A Heppner Gazette Times, February 15, 1945
EDITORIAL . .
Better Farm Telephone Service
Through a program of lending advice, giving aid
in purchasing materials and in other services, the
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company hopes
to see a great improvement in rural telephone ser
vice within the next few years. Always a source of
worry, the rural lines are undergoing a most diffi
cult period during the war when scarcity' of almost
everything entering into operation of telephone
systems makes carrying on more or less of a haz
ard. That has been true in this vicinity and doubt-4
less is the case with most rural lines.
It will be the- aim of the telephone company to
lend assistance where possible. This will be done
by offering advice of experts in maintenance, line
erection and operation. The company may even go
so far as to use its good offices in securing mater
ials for lines badly in need of repair, A. M. Green
district manager, stated here Monday that while
some of the work has been held up during the war,
the war activities of the telephone industry have
produced new knowledge .that will help to ex
tend farm service, and that when . war demands
slacken, farm telephone research will be inten
sified. Mr Green hinted at hew gadgets that will make .
extension of service beyond present lines possible
at low cost. Plans are in the making whereby pow
er and telegraph lines will be used jointly. And
there is a suggestion of radio telephone service
All of which sounds interesting and gives promise
of bringing remote areas next door to the urban
districts.
A Worthy Enterprise
Few towns the size of Heppner can boast of an
Elks lodge and none, we are sure, have lodges
contributing more to community enterprises than
Heppner lodge No. 358. No worthy call for assis
tance goes unheeded and more often than not the
lodge is ahead of the call.
Latest move of the lodge to make use of sur
plus funds in promoting the welfare of the com
munity is the appropriation of $1,000 for the pur
pose of establishing a summer camp for youth.
This sum is deemed sufficient to start a camp and
the lodge plans to make appropriations from year
to year as necessity demands. Full development of
the camp may have to await the coming of peace,
but it is possible to make a start this year and
build it up from season to season. This seems to
be the purpose of the lodge.
While the Elks are taking the initiative in the
movement, other orders and organizations are in
vited to participate. As a matter of fact, it would
be a fine thing for others to join in and make it
a community effort. More interest will be taken
if all of us pungle up a few dollars and perhaps
put in a few hours occasionally helping with the
work. Such a camp, has great possibilities if the
community is willing to get back of it. .
...Much of'the juvenile delinquency of the pres
ent day can be traced to a lack of directed play
and recreation. Comparisons of undirected and
directed youths facing juvenile courts find the.
. former greatly outnumbering the latter. The old
saying that "idleness breeds discontent" is per
tinent in this instance for a youth a Boy Scout,
for example who has his day's work and play
outlined for him has something definite to do
while the chap who just gets up in the morning
and wonders what will happen' today is quite apt
to find lots of things happening.
': The Elks are pointing the way. Will other or
ganizations and individuals join in helping to
make the youth of today the citizen and leader of
tomorrow?
. .
-Hitler's theme song: Don't Fence Me In.
It is gratifying to learn that the National Hous
ing Administration has sensed the importance of
this community as a vital industry center in grant
ing construction of ten new residences. It took a
long time to get the order through and in the
meantime some relief has been obtained in the
housing situation through reconversions. Ten resi
dences will not make for a building boom by any
means, but that many new homes will place Hep
pner in a position to offer good living conditions
to a few families desiring to come here to work.
Since the houses are to be built through private
financing it will not be necessary to group them
and follow one standard pattern That, too,' is wor
thy of c6nsideration of prospective builders.
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Giles French Gives
News and Views
Of the' Legislature
This week the real business of
the legislature gets under way as
many big public hearings are held.
It may seem odd that it takes so
long and it is. It takes time to get
the proposals in. They need not be
bills, in fact, some of the ideas that
will eventually become law are giv
en to legislators, particularly com
mittee chairmen, without benefit
of written words. Ideas grow around
a legislature as men conversant
with public problems talk over the
problem. -
A bill, for instance, may come in
on a subject. It has some support,
but it doesn't seem to be just right.
Large groups oppose it for various
reasons, some of which are imporT ,
tant. Interested ones discuss it and
the proponents and opponents talk
over the matter until finally the
committee that has the bill can call
a hearing that gives promise of
achieving something besides a room
full of heated words. Then an
amended bill is written and legis
lation is forth coming.
That stage has been reached. It
takes so long because there are so
manv thines for legislators to talk
about and it takes time to get
around to all of them.
This week is a busy one. Monday
evening there is a house hearing
on the county manager plan, about
which there is some discussion and
which will be amended in accor
dance with opinions sent the com
mittee from all over the state after
the original bill was written and
sent out.
Tuesday night thre are two
hearings, one on the bill that would
take the liquor fund from its pres
ent specialty class for pensions and
put it in the general fund, . from
which it could be expended with
less public vision. There is also a
hearing on the eight educational
bills or rather, bills that have to
do with the tax for elementary
educational purposes. These will
follow a committee hearing on the
so-called three-way bill before the
Labor and Industries comrnittiee.
This is an insurance bill to give
the companies greater rights in the
matter of insuring workmen.
Thursday night another hearing
was held before the house Taxation
and Revenue committee on the pro
posal to limit the power of the
federal government to levy an in
come tax above 25 percent. The re
solution is asking congress to sub
mit such legislation to the states
for changing the 16th amendment
(the one . permitting the income
tax). It has considerable appeal as
is shown by the fact that 18 states
have already adopted it.
Although" this legislature is far
behind the one of 1943 there is
little to worry about. The leaders
of both houses feel that it is not
so much the duty of the legisla
tors to get done quickly as to get
the work done in a satisfactory
manner. Furthermore there is no
doubt that many bills will still be
in the desks of committee chairmen
when the session ends. For instance
the labor bills in the senate will
probably remain there for a long
time, few taxation bills can be
passed out for so many amend the
same sections of the law that some
. must be discarded.
It will be 60 days or more before
the session ends and this is a fair
average for recent sessions and not
a bad time in which to' arrange
the affairs of a great state for an
other biennium. .
HEPPNER
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