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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1916)
TITE . SUNDAY OREGOMAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 29, 1916. CITY TAX WILL NOT EXCEED 9.3 MILLS SOME OF THE PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE ANNUAL MEETING LAST NIGHT. 10 "r 1 M 1 II.JI1 . 1 'it, i if - f -V"? 1x5- f M 1 i i Pay for This Commencing With $3,555,000, Budget Total Is Cut to $3,186,000. FIXED EXPENSES HIGHER General Rule Against Increased Sal aries Adopted and Only Few Special Appropriations Are ' Allowed to Pass Muster. PRESENT STAXDISG OF" CITY BUDGET FOR 1917. Amount in budget orig inally (including bond interest) $3,555,918 Amount of cuts in esti mates by Council to date 870,000 Amount remaining in budget 3,185.913 Amount to be raised by taxation 2.802,350 Revenue from sources other than taxation... 383,563 Amount raised by taxa tion for present year.. 2.490,000 Amount from sources other than taxation this year .................. 455,677 Amount of tax levy for 1917 on present stand- , ing of budget 9-3 mills Amount of tax levy for present year .......... 8.3 mills After two weeks of slashing at the city budget of proposed expenditures for 1917. the City Council has got the total figure down to $3,185,913, of which $2,802,35O; must be raised by tax ation as compared with about $2,490,000 raised for the present year. Total cuts to date amount to- approximately $370, 000. To raise the amount still in the bud get would require a tax levy of about 9.3 mills, as compared with 8.3 mills for the current year. The remainder of the budget total will come from li censes, police court fines and other sources other than taxation. The esti mated receipts from these sources for next year is $383,563. This estimate, as made by City Auditor Barbur., is $73,174 less- than the amount derived from the same sources this year. This decrease automatically adds $72,174 to the amount to be raised by taxation and means a difference of about .3 of 1 mill in the tax levy. Flrat Review Finished. The Council has completed the first neck of all the departments and plans to start tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock fa a second trip through the figures, in search of additional items to cut out. It is considered an impossibility to get the total down to anywhere near the levy of the present year. In spite of the fact that the great majority of special appropriations for next year have been cut out. Virtually the only appropria tions of a special nature remaining In tact at this time are $112,000 for O.-VV. R. & N. grade crossing eliminations, $11,000 for a fire station in Sellwood, $25,000 for a municipal paving repair plant and $22,000 for next year's reg ular city election. At the start the total budget esti mates amounted to about $3,556,000, in cluding the bond interest and sinking funds. After the initial pruning proc ess there remains of this figure $3,185. 913, including bond Interest and sink ing funds. The bond interest and sink ing fund for next year amounts to $30, 143 more than for the present year. The increase is due to the sale this year of the public Auditorium bonds and adds .1 of 1 mill to the tax require' roents. Increane Accounted For. The additional taxation made neces sary by reduced license revenue, in creased bond interest, special appro priations for the O.-W. R. & N. regrade "work, the paving repair plant, the elec tion and other appropriations of a spe cial nature, are almost wholly responsi ble for the difference between the levy of the present year and that proposed under the present tentative figures for next year. Taking the budget figure for salaries, supplies and operation of th.e various departments, they probably are less 1 nan for tho total of the present year in spite of the fact that increases have been made necessary in supplies for all departments on account of the vast in creases in prices of nearly all com modities. The Council during the last two weeks' session has pruned with an al most ruthless hand in the majority of departments. At the outset $32,000 in proposed salary Increases were whacked off and the policy established of grant ing no increases. This policy was stretched a little in the department un der Commissioner Bigelow, where the Council, by unanimous agreement, boosted the salaries of four men. Further Cnt Likely. In the first trip through the budget the Council did not pass on items total ing $83,200. They will be gone over at tomorrow's session and may be trimmed. Among these items is one of $3600 for salary of J. R. Wood, pur chasing agent, whose position is to be abolished. Other items held in the bal ance are for horse feed and for the care of motor vehicles and the Washington Park zoo. These items all are Included in the $3,185,913 remaining in the bud get because they have not been cut out as yet. In the fire, police, health and other bureaus under Mayor Albee the total cuts were about $250,000. Commission er Baker suffered cuts of about $70,000 of which $60,000 was for the South Port land playground. Commissioner Dieck was the third hardest hit. Commission er Bigelow came fourth and Commis sioner Daly last. II ... : 'V "if ? - V ''3 --1 y 4. Z - 4 - ' 3cr Left to Right AVIIllam Merchant, TamhIII; F. G. Yonng, Secretary lira. Wllllan Merchant, Yamhill H. L. Bates, For ent Grovel W. D. Fenton, Director! J. S. Greenfield, P. II. D'Arcy, Salem Grorgre II. lllmea. Curator and Aaslatan Secretaryl Governor Jama Withytombc, Director, Salem; Robert A. Rell, Charles II. Carey, Directors Frederick V. Hoi man. President t Leslie M. Scott, Director; T. C. Elliott, Director, Walla Walla J. W. Stevenson, Cape. Horn. Wash., and Dean Blanchard. NEW MOVE PLANNED Oregon Historical. Society Holds Banquet. EYES TURN TO AUDITORIUM Discussion Held of Prospect for Removing: Records and Relics of Organization to City's New Building. Plans for moving- the headquarters, together with the historical relics and records of the Oregon Historical So ciety, to the new auditorium building-, now in process of construction, were taken up for consideration at the reg ular meeting and banquet of the so ciety held last night at the Portland Hotel. Action was taken for the ap pointment of a committee to take up at the coming session of the State Legis lature the question of an appropriation for fitting up quarters in the auditor ium building for the society and for moving the property from the present location on Second street to the new location. The last appropriation for carrying on the work of the society for the two-year period was $12,000. It was declared that an appropriation i nexces sof that amount would be re quired for the coming two-year period, considering the plans for the new lo cation. President F. V. Holman announced that he would select the committee to handle the question of securing the appropriation at a later date. It was declared by members of the society yesterday that the question of moving the headquarters of the society is absolutely necessary. It was de clared that the records and relics of the society are too valuable to be kept where the best possible fire protection was not available. A committee was appointed to have charge of fitting up the new quarters of the society in the Auditorium build ing. This committee is composed of Charles H. Carey, Leslie M. Scott and George H. Himes. The belief was expressed that the so ciety would be able to move into its new quarters next Summer. Officers of the society during the past year were re-elected. They are: F. V. Holman. president; Leslie M. Scott, vice-president; F. G. Young, of Eugene, secretary; the Ladd & Tilton Bank, treasurer, and George H. Himes, curator and assistant secretary. Mrs. IJ. L. McArthur and Rodney Glisan were re elected as members of the board of directors and John Gill was elected director to fill an unexpired term. Following the business meeting and banquet the members of the society adjourned to Library Hall where an illustrated lecture, "The Pacific Coast in Fact and Fiction," was delivered by E. O. S. Scholefield. archivist of British Columbia. The lecturer told of the early explorations of this coast and showed a laige number of maps Illus trating the development of the knowl edge of this section of the world. One picture of particular interest showed Portland in 1854, merely a small group of woden buildings with the for est coming down to the edge of the town. In the background over the tops of a number of one-story frame build ings could be seen a large sign bearing the words, "Oregonian Office." Mr. Scholefield expressed the belief that ultimately this Northwest section of North America was destined to be come the most important part of the whole world. About a hundred members of the so ciety attended the banquet and lecture. arc better equipped both In horses and mules. Captain Helme says he was much gratified to learn on his arrival at Nogales that tbe fame of Oregon's battery had spread to that point- He assumed command of Battery a at once and began preparations for ten days' target practice. The battery will go to the target range next Thursday and begin practice the following Monday. SUSPECT IS TAKEN POLK ROAD BODY FORMS ASSOCIATION TO CO-OPERATE WITH COUNTY COURT IX WORK. HIGHWAY SURVEY PENDS Question to Be Taken XTp Again by State Commission. EUGENE. Or.. Oct. 28. (Special.) ' There is yet hope for the surveying of the highway through Lane County to the coast and thence to coos Bay, ac cording to a' letter received this morn ing by Ray Goodrich, chief of the roads and highways bureau of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce, from John H. Lewis, state engineer. The State High way Commission will meet at Salem November 2, and at that time the Com mission will take up the matter of the permanent survey of the proposed highway from Coos Bay to Eugene by way of Florence. Lane County ten days ago offered to appropriate $4000 for such a survey, provided the state would undertake the project, but the advisory board of the Highway Commission reported adverse ly on the petition. CAPTAIN HELME IS BACK BATTERY A COMMANDER TAUGHT TO SHOE HORSES. Governor Capper, of Kansas, says -women excel men in tbelr Interest in politics. Alligators do not attain full six until they are nearly Ktt years old. Instruction at Nogales With Sixth Ar ' tillery Ends and Target "Prac tice Is Arranged. BY WILL G. MAC RAE. CALEXICO, CaL, Oct. 28 (Special.) Captain Helme, of Battery A, re turned today from Nogales, where for the past montn he aas been attached to the Sixth United States Artillery. While with the Sixth be accompanied It on its now famous 12-day practice march. On this march the battery covered 72 miles the second day In 15 hours. Captain Helme was ordered to the Sixth, to receive Instructions, but be yond being taught how to shoe horses, actually shoeing one. there was little about the artillery branch of the serv ice that the Portland Captain of Bat tery A did not know. Captain Helme sayt. the Sixth Is one I of the best organizations In the serv ice. He said. "I have always heard It said and now know it to be true, that a battery can go almost anywhere a cavalry . troop can go. During the 12 day hike I had a demonstration of this fact. They took those guns down a mountain on which I thought it would be impossible for horses to stand. All the way down the horses seemed to be standing on their heads." In speaking of the organized militia organizations which , he saw he says they cannot be compared with the two Oregon organizations In camp here. Both. Oregon Troop A and Battery; A Resolution Is Passed Calling; for Im mediate Preparation of Plans for Bridge at Salem. DALLAS, Or.. Oct 28. (Special.) The Polk County Road Builders' Asso ciation waa organized in Dallas today. The association is composed of three delegates from each of the road dis tricts of the county. Every road dis trict was represented, there being 67 accredited delegates in attendance. A permanent organization waa perfected with the object of recommending to the County Court each year necessary road improvement and repairs in order that the court may be aided in mak ing up its budget. L L. Patterson, of Eola, was unani mously chosen president of the per manent organization; J. W. Finn, Coun ty Roadmaster, vice-president; Walter L. Tooze, Jr.. of Dallas, secretary. After organization each road district presented estimates of work to be done in the various districts next year. These will be carefully tabulated and presented by a committee to the County Court for action. In speaking upon the resolution In troduced with reference to the bridge at Salem, Walter Tooze, Jr., advocated immediate eteps In the direction of building the new proposed bridge. Each road district was asked to report senti ment with reference to the bridge, and as a result the resolution calling for immediate construction was unani mously adopted. Professor J. V. Skelton, of the Ore gon Agricultural College, was in at tendance and gave an interesting dis cussion upon the Winter maintenance of roads and upon construction work in general. The step taken today marks a new era in the development of good roads In Polk County. Portland Man Held at Hills boro Following Forgeries. MANY MERCHANTS VICTIMS FLORA TO BE EXHIBITED HORTICULTURAL SHOW AT COR. VALLIS PROMISES MUCH. Big Annna Display by Oregon Agri cultural College to Be Held No vember 3 and 4. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, Oct. 28. (Special.) That the third annual horticultural Show, which will be held in the men's gym nasium of the Oregon Agricultural College next Friday and Saturday, No vember 3 and 4. will represent, for quality, some of the best horticultural products ever assembled in the North west is indicated by tne character of the shipments of exhibits arriving daily. Producers from all parts of the state are sending exhibits of their first-class products to compete for the premiums offered. Southern Oregon and the Willamette Valley will be represented by fruits, vegetables and flowers. East ern Oregon will furnish excellent speci mens oi melons and some sub-tropical plants. The market gardeners of the Columbia River section -will display a big variety of their produce. Commercial florists' entries Insure the presence of decorative materials. Canneries and by-products plants all over the state will exhibit canned, evaporated and dried fruits and differ ent preserves and jellies.- More than 80 co-eds have entered th fruit basket and table-decorating contest. Walter Edwards, Alias J. M. Sa wards and P. M. Emerson, Im prisoned Business Men of Hanks Identify Captive. HILLSBORO. Or.. Oct. 28. (Spe cial.) Sheriff Reeves believes that In the man giving the name of Saw. ards, arrested last night, he has the forger who for months has robbed country merchants of Washington, Multnomah and Clackamas counties. Merchants of Banks, victimized by forged checks today positively ldent ltied the prisoner as the man. The arrest was made last night by Deputy Alexander as Sawards reached Hlllsboro after passing a check said to be bogus at Challacombe Bros.' store at Cornelius. The forger's method has been to pretend that he was working In the neighborhood, and offer a check,( usually for $15, and obtain change. Descriptions from all the counties Indicate that but one man was at work. The man arrested last night fits the descriptions and also that of a check worker wanted at Oakland Cal. Prisoner Is Portland Man. The prisoner gave his address as oevenijr-iirsi street, roriiana. Walter Edwards, alias J. M. Saw. ards and P. 1L Emerson, was arrested Friday night at Hlllsboro. according to advices received yesterday from ; bheriff Reeves. He is charged with passing worthless checks at Cornelius and Hillsdale. As Walter Edwards he Is charged with operating in this city during July and cashing a worthless check for $14.50 at the Meier & Frank store. The check was drawn on the First National Bank and was signed "M. C Cohen. When arrested at Hlllsboro ho told Sheriff Reeves that his home was I Portland, at 3916 Seventy-first street, and dispatched a message to his wife. using the name of J. M. Sawards. He answers the description, says Deputy Sheriff Phillips, of Portland, of a -man wanted here for flooding stores at Multnomah Station, Errol Heights, Foster road, and outlying Places with checks on various Port land banks. One of the checks suc cessfully passed near Portland re cently was on the Merchants' National Bank, now out of business. Two Portland, Me., women, cleanlnr house, were startled to sea a mouse leap out of an old trunk which they bad Just opened. After they had recovered their courage and Investigated they found that the mouse was only an old toy moved by a rprlne which had been suddenly released when tho trunk was opened. MILITARY TRAINING AIDED Six Chicagoans Give $30,000 to l-'urther Universal Service. CHICAGO, Oct. 20. Six Chicago citizens have contributed $5000 each toward a fund to be used in further ing the cause of universal military training. The $30,000 was raised in a few minutes at a meeting yesterday after noon to match a similar fund that had been raised In New York City to launch a league which has among Its objects the enactment of legislation to make military training compulsory. It Is planned to raise $160,000. Those who contributed to the local fund were Victor F. Lawson, Julius Rosenwald, Frank G. Logan, H. S. Vail, H. M. Byllesby and William Wrlg ley, Jr. Car Shortage JVext. SALEM. 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