October 30, 1968 (12 pages)

ees a a on SA ya oA Ba we PET on oe 6 The Nevada County Nugget ‘October 30, 1968 é ‘ ( t f Claims ‘Tax Trap’ measure opposition mounts steadily Opposition to Proposition No. 9, the Watson Tax Trap Initiative, is mounting _ steadily throughout the State according to Robert C. Brown, co-chairman of "Californians Against the Tax Trap Initiative’ and executive vice president of the California Taxpayers Association. Brown, whose co-chairmen are Jack Rees, state executive secretary of the California Teachers Association, and Joseph Diviny, vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, says the opposition to No. 9 results from the growing realization that No. 9 would dump the property tax load of land speculators and real estate developers onto the backs of the average taxpayer. Most major responsible taxpayer organizations in the State are now on record against No. 9, Brown said, as are many county boards of supervisors and city councils, as well as labor, business, civic, home-owner and professional groups. Brown said leading opponents of the Tax Trap include California Labor Federation AFLCIO, California Farm Bureau Federation, California State Chamber of Commerce, League of Women Voters of California, and the Statewide Homeowner's Association of California, This is a dramatic switch, Brown said, from the early days of: the summer when the Tax Trap was first qualified for the ballot, At the outset and upon first examination of the measure many organizations and individuals fell into the Tax Trap, wooed by its false promise of tax relief to homeowners. Most of these reversed their positions and became vigorous opponents of No, 9 when they realized No. 9 would actually bring on drastically increased taxes for the homeowner and every other Californian taxpayer. The swing to a "No" on 9 vote became virtually unanimous when it became known that The Tax Trap would shift $2.5 billion a year onto the State income tax and the State sales tax. Brown said that to raise this massive’ sum the State would have to triple the income tax, more than double the sales tax Highway funds The California Highway Commission has budgeted $710,493,000 for State highway construction purposes, including rights of way and engineering, for the 1969-70 fiscal year. About $2,230,000 has been budgeted for Nevada County, as follows: —$1,881,000 to complete the financing for extending the fourlane Nevada City-Grass Valley Freeway (Route 20) southerly from Banner Ridge to the junction with Route 49 near the southern limits of Grass Valley, and constructing a four-lane freeway on Route 49 from this point to 0.4 mile southeast of the city, a total distance of five miles. The project includes constructing interchanges at Brunswick Road, Idaho-Maryland Road, South Auburn Street, the junction of Routes 20 and 49, and at South Grass Valley, Estimated cost, $7,121,000, of which $5,Doctor warns of air impurities A Denver, Colo., lung specialist told the Senate Subcommittee on Air & Water Pollution that "the present environment has already been seriously harmful to our health and will be more so in the future unless somethingis done now. "We have no time to lose in controlling impurities in the air," he said, The Denver physician, Dr, Roger D. Mitchell, warned that air pollutants “clearly play a significant contributory and possibly causative role in lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema," He called for the establishment of strict air-purity criteria as part of a control program. Dr. Mitchell's sense of urgency is shared by others who reported at the Air Pollution Medical Research Conference in Denver this summer, Among them was St. Vincent's Dr. Stephen M. Ayres, of New York, 240,000 has been budgeted inthe 1968-69 fiscal year. -Install metal beam guard railing on portions of the Interstate 80 Freeway at curves and high embankments between the vicinity of Soda Springs and the west intersection with Route 89, a distance of 12 miles, Estimated cost, $230,000. —Replace a timber bridge on Route 20 across Cow Creek; about 10.7 miles west of Grass Valley, with adouble, reinforced concrete box culvert and realign the approaches to provide greater traffic safety at the Indian Springs Road intersection. The project includes raising the grade of the highway to eliminate flooding and installing an additional reinforced concrete box culvert west of Cow Creek. This highway section will remain as a frontage road to provide access to private properties when the Route 20 Freeway is constructed. Estimated cost, $110,000, —Rights of way on various state highway routes $10,000, SIMplicity .o0. The New BERGEMANN & SON Funeral Chapel ready to serve you , day or night call 265-2421 Bost Ave, off Lower Grass Valley Rd. "Nevada City or hit the income earner -and ‘i consumer with a combination of doubled sales tax, doubled income tax and a five per cent tax on food. These are the only revenue sources large enough to find $2.5 billion, he added. Brown said that the California Taxpayers Association has calculated the disastrous impact If No. 9 is not killed, Brown said, a homeowner with a family of four, an income of $10,000, and a home worth $19,400, would pay $110 more in taxes, The same family with an income of $15,000 and a home worth $23,600 would pay $302 a year more taxes, The increased taxes would be $542 a year if the income was Proposition No. 9 is especially tough on renters, Brown added. A family of four earning $10,000 would have to find an extra $287 a year. The extra tax on $15,000 would be $517 and on $20,000 the additional tax would be $803, Brown said disaster is in store for both the homeowner and the renter unless No. 9 gets $20,000 a year and the house a "No" vote. valued at $28,600. THOSE Wh ALAN CRAI PIERRE SALINGER Former Press Secretary to President Kennedy.. On May 26, 1964, Pierre Salinger told the Associated Press that “the fact remains that by Mr. Alan Cranston’s own admission, his inheritance tax appraisers [while Cranston was serving as California State Controller] are substantially kicking back to finance his bid for the Senate. The matter amounts to a major scandal.” No. 9 would have on a family of four. HUGH M. BURNS President Pro Tem, California State Senate.. On October 22, 1968, veteran Democrat state legislator of 31 years, Hugh M. Burns, told reporters that Alan Cranston’s statements supporting the grape boycott “raised serious doubts as to Mr. Cranston’s competency to serve as United States Senator.’”’ Said Burns: ‘This is undoubtedly the first time in American political history that a candidate for the U.S. Senate has ever publicly asked consumers not to buy the products of his state. This alone probably should be enough for Californians to soundly reject him at the polls November 5.” HOUSTON FLOURNOY California State Controller.. On September 5, 1968, Controller Houston Flournoy issued a report to Californians. Highlighted was the fact that 25 appraisers, most of them appointees of Democrat Controller Alan Cranston and since replaced by Flournoy, failed to account for their expenses. According to a San Jose Mercury-News Sacramento Bureau article which reviewed the report, a tabulation of some 154 appraisers who did file income reports during Cranston’s term as controller, showed that each averaged $20,654 during 1967. After Flournoy took office he initiated a program of qualification tests for inheritance tax appraisers. Cranston had never used such tests. The results were that of those appraisers who had served under Cranston who took the test, 48 failed and 11 refused to take the test and resigned. Only 51 passed. CAN CALIFORNIANS TR RAFFERIVY oid F

ees a a on SA ya oA Ba we PET on oe 6 The Nevada County Nugget ‘October 30, 1968 é ‘ ( t f Claims ‘Tax Trap’ measure opposition mounts steadily Opposition to Proposition No. 9, the Watson Tax Trap Initiative, is mounting _ steadily throughout the State according to Robert C. Brown, co-chairman of "Californians Against the Tax Trap Initiative’ and executive vice president of the California Taxpayers Association. Brown, whose co-chairmen are Jack Rees, state executive secretary of the California Teachers Association, and Joseph Diviny, vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, says the opposition to No. 9 results from the growing realization that No. 9 would dump the property tax load of land speculators and real estate developers onto the backs of the average taxpayer. Most major responsible taxpayer organizations in the State are now on record against No. 9, Brown said, as are many county boards of supervisors and city councils, as well as labor, business, civic, home-owner and professional groups. Brown said leading opponents of the Tax Trap include California Labor Federation AFLCIO, California Farm Bureau Federation, California State Chamber of Commerce, League of Women Voters of California, and the Statewide Homeowner's Association of California, This is a dramatic switch, Brown said, from the early days of: the summer when the Tax Trap was first qualified for the ballot, At the outset and upon first examination of the measure many organizations and individuals fell into the Tax Trap, wooed by its false promise of tax relief to homeowners. Most of these reversed their positions and became vigorous opponents of No, 9 when they realized No. 9 would actually bring on drastically increased taxes for the homeowner and every other Californian taxpayer. The swing to a "No" on 9 vote became virtually unanimous when it became known that The Tax Trap would shift $2.5 billion a year onto the State income tax and the State sales tax. Brown said that to raise this massive’ sum the State would have to triple the income tax, more than double the sales tax Highway funds The California Highway Commission has budgeted $710,493,000 for State highway construction purposes, including rights of way and engineering, for the 1969-70 fiscal year. About $2,230,000 has been budgeted for Nevada County, as follows: —$1,881,000 to complete the financing for extending the fourlane Nevada City-Grass Valley Freeway (Route 20) southerly from Banner Ridge to the junction with Route 49 near the southern limits of Grass Valley, and constructing a four-lane freeway on Route 49 from this point to 0.4 mile southeast of the city, a total distance of five miles. The project includes constructing interchanges at Brunswick Road, Idaho-Maryland Road, South Auburn Street, the junction of Routes 20 and 49, and at South Grass Valley, Estimated cost, $7,121,000, of which $5,Doctor warns of air impurities A Denver, Colo., lung specialist told the Senate Subcommittee on Air & Water Pollution that "the present environment has already been seriously harmful to our health and will be more so in the future unless somethingis done now. "We have no time to lose in controlling impurities in the air," he said, The Denver physician, Dr, Roger D. Mitchell, warned that air pollutants “clearly play a significant contributory and possibly causative role in lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema," He called for the establishment of strict air-purity criteria as part of a control program. Dr. Mitchell's sense of urgency is shared by others who reported at the Air Pollution Medical Research Conference in Denver this summer,

Among them was St. Vincent's Dr. Stephen M. Ayres, of New York, 240,000 has been budgeted inthe 1968-69 fiscal year. -Install metal beam guard railing on portions of the Interstate 80 Freeway at curves and high embankments between the vicinity of Soda Springs and the west intersection with Route 89, a distance of 12 miles, Estimated cost, $230,000. —Replace a timber bridge on Route 20 across Cow Creek; about 10.7 miles west of Grass Valley, with adouble, reinforced concrete box culvert and realign the approaches to provide greater traffic safety at the Indian Springs Road intersection. The project includes raising the grade of the highway to eliminate flooding and installing an additional reinforced concrete box culvert west of Cow Creek. This highway section will remain as a frontage road to provide access to private properties when the Route 20 Freeway is constructed. Estimated cost, $110,000, —Rights of way on various state highway routes $10,000, SIMplicity ..o0. The New BERGEMANN & SON Funeral Chapel ready to serve you , day or night call 265-2421 Bost Ave, off Lower Grass Valley Rd. "Nevada City or hit the income earner -and ‘i consumer with a combination of doubled sales tax, doubled income tax and a five per cent tax on food. These are the only revenue sources large enough to find $2.5 billion, he added. Brown said that the California Taxpayers Association has calculated the disastrous impact If No. 9 is not killed, Brown said, a homeowner with a family of four, an income of $10,000, and a home worth $19,400, would pay $110 more in taxes, The same family with an income of $15,000 and a home worth $23,600 would pay $302 a year more taxes, The increased taxes would be $542 a year if the income was Proposition No. 9 is especially tough on renters, Brown added. A family of four earning $10,000 would have to find an extra $287 a year. The extra tax on $15,000 would be $517 and on $20,000 the additional tax would be $803, Brown said disaster is in store for both the homeowner and the renter unless No. 9 gets $20,000 a year and the house a "No" vote. valued at $28,600. THOSE Wh ALAN CRAI PIERRE SALINGER Former Press Secretary to President Kennedy... On May 26, 1964, Pierre Salinger told the Associated Press that “the fact remains that by Mr. Alan Cranston’s own admission, his inheritance tax appraisers [while Cranston was serving as California State Controller] are substantially kicking back to finance his bid for the Senate. The matter amounts to a major scandal.” No. 9 would have on a family of four. HUGH M. BURNS President Pro Tem, California State Senate... On October 22, 1968, veteran Democrat state legislator of 31 years, Hugh M. Burns, told reporters that Alan Cranston’s statements supporting the grape boycott “raised serious doubts as to Mr. Cranston’s competency to serve as United States Senator.’”’ Said Burns: ‘This is undoubtedly the first time in American political history that a candidate for the U.S. Senate has ever publicly asked consumers not to buy the products of his state. This alone probably should be enough for Californians to soundly reject him at the polls November 5.” HOUSTON FLOURNOY California State Controller... On September 5, 1968, Controller Houston Flournoy issued a report to Californians. Highlighted was the fact that 25 appraisers, most of them appointees of Democrat Controller Alan Cranston and since replaced by Flournoy, failed to account for their expenses. According to a San Jose Mercury-News Sacramento Bureau article which reviewed the report, a tabulation of some 154 appraisers who did file income reports during Cranston’s term as controller, showed that each averaged $20,654 during 1967. After Flournoy took office he initiated a program of qualification tests for inheritance tax appraisers. Cranston had never used such tests. The results were that of those appraisers who had served under Cranston who took the test, 48 failed and 11 refused to take the test and resigned. Only 51 passed. CAN CALIFORNIANS TR RAFFERIVY oid F