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Page Six Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon Thursday, August 1, 1940 NEWS McNary Party Labor Criticism Gas Record By A. L. LINDBECK Salem. At least 20,000 people will want to attend the ceremonies at which Oregon's favorite son candi date, United States Senator Chas. L. McNary is to be formally advised that he has been selected as running mate to Republican presidential nominee Wendell L. Willkie, in the opinion of Governor Charles A. Sprague who has been working with national committeeman Ralph Cake of Portland, in arranging for the no tification ceremonies. Because McNary refused to sacri fice his young filbert orchard in or . der to make room for the anticipated crowd the ceremonies will be held at the state fair gronds on the after noon of August 28 with Governor Stasscn of Minnnesota delivering the formal notification. The huge grand stand at the fair grounds , with seating capacity for 6000 persons will be augmented by the construction of temporaray bleachers but at that it is expected that thousands will be compelled to stand throughout the ceremonies which will be brief and run on a strict schedule to conform to radio requirements, inasmuch as the cere mony will be broadcast on a coast-to-coast hook-up. , Members of the state board of control have given their consent to the participation of the state prison baseball team in a game to be played at Waters Field in Salem for the benefit of the Red Cross. It will be the first time in more than 20 years that a prison team has participated in a game outside of its own back yard within the prison wall. This game, Governor Sprague said, is not to be regarded as a precedent for other outside appearances of the team. In order to avoid an eleventh-hour rush of motorists for examination when the new law requiring a test every four years becomes effective, Secretary of State Snell is urging drivers to take the examination as soon as convenient. Under an act of the last legislative session no driver may have his license renewed after July 1, 1943, unless he has success fully passed the requisite examina tion within the past four years. The fiscal year ending June 30, last, was the brightest in Oregon's history from an industrial stand point, according to records of the State Industrial Accident commission. Payrolls of industries under the pro tection of the workmen's compensa tion act, for this 12-month period aggregated $164,167,340, an increase of 7.09 percent over the record for 1938-30. Reports compiled by the commission reveal the smployment average of 120,120 men in Oregon in dustiies during 1939-40, an increase of 6809 over the previous fiscal year. Governor Sprague and Secretary of State Snell cut a melon at the state capitol one day last week. It was a big, juicy, 50-pound specimen presented to the state officials by members of the Mississippi delega tion whose members visited Salem on a tour of the west. ' At the request of the state board of control the United States public health service, with headquarters in Washington, D. C, will make a sur vey of Oregon's institutions for the care of the mentally deficient. A re port on the findings of the survey, which will cover the two insane hos pitals and the institutions for feeble minded, will be filed with Governor Sprague prior to the convening of the next legislature. Defense of the experience rating and seasonality provisions in Ore gon's unemployment compensation act by Ralph H. Campbell, attorney for the unemployment compensa tion commission, has brought sharp STATE CAPITAL criticism from labor leaders who seek the eUmination of these pro visions. Campbell's statements in support of the experience rating, and season ality compensation act at forums conducted in several Oregon cities last week by the Associated Em ployers of Oregon, an organization which D. E. Nickerson, executive secretary of the State Federation of Labor, declares to be inimical to labor. In a public statement Nickerson charged that the commission's attor ney was catering to the employer group in his defense of the measure which labor seeks to amend. In a letter to Nickerson following his pro test against Campbell's statements C. N. Rynerson, labor representative on the commission, declared that Campbell exceeded his authority and was not speaking for the commission, in making the statements to which labor took exception. The state library loaned a total of 454,608 volumes during the two years ending June 30, last, according to the biennial report of Miss Har riett C. Long, state librarian. More than 25,600 borrowers were served directly by mail, with 170,614 vol umes going to schools and 88,098 vol umes being loaned to public libraries throughout the state. Isolated com munities throughout the state were served with reading material through the facilities of 917 travelling li braries, the report shows. Governor Sprague wants the 1941 42 state budget to be "something more than a mere collection of sta tistics." In letters addressed to all department and institution heads the governor has asked that their bud get requests be accompanied by a "program of operation" to back up their requests for state funds. Objection to the transfer of the Oregon archives from Portland to Salem was voiced by Lewis A. Mc Arthur, president, and Nellie Piper, librarian of the Oregon Historical Society,' before the State Board of Control this week. These records. the Historical Society officials claim are now more readily access ible to a greater number of persons than they would be if returned to Salem. The archives, which consist of all state documents dealing with the provisional and territorial gov ernment were turned over to the Historical Society for safe keeping by the legislative session of 1931 un til such time as adequate vaults could be provided for them in some building in the capitol group in Sa lem. Board of control members who feel that this requirement has now been met, both in the new capitol and the new library building, recent ly suggested the return of the rec ords to the capital city. In spite of the fact that registra tion of non resident motorists was down 14 percent during June, gaso line consumption in Oregon last month broke all records according to Secretary of State Snell. June gasoline consumption as reported to the state department by state dis tributors, aggregated 26,145,739 gal Ions, an increase of 5,065.553 gallons over June, 1939. Gasoline consump tion for the first six months of this year was 10 percent above that for the first half of 1939, Snell said. Half of States in Summer Enrollment Oregon State College. Exactly half of the 48 states were represented in this year's regular summer ses sion, which is just ended with a total enrollment of 926, approximate ly 13 percent more than last year. In addition, Alaska, Canada, China, and Egypt, as well as 34 of Oregon's 36 counties, had one or more students in the session. California, as usual, sent most of the out-of-state students, but such far-eastern states as New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Ken tucky were also represented. The distant fame of Oregon as a place for summer study is indicated by the fact that approximately one-third of this year's students were from out of the state. r The post session of five weeks starts August 2 and continues to August 31. ft' i:':.;;i:;S;:::' I fc:i:"fii Kelly on Assignment The presidential campaign this year holds special interest for the Pacific Northwest because Senator Charles L. McNary is the Republican nominee for vice president. For the first time a native westerner, a son of Ore gon is on the ticket of a major party. Complying with numerous requests, the Northwestern News Service has assigned Mr. Kelly to make a survey of sentiment in the agricultural mid-west and public land states of the far west, where Senator McNary is expected to make his strongest contribution to the Republican cause. The survey will be made in August and Mr. Kelly's re ports will appear in the Heppner Gazette Times. Washington, D. C, August 1 Alarmists are worrying about the compulsory military training and registration of every male between 18 and 65 years. They want to know why American citizens should lee drafted into uniform when there is no war nor war in sight. Army brass hats plan an army of 3,000,000 men, which is not large for a country the size of the United States, but is a very large and very costly as a peacetime army. Another feature of the conscrip tion program, approved by the sen ate committee on military affairs, is that any conscript taken from his job to respond to the call of the colors must be re-hired by his em ployer at the end of his compulsory service. Severe penalties are imposed on an employer who fails to take back the draftee. On the surface this looks good, but not for the em ployer. At the end of the service period of the conscript his old em ployer may be out of business, bank rupt or been compelled to reduce his employes to a minimum, or he may no longer need the special skill of the conscript. Regardless, however, the employer must re-engage the worker who was taken taken away by the draft. Portland Woolen Mills has sold wool blankets valued at $186,562 to the army, Malarkey & Kallander, Portland, have been awarded a $33, 950 contract for buildings at Van couver barracks. The navy bought pine lumber valued at $40,788 from Daugherty Lumber Co., Cottage Grove; raw linseed oil for $11,764 from Kerr Gifford & Co., Portland, and lumber at $6,324 from Geo. E. Miller Lumber Co., Portland. These are the first national defense orders v placed in the state. The next an nouncement will report a $2,000,000 order for four navy boats to the Commercial Iron Works of Portland, With the American export market shot to pieces on account of the war, the administration is taking further steps to affront the last big customer for American products Japan. The land of the rising sun is the third largest buyer of United States goods and only a few days ago purchased one of the largest supplies" of flour sold on the Pacific coast this year. Now official Washington is talking of an embargo on oil and scrap metal to Japan. Pacific coast business firms and exporters are alarmed over the treatment accorded Ameri ca's best customer. While several million children are ill-clothed, ill-fed and ill-housed in the United States, their plight is overlooked by humanitarians who are urging use of American mer chant vessels and the United States navy to bring thousands of children from England to save them from the expected German invasion. Further more, there are several thousand well-to-do American families anx ious to provide homes for the little Britishers (also mostly from promi nent and well-to-do families), who are not at all interested in the under privileged American kids. Any skilled mechanic of the Pa cific northwest who does not soon connect with a job has no one to blame but himself. The government wants every trained mechanic it can find, and in the northwest the principal market at present is the navy yard at Bremerton. Several shipyards on the west coast are to be rehabilitated and used for con structing merchant and navy vessels. No wooden ship program, such as was experienced in the first world war is contemplated, however. The lumber business too will be pepped up as millions of dollars' worth of lumber will soon be ordered for bar racks for the mobilized army. On the national advisory defense commission the only member who is familiar with the Pacific north west and its possibilities is Ralph Budd, railroad magnate' in charge of transportation. (Budd has been an enthusiastic visitor to the Pendleton Round-Up). Industrial moguls E. B. Stettinius, Jr., in charge of raw ma- L ' 1 1 TTT 1 1 T-r t lenais, ana wiuiam Jtsjiuason, in charge of production, think in terms of steel and automobiles, which means Pittsburgh and Detroit, where major industries of the country are concentrated. They want TVA ex panded (which requires three years) although power is immediately avail able at Bonneville and, next year, at Grand Coulee. Stettinius can see only the ' At lantic coast as threatened by a foe; is not concerned, as is the navy, with the west coast although he has been told by a northwest representative that if trouble comes on the coast all sorts of munitions will have to be transported across the continent be cause he is unwilling to encourage industries in the Oregon-Washington area. CORRECTION In reporting surviving members of the Hiram Johnson family in Mr. Johnson's obituary last week, the name of Lillie McKay was inadvert ently omitted and that of Zetta Hiatt was mistakenly given as Zetta Fuller. Professional Directory Phelps Funeral Home Ambulance Service Trained Lady Assistant Phone 1332 Heppner, Ore. NEW AUTO POLICY Bodily Injury & Property Damage Class A $13.G0 Class B $17.00 See us before financing next automobile. . your F. W. TURNER & CO. 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. 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