The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 31

July IS, 1979 THE SUN C-5 death Strange Dronenburg (Continued from Metro) working? "I think it's working to a limited ex-desirable area, its market value has tent- People on the street can predict remained at $40,000, while assessed val- tneir tax bills' tney ot a tax reduction, ue has increased to $44,163. and they turned the dollars into more spending in the private sector. I think The third home, like the first, has the influx of dollars is why California soared to $80,454 in market value. But has avoided any recession, unlike the first, which will remain un- "I don't think there will be any really der the same ownership, it will have a severe cutting in the next five or six cnange in ownership Just before the months, because the bail out is coming March 1, 1980, lien date, and the market being probed YUCCA VALLEY An investigation continued Saturday night into the death of a 58-year-old woman whose body was found here earlier in the day. Sheriff's Detective Billy Arthur said Garnet J.

Harris of 7239 Cherokee Yucca Valley, was found dead in her apartment after neighbors called for a sheriff's deputy to see if the woman was all right. Arthur said the deputy found the woman dead, but because of the decomposition of the body, cause of death was not known. "At first we thought we had a murder, but the head wound we thought was a bullet wound wasn't," Arthur (aid. County pathologist Irvin Root was flown by sheriff's helicopter to the desert community. This is not a common practice, Arthur said, but "due to the strangeness of the death scene, we felt we should get a pathologist here to determine death circumstances." Arthur said the woman could have fallen and struck her head, causing the head wound.

It appeared the woman suffered from a condition similar to hemophilia and was a "bleeder." Detectives said this meant she could have injured herself and bled to death hile unconscious. It appeared Harris had been dead since at least Thursday night. "That was the last time she was seen and we feel that was about when her death occurred," Arthur said. Staff photo by Don Black Ernest Dronenburg, state Board of Equalization. Missile flights over California set again to shore up the ranks.

But the real bite-the-bullet year will be next year. "The real impact on tities and counties will be when they have to make the hard decisions on which programs they want to keep and which they have to let go." If you had it all to do from scratch, what would be your idea of a model tax program in California? "I believe you must have some kind of tax at the local level to get local interest in what's going on. If people are not paying any county property taxes, they are not going to be interested in how those county dollars are working. They're just going to demand more services because it's like the federal system. Everybody does it.

They're going to say, if we don't take that service, somebody else is going to get it "I would maintain some kind of property tax system, but I would also bring back some equity. This thing we talked about with the guy living in the house, and 10 years later somebody else moves in with a different value, I think that's not equitable and that's going to cause a revolt. "Even if we had to go back to some annual reassessing of every parcel at a certain factor, and maybe bringing up the other parcels, we need some kind of new system that would bring equity but maintain the property tax base in the county and the city." Dronenburg said he hopes to streamline and eliminate some unnecessary paperwork and regulations and simplify others, wipe out some of the "cookie jar" taxes (utility surcharges, sales taxes on goods sold to cities, counties and schools), and start working on a master plan of taxation that will result in a comprehensive and equitable tax system. In this system, he would retain local property taxes, and sales and income taxes, with an annual setting of income tax rates to meet budgeted expenses for the year, so that surpluses would be eliminated. Dronenburg, whose 2nd District includes Fresno, Tulare, Kings, Kern, Riverside, Orange, Imperial, San Diego and San Bernardino counties, said he was the first Republican elected to the post in 24 years.

value, $80,454, will also become the appraised value for 1980-81 for the new owner. This is $36,000 more than the appraised value of the first home. There has been no change of ownership in home number four, but the owner added a room in the 1979-80 tax year, which will add 10 percent to its market value on the 1980-81 assessment roll. The market value will increase by $8,045 from $80,454 to $88,499 while the appraised value will increase from its 1979-80 Proposition 13 value of $43,297 to $52,208, an 18 percent Increase over what its appraised value would have been without the addition. "The original portion of the home is still appraised at its base-year value, but the new addition is appraised as its current market value "That's the mixed bag for homeowners in California as we enter the second year under Proposition 13," said Dronenburg.

His views on other questions: Proposition 13's central message: Property owners were getting conflicting messages from government, with some officials such as the supervisors promising no tax Increases, but with taxes going up nevertheless because assessors were Increasing assessments to reflect soaring market values and inflation. In passing Proposition 13, they said, "Let's just call it to a halt, and have some definition as to how much my taxes will be next year, and limit further increases to 2 percent a year." The voters also said "If there is waste in government, let's squeeze them by not giving them any money and making them either fish or cut bait. Either we're not going to have the services, or we're going to find out they can work with a lot less." Taxation: "I'm convinced voters don't understand taxation. It has taken me five or six years (with seven years' experience as a field audit supervisor for the board's San Diego office) to understand it I've always felt that people wanted to be taxed where they feel it less through withholding and sales taxes." If Proposition 13 had a purpose, is it travel over the Naval Weapons Center at China Lake, cross the Nevada border and turn east toward the Panaca, Nevada area. As it leaves this area, the missile will go either to the south or north of Panaca, until it reaches the Utah range, whne it will be recovered by a parachute and helicopter recovery system.

The cruise missile, which will be launched from Air Force B-52 bombers, is President Carter's alternative to the B-l bomber, whose production he canceled two years ago. The unmanned missile is designed to be armed with nuclear warheads and launched from the B-52s in the airspace outside an enemy's borders. Lewis dump new dollar Gannett News Service WASHINGTON The Defense Department has announced that the Air Force will launch approximately 20 cruise missile test flights over portions of California, Nevada and Utah from July through the end of 1979. The tests, hich are part of a competitive fly-off between the Boeing AGM-86B and the General Dynamics AGM-109 missile, will follow a 10-mile-wide corridor after they are launched from the Pacific Missile Test Range off the California coast and land at the Utah Test and Training Range southwest of Salt Lake City. The route will take the missiles, which will be unarmed, just south of Santa Barbara's Vandenberg Air Force Base to a point about 100 miles west of Edwards Air Force base.

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