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NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, THUR9., es iency and STATE CAPITOL NEWS A. L. LINDBECK State Capitol News Bureau wasteful Hall 8. Lusk, vice by the Bureau in 35 yean associate justice of the state sup reme court t-ld the Salem chamber of commerce this week that these defects were only a part of the price that must be paid for the mainten ance of democratic institutions Foi the m :st part, Justce Lusk declared, juries and hones and fairly Intelli gent, and purchased verdicts are very rare. —L— Secretary of State Earl Snell has a new horse, but he can't ride it. The new acquisition to his souvenir collection 1s a mlnature cow pony equipped wi h saddle, lariat and hackmcre carved out of ponderosa pine by William Waters, old-time reisdent of the Fossil section. —L— Arrests and convictions of. drunk en drivers is on the increase throughout Oregcn. October set a new high record for this activity with 177 operators’ licenses revoked or suspended for reckless or drunk en driving. —L— Jchn Hodgin, LaGrande attorney, has been appointed by Governor Martin as a member of the Oregon Hydro-electric commission to fill the vacancy oaused by the recent death of A. J. Derbyof Hood River. —L— Contract for the lethal gas cham ber which is to replace the gallows at the state prison, has been let to a Denver firm. Construction of the new death chamber, which was authorized by the last legislature will cost approximately $1800. Acreage Return High Crop results for the 1936 season. Br. Page said, established new high records on same and for all projects amounted to $136,502,480. or $29 - 721,186 more than in 1935 This total represented an average return of $47.10 for each of the 2,901.919 acres served with water in the west by the bureau. Only three previous years, 1929, 1928 and 1919, showed better results. Federal irigation projects support ed 210,466 persons on 48,773 farms and 653,441 in 257 project cities and towns. Fund Declines Mr. Page, in his report this year, again noted that accretion to the reclamation funds were declining. When it was established in 1902, the sale of public lands was expected to provide this special fund with a sub stantial amount annually. From a high of $9,430,573.98 reached in 1902, accretion from this source fell this to a low of $127,176.17. "This sourie of revenue can not be revived,” Mr. Page said, "because of new conservation policies and ex haustion of attractive farm sites on the public domain. “Again the need for new sources of accretion to the fund must be stressed. While the fund also re ceives repayment made by water users on operating projects, this source and the remaining produc tive statutory source of accretion can not be expected to provide suf ficient money year by year to fin ance reclamation construction pro grams of the size of th at now in BUREAU OF RECLAMATION REPORT 135 DAMS COMPLETED progress.” Page 3-8 IN THIRTY-FIVE YEARS The latest In old age penison pro I cf s'ate funds available for new con- pe S j Is comes from Elbert Eastman, I struction, Baldoc k said. Baldock Portland attorney who Is sponsoring estimates th a t only $5,000,000 will a measure designated as the "Cit lie available for new highway work izens Retirement Annuity Bill." I in Oregon next year including fed Under its terms all Oregon residents eral aid projects. over the age of 65 years would be paid annuities up to a maximum cl Fears th a t the opposition of east- $100 a month, all of which must be J era Congressmen might deprive expended. The annuity or pension | Oregon of many of its CCC camps would be financed by a two per cent are entertained by J. W. Ferguson, transactions tax. Any surplus alter state forester. Eastern Congressmen, paying the annuities would go into Ferguson explained, object to send the Irreducible School fund. ing boys from their states into the —L— west. There are now approximately A Hudson sedan owned by H. L. 1800 CCC boys in CCC camps under McCabe of Portland will bear license ■tate supervision in Oregon, many plate No. 1 during 1938. McCabe's of the units coming from eastern name was the first one picked at and southern states. —L— the annual drawing for low numbers conducted in the automobile regis George Dunsford, 69, for 22 years tration department Friday. Other superintendent of the state capitol Oregon motorists to draw low num building and grounds, died Saturday bers include the following: Frank H. night following a major operation. Smith, Corvallis 7; Merrill M. and As the man largely responsible for Mai B. Oveson, Moro,8; Reuben the creature comforts of the state Scouton, Oregon City, 10; M. J. Ab officials and employees Dunsford bott, Forest Grove, 11; C. R. Sprague had an extensive personal acquain Marshfield, 14; Elfrede G. Zutz, The tance with past and present public Dalles, 24; Cora M. Ross, Marshfield, officials in all sections of the state. 27; Mrs. G. F. Anderson, Marshfield, —L— 57; O. L. Wellman, Mount Angel, 81; Inmates of all state insitiitions Margaret V. Miller, Hood River, 92. will fare well this Thanksgiving. —L— Outstanding achievements of the Special dinners will be served at Tlie state forestry board has ap most of the institutions. More than Bureau of Reclamation during the proved plans for the purchase of two tons of turkey alone, exclusive 1937 fiscal year were cited today in five acres of land near the state of other meats, will be required to his annual report to Secretary of highway shops just east of Salem feed the inmates and employees of the Interior Harold L. Ickes by Com- and the construction of a building the ten institutions. A ton of candles mlssioer John C. Page, who said op for use as headquarters for the for and nuts and 50 crates of oranges erating projects prospered and the largest constructs program for ir estry department. The building, a will also be served. rigation in history went rapidly for WPA project will cost $30,000 with —L— the forestry department supplying Oregon's new capitol will be ready ward. Twenty-one dams, including the the materials and WPA the labor. for occupancy by August 1, accord —L— ing to Whitehouse & Church, arch great Grand Coulee dam which will Because of curtailment of federa' itects in charge of the construction. regulate the Columbia River for grants to the states Oregon's 1938 The main building is new entirely flocd control. Irrigation, navigation highway program will of necessity enclosed and work is progressing and power, were in construction. Of be materially reduced below that cf rapidly on the tower and the inter these, six were begun during the year. One dam. Pine View on the the current year, according to R. H ior finishing. Ogden River Project in Utah, was —L— Baldock, state highway engineer Admitting th a t the jury system as completed, bringing to 138 the grand Much federal match money will also be lost to Oregon because of lack practiced in this country is ineffic- i toal of dams built and placed in ser Your Home C O N S T R U C T IO N -E Q U IP M E N T REM ODELING Steel Timber For Houses As the standard in house con struction has risen in this country, materials which furnish strength and durability have been more and more used. Among these materials, steel has come to play no little part. The American people were long ago made familiar with the advantages of steel, for this metal, upon which our civilization is based, swept into every community in the country as the material for strong and heavy construction— railroads, bridges, skyscrapers and every sort of larger structure. It steel Is good for such purpos es, people asked, why is it not good I for residence construction? Why should not the average home owner enjoy its advantages? It was a dream long cherished, but for a time weight, cost and difficulty of cutting and fastening kept steel out of most dwellings. Now these drawbacks have been overcome and steel house fram ing—even for low-cost houses—Is perfectly practicable. Open web steel framing has brought light ness, mass production has brought cheapness and the electric welder land acetylene torch have brought ease In handling on the construc tion site. Indeed, steel framing Is cut and fastened Into place as easily as timber and under the supervi sion of carpenters. Too, It adjusts to other materials as easily as wood, so that a steel-framed house can have any of the familiar floor, and Inside and outside wall, treat ments. Hence any one about to build a house would do well, to consider open web steel framing with a view to obtaining the strength, rigidity and permanence that steel can fur nish. • • • It Is not of record that a small boy likes to wash his bands any better in a shining enameled bath room than he does In a tin basin on a bench outside the kitchen door. • *. • f- Kitchen Cooking Comfort Perhaps your bouse Isn’t new. and perhaps your kitchen Is much the same as It was when the house was built. Indeed, It may be much the same as it was in your grand- ' mother’s day. And perhaps you don't worry about It much. If your duties In the kitchen are not heavy, or perhaps you do worry about it but can't, at present, do anything ----------------------------- Well, If modernizing your kitchen Is not in early prospect for one reason or another, there Is one thing you can do, at comparatively small expense, to make the kitchen a much more comfortable place in which to work. That la to Install a& electric ventilator, or exhaust fan. to rid the kitchen of excessive heat, steam and cooking odors. the first coat of cement ie applied. Then the second coat goes over this and the netting makes reinforce ment for both. Coverings for not water storage tanks can be bought ready made for standard sizes of tanks. It is like the covering for steam pipes, only larger. Hot air furnace pipes may be wrapped * with corrugated as bestos paper and the furnace itself covered with the same material, wired on. The top of hot water storage tanks and the sloping shoulders of hot air furnaces can be covered with asbestos cement. All of this work is well worth while, both for the sake of saving fuel and improving the heating of the house, and of keeping the cellar cooler • • • “Home, Sweet Home” could not possibly have been written about a trailer. e . • Tests Show Quints “Identical Corvallis—Scientists have con cluded th at the Dionne quintuplets are monozygotic, th at is, developed from a single egg, and this corre- sprond to Identical twins, reports Mrs. Sarah Prentice, professor of child development at Oregon State college. Mrs. Prentiss, while doing graduate work in the east, was re cently invited to attend a special conference of scientists who visited the quints and heard detailed re ports on their progress. The per centage cf difference among the five famous sisters is no greater that th a t expected between twins known to be identical, the scientists reported (after marly tests land measurements. WANT ADS PAY BIG DIVIDENDS m V . t o , 1M7 PLANINO OREGON’S PROGRESS menses to the people of Oregon' CONVENTION SYSTEM GETS People use the water for drinkiu: OK FROM ENCLISI! GUEST puropsss And it U ths bast Ocrvallls—Conventions and con ferences, highly developed Ameri can institutes that have been fre quently decried, have been strongly endorsed by one prominent English visitor as a valuable aid to demo- ratic education. Miss Winifred Har ley, who has crcssed the Atlantic 20 times in carrying on work in both her native England and Ameri ca, lists the convention system along with numerous other items that she particularity likes about American life. Miss Harley, who is spending a year as visiting professor and di rector of nursery schools at Oregon State College, also listed, in a recent address to the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi. the many ways in which Englishmen and Americans differ in their outlook and opinions. Many of these differences are based on misconceptions, she said, in urging a frank facing of such potential fric tion points as a step toward better international cooperation. ~l i a Maintaining clear, cool air In the kitchen is in itself one way to lighten the labor of the kitchen. It goes without saying that work anywhere can be performed more easily and efficiently when the at mosphere is right for bodily com fort. A ventilating fan in the kitchen is of secondary advantage, too, in that it prevents the kitchen heat and cooking odors from spreading to other parts of the house, and. If it Is of the reversi ble type, can be used at night to draw in the cool night air. Kitchen ventilating fans are not expensive and consume little cur rent — about 5 kilowatt hours a month In the average house. You can’t go wrong in getting one, no matter what else you may or may not plan to do with your kitchen. • • • Put Blankets On Heat Pipes Probably very few, if any, mod ern heating plant* are Installed without adequate insulation on the heating pipes and on the furnace. There are many old houses, how ever, in which the fuel bHls are too high and the heating Inadequate because the heating plants were installed before the necessity of insulation was fnlly realized and pipes and furnaces were left bare. The loss of heat from bare or Im properly insulated pipes alone may run aa high as 25 percent To help him do that well, yon should tell him ail about your family — Its numbers, their s6x and ages, their tastes and activities. He should know ho# much entertain ing you do, bow much room you need for guests, and whether you have or are likely to have servants. Knowing all ’ this, and having in mind what you can spend and what special rooms, gadgets and ma terials you want, he can go ahead and design a house that will fit as well as possible. Be frank with your architect Don’t resent any questions he may ask you, no matter how personal they may seem to be. You’ll get a better house for It—one that you can live in comfortably from the first, as though It were an old shoe STEDMAN BROWN. So if your heating pipes are not insulated, now is the time to Antwara to question* concern cover them in preparation tor ing artielea In thie department, next winter. For hot water or steam pipes asbestos air-cell covering, or about any housing problem, bought ready to apply, ia the may be obtained by writing to Stedman Brown. "Y o u r Homo" thing. The home owner who Is at all handy with tools can apply IL Features, 220 Eaat 42nd Street, including the cement that la New York City. Pleaee encloee needed aroand pipe joints and on 3c etamp far reply. the boiler. The boiler mast bn c « i Wk. ia»». «* - r.. covered wR> wire CONSERVATION OF OREGON’S RECREATIONAL RESOURCES The great value of recreational resources to Oregon citizens is shown by the way in which thous ands of people roam the forest, find sport in the clear waters, travel the highways, climb the mountain peaks and flock to the seashores. The same conditions of environment which contribute rich social advantages to our resident population also produce annually a tourist trade of major industrial proportions. The influx of tourists coming to enjoy the var ious natural attractions of this re gion swells our population and leaves a handsome revenue in its OSC Name List Reveals Oddities wake. But seldom mentioned is the nec essity for preserving the resources Corvallis—The annual searrh for which attract this lucrative indus most common and peculiar names try. The benefits will be enjoyed among the 4068 students a t Ore only as long aa our recreational re gon State college has revealed that sources survive. Thus one of the the Johnsons nosed out the Smiths most vital problems that confronts this year 47 to 46, while the Jones' Oregon today is the conservation with only 12 trailed the Browns with of its perishable recreational resour- 16 for third honors. Budding journ es. If left to chance survival without alists found In the new student dir the deliberate protection of a vigor ectory plenty of material for puns ous state conservation pregram, with pins with such names to work these resources will disappear at an with as Smart, Savage, Darling, appalling rate. They are easily de Lovln, Sly, Joy, Bold, Strong and structible, yet often irreplaceable. Fretwell. Carelessness, indifference and negli gence dally cause tragic losses. It Is appalling to think what de CHATTER BOX CLUB struction to wild life Is caused by a forest fire. The cover of the streams is gone. Often erosion sets In wiping The Chatter Box Club met at out the plant life in the streams home of Mrs. E. Nellson on Novem which support material on which ber 17th with Mrs. Neilson as host the fish live, destroying the spawn ess ing beds with silt, and making the Due to the very heavy rain and hil'sldes dreary and desolate. And the almost impassable roads on the all from the careless leaving cf a new land not so many as usual were camp-fire, or the thoughtless throw- present. The members embroidered ¡ ing aside of a burning cigarette. One of the most difficult prob dish towels for Mrs. Nellson. The fallowing members answered lems th at the state has to meet Is roll call with a Bible verse. Mes- restocking streams and keeping fish dames Harland Maw, Judd Read. life abundant in face of the increas Charles Gardner, Lloyd Adams, Tom ing use of the streams by sport and Johnson, C. H. Bennett and Edward commercial fishermen. The funda Neilson. The next meeting will be mental difficulty is that fish must at the Tom Johnson home on De have pure water in which to live just :is people must have pure air to cember 1st. | breathe. Pollution of many of our waterways is destroying one of the state's greatest outdoor recreational resources. One cf the first anti-pollution laws passed In Oregon was the Des chutes River Law In 1911. This pro vided th af no sewage or waste m at ter could be dumped into this river. Bend. Redmond and other towns have disposed cf their sewage in a sclen'iflc way instead of making the Decchutes an open sewr, which Is a trout stream in the state. My Favorite Recipes — Francea Lee Barton tayt: __ ERHAPS tbar* Is no caka, In all the royal book of cakes, quite so indicative of true cooking skill as an augei food. It la the most delicate and aris tocratic of all cakes, and like all worth while things, in any field of , ^ endeavor, not to be ar- / rived at too easily. But w?” * * when you serve this' cake to your family or to your club you have something. It it so light, aud with the cherries, so extra good, that you feel .you've graduated into the sacred circle of cooks. And th it la a distinction of which to be proud. Be aure to make it with cake flour and most of your angel cake difficulties will disappear. Cherry Angel Food Cake 1 cup sifted cake flour; 1 cup eggi whites; % teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon cream of tartar; 114 cups sifted granulated sugar; 14 teaspoon vanilla; 14 teaspoon almond ex tract; 14 cup maraschino cherries,' finely chopped. Sift flour once, measure, and sift four more times. Beat egg whites and salt with flat wire whisk. When |foamy, add cream of tartar and con tinue beating until eggs are stilt enough to hold up in peaks, but not dry Fold in sugar carefully, 2 tablespoons at a time, until all is used Fold in flavoring. Then sift small amount of flour over mixture and fold in carefully; continue until all ia used. Pour about 1/3 of cake batter into ungreased angel food pan. Sprinkle 14 of cherries over it. add another 1/3 of batter, then add remainder of cherries and rest of batter Run knife through to bottom of pan to mix cherries evenly throughout. Bake In slow, oven at leaat 1 hour. Begin at 275*. F. and after 30 minutes Increase beat slightly (325* F.) and bake 30 minutes longer. Remove from oven and Invert pan 1 hour, or until cold. P POPPED Into the kitchen the [ eldest other day surprising Isabella, my daughter, in the act of samp ling her latest cooking effo rt. I tried a piece, a dainty choco late confection, and m u n ch in g avidly asked her what she had put In i t Eyes twinkling slyly,, sh e answered, “I find the best thing to put in these Is your teeth. Mother,” and, readers, she's right, as you’ll see for yourself when you try these tagty Coconut Bar* 114 cups moist, sweetened coco nut; 6 squares dipping chocolate. Line bottom of loaf pan, 8x4 Inches, with waxed paper. Place coconut in pan. Heat chocolate over boiling water until partly melted; then remove from boiling water and atlr with beating mo tion until entirely melted. Pour evenly over coconut and stir with fork until thoroughly mixed. Let stand In cool place to harden. Cut in bars, 54x114 Inches. Makes 25 bars. WE . . . BUY . . . SELL.. . TRADE . . . Tell All To Your Architect When you go to a tailor to have a suit made you have some precon ceived ideas on how much you want to spend, what sort of fabric you want, and what color you would like. But you leave to your tailor the problem of fitting you, no matter how fearfully or wonder fully Nature has designed you. So it should be. in large measure, when you go to an architect to de sign you a house. You tell him what you want to spend; whether you want wood, brick, stone or concrete; and something about your prefer ences as to design and certain in terior arrangements and equipment. But if you ar* wise you leave largely to him the problem of fitting the house to your needs as you leave to the tailor the problem of fitting your suit to your body. Editor1! Note: This is the first Of a series of articles on conser vation of Oregon's recreational resources. They have been pre pared by staff members f the State Planning Board under the direction of V. B Stanbery, ex ecutive secretary and consult ant. The next article will folow in an early issue. anything — come in and talk it over OLSONS SECOND HAND STORE The Latest Fad ARTIES must be full of pep. P So must popcorn If it is to pop properly. So why not combine the two. as so many people have been doing recently, and have a peppy popcorn party at which everyone will have lots of fun? Be sure to have your popcorn peppy. That’s fifty percent of the fun. Every kernel will pop if you get your corn in cans because nothing but selected kernels are put into these receptacles, and they are hermetically sealed with Just the right amount of moisture in each, so that there will be no “old maids” left to sort o ut Provide Costumes Although this is not necessarily a costume party, it’s a good plan to provide long kitchen aprons for everyone, for not the least part of the fun is making dainties with the popcorn after it has popped. You can either make these aprons yourself in pretty pastel colors, or you’ll find some very attractive ones in the stores. There’s a thrill, too, for young folks in cooking things together. It suggests all aorta of pleasant future domestic possibilities, and perhaps the corn will not have done all the popping before the evening la over. Some young man may pop the question to a pretty girl whose hands look so alluring as they busy themselves with dainty confections on a board or In a bowl. Dainty Confection* And here are some recipe« for • few of the confections which may bring about this surprising result: Baked Popcorn Perfection: Melt two and a half squares chocolate, add contents of one can condensed milk, and stir over the fire a few minutes. Add one cup finely ground popped corn, one cup canned moist cocoanut and one- half teaspoon vanilla, and drop by spoonfuls on a buttered sheet. Bake In a 325 degree oven for ubout fifteen minutes. This makes about twenty-eight small cakes. Popcorn Pcnoche: Boil two cups brown sugar, two-thirds cup thin cream and one tablespoon corn syrup to 236 degrees, stirring as little as possible. Add two table spoons butter, and cool to luke warm. Add one-half teaspoon vanilla, and beat until it loses its shine. Add five tablespoons ground popped corn, and spread out in a buttered pan. Be sure that the corn Is finely ground. Makes one pound. These Taste Good Popcorn Brittle: Pop two-thirds of the contents of a 10-ounce can popcorn, and then run it through the food chopper. It will make one cup. Make a syrup of one cup sugar, one-half cup brown sugar, one-fourth cup canned molasses, one-fourth cup water, one table spoon butter and one fourth tea spoon salt, boiling them to 300 de grees. or until brittle. Pour over the com. stirring as little as pos sible. Pour out immediately onto a battered slab or Inverted pan. sod spread very thin. When cold. Prescription Service . . . Is a necessary and important department of every drug store. Years of study and experience qualify your pharmacist to accurately compound prescriptions prescribed by your doctor. This service is rendered for your health and conven ience and is a source of pride to every pharm acist. Look twice at the man behind the peserip- tion counter. Few of them are wealthy. 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