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Dellenback Urges Kiwanians To Understand Before Voting MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1863 "I urge you to understand what you're doing when you cast a yes or no vote. Don't just vote out of emotion. Think through what you vote." That is what State Rep. John Dellenback. Medford, advised Medford Kiwanis club members yesterday in a talk on the Ore gon's tax referendum special election scheduled Oct. 15. Speaking at the noon luncheon at Rogue Valley Country club, the past Kiwanis president dis cussed what a voter is asking when he votes yes or when he votes no, what effect a yes or no majority vote will have, prime reasons for voting one way or the other and the bene fits to consider. He also outlined the signifi cant features of the tax bill which t h e State Legislature passed and which is being re ferred to the people. Explains Casting Vote Dellenback explained that a voter casting a "yes" ballot will vote to uphold the change in tax passed by the Legislature. He said that a "no" vote will be for defeat of the Legislature's action. If yes votes are the ma jority, Dellenback pointed out, the bill (House Bill 1846) will be the law for Oregon and in effect for this year. If the no votes are the ma jority, the legislator said, there are two possibilities: 1. An ex ecutive attempt can be made to cut appropriations. 2. A spe cial session of the Legislature can be called. In discussing the "significant features" of the Legislature's bill, Dellenback said that it eli minates the federal deduction in computation of the state in come tax, removes the $B00 de duction as such and substitutes a fixed credit to be applied after the tax is computed and estab lishes a certain minimum in come tax. The latter feature would require some people not now paying a tax to pay the minimum of $5 or 1 per cent of adjusted gross income. Ceiling Would Be Lifted Dellenback reported that med ical deduction ceiling would be lifted, that change in tax on capital gains would set a maxi mum limit of 5 per cent and that, if other normal require ments are met, a student who earns more than $600 per year can be claimed as a dependent. The bill sets the rate range at 2 to 7 per cent and is more favorable to heads of house holds in special consideration, he said. Dellenback indicated that if the people reject the Legisla ture's tax plan, about one-third of appropriations cannot be cut but that appropriations must somehow be reduced by $50,000, 000. He said that some $15,000, 000 could be cut in capital con struction and a 15 to 20 per cent cut in state services could result. He said that about $4. 000,000 could be made up with I a property tax levy. As one leeislator guessing," Dellenback predicted a special session of the Legislature if the tax program is turned down. He said that the Legislature could cut taxes, change the program and get the money differently or use a combination of these two possibilities. One thing the Legislature can do, Dellenback stated, is to pass a new tax a sales tax. He reported that if a 3 per cent California - type sales tax were adopted, it would raise $65,000, 000 per year. However, he warn ed that "a sales tax is no great panacea for reducing other taxes." Reasons for Program Dellenback, maintaining that "this is not a panic situation" and saying that he is not trying to sell anyone pro or con, listed four primary reasons for voting for the tax program: 1. The monies that have been appropriated are needed; 2. people know what the results are going to be; 3. There is danger that if the vote is no there will be economic confu sion for a while; 4. the Legisla ture may have difficulty coming up with a sound program under pressure. He said, on the other hand, that a "no" vote will show that the people mean business when they say they want economy in government, that he thinks a sales tax can result providing a "three - legged" tax structure and that, if the Legislature ap- Ex-Communisfs Visit in Portland PORTLAND - (UPI) - Two former members of the Commu nist Party visited Portland Wed nesday under the auspices of Walter Huss' Freedom Center. They were Kenneth Goff, na tion director of Soldiers of the Cross, identified as a "religious, patriotic organization," and Karl Prussion, who was a counter spy for the FBI. They spoke at a meeting here. At a press conference, Goff said he saw many "identified Com munists" in Washington during the recent civil rights march. He also agreed that the Seaside Labor Day riots proba bly were "Communist inspired." Prussion commented that civil rights leader Martin Luther King "accepted support from and was surrounded by Communists." proved a special tax, it would be referred to the people. He said he would try to achieve a sales tax if he goes back to the Legislature. It would broaden the tax base he said. The legislator indicated that, if tax program is rejected in the Oct. 15 vote, senators and representatives will have the difficulty of getting the message on "what did the people say'.'" Don Kocina, Max Weston and Robert Clarke were formally inducted into Medford Kiwanis club prior to Dellenback's talk. Dr. Merle Foland, division lieu tenant - governor, conducted the ceremony. Greg Gill was intro duced as a new member. Bill Hudson, Bend, lieutenant-gov-ervor designate, was a guest at tne meeting. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- THE TOWN DRUNK tried to get to bed without disturb ing his wife, but heard her clomping downstairs ths moment he shut the door. He made a dive for the library, reached for a book, and . was sitting under the lamp when his wife col lared him. "Hello, dar ling," he mumbled a bit Indistinctly. "I thought I'd catch up a bit on my reading tonight." "You did, did you?" she replied grimly. "Well, you just shut that valise and come up to bed." "The principle of spend ing' money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding-, is but swindling posterity on a large scale." An anti-Administration blast by a conservative banker made In Washington the other day? Not at all. It was said by Thomaj Jetferson almost 200 years ago! . Harassed by' a surging1 mob on the last shopping day befora Christmas, a clerk shook her head sadly and paused While Writing down an impatient customer's address. "It's a madhouse, isn't it?" sighed the clerk. "Not at all," replied the customer naught lly. "It's a nice private residence." 1963, by Bennett Cart. Distributed by King Futures Syndic.! In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The news? Well, here's a sample: PITTSBURGH (Pa.) teachers say a Pittsburgh boy can read 10,000 words a minute Announcing Plymouth and Valiant for 1964 Sport Fury 2-door hardtop This good-looking 1964 Plymouth really gets up and goes and has a 5-year50,000-mile warranty to keep it going that way. This is the handsome full-size Plymouth for 1964. A few slow circles around it reveal the clean, simple, strong shape of the modern Plymouth. Newness is immediately appar ent from the front, back, and profile, espe cially the new 2-door hardtop roofline shown above. Inside the car, more new beauty, and fabric strength to preserve that beauty. Then there is the special way this car per forms. Thousands of laps around the Prov ing Grounds show that the 1964 Plymouth Is quick, alert, vigorous-a sure bet to main tain Plymouth's performance superiority of the past tv,o years. And there's the 5-year 50,000-mile engine and drive train war ranty that backs up the performance of all 26 models of Plymouth for 1964. In other words, if this is the year you picked to buy a new car, you picked a beautiful year to Get up and go Tlymoutli! Signet 200 2-door hardtop This smart-looking 1964 Valiant is a hummer in its own right and it's the low-priced compact with a 5-year50,000-mile warranty It would take an awful lot of compact to top Valiant64 style. Take styling. The new Valiant is newest coming at you, with its completely redesigned grille. Valiant pre sents a new rear view, too, to admiring fol lowers. All around the car, there is more charm than compacts are supposed to have. Take performance. The new Valiant's stand ard 101-hp engine is where the word "hum mer" comes from; its optional 225-cu.-in. engine is where the word "good-bye" comes from. Take quality. A 5-year50,000-mile warranty guards the performance of each new Valiant. Low price is the new Valiant's wrapper-upper. You could do a lot of look ing around and never come up with a better value. It's at the same place you'll find the new 1964 Plymouth ... at your nearby Plymouth-Valiant Dealer's. Valiant64 style Best all-around compact . t.r t unw THE STRONG 550 WARRANTY PROTECTS PLYMOUTH AND VALIANT OWNERS: Chrl.r Corporation .arrantl lor 5 nj or SOOOO mlt. whhv.r ramM fim, against IW.CU in IS. and Zl"f "W Corporation Authored D.al.. a o,-, nl 'lul.nM. Ih. .no,n. bincK. h.J .nd Inirn.l nan. Int.k. PTJ. .J""'" IZZt'u Ik a ooawi rrM ol 'porlorrnano. ol tit. ml , .no w.W In. to crtil, (I ) r.,pt ot au vtatoim and 2 Ih. c.f. tht curr.nl ntlloan.. t SM Plymouth and VaUint in action on "Tit. Boo Hop. Sho,' In. "World SriM." and "Tit. Hunll.yBrlnkla), Raoorf'-NBO-TV. SEE BOTH AT YOUR PLYMOUTH-VALIANT DEALER'S TODAY Plymouth division DICK KNIGHT CO. 33 South Riverside) Medforel , S3 unnTOL.cn iMf MOTORS CORPORATION when he is just skimming along at average speed. He has been clocked at 30,000 words on sev eral occasions and once he hit 40,000 words per minute. His name is Bill Carmack. His age is 17. He attends Pitts burgh's South Hills High school. The other day, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette quoted his school principal as saying: "He's just one of those people who can GLANCE at a page and tell you what's on it." QUESTION: Can he remember what he reads? The Post-Gazette says: "Last week Bill demonstrated his reading for a reporter. He was handed a magazine story about Alexander the Great. He started reading. The reporter had just barely opened his note book to record the time when the test began when the boy said: 'I've finished.' "Fifteen seconds had elapsed. The article was 1500 words long Bill then correctly summa rized Alexander's military stra tegy and even gave two dates correctly." Strictly Personal By Sydnt-y i. Kairit (c) rleld Enterprise. Inn. PERSONAL" PREJUDICES Patience doos not mean, as so many people think, merely pas sive waiting; but is a creative act of hoping for events and pre paring oneself to cope with them when and if they happen. When the husband too ar dently desires boy children, and the wife wishes intensely for girls, 1 always suspect there Is a latent resentment against the other sex on both sides; the best marriages seem to be those in which each parent prefers children of the opposite gender. Until we know more accurate ly how responsible society is for producing criminals, our svslem of punishment will be based on vengeance rather than reform. The human personality gives off a scent, like the bodies of some animals: the man who expects to be offended usually is; the man who is afraid of being cheated almost always Is. We generally react in com pliance with (he fears of oth ers, which seem to invite our contempt or ill-feeling. .Conservatives and liberals might not be such implacable enemies if they knew how des perately each needs the other the conservative to be taught a wider grasp of humanity, and the liberal to be given a deeper sense of reality. There is always a good ex cuse (or not raising wages: in bad times, conditions don't warrant it; in good times, ex penses are high and earnings must be reserved for the bad times that are sure to follow. ... If "all things are relative," as most modern people glibly assert, how can we judge among them? for even two relative things need a third thing; which is not relative, to be compared to. The theory of relativity may apply to physics, but it wreaks terrible harm in ethics. The best and tersest explan ation of the steady output of creative productions was giv en by Auerbaeh, when he wrote: "The little dissatisfac tion which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work." Grecian ladies, according lo Homer, counted their age from their marriage, not their birth; which seems a much more sen sible treatment of this delicate subject. The myth that a strong army prevents war has car ried more nations into war than any other illusion of man kind; the only tiling that prc- I vents w ar is universal disarm- Publisher Remains In Salem Hospital SALEM (UPI)-Taipai China Morning Post publisher Mrs. Nancy Yu-Huang, 48, remained in Salem General hospital to day recovering from injuries received in an . auto accident Monday. Hospital spokesmen listed hep condition as good, and said she had a comfortable night. She was tentatively scheduled to be discharged yesterday, but asked to remain in the hospital, a spokesman said. She may be released today. LONDON (UPI)-An 1860 gold penny was bought for $3,360 Wednesday by an anonymous bidder at a coin sale at Glendin ing and Co. anient, which only the weak er nations favor. To para phrase Hegel's remark about history all we learn from war is that we learn nothing from war. THE DANMOORE HOTEL 1217 5W Morrison Sf. PORTLAND, OREGON All transient guests. All those who come, return. Rates not high, not low. Free garage, new location V block from hotel. Open until 10 P.m. TV's and radios. Reputation for cleanliness. CHILDREN UNDER SEVEN NO CHARGE 'WaWBBiHP T ET'S put it this way: " An average week-day isssue of this newspaper contains somewhere in the general neigh borhood of 100,000 words of reading matter Which is to say: If Young Bill Carmack picked up an average issue of the Mail Tribune on some evening when he was going good he would read and digest the whole read ing matter content of it in ap proximately two and a half minutes! SUPPOSE you were a news paper editor. Or a newspaper reporter. And suppose further that you had worked the whole live-long day digging up the news and putting it together. And suppose that EVERYBODY could read as fast as Bill Car mack can when he lets out a few notches. How would you feel when you sat back at quitting time and re flected that what you had worked all day to produce would occupy your customers only about two and a half MINUTES. You'd feel a bit LET DOWN, wouldn't you? BILL CARMACK isn't alone. The Chronicle told the oth er day about a California whiz kid who reads "Gone with the Wind" in less than two hours and gobbles up average length novels while he s waiting for his bus. ??????? Well, lie's MISSING a lot -including the savoring of good writing. IMAGINE reading D i C k e n s' "Oliver Twist," or Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe," or Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckle berry Finn "in a casual five minutes or so! And take the case of Bill Car mack. 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