2 Heppner Gozette Times, Heppner, Oregon, July 29, 1948
EDITORIAL
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Not Too Poor A Record
President Truman s caustic remarks about the
"do nothing" Republican congress put him in the
light of the spoiled child who cannot have his own
way. The record proves him wrong in most re
spects and the turn of events to the present in
dicates that it is not so much his legislative pro
gram that has been neglected as it is his political
program that has gone haywire.
Congressman Lowell Stockman, just back from
Washington and the Eightieth Congress, has sub
mitted a partial list of the accomplishments of the
Republican dominated session a large part of
which if it had been enacted by a new deal con
gress would be lauded to the skies as progressive
but having been fostered and carried through,
even to overriding one or two vetoes, by opponents
to the new deal tax and spend theory, is belittled
by the President and those who have been riding
the new deal gravy train for the past sixteen years.
Says Mr Stockman: "When the SOth Congress
recessed on June 19 it had to its credit an unusual
ly high record of production of good legislation,
and I believe the President is thinking more of
politics than he is of the good of the people when
he recalls the Congress at this time.
'The 80th Congress worked under high pressure.
It has considered more than 11.000 bills and res
olutions. Of these the House passed more than
2.000 and the Senate more than 1.700. More than
1,000 have been signed into law."
Some of Mr. Truman's pet projects may have
lacked confirmation by a congress not wholly in
sympathy with him politically, but it must be
admitted by any fair-minded citizen that it was
a "do" congress rather than a "do-nothing" con
gress. Not all credit is to be taken by the Repub
lican members, for the support of Democrats in
more than one hotly contested bill was necessary
to secure passage.
Among important measures passed were the
global foreign aid program and a $6,030,000,000
appropriation to finance it the first year; a $4,
800,000,000 income tax reduction bill; the Taft
Hartley Labor act; unification of the armed forces
under a Secretary of Defense; a peacetime draft
of men 19 through 25 for 21-month terms to bring
the armed forces up to authorized strength of 2,
005.882; the portal-to-ponal pay bill, restricting
claims for pay from the time the worker reached
his place of work until he leaves it; authority
for a special commission, headed by former Pres
ident Hoover, to chart a reorganization of the
executive branch of the government; the presi
dential succession bill, designating the Speaker
of the House as next in line after the Vice Presi
dent; a bill freezing social security taxes at 1 per
cent; a bill allowing World War ll veterans to cash
bonds they received for leave time unused when
they were discharged; a new permanent program
of farm price supports, somewhat lower than ex
isting wartime levels, to take effect January 1,
1950, and many others including appropriations
for federal aided projects in Mr. Stockman's own
district.
Summing it all up it is difficult to understand
Mr. Truman's attitude unless he is permitting his
views to be guided solely by political prejudice
rather than the overall good of the people.
Home Accidents On Increase
This is National Farm Safety Week, but why
confine this safety business to the farm when
accidents happen other places with as much fre
quency? Home accidents, despite efforts to edu
cate occupants, are on the increase.
Most accidents do not just happen they are
caused! This is the contention of Miss Mary Beth
Minden, extension home management specialist
at Oregon State college, who points out that care
lessness, hurry, fatigue, improper light and poor
housekeeping habits are the chief causes of home
accidents. She takes these causes up in turn, as
for example, carelessness is a matter of not think
ingnot seeing what might happen.
Hurry, another accident cause, is the trend of
the times, but a slower pace today may save hours
later. Speed seems to bring all of the hazards to
the front and accidents are the result. On the
other hand, fatigue is a source of accident in the
home. Tired persons have dulled senses, so that'
otherwise careful persons seem not to have the
energy to carry out the safety practices which
they know are right
Poor light is another important cause of home
accidents. The National Safety Council reports
that falls often resulting from poor lgiht are the
most important cause of farm work injuries. Im
properly stored tools, toys and household supplies
are familiar causes for this type of mishap. The
home management specialist says small rugs that
are spotted at the top and bottom of stairs
are particularly important. Remove them, she
suggests, or at least anchor them securely.
Other types of home accidents are caused by
stairs that are not equipped with handrails, by
frayed electrical cords, rickety stepladders and
incorrect electrical fuses, to name only a few.
With these reminders, would it not be sensible
to check up and see how many removable hazards
you have around the house, in the shop, or on the
farm?
Something To Think About
What makes a free press possible? Private en
terprise! In every country where freedom of the
press is lacking, or curbed you will find a totali
tarian government (a dictatorship). Under such
a regime, government owns the basic industries.
There is no incentive for constant improvement in
order to appeal to the buying public. There is no
particular reason for telling the public about all
manner of products, such as is commonplace in
the United States, in order to build business. The
people have to take what the government offers
and like It there is no competition.
Totalitarian governments seek unbridled power.
Under such governments, there can be no free
press for two very good reasons. First, government
controls all the news and all the newspapers.
Second, government-owned industries do not have
to advertise. They do not have to win the public's
business by superior products and salesmanship.
No country in the world has 12,000 rural daily
and weekly newspapers, in addition to the metro
politan press, except the United States. No coun
try in the world has a newspaper in practically
every town of a few hundred population. Their
Income is derived from private enterprise thou
sands of competing industries, from the greatest
railroad and public utility to the smallest bakery
and laundry. They all advertise to popularize
their services or products and win public favor
and business.
It has often been charged, for political purposes,
that advertising controls the American press. This
is not so because competition is so varied that no
britnch of business is powerful enough to domin
ate the press. Volume and variety in advertising
makes passible a free press.
No group of men and women in the United
States is more vitally interested in opposing gov
ernment ownership of business, as a matter of
principle, than are newspaper editors. They are
the nation's safeguard against the economic
teachings of many of our principal colleges and
and text books which openly espouse the super
iority of government operation of business as
contrasted with private operation, on the phoney
"liberal" philosophy that we have outgrown the
days of private endeavor, and that only govern
ment is now capable of handling the basic indus
tries gf the nation. Such teachings are the oppo
site of every principle upon which our government
was built, and if accepted will lead to the de
struction of private enterprise including a free
press. When that happens personal liberty itself
will be gone.
This is something for editors, industrial leaders
and individuals to think about because the ground
is already well prepared to extend government
ownership of business (socialism) in our country.
Newspaper publishers of the state will readily
agree with the judges at Seaside who selected
"Miss Central Oregon" to represent the states as
"Miss Oregon" at the Atlantic City pageant of
pulchritude. Miss Central Oregon, who In real
life is Miss Joyce Davis of Redmond, is a young
person of rare charm and talent. She turned these
on the publisher group at the annual luncheon
held in the Pilot Butte Inn July 2 and if the vote
had been taken there as to who was the most
likely Miss Oregon candidate it would have been
unanimous for the girl who sings Irish songs in a
manner outdoing the Irish.
J. O. PETERSON
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30 EARS AS
From Heppner Gazette Times
August 1, 1918
Glenn Sharp, five-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sharp of
Newman canyon, was killed in
stantly Wednesday morning,
July 31 when an automobile in
which he and his two small bro
thers were playing ran away
down the hill and over an em
bankment. Miss Muriel Reade, aged 19
years, died at Parker's Mill on
Friday of tuberculosis following
an illness of many months.
A telegram from Washington,
D. C, indicates the sugar allot
ment for the state of Oregon will
be cut for the month of August to
two-thirds of the average for the
three preceding months. The am
ount per person has been lowered
to two pounds per month.
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Princess Lillian
Invites You to
lone Saturday Evening
July 31
To Attend the First
Princess Dance
of the
1948 Rodeo Season
Sponsored by
Willows Grange
at the Grange Hall
Admission $1.25 per Person (tax included)
Tom Humphreys succeeded in
stirring up an exciting footrace
Saturday morning. He matched
District Attorney Sam Notson
against Bob Hart and the two
sprinters pulled their coats and
sailed down a 100-yard course on
Willow street with the district
attorney coming out ahead by
about 18 inches.
A daughter was born Saturday
to Mr. and Mrs. W P. Hill on
Willow creek.
About 40 acres of grain, a barn
and two horses were destroyed
in a fire Monday which started
on the place farmed by A. D.
Sachter on Balm fork.
Uncle John Gurdane was over
from Pendleton and spent Sunday
with his son, D. C. Gurdane. The
old gentleman seemed to be hale
and hearty at the age of 95 and
moves around as spry as many
a younger man. At present he is
the oldest man in Umatilla coun
ty and the oldest member of the
Grand Army of the Republic. He
is also a Mexican war veteran.
Supt. H. H. Hoffman left Hepp
ner last week by auto for Kenne
wick where he will head the
schools for the coming year.
The squad of Oregon military
police stationed at Heppner have
found a home for the present in
the high school building. The
boys have the use of the domes
tic science kitchen for mess
quarters and the shower baths
and the use of the superintend
ent's office. All together they
feel they arevery fortunately sit
uated. o
Mrs. Fred Jenkinson of Van
couver, Wash., visited friends and
relatives in Heppner over the
week end.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
JOS. J. NYS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Peters Building, Willow Street
Heppner, Oregon
Veterans of Foreign
Wars
Meetings 2nd and 4th Mondays at
8:00 p. m. In Legion Hall
Saw Filing Gr
Picture Framing
0. M. YEAGER'S SERVICE STORE
Phone 2752
Turner, Van Marter
and Company
GENERAL
INSURANCE
J. O. TURNER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 173
Hotel Heppner Building
Heppner, Oregon
P. W. MAHONEY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
General Insurance
Heppner Hotel Building
Willow Street Entrance
Jack A. Woodhall
Doctor el Dental Medicine
Office First Floor Bank Bldg.
Phone 2342 Heepnet
Phelps Funeral Home
Licensed Funeral Directors
Phone 1332 Hepnper, Oregon
Dr. L. D. Tibbies
OSTEOPATHIC
Physician & Surgeon
First National Bank Building
Res. Ph. 1162 Office Ph. 49B
Heppner City Council A. D. McMurdo, M.D,
Meets First Monday Each Month
Citizens having matters fer dis
cussion, please bring before
the Council
Morrow County
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RECORD INCOME TAX RETURNS
If this keeps up the state of
Oregon wil be talking billions
instead of millions. More state
money keeps pouring in and from
more sources as the state acceler
ates its speed of growth. It all
looks cheering until the silhou
ette of rapidly growing expenses
and slacking income shadow the
scene.
The state of Oregon will derive
an estimated $60,000,000 from in
come tax payments during the
present year, according to a re
port filed with the state board of
control by Earl Fisher, chairman
of the state tax commission, who
is in charge of the net income
tax division. Collections for the
first six months of 1948 were
greater than for the entire year
of 1947.
Chairman Fisher considers the
higher income tax yields the re
sult of Oregon's expanded econ
omy with an increased popula
tion and the lowered net tax in
come exemptions.
Discounting the $2,708,165 col
lected under the withholding tax
law, individuals paid by mail or
over the counter, $28,155,014 in in
come taxes during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1948. This is an
increase of more than 40 per cent
of what they paid in the previous
year.
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Box 82, Heppner. Ore.
Phone 2632
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Cabinet Shop
Lawn Mo won Sharpened
Sewing Machines Repaired
Phone 1485 for apointmer
or call at shep.
Heppner, Oregon
Call Settles Electric I
for all kinds of electrical work.
New and repair.
Phone 2542
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PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Trained Nurse Assistant
Office in Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregon
Dr. C. C Dunham
CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN
Office No. 4 Center St
House calls made
Heme Phone 2583 Office 2S72
C. A. RUGGLES Representing
Blaine E. Isom
Insurance Agency
Phone 723 Heppner, Ore
DR. J. D. PALMER
DENTIST
Office upstairs Rooms 11-12
First Nationa. Bank Bldg.
Phones: Office 783. Home 932
Heppner, Oregon
F. B. Nickerson
INSUANCE - REAL ESTATE
Mortgages and Loans
Phone 12
program for the fiscal years of
1950 and 1951 will exceed $26,
640,000, based on funds appro
priated by the last congress and
state matching contributions,
State Highway Engineer R. H.
Baldock reported this week.
Of the total funds for the two
years the federal government will
provide $18,090,000 and the state
$4,550,000. The federal money
represents Oregon's share of the
total 1otpra nitthnri7atinna nf
Corporations operating in Ore-: $450,000,000 per year for federal
gon paid $16,575,914 during the
tiscal year.
On a fiscal year basis the pre
sent collections are approximate
ly nine times greater than the
amounts collected in 1940.
ANALYSIS OF EMPLOYMENT
Relatively stable employment
is forecast for the balance of 1948
by fifty-two establishments in
the transportation, communica
tion and public utilities industry
that were interviewed by the Ore
gon state unemployment compen
sation commission last week. Re
cords show this group has made
65 percent gain in payrolls dur
ing the past twelve years, pass
ing the 80 million dollar annual
payroll mark in 1947.
HIGHWAY BUDGET BULGES
Oregon's highway construction
aid highways and $20,000,000 per
year for forest highways.
INDIANS TO BE TAXED
Congress has taxed pasture and
timber income of lands granted
the Klamath Indians in early
treaties. The tribes, or remnants
of them, must pay the local
school district $40,000 annually
for schooling 24n of their chil
dren. The Klamath case Is only
the beginning. Other Indians in
reservations in Oregon will be
next. Representative Stockman,
who handled the movement in
congress is confronted with a re
volt campaign by those who be
lieve we have not fulfilled our
treaties made from 1853 to 1865,
and the enactment of this law
will further disillusion them on
the fulfillment of promises made
their forefathers in treaties writ
ten by Governor Joe Lamb, Joab
Powell and other representatives
of "The Great While Father."
'There are few subjects in the
history and law of the United
States on which the public views
are more dramatically and fla
grantly erroneous than on the
subject of Indian affairs," wrote
Secretary of the Interior Harold
Ickes In the 1944 Handbook of In
dian Affairs.
CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES
The active fall eampalfjn of
Douglas McKay, republican can
didate for governor, will start on
August 1 with a tour that will
carry the Marion county senator
into every county in the stale.
W. L. Phillips, Salem, who con
ducted McKay's primary cam
paign, will continue in the same
capacity. U. S. Senator Wayne
Mrose arrived in Oregon Thurs
day from Washington, D. C, via
Lexington, Ky., where he acquir
ed a standard-bred roadster stal
lion which he may be able to
show at the Oregon State Fair
starts Labor Day. He examined
the Vanport disaster area and
took a plane Monday evening to
return to Washington for the spe
cial session of congress. He in
tends to return to Oregon when
congress adjourns and campaign
for the Dewey-Warren ticket.
New on Our Shelves
The ever-popular Mercerized Ginghams, Poplens,
Millikin Rayon Satin, Worsted Crepe, Worsted Plaid
Mercerized Gingham-Stripe $1 per yard, Check 1.50
and 1.55
White Mercerized Poplen, per yard 1.10
Millikin Rayon Satin, yard 1.29
Worsted Crepe, yard 3.95
54-inch, in brown or red
Worsted Plaid, yard 3.75
New Fall Outing Flannels, yard 58c and69c
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