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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, April 13, 1939
Heppner
Gazette Times
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Official Paper for Morrow County
Community Helpers
CPONSORS of the band benefit
. entertainment last Saturday are
entitled to a big hand from the com
munity. Not only did they make pos
sible the band's trip to La Grande
this week end to participate in the
eastern Oregon contest, but they
gave the community its money's
worth in fine entertainment. To
Heppner lodge of Elks and those
who assisted goes a debt of grati
tude. No matter what the results at La
Grande may be, Heppner has al
ready received valuable advertising
and satisfaction from the showing
of its school band in years past. To
bring the accomplishments so far has
cost a lot of hard work on the part
of director and band members and
again it has cost parents of band
members a lot of cold cash. The com
munity has been appreciative by
raising money for contest trips and
uniforms, but it cannot be accused
of being over-indulgent.
The efforts of the lodge and those
who assisted have probably made
the trip this year possible without
asking for outright contributions,
which is a fine thing because the
contribution route so often leads to
the same doors.
Actually, activities such as the
band bring widespread benefits.
Primarily, they offer singular op
portunity to the youth of the entire
community for specialized, cultural
education. Secondarily, the youths'
occupation in such endeavor relieves
an otherwise knotty problem of leis
ure, and the endeavor's contribution
to the community reflects a more
wholesome atmosphere, furnishing
a medium for deeper enjoyment of
life in homes and in the commu
nity generally. The financial returns
are not definitely delineated, but
they are there none the less. They
are realized in savings in the cost
of misguided youth, in the extra
production capabilities of a higher
type of citizenry, and in the new
capital which comes to be invested
in any city that is thus marked as
progressive.
Band is not taught as a vocation,
though some members may follow
a musical career and thus provide
a livelihood. But band music has
long been recognized as an essential
or group morale, as evidence the
emphasis given band music at college
football games and with armies
wherever they may be.
Music strikes a responsive chord
in every human heart. It adds to the
will to do, and above all, it brings
a greater measure of happiness.
On with the band.
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o Pie Counter Boys
o 17 Vetoed Bills
Tax Decision
By A. L. LINDBECK
OSC Professor Wins Research Grant
Oregon State College Dr. Joseph
W. Ellison, professor of history at
Oregon State college, has been
awarded a national research grant
by the Social Science Research
council of New York which will en
able him to spend nearly half a year
studying and traveling in Europe.
The highly prized social science re
search grants are awarded to ma
ture scholars who have outstanding
research projects nearing comple
tion. Dr. Ellison's study, now near
ly completed, is "Imperialism in the
Pacific,"
Mr. and Mrs. John Farley motored
over from their home at John Day
Monday, Mr. Farley returning that
evening while Mrs. Farley remained
for a fortnight visit at the home of
Mr. Farley's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James Farley.
Salem The pie counter boys of
the Republican camp are becoming
impatient The political plums are
not falling as fast as they would like.
No amount of shaking seems to have
any effect on the Democratic in
cumbents who continue to sit tight
in their snug berths apparently ob
livious of the mob demanding their
heads.
Rumor had it that as soon as Gov
ernor Sprague got the legislature out
of Salem and had a chance to look
about a bit he would begin reorgan
ization of the state departments over
which he holds jurisdiction but ap
parently the governor is not going
to be rushed into anything like a
wholesale housecleaning. In fact he
is a bit too conscientious about the
responsibilities of his position to
suit many of those who supported
him in the hope of political reward
in the form of a job on the state
payroll.
Rumor that there would be no
further changes in the state tax com
mission to make room for deserving
Republicans was confirmed by the
governor this week, thus blasting
the hopes of at least one of the faith
ful who might have found a lucra
tive post thereon. Right on top of
that announcement came another
one to the effect that J. W. Fergu
son is to be retained as state for
ester, for the time being at least.
Ferguson has never been very pop
ular with the forestry people. A
Democrat, he was forced down the
throat of the forestry board by Gov
ernor Martin at the outset of his ad
ministration. It had been hoped by
many that he would be among the
first to walk the political plank when
the Republican administration took
over. But apparently this is not to
be the case. Ferguson's status was
discussed at an executive session of
the forestry board in Salem last
week and it was decided that no
change would be made just at this
time. This, however, does not mean
that Ferguson is secure in his job
for another four years since he serves
only at the pleasure of the board
and is subject to removal at any
time.
Interest just now centers in the
possible fate of D. A. Bulmore, ad
ministrator of the unemployment
compensation act. The job pays
4000 a year which is enough to place
it in the political plum classification
and it is understood that the com
mission is already looking around
for a "conservatve business execu
tive" as a possible successor to Bul
more. It has just leaked out around the
capitol that the Democrats put over
a fast one on the Republicans in
loading the Oregon exhibit at San
Francisco's worlds fair with follow
ers of Roosevelt, Martin, Gosslin,
et al. Created under the administra
tion of Governor Martin, most of the
commissioners are, naturally, Dem
ocrats. Likewise the executive sec
retary to the commission, C. C. Carl
son, is also a Demorcat and a close
personal friend of W. L. (Pinky)
Gosslin, Oregon's little Jim Farley.
It now develops that while the Re
publican job hunters have been
haunting the executive offices young
Carlson has been busy taking care
of young Democrats in jobs with the
fair exhibit. There are now 14 of
them on the commission's payroll at
salaries ranging from $125 to $325
a month, most of them hired, too,
since the new administration came
into power but without consulting
the governor or any of his patronage
dispensers who have just awakened
to the fact and are not any too hap
py over the whole thing.
Of the 572 bills passed by the leg
islature Governor Sprague vetoed
17 and permitted 20 others to be
come law without his signature.
Most of the latter were county salary
increase bills. Of the 17 vetoed bills
one involved only the veto of a few
items in the miscellaneous claims
bill and another involved only the
veto of the emergency clause. Some
of the session met with executive
disapproval. These included the fire
men's pension bill, the pilot bill, a
measure regulating the practice of
optometry, a bill amending the local
option law, a bill providing $9000 a
year additional salaries for district
attorneys, and a measure providing
for compulsory inspection of motor
vehicles under the supervision of
the state highway department.
Congress in legislating against any
retroactive collection of income taxes
from state and federal employees
has relieved the Oregon state tax
commission of the necessity of mak
ing that decision. The Oregon com
mission has always contended that
employees of federal corporations
are taxable under the Oregon law.
Many of these employees paid their
tax without question. When a few
refused to file returns the commis
sion instituted five suits to test out
every angle of the problem in
volved. These suits were still pend
ing when the United States supreme
of the most hotly contested measures
court handed down its opinion strip
ping the exemptions from all pub
lic employees. Had the court limited
its opinion to employees of federal
corporations the state would un
questionably have made its claims
against those individuals retroactive
to include incomes for 1933. Inas
much as the high court included
these employees in the same classi
fication as postmasters, army officers
and other federal officials against
whom there never has been any at
tempt on the part of the state to col
lect a tax it placed the Oregon com
mission in a rather embarrassing po
sition from which htey have been
extricated by the fact that Congress
has taken the initiative in legislat
ing against any attempt to make the
law retroactive.
DANCE at MONUMENT
APRIL 22
MUSIC BY FARROWS
Special songs by Chief Motanic,
of Umatilla Indians
"An Arizona Cowboy," 4 Act Senior Play
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