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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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.
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