HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUG. 12, 1937
PAGE SIX
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
35,000,000 Trout
Enforcement Need
o Pinball Games Out
By A. L. LINDBECK
SALEM. Governor Martin re
turning from a tour of inspection
with members of the State Game
commission, expressed himself as
highly gratified over the progress
being made in the commission's ef
forts to restock Oregon's forests and
streams with wild life.
Thirty-five million fingerling
trout and 40,000 young pheasants
will be released from the commis
sion's hatcheries this year the gov
ernor was informed, with plans made
for doubling this liberation of both
fish and birds within two years.
Declaring that it was essential that
every dollar available be spent di
rectly in cnoservation and propa
gation of the wild life of the state if
Oregon is to remain a hunters' and
fisherman's paradise, the governor
announced that he would oppose
continued diversion of game funds
to support of the state police. Ap
proximately $110,000 a year is now
being contributed by the game com
mission to the police fund.
The tour included a visit to hatch
eries at Corvallis, Alsea, Bandon,
Roseburg, Eugene, the McKenzie
river, the lower Deschutes river and
Hood River. The governor declared
that he was now convinced that pol
itics had been definitely eliminated
from the administration of game af
fairs in this state and that the pres
ent game commission was one of the
most efficient in the entire nation.
Following a conference with
members of the Industrial Accident
commission the Board of Control
announced that it would not con
sent to the use of Workmen's Com
pensation funds in financing the
proposed Portland office building
acquisition of which was authorized
by the last legislature. Governor
Martin and all three members of the
Accident commission were opposed
to the proposed loan on the ground
that it would "freeze" accident
funds which might be needed in the
payment of claims. State Treasurer
Holman discounted the fears ex
pressed by the Accident commis
sioners and supported the loan pro
posal as being good business and
providing a better interest return
than the commission can now earn
on its bond investments. Rejection
of the loan provision still leaves two
methods of financing the Portland
building open. One of these is thru
the sale of certificates of indebted
ness secured by the building itself,
The other is through a straight-out
rental plan.
Strict enforcement of the traffic
laws must be had before Oregon can
expect any reduction in its highway
accident rate in the opinion of R. H.
Baldock, state highway engineer.
Admitting that educational cam
paigns, lectures and slogans might
have their place in educating the
younger members of society, Bal
dock declared that nothing but a
wholesome respect for the law would
ever reach the reckless, the careless
and the drunken drivers who are
responsible for most of the traffic
accidents. In support of his attitude
Baldock points to the record of Ev
anston, 111., which has the lowest
per capita accident rate of any city
in the United States because of a
policy of strict law enforcement.
More than $800,000 in farm and
city property was sold by the World
War Veterans State Aid commission
during the first seven months of
1937, Jerrold Owen, secretary to the
commission, reported this week. This
was property which had previously
been taken over by the commission
either through foreclosure proceed
ings or through voluntary surrender
of the property by borrowers. Owen
also reports a decided improvement
in principal and interest payments
by war veterans who have taken ad
vantage of the bonus loans to finance
purchase of homes or farms.
Appointment of Claude C. McCol
loch of Klamath Falls as federal
district judge for Oregon ends one
STATE FAIR SEEKS
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This little fellow and his two kid puis were among the thousands who
visited the Oregon State Fair last year. Who are they? No one
seems to know, not even the photographer. But with plans nearly
completed for the 1937 state fair September 6 to 12, (the state fair
management wants the mystery solved and is iuing the coopera
tion of the public to that end. A pleasant surprise is in store for
the kid in the center of the group, but more than that Assistant
State Fair Manager Leo Spitzbart declines to reveal until the trio
s located.
of the most prolonged political con
troversies in the history of the state.
Acceptance by McColloch of the new
post will leave vacant the position of
chairman of the Democratic state
central committee for which Jack E.
Allen of Pendleton and Jack Cau
field of Tillamook are being groomed.
Pin ball and marble board games
having been successfully outlawed
in Marion ' county the attitude of
law enforcement officials in other
sections of the state toward these
gambling devices will be watched
with much interest.
Appeals to the supreme court by
N. J. Arnold and J. H. Campbell,
operators of these devices, were
dropped this week, and restraining
orders issued by the Marion county
circuit court pending the outcome
of the appeals were dissolved. A few
days later when deputy sheriffs
searched the county for the pres
ence of the machines none could be
found. In both of these cases Cir
cuit Judge James W. Crawford had
held the pin ball and marble board
games to be lotteries operated in
violation of the state constitution.
Ralph Moody, assistant attorney
general and special prosecutor who
handled the Marion county cases
against the pin ball and marble board
operators, declared that dismissal of
the appeals gave to Judge Craw
ford's decree the same force and ef
fect as a favorable supreme court
opinion. Attorneys representing the
operators, however, deny this claim.
They point out that the suits affect
only the status of the machines in
Marion county and indicate that
their clients will continue to operate
in other counties of the state.
In a letter to T. Leland Brown,
district attorney for Wasco county,
Moody pointed out that Oregon's
statutes already contain enough law
to outlaw these gambling devices
and declared that repsonsibility for
the enforcement of the law rests with
the district attorneys. Moody also
pointed out that Judge Crawford's
opinion holding pin ball, marble
board and similar devices to violate
the lottery, gambling, nickel-in-the-slot
and public nuisance statutes of
the state also held the act of 1935
purporting to authorize counties and
cities to license the operation of
these machines to be unconstitu
tional. Already a number of district at
torneys have indicated their inten
tion to follow up the success of the
campaign in Marion county with
prosecution against operators of
similar devices in their own coun
ties. It is pointed out there that in
event any district attorney should
prove derelict in the enforcement
of the anti-gambling and lottery
laws Governor Martin has ample
authority to displace him with a
special prosecutor just as he did in
Marion county when he asked At
torney General Van Winkle to step
into the picture which he did by
placing Moody in charge of law en
forcement. Thirty-three hundred officers and
"THREE LOST KIDS
men constituting Oregon's National
Guard contingent will start moving
out from their bases in 25 cities
scattered over the state early next
Tuesday morning bound for the an
nual maneuver.
Instead of going to Camp Clat
sop as usual, however, the Oregon
troops will go to Fort Lewis, Wash
ington, where they will join with
troops from Washington, Idaho,
Montana and Wyoming, as well as
regular army units, in the greatest
peace-time concentration of fight
ing men and machines in the his
tory of the Pacific northwest. A to
tal of approximately 15,000 men will
be engaged in the war maneuvers at
Fort Lewis which will continue for
a period of 15 days.
The first week of the encampment
will be devoted to whipping the men
into shape, according to Major Gen
eral George A. White, commander
of the 41st division. The big review,
high light ;n the two weeks' pro
gram from the standpoint of the pub
lic, will be held on Saturday, August
21, Commencing on Monday, August
23, and continuing day and night
without interruption until August
28, the troops will be engaged in a
gigantic war maneuver, simulating
as nearly as possible actual war time
conditions.
In addition to the 15,000 men en
gaged in the maneuvers there will
be more than 1000 pieces of heavy
equipment including cannon, trucks,
tractors and tanks.
Experimental Station
Facts and Figures
Experiences of branch experiment
stations in eastern Oregon with try
ing to develop rotations on Colum
bia basin wheat lands have shown
that considerable care must be prac
ticed to make sure that the fertility
and moisture balance is not too ser
iously disturbed. It has been found,
for example, that if wheat is grown
immediately after alfalfa has been
plowed down, there will be an ex
cess of nitrogen, which causes the
wheat to grow so rank that it later
burns for lack of moisture before
maturity. Various crop combinations
and practices to avoid such diffi
culties are constantly being studied
at the branch stations.
Small shelters, made of either
wooden slats or framework covered
with cheesecloth, have proved prac
tical in protecting tomatoes from
curly top or blight when tried out
on the Hermiston branch experi
ment station. When practically every
vine outside of the shelters would
be badly diseased, those under the
shelters thrived and yielded at the
rate of from 12 to 25 tons per acre.
Both kinds of shelters were left open
on one side, indicating that the leaf
hoppers, which carry the disease, are
not excluded, but they do not work
enough in partial shade to cause
damage. This method is not recom
mended on a commercial scale, but
is considered practical for home
gardens.
An interesting study being made
at the Union branch experiment
station is on the comparative palata-
bilities of the various grasses and
legumes. Equal amounts of the dif
ferent varieties of grasses, clovers
and other forage crops are fed to
animals, and the amount rejected is
measured. The slender stemmed type
of crested wheat grass, known as the
fairway strain, was relished ' better
than some legumes. This strain is
recommended only where moisture
conditions are a little better than in
the drier eastern Oregon lands.
WHEN ONE WHEEL
RUNS OFF PAVEMENT
When one wheel runs off the
pavement, take the foot off the ac
celerator and allow the car to slow
down gradually until it can be brot
back into the road easily, without
jar or sway, advises the Oregon State
Motor association.
TRUCKING
ANYWHERE FOR HIRE
Two Trucks in Operation
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