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STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o New County Judges
o Bill Analysis
o Martin Investigates
By A. L. LINDBECK
SALEM Probably no appoint
ment made during the present ad
ministration has given Governor
Martin more concern than the two
he made last week in filling va
cancies caused by the deaths of the
county judges in Washington and
Tillamook counties. Friends of the
several candidates for the two posi
tions thronged the executive depart
ment throughout the week, coming
singly and in delegations of from
five to fifteen members.
In Washington county where the
sudden death of Judge Donald T.
Templeton had left a vacancy the
choice lay between the widow of
Judge Templeton and the two can
didates for the office, nominated at
the May primaries, with the nod
going to Mrs. Templeton who will
serve out the unexpired term, end
ing in January, leaving the two can
didates free to fight it out in No
vember without either enjoying the
advantage that might have gone with
the appointment.
In Tillamook county there were
also three candidates for the post
Harland Woods, head of the young
Democratic club of the county; Geo.
Reichers, a republican and promin
ent business man, and Jack Cau
field, active Democratic leader with
a record of two terms in the state
legislature. All three were strongly
endorsed by influential citizens of
the county and the choice of Woods
is regarded here as due largely to
the endorsement of the young Dem
ocrats. The state's building program for
1939-40 will depend largely upon
availability of revenues, according
to Budget Director Wallace Wharton
who explains that institution heads
are already beginning to formulate
their requests for improvements.
Among those tentatively outlined are
a new receiving hospital and nurses
home for the eastern Oregon state
hospital at Pendleton; enlargement
of the receiving hospital at the Sa
lem state hospital; a new cell block
and new dining room for the state
penitentiary; and a children's pavil
ion for the eastern Oregon tubercu
losis hospital at The Dalles.
Failing in their attempt to initiate
a measure providing for the issuance
of revenue bonds by peoples' utility
districts, sponsors of this program
will carry their fight directly to the
legislature, according to word reach
ing Salem. The measure is being
sponsored by the Bonneville Feder
ation of Oregon.
Seasonal work has taken up some
of the slack in unemployment in
Oregon. Figures released by the Un
employment Compensation commis
sion show a drop of 11 per cent in
the active file of job seekers reg
' istered with the state employment
service last week.
Statistics compiled by Secretary
of State Snell reflect a continued im
provement in traffic safety condi
tions in Oregon. Traffic fatalities for
the first six months of the current
year totalled only 126 compared to
150 for the same period in 1937,
Twenty-nine persons lost their lives
in traffic accidents on Oregon high
ways during June, this year, which
was within one of the record for
June, 1937.
Fewer than 100 persons are now
employed by the State , Unemplo
yment commission in its Salem of
fice as compared to a payroll of more
than 200 at the first of the year
when the commission began the pay
ment of claims. Sixteen employees of
the commission were released last
week and further reductions in per
sonnel are contemplated, members of
the commission have indicated.
Analysis of the Repealing Double
Liability of Bank Stockholders bal
lot measure shows this to be an
other proposed amendment to the
state constitution which was re
ferred to the voters by the legisla
tive session of 1937.
As the short title indicates the
amendment if adopted would relieve
Heppner
Round
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Pendleton, Ore., July 22. From the saddle of a rearing bronc, Jean McCarty, queen of the
1938 Round-Up, invites the world to the twenty-ninth annual performance, at Pendleton, Oregon,
Sept. 15, 16, 17.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie McCarty, Chugwater, Wyoming, Jean, now 20, has since
childhood been trained to the saddle on her father's ranch. Mr. McCarty is a member of the firm
of McCarty & Elliott, rodeo contractors, and he with his partner, Verne Elliott, brings stock to the
Round-Up every year, Mr. McCarty first coming here for the 1913 show.
Jean, blonde, with hazel eyes, is of slight build; five feet four in height, she weighs 110
pounds. She has attended the University of Wyoming for two years and is a member of Pi Beta
Phi sorority. Her sister, Helen McCarty, will be queen of the Cheyenne Frontier Days show this
year.
stockholders in state banks from the
double liability now imposed in the
event of a bank failure. Stockholders
in national banks have already been
relieved of this double liability (lia
bility to the depositors in an amount
equal to double their stock in the
bank) and this proposed amendment
would place stockholders in state
banks on the same footing in this
respect.
Governor Martin has promised to
"look into" reports that the Demo
cratic State Central committee is as
sessing state employees for support
of the fall campaign. Veteran poli
ticians point out that the practice is
not new, explaining that political ap
pointees have always been expected
to contribute toward "the good of
the cause," although as a rule this
understanding is not put into writing
in the form of an assessment. Care
ful inquiry among state employees
in Salem revealed only two who ad
mit to having received the assess
ment notice. Both of these were
asked to contribute $21 at the rate of
$3 a month for the next seven
months. Both of these employees
were appointees rather than em
ployees. It is not believed that the
reported assessment extended to the
rank and file job holders.
Drunken driving is on the increase
in Oregon, according to statistics
compiled by Secretary of State Earl
Snell. During the first five months
of the current year 309 motorists in
this state had their licenses revoked
upon conviction of drunken driving.
That was 54 more than the record
for the same period in 1937 and 124
ahead of the 1936 record. Every
month this year so far has shown an
increase in license revocations for
drunken ' driving over the same
month last year.
If persistence counts Chas. H.
Ager of Portland should get his home
exemption tax bill on the state bal
lot in 1940. Having failed twice in
his effort to secure the requisite
number of signatures to place the
measure on the ballot Ager this
Gazette Times, Heppner,
-Up Queen Invites
week made another start when he
filed preliminary petitions with Sec
retary of State Earl Snell. Ageis
measure would exempt from taxation
dwelling up to $2000 in true cash
value when occupied by the owner.
Oregon residents, with the aid of
a few tourists, consumed slightly
more intoxicating liquor in the fis
cal year ending une 30 $143,000
more than they did in the previous
12-month period according to a re
port by the Oregon Liquor Control
commission. Gross sales of liquor by
state stores and agencies during the
last fiscal year totalled $8,55,991.43
compared to $7,913,077.41 for 1936-37.
Net profits from the liquor business
increased proportionately from $1,
678,302.14 in 1936-37 to $1,830,006.74
in 1937-38.
Good Cows Bring Good Profit
Dallas The advantage of keeping
high producing cows is again seen
in the annual report of the Polk
County Dairy Herd Improvement
ssociation recently completed, which
shows that the 10 highest producers
brought an average return per cow
of $164.73 above feed costs, while
the ten lowest producers averaged
only $48.46 above feed costs. The
average production per cow for the
11 herds on test was more than 300
pounds of butterfat, with one herd
averaging 392.7 pounds. Ninety-four
cows produced over 350 pounds of
butterfat each, with many of them
in the 400 pound class.
Pasture Mixtures Worked Out
Klamath Falls Pasture mixtures
featuring brome grass, alsike clover,
meadow fescue, western rye, white
clover and some bent grass and blue
grass were worked out by County
Agent C. A. Henderson's' office re
cently for seven farms requesting
this assistance. Recommendations
were also made for use of yellow
blossom sweet clover, alkali grass
and strawberry clover in three oth
er farms, and for seeding of both
crested wheat grass and Ladak al
falfa on still other farms of the
county.
Oregon
World
Land Bank Finances
Oregon farm Buyers
In the first quarter of this year
the Federal Land Bank of Spokane
made 17 farm mortgage purchase
loans in Oregon in the amount of
$42,023, which were designed to as
sist in the purchase of farm prop
erties. Aside from that, the bank,
through mortgage and contract
terms, sold 70 of the farm properties
temporarily in its possession for
$191,397. This total of $233,420 for
financing the purchase of 87 farms
in the state compares with $157,757
for the same period last year to as'
sist in the purchase of 70 farms. Such
is a statement made recently by the
Farm Credit Administration of Spo
kane, which extends loans to live
stock men and farmers in Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Montana.
The statement continues to show
that from May, 1933, when the Farm
Credit administration was estab
lished, to the period covered by the
last quarterly report of the Federal
Land Bank (March 31, 1938), this
institution made 3,711 long-term
first mortgage loans to Oregon farm
ers for a total of $15,206,000'. Over
the same period 5,600 Land Bank
Commisisoner loans in the sum of
$11,956,000 also were made. Out
standing on March 31 of this year
were 8,365 Federal Land bank loans
totaling $27,456,000 and 5,122 Com.
missioner loans amounting to $10,
269,000. The total of these two types
of loan, $37,725,000, represents 31.5
per cent of the total farm mortgage
debt of Oregon as computed by the
census of 1935.
The fact that many drivers' li
censes are lost, destroyed or muti
lated is proved by the issuance of
nearly four thousand duplicate op
erators" license cards in Oregin in
the six months frm January 1 to
June 30, Secretary of State Ear!
Snell said recently. He advised driv
ers to keep their cards in wallets or
special holders, rather than carrying
them loose in their pockets.
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Thursday, August 18, 1938
Various Groups .
Aid Rural Youth
In New Movement
Success of the "South 40" young
people's club in Union county the
past two years has stimulated rural
youth in other parts of the state-to
form organizations with a similar
purpose, but framed in many cases
along entirely different lines, re
ports Ralph Beck, extension rural
service specialist at Oregon State
college. Beck's work in assisting the
organization of such groups followed
a study he made of social conditions
of rural youth in connection with
Bernard Joy, member of the national
extension service staff.
The second group organized in
Oregon was in Tillamook county
where one was formed in November,
1936. It has maintained a membership
of about 40, composed of both men
and women. The social side is em
phasized though they carry on other
activities such as producing plays,
sponsoring community programs and
arranging for tours to the Astoria
branch experiment station.
In Hood River county a group of
young orchardists at Pine Grove
formed a definite organization with
the assistance of Mr. Beck and Coun
ty Agent A. L. Marble. The chief
purpose there has been to carry on
a study group in economics and pro
duction practices relating to fruit
growing. Two similar groups have
been planned at Parkdale and Odell.
Former 4-H club members in
Washington county ranging in age
from 20 to 21 years, have recently
formed a discussion group under
the leadership of Lawrence Francis,
assistant county agent Grange and
farmers unions have taken up the
movement and have been sponsor
ing related types of rural youth
groups. In Klamath county the Po
mona grange is sponsoring a group
known as the "Young Grangers Aux
iliary," which so impressed the state
grange this summer that it has been
turned into a state-wide movement.
Ages for this type of group were
set at 14 to 25 but those 18 years "or
older predominate.
Baker county has joined the list
with a young farmers' group similar
to the "South 40" club in nearby
Union county. Fred Hill, assistant
county agent, is sponsoring the
work. Less formally organized groups
have been started in Wasco, Des
chutes and Jackson counties.
"We are following no set pattern
with these organizations because we
do not know yet which will prove
most successful under given cir
cumstances," says Mr. Beck. "We
are working with any group under
any sponsorship that is seriously try
ing to make progress in the field. We
hope within a year or so to have as
sembled enough facts and gained
enough experience so that we will be
able to extend the program to a
much larger proportion of the young
people of Oregon."
Ample Water Helps Ewes, Lambs
Lakeview Crampton Brothers,
wool growers of Fort Rock, who find
that their lambs take on greater
weight with less damage to the
range when supplied with ample
drinking water, have completed the
construction of a concrete cistern at
their summer range headquarters at
Cook well, reports County Agent
Vic Johnson. The new storage reser-,
voir has a capacity of 40,000 gallons.
Crampton Brothers haul water to
their ewes and lambs on the range
by use of a truck mounted with a
435-gallon tank. Eleven galvanized
iron troughs with a capacity of 900
gallons are used. The deep well at
the Cook place is about 412 feet
deep and the water is pumped with
a 3 horsepower gasoline engine.
The average licensed driver in
Oregon drove 3,000 miles during the
first six months of this year, Secre
tary of State Earl Snell said recent
ly. Reports from gasoline companies
show that more than 100 million gal
lons of gasoline were sold between
January 1 and June 30, sending the
total gasoline tax paid during that
period above five million dollars for
the first time in the state's history.
RELIABLE MAN WANTED to
call on farmers in Morrow County.
No experience or capital required.
Steady work. Make up to $12 a day.
Write L. T. OVERLAND, 4613 S. Jay
St., Tacoma, Wash.