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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, July 25, 1940
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o Mobilization
o Archives Return
Funds for Counties
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. The pending mobilization
of the national guard for an ex
tended period of intensive training
has overshadowed every other ac
tivity in state circles the past few
weeks.
Long before the public announce
ment of the mobilization program
came out of the national capital Ma
jor George A. White and his staff
were busy with plans for placing
the Oregon troops in readiness for
the expected call to service so that
now, with most of the units enlist
ed up to authorized strength it is
only a matter of issuing the mob
ilization order to set Oregon's citizen
soldiers in motion toward the tent
city at Fort Lewis which will be
uieir nome ior tne next year or
more.
In an effort to avoid the exper
ience at the close of the World war
when many of the soldiers returned
to find their jobs filled by stay-at
homes General White is asking that
all employers of guardsmen sign an
agreement to keep the job open for
the soldier when his period of ser
vice is ended.
General White reports that the
prospect of mobilization of the guard
has resulted in an epidemic of wed
dings among enlisted men who are
seeking this avenue of escape from
military service inasmuch as marri
ed men are being offered an oppor
tunity to resign from the guard. A
number of commissioned officers
have also handed in their resigna
tions rather than spend a long per
iod in training. So severe has this
situation become that General White
has issued a notice that no further
resignations will be accepted from
officers based only upon "personal
convenience."
In anticipation of the prolonged
absence of the regular guard or
ganization from the state General
White and Governor Sprague have
discussed plans for the organization
of a force of militia or "home
guard" similar to that built up dur
ing the World war. Such an organ
ization is it understood would be
composed of men willing to donate
their service and subject to call
only in case of riots or other inter
nal disorders beyond the capacity
of the state police to cope with.
Mobilization of the guard will
strike heavily into the ranks of Or
egon officialdom. More than a score
of employees of state departments
and institutions hold commissions
as officers in the guard, in addition
to which there are a number of
state employees who hold commis
sions in the army reserves. Among
state employees who will be affect
ed by the mobilization order will be
Cecil Edwards, secretary to Gover
nor Sprague, who is a lieutenant
in the guard and aide to Brigadier
General Thos. E. Rilea; H. G. Mai-
son, assistant superintendent of state
police, who is a captain in the 162nd
infantry; William Hammond, head
of the operators division in the
motor vehicle department of the
secretary of state's office, who is
aide to Major General White with
the rank of captain, and Clifton M.
Irwin, an employee of the public
utilities commission, who is colonel
in command of the 249th coast ar
tillery corps.
rection those courses are being set
up.' These training courses which
are open to young men over 18
years of age are being opened in cer
ters which offer adequate shop and
laboratory facilities. The entire cost
of the training program is being met
by the federal government as a part
of the national defense program.
The annual apportionment of state
school funds to the various counties
has just been completed by the State
Land Board. The fund this year,
created through interest earnings of
the irreducible school fund, totalled
$304,361, more than $3000 under the
1939 apportionment. On the basis of
264,662 children on the school cen
sus rolls this amounted to an allo
cation of only $1.15 per child. Ap
portionment of the fund by counties
included: Benton, $5850; Clackamas,
$17,163; Columbia, $6560; Coos, $9,
641; Deschutes, $5713; Douglas, $7,
640; Gilliam, $814; Hood River, $4,-
100; Josephine, $4594; Malheur, $7,
261; Marion, $22,741; Multnomah,
$81,285; Polk, $6752; Wasco, $3496;
Washington, $11,999; Yamhill, 8099;
Union, $5528.
Oregon's greatest need is more
population in the opinion of J. D.
Mickle, state director of agriculture,
who has just returned from a tour
of the eastern counties where he
found crop prospects good and far
mers and ranchers in an optimistic
mood.
The capitol flag pole situation has
narrowed down to a question be
tween wood and steel. Board of
Control members have tentatively
accepted the recommendation of the
capitol architects for two poles, one
at either end and at an angle of
about 45 degrees from the corner
of the building. The $6000 surplus
in the library building fund will be
used to finance this improvement.
Frank C. Dillard of Eugene is the
new member of the Oregon Hydroel
ectric commission. Dillard was nam
ed this week by Governor Sprague
to succeed John S. Hodgin of La
Grande, deceased.
Oregon patrons of private utility
corporations paid out a total of $28,-
138,860 for electric service during
1939, according to a report by Or
mond R. Bean, public utilities com
missioner. Bean's report shows that
32 privately owned electric utilities
operating in this state served a total
of 266,941 customers last year.
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Return of the state archives to
Salem is being considered by the
Board of Control. The archives were
entrusted to the care of the Oregon
Historical Society following the dis
astrous fire in 1935 and are now
housed in Portland. More than 28,
000 documents are included in the
collection, all of which have been
card indexed by the historical so
ciety to make their contents more
readily available.
Approximately 1000 young men
are now enrolled in training centers
in Oregon preparatory to taking jobs
in defense industries, according to
O. D. Adams, state director for vo
cational education, under whose di-
Subnormal persons are happiest
among people of their own kind, ac
cording to Dr. H. G. Miller, super
intendent of Fairview Home who
urges that all feeble minded persons
should be committed to an institu
tion rather than attempt to care for
them at home. Describing his insti
tution as a training school for mo
rons Dr. Miller points out that after
years of proper supervision many
of these subnormals are able to make
their own way in the world.
In two reports released this week
the Oregon Hydroelectric commis
sion held that a Peoples Utility dis
trict, should one be organized in
Marion county, holds out good pros
pects of reduced rates, whereas a
similar organization proposed for
Curry county was discouraged as
holding no prospect of any advan
tage over the privately owned util
ities at this time.
Washington, D. C, July 25. Both
political parties (the headmen) real
ize that the battle for success in
November depends on the farmers
and the livestock men. It is the
opinion of party strategists that
neither the Roosevelt-Wallace ticket
nor the Willkie-McNary ticket can
win without the farm vote and that
the balance of power rests between
the Mississippi river and the Paci
fic coast.
There is no more acute politician
in the country than Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, and because Mr. Roose
velt recognized the potency and im
portance of the farm vote he direct
ed the Democratic convention to
name as vice-president his secretary
of agriculture, Henry A Wallace.
Mr. Roosevel swept aside all other
aspirants seeking a place with him
on the ticket when the Republicans
designated Oregon's Charley Mc
Nary for vice-president.
Mr. Roosevelt had no apprehen
sion about Willkie and his ability
to dispose of him, but the president
knew that McNary and the latter's
standing with the farmers of the
nation had to be checkmated some
how. The answer to this was the
selection of Secretary Wallace. It
is no secret in the national capital
that Mr. Roosevelt and the secretary
had not been "speaking" for months
and that Wallace was in disfavor
with the White House advisers of
the president. But politics is poli
tics, and such trivial matters as
personal likes and dislikes have no
place when there is a presidential
campaign to be won. Hence Wal
lace was designated as the one best
bet the Democrats had to reach the
farm votes.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT
Whereas it has pleased our Heav
enly Father to call to her Eternal
Home our beloved Sister Effie Gil
liam, who was a faithful member
of Ruth Chapter No. 32, Order of
Eastern Star, and
Whereas, there is a vacancy in
out Chapter and in the homes of her
loved ones that will never be filled;
Be it resolved, that Ruth Chapter
extends its sympathy to her family
and relatives in their hour of be
reavement, and records its sorrow
in the loss of a sister.
And be it further resolved, that a
copy of these resolutions be present
ed to the family, and copies be -given
the local newspaper for publi
cation, and spread upon the min
utes of our Chapter.
Sarah McNamer, Anna Gra
ham, Robert Wightman,
Committee.
Get results with G. T. want ads.
The farm vote represents millions
of votes. The farm vote was Dem
ocratic in 1932 and 1936, but Mr.
Roosevelt is taking no' chances on
the farmers returning to the Repub
lican ranks. If anyone can hold
them in line it , is Henry Wallace,
whose benefit checks have found
their way into the pockets of farm
ers everywhere. There will be an
other distribution of benefit checks
next October, on the eve of the
election and that will have its ef
fect, too.
One attack McNary will make on
the farm program policy of the new
deal is what he regards as the dis
crimination against the majority of
the farming industry. Of the mil
lions distributed in payments for
cotton, wheat, tobacco and rice
just four commodities 80 percent
goes to the cotton planters of the
south. Tobacco payments, of course,
also go to the southern states. Sena-
tor McNary will point out that the
greatest farming industry of all
dairying gets nothing; that cattle
men get nothing, nor the fruit grow
ers, nut growers nor producers of
vegetablea
Another disagreement between
Wallace and McNary which will car
ry to the farmland is the adminis
tration's policy of reciprocal trade
agreements. These agreements (all
knocked galley-west by the war-
were seriously injuring agriculture
as they were designed principally to
aid the heavy industries, the man
ufacturing plants of the eastern
states. The western states are par
ticularly opposed to the trade trea
ties and it will be McNary's endea
vor to capitalize this sentiment and
swing those states to the Republi
can ticket.
It is the first time in political his
tory that the rival candidates for
vice-president will be useful instead
of ornamental in a campaign; that
their fight will be as important as
that of the presidential nominees.
Personally, Wallace and McNary
are very friendly. In the senate, as
Republican leader, McNary has mat
erially assisted Wallace in much of
his legislation and each has a high
regard for the other, as was shown
by the nice things they said in the
press. Then, too, Mr. Roosevelt is
very fond of McNary, respects his
judgment, has invited his advice, but
when it comes to Willkie Mr. Roose
velt is prepared to give him both
barrels. Between Mr. Roosevelt and
Mr. Willkie no quarter wil be asked
or given.
National defense advisory com
mission is having a study made of
the possibilities of magnesium metal
in Oregon, Washington and Mon
tana. This is the "wonder metal"
two-thirds as light as aluminum. No
other metal has the strength and
light weight of magnesium. The lar
gest supply of low grade magnesium
ore is in the Pacific northwest and
to make the metal requires quanti
ties of cheap power, also available
in that area. Eventually magnesium
metal will replace aluminum in air
planes. The ores are found in Jo
sephine and Curry counties, Ore
gon; Stevens county, Washington,
and in five counties in Montana.
Germany is producing 50,000 tons a
year; the United States 3,600. Wash
ington State college at Pullman has
worked out a process by which the
metal can be produced for 10 cents
a pound.
Final Wing Started j
on OSC Dairy Barn
Orego State College. The third
wing of the big dairy barn on the
college farm here, which was left
with only the foundation laid when
constructed several years ago, will
be completed this summer and fall
under a project in which the WPA
will supply most of the labor re
quirements. Construction is now
started, with F. E. Price, assistant
dean of agriculture and a member
of the agricultural engineering staff,
in charge.
The new unit will house 34 milk
cows, and will provide several calf
pens and bull pens for six herd
sires. When complete, the three un
its will have capacity for approxi-,
mately 100 head of cows, heifers,
and bulls, and for a large number
of calves. The Gothic roof design
with distinctive and economical Or
egon arch construction, which was
used on this barn, has attracted much
favorable attention.
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