Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, October 22, 1957, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextHERALD AND NEWS, KIAMATH FALLS, OREGON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1957 PAGE SIX FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor Mormon louiilrv By BILL JENKINS For some odd and unknown rea son, the country from Suit Lake City clear on out to the desert again reminds me strongly of the Willamette Valley. 1 don't know why unless it be that the vege tation seems to be much the same, and almost all the homes are banked wilh Iloweis and surround ed with green lawns. Of course the day that we hap pened to make that drive, low hanging clouds had all but ob scured the jagged peaks which loom up over the valley. We caught only occasional glimpses of the feet of these raw giants. The country is built up practically sol id all the way from Salt Lake as you go on out through Murray, which may or may not be the end of Slate Street, Midvale. Iliv erton, Lchi. American Fork, Orem and on to Frovo. Lush fields where they grow a sprinkling of everything lie on both sides of the wide, well-constructed, well-lighted highway. 1 can not speak as flatteringly of Utah drivers. They are apparently a race of born lane changers, horn honkers and hurricrs. If our ex perience is any guide, you take your life in your hands once you venture out on the highways and byways. Provo is a miniature Pittsburgh a thundering big steel mill there along with other assorted heavy industries oddly enough plumped down in the middle or this ngrlcul tural community. The towns, both large and small, show the solid influence of good building. A large proportion of the houses are of brick construction and give the impression of being built lo last indefinitely. Again they have an almost Dutchlike look of neatness and cleanliness. One thing that we noticed in par ticular was the absence of "for sale" signs. I don't remember see ing a single one on a residence, and only one or two on businesses. Afler leaving Maplelon and Span ish Fork, you head for Thistle, clear out on the desert on High way 51). The transformation from the carefully nurtured valley to the desert is made through a cleft in the hills down which ripples Diamond Creek. This seems to have been a day's journey of many impressions, but in the Dia mond Creek Canyon you get a strong flavor of New England. Here the hills had been painted with fall's brush into flaming col ors against the stark purple back ground of climbing canyon walls, leafless trees and flaming brush which reminds you of the sumac and han wood hills of Maine. The fact that we were in the desert was made increasingly plain by the fact that it was bright and clear despile a driv ing rain for some 20 miles. From Thistle, still on Highway 50, you climb lo Soldier Summit better than 6.000 feet up, and then drop down through a long, winding canyon that sees you clinging precariously to the side of the starkly carved cliffs with below you the smoke from coal mines, of all things. The little towns along the way all have the huddled look of faraway wnypoinls. As they say in all the travel books, the natives were friendly. First major town on this south easterly trek was Price, which is really an up and coming town. Price enjoys, like Klamath Falls, the distinction of being a trade center for a large area. In our case. Southeastern Oregon and Northern California, in the case of Price, both central and south eastern Utah. The town is obviously growing, the business section Idled with new buildings or structures in the process of going up. wide, wide streets jammed wilh late model cars and a general air of pros perity. This may become even more pronounced due to the fact that uranium and natural gas de posits have been uncovered recent ly in the area. Anyone who is wont lo consider Utah as a barren wasteland in habited hy only a few struggling citizens had better take the drive from Price to Moab that we did It must have been well after s o'clock in the alternoon when we got away Irom Price with better than 125 miles to go. Darkness caught us on the des ert long belore we got to Green river. From there on in it was a long. dull, pounding, eyc-hlind-ing journey into a stream ot on coming ore trucks, buses, oil tankers and automobiles. A strange road full ot dips precluded any possibility of passing, so we In.ited along, protecting our vision as well, as we could. It may be a slight exaggeration, but it seemed lo me that the traf fic in this supposedly remote sec ! tion of a faraway state was tar heavier than that on the It.ildock Freeway. But at last Moab. our destination, loomed up, the lights glittering brightly out beyond the eerie security lights of the hie, uranium reduction plant situated on tile banks of I lie Colorado Itn- Jitv Talk By JOSEPHINK KlTTRKDliK I have just returned to Klam ath County after a 10-day trip around the counties ol Orccmi The same anxiousncss and fius- Entered u second claw mailer at Uie post office at KUmath Pails, Ore., on August JO. 1906, under act ot Congress, March a, 1819 SERVICES: rUSSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California ' itr.it ion in regard lo the confused land politically embroiled Oregon !tax situation exists in every town, organization and county I have visited. Each individual, no mat- Uer what his occupation, taxi driv-! jer, businessman, mill worker, the; ! maids in my hotel ... all talk uuuui idAi-s. ! The hope of all of them is that the special session of the Oregon I . Legislature called lor October 28 1 j will have one thought in mind, !"T-It Day." That, is something ; I have named "Tax Reduction Day." I 1 he floor maids, in the Portland hotel came to me a couple of i Idays ago. The hotel housekeeper 0e.ZrlshC?nHSk,ddi dn-ss, and "Hd m? IhSt thw ! !w"nted to be anon tlio first to ! help' with any Tort J ird "lair tax program for Oregon.' movement. They hoped this scs sion of the Legislature would re- duce their taxes and especially. 'urn anything like 5a millions to; than was necessary. These figures cut the withholding tax they are'1 taxpayers would cripple the showed the $69,605,650 surplus lor now paying: if the special session j la5'J Legislature and make it im-' next year. proved lo be a piecemeal attempt possible lo provide such tilings as The governor and his advisers to reclily past wrongs they:new s,a,c institutions and college , promptly decided that some of it would be among the first to help "Uildings. He says that if the Re-(should be returned, put an initiative measure on the 1 publican program is approved, the Then Hie Republicans, complain November 19.58 ballot that would st'ssion would be forced to in-1 ing that Holmes didn't go far be an overall review of the Ore-' urease taxes in order to provide enough came out for a whopping gon lax system. essential state services. I reduction. I had not solicited the help of: The Illness of Sen. R. F. Chap- Both parties hope to be able to these fine women, it was volun - leered. A group of Ilillsboro cit izens met with me to begin the organization ol a Nonpartisan Tax League such as Klamath County now has. The citizens' taxpayer as sociation plan is taking huld in many of llie counties of this stale. It is a soil of "do-it-yourself" kit for taxpayers, and as such will provide llie basic information and understandable material so in lormed people can make decisions based on what they know, rather than "what they fear," as has been done in '.he past. The rec ommendations by resolution of the Klamath County Nonpartisan Tax League, on various state tax prob lems and their possible solutions. have been adopted and commented on favorably by organizations and newspapers in other areas or Ore gon. The Umatilla County Develop ment Commission has asked Gov. Robert D. Holmes to have a study made of llie lax structure of Ore gon by an "independent, nonparti san, prolessional research organi zation": and that such a study not be made by "a slate department, or the recent ly created Oregon Planning and Development Com mission or any legislative com mittee. The Clatskanic Chief, in an ed itorial on September 13, also :isked for the same type of ob jective study. The purpose of such a study would be to make a de termination as lo Oregon's com petitive place Tor jobs, markets, and industries with the other 10 Western states. The recommendation of the Klamalh County Nonpartisan Tax League that the special session was first ol all. "unwise and un necessary." and second that the surplus be retained intact until further study could be given the proper method of lax reduction, withholding tux reduction, the problem of basic school support, has also met with a great deal of editorial and popular support. This recommendation was made by the board ol directors of the league, which is composed of nine basic economic groups or categories. The use of the term "tax re duction." or "cash (or Christmas," In connection with the special ses sion makes for wishful thinking on the pari of all of us. par ticularly those who are out of work and have contributed to this so called surplus in income tax or withholding tax earnings. How ever, the first thing to realize is that the emergency clauso (which can be attached to any bill, but one involving taxation, and which permits such legislation to become law the minute it is signed by the governor i, will not apply on any lax measure and it will he a minimum of W days afler the governor's signature is on any lax bill before such a bill be comes law in Oregon. This means that if a lax reduction bill is passed, it will be at least the first Pogo lTEd&s I 17 lHCOMIN'WOrrgS$ J MS OU3HTTOG6TN r ON IT" - , woBtP. rfdw V attentat ess 1 of February before it can be come ellective. So . . . budget just the same for Christinas. if if lf ",-v "S1' By PAUL W. HAKVEY Jit. SALEM, 'ifi The inter-parly suable- in me R'Kisiaiive spetitii i regular income iux. session, which opens a week from! Hhen lne Democrats won control Monday, involves 42 million dollars. ;o( U)e sl.,l0 government in l'J5B. With an estimated general fund ! many political observers felt that surplus of $M).60.5,6oO as ol next : the surtax was a major factor in June 30, Gov. Holmes and his fel- the Kepublican defeat. low Democrats want to reduce lax-1 The Democratic 11)57 Legislature es about 17 million dollars in the slightly increased the income, tax. current biennium. 1 jn t.flect, it increased the surtax The Republicans want to cut tax-1 to 51 per' cent. cs by 59 millions. But it incorporated the surtax publicans argue that most of ! into the reX rae sirucfure ano ,he "plu-which in .made nearly all of the tax pay lhc slatc's history should be able by withholding. . iv bfk JT? W But' the session ended' the ! ! dor lo keep the Democrats from spending it. Gov. Holmes contends that to re- jman, Coos County Democrat, in - jects an uncertain note. If tlie;tnV are me ones who tavor tax heart attack which struck Chair man Friday prevents his atten dance, it will leave the Republi cans in control of the Senate by a 15-14 nianiin. The onlv annarenl course open lo the Democrats would be for Chapman to resign followed by appointment of anoth er Democrat in his place. The governor's more modest lax reduction program probably will be approved by lhc House, where the Democrats have 30 to 24 control. But in the Senate split 15-15 be tween the two parlies it might be impossible for either plan to be passed. Consequently, it looks like the tax reduction may be some where between the two nlnns. The Republicans also want to re - peal the law under which the slate, whenever other revenues fall short. could levy a fi-mill slate property tax. Most Democrats, including the governor, want this law retained in case of emergency. Oregon hasn't had lo levy a stale property tax since 1940. Part of the governor's plan is to reduce property taxes by increas ing basic school aid to local dis tricts lo $105 per school census child per year. The 1957 Legisla ture increased it from $110 to $95. But the school people are slicking to their guns in demanding a $120 basic school lund apportionment, and they will demand that the leg islators approve it at the special session. The effect of the governor's plan would be lo cut mimeriv luxes about 3 per cent, and to reduce ! inconie taxes about 6 per cent Neither party has come forth yet with detailed proposals on how to achieve income tax reduction. That i is. they haven't decided which classes of taxpayers would get the most relief, Gov. Holmes, when he announced August 23 that the special session would be called, said the session would be limited to tax relief, lie has stuck by his guns, even in forming state departments that; they must not introduce bills oiiMon- nne replaces lorn .Monaghnn. oilier subjects. iMilwaukie. who was forced out Both parties have gone along wilh this single-purpose idea in t he hopes that the session might be finished in a couple of weeks. The lawmakers feel they already have donated enough time to the slate this year in their 12R-day regular session which was the longest in history. i The legislative leaders arc setting up the machinery so that nothing can be considered except tax re lief. However, there are demands lor consideration of other subjects. For instance, U.S. Sen. Richard L. Neu berger and some other Democrats want a state power commission created. Secretary of State Mark Hatfield wauls authorization to build a state motor vehicle building on the Cap itol mall. And the Oregon Farmers AtAvaa wgouawTTo OfMANIZE if SSDjf PL9k 4 A MOU4E OBfiAM Kt -s.V UK tSUBfctCMPTION RATES CARRIER 1 MONTH $ 1.60 MONTHS $ 9.00 J YEAR tll.00 MAIL I MONTH 1.60 6 MONTHS 7.50 1 YEAR $12.00 Union wants a new law to pre vent double taxation in some rural school districts. The special session will be an other chapter of a tax dispute that started in 1935. when the Republican-controlled Legislature passed a 45 per cent surtax on top of the tax commission came up with new estimates that showed that the l'Jo Legislature increased taxes more convince the voters next year that reduction and economy. When the session begins, the skid will be greased tor rapid action natey. legislative counsel. 1 the man who drafts the bills, says ! he lias received 40 requests for bills to be drawn up. All of them will be ready on the opening day, he says. Of these 40 requests, almost all of them are for tax relief. The remaining lew, he said, arc minor corrective bills. Apparently, the same officers will be running the show as dur ing the regular session. Tile Senate president will be Boyd R. Overhulse (D), Madias. He was a compromise candidate for t h e laLnaie icauersmp, ana is ine only j l"P Democrat who opposed the idea I"' having a special session, As far as can be determined, 'Pat Dooley (Di, Portland, will be l"c spcaner again Both Overhulse and Doolev are lawyers. The Senate membership will be the same. But in the House, there will he five new faces, while one member has changed his registra tion from Democratic to Republi can. The man who changed is Rep. Joe Rogers. Independence farmer. lie was chairman of llie House education Committee in the reeu- lar session, but often found himselt voting with the Republicans The new members are: Mrs. Herman II. Chindgren, Mo- lalla, who succeeds her late hus- ''and, who was dean of the Legis- latino. She is the only Republican among ine newcomers. Joseph S. Crepenti. Collage Grove. He replaces Richard Fv ann. .Mohawk, who resigned to become executive secretary of the tax commission Wayne Turner, St. Helens. He succeeds Robert R. Klemsen. St. Helens, who had to quit because tie moved out ol his district. iieuian Hand, iUiiwaukie, w journal clerk at the regular s e s- when the Supreme Court said that school teachers can't serve in the L,egisiaiure Clington P. Haicht Jr.. Baker He is the successor to Robert J Steward, Keating, who resigned to become state director of Agricul ture. By UNITED PRtSS NEW YORK Queen Elizabeth, preparing to leave for home after visiting America's largest city, "At the end of a wonderful jour ney i am very glad mat 1 have been able this time to see New York." MAEBASHI, Japan Army Spe cialist William S. Girard. wiicn asked by Judge Yuzo Kawachi it he didn't feel sorry for shooting and killing metal scavenger Mrs. Naka Sakai on an Army firing range Inst January: "I feel very sorry, sir. A R O A R D THE t'SS RON HOMME RICHARD - Vice Adm Wallace M. Beakley. on the readi ness of his U.S. Pacific Seventh Meet in the event of a war be tween Syria and Turkev: "We haven't been silling on our ditty- box. Readiness is our mission out here." ATLANTA Dekalb County So licitor Richard Bell, on why he ob tained a court injunction againsl the showing of the movie "Island In the Sun." which features inter racial romance and which was picketed by segregationists Sun day night: "Because it is a con troversial movie we thought it best to act before riots result." WASIIINGTON-Scn. A. S. Mike Monroney. in calling for cancella tion of a Defense Department or der trimming 10 per cent from military research and development funds: "It must be hard for an astrophysicist to penetrate the mysteries of the universe when he's trying to figure out how his student assistants can feed their families if their small research grants are eliminated." They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo r...MOVED O SECONDED WE )fvT0E, W HOWCUM? cAno QfiNipy By 4nk M . . i ouT 1 N HOCK FOK TEN sT3AYE!JsypJ I BY THE BOARD V $ IT fetnC Wtt1, M OF DIRECTORS ; -iLF MJ.ffeW WITHOUT BAT- , JW1IJ Jffi1En& $WkM& TING AN EYE- :3 BraSMP ' lg-8 FOR PUR-7 DEAD BODY! YA - 1 HEREBY f fl$Mj chase of eLUEPors WyouANDwr 7rViESie(V'' llWMflgj M POR WE SHIPPING I SHIPPING DEPt 91 rTL f'siJ 0EPr..6ENTLEMEN! i WILL HAVE US NO, JAyEjN Bur comes up !n GENTLEMEN!! BANKRUPT I some PiavuNE kXTif y7rP3 ,f ? ITEM IN THE rAJWOi' . U ; CATEGORY Mrf J, CALL THE W-f )lMh-Muff- RlOr SQUAD!! Mffl WrlmTtl Texes Storm Damage High AUSTIN. Tex. i.f September storms caused $6,572,700 damage in Texas, the state defense and disaster relief headquarters said yesterday. Heavy rains in the southeast Gulf coast area caused some two million dollars damage, including loss of much of the region's rice Exclusively Tower Theater Bldq. P.O. Bo. 596 Ph. TU 4-4025 Wl&t FINANCING I ... . 'frfo" t ! v ' - low Standard "'beefs up" cattJe to help meet West's growing food Lv--- .... . -m' ifir Standard plant food. han produced tuice as much beef from a tingle acre enouqn extra occf to tuppiy an accrage person for a tolid year. Who eats the most meat in the U.S.? You do surveys show Westerners top the nation in meat consumption. Now Standard helps ranchers satisfy that hearty appetite with chemically blended plant foods, so economical they can be used to turn unproductive foothills into profitable pasture-land. These new blends of essential plant-growth elements come from a $16 million Standard plant opened just a year ago. Grasslands they have enriched are now producing up to twice as much beef per acre. Farmers find them equally productive on many other crops. For you they promise tastier, more nutritious meals for every dollar you spend on food. Si STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA crop. 'causing $7,000 damage. Most of One tornado touched ground! the other storm damage occurred during the month, the report said, 'in west Texas. GEORGE ZUPAN, M.D. Announces The Opening of Offices for the Practice of General Medicines & Surgery ot 4036 South 6th Street PHONE TU 2-3998 plan ahtad lo serve you battar the" needs Progress In the West means . . . Producing 575,000 more tons of beef by 1967 to supply ourt growing population 1,000,000 torn 1957 7 ORTHO PL AyT FOODS are mnde and sold by Standard wholly owned subsidiary California Spray-Chemical Corporation. Man Loses Fight For Life ABILENE, Tex. W A gallant struggle for life ended quietly last night for Tommv Cooper, 24. He died of nephritis, last of many serious ailments he suffered. A diabetic from childhood and later A ictim of a heart attack. Cooper went blind in 1951. Despite tliis handicap he managed to grad uate from high school in 1052 and became an Eagle Scout a year later. His father, B. O. Cooper, is chief of police at Stamford, Tex. Voighr's Office Supply Says Do You Know? A firefly is NOT a fly! For Proof Read Next" Week's Adv. Last Week's Answer There Are Nor 48 States In The U.S. There ore only 44 states in the union. Mass., Penn., Va., and Ky. ore officially called common .veolth. 1 Webster's new In ternational Dictionary, 2nd edi tion, page 541. Do You Know Voight's ore fountain pen head quarters in the basin for Park er, Sheaffcr, Waterman and Is torbrook pens. VOIGHT'S OFFICE SUPPLY 629 Main TU 2-4408 1,575,000 tons 1967 Yt$Urn Stales IE"