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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1954)
Pag 4 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, September 23, 1954 -k I I QUESTIONS RICOCHET The new president of the Unit ed States Chamber of Commerce who spoke in Salem Wednesday expressed doubt on the election of republican congress this year. President Clem D. Johnson, Vir ginia wholesale merchant and cattle raiser, deducted that ceo- DEDICATIONS! (Now & Then) Hope that you were able to Arrange to be on hand For Eisenhower's Dedication of Our own McNary Dam! The flurry of excitement calls To mind a bygone time; The dedications of Bonneville Dam And the Lodge at Timber line! One that really topped them for Utmost excitement & thrill Was Queen Marie's visit to dedicate The Museum at Maryhill! hr For All Your Insurance Needs C. A. RUGGLES Phone 6-9625 Box 611 Heppner, Oregon nomie freedom for big business could be at stake iifthe fall elec tions. He assured his audience that business had been given a fair shake by the last congress and denied widespread " democratic accusations that special favors had been received. He said, "Business wants con gress to continue further progres sive steps in the interest of com petition aruj fre enterprise." After his address Johnson ans wered questions in a national af fairs forum. Questions soon be gan to reverberate from the state wide audience of 430, members of the Salem Chamber of Com merce and members of chambers from Klamath Kails to McMinn ville, Newport to Bend, and way-points. They wanted to know what U. S. Chamber of Commerce ideas were about acts of congress which concern Oregon and Ore gonians. Why the low "unpro tective" tariff on cherries, wal nuts and filberts is in effect? "Protective tariffs are not al ways in national interest be cause so many nations abroad depend entirely on their ability to export goods to this country." Johnson soid. The late United States Senator Charles L. McNary had a very different answer to this question. He said. "Importing is big busi ness and big business always looks after big business first, last and forever". He was one of the most powerful men in the senate for nearly a quarter of a century. He had a large filbert orchard near Salem and tried for years to get a protective tariff on filberts but was overridden by powerful importers who profit on foreign items of agriculture at a open f uimu IB Clothes Get All Your Needs Now At WILSON'S RED SWEAT SHIRTS 2.25 Red Cotton FLANNEL SWEAT SHIRTS 2.95 RED HATS 1.49 "Ml WEYENBERG Hunting Boots 10 inch top, cushion crepe sole, soft ottor veal upper. All sizes f .If M 17.45 White Stag all wool plaid CRUISER JACKETS 21.00 White Stag wool plaid JACK SHIRTS 10.95 TO 15.95 COTTON JOCKEY LONGS 2.25 25 WOOL JOCKEY LONGS 3.25 (Extra longs available in both weights) TIN COATS AND PANTS Couble construction with light Neoprene filler PANTS 9.75 COATS 9.95 HEAVY WINTER WOOL SOX 65c TO 1.35 CAPS Wilson'sMerTs Wear The Store of Personal Sendee C.W. Harder There are indications many are puzzled by some campaign oratory being released in Nov ember election warm up. Most confusing appears to be commonly used assertion to jus tify anything and everything that "we must not forget we are now THE' world power."; Ye t many people are an alyzing this oft - repeated claim. Since days of the Caesars tlfere have been many world powers. Yet in each era, the world power rep resented a bastion which was accorded world wide respect. But never in history has any nation become the world power, or maintained that position by playing Santa Claus every day of the year, year after year. From the Napoleonic Wars un til 1914, England was the world power. And with the exception of a little brawl with the Boers, England maintained that posi tion without fighting anyhody. In addition, she maintained It with out charity, for the sun has yet to set on day England gives away as much as a shilling. So today's peculiar happen ings provoke many questions. As example there Is recent transaction of Foreign Opera tions Administration, chief dis penser of American billions to practieally every country, Com munist Yugoslavia included. In this particular transaction, it was decided II. S. taxpayers would give the railroad system of India 100 locomotives. Two things meet the eye im- fc) Nrfll'.iidl Fnl.uHi.n of IliilPDcnilcrit HiMtneiN mediately. One is that India's boss man, Nehru, is on record as not being too annoyed by Communists; in fact many feel he is quite friendly. The second point is that the Indian railroad system is a government operated socialistic venture. Also In line with New Look In shovelling American taxpayers billions to world In form of goods, everybody was Invited to bid on building the locomotives. Successful bidder, was Japan Rolling Stock Exporter Associa tion, part of Japanese cartel system that reappeared after General Douglas MacArthur was recalled. This cartel bid $81,470 each, less than half the lowest American bid of $178,200 each. Japanese cartel gets the busi ness. American business and la bor which pays the taxes, re ceive nothing. Thus American free enterprise system is taxed to pay cartel to produce goods for use of socialistic operation with communist sympathies. Other fantastic manipulations are being revealed in Washing ton. For example, Paul Ker mick, chief investigator for Senate Appropriations Commit tee headed by Sen. Styles Bridg es, has filed report to effect U. S. taxpayers are paying heavily to build up a British aircraft monopoly under guise of defense necessity. Meanwhile there appears ten dency to yawn whenever a cam paign speaker defends extortion of U. 8. taxpayers as necesary because V. 8. Is now THE world power. Many feel situation Is similar to that which would ex ist if a bank embarked on a campaign to become commun ity's leading bank by giving away money to any and all comers with free band. THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times September 25, 1924. The very finest tomatoes on the Heppner market are those brought to town from the garden of C. W. Valentine of Sourdough canyon. i There was some three inches of snow fall in the Willow creeK basin in the vicinity of Herrins mill on Friday night. The Hardman high school has a larger enrollment than ever be fore. A total of 29 is now enrolled. For the first day of the Hepp ner Rodeo we are facing show ers of rain and cloudy skies. Heppner High is steadily pro pressing its organization for the year's work in spite of the ex citement of preparing for Rodeo. All classes have held meetings and elected officers. The presi dents elected were freshmen, Kenneth Merritt; Sophomores, Meile Becket; Juniors, Leonard Schwarz; Seniors, Austin Smith. m, AnnU Hvnd returned to Butterby Flatts on Wednesday after spending a week in Heppner. She remembered price American farmers cannot meet. President Johnson left his of fice in Washington, D. C, early in August with an agenda calling for U. S. C. of C. dinner-address-forum dates in 40 cities. MORE NEW LAWYERS It's getting tougher each year to get a state license to practice law in Oregon. This year only 93 of the 146 law students and attorneys from other states passed the Oregon slate bar examination. The per centage of successful applicants 63.77, was believed the lowest in recent years. Blame for the heavy failure list was assessed partilly to a more than usual turnover in the nine members of the Oregon Bar on the examina tion board. Only three of the nine on the board were experi enced examiners. The 90 successful persons took their oaths of office at ceremon ies in the Supreme Courtroom this week. CORRUPT PRACTICE CHARGE The 2nd Congressional Dist. Democratic Committee chairman has asked the Attorney General's office to investigate action of the Idaho Power Company in putting a man in the field to campaign ' against Al Ullman, Democratic candidate for cong gress, apparently against the Oregon corrupt practices act. The corrupt practices act spe cifically prohibit power com panies from making expendi tures to secure the defeat of can didates. TAX COMMISSION UPHELD In an opinion by the Oregon Supreme Court Wednesday the State Tax Commission was up held in its methods of assessing properties of three water carriers which operate in interstate com merce on the Snake, Willamette and Columbia rivers and in ap portioning valuations to the state of Oregon. The carriers had contended in their suit that under the Ore gon Admission Act, the Tax Com mission lacked jurisdiction to as sess a tax. Judge Rossman pointed out that under the limitations of the statute the circuit court can con sider nothing except matters of valuation and apportionment and noted that all parties agreed on valuations. CAPITAL SHORTS An electronically controlled armory tower outside the State Penitentiary will soon be in op eration with all defense weapons that were formerly kept in the main building. . . Oregon's share of the annual interest on the na tional debt (of around $275 bil lion) is $74,800,000 a little less than what the state spends to run its government for a year, says Frank Jenkins. Klammath Falls News. . . Oregonians drank less beer and more whiskey and wine in the fiscal year ending on June 30th than they did the pre vious year. . . An Oregon topo graphical map group will work with the state agencies and U. S. Geological surveyors to produce a better set of topographical maps of the state. . . Oregon City and Salem lead upstate cities in building permits during August. . . Corvallis was third with $322, 189 and Eugene fourth with $270,-064. "S3? i V si Pill It Happy is the husband whose wife keeps the refrigerator well stocked with rare flavored, refreshing Olympia Beer. That rJ" OImpig Irtwlnj Co., Olympia, Wn U.S. A.' 9TH ANNUAL Midco Hereford Assn. SAL1 Mon., Tues., Oct. 4 & 5 SHOW-l :00 P. M. SALE-Sherman M. MONDAY TUESDAY :00 P. 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