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Wednesday, June 17, 195S MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE New Highway User Tax for Constructing Nation's Roads To Be Effective Sunday Washington U.P) II you I tions in cities can store only a need a new set of tires for your automobile, you can save about S3 in taxes by buying them be fore midnight Saturday. On Sunday the federal govern ment will slap higher taxes on tires, gasoline, diesel fuel, trucks, buses and truck-trailers. The increased taxes are includ ed in a bill which President Ei senhower is certain to sign into law this week. The bill will put into effect the biggest construc tion program in history to mod ernize the nation's highways. The higher taxes on motorists and truckers arc to help pay for it The House and Senate complet ed congressional action on the measure Tuesday. Here is how the new taxes will affect motorists and truckers: Tires The federal tax will jump from five to eight cents a pound. This means a tax in crease of 74 cents a tire on the tubeless ones with which new popular -make passenger cars i now come equipped. Thus, it will cost $3.70 more in taxes to produce a new automobile with a spare tire. The tax on old-type tires, with tubes, of the same popular size will go up only 65 cents a tire, since they weigh less. The tax will go up much more on big heavy truck tires. Consumers will be hit immediately because retailers and wholesalers must pay the tax on their July 1 in ventory. Gasoline The tax jumps from two cents to three cents a gallon. Some service stations may not boost gasoline prices immediate ly. Gasoline delivered to service stations by midnight Saturday will be exempt. It will be up to each service station operator to decide when to hike his prices. Some big sta- Oregonians Paid $62,110,056 Taxes In First II Months Salem (U.R Oregonians paid $62, 110,056 into their state treasury the first 11 months of the current biennium in the form of sharply increased personal in come taxes, according to figures released by the State Tax Com mission. The figure as of May 31. 1956. compared with $41,707,754 dur ing the same period a year ago. Tax Commission Chairman Ray Smith said personal income tax collections in April 1956 totaled $9,853,005 and in May $18,147,589. That compared with April. 1955. collections of $9, 265,984 and May, 1955, payments of $7,238,401. Smith said full impact of the 45 par cent surtax on personal income taxes was not felt until April and May of this year. The large increase of the May collec tion of the same month a year ago was due to the fact that many of the returns made in April could not be processed un til May and therefore were in cluded in the May report. Corporate income tax collec tions last April totaled $1,929. 928 as compared with $2,474,142 in April, 1955. The corporate ex cise tax collected in May this year was $1,657,984, slightly above the May figure of a year ago when the corporate tax totaled $1,541,986. Total corporate excise taxes collected for the first 1 1 months of the present biennium were $15,712,764, as compared with collections reported over the same period a year ago of $13,-394.081. two or three day supply. Others can hold a wtck's supply. Some rural stations with little busi ness need only bi-monthly deliveries. Diesel Fuel The tax jumps from two cents to three cents a gallon and truckers will be hit immediately, since this is a re tail, rather than a manufactur ers' excise tax, as in the case of gasoline. Trucks. Bush and Truck-Trail ers The federal government will collect from manufacturers a tax equal to 10 per cent of their sale price, instead of the present eight per cent. The only way to escape the levy is to buy before midnight Saturday. Inven tories in dealers' and distribu tors' hands on Sunday will be subjected to the tax. Weight Tax on Trucks Start ing Sunday, operators of trucks weighing 13 tons or more will have to pay a new tax on $1.50 per 1.000 pounds on the gross weight of their trucks. This amounts to $39 for a 13-ton- in retreading tires, will be sub- the new taxes are expected to This money along with most trust fund. Thus, motorists and truck. jected to a new tax "of three raise $612,000,000 in revenue, of the revenue from already ex- truckers can console themselves Tread Rubber Manufacture cents a pound. The revenue over a 16-year per- isting highway user taxes will that the taxes they pay will be ers of camelback. or rubber used During the next 12 months iod is forecast at $14,814,000,000. go into a special new highway used for building highways. On The Side By E. V. Durling (Distributee' by Kine ftvm Syadiut. IncJ Marilyn Monroe does quite a bit of strolling around Manhat tan. On these occasions she wears that type of attire styled 'pedal pushers." She uses no make-up. She also wears dark glasses. So she is seldom recog nized. She is a very friendly girl anH nil en nneases Deoole in con versation without revealing her identity. So if you are a New Yorker you may have been, talk ing to Marilyn Monroe lately without knowing it. Incidentally, mm whrt recently met Miss Monroe for the first time made what I consider a most unusual nhsorv-atinn. That is. he did not comment at all upon Marilyn's famous figure. He said, bne nas the most wonderful complexion I have ever seen." Come to think of it. that is the first time I have heard Marilyn Monroe's complexion referred to. Sidelights Those named Elizabeth are very sensitive as to abbrevia tions of their name. However, they don't mind being called Betty or Beth. What irritates them most is to be called "Liz zie." ... A Brooklynite express es himself as "shocked" to find that his daughter, though a high school graduate, could not name the 13 original states of the Unit ed States. How about your daughter? Touring What is the most monotonous stretch of highway you have traveled on an auto trip? In Ida ho there is a 100-mile straight stretch of highway on which there is nothing to be seen but sage brush. An attempt to re lieve the trip is made by use of signs. One read: Ain t mis monotonous?" A little further on there is another sign reading: Don't just sit there.. Nag your husband." Asking . Queries from clients, w- Has there ever been a left-handed catcher in the major leagues? A. Yes. sir. Joe Wall, a Brooklyn catcher was left-handed. So was Fred Tenney of Boston. Both these players later became first basemen. Reason a southpaw doesn't make a good catcher is that every ball he throws has a tendency to cure slightly Q. Who starred in the stage com edy titled "Baby Mine?" A. If it wasn't Madae Kennedy I am stuck for another stogie. Please Note Next to Shakespeare, what man would you say had the most monuments and other memor ials? It is Robert Burns. The Scottish Bard has had 14 monu ments erected in his honor in his native land. Also three in Eng land. Also monuments in Syd ney. Melbourne, Toronto, Van couver, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and New York. By the way, what happened to the musi- Iwl that was to be basea on tne fEife of Bums? That could be good. My selection to play Burns would be Gordon MacRae. Birth Rate Note it said that Paris has the I lowest birth rate of any major i city in the world. That's wrong, i Vienna has the world's lowest ! birth rate, eight for each 1,00 population. Incidentally among nations, Japan now has the high- j est birth rate. The situation has I reached a point there where it is ' being suggested that any Japan ese couple having more than three children be heavily taxed. Instruction in birth control is be ing given in 700 government cen ters. Passing By Prince Sadrudden. Aly Khan's brother. Rita Hayworth's former brother-in-law. Sadrudden, now a student at Harvard, is said to be the Aga Khan's favorite son and the likely heir to his vast fortune . . . Joe Di Maggio. One of San Francisco's favorite sons and erstwhile idol of Yankee fans. How many popular songs can you think of that have been written in honor of a ballplay er? Only one I can recall offhand is that titled "Joltin' Joe Di Maggio." Over There The world's most shapely young females at this time are those of Italy. The measurements of the average young Italian woman are 36-23-35. Average height is 5 feet 4. The .Italian glamour girls favor a statuesque appearance so they wear four inch heels. Don't Miss the Big 4th of July Fireworks Show On the 4fh o Senior High Stadium B6TH "?Kr? YMCA CAMP BEN EFIT Adults $1 .00 - Children 50' WHERE YOU GET THE BIG TRADE Save Now-By Trading Now! 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