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Friday. April 29, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Senate Planning Overhaul of House Sales Tax Measure Mrs. Smith Weeps At Arraignment Portland IU.R) Mrs. Mar jorie Smith cried softly yester day as she was arraigned with Victor Laurence Wolf on a first degree murder charge in con nection with the bomb death of her attorney husband last week. Judge James W. Crawford set next Thursday afternoon for en tering of pleas after naming a former prosecutor as one of Wolfs defense attorneys. He is Charles E. Raymond, who has r AT LAST! AReaPLuxury Miniature At a Down-to- The ANSCO 35mm Super Regent only $ 89.50 Yes! A beautiful, precision-built miniature camera offering all these important "luxury" fea tures: k Coupled rangeflnder focusing ( -fa A new-formula, sharper Agfa f3.5 lens 1 500-second Synchro Corn pur M-X flash shutter -jAr Sturdy, all-metal body with satin-finished trim Com In to See this Camera! ROGUE CAMERA SHOP 520 East Main helped prosecute several murder cases while working for the dis trict attorney's office here. Judge Crawford also named Nicholas Granet to help defend Wolf. Mrs. Smith continues to deny any part in the death of her hus band, Attorney Kermit Smith, She was implicated by Wolf. Meanwhile, authorities said they had learned Wolf did not have a police record in Ohio as indicated possible by a report yesterday. Wolf had denied be ing in any previous trouble with the law. Water Control Board Approved by Senate salem W.P.); A seven -man board with comprehensive con trol over all uses of water, in Oregon was approved by the Senate yesterday with only five dissenting vote's. The measure, which Sens. Paul Geddes (R-Roseburg) and Walter Leth (R-Monmouth) said might well be one of the most important adopted by the 1955 Legislature, now goes to a con ference committee to iron out differences between House and Senate amendments I he water resources but, a companion to a bill passed two days ago setting up a statewide ground water code, vas the re sult of a two-year interim study conducted throughout the state. The board would take over all the functions of the Upper Co lombia Basin Commission and . 2 Willamette Basin Commis- s'ol and part of the functions of th State Hydroelectric Commis- rl-.n and tna Slate Fish and 'Jame Commissions. The Homestake gold mine at Lead, S. D., gets less than a half ounce of gold from a ton of ore.! Dead line for Sunday Classified if at noon Saturday. Subscribers To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:45 pjn. daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. 1 If regular delivery arrives rhort ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. Revenue Felt To Be Inadequate; Charts Ordered By BILL FORCE . United Press Correspondent I1 I - rirTjr'j....,'-... -t 1 -iLt Model M Look at all mi can bate In the Worid's Biggest Oven ! NEW WESTINGHOUSE RANG! M 1 1 : Yet fakes Perfect 0m Layer Ceks Icsessslceffyl i Here's a brand-new idea in home cooking a full-width oven in a full-size, 40-inch range! Thia saw oven is wide enough to bake a complete meal on just one rack, with no worry about shifting food or hot shelves : : ; yet big enough to cook a company-eiie" dinner on both racks. And, because of extra-thick insulation phis an oven door seal ... it uses amazingly little electricity! 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Charts Ordered After a preliminary look at the sales tax last night, the Senate committee ordered re searchers to prepare a half-dozen charts showing where the richest veins of revenue lay, and how the House version could be adapted to estimated needs. In companion measures to the sales tax bill, the House had granted double exemptions to ease the income tax burden at the lower pay levels, and had provided that the sales tax would not become effective un til Jan. 1, 1956, if it were ap proved at the Nov. 3 special election. That delay of the ef fective date would result in loss of several million dollars rev enue. Would Void Fag Tax The House has also provided that if the sales tax snould. go into effect, the proposed cigar ette tax would automatically be voided. The cigarette tax was up for final action in the Senate today. The Senate committee last night ordered a bill drafted that would call a special election some time this fall on the in creased income tax rate already passed, provided the measure is referred by the voters. The Senate's plan was to re solve the income tax issue as soon as possible, . so that lost revenue would not force the bulk of state finances onto ' a state property tax.. The building program . t ha t cleared the House yesterday was referred late in the day to the Senate Tax Committee., instead pf to the Ways, and Means Com mittee 7 which originated the program. Eye To Finances Sen. Rudie Wilhelm (It-Portland), chairman of the Senate tax group, promised, that his committee would not judge the merits of the building projects themselves, but instead would view them with an eye to finan ces. The committee agreed tenta tively last night that it would amend the building program bill to tie them to available revenue, Presumably the bulk of the pro gram would be held in abeyance if voters attack left the state without an adequate income tax or sales tax system to finance state operations. Excepted would be the' out patient clinic at state hospital and Fairview Home construc tion Portland State college and Oregon Technical institute proj ects already contain the emsr gency clause for immediate start. More Extortion Threats Made; School Threats Being Studied By UNITED PRESS Two more extortion notes were reported in Oregon today while authorities tried to halt a wave of telephone threats to schools Jacob Stalder, 63, C o 1 1 a g e Grove, . told police he found note in his mailbox Wednesday demanding $10,000 with a threat his house would be blown up. The note did not contain direc tions for turning over the money and Stalder turned it over to police, saying he believed it was a prank. - Thomas Binf ord, of the Bin fords & Mort printing and pub- Gresham Fun Center Damaged by Flames . Gresham. Ore (U.PJ Fire swept through the Fun Center here early today causing damage estimated at more than $50,000 to the two-story brick building. Four firemen were overcome by smoke. The blaze broke out shortly after 1 a.m.. apparently in the basement. It burned throueh the floor of the skating rink on the main floor and destroyed the Elks club bar and lounee in the sub-basement. A bowling alley in the basement also was dam aged. The half-block buildinc also houses a number of other offices and activities. Rotary TIBer Garaeai Timet DOES MORE Hew Low t - Price UW M 7950 Tlats Inter. rJiaart wrta bwl. Plea. Molrhijir or Aajie Boton Two Machines In One! JowertoJ Garden Tractor an. Rotarr TUIer prepam scrd beds la one easy operaUoo. 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On April 27, as the Rev. and Mrs. Louis Hart were leaving for Lakeport, Calif., ;their car went out of control and landed upright in the ditch one mile south of Hornbrook.. : They received . no injuries but the car was badly damaged. They were taken to Yreka by the Hayes family who happened along shortly after the accident, and proceeded on by bus the following, day. lishing firm of Portland, said he received a note yesterday de- MENTIONED as possible suc cessor to President Luigi Ein audi, whose term expires May 10, is Cesare Merzagora (above), president of Italy's senate. He Is member of Christian Demo cratic Party. (International) COMMERCIAL SEASON OPEN Portland 'IU.R) The Oregon Fish Commission said today that the spring commercial fishing season on the Columbia river will open at noon April 30 and extend to May 27. Week end commercial closures, which go into effect the following week end, will be from noon Saturday until 6 p.m. Sunday. Commercial restrictions have .been placed on a 15-mile area above Bonneville Dam and a five-mile area below the dam. manding $200 under threat of harm to his son.-Binf ord was told to place the money in a pack age and drop it at NE 14th ave. and Tillamook street at 10 p.m. It was understood he did as the note said but returned two hours later to . find the package still there. The new Jason Lee' grade school in Portland was evacuat ed yesterday after a telephone threat and a policeman checked Roosevelt high school after some girl students said two men in a car warned of a bomb. Em ployees of the Sperry-Hutchison Company in Portland were evacuated yesterday after a tele phone threat. Three teen-age boys, held in connection with a telephone threat to Jefferson high school in Portland Monday, were or dered into solitary confinement in the juvenile home yesterday. Judge Virgil Langtry said he had not determined what disposition to make of the case as yet. 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