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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1952)
PAGE SIXTEEN THURSDAY, APRIL S. 1RB2 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Merchants Meet With Tax Experts On Issue Of Stock Inventories condition, and the personal proper ty angle la Just one part of It. Itep. Sm QalhoiwA People DO TOO Ed Oeary, member of the Legisla ture, said he believed the next ses sion' of the Legislature will have a measure before It making i com plete revision In the state's tax setup. MIRRORS fur tny ram In lh hm1 HAT K. Uin read small space ,jl ads - you are! T : YWW 1W LOOKING OVER THE SCORE for the second annual Church Choir Festival are Andrew Loney, director of music edication in city schools (left), and Rev. Irvin Tweet, director. - The program, which will include both church and high school choirs, will be presented April 6 at four o'clock in Pelican Court. Church Choir Festival To Be Held Here On April 6 Rehearsals are well under way for the second annual Church Choir Festival which Is to be presented by massed church and high school choruses on April 6 at 4:00 pjn. at Pelican Court. A fine program of beautiful sacred music has been planned by Chairman Rev. Irvin Tweet, and will be presented under the baton of Andrew Loney of KUHS. Much Interest has been expressed Brosterhous Wins Contract ' Brosterhous Construction Co., Klamath Falls, was low bidder and has been awarded a contract to build a six classroom addition to Eacred Heart Academy. The com pany's bid total was $86,194. Second bidder was Bill Duncan, Klamath Falls, who bid $86,388. Other bidders included Pinniger and Watkins $87,580; Leo N. Huls, $87,412; Riverman and Sons, Port land. $90,970;. R. E. Meade Co., Grants Pass. $91,520: Ernest J. Hepp. Medford, $94,686; Howard Burkhard, Klamath Falls, $95,300; and N. K. Porter, Grants Pass. $112,217. Brosterhous set his completion date for the job as Aug. 31. Dun can, Just behind in bidding, had set bis completion date at Sept. 2. The job will add 8600 square feet of floor space to Sacred Heart, and will join the present school building at the south end. Architect Howard B, Perrln pointed out the bids were at the extremely low rate- of about $10 per square foot. In this annual community event and it is hoped the public will overllow Pelican Court as it did last year at this event, when Noble Cain di rected. This year the Klamath Mu sical Arts Council, sponsor of the event, has availed itself of the fine musical leadership of Andrew Loney. Mr. Loney 's contribution lo music in this community is great indeed, and the Council is proud to be able to plan such an extensive program making use only of local talent. The huge chorus will be made up in part by choirs from the First Presbyterian Church, the First Methodist Church, the Peace Mem orial Presbyterian Church and joint choirs from the Zion Luth eran, Klamath Lutheran and Hope Lutheran Churches as well as choirs from KUHS. The program will in clude numbers by the massed choruses as well as solos by the individual choirs. , This program is free to the pub lic, and everyone is invited to attend. Klamath County isn't the only slon. A Tax Commission spot check place where people are in dutch over personal property tax assess ments, members oi tne luamnin Merchants Association were told Inst night bv Robert MacLean, member of Uie stato Tax Commls- Mendez To Play Here In Philadelphia the other day. Andrew Loney Jr., city schools music director, saw graphic evi dence of the artistry of Raf a e 1 Mendez. (Mendes, a world famed truinneter. is to auuear In concert here tomorrow night with the Klnm ath Union High scnooi a cappeua choir and concert band). Loney, in Philadelphia to attend a national music conference, was backstage at a rehearsal of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Mendez, who had been in New York for an appearance on Red Skelton's TV show, paid the Phila delphia Symphony a surprise visit. Loney said the symphony's brass section "almost mobbed Mendez." "They carried on like the bobby soxers used to do when Frank Si natra came around." said Loney. "They pumped MendeE' hands and pounded him on the back. I heard several of the orchestra men say Mendez was undoubtedly the great est brass soloist of all times." Mendez' appearance here tomor row night will be the first such concert he has ever offered. The noted trumpeter, who has appeared in many of the world's leading con cert halls, agreed to come here when approached by Loney through a mutual friend. The concert tomorrow night is a benefit with proceeds to go toward buving new KUHS band uniforms. The concert is at the Pelican Theater, 8 p.m., tomorrow. Recreation Plans To Be In Effect PORTLAND Wl Recreational plans for three Columbia Basin reservoirs will be put into writing at an April 17 meeting in Seattle. Federal and state officials will conferthenonthe Long Lake. Potholes and Scooteney reservoirs. Neal Butterfield, who headed the recreation survey for the National Park Service, said he had recom mended that the three be adminis tered by the Washington State Park Service. DANCE RED BARN DORRIS EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT with LES GARDNER and his WESTERN SWING BAND Dancing 10-2 Admission 1.00 Inc. Tax Doing without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl in the dark ... . . . you may know what you're doing but nobody else does! Ph. 81 1 1 for Illustrations, Copy Writing, Layout in every county showed Unit a hlKh percentage of Oregon businessmen are prone to undervalue their mer chandise inventories for tax pur poses. But. said MacLean. the Tax Com mission is trying to put a stop to the practice. Several weeks aso the Commis sion made a quick check of the books of 37 firms here, compared them with the personal property in ventory reports made to the county Assessor by those lirms, and found that 24 our of the 37 were lower than what tliev probably should have been. The same type check was mado In 10 counties at that time and the results in all were about the same. Now, MacLean said, all of Orenon's 38 counties have been checked on tne same basis and the tendency lo undcrvaluate was uncovered everywhere. McLean said It is his oulnlon that at least $100.01)0,000 worth of merchandise on the shelves of busi nesses in Oregon was not reported for taxation. A complete re-chock of all per sonal property returns on merchan dise has been ordered here, and a deputy from the Assessor's office has been directed to visit each business place in the county for a personal look-see. The undervaluation of stock-in- trade for tax purposes has been going on for years. MacLean said. An "honor system" for reporting personal property was instituted in Oregon in 1941 and up until now there has been very little investi gation to see how 1; works. Under the system the mjrehant reports a figure that is supposed to repre sent the "true cash value" of his inventory as of Jbii. 1 each year, and his assessment and eventually his tax is figured from that. Since the war, MacLean said, while real estate values have been rising steadily, the nsscsscd valua tions for taxing real property have been remaining about what they were in 1941. Merchants, whoever, are expected to report every year their rising values and have been taxed on higher assessed values, so they be?an to get the Idea that they were paying more than their fair share of the property taxes. To remedy that, MacLean said, it is evident a good many mer chants were taking matters into their own hands, trying to regu late the amount of tax they have to pay by Juggling the amount of inventory reported. It's been going on for years, the Tax Commlsslonor said, and Is so widespread that It's comparable to prohibition days any thought of prosecution is out of the question. But, he declared, the Tax Com mission la going to Insist on 100 per cent truo returns tills year and here on out. Here In Klamath County the spot check showed returns reporting the "true cash value" of inventories down as low as 6 per cent of what the Tax Commission figured II should be. and also showed some disproportionately high. One mer chant turned In 118 per cent report, way aoove wnal ne should nave. But the average was about 57 per cent. Last night s meeting was conduct ed by Carl Sparks. Merchants As sociation president, and Charlie Muck, head of tho association s tax committee, but most of the talking and explaining fell to MacLean. A few Questions on procedures were directed to Otis Mctskcr, County Assessor. Most of the merchants attending the session seemed to feel there was some differential or discrimin ation in the way their property was being assessed compared with other types of personal property such as livestock, farm and Indus trial equipment and the like. inequities ao exist, aicukct hiiu MacLean said, but as fast as pos sible all property Is being assessed to try to Ret everyimng taxea on the same basis. The tax situation in Oregon. aloe Lean said, has gotten Into a chaotic BASKET SOCIAL square" DANCE Peterson's Hall So. 6th Saturday - April 5th 9 P.M. 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