Page Six
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, Jan. 11, 1940
NEWS
STATE .
CAPITAL
New Senate Leader
1940 Fair
o School Costs
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. Resignation of Senate
President Robert M. Duncan to ac
cept a seat on the circuit bench
has started the king makers on their
pre-atsslon task -of pisHng- a new
senate leader. Not that Duncan's
resignation has any bearing on the
situation one way or another. It
merely offered a convenient excuse
on which to hang the biennial gues
sing contest. Among those most
prominently mentioned as Duncan's
most likely successor is Dean Wal
ker of Polk county, a veteran of
many senate sessions and for the
last several sessions senior chair
man of that powerful joint House
and Senate committee on ways and
means. Marion county's own Doug
las McKay is also receiving consid
erable attention in this connection.
Neither are the prognosticators ov
erlooking U. S. Balentyne of Kla
math county, leader of the left wing
contingent in the last senate and
whose followers were booming Bal
antyne for the presidency long be
fore the 1939 session adjourned.
Oregon's participation in the San
Francisco fair during 1940 will prob
ably depend upon the attitude of the
State Emergency Board. The legis
lative appropriation for the state
exhibit at the big show on Treasure
Island was practically exhausted
during 1939 and no provision was
made for a repeat performance.
Governor Sprague has indicated
that he will present the situation to
the emergency board for consider
ation. Only one payment remains to wipe
out the loan negotiated in 1929 to
finance the state office building.
When the state makes this final
payment of $ll,740-plus interest on
July 1 the building, constructed ten
years ago will be debt free, accord-
ing to State Treasurer Walter E.
Pearson.
Temporarily unemployed workers
in Oregon draw an aggregate of $4,
042,888 from the unemployment
compensation fund during 1939 com
pared to $5,916,398 in jobless insur
ance paid out by the Oregon com
mission during 1938 it was revealed
this week by the Unemployment
Compensation commission. The fig
ures reflect a substantial improve
ment in the employment situation
in this state, a condition which is
also reflected in a reduction of the
active file of unemployed persons
from 85,827 to 42,071.
struction, from reports filed by
county school superinendents.
This increase in school costs came
too in spite of a smaller school en
rollment and a reduction in the
number of teachers employed. While
there was an increase in the number
Truck and bus operators in Ore
gon paid a total of $1,203,531 in fees
during the past year according to a
report by O. R. Bean, public utilities
commissioner. Of this amount $979.
116.46 was turned over to the state
highway fund. This was an increase
of nearly $145,000 over the 1938 fig
ures.
The suit brought bv William F.
Woodward of Portland in an effort
te block printing of the new Oregon
codes was thrown out of court by
Circuit Judge Lewelling this week
Woodward who contends the act is
invalid because it confers non-ju
dicial powers upon the state su
preme court, has indicated that he
will carry his fight on up to the
states highest tribunal.
of children on the school census
rolls from 269,663 to 270,397, there
was a loss of nearly 3000 from 210.-
219 to 207,546 in the public school
enrollment. This enrollment loss
was reflected entirely in the ele-
TTpntary rcfena fi.aire? .vihew th&
enrollment dropped from 148,715 to
144,794. Enrollment in the high
schools of the state at the same
time showed a small increase from
62,063 to 62,752.
Paralleling this reduction in
school enrollment there was also a
reduction in the number of teach
ers employed in the public schools
from 7177 to 7054. This reduction
occurred entirely in the ranks of
elementary school teachers whose
numbers declined from 4851 to 4693
The number of high school teachers
gained from 2001 to 2024 while there
was a gain of 12 in the number of
junior high school teachers, from
325 to 337.
The per capita cost of educating
high school students shows an in
crease from $105.77 to $109.62 while
the cost of educating pupils in the
grades increased from $90.34 to ap
proximately $94.
More than $450,000 was whittled
from the bonded debt load of the
school districts whose aggregate
outstanding bonds were reduced
from $15,068,003 to $14,627,954. Out
standing school warrants at the
same time were reduced by more
than $225,000 from $1,484,679 to $1,-258,957.
Remodeling of the supreme court
building, authorized by the last leg
islature, was completed this week.
Arthur S. Benson, clerk of the su
preme court, who was formerly
quartered on the third floor of the
building now occupies offices on the
first floor, sharing the space for
merly occupied by the state library,
with four assistant attorneys-general.
I. H. Van Winkle, attorney
general, with his corps of clerks and
stenographers and three or four
other aides, occupy the west half of
the first floor. The seven supreme
court justices will remain on the
third floor but will eniov greatlv
enlarged office space by reason of
the clerical force on the first floor
at'-AtheV-
woimini
Washington, D. C, Jan. 10. Leg
islative influence of Washington
and Oregon will be exerted to have
restored many of the cuts made by
President Roosevelt in the budget.
As soon as the budget became pub
lic and the slashes were apparent, a
movement was started to get more
money for Bonneville and Grand
Coulee. The latter was given an es
timate of $12,000,000 for fiscal vear
1941 (it was $23,000,000 for the cur
rent fiscal 1940), and Bonneville was
cut to $6,000,000.
Representatives of the two states
will appear before the ways and
means committee of the house and
present arguments for larger sums.
Backers of Grand Coulee are anx
ious to expedite completion of that
project; Bonneville boosters want
four , more generators installed.
With present installation and gen
erators being installed, Bonneville
will have six. The complete plan
calls for ten units.
Reclamation will proceed under a
slow bell. At the last minute there
was stricken from the budget an es
timate for a tunnel to drain the
water from Tule lake into lower
Klamath lake. Until this project is
undertaken, Klamath Falls will con
tinue to be subjected to dust storms.
Deschutes project is cut a few thou
sand dollars, but remains at prac
tically $400,000. Work will continue
on Wickiup and the 500 CCC enroll-
ees will be available.
Oregon will have $2,595,000 in
federal funds for use on its state
highway system during the year
beginning July 1, according to word
received from Washington by R. H.
Baldock, state highway engineer. Of
this amount $1,884,000 has been al
located to regular federal aid high
ways, $245,900 for secondary high
ways, $335,000 for grade separa
tions and $129,200 for public lands
roads. r
Cost of operating Oregon's public
school system during 1938-39 in
creased more than $1,220,000 over
the costs for the previous year from
$17,663,167 to $18,885,990 according
to figures compiled by Rex Putnam,
state superintendent of public in-
Preliminary petitions for a pro
posed initiative measure which
would close most places of business
throughout Oregon on Sundays and
holidays, have been filed with Sec
retary of State Snell. The measure
which is sponsored by the Portland
Grocery clerks union, would exempt
candies, tobacco, drugs and medi
cines, motor fuel and oil, newspa
pers and magazines, restaurants and
theaters from operation of the
proposed Sunday closing law.
Mrs. Joe Rogers, Sr., of Indepen
dence is the second candidate to file
her declaration of intention to enter
the 1940 campaign with Secretary
of State Snell. Mrs. Rogers, a Re
publican, who wants to represent
Polk county in the lower house of
the state legislature, was defeated
for that honor when she ran as an
independent two years ago.
KOAC Gets Navy OK
For Power Boost
Oregon State College The KOAC
application for increase in power to
5000 watts, now pending before the
federal communications commission.
will not be opposed by the navv de
partment as appeared likely for a
time. Navy approval was obtained
by means of a proposed directional
antenna designed bv F. O. McMil
lan, chief engineer for KOAC and
head of the electrical engineering
department here.
The directional antenna svstem
will fully protect radio operations
at the Tongue point air base, meet
commission requirements for pro
tection of a North Dakota station
on the KOAC wavelength, and vet
will greatly increase , the effective
coverage of the station in all parts
of the state.
State college officials are still
awaiting a decision on the KOY in
terference case.
If congress does not increase the
budget for Bonneville there will
still be an abundance of funds to
build transmission lines from Pasco
to Midway and Midway to Ellens-
burg; from Pasco to Pendleton and
Pendleton to La Grande, and Pasco
to Colfax. Funds will be available
to construct a transmission line from
St. Johns to Astoria, down the Col
umbia river; another from St. Johns
to Tillamook.
Money will be readv for a survev
for a line into Waldport, Lincoln
county, and while work is progress
ing along the coast counties of Ore
gon, a survey will be made from
Bonneville up the Deschutes to
Bend, in central Oregon.
There will be curtailment of ac
tivities of the biological survey and
the fisheries bureau, unless con
gress disregards the budget recom
mendations both services very im
portant to the Pacific northwest.
Also hard hit are various functions
of the department of agriculture
in Oregon and Washington.
Army engineers are budgeted a
very small amount by the president
for rivers and harbor work and the
corps will have to count pennies to
barely get by. There is not enough
money for them to undertake new
projects, and they may not be able
to repair the south jetty at the
mouth of the Columbia. The pro
gram desired for Port Orford, Coos
bay, Yaquina, Bay Ocean, the har
bors on the southwest Washington
coast, are all cramped.
The president also made a deep
cut in the estimate for flood con
trol, which affects Walla Wala river,
Columbia river, coastal streams and
the Willamette valley project.
On the other hand, the president
has made increases. The National
Resources Planning board (of which
his uncle, Frederic Delano, is chair
man) is given $1,600,000. an increase
of $312,000; and the office of govern
ment reports (which makes movies
and furnishes government officials
with radio facilities) receives $1.-
055,000.
Robert Fechner. who was director
of the CCC from its creation until
his death a few days ago, has a rec
scores of men connected with ad
ministrative positions during the
new deal, Fechner was the only
one who remained at the head of
his agency throughout the years.
And there has been less criticism
of CCC than any other emergency
bureau. The boys under Director
Fechner performed services .worth
millions of dollars in all part of the
Pcaific northwest, on the coast, in
forests, mountains, ranges, parks,
and they have been of great assist
ance in lowering the cost of recla
mation projects in both Oregon and
Washington: - - - -
Rapid completion of Grand Coulee
dam is forcing the bureau of fish
eries to rush plans for handling
salmon which cannot climb the
dam, as they do to Bonneville. The
reclamation bureau is building hat
cheries at Wenatchee on the Entiat,
Methow and Okanogan rivers and
these will be transferred to the bu
reau of fisheries for operation. The
fisheries bureau trapped 50.000 ma
ture Columbia river salmon at Rock
Island dam last fall and transported
them by trucks to hatcheries, some
of the salmon having a 150-mile
ride in the tanks.
The president slashed appropria
tions deeply to give more money
for national defense, but so many
communities are affected that there
is a growing inquiry as to the neces
sity for more than two billion dol
lars being assigned to this purpose.
It is believed congress will restore
many of the cuts.
SKIMMED MILK COSTLY
The first 1939 arrest of a restau
rant dealer for selling adulterated
milk to customers was made at the
tag end of the vear. report state de
partment of agriculture officials.
Skimmed milk, substituted for the
legal whole milk, brought a $10 fine
at the hands of the court.
J. 0. Turner
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 17S
Hotel Heppner Building
HEPPNER, ORE.
Dr. Raymond Rice
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Office
First National Bank Building
.Office Phone, 523, , House Phone I
Heppner
Abstract Co.
J. LOGIE RICHARDSON, Mgr.
BATES SEASONABLE
Roberts Building Heppner, Ore.
P. W. Mahoney
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GENERAL INSURANCE
Heppner Hotel Building
Willow St. Entrance
J. O. Peterson
Latest Jewelry and Gift Goods
Watches . Clocks - Diamonds
Expert Watch and Jewelry
Repairing
Heppner, Oregon
Get results with G. T. want ads.
Vawter Parker
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
First National Bank Building
Professional
Directory
Phelps Funeral Home
Ambulance Service
Trained Lady Assistant
Phone 133
Heppner, Ore.
NEW AUTO POLICY
Bodily Injury & Property Damage
Class A $13.60 Class B $17.00
See us before financing your
next automobile.
F. W. TURNER & CO.
Dr. Richard C. Lawrence
DENTIST
X-Ray and Extraction by Gas
First National Bank Bldg.
Phone 562 Heppner, Oregon
Dr. L. D. Tibbies
OSTEOPATHIC
Physician St Surgeon
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG.
Rec. Phone 1162 Office Phone 492
HEPPNER. OREGON
Heppner City Council
Meets First Monday Each Month
Citizens having matters for dis
cussion, please bring before
the Council
G. A. BLEAKMAN, Mayor.
Heppner Blacksmith
& Machine Shop
Expert Welding and Repairing
L. H. HARLOW, Mgr.
Jos. J. Nys
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Peters Building, Willow Street
Heppner, Oregon
V. R. Runnion
AUCTIONEER
Farm Sales and Llvestook a Specialty
405 Jones Street, Heppner, Ore.
Phone 452
MAKE DATES AT MY EXPENSE
GLENN Y. WELLS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ATwater 4884
535 MEAD BUILDING
5th at Washington
PORTLAND, OREGON
A. D. McMurdo, M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Trained Nurse Assistant
Office in Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregon
Morrow County
Abstract & Title Co.
INC.
ABSTRACTS OP TITLE
TITLE INSURANCE
Office in New Peters Building
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
Practice In State and Pederal Courts
Real Estate
General Line of Insurance and
Bonds
W. M. EUBANKS
Notary Publlo
Phone 62 Tone, Ore.
Laurence Case
Mortuary
"Just the service wanted
when you want It most"
ord that was unique. Of all the