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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, March 6, 1941
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
Another Week
Redistricting Out
Federal Dictation
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. As the legislative session
entered its eighth week indications
were that it would go into if not
through still another week before it
cleared the decks for sine die ad
journment. Of course the lawmakers could
take the bit in their teeth, throw
the remaining bills out the window
so to speak, and go home at the end
of this week. ' It is generally agreed
that no great violence would be done
the state through such a procedure
and there was some sentiment am
ong the weary legislators for such
a course. But for the most part the
members of both House and Senate
were for an orderly consideration
of the business at hand no matter
how long it might take.
Still pending is practically all the
major business of the session, in
cluding amendments to the unem
ployment compensation act, the
workmen's compensation act, "big
truck" legislation which is back in
again in a modified form, school
fund equalization, extension of vo
cational schools, firemen's pension
and a number of other issues.
The unemployment compensation
fight has been substantially narrow
ed down through House action
throwing out bills which sought to
repeal the experience rating and
seasonality provisions of the act. La
bor, however, is still insisting on an
increase in benefits for jobless work'
ers while employers continue their
fight to hold down payroll taxes.
Labor is also making a strenuous
fight for increased benefits for in
jured workmen and their depend
ents through the workmen's com
pensation fund, a program to which
the senate committee on industries
has agreed and which will, if en
acted into law, cost employers of
Oregon in excess of $522,000 a year
in increased contributions to this
fund.
While the House has passed the
firemen's pension fund that fight
still has to run the gauntlet of the
senate. Inasmuch as this pension
program will take about $100,000 a
year out of the state's general fund
and impose that much more of the
load on to property if and when
the income tax begins to lag, its ap
proval by the senate is doubtful
while Governor Sprague is believed
to be committed to a veto of the
measure if it should get as far as
his office.
In the senate a proposal to abol
ish the Umatilla-Union-Jtorrow dis
trict and transfer that senator to
Klamath county met with over
whelming defeat. Senator Cornett of
Klamath county in support of his
measure pointed out that the four
northeastern Oregon counties of
Umatilla, Union, Wallowa and Mor
row with a combined population of
only 55,000 is represented by three
senators, whereas his own district
comprising Kamath, Deschutes, Jef
ferson, Lake, and Crook counties,
with a combined population of 70,
000 has only one senate seat. The
proposed shuffle had the support
of the senate committee on elections
and privileges and it was thought
that it had the support of a ma
jority of the senate members until
the roll call revealed otherwise. j
In the House Representative Kim
berling's proposal to give each
county one House seat and distri
bute the remaining membership
on a population basis met with de
cisive defeat after that assembly had
turned down a proposal by Neuber
ger of Multnomah county that the
entire state be redistricted on a
straight-out population basis.
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The school fund qualization mea
sure HB420 which passed the
House Saturday by a vote of 33 to
25 is now before the senate for final
consideration. If passed by the Sen
ate and signed by the governor, who
has already approved the plan, the
measure will be on the ballot for
voter decision at the general elec
tion in 1942. Under the provisions
of this measure the state would be
required to levy a property tax of
approximately $5,400,000 a year for
support of elementary and high
schools. This would be apportioned
among the counties on the basis of
school attendance. Most of the east
ern Oregon representatives opposed
the bill which would take a heavy
toll from their counties for support
of schools west of the Cascades. The
Multnomah county delegation div
ided on the bill in spite of the fact
that it would cost that county ap
proximately $350,000 a year in sup
port of education in other counties
of the state.
Washington, D. C, March 6. Na
tional defense has created a serious
living problem in the national cap
ital. In two years, at the present
rate of population expansion, con
ditions will be grave. The district is
10 miles square; had a population
when the census was taken last year
in excess of 600,000. More than 100
new, permanent residents are ar
riving each day to work for the gov
ernment. This is a number that will
be increased as the great government
machinery grows, and no one knows
what to do with these arrivals.
In Washington are many hotels
roughly 30 or more and the influx
has kept every room filled for sev
eral montas. A 1,000 room hotel has
not had a single vacancy since last
summer. Patrons are stowed away
on cots, several to a room. The peo
ple who use the hotels are not gov
ernment clerks; they are contrac
tors, architects, cement salesmen,
powder salesmen, dollar-a-year men
nrougnt nere by the government and Falls at a conference of renrpsenta
who do not live on $1 a year, and tives of interested agencies, and ap
plication blanks have already been
are located in Baltimore, 34 miles
j away. Other agencies, not directly
I connected with war or national de-
New York or Philadelphia. There are
single bureaus which are scattered
in a dozen places, unable to find
room to collect the branches under
one roof. A bus terminal has been
taken over by alien registration div
ision of department of - justice the
registering has called for a unit of
hundreds of people. The workers are
swarming in from every state, all
having passed a civil service exam
ination and attracted here by a
wage a little higher than they would
receive at home. They come, and
find that with room and board they
are worse off than at home and with
little prospect of saving enough
money to buy a ticket home again.
A plannmg committee is now
working on a proposal to place two
more cantonments in the northwest
and two or three ordnance factor
ies. The Washington cantonment is
expected to be not far from Yak
ima. Nothing definite has been de
cided on the Oregon cantonment (it
will be Oregon's first) and no prop
erty has been bought. The ordnance
plants will be bag-filling and shell
loading undertakings. The canton
ments are expected to cost about $7,
000,000 each, probably more.
Potato Divesrsion Plan
Started by State AAA
Arrangements for Oregon parti
cipation in the potato diversion pro
gram of the Surplus Marketing ad
ministration were made in Klamath
J. 0. Turner
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 173
Hotel Heppner Building
HEPPNER, ORE.
A. D. McMurdo, M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Trained Nurse Aulitant
Office in Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregon
Even if the legislature does pass
the bill authorizing construction of
another office building it is not
likely that the building will be start
ed for several years. Members of
the ways and means committee have
freely expressed themselves as op
posed to any extensive building pro
gram during the period of high la
bor and material prices. These
members feel that it would be bet
ter to wait until after the boom
induced by the defense and war in
dustries program bursts and there
is a real need for jobs to take up
the slack of unemployment that is
expected to follow. This view is
said to be shared by members of the
state board of control who are un
derstood to have agreed to delay the
building program pending a real
need to provide jobs.
Appropriations so far authorized
by the ways and means committee
exceed the governor's budget by
more than $500,000. This deficit is
off-set in part by increased revenue
estimates but even at the the gen
eral fund is confronted with a de
ficit of more than $350,000 on the
basis of authorized expenditures.
Legislative reapportionment is out
for the current session and in all
likelihood for another ten years, or
until after Uncle Sam completes an
other census.
Two such proposals were rejected
by the lawmakers this past week.
One of these involved a slight change
in the senate set-up. The other in
volved a major operation in the
House apportionment
The autocratic attitude of federal
bureaucratics is beginning to get
under the skin of the Oregon legis
lators. Much of the legislation that
is being considered at this session
is virtually dictated from Washing
ton. This is especially true of leg
islation affecting state activities sup
ported in part by federal funds.
When the Washington bureaucrats
decide that certain legislation is de
sirable they pass the word ' along
through their henchmen who tell the
representatives of the state to pass it
"or else." The latest attempt to dic
tate to the Oregon lawmakers came
I this week in a hearing on the pro
posed new state oitice building when
representatives of the Social Secur
ity boaM told the ways and means
committee that Oregon must take
steps to provide more adequate
quarters for the Unemployment
Compensation commission "or else."
The "or else" involves a threat to
withhold federal funds for adminis
tering the jobless insurance fund
which are taken away from Oregon
employers in the first instance by
the Washington bureaucrats and re
turned to the state only on condi
tion that the terms of the Social Se
curity board be complied with. This
latest threat aroused the resentment
of several committeemen members
with Senator Pearson declaring him
self a opposed to the proposed new
building unless the unemployment
compensation commission was bar
red from occupying space in it.
there is the ordinary traveler. Ar
rivals on morning trains must wait
until late afternoon before they can
obtain a room, .wait until someone
checks out.
The government itself is hard
pressed for room. Mushroom bur
eaus are springing up and every
inch of available space has been
occupied. The great sprawling fed
eral buildings (costing an average
of $10,000,000 each) are crowded.
War department has expand! until
it is wondering where it can locate
its new personnel. Social security
built a building but before it was
completed National Defense com
mission moved in and SSB is as bad
off as before. With government
money from RFC an organization
erected a modern building recently
and Rural Electrification leased it
for years to come. It happens that
this building is at the intersection
of two major streets. There are 700
employes in REA, most having au
tomobiles, and there is no place for
them to park. This is a sample of
bad planning.
An agency has been organized
and is requesting everyone with a
room to rent to list it. Sixth in
spectors look at rooms. During the
first world war so many men and
women were brought to Washington
that to solve housing the govern
ment erected many dormitories.
These have since been torn down.
Today there are many more work
ers on government payroll than at
the peak of the first world war, and
this is only the beginning. Some
talk of the government building bar- j
racks for men and women to be
rented at a nominal price.
mailed to growers in Crook, Des
chutes, and Klamath counties, and
in Siskiyou and Modoc counties in
California, reports N. C. Donaldson,
state executive officer of the AAA
at Oregon State college.
Only four counties in Oregon will
participate directly in the program,
Malheur county being attached to the
Idaho district. These four are the
only counties considered as com
mercial potato-growing counties
under the terms of the AAA pro
gram. Grower in these regions who wish
to divert potatoes of U. S. No. 2
grade or better for use as stock feed
will make application to their coun
ty AAA committees. Growers who
stayed within their potato allotment
last year are eligible for payments
of 25 cents per hundred pounds on
potatoes which they agree to feed
to livestock or sell to others for
such purposes.
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Heppner, Oregon
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
In the Matter of the Estate of James
H. Allen, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, as Administratrix de
Bonis Non of the estate of James H.
Allen, deceased, has filed her final
account in the County Court of the
State of Oregon for Morrow County,
and that Monday, the 7th dav of
April, 1941, at the hour of 11 o'clock
in the forenoon of said day in the
Court room of said Court has been
appointed by said Court as the time
and place for the hearing of objec
tions thereto and the settlement
thereof. Dated and first published
this 6th day of March, 1941.
IMA McDANIEL,
Administratrix de Bonis Non.
Eating is not such a problem. Ev
ery government building has a cafe
teria and all the drug stores are
lunch counters. There are no places
to live near government buildings
and workers must either drive a
car, ride a bus or streetcar. Too far
to walk. Those with autos get down
town early to find a parking space,
possibly a mile from where they
work. The traction company has
been buying new equipment and
puts everything on wheels into the
streets to handle the rush in the
morning and the stampede in the
afternoon. Getting a bus or street
car is almost impossible at any time
of the day.
Some idea of how Washington is
growing can be gained from the tel
ephones used by the government
alone. In 1933, when the new deal
came in, there were 20,500 tele
phones. In 1938 there were 28,211,
and in January the number was
51,570. These are figures for the
government telephones.
To ease pressure on space in the
district thousands of SSB workers
Phelps Funeral Home
Ambulance Service
Trained Lady Assistant
Phone 1332
Heppner, Ore.
Jos. J. Nys
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Peters Building, Willow Street
Heppner, Oregon
V. R. Runnion
AUCTIONEER
Farm Sales and Livestock a Specialty
405 Jones Street, Heppner, Ore.
Phone 452
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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
635 MEAD BUILDING
5th at Washington
PORTLAND, OREGON
Peterson fir 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
Phone 62
W. M. EUBANKS
Notary Public
lone, Ore.
M. L. CASE
G. E. NIKANDER
Directors of
Funerals
862 Phones 262