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The Port Ortoid Deep Water Harbor = KEY to the Development of the Vast Natural Resources of the Mid-Pacific Coest Empire PORT ORFORD NEWS Port Orford, Oregon, Tuesday, October 11,1932. Volume VI. Delinquency Charge Waived; To Speed Tax Collections Business Machines Gather Momentum t At its regular monthly m eeting last W ednesday the Curry county | court issued a formal order waiving | Miscellaneous item s from differ-1 all interest charges on delinquent taxes if sam e are paid on or before I ent districts indicate that the pro- I December 5. 1932. The order is in : cess of getting back to normal is I line with an effort of the authoii-' slowly gathering momentum. The I ties to speed up tax collection. It power production index is an indi- 1 is understood that som e of the larg cation. Power output for the week i est of the timber owners in the- ended Sept. 24 gained 14,419,000 county have pledged them selves to kilowatt hours over the previous make every effort to take advan week. B radstreet’s says that reports tage of the offer of the court, and, from all lines of trade and m a n u -; as many of these owners are sev facturing this week are the best of eral years in arrears, it is expect the year. It is estim ated by steel | ed that the financial condition of mill officials that pay rolls in the the county will be greatly improved Chicago area have inc; eased about $30,000 a week, follow ing the rise before the end of the year. in operations to 17 per cent from 13 per cent. I The New York Central Railroad announces a program of increas ing operations in its car and loco Portland, Or., Oct. 8.—The people motive shops, due to greater traf of Oregon today were asked to vote fic. The plan, effective October 1, down the Zorn-Macpherson College calls for the addition to pay rolls Moving Bill and mass their influ of 4000 men. That this Improve ence behind Chancellor Kerr and ment is not local is shown by the the State Board of H igher Edu statem ent that freight traffic for cation for orderly and economical 18 leading railroads last week was unification of Oregon’s Higher Edu 3 per cent heavier than in the pre- I cational System by Herman Oliver, vious week. From St. Paul comes one of the largest livestock and the report that the Great N orth ranch operators of central Oregon ern Railway in August enjoyed its and a member of the board. Oliver first operating profit since last De is president of the Cattle and Horse cember, with net income or $342,392 association of the state and has just been chosen as a member of the advisory board of the new Ag The Port Commission held its ricultural Credit Corporation for monthly meeting last Wednesday this district. and in addition to the transaction "As a straight business proposi of routine business, met with the tion, the proposals contained in the Budget Committee on the question Zom-Maspherson Bill are unsound, of dock repairs. No decision was said Oliver. “State appropriations reached and the matter was held for the higher educational institu open for a later meeting. Monday tions have already been so heavily , (yesterday) a special m eeting of reduced that they average less than the commission was held to consid two and one-half millions of dol er the opinion of the com m ission’s lars per year for 1931 and 1932. counsel to the effect that In any “Now, proponents of the bill make sale of the property the com m is the impossible claim that they can sion can only give a bargain and make a further reduction of a mil sale deed at this time. N othing def lion dollars a year if they are al inite was determined at the m eet lowed to create five new experi ing. mental institutions and wreck five proved and established ones “Get Behind Kerr” Says Herman Oliver * Port Commission Meets "It is self-evident that there is no economy in im mediately estab lishing five new institutions to re place others. It is evident too that removal of the law school to Salem would require buildings because none exist there. It is evident that removal of the normal schools to Eugene and removal of the univer sity to Corvallis, would entail aban donment of expensive state owned buildings and equipment on one hand and construction of costly new buildings on the other. It is evident, too, that the proposed new junior colleges would have to In. adequately staffed and equipped, and that the cost per student would be higher than present costs at the university or state college. "No further comm ent seem s nec essary as regards this proposition of wrecking Oregon’s entire educa tional system by popular vote, par ticularly at this tim e when three years of hard work has already ef fected such substantial savings, and Chancellor Kerr has joined in the monumental task of carrying on the work to fruitful conclusion. “It seem s rather that it is the tim e for our people to mass their influence behind the new chancel lor, for an orderly and intelligently planned economy program that will look to efficiency in education and further cuts In costs, based upon study of facts." Court of Honor At a special m eeting of the Girl Scout sponsors held Thursday a f ternoon Mrs. H L. McCartney who is soon to return to her home In San Diego, outlined plans for a Court of Honor to be held the even ing of October 21st. The high school and grade school troops of the Port Orford Girl Scouts, made an envia ble record for them selves this past summer in their courses of study, and badges of m erit are to be awarded at this Court of Honor. The leaders are also preparing a special program and it is urgently requested that everyone Interest ed In this splendid work attend the meeting. A rare treat is In store for Port Orford, when In the near future it is planned to have Mrs L ittle field of the National Girl Scout Headquarters. New York City, of ficially greet the local Girl Scouts. Dad’s Day at U. of O. Eugene. Oct. 8.—Registration for “Dads", who are expected here from every part of the state, will begin Friday. October 28, and continue Saturday morning At least 500 are expected to attend, and a vigorous campaign to get the fathers to come here will be carried on by students. The program will include a mass meeting for all members of the "Dads" group Saturday morning, special features and a special root ing section for members at the Gonzaga game, the annual banquet i at six o'clock, and special church services Sunday morning. The banquet, which will be the highlight of the event, will have as toastm aster Burt Brown Barker, vice president of university. Dr. | W J. Kerr, chancellor of higher I education, will greet the fathers, and short talks will be made by student body officials and others. (¡rand Matron Visits Friday night Grand Worthy Ma tron Anna M E llis of Garibaldi, Ore . visited Curry Chapter. No 135, O. E. S„ and held the annual in spection. Mrs. Inez Glazier of Co quille. associate grand conductress,! assisted in the ceremony. Five chap-j ters were represented in the m eet ing in addition to the local chap-1 ter. being Garibaldi chapter, rep resented by the grand worthy m a tron; Beulah chapter, represented by Dr and Mrs. Glazier of Coquille; Occidental chapter o f Bandon be ing represented by Mr Hayward: Ovondo, Montana chapter, repre sented by Miss Ruth Clark: and Le Grande chapter, represented by Miss Edna Ledbetter. Grand officers escot ted to the east were Mrs. Anna M Ellis, grard worthy matron and Mrs. Inez G laz-1 ier. associate grand conductrt>«-- R efreshm ents were served at a late hour and a very enjoyable evening w as spent by those attending Ship Cranberries Henry Johnston, of Garrison I-ake. who w as a Port Orford vis-j itor Saturday, announced that Fri-j day he and his son, A. P Johns- j ton, shipped about one-half of their j 1932 crop of cranberries through the growers' association. The ber ries are o f the Searles variety, an 1 _ are large firm and well colored j THE CAUSES OF THE DEPRESSION No blame can be attached to Mr. Private Citizen for his dis content during the depression, nor with the haphazard manner by which he placed the responsibility for his distress. Mr. Private Citizen is apt to put responsibility on anybody in power politi cally, whether merited or not. But it never fails that Mr. Private Citizen takes the time to study his premises before he attacks his problems at the ballot box. When he does that this year he is sure to conclude that no political party, no office holder, no individual, or groups of those types, brought on the depression. The causes of the depression were outlined in detail by President Herbert Hoover in an address to the members of the national business and industrial confer ence at Washington August 26. The President said : You will recollect that after a year of world-wide depression we came into the first quarter of 1931 with strong evidences of our recu peration. During those early months of 1931 the failure of banks decreas ed by 70 per cent from the previ ous quarter. N ew F o rces of D estru ction Cited. The hoarding of currency practi cally disappeared. The signs of re sumption of Industrial activity and employment gave us the right to hope that the country w as righting Itself. Then there came to us a con centration of catastrophes from abroad such as we have not exper ienced in the whole of our economic history. The first evidence of the im pending financial collapse abroad was the difficulties of the largest bank of Vienna in April a year ago In rapid succession were the dif ficulties of the national banks of Austria, of Jugoslavia and finally of the relch8bank. in the month of May. The general panic began in Germany in June and finally cul minated in drastic governmental decrees suspending exchanges, clos ing of all banks, and accompanied by the failure of important Insti tutions. Similar suspensions took place in other im portant areas in central Europe. The difficulties were further in creased by the revolution in Spain and revolutions in Peru and other South American countries, the lat ter adding many further defaults upon foreign obligations. On the first of August evidence of distress in the Bank of England was indi cated by heavy borrowing from abroad, further emphasized at the end of August by the large foreign loans by the British government in an effort to protect exchanges But the strain proved too great, and the gold standard was abandoned by England at the end of Septem ber. followed in October and No vember by similar action in Swede;.. Nnrwny, Denmark. Finland, Aus- trtn. India and Egypt, with restric tions upon exchange in many other countries which equally disrupted international paym ents and foreign trade. merchant. Paralyzing fears spread into every quarter of our country. These fears added fuel to the fire through nation-wide hoarding of currency. This hoarding increased to $70,000.- 000 a week at the tim e of the Ger man moratorium, but rose to $150.- 000,000 a week after the failure in England. The demand for goods slacked over the whole world and agricultural prices gave way entire ly. Unavoidable delays and d iffi culties in legislative action added to the fears and apprehensions of our people. Currency W ith d raw als Injurious As we look back over the depres sion now w e find over $2,400.000.- 000 was withdrawn from us by for eign nations and their citizens, and a total of $1.600,000,000 of currency was at one time withdrawn by our own citizens from our banks. You know and I know that this fore ign exchange, the gold shipped abroad, the currency and gold hoarded In our own country, is tak en from the base of the inverted pyramid of our credit structure and translates itself into a strangula tion of the volum e of credit from two to ten tim es even these huge amounts. Let no man believe that these are questions which are of In terest solely to big business. They are the origins of millions of hu man tragedies of losses, unemploy- agreement, the advances of our banks to the national banks of foreign countries, the creation of the National Credit corporation, the Reconstruction Finance corpora tion, the Increased powers to the federal reserve system , the balanc ing of the budget, the financial aids to the farm loan banks, and above all, the unity and courage of our people, represent our Incessant ac tion in defense and counter-attack Foreign W ithdrawals Stopped. Today that picture has greatly changed We can look with assur ance upon the cessation of foreign withdrawals from our country sim ply because they have substantial ly removed their holdings and we have successfully accommodated ourselves to it. Our strength has proved equal to the shock although with many casualties. Confidence is returning A return, flow of gold from abroad has begun. Europeans are again investing in our markets With the large prevention of bank failures and with relief from fore ign pressure and its constantly re newed fears, the domestic hoard ing of currency has ceased and is now returning at the rate of nearly $20000.000 a week. The demands for banking assistance from the re construction corporation have dim inished by $170,000.000 from the pre vious month. That our financial foundations are unimpaired is in dicated by the fact that measured in amount of their trusts. 98 per cent of our banking and fiduciary obligations to the public are Intact. Seventy million Insurance policies and 25,000.000 depositors have been saved from Jeopardy. It is not alone our country that is making a successful fight for the return of stability. Foreign coun tries have not been Idle in placing their own houses in order. The Iou - sanne agreem ent has contributed to return of confidence, but while we thus see growing Improvement In the financial sector, we m ust con tinue the battle upon the Industrial and agricultural fronts Number 47. Forum Rally Big Success; Nationally Known Speaker Marion Zumwalt, employed on The members of the Young Peo the new coast guard station work ples Forum entertained 33 members in Bandon spent the week end in of the Cnrlstlan Endeavor Society Port Orford. op the Presbyterian church of Ban don Sunday evening at five o’clock S. J. Spoerl, president of the port at a most enjoyable buffet luncheon commission, attended the Monday served In the Masonic hall Follow m eeting of the comm ission held in ing the luncheon the regular For the office at the dock. um service was held at the Com munity church, with the members Mrs. Anna M Ellis, of Garlbeldi. and guests of the two organizations Oregon, grand worthy matron of attending in a body. The meeting the O. E. S. was a Port Orford vis was the last of the get-together itor Friday. m eetings of the Bandon-Langlois- Port Orford parish young people, Mrs. Beryl Syphers of Langlois thirty-five members of the Lang attended O. E. S , Curry chapter lois young people motoring down No. 135, Friday evening. for the regular church service, m ak ing an attendance of 105. W. O. Jessups is now in charge For some time past at various of the Rocky Peak fire station in intervals Reverend Henry has se place of Carlos W hite who has re turned to his studies at the Ash cured the services of various speak ers of special prominence, and Sun land normal. day evening Miss Maud Aldrich, a nationally known prohibition speak J. P. Masterson and P. H W hit er, occupied the pulpit. Miss Aid- more attended the football game In rich has been on the lecture plat Portland Saturday. form for the past tw enty years and is a woman of rare charm and Mrs. Louis Scofield was a guest personality. From start to finish of Mrs. E. J. Baker on Chinquapin she held the close attention of the Ridge Monday. audience which filled the church to capacity. The one main thought Mr and Mrs. W T. W hite, Jr., throughout her address was the returned from Ashland Tuesday ev saving of the 18th amendment. Her ening, where they visited their clear and concises analysis of her daughters, the Misses Camilla and subject, and her sincerity of pur Vivian, who are attending school pose, made a strong appeal to those in that city. fortunate enough to heai her. David McKenzie shipped two truck loads of cattle to Coquille last week, Dennis Sorensen doing the trucking. Dr. and Mrs. W B. Glazier of Coquille were Port Orford visitors Friday, and attended the annual inspection of the O. E. S. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Shadley have returned to their home In Port Or ford after several w eeks absence. A. Dufort of Sixes transacted business in Port Orford Monday Pennsylvania Mills Reemploy Thousands The specter of idleness hrs been banished from the homes of thous ands of people In western Pennsyl vania as, after months of inactivity, mills and shops are reopening. Jobs for at least 5000 people are provid ed, some 1200 of these g o lrg back to work today at the mlllo of the American Sheet A Tin Plate Company at Monessen on a three to four-day-a-week basis. Other de partm ents of the mills are sched uled to resume In about a week, giving employment to 1200 more people Mrs. Linda Guerin of Langlois, worthy matron of Curry chapter No. 135, O. E. S., w as a Port Orford The Lockhart Iron A Steel Com pany In Pittsburgh has resumed, visitor Friday. calling back 400 men. The P itts W. T White, Jr., R. B. Corson burgh A Ijik e Erie Railroad has and Robert Lake were business recalled 400 In Its locomotive and car shops and put to work 150 more visitors In Gold Beach Saturday. In the freight car shop Mr. and Mrs. David McKenzie At M onongahela Junction 150 motored to Marshfield Saturday on shopmen have been ordered to re business Mrs. Andy E llis accom port for part-time work for the panied them Union Railroad company. At Can onsburg. 2000 persons will receive Henry Johnston of Garrison Lake work at the plant of the Standard w as transacting business in Port Tin Plate company, which opens Orford Saturday. for operations today. Mrs. H. L. McCartney of the Middle Elk motored to Port Orford Thursday where she attended a R e v o lts Abroad H ave 111 E ffe ct Portland, Oct. 10.-- Approximately meeting of the sponsors of the Girl In September the conflict in the 150 fleeces have arrived and will Scout troops. far east began, and was followed be displayed at the P acific Inter by the suspension of the gold stand Mrs. May Warner and family have national’s Wool and Mohair Show ard in Japan In December and the moved into the Johnson house east beginning this Saturday, October 10. disturbing military operations of and continuing a week. An effort of the high school last winter. During the early is being made this year to make months of this year we witnessed Mr. and Mrs. Fred Scofield of this show as educational to the con more revolutions in sm aller coun Bridge are visiting In Port Orford sumer as ¡<osslble. The average pui- tries and further defaults upon while Mr. Scofield Is painting their rhaser of wool and mohair products their obligations. bungalow at the corner of 7th and will have an opportunity to learn The effects upon us of each of the In thia interesting display how to W ashington streets. ment and distress. tell values in buying thoae pro The whole of this 18 m onths has Mr. and Mrs. W. Gabriel were ducts. been a period of constant defense guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ford of A feature of the Wool and Mo and counter-attack against these In North Bend the fore part of last hair show will be the fleece from vading forces. The German mora week. "Bill', the 17-year-old wether that torium, the German stand-still won glory during the war by bring Mrs. Lucy Baker returned to her ing in $150,000 for the Red Crose invasions were instantaneous. home on Chinquapin Ridge last at auctions held In various parts American securities held abroad Tuesday after spending several of the country as far west as Den were dumped upon our markets. days with friends in Port Orford. The prices of our stocks and bonds ver the laigest amoen* from one and comm odities were continuously sale being $5.000 brought at Rend. S. J. Spoerl transacted business Oregon undermined. Huge foreign deposits Bill is still alive and In Marshfield Tuesday of last week. Spending his declining days on Geo. in our banks were frantically w ith W. Gabriel made a business trip R ussel's K eystone Ranch near drawn. to Gold Beach Thursday of last Prineville B ill’s fleece will not en Our own borrowers on commodi week. ties and on securities were called ter competition but will be an ex upon for more margins. The neces hibit itself N P. Grant of Brushes creek sity of meeting these drains brought The fifteenth permanent tro transacted business In Gold Beach pressure on every borrower In phy for the annual awarding of Wednesday. America, whether it be a bank or w inners in the wool show has been b a n k s customer, a manufacturer W J Swctnam of Garrison Lake donated thia year by the Portland or a farmer, a home owner or a w as a Port Orford shopper W ed Woolen Mills and will go to the best quarter-blood fleece adapted nesday. for fabric manufacture In Pacific Among those from Bandon chap coast mills eroning the young people from The sheep show this year will Bandon to the "get-to-gether serv be the largest In the history of the ice” at the Port Orford Commun Paclflo International Livestock E x ity church Sunday night were M n. position according to a statem ent Continued on page 2 ) Ralph Moore, Mrs. Lillian Flomm, made by O. M Plummer. "We’ll Mi and Mrs H. E Boak. Mr and have more kinds and more In each Mrs. D. R Norton. Mr and Mrs class and I think the sheep division Victor Breuer, and Prof and Mrs. will be about filled to capacity." -:;iBsBS!:tnn;:::minau:::inn::!nn;-jR;::anic:;t»i::ænnnaBtBaacaBBann«aMM nBannniuunaunuM Ua::nn:::::;:::nninnuamnnnnmnia I I. B Sevy of Idmglols. said Mr. Plummer Knowing these causes, President Hoover promptly put,into execution a systematic and consistent program to bring about a return to normalcy, with the gratifying result that the business of the country is now on the upgrade—a condition conceded by Livestock Show to Start
