VI
6 Heppner Gazette Times, February 26, 1942
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o Lowered Loans
o Forest Closing
o Tax Reconciliation
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. Outstanding loans of the
World War Veterans' State Aid
commission were reduced by more
than $1,000,000 from $8,355,104 to
$7,144,680 during 1941, according to
the annual report of Jerrold Owen,
executive secretary.
During the same period the com
mission reduced its property hold
ings from $2,725,853 to $2,097,726, the
report shows.
The State Land Board has agreed
to sell or lease approximately 100,
000 acres of state school lands in
central and southeastern Oregon to
the war department for use as gun
nery ranges. If the department de
cides to buy the land they can have
it at $2.50 an acre or the board will
lease the land at the rate of three
cents an acre per year. The land is
contained in two tracts, one located
in Malheur and Harney counties
and the other in Lake and Klamath
counties.
Giving ill health as the reason,
Brigadier General Aivin C. Baker
has resigned his command of the
Oregon State Guard and Governor
Sprague has promoted Colonel Ralph
P. Cowgill to the post as head of
the new guard organization.
Paving the way to more rigid con
trol over Oregon's timbered areas
during the war emergency Attorney
General Van Winkle this week rul
ed that the governor and state for
ester are vested with ample author
iy to bar all persons from entering
forest areas except those with leg
itimate business therein. The at
torney general's opinion held that
the governor and state forester may
determine, within reasonable limits,
the persons or business of persons
permitted to enter forested areas and
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the requirements to be observed by
those permitted to enter. Absolute
closure of forests is also permitted
by statute, the opinion pointed out,
when such a measure is regarded as
necessary to the protection of life
or property.
Consumption of alcoholic liquors
is on the increase in Oregon, accord
ing to the annual reports of the
State Liquor Control commission.
During 1941 432,802 cases of hard
liquor were sold by state liquor
stores and agencies compared to
388,057 cases in 1940, an increase of
11.53 percent, the report shows.
Beer sales increased from 11,515,911
gallons in 1940 to 12,883,179 in 1941,
an increase of 11.87 percent while
the same period saw an increase of
15.31 percent in the consumption of
wine from 800,385 gallons in 1940
to 922,916 gallons in 1941.
Reports to the efect that cigarette
tax revenues may be turned over to
the Red Cross or some similar agen
cy are without foundation so far as
funds in the hands of the state are
concerned. State officials point out
that they have no authority to dis
pose of this money, except to make
legitimate refunds. Disposition of
cigarette tax monies still in the
hands of dealers and distributors is
a matter over which the state ap
parently has no control inasmuch
as there was no law authorizing
their collection in the first place.
The Board of Control has approv
ed a proposal made by Warden Al
exander that inmates of the peni
tentiary be employed in cutting
wood for state institutions. Alexan
der estimates that by employing
prison labor wood can be laid down
at the institutions at a cost of ap
proximately $4 a cord including pay
ment of 50 cents a day to the con
victs for their labor.
Oregon property owners are ex
periencing considerable confusion
in their efforts to reconcile the cur
rent tax statements with advance
announcemens that the recent levy
would cover only a six month period.
Instead of a tax statement calling
for the payment of an amount ap
proximately one-half as large as
that which they paid a year ago
most property owners find their
iwna
FOR THE
LOW-COST POWER
current tax levy ranging between
60 and 70 percent of the 1941 levy
on the same piece of property. This
is accounted for by the fact that
while most tax levying bodies
state, counties and cities did levy
for only a six month period school
district levies in all but a few dis
tricts approximately 16 cover an
entire year. This is due to the fact
that school districts have been on a
fiscal year June to June basis.
That is the school levy included in
the current statement from June,
1941 to June, 1942. Heretofore much
of the school tax money has been
coming in after the close of the
fiscal year for which it was levied.
With the current levy payable in
two installments instead of four as
heretofore this condition is being
corrected in the general readjust
ment of the tax system to a fiscal
year instead of a calendar year ba
sis. The next tax levy to be made
in July and which becomes payable
in November will cover the fiscal
year from July 1, 1942, t June 30.
1943, for all tax levying bodies in
cluding school districts.
'
Plans for a substantial increase in
the Oregon State Guard were re
vealed by Governor Charles A.
Sprague in a state-wide broadcast
Sunday night Details of the plan,
the governor said, are being worked
out by Colonel Ralph P. Cowgill,
commander of the Guard regiment
but it will include the organization
of a number of new rifle companies.
Some of these new units will be lo
cated in eastern Oregon which up
to this time has no representation
in the new guard organization.
A total of 73,186 Oregon men be
tween the ages of 20 and 44 were
included in the latest registration,
according to Colonel Elmer V. Woo
ten, state director of selective ser
vice. Oregon with an annual death rate
from tuberculosis of less than 30 per
100,000 of population is making sat
isfactory progress in the fight to
stamp out this disease, Dr. G. C.
Bellinger told the state board of
control this week. The national av
erage, Bellinger said, is 50 per 100,
000. Whereas the percentage of
deaths from this disease was highest
among young women and young
men ten years ago, men in middle
life are now providing the most vic
tims, according to Bellinger, who
explained this condition as due to
the fact that men in this age group
are too busy to make the sacrifices
necessary to proper treatment of the
disease.
Roy Hendrickson, Uncle Sam's No.
1 buyer discussed marketing and
distribution problems with more
than 200 Oregon producers and pro
cessors at a conference in Salem this
week. Hendrickson, a former Iowa
newspaper man is now head of the
government's Agricultural Market
ing administration.
Thirty drunken drivers arrested
by state police in January paid fines
aggregating $1580 and in addition
were sentenced to an aggregate of
1088 days in jail, according to the
monthly report of Superintendent
Chas. P. Pray. Failure to display
1942 license plates resulted in the
arrest of 482 motorists who paid
fines totalling $977.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES, For the District
of Oregon.
IN THE MATTER OF Cecil Wise,
Bankrupt; No. B-26632 in Bankrupt
cy. Notice is hereby given to all
creditors than on the 7th day of
January A. D. 1942, Cecil Wise of
Heppner, Oregon, the bankrupt
above named, was duly adjudicated
bankrupt; and that the first meet
ing of his creditors will be held in
Office of Referee, West-Jacobson
Building, La Grande, Oregon, on the
7th day of March, 1942, at 10:00 A.
M., at which time said creditors may
attend, prove their claims, appoint
a trustee, examine the bankrupt,
and transact such other business as
may properly come before said
meeting.
Claims may be presented in form
required by the bankrupt act and
aworn. to. The schedule filed disclose
no assets, $975.56 liabilities, $65.00
exemptions claimed.
Dated La Grande, Oregon, Febru
ary 20, 1942.
H. E. DIXON,
Referee in Bankruptcy;
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been duly appoint
ed Executrix of the Last Will and
Testament of M. J. Devin, deceased,
by the County Court of the State of
Oregon, for the County of Morrow,
and has accepted such trust All
persons having claims against the
estate of M. J, Devin are requested
to file the same with the executrix at
the office of J. O. Turner in Hepp
ner, Oregon, within six months from
the date of this notice.
Date of first publication January
29, 1942.
DESSA HOFSTETTER,
Executrix.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned was duly appointed by
the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Morrow County, Admin
istrator of the estate of Oscar Davis,
deceased, and all persons having
claims against the estate of said
deceased, are hereby required to
present the same with proper vouch
ers duly verified to the said Ad
ministrator at the law office of
Frank W. King, Piatt Building, Port
land, Oregon, within six months
from the date of this notice.
Dated and first published this 19th
day of February, 1942.
HOMER LEE DAVIS,
Administrator.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned was duly appointed by
the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Morrow County, Admin
istrator of the estate of Emmett L.
Ayers, deceased, and all persons hav
ing claims against the estate of said
deceased, are hereby required to
present the same with proper vouch
ers duly verified to the said Ad
ministrator at the law office "of P.
W. Mahoney, Heppner, Oregon, with
in six months from the date of this
notice.
Dated and first published this 12th
day of February, 1942.
PIRL L. HOWELL,
Administrator.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned administrator of the es
tate of William T. Reynolds deceas
ed, has filed with the County Court
of the State of Oregon for Morrow
County, his final account of his ad
ministration of the estate of said
deceased, and that said court has
fixed Monday, the 9th day of March,
1942, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock in
the forenoon of said day as the time
for hearing objections to said final
account and the settlement of said
estate, and all persons having ob
jections thereto are hereby required
to file the same with said court on or
before the time set for said hearing.
Dated and first published this 5th
day of February, 1942.
GLENN A. FARRENS,
Administrator.
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