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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, April 3, 1941
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
$325,000 Hospital
Two New Heads
25 Pet. from Taxes
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. Construction of the new
$325,000 treatment hospital at the
state institution for the mentally
diseased will be started soon. The
new hospital was authorized by the
recent legislative session. The board
of control this week anounced that
an architect would be employed to
draw the plans for the building at
once. The new building will be three
stories high and provide accomoda
tions for 300 patients. It will be
connected with the receiving hos
pital by a tunneL Completion of the
hospital will greatly relieve the con
gestion at the institution which now
houses 2680 patients, according to
Dr. J. C. Evans, superintendent
The state's bonded debt was still
further reduced this week when $1,
075,000 in , highway bonds, $700,000
in World War Veterans State Aid
bonds, and $35,250 in Oregon dis
trict interest bonds were retired. At
the same time the state paid more
than $700,000 in interest on its out
standing securities. Bonds of the
state still outstanding total slightly
more than $32,000 compared to a
peak of $66,062,810 on January 1,
1928.
.
Meeting here last Friday the agri
cultural committee of the state ad
visory council of the Oregon State
Employment service urged that ag
riculture be given a priority in the
distribution of labor in the national
defense program. Copies of resolu
tions adopted by the committee have
been submitted to President Roose
velt, Governor Sprague and mem
bers of the Oregon delegation in
congress. The resolution asks that
the national defense commission
"place the activities of harvesting
of crops in the same category as
the labor requirements in industry
so that during emergency periods
workers will not be diverted from
harvesting to certain defense pro
jects."
The rising trend in the cost of liv
ing is closely reflected in prices quo
ted the state on supplies for state
institutions. Especially is this ris
ing trend noticeable in the price of
meats. Quotations submitted the
board this week offer bacon at 21
cents a pound compared to a price
of 13 Vz cents quoted a year ago. Beef
prices are up from $10.70 to $13.20
per 100 pounds. Veal and lard prices
are also proportionately higher.
Two changes in institution heads
are expected soon. The board of
control is expected to announce its
choice of a successor to Sam Laugh
lin as head of the State Training
school for boys this week. Laughlin
resigned more than two months ago,
effective as of April 1 and while
more than 40 men have applied for
the post the board has delayed un
til now selection of a new superin
tendent. The resignation of Dr. W
D. McNary as superintendent of the
Eastern Oregon State hospital at
Pendleton is also expected daily. Dr.
McNary announced some time ago
that he planned to retire from the
position but so far has not filed
his formal resignation, pending the
receipt of which the board will take
no action looking toward the selec
tion of a successor.
The weatherman is entitled to
much of the credit for the big in
crease in gasoline consumption by
Oregon motorists. Secretary of State
Snell reports that gasoline sales
during January and February this
year are nearly 5,000,000 gallons
above sales for the same period in
1940, an increase of 15.6 per cent.
February gasoline consumption
showed the greatest increase with
a gain of 19.2 percent over Febru
ary, 1940.
Taxes provide less than 25 per
cent of the state's revenues, accord
ing to Leslie M. Scott, state treas
urer. Of the more than $149,000,000 col
lected and disbursed by the treasury
department during the two year
period ending December 31, 1940,
only $35,300,000 came from taxes-
property, income, gift and inherit'
ance.
Property owners contributed only
$301,000 in advalorem taxes toward
the support of state government dur
ing the biennium. Gasoline taxes,
the state's most prolific source of
revenue, produced a total of $23,
932,478 during the two-year period.
Income taxes yielded a total of $10,
115,000, inheritance taxes produced
$946,654 and gift taxes, $117,739.
Uncle Sam was a generous contri
butor to the support of state govern
ment, with a total of $12,754,920 in
federal aid coming from Washington
during the two year period. Of this
amount $5,972,298 went toward high
way construction and the remainder
toward the support of the state for
estry department and the state de
partment of vocational education.
Gross revenues of the liquor con
trol commission for the two year
period amounted to $19,609,128 but
only $6,248,229 of this amount rep
resented profit from liquor sales and
fees and privilege taxes available
for relief needs.
Motorists, in addition to the $23,'-
932,478 contributed through the me-
dium of the gasoline tax also paid
in a total of $8,946,398 in registra
tion, mileage and gross revenue fees.
Sportsmen contributed $1,211,863
in fishing and hunting licenses to
wards the propagation and protec
tion of game fish and birds and com
mercial fishermen paid in an aggre
gate of $304,063 in poundage and
other fees.
Collections of the industrial acd
dent commission from employers
and employees aggregated $8,546,637
during the biennium while the un
employment compensation commis
sion reported collections of $24,167,
111 in the 30 months ending Decem
ber 31, last
The state's "take" from pari mu-
tuel betting on horse and dog racing
amounted to $225,830.
Other sources of state revenue in
cluded: Student fees, $1,476,218; in
surance company fees, $1,749,868;
corporation fees, $630,869; depart
ment of agriculture fees, $629,528;
bureau of labor, inspection fees,
$122,762; payments by relatives' of
insane and tubercular patients, $271,
948; fees collected by self-suport-ing
boards and commissions, $654,
853; interest on the common school
fund, $660,337;. interest on bank de
posits and investments, $115,047; in
terest on loans to world war veter
ans, $1,429,538; interest on invest
ments of industrial accident com
mission, $643,961.
Negotiations are under way be
tween the State Game commission
and the State Land board for the
purchase of 5441 acres of the dry
bed of Summer lake in Lake county
which the game commission wants
to convert into a duck and goose
hunter's paradise. The game com
mission has been given an option
on tho tract for a price of $27,000
and consummation of the deal awaits
approval by the federal government
which is expected to provide the
money. The lake bed, at one time
a wide alkali expanse, has been
developed by C. E. Williams of Sum
mer lake, who has been operating
under a lease from the land board.
Prior to this development by Will
iams there were no ducks or geese
on the lake but in recent years
thousands of these wild fowl have
flocked to the area attracted by the
nut grass which provides natural
seed feed' for migratory water fowl.
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.
Washington, D. C, April 3. If the
repeated assertions of Martin Dies
and members of his committee
which is investigating un-American
activities are correct, then many of
the strikes staged in plants having
defense orders have been in charge
of and manipulated by communists.
Purpose of the communists, con
tends Dies, is to slow down produc
tion, stop it when possible, disor
ganize the workers and prevent the
United States making a united front
in the period of great emergency.
Day after day Representative Dies
has declared, and published in the
Congressional Record, the names of
communists who are participating
in these strikes. The names have
been gathered by the committee
during its long investigation and
are attested as the truth; innumer
able of the names being identified
by communist witnesses, and with
each name announced by Dies he is
giving, in addition to their party
connection, a list of communistic ac
tivities m which these men (and
some women) are engaged. No one
has yet challanged the accusations
of Dies.
a survey or the various major
strikes shows that they have taken
place in the plants which furnish
material for other plants; these are
key industries, where a breakdown
in production affects and ties up
from three to four to a dozen other
important plants which are depend
ent on the key plant for certain sup
plies. Ihe tirst plant affected was
the Vultee aircraft establishment in
California. Instigator of the strike
there was, according to Dies, a com
munist sent there for that particular
job. The International Harvester
strike is another instance, where
the union is dominated by commun
ists. The Allis-Chalmers plans, which
was closed down months ago, made
parts of machinery . for the navy
essential for the navy program;
made parts for electrical devices to
be used in turbines, and many other
things. Representative Dies names
the communists supposedly domin
ating that strike.
With the Bethlehem strike, staged
by the Steel Workers organization
committee (CIO), Dies has called the
roll of scores of known communists
who are on the payroll of the SWOC.
A Pacific coast plant making a spe
cial part for all airplanes being pro-,
duced was closed by strike organiz
ed by a communist of known prom
inence in the party, Dies charges.
After 10 days this strike was ended,
just as the several aircraft factories
were about ready to stop work for
want of the missing part.
Plants built to make powder have
been held up waiting the termina
tion of the Allis-Chalmers strike,
which started January 22. This
strike has delayed the navy program
for destroyers for a quarter of a
year. The American Car & Foundry
Co. was closed by strike and this
prevented the manufacture of wheel
drums for the Yellow Cab Co.. with
a contract for $83,000,000 of army
trucks. Motor Wheel Co. has a con
tract for equipment for British anti
aircraft batteries. The list of strikes
is interminable. Mostly they are
called by CIO, although AFL is re
sponsible for the strike at Wright
Field, which was finally broken up
by the army. . AFL struck at the
Todd Shipyard in Texas and 2,000
men walked out because a foreman,
with the yard for many years, did
not belong to the carpenters' union.
Principal criticism against AFL,
in congress, is that it is working a
racket in charging heavy initiation
fees; that an American citizen can
not get a job digging a ditch without
joining an AFL union. At one can
tonment a union squeezed more than
$350,000 from men asking a work
permit Charges against CIO and
AFL are that they are working for
a closed shop on every bit of de-
j fense work, but each organization
wants to control the work or plants
where defense projects are under
way. The government has done no
thing about the closed shop, but
congress is threatening to act. With
CIO Dies is asserting communist in
fluence. Most government contracts
are on the cost-plus fixed fee, the
fee being an-average of three per
cent; the profit of the employer is
small, and Uncle Sam, through the
income tax, will get most of that.
Contractors are worried about a
straight bid, because a strike upsets
their schedule of costs and a change
in wages can make a loss instead
of a profit. The labor situation has
given most of the contractors on the
Pacific coast the jitters. Conciliators
from the department of labor have
not settled matters with speed; have
not settled anything in some cases.
The super-mediation board of 11
men appointed by the president has
no authority to do anything until
it has been appealed to after all oth
er peace efforts have failed; then
the super-mediators can do nothing
but talk to the interested parties.
President Roosevelt has urged the
American people to make sacrifices,
as has Mrs. Roosevelt, and the gen
eral public appears to be willing to
go along without asking more pay,
time and a half, shorter hours; but
not so the unions, who have made
no sacrifices as yet.
Fishermen Asked
To Report Catches'
Mr. Fisherman, do you want bet
ter fishing in your favorite lake or
stream? , '
If you do, you can furnish valua
ble aid to the game commission's
program of stream survey and fish
liberation if you acquire the habit
of reporting your catch after each
fishing trip.
Catch report cards, needing neith
er signature nor postage, can be
obtained at your sporting goods
store, and game commission offi
cials urge every angler to obtain a
supply of these cards and send them
in after each fishing expedition dur
ing the coming season.
The commission is using four
crews to survey lakes and streams
in the state, and the information sent
in by the fishermen will be of tre
mendous importance in making the
final determination of the amount
and species to reiease in the waters
of the state.
So to every fisherman goes the
earnest request that regular use of
the catch report cards be made dur
ing the entire fishing season of 1941.
J. 0. Turner
ATTORNEY AT LAW
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