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4 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Monday, Dee. 7, 1959 MEDFORDTWBUNE "Everyone a Southern Orejron Reatla Thf Mall Tribune- Published tXiil except Saturday by Ml.DF(n PRINTING CO 33 North r'ii St Ph SP 2-6141 ROEf.Pr RITHL Editor ITFRB jREV dvertll!t( Manager GEP-ALD LATHAM Business Mgi ERIC W L1.E.N IR. Managing Hd:tcr EAf-l H ADAMS City Editor HARRY cHIP.VAN Teleg Editor RICHAKO JfWETT Snorts Editor OMVE STAR: HER Women Editor DALE ERiCKSi'N Circulation Mgr An tndcDerMjen Newspaper Entered at second class matter a1 Medford Orcon under Act of M.T-rh 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATE3 Br Ma' in Advance Copy 10c Dail' and Sendny 1 vear S15 00 Dally and Sunday 6 mos 8 00 DaiH an" Sunday 3 mos 453 Sundav Only One year $430 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Battle Point JarkMnville. Gold Hill Phoonlx Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Tal-n and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Dailv and Suncy 1 mo 1.50 CarrCT and Dealers e opj 10c All TermsjCash in Advance Offie!' PPr of City f Medford Official Papet ot Jackson County United Pre International Full Leased Wire "MEWBK'TOF AUDIT BTTREAir- F CIRCULATION Ar,vortiiinT"Rei"-e5entative: WESV KOi.IPAV CO.. INC Of fices '.n New York. Chicago De troit San f'ancisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis. At lant Vancouver B C. 0" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIAI ASCTMgN X1 Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO , Dec. 7. 1949 (Wednesday) Two armed juveniles from Kialto, Calif., captured by state police near Central Point. First fall concert of Rogue Valley chorus, tonight at high school. 20 YEARS AGO Dee. 7, 1939 (Thursday) The state and county tax .levy for Jackson county will be 13.2 mills this year. From Arthur Perry's "Ye 'Smudge Pot" column: "Duck .season ended yesterday with shooting never poorer and chances of catching pneumo nia while doing it, never bet ter." , 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 7. 1929 (Saturday) Pear growers meeting here urge cooperation to boost sales. , Bids have been called for repairs and overhaul on post office. , 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 7, 1919 (Sunday) Telephone calls to Jackson ville, lasting over five min utes, to cost a nickel. Pendleton, with zero weather prevailing, has only weeks supply of fuel left. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 7. 1909 (Tuesday) v A resolution was introduc ed into house yesterday to de clare war on Nicaragua; jay pass. Fifty claims to water of Little Butte creek facing state water board in meetings this week. WSisS's tear I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or ei.jht is excellent; five six is good. 1. Who led the Morman pioneers in their trek from Nauvoo, 111., to Utah? 2. If you make a notch in a tree truck two feet above the ground, at what height will the notch be ten years from now? 3. What country has been called "Land of the Midnight Sun"? ; 4. What State is nicknamed ''Magnolia State"? -----. 5. In what California city did President Warren G. Har ding die? - 6. If you were suffering from pyrophobia, what would you ba afraid of? 7. Under what President did Charles Gates Dawes serve as Vice President? 8. Does the French term bourgeoisie refer to the work ing class, the middle class, or the very rich? 9. In what game might be a "round of roodles"? 10. With what country do you associate the traditional air "Comin'- Through the Rye"? Answers: I. Brigham ' Young. 2. The same height. 3. Norway. 4. Mississippi. 5. San Francisco. 6. Fire. . 7. Calvin Coolidge. 8. Mid "dle class. 9. Poker. 10. - Scotland. The National Fueloil Coun cil says that most oil heated homes are in the Northeastern tjuadrant of the U.S. and in the Pacific Northwest. Quite a Change From '56 It is a refreshing novelty to have Vice Presi dent Nixon spiritedly opposing a resumption of nuclear tests. During his Wisconsin tour he round ly declared, with obvious reference to Nelson Rockefeller, that anyone urging resumed testing is ignorant of the facts. ' "Having all the facts," he patiently explain ed, " I can say the President reached the right decision" in extending the test suspension. Anybody with a memoiy was bound to be transported by these words back to the fall of 1956, when A.dlai Stevenson was urging a suspen sion of nuclear, tests under just such circum stances as Mr. Eisenhower has now suspended them. AT THAT time, Vice President Nixon took a "different view. He called any suggestion for a suspension of tests "extraordinary appalling catastrophic nonsense the height of irrespon sibility naive the most dangerous theme of the campaign." , He accused Mr. Stevenson of "playing danger ous politics with American security," and refer red to "the ridiculous H-bomb proposal" as a "major political error." It all depends on who says what and in which campaign. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Day Of There was a civic dinner in New York the other day, honoring the 75th anniversary of the birth of Norman Mattoon 1 Perhaps some of our readers are not familiar with the name. Others will recognize it as that of an occasional newspaper columnist. Still others will remember Norman Thomas as a six-time candidate for President of the United States, on the Socialist ticket." It was the latter connection which made the dinner seem a little strange, a bunch of eminent capitalists gathering to cialist! IT WOULD, at one time, have been thought as 'impossible as the thought of J. Edgar Hoover giving a dinner lor Jake A large number of Socialists voted for Thomas at one time or anoth er. He was a favorite candidate with those who were disenchanted with the choice of the two major parties. It was a safe thing to vote for him, as the New York Times pointed out the day after the dinner, for those who voted for him "knew that Mr. Thomas . . . would not go to the White' House except possibly for lunch." THOMAS has lived to see many of his original social reforms adopted. He has lived' to see almost every, American realize that Thomas' views on Communism and Marxism were right all along. Norman Thomas has a brilliant mind, and has gained the universal respect of his fellow Ameri cans during the years. He has given up running for' office, but we hope he doesn't intend to drop out of the public eye altogether in years to come. La Grande Observer. When Red Means Go You want to put your car in low and whack the fellow ahead. But you don't. You sit there and mumble while he waits through the red light to make his turn. Then he waits through the green light, because he's blocked by pedestrians. The "turn on red" provision of the Oregon motor vehicle code is important all year, but it becomes vital to traffic movement during the holiday season when traffic doubles and pedes trians triplet . .It's amazing, after several years of use, that many people still don't understand the turn pro THE telephone company this month is showing o lonrloVila n n V.H avsirif in r i rrocT-i n rr fl lour C laUUaVlt JUW11V k'LH Look on the back of the your bill. Most people by now can make a right turn on Many don't yet know missible from the left lanes onto a one-way street. And almost no one visual evidence in Salem a left turn onto a one-way street." But it is. Anyone J 1 'l "i 1 ! test us Dy trying it wnne a policeman .is watcn ing. If he writes a ticket, be nice ; he's a new man on the force. Salem (Ore.) Capital Journal. 10 Hospitalized In Auto Collision Portland UPD A two-car collision resulted in hospital ization of 10 persons Sunday night. Police said a car driv en by Carl L. Paulson, 33, and one carrying nine persons col lided. Injured in one car were Luther T. Banks, 41; his wife Ernestine, 26; Paul D. Banks, 9; Joe'A. Banks, 7, and Klar ice T. Banks, 3; Ruth L. Barnes, 31; Lillie M. Ward, 25; Milton Clark, 49; Doris L. Clark, 32, and Vivian Fortson, 10 months. All were from Portland. Hospital attendants said all Impossibility 1 nomas. honor a prominent So (Greasy Thumb) Guzik Americans who were not i U 111 Ul VOLlll Wit XCK vv folder that comes with have learned that you red after a stop. that a left turn is per knows judging from that it's legal to make street from a two-way doubting this should 1 .1 suffered "bruises and . con tusions" except for the young Banks boy who suffered lacer ations of the head when he went through, the windshield. Paulson also? suffered lacer ations of the head. Hollywood (LTD - Singer Rot berta Linn hoped to be re leased today from Cedars of Lebanon. Hospital where she has L been . under treatment since Friday for a "pinched nerve" in her back. Miss Linn had to interrupt a singing appearance at the Stardust hotel in Las Vegas, Nev., to' enter the hospital here. Dennis the M jj GpBxB& i ' " III 1 C?0 lillV r Uowbusza earns Matter of Fact bv ai,oP IN THE NIXON CAMP ' Washington-The most con spicuous feature of current political Washington is the extreme confidence of the extremely able people who are running Vice President R i c hard M -, paign for the i Repub lican p r e s idential nomination. -i It was not '-. always thus T act cummor before the Re publican r e Joseph aisi.o cpvery, me Nixonites were frankly afraid that a defeatist convention miht, impulsively nominate New York's Gov. - Nelson Rockefeller, .as a kind of desperation throw for Re- publican victory. Early in the fall, when this reporter was last able to take sound- ings, the first symptoms of Republican recovery had dis pelled the fog of gloom. Yet a certain nervousness was still quite easily detectable. .As there is no abler or more wary politician than the Vice President, he and his staff are most emphatically not treating the nomination as a bird-in-hand. But the change of atmosphere is still dramatic. The summer's gloom, the lingering nervous ness of the fall, have now been replaced by jubilant hope and cheerful expecta tion. rpHERE ARE solid reasons -"- iQr tne cnange oi atmos phere - reasons, first of all, rooted in the situation in the key primary-voting states. The states having primaries are all the more critical now, since the "Nixon-can't-win" slogan has been crossed off the list by the rise in voter support for the Republicans authority that the Vice. Pres ident in particular. Deprived of this slogan, still trailing Nixon in the polls, Governor Rockefeller has no remedy except to try to prove- he is the better man in primary contests. The crucial primaries, at least for. the Republicans, are in New Hampshire, Wiscon sin, Oregon and California. About two months ago, the Nixonites had soundings tak en in all four of these states. The results were remarkably favorable in all four cases. To cite one result, the poll ih New Hampshire showed that well over 70 per cent of the state's Republican vot ers preferred Nixon to Rocke feller. It was hard to Imagine this kind of lead being over c o m e by the ' most gifted campaigner. The chief rea son for the Nixonites' ling ering nervousness last fall was their respect for Gov. R o c k e feller's campaigning talents. Thus the soundings in the primary states contribut ed greatly to the new confi dence above-noted. TiHE NEW Hampshire poll is to be checked by still another, on a considerably bigger scale, that will be tak en in January. But as of now, it can be stated on undoubted authority that the vice pres ident means to enter the New Hampshire primary if Gov ernor Rockefeller enters it. This in itself marks a substan tial change from the period when there was an inclination to rely on Nixon's strength among the Republican pro fessionals, instead of running risks in primary contests. Furthermore, the outlook in the primary- states is not the end of the story behind the new confidence in the Nixon Camp. In particular, me specter oi xne laie oen. Robert A. Taft is no longer haunting the vice president. Formerly, Nixon especially feared that the pollsters weuld hang the "can't win" label on ' him, because, as he often said, "Bob Taft . was really beaten by the polls." And he was apprehensive, too, about the strong combin- enace optfR.i ( ation that fought Taft and backed President Eisenhow er, ' forming again to fight Nixon and back Rockefeller. VrOT ONLY are the poll- sters saying Nixon can win; the dangerous combina tion has also quite signally failed to form.' The Eastern "international press," that Senator Taft blamed so heav ily for his defeat, is either si lent on the subject, or posi tively pro-Nixon. The East ern financial interests, also mentioned in 'Senator Taft's famous memorandum, have not lined up behind Rocke feller either. Exceedingly in fluential Wall Street leaders, like Sidney Weinberg, are conspicuous on the list of "New ,Yorkers for Nixon," cheek" by jewel with the president's locker room cronies. The great majority of the Eisenhower club lead ers are also pledged members of the Nixon camp. Meanwhile, the line formed on the left at the capital for R e p u b 1 i can professionals coming from all over the country to swear their un dying loyalty. The people in the Republican organizations, most of whom prefer Nixon anyway, have noted the same signs that have given such confidence 10 the Nixonites. Any inclination they may have felt to stay on the fence, has now been cured. The support of the professionals, always strong, can now be described as massive. Altogether, one might be inclined to say that the Re publican contest is over-ex cept that it is not over by any means. (c) 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment BITES BOTH WAYS With the issues in the steel industry still unresolved, an other controversy is starting to loom large on the American scene. Railroad managements have served notice that in the negotiations which are now getting under way they will demand major changes in the long established work rules of the carriers. The railroads accuse the un ions of fostering feather-bedding and statements by the management and advertise ments have singled out cer tain instances when what ap pears to be unusually high pay has been the result of the pres ent working rules. Like all controversies, there are two sides to the issue. Many of the rules which gov ern the operation of train en gine and yard crews were de veloped in the days of steam operation, when freight and passenger trains moved at slower speeds. The diesel electric locomo tive, with its speed and pow er, has made it possible to step up train speeds and also the tonnage which can be carried in a single train handled by one crew. Many -railroad men concede some of the rules are archaic, but they also point out with justification that many of the conditions under which the railroad man works are equal ly out-dated. Railroad men must be on call without pay, they pay their own expenses for meals and lodging when away from their home terminals and Sun day work is performed with out extra compensation which many other workers enjoy. The railroad man, by and large, is the most loyal em ploye in American industry. He works in all kinds of wea ther and with deep pride for the safety of the trains under his jurisdiction. If there is to be a change in tne long estabiisnea worK rules, then railroad manage ment -must recognize that changes will be necessary in compensation. Ashland Daily Tidings. Communications. Tumbleweeds Again: , To the Editor: Everett Ack lin, and Pearl Spackman, your letters on tumbleweeds took me back to my child hood. We lived in Madison county, Nebraska, where the soil was sandy and the tum bleweeds grew so big. We children would pile them up and' play on them. And they were bad in a prairie fire, I assure you. I was born in Iowa, and visit ed there after I was grown, but I never saw any tumble weeds there. Have been in the Rogue River valley 13 years and like it here. No wind like in the Dakotas, Ne braska and Kansas. Have never been to "a Fifty Plus club. Minnie White 1518 West Main st. Medford. . Et Tu, Parents? To the Editor: I have heard many objections to the cur rent types of music played on the local radio stations. If I may, I would also like to venture an opinion on the subject. The current genera tion of adults had their own types of music when they were teenagers, such as jitter bug, and the like. I imagine there were then many objec tions to these types, also. Remember, over the years to when you were young, par ents, and let your sons and daughters have their own mu sic. , Please? (Name on file) Medford They're Back To the Editor: Them mon keys is back again. They been 55 miles . into the strat-os-phere and that's good. Aye ain't never been so high iri the air, but aye yump twice as far in an Apperson yumpin' tin yackrabbit. Everett Acklin ' Ashland, Ore. From OSC Campus To the Editor: The answer that your editorial ("Tut-Tutting-The Civil War"-Nov. 29) gave to the Barometer's story and columns that ap- appeared on page 1, concern ing the post-game activities at the University of Oregon-Oregon State football clash, ' ex presses what a lot of Oregon University people would like to believe. Unfortunately it is an opinion that is held by very few. Even the precious Univer sity which you lamely tried to defend considers it very serious. - ' ' : ' The University of Oregon felt this way about the rel ative peace of the Civil War which you commended: ' 1. The student body presi dent of the University, Gary "Gregory, sent -a personal tel egram to the OSC Rally Girls apologizing for the treatment that they received during the game. 2. Mrs. O. M. Wilson, wife of the University's president, expressed open shock at what was happening to the rally girls during the game. 3. The student body pres ident publicly apologized ' to the OSC student body for all the actions that took place at Hayward Field. He made his apology on. the OSC campus, where he said "The actions after the football game were uncalled for and out of or der." 4. The University of Ore gon's S t u d e n t. Newspaper, The Emerald, editorially ad mitted that the actions were pretty bad. 5. The University of Ore gon Rally Board was quoted in the Emerald as saying "if the attitude of students, as exhibited at the Homecom ing game, is indicative of the true face of the University, then we have serious trou ble." These "youthful high spir its" at the University of Ore gon have certainly gone be yond ( the "hijinks" stage when such actions as those listed above are taken by the University's students. At least your editorial did not condone the , "commendable" indignities which our stu dents sat through at Oregon. We admit that there was a day "when youthful high spir its on campus led to real riots." The only thing that prevented a "real riot" down there was the determination of OSC rally king, Don Es sig, who repeatedly stopped OSC students from surging out of their section on their way to fight with the "Eugene problem children," who had gathered in front of the OSC rooting section for a post- game brawl. . If some of you editors would open your eyes about this matter, you might help. More Comfort Wearing FALSE TEETH Here Is a pleasant way to overcomt loose plate discomfort. FASTEETH. an improved powder, sprinkled on upper and lower plates holds them firmer so that they feel more com fortable. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline (non scld). Does not sour. Checks "plate odor", (denture breath). Get FAS TEETH today at any drug counter. Foreign Notebook: Arms for Germany; Flying Macmillan By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: Full Circle: Western diplomats predict a quiet, gradual lifting of re strictions on West German arms produc tion. Only re c e n 1 1 y the Western allies okayed Ger man produc tion of anti aircraft mis siles. Soon they expect a request for Phn Newsnm auxnorizau o n to cooperate with. Britain in building the "blue water" ground - to - ground artillery rocket. Brief Case Diplomacy When Prime Minister Har old Macmillan takes off Jan. 5 on a one-month good will tour of Africa there will be no accompanying cargo or press planes. - A single chartered Drummond Reports v (Walter Lippman is again traveling . abroad'. Roicoe Drumond reports from Washington in his absence.) SHIFTING POLITICAL TIDES Washington r- Significant shifts in the relative strengths of the five principal candi dates for the Democratic presidential nomination are becoming visible. Obviously none can fore see what the Los Angeles convention will finally do. Too much can happen, be tween now and next July. But the outlook is different than it was a few months ago. Sen. John F. Kennedy, still the front-runner, is experi encing new difficulties and his task of getting the votes of- 700 delegates looks in creasingly formidable., - The active' support which is being generated, botn in side Texas and elsewhere, for Lyndon Johnson means that the Senate Majority Leader will have a large voice in the final decision. It could bring him within reach of the nomination, al though at this state I per sonally doubt he can get it. Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota is gaining strength. He is no longer the forlorn figure he appeared to ,be: four months ago. He is garnering Mid-Western del egates somewhat because they see him as an articulate, attractive, vigorous cam paigner, bu also because they want him as one be hind whom they can exert greater collective influence at the convention than would otherwise be possible. Hum phrey is the gainer what ever the reason. TY VIRTUE of the fact that M he continues to be favored second only to Kennedy by most Democrats, Adlai Stev enson becomes stronger as the other candidates draw support away from each other. His supporters are encouraged by the fact that he has made is clear that, prevent the same things from happening again. Instead, when similar actions happen, they are passed off with the same professional light touch expressed in your editorial, absolving the University and questioning OSC, ' Kurt Engelstad News Editor Daily Barometer Oregon State College Corvallis, Ore. Editor's note: The editorial in question attempted to put the events at the U of O-OSC game into perspective; point ed out no one was hurt; com pared this with the far more Violent student hi-jinks of some years ago (some of which this writer managed to survive); pointed out the OSC complaints were well founded, and- expressed hope they would help lead to fu ture cessation of hostilities. We regret Editor Engelstad chose to interpret it as an af front to OSC and an apologia for the University. wr Funeral Home k Ok FRIENDLY HOMELIKE BOAC turboprop "Britannia" will act as "flying 10 Down ing Street" for the trip. Any newsmen irom Britain as signed to cover the tour will have to fend for themselves. Housecleaning The British government, having acted to modernize the country's prostitution and bet ting laws, plans to cap this with a bill lifting some of the antiquated restrictions on pub closings. Changes , Look for West Germany to make a major pitch for re organization of the North At lantic Treaty Organization (NATO) command structure when the NATO ministerial meeting begins in Paris later this month. Germany is not seeking more of a share of NATO commands for herself, But Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer's government feels that after 10 years the whole or ganization needs an overhaul to bring it up to date. Among other things, the Germans while he will not lift his voice to win the nomination, neither will he lift his voice to" lose it; that is, he will neither declare himself in nor declare himseit out. He is not going to campaign for himself nor for anyone else. He is in the' perfect spot for a aeaaiocked convention - ana a araxt. ben: buiart Symington of Missouri lias more seconu- cnoice bacKing than anyone eise. He nas - uie nrsi-ciioice oacKing oi lormer rresiaem xrurnan. if joraan is oui oi the race, it is probaole that speaker bam xtayourn will oe ior him. Because the race is still Senator Kennedy against vne neid, the state of xvenneay's campaign is tne key lactor. Jt is tue judgement oi most poiiiicai writers, I tninK, mat ne has run into inree set-bacKS in recent weeKS. The active candidacy of Lyndon Johnson is drawing Southern support away from Senator Kennedy which his backers believed Kennedy would have for himself if the Johnson -for- president campaign had not 'been launched. - A sequence of Gallup polls over the past six months, the latest only last week, show Mr. Kennedy losing popular strength to both Vice Presi dent Nixon and Governor Rockefeller. The controversy over birth control and foreign aid, raised by the Roman Catho lic bishops, makes Mr. Ken nedy's religion a more active political factor and almost certainly adds to his diffi culties. . ALL BUT TWO of the Pres idential possibilities-Nixon and Johnson have de clared themselves on . whe ther the U.S. should allow its aid funds to be used by a recipient country to promote birth control. Of them Sen ator Kennedy was the least explicit. Senator Kennedy said he would decide later and add ed that he would make the decision on what he deemed to be the best interests of the U.S. Governor Edmund G. Brown of California, also - a Catholic, said he would de cide now and his decision was to go contrary to the official position of his church. Brown said he would favor using U.S. aid funds to help a na tion' which felt it needed to use birth control to decrease over-population. Symington, Humphrey, Stevenson, and Governer Mennen Williams of Mich gan, all Protestants, took the same position as Gov ernor Brown.' Individually this is a per sonal andor a moral issue. It becomes .a political issue when it concerns government policy and government funds and this is why it is an issue in the campaign. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune. Inc. , perl 1 setisiblV ITT 1 Hear your favorite hymns on KMED every Sunday, 10:30 a.m., sung by "Tennessee Ernie" Ford ATMOSPHERE would like to see faster standardization of weapons. More About Berlin West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt has hinted to friends he will resign if the Western allies at a Summit meeting agree to measures which in his eyes would pave the way for a Communist takeover of West Berlin. Brandt in this way would dramatize the city's opposition to Western appeasement of the Soviets. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Juneau, Alaska: -. In all of its 586,400 square miles,. . Alaska doesn't . have enough office space to serve the burgeoning needs of fts governing agencies. Tlf'MMMmmm. 1U That's rough. But it could be rough er. The new and burgeoning state of Alaska could let its burgeoning government agen cies go on burgeoning until its people reached the point where money with which to pay their taxes could get scarcer than office space to house Alaska's government agencies now appears to be. That would really be rough -as taxpayers in some dder states are becoming aware. rpHIS BUSINESS of burgeon--- ing government agencies is a deceptive thing. It has two faces one fair and in viting to gaze, upon and .the other grim and forbidding. When we gaze upon the fair and lovely face, we are see ing the SERVICES the state can provide for us, presum ably all for free, for the STATE will be providing them. -, When considerably later - we gaze upon the grimmer and more forbidding face, what we see in bold outline is the prospect of taxes and STILL MORE taxes. But, by then, it's too late. The services have been pro vided, and they have to be paid for. That's a horse of a different color. TJOWN HERE in the cen-"tury-old state of Oregon -and over the line in some what older California we have a lot of services that are provided by government agencies. They're nice; of course. Among others, on the Oregon side of the line, there is a government agency that teaches women how to make aprons. They're all wonderful -but they COST MONEY. They cost a lot of money. And the money doesn't all come out of the pockets of the big shots. It comes out of the pockets of all of us, wage-earners and everybody. Here at the Herald and News, in Klamath Falls, where this is written, we have about 75 full time wage-earners. In the year 1958, in the form of withholding deduc tions from their paychecks, these 75 employees paid to Uncle Sam and to the state of Oregon, in payroll taxes, the not inconsiderable sum of 594,655.77. Of this total, $8,325.72 went for social se curity, $70,280.81 went to the federal government for : fed eral income tax and $16,049. 20 went to the state of Oregon for state income tax. That sum wasn't paid by the business. It was paid by INDIVIDUALS-taken out of their paychecks and turned over to the federal govern ment and the state govern ment. It amounts to an aver age of $1,262.08 for every employee. In the case of the federal income tax, it goes on in every state in the Un ion. It goes on in every state that has a state income with a withholding clause. It isn't hay. go- To the people of Alaska, who are just getting started as a state, one is inclined to say HOLD YOUR HORSES. Don't go ALL OUT to pro vide office space for bur geoning government, agen c i e s.- Maybe if you hang tough, there won't be space enough for all these govern ment agencies to burgeon in. That could save you a lot of tax money. SPACIOUS PARKING LOT
