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G County's Property ructure Is viewed by Deputy Andrev Havver, head of the personal property department in Jackson county, gave a resume of the county's property tax structure Monday noon at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce roundtable luncheon at the Jackson hotel. Personal property includes in ventories such as merchandise for resale, fixtures and equip ment, and the tax is based on opocrtunity for monetary re turn. Hawver noted major changes in assessment methods since the county was founded in 1852. Longhand Records He pointed out that until re cent years records were made in longhand. They are now made mechanically. He also explained that the county assessor origi nally hired a staff each year to look at taxable property and evaluate it. In 1941 the individ ual taxpayers became respon sible for reporting their own property. The county assessor now mails out tax statements, the taxpayer reports his property, returns the tpmpletcd statement and the as sessor's office is responsible for equalization. The present personal property form consists of three sections, Hawver said, one for use by re tail merchants, another for use by farmers and ranchers, and the third for miscellaneous busi nesses, such as logging and con- DIVIDEND NOTICE The Board of Directors lias declared a distribution from net realized pain on investments of 8( per ."bare, and a dividend of ( per share from net investment income, payable March 30 to shareholders of record March 16, 1956. Howard M. Nimmons SECRETARY March 20, 1956 501 Exchange BIdg. Senile struction, garages and service stations, medical and optical. Cross-Indexed f As each firm returns the com; pleted tax form, it is indexed and cross-indexed in code. The code. Hawver pointed out. is a systematic procedure, but result in complications since tax offic ials must be familiar with each code and what it covers. Hawver said that average book value of property is based on a federal depreciation schedule, which allows a regular reduction in value of property as the prop erty ages. Since the system in Jackson county is not compat ible, officials here have set a dif ferent depreciation schedule. As long as an item is usable it has value, he said. The speaker pointed out that the valuation sechedule which went into effect in 1941 remain ed in effect until Jan. 1, 1956 regardless of war impact on values. 'True Cash Value' During the last session of the legislature, the term "true cash value" was established. ''We have set this at 30 per cent of assessed value, though no single true cash figure is reached," he said. True cash value was de fined by the legislators as the figure for which there is a will ing buyer and willing seller. Hawver stated that returns are tabbed as they come in. If a taxpayer fails to file his return by the March 2 deadline, he re ceives two notifications from' the assessor's office before a penalty is imposed. Hawver commented that he feels the pricing file in Jack son county is the most complete on the Pacific coast. He also reminded roundtable members that April i is the dead line for disabled veterans to file for their exemptions. Tuesday, March 20, 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE M alenKOv's Enqlish Visit Seen Successul as 'Trial Balloon' By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Georgi M. Malenkov's visit to London has turned into quite an irrmortanre onmrrence. Tt nnv..- cmt likely that Malenkov was sent there by the Kremlin as a sort of trial balloon. In other words, that the Kremlin used him to I Charles McCann get an idea ot me sort ot reception that Pre mier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Cub Scouts Visit Newspaper Plant Cub Scouts of pack 3, den 2. 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EMIL ZWAN, head of our Service Department Open Wednesday Nights 'Til 9 P.M. Appliance Store 225 East 6th Next to Penney's PHONE 3-5433 Communist party chief JCikita i S. Khrushchev- might expect -on j their visit next month. j But by pure coincidence. Mal-j enkov arrived in London just when the news broke that Khru schev, in a secret speech to the recent Communist Congress in Moscow, had completed the pro cess of debunking Josef Stalin. instead of confiding himself to junketing about in his capa city of minister for electric power stations Malenkov has been in constant communication with the Kremlin. Frequent Consultations He also has been in frequent consultation with Soviet Am bassador Jacob Malik and First Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko. who went to Lon don also by coincidence to attend today's disarmament talks. Yesterday, Malenkov re arranged his program to confer with Prime Minister Anthony Eden. London dispatches empha sized that this visit was not one of ordinary courtesy. There was considerable sur prise when the British Foreign Office announced on March 6 that Malenkov would lead a delegation of 12 Soviet scientists on a long-scheduled tour of British power stations. The visit of the Soviet Scien tists to Britain, and a corres ponding one by British scientists to Russia, was supposed to be merely a technical one. Malenkov is still one of the Kremlin inner circle, even as power minister. London dispatches still speak of the "mystery" of Malenkov's visit. But it is quite logical to as sume that the Kremlin did pick him for the trial balloon role a role for which his increasingly balloon-like figure fits him, physically. Open Hostility At the time his visit was an nounced, open hostility was being expressed in London to ward the Bulganin-Khrushchev visit. The British government was worried over the possibility of anti-Soviet outbreaks. As far as the situation goes, both the Kremlin and the British government must feel relieved. Malenkov has made quite a hit. He has broken away from his formidable escort to visit off schedule spots. He has patted babies on the head in the best grass-roots campaign tradition. He was cheered warmly at a football game he attended Satur day. But it happened also that three days after the announce ment that Malenkov would visit London, riots broke out in Sta lin's native Georgia against his v unceremonious demotion from sainthood. The disclosure of the Khru schev speech, and the riots, which occurred later, came just at the time of Malenkov's arri val. His presence in London will help take the heat off that em barrassing situation. It seems to be a bit of good luck for him. and for the Kremlin. The first atomic bomb was exploded July 16. 1945, in New-Mexico. covei o A 11 10 od i a Michix new ctrtd form This intent lady is reading the most nutritious cereal story of our time. 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