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MTDTORO tOtaOOll) KAIL TRIBWIfB TITB State Sales Tax Bills May Not Come Before Present, Legislature Session Thwtdar. AprO II, IMS' Legislators Determined To Complete Task Decision Hinges On Senate Action On Income Tax Salem &J.PJ Lawmakers in n the 1955 Legislature are the moet serious-minded and hard working group in several ses sions, Senate President Elmo E. Smith and House Speaker Ed ward A. Giry agreed today. And, they aid, the lawmakers are determined to stay here un til the job k done and the tax problem, most serious to face the state of Oregon in many years, is solved. Observing that this is the sec ond longest session in the his tory of the Oregon Legislature, President Smith said: "Our objective is not a calen dar goal. But we think the peo ple of Oregon are entitled to the best possible development of a tax program that this legislature can produce." Smith had high praise for the Senate Tax Committee headed by Sen. Eudie Wilhelm of Port land. Speaker Geary likewise had high praise for the House Tax Committee headed by Rep. BILL REJECTED Salem (U.R) The House, by a 30-28 vote, has rejected a bill to allow state departments to appoint their own attorneys. Present law requires depart ment attorneys to be appointed by the Attorney General. Loran L. Stewart of Cottage Grove. Concerning the length of the session, Geary said: "Our job is to raise $60,000, 000 for services which the people largely have voted on themselves. This work has to be Sweet for Sleep! John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club in 1892, was born in Dunbar, Scotland, April 21, 1838. California has two cities of more than 750,000 population. LOOK WHO PLAYS JUST FOR YOU-FOR ONLY 395 t iw. OH. Marca Ragiitradaa. DAVE BRUBECK PLAYS FOR' YOU ON A BEST-SELLING 12 INCH "Lp" RECORD ... ONE OF M0RETHAN A HUNDRED FUN PACKED, ALL-STAR RECORDS IN COLUMBIA'S POPULAR CL500 SERIES. 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Send 25 cents for your copy of this terrific catalog NOW! You'll want to order every wonderful design in it! , 7370 f Pear Blossom Plan to Attend the PARADE SAT. Cotton Dresses o - NEW SPRING STYLES! Come in and look over this wonderful array of crisp, cool cotton dresses. A good selec tion of styles and colors to choose from.. Values to $24.95 10tos15 AS MARKED! - Here are the new short coats for Spring and Summer wear. Many fabrics and colors in this special group. Take advan tage of this outstanding offer NOW! Values to $29.95 $11(0)95 Use Your Charge Account! 21 N. CENTRAL CLOSE OUT! Formals $1500 Hurry for These Values to $34.95 By BILL FORCE United Press Correspondent Salem 4U.R) A package of sales tax bills now before the House Taxation Committee may never go before the full Legis lature at this session. - '. Although the committee's final decision on its sales -tax pro gram hinges on Senate action on an income tax plan, there was a tentative agreement today to let the sales tax stay in committee. It would stay there unless the voters overturned the higher in come tax rates. If that happened, then the Legislature would be called into special session to pass the sales tax package out for voter approval at still another special election. The committee agreed its plan was "iffy," depending both on Senate and House approval of a higher income tax plan and on voter acceptance of it. The committee ordered a bill drafted that would provide that a special income tax election be called within 45 days after refer ral petitions were certified with the secretary of state. Meanwhile, Rep. Loran J Stewart (R-Cpttage Grove), chairman of the House Tax Com- mittee,-ordered a full schedule of work on the sales tax pack age. He said the five bills would be perfected and put in finished form so that, if a special sales tax Legislature had to be called, its work would be short and the bills would be ready for quick action. Stewart set a' public hearing on the sales tax bills lor next Monday at 1 p.m. and he ap pointed a subcommittee to per feet details of the portion of the package dealing with aid to dis tressed school districts. Another agreement reached in committee today called for a request to the joint ways and means committee to take the emergency clause off the $15, 000,000 building program that will go to the floor of the House shortly for approval. That would rmake construction starts impos sible until 90 days after the end of the 1955 legislative session. If the revenue measures came under referendum attack, . it would happen within those 90 days. The proposed cigarette tax of three cents a pack was not in cluded in the committee plans for a special election. Should it be referred by the voters and re jected, .its revenue would be within the capacity of a state property tax .to handle. The property tax would " not raise more than S30.000.000 and would not make up the loss that would occur from rejecteion of the income tax. Defeat of the income tax would leave only two alterna tives a sales tax or drastic re ductions in all state budgets to an austerity level. Farm Responsibility Urged in Speech By FFA President Farmers must be more re sponsible to themselves, must go along with the government in stead of thwarting it, must stop the practice of producing mere ly for government buying, and should expand their merchan dising and research program. Those points wert brought out yesterday by Donn Johnson, Central Point, in a talk before Medford Kiwanis club. Johnson, a Crater High school student, is state president of the Future Farmers of America. His topic was "Let's Put Our House in Order." Kiwanians were i "practice audience" for Johnson at their j luncheon at Rogue Valley Coun- j try club. The vocational agri- i culture student will deliver the talk at the western regional con test at Phoenix, Ariz., next Mon day. Johnson, pointed out that if farmers do not clean their own house, taxpayers will, and farm ers might lose essential help. He reminded his audience that taxpayers pay to ' build more storage space and to buy more products to fill it. They pay higher prices as consumers by these programs - financed with their own tax money. He warn ed farmers y mentioning the legislation which curbed indus try and labor as the result of abuses. ; v . . Johnson also will have to answer questions , of judges on his talk at Phoenix, To give him practice, Kiwanians questioned him. Leonard Kunzman, vocational agriculture instructor, at .Crater high, school,, discussed the agri culture and FFA programs at the school. Leon Branson, another ag student, played accordion numbers. L '- Election One Week From Today on 6C School Bond Issue Central Point An election on a $350,000 bond issue to pro vide funds for construction of elementary school buildings in Central Point and Gold Hill will be held Thursday, April 28. The proposed buildings are a 12-room unit in Central Point, and a 4-room unit at Gold Hill. Hours for the election will be 2 to 8 p.m. Polling places will be the gymnasiums at Central Point Junior High school and Gold Hill school. All registered voters living within School Dis trict 6C will be eligible to cast ballots. The site for the Gold Hill school has been owned by the district for several years. It is located south of the Old Pacific highway next to Lazy Acres motel. The Central Point school site was purchased by the district about two months ago. It is east of 10th St., on the east side of town. Both buildings are needed to take care of increased enroll ments, school officials said. 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