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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1960)
I 16 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Sunday, Feb. 14, I960 Trend Toward Dmproving Tax Climate in State Noted "There is a new trend in J Commerce concurs in this at nnn. frond toward im. titude. he said, and has com- proving the business and tax I ted itself to work for the climate here in order to at tract more and better indus tries. "Washington used to be a part of Oregon and is 30 years younger than Oregon as a state, but it has overtaken us (in industry and develop ment). "It is a situation like a baby outgrowing its parent, but this situation is' ending and the people's attitudes towards attracting industry here by improving the industrial cli mate are getting better and better." These observations were made by Chester A. Moores, Portland, Gov. Mark Hat field's consultant to the Ore gon department of planning and development and long ac tive in realty affairs, who ad dressed a meeting of the Med ford Realty board Friday at the Rogue Valley Country club. Trend Eridenced Moores said the trend Is evidenced by the last legisla ture which passed a capital gains bill and relieved the tax burden on new indus tries in order to attract more industry here and it will be in evidence even more in the next legislature, he predicted. The Oregon department of planning and development is in the process of trying to sell the state to the nation, and is now preparing for an eastern tour to be undertaken next month by Governor Hatfield and other Oregon representa tives. They will make conta.-t with the "biggest" industrial ists in New York, Chicago and other eastern cities in a concerted effort to attract their industrial expansion here. Sees Good ResulU At a series of eastern meet ings they will ask these in dustrialists to come to Ore gon and look for themselves, and Moores said he would guarantee good- results for Oregon as a consequence of this trip. He said that Dave Irving of Medford and 15 other Ore gon representatives are in the east now making contacts and preparing meetings for the tour. Moores said he toured the Camp White area Friday and other industrial sites here and called them "excellent" de velopments and said he can see a great amount of growth ahead for this area. Medford is ideally situated for greater growth because it is the natural distribution center for 258,000 people in southern Oregon and north ern California, has a good cli mate and is surrounded by wonderful country. Evidence Confidence - The federal government evidences its confidence in the future of Medford by plan ning for a proposed $2V4 mil lion federal building here. If they didn't think Medford had a future, they wouldn't even consider locating it here, he said. Although the department of planning and development is located in Portland, it is not working for the Portland area alone. On the contrary, Moores pointed out, it is working for the whole state because what is good for one part of the state is good for all of it. This attitude is reflected, he said, by Governor Hat field's efforts to create a 100,-000-acre space-age industrial park in eastern Oregon. Although Moores is a Port lander, he said it would be the best thing for that city if other metropolitan areas with upwards of 100,000 people would spring up around the state. Work with Stat The Portland Chamber of whole state, not just Portland, he said. It is the Portland cham ber's attitude as well as that of the department, he pointed out, that industry should be placed in this state where it has the best chance of success, because if an industry fails, simply because it is poorly lo cated, Oregon will get much unfavorable publicity as an industrial site, regardless of the reasons for the failure. About 40 per cent of Ore gon's population is located in and around Portland. "This is like a doctor telling his pa tient that 40 per cent of his body is centered around his heart, it just isn't a healthy condition," Moores said. Our state will be at its healthiest if and when popu lation and industry is prop erly distributed throughout the state, he said. In Good Position Medford is in a good posi tion for new industry, Moores pointed out. because more and more industries are shy ing away from locating in large metropolitan areas and are looking towards smaller cities where taxes are not quite so high and labor prob lems not so great, and Med ford fits well into this cate gory. Regarding the desire of new industries to settle in smaller cities, Moores noted the re cent case of the Dow Chemi cal company for which Port land worked so hard but lost to Kalama, Wash. Officials of that company had told the Portland cham ber, before they had decided to locate in Kalama, that if they located in Portland, it would be the first time they had ever built a plant in a large city. , In pointing out the tax dif ference between locating in large or small cities, Moores said that the chemical com pany would have paid $250,- 000 more in taxes had tney located within Portland than if they had located just outside. He said that Portland did not lose all benefits to be de rived from the chemical plant because it is located in the Columbia River basin and still under the influence of Portland, but had it located in the Puget Sound area, which was also bidding for the plant, Portland would have had nothing. Preparing Map The department of plan ning and development is pre paring a map, Moores said, which will contain extensive information on each county so that when the department is trying to sell an industrial site in Oregon they will have the qualifications and desira bilities of each county right on hand to back them up. The map will contain such information as the availabil ity of industrial sites, price of real estate, labor supply, rail road connections and what the county or community it self wants in the way of in dustry. He said he is impressed with the extensive forest products industries centered around Medford and, of course, the fruit industry. These industries are good for a city, he said, because they bring payrolls in, but don't take out natural re sources, if handled properly. Conservation Program Moores said that maybe it is fortunate that it took more time to develop forest indus tries in Oregon than it did in other states because by the time things got going in Ore gon forests, there was a good conservation program, thus no danger of ever losing the forests. Trees in Oregon are like a wheat crop in other states, he pointed out. "They are grow ing as fast as we can cut them down, assuring us that we will never run out," he added. It is predicted that by 1975, Oregon will have a popula tion of 2V4 million people which will mean that be tween now and then we will have to find jobs for 340,000 additional persons, or 19,000 new jobs a year, he concluded. Open House at Chapel in Trees Mortuary Today Open house will be ob served between 10 o'clock this morning and 4 o'clock this afternoon at the Chapel in the Trees Mortuary in Siskiyou Memorial park. The mortuary was open yesterday in the first of the two-day observance by Mr. and Mrs. Joe R. Hosick and Mr. and Mrs. Lew Miles, own ers of the mortuary at 2100 Siskiyou blvd. Hosick moved to Medford in 1945, after first serving with the Army at Camp White. He was associated with his father in a funeral business in southern Illinois prior to entering the service. He was employed by a lo cal mortuary where he worked until September, 1959. A graduate of San Francisco College of Mortu ary Science, he has a confer ence certificate from the Con ference of Funeral Service Examinaing Board of the United States, Inc., as well as his funeral director's and embalmer's license in Oregon. Attend Clinics Hosick has attended many restorative art and adminis trative clinics sponsored by the National Funeral Direc tor's association and the Na tional Selective Mortician's. He and his wife, Virginia, were married here in 1943. Mrs. Hosick, who is office manager and a stockholder in the business, is a graduate of Talent High school. Mr. and Mrs. Miles moved to Medford from the Willam ette valley in 1935 to take employment with Siskiyou Memorial park, which was then a new endowed care cemetery dedicated in 1932. Miles became manager in 1942. Miles is a member of the Oregon Interment association. Miles and Hosick said the new mortuary would serve all cemeteries located in south ern Oregon. The Family Council Editor' Note: Th Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each article is a summary of an actual rase history. The Council reports on problems that have been dealt wlb by responsible agencies and counselors. Mrs. O. P.-I'm afraid to let him go to Alaska. Karl P.-Maybe my luck will change. Mrs. O. P.-I am very wor ried about my 30-year-old son, who has too many heart aches in his young life. Now he wants to go to Alaska to get away from everything and everybody. Karl is a good looking boy and did average work in school. His teachers always said he had a fine character and would go far in life. Well, things never seemed to turn out right for him. Hard luck followed him on every job. He was never the one chosen for a promotion and always finally gave up and quit. Recently he was jilted by the girl he expected to marry in the spring. This was his second engagement. The first girl gave him back the ring a week before they were sup posed to get married. I "don't blame him for wanting to run away, but with his luck I am afraid of what else could hap pen. Karl P.-What else could happen to me that hasn't hap pened already? At 30, I find myself without a wife or a marriage prospect in sight, without a car or a decent bank account, without every thing except trouble. That I got plenty of. I figure maybe if I can get to Alaska my luck will change. Somehow, somewhere Auto Mechanics Course to Start Auto mechanics courses of the adult education program of Medford public schools will begin the week of Feb. 15. They will be held after noons and evenings for a 12 week period. Courses include automotive chassis, Monday and Thurs day, 6:30 to 10:20 p.m.; fuel system and carbueretion, Tuesday, 6:30 to 10:20 p.m.; internal combustion engines, Wednesday, 6:30 to 10:20 p.m.; mathematics, Friday, 6:30 to 9:20 p.m.; and prac tical physics, Monday through Thursday, 4:30 to 5:20 p.m. The auto mechanics pro gram is designed to become a two-year curriculum and to meet the needs of persons preparing for employment. Classes will be held in the new automotive shop at Med ford high school. Applicants may enroll on a part-time or full-time basis. Further Information may ob tained by contacting the adult education office of the high school, SPring 3-5341. there must be a winning streak for me. Surely, this jinx isn't going to dog me all the way to Alaska. I know the folks are going to miss me, but maybe it would be better for them not to see me at all. They worry about me all the time. I know I cause them a lot of heart aches and that makes me feel worse. Anyway Alaska isn't the end of the world. The folks forget that it's just another state now." Maybe I'll strike it rich there and be back in no time-with my millions. . iThe Council: We see noth ing wrong with going to Alas ka, but a lot wrong with the spirit in which Karl is con templating this idea. If he goes in his present frame of mind we are afraid that his jinx will follow him every step of the way. We think Karl and his par ents should try to see 'that we all carry our luck-good and bad-within ourselves. It is true that forces from the out side occasionally operate for or against us, but these in stances are actually quite rare. In fact, the typical "hard luck guy ' usually manages to turn a good event or op portunity into something bad, and the person who has the habit of success often turns a blow into a new opportu nity. We don't know why Karl is jinxing himself, but we think he should spend less time and energy in bewail ing his fate and more on tak ing a good, hard look at his own conduct. He should try to see how his own behavior may have been responsible for. his getting by-passed when the promotions are handed out and for his being jilted by two girls. Karl gives some indication to us of what he does to mess himself up when he talks of luck as something that might fall out of the skies for. him in Alaska. Sure, luck could come-if he had some idea of what he wanted to do there. The fact that he has no plans and no ideas indicate that he doesn't really expect to suc ceed in Alaska. It is believed that the men tal quirk motivating men like Karl is that they really want to fail as self-punishment. They are haunted by a vague and probably unreasonable sense of ' guilt. Sawdust S&H GREEN STAMPS Medford Fuel Go. Tel. SP2-2H1 Court & McAnd. HEARING AIDS BY MAICO! Henry Myhre (owner) 820 E. 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