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THURSDAY, JUNE 1», IM7 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON FINANCIAL CHAOS (Continued from (rage 2) company ing thr audit report stated "A review of the budget comparison will »how thr rrader that the rapid growth of the college and it» facilities have made it difficult to operate within thr framework of dir Budge t ** However, the letter make» no mention of any ii regu larities found nor dor» thr audit report contain any recommendations, except to »ay "thr accounting records were not complete a» could be desired, however, the rapid increase in students and related business activity has been a heavy burden on accounting |»er»onnrl.’’ In fact, thr rr|x>rt conclude» by saying, "thr district ha» complied with the statutory requirement in the prep aration and publication of the annual budget anti tax levies for the year under audit and also for the next ensuing year . . . ." OIK was informed that individual members of dir Board of Education of Treasure Valley Community College had not receivrd copies of the audit report as of May 30. I'»67. Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Smith were Saturday evening visitors visited his son, Mr. and Mrs. of the Bruce Jenkins. Wilber Smith In Union Ore. Mrs. Robert Lankford of Em The Nyssa couple left Sunday Guests in the Tom Johnson mett is spending this week with and returned home Monday. the Bob Toombs. The Toomb’s home June 21 were Mr. and Mrs. grandson, Kelly Toombof Leba Knox Alexanders of Portland, Guests in the Eugene DeMinck non, Ore., was a guest last week. Mrs. Mrs. Harriet Brown of home this week are Lee Anne McMinnville, Ore., Mrs. Stella and Rene Comstock, daughters Penn of Ontario, sister of Mrs. Sunday dinner guests of Mr of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Com and Mrs. Frank Byers were Alexander. Friday night gests stock of Reseda, Calif. the Jim Farmers and Karla. were Mrs. Johnson's brother, Mrs. Elven Day of Caldwell, Mr, and Mrs. Drmaid Leuck the Byers daughter, recently and family of Baker. The John returned from Hawaii where son’s daughter, Mr. and Mrs. she met tier husband. They spent Pat Sweaney of Caldwell were a week together before tie re Sunday evening visitors. turned to his duty station in Viet Nam. PERSONALS The Currant Fiscal Yair's Budget PAGE THREE Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Russell Cook, the Gary Drlces, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Price, the Harold Snyders and JanetCates of Caldwell. Mrs. Beth Ellis hosted a Fri day evening dinner. Guests were Mrs. R.T. Sager and Bronte, and Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Foster. Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Foster received a telephone call Mon day from their daughter, Frances. She called from North Hollywood where she visited a brother, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Foster. She reported that she was to sail for Japan Tuesday from Los Angeles. Frances will assume her duties as The S.P. Bybees and the Owen Froerer family returned Sunday from a trip to Utah. They visited the Bybee’s soo, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bybee at Brigham City and former Nys- sans, Mr. and Mrs. V.L. Kesler at Salt Lake City. In Hooper they Mr. and Mrs. Frell Blair visited a brnthar-in-law. C. E. and Sharon returned Sun McDonald. They also toured day from a ten day vacation Temple Square In Salt Lake trip to Utah. City. In Provo the Blairs visited a son, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Blair. H.E. Chamberlain returned The family also went to Lava recently from a four week vaca Hot Springs and Salt Lake before tion trip to Utah and California. returning home to Nyssa. He spent two weeks in Cali fornia visiting two daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Rod Schow at Los Angeles and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Alvord at Ontario. missionary in that country. Independence For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, voters in I rrasure \ alley Community College approved a budget totalling $2 085,233 and calling for a projierty tax levy of $233.‘»*H» A» in the preceding fisc al year, the $42,000 serial levy was not budgeted. As had been the practice in the preceding year, all receipt* and disbursements were channelled through the General Fund The budget included plans for an expenditure on capital items of $1,246,551 51, divided as follows: Improvement of SitN ......... $ 18,05151 New Buildings ________ 1,182,000.00 Instructional Equipment......... -................... 42,000.00 Non-instruc tional Equipment ............................... 4,500.00 BIG 4th SALE BEGINS JUNE 29 THRU JULY 3 $1,246,551 51 (Continued on frage 4) Adrian News By Mrs. G. E. Mackey ADRIAN — Mr. and Mrs. Myron Goa sard of Richmond, C allf., visited last week with her brother, Gilbert Deffen- baugh, a cousin, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blcandi and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frank- lin, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Freel and family. Mr. and Mrs. Al Davat {Eula Wisby) of Greenacres, Wash., were June 20 dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver F reel and family. Mr. and Mrs. Eddy Lang of Nampa visited Sunday with her uncle, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Ashcraft. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Shelman returned to their home In Harrisburg, Ore..June 19, after visiting her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ausman. Their children remained for a longer visit. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Parker and family returned home last week after visiting her parents in Reno. They were overnight guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Parker. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Piercy attended a golden wedding anni- versary open house Sunday, honoring Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Myres of Payette. Later they drove to Weiser to visit his cousin, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Stover, Mr. and Mrs. Herb Thomas. UofO Honor Students Told Undergraduates from Nyssa Wh0 achieved grade point aver- ages of 3.50 or higher during (he spring term at the Univers- py of Oregon include Judith pae Laurance, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rolland D. Laurance and Ellen Kaiuye Saito,daught- er of yr and Mrs. Kay no Saito of route 2. Others include Jo Ann Strick- land, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. pay W. Strickland, alsoofroute 2. paui Lloyd Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wilson of gQg Reece avenue. Ninety-five students made grade point averages of 4.00, or ,11 'A’ grades, with 733 making the 3.50 grade average, Grade point averages at the university are based on a scale with *A' scoring as 4.00; ‘B’ as 3.00; and *<:• as 2.00. ---------- ----------------------------------- — Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Webb moved this weekend to their ranch in the Newell Heights area. Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Sessions and Brad were dinner guests of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Mackey received a telephone call from their son, Sgt. and Mrs. Joe Mackey who are stationed at Fort Devens, Mass. They re port they are awaiting orders to leave for Ethiopia, where he will be stationed for the next three years. Rep. Smith Summarizes Efforts Of Legislators By Robert F. Smith As my final report to the people of Harney and Malheur counties I would like to sum marise the major efforts and achievements of this 54th Leg islative Session. Particularly, I want to discuss a few of the bills that have been of direct benefit and concern to our district. PROPERTY TAX RELIEF BEATEN BY SENATE As majority leader of the House of Representatives, land the other members of the majority party felt that It was Incumbent upon us to provide meaningful property tax relief for the people of Oregon in 1967. In all, the House sent three property tax relief bills to the Senate. The first would have allowed the people to vote on a Constitutional Amendment giving the legislature authority to lnact a 3% sales tax, exempt ing food and drugs. If the people approved this measure, property taxes would be cut one-third state-wide. Companion legislation would have limited local property tax for schools to 5 mills, with an absolute limit of 7 mills. This would have assured that the sales tax money would go directly Into property tax re lief through increased state support of local schools. This was a responsible and well thoughtout program to give the people of Oregon a substantial amount of property tax relief this year. If the people would have been allowed to vote on it April 21 and it had passed, it would have prevented the 15% Increase in local property taxes expect ed in 1967. Unfortunately, the Senate Tax committee refused to act on this measure alone. Therefore, the House sent to the Senate a specific sales tax bill and basic « school support formula, which would have accomplished the same objectives as the above described program. After weeks of careful de liberation, the State Tax com mittee sent this package to the Senate floor where It was beaten by a vote of 16-14. The main opposition to the above two property tax relief proposals was that they offered only the sales tax as an alter native to high property taxes. Therefore, on the third try, we sent to the Senate a property tax relief package which gave the people a choice of voting for a sales tax to alleviate high property tax, a net receipts tax to cut property taxes, or no tax relief at all. The Senate refused to act on this program, at which point the House of Representatives concluded that the only way In which we could redeem our campaign promises of 1966 and give the people an opportunity to vote on property tax relief legislation was to accept the Senate program, which would allow the people to vote on only a net receipts tax verus no property tax relief at all. The joint House-Senate Con ference committee, on which I serve agreed on an adaptation of the net receipts bill and the House subsequently passed the bill. That same day, the Senate overwhelmingly rejected their own proposal. After weeks and weeks of attempting to give the people an opportunity to vote for meaningful property tax re lief, it was a sad blow to those of us in the House to have to go home without having done so. The result, undoubtedly will be a special session to deal with this problem. I believe however, that the House of Representatives tried Its best to offer the people property tax relief. 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