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STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o Three Jobs Left
o To Stress 'Control'
o Duncan in Charge
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem With reorganization of the
Liquor Control commission only
three political plums remain for the
picking of the Republican adminis
tration. These are the insurance com
missioner, the corporation commis
sioner and the state purchasing
agent, all lucrative positions and all
held by Democratic hold-overs from
the Martin regime.
Just what might be the intention
of Governor Sprague toward the re
moval of James H. Hazlett as cor
poration commissioner or pf Hugh
H. Earle as insurance commissoner,
the governor alone knows and so far
he has refused to take the public
into his confidence. Hazlett whose
term expired just two days before
the republican administration took
over, was reappointed by Governor
Martin as one of his last official acts
and still has three and one-half years
of his new term to serve. Earle, also
serving under appointment by Gov
ernor Martin, has two more years
remaining of his term. Both of these
officials, however, are subject to re
moval at any time by the governor
and there are a number of "deserv
ing" Republicans who are earnestly
hoping that the governor will not
delay too long before he completes
his political house-cleaning.
Dan J. Fry, state purchasing agent,
is an appointee of the Board of Con
trol. While Fry is a Democrat and
two members of the board are Re
publicans it is generally admitted
that he has made an outstanding
record for efficiency in his partic
ular job and there does not appear
to be any disposition on the part of
the board to dispense with his ser
vices. In spite of the fact that Governor
Sprague has now been in office for
more than six months the bulk of his
mail and a majority of his callers
deal with applications for jobs. Every
change in department heads is the
signal for a fresh onslaught on the
part of the hopeful horde. Just now
interest of the job hunters centers
largely in the liquor control organ
ization and in the new parole or
ganization where more than 200 ap
plications have been received for
the four field jobs yet to be as
signed.
In spite of repeated warnings that
the old operators' licenses would be
void after June 30 more than 100,
000 Oregon motorists are continuing
to drive their cars without the requi
site permit, according to Secretary
of State Earl Snell. Records of the
state police show that this agency
alone is arresting an average of more
than 50 motorists each month for
failure to comply with the drivers'
license law.
Property holdings of the state of
Oregon are valued at an aggregate
of $31,203,719.02, according to a re
port prepared by Clifford Mudd,
state property custodian. State build
ings alone represent an investment
of $23,902,371, according to Mudd,
while other property is listed at $7,
301,348.02. The state board of high
er education is the biggest property
owner in the state's family with the
highway department second. The
state owns 674 automobiles valued
at $470,249.91 and 672 trucks valued
at $1,155,701. A total of 1976 type
writers are in use in the numerous
state departments. These are valued
at $175,577.
The lawn now being planted on
the capitol grounds is expected to
last 200 years according to George
Often, landscape artist, who is su
pervising the work for the state.
Planting of the lawn around the new
library building has been let by the
board of control and work on this
project will get under way imme
diately. Greater emphasis on the "con
trol", feature of the Knox liquor act
office of the new liquor control
is expected to follow induction into
board just appointed by Governor
Sprague. It is known that Governor
Sprague has always regarded the
Heppner
Knox act as a measure designed to
promote temperance in the use of
alcoholic liquors, rather than one
designed to profit the state through
a monopoly on liquor sales. In cast
ing about for three new members
for this board, it is to be assumed
he sought men whose views on the
liquor question closely harmonized
with his own.
The old liquor commission had
already started a campaign for more
rigid regulation of night clubs and
restaurants where liquors were
mixed and consumed and of beer
parlors and other places dispensing
this beverage and it is expected that
the new commission will continue
this campaign with added impetus.
The Board of Control plans to ask
the State Emergency Board for an
appropriation to finance purchase
of flag poles for the capitol and li
brary buildings and for the land
scaping of the library site. Funds
made available by the legislature
for construction of the capitol and
library buildings were not adequate
to cover these items, the board ex
plains, and unless an appropriation
can be had from the emergency
board these projects must be car
ried over until another session of the
lawmakers. One of the arguments in
support of an emergency appropria
tion is the fact that PWA funds
would be available for 45 per cent
of the cost of the projects if they
can be put through at this time.
A total of $31,849.36 in liquor
taxes was distributed among the
cities and counties of Oregon by
Secretary of State Snell this week
The amounts ranged from a low of
33 cents to the little municipality of
Cornucopia in Baker county to a
high of $10,078 to the city of Port
land. Population at the Oregon state
prison continues to show a steady
growth with a total of 1113 prison
ers in the institution Saturday, to es
tablish a new all-time high record.
Senate President Robert M. Dun
can of Burns came to Salem to pinch
hit for Governor Sprague while the
latter was representing Oregon at
the San Francisco fair last week.
He said that he did not find the job
of governing a great state such a
strenuous one and spent most of his
time just "holding down the office."
Ralph Mitchell, veteran Portland
newspaperman, has succeeded Miss
Ella Bliler as secretary of the pub
lic utilities commission. Miss Bliler
is being retained in the department
as private secretary to Commissioner
O. R. Bean.
The World War Veterans State
Aid commission is now in the real
estate business to the extent of a $3,
129,545 investment, according to Jer
rold Owen, executive secretary. In
cluded in the commission's holdings
are 4G0 farms and 940 city proper
ties, all acquired through foreclo
sure to protect loans made by the
state.
ROSE A. SANBORN BURIED
Funeral services were held from
St. Patrick's Catholic church here
Tuesday morning for Rose A. San
born, 67, native of Ireland who died
the previous week end at St. An
thony's hospital in Pendleton. Fol
som Funeral home of Pendleton and'
Phelps Funeral home of this city
were in charge. Father Healy, local
rector, officiated. Mrs. Sanborn is
survived by brothers, Johnny, Pete
and Michael Curran, all known here.
Mrs. Agnes Wilcox Is now at Gre
sham at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. George Currin, ar
riving there by train from New
York. She received a broken wrist
in a fall at St Louis. She had ac
companied Misses Leta Humphreys
and Rose Leibbrand east by motor.
Mrs. Mary Supple (nee Mary Cur
rin) and son John of Portland are
visiting with friends and relatives in
the county. They were in town yes
terday from the Clyde Denny farm,
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Den
ny. Mr. and Mrs. T. Babb motored to
Portland over the week end on bus
iness. Merchants wise advertise in the
Heppner Gazette Times.
Gazette Times, Heppner,
Washington, D. C, July 13 It isn't
exactly correct to charge that WPA
workers are striking against the gov
ernment; some, under direction of
labor unions, have walked off pro
jects and threats of political reprisal
have been made against congress
men unless the requirement of 130
hours a month and the "security"
wage are repealed. Few, if any WPA
projects will be abandoned in Wash
ington and Oregon on account of
dissatisfaction with the new law.
President Roosevelt, in a message
to congress in January, 1935, advised
that WPA provide wages which
would cover necessities but that the
wages should not be so high that
workers would remain on the roll
rather than accept private employ
ment. WPA work was to be a stop
gap until private jobs were avail
able. Despite the suggestion of the
president, congress inserted the pro.
vision that the "prevailing wage"
(union scale), should be paid. Now
that congress adopts Mr. Roosevelt's
advice three and one-half years after
he gave it there is complaint by the
beneficiaries of the relief program.
No other president has done as
much for the cause of labor as Mr.
Roosevelt, but repeatedly the exec
utive has said at press conferences
that he believed it would be better
for labor to have a comfortable year
ly income, a sustaining wage, than
to insist on a high hourly scale and
work intermittantly. He visioned
steady employment the year around
at wages less than the union rates
rather than a smaller and uncertain
annual income at the scale. When the
non-federal public works program
was in the making, Harold Ickes ex
pressed the same idea and made ten
tative proposals to that effect but
the unions strenuously objected.
It is no mere coincidence that
while skilled workers on WPA are
protesting, the anti-trust division of
department of justice is investigat
ing to discover why building con
struction is in a slump because of
high prices. There is a suspicion of
an understanding among manufac
turers of building supplies to keep
prices up. If this is a fact and the
department of justice can bust up
the agreement, administration be
lieves construction will boom and
skilled craftsmen need not depend
on WPA.
Arguments on the best methods
to keep America free from entangle
ments in the event of foreign Wars
promise to consume senate time for
a month, at least. President Roose
velt believes America should sell
munitions to -any country that can
pay cash and transport the materials.
He contends such a provision would
scare Hit and Muss as it would en
able Great Britain and France to
obtain all the supplies they require,
and such policy would mean peace
in Europe.
More than one-third of the sen
ate opposes the president's theory;
believes neutrality is best assured by
a mandatory embargo on munitions.
These senators argue prohibition of
arms to belligerants will save Amer
ica from becoming involved. Such
is the contention threatening to re
sult in a long and tiresome debate.
In the mandatory group are Oregon's
McNary and Holman, Washington's
Bone, Idaho's Borah and Clark, Cal
ifornia's Hiram Johnson. Sharing
the administration view are Wash
ington's Schwellenbach, California's
Downey.
One of the reasons Archibald Mac-
Leish was confirmed as the new li
brarian of congress (librarians ev
erywhere objected to him; he was
called a "red"), was because of wire
pulling by the chief of the archives.
Price MacLeish will pay for the sup
port will be the surrender of the
Oregon
Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution. These documents
(viewed by thousands daily), are in
the library of congress. For years
the archives bureau has endeavored
to have the relics released by the
library and placed in a marble-gold
shrine built especially for them.
Just a little inside politics with the
Constitution and Declaration as the
pay-off. For a century these docu
ments knocked around in dusty
drawers and their existence was al
most forgotten until they were ac
cidentally found one day.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes is
still lobbying to have control of Bon
neville power. He complains that
while the administrator is respon
sible to the secretary, still the ad
ministrator is a free agent and does
what he wants. Ickes is asking con
gress to change the Bonneville act
and make the administrator take or
ders from the secretary. Implying
that Bonneville has been poorly ad
ministered, Ickes says that in the in
terest of good management there
should be more closely knit admin
istration relations between the pro
ject and the department of the in
terior.
Baseball is celebrating its 100th
birthday and remains tops of Amer
ican games. Only one foreign na
tion has taken to the sport and in a
big way Japan. Its a common oc
currence for a college game to at
tract a crowd of 50,000 people. Sand
lot games are popular with the kids
in every town.
San Francisco fair has been such
a financial flop the management will
ask congress for an appropriation of
$600,000. When an emergency occurs,
such as the death of Secretary of the
Navy Swanson, the operator at the
White House switchboard connects
all press associations and news bu
reaus and when all are on the line
Steve Early, presidential secretary,
states the information. One state
ment reaches the entire news corps.
Elliott Roosevelt, who has been
boosting Jack Garner for president
in 1940, invited listeners to his broad
cast to write him their views on a
third term. He says 70 per cent of
the letters are for Papa.
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Dix are absent
this week on vacation at the coast.
Professional
Directory
GLENN Y. WELLS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ATwater 4884
535 MEAD BUILDING
5th at Washington
PORTLAND, OREGON
A. D. McMurdo, M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Trained Nana Assistant
Office In Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregon
Morrow County
Abstract & Title Co.
INC.
ABSTRACTS OP TITLE
TITLE INSUJLANCE
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INSURANCE '
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Heppner, Oresjon
Jos. J. Nys
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Peters Building, Willow Street
Heppner, Oregon
Laurence Case
Mortuary
"Just the errice wanted
when yon want It most"
Thursday, July 13, 1939
J. 0. Turner
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 173
Hotel Heppner Building
HEPPNER, ORE.
Dr. Raymond Rice
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Office
First National Bank Building
Office Phone 523 House Phone 823
Heppner
Abstract Co.
J. LOGIE RICHARDSON, Mgr.
BATES SEASONABLE
Roberts Building Heppner, Ore.
P. W. Mahoney
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GENEBAXi INSURANCE
Heppner Hotel Building
Willow St Entrance
J. O. Peterson
LAteit Jewelry and Gift Goods
Watches . Clocks - Diamonds
Expert Watch and Jewelry
Repairing
Heppner, Oregon
Vawter Parker
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
First National Bank Building
Dr. Richard C. Lawrence
DENTIST
Modern equipment including X-ray
for dental diagnosis
Extraction by gas anesthetic
First National Bank Building
Phone 562 Heppner, Ore.
Dr. L. D. Tibbies
OSTEOPATHIC
Physician & Surgeon
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG.
Rec. Phone 1162 Office Phone 492
HEPPNER, OREGON
W. M. Eubanks
Representing
KERR, GIF FORD & CO INC.
on Heppner Branch
V. R. Runnion
AUCTIONEER
Farm Sales and Livestock a Specialty
405 Jones Street, Heppner, Ore.
Phone 452
MAZE DATES AT XT EXPENSE
Frank C. Alfred
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Telephone 442
Rooms 8-4
First National Bank Building
HEPPNER, OREGON
Peterson & Peterson
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
U. S. National Bank Building
PENDLETON, OREGON
Fractioe in State aad Federal Courts
Real Estate
General Line of Insurance and
Bonds
W. M. EUBANKS
Notary Publlo
Phone 62 Ione 0pe
FOB BEST MABKET FBICES for
your new or old wheat, see
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for grain stored in Heppner and
Lexington,
ELMER GRIFFITH
at lone for rest of Branch
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