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STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o August 27 Rites
Flagpole Plans
Fewer Tourists
By, A. L. LINDBECK
Salem, Ore. The eyes and ears of
the whole United States will be
trained on Salem August 27 when
Oregon's favorite son, Sen. Char
les McNary is formally notified of
his selection as republican vice
presidential candidate.
Senator McNary's acceptance
speech, the highlight of the day's
activities, will be carried by the
three major networks to all parts of
the nation. Numerous special news
wirea and several hundred corre
spondents are expected to record
the ceremonies for the press of the
country, while newsreel cameramen
will photograph the proceedings for
the nation's theatre audiences.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements for the notification is
under the direction of Republican
national committeeman, Ralph Cake,
of Portland. A crowd, unofficially
estimated at 25,000 to 30,000, is ex
pected for the event.
The state fair grounds grandstand,
even with the addition of bleachers
across the racetrack in front, is not
adequate for seating that many. The
stand itself will seat only 4,800 and
the temporary bleachers will raise
the seating capacity to only 9,000.
Cake, however, said there would
be no reserved seats except for the
members of the official entourage
and working press who will occupy
the platform. It will be a matter of
first come first served even for
members of the state central com
mittee. Plans call for utilization of part
of the huge Salem Centennial pag
eant stage as the platform from
which Senator McNary will deliver
his acceptance speech. The Centen
nial background of the Waldo hills
will be repainted red, white and
blue.
The Salem Willkie -McNary club,
a non-partisan group, is putting on
an intensified membership drive so
that a mammoth rally will prove
to Senator McNary that the home
town stands solidly in back of him.
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The state board of control has left
the problems of equalizing wages
and cutting down the hours of em
ployes at 11 state institutions to the
next legislature.
At present employes in those in
stitutions are working a six-day
12-hour-a-day, week, which every
body agrees is much too long, but
a cut in daily hours from 12 to eight
would cost the state around $200,000
a year and the board of control has
decided to let the legislature find
that additional money.
The board also recommended that
the legislators consider the payment
of $20 a month to employes who
live at home in lieu of board and
room.
Institution employes are now giv
en board and room as part of their
salaries if they want it, but many
of the workers choose to live at
home with their families and re
ceive no compensation for the main
tenance they do not use.
Paying those home-dwellers would
cost the state $70,000 a year.
Architects are preparing plans for
the erection of two woodenflagpoles
in front of the capitol, the installa
tion of which would terminate Ore
gon's rather dubious distinction of
having the only statehouse in the
Union without an American flag.
The flag lack has been a subject
of discussion for the last two years
but it was only recently that the
board found enough money to cover
the cost of wooden poles. The wood
en standards were chosen because
of the high cost of bronze poles.
A public utilities commission order
requiring all school buses to be
equipped with safety glass by Sep
tember of this year has been post
poned at the request of the county
school superintendents' association.
The school superintendents adivsed
the commission that many district
budgets had already been drawn up
and would not permit the added
Heppner
outlay for safety glass. In addition
it was said that replacement of old
buses by new ones properly glassed
is going on so fast that all buses will
soon meet the safety requirements.
The commission has decided to
permit buses that were approved
for the 1939 school year to continue
operation this year.
The state department of agricul
ture announced this week the re
vision of Oregon pear standards to
conform to the new U. S. standards
recently established.
The change was also made as a
step toward the proposed unformity
of all fruit and vegetable standards
among Coast states.
The new Oregon grades are based
on two sets of standards, one for
summer and fall pears and the other
for winter pears, instead of only
one as under the old regulations.
New grades for late pears are: U.
S. extra No. 1 or Oregon extra fancyj
U. S. No. 1; U. S. No. 2 or Oregon
fancy; U. S. combination grade; Ore
gon commercial, and Oregon un
classified. The commercial grade is a com
bination of fancy and extra fancy, of
which at least half must meet the
requirements of Oregon extra fancy.
The combination grade is half No. 1
and half No. 2.
New grades established for early
pears are: extra fancy; fancy; un
classified, and combination. The U.
S. standards for these pears may
be used as optional grades.
On the plea of Dr. John C. Evans,
superintendent of the Oregon state
hospital, that the institution is un
derstaffed, the state board of con
trol authorized the appointment of
an additional psychiatrist.
Dr. Evans also urged the employ
ment of a parole supervisor in Port
land as a measure to prevent the
return of parolees to the state hos
pitals. Dr. Evans said that many patients
are discharged before they are en
tirely cured because of the over
crowded conditions at the hospitals
and the appointment of a parole
supervisor in Portland would great
ly aid in control of the discharged
patients.
Completion of the new state high
way route through Oregon City,
eliminating the traffic-jammed "bot
tleneck" there, one of the worst on
the whole Pacific highway, has
been set for the middle of Sep
tember by the state highway de
partment. The project, which was delayed
for years by right-of-way litigation,
will also releive the situation for
Oregon City residents. Their Main
street will not have to carry through
truck and passenger traffic when
the new highway is opened
Under a reciprocal agreement
adopted by the state of Alabama,
Oregon nurseryment may ship their
stock to that state without paying a
permit charge, the department of
agriculture has been advised.
Non-resident motor vehicle regis
tration continued to trail the 1939
figures through July, Secretary of
State Earl Snell announced.
Only 27,125 out-of-state cars were
registered coming into Oregon this
July as compared with 31,721 cars for
July of last year. The cumulative
total so far this year is only 74,417
cars compared with the 1939 seven
month total of 84,735.
Early forecasts had indicated that
tourist travel this year would break
all records because of the complete
stoppage of travel abroad. Officials
are at loss to explain the decline
except as a case of "jitters" caused
by the war in Europe,
Governor Charles A, Sprague took
advantage of the lull between the
Salem Centennial and the National
Guard review at Camp Murray, Wn.,
by spending a four-day vacation on
the Metolius river in central Ore
gon. CALL FOR WARRANTS
All outstanding warrants of School
District No. 35, Morrow County, Or
egon, will be paid on presentation
to the district clerk. Interest on
said warrants not already called
ceases August 16, 1940.
C. E. LINN, Clerk,
School District No. 35,
lone, Oregon.
Gazette Times, Heppner,
PINE CITY NEWS
Surprise- Dinner
Butter Creek Event
By BERNICB WATTENEURGER
A surprise birthday dinner was
given Sunday at the A. E. Watten
burger home in honor of Mrs. Nora
Wattenburger's 64th birthday. A
lovely dinner was served at 1 o'
clock and a handkerchief shower
in the afternoon. There were 35
present.
Mrs. George Currin and son Ron
ald spent Friday and Saturday with
her sister, Mrs. John Harrison.
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Vey were
down Saturday from the mountains
to their home on Butter creek. They
have finished their second crop of
hay.
A large number from the creek
plan on taking in the Rodeo this
week end in Heppner.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Robinson of Hard
man were overnight guests at the
C. H. Bartholomew home Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Reid Buseick and
family of Long Creek spent Sun
day night at the A. E. Wattenburger
home and left Monday morning for
Seattle and coast points and plan to
return by the way of Portland.
Electrical Contest
Open to 4-H Members
With the rapid increase in electric
service in rural areas in Oregon, the
national 4-H rural electrification
contest affords a real opportunity
to club members in this state, says
Everett H. Davis, extension special
ist in agricultural engineering.
During the four years that this
contest has been held, four Oregon
boys have won free trips to the na
tional 4-H club congress in Chicago.
These state winners have been Eu
gene Wheeler of Lane county, Ed
ward Weston of Tillamook county,
Allen Parker of Multnomah county,
and Charles Kik of Umatilla county.
"The national 4-H club rural elec
trification contest offers recognition
and reward to club members for
their study of the use of electricity
on the farm and in the farm home,"
said Davis. "The state 4-H club of
fice has approved this contest and
any 4-H club member may enter
with the approval of his county club
agent. It is not necessary that club
members have electricity on their
own farms to compete."
A recent national report shows
that farm families installing electri
city use it first for improvement of
the farm home, and then later apply
it to farm operations. After install
ing lights, the most popular electri
cal appliances appear to be radios,
irons, washing machines, refriger
ators, toasters, vacuum cleaners, hot
plates, and water system pumps, in
that order.
Research Lab
to Begin Studies .
Oregon State College The wes
tern regional research laboratory
established by the federal govern
ment near Berkeley will soon be
ready to begin operations and will
work on many crops produced in
Oregon, says R. S. Besse, assitsant
j; i jl o " o , : , -
curecwr oi uie o. o. cAjwiuiranf
station who visited the new plant
recently.
The western laboratory, one of
four in the country, was sought by
several Oregon communities but
was finally located at Albany, Cal.
It will attempt to develop new and
improved uses for such crops as al
falfa, fruits, vegetables, poultry, po
tatoes and wheat Studies will be
coordinated with work of the 11
western experiment stations to avoid
dupdicatoin.
"Oregon is deeply concerned with
the work of the western regional
laboratory because this state pro
duces a surplus of all the crops to
be investigated," said Besse. "It is
believed that the development of
any new use of the extension of the
utilization of any of these crops will
be of economic assistance to Oregon
agriculture."
APPRECIATION
I take this way of thanking the
citizens of Lexington for the way
everyone helped to put out the grass
fire which threatened the destruc
tion of my property.
Elsie M. Beach.
Oregon
Closing Date to
Be Set on Seed
Purchases by AAA
A closing date for the purchase of
Austrian winter pea or hairy vetch
seed from growers by the Commod
ity Credit corporation, is expected
to be announced soon by the AAA j
office at Corvallis. The closing date
will probably be set sometime be
tween the first and fifteenth of
September in order to allow for
shipment of the seed to the south
ern states in time for fall planting,
says N. C. Donaldson, state execu
tive officer.
Movement of seed from Oregon to
the southern states has been rapid,
with upwards of 100 carloads having
been shipped by the first week in
August. Orders were being received
by the Corvallis office at the rate of
almost 20 carloads a day, and these
were being distributed among the
various Oregon dealers, who are do
ing most of the cleaning and resack
ing for the government agency.
Practically all the eligible Aus
trian winter pea seed had been sold
through the Commodity Credit cor
poration at the established rate of
3 cents a pound. Prices on hairy
vetch seed, on the other hand, have
stayed enough higher than the 7Vi-
cent guaranteed price, so that pri
vate dealers have been able to han
dle most of the crop. Growers have
been getting from IVz cents to 7
cents a pound for their vetch seed.
Reports from throughout the Wil
lamette valley indicate that the fed
eral purchase program is being car
ried out with a minimum of delay
and red tape. Growers have been
paid for their seed in cash within
three or four days of delivery, and
seed dealers have been experienc
ing less difficulty than usual in ob
taining an adequate supply of freight
cars for the movement of the crop.
The program in the southern cot
ton belt is also moving along well,
as indicated by the steady flow of
orders which are cleared through
the Corvallis office. The grant-of-aid
program there allows AAA co
operators who are short of cash to
obtain seed now which will be paid
for through deductions from next
year's benefit checks.
Professional
Directory
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.
F. W. TURNER & CO.
Heppner City Council
Meets First Monday Each Month
Citizens having matters for dU
, cussion, please bring before
' the Council
G. A. BLEAKMAN, Mayor.
GLENN Y. WELLS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ATwater 4884
MS MEAD BUILDING
ith at Washington
PORTLAND. OREGON
A. D. McMurdo, M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Tralaed Nana Aaatataat
Office in Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregon
Morrow County
Abstract fir Title Co.
INC.
iMTlACTIOT TITU
TITLE lASUJtAHCE
Office in New Peters Building
Thursday, August 15, 1940
J. 0. Turner
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 173
Hotel Heppner Building
HEPPNER, ORE.
Dr. Raymond Rice
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Office
First National Bank Building
Office Phone 523 House Phone 823
Heppner
Abstract Co.
J. LOGIE RICHARDSON, Mgr.
SATES REASONABLE
Roberts Building Heppner, Oae.
P. W. Mahoney
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GENEBAL INSURANCE
Heppner Hotel Building
Willow St. Entrance
J. 0. Peterson
Latest Jewelry and Gift Gooda
Watches Clocks Diamonds
Expert Watch and Jewelry
Repairing
Heppner, Oregon
Vawter Parker
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
First National Bank Building
Dr. Richard C. Lawrence -
DENTIST
X-Ray and Extraction by Gai
First National Bank Bldg.
Phone 562 Heppner, Oregon
Dr. L. D. Tibbies
OSTEOPATHIC
Physician & Surgeon
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG.
Rec. Phone 1162 Office Phone 492
HEPPNER, OREGON
Jos. J. Nys
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Peters Bnilding, Willow Street
Heppner, Oregon
V. R. Runnion
AUCTIONEER
Farm Sales and Livestock a Speolalty
405 Jones Street, Heppner, Ore.
Phone 452
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
Telephone 443
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