City's Combined Mage Kate Decreases
ut Taxes Levied Up Some $300
While the combined millage
rate in the city of Medford has
decreased slightly from last year
the total tax levied has increas
ed by more than $300,000, ac
cording to figures supplied local
officials this week.
The combined millage for the
1955-56 tax year is 67.4, com
pared to 68.2 for 1954-55. But
the total of tax levies on cuy
Drorjertv this year is SI. 681,369,
romoared to Sl.342,673 last
year.
These figures were compiled
by the Bureau of Municipal Re
search and Service at me uni
versity of Oregon at the request
of former Mayor Diamond L.
Flynn, immediate past president
of the League of Oregon Cities,
and have been made available
to city officials here. ,
Many Complaints
Flynn requested the informa
tion from Herman Kehrli, exec
utive secretary of the bureau,
because of the many complaints
about high tax increases in
Jackson county this year. Kehr
li's analysis of taxes in this area
Indicated there are several rear
nons for the increases.
r Excerpts from his analysis
' follow:
"You will note that between
1954 and 1955 the total assessed
value of Jackson county has
been increased almost 519,000,
000 and that almost 318,000,000
of this increase comes from real
property. According to informa
tion published by the State Tax
commission, there is a flat 40
per cent increase in the assessed
value of all real property and
there is also some increase in
this category due to new im
provements. . . There was a 46.8 per cent
Increase in the assessed value of
real property in Jackson county
through 1954 and 1955, while
the assessed value of personal
property was increased only 1.1
per cent and the assessed value
of utility property, which is as
lessed and apportioned by the
State Tax commission, 11.7 per
cent.
"As a result of the reassess
ment program, real property
now constitutes 69 per cent of
the total assessed value of the
'county as compared with 61.4
per cent last year; personal
property constitutes 17.5 per
cent out of the total as compared
with 22.7 per cent last year; and
utility property now constitutes
14.2 per cent of the total as com
pared with 16.6 per cent last
year. ' -Shift
in Liability
"As a result of the reassess
ment, there has been quite a
shift in tax liability from utility
property and personal property
to real property. This is un
doubtedly one reason that the
taxes of so many Medford prop
erty owners are higher this year
than they were last year. .
While part of this shift, is due to
the reassessment program now
under way in Jackson county,
part of it is undoubtedly due to
the addition of improvements
not previously assessed and to
changes in the assessment of-individual
properties in an at
tempt to get greater uniform
ity . . ."
A table compiled by Kehrli
shows that county tax levies on
Medford property last year to
taled $116,117 and this year
$217,031, with a millage increase
from 5.9 to 8.7. School-levies on
Medford property rose from
$777,832 to $992,856, with a
millage increase from 39.5 to
39.8. City levies went up from
$448,24 to $471,482, with a de,
crease in the millage from 22.8
to 18.9.
Kehrli adds:
"You will note that county
taxes levied within the city are
slightly over S100,000 more than
last year and that school taxes
levied within the city have in
creased more than S200,000 and
city taxes more than $20,000.
Total property taxes levied
have increased from $1,342,673
last year to $1,681,369 for this
year. Despite an increase of
over $5,000,000 in the assessed
valuation of property within
the city, from $19,680,863 to
S24.946,133, the combined tax
millage has remained almost
the same; 67.4 mills this year
as compared with 68.2 mills last
year. If the assessed valuation
of any particular piece of prop
ertv is increased under the re
assessment program, but the
same millage is levied, then the
taxes increase by the percentage
of increase m assessed value.
Statewide Trend
". . . You will note that the
statewide trend has also been to
shift the burden from personal
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Los Angeles Russell Tongay, recaptured after escaping from
Florida's Raiford prison where he was serving a manslaughter
conviction for the death of his four-year-old "aquatot" daughter:
"They gave me the run-around in Florida and wouldn't treat
my condition. A doctor told me my lung trouble was caused by
cancer, but they wouldn't help me."
Montreal Mrs. Marie Girouard, older sister of Marie Dionne
in confrrning that Marie has left the convent for good:
"She has been told by her doctor that the cloistered life of a
nun was loo hard for her frail health."
Chicago "Queen" Maggie O'Connor, reminded by police that
some of her accomplices in some 100 robberies had "squealed on
her": .
"Everybody beefed on me but I ain't gonna beef on nobody."
Chandiagarh, India Communist party boss Nikita Khrush
chev on the offer of American construction engineer Harvey S lo
cum to change jobs:
"You will have to lift the iron wall and let me in."
London British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, announcing
that Russia has rejected a British approach to limiting arms de
liveries to the Middle East:
"The Soviet leaders give us very little encouragement that any
useful purpose would be served by inviting the Soviet Union to
a conference of the nature suggested."
New York Sieve Carlin, executive producer of the television
program "The $64,000 Question," on the possibility that three con
testants now appearing could win an aggregate of $112,000:
"We can afford it."
Annapolis, Md. Coach Eddie Erdelatz of Navy, forecasting
a cautious start by both teams in this Saturday's Army-Navy foot
ball classic:
"I expect we'll feel each other out like a couple of boxers, and
whichever way we can gain best will be the way we'll try."
Cold Air Drifts
Into Southern States
By UNITED PRESS
Cold air drifted southward
across the mid-continent today,
pushing temperatures down an
average of 10 to 20 degrees or
more, and breaking a record
November heat wave in South-1
western states.
The cold front set off tornado
alerts in Texas, Oklahoma and
Arkansas, but the alarms appar
ently were false. No twisters
were reported.
Fort Worth, Tex., registered
a summerlike 89 degrees yester
day, a record high for Novem
ber, and Houston recorded ao,
Dallas 87, and Oklahoma City a
balmy 75. But the cold front was
expected to- send the mercury
tumbling as much as 30 degrees.
Temperatures .already had
dropped 10 to 20- degrees or
more to the north. . Glasgow,
Mont., which registered 24 yes
terday, shivered in four below
zero temperatures, and at Rapid
City, S.D.,' the mercury fell 22
degrees to 17 above.
AUTHOR UNDER KNIFE
Los Angeles (U.R) r Gene
Fowler,, film writer, former
newspaper editor and author of
numerous books, was reported
in "good condition" at St. Vin
cents hospital today after under
going major surgery.
Plywood Workers
Accept Wage Offer
Portland (U.R) An industry
wage increase offer of an aver
age 8.75 cents an hour has been
accepted by representatives of
some 6000 CIO plywood work
ers in the Pacific Northwest.
Acceptance of the offer, sub
ject to approval by the union
membership, was announced
here yesterday by Burk Christie,
president of the plywood district
council of the International
Woodworkers of America.
The wage increase offer has
been turned down by other seg
ments of the IWA. But it was
accepted earlier by AFL Lum
ber and Sawmill Workers.
The pay increases range from
5 to 15 cents an hour with the
average at 8:75.
Spokane (U.R) The meet
ing of the Columbia Interstate
Compact commission scheduled
for Portland Dec. 12 has been
cancelled.
property and utility property to
locally assessed real property,
although the statewide trend
has not been as sharp as that
which has occurred during the
past year in Jackson county."
Giving figures for the county
as a whole, Kehrli showed that
the assessed value of real prop
erty has gone up an average of
46.8 per cent in the last year.
The largest increase was on tim
ber, which increased 178.2 per
cent. Other increases were lands
inside corporate limits, up 23
per cent; lands outside corpo
rate limits, up 32.6 per cent:
improvements in cities, up 44.6
per cent, and improvements out
side cities, up 56.5 per cent.
These classes of real property
now total 69 per cent of the to
tal value, compared to 61.4 per
cent last year.
Personal property this year
constituted 17.5 per cent of to
tal assessed value, compared to
22.7 per cent last year, a decline
of 1.1 per cent.
Real and personal property
combined went from 84.1 per
cent of the total value to 86.5
per cent, an increase of from
S51,926,870 to S69.833.658, or an
increase of 34.5 per cent.
Valuation of utility proper
ties, assessed by the state tax
commission, increased 11.7 per
cent, from $10,275,545 to $11,
476.460. They now represent
14.2 per cent of the total, com
pared to 16.6 per cent last year
The total assessed valuation
rose from $61,750,895 to $80.
32,148, an ov.erall increase of
36.7 per cent.
Tongay Prepares To
Fight Extradition
Los Angeles (U.R) Escaped
convict Russell Tongay prepared
. Itoday to fight extradition "to
the limit on a claim he is dying
of cancer and will not get neces
sary treatment if he returns to
Florida.
The 38-year-old fugitive said
if California authorities return
him to Florida before he gets
treatment for a lung ailment,
which he says is cancer, "it will
be the same as a death sentence."
"I'm desperate;" Tongay said
at the General hospital prison
ward yesterday. "They gave me
the run-around in Florida and
wouldn't treat my condition. A
doctor told me my lung trouble
was caused by cancer, but they
wouldn't help me."
The husky former swimming
instructor was sentenced to 1 to
10 years in prison for man
slaughter in the death of his
four-year-old "Aquatot" daugh
ter, Kathy, who died of injuries
after a 33-foot exhibition dive.
QUAKE RECORDED
Weston, Mass. (U.R) A
"strong" earthquake, perhaps in
Siberia, was recorded on the
Weston College seismograph today.
San Francisco (U.R) Stock
holders of Crown . Zellerbach
Corporation of San Francisco
and Gaylord Container Corpor
ation of St. Louis approved a
merger of the two companies at
special meetings yesterday.
License Effective
For Beaver Marsh Job
Washington (U.R) A Fed
eral Power Commissioner's de
cision issuing a 50-year license
to the city of Eugene, Ore., for
construction of its proposed Bea
ver Marsh hydroelectric project
on the McKenzie river has be
come effective.
The decision by Examiner
Francis L. Hall was issued Oct.
20. Since no exceptions were fil
ed or review initiated by the
commission, the decision became
effective Monday, the FPC said.
I Wednesday, November 23. 19S1
Open Hearing Seen
For Cain Charges
Washington iU.P.i The Sub
veisive Activities Control Board
will take no action in a bias and
prejudice case against board
member Harry P. Cain until the
matter is aired in open hearings
here, informed sources said to
day. But they said a case which
Cain is hearing in Seattle will
be recessed until the matter is
resolved. Cain has been presid
ing since Oct. 8 at oral argu
ments in a case brought by At
torney General Herbert Brown
ell Jr. against the Washington
Pension Union.
Brownell asked the SACB
late yesterday to reconsider
charges of bias and prejudice
filed against Cain by the union
last February.
White Thanksgiving
Possible in Portland
Portland (U.R) Portland may
get a white Thanksgiving.
The weather man today pre
dicted snow showers tonight and
Thursday, mixed with rain. With
temperatures as low as 31 fore
cast for Portland tonight there
was a chance of snow sticking to
the ground.
Elsewhere the forecasts called
for scattered snow flurries in
eastern Oregon and rain showers
in most of western Oregon.
Snow fell this morning in the
Columbia gorge and two inches
was reported between Cascade
Locks and Biggs Junction. Five
inches was reported at Burns in
eastern Oregon.
Court Records
POLICE COURT
Clement Matthew Lizberg, illegal
left turn. So.
AnnaBelle Skeeters, illegal right
turn. S5.
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FTVB
18 Communicable
Illnesses Listed
Eighteen .cases of communi
cable diseases, 10 of them in
Medford, were reported to the
county health office during the
week ended Nov. 19.
Topping the county disease list
was chicken pox, with two cases
in Medford and one each in Pros
pect, Rogue River, Applegate,
and Ashland. There were three
cases of strep throat, including
one in Medford and two in Ash
land,, and three cases of influen
za in Medford.
Also on the list were two
cases of mumps in Medford, two
cases of measles in Medford, one
case of pneumonia in Talent, and
one case of tuberculosis in Ashland.
Columbia River
Development Urged
Portland (U.R) The Inland
Empire Waterways Association,
concluding its annual convention
here, yesterday urged spending
$112,000,000 a year for -fiscal
1957 through 1962 for develop
ment of Columbia river area
power resources.
The recommendations included
completing McNary, Chief Jo
seph and The Dalles dams by
1957, 1959 and 1961, respective
ly, and keeping on schedule Ice
Harbor, John Day, Hills Creek,
Cougar and Green Peter dams.
Included in the revised pro
gram adopted by the group was
Lower Monumental dam, second
of four lower Snake river proj
ects. Funds for this project will
not be sought until fiscal 1958.
DISTRICT COURT j
Herbert Roswell Lamison. failure to i
stop at a stop sign, S10; violation of
basic rule. S15.
Frank C. Dollarhide. failure to stop
at the scene of an accident. So.
Reinhold Boes, following too close
in traffic. S15.
Nathan Deaver. truck speeding. S10.
Gerald Clyde Stewart, violation of
basic rule. S17.50. (
Roy Thomas Johnson, failure to
stop at a stop sign, S10.
Lionel George Rankin, truck speed
ing, $10.
CIRCUIT COURT
Donald E." Warner vs. Alma Warner,
divorce decree.
Margery Smith vs. Richard D. Smith,
divorce decree.
Geraldine L. Myers vs. Robert Wal
ter Myers, divorce decree.
Gladys Ruth Sheldon vs. Kenneth
Alvin Sheldon, divorce complaint.
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