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THURSDAY, APRIL 13».1961
THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON
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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL
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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
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---- 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!
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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.
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