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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1915)
" - MOKXIXG- OREGOyTAy.'"TnURSDAY. OCTOBER 14. 1915. 9 ROtRn in nEQPiDlslnnRMSHnwpRi7Ffi'sFTl : I II iril II I III 911 M t . ui ivv. iusiiiiiiiii lllf II III I m 7 m t w "v O.-W. II. Jt X. EXHIBITS TO BE MAUE ' & ' .J? V V?Sk f ' ' VWc, l - - - - - - ---- Awards Aptrtsite Nearly HIOOO In I L- -iT " L MfewJi V "- - - -JLVVljg - I School Funds Not Equal to Need for Buildings. FEWER TEACHERS PLAN Score or Districts Find Present Quarters Xot Adequate and Improvements Are Necessary. Levy for Taxes Limited. To fix the tax levy for the coming year In the problem now confronting the Portland -School Board. With nearly a score of communities asking for new buildings and improve ments to existing buildings on one hand, and a general cry for economy audible almost everywhere, the Board realizes that it will have a hard nut to crack when it tackles this problem. Under the present policy of the Board all new buildings are paid for out of current funds raised by direct taxation. No improvement work. Is paid for through bond issues. Confronted by the stern probability that it will be impossible to reduce substantially the expenditures for new buildings. Superintendent Alderman has devised a plan that will effect a reduc tion in the number of teachers re quired. Segregation of Studlex Plan. His plan is a modification of the sys tem inaugurated and carried out so successfully by 'William A. Wirt at Gary. Ind. it provides for a stjgregation of the academic studies in the grammar schools from the special studies. One teacher will be able to handle two groups of 25 children each and give her time exclusively to instruc tion in the academic branches. Work in special studies, such as music, draw ing, gymnastics, sewing, manual train ing, domestic science and the like, will be performed by larger groups of from 50 to 75 pupils each. While one group is devoting its time in one part of a building to special work of this kind other groups w ill be in the classrooms with their academic studies. Superintendent Alderman pro poses to divide the time equally be tween academic and special studies. Obviously he will have to be arbitrary in designing which studies are aca demic and which are special. It is pos sible that such familiar courses as pen manship and spelling will be found in the list of specials. Mr. Alderman be lieves that they can be taught to classes of 75 as easily as to classes of -5. FfWfr Teachers Proposed. This system now is being used, ten tatively, in one or two of the schools, and can be adopted universally throughout the city next year. A ma terial reduction in the number of teach ers can be accomplished, says the Su perintendent. While the Board members realize that a substantial saving can be effected in this manner, they throw up their hands in despair when it comes to economizing on new construction work. In the first place there are a num ber of improvements that must be made. One of these is the $100,000 unit of the Benson Technical High School, which the Board has promised to build next year. The first unit, costing $100, 000. is to be started this year und will be paid for, by S. Benson. Muny Schools Afcb Addllons. An addition is demanded for the Franklin High School, which now is being rushed to completion. This new nisrh school building will not be ready until early next Spring. It is intended to accommodate 650 dudiIs. Already Franklin has an enrollment of 750. The Beard doubtless cannot escape author izing an addition to this building. Other improvements seriously consid ered are a new buildjng for the Terwil liger School, an addition to the Hoff man School, new buildings at Alameda. Beaumont. Capitol Hill to replace tem porary portable structures; a new school in Laurclhurst; a new building at Willbridge in place of the portable; an addition to the Bast School in what formerly was St. Johns; increased ground space at the Holman and Eliot schools; more ground for Washington High and for the Brooklyn School. Central KaMt Side Wonts Structure. People in the Central East Side also are asking that the new building to replace the Buckman and Hawthorne schools be erected this year. The Board has bought ground for this pur pose at East Eighteenth and Ash streets. It is probable that when this new building is erected it will receive a new name. The suggestion has been made that it be named in honor of some heroic character in American his tory. While it is not probable that all these improvements can be provided this year, a large number of them are absolutely necessary, and the Board will have difficulty in keeping down this item of expense in the budget. This year the Board will be permitted to fix rhe tax levy itself. Formerly a mass meeting of taxpayers was held for that purpose. The last Legislature changed the law and abolished the mass meetings. Last year the levy.was 5 mills. The year before it was 72 mills. The last Legislature also passed a law prohibit ing a tax-levying body from increasing the levy more than 6 per cent of the highest levy in either of the two pre ceding years. SHOOTING RE-TRIAL IS ON Charles Hayes Is Charged With At tacking Man Who Aided Him. For the second time within two weeks, the previous jury having dis agreed, Charles Hayes was placed on trial in Circuit Court yesterday on a charge of assault with intent to kill Diego Marcies near Bonneville, a few months ago. The evidence shows that Marcies acted the part of Good Samari tan to Hayes, a stranger, giving him food and lodging. The state contends that Hayes returned and shot Marcies through the head the following night, hut left Marcies' valuable lying in the wounded man's blood when his money was found to be in form of certificates of deposit. . . The evidence against Hayes is purely circumstantial. It consists largely of the fact that he was seen around the place just prior to and after the shoot ing, and that when arrested he had in his possession a revolver similar to that with which Marcies was shot. This weapon at that time showed evi dence of having recently been discharged. TWO BURGLARIES REPORTED Woman Loses Furs and Man's Money and Watch Are Taken. While Mrs. W. B. Armstrong was ab sent from her home in the Victorian Apartments, 428 Columbia street, Tues day night someone entered the place and took a set of Alaska mink furs belonging to her and valued at $212. City Detective Hammersley is making an investigation of the case. J. F. Watkins, who rooms at the Monarch rooming-house, reported to City Detectives La Salle and Leonard that someone had entered his room Tuesday night and taken a gold-filled watch, a bunch of keys and a purse with $4 or $5 in it. Can you play the game? See page 5, f rulny morning. Adv. Prizes aggregating nearly $1000 In cash, besides many valuable and useful agricultural implements, will be awarded at the O.-W. R. & X. Com pany's annual corn show at Walla Walla on December 2, 3, and 4. The contest will be open to all parts of the Xorthwest. Inasmuch as corn growing has become a well-established industry in the Xorthwest. a large num ber of exhibitors is expected. Ten prizes of $25, $15, $10, $7.50. $5, $2.50, $2.50, $2.50, $2.50 and $2.50. re spectively, will be given for the best acre of corn grown on irrigated land. Similar prizes will be awarded for the best acre on non-irrigated land. Similar awards will be made for the best 12 ears on irrigated land and the best 12 ears on non-irrigated land. Five prizes of $20, $15, $10, $5 and $2.50, respectively, will be given for the best display grown on irrigated land by a boy under 18 years of age. Similar prizes will be given in the non irrigated division. Prizes in the same amount will be given to boys under 18 years of age for the best 12 ears, both on irrigated and non-irrigated soil. Special prizes of $50. $25 and $15, re spectively, will be given for the best general displays and a prize of $25 will be given for the best single ear of any variety at the ehow. C. L. Smith, agriculturist of the com pany, will give $5. $3 and $2, respec tively, for the best 12 ears of pop corn. Additional prizes are: For the best 100 ears of flint corn, a rotary harrow attachment: for best two acres of dent corn on irrigated land, a riding culti vator; for the best two acres non-irrigated dent corn grown by dry-farming methods, a rotary attachment; for the best five acres of corn grown on irri gated land, a corn planter; for best five acres of corn grown on non-irrigated land, a two-horse riding culti vator: for best 10 acres grown without irrigation, a 14-inch combined lister and drill. Lou S. Smith, assistant agriculturist of the O.-W. R. & X". Company, offers to the boy or girl under 16 years of age entering the 12 best seed ears of his or her own selection, with etory of how the crop was grown, a vest pocket kodak with two rolls of films. This contest is open only to Wasco. Sherman, Gilliam, Morrow and Grant counties, Oregon. EMBEZZLER IS PAROLED Man Who Stole S3 00 Must Xot Irin'.i While His Mother Is Alive. Withdrawing his plea of not guilty ftnd substituting one of guilty. Earl L. Smith, who embezzled $300 from the Moneyweight Scale Company, drew a sentence of from one to 10 years in the Penitentiary and an immediate parole before Judge Gantenbein yesterday. The conditions of his parole provide that he must not touch intoxicants dur ing the life of his mother; that he must refrain from gambling; refund the money embezzled; remain within the state, and work for his father, F. E. Smith, to whom he was paroled. Pleas of guilty also were made by Arthur G. Graham, charged with forg ery; Ollie Richardson, theft of $98.40 from Bert Allen, and Edmund Winkler, theft of $98 from the till of a restau rant at 588 Washington street. All three will be sentenced tomorrow. Want to win $404? Look on page 5, rriviay morning. A1v. ' J mm J. i i .... The Most Remarkable Values In Trimmed Hats Ever Offered! To $17.50 Hats, Special at $4.95 A FAMOUS CREATOR of artistic millinery has shipped to us by express his entire line of show-room samples 116 hats in all. These hats are mostly copies of imported models and are made only of the finest French velvets and into them have gone the most exquisite' workmanship. Not one of these wonderful creations has ever been shown here this season. They represent the final word in Winter Millinery no two of them alike. ' , We are placing them on special sale for three days only rr a r r Thursday Friday and Saturday at tb4:. tO We could write pages and pages, but it's only by seeing their wonder ful diversity in our windows can you appreciate the exclusiveness. Black Brown Purple Navy and Gray are the colors with an odd one here or there of Grape or Garibaldi. Again we repeat a r To $17.50 hats........... Special $4.95 The Wonder Millinery The New Store At Alder and Sixth Streets afc .... ,.. A 7 Syf rip N VM m IT- PRINTING PLANT ATTACHED Kast Siilc C oncent .' Is Sued for $1000 oil I'roniisstory Xote. . Fred J. Brady's printin'g plant, whicn he operates under the name of the Press Printing & Advertising Com pany at 420 East Alder street, was at- iH-nfn yisteroHy in connection with suit commenced by L. G. Carpenter to recover on a promissory note for $1000. The note was drawn April 3, 1914, in favor of Eugene Blazier and was signed by Fred J. Brady as president and Eugene Blazier as secretary of the Press Printing & Advertising Company. Carpenter becomes plaintiff by reason of an assignment of the note to him by Blazier. The People's Press, an East Side nub- lication. is Issued by Mr. Brady from mis nrnre. BURNED AREA IS SURVEYED Government Will Keforest 7000 Acres Near Tanner Creek. c- P- Willis, forest examiner of the United States Forest Service of this district, has returned from a planting reconnaissance or the burned-over area at the head of Tanner ("reek. ths"t flows into the Columbia TUver at Bonneville. Approximately 25.000 acres of burned land were examined by Mr. Willis, and of .that amount he. discovered that 7000 acres will need reforestation by the Government omckals. Most of the re mainder will' be naturally reforested. The 7000 acres was found to be burned clear to the mineral soil, and the forest ofllcials will lake up the matter of replanting in tfce early Spring. i).lLHJuui.filr)Hl !E.JWiJUWPf 11 I'll i Ira Wl EEL IF i! if 'mm PORTLAND AND SEAT1 I ll ctober r The Coffee Fesfiual par ticipated ih by your grocer and every dealer in food products--an opportunity to buy the genuine steel cut, fresh roasted Golden West Coffee at an unusual price concession. Order early-order a season's supply. Golden West is packed in inner parch ment seal cans and stays fresh-No dust-No chaff -Just right! Clossef 8c Devers The Oldest and Largest Coffee fe,. l! II M .J-"L J i rvoasters m the Northwest