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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, September 5, 1957
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MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Htppner Gazette, established March 30, 1SS3. The Heppner Times established
November 18, 1S97. Consolidated February 15, 1912
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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