aiti*» GATE CITY JOÜBNAL, THURSDAY, MAftCH 1U, 1932. -g*-* n i J - a " I after a reasonable tax has been levied of the fact that'the'publlc la becoming is to secure the greatest possible value Interested In the tax load of Malheur and service for every tax dollar placed County and that It Is only a question of time when the public will speak with ' In Its hands. I In their flrrt duty the vatloue taxing one voice and demand that taxes cot*: bcdtes have gone astray. The ¿mall re­ down to where property can pay. ductions of course will help some but MALHEUR COUNTY TAXPAYERS W. F. AND ALMA McLINO. Publisher* the economic conditions demand far LEAGUE W. 8. Brown, Owner greater reductions. This Is offered as ■ constructive crltlclslm and the tax Subscription, Y ear......................... $1.50 league accepts the small reductions as NYSSA LIBRARY HOURS Subscrpltlon, 6 Months ..... .............. 75c ¡evidence that our boards who control public expenditures are not thoroughly Entered at the Post Office at Nyssa, Oregon, as Second Class Mattar Town patrons, 2:30 to 5:30. MALHEUR CUTS 20 PER CENT FROM 1931 TAXES convinced that we are spending beyond (Tax League News Letter) property’s ability to pay. Andrew Graham’s 1932 taxs ummary shows $559,440 Out of town patrona. 2:30 to 7:30. The tax league, however, is conscious The following is an extract from a SPORTSMEN GET TOGETHER levied on property in Malheur County, 201/2 Per cen* under letter of Governor Meier to Leslie Scott, The visit of a group of Ontario and Vale men in Nyssa the 1931 levy for county and local purposes and 20 per president of Oregon Taxpayer’s Equal­ last Friday night was for the purpose of organizing a coun­ cent under the six-year high plateau of 1926-31. The 1932 ization and Conservation league. reasonable plan expressed ty game league. J. A. Davenport, first friend of wild life, taxes are the lowest for any year of the last ten years. This in “The a resolution adopted at the meeting Go to Mike’s for the Best substantial cut for 1932 is in sharp contrast with preced­ when then friend of all Malheur county, was the leading spirit. the Oregon Taxpayers' Equaliza­ ing years, and represents the Leslie Scott idea of a 20 per He can visualize a great, active body of sportsmen with tion and Conservation League, organ­ FOUNTAIN SERVICE members in Vale, Ontario and Nyssa. He knows that the cent reduction, as set forth at the Meier local tax meeting ized at Salem in July, 1931, to the effect that property taxes for 1932 should be voice of the multitude is stronger than that of a few. He in Salem last July. reduced below those of 1931 by approx- Ice Cream, Soft Drinks M alheur For Ten Year» feels that organization is as important in the fight for con­ imateyl 20 per cent, has been accom­ Tax Levies f or County and Local Purposes plished only in part. Several counties, servation and growth of game resources as in farm market­ and districts, responding ing. He dreams of good fishing at Owyhee Dam and on the 1923 ............................................ :........................... $624,829 Municipalities to that suggestion, have reported re­ We offer you the best in Candies—they are dir­ North Fork of the Malheur, in a day ahead when these res­ 1924 ............................................................... 679,771 ductions which substantially equal, and ect from the factory and always fresh stock. 1925 .............................................................. 635,277 in a few cases exceed, this percentage: ervoirs will form great inland lakes. the tax levying bodies and units Another friend of the proposed organization is Curtis 1926 .................................. ................................... 683,148 but which have fallen far short of the 20 , 1927 ....................................................................... 694,787 per cent standard are numerous and It >1928 ......................................................................... 715,182 now seems probable that the average 1929 ............................................................. „....... 697,182 reduction of property taxes in Oregon for 1932, as compared with 1931, will 1930 ............................................................... 684,823 not exceed 15 per cent. When cog­ Mike Dragich, Prop. 1931 ............................................................... 704,707 nizance is taken of the fact that the 1932 .................................................................... . . 559,540 elimination of the state tax for 1932. of Nyssa Oregon itself, reduces the total property tax Assessor C. W. Loggan of Harney County reports load by about 9 per cent from that of The Food for Everybody $287,253 as the 1932 levy on property. This is 18 per cent 1931, It appears that the average tax reductions effected In nearly 2800 local under the 1931 levy for county and local purposes. The Are you using the right amount of milk to insure taxing units of the state will probably levy is still high, representing the momentum of the saw­ a healthy diet for your family? About one quart be close to 6 per cent. mill boom. of milk for each child and a pint for each grown­ “Oregon Taxpayers are now con­ up each day is desirable. fronted with the hard fact th at if prop­ erty taxes generally are to be reduced OUR GREATEST BAND LEADER DIES There is No Substitute for Shelton Milk and held within amounts reasonably America’s beloved band leader John Phillip Sousa died representative of ability to survive In Saturday night after a rehearsal, no doubt as he desired to the ownership of their respective prop­ more effective methods must be bid his great audience adieu. For more than forty years he erties, provided by law to limit and control tax was the great march king and one melody alone, “Stars levies and expenditures, not only of the NYSSA, OREGON and Stripes Forever,” will make him famous through the state itself but also of the counties, and of all municipalities and local districts ages. Will wash and iron your pretty linens and your to which the taxing power, inherent in Sousa joined the marine corps as a musician when the state, has been or may be delegated. crisp frocks with equal care. Finish is just right only 13 years old, his father getting him into the service to Regardless of how the taxing power keep him from joining a circus band. He has made many may be distributed or apportioned to and prices are low. units of government, the indis­ trips over the country of late years and many people had local putable fact remains that it* is a single the pleasure of seeing him in various concert appearances. power residing in all the people of the We’ll call for your bundle and deliver—any time Sousa died in Reading, Pa., a few hours after the 77- state as a body politic. Whenever that power is abused by a local unit to or place. year-old conductor had directed a rehearsal of a local which it has been in part delegated, all band. He attended a banquet given in his honor, retired to taxpayers and citizens are injuriously his room, and was found shortly after by his secretary, affected and have the right to demand that the abuse shall cease or be reduced — AND— stricken by a heart attack which snuffed out his life. to the lowest possible minimum." They took his body to Washington—home. He was bom The first duty of the taxing boards is Phone 36F2 there. He will be buried today at Congressional cemetery the protection of the property within their districts. Under no possible condi­ T. R. Pash ley, Prop. with such honors and ceremonies as his family accepted. tions can a tax that consficates prop­ erty justify itself. The second duty of the taxing boards PLANT A TREE THE GATE CiïY JOURNAL Townsend, county game warden. Why not get together? There are comparatively fewj | men in any of the three county town«* who* would give | their time to such an organization. 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