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ties in a joint senatorial district. If
Klamath is given its own senator
then it will be divorced from the
other four counties which will still
constitute a joint district. In order
to give Klamath a senator, of course,
some other senatorial district will
have to be sacrificed. And there is
where the rub comes in. Two pro
posals are receiving serious consid
eration in this connection. One of
these involves the consolidation of
Josephine and Douglas counties in a
joint district with a single senator,
thus releasing a senator for Klamath
county. The other proposal and ap
parently the more popular of the
two involves the abolishment of
the present 19th senatorial ' district
comprising Morrow, Umatilla and
Union counties. Umatilla county,
with a population much smaller than
that of Klamath, already has a sena
tor of its own and Union is tied in
with Wallowa in a joint district the
combined population of which is also
much smaller than that of Klamath.
Should this program go through it
is probable that Morrow county
would be thrown into the 18th dis
trict which now consists of Gilliam,
Sherman and Wheeler counties.
If at first you don't get what you
want just, kee on trying. That ap
pears to be the motto of Oregon's
lawmakers with respect to their long
sought pay increase. Nothing daunt
ed by the fact that the voters have
turned down the proposal nine times
the members of the current session
have decided to put the issue on
the ballot again. Debate on the res
olution in both the House and Sen
ate indicated that the small margin
to which the opposition was reduced
in the last election has given the leg
islators cause for hope that the next
and tenth time will find the voter
resistance entirely overcome. Only
two senators Ellis of Umatilla and
Wallace of Multnomah, and three
representatives Gizson of Lane,
Kimberling of Grant, and Morse of
Crook voted against the resolution
on its final passage this week.
While the ways and means com
mittee has been digging away very
diligently at the task of passing on
millions of dollars in budget requests
it has not yet found an opportunity
to get down to brass tacks on the
question of shorter hours for em
ployees in some of the state institu
tions. In the state hospitals for in
sane, the institution for feeble mind
ed and the two hospitals for tuber
culosis patients, attendants and nur
es are required to work 12-hour
shifts six days a week. Organized
labor has been protesting this treat
ment of state employees for several
years. State officials are agreed that
these hours are too long under pre
sent condition with employment in
most industries stabilized at eight
hours or less. The board of control
has recommended to the legislature
a shortening of the work-week to a
maximum of GO hours give days of
32 hours each. But to provide this
relief will require an additional
$100,000 not provided in the gover
nor's budget. Until the ways and
means committee has completed its
work of providing for established
state activities and has a complete
picture of the state's financial situa
tion before it, appropriations are be
ing tentatively approved on the ba
sis of the old schedule. If the final
picture reveals a margin of funds
available to finance the shortened
work week this relief will probably
be granted. If not institution em
ployees will probably have to. be
content themselves with the longer
hours although in that event insti
tution superintendents are fearful
of wholesale resignations what with
employment in private industry now
on the upgrade.
The ractice of closing the House
bill room as soon as the session re
cesses for the wek-end has aroused
a lot of criticism. The first week the
House bill room was closed all day
Friday and Saturday although the
employees continued to draw their
$5 per dieh for those two days. The
last two weeks the bill room force
has knocked off work on Friday af
ternoons. This practice has seriously
handicapped those legislators who
stay over in Salem to do a little
extra work, inasmuch as they have
been unable to secure copies of new
Heppner
House bills. Mailing of House bills
and calendars introduced on the day
adjournment was taken has also been
delayed until the following Monday.
With 20 employees on the House bill
room pay roll just four times as
many, incidentally as the senate
hires it is felt that no great hard
ship would be worked on the em
ployees if a few of them stayed on
the job to accommodate the legis
lators if not those taxpayers who
might be interested in legislative
matters, especially since they are
being paid for a seven-day week
anyway.
If there is to be any major PUD
legislation at this session it is not
yet in evidence. Governor Sprague
this week transmitted to the law
makers several suggestions for mi
nor amendments to the 1939 PUD
act but inasmuch as those were
agreed to at a conference attended
by representatives of the Bonneville
administration and the Oregon Hydro-electric
commission and are un
derstood to be acceptable to the
private power utilities no difficulty
is anticipated in their adoption by
the lawmakers.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned were duly appointed by
the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Morrow County admin
istrators of the estate of Percy
Hughes, also known as A. P. Hughes,
deceased, and all persons having
claims against the estate of said
deceased are hereby required to
present the same to the undersigned
administrators, duly verified as re
quired by law, at the law office of
Jos. J. Nys, at Heppner, Oregon,
within six months from the date
hereof.
Dated and first published this 6th
day of February, 1941.
W. E. HUGHES,
ARTHUR L. HUGHES,
Administrators.
SUMMONS
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON FOR MOR
ROW COUNTY.
Frank Wilkinson, Plaintiff,
vs.
Russel Hogeland, and Ida Hogeland,
husband and wife. Also all other
persons or parties unknown claim
ing any right, title, estate, lien or
interest in the real estate describ
ed in the complaint herein,
Defendants.
To Russel Hogeland, and Ida Hoge
land, his wife. Also all other per
sons or parties unknown claiming
any right, title, estate, lien or in
terest in the real estate described
in the complaint herein, Defend
ants: IN THE NAME OF THE STATE
OF OREGON, you are hereby re
quired to appear and answer plain
tiff's complaint filed againsj; you in
the above entitled court and cause
within four weeks from the date of
the first publication of this sum
mons and if you fail to so appear
or answer the plaintiff will apply
to the above entitled court for the
relief prayed for in his complaint,
to-wit: For a decree quieting plain
tiffs title in and to the following
described real property, situate in
Morrow County, Oregon, to-wit:
The swy4 of NEy4, sy2 of
Nwy4 and Nwy4 of swy4 of
Section 24 in Township five (5)
South, Range 26 East of Will
amette Meridian,
and that plaintiff be adjudged the
owner in fee simple of said real
property and that you and each of
you be forever barred of and from
all right, title, estate, lien or interest
in or to said real property and every
part thereof; and for such other and
further relief as may be just and
equitable.
This summons is served upon you
by publication thereof in Heppner
Gazette Times, a newspaper of gen
eral circulation, once a week for
four successive weeks pursuant to
an order of Hon. Bert Johnson,
Judge of the County Court of the
State of Oregon for Morrow County,
which order is dated January 29th;
1941, and the date of the first pub
lication of this summons is January
30th 1941.
JOS. J. NYS,
.Attorney for Plaintiff.
Residence and postoffice address,
Heppner, Oregon.
Gazette Times, Heppner,
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Washington, D. C, Feb. 6. If Sid
ney Hillman, co-director of OPM,
can manage it he will unionize every
shop in the United States with a na
tional defense order and wherever
possible it will be a CIO union, for
Hillman is vice-president of CIO.
All over the country there has de
veloped a rash of strikes which are
holding up the defense program
they range from trucks and parts
for airplanes to powder plants and
shipyards, and in each instance the
demand is for more pay and mini
mum hours.
Where there is competitive bid
ding a successful contractor is in
danger of losing, as he bids on the
prevailing wage at the time; he has
to build on the terms of the contract
and give a performance bond. With
the cost-plus fixed fee, the govern
ment negotiates with a contractor,
agrees on the cost prices and gives
a fee for supervising the job. But
the fixed fee has been based' on
prevailing wages and any increased
rate is upset.
Hillman, born in Russia and donor
of $1,000,000 to Lenin from dues of
a union he controlled, is now the
big shot in the Office of Production
Management, with special attention
to labor. He is working to compel
unionization through a provision he
has insisted be written into the con
tracts. If the low bidder refuses to
accept the labor clause, Hillman di
rects the army or navy to give the
job to the next man, if the latter
agrees. This system is costing the
American people more money for
their national defense.
The next step of Hillman (and he
has the support of the president) is
to have the government take over
plants where there are labor dis
putes. The president and Hillman
have discussed this matter. The in
dustries would be regarded as not
cooperating; as holding up the pro
gram. Hillman does not contem
plate drafting labor however, and
compelling labor to work.
Mr. Roosevelt and others have
said: "You can not strike against
the government." There has been
a strike in navy shipyards where
warships were under construction.
There are now, in Washington, del
egates from the yards throughout
the country demanding that all navy
yard workers be given more pay.
Every industrial plant where there
has been a strike or where a strike
will be called is working on defense
orders, and those strikes are against
the government for they are delay
ing the production of very import
ant essentials for the national de
fense. On the floor of the house of rep
resentatives denunciations of the
strikes are daily made and new bills
keep appearing to solve the prob
lem. Several bills would prohibit
strikes, others would provide for
compulsory arbitration. Nothing will
be dones with these measures, but
they do enable the indignant mem
bers to blow off steam. What burns
up various members is that Ameri
can citizens are compelled to join
a union to work on the defense pro
gram; others protest that the initia
tion fee is too high (Mrs. Roosevelt
holds that opinion, too), especially
since after joining a union a worker
is frequently laid off before he
completes his initiation payment and
he cannot recover his money from
the union.
In the offing is more labor trou
ble. The 200 freighters ordered by
the maritime commission must be
manned and, under the American
laws, must have 100 percent Amer
ican crews. Unions insist that crews,
except the licensed personnel, shall
come from union hiring halls and
that a skipper must take the, crew
that the hall sends. An association
of ship masters, meeting in Wash
ington this week, adopted resolu
Oregon
tions that a captain has the right to
pick his own crew. As matters stand
in the American merchant marine
the skipper has practically no con
trol of his crew. The government is
now training sailors for junior of
ficers, but most of these have been
compelled to join a union before
getting a job.
Under the guise of national de
fense a small group in the interior
department is planning a bill to be
introduced to make one vast auth
ority for Oregon, Washington and
Idaho handling all power, public
and private. It would also take in
northern California, where Shasta
dam is now under construction. A
congressional fight is expected over
whether it shall be a three man
commission, operating like TVA, or
a one man administrator, reporting
to the secretary of the interior. The
president is "for it," but he has not
said whether he wants three men
or one man. . . . Northwest delega
tions are still striving to have a
pilot plant established to see what
can. be done with the quantities of
chrome ore and other native ores.
...After long delay shipyards are
appearing in Portland and will em
ploy about 10,000 men; in the first
world war 47,000 men were em
ployed in shipyards in Oregon.
KNOWLES GETS "O"
Eastern Oregon College of Educa
tion, La Grande, Feb. 3. Vernon
Knowles, son of C. G. Knowles,
Heppner, was presented a college
sweater with the block letter "O" at
a special assembly program Friday
morning for having played on the
varsity football team during the fall
quarter.'" Mr. Knowles is a senior
teacher training student.
To buy, sell or trade, use the G-T
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned was duly appointed by
the County Court of the State of Or
egon for Morrow County, Adminis
trator of the estate of Clyde G.
Wright, deceased, and all persons
having claims against the estate of
said deceased, are hereby required
to present the same with proper
vouchers duly verified, to the said
Administrator at the law office of
P. W. Mahoney, at Heppner, Oregon,
within six months from the date of
this notice.
Dated and first published this
16th day of January, 1941.
HAROLD A. WRIGHT,
Administrator.
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Citizens having matters for dis
cussion, please bring before
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J. O. TURNER, Mayor
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