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STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
Veto Record
'Fag' Tax June 14
First in Safety
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. Of the 503 bills dumped
into Governor Sprague's lap by the
recent legislative session 486 were
permitted to continue on their way
to the statute books. The other 15
were cut down by the executive
veto, establishing what is believed
to be an all-time high record for
vetoes in this state.
Of the 15 vetoed measures the most
outstanding were the House mea
sure providing for retirement of cir
cuit and supreme court judges on
$200 a month pay; the Jones' bill,
also a House measure, which would
have permitted the sale of naturally
fermented wines by the glass, and
another House bill providing for a
tax on dairy products to finance
an advertising and marketing cam
paign to increase consumption of
these products.
In vetoing the judges' retirement
bill the governor expressed himself
as opposed to the extension of this
privilege to selected groups of pub
lic employees, and particularly to a
group enjoying the salaries paid to
judges. The Jones wine bill was dis
approved by the governor as con
trary to the principles of the Knox
Liquor Control act and as not de
sired by the people of Oregon at
this time.
Other vetoed measures included
bills providing for appeals from de
cisions of the liquor control commis
sion; curing defective and irregular
deeds and conveyances; increasing
the cosmetic-therapy board from
three to five members; appropriat
ing $250 to provide a "suitable en
closure" for the bronze state seal
imbedded in the floor of the capitol
rotunda; appropriating $5200 for ad
ditional experimental work on arid
lands in Sherman county; appro
priating $5000 to compensate Mrs.
Elizabeth E. Brown for injuries sus
tained in a fall at the state tubercu
losis hospital; protecting public em
ployees in their pay and priority
ratings while absent in military ser
vice; providing penalties for acts of
sabotage; relating to changes of
boundaries of school districts; re
viving the old Soldiers and Sailors
commission and appropriating $5000
for its operation; including service
trades under fair trades act; and re
lating to relocation of county roads
on or near airports.
The governor used the partial veto
provision to eliminate two items to
talling $20,000 from the omnibus ap
propriation bill and to strike out a
claim allowed to Mrs. Rose Swanson
for the death of her husband while
in the employ of the eastern Oregon
state hospital from the sundry claims
bill.
Records in the state department
show that only seven measures of
the 1939 legislative session were ve
toed by Governor Sprague while
Governor Martin vetoed only six
bills of the 1937 session.
Barring the referendum which has
been threatened by cigarette man
ufacturers Oregon smokers will be
gin paying a two cent state tax on
each package of "fags" on June 14.
Governor Sprague signed the cigar
ette tax bill this week in the pre
sence of a group of old age pension
advocates and sent it on to the
state department to become law.
Revenues from this tax are various
ly estimated at from $1,200,000 to
$1,900,000 a year. Five-sixths of this
revenue is to go toward public as
sistance, generally interpreted as
old age pensions, while the remain
ing one-sixth goes toward the sup
port of vocational education.
A substantial improvement in the
employment situation, occasioned by
the boom in defense industries, is
reflected in jobless insurance pay
ments for the first quarter of this
year which were 28.7 per cent be
low those for the same period in
1941. Unemployment insurance pay
ments for March, this year, were
less than half those for March, 1940,
according to a report by Administra
tor Silas Gaiser.
Legal-minded members of the
state's official family do not share
the concern expressed by some com
mentators over the effect of the new
Fourth Congressional district on
' state boards and commissions.
In the first place, these experts
point out, although the legislative
act creating the new district be
comes effective next June the dis
trict itself does not become opera
tive until the convening of the seventy-eighth
Congress in January,
1943. Until that time the present
First district will to all intents and
purposes remain intact so that there
is really nothing to become dis
turbed over until that date, follow
ing on the heels of which the state
legislature will convene and be in
position to straighten out any kinks
that may have been created by the
new political picture.
Even though the new congression
al district lines should become ef
fective at an earlier date, it is point
ed out, the three-member factor
would still be controlling. The boun
daries of the second and third con
gressional districts remain unchang
ed and for the purpose of member
ship on boards or commissions whose
membership is distributed according
to congressional districts, the boun
daries of the first district as defined
at the time the boards and com
missions were created would still
control.
First referendum move since the
adjournment of the legislative ses
sion is directed against the Wallace
bill closing all coast streams to
commercial fishing. The referendum
is sponsored by the Oregon Fish
Protective association of which
Dudley Turnacliff of Agate Beach
is president and Chas. F. Henne of
Tidewater, secretary. The ballot ti
tle for the referendum was complet
ed by Attorney General Van Win
kle this week and petitions are now
being circulated for signatures in
order to place the measure on the
ballot at the regular election in No
vember, 1942.
Republican party workers are
anything but happy over the ap
pointment of M. D. Wooley, Portland
social worker, as head of the Boys
Training School. Although the Board
of Control which exercises jurisdic
tion over the school, is now solidly
republican for the first time in six
vears Woolev. a New Deal Demo
crat, was selected in preference to
several Republican applicants some
of whom are said to have been fully
as well qualified for the post as is
the board's choice for the position
which pays $2100 per year and
"found,"- this latter including living
quarters, meals and laundry for the
superintendent's family.
Secretary of State Snell, as head of
Oregon's traffic safety campaign, is
jubilant over the announcement that
this state placed first in its division
comprising the eleven western
states in the reduction of traffic
fatalities during 1940. Out to repeat
this record in 1941 Snell points out
that traffic fatalities in this state
were reduced by 40 percent during
the first two months of this year
while traffic deaths over the nation
as a whole increased by 16 per
cent.
At least two more referendums
against acts of the recent legislative
session are pending, according to
reports reaching the state capital.
Cigarette manufacturers are expect
ed to begin their fight against the
cigarette tax bill within the next
two weeks. Reports are also cur
rent that a referendum will be filed
against the free text book bill which
Governor Sprague permitted to be
come a law without his signature.
Game Management
Said Concern of State
Only recently has the public be
begun to think of wild game as
part of a management problem, but
Arthur S. Einarson, federal biologist
stationed at Oregon State college
with the wildlife department, is au
thority for the statement that man
agement of wildlife is not a project
for a few but is an endeavor in
which every citizen can help.
In a new experiment station cir
cular No. 141, entitled "Suggestions
of Management of Small Game in
Oregon," Einarson says that the
future supply of wildlife in Oregon
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Washington D. C, April 10. De
spite the assurance given by Pres
ident Roosevelt that no American
soldiers, sailors or aviators will be
sent to fight in Europe and that
United States help to Britain will
consist of supplies, there is a defin
ite belief that an AEF will, within
a year, be operating in north Africa.
The convoy question also worries
congress and this is one reason that
congress will not adjourn this year
but will remain at its post on a
hop-skip basis, prepared to cope
with any situation within a few
days' time.
It is now certain that the admin
istration will give aid to Turkey and
to Yugoslavia. Apparently, the only
way to send supplies is around the
Cape of Good Hope, at the tip of
South Africa, and then up the other
coast to the Red sea and Suez canal.
An expeditionary force could also
follow the same route.
Whenever the subject of convoys
has been broached to the president,
as at press conferences or to his
congressional leaders, his reply has
been that a question is preposterous.
This answer, however, has not quiet
ed the members of congress. It is
generally admitted that if American
supplies are to be sent to England
they must be accompanied by a
convoy, either American or English
naval vessels. Under the lease-lend
bill destroyers can be turned over
to Canada and the American crews
can volunteer in the Canadian navy
without loss of American citizenship.
What congress knows (and the pres
ident has said a convoy means shoot
ing and shooting means war) is that
an American convoy will be at
tacked by the German submarines,
and then "we are in."
Congress is taking time by the
forelock. It is starting to investigate
the national defense contracts now
instead of waiting until after the
war is over and more damage is
done. A special committee of the
senate will investigate why con
tracts have been distributed geo
graphically; why certain sections of
the country have been given con
tracts (and in exposed positions
within 200 miles of the coast) and
others have been ignored. The sale
of land for certain cantonments and
defense plants reeks with scandal.
One cantonment was estimated to
cost $9,000,000 and it will cost $22,
000,000 because of being improperly
located. This committee will inves
tigate the reason for giving a few
general contractors more than one
billion dollars' worth of work while
scores of others were ignored.
Strikes, too. will be orobed where
they have halted defense orders and
some effort will be made to deter
mine how many millions of dollars
have been collected by dues before
an American citizen can work for
national defense. Estimates range
from $30,000,000 to $80,000,000 col
could be much better assured thru
the establishment of game manage
ment areas as joint projects of the
Oregon state game commission,
sportsmen's clubs, and private land
owner.
The report deals particularly with
the management of pheasants, quail,
and similar wild fowl, including
some discussion of water fowl. Steps
necessary in the establishment of a
management unit and the probable
results to be obtained are set out
in the bulletin.
CALL FOB WARRANTS
Outstanding warrants of School
District No. One, Morrow County,
Oregon, numbered 6487 to 6743 inclu
sive, will be paid on presentation
to the district clerk. Interest on
said warrants ceases April 11, 1941.
EVELYN ISOM, Clerk,
. School District No. One,
Heppner, Oregon.
Oregon
lected as initiation fees, or work
permits. No one knows the exact
figures, and the unions are not re
vealing their receipts from this
source.
After the first world war con
gress authorized many investigations,
but it was too late to remedy what
had been done. Now congress is
I moving in on the job in the heat of
I construction and the fever of pro
duction, and the fact that congress
is investigating will prevent graft
and crookedness, for not all are pa
triots. The lengths to which national de
fense can be strengthened is re
markable. The government, through
one of its bureaus, suggests that
rats be exterminated in the cause
of defense. This report says there
is one rat for every two persons in
the city mentioned and one rat to
every person in the rural areas. An
nual destruction caused by rats is
estimated at $180,000,000. On the
farms rat damage is about $10 a
year, or $63,000,000 for all farms.
The rodents cut grain in shocks and
granaries, from mangers,' pig stys
and poultry yards. No estimate is
made of baby chicks and eggs de
stroyed, but the report cites 188
chickens killed in one night on a
single farm.
Department of agriculture says
every farmer can help Britain by
raising pigs and poultry. Hog pro
ducts are needed desperately in the
British isles, and the secretary ad
vises hog raisers to go the limit as
there is a market for every pound.
There is nothing in the war for the
wheat men, as the British will take
wheat from Canada, which now has
on hand more than the British can
consume in two years, and the
carry-over in the United States is
expected to be 380,000,000 bushels.
Wheat, apparently, is a drug on the
market Government has pegged
prices to prevent skyrocketing thus:
Hogs, $9 per 100; dairy products,
basis of butter pound, 31 cents;
chickens, 15 cents a pound; eggs,
22 cents a dozen. These are the
principal items needed by the Brit
ish. Providing the right kind of Chro
mite can be found, the U. S. Van
adium Co. of New York intends
coming to the Pacific northwest,
locating in either Washington or
Oregon. . . . Rural population of Or
egon is 558,009, an increase of 93,969
in ten years. Washington rural pop
ulation is 814,222, an increase of
135,365 in ten years. The increase
is due to better farming and living
conditions.
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