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jr. : Page Six STATE CAPITAL NEWS O Women at Work o Insanity Factors o Workless 28,000 By A. L. LINDBECK Salem. Oregon farmers will be more dependent upon women for the harvesting of their crops next year than ever before, it was re vealed at a conference in Salem this week between representatives of grower organizations and officials of the state employment service. With the nation's armed forces and the defense industries absorbing more and more of the available man power women will be expected to take up the burden of the home front, employment service officials pointed out. A committee of grow ers was appointed to investigate the problem of transporting helpers to the harvest fields and plans were made for a survey of women who will be available for work next year. Old age, alcoholism and syphillis are the three principal contributing factors to insanity, according to rec ords of the Oregon State hospital. Approximately one-fifth of the in stitution's male patients- are there because of too much drink. Syphil lis which is the principal contrib uting cause in approximately seven per cent of the hospital's cases has shown a decrease of approximately 50 per cent in the past decade. While between 800 and 1000 new patients are being admitted to the institu tion each year the population of the hospital shows only a small gain each year due to rapid cure of many of the patients. Representatives of the cooperative flax processing plants at Canby, Mt. Angel, St. Paul and Springfield con ferred with members of the state board of control this week relative to the establishment of a uniform price for flax fibre. While No. 1 fibre which a few years ago was I 1 of the JOHN DEERE Here's the answer to the world-wide cry for low-cost horseless farming. Whether you have a small farm or need auxiliary power for a large farm, the smaller, lower-priced Model "II" will handle your every job at rock-bottom cost. Delivers 3-way power. Cultivates 2 rows. , Fits all crops. Equipment for every need. Powered with a simple 2-cylinder engine, the Model "II" burns low-cost fuel and gives you longer life, greater dependability. BRADEN-BELL TRACTOR and EQUIPMENT COMPANY Heppner bringing only 27 cents a pound is now selling at 60 cents a pound some of the cooperatives felt that Oregon processors, including the state prison plant, should take ad vantage of the present emergency to boost the price still higher. Board of control members expressed the fear that higher prices might result in the use of flax substitutes and kill the market which has been built up for this commodity on which Oregon has a virtual monop oly in the United States. While architects continue to push the plans for the new treatment hos pital at the state institution for men ally diseased, board of control mem bers are fearful that construction of this much needed improvement may have to be postponed until labor and material prices recede from their present high level. Construc tion costs have advanced substan tially since the legislature author ized the expenditure of $325,000 for this improvement. Only last week the board rejected all bids on a garage building for the eastern Ore gon hospital at Pendleton when these were found to exceed estim ated costs and a few weeks ago bids on a new cottage at the school for the blind were thrown out for the same reason. Members of the state legislature will find the ventilating systems in the house and senate chambers greatly improved when they return to the capitol for the next session An engineer employed by the board of control to investigate the condi tion about which the lawmakers have complained1 loudly ever since their first session in the new build ing found that the fault lay in the type of valve used in the system. Instead of holding the temperature at a uniform level this valve now in use throws alternate currents of hot and cold air into the rooms to the great 'discomfort of the legisla ture and their assistants. The rem edy, the engineer has reported, is simple and inexpensive. More than 28.000 Oregon workmen now employed in logging camps, lumber mills and the building trades will be out of work by March 15 unless the OPM can be persuaded to ease up on its recent priorities LOW-COST POWER Gazette Times, Heppner, ruling striking at non-defense con struction, L. C. Stoll, director of the state employment service de clared at a conference here last week called by Governor Sprague to consider the threatened curtail ment of the state's lumber and build ing industry. The OPM order, which is being protested by Governor Sprague, freezes essential materials such as nails, wire and plumbing hardware, for defense uses. Announcement of the freezing order, it was testified resulted in an immediate slump in orders for lumber. Lumber opera tors from the Coos Bay, Cklumbia river and Willamette valley areas declared that the effect of the order was already resulting in curtailment of operations with, some mills dis- nnmnllinf Vlh 1-11 Cf1- cVllff wVllIp- filth - ers plan to shorten ther work week to three or four days. Judd Greenman, Vernonia lum- berman and member of the gover nor's economic council, criticized the OPM order as bureaucratic bung ling and declared that there was plenty of the restricted essential materials for all needs. At a meeting in Portland Tues day an eight-man committee ap pointed by the governor made plans for carrying the fight against the OPM order to Washington. There may be a threatened short-1 ase of taoer in this country but! apparently Uncle Sam s bureaucrats are not aware of it. Last week just as national defense week was draw ing to a close the state office of civilian defense received from Wash ington office of OPM a box weigh ing 240 pounds. Opened it was found to , contain several thousand large posters printed on heavy pa per advertising "National Defense Week." Too late to use the ship ment represents a total loss an ex ample of extravagance and waste, that is typical of federal bureaus. Not only did the shipment represent a waste of paper but the shipment cost the taxpayers $31.75 in express charges on to of the cost of printing the posters. Similar, if somewhat smaller shipments were received at each countv defense headouarters ana at many ciues oi uie ouiic 1 j. 'a: 4- 4-U n I which are organized under the civ ilian defense program and it is a safe guess that this example of bu reaucratic bungling was repeated in every state of the union. Henry Semon, Klamath county potato king and state representative from that county, thinks the state should build up a sizeable reserve fund out of surplus income tax rev enues against the time when the bottom drops out of the present boom and the people will not be as able to pay taxes as they are now. Semon was in Salem this week at tending a conference on agricultur al employment. Oregon's new state librarian, Miss Eleanor Sharpless Stephens arrived last week to take over her new duties. Miss Stephens comes to Or egon from Los Angeles where she was on the staff of the Los Angeles county library. Joe Wilson, Newport republican, is the first candidate to file for a seat in the state legislature. Wilson wants to represent Lincoln county in the house. Citizenship Campaign Introduced Here University of Oregon, Eugene, Nov. 19. Every high school senior in Heppner will this week be given a copy of "Calling the Youth of the Nation," a 30-page pamphlet just released by the state system of higher education in cooperation with the state department of education and the state curriculum committee; according to announcement of the I NOWHERE 1 FACTORY MACHINE for 1 lawnmower sharpening. We'll make your lawnraower like new. We also do sw filing, bi- evele repairing, floor sanding, 1 1 knife and scissor sharpening I and band saw work. N. D. Bailey Oregon school of education at the University of Oregon. A recent survey made by the ed ucational policies commission of the teaching of democracy and citizen ship in American high schools re vealed an incomplete understanding of democratic way of life on the part of high school boys and girls. When asked what democracy meant to them, only 27 per cent voluntarily recognized their obliga tions and responsibilities. They were completely loyal and anxious to de fend it, but there was need for more thorough and systematic in struction as to the nature of the social, political and economic sys tem which they are asked to de fend. "Calling the Youth of the Nation" is a simplified high school version of the latest publication of the edu cational policies which attempts to provide the fundamental under standings of democracy today and to analyze the dangers which threat en it. The book was prepared by Hugh B. Wood, professor of education at the University of Oregon; Paul F. Potter, vice-principal of Eugene high school, and Howard J. Akers, Roosevelt junior high school at Eu gene. The educational commission thinks so highly of the book that it is being reprinted for national distribution from its offices in Wash ington. Read the ads. It pays. SUMMONS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF MORROW. Linda K. Smith, Plaintiff vs. Thom as Franklin Smith, Defendant. To Franklin K. Smith, the above named defendant: IN THE NAME OF THE STATE j OF OREGON: You are hereby re- quired to appear and answer thej complaint filed against you in the : above entitled Court and cause with- ' in four weeks of the date of first' publication of this summons, and if! you fail to so appear or answer, for want thereof, the plaintiff will ap-1 ply to the Court for relief as prayed for in said complaint; to-wit: For! a decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant and granting the plaintiff an absolute decree of divorce from the defend ant This summons is served upon you by publication thereof for a period of four consecutive weeks, in the Heppner Gazette Times by order of the Honorable Bert Johnson, Judge of the County Court of Morrow County, State of Oregon, which said order was made and entered on the 17th day of November, 1941, and the first date of publication of this sum mons is the 20th day of November, 1941. J. O. TURNER, Attorney for Plaintiff. Postoffice address: Heppner, Oregon. Professional Directory Phelps Funeral Home Licensed Funeral Directors Phone 1332 Heppner, Ore. NEW AUTO POLICY Bodily Injury & Property Damage Class A $13.60 Class B $17.00 See us before financing your next automobile. F. W. TURNER & CO. 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 4S84 635 MEAD BUILDING 5th at Washington PORTLAND, OREGON Thursday, November 20, 1941 J. 0. Turner ATTORNEY AT LAW Phone 173 Hotel Heppner Building HEPPNER. ORE. A. D. McMurdo, M. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Trained None Assistant Office In Masonic Building Heppner, Oregon Heppner Abstract Co. J. LOGIE RICHARDSON, Mgr. BATHS SEASONABLE Roberts Building Heppner, Ose. P. W. Mahoney ATTORNEY AT LAW GENEBAL X2TSTJBANCE Heppner Hotel Building Willow St. Entrance J. 0. Peterson Latest Jewelry and Gift Goods Watches . Clocks Diamonds Expert Watch and Jewelry Repairing Heppner, Oregon Vawter Parker- ATTORNEY-AT-LAW . First National Bank Building Dr. Richard C. Lawrence DENTIST X-Ray and Extraction by Gas First National Bank Bldg. Phone 562 Heppner, Oregon Dr. L. D. Tibbies OSTEOPATHIC Physician & Surgeon FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG. Rec. Phone 1162 Office Phone 492 HEPPNER, OREGON 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 MAKE DATES AT MY EXPENSE Morrow County Abstract fir Title Co. INC. ABSTBACTS OF TITLE TITLE INSUBANCE Office in New Peters Building Peterson fir Peterson ATTORNEYS AT LAW U. 8. National Bank Building PENDLETON, OREGON Practice In State and Federal Courts Real Estate General Line of Insurance and Bonds W. M. EUBANKS Notary Pnbllo Phone 62 lone, Ore. M. L. CASE G. E. NIKANDER Directors of Funerals 862 Phones 262