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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1919)
TITE MORNING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1919. CITY DEPARTMENTS IE Reduction of Efficiency Is Faced if Levy Fails. $500,000 MORE IS NEEDED Drastic Cuts In Police and Fire De partments Would Be Necessary to Meet Situation. 0 ) J 0 Its.. 111 GnA SIT T ON m ICKUMBLED TO KEEP REGULAR -Ein jfcSl i Better WKigi) Vjiealth. IIMMd S The possibility of serious reaction on .Portland in case of the defeat of the 2-mill emergency tax at the spe cial city election tomorrow is shown graphically in a compilation of fig ures prepared yesterday in estimate of the amount that will have to be cut from the budgets of such depart ments as fire, police, health, parks, street-cleaning, street-lighting- and public works. The reductions would have to be made in the service in ex istence at present. The estimates show that, figuring on the 17 per cent reduction that would be necessary to eliminate the deficit faced by the city, will mean the trimming- of $119,000 from the budget for the police bureau, $35,000 from street-lighting funds, $158,000 from the fire bureau. $1'.000 from the health bureau. $43,000 from the park bureau, $52,000 from the street cleaning bureau and $92,000 from the public works department. Propor tionate cuts will have to be made in every other department of tiie city. $500,000 More Is Needed. The reductions would have to be made from the departments as they stand today, inasmuch as the $l00.000 the city will be short next year is not due to a proposed increase in force, but to price rises during the last year in practically every material needed for the sustenance of the city depart ments. The fire bureau which, to meet its share of the trimming, would have to reduce its servica by $158.000. could meet the situation Only by elimina ting fomc of the existing fire stations and some of the companies in other fire, stations. Commissioner Bigelnw savs there is no other way because the department is operating now on the basis of a minimum number of men in each station and in each com pany. Redaction of Police Faced. In the police bureau to eliminate $119,000 would mean the elimination of men on the beats, as there is no other direction the elimination could be made. It would mean also that the police bureau would have to continue without new equipment, in spite of the fact that all now on hand is said to be practically antiquated. An ex ample of the condition of the equip ment was reported to Mayor Baker yesterday by Chief of Police Jenkins, who declared that on three different occasions last week old machines in which the police were rushing out to burglar calls broke dovn and left them without means of reaching the scene of the robbery in time to be of assistance. In the park bureau Commissioner Pier says the only way $43,000 can be eliminated is to allow lawns, flower beds and shrubbery to go without care next year and to discontinue all park activities and some of the play ground activities. Sanitnry Work la Vital. In the health bureau Commissioner Mann says $l!t,000 can be trimmed only by cutting out vital health and sanitary work and making the health bureau absolutely helpless in meeting any epidemic or other emergency that may arise during the year. The public works bureau can elim inate $'.2,000 from its budget only by eliminating four-fifths of the public improvement work for next year. This work has been petitioned by property owners who will pay all costs except that of preparing the plans and of supervising the work, which, under the law, must be paid from the gen eral fund of the city. n i in 1 ' VUlltflniHll IHMMKtt H inn nn nr- ... , . r r ' - If T Hi Mi I Hi " ' j ' AUTTJ CLUB BUCKS ROADS WfcSTEIlX WASHINGTON BODY MEETS AT SEATTLE. State Programme for Concrete Highways Approved; Officers Are Elected. SEATTLE, "Wash.. Not. 10. (Spe cial.) Unqualified indorsement of the state road building programme of James A. Allen, state highway com missioner, was the feature action of the annual meeting of the board of trustees of the automobile club of western Washington here today. The annual meeting elected officers to serve during the coming year. It. M. Dyer was unanimously re elected president; J. T. Harrah, Tak ima, first vice-president; C. F. Nolte of Bellingham, second vice-president Dr. W. C. Cox of Everett, third vice- president; I. C. Rowland of Tacoma, secretary, and J. M. Maxwell of Seat tie, treasurer. In a brief address to the organiza tion. Commissioner Allen appealed for the support of motorists as well as the general public in development of state highway construction. "There is some misapprehension among certain persons that the state should experiment with so-called road materials and new patents," said Mr. Allen, "and 1 am visited by agents at my office every day endeavoring to sell these new materials. But the public money should not be used for this purpose. It costs $30,000 a mile for a 20-foot roadway with seven inches of concrete base. The state will save money by building a road correctly in the first place." Allen scored the practice of some districts for neglecting rigidly to su pervise road work to see that it was carried out according to specifica tions. lie said that this was responsi ble for many faulty roads. State Senator P. H. Carlyon of Olympia, author of the road-building measure to be voted on at the coming state election, echoed the remarks of Mr. Allen anent road materials. Dele gates from every section of western Washington were present. LEWIS FARM DEALS BIG 80 Acres With Stock and Equip incut Sold for $19,500. CHKHALIS. Wash.. Nov. 10. (Spe cial.) Several large deals for Lewis county farms are reported within the past few days. Eighty acres of the E. E. Kenoyer place on the south fork of the Newaukum river, eight miles southeast of Chehalis, was sold to F. J. R. Cook of Olympia for $19,500. The entire place includes 400 acres and Mr. Kenoyer will go ahead and further improve the re ,JLE2 TO serve J A J.iCAVTTIA and. qaaAaz&cL 121 - sr" ' 4 w mm mmmLM bl mw mm m l mm i r.iiv- m ' " m , , i, t it in Zx w lial " sir iawBrans miierx i Look at the picture of Kellogg's Krumbled Bran. See what real cereal food Kelloggs have made of bran. 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Saliger of Coal creek sold 80 acres of her farm on Coal creek, just east of Chehalis, to the Kray brothers, John, Al and Joe, for the sum of $5000. , A. O. Hamilton, who lives on the Kewaukum river four miles south of Chehalis, sold ten acres of his farm to Hans G. Hanson of National, Wash., for $3500. WEISER TO GET FACTORY Sugar Plant. With 500-Ton Ca pacity Is Contemplated. BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 10. (Special.) Announcement is made that another big sugar factory is to be opened in Read The Oregonlan classified ads. this state soon. It is to be located near Weiser In western Idaho. The Idaho Mutual Sugar company is fi nancing it. This company was re cently organized. It has strong fi nancial backing, according to re ports, and the work of building the factory is to start immediately. The factory will have a 500-ton capacity and will produce 175.000 sacks of refined sugar annually. district, in Washington county, is held by experts to be ideal for the raising of sugar beets. Walla Walla Speakers Chosen. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Nov. 10. (Special.) Rev. Otis H. HolmeB. Mrs. Alvina Baumetster and Bruce Whit- The Weiser ney, the latter a returned service man. will be the speakers at the Armistice day celebration at the high school auditorium Tuesday evening. A fea ture of the meeting will be community singing, led by Director Howard K. Pratt of the Whitman conservatory of music Phone your wani ads to The Oreco nian. Main 7070, A 6095. Banks to Boost Show. BANKS, Or., Nov. 10. (Special.)-. The Banks Commercial club is nol advocating a subscription campaigi for the 1920 Hog and Dairy show a Banks. A permanent ground is beinj considered and plans developing fa an exhibition building to b 60x301 feet in dimensions. i