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Ned Mars," both Ashland. His father, Barney Miller, is with the Columbia Broadcasting company. Three Hospitalized Following Accident Three persons- were hospital ized in Grants Pass following an accident on Highway 99 north of Rogue River at about 9:55 p.m. Wednesday, according to state police. None of the injuries was though to be serious. Officers said that a car driven by Arthur Gerald Sturgell, 25, Tiller, left the right side of the road and struck another car driven by William Kyle Holter- hoff, 41, Grants Pass. Sturgell told the investigating officer that he was talking .with a pas senger, Clyde McNeill, 43, Eu gene, and looked back at the road too late to avoid the col lision. Mrs. Lois Holterhoff, passen ger in the car driven by her hus band, was taken to the hospital in a private car, reportedly suf fering from a sprained ankle and hip injuries. Sturgell and McNeill were taken to the hospital by a Grants Pass ambulance, and were treated for slight hurts and released. , Sturgell was cited for failure to operate on the right side of the highway. Easter Egg Hunt Supplies Ample All youngsters participating should be able to find some eggs Saturday when the Medford Kiwanis club holds its annual Easter Egg hunt at Hawthorne park on Saturday. That was the word today from members of the service club, which will have 7,000 eggs in various hid ing places. The hunt is scheduled for. 9 a.m. and parents of the Medford vicinity are invited to bring their children for the event. Youngsters will hunt in age groups of 1 to 3, 4 to 8, and 7 to 9 years. There will be three prizes for boys and three tfor girls in each division. One grand prize will be awarded to the finder of the lucky egg. Candy eggs, packaged one to a sack, will be hidden. In terms of potential heat and power, the world output of coal represents two and a half times as much energy as petroleum HASTY DEATH Guilford, Conn. (U.R) William Turner and Edward Mit chell drove their car past a fu neral procession because they were in a hurry to keep a date. The car hit a tree and both were killed. 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