Thursday, January 23, 1941
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Page Three
LEXINGTON NEWS
Lex Ball Tossers
Win Two Games
By MARGARET SCOTT
The high school basketball team
won two games on their home floor
the past week. Tuesday evening
they defeated the Boardman Yellow
Jackets by a score of 35 to 13 and
Friday evening they were victors
over St. Joseph's Academy from
Pendleton 23 to 8.
; The Christian Endeavor held their
monthly social at the church Satur
day evening. Louise Hunt led the
group in a number of games after
which refreshments of corn chowder
and crackers were served.
Quite a number of local people
attended the basketball game in lone
Wednesday evening last week be
tween the Morrow County All Stars
and the Hottentots from Chicago.
Everyone reports a very enjoyable
game with the Hottentots winning
32 to 29.
George Tucker will conduct ser
vices at the Christian church Sun
day morning at 11 o'clock, imme
diately following Sunday school. Ev
eryone is cordially invited.
Mrs. Lola Breeding of Spray was
a visitor at the Wilbur Steagall
home Friday.
Norman Ruhl and Westley Flee
nor are quite ill at their homes.
Doris Klinger has returned home
from the Pendleton hospital where
she has been confined with a brok
en ankle.
The Lexington Oil Co-op has pur
chased a new truck for their deliv
ery truck.
Jay Griffith of Spray was a vis
itor in town Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Gleason, Mr.
and Mrs. Ivan Amend and Miss
Charlotte Chambers were dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Foos
Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Leathers of
Portland are visiting their daughter
and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Carmichael.
Roger Campbell spent Friday eve
ning with Jack Miller.
A. M. Edwards and Park Car
michael have returned to Boardman
to resume work.
Frank Tierney of Walla Walla was
a business visitor at the A. M. Ed
wards home Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Baun and Char
lene spent the week end in Spo
kane. The Three Links club of Lexing
ton is planning a cabaret to be
given at the Leach hall in the near
future. Amusement for all. Watch
for the date.
Mary Hunt and Amanda Duvall
entertained with" a "500" party at
the Hunt home Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Palmer
entertained a group of friends at
their home Thursday evening.
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o Job Protection
o $10,000 to County
o Redistricting
By A. L. LINDBECK
Long-Range Weather
Forecasts on KOAC
Long-range weather forecasts giv
ing probable developments over a
five-day period, are now being
broadcast every Tuesday and Fri
day over KOAC, state-owned sta
tion on the Oregon State college
campus. These forecasts are ob
tained twice a week direct from the
Portland office of the weather bu
reau, over government leased wire,
and are put on the air seven times
each Tuesday and Friday, starting
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
G. R. Hyslop, head of the plant
industries division of the school of
agriculture, who carried on nego
tiations for the five-day forecasts,
says that they are expected to be of
outstanding value to Oregon farm
ers. Even though they are not 100
percent accurate, the long-range
forecasts will give a better lndica
tion than could be obtained pre
viously of weather trends, and thus
will be of value particularly to hay
growers and livestock operators, as
well as to horticulturists planning
dusting or spraying operations. The
information will also be of value
during the planting season, and wil
be used by flax plants in connection
with retting operations, Hyslop be
lieves.
A G-T want ad will do wonders
if you have anything to sell, trade
Salem. A program designed to
protect the jobs of men who are be
ing inducted into the nation's armed
forces has now been definitely
worked out, according to Lt. Col.
Elmer V. Wooten, state director of
selective service. Cooperating in this
program, in addition to the selective
service organization are the state
and federal employment agencies
and the state department of voca
tional education.
Under this program a record will
be set up showing the employment
of men at the time of their induc
tion into service as well as their
skills and occupational experience.
When the men are discharged from
service every effort will be made to
return them to their old jobs. If
this is not possible efforts will be
made to find some other job for
which they are qualified. For men
who lack training for jobs this train
ing will be supplied thr6ugh special
courses to be set up by the state
department for vocational educa
tion. A total of 454,608 books were
loaned by the state library during
the past two years, according to the
biennial report of Miss Harriett C.
Long, state librarian. These books,
going out in 87,490 separate ship
ments were distributed through 665
Oregon postoffices to ranch homes,
forest lookouts, schools, villages,
public libraries, granges and other
organizations.
Large American flags now flutter
in the breeze from the tops of the
two tall fir poles recently installed
at either end of the new capitol
building. The flags, presented to the
state by the Salem' Elks lodge were
first raised in a ceremony conduct
ed during the noon hour on the ope
ning day of the legislative session
with prominent members of the
Elks, the American Legion and of
ficials of the state participating.
Income taxpayers in Oregon con
tributed a total of $6,021,326 toward
the support of state government
during 1939, according to a report
of the state tax commission. This
represents an increase of 31 per
cent over the 1939 collections and
10 percent over 1938. A total of 169,-
521 individuals filed income tax re
turns with 109,697 paying a tax.
Morrow county's share of the $2,-
410,961.31 in highway funds just al
located to the several counties by
Secretary of State Earl Snell am
ounted to $10,560.92. The apportion
ed money represented 15.7 percent
of the 1940 revenues from motor ve
hicle and operators' registration fees,
motor vehicle fuel taxes, motor car
rier fees and fines for traffic law
violations. The apportionment was
based upon the 1939 registration of
motor vehicles in each county.
There were 45 percent more per
sons placed in jobs through the state
employment service during 1940
than during 1939, it was shown in
the annual report of L. C. Stoll, state
TRACTOR SERVICE
Company of Morrow County
Lexington, Oregon
Phone 3011
CO-OP BUILDING
employment director. Job place
ments during 1940 totalled 170,569
compared to 117,019 in 1939 and 70,
102 in 1938.
That the proposed legislative re
districting of the state as outlined
by Representative Neuberger of
Multnomah county is not going to
prove any too popular is a foregone
conclusion. Already the measure is
being made the target for severe
criticism, not only at the hands of
senators and representatives from
those counties standing to lose rep
resentation in the proposed reshuf
fle, but from other upstate law
makers who do not like the idea of
giving Multnomah county such a
big bloc of votes as it would have
under the proposed plan.
In the senate the Neuberger bill
proposes to abolish the Lane-Linn
joint district and give Lane county
two full senators, leaving Linn with
its one. Josephine county would be
deprived of its one senator and tied
into a joint district with Jackson
county. The Clackamas-Columbia -Multnomah
district would be abol
ished and Columbia tied into a joint
district with Clatsop while Clacka
mas county would be given two
senators of its own. '
Over east of the mountains it is
proposed to do away with the pre
sent Gilliam-Sherman-Wheeler dis
trict and tie Gilliam and Sherman
counties in with Hood River and
Wasco counties and throw Wheeler
county in with Crook, Deschutes,
Jefferson and Lake. Morrow coun
ty would be tied in with Umatilla
county in another joint district and
Baker county which now has a sen
ator of its own would be joined up
with Union and Wallowa counties.
The three senators squeezed out of
the less populated areas by the re
shuffle would be given to Multno
mah county, increasing its delega
tion in that house to nine.
On the House side of the picture
the counties of eastern and central
Oregon would also stand to lose
most heavily in the reshuffle. The
Gilliam-Morrow-Sherman - Wheeler
district which now has two repre
sentatives would be abolished and a
new district created out of Gilliam,
Morrow and Sherman counties with
a single representative while Wheel
er county would be tacked on to the
present Crook-Jefferson district. The
Deschutes-Lake district would be
wiped out and Lake county tied in
with Grant and Harney with one
representative between the three
and Wallowa county would be de
prived of its seat and joined up with
Umatilla county with an allotment
of two representatives. The Clackamas-Multnomah
and the Clatsop
Columbia joint districts would be
both abolished. Multnomah county
would again be the principal bene
ficiary of the proposed redistricting,
picking up five new members to
bring its House delegation up to
a total of 18.
According to long prevailing cus
tom the lawmakers knocked off
work shortly after noon Thursday
j and most of them, together with the
i smEul army of clerks and stenograph
er: en the legislative payroll left
immediately for their homes to spend
the week end resting up for the
work ahead. Only a handful of sen
ators and representatives, mostly
from the wide open spaces of east
ern Oregon, and members of the
ways and means committee remained
in the capital city after the gavels
sounded the adjournment A statis
tically minded member of the cap
ital family has figured it out that
the workless week end cost the tax
payers approximately $2000 in clerk
hire alone for doing nothing.
Labor launched its fight for lib
eralization of the unemployment
compensation act during the first
week of the session. Four bills spon
sored by the American Federation
of Labor were brought to Salem
and deposited in the House hopper.
One of these seeks to eliminate
the "experience rating" provision. A
second seeks to reduce the waiting
period from three to one week. A
third seeks to increase the maxi
mum of weekly benefits paid to
jobless workers from $15 to $24.
The first is designed to eliminate
the seasonality exemption for em
ployers. At the same time it was
discovered that the "experience rat
ing" provision written into the act
in 1939 contains an error which
must be corrected before the Ore
gon program can meet the stand
ards required by the Social Secur
ity board.
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Heppner, Ore.
Try enclosing a return envelope with your first'
of the month statements. You ll be surprised
witn results obtained in speeding up collections.
Regular MAIL WELL envelopes or the Notice-to-Pdy
envelopes, printed with your return
address, cost so littie when you consider the
results. Ready cash means discounted bills and
a better credit rating.
A business reply per
mit v osts you nothing.
You enclose a return
envelope with your
statement and on all
returns from this city
you pay 3c each - 4c
on all returns from
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