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 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. 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