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Seek to Eliminate I ax Dodging
(Guest Editorial from Hastings Daily Tribune)
The objective of the Nebraska Motor Dealers association in
attempting to amend the state constitution is to bring about a
fairer, less cumbersome and more efficient method of collecting
taxes on passenger cars, trucks and buses.
The association is now circulating petitions and expects to
have the necessary signatures to place the proposal on the No
vember general election ballot More than 47-thousand signatures
will be needed. The amendment, as explained by the sponsors,
would exempt all motor vehicles from personal property taxes
and empower the state legislature to impose* a “use tax" which
all car owners would pay at the time the vehicle is registered.
Under the present method of assessment and taxing, motor
vehicles are assessed on March 10 but the tax it not due until
the following December. In the meantime many of these leave
the state and the tax is nev<?r collected.
This is the strongest point in the association’s program. It
seeks to plug a leak that has existed for many years and now
amounts to several millions of dollars. Tl$e legislative council
research body, for the state legislature, an<£also the legislature,
have known of the condition and have atb«pted to work out a
solution but have always run into a constitJTonal prohibition. If
the voters approve the amendment this bar will be removed.
Figures from the state auditor’s office submitted by the as
sociation reveal that in the eight years prior to 1945, the counties
of the state, omitting the two largest—Lancaster and Douglas
failed to collect $801,854 in motor vehicle personal taxes. This fact
was presented the legislature by State Auditor Ray C. Johnson
but it was prevented from making any correction because of the
state constitution.
According to the auditor’s report, Adams county during this'
period had 2,942 delinquent motor vehicle tax accounts totaling
$34,892. It is probably even greater now because no doubt many
of the people employed at the Naval Depot during the war left
without paying the taxes on their cars.
Yet the county mutt continue to carry this on the books
although there is very little chance that any of it will be col
lected. Not only do the county, school, city and state suffer
from the loss of revenue but it also creates an accounting prob
lem for the county.
The proposed amendment provides for a uniform fee which
will be charged at the time the vehicle is registered. The fee is
not to be uniform, as some have said, as between makes and !
models of cars and trucks but as between geographical location. ]
That is a car in Hastings would pay the same fee as a car of the
same make and model that is registered in Omaha or Lincoln.
It is further proposed in the amendment that the state legis
lature or any local taxing agency not be permitted to impose or
collect a personal property tax, sales tax or any other type of tax
from the owner of a motor vehicle. This would prevent a govern
ment subdivision from levying a wheel tax or some other tax.
The state would fix the fee and that would be it.
The amendment would make it certain that everyone would
pay his tax and it would eliminate present tax dodging. , j
LEGAL NOTICE
(First pub. June 15, 1950)
John R. Gallagher, Attorney
NOTICE OF PROBATE
OF WILL
Estate No. 3677
In the County Court of Holt
County, Nebraska, June 12th,
1950.
In the matter of the estate of
Claude A. Hamilton, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that a
petition has been filed in said
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Court for the probate of a writ
ten instrument purporting to be I
the last will and testament of I
Claude A. Hamilton, Deceased, I
and for the appointment of Min- 1
nie Hamilton, as executrix
thereof; that July 6th, 1950, at 1
10 o’clock A.M., has been set i
for hearing said petition and t
proving said instrument in said
Court when all persons concern- j
ed may appear and contest the c
probate thereof. c
LOUIS W. REIMER,
County Judge, t
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Prairieland Talk —
Holt’s Population Now Perhaps
Has Reached Its Stable Level
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — In the event the
census takers missed none of
the Holt county patriots, the
population has shrunk the past
decade by 1,
685. Some 10
or 12 have dis
appeared from
the commun
ity out on
prairie land
where I form
erly lived that
have not been
replaced b y
others. Death
took some but
they are bur
ied under Holt
Romaine county 9od.
Saunders War h a s
taken out of the population its
grim tribute in human lives,
while others were lured by the
t > V' S' Treasury notes
to fields afar.
The population loss in the
great empire of Holt is not
such as to be at all alarming
and may be all to the good. The
lines of covered wagons rolling
eastward at an earlier period
I marked a much greater decline
in population. It is now perhaps
I at a stable level, resulting from
present trends to enlarge farm
and ranch holdings.
While the county as such af
fords a little more elbow room,
the countyseat is crowding
building upon building and
house upon house.
Nebraska, too, as a whole has
lost in population. There are 2
counties in the state where
there is plenty of room.
11 you are fed up on just peo
ple, go down to McPherson
county where there are only 828
of the genus homo all told, or
on to Arthur county where there
,are more cattle than men and
take your chances with the 799
patriots of that southwest coun
ty. Maybe in this business of
counting noses the towns could
claim all w'ithin their trade ter
ritory. And who knows whether
there has been a full count?
Here comes a town, North Bend,
m Dodge county with the claim
that they have been misrepre
sented in the census by more
than KtO citizens. Names and
addresses have been submitted
to show that they are still in
the city class in place of being I
reduced to the status of village
as the official census would i
place them.
Any community not satisfied *
has the same privilege to make J
their own count.
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Two gents were caught in the
judicial net for fishing without j
a license. I recall some of the
old boys who came to the com
munity from king-and emporer
ridden Europe happy in their
freedom to fish and hunt and
travel about without an official
functionary hailing them into
the king's court and sentenced
to jail. Should the ghost of Bill
Fallon float into police court
when luckless chaps were fined
for fishing there would be a
ghostly murmur, “Has it come
to this in O’Neill!” His honor !
probably has no choice but to
assess the fine. Are the bull- j
heads worth a $10 fine or the !
cost of a license?
Young America from 10-year
olds into the teen age group
comes in for a lot of critical
comment—on their way to the
dogs. I wonder.
| The other day an adult pick
I ed up a $10 bill on a city bus
j and stuck it in his pocket. A
I lady who had just preceded him
in boarding the bus probably
dropped it when she drew from
her purse a dollar bill to hand
to the bus driver. Had one of
the 2,200,000 Boy Scouts or one
of the million and a half Girl
Scouts, a Camp Fire youth or a
4-H member found that $10 bill
it would have been handed the
bus driver and inquiry made if
someone on board had lost some
j money.
A 13-year-old lad found $1,
i 300 on the streets of Los An
geles, Calif., a pagan city, and
turned it in to the police.
Through the honesty of a child
the life’s savings were restored
to the rightful owner. There are
some little devils, always have
been, plenty in my day of sup
posed innocency, but the kids
for the most part are alright,
ready and anxious to do things.
The story is told of a white
haired widow living in a slum
area of a city who gets a po
lice widow's pension. Confin
ed to a wheel chair she would
have a tough time of it but
for the neighborhood boys who
get her pension check cashed
for her and buy her household
supplies.
Youngsters are responsive.
They want things. They must
learn there is a right way and
a wrong way to gratify legiti
mate desires. At 10 years of age
another kid and I proposed a
raid on a widow’s apple trees.
Just as we got there the gra
cious, kindly woman came
through her door, stepped out
on the porch, saw us and cheer
ingly called out, “Hello boys—
want some apples? Climb over
the fence and help yourselves!”
Well, from wouldbe thieves
O’NEILL
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we were transformed in a mo
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Young America says: “Never
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gent, courageous, resourceful
and clean-living boys and girls.”
Adults of O’Neill are doing
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community in providing a cen
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The north side of O street
here in Lincoln is undergoing
much building changes in the
business district, which will
mean the shifting of locations
of some long established mer
cantile establishments. Build
ing of houses has slumped to
some extent. GI loans are not
I so readily available as in the
past and there has come a ten
dency to a little less liberal
spending.
• • •
State Superintendent of Public
Instruction Wayne O. Reed has
been named to head the Peru
normal school. He had filed as
a candidate in the August pri
mary for a third try for super- j
intendent, and in accepting the
new post Mr. Reed may feel it
is an opportunity to get out
from under some undesirable
features of his present job,
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At 91, Edgar Howard is still
a Democrat. Old enough to
know belter, but he was on the
Platte county delegation to ]
——• — -—- — —-n i ~ m t ■ ■■ini ■■■im i
the Democratic state conven
tion.
• • •
A line of the Declaration of
Independence reads: “For im
posing taxes on us without our
consent.” It is still being done
by our own guys.
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Its’ alright to follow a leader
if he’s going in your direction.
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