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Heppner
Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE. .
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES,
Established November 18, 1897;
CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1912
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Official Paper for Morrow County
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
Military Air
Electric Cost
Inferior Goods
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. With the Oregon National
Guard scheduled for mobilization
into federal service next Monday
state affairs have assumed a decid
edly military atmosphere this past
week.
Governor Sprague on Thursday
signed the formal order transmit
ting the president's proclamation
calling up the Oregon troops for a
year of intensive training but even
before that machinery had been set
in motion for a prompt and orderly
compliance with the mobilization or
der. The adjutant general's office
which is also the headquarters of
Major General George A. White,
commander of the 41st division, has
been a veritable bee hive of indus
try as a substantially augmented
force of clerks and stenographers
have labored over time to grind out
the numerous orders and whip into
shape the documents and records in
cident to the mobilization of Ore
gon's more than 4500 officers and
men.
When Governor Sprague this week
signed the official order calling up
the national guard for federal ser
vice it was the third such order is
sued by an Oregon governor in the
past 25 years. The first of these
was in 1916 when the Oregon troops
were inducted into service for duty
on the Mexican border and the sec
ond in 1917 when Uncle Sam again
turned to Oregon for help against
Germany.
General White announced this
week that Oregon guard units will
be billeted in local armories where
that plan is practical from the time
they are mobilized next Monday un
til their departure for the concen
tration camps on September 23.
Where local armories are not avail
able or are not adequate quarters
will be rented for the troops. Where
it is not practical to set up unit kit
chens and mess facilities arrange
ments are being made to feed the
men at restaurants.
Local armories will be turned
over to the care of civil authorities
durng the absence of the Oregon
troops and leased armories will be
closed during the mobilization per
iod, tentatively fixed at one year
but which, it is admtted, may be
much longer.
Governor Sprague in addressing
the state convention of the Ameri
can Legion at Seaside this week
made public plans for the organiza
tion of an "Oregon State Guard" if
the need should arise for armed
troops during the absence of the
national guard. This "State Guard"
would be made up of veterans of the
World War, already well trained as
soldiers and hundreds of whom have
volunteered their services in any
emergency.
The governor, however, expressed
the belief that state and local police
would be adequate to handle any
ordinary situation that might arise
with the help of a body of police
reserves which it is planned to or
ganize to supplement the state police
force.
The state board for vocational ed
Heppner
ucation meeting in Salem this week
gave its approval to plans for a sub
stantial expansion of the entire state
program in order to meet the in
creased demand imposed by the
present national defense program. A
survey of school shop equipment
now available in this state is said
to have shown that approximately
$200,000 will have to be spent to
bring this equipment up to the
standard necessary to meet the new
demand arising through the need for
trained workers in war industries.
O. D. Adams, state director, for
vocational education, has been grant
ed a six months leave of absence
in order that he may serve as head
of the 13th naval district training
program at the Bremerton, Wash.,
navy yards. Adams holds the rank
of lieutenant-commander in the na
val reserve.
At long last, it now appears, Ore
gon's $2,500,000 capitol is to have a
pole from which to display a flag
on appropriate occasions. Failure of
the capitol construction commission
to provide for a flag pole has caused
much comment and resulted in no
little embarrassment to capitol offi
cials, especially on one occasion
when after Governor Sprague had
issued a proclamation calling for the
display of the flag on all public
buildings on flag day it was discov
ered that there was no place from
which to display a flag on the capital
itself. The Board of Control this
week sent out a call for bids, on not
one but two flag poles, one at either
end of the building. The proposed
poles are not to be of brass as spe
cified by the capitol architects but
are to be tall firs, 75 to 80 feet high,
cut from Oregon's own forests.
Oregon patrons of private electric
utilities paid out a total of $22,189,
107 for electric service during 1939,
according to a report compiled by
O. R. Bean, public utilities commis
sioner. The 1,349,474,260 kilowatt
hours of electric power consumed
in Oregon in 1939 represented an
increase of 11.62 percent over the
1938 figures and was 7.79 percent
over the previous high record es
tablished in 1937, Commissioner
Bean said.
The industrial boom occasioned
by the national defense program
and war orders from Europe is be
ing reflected in a substantial in
crease in employment in Oregon if
records of the state unemployment
compensation commission can be ac
cepted as an accurate barometer.
Only 2445 claims for compensation
were filed with the commission dur
ing August while benefit payments
of $217,225 made during the month
were nine percent below payments
made in August, 1939. While bene
fit payments for the first eight
months of the current year totalling
$3,310,513 were slightly higher than
claims paid in the same period of
1939 they were far below the $4,728,
632 paid out during the first eight
months of 1938, the commission
pointed out.
Members of the Oregon national
guard will not lose their right to
vote through mobilization into fed
eral service, according to Attorney
General I. H. Van Winkle. The
guardsmen will still retain their le
gal residence in Oregon after their
mobilization and departure for con-
centraton camps and will have the
right to vote in their own precincts
through the use of absentee voter
ballots.
A large delegation of Oregon sta
tioners who called on the Board of
Control this week charged that out-of-state
bidders for state supplies
represented unfair competition in
that they bid on merchandise of a
quality much inferior to that offered
by Oregon dealers. One spokesman
for the delegation told the Board
that the state should refuse to accept
bids from firms outside the state as
a measure of protection to local
firms which pay taxes in support of
the state government. The Board
instructed the state purchasing agent
to make sure the merchandise offer
ed ,by the out-of-state bidders was
up to state standards and then give
the Oregon bidders the benefit of
the five percent differential permit
ted to home industry.
The state supreme court, whose
Gazette Times, Heppner,
Managed Grazing
Aid in Grass Crop
The proper rate of stocking graz
ing areas will result in greater pro
duction of grass, and will reduce
run-off of rain and snow water, ac
cording to observations in Oregon
range areas made by W. T. White,
chief of the Soil Conservation ser
vice's range division in the north
west. Definite results of this nature
have been obtained by ranchers in
erosion control demonstration pro
jects and on demonstation farms
planned in cooperation with the ex
tension service.
Proper stocking reverses the old
overgrazing cycle. Better growth of
the grasses means less run-off,
which increases soil moisture, which
in turn produces more actual forage.
Overgrazing, on the other hand, re
duces the root system of the plant,
increases the erosion, and results in
the loss of new grass seedings. .
Practices which have aided in the
proper grazing of dry land areas
include the better distribution of
stock water suplies, and placing of
salt in a number of locations away
from wafer rather than at one or
more locations near water. The use
of supplementary pastures, fre
quently developed on land retired
from cultivation, has proved a real
help in carrying out deferred graz
ing and other good management
practices on native ranges.
To buy, sell or trade, use the G-T
Want Ads and get best results.
members have been on vacation
since July, resumed its sittings this
week. One of the first appeals to
be heard by the court was that of
W. R. Osborn of Amity against Pet
er Zimmeman involving a primary
nominating election contest.
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September 8, 1865. ..following the close of the Civil Warthe
first national bank on the Pacific Coast was founded. For three
, quarters of a century it has taken an active part in the colorful
development of this great state. TODAY, with its state-wide
branches, it brings to individuals, and the trade, commerce
and Industry of Oregon a complete, modern banking service.
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Local Elks Lodge
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Heppner lodge 358, B. P. O. Elks,
now owns its home free of all en
cumbrance, according to report of
the trustees, L. E. Bisbee, Chas. B.
Cox and J. G. Barratt. The last out
standing bond was paid off Monday
by J. O. Turner, trustee for the
bond holders.
Building their home just at the
close of the World war when mater
ials were high, the lodge members
faced an uphill job to pay for it
until 1936 when stringency of the
times made refinancing necessary.
Holders of second mortgage bonds
for which there was little security
at that time agreed to accept new
bonds at 50 cents on the dollar face
value which assisted the lodge to get
its financial structure in shape. All
outstanding bonds after the refin
ancing have since been redeemed at
face with all interest paid.
ATTEND CLUB MEETING
North Central Oregon School
master's club met Monday evening
at Arlington and selected officers
for the year. Vince Barrett of Ar
lington was .named president and
Robert Knox of Heppner, vice-president.
Attending from here besides
Mr. Knox were Alden Blankenship,
superintendent, W. S. Bennett and
Kenneth McKenzie.
CALL FOR WARRANTS
Outstanding warrants of School
District No. 1, Morrow County, Ore
gon, numbered 6273 to 6310 inclu
sive, will be paid on presentation
to the district clerk. Interest on said
warrants ceases Sept. 13, 1940.
ROBERT V. JONES, Clerk,
School District No. One,
Heppner, Oregon.
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Thursday, September 12, 1940
CCC Selectors
Have Meeting Here
Eastern Oregon county represent
atives of the state selecting agency
headed by Clyde Getz, state super
visor of CCC selection, met with
officers of Camp Heppner at the
camp in an all-day conference last
Friday, Sept. 6 to formulate and im
prove methods of selecting enroll
ees for the CCC.
This meeting proved valuable to
the county selecting heads in select
ing enrollees, giving them a clearer
picture of the work, training and
education afforded to the enrollees
at Camp Heppner. A list of all jobs
and training was enumerated for
them.
After the morning meeting and a
CCC lunch, the group visited a work
project and the Lena side camp, one
of the best in Oregon.
The following were present: Mr.
Getz, Vern G. Henderson, district
educational adviser, Vancouver bar
racks; , Hilda Bent, administrator;
Irene Lundell, Margaret Struthers,
Mary Gail Harvey of Umatilla coun
ty; Jane E. Payne, Bereba Fish of
The Dalles; William Smythe, Gil
liam county; K. P. Weihler, Sherman
county; Clara Gertson, administra
tor, Mrs. G. Clary, Judge Bert John
son, Judge J. O. Hager and Jeff
Jones, Morrow county; Marius P.
Hanford, company commander; Dean
H. Finley, subaltern; Maurice L.
Shepard, educational adviser; R. T.
Michener, acting project superin
tendent, and John Brogan, clerk,
Camp Heppner.
O. E. S. TO MEET
The first fall meeting for. Ruth
chapter, Order of Eastern Star, will
be held at Masonic hall tomorrow
evening, announces Mrs. Madge
Thomson, worthy matron.
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