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14 A TUESDAY. JANUARY 31. 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Revenue Said Number One Problem Facing Most State Legislatures Preponderance ol Budgets Said To Break Records Kdllor's utile This U the nation's uIkkusl .year for law - ini-.Klng by Htate ICRlslutures. Before 1H61 is out, 47 leKiblaLurcs will have met to deal with spare-age problems Just as ueKiisn as inose before the new Congress In Washington and in many cases a lot closer to home In their impact. A survey of the 5ft state capitols indicates the biggest universal problem is taxes. The following dispatch indicates what's in store lor taxpayers. By EVERETT R. IRWIN Chicago IUPI) - There is one consolation in filling out fed eral income tax returns this year - the taxes haven't gone up. But state taxes are going up,, almost as fast as legisla tures convene across the coun try to deal with record bud gets. The No. 1 problem facing most state legislatures and governors this year is rev enue. The 42 legislatures that con vened this month-and five that start work later this year -are confronted with the dol lar sign at every turn. A great preponderance of 1961 budgets or preliminary budgetary demands are at rec ord highs, a United Press In ternational survey of the 50 state capitals showed today. More Taxes Predicted . New or broadened taxes were predicted in most states -levies to meet rising costs of schools, highways, care of the aged, mental health and penal programs and other steadily expanding services. West Virginia legislators already have plunged into the tax boost swim. In an emer gency move to expand public works and put more than 5,000 jobless to work, they hiked the state's sales tax from 2 per cent to 3 per cent for the next 7'2 months. Hold-the-line stands against tax boosts shaped up in 16 states and are sure to develop in others. Some appeared to be determined and likely to succeed. Others looked like wishful thinking in view of sharply higher budget de mands. New York Unique New York finds itself in a unique position. Higher taxes and payroll withholding insti tuted two years ago by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller pro duced ao large a yield that the staie is making a $90 mil lion rebate to an estimated 5'2 million taxpayers. In Illinois, on the other hand, incoming Gov. Otto Kerner said the state faced a "financial crisis" and needs $265 million in new revenue. Gov. John Dalton of Missouri submitted a $1.25 billion budget, $154 million above the last biennial appropria tions. Connecticut faced a $10-$12 million deficit by June 30 and a $130 million budget boost for the next two years. Vermont's Gov. F. Ray Key ser, who campaigned on a "no new taxes" theme, proposed record general fund and high way budgets. Long Fight in Texas In Texas, where $100 mil lion in new money will be needed to keep spending at the current level and $200 million if new spending pro posals are adopted, UPI's cap itol correspondent reports: "The big long fight will be money. First where to raise it, then how to spend it." A big tax battle is forecast in North Carolina. Gov. Terry Sanford campaigned for im proved education and said he'll favor additional taxes if necessary to put his program into effect. Ohio's Gov. Michael Di Salle and Oklahoma's Gov. Howard Edmondson put the problem squarely up to their legislatures. Submits Two Budgets DiSalle submitted a $2.10 billion budget which would be met with available revenue and a fatter $2.24 billion bud get based on "need." Both were record high budgets. Edmondson offered a $268 million budget requiring $48 million in new revenue and a pared-down $220 million package which called for re trenchments. Montana's new Republican governor, Donald G., Nutter, submitted a "retrenchment" budget of $71.1 million, $4.2 million less than 1959 appro priations. Several states are consider ing new or broadened income taxes. Several others may turn to sales taxes to replen ish their coffers. Gov. W. W. Barron of West Virginia has plumped for an income tax. Gov. Albert D. Rosellini of Washington urged his legislature to present to the people a constitutional amendment imposing a gradu ated net income tax. , Rhode Island Gov. John A. Notte Jr., asked legislators to reexamine a 1959 recommen dation for an income tax. The Minnesota and Missouri gov ernors proposed reinforcing existing income tax laws with wage withholding provisions. Hikes Sales Tax A sales and use tax in Mi chigan was hiked to 4 per cent (from 3 per cent) effective Jan. 1. GOP Gov. John H. Reed of Maine proposed a similar boost, and leaders of both parties in the Connecti cut Legislature indicate they will have to follow suit. In Wisconsin, a bill would sub mit to advisory referendum the question of imposing a state sales tax. Across the nation, legisla tors are mulling over hun dreds of other tax proposals. There is a plan to boost the table tax on gaming in Ne vada, a proposal to tax piggy back carriers in Oregon, sug gestions for increased cigar ette taxes in Missouri and Arizona. A controversial pro posal for a 500 per cent boost in Illinois' corporation fran chise tax, a plan to accelerate tax collections in Pennsylvan ia, a suggested tax on soft drinks in Arkansas and a pro posed stiffer tax on non-resident hunters in Vermont. Nevada has fewer inhab itants per square mile than any of the other states, census figures indicate. PREVENT CRIPPUm DISEASES MARCH HEMES "Jf i M 11! : SI8TH DEFECTS ARTHRITIS . POUO Equalization Board Plans April Meeting The Jackson county board of equalization will hold its first regular meeting on Mon day, April 17, County Asses sor Ray Schumacher said Monday. "This is one public body that can do much to preserve the so-called home rule at the county level in property tax administration," the county assessor said. "By properly performing its duties and by insisting that the county as sessor does likewise, insofar as it has jurisdiction, the board will develop a much stronger administration local ly and will eliminate need of the state tax commission in terfering." The board can increase the assessed valuation on an indi vidual property, but must ac company the increase by writ ten notice to the property owner. Board members can also lower the assessed value without notice, Schumacher explained. It is also true that the board can increase or decrease uni formly the assessed value of all property in a class or in a clearly defined area without notice to the owners, he add ed. It has no authority to ex empt property from taxation. Number of Jobless Workers Decreases Washington -IUPII- The num ber of workers receiving job less benefits fell by 94,700 during the week ending Jan. 14, but remained at a record high of 3,194,900 for mid January, the government re ported Monday. Salem -0IPD- Gov. Mark Hat field Monday signed his first bill of the 1961 legislature -HB 2001, a housekeeping measure defining allotments involving the State Finance department. Red Cross Repo 5237,473 Washington-Almost a quart er of a million dollars a day went into the humanitarian services of the American Red Cross during fiscal 1959-60, according to the annual re port. The report has been for warded to the secretary of de fense and Congress. The total expenditures for the fiscal year were $86,677, 974, or a daily average of $237,473. Of this, more than 58 per cent was expended by the nearly 3,700 Red Cross chap ters; the balance was used by the national organization in serving members of the arm ed forces, in conducting relief operations following major disasters, In carrying on its biood donor and research, and in safety and health education al work. 2 Million Volunteers Volunteers number more than 2 million, and the career staff totals 9,200 in chapters and 3,700 with the national organziation in this county and with U.S. troops around the world. The largest single item in Red Cross expenditures was for services to the Armed Forces and veteran.) and their families. The cost came to $33,557,642, about 39 cents out of every dollar. Providing whole blood and its fractions for the ill and in jured accounted for another 15 cents of each Rod Cross dollar. Disaster relief took more than 7 cents, while oth er health, nursing, and safety programs accounted for more than 8 cents. The balance went for a na tional program of services for youth, services and assistance to the nearly 3,700 Red Cross chapters, chapter community services, international activi ties, membership enrollment and fund raising, public infor mation, and planning and ad- rt Indicates Spent Daily in '60 ministration by the national organization and chapters. Help Servicemen Last year 21,000 volunteers and a staff of 2,100 workers provided help to U.S. service men at military stations and hospitals, assisting an average of 77,200 servicemen each month. In U. S. communities, chap ter volunteers and home serv ice staff each month assisted an average of 81,500 service men and dependents and 36, 500 veterans and their depend ents. The Blood Program collect ed and distributed more than 2,400,000 pints of blood dur ing the year, an increase of about 3 per cent over 1958 59. Red Cross provides about 40 per cent of the total sup ply of blood used in the na tion. The Red Cross conducted 325 disaster relief operations during the year, and 107,700 persons were sheltered, fed or clothed during these emer gencies. Some 14,900 families were provided with new or rebuilt homes or given med ical care in the post-disaster period. Not included in these figures was the rehabilitation aid given to 13,600 families in the Hurricane Donna relief SAD ENDING Mount Vernon, Iowa -IUPII -Walter Gormly, a pacifist, ended a week's stay in the Linn county jail Monday com plaining that the evening meal consisted of only a sand wich, a half-cup of canned apricots, a cup of coffee and a cookie. Gormly, jailed for re fusing to pay his income tax, had spent the week on hun ger strike. BULL SHOOTER Dallas, Tex.-IUPll-John Jeter is known as the "number one bull shooter" of the South west. He's a livestock photographer. operation. This disaster, which occurred after the fiscal year's end, will cost more than $2, 000,000. Value of Assistance In the fiscal year, the Red Cross also gave assistance valued at $10,500,000, includ ing $7,500,000 worth of government-donated assistance, to help meet disaster n e e ds abroad. Following the Chilean earth quake. President Eisenhower requested that the ARC co ordinate all United States vol untary relief to that country. A team of American Red Cross disaster specialists was sent to Chile upon request of the American Ambassador to assist the Chilean Red Cross and other authorities admin istering relief. The aid was made possible by contribu tions valued at $4,500,000. The Red Cross offered train ing in public services and good citizenship to more than 20,300,000 students in schools and colleges, and trained more than 7,700,000 persons in first aid, water safety, and home nursing through formal class instruction, and another 5,- 100,000 persons through press, radio and television. Pharmacy Phacts From GENE WESTLAND FIRST AID Is a subject manv o our friends don't like to eithor talk or think about. A recent sur vey found, how. ever, that an aver age of only Oiia home in . eight could show a med icine cabinet whic could be called fully-equipped to td'J care of 2 .en ordi 'nary emergence arising in the home. Most oeop a had band-aids, fever thermor&t.ji, adhesive tape and a burn relic, but few were able to show cotio; swabs, sizable bandages, tourni quets or stomach settlers. Oddly enough almost 40 to 50 per cent didn't have gargles or antihisii mines of any type. For vour owi (and your family's) sake, pleasa give this some thought? You think you've thought of everything before your new bahy comes, but always there is some thing that has been overlooked . . . or a change in plans made. At McLain's Drug Centre, 8 North Centra f, Medford, we're alway J glad to help you find unfamiliar items and talk over their uscj with you. adv. 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