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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, April 11, 1940
Heppner
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A Scenic Route
MORE stress should be put upon
the road leading from Heppner
to the John Day valley. The road
running from here and crossing the
Blue mountains is more picturesque
than either of the other routes enter
ing the heart of Oregon and should
be the cause of greater effort on
the part of local people to seek
the ultimate paving of the entire
stretch to the junction above Spray.
If you are pining for new scenery
and have not been through the
John Day valley, now is a splendid
time to appease that yearning. The
hills have not been greener since
the days when the miners first
started to dig for gold in the hills
around Canyon City. The river is
Jiigh and many exciting thrills await
you on the ever-twisting highway,
which leads you through the green
valleys, narrow gorges and a con
stantly changing panorama of stock
ranches, well-kept valley farms and
clean, modern little towns.
It is a picture of thrift as well
as scenic beauty. Modern homes,
many of them of lastest design, dot
the landscape here and there. Pre
tentious mansions representative of
the time we are pleased to refer to
as "the good old days," are found
on the large ranches, not a few of
them having been modernized. The
town of John Day is growing and
there are many nice homes, some
completed and others in the mak
ing. And if you are interested in
mining there is some of that visible
between Mt. Vernon and John Day
in search of the precious metal and
this activity doubtless contributes
no small share of the prosperity
which that section is enjoying.
If you want some place to go
where distance is not too great to
cover in one day, why not try the
John Day valley.
Gas Consumption
High in February
Gasoline consumption totaled 15,
810,960 gallons in Oregon last month
figures compiled by Earl Snell, sec
retary of state, revealed today. This
is an increase of 1,750,945 gallons,
or 12.4 Dercent over the consumption
for February, 1939. The increased
gallonage would be sufficient gas
oline to take a car around the world
100 times, provided there was a su
per highway built along the equator,
Snell remarked.
For the year to date, Oregon us
ers have purchased 31,803,436 gal
lons, an increase of 2,888,811 gal
lons over the total of 28,914,625 gal
lons for January and February of
1939. Total tax paid on the gasoline
so far this year was $1,590,171.83
compared to $1,445,731.26 for the
corresponding period last year, an
increase of $144,440.57.
Miss Lucille Vale, county health
nurse, returned to Heppner the
latter part of the week to resume
her work in this county. She spent
the last six weeks in Sherman county-
Jackson Gilliam, student at Whit
man college, Walla Walla, spent the
week end in Heppner with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Gilliam.
Washington, D. C, April 10. On
the desk of President Roosevelt in
the White House lies his latest plan
) for reorganization ready to be sent
I . Ti F It l . it
iu congress, it is as iun oi trouble
as can be. Unless a change has been
made (there is a dispute on this)
another attempt is proposed to give
Secretary of the Interior Ickes con
trol of the national forests. With
millions of acres of forest land in
Oregon and Washington, such a
transfer would affect the Pacific
northwest more than any other sec
tion of the country.
Secretary Ickes wants control of
all the national forests, but . will
compromise on taking large chunks
for "recreational purposes." This
would mean creating more national
parks. Western senators blocked the
transfer last year, but Ickes has not
surrendered his desire he has been
telling the Isaac Walton League
how much etter the forests would
be under his management.
Next is proposal to transfer Rural
Electrification Administration from
the department of agriculture (now
controlling national forests) to the
care of Ickes. Here is another mat
ter of personal interest to the people
of the northwest, where thousands
of miles of wires are being built
and thousands of rural customers
are looking to REA. Mr. Ickes wants
control of REA becase he is handling
the power from Bonneville, Grand
Coluee, Boulder dam, and will sell
power from Fort Peck and Shasta
dams.
Washington's share of national
forest receipts for 1939 was $124,273,
and Oregon received $153,255. Of
the individual national forests Mal
heur in Oregon reported largest in
come and the 25 percent returnable
to the counties within its boundaries
was $65,000. Second largest income
was from Olympic in Washington
with $46,883 returned to the coun
ties. Of 667 counties entitled to a share
of the revenue from national forests
Grant county, Oregon, received the
top $49,500; Jefferson county, Wn.,
received $21,400; Clallam county,
Wash., $15,000, Whatcom county
$13,000. Oregon counties receiving
more than $10,000 were: Deschutes
$12,400, Klamath $12,000, Lane $10,
400; Yakima county, Wash., $10,
900. The figures give an idea of the
importance of the national forests
in these two states alone.
Oregon now has the largest mi
gratory bird refuge in the United
State's, if not in the world. The
home ranch of the late Bill Hanley,
pioneer cattle king of central Ore
gon, was purchased last week and
added to the Malheur reserve (the
old "P" ranch of Peter French). The
Hanley ranch is 14,000 acres and the
price paid was $118,000, or $8.40 an
acre, which is more than the rule
for land for refuge purposes, but
the warm springs gave added value.
At the same time the migratory bird
committee paid $44,000 for 20,000
acres to expand Hart mountain an
telope reserve.
Provided the house will consent to
a proposal from the senate, $4,000,
000 will be available to buy dried
prunes by Federal Surplus Com
modity Corp. The proposal is for
$20,000,000 for purchases of apples,
pears, raisins and prunes and the
allocation for prunes has been plan
ned if the twenty million appropria
tion is voted. This is $18,000,000
more than was on hand to buy these
articles last year. The fruit will
be distributed by the blue stamp
system.
Over the objection of the presi
dent, who ordered some 300 CCC
camps abandoned, enough money
is being voted to retain all of the
existing camps. Only criticism made
against the camps on the floor dur
ing debate was that overhead is too
much; there are too many high
salaried people in hundreds of
camps, political appointees.
No contract has been signed yet
but an eastern industry has re
quested that a large block of Bon
neville power be reserved for it.
The amount is greater than that
contracted by Aluminum Company
of America.
RFC is directed to make loans
to timber holders so they can pay
their taxes without removing timber
on a poor market by a bill introduc
ed in the senate. No action is ex
pected on the bill, however, before
next year. Most timber owners of
the northwest are supporting the
measure enthusiastically.
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