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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, August 4, 1939
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o Pray Appointment
o License Plates
o President Maaske
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem The fate of no Oregon pub
lic official ever aroused greater
public interest than did that of
Chas. P. Pray, superintendent of
state police, last week.
Publication of a rumor that Pray
was scheduled to "walk the plank"
at the expiration of his term brought
a flood of protests to the executive
department from every corner of
the state.
In announcing the reappointment
of Pray last Friday Governor Spra
gue characterized the rumors as
reporters guesses but at the same
time he explained that he was in
vestigating certain phases of the
state police problem which indicat
ed that he was undecided and that
there was some foundation for the
rumors.
Pray, one' of the most popular
members of the state s official fam
ily, was apparently the least con
cerned about the rumor. It is known
that he had not asked for reappoint
ment, being of the opinion that the
governor should have a free hand
in his selection of appointive offi
cials. Pray has served as superin
tendent of the state police bureau
ever since its inception eight years
ago and in that time has built the
organization up to a degree of effi
ciency which has earned for it na
tional recognition.
Official Oregon was well repre
sented at the annual gathering of
the Order of the Antelope on Hart
mountain last week. Among those
making the pilgrimage to the central
Oregon shrine were State Treasurer
Walter E. Pearson, who holds the
title of Keeper of the Canteen, in
the organization; Secretary of State
Earl Snell; Dan J. Fry, state pur
chasing agent; Jerrold Owen, sec
retary to the World War Veterans
State Aid commission, and Lewis
Griffith, secretary to the State Land
board.
about through efforts of the live
stock theft investigation division of
the state department of agriculture
aunng xne nrsi nan 01 nine
teen of the arrests resulted in con
viction, one defendant was acquitted
and three cases are still pendng.
Penitentiary terms aggregating 17
years were meted out to six of the
defendants but five of them were
paroled from the bench and only
one of the number actually went to
prison.
A private elevator may be a great
convenience but it does not afford
much relief from the heat as Gov
ernor Sprague has discovered dur
ing the past week. When the capito
architects designed the new build
ing they made provision for shower
baths in the offices occupied by the
secretary of state and state treas
urer but not in the executive suite,
thinking, no doubt, that he should
be content with a private elevator.
Offers by the governor to trade his
elevator for a shower bath have
failed to interest his Board of Con
trol colleagues although both have
graciously consented to allow the
governor to indulge in a cooling
shower during the hot weather in
exchange for an occasional ride on
his elevator.
A total of 5472 predatory animals
were killed by hunters in Oregon
during the first six months of 1939,
according to J. D. Mickle, state di
rector of agriculture. The list in
cludes 4944 coyotes, 496 bobcats, 23
bears and 10 mountain lions.
Oregon's 1940 automobile license
plates will consist of blue numerals
on a white background. Secretary
of State Snell estimates it will re
quire 275,000 sets of the plates to
meet the demand next year.
Oregon's liquor monopoly did a
$8,361,561 business during the year
ending June 30 last, according to a
report by the Liquor Control com
mission. Profits for the year were
reported as $2,864,861, an increase
of nearly $140,000 over the previous
year.
If the automobile business is any
criterion the people of Oregon are
more prosperous than they have
been for many years. Statistics com
piled by Secretary of State Snell
show that 15,732 new cars and
trucks were sold by dealers in this
state during the first half of the
year. This is an increase of 35 per
cent over new car sales for the same
period in 1938, Snell said.
Private automobiles operating as
for hire carriers are in violation
of the state law, warns O. R. Bean,
public utilities commissioner, in de
claring war on this practice.
Within the next few weeks all
units of the Oregon National Guard
will be supplied with the new style
long trousers and canvas leggings
to replace the breeches and wrapped
leggings which have been the reg
ulation issue for enlisted men of
the army heretofore. Major General
George A. White announced this
week that orders have been placed
with the war department for enough
of the new style tousers to supply
the 1500 men of the 186th infantry
and the 218th Field artillery who
have not yet received them.
Twenty-two arrests were brought
A bronze plaque honoring former
governor Charles H. Martin is soon
to be placed in the new capitol. The
plaque, the work of George B. Clau
sen, Portland sculptor in bronze, has
been financed through contribu
tions from some 50 prominent Ore
gon business men, all admirers of
the former governor.
Oregon residents paid out a total
of $43,526,444 in insurance premiums
upon all classes of insurance during
1938, according to the annual report
of Hugh H. Earle, state insurance
commissioner.
R. J. Maaske, just elected to the
presidency of the Eastern Oreeon
College of Education at La Grande,
was formerly assistant state super
intendent of public instruction un
der C. A. Howard whom he suc
ceeds at the La Grande institution.
A graduate of the University of
Kansas, Maaske began his teaching
career at Irrigon in eastern Oregon.
One evening last week a kind
hearted motorist travelling along
the highway down in Coos county
picked up a couple of youthful hitch
hikers. The grateful hitch hikers
explained to the kind hearted mo
torist that they had been kept in af
ter school and had missed their bus.
They also regaled the kind hearted
motorist with tales of their numer
ous pranks at school at the expense
of their teachers most of whom, in
the opinion of the youthful hitch
hikers, were deaf, dumb and blind
especially dumb. All of which in
terested the kind hearted motorist
immensely for he had once been a
boy himself, and as a bov had at
tended school and may have played
jokes on his "dumb" teachers even
as did these modern hitch hiking
youths. Arrived at their destination
the boys thanked the kind hearted
motorist profusely for the "lift" and
he in turn thanked them for their
entertainment and as he prepared
to step on the gas" he presented
each of his guests with his card. It
read: "Rex Putnam, state superin
tendent of public instruction."
Poison Slays Grant Grasshoppers
Canyon City An excellent kill of
grasshoppers was obtained this sum
mer on range land in the Loean val
ley area of Grant county, reports R
E. Brooke, county agent. Poison was
spread over approximately 600 acres
of range land, resulting in an esti
mated kill of 85 to 90 per cent of
the hoppers. Actual counts showed
from 84 to 152 dead hoppers per
square foot in some sections.
If the town of Umatilla was des
troyed in a flood and all its resi
dents drowned, citizens of Oregon
would be deeply concerned. Earl
Snell, secretary of state, said today.
xet the traffic accident toll for 1938
was nearly equal to the total pod-
ulation of Umatilla, as riven in the
1930 census. The accident toll was
328 while Umatilla's population was
listed as 345.
Read G. T. Want Ads. You way
find a bargain in something needed.
Washington, D. C, Aug. 3 It is
under cover yet, but the department
of state is alarmed at the number of
alien plotters und conspirators and
gangs of assassins who are planning
the overthrow of friendly govern
ments. Many of these aliens are
known and their purpose il known
but there is no federal law by which
the revolutionists and assassins can
be either jailed or deported. Until
the congress provides the necessary
legislation these foreigners can con
spire to seize governments, murder
presidents and high state officials
and be immune in the United States.
President Roosevelt knows the
facts and is much concerned, for the
anarchist groups are seeking to ov
erthrow governments in South
America, some of the 20 republics
embraced m the administration's
good neighbor" policy. Inside facts
of the plots are as sensational and
thrilling as any fiction story on spies
and international intrigue. Mr.
Roosevelt realizes the embarrass
ment of trying to strengthen the
bonds of friendship with a South
American republic while at the same
time the United States is harboring
assassins and revolutionaries as thev
worlc out plans to destroy that par
ticular republic.
Some fine day the lid will be
lifted from this situation and the
papers will be carrying first page
stones. For the present, however,
secrecy surrounds the facts which
have been disclosed to only a few
high officials. A bill is now being
drafted by the state department
which will be introduced by a sen
ator of the Pacific Northwest pos
sibly next January.
Social Security board cut off
"match" money to Ohio because the
monthly checks for old-age assist
ance carried a note announcing the
governor was a candidate for re
election. Now SSB is under con
trol of Paul V. McNutt and the
monthly bulletin mailed to bene
iciaries in Indiana (an official pub
lication) is boosting him for the dem
ocratic nomination for president. Mc
Nutt has not cracked down on In
diana, which is his home state, for
doing what Ohio did. Beneficiaries
in Oregon and Washington will soon
receve similar propaganda.
m
Survey of potential water power
m the United States, just completed,
places Washington state at the head
of the list, with Oregon second and
California third. Washington's po
tential power shows 8,768,000 horse
power available 90 per cent of the
time and 12,021,000 available 50 per
cent of the time. Oregon's potential
horsepower available 90 per cent of
the time is 4,502,000 and 6,104.000
available 50 per cent of the time.
The three Pacific coast states have
41.67 per cent of ail the power which
is available 90 per cent of the time.
It will always be potential until
there are enough people to supply
a market.
John Llewellyn Lewis, head of
CIO, who contributed $500,000 (dues
from union members) to the Roose
velt campaign in 1936, is really as
mad at President Roosevelt as he is
at Vice President Garner. His call
ing Garner "an evil old man," is
paralleled by his charge that Mr.
Roosevelt was an ingrate when the
president sat silent during the sit
down strikes. And from the whis
pers which have circulated in Wash
ington for two years, the president
has his own opinion (not flattering)
of Lewis. It was the sit-down strike
and the administration's refusal to
step in and establish law and order
that caused the break between the
vice president and president. Cactus
Jack, after telling the president what
he thought, packed up and went
home to Texas, not returning until
Mr. Roosevelt requested him to re
turn and smooth out the fight over
the court bill.
One of the arguments for ear
marking 90 million dollars for rec
lamation projects in the lending
spending bill so bitterly fought, was
that 13.4 million can be used in Or
egon and Washington, mostly in
Washington. There could be used
from this fund $1,000,000 for Des
chutes project (which will cost $8,
400,000 to complete); $1,500,000 for
Yakima-Roza project; $10,000,000 for
Grand Coulee, and $900,000 for the
Modoc division of the Klamath pro
ject.
The new schedule of power rates
for Bonneville are intended to en
courage use of the energy which has
been going to waste for going on
two years. The rates were submit
ted to the federal power commission
and that body rushed its approval
in four days in order to adjourn for
the summer. Senators of Oregon and
Washington have been advised to
notify the commission by August 15
if they have any suggestions to
make. Meanwhile Secretary of the
Interior Ickes is asking legislation
to hire a flock of officials for Bon
neville at $9000 each. It would re
quire the sale of 620 kilowatt years
on "at site" rates to pay one salary
for one year. To date only 200 kilo
watt years have been sold.
Mr. Roosevelt is being condemned
again. He said he would not visit
Alaska this summer as planned, be
cause there are dense fogs in that
region at this time of year. This has
scared tourists contemplating an
Alaskan trip. Unpublished is the hint
that Mr. Roosevelt was informed
fishing for salmon and steelhead in
Oregon is not good in August, but
is better in September. He will test
this report in September. . . . Con
gresman James W. Mott's daughter
is to be queen of the Astoria re
gatta, so as a compliment to Mott
the entire naval affairs committee
of the house will attend. Commit
teemen planned flying to Astoria in
a navy transport plane but cancelled
the air voyage because their wives
insist on accompanying them and
women are not permitted in army
or navy planes. . . . Government
payments to farmers for the first 6
months of this year were 414 million
dollars, compared with 257 million
for the same period last year.
Oregon's first college course in
safety education is being held at the
Portland session of the University
of Oregon summer school, it was
announced today by Earl Snell. sec
retary of state, a co-snonsor of the
course with the state system of hieh-
a
er education. Nearly 40 students
were enrolled in the course which
is designed to train persons who wish
to teach safety in schools, industria
or civic groups.
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