NEWS
o 'Juice' Deal
Taxing Changes
o Road Fund Slice
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. Announcement that the
state board of control is negotiating
with the Bonneville administration
for the purchase of electricity for
use in the several state buildings in
the vicinity of Salem was made by
Governor Sprague this week. Ac
cording to the governor's announce
ment, a study just completed by O.
R. Bean, public utilities commis
sioner, shows that purchase of Bon
neville power at wholesale rates
would result in a saving to the state
of approximately $15,000 a year over
the price now being paid to the
Portland General Electric company.
Seen as a stumbling block in the
proposal to substitute Bonneville
power for that now supplied by the
private utility is the problem, of
transmission and distribution. Lack
ing any present authority to build
a power line to serve state buildings,
the state would either have to en
ter into a contract with the private
uility for use of its power poles or
persuade the Bonneville adminis
tration to construct the necessary
lines from a connection with its
high tension lines in Polk county.
Considerable confusion appears to
exist in the mind of the tax paying
public as to just what effect, if any,
the change in the tax year, voted
by the last legislature, is going to
have on their pocketbooks.
Here, then, is an attempt to ex
plain the situation:
The tax levy to be made by the
various taxing units this fall (state,
county, city, school district, etc.)
will cover only 50 percent of the
normal annual levy and will be pay
able in two quarterly installments,
March 15 and June 15. Then next
July (and each July thereafter) the
normal annual levy will be promul
gated. This levy will be made in
four annual installments Novem
ber 15, February 15, May 15 and
August 15.
For the property owner who pays
his taxes on the first due date in
order to take advantage of the cash
discount the new schedule will work
somewhat of a hardship in that he
will be called upon to pungle up
one and one-half times his normal
annual tax toll during 1942 a half
year's payment on March 15 and a
whole year's payment again on No
vember 15. On the other hand the
tax payer who pays on the install
ment plan will have only three quar
terly payments to make next year
March 15, June 15 and November
15 instead of the four quarterly
payments he would have made had
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Washington, D. C, Nov. 27 To
the White House went Oregon's Sen
ator McNary in response to a call
from President Roosevelt. There is
now in the house the omnibus rivers
and harbors bill, authorizing in ex
cess of one billion dollars for pro
jects. Out in front on the list, which
includes everything from develop
ment at Yaquina Bay to Umatilla
dam, is an item of several hundred
millions for the St. Lawrence wat
erway and power project. What did
the senator think of the bill?.
If, said Senator McNary, you toss
out the St. Lawrence project, the
Florida ship canal and the Tombig-
bee river, the bill would not be bad.
As the bill stands, he said, he could
not support it. But, hinted the
president, the Umatilla dam is in
eluded. That, answered McNary, is
a project so good that it can stand
on its own feet and pass the con
gress without being tied in with
flubdub. Besides, said the senator,
what would the people say if a sen
ator who has voted against a St.
Lawrence treaty and the Florida
canal should suddenly support the
omnibus bill because it has Uma
tila in it? Wouldn't that look as
though it was a sell-out; that a
senator had been bought?
Mr. Roosevelt laughed. There are
few senators who can talk straight
to the chief executive, and he likes
the frankness of McNary, leader of
the Republicans in the senate, the
so-called "loyal opposition." What,
inquired the president, did McNary
suggest? That was easy:- all the
the law not been changed.
After 1942, however, the tax pay
ing problem will settle back into old
groove, except for a change in dates,
with the cash customer paying his
bill on November 15 and taking the
discount and the installment payer
distributing his load over four quar
terly payments.
Oregon will receive a substantial
slice of the $220,000,000 defense high
way bill just signed by President
Roosevelt, in the opinion of R. H.
Baldock, state highway engineer. At
least $500,000 will be needed to
strengthen bridges on strategic high
ways in this state, Baldock points
out, while large sums will also be
needed for the construction of ac
cess roads leading to military bases
and industrial plants.
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president has to do is to telephone
Speaker Ray burn to nave tne di.
Lawrence and the Florida and Tom
bigbee items eliminated from, the
bill. But, said the president, all the
projects in the country had been
rolled into the omnibus bill for the
purpose of getting enough votes to
pass it and thus save the St. Law
rence; he was not particular about
Florida or Tombigbee, but he must
have the waterway and power plant.
If the bill comes to the senate
with St. Lawrence in it, observed
the senator, he will endeavor, when
it is in committee, to have each
item taken up and acted on individ
ually, and he was satisfied that on
this procedure he would be able to
knock out the St. Lawrence. Any
way, concluded McNary, that is a
treaty matter and not an agreement;
the senate has defeated it once when
presented as a treaty for ratification.
There the matter stands. Other
members of the northwest delega
tion, however, are inclined to sup
port the omnibus bill, fearing their
constituents will be angry if they
oppose it when the bill contains such
items as Umatilla.
The omnibus bill is an "authoriza
tion" measure and carries no ap
propriation. However, the president
can pick out of the list such projects
as he deems are for national de
fense. If the bill passes he plans
to bring out the St. Lawrence item
and shelve all the rest until after
the war and use them as a means of
employment on a massive WPA pro
gram. Opponents of this assert that
the St. Lawrence is not a national
defense measure; that, if started, it
will take steel, iron and other ma
terials away from sadly pressed in
dustries now engaged in defense
production. In this fashion, they in
sist, the project would interfere with
national defense.
In the price fixing bill now in de
bate in the house, it is estimated
that if a ceiling is placed on farm
products, based on the complicated
method of arriving at a price, the
ceiling will be as follows: Wheat
$1.34 a bushel, butterfat 44 cents a
pound, cheese 23.25 cents a pound,
eggs 41.5 cents a dozen, hogs $10.96
a hundred weight, cattle $9.18 a hun
dred weight, wool 49 cents a pound,
hay $18.02 a ton, butter 45.8 cents a
pound.
The farm bloc wants no ceiling,
arguing that in 1942 the cost of pro
duction for farmers will be so high
because of competition with war
industries for help and higher prices
for everything else used on the farm.
Priorities are now hitting the gov
ernment itself, although they were
intended to affect only civilian in
dustries and war defenses in part.
Because of priorities, work has had
to suspend on four public schools
in the national capital; a $10,000,000
hotel has stopped at the foundation;
a contractor is unable to obtain sup
plies to erect a building intended
to house one of the defense agencies;
work on two warships has been held
up for want of steel; four of five
plants with contracts to build tanks
cannot start; war department is
scurrying around to locate material
for the $30,000,000 building for which
foundation has been laid in the na
tional capital.
Notwithstanding these drawbacks
because of shortage, the government
is demanding steel frames and doors
for its new buildings and steel walls
for partitions, when lumbermen of
the Pacific northwest are unable to
sell their product because of federal
restrictions on strategic metals.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Acklen of
Madras were visiting friends and
relatives in Morrow county the end
of the week, calling in Heppner
Saturday. Mr. Acklen is principal
of the Madras grade school.
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
OF OREGON: You are hereby re
quired to appear and. answer the
complaint filed against you m the
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at former
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BOARDMAN NEWS
Boardman Folk Dine
On Thanksgiving
By BiRS. CLAUD COATS
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Mallery arriv
ed from Tacoma, Wash., Wednesday
to spend the Thanksgiving holidays
at the home of Mrs. Mallery's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Claud Coats.
Among the local people being din
ner guests Thanksgiving are Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Gorham and Mardell, and
Mr. and Mrs. George McNab who
were at Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Weth
erall's at Echo; Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Root, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Barlow and
daughter Carma who were guests
of Mr! and Mrs. Vernon Root of
Arlington. Mrs. Margaret Klitz en
tertained Mrs. Eva Warner. Mr. and
Mrs. Nick Faler, Mr. and Mrs. Glen
Mallery and the Coats' were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Ransier. Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. A. Corwin entertain
ed Mr. Corwin's father of Molalla.
Mrs. Olive Atteberry returned
home Friday after spending several
weeks with her son, Chet Atteberry,
and family of Roseburg.
Mrs. Dan Ransier, son Daniel and
Frank Marlow spent Friday visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Marlow of Uma
tilla. Sunday they will go to The
Dalles to be with Mrs. Frank Mar
low who is undergoing a serious op-
i eration at The Dalles hospital Mon
Iday. The grange pinochle party was
held at the Maude Kobow home
Saturday night. High honors went
to Mrs. D. F. Ransier and Russell
Miller, low to Mrs. Russell Miller
and Bill Harrington.
Norma Gibbons, teacher in the
Bend school returned Sunday after
spending the week end with her
mother, Mrs. Gladys Fortier.
Earl Cramer is leaving this week
for Spokane where he has a job
shearing lambs.
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
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.
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