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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, July 27, 1939
NEWS
o PUD Bond Sale
o 659 Traffic Arrests
o Jobless Fraud
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem The experience of the city
of Cascade Locks in its sale of bonds
with which to finance construction
of electric transmission lines , is re
garded by tjrovernor oprague as
complete vindication of his stand
before the last legislature in insist
ing upon competitive bidding for
PUD bonds.
Several months ago Cascade Locks
negotiated a private sale of a $79,
000 block of 4 per cent bonds at a
bid of .95. The supreme court, how
ever, upset the deal in a recent opin
ion which held that the bond issue
must be advertised and thrown open
to competition.
Under competitive bidding the
city has just sold the same issue to
yield Vi per cent at a bid of .98 to
the same firm. The bonds are to
mature serially over a period of 20
years, but are callable after three
years. If allowed to run their entire
course the city will realize a saving
of approximately $2000 in interest
payments alone by reason of the
better bid received when the bonds
were thrown open to competition.
While the Cascade Locks bond is
sue was not subject to the new
PUD law the same principle applies,
according to Governor Sprague.
Grange leaders and representa
tives of the Bonneville administra
tion contended vigorously for pri
vate sale of PUD bonds on the
ground that such a procedure would
make for more advantageous sale of
PUD securities.
Commenting on the Cascade Locks
sale the governor pointed out that
the city not only got a better bid
for its bonds through competition but
also saved any broker's commission
that would have been necessary un
der a private sale.
Discovery of a deed issued in 1870
has saved the old depot at Gervais,
Under terms of the deed the South
ern Pacific railroad in return for
right-of-way and several blocks of
ground in the city of Gervais agreed
to maintain a depot there "perma
nently." The company this week
notified the Public Utilities com
missioner that it had withdrawn its
application for permisson to aban
don the agency at that point and to
close the depot.
Personnel of the field staff of the
new parole set-up was announced
this week by Fred S. Finsley, state
parole director. It includes Kenneth
W. Dalton, 32, Salem; Joseph R. Sil
ver, 30, Newberg; Hey C. Korgan,
47, Portland, and Perry H. Price, 33,
Eugene.
A total of 659 motorists were ar
rested by state police during June
for violation of traffic laws. Warn
ings were issued to 7516 other mo
torists for minor infractions of the
rules of the roacj. Failure to secure
an operator's license resulted in the
arrest of 121 motorists.
Governor Sprague established
some kind of a new record when in
opening the big trap shoot at Salem
last week he missed only two tar
gets which is exactly the same num
ber missed by Frank Troeh of Port
land in winning the world's cham
pionship two days later. Of course,
it should be explained that, the
governor shot at only two targets
while Troeh shot at 200, breaking
198 of them.
J. D. Mickle, director of the state
department of agriculture, has an
nounced the appointment of C. W.
McNamer of Heppner as brand in
spector for Morrow county. The ap
pointment was made in compliance
with an act of the last legislature
requiring the inspection of all live
stock intended for shipment out of
the state. Brand inspection is also
required for livestock destined for
shipment out of the county in all
eastern Oregon counties and in Jo
sephine, Douglas and Jackson coun
ties west of the Cascades.
Another prospect for enrichment
of the state's common school fund
STATE .
CAPITAL
went glimmering this week when
Miss Nadie Strayer of Baker advised
the State Land Board that she was
abandoning gold mining operations
in the Snake river midway between
Huntington and Robinette. Under
an agreement with the state board
Miss Strayer's company was to pay
the state a royalty on any gold taken
from the stream.
Plans for acquisition of the prop
erties of the Mountain States Power
company in Tillamook county were
discussed here last week by officials
of the Tillamook county peoples util
ity district in a conference with
R. Bean, Oregon utilities commis
sioner. The PUD, officials also con
ferred with State Engineer Chas,
Pi I 1' 1. i . .
oxnciain reiauve to tne expansion
of the district and were advised that
this could only be accomplished
through an election in which bot!
the district and the voters in the
territory to be annexed express their
approval. The Tillamook district, or
ganized in 1933, is one of two such
districts in Oregon.
Charges that immoral practices are
common among inmates of the state
prison are denied by Warden Geo.
Alexander. The charges. made by
former prisoner brought a delega
tion of Portland men headed by
Bishop Benjamin Dagwell of the
Episcopal church to Salem for
conference with Governor Spragui
and Warden Alexander this week,
It is understood the investigation
was dropped after Alexander con
vinced the delegation the ex-con
vict was a perennial trouble-maker
with a record in several penal in
stitutions before coming to Oregon,
anas uaiser, lormer city super'
intendent of schools in Salem, took
over his new duties as administra
tor of the Oregon Unemployment
Compensation act last week. Gaiser
succeeds D. A. Bulmore who had
served in that capacity since the
commission was created.
The Oregon state tax commission
will not attempt to go back beyond
1939 in collecting taxes on salaries of
federal employees residing in this
state. This decision, announced this
week, was prompted largely by en
actment of the "public salaries act"
by congress prividing that both the
national government and the several
states shall confine their new found
taxing authority to public salaries
of 1939 with a threat of retaliation
against state employees in any state
which attempts to make its tax
claims against federal employees
retroactive beyond 1939.
Starting a drive against alleged
"chiselers' the Unemployment Com
pensation commission has filed two
suits against applicants for jobless
insurance charging fraud. Other
suits will be filed soon according to
Ralph Campbell, attorney for the
commission. Campbell said that
number of instances have come to
the attention of the commission in
which persons drawing unemploy
ment compensation have returned
to work at other jobs without noti
fying the commission. In one case
jobless insurance was paid to
waitress who continued to work at
her same job.
Circular on Gladioli
Gives Many Pointers
Gladioli are among the most sat
isfactory and universal flowers
grown in Oregon, whether produced
for home use, exhibit purposes, or
on a commercial basis, says Dr. W.
P. Daruz, professor of pomology and
horticulture at Oregon State college,
in a recent extension circular deal
ing with gladiolus culture.
Those interested in this flower
will find in Extension Circular 329
a brief history of the plant, its bot
any, a discussion or varieties, and
the latest suggestions for growing
gladioli successfully.
Of importance during the warm
summer, says Dr. Daruz, is a con
stant supply of moisture for these
flowers. Occasional heavy irriga
tion is beneficial in promoting best
growth of the plants and several
applications of fertilizer such as bone
meal phosphate, or a complete chem
ical fertilizer, or liquid or other ma
nure, will be beneficial.
Get results with G. T. want ads.
Washington, D. C, July 27 Under
the so-called Hatch bill, passed by
congress all of the several hundred
postmasters of Oregon are forbidden
to be active in politics. The prohibi
tion applies to all federal appointive
offices, but there are more post
masters than any other class.
Just to keep the record straight,
the action of congress is the culmin
ation of efforts started by the late
Frederick Steiwer, republican sen
ator from Oregon. It was Steiwer
who introduced the original bill to
divorce politics from pubic office,
to forbid federal office holders from
attending conventions to nominate
senators, representatives, president
or vice-president. The fact that the
federal political machine made the
second nominations of Taft and Hoo
ver possible was admitted by Stei
wer and he proposed putting a stop
to such practices, whether the ma
chine was controlled by republi
cans or democrats.
For several years the Oregon sen
ator fought to get his bill out of
committee and on the floor. He made
no progress until New Mexicos
Hatch, democrat, joined him. With
the "passing of Steiwer, Hatch car
ried on and after a bitter battle in
which 100 per cent new dealers were
defeated by a combination of re
publicans and conservative demo
crats, congress enacted one of the
most sweeping reforms that has ever
been undertaken in national politics.
Incidentally Oregon's delegation with
the exception of Pierce supported
the reform bill and all six house
members of Washington state op
posed it.
Interpretation given the measure
is that it blocks control of the dem
ocratic convention next year by Mr.
Roosevelt and strengthens the po
sition of Cactus Jack Garner.
Those thousands of women who
work in packing plants during the
season, the men and women who
pick apples and pack them, the
workers in the dairy industry, the
employees in small sawmills, all
those who constitute a formidable
army in the Pacific Northwest are
subject of a controversy which has
been raging between the White
House and congress for months.
National grange and others want
them exempt from the wage-hour
law, but Mr. Roosevelt protests, de
claring that protection of this law Is
needed by the lowest paid class of
labor in the nation. Application of
the wage-hour law, as interpreted
by administraton Elmer Andrews,
would cause many canneries and
small sawmills to shut down, de
priving fruit producers of a market
and depriving mill workers of em
ployment, according to arguments
for exemption.
Negotiations for a compromise are
being held this week, but there is
little prospect of legislation being
enacted before the session closes.
Republicans and democrats alike
from the western states are united
on one phase of the president's lend
ing program. This is earmarking 90
million dollars for reclamation pro
ects now under construction or
which have been authorized. The
westerners are pushing through leg
islation which will enable settlers
on projects to resume payments to
the government and enable them to
save their holdings. The plan in
volves, among other means to aid
the settlers, a reduction in interest
rates.
Junk dealers can continue bar
gaining for old rusty iron and aban
doned farm machinery around the
barn for the administration has
thrown cold water on the proposal
of Senator Schwellenback, Wash
ington, to place an embargo on ship
ping scrap iron to aJpan, which is
regarded as a munition of war. Sec
retary of State Hull objected to the
senate taking up this matter until
it comes to a decision on the pres
ident's neutrality program. This
means scrap iron can be exported
to Japan for another six or seven
months, at least Japan continues to
be the largest buyer of Northwest
lumber and food stuffs.
Sheepmen have obtained some
thing out of congress. After hearings
and debates extending for a year
and agitation which started long ego,
congress has enacted a "truth-in-
fabric" measure. When an article is
advertised as virgin wool it must
be virgin wool and not reworked
wool. Opposition has come from
manufacturers who mixed repro
cessed wool and offered the article
as made of virgin wool. The new law
will protect the consumer from be
ing imposed on and is expected to
increase the market of growers.
Reason congressmen are trying to
wind up by the end of this month
is because a congressman pays rent
by the month in advance. If the
session runs to August 5, as some
predict, they must pay for all of
August. Average congressman pays
between $100 and $200 a month
none less than $100 and many more
than $200. Since this session started
rents alone have cost members about
$1500 to $2000. ... The president
would like to try fishing in Rogui
river when he visits the Pacific
Coast next month. He will take along
his tackle "in case." . . . Secretary
of Interior Ickes wants to pay $9,000
a year for chief attorney for Bonne
ville to a young lawyer only a few
years out of school. An assistant
lawyer was drawing $150 a month
a year ago. . . . Postmaster General
Jim Farley does not share the ap
prehension of Mr. Roosevelt and his
fellow cabineteer, Secretary of State
Cordell Hull, that there will be a
war in Europe in August Mr. Far
ley left for the continent this week
accompanied by his two daughters,
planning a return to America in
mid-September.
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