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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 28, 1937.
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
County's Share
$1,000,000 Error
Dairy Control
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. To divert 35 percent of
the gasoline tax revenues to the
counties as advocated by the State
grange would stop all construction
on secondary highways and mean a
loss of federal funds ranging from
$750,000 to $1,000,000 a year, accord
ing to R. H. Baldock, state highway
engineer. As a compromise to the
grange proposal Baldock endorses
the sugestion made by the state as
sociation of county judges that the
counties' share of gasoline taxes be
increased by $400,000 to $2,000,000
and distributed on the present basis.
Baldock estimates that gasoline
tax receipts for this year will total
$9,470,000. Thirty-five percent of
this amount would amount to $3,
314,500 or more than double the
present diversion of $1,600,000. In
a tabulation prepared at the request
of E. R. Fatland of Condon, state
representative from hte 22nd district,
Baldock calls attention to the in
equalities that would result through
a distribution of this fund on the
basis of county road mileage as pro
posed by the grange. Multnomah
county, for instance, which will re
ceive $603,562.88 under ' the pres
ent basis would receive only $61,
675.22 under the grange proposal.
Malheur county's share, on the oth
er hand, would be increased from
$16,910.62 on the present basis to
$271,892.15 and Crook county's allo
. cation would be increased from $4,
809 to $79,808.
Morrow county which receives $7,
379.65 a year from gasoline taxes on
the present basis would receive
$132,362.83 this year under the
grange proposal. Gilliam county's
share would be increased from $5,
351.04 to $59,720.73 and Umatilla's
from $44,077.36 to $199,684.37.
Outstanding development of the
legislative week was the discovery
of a $1,000,000 bookkeeping error in
the state budget. The error resulted
through allocation of the entire rev
enue from income taxes estimated
at $8,500,000 for the biennium to
the general fund where it would be
available for appropriation purposes
whereas approximately $1,000,000 of
the anticipated revenue must eo
toward the reduction of special lev
ies outside the constitutional six per
cent limit. The error which was ap
parently due to a lack of under
standing of the operation of the "off
set" provision of the income tax laws
means that the legislature has just
that much less at its disposal than
had been represented that instead
of a surplus of $500,000 the govern
or's budget as presented to the law
makers actually shows a general
fund deficit of approximately the
same amount if accepted at its face
value. It means that the legislature
must either pare $500,000 off the ap
proved budgets, many of them al
ready pared to the bone, and approve
no new activities, find some new
revenues as yet unearthed, or re
store the bookkeeping deficit from
which the general fund has only just
been rescued.
In spite of four defeats in the past
25 years advocates of the office of
lieutenant-governor are again pre
paring to present the issue to the
voters of Oregon at the next elec
tion. Fifteen members of the House
have affixed their names to a resolu
tion calling for an election on the
proposed constitutional amendment.
The public hearing on the milk
control bill Friday night found the
dairymen lined up in support of the
control idea with the consumers sup
porting Senator Lessard's proposal
to repeal the law and wipe out the
milk control board. While many of
the dairymen favor minor amend
ments to the act it was very evident
that none of them wanted to discard
the control idea which has stabil
ized the dairy industry since its en
actment in 1933.
The first real coup of the session
was staged in the House this week
when the Harrison-Miller bill which
would have barred liquor ads from
newspapers and magazines circulat
ing in Oregon was killed through in
definite postponement. Action on
the bill came as a surprise move af
ter its friends had secured consent
to postpone action on divided com
mittee reports for one week. Or
ganizing for action during the noon
recess opponents of the measure took
the reports from the table at the
opening of the afternoon session and
adopted the majority report of the
committee on alcoholic traffic that
the bill "do not pass."
Editors Talk "Shop
At Eugene Meet
University of Oregon, Eugene,
Jan. 25. Newspapers of the United
States are not only free, but even
those that supported the Republican
candidate for president at the last
election have lost little or no pres
tige, prominent Oregon newspaper
men declared at the annual session
of the Oregon Newspaper Confer
ence held at the University of Ore
gon, January 21 to 23.
Citing the fact that -the majority
or newspaper circulation was op
posed to the election of Roosevelt,
C. A. Sprague, editor of the Salem
Statesman, declared: "The real dan
ger to this country will come when
8 percent of the papers will blindly
follow a president or party, because
he has the power, rather than tak
ing a definite stand because of prin
ciples and issues involved."
"No newspaper, regardless of its
political stand editorially, need lose
the good opinion of the public if it
presents the news fairly and impar
tially in its columns," it was declared
by Palmer Hoyt, managing editor of
The Oregonian, who spoke on "What
Color is Your News." "Lay all the
facts before your readers and let
them do their own thinking," he
added. Papers that have done this
are respected and growing today, he
points out
The editor who presents interpre
tation of news of the day needs first
of all a good background, gained by
constant study, and second, a fair
and impartial , outlook, it was stated
by Frank Jenkins, editor of the
Klamath Falls News and Herald.
Value of newspaper advertising
can be shown to prospective adver
tisers, and newspapers that would
prosper should seek to increase this
value, it was declared by John Ben
son, New York, president of the
American Association of Advertising
Agencies.
Close attention to details of busi
ness, maintenance of a good dispo
sition for the public, and an insist-
ance on quality work were given as
secrets of success by Z. C. Kimball,
publisher of the Independence En
terprise. Methods of obtaining circulation,
advertising and presentation of news
used by daily papers can be applied
successfully to the weekly field, it
was declared by Harry W. Freder
icks, publsiher of the Lebanon Ex
press, who described developments
in his plant since he took it over
four months ago.
The American press should be
proud of its freedom, and be zealous
in guarding it, declared Eric W. Al
len, dean of the school of journalism,
in his talk on "Where Editors are
Gagged and Guided." He cited ob
servations of journalism made while
travelling in Nazi and Fascist lands.
Oregon newspaper men were told
to "sell their markets" before at
tempting to sell advertising in their
papers, by H. R. Failing, advertising
director of the Oregon Journal, at
the closing business session.
An era of genial good will, when
the country editor may regard him
self as a craftsman rather than a
competitor in .a highly competitive
field, was visioned by George P. Che
ney, publisher of the Enterprise Rec
ord-Chieftain, in his talk on "Are
Country Newspapers Ready for Re
covery?" Mr. Cheney recommended
that publishers exercise care in pur
chasing equipment and in conduct
ing business. "Don't let anybody
'sell' you anything," he said. "Be
sure you need a piece of equipment
before you invest in it."
The present Spanish civil war Is
of probably greater importance than
the World War, it was declared by
Jay C. Allen, former correspondent
for the Chicago Tribune, in the final
address delivered at the luncheon
Saturday. The war 3s a conflict be
tween classes, not merely an upris
ing against a government, he pointed
out
A. E. Voorhies, publisher of the
Grants Pass Courier, was named
president of the Oregon conference
for the coming year. George S. Turn
bull, professor of journalism, was
again iiamed secretary, a post he has
held since the conference was start
ed 19 years ago.
The Sigma Delta Chi award, made
annually to the weekly newspaper
judged the best in the state, was won
by the Hills boro Argus. Second
place went to the Hood River News,
and third to the Grants Pass Bulle
tin. The Hal E. Hoss memorial
award, for weeklies in smaller cities,
was won by the Redmond Spokes
man. Nyssa Gate City Journal was
second.
CATTLE RECEIPTS HEAVY.
Cattle receipts at the Portland
yards in 1936 were the best since the
yards were opened in 1909, and gen
eral livestock receipts better than in
any year since 1926, according to the
annual report of the Portland Stock
Yards, which has just been released.
Prices were favorable, although they
did not come up to the high of pre
depression years, the report indicat
ed. The figures brought for cattle,
sheep and hogs, however, did not fall
to the low levels of 1932 and 1933,
but held well above those years.
The Washington supreme court
has refused a rehearing on its rul
ing invalidating the law which
abridged the power of courts to is
sue injunctions in labor disputes.
AS SEEN BY A
LEGISLATOR
Courtesy of GILES L. FRENCH,
Member from 22nd District.
The sessions of the legislature have
been very short so far as neither
remain on active duty much more
than half an houf each morning
and afternoon. There are few bills
and a vast majority of them are in
committee where they are being held
up for a variety of reasons. In many
instances legislators interested in
the bills want to write to their con
stituents to get more information,
on some bills a public hearing must
be arranged, some are being con
ferred upon by joint committees and
others are being quietly killed.
Therefore Speaker Boivin is called
upon but a few times a day to an
nounce, "The question is: Shall the
bill pass?" and then "The clerk will
call the rolL"
The delay is to a great extent
caused by the state officials who
have not been ready with their sug
gestions and whose bills are not
ready for introduction. The state
planning board has issued many re
ports and made many, many sug
gestions but so far has not prepared
its program. This slows up legisla
tion in two ways: first, because com
mittees seldom consider a subject
until all bills concerning it are hand
ed in, and second, because many
important matters of legislation are
handled by the state officials.
There is lots of talk about the im
portance of the legislation that may
be introduced later in the session.
Yet it is doubtful if anything of ma
jor interest to the state will come up
at all. There are few people who
can recall the epoch making results
of any session back in the twenties
and except for the special session
that provided for the rebuilding of
the capitol legislative sessions have
been pretty much alike in that the
bills seemed mighty important at the
time and were later forgotten.
There will be amendments to the
social security act that provides un
employment insurance, the milk con
trol act will be changed in some
manner, probably the Knox law will
be srtengthened, some of the labor
bills have a good chance of passage
and it is likely that bills affecting
different sections of the state will go
through.
That will be the extent of the leg
islation except for minor corrections
in the existing law. It conforms to
a marked degree with the t request
of the governor that nothing be done
to rock the boat.
CY BINGHAM DIES.
Cy Bingham, who won the name
of "the biggest sheriff in Oregon"
while he held that position in Grant
county, passed away Wednesday,
Jan. 20, at Pomona, Calif. He was
65 years of age. Previous to his ten
ure as sheriff he was supervisor of
the Malheur national forest. Con
don Globe Times.
House for rent. Mrs. O. A. Dev-
in, phone 663, city. 43tf.
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