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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Medford Administrator Is Coauthor of Article About Tax Legislation Tt tax legislation, passed at the MCtnt legislative session, whit comes before the people of Oreeon in a referendum elec. tion Oct. 15, is defended on its merits in an article appearing in the September issue of Oregon Business Review. Authors of the article are James N. Tattersall, assistant Srofessor of economics at the niversity of Oregon, and Dud ley L. Ferguson Jr., adminis trative assistant of the city man ager of Medford. In a detailed analysis of the tax legislation, House Bill 1846, the writers point out that it is generally responsive to criti cisms of the Oregon personal in come tax, which has frequently become the target for charges that published rates are high in j comparison with those of other Income tax states ana mat many Oregon income earners are presently exempt from pay ing personal income tax. Under HB 1846, the rate struc ture is lowered and the maxi mum rate of 7.5 per cent would be well below the maximum rate of the other income tax states, the analysis shows. Considerable base-broadening has been accomplished, since a small payment of personal in come lax would be required from many thousands of Ore- gonians previously exempt. At the same time, the authors note, the principle of taxation on the basis of ability to pay is pre served, i One of the most desirable fea tures of the new legislation, in the opinion of Tattersall and Ferguson, is the increase in the number of rate brackets (from 7 to 17) in the new personal income tax schedule. This increase in numbers of graduated tax brackets "in creases the responsiveness of the tax system to rising state income and enhances its ability to provide . . . larger revenue receipts in future years ... as population and economic growth occur." Such reform, say the authors, may provide some as surance that future Oregon fi nancial crises would be less frequent. The analysis also brings out the apparent improvement of equity for heads of households (widows), single persons, par ents of students with part-time earnings, and persons afflicted with catastrophic illnesses. Under the legislation, treat ment of capital gains would be liberalized and made more com parable with capital gains tax ation under the federal income tax. The corporate tax structure is simplified. Elimination of deductibility of leaerai income tax on stale re turns would increase Slale reve nue by some $50 millions, the authors point out. The present oouioe aenuciiDimy ' of federal and state Income taxes results ina reduction in the amount of revenue collected by Oregon from high income taxpayers. If the new measure becomes law, Oregon will collect more from the high income taxpayer. However, the impact on the high income taxpayer will be mod erated by the lower federal taxes to be paid. The increase in Oregon state revenue will thus be several million dollars larger than the cost to the Ore gon taxpayer. The net Impact of the new legislation on the majority of Oregon taxpayers would be to Increase their combined federal and stale taxes by from three to six per cent, the authors con clude. Oregon state and local per capita tax collections have been running about average compared with other western stales. Other aspects of the bill dis cussed In the Oregon Business Review, publication of the Uni versity of Oregon Bureau of Business Research, are the pro visions for local property tax relief in the event the state ac cumulates a $10 million sur plus, and the provision (or ac celerated tax collections. The authors make a detailed comparison of Governor Hat field's tax proposals with the measure finally passed by the legislature. Tattersall and Ferguson con clude their article by express ing the view that the Oregon tax structure, as amended, does not represent "a fiscal ideal," but that no magic remedy for the state's fiscal problems is likely to be found. "There are no perfect tax systems simply some that are better than others all are im-: perfect since all must attempt! to reconcile conflicting objec-j lives." i News About Servicemen TO TAKE COURSE James D. Straus, Sams Valley rancher, has been selected to attend the six months engineer officers career course al Fort Belvoir, Va., beginning Oct. 7, according to army officials at Fort Lawlon, wash. Captain Straus, battalion op erations officer and commander of HH company, winner of a Department of the Army Unit citation for sustained superior performance awarded at Camp Roberts, Calif., last July, is the first reservist from this area named for this course, manda tory for field grade promotion, according to Lt. Col. John F. Rush, commanding officer, 2nd Battalion, 414th Regiment. Captain Straus was commis sioned a second lieutenant upon graduation from the Armored school, Fort Knox, Ky., in 1952. He has attended the quarter master school and has com pleted the following engineer residence courses at Fort Bel voir; supply familiarization, equipment maintenance, supply and support, and the engineer officers basic school. First Lt. Larry L. Kerr, Med-1 ford, HH company, will take i over Captain Straus's duties, ac cording to Lt. Col. John F. Rush, battalion commander. ATTENDS SCHOOL Army Pvt. Michael Higday, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Higday, 1501 Prune St., has re turned to Fort Ord, Calif., after spending two weeks leave with his parents. Higday, who was selected as a distinguished trainee of his company at Fort Ord. will at tend six weeks mechanic school cently spent five days at the Italian port ol La fcpezia. COMMENDATION Platoon Sgt. Richard J. Swin ney, Medford, Company E, has received a letter of commenda tion for outstanding work as an instructor in land navigation. trom company C, 3rd Battalion, ed a slate board academic scholarship and is doing ad vanced work at Portland State college this school year. TO KOREA Master Sgt. Donald C. Bills, Medford, enlisted advisor to U. S. Army Reserve units in this area, has been transferred to 1st Brigade, Ford Old, Calif.,. 1st Corps Headquarters, Uijong ABOARD CRUISER Fire Control Technician Sea man Apprentice Arthur A. Ruhl. son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Ruhl, 1300 Dakota ave., Medford. is serving aboard the guided mis sile cruiser USS Little Rock, Sixth Fleet flagship which re ducing the summer encamp- Bu, Korea, and will leave fur his ment of the 2nd Battalion, 414th : new assignment Oct. H, it was Regiment, last July at Camp announced by ('apt. Donald F, Roberts, Calif , according to Lt. iBunell, Medford sutwwlur com Col. John F. Rush, commanding inlander (or X U.S. Arnw t'lupa officer, j Bills, a nttlv of SaU UU Swinney was a teacher, activi-i City, Utah, munvd the Aniiy ties director and boys counselor there m ISM. MUmuijj swvlio at Phoenix High school last year, vwth the ;wth Army Anti-Air He was Southern Oregon col-1 cratt unit in Japan ik( Korea, lege, Ashland, man of the year ; he came to Ml(n in mri in education MiiiMiKil. j Mrs. Hills a u il ilmijjhlw, Sergeant Swinney was award-1 Tami, will remain in Mrtltiud, during the sergeant's overseas tour. MAN OF MONTH Special 4 Chester E. Olson, Battery D, First Missi e Bat talion al Fairchild Air Force base was named "Missile Man of tho Month" for September at the base. Olson is the son of Mrs. Viola Olson, 731 West 14th St., Med ford, nnd graduated from Med ford High school in 1958. He worked for Crucible Steel of America Corp. in San Francisco as hii inventory control clerk until entering the military serv ice in March, 1062. He will receive a $25 savings bond and a Ibme-day pass and an oppor tunity lo participate in the "Armed Forces Man of the Month" title competition as a reward for being named "Mis- silt Man." Competition will be with men from the Air Forca at Fairchild. . Eagle Point Girl Gets Sears Roebuck Grant CORVALLIS Susan Carroll, route 1, box 668, Eagle Point, will attend Oregon State univer sity this fall with the help of a $300 scholarship. She was chosen to receive a Sears Roebuck scholarship given annually to three Oregon fresh men entering the school of home economics who have shown out standing scholarship and merit. Accidental fires in nrivatn homes are most numerous in the winter months. BMBSflnw mm ooo Lucerne Ice Cream Peach Vanilla Chocolalt Maple Nut Banana Nur Neo poliran Lemon Flakt Choc. Marbla Butler Pecan Butter finger Butterbrickle Macam- u ., amia Nut Cherry Vanilla Halt Peppermint Candy Choc. Marih- . mallow. Gal. Potted Meat Corned Beef Libby's No. V4 can Town House 12 oi. can 69c 2 for 35c 49c Your Money's Worth More at Safeway II Vlf Lafani, Pineapple-Grapefruit 29-oz. can F $ Chili Con Carne 3$. Nalley's Regular or hot style. Good and hearty. IS oi. can Highway brand 303 can B ili)c Mazola Oil Instant Chocolate Corn Oil, 48 oz. bottle Borden'i Dutch. Mb. 99c 45c mmmi Coldbrook What a buy (q) - K Or I Giant Candy Bars 0 IS s Cronin Assisting In Swimming Class Gene Cronin, who directed the Rogue Valley Country club swimming pool program during the summer, is now a,sisling with the s w i m m i n g rlasses which started at the YMCA this week, according lo Ron Jensen, physical director of Ihe YMCA and Medford swim team coach. Cronin Is entering his junior year at Southern Oregon col lege. His physical education skills include trampoline and tumbling as well as swimming and diving, which are his spe cialties. The classes at the YMCA will follow the national YMCA graded program which starts with the lowest beginning skills and takes students through Ihe program to the highest level of aquatic achievement, J e n t e n said. Classes for boys will be held on Mondays and Saturdays and classes for girls on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Registrations are being taken at the YMCA , office. o .SI means best for value. ID. ash? y Town House 46-oz. can Top quality Mid-Western pork picnics. Safeway means best for value. G IMUOIF BATHDOOn TISSU Fine qualtiy at a budget saving price. 4 pack Regular 39c-You Save Pork Steaks " ,b 49c Rib Steaks SET" . 89c Spencer Steaks , SI .49 Pork Roast ,b. 49c U.S.D.A. Choice Standing RIB ROAST The King of Rossis! Aged lo perfection. Note the trim Lb. 79 fricM fttetiM Thurtdy September 26 through Siturdiy. September 28 it Sifcway In Medford. Limit rights reierved- ATTENTION HUNTERS Be Prepared! Shop Safeway for those "easy-to-take-along" foods PIECE BACON Fresh smoked, top brands. lb. CANADIAN BACON Armour Star, fully cooked lb. CANNED PICNICS Armour Star pre-ckeJ CANNED HAM? : , $ft19 Plumrose, needs no refrigeration can $1189 S-m. can U MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. WATKINS (Regiittr anil Tribuna Syndicate .96J) Patlerfoot Makes a Small Pond An Interesting Place Even when we sometimes in tend to be mildly derogatory, we could rightly say "he's an old mudhen," or "he's an old patlerfoot," which would be the same as the much used express ion, "he's an old coot." It would all be the same, for the bird we know as the coot is also one and the same as the mudhen. You may not be too familiar with the genuine and original old coot or realize it is a bird an aquatic bird of small ponds and marshes and wetlands that has so many enemies it is a wonder any old coot ever lives to be old. This in unfortu nate too, for the mudhen is a harmless and interesting crea ture, always minding its own business and bothering nobody. With so many enemies ready to kill it, very few live beyond the teen-age years. Whether you recognize this water bird by the name of coot, water hen, mudhen, or even pat lerfoot, depends on what part of the country you find it. Its range is large, just about every small lake in nearly two-thirds of our nation has at least a few patterfeet present. Mortality Rate There are many reasons for its high mortality rate. Living as it does in marshes and small lakes, it is easy prey to a dozen or more predators. Shaped a great deal like a duck and oc casionally associating with ducks, it is shot by gunners who don't know the difference or care. Perhaps it is because the mudhen's life is so precarious, that nature instilled in them the almost constant desire to nest. The female mudhen will nest at the drop of a feather-and she doesn't think she has accom plished a thing unless she can lay and incubate a dozen and a half eggs at a single setting. In the warmer parts of the U. S. a pair of healthy coots may raise four families in a single year. When building her nest, the mudhen doesn't even have to carry materials. She simply pulls the available water weeds together in a clump, tics them with grasses, and begins laying. Being social birds, they love to live in close association with others of their kind and are never so happy as when several dozens of their neighbors are in close communion. The mudhen is about the size of a small wild duck, with bluish, slate colored plumage. Some have white tips on some of the wing feathers. The bill is dark. There is a brown shield over the forehead, making the coot look like a man with a cap pulled down over his eyes. The little, short tail sticks straight up, giving the bird a perky ap pearance. At a little distance the mudhen looks like a moving target in a shooting gallery. The mudhen has four toes on each foot, like the domestic hen. The feet are not webbed; the toes are green in color and fringed on both sides with scal loped flaps. This arrangement makes walking on wet mud an easy and pleasant pastime. The coot skulks through the water weeds with a guilty stealth. It takes wing reluctantly as if flight were a great effort. If it does fly, it requires a long take off, beating the air violently with its wings and running rap idly with both feet, patting the water's surface; hence t h e name, "patterfeet." In appearance it closely re sembles the domestic hen; a hen that has accepted an aquatic en vironment. The patterfoot and its strange call makes a small pond an interesting place. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1963 Second Session 01 Ecumenical Council Slated At least nine or ten of the Amazon river tributaries exceed the Rhine river in total length. The timber line is the altitu dinal boundary of natural tree growth. VATICAN CITY (UPI) - The Ecumenical Council opens its j second session here Sept. 29 i but the Council has been a cen j tcr of attention for almost four I years. I The following is a chronology i of important dates in the de I vclopmcnt of the Vatican II ' Council. .Ian. 25, 1959 Pope John XXIII announces to Cardinals his intention of calling a coun cil. May 16, 1959 Pope John appoints ante-preparatory com mission to consult bishops about topics to put before the Coun cil. June 5, 1960 Pope John ap points preparatory commissions and secretariats, j Dec. 25, 19B1 - Pope John ; signs the bill formally calling 'the Council. ! Feb. 2, 1962 - The date for j the opening of the Council is i set Oct. 11, 1962. I Sept. 5, 1962 - The rules and ; regulations governing the Coun I cil are published, i Oct. 11, 1962 - The Council opens with solemn ceremonies 1 in St. Peter's Basilica. Oct. 13, 1962 - The Council i fathers hold their first working meeting. I Nov. 15, 1962 Pope John, at the request of Bishops, post I pones opening dale of the second i session from May 12 to Sept. 8, 1 196.1. Save On Fine Coffee Maxwell House Mb. I OC can ii) Mb. can 97c Maxwell House Instant Edwards 6 oz. jar 99c 3. ib. $1.39 2.lb 93c Mb. 47' Safeway Instant Coffee 6 .z 79c WILLER'S MODEL BAKERY Banana Nut Bread 35c ea. Apple Turnovers 3 for 25c Delicious Homemade Cookiei BREAKFAST FAVORITES Pancake Mix Table Syrup Krusteaz Preserves Honey Kitchen Craft. 4-lb. pkg. Pack Train. 22 oz. jar. Pancake Mix 3'2 lb. pkg. Shasta Strawberry 44 oz Empreit Clover Squeeze Bottles 49c 3 for SI 69c 79c 45c 12 oz ScotTowels : Soft Weve 2 47c : ::r""u29c White or Asst'd 120 ft. roll ! a Toilet Tissue " Napkins Scot. White, Asst'd. AA Scot Family f A4. 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U.S. NO. 1 RUSSETT 15 Dec. 3, 19fi2 Pope John, already seriously ill, formally closes the first session of the Council. June 3, 1963 Pone John dies. June 22, 1963 Pope Paul VI announces the dav after his election that his Pontificate will be "concerned with the contin uation of the Ecumenical Coun cil Vatican II." June 27, 1963 Pope Paul postpones the opening date of me second session to seDt. 29 because of the delay in prepara tions caused by Pope John's ill ness and death. rnnclifniiAnal VVSIIJIIIUIIVIIUl Pnmmkcinn Tn wvimiiujivii iv Seek Initiative PORTLAND (UPI) - Oreeon Constitutional Revision Commis sion leaders have decided to try io pui a revised state constitu tion on the ballot by initiative petition. Members of the original com mission have been invited to participate in a meeting, prob ably early in October, to plan the campaign. The invitations were siened hy former governors Charles A. Sprague and Robert Holmes, co chairmen of the Citizens Com mittee ior ujnsutmionai tie-vision. in auumuii iu tuillllMSSlun memoers, invitations went to rucnara Jones at Heed college, a former member of the com mission, and Rep. John Dellen- back (R-Medfnrd) chairman of the House Committee on Consti tutional Revision. Opinion Divided Sprague said his group plan ned tn file a preliminary peti tion for an . initiative, which would orjen the wav for the Ore gon Supreme Court to decide whether a complete constitu tion may be placed on the bal lot by initiative petition. Legal opinion has been diveded on the subject. Sprague also said his group planned to use the House ver sion of the constitution as its basic document. It contains some differences from the document originally submitted to the leg islature by the Constitutional Revision Commission. Cream-O-Crop AA LARGE EGGS 2 doz. 89 All-Purpose cooking and baking. ruiAiueo BETTY CROCKER Rice Milanese ,0f rA, Rice Provence s-,.,tl, Rice Valenciana u ... Pk, Help Your Family DISCOVER AMERICA Start your set now. Golden Book History ot Ihe United Stales. 49c 49c 63c IY1ARBLEHEAD The perfect baking squash. Per Pound 2V: 2 c Yellow Onions 3 ""19c Principals Schedule Meeting in Corvallis CORVALLIS - Principals of Oregon junior and senior high schools will hold their 35th an nual fall conference Oct. 7 and R at Oregon State university. About 350 are expected to at tend. Theme will be "Education for the Non-College Student." Topics to be discussed will Include employment opportuni ties for high school graduates, the place of the high school in job placement, technical train ing and apprenticeships, im provement of small schools, promising practices in prepara tion of non-college students for work, guidance and counseling nrnorflmH. anri what business ex pects of high school graduates. Howard F. Horner, David Douglas High school, Portland, is president this year ot the School Principals. Main speakers will include Ray Zicgler, Oregon bureau of labor, Salem; Paul F. Ehinger, general manager. Hines Lumber company, Westfir; and Dr. Frank Bennett, president of Eastern Oregon college. Grand for slaw. Cabbage Crisp Lettuce ST Seedless Raisins Lunch Box Favorite. I'ioi. Rutabagas or Turnips ib 5c 2 for 29c 12'f 49c 3" 25c Carrots Jonathan Apples XS" $1 voV 49c Vo 4 00c now en sals Drenched Currency Dried Automatically PRESTON, Minn. (UPI) -Money problems are nolhing new except perhaps one faced recently by a bank in this southeastern Minnesota com munity. W. A. Garratt, president of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Preston, and his wife were playing bridge one recent rainy Sunday evening. The game was interrupted when the bank's burglar alarm went off. Garratt rushed to the bank. Ho found not a burslar. but more than $2,000 in drenched currency. The bank's roof drain had clogged during the heavy downpour, causing water lo pour down the tuhe of the alarm system and into the vault, flooding a tray of $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills. Moisture had also set off the alarm. Concerned the money would mildew, bank officials started hand-drying the bills. An ob server of this tedious proress. was John Buche, appliance dealer in Preston. Ho had the dripping bills taken to his store. They were placed In one ot his electronic control clothes dryers and dried automatically in three loads, taking a little over an hour. VAST CAVK BELGRADE (UPI) -Tourists who visit Yugoslavia's cave of Postumia, largest of Europe, are transported through illumi nated tunnels aboard a minia ture railway. The vast cave con tains stream called the Pivkt river, lirr-foot ,motmtllla, and a 10,000-scat concert hall. 1.0)