Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1922-11-02
SUPERINTENDENT
ANSWERS DOUBTER
COUNTY UNIT PLAN
If "New " System Would Do No
More It Will at Least Equaiize
the Tax Burden and Opportun
ities for Children.
System Is Not New But Has
Proven Fine Success in Many
States; Many Districts Over
Durdened With School Taxes.

read in the Lincoln County Leader
an article, written by reader Of the
paper but his name was not given,
which stated that the county unit
plan is new tangled plan. This
writer advised to keep shy and vote
NO. wish to state, without critic
ism, that the less we know about any
thing the more we are against II.
This is not q new plan. 1t has been
working for the past eighteen or TWEEN
ty years in some or al of the follow
ing named states: Delaware, Alabama,
Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mary
land. New Mexico North Carolina,
Tennessee. Utah, Arizona, Arkansas,
California, Georgia, Ohio, Mississippi
South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Mon
tara, Oregon and Washington. In the
first ten named it is working in the en-
tire state, the others have 1t only in
some of the counties. Where it has
been tried, they have not gone back 20
the older system.
The two leading features of this
plan is EQUAL TAXATION ana
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE
CHILDREN. The hiring Of teachers,
the upkeep of the building and equip
ments, the levying the school tax and
the business in general vii. be done
by the board Of FIVE. OF course this
hoard OF five will be advised by tho
local boards as to the needs and
wishes of the districts, and in most
if not all cases, their wishes will be
granted.
Under the present district organiza
tions, our taxes are very unjust and
unsettled. For instance, in district
No. 10 known as the stanton dist. the
special levy last year Q92D was
three and fourteenth mills. This yeaI
1922) will be about ten nils Il
the Waldport district No ~, lest gear
the special levy was four mills. This
year il will be about 20 mills. | have
net figured all the special levies but
many others will be similar. Some
will be less than last year. but ye'
thew would be too high. With the
COUNTY UNIT PLAN working in the
county the tax which would take the
place of the special levies would be
about four mills, it should be little
less. and every one in the county
would pay it, making the taxes fol
school purposes equal.
1t has been said that this measure
is a school teachers plan. I dons
know of any teachers working agains;
it, but here are the names Of few
who are favoring it, that are not
teachers; Judge James, Jaw Dunn. G
M. Warren, Ira Wade, ]. w. Parrish
S. w. Scoville, DR.. Carter, Geo
Schenck, Guy Roberts, Geo. McClus
key, Tom Hawkins, Ben Jones, R. A
Arnold Ed. Stocker, L. H. Payne, M
Simpson, Carl Gi!dersleeve, w. R
Tindall and others too numerous to
mention. l might say, the doctors
the lawyers, the merchants, the bust
ness men in general are supporting
the measure. | know of few, per
haps dozen and there may be more
who say they will vote no on the Unit
Plan.
This should be remembered by ev
cry taxpayer in the county. IL the
Unit Plan carries there will not be
a SPECIAL levy in the county but all viii
pay the same which will be equal to
about 4 mill levy. That is to say we
are all paying two and half mills now
and by adding four mills more making
a total of IL mills we will have
money enough to run the schools.
r. P. COIN,
County School Superintendent.