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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1963 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON PAGE TWO Bishop From India Letters to Editor Negro Vocalist Scheduled to Speak Signed letters to the editor are welcomed and will be printed if To Appear Sunday At Episcopal Church they do not contain comments The Rt. Rev. Philip Parmar, of a libelous nature or attacks At Local Church bishop of Bhagalpur, India, is THE GATE CITY JOURNAL TED M. BRAMMER, Editor and Publiiher NEWSPAPER k PUBLISHERS '"ASSOCIATION /AFFILIATE MEMBER/j SUBSCRIPTION RATES Single Copies-------- 10c In Malheur County, Oregon, and Payette and Canyon Counties, Idaho: One Year---------- -$3.50 Six Months____ $2.50 Elsewhere in the U. S. A.: Per Year —.... $4.00 Six Months---------$2.50 Published Every Thursday at Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon. Entered at the Post Office at Nyssa, Oregon, for Transmission Through the United States Mails, as a Second Class Matter Under the Act of March 3, 1879. A 'NO' Vote Indicated In a statewide election Tuesday, Oct. 15, Oregon vot ers will determine whether House Bill 1846 passed by the 1963 legislature shall become law. The bill would increase PERSONAL income taxes an estimated $49.5 million, CORPORATE excise taxes on income $700,000 for a total of $50.2 million for the two- year period. Of this amount $15.5 million would go for basic school support, $18.1 for higher education, $1.9 for community colleges, $4.3 for mental institutions, $2 million for cor rectional institutions and the balance for other state agencies. Thus the greater part would go for education, and since the attorney general has ruled that the governor could make no cuts in the $135 million basic school aid, without legislative approval, any cut would fall on high er education and state agencies. If the measure is rejected the governor can: (1) make the other cuts, (2) call a special session of the legislature that could find other source of revenue acceptable to the voters, (3) use a combination of cutting and changing tax sources. We shall oppose the bill and vote “NO” for many reasons, some of which are listed below: Our Senator Yturri says it is a bad bill; our Repre sentative Bob Smith says it is a bad bill; the governor thought it was bad enough that he let it become effec tive without his signature. (He has since agreed to head the committee favoring it and it has been reported that he would “stump” the state for it but hasn’t.) Our local school board has taken no stand on the issue and the president of that body says it would cost our district only about $20,000. (We can live with that.) Oregon general fund expenditures have almost doubl ed in eight years. In the two-year period starting with 1955 the figures were $218 million; two years later were $278 million (with the following figures each succeeding two years)—$306 million, $358 million and for the cur rent period of 1963-65, $404 million. Those are our primary reasons for opposing the bill. We can see no stopping place, with the expenditures ris ing much faster than the number of people who pay the bills. It appears to us that a broader base is needed—be it a sales tax, cigarette tax, property tax, net receipts tax or a combination of two or more of these. We refuse to swallow the idea the legislature might come up with something worse and we dare not send them back. This appears to us to be a form of blackmail. We are spending the $300,000 they set up for this special election they apparently expected — $8,000 per day for their session is “peanuts” compared with the new amount involved. If we accept this bill for two more years, why would the next session believe we would not go along with the same tax increase on the same basis for another two years? We believe now is the time to act. FHA Girls to Attend District Convention Girls from the Nyssa chapter of Future Homemakers of America will leave by bus Saturday for La Grande where they will at tend district convention. Among the 35 members plan ning to attend will be Miss Lynn Jackson who will participate in the program. The girls will be accompanied by Mrs. Virginia Steffens, advis er; Mrs. Brig Olsen and Mrs. Wil ton Jackson. RETURNS FROM PORTLAND Ernie Metcalf, manager of Nys- so Co-op Supply, returned Tues day from a buying trip to Port land. He was accompanied by Co-op managers from Nampa and New Plymouth. Mrs. Metcalf spent the weekend with her daughter, De’ena in Boise. VISIT IN COREY HOME Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fanning, Mr. and Mrs. Elmor Trescott of Pom eroy, Wash., are guests this week in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Corey. on religious and racial groups. Publication of the letters does not necessarily signify agreement of this newspaper with opinions expressed. touring this country and will be in Nyssa Tuesday evening, Oct. 22, at St. Paul’s Episcopal church. According to the Rev. Armand Larive, the bishop, a native of India, will speak at 7:30 p.m. on work of the church in India and also on the country. His diocese in India covers a large amount of territory where work is carried on among primi tive tribes in rural areas and in cities among college students and railway workers. It is not often that Nyssans have an opportunity to hear a missionary bishop, a native of In dia as well, and anyone interested is cordially invited, the Rev. La rive stated. Gordon Capps of Ontario, re cent lay delegate to the Anglican congress held in Toronto during August, will show slides of the recent congress following Bishop Parmar’s talk. There will be an intermission between these two presentations and refreshments of coffee and doughnuts will be served. Dear Editor: As a card carrying PTA mem ber and citizen of the state of Oregon, I feel I must speak in favor of the yes vote on ballot measure No. 1. I have heard that some farmers and ranchers are going to vote no because they are angry at the legislators. I wonder if they real ize they would be sending the same legislators back to try to do the same job they struggled w'th MARVIN HONORÉ for the longest session in history. I . . . Distinguished Christian Tenor The reason it was so long was ♦ ♦ because for the first time there Reported to be rapidly coming was no surplus and so many of to the forefront as one of Ameri us wanted things that called for ca’s truly distinguished Christian appropriations. I have also heard soloists is Marvin Honoré, a Ne-1 they don’t believe a no vote gro tenor, who will appear at 7:45 would affect property taxes. Mal Sunday evening, Oct. 13, at Nys heur county stands to lose $141,- sa Church of the Nazarene, is an 529 for the 1963-64 year. It ap nouncement made by Pastor John pears to me they are putting their Bullock. heads in the sand on this point. With an impressive history of ¡ The president of the Oregon musical education and training, Congress of Parents and Teach he has found time to devote to MISSIONARY TO SPEAK ers and chairman of the Citizens’ Christian service. A year was AT NAZARENE CHURCH Ivis Hopper of Council will be committee for the yes vote, Mrs. spent working with “Youth for Stephen Turel, has stated, “We Christ” in the Pacific Northwest, guest speaker Sunday morning at are not defending the tax bill but and while in Chicago he carried the local Church of the Nazarene, are concerned only for Oregon’s on a very effective evangelistic according to an announcement by Pastor John Bullock. Miss Hop 450,000 children.” ministry among Negro youth of per recently returned from Africa To me it seems the bill con- that city. where she served two terms as tains many items that are much The Rev. Bullock extends a a missionary. more equalizing than the present cordial invitation to the public. law. For instance, under the present law a widow with two children pays more income tax than a man and wife with one child on the same income, The new bill would correct this. It would also equalize the tax paid by capital gains and ordinary in By Roxy Ritchie come. OWYHEE —Mr. and Mrs. Earl The opposition is also saying Crocker arrived home last week it would tax those least able to from a three-week trip to Kansas, pay. It appears to me the exact Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado opposite is true. It will require a to visit relatives. Sunday visitors greater number to share in the in the Crocker home were Mr. paying of income taxes, but in and Mrs. Duane Fenn and chil many cases it would be $5 only. dren of Ontario. Social security payments are not income for tax purposes and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Day of are not to be reported as in Adrian, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ste come. Unemployment compensa tion payment, workmen’s com phen and children of California pensation payments for industrial were Oct. 1 evening dinner guests accident, welfare payments and of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Day at certain retirement pension pay ' Lake Owyhee. ments all continue to be treated I Owyhee Garden club will meet , at 2 p.m. Oct. 11 in Parma at the as they are now. No one will have to pay a tax I home of Mrs. Maudine Evans for on this type of income. Those a garden tour. Mr. and Mrs. Werner Peutz and who make a lot of money would be paying a more equal share Mrs. Gladys Morfitt were Sunday percentage-wise to the state of evening dinner guests in the Wil Oregon. Because of the federal liam Peutz home in observance deduction the man at the bottom of the third birthday anniversary of the totem pole is paying about of Andy Peutz. Mrs. Amanda 2 percent or less of his total in Peutz of Payette was a Thursday come, while the man at the top dinner guest in the William Peutz of the totem pole is also paying home. Mr. and Mrs. Byrd Walters and 2 percent or less of his income to Eldon Slippy visited Sunday eve the state. Most of the people I have talk ning in Caldwell at the home of ed to are uninformed on any her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. phase of ballot measure No. 1. I and Mrs. Merle Fortik and family. surely hope there will be no un They were accompanied by Mrs. informed person go to the polls Ellis Walters of Nyssa who visit on Oct. 15. And I hope every reg ed her granddaughter. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Launt and Debbie. istered voter gets to the polls. Will every good Oregon citizen | Eldon Slippy returned to school take advantage of their P T AI [ Monday following a two - week meetings, their lodges and any 1 absence due to infection of a leg other source available to them to injury received during a football ask their questions and to speak game. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Callaham ac out pro or con on ballot measure companied Mrs. Richard Calla No. 1? ham and children of McCall Sun Respectfully, day to visit at the Earl Callaham MRS. LESTER CLEAVER home in Parma. Earl had just re Vice President, Region 8 turned home from a deer hunting Oregon Congress of PTA trip at Council with a big buck. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Callaham vis To Buy, Sell or Rent, ited Friday in the Lee Lovitt resi Try the Classified Page! dence in Parma. E. Crockers Visit In Four States On Vacation Trip Showing of Billy Graham Films Sei Monday by Nyssa Ministerial Group Evangelist Billy Graham’s newest feature motion picture, “Touch of Brass,” will be shown at 8 o’clock Monday evening, Oct. 14, in the Nyssa high school cafetorium. The film, in which Evangelist Graham addresses the gen eration growing up in the shadow of the atomic cloud, is be ing sponsored by the Nyssa Ministerial association. Graham’s producing organ-* * *________ ization, World Wide Pictures, took its sound-color cameras presents to the homes and factories and places of amusement in a. diti. Manchester, England, where the story of a working man’s family actually took place. The dramatic cast was drawn from the locale itself, resulting in a ring of au thenticity rarely seen on the mo tion picture screen. The film was directed by Dick Ross and runs the emotional gamut including something for every age group. Other Entertainment Planned Scheduled with the dramatic feature is a musical featurette, “To God the Glory,” which fea tures the talent and artistry of the Billy Graham platform team: Cliff Barrows, song leader and master of ceremonies; George Beverly Shea, internationally known base baritone soloist; Tedd Smith and Don Hustad at piano and organ; and the voices of the Christianaires Choir. A unique highlight is a “Sing Along” segment in which the au- dience participates as Cliff Bar- rows conducts. The two motion pictures pro- vide a full evening of inspiration and spiritual challenge blended in a most unusual manner. ¡Ti dramatic feature 1&SS ] Pilis' MUSICAL FEATURETTE IV OCT. 6-12 FIRE PREVENTION WEEK Fire is a menace —a menace to the lives of those you hold dear—also a menace t o your home and to your place of business. Fire lurks in litter and rubbish, in oily painty rags, in overheated fur naces, unchecked electrical systems . . . Fire threatens wherever there is carelessness. The best way to Pre vent Fires is never let them start. dont iool with Make Every Week Fire Prevention Week FIRE CAN • KILL YOUR LOVED ONES! • RUIN YOUR BUSINESS! • LEAVE YOU HOMELESS! DON’T LET FIRE START Ballot No. Stub : I » I I I I I To be torn off by member of election board 1 Check home and business for fire hazards. 2. Be careful when handling fire in any form. 3 Check all wiring and electrical appliances. 4. Check all heating systems. OFFICIAL BALLOT Special Election for State of Oregon To be held on Tuesday, October 15, 1963 Mark a Cross ( X ) or a Check ( V ) in the Voting Square After the Word "Yes" or After the Word "No". INSURE Your Home To Present Value! INSURE Your Business To Present Value! REFERRED TO THE PEOPLE BY REFERENDUM PETITION INSURE Your Farm To Present Value! Title and Statement of Purpose 1 For Complete Coverage See Agents Below: PERSONAL AND CORPORATION INCOME TAX BILL - P u r p o s e : To increase ■ state revenues. Abolishes federal tax deduction. Lowers personal tax rates. Provides minimum tax. Increases corporation rates. Effective on or after January 1, 1963. ESTIMATE OF FINANCIAL EFFECTS: If Ballot Measure 1 (Chapter 627, Oregon Laws 1963) is approved by the voters, it is estimated that the increase in state revenue over that which would be provided by existing law from personal income taxes will amount to about $24,<50,000 per year or $49,500,000 for the biennium and the increase from corporate excise taxes on income will amount to about $¡150,000 per year or $700,000 for the biennium, based on present levels of income. The Ballot Measure also authorizes a possible “speed-up" of personal income tax payments withheld by employers that would permit an increase in 1963-1965 revenues by $14,000,000, without increasing the tax liability of the personal income tax payer. If Ballot Measure I is defeated, expenditures in the 1963-1963 biennium will need to be reduced by approximately $60 million below the level of appropriations made by the 1963 Legislature, or other revenues must be sought, or some combination of revenue in crease and expenditure reduction totalling approximately $60 million must be made in accord with the requirements of Article IX and XI of the Constitution of Oregon. FARMERS INSURANCE EXCHANGE yes D no D NYSSA INSURANCE AGENCY 309 Main St. . . . Nyssa, Oregon J. MURL BURNS 105 Main St. . . . Nyssa, Oregon RALPH G. LAWRENCE EASTMAN INSURANCE AGENCY RENSTROM INSURANCE AGENCY 315 Main St. . . . Nyssa, Oregon BERNARD EASTMAN 217 Good Ave. .. . Nyssa, Oregon KEN RENSTROM BOB THOMPSON AGENCY 104 Main Street . . . Nysea. Oregon BOB and STAN THOMPSON
