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EDITORIAL
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ASSOCIATION
In The Same Boat Finally
Secretary Snyder recently observed that any
further increases in income taxes must fall with
the greatest weight on people with small and
moderate incomes. He pointed out that 58 per cent
of all taxable income now goes to those who earn
less than $5,000 a year.
This should destroy, once and for all the old
illusion that we can pay for the government by
the simple expedient of soaking the rich. As the
New York Times recently said in an editorial, "It
may be an unpleasant fact, but it is a fact never
theless, that, thanks to our reluctance to tax
courageously in the past, we have now reached
the point where the individual income tax is al
ready far too steeply progressive . . . Political tax
ation, in short, has at last been stretched to its
full limit; the time has come when, whether we
like it or not, we must approach the problem on
the economic level."
In the higher brackets, the income tax is now
only one step short of confiscatory. Moreover, if
the government taxed the incomes of the wealthy
a flat 100 percent, the additional revenue gained
would hardly make a dent in today's governmen
tal budgets. The' families with modest incomes
must carry the load.
This should have one extremely salutary ef
fect. Everybody from the man who works with
his hands to the executive who runs a big com
panynow has a direct and personal interest in
taxation, and in governmental extravagance and
waste. Everybody's pocketbook is involved. The
whole public, out of a universal self-interest,
now has a reason to demand, and get, economy in
government
The Freight Cars Are Rolling
U. S. Senator Carlson of Kansas recently paid
high tribute to the railroad industry, the Associa
tion of American Railroads and the Interstate
Colorful John Day Country Has
Horses Fossilized or
This MMorlor condensation, which p
petred oririnaJlr tn the Jane 3 Imic of
The Bandar OreronJaa Majruine section.
It the third of an annaal kHm ipon
wrfd by The Oreronlau and the Oregon
State Motor association. This and subse
quent mntorlon were based on winning
, entries for The Oregonlan'i recent "Mj
Sentimental Journey" contest.
BY LEVERETT G. RICHARDS
CRAZY over horses?
1 Try Grant county, a horse
heaven where past, present and
future meet. If you don't like
your horses alive and lively
you can dig them, old and ossi
fied, out of Oregon's famous
fossil beds.
There's a changing panorama
of scenery ranging down from
the spectacular to the soothing.
The fossil beds themselves com
pare with Zion and the Grand
canyon for color, in addition to
their archeological interest.
The area is rich in relics of
Oregon's own gold rush. It is
still the wild and wooly West
where a dude can ride the range
with sure-enough cow pokes on
a newly opened dude ranch, or
hunt, fish and loaf if he likes.
This fascinating fastness has
been accessible only by a nine
or ten-hour drive through the
Columbia gorge via Arlington,
until recently. It is only 5Vi to
6 Vfchours from Portland over
the motorlog's new direct route.
Paving of the last 20 miles over
Ochoco mountain in June will
speed it up still more.
You hit th John Day river
deep in a rocky canyon at the
junction of highway 28 with
highway 19. If you're heading
on eastward to John Day, drive
slowly end watch for Picture
gorge, which starts at the junc
tion. It isn't marked by any
siRn.
But on the south side of the
highway immediately adjacent
to mile-post 125 you'll find the
Indian pictographs that give the
gorge its name if you get out
and look for them. The strange,
prehistoric figures are painted
fn red ochre on an oil base at
the foot of the rock cliff.
You'll want to see more of
the John Day valley, but we
first turned north on highway
19 to follow the John Day
gorge to the fossil beds.
Following this busy little
river you find yourself sud
denly fn another world, where
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Looks Like
Rounding up dogies In shadows
sabre-toothed tigers stalked the
ornery oreodon only a few score
million years ago. where rhinos
roamed and turtles did what
ever turtles do.
Most of their bones have
turned to stones while waiting
for man to find them. But the
beds in which they have snoozed
away their Rip Van Winkle past
are bedight in all the latest
shades of shocking pink, blue,
green, mauve and lemon. The
whole earth-long story is told in
one bold, dramatic tale in Sheep
rock, towering 3566 feet above
the sea level, 1337 feet above
the river at milpost 123.
There is a turnout and his
troical marker, but there are
no name posts for this or other
points of interest. To find them
better clip out this article. They
aren't marked on the maps,
either.
Driving down the gorge along
side the racing John Day you
will catch continual glimpses of
other fossil beds in technicolor,
along canyon walls capped by
flows of lava. At milepost 119
a sign "Fossil Beds" directs you
(not by name) to Turtle cove,
called by scientists "the best
and most extensive fossil col
lecting ground" in the region,
which is considered one of the
most Important in the United
States.
It's ' more than that. It's a
tpmnle of natural beauty that
rivals the Taj Mahal or the
cathedral at Rheims for beauty
of color and architecture.
Even more striking is the
Cathedral formation that smites
the eye as you round a sharp
curve just before you hit mile
post 116. This is one of eight
state parks in the Grant county
area, but is inaccessible at pres
ent and unmarked by signs.
Here the canyon narrows to
the point of claustrophobia, only
to widen suddenly at about mile
post 111 into a peaceful pano
rama straight from a storybook
It looks like a natural golf
course with the rampaging John
Day foaming and dashing in a
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Commerce Commission for the manner in which
they have cleared up the boxcar shortage situa
tion in the West. During the first 15 weeks of this
year, he pointed out, loading of grain commodit
ies exceeded the figure for any comparable per
iod in history except in 1947.
The boxcar problem was the result of a num
ber of factors, of which one of the most impor
tant was the outbreak of the Korean war and the
sudden step-up in the rearmament program. It is
not the kind of problem which can be solved over
night. The railroads have met it in two ways.
First, they have placed orders for great numbers
of new cars, and these are going into service as
fast as they can be delivered by the car builders.
Second, working with shippers, they are trying to
get maximum utilizataion out of every car they
have. Very marked success has been attained in
this effort, and conditions are improving all the
time.
In April alone, deliveries of new domestic
frieght cars totaled 8,274, an increase of 18 per
cent above the March figure and 41 per cent
above February. As of May 1, undelivered cars
nearly 156,000. No one can visu
of freight cars. But if you'll take
a careful look at the next freight train that passes
you, you'll see a few of the tangible products of
this great expansion program New cars and old
cars are rolling along the tracks together, and
being moved safely, efficiently,
swiftly.
A Good Move
It is encouraging to see the city take steps to
establish a fund for the construction of a sewer
system and sewage disposal plant. The council is
submitting a proposal to levy a ten-mill tax to
supplement the proposed one dollar a month per
water meter as a definite plan for financing the
project, or at least setting up the machinery for
Frisky
of John Day fossil beds.
wide curve through the middle
of it. That's just what it is a
sporting nine-hole golf course.
It's also the 70-acre front!
yard of Art Waldorf and his
Rodeo Canyon dude ranch, cap
able of accommodating au guests
the first answer so far sup
plied to the question of what
to do when you get to central
Oregon, besides digging fossils.
Waldorf, his wife Rena; his son,
Jimmy; his pretty blond daugh
ter, Betty, and her husband, Bill
Amis, started out running cattle
on their 36,000-acre spread in
the heart of the fossil beds.
They had no intention of
duding. But the location, the
spacious ranch houses, the easy
Waldorf hospitality and the
ranch-house cooking that always
tastes like more proved an ir
resistible lure. Plenty of fossi
fied oreodons a hog that ate
like a cow and whole herds of
three and five-toed Eohippus
horses have been found on the
farm.
But they are a little old for
riding, about 50,000,000 years
too old. So we settled for a
couple of 5-year-olds and joined
the buckaroos who were bent
on moving the main herd of 400
or so Black Angus cattle up the
canyon wall to the open range
on top.
After a good night's sleep
on our stomachs the motorlog
headed back to highway 28 to
ward John Day.
John Day and Canyon City,
hub of the John Day country,
are booming now, what with
lumber and livestock both in
urgent demand. But today's
boom is just bubble-gum size
compared to the excitement of
the gold rush of 1862 that
brought a reported 10.000 dig
gers to pitch their tents in Can
yon City.
History of John Day and Can
yon City is relived annually in
county fair at John Day in Sep
tember is one of the finest, with!
a parade rivaling the Pendleton
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retiring of bonds that may have to be issued to
get actual construction underway.
The tax levy would not run in excess of ten
years. So far as the water meter assessment is
concerned, that is in the province of the council
and could be discontinued or extended as neces
sity demands. The levy must have the approval of
the taxpayers.
Words of encouragement have come from
many citizens who feel that the question of in
stalling a sewer system in Heppner has long
since passed the question of necessity. The prob
lem confronting the council and the townspeople
is the matter of financing it. When the question
of finances is posed, the citizens should take into
consideration that the local town government is
about the last political unit to receive considera
tion in the matter of taxes. The federal govern
ment grabs all the cream; the state comes in for
the milk next to the layer of cream; the coun
ty has its levies for this, that and the other
thing; the school districts get a
of the citizen's dollar, and finally
to be contented with what in this
be termed just the bluejohn. So, when it comes to
making civic improvements the town has to re
sort to special taxes to pull funds out of a popu
lace that is already harassed with fixed levies
that go for everything but civic improvement.
There seems no justifiable reason for seeking
delay in the construction of a sewer system. It
will have to come sooner or later and having in
mind the trend towards higher labor costs, to
say nothing of materials and engineering, it
would seem the sensible thing to do would be to
The oAmerican Way
THE "MAN" FOR THE JOB
By GEORGE PECK
History is a-making in Missis
sippi this year. For the first time
a woman tossed her hat into the
ring for the governorship of that
state. Mrs. Mary D. Cain, pub
lisher and editor of the Summit
Sun, a weekly newspaper,, is the
little lady who is flaunting Mis
sissippi tradition.
Mrs. Cain's platform is predi
cated on one idea and I quote
her: "To restore to the people of
Mississippi their sovereign rights
as citizens, of their state and the
United States." Space does not
permit enumerating all the
planks in the Cain platform, but
here follow some that should be
of absorbing interest to all
sound-thinking Americans:
1. Refuse any further Federal
Grants-In-Aid.
2. Reduce taxes. Specifically,
abolish state income tax, black
market tax, admission tax, estate
tax, chain store tax, slot machine
tax and malt tax.
3. Reduce cost of state govern
ment by consolidation, transfers
and eliminations of existing (106)
state bureaus and agencies to a
total of 26.
4. Tax the cooperatives. (Mrs.
Cain believes they would prefer
to be taxed as a matter of fair
ness. They've never had an op
portunity to pay).
6. Sound public health pro
gram but within the bounds of
state and county aid only. No
federal funds.
7. Opposition to all New Deal
socialism which includes subsi
dies for farmers, unemployment
compensation, federal aid to edu
cation, socialized medicine and
compulsory health insurance, ar
bitrary wage and hour regula
tions, public housing, the Bran
nan Plan, the Valley Authorities,
federal aid for the aged and
needy and social security. Espe
cially opposed to the extension
of social security to state, county,
district, school and municipal
employees ....
9. Purge present Welfare De
partment rolls, repudiate further
federal aid and make sure that
30 Years Ago
Born on Wednesday, June 15, to
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Rhea, a 10
pound girl.
On June 9 City Water Commis
sioner Pruyn took samples from
the water in the city mains and
forwarded them to the state
board of health. The report shows
the water is pure and contains
no injurious properties.
The 10 year old son of Law
rence Redding suffered the break
ing of an arm Tuesday when
he took a fall at the family home
in Eight Mile.
Mrs. J. L. Wilkins came up
from Arlington Tuesday evening
where she enjoyed a visit with
her father, E. C. Maddock at
the Grande hotel. She will visit
friends here for a few days be
fore returning to her home in
Astoria.
Mayor Noble and his wife
moved into their nice new home
this week. The new residence is
one of the finest in the city.
J. E. Higley, recently with the
Northwestern National Bank of
June 14, 1951
liberal portion
the towns have
instance might
only absolutely destitute people
are aided by that department. . . .
11. Suitable laws to protect the
right of Labor to belong to a la
bor union or not, as it sees fit.
That, my friends, is quite a
platform. But, ii elected, will the
lady live up to it? Is it just an
other candidate making a lot of
promises for the sole purpose of
getting elected? Well, let's look
at the record Mary Cain's record.
In 1943, during World War II,
U. S. Senator Bankhead introduc
ed a bill, part of which proposed
to subsidize small-town weekly
newspapers. Reaching for her
typewriter, Mary Cain dashed off
an editorial that was copied in
thousands of newspapers across
the nation. Part of that editorial
follows:
"And now the press of the na
tion is being approached with an
insidious scheme to PAY for our
patriotism. My paper is small
so small that I wonder at my te
merity in speaking thus. It is
poor so poor that it depends al
most entirely upon the job work
I do to sustain it. . . I am a young
woman who could use a goodly
sum such as this would net me.
But, I tell you frankly, even if
this bill passes, I shall not accept
the money. . . . This is an inde
pendent newspaper. It accepts no
pay for government advertising
and publishes only what it deems
best for the needs of this town."
In large measure due to this
editorial the Bankhead Bill was
not enacted and the free voice of
the rural press was saved. Again
space does not permit recounting
the many things Mary Cain has
said and done to prove she is bit
terly opposed to paternalistic
government, even when it prom
ises to feather her own nest.
Not being a citizen of Missis
sippi, I have no vote there. I wish
I were, as it would give me great
pleasure to vote for Mary Cain as
often as the Mississippi law
would permit. She strikes me as
being just the "MAN" for Missis
sippians to install as governor of
"Ole Miss."
Portland, has been elected to the
position of assistant cashier of
the Farmers & Stockgrowers Na
tional bank of this city. He has
taken the place of C, M. Sims who
recently resigned. D. A. Wilson,
who has been bookkeeper for the
bank for several months, has al
so resigned.
Postmaster Richardson in
forms us that beginning July 1
the delivery window at the post
office will be closed on Sundays
and holidays.
The Umpqua River route to
Reedsport was originally survey
ed for a railroad and was later
abandoned, even though over a
million dollars had been spent
on a tunnel.
The Smithsonian Institute will
investigate three former Indian
camps back of McNary Dam on
the Columbia river in Oregon
now under construction. The In
stitute hopes to uncover Indian
relics before the waters backed
by the dam cover them.
support the council's proposal.
The editorial tile is doffed to Miss Ingrid Her
mann of lone, choice of the committee for queen
of the 1951 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo. This
attractive young lady, fresh from high school
graduation and the winning of unusual laurels in
her 4-H club work is eminently fitted for the honor
that has been accorded her. Ingrid's motto has al
ways been "That which is worth doing at all is
worth doing well." Faithful adherence to that
motto has paid rich dividends in strengthening
of character, not to mention the financial success
that has attended her 4-H club projects, all of
which have left her unspoiled and filled with a
desire to go on to greater achievement. The tile is
also doffed to the committee for its selection.
"Some Americans, stricken with fear, are will
ing to barter freedom for some small measure
of safety and survival." David Lawrence, Mayor
of Pittsburgh.
"There are billions of dollars that can be cut
from the non-military budget. And they should
be. Why should the American taxpayer tighten his
belt when the Government continues its merry
spending spree?" Oakland, Calif. Voice.
"Many Americans do not doubt this country's
financial ability to maintain the nation in a gar
rison state for a number of years, or even to fight
a full-guaged war, if necessary. What they are
wondering about with reason is whether they
can maintain the nation's tremendous army of
bureaucrats." Eldorado, Kan., Times.
Thirty years ago Oregon Caves,
now a national monument in
Southern Oregon, were called the
Josephine Caves, named after the
county in which they are situated
Lookout Point dam located on
state highway 58 in Lane county;
will be completed in 1954, and is
expected to become a major tour
ist attraction
The Astor column overlooking
Astoria is 25 years old this year.
for all
occasions
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Heppner, Oregon
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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.
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