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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
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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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