TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
ThundT' April 7, 1935
Measure To (..crease Salary of Legislators Goes To Senate Over Mann's Objections
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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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