HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1937.
PAGE SIX
NEWS
Reappointments
o Traffic Deaths
o More Gas Sales
By A. L. LINDBECK
SALEM. Although delayed for
more than three weeks after the ex
piration of their terms the reappoint
ment of Earl L. Fisher and Chas. V.
Galloway as members of the state
tax commission finally came through
as expected.
The reappointment of the two
commissioners "with no strings at
tached" as explained by Governor
Martin, is generally interpreted here
as an official endorsement of their
administration of the tax laws of
the state and approval of the "hard
boiled" and "arbitrary" methods
employed by the commission in the
assessment of penalties and interest
against delinquent tax payers to
which objection had been taken by
certain individuals opposing their
reappointment.
Contrary to the contention of some
authorities that failure to reappoint
the two commissioners promptly
after the expiration of their old
terms left a vacancy on the commis
sion other authorities point out that
the two commissioners continued to
serve without any interruption in
their status. In support of this view
it is pointed out that the state su
preme court has on at least-two oc
casions held that an appointive of
ficial continues to serve until his
successor has been appointed and
qualified for the post.
Traffic hazards will be reduced to
a minimum on the highways of the
future according to R, H. Baldock,
state highway engineer, who re
turned from a conference with other
highway engineers at Chicago.' The
highways of the future, Baldock de
clared, will be wider and straighter
than those being built today. En
gineers attending the Chicago con
ference urged stricter enforcement
of traffic laws against speeding and
reckless driving, Baldock said.
Six hundred employees of Oregon
creameries and cheese factories have
been certified as milk, cream and
butter graders following examina
tions conducted by the state depart
ment of agriculture. Certification
of the graders was in compliance
with an act of the 1937 legislature
providing for the grading of milk
and cream sold to creameries, cheese
factories and ice cream plants.
The state board of control refuses
to be dragged into a controversy be
ing waged by Salem property own
ers over the location of a garage in
a residential block adjacent to the
state office building. At a meeting
last week the board adopted a reso
lution in which it neither recom
mended or objected to the garage al
though the Capitol Reconstruction
commission at a meeting a week be
fore had gone on record as emphat
ically opposed to the garage which,
it was felt, might detract from the
attractiveness of the capitol setting.
Thirty-five persons lost their lives
in traffic accidents on Oregon high
ways during May, according to Sec
retary of State Snell. This traffic
fatality reord was 10 more than that
of May, 1936, and almost three times
the record for May, 1935. Total traf
fic deaths for the year to date num
ber 116 against 103 for the same per
iod last year. Snell described the
situation as "most serious and
alarming" and declares that "the
people of Oregon must be stirred to
action" unless this human slaughter
is to continue.
European countries are confronted
with the same problems of stream
pollution and sewage disposal as is
the United States according to Chas.
H. Carey, former corporation com
missioner, who is now travelling in
the British Isles and the continent
of Europe. Carey has written to
State Treasurer Holman giving a de
tailed account of some of the stream
pollution problems he has encoun
tered in his travels and methods
being employed to correct the sit
uation. Legislation placing mature tim
STATE
CAPITAL
ber on a more equitable tax basis
to perpetuate Oregon's timber sup
ply is urged by the state forester, in
his annual report, filed with Gov
ernor. Martin this week. The report
also recommends that the state ac
quire a large area of timbered land
as an aid to the stabilization of for
est land ownership.
The state forester also declares
that the lumber industry owes a so
cial responsibility to do whatever
is economically possbile to insure
permanent communities through
perpetuation of the timber supply
but points out that many operators
are financially unable to carry on
such a program under existing con
ditions. The state board of control is will
ing to sponsor an application for
PWA funds for a new tuberculosis
hospital to be built in Multnomah
county but insists that the prelim
inary work of assembling the neces
sary data to support the application
be assembled by sponsors of the
new institution. Governor Martin
in reply to demands from officials
of the Oregon Tuberculosis associa
tion that action be taken immediate
ly looking toward construction of
the new hospital calls attention to
the fact that both he and the ways
and means committee of the legisla
ture in approving the $110,000 state
appropriation did so with the dis
tinct understanding that those who
were promoting the hospital would
secure the additional funds to sup
plement the states' contribution.
May collections of gasoline taxes
shattered all previous records with
$1,041,408 paid into the state high
way fund by motorists during the
month according to Secretary of
State Snell. A prediction that the
May record would be followed by
other new high records this sum
mer as the tourist season reaches its
peak, was made by Snell.
Reports from Washington this
past week were more favorable for
a federal grant for the new state
library and office building without
any hampering strings attached.
Ralph Moody, assistant attorney
general, who is in the national cap
itol in the interest of the building
grant, wrote Governor Martin that
a rider attached to the WPA ap
propriation provides for the grant to
Oregon as an extension of the orig
inal capitol grant. Later press re
ports from Washington indicate that
the relief lbaor restrictions maybe
removed entirely from the WPA ap
propriation. In either event Oregon
will receive $450,000 in federal mon
ey to add to the state appropriation
of $550,000 for the proposed new
building.
"Tent City" at the state fair ground
is in danger of razing. Plans for
landscaping the grounds call for re
moval of the cottages some of which
have been occupied by regular vis
itors to the fair over a period of
many years. A committee from the
Campers association called on. the
State Board of Agriculture in ses
sion here this week to protest the
proposed razing of their cottages
and the protest was taken under ad
visement. What is hoped to be the first of a
series of many similar refund checks
was received this week by Secretary
of State Snell from a large milling
company. The check was for $850
and represents processing taxes col
lected by the company under the
Agricultural Adjustment act on
feedstuffs sold to state institutions.
Claims have been filed by the state
with a number of firms aggregating
$70,000.
1937 May Be Pine "Birthday"
Foresters are saying that 1937 is
likely to be one of the rare "birth
days" of the Ponderosa or yellow
pine. Seed years for these pines are
normally from three to seven years
apart, and a good seed year must
be followed by a moist spring to get
much reproduction. Officials of the
soil conservation service, who are
interested in encouraging protective
tree growth on waste land, say their
observations show that 1895 and 1912
were exceptionally good begin
ning years for these trees, judging
from age studies.
I have four mares for sale or trade
for cattle; price is right; weight from
1150 to 1400, broke single and dou
ble. W. H. French, Hardman. 14tf
State Specialty Crops
Not in Estimates
Government estimates of Oregon's
cash farm income for the past 10
years, which averaged slightly less
than $100,000,000, have included the
principal national farm commodities
but not numerous specialty prod
ucts grown in Oregon, the current
report on the agricultural situation
by the OSC agricultural extension
service points out. Among these
specialty products are numerous
kinds of grass and forage crop seeds,
vegetable and flower seeds, flax fi
ber, filberts, peppermint oil, tur
keys, and miscellaneous poultry, fur
bearing animals, and others.
"This lack of data concerning the
production and marketing of Ore
gon's specialty products has been a
serious handicap and has caused
the state to be shown as of much
less importance agriculturally than
the facts would warrant, as the trend
of Oregon agriculture has been tow
ard specialty products to a far
greater degree than the available
statistics indicate," says L. R. Breit
haupt, author of the report.
The Oregon state legislature of
1937 took cognizance of the need for
more agricultural data in a law pro
viding for the cooperation of the
agricultural extension service with
the bureau of agricultural econom
ics, and a survey is now in progress,
Breithaupt says. The problem is
so complicated, however, that the
first annual figures are not expected
to be available for some time.
The development of crop and live
stock estimates as an official activity
of the government dates from the
year 1839 when congress first ap
propriated money for the purpose.
Full-time federal agricultural stat
isticians were assigned to the re
spective states in 1914. By 1933, ap
proximately three-fourths of the
states had begun to cooperate in
order that the data might be more
complete.
"It is particularly desirable that the
official crop reports should show
Oregon's production of specialty pro
ducts," says the college circular,
which points out their value in ad
vertising and marketing farm prod
ucts. The data have been found
valuable or essential for the benefit
of the agricultural industry in many
other ways, including planning agri
cultural production to meet market
demands, in setting up marketing
organizations and programs, in con
nection with tariff legislation and
reciprocal trade agreements, in
transportatin matters involving fa
cilities and rates, and for such vast
projects as the agricutural adjust
ment and soil conservation programs.
Stock Industry Urged
Improve Organization
The livestock industry of the west
was urged to effect a stronger or
ganization in order to be in position
to defend its just rights against nu
merous agencies interested in phases
of land planning by speakers at the
annual summer meeting of the west
ern section of the American Society
of Animal Production at Oregon
State college recently.
While a wide variety of technical
subjects relative to animal husband
ry were discussed, major emphasis
was given to range livestock prob
lems in the west by the livestock
and college representatives from
seven western states.
Livestock specialists are only be
ginning to recognize the importance
of grazing, E. L. Potter, head of the
division of agricultural economics
at Oregon State college, declared.
He added that much work remains
to be done on grazing management,
nutrition and carrying capacity, voic
ing the general opinion of the agri
cultural college representatives at
the meeting that throughout the west
there is an evident demand for in
creased knowledge of range live
stock nutritional work.
Elmer H. Hughes of the Univer
sity of California was elected presi
dent of the society. Julius Nordby
of the University of Idaho was
named vice president and Jerry So
tola of Washington State college sec
retary. The University of Idaho and
Washington State college will be
joint hosts to the society next year.
"AUTOCIDES" LOOM
Homicides totaled 5 in Portland
last year, suicides 22, "autocides" 72.
OSC LISTS MANY GIFTS.
Corvallis. Gifts of money and
materials, mostly for special uses,
totalling $68,268, were received by
Oregon State college during the past
year, according to a listing in the
annual commencement program. This
sum does not include $88,268 in labor
and materials on WPA projects, $40,
455 in student labor furnished thru
the National Youth administration,
and $36,000 in a PWA grant used in
constructing the new health service
building.
A large proportion of the private
money grants was for special re
search carried on in the schools of
agriculture, engineering, science and
forestry. Other gifts received were
impossible to appraise in money
value, such as a long list of articles
given to the Horner museum.
Drivers listing their occupation as
"laborers" figure in twice as many
automobile accidents as any other
class, Oregon State Motor associa
tion records find.
TRUCKING
ANYWHERE FOR HIRE
Two Trucks in Operation
Insured Carrier
Livestock Hauling a Specialty
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