HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 17, 1936.
REPORT OF WHEAT LEAGUE
LEGISLATION, TAXATION,
FINANCE COMMITTEE
(Contniued from Page Eight)
der, duly certified, to be immediate
ly filed for record in the office of
the Recorder of Conveyances of said
Court and shall immediately for
ward a copy thereof to the County
Clerk of said County.
IV
Advisory Board Election Oath
Annual Meeting of Electors.
The County Court, within thirty
(30) days after the election provided
for in Section 2 of this Act, if 66 2-3
per cent of the votes cast shall be
for the establishment, . organization
and operation of an erosion control
district, shall cause to be posted in
three public places in such erosion
control district a written or printed
notice notifying the electors thereof
to assemble at some convenient
place for the purpose of electing six
Directors who shall be known as the
"Advisory Board," three of whom
shall serve for one year and three
for two years, and until their suc
cessors are chosen and qualified.
The ballots shall specify the term
for which each Director is elected.
When twenty (20) per cent or more
of the electors have assembled pur
suant to such notice they shall con
stitute a quorum to do business, and
shall have power to elect Directors;
provided further that at least ten
(10) days' notice shall be given for
all meetings called in pursuance of
this section. Such meeting shall or
ganize by appointment of a Chair
man and Secretary and may then
proceed to elect, by ballot, six Di
rectors. The Directors elected at the
first meeting shall qualify imme
diately by taking an oath to sup
port the laws and constitutions of
the United States and State of Ore
gon, and to faithfully discharge the
duties of their office to the best of
their ability. The Chairman of the
meeting, or anyone he may choose,
shall administer the oath of office
to the directors. Thereafter there
shall be held on the fourth Friday
in January of each and every year
an annual meeting of the electors of
such erosion control district, at
which time three Directors shall be
elected to serve for two years. The
Directors shall be electors of the
district in which they are elected.
V
Organization Function and Power
of Advisory Board.
Part 1: The Advisory Board shall
meet not later than ten (10) days
after its election to elect from its
own membership the Chairman and
Vice -Chairman, and to elect a Sec
retary and a Treaeurer who may or
may not be members of said Board.
Part 2: Any member of the Ad
visory Board may have access to the
land within the district and it shall
be the duty of the Advisory Board
to investigate reports of farming
practices within the district which
may be dangerous from the stand
point of erosion, and to direct such
changes in operation as, in their
judgment, seem best. The Advisory
Board shall do nothing on land with
in the district without the full
knowledge of the owner and.or oper
ator except as hereinafter provided;
provided that if at any time the Ad
visory Board is unable to communi
cate with the owner andor operat
or, and a condition exists, which, in
the opinion of the Advisory Board,
requires immediate action, said
Board shall do, or cause to be done,
that which in their opinion is neces
sary to correct the condition, and
further provided that in the case of
refusal after notice as hereinafter
defined on the part of an owner
andor operator to perform the prac
tices directed by the Advisory Board,
said Board, its agents or employees,
has the right to enter upon such
premises for the purpose of per
forming those practices which, in
their opinion, are necessary for the
protection of land within the dis
trict. Written notice of action di
rected by the Advisory Board shall
be given by personal service to both
the owner and operator, or if they
cannot be found shall be mailed to
them at their last address of record
with the Secretary, and a copy of
such notice shall be posted on four
conspicuous places on the land in
volved, these notices to bear the
date and hour of service and the
practices directed by the Advisory
Board. Four hours after posting or
personal service of such notice shall
be deemed sufficient time for the
person or persons so notified to be
gin work as directed by the Advisory
Board.
Part 3: The reasonable cost for
any operation ordered by the Ad
visory Board shall be a charge
against the land upon which this
operation is ordered by said Board
to be performed. An itemized state
ment of the cost of work ordered by
the Advisory Board shall be sub
mitted to and passed upon by the
County Court within forty (40) days
after completion of the work. The
amount approved shall, upon filing
with the County Clerk in the Rec
ord of Liens upon Real Property,
constitute a valid and subsisting hen
against the property prior to all
other liens except taxes: If said
charges and expenses are not paid
and said hen discharged within
ninety (90) days from the date said
Uen is docketed, it shall be the duty
of the County Clerk to certify the
same to the tax collector of said
county, who shall extend the amount
of the lien upon the current tax roll
against the land involved and when
so extended the same shall consti
tute a valid lien against said prem
ises and shall be collected by said
tax collector in the same manner as
taxes are collected; provided, that
all liens so certified by the County
Clerk to the tax collector after the
twentieth day of September of each
year, and before the thirty-first day
of December of the same year, shall
be extended on the tax roll of the
following year.
Part 4: If within ten (10) days
from the date of filing and docket
ing said Hen, as provided above, no
objections have been filed thereto,
the County Court shall pay the
amount thereof. Any objector shall
have due recourse to courts of law
and the District Attorney of said
county shall represent the county or
erosion control district in such suit.
Part 5: For transacting any of its
business a quorum of the Advisory
Board shall be deemed present if
four (4) members are present, and
presence at a meeting shall be deem
ed evidence of notice. For deter
mining any action to be taken by the
Committee a majority vote of the
members present shall be necessary;
provided, however, no official busi
ness may be conducted by the Ad
visory Board without the presence
of a quorum as previously defined.
The Advisory Board shall have full
charge of all business of the erosion
control district and may purchase
such equipment and incur such ex
pense as may be authorized by the
electors resident within said district
at any regular or special meeting.
Assessment shall be made only by
vote of a majority of the electors;
present at a regular or special meet
ing of the association, and the gen
eral purposes for which ar y moneys
so collected will be spent must be
determined by a majority vote of
the electors present at a regular
meeting. No levy in any one year
shall exceed' one (1) mill. The man
ner of collection of said levied
amount shall be third class as now
provided by law. All moneys col
lected and equipment or material
purchased as hereinbefore provided
shall be used only to further the
purpoes of this Act.
By-Law
By-laws for the erosion control
district may be adopted by a ma
jority vote at any regular meeting
of the erosion control district at
which a quorum is present; pro
vided that such by-laws shall not
conflict with any provisions of the
Act nor extend or limit the powers
and functions of the Advisory
Board.
VII
If any part or section of this Act
is decided by the Courts to be un
constitutional or invalid, the same
shall not affect the validity of the
Act as a whole, or any part thereof,
which can be given effect without
the part so decided to be unconsti
tutional or invalid.
VIII
If, at any time, an erosion control
district be dissolved, as provided in
Section II of this Act, any funds re
maining in the Treasury shall be
turned into the general funds of the
County and any property belonging
to the erosion control district shall
be turned over to the County Court.
IX
Special meetings may be called by
the Advisory Board at any time up
on ten (10) days' notice. Such no
tice shall be mailed to all the Elect
ors in the district at their last ad
dress of record with the Secretary.
It shall be mandatory for the direct
ors to call such special meeting with
in seven (7) days after petition,
signed by twenty (20) per cent of
the electors of the district so re
questing, shall be filed with the Sec
retary. X
In the event that any proposed
district shall include land lying in
more than one county the petitions,
as specified in Article II of this Act,
shall be filed with the county courts
of each county involved, and the
county courts of such counties shall
act jointly as an Erosion Control
Board as outlined in Article II of
this Act. Any claims against any
land within any erosion control dis
trict which may arise from the oper
ation of this Act shall be filed only
in the county in which the property
so affected may lay.
Vitamin A Needs
Of Cattle Studied
Corvallis An investigation to de
termine the vitamin A requirements
for normal growth, prevention of
body infections and normal repro
duction in dairy cattle has been
started by I. R. Jones, associate pro
fessor of dairy husbandry at Oregon
State college.
Thirty purebred females between
six and 16 months of age are being
used, all receiving the same ration
except that half of them are being
given three-fourths to Vh, ounces of
salmon oil daily in addition. The
basal ration consists of a poor qual
ity of oats and vetch hay, and a
grain mixture made up of 200 pounds
of ground barley, 100 pounds ground
oats, 100 pounds wheat bran, 100
pounds peanut meal, 5 pounds salt,
and 5 pounds bone flour. All the
animals are also receiving potassium
iodide.
No definite information is avail
able as to the amount of vitamin A
necessary for normal reproduction
in dairy cattle, Professor Jones says.
Calves on rations deficient in vita
min A usually die at four to six
months of age from some type of in
fection, such as intestinal disorders.
Oregon Increases
Use of Air Mail
The increasing use being made by
Oregon citizens of their air mail fa
cilities was revealed today in figures
showing that they sent out a total
of 186,311 pounds of sky correspond
ence in the first ten months of this
year. The poundage is equivalent
to almost seven and a half million
letters, according to Postmaster C.
B. Cox.
In the corresponding period of
last year, 178,296 pounds of air mail
was dispatched from Oregon points.
Increasingly large gains are being
shown each month, with faster
schedules, the current rate of only
six cents an ounce and a growingj
knowledge of the service offered as
principal factors, Postmaster Cox
said.
Under existing schedules, air mail
from Oregon reaches California
points overnight, and the Atlantic
coast with a loss if only one busi
ness day.
BANK TO REPEAT PARTY.
C. B. Stephenon, vice-president
First National Bank of Portland, an
nounced through the office of the
county school superintendent this
week that his institution will re
peat the Pacific International Live
stock exposition party for 4-H club
boys and girls in counties in which
it operates branches. Again next
year the outstanding boy and the
outstanding girl member in each of
these counties will be awarded a
free trip to the exposition and enjoy
other entertainment at the bank's
expense, giving added incentive for
every 4-H enrollee in Morrow coun
ty to do his or her level best.
D. J. Hudson who has been assist
ing Uncle Sam's forest service for
the last two years, was a business
visitor in the city Tuesday.
Grange Calls Weed
Conference at O. S. C.
What is said to be a serious state
wide menace to agriculture from
spread of noxious perennial weeds
will be the subject of an all-day
conference which the Oregon State
grange is sponsoring on the state
college campus in Corvallis, Satur
day, December 19. Ray Gill, master
of the grange, has issued a general
invitation to farmers, members of
county courts, county agents and
grange agricultural committeemen
to attend. The extension service of
the college is cooperating in the con
ference and will have a number of
specialists on hand to take part in
the program.
The grange agricultural commit
tees have had weed control as a ma
jor project for two years and it is
now believed that the situation is
such that state-wide action is neces
sary, according to Mr. Gill.
The committee on weed control at
the recent eastern Oregon Wheat
league convention reported that the
extent of weed infestation has reach
ed a point where the possibility of
widespread control measures is def
initely beyond the reach of the in
dividual farmer. In the 11 counties
covered by this organization, it was
reported that there are between 25,
000 and 30,000 acres of land infested
by noxious weeds.
Oregon Tax Study
Shows 25-Year Trend
The most comprehensive study
on record of public expenditures in
Oregon based on property tax col
lections for the various spending
units has just been completed by Dr.
W. H. Dreesen, agricultural econo
mist of the O. S. C. experiment sta
tion, and has been published as a
144-page station bulletin, No. 346.
Dr. Dreesen has worked for sev
eral years in his "spare moments"
gathering and compiling the infor
mation from county and state
sources. It covers the 25-year per
iod 1910 to 1934, inclusive, and as
completed, it lists the tax levies for
both rural and urban properties in
every county for all purposes, in
cluding state, county, school, roads,
debt service and miscellaneous.
Although the study is intended
primarily to afford a permanent
source of reference for tax bodies
and lawmakers, Dr. Dreesen has
drawn some general conclusions
from his findings. He reports that
rural taxes reached their peak in
1928 and urban taxes in 1930, but
that in terms of actual purchasing
power the peak of payments was
reached in 1932 for both classes.
Three major trends during the
period pointed out by Dr. Dreesen
are a steady rise in "public stand
ard of living," increased centraliza
tion in the administration of public
functions, and a narrowing of the
property tax base through the re
moval of certain classes of property
or its classification for special taxes.
Farmers Determined
To Get Out of Debt
Indicating both a return to more
normal farm conditions and desire
on the part of farmers to get out of
debt as rapidly as possible, Land
bank borrowers of the northwest
have applied almost $2,000,000 on the
principal of their indebtedness dur
ing the past nine months of the cur
rent year, according to E. M. Ehr-
hardt, president of this cooperative
mortgage institution which serves
many local producers.
"This wholesome record is particu
larly creditable because in a major
ity of cases borrowers have had the
privilege of deferring the principal
portion of their installments," Mr,
Ehrhardt points out, "meeting only
interest, at a temporarily reduced
rate. Notwithstanding this privilege,
principal payments have been kept
up with admirable persistence by
many of our borrowers, with the
result that they are shortening the
time when they will own their own
farms free of indebtedness a major
aim of the Farm Credit administra
tion."
Although land bank loans are
written on the amortization plan to
be paid off a little at a time over a
long period of years, mortgage notes
totalling nearly $700,000 have been
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completely liquidated during the past
nine months and an additional mil
lion and a third dollars have been
applied to cut down the principal of
outstanding loans.
With farm income up this year and
interest charges down, the land bank
has urged farmer-borrowers to seize
this favorable opportunity to get
loans in good current standing and
make payments in advance whenever
possible, for which a special discount
is allowed.
Ave rage 10-Year Prices
Listed for Farm Crops
Relative average prices received
by farmers in Oregon by counties
and districts for more than 40 ani
mal and crops products have been
compiled by means of a WPA pro
ject supervised by L. R. Breithaupt,
extension agricultural economist at
Oregon State college. The results
have just been published as a station
circular of information No. 161.
Most of the data was obtained
from records gathered during the
period by the division of crops and
livestock estimates of the U. S. de
partment of agriculture, and are ac
tual reports made monthly by vol
untary farm price reporters.
Interesting information brought
out includes such items as a direct
comparison of prices for fat and
feeder lambs and fat and feeder
steers during the 10-year period.
Many other comparisons between
products and prices in different
counties are also shown.
PINE CITY
By BERNICE WATTENBURGER
Mrs. Marion Finch and children
and Mrs. John Harrison and son
Johnny were callers at the E. B.
Wattenburger home Thursday eve
ning. They are working on the pro
gram for the basket social Friday
evening, December 18.
Mrs. T. J. O'Brien was home over
the week end from The Dalles. Mr.
O'Brien's condition is just the same.
He is undergoing an operation this
week.
Pendleton callers Saturday were
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Neill, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Smith, Miss Dora E.
Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Finch
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Daly
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
Ayers.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Moore have
gone to Seattle and California for a
two -months' vacation. They are
visiting their four daughters.
O. F. Bartholomew arrived Sun
day from Salt Lake City, Utah, to
spend Christmas with his home
folks, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bartholo
mew. Mr. and Mrs. Ray J. Pinson were
Heppner callers Saturday. Mrs.
Pinson attended the teachers' meet
ing. Other Heppner callers Saturday
were Jim. Ayers, Mrs. Gladys Cor
rigall, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Watten
burger. Mr. and Mrs. John Harrison and
son Johnny spent Sunday afternoon
at the George Currin home.
Russell Moore is on the jury in
Heppner this week.
Frank Carlson is spending a few
days at the A. E. Wattenburger
home. He says his father and moth
er are both well.
Blaine Noble and George Shock
ley were callers Sunday at the Jim
Daly home.
A Yankee in King Edward's Court
By Jack Vaughn and Hugh Crawford
King Edward loved a lady,
A thrice-wed belle was she.
He signed the abdication treaty
In order to be free.
Stan Baldwin has a solution,
As every statesman must.
It may develop revolution.
Would that be right and just?
This Wally must be charming,
As all divorcees are
To be so seriously harming
His kingdom near and far.
They sang, "God Save the King,"
As all loyal subjects should
When they heard the wedding bella
ring,
They wondered if all was well and
good.
Now Baldwin has said his word;
The king has made his choice;
The world the verdict has heard
It is destiny's voice!