Friday, December 11, 1936
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
MARTIN WILL
OPPOSE STATE
REFORMATORY
By A. L L1NDBECK
State Capital News Bureau of the
Southern Oregon Miner
the present day agitation for di- I
version and reallocation of high
way funds is due to a failure to
understand the problem faced by
the highway commission.
“Th«- entire «onotiilc prin
ciple of highway transporta
tion is predicat«*«! u|H>n th«* as
sumption that road taxis« are
specific tax«*» aMMSwied against
a iMirticular claaa for a ¡»ar
ticular purpose,** Cabell ¡niints
«ait. “The diversion of such
taxes from road list's is funda-
iiM*ntally unsound and unjust.”
• * •
0ALEM It will take another 16
years to complete Oregon's
present system of primary ami
secondary highways to nuxiern
Any attempt on the part of the
day standards according to Henry forthcoming legislature to revive
F. Cabell, chairman of the state the move for a reformatory for
highway commission. This esti first offenders will meet with the
mate, Cabell explains, is base«! opposition of Governor Martin.
upon a continuation of the state's
“Th«' first offenders art' our
present highway financing pro
worst
criminals,”
Governor
gram and an anticipated normal
Martin declared in discussing
increase in revenues from auto
the prison situation this week.
mobile registration fees and gaso
“If we are going to segregate
line taxes
the prisoners it is the older
"Any substantial reduction in
iiH'it who should be given the
revenues or any diversion or re
best of It."
allocation of highway funds will
Echoing the sentiments of his
indefinitely postpone completion of chief, W. L. Gosslin. secretary to
the highway program," Cabell the governor and member of the
warns
state parole boarii this week went
Calling attention to the fact on record as favoring a more lib
that the net revenues of the high eral parole policy rather than ’ a
way department for 1937 will ap new penal institution.
proximate $11,170,000 Cabell ex
•‘A paroled man can be prop
plains that $7,400,000 of * this
“
erly supervised at a cost of only
amount will be required to meet $15 to $17.50 a year whereas it
fixed expenses including payment costs the state $250 a year to
of bond principle and interest, ! keep a prisoner Inside the walls
maintenance and administration of the penitentiary.” Gosslin de-
de
costs. This leaves only $3,770,000 I dared. Under our present inade
for construction purposes of all quate parole system less than one-
kinds of which $2,000,000 will be ! third of those eligible for parole
required to match federal funds have been granted clemency. An
and another $550,000 for purchase j adequate parole system would
of right of way and surveys for justify the governor in paroling
federal aid projects. Only $1.220.- 100 more prisoners each year re
000 will be available for con sulting in an annual saving of
struction and reconstruction of $50 000 to the taxpayers "
» • •
state projects, that is projects in
Pians for a 40-day racing
which the federal government
meet at the state fair grounds
does not cooperate.
Cabell declares that much of I were given a set-back «hen
attorney general ruled that
the law forbid It'aslng of th«*
property for this ¡>ur|HMw*. Th«*
law limits racing on I. cmi «» Oak
track to th«* m I x <I u ) h of th«*
annual fair, \ iinUinkl«* «!<■
clMred.
• • •
O. D. Adams, state director for
vocational education, has just
been honored with election as vice
president of the American Voca
tional association which met in
annual session at San Antonio,
Texas, last week
Four states besides Oregon will
use the black an«! white combin
ations in the automobile license
plates for 1937. Secretary of State
Snell has been advised. They ar«*
Missouri, Utah, Virginia and
Wyoming.
SNELL \**>Ks COOPERATION
IN ISS1INU EAKLY I'LATFS
In older to reduce the last min
ute rust January 1, Secretary of
State Earl Snell is urging that
motor vehicle operator s apply for
their 1937 license plates as soon
as possible.
It is estimat«a! that 350,000 mo
tor vehicles will be licensed in
Oregon the coming year, with
most of the applications being re
ceived around the first of January.
111 the Matter of the Estate of
ALEXANDER I’ GRANT, de-
v .
.1
The undersigned having been
appointed by the above entitled
c*ourt of the state of Oregon, for
the county aforesaid, as Admin
istrator «itn \\ in AnnsMd oi U m
estate of Alexander 1’. Grant, de
cease«!, ami having qualified, not
ice is hereby given to the creditors
of, and all persons having cluims
against sal«! deceased, to present
them. verifier! as r«*quire«i by law.
within six months after the first
publication of this notice, to salii
CHARLES W. BUETTNER at the
oiflee of BRIGGS «4 BRIGGS, at
torneys. Pioneer building, Ashland,
Oregon.
CHARLES W BUETTNER,
Administrator-with-Will-Annexed
<’t th«' Hatnte of Alexander 1’
Grant, Deceased.
DATE OF FIRST l’l'Hl.lt'A
TION November 20. 1936
(11-20 27. 12-4 11)
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