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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.
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J. O. TURNER, Mayor
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Thursday. January 30, 1941
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