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O J V V.J Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, July 27, 1950 EDITORIAL The U. S. Interior department ing cost per set was $.36.06, but the publications were put on sale at $6.90 per set. Many sets were distributed free. published, at a total cost of $61,- The oAmerican Way 242, a 23-volume series on the Columbia river basin. The print MEWSFAPER NATIONAL EDITORIAL V.V ASSOCIATJON OUR DEMOCRACY- --byMat ' r , k --ASSOCIATION Federal Aid in Abundance, But Taxpayers Pay For It Uncle Sam has a bargain basement sale in the making with a total of 307 attractive offers of fi nancial aid to state and local governments. All the federal government wants in return is a big ger say in running hometown affairs. In a special study released today State Cham bers of Commerce added the bills for federal aid before this 81st congress and came up with the total of 307. If all of them were passed, they would add approximately $3,200,000,000 to present federal spending the first year and well over $6,000,000, 000 a year by the sixth. None of the bills even hinted that the people in the states would pay in full, by federal taxes, for the very "aid" they were offered. These proposals cover 41 different types of grants-in-aid. They include such measures as spending S8 million for the federal government to enter the character training field and another $50 million to promote the health and soundness of youth. Federal grants-in-aid to state and local gov ernments have grown steadily since the end of World War II, both in total dollar expenditures and in the number and variety of services subsi dized. Federal aid outlays for the fiscal year 1950 amounted to approximately $2 billion. This is $800 million more than the total sum paid out in the fiscal year 1948 just two years ago. The amazing thing about this flood of grant-in-aid measures is that few, if any, state gover nors have come to Congress asking for such legis lation. Many state legislatures have adopted resolutions roundly criticising federal grants-in-aid as a growing and costly evil. For instance, the Indiana legislature said, "Indiana needs no guardian and intends to have none. We Hoosiers were fooled for quite a spell with the magician's trick that a dollar taxed out of our pockets and sent to Washington, will be bigger when it comes back to us. We have taken a good look at said dollar. We find that it lost weight in its journey to Washington and back. The political brokerage of the bureaucrats has been deducted. We have decided that there is no such thing as 'federal' aid. We know that there is no wealth to tax that is not already within the boundaries of the 48 states." A Chance To Command Oregon voters will be given opportunity at the November election to command their legislature to reapportion representation on the basis of 1950 population, accomplishing a belated duty which has been needed for the last decade, says the Al bany Democrat-Herald. Because the proponents of the so-called pop ulation plan, known more widely as the Neuber ger plan, failed to accompany their well-filled pe titions with affidavits this plan will not be on the ballot and the voters will have but one choice. There is, however, no difference in the funda mentals of the two plans. The balanced plan sponsored by the Farm Bureau federation, would limit Multnomah county's maximum representa 30 Years Ago July 29, 1920 Born in ths city Sunday, July 25, to Mr. and Mrs. Merle Kirk, a daughter. 'Wheat is rolling down hill in to Lexington at a lively rate ac coding to W. G. Scott, baner and warehouseman who spent a few hours in Heppner today. T. G. Denissee, local contractor returned to Heppner Tuesday af ter spending the past nine months visiting at his old home in the Netherlands. T. D. Taylor, more familiarly known as Til Taylor, was shot and mortally wounded by Neil Hart Sunday afternoon. A baby toy arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Far ley near this city Sunday, July 18. Morrow county is undergoing a pronounced change in its wheat production. Several thou sand acres of Blue Stem will give way to the premier of all dry land witer wheats, Turkey Red. Oscar Davis, who is herding the Bruce Kelley sheep on Kelley Prairie recently killed a cougar near the camp which measured over seven feet from tip to tip. Another cougar of nearly the same size was seen last Sunday by Kelley. Sheriff George McDuffee, city marshal Walter Cason and E. M. Shutt, former Morrow county sheriff, have gone to Pendleton to assist in the capture of the murderers of Til Taylor. Sheriff Taylor is the man who captured the train robbers after McDuffee who was then deputy sheriff of Morrow county, frustrated their plans and killed the leader, Manning, nwir Mcham Mr. about seven CHURCHES LEXINGTON CHURCH Your Community Church Z. Franklin Cantrell, Minister We are not leaving August 1, as we had planned, but instead we are going to exert every effort to have a real old fashioned re vival soon. Watch for it. And don't miss any of it; you'll be sorry if you do. Church school 10 a. m. Worship and preaching 11 a. m. Singing and preaching 8 p. m. o ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH Pastor Shelby E. Graves Old fashioned revival meetings will continue every night at 8 o'clock. God is moving in our midst. Services that will help and you will enjoy. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Youth for Christ 7 p.m. Revival meeting 8 p.m. o METHODIST CHURCH J. Palmer Sorllen, Minister Morning worship and sermon at 11 a. m. Sunday Church school at 9:45. Mr. Oliver Creswick, superinten. dent. A class for every age. Womans Society of Christian Service meets the first Wednes day of each month at 8 p. m. McDuffee was severely wounded at the time and his life hung in the balance for several days. tion to 25 percent of the total personnel of the . state legislature while assignment of as much as a third of the total would be possible under the Neuberger plan. Otherwise both are essentially the same, the balanced plan preferred by up state because it preserves for them greater voice in state government. Under the balanced plan, its proponents aver counties would lose and 12 would , gain representation in the senate and 11 counties would gain and nine would lose in the house, ac. cording to approximations based upon present census figures. The actual apportionment will be determined, of course, by final 1950 census figures. Under the Neuberger plan it was estimated that 19 counties would lose and 11 would gain representation in the senate while 17 would lose and three would gain In the house. The balanced plan, however, is the. one on which the vote will be taken. Whatever plan may ultimately become law, the legislature must by all means do something about reapportioning the now disproportionately constituted legislature. Hinterland More Important This newspaper would like to see all of the roads finished in this area, but if there is to be a choice between two certain highways, namely, the Lena-Nye Junction section and the Chapin Creek-Spray Junction section it will be along the line of consistency to pull for the road to the inter ior. If the commission can find money with which to complete both loads, well and good; but if there should be funds for work on one road only, then we say put it on the Heppner-Spray highway from the mouth of Chapin creek to the John Day liver. Readers of this column know that the real pre ference is for a road from the mouth of Chapin Creek to Monument, a distance of 26 miles. Such a route would be of more service than the present route to Spray junction can ever be. The route has been laid before the interim committee on high way affairs and is resting there. The highway com mission is undertaking no new construction until the present program of reconstruction is com pleted and that day may never come unless there is an increase in highway funds beyond anything foreseeable. There is one possibility that might lead to the building of a road into Monument from this side and that would be through war-time necessity the opening up of new resources or new areas of timber needed in the war effort. The commission is well aware of the condition of the Heppner-Spray road beyond the point of the present inprovement. It so happens that that stretch comes under the forest highway program, but since the state is completing its share of the road to the National Forest boundary, and the road beyond that point is becoming progressively more difficult to maintain, surely something will be done to give the road more permanence and re duce the maintenance overhead. If we can't have a road directly into Monument, then we should not rest until the, present route is made compar able to any other highways leading into that 'section. HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times, established November 18, 1897. Consolidated Feb. 15, 1912. Published every Thursday and entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription price, $3.00 a year; single copies, 10c. O. G. CRAWFORD Publisher and Editor Suzanna Wesley circle of the WSCS meets every third Wednes day at 2 p. m. o ALL SAINTS MEMORIAL CHURCH (Episcopal) Holy Communion 8 a. m. Church School 9:45 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon 11. Week day Services: Holy Communion Wednesday at 10 and Friday at 7:30 a. m. Choir practice Thursday 8 p.m. Archery classes on playing field between school and Willow creek Saturday mornings, Boy scouts, 9, Girl scouts 10, Cubs 11. Public Employment Up 525 In 1900 about one million per sons were employed by the fed eral, state and local governments combined. The 1950 figure ex ceeds 6,250,000, according to the national Industrial conference board. Th9 nation's governmen tal psyrolls today total $22,000,- 000,000. THE ACID TEST By Morton Clausen (EDITOR'S NOTE: Morton Clausen was for many years publisher and editor of a country newspaper.) There is no doubt about it America is at war. The "cold"war we have waged against Commun ist Russia during the past four years has flared into a "warm" war in Korea, where the com munists are making their first break- through in an attempt to overrun the free nations of the world. Whether Russia will decide to openly enter the fray, and thus plunge us into a "hot," full fledged Third World War, re mains to be seen. If she doesn't, we are nevertheless to be sub jected to many more serious break-throughs around the peri meter of communist-controlled areas. This means that from now on, and perhaps for many years to come, the American economy will have to be placed on a war foot ing, with billions expended for arms, supplies and manpower. If a full-scale war should ensue, our expenditures and national debt will reach astronomical pro portions. There arc those who have pre dicted, and with good reason, that even should America win such a war against Russia (and let there be no doubt but what we will) we shall nevertheless lose our freedom and liberties as individuals to a totalitarian state and ideology. Thus, even in de feat Russia will have won by de. stroying our American system. Among several reasons for this is the fact that from a social, economic, political and moral standpoint America has already gone a long way toward the so cialistic concepts that have sap ped our stength as individuals and as a nation. We are rapidlv creating the same sort of welfare state that led to the debasement of Germany, the enslavement of Russia and the disintegration of the British Empire. Aitnough we have decried the collectivist philosophy of our own ism, we have created a brand of collectivst philosophy of our own that carries within it the seed of disintegration of America as a nation of great material wealth, social equality, political integrity BRAVO, JOE DICKMON! By George Peck Joe Dickmon of Library, Pa., has become a national figure. He is the coal miner who last Janu ary dared to criticize Boss John Lewis, and for this exercising of his American right of free speech was banished by his union The United Mine Workers. Because of this banishment, Dickmon has been denied the right to engage in the only trade he knows coal mining thereby losing another of his American freedoms the right to work. Dickmon and his family have not only endured great privation but have been subjected to taunts and insults all because he had the courage to bespeak himself by crying out against .tyranny. His experience proves conclus ively that we need an amend ment to the Taft-Hartley law not to weaken it as certain labor leaders demand but to strength en it so as to render it impossi ble for any labor leader ever again to do to a worker what John Lewis has done to Joe Dick mon. When our forefathers drew up the Declaration of Independence they naturally assumed that "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness' included the "Free Right to Work," because without the latter, the former three are impossible of attainment. But today, certain arrogant la bor leaders have asserted a new doctrine, to wit, that American citizenship does not carry with it the Free Right to Work. Under this un-American doctrine, mil lions of American citizens have been forced to apply to a labor union and pay for New Citizen ship Papers in order to work at FOREST PROTECTION COSTS COMPUTED ON CALENDAR YEAR BASIS Assessments levied against tim berlands for forest fire protection costs will be computed upon a calendar year basis rather than the past fiscal year, according to Cameron Mull, forester in charge of the tax roll section at the stale forester's office. Mull re ported this action was approved by the board of forestry and that the new fire patrol lists for Ore gon would be made upon the basis of actual expenses incur red in forest protection work dur ing the regular 12 month period. In changing the system, the forester warned that the present list included costs from July 1, 1949 to December 31, 1949 only and that the next tax bill against landowners would be filed Janu ary 1, 1951, covering the present year. The forester pointed out that the rate per acre which is levied is the actual .cost of forest pro and moral strength. Like Sam son, after having dissipated in the cups of something-for-noth-ing," "the world-owes-me-a-liv- ing," and "do-as-little-as-possible," our locks of power are being shorn by the Delilah of the Wei fare State. This is not a pretty picture, but one painted in the strong, honest colors of stark realism. And it has ever been the habit of Amer ica in times of crises to cast aside the pallid tints of pastels to heed the more virile truths of reality. These are the truths: The American economy is be ing strained to the breaking point in preparation for and par ticipation in a war of survival against communism. Whether it shall break and wheiher we shall win this war, become a matter of personal survival of every man, woman and child in these United States. We now face the acid-test Therefore, the time has come when every one of us must cease asking for hand-outs, govern mental and otherwise. Each of us must roll up his sleeves and pro duce as never before. We must be willing to face uncertainties and play the game of life as men, without protection against per sonal losses and without guaran tees of personal security. We must have the courage and forthrightness to demand the de feat of every politician who at tempts to buy his office'' by way of the public purse. We must de ny the use of the Treasury to any group or individual for personal gains and safety. We must de mand of our government the strict economies that will insure successful prosecution of the war, Thus we have come to the phase in our pesonal lives and in American history when we must re-evaluate Americanism for what it really is in its purity of concept as designated by 1he Founders of this nation. Only then shall we achieve-the indi vidual and collective strength not only to win this war for free-: dom, but also, to win a peace that may see the dawn of a new and better world. the job of their choosing. Union labor has made great progress in recent years. Favor able public opinion has enabled it to do so. But labor must throw off the shackles of a greedy mi nority of its leadership, which is exploiting it for the labor lead ers' own selfish purposes. Unless thiss is done, public opinion will turn against union labor and its gains will be nullified. ' It is estimated that the "ag gregate tax" now levied against union workers by our "sub-government" of labor politicians is well over a billion dollars a year, Under existing laws, for the most part, this vast sum is spent in whatever manner the labor dic tators see fit, for their own self ish aggrandizement, and to the disadvantage of all other groups of our citizenry. Yes, we need an amendment to the Taft-Hartley law one that will give the American worker freedom to choose for himself whether or not he wishes to be come and to remain a member of a labor union. Joe Dickmon's courage, his sacrifice, his resolution, most cer. taily must not go unrewarded. Whether he realizes it or not, he has started a one-man crusade to emancipate American workers, He has launched a movement destined to bring about legisla tion that will enable workers to enjoy the "Free Right to Work," so essential to the rights to "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Hap piness without having to ap ply to a labor union for New Cit izenship Papers. Bravo, Joe Dickmon! tection during the period July 1 to December 31, 1949. "If the rate appears tp be high," said Mull, "remember the fire season in Oregon normally occurs between July and September and includes fire crews, lookouts, equipment and other fire fighting expenses. As a result, the major portion of the expenses fall in this last half of the year, making the rate per acre for this six month period higher than a half year period would ordinarily be." Mull reported that the state forester's office protected 7,294, 764 acres of privately owned for est lands, all of which contribut ed the fire patrol costs which are collected by the local county tax collector's offices. Private assoc iations protected another 3,500,- 000 acres. 0- M. and Mrs. W, E. Garner of Boardman were business visitors In Heppner Monday. They run the telephone offioe at Boardman. The Wild West The story or the opening of the west-of the tamins OF A WILD COUNTRY AND THS ESTABLISHMENT OF LAW AND ORDER. BY THE COURAGE, DETERMINATION AND SKILLS OF A COMPARATIVELY FEW MEN LIVES TODAY AS ONE OF AMERJCA'S MOST VITAL TRADITIONS. md,,. Earlier generations learned part of the story through TRAVELING "WILD WIST'SHOWS. Today, we relive this exciting period through radio, motion pictures and television. the re enactment of the opening of the west serves not only as entertainment but as a reminder. of the part played by men with vision, courage and self-reliance in the development of our country, PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY DR. H. S. HUBER DENTIST First National Bank Bldg. Room 116 Phone. 2342 JOS. J. NYS ATTORNEY AT LAW Peters Bldg., Willow Street Heppner, Oregon 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 Dr. L D. Tibbies OSTEOPATHIC Physician & Surgeon First National Bank Building Res. Ph. 1162 Office Ph. 492 A.D. McMurdo,M.D. 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 Home Phone 2583 Office 2572 C. A. RUGGLES Representing Blaine E. Isom Insurance Agency Phone 723 Heppner, Ore. N. D. BAILEY Cabinet Shop Lawn Mowers Sharpened Sewing Machines Repaired Phone 1485 for appointment or call at shop. RICHARD J. O'SHEA, M. D. Physician and Surgeon 2 Church Street Telephone 1152 ALFRED BASRA GENERAL CONTRACTOR 2-bedroom (block) house, com plote, $4500. Phone 404, Condon. Ore, 9-14 , PRINTING... That satisfies. Why not let ut fill that next printing order? HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES Call Settles Electric for all kinds of Electrical Work New and Repair Shop phone 2253 at Willow & Chase Streets. Res. Phone 2542 Carpentry and Cement Work By Day or Contract Bruce Bothwell Phone 845 J. O. PETERSON Latest Jewelry & Gift Goods Watches, Clocks, Diamonds Expert Watch & Jewelry Repairing Heppner, Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars Meetings 2nd & 4th Mondays at 8:00 p.m. at Civic Center Turner, Van Marterl and Company GENERAL INSURANCE Phelps Funeral Home Licensed Funeral Directors Phone 1332 Heppner, Oregon Heppner City Pminril Meets First Monday council Eft0h Montll Citizens having matters for discussion, please bring them before the Council. Phone 2572 Morrow County Abstract & Title Co. INC. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE TITLE INSURANCE Office In Peters Building Morrow County fMirf Meets First Wednesday V.UUTT o Eaoh Month Connty Judge Office Honrs I Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Fore. oon only. . Dr. J. D. PALMER DENTIST Rooms 11-12 First National Bank Building Ph.: Office 783, Home 932