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Assessment SIMMs
Wednesday. April 27, I9SS
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NTH!
For dDrchards To
G3e
Subject of RffleeMng
Methods of assessing taxes on
orchard property will be a top
Item of business here Thursday
at a public hearing to be con
ducted by the Oregon State Tax
commission. The hearing is
scheduled for 1 p.m. In the court
house auditorium. ,
Purpose of the hearing is to
allow a full discussion of a pro
posed tax commission order to
R. G. Fowler, Jackson county as
sessor, instructing him to include
tht value of orchard trees in the
Central Point Boy
Wins KP's Speech
Contest Last Night
Nathan Douthit, Central Point,
a junior student at Crater High
school, last night was picked as
v winner of the Knights of Py
thias public speaking contest for
this area.
Four contestants, two from
Crater High and two from Med
ford High, participated in last
night's elimination contest, con
ducted before a small audience
of judges and teachers. Second
place winner was Mildred Gail,
also of Crater High school.
The judges were Foster Hib
bar'd, Medford, recent winner of
a Toastmasters International
speaking contest, and Mr. and
Mrs. Moore Hamilton, Medford.
Subject for the talks was
"What Can I Do for Highway
Safety?"
Douthit will represent this
area at a two-county contest,
with the Josephine county win
ner, tentatively scheduled at
Crater High school Friday even
ing. The competition is sponsored
by the Knights of Pythias youth
commission, and later phases of
the contest include state, region
al and national contests.
Rogue River High
School Elections
Scheduled Monday
Rogue River Student body
officers for Rogue River High
school will be elected during an
assembly Monday. Awards for
winners of the annual V.F.W. es
say contest also will be present
ed, will individual awards to
members of the high school's
track team who placed in events
In tht Hayward relays at Eugene
recently.
" Jenny Friti won the essay con
test, on the subject "What Civil
Defense Means to Me," and Ro
berta Adams was second. Fifteen
had entered the contest.
Candidate Listed
Candidates for student body
president are Bill Weaver, Irene
4Bringmann, Windy Williams, and
Roland Prefontaine, Vice-presi
dent candidates are Bill Speers,
Colin McCoy and Bob Wilson,
and candidates for secretary in
clude Beverly Burgoyne, Dor
othy Boucher, Myrna Towse and
Judy Farrar.
Between two and five cheer
leaders will be elected from
among Leverne Akers, Darlene
Nelson, Irene Bringmann, Nancy
Bradley, Dorothy Boucher, Katie
Herburger, Beverly Burgoyne,
Myrna Towse, Sharon Stevens,
Carol Weaver, Marcia Thayer,
Patty Wilson and Patty Cowie.
Resident Physician
Due at Gold Hill
Gold Hill The city of Gold
Hill will have a resident physi
cian for the first time in 20 years
when Dr. Stanley A. Brown
opens an office for medical prac
tice here Monday, May 2. ?
The last resident physician in
Gold Hill was Dr. W. P. Chis
holm, who practiced medicine
here for 40 years prior to his
death in 1935.
Dr. Brown's office will be lo
cated in the building just west
of Cogswells market on Second
ave. until more adequate office
quarters can be arranged.
Dr. Brown received pre-medi-cal
training at the University of
Oregon and Willamette univer
sity and attended the University
of Oregon medical school. " He
took his internship at St. Vin
cent's hospital in Portland,
where he practiced general med
icine with another physician.
Dr. Brown, who is 33 years
old, is a veteran of three years'
Army service and comes to Gold
Hill from Salem.
TO CONTINUE STUDIES
Rogue River Leonard Walsh,
superintendent of schools at
v Rogue River who resigned seve
ral weeks ago, has accepted a
scholarship at Stanford univer
sity in Palto Alto, Calif., to con
tinue his studies for a doctor's
degree in education. He plans to
complete work for the degree in
a year. 1
valuation of the land on which
they are growing.
Those who would be affected
by such an order will be given
an opportunity to show why
such an order should or should
not be issued, according to Sam
uel B. Stewart, state tax commis
sioner. Stewart explained, "The com
mission's contemplated order is
predicted upon existing statutes
which define land as including,
among other things, 'trees,' and
the practice in the order fruit
producing counties of including
the value of orchard trees in the
value of the land.
"Jackson county orchardists
have, and continue to allege,
that the word 'trees' refers only
to standing timber, and that the
land only is to be assessed,
having no regard to the value of
the orchard trees growing there
on." . '
Uniformity Sought
The contemplated order, as ex
plained by the commissioner,
would be issued "in order to
achieve uniformity in assess
ment practice between counties,
to achieve uniformity within the
county, and as a media whereby
the correctness of the commis
sion's interpretation can be test
ed by the courts."
If the courts should rule that
the commission's interpretation
of the law is incorrect, then the
other Oregon fruit - producing
counties would have a legal de
cision which would allow them
to remove orchard trees from
liability for ad valorem tax pur
poses.. If the commission's interpre
tation of the law was found to
be correct, the course to be fol
lowed by Fowler then would be
clearly outlined, Stewart said.
A large delegation of oichard
ists and other Jackson ccunty
property owners is expected at
the hearing. Stewart noted that
owners of non-orchard property
should be concerned with the
problem, in that if orchard trees
as such are not assessed for tax
purposes,, they will pay "a signi
ficantly greater portion" of the
total ad valorem tax burden.
TOWERING SUSPENSE A man, later tentatively identified as Sam Romppner, 42, edges away from a bridge
worker (left) seeking to coax him down from a Queensboro Bridge girder 200 feet above New York's East River.
He was first discovered atop the bridge tower 500 feet above the water attempting to climb the flagpole. Failing,
he descended to run back and forth on the girder. Three bridge workers and three policemen finally snared him,
trussed him up and lowered him by rope. At right, he wears grin and nonchalantly flicks ashes from his cigar a
a rescuer guides his descent He was taken to Bellevue Hospital for observation.
Federal Income Tax
Said Root of All Evil
San Francisco (U.PJ Silent
screen star Corinne Griffith be
lieves that the root of all evil
is not love of money but the
federal income tax.
Miss Griffith, the wife of
George Preston Marshall, owner
of the Washington Redskins pro
fessional football team, express
ed this belief last night Jn a
speech to the Congress of Free
dom. The congress is a "coalition of
patriotic American organiza
tions" now holding its annual
convention. Object of the week
long meeting is to appraise the
United Nations. So far, delegates
have been highly critical of the
UN.
Miss Griffith, who is honorary
president of the Organization to
Repeal Federal Income Taxes,
Inc., told .300 delegates:
"I've been brought to the. solid
conviction that the root of all
evil is the federal income tax."
Youth Program Set By Townsend Club
A public entertainment pro
gram featuring young people of
Medford will be given at the
Pythian building Friday at 8
p.m. under the sponsorship of
the Townsend club, it was an
nounced today.
Some 45 or 50 youngsters from
pre-school to Junior High school
age, will participate, according
to Mrs. Florence Boussum, pres
ident of the club. They will in
clude a group of students of Eve
Prentice' accordion studio, Miss
Pat's dance pupils, baton twirl
ers from Bliss Heine's Juniors,
and entertainers from the Junior
High school and St. Mary's
school.
Instrumental, dance and vocal
numbers will be given. Refresh
ments will be served in the ban
quet room after the program,
Mrs. Boussum said.
The public is invited, and
there will be no admission
charge.
It was also announced that the
two Townsend clubs, Nos. 1 and
4, consolidated recently, all
members of club No. 4 joining
club No. 1 in a group, so that all
Townsend club members of the
area belong to the same organization.
Loyalty Day Program
Slated at Rogue River
Rogue River A Loyalty day
program, sponsored by the
Rogue River Veterans of Foreign
Wars and auxiliary, will be held
at ? p.m. Tuesday, May 1, at the
Veterans' clubhouse, Leo Orvis,
commander of the local post, has
announced.
Following the program, to
which county officials and
Rogue River officials have been
invited, refreshments will be
served.
TO MAKE CONTEST PLANS
Rogue River The Rogue
River Boosters club will com
plete plans for the annual
Rooster Crowing contest June 18
at a meeting at 8 p.m. tonight at
Waller's Inn.
Mediators Meet in
Parke - Davis Strike
Detroit (U.R) Mediators met
separately today with officials
of Parke, Davis & Co. and the
CIO Oil, Chemical and Atomic
Workers in an effort to head off
a strike which would cut off
a major supply of Salk vaccine.
TMe mediators explored a
company offer and the union's
demands in a 3x,i hour session
yesterday and said they mal
call the officials to a joint ses
sion after conferring with the
company at 10 a.m. and the
union at 1 p.m. EST.
Contract talks were broken
off last week when a union, of
ficial charged the company was
refusing to bargain in good faith.
The National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis ordered 60
per cent of the 18,000,000 cubic
centimeters of the vaccine need
ed for its "no charge" program
this year from Parke, Davis and
Eli Lilly & Co., of Indianapolis,
Ind. .
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