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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
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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
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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. Theyi now has several substandard
added that the school district units which must be improved.
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