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47 Bills From Committee on Taxation Placed Before Oregon Representatives Salem 'U.R) Forty-seven bills from the Committee on Taxation were introduced in the Oregon House of Representa tives Thursday all but three of them at the request of the State Tax Commission. Most of them dealt with changes in procedure and ad ministration of property and in come tax laws. They brought the total of bills introduced to 243. One important bill would give upervisory powers to the State Tax Commission over any state, county or municipal officer per forming tax assessment, collec tion or apportionment duties. Included would be county sher iffs, county tax supervision and conservation commission. Bills Defined Another bill would establish tax supervising and conservation commissions in all counties, in addition to the present Multno mah county commission. They would be under the general sup ervision of the State Tax Com mission. Power to request statements of taxable individuals or corpor ations in addition to statements made to county assessors would be granted in another bill. Other tax bills would re-define the formula for sharing costs by the counties of State Tax Commission appraisal ser vices so that each county would pay one-half the cost; re-define merchantable timber for tax pur poses, and change inventory law to permit determination of stock at the close of 12 regular periods rather than at the end of each month. Federal Plan Eyed Changes in income tax law would provide a graduated meth od of computing tax withhold ings approximating liability simi lar to the federal withholding plan; eliminate flexible hardship exemption provisions; and en able a dependent 19 or younger to earn up to 51,000 before los ing his dependency status. Thirty-five bills embodying programs of the Interim Com mittee on Education and the State Highway Commission were introduced Wednesday. Main education bill would in crease basic school support from S80 to $120 per census child as advocated by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. Several education bills related to a comprehensive plan for re organization of school districts. People Would Vote Under the re-organization bills, school boards of all classes in a county would get together and elect a committee of nine mem bers to plan county-wide school administration. The committee also could ad just bonded indebtedness be tween districts that would be included in proposed new school zones. Plans for new districts, in ac cordance with State Board of Education standards, would then be submitted to a vote of the people. Highway bills introduced at the request of the State Highway Commission would provide, among other things, for an $8 million bond issue to enable Ore gon to participate fully in the federal interstate highway program. Lions Club, Largest Organization of Service Clubs, Observes 40th Birthday State Unemployment Highest in Nation Salem (U.R) Oregon's unem ployment rate was the highest in the nation during December with 10.8 per cent of workers covered by unemployment com pensation out of jobs. The State Unemployment Compensation Commission said the situation was not too un usual because of many seasonal layoffs. In recent years the fig ure has risen to 12 per cent in December. About half the 51.500 unem ployed workers were in the lum ber industry. Some 488.100 persons were working at non-farm jobs in De cember. This was 9,700 more than a year previously. Chicago (U.R) The Lions Club movement is 40 years old this year. It started with a man who had an idea. The man was Melvin Jones, 78, founder of the Lions and now secretary-general of the organ ization. 1 His idea was that men who work together on civic or charit able projects not only serve their communities but become better friends. It must have been a sound idea because the Lions, one of the youngest of the service clubs, has become the largest. It now has 541.136 members and 12, 7f0 clubs in 77 countries. '"By serving others you build yourself," Jones likes to say. Jones, white-haired but active can't begin to estimate the num ber of Lions Club luncheons and dinner's he's attended. "One thing about it," he said. "In addition to helping the blind, the crippled children and a lot of other worthwhile under takings, the Lions always seem to have fun, too." It wasn't always thus with businessmen's clubs. In 1947, Jones was a new member of the business circle of Chicago. At tendance was desultory, meet ings dull. Meet To Adjourn The members debated whether to adjourn each year for six months, from May to October. "If we can't stand the sight of one another for six months of the year then I can't see any reason why we should be clubby for the other, six," Jones told the members. Miffed at the upstart, the old er members elected him secre tary. Shorty afterward, Jones pro posed a new national organiza tion, taking in independent clubs and chartering new ones. Thus, the Lions movement was born. In those days most of the ser vice clubs were business ex change" organizations, in which the members were supposed to trade with each other to help their own business. "But our constitution says no club-shall hold as an object the financial gain of its members," Jones said. Actor Loses Temper In Tractor Incident Hollywood (U.R) Actor Michael O'Shea has been fined S250 and given a 30 day sus pended jail sentence for firing a rifle at a neighbor's tractor when his Irish temper exploded last Nov. 7. The actor also -was placed on three years probation Thursday by Municipal Judge Parks Still well and warned that he might go to jail if he used firearms again to settle disputes with his neighbors. O'Shea, husband of actress Virgina Mayo, admitted he fired a .22 caliber rifle at the tractor's rear tires while it was being operated by his neighbor's son, Richard Morrison, 13. But the actor claimed he took the action because the boy had' been racing the tractor on the property and endangering the life of the O'Sheas' daughter, Mary Cath erine, 3. Federal Grand Jury Indicts Willamette Man Portland (U.R) A federal grand jury indictment charging bank robbery was returned here yesterday against Ross Neal Por ter, 37-year-old Willamette up holsterer. The charge stems from the mid-day holdup of the Sher wood branch of the U.S. Nation al bank earlier this month. FBI agents, arrested Porter last week. One major purpose of the org anization is to provide a forum for public discussion of all mat ters of public interest, "partisan politics and sectarian, religion alone excepted." : The Lions went international early, Jones recalled. In 1920 there was an element which op posed chartering foreign clubs. But the movement spread from Detroit to Windsor,- Ont., just across the river, and then to Toronto. "At the convention that year some of the fellows who opposed the idea found out that the Can adian 'foreigners' weren't so bad," Jones said. "We set up a foreign relations committee and began chartering clubs in other countries. We sort of figured that maybe ' if you knew the other fellow, you and he wouldn't be shooting at each other," In the last few months, he said. Lions Clubs throughout the U.S. have contributed $70,000 for Hungarian relief. Klamath Navy Office Asks Bids on Radar Klamath Falls (U.R) The Navy construction office in Klamath Falls has announced invitation for bids for construc tion of a radar installation esti mated to cost about $3 million. The project includes construc tion of access roads from High way 66 to the facility site on Hamaker mountain near Keno, about 16 'miles southwest of Klamath Falls. The air control and warning installation is expected to be manned by 100 military person nel under the command of ,the. 28th Air Division at Hamilton AFB, Calif. Logical support will be provided by the Klamath Falls jet interceptor base. Can you find the "guarantee" in this picture? You buy a refrigerator only two or three time in your lifetime. Yet you don't hesitate to buy one without getting so much as a look at the intricate "works" that makes it run. How do you dare make such an important purchase without having an expert check it over for you? What makes you so sure you're getting your money's worth when you say, "I'll take that one"? The answers obvious. You look for the brand name on the refrigerator your "guarantee." You've learned to follow this first rule of safe and sound buying: A good brand is your best guarantee Ho matter what kind of product you want to buy, you know a good brand won't let you down. You know the maker stands back of it guar antees it. And so, when you buy a good brand you know you're right Read this newspaper to find out which are the good brands (and the stores that sell them.) The more good brands you know, the surer you are about all your shopping. , BRAND NAMES FOUNDATION Incorporated A iVon-ProSt Educational Foundation 37 West 57th Street, Nw York 19, New York U- Amusement Device Tax Monies Apportioned Salem U.R) Apportion ment of $116,872 in amusement device tax moneys was an nounced yesterday by Secretary of State Mark Hatfield. The money will be distributed 60 per cent to the state public assistance fund and 40 per cent to all the counties. Oil Drilling Rigs Get Road Use Permits Pendleton (U.R; Highway de partment officials said yesterday that permits for oil drilling rigs to use certain Eastern Oregon roads have been granted. A spokesman said Standard Oil Company will bring in a crew from Salt Lake City to set up a drilling tower -on a 1300 acre tract near Condon. The nighway permits issued pertain ed to routes the company must use into Gilliam county to set up its operation. The acreage was leased to the company by the State Highway Commission. Officials of the company said tests .showed po tential oil deposits in the area. .The drilling rig is now being assembled in Condon and is ex pected to be in operation in about two weeks. Friday, January 25, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE riVE Tax Return Must Be Filed for Farmers Farm operators who have any farm hand as much at $100 in cash wages during 1956 must file an employers' tax return for agricultural employees, W. V. Nusbaum, manager of the Med ford district office of the social security administration remind ed residents today. The return should be filed with the district director of in ternal revenue, by Jan. 31, along with the social security taxes on the wages reported. The re turn must show the name, social security number, and wages paid to each employee whose cash wages in 1956 amounted to $100 or more. Beginning with 1957, a farm operator is required to report the wages of every farm em ployee to whom he pays $150 or more cash wages during 1957 or who works for him on 20 or more days during 1957 on a time basis, regardless of the total cash wages paid. The total num ber of days worked and the man ner of figuring the pay do not matter if the worker meets the $150-a-year test, Nusbaum said. Fay Resort Opening of Lake of Woods Opposed Klamatfi, Falls ;U.PJ The Klamath county court said today it opposed an early opening of Lake of the Woods resort. 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