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STATE
CAPITAL
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, June 16, 1938
NEWS
o Timber Problem
o Capitol Inspection
Power Ruling
By A. L. LINDBECK
SALEM Oregon counties, par
ticularly those in the western part
of the state are confronted with a
serious problem through the loss of
valuable timber lands from the tax
rolls, County Judge Guy Boyington
told the State Emergency board here
this week.
Thousands of acres are being de
nuded of their crop of merchantable
fir and pine each year, Judge Boy
ington pointed out. In spite of the
fact that the state has tried to en
courage reforestation through the
enactment of a reforestation tax of
only five cents an acre on these cut
over and burned-over lands, many
of the owners prefer to let the coun
ties take the land for taxes rather
than to wait 75 to 125 years for a
new crop.
Clatsop county last year acquired
title to more than 20,000 acres of this
land, Judge Boyington said. Other
counties are having the same ex
perience. Every year the timber
counties are getting deeper into the
real estate business. Records of the
state forestry department show that
874,744 acres of deforested lands had
been taken over by the counties up
to 1937. Most of this land is located
west of the Cascades. The coast
counties of Clatsop, Tillamook and
Coos have been especially hard hit.
In the present condition the lands
are of little or no value. In an effort
to bring the lands back into produc
tion Clatsop county is conducting a
reseeding experiment which gives
promise of solving the problem,
Judge Boyington said. A section of
deforested land seeded to grass a
year ago is now providing adequate
pasturage for more than 100 head of
cattle and 1500 head of sheep. If
another year's experience demon
strates the success of the experiment
Judge Boyington predicts that much
of this now worthless land will be
in demand for grazing purposes. In
that event the land will be taken
over by private owners and restored
to the tax rolls. Other western Ore
gon counties are said to be keenly
interested in the Clatsop county ex
periment The Capitol Reconstruction com
mission has announced its intention
of inspecting the new capitol next
Tuesday, June 21. If found satisfac
tory the building will be accepted
by the state. Actual transfer of de
partments to the new quarters, how
ever, will not take place until about
July 1 inasmuch as telephone service
will not be available before that
time. Departments to occupy space
in the new capitol include the exec
utive, state and treasury depart
ments, budget department, board of
control including the purchasing di
vision and property control division,
and the state land board. Space to be
vacated in the state office building
will be immediately occupied by the
highway department which already
occupies an entire floor in that
building, the tax commission and the
bureau of labor.
With no general rainfall over west
ern Oregon since early in May and
with temperatures unseasonably
high conditions make for serious
fire hazards in the forests of the
state, according to the state forestry
department. Commenting on the Big
Creek fire in Clatsop county which
broke out on June 2 and burned over
2000 acres before it was stopped,
forestry officials pointed out that an
almost identical situation was ex
perienced last year when the Pisgah
fire in southern Columbia county
burned over 5000 acres during the
first week of June.
There is no statutory provision
under which the surviving remnants
of the proposed Northwest Oregon
Bonneville Peoples' Utility district
may be organized. So Attorney Gen
eral Van Winkle ruled in an opinion
to the Oregon Hydroelectric commis
sion this week.
Promoters of the project had con
tended that the law permitted the
commission to approve the organiza
tion of a utility district out of those
parcels of territory which voted fa-
NEW RED CROSS CHAIRMAN
F7
NORMAN H. DAVIS
Blank d Stoller Photo
NORMAN H. DAVIS, newly ap
pointed chairman of the Ameri
can Red Cross, has assumed active
direction of the nation-wide organi
zation with headquarters in Wash
ington, D. C. ,
Mr. Davis, named chairman by
'resident Franklin D. Roosevelt, fol
lowing the death of Admiral Cary T.
rrayson, has been active for twenty
ears as a Special Ambassador of
he United States to international
onferences, dealing with world
eace, finances, and disarmament.
He has represented the United
States in this official capacity by ap
pointment of Presidents Wilson.
Hoover and Roosevelt.
A native of Tennessee, he engaged
In banking in Cuba as a vonng man,
and first came into activi iblic ser
vice during the World War He for
merly made his home in New York,
but since assuming his new post
with the Red Cross has bought an
historic residence in Alexandria,
Virginia, across the Potomac from
the nation's capital.
vorably on the proposed district in
the recent election in which a ma
jority of the voters returned an ad
verse verdict.
"There is no provision found in
the statute for forming a peoples'
utility district of the entire territory
ncluded within any proposed dis
trict, or of that portion thereof vot
ing in favor of such formation after
excluding those muncipalities and
separate parcels of territory which
voted against such formation when
the majority vote in the entire dis
trict is against the creation of such
district," the opinion of the attorney
general reads.
The proposed super-dstrict includ
ed the major portions of Clatsop,
Columbia, Clackamas, Washington,
Yamhill, Polk and Tillamook coun
ties. The only units favoring the pro
ject were the rural areas of Polk and
Yamhill counties, an isolated unit
in Clatsop county and a few small
municipalities.
With a reduction of 40 percent in
the number of highway fatalities
Oregon ranks fourth among the 48
states in the improvement of mo
toring conditions, Secretary of State
Snell has just been advised by the
National Safety Council. Snell at
tributes the big decrease in traffic
accidents in this state in large part
to the campaign of safety education
which has been carried on by his
department over the radio and
through lectures before schools,
service clubs and other groups.
The State Emergency Board auth
orized deficiency appropriations to
talling $22,000 at a meeting here this
week. Largest item on the list was a
$15,000 appropriation to cover main
tenance of the new 6apitol from the
time it is taken over by the state,
about July 1, until the next legisla
ture meets. Secretary of State Snell
had requested an additional $1500
for capital outlays but the board
held this was a responsibility of the
Capitol commission since it includes
furniture and equipment for the
building and disallowed the item.
The board also approved an item of
$4000 requested by the extension
service of the State college in con
nection with a reseeding experiment
in Clatsop county, and $3000 for the
Department of Agriculture to be
used in financing Oregon's partici
pation in the World's Poultry Con
gress to be held in Cleveland, Ohio,
next year.
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The grand review of the Oregon
National Guard, now in training at
Camp Clatsop, will be held on Sat
urday afternoon, June 25, according
to Major General George A. White.
In addition to the review there will
be a combat demonstration by the
186th infantry, supported by the
218th field artillery displaying va
rious phases of fire power in repuls
ing a mythical enemy. At least 25,000
persons are expected to witness the
camp on this occasion. On the pre
ceding day, Flic"-', June 24, the va
rious units . - "ete in a pro
gram of military c.ui.tics.
Oregon's relief funds are in good
condition according to Elmer Goudy,
executive secretary of the State Re
lief committee. Goudy, however, ex
pressed concern over the lack of sea
sonal employment at this time and
the prospect of a substantial increase
of the relief load because of grow
ing unemployment. Any unusual in
crease in the relief burden, Goudy
admitted, would necesasrily be re
flected in increased drains on the
relief fund which has been set up
to take care of the situation as it
was visioned at the time the last leg
islature was in session.
Vacationists are showing unusual
interest in Oregon this year. In
quiries received by the travel bureau
of the state highway department be
tween January 1 and June 1 totalled
38,058, an increase of 7500 over the
same period a year ago.
OSC School of Forestry
Gets High Rating
Oregon State College The school
of forestry here has been included
among five out of 20 schools in the
entire United States to be given a
rank of 100 per cent in the showing
of its graduates made in 1937 in tak
ing civil service examinations for
junior forester. Others achieving the
rank are Harvard and Yale which
take graduate forestry students only,
University of Michigan and Univer
sity of Montana. The 26 OSC grad
uates who took the examination
made an average grade second only
to that of the graduates of Michigan,
among undergraduate schools.
In total enrollment in forestry
schools OSC ranks second only to
the New York State college of forest
ry which reported 502 compared with
488 here when the figures were
gathered last fall by The Journal of
Forestry, and a cumulative total for
the year of 555 at OSC.
INVITATION , , .
To Evangelstic services being held
in The Tent opposite postoffice. The
meetings will continue each evening
except Monday and Saturday at
7:45 o'clock. Interesting messages
will be given of the things pertain
ing to the kingdom of God. We ex
tend a very cordial invitation to alL
Evangelists: R. E. Wainwright, R. I.
Campbell.
Better Variety
Of Wheat Sought
By Station Men .
A high yieding wheat that is smut
resistant and has good quality for
milling and baking purposes is the
chief aim of cereal breeding work
being carried on at the eastern Ore
gon branch experiment stations, re
ports Dr. D. D. Hill, associate agron
omist at Oregon State college, in
discussing the breeding program
with small grains. Another desirable
quality is a stiff straw, not too long,
as excess straw growth unnecessar
ily taxes the limited moisture supply.
"In the years when the Pacific
northwest had export outlets for all
of its surplus we produced a lot of
Club wheat for the export, trade,"
says Dr. Hill. "Now that a much
larger percentage of our wheat is be
ing used in domestic channels, Club
wheat is harder to sell. Consequent
ly, it has been necessary to replace
a considerable portion of the Club
acreage with new varieties of dif
ferent quality. We must produce
what the customer wants, if that is
at all possible."
The necessity for continuous
search for new and better varieties
was recently demonstrated in the
irrigated section of eastern Oregon,
Dr. Hill points out. For years farm
ers on irrigation projects were en
tirely satisfied with Federation as a
rotation crop, or as a nurse crop for
clover and alfalfa. In 1935 and 1936,
however, an infestation of rust ser
iously reduced the yields of Feder
ation. There is now demand for a
variety which will yield as much as
Federation under irrigated condi
tions, and be resistant to rust.
The new Rex wheat, recently in
troduced after being bred at the
Moro station, is rapidly replacing
many other varieties, including Fed
eration. It is stiff-strawed, non
shattering,, reasonably resistant to
smut, and much more winter hardy
than Federation.
New varieties must undergo years
of rigid testing before they are. re
leased for general use.
Mr. and Mrs. Vawter Parker mo
tored to Portland Tuesday where
Mr. Parker went to attend Masonic
grand lodge.
Professional
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