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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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