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SSalNEWS;
Labor Gains j
Costly Session
Tax Deadline
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. Labor made substantial
gains through enactments of the re
cent legislative session. Amend
ments written into the workmen's
compensation act and the unem
ployment compensation act provide
for increased benefits aggregating
more than $1,140,000 a year.
A new schedule of awards written
into the workmen's compensation
act provides for increased benefit
payments to injured workmen and
their dependents amounting to an
estimated $522,000 annually.
Amendments to the unemployment
compensation act provide for in
creased benefit payments to tem
porarily jobless workers amounting
to an estimated $621,000 a year. Re
duction of the waiting period from
three to two weeks alone accounts
for an increase of $250,000 a year
in benefit payments while changes
written into the seasonality section
of the act will increase benefit pay
ments by another $300,000.
Increased premium rates averag
ing 15 percent were announced by
the State Industrial Accident com
mission this week in order to meet
increased drains upon the work
men's compensation fund. Still fur
ther increases in rates are in store
for Oregon industries in order to
meet increased benefit payments
written into the law by the last
legislature but which do not be
come effective until after July 1,
1942.
The recent legislative session was
not only, next to that of 1939, the
longest in Oregon but, also next to
that of 1939, the most costly. The
payrolls of both the House and Sen
ate were substantially higher than
those of the 1935 session which lack
ed only two days of equalling that
of 1941 although considerably un
der that of the 1939 session. Senate
clerks and stenographers drew an
aggregate of $26,874 in payment for
their services during the recent ses
sion compared to $32,033 for the
1939 session and $21,644.50 for the
1935 session. House clerks and sten
ographers were paid $44,279 for their
services during the recent session,
compared to $47,047 in the 1939 ses
sion and $38,278 in the 1935.
If the members of the Oregon
legislature are looking for an answer
to the negative reaction of the vot
ers to their repeated requests for an
increase in their per diem pay they
can find it in such tumultuous
scenes as those enacted in the House
on the closing night of the recent
session. And if, as has been charged,
this negative- reaction is a bit more
pronounced in Marion county than
in other sections of the state it is
only because the voters of this coun
ty are closer to the scene of action
and are more frequent spectators at
these disgusting scenes than are
those of more distant sections.
Granting that the inebriated rep
resentatives constituted only a small
minority of the House membership
and that their antics were anything
but typical of the conduct of, the
legislature as a whole, it can not
be denied that it is upon such dem
onstrations as these that opinion is
based in the minds of a public that
is prone to judge by surface indica
tions. The state hospital for insane at
Salem came in for severe criticism
at the hands of the Marion county
grand jury which made its annual
inspection of state institutions this
week. While the management of
the hospital was given a clean bill
of health the institution was said
to be "almost unbearably over
crowded" while certain of the build
ings in which inmates are housed
were declared to be "fire traps of
great hazard." The first move in a
building program to improve condi
tions at this institution was taken
by the recent legislature which, act
ing upon the recommendation of the
Board of Control authorized the
construction of a 200-bed hospital
building to cost an estimated $325,
000. Kenneth G. Martin of Portland has
been selected as the successor to
Linden McCullough as superintend
ent of the Blind Trade School in
Portland, it was announced following
a meeting of the Commission for the
Blind Saturday. McCullough has
resigned as head of the blind school
effective April 1. Martin, who was
a member of the commission for the
blind has been interested in the blind
and their problems for more than
20 years.
For the first time since October,
1911, no state banks in Oregon are
in process of liquidation. This an
nouncement was made by A. A. Rog
ers, state superintendent of banks,
as he mailed out checks this week
covering the final divident payment
to depositors in the old Albany
State bank which closed its doors
in October, 1933.
Secretary of State Snell, R. H.
Baldock, state highway engineer,
and Charles P. Pray, superinendent
of state police, spent most of last
week in San Francisco in conference
with United States army officials
regarding problems of transporta
tion that might be involved in the
event of an emergency requiring the
movement of large bodies of troops
and their equipment over the high
ways of this state.
A new record high in income tax
payments is predicted by members
of the state tax commission based
upon early returns which have been
pouring in during the past two
weeks. Incidentally, the commission
warns, Tuesday, April 1, is the last
date on which state returns may be
filed to avoid penalties.
Turkey Outlook
Improved, While
Fruits Doubtful
The turkey outlook for 1941 is
somewhat more favorable than a
year ago, according to a report on
the agricultural situation and out
look just issued by the agricultural
extension service at O. S. C. The
report also includes outlook infor
mation on fruits, potatoes, milk,
meat, eggs, and wool, and on horses
and mules.
Improvement in the turkey out
look is attributed in part to a high
level of consumer purchasing pow
er expected to continue through the
1941-42 marketing season for tur
keys. The available data also in
dicate a slight reduction in the
turkey crop this year and a smaller
carry-over of storage holdings, but
a probable increase in chicken meat.
Better purchasing power is also
important in the outlook for fruits,
potatoes, and other farm products,
although offset more or less by weak
foreign demand in the case of export-type
crops. Fruits and some
other products have been largely de
pendent upon foreign markets, now
closed owing to the war, to absorb
the volume needed to keep these
enterprises prosperous.
The fruit supply is unusually large
owing to increased output and re
duced exports. Despite the improv
ed domestic situation, the fruit out
look is not very favorable, partic
ularly for export type fruit products.
Prices for meat, milk, eggs, and
wool are relatively high and the
supply of feed is generally plentiful.
These conditions are being reflected
in increasing production of most
kinds of animal 'products. Prices
for horses and mules have continu
ed to go down, even while prices for
other livestock have been advanc
ing. Farm producers are confronted
with an upward trend in farm wage
rates and some indications of an in
crease in other farm costs and liv
ing expenses.
The report also contains recent
data on the volume of the nation's
food supply, including such items
as 40 billion eggs and 20 billion
pounds of fresh fruit, and numerous
other articles of diet in stupendous
quantities.
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Washington, D. C, March 27.-lof
Bonneville power administration is
in desperate need of $1,500,000 with
which to service the Reynolds Metal
Co., the new aluminum company
which has located at Longview, Wn.,
instead of Cascade Locks, as orig
inally planned. Production is wanted
by June 15, but it will require many
months to assemble materials for a
substation or to run a transmission
line to Longview, even though the
money was available which it is
not.
After Administrator Ravor sign
ed the 20-year contract, agreeing to
bring power to the Reynolds com
pany, he asked for a "deficiency"
appropriation from congress which
would enable him to take power to
the Longview site. He was told to
wait for the regular appropriation
bill for the fiscal year 1942. For
reasons best known to himself, nei
ther Ravor nor his assistants soli
cited the help of the Oregon delega
tion, but had seen Washington's
Senator Bone and Representative
Leavy. .
A third draft of the proposed Col
umbia power authority has been
completed and is under study. It does
not provide for home rule, like the
previous drafts centers the authority
in the hands of the secretary of the
interior, Harold L. Ickes. In the
northwest the increasing demand
is for an "authority" directed by
local people, and not a single headi
in Washington, D. C.
As previously predicted in this
column, the navy has awarded con
tracts to the Joe Dyer shipyard at
Astoria, and to Kruze & Banks at
Coos Bay, each for four 135 -foot
boats. These will be mine sweepers.
Several hundred men will be re
quired in each of the yards. Later
the old shipyards at St. Helens will
probably be given a contract to
build freighters for the maritime
commission, as the government now
plans letting work for 200 additional
freighters, a number of these to be
allocated to yards on the Pacific
coast.
There is such a need for destroyers
that the navy is considering placing
orders in the Columbia-Willamette
river region. The yards on Puget
sound are now loaded with all the
orders they can handle.
In the midst of war's alarms, the
biggest sensation in the national
capital last week was the strange,
disappearance of a Forest Grove,
Ore., girl. A new arrival in the de
fense program, brought here to work
in the war department making maps,
she left for her office and that was
the last seen of her for two days.'
Newspapers carried pictures and
scare-head stories. When found the
young woman was located in a park,
suffering from amnesia.
One reason President Roosevelt
does not want much river and har
bor and flood control work now is
that he wishes to build up a backlog
of employment against the time
when national defense is over and
peace reigns in the world. The ad
ministration realizes that there will
be a terrific let-down for the Uni
ted States when the emergency is
over and that something must be
planned to meet the unemployment
situation and the inevitable depres
sion. This also applies to new recla
mation projects, and for the same
reason there will be no extensive
development of the Grand Coulee
reclamation, though a start will be
made.
An item of $75,000,000 for clothing
and equipment of army and navy
passed by the house, had a stipula
tion which should gladden the hearts
of sheepmen of the west. It provides
that none of this money shall be
used to purchase blankets, uniforms
or cloth which contains foreign wool.
This was stipulated despite the fact
that the quartermaster department
recently announced it would accept
I blankets and uniforms made of a
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wools. There is in storage in the
United States great quantities of
Australian wool brought by the
British government and shipped to
this country in American freighters,
the costs beins defraved bv RFC. It
j was explained that the sheepmen
were entitled to a breaK.
Strawberry growers in Oregon are
in a tough spot. They have ordered
their hallocks for the berries and
now the government, through one
its bureaus, declares these boxes
cue jxiegcu. diiwiicic uutaiuc ui va
egon. The Oregon hallocks have a
false bottom, but the box contains
the same quantity of berries as the
boxes of California or Washington.
Heretofore the controversy has been
among manufacturers of the boxes.
Now, however, as growers have or
dered their boxes, they will be the
ones to suffer. California growers
are making complaint against the
Oregon box, and acting on this com
plaint the government is putting the
kibosh on the Oregon containers in
interstate commerce. It will affect,
particularly, the Oregon market in
New York city.
John K. Honey of Portland was
in town over the week end. Mr.
Honey is the owner of wheat land
in the lone section.
John Clouston, who was recently
transferred to Pendleton from Lake
view in his work with the U. S. for
est service, was a visitor in Heppner
Tuesday.
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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