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Pae Six Hepnner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon Thursday, July 11, 1940 STATE CAPITAL NEWS By A. L. LINDBECK 'Deal' Denial Training Centers Three Measures Salem. Governor Sprague's de nial of any "deal" through which he would step out of the governor1 office into the United States senate in the event of Senator McNary' election as vice president of these United States, may have spiked that rumor but it has not dispelled spec ulation as to what will happen the Republicans 'are successful the November election. One thing is certain. If McNary becomes vice president his electio: will leave a vacancy in the senate, Inasmuch as he does not propose to resign one office until he is sure of the other this vacancy if any will not occur until it is too late for the voters to do anything about it. Therefore it will be up to the gov ernor to name the new senator. If he is ambitious to step up to the senate himself, as many believe to be the case, he can appoint some one who will be satisfied with the honor that 'attaches to a short term, some one who will be willing to step down and out after two years of service, leaving the way clear for the governor himself to make the race two years hence. If the governor does not aspire to the senate post but prefers a second hitch at his present job he will in all probability pick on some one who would like to make lawmaking his career and who could use the short term ap pointment as a spring board to his election in 1942. In this connection the name of Secretary of State Earl Snell is most prominently mentioned as it is known that Snell has had his eye on Washington for some time and has only been waiting for the opportune time to make his bid either for the seat held by Con gressman Walter Pierce of the sec ond Oregon district or one of this state's two seats in the upper branch. In the event that Snell should be the governor's choice for the senate post always assuming of course that there will be a vacancy to fill his appointment would leave a va cancy in the state's official family which the governor would have at his disposal as a reward for some other partisan. All of which, of course, is count ing the appointments before the va cancies have hatched before the va governor himself pointed out in spiking the rumor of a pending "deal" there is no law as yet to keep a news writer from speculating. Fifty-two foreign insurance com panies are licensed to transact bus iness in Oregon according to a re port by the state insurance depart ment. These include 33 British companies, six Canadian companies, two from New Zealand, two from Switzerland and one each from Hong Kong, France, Holland, China, Italy and Japan. A number of additional centers for the training of workers in na tional defense industries will be es tablished in Oregon according to O D. Adams, state director for voca tional education, who attended a conference on defense measures at the national capital. These centers, Adams explained, will be established in communities where adequate building and equipment facilities are made available. Cost of the pro gram will be paid by the federal government out of emergency de fense funds. Classes are already be ing conducted in Portland, Salem, Eugene and Pendleton with approx imately 470 students enrolled. the third floor of the new library are almost unbearable at this time of the year. Only three of the 13 proposed in itiative measures succeeded in en listing sufficient support to get onto the November ballot. One of these, sponsored by State Senator Thomas Mahoney, provides for outright re peal of the milk control law. An other, sponsored by Common Sense, Inc., would repeal the Knox Liquor control law and place the sale of liquor in private hands. The third, sponsored by the Oregon Merchants Legislative League, seeks to legalize pin ball games, punch boards and other games of chance. All of the old age pension acts fell by the wayside as also did proposals to create a state bank, to set up a civil service system for public employees and to ban the sale of food and merchandise on Sundays. IRRIGON NEWS Fourth Observed on Church Lawn By MRS. W. C. ISOM Oregon's state office building is now debt free. The last installment of the $511,137 loan, negotiated in 1930, to finance construction of the building, was paid off this week. Money for this building was advanc ed by the Industrial Accident Com mission alter the courts had held such a loan to be legal, and was paid off through rentals charged each of the departments occupying the building. Interest payments over the ten years of the loan aggregated $69,272.30. Receipts of the state treasury dur ing the biennium ending June 30 aggregated $140,071,913, according to State Treasurer Walter E. Pearson, This amount represents an increase of approximately $8,500,000 over the previous biennium, accounted for argely by increased federal grants, The receipts for the two-year per iod include $23,032,478 in gasoline taxes, $10,115,000 in income taxes, $19,609,127 in liquor revenues, $6, 620,184 in motor vehicle registration fees, $2,236,215 in motor carrier fees and licenses collected by the Public Utilities commission, $1,211,863 in game commission revenues, $1,749, 868 in insurance fees and $630,869 in corporation fees. A delay of at least three months in any decision as to the constitu tionality of Oregon's anti-picketing law was indicated this week when Chief Justice Rand announced that the supreme court would again lis ten to arguments in this case after resumes its activities following the summer recess, in September, At the time of all seven of the pre vious arguments Justice J. O. Bailey was absent from the state and Justice Henry J. Bean was ill. The Board of Control put patriot ism above creature-comforts this week when it turned down a request for a ventilating system in the new library building on the ground that the $6000 unexpended balance in the building fund was needed for the purchase of a flag pole for the new capitol. The request was made by employees in the building who com plained that working conditions on Board man Resident League Supervisor Grattan L. Hoffman of Boardman has recently been appointed as a deputy supervisor of the Explorers' League, headquarters of which are in Denver. Mr. Hoffman's keen in terest in the natural sciences has long been known to many of his friends who will be glad to hear of the honor conferred on him. Started early in June, the Explor ers' League is already a national organization with clubs forming in nearly every state in the Union. Canada and Alaska are also repre- sented in it. It has for its purpose the encouragement of ordinary men and women, in every walk of life, to be on the lookout for unusual stones, fossil shells and bones, rare plants and insect life, and many other specimens which the average person is likely to ignore, but which may be of much interest to science. A monthly bulletin is published which describes and pictures these specimens so that any person may be able to identify them, and num erous prizes are offered for worth while discoveries. A large crowd assembled on the lawn of the Pentecostal church for a picnic dinner July 4. Mr. and Mrs. Russell McCoy and family motored to Tollgate Thursday, July 4th. Mrs. McCoy was taken very ill that night and was brought to the Hermiston hospital for treat ment. She was taken to the Pendle ton hospital Monday and is in a very serious condition. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Warner and family were guests of Mr. and Mrs, Alva Bowluare July 4th. Mr. and Mrs. Batie Rand and Mr. and Mrs. George Rand spent the Fourth at the Russell Miller home at Boardman. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Caldwell from Portland spent the Fourth with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Caldwell. They returned home Sun day. Clifofrd Ruker returned home from Kellogg, Idaho, Sunday, where he had been visiting his sister, Mrs. Amos. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cork of Monu ment visited their aunt, Mrs. W. C. Isom and family Wednesday and celebrated at Hermiston July 4. R. V. Jones sold a truck load of apricots Tuesday. Rev. and Mrs. Haller and two children visited Rev. and Mrs. Har ness last week, being enroute to Sheridan where they had accepted a pastorate in the Pentecostal church. Mr. and Mrs. George Kendler and family from Elmer City, Wash., vis ited Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Isom, Mr, and Mrs. George Kendler of Uma tilla from Friday until Sunday evening. Ray Colder left last week for De troit, Mich., and will drive the new school bus the Irrigon district pur chased recently. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Fagerstrom from Springfield, Mo., are visiting bee. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Falgren from Hoquiam, Wash., visited his aunt, Mrs. James Wamer Saturday. They were enroute home on their honeymoon trip. Mrs. Becket from Los Angeles is looking after business interests here. pacity through range improvement is first on the list, while in southern Oregon conservation of irrigation water supplies and better manage ment of hill land pasture are upper most in land use planning needs. Farmer members of the state land use planning committee are Herbert Koons of Lakeview, Hall H. Spill man of Powell Butte, George Peck of Lexington, John Ramage of Wood bum, C. W. Craddock of Silvies and Ernest L. Clausen, Broadbent Twelve state and federal agencies are represented on the state commit tee, which is working toward a co ordinated and unified approach to the many complicated aspects of most efficient use, of the state's land resources. J. 0. Turner ATTORNEY AT LAW Phone 173 Hotel Heppner Building HEPPNER, ORE. Dr. Raymond Rice PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office Frst National Bank Building Office Phone 523 House Phone 823 State Land Use Committee Eyes Oregon Problems Seattle shipyards are already on the job looking for contracts and have a couple of men in the national capital. They are ready to bid on anything from a coast guard craft to a merchant vessel. These are the vanguard of northwestern concerns looking for a chance to get in on some of the national defense orders which will soon be placed. Another group, from Oregon, interested in I roads is enroute to leam what the prospects are for a few million dol lars to develop military roads. Definite progress in land use plan ning, and plans to cooperate with Governor Sprague's state economic council were reported at the latest meeting of the state land use plan ning committee, which met at Ore gon State college with Dean Wil liam A. Schoenfeld as acting chair man. Most of the members, including the six farmer representatives, were present for the session, which was devoted largely to hearing reports of the present situation in the var ious divisions of the land use plan- ning work. Reports were made on agricultural planning by William L. Teutsch, assistant county agent lea der; on grazing problems by Donald Robbins, Burns; on forestry prob lems by F. H. Brundage of the U. S. forest service, Portland, and on tax ation by Charles V. Galloway, chair man of the state tax commission. In discussing the chief agricultural land use problems, Teutsch pointed out that they vary according to the different regions. On the coast, he said, the most pressing problem is replacing lost forest resources with agriculture on land suited to it, and in the Willamette valley one of the major objectives is to prevent ero sion and rebuild fertility so as to maintain grazing capacity on .more than 400,000 acres of hill land pas ture. In the Columbia basin wheat counties, control of soil losses from wind and water erosion is the all important problem, Teutsch held. In the Blue Mountain region the primary question is one of proper utilization of range land in relation to livestock feed supplies in valley farms. In central and southeastern Oregon an increase in grazing ca- Mary Alice McNay Passes at Newberg An account of the death of Mary Alice McNay is contained in a re cent issue of the Newberg Graphic, a clipping from which has been re ceived at this office. Mrs. McNay's passing occurred on June 5 at her home in Newberg, where she had resided since 1901. Mary Alice Rodgers was born in Clarion, Clarion county, Pa., Nov. 13, 1857, the youngest of the five children of George and Rebecca K. Rodgers. After the death of herl father the family moved to Kansas in 1869. She was educated in the public schools of Manhattan, Kans., and at the academy now the Uni versity of Kansas. She was married to A. T. McNay April 20, 1876. In 1882 the family moved west, first to San Francisco, then to Portland, Olympia and Wal la Walla were claimed as home before, in 1883, they moved to a wheat ranch near lone. In 1893 they moved to Heppner, which was their home until moving to Newberg. The husband and four daughters survive. The daughters 'are Lillian Balsiger, Garvin, Wash.; Blanche Parrett, McMinnville; Mable Hol comb and Myrtha Bartlett, Toledo. Creed Owen was called to Hay, Wash., Wednesday in response to word that his daughter, Mrs. Fred Stark, had been seriously injured in an auto accident. Heppner Abstract Co. J. LOGIE RICHARDSON, Mgr. BATES SEASONABLE Roberts Building Heppner, Oh. P. W. Mahoney ATTORNEY AT LAW GENEBAL INSURANCE Heppner Hotel Building Willow St. Entrance J. 0. Peterson Latest Jewelry and Gift Goods Watches - Clocks - Diamonds Expert Watch and Jewelry Repairing Heppner, Oregon Professional Directory Vawter Parker ATTORNEY-AT-LAW First National Bank Building Dr. Richard C. Lawrence DENTIST X-Ray and Extraction by Gu First National Bank Bldg. Phone 562 Heppner, Oregon Phelps Funeral Home Ambulance Service Trained Lady Assistant Phone 1332 Heppner, Ore. NEW AUTO POLICY Bodily Injury & Property Damage Class A $13.60 Class B $17.00 See us before financing your next automobile. W. TURNER & CO. F. Dr. L. D. Tibbies OSTEOPATHIC Physician & Surgeon FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDO, Rec. Phone 1162 Office Phone 492 HEPPNER, OREGON Jos. J. Nys ATTORNEY AT LAW Peters Building, Willow Street 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. GLENN Y. WELLS ATTORNEY AT LAW ATwater 4884 636 MEAD BUILDING 6th 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 V. R. Runnion AUCTIONEER Farm Sales and Livestock a Specialty 405 Jones Street, Heppner, Ore. Phone 452 MAKE DATES AT MY EXPENSE Frank C. 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