HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 22, 1936.
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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
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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!
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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!
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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,
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