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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1922)
VOL. XVIII. NO. 32. VALE, OREC.ON, SATURDAY, J ULY 22, 1922. SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER YEAR APPLICATION FOR CHARTERAPPROVED COMPTROLLER GIVES 0. K. TO NEW NATIONAL RANK PROMINENTMEN APPLY SUBSCRIBERS AMONG NORTH WEST BUSINESS MEN AND RANCHERS OF COUNTY. The application of the charter for the Vale National bank has been approved by the comptroller of currency and the steps incident to the organization of the new na fj tional bank for the county seat are nearly all taken. Those who signed the application for the charter are well known in . business circles of Malheur county and are all substantial citizens ol the county. The applicants are II. R. Dunlop, president of the Vale Trading Company; William Jones, .stockman and banker of Juntura; II. H. DeArmond, stockman of Vale, T. T. Nelsen, business man ami prop erty owner of Vale, and R. II. Unite, banker of Stanfield and Vale. No definite plans for organiza tion have been made but it is prob able that Mr. Holte will be the man aging officer of the new bank. He has been cashier and directing' head of the Bank of Stanfield for a num ber of years and came to Vale a few months ago as receiver for the United States National bank. ' He recently moved his family to Va.e and when the new bank is opened will spend practically all of his time here. While the list of those who have subscribed to stock in the new bank has not been announced it is known to contain the names of some of the wealthiest and most substantial men of the county. It is planned to purchase 4h"J fixtures of the old United States bank and open the Vale National in the same building on the corner of Main and A streets. LEGAL STATIF OUTLINED RAILROAD PRESIDENT GIVES NOIXVflllS NO MHIA Sill ARISING OUT OF STRIKE. New York City, New Yoik, July Hi, 1922. Mr. E. E. Calvin, vice president, U. P. System, K:i! Lake City, Utah. Dear Sir: .For the in formation of the general public from whom many inquiries have reached me, as well as for (he assur ance of our . shop employes and those who are entering our service every day and to the end that our former employes may thoroughly understand our position, I wish you would communicate the contents ot this letter to the public tlvimch the press and to all of our officials so 1 that the public and each former em ploye shall be personally advised in regard thereto. Chairman Ben F. Hooper of the U. S. R. R. Labor Hoard, July 1, 1922, issued the following state ment: Regardless of the question of the right of the men to strike the men who take the strikers' places are merely accepting the wages and conditions prescribed by a govern - ment tribunal and are performing a public service. They are not ac cepting the wages and working con ditions which an employer is trying to impose. For this reason public sentiment and full government power will protect the men who re main in their positions and new men who come in." Subsequently the Labor Hoard bad declared that the rules and working conditions under which the mechanical forhes were working be fore the strike are still in full force and effect. They cannot be dunged except by an agreement between our employes and the management of this system, or in event of fail ure to reach mature agret ment by our employes (not the former em ployes) and the management, ex pirte or jointly referring the tlisu i? re -ment to the U. S H. U. Labor Board for decision. Therefore, h'nee our former employes left our h -vice of their own free will and H'-roii thereby ceasing to be em ployes of this system, tin- public, rr.it those who have remained biyal to our service and those who have entered the service since the strike k well us those who are entering our employ daily may rest a .Min d thnt the management cf this system will use every reourre at its com mand to keep faith with tliein and unquahfiedly pledife itself to make ' i Maybe Not a Hop Dream. ! Charles Batchelder and O. E. Carman, always looking, for better producing crops for this district, have turned their at- tention to the way hop vines grow around many of the resi- dences of Vale. They claim the vines seem to thrive best on heavy alkali lands and that if this proveB to be a fact that the problem of' making alka- liel lands in the valley pay has been solved. Mr. Carman says he, may plant a small patch of' hops and watch results. Maybe Not "Hop" Dream, TO SUE DEFUNCT BANK TAX MONEY WAS NOT A DE POSIT AND CAN BE COLLECT ED BY LEGAL ACTION. Nyssa. Or., July 22. (Special.) The town of Nyssa, in conjunction with the Nyssa-Arcadia Drainage District and the Kingman Colony Drainage District, will institute legal proceedings for the recovery of several thousand dollars of tax money belonging to these organiza tions which , has been tied up through the failure of the First Na tional Bank of ' Vale. An opinion from Davis & Kester published in last week's issue of the Journal, ex pressed the belief that Nyssa would have the same legal status as de positors of the defunct institution, but further consideration has con vinced them that Nyssa has a pre ferred claim and can collect by law. As the claims of the two drainage districts above mentioned have the same legal standing as the town of Nyssa they will pool their claims and start suit to compel the receiver to pay over the money. It is obvious that these claims are in a different class from the claims of depositors, ' as the money involved was simply passing from one bank to another in the, regular routine method of collecting and was not a deposit in any sense,, nnd Hence " is collectable. This is the conclusion that Davis & Kester have arrived at after careful consideration of ali the facts in the case and it is expected that suit will be instituted soon for recovery of the money due the three organizations. WOMEN'S CLUB POSTPONE MEETING UNTIL THIS FALL A meeting of the Women's Club of Vale was held Wednesday even ing. It was decided to -postpone the semi-monthly meetings until the first Wednesday in September. The gymnasium class will continue through the summer, however, and the ladies meet every week. Every other week their meeting is held at the Natatorium, as they are learn ing to swim. Ladies and girls or the city who are interested are cor dially welcomed to the gym. class and next Tuesday night the plunge will be open for all. Baby Boy Born Friends in Vale will be pleased to know that an 8-pound baby boy ar rived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Romph in Weiser Sunday. Moth er and little son are reported doing nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Romph for merly lived In Vale . and it will be remembered that Mrs. Romph was Miss Velma Foiles gefore her mar riage. Returns From Via cation Alph Chester, manager of the Vale Meat Company, returned home Monday after enjoying a short out ing trip on the Little Malheur, near Ironside. While there he visited his brother, Yance Chester. no settlement of the strike which will in any manner whatsoever deter them of their rights of jobs which they have gained in accordance with shop crafts agreement and the de claration of the Labor Board. The only way that any one one of our former employes may enter our service is as new employe and the opportunity to even thus enter the service is growing less day by day owing t the fact that our forces are rapidly increasing. The public will keep in mind the fact that this strike is not against this railroad system but that it is ugainst the decision of an agency of our government, therefore, the strike simply resolves itself into the question whether the orderly pro cesses of law an order shall prevail or the arbitrary action of a very small minority. To that question there can be but one answer. We are a law abiding people; the order ly processes of the law shall pre vail. The management of this sys tem has religiously at all times kept faith with its employes both as to its spoken and written word and rt always will. Your very truly, C. R. CRAY, President E TO HARNEY AND MALHEUR TAKE ACTION FOR DEVELOPMENT WILL WAGE CAMPAIGN ENTIRE STATE IS TO BE EDU CATED BY BOOSTERS FROM THIS PART. Malheur and Harney. counties cast their lot on the side of the Union Pacific railroad in the controversy which has arisen between it and the Southern Pacific for operating con trol of the Central Pacific, to a joint meeting of representatives of both counties held at Burns last Satur day. The Central Oregon Development League was organized, resolutions were adopted and an immediate and active campaign will be conducted all over the state to bring to the people the real truth of the signifi cance of this controversy to future transportation development in Ore gon. J. W. McCulloch, of Ontario, was elected president of the development league and W. H. Doolittle, of On tario, secretary. The first action of the new officers was to send copies of the resolutions adopted all over the state. Oswald West, ex-gov-crnor of Oregon, was in Burns d participated in the organization. Organization of the new league was followed out along lines sug gested by a committee on organiza tion consisting of P. J. Gallagher, A. R. Olson, Sam Mothershead, W. H. Doolittle and M.H. Brown. The purpose of .the league was lefined as follows: "To inquire into the present fail road situation on the Pacific Coast, as effected by the recent decision of the supreme court of the United States and as to how such railroad situation will affect the future de velopment of Eastern and Central Oregon, and to present our findings and recommendations to such boards, commissions or other bodies, who may be called upon to carry out the regrouping of Western railroads, and to urge upon such bodies the urgent need of early construction of railroad lines in the territory em braced within Central Oregon and Eastern Oregon," The committee which drafted the resolutions consisted of Robert Dun can, J. W. McCulloch, .William Han- ley, Chns. W. Ellis and Lloyd Riches. The resolutions follow: To the Cities and Towns in Oregon Enjoying rail Transportation: We appeal to you for assistance and co-operation to obtain railroad development in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Oregon. From you and your intervening and related communities, who are more fortun ately situated than the scattered settlements in Central and South, eastern Oregon, we obtain our in spiration and our confidence. You will not benefit as directly nor to the extent that our isolated sections will benefit, but as Oregon benefits so will all of us benefit. If Western Oregon is so fortunate as to obtain the entry of the Union Pacific, with resulting joint opera tion between Portland and San Francisco, and at the same time se cures a direct route through Cen tral and Eastern Oregon, it will profit more than we can estimate, nnd at the same time we will be af-' forded a commercial, social and political relationship with her. Let us show the state that while Eastern, Central and Southeastern Oregon hus a vast domain for set tlement, it has no room for strife or sectional dissension; that real spirit of unity and comradeshop abides with us and that in this union lies a strength that deserves and must re ceive recognition. We place our fortunes and our future in your hands and pledge our best efforts to obtain the recogni tion and support of Western. Ore gon in our endeavors for a state de velopment that will recognize and consider Eastern, Central and Southeastern Oregon. , Resolution. ' Whereas; the recent decision of the supreme court divorcing certain lines from the Southern Pacific is resulting in many differences of opinion as to the ultimate holding of the divorced lines; And, Whereas; the ownership of the divorced lines is of vital impor tance to the entire Pacific Coast and the North-went and especially to the State of Oregon: Therefore; w as representative of the people of Central and East- L AGUE FAVQRABL 10 PCIFIC Log Taken By Highway Engineer on Round Trip to Burns Shows Interesting Comparisons on Grades nnd Elevations and Many Other Road Facts By The Editor. Some interesting facts hbout ele vations and grades will be disclosed by the log taken by State Engineer Baldoch on the round trip from Vale to Bums last week. Mr. Baldoch was accompanicl by Judge' E. H. Test of Malheur county. They went to Burns via Westfall nnd Beulah and returned over the Hole-in-the-ground road. As soon as the log is transcribed a copy of it will be printed in The Enterprise. There has been a good deal of controversy both in Malheur county and in Harney county over relative elevations on these two roads and also about relative grades on the Cottonwood mountain nnd Ben Dier. The editor of The Enterprise has stated that it was his belief that the elevation across the high table lands from Cottonwood mountain to the top of Vischer creek hill on the road' leading through Crane was about as high as the top of Ben Dier and Mr. Baldoch's observations prove these contentions. Cottonwood mountain has an average grade of 11 per cent, ac cording to the log and the road reaches an elevation of 4700 feet at its top. The average elevations across the table land run from 4700 to 4800 feet. The average grade on the Vischer hill is ten per cent. On the other hand, Ben Dier, which has been considered by some drivers to be a worse pull than Cot tonwood mountain, only showed an average grade of 7 per cent with on elevation of 4900 feet at its top. A good many months ago The En terprise took up the fight for the location of the Central Oregon highway on a general route up Bulley creek, around Ben D:cr and on to Burns through the iVency valley. At that time highway en gineers were favoring a route up the Malheur canyon nnd were mak ing estimates of its cost. These es timates show that route to be out ol the question because of high cost. Judge Test agrees with The Enter prise that the best route for Mal heur county is through the Agency valley anl while on the recent trip investigated the new market roau Harney county is building from Drewsey to Burns and asserts this route simplifies the grade question on that end of the highway. It will bo several years before the state will undertake the completion of the Central Oregon highway but in the meantime it is well for the people of Malheur county to keep on the job and see that it is placed where it will do the county the most good when it is finally located. em Oregon, set forth our views in the premises in the following points of argument: The Union Pacific should control the Central Pacific from Ogden to Son Francisco and have trackage rights over lines between Portland and San Francisco, bociyise of the following effects which such an ar rangement will bring about: The mere building of the Natron cutoff from Natron to Klamath Falls will bring no relief to Central Oregon; such a construction merely meaning that traffic from Willam ette Valley to California could be carried over easier grades; anil the Southern Pacific railroad would not have the incentive to make the rail road investment in Central Oregon that the Union Pacific would, nnd even though it did the betterment of transportation in Oregon depends upon reasonable competition. That it would be unreasonable to expect the Southern Pacific to build feeders into Central and Eastern Oregon, or to c onnect with some competing line, while on the other hand the Union Pacific hus every incentive to develop these .sections as purt of its trans-rontinentul line. The Union Pacific has agreed, if it is allowed to purchase or secure operating control of the Central Pacific, to complete the Natron cut off, thus making inevitable the con struction of the Trans-state line through Central Oregon connecting with its present Ontario-Crane line. Such a program of railroad devel opment Would be of immense value to the State of Oregon and to the entire Pacific Coast Mates. This promised system would open for development -10,000 square mil" of agricultural, mineral. and timber territory now without adequate rail road facilities, and most of it with out rail transportation of ur.y kind. It would shot ten the haul from i Willumette Valley points to Da-Jem markets by 450 mile, minimi..-' CHAUTAUQUA BEGINS NEXT WEDNESDAY FOLLOWING SEVEN DAYS TO BE ENTERTAINING ONES VERDA MILLER LEADS XLNE CONTESTANTS ARE AF TEK PRIZES OFFERED BY TICKET COMMITTEE. The time is short until the season seat sale closes and the contestants are urged to thoroughly canvnss among their friends and acquain tances and strive to their Utmost to win the $25 cash prize offered be sides the commissions for the sale of tickets as outlined in the offer of the committee. Single admittance prices to three major attractions of the 13 excel lent programs offered at the Chau tauqua pays for the price of a sea son ticket and it is economy for every person intending to be at the session to secure a season ticket. It has come to the audition of the association in Vale in past years that a number of people have not secured season tickets, thinking they would not attend much, and have paid out more in single admission tickets when the interesting enter tainments have attracted them to attend. If you expect to attend Chautau qua at all there is no argument against buying ti season ticket. Call up your popular contestant at once and arrange for tickets. See back page of this isxlie for prizes offered. Only five more, days remain until the Vale Chahtauqua opens its 1922 season. And only five more days remain for the various contestants in the season seal sale contest to work for the priies nfferecVJiy the association. ' ' Nine contestants have entered so far and have tickets for sale. Some of them had not reported sales to A. E. McGillivray up to Friday morning and others have made a good start towards winning prizes. The contestants and their standing nccording to returns made to Mr. McGillivray are as follows: Verdi Miller $.14.50 Georgia Hickman 30.50 Pauline Kelsey 10.75 Grace McGillivray li.25 Ress Ausmus 11.00 Hazel Russell (no return). Margaret Cleveland (no return). Hazel Hope (no return). Tucke Girls He Misses Mat? and lone Tucke were in Vale Wednesday on their way to Voltage. The girls' home is in Adrian nt present but. they expect to spend the remainder of the sum mer in Harney county. In Hie fall they will return to Vale to attend high school. I'aby Boy Mr. and Mrs. George McLaughlin announce the arrival of baby boy, born Friday morning. Mother and baby are doing nicely, it is reported. Ifcrshai I Brown at ). A. C. Hershnel Brown is getting along fine with his summer work at the Oregon Agricultural college in Cor vallls. This fall he will enter the college as a Freshman. Visits Sister Mrs. Arthur Claypool was very pleased with the arrival of her sis ter, Miss McGivern of Portland, last week. She visited here a few days and then left for Ontario. From there Miss McGivern will go on to Yellowstone Park to spend the re mainder of her vacution. Mrs. Edith Hayes of Burns, a sister of Mr. Claypool, also visited here this week. grades and put the vast perishable products of Western Oregon jnto Eastern Markets at u great xiivhig of time and money. It will make tributary to Oregon pints the products of Central and Southeastern Oregon and Southern Idaho by direct routes and easy grades. It will connect the entire Inland Empire, consisting of Eastern Wash ington and Oregon and Idaho, with California by tie? shortest route. This system when con-ti m ted and opt rated iiniler a roiMnxu iim i -i clause will provide the r, t i ii West with the railroad service long needed for its fullest development. We respectfully invite the ntleii tioil of the Interstate Commerce Commission arid of the Public So Nice Commission and the pcoj,!e ot Or. gi.ll to the necessity for the con struction of thin promised ruili'-td hysti in. Some Potatoes- If all predictions by potato pcrts prove true when digging time comes along the field of "Potato Smith" just east of Vale will break all known records of production. A buyer nnd Mr. Smith recently agreed that the yield will be from 300 to 400 sacks to' the aero nnd that certain ncres in the large patch may possibly go as high as 500 sacks to the acre. If these predictions come true a new era of potato production will be ushered in on the Warm- springs irrigation project. POTATOS LEAVE NYSSA SEVERAL MORE CARS TO BE SHIPPED IMMEDIATELY TO FILL DEMAND. Nyssa, Or., July 21. (Special.) The first shipment' of Nyssa grown potatoes for this season was made this week and consisted oi two carloads, one car going to the Eastern market nnd one to the West. The shipment was made by the Nyssa Potato Growers' Union, a local organization, the price received being $1.50 per cwt.. being 25c per hundred better v than the price re ceived by Abbott Williams, who shipped a car from Vale last week. The potatoes are of eprime quality and are averaging 125 socks per acre, which is considered a splendid yield for Early Ohios at this sea son of the year. The yield per acre for later potatoes will be heavier, as they will be more matured. Potato growers are well pleased with the outlook for prices, which, while, not high, will afford a good profit over the cost of production and will mean nn immense amount of new wealth for this territory, and consequent good times. Digging will start in earnest about the first of August und from then until win ter a steady stream of wealth will come pouring in for crops of various kinds which in their turn will be marketed. ' ' " - Business Trip R. N. Simmonds. left for New Meadows by auto Tuesday and re turned Wednesday evening. Busi ness interests called him to the lit tle city. Clella RiiHscll Doing Nncely Miss ' Clella Russell, who was operated on at the Ontnrio hospital last week, is doing very well. Last Sunday Miss Hazel and George Rus sell nnd Miss Georgia Hickman spent the afternoon with her at the hospital. Miss Clella was brought home Thursday. At Glenn Home Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Altnow of Beulah were pleasantly entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Glenn in Vale last week. Mr. Alt now is a brother of Mrs. Glenn. F'ishing Trip Among the Hportsmcn who went fishing Sunday are Frunk Davis and Harry Tamblyn. They were very successful and returns d home that evening with a nice catch of trout. Byrd Glenn Home Byrd Glenn came home Wednes day for u few days visit with his parents, Mr. nnd Mrs. Frank Glenn. He is lenving today for Baker, where he recently accepted a position sur vVying for the State Highway Com mission. Kesters Away Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Kester and children left Wednesday for the East. They were called away very suddenly by the serious illness of Mrs. Kester's mother, Mrs. Judd, who visited here not lopg ago. At Beach Home Mis. W. W. Little of Pocatcllo Is here visiting Mrs. R. M. Beach. She arrived in the city tho last of the week. At Davis Home Mrs. W. W. Woods of Ontario en joyed a pleasant visit with Mrs. George E. Davis on Moiiduy of this week. At Cairo Miss Evalyn Davis left for the Earl Hill ranch near CatVo thu last of the week and she expects to spend thi' remainder of the summer there. Harold Heer in Boise Harold Heer is in Boise working at present, lie left lust week, hav ing spent the lust two month in Hie city, working in the sheriff's of fire. Visit in Payette Mabel Murray and Miss Evalyn Davis njoyed a pleasant visit, with friends in Payette and Weiser Sun day. While in Payette they visited at the Pcdersoii und Chriteiuon homes, M. ALEXANDER SAYS VALE IS ALL RIGHT Iff INVEST IN NEW BANK BEING ORGANIZED LOWER TAXES NEED ONLY WAY TO REDUCE TAXES IS TO SPEND LESS, HE SAYS. "There is nothing the matter with Vale that is not likewise the matter with all of tho inter-mountain coun try," said Honorable Moses Alexan der, ex-governor of Idaho, who wai in the city Tuesday looking over his business interests here. "You are all right and so is this district. We are all recovering from a wild orgy of spending' money and we are re covering rapidly and I believe the experience of the past two years will be a good lesson to us." ' "I have faith in Vale. I am going to put a larger stock in my store here and give you people a better institution and I am ready to invest other money jn Vale. And to back my judgment of the city I will buy business property in Vale if there is anyone foolish enough to sell it . real cheap. "I have been asked to take stock and assist in the organization of new bank in Vnle and I will probab ly do so. Thero are several things which I .want to investigate before investing in a new bank here but I feel sure that my investigations will be satisfactory nnd tha,t before long I wll have more interests in Vale than ever. I want to see this sec tion, prosper and I am going to help it all I can. We have gone through the very things in Idaho that you are up against in Malheur county. It takes time for a new irrigation project to attain its fullest prosper ity. ..The only -drawb;. '" tho develop ment of Oregon, in the opinion of Governor . Alexander, is high taxes, and the state needs, he says, a man at the head of it. with the character to veto every unnecessary expendi ture of tax money and cut the ne cessary ones down to the very mini mum consistent with good govern ment. The only way to reduce taxes is to quit spending tax money and until taxes are reduced materi ally Oregon cannot expect to get very much colonization. "Eastern Oregon must stand and fight as one mun in the legislature and it is necessary for every county in this part of tho state to elect members to the legislature who are strong and honest fighters for tax reduction. A good start was made at the recent special session of the legislature when the proposed tax for an exposition at Portland was voted down. Eastern Oregon wants to keep the good work up." When asked if ho intended to be a candidate for governor of Idaho this fall, Governor Alexander said he did not think he would be. Whether ho was a candidate or not, he said he would fight just as hard for lower tuxes in Idaho nnd that the Democrats were going to be a factor to be reckoned with in hit state at the coming election. ' Governor Alexander criticised in no uncertain terms the religious Issue which was injected into the primary campaign in Oregon this spring. It is un-American, he said, for a secret political clique to con trol or seek to control, through re ligious or racial prejudices, the gov. ernment of America. 'The Malheur Enterprise is one of tho best weekly newspapers in the West," said Governor Alexander. "I read it with interest evey week. 1 don't agree with the politics of the paper at all times, but that Is all right." WATSON RANCHER KICKED WHEN BREAKING MULE Mr. Hammond, a rancher of the Watson country, is in town thia week suffering from injuries about the face. While breaking a young mule he was kicked in the face, knocked almost unconscious, and was quite seriously injured. He camo to the city for a doctor's at tention and is feeling a little more fit at present. CLUB WANTS ENTREES IN HOME BEAUTY CONTEST Several fine ensh prizes will be given away by the Women's Club of Vale for prize flower beds, shrub bery, lawns und trees. Anyone who. wiiihe to, enter the contest should' notify Wis- IV C. McElroy, who will alo give (hem any Information da . aired, Judxcg have been appointed and they will make an inspection tour upon notification by entrees la thu contest. The prizes will be awarded in the full