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join use of such funds. The circuit
court decided in favor of the plaintiff,
a heavy contributor to the industrial
-'„'accident fund, and h n injunction w rea
grahted.
“The state appealed to the Oregon
s u p re m e B u r t, and in a 4 to 3 opinion
th e m ajo rity ., sustained the- circuit
court, and it japp eared th at e n d e d ||h e
m atter. B ut shortly th ereafter Justice
George H. B u rn ett died, and Justice
George Rossm an w as appointed to H M
the vacancy.
“A reh earin g was granted. Justice
Rossman th en w rote the, prevailing
opinion in w hich three others joined,
w hich upset th e previous decision and
held th a t th e law authorizing th e bo r­
row ing from state funds for such p u r-
poses w as not untphsiitutional. I
“E astern & W estern appealed to the
U nited S tates suprem e court. On F eb­
ru a ry 25, 1929, th a t court w rote the
fin al answ er, affirm ing th e Oregon su­
prem e court.
‘/So-* construction was finally sta rt­
ed and the building was occupied in
1930.
“The ag ricu ltu ral building is the
third, oldest in th e state group.
b u ilt pyi p riv ate p a rtie sgand leased to
the state, th en later bought for about
$84,000 in 1931.
“F o u rth and finest of the group is
th e capitol itself, com pleted in 1939 at
a cost of some $2,500,000 to replace
the old state house destroyed by fire
A pril 25, 1935. The design arfe$ plans
for th e n ew 'cubitol-w ere chosen’ after,
a nationw ide W chitectU ral^om petition
in w hich 123 firm s participated.
“Thfe w inners w ere Trow bridge &
Livingston® and F rancis K eally of New
Y ork City. They received an aw ard of
$132,000, w hich, of course, also cov­
ered th e ir arch itectu ral w ork for the
edifice.
“F ive o th er firm s received consol­
ation prizes of $1,500 each.
“As it was, th e building finally er­
ected is considered by m any visitors
who hav e seen th em all, the most b eau­
tifu l state capitol in Am erica.
“The state lib ra ry building was com­
pleted in 1939 at a cost of $875,730. In
keeping w ith the cloistered atm os­
p h ere th a t’s supposed to surround a
lib rary , the construction of this b u ild ­
ing was serene and w ithout u n to w ard
‘-A new building for th e state h ig h -
w ay departm ent is rising now, ju st
north of the P ublic Service building.
“The Public Service ‘ b u ildffggjgw ill
house the state police, the state board
of co n t« M the au d it division of the
secretary of sta te ’s office, the- ciw l
service commission, the public u tili-
ties commission, the in d u stria l acci­
dent commission, and the unem ploy­
m ent com pensation com m ission.” I
OSEA Member
On Committee
M ayor R obert L, E lfstrom , of Salem ,
in ’appointij|||H a tra n s W aOafon com­
m ittee for the purpose of surveying the
bus! trdns^B aK ibnB M ^S^o^M B K ^ ^ ^ g;
nized t ^ ^ b f e e Em ployees A ssociation
as a potential factor in Salem and in ­
cluded a m em ber of the organization,
D. H. Cam eron, SUCC, on his com m it­
tee.
Much w ork has been done by the
com m ittee and th ere has now been
published in th e local new spapers re -
vised schedules w hich call for new
rou tings. This schedule w ill be placed I
in effect in the n ear fu tu re. N early
all schedules have been arran g ed so
th at employees m ay tra v e l to and from
w ork w ith g reater convenience than
in the past.
P arking is rapidly becom ing a ser­
ious problem in the capitol area and
the com m ittee recognizes this by u rg ­
ing all employes, w henever possible,
to use this form of public tra n s p o rta ­
tion as a m eans of relieving th e parkf-fc
in y
tol area.
A girl w orking in a F ed eral G ov­
ernm ent office in New Y ork w ro te her
parents: “I w ork in the d ata analysis
grbup of the aptitude test su b -u n it of
the w orker and analysis section of the
diWOBi of occupational analysis and
m anning tables of the b u re au of labor
the W ar M anpow er Com­
mission w hich is u n d er the Office of
Em ergency M anagem ent.” H erum other
w ired back: “Come hom e im m ediate­
ly.”