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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1942)
8 Heppner Gazette Times, May 7, 1942 STATE CAPITAL NEWS 18,000 Edge Light Vote o Good Tax System By A. L. LINDBECK The Republicans still hold an 18, 000 edge in Oregon on the basis of pre-primary registrations just com pleted by the state department. Two years ago the Republicans had a majority of 21,500 in the state, los ing 7,014 in the interim while the Democrats were losing only 3436. While the Republicans recorded gains in 19 counties and the Demo crats forged ahead of the 1940 reg istrations in 22 counties these gains were more than offset in the re maining counties. The grand total of all registrants 527,084 is 11,106 short of the 1940 total. Of this number 269,232 are Republicans and 251,313, Democrats. State officials are predicting a light primary vote some as low as 40 percent of the registration. The war, it is felt, has so completely overshadowed politics that the pub lic is taking very little interest in the campaign. The absence of thou sands of registered voters now in the armed services of the nation, is also expected to cut seriously into the primary vote. Two ' years ago the Republicans rallied 54 percent of their voters to the polls while the Democrats were able to muster only a 43 percent vote. Four years ago 49 percent of the registered Repub licans and 48 percent of the Demo cratic registrants went to the polls to cast their vote on primary elec tion day. The state highway department has been notified by the federal bureau of roads that the war de partment has turned thumbs down on any more work on the Pacific highway between Roseburg and , Grants Pass and the upper Col urn - bia highway between Portland and Cascade Locks. The department was preparing to advertise for bids on Till ABOUT J you CAN AMUT -.. eftO rtllU 100K At 5ifcf"' i r u ikeL T .1 fkiV JOHN DEERE 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. i iif win1 t lafrrarerry ji projects on these two roads and had asked for war department approval. Oregon's law makers will find the temperatures in the House and Sen ate under better control when they return to Salem for the next ses sion. The board of control has aw arded the contract for the necessary changes in the temperature controls in the legislative chambers to a Portland concern. Bids entered for the air conditioning of other rooms in the capitol were rejected by the board as too high. When the returns from Oregon's 57 local draft boards had been tab ulated at the office of the state selecive service board it was found that a total of 142,922 men between the ages of 45 and 65 years had signed Up for possible service in the national emergency. Previous esti mates had placed the registration in Oregon at only 110,000. According to Governor Sprague the state board of health has ar ranged to dispense with much of the red tape heretofore surrounding the issuance of delayed birth certificates to native Oregonians. Under the new plan these certificates will be issued upon whatever supporting evidence the applicant may be able to produce. Oregon's tax system may not be perfect but on the whole it is better than that of any other state, in the opinion of Charles V. Galloway, veteran chairman of the state tax commission. Taking to the air, in a 45-minute broadcast Saturday night Galloway struck back at critics who for the past year have been sniping at the tax commission in particular and the Oregon tax system in general. Admitting that honest and con structive criticism and helpful ef fort are always in order, Galloway declared that "the long continued campaign to exaggerate and publi cize every small defect of that sys tem (Oregons tax system) has done and is doing much to impede Ore gon's development and retard its progress. Galloway branded as "distinctly not true," assertions at random that property taxes or income taxes are repelling capital and retarding in- ECONOMY CULTtrATF ku AI&mS? AW LJili. ...csuo-SIPHONCnrwi W IT BURNS WEI SUCCESSFUL ?r ,T$ CERTAINLY -PlENrr fS THE 10W PRC 1H4T 4PPf Alt Tn ... flo3''&P its cor fVf ... . fvmt dustrial development; pretentious representations of candidates for public office, big and little, that our tax system is archaic and disorder ed; false allegations that taxes of all kinds in Oregon are inordinately high and going higher every year; unending squawking of unregener ated sales taxers to the effect that nothing else will do; pernicious ef forts of all around trouble makers to promote tax strikes and impair orderly administration of the tax laws." "All such and many more are but the varied manifestations of a fifth column activity in respect to taxa tion in Oregon; an activity uninten tioned, of course, but real and per nicious nevertheless. "Even if such representations were true no worthy service to Ore gon is rendered in advertising them to the world. But, distinctly, they are not true. Oregon's whole sys tem of taxation and its fiscal posi tion dependent thereon never were in better condition than they are today." Reading courses offered by the state library cover a total of 468 subjects, according to Miss Eleanor Stephens, librarian. During the cur rent biennium 784 new "students" were enrolled in these courses. These "students" include CCC enrollees, business men, farmers, soldiers, tea chers, housewives, hospital patients and prisoners. Hereafter men inducted into mili tary service will be given furloughs of not to exceed ten days in which to settle up business affairs, ac cording to Colonel Elmer V. Wooten, state director of selective service. Applications for furlough, however, must first be approved by local draft boards. Secretary of State Earl Snell spent last week in Washington, D. C, at tending a meeting of the highway advisory committee to the war de partment of which he is a member. A total of 21,862 of Oregon's needy aged were given financial assistance during March, according to a report of the State Public Welfare com mission. Old age pension payments for the month averaged $22.57 for the state, with Multnomah county payments topping the list at an av erage of $24.27 and Curry couny payments the lowest in the state with an average of only $15.53. Dr. W. H. Rockwell Naturopathic Physician & Surgeon Gilman Bldg. Office hours: 1 p. m. to 7:30 p. m. Exam free Ph. 522 Heppner, Or. Mi w lin I SCRAP IRON WILL HELP WIN 8 Ends 50 Year Milk Delivery Service Heppner housewives are receiving their morning delivery of milk as usual, but if they are up soon enough to notice, a different deliveryman is on the job. Beginning May 1 John J. Wightman, 30-odd year veteran deliveryman turned over the job to Ralph Beamer, popular young gro cery deliveryman. Mr. Wightman's action was caus ed partly by the tire situation there is no priority for rigs delivering wholesale and partly by acquiring a large wholesale account from Kin zua Pine Mills which necessitates use of the dairy's delivery equip ment. In building up what is recognized as one of the finest dairies in the state, Wightman brothers did not act' blindly. Both John and Bob started in the game as youngsters back near Harrisburg, Pa. Mr. Wightman was route director for a leading dairy in Harrisburg and besides milked in barns which were whitewashed spotlessly clean daily. He recalls landing in Kansas City, Mo., on his way to Oregon the year of the Heppner flood, 1903. Kansas City, or at least the train yard section was having an inundation of its own. The depot basement was piled sev eral feet deep with silt, and yards about were a bed of drowned live stock, washed in from cars and pack ing yards. Mr. Wightman needed work, but he didn't have the stom ach for the depot cleaning job for which they were taking all comers. He had made up his mind, too, that he had enough of milk handling. But on applying at an employment agency the only work he could find was in a dairy. Here he learned another phase of the milk business. The dairy sup plied a big bakery. John was put on the milking end, some 30 cows twice daily, with orders that each ten gallon milk can have a gallon of water in the bottom before the milk was poured in. Then should the milk supply fail to fill all the cans, more water be added to bring them up. The milk business in Kansas City wasn't to Mr. Wightman's liking and he soon made his way to Heppner to start the dairy that has continu ously supplied Heppner with milk since. The herd was built from the beginning with purebred stock, and all facilities kept up to date, latest improvement being the addition of a large feeding bam and "milking parlor" completed a few months ago. John was off the delivery job for a couple of years last war time, when the route was leased out, and again for several months when he was laid up by injuries, but his service on the "milk wagon" in Heppner has numbered a good 30 years in all. Use G-T want ads to dispose of your surplus stock. 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.W 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. 0. TURNER, Mayor GLENN Y. WELLS ATTORNEY AT LAW ATwater 4884 635 MEAD BUILDING 5th at Washington PORTLAND, OKEGON 1 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. BATES SEASONABLE Roberts Building Heppner, One. P. W: Mahoney ATTORNEY AT LAW GENERAL XNSUBASTCB Heppner Hotel Building Willow St. Entrance J. 0. Peterson La teat Jewelry and Gift Oooda Watches . Clocks . Diamonds Expert Watch and Jewelry Repairing Heppner, Oregon Or. Richard C. Lawrence DENTIST X-Ray and Extraction by Gas First National Bank Bldg. Phone 562 Heppner, Oregon Dr. L. D. Tibbies OSTEOPATHIC Physician A Surgeon FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDQ. Rec. Phone 1162 Office Phone 493 HEPPNER, OREGON Jos. J. Nys ATTORNEY AT LAW Peters Building, Willow Street Heppner, Oregon Morrow County Abstract & Title Co. INC. ABSTRACTS OP TITLE TITLE INSURANCE Office in New Peters Building Peterson & Peterson ATTORNEYS AT LAW U. S. 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