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NEWS
o Jobless Hague
o Primary Protection
o New Air Base
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. If state liquor administra
tor J. J. Hague is discharged for al
leged violation of the law by com
menting on the liquor initiative to
be on the ballot this November he
won't be out of a job long.
Governor Charles A. Sprague was
quick to announce that he "would
immediately re-hire" Hague in the
event the liquor commission were
fo-c?d to discharge him.
Hague's discharge was demanded
in a letter from Mel P. Brown of
Portland, representing Common
Sene, Inc., who claimed that Hague's
remarks at Hood River on the ini
tiative which would take control of
liquor from the state and put it in
private hands were in violation of
the law.
Under Oregon law the liquor com
mission is required to discharge any
employe who endorses or denounces
any legislation dealing with liquor
control or the liquor sentiments of
anv political candidate.
The Governor not only indicated
his faith in Hague by announcing
that he would rehire him and that
he knew of no law that would pre
vent the rehiring but denounced the
Common Sense measure as a direct
path to the breakdown of control
in the state and "a return to the old
style saloon."
"My prime objection to the mea
sure is from the control basis," the
Governor said. "The main object of
the Knox plan (the present liquor
control setup) is that of social con
trol of the liquor traffic. This pro
posal merely restores the old saloon
system and so breaks down the con
trol principle worked out in the
Knox plan."
Speaking of the public welfare
program which is now financed with
profits of the state-store system and
or which some provision is made un
der the proposed law, the Governor
said:
"If teh measure passed public wel
fare would simply go broke, that's
all. The financing features of the
substitute measure are simply not
adequate."
Meanwhile in Portland Brown
threatened to circulate petitions for
the recall of Governor Sprague.
Hawever, the Governor isn't very
worried about the recall threat. He
branded the threat an effort to get
some "cheap publicity" and said that
it reminded him of the "ancient
story of the three tailors of Titlow
street in London who sent a petition
to the king that opened wi:h 'We
the people of England'."
If Brown does start the recall I
movement he will have to get the
signatures of 79,782 registered voters
before a special election is called.
The state police will provide the
primary protection on the home
front when the national guard is
mobilized even though a "home
guard" of World War veterans may
be formed, Governor Charles A.
Sprague said here.
The announcement came after a
visit from national commander of
the American Legion, Raymond J.
Kelly, who told the Governor that
the Legion's entire membership of
1,060,000 men was willing and anx
ious to aid the regular law enforce
ment agencies in home guard work
when the national guard is called
into active service.
Niel R. Allen, Grants Pass, com
mander of the Oregon department
of the Legion and several other state
Legion leaders pledged the support
of the Oregon veterans if they are
needed.
Both the Governor and the Leg
ionnaires agreed there was no im
mediate emergency and if a home
guard is created it will merely serve
as an auxiliary force to the state
police and local law officers.
The state department of agricul
ture issued a warning here against
deceptive packs of peaches, par
ticularly the open top bushel boxes.
The department said all such packs
must have the name and address of
the grower, the grade and the net
weight of the contents stamped on
the box before the peaches can be
sold.
Boxes should be filled as full as
possible without injuring the fruit
the department said.
Secretary of State Earl Snell's
county traffic safety contest ended
the first half of the year with Clack
amas, Hood River and Deschutes
counties leading their divisions.
This annual contest is intended to
stimulate interest in highway safe
ty. Standings are based on the traf
fic safety improvement shown over
the record of the preceding year.
Standings in the three divisions:
1 Clackamas first; Polk second;
Washington third; Yamhill fourth;
Columbia and Marion tied for fifth;
Benton and Clatsop tied for sixth,
and Multnomah last.
2 Hood River first; Linn second;
Coos and Lane tied for third; Lin
coln fourth; Tillamook fifth, and
Jackson sixth.
3 Deschutes first; Union second;
Baker and Wasco tied for third;
Umatilla fourth; Josephine fifth, and
Douglas and Klamath tied for last
place.
A drive to secure for eastern Ore
gon the new air base which the
federal government plans to build
in the northwest "somewhere east of
the Cascades" is planned by state
officials led by members of the state
board of control.
Board members were advised of
the government's intentions in a wire
from Senator Rufus Holman. Hol
man's wire did not say how much
the government intends to spend on
the new depot but it was known
that bomber, pursuit, supply and
laboratory facilities would form a
part of the new air base.
California has four air bases,
Washington has one and Oregon has
none at the present time so the
board feels that Oregon's claim for
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air protection is justified.
Seventy-four of the 120 who took
the bar examination here July 9 and
10 received passing grades, the su
preme court announced this week.
Portland supplied 48 of the new
lawyers, Salem seven and Eugene
another seven. The remainder were
from scattered parts of the state.
Five of the new barristers are wo
men. . The state forestry service has sold
the Waco biplane it purchased last
year because it proved more expen
sive to operate than it costs to hire
a private plane when one is needed.
When the service owned the plane
it not only had to pay storage, main
tain it and keep it serviced but had
to hire a pilot when the plane was
needed. Lee U. Everly, Salem air
port manager and member of the
state board of aeronautics, bought
the ship.
R. J. Goode, former secretary of
agriculture for the state of Alabama,
while visiting in Salem told direc
tor J. D. Mickle of the Oregon de
partment that he was "struck with
the similarity of conditions affect
ing the welfare of your state and the
states of the south."
Goode, who is on his first tour of
the west, said that both Oregon and
Alabama have large agricultural re
sources but are handicapped by high
freight rates to the industrial areas.
He said that the unequal rates not
only hindered shipment of farm pro
duce to the consuming districts but
made it difficult to build up indus
tries at home.
He believed the west and the
south should unite in the fight to
get transportation rates more favor
able to their districts.
Goode operates a 3,500-acre plan
tation near Gastonburg, Ala., using
all colored help. He said his work
ers have their own school and church
on the place.
The state department for vocation
al education has received an addi
tional $35,000 grant from the federal
government to carry on the indus
trial training for national defense
program.
Classes are now in full operation
in Portland, Salem, Pendleton, Bend,
Astoria and Oregon City.
Thursday. August 22, 1940
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