Heppner Gazettt Timts, Thursday, February 28, 1957
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MORROW COUNTY'S N W S P A K R
TIi I.ppnr Gazett., .rtablkhad March 30, 1883. Th, H.ppnT Tim.. Ubli.h.d
November 18, 1897. Connolidated February. 15, 1912
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AWOCIATION
ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and PublUhw
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The State Property Tax
Tuesday the state senate passed with only
three dissenting votes a bill to take the state
out of the property tax field except as a basis
for bonding. Such a move has been urged for
many years by practically all farm organizations
as well as numerous other groups. The Heppner
Morrow county chamber of commerce only Mon
day added its voice In favor of the measure when
it approved unanimously the sending of tele
grams to our representative and senator urging
passage of the bill.
It is interesting to note that one of the three
senators who voted "no" on the bill is our own
senator from this district, Ben Musa of The Dal
les. In a speech on the floor the senate Mr. Musa
acknowledged that the people he represents
strongly favored the bill when he said in effect,
"... Every letter I have received from my con
stituents has been in favor of the bill but, never
theless I am going to vote against it." And he
did.
In taking such a stand we fail to see through
Senator Musa's reasoning or how his vote can be
of any help in relieving the tax load on property
owners.
In that connection . . . some figures came to
light this week on a comparison of income tax
and property tax payments made by residents of
Morrow county. They are compiled from state tax
commission reports and show that Morrow county
residents pay .0029 percent of the income tax paid
Into the state and .0070 percent of the property
tax that is paid in Oregon. In other words we
are paying almost two and one-half times more
property tax In this county (percentage-wise)
than we are Income tax. It is little wonder that
farmer organizations have taken such a strong
stand against the state staying in the property
tax field These figures probably have not been
available to such groups until now, but they cer
tainly bear out the validity of their complaints
against further property taxation.
It can easily be seen from the above compari
son that residents of Morrow county would be far
better off to pay a higher rate of income tax to
support state needs than to have that money
come from increased property taxes.
ODD ENDS-
SHAKE WELL BEFORE READING
If the person who twisted the ancient saying
around to read, "Faint covers a muunuue ui &iu
rr,ict!,iw rould onlv see us this week
he would know how true his words could become.
We know we just finished getting tne ui print
We have long had on the top of our list of
"musts" the project of painting our Dae Miop,
but now that its done, we're not so sure it was
worth it. Not that it didn't need it at least as
ildint? in town, but trying to dig
out of the remaining mess of plaster dust, paint
r,iatt0r ntc i almost more than we bargained
for. Everything in the shop that wasn't nailed
down or that weighed less tnan a coupie oi iuns
t., rovori in tho rlean urj nrocess with the re-
oi,n that it win take our crew a month to find
things we used to be able to pick up with our eyes
ninco,! Actually our readers are going to be
lucky to get a paper this week if they do! (we're
writing this two days aneau oi pre&s-uay.
s'vnrvthinp' includine the presses and most
other equipment, is now a soft green a mixture
of paint and plaster dust so aeep mat we suuug
ly recommend you shake your copy of this week's
paper quite well before you bring it in the house.
Newspaper plants, in general, have held an
undisputed record for years as being the dingiest
hiiriinas in tnwn. and ours uo until this week
was no exception. We used to wonder why this
u.no cn hut not anv more, Undoubtedly, oacK in
thn rUm dark npes (about as dark as our shop
was) some enterprising publisher got a wild hair
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and decided to paini nis snop, men au ne uu5
nut nf thn enliKcnuent mess warned all other pub
lishers that it wasn't worth It. As a result, most
weekly papers are still working in the same
cmnirn.riimmi.il miarters that thev moved into
when the paper was established. Many publish
ers must have concluded and we re aooui reauy
to agree it's easier to move into a new building
than re-do the old one.
Anyway, we took the hard way out and paint
ed ou'rs. That real pretty green paint was the
first to be applied in at least 20 years and the
dirt it covered was a sight to behold. When we
finally get dug out of the mess, we're going to
spend' a whole day just standing and admiring
the nice clean look and we're giving fair warn
ing right now, that the first printer who puts
a dirty fingerprint on a door will wish he hadn't.
THIRTY YEARS AGO i
From Files of the Gazette Times
March 3, 1927
A delightful eveninf was spent
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
RalDh ThomDson last Thursday
evening at a party given in honor
oi tne host s birtnaay. Mrs. ukk.
Wells and B. R. Stone received
high in bridge.
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C Anderson
. nnnt In
Don Robinson of Kirk and i the greatest i-ti enruumcm .
Several bovs in the grade
school will soon receive their
basketball letters for the past
season. Letters will be awarded
to James McNamee, James Far
ley, Oral Wright and Alex Ul-
rich.
I.pnnarrl Krhwara. Austin Smith
and the Misses Esta Miller, Mary
Patterson and Mary Crawford
made up an auto party spend
ing Sunday at The Dalles.
Mr anH Mrs John Bersstrom
drove in on Monday afternoon
from the r home at Koseourg
and are spending a short while
in Heppner.
Carl McDaniel of Hardman is
at present working for Emmet
Cochran at Monument.
Robinson, Hereford breeders, of
Heppner found two weeks ago
that his stock could compete
with the best polled herefords in
the Pacific Northwest. His con
signment made to the Red Bluff,
California Bull sale sold among
tops. His top bull consigned
stood high in class. It sold for
second high in the polled sale,
going into a purebred herd in
California. The Red Bluff sale is
one of the biggest in the country
with several nundred neaa oi
bulls sold during the three day
sale. Don is consigning six head
to the Columbia Empire polled
Hereford show and sale wnicn
will be held at Moses Lake,
Wash, on March 6 and 7.
Bernard Dohertv. Heppner has
also consigned three head to this
show and sale.
SLANTS FROM
THE SESSION
By Mrs. C. A. Tom
Farmers will be interested in a
resolution introduced by Repre
sentative Guy Jonas of Marion
county asking for an interim
committee to study all boards
and commissions. Rumblings
around the State House today In
dicate that possibly the ground
work is being laid to place com
modity commissions under the
marketing section of the De
partment of Agriculture.
This is a disturbing possibility
to some of the farmers in the
legislature. Renresontative Ar
thur Ireland, dairyman from
Washington county, fears that
much valuable promotional work
being done by the Dairy Associa
tion will be abandoned if the
Dairy Commission becomes part
of a state agency.
Representative Leon Davis,
also of Washington county, says
that the state cannot expect to
get the free services of experts
in the various commodities that
the commissions are now utiliz
ing.
When asked for an opinion,
Elmer McClure, master of the
Oregon State Grange, stated,
"Agricultural commodity boards
in Oregon serve a very useful
function. They do much essen
tial work in the fields of research
and marketinc. They are demo
cratically set up and controlled
bv the growers of specific com
modities. This whole program
is basically a commodity by
commodity self-help program and
one that has proved to be very
successful.
"These commissions now as-!
sume much of the financial bur-!
den for the research work done'
hv the colleces and the extension'
service for specific crops, such as
wheat. The commissions now
pay for much of this work which
formerly was paid for from the
general fund of the state through !
appropriations for the agncui-j
tural college."
Before I leave the subject of
commissions I should mention
that members of the Wheat Com
mission were In Salem with Ways
and Means were Don McKinnls
of Summerville, Ralph McEwen,
Athena, Paulen Kaseberg, Wasco,
and Bob Taylor, Pendleton.
Eastern Oregon sportsmen
should be fascinated to learn that
Senator Husband of Lane county
has introduced a bill asking that
bullfrogs be designated as game
fish. Maybe we should ask the
game commission to dig lis some
swamps in order that we may de
rive benefit from the new statute
Another measure which can
he classified as something less
than maior legislation is benate
Bill 143 which proposes that the
title of the Oregon State mice
be changed to State Hignway
Patrol. The statute would have
no bearing on the powers of -the
nnlice. Tt would, of course, re
quire that all insignia on police
cars and uniforms, etc., as wen
as all letterheads, documents and
other printed material used by
the state police would have to De
changed to conform to the new
title. Can any rational explana
tion possibly be given for such
an expenditure, however small,
at a time when people are
screaming about taxes?
Allen spoke before the Lions
club of Silverton on the evening
of February 20. The audience
was friendly but obviously
touchy on the subject of taxes.
One man even proposed that this
might be a good time to repeal
withholding taxes (Representa
tive Bennett is having such a bill
drawn up now), his theory being
that having to pay all taxes in
cold, hard cash would awaken
taxpayers to the folly of asking
for increased government spend
ing. Members of the Senate and
their secretaries are nervous
these davs over having been ex
posed to the mumps. Senator
I.owrv's small -son developed the
tell-tale bulges around the Jaw
Next week will be a busv week
for Morrow county 4-H club lead
ers as they observe National 4-H
Club Week March 2 through 9.
A multitude of activities are
planned including window dis
plays of many of the clubs
history for this extension service
program. There were ov auun
leaders. The 4-H ciud enruwnem
was 27,591 boys and girls. !
This program had its begin
ning more than 40 years ago. In
im thp work with boys and
girls officially became 4-H club
work. For several years before
the work was known as boys and
girls club work. From sman
beginnings when a few county
school superintendents and busi
ness men saw the great vaiue oi
working in the home or in the
community with these young
people, the 4-H program has
grown until every county has a
thriving 4-H educational pro:
gram. Today the total of mem
bers, parents, leaders, and friends
of 4-H is more than 100,000 per
sons. Everv countv has exten
sion agents working on 4-H Club
work. The fact that this educa
tional nrof?ram has crown so
much is due to a large degree to
the keen interest of the volun
teer leader. This program serves
without financial pay but the
rewards of a more skillful and
personalable boy or girl must be
thi-mifrVimit iha nnlintv nilhlip an
pearances of older 4-H members nigniy satisiying to me i-n iea-1
or entire clubs at various farmlder. The wise council of parents
and civic organizations. Show- is fundamental to the progress of
found. This group is known as the
Friends of 4-H business men
and women, organizations of all
kinds, local and state officials.
Great encouragement has been
provided the boys and girls by
these persons. Through the ef
forts of all these persons and
groups the evience is liberal in
indicating that 1957 will be a
year when many of the former
accomplishments win ue aui-
passed. This will be in keeping
with the 4-H mono oi mamus
tv,o Rest Better" improving to
day on our best of yesterday. So
important is this ciud wee xnai
President Eisenhower in official
ly declaring the week said
"During National 4-H Club Week
it is always a pleasure to recog
nize the accomplishments and
contributions of the 4-H move
ment. With more than 2 million
members, guided by dedicated
community leaders, your work
and spirit are a source of national
strength. This year, in develop
ing your theme of "Improving
Family and Community Living"
I am glad to learn your vision
includes the whole family of na
tions and our total part in the
life of the world community. Your
International Farm Youth Ex
change program is an effective
I demonstration of the sincerity of
this vision. As you help pro
'mote understanding and friend
!ship with youth of other lands,
:you cultivate a strong stand of
peace and freedom, congratula
tions and Best Wishes."
ing of the film "This Is 4-H Club
Work", display of member and
leader signs in front of farm and
town homes where club mem
bers are enrolled and local lead
ers live and the display of 4-H
member identification tags by
club members during te week.
Also scheduled during the week
are appearances of Marilyn
Bradshaw, IFYE of Albany, Ore
gon who spent several months in
Scotland. She will emphasize
the IFYE Program in relation to
4-H club work.
During National 4-H Club
Week public attention will be di
rected to the values of 4-H train
ing. As a pratical youth pro
gram, 4-H club work has succeed,
ed on worthy principles. The 4
H theme during this year's week
will be "Improving Family and
Community Living". During 1956
adult volunteer 4-H leaders and
411 friends helped Oregon attain
ing the Senate chamber and being-
carried around by various
hospitable Senators. Mr. Lowry
has not had the mumps yet.
We on the House side are
watching for signs of chickenpox.
Representative Mosser spent last
week at home having chicken-
pox with his cildren. The poll
rhildren in the familv. Regard
less where the boy and girl may
live today, there is a 4-H project
that fits the local situation. In
viewing the Oregon 4-H club pro.
gram another group of persons Is
found active where ever 4-H Is
DOES IT?
No telling what next the
Weather will bring,
But we doubt that it is
Now truly spring!
Some gusty windstorm,
Plus a sooty flue,
Could combine to give
A headache to you!
Be sure your insurance
Covers such risks!
If not, you'll find it's
Quite an expense!
hr
tical life seems to hold more pit
after spending an afternoon visit-1 falls than we realize.
For All Your Insurance Needs
C. A. RUGGLES
Heppner. Oregon
Phone 6-9625 Box 611
Morrow county wheat growers
were well represented at the
Continued on Page 5
STAR
THEATER
HEPPNER
Thur3., Feb. 28 One Day
Hiah Society
With Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby,
rranK Sinatra
Fri., Sat., March 1-2
Forbidden Planet
With Walter Pidgeon, Anne
Francis, Leslie meison
Plus
White Squaw
David Brian, May Wynn,
William Bishop
Sun., Mon., March 3-4
Guys and Dolls
Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons,
Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine,
Sunday at 4 and 6:45 p. m.
Tues., Wed,, March 5-6
Vagabond King
Kathryn Grayson, Oreste, Rita
Moreno, Sir Cedric Hardwick.
PLUS Vistavision Visits
Hawaii.
Gilliam & Bisbee Hardware Co.
HAS BEEN APPOINTED
Morrow County Dealer
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