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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, May 13, 1954 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIME SlTHIRTY YEARS AGO MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Cozette established M.irch '. November IK, 1K!". Consoli 1KX.1 ''lie Heppner Times, dated February 15, 1!M2 "stablished NEWSPAPER V PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBEKT t'ENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL I AsTocfondN Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $1.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents. Don't Confuse Friday's School Budget Election Tomorrow (May 11) county voters will be asked to approve the operating budget for county schools at a special election to lie held in all school dis tircts. In most districts there is little or no reason for confusion regarding this election, but in the Hepp ner district, there are indications that some voters have confused this election with one to come at a later date, to authorize a bond issue for the construction of a new grade school in Heppner. The May 11 vote has no connection whatever with any building program. Tomorrow's vote, to be hold in the school build ing in each district, is lor the purpose of approv ing the geneial operating budget, which has been approved by the rural school board. The vote is necessary on the amount above the six percent limitation and should be OKd to give our schools I he necessary funds with which to meet normal expenses during Ihe coming year. Residents of lleppner's school district No. 1 will, at some time in the future when all arrangement. are completed, be asked to approve a special bond issue for the construction of a new elementary school, but it will be done at a special election with no other question involved. The date of that election will be announced by the school board as soon as plans and cost figures are compiled. If you are in doubt as to what you are voting on. read your ballot carefully for it gives a com plete explanation of the measure. conducted the office in the past. There have been minor differences of opinion between he and Peter son, yet nothing upon which any competitor for the office could base any major campaign, and it is to the credit of both men that they have kept their campaigning on a very high level. We believe Barratt deserves to be returned to office. Our selection of Mrs. Hughes for the assessor's post is based largely on her experience in the office. Though she has held the position for only a few months, being appointed by Ihe court to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation and subsequent death of V. O. Dix, she has served for several years in the office as deputy and is well acquainted with procedures in what is undoubted ly one of the most important offices in county government. Also to her credit is her present ex perience in the current job of reappraising and reassessing all county property which is being done as a joint venture with the state tax com mission. It is an exacting job and to disrupt the staff in that department at a time when the re appraisal job is only well started would, we be lieve, be unwise and costly to the county. The other two county positions which must be filled, tho.'e of county treasurer and commission er, have attracted no one but the incumbents, Mrs Lucy Rodgers and Ralph I. Thompson. County Officials This year, for Ihe first time in quite a few, Morrow county has several county offices for which there are more than one aspirant, those of judge, clerk and assessor and Republican voters have an exceptionally well qualified group from which to select their officials. We say Republi can voters because only on that ballot is there any competition at the coming election. There is one Democrat seeking the office of county clerk, Bruce Lindsay, but he is unopposed on the Primary bal lot. In the fall general elections he will oppose Harold liecket who has no competition as a Re publican. In Ihe two races where there will be a battle, that of county judge and assessor, this paper will pledge its support to the two incumbents, Carnel liarralt and Mrs. Olive B. Hughes. The race for the judgeship has been the only one in which there has been, at least so far. any campaining, and that, to our knowledge, has been on a lop plane. Both Barratt and Oscar K. Peter son are well qualified to hold tle top county posi tion, and we believe that either man would do an honest anil conscientious job during the com iug term, but because of Barralt's experience in Ihe office and his record of consciencious effort to do w hat he has fell was best for the county, it is our belief that he should be returned to 1he office. There has been no major point of difference in Ihe campaign platform of the two men, which we believe, speaks well for Ihe way Barratt has Patterson vs Newbry The one state-wide political fight in Oregon, in which there has been any semblance of a battle is the race between Paul Patterson and Earl New bry for governor, and unless the Newbry forces let their exhuberance get out of hand, we doubt that this race will turn out to be too much of a politi cal fight, though both sides have a large backing of ardent supporters. Governor Patterson is not Ihe type to go around the state making blood and thunder slumping speeches, yet he is probably one of the best public speakers to hold the top state office in many years. Newbry, during recent weeks has been throw ing out comments on some very important issues in the stale, namely Ihe power problem, with the apparent hope thai he will be able to catch gover nor Patterson up on some of its numerous points. We don't believe his recent verbal explosions have gained him much Republican support, duo largely to the fact, as we have stated previously in this column, t hat they sound more as though they wer(. coming from a Democrat than a Republican. We can't feel that New lay's policies toward power de velopment, if put into effect, could help solve the problems any quicker. We don't believe either that the little tiffs in which Newbry found him self involved dining his term as secretary of state have helped his popularity too much, though it must be said, that he did institute some valuable changes in the proceedtues of office during his term. Paul Patterson is. we believe from personal know ledge of him, one of the most sincere men we have known, lie is no a publicity seeker in any sense, which, for a politician, has disadvantages, but we feel he has served Oregon well during his short tenure, and we believe the state would bene fit from his reelection. From files of the Gazette Times May 15, 1924 C. W. McNamer and Percy Hughes shinned two cars of fat oiuil' irom ine neppner yams iu Portland yesterday morning. The editor and several members of the family drove over to Pen dleton Tuesday and spent the day. Albert Adkins manager of the Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co., in this city, drove to Walla Walla on Fri day to look after business matters. Dr. McMurdo has recently made improvements i his residence property. Some of the big poplar trees that have stood as land marks in that part of the city for yeais, have been removed and converted into stove wood. Pete Slevin, sheepman of this county, made sale of his band this week, delivery after shearing. James A. Fee, Jr., attorney of Pendleton, was attending circuit court in this city this week. TO THE EDITOR TO THE EDITOR 1 believe that Republican far mers, workingnien and small business men, should ponder the following information, carefully, before they cast their vote, in the Primary May 21st. The state fish and game com mission recently filed a demand for a continuous flow ,if 200 se cond feet of water in the De schutes river, below Rent this is an increase of 1!H) se cond feet. If irrigation is robbed of this water (which it has used for ears i it means ruin to hundreds workingnien and busi- in the Deschutes ba whom are directly or AT Furniture Co ARMSTRONG'S LINOLEUM FLOORS Tin's one single improvement cm make a wonderful change in onr kitchen's upprarunt-r. Come in and see the many at tractive styles now on display. You'll find inspiration aplenty for brightening up your kitchen. Choose now and we'll have your new floor down in plenty of time for the holidays. PROFESSIONALLY INSTALLED IF YOU DESIRE : of larinei s, : ness penplt I, Oregon , in all of m V "Av'a ' 1 r '!! I WW 1- J!': -: e ':x .. ? ,v.i STVi j j .vi v i-. P. l '. J ! ; i i I than 2 percent acquit total of fines rose fron ts! l ii'i7 in Mart''1 rose from 936 and days to indirectly dependant on irriga tion for a living. Agriculture and lumber are the basic industries in Oregon pros perous farmers mean more jobs, better business, good times If people stand idly by while irriga tion is crippled in the Deschutes basin this fish and game com mission will move on to the next victim The Rogue, The Klam ath, The Hood River who will be next? every irrigation stream will be captured in turn and agri culture throughout Oregon great ly damaged. Governor Patterson is "going along" with this "sneak attack" bv his fish and came commission. This matter has been called to I llam aiianon, was appointed hw. ntlontir,n hv ,rwn 1 a t i vnc f TlUay by GOV. Pa 111 L. PattCrSOIl of the 9 irrigation districts in NOW IS THE TIME If you consider your personal or property tax assessments out of line and expect to do something about it you should get busy pronto. Meetings of tax equalization boards in every county in Ore gon will start May 10. The pur pose of the equalization boards is to protect property owners from over assessment or unequal assessments. In making an appeal, an at torney is not necessary but a pe tition for relief must be made in writing and be notarized and filed not later than May 15. "Assessors are only human", says State Tax Commissioner Sampel B. Stewart, "and can make errors in assessing the value of a piece of property". Besides the board of equaliza tion there are four other proced ures which taxpayers may take to reduce an assessment on either real or personal property. They are: 1. Protest to the assessor prior to the second Monday in May- for correction and reduction of the tentative assessment. 2. Appeal to the State Tax Commission for relief in assess ment within 20 days after notice of action of the board of equali zation. 3. Appeal to the circuit court for relief in assessment. 4. Final appeal to the state Supreme Court. I. A. C. VACANCY FILLED The business manager of the Roofers Union of Portland, Wil- averaged legis- the 2-1 the 56,- by the Commis- volved in Central Oregon and our governor remains silent. Earl Newbry this opponent on the Republican Ticket) was an irrigation farmer all of his life until becoming Secretary of State and he still owns a 250 acre ir rigated farm in Southern Oregon. Newbry understands this serious problem Newbry's public stand that "There probably is enough water in our streams for both ir rigation and fish but if there is not enough for both irrigation must come first" sums up this problem fairly and puts first things first. The farmer the workingman and the small business man will stand or fall together in Oregon The question is a simple one WHICH COMF.S FIRST People or Fish. Vote for whoever you please on as a member of the State Indus trial Accident Commission, lie succeeds Paul E. Gurske who re signed to accept a post with the U. S. Bureau of Labor. The three members of the I. A. C. are also members of the State L'nemploy m e n t Compensation Commission. The other members of the corn mi.1 sion are T. Morris Dunne and L. O. Arens. MORE DRUNKEN DRIVERS There was a marked increase in the number of arrests for drun ken driving during the month of March, according to the records of the State Police Department. The TS arrests in February in creased to 101 in March. There May 21st BUT VOTE. Sincerely, E. D. Harris, District Attorney Jefferson County, Oregon. were less tals. The Slt.GTS to sentences 11 S3 d." vs. Fines in February SI21 and in March the average w as SI 15. TRUCKS AND R. R- RATES ti, ,.,inriw are and the , i t Ill lio involved ..t,,v,i nr. in t win 'j'- iituii. r. ........ in negotiations between ,..iii.-,,:irk in Oregon and 030 trucks being operated here ,,,,der the laws regulating uu..- no nation and executed state Public Utilities sinner. Organized truckers attempted to pass a bill in the 1953 legislature that would give the Public Utili ties Commissioner the authority to establish minimum rates for railroad freight shipments. When the bill was defeated the truckers appealed to mc "'- assuming that the commissioner alreadv had the power. The courts 'held with previous rulings by Holtzel that he did not have that authority. The truckers now are preparing a bill similar to the 1935 bill to present to the 1955 legislature. DAIRY RULES HEARING Hearings regarding new regu lations of dairy products plants and some changes in the present fluid milk production will be held in the Capitol May 12 at 9:30 a. m. A re-definition of various state laws as rewritten and enacted by the 1953 legislature and confer- Get Your HAIL INSURANCE NOW The hail season is here! Protect your crops with a sound, sensible Hail In surance Policy. With production costs so high, Hail Insurance is more necessary than ever before. 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