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STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o Funds Shortage
o 61 New Lawyers
o Political Warm-up
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem That old bugaboo a gen
eral fund deficit has bobbed up
again to haunt tax spenders. Its exist
ence was discovered by Budget Di
rector "David Eccles while engaged
in a survey of state finances. Eccles
thought that he was on the trail of
a healthy surplus in the general fund
when he stumbled onto the deficit
instead.
The deficit is not a large one,
amounting to only some $168,818 in
the current budget, but its existence
came as a complete surprise to the
budget director and others around
the capitol who were under the im
pression that the last legislature had
left a balanced budget that is that
they had kept biennial appropriations
within estimated revenues.
win addition to the current deficit
Eccles also discovered that the 1937
38 deficit, inherited by the Sprague
administration, had taken on weight,
amounting now to some $417,000.
But Eccles does not intend that the
deficit shall continue. On the con
trary he proposes to use his bud
getary control powers to wipe out
both the inherited and the current
deficit through a program of enforc
ed economy in which all tax-supported
state activities will be expect
ed to share.
Real Estate Commissioner Claude
Murphy is warning all real estate
brokers who were in business prior
to the enactment of the new law that
they must get their registrations in
before September 11 if they want to
avoid the examination and the addi
tional penalty of a $1 examination
fee.
The 61 law school graduates who
passed the recent bar examination
are scheduled to appear in Salem
Thursday of this week to receive
their certificates as duly qualified
attorneys at law. The oath of office
will be administered by John L.
Rand, chief justice of the Oregon su
preme court, and the new lawyers
will be entertained at a luncheon
arranged by the board of governors
of the Oregon bar.
Official Oregon was well repre
sented at the dedication of the Ton
gue Point naval base on the lower
Columbia river last week. Governor
Sprague was one of the speakers at
the dedication ceremony and both
Secretary of State Snell and State
Treasurer Pearson were among the
numerous "admirals" at the regatta,
of which the dedication was an out
standing feature.
O. D. Adams, state director of vo
cational education, has just received
notice of his appointment as a mem
ber of the Oregon state advisory
board of the national youth admin
istration.
Leo Friedlander of New York City,
sculptor of the statuary that guards
the entrance to Oregon s new capi
tol, has been here the past week su
pervising the finishing touches to
the huge granite pieces, work on
which is now completed.
Fatalities as well as injuries in
traffic accidents on Oregon high
ways this year are ahead of the 1938
record, according to figures compiled
by Secretary of State Snell.
Already the big guns of the two
major political parties are being
maneuvered into position on the
Oregon front in preparation for the
political campaign of 1940.
Right on the heels of the an
nouncement by former Governor
Charles H. Martin that he would
head a campaign for the nomination
of John Nance Garner of Texas as
the democratic standard bearer,
Frank McHale, Democratic national
committeeman from Indiana, came
to Oregon to sound out sentiment
among democrats of this state in sup
port of Paul V. McNutt whom many
regard as President Roosevelt's
choice as his successor.
Republican aspirants to the White
House seat also have their eyes on
Oregon. At least two of these will
visit the state in person this month
Heppner
to confer with party leaders on their
prospects. Senator Robert A. Taft of
Ohio is due in Oregon next week
and Senator Styles Bridges of New
Hampshire will follow him later in
the month. Friends of both of these
men aie making elaborate plans for
the entertainment of these visitors
during their stay in the northwest
The Oregon Pension Federation
has addressed a letter to Governor
Sprague urging his support of a pro
gram providing for a retirement pen
sion of $40 a month for all citizens
of 65 years of age or over who would
agree to refrain from all gainful
pursuits. The proposed pension
would be financed out of state and
federal funds.
Rod C. McCornack of Eugene has
been appointed assistant state vet
erinarian to succeed Dr. R. J. Green,
resigned. McCornack is the son of
the former state senator, E. A. Mc
Cornack. Employees of the public utilities
commission are no longer to be per
mitted to sip their morning and af
ternoon tea in leisurely fashion.
Commissioner O. R. Bean has de
creed that the morning and after
noon recess periods shall reduced
from 15 minutes to ten minutes.
With the Labor Day holiday sig
nalling the end of the vacation per
iod business in state departments
was getting back to a normal basis
this week. Governor Sprague who
took last week off for a short rest
at an Oregon beach resort was back
at his desk Tuesday. Members of the
state supreme court who have been
on vacation since July were also
back in their offices prepared to
wade into the grist of appeals that
have accumulated during their ab
sence. With a deficiency appropriation of
$500 at his disposal Secretary of
State Snell is now pondering the
location of a flag pole for the new
capitol. Numerous suggestions have
been made in this connection. One
involves a pole set at a 45-degree an
gle from the roof of the capitol im
mediately above the main entrance.
Another provides for two poles, one
on either wing of the building. Still
another calls for a tall fir pole to
rise from the lawn in front of the
building. In addition to the $500
made available for this purpose by
the State Emergency Board Governor
Sprague has announced that he
would make available a fund of $294
raised by voluntary subscription
shortly after the old capitol burned
and which is now in his possession.
Wheat League Contest
Interest Said Growing
Mounting interest in the Eastern
Oregon Wheat league's state con
vention, to be held in Condon in
December, is evidenced by the fact
that a number of out-of-state wheat
growers plan to attend, coming from
as far away as Texas.
The out-of-state interest, accord
ing to Harry Proudfoot of Wasco,
president, is an outgrowth of the
league's AAA wheat acreage com
pliance contest. Winning counties
are now being determined for each
participating state.
Idaho, Montana, Washington and
Texas have written Proudfoot that
they want to be represented at the
convention. In announcing Texas'
interest, C. H. Day, president of the
Texas Agricultural association, said:
"It is to the interest of all agricul
ture that sectional lines be erased
with mutual understanding. It will
benefit the wheat farmers of Texas
to be represented at the Oregon
council table."
Of a total of six pedestrians killed
in Oregon during the month of July,
two were crossing a highway, one
was jaywalking and one was walk
ing along the highway with traffic
instead of facing it, Earl Snell, sec
retary of state, reported today in
urging pedestrians to observe safe
walking practices to avoid accidents.
Excessive speed was reported as
an element in fatal highway acci
dents by 26 per cent of the drivers
involved in this type of accident dur
ing the first seven months of 1939,
figures compiled by the safety di
vision of the secretary of state's of
fice revealed.
Gazette Times, Heppner,
Washington, D. C, Sept. 7 When
and if the United States is involved
in war (and it can happen despite
administration efforts), an order is
all prepared, awaiting the president's
signature, which will give the gov
ernment complete control over la
bor. Such new-won legislation as
wages and hours, collective bargain
ing, authority of the National Labor
Relations Board, will be tossed out
the window by the War Labor Ad
ministration . if these statutes and
regulations interfere with effective
ness (not necessarily efficiency).
Labor will be regimented as thor
oughly as it is in totalitarian states
headed by Hitler and Stalin. Big
shots in the labor movement and
business agents will have nothing
to say.
Employment of women and chil
dren under 16 will be compelled by
the labor administration if the con
test is of long duration and man
power is required for the field, and
the protective laws now on the stat
ute books will be ignored. Labor
serving at home will be under as
rigid discipline as labor in the front
lines.
There are other measures ready
for the signature of the president.
An agency for price control, for se
lective service, for war trade, control
of finance, and of course an admin
istration for food production and
control. If the United States is
dragged into a major war again, as
it was in 1917, things will be differ
ent. This is all part of the industrial
mobilization plan, which can swing
into action when the president
pushes a button.
Social Security Board has already
notified the higher-ups that there
are now 30 million people working
in industries which will be needed
in war, and each individual of the
30 millions is represented by a card
giving his or her life history. These
SSB cards are supposed to be con
fidential, and are not even G-men
have been permitted to examine
them but war is different.
Farm Security Administration has
$40,000,000 to lend out this year (end
ing June 30, 1940), to tenants, farm
laborers and share -croppers to en
able them to buy farms of their own.
It is expected that about 7000 loans
will be made they run for 40 years
and the annual installments (includ
ing principal and interest) must av
erage 4.3 per cent of the loan. In
the two years FSA has been giving
this start m life, 15 loans have been
made in Oregon, a total of $132,275
the average loan being $8818 and the
average acreage per farm 128 acres.
For Washington state 24 loans have
been made, representing $163,777,
average loan being $6824 and acre
age averaging 112 acres.
Smallest acre average is in Call
fornia 44 acres with average loan
$8217. Irrigation makes the small
farm profitable. Last year (fiscal
1939, ending last June), borrowers
spent 24 per cent of their loans for
improvements. As good farms avail
able are acquired, borrowers will
have to spend more for buildings.
Here is what the AAA conserva
tion program of 1937 meant to the
Pacific Northwest, as of December
31, 1938, the figures just made avail
able: Oregon payments $2,466,788;
Washington $1,860,533. That is the
money that went to the farmers. To
administer the program in Oregon
it cost $149,556 and in the state of
Washington $93,774. Every county
in Oregon received benefits, the
lowest being Clatsop, with $5035;
the highest Linn, with $218,971. In
Washington the range was $2717 in
Mason county to $244,820 in Whit
man.
Upper bracket officials are rush
ing a program extending the na
Oregon
tional defense and appropriations
will be requested of the next con
gress early in January for another
billion dollars. It will include one
million, at least, for Tongue Point,
at the mouth of Columbia river;
other millions to increase the num
ber of airports and expand the air
ports now existing, and funds for
building highways capable of stand
ing up under the pounding of mo
bile artillery, and wide enough to
permit brigades to be transported
quickly.
War in Europe has changed the
picture in Washington. Such topics
as relief, WPA, spending-lending,
congressional probes, have all been
relegated while the administration,
from President Roosevelt down to
the messengers, discuss nothing but
"the situation." So carefully had the
administration formulated plans that
the shock was cushioned and the
financial market, always the first to
be upset, was not disturbed. No
cabineteer is watching developments
more intently than Secretary of Ag
riculture Wallace for the conflict is
expected to furnish a market for
some of America's surplus food
food products.
Approval has been given for a
WPA project which is to make cop
ies of official records in all Oregon
counties and transcriptions of ar
ticles of historic nature in newspa
pers prior to 1891. A similar compil
ation of records is planned for Wash
ington state.
Officials are conducting an under
cover search for industrialists in
Oregon and Washington to act as
key men in the skeleton organization
to be created by the war resources
board.
AAA Wheat Payments
To be 18 to 22 Cents
It is expected that wheat farmers
who comply with the AAA farm
program in 1940 will be paid from
18 to 22 cents a bushel on the normal
yield of their acreage allotment, as
compared with 28 cents this year, ac
cording to word received by the state
AAA office at Corvallis. This in
cludes conservation and price ad
justment payments.
Definite rates cannot be estab
lished at this early date, it was said.
The range within which the rates
are expected to fall is announced
now, however, so that farmers
planning 1940 operations can know
approximately what payments they
can earn.
The 1940 payments will be lower
than those of 1939 because national
acreage allotments are larger. Funds,
therefore, must be distributed on a
broaded basis. The 1940 national
wheat acreage allotment is 62 million
acres, as compared with 55 million
acres in 1939. Similarly, Oregon's
1940 wheat acreage allotment will
be 851,458, an increase of 10 per cent.
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