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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, June 13, 1940
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
By A. L. LINDBECK
Retirement Plan
Dewey Support
No Indictments
Salem. Approximately 2 7,000
public employees in Oregon will be
affected by the compulsory retire
ment plan now being worked out
by Governor Sprague's special com
mittee if the legislature adopts the
committee's recommendations and
makes its acceptance mandatory up
on all the state's political subdivi
sions. These would include employees of
all counties, cities, school, port and
irrigation districts as well as state
employees.
Tentative plans submitted to com
mittee members this week for fur
ther study preliminary to another
meeting to complete draft of the
program call for compulsory retire
ment of all public employees upon
reaching the age of 65 years with a
"pension" or retirement annuity
based upon length of service and
the average salary received while
in the public employ.
The maximum retirement pay in
any case would be fixed at $83 a
month. This would be available to
employees with 40 years of service
to their credit at an average salary
throughout that period of $2000 a
year. Employees with shorter ser
vice credits or lower salary averages
would eceive proportionately small
er "pensions" upon retirement. That
is an employee with only 20 ears
of service to his or her credit upon
reaching the retirement age of 65
years at a salary averaging $2000
a year for the 20 years would be en
titled to only one-half the maximum
or approximately $41 a month. Em
ployees with only 20 years of ser
vice to their credit at a salary aver
age of $1000 a year would be en
titled to onJy one -fourth the max
imum or approximately $20 a month
and so on.
Employees leaving the public ser
vice before reaching the age of re
tirement either through dismissal
or voluntary resignation would draw
the amount of their contribution to
the retirement fund plus interest
earnings. In the event of the death
of a public employee before reach
ing retirement age his or her bene
ficiary would receive the accumu
lated contributions of the employee
plus interest earnings.
Should the plan as tentatively out
lined be adopted beneficiaries would
be protected in their interest in the
retirement fund so long as they re
mained in the public service except
federal within the state. That is a
school teacher could transfer her
sphere of activity from one district
to another without losing any in
terest he or she might have built
up in the retirement fund. Likewise
a county employee might resign to
accept employment with the state,
or vice versa, and his or her social
security account would follow into
the new position.
In order to finance the proposed
program it is estimated that male
employees would be required to con
tribute four percent of their earn
ings to the retirement fund, this con
tribution to be matched by the em
ploying agency with an equal am
ount. Women employees having a
longer life expectancy, according to
tables compiled by insurance com
panies, would be required to con
tribute a proportionately larger am
ount of their earnings to the re
tirement fund ocr content themselves
with the prospSft of a smaller "pen
sion" upon retirement.
Administration of the proposed
plan would be in the hands of an
ex officio non-salaried board, au
thorized to employ the necessary
clerical help with investment of the
retirement fund to be a responsi
bility of the state treasurer.
Sigfrid Unander, research expert
attached to the governor's staff and
executive secretary to the retire
ment plan committee, declares that
the proposed plan is actuarily sound
in contrast to many of the retire
ment plans heretofore set up by
states and municipalities for their
employees. Its operation, he esti
mates, would cost the state approx
imately $100,000 a year based upon
the number of employees now on
the state payroll.
Oregon's delegation to the Repub
lican national convention will be
bound to support Thomas A. Dewey
for vice-president under this state's
preferential primary law. Dewey
with 1842 votes to his credit topped
the list of write-in candidates as
running mate for Oregon's favorite
son, Chas L. McNary. McNary who
received this state's endorsement for
presidential honors was also given
1029 write-in votes for vice presi
dent. Other Republican write-in
candidates for vice-president in the
order of their standing were Sheri
day Downey, Robert Taft, Herbert
Hoover, Arthur Vandenburg, Robert
M. LaFollette, Jr., and Wendell Will
kie. Democratic voters bound their na
tional delegates to support Robert
M. La Follette, Jr., for the vice
presidential nomination, writing in
2416 votes for the Wisconsin sena
tor. Louis Johnson, assistant secre
tary of war, was runner-up for vice
presidential honors on the Demo
cratic ticket with 2121 votes. Other
candidates receiving support on the
Democratic ticket for vice president
included John N. Gamer, James A.
Farley, Cordell Hull, Sheridan
Downey, Paul V. McNutt, Burton
K. Wheeler, and C. L. McNary
No indictments were returned by
the Marion county grand jury
which concluded its investigation of
the state forestry department this
week but former state forester J. W.
Ferguson came in for severe reproof
for inefficiency and unbusinesslike
procedure in the handling of certain
of the funds under his care. While
the grand jury found nothing illegal
in the manner in wich the funds
were handled its report declared that
the procedure under which the
funds were administered "is condu
cive to waste and inefficiency."
Members of Oregon's 249th Coast
Artillery regiment who went into
intensive training at Camp Clatsop
this week will be called upon to
defend the mouth of the Columbia
river from simulated attack by an
enemy force, according to Major
General George A. White. The new
ly organized anti-aircraft units will
get their first opportunity to fire
the new anti-aircraft guns in prac
tice against targets towed behind
army airplanes. The powerful
searchlights with which these new
units are equipped will also come
into play in night practice when
their powerful beams will stab the
ether far above the earth in search
of invading planes. The 4000 Oregon
guardsmen in 'the infantry regiments
and other units of the 41st division
in this state will go to Fort Lewis,
Washington, August 4 for 21 days
of intensive training with troops
from other states of the northwest.
The Salem Lions club which sev
eral years ago "adopted" the state
school for blind as its particular
project has already started a drive
for a new fire-proof building to
replace the frame building now used
as a class room at that institution.
Aid of other Lions clubs through
out the state will be sought in sup
port of a measure providing for the
improvement which will be pre
sented to- the next legislature.
VETERANS OF PUBLIC SERVICE
Veterans of 30 years of service with Pacific Power & Light company
who will be honored during the company's 30th anniversary celebration
include Frank J. Hambelton, left, and Louis Happy, with 40 and 42 years
respectively in public utility service. Hambelton was employed originally
in 1900 by the Joseph Milling company of Joseph, which also sold electric
power. He now is rural representative for the Pacific, company at Enter
prise. Happy began at Yakima in 1898 with the Yakima Water company
and now is line superintendent in the company's construction depart
ment with headquarters at Kennewick, Wash.
Defense Included
at Summer School
National defense will be included
in summer school work at Oregon
schools, with courses in pilot train
ing offered by at least two of the
state controlled institutions.
Oregon State college at Corvallis
has been authorized to accept 50
new men for training for a three-
months period starting about June
15. These men will be provided
training without cost and will be
given tne same work tor wnicn a
charge of $40 was made this last
year. The college has also respond
ed to a request to make available the
facilities of the school of engineering
in an extensive training program
in connection with national defense
measures in mechanized warfare.
At La Grande, the Eastern Oregon
College of Education will offer a
civilian pilot training program from
June 15 to September 1. The pro
ject is initiated by the Federal
Civics Aeronautics authority and
limits the training to 30 seleced pi
lots, ages 18 to 25, of which 10 per
cent may be girls. Total cost of the
training for those selected is paid
by the government except for trans
portation to and from the airport.
Persons applying do not have to be
enrolled for regular college work
this summer, but must have been a
bona fide student of some college
during the last school year or a
graduate in the class of 1939 or 1940.
Flight training will be given at La
Grande airport and ground school
training at the college, possibly in
night classes.
ed by reports from the bureau of
reclamation that for the first time a
decrease in noxious weed acreage
is shown in its records of the Kla
math project. The county spray rig
has been in daily use spraying road
ways, ditch banks, and similar areas
with diesel oil. In addition, a burn
ing crew was used to wilt certain
perennial weeds. Credit for the de
crease in perennial weeds in 1939
is given by County Agent Hender
son to good summer fallowing being
carried out by growers, as well as
effective use of smother crops and,
in some cases, good coverage of
drains and ditch banks.
Academy Vacancies
Open in July, 1941
Lakeview Frank Graves of Sum
mer Lake has established a trial
plot of subterranean clover to see
how this new forage plant will do
in this part of eastern Oregon, re
ports Vic Johnson, county agent.
Johnson obtained IV2 pounds of seed
for Graves which was planted in
May. Ordinarily fall planting is
preferred for this type of clover in
most regions.
Professional
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Heppner, Ore.
Attorney General Van Winkle has
ruled that a man who raises bees
for a living is actually a farmer and
as such is entitled to the use of an
exempt farmer's license for his truck
The attorney general who several
years ago ruled against apiarists as
farmers was convinced of the error
of his way when J D. Mickle, state
director of agriculture, produced!
records of the state college to show
that bees are largely responsible for
the pollination of farm crops valued
at $12,868,738 a year in this state.
Two bicycle traffic fatalities have
been reported in Oregon, since the
first of the year, figures compiled
by the secretary of state's office dis
closed. There was no bicycle fatality
in April when a total of 56 accidents
involving bicycles was reported.
Twenty-nine persons were injured
in bicycle accidents, however. Of
these 29, 24 were between five and
twenty-four years of age.
Representative Walter M. Pierce
writes this paper that the second
Oregon district will have one va
cancy at Annapolis and one at West
Point for entrance in July, 1941,
Civil service examinations for des
ignation of candidates will be given
on Saturday, October 5, 1940, at var
ious post offices in Oregon wher
ever there are candidates.
West Point candidates must be
qualified young men in fine phys
ical condition, between 17 and 22
years of age. Annapolis candidates
must be between 16 and 20 years of
age. Candidates should make sure
of physical fitness before entering
the examination, Mr. Pierce states,
and adds that perfect eyesight is
of first importance.
The civil service examination cov
ers algebra, plane geometry, English
composition, literature and United
States history, and for West Point,
ancient history and English gram
mar in addition to other subjects.
Applicants should write the con
gressman, in Washington, without
delay as the letter should, be receiv
ed there before June 20. Catalogues
will be sent upon request.
WEED CONTROL EFFECTIVE
Klamath Falls A county wide
weed control program has been un
der way here this spring, encourag-
NEW AUTO POLICY
Bodily Injury & Property Damage
Class A $13.60 Class B $17.00
See us before financing your
next automobile.
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Meets First Monday Each Month
Citizens having matters for dis
cussion, please bring before
the Council.
G. A. BLEAKMAN, Mayor.
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