Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 14, 1961, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Text10 A- logon's Tax lase Said Completely Messed Up; Blame Br DOUGLAS GRIPP , Salem - fflPl - A major, tax brain' in the legislature says Oregon's tax base is complete , ly messed up. He fixes the , blame, too.. , ' The tax base is .the amount r of property or income subject i to taxation. The narrower tne base, the less taxes the state ' can collect. - I Mike Katz of Portland, con sultant to the House Tax Com i mittee, puts the blame on the i multitude of tax exemptions which: have crept into Ore gon's tax laws. He said .they ' now keep more "than 5 bil . lion worth of property off the state's tax rolls. The exemptions riddle taxes. ' on property, personal income ' aad . corporations. .The latter includes excise and income taxes. ' .. ; ' ':''.- Katz has spelled it out in a v seven-page report to the com r mittee which he said was still Incomplete, . The report was , requested by Chairman Rich i rd Eymann (D-Mohawk). -. Katz. listed 112 different exemptions' i reflecting : mil- lions of dollars in lost taxes. In one form or another, and ' at one time or another, ex ; cmptions extend to such 'tan- g .jles as: Stored nuts, ships which "ply the high seas," . s"red hops, lodges, tombs, In d 4 reservations, leafy trees, ci irch buildings -used for rec- rtUion, bad debts, profit-mak ing cemeteries and on and on, . Kau explained that some s t required by federal or sv e constitutions. Some are ' gt nted in . the "interest , of Ju dee," some in the name of public policy, and . some be- . cl ose they appear to be feasl- bin.' But some' ' have been t ited "with only the barest .k of theoretical justifies t and some, without, even . tni 'V' He says. ft. . . ';;, Katz said some exemptions . were obtained through the l-'lature '. by ' "appropriate p (leal pressures ' and the "r ht degree of intimlda All exemptions," he con- led, "narrow the tax base, plicate the structure, shift obligation onto remaining preferred taxpayers, and ft from the primary ju raiting . function . of t system." . ' , x said an Important teristlc of tax exemp i is that "once they are i comfortably and snug o the tax structure, they ; removal with . a ten- - wntcn would make a i quiver with envy." J , ' 'Vtvtmd up by warn : ..ite advocates' of -upturns are diligent and i -ureeful, and perhaps some e. . interests worthy, "there la seldom anyone to appear in DentJX of ithe . . . protection of the revenue base and the puidic treasury." ; In other words, he says the v rage taxpayer is taking it In the neck. ...';; Vondsrs Everybody loves cafe cur-talns-they add such a light, bright summery touch to ev try room. Make your - own cafe cur tains - they're extra-easy to sew, and so thrifty! Five dif ferent, delightful styles in eluded.. Pattern 7017: pat- terns; directions, Send Thirty. five cents (coins) tor this pattern-add 10 cents for each pattern for 1st class mailing. Send to Alice Brooks care of Medford Mail Tribune, Needlecraft Dept., " P.O. Box 163, Old Chelsea Station, -New York-11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, AD DRESS, PATTERN NUMBER. JUST OUT1 Our 1961 Nee dlecraft Book. Over 129 de Signs for home furnishings, ' for fashions-knit, crochet, em i brplder, weave, sew, quilt -toys, gifts, bazaar items. FREE ! -six designs for popular veil . caps. Quick-send 25 cents TODAY. FRIDAY. APRIL 14. 1981 They'll Do It Every Howcum Dept. kid pranksters can pull up those hi6h way" si6ns and plant 'em somewhere else apparently as easv as ple' The Medical An Outpouching on the Gullet People write to say that while, having their, digestive tract - x-rayed, the doctor found. a small d iverticulum, or pouch, on r men guuei. Some say that this pouch is producing no s y m p t oms, while a : few say that it s o m e t imes Alvarti manes swal lowing a bit difficult. What happens Is that - when the pouch fills with food, it presses on the side of the gul let and tends to harrow the passage-way. -i V: I think if I had such a pouch and it wasn't bothering me, I would wait and see if it did become troublesome. If it was bothering me every time i ate. l would bo to a Dig clinic and Bee the expert on diseases of the gullet. Cyitocele and Rectocela When ' a woman has had several children, she Is likely to nave a perineal tear,, with the loss of what we doctors call the "pelvic floor" made out . of strong muscle. Then the bladder and the rectum are likely to fall down low; Twice Terrific 0 . Sleek sheath or softly flar ed style-sew one now, the oth- er next season! V-neckllne with button detail is new. smart, cool. Choose print or color. Printed Pattern 0345: Misses' Sizes 12. 14. 16. 18. 20, Size 16 (full skirt) 3Vi yards 45-inch; (slim skirt) 1V& yards. Send Thirty five cents (coins) for this pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Martin, Medford Mall Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. 100 FASHION FINDS-the best, newest, most beautiful Printed Pattern for SDrlnc Summer, 1961. See them all in our brand-new Color Cata log. Send 35 cents Bowl imm. Roundup ComalUnl In Medietas ' Mayo Cltnlo Emeritus Professor of Medicine Mftyo Cllnlo (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1961) and often this causes the poor woman ' many discomforts, Such women, perhaps in their fifties or sixties or seventies, write to ask me if I would recommend a repair opera tion. My answer is that if they are still in good health, wide awake, spry, and not enorm ously stout, and if a good sur geon says he is not afraid to perform the operation, they had better go ahead and ac cept it. A woman of 50 may have to live on until' she. is 85, and 35 years is a long time to be suffering. Person Who Wants An Encyclopedic Article ' Thousands of people write asking me to send them, by return air mall, "all I know" or "all that is known" about some disease. I am sorry, but I just cannot stop to write such an article. For many years of my life I used to write such articles for the sev eral encyclopedias and text books of m'edlclne, and some; oi tnose articles took me two or three months to write,. auring wnicn time l devoted to the work most of my eve nings, my Saturdays, and my Sundays.- i I sympathize deeply, with the unhappy people who want and much need an encyclope dic article in. simple, under standable English, but in most cases I know of no. such, ar ticle that is available. All I can do is to hope that duiing the next year I can find time to write a booklet on the dis ease mentioned, and to add this to those the Register and Tribune Syndicate now sells. . I can imagine how distress ing it is for the mother of a defective child to be told that he has Fanconl's or Hallevor- den-Spatz' disease, and then to be absolutely unable to learn - any more about the ailment - whether it is going to be soon fatal, or whether it is curable, or where in the country someone knows some thing about it, or where re search Is being done on it, etc One thing I cannot for give some of my medical brethren-for doing, is 'walk ing away from a frantic mo ther who begs for such infor mation. No doctor is so busy that i he could not stop for three minutes. , Government Helping with ; ; Dental Care ' I am happy to read that last year the Congress gave $160,000 for dental service to handicapped children. This year the dentists will ask for $2,000,000. No child .in this country should be allowed to grow up with bad teeth. Voluntary Health-Insurance I read that voluntary health insurance now pays 5.2 billion dollars of our health care bills. Some 72 per cent of all our people and 49 per cent of those over the age of 65 years have one of the four available types of pro- , With LIFETIME Fibarglatt Screens Distributed by SELBY GLASS Time II II rV WAhVW "S I J CO. 303 N. Bartlett SP 3-3645 By Jimmy Hatlo Birr WHEN THE MGHWAy" DEPT. HAS TO REMOVE ONE- WOW IT'S A . MAJOR-GENERAL ALL-OUT OPERATION tectlon. Some 68 per cent of our families need each year, $200 for medical expenses; 21 per cent have expenses from $200 to $500 and 11 per cent' have , bills over $500. i - Dr. Jerome J. Sievers of the Los Angeles Children's Hospi tal has just been emphasizing the need for doctors' telling the parents right away that their-child has athma when he recognizes the disease. Dr.. Sievers says . that often' the physician is too reluctant to make this diagnosis because he fears to cause -the parents anxiety. But if precious time is wasted ' before seriously tackling the problems of the disease' and really curing the child, the asthma may become so chronic that it will go on perhaps for the rest of the poor sufferer's life.. The time to understand an asthma well and to fight it strenuously is when it first appears. For some,' allergies are al ways in season. To find out DEL MONTE flavor to any Featured this this very special price. bOttle J Fruit DEL MONTE. Wonderful Safeway ice cream 8-oz. buffet size tin ; - 7 for MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON The Family Council Editor'! Note: The. PamUy Council .consist! of a Jndco, a psychia trist, three clergymen, three editor! is a summary oi an actual case history. The council report on proo lems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. (Copyright 1961 General Features Corp.) - Dobby W.-I want my sister to take care of Rory so can go to Switzerland. Phyllis A.-The baby hardly knows me. He s too young to leave so long. -. , - . - ' Debby W-My husband and I have the most wonderful op portunity to go to Europe this summer, if only Phyllis would agree to come in from Wiscon sin and baby sit. There s a - convention in Geneva and Dick's firm is pay ing his expenses as a dele gate. For a few hundred dol lars more, I could go along and we could see Europe to gether on the way home. My sister really owes this to me. Before Rory was born, I took care of things for her whenever she and Lenny felt like flitting. But she turns me down now, with some rather lame excuses. . Phyllis A-'-It's not that I'm refusing to help Debby. I'd do anything for her. All I'm urging her now is to forget about going away so far and so long while Rorry is only 2VS years old. A child so young doesn t know what's happened when his parents go on a vacation and you can't explain it to him. A friend of mine has an emotionally, disturbed child and the doctor traces it back to when the child was separ ated from her mother during more about your allergy and what to do about it, read Dr. Alvarez' booklet, "Allergy, Hay Fever and Asthma." It may be obtained by sending 25 cents and a large, stamped self-addressed envelope to Dr. Walter C: Alyarez, Dept. MMT, The Register and Trib une Syndicate, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. : , . . Safeway Brings Safeway . . adds extra Kill U me?t dish - 14-OZ. ,weekend at : p I I I I Oockiail with $1 You gel valuable gifts when you save GOLD BOND STAMPS Save at the store that gives you more. Shop Safeway and a women's editor. Each arucie hospitalization. The little one cried her heart out. To make -matters worse,' Debby expects a new baby in half a year. She'd have to leave Rory again. But that would be easier to handle. .- The Council: "Go now, pay later" can have a very spe cial meaning, as Phyllis warns, for mothers who just fade away, out of sight of their pre-schoolers. "Stay now, go later" is 'our advice for Debby. - -- Oi course when there's no choice in the matter, there's no argument. Disaster, illness, change of residence, legal or occupational "musts," childbirth-all these can make a prolonged separation of moth er and child inevitable. And while he will suffer some pangs of anxiety, no matter how adequate the . substitute mothering, : the residual trauma will grow less and less as he comes to understand the answer to, "Was this trip necessary?" But since Debby's absence is optional and postponable, we hasten to remind her that pediatricians' , and ' psycholo gists strongly urge that the mother stick around, especial ly when the child is between 1 and 6. There's a nice scien tific explanation for. this: In the months immediately fol lowing birth, the mother-child tie is "symbiotic" 'or resem bling two lives in one body. After the first year, however, it becomes "diatropic," where the child must take longer and longer strides away, but al ways with mother as the starting point. Interruptions in this process can be disturb ing and bewildering. r : Young Rory,. let us add, can have no sense of time, nor can he absorb assurances that Products at I $ 1 303 Tins le FLORIDA ORANGES Florida, thin - skin ned, tops for slicing . in salads, desserts. Lb. Foreign Postal Rates Increased Washington - (DPD - Post master, General . J. Edward Day has announced increases in U.S. postal rates to most foreign countries to close an $18 million annual deficit in international mail operations. The postmaster general, who can revise international postal rates without, new leg islation, said Thursday .night the new rates would go into effect July 1. . Rates for regular and air mail letters and postcards to Canada and Mexico .will re main unchanged. . Ordinary . surface - mail to all countries other than Can ada and Mexico will be in creased: from 8. to 11 cents for the first ounce. Regular mail postcards to countries other than Canada and Mex ico will be hiked from 5 to 7 cents. -,'., . -: . : -: ' - ..-, The 15-cent airmail rate for Europe will remain unchang ed. But airmail letters going to South American countries wlll,; be increased from 10 to 15 cents per half-ounce. Three cents, will be . added to the current rates for .Caribbean countries and Central Amer ica. Airmail . letters to the Soviet Union will be increased from 15 to 25 cents per half- ounce. There will be no change in the 25-cent rate for Asian, South African and Pacific na tions. ,; mother and dad will be back "soon." While we doubt that a serious emotional disturb ance can be traced solely to a mother's,- ; unexplained ab sence, we agree with Phyllis that a very young child may well 'feel deserted, and that his resentment may show it self in devious ways for years to come. No, Debby. There'll be oth er conventions. Watch for one in Denmark. Then you and Dick can take both kids to play in the Tivoli Gardens. MONEY-SAVING PRICES ' ' ' , Monte Lamb Leg Yf Loinnib Carefully selected from USDA CHOICE lamb at peak, of flavor goodness.'' Short shank and carefully trimmed to give you 'more delicious meat for your-money. , Guaranteed 100. Per Pound U on Exemptions Clubs Get $600,000 per Year Off Gum Machines : Service, clubs in the United States realize' $600,000 per year for their projects off the Ford gum ball program.. That -was - the 'report Wednesday .by Clarence Hutchinson, ; Pacific : North west Ford Gum and Machine company. - He spoke : at the luncheon meeting of the Med ford Kiwaniscl u b which sponsors the firm's machines in this community. Hutchinson 'reported that, the firm which started its op eration in 1939, has ,4,500 sponsoring . clubs ' and that Ford . gum- is. sold no . other way but through the clubs. 1 - The Medford club has start ed a campaign: to gain- addi tional locations and , improve old ones, for the- gum and candy devices. Members will contact businessmen.' Kiwan ians get a percentage of the income from the machines, and the amount last year was about $900. Klwanis share of the funds go toward its youth projects in the community, in cluding the county wide, den tal clinic. .. On the club's gum ball1 LAWN MQWER SHARPENING Small Engine Repairing ; Parts and Service for Briggs Stratton . .7 . Clinton . . . Lauson . . . and Others - BIG Y FEED & SEED GO. 1948 Pacific Hwy. North .- SP .3-3160 ' - V .-V-! -.-. Foosl at Jts very 2 Medford Stores to Serve You committee are Hugh , Eng. strom, chairman, . and Ben R o e s e r, representative of Ford, in .this area. i Presenting a program of dances at the club meeting were a group of girls from Hawaii who. are attending Southern Oregon college. Their appearance was in be half of the Luau which will be served by Hawaiian stu dents at the college Sunday evening, April 16. Accom panying them- to the meeting was Dr. Elmo Stevenson, pres ident of the college. , t PHOENIX HARDWARE Sherwin-Williams Paints OPEN SUNDAYS 10 a.m.' to Noon '' . . ' S&H Green Stamps' During -' ' v.-'y-- -.- VI best! Sale!