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4—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, Feb. 2, 1967 I any tax structure changes in tended to shift the burden borne by property owners. tax problems are appearing The House Taxation Com to be almost as numerous as the legislators themselves. mittee is proposing some While the actual need for lo ideas to lessen costs and con cal tax cuts may still be a fusion in tax elections, such assuring adequate voter debatable issue for a few, the as turnouts and limiting and by Everett E. Cutter pressure exerted by some standardizing bond election Legislators here, respond 60,000 petition signers on last dates. But it is too early to year ’ s lVi per cent limitation ing to public demand for tell what compromise between property tax relief, are tack measure clearly is being felt. the Senate and House—and Sentiment in the Senate Gov. Tom McCall’s program— ling the problem as their first runs against new taxes of any might emerge. order of business. Some 85 tax-related bills kind unless a need is decidedly Letters concerning proper already have been Introduced proved. House members prob ty tax relief have been sur ably would agree that voters in the 1967 session, and pro prisingly scarce, some legisla posed solutions to Oregon’s should approve in advance tors say, perhaps because their constituents feel some thing definitely is being done. THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE But some lawmakers here are P. O. Box 348 Phone 897-2772 Mill City, Ore. 97360 questioning just how great Published at Mill City, Marion County, Ore. every Thursday the relief demand really is Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Postoffice at Mill back home, and just what their people might consider Cit, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. The Mill City Enterprise assumes no financial responsibility as alternatives for financing for errors in advertisements. It will, however, reprint local government. On the surface, Oregon’s without charge or cancel the charge for that portion of an advertisement which is in error if The Enterprise is at fault. property taxes do not appear An independent newspaper, dedicated to the development as frightening as those of other states. Residents of 20 of the timber industry and agriculture in this area. states now pay higher prop el ty taxes than Oregonians, NEWSPAPER who in 1964-65 paid $50.65 per v VSSX “ ’ $1,000 of personal income. 4 W^^-ASSOCIATION Oregon does rank third in AFFILIATE MEÌ personal income tax rates, but it is one of only eight Subscription Rates Marion-Linn Counties, per year ..................................... $3.50 states without a sales tax. In relation to neighboring Outside Marion-Linn Counties, per year ........................ $4.00 Outside Oregon, per year................................................... $4.50 states and the U. S. average, DON W. MOFFATT............................... Editor and Publisher Oregon’s property taxes would GOLDIE RAMBO............................... Society and News Editor appear to have held the line. LLOYD ROSE................................................. Machinist-Printer From 1958 to 1964-65, Oregon’s CORRESPONDENTS property taxes per capita Detroit-Idanha .......................... Joyce Dewhurst-Ginny Kniss grew 40.7 per cent, compared Gates............................................................ Mrs. Shirley Swaim to the national average of Mill City ................................................................... Rose Cree 45.9 per cent. Lyons -—-.......................... Eva Bressler All Oregon state and local Mehama....................................... Merle Teeters • Jean Roberts taxes during the same period M Salem "SV Scene |, bl,she s experienced an increase in effective rate of only 1.1 per cent, compared to the national increase of 2 per cent and increases of 2.1 per cent in Washington and 2.8 per cent in both Idaho and California. Still, there are solid argu ments to demonstrate that property taxes in Oregon have grown disproportionate- y large. First, it should be remembered that Oregon’s base was larger to begin with than those of our neighboring states. Then examine the growth of Oregon’s property taxes in relation to some other factors over the last few years. Ad valorem property taxes, ar taxes placed on value, in creased 94.7 per cent from '955 to 1965, after deducting iirect tax relief funds granted n recent years. In the same oeriod, property taxes as a percentage of personal income *rew 15.1 per cent. All state axes as a percentage of per enal income grew only 1.2 per cent. Obviously local taxes have grown out of proportion to state taxes, even with ever- increasing amounts of state aid to local school districts, and this is the problem the 1967 legislature seeks to rem edy. Proposals for property tax relief so far range from a state sales tax to a lottery, from a broader-based income tax to higher markups on liquor for school support revenue. What plan eventually gets to the people for a vote— and when—remains to be seen. Voters may be assured, however, as the percentage History (Continued from Page 1) short fund drive was held. The grounds were landscaped. The Santiam Memorial com munity hospital was dedicated on March 29, 1953, and Mrs. Louise Wilt, R.N., hospital superintendant, was com mended in the Portland Ore gonian for having given the best speech of the day, she having spoken for about 40 seconds. The doors were open for business. The hospital has more doors now than then, more windows, more beds, more employees, more equipment. There are new names on the staff rosters. It has survived the vagaries of a transient popu lation, the pressures of big city competition, the savagry of an October windstorm. The work of caring for and healing the sick continues steadily on, a truly perpetual motion, dawn-to-dusk, sun-to-sun, or rather midnight-to-midnight, as a hospital daily census is reckoned. It is an ever-present entity, a haven of reassurance, a living, breathing memorial to the dignity of man. of tax bills introduced this session soars right along with the recognition of problems, that inequities in Oregon’s tax structure are getting close scrutiny in the State House. NEED POSTER BOARD?— MILL CITY ENTERPRISE. DETROIT IDANHA Joyce Dewhurst-Ginny Kniss The American Legion Aux iliary of Idanha Wednesday had a pot luck luncheon and all proceeds were donated to the March of Dimes. The pot luck items were donated by the Auxiliary members. A to tal of $51 was realized. Detroit High lost a close game Friday night to Falls City 63-61. The winning point was made in the last 30se- conds. Detroit JV won 56-32. Gordon Brown had the typ ical fisherman’s luck while fishing last week on the Alsea. Nils Bittner of Consumer Power did his good deed for one of our four-footed friends last week. On the very top of a fir tree in Detroit, perched this small cat that had been there for three days, and Nils to the rescue, climbed up and brought the cat down and 10 feet from the ground, up went the cat and up went Nils. After the second attempt both reached the group safely. Hooray for Nils!!! Ray Sophy and Harold Champion left in the wee hours Sunday morning to drive to Hampton where they hunted jackrabbits. Don Lewis of Idanha was taken by Detroit ambulance Friday to Santiam Memorial where surgery was performed for a hernia. Sunday evening The Cedars of Detroit showed movies to publicize the fact that they will have a shuffleboard elim ination Friday, February 3 at 8 p. m. Prizes will be donated to the winners and all pro ceeds will go to the March of Dimes. John F. Zabinski, under sheriff of Marion County was a guest speaker in law en forcement at a special meet ing of the Detroit City Coun cil Wednesday evening. Dick Hunnicutt narrowly escaped serious injury when his loaded logging truck went out of control on highway 22 about three miles east of Idan ha Monday afternoon. The truck was extensively damag ed. Mr. Hunnicutt is a resi dent of Mill City and is em ployed by Benton Trucking Co. of Idanha. A meeting is scheduled in the Detroit School library on February 2 at 7:30 p. m. for the Deanha Pre-school Moth ers. Oregon Blue Book Contains Wealth of Interesting Data The Oregon Blue Book is off the press and available to any one who wishes to purchase it. This year as usual, it is filled with data pertinent to our state. It includes the names of our officials. It also gives a history of Oregon. It lists the cities and their zip codes, too. There is a copy on display at The Enterprise office for anyone who wishes to examine it. Subscribe to The Mill City Enterprise $3.50 Per Year Read it Every Week Automotive and Industrial Maintenance Diesel Engine Service Welding Shop or Field Dealer for Airco Welding Products Delco Batteries Factory Equipment Ignition Parta Hoover's Repair Jim and Veryl Hoover Phone 897-2911 MUI City Thinking of adding a room? Restaurants I’ You’ll enjoy eating at these Fine Salem Restaurants EDDIE’S Seafoods • Steaks - Chicken Open for Lunch 1130 a. m. 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