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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, January 22, 1942
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
Next Move
Wives' Skirts
0 Valuation Rise
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. The next move in the
controversy over the cigarette tax is
now up to the state supreme court.
That tribunal has taken original
jurisdiction in a mandamus suit
brought by the State Retail Grocers
association in an effort to compel
Secretary of State Snell to restore
the referendum against the tax act
to the November ballot. Arguments
in. this suit will be heard by the
court Friday (January 23) and be
cause of the importance of the case
an early opinion is expected.
In the meantime the state tax
commission which started to en
force collection of the tax on cig
arettes on January 8 is continuing
with this program with revenues
from this source rolling in at the
rate of more than $1000 a day.
Should the court grant the writ of
madam us as petitioned for by the
Retail Grocers is it expected that
collecion of the tax will be halted
immediately at least until the voters
pass judgment upon the legislative
act next November.
In this connection the question has
been raised as to what will be done
with the taxes collected in the event
the voters reject the act assuming
they get a chance at it. Some auth
orities argue that it would then be
up to the state to refund the taxes
paid. But this again raises the ques
tion as to whom he taxes would be
refunded. While the state holds the
cigarette tax dealers responsible for
payment of the tax these dealers act
only as collection agencies for the
state, passing the tax on to the con
sumer in the form of an increase in
the price of cigarettes. Therefore
they can hardly be said to be en
titled to a refund of a tax which
they have not paid. In all fairness
any refund that might be made in
any such a situation should be made
to the people who pay the tax the
smokers, but inasmuch as their num
ber will run into the thousands with
no record of their purchases and tax
payments the impracticability of any
such a program is at once apparent.
Men of military age are no longer
to be allowed to hide behind their
wives' skirts in their efforts to
dodge the draft. New draft regula
tions just received by Lt. Col. Elmer
V. Wooten, state director of select
ive service, show that men who mar
ried after the United States declar
ed war on Japan on December 8 are
not eligible to deferment. Further
more men who married since the
selective service act became effect
ive on September 16, 1940, must
prove that they did not take a wife
in order to evade the draft in order
to gain deferment. Neither will mar
ried men of military age whose
wives are employed be eligible to
deferred classification under the new
regulations, which are expected to
make thousands of men heretofore
listed in class 3 available for imme
diate induction into the army.
The board of control has approv
ed the plans for the new medical
center and treatment dormitory at
the state hospital in Salem. Imme
diate construction of the building,
however, is now up to the contract
ors. If the building can be con
structed within the cost limits set
by the legislative appropriation of
$325,000 the board is ready to go
ahead with the job. Otherwise it
will probably have to wait until
labor and material costs return to
normal unless the next legislature
is willing to increase the appropria
tion. The building, a two- and three
story fire-proof structure will serve
as the medical center for the entire
institution which now houses more
than 2500 inmates. In addition it will
provide dormitory space for 50 addi
tional beds.
Women and children must be pre
pared to volunteer for service in
the harvest fields of Oregon this year
to take the places left vacant by
men entering the military service
and the defense industries Gover
nor Sprague told a conference of
agriculturists here last week. Plans
were made at the conference for a
house-to-house canvass of the state
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You're in for the surprise of your life when
you see and drive the John Deere Model "H"
the sensational new small tractor that handles
two-row equipment and completely replaces
animal power on small and large farms every
where, cutting costs 'way below their former
level, and making farming more profitable.
And when you learn the price, you'll wonder
how John Deere can give you so much in a tractor
that sells for so little.
In addition, the Model "H" not only burns low
cost fuel but it uses only 13 to 12 as much fuel
on the many jobs within its power range, as would
larger tractors handling the same load.
Come in, see it, and get "the surprise of your
life."
BRADEN-BELL TRACTOR
& EQUIPMENT CO.
to enroll 300,000 women for farm
work, the survey to begin February
16.
For the first time in many years
the assessed valuation of property
in Oregon is again on the upgrade.
Valuations on the 1941 roll show an
increase of approximately six per
cent over those of 1940, according
to a summary just released by the
state tax commission. This summary
shows the assessed value of all
property in Oregon on the 1941 roll
to ba $900,944,739.66 compared to
$896,787,005.95 in 1940.
The valuation of property assess
ed by county assessors increased
irom $736,802,585.50 in 1940 to $792,
083,486.50 in 1941 while that of public
utility property assessed by the
state tax commission increased from
$159,984,420.45 to $168,861,253.16.
While the valuation of tillable and
timber lands for tax purposes show
sharp decreases valuation of all oth
er classes of property show in
creases. Plans for securing more federal
funds for public lands counties were
considered at a conference in Salem
this week attended by delegates
from most of the western states. The
conference gave its endorsement to
a bill introduced by Senator Mc
Nary whicii provides for the pay
ment of two percent of the fair val
ue of public lands in lieu of taxes
that would be paid for these lands
if in private ownership.
Ebployer contributions to the un
employment insurance fund in 1941
were 27 percent greater than for
1940 while at the same time benefit
payments to jobless workers were
reduced by 39 percent. As a result
the unemployment compensation
trust fund increased during the year
by $6,322,229 to reach a total of
$16,378,561 at the close of the year.
There are plenty of certified tea
chers in Oregon, according to Rex
Putnam, state superintendent of
public instruction, but so many of
them are being attracted to defense
jobs and other positions offering
high pay that public education in
this state is facing a serious situa
tion. If the schools are to hold com
petent teachers, Putnam points out,
salaries must be increased to some
where near a parity with those paid
in other lines of employment.
The reputation of Oregon's civil
ian defense program has penetrated
to the far corners of the nation. This
week two high placed Nebraska state
officials came to Salem to confer
with Jerrold Owen, state defense di
rector, about the civilian defense
organization. Walter F. Roberts,
Nebraska's civilian defense coordin
ator, told Owen that he had been
informed that Oregon led the nation
in its preparedness for protection of
the civilian population in the event
of an attack.
Receipts of the World War Vet
erans State Aid commission for 1941
totalling $2,660,060 were the largest
in the commission's history and
$265,000 above the receipts for 1940.
There were approximately 1500
fewer horses on Oregon farms in
1941 than in 1940, .according to re
ports submitted to the state tax com
mission by county assessors. The
state's swine population was also
down but the number of cattle and
sheep was substantially increased.
BETTER FEEDING PAYS
On the average farm approxim
ately 50 per cent of the total cost of
producing milk or butterfat is feed
cost, according to the authors of a
new bulletin on "Feeding for Milk
Production," issued recently at Ore
gon State college. Under present
conditions, when dairy product pri
ces are relatively high, more seed
can be used economically in many
cases, however. Early preparation
for providing an abundance of pas
ture and other succulent feeds this
season to supplement hay and grain
will insure both maximum produc
tion and maximum profits.
IS CAMPUS PHOTOGRAPHER
University of Oregon, Eugene, Jan.
21. Don Jones, Heppner, a student
in journalism at University of Ore
gon, has recently been appointed the
nhoto editor of the Oreeon
Daily Emerald, student publication.
This announcement was made by
Helen Aneell. editor in chief, follow
ing an Emerald staff meeting at the
beginning of the new term.
Rubber Yielding
Plants Will be Tested
By State College
Promising rubber-producing plants
that might possibly be adapted for
growing in Oregon will be tested
here as soon as they are available,
says G. R. Hyslop, head of the plant
industries division at Oregon State
college. Professor Hyslop recently
returned from Washington, D. C,
where he conferred with federal of
ficials on this subject.
Interest in such plants was in
creased recently with announcement
by the National Farm Chemurgic
council that a form of dandelion
known as Kok-sagyz is grown in
Russia as a source of rubber. The
suggestion was made that this plant
could be grown in the midwest and
possibly here on the coast.
As this announcement came while
Professor Hyslop was in Washing
ton, he immediately conferred with
Senator Charles L. McNary, who is
much interested in a new source of
rubber. A conference was held with
officials in charge of rubber plant
investigations in the bureau of plant
industry where it was learned that
this partcular dandelion plant while
considered of economic importance
under Russian conditions, would
hardly be suitable here.
Reports obtained by these spe
cialists show that the plant yields
only 30 to 50 pounds an acre of
rubber rather than the much higher '
yield suggested in the press releases
recently issued Guayule a subber
bearing plant grown now in south
western United States, is considered
much more practical for use in this
country than the dandelion plant,
Piofessor Hyslop learned
Here in Oregon an arrangement
has been made to have certain milky
juice plants that grow readily here
assayed for their rubber content as
soon as plants are available At cer
tain stages in the lives of these
plants the rubber content is rather
low but as maturity is approached
some of these shorter-lived plants
show an increase in rubber content
that may be of economic import
ance, says Professor Hyslop. A num
ber of new milky juice annuals and
perennials will be sent here for
testing
MORROW STUDENTS AT E.O.C.E.
Eastern Oregon College of Edu
cation, La Grande, January 21.
From Morrow county Ralph Skoubo
of Boardman is a new student en
rolled at the Eastern Oregon Col
lege of Education in La Grande, in
addition to the five returning stu
dents from Morrow county. Return
ing students are Helen Lindsay, lone,
daughter of James Lindsay; Willard
Jones, Irrigon, son of R. V. Jones;
and Roy Partlow, Boardman, son of
Paul Partlow; Ted Wilson, Board
man, son of Pat Wilson, La Grande;
and Kathryn Parker, Heppner,
daughter of Frank S. Parker.
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cussion, please bring before
the Council.
J. O. TURNER, Mayor
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