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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 22, 1936. PAGE FIVE state kirwr CAPITAL INC W O Pension Upset Wild Life Meet Budget Requirements By A. L. LINDBECK SALEM. Approval of senate bill 43 of the 1935 special session by the voters at the November election would, la the opinion of state of ficials who are familiar with its provisions, completely demoralize the state's old age pension set-up. The measure is on the ballot by reason of the referendum Invoked shortly after the session adjourned. Among other things the measure diverts the $1,000,000 appropriation for old age pensions or such por tion aa remains unexpended to general relief purposes. At the same time it diverts county tax levies for old age pensions to general relief purposes. The effect of these pro visions, it la pointed out, would be to leave both the state and the counties without any money for old age pension payments. As a con sequence the state would be unable to match federal funds which would also be withheld until this lack was remedied either at the forthcoming regular session or at a special ses sion! of the legislature. These pro visions are generally regarded as having been written into the meas ure by sales tax advocates with a view to forcing adoption of this tax in order to finance old age pensions. Other provisions in the measure such as the reduction of the age of the pension beneficiaries to 65 years and provisions necessary to make the state law conform to the federal act, it is explained, can be enacted by the legislative session which meets in January without exposing the present set-up to the danger in volved In stripping the old age pen sion fund bare of all available fi nances. The cash float in the state treas ury as of September 30 exceeded $12,500,000 according to a state ment by State Treasurer Rufus Holman. The amount included ap proximately $6,250,000 In the general fund and approximately $1,500,000 of highway funds. The "cash float" reached a peak on May 1 when there was approximately $14,500,000 to the credit of the several state funds. The World War Veterans State Aid commission sold 89 properties during September for prices aggre gating $201,476.22 to set a new high record, according to Jerrold Owen, secretary to the commission. Dur ing the nine month period to Sep tember 30 the commission sold 897 properties for a total of $2,223,534. 56, netting the state a profit of $47, 955.97 above its investment, Owen reports. Demand for Oregon prop erty both city and farm has shown a steady increase since Feb ruary according to Owen, purchas ers including many ex-service men who are Investing their bonus mon ey in real estate. Governor Martin has Issued a call for a wild life conference to be held at the State college in Corvallls No vember 19 and 20. All individuals and organizations interested in husbanding and developing Ore gon's wild life resources," are urged by the governor to attend or send a representative. Harriet C. Long, state librarian rushed to the aid of stricken Ban don with an emergency library, se lecting 600 valumes from the state library and carting them to Ban don at her own expense. Tempor ary quarters have been set up In a tent. Prior to the fire Bandon had a library of 5400 volumes with an an nual circulation of 23,000 loans, one of the highest per capita circula tions In the state. Tentative butfget requirements of the state's numerous departments, institutions, boards and commis sions for the biennium of 1937-38 as reported to Budget Director Whar ton exceed $21,300,000, it was re vealed by Governor Martin this week. Major Items In the budget include $3,600,000 for the state's share of assistance to the poor; $2,381,400 as the state's share of old age pen sions; $5,054,420.92 for the 11 state institutions; $5,218,850 for higher education of which $1,322,048 repre sents a supplemental appropriation in addition to the regular millage revenues; $310,000 for orphans and foundlings and $60,000 for the care of wayward girls. State revenues from taxes and miscellaneous revenues within the constitutional limitation for the be ennium are estimated by the tax commission at approximately $13, 000,000. Liquor profits, now being used to finance assistance to the poor, are estimated at $3,600,000 for the two year period. The millage levy for higher education outside the six percent limit will raise ap proximately $2,600,000. Total of these three Items gives approxi mately $19,200,000 with which to finance the budgeted activities for the biennium. In addition to the budgeted ac tivities Included In the $21,300,000 figure provision must also be made for paying off $916,667 on the cost of the new capltol out of tax levies during the next two years, increas ing the estimated financial needs to more than $22,200,000. Governor Martin In announcing the total of the budget requests also took a Arm stand against any In crease in the tax load or any new bond Issues and declared that the state must be operated on a pay-as-you-go basis. That means it Is up to the budeet director or the legis lature to trim at least $3,000,000 from the estimates now on file, as suming that all the demands are now in. Oregon's 14 port districts reduced their debt load by more than $eitv 000 durlne the past two years, cut ting It from $7,721,585.55 as of July 1. 1934. to $7,l0S,36.i) as or juiy i 1936, according to a report compiled bv State Treasurer Holman. Co- qullle River Is one of the three port districts which have no outstanding debt, either bond or warrant The port of The Dalles which was in the debtless class two years ago has since floated a bond issue of $0, 000. The port of Coos Bay with a debt load of $648,975.72, is one of three port districts whose debt ra tio exceeds five percent of the dis trict's assessed valuation. The port of Toledo is shown to have paid off $32,000 of its obligations during the biennium, reducing it outstanding debt to $77,000. Motorists who plaster their wind shields with political stickers are violating the law according to Sec retary of State Snell who calls at tention to the fact that stickers of any kind are prohibited, not only on the windshield but on the side and rear windows of automobiles. Oregon policy holders in the Gen eral American Life Insurance com pany will be interested in the re port brough back from St. Louis by Hugh H. Earle, state insurance commissioner, to the effect that the company is making a reduction of 22 Mi percent in the liens placed against all policies of the old Mis souri State Life Insurance company when that company, finding itself in serious financial straits a few years ago, was reorganizing under the new name and management High school principals of the state meeting here in their annual con ference Saturday elected Thomas Fowler of Tigard as president for the coming year; Paul R. McCul loch of The Dalles, vice president, and Charles A. Fry of Portland, member of the board of directors. R. W. Tavener of Salem was re tained as secretary-treasurer. Res olutions were adopted by the prin cipals urging the federal govern ment to cut all red tape In rushing financial aid to the schools at Ban don where theachers are going pay less because of the Impoverished condition of the district as a result of the recent disastrous fire. Observance of Navy Day on Tues day, October 27, was urged this week by Governor Martin In an open' letter to the public. rehearing of the appeal, la Its recent opinion the court merely held dart games to be lotteries and a violation of the state constitution without attempting to define lotter ies although two members of the court in a specially concurring opinion defined lotteries as any game in which chance was the pre dominating factor, regardless of the fact that it might also involve an element of skill or knowledge. Distribution of $45,305.94 in liquor revenues was completed this week by Secretary of State Snell. The distribution represented the quar terly taxes imposed on manufac turers and importing distributors of malt and alcoholic beverages and was made upon a population basis. Each of the 36 counties and 192 in corporated towns participated in the distribution. Morrow county's share in the distribution amount ed to $151.43. Heppner received $56.63; Boardman, $4.75; lone, $13. 44; Lexington, $8.55. One hundred and seventy-five Or egon high school principals are ex pected to attend the annual confer ence to be held here Friday and Sat urday of this week under the joint sponsorship of the high school prin- cipal s association and the state de partment of education. Clyde H. Beard, principal of the Roseburg high school, will preside. Start of construction work on Oregon's new $2,500,000 capitol shortly after the first of December seems to be assured with the an nouncement by the capitol commis sion that it will open bids and award the contract on November 20. Excavation work for the build ing has already been completed. With three months yet to go reg istration of foreign automobiles in Oregon are already 20 percent above those for 1935 according to figures released by Secretary of State Snell. For the nine months end ing September 30 a total of 120,434 automobiles visited the state com pared to 100,303 for the entire 12 months of 1935. California contrib- Roosevelt, McNary Liquor Money More Road Aid SALEM. -With the national elec tion less than three weeks in the future Oregon voters are expected to cast partisanship to the winds as they go to the polls on November 3 to give a substantial vote of confi dence for Franklin Delano Roose velt, democratic candidate for pres ident and Charles L. McNary, re publican candidate for United States senator. iscounting claims of the profess ional ballyhooers who continue to rant and rave In behalf of their re spective candidates it can now be pretty safely predicted that Oregon will line up in the Democratic col umn in the national contest for the presidency while at the same time, Inconsistent as it may appear, the state will return its senior senator a republican to another term in the national law making body. Conservative republicans whose survey of the situation leads them to concede Roosevelt's victory over Landon in Oregon still contend that the race will be a close one and by no means the landslide by which the state went Democratic In 1932 when It gave Roosevelt a plurality of more than 77,000 over Herbert Hoover. Democrats, on the other hand, Insist that the Roosevelt ma jority this year will be as large If not larger than that of four years ago. A conservative view of the sit' uation would seem to point to Dem ocratic majorities in a large ma jority of Oregon's 36 counties with Roosevelt probably trailing Landon in Benton, Marion, Douglas, Lane and one or two others. Wm. Lemke, the Union party candidate, is said to be showing unusual strength in Til lamook, Lincoln and Yamhill coun ties with his partisans claiming those sections as in the bag" al though this claim Is disputed by both Republicans and Democrats. McNary is not expected to exper ience any difficulty In defeating Willis Mahoney, the Democratic candidate for the United States sen atorship. Thousands of conservative Democrats are refusing to support their party's nominee on the ground that he forfeited all right to party support when he bolted the party two years ago after his defeat for the gubernatorial nomination and took the stump for the Republican nominee. While the Klamath Falls mayor Is said to be showing strength in a few counties, including Klam ath, Union, Wallowa and Coos Mc nary is expected to pile up a big lead in a majority of the counties, In the Congressional race it is pretty generally conceded that Jas. W. Mott, republican, will show a clean pair of heels to his Democrat ic opponent, E. W. Klrkpatrlck, In the first Oregon district while Wal ter M. Pierce, Democrat, is expected to be returned for another term in Washington over Roy M. Ritner, republican. In the third district picking the winner is a little more complicated with the presence of John A. Jeffrey, independent Town- sendlte, admittedly detracting from the strength of Nanny Wood Hon eyman, democrat, and, by the same token, aiding the cause of William A. Ekwall, republican Incumbent But even at that the contest in the third district is admittedly a horse race with the result pretty much In doubt Rufus C. Holman, republican, is conceded to have a walk-away In his race against U. S. Burt demo crat, for re-election as state treas urer but the contest between I. H. VanWInkle, republican, and Alfred P. Dobson, democrat, for attorney general Is expected to develop into a real race with Dobson, encouraged by his near victory of four years ago, making an aggressive cam paign and counting on the substan tial Increase in Democratic regis trations to put him over this time. In an effort to secure a court In terpretation of lotteries as contem plated by the Oregon constitution both the defense and prosecution in the Marshfleld dart game case have asked the state supreme court for uted more than SO percent of the tourists. Detailed plans for a proposed state department of geology and mineral industries are contained in a report filed with Governor Martin this week by the state planning board. The plan Includes an ap pointive governing board, a mining branch and a geological branch. It is expected that the plan will be in corporated in a -bill to be presented to the forthcoming legislative ses sion under sponsorship of the state administration. LANDON ON RELIEF I am dedicated to the proposition that henceforth no American citizen shall ever again be put in the po sition where he has to sell his vote for bread. Money Intended for the relief of human suffering is being diverted to the building up of a shameless political machine. No professions of warm humanity can hide this fact After three years it must be obvi ous to everyone that waste and ex travagance do not make jobs. Cracking down on business and arousing class hatreds do not re store employment. The way to recovery is for the government to stop trying to run the lives of 130,000,000 people. If the government will do this, if it will give American initiative a chance, eleven million men and women will not long be looking vainly for relief. . It is not a question of how much the unemployed are getting; it Is a question of how much their politi cal exploiters are taking. Everybody knows there is too much politics in relief. This has be come a national scandal. The evi dence of this playing of politics has been supported by documented and sworn testimony, published in The State Power Bill DOES Mean $18,000,000 in Bonds! Don't be milled by itatementi, how ever sincere, that the propoted State Power Bill doesn't mean more bondi on Oregon property. The State Power Bill Is the first step inissuing$18,000,000of NEW bonds possibly $54,000,000 of bonds, if the legislature says so. The State Power Bill will be use less without bond money to build a gigantic experiment. A vote for the State Power Bill is thrown away unless Oregon taxpayers approve $18,000,000 of bonds at a later elec tion. Don't Be Misled I Uncle Sam won't let Bonneville power lie idle. He hasn't asked Oregon to bond itself. Is there any reason to believe that he won't handle Bonneville power, as he has marketed power else where? Uncle Sam ii (till on this Job. Common Business Horse Power Sense Urges That You VOTE 313 II NO Against the State Power Bill Paid Advertisement by Oregon Business & Investors, Inc., J03 Guaranty Bldg., Portland, Ore., J. S. Magladry, Pres.; F. H. Young, Sec. gB tic The New Deal Reciprocal Trade Agreements have taken the American farmer OUT of the foreign market and put the foreign farmer in the American market! In the first six months of 1936 we bought from foreign countries: 6,536,000 Hogs and exported only 101 280,103 Cattle and exported only 1,528 4,680,000 lbs. of Butter and exported only 454,000 5,662,000 bushels Corn and exported only 355,000 19,806,000 bushels Wheat and exported only 146,000 bushels every part of the land. It is a dis grace to the administration. It is more than that. It is a humiliation to the American people. After nearly four years this ad ministration should have definite ideas on how to meet the relief problem. But it must be obvious to everyone that it has none. What a record for an administration that wants to arrange the details of the entire economic life of our people! We are told that under the FERA the cost of administration the ov erhead in South Carolina was 13 per cent. But in Vermont it was only h per cent. Why? They won't tell us. It is time we demanded an an swer. At present the administration is spending In the name of relief at an annual rate of a billion and a half more than in 1934. And yet, less than two weeks ago in Pitts burgh, the President told us that we have had a more rapid recovery than even he had anticipated. And the band played: "Happy Days Are Here Again." I am opposed to the use of re lief labor, at relief wages, for the construction of federal public works. Farm Meetings, Prunes, Ranges Make AAA News The ideas of Oregon farmers as to improving the present agricul tural conservation program for next year will be carried to regional of ficials of the AAA by representatives of the Oregon State college exten sion service on October 14. On that flfcte a special district meeting at Pocatello, Idaho, is being held when the summaries of suggestions will be received. Sources of these suggestions are individuals and groups of Oregon farmers given opportunity to ex press their own ideas in a series of 32 county meetings held the week of September 28 to October 3. Every effort Is being made by the state committee, the extension service and the regional officials to make next year's program even better adapted to the local needs of each state and district than was the case this year, according to those In charge of the program. Immediate purchase of 3000 tons of Pacific coast standard prunes, in addition to the 5000 tons of sub standard prunes to be handled thru a diversion program, has been au thorized by Secretary of Agricul ture Wallace. Of the new purchase, 2400 tons will be bought In Califor nia and 600 tons In the Paciflo northwest The purchases will be made from packers who agree to buy an equal quantity of unprocessed 1938 crop prunes from growers "at prices not less than a 3 cent basis." These standard prunes will be distributed to families on relief rolls and will thus be removed from normal trade channels, according to AAA an nouncement The 5000 tons of sub standard prunes to be purchased will be diverted to by-products or export trade. These two steps have been taken by the AAA at the request of prune growers who say that they will do much to stabilize the prune market this year. A meeting of the Range Livestock Advisory committee has been call ed for Pendleton on Friday, Octo ber 2, by F. L. Ballard, vice-director in charge of extension at O. S. C. All proposals for range conserva tion practices under the AAA will be submittted to this advisory com mittee for their recommendations, and further suggestions, if any, will be obtained from them. With ap proval already given for carrying out a range program on private lands during the remaining three months of 1936, it is hoped that early approval of specific practices can also be obtained. A report of the Department of Agriculture dated October 12, 1936, shows the following increases in imports for 1936 as compared with 1935: Butter 693.9 Canned Beef 55.7 Wool 173.6 Wheat ... 144.9 THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS JUd$cd TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN FARMER! Pd. Ad Republican State Central Com., Lars Bladlne, Sec, 1012 Falling Bid., Portland 100 Bud Ms G Per tyiOBE' gef .Saien 1000 bud, Oct. vemo. 21'Hl the ? of to. ste ' mm J "' i'Si? m23p. tot Ifou, can siofu ffl Home and farm owners are now 46 MIL LION Dollars behind in their taxes! One out of three homes and farms in Ore gon are subject to sale for taxes! And still the burden mounts! YOUR HOME MAY BE NEXT! i These headlines are only warnings o what is in store for you unless you stopitfi The TAX LIMITATION Bill on the ballot November 3rd is YOUR Bill; your ' Jway to call a halt on needless extrava gance; your way to demand a voice in the ever increasing amount of taxes lev ied on your property. IT'S UP TO YOU1 Paid Adv. by Home ft Farm Owners Assn. of Oregon Amedee M. Smith, President 600 S.W. Washington St., Portland, Ore, J4-T 1-K Lis? I V HAVE 1UU SEEIN THE NEW REMINGTON Portable Typewriter AT THE OFFICE OF THE GAZETTE TIMES? See this modern Portable Typewriter NOW. $49.50 Easy terms if you wish. Heppner Gazette Times