Pae Eight
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, Feb. 8, 1940
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
By A. L. LINDBECK
Feverish Activity
Covered Relief
9 Million Reserve
Salem, Ore. The announcement
by Walter A. Pearson, democratic
state treasurer, that he does not
choose to run in the forthcoming
campaign has aroused ' a burst of
feverish activity in both political
camps.
Democratic chieftains are under
stood to be attempting to persuade
E. J. Griffiths, WPA administra
tor, to foresake his juicy federal job
for a go at the state post which car
ries with it a seat on the board of
control and a salary of $5400 a year.
Lyman Ross, democratic state sen
ator irom Washington county, is
said to be torn between two desires
one to succeed Pearson as treas
urer, the other to displace James W.
Mott as congressman from the first
Oregon district.
In the Republican camp not fewer
than five prospective candidates are
being "prominently mentioned."
Earl Hill, veteran Lane county leg
islator, whose friends have been
grooming him for the treasuryship
for several weeks is understood to
be almost persuaded and can be
expected to burst forth with a for
mal announcement of his intention
to run most any day now. Friends
of P. J. Stadelman of The Dalles are
known to be urging him to get into
the race. Stadelman served for a
year as state treasurer, succeeding
the late Hal Hosa under appoint
ment from Governor Meier and has
served in the last two legislative
sessions as state senator from the
Hood River-Wasco district. Dean
Walker, another veteran legislator,
with experience in both branches,
is also giving "serious considera
tion" to the siren song of the polit
ical leaders of his party who believe
that he would fit admirably into the
seat which Pearson is to vacate next
January. Walker, however, has a
better than 50-50 chance for elec
tion to the senate presidency, and
may decide to forego a chance at
the treasuryship for the senate gav
el wielding job which carries with
it the position of heir-apparent to
the governorship.
Fred Paulus, deputy state treas'
urer for the past 15 years or more.
is known to have harbored ambi
tions to head the department for
many years but this ambition has
been somewhat modified by the re
cent increase in his salary as deputy
which now places him within $600
a year of his boss without the ex
pense and worry of a long and
wearisome campaign for the job.
Other Republicans whose names are
being mentioned in connection with
the treasuryship include Floyd Cook
of Portland, former state chairman
of the Republican central commit
tee; William McKenzie, Portland
school board member, and Fred
Lamport, Salem banker.
1939 consumption boils down to
938,339 gallons of the amber brew
or more than 110,000,000 ten-cent
glasses. This represents a per cap
ita consumption of more than 100
glasses.
From the peak of 404,538 barrels
in 1936 beer consumption in Oregon
declined to 382,453 barrels in 1937,
and then still further to 346,578 bar
rels in 1938. This decline in the pop
ularity of beer is generally ascribed
as due to the fact that the novelty
of the experience has worn off for
members of the younger generation
who constituted a large portion of
beer parlor patrons in the years im
mediately following repeal of pro
hibition.
State Budget Director David Ec-
cles is now engaged upon a stand
ardization of state salaries which,
he declares, will effect a substantial
saving in costs. Although state sal
aries were standardized a few years
ago Eccles says that he has discov
ered many glaring inequalities in
the pay of state employees.
Ernest Fatland, Condon legislator
and heir apparent to the Oregon
throne since the resignation of Sen
ate President Robert M. Duncan of
Burns, will have his first opportun
ity to officiate as governor Saturday
when Governor Sprague goes to
Seattle to deliver a Lincoln day ad
dress. Speaker Fatland is expected
to come to Salem to avail himself
of the opportunity.
Three convictions have already
been secured by the State Unem
ployment Compensation commis
sion in the drive against abuse of
the jobless insurance fund. In all
three convictions workers were
found guilty of receiving unemploy
ment compensation checks while
drawing pay on other jobs.
Indications are that profits from
the state's liquor monopoly will
nearly, if not entirely, cover the
legislative appropriation of $6,500
000 for relief purposes during the
current biennium, Governor Spra
gue declared following a conference
with members of the Oregon Liquor
Control commission this week. Spra
gue denied that the conference had
touched upon the question of high
er liquor prices and indicated that
no such move was in prospect.
Vocational education courses will
be made available to inmates at the
Oregon penitentiary in the near fu
ture, according to Warden George
Alexander. As soon as the new din
ing room and hospital, now under
construction, are completed the
quarters now being used for these
two purposes will be available for
school purposes, Alexander said.
Although a total of 352,849.65 bar
rels of beer were consumed in Ore
gon during 1939, according to rec
ords of the Liquor Control commis
sion, this volume was nearly 52,000
barrels below the high mark of 404,
538.75 barrels set in 1936.
At 31 gallons to the barrel the
One person out of every four in
the state 65 years of age or over
were receiving old age pensions in
September when the pension rol
iui meir peaK, it was revealed in
reports of the State Welfare com
mission.
The reserve in Oregon unemploy
ment compensation fund passed the
$9,000,000 mark on February 1 to
hit a new high mark in the com
missions experience. This figure
is 50 percent above the "adequate
reserve" established by the commis
sion in December. Benefits paid out
by the commission to temporarily
unemployed Oregon workers during
the past two years totalled $10,124
649 the commission reported.
If the automobile business is any
criterion residents of Oregon were
far more prosperous in 1939 than
they were in 1938. Sales of new
cars and trucks last year totalled
31,641 compared to only 23,192 dur
ing the previous year, according to
figures compiled by Secretary of
State Snell.
California is Oregon's best butter
customer. Reports compiled by the
state department of agriculture show
that approximately 10,000,000 pounds
of this dairy product are shipped to
the southern state each year.
U-0 Working Students
High in Scholarship
University of Oregon, Eugene,
Feb. 7. (Special) Students enga
ged on National Youth Administra
tion projects at the University of
Oregon during the fall term made a
grade point average of 2.73, com
pared to 2.30 for the university as
a whole, and of 119 students gain
ing places on the honor roll, 30
or 28 per cent were from the NYA
ranks, it was announced by Karl W
Onthank, dean of personnel. Of
the 10 students who made straight
"A" grades, six were NYA students.
The showing is regarded as re
markable since only 10 per cent,
or 351 students are employed un
der the NYA project, Dean Onthank
points out. The high grade stand
ing of these students was also made
in spite of the fact that a consider
able portion of their time was spent
in workins. A number of them also
do other forms of work and a large
proportion are actually entirely self-supporting.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 10. Ser
iousness of the drouth prevailing last
fall is stressed by the department of
agriculture, which predicts (despite
winter snow) a wheat production
this year of 60 to 80 million bushels
less than the normal amount con
sumed. No shortage is expected.
however, as the carryover will be
300 million bushels by July 1. and
if the estimates of the experts are
correct on 1940 production the car
ryover July 1, 1941, will be in excess
of 200 million bushels.
ur course, the drouth situation
ims pouucai possiDiuues, good or
bad, for the administration and in
an election year, but the man who
is not giving cheerful news is the
chief of the weather bureau. He
forecasts the weather regardless of
the effect on political fortunes. This
drouth has not captured the imagin
ation nor received the publicity of
the earlier drouth with its dust
storms and farmers fleeing to the
Pacific northwest, but department
spokesmen assert that it is fully as
severe if not worse.
The dry spell has ranged from
the Oregon-Washington country to
the Rocky mountains and then east
across the plains even to the At
lantic coast. In anticipation of a
grave situation for many farmers
who cannot make a crop, a program
for relief has been drafted and
placed in a pigeonhole, in case.
Active spirits in the Common
wealth Federation in Washington
and Oregon are reviving the plan
to call a conference or convention
of "liberals" within a few months.
Primarily, the group wants President
Roosevelt for a third term. The
plan, as reported in the national
capital, is to boom Mr. Roosevelt as
the new deal candidate, and if the
Democratic convention refuses to
nominate him or name someone he
wants, a protest third party may be
formed. The general outline of the
idea was submitted a few days ago
to the president by three govern
ment officials who are in touch with
the Pacific northwest "liberal" wing.
Reconstruction iinance corpora
tion has rejected a proposal that
it make loans to timber owners in
Oregon and Washington which
would enable them to pay their
taxes and thus remove the necessity
of liquidating their holdings regard
less of market conditions.
In its economy streak the house
of representatives deleted from the
agricultural appropriation bill $27,
000,000 to finance purchase of farms
by tenants. For fiscal year 1940
there were 929 applications from
Washington state for such loans and
only 27 were made. In the first two
years of the act 728 applications
were filed from Washington and 24
were approved. Oregon applicants
for 1940 were 274 with 17 loans, and
in the first two,years of the act 194
applications came from this state
and 15 were allowed. Bulk of the
'loans approved were to share-croppers
in southern states, such as Mis
sissippi, where 656 were allowed in
fiscal year 1940 and 630 in the first
two years.
Members of the senate are being
begged to restore cuts made by the
house and while the senate is fav
orable to the idea on many items, it
doubts whether the house would
accept a senate bill carrying the re
storations. The house has limited
the navy program to two years and
refused to increase the navy yard at
Bremerton or at Mare Island. Al
most every appropriation in which
the northwest is interested has been
reduced in the house.
J. 0. Turner
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 173
Hotel Heppner Building
HEPPNER, ORE.
Dr. Raymond Rice
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Office
First National Bank Building
Office Phone 523 House Phone 823
Heppner
Abstract Co.
J. LOGIE RICHARDSON, Mgr.
BATES SEASONABLE
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P. W. Mahoney
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GENEBAL INSURANCE
Heppner Hotel Building
Willow St. Entrance
EXAMINER COMING
A travelling examiner of operators
and chauffeurs is scheduled to ar
rive in Heppner Thursday, Feb. 15,
and will be on duty at the city hall
between the hours of 11 a. m. and
5 p. m., according to announcement
released from the secretary of state's
office. All those wishing permits or'
licenses to drive cars are asked to
get in touch with the examiner
during these hours.
Professional
Directory
The new seed law becomes oper
ative this month and eastern Oregon
grower.s want their product classi
fied as "eastern Oregon seed" and
not as "Oregon seed" because they
claim the western Oregon rates low
er in "growing adaptability" to the
middle west than eastern Oregon
seed on account of climatic condi
tions. This will probably be chal
lenged by the seed farmers west of
the Cascades. What appears to have
aroused the eastern Oregon farm
ers is a decision by New York that
Oregon seed is not acceptable and
not qualifed for payments under the
soil conservation plan.
Many wheat farmers have aban
doned grain and turned to red clov-
which is more profitable, but
very expensive because of the care
required to keep the fields free from
weeds.
All the Douglas fir plywood man
ufactured in the United States is
in Oregon and Washington, and Pa
cific Forest Industries is an export
trade association representing these
nulls. Now Federal Trade commis
sion cracks down on Facific Forest
Industries, ordering the asscoiation
to cease and desist from advertis
ing in foreign countries that it is
the sole export representative of
the plywood mills in the Pacific
northwest and claiming that Doug
las fir plywood can be purchased
only through Pacific Forest Industries.
The federal trade commission has
decided laws are being violated be
cause members of the association
have not been selling to individual
American exporters.
Phelps Funeral Home
Ambulance Service
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Heppner, Ore.
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NEW AUTO POLICY
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Class A $13.60 Class B $17.00
See us before financing your
next automobile.
F. W. TURNER & CO.
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Meets First Monday Each Month
Citizens having matters for dis
cussion, please bring before
the Council
G. A. BLEAKMAN, Mayor.
Dr. L. D. Tibbies
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
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& Machine Shop
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