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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medfo&dwTbibune "Ire ry body ia Southern Oregon Beads Th Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MiUIOKU HUfllUiU to. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 HERB GREY, Advertising Manager I. C. IXHGUSON, Managing Editor fDT- 1! I CV TO ritv ritrtT HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor 8ICHARU JEWtn, spons kuxot OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent wewipaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of Marcn 3. lgtf SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10e Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mos. i-50 Sundav Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point, T.k.nn4ii cinA Hill Phoenix. Shadv Cove', Kogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year I' "" Daily and Sunday une nranui Carrier and Dealers Sc per copy. All Terms casn lnAoyance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU iiri-QT-um i iriAV rnMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, ua Angeies Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL IDITOIIAl ASSOCH-ATllON 3 J -t::shjij NEWSFAMt ruiiiSNitt Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 8, 1945 at was Tuesday) Medford residents hear an nouncement of Germany's un conditional surrender with calm ness; merchants close stores cele brating VE Day. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: There, are clouds in the sky today. Some farmer must have some hay down. 20 YEARS AGO May 8. 1935 ' (It was Wednesday) Medford High school officials study 23 applications for high school football coach. Dime chain letters flood Med ford post office forcing substi tutes to help handle the increase. 90 YEARS AGO May 8, 1925 (It was Friday) Stockholders elect new direct irs for Jackson County fair. A two-day DeMolay order con vention starts in Medford with 200 representing orders through out Oregon. 40 YEARS AGO May 8, 1915 (It was Saturday) Dorothy Conner, aboard the Lusitania when it was sunk, cabled a confirmation of her safety to Medford residents. More than 1,000 residents at tend first Community Day in Medford. What's the Answer? (Caa You Get 4 of the 7t) Copv 19S5. Editorial Research teserl 1. Children have been most susceptible to polio under five, from five through nine, from 10 through 14, or from IS through 19? 2. U. S. Communist Party members number a little over 2,000. 20,000, 120,000, 200,000 or 1,200,444? 3. Fleetwood is a body style of the Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Ford or Mercury car? 4. Does more water-borne traf fic go in one year through the Panama or the Suez Canal or the Sault Ste. Marie locks? 5. The outside walls of the White House are of stone, brick or board under the white paint? 6. About 10, 20, 30,. 40 or 50 million tin cans are opened in U.S. homes every day? 7. Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain is 30, over 30, or under 30? . The Answers: 1. From five through nine. 2. A little over 20. 000, according to J. Edgar Hoover. 3. Cadillac. 4. Sault Ste. Marie locks. 5. Stone. 6. About 30.000.000. 7. Under 30. Central Point NOMA Slates Test Series Central Point The local chapter of the National Office Management association will give typing, shorthand and other. tests relating to office work to Crater High school students Thursday, May 12. In addition to Crater students, the tests also will be given jun iors and seniors from Jackson ville High school at . Crater school. . Four times as many Minnesota fairy farmers use bulk tanks to store their milk than a year ago. MAIL TRIBUNE . Why Not Forget It? As previously remarked we live in a democratic government, of a representative type. We send our representatives every two years to Salem to attend to the state business for us, instead of trying to do it ourselves. That involves a certain obligation on both sides. This year the outstanding problem was to arrange state finances so that Oregon could pay its way, in stead of going further and further into debt. The new tax bill is the result. It is also the result of over 3 months of investiga tion, research, examination and reexamination by our representatives, especially by the tax committees of the two houses. Not only were many citizens "back home" consulted, but the Governor was in almost constant communication with some of the committee members, regarding various and sundry details, giv ing his recommendations and receiving same. IT SEEMS generally agreed that the resulting tax bill while not ENTIRELY satisfactory to ANY ONE, tax bills never are, was the best solution that in the judgment of a vast majority of our representa tives, could under the circumstances, be obtained. The measure passed in both houses by large majori ties and undoubtedly will be signed by the Governor. In other words it will soon be the law. fVJR ONLY suggestion, at this time, is to give it a chance. Before a referendum or an initiative is considered, let's first see how the new schedule works. It may not prove as calamitous as some of the boys particularly in the upper-income brackets, think. . There can't be a referendum vote anyway until late next year so why not forget taxes for a while, particularly the virtues and vices of a sale tax, and let Nature take its course, for a brief breathing spell at least y Nature, incidentally, is particularly worthy of pub lic consideration and careful examination at the pres ent time! .. - . R.W.R. Asia and the Solid South The impending visit of Nehru to Soviet Russia and the revival of a modified Ku Klux Klan in portions of the South in opposition to dis-segregation appear miles apart and are but in human nature. Nehru's prejudice against the USA, is a factor in his sympathy for communism, or what is more eu phoniously called his "neutralism." The opposition in certain parts of the south to one school-system for both whites and blacks, proceeds from a deep-seated prejudice against the Negro, go ing back to America s beginning. Both of these -prejudices, we think, have to be taken into account and understood) if one is to under stand the difficulties facing 100 school de-segrega tion below the Mason and Dixon line, and the diffi culties of any immediate and satisfactory cooperative unity between the United States and Asia. DOTH GOALS, are not only politically desirable but morally right. However, we fear neither can be fully attained as soon as most of us desire, or at tained at all without serious delays and difficulties, because of the deep emotional prejudices that go back not days, nor months, nor years, but centuries. I N SPITE of the great changes recently in attitudes and political relationships that have been brought about the western white race still represents colonial ism, exploitation and oppression to millions in the Far East' as well as their leaders; and the acceptance of the Negro on an equal basis, educationally as the Su preme Court has ruled, has to overcome a racial prej udice entertained by thousands of people in the South. , It is too much to hope therefore that any legal de cision, or any signature on a piece of paper, can re move these prejudices over night, unfortunate and un founded as they may be. As President Cleveland re marked about, a different situation some years ago, we face not a theory, but a condition. This doesn't mean the peaceful and satisfactory solution of either problem is impossible, it does mean it will take patience, time, and hard work. R.W.R. A Good Sign One of the most encouraging reports from inside Russia we have heard for some time, came via Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, who was interviewed over the air by Senator Morse the other night. Mrs. Chase visited Russia on her own, as an Ameri can citizen not as a Senator, and talked more with the people, than the -officials. , She returned with 3 strong convictions namely: One: there is no great enthusiasm among the Rus sian people for their present government one way or the other; (2) there is a very strong desire for peace, and (3) there is an equally strong fear that the only threat to their peace proceeds from the United States. The latter, of course, is due entirely to the menda cious and effective Communist propaganda. ' But the cheering point to this department was the strong desire for peace among the Russian rank and file. TT WOULD seem at least that as time goes on with A these conditions existing it would be possible through an improved svstem of radin communication to demonstrate the falsity 1 . io enougn Russians, to so strengthen the popular de mand for peace in that countrv that Tin o-overnment especially a government great enthusiasm would an unpopular war. K.W.R. Sunday, May S, 195S they have a common root y of this fear of the U.S.A. . . . not sunnorrpH with anv desire to risk the dangers of r Matter of Fact1 FORTY CENTS A HEAD Washington - Theoretically, the entire human race can for all practical purposes be eliminated for the small sum of about ' V3 40 cents per human, give cr take a few cents either way. . The author ity for this statement is found in a rough estimate recentlv maris stewart AIsop by the dis tinguished physicist, Dr. Leo Szilard. Dr. Szilard estimated the cost of covering the globe, on an over-lapping checker board pattern, with lethal con centrations of radioactive fall out. In arriving at his estimate, which he emphasizes is informal and subject to drastic revision, Dr. Szilard used the Atomic En ergy Commission's figure of 7,000 square miles of lethal radioactivity per thermo-nu-clear weapon. He then drew on his knowledge of the nature of the new wearjon knowledge now shared by every competent physicist m the world and toted up the cost of the numher of bombs needed to blanket th world, in terms of lithium, tri tium, uranium, and other ma terials. The resulting computation came to about $1,000,000,000, plus or minus a few hundred million. Given a population of about 2.4 billion, this works out to a per unit cost of roughly 40 cents. The notion of ending human life on this planet at such cut rates may seem rather fanciful. even though, as Dr. Szilard points out, it is "not one of the major planets." And in a sense, of course, the estimate is de ceptive, since it makes no al lowance for the cost of delivery or the attrition of defense. It assumes, in effect, a deliberate, unopposed effort to commit Glo bal suicide and the human race is, presumably, not yet readv for this. Even so, Dr. Szilard's little calculation cannot be dis missed simply as a peculiar sort of scientific joke. Dr. Szilard is a most serious scientist. Work ing with the late Dr.' Enrico Fermi, he made an enormous contribution to man's' foolhardy triumph over the atom. And al though his estimate is a casual cne, made in part for his own amusement and instruction, it has a serious significance of its own. . lOR it serves to point up a fact that very few people even those in the higher reaches of Washington officialdom have really grasped. The new kind of thermo-nuclear weapon (it should not properly be called a hydro gen bomb) represents a "quan tum jump" at least as import ant as the first atomic bomb. "Quantum jump" is scientists' shorthand for an unprecedented, situation transforming scien tific breakthrough. The simple, disagreeable fact is that American scientists and Russian scientists too, alas have done what was previously thought to be inherently impos sible. They have found a way to use uranium 238 natural uran ium, the stuff that is dug out of the ground, as bomb material. This has been public knowledge, at least among scientists, ever since the Japanese announced the presence of split atoms of uranium 238 in the fall-out from our Pacific thermo-nuclear tests. How it is done is of no inter est to the layman. What is of in terest to the layman is that this enormous scientific advance opens up the possibility of gen uinely unlimited destruction at very low cost. Combined with the fall-out phenomenon it basic cally transforms the whole world situation. - . -. For example, since the entire Soviet stockpile of atomic bombs can now be used as mere trig gers for the immensely more powerful thermo-nuclear wea pon, the Soviet stockpile Has been multiplied by a factor es timated as high as 100. The So viets have thus presumably overnight entered the age of atomic plenty. The superiority of our Strate gic Air Command over the So viet "Long Range Air Army" still provides us with an im portant margin of superiority. But this margin ' cannot be ex pected to last forever. What hap pens when it is lost, when the Soviets can visit wholly- un limited destruction on this coun try, as we already can on Rus sia? WU1 not our Strategic Air Force, the center of our military power, then be neutralized? TTOE Air Force itself has recog--- nized that this is a serious question, which needs a serious answer. Under the sponsorship of the Air War College a study called "Operation Stand-Off' is that both sides will fear to use the thermo-nuclear weapon, and that therefore any future war may be only a limited war. The Air Force, it must be said, deserves credit for the courage to undertake such a study, since the above assumption strikes at the very heart of American strategic doctrine above all Air Force doctrine. In the past, it 1 By Stewart AIsop , has always been regarded as the ultimate heresy even to consider the possibility that the Strategic Air Arm and the thermo-nuclear weapon might not be used. Yet if one considers seriously the es sentially suicidal nature of the new weapon on which Dr. Szil ard based his 40-cents-a-head es timate, it is a possibility which must surely at least be taken into account. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Communications Latter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Lettera submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The Last Frontier To the Editor: One of the last, but not the least mineralized frontiers according to some of the older seasoned prospectors we have contacted, lies around 200 miles to the East from here, especially both East and West of the 120 meridian that forms the West border line of Nevada. Very little is yet known of all the precious minerals that occur in the region of Northeast Calif ornia, Southeasern Oregon and all of Northern Nevada. The whole region is arid or desert. But with modern meth ods of travel the mechanized prospector is able to surmount the former difficulties the old time pack mule prospector had to contend with in the way of a water famine. . - From all reports we have gathered, this vast expanse of desert land has produced much placer gold, including native sil ver, also valuable gem-stones as well. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman Medford, Oregon A Problem Solved To the Editor: Our esteemed legislators, working- under a heavy strain for approximately the past four months, burdened with the financial worries of the state, have not only apparently solved our great financial prob lem for the time being at least but they 'have "preserved the public peace, health and safety with passage of House Bill 566. health and safety has been at tained by placing a ban on wom en wrestlers in Oregon. Just how a bill forbidding a few ladies to follow the ring game can preserve our peace, health and safety remains to be seen, but it certainly must or, we are sure, the heavily burdened leg islators would not have taken time from their troublesome financial problems to enact this piece of legislation. This writer's health hasn't been too well this spring and now he knows the cause, having seen several wrestling matches in the past few months in which women participated. But his peace and safety have followed the same old rut as for years past. Maybe they would have been affected soon had these matches been allowed to . con tinue. No one objects to the legisla tors taking tme out for a few laughs, especially when under such a strain as they have been with our great financial "prob lems. And we wouldn't be sur prised if they got a good laugh, when they passed House BiU 566. And we imagine the usually staid Governor Patterson snick ered a little when he signed it. Now that we are safe from the alleged assault on our peace, health and safety by no longer being able to . enjoy women wrestling matches, we expect the legislature to follow its own course and outlaw women's. bas ketball teams, swimmers, soft baU players, golfers and what have you. After all, someone once said A woman's place is in the home." . Harry Chipman 155 Highland Drive All In The Mind To the Editor It shouldn't be surprising or worrysome over this mind indoctrinating that we're running into more and more. The Kussians ana teas are sure making use of it, fea turing it so to speak and mak ing us more concious of it. It cropped up here the other day when some chocolate and carmel mixtures was brought home from the markets where they have a bewildering display of such things and at moderate prices. My plan was to use it with this flood of day-old bread that a siz able part is going to feed the pigs, good baker's bread that you and I and the other guy has to pay for in the quarter dollar loaves. So we took some day old bread, cut it into inch squares and after drying, dipped them in the hot chocolate mixture. Sure tastes good to us. far better than straight candy which is naiseat ingly rich to me. But we were surprised when the "snackroos" as we named them, were tried out on some neighbor moppets who came trooping in ana are most , wel come when we're not too busy. They are usually treated to some toothsome provender. "There s old dry bread in them," they chorused in injured surprise. "What's the matter with good dry bread with candjr coating?" J Is That So? . By Eugene Bum lUnger-Naturalist Unusual as the variations are among animal eggs . and what emerges from them, perhaps even more so are the methods of brooding and the care be stowed upon the infants once they escape their sealed-in cham bers. Among birds, some fledglings never see their parents the adults simply do not brood; among snakes, some brood their eggs and hover over their young solicitously; among crocodiles, some croclets send out an S.O.S. when yet imprisoned within their shell; and as for our egg bearing mammals, one broods it in a custom-built pouch on its stomach. For that matter, there is a bird with a built-in brood ing pouch, too. Incubation time varies. The shortest is that of a mammal: the duck-billed platypus which takes from 8-10 days. Next come the birds most of the commoner small birds take around 14 days. Sparrows a little less, 10-13; hummingbirds a little longer, 14-15. The longest, understand ablyj are the larger birds. Chick- S-7-SS ens incubate in around 3 weeks; ducks may take a week longer, 3-4 weeks; a goose usually a week longer still," 4-5; while the os trich, the longest takes from 6 to 7 weeks. A snake like the python takes 3 months, roughly, 13 weeks. Avoid Cares of Home Several birds do not. bother about hatching their own eggs the European cuckoo and some of its relatives, together with the American cowbird, avoid the cares of home by simply laying their eggs in other birds' nests. To assure its young of prefer ential treatment,, the cowbird's eggs hatch unusually fast, from 10-12 days, despite their large size. , Another bird! the Pacific mu apode, or mound biulder, lays its eggs in a scratched-up heap of vegetation and never goes near them again. The decaying veeet able matter generates enough neat to hatch the eggs. Another, the African crocodile bird buries its eggs in the sand and the heat of the sun does the incubating. Needless' to say. both the mound:builder and crocodile mra young are hatched in an advanced state of readiness. In fact, the mound-builder is ready io iiy and take care of itself witnin minutes of hatchin. In contrast, look into a newly hatched pigeon's nest. The young is scarcely able to lift its head ii requires the assistance of its parent who, engaging the pip squeaks beak within its own. pumps softened regurgitated iooa down its gullet. Record Nesting As for birds hatched bv their parent's brooding, the "fledgling or smau Birds remain In the nest around one to two weeks? thnse of bigger birds usually take longer the record nestling, per- naps, Demg the condor's. Its young remain in the crib' for most of a year. Although most snakes, leave their buried eggs unattended, there are a few which incubate their eggs curling around them and assisting with the heat and moisture of their bodies. The python, . a notable example of this rare maternal care, carefully stacks her eggs into a convenient pile, coils herself around them, and solicitously broods them for 90 days. An American counter part is the pugnacious, malodor ous buU snake which will even defend its newly-hatched, young against the onslaughts of adver saries. To get out of their leather eggs, infant snakes grow a hard egg tooth on the upper Jaw, much like that of the bird, which de velops shortly before birth and lasts omy a lew days after it has served its one and only purpose, but a vital one. With the croco dile, whose eggs may be. buried below mud which has set and we asked. "Dry bread's no good," they chorused. WeU, they were very honest and frank about it, no politeness like the most of us learn to use. But what impressed me was how their young minds were indoc trinated against day-old bread like it was something untouch able. Like a young mother some time ago when presented with two loaves of it that was scarce ly day-old, drew her mouth in to straight lines as she said, "I'll make 'em eat it." Golly, no bread is wasted here. We usually sun-dry any surplus and store it against the. time when needed for chicken or tur key dressing or the making of fine old-time bread puddin', so little heard of now. The garbage man gathers up what might have been. What a wasteful nation we are getting to be. . F. J. Clifford, , . 1211 W. Main, Medford, Ore. POT LUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A city couple recently went suburban, thinking how much fun it would be to have a few acres, raise some livestock, and so on. Ah dreams! Well, they went to an auction last week. Steers, chickens, pigs, calves even goats were sold. But the couple did not bid on any of the livestock. Their single purchase was a pair of ski poles. It could be added, accurately, that they don't ski. During the steady down pour of rain Tuesday evening, the lawn sprinkling system at the corner of Oakdale ave. and Dakota st. was in full opera tion , A gentleman of our acquain tance last week was struggling against the assaults of some sort of virus, presumably a variant of the flu bug. As he kept at his desk during the morning, mounting dizziness and discom fort plagued him; He called his doctor and obtained an appoint ment for the following day at 9:30 a.m. Then he gave up, went home, climbed in bed and went sound asleep. ' After what seemed like a long long slumber, he awoke, groggily looked at the clock, which said 8 o'clock, put on hat and coat and journeyed forth for his doc tor's appointment. A slight feeling of unease that thing's weren't quite .right, somehow came to a head when he was almost all the way down town and discovered that it wa3 evening, instead of the following morning. The discovery didnjt help , his equilibrium any, he reports. .,' Tuesday evening, the city council was discussing speed limits imposed on trains in the city limits. City Attorney Frank Farrell assured memb ers that the city ordinance lim its trains to 20 miles per hour. "But they haven't reached that yet." he added. A local woman entered an of fice building last week, uncer tain of the number of the doc tor's office she was seeking. She stopped in front of the elevator and paused to peer at the9 lobbv sien listing the of fice numbers. Suddenly she felt nressure on both sides of her head and, startled, found her self neerine into grinning faces. The elevator ' operator had pushed the " up" button, and tne woman's head had been caught in the quiet, relentess, but gently closing doors of the elevator. - Four young men last week entered a bar in a Jackson county town which shall here be nameless. The bartender observing their youth demand ed evidence to show they were at least 21 years of age. Three 'promptly complied, but the fourth found he had left his at home, and said he'd go home and get it. He did. It showed he was of legal age. He then ordered a bottle of orange soda pop. "Mutual thoughtfulness" seems to describe this story: . A Medford man was hospital- hardened, the young cry for help before they hatch and the, moth er, hearing them, uncovers the eggs. Then the young cracks the shell' and pokes out the tip of its ugly snout, and it isn't a small one, either. Digs Burrow But surely the most amazing brooding of all belongs to the two sole egg-laying mammals the platypus and spiny anteater. The platypus digs a burrow and at the end builds a nest with' wet leaves . and hatches its 1, 2 or 3 eggs there in the darkness; but the spiny anteater, takes her tiny walnut-sized egg arid transfers it into a brood pourich on her ab domen and there in the warmth after several days, it hatches. And now, to both parents comes the problem: , neither mother has teats But to give nourishment to their helpless, blind young, they have scattered glands in their skin which se crete milk. For the anteater, the area is in the pouch; for the plat ypus it is on the abdomen and the pair of young simply lick up the flow of milk which runs off the hair. And as for that bird with the built-in pouch, that's the Emp eror penquin. Living in the cold antarctic, it holds its eggs off the- Ice on its foot which has over it a flap which protects the egg. Just what the doctor or dered. (Copyright 1955 by Eugene 'Burns Released by McClure Newpaper Syndicate) Free: By soecial arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraf t binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry. I sinmly can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your ques tions to: IS THAT SO! c6 Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 579, Sau- salito, cam. ized for an illnes. A friend de cided to call on him. The friend drove up to the hospital, parked, and got out of his car. As he did so, he slipped and broke a bone in his foot, which had to be placed in a cast A few days later the man with the broken foot, confined to his home, received a call from his once-hospitalized friend, conval escing but sympathetic.' Denver (U.R) Seth ' Dismounts Thrice of Denver - Friday obtained a marriage li cense to marry Katharine Chasing Horse. ' In the Day's (lews ' By FRANK JENKINS' - After wrestling for 115 days with the problems presented to it by its employers, the people, the Oregon legislature adjourns, and as this is written' its mem bers are on their way back to their homes to take up their busi nesses and their professions where they left them some four months ago. , Their last act was a decision to ask the people to double their present $600 annual salaries. I'd like to put the cart before the horse in this piece with the statement that I think the re quest should be granted. WHEN the 1955 Oregon legis " lature assembled, it faced a basic problem. This, basic prob lem was a financial one. It had horns sharp ones. Briefly, the problem was this: The people of Oregon wanted from their state government some $60,000,000 MORE in the way of services than the present revenue system would produce. The legislature first tried, to PUT THE AMOUNT of money asked for, as summarized in the governor's budget It didn't have any luck in the way of CUTTING DOWN. So ft had to tackle the other horn. of the dilemma. It had to FIND ' MORE MONEY. IT found the money (basically) by boosting income taxes and imposing a tax of, three cent per package on cigarettes. That's the story in a nutshell. All. in all, considering all the angles of the problem, it did a pretty good job. BUT . ' .. . -;- . ,: . . It was a temporary job. ' ' It meets the problem for this t biennium only. WE'RE going to need a PER MANENT solution.. We'd better start at once the job of putting tagether an Ore gon taxation system that will provide over, the yearfP In the fairest manner possible, in the manner that will best serve the needs of the changing and EX PANDING economy of the state of Oregon enough to pay for services that are going to be de manded by the people of Oregon from their state government . AS for the people, they'd bet ter start adjusting themselves to the hard fact that if they want more services from thejr state government they're going to have to pay the bill. - They're going to have to pay it with taxes. .. Whatever money the people demand in the way of services from the government HAS to be paid for with tax money. The tax money will have to come out of the pockets of the people. There is nowhere else for it to come from.. , V.; rnHROUGHOUT this session of - the Oregon legislature, there was continuing talk of a sales tax as a major revenue producer. Nothing came of it. ' Personally, I think that is josi aa well. The nlace for a sales tax, when looked upon as a maj or revenue producer, is as PART of a carefully considered tax program to meet the needs of the Oregon of the tuiure. I'd like to noint out here, now- ever, that the idea of sales tax is nothing new in Oregon, mere nnthinff revolutionary about it. We've been relying FOR YEARS upon a SALES xaa to nrodM a VERY LARGE SHARE of the revenue we have , to pay our bills with. It is a sales tax (on gasoline) that has paid the cost of building and main taining our highways. , TD this very considerable sales tav on a single commodity rcniinY - the ' 1955 legislature added a sales tax on ANOTHER commodity cigarettes. . -What is batmening is that we're adopting the sales tax in a mirrirMF.AT. fashion. It is no longer a .question as to whether or not we shall have a sales tax. We have one now. It's merely a question OX now xar we snail go in the way of integrating a sales tav into a carefully considered program of taxation in Oregon. An estimated 166.000 tnvUn caught 1,590,000 striped bass in 1953. The northern houniarv n v,. United Sttes is S987 miles Ion.
