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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, March 13, 1941
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o Cost of Laws
New Gavel Wielders
Unbalanced Budget
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. What will be the cost of
the legislative session? That is a
question that can not be answered
until all the bills are in and paid
bills for printing and binding the
House and Senate Journals and the
session laws which are yet to be
compiled after the session adjourns.
Estimates at this stage of the ses
sion fix the cost at somewhat less
than that of the 1939 session which
exceeded $150,000. Whatever the ul
timate cost the lawmakers have
made ample provision for its pay
ment by appropriating $170,000 for
legislative expenses. While the ses
sion will probably not make a rec
ord for longevity, in that it will
probably not equal the 66-day rec
ord of the 1939 session it will run
that record a close second. When
the lawmakers reconvened on Mon
day the session had equalled the
57 day record of the 1937 session,
and Wednesday marked the 59th
day, equalling the record of the 1935
session. " '
The lawmakers do not pay a great
deal of attention to the recommend'
ations of interim committees. Dur
ing the two years intervening be
tween the 1939 and 1941 session spe
cial committees worked on several
important problems and presented
their findings and recommendations
to the current session. One of these
special committees after months of
intensive research and study worked
out a plan, for the retirement of
public employees. The plan was in
corporated into a bill but the . bill
was never introduced and the efforts
of that committee went for naught
Another interim committee, the gov
ernor's economic council, after much
thought and study evolved a plan
for boosting the sale of Oregon's ag
ricultural products. This plan fared
a little better than the other in that
a bill was introduced and referred
to a committee but there it has re
mained since early in the session
with not enough support to bring
it out onto the floor for a vote.
Oregon's lawmakers have given
approval to bigger log loads up to
a maximum of 68,000 pounds but
turned thumbs down on every ef
fort to increase the size of other
commercial trucks, first defeating a
bill that would have permitted the
operation of 60-foot trucks with a
gross weight of 68,000 pounds and
then turning down a second bill that
would have increased the gross
weight of trucks to a maximum of
60,000 pounds without increasing the
length of the trucks.
The state senate defeated the pro
posed amendments to the financial
responsibility act which had already
passed the House. The bill would
have required that every motorist
whose car was involved in an acci
dent, regardless of responsibility, to
either post a substantial bond or
take out insurance to protect pos
sible future victims. The measure
was described by its opponents as
only a step removed from compul
sory insurance.
Already, even before the 1941 ses
sion has adjourned attention is be
ing turned toward possible contend
ers for the gavel wielding jobs in the
1943 session. In the senate W. H.
Steiwer, Fossil banker, is being put
forth by eastern Oregon members as
the logical successor to Dean Walker,-
president of the senate. Douglas
McKay of Marion county, is also
mentioned for the honor as is Dor
othy McCulloch Lee, of Multnomah
county, the only woman member of
the senate. In the House Wm. Mc
Allister of Medford who ran Robert
Farrell of Portland a close race for
the job this year, appears to hold an
advantage in the early bidding for
the 1943 job although a number of
other representatives also aspire to
the honor, including John Steel
hammer of Marion, Herman Chind
gren of Clackamas and Lyle Thom
as of Polk county.
ed by the way and means commit
tee and voted by the House and
Senate exceed the recommendations
submitted to the session by Governor
Sprague by more than three-quarters
of a million dollars. Just how
much more depends upon the in
terpretation of two budget items.
One of these is an allocation of
$100,000 for the construction of new
armories. This money is hedged
about with so many restrictions that
the ways and means statisticians do
not include it in their list of ap
propriations. But if it is not an ap
propriation it can only be interpret
ed as an idle gesture a sop thrown
out to Baker, Grants Pass, Oregon
City and La Grande, all of which are
demanding new armories at this ses
sion.
Just how much the budget is out
of balance by these excess appro
priations is also a matter of inter
pretation. Based upon anticipated
revenues as set up in the governor's
budget the general fund will be in
the red by approximately $750,000
at the end of the next biennium if
all the appropriations are used up.
But there again the statisticians
have stepped in to change the pic
ture These experts have increased
the governor's estimates on income
figures by some $300,000 thus re
ducing the anticipated net deficit to
between $400,000 and $500,000.
IN (fife
In the opinion of Governor Spra
gue the forestry program contained
in 15 separate bills constitute the
most important work of the legisla
tive session. Growing out of the ef
forts of the Oregon Economic coun
cil and offered as a part of the ad
ministration's legislation program all
but 17 of the forestry bills introduc
ed received House and Senate ap
proval and have now received the
governor's signature. Outstanding
among the 15 bills in the forestry
program, according to the governor,
are two measures one of which clar
ifies and amplifies an act of the 1939
session authorizing the state to ac
quire timber lands for reforestation
purposes and the other which re
quires that certain trees be left
standing in logging operations, also
for reforestation purposes.
In spite of the fact that the law
makers voted to increase the maxi
mum monthly payments for old age
pensions from $30 to $40 Oregon's
needy aged will probably have to
get along for the next two years on
a $21 monthly average pension. No
provision has been made for raising
additional revenues for relief or pen
sions and the increased appropria
tion voted in accordance with the
governor's budget is only calculated
to take care of the normal increase
in the number of persons on the
pension rolls.
Washington, D. C, March 13.
Your postmaster, in about six weeks
will give you the first touch of war
and national defense. Every post
master in the country will have on
sale thrift stamps and other obli
gations of the government. These
stamps and certificates will be of
fered for sale to the general pub'
lie. This is one device the treasury
has adopted for raising revenue to
carry on the cause of Britain, China
Greece and to provide home de
fense. There is no limit to the
stamps, certificates and bonds that
the treasury may sell.
A feature of the securities is that
they are not tax exempt. This means
that the treasury will have to pay
a higher rate of interest, but with
the taxes paid on them and the num
ber which may be lost the treasury
expects to make a clean profit. Pur
pose of the stamps, in particular, is
to reach out for the low income
class of citizens. The stamps will be
sold not only in postoffices but in
stores and schools, wherever there
is a prospect of sale. The savings
bonds will not be negotiable; they
cannot be transferred by the purch
aser to another individual.
Treasury is considering non-ne
gotiable bonds to sell insurance con
panies. There has been much criti
cism of late about insurance com
panies by the "monopoly" commit
tee. The companies are charged with
using none of their capital as "ven
ture money." Treasury thinks that
the insurance companies can well
afford to invest heavily in the new
bonds, tax exempt and non-transferable,
for their reserves.
These stamps and the smaller
bonds will supplement the income
and other taxes which will be im
posed on the American people. At
first, at least, there will be no drive
to sell the securities, as was the case
in the first world war with thrift
stamps and Liberty bonds. Pro
vided the public does not step up
and purchase, however, ah intensive
drive will be arranged, for Uncle
Sam must have money, tons of money.
Voters of Oregon were spared the
experience or passing again on a
sales tax when the House on Satur
day defeated the Lonergan bill cov'
ering this subject That sentiment
among the legislators is pretty even
ly divided on the subject, however,
is indicated by the 31 to 28 vote.
Sixty percent of the revenues to be
raised by the proposed sales tax
were to go toward increasing pen
sions for the aged and more than
200 old folks packed the House gal
leries during debate on the mea
sure, brought to Salem from all
sections of the state in the hope that
their presence might swing a few
votes in support of the bill and in
sure its passage.
.
The Board of Control is expected
to announce the new superintend
ent for the State Training School
for Boys soon. More than 40 men
have applied for the job which is to
be vacated by Sam Laughlin on
April 1 after ten years in that po
sition.
Legislative appropriations approv-
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Heppner, Ore.
No one liked to mention it, openly,
but the high spot in the debate on
the lease-lend bill was the attempt
to prevent the president from send
ing American soldiers outside the
western hemisphere. It was not Eng
land or Europe where the troops
might be sent, but Singapore, the
great British naval base in the or
ient. The mobilization act permits
the president to transport the na
tional guardsmen of Oregon and
Washington to the Philippines and
Guam, if he sees fit, but dispatching
them further west to Singapore was
another proposition.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
was insistent that no restrictions be
placed on the president, for the state
department is looking to the time
when conditions in the orient may
be such that, with an alliance with
Britain, American soldiers may be
required at Singapore in addition to
the Philippines, Guam, Wake island
and Samoa. The subject was so del
icate that no one wanted to men
tion the word Singapore.
Troops in the northwest, regulars,
guardsmen and draftees, may be sent
to Alaska to an imposing army base
to be established there. Already
draftees and regulars are being ship
ped from San Francisco to smaller
posts which are being built up in
Alaska. Speaking of Alaska, the ter
ritorial legislature is treating the
new governor rough. The governor
addressed the legislature and im
mediately after the lawmakers ad
opted a resolution protesting "out
siders" being appointed by Secre
tary of the Interior Ickes, and curb
ing the powers or the governor.
Plans for using Alaska as a stepping
stone for refugees from Germany to
enter the United States are still be
ing pushed by Ickes, and this is an
other grievance the Alaskans have.
Naval officers will make a new
inspection of the facilities of Ore'
gon and Washington for the con
struction of ships. Existing yards
are now loaded up and new facil
ities must be found. Two yards on
the Oregon coast are being consid
ered now for small wooden boats,
about 80-footers, A number of con
tracts are being considered for Pu
get sound. Shipbuilding for the na
vy, maritime commission and coast
guard is to be one of the major in
dustries of the northwest.
A 10,000 word rerjort on timber.
especially in Oregon and Washing
ton, was prepared for the joint com
mittee on forestry by a Wasington,
D. C, lawyer, who read the testi
mony of hearings in the northwest.
One reading of the draft found no
member satisfied with it and the
document was discarded. Now each
member of the committee is prepar
ing his own version of the timber
situation and what curative mea
sures should be undertaken and
these will be consolidated for pre
sentation to congress. It is almost
the deadline for submitting the re
port. It was to have been filed a
year ago but an extension was
granted.
J. 0. Turner
ATTORNEY AT LAW
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HEPPNER, ORE.
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NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, administrator of the
estate of R. H. Lane, deceased, has
filed with the County Court of the
State of Oregon for Morrow Coun
ty, his final account of his admin
istration of said estate, and that
said Court has fixed Monday, the
7th day of April, 1941, at the hour
of 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon of
said day in the County Court room
at the Court House at Heppner, Or
egon, as the time and place for hear
ing objections to said final account
and the settlement of said estate
and all persons having objections
thereto are hereby required to file
the same in said court on or before
the time set for said hearing.
Dated and first published this 6th
day of March, 1941.
R. F. PHILLIPS,
1-5. Administrator.
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