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10 MAIL TRIBUNE, MdfonI. Or. Sunday, Nov. 1. 1959 Improving Process Of Legislature Is Being Considered 'The state legislative coun sel committee continued its cdnsideration of ways to im jprove legislative processes and procedures at a recent two-day meeting in Portland, according to Sam R. Haley, Salem, legislative counsel. .The committee reported that innovations at. the last session cut the cost of print ing and binding legislative journals in 1959 to less than "one-half the 1957 costs, re sulting in a saving of more than $6,000. Other areas of legislative operations are being explored by legislators and staff per sonnel, according to Haley. Chief clerks of the house and senate and other legislative personnel were invited ; to tpmment and make sugges- tions at the last meeting. Members present urged the ..preparation or refinement of . manuals procedure to be used Jay legislative personnel en Ijciged in technical operations such as engrossing and enrolling- ...The committee also recom mended the development of '-an orientation program, stress ling the mechanics of the legislative- processes, for the benefit of new legislators and -legislative employees. The legislative counsel's staff was instructed to study the feasibility of publishing advance sheets of the session Jlaws during a legislative ses sion. The publication of ad vance sheets would enable -subscribers to have, at a date earlier than the publication of the session laws, the exact jtext of acts passed, Haley re vjjorted. s4 Speaker of the House Rob . ert B. Duncan, Medford, is I member of the Legislative TCbunsel committee. Jefferson Arms I0roup fo Meet ' "5 The Jefferson State Arms , Collectors will meet at ' the ome of Jim Scheffel, 2502 -Jackson dr., Medford, Nov. 7, f-ft 7 p.m. with "favorite guns" "jjeing featured. At the October meeting, i-hich was held at the home William Redhead, Med "ord. a collection of muzzle "iading rifles owned by i Oeorge Knutson of Medford tSCas featured. --J!? Robert Ison of Red Bluff, V Calif., showed examples of itock carving. fl Persons interested in an .Jique guns 'are invited to at tend the organization's meet 'tag. :j ; Easy Wrap 'Round Receive Personal To Oregon's 600,000 personal income taxpayers in Decem ber will receive a packet con taining a punch card tax re turn, a work-sheet and a ssortened and simplified set of instructions, the Oregon state tax commission' has an nounced. - The change from the long forms which Oregon income taxpayers have filed in pre vious . years has been made for two reasons, the commis sion said. They are: Compliance with the law is made easier for Oregon's taxpayers. To bring new equipment and ideas in records and of fice management to bear on income tax administration. Self-Employed Not all taxpayers, how ever, will use the punch card form only, the commission noted. If the taxpayer is self employed and grosses $5,000 or more from a business or farm, he will have to file a supplemental schedule. Addi tional information will also have to be provided by capi tal gains taxpayers. With the shortened return, the commission said, ' fewer taxpayers -will find them selves paying for professional assistance in getting their re turns made out. The income tax is often called the "educated man's tax," because it is assumed a taxpayer has the ability to compute it. However, the commission said the belief ex ists that income tax forms, in steadily growing more com plex, are likely to pass the average taxpayers' compe tence to satisfactorily com plete them, if the forms have not already done so. Less Information With the card form, less information will be collected, anf" consequently less infor mation will have to be proc essed and stored, the commis sion noted. Automatic sorting, tabulating and computing equipment will be used, in part, for picking returns most justifying review and .. for finding nonfiling taxpayers. The new administration techniques will perform the job as effectively as previ ously, the commission noted, but at a lesser cost. An inci dental advantage of punching data into cards, the commis sion noted, is that once the cards ' are prepared, a wide variety of application such as billings, statistics, and, mail ing lists can be turned out at a low cost. The commission said it al ready is cutting back on per sonnel by not replacing some employees who voluntarily resign. It expects the normal Income Mew Card Taxpayer s Forms OREGON INCH VI DUAL INCOME TAX RETURN 1 (959 FORM 40 FOR CALENOAR YEAR I95 OH FISCAL YEAff from MPOftTMT IIME CERTAIN SOCIAL SEWTY WKHS ARC EHT6HCD COKTLT. Tmt Steal SmtnYi IftWr I ' 1 ( 'l TIM MtM I V WLLtWl iMWTTOt I tMtM TOTAL MJMKK OP tXtMPTtON AM PfflWtWI OJUMfD TOTAL MCOC KP0TO CM TOUR PCGCftAL ICCW TAX HCTUM COTZ SOTM SlOCS OT THIS CAtO AND ML! WITH TMt STATE TAX COtMil5SlON,SALM.ORE00N,0H Oft NF0ft APML S.r TOTAL WMB AW tALAfUCS fdM ALL OTMtt IMCOHC (tod Fwwt towto tm Rfoi 1 fount f OTtxr taeww: Fn frrmi fciW art rfmMl 1 ) Casittf torn r t wto MltoitoiiM - bttrnt m4 Dm WMt( s FimAL NCCMC WC M mt OTNOt AMMTsKNTS ADJUSTED CROSS MCOMC I SWCAOtDUCTPW j" me TOTAL ITEMIZED PCBXTTOfg TAX ( ftM Tt TH mr A Cm ) - STATS TAXWTHMCLD' . OWKT FO MC U Oft OVtK OTHEK OmeTS AAmr.TAjd TOTAL OFFflCTS A"1ST TAX I TC 2 ulukc er nx tc mt nikfmw iw gmni mim sue tHMt (m sttt t withhcloi f FRONT SIDE This is the front side of the ' cember. Work-sheets will be separate from new punch card which will be received by the card, which will require less informa Oregon income taxpayers sometime in De- tion than previous forms. PLEASE DO NOT FOLD, STAPLE OR MUTILATE THIS CARD lisf Sal n Ds adaiiu dcsnast: hat ivluelt Swuie' DkmIin If sarses.sfliar mm Inssysr, ptraff nam rttim: I feels' that h is mm, tmwet 4 eamsltu rclvra, pan! an on ! MjnMatin t mriMch t tMrttftk lav has MM ttm aarlMraaiaa " fraanpiaa, i tM aarmanMaa s ttaaatartaa Mu t aadara aaaai DM asMMMS far .lalaa aaaariaf faat 1 aaa 't imi.iiI aaa aaaa waiaina IfN.MIitiMN aaa aaxaiaia (turn, t dl ') fa aataitaa itariaai aartaa af at laaH taraa jaara. I ratata ('egaiif anr aetMaaaaria atl af ai, bwataata aaS- aaat, if ia ttm , fta aa itrt tatam aa rrtptt, Ssauaat Sifloa1i,ir Jourt ftatum ' HTM HUStMD AlD WlK I K SURC TOUff SOCIAL SXCUHITV MUHICRS alC CNTESEO . MUST Siifl A JOINT ReTURff. COmCCTLT AND CNCLOSC TOUR WTMROLbTM SLIPS. BACK SIDE Above is the reverse side of tures at the bottom. About 600,000 Oregon the new Oregon income tax punch card income taxpayers will receive the new form. Dependents, with the exception of the forms in December. . ! spouse, are listed to the right with signa- ' turnover rate to take care of most of the planned reduc tion, i ; Related to Changing Related to changing the forms and procedures, the commission said, is a plan to reduce central office auditing and expand field examina tions. In the near future, it said, taxpayers and tax prac titioners will find more audi tors working out of the office serving their area. . New offices are also con templated for territories pres ently too big for geographical or population reasons, the commission said. The commission said the change to the short form and related procedural changes represents one of the largest single steps forward ever taken by a state tax collec tion agency. Some states have ounch card forms; but they either require about as much detail as the 1958 Oregon re turn or they permit taxpay ers to start with a figure off their federal returns. In other states, the commis sion said, the punch card is frequently an optional form or is limited mainly to wage and salary taxpayers. Other states also have decentralized auditing systems, but as far as is known no state has simul taneously streamlined pro cedures both for the taxpayer and the state. ' " Pendleton Man Faces Arson Charge Pendleton - (UPB - John Li Timmerman, , 55, Pendleton, has been arrested on a secret grand jury indictment charg ing him with second degree arson. The action followed several weeks of undercover work by two members of the State Arson Squad. Timmerman was charged in connection with a warehouse fire at Pendleton airport Sept. 12. Bond was set at $2,500 and arraignment for Monday in circuit court. Foresters Schedule Meeting Nov. 13 The Siskiyou chapter of the Society of American Forests will meet at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, in the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel. On the program will be re ports on progress and accom plishments by personnel from the Medford bureau of land management district, the Sis kiyou and Rogue River Na tional forests, and the state board of forestry. Participating will be Rob ert Hostetter,- assistant district ranger, BLM; Richard Tub man, fire control officer for Siskiyou National forest; Rob ert Forheim, fire control of ficer for Rogue River Nation al forest; and Curt Nesheim, southwest ' district warden, state board of forestry. . Jack Thomsen is chairman of the; Siskiyou chapter. Car roil Brown is vicechairman, and Calvin Smith is secretary-treasurer. interim Group to Support Request Corvallis - The state- legis lative interim committee on agriculture will support a re quest of pear growers for state emergency funds to seek out the cause of a disease that threatens to wipe out pear trees in the Medford . area, Sen. Francis Ziegler, Corval lis, said Friday. Ziegler is chairman of the interim committee and a member of . the emergency board. 1 The Pear Growers league plans to ask the . emergency board for about. $17,000 to continue, the search for the cause of the disease another year, Ziegler said. The growers already have put $28,000 of their own money into the research since the disease first struck about two years ago, he said. Henry Hartman, Oregon State col lege pear specialist, is head ing the work. . The interim; committee last week viewed the orchards in the Medford area where a third of the pear, trees are said to be dead or dying. The entire $14 million industry there is threatened with an nihilation, Ziegler said. Cause of' the disease has not yet been determined, he added. Present funds will run un til'June 30, 1960, he said. The emergency funds would, if approved, carry the work for another year. or Loan Reviewed A veteran's eligibility for a GI loan is not restored i auto matically when he sells his Gl-purchased home and ob tains a VA release from liabil ity to the government on the loan, S. T- Brannock, contact representative, VA Domicili ary, Camp White, said Satur day. Release of the veteran from liability to the government does not affect VA's guaranty on the loan. As long as the guaranty is outstanding, no restoration of GI loan rights can be extended the veteran, Brannock stated. Even if the loan is paid in full, thus relieving VA of li ability to the lender, veteran's entitlement to another GI loan may be restored only when the property was taken by a government agency for public use; was destroyed by natural hazard; or was disposed of for compelling reasons such as health, employment transfer, change to a better job in another city, or other reasons considered sufficient by the VA. In such cases, veterans should apply to the nearest VA office for restoration of entitlement. For southern Oregon that address and office is contact office," post office building, VA Domiciliary, Camp White. . Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer, who died in 1791, made his Vienna debut as violinist and pianist at the age of six. y Watermelon,. ra -and. -tomatoes are often grown suc cessfully in the Mackenzie val ley of the Northwest Territory. The -fishing tett!emHt of Tj-Bjpassey with its fine har bor on the southeast coast Newfoundland was estafc lished in 1617. Ill IIISIIillllllll!IIIllKIIIIHIIIIIIII!3SIIIII A Tribute to the I Junior Service League 1 i i I i i i i i J Members of the Junior Servipe League deserves H the highest commendation for their unselfish p . effort in behalf of youngsters who are unfor- . tunate enough to have hearing trouble. The g League's Kindergarten for hard-of-hearing chil- j dren is a community program deserving of wid- j est support. Next , Wednesday and Thursday, I November 4th and 5th, the League's FOLLIES I ef 1959 will be featured at the Craterian Thea- ter iri Medford. Proceeds from this fine livaj- jj talent show will further the hard-of-hearing ( program. Be SURE t attend and help a truly ( worthy cause!- Medford Pharmacy I 101 North Central, Corner 6th Ph. SP 2-6253 f I'" Week Days: 8:30 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. I Open Sundays and Hoildays 10 A.M. tt 9:30 P.M. i I ' M I We Salute Our Town! 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And his. occasional flashes of competence bring added laughs to PEANUTS,. that delightfully funny comic strip appearing in th Tribune. STARTING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 IN THE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE!
