Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, August 14, 1952
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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
Th Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times, established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912.
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Reverse Economics in Milk
Now that debate on many of the numerous
measures to appear on the Oregon ballot in No
vember has already gotten under way we have
been watching with interest some of the argu
ments, both pro and con, that have been appear
ing in papers throughout the state.
One of the most interesting, and. to our opinion
one of the most misleading, was a guest editorial
appearing in the Oregon Journal last Tuesday con
eerning the controversial change In the state
milk control law. It was written by Randolph T.
Kuhn, a Portland advertising executive, and at
tempted to explain why consumers should not be
allowed to buy milk at a store cheaper than they
can have it delivered to their door.
In arguing against allowing a one-cent store
differential per quart of milk we quote the fol
lowing paragraph from the article: "... Because
with all the fancy talk about quotas and differen
tials and butter fat and labeling none of these
will teach the cow to generate milk at lower cost
(14 cents per quart by actual scientific analysis).
None of these will make trucks run cheaper. It
now costs 8.1G cents to process and deliver one
quart to the home and 8.28 cents per quart through
the corner store, by scientific cost analysis".
According to the reasoning used to arrive at the
above figures, it is cheaper to deliver milk in lots
of one or two or maybe three quarts each day to
the individual doorstep than it is to deliver 50 or
100 or 500 quarts to each of a relatively few gro
cery stores. That kind of reasoning doesn't make
sense to us In fact it is absolutely contrary to the
generally accepted American idea of mass produc
tion and volume sales. We think somebody's
"scientific cost analysis" system Is due for a little
investigation.'
When Heppner was deprived of its house to
house milk delivery nearly a year ago, the reason
given by the dairy serving this area, was that it
couldn't afford to continue the service for the price.
In other words they said In effect it was cheaper
to deliver in quantity lots to the five grocery
stores In Heppner than to leave it on the indi
vidual doorsteps. That statement we can't ques
tion. If the other thesis is correct, Dairy Coopera
tive, the producers and deliverers of Mayflower
milk have been losing more money since they
stopped house to house delivery than they did be
fore. We would guess their bookkeeping system
is up-to-date enough to show whether or not that
is true. Our guess is, they would have given us
our home delivery again if it were cheaper.
There has been a concerted effort during recent
months, in fact years, to get changes made in the
Oregon Milk control law. One, which has been
spearheaded by Safeway stores, has been aimed
at allowing purchasers to buy it at their, or other,
stores at a lower price. We have never been in
full accord with the law as it stands at present,
primarily due to the retail price-fixing sections of
it or their Interpretation by the control board. We
do believe that the producer should, have some
protection, and that the consumer deserves the
protection of knowing that the milk is of good
quality and safe for use. A certain amount of
regulation is necessary, but our interest is in see
ing the housewife get a break in the matter of
price. (
We seriously question anybody's ability to
prove that It costs more to sell milk through stores
than it does to deliver it to our door. If it can be
proven, we shall immediately request Mayflower
to again give us door to door milk delivery in
Heppner and we shall expect to get it.
Time Out!
It has been apparent for at least two years that
Oregon was going to have to do something to
settle its time question, and the feud this spring
between Governor McKay and the city of Portland
brought the matter to a head. We have the feel
ing the governor reversed his decision this year,
just to accomplish such an action. On the surface
it would appear that his decision to keep Oregon
on standard time had served the purpose, for a
petition was circulated to bring the matter to a
vote in November.
The necessity for such a decision has been ob
vious to most residents of the state, regardless of
which side of the issue they might be on. The
necessity was made even clearer to us during a
recent trip to a Willamette valley city where we
found one store observing daylight time and the
next standard. To say the least u was coniusnig.
Though we believe a vote is necessary, we
doubt that the decision reached by the vote this
November will settle much, for to us the wording
of the measure leaves one half of the problem still
unanswered. As we understand the bill it asks
for a decision on whether Oregon shall have com
pulsory standard time or shall it be left as it is,
up to the governor to proclaim. If the standard
time proponents win the vote, the pro-daylight
timers will claim they didn't have a chance to
vote the way they wanted to, and if the vote should
go in favor of the present confused system we will
be right back where we are now. Either way it
goes we look for the other side to bring it up again
for a later vote Until the people have the oppor
tunity to say definitely they want standard time,
or they want daylight time, we're afraid Oregon's
time is going to remain a sore subject and periodi
cally confused.
' As it stands today, one of Li'l Abner's favorite
statements aptly describes it "amoozin' but con-foozln',"
fendatn in a suit filed in the
Marion County Circuit Court this
week by the Oregon State Dental
Association, which seeks to pre
vent the University of Oregon
from having supervision over the
dental school.
riaintiffs aver the 1945 enacted
law states that the dental school
was to be operated by the Board
of Higher Education as a "Dis
junct and separate department."
and asked tnat the u 01 u De en-
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Pearson returned to the Capital fT
from a trip to the Democratic Na
tional Convention in Chicago, and
other points where he visited, he
expressed disapproval or trie ac- . . th he js resignlng
tion of the state emergency warm on th(? tax c.ommissio
iml Cnimranr TVnicr ;i McKaV 111 1 . . . . , .. i
,ister the affairs of the dental
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TAX COMMISSIONER RESIGNS
Robert D. Maclean announced
his
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and Governor Douglas McKay in hjs iva(e business in.
neglecting to approve a wage in- , ts
crease for state workers in me
lower pay brackets.
"I think it is most regrettable (rty assessments and the forest
He has been a member of the
commission in charge of the prop
that employees in the lower sal-, research and experimental tax
ary DracKeis snouiu mn it-n-ivc division tor three years.
pay increases," Pearson said. A
$5 increase would nave meant
more to employees in the lower
brackets than a $25 or $30 in
crease for higher paid employ
ees." Pearson said he would oppose
any pay increase which does not
include all employees, and par
ticularly those in the lower brackets.
SUIT OVER DENTAL SCHOOL
Maclean said, "We are exercis
ing a greater degree of supervi
sion over the county assessors in
accordance with the statutes and
mandates of the 1951 legislature
. . . and our relations with tie
assessors have never been better.
We have failed to obtain full co
operation from Multnomah
county and are currently in the
courts on several issues."
He said he hoped to dispose of
The Oreeon State Board of certain litigation within the next
Higher Education was made de
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MILK PRICES BOOSTED
The State Agricultural Depart
ment's branch of milk control
raised the price ceiling on mini
mum milk prices and lowered the
maximum butterfat content in
three Central Oregon counties.
The new schedule which goes
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