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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1963)
Withholding Tax Test Case Slated ALBANY il'PI' - A Lebanon dentist. Dr. Harold D. Roberts. 37, said he would begin a test case to determine whether he should have to pay withholding tax (or dental laboratory employ es in his office. Roberts was ordered to produce his books for the department of employment Thursday in concord ance with a subpoena that had been issued him. The department was trying to determine the amount of withhold ing tax should be paid. Roberts said the reason he has not withheld taxes is "the per sons working in the dental lab are self-employed." Dr. Don Eggerman, president of the Southern Willamette District Dental Society, said, "Dr. Roberts is using this as a test case and this organization has no sanction concerning the case." In circuit court Friday, Rob erts paid a $150 fine after being found guilty of contempt of court. Prior to Roberts' sentencing, Mrs. Carlotla Sorensen, assistant attor ney general for the department of employment, asked that Roberts supply his books for 1960-61. She said Roberts had a laboratory re port which he had failed to re port. Roberts said in court that he had offered the payroll informa tion to Gaylord Hibbs, the state officer examining, and he had re fused to take them. The issue is whether the girl Roberts is hiring is an independ ent contractor. The law is only two years old and according to one Albany den tist, it has never been tested in Oregon. State law requires that all em ployers pay withholding taxes on an employe. Republicans Rap Aid Plan WASHINGTON (UPI Repub licans in Congress are demand ing a shake-up of the Alliance for Progress aid program for Latin America. This became evident today in publication of a blistering attack against the administration's han dling of the program in the GOP Congressional Committee news letter. The lead article entitled "JFK's Alliance Needs New Look" charged that the program was headed toward failure "and could well pull with it the economies' and republican forms of govern ment of many of the nations it was supposed to help." It said 'the need for immediate and momentous change in alliance concepts and policies is considered by many to be vital to the free survival of the bulk of the West ern Hemisphere." The weekly Republican publica tion said a presidential study group, headed by Gen. Lucius Clay, has recommended that the United States aid only those countries which show some will ingness to help themselves. HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Monday, April 1. 1963 PAGE 3 ' takeoff TFX INNOVATIONS: V: "'tSs. Variable shape wings. . " '.jyV - First plane used by both Air Force and Navy. : At l : ( Carry crew of two and be heaviest fighter ever . Tr built (Navy 30 tons, AF 35 tons). TV Toke off from aircraft carrier deck or jungle - - sod strip. J ( """K Most expensive ($6 billion) single defense item tpm - ; t in peacetime history. j" Newi-Grophc NEW GENERATION FIGHTER Known now as the TFX (Tactical Fighter Experimental) and eventually to be called the F-lll when it rolls oft the production line in 1965, airplane shown in drawing above is unusual in a number of ways. Most outstanding characteristic will be its ability to change the shape of its wings: extended for high lift on take-off; partly retracted for cruising at moderate speed; and folded back like those of a diving bird of prey for high-speed flight. That high speed will be 1,650 miles an hour, both at high altitude and treetop level. The TFX, or F-lll, will be able to carry nuclear bombs anywhere in the world in one day with mid-air refueling. The TFX be came the center ef a controversy in Congress when Defense Department civilian chiefs overruled decisions of the military in awarding the huge contract. East German Commies Ban Books On Crimes Of Stalin Revised Constitution Preserves Tradition Of Strong Local Government, Tax Controls "A XKW CONSTITUTION FOR OREGON" (This Is the righth in a serin of articles about Hit revised Con stitution proposed by Ihe Oregon Constitution Revision Commis sion. The articles were written by Hans A. I.inde, professor of constitutional law at the I nker sily of Oregon and a member of the Commission.) In public discussion of the re vised Constitution, attention has naturally focused on the major branches of government described in the. preceding columns. Pro posals for change are news; deci sions against change are not. Yet familiar features continued from the present Oregon Constitution are among the most important in the revised Constitution. Oregon has a tradition of strong local government, of voter control over taxes, and of direct popular legislation. All are preserved in the revised Constitution. rOPl'LAR CONTROL The "Oregon Svstem" of t h e initiative and referral of legisla tion, which won Oregon national recognition 60 years ago, is changed only slightly in the re vised Constitution. The number of signatures needed on initiative and referendum petitions is now based on the votes cast in an elec- Florida's interior experiences more thunderstorms than any oth er place in tile United States. lion for Supreme Court justices. With a change in judicial elec tions, the vote for governor makes a better and more stable base, and the percentages of signatures needed were adjusted for this new base. To discourage unnecessary future efforts to "freeze" in the slimmed - down new constitution pel projects that could be placed in the statutes, initiative constitu tional amendments will require a somewhat higher number of sig natures. Provisions (or the recall of elected public officials are also continued. Fiscal needs are the greatest problem facing all state and local governments, and many people believe that legislators should squarely be given full responsi bility for tax laws. Nevertheless, the Constitutional Revision Com mission decided to continue t h c Oregon tradition unique in the nation by which tax laws can not be placed beyond the refer endum power of the people. This power places on Oregon voters a great responsibility for self-restraint, if the state is to avoid fis cal chaos. Likewise, the revised Constitu tion retains the "six per cent lim itation" on increases in local tax ation without special approval by the voters. Home rule for cities and for counties is continued from the present Constitution. A controversial issue w as the I earmarking of gasoline and re lated taxes for highway purposes, another principle originated in Oregon long ago. Earmarking of revenues for special purposes is generally undesirable, and the Commission first voted to move it to the statutes. But in the end the highway tax provision w as re instated in the revised Constitu tion. Provisions (or state control over beaches and water power, and for people's utility districts, were re tained. Thus, w hen it completed its task the Commission felt able to report that "the Revised Constitution does not deprive any political, economic or social group of any right, privilege or possible ad vantage which that group may have under the existing Constitu tion." STATUTORY MATERIAL One reason for constitutional re vision is the accumulation in the present Constitution of scores of sections and thousands of words that do not properly belong in a constitution but in statutory law. In part this lias been necessary localise of awkward limitations in the old Constitution. For in stance, each state bond issue or veterans' housinc loans, for college dormitories, for reforesta tionhas had to be spelled out in all its wordy details in a con stitutional amendment. In part, also. initiative constitutional amendments have been used to circumvent legislative responsibil ityas. for instance, by putting liquor-by the-drink into the Bill of Rights. In removing such material from the present Constitution into the Oregon Revised Statutes, the Commission did not undertake to pass on the wisdom or desirabilitv of the policies involved. It accom plished tills aspect of revision in a novel and ingenious manner. Article XIV of the revised Con stitution is a compilation of pres ent constitutional provisions that are to he continued as statutes. They include details of election laws, legislative procedures; the death penalty, liquor-by-the-glass all without substantive change. Upon adoption of the revised Con stitution they will automatically become statutes, without need of re-enactment. When these former constitutional sections have been codified in t h e Oregon Revised Statutes, Article XIV by its own terms ceases to be a part of the revised Constitution. As a result, Uie revised Consti tution has spared down the 22.000 words in the present 237 sections to a trim 127 sections of 9.6-14 words perhaps the shortest among the states. The revised Constitution deals with fundamen tals of government, and with the protection of basic individual rights and popular control over authority. (Next: Can Oregon adopt the revised Constitution?) PLAN YOUR CHILD'S EDUCATION Thru KciulUhlr'a Living Iiiurftm- John H. Houston 3 IN FRONT END and BRAKE PROBLEMS FEATURING Latest Modern Equipment Precision Alignment1 Bear Equipment Wheel Balancing Steering Service Shock Absorber Service Free Safety Check East Main Brake & Alignment Service TU 4-3337 - Nut Beacon Mobil Service E. Main & Wonllond BERLIN (UPIi East German Communists disclosed Saturday they have banned Russian books dealing with the crimes o( the Stalin era. The Communists said the books have not been published in East Germany and will not be pub licized there. They criticized East German! writers who have demanded that the anti-Stalin books be made available and accused them o( trying to disrupt the unity of the party. The censorship disclosure was contained in a speech released Saturday by Kurt Hager, East German Communist party cultur al boss. In a speech made March 25, to writers and artists, he de manded strict conformity with So viet Premier Nikita S. Khrush chev's policy opposing modernist tendencies in the arts. Like Khrushchev, Hager at tacked peaceful coexistence with the West in the field of ideology. But he went far beyond Khrush chev in attacking the Russian novels and poems that expose crimes committed by Stalin. He charged that some East German writers and artists con- Power Control Bill Opposed SALEM (UPll A bill which would establish a state power commission that could handle wholesale sales of electrical en ergy drew opposition Friday at a meeting of the House Commerce and Utilities Commission. Rep. Elmer McClure, D Mil waukie, principal sponsor of the measure, said it would help the state encourage industrial growth. 3 it John Y. Langins, Pacific Power and Light Company, term ed it "a poorly disguised attempt to achieve the elimination of in vestor owned utilities in Oregon." The committee took no action. Attempts to pass similar bills through previous legislative ses sions have failed. tinually try to bring about dis cussions of Stalin and ignore the 'great revolutionary traditions of our party." "Some demand that we publish all Soviet books that deal with the consequences of the personal ity cult" Hager said. He said the books would con tinue to be banned because "the enemy uses this literature for wild anti-Communist agitation. Youth Senafe Defeafs Death Penalty Measure SALEM UPH The Oregon Youth Senate today defeated a bill to abolish capital punishment in Oregon. The action came as the Kith Y.M.C.A. Youth Legislature went into House and Senate sessions to consider bills that were passed on by committees earlier in the day. Some 70 bills were introduced as the two-day student legislature opened Friday. Both houses this morning passed bills to release doctors, nurses and ambulance attendants from liability in administering first aid, and to give lax exemp tions to manufacturing plants un til they start manufacturing. The Senate passed bill to re quire certification of marriage counselors, to set up a committee to decide whether therapeutic abortions should be performed. The Senate passed a bill to give the state a uniform curfew of 9:30 on school nights and 10: 30 i on neither nights. It also passed a bill to require reexamination for every third re newal of a driver's license, and for every renewal after age 50. and rsm . Orrif "IS,''? 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