Thursday, February 3, 1938 Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon Page Three LEXINGTON NEWS Laurel Beach Injured in Fall, Reported By Bertha Hunt Laurel Beach, who is teaching at Gresham, fractured a knee cap in a fall Friday night, according to word received by his mother, Mrs Elsie M. Beach. The injury is pro gressing satisfactorily at present but it will be necessary to beep the knee in a cast for some time. Mr. and Mrs Truman Messenger and family spent Saturday and Sun day in Boardman. A small crowd was present at Christian Endeavor Sunday evening. A contest which has run for some time ended with Edith Ewards' side winning by 40 points. On Sunday the 6th Rev. Cecil Warner of Her miston will be present at 2:30 to speak to the young people of the Christian Endeavor. In the evening officers will be elected. Walter My ers of Eugene is also expected to be present. Rae Cowins spent the week end in Heppner with her mother, Mrs J. G. Cowins, who has been ill. Carty Luck of Pendleton was do ing business in Lexington on Sat urday. Mrs. Elsie Beach made a short business trip to Portland this week. Doris and Erma Scott spent the week end with their grandmother, Mrs. L. D. Neill, at Pine City Mrs. Fred Fulgham is visiting in Kennewick at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. F. Graves. Ralph Jackson made a business trip to Pendleton Friday. George Nesbit with the Interna' tional Harvester company of Port land was here for several days this week Mr. and Mrs. Bert J. Staats of Baker, sister and brother-in-law of Mrs. G. J. Ryan, were visiting at the Ryan home on Thursday. Patsy Ryan accompanied them home for a visit. Sam McMlilan and Vester Thorn berg were in Hermiston last Wed nesday. Anne Johnson, Margaret Leach and Rita Cutler were hostesses at a stork shower honoring Mrs. Lon nie Henderson at her home on Thursday afternoon. Fifty-six guests were present and refreshments of cake, salad and coffee were served Conrad Bissenger, service man for the Jackson Implement company. was in Lexington Monday. Edna Rauch and Margaret Scott were hostesses at a pot luck supper held at the Vernon Scott home last Saturday evening. Those present besides the hostesses were May and Faye Rauch, Edith and Jerrine Ed wards. Glenn Willmschew, Glen Thompson, Henry Rauch, Jr., Stan ley Way, Vernon Scott, Kenneth Palmer and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rauch. Games were played through out the evening which were enjoy ed by all. Dale Lane motored to Portland on Sunday. Howard Lane, his father. who has been in the city for some time recovering from a major oper ation, is expected to accompany him home one day this week. Among those motoring to Pen dleton this week were Mr. and Mrs Otto Ruhl, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mar- quardt, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smouse, Mrs. Wm. D. Campbell and daugn ter Patsy, Mrs. James Leach and Mrs. Trina Parker. Bert Bowker was in town Monday from his home in the Echo district, The next P. T. A. meeting will be held in the school aditorium on Wednesday evening, Feb. 9. There will be a special program and re freshments will be served. It hoped that a large number will be present. Mr. and Mrs. W. Tucker and son Woodrow and daughter Wilma motored to Portland Saturday morn' ing. They were accompanied by Mrs. Arthur Hunt and daughter, Shirley Anne. Mrs. Thompson of College Place, Wash., is visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Beach W. S. Wade, district traffic su perintendent of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, was in Lex ington on Wednesday. Harold Henderson of Stanfie was a business visitor in Lexington Tuesday. The Lexmffton class Play liptoe Inn" given last Friday evening was attended and enthusiastically re ceived by a large crowd. The cast was well rewarded for its" efforts by the applause and favorable comment Lexington high school basketball team defeated Stanfield at Lexing ton, February 1. The score was 30 11, The Stanfield grade school de feated the Lexington grade school, 33-10. Ladd Sherman, who up until the recent cold snap, has suggested we grow palm trees in eastern Oegon, is now having his original views of the climate verified. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Simpson of Condon visited over Sunday and Monday at the Carl Whillock home. STATE CAPITAL Salem, Ore. Appointment of Evan Reames. Medford attorney, to suc ceed Frederick Steiwer as United States senator from Oregon has met with varying reactions. Conservative Democrats express themselves well pleased with the governor's choice. Republicans, also, generally com mend the selection. Left-wing mem bers of the governor's party, how ever, are not overly enthusiastic over the selection. Reames, they claim, is too conservative to fit into the New Deal program and can be expected to oppose rather than cooperate with the national administration. A native of Oregon, born in Jack sonville of pioneer parents, Reames will be 68 years of age Saturday, February 5, when he expects to take the oath of office for his ne wposi- tion. NEWS Zimmerman Again Senator Reames Utilities Spending By A. L. LINDBECK Sam Brown of Gervais will an nounce himself as a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor immediately upn his return from a trip to Mexico, according to Walter Bliven, Salem real estate dealer. Bliven said that he had been auth orized by Brown to make the state ment. Brown is expected to return within the next week or ten days. Governor Martin experienced a noticeable start one day this week when one of the press representa tives asked him if he had had his mustache' shaved off. He quickly raised an inquiring finger to his lip to ascertain the extent of his loss, it was still there as was revealed upon closer scrutiny but an overly ambitious barber had treated him' to a trim that could hardly be de tected from a shave. Oregon taxpayers contribute $8,- 500,000 a year or more than $700,000 a month to the coupon clippers who hold the bonds and warrants issued by the state and its numerous sub divisions, it was revealed this week by State Treasurer Holman. At that this figure represents a material im provement over the situation in 1931 when interest on Oregon bonds and warrants state, county, city, school district, etc. totalled more than $10,- 000,000 a year or in excess of $800, 000 a month. Holman says that much of the improvement in the financial condition of the state and its sub divisions is due to remedial legisla tion sponsored by himself providing for the issuance of serial bonds and the use of idle state funds in' car rying financially embarrassed de partments over emergency periods. Reports reaching Salem indicate that a committee representing the State Teachers association is draft ing a measure for presentation to the voters at the November election providing for state support of the common school system on the basis of $10 for each child on the school census. On the basis of the 1937 census which listed approximately 266,000 children that would require an annual appropriation of $2,660,- 000. State support of the common school system is now limited to the interest-earnings of the irreducible school fund which last year amount' ed to $1.38 per capita. The increased allocation of $8.68 per child would necessitate an adidtional outlay of more than $2,300,000 from some source as yet not revealed. Of more than 40,000 claims for compensation passed on by the In dustrial Accident commission dur ing the last two years, only 303 claimants asked for a rehearing, the commission reported. First claim checks mailed out by the Unemployment Compensation commission last week averaged slightly more than $12.60 each. More than 40,000 idle workers have filed claims for jobless insurance. Slowly but surely the little one room school house is passing out of the Oregon picture. A survey just completed by Rex Putnam, state su perintendent of public instruction, reveals that their number has been reduced by 249 in the past six years from 1326 in 1930-31 to 1077 in 1936-37. That is at the rate of more than 40 a year, a rate which if main tained wlil see the complete disap pearance of the one-room schools within the next 25 years. One-teacher high schools are also on the way out, Putnam explains. Whereas there were. 30 of these small high schools in Oregon in 1930-31 there are now only five to be found in the state. Peter Zimmerman, state senator from Yamhill county, may decide on a try for the United States senate. While in Salem this week Zimmer man admitted that he was being urg ed by many farmers to enter the race and that he was giving the mat ter his serious consideratios. "Many farmers feel that we need more farmer representation in the senate," Zimmerman said. "If I de cide to run I shall enter the Repub lican primaries, reserving the right, however, to run as an independent candidate in the general election if I am defeated for the Republican nomination. While some authorities hold that Zimmerman would be prohibited from running as an independent in the event of his defeat in the pri maries others believe that he could compel the secretary of state to ac cept his filing if he should take his case into court on a mandamus pro ceeding. These latter base their op inion on the action of the state su preme court in requiring the secre tary of state to accept the filing of W. A. Ekwall as a candidate for Congress while he was still serving as circuit judge in Multnomah coun ty. The high court in that case held that the state was without authority to prescribe the qualifications of federal officers. Attorney General Van Winkle in an earlier opinion had held that whereas the state law precluded a defeated primary candi date from running as an independent candidate there was nothing to pre vent his friends from writing in the candidates name and nothing to prevent his serving in any office to which he might be elected by that method. Zimmerman, it is recalled, ran a good race for the governorship in 1934 when he was an independent candidate finishing second in a field of three, 21,000 votes behind Chas. H. Martin the democratic candidate but 9000 ahead of Joe Dunne, repub lican. Oregon utilities plan to spend $8,- 217,210 in new construction during 1938, according to estimates filed with Utilities Commissioner Wallace. Telephone companies also plan to spend $3,889,350 in improving and extending their service, and electric utilities have budgeted an aggregate of $3,864,695 for expenditure on con struction work during the year. While these estimated expenditures show an increase over expenditures during 1937 they fall far short of an nual improvements by the same util ities during the period from 1935 to 1930, Wallace points out. There will be no need for the ser vices of the Gresham gentleman who generously offered to play the role of a human guinea pig in order to test out the states new lethal gas chamber. Neither is there any in tention of sacrificing a dog or even a rat in the new chamber. Warden Lewis of the state prison brands these stories, some of which arous ed public indignation to a high pitch, as figments of the imagination with no substantial foundation. Lewis says that as far as he is concerned the new gas chamber is all set up and ready for its first victim. Income tax collections by Oregon during 1137 totalled $5,344,047 it was reported by the state tax commission. Of this amount $3,328,683 was re ceived from individuals and $1,741, 039 from corporations. The 1937 to tal was more than twice that of 1931 when only $2,278,767 was collected from this source. Si For information at to faros and othor dotaili inquiro of your local ogtnt. Statement of Taxes Levied in Morrow County, Oregon for the Year 1938 (Assessed March 1, 1937) General Taxes Levied for State and County Purposes Character Rate of Tax Valuation Mills Tax State, County and General School....$9,015,426 6.5 $ 58,600.27 Roads & Bridges.. 9,015.426 4.0 36,061.70 Market Roads 9,015,426 .9 8,113.88 Bond Sinking Fund and Interest 9,015,426 4.5 40,569.42 Non-High School Districts 4,967,111 3.4 16,888.18 Gam .66 $160,234.11 Special Taxes Levied In Towns Town Valuation Mills Tax Heppner $692,057 13.3 $ 9,204.36 Lexington 75,163 19.1 1,435.61 Ine, 120,555 17.4 2,097.66 Boardman 25,872 36.8 952.09 Loss oi $13,689.71 Special Taxes Levied in Other Taxing; Districts West Extension Irrigation District $5,362.05 Forest Fire Patrol 1,670.90 Special Taxes Levied in Union High School District Dist. No. Valuation Mills Tax 1 $477,916 2.7 $1,290.37 Bonds & Interest .... 477,916 7.0 3,345.41 Bonds & Interest .. 2,990 7.0 20.93 Gain .02 $4,656.73 (Comprised of Districts Nos. 19, 40 and 51) This is on land taken from Union High School District and put into District No. 6. Union High School No. 1 is not a Stand ard High School. Valuation Is included in and tax extended in Non-High. Dist. No. 1 2 3 4 Valuation $897,339 240,905 186,019 117,367 Special Taxes Levied in School Districts Dist. No. 5 307,901 6 191,909 8 - 140,309 9 122,092 10 871,296 11 88,461 12 426,937 14 175,766 15 125,377 16 48,681 17 119,588 18 77,875 19 84,906 21 93,200 22 17,190 23 101,527 24 92,033 25 918,590 26 328,459 27 129,315 Mills Tax 18.7 $ 16,780.24 4.9 1,180.43 1.7 316.23 "".5 153795 "".7 854.64 14.0 12,198.14 15.2 6489"44 2.6 456.99 5.6 702.11 16.1 783.76 4.3 514.23 5.0 12.2 11.5 1.4 507.64 11,206.80 3,777.28 181.04 Valuation 29 $ 65,786 31 137,296 32 125,567 33 14,460 34 367,318 35 605.694 36 109,918 37 132,653 38 110,438 39 313,411 40 234,065 41 186,028 42 137,878 48 68,424 49 49,543 50 134,601 51 158,945 53 82,528 69 83.080 0 194,751 Mills Tax 7.2 $ 473.66 3.2 439.35 5.6 703.13 "2.4 401.56 6.6 3,997.68 3.0 329.75 "".8 88.35 1.3 407.43 "5.2 ' 967"35 2.7 372.27 "".9 121.14 "7.8 648.02 $ 65,052.56 Special Bonds and Interest Taxes Levied in School Districts Dist. No. Valuation Mills Tax 1 ...$879,339 10 871,296 12 426,937 25 918,590 27 129,315 35 605,694 59 83,080 Gain 5.2 4.0 4.3 7.2 6.4 5.5 3.0 $ 4,666.16 8,485.18 1,835.83 6,613.85 698.30 8,331.32 249.24 .04 $ 20,879.92 I HEREBY CERTIFY, that the foregoing is a true and correct statement, according to the records of my office. t THOMAS J. WELLS, County Assessor. Dated this 26th day of January, 1938. General Summary State, County and General School..! 58,600.38 Roads and Bridges . 36,061.67 Market Roads 8,114.09 Bond Sinking Fund and Interest 40569.62 Non-High School Districts , 16,888.35 Towns 13,689.71 West Extension Irrigation Dist. 6,362.05 Forest Fire Patrol 1,670.90 Union High District l!29o!37 Union High Bonds and Interest - 3!366.36 Special Schools 65,052.56 Special Schools Bonds and Inter- est 20,879.92 $271,545.98 Tax Collected by Assessor $ 55.76