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A Heppner Gazette Times, February 1, 1945
EDITORIAL . .
Giles French Gives
News and Views
PROFESSIONAL
DIRECTORY
We Don't Know the Answer
In recent weeks this office has had numerous
inquiries relative to the construction and opening
of the proposed Morrow county hospital. To all of
these inquiries it has been necessary to answer
"We do not know." To make the answer doubly
effective it may be stated that no one knows the
answer at present. It is one of those indefinite
things clothed with the uncertainties of war and to
our way of thinking to remain shrouded in mys
tery or an indefinite status until those charged
with the duty of planning and constructing the
hospital have been given time to study it from all
angles.
It should be recalled that the county court in
submitting the proposal did not state or lend the
impression that the hospital would be built in the
immediate future. It was the desire at that time to
add one more post-war project to the county's pro
gram, recognizing the necessity for a well-constructed
and properly staffed hospital and the ob
ligation of the county to build and maintain such
a project. The, fast that the hospital is needed now
was not overlooked but there were contributing
factors making it appear impracticable to build
at this time. These factors should be plainly evi
dent to anyone interested to the extent of giving
some study to existing conditions, yet there are
many who feel that the work should go ahead at
the earliest possible moment. That's exactly what
the court thinks, only its time does not correspond
to that of early construction proponents.
The tax voted for the purpose of building and
maintaining a hospital does not go into operation
until July 1, 1945. It is estimated that it will re
quire four or five years to accumulate a sufficient
fund to build and equip the type of hospital need
ed here. There is no denying that the building -could
be financed through private channels but
this is not what the court set outto do. It is deem
ed advisable to have the funds in hand before
starting construction and in the meantime world
' conditions may have changed so that the county
will get more value for the money expended. La
bor and materials should be lower. There should
be more doctors and nurses available for staffing
the institution. Without an adequate staff there is
little reason for building the hospital.
This newspaper is just as interested in seeing
the hospital built as others are and was one of the
first to lend support to such a project. We stand
ready to be convinced on the advisability, of build
ing now and feel that if such a move were practi
cal the court should be prevailed upon to act. In
the mentime, it may do more good to contact the
court directly, and the suggestion is offered that a
citizens' hospital committee be formed for the pur
pose of studying the proposal and submitting the
findings to the county court.
been repair ten-fold in the valiant fight our allies
been repaid ten-fold in the valiant fight our allies
have put up to sttop the Nazi menace.
Of the Legislature A. D- McMurdo, M. D.
Call for Old Clothes
On another page of this issue will be found an
appeal from Mayor J. O. Turner for old clothes for
relief of Russians impoverished by the long war
to drive the Hun out of their land and force him
to submission. The type of clothes asked for and
where to send them have been explained by the ma
yor and it is urgent that prompt action be taken to
assemble everything the community can spare.
Regardless of what we may think of the Rus
sian government and its purpose, it must be re
membered that the Russian people have suffered
terribly in this conflict. Their sacrifices have sav
ed us from a similar fate. The least we can do is
to see that they are provided with all the clothing
we can spare without limiting our own wardrobes
to an injurious degree. We responded to the
clothes for Britain request and no one has suffer
ed from over-generosity. There still must be quan
tities of cast off garments in our closets that will
bring warmth and cheer to the needy and hard
pressed Russians. Let us be generous. We have
The Human Side of the Postal
Service- and Others
There is scarcely an individual engaged in serv
ing the public one way or another but has the
urge to write an article on the actions of the people
making up his public and his resultant actions.
Now comes a Washington postmaster who re
sponded to the urge and through the courtesy of
Postmaster Charles B. Cox we are privileged to
reprint the article, doing so with the hope that no
offense will be given but rather that more of us
will understand the problems of public servers and
learn to control our whims and idiosyncrasies.
Claude F. Shrauger, postmaster at Mount Vernon,
Washington, is the author of the following:
Postal employes, as they meet daily with the pub
lic, have excellent opportunities to study human re
actions. There are folks for whom all the world is
rosy. Then too there are those who have permitted
the milk of human kindness to curdle in their breast.
Each postmaster has his share of amusing or an
noying or heartbreaking experiences that keep the
work from becoming monotonous.
The rural routes turn in their full share of these
experiences. Holidays on which post offices do not
close, flag day, bank holidays, etc., never fail to bring
from six to 12 phone calls wanting to know if the ru
ral carriers will deliver mail, notwithstanding we
have never failed to make delivery on such holidays.
We always have the old one about the gas books
put in the mail three days ago for Mr. Anderson on
Route No. 5. Mr. Anderson informs us he tthinks it
very poor service that compelled him to stay home
over Sunday for want of gas. We try to be pleasant
and ask him if he is sure the gas coupons were mail
ed. He says of course he is sure, the OPA said so. The
next day we notice an envelope from the OPA for
Mr. Anderson and we hear no more.
Mrs. Clark of 112 North Fifth calls and says that
she has not received certain packages which she
'knows were mailed and that she is certain who is
getting them butdoesn't want to say, and will we
please have the carrier knock when he has another
package. We ask the carrier to do this and he, wish
ing to cooperate, comtplies. The next day Mrs. Clark
calls up and wants to know why the carrier knocked
on her door and awoke the baby when she had spent
a lot of time getting her to sleep. We remind Mrs.
Clark of her request land promise to ask the carrier
to knock lightly.
Tlien we have the young wife of one of our U. S.
sailors who wants to know what it would cost her to
send a little black kitten air mail special delivery to
her mother-in-law in Boston. We tell her we can find
nothing in the regulations that will allow her to do
this. She then iniormsi us that her cousin by mar,
riage who is now with the army in Italy, used to work
in a post office and told her that she could send any
thing by air mail if she had the price. We still tell her
we are sorry, so she informs us she will send it from
some other post office.
Then Mr. Parks who runs Park Toggers comes into
theN postmaster's office with blood in his eye. It
seems we had delivered to Mr. Park's home a letter
from a girl friend and Mrs. Parks, not liking the
brand of perfume used on the letter had opened the
same and read it. Mr. Parks thought it a dirty trick
store. He would perfer, however to have his light and
. on our part not to have delivered that letter to the
wa-ter bill to go to the house. We tell Mr. Parks how
sorry we are to have made such a mistake and sug
gest that we deliver mail addresed to him at the
store.
We have a service on special delivery of which the
farmers take advantage, sometimes to the discomfort
of postal clerks. If a special delivery comes for some
farmer a clerk so informs the farmer by telephone.
Often the farmer will request that the clerk open
young clerk when he has such a request from a lady
the letter and read it to him. You can feel for this
and the letter turns out to be from a daughter de
scribing the pains of approaching childbirth!
But there are patrons who appreciate that the pos
tal employees are doing a grand job. Recently there'
appeared in our local peiper a poem (too long to re
print here) from which we offer these lines:
If high standards of living .were asked of us all,
Our Mount Vernon office could answer that call.
WOOLGROWERS AUXILIARY
TO MEET FRIDAY P. M.
Regular meeting of the Wool
growers auxiliary will be held Fri
day, Feb. 2, opening with a no
hostess luncheon at the Lucas Place
at 1:15. Several items of impor
tance are on the program, calling
for a full membership attendance,
states the president, Mrs. L. D. Neill.
The president will make a report
on the state convention held earlier
in the month 'at Prineville. Election
of officers is scheduled to take
place at this meeting, and of spec
ial importance is the proposal to
form k women's civic club. Non
members of the auxiliary inerested
in the civic club are urged to at
tend the meeting.
SEUMONS-SWIck NUPTIALS
PERFORMED AT CANYON CITY
Mrs. Etna Simmons of Portland
and Howard Swick of Monument
were married Tuesday, Jan. 30 at
Canyon City. Announcement of the
marriage was made in Heppner
Wednesday by Mrs. Anna Bayless,
mother of the groom. '
Howard has announced that he
will give a dancing party Saturday
evening in honor of the occasion
and has insisted that Mrs. Bayless
attend, but she thinks maybe wea
ther conditions will prevent her
making the trip.
IN PORTLAND
County Clerk C. W. Barlow left
Monday for Portland to spend sev
eral days with Mrs. Barlow and
their daughter, Mrs. Robert Walk
er, who have, been staying with
Mrs. Barlow's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. S. Akers.
ATTENDS LODGE SESSION
Merle Becket, manager of the
Moro branch of the First National
bank of Portland, was a Heppner
visitoa- Tuesday evening, coming
to help give his brother Harold
the Master Mason degree. Merle
was accompanied by a brother
Mason, Donald Martin of Moro.
It doesn't seem to matter how
cheerful are the statements about
the state's financial position at the.
end of the year, after the legisla
ture -has been in session a few
weeks there is worry about how
the bills are to be met. The caution
of the members of the ways and
means committee may engender thj(
feeling, as most of them part with
no nickel gracefully.
Be that as it may, this state which
has been giving money back to the
taxpayers in million' dollar chunks
may be so pinched for money it
cannot do tilings its legislators
want it to. Probably that is a good
thing.
There are huge demands. First,
there is the matter of salaries of
state employees. The state institu
tions are in the same fix as pri
vate employers in that the help
have been going to the shipyards
for better pay. Those remaining
have been getting higher pay than
the old budget permitted because
there are fewer of them and the
board of control has equaliized it
so as to keep some of them.
Department heads have been
awaiting the session to try to get
more salaries. They don't want to
quit and leave , Salem, .but the
state's top in many departments is
$325 per month and most of these
men could double that figure in
these times.
The building program needs must
bave a big appropriation but it is
not so pressing as the others for
nothing can be done about it right
away whether the money is set
aside now or not. A good part of
this money has been returned' to
the general fund from older budgets
anyway.
The demand of schools and other
agencies for more money is strong
but it is doubtful if the state will
pass any of the state functions to
give additional money to the
schools, epecially in view of the
defeat of the school bill last Nov
ember. Some funds may be avail
able,, but not any that are serious
ly needed for the regular statte
Hqpe that much of the important
legislation will get out of commit
tee is based upon hope and little
else. Little if any of the important
bill have even been seriously dis
cussed in committee so far. Yet to
come is the county manager bill,
promised for introducion Monday,
the three way insurance bill due
this week, the unemployment com
pensation bills and others that pack
a good charge of political dynamite
are still a-borning.
t School finance bills are resting in
the taxation and revenue commit
tee in the houe except those in the
education committee where they are
to receive preliminary discussion
before going over to taxation. The
bill for equalization of school taxes
within counties is still being given
the once over by attorneys. There
seems to be surprisingly little op
position to it among those who note
its provisions, but some legal tang
les remain.
Hearings on the big truck bills
and the freeway bill have been held
in the senate and have brought out
good crowds. General opinion seems
to be that the big trucks will be
given a two year lease on life and
that the freeway bill (to give the
highway commission permission to
build airstrips along highways) will
be killed very, very dead. That is
prophesy and valuable only as such.
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