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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOV. 26, 1936.
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o The Speakership
o Work on Capitol
o 6463 on Payroll
By A. L. LINDBECK
SALEM Claims of Harry Boivin
of Klamath county to a cinch on the
House Speakership are hotly pro
tested by the so-called Left wing
group who insist that the Klamath
member has been counting his chick
ens before they are hatched. Boi
vin this week broadcast the an
nouncement that he had the assur
ance of more than enough votes to
insure his election and was ready
to consider requests for appoint
ments to the various House com
mittees. The announcement burst
like a bombshell in the widely scat
tered camps of his rivals for the
gavel wielding job and resulted in
a prompt consolidation of opposi
tion support behind Bull of Union
with Barnes of Mulnomah and Hyde
of Lane withdrawing from the race
in favor of the eastern Oregon can
didate. An active supporter of
Bull's candidacy declared while in
Salem this week that Boivin could
not have more than 10 of the 38
Democrats in his camp while several
of the 21 republican members were
pledged to the Union county man.
Friends of Boivin on the other hand
insist that the Klamath county can
didate knew what he was talking
about when he made his announce
ment and insist that the speaker
ship fight is all over even if the
Bull-Barnes forces have not yet
found it out.
In the Senate, with W. H. Strayer
of Baker refusing to yield to the
plea of the Democrats that he get
into the race, the Presidency appears
to be in the bag for Franciscovich
of Clatsop county, one of the young
er members of that body in point of
years.
Actual construction work on Ore
gon's new capitol building will get
under way within the next ten days
and the building will be completed
within 18 months according to Ross
B. Hammond, head of the Portland
contracting firm, low bidders on the
state house job. The bid by the
Portland firm $2,006,137 lowest of
the seven submitted to the Capitol
Reconstruction commission, was not
only well within the fund available
for the job but provides for a white
marble exterior. The Hammond
company constructed the present
state office building, erected in 1929
30 at a cost slightly in excess of
$500,000.
There were 64G3 officials and em
ployees on the state payroll last
June according to a compilation just
completed by the budget department,
which shows a total monthly pay
roll of $780,212.85. Activities sup
ported by appropriations account
for 2901 employees with an aggre
gate monthly payroll of $382,8'8.92
with 35G2 persons on the payrolls of
self-sustaining activities drawing a
total of $397,433.93 for the month.
Of the 2101 persons on the payrolls
of appropriation supported activities
188, or slightly more than one-third,
are in the state system of higher ed
ucation but this group drew $202,
652.71 in its monthly pay envelope,
or more than one half of the entire
amount charged to the appropriation-supported
group, whereas the
other two-thirds, or 1812 persons
drew only $180,166.21. The average
pay of all state employees is com
puted at $120.71 a month. Employees
of the state system of higher edu
cation, however, draw an average
of $204.90 a month which the aver
age monthly pay check of the other
employees and officials in the appropriation-supported
group is only
$99.42 and that of employees in the
self sustaining group is $111.48.
Twenty-two new text books for
use in the public schools of Oregon
were approved by the State Text
book commission at its biennial
meeting here this week. Most of
these books will be used as basal
texts although a few are for supple
mentary use. The new texts include
language, writing, history and civics
in the elementary grades, and orien
tation, world history, American his
tory, general mathematics, elemen
tary science, biology, physics and
home economics for the high school
courses. Adoption of the new texts
does not necessarily mean that books
now in use will be discarded imme
diately, C. A. Howard, state super
intendent of public instruction, ex
plained. The practice now followed
in most Oregon schools, according
to Howard, is to place the new books
in use only when the old books need
replacing.
Uncle Sam will pour $768,000 of
new money into Oregon during the
next two years for the aid of de
pendent children, according to Bud
get Director Wharton. The federal
fund will have to be matched by
both the state and county govern
ments for an aggregate of $2,304,000
all of which will be spent in caring
for dependent children, either in the
homes of their own parents depend
ent on relief for support, or in fos
ter homes. The fund is expected to
take care of 8000 children on the
basis of $12 a month. Many of these
are now being cared for in state
aided institutions while others are
receiving direct relief. The fund
will be administered by the State
Relief commission through the State
Child Welfare commission which will
pass on the eligibility of children to
this aid and select the homes in
which they are to be cared for.
Secretary of State Snell has an
nounced that he will recommend
the repeal of the $10 license fee on
pick-up cars when the legislature
meets. Much injustice has resulted
through enforcement of this act in
the opinion of Snell who points out
that thousands of the cars subjected
to this higher fee are nothing but
old cars with a box on the back
while pleasure cars of much heavier
construction escape with the pay
ment of a $5 fee.
Library workers of Oregon have
contributed more than $200 in cash
toward the purchase of reference
books for the Bandon public library
which was completely destroyed in
the recent fie, according to Miss
Harriet C. Long, state librarian. In
addition to these cash donations sev
eral large book publishing compan
ies have also made donations of en
cyclopedias and other reference
books.
Oregon's open fall season has had
a healthy effect on the state's gaso
line tax revenue. Oregon motor
ists, including the tourists in our
midst, consumed a total of 19,693,
428 gallons of gasoline during Oc
tober on which they paid state taxes
totalling $984,671 $120,000 more than
was collected from the same source
in October, 1935.
File early for your new automo
bile licenses is the plea of Secre
tary of State Snell in an effort to
avoid the eleventh hour congestion
which generally marks the annual
rush for plates at the end of the
year. Fewer than 12,500 of the
nearly 300,000 motorists in the state
had filed when the drawing for low
numbers was held in the automo
bile registration department last Fri
day. Snell reminds that the new
1937 plates may be used after De
cember 15.
A new all-time record for traffic
accidents in Oregon was established
during October when 42 persons
were killed on the highways of the
state, compared to 19 for the same
month last year. The October deaths
brought the year's total of 257, an
increase of more than 25 percent
over last year's 204 for the same period.
LORENA WILSON HONORED.
Eastern Oregon Normal School,
La Grande, Nov. 25. In the recent
elections held by the Associated Wo
men Students, Lorena Wilson of
Heppner was elected secretary of
that organization for the 1936-37
school year. Miss Wilson is a sec
ond year student in the teacher
training department, and has been
active in student affairs.
CARD OF THANKS.
We take this means to sincerely
thank our many neighbors and
friends for their kindness and help
fulness in our time of bereavement
and sorrow, and for the beautiful
floral gifts. We are truly most grateful.
Mrs. Ruth Stevens and Family.
Wildlife Federation
To Unite Groups
A unified program for the im
provement and devlopment of Ore
gon's wildlife resources came a step
nearer realization with the forma
tion of the Oregon Wildlife federa
tion, as the concluding action of the
state-wide conference just held at
Oregon State college.
Governor Charles H. Martin, who
called the conference of all inter
ested organizations, and who ad
dressed it with a strong plea for
united action by interests concerned,
was made honorary president of the
new federation, while Ed F. Averill
of Portland, who was head of a tem
porary wildlife council formed ear
lier in the year, ws made active
president.
Other officers are W. J. Smith,
Portland, vice-president R. E. Dim
ick, head of the fish, game and fur
animal management department at
Oregon State college, was elected
secretary-treasurer. To provide ac
tive state-wide participation in the
body, a board of 25 directors was set
up, selected mostly on the basis of
one member to a county.
It is estimated that more than 100
state and local organizations, rang
ing all the way from communtiy rod
and gun clubs to state associations
of farmers, commercial fishermen
and stockmen, are directly interest
ed in the wildlife program of the
state. Many of these were repre
sented on the conference program
at O. S. C. Urging them all to unite
in forwarding the many important
projects on which all could agree,
Governor Martin made a strong plea
for harmony in action.
"There are some tendencies which
have shown themselves in Oregon
in past years that, if continued,'' will
seriously hamper or wreck any wild
life program," Governor Martin
pointed out. "These tendencies are
for each interest to be narrowly con
cerned with its own particular en
terprise, without being willing to
join with others in the promotion of
a program which will be of bene
fit to all ... . Now there is so much
common ground on which all of these
interests can meet for their mutual
benefit that it is a sad commentary
on our statesmanship that we allow
valuable energies to be dissipated in
useless strife."
The list of directors chosen fol
lows: Bernard Mainwaring, Baker;
Bill Canton, Klamath Falls; Wilfred
Allen, Grants Pass; M. L. Kimmell,
Roseburg; E. G. Craven, Dallas;
George Aitken, Bend; William Graf,
Shedd; R. S. Brenner, Culp Creek;
J. A. Davenport, Ontario; W. W.
Dillard, St. Helens; Walter Johnson,
Astoria; Mrs. McCormac French,
Carlton; Mrs. May Nordstrom, Port
land; Alva Day, Hood River; Carl
Fetsch, Lakeview; Dr. Gene Hub
bard, Burns; J. G. Barratt, Heppner;
Ben Clagget, Salem; J. A. Winn, Al
bany; Oscar Ellis, Taft; Alex Walker,
Tillamook; Ray Sturgis, Oregon
City; Mrs. Clinton Odell, Enterprise;
and Frank H. Seal, Port Orford.
Mrs. Frank Alfred went to La
Grande this week to remain there
for two weeks assisting in the state
wide review of WPA workers. From
there she will go on to Baker for
another two weeks in the same work.
Miss Minnie Ramsey of Klamath
Falls was a visitor in the city Mon
day with her brother, Leo Gorger
and family of the lone section. Miss
Ramsey follows her profession of
nursing in Klamath Falls.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to express our apprecia
tion for the many . kindnesses, the
beautiful flowers and the sympathy
extended to us.
ROSA ESKELSON,
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TEACHERS' EXAMINATIONS.
Notice is hereby given that the
County School Superintendent of
Morrow County, Oregon, will hold
the regular examination of appli
cants for state teachers' certificates
at her office at the Court House in
Heppner as follows: Commencing
Wednesday, December 16, 1936, at
9 o'clock A. M. and continuing until
Friday, December 18, 1936, at 4 o
'clock p. m.
Wednesday Forenoon U. S. History,
Writing, Geometry, Botany.
Wednesday Afternoon Physiology,
Reading, Composition, General
History.
Thursday F o r e n o o n Arithmetic,
History of Education, Psychology,
Geology.
Thursday Afternoo n Grammar,
Geography, American Literature,
Physics.
Friday Forenoon Theory and Prac
tice, Spelling, Physical Geogra
phy, English Literature.
Friday Afternoon School Law, Al
gebra, Civil Government, Book
keeping. No further teachers' examinations
will be held in this state after the
one given on the above mentioned
dates. All teachers needing certifi
cation in this manner must take the "
examination at this time. Otherwise
no certificate' will be granted them
except upon graduation from an ac
credited normal school, college or
university, or teachers' college.
"THANKS A MILLION"
FOR MORE THAN A MILLION
America has bought 1,130,000 Chevrolets during the past
twelve months, thereby giving Chevrolet the greatest
year in its history and the greatest measure of buyer
preference it has ever enjoyed.
gTjfefegy The builders of Chevrolet
are thankful for manv
things, but most of all for the warm
friendship of the American people.
And so again at this Thanksgiving
season we say, "Thank you, America,"
for you have given Chevrolet a measure
of good-will without parallel in the annals
of modern industry.
Consider, for a moment, all that you
have done to inspire Chevrolet's appreci
ation during the past twelve months:
You have purchased 1,130,000 Chev
rolcts; you have made Chevrolet your
favorite car for the seventh time in the
ast ten years; yOU have given CheTrolcT
strong preference in every section of the
country; you have conferred this same
high honor upon Chevrolet trucks by pur
chasing more than 205,000 commercial
units; you have made 1936 the most
successful year in all Chevrolet history.
And now, to climax these expressions of
friendship, you are displaying even more
marked preference for the new Chevrolet
for 1937.
It is difficult to express adequate appre
ciation for gifts so great and bo generous
as these.
All we can say is, "Thanks a million"
for more than a million cars in 1936; and
all we can do is offer you the still finer
Chevrolet of 1937 in return for the finest
friendship ever bestowed upon any motor
car manufacturer.
CHEVROLET MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN
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