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
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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
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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. Suppose he read fairly
constantly, and finished every
book in five minutes, or such
a matter.
The first thing he knew, he
would have read all the books
in all the libraries and then he
would be in the sad fix of Alex
ander the Great when he con
quered the known world and had
nothing left to do but sit around
and sigh for more worlds to
conquer.
This speed reading isn't
everything it's cracked up to be.
Tax Court Judge
I Upholds Commission
SALEM (UPD-Oregon Tax
Court Judge Peter Gunnar up
held the State Tax commission
in an assessment dispute with
Miller's Mobile Manor, Inc., it
was announced today.
The corporation had appealed
from an additional tax assess
ment of its property, a trailer
court In Multnomah county, by
the Multnomah county assessor
q for the year 196l-fi2.
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