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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
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Hotel Heppner Building
HEPPNER, ORE.
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PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
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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.
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