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o THURSDAY, APRIL 13».1961 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON PAGE TWO THE GATE CITY JOURNAL TED M. BRAMMER. Editor and Publiihar SUBSCRIPTION RATES Single Copies 10c In Malheur County, Oregon, and Payette and Canyon Counties, Idaho. $3 50 1 Year ... NATION AL EDITORIAL $2.50 6 Months æûiSdtz Elsewhere in the USA: Per Year $4 00 6 Months ....... $2.50 Published every Thursday at Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon. Entered at the postoffice at Nyssa, Oregon, for transmission through the United States Mails, as a second class matter under the act of March 3, 1879. The Shoe Changed and the Foot Pinched Remember when all automobiles were shipped to lo cal dealers in railroad boxcars? We remember going to see them unloaded when we were much younger. Then came good state and federal highways across the nation and the trucking industry got the business away from the railroads. They devised carriers capable of hauling as many as four ordinary passenger cars. They offered the advantage of being able to load at the manufacturer’s door and deliver to the door of the dealer. Thus the railroads lost the business to the trucking in dustry. This condition lasted until the last year or so. But the railroads took a page from the truckers book and devised a plan to carry as many as 12 cars on triple decked flat cars and began getting the business back. This operation is called “piggybacking” and is also used to haul truck trailers which can be delivered rapidly to any point where the railroads run and the trailers can be hitched onto and moved to points off the railroad, at less cost than the trucks can do the same job. That’s where the “shoe began to pinch” and that’s when the trucking industry began to scream (led by the International Teamsters Union who furnish the drivers). They blithely ignore the welfare of the public and talk only of the truck drivers it will put out of business un less the national congress will pass a law curbing the power of the Interstate Commerce commission in letting the rails set these lower rates. They have also started hunting relief in the state legislatures by asking that the amounts paid to the states be lowered. Both houses of the Oregon legislature have listened to their plea and passed a bill to reduce their taxes an estimated $1 million. It is now in the hands of the governor for his action. No one seems to know what is a fair amount for these highway boxcars to pay. It has been assumed in the past that about one-third of the cost of construction and maintenance should fall on the heavy trucks, and Ore gon was collecting about this amount. However, exten sive tests are being carried on in Illinois at this time, by National Bureau of Standards and American Association of State Highway Officials, to determine what is a fair amount to be paid by light, medium, and heavy trucks, as well as passenger cars. The state highway commission wanted to wait until these tests were completed before having any change made in the present law but the legislature decided oth erwise. President Kennedy has proposed higher taxes for the mammoth trucks, saying they arc not paying their proportionate costs. He proposes this in preference to raising federal taxes to 4% cents per gallon to be paid by all vehicles. He based his statement on a Bureau of Public Roads report to congress last Jan. 16 which show ed that trucks with gross weight of 55,000 pounds and over were not paying their fair share of the costs. In the April issue of Teamster, the monthly magazine of the ITU, a spokesman for the union, Signey Zagri, warned that “Congress is being asked to hurry into a program of taxing the trucking industry before crucial reports and road tests, now under preparation, are com- fdeted.” (They didn’t appear before the Oregon legis- ature and ask them to wait until the tests nad been completed.) Quoting further from Zagri (same magazine, page 11) he says, “According to the Bureau of Public Roads, pas senger cars represented 83 percent of the vehicles and performed 82 percent of the travel in 1959; trucks and truck combinations accounted for 16 percent of the ve hicles and 17 percent of the travel; similar figures for buses were less than 1 percent. “On that simple principle of use, the trucks should absorb not over 17 percent of the increased costs at a maximum However, the trucks are already absorbing more than this by paying over one-third of all highway costs today.” He would have us believe it is so SIMPLE that we should charge only on a basis of miles traveled. A Wall Street Journal editorial said, “This enormous ly expensive road system is required not for the pleasure driver but industry; the highway roadbed for _____ truck hway is a ___________ transportation exactly as a rail line is for the railroads But the railroads have not only to build and maintain their own roadbeds, but in addition are taxed by every county, town and hamlet for the privilege’ of bringing freight and passengers into the community.” Let us hope Governor Hatfield vetoes this bill and no change is made up or down in Oregon’s charge of weight- mile taxes until it is determined what is fair for the heavy truck owners to pay. I HAVE PURCHASED THE ATKESON SHOP At 509 Main Street in Nyssa Yturri Sees Important Legislative Programs Incomplete for ® April 22 Adjournment; 1516 Bills Introduced Farewell Service For J. Peterson Scheduled Sunday By Sen. Anthony Yturri ♦tistics indicate that 45 bills have Spring has finally arrived in ’ been introduced on the subject Salem. The sun is shining bright- oi. agriculture; 100 have to do ly and this portends an earlier ad- wlth criminals and criminal law; journment of the legislature. A sorne 118 affect election proce- resolution fixing April 22 as the dares; and over 200 have to do final adjournment day has been Wlth education, prepared. I continue to predict j After the legislature ends its work. Governor Hatfield has by April 29 as the final day. The legislature has yet to com law 20 days in which to sign or plete action on important pro veto the measures which are grams. No final action has been passed in the closing days. It will taken upon taxation—reorganiza be a busy time for serious deli tion—basic school support—or re beration on his part. apportionment. However, some House Bill 1722 has passed out significant measures have been of the House Committee on Edu considered. cation and will soon be on the After the house of representa floor enroute to the senate. I had tives had squeaked through a bill this bill introduced in order to to prohibit the transfer of the eliminate the “double taxation” State Welfare commission to Sa that is now present in the Arock ■ lem, the senate, by a vote of 17 area where those living in Non- Elder John Kay Peterson to 12, also approved the measure. High School District 81A and A farewell testimonial for Elder It will no doubt be vetoed by the also in Union High School District governor. Political motives in No. 3 are required to pay taxes John Kay Peterson will be held spired the bill. Actually, it in in both districts for high schools. Sunday evening at 7:30 at Nyssa LDS Second ward. volved transfer of only the com This is caused by an overlap Elder Peterson, son of Mr. and mission, which is the policy mak ping of districts and imposes an ing staff. The county unit would inequitable hardship on those Mrs. Glen W. Peterson of route 2, remain in Portland and not a taxpayers. There are a few other Nyssa, will leave soon on a north single recipient would have been districts in the state wherein the central states mission for the affected. same situation exists. I appeared LDS church. The intention to transfer the before the house committee this Program will include prelude policy making body to Salem week and the bill received a “do i and postlude by Karen Bybee, would have meant greater and pass” recommendation by unani congregational hymns, invocation by Dale Peterson, talks by Bishop more direct control upon the com mous vote. mission. Since millions of dollars Senate Bill 427 would transfer D. Hubert Christensen and Far- __ ___________ of our state budget are devoted the tax collecting _____________ functions from rell Peterson. Also on the pro- to welfare, it seemed logical to the sheriffs to the county treasur- Sram w111 ** remarks by the hon- me that they subject their opera- I ers. We heard testimony on this oree’s parents and by Bishop tions to closer scrutiny. I voted j bill in the Senate Taxation com- Howard R. Bair, vocal solo by against the bill. Fifty-eight bills mittee which prompted the com- Margery Peterson, response by have been introduced at this ses mittee to table the bill. Testi- the missionary and benediction sion concerning welfare, which mony disclosed that turnovers by Delbert Peterson. indicates the importance of that from the sheriff to the treasurer Friends of the honoree and his area of government service. and the taxing units was suffi family are invited to attend this 1,516 Bills S«t Record ciently rapid. In fact, the turn farewell service. While speaking as we have been over is daily and at least several above, of the end of the 51st leg times a week in most cases. tion in bargaining for wages, islative session, and the number Passage of the bill would re hours and working conditions. of bills introduced in a given field, quire many counties to rebuild or There is much controversy over it may interest you to know of remodel facilities and add staff, the bill. Nurses support it, while the large number of bills which all at additional cost. It was the hospitals oppose it. It has have been introduced. But in pointed out that passage would passed the house and now rests in many instances, because we are conflict with the county home the Senate State and Federal Af approaching the closing days, rule principle; that sheriffs would fairs committee. While this is a many will not become law. still have to be used for collection “tough” committee, it is probable A brief statistical study of what of taxes on warrants; treasurers’ that it will come to the floor, but has been taking place will bear salaries would have to be increas the outcome is still in doubt. this out. Nine hundred and nine ed; present collection percentages Emil Stunz and I were delight bills have to date been dropped in every _ county ____ ____ are over 90 per- ed to learn that our efforts had into the so-called “house hopper,” cent; it would interefere with^the succeeded in inducing the high while we in the senate have in- , present "check and balance sys- way department to offer $70,000 troduced 603, making a grand to- tern;” sheriffs’ field men are now to Malheur county for improving tai of 1,516, which outstrips the important in preventing removal the Lake Owyhee road. With the old record of 1,336 in 1957. Up to of property to escape taxes; in- cooperation of the road district, this point, only 172 have been dependent audits show that the the county and the people, we signed into law by Governor Hat- present procedures are efficient are hopeful that this may prove field- and accurate; and existing rela- adequate. Figures from our Legislative tionships between the two offices Needless to say, we are both Counsel committee, of which I are satisfactory. anxious to return to Eastern Ore am a member, , — show 1959 t The ..................................................... ---- that in -ZU nurses are active in the _ gon! of the 1,474 bills introduced, 700 legislature! Their bill, House Bill became a part of our Oregon law 1360. 1360, would give them collective FOR FINE PRINTING —in 1957, of 1,336 bills introduc- bargaining rights which they THE GATE CITY ed, 726 became law. Further sta- ] claim would improve their posi- [ JOURNAL! ■'fit Various Activities Discussed by Ladies At WSCS April Meet LUTHERAN LADIES MEET AT D. L. BENEDICT HOME Mrs. D. L. Benedict was hos tess Monday evening to 15 ladies of Faith Lutheran church at their regular meeting. Mrs. Ronald Schoen led devo tions. Following the business session, lunch was served by Mrs. Max Long and Mrs U. H. Neiger Methodist Woman’s Society of Christian Service met recently in the church parlor for April gen- eral meeting. ___ Mrs. ________ Clifford Fox, promotion secretary, asked that members of the executive committee be pre pared to fill out reports at the odist preference. Celia Cowan next meeting of the group. She circle will be in charge of the also reported that 13 members of Nydia luncheon. Mmes. Kinsey Keveren, Paul the society were in attendance at the western district meeting last | Ludlow and W. W. Foster plan to attend the annual society month in Emmett. Slate of officers for the coming meeting April 25-26 at Gooding, year was read and accepted. In Idaho. Mrs. Rolland Laurance stallation will be at the May will attend as elected delegate general meeting at which time A four-day rummage sale is members will divide into circles. planned for the last part of April. Wesleyan service guild officer list I Mrs. Orland Cheldelin led de for the year was also read. votions and Mrs. D. L. Hurst told Mrs. Russell Gressley was in of "Women in the Changing charge of the men’s dinner held Monday evening. Mrs. Orland World.” Hostesses were Mmes. Bill Wil Cheldelin is chairman of the sen son and Duane Holcomb, assisted ior banquet for those belonging to the church or expressing Meth- by Mrs. Richard Pounds. DIAMONDS EASY TERMS! 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