10 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.
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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
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on diseases of the gullet.
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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-
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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
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The Family Council
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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