6 Heppner Gazette Times, March 26, 1942
NEWS
Small Political Crop
Bond Redemption
o Spotlighted Scatt
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. Veteran observers of po
litical events about the capitol are
agreed that the crop of candidates
developed in the pre-primary cam
paign to date is one of the smallest
in recent Oregon history. With more
than 100 state offices to fill only
80 candidates had filed up to Satur
day night. While many more will
have volunteered their services be
fore this appears in print the pros
pects are that there will still be
many vacancies, especially for leg
islative seats, when filing time closes
at 5:00 p. m. next Tuesday. Even if
the customary last-day stampede is
repeated this year it is hardly pro
bable that the total of filings will
approach that of 1940 when 417 men
and women were entered in the
race for state offices, or that of 1938
when 423 candidates filed.
So far only one candidate has filed
for each of the three posts to be
filled on the supreme bench. The
same situation prevails with respect
to the offices of attorney general,
labor commissioner and superinten
dent of public instruction while in
many of the legislative dstricts no
candidate of either party has filed.
Secretary of State Snell has an
nounced that the doors of his office
will be closed to candidates promptly
at 5:00 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
although any who are in the office
at that time will be permitted' to
complete their filing and declara
tions sent in by mail and bearing a
postmark prior to that hour will be
accepted as meeting the require -
merits.
Oregon's bonded debt which hit a
high of $66,062,810 on January 1,
1928, will be down to $29,648,235 on
April 1. On that date State Trea
surer Scott will pay off $1,075,000 in
highway bonds and $700,000 in Ore-
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gon veterans' state aid bonds.
It will no longer be possible to
slip up on the elusive clam in the
dark that is not until the war ends.
Governor Sprague, at the request
of military authorities, has banned
night clam digging or any other ac
tivity that involves the use of lights
on the beach. Furthermore the sale
and use of fireworks of all kinds
have been banned in Oregon for the
duration.
Prospect that Oregon may have to
forego its annual state fair this year
was seen when J. D. Mickle, director
of the state department of agricul
ture, announced that the fair would
not be able to operate if revenues
from he dog races were cut off. The
fair's share of these racing revenues
last year amounted to $30,000. With
out this money, Mickle said, it would
not be possible to pay the premiums
usually offered to exhibitors in the
various departments.
Although he is the only member
of the state board of control who is
not a candidate for public office at
this time or perhaps it is because
of this reason State Treasurer Les
lie M. Scott almost monopolized the
publicity spotlight around the cap
itol this past week.
First the treasurer gained atten
tion with a statement hitting at
those who have been making so
much ado over he so-called surplus
in state income tax revenues. This
surplus, if any, Scott pointed out
"is very much exaggerated. Just
something for the politicians to talk
about to please the voters," is the
way he put it.
Technically, at least he is correct
since the $1,800,000 in excess col
lections that had accumulated as of
last 'December disappeared when
the tax commission earmarked this
money for state needs in the current
tax levy and until heavy tax pay
ments of the past two weeks there
was not enough money to the credit
of the general fund to meet state
expenses for the current, six month
period let alone any surplus.
Scott again claimed the limelight
when he cracked down on certain
unnamed justices of the peace who,
he charged, are making a racket out
of, traffic cases which come into
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their courts. These justices, the state
treasurer explained, assess the of
fenders a fine and costs then remit
the fine on condition that the cost
is paid and pocket the costs as their
fees, leaving the state and county,
which are rightfully entitled to the
fines, to hold the sack.
Scott also criticized justices who
assess exhorbitant costs on minor
traffic law violators. Some of these,
especially in Klamath county, he
pointed out, assess costs of $8.00 in
these cases even when the accused
enters a plea of guilty, whereas, in
his opinion costs in such cases should
not exceed $4.50.
These practices, Scott explained,
were exposed by agents of his de
partment engaged in checking up on
traffic fines and collecting amounts
due the state from this source.
In spite of the fact that defer
ment from military service is being
granted to farm workers there is
still a serious shortage of men for
work on the farms due to heavy en
listments among farm boys and to
the migration of hundreds of men
from farms to the cities to take bet
ter paying jobs in defense indus
tries, according to Colonel Elmer V.
Wooten, state director of selective
service. While there appears to be
plenty of common labor for farm
work, Wooten said, the shortage is
in men who are able to repair and
operate farm machinery.-
Some 5000 farmers whose opera
tions are covered by the state in
dustrial accident fund will welcome
the news that their insurance pre
mium rate is to be reduced from
$4.60 to $4.00 per $100 of payroll as
the result of action taken by the
Industrial Accident commission this
week. Contractors engaged in home
construction were also granted a
rate reduction from $7.00 to $4.00 per
$100 of payroll. The new reduced
rates will become effective as of
July 1, next
Other states may have their "fifth"
columnists but Oregon is to go these
one better with an organizaion of
"sixth" columnists. These will be the
numerous volunteer groups, gun
clubs and "guerillas" which have
been organized to meet any at
tempted invasion by an enemy force.
Governor Sprague has instructed
Colonel Ralph P. Cowgill, command
er of the state guard regiment, to
regularize these groups by giving
them a definite military status as
reservists. In the event of capture
their members would then be enti
tled to treatment as prisoners of
war, the governor explained. Other
wise they would be subject to im
mediate execution.
With the training of civilian de
fense instructors in western Oregon
practically completed instruction of
similar groups in eastern Oregon
counties will be started immediately,
according to Jerrold Owen, state de
fense coordinator. The training pro
gram is under the direction of Jack
Hayes.
Round Won in Fight
On Venereal Disease
Portland (Special) Oregon has
definitely won the first round in the
fight against the venereal diseases,
it was intimated here yesterday by
Dr. Frderick D. Strieker, state health
officer. While public health and law
enforcement agencies are still 'far
short of effecting an absolute knock
out, Eh-. Strieker said, an adoption of
the four-point program relating to
health and recreation for the sol
diers to be quartered at the new
Benton county cantonment repre
sents a substantial gain.
Dr. Strieker's reference was to the
unanimous endorsement by respon
sible officials of Marion, Polk, Linn,
and Benton counties and of the ma
yors of the cities in the cantonment
area, of a four-point program sug
gested by Dr. Adolph Weinzirl, head
of the social hygiene education di
vision of the University of Oregon
medical school. The program calls
for: adequate facilities for the dis
covery and treatment of the vener
eal disease; strict enforcement of
laws relating to prostitution; ade
quate recreational facilities; and full
public information regarding the
danger of venereal infection.
The program was formally adopted
by the conference ' of mayors and
county officials held in Salem last
week.
We've got Axis to grind.
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Who'd lived eighty years in
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Said "Sho'nuff, I'll buy
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Spangled Bannah!"
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the Asia! Save with U. S.
Bond and Stamps
every
pay day.
Pendleton Army
Station Reopened
The U. S. Army recruiting service
has reopened their office in the Post
Office building, Pendleton. Sergeant
Lewis T. Hammack, well known re
cruiter in eastern Oregon will be
in charge of the station.
Sergeant Hammack announced the
Army is in need of young men for
every branch of the service. All men
are classified at the reception center
and placed in the branch of service
where they are best fitted. In most
cases a man will follow the line of
work he has been doing in civilian
life. Men who do not have any spe
cial' training will be sent to army
schools after proper training and
showing ambition to take advantage
of the opportunities offered in the
service today.
Those men who wish to make ap
plication for the Officer Training
School may do so after four months
service in the ranks. The army is
going to train 75,000 young men as
officers during the next year. Com
plete details concerning the army
may be secured from Sergeant Ham
mack in the Post Office building,
Pendleton.
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