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1957 Tax Foundation's Taxpayer News: News of the Organized Taxpayer Movement 1 (1957)

handle is hein.tera/tfouayern0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FEBRUARY 1957 TAX FOUNDATION'S NEWS OF THE ORGANIZED TAXPAYER MOVEMENT Plan Reorganization Of Kentucky Group A major reorganization and ex- pansion is now going on in the Ken- tucky Research Association. The re- organization spadework is guided by Alex S. Chamberlain, vice president of the Ashland Oil and Refining Company. During November, ten business- men representing a cross-section of the state's industries made a trip to talk to staff and executive committee members of four neighboring state organizations, Illinois Taxpayers' Federation, Ohio Public Expenditure Council, Pennsylvania Economy League and Tennessee Taxpayers' Association. Questionnaires were also sent to all of the other state taxpayer groups asking for information on objectives, programs, accomplishments, mem- bership, organization, budget, staff and publications. The information produced by these visits and the questionnaire replies from state directors is now being studied and a reorganization meeting (Continued on page 4) 'Brad' Trenham Ends 311/2 Years Service N. Bradford Brad Trenham, Executive Vice President of the Cali- fornia Taxpayers' Association, for- mally terminated his long career with that organization as of December 3 1. An apt subtitle to this taxpayer man's history could well be: The Man Who Came to Stay for 30 Years. For, according to his own account, Brad joined CTA on July 12, 1926 as Secretary of the Association's Edu- cational Commission, promising him- self to stay for two years. As of July 13 last year, he began his 31st year of service with CTA. Although he moves on to other work (S. J. Arnold, successively CTA's finance manager, secretary and general manager succeeds him) Brad says: I do not want anyone to think that I am taking a run-out powder from the taxpayers' battle. (Continued on page 4) Taxmen, Legislators Confer on Program A pioneering venture in taxpayer- legislator relations was recently launched in Washington by the Wash- ington State Research Council. The occasion was a two-day Pre- Legislative Conference for legislators and laymen to try and determine what the state may do on taxation and in the important expenditure fields of highways and education. The Conference was made possible by a $25,000 Ford Foundation grant which was supplemented by Council funds. The Conference was attended by more than 250 people, about half legislators and half lay participants, observers, Council trustees, and staff workers. (Continued on page 3) States' Articles Gain Recognition Intergovernmental Relations in the U.S.-A Selected Bibliography includes 41 articles taken from tax- payer publications in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Mas- sachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Prepared by the Library of Con- gress, the bibliography was drawn from a selection of the more signi- ficant items by persons or organi- zations of established reputation, according to announcement of the 119-page publication. I This is the first issue of TAX- PAYER NEWS, a new Tax Foun- dation publication designed to serve the interests of the organ- ized taxpayer movement. Sug- gestions for usable material, pictures especially, will be wel- comed at Tax Foundation, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N. Y.

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