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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON 35 States Tap New Sources for Funds During This Year TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1963 NEW YORK (UPI) - Bond issue proposals got a mixed re ception from voters in last week's elections, but the unre lenting search by the states for funds in one form or another has fared well this year to date. A New York research group reports that 35 states have passed laws this year to get funds from new tax sources or to raise the return from exist ing taxes. The largest of the bond issue proposals in last Tuesday's elec tions, was the $750 million mat ter advanced by New Jersey of ficials who said the money was needed for a five-year construc tion program on highways, schools, and state institutions. It was defeated, although the administration of Gov. Richard J. Hughes in New Jersey had said that the alternative would be either a state income tax or a state sales tax. Indiana Tax Delayed To date this year, according to the Tax Review of Tax Foun dation, Inc., Indiana is the only state which has passed a gener al sales tax. The state legisla ture enacted laws for a two per cent retail sales and use tax, an individual income tax, and a corporate income tax. It origin ally was slated to go into effect July 1, but court action has delayed its application. This review said that tax measures passed by states alto gether were expected to turn up an additional $1,036 million for their treasuries. But 22 states rejected proposed tax increases, which would have turned an es timated $945 million out of the pockets of their citizens. , Most of the tax legislation passed to date in 1963, the re view said, has dealt with the six major fields tapped by the states traditionally. These are individual income; corporate net income; general sales and gross receipts; and excise taxes on tobacco prod ucts, alcoholic beverages and motor fuels. Tax Base Broadened Eight states broadened the base of their sales tax to cover areas previously ignored. Seven increased sales tax rates, and two states did both. Pennsylvania, in a move ex pected to add $103 million a year to state coffers, raised its selective sales tax rate from 4 to 5 per cent, highest of any state. North Dakota increased its rate from 2 to 2Vi per cent, and broadened the area in which it applies. Alabama and Maine raised their rates from three per cent to four; Missouri and New Mex ico from 2 to 3; Utah, from 2V4 to 3, with proceeds of the in crease allocated for six years to a state building program. Florida, expecting to gain $30 million from its move, broaden ed the tax base to include nearly everything except groceries and medicine. Wisconsin made its sales tax apply to a variety of items not previously taxed. Tex as, South Dakota, Washington and Tennessee were among the other states to widen the base. Italian President To Ask Crisis End ROME (UPI) - President An tonio Segni today was expected to ask Aldo Moro, secretary of the Christian Democratic party, to end Italy's cabinet crisis by forming a government. Moro has promised to brine the Socialists into his cabinet if agreement can be reached on terms. A center-left coalition between the Christian Demo crats and Socialists would give the government the parliamen tary strength it needs for stable rule. But there were difficulties from left and right for Moro, who has pushed lor such an at liance since last April's elec- tions left the Christian Demo crats short of a clear majority. ' The Communists have called a general strike Tuesday in the capital. There were fears it could lead to violence. The right wing of Moro's own party opposes any alliance with the Socialists unless the Social ists end their links with the Communists and this they have refused to do. Red Fir Log Ends Green-or-Dry Seasoned Oak and Laurel Standard Heating Oils Pres-to-logs Coal GOLD BOND STAMPS VALLEY FUEL CO. 11 W. McAndrews Rd. Tel. 773-1576 STANDARD , urATiur. nnc Mibnunv vim l German Lutenist To Present Program ASHLAND - Karl Wolfram, German lutenist and singer, will present a program Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. in Churchill audi torium on the Southern Oregon College campus. Wolfram will sing ancient songs from the medieval, ren aissance, baroque, and romantic periods, in German and occa sionally in Norwegian, Swedish, English, and old Spanish. He will accompany his songs with an instrument known as a theorbo, an instrument of high Rennaissance type made in 1916 by Terman Hauser in Munich. He also will accompany his songs with a lute made in 1551 by the famous lute maker Wen delinus Tieffen Brucker, of Pa dua, Italy. This instrument is made of ivory and once be longed to Frederik the Great of Prussia. Wolfram who has a repertoire of nearly 400 songs, has made several concert tours through England, France, Russia, Scan dinavia, and South America and is now on his second coast-to-coast tour of the United States. Townspeople are invited to at tend the concert without charge. GOLDWATER II Goldwater Makes Unusual Candidate In Minds of Professional Politicians Two Students To Appear in Book Two Medford college students at two different schools have been selected to appear in the 1963-64 edition of "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges." June Mary Davey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Davey, 2701 Lawrence Ave., is one of 23 seniors at Oregon College of Education, Monmouth, to be selected. Miss Davey is maiorinc in elementary education and is ac tive in the Student Oregon Edu cation Association. She is also a member of the women's serv ed honorary, Staff and Key, and of the scholastic fraternity, Sig ma Epsilon Pi. Dean Allen Goddard, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Goddard 507 King St., is one of 32 stu dents at Bob Jones University Greenville, S.C., to be selected. A senior in the School of Re ligion majoring in Bible, God dard is a member of Phi Kappa Pi literary society and has served as its president. A 5 Warrenton Man Dies in House Fire WARRENTON, Ore. (UPI) Warren Baldwin, 49, died early Sunday when fire broke out in the family home here. His wife, Signe, told foremen she was awakened by the smoke, but was unable to rouse her husband. She jumped thro-igh a bathroom window, suffering a cut foot, and fled to a neighboring home, from where she called the fire department. TROUBLESOME MINORITY NEW YORK (UPI)-A recent 11-city survey of teen-age driv ers and their motoring habits showed that 27 per cent of the 6.5 million high school drivers cause all of the age group's ac cidents. Union Carbide's consumer di vision, sponsor of the survey, also found that high school driv er education is a major force in preventing accidents. An es timated 60 per cent fewer acci dents were noted among those who had taken the course than among untrained teen-age drivers. MAY BE FIRST FAMILY Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz who may oppose President Kennedy in the 1964 Presidential elections, is pictured with his family in this recent photo. From left are daughter Joanne (Mrs. Thomas B. Rose); Gold- water; sons Barry Goldwater Jr. and Michael Goldwater; Mrs. Margaret Goldwater, and daughter Peggy Goldwater. . (UPI) ON THE HOUSE NEW YORK (UPI) - They squeeze the grapes and give away the juice in Portugal. A law in that country makes it compulsory for every hotel, inn, tavern and restaurant to serve, without extra charge, wine with every meal. 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Stephen Shadegg, in t sympathetic biography of Gold- water, says the odds were five to one against him. Arizona had not elected a Republican sena tor since 1920, and the voters' registration was heavily Demo cratic. Goldwater won by only 7,000 votes and frankly admits he probably was carried into of fice on the momentum of the landslide for Dwight D. Eisen hower. In 1958 Goldwater was re-elected by 35,000 votes. Meets First Setback His first political set-back oc curred at the Republican national convention in 1960 when he was looking longingly at the vice presidential nomina tion ("I would have to have marijuana in my veins to say I wouldn t accept it"). The con vention nominated Richard Nix on and Henry Cabot Lodge and drafted a liberal platform of which Goldwater bitterly disapproved. For a man whose home state could muster only five electoral votes, Goldwatcr's presidential potential looked unpromising, But he had one factor going for him his two terms as chair man of the senatorial campaign committee for the Republicans. This job took him all over the nation. He met the professional politicians and made speeches to the voters. He planted the seeds of the flowers that are blooming for him now the argument that Republicans cannot win if they are going to be a "me too" party with liberal platforms and candidates. Many Speech Offers Invitations for speeches began pouring into his office. Not all of them were from political or ganizations, for Goldwater is a Mason, a Shnner, an Elk, a Moose, a member of Sigma Chi, eastern Mar, Alianza, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Le gion and Woodmen of the World. He is not an orator in the sense that he utters ringing phrases and carries his listen ers to emotional peaks, but he is an effective speaker because he has a sense of humor, speaks out bluntly and gives the impression of sincerity. It is difficult to pin-point a date on which the Goldwater campaign ceased to be an in formal series of speeches ("just hedge-hopping around the country talking to people") and became a real drive for the nomination. April 8 of this year may be as good as any other date, for it was then that a young business Investment man from Dallas, Tex., named Pe ter O'Donnell, announced he was opening a national draft Goldwater headquarters here in Washington. He said he was doing it with out the advice or consent of rented office space on Connec ticut Avenue for $1,000 a month. O'Donnell spends part of his time here and part travel ling in behalf of the Goldwater candidacy. Advised To Run Sometime between now and the end of the year O'Donnell and members of his committee plan to call on Goldwater. They will tell him there is a grass roots demand that he run for the nomination. They will tell him about their estimate of how he would fare against President Kennedy in next year's election. That estimate is: California is doubtful. The following states are conceded by Kennedy New York, Pennsylvania, Massachu setts, Rhode Island, Connecti cut, New Jersey, West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Alaska, Hawaii, Michigan, Missouri-, Minnesota, Nevada and Oregon. Goldwater will win all the oth ers, including every state in the South. He will get 301 electoral votes and only 270 are needed to win. , I On the basis of that estimate the draft Goldwater committee will urge the senator to run. 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