HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEFPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 1936.
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tern. In fact it is costly to everybody
without really accomplishing any
thing for anyone.
In the end there has to be a con
currence of opinion, no matter what
course is taken. The only logical
way is to give a competent court of
arbitration, composed of disinterest
ed parties, the ''authority to settle
the disagreements.
Then there's the Scotchman who
told little Sandy that Santa Claus
had shot himself.
Monday was the shortest daylight
day of the year. All of which re
minds us there is still plenty of time
for winter.
Official Paper for Morrow County
Christmas never grows old for
him who remembers that it is more
pleasing to give than to receive.
Sometimes when things look the
blackest there is a rain cloud hov
ering o'er head.
The fireside glow at Christmas
time all hearts are warmed.
Merry Christmas.
Not a Pipe Dream.
llITH the rains of the last two
days, thoughts of our people are
concentrating on growing things. We
are all hoping for much benefit to
the new wheat crop, to hay fields
and ranges. And with these should
be given consideration for the possi
bility of introducing new. and may
hap, more profitable crops.
Some of our citizens have inter
ested themselves in the possibility
of raising peas in Morrow county,
and irt these columns before we have
cited benefits that have been de
rived by other sections of eastern
Oregon and Washington from this
infant industry. Admitting Morrow
county's potentialities for raising this
crop may not be the same as those
where it is now doing well, still the
possibility is so appealing as not to
be forsaken without serious thought,
Over in Umatilla county, many
fanners deeply in debt were placed
on their feet in one or two years by
peas. The leguminous crop has been
rebuilding the soil to where it will
again produce the large wheat yields
of old. In fields and canneries, jobs
for old and young have been pro
vided to a point where the relief
problem is disappearing. In fact,
peas have started the pulse of the
economic life of large sections.
Authorities in the pea industry
say it will require many more acres
of the crop to begin to satisfy the
demand. How long that condition
will exist one may not say.
In any event, Morrow county
should test the situation thoroughly
If some variety of pea con be found
suited to our soil and rainfall which
may be grown successfully, it might
be responsible for starting a payroll
industry here, help in rebuilding our
soil, help to bring our farmers out
of the red, and do away with relief,
It is not a pipe dream, for it has
been and is now being done in our
neighboring county to the east.
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
Liquid Legislature
G. O. P. Counties
Cut Valuations
By A. L. LINDBECK
The Best Course.
QTATE and sectional farm organi
zations, including the Eastern
Oreeon Wheat league, which this
week made unified demand for leg
islation to avert public suffering in
the future as a result of strikes.
should have the support of every
one. There is no reason why trans
portation facilities, or other indus
tries should be tied up absolutely
because of difficulties between em
plover and employee. ,
Legislation making it mandatory
that such disputes be arbitrated
should be passed, surrounded by
safeguards so far as possible to pro
tect the interests of all parties con
cerned.
Instead of making the state labor
conciliation board an investigating
board only, as it now is, powers
should be delegated to it giving
authority to hear and weigh evidence
and render decisions. In the mean
time no walkouts should be permit
ted. While the case is being tried.
both employers and employee;
should stay on the job and keep
things moving, then when the case
is settled all adjustments could be
made, and the public would not be
made to suffer.
Neither laborer nor employer gets
any sympathy under the strike sys
Salem. The forthcoming legisla
tive session promises to be a liquid
one in many respects. Gasoline,
milk, beer, wine and hard liquors
will come in for their share of con
sideration at the hands of the law
makers according to reports already
filtering into the capital from the
far corners of the state.
County courts will support a move
for a bigger cut of the gasoline taxes
for county roads. Nor are they all
going to be satisfied with the tenta
tive agreement already arrived at in
which $400,000 a year would be add
ed to the present $1,600,000 fund
which is being distributed among
the counties under an act of the 1931
session.
Representative Eckersley of Clack
amas county has announced that he
would demand an investigation into
the activities of the Milk Control
Board looking to the possible abol
ishment of that regulatory body as
a result of the recent hike in the
price of milk to consumers in the
Portland area. In this move Eckers
ley will have the support of a num
ber of his colleagues while many
others, particularly those from the
dairy counties, will just as strenu
ouslv oppose any tampering with
the milk control act.
Ideas about what should be done
with the problem of liquor control
seem to be about as numerous as the
legislators. There is a well defined
move on foot to abolish all beer par
lors and to confine the sale of both
beer and wine to liquor stores and
agencies in the original package.
This move has its incentive m the
lax regulation of beer dispensaries
under the present system with its
wide open drinking and drunkenness
on the part of women and girls and
the rowdyism which prevails in so-
called night clubs, especially those
outside the jurisdiction of city po
lice. Countering this move the
Liquor Control board has recently
started to clamp down on beer par
lor operators who fail to preserve
order in their places of business. In
direct opposition to this move to
concentrate the sale of all liquors in
the hands of the state hotel and res
taurant keepers are expected to re
new their fight for the right to serve
drinks to their patrons, a fight which
served to enliven the last regular
session in the attempt to pass the
so-called "cocktail" bill.
Maintenance of Oregon's penal
and eleemosynary institutions dur
ing 1937 -,38 will cost at least ten
percent more per capita than during
the current biennium according to
Dan Fry, state purchasing agent
who points to the steadily increas
ing cost of foodstuffs, clothing and
other supplies.
of election returns just completed by
Dave O'Hara, elections clerk in the
state department, reveals. Of the
237 county officials elected in No
vember 131 were Republicans, 93
Democrats and five Independents.
O'Hara's compilation reveals the fol
lowing results:
County judges 9 republicans ,4
democrats, 1 independent.
Commissioners 19 republicans, 16
democrats.
Sheriffs 17 republicans, 13 dem
ocrats.
Clerks 23 republicans, 11 demo
crats.
Treasurers 9 republicans, 24 dem
ocrats, 1 independent.
Assessors 22 republicans, 7 demo
crats, 1 independent.
Surveyors 16 republicans, 9 dem-
ocrats, I independent.
Coroners 24 republicans, 9 dem
ocrats. Two of the newly elected legisla
tors resigned their posts on state
boards this week in order to clear
the way for their qualification as
lawmakers. Phil J. Brady, , repre
sentative - elect from Multnomah
county, resigned as a member of the
State Board of Conciliation, and
Thomas P. Graham, Jr., . senator
elect from Multnomah county, re
signed as a member of the State
Welfare commission. Several other
resignations are expected as a re
sult of a ruling by Attorney General
Van Winkle that mmebership on
state boards and commissions or
employment at a lucrative state or
federal job is a bar to membership
in the legislature.
Gregory how to pronounce it Mr.
Gregory, in his Tuesday column,
quotes Polish authorities from Chi
cago and San Francisco, who re
sponded with "Voy-chey-hov-yetch"
and "Wo-ji-ho-witz," saying how
certain of the vowels should be
sounded as well. Doc Lawrence is
a real football fan, and should be
edified by the attention given his
request, but he may need a few les
sons in linguism yet before he gets
his tongue around this one.
for the fall term. This distinction in
dicates a high standard of scholar
ship. Both young women are second-year
students and are active
members of the Women's Athletic
association.
CAN HE SAY IT NOW?
Dr. R. C. Lawrence ran across
sticker in the name of Wojciechow-
icz, Fordham football center, so he
asked Oregonian's Sporting Editor
CCC CAMP NEWS.
The local CCC basketball squad
won over the lone town team by a
score of 29 to 24 at lone last Mon
day night.
Captain W. R. Reynolds, camp
commander, left last Saturday on a
twenty-one day leave for Santa
Monica, Calif., where he will spend
the Christmas holidays with his fam
iiy.
Lt. T. L. Ricks, Q. M.-Res., from
Squaw Creek, at Gibbon, has taken
command of the local camp until
Capt. Reynolds returns.
Mr. and Mrs. , Marvin E. Dixon
are leaving today for Molalla to
spend the Christmas holidays with
Mrs. Dixon's parents.
TOWNSENDITES, ATTENTION.
If you have any filled petitions,
send them in immediately. If they
are not full, try to fill them and send
them in by Monday if possible. Any
who have not yet signed one may
find one at Green's Feed store and
are urged to sign. ,
Election of officers for the new;
year will be held Monday night at'
the Methodist church. A large at-
tendance is desired. V '
ON HONOR ROLL.
Eastern Oregon Normal School,
La Grande, Dec. 21. Lorena Wilson
and Jennie Swendig, both of Hepp
ner, are listed on the honor roll of
the Eastern Oregon Normal school
BUYS RESIDENCE. V
F. F. Wehmeyer has been busy
this week renovating the former;
Bartholomew residence on Chase '
street which he purchased recently,
and into which his family was moveoV.,
last week. Included in the rem- :.
vating is the reconstruction of rooms",";
installation of modern bathroom and.
septic tank. j ,',
Miss Evelyn Humphreys has ar
rived from Los Angeles to spend the
holidays with her father, T. J. Hum
phreys, and sister, Miss Leta Hum- :
phreys. She has held a position as ,
accountant in the California metrop-,
olis for the last year. . j '. ;
Anna Q. Thomson, New York Life
Insurance.
WE PAY SPOT CASH FOR
CREAM and EGGS
MORROW COUNTY CREAMERY CO.
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ffTHERE are many things from which I
(jLmight have derived good, by which I
whave not profited . . . Christmas among
them. . But I am sure that I have always
thought of Christmas time apart from the
veneration due its sacred name and origin, if
anything belonging to it can be apart from
that ... as a good time, a kind of forgiving
charitable pleasant time, the only time I know
of in the long calendar of the year when men
and women seem by one consent to open their
shut-up hearts freely And therefore,
though it has never put a scrap of gold or sil
ver in my pocket it has done me good and
will do me good, and I say 'God Bless It'."'
Reply to Scrooge
by Charles Dickens.
While Oregon went Democratic in
a big way in the recent presidential
election the Republicans elected a
majority of the county officers
throughout the state, a compilation
We hereby declare a dividend of good
cheer, good health and happiness for all
shareholders in Christmas 1936 .... and
an extra dividend to those friends and
customers of The First National Bank of
Portland who make our 71st Christmas
another memorable milestone.
it
HEPPNER BRANCH
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF PORTLAND
First National Bank West of the Rockies
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOS IT INSURANCE CORPORATION