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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, July 27, 1950
EDITORIAL
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MEWSFAPER
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
V.V ASSOCIATJON
OUR DEMOCRACY-
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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.
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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.
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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
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March 30, 1883. The Heppner
Times, established November
18, 1897. Consolidated Feb. 15,
1912.
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Suzanna Wesley circle of the
WSCS meets every third Wednes
day at 2 p. m.
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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,
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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.
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Blaine E. Isom
Insurance Agency
Phone 723 Heppner, Ore.
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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
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GENERAL CONTRACTOR
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plote, $4500.
Phone 404, Condon. Ore,
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Wars
Meetings 2nd & 4th Mondays
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to 6 p.m.
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