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Thursday, February 1, 1945
The state of Oregon seems to
need more revenue, and the law­
makers are sitting up nights try­
ing to figure out ways and means
by which they can tap some other
source of additional funds or
boost the ante of those sources
already paying taxes. With a con­
stant demand ringing in their
ears for salary increases for
many classes of state employ­
ment and the cost of running the
state higher than ever because of
war conditions etc., the legisla­
tors would like to see a few ad­
ditional millions come into the
state treasurers office during the
next biennium. If not, the law­
makers fear a beautiful set of
red figures instead of the black
ink they all like to see. Hence, the
boys have a couple of ideas they
may spring on the legislature in
the next few days which will
bring in more money beginning
next year.
Liquor permits, which now cost
41 per year, may be boosted to
$1.50 or even $2. Over 700,000
permits were issued
in 1944.
this increase would, at the lower
figure bring in around an ad­
ditional $350,000. The other idea
is to scrap the so-called Walker
state income tax plan which
greatly reduced state income
tax payments last year. Still
another plan to augment the
state highway commission fund,
which has dropped off mainly
because of gasoline rationing, is
to increase auto licenses from
the present $5 to $10 a year.
This increase would give the
highway commission about two
million more "iron men” each
year, say the powers that be. It
begins to look like bigger and
better taxes are in the offing
for citizens of Oregon.
Senate Bill No. 28, the brain
child of the state highway com­
mission, known as the "freeways
bill,” or limited access highways,
stirred up a hornet’s nest when
the joint house and senate com­
mittee held a public hearing on
the measure a few days ago. The
state Grange, numerous small
town civic groups, motels, flocks
of small town businessmen and
farmers who have roadside fruit
and vegetable stands appeared
before the committee in violent
opposition to the bill, which they
argued would put them out of
business if enacted into law. It
was forcibly pointed out by these
groups that to give the highway
commission such broad powers in
acquiring real property for new
higways would result in endless
expensive litigation “and prac­
tically put a lien on every farm
along such a highway.” Compe­
tent observers are firmly of the
opinion the bill as now drafted
hasn’t a Chinaman’s chance of
passing either house. Ex-Gov. Jay
Bowerman, of Portland, one of
the many who appeared before
the Committee in opposition to
the bill, did a beautiful job of
socking the proposed measure all
over the committee room from
pillar to post.
The several house bills, now in
committee, which ask for retire­
ment fund (pensions to you) for
different groups of state em­
ployees evidently are headed for
trouble. according to gossip
around the lobby. Every session
of the legislature always has its
pension bills and merit system
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Marvin Kamholz
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under the act of March 3, 1879.
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for state employees to wrestle
with. So far this session the
Portland firemen have not shown
up with a pension bill, which they
have always done heretofore only
to meet defeat. The only appar­
ent evidence among the law­
makers for bigger and better
pensions is for the oldsters (oid
age assistance), and in all prob­
ability a genuine attempt will
be made before adjournment to
boost the ante now being paid
to beneficiaries of old age as­
sistance.
So far, the lawmakers have
been able to clean up their cal­
endars in both house and senate
and recess early each Friday for
the week end. However, from
now on it looks like the boys will
be on the job Saturdays because
of the many committee meetings
scheduled to mull over the flocks
of bills and listen to arguments
pro and con. Last Friday the
senate by just a hair line vote
escr.ped a Saturday session. A
motion to meet Saturday was
lost by a tie vote. Both houses
are keeping well abreast of
their work so far, but from now
on the grind is bound to get
tougher.
Views from the press gallery-
Three ex-governors look things
over . . Oswald West, Walter
Pierce and Jay Bowerman . . .
and they know their politics,
make no mistake about that . . .
Morton Tompkins, big chief of
the Grange, hasn’t been around
for a couple of weeks. ... I
wonder why . . . Roy Gosset,
of the Portland retail trade bur­
eau, is a busy man around the
lobby . . .and so is A. B. Sanders,
manager of the Oregon Coast
Highway association . . . ditto,
Charles Legler, of the Orego”
City chamber of commerce; J.
W. Davies, Oak Grove Civic club,
C. A. Ambrose of the Oregon
Auto Court Owners association,
and G. A. Giese, secretary of the
Motor Court Owners association
. . . There goes Louise Palmer
Weber again . . .plenty smart
politically, and an excellent or­
ator . . .Ray Conway, liquor
administrator, very busy pour­
ing words of wisdom (?) into the
ears of every laowmaker who
will listen . . . Ex-Gov. Sprague
pays his first visit to the Capitol
so far this season.
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HEAT ON PECK
What’s This Work or Fight? . . .
My last civilian job in 1917
was in a pine sawmill. It was
driving a truck-team in the yard.
The rounds among the lumber
piles were not so different from
those I later made in guard duty
at Montoir, near St. Mazaire in
la belle (oh, yeah?) France. But
in the mill yard, if I’d been
asked to work two hours on and
four off, slog through mud, bow
my neck under freezing wind
and rain night and day, eat slum,
sleep on hay in a barracks a-
bout as tight as a picket fence,
all for thirty bucks a month, of
course I’d have quit. In fact, I
quit the teaming job just be­
cause it was tiresome.
My work in that mill was as
important to the war effort as
my later guard duty—probably
mere so, for the Army needed all
the lumber it could get for can­
tonment construction. But I did­
n’t think much of that in quit­
ting it. If I’d walked off my
guard duty among the lumber
piles in France, I’d have been
shot.
How do we figure such a tre­
mendous difference in the work
of war?
bat outfit of the Regular Army.
But the 17th Engineers were
kept back at the work of con­
structing and maintaining a base
port because of the skill, train­
ing and experience of its men.
Green outfits could carry on the
simpler stuff of the sappers in
the frontline trenches,but not the
highly technical jobs of base
building.
Orders and Duty . • ,
The great majority of the men
in the Armed Forces in this
war are in service that means
monotonous
guard duty,
or
skilled labor, or hard work, dirty
work, dull work, or technical
tasks that would bring big sal­
aries to the doers if they ware
civilians. Most of them may
never hope for the great adven­
ture of battle action.
Theirs is the duty of the sol­
dier, not the glory. Theirs is
soldier’s pay. Nothing counts but
Orders and Duty.
Mostly, soldiering is a job.
Mostly, the jobs of the soldier
are pretty much like those of
civilians in the war. But outside
the work-itself, similarity ends.
TILLAMOOK — The county
treasury is the richer for several
contributions which have been
sent in this past week by the
Secretary of the State Farrell. Soldiering as a Job ...
36 HOSPITAL SHIPS
The first amout $4580 is the
The trouble in getting at the
America’s armed forces now
addition apportionment made to answer is that the question is have a fleet of 36 hospital ships
this county from the State High­ always put up in terms of dif­ in operation. The fleet includes
way fund during 1944 gauged ference between civilians at home converted luxury liners, Liberty
on the number of motor vehicles and the soldiers in the battle ships, and former troop trans­
which were registered from tbe lines. That is dramatic, but it ports. Each vessel accomodates
county in 1943; the second sum raises a false issue. The fact is approximately 600 patients.
$46.24 is Tillamook county’s that most of our men in uniform
share of 40% apportionment dis­ are working men not fighting QUICK RELIEF FROM
tributed to the counties in the men. The plain, simple question Symptoms of Distress Arising from
proportion which each county ex- * is that of the difference between
pended for old age assistance and the millions of soldiers and the STOMACH ULCERS
the third amount is $449, the millions of civilians who are do­ DUE TO EXCESS ACID
amount due from the revenues ing practically the same war Free Boo kTells of HomeTreatment that
Must Help or it Will Cost You Nothing
collected from a tax on alcoholic jobs.
two million bottles of the WILL ARD
The men of my outfit, the 162 Over
beverages.
TREATMENT have been sold for relief of
Infantry, wanted to fight for symptoms of distress arising from Stomach
and Duodenal Ulcers due to Excess Acid —
SCHOOL CENSUS
we had been trained for it. So Poor Digestion, Sour or Upset Stomach,
SHOWS INCREASE
Heartburn, Sleeplessness, etc.,
did the men of the 17th Engin­ Gassiness,
to Excess Acid. Sold on 15 days’ trial!
HILLSBORO — Gain of 294 eers, who were stuck with us in due
Ask for “Willard’s Message” which fully
in the number of boys and girls the mudholes and lumber piles explains this treatment—free—at
in the county between the ages of Montoir—they were a com­
VERNONIA DRUG STORE
of four and twenty is revealed
in the 1944 school census tabula­
tion completed last week by the
county school superintendent’s
office. Total for 1944 is 12,208
DRY CLEANING PRICES REDUCED
as compared with 11,914 in 1943.
Pants ............... 50c Overcoats
$1.00
Increase in the school census
has been about 25 percent in the
Dresses ........... $1.00 Suits ................ $1.00
past seven years. Most of this
Sweaters............... 50c
gain has been made in east part
Pick Up and Delivery Weekly on Thursdays
of the county.
Hats Cleaned, Blocked
SALE PROMISES
TO BREAK RECORD
MEDFORD — The largest sale
of Christmas seals in the history
of Jackson county was predicted
by the Jackson county health as­
sociation. Mrs. Ruth E. Bauer,
chairman of the 1944 drive, re­
ported receipt of $4108.96 with
Ashland returns yet to be in­
cluded and a number of donations
not yet tabulated.
Of this sum Medford contrib­
uted $2608 and the outlying pre­
cincts $1500.
ARMY NEEDS NURSES
Immediate recruitment of 10.-
000 nurses for the Army Nurse
Corps would not seriously cripple
nursing in civilian fields. Nurses
are urgently needed in all thea­
ters of operations and in Army
hospitals throughout the United
States.
85c
Office: Ben Brickel’s Barber Shop
Oregon Laundry and Cleaners
Oregon-American
LUMBER
CORPORATION
Vernonia, Oregon
Many sign, portend a series
of clashes between New Dealers
and the new Congress . . .
It is appraise^ as business-
minded. Conservatives will hold
key posts. New Deal schemes for
more social and economic “re­
forms” will find tough going . . .
New Dealers in the administra-
WHIP LAID FLESH BARE
Midnight down in the deep­
est dungeon, their backs torn by
the lashes laid on by the whip­
ping master, Paul and Silas were
praying and singing praises unto
God and the prisoners were
listening to them.
MIRACLES—Suddenly a great
earthquake — jailer
awakens—
sees the cell doors sprung open—
thinks prisoners gone and drew
out his sword to kill himself.
Do thyself no harm, for we are
all here, crys Paul. The jailer
now calls for a light and comes
trembling before Paul and Silas
with—
WHAT MUST I DO TO BE
SAVED? You don’t do, Mr. Jail­
er. God has already done it for
you. Our way in this world is
DO-DO-DO- and EARN—EARN—
EARN. But that is not so with
God. He makes us a gift- a free
gift.
Out of his love for us he has
already done it. God did it—You
accept it—That settles it. What
did God do for us? He sent his
only begotten Son to die for
our sins. Down in your heart
know your sins are blotted out
and ONE-God counts your p ge
cleared of sin and TWO-Gad
writes in his own righteousness
and THREE—He inbreathes his
Spirit into your soul. He touches
your spirit with eternal life.
Stand on it that you sinned
and that Christ pail the debt.
Ves-Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved.
Acts 16:31 and grow up in the
new life. Obey the BIBLE and
look to Christ to see you thru.
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3101 S.W. McChesney Road, Port­
land 1, Oregon.
This space paid for by an Ore­
gon business man. •
tion nevertheless consider the
November election results anoth­
er mandate for carrying out the
President's domestic as well as
his foreign policy. Since the na­
tion is "job-minded,” adherents
of the various brands of New
Deal philosophies are concentra­
ting on the President’s program
for 60,000,000 jobs . . .
Planners will tie their reform
proposals to schemes for “aiding”
private industry to furnish these
jobs. A sort of peacetime War
Production Board is being dis­
cussed. Some say the OPA might
be made a permanent agency . . .
Congressional leaders, on the
other hand, are more interested
in reducing taxes than in set­
ting up new bureaucracies. Chair­
man George of the Senate Fin­
ance Committee says tax rates
on both corporate and individual
incomes can be cut if the end of
the war in Europe appears in
eight this year . . .
Manufacturers of farm machin­
ery hope to turn out equipment
sized and priced to attract small
farm operators. A house sub-com­
mittee was told that such ma­
chines would increase farm earn­
ings.
FOR HOME VICTORY
For victory at home, fight in­
fantile paralysis. Joirt the March
of Dimes.
GROWING SCHOOL
CHILDREN
Need lots of milk for
health and energy.
They'll like Nehalem
Dairy milk, too. Phone
us for regular delivery
to your home.
ne A alem dairy
PRODUCTS CO.
Phone 471
BILLS, BILLS, BILLS
and now the income tax!
If you can’t figure out
what has become of your
money, it might be a good
idea to trade at Sam’s
where you can notice the
savings on the food budg­
et.
SAM’S FOOR STORE
Groceries, Fruits & Veg.— A Home Owned Groc. Ph. 761
The Forest Grove
NATIONAL BANK
INVITES YOU TO BANK BY MAIL IF
INCONVENIENT TO COME IN PERSON
A Locally-Owned, Independent Bank
How’s your car holding out?
PREVENTIVE
MAINTENANCE
WILL HELP
For the duration, we are specializing in
preventative maintenance service—not
only the must kind of repairs and replace­
ments, but service designed to prolong the
life of your car.
If your car is ailing—in even minor ways—
bring it to us. We can put it in good run­
ning condition—and can help you keep it
that way.
Vernonia Auto Co.
“A Safe Place To Trade”
Phone 342, Vernonia