HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 21, 1937
PAGE SIX
NEWS
Farley Appearance
o Martin's Decision
o Utility Valuations
By A. L. LINDBECK
SALEM Democrats of Oregon
had their day again Saturday. Scores
of the faithful spent the day bask
ing in the reflected glory of James A.
Farley, postmaster general and
chairman of the Democratic national
committee. Many limited their hom
age to a single appearance at one of
the banquets tendered the head of
the postal service. Others accompan
ied the party leader throughout the
day on his tour of the Willamette
valley all the way from Portland
where he was "breakfasted" to Eu
gene where he was "dined" that
night.
Included in the royal entourage
were scores of postmasters and post
mistresses all anxious to display
their loyalty to the "king-maker,"
numerous party workers, holders of
state and federal offices and patriot
ic Democrats who are willing and
anxious to sacrifice themselves on
thi altar of public service. There was
Goveror Charles H. Martin in whose
own private automobile the guest of
honor made the trip from Portland
to Eugene, and Howard Latourette
of Portland who is preparing to op
pose Martin for the Democratic gu
bernatorial nomination next May.
There were also Willis Mahoney of
Klamath Falls and Carl C. Donough
and E. J. Griffith of Portland, all
three recognized as aspirants for the
seat in the United States senate now
held by Fred Steiwer, republican.
Donough in his capacity as United
States district attorney was very
much in the spot light on the pro
gram but it could not help but be
remarked by the observant that Ma
honey came in for his full share of
applause at times amounting al
most to an ovation every time his
name was mentioned at one or the
other of the several "banquets."
Of congressmen and would-be
congressmen there were many in
evidence. These included Nan Wood
Honeyman, democratic incumbent
from the third district and Ellis
Barnes of Portland who would like
to succeed Mrs. Honeyman, and An
dy Burke, sheriff of Marion county,
who is being prominently mentioned
as the Democratic opponent of Con
gressman James W. Mott in the first
district, and Harry Boivin of Klam
ath Falls who served as Speaker of
the House in the last legislative ses
sion but who would not be unwilling
to succeed Walter Pierce as Ore
gon's Congressman from the big sea
ond district; and there was also Ver
non D. Bull of La Grande whose po
litical aspirations are said to center
in the office of labor commissioner
If and when the state police step
in to preserve law and order it will
be only after local authorities have
shown their inability to cope with
the situation, Governor Martin de
clared this week in commenting on
a press dispatch out of Portland to
the effect that Mayor Carson had
asked Chief of Police Pray to send
in a few state troopers to help the
Portland police in the strike situa
tion. Furthermore, the govenror ex
plained, when the state police step in
it will be to take complete charge
of the situation and not to merely as
sist the local police.
State Treasurer Holman's proposa!
to "block" state school lands into
sizeable areas has served at least
one good purpose. It has aroused an
interest among school people in the
so-called irreducible school fund.
Recent sessions of the land board at
which the blocking problem has
been up for consideration have been
largely attended by teachers, schoo.
board members and representatives
of Parent-Teacher associations and
women's organizations all bent on
seeing that the school fund gets a
square deal. However, it would ap
pear that they are trying to lock the
stable after the horse has been stol
en. Revenues from the state's graz
ing lands, it is generally admitted,
would amount to only a drop in the
bucket compared to the millions that
were stolen from the school children
through fraudulent land sales while
STATE
CAPITAL
the friends of the schools were asleep
on the job.
Governor Martin will give his re
ply to the demand for a special ses
sion of the legislature to consider
more adequate pensions for the
needy aged within the next few days.
Unless Townsend leaders who have
been working on the problem the
past week succeed in evolving a pro
gram that will finance more gener
ous pensions without adding to the
present tax burden, it is a pretty
safe bet that his answer will be "no."
The demand for the special ses
sion was presented to the governor
in the form of petitions containing
more than 75,000 signatures- Pres
entation of the petitions was made
by a large delegation of Townsend
leaders who prevailed upon the gov
ernor to withhold any immediate
decision and give them an oppor
tunity to work out a program that
might meet with his approval.
In an address before 500 Town
sendites in Salem that night Govern
or Martin expressed himself as in
entire sympathy with the old age
pension movement. Declaring that
present pensions were entirely in
adequate to meet the needs of the
aged the governor promised to go
along with the sponsors of the more
adequate pension program "to the
limit that the traffic will bear." The
governor, however, expressed his
doubt as to the ability to enact a
revenue measure to finance more
generous pensions without running
counter to a referendum which
would tie the whole program up un
til the next election.
Townsend leaders who are spon
soring the move for a special session
ar confident that a "transaction tax"
would meet with the approval of the
voters although to the layman it is
difficult to distinguish between this
tax and the sales tax which has been
defeated by decisive majorities on
three occasions in Oregon.
Approximately $1,100,000 a year is
being saved by Oregon utility pa
trons as the result of voluntary re
ductions in rates filed by the util
ities during the past two years after
a series of "friendly conferences"
with the utilities department, ac
cording to N. G- Wallace, public util
ities commissioner. The most recent
of these voluntary rate reductions
were announced this week by the
Northwestern Electric company and
the Portland General Electric com
pany. The new rates filed by these
utilities and applying only to resi-
lential and commercial lighting, it is
said, will result in savings of approx-
mately $330,000 a year to patrons of
these companies which serve the
city of Portland and a large slice of
the lower Willamette valley as far
south as Salem.
Valuations of railroads operating
in Oregon have been increased by
nearly $4,000,000 over 1936 figures
while valuations of Oregon power
utilities have been "upped" by $4,
289,037.15 the state tax commission
announced this week. Valuation in
creases among the power utilities
ranged as high as 66 percent in the
case of the Port Orford Light and
Power company. Hearings held by
the tax commission, it was shown,
revealed that the greatest improve
ment in earnings during the past
year was made by utilities operating
in eastern and southern Oregon rath'
er than by the larger utilities oper
ating in the vicinity of Bonneville
dam. It was also developed at these
hearings, the commissioners ex
plained, that while gross earnings
of the utilities generally have in'
creased net revenues would be little
if any higher than for 1936 because
of increased operating costs includ
ine higher wages and increased
prices of materials and supplies.
Railroads generally reported serious
reductions in their net earnings the
commission said.
In case there may be some who
have not been apprised of the fact
it should be mentioned that this is
"Be Kind to People" week. That's a
new one for the "weeks" calendar.
a strictly Oregon product. Governor
Martin has requested that all citizens
of Oregon observe the week "in a
general spirit of kindly interest and
old-fashioned neighboruness.
a
' Chas. H. Gram, state labor com
missioner, has called a meeting of
beauty parlor operators and beauty
college operators for Portland on
October 29 to discuss hours of em
ployment and wages. The operators
have filed complaint against the 44
hour week imposed by the State
Welfare commission which they
claim to be impractical.
One out of every five persons
killed in traffic accidents, is a child
of school age according to Secretary
of State Snell who urges greater care
on the part of drivers now that
schools are again in session. Snell
calls particular attention to the pro
vision in the traffic laws requiring
motorsits to give right-of-way to
pedestrians on a crosswalk.
High school principals from all
sections of Oregon are meeting in
Salem this week (Wednesday and
Thursday) for their annual confer-j
ence. Subjects under discussion in
clude experimental schools, visual
aids in instruction and the place of
an honor society in high schools.
Speakers on the two-day prgoram
include Governor Martin and Sec
retary of State Snell, both members
of the State Board of Education;
Rex Putnam, superintendent of pub
lic instruction, and Thomas R. Fow
ler, president of the Oregon High
School Principals' association.
The supreme court's opinion in the
case involving salary increases for
Portland school teachers is of in
terest to every city and county as
well as every school district in the
state. In the opinion the high court
held that the Portland school dis
trict could not grant salary increases
to its teachers in excess of the bud
get estimate. The opinion also held
that the ruling applied with equal
force to city and county govern
ments. While the learned justices
held that monies might be tempor
arily transferred from one fund to
another they also pointed out that
these "loans" must be repaid to their
rightful funds before the end of the
fiscal year.
Governor Martin struck out at
critics of his stand on Bonneville
power again this week.
"Self seeking politicians and dem
agogues have tried to becloud the
Bonneville issue for their own ends
and at the expense of the people,"
the governor declared in what is in
terpreted here a reply to Howard
Latourette, Democratic national
committeeman who last week had
charged the governor with attempt
ing to find a place for himself in the
Roosevelt band wagon under false
pretenses.
"Every cheap trick in the bag of
rabble rousers has been used but I
am convinced that the people of this
state will not be hoodwinked," the
governor continued. "In this modern
day and age our people will be prone
to accept with greater confidence
and assurance the unbiased and
sound calculations of trained en.
gineers rather than the mouthings
of pundits whose specialty is in us
ing words to conceal rather than
reveal."
Although LeRoy Herschel McCar-
ty, convicted slayer of a Portland
service station employee, is under
sentence of death Warden Lewis of
the state prison is not going to be in
any hurry about the construction of
the recently authorized lethal gas
chamber. The warden recalls that it
has been nearly six years since
murderer paid the supreme penalty
for his crime in this state and that in
the interim two convicted slayers
have been snatched from the gallows
by eleventh hour commutations of
their sentences to life imprisonment
The warden has been investigating
gas chambers in use in other states
and is of the opinion that Oregon's
chamber can be constructed in less
than a month if and when the need
for one is definitely established.
Voters of Oregon will be asked to
support a measure creating a sanl
tary board for the purpose of clear
ing streams ot pollution, ine pro
posed measure is being sponsored
by the Oregon Stream Purification
League of which State Treasurer
Holman is president and Frank
Franciscovich, president of the state
senate, is vice-president.
Frank Tierney, executive secre'
tary of the Democratic state central
committee during the last campaign,
has just taken a position as permit
clerk in the Portland office of the
Public Utilities commission.
NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there will be a meeting of the LEVYING
BOARD OF MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, at the Court House in ' Heppnen
.o.l j v,a- io97 Krhon and whnm the estimates arrived
at by the budget committee of Morrow County, Oregon hereinafter set .forth, may
be discussed with the Levying Board and when d where any person who shali
be subject to such tax levy, shall be heard In favor of or against said tax levy or
any part thereof. . . . . ,no
Dated at Heppner, Oregon, this 19th day of October. 1937.
ESTIMATES
i i.. a i mriianA witi phnntor 118. General Laws of
Oregon for 1921, and amendments thereto,
1938
Expen
ditures COUNTY JUDGE
Salary l.eoo.uo
COUNTY COURT
Expense, mileage l.ouu.uu
SHERIFF
Salary -
Deputies 2,700.00
Books, blanks, incidentals,
travel 850.00
Tax Collections .... 550.00
CLERK '
Salary - z.uuu.uu
Deputy 1,020.00
Books, incidentals 400.00
TREASURER
Salary lzuu.uu
Books, incidentals 100.00
ASSESSOR
Salary - i,tuu.uu
Deputy 1,200.00
Books, incidentals 3o0.00
Field Work 650.00
Tax Extension 100.00
Reclassification and Value
Adjustment 400.00
SUPERINTENDENT
Salary l.bw.uu
Travel Expense 400.00
Books, incidentals 300.00
Assistant 100.00
4-H Club Work 100.00
Checking Tests 81.00
CORONER
Mileage. Fees io.w
ACCOUNTANTS
Audits
CURRENT EXPENSE
Postage, telephones, sta
tionery, telegrams 750.00
JAU.
Board and Expense d&u.uu
ELECTION
Expense l.wu.uu
INDIGENT SOLDIER
Expense loo.uo
COURT HOUSE
Janitor
Fuel
Light and Power
Incidentals
900.00
250.00
500.00
700.00
3,750.00
120.00
1,000.00
300.00
200.00
100.00
GENERAL ASSISTANCE
BLIND ASSISTANCE
MOTHERS' AID ..
PHYSICIAN'S SALARY
COUNTY NURSE
INSANE EXPENSE
CIRCUIT COURT
Witnesses, jurors, baiims
and incidentals
1,700.00 702.02
200.00 115.85
220.00 56.70
2,300.00 2,200.00
85.00 28.70
6,000.00 1,813.40
130.00 88.50
430.00 250.00
200.00
100.00
500.00 17L77
500.00 500.00
50.00
350.00 223.25
50.00
250.00
5,000.00 726.83
10,000.00 3,775.07
40,000.00 27,111.94
, 27,500.00
, 20,875.00
. 12,200.00
. 35,000.00
194,886.00
JUSTICE COURT
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
COUNTY AGENT
SEALER APPROPRIATION
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE ....
MISCELLANEOUS
Insurance -
Bonds
LIBRARY APPROPRIA
TION
INSTITUTE APPROPRIA
TION
OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS
and Tax Foreclosures
PUBLICITY AND ADVER
TISING
LOUISE HOME APPRO
PRIATION
WATER MASTER
Traveling expense ana in
cidentals WIND EROSION CON
TROL -
WEED CONTROL
EMERGENCY
MARKET ROAD
ROADS AND BRIDGES
Repairs, Labor, Materials,
Equipment, Incidentals..
ROAD BONDS
Sinking Fund
COUNTY SCHOOL
Appropriation
STATE TAX
The following amounts are not Included within the 6 per cent limitation and
are authorized by law:
State Tax
Sinking Fund
Interest Fund
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS OTHER THAN
Cash on Hand (General Fund) $ 7,600.00
Sheriff s Fees: ,nnn
Mileage $350.00
Auto Sticker Sales -. 150.00 500.00
25 per cent Forest Rentals 400.00
Clerk's Fees 2,000.00
Motor Licenses from State 9,000.00
Land Leases -
From Delinquent Taxes 12'595 S2
Miscellaneous - - 2,000.00
$ 34,400.00
RECAPITULATION
Total estimated expenditures for 1938 subject to 6 per cent limitation ....$111,511.00
Total estimated receipts not Including proposed tax 25,400.00
Balance; amount to be raised by taxation
tion
Dated this 19th day of October, 1937.
MORROW COUNTY BUDGET COMMITTEE,
By BERT JOHNSON, Chairman.
By E. H. MILLER, Secretary.
I certify that the amount of outstanding Morrow County Indebtedness la the
sum of $415,000.00 In serial road bonds.
(County Seal) C. W. BARLOW, County Clerk.
BERT JOHNSON, Juage.
GEORGE N. PECK. Commissioner.
L. D. NEILL, Commissioner.
and shows the several services, mater-
1st
6 mo.
1937
1934 1935 1936
1,250.00 $ 1,600.00 $ 1,600.00
1,094.17 1,777.47 1,272.80
1,600.00 2,000.00 2,000.00
2,093.00 2,400.00
940.56 846.25
3,799.09 550.00 611.50
1,600.00 2,000.00 2,000.00
939.26 900.00
1,629.95 296.72 319.94
1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00
175.99 89.16 75.33
1,250.00 1,600.00 1,600.00
900.00 900.00
232.36 498.26
693.51 601.74
1.968.50 227.50 120.00
1,500.00 1,600.00 1,600.00
380.59 339.68
330.56 448.47
567.10 100.00 100.00
81.00
102.00 37.60 40.00
2,966.32 770.00 500.00
873.24 919.34 798.91
228.03, 157.73 272.41
1392.61 2,088.40
50.00 50.00 24.20
900.00 900.00
142.00 293.52
474.91 534.06
1.909.51 793.62 636.93
3,781.67 4,148.75 2,282.85
1,466.87 1,714.60 2,260.00
300.00 300.00 , 300.00
2,106.98 19.00 151.59
2,042.35 1,016.44 2,172.46
257.60 150.33 114.32
157.97 77.95 66.85
2,300.00 2,150.00 2,150.00
84.48 74.24 64.75
2,429.58 5,000.00 4,223.66
165.00 82.74 388.70
187.00 545.00 425.00
163.65 198.49 200.00
75.00 100.00 100.00
$ 800.00 $
508.65
1,000.00
1,200.00
476.71
514.80
1,000.00
450.00
221.63
513.33
13.60
758.65
450.00
527.42
181.45
45.00
800.00
163.93
157.41
100.00
57.34
54.00
285.21
284.67
190.39
46.50
450.00
213.58
204.96
905.05
1,629.45
1,080.42
150.00
10.00
584.20
600.00
50.00
150.00
2,808.75
19,558.72
4,493.71
11,598.90
43,288.65 44,804.02
K'Sx-ffi
27,500.00
20,875.00
$ 83,375.00
TAXATION FOR THE YEAR 1838
subject to 6 per cent limita
$ 86,111.00