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Page Six STATE CAPITAL NEWS Bill Acceleration o $30 Retirement o Fund Allocation By A. L. LINDBECK Salem, Ore. The legislative ses sion which started off in low gear speeded up considerably last week and by the time the session ad journed for the week end the House had exactly twice as many bills in its hopper as had been introduced in the first two weeks of the 1939 session while the senate was run ning neck and neck with its record of two years ago. Measures already in cover a wide field. There are bills providing for legislative reapportionment and oth er bills which seek to make pro vision for the additional Congress man Oregon expects to get on the basis of the state's increased popula tion as revealed in the 1940 census. There are bills providing for a sys tem of regional vocational schools and others providing for the crea tion of a system of junior colleges. There are bills providing for am endments to the unemployment compensation act and the workmen's compensation act, bills amending the forestry laws and others amending the agricultural code. Just how long the session will run it is impossile to say but judging from surface indications there is nothing yet in sight that should re quire any prolonged session and while it is hardly probable that ad journment will come at the end of the constitutional pay period it should not take very many days after the lawmakers cease to draw their $3 per diem to clear the desks and get away. Two measures having a direct bearing on the state's educational system are before the lawmakers. One of these provides for the cre ation of a system of regional voca tional schools to be located at strat egic points throughout the state. The proposed schools would be financed through a special tax levy starting off at one-fourth of a mill the first year and attaining a maximum of one mill in the fourth year. Spon sors of the program explain that it is proposed to establish the schools just as rapidly as funds become available and it is hoped that home school districts, anxious to secure one of the schools might be pers uarded to donate the necessary building in order to speed up the program. The other school bill has for its purpose the establishment of six junior colleges to be adminis tered as a part of the state's system of higher education. Cities selected for the location of these colleges include Bend, Pendleton, Marshfield, Klamath Falls, Astoria and Port land. One of the real fights of the cur rent legislative session will center about the "experience rating" pro vision in the unemployment com pensation act. Written into the act by the 1939 session labor leaders are making a determined fight in an ef fort to have the provision eliminated at this session. Employers on the other hand, appear to be just as de termined to preserve the provision intact. Already labor delegates in the House have introduced measures for repeal of the experience rating clause. Other labor sponsored bills ask for an increase in the weekly benefit payments and a reduction in the waiting period from three weeks to one. Every citizen of the United States would be able to retire upon reach ing the age of 60 years with an as sured monthly annuity of $30 if Congress should act favorably upon a proposal contained in a memorial sponsored by a large group of Ore gon senators and representatives. Calling attention to the fact that many groups are not now included in the retirement provisions of the Social Security act the Oregon mem orial calls on Congress to so amend the act as to make a retirement pay of $30 a month available to all cit izens upon reaching the age of 60 years if they are willing to retire from profitable employment. The Heppner proposed $30 monthly check would be forthcoming "as a matter of right" rather than as a matter of "need." Apportionment of the counties' share of highway funds on the basis of assessed valuation instead of on the basis of automobile registration as at present is proposed in a bill which has been introduced by Rep resentatives French and Miller and Senator Steiwer. A tabulation of the annual apportionment for 1940 as compared to the apportionment as it would have been made on the proposed basis shows that 19 Ore gon counties would benefit by the change at the expense of the other 17 counties. Included among the 19 counties whose share of the highway money would be increcased if appor tioned on the basis of assessed val uations are all of those east of the Cascades with the exception of Hood River, Deschutes, Malheur and Klamath. Four Western Oregon counties would also be benefitted by the proposed change. These are Douglas, Linn, Polk and . Multno mah. The agricultural sub-committee of Governor Sprague's Oregon Econ omic council has worked out a pro posed marketing program which found its way into the legislative hopper this week in the form of a bill. Under this proposed program if 100 or more growers of any ag ricultural commodity should petition the state director of agriculture that official would be required to call a referendum election of all producers of that crop on the question of en tering into the marketing agreement. Should 60 percent or more of the producers at such an election favor the plan it would then become ob ligatory upon all producers of that crop to observe the marketing pro gram. Under this program grades and standards would be established by a policy committee consisting of three producers and two processors to be appointed by the governor. As a special inducement to improve grades a label or seal would be ad opted for use on only products of superior quality. Inspectors of the department of agriculture would pass on the quality of the product offered for sale and any violation of the established grades or standards would be punished by heavy fines. The program would' be financed through a tax of not to exceed two percent of the price received by the producer for his crop. Expert carvers in both House and Senate are busy trying to work out an acceptable plan for cutting up the" state into four Congressional districts in anticipation of addition al representation for Oregon on the strength of the state's increase in population as revealed in the 1940 census. Only one Congressional re apportionment bill has found its way into the legislative hopper so far. This one, a House measure, would leave the second district intact and would divorce the remainder of Multnomah county from the city of Portland which it would constitute the third Congressional district. In order to create a new district this measure would carve up the first district into two districts. In one of these would be included practic ally all of the counties between the Coast and Cascade ranges while the other proposed district would be composed of the coast counties to which would be added Columbia county and all of Multnomah coun ty outside the city of Portland. This measure proposes to cut Lane and Douglas counties in two, placing the territory west of the Coast range hi one district and that east of the Coast range in the other. BIRTHDAY FETED Mrs. Katie Slocum was honored with a birthday party at the home of her son, Lamont Slocum, with the latter as hostess to a group of friends Monday afternoon. Mrs. Stingle as sisted the hostess in serving refresh ments of ice cream and cake. Many nice gifts were received. Guests in cluded, besides the honoree, Mrs. Rose Howell, Mrs. Rosa Eskelson, Mrs. Cora Crawford, Mrs, Josie Jones, Mrs. M. L. Case, Mrs. Wm. LeTrace, Mrs. Chas. Valentine, Mrs. Osmin Hager, Mrs. Lulu McCarty, Mrs. Sylva Devin, Mrs. Earl Evans, Mrs. James Morgan, Mrs. E. R. Hus ton, Mrs. Marcellus Morgan. Gazette Times, Heppner, 'AT mTHE ' Washington, D. C, Jan. 30. In stead of going up, the cost of living should be going down in the United States because this country is being used as a dumping ground by the British and the Latin American countries. The United States is prac tically the only ,open market left in the world and the British and the South American republics are each striving to invade it. Take coffee. British and Holland possessions were running in coffee in competition with Brazil until a few weeks ago, when the United States established a quota system. It is difficult to reach England with food supplies and the possessions shifted to the United States mar ket. At the moment there is loud protest from South America because England is dumping cocoa into the United States (largest of all mar kets), interfering with the business of the Latins. The British govern ment ought up the crop of the Gold Coast and Nigeria and is shipping it to this country in direct compe tition with 12 of the 20 Latin na tions. The government is now work ing on a quota basis for cocoas From the jump of the war, the British government bought the en tire wool clip of Australia and New Zealand and shipped almost all of it to the United States. The wool is now coming here in American flag ships and being stored in ware-' houses at the ports of Oregon, Wash ington and California, with other warehouses in Boston. For the dur ation of the war and one year there after the British will purchase the wool of its colonial possessions. Part of it can be used to stabilize prices of domestic wool, but the hundreds of millions of pounds may depress the prices received by the sheepmen of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and other western states. Northwest pear growers, their European market shut off, are striv ing to find new outlets for their product. At the same time the gov ernment has negotiated with Argen tina permitting 300,000 boxes to be shipped to the United States by April 1. It is part of the "good nei ghbor" policy, but the pear growers must pay for it. With a surplus (on ly partly reduced by Surplus Com modities Corporation) the pear growers are faced with the new Argentina competition. These South American pears are shipped on American-subsidized line and the ben efits are received by the fruit spec ulators in New York. Later it is expected that concessions will be made on Argentina turkeys, a very important crop in Oregon and a good crop in Washington. The United States has loaned (given) $110,000,000 to Argentina to promote good will. Part of this money is being used to ship wheat to South Russia, and there is a sus picion that the wheat's ultimate des tination is Germany. This furnished a market for Argentina wheat.. No one has noticed Soviet Russia, how ever, buying Pacifio northwest wheat. What Russia is acquiring from the Pacific coast is gasoline and oil (two American tankers are now carrying those articles and sail ing under the Russian flag); copper, some scrap, and machine tools. These items are going to Vladivostok and over the Siberian railroad to no one knows where. These concessions to Soviet Rus sia in view of Russia's invasion of Finland and seizing part of Poland, is one of the mysteries of the new deal administration. It appears that what is bad for a Nazi to do is per fectly proper for a Communist. Theory on which the British have been unloading everything from co coa and coffee to woolen goods in the United States was that Britain at Oregon needed the dollar exchange in order to purchase war supplies. This the ory is soon to be out-moded under the lease-lend bill, when enacted, as the president will be given power to furnish everything the British need from a left-handed shovel, if he considers that security adequate. One of the hardest fights for a contract has been waged over the munitions dump near Hermiston, Ore. Twice it was awarded and held up. It is the biggest government job in the northwest, a matter of about $10,000,000 and was worth fighting for Navy officers are considering shipbuilding at Astoria, where fac ilities are now available and about 2000 men can be secured War department says no more air bases will be established in Washington or Oregon for some time, although there are a couple of places in the interior that look good to them. . . . To have a uniform wage scale in all shipyards of the Pacific North west the government has arranged for a conference in San Francisco next week at which several gov ernment agencies will have repre sentatives. The purpose is to pre vent strikes in the yards when pro duction gets under way, as it will within a couple of months. Dean R. Sprinkel is employed at the Boeing Aircraft plant in Seat tle, Wash., and likes his. work very much. He completed an airplane mechanics course in Pendleton last September. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, General Land Office at The Dalles, Ore gon, January 10, 1941. NOTICE is hereby given that Elza H. Vinson, of Lena, Oregon, who, on December 12, 1395, made Additional S. R. Homestead entry, Act. Dec. 29, 1916, No. 029027, for SWy4, Ny2SEy4 Sec. 17; WzNEVi, EVeNW, SEy4 NEy4, NWy4NWy4 of Section 20. Township 9 S., Range 26 E., Willam ette Meridian, has filed notice of in tention to make three-year Proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before C. W. Barlow, County Clerk of Morrow County, Oregon, at Heppner, Oregon, on the 1st day of March, 1941. Claimant names as witnesses: Ed ward Clark, of Heppner, Oregon; Sylvaneous Wright, of Lexington, Oregon; Dick Robison, of Kimberly, Oregon; Lee Flannings, of Kimberly, Oregon. W. F. JACKSON, Register. Professional Directory Maternity Home Mrs. Lillie Aiken Phone 664 P. O. Box 142 Heppner, Oregon Phelps Funeral Home Ambulance Service Trained Lady Assistant Phone 1332 Heppner, Ore. : v 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 dis cussion, please bring before the Council J. O. TURNER, Mayor GLENN Y. WELLS ATTORNEY AT LAW ATwater 4884 636 MEAD BUILDING 6th at Washington PORTLAND, OREGON Thursday. January 30, 1941 J. 0. Turner ATTORNEY AT LAW Phone 173 Hotel Heppner Building HEPPNER. ORE. A. D. McMurdo, M. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Trained Norse Assistant Office In Masonic Building Heppner, Oregon Heppner Abstract Co. J. LOGIE RICHARDSON, Mgr. BATES SEASONABLE Roberts Building Heppner, Ose. P. W. Mahoney ATTORNEY AT LAW GENEBAL INSURANCE Heppner Hotel Building Willow St. Entrance J. 0. Peterson Latest Jewelry and Gift Goods Watches . Clocks - Diamond 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 Gas First National Bank Bldg. Phone 562 Heppner, Oregon Dr. L D. Tibbies OSTEOPATHIC Physician & Surgeon FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG. Rec Phone 1162 - Office Phone 192 HEPPNER, OREGON Jos. J. Nys ATTORNEY AT LAW Peters Building, Willow Street Heppner, Oregon V. R. Runnion AUCTIONEER Farm Sales and Livestock a Specialty 406 Jones Street, Heppner, Ore. Phone 462 MAKE DATES AT XT EXPENSE Morrow County Abstract & Title Co. INC. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE TITLE INSUBANCE Office in New Peters Building Peterson & Peterson ATTORNEYS AT LAW U. S. National Bank Building PENDLETON, OREGON Practice In State and Federal Courts Real Estate General Line of Insurance and Bonds W. M. EUBANKS Notary Public Phone 62 lone. Ore. M. L. CASE G. E. NIKANDER Directors of Funerals 862 Phones 262