Thursday, June 6, 1940
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Page Seven
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
By A. L. LINDBECK
Busy Legislators
o Rising Rentals
o Fair Funds
Salem. Even before the official
canvass of the recent primary vote
has been completed successful nom
inees in the race for legislative seats
are scurrying around in an attempt
to line up support for the House
speakership.
The past week has developed two
new candidates from mid-Willamette
valley counties. Lyle Thomas,
west Salem school principal and Polk
county's representative has let it
be known that he is ambitious to
wield the House gavel and claims a
substantial block of votes lined up
back of this ambition. At the same
time it became known that John
Steelhammer, Salem attorney and a
member of Marion county's House
quartet, also has ambitions in this
same direction.
Friends of both Thomas and Steel
hammer point out that it has been
a long time since the Willamette
valley section has been honored by
election of any of its favorite sons
as presiding officers of either legis
lative branch. As against this claim,
however, there looms the prospect
that the senate is about to recognize
the Willamette valley at the next
session with Dean Walker of Polk
couny and Douglas McKay of Mar
ion being prominently mentioned
for the senate presidency. While
some contend that election of either
Walker or McKay to head the sen
ate would detract from the chances
of Thomas and Steelhmmer, on the
theory that one honor should be
enough for the Willamette valley,
friends of those candidates point
out that eastern Oregon hogged both I
of these honors last year with Rob
ert M. Duncan of Burns presiding
over the senate and Ernest R. Fat
land of Condon wielding the gavel
in the House.
In addition to the two new Wil
lamette valley candidates Wm. Mc
Allister of Medford and Robert Far
rell, Jr., of Portland, are known to
have been doing a lot of preliminary
ground work already in preparation
for the big push in their campaign
for the House speakership as soon
as the House personnel is definitely
settled by the voters next fall.
The war in Europe is affecting
Oregon in more ways than one. The
state board of control was reminded
this week that because of the Ger
man invasion of the low countries
no more flax pulling machines will
be available from Belgium. Two
machines ordered by the board some
time ago were shipped just before
the invasion and are safely on their
way to this country. Oregon will
have to manufacture its own flax
pullers from now on until the re
storation of peace again opens up
the Belgian plants, board members
said.
The status of the Nehalem valley
PUD is still in doubt. Returns filed
with the hydro-electric commission
in Salem show that while the Col
umbia county area included in the
proposed district approved the pro
iect bv an overwhelming majority,
the Washington county area divided
evenly on the proposition. Attorney
General Van Winkle has been asked
to interpret the vote. If he should
hold that a tie vote fails to approve
the nroiect then it will be up to
the commission as to whether the
Columbia county area shall be or
ganized into a PUD without the
Washington county area.
Rate reductions adopted by elec
trie utilities during the last 12
months will result in annual savings
to users of electricity in Oregon of
anDroximatelv $1,400,000 it is report
ed by O. R. Bean, public utilities
commissioner.
Accounting methods employed by
the state board of medical exabiners
came in for severe criticism at the
hands of state auditors in a report
to Governor Sprague this week.
Rental revenues accruing to the
irreducible school fund under the
substantially reduced grazing fees
adopted by the State Land Board
in 1936 have averaged more than
$9,500 a year as compared to an av
erage of only $3,250 a year from
this same source for the previous 12
years during which the land board
was asking from 9Y2 cents to 12Y2
cents an acre for the use of these
same lands.
According to Louis Griffith, clerk
of the Land Board, eastern Oregon
stockmen regarded the higher rental
charges as exhorbitant and refused
to lease other than a limited area of
the best grass lands, grazing their
herds over the state lands without
cost since the state had no adequate
means of policing its holdings.
With the asking price of these
lands now down to an average of less
than two cents an acre Griffiths
points out that there had been a
big demand for their use with more
than 649,000 of the state's 785,000
acres of school lands under lease
in 1938 and 502,000 acres leased in
1939. Griffiths explains the slump
in leasing during 1939 as due to the
refusal of the land board to enter
into long time leases. In order to
protect their leased lands, Griffiths
explained, stockmen must be in
position to fence them and they
cannot afford to go to the expense
of this improvement unless they can
be assured of uninterrupted use of
the land over a long term of years.
Under the recently adopted policy
of leasing these lands for ten-year
periods Griffiths predicts that not
only will all of the school lands
be in demand but also that stockmen
will be willing to pay a larger rent
al for the use of these lands. He
expects revenues from the leasing
of state school lands to reach $20,000
a year in the near future.
OSC Grads Nearly
All Come from Oregon
Oregon State College The senior
class just graduated from O. S. C.
was a "home poduct," so to speak,
as 711 of the 790 members were
Oregon boys and girls. Nineteen
other states, Alaska, British Colum
bia, and China were represented by
the remainder of the class.
Multnomah led the counties in
numbers with an even 200, followed
by Benton county with 117. Coun
ties next in order were Marion 42,
Lane 32, Clackamas 26, Umatilla 21,
Linn and Washington 19 each. Every
county was represented, Gilliam,
Morrow and Wheeler having one
each.
Ages of the graduates ranged from
20 to 48 for women and 20 to 56
for men. Youngest was Aileen May
Duerst, McMinnvule, who was born
February 24, 1920, so received her
degree in secretarial science when
just past -20. Youngest man was
Milton Horenstein, Portland, science
graduate, born February 10, 1920.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that Edith
Miller, executrix of the estate of
Margaret Reaney, deceased, has
filed her final account of her ad
ministation of the said estate with
the County Court of the State of
Oregon for the County of Morrow
and said Court has set Monday the
5th day of August, 1940, at the hour
of 10:00 in the forenoon of said day,
as the time and the County Court
Room of the Morrow County Court
in Heppner Oregon, as the place for
hearing on said final account. All
persons having objections to said
final account must file the same
with the said court on or before said
date for final hearing.
Dated and first published at Hepp
ner, Oregon, this 6th day of June,
1940.
EDITH MILLER,
Executrix.
Heppner, Oregon, within six months
from the date of this notice.
Dated and first published this
30th day of May, 1940.
EMMA ANDERSON,
AUGUST ANDERSON.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL
MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to
the legal voters of School District
No. One, of Morrow County, State
of Oregon, that the ANNUAL
SCHOOL MEETING of said District
will be held at City Council Cham
bers to begin at the hour of 2 o'clock
A. M. on the third Monday of June,
being the 17th day of June, A. D.
1940.
This meeting is called for the pur
pose of electing One Clerk for the
term of one year; One Director for
a term of three years, and One Di
rector for a term of one year and
the transaction of such other busi
ness as may come before such meet
ing.
In districts of the second and third
classes the ballots shall not be count
ed until one hour after the time set
for the meeting to begin. Until the
count begins, any legal voters of the
district shall be entitled to vote upon
any business before the meeting.
Dated this 31st day of May, 1940.
C. N. JONES,
Chairman Board of Diectors,
Attest: DAISY SHIVELY,
District Clerk.
Want Ads
Electric service was extended to
4661 rural customers on 510 new ru
ral lines throughout Oregon during
the past 12 months, according to
Ormond R. Bean, public utilities
commissioner.
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Secretary of State Snell has just
completed apportionment of the
county fair tax among the several
counties of the state. The tax, rais
ed by a levy of one-twentieth of a
mill, ranged from a minimum of
$162.90 in Wheeler county to $15,
473.72 in Multnomah county. A total
of $44,954.60 was apportioned among
the 36 counties, based upon the as
sessed valuations in each county.
With Governor Charles A. Sprague
absent from the state on a visit to
the middle-west Speaker of the
House Ernest Fatland of Condon is
pinch hitting for the chief executive
for the second time within a year.
Tuesday the governor participated in
ceremonies inaugurating Dr. Roben
J. Maaske as president of the east'
em Oregon normal school at La
Grande. Since the resignation of
Robert M. Duncan .as president of
the state senate, Speaker Fatland is
next in line of succession to the
governorship.
During 1939 there were 159 grade
crossing accidents in Oregon result
ing in ten deaths and 38 injuries,
according to reports compiled by the
public utilities commission. With one
accident less than in 1938 there were
two more deaths and six fewer in
juries, these reports show.
Dr. Irvin B. Hill, a graduate of
the University of Oregon medical
school has been employed as full
time assistant physician at the Fair
view Home state institution for
feeble minded. Dr. Hill, who is the
son of State Representative Earl Hill
of Cushman, Lane county, takes
over his new duties July 1.
Mondays saw the greatest number
of fatal accidents of any one day
during the month of April, it was
reported at the secretary of state's
office today. There were four fatal
accidents on Mondays. Fatal acci
dents on other days were as follows:
Sundays, three; Tues., three; Wed.,
one; Thurs., one; Fridays, three;
Sat., three.
One person was killed in traffic
accidents involving motor vehicles
and animals in Oregon during the
month of April, figures from the
office of Earl Snell, secretary of
state, reveal. There was a total of
65 such accidents, only the one
resulting in a fatality.
Let G. T. Want Ads help you dis
pose of surplus stock.
Used Car Bargains
1936 Dodge Sedan $495.00
New paint, New rings, a good
family car.
1937 Ford Tudor $475.00
Motor has just been recondi
tioned, upholstery clean as pin
1920 Dodge Pickup $35.00
Here is a pickup that is just as
handy as a saddle horse. High
wheels. Will make a good hunt
ing 'car. v
1937 Ford Pickup $375.00
This pickup is ready to go out
and do a good job of hauling.
Drives as easy as a passenger car.
CIIEAPIES
1929 Chevrolet Coach $45.00
1929 Ford Tudor $95.00
1928 Pontiac $75.00
1931 Buick Sedan $95.00
The large number of trade-ins on
the new 1940 Ford car gives us the
choice of all makes of used cars to
sell. Visit our used car lot.
ROSEW ALL-GENTRY MOTOR CO.
Your Ford Dealer
Phone 1092 Heppner, Oregon
Apartment for rent. Call 722.
Good milk cow for sale, or will
trade for good baby beef. Chris
Brown. 14.
Reserve Friday evening, June 14
annual church dinner, Methodist
church basement, 5:30 p. m. to 8 p.
m.; chicken dinner with strawberry
shortcake. Adults 50c, children 25c.
Public invited. 14-15.
For Sale Bronze turkeys four
and six weeks old. Priced right.
Suddarth Hatchery, Irrigon, Ore.
12-14.
NOTICE OF EXECUTOR'S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned Albert F. Palmateer
as Executor of the Last Will and
Testament of William F. Palmateer
Deceased, pursuant to the power.
authority, and direction conferred
upon me as such executor by the
Will of said William F. Palmateer
to sell any property of the estate
of said deceased, not otherwise
therein specifically devised, for the
purpose of distribution under the
terms of said will, will, on the 29th
day of June, 1940, at the hour of
11:00 o'clock A. M. at the front door
of the County Court House in Hepp
ner, Morrow County, Oregon, offer
for sale and sell at public auction
subject to confimation by the Coun
ty Court of the State of Oregon for
Morrow County, to the person mak
ing the highest and best offer there
for, for cash, all of the estate, right.
title and interest of the Estate of
William F. Palmateer, deceased, in
and to the following described real
property situated in Morrow Coun
ty, State of Oregon, to-wit:
Section Twenty-five (25), in
Township Two (2) North, Range
Twenty-three (23) East of the
Willamette Meridian, situate in
Morrow County, Oregon.
The said property will be sold
subject to existing encumbrances
thereon and for cash upon confirm
ation of the sale by the Court and
upon execution and delivery of good
and sufficient deed therefor.
Dated this 29th day of May, 1940.
ALBERT F. PALMATEER,
Executor of the Estate of Wil
liam F. Palmateer, Deceased.
NOTICE OF BOND REDEMPTION
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned Treasurer of Heppner
Lodge No. 358, Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks of the United
States of America, will on the 1st
day of July, 1940, at his office at
Heppner, Oregon, redeem and pay
all outstanding bonds of said Lodge
No. 358, at par value thereof, and
accrued interest upon presentation
and surrender of said bonds and
interest coupons, and that all inter
est on said bonds shall cease from
and after said date for redemption.
Notice is hereby further given
that said bonds are redeemed pur
suant to and in accordance with the
redemption option reserved in said
bonds, and the mortgage securing
the payment thereof.
Dated and first published by or
der of the Trustees of said Heppner
Lodge No. 358, Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks of the United
States of America, this 23rd day of
May, 1940.
J. O. TURNER,
Treasurer of Heppner Lodge
No. 358, Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks of the
United States of America.
12-18.
NOTICE OF SALE OF COUNTY
PROPERTY
By virtue of an ORDER OF THE
COUNTY COURT, dated May 6,
1940, at Heppner, Oregon, I am au
thorized and directed to advertise
and sell at public auction, at not less
than the minimum price herein set
forth after each parcel:
Lots 1, 2, 30, 31, 32, and 33 in
Block 18, in the Town of Irri
gon, Oregon, at a minimum price
of $20.00 cash.
Penland's Fraction of Lot 2
Block 24, Penland's Fraction of
Lot 3 Block 24, Penland's Frac
tion of Lots 4 and 5 Block 24 in
the Town of Lexington, Oregon,
20 pet. down and balance on
contract, at a minimum price of
$101.00.
THEREFORE, I will on the 8th
day of June, 1940, at the hour of
2:00 P. M., at the front door of the
Court House in Heppner, Oregon,
sell said property to the highest and
best bidder.
C. J. D. BAUMAN,
Sheriff of Morrow County, Oregon .
Wood for sale $6.00 per cord. Fir
and tamarack post 8c delivered to
Heppner. Green cut wood at Ar
buckle corrals $3.50 a cord. W. H.
Tucker. 8-mp-tf.
Six-room house and bath, full
plumbing, good location, $1500. See
Clara Beamer. 24th
Summer range for 3000 yearlings,
or 2000 ewes and lambs. Well water
ed. Inquire this office. 3tf.
For rent, summer range for 3
bands of sheep. Will rent all or part
of it. Sid Seale, Condon, Ore. 3tf.
Satisfaction Breakfast Cereal, the
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fine, medium and coarse. On sale
at your local grocer's. Other pro
ducts will be featured later. Made
by Neal F. Knighten.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that Em
ma Anderson and August Anderson
have been duly appointed joint ad
ministrators s.t.a. of the estate of
Charlotta Anderson, deceased, by
the County Court of Morrow Coun
ty, Oregon, and have accepted such
trust. All persons having claims
against the said estate are required
to present the same, duly certified,
to J. O. Turner, at his office in
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