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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, May 13, 1954
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIME SlTHIRTY YEARS AGO
MORROW
COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
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dated February 15, 1!M2
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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter
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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
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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'-
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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-
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Portland Telegram, San Francisco
Bulletin and several other news
papers. He has been dubbed "Mr.
Legislature" as he has probably
covered more legislative sessions
as a political writer than any
other political writer in the West.
The O. M. P. A. was organized
in 1953 to promote production,
processing and selling of dairy
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