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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
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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.
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likely that
Malenkov was
sent there by
the Kremlin
as a sort of
trial balloon.
In other
words, that
the Kremlin
used him to
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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.
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