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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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