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H. A. YOUNG. Editor
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' The proposed state-owned radio
system for use of the police bureau
and highway department has now
progressed to the state where bids
will be received for installation of the
system at the meeting of the highway
commission in Portland on June 27.
Fourteen installations are contem
plated. Three stations of 1000-watt
capacity each will be installed at Sa
lem, La Grande and Klamath Falls.
Smaller stations of 50-watt capacity
will be installed at Roseburg, The
Dalles, Portland, Astoria, Bend, Co
quille and Burns. Still smaller sta
tions of 10-watt capacity will be in
stalled at Pendleton, Baker, Eugene
and Grants Pass. It Is estimated that
the installation will cost 850,000 of
which the federal government will
supply 45 per cent.
many loans in excess of the actual
value of the land given as security.
The present board is merely attempt
ing to clean up the mess it inheri
and in doing so is compelled to write
off heavy losses In order to get prop
erty back into private ownership and
onto the tax rolls.
The state’s relief budget to to be
kept on a cash basis if at all possible,
Governor Martin declared this week.
Refusing to authorise a new issue of
$200,000 in certificates of indebted- ■
ness to be underwittem by future
profits of the state’s liquor system the
governor directed Elmer Goudy, state '
relief administrator to cut the relief
rolls to the bone and stay within rev
enues available from current liquor
profits — approximately $150,000 a
month.
Start of the test pits on the site to
be occupied by the new capitol build
ing was a momentous occasion with
Governor Martin turning the first
spadeful of earth and making a short
speech in which he lauded the state
house planners for the excellence of
the winning design and predicted
that the new building will be a real
credit to the state. Members of the'
capitol commission, the architects]
who will design and supervise tbs'
new building, and high state officials
attended the ceremony.
Smith Wood-Products, Inc
I III IE, OREGON
Knotty Sugar Pine
1 X 4 to 1 X 12. For fine paneling
Sugar Pine V Rustic
The gasoline tax in Oregon’ has
yielded $66,462,378 in revenue to the
state since the first tax was imposed
in 1919. The total for the United
States in that 16-year period to $5,-
318,615,865, or an average of $332,-
A balance of more than $4,000 still
413,491 per year. ' No wonder the
federal government is edging in on remaining in a relief fund contribut
this gold mine of revenue and wants j ed by state employees in 1931 will be
used for the relief of any employee
to steal it from the states.
who was on the state payroll at the
AN ANNIVERSARY
time the fund was created and who
It was ten years ago this year that might be in need at some time in the
- was decided by mem-, state-owned automobiles continue
commercial
aviation was
born. future. This
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Therefore, it is interesting to see how bers of the fund committee at a meet- ’ t0 increase. Records of the purchas
ing
this
week.
The
money
has
been
ing
department
show
that
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rapid the development has been in
tied up in the First National Bank of mobiles and 30 trucks have been
this field.
Ten years ago, there were no reg Salem and has only recently been re- | added to the motorized equipment,
ular commercially-operated air mail leased. Approximately $85,000 was owned by state departments in the
and
passenger - carrying airplane contributed by state employees to past 16 motnhs. The number now to
lines. In 1930, airplanes flew 95,000,- ward the relief of needy persons at tals 591 automobiles and 755 trucks.
the time.
000 passenger-miles; in 1935, passen-
ger-miles totaled 313,410,560.
In
Cities which permit the existence
Continuation of the program of
1930,
airmail
totaled
7,000,000
of “attractive nuisances” and fail to
adult
eduaction
after
this
month
will
pounds; in 1935, it was 13,276,023
surround them with adequate safe
We carry a complete line of 1x3 to 2x12 No. 1 and No. 2 Common
pounds. In 193», air express pound depend upon the availability of fed guards do so at their own peril. The
Cedar,
suitable for all building purposes, surfaced or rough.
eral
funds,
according
to
Roben
J.
age was 286,000; in 1935, it was 3,-
supreme court this week held that
Maaske, director of the program.
Consult
the Retail Department for our low prices on Cedar.
814,000.
the city of St. Helens was responsible
Airplanes, ten years ago,' were Maaske said that 10,545 adults are for the death of a four-year old child
something new Public confidence in now enrolled in the various courses who had drowned in an abandoned
them had to be created before they being offered in the 25 counties and water-filled quarry located on city
would “take.”
And in these days giving employment to 252 otherwise property. In its opinion the court
jobless teachers.
when many folks advocate govern
Let us show you our Lumber Stocks in warehouse
held that it was the duty of the city
mental operation of everything, it Is
to “exercise due care to render the
and on dock at the Smith
Legal authorities who have had
interesting to look back upon the de
place reasonably safe or else exclude
opportunity to study the recent opin
' Wood-Products Plant
velopment of aviation — in private
ion of the United States supreme court children from it.”
hands.
in the New York case are pretty gen
erally agreed that the principle of How the Landon for
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
minimum wage legislation has been
President Movement Began
WILL BE ENDANGERED
dealt a blow from which it can re
Unless Oregon labor leaders resort cover only through resort to a con
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to arbitration rather than to strikes stitutional amendment. Oregon was
for the settlement of labor disputes, -he first state to enact a minimum see for themselves. They went in au
the state and naional unemployment wage law.
The act passed by this tomobiles; on regular trains; in spe
insurance and social security acts in state in 1913 and upheld by theJJ. S. cial cars and by airplane. Then they
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this state will have become nullified supreme court in 1917, has been came back and complimented their
within the next few years.
his
home
town
Independence,
and
the
Palling
cards,
50
for
81
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closely followed by most of the other editor^ and reporters on the acumen
ot ,he *tat* treasurer, proeecut-
This is the prediction made by W. sixteen states which have written these had shown. From that time on ing and convicting those responsible state of Kansas. We have faith, in '
H. Perkins, manager of the Oregon minimum wage legislation into their
the papers have been full of Alf for the bond scandal, he was able to the American people, believe they ’
Producers and Shippers Association, statutes since that time.
restore confidence in Kansas bonds want a change at Washington, and as
Landon.
following a trip throughout the state
they realize his worth as the cam
Meanwhile the radio discovered and today none are quoted higher.
during which he made a study of in
By his thrift, a trait inherited from paign progresses, and they know him
Two Salem citizens who witnessed Landon.
Ditto the photographers.
dustrial conditions as they affect the laying of the cornerstone for Ore
Ditto the taxi drivers and filling sta his mother, he has placed Kansas on as we do, we are satisfied he will be
agriculture.
A
gon’s old capitol in 1873 were present tion attendant/ throughout the coun a business basis, balanced the budget nominated and later elected as presi
“The lofcgirfa strike which has been to watch Governor Martin turn the
try. Kansas tourists instead of be and now Kansas counties and cities dent.
carried on for more than a month and first dirt for the proposed new Cap
ing greeted “how’s the dust" were in are on a cash basis. Taxes have been
which threw approximately 10,000 itol last week. They were H. S. Bolle,
variably asked “how about this man reduced, all done during the depres
Oregon laborers out of employment, now 91 years of age, and Mrs. Ida
Landon?” The snow ball was roll sion. Governor Landon has served
is causing agriculture, and particu Babcock.
G. T. COOK
his state and country faithfully and
ing.
larly fruit growers some little con
successfully,
and
if
he
receives
the
By early spring it had rolled from
Brick Mason
cern,” he said. “Fruit growers are
State departments and institutions
Maine to California and back to New nomination this week, the people can
apprehensive that a situation similar are already beginning to give atten
Fireplace« and Chimneys
GREENS & FAIRWAYS
York and to now headed for Wash rest assured he has the ability, ex
to last year may develop, during tion to their biennial budgets for 1937-
perience and ambition to make an
P. O. Box C2, Coquille
ington.
in Fine Shape
which box shook supplies were de 38. Budget requests for the next two
Above story would not be complete outstanding president, of whom all
pleted and prices necessarily ad years are expected to exceed those
may
be
as
proud,
as
we
are
of
him
without a background warranting the
vanced sharply.
I for the current biennium
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because of
meteor like advancement of this today.
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“Agriculture is particularly con- ( th« gradually increasing cost of all
He is known to his Independence
Kansas Governor, Alf M. Landon.
cemed over the fact that logging and commodities. It to also expected that
friends
as a man of correct thinking,
mill operations in the state of Wash strenuous efforts will be made to re Governor Landon is 49 years of age, active in public affairs and stands on
son
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
John
M.
Landon,
ington have not been affected by the store pay of state officials and em his father being an oil man, whose 1
own.1 w0. /***•_
*• * home man.
current labor difficulties, and hun ployees to the 1932 base from which family came from England to’ Amer- J*ving the life of an average citizen,
dreds of thousands of dollars have it was reduced by cuts enforced by ica in 1650, settling in Pennsylvania bellev,n« ln our institutions and
been sent out of Oregon because of the legislative session of 1933.
and became successful fanners. His American form of government,
the long continued Jailure to negoti
His word is as good as his bond in
ate a compromise settlement.
State employees who have been es mother’s people, the Mossmans, were
“Aside from the immediate losses caping federal income taxes in the born in Scotland, coming to America
suffered by all Oregon business as a past may not be so fortunate in the in the pioneer days. His grandfather.'
result of this strike, it carries a far- future. This applies especially to Rev. William Herman Mossman, was
reaching significance in the orderly employees of self-supporting depart a Methodist minister in Pennsylvania.
Alf Landon spent his boyhood days
operation of the unemployment in ments. First intimation that Uncle
surance operations in this state.
Sam was rounding up new contribu in Ohio, coming to Kansas at the age
“At the last special session of the tors to his public purse came in a re of 17 years, locating at Independence,
legislature a law was enacted requir quest for a list of employees of the Kansas, with hto parents. He entered
ing employers to pay a certain per industrial accident commission to Kansas University, where he gradu
centage of their monthly payrolls in gether with their salaries for the past ated from the law department. Wish
to a state and federal fund for un four yean. This department is sup ing to learn something of the bank
employment insurance for their em ported by contributions from indus ing business he spent two years as a
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ployees. Under the Oregon law the trial employen and receives no state bank clerk at Independence, but the
AIR-CONDITIONED
employees do not have to contribute funds. A number of other state de outdoor life appealed to him, so he
one cent to that fund.
partments are in the same category, resigned and took up the oil business,
COOL, CLEAN WAY!
“As a result of long-continued la notably the public utilities commis-1 leasing land, drilling, buying and
Now, you caa enjoy the
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bor troubles, many employers are sion, the motor transport division, the' sel,in« oil property in his own name,
comforts of cool, clean
llniinr nrwriezJ
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Rv strict
irtsxoc and
strict nttsantirtn
attention trs
to business,
facing financial ruin and will be liquor
control commission and
the By
travel regardless of the
1069 Mission St., San Fran- 1
his thrift, in paying as he went, he
forced into bankruptcy unless labor banking department.
train or the type of accom
sd you will receive your
prospered in the oil game and became ,
conditions show a decided improve
modations you choose. All
by return mail. No postage or other
our
trains
to
California
one
of
the
outstanding
independent
I
Mrs. Clara Patterson, superinten
ment. If employees want to insure
charges to pay.
are completely air-condi
the safe operation of the unemploy dent of the state industrial school for oil operators in the Mid-Corrtinent
Swssfoa, err tut lituJ in tit Al
tioned! Why go less com
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ment insurance law, they must show girls, plans to ask the next legisla field. He was always active in poli
tnltuUt
frrminmt ftt '** !•< h tutti
fortably when train travel
a better spirit of co-operation or they ture for a new building—a combina tics and campaigned for “Teddy”
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f’tu’**t CttJtt. AMrtti:
provides—the exclusive
will soon find themselves without tion gymnasium, auditorium and Roosevelt, whe«kC5 years of age. He
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advantage of air-conditioo-
Mutut Strut, Snt I’rMtiict, Ctirfrrnu.
this desired protection.
school room. The institution now has was private secretary to Henry J.
ing, fares at 2c A MILI
Allen in 1922 and six years later be
"Agriculture to deeply interested in 61 inmates housed in two cottages.
He ~4a«Me rt*“ mMk
AND LESS, Sr and lOr
this problem for the reason that mar
came state chairman of the republi
tray food service, bargain
and texture. For tea and coffee use
Alpine just as it to—"double rich.“
Losses of more than $34,000 in the can party, and in 1930 managed
kets for agricultural products become
dining car meals and the
M/rrf, smoothest highway
stagnated and prices fall below the operations of the state land board for Clyde Reed's campaign.
He was
level of production costs if there to the past 21 months, as revealed in an elected governor of Kansas in 1932
widespread labor difficulties and audit just completed, can not proper and reelected in 1934, being the only
ly be laid at the door of the present republican governor elected that year
consequent unemployment.”
administration. The losses were sus west of the Hudson river. As gov-
tained in the sale of properties taken emor he has faced some of the grav
over by the board to protect loans est problems ever faced by an execu
from the common school fund. Some tive. The Finney Bond scandal,
U. E. McCLARY
A. F. A A. M.
of these loans'date back for 30 years. which threatened the value of all
Refrigerators, Radios, Washers
Special CoMMonication
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Most of them were made during the Kansas bonds in financial centers,
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boom period. Liberal appraisals and and the credit of the state.
Tuesday, June 23, 8 p. m
By his
lax supervision on the part of the prompt action in taking charge of the
Work in M. M.
4 board at that time accounted for State Treasury, ordering the nealgna-
1 X 4 to 1 X 12
Douglas Fir Moldings & Finish
All Designs in Stock
We have a Complete Line of
Pulley Stile and Door Jambs
No Order Too Small—A Slick or a Carload
Bandon
Chadwick Lodge No. 18
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