HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1937.
PAGE THREE
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o The Governorship
o Salaries Restored
o Buildings
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. Already, more than a year
in advance of the 1938 primaries, the
political prognosticators are begin
ning to worry about Governor Mar
tin's attitude toward a second term.
Many are convinced that the gov
ernor is now building his political
fences with a view to entering the
forthcoming campaign as a candidate
to succeed himself. This, too, in
spite of his oft-repeated declara
tions during the 1934 campaign that
he would be a one-term governor,
Those who believe the governor will
be a candidate in 1938 base their be
lief on what they claim to be his
changed attitude toward the masses
in whose hands the voting strength
of the state lies in his more diplo
matic public utterances and his evi
dent anxiety to placate and mollify
his constituents rather than to an
tagonize as he so frequently did dur
ing the first year of his tenure as
governor.
On the other hand there are those
who still contend that the governor
will be content to retire from public
life at the expiration of his present
term; that he has had his fill of pol
itics and the petty bickerings inci
dent to his office.
Should it develop that the govern
or does aspire to a second term it is
generally conceded that his most
difficult hurdle will be the primaries,
There in all probabilities, he will be
confronted with the opposition of
all the elements he has affronted
and antagonized during his current
term including the leaders of the
state grange, organized labor, Town
sendites and last, but by no means
least, the disappointed office seek
ers of his own party. Report, ap
parently well founded, has it that
there has already been formed
strong coalition between Willis Ma-
honey, Howard Latourette, Ray Gill
and Ben Osborne to oppose the gov
ernor should he seek re-election.
Whatever the governor's inten
tions may be toward a second term
no one yet knows unless it be him
selfwhich is doubtful and he is
not telling. But at least the subject
provides plenty of material for spec
ulation and probably will for several
months to come.
Oregon's bonded debt was re
duced by $1,900,000 this week when
State Treasurer Holman paid off
$1,300,000 in highway bonds and
$600,000 in World War Veterans'
State Aid bonds. These payments
leave $47,208,010 still outstanding aL
most equally divided between obli
gations of the highway and bonus
commissions. State bond retire
ments since January 1, 1935, amount
to $7,425,600, according to a state
ment issued by Holman.
Frank M. Franciscovich, state sen
ator from Clatsop county, now knows
how it feels to be the governor of a
great state. Franciscovich, as pres
ident of the senate, was governor
from Thursday afternoon until Mon
day while Governor Martin was vis
iting with his daughter and family at
Bremerton, Washington. Francisco
vich, however, did not find it neces
sary to come to' Salem during his
brief reign as the state's chief, pre
fering to bide his time until the gov
ernor leaves on a more extended va
cation which he is expected to do
sometime this summer.
Hundreds of state employees and
officials were made happy this week
when their pay checks were restored
to the old pre-depression base. The
salary restoration was made possi
ble when the recent legislature
failed to re-enact the salary reduc
tion act which had been in effect
since 1933.
The experiment of transferring
youthful offenders from the state
prison to the boys' training school
was given a black eye this week
when it was found necessary to re
turn two of the boys back to the pen
itentiary. The experiment was en
tered into approximately a year ago
as a means both of reducing the con
gestion at the state prison and seg
regating the young first termers
from the older criminals. Out of 66
boys under the age of 20 years, only
nine were found who could be en
trusted to the care of the boys' school
where there is no provision for for
cible detention of the inmates.
Details of the new state building
program, so far as the acquisition of
additional land and construction of
the new library building are con
cerned, will be left entirely to the
capitol reconstruction commission.
At a conference here last week the
board of control assured the commis
sion that, while it reserves the right
to veto any proposal that might not
meet with its favor, it would not be
its purpose to unduly interfere with
the commission's plans.
As a starter the capitol commis
sion is asking Uncle Sam for $450,000
of WPA money to match the state
appropriation of $550,000. If that
grant is secured it is expected that
the commission will plan the con
struction of two buildings or one
large building to accommodate not
only the state library but several
other state departments. If the fed
eral grant is refused building plans
for this biennium will probably be
confined to a new library.
By far the biggest problem con
fronting the capitol commission,
however, is that of acquiring addi
tional land. All of the four blocks
included in the proposed enlarged
capitol site are now occupied by
residences, some of the finest in Sa
lem. . Many of the owners are re
luctant to sell for sentimental reas
ons. It is expected that the objec
tions of these may be met by leav
ing them a life interest in the prop
erty. Condemnation proceedings
will probably have to be resorted to
in acquiring some property in case
the agents for the state and the own
ers fail to agree on a price.
An unprecedented demand for for
est tree seedlings is reported by J.W.
Ferguson, state forester. More than
600,000 of the seedlings will go to
Oregon farmers this spring to be set
out for woodlots, shelterbelts and
windbreaks. Ferguson predicts that
the demand for young trees will
reach the million mark in 1938.
Seedlings available for free distribu
tion to farmers include 15 varieties.
Trees are selected for shipment to
meet climatic requirements of the
various sections of the state as well
as the particular needs of the appli
cant in the production of fuel, posts
and lumber.
As was predicted when Governor
Martin vetoed the emergency clause
on the Martin anti-gambling bill the
slot machine and pin-ball operators
this week started the referendum on
the measure as well as the Carney
measure, which also outlaws slot
machines and authorizes their con
fiscation as public nuisances. Pre
liminary petitions were filed with
the state department this week and
petitions will be in circulation thru-
out the state for signatures within a
short time. If the requisite num
ber of names are secured the two
measures will be on the 1938 ballot
for action by the voters. In the
meantime it is expected that the le
gality of these gambling devices will
be threshed out in the courts in a
suit started in Marion county and
which has already been decided
against the pin ball operators by
Circuit Judge Crawford.
consulted with reference to the
building bill although members of
the legislature declare that the bill
originally came from the highway
commission.
IRRIGON
By MRS. W. C. ISOM
Mr. and Mrs. Padgett and Mrs. E.
Gentry and son Donald of Baker
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Don
Isom .Sunday and Monday. Mrs.
Gentry and son are mother and bro
ther of Mrs. Isom.
Kenneth Mace left for his home
at Tecoa, Wash., the last of the
week to visit his parents.
Rev. Rice of Spokane held ser
vices at the community church on
Thursday and Friday nights.
Roy Minnick motored to Portland
Saturday to attend a section fore
men's meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Markham and
daughter Ilene from Richland, Wn.,
were week-end guests of Mr. arid
Mrs. Glenn Aldrich.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Strader of
Portland visited her sister, Mrs. Vir
ginia Chaney and family last week.
Mrs. trader went to Dayton the
first of the week to visit her father!.
O. E. Barnes of Elgin visited
friends here Monday.
Mrs. Becket who spent some time
in (jauiornia uus winter ior ner
health, returned home this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Steward and
daughter, Earl Steward and Mr. and
Mrs. Lyle Seaman of Portland vis
ited their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Steward several days last
week.
Russell McCoy has returned home
from The Dalles and is again run
ning the school bus. He reports his
father, Emmett McCoy as improving
slowly.
Miss Snow McCoy who has been
in The Dalles hospital for some
time recovering from an operation,
returned home Saturday much im
proved in health.
Mrs. Bessie Wisdom is planning to
move to Portland soon to be with
her son, Bishop.
Chester Wilson went to work on
the river dredge Monday as a driller.
The small daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. Kendler is improving
slowly.
Harry Dinges was transacting
business in the city yesterday from
Lexington.
Only one member of the former
advisory board for the employment
institution for adult blind was re
tained on the newly created board.
That was Mrs. Lee Patterson of
Portland who has been active in
work for the blind for many years.
Other members of the new board
which will administer the institution
are Dr. Ralph Fenton and O. V.
Badley of Portland, J. H. Chappell
of Marshfield and Mrs. Harry Burke
of Astoria.
The authority vested in the high
way commission by the recent legis
lature to construct a building out of
their own funds may never be exer
cised. Governor Martin told news
papermen this week that he would
never consent to the use of highway
funds for building purposes. Fur
thermore the governor said that
neither he nor the members of the
highway commission had ever been
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