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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
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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
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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.
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New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
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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
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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.