6 Heppner Gazette Times, July 16, 1942
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
Grade Crossings
o Highway Facts
o Income Tax Surplus
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. The Oregon Railroad as
sociation has filed a petition with the
state highway association asking that
grade crossings of main line rail
road tracks be declared hazardous
and motorists be required to come
to a full stop before crossing.
The petition was filed in the in
terest of safety. It is pointed out that
great quantities of war materials,
including high explosives, as well
as numbers of troops are being rush
ed to coast points. This increased
demand on the service of the rail
roads has also called for greater
speed of trains. As a result the
hazard at railroad crossings has been
substantially increased.
Numerous wrecks have occurred as
a result of grade crossing accidents
with serious loss of valuable war
materials as well as delay in deliv
ery of important shipments.
Idaho, it is said, has already taken
steps to require motorists to stop at
grade crossings and similar petitions
are understood to have been filed
in other states. The Oregon highway
commission is exected to act on the
request at its meeting in Portland
next week.
Collections from repayments on
bonus loans totalling $266,986 in June
set a new all-time monthly record
in the history of the World War
Veterans State Aid commission, ac
cording to Jerrold Owen, secretary
to the commission. Many ex-service
men are taking advantage of their
new-found prosperity to pay off their
loans before they fall due. Owen
said.
Engineers in the employ of the
state highway department are be
ing organized into a unit of the
state guard and will be called into
service to block roads leading from
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the coast to the interior in the event
of an invasion. The engineers will
be called upon in this capacity only
in the case of a real emergency, it
was explained. Brigadier General
Ralph P. Cowgill, commander of the
state guard, reorted to Governor
Sprague this week that more than
6000 men are now enrolled in his
state organizations with new units
constantly being fonned.
Oregon has two-thirds as many
motor vehicles as Washington and
only one-seventh as many as Cali
fornia, but this state has 1000 more
miles of state-administered high
ways than Washington and more
than one-half as many miles as Cal
ifornia. These facts are revealed in
a study made by the legislative in
terim committee on motor trans
portation. While Oregon's highway
cost per vehicle is higher than that
in either of its neighboring states,
the receipts per mile of highway is
the lowest in this state, the study
shows. The committee which was
created by the last legislature in an
effort to determine upon some suit
able basis for the taxation of trucks
and busses for support of the general
government requested Governor
Sprague to continue its existence
which request the governor granted.
It is expected that the committee
will have some recommendation rea
dy for the next session.
Oregon's tax levy will probably
not be announced until the latter
part of this month but one thing is
certain there will be no levy
against property either for state pur
poses or for elementary school tax,
all of which will be taken care of
by income tax revenues with a
sizeable surplus left over for the
next legislature to worry over.
With the supply of single men
nearing exhaustion some married
men will be inducted into military
service within the next few months,
according to Colonel Elmer V. Woo
ten, state director of selective ser
vice. In fact, Colonel Wooten said,
some married men whose wives are
employed or who are financially in
dependent, have already been call
ed into service.
That was the object of the Ser
vicemen's Dependents Allowance
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act, Wooten explains, to remove fin
ancial dependency as any cause for
deferment.
The time is rapidly approaching
Wooten declared, when every man
in America will have to make a
choice between a job in essential
industry or a place in Uncle Sam's
fighting forces.
The income tax surplus is destined
to become the big issue in the next
legislative session in the opinion of
state officials. Already a number of
pressure groups have their eyes on
this surplus. The state teachers as
sociation wants it diverted into a
state school fund to be distributed
among the various school districts
on an attendance basis. The Senior
Citizens Retirement Annuity com
mittee, an old age pension group,
wants the state to use this surplus
in financing an old age retirement
fund. Then there is another school
of thought, including a number of
legislators, which holds that the sur
plus should be set aside as a sort of
back log for use after the war when
it is expected that the state will be
confronted with heavy demands on
its finances at a time when there
will be a decided slump in revenues
from this source. There is one group
in the legislators including candi
dates for re-election which advo
cates a reduction in income tax rates
to whittle returns down to some
thing like actual state needs. An
other group, however, opposes such
a move as endangering the state's
tax structure, pointing out that pre
sent excess collections are based up
on an abnormal prosperity which is
only temporary and can be expected
to vanish overnight with the ces
sation of hostilities. This group would
leave the tax rates at their present
level, diverting surplus collections
to still further relief of property
taxes.
At its first meeting here this
week the state speed control board
created by an act of the last legis
lature considered requests for speed
controls from six Oregon cities An
engineering investigation was order
ed for a request by the city of
Grants Pass for a 15 -mile speed
limit in school zones and a request
by the city of Grants Pass for re
duced speeds north of th city limits
was referred to the state highway
commission. Henry F. Cabell, chair
man of the state highway commis
sion, was elected chairman of the
new board. Other members of the
board include Secretary of State
Earl Snell and Chas. P. Pray, su
perintendent of state police
Twenty-six employees of the in
come tax division of the state tax
commission have resigned during
the past 11 months to accept jobs
with more attractive salaries offer
ed by private industry and the fed
eral government. Several of those
were experienced key employees
who cannot be replaced. Others are
expected to leave in the near futuie
for military service or to accept
other positions. The loss of trained
personnel is seriously impairing the
efficiency of the department, accord
ing to Commissioner Earl Fisher who
heads this division.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that F. W.
Turner, administrator of the estate
of Myles McEntire, deceased, has
filed his final account with the
County Court of the State of Ore
gon, and said Court has set as the
time and place for hearing on and
final settlement of said final ac
count, Monday, the 10th day of Au
gust, 1942, at the hour of 10:00 A.
M. of said day, at the County Court
Room of the Morrow County Court
House in Heppner, Oregon. All per
sons having objections to said final
account must file the same on or
before said date.
Dated and first published this 9th
day of July, 1942.
F. W. TURNER,
Administrator.
NOTICE OF SALE OF COUNTY
PROPERTY
BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF
THE COUNTY COURT, dated July
8, 1942, 1 am authorized and directed
to advertise and sell at public auc
tion the following described property
at not less than the minimum price
herein set forth:
Beginning at a point on the
North line of Willow Street, said
point being 116.2 feet West of
the Southeast Corner of Block 2,
Original Townsite of Heppner,
Oregon; said point being the
center of the wall between the
buildings now occupied by the
Heppner Gazette Times and the
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
Co.; thence North at right angles
to Willow Street along the center
line of said property wall 36.6
feet; thence East along center
line of party wall 11.5 feet;
thence North along center line
of party wall 29.4 feet more or
less to the North line of Lot 5 of
said Block 2. Thence West along
said lot line 27.3 feet; thence
South along the center line of
the party wall between the buil
ding now occupied by the Hepp
ner Gazette Times and the build
ing immediately West a distance
of 66.0 feet, said line being the
West line of lot 5 of said Block
2, more or less to the North line
of Willow Street; thence East
along Willow Street 15.8 feet to
the place of beginning and be
ing a portion of Lot 5 of said
Block 2, for the minimum price
of $800.00, 20 down, balance
on contract.
THEREFORE, I will on the 8th
day of August, 1942, at the hour of
10:00 A. M., at the front door of the
Court House in Heppner, Oregon,
sell said property to the highest and
best bidder.
C. J. D. BAUMAN, Sheriff,
Morrow County, Oregon.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned administratrix of the
estate of W. E. Pruyn, deceased, has
filed with the County Court of the
State of Oregon for Morrow Coun
ty, her final account of her adminis
tration of the estate of said de
ceased, and that said Court has fixed
Monday the 10th day of August,
1942, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock in
the forenoon of said day at the
County Court room at the Court
House at Heppner, Oregon, as the
time and place for hearing objec
tions to said final account and the
settlement of said estate and all
persons having objections 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 9th
day of June, 1942.
JESSIE H. PRUYN,
Administratrix.
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