Page Four Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon Thursday, October 12, 1939 BOARDMAN NEWS Board man People Attend P. I., Portland By MRS. CLAUD COATS Those attending the Pacific Inter national Livestock exposition in Portland were Miss Esther McGrew, Miss Elinor Tilden, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sullivan and children, Roy Partlow, Russell DeMauro, Albin Sundsten, Bob Miles, Albert Partlow and Dale Russell. Mrs. Charles Andregg, Mrs. L Skoubo and Mrs. E. Kunze returned home last Wednesday after a two weeks' visit in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Ransier spent Thursday in Heppner on business. Miss Janet Gorham who is taking a post graduate course in Pendleton high school spent last week end in Boardman at the home of her par ents. Mrs. Michael Cassidy and small daughter, Beatrice Irene, returned home from the Pendleton hospital last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Al Geiss returned home Friday. They have spent the summer working in a ranger station in the mountains close to Cove. Dr. and Mrs. W. G. Wren spent the week end at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Chas. Dillon. They were here for pheasant hunting. Mrs. W. G. Wren, and Mrs. Chas. Dillon motored to Gateway Saturday to see Mrs. Dillon's mother who is seriously ill. They returned home Sunday. , ' Wiliam Garvison of Portland is spending the week with his mother. Mrs. Chas. Andregg. William is in training in the camp at Vancouver, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. W. Butts and Mrs. Spring of Portland were pheasant hunting on the project last week end, stopping at the Faler home. J. M. Allen is pleased to have his uncle, Johiv H. Bear of Washington, Kansas, 79 years old, who arrived to spend some two weeks with him. Other relatives in Oregon who have not seen Mr. Bear for some time are coming this week for a visit with him. Lewis Geiss left for Milton Sat urday for a stay of a few days with his grandmother, and will bring back some fruit. Word reached here yesterday of the passing of Joe Simmons at the Heppner hospital Mr. Simmons has been in bad health for some months. He leaves many frends on the pro ject, of which he had been a resi dent for the past 21 years. The young adult Sunday ' school class held a progressive dinner and party Monday evening. They met at Lois Messenger's home at 6 p. m. for the cocktail, followed by the main course at the Ed Barlow home, the salad at the Art Allen home, and the party and dessert at the church. There were 26 present, including Miss Marthina Martin of the Co lumbia district. Ed Barlow attended the presbv- terial meeting at Pilot Rock Tues day. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Tannehill and Mrs. Doris Lilly were shopping in Pendleton Wednesday. Robert Royce, who has been work ing this summer in the Barlow ser vice station, left last week for his home in Stayton. He expects to spend the winter in the valley. Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Ferguson, Crystal and Chloe Barlow visited Saturday and Sunday in Monu ment with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Slo cum. Mrs. Ferguson and Mrs. Slo cum are sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Fer guson went on Monday to their norae at Gold Beach. A party consisting of Willard Ba ker, Mrs. W. A. Baker, Mrs. Mar garet Klitz, Mrs. John Fisher and Mrs. J. F. Barlow left Wednesdav for La Grande and Meacham for a couple of days. Mrs. Barlow will stop with Mr. and Mrs. Truman Messenger at Meacham, the others visiting La Verne Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Noel Klitz and May Fisher. A deer hunting party of Glenn Hadley, Chas and Warren -Dillon, Al Browning, Arnin Hugg and Chas. Smith left Tuesday for Grant county. NEWS STATE CAPITAL o Relief Deficit o Ousts Board o Plaque Placed By A. L. LINDBECK Salem State Budget Director Dave Eccles is doing a lot of worrv ing these days over a possible deficit in the relief budget at the end of the biennium. Not that the relief com mittee is in any danger of exceeding its appropriation but in Eccles ooin. ion liquor profits will fall far short of meeting the expenditure from that source authorized by the legislature. The legislature appropriated $600,- 000 from the general fund and auth orized the expenditure of $6,500,000 from liquor profits for relief. In ad dition it authorized the use of the unexpended balance in the 1937 ap propriation. This latter item includ ed a general fund appropriation of $1,500,00 and the unused liquor prof its appropriation. This in itself was estimated to amount to $660,000. Ec cles contends that there was actually no balance in the liquor approoria tion. On the contrary this appropria tion had been overdrawn. In addi tion, he predicts that liquor profits during this biennium will fall at least $300,000 short of the legislative estimate. All told, the budget director esti mates there will be only $7,864,761 in cash available for relief during tne biennium instead of the $9,260,- Put this I.E.S. LAMP on your child's study table . . . and watch his homework imrrm! 000 estimated by the legislative ways and means committee. If, therefore, the relief committee operates on the basis of the legislative estimate the relief fund will be $1,395,238 in the red by the end of the biennium ac cording to Eccles figures. The prison commlssarv has been doing a profitable business in spite of the depression. In 1911 the legis lature created a revolving fund with which to finance this business ven ture conducted at the penitentiary for the accommodation of inmates who do not have ready access to the outside world. This revolving fund has now grown to $7,000. Warden George Alexander reported to the Board of Control this week. The board authorized Alexander to re turn the original $1000 to the gen eral fund and to spend the profits for the benefit of the prisoners. A part of it will be used in the pur chase of new books for the prison library, and music and instruments for the prison orchestra. Apparently the howl raised bv - - Oregon Democrats over the report that Byron Carney was to be awarded the job of census director for Oregon did not fall on deaf ears. Word from Washington now has it that Carney is to be sidetracked to some other job, just as lucrative but without quite so much prestige. while the census directing iob will go to some one who can get the okeh of the state central committee. The objection was not so much to Car ney as to the way in which he was getting his appointment which was supposed to have been influenced by the Commonwealth Federation of which he was vice-president. Frank Tierney, chairman of the state central committee, is under stood to be an active candidate for the census directing iob which also carries with it the employment of several score enumerators. Governor Sorague struck swiftlv this week to rid his administration of a rebellious board. Twenty-four hours after the state board of aero nautics had defied the governor by adopting a resolution continuing the position of director of aeronautics as a full time job the governor moved to purge the board of the four members who took part in the meet ing. Two weeks ago when the governor requested the resignation of Allan Greenwood as inspector for the aer onautics board he declared the po sition to be an unnecessary expense which should be abolished. At the meeting of the board this week it not only voted to continue the job under the title of "director" in open defiance of the governor's views but proceeded to rub salt in the wound by continuing Greenwood in his $35-a-month sinecure for another month. Greenwood, a leader in the young Democratic club movement, was ap pointed to his post through the in fluence of W. L. (Pinky) Goslin, secretary to Governor Martin. Many outstanding leaders in the aviation world have criticized the office as an unnecessary expense and criti cized Greenwood because of his alleged activities in promoting his own private interests at state ex pense. One member of the "purged" board has written Governor Sprague since being removed from the board approving of his action and agree ing with him as to the need for abolishing the job of inspector. Members of the board removed by the governor were Dr. Paul W. Sharp, chairman, Klamath Falls: Dr. Raymond R. Staub, Portland; Thom as A. Culbertson, Jr., Medford, and Webster A. Jones, Portland. In the place the governor has appointed Dr. Clarence Gilstrap, La Grande; George R. Dodson, Portland; Floyd Hart, Medford; Lee U. Eyerly. Sa lem. The only member of the old board retained was Arthur W. Whit aker of Portland, who was not pres ent at the meeting at which the board adopted the resolution which Governor Sprague found "person ally offensive to me." Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tamblvn and daughter, Miss Peggy, spent the week end in Portland. Right-of-Way Rights Important in Driving Twenty-three per cent of all driv ers involved in traffic accidents in Oregon during the first eight months of 1939 listed failure to have right-of-way as a contributing factor in the crashes, according to reports from the office of Earl Snell, secre tary of state. In an attempt to clarify some im portant points of right-of-way for Oregon drivers, Snell listed these items: 1 At intersections vehicles on the right, regardless of which one enter ed the intersection first, have the right-of-way. The exception to this rule is when the intersection is con trolled by signals or a police officer. 2 When a driver is turning at an intersection, he must yield the right-of-way to a car approaching from the opposite direction and continu ing straight through the intersec tion because in this case, the car going through the intersection is on the right of the car as it makes a left turn. 3 At a through street, the driver must come to a complete stop and yield the right-of-way to other ve hicles in the intersection or ap proaching so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard. 4 Any driver entering an inter section at an unlawful rate of speed forfeits his right-of-way privileges. 5 A pedestrian crossing a high way or street within any marked or unmarked cross-walk has the right-of-way over automobiles. 6 In questions of right-of-way, a car is considered to have entered an intersection when the front wheels cross an imaginary line drawn from corner to corner of curbs or boun dary lines. 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