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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1959)
British, Canadian Tax Plans Being Observed For Results By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Edilor New York -(CPU The United Kingdom and Canada are be ing watched as a' laboratory to answer the question, "how valuable is a tax cut in re storing vigorous economic re covery?" Britain is cutting taxes; Canada is raising them. This is a rare opportunity to see which method is best Small Log Truckers Defend Veto of Two Bills by Hatfield Small log truckers and log ging contractors In Jackson county have defended Gov. Mark O. Hatfield in his veto of house bills 72 and 29. House bill 29 concerned fees, payable on a quarterly basis, to the Public Utilities Commissioner, and house bill 72 concerned regulations es tablished by the PUC for log truckers. Governor Hatfield had been criticized for vetoing the bills. Steve Wilson, vice presi dent of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association and owner of lum ber industry operations in this area, said Hatfield's veto "saved many small log truck ers and small logging contrac tors from almost certain de struction.' Sever Hardships He said if the bills had been adopted, they' would have forced out of business "the majority of small logger truckers and caused severe hardships to those who did survive. This has been the re .sult in those states that have passed similar legislation." Wilson pointed out that "log hauling is one of the few free enterprises in the state in which a single individual can purchase a truck and be come an independent busi nessman. Oregon cannot af ford legislation, the effect of which tends to destroy this right." The same feeling was ex pressed by Eugene F. Burrill, owner of the Eugene F. Bur rill Lumber company, White City, and Ray Off ord Jr., pres ident of SOCTFA, said if the LUtl Pig Mad Good-For A While, at Least "Spareribs" had two strikes on him right from the start. He was, by accident of birth, the very last to be born of a litter of ix razor-back pigs in the dismal scrublands near the picturesque S u w a n e e river. He was a runt; small, puny, slow-moving, and nearly half witted. When his mother, and brothers and sisters "took off" through the wastelands, he always brought up the rear, and he brought up the rear a long ways back. He never could think fast enough to get his legs going. But Fate plays some strange tricks, and Sparerib's sluggish mental processes caused him to meet nobility, and placed him in a social position none of his kinfolks could ever aspire to, or attain. For one afternoon Mother Razorback grunted an alarm, and followed by her brood ran for the cover and safety of a nearby swamp-all except Spareribs. The alarm was caused by a hunting party who had unknowingly come upon the pigs. As usual Spare ribs was slow to take off. Caught ; He" was caught by the young son of one of the hunt ers, and taken home for a pet. And in the hunter's home, he met nobility, for there also lives one Ludwigh W. Oden Von Techloff. Ludwigh bears the stamp of an aristocrat, for his ancestors were dachs hunds that hunted wild boars in. medieval Europe many centuries ago. No one can ever know for a certainty just what Lud wigh Von Techloff thought NO NEED TO WEAR A TRUSS That Binds, Cats, Gouges, Slips and Does Not Hold If you must wear a Trust for Rupture, don't miss this. A Post Card, with name and address, will get you FREE, and without obligation, the complete, modernized Rice Plan of Re ducible Rupture Control. Now in daily use by thousands who say they never dreamed possible such secure, dependable and comfortable rupture protection. 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IcDonald, Trail, said the bills would have im posed additional regulation upon "those persons least able to comply and would have in creased costs to the truckers, to the state government, and to the public at large. In some instances, in order to secure patronage, small independents would have been forced to buy equipment they could not afford; many would have been driven from business alto- geher." Realize Hardship A. J. Miller, small business man of Trail, said "few people realize the hardship already imposed upon the small trjick er in keeping the elaborate records ana filing tne num erous reports required under Oregon law where the .high way use tax is paid on the mileage basis." He saw he believed it is cheaper to pay a higher tax on the flat rate than to pay the costs of excessive record keeping required on the mile age basis. In most states, a trucker hauling his own mer chandise is not required to do either, since his share of the cost of building and main taining the highways is equit ably spread by the cost of his truck license plaes and the to tal gasoline tax he pays, based on the miles he operates his truck." Several other small logging operators in the county ex pressed similar views. Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins when he first met this crea ture of low birth and the elongated snout, whose dubi out ancestry was obscured and clouded with" ages of questionable parentage. Prob ably unknown, too, what thoughts of reflected grand eur- percolated through the confused mind of Spareribs A mind as small as his could never assay the dos sibilities, or anticipate the advantages, for his Dlebian forebears were swamDfolk his family "tree" was lower tnan a stunted bush. Became Friends But-strangely enough these two, from opposite ends of the social world, laid down to gether, ate from the same dish, shared the same play area, and became devoted friends. Spareribs, like all of his kind, was uncouth in his eat ing habits, and had an ap petite that always drove him "foodwards." He started out at a pound and a half, but put on weight so rapidly that in a few short weeks he was as big and as heavy as his two-year- old friend "Luddy." And "Luddy" is the quickest and most convenient way of say ing, "Ludwigh Vf. Oden Von Techloff." Spareribs made a hog of himself: outgrew his new found home, and began push ing his dachshund friend around. There could be but one final outcome. He was given to a pig farm. The little razorback had, for a little while at least, lain in the lap of luxury, and briefly kissed tne robe of nobility. (Released bv The Reoisier and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) i. utpz. tsx 11 A. actions aren't exact labora tory set-ups either but they are about as close to them as one can get. The New York Federal Re serve banK in its current monthly review sets forth the British and Canadian actions but does not classify them as laboratory for us. Bank's Comments But the bank does have some interesting comments on the two situations. Noting that the British bud get's provisions for tax con cessions comprise the largest tax remission ever made in the United Kingdom in any single fiscal year, the bank observes: "While the scheduled reduc tions in taxes will affect both the consumer and the busin essman, the major effect will be a substantial addition to consumer purchasing power." The bank notes that Britain made the tax concessions be cause her economic activity has shown little vigor over the past three years while in Canada the economy has pull ed out of- the 1957-58 reces sion and economic expansion is once more under way. One thing Britain, Canada, and the United States have in common is a treasury deficit. Also all three have very high taxes. Britain, like the U. S. has a national election ahead and currently the two have price stability and only mod erate treasury requirements in the form of new money. Canada's Situation Britain's current 'tax cuts are raising her budget deficit. Canda is cutting her deficit through higher taxes. Canada is finding growing competition for funds from business in financing its cap ital requirements and the tax rise has resulted in declines in its long-term bonds. Britain's aid to business men comes in the form of "in vestment " allowences" which permit businessmen to deduct for tax purposes 20 per cent of the cost of new plant and machinery and 10 per cent of new industrial buildings in the first year, in addition to applying regular annual de preciation charges against to tal outlays. American businessmen have been asking better treat ment on depreciation allow ance is said to be too low in view of the hign cost pi re placement of facilities. Interesting To Watch In Britain a 20 per cent in vestment allowance permits a businessman to treat a 1,000 pound asset for depreciation purposes as though its orig inal cost had been 1,200 pounds sterling. . It will - be interesting to watch these two tax .plans. The U. S. often has copied Britain on tax increases. Per haps, the country may see fit to emulate her on tax con cessions. Not a few of the experts look for a cut in our tax bur den next year-if for no other reason than tits a national el ection year. The United King dom results may provide a better reason. Infer-Club Picnic Set Wednesday An inter-club picnic will be held at the Camp White Dom iciliary picnic grounds at noon Wednesday, May 20, for senior citizens. The event is part of the observance f Sen ior Citizens Week. Clubs participating in the affair will be the Medford 50 Plus club, the Camp White 50 Plus club, the Grants Pass Senior Citizens club, the So- roptomist 50 Plus club of Ash land and the Seafarers club of Rogue River Presbyterian church. Following the picnic, enter tainment will be provided in the auditorium, and will in clude cards, dancing and sing ing. The veterans club will provide everything but des sert, and women of other clubs are asked to take pies, according to Mrs. Rita Holmes, counselor for ithe Camp White club. Camp Whitebuses will pick up members and guests at the Episcopal . church guild hall, North Oakdale ave., at 11:15 a.m. and the Senior Activity Center, 601 East Jackson st., at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow. Buses will return members after the party, which will last until about 4 p.m. ITS ONLY RIGHT Tampa, Fla.-flJPD-City Judge Bob Johnson called for the appointment of one or more women to the city's parking board, "because they are the ones involved" in parking problems. "Who drives to the store and does all the shopping? The women," John son said. He didn't say which sex was getting the most park ing tickets. Fine tapestries were used almost entirely in temples and churches before the twelfth century. - MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, May 19, 1959 Slight Thawing Of Cold War Positions Seen Geneva - (OPD - There were growing indications today of a slight thawing of the East West cold war positions de spite strong statements on each side. The first official hint from the Communists came from East German Foreign Minister Lothan Bolz who let it be known the Russians would drop their insistence on a Ger man "peace treaty as the price of a Berlin settlement. The West continues to stand by its package plan but it, too, has broken the ice by disclos ing readiness to negotiate an "interim settlement" .on Berlin pending a final accord in the wider frame of global and European cold war settlements including German unification. Guarded Moves Both sides have thus tenta-tively-and very guardedly moved toward a possible Ber lin arrangement in Geneva without prejudice to their re spective overall policy stands and even before a summit conference. The Communist fallback was foreshadowed by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in recent private talks with Brit ish Field Marshal Viscount Montgorey in Moscow. Montgomery reported the Soviet leader had agreed in principle to drop the demand for a German peace treaty as a Dreliminarv to a Berlin ac cord. Official Moscow remain ed silent. Hedges on Point Soviet Foreign Mister Va lerian Zorin hedged on this point when challenged at a Dress conference in Geneva last week. The Soviet price no doubt will be Western discussion of the Berlin crisis without strings attached, more espe cially without any advance commitment on German reuni fication. The West stands heavily committed to its package deal but. could move toward sepa rate Berlin talks without hav ing to untie the strings that hold its peace plan together. Papers' Jobless Pay Stand Rapped Portland (UPD George Brown, political director for the' AFL-CIO in Oregon, charged Monday night that newspapers were acting, as spokesmen for employers who are conducting an anti-unemployment insurance campaign in Oregon. - Brown told members of the Central Labor council here that "they do not have the slightest conception of what a good unemployment com pensation program is, and they couldn't care less." He said "they will not rest until they have destroyed the un employment law-if possible. He charged that newspa pers and employer groups were seeking elimination of many covered workers and re ductions in benefits in order to decrease rates they pay into the fund. "The time has come when labor unions will have to start negotiating across the bargaining table with employ ers on unemployment insur ance if they are going to emasculate the law," he said. 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