HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 11, 1937.
PAGE THREE
Reserve of Power
For Public and
Domestic Use
(Editor's Note: This is one of a
series of articles released by the
State Planning Board from Its rec
ommendations to Governor Charles
H. Martin on "Recommended Pol
icies for Sale of Bonneville Power."
Others in the series will follow un
til completed.)
The emphasis placed by interested
citizens on industrial use of Bonne
ville power does not mean that other
users would be stinted. Domestic
customers will in no way be deprived
of benefits from Bonneville merely
because industries absorb part of its
huge capacity. The Oregon State.
Planning Board's Advisory Commit
tee on Power has just recently com
pleted a report indicating that 50
percent of ' the Bonneville output
might well be reserved for a reason
able time for domestic, public and
commercial users and the other 50
percent made immediately available
for industries.
That report also brings out the
following significant facts which
should have a bearing on policies
for use and sale of Bonneville power:
I. Oregon's population is now well
supplied with electric service at
low cost, compared to other
states. The average cost to do
mestic consumers throughout
Oregon in 1935 was second low
est of all states and only three
fifths of the national average.
2. Oregon is the third highest state
in per capita use of electricity,
being exceeded only by Wash
ington and Idaho. Oregon's av
erage annual consumption per
domestic customer is nearly
twice the national average.
3. Oregon's population not now
served with electricity is small
in number and widely scattered
, in location, approximately 81
percent of the people being
within the limits of free ex
tension service, approximate
ly 89 percent being within three
miles of present distribution
systems.
4. In Oregon domestic users con
sume a much larger proportion
of all electric energy sold than
they do in the whole nation.
But industrial and commercial
uses in Oregon are below the
national average.
These facts show that there is no
large potential demand from urban
and rural domestic users in Oregon
which in the near future could ab
sorb any considerable part of Bon
neville's full generating capacity.
The report further points out that
the capital outlay required for in
vestment in electric appliances is
the major factor restricting greater
domestic use of electricity. The ex
perience of the Tennesse Valley Au
thority, and others, shows that al
though domestic use would doubt
less be increased by lowering rates,
consumption can be immediately
stimulated only to the point where
the average monthly bill is not ma
terially larger than that prevailing
before the rate reductions. It is
therefore not likely that domestic
demands sufficient to absorb any
great part of the total Bonneville
output would soon arise from rate
reduction induced by Bonneville's
low generating cost. Consumption
of Bonneville power by domestic
users must be built up gradually by
increased consumpion per customer
and by new customers arising from
population growth.
The report also shows that because
of low average rates for domestic
consumption througout the state, fu
ture domestic rate reductions in Or
egon cannot be as great as those
which may be made elsewhere in the
nation.
Although the planning board fig
ures show that the people of Ore
gon may not realize any great sav
ing in their monthly electrical bills
because of Bonneville, the import
ance of this great project to industry
should be kept in mind and every
one should realize that its completion
will mean a great step forward for
the state at large.
Four hundred fifty thousand peo
ple visited the Dionne uintuplets in
1936.
The sun sends out 400,000 times as
much light as the moon.
CMTC Will Again
Enroll Countians
Vancouver Barracks, Washington,
will again be host to the CMTC
for 1937. This year's camp will be
held July 1st to July 30th inclusive.
Boys from all counties in Oregon and
from Clark, Cowlitz, Klickitat, Wah
kiakum and Skamania counties of
Washington will be entertained at
the camp. The exact quota has not
been announced as yet by the War
department, but the army authorities
at Vancouver Barracks are prepar
ing for a camp of approximately 500
boys. Each county will be allotted
a proportionate share of the can
didates. The object of these camps is to
bring together young men of high
type from all sections of the coun
try on a common basis of equality
and, under the most favorable con
ditions of outdoor life, to stimulate
and promote citizenship, patriotism,
and Americanism.
Through expert physical directors,
athletic coaching and military train
ing the young men are benefitted
individually so that they will be bet
ter fitted to bear their obligations
as citizens.
The attractive camp site at Van
couver barracks is provided with ex
cellent facilities for baseball, golf,
track, tennis and other games and
has one of the finest swimming pools
in the northwest within a few hun
dred yards of the camp.
To attend a boy must be at least
17 years of age, in good physical con
dition, of good moral character and
able to read and write. The complete
expenses of attendance at camp are
furnished by the government which
include 5c a mile paid to the boy for
his transportation Ho and from the
camp, a bountiful supply of well pre
pared and balanced food, uniforms,
quarters and bedding, and full use
of recreational facilities. A boy who
attends camp is not obligated in any
way to future military service.
Requests for information and ap
plications should be made imme
diately to the CMTC officer at Van
couver Barracks, Wash., as it is not
always possible to accommodate all
who wish to attend.
RANDOM SHOTS
(Oregon News Bureau)
Just what did the maritime strike
accomplish for labor? This is a ques
tion that will keep labor men busy
explaining for some time. Everyone
knows that it cost the Pacific coast
many millions of dollars. At the
end of the strike Harry Bridges, the
alien leader of the longshoremen's
group, announced that the strike
would be over because it was impos
sible to keep the men from returning
to work. In other words Bridges
would have liked to prolong the
strike but couldn't keep hungry and
penniless men from working. And
they returned to work the long
shoremen at the identical wages
they received before the strike.
Oregon appears due to enact leg
islation controlling unions and fixing
union responsibility. If this comes
to pass union leaders can put the
blame squarely where it belongs. On
the maritime strike. Without it such
legislation would have been impos
sible. One bill now before the legislature
would repeal the dog and horse rac
ing bill which has provided large
sums for the" state fair, livestock
show, Pendleton Round-Up and the
county fairs. Most interested in the
success of this repeal move are the
big-shot gamblers who operate Port
land's police-protected gaming dens.
The dog races cut into their illegal
operations heavily.
There has been some talk about
slot machine men wanting a state
license law. The real truth is that
a license law would wreck their bus
iness. One slot machine operator
was approached by a would-be lob
byist who offered for $5000 to get
a bill passed legalizing the machines.
"Legalize them and I'll be out of
business," said the operator. "Ev
ery little merchant will buy his own,
pay his license and where will I be?
I'll tell you what I will do, I'll pay
$5000 for a bill making it a felony to
own one."
The people of the state of Oregon
will be slow to legalize gambling of
all kinds. It is an ugly thought.
But they may be forced to it one of
these days to protect themselves
from the graft and corruption. The
condition closely paralells the pro
hibition problem.
Three measures dumped in the
house hopper dealing with "pre
paid medicine" are designed primar
ily for the benefit of the wage earn
er who can afford to pay a small fee
out of his monthly income .for med
ical and surgical care and hospitali
zation if needed. The bills have
been introduced through hospital as
sociation sources. The hospital as
sociations, comparatively young as
an industry, have operated over a.
period of 20 years without much in
the way of control laws. During the
last year they did a $1,500,000 busi
ness and the wiser leaders have seen
the need of strict legislation to off
set "rackets." Similar measures have
been offered in the Washington leg
islature at Olympia.
While the Portland city council et
al, spent days arguing over snow
removal on city streets, the state
highway department was working
and motorists knew when they got
to the city limits because the streets
were filled with snow, whereas the
highways outside of town were
cleared in apple-pie order.
CARD OF APPRECIATION.
We wish to express our sincere
appreciation to our neighbors, the
county court, county engineer and
the CCC boys, for their timely help
in clearing our road of snow, mak
ing it possible for us to reach town
for feed and supplies.
D. O. Justus and family.
Thirty-three individuals in the
United States are rated as million
aires. Fifteen of them live in New
York.
Q time-Med
Bank opened for business in Portland, only blazed trails and
crude wagon roads made communication with outlying districts
possible. In those days there were less than 30,000 residents in
the entire state there were no electric lights and telephones
here then and it took six weeks for news from Washington,
D. C, relayed by telegraph, pony express, boat, to reach Oregon.
During the past 72 years this bank has witnessed the growth
of a state that today is nationally known for livestock, grain,
dairying, fruit, lumber and other products. Nearly a million
people reside in Oregon today. The First National Bank has
grown with Oregon. Deposits totaled $257,827 in 1866 (at the
close of the bank's first year in business). Today deposits of
this bank exceed $88,000,000 and there is a branch of The
First National Bank in almost every part of the state.
Growing-up with Oregon has made this bank friendly to
Oregon's best interests, confident of Oregon's future. We look
forward with you to continued growth and prosperity in this
community. We invite you to do business with Oregon's pioneer
bank both at our local branch and at other branches which we
maintain throughout the state.
HEPPNER BRANCH
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF PORTLAND
M I M I E I
FEDERAL
Garfield Crawford
Gets Texas Show Job
Dallas, Texas. Garfield Crawford,
former Heppnerite connected with
the Gazette and other Morrow coun
ty papers, has been appointed as
sistant to the director of publicity
for the Greater Texas and Pan
American exposition opening here
June 12. Crawford has been placed
in charge of magazine and feature
publicity. He held a similar posi
tion with the Texas Centennial ex
position in 1936.
The 1937 exposition takes on a
Latin American hue. In the Hall of
the Americas, a huge building of
modern construction, will be housed
the exhibits of the southern repub
lics free of all charges. Another at
traction will be the Mexican village
which sits in the heart of the mid
way. Official invitations from Pres
ident Franklin D. Roosevelt to the
southern republics to participate in
the exposition will be carried to the
south lands by Dr. Roscoe Hill of
the department of state and repre
sentative of the exposition. The Hill
party will leave Dallas Feb. 14 by
plane for a six-weeks cruise that
will carry them to the capitals of
fourteen of the Latin American na
tions. Crawford is one of the best known
newspapermen in the Southwest,
having been connected with the pub
lishing" business here over a long
period of years. He is a brother of
the late Vawter Crawford and start
ed his career in the newspaper busi
ness on the Gazette under the own
ership of Otis Patterson. A little
more than a year ago he returned
to Texas from Hollywood.
Bonds in 1936 finished at virtually
high levels of the year which for
many prime issues were the highest
for this century.
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CCC Camps Active
On SCS Projects
Soil conservation projects being
carried on in Oregon through the
cooperation of civilian conservation
camps has continued throughout the
winter despite adverse weather con
ditions, reports to the northwest
headquarters show. Winter activities
on the big Athena project have in
cluded the construction of two gaug
ing stations to determine relative
rates of run-off from different drain
age areas. A roadside erosion con
trol demonstration has also been
established. v
At Condon rock quarries have
been opened to get materials for
building check dams, while at Gib
bon a series of rock-wire jetties has,
been built to control streams. The
work at the Warrenton camp on the
Oregon coast has not been inter
fered with materially, as planting
of vegetation to control the shifting
sands can be carried on through the
winter.
CITIES' BILL UP.
Cities and counties are bearing
down on the legislators in the mat
ter of diversion of highway funds. A
bit of fireworks is looked for in this.
Another idea that will be presented
this week or next is an amendment
to the Knox liquor control act that
would give a sort of home rule au
thority to cities and allow them to
deal out the licenses for beer and
light wines. It would increase local
revenues and in event a city or- town
wanted to dry up its liquor sources
the power would be more or less in
the hands of the city fathers.
In some Mohammedan countries
the calendar is no longer in use.
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