HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1937.
PAGE TEN
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o Thinks System Best
o Pearson on Board
o Many Tourists Due
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. The PWA grant of $450,
000 for new state buildings does not
limit the program to a single struc
ture, in the opinion of Ralph Moody,
legal advisor for the Capitol Recon
struction commission which has
charge of the building program.
There is nothing either in the state
law appropriating $550,000 toward
new buildings or in the federal
grant to prevent the construction
of a library building and an office
building as two separate structures,
if the Capitol commission finds such
a plan preferable, according to
Moody.
Moody points out, however that
the PWA grant is not a definite
commitment of the full $450,000. The
grant money will only be paid to
the state as it is shown that money
has been paid to labor taken from
the relief rolls. Officials who have
investigated the situation however
find no cause for worry on this
score as no difficulty is anticipated
in finding plenty of skilled as well
as unskilled labor on the relief rolls
who will be available for work on
the new state building or buildings.
Governor Martin's suggestion that
the state library be shelved on the
top floor of the new office building
has brought a veritable deluge of
protest. Friends of the library call
attention to the fact that the state
appropriation was made by the re
cent session primarily for the bene
fit of the library which, they insist,
should have first consideration in
the new building program.
It may be only a case wherein dis
tance lends enchantment but in any
event it appears that those who live
on the other side of the globe have
a better opinon of the Oregon sys
tem than do a lot of those who live
under that system. At least Mr. J.
H. Penniket of Hamilton, New Zea
land, thinks that "Oregon's political
system is the best in the world." In
a letter to Secretary of State Snell,
Mr. Penniket who is a member of
the New Zealand parliament, seeks
information regarding Oregon's in
itiative and referendum and other
legislative reforms in effect in this
state.
"I have been told that the Oregon
political system is the best in the
world, that your members of parlia
ment are still free and responsible
to their constituents only, and that
the people still retain effective con
trol over their politicians not merely
at election time but in between elec
tions as well." Mr. Penniket writes.
Work on the new 50-bed pavillion
for the eastern Oregon tuberculosis
hospital at The Dalles and a nurses'
home at the eastern Oregon state
hospital at Pendleton will be started
at once without waiting for federal
funds the board of control has an
nounced. Funds for the two proj
ects, totalling $120,000 were appro
priated by the recent legislative ses
sion. Application will be made for
PWA funds and if the application is
approved the federal funds will be
used in off-setting the state's appro
priation.
Appointment of Walter E. Pearson
to a place on the state board of
higher education marks the second
Democratic state senator to receive
official recognition since the recent
session adjourned. Wm. Strayer of
Baker was appointed to a place on
the state . mining board. Pearson
succeeds to the post left vacant by
B. F. Irvine's refusal to accept reap
pointment.
Floyd L. Utter has reconsidered
his intenton to resign from the state
parole board and will remain. His
reconsideration, he said, was in com
pliance with Governor Martin's in
sistence that he continue to serve
Utter and W. H. Treece both re
signed from the parole board fol
lowing the close of the legislative
session in protest against the adverse
action on their parole reform pro
gram. Treece has since been ap
pointed to the state board of arbitra
tion while Lotus Langley of Port
land has been named to fill his place
on the parole board.
Prospects are for a record crop for
the Grim Reaper on Oregon's high
ways this year. At least the year
has started out like a record breaker.
The first three months accounted for
a total of 63 fatalities as a result of
traffic accidents, topping the 1936
figures by eight. Traffic accidents
foe the three month period totalled
8210 compared to 6177 for the same
period last year with 1313 persons
suffering injuries this year to 1238
last year.
Linden McCullough, the new su
perintendent of the Blind Trade
school in Portland has announced a
new sales policy for the school.
Blind salesmen will be taken off the
streets and brooms and other prod
ucts of the institution will be sold
through established wholesale con
cerns. A material decrease in Oregon's
general relief load is reported by
Elmer Goudy, relief administrator.
The number of persons receiving
relief was reduced from 50,842 in
February to 45,967 in March. Of
$494,593 paid out by the state relief
commission during March, Goudy
reports, 45.1 percent went for gen
eral relief, 53.1 percent for old age
pensions and 1.1 percent for blind
assistance.
Although C. A. Howard's resigna
tion as superintendent of public in
struction does not take effect until
September 1, Governor Martin is
expected to name Howard's suc
cessor within the next few weeks
just to get the matter settled and
relieve the pressure that is now
being brought to bear on him by the
numerous candidates for Howard's
job and their friends. Such a deluge
of letters has been received by the
governor containing endorsements of
candidates that he has found it im
possible to answer them all.
Oregon is in for the biggest tour
ist crop in its history, in the opinion
of Secretary of State Snell. He bases
his opinion on foreign registrations
which show that 19,029 out-of-state
cars visited Oregon during the first
four months of the year, compared
to only 14,891 during the same period
last year. Snell predicts an even
greater proportionate increase in
tourist traffic for- the remainder of
the year, when the balmy breezes
that blow over the Pacific North
west from the ocean will begin to
lure the vacationists from the swel
tering east and middle-west, not to
mention California.
No logging, milling or other in
dustrial operations may be carried
on in Oregon's forested areas after
May 15 without a permit, according
to J. W. Ferguson, state forester.
Permits for slash burnings will also
become necessary after that date.
Under an act of the last legislature
the closed season wlil extend to De
cember 31 hereafter, with the gov
ernor empowered to lift the restric
tion at any time that weather con
ditions warrant.
The interim committee which will
make a study of revenue legislation
for the benefit of the next session
is composed of the following mem
bers: Chas. V. Galloway, chairman
of the state tax commission; H. C.
Herron of Corvallis, county judge of
Benton county; Gust Anderson and
B. T. McBain of Portland; Repre
sentatives Roy Carter of Gold Beach,
Ralph Stevenson of Medford and
Carl Engdahl of Pendleton. Ap
pointment of the committee was au
thorized by the recent session.
If you are a beer drinker and your
next glass of suds shows signs of
shrinkage don't blame the liquor
control commission. A. K. McMahan,
chairman of that commission, denies
any responsibility whatever for the
recent decision of the Oregon Food
and Beverage Dispensers association
to reduce the size of the 10-cent glass
from 12 ounces to 10 ounces.
Unified Contacts Plan
Aids Oregon Students
Oregon high school students are
the only ones in the United States
who enjoy the advantages of a uni
fied plan of visitation by represent
atives of the state supported colleges
and universities, according to the
annual report of the State Commit
tee on High School contacts recent
ly submitted by E. L. Lemon of Cor
vallis, chairman.
The plan, which is now in its third
year of successful operation, provides
a means whereby students who plan
to go on to college may learn the
essential facts about all of the high
er educational opportunities tree
from biased presentation by those
representing only one institution.
Under the present plan no repre
sentative of any institution is al
lowed to make a lecture appearance
in any high school except upon in
vitation of the school, which in turn
must pay the expense. The cen
tralized contacts committee, on the
other hand, supervises the activities
of a full time high school visitor, who
goes from school to school giving
complete and unbiased explanations
of the offerings of the six institu
tions in the Oregon state system of
higher education. Dr. D. V. Poling,
long a resident of Oregon, but later
of New Jersey, has filled this posi
tion since it was created.
The central contacts committee
also provides a counseling service
committee, which aids the schools in
WALKING INTO TROUBLE.
Nearly 150 Oregonians jaywalked
their way to death last year, Oregon
State Motor association statistics
state. The guilty 150 who paid for
their folly with their lives found
death when they either crossed at
an intersection against the signal, or
merely walked in the roadway.
carrying on modern educational
guidane programs to assist students
in determining the kind of college
training best suited to their needs
and future aspirations.
Instead of being controlled ex
clusively by the state system of
higher education, the contacts com
mittee consists also of representa
tives of the state department of ed
ucation and the official organizations
of the secondary schools, the report
explains.
Present members of the central
committee are E. B. Lemon, regis
trar" at O. S. C, chairman; E. M. Pal
lett, registrar at U. of O.; J. A.
Churchill, representing the normal
schools; C. A. Howard, state super
intendent of public instruction; Jas.
L. Turnbull, president of the Asso
siation of City Superintendents; and
T. R. Fowler, president of the High
School Principals' association. The
work of the committee has been en
thusiastically endorsed by the high
school principals' and superinten
dents' associations, Mr. Lemon's re
port shows.
COLLISIONS TAKE HIGH TOLL.
More than one-third of all motor
car fatalities result from collisions,
according to Oregon State Motor as
sociation figures. About 17 per cent
of the deaths are from collisions be
tween two cars; 20 per cent are col
lisions between a motor vehicle and
some fixed object.
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State Planning
Aided by Libraries
Public libraries as universal edu
cational institutions can now pro
mote the study of Oregon's re
sources and their conservation and
use it was pointed out by C. W.
Reynolds, executive assistant of the
Oregon state planning board, at the
librarians conference held at Arling
ton, May 12. This conference, one
of a series to discuss library prob
lems, was held under the direction
of Miss Harriet M. Long, state li- .
brarian.
Mr. Revnolds who spoke at the-
noon luncheon described reports and
research projects made by the state
board and told the librarians how
they ciuld obtain material for dis
tribution. He also presented an ex
hibit of planning board work.
"Because of the present strong
emphasis upon adult education there
are increasing demands that the
public library shall assume more
responsibility as an educational in
stitution," Mr. Reynolds said: "The
libraries can be useful instruments
in spreading information relative to
Oregon's resources and the problems
growing out of the use of these re
sources." Mr. Reynolds is in charge of edu
cational work for the state planning
board and is regarded as an excellent
public speaker with a good know
ledge of his subject.
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