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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, September 5, 1957 Tijrjijnwr fertir (Sims MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Htppner Gazette, established March 30, 1SS3. The Heppner Times established November 18, 1S97. Consolidated February 15, 1912 NIWIMMt PUIUSHIBS ASSOCIATION ROBERT FEN LAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION f ijjnrwa:ir,LLU 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 Cent The Special Session The governor's calling of a special session of the legislature to figure out something to do with a sizeable surplus of tax money in the state treas ury has brought forth much comment not only from Republicans but Democrats too. We feel the reasoning the governor has given for his methods of giving tax relief are faulty we won't be gain ing property tax relief, instead it will mean just adding to the general tax base for future years. Giles French, editor of the Sherman County Journal, an ex-legislator and a top authority on state taxes made the following editorial comment last week. It is well put . , . Taxpayers who were made happy over tlfb announcement by the governor that a special ses sion was called for October 28 did not read "the fine print. fl the legislature follows the governor, which it didn't in the regular session, it wall add an other $10,000,000 to the appropriations. Now no one who has been watching school expenses in Ore gon can possibly think that money added to the basic school fund will reduce local taxes for very long. The time elapsing between the announcement of the state tax commission and the governor's call was so short that he could not have conferred with many legislative leaders. The two months before the session is to begin will be ample time for the numerous asking groups to prepare their demands. Which makes us think that taxpayers THIRTY YEARS AGO from the files of the Gazette Times Sept. 8, 1927 Mr. and Mrs. Gene Ferguson departed for Pendleton this morn ing where they will reside in the future. Mr. Ferguson having charge of the Oakland-Pontiac agency there. are in for another raise in state appropriations instead of a decrease. The Democrats had an excellent opportunity to lower taxes in the regular session which would have put them in a pretty formidable position in Oregon. Instead of that they boosted the already fw high appropriation list by $50,000,000 and raised the taxes. They did not make full use of the surplus that piled up because of the excessive Republican tax bill of 1955. Now they want to go back and use that immediately instead of waiting until 1959. The call shows the extreme foolishness of another bill passed at the last session; the one to pay the full salary to legislators during the ses sion. No doubt legislators wanted and needed the money. Now four of them will not serve and who or how are their replacements to be paid? The movement started by Senator Gill to call a meeting at w hich Oregonians can express their preference in the use of the money now to be available next July may show so much resent ment against high spending that a sizeable bloc of legi.-latorn will vote to refund some taxes in stead of adding more. That we would like to see, but the record of this bunch of legislators offers little hope. Oregon is not having a very prosperous year and the estimate of 870,000,000 by next July may nut materialize. Th? important thing about the call for a special session is that it is a call for more spend ing put forth in the guise of a tax refund. In many human activities that would be called dishonest. Among Heppner people attend ing the North Morrow County Fair at Boardman last weekend were S. E. Notson R. E. Benge and son Terrel, Gay M. Anderson and Gay, Jr., Mr. and Mrs G. A. Bleak man, Vawter and Jasper Craw ford, Mrs. Helen M. Walker, Rev. and Mrs. Stanley Moore. Johan Troedson who was in the city a short time on Monday states that quite a number of the wheat raisers in the North lone section have to do their thresh ing yet. Clive Huston, who has been here the past two months work ing in the harvest, departed last night for his home in Portland. Republican ranks .ha. has been More urban acc.nem, . - Mare 5 ,u.y I ruTTIC made by a prominent !nuK-rnt( ,u.ml are caused by r""'nf i! IdcntlCOl tO 1956 in Oregon. Registration moves iii'SiKn.s or lurum -, - the opposite directions that navel ;,m. on down town streets tnan unv oilier violations ick From The County Agent's Office By N. C Anderson One fair is over with two more to go. With the completion of the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo last week we step into the North Morrow County Fair on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week and end the fair season on Sept ember 12, 13 and 11 when the agent judges -HI and open live stock and contests at the Union county fair at La Grande. After the fair season is completed we hope we can settle down to doing some of the extension work which we have had to postpone the last month because of vacations and preparations for fairs. One of the first matters to be STAR THEATER HEPPNER 5-6-7 Thurs., Frt.. Sat. Sept, BAMBI Famous Walt Disney all-cartoon feature. PLUS Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer 3ruce Bennett, Lon Chaney, Faron Young Sun., Mon., Sept. 8-9 Something of Value iock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller. Sunday at 4, 6:20, 8:40 Tues Wed., Sept. 1011 Bachelor Party Don Murray, E. G. Marshall, Jack Warden FAMILY NIGHTS taken care of is the assistance to 4-II club members in getting lin ed up with their livestock pro jects for the new club year which start;; October 1. It is time now to be thinking about next year's projects. Steers should be spoken for soon as most ranchers have contacted or sold calves for early delivery this fall. Handlers who exceptionally good steers that would feed out into a good show animal are encouraged to con tact this office or some of their neighboring 411 boys and girls. Steers for The Dalles Wheat League show should be put on feed this month if they are to be completely finished by the June show date. Sows need be bred At once if litters are to be right for fattening for this same spring show. Pigs for next year's fair should be farrowed in March which means breeding sows dur ing November. Ewes which are not bred within the next few days will not lamb in time for The Dalles show. There are a lot of excellent quality livestock in Morrow county which was evid enced by the excellent showing of all classes of animals at the last week's Morrow county fair. grade steer was at a disadvant age because of age, being only 13 months old at sale time. Sev en of the lambs were prime, 8 choice with the rest good. Two of the hogs graded U. S. No. 1. Maybe it was because of this high quality that prices were so good. The 49 animals sold in less than an hour including a lamb donated by Kenneth Nelson for the 4 II club council selling twice and a lamb which was bought by Ruggles Insurance and selling four additional times. The speed of the sale did not affect the av erage price with hogs averaging 35 cents; beef 38 cents and sheep 30cents per pound. Spirited bid ding for the grand champion ani mals brought $1.00 a pound for the grand champion steer with S,) cents for the Reserve purch ased by Morrow County Grain Growers and Heppner Pine Mills respectively. Heppner Pine Mills repeated by buying the grand champion lamb; Farley Motor Company and Alec Lindsay pur chased the grand and reserve champion hogs. Ringman Cornett Green Gerald Swaggart, Eb Hughes and Ralph Beamer re ported a number of bids from the crowd without enough ani mals to go around, the support from our Morrow county people was so good. Cheaper by the Dozen The political switch Joe Rogers made last week pulled the Demo cratic majority in the House down to three dozen Democrats to two dozen Republicans siill a three to two odds, for the special ses sion of the Legislature October 28. Republican political nerve centers got an enlivening tingle when the Polk county state rep resentative announced that he was through with the Democrats "since their aims are different from my aims." Republican news papers did a signal job of front page display on the winning of one party member. The free-wheeling Joe Rogers was a problem child for Demo cratic leaders in the House at the last session. He declined consid-1 eration for membership on the House Taxation Committee be-1 cause he and Speaker of the House P?t Dooley, differed on' taxation and other matters. j Rogers, a 46-year-old dairy; farmer, explained that he is go- j ing from the majoritty to the mi-' nority party which will not alter the political complexion of the House. I The move Rogers made is the first from the Demon atic to the i augmented the Democrats me elude United States Senator Wayne Morse, Governor Robert D. Holmes, Jason Lee and Steve An derson. "Special Seaion Horrific" Among other thinks State Rep resentative Eddie Ahrens called Gov. Holmes' special session "shocking", on his return from Canada Friday, where was ex hibiting his prize sheep. "The special session," he com mented "is an imposition upon members of the legislature who must serve without pay after just having served in the longest ses sion in the history of the Oregon legislature. It is also an imposi tion upon the taxpayer who must bear the added expense of an ad ded session." "HouseJoint Resolution 18 in troduced by Republicans if pas sed would have done away with the necessity for an extra session. This bill called for any surplus over 1q million to be used in pay ing off the state's bonded indebt edness and allowed for the vote of the people for approval. When is there is a better time to pay off debts than when you have sur plus money?" Stats Fair Ereaks Records Often refgtred to as the "Demo cratic State Fair'" the eight-day event broke attendance records from the first day and famous old Lone Oak racetrack hung up three track one world record for the opening day. You didn't have to guess if Democrats were in the majority of "those present". They proudly proclaimed this the greatest state fair in history and told the world. While the kiddies raided the rides with their dimes, dad. mom, big sis and brother didn't miss swarming to the Democrat's tent to meet U. S. Senator Wayne Morse. He said, "In 19G0 I'll bo out there campaigning all over the state for the relection of Senator Richard Neuberger. He's a great senator, give him another ten years and he will be greatest senator we ever had.." City Versus State Laws i.ii.m eitv officials are seek ing a new solution to problems that arise In downtown Salem. Their action will be reported in this column soon as they believe there are only a few kinks to be ironed out in plans whereby cities may comply witlf the state law. A driver the state law says, must be In the extreme right lane before making a right turn; and (on one way streets) in the ex treme left lane before turning left. Otliervvl.se police may arrest him for "turning from the wrong lane," There are too many snawes cu too many intersections in too many Oregon cities. These low barriers force a driver in the out side lane to turn and break the state law. And what of a driver in arl out side lane who doesn't want to turn? Oregon's rural highway traffic volume for July 1957 was almost identical to that recorded in July 195f, according to the State High way Department's monthly traf fic count. There were slight increases in travel on highways US 30, US99 and portions of US 26 and US 101. Highways US 97, US 20 and por tions of US 99W showed de creases. The maximum daily volume at a single recorder was at Trout dale on Highway US 30. On Sun day, July 28, 21,171 vehicles v) p, recorded. This peak volume v us due primarily to the opening u Rooster Rock state park east q Troutdale. DACHELOR PARTY, superbly act. ed, stunning story, but ADULT Star Theater, Tuesday and Wednesday. LIVESTOCK MARKET Cattle Hogs Sheep SALE EVERY TUESDAY 12 Noon On U. S. Hiway No. 30 NORTHWESTERN LIVESTOCK COMMISSION CO. JO 7-6655 Hermiston, Oregon Frank Wink & Sons, Owners Don Wink Mgr. Res. Hermiston JO 7-3111 HEPPNER AIM 0F BEST PROOF there is to back up your income tax deduc tions, especially when . it comes to dealing with Uncle Sam. If you don't pay by check now, you would be wise to do so before another day goes by. Stop in! BRANCH Eastern Oregon YOUR FRIENDLY HOME-OWNED BANK Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation MORE PEOPLE DRIVE CHEVROIETS THAN ANY OTHER CAR r- While we are talking about livestock wo hope that everyone attended the annual 4 II livestock fat auction sale last Thursday evening: if yon did we know that you will agree that the 27 fat lambs, Ifl beef and 7 hops which were sold through the sale were some of the best quality yet to go 'through. One of the things we were proud of was the f-tct that of 16 steers to sell through the sale. s weie prime. i low prime, 2 high choice. I choi 1 being' good gra.h Congratulations are in order for the Morrow county 411 Five stock judging contest winners who participated at the state fair contest on Saturday of last week. Dennis Doherty, a member of the team was third high individ ual with all but two of the state's county teams represented. Mem bers Kenneth Lvnn Smouse Jan et Palmer and Dennis Doherty j were selected as the three topi judging indiv iduals at the county j fair on Tuesday. The three as a j team placed tenth at state fair j with onlv i which put them in the upper one ; The good1 third of the teams participating, j WILLIAM K. MORGAN S. W. Dorion. Pendleton, Oregcn Phone 4334 your Equitable representative lays: fl I i mm m inniim turi, L, i 1 "mJvmhi ft" liMsS: t-1 lour Equitable man can show you how to cuke eirr.irjjs on your operating funds ind still keep ihera where you tin use thrni. That's one big rcinm why so many ran who ran farms, unities, sr.d other businesses iff so picked with their Equitable plans. The nest big reason is Eouiuble's unnutihrd si.'rrv. Look at the facts: this firm ws forced in I JO. b n never c!osd tts Jx-rs on i bi:si:ieis Jv. xnd hs ncser hil to !f! jji'.-.ue Wlutt more. Equitable his i!ms piid ejJi slur oerv cent oi principil inj earnings due him. 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