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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1971)
The license fee law does not become law until September 9, 1971. It is questionable if the Motor Vehicles Division would accept those requests before the effective date of the law. Three Linn County cities have passed resolutions levy ing a $5 tax and requestion the World Day of Peace— To my knowledge, there is no county court to levy a $5 tax. international holiday celebrat The Lebanon and Brownsville ed by all peoples on the same resolutions also claimed that day. Why not a World Day of an emergency existed and that I the laws were effective imme Peace? Our peace people seem to diately. Those resolutions could want nothing less than etern i not be effective immediately al peace; Mr. Nixon would because the state law enabling settle for a generation of peace. the resolutions was not in ef Why not strive for just one fect at the time the resolutions day of peace?—a non-religious, were passed. A judge ruled in non-political day agreed upon a similar case that for a reso by all nations as a yearly in lution to be valid it must not ternational holiday dedicated claim to be effective before to peace. One day of world e.nabling legislation becomes peace just might grow into effective. For these reasons it is doubtful if the Albany, Leb many. anon and Bronwsville resolu Edward L. Rada. tions levying a $5 license tax Mill City. has any effect as they were not justified under any law To the Editor: and claimed to be effective Earlier this year the legis- lature passed a bill, #1979 when they could not be. The Oregon Constitution re which enabled the counties to levy a $10 or $5 tax on ve serves the right of initiative hicles. The bill also permits1 and referendum to the people. cities within a county to re-| This means that if enough sig quest the county to levy a $5 natures are collected, the peo tax to go only to the cities, I ple can vote on laws passed The license tax law does not by the state legislature, and go into effect until September ' that new laws can be written and become effective if the »• In the process of doing re- majority of people vote for a rearch on the legality of the new law. It is our opinion that we license tax law, some interest should be allowed to vote on ing facts came to light. The city councils of Albany, all new taxes, and that the Lebanon and Brownsville have procedures for voting on new passed resolutions levying a taxes levied locally be clari $5 license fee. Many have fied. We are initiating a pe questioned if letting City tition for Linn County that Councils, in cities whose popu will give us a chance to vote lations are 60% of the popu on the action taken by the lation of people living in cities, Linn County Commissioners levy a tax on the whole coun in levying a $10 tax. We know that there is a ty violates the intent of the Oregon Constitution. This is a chance that we will get to form of taxation without re vote on the state law enabling presentation, in that non-city the county to levy the license residents would have no re tax. It is possible that the law presentatives on city councils will be voted for by a major ity of the people in the state. which were levying a tax. Many cities and counties in If this happened, Linn Coun the state have passed resolu ty could then levy this tax tions when no law was in ef again. Our Linn County peti fect authorizing them to do so. tion would still give us a chance to vote on a tax that could be levied in Linn Coun ty. Our purposes in initiating this petition are to give us in Linn County a chance to vote on this new tax, and help pre serve the right of citizens to initiate new laws and repeal laws which are not in the best interests of the majority. IAN L. TIMM Rt. 1, Box 325, Albany. MICHAEL E. CONLEY, It’s a new kind ef fruuranc* that 515 E. Grant, Lebanon. LYONS By Eva Breeder Mr. and Mrs. Chester Weage from Niles, Mich., were Thurs day afternoon visitors at the home of Mrs. Clyde Bressler. They are cousins of the late Clyde Bressler. George Laverty and Mrs. Virginia Johnson of Newport were Tuesday visitors at the home of their aunt, Mrs. Ethel Huffman. Mrs. Lula Jerkey from Wal la Walla, Wn, and Elaine Ros- nin of Milwaukie surprised Mr. and Mrs. Byron Shuck. The occasion honored the birthday anniversary of Mrs. Shuck. Mrs. Jerkey is a sis ter of the Shucks and Mrs. Ronsin a daughter of the Shucks. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Turn er, who have been living in the Methodist parsonage mov ed to Stayton this week. Congratulations are going to upon the birth of their first grandchild, Eric Scott, born Sunday, August 29, at a Salem hospital to their son-in-law Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Carter and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Griffith of Stayton. Pa ternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Bill Griffith, also of Stayton. Chris Rebmann resumed his duities as mail carrier out of the Lyons office Saturday. He replaces Jim Sullivan, who re signed July 24. Mrs. Leota Worden, substitute carrier, worked until Mr. Rebmann was transferred from Scio, fol lowing eight years of service. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Olm stead and four children from Auburn, Wn., spent the Labor Day weekend at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur Olmstead. Mrs. Rose Cox is doing as well as can be expected fol lowing open heart surgery Wednesday at a Portland hos pital. Mrs. William Martin of Rus tin, Calif., left Monday for her home after a visit at the Robert Carpenter home. Sandra Landers is now con valescing at home following surgery at a Salem hospital. Mr. and Mrs. William Odor of Downey, Calif., are staying at the Robert Carpenter home. assisting with the chores while 3—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, Sept 9, 1971 Mr. Carpenter is confined at a Salem hospital with a broken leg which happened in a log ging accident August 12. WEDDING STATIONERY (/H HEUOGRAVED* by the creators of The Flower Wedding Line (•ffriiog raving-not to bo confused with «ngmvtngj HEUOGBAV1NG is rich, raised lettering...with the luxurious distinction of fine craftsmanship —but costs about half as much as you*8 «apect. and b ready within a week. Many other styles from which to choose. Mill City Enterprise THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Phone 897-2772 Telephone 897-2772 117 N. W. Wall St. baa/Ww kavAaa^ thh/wn/vga/wg/vta/^4// Here's how we plan to keep the Hanaford valley green In September, this huge _• power plant in the Hanaford valley near Centralia, Washington, will begin generating much- needed elec tricity for our region. It will burn extremely low-sulphur coal from a nearby de|>osit. "fun insurance” covers things like you» camper or l->»t or water ekiia or—moat ot the many fun thing» you uee tor your loiauro or your holidaya. It’s w«U worth the email coat JERRY PITTAM Insurance Phone 897-2331 or 897-27.M Mill City Enterprise Long before actual coal operations began, agricultural experts were at work on plans for restoring the land once it had given up its coal. Studies of mail) kinds and hundreds of plantings were made on test plots. Front them, these sc icntisis developed long range land restoration plans. The pro gram somewhat resembles tree farming, because it makes use of natural growth cycles. Here’s how it works. Section by section, the overlying earth is scoojred off the thick coal seam. As each section is uncovered, the coal is dug out and burned in the power plant. NEED A TOW? the coal lias been I taken out of a given aiea. the exhausted mine pit will be refilled with dirt, \shes from the plant will help fill certain pits, and suggestions also have been made Io use them lor disposal of refuse fioni the- aie.i. AllState Motor Club Road Service Vern’s Shell Service We Give S & H Green Stamps Phone 897-2442 Mill City TV, Radio & Appliance Call Us Any Day For Service No Mileage Charge on Route Calls Between Stayton and Gates. ON OR OFF THE CABLE RCA VICTOR The Best TV for Cable or Fringe Areas. RCA WHIRLPOOL The Best Laundry Equipment “1 .POR>TERó;LAl .7^ -TV- Appliance — Radio SAIÆS — SERVICE 503 N. Third Ave. Stayton Ph. 769-2154 s an area has been covered over again, it w ill lie contoured and planted to suitable trees and grasses to make it once more harmonize with its surroundings. And that's the plan. A long dormant and little known coal deposit—one of the very few in the region—will be put to good public use prodm ing electric ity. And with this kind of forethought and care, the one-time coal land once again will VC< I<<HII< wildlife and blend into its surroundings, \fter all. the elec tricitv you use in sour home is IOOC.- clean. And we want to make sure the plants w hie h produce that elec trie ity arc good neighbors, too. Pacific Power Where iliev make the ele<trkilv that make* fhini's nicei for rveivbodv. ? ) ) ) Ì J J Ì j
