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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
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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.
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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.
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Funeral Home
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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. ,
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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.
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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