| Show Trade Barriers in West Still Curb Commerce f I TAYLOR RENNIE BENNIE By Portland portland SAN FRANCISCO April Apri 20 Thc AP mayor of Francisco on Ii the San Ore once refused to attend a convention In iii to get into California too difficult ground that it was altogether A short time previously the mayor may- may 1 or Joseph K Carson venturing across his state line ran smack- smack dab into a place where California officers gave his hisT hisT T ra rode d 6 e entourage a pest Inspection e. e mo- mo B. B Barriers Barners tor vehicle I I r check check up up and A A i. i t. t I 5 O Article r Ice after some routine routine routine rou rou- tine questions an official okay to proceed Int into the golden state Even the most intimate things that women wear said the offended of of- fended mayor had to be inspected at the California line When California comes back into the union Ill I'll try to go there OtherwIse Otherwise Otherwise Other Other- wise Im I'm afraid I would have to get a passport That incident marked a high highpoint highpoint highpoint point in the Balkan Balkanization z of the Oregon California-Oregon border one of the sore spots of the country so far as trade restrictions between states are concerned Pride Started Barriers California's pride in her fruits a and d vegetables led to the setting u tip up of restrictions originally to protect protect protect pro pro- her orchards and fields against imported pests Efforts to protect home Industry later in the lean years led to Intensification of these restrictions restrictionS' The Oregon-California Oregon difficulty had a simple beginning Oregon was proud of its nursery products California barred some of these I allegedly because of earwig In In- Oregon then decided to inspect citrus fruit for scale and charged shippers 25 cents a box to have the pest removed from infected packs I California ordered the seizure of incoming Oregon strawberries on the ground they were packed in deceptive containers boxes with raised bottoms and sloping sides I Stopped Wine Bottles Oregon began picking on California California Cali Call fornia wine bottles the bottles the kind with indented bottoms It also found some California produce containers with raised bottoms But Oregon still bristles with regulations handicapping out-of- out state produce excluding dealer caravans of used cars and holding truck weight maximums below those of California and Washing Washing- ton California's border motor vehicle vehicle ve ye- hicle hide checking stations which aroused the anger of so many visitors visitors tors and pl played a leading part in inthe inthe the notable bum blockade set up b by Los Angeles county in 1936 have been abolished Border bug inspectiOn n continues but Is less painful uI Barriers in California Trade barriers have appeared even within California The state collects collects collects col col- col- col not only 15 for every automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile towed or driven into the state for sale but also a like tax on cars thus moved between northern northern north north- and em ern and southern California between the eastern and western parts of the sta state e. e Trucks moving produce irom nom Utah to Los Angeles have to cross 17 miles of Arizona territory For that they must pay Arizona 2 2102 2 per cent of th their ir gross revenue All interstate trucking touching Anzona Arizona Arizona Ari Ari- zona has to pay that impost The state maintains plant pest and motor motor motor mo mo- tor vehicle checking stations at its borders A ton-mile ton truck registration tax in Utah moved one state out operator to t. report that it was the largest per mile factor in his total expense including drivers' drivers wages Taxes Diesel Fuel Nevada imposed a gal cent Ion lon tax on Diesel fuel purchased outside the state and used in trucks pas passing ing through Washington Colorado and Wyoming Wyoming Wyoming Wy Wy- oming have laws giving their own contractors 5 per cent differentials over state out-of-state bidders on state jobs But most of these states already have participated in a regional effort ef effort ef- ef 1 fort to do away with trade bar bar- Quarantine restrictions are being softened by reciprocal arrangements arrangements arrangements ar ar- ar- ar and further meetings are planned to extend the get- get together movement TilE THE END |
